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exult in that Union of 'Catholics with Protestants in !
council, co-operating in the important measures of
the State fur the improvement and happiness of all
sects and classes of her MAJESTY'S subjects ; but 1
the Anglican clergy furiously cry
out against
it, and by their unchristian conduct give their
adversaries great advantages. We do not pre-
tend to advise, but we can assure them that their
conduct will look unlovely and unjust in the eyes of
all men compared to that of the Roman Catholic
Archbishop, and even compared to the Berat of the
SULTAN. That they will run the risk of displeas-
ing their SOVEREIGN, and• make her prefer the
Roman Catholic priests, for their duteous, respect-
ful conduct, will appear to them of little import..
ante, because they rely on the same Act of
Parliament which places her MAJESTY on the
Throne to secure the dominancy and the wealth of
the Anglican Church. One Act of Parliament,
however, can be set aside by another, and if the
clergy have nothing better to rely on than an
Act of Parliament, the sooner they betake them-
selves to more mild and conciliatory councils and
conduct, the more stable they will make their
power.

We learn with great satisfaction that the Earl of
CLARENDON has joined the Ministry. The Noble
Earl has long been distinguished for his firm and
Liberal opinions, and his accession to the Ministry
is another proof of its disposition to advance in the
Liberal career. By no other means can they secure
the support of the people, or maintain the tranquil-
lity of the empire.

We sometimes read the Police reports with the
same kind of horror that we read GIBBON'S account
of the Roman tyrant, whose frequent exclamations
were, " Off with his head ''—" Flay him alive."
r So our Police Magistrates exclaim, " To the tread-
mill with him —" To Bridewell with him."
Here are the examples :
A matronly woman was carried before Mr. LONG,
at Marlborough-street, accused of being found drunk
in the streets. She was represented as a married
woman, living in a respectable way with her
family. She said she had a husband and
children. The Policeman accused her of using
abusive and indecent language. The accusa-
tion was neither denied nor confirmed. Then said
the Magistrate--" She must be punished ; I com-
mit her to Bridewell for fourteen days." The de-
fendant pleaded earnestly to be allowed to depart
the Magistrate was inexorable ; and the wife and
mother, living in a respectable way, was removed to
the lock-up cell. We hope that there was some-
thing in the case not reported, for it seems to us a
gross piece of cruelty, full of misery to a wife
and a mother, to be sent to Bridewell for fourteen
days. She may be cured of drunkenness, if it
be an habitual vice, but it is more probable that she
will be demoralized and ruined.

Here is another example :—JAMES MYTTON
went into a public-house ; a soldier, in sport, as
MYTTON supposed, exchanged clothes with him
and then sallied out, taking MYTTON'S clothes with
him, and telling MYTTON he must follow him to
get them. He did so, and on the road the soldier
was arrested as a deserter, and MYTTON carried
before the Magistrate, charged with receiving a sol-
dier's regimentals. He had incurred a large penalty.
The Magistrate of Worship-street, Mr. GROVE,
asked him had he any goods and chattels. MYTTON
—" None whatever." Mr. GROVE—" Then you are
committed for two calendar months to the House of
Correction." MYTTON, adds the report, who is a
widower with two children, was removed to the cell

crying bitterly.
We suppose the circumstances were different
from those stated by MYTTON, and that he was.
, suspected on some good grounds of aiding the de-
serter to escape. But if that were the case those
[ circumstances should be stated. Whatever the
lower classes know of law they learn from police
reports, and to them it must appear that the
widower was torn from his children, and sent for
two calendar months to the House of Correction,
for merely allowing another man to make, as he
supposed, sport with him. If no suspicion entered
the Magistrate's mind that the man was aid-
ing the deserter ; if the Magistrate believed
his story, then, by no straining of the law,
could his frolic be construed into guilt, and the
punishment is equally unjust and cruel. The
lower classes have enough to bear in the burdens
which society throws on them ; and reflecting Ma-
gistrates and Legislators should relieve and protect
them as much as possible, instead of aggravating
their sufferings by partial, meddling, and unjust
laws, and by severe and arbitrary punishments.
They may by such laws and punishments be made
submissive, humble, obedient, and spiritless, but
they will, at the same time, be taught to hate both
the law and the Magistrates with all the intensity
of which their nature is capable. Were our hu-
mane people to study the Police Reports, they
would find, it appears to us, as much injustice to
redress at home as abroad.

