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thernang Paper, there were issued for the Evensne Echelon.
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LONDON. FRIDAY, AUG. 11.

TH E millennium of tort' ism has returned. The wave
of popular s.volution that swept over Europe in the
months of March and February, is already on the re-
coil, and fast upon it follows the terrible reaction of
military and despotic conquest. For a few short
weeks the liberal mind was allowed to indulge in
dreams of European regeneration. It saluted the ad-
vent of German freedom, of Italian independence. A
third of Europe seemed to grasp the tights of
political manhood hitherto denied them, and promised
to become free-thoughted, free-spoken constitution-
alists, claiming the sympathy and relationship, be-
cause following the example, of Englishmen.
Three hopes have been cruelly disappointed. An
Austrian army has overcome the gallant but ill-
directed efforts of the champion of Italian indepen-
dence, and has thereby placed in the Emperor's hand
a ready instrument for the restoration of his leaden
rule, not only south but northward of the
Alps. In Prussia the monarch keeps his army
concentrated in hostile separation from his
capital, and there too the signal for military reaction
given in the south, will inevitably be followed.
Whilst this combined plot is in progress of develop-
ment, a comedy is enacting at Frankfort to amuse and
lull the dreaming liberals of central Germany. And
noble and honourable men, even princes, are put lee-
ward as the unconscious actors in this play ; one
which, when it is acted out, the curtain of old n.o-
narchic despotism is to fall, and Europe is to become
at the close of 1818, precisely the same night-mare-
ridden victim that the commencement of this same

eventful Tear found it.
The glee and exultation of the tories as each por-
tion of liberated Europe is driven back into its old
fetters, and into the night of its hereditary dungeon,
are quite wonderful. The resuscitation of the Holy
Alliance, the success of its principles and aims, are
haiied with fond acclamation. ltAiinTzst is the hero of
English choice. His brute proclamation to the
Lombards—more worthy of the sixteenth, than
the nineteenth century—is quoted as the true
language of the hero. And one would think
were the English press to be taken as the reflection
of the English mind, that its 84 ntiments were those of
horror for human emancipation, and of adoration of
the most brutal and despotic principles of govern-
ment.
Why, this is infinitely worse and more disgraceful
than the spirit which prevailed in the days of CAS-
TLEREAGH. There was then a liberal spirit even
in the bosom of toryism ; and although some gloated
then, as now, on the extinction of constitutional
government, in Spain by France, and in Italy by
Austria, we still had a CANNING to prote,t, and at all
events the majority of the British press would have''
blushed to uphold in 1823 the principles and the
champions whose cause it espouses in 1848. Are we
to conclude that the liberalism of the English mind
has retrograded during that quarter of a century
to what it was halt a century before? For if
the press is our thermometer, that is what it
marks. We cannot believe it. The thermometer must
be wrong. The English press mast be bi lying and
betraying the sentiments and wishes of the people of
England by expressing suct. sympathies, and exult-
ing in such events.
And now that the stupid and sanguinary despotism
of BABETTE' is re-established in Milan, the great and
restless anxiety of Lord STANLEY and of the Times is,
that a similar despotism may be re established, not
only over the whole peninsula, but that it shall include
Sicily also—Sicily, to which we guaranteed a free con-
stitution, and to which we foully broke our former pro-
misee. Atthe very ideaof the BOURBON tyrant of Naples I
not being able to lay waste liberal Sicily with fire
and sword, and to slaughter its population—conquer
them he cannot—Lord STANLEY and the Times burst
forth into the most pathetic lamentations. Why
should FERDINAND, they say, not be indulged in his,
butcherly inclinations? Why should not civil war
be allowed to rage ? Why nave recommended the
Sicilians to prefer monarchy to a republic ? For a re-
public would have been anarchy, and that anarchy,
however productive of misery and bloodshed, would
still have been more favourable to a restoration of the
old BOURBON despotism, than if a regular and consti-
tutional monarchy were established.
The British government has indeed no right to in-
terfer.., except by counsel and by remonstrance. It
can have, and should have, no preference of one
dynasty to another. It can have no interest, or desire.
in seeing Sicily separated from Italy or from Naples.
But e:ngland has not only an interest bat a duty in
procuring for Sicily a constitutional government by
every fair means. And it has also certain duties
towards humanity in preventing, as far as remon-
strance can prevent, a merely wanton effusion of
blood and gratification of vengeance on the part of the
King of NAPLES, which could only have the effect of
rendering any future reconciliation between him and
the Sicilians impossible.
We are scary to perceive that respectable statesmen
and respectable journals, who once professed at least
the semi-liberalism of Mr. CANNING, should so far
lose sight of every liberal aim, as to uphold the cause
of despotism and counter-revolution all over Europe.
But we are still more sorry to see that in this they
are the cat's-paws of a designing and restless family.
Claremont is too near London. It is the suggestions
and insidious inspirations of that subtle court, which
we see breaking forth from the protectionists in both
houses of parliament, and in the columns of the
Times. The moment a BOURBON is menaced. whether
in Spain or in Sicily, the old intrigues of the head of the
ORLEANS family against the Foreign Secretary recom-
mence. Notes are interchanged, facts revealed, orators
are crammed. Mr. BANEES against Mr. BULwER
one day, Lord STANLEY against Lord PALMERSTON
another. There is, in fact, a BOURBON league in this
country, every Coblentz of diplomacy, working in our
press and in our parliament, against any liberal
efforts that may be made on behalf of either Spanish
or Italian or French constitutional freedom

