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of the colony to the colonists themselves, it is right
that their opinions should be as speedily expressed and
treated with as much deference as possible. Where
he feels himself ignorant, a man of sense would seek
the advice of those best able to counsel and least dis-
posed to deceive him, and would throw upon them
those responsibilities for which he ought to feel utterly
unprepared. If Sir John Pakington adopt this course
his very ignorance will have made him a valuable
servant of his country ; if he shrink from its adoption,
he has no choice but to surrender himself into the
hands of subordinate officials, who will lead him,
through a course discreditable to himself, to conclu-
sions injurious to the welfare of the colonies and the
stability of the empire.
CHRONICLE.—The threatened revival of the
Anti. Corn-law League is one of the most unsatisfac-
tory, though by no means one of the most unex-
pected, results of Lord Derby's accession to office.
Although we regard with little complacency the in-
fluence of political clubs and unions on the adminis-
tration of public affairs, we, nevertheless cannot
affect surprise at the reedit:est} with which the leaders
of the energetic and earnest manufacturing classeL•
recur to their familiar machinery of agitation. Still
new to the possession of political power, they are as
yet scarcely trained to exercise it within the old con-
stitutional limits. Their undisputed sway on platforms
and in League Council-rooms is alternately a source
of strength and of weakness. So long as they had
a great object in view, and a Parliamentary majority
opposed to them, the Manchester leviers exercised a
formidable power. But many subsequent occasions
have proved that the strength which they possessed
up to 1846 lay, not in their organization, but in their
cause ; and they would have formed a far more
powerful section of the House of Commons if they
had, since that time, cultivated their Parliamentary
influence with more exclusive care. If, un-
der present circumstances, they should deter-
mine to revive their extra-constitutional agi-
tation, we doubt whether they will consult
either their own eventual interest, or even the
immediate good of the country ; but we shall not
think it necessary to waste our time in unavailing re-
monstrances, and we shall neither declaim against
the weakness of yielding to club dictation, nor exag-
gerate the danger of resisting it. The true mode of
dealing with any political association which becomes
seriously formidable is to discover and appropriate the
just claims in which its real force consists, by giving
them utterance according to regular constitutional
forms. The League which is talked of will never
become dangerous to the country, if a powerful Par-
liamentary Opposition, with the support of the press,
discharge its functions more naturally and efficiently
than any voluntary association.

FOREIGN REFUGEES AND ENGLISH
TRAVELLERS.
The following is the text of the dispatch addressed
by Prince Schwarzenburg to Count Buol-Schauen-
stein, Austrian Minister Plenipotentiary in England,
to which reference was made in the House of Com •
mons on Monday evening :
" Vienna, Feb. 4, 1852.
" Lord Granville has had the goodness to communi-
cate to your Excellency the dispatch which he addressed
to the Earl of Westmoreland, under date of the 13th of
January last, in answer to the protests (reclamations)
which you, M. le Comte, were charged to present to the
Government of her Britannic Majesty against the
tolerance accorded in England to the revolutionary pro-
ceedings (menees revolutionaires) of the political refugees
who have found an asylum in that country.
"The first part of this: document (Lord Granville's
dispatch) turns on the high value which the English
people attach to the right of asylum, and on the, motives,
which hinder the British Government from thinking of
(conger ri) restraining that right, by presenting an alien
Bill to Parliament.
" We do not feel ourselves called upon to enter upon
a:controversy on the arguments employed in this part of
the dispatch of Lord Granville, since we have never
.denied to England the exercise of the right of asylum in
itself, any more than we have pretended to dictate to
the British Government, which itself is the most com-
potent judge, the means which it should employ to ob-
viate the flagrant abuse of this right.
" All that we have demanded of the British Govern-
ment (and we shall not cease to demand it) is, that it
shall so manage ( faire en sorte) that the political refu-
gees to whom it accords an asylum shall not be allowed
to pursue, under the shadow of the hospitality which
they enjoy, machinations openly hostile to the states of
the continent, and especially to Austria.
"Lord Granville has been so good (a Lien voulti) as to
offer us, on this subject, an assurance that tho British
Government would not only regret, but would loudly
condemn, all attempts on the part of the refugees to ex-
cite insurrection in their original country; that it would
continue to watch (surveiller) the conduct of suspected
refugees, and would seek, by all legal means, to hinder
them from abusing—to the detriment of Governments
in friendly alliance with Great Britain—the hospitality
which the English laws so generously accord to them.
" The Emperor, in noting down (en prenant acte)
these assurances has pleasure in thence deriving a hope
(aime a y puiser respoir) that the British Government
will henceforth know how to make more ample and
rigorous use than it has hitherto done of the legal means
at its disposal, and which it appears to judge sufficient
to enable it to fulfil its international duties with regard
to the proceedings of the aefugees.
"At any rate (toutejois), while waiting till these dis-
positions of the British Government are followed by
deeds (soient suictes deffet), the almost unlimited liberty
of action which the refugees have hitherto enjoyed in
England, with regard to the revolutionary plots that a
great number of them does not cease hatching against
the repose of the States of the Continent, imposes upon
us, on our side, the duty of taking some measures of
precaOtiou, tending to guard us againtlt the annoyances
(inconveniens) and dangers of which that liberty is the
source.
" The Imperial authorities will henceforth receive
orders to 'redouble' their vigilance with regard to tra-
TWltra-
vellerscomingfrom England, and to execute strictly in
relation to their passports the existing rules to which
formerly, under the empire of other circumstances, it had
become a habit to make frequent exceptions in favour of
British subjects. The Imperial Government, moreover,
, reserves to itself the faculty of taking into consideration
ulterior measures, if unhappily the need of them still
makes itself felt.
Your Excellency is charged to read and give a copy
of this dispatch to Lord Granville.

" Receive, &e"