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LONDON :
THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1838.

In another place will be found an Address of the
Working Men's Association to the people of England,
which we received yesterday, but at too late an hour
to enable us then to insert it, as justice to them and to
ourselves requires. We state this test it might be in-
ferred that we had grudgingly or unwillingly opened
our co'umns to an Address which is directed chiefly
against some remarks of ours, and had required the
example of a Morning Contemporary, to stimu-
late us to the pciformance of our duty. We
think with the Chronicle, that every man and all
classes of men are entitled to be heard, and much it
concerns the public welfare, we think, that the working
men, when !hey have grievances to complain of, should
have the means of making them known. In the
present case, however, they only reply to the objections
of the Press, and we are quite agreeable, as the text is
ours, to publish the commentary.

We can afford, we hope, to rely on our plain
sincerity and palpable good intentions as the an-
swer to some of the sneers and taunts of the Com-
mittee of the Working Men's Association. Such
things, with making garbled quotations, are the usual
weapons of controversiali3t3, and the Committee are
not an exception to that general, though not creditable,
practice. We pass by, however, all that is extraneous,
and will merely notice the only substantial point of
difference between them and us. They contend for,
and we deny, the prudence of their now employing
their time, attention, and means in order to ob-
tain for each and every man the right of voting
for Members of the House of Commons. That is
what we under,tand by Universal Suffrage, for on
most other points each and all of us, and not only
men but women, are free to give an opinion, and have
a voice and influence proportionate to their abilities
and opportunities. We have no difference or dispute
with the working men as to their claim on such a suff-
rage, which we admit ; but we differ from them as to
the propriety of their now urging their claim, in prefer-
ence to bending all their exertions to get rid of the
Corn-laws. Their present el ai m will be opposed by almost
every man in both Houses of Parliament, and of the
bulk of the electors, including all the influential
classes throughout the whole empire. As we have
before stated they cannot hope for success. The de-
mand for the repeal of the Corn-laws will be supported
by a considerable number of Members of the House
of Commons, by at least two Members of the House
of Peers, by the Government if it be pressed on, and
by the bulk of the master manufacturers, capitalists,
and inhabitants of towns throughout the empire. We
have already announced one subscription to attain
this purpose ; we know that many more will flow in
immediately any disposition is shown to or-
ganise an opposition to the Corn-laws ; and,
therefore, it depends mainly on the working
classes whether they shall be associated with
the other classes, and be aided, by their means, to ge
rid of the Corn-laws, or shall, by pursuing their
own schemes, be opposed by them,
.and so, without
achieving Universal Suffrage, ensure the continuance
of the Corn-laws. Quite in accordance with our
views, is the letter of H. RICHARDS, a working man,
which we publish to-day, and which is well calculated
to make the Chartists doubt the wisdom of their course,
and to pause in their career.
We might reply at some length to many of the obser-
vations of the "Working Men," but we have no wish to
anti having inserted what
provoke further controversy, a
the Chronicle says on the subject, that, with the Ad-
dress, is sufficient for one day. We shall only add
that there is one point on which we cordially agree
with the Committee. They say, "We think every
lover of his species ought to exert his influence to re-
move that prolific source of evil—corrupt legislation.
Those words describe the Corn-laws admirably. They
are a large body of " corrupt legislation," and "a pro-
lific source of evil." We invite the working classes to
aid us in abolishing them. Those laws are expressly
intended to enrich the idle classes, at the expense of
the working classes, and by no other act of legisla-
tion would the working classes be so much benefitted as
by an Act totally to abolish the Corn-laws.

Our report from the Corn Market yesterday was
that " many foreign vessels continue to came in." A

great accession to our supply of wheat has, we hope,
therefore, been obtained from abroad since the end of
July ; and now it may all be entered at the nominal duty
of is. Thanks, hearty thanks, to the speculators who
have saved us from the apprehensions of immediate
dearth—though the poor willicontinue to suffer pinching
want—and have defeated the landlords. The manceu-
vres of the speculators—those whom the landlords face-
tiously call rogues in grain--during the last two
months have got up the averages, and this day they
are declared to be, for the last six weeks, 735. 2d.
The duty is now one shilling. We have pre-
pared our readers for this result during the last
few weeks, though, till it was actually realized, it has
been very doubtful. A considerable quantity of da-
maged, imperfectly harvested, and comparatively bad
corn, has been sent to market, and the prices have
consequently fallen very fast. The weekly average
last Thursday, which was 745. 5d., is this week
70s. 2d., and as the markets continue to fall, foreign
corn, it is probable, will only be entered at is. duty for
this single week. Thank GOD a great addition to
our stock has been obtained. Next week no doubt the
average will be considerably lower, and the duty will
be raised. We beg the farmers, however, will attend
to this conjunction of facts, that while they are getting
some 625. or 645. for their wheat, foreign wheat is
coming in at ls. duty. Where then is the protection
afforded to them by the Corn-laws ?
Another consideration has been pointed out by the
Spectator in relation to the averages, which is well
worthy of the public attention. The prices have been
beaten down by the quantity of bad wheat sent to
market, and consequently the supply of good foreign
wheat will be limited, not by the supply of good
wholesome English wheat, as it is presumed the
Legislature intended, but by the cheap and bad
wheat, which goes, as well as the best wheat
brought to market, to determine the averages.
The duty will be next week raised on good foreign
wheat, in consequence of the quantity of damaged
English wheat which has been offered for sale. Thus
the Corn-laws, we beg the public will remem-
ber, not merely make us pay a high price for our
bread, but they condemn us to eat unwholesome bread.
But what care the landlords—so their pockets be filled,
and they be saved from the consequence of their own
folly and extravagance—that the bulk of the people be
made the prey of disease, by eating food which is excel-
lent for hogs, but poisonous for man. With what indig-
nation have we known those virtuous legislators overflow
against knavish contractors who have adulterated flour
with whiting or with gypsum, in consequence of its
being made by the bread tax advantageous to cheat ;
but now we see that the direct effect of their own law,
at which, however, they will express neither sorrow
nor indignation—except it be indignation at being de-
tected—is to condemn the people to feed on substances,
worse probably for their health than whiting or gypsum.
When, we ask our suffering countrymen—who are con-
demned to want and disease by the scoundrel avarice
of the landlords—is this iniquity to have an end ?