It appeared by a letter from Mr. HETIIERING-
TON, inserted in our Journal, that the Magistrates
of Warwick continue to use Messrs. LOVETT and
COLLINS most severely and improperly. There
can be no use in aggravating the punishment to
which the law has condemned them, and their venial
offence is a proper subject on which to exercise the
prerogative of mercy, rather than the infliction of
cruelty. It is, we think, the duty of the Govern-
ment to see that its prisoners are properly- taken
care of and properly treated. Perhaps, therefore,
the Secretary of State for the Home Department
will think it incumbent on him to interfere, and
prevent honest and honourable men from being
treated by gaolers and 'Magistrates as if they were
thieves and pickpockets._

We find two curious announcements in the
French Journals of Wednesday. The first is, that
Lieutenant-Colonel SENILIIES, who set out for
Spain at a moment's notice, was charged with a
mission, not to the Spanish Government, but Es-
PARTERO, the purport of which was a request that
the Christino Commander-in-Chief would sanction
the proposal of the French Cabinet for granting
passports to Don CARLOS. The second is, that
that the said passports have actually been delivered
to the Pretender, signed for Salzburg. The first
of these statements we believe to be quite correct ;
and the second, if we may judge from the disgraceful
and perfidious conduct of the French Govern-
ment towards the Spanish people is exceedingly
probable. The nonsense uttered by the Legitimatise
and Tory journals upon this subject, manifests
the grossest ignorance of what they are continually
prating about—the law of nations. France having
ratified a treaty for setting for ever aside the claims
of CARLOS to the Spanish Crown, her Cabinet
can no less regard him as a rebel than the Govern-
ment of Madrid. Neither can she, without a vio-
lation of the law of nations, extend to him the
rights of hospitality, so long as he refuses to re-
nounce all claims to the Sovereignty of the Penin-
sula. Those who bluster about France treating
CARLOS as an independent Prince, entirely over-
look the very important fact that she has volunta-
rily contracted obligations, precluding the possibility
of such courtly complaisance without a notorious and
scandalous breach of good faith, not only towards
Spain, but towards Great Britain and Portugal. A
few days more, however, will set this question wholly
at rest. Should it turn out that passports have been
actually given to CARLOS, we shall know ever
after in what way to estimate treaties signed by
King Louis PHILIPPE. But one advantage
will result from it. Though it
may prolong the I

civil war for a few montL.'3.

ll nr! fail tr-,

an end to Frence influence in the Peninsula, and
to all the match-making schemes of Louis PHI-
LIPPE. The Cortes must of course see, in the
liberation of the Pretender, under any pretext what-
ever, a fresh attack by the French KING on the
Constitution of 1837, so thoroughly detested at
the Tuileries.
The Univers confirms the report of the French
Government having entered into negociations with
that of England for the purchase of an island to
serve as a penal colony in the South Seas. "It
is true," says the Univers, "that the Government is
preparing a project of law on the transportation of
criminals, in which it said that this punishment
will be applied not only to the repression of some
specified offences, but also to the punishment of
every repetition of an offence. The place on which
the Ministry seems to have cast its eye, is the Bay
of Derci, on the East Coast of New Guinea. This
place seems to offer, from the fertility of the soil,
and the salubrity of the climate, everything to be
desired in a penal settlement. Arrangements have
been made with the Dutch, who, in 1828, founded
a small settlement on the banks of the river Domza,
nor does the project of the Government appear to
meet with any obstacle." We trust that if any
such project be ever carried into effect, the French
Government will not be guilty of the folly of taking
as a model the systems adopted in our penal colonies
But from the outline of the project given above, it
appears to us that this is but a disguised scheme of
colonization, with a view to counteract the in-
fluence of Great Britain in that part of the world.
The I%foniteur Parisien publishes a letter from
Perpignan, of the 17th inst., which states that Barce-
lona is entirely in the hands of the Exaltados. On
the 13th the military governor of the place, at the
head of a detachment of troops, went at nightfall by
order of General SEGA NE to the Political Chief of
the province, and, notwithstanding his protest and
resistance, carried him off and placed him on board
the Cortes frigate. This act of violence is said to
have caused a great sensation. The munifipal
elections had gone in favour of the Exaltado party,
and disturbances similar to those which hare so fre-
quently taken place in Barcelona, were expected.
The frontier journals publish frightful accounts
of the atrocities committed in La Mancha and Ar-
ragon, in the shape of reprisals. The Indicateur
Bordeaux publishes a letter from Ciudal Real,
in which the following passage occurs :—" The
Carlist Chief PALILLOS having attacked the
town of Pezuelo de Calatrava without suc-
cess, has so entirely ravaged the adjacent coun-
try in revenge that there can be no vintage got in,
nor can the land be sown for next year. A pea-
sant, bringing a despatch from Villarubia, was met
by one of the Carlists, and had one of his ears cut off;
in return, the wife of the rebel was shot. PALIL-
LOS, exasperated by this act, had five labourers
put to death ; upon learning which the Christino
commandant seized nine of PALILLOS'
rely-
tives, and had them all shot. Thus, for a
petty reprisal, fifteen persons have lost their lives.
The King of HOLLAND has formally acknow-
ledged the Queen of SPAIN'S Government, thus
fairly kicking CARLOS and his claims overboard.
The Kings of SARDINIA and PRUSSIA are about
to follow his example.
The Quotidienne publishes a rigmarole defence
of the monster CABRERA, from the pen of the
Count de VILLENIUR, son of one of CARLOS'
hopeful Ministers, which, of course, is quoted by
the Post, and promised to be quoted by the Times,
being, according to our recreant Contemporary, a
vindication of the " brave, loyal, and able CA-
BRERA !" Bravo This is excellent T. The
butcher of our defenceless countrymen—of naked
Englishmen, who had laid down their arms on being
offered quarter—the executioner of twenty-three
defenceless women, whose infants were tossed on
pikes before their eyes, by command of this very
CABRERA, is now proclaimed " brave, able, and
loyal," by the apostate Times !
There is no other news of any interest in the
French Papers, save what is contained in the an-
nexed extracts. The price of bread, we regret to
state, has again been raised to 18 sous, or 9d. the
41b. loaf in Paris.

