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London, England, 1851-06-09 00:00:00

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Tuz world would be surprised to learn, and incre-
dub pus tu believe, tile small and trillingcauses which at
times suffice to set the governments of great states in
mutual suspicion and hostility. In old times these
sentiments were excited by any supposed derange;
ment of what was called " the balance of power.
Now it is for influence at other courts, that govern-
ments arc supposed to strive, and on account of
which arise the most serious bickerings and jea-
lousies. France and England have had ill blood be-
tween them for years, on account of their struggle for
influence at the courts of Madrid, Athens, and-Alex-
andria. Not that either country has made any pro-
fitable use of the influence, when possessed of it.
Still such influence, even when barren, is supposed
to he power ; and those big children, states-
men, fight fur it.
Such mutual jealousies between great countries
for small and trifling causes arc, however, much di-
minished, much more dormant. Governments have
something more serious to think of at home. It is
only when third parties invent stories, blow a spark
into a flamc,and get up intrigues for special purposes,
that theme quarrels break into anything serious.
When Russia was last year annoyed by the junction
of the French and English fleets at the Dardanelles,
it took revenge by the English and French
envoys to quarrel at Athens. At present the great
mandot, and intriguer, and stirrer-up of old quarrels
is Prince SCHWAUFSDERO. And his peculiar de-
light is to make suggestions and tell stories calcu-
latesl to awaken that dormant jealousy which every
Frenchman has of England. Indeed, to make France
and England disagree, by getting up some counter-
part of the Greek squabble, is the grand hope of the
new Holy Alliance.
There are circumstances which afford scope for the
working of this malevolence. In most oriental coun-
tries there has ever been a strong rivalry between
English and French ideas, English and French
modes of civilisation and ways of enrichment.
Thu French bore awry. the palm in the science of
war and the organisation of armies. And hence old
Mr.ursecr ALI of Egypt, fur example, employed
French officers to create and discipline u military force,
just as III*NIISET SING did. The result was, that
Egypt, like the l'unjaub, was induced to try its
strength against England; and this ended in the
discrediting ofthe old military plan of founding and
swelling an empire. Since then, Egypt, like other
countries, has betaken itself to the ways of peace, in
lieu of those of war. And the consequence is, that it
is now us prosperous under Aunts I'Acut as it was
exhausted under MEIIEMET.

Mi.olltEr ALI no doubt worked many great
sad beneficial changes in Egypt, but it was
merely us an administrator, by the severity
of his laws, and the vigilance of his con-
trol. But of late much deeper reforms and popular
improvements have taken Owe. Thus, in the tenure
of thu soil, MbilExibr Abi's necessities and severity
led him to charge a much higher rent than the cul-
tivator could pay, and on nonpayment he was dis-
possessd or made over as a serf to some new lord,
in general, one of the court. To disposaess these new
lords of the buil, who became defaulters in their turn,
and to restore the land to the peasant as his own
property on the payment of certain and moderate
dues. one-third less than the old, has lieu the care
Or ABBAS PAM&
1V lad the MBAs have thus been restored to the
right that the military system degraded them from,
the system of disposing of that part of the produce
paid us rent (for rent may be paid in kind), hos been
altered for the benefit of the dealers. Under the old
administration, and that of AKTIM BET, the produce
of the soil thus procured by government, was mono-
lolised and distributed by favour at arbitrary prices.
t Ls now disposed of fairly, by public bale, to the
highest bidder. And all the old causes of complaint
with the bireign merchant have been removed.
Such policy Las borne its natural fruit. The ex-
pats ul Egypt have greatly increased. That of cot-
ton word has risen from 200,000 to 400,000 mtg..
within the last two years. That of flax has doubled;
of wheat mum than doubled. And in sum, the
value of the entire exports has risen, since ABBAS
PACIIA'S secession, from one to two millions sterling.
In another column we give, in a tubular form,
amounts of the present trade of Egypt from authen-
tic sources.

blot in the eyes of certain European politicians
there is a terrible drawback to all this prosperity.
It has been achieved by English principles. It is
the result of free trade, tenant right, and a host of
lilienil and suspicious thins. policy has bccu
sieigestill by that horrid English mercantile race,
who norm give advice without a selfish design. And
maordiiigly Prince --ktritWAIL7.I.:NBERO represents A mias
l'seita as little better than an English constitu-
tionalist. And the diplomatic agents of the prince
hate pointed out ABBAS PACIIA as a more decided
enemy to the Porto and to France than ever was
Mtn kurr. The Turkish government have conceived
jealousy. and under diplomatic pressure, have made
the moat unwarrantable demands upon Egypt.
France. under the enlightened M. BAUOCRE, u In-
clined to abet these demands. And Aunts PAM% is
menaced with a hostile league of idiotism, because
he bus dared to square his policy by tho rules of
common sense, common honesty, and common
humanity. For these: it seems. are all crimes, on
the scare of their being all English!

