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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29.

Tue man is never wall who is for ever doctoring
himself. Nay, the man is never well, who is for ever
thinking of his state of health, who feels his own
pales, turns his mind too keenly to the state of his
intestines, and who creates half of his own nervou-
s.= by reflecting upon it. Such are the malades
imaginaires of whom we meet so many instances
amongst the idle, people who are committing slow
suicide in search of health, who seek nutrition in a
pill-box, invigoration in a strata bath, or who do
penance in wet sheets for their own sins or for those
of their ancestors.
The French politically resemble very much these
maisties imayinaires of private life. To all appearance
year Frenchman is in florid health. His exports are
increasing, his imports show bow much life is en-
joyed,
and how easily those enjoyments are paid for.
His revenue is increasing, his agriculture improving,
mendicancy does not show itself, nor bankruptcy, nor
famine. Discontent and insurrection have given up
utterance. Still the Frenchman declares that he is
polit:c illy in a very sinking state, threatened by
anarchy, about to be devoured by socialism. His
neighbour E gland is thinking of nought save how
to rob him, and do him an ill turn. And in this
excited state cf over self-consciousness and suscepti-
bility, this melancholy France, instead of sitting
down and enjoying the health and wealth,with which
the gods provide it, keeps on a plaintive, malingering,
and contentious existence, which makes all who look
upon him to be in doubt whether he is most to be
pitied, ridiculed, seriously condemned, or heartily
destAsed.
our part we see nothing on earth the matter
with the fellow, but to be mode to know it. All he
wants is to be turned out of the hospital, or out
of the sick corner in: which he skulks, brooding
upon imaginary ills and wrongs. He should be
driven into the highways of life, and be made to for-
get his confounded body politic, and all its ail-
ments. And in truth the great mare of the French
are, we believe, wakening to common sense and every-
day life. But their politicians are still nvilades
irnaginaires. Nothing is totheir mind. Forgetting how
they grumbled under the cold sl.ade of the monarchy,
they loudly complain of the want of some one of its
branches over them. And the word republic fills
them with horror, although the rogues make such
ample and excellent use of the powers which a re-
public really gives their clam, that they have taken
the place of monarchy, and rule with all its jealousies,
its prejudices, and its caprices.
As the most unnatural and deleterious employment
for an individual is to be fathoming his sanitary sys-
tem, and forcing alteratives upon it, so the most dan-
gerous and pernicious duty that an fall to the lot of
sovereign or assembly is to be eternally laying or
changing the foundations of government, meditating
and discussing the relative merits of monarchies or
republics, and giving rise to parties whose antagonise,
.ed ieeieed or lying within the limits
clone constitution or allegiance, take the whole
singe of political metaphysics, and stretch so apart
that all common action or sympathy is denied them.
The founders of republican forms of government
were well aware of file danger. They fully saw how
widely different were the duties of framing a con-
stitution and of legislating according to the law and
spirit of a constitution. Herce the distinction, so
wisely observed in America, between conventions
elected by the people, and elected for the establishing
or the reform of the fundamental law, and con-
pewee or representative assemblies, convened to per-
form the regular legislative business of the time.
There is no one cause to which the French may so
much attribute their interminable failures in repre-
sentative government, as to their ever having wil-
fully cooteinded and mixed up the functions of a
convention and of a regular legislature.
The first rule of a conventioo, or of an assembly
to settle the form of government, should be its
menieg fresh from the people to every act of the
kind, so that there should not be a murmur, or a die-
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sentient voice, or a doubt, for the malcontent to take
hold of. A regular legislature, more especially in a
country young to political experience, requires time
for the members to mature their views. At least, if
the people and the constitution so will it, that a legis-
lators shall have • three years' duratioo, no incomes-
asses ma result from it in the way of its not repro-
/seating the people for the purposes of common
legislation. But in the great question of sovereignty
and forms of government, where the people have •
right to exercise immediate influence and voice, an
emembly of four yeah' duration, actiog as a woven-
tioe all that time, is little less than a tyranny and as
esarpatirro.
The French National Aseembly, since It met, hes
less in truth nothing elm than a convention. It has
never done anything else than disease and propose
asseares and pas laws for effecting changes in the
randamaital law. Its debaters and disputers have
been moearehlo, anai-niortarchic, republican, ultra-
npablicsa parties, all bearing directly upon the
Osten form at government, and the particular '
Celthat wee to be at the head of it.
an* and socialist, legitimist and Orleanist,
have each and all shown themselves and
declared their views. The Imperialists could not be
expected to be silent, and to bold beck their own pre-
tansies* when all others pat forth theirs. And hence
the interminable strife and struggle which has placed
all parties at veriest*, flung the government into ono
ramp, the assembly into another, aid which, in truth
Mises • greater provocation to anarchy, than any
state of thaws or of opinion that the socialists them-
selves ever brought about. What renders the
dificulty still greater and the dispute insoluble,
is, that this great promss is pleaded before
a wart which has no power whatever to
give_ jedgment. The National Assembly has aopower
to dig& between monarchy and republic. It had
the power when first sammosed in ironveatioo, but it
spat that power in proclaiming a republie, and after
many changes in solemnly flung 'a form of govern-
mat. The leaders of the eassmibly, M. Beam=
sad M. Mils, have a hundred time °pertly de-
clared their dissatisfaction with thin form of va-
unt. Loins NAPOLEON is equally diattiefMd. This
Mimes has widened with sosembly and Pang-
aea; seek entrenching Itself in distinct poeitioas,
the latter with a non-parliamentary ministry, the
essembly in a naver-cesaing coovention.
Sorely then is bat one way of patio( an end to a
quarrel so impossible for the two parties swged in
ft to settle. It is to restore to the National Assembly '
its true fetes, that of ootaiug bosh from the people.
However the seastitatisa may have sot •
for it, still the set of the Assembly's dissolving it-
self, the Penni:min at the same time consenting,
gins she to no just oompleint, infringes no tae's right,
sad pets an end to strife. If LolrlD Nsrotsoo
low takes roarer to oppose the Amiably, it is that
he considers it not to remora the country. But an
ameenay, freshly re-alested, the President could not
with any obstizsio= were It MI nionarchist
Its votes sad would eamisad rispoot.

