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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17.

IT is difficult to imagine an expression of opinion
upon French affairs so discreditable and disgraceful
as that just put forth by Count :%loNr.ttlNßEnr,
head of the ultra-montane church faction in France.
An opinion so negative of all morality, so desti active
of all liberty, so hypleritical, and so cowardly, cer-
tainly never emanated from any one that has ever
figured even in the annals of revolution.
Louts NArottais has appealed to a secret and
mock universal suffrage, to be given in the absence
of all information, and under the terrors of martial
law ; and by this he asks for dictatorial power to
tread under foot all principles of constitutional liberty
and individual freedom in order to substitute in
their place that machinery of puppets with which NA-
PoLtos travestied the action of a free government.
Count NIoNTALEXIIERT comes forward to the French
people and asks them to sanction this, because such
tyranny cannot be more dangerous than the consti-
tution just overthrown.
" By returning to the unity of power," says Count
MONTII.I.MULII, "we get over the most difficult
point of the way to a real social regeneration, that
of ideas and morals."
So that is order to correct the ideas of French-
men and improve their morals, Count loNritr3t-
hr.liT prepares the despotism unity of power
means nothing else) of Louts Loets
Nortitt:os has given up education to the clergy;
lie has restored Rome to its old "unity of power"
in the Yore:; he has re-established synods ; he has,
in short, done everything for the church. The
church is all I care for, says Count MoN r
and Isms NArotio:s may do what he will with the

state.
Such are the political principles of a man of emi-
nence and talent, the avowed head of the Ho-
man catholic church party in France---a party
which professes itself at certain times, and in cer-
tain places, to be favourable to the great
cause of civil and religious liberty. So blinded
is Count AIONTALF:NIBLIff by his fanaticism that
in the events of the first half of December
ho can see nothing but the few barricadcrs shot,
and can feel nothing but the escape of society from
socialism. lle has no pity for his colleagues of
the National Assembly, or the companions of his le-
gislative labours, hurried off to prison or to exile. Ile
is lust in admiration of the brutal soldiery, who kept
up an hour's tire at the houses and windows of the
wealthiest and least disaffected quarter in Paris,
who shot down with glee every well-clad group that
stood confidingly before them, and who laughed
at the sufferings of the wounded. The " socialists,"
as Count NIONTALEMBEnr calls them, were masters for
months after February, 1818. 'They did not make a
single arrest, nor socialite a single life, except in
actual combat. They left the antagonist press free.
They refused to run a muck at Europe, and sum
mooed a free amends!? to decide upon the fate of
France. The " socialists are at least free from blood ;
whilst 1.01.13 NAPOLEON, the saint, whom Count
MONTALEMBFAT holds up for the adoration of the
church, sent to the grave more innocent victims in
one day than even Itonesrleace sent in many to the
seaffuld. Itocesrieitices victims, too, were tried;
they entertained opinions hostile to the republic.
However innocent of crime, there was still some pre-
test fur their slaughter; whilst there was no pretext
whatever for that cold-blooded and wholesale mas-
sacre with which Locts Narinfos inaugurated his
reign. And yet French catholicism, represented by
Count MON t sLEattERT, would make use of the BOe
cialist bugbear to persuade people to set up and wor-
ship the idol of the Elysee.
The eandid, the truth-loving MONTALEMBEAT
copies the Mossitow in attributing every insurrec-
tionary movement throughout France to Socialism.
The peasants of the Niovre having risen in insur-
rection, the whole town of Clamecy took up arms
against the decree of the 2nd of December. But
Clanacy is the country of M. Duets ; the
scat of his property; tho scene of his in-
fluence. Have the pest opinions and present
tientinent of M. Duns nothing to do with the
insurrection of Clamicy—and is its every excess to
be set down to socialism? The officer in command
at Lyons. a *hole regiment of artillery at St.
Brieue, divers persons and bodies in different parts
of France have declared against the decree and
against the act of the 2nd of December. Is this
socialist? And Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux, and aU the
towns and counties, consigned to martial law, are all
these socialist? Ifs°, socialism includes all the friends
of constitutional monarchy, and numbers all those
moderate liberals of the chamber with whom Count
MONTALEMBERT has been pretending to set in com-
mon, when in fact he has been merely waiting the
opportunity to betray every constitutional principle
and party to the first military mountebank who puts
on the cloak of piety.
A greater blow to the papal church in France
could not have been stricken than by this public
adhesion of its chief to the moat unwarrantable act
of tyranny, treachery, and violence, that ever was
perpetrated in any revolution. It is plain,
and Count Mo'sraLtnexict avows it, that if
his priesthood be allowed full sway over
the conscience of the people, ho will, in recom-
pense, applaud a military dictator patting his heel
on the reek of the same people. He supports the
throne of Lot'ts NAPOLEON by the confessional. He
hallows the right of the usurper ; declares it quite as
good as that of the most legitimist monarch; and he
calls in the name of the church on the old royalists
to support it.
If Count MONTALEMEERT could be supposed to re-
resent the totality of the French clergy and the
French church, his present conduct, and the reasons
which ho assigns for it, would be sufficient
to divorce that church, not merely from the
support, but 0%111 from the tolerance and respect
of every party in the state. The legitimist he
divorces and disgusts. The constitution he sacri-
tires without remorse and without shame. Any-
thing or body of men more liberal, more republican,
or more popular than constitutional monarchy he de- ,
votes to the infernal gods. Ho erects the church into I
a perfectly independent empire within the state, quite
reckless of what becomes of that state, provided only
that the live, thrive, and rule. The Jews
were accused -of thus living in the midst of Christian
countries and European communities, attached
exclusively to their sect and to their money bags.
This, even if true, had its excuse ; for if the Jews
felt no love for state or country, it was that state or
country cared not for them. But for a Christian
church thus to consider its interest apart, and to
otter up every other element of civilisation than or-
thodoxy to the most ruthless tyranny—that is a
crime, a treason, and a baseness, from which the
church, or the sect that cannot purge itself, deserves
to be for ever accursed and eradicated.

POWERS have been granted to the Royal Commis-
sioners of the Great Exhibition to dispose of the
large surplus sum of money now in their hands.
All demands upon them have been paid, and the
ouestion at this present moment in course of discus-
sion is—What shall be done with the Spare Cash?
One party say. Spend it upon the promotion of
Industrial Education.
We have already shown that the Senoots OF Dx-
SIGS, if estimated by the value of their effect upon
industrial education, must be considered failures.
The causes of their want of success arc various. In
the first place there was the absence of superinten-
dence. Upon no official person or body of persons
was placed the responsibility of seeing that the seve-
ral schools worked together with anything like
unity of purpose. What was everybody's business
was nobody's business, and the schools were
left without a common centre. Sir STAFFORD
NORTIICOTE, indeed. while a member of the
Beard of Trade, took a great interest in
the subject, and devoted much of his time and
talents to the endeavour to render these insti
tutions worthy of the money which had been ex-
pended upon them. Since he left, however, they
have had no external superintendence, and the ne-