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London, England, 1847-05-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 3.

WE should have been by no means so eager to ap-
plaud Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S loan of 600,0001. to the
Irish railways, had we previously heard the an-
nouncement made by him on Friday night, that
this loan was simply half of the million once destined
for the reclamation of waste lands. This is certainly
borrowing from Parra to pay PAUL, PETER
being a poor helpless wretch, and PAUL a very
opulent capitalist, with plenty of money at his com-
mand, did he And it advisable to pay the high interest
of the day.
It is not, indeed, to be denied that half a million
lent to the Great South Western Railway of Ireland
is a surer speculation than throwing it into bogs; and
if sovernment were a bank of discount, its shrewdness
!night be applauded. But there is something more
important than getting the beet security for half a
million sterling. It is this: whether the last and
only remedy, which the wisdom of England has been
able to contrive for Ireland, shall prove effectual, or
half effectual, or tolerable at all, or whether
it shall turn out a dead letter. We are very
sorry to say that if the Irish poor-law fail',
if it be found inapplicable and unavailable, the
Irish agitator will have thereby obtained one of
the most terrible and irresistible arguments for the
repeal et the union, and for all efforts which he is
making *wards that end.

The; can be no better way of applying a portion
of the to be advanced to be than in
maintaining through the counties in which the great
railway lies, the usual amount of labour employed
on it. It is relief to those counties ; but it would
be a misfortune to attract to Ihese works
—to any such works—multitudes from distant
and impoverished districts. The Irish peasant
is vagrant enough : the Irish landlord *efficiently de-
sirous to render him more so. Far better is it to fix
the Irish labourer more to the district and to the land-
lords, upon whom he has a claim; force the landlord
and the other property of the county to provide for
the where that is possible ; and aid the landlord
in the task, where it is too much for him, and where
pauperism far exceeds rent. It is precisely in those
counties, such as Ma o, that the land reclamation
would have saved la, and population, and poor_
law. That the land would have ropiud the outlay,
when cultivation had spread over the district, and
ritaways been opened to the contommummet has
ieyinton of its
produce, we have little doubt.
shrunk, not from the improbability of mom. bat
from the nessesity of
.applying coercive dames b the
landlord, and of provng something Wm tenors and
rights for the pennant. In fact, ministers have not
amide up their minds as to the nature. Der do they
strength to carry the
reh:rne colonisation. provoner,* may
piss
Foe this we pan no censure on the Armen eat,
Parliament la evidently indisposed to vote, Grew eon,
skier any newer large measure of lopala*nlsi this, It.
list minim And the Irish poor-law has pinged. chiefly
became the poor-law is • thing understood. and not
reqphing rafted= or &milieu. We meek kw,
however, that the -law. time relatinlyseretad and
traitbig to tine Irish, will disappoint every one.
suppoing that it operates bettor than it per

nine at sispreing that rates can be struck,
Sie will act, and that landlord and
fhenneeneatllhenseivee to keep the population from
se rs rates—even In this case we can-
ed the correctness of parliamentary Fog
nosilisedens. Both Lord Joins Rnsaim end the Mar-
quis et LINSDOWNE end Lord STANLEY look forward
he tin main** of the potato, and to the introdue-
at sMS Milk and consequently of corn produce,
Onnientr As adders don't grow corn,
Alp me dipepar,painiatry. to herd in towns and villages
BisSik peasants, whilst farmers and their
ploughs are to replace the conacre holder and his
spade.
We doubt the accomplishment of any sea maks-
' alum. We know of no mode by which the mews
and occupiers of land in Ireland can feed the pennenry
except by giving them land, under one teams at en.
other, to grow potatoes. It is the only way deem&
ing the poor-rate--the only way of meeting the par
sure. This year, indeed, potatoes will not have bus
so largely sown. The soup-pots may supply the de.
ficiency. Bat if parliament will do no more then
per a poor-law, to the potato must peasant and pro!
pastor. return, or to a servile war—unless, hawed
some great effort was made to lighten the
labour market But a parliament that will
give nothing to emigration, nothing to reclaim waste
lands, and which deems a million and a half in the
way of drainage capable of enabling landlords to
employ and find corn for the labouring population,
has neither the prospect, no, nor the intention, of
meeting seriously and really he terrible question of
the condition of Ireland.
Lord DiNSDOWNE depicted, in clear, strong, and
almost monumental language, the inevitable effects of
a thorough poor-law, such as Mr. Formal'
SCROPE and his friends would have. But the
perfection of every poor-law is to be a bug-
bear, the fee-faw-fum threatened to little children,
bet never appearing in more solid shape
than a threat ; the child that could say " Let it rims,".
might
igiVoL. And Lord LANspowr.pe re-eseeres the
by telling them it is impossible. The
saludary principle of the measure, however, consists
in these same Irish landlords believing that it is both
pen bin and imminent, and that they must make
siert' to avoid it. If they deem no each efforts ns
assesey, ter worse will ensue than the relapse of the
Irish pendant to the potato plot—viz., his being left
to starvation, or his having recourse to violence to
escape it.
It is evident, however, that the Irish poor-law is
but the commencement of a great experiment, an