The organ of this league informs us, that if England
throw any obstacles in the way of a marauding ex-
pedition against Sicily, the court of Naples will
declare war against us. The idea could of itself have
never germed in his poor Neapolitan Majesty's head.
But it is just the one that would be suggested to him
by traitors and conspirators here, by foreign exiles
who do not blush to intrigue against the liberal in-
terest and government of the land which harbours
them, and by renegade Englishmen, who would sell
their country, embroil its peace, and embarrass its
rulers, for the mere gratific/tion of a factious speech or
a party triumph. General NARVAEZ would never
have dared to outrage England in the person of its
envoy, but for the suggestions and support of such
ecomplices. And the war (bless the mark !) to be
declared by Naples against England, is a weapon
from the same forge, a similar result of rancorous and
traitorous faction.

It is possible that the Holy Alliance may triumph.
It is possible that we may very soon see Prince
METTERNICH resume his paternal rule not only over
Vienna, but over Milan and Naples. It is possible
that his ally, M.OUIZOT, may stretch the hand to him
from the Seine, and whilst METTERNICH gensd'armes
Italy and Sicily, the French restored minister may
put down the few sparks of independence remaining
in Switzerland and Spain. All this is possible, and we
certainly cannot interfere with arms or force to
prevent it: for non-intervention is our mottc.
But if we have not the right, or the spirit, or the
power to prevent this universal and disgraceful re-
sumption of despotism, let us at least not demean our-
selves into being its abettors or accomplices, or even
its flatterers. Our self-called leading journals may,
indeed, disgrace the English nation and the English
character by doing so; but we are confident that they
are allowed to do this more by the apathy than by
the assent of English opinion, which, if for a moment
aware how much and how disgracefully it was thereby
huini.iated and betrayed, would arouse and fling from
its bosom the poisonous reptiles which it has unwarily
allowed to creep into its confidence.

