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The French Papers contain the important
declaration of M. PERIER on the subject of the
hereditary Peerage, which, as will be seen
by his announcement in the Chamber of
Deputies, he proposes to abolish, though
the nomination of Peers for life is to belong
wholly to the KING, and the number is to
be unlimited. M. PERIER confessed himself
averse to the abolition of the hereditary tenure
of the Peerage, but bowed to public opinion on
the subject.

Private letters from Lisbon, by the mail this
morning,,bring accounts that the French Ad-
miral has sent from the Tagus the Portuguese
ships of war, of various sizes, to the number of
eight. This took place on the 13th of August,
and on the following day the whole of the French
squadron were to depart, with the exception of a
large frigate and a corvette, for Brest and Tou-
lon. It was feared, on the departure of the
French, that Don MIGUEL would renew his
imprisonments and cruelties.

The Paris express mentions the important
fact that the cholera has at length broken out in
Vienna, and that thousands are leaving the city.
Though we are grieved at the idea that the in-
nocent should suffer for the guilty, yet we cannot
but look on this frightful visitation as a just retri-
bution for the conduct of Austria towards Poland.
The same authority states, that rumours were
abroad that new disturbances had broken out at
Romagna, which would be the pretext for the
reentry of the Austrians into the Roman States.

The Berlin and Hamburg Papers give most
dispiriting accounts of an insurrection that has
lately broken out among the populace, at the
instigation of the Patriotic Club at Warsaw,
and which is said to have had the effect of acce-
lerating the march of the Russian banditti upon
Warsaw. As this intelligence springs from an
apocryphal source, we shall wait for more au-
thentic particulars. The news of an engagement
between the two armies may be expected every
hour.

There have been few Cabinets in France more
inclined, from supposed motives of interest, to
cultivate a good understanding with Great
Britain than that of M. CASINIIR PERIER,
and we are willing to allow to that Cabinet the
credit, if such it be, of seeking to identify its
policy with that of England throughout the
whole of the transactions connected with the
establishment of LEOPOLD on the Belgic throne,
and the protection of Belgium against the Dutch
invasion. How durable such good understand-
ing may be depends, in a great measure, upon
the stability of the PERIER Cabinet, which is,
therefore, a point of considerable interest to this
country.
The leading principles of the PERIER Ad-
ministration, are—at home, the conservation of
things as they are, or rather as they were before
the revolution of last year, with little modifi-
cation beyond what may be necessary to
maintain the sovereignty of the Citizen King,—
and abroad, the preservation of peace at almost
any price at which it can be purchased. The
Ministers are men of much political experience,
abound in liberal professions, and, in so far as
they are desirous of guarding their country against
a repetition of political convulsions, are deserving
of support by good citizens. We are not called
upon to decide whether they, upon the whole,
merit what share of confidence they possess ;
but we cannot avoid entertaining the strongest

doubt of the permanence of a power in France,
which is unsupported by the full force of the
national opinion. The speeches of the Ministers
on the address shew clearly that they are either
ignorant of, or wilfully blind to, the objects
for which the people effected the Revolution of
last summer. Those objects may be expressed to be
the recovery of liberty and equality, as established
by the constituent assembly in 1791. The
people were determined to have a struggle for
the power of governing themselves, and for the
putting an end to a system under which not the
three hundred and eightieth part of the popula-
tion enjoyed the elective franchise—under which
existed a Peerage whose degrading subserviency
placed it in opposition to the public interest—
under which the Mayors and ministers of justice
were universally the creatures of the Govern-
ment instead of the nominees of the people—
under which the liberty of public instruction and
the freedom of exercising trades were alike cir-
cumscribed—under which an oppressive inter.
ference of the Clergy in temporal matters was
not duly ccntrolled—under which, in short, the
people daily saw their interest sacrificed for
the benefit of the order of placemen with
which the Government was surrounded. It
can hardly be possible that the details of the
popular grievances under CHARLES X. can be
unknown to those who were the popular cham-
pions ; and yet it is only a few days since M.
CASIMIR PERIER emphatically declared, that
the Revolution of July was made solely to pre-
serve the integrity of the Charter. The integ-
rity of the Charter, indeed ! of that Charter of
which, to go no further, a hereditary Peerage
forms one of the most essential ingredients !
No, M. PERIER. You will find, sooner or later,
that the tri-coloured flag is the ensign of liberty
and equality, of the principles of the constituent
Assembly, and not of the Charter.

