The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-27 00:00:00

APIIILIT OF -TUE PUBT.TC-JOURNALS.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday, Which we received
yesterday, contain a vatiety of interesting
inteili-
}mice, the details of which will be found ender the
head of France. The principal topics may le.
briefly described. We begin with the Chamber of
Peers, which had another public sitting ma Monday.
Our readers will recollect that in the previous sitting
of, that Chamber' an account of which was given io
our paper of Wednesday last, a letter tehlressed by
the Marquis de Rouge to the Quoddienne was read
and animadverted upon by the Minister of the hi-
terior. The Marquis is one of those ultras who
think it necessary to make excuses end apologies for
taking the new oath. In his letter he intimated
that he concurred in the opinion expressed by the
Duke of Fitzjames, and hinted that he considered
himself acting in obedience to the intentions of
Charles X, This affair was noticed by the Duke of
Fitzjames on Saturday, Who teems to have displayed
no little irritation in his explanatory observatiotui;
hat the most remarkable part of Isis speech is the
conclusion, in which he advises the Ministers to
direct their attention to more important objects
than a captious interpretation of letters, and to
prepare to meet the storms which are threatening
them. The Noble Duke, of course, meant it' to be
understood that the storms will be the work
of the populer party. It appears, however, from
the articles in the Journals, that his own poll
tical friends are not enwill:ng to raise a storm if
they could. The Ultras, acting by themselvessare
too feeble to give the Government any trouble, but
they seem well prepared to aggravate any difficulties
which may occur. The anarchy they profess to
dread they would Kindly have, if, through it, they
could get back their exploded system, and they still
flatter themselves with the hope of its return. One
of the favourite stories of the fnubourg St. Germain
now is, that ChiirleteX., on parting with his Guerds,
carried off their colours, saying, " I take your
standard, the Duke of Ilordenux will bring it back
to you." Under such delusions this infatuated party
will continue for some time to come, like the English
Jacobites, to drink " their King over the water."
The Committee to which Prince Polignac's letter
was referred, made on Monday a long report, the
result of which waa, a recommendation that the
Chanilier of Peers should sanction the arrest of the
Ex-Minister. The report was adopted. In the
Chamber of Ijepetie4, M. ',abbey de Pompieres
brought forward the subject of the law by which
certain conventionalists and others were exiled
miter the restoration of Louis XVIII. That
severe law is to be repealed. A great part
of the time of the Sitting was occupied with the
revisal of the regulations or orders of the Chamber.
A new article was proposed by the Committee
which drew up the orders, prohibiting the read-
ing of written speeches. It would have bsen well
for the credit of the Chamber that this amendment
had been adopted ; but it was rejected by a large
majority. -It will be seen that the want of employ-
ment has again given occasion to some movements
among the Parisian workmen. It is stated that a
beely.of 500 masons went on Monday to the Patois
Royal and insisted on seeing the King, to inform
him that they lied no work. These proceedings ap-
pear to have -no rosnection with politics, Some
disturbances, which partake however both of a p&
litical and religious character, have broken out at
Nisalce. The bigotted Catholics of that quarter
Nye attacked the Protestants As they did after the
restoration in 1815, and -some lives have been lost.
Judging by the proclamation of the Mayor, which
we have translated, the commotion must have been
serious. A short despatch from Admiral Duperre,
transmitted by the telegraph from Toulon, states
that the tri-coloured flag had been hoisted on board
the fleet, and on the batteries of Algiers. Nothing
is said about any resistance having been made by
11Sourmont, as was reported, The civil action
brought against the late Ministers by the witlow of
is malt who was killed on the 27th of July, has ex-
cited considerable interest in Pavia. The official do-
cuments which forms the first step in this extract.•
dimity suit, was given in our paper of yesterday.
It is probable that the relations of other sufferers
will commence similar actions for damages. If they
succeed, there will be no question about confiscating
the property of the traitors, as nothing will then be
lett for the State.--Tinter.