effort to transform Ireland to estate more congenial'
to English ideas of an organisation of classes.
Those who make such an experiment will
not be deterred by slight obstacles, or even
grave miscalculations. Errors must be correct-
ed, mirtakaa remedied, and, as bad symptoms'
missy sealed by the very remedies, parliament and
c oma will be no doubt ready to meet each
byantidote, and fainting fits by
cordials, poison an
till Ireland has been doctored into some-
thing like England. The cure will be tedious and
expensive, for, it seems, it is to be gradual ; and
divers urgent remedies, called for now, will probably
be applied two years hence. Mean time, the best
hope is, that the patient may not grow too restive,
and employ his still remaining strength in ejecting
his self-constituted physician through the window.

liens° recently on one or two occasion felt it our
painful duty to remonstrate mildly with certain of
our protestant brethren on their proneness to be mis-
led and tempted to injustice by their horror of popery,
it is not without a kind of satisfaction that we find
that in parts of the catholic world the cultivation of
religious antipathies is pursued with still greater zeal.
The orthodox Union Monarchique publishes a letter
from Beyront, which might have been written in the
time of the crusades, if there had then been Paris
newspapers, and if they had maintained correspon-
dents in the east. During a Maronite procession on
Palm Sunday, according to this veracious letter, a
child of six years was lost, and immediately supposed,
like little Sir HEW, of Lincoln, to have been mur-
dered by the Jews. The search, indeed, which was
set on foot in the jewish houses led to ne result, a
circumstance which appears to have been considered
as rather confirmatory of the popular suspicions than
otherwise. Bat after the lapse of three days the
corpse of :the poor child was found in a field. His
hands, feet, and side had been pierced, and he had
been bled beside in the neck. "It was impossible not
to recognise at once the perpetrators of the deed,"
says the French correspondent of a newspaper circu-
lating in the " capital of the universe."
We confess that, as disciples in mythology of
Nieetetat and Mvu.ax, we should, but for the high
authority of the Beyrout correspondent, have sup-
posed that the most remarkable circumstance about
this murder was the coincidence of the legend of
Lincoln with that of the Lebanon. at a distance of
some thousands of miles and some hundreds of years.
We should further have remarked that the method of
the murder savoured rather of catholic than of Judaic
tradition, and reminded us of Lord Sairewseusv and
the Addolorata more than of the synagogue. But it
seems that in the present case there is no doubt about
the propensities of the Hebrews of the Mountain,
when we recollect that in the case of Father THOMAS
one of the individuals charged with murdering him,
who embraced Islamism to escape the vengeance of
his co-religionists, confessed his guilt, and admitted
that the Jews required every year Christian blood to
prepare their unleavened bread at Easter. He added
that Father THOMAS, had been killed for that object,
and that his blood was used in the preparation."
We do reoollect the case of Father THOMAS, though
not the particulars and highly probable statements of
the respectable renegade here quoted. The persecu-
tion of the Jews which followed was an undoubted
fact, proving the cannibalish propensities of the vic-
tims about as clearly as the bricks in the chimney
testified that JACK CADE'S father was a Morals's&
It will not be the fault of the French newsmonger if
• similar persecution fails to follow the present fiction.
For those of the Hebrew race who are out of the
reach of the Maronites and their French Mends, no
event could have been better calculated to enhance the
romantic interest which et present attaches to their
nation. From being, in the slip-slop language of
public meetings, " gentlemen of the Jewish persua-
sion," they have been placed by their distinguished
countryman, who has himself renounced the person
situ," in the foremost rank of mankind as Mosaic
Arabs, pure Caucasians, and Sephardim. According
to Mr. DIssAISLI all the great musicians and artists,
and almost all the statesmen, of Europe, are of Hebrew
blood. The present prime minister of Egypt is, he
says, a direct descendant of Josren. At any rate
they govern the world through the money market.
" What," says the Jewish EVA to TANCRED, "is the
greatest power of the presen L
t da_mdy ?"_ " Money, " "And
who is the richest man in on P" " A Jew."
" And who in Paris P" " The brother of the London
capitalist." Then do not Jews govern France and
England? Mr. 'nemesia, too, in his incomplete, and,
we fear,plagiarised, novel of " Codlingsby," points out,
with justice, the distinstive national talent, which Mr.
Damsel his ftegeden—their power, like BURRS' vir-
tues"
es mas all dile?* mkt es emir sew.

