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London, England, 1849-05-04 00:00:00

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without pretext or need, except Weed that be
was ashamed to firs f alter his wan and tresehe-
roes behaviour to the Geretan Parlitsost l All We
is really such a tissue of folly, trachery. and crime—
that tbe red republicans themselves' of Paris seem'
respectable and woe by the aide of the swastebenk
of Prussia. &ABU sad Ronan. had their convic-
tions to manse their madame. FILIDENICK N ILIUM
can show but the moat pliant and interested earning
to account for his oscillations between the canes of
bb:rty end that of military tole, between the unity of
Germany and the vanity of Potsdam.

WILL the Lords reject the Navigation Bill? We
do ant Wimp they will. Oar estimate of hereditary
wisdom is not high; and oar belief in hereditary pre-
judice almost free and self-dependent industry is
'retuned. We do not doubt that a majority of the
peen would gladly follow any guide whom they could
venture to trust ut a retrograde policy, both political
and commercial. Toe expansive greater, of indus-
trial wealth, and the ever-strengthening power of
middle-ant is an offence to exclusive privi-
lege end an einad-on in the sight of irresponsible
authority. It *as this feeling that inspired the House
of Lords with no initiative a rt pogance to the Re-
turn Bill. They justly discerned in it the begin-
ning of the end et their legislative asomadancy ;
the fist step towards a transfer of paramount sway
from their order to the industrious minority of the
community. They foresaw with hatred aed with
fear in the enfranchisement of the minority the even-
tual admission of the intelligence, worth, and industry
at the whole people. It is coming ;it will assuredly
come. From the day that the Lords were compelled
to surreader schedule A, the fate of hereditary wrong
in frEngland was sealed. All that has happened
mince has been but a tedious anocesaion of re-