General liaudrand has, we believe, hastened to
inform, his Government of the cordial reception and
frank recognition which the King of England has
accorded to him as the special messenger of the Con
stitutional Sovereign of France. This unequivocal
testimony of the friendship of the English King end,'
Ministry will have more weight than the mere eti-
quette_ of a formal answer by a special messenger.
We do not know that a special mission will not be
sent, but if official difficultiesslionldfcause a delay
in carrying to a completion the forms of Ruch a
mission, no Frenchmen eau, after General Baud-
rand's particularly kind reception, entertain one mo-
ment's doubt as to the sincere sympathy which the
King and Ministers of this free country feel with
the regenerated Government of Prance. We take
this opportunity of beseeching our French neighbours
to discriminate between the respectable classes in
England, who admire their heroic patriotism, and re-
joice in its effecte, and the contemptible crew of
Cohliettites, who have impudently put themselves
forward as the representatives of the British na-
tio'''. From ignorance of the real state of things
Paris
persons in this country, the Manic of
Paris (a body answering to the corporation of Lon-
don) are entertaining, with respect and hospitality,
the " ragged regiment" of delegates, whom the
bone-grubber, colibett, sent to the French metropq.
lie. What a pity it is that some of the French
journals (who have means of knowing the insigniti.
canoe of these individuals). do not minion their
countrymen against any frateniintion with such a
peg. • Why, we may add, is Lord Stuart do Roth.
say idle P He ought not to be au itidifferetit spec-
tator at such a crisis. It is a time when it is peen-
liarly necessary for an Ambessedor to Maintain it
perfect understanding between the Cabinets and the
people of two nattOnS situated as France and
England are at this moment. - It is his duty, if , not
to preiient, at least to neutralize the effect of any
,artier attempts.' to mislead the. public mind of
'Armee, especially when suck deletion; may have an
iopsrious re-action on dm public mind of Englund.
Jr froM want of observation or of dimness hi is
incapable of exercising this beneficial influence, then,
indeed, not.enly a special mission, but a total change
in that deportment of our foreign diploinecy may
become absolutely neceasary.-,,Times.

It required no special revelation to anticipate the
recognition of the title of Louis-Philippe by' the
British Government, after 'the reception given by
his 'Majesty king William the Fourth to Corm'
Baudrand, when he appeared at Court on Wednes.
day, to discharge the mission with > which he had
been intrusted. The Courier, however, takes upon
itself to announce, with all the pump of official pre.
diction, that the recognition, shout which nobody
now can entertain the least doubt, will speedily take
place, with the usual forms: and that a letter from
the British Monarch, in acknowledgment of .the
nouncament made by the French King of his acces-
sion to the throne, will be transmitted to France for
Presentation by our Ambassador. it is quite con.
I_°llll4hle to tho usages between Sovereigns, us well
I:l49tweett private gentlemen, that a hater should
acme an atiawer ; and as King Wit
re-
ceived the peeial messenger of f,ouis-Pi am had
ppe in tlit
mtliod11111:::::74t treat: it
t into ‘l4'tl fiVle caieitrrit witht 'bee-
1, h rie
tiln Yjki:,,hileneCit'onwririir !
be :wrung in saying that
i!dged by 6the :British ()overlie "%diat'iy "1""-
King 01 is ithao,edlemii. lohe title of
Xing of Mc .P'reneleHilut the it:blll*Thiliit iq 14
formerly was King of tbi, Hoeg,ur titnglis links
not of England. The latter tine "dr
adopted or recognised until the reign )ertmati-li:
tyrant Jobe, who was the first of our Mow"' is,
by whom the title was. introduced into iha
Royal Seal. Wi believe.t.ouis XVI. accepted the