It to eilibsee seems@ at Wend the Hebrews can add
the dark and ahem el mediseval remesee,
by stall Ming
seaumongsste and ehildren kr their
all other " peressehas
will eireekitrinitguideenee beside them kr the pur-
-1 poses et Idiom
We dear, hewerver, that the gratitheden of national
vanity will .sandy -mate to the Jew of Syria
for the sufferings with whisk they may be threatened
by the prevalence alma esenethona Them le yet
another at reeemblease between Lincoln
and Lima ; and the doff, who leeks over the capi-
tal at the lbw, is meek mere haw in his aaoentain
resithase in the Beet Not setielied with kilning the
recipes& hatred et the Christi= and Mom
Week and the alma= inclination et both_ le paw-
ed, the year Is hrseggeeked to the Fn.& the
vrhimeied Inavieffen that - they an the edam pro-
tases's et mthelleiwa in the with The kthedinarian
aril the pathateat grethier et Fame spee
rellas rtherleacie roped der the awe at ehriatiathty
aria ; eat they ///11, peel* ghee
revived
tin in heory kith the same* is lingeradept from thee vampire
=m dem ;ewe et Bertha. Even in the moat
ina etthe ask ogee it wee ohm obeerved
se a anises eolmideme that a ehristian ethlti was
mertheei by the Seem Jest at the thee when the
king wee partheinly ha want at messy kr .one
vendee in Beetland or in Geseeny. Instead of
ial. tie narket be was nig with pions
Csad mat far the dellapeat Hebrews to
uts sad thambezewe were set to work in

vindication °Untie., and if , cool not produce
the loot child they genteelly pro the duce/ at last a sum
of money, which answered as well.
It is extremely likely that the Turkish authorities
o
f 4ria may be inclined even now to follow the policy
of King Jolts. The Jews may be tortured as in the
apocryphal case of Father THOMAS ; or the Maronites
inimiaue= their indignation in outrages which the
may resent. The mountain will be in
an uproar, the Turks will be alarmed, and the French '
will have a new opportunity for threats at Constanti-
nople, and intrigues in the Lebanon. For this pur-
pose, the whole population of Paris, which piques
i itself on its pre-eminent talent of raillery and ridi-
cule, would not hesitate to affirm its belief in the cock
and ball story of the murder of the Maror.ite child.
We confess, however, that in one point the French
may fairly claim a superiority to us with respect to
the treatment of the Jews. Ever since the revolution
they have been admitted to the full enjoyment of
civil rights in France, while in England they are still
excluded from parliament; and to make their exclu-
sion more irrational, not on the plausible ground that
they are aliens, but because they. are heterodox,
" gentlemen of the Jewish persuasion." It is true
that Jews have a separate nationality which with-
holds them from a complete amalgamation with the
nations among whom they reside; but if this was
considered a practical difficulty, which is admitted not
to be the case, all the descendants of the tribes ought
to be excluded, whatever might be their religion. If
we were consistent in this view, we should
not tolerate in parliament one of its most
brilliant orators and whimsical politicians,-one
who has done more than all his countrymen
put together to remind the world of the difference of
race between Hebrews and Europeans. The
Americans more consistently place under a social and
political ban the " gentlemen of the negro. persuasion,"
whatever may be their religious opinions. We
rejoice that the remnant of religious bigotry which
excludes front parliament gentlemen such as
Mr. SALOMONS, Sir M. MONTEFIORE, and Baron
ROTHSCHILD, Will, with other abuses now considered
dangerous to handle, be swept away after the general
election. In the meantime, it is no very high com-
pliment to the constituencies of the country that their
representatives are afraid of expressing their own
liberality of feeling in their votes, from a fear of
toeing electoral support

