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LONDON, THURSDAY, Aram 27, 1R26.

A morning contemporary exults at the condemnation of
the Abbe de la ItTENNAIS, as a victory gained by the Oppo-
sition over the Ultras. This exultation is a proof of the
scantiness of the information which the journalist possesses
on these topics. The French Opposition journals, instead
of exulting on the occasion, labour to show that it Is
merely a Irisme of the Jesuits to mislead the public re-
specting their opinions, and to obtain the recognition of a
principle, in this case apparently favourable to a popular
measure, but capable of being applied, when once
adopted to objects of a very different tendency. We
are not disposed to concur entirely With the French, and
certainly not at all with the English, Opposition journals
on this subject. We cannot identify the administration of
VILS.ELE with the intrigues of the Jesuits, as the Paper
we have alluded to seems anxious to do ; and so far from
considering the result of this trial as a triumph of the Op-
position, we agree with the French Opposition papers
in considering it as a defeat both to the Opposition and
the Jesuits. The former are displeased at the extension of
the law of libel, and the latter are equally offended at the
Condemnation of their principles in the person of the Abbe
de Ia MENNaIs. The Ministry and the moderate party
alone are satisfied with the result, as it shows that their
influence has not been exerted to support the Ultra-
montanes. Our contemporary does not seem to be aware
of three important distinctions in French parties. The
Ministry, the modern Jesuits, and the Ultramontanes,
tnust be considered as three distinct classes, though they
are continually confounded in the French journals by de-
sign, and in the English from ignorance. The Ultramon-
tanes, to whom the Abbe de Ia rticliNsis belongs, are the
advocates of the long-exploded doctrines of Papal supre-
macy, which are, and have always been, entirely rejected
by the true Gallician church. The modern Jesuits are
supposed to be the active supporters of the princiiiles of

the old French clergy, as well as of the aristocratical prin.
ciples to which the ancient nobility of France are still
much attached. The Ministers, so far from joining aga
:h
these parties, have pursued a line of conduct which 1,4
given rise to suspicions, that they were introduced :14,,
office merely fur the purpose of removing the risponsibility
from the real agents,— the ancient aristocracy,—who are
said by these politicians to direct all the measures of their
administration.

A project was formed in France eight months ago for
creating a Joint-stock Company, with a capital of about
4,000,000/., to be employed in agricultural, commercial,
and manufacturing projects and schemes, and they wtre 'o
admit foreigners to the extent of one-third of th, it Board of
Direction, in order to draw capital and skill into France
The French Ministers are accused of partiality in bestow.
ing privileges on the Syndicate of the Receivers-Genital,
who speculate with Government funds, while they refuse
them to this more private association, unless they agree to
reduce their capital to 1,000,0001., to decline engaging in
commerce, to exclude foreigners, and to admit an agent of
the Ministry to superintend their operations, with the ps,.,
vilege of sitting in all the Committees of Nlanagernent,
and giving or refusing his approbation to all the measures
which should there be proposed or discussed, with the
power of suspending the execution of whatever he does
not approve ; and receiving at the same time his salary from
the society.
Another decision has been made by the French tribunals,
in favour of the liberty of the press, in the case of the
editor and printer of the Revue .111,-ridi,male of Toulouse,
who had been condemned by the Tribunal of First Instance
to three months' imprisonment and a tin:: of 300 francs, hut
who have now been acquitted by the Court of Appeals. It is
reported in the Courrier Francois, that the arrival of Mr.
SMATFORD CA NNING has confirmed the Porte, that he
only delayed his journey at Corfu, under pretence of his
wife's illness, for the purpose of giving the Turks time to
finish the war, by the capture of Miesolonghi, and that he
declared to Alm; aocoanaro, at Hydra, that the cause of
the Greeks was considered by Europe in the same light as
that of the revolted Albigenses. The journalist is not
satisfied with giving these particulars as mere reports. Ile
pretends to state the precise language used by Mavaocot.
Darer and Mr. STRATFORD CANNING On the occasion, and
after enlarging on the scheme of an Egyptian captivity,
proposed fur the unfortunate Greeks, explained in the
despatches of SELVES, he states that the expulsion cf
the Greeks is to be carried into effect for the par.
pose of presenting an undivided mass of Christian
population in European Turkey, as a barrier against the
power of Russia; and adds, that this exp3sure of the
plans of England and Austria may be considered as pit,
feebly certain and authentic, as it is the result of a well.
known and avowed plan, which may be comprehended in
the following sentence :—" The Greeks have a flourishing
marine—they are industrious and active—they are danger.
ous to our commerce—let them perish." We mention
these remarks of the French journals, not because we con.
eider them of any importance, or entitled to the slightest
credence,—for they carry their own refutation with them,—
but to show what strange constructions have been and are
likely to be put upon the conduct of our Government in this
instance, and the necessity which exists fir doing something,
as we are confident that something will be done through
our Ambassador, to defend his country and her Govern-
ment from such utterly undeserved, so truly ridiculous,
and such utterly false, charges. A vessel, from the Levan:
to Leghorn, gives an account of a great number of Greek
women on the Strophades, who had fled from the Pelo-
ponnesus in December last, and had been obliged, after
exhausting their stock of provisions, to subsist on boiled
roots and leaves, sometimes mixed with a handful of flour.