Constitution in 1701, as King of the French;"
`but in the London Gortette it was announced that
the Constitution had 'been accepted by " his Most
Christian Maje,ty," .although that title had beet;
abolished. As to the recognition of the new Gos
vernment of France, the menet see how it could be
avoided,, unless our MiniEry were prepared to drag
this country into a new crusade against the inde-
pendence of.the ;Trench nation, and thereby ex-
hibit a more obstinate incapacity to derive itistruc'e
tion from experience, than even the infatuated race
of the House of Bourbon, who are how fugitives
upon our slime! Long and happily might the late
King of France have reigned, if he possessed e
mind capable of extracting wisdom from the mis-
fortunes of his family. But dearer to him was the
sullen pride of tyrannical domination, than the en-
joyment of that authority which is founded in rea-
son, and supported by the affectionate allegiance of,
a free people. Dearly has he paid the price of such
incorrigible folly. Dearly too has England paid for
her officious internteddling with the internal affairs
of. France at the crisis of the former Revolution.
It is on historical reward that) before our Govern-
meet of that day made common cause with the na-
tions of the Continent in ,their uggressions upon the
French teriitory, the revolutionary legislators of
France declared that the English were the only free
people of Europe. We know that the furious and
sanguinary demagogues who succeeded the Consti-
tuent Assembly, by •whom the Constitution of 1701
was framed, were, or affected to be, exceedingly
hostile to England; but it is probable those violent
men 'would never have been able to obtain the
ascendancy they did, if it were not for the popular
alarm entl tumultuous excitement produced by fo-
reign invasion, of which those desperate advt
turers took advantage to gratify their thirst for
blood, and pursue the destructive career of their
ferocious ambition. There are no such men at the
head of affairs in France at present. An enlightened
King, of a diameter which unites moderation with
firmness in an eminent degree, and on whom the
lessons of early adversity have not been thrown away,
is assisted in directing the Councils of the nation
by sage and experienced Ministers. Would it not,
then, be an act of the most wanton folly, or of the
must rash and unprincipled ambition, for our At-
nistry to advise their Sovereign whteever their own
personal wishes may be, to plunge the nation lino
a war for the subversion of this wise and temperate
Government, which has been chosen, we may fairly
say, by the acclamation of the universal people ?
As to the weak attempt of the Ex-King to have
the Duke of Bordeaux recognized es King, in vir-
tue of " Divine right," it has met no response in
Franco. If our Government, then, refuses' to re-
cognize the present King of France, it must be in
deference to the exploded claim of the Duke of
Bordeaux—it must be in vindication of the phan-
tem of legitimacy which was driven out of this
country along with the banished James II.; and
thus our Ministers would, if they advised a war,
only unsheath the sword' of a free people against
the principles which placed the family of their
Royal Muster, our present truly popular Sove-
reign, on the throne. The event of such a con-
flict could be easily foreseen. This country,
possessing as it does the noblest Constitution
which human wisdom has ever yet contrived,
stands in need of salutary reforms, and the ameliora-
tion of institutions. It requires also that the prac-
tice of the Constitution should be mule more con-
formable with the excellence of the theory. A war
against the liberties and independence of other people
might delay such reforms for a time, but it would
bring about at length a more terrible catastrophe.
The country at present feels the ulmost intolerable
premiere of taxation which the late war occasioned
—the public debt is a herder), which presses the
energies and the industry of the people to the earth
We to the Ministry that would increase that op-
pressive burden—at once the evidence and the pu-
nishment of our former madness—by an unjust and
unnecessary war! We are confident that, where
the honour and the interests of the nation required
it, the people of England, even in their present
un-
exampled difficulties would submit to any sucrifice,
rather than shriek from the.vindication, or tamely
suffer the injuries of foreign aggression. But the
honour and interests of the nation equally demand
that we should remain at peace with France. If
the despotic States on the Continent feel the neigh-
bourhood of rational liberty dangerous, the Govern-
ment of a free people have uo Clitike for apprehension.
We, who have been as criminal in the eyes of
despots as the French, by cashiering a tyrant who
would have euljected the laws to his arbitery caprice,
should only see, in the elevation of Louis-Philippe,
an extension of the principle which our glorious re-
volution consecrated as a precedent to all nations.—
Herald.
In another column of our paper we give a list of
the Offices and Dignities filled, by what may em-
phaticelly (not ironically, as elsewhere) be called the
Gentlemen of the Press at Paris. It includes several
Ministers of State, a multitude of Prefects, and
other places of trust, of distinction, and emolu-
Mont. As to Sub-Prefectships, and such like em-
ployments of minor. consequence, they actually go
begging amongst the Literari of Paris—now, with
some reason, called the Capital of Civilization.
These, indeetlotre Kaprot +vim/ with a vengeance.
Hobbes, in his Leviathan, said " Seientia est po-
tenth+, sed parva"—because, appreciable by coins
paratively few. Could he now look down upon sub-
lunary affairs, he would surely retract that opinion,
seeing the imbecile Charles X. burled from the throne
in the very attempt to overthrow this mighty engine
by his stupid Ordinances. Fur it has been truly
observed by a Liberal French Journal-0 C'est sur-
tout h Liberal de le Presse, par laquelle, at
pour
laquelle, le peuple vient de remporter one Si eton-
minte vietoire."—( It was above all things the Liberty
of the Press, by which, and for which, the people
have achieved such an astounding victory.) It
was not a handful of bookworms, not the few, as
Hobbes thought, who only could value knowledge,
and the free communication of ideas, but the muss of
the people—et t0;4.),,et, as Pericles called the multi-
tude, when addressing the gallant and accomplished
" Men of Athens," in contradistinction to a besotted
Aristocracy, who so glotiously effected this energetic
explosion of a grand principle—the freedom of the
mind. Our privileged orders, those Most Noble
anti Right Honourable hereditary legislators, Who
never could wholly forgive, even to Canning, his
plebeian origin and connection, we verily believe,
would burst with rage, if a mere historian, profes-
sor, and newspaper man, like Guizot, should ever be
appointed his 111ajesty's Principal Secretary of State
for the Home Depertment in this United Kingdom
of Orem Britain and Ireland, and fill an office
hitherto held by Dukes, Marquisses, Earls, Vis-
counts, Barons, and Right Hon. aspirants to the
Peerage. Not so in regenerated France. 0 La
Carri6re Guyette aux Talents," was the favourite
motto of Napoleon, and the citizen King seems to
have taken a leaf out of the EMperor's book; and
not even the Ultrasßoyalist papers, have ventured
to question the promotion of the aforesaid news-
paper man to the office of Minister of the Interior,
lately so unworthily filled by Count Peyronnet.
Since the clays of Addison, what author, what lite-
rary man, without other pretensions and canners.
along, has ever made his way to high offices, barring
the profession 9f the laW ? A distributorship of
s6mps is the highest reward given to literary emi-
, fleece now in Englund—and in Scotland they made
the poet Burns att exeisemari.—Morning Herald.
We are glad to perceive from the French Papers
received yesterday, that there is HQ foundation for
the reports of disturbaeces at Paris, which were
general on Wednesday afternoon, both in the City
and in the Clubs at the west end of the town.
What had given rise to the reports probably was
the aseembleges of workmen out of employment at
the is Royal. The French Funds present so
t
emptieg a subject for speculation, that till they reach

