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be put down by the strong arm of the law ; but the se-
cret violence of desperate men cannot be suppressed,
and the concentrated mass will but disperse in a million
of incendiaries." Let the reader look at the speech of
Mr. DEEGAN, in our Express from Manchester, and
he will be convinced that violence has already found
other advocates, and is making a- frightful progress.

We are placed just now in a curious position. The
Chairman at a dinner of commercial travellers at Dur-
ham, calls us Government toadies, because on Mon-
day we expressed a sentiment of pleasure at learning
that Government has had nothing to do with the arrest
of Mr. STEPHENS, " whilst it is known (says our
Correspondent), to everybody in the North that he was
arrested by Bow-street officers under a Secretary of
State's warrant. For shame, Mr. YOUNG (adds
our monitor)—you are either knave or fool—either
of which unfits you as a public instructor !"
We must leave this very important question, as to the
interference of the Government, to the public deci-
sion ; but our Correspondent makes one glaring mis-
take, which makes us express a hope that he wrote
after dinner. At the same time, we must remind
our readers that the article of which a part is censured
has gained us much approbation from the bulk of the
Chartists. 'We present an additional evidence of it in
a letter, which confirms Mr. O'CoNNoß's and Mr.
RICHARDSON'S observations. By the opponents of
the Chartists, also, we are accused of having gone
over to them ; so that we are' assailed on different
sides for contradictory faults. To all those who either
praise or censure us, we beg leave to give notice that
we shall pursue our own course. We protest
against Mr. STEPHENS' persecution, as unjust and
dangerous, so far as it is known to the pub-
lic ; but we are not one atom more friendly
to the cause of the Chartists now than we were
in the month of August, when we gave them
mortal offence by advising them to take up the
Corn-laws, and defer the agitation for the Charter till
the Corn-laws were abolished. Other writers who then
opposed us have since come round to our views, and
we purpose, if we can find space to-morrow, to re-state
at some length, with further illustrations, the reasons
why we formerly opposed the Chartists, and continue
to prefer the abolition of the Corn-laws to supporting
their demands.

The sneaking conduct of the KING of the FRENCH
towards Russia seems to exemplify the doctrine of
canine attachment held by some philosophical sports-
men, that the more you beat a dog the more he loves
you. NICHOLAS never omits an opportunity, direct
or indirect, of giving Louis PHILIPPE a cuff or a
kick, while the latter Sovereign receives the honour
with due submission and thankfulness. A striking
instance of the feeling of contempt which the KING
of the CALMUCS entertains towards his brother of the
Barricades has just occurred. An almanack has
been published at Warsaw by Imperial authority. In
that part of it which is devoted to a description of the
Royal Families of Europe, Louis PHILIPPE re-
ceives the following gentle hint that he is a usurper,
though nominally a king. CHARLES X. and the
DAUPHIN are represented as having abdicated in
favour of the Duke of BOURDEAUX, under the name
of HENRY V.! As a further compliment to the Mo-
narch surrounded with republican institutions, Bel-
gium finds no place in the Russian almanack. It is
blotted from the autocratic map of Europe ; and,
although the marriage of the Duke of ORLEANS with
the Princess HELENA, and that of the Princess
MARY with the Duke of WIRTEMBERG are duly
noted, the marriage of the Princess LOUISE with the
KING of the BELGIANS is concealed like murder.
One would suppose that these insults cannot be very
palatable to France, however they may be stomached
by the pusillanimous Sovereign who at present
sways the sceptre of that mighty kingdom. Louis
PHILIPPE perhaps consoles himself with the re-
flection, that if the great KHAN spits in his
face, he treats some of his neighbotirs with equal
courtesy ; for though the title of Regent is conceded
to CHRISTINA of Spain, Queen ISABELLA 11.
is simply styled " Infanta." DONNA MARIA DE
GLORIA has found most favour in the sight of the
Scythian despot : she is actually acknowledged QUEEN
of PORTUGAL. How very consistent this, after his
virtual acknowledgment of that honourable and con-
scientious scion of legitimacy, DON MiGuEr, I

The Paris Papers of Thursday are filled with copies
of the :New Year's-day addresses presented to the
KING by the Diplomatic Body, the Council, the
Chambers, the National Guards, the Municipality of
Paris, and we know not how many besides, with his
MAJESTY'S answers. As their insertion would very
much resemble the annual repetition of the pantomime
of Torn Thumb, we shall omit them on the present
occasion. The substance of the addresses and an-
swers may be given in a sentence. The people of
France are hlefised with the best of KINGS,
who has given birth to the best of PRINCES,
who, in his turn, has given birth to a Count
who is the sweetest of babes, will be the best
of boys, the most heroic of men, and one day or
other, the best of Kings ; and his Majesty's royal
and paternal heart is so big with gratitude, that he
can only promise a continuance of his career of popu-
lar beneficence to the end of the chapter. Such are
the addresses, and such the answers, which, on the
part of the addressing and the addressed, vastly re-
semble an exchange of lumps of barley-sugar.
The Journd!s announce, as a new proof of the
observance of the Qu2druple Treaty by the Cabinet,
France at the head-
the arrival of 300 horses from

ers of the PRETENDER.
quailt
The irc::lmstance of a visit paid by M. TRIERS.
the Foreign Office appears to have alarmed the chiefs
of the Opposition, lest he might accept privately any
overtures made him by Count MOLE to desert the
coalition. The explanation given by the Constitu-
tionnel is simple and satisfactory. It was the wish of
the Committee upon the Address, that a despatch re-
lative to the evacuation of Ancona should be submit-
ted to it. This was refused by the Premier on public
grounds ; but he offered, as an act of courtesy towards
M. TRIERS, who had preceded him in office, to allow
that gentleman to see the document, and even to copy
it, if he thought proper. Of this offer M. THIERS
availed himself, and hence the report of his being clo-
seted with Count MOLE.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIA, JANUARY 2.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 85e. 9oc. 95c.

Four per Cents., 10If. SOc. 79r. sc.
Three per Cents. 78f. 50c. 60c. 55c. Ditto
Bank Actions, 2,650 f. 2,680 f. 2,670 f.
Aente 8e Naples, 98f. 90c. 29f.
Roman. Five per Cents., 100 10)4 Ditto _IO9IA

Spanish Acti-ves, 171,6 x
917 Si
94 Belgian Five per Cents., 994.
Ditto
Belgian Three per Cents.' 137 f. ((k. 75c.
Ditto 51.0 E
Belgian Bank, 550 f. Dot. 505E'
Portuguese, Three per Cents. 19? y .
EXCHANan ON LONDON.—One mOntn, paper,:2sf. 15c; money,2sf. P:1,1,c;
Tree months, paper, 25f. —c.; money, 24f. 97./ic.

Brussels Papers of the Ist inst. state that Count
SEBASTIANI has actually signed the last Protocol of
the Conference of London, though the fact is care-
fully concealed from the 'people of France by the Go-
vernment till after the adoption of the Address by the
Chamber of Deputies. In the sitting of the Chamber
of Deputies, on the 28th, the several iteril of the
Finance budget were voted without a division. The
marriage of M. VAN DE WEYER, the Belgian Am-
bassador at the Court of London, with a rich London
heiress, is considered of such importance at Brussels
as to be posted up in the Town-hall.