ANOTHER night's debate about the Borough Elec-
tions Bill !—the night of the 10th of August, in the
fourteenth month of this present parliament of Queen
VICTORIA ! No wonder the house is disgusted as well
as the country. No wonder Mr. DISRAELI, rather
exceeding the bounds of the parliamentary proprie-
ties, is induced to describe the measure as a" miserable,
canting, lying, hypocritical, puritanical abortion !"
Who eould stand this meagre attempt to legislate for
a great principle by such paltry means ? How pre-
vent the country from jeering the notion of making
barristers' inquiries a snbetitute fur a speedy and
efficient parliamentary reform?
However, if members want inquiry, we are by no
means anxious to prevent their having it. Probably,
neither party will obtain one-half the advantage they
expect from it. There was that Sligo compromise
ease the other day, which was brought before
parliament with a loud flourish of trumpets, and re-
ferred to a committee of privileges by general accla-
mation. Well, what came of it? The committee
met with closed doors, in solemn state : they had in a
dozen witnesses, who were shivering about the lobbies
all the day before, looking as pale as Mr. Bass's beer
is represented to be by several "members of the
faculty." At last there came tripping up the stairs
" a distinguished parliamentary agent. In he went ;
out he came again presently with a smiling visage,
and the public understood next morning, through
" the usual channels of information," that the com-
mittee of privileges had found the facts alleged in the
petition to be very much as they had been stated, but
that they had also found, to use the cabalistic phrase-
ology of an ancient contributor to several morning
journals, who attends Mr. WAKLEY'S inquests, " that
not the slightest blame whatever could attach to any
individual in particular !"
It is probable, then, that these inquiries will end
in disappointment if they ever begin at all, which, by
the nay, is by no means so certain. There was a
great deal of debate, but not much actual progress
last night. Of course every member had something to
say about his own town, and equally of course Mr.
ANSTEY had a great deal to say (though there was
but little in it), about every ore's borough, and a few
'other places aod things be,ides. This modest and
inoffensive gentleman led off a long attack
against Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the citizens of
London. It appears from what we could gather from
the hon. gentleman's somewhat incoherent state-
ments, that the noble lord went down to
Cornhill with a number of refreshment tickets
of the value of 61d. each, and dealt them
out among the merchants at the hour of
high change, making each promise to poll for him in
return. It would appear, also, that be had an maims.'
sary to play the same game on the Stock Exchange,
where he, of course, was not permitted to enter per-
sonally ; thatthe lord mayor and corporation of the Efity
were bribed with a refreshment ticket for a basin at
mock turtle • and that every Lombard-street banker
was promised a suck of a China orange by way of re-
freshment as he came up to the poll. Lord Joule
RUSSELL, with much suavity, assured Mr. ANSTEY
that these things had never occurred, and that he
I never recollected having even heard of bribery and
treating in London except from the hon. member him-
self. Mr. JOHN ABEL SMITH, who was chair-
man of the election committee, equally em-
phatically denied the imputations, and .Mr. Alder-
man HUMPHERY appeared to hear them with
great indignation. Still, however, Mr. ANSTEY'S
assertion remains on record; still, no doubt, Mr.
URQUIIART credits it as implicitly as he believes Lord
PALMERsTON to be a paid tool of the Czar; and the
cne asserting and the other believing, how is the
country to remain in doubt ?
Poor Col. SISTHORP! He made so long a
speech last night about Lincoln that one would
think things were really getting serious with
him, and that he was preparing for that
tomb of his forefathers, in the crowded graveyard, of
which he gave so pathetic a description the other
night. Lincoln, despite all his exertions, is to be sub-
jected to inquiry. Mr. HOBHOUSE kicked hard
against the pricks. He even went so far as to divide
the hou,e, and he got 12 others to vote with him, the
gallant colonel included. Mr. HoßuoesE's conduct on
this matter is far more surprising to us than Col. SID.'
THORP'S. If it be true, as is reported and believed.'
that Mr. SEELEY, the late member for Lincoln, and
his friends and constituents in the borough, desire'
nothing more than full and complete inquiry into the
matters alleged in the late petition and into the
general practice attending elections in that town,
why, certainly,. Mr. HOEMOUSE seems to be taking
a somewhat singular—nrt to say suspicious—
course. What can Mr. HOIMOUSE have to fear?
were the Lincoln freemen his best friends last time ;1
or is it that he minis upon their votes hereafter? If
the latter suggestion be any key to his conduct, we
may venture to I int to him that that game has been
played in Lincoln before, and that "the trick was
trumped."
But if Mr. HOBHOUSE'S conduct was singular, what
are we to say to the course pursued by Mr. QUINTIN
DICK? Mr. HOBHOUSE is a very pure member : he
never bribed a man in his life ; and yet be opposes
inquiry. Mr. QUINTIN DICK makes no profession of
any such purity, and yet he earnestly begs the house
to investigate the state of Aylesbury, and is sure that
the borough will be all the better for the investiga-
tion. Mr. DISRAELI takes him to task dread-
fully heretore. What in the werld, he says, is the
hon. member driving at ? The Aylesbury electors
are not to be sacrificed in this way. Mr. DICK is
new to the county of Bucks, and new to the practice
of parliamentary debate, though old enough, heaven
knows, to the scene of it. Aylesbury, says Mr.
Disittem, is an ancient borough. It did great
things once. He can't say much for it now,
but still it is not to be sacrificed, and therefore
Mr. DISRAELI sacrificed poor innocent Mr. DICK
instead. But Aylesbury was included in the
schedule, despite all his efforts.
Bodmin came next, and it wined not be doing
justice to pass over without applause the manly de-
fence of that town by Mr. LACY, its senior representa-
tive. He carried the house with him, and any
Bacons that may have attended the motion to expunge
Bodmin from the list of towns to be examined must be
entirely attributed to his bold and candid language.
Poor Mr. WYLD did not come so well out of the fire,
for, having described himself "as interested in pro-
moting the spread of geographical information, or
some such bombast, instead of boldly saying he was a
" mapeeller," Mr. DISRAELI undertook to baste and
roast him, which he did se effectually, and so much to
the amusement of his hearers, that if ever Mr. WYLD
goes to Bodmin again, we venture to say he will find
his way over the town without exhibiting the least
anxiety to examine a map of it.