The following are extracts from the Frtnch rapers re-
ceived last ni,ght
[From the Corwrier Francais of Monday, April 24.]

, ICI[, APRIL 17.

The famous Prince Alexander of llohenlohe, who etlects by his
prayers such miraculous cures, has written a let.er to the King, In
which, recapitulating all the kindness which he had bhown him a.
the time when he was only Crown Prince, lie reques•s him to allow
him to come here, that he may, under his Jlajes.y's auspices, devote
himself in Bavaria to his sacred vocation. The King has replied
to the Prince in very obliging terms, that he would not take him
away from the important functions which his Al Ajesty the Emperor
of Austria had just assigned him. Prince Hohenlohe has, in fact,
b:en nominated to the rich living in Hungary, but he still con-
tinues to live at Vienna, and resides in the house of the Princess
Dowager of Sch.sartzenburg.

PAUS, APR IL 23._

Our Madrid Correspondent informs us, in a letter of the 13th,
that the King has returned to his capital, to be sponsor to the in.
fant son of Don Francis de Paul, tie Duke of Orleans having re,
quested his Majesty to represent him in that ceremony, since the
Ambassador of Naples could not be accepted. The solemnity Was
to take place the same day, at eleven in the morning, and the King
intended to return to Aranjuez the same day. This determination
refutes the reports which were spread by the journals of Boreeans,
of troubles said to have broken out at Aranjuez itself, between the
Spaniards and the Swiss. Our private correspondent, at least, makes
no mention of them.
A Journal affirms that the Government has been informed that
peremptory orders have been sent from St. Petersburgh, fur the int.
mediate occupation of the principalities of Moldavia and Wal.
a
lachia.

a A rim 24.

No Journal has translated Sir F. Burdett's opit.ion on the rejee•
tion of the law of Primogeniture by the French thanther of Peers.
The Etoile is the only Paper which has rnentiJned it. Such is the
impartiality of the Opposition Journals.
FRENCH FUNDS.—Five per Cents., 96f. 80c.; Three Far
Cents., 65f. ; Bank Stock, 2,1k2Uf.; Hentes de Naples, 71i. 554.:
Hentes d'Espagne, 71. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 44,1 f ; Baron
Loan, 71151.—Exchange on London, one month, 33f. 30c.; Three
ditto, W. 30c.—C curs Attiltentique.

We extract the following from the official part of the
Lisbon Gazette, dated the sth instant :--‘‘ On the tth inst.
the PRINCESS REGENT admitted Sir W. A'Court, the
British Ambassador, to a private audience, who. after
having complimented her Royal Ilighness, told her that
he was charged by his Government to. assure her Highness
that his Britannic Majesty would continue towards her
Regency all the friendship, and all the assistance, which
he had afforded to the late Este Laos and litso, t.II Ins
death, and that, as a proof of it, the English squadron
would continue stationed in the Tagus, and would give
the preseht Government of Portugal all the assistance that
it would have given to the Government of his late Majesty
JOIIN VI."

