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London, England, 1851-11-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER IA
THE conservative party in the French National
Aimmahly, or their POMPEY, SA CHANGARNIER has
been ealkd, may well exclaim, after such • division
• that which threw out the repeal of the law of
Nay by only seven votes, "Soch another victory, and
we are lost." Three hundred and forty•eight mem-
bee votes for the total repeal ropiest three hundred
• me fifty-five merely show that ENILE DE GIRARDIN
INS right in his calculations, and that the repeal, or
dellaidlung tantamount, with all its consequences,
assibisbe carried in the present Assembly.
certainty, now staring people in the face,
will of itself win over a sufficient number of parti-
sans to the ministerial view, to ensure its being
carried out. The scheme, therefore, of a restricted
qualification, and of a disfranchisement of the work-
ing classes, is or must be abandoned. If it can com-
mand bet halfthe votes of the present Assembly,
how could it hope to find a majority in any other ?
This, with the crowing of M. DE THORIGNY over M.
FAUCHER, which indicates an abandonment of
' ultra-rigour in the administration, and the hesi-
tation of the parli irneritury party to insist on their
right to raise an army in the name of the Assembly,
and to appoint its general—all these are signs that
the power of the Assembly, and of the reactionary
party,which hitherto dominated and directed it, ison
the wane; and that the year 11452 will develop •
wry different tendency and state of things from that
• which has prevailed in France since 1849.
How brief in their duration arc mere partytri-
iimphs, which are used for momentary vindictive-
ness, not real reform. There cannot be • doubt
that universal suffrage is attended with the grossed
abuses and deceptions. And had the conservative
party in the Assembly made use of its ascendancy,
and of the terror raised by the socialist elections, to
wane universal suffrage of its real evils, they would
have achieved a permanent conquest. Nay, had
they come forward and frankly
.and boldly avowed
their purpose ofestablishing a rating suffrage at least
for the election otmembers, NO as to base the repre-
sentation upon something like property, in conjunc-
tion with numbers; even this might have been
defended. But to pretend that they did not violate
the principle of universal suffrage by • law which
disfranchised half the electors, and when the din-
' franchisement was effected by a side wind and a
trick, this has rendered the conservative advantage
gained on the 31st of May, 1850, the mere triumph
of a day, a sand entrenchment, destined to be swept
' away by the first neap opular tide that rose in more
p than usual height and force against it.
Not one indeed of the aims of the re-aetionists
seem markedwith progressor solidity, or promise final
success. The candidates of each dynasty have de-
cidedly lost ground. The Count DE CHAMBORD has
gone to slumber, the Prince lie JOINVILLE has been
withdrawn; and if Loris NAPOLEON appears radiant
with greater chances of success, it is manifest that he
owes this to his playing into the hands of the demo-
cratic party, seeking to conciliate it, and receiving
in lieu their support. The triumph of Lows NAPO-
LKON is therefore as the President, not the Einiveror,
with concession of popular rights, not the advance of
Imperial claims.
t)ne great result of the political events now in
course of accomplishment will be to convince every
Frenchman that the most difficult and dangerous of
all paths for him or the country to enter upon will
bo to return to monarchy. 'the monarchic parties,
• their candidates, and their politicians, have rendered
this more and more impossible; and it is they, in
fact, by their failures mid folly, that have given sta-
bility and necessity to the republic.
The great object then must come to be the conso-
lidation of the republic, the reconciliation of the
upper classes, or of the most sensible of them, to the
republic, and the consequent reconciliation of such
classes to those in lower grades of life. At present
there arc two camps, two interests, two religions,
two philosophies. There is wanting but the chasm
of their being two races to make mutual hatred in-
candescent. The permanent settlement of the re-
public, and of the law of that repnblic,befo-e which
all must bow, can prove theonly signal for thecessatioa
of strife, or at least of that unconstitutional strife
which looks to the bayonet and the dungeon on one
side, to insurrection nod proscription on the other, as
the natural modes of dealing with political astago-
insts.
A great measure of popular justice, &restoration to
the people of the rights torn fries them,—this effected
by the instrumentality of the government, and the
graceful assent of the'dying Assembly, rescinding an
angry vote and an unjust law of two years previous
—this is the greatest, as indeed it is the first step
towards a reconciliation between antagonistic classes,
that has yet been made. No doubt private and
selfish interests have impelled I.OCIS NAPOLEON. NO
goal* es selfish fears have influenced a large portion
of the Assembly. But we should not look too
closely into the motives of public men, provided we
have beneficial and liberal results.

'fnr. attention of the Hampshire papers has of late
been very much given to the subjects of the Hospi-
tal of St. Cross, near Win. heater, and to the inform.
alien tiled by the ArrottsEv•Grumut against Lord
Hettroue, as its master, and ngainst the Bishop
W IthTRI, as its patron and visitor. Very sanguine
and glowing anticipations have been therein indulged
in as to the immediate termination of the proceedings
in equity. Lord GUILFORD'S appointment it is stated,
now turns oat to have been bad ab initio; he, conse-
quently. never was master legally, and is an intruder.
As each he is loath to account for all the proceeds
of its estates since 1806; the leans he has granted
arc bad ; the appointment has lapsed to the crown ;
in short, some good 12,0001. a year, at least, have
been recovered for charitable and other by
the results of Mr. lluxi's motion on St, roes, if the
Hampshire journals be well informed.
These, however, are much too good news to be
true. It is, indeed, correct that there is a prospect
of the early termination of the main question in-
volved in the information—that is, the legality of the
system of mal-administration which has .to long pre-
veiled in this noble foundation, and of Lord Cleft-
YORD'S resignation of its mastership. But, notwith-
standing the earnestness, seal, and ability with
which the proceedings against him have been
conducted, notwithstanding the large amount
of curious and valuable information brought
to light, the prospective advantages of the
proceedings are, it is understood, !Utilise to be
more substantial than the immediate benefits. A
great scandal wiU, however, have been arrested;
the abuse carried on for centuries in an hospital
muniSoeuUy endowed, will be at once corrected; its
Mare luau's will have been secured; and though
the present generation can hardly hope to see another
great educational establishment in full operation at
St. Crow, coming times will instil human probability
have to thank the investigations of the present for
is great a blessing there.
It is undoubtedly matter for great regret that
more cannot be at once obtained; that Lord Ora-
FORD cannot be made to disgorge some portion
at least of the 80,000/. he must have received
as master of St. Grade during the last 43 veers ; that
the leases for lives which he his granted of its pro-
Mcannot he voided; and that the Arreasee-
its.L cannot place the hospital in full receipt of
the 10,0001, a year which he has temporarily
alienated. Bat as that is hopeless, the next best
thing that can be done is to get rid of Lord GUIL-
FORD and to guard and protect the future in respect
of what cannot be obtained for the present. Aud
that, we have reason to believe, is the coarse that

will be pursued by Sir ALKIANDRR COCKBURN. No
compromise has, however, been come to with Lord
GUILFORD ; his resignation will not hare been
purchased by any avoidable concession to him;
had there been any reasonable chance of making
him pecuniarily responsible for the past, the pro-
ceedings against him would have been persevered in;
he winwxpa because the whole subject is sur-
rg'anded. aa6aeawd, and intertwined with legal