their fair level, invention will no doubt be tasked in
the fabr'cation of all manner of disastrous rumours.
Several districts of the' South of France are yet un-,
fortunately disturbed with religious feuds. In
mes it has been found necessary to call in the
mili-
tary, as appears from the following extract from
Galignani's Messenger of Tuesday
" Letters from Nismes of the I 9th inst. contain the
following The Proclamation of the Accession of Louii
Philip I. was made on the 15th, amidst reiterated shouts
of Vive le Poi Louis Philippe J rive la Marie 1 In
the evening a serious contest arose between the Catholics
and Protestants, when two persons were killed and several
wounded. M. Alexandre de Lao ste, new Prefect of the
Department, published the next morning an energetic Ad-
dress ; and the M,iyor issued a Decree, ordaining that the
coffee-houses and other public places of entertainment vimuld
be shut at seven o'clock, and prescribing other measures for
the maintenance of the public peace. General Lasconrs,
Commandant of the Department. disp'ayed remarkable
firmness and temper, and contributed in a great degree to
restore order. The arrival of two battalions of the 39th
fiegiment of the Line, and a squadron of the 7th Chasseurs,
has since preserved the tranquillity of the town, and there
is every reason to hope that it will not again be disturbed.
We learn that several chests of muskets and poniards, des-
tined by the partisans of Charles X. for Paris, have been
seized at Lyons.'"