IT is very unfortunate, and most certain to be at-
tended, if not at present, at lout in the future, with
fearful oreseqesness, that not one of the Gansu
sovereign, have been either able or willing to keep
oce of the promises, made to their people, of liberties
and constitutions, whether those protons were wrung
from them by fear, or granted by them in the gales-
lated generosity of the moment. lb. CitTi
mans are a truth-loving, a simple, en hottest
They have been governed DT bad ministers
:71 b..
y 'tepid severe gne en &optic times; but their
princes, however del, were considered good and
oilmen mete Lthers of their people ; and nowheri
were kings, dynasties. prineek sad eves sables more
tevered, more trusted by those beneath them, or in a
better position to maintain, even in the midst d revo-
lution., that respect and love which is after all the
sole permanent source of authority and influencer to the
higher clames.
The Germans entered upon the memorable year
1848 as youth enters upon a novel,—bell ving in all
virtue and all worth. Not all the scenes of the
French revolution, and of the different rfriaro of
ides., political and social, which emended each other
west of the Mine, had materially affected the Ger-
mans. They had no aversion to princes because they
was princes, or to aristocrats biomee they were rich.
There was no social or political envy in their motives.
To see their count y great and united, and endowed
with those liberties and advantages, by means of
which other races and other countries, such as Eng-
land and France, had grown powerful and wealthy,
dominant in intellect and in fame—this was the
natural and legitimate wish of the German. Some few
indeed started up to my that their rights could never
be obtained by an agreement with prison, that the
only way to deal with the upper classes at such a
time was to remove OS subject them. and that above
all no poison who had reigned as a despot amid ever
be brought to govern as a constitutional sovereign.
The eases% and loyal Germane throughout the
breadth of their wide land turned in disbelief std dis-
gust from su.h assurances. They deemed the repair-
limns base and perverse men. for uttering such
treachery and recommending such harshness.
The German ptople had no guile, and had not
German primes their count-Y's characteristics ?
It has mow unfortunately turned oat that these Ger-
man democrats were police ly right. A revo-
lidos first made by the lower classes, and then en-
trusted for its conduit to the upper. has become, as
they foretold, a juggle. Torn. assertion, that a
prince who has once reigned as a despot can never
govern sincerely as a constitutional monarch, has
proved so true, that it must ever be an
axiom graven upon every German heart, and self-
manifest to guide his future actions when great
1 catastrophes and opportunities occur.
It is, indeed, melancholy to contemplate that great
coentry at present divided into two camps—with all
the great princes and a certain petition of their
soldiers in the one, and all the people, with
their parliaments and representative assemblies, in
the ether. Civil war has net indeed broken
Nth anbegonism is still confined to that airy field,
whore esinlots strive aed combat. But the
steeds:de are raised, the partisans are mustered. The
German people know that their prison are the in-
veterate, decided enemies of their every righ', end
their every wish. And the German princes know that
they have changed their country from a land of peace
into a hunting-grouted, where they are the armed
sportsmen, and where their people are the game to
be hunted, trodden down, hallooed and terrified, slain'
and skinned.
The arch-traitor and arch fool of this misguided
band of princes is the King of Fausine. Of the
1 sovereigns who have broken trust with their people,
he stands foremast, as guilty of the most mul-
tiplied, meet gratuitous, most wanton falsehood.
How many constitutions bas he framed, how
many promulgated, how many broken ! The re-
'stemmed the decrees of this Kiog can be likened to
eaddegbut a peck of cards—of dirtycards—which be
b. kept shuffling and darling forth throughout his
nip, so Wei in years, yet so interminable in lies.
MI this wretched men, this JUDAS of psi:wedeln,
been a fanatic believer in royal rights—had be been a
eimmiestioas renpecor of the sovereignties of other
might have attributed to his consistenel
g li=
allow of freedom in his own &minims,
or to peen* unity throughout the empire. Reticle-
Mph, ere conviction FIRDERICX: WILLIAM had were
He volunteered to give universal suffnge. He lot
loose War in order to march forth military chief of the
aspire; and be has intrigued now during a twelve-
moth for that imperial crown, which, at last within
Ye grasp, be drops through fear—fear of those from
whom be has been filching it. In his
cowardly abandonment of the prise for
which be so intrigued and laboured. he
abandons the best men and the noblest assembly
that Germany could choose or collect. Never,
centainly, ad prince so completely expose him-
self to the contempt of the permit and the
execration of the Ware, as Faretzlicx WILLIAM.
His boos, mod treacherous, end cowardly conduct has
for ever destreyed all the glories of his nee and
all the prelef his country. Unworthy German,
digenesele- ?media—for he has marred the hopes and
bumbled the phi of both—be has dealt a still ma-
ted blow to the interest' of menareby than
Pekin or Mateo= of modern times. We know not
b whom the Guiana will now put their trust ; we
bow what will be their movements—what their
seseless. It were better to stoop for the time Whin
the 'Reggae°, of the military and deepens opal%
midi this party bas had to genera Mil
mote thoroughly disgusted the
dames. Matins cannot be & t, when the
of Germaay most. if tbo7"roald ba I=4
Francs on one side, or by Rends on the . bean
recourse to their people, and appeal to their adhoden,
their alhatine, their support. How can a Eine off
PRUSSIA, bow a King of liettovie, or of Bevelea,
or an Emperor of Auseare, do this ? How
can one permed prince look for loyalty
to a German people? Never, perhaps, wen deep
disaffection and disgust so ground into the limns if
a nation as has hemp lately done by German princes.
And they consider that by this they have saved that
thrones and consolidated their power. We regret to The Hoe. Miss Murray and the Hon
Cocks snd the
. Miss Mora
thrones
thaantioninetrtablec°lll2ll7revo'lthaantioey rendered
gy"lW.have ljetreal'adreekaFdalulle‘V edul:hiedllealraslino; Pre
sown deep and wide the seeds of democratic ofo3 molLia All the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Margus
a country which merely desired to love SSG revere, and of Lansdowne, en Wednesday evening, at Lansdowne
live under, their native pieces, and moderately liberal Renee, Berkelipequara
Wes!-
institutions. A 6putatioo, consisting of the Muriel' of West-
As to the King of Meru, words cannot depict, arms_ r, Sir Philip d_e_9ret Bgert_cuy Mr. Tattonan Egervrton,
nor sagacity divine, his folly arid his baseness. George,oouregir:r:L._ old!!elliiionieuthefieeis, to
pre.
His abaudooment of Frackfort to abselutism, after Twer, at the
seat a memorial the magistrates of the county of
having stirred it by a year's intrigue to entrust to obaster,ca the sabjest of mamma iseeleg bowies
him the empire, any act of infamy and im- Mr. H. G. Ward had en interview with Lord John
becility ever yet col of a prince. He had already Bono, yesterday, at ma facial widens, Dowairk.
granted three constitutions to his subjects. and is no strraiocklerltodt_leamer, ofvi hiaredlorbdatianp ceineisuatpartw riathrorßt!ei
doubt going to try a fourth, as if rallatitatiana wen Grey, at the Colosial-oSoe, on Wednesday.
royal play things, to be bad new on the Ist of
January, and to be broken by the big boy who pee- orlndedratkigiosan itaterviuthaw sairiblifirattheacfbaartemlalerarabill"—th-r-&-.
semen them as soon as the gilding is a little ca.quar,_yestriday, as his alio' residence, in Downing-
tarnished. What is to ben mid of his con- weer. The deputation Demisted of the Marquis *Madam
yoking and installiirelropular embly,
stupid,
draththese o.NFoneu.seent, Mr. Barks Rade" Mr. Palmer, and
puluadttiligretallreglidemiy° the matabssees°ba°liatiliPllllll°ll: pain". chest r, d.ri, irtaßtitraiithwaidermistingtageofanter "'own" of Mrken-of'
sticks, by way of ministers, that hie empire could ;imamate!, with the Right Roe. T.ll. Gibson, la.F.; Mr.
afford; and thee, because there miserable sight, ; and Mr. B. Cardwell, M.P., (at the request
veleta cannot agree with the Assembly. he of has anthaitise of Liverpool) had en interview wi Big
dismisses not the valets but the Amembly—oind this George Grey yesterday at th e .
liemoseas