The commercial classes in France are almost
in despair, because they see that the opposition
to the Ministry is too strong to admit a hope of
its stability, however desirable its continuance in
office may appear. The Carlists and Bona-
partists make common cause with the Liberals,
who desire extensive changes in the system of
Government, and who labour for the social ame-
lioration of the lower orders. The Press is so
far from supporting the Ministers, that out of
sixteen daily papers published in Paris, exclusive
of the Moniteur, twelve are in opposition of
greater or less violence. Even the place-hunters
do not scruple to intimate their distrust of
the permanence of the order of things which
they are worshipping. Why, then should we,
in this country, be so puerile, or so hypocritical,
as to dissemble the opinion we entertain, that
the " juste milieu" stands on the foundation of
the most precarious durability ?
But, it will be said, the good sense and pro-
perty of the French nation will, as it ought, be
on the side of a Ministry whose first care is the
preservation of peace. The war-party is, how-
ever, very strong, comprising all the young men,
and, we suspect, the young women too, besides
all those who are in want of employment, and
see no other means of getting it. We have no
sympathy with those vvho desire war for its own
sake, and should stigmatize as wickedly profli.-
gate any Government that should suffer itself to
be led into hostilities, from any such considera-
tion as the popularity of war. Nevertheless, we
cannot help saying that the frequent declamations
about the value of peace, which we hear from M.
PERIER, and some of his colleagues, do appear to
us extremely common-place and unmeaning. An
opinion has gradually and steadily gained the
belief of discerning persons all over the Conti.
nent, that the war of principles, which is now
going on in different countries, as it were in the
guerilla manner, will, before very long, become
so general as to divide Europe in a regular con-
test between despotism and liberty. It is not an
uncommon impression, that the British and
French Governments are the dupes of the Nor-
thern Powers, and, however this may be, it is
certain that plans have been formed destructive
of the very name of freedom in the West of
Europe. Under such circumstances, and with
the prospect of an irruption of barbarians into
their country before their eyes, it may well be
doubted, whether " Peace at all prices" be the
fittest phrase that could proceed from the
mouth of a French Minister. Much more may
it excite wonder, that hopes should have been
held out to the Revolutionists of Italy and Spain,
the non-fulfilment of which has taught those
brave men how to value the honour and good
faith of twice revolutionized France. But, to
say nothing of broken promises, it seems to us
that the phrase, " Preservation of Peace," can
hardly be applicable to the present state of
Europe. Is there peace in unhappy Poland ?
Is there peace in Belgium, in Italy, in Portugal,
and we will even add in France herself? Are
men's minds at peace in any one nation of the
continent ? Are not the elements of war in the
breast of every man in Europe to whom liberty is
dear ? Do not the despots stand with their
swords drawn—nay, are not those swords
already died deep in blood ? It is ludicrous to
talk of preserving what does not exist ; and al-
though the recovery of the peace of Europe be
so great an object, as to be the $11177111911 60111011
of the exertions of all good men, it seems ne-
vertheless an absurdity to suppose that it is to be
attained by the French Government putting it-
self in the position of sleep, and crying out
peace, whilst its foreign enemies are preparing
for war. M. PERIER injures his own influence
in thus weakening that of his country, and
whilst he cannot secure the confidence of those
classes to whom peace is peculiarly desirable,
draws upon himself the odium of that more en-
lightened class by whom public opinion is chiefly
directed.

We are far from wishing to see certain Mem-
hers of the extreme gauche in power in France,
nor are we insensible to the personal worth of
M. PERIER and some of his colleagues. We
do not pretend to divine what sort of Govern-
ment would follow their fall, but we never can
believe that a Ministry which is a contradiction
to the decided tendency of events in France, can

possibly lead for any length of time that count 6
always so difficult to govern, and never, perlor
so much so as at the present moment.
discussion of the question of the Peerage /ll'
soon afford us an opportunity of recurring °
this subject ; in the meantime, we had alai
°
forgotten to remark that M. PERIER was al'
feated on an amendment to the address relato4
to public instruction, and that he has since bed
beaten again on a point relating to the elect°
qualification.