A Frankfort correspondent of the Courrier Francais,
in explaining the proceedings of the Germanic Diet re-
lative to Hanover, says :—" The Diet, when it does
not vote in pleno, consists only of 17 votes, the states
of the third and fourth order having only collective
votes. Hanover could not vote, as its own cause was
under discussion ; there consequently remained 16
votes. The following voted against his Majesty King
Ernest : Bavaria, the kingdom of Saxony, Wirtemberg,
Baden, the Duchies of Saxony, and the free towns of
Hesse Darmstadt, in all seven votes. Austria, Prussia,
and the King of the Netherlands, as Grand Duke
of Luxemburg, Denmark, for the provinces of
Schleswig Holstein, the electoral Prince and Re-
gent of Hesse Cassel, and all the states of the
fourth order which have no political independence,
voted in favour of the coups d'etat of the King of
Hanover, in all eight votes. There remained the vote for
Brunswick and. Nassau, which is given in turn, one year
by Brunswick, and the other by Nassau. The vote for
1839 belonged to the Duke of Brunswick, who declined
voting on the ground of his relationship to the King of
Hanover, notwithstanding the pressing request of his
Chambers. This vote ought to have been regarded as
lot,t ; but the President of the Diet, who saw that eight
votes did not give the majority of sixteen, called upcn
Nassau, which had no right to vote this year, to vote in
the place of Brunswick. The Nassau Minister, who
was not ignorant of the mode in which the votes had
been given, then voted gravely in favour of Ernest Au-
gustus, and the glorious majority was attained."
VIENNA, OCT. 15.—The Archduke Francis Charles
returned yesterday from Galicia, whither he has been
to inspect the troops, but has already set out again for
Tegernsee to fetch his consort. Archduke Albert is
daily expected on his return from Borodino. Prince
Puckler Muskau is likewise expected. Refaat Bey, the
Turkish Ambassador, has not yet fixed the day for his
departure from this city ; he seems to intend to wait
for the arrival of Prince Metternich. He has given
orders here for a costly sabre, the scabbard of which is
to be of the finest gold, adorned with jewels, probably
intended for the Sultan himself. Colonel Hodges, late
English Consul at Belgrade, continues in this city. It
is said he has been directed by his Government to stop
here till he received further orders respecting his des-
tination.

Baron Von Klenau, who died here as Mister-Gene-
ral of the Ordnance, was buried yesterday, with the
usual ceremony. The deceased is said to have been
above 100 years old.

Some days ago the journals said that a conspiracy in
the Russian army, commanded by General Geismas,
bad been discovered on the I:2th of June, 1839, and
that, in consequence of the treachery of one of the
conspirators, above 400 officers had been arrested.
We have just learned to-day that the following
officers, Polubiensk, Hollowicz, Joseph Nowicki,
Mickiewicz, Berdajoff, Iwanoff Wasileki:and Ladroff,
who were implicated in the said conspiracy, have suc-
ceeded in escaping, and that they arrived on the 13th
of this month at Le:igwy, in the department of the
Moselle.

The French Government, at the instance of the Rus-
sian Ambassador, has refused to receive them, and they
have been forced to return to Belgium, where the same
fate, probably, awaits them.—L' Univers.
BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23.

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