The despatches from Sir A. Cam!' er.1.1., which our
means of early information enabled us (with the exceptiou
of only one contemporary) to give exclusively yestrrtlaY,
confirm the opinions which we have invariably expressed
with regard to the eventual termination of the Burmese
contest. The rapid movements of Sir A. CA:41,13E11.0 and
the promptitude with which his detachments disconcert the
operations of the enemy, must impress them with a con-
viction of the superiotity of European troops, which no
persuasions of superstition can enable them to bear up
against. There can be little doubt but that Sir AIICHISALIi

will have reached the capital by the end of January ; since,
after their late breach of faith, should the enemy offer terms
of peace, it is not likely he would linen to than on this
side of Cmmerapoora. Nothing can inspire the Bin mese
with a love of pence but their being made to feel the fatal
consequences of war ; het Will they ever be cured of their
perfidy but by the thorough hopeleasntss of any good to
be gained by it. His Burmese Majesty, we hope, will not
only be rendered incapable of future mischief, but such
teens will be imposed upon him as will hold out a salu-
tary warning to such Chiefs as may frt.,' any inclination to
imitate his example. This war may have been costly, but
it.; !Toth cannot fail to hive a very beneficial effect on the
tranquillity and security of the IlritiAt empire in India.

Lord Cu Alerts So m r./0:1:1*, " says a leading article in
the Times of yesterday, " is said to be coining home, and
to be actually exreted within a few days in England. We
shall confine our observations," says the writer, " to one
point—that his Lordship must be directly accused—that
he must be fairly tried—that it is not England, or the
British Parliament, which would be disgraced, but Lord
SOMEROtT and the !louse of MAI:FORT, if,
ra publicly char;;ed as lie has bran,—so threatened,—so
retailed from a high office by the Soveteign,—so stigma-
used by the national feeling of resentment, he did not
ji,ree a trial, by wli:eli nlonc 11is honour can be cleared,
and a verdict— we trust, a retdiet of acquittal—recorded to

flatstre ages."
Now it is well known that Lord CitaRLES SOMERSET
Moses borne for the express rurpose of meeting publicly
the charges that have already been brought against his
official conduct. To insist, titer, fore, that on his return
" his Lort:',itip roust be directly arcuArd," is somewhat su-
perfluous. It is eqtrilly so, we should hope, to urge that
"be must be foirisi tried." The administration of justice
in our Courts is surely net such as should cause any appre-
hension on this score. _ .

It would be well if the Times, r-!141e it throws out this gra-
tuitous suggestion, that his Lordship should be " fairly
tried." were as careful that before trial he should be fairly
te“ll.V, and not be prejudged by the public press, or de-
nounced as guilty of misgovernment before any single
chsrge has been /maul! against him. It is in vain
that any man trusts to the goodness of his cause, if, when
accusations are made against him, he is to be condemned
by the public opinion before he can be heard in his de-
fence. When any journal permits itself to be the instru-
ment of this sort of in!iistiee, it makes war upon one of
the most sacred privihTes of the subject. We do not say
this with reference to Lord ('nnt:;.cs SUM ERSET indi-
vilually, but with reference to these common principles of
justice, in which we have all a common interest, aniT
which the public pre .q ought faithfully to uphold. If a
of aeriltd should " clear the honour" of Lord
CIIARLES, which the T;ntrs trusts" will he the case,
what disgrace ought not to fall upon a journal which has
held him up as " the natioha! lectihr; of re-
sentment ?" It is a libel on the country to represent it as
possessed with such a feeling towards an individual against
whom, hitherto at least, no guilt is trered, and thus to
debar him of that fair inquiry which, when under seethe-
tion, every man in the kingdom has a right to claim, but
ulnae such an anticipated judgment would effectually deny.

