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its favour. The result of the first division, however,
proves that but little regard is paid to the abstract
justice of a proposition by Hon. Gentlemen who
are prepared to vote black white if it promote the
interests of the party to whom they have tendered
allegiance, or from whose bounty they ex,,,ect a
fair proportion of " the loaves and fishes "—the
good things, so acceptable to the numerous waiters
on PROVIDENCE who crowd the lobbies of the
House, ready to take advantage of any chance.
They may, however, %r very shame, take advan-
tage of the loopholes for partial escape, to extricate
themselves from the lowest depths of infamy ; and,
although argument and reasoning may be thrown
away upon them, a feeling may be excited among
their constituents that will produce some effect
when a new appeal to the country becomes immi-
nent.

It is difficult to conceive anything more absurd
than a system which taxes the whole of a precarious
income themoment it touches a certain point. Why,
we ask, should an income of 1001. per annum be
reduced below one of 991., or even 981., from the
demands of the tax collector. It is quite clear
that if a certain amount be considered entitled to
total exemption as being barely sufficient to pro-
vide the necessaries of existence, it is only the
surplus beyond that amount that should be taxed
—the portion which may be considered as at the
disposal of the acquirer. It will be seen that this
proposition only applies to precarious incomes,
—every pound of accumulated and realised pro-
perty being properly subject to the charge. In-
deed there should be no exemption of any kind
under schedules Aor C. As the fate of the Mi-
nistry cannot be considered as in any degree depen-
dent on the success of Mr. MICHELL'S motion, it
is to be hoped that the so-called Liberal members
will vote in accordance with their convictions.
It is even possible that Mr. GLADSTONE, seeing
the general feeling on the subject, may make a
graceful concession. We cannot, however, say
that we rely with any degree of confidence on this
being the case. It is essential, therefore, that
those who wish to make the only possible amends
for their past votes should be in attendance this
evening, to obtain partial justice for those whom
they had previously so deeply injured.

Prophets have not been wanting to threaten
the world with " wars and rumours of wars" dur-
ing the next quarter of a century—disasters which
are, according to them, to close the " abomination
of desolation," and to usher in the Millenium.
Yet throughout the whole of Europe there reigns
at this moment the most uninterrupted tranquil-
lity. Whatever clouds appeared of late to be
"looming in the future," have, by this time,
through the agency of the diplomatists, become
tolerably well dissipated. The Councils of the
Sublime Porte have recovered their equanimity.
The AUTOCRAT has modified his demands upon
the Government at Constantinople. The Austrian
EMPEROR has suddenly grown less eager to draw
' the sword in defence of the Christian marauders
of Montenegro. All those ominous movements,
which were recently observed upon the shores of
the Levant, have subsided into negotiations far
the better guardianship of the Holy Places, by a
common arrangement among the Sovereigns of
Continental Christendom. Instead of conspiring
to cut each other's throats in an outburst of
amiable enthusiasm, the nations of Europe ap-
pear to be now only solicitous to become the
privileged custodians of the consecrated soil of
Palestine. England, it is true, keeps altogether
aloof from these conferences among the Northern,
Southern, Eastern, and Western Plenipotentiaries.
A chivalrous ardour, such as the Saxons and the
Normans knew of old, has given place to an eco-
nomic caution, or a half-political, half-commercial,
indifference. France, however, has not altogether
lost the glorious spirit of the Crusaders. Some-
what of their romantic daring and of their religious
fervour has survived in the bosoms of her children
and in the palaces of her administrators. Senti-
ments like those were rife in 800, when the
diadem was worn by CHARLEMAGNE. They had
not become entirely obsolete—they had not be-
come wholly forgotten—they were still regarded
with a certain tenderness in 1800, when the
sceptre was grasped by NAPOLEON. A thousand
years had failed to wear away the influence which
thus linked together the respective ages of those
two redoubtable conquerors. It seemed in this
regard that there was a sympathy between epochs
thus widely separated from each other—just as there
was discernible a certain resemblance between the
brilliant prowess of MURAT and the magnificent
knight-errantry of ORLANDO. And the same sen-
timents may be declared, we believe, with truth
to have descended from the last, down to the pre-
sent, generation. They were latent in the
,hearts
of the millions who owned allegiance to the great
NAPOLEON : and they are cherished, too, with
redoubled ardour among the lieges of his imperial
successor. These truths were recognised early in
the present century by RENE DE CHATEAUBRIAND.
Their recognition gave the key-note to the music
of that golden eloquence which won such' rapid
and world-wide popularity to his " Genie du
Christianisme." They were truths, moreover,
which were understood in all their grandeUr and
intensity by PAUL DE BERANGER. It was his ap-
preciation of them that caused him to celebrate a
greater than HANNIBAL, a wiser than CASAR, and
a more wonderful than ALEXANDER, not by any
of those gorgeous terms of panegyric, but--,-from
his instinctive sense of the popular feelings as
a poet—simply as—"lui qui un Pape a couronne."
His comprehension likewise of these feelings
throughout France has guided, to a considerable
extent, the Eastern policy of the THIRD NA-
POLEON. And so it has come to pass that the shield
of Gaul has been extended, at the eleventh hour,
over the SULTAN, and that the CZAR has found
his cupidity unexpectedly baffled on the eve, as
it were, of his anticipated seizure of Constanti-
nople.

Meanwhile, there have become visible nume-
rous tokens of an amicable ambition in various
other parts of Continental Christendom. The
promise of the conservation of tranquillity
throughout Europe has been rendered visible by
events elsewhere than within the Council Cham-
bers of the Imperial Palace of the Tuileries. If
hope of the preservation of quietude be
looked for, it is not necessary that we
should search for it solely in reference to
these arrangements as to the future guardianship
of Palestine. It is to be seen to the north and
to the south simultaneously. Northwards it is
becoming discernible in thQ prospective assemblage,
during this present month of May, at Vienna, of
the Monarchs of Austria, Russia, Prussia, Bel-
gium, Greece, Naples, and Bavaria. Southwards
it is conspicuous in the graceful reception, by the
QUEEN of Spain, on the 28th ult., at Aranjuez,
of the letters accrediting the Marquis de TUR-
GOT to the Court of Madrid as French Ambassa-
dor. The language uttered upon this latter occa-
sion, both by the Monarch and the Diplomatist,
must be regarded as, in all respects, too remark-
able to be negligently overlooked. It is
curious to read the speeches addressed to
each other nowadays by the French Plenipo-
tentiary and the Spanish Sovereign, and to
remember, while doing so, the relations for-
merly subsisting between ISABELLA 11. and the
ORLEANS family—or, still more, the opinions which
farther back estranged the representatives of the
Royal House of Spain and the Founder of the
NAPOLEONIAN dynasty. On presenting his cre-
dentials, it will be soon that the Marquis de
TuateOT observed—" I have the honour to present
to your Majesty the letters of his Majesty the
Emperor of the French, my august Sovereign,
which accredit me to you in the quality of Am-
bassador :" adding—" His Majesty the Emperor
forms the most ardent wishes for the happiness of
Spain and for the glory and prosperity of the reign
of your Majesty, and charges me to express
them in the warmest terms." Nor is this deemed
seeuifintciiag tn, the representative of NAPOLEON 111.
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good relations, and to draw closer the ties which
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