The existence of religious feuds in any country is
a proof of p artial laws, or the prevalence of much
ignorance after the objectionable laws have been re-
pealed. It is exceedingly flattering to Priests,
Catholic and Protestant, that men should light for
the dogmas of which they are the expounders; but
it says little for the Protestant and Catholic Laity
that they should be so silly as to become the tools
of these
.personages. Let us hope that the new
Government, by an impartial execution of the law
and the encouragement of instruction, will, erelong,
make men ashamed of quarrelling about religion, for
which men ought to be accountable to Heaven only,
and not to their equals. We never had a moments
doubt as to the reception of General Baudrand, in a
manner suitable to the just expectations of the Go-
vernment of which he is the Representative. The
Ex-King has had his day; and there is no romance
in politico. Colonel Gustation, Ex-King of Sweden,
may perhaps deem the title of Charles the Tenth, as
sacred as ever; but he will find to his cost, that the
Governments which were the most hearty in their
wishes for the success of his plans, will be as much
disposed to neglect him now as those which disap-
proved of them. Fortune is the sole tenure by
which favour of the world is held. The •degree in
which the various Governments of Europe en-
couraged Charles and his Ministers, can only at pre-
sent be conjectured. The belief is, that the papers
diScovered at Paris will serve very much to clear
this matter up. Should the trial of the French
Ministers be proceeded in, the papers must see the
light. A contemporary (the Standard) a day or
two ago, seemed to entertain some apprehension
lest a wish to hold the Duke of Wellington and
Prince Metternich in his power, should induce the
King to prevent the trial, in which it would of course
be necessary to produce papers implicating the
Courts of London and Vienna.

" A great deal, it is said, depends upon the right deci-
sion of this question, as our readers will see, when they
reflect that the papers of the Polignac Administration are
in the hands of the new Government—that these papers
would of course be submitted to the Chamber of D.Tuties,
as part of the materiel upon which the Chamber should
found its accusation—that, as the Courier (the London
Courier) informs us, these papers are of such a nature
that the Ministers of four foreign powers (not named)
have earnestly sought their suppression ; and that finally
the proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies, being public
by the Charter, to hand the documents to that assembly
would he to publish to all Europe the Polignite cone-
spondence—a proceeding, as we suspect, the reverse of
agreeable to half a dozen Ministers that we could point out.
" Whether an unwillingness to embroil himself with
the Ministers of his neighbours may induce King Louis-
Philippe to exert himself to withhold this valuable know-
ledge, we cannot guess. If he be a Statesman of the
vulgar stamp, it will be, no doubt, an agreeable thing to
him to be able to hold Wellington, Metternich, and com-
pany in his power, by still keeping this rod over their
heads; but if he be the wise man he has hitherto shown
himself, he will know nothing of Ministers. Ile will feel
that Prance is to owe neither her safety nor her tranquil-
lity to Ministers, but to her own strength, end to the re-
spect of neighbouring nations." _ _ _

If the Ministers of England be implicated in the
lute proceedings at Paris, the matter, we should
think will not be hushed up. The French must
know that they have no favour to expect from the
English Oligarchy. The favour of that body never
will be bestowed on any Government which really
consults the interests of the people. Woe to the
Liberals who trust to the friendship of the English
Government! Open enmity is safer than the
covert hostility displayed towards Spain, Portugal,
and Italy. Fortunately for the French, they are too
powerful to be interfered with. The hostility
of Austria is even a subject of merriment in France.
We never, however, believed that the Duke of Wel-
lington mixed himself up in any way with the mea-
sures of Charles. That our Cabinet was aware of
what was intended, and would have been delighted
at the success of Charles, is a question very different
from that of participation, or even of approbation
of the measures resorted to, prudentially considered.
Austria and perhaps Prussia (though the latter is
not so probable), may have gone farther; but the
Government of England, owing some account of its
operations to the public, never commits itself di-
rectly in any such questionable mutters as inter.
ference with the internal affairs of nations. Thus,
for instance, Sir Robert Peel, as an individual, at
the time, did not hesitate to justify the invasion of
Naples by Austria; but the Government took care
to afford no evidence of its hostility to Naples,—
England, though approving of the Holy Alliance,
did not become a party to it. Covert intriguing is
the utmost that an English Ministry will attempt in
such eases. We quite agree, therefore, with a con-
temporary (the Globe), who some days ago observed,
" The Ministers of England, we are petsuaded, have
no reason to fear any such disclosum ; and if they had,
the people would have, on that account, to desire the die.
closure. If a Ministry in England did bold forth to the
lee Government of France promises of aid which it
would have been at once criminal and foolish for it to
make, the friendly relations of this country with France
would only he drawn the closer by the unanimity with
which it would be seen that the notion would repudiate
such a Ministry."

