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beneficial to themselves, and least likely to impart an
unnecessary shock to institutions which it would be
wiser to reform than to pull down altogether—there
can he no doubt but that in a few years they will have
effected every change which events will prove neces-
sary to their happiness. Let them agitate by all means.
The political waters are purer and wholesomer the
more they are troubled. Political opinion should never
be suffered to stagnate. But between peaceable, con-
stitutional agitation and the raving of demo-
cratic fanaticism, there is as wide difference as be-
tween light and darkness. It will also be seen that
Dr. Boil RING anticipates a salutary weeding of the
Ministry, from which he augurs great benefit to the
country. Unless the Corn-laws are speedily re-
pealed, we trust such an event may take place
before the close of the next Session of Par-
liament. The President of the Board of Trade
stands a poor chance of continuing in office, unless
he quickly repent him of his late official blackslidings.
The people will have measures, as well as men ; and
it is now evident to all that they are really in earnest.
It is because they are so, and because we wish them
success, that we unite with Dr. BownING in implor-
ing them to be firm, orderly, temperate, but, above all,
rational in their demands.

The Times of this morning is exceedingly wroth
with Ministers for not resigning. Our Contemporary
thinks that they ought to have gone out, and let the
Tories come in, months ago ; and because they have
not done so, he denounces them, one and all, as a
" set of adventurers." His remarks on this head are •
diverting in the extreme, if only for their exquisite in-
consistence. Ministers, it seems, do not resign,
because they have still sufficient strength to maintain
themselves in office, which is the reason why the Con-
servatives have not made greater efforts to displace them;
and yet,notwithstandi►;g this, we are gravely assured by
our Contemporary that " the place-holding Whigs, as a
distinct and separate faction, are annihilated 1" An-
nihilated, forsooth I What, when they still retain
active possession of the highest offices in the king-
dom, and defy the utmost efforts of the Tory squad
to eject them I Verily, this is the most extraordinary
species of annihilation we ever heard of ; and we have
not the slightest doubt that the Tories, as a party,
would gladly he annihilatel in a similar fashion. There
is one remark made by our Contemporary, in the
course of his anti-Whig and pro-Tory diatribe,
which is worth notice, as being the only clear
and intelligent one to be met with in it. Allud-
ing to the causes which are in progress to diminish the
strength of Ministers, and increase that of the Oppo-
sition, he says, " the ultra-Radicals are hourly filling
the tanks of the Conss4oonal army." This is true,
even though the Timet7says it. The " Universal
Suffrage" men are adding to the Tory numbers at
every fresh demonstration they make, as we took occa-
sion to observe yesterday.

Though most of our readers take not the slightest
interest in the affairs of Spain, and the ungrateful
conduct of the military and civil authorities towards
our unfortunate countrymen, has hardened the hearts
of Englishmen against the sufferings of the Spaniards,
still the deplorable, the almost hopeless condition of a
people who have many good qualities, cannot fail at
times to excite strong sympathy. For the last thirty
years, they have been suffering either from foreign inva-
sion, or civil wars. They have formed representative
Governments, more or less resembling our own, in the
hope of bettering their condition, and these have been
put down without fair trial, either by the treachery
of their SOVEREIGN or by the bayonets of strangers ;
and after all the wars, and murders, and devastation to
which the country has been subjected, their condition
appears now more hopeless than it was at the com-
mencement of the sanguinary struggle. _ We can

hardly wonder that apathy has succeeded so many
fruitless attempts, and that the people should sit down
in sullen despair, or attempt by emigration to escape
from a country where even the last consolation of the

wretched is denied them. L appears from late ac

counts that, even disturbed as most of the South Ame-
rican colonies are, numbers of Spaniards are leav-
ing their native country, with what vet remains
of their property, in the hope of obtaining
some place of security and rest in the New World.
They can certainly reckon upon neither in Old Spain.
The QUEEN'S party is supported only by the good
wishes of our Government. France has utterly de-
serted them. Intrigue, and treachery, and imbecility
prevail at Court ; and, what with these hindrances,
and the utter prostration of public credit, the expul-
sion of Don CARLOS by their own exertions is as
little to be expected as a miracle. And even should

the other prevail, peace would not follow ; for nearly
all impartial persons agree (and we have heard the
same opinion expressed by many favourable to Don
CARLOS' claim), that the principles by which the
Durango monster is actuated will for ever exclude
him from the throne of Spain. Were the QUEEN and
all her Ministers and Camarilla banished to-morrow,
civil war would rage with still more violence, and in
place of partial executions, such as the PRETENDER
now delights in, there would be wholesale butcheries,
like those committed by his " beloved" brother. There
is one nation that could put an end to this deplorable
contest, and that nation, too, is morally bound to exert
herself for such an object. The French nation under
BONAPARTE was the original cause of the civil war;
the French nation under Louis XVIII. destroyed
the Charter which the people extorted from the SOVE-
REIGN ; and the same nation under LOUIS PHILIPPE
became bound to act cordially with England in
sup-
port of the QUEEN. LOUIS PHILIPPE broke his
promise, and the civil war continues. Were the
Spaniards, destined to suffer alike under either dynasty,
to raise the cry for a republic, Louts PHILIPPE could
not complain if it were responded to by the general
voice of the French people.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Wednesday
have been received, with advices from Madrid, of
the 19th instant. The latter arc of no moment,
being merely confirmatory of the promulgation of a
Royal Decree, convoking the Cortcs on the Sth of
November. All the news in the French Journals will
be found in the annexed extracts.
We have likewise received Brussels and German
Papers this morning, but they contain no intelligence
of any moment :

We have the following letter from Posen, Sept. l 2
A person, who is in general well-informed, has sent us word
from Warsaw that Field-Marshal Paskewitsch had received the
Emperor's orders to make the necessary preparations to con-
vey to Russia fifty thousand Polish peasants, and to settle as
many Russian peasants in Poland in their stead. A whole
army will be employed in the execution of this measure, which
it is said was ordered by the Muscovite despot, immediately
after reading a report from General Sehypoff, which Wormed
him that the Polish peasants dared to murmur at the change
of their national costume. Nicholas, it is said, was furious on
learning that the peasants were so intractable, and resolved at
once on taking exemplary vengeance."
Though our correspondent assures us that this news is cer-
tain, we would still believe that it is otherwise : because such
a measure as this might excite a gener,%l insurrection in Po-
land, a thing which Nicholas at this moment dreads above all
things, whatever may be said by the Russian and German
Journals in the pay of his Cabinet. l-Lwever, if the Autocrat
really intends to exercise such an atrocious revenge, of which
history has uo instance even among barbarous nations, it is
to be hoped that all Europe will oppose it in the name of re-
ligion and humanity.
It should seem that the measure above spoken of is begin-
ning to be carried into effect, for we find it stated in a Journal
that several hundred persons of both sexes have been carried
off from the southern part of the Government of Lubesk, in
Poland, under a military escort, to be sent to Ekaterinoslaw ;
but it is believed that they will not stop there, but go to the
country of the Don Cossacks, to which desert country many