We have borrowed from the Times a letter which
one of the Messrs. CHAMBERS, of Edinburgh, has
addressed to that Journal, touching its hypocritical
attack on a scientific book, because its geology did not
accord with that which the moderns have falsely
ascribed, by substituting present knowledge for an -
cient ignorance, to MOSES. We know no works for
the bulk of the people which have been more success-
ful, or which deserve a wider circulation, than the
productions of the Messrs. CHAMBERS, who Must be
seriously injured in a pecuniary point of view by the
malicious hypocrisy of the Tory Journalist. That,
however, will be beneficial to the public, for when
tradesmen begin to suffer in their property by un-
founded charges, there is great reason to hope that
they will be driven to examine closely the authority on
they are made.

The Office for Metropolitain Public Carriages in
the Adelphi is now opened, and Mr. HA RVEY, M. P.,
attends every day to transact the business of his new
situation. We are not amongst those who have a
high opinion of the Act which Mr. HARVEY is to
carry into execution ; hut if his great cleverness and
great assiduity can make it work well, the public may
anticipate most successful results.

The following official dispatch announcing the down-
fall of the OFALIA Cabinet, and the re-construction of
the Spanish Ministry, was communicated to the French
Government on Tuesday :

" MADRID, SEPT. 7.

" The Ministry is changed and constituted as follows:

" The Duke de Frias, President of the Council.
" M. Ruiz de la Vega, Scn,tor, Minister of Justico.
" Marquis de Montevirgen, Deputy, Finance Minister, par

" Marquis de Valgarnera, Senator, Minister of the Interior,
par interim.
"Gen,r4l Aidarria (Aldhama?) par interim Minister of
War and Marine."

The only name of any note in this list is that of
the new President of the Council. His colleagues
must be bold men to undertake the Government of
Spain with such resources and at such a crisis. But
i❑ Spain as elsewhere— •
" Fools rush whera angels fear to tread."

In the Moniteur of Tuesday, we find the follow-
ing telegraphic dispatch from Bayonne, dated the
9th instant :

All the Christino army was united on the 6th upon the
Arga for the purpose of marching upon Estella ; Espartero
entered Oteiza the same day after a alight skirmish, and Alaix
entered Arauqui without striking a single blow. Don Carlos
set off from Onate on the sth for Villafranca."

Our commentary upon this dispatch shall be con-
fined to a single sentence. When ESPARTERO
has either taken Estella, or been driven from before
it, we shall attach some importance to his prepara-
tions to attack it—but not before.

Th. subjoined extracts from the Paris Journals in-
clude all the news they contain of any general inte-
rest. 'We may observe at the outset that the two first
paragraphs refer to a report set afloat by the Debats—
namely, that Prince Louis NAPOLEON had made
an offer of his sword to the Emperor of RUSSIA,
but was refused any command in the Imperial army :
The Siecle notices the improbability of Prince Louis Na-
poleon's having solicited admission into the military service of
Russia. " The calumny," observes this journal, "is too gross
to obtain the slightest credit. It may be conceived that the
Duke de Bourdeaux would solicit favours of the Autocrat, as
by so doing he would not commit himself with his partisans,
who are the ardent admirers of Russia; but that a Bonaparte,
who could found an appeal to France only on revolutionary
principles and ideas, should have offered his services to Ni-
cholas is not to be imagined, unless we can admit the sup-
position that the Prince is out of his senses. The Govern.
ment should be consistent in its accusations against Louis
Napoleon. If he aspire to play the part of pretender to the
throne, and if he be as formidable as we may imagine from
the precautions adopted against him, he is at least aware of
the consequences of his actions. If, on the other hand, he be
as destitute of common sense as the Government wish to re-
present him, France may leave him in peace, for he is not a
dangerous enemy."
The Courrier Francais can perceive little to justify the
triumph of its contemporary, the Debuts, at the refusal of the
, Emperor of Russia to admit Prince Louis Napoleon into the
ranks of the Russian army. Should such a refusal have really
come from his Imperial Majesty, this journal attributes it more
to the Autocrat's regard for his own interest, and the safety
of his own empire than to his desire of satisfying the feelings of
the French Cabinet. " Nicholas," observes the Courrier,
" is not ignorant of the immense influence exercised through-
out all Europe by the name of Napoleon, and we can perfectly
understand his reluctance to place the heir of that name in the
admitte tod as all
ranks of his army. In one respect his refusal will be fortunate
for the Government,
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him would have been remonstrance.or representation against
its forehead in the dust."
before whom the diplomacy unavailingoigFrance is mute, and prostrates
According to a letter of the 6th
BLOCKADZ Of, 31.CMC0.—
Cyclops and Vukain ; and
departure of the bomb-ships
inst. from Toulon an order has' arrived in that port for the im-
mediate