The democrats alone would hare just ground of eons-
' plaint from the electoral limo Which has &Oen their
constituents from the ern. titit Trues in Itflikeipt
state may weU abide by the votes slits settled at-
sew and householders. That elsertots wiitiegjols
and decree the republic as tile only form iftgoieni-
meat possible and OwiApt with pee* sesey
sew must be convinced. AM -that is went:fog
is to give authority and power to it. If
M. TRIER" therefore, be sincere in the professions of
his late speech, he cannot object to a dissolution;
neither ought the Pompom'. Whilst the army and
the citizens must both desire it, as the only means of
avoiding civil war.
That snob would be the universal cry sod opinion
of the country, if the country were allowed to express
an opinion, there can be little doubt. But one of the
great aggravations of the present crisis is, that owing
to the restrictions on the peen, the prohibition of
assoelatioos, of meetings, and addresses, popular
opinion hu neither voice nor expression. And the
PRESIDENT and the Assembly are obliged to grope
their way and form conjectures se to the sovereign
opinion of the public, which is universally stifled by
the harangues of party and the clamour of mercenary
organs.

Mr. BENNETT'S histrionic exhibitions at St. Bans-
hee have been succeeded by a dull afterpieee, into
which the chief performer bas not bun able to infuse
much of the Attic wit of those Greek comedians on
whose shoulders he was raised to the See of London.
When Mr. BENnerr led the antics of the priests
within the brazen gates of the "Holy of Holies ; when,
issuing from the chancel into the pulpit, he crossed
himself three times in the name of the Holy Trinity ;
when he addressed his audience not as his "beloved
brethren," but as "an infuriated mob ;" when the
inurmursof ill-repressed indignation mingled with the
" 'Demme ries" of lighted candles and glittering cruse',
or with the mockeries of "intonation, prostration,"
and other " medieval monstrosities," there was some-
thing of excitement mingled with the melancholy
mirth, which all these follies produced.
But since the curtain dropped on Mr. Bement as
the high priest of St. Barnabas, and he has appeared
as the correspondent of his indulgent and humph-
,' cable diocesan, the public have become at once di.-
gaged and indignant. They ask when is all this
folly to end? Haw long is the church of England
to be led forth to make sport to its enemies? How
hug. are the curates of Mr. BENteker to enaot and
greelaira the same popery as their master, and to
restive the tacit countenance of the prelate by whom
lig are licensed ?
We are happy to announce this morning that the
siice of the public will not be much longer over-
tasked; that the last act of the/arcs will soon be
lobbed; and that the curtain will drop, as the Right
Hoe. and Right Rev. CHARLES JAMES, Lord Bishop
of London, shall introduce to hie wearied audience
the assessor of Mr. Beengrx, in the person of the
Hee. and Rev. ROBERT LIDDELL, the Vicar of
Barking.
How far the change of performers will give satis-
faction may be best understood, when Mr LIDDELL'S
history becomes better known. In the meantime,
Mr. BENNETT'S admirers may rest assured that the
motto of their new incumbent will be " neater ceitigio
retrersem." He will not conduct them beck into the
hag deserted paths of old fashioned and deserted
protestantism—he will not damp their hallowed seal
he "sacraments to be gased at", or rubrical idolaby,
or ritual observances. The interval which Is
to elapse before Mr. BENNETT legally re-
signs, and Mr. LIDDELL is legally appointed, will
be sufficient just to modify the • exoeseive ritualism"
of St. Barnabas, so tar as to prevent "the sham" from
being confounded with the "reality." The Vicar of
Barking is weli known as a high Anglican priest, one
of those " observers of days and months and years" of
whom the great Apostle of the Gentiles, in his primi-
tive simplicity, expresses fears lest he should have
bestowed on them " labour in vain."
His fame is not indeed very wide. It is neither
European, nor yet entirely Anglican. He is known
as a younger son of Sir THOMAS LIDDELL, whom
GEORGE IV. created Lord RAVENSWORTIL He be.
longs to a large family, which has been well to do
in the world, the daughters having made high
matches and the eons secured good preferment in
the church and the army. Mr. BENNETT'd successor
himself married a daughter of Dr. WELLESLEY, late
rector of Bishop Wearmouth, and was, in 1836, pre-
sented by the College of All Souls, Oxford, to the
living which be will now vacate. His parish includes
that of Great Ilford, which a few years ago was the
scene of an ecclesiastical inssute, which for intensity
alinnat apawno t during ito ownallutianCo the riot of
St. Barnabas.

