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London, England, 1847-12-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 23.

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Taxan could not well be a more striking example
of the futility of excluding persons of certain religious
opinions from political power, lest they should make
that power, subservient to their peculiar religious
interests, than is to be bound in the history of M.
Goizor. That statesman has ever been a conscien-
tious protestant; nor could Sir ROBERT INGLIS himself
denounce the Jesuits in more hateful language than
M. GUIZOT has done in his writings. And
yet M. °vizor, advanced to the post of
Prime Minister of France, has done more for
catholicism and for the Jesuits than any former mi-
nister of France. He has done his utmost to nullify
the law which forbids the establishment of the ino-
nestle orders in France. He has thrown over the
Jesuits in Switzerland the moat zealous patronage. and
most efficient protection that the French ministry
could bestow. He hem befriended the catholic church
in Spain, and restored to it all its unsold property, al-
though that property was mortgaged to the national
creditor. Whilst in his alliances M. GPIZOT
has determinedly turned his back upon protestant
England, and joined the interests and policy of France
with catholic Austria, entering with that power
into a kind of Romeo catholic league for the rapport
of that religion, its influence and wealth, throughout
the East, and especially in Syria. In fact, the most
hyper-catholic statesman, that Europe has seen in this
century, is no other than a Huguenot.
M. Goizor's original motives for pursuing such a
line of policy were no doubt patriotic. The King of
France in the olden times exercised a great deal of
supremacy and power by virtue of his being
the mod Christian King. The revolution and
NAPOLEON had substituted other claims and founded
them upon something more solid than orthodoxy.
But NAPOLEON'S physical-force sceptre having been
broken, M. GITIECIT thought it best to grasp once
more that of Louis XIV. And until very
lately M. Gutzon has brandished the catholic sceptre
with much auooess in Rome and Madrid, in the
Lebanon, and even on the coasts of Siam.
In addition to the very praiseworthy motive of
gathering up for France and turning to its profit all
those old and stray elements of power which
had been lost or neglected, M. Golan found
another, in the circumstance that he had
formidable rivals in the French court, in the
cabinet, and in the conservative party. One
rand objection of these rivals to M. Ouncrr and to
his pretensions to wield the office of prime minister
was his protestantlem, and his being thereby pre-
cluded from having the confidence of the church.
These rivals hated °vizor much as the ELDONB and
the PEELS (the PEEL of former days) did CANNING.
They admitted him to be a valuable
.secretary for
foreign affairs. But that he should be prime minister,
or that he should nominate his friend' to the
ministry of justice and public worship, this was
declared destructive to church and state.
M. Gomor's triumph over these rivals is well
known; the death of Mauler DU NORD and the
decay of ;Som., together with his success in the
Spanish marriages, won for him the King's full ad-
hesion, and placed him in the seat of prime minister.
M. Guitar, however, in that proud position, seems
still to feel it necessary to quality, and to peeve him-
self as catholic as the pious court of the Tuileries
could require.
Hence the blunder of embarking so zealously:in the
cause of the Jesuits of Lucerne, with a firm belief,
however. at the lame time, that the Jesuits were able
to defend themselves in Lucerne, and that the rev.
fathers had too much of the hereditary wisdom of the
order to engage in a resistance which they were alto-
gether unable to support. M. Gutzon thought him-
self politically safe, as well as theologically prudent,
in holding out for the Sonderbund, and bully-
ing Lord Peuteasron in its behalf. Un-
fortunately M. Bois LE CONTE utterly deceived
M. Gower as to the military resources of
the Swiss Jesuits. And the result has been that
whatever the French prime minister has gained on
the score of his catholic orthodoxy, he has lost tenfold
in reputation for cautions and successful policy.
M. Guizor cuts a sorry figure at present, and should
the official communication on the subject be ever
made public, M. Gutzon will cut a figure still more
ridiculous.
Notwithstanding all this, we cannot Ray that we
see any chance of M. Clrrizor's fall, or of his long
reign coming to an end. His immense supe-
riority to his rivals of the conservative
is undoubted. M. Duceteritt may proteins to
tranacendental wisdom, but it is the wisdom of the
owl, which may keep up its reputation until it opens
its mouth. His church and state claims have been
effaced by M. Gutzor's Swiss crusade, which, how-
ever unfortunate, will still find him favour with the
clergy. The court could not make more use of Du-
CENTEL than of Gutzon in carrying a dotation,
whilst the bitter is the wisest and the ablest minister
for completing that Spanish policy, hitherto so suc-
cessfully ursued.
Az to the efforts of the liberal opposition, their
banquet speeches andagitation, these may be useful
for keeping up the spirits of a zealous minority ; but
as even in doing this the agitators have indulged in
strong anti-dynastic symptoms, such as refusing to
pledge the King's health, their demonstration will
have as great an influence in making mcderados and
conservatives rally round M. GUIZOT, as in stirring
up the more thorough liberals to persevere in their
grudge. and persist in political discontent.
The first attempts of the French opposition, pre-
paratory to the meson, do net give much promise of
moues. Already they seem to lave retreated from
their determination to dispute M. Sauzera claim to
the presidency. They thus defer their hopes of fight-
ing even an honourable battle with the minister, to the
time when chance may bring; contending parties on a
fairer field. Yet surely, if M. Onizor's support of the
Jesuits in Switzerland, and hie failure in that support,
do not offer sufficient advantages to opposition, there
can be little hope of any other question proving more
favourable to them.

THE sixth report of the Copyhold Commissioner,
has just been made and laid before parliament. It is
document full of instruction to those who, from
personal interest or otherwise, are desirous of abro-
gating that most offensive remnant of feudalism,
copyhold tenure. The report may be considered
under three divisions: First, what has been done,
which is small enough ; secondly, what the commis-
sioners hope may be done hereafter, which Is no
great deal ; and thirdly, what they despair of accom-
plishing at all, which is just the objects earnestly
demanded by copyhold tenants, and which they will
not succeed in obtaining unless they can interest the
public in their cause.
The commissioners refer to the report of the eeleet
committee of the Howe of Commons in 1838, where-
in, although the plan of mere voluntary enfranchise-
ment was recommended for a time, " a more coercive
measure was pointed out as alone calculated to meet
the wishes and wants of the country." Their sub-
aeqnent repast is a timid, indirect, reiteration of that
assertion. Six years' experience has enabled them
to report, "that there is s slow and gradual
advance" in the enfranchisement of copyholds
held under eeelesiutioal lords ; so that they
deem it " probable that almost the whole of such
oopyholds will, is time, disappear." Now, as the
" in time" is somewhat indefinite, and as it
thurtken the Interval between 1851 (when many
thousands petitioned parliament "that copyholds and
the like might be taken away.") and 1838 (when a
parliamentary committee recommended compulsory