'But we are not sure that we can subscribe alto,
gether to the paragraph which immediately follows
the above:—

"By the way, there is something apparently not very
consistent in the manner in which some persons, whose
opinions we generally respect, speak of the Duke of Wel-
lington with reference to this accusation. While in one
restence they throw out insinuations that this Minister is
bound up as a conspirator in the guilt of the crimes of the
Polignac-Bourbon party, in the next they hint that he
would be s fit man for a Minister if he had hut better col-
leagues. This we confess we do not tmderstand. If the
accusation is not believed to be well-founded, it should
not be made; if, on the other hand, those who utter it
believe it, how can they talk of the possibility of union
with the men against whom it is directed ? If the Duke
of welling/tom did enter into a conspiricy against liberty
and constitutional government throughout Europe, It is
no longer a question whether with this or that change he
could patch up an Adinirkistration ; but it is clear that he
should be rejected as unfit to form any, Ivan the meanest,
part of the weakest Ministry in E'ngland--that every thing
wise which he has effected (in policy) has proceeded from
chance, and every thing honest and magnanimous in ap-
pearance has been intended by him
dishonest end." a s the means to some

The Duke of Wellington shares no doubt, the
feelings of the English Oligarchy, Under the Con-
stitution of this country, the Oligarchy have, at
present, all the power they can wish, and therefore
they aro, no doubt, admirers of Constitutional Go-
vernment as existing in England. But in Prance
they had the spectacle of a Constitution, in which,
the people were really represented, end which Was
every day giving more and inure strength to the
people. Was it the interest of the Oligarchy of
England, as a body, that the people of England
should have constantly before. them the spectacle of
a Constitution working like that of France'? We
can hardly doubt that the higher ranks of England
generally, therefore, in their ; hearts, prayed•for the

success of the King, as they prayed for the tiro,.
throw of the Constitution of the Cortes. The Duke
of Wellington has never been supposed to have any
other feelings than tho.e of the order to which he
belongs. There is, therefore, no contradiction in
supposing that the Duke-may, supported by proper
colleagues, carry on the affairs of this country fairly
enough, and yet that he oily have disliked the Con-
stitution of France.. There are few who will sup-
pose that he can have. any into ntionB hostile to the
English ConwiTution, becau,.e.he may di7.like that of
France. Why. should he dislike the English Con-
stitution ? The English Constitution is all that the
Aristocracy of the
.comitry can wish for. If the
English Constitution were so reformed us to allow.
weight to the people, that would be another affair.
The Aristocrat whO &likes the English Consti-
tution as it exists must be a lunatic. Even the
Gratt,lees of Spain would hail with joy a Cotistitu-
tion which should. give them the power possessed
by the English Nobility.--Morning Chronicle.
The Report from the Select Committee of the
'louse of Common, appointed " to consider the
meals of lessening the evils arising from the fluc-
tuation of employment in the matmlacturirg dirt-
tricts,"has been sonic time before us, and deserves
a few passing observations—not so much for any
important suggestion contain, d it, as on account of
the importance of the subject itself. With regard
to the various fluctuations which take place -in .ma-.
nufacturing employment,- the Committee very justly
attribute them to changes of fashion -and place, to
improvements in machinery, and to foreign rivalry,
regulations, and prohibitions.; but .we think it will
be owned that the plan which they propose for do-
ing away, or, at all events, greatly mitigating the
evil, is in every respect inadeginee to meet it.
Their conclusions, in. fact, which are as. follows, are
any thing but satisfactory, and argue any thing but
enlightened and profound views of the subject.
They are—
" Ist. That considerable fluctuations in employment
frequently take place in manufacturing diNtricts, productive
of great distress.