l'he accounts from Illackburn, Lirerpool, and Man-
chester, containeo in another column of our paper, are of a
most disastrous 'Lind. The information which we have
been enabled to collect, shows dearly that distress in many
and, perhaps, wanton wickedness in others, have induced
the unemployed workmen to again set on foot a systematic
demolition of all those powerful mechanical insentions
which in a great degree supersede the necessity, and often-
times exceed the accuracy, of the most perfect manual
labour. Of course, the power-looms (the most obnoxious,
because the most generally used, mechanical invention in
that part of the country) were the principal objects of at-
tack by the mob. These of several manufacturers rere
destroyed by them, though one Blackburn letter, of the
itth, is anxious to exenerate the people of that place from
participating in this idle, unprofitable, and wicked work of
destruction. The writer of this letter seems to wish
himself to believe that the mob which committed, in
Blackburn, the devastations alluded to, did not belong
to that place, but had marched into it in great bodies
from the adjacent parts. Ile adds, that the Riot Act
was obliged to be read three times, such was the for-
bearane: of th•: Magistrates ; while the military that had
been called out endured with the utmost patience the
pelting of stouts from the mob. It is even said that one
ruffian fired at a soldier, and that the shot missed him, but
e”trrcrl the back of a man standing near him. It is also
said that several hundreds of the mob were armed with
seine few with fire-arms, and " nearly all the rest
bludgeons." Fortunately, we have heard of no lives
!ming been as vet lost, It is quite evident that the whole
matiVacturing population of the two kingdoms—aye, and
of many parts cf Ireland, too—are in such a state of (lis-
ta is, ti:at rerliament would do well to look for a remedy at
oece. or i! may (which we most heartily pray it may not)
firce itself on the attention of the Legislature and the
G.vernment in Ilfar more serious shape. We cannot but
sincordy and deeply sympathise with the distresses of the
working classes; but if Gulf would only reflect, we are
assured that they must then admit that much of the pri-
vatioes which they now sultl:r has been brought on them-
selves by their own improvidence, and by their own inso-
lence to the masters during seasons of full employment and
unnaturally higli wages.

CITY, AVEDNESDAT EVENTNG.

Emirlisli [link this ti °thing were in a completely
s!lte, ail.' the price of Consols :01 day was 791,1,
h.: iitMr Securities iti the Euglish market wire

~rd 7'.

Irithout

South km:Clem' Securities were a rhadc lower than on
Monday, and the business in them was limited. Colom-
bian Winds fluctuated betwr. n Id and VZ; Mexican 6 per
Pent , 6.',1 6 ; Pernehn Bonds 29 30; Russian Bonds
771: Greek ditto 1 t 1 t', ; and Spanish 81. The Share
Market entitintml in the same depressed state as it has
bt,nt in for a !civil of time, if we except some bargains in
the Tlalpti::_ditia Company, the Shares of which have ad-
vaiwed tt. t.; pm.

Il
e are sorry to state that the reports from the menu-
faczuring districts are v-ry unsatisfactory. The depression
in every branch of trade, Recording to these atlvicss, conti-
nues undiminished, and the spirit of insubordination
among the operatives in dim districts appears to be in-
(leasing.

The letters 'from Port•au-Prince and from Aux Cayes,
to the Bth ult. enter into kngthened remarks on the rela-
tions of St. Domingo with France, and on the rejection of
the Commercial Treaty. They do not apprehend any hos-
tilities. A strong French squadron, however, is to ren-
dezvous at Port-an-:Prince; an indication not in character
with a Power granting independence to the Black Repub.

. .
lie. These tetten ward dist either the Bums lidosAw
or ibe French Minister bac attempted so deceive Olt Ptesi-
l'.• it Boras.

The French Goverment, on their part, appear to be
completely deceived as to the expectation of being the car-
riers of the produce and trade of Hayti. The half duty
expected to be levied on French vessels is withdrawn ; they
pay the same as the flags of other nations, except in turd-
crier cases. A great change, it is said, is about to take
place in the affairs of the Government; the whole of the
eiport and territorial duties will be abolished, and a fourth
of the produce taken (in lieu of them) from the cultivators
of the soil, as formerly was the case in the north, under
the sway of CIIRISTOI.NF•

These letters give rather unfavourable intelligence for
the holders of Ilaytian Bonds at Paris. They state that
a battle about to he raised in Hayti, for the Government,
to thoulanent of 1,200,000 dollars, at 5 per cent. interest per
%OLIN&