If the borough members, however, were somewhat
unuaccessful last night, certainly the government
gained quite as little bycansing anutherentire evening
to be devoted to this profitless discussion. It is
quite lamentable to mark how little legislative
power they seem to possess. Here they have been
for months, keeping alive party excitement, prevent-
ing the healing of political wounds in the towns
which they propose to subject to the operation of this
measure; and yet they seem as far from car-
rying it as ever. At any rate there must be another
night or two's debate l efore they can get it through
the House of Commons ; and at this season of the
year, that is far from a joke.

FRANC:.

PARTS, THURSDAY, II A.M.

The results of the proceedings in the assembly
yesterday have been of high importance. The project
of law put forward by the government, in spite of an
obstinate and animated resistance from the ultra-
democrats and members of the Mountain, led by
M. Ledru Rollin, and brought up in the rear ',y
his satellite, M. Flocon, was adopted by a ma-
laity of 407 against 342. The duration of the
w at present voted is limited to the Ist of May
next, in which interval it is expected that the legis-
, ture will establish a permanent system of laws to
regulate the press. The second incident of y, ster-
day produced a result in which all France, and
indeed all Europe, will be interested. It has
rendered the complete publication of the mass
of evidence collected by the insurrec:ion committee
inevitable. This measure was demanded equally as
an act of justice to the committee and to the incul-
pated, but more than all it was demanded imperiously
on the part of the entire country, which insists on
having the veil raised from before that dwelt ma-
chinery by which the entire structure of society has
been assailed at successive and almost regulated in-
tervals since 24th February.
The incidents of yesterday completely frustrated
this purpose, and no attempt was made, or will be
`made, to prevent the complete disclosure of everything
which the resew ches of the committee have elicited.
The committee itself were desirous to suppress certain
documents and depositions taken by them which,
while they throw no direct light on the immediate
subject of the inquiry, were likely to excite personal
collisions between parties not contemplated by the
inquiry: Against even this suppression the accused
themselves raised their voices, and the ass nibly de-
clared that the documents and depositions should be
published without exception, curtailment, or reserve.
It is expected that they will be ready for distribution
on Saturday.
A measure has been adopted by Gen. Cavaignac,
which has raised him very highly in the estimation of
the moderate and conservative parties in parliament
and in the country. It appears that some time since
the president of the council put himself in com-
munication with the President of the Academy
of Moral and Political Sciences, M. Charles
Unpin, with a view to ask of the academy their
active concurrence in the defence of society, against
the attempts made to disorganise it by.the partisans
of socialism and communism since the revolution of
February. " The sword (said Gen. Cavaigaac) may
temporarily repress disorder, but it is the pen and
ideas only which can permanently triumph over the
errors and sophisms by which society has been
assailed." He proposed therefore that the academy,
through the organ of its • moat eminent members.
should investigate practically the questions raised
by the socialists and communists, and should
publish and circulate such reports and essays
thereupon as they should think best calculated to in-
form and enlighten the public. In consequence of this
one of their members, M. Blanqui, has been selected and
commissioned by government to visit the chief seats of
manufacturing industry, with a view to study the
various questions which have been raised respecting
the condition of the operative classes, and to allot such
statistical and economical data as may afford the
academy sure practical grounds for their reports.
In accordance with the suggestions of Gen. Cavaig-
use the Academy has i ppointed a committee to deter-
mine upon the way in which the Academy can most
effectually carry oat the designs of the chief of the '
executive. This committee is composed of MM.
Toler', Cousin, Troplong, Blanqui, and Gustave de
Beaumont. It has already recommended, and the
Academy has accordingly resolved, that a series of pub-
lications shall be made by its several members. All
the questions relating to the amelioration of the con-
dition of the operatives w.. 11 be successively treated by
the most eminent members of the Academy. All the
light of philosophy, history, moral science, legislation,
and political economy, will be shed upon these difficult
problems.
Up to the evening of the 7th the military commis-
sion on the insurgents had decided the fate of 2,718
accused. Their decision was as fel:owe : acquitted
and liberated, 1,396; to be transported, 1,206 ; to be
sent before courts-martial, 116.
Several of the Paris journals have raised the price
of their subscription, that course be'ng rendered ne-
cessary by the great diminution in the receipts for ad-
vertisements in consequence of the stagnation of trade,
and by their great expenditure.
The Madrid mails of the sth have arrived. _ _

Leopold O'llonnel had arrived. il.;itinez de la
Rosa left for Rome on the 3rd. .

The failure of a great number of respectable houses
had been announced within the few days preceding
the date of our correspondent's letter.
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