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London, England, 1852-10-01 00:00:00

done. The PREMIER can have no difficulty on that
point. He may adopt Free-trade as the late Duke
did the Reform Bill. He put it to the
country to decide ; it has decided. And as
a constitutional Minister he can honourably carry out
the decision which he anticipated, but which he never
professed to consider adverse to his retention of office.
When that question is settled how will the case stand ?
There is a long string of reforms of vast social im-
portance, which, if Lord DERBY will propose, the
Liberals must agree to. We freely confess a wish,
that we could believe that Lord DERBY'S Govern-
ment would not, if out of office, oppose the same re-
forms. Still this very fact, that the Tories can carry
them if they propose them, that the Whigs on the
other hand could not carry them against the Tories,
especially since the House of Lords has lost its regu-
lator—this very fact, amongst others, leads many Li-
berals to hope for more reforms through the Tories
than through. the Whigs. This may be, and is a
hardship on the Whigs ; and it redounds but little to
the political credit of the other party ; it is a hard-
ship, however, which they must bear, or which they
can only escape by once more heading the people.
When, twenty years ago, they worked a
King fond of popularity, and an enthusiastic
people, against the whole power of the House of
Lords, they compelled the latter to give way, and
their first Reformed Parliament placed them firmly
in power. How they rapidly lost it by their repeated
sacrifices of 'the people to the aristocracy is known
to all. Libemtls can stand only by continual reform.
They must al.ways have some important task in hand,
which the Tories will not execute, and they must so
take it in h mad, and so conduct it, as not to give
room for suspicion that they rather court defeat than
not. They must not, practically adopting finality in
anything which 'can be improved, oppose the most
admirable an d, reasonable propositions of independent
members. 1 a a word, they must work for the people
and the people will work for them. If then Lord JOHN
wishes to be Prime Minister again, let him, too, cease
to be a " mystery man." Let him in November tell
the country what he will do for it more than the
Tories. A Ite form Bill with the ballot will, we appre-
hend, be the testing point between Whigs and Tories.
Financial re Nrm will, indeed, doubtless, be the
first thing. The abominations of the income-tax,
which the 'Whigs embalmed, must first be purged by
any party dos irons to retain office, and that now in-
dispensable f:s.x also ; the two great parties, however,
are tolerably likeminded respecting it, both wish
to retain the iniquities of taxing all incomes alike,
and both will yield no more thaa they are forced ;
but when th'ai, and some other points, perhaps, are
settled, there will be a Reform Bill still behind. The
people are determined that their interests shall not
be jeopardized again, as they were last summer, on
the question of Free-trade. They are determined
that a list o f people-less landlord boroughs shall
not, from time to time, nullify the votes
of the large; t populations of the kingdom, and the
unrepresented voices of immense towns which have
no Dlembers :at all. Lord Jot's must make up his
mind. Chesil am-place meetings to cajole the Liberal
Members will not do. He must face the people. If
he will only c2.rry into act some of the views he ex-
pressed last raiday at Perth, he might soon resume
the position he longs for. After rebutting the charge
of being a dent ocrat ! and an anarchist ! he goes on—
" But it may mean something else; it may mean some-
thing else whi...3.h it behoves us all to wish—that the de-
mocracy of th is country—meaning by that term the
people of this =wary—by increase of power, by in-
crease of intellii 4ence, by increase of wealth, has increased
in that weight tvhich they must have not only in this
country, but in, each of the countries of the world; has
gained an ince( .ase in that weight which is due to a
people highly :industrious, and earning a competence by
their labour, p hysical and intellectual—employing their
minds in the acquirement of knowledge, and in the
forming and foe tering of that public opinion which is so
much the guide and government of this country. But,
gentlemen, if ti ese attempts to which I have lately al-
luded are mac le, which, though they have existed,
ought to be discouraged and resisted—this fair growth
of the honour o f democracy—this growth of intelligence
—this growth o f wealth—this forming of opinions more
enlightened and more calculated to carry on, in an en-
lightened mann ex, the government of the world—this is
an increased po ver which ought not to be crushed, and
ought to be enec,uraged and maintained.—(Enthusiastic
cheering). Bat; I will say more---I will may this, that
the manner ut- 3aiing with that increase of the powers
of democracy CO uld not be according to the old system
of restraint with which I was but too familiar during
the first few ye s.rs after I had entered Parliament in
181, and 1819, which, besides all the faults of an irri-
tation, promoti 3,g that discontent which it was intended
to check, proved utterly powerless, and had much the
same effect as it' persons were to attempt to darn up your
magnificent rivo:r with the view of preventing an inun-
dation—or, to use a simile which applies perhaps more
properly to the -present time, a's if persons were to lock
up all the gates of the railroad, with the hope that the
express train would be stopped in its course.—(Laughter
and applause.) Well, then, that is not the mode in
which this increase of the power of democracy ought to
be dealt with; but the way in which the power of de-
mocracy ought to be dealt with is, by listening to every
complaint, by considering every grievance, and by giv-
ing a legitimate. and legal organ to that power and in-
fluence which otherwise may be mischievous, irregular,
and injurious.--(Loud cheering.) That is my way of
dealing with that which is complained of—this increase
of democratic power in this country."
Such is the language of Lord Joux RUSSELL out
of office ; could we believe that, somewhat vague as it
is, he would hdld the same in office ; could we further
believe that it would not be (like, for instance, his
speech on giving charters to the colonies, and many
other speeches) a mere admirable exordium to a most
meagre and drivelling proposition ; could we think,
that as with the Duke of WELLINGTON, deeds would
answer to words—why, then we should feel pretty
sure that the days of Whigs in office would soon