THE principle of the navigation laws of the seven-
teenth century may be said to be on all hands aban-
doned. Treaties of reciprocity have been entered
into between the leading commercial nations, at least
as far. as concerns shipping dues. Where other re-
strictions have been retained, such as the limiting the
permission to load cargoes for British ports to the
products of the countries under whose flag they are
imported, the principle can only be regarded as subist-
ing on account of the unwillingness of oar continental
neighbours to meet us on fair ground for unlimited
power of exchanging products of every kind. It will
be remembered that when the sweeping reform of our
commercial tariff was made some years back, nearly
every state in Europe added some new burden to its
code. France raised the duty on linen wares ; Prussia
on mixed cottons and woollens, and afterwards on cot-
ton yarn ; Russia increased the dues by substituting sil-
ver for paper currency. Belgium went with France.
Even our customers across the Atlantic seemed
disposed to take advantage of our rejection of means
of reprisals. It is true that the freedom of trade
then given has fully justified the confidence placed
in it. To judge from last year's import', we should
now have the greatest traffic that England has ever
seen, had not the potato blight intervened with a
solemn warning to set oar house in order, sad to do
away with the last remnants of a restrictive commer-
cial policy, by placing in the strongest light the
injury inflicted on trade by fetters of any kind.
It is, however, importable to see the term approach-
ing for discussing the value of the remnant of our
navigation laws that still subsists, without wishing
that attempts should be renewed to induce oar neigh.
bours to meet us with reciprocal concessions, if we
reject our own restrictions. It is true that former
attempts proved abortive. France, the Zollverein,
Antos, and Russia, have steadily refused to lower
their prohibitive duties on many articles of great
demand, in spite of the good arguments and tempting
inducements held ont to them. But we would suggest
that within a few years a great deal has been changed.
In the first place, our own experiment has }ten de-
cidedly successful, and the national prosphrim, has
increased in a oorresponding degree. In the next
place, where no direct decrease of revenue has been
experienced by the lands which imposed add.tional
duties, yet the deteriorating condition of the labourers
and the difficulties attending trade in those countries
have opened the eyes of many statesmen who
formerly advocated restrictions. In the present
temper of the public mind it would be next to
impossible that the French ministry could treat our
overtures for reciprocity of treatment in the way we
experienced during the last negotiations. Some of
the clogs to trade between that near neighbour
(wealthy enough if it will only choose to be so),
and ourselves would not fail to be throivn aside,
and would prepare the way for further relaxations-
To the states of the Zollverein we have every right
to enforce the importance of the change that
been operated in the tariff of those states by the
alteration in the value of the goods taxed on impor-
tation. Thus, cottons which were once worth 12s. to
15e. per piece, and pay 53. to 6s. duty in Germany, are
now frequently not worth more than Bs. to 10s., while
the duty being levied by weight remains unaltered.
In consequence of this depreciated value, a very slight
rise in the German tariff has sufficed to put an end to
whole branches of trade. We may instance the
exportation of mixed cotton and woollen fancy geode,
on which the duty was raised, in 1846, from 30 dea-
lers to 50 dollars per cwt. A piece of figured Orleans,
valued at 235., now pays 12s. Pd. duty on admission
into Prussia, or 55i per cent. And yet all scientific
men in Germany are opposed to restrictions, and a
free-trade association has been founded at Berlin. A
still greater impression, we have reason to believe,
has been made in the trading world, by the great
demand that sprung up while prices were low, and
which it has been found impossible to supply without
En lish amistanoe. Without our pig-iron, it is now
confessed that half the works engaged in machine-
making would be stopped. It would be only fair to
confess, if the acknowledgment were not too mortify-
ing, that the German manufacturers. very geaerslly
regret the advance on yarns decreed at the last Cus-
toms Congress. We could point out Dome establish.
ments which the measure has hit very hard.
Russia has signified a desire to come to an under-
standing on these points with France : why should
she not do so with us ? Her resources are in-
exhaustible; and her population would be large con-
sumers of our products, if they were permitted, to the
great benefit of the imperial revenue.
Were we to allow Holland, for her colonies, the
full benefit of oar recent relaxation of restrictions on
the sugar trade, we should open a market in Asia
equally populous with the United States. To do this,
we have but to do away with the worse than absurd
prohibition against imporang foreign sugar into our
Fast India porta that ship to England.
We can conceive no more favourable an opportunity
than now presents itself forrrenewing these interrupted
negotiations. While the fate of the navigation laws
is stiffi lauding, there is both an excuse and an in-
dammed for bringing under consideration commer-
cial matters in general. The field is, moreover, one
in whisk every little achievement carries with it a
rich reward, while failure is not disgraceful—at least,
not to the defeated party.

Our Paris correspondence of Friday and Saturday
brings no other uttelligenoe of interest than the
announcement of a change of ministry at Athena,
I which was received in Paris by telegraph on Thursday
evening, and which is confirmed in the letters of our
own correspondent at Athens, which appear
below. It will be seen that M. Coletti still conti-
nues at the head of the eabitiet, but that all the
inferior members are almesed. The policy will. at
course, remain unaltered. De the semi= of the
King's fete on Saturday all Mims it Purl Tres
Our Paris coniepeedest Memo is tha
ihtlegtat learnt, by a letter from Mareellles, that at thet
moment when the French steamer of the Levant line
left Malta at midnight on the 24th, the steamer with
the ledian mail had not arrived, but was hourly
expected.

The Madrid mails of the 25th and 28th have
been reasived. The moat Important fact of which
they bring the intelligence is that General Narvaez
has declined, definitively, the embassy to Paris, and