Daring that sacerdotal tempest in the provinces,
Mr. LIDDELL, with his neighbour Archdeacon GRANT,
of Romford, stood by and supported his fellow col-
legian and fellow priest, the Rev. Mr. BAUGII, the
Vicar of Ilford, whose locality is now at Rome, but
his whereabouts in the Church of Rome or of Eng-
land somewhat dubious.

The check then given by the laity of Ilford to the
sacerdotal pretensions and Romish practices of their
priests was highly beneficial not only to themselves
bat to their clergy. Mr. BAUGH retired from the
wane of his defeat muttering many censures on the
duplicity or faint heartedness of the diocesan, who
first led them into the field of °intent and then be-
trayed his followers. Mr. LIDDELL was II sympa-
thiser with Mr. Beoca's sentiments, but he wisely
bent before the storm, and has been content to carry
Anglican absurdities no further than his people could
bear them.

MOM recently, Mr. LIDDELL was one of the fore-
most of that idatuated throng, who crowded round
the standard set up last July by Lord FSILDINO and
bis associates, in protesting against the QueeN's su-
premacy in deciding the great GORHAM cause. He
was present when Mr. Sewell. made his disloyal
harangue, and menaced the Quzim with the prospect
of going down to posterity with the curse of perjury
on her tomb.

This is to be the termination of the farce of Mr.
BeeNtrr's resignation. It is perhaps well that it
should be so. It is well that the game should be
played out, and that the public may understand what
our bishops mean.
The belief same weeks back, and, indeed, the ap-
pearance, was, that Puseyinn was abashed; that those
high churchmen who had led themselves and their
flocks in so many eminent and flagrant instances to
the gates of Rouse, were at last aware of the inevi-
table tendencies of their doctrines, and that they
were parposed in sinaseity, if not in humility, to
retrace their steps. But Dr. Poesy's " Bull of
Defence," offence be should have styled it, impudent
as that of Pits himself, elevating the Prayer Book
above the Bible, and declaring Tractarianism to be
eternal, oomee forth as a timely challenge to all Scrip-
tural Christians to push for the decision, as to whether
the foundations of the Anglican church were laid in
the Liturgy or in the Bible.

Tam history of the Madrid aid Valencia Railway
babble now bring unwound by Master JOHN ELUAH
BLHNT, under the operation of the Winding-up Act,
is a romantic tale. Though at present onIT partially
told, the main facts of folly and of cupidity, of ere-
' dulity and of dupery, of greediness and of plunder,
are plain enough.
Mr. W. CaAswics, the greet conjuror of the di-
rectors, is, to be sure, yet wanting; he still keeps
" over the ems and far away ;" and, in his absence,
the secret of all the tricks performed cannot be made
apparent ; but enough has been disclosed to show how
easily, order certain circumstances, as hundred
thousand pounds sterling may by a little sleight of
head be transferred from honest, but foolish, people's
pockets, through bankers' amounts, railway loam,
and the Stork &change, to nowhere.
There it is-106,0304, at Messrs. MAsTsimax sad
Co.'s. Iley Presto. It I. game. Whither, not even
that Monsieur CAILIII of this CiA, Mr. DANIEL
WstirLt HARTZ; can telL inither, Master
Stun though lAISTOILOded by all the powers of
Chancery, will sot probably be able to dirroover. It
is goes where it ma net be found. That alma to be
the result of the matter.

Ills origin of the babble vas, mays Mr. Liam one
of its dopes, a fidasbiag pmereenae" from Colonel
STOPPOILD, for writing which be bad I,OOOL, pro.
Weise all aalseribeee 90 per mat. from a railway
bettiessrj Madrid and Wiwi.. This was in ths days
whoa or English hoe bad to pay per o at.
sal the Wesel sums to hare 1
t hem them in the;
wingelitke for capital, b clapping an addition! 1
oat. on his If so, the par Colossi
know his owl onntrymen mach bettor than he
appals to have understood the Spaniards; sad yet