WHAT a narrow escape the Itoman catholics of
this realm have had from more stringent restrictions
than the kmient and unavoidable ones of the Eccle-
siastical Titles Bill, is evident from two of the divi-
ssWis oo Friday night. Au amendment, awarding a
penalty for the introduction of any future bull or
reiseript, was rejected by a majority of only 4, 133
votes against 1.2:1; and that majority was obtained
solely upon the representation of the difficulty of
getting at those who really did introduce the papal
document.

The other division was on Sir FREDERICK Me-
at:nes proposal to throw open the liberty of prose-
cutions under the bill, but to render it neces-
sary to obtain the permission of the ArroaNcr-
Ocvnltt.. Could such a provision have been maned
to England, no doubt it would have been carried;
but to leave at the option of belligerent parties in
Ireland the power of firing such a political petard
as a prosecution under the present bill, was felt to be
too dangerousi and equally dangerous would it be to
throw on the ATTORNET-CleNelLtL the onus of either
thwarting or encouraging the religious passion and
vindictiveness of the hour.
A few speedies touched, but refrained from laving
bare, the impracticable state of things in Inland,
where for the last years the efforts have been made ,
to introduce mixed protestant and Roman catholic
functionaries. On the bench, and in the magistracy,
men of both creeds are intermingled. That such inter-
mingling
and uniting of religious differences should
extend from the administrative order to commercial
habits and social relations, will be the only way of
pacifying Ireland. This, however, will beimpiseible
if the ecclesiastical profession and its leaders promote
exclusion, and war, and vindictiveness. For the end of

this will be, that the Roman catholic functionary will be
impossible. There is Mr. Mose O'FElam.t, the ex-
governor of Malta, who takes the same view of
Italian politics as Prince SCIIWAEZENBERG, who
thinks that Italy was revolutionised not by misrule,
but by Lord PALMERSTON, and who thinks that the I
attempt to (ores the Popo to grant constitutional
liberties lea heresy. Catholic laymen, who are so
priest be-ridden and besotted as this, can evidently
no longer bear office under the government of a free
and constitutional people. And if the WHALES,
through their power over the lower orders, continue
successful in browbeating the liberal sad educated
classes, and forcing them to join the =crusade,
we must say frankly that it would irepos
Bible to maintain the mount constitutional and fire.
system d govessment in Ireland. Ireland must be
ayarbd=zo tirt=rieetswilhar that kind of.

stitutional government must be restored to its in-
fluence.
The present dispute is one that goes infinitely
farther than either titles or churches. Ireland is
ungovernable in freedom as long as protestant
and catholic, or as long as the English government
and the catholic continuo at open variance and
engaged each day in mutual and mortal defiance.
The present straggle has even worse peculiarities.
The aggression was commenced by a foreign power,
under the control and at the suggestion of other
foreign powers, oat of revenge for some supposed
liberalism in Italian politics of the English Foreign-
Adm. So that, in fact, it is the whole foreign poli-
ties and influence of Europe that has come to con-
centrate its malignity, and shed it in this religious
controversy, to irritate England, arid make Ireland a
Hungary or a Lombardy.
The Roman catholic of England and of Ireland
ought to have been too national, too independent, to
allow of their being overborne and thus made the
playthings of Austrian or Roman bigotry and priest-
craft. if there be not a lay and liberal, and tho-
roughly British or imperial catholic party in
these kingdoms, the accord that has hithwte
prevailed cannot go on. Catholics and pro-
U.stants cannot share political power, if k
is to be used as a sword in the hand of the h-
nat ic leaders on both sides. The present excitement
cannot be long continued or much exasperated
without the English and the Irish people being
called up and kindled, and drawn up with angry
passions, threatening each ether. This is no till
than a renewal of Csoirwm.es wars; and we are
clearly approaching such a (Thal, for questions ace
arising, and modes are employed of testing and sok-
ing them which are mere appeals to numbers, bluster,
and s ioleuce ; and the end of arguments such us these
is civil war. There is too little prescience, too
little dread of such a calamity. Legislators seem
to think such things impossible ; and they arc al-
lowing the countries to dritt towards it, some of them
absorbed in zeal and passion, some in indifference
and disgust, and deeming that nothing very lead or
extreme can come of it : whereas, in reality, the
end of such strife must be open violence or civil
war. No government can allow itself to be dethroned
by the 31.1IsLcs; and the followers of M'llm.E
go so far as to say that to prohibit them assuming
princely power or territorial titles is persecution.
Nothing but blows or penalties can restore the em-
pire of pence and law between a people and a govern-
ment at such an issue. And if a rational catholic
party do not show itself, a tory and a persecuting
ministry in England will become inevitable, because
it will come to be desired by even liberal men.
As the ultra-Catholics of Ireland have met the legis-
lation of the present ministry by all the outcry
and frenzy, that passion is capable of, what could
they have to oppose to a STANLEY bill? Argument
and vituperation they have exhausted. The Irish
would have nothing left hut to take to their tents ;
and either sneak out of resistance, or risk the fate of
SMITH O'BRIEN.
There is hut one event or combination of circum-
stances in our political world that could render poo-
.,ible a government farmed on the principle of ultra-
tonism ; and that is, the prevalence of the M'IIALES
in Ireland. Every one would feel that they would
require all that was stringent and dictatorial in the
onstitution and in the country to put that down.