treaiiage—frOua untenable point to =other.
The Paithien quiver is perhaps,. not yet ex-
hausitd ; and even whde giving way the
toes of pupal. may try to bursae and to
wound its for friends. But to make a resolute

stand on any polities bas pr possible.
Mu peers ham net the was' err =tense-
teal courage to do so ; and if y had, whim have they
in their own sterile ranks competent to lead them in
so desperate an enterprise ?
Lord STANLEY is assuredly not the man, yet he
stands out from amongst his imbecile followers facile
prineeps. Vehement in temper, inveterate in enmity,
obstinate in council, and reckless of results,—all that
contributes to the splash of his renown deters the more
wary from trusties and theme* fanightedfromfollow-
Mg him. He is with them all the finest dine fellows ;
dashing, undaunted, and indomitable; never tirs.d of
fighting, and never knowing when he is beat
first-rate character for a cavalry officer not in com-
mand, or en Arab chief in a novel. But when the
quesaion is not the startling and romantic, but the
profitable and the prudential, in our very matter of
fact state of civilisation, the most effective of Lord
STANLEY'S personal qualities become sadly rhea
in the Byes of his nearest Mends. His frankness
turns into mere folly, and his want of fear
into want of foresight. They are compelled
to admit in secret that for a politician, he
Is sadly yenta* in what the French call riierve.
His threatening and uncalled-for snuosneement the
other evening, that come what might he would do his
best to throw oat the bill for the repeal of the naviga-
tion laws, and the schoolboy-like ex • of Ma
bope that no fear of consequenois w d induce any
of tits shrewd and selfish !tiara/ to hesitate in helping
him, would in itself suffice to show how little judg-
ment or insight, foretho_ught or reflection, belong! to
the Itnezier of 1849. Why this was the very mpg
which for his purpose he ought not to have
uttered. It was fair notice to the courage of I
his antagonists; it was unfair warning to the cow-
ardice of his own adherents. And that both are
already preparing to avail themselves of it is pretty
generally known.
Equally lanai,* and impolitic was it on the part of
the protectionist chief to make a sally into the midst
of the City, and to entrust the conduct of the if/No-
tion to hands so inexpert as the Duke of RICHMOND,
aided by Loads Dowasnias and GRANBY. 14 by
any dint of crazing or cajolery, the monopolists
within Temple Bar could have been induced
to alempt a denionstratioa having even the
outer semblance of spontaneity, it might have
been something. To the great issue it mold
have mattered little; but to Lord STANLEY'S credit
for common sense, common tact, and common caution,
it would have been of some importance. Or if, when
so jejune a scheme was once decided on, the mum-
mers in the lordly show had been instructed in a
wiser tone and bidden to eschew the palpably absurd
and unbelievable, the gathering in the Hall of Com-
merce upon Toakey last might not have terminated
quite so laine'y. But when the staff of a City meet-
ing is ostentatiously imp(); ted, and when the staple
of arguments addressed to it consista of such
incredible and innocuous fables as that recited by
one of the speakers to the effect that Mr. LABOU-
alum had given somebody a secret mamma that if
the navigation bill were got through this session he
would be willing to repeal certain of its provisions
next year (an insinuation which none who know
the rectitude of the President ef the Board of
Trade would credit for an i• stant)—when such, we
repeat, are the staple and the staff ofa meeting meant
to prove that the City of London repudiates free
trade, one feels that the wires arepulled by =skil-
ful hind..
Why were not the leading tory bankers and mer-
chants at Tuesday's meeting ? For the same reason
that many opuleut and sagacious tory perm will be
absent on Monday night's division. 'Tie not that
they love monopoly kma but that they love safety
mnre. They love the treason, but they fear the
traitor. They feel that a crusade led by Lord STAN-
LEY, and in which the subordinate parts would be
filled by DISRAELI, ELLENBOROI7OII, HUDSON, and
the like, could end in nothing but confusion, lose, and
discomfiture. Sheer terror of the consequences, of oat-
lay to no purpose on new elections—ot inten.eexcite-
ment throughout the country—ofa House of Commons
returned with two hundred thorough-going radical-
reformer', bread of the third of that number—of an
awakening of the whip from their long conservative
trance, and their seeking once more the confidence of
the people --of flootland astir, Delead in mutiny, sad
Canada in revolt—the just and timely fear of being
held accountable for universal panic and convulsion,
will leave the protectionist leaders where they are at
' the end of the Kmiec and will enable ministers to
carry the Navigation Bill.
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THE COURT.