" 2d. That the earnings of worko en in many of ihe,e
districts are on an average of several years, sufficient (if
duly husbanded) to provide fur the periods when they are
deprived of work.
" 3d. That considerable facilities and inducements for
this purpose may be afforded to workmen, by the plan
recommended, of which the fUllowing is an abstract; viz.
" Ti.t facilities be afforded by law (as to benefit clubs)
for the formation of societies supported by the voluntary
contributions of troll:nen, and confined to the especial
purpose of support during want of work ; that each
member's contributions stand in his name, and he have a
right to allowance when unemployed (at a certain rate) to
the amount of his share of the fund ; that an annual divi-
dend of interest, forfeits, and deductions on deaths, be
made in proportion to each member's share."

This plan is given more at length in a subsequent
part of the Report ; but the above brief statement
of it sufficientiy explains its object. Now we are
inclined to quarrel not only with the plan so delibe-
rately laid down by the Committee, but also with
the premise 3; and every mie who has perused our
columns during the last five years must be aware
that the wages of the working classes, either in the
manufacturing districts, or in the metropolis, have
not, on the overage, been sufficient to meet the ordi-
nary necessities and comforts of life. The state-
ment of wages said to be received by them is, in
fact, wholly at variance with truth—a fact which
need scarcely be doubted after the intimation given in
the Report, that the information on which the state-
mi is grounded was received from a member of
the Committee. Let facts, however, speak for
themselves. The statement of the Committee with
respect to the Cotton trade is us follows :
" lst cl.ss, consisting of men earning 20s. per week.
" 2d. Male and female, earning 12s. per week.
" 9d. Mule and female, 7s. Per wrek.
" 4th. Male and female (including children from eight
years old and upwards) earning 2s. rid. per week.
" Tlase are all paid in money, and, fin• the most p
by the piece, working about twelve hours in the twenty-
four."

Now the fact is, as we stated nine months ag,),
that the wages of the workmen•s—we mean grown-
up and able workmen—did not average 3s. per
week; and we stated this, be it remembered, not
on the authority of casual report, but on that of a
committee of masters and journeymen who were de-
puted to inquire into the matter, and who reported
that about 40,000 workmen only earned 2s. 2d. per
week I So much for the premises; and of the plan
we have nothing better to observe. If workmen
hive not sufficient wages to procure the necessary
comforts of life—and we argue that they have not—
they cannot lay by anything for seasons when em-
ployment is scarce and wages greatly reduced. The
premises being incorrect, the plan betomes, as a
matter of course, also incorrect ; but there is a
greater fault in the report than either of the two
al~endy mentioned, and that is, that the Select Com-
mittee do not seep to have gone into, or have studi-
ously übstained from, a rigid inquiry into the real
causes of the present depressed state of manufac-
turing industry. They have brought forward the
effects us causes, and left the real causes in the dark.
The " changes of fashion and place, the foreign
rivalry and prohibitions, and even the improve-
ments in machinery," which they assign its causes
of the miserable condition of the working classes,
may all be traced to the operation of other causes—
causes which are now in operation, and which must
be removed before the industry of the country can
be restored to its former state of prosperity. These
causes are, we need not observe, all resolvable
into the pernicious effects of oppressive and
ill-
contrived taxes—'of taxes exceeding in amount the
means of supply on the part of the,publie, and of
taxes bearing more upon the industrious, than
upon the wealthy, classes of society ; and until these
taxes have been reduced, arid the restraints now im-
posed on the productive industry 'of the country re.
moved, there can be no improvement in the wages
of the working classes. It is here that " the shoe
pinches," and here that it must be enlarged, to give
ease and comfort. The taxes on corn, and on many
other articles, must also he abolished; and the tax-
ation of the country generally so regulated, that the
greatest amount of revenue shall be collected at the
least possible expense. The contrary has hitherto
been so much the case, that the expense of collection
has nearly equalled in many instances the amount of
revenue; and until this system has been changed,
we thoroughly 'despair of any great diminution of
the national expenditure, or any considerable ame-
lioration of the condition of the working classes.--
Morning Advertiser. .