return. Meantime our real hopes are of getting
something from the fear 3 of the " Ins," and more,
eventually, from the aspirations of the " Outs."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Government has received the following tele-
graphic dispatches .
" Toulon, Sept. 28, Half-past Eleven at Night.
" His Highness leaves Toulon for Aix to-morrow at
nine o'clock. The enthusiasm which greeted the Prince
at the ball cannot be described. The room resounded
with cries of Vivo l'En3pereur.'
29, Seven in the Morning.
" The reception given tpo
the Prince President at Tou-
lon will be long remembered. The population, which
flocked from every side, showed an enthusiasm amount-
ing to delirium. Every instant the air resounded with
cries of Vive l'Empereur I" Vivo le Sauveur de la
France!' The city yesterday gave a fairy ball to the
Prince, which, for brilliancy and splendour, outdid the
most magnificent Pikes. The Prince at different times
expressed his admiration. He is at this moment pre-
paring to return to Marseilles on board the Napol.on.
lie hus left to all the carps of the Marine proofs of his
high and generous solicitude."
On Sunday last a Te Deum was sung with great
pomp at St. Cloud, and prayers were offered up for
the preservation of the life of the PRINCE PRESIDENT.
The local authorities, Prince JEROME, the superior
officers, and several other persons of note were pre-
sent. In the evening, all these personages, with
four of the Ministers and the Turkish Ambassador,
went to the Chateau of Meudon to a grand dinner
given by Prince JEROIIII.
GAILLARD, the Marseilles jeweller, the principal
author of the infernal machine of Marseilles, and who
succeeded in escaping at the moment of its seizure,
has been arrested at St. Etienne. He is in the hands
of justice, and has made the most complete avowals.
A man named Loam, coppersmith, has also been
arrested at Tours. The name of the man arrested
when the infernal machine was seized is BUBCBLER,
a blacksmith. _ _ _

The account of the plot of Marseilles has pro-
duced the most lively indignation in all the depart-
ments. Te Deums were sung in most of the towns.
At Toulouse, when the Prefect quitted the ca-
thedral, a unanimous cry of " Vive l'Enspereur" was
raised.

The Duals has the following :
" When the police agents of Marseilles presented
themselves at the house in which the infernal machine
was found, Gaillard, a watchmaker, and Bueckler, a
blacksmith, were together. The former, on hearing a
knock at the street door, immediately, by way of pre-
caution, blew out the candle, and then going to the
window of the first floor, asked who was there. It was
then that he saw the police agents. Ile hastily ran
down the stairs which led into a small court at the back
of the house, and mot knowing how to escape, ho, at
toe risk of his life, jumped into a well which communi-
cated with an adjoining house, and from thence gaining
the roof of another house, he succeeded in eluding the
search of the officeri. Bueckler, who was less alert and
less daring than Gaillard, fell, in seeking to gain a beck
door, and was secured by the agents. The affair will
be brought before the Court of Assizes of Aix, and not
before the High Court of Justice."
It is the Court of Aix which has been charged
with the examination into and trial of the conspiracy
of Marseilles. The investigations are being carried
on with the greatest activity.
The Nouvelliste of Marseilles says--" On the arrival
of the PRINCE PRESIDENT on the Place Saint-
Fetreol he found drawn up there 120 Arne.