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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1849.

" Aide toi et Dieu t'aidera." The continual fulfi -
merit and the frequent recollection of this important
maxim is at once a duty and a consolation. An anti.
date alike to idleness and despair, it enjoins upon us
all the necessity of labour, and promises for that
labour a meet reward. This maxim is now especially
suggested to our notice by the approaching solemnity
of to-morrow. To-morrow the whole nation are
about to do collectively what almost every member of
it has already done individually—to return thanks to
PROVIDENCE for the abatement of the pestilence.
Many persons, we are aware, regard the ceremony as
an idle form, and others again look upon it
as the only thing needful. Both extremes
are, in our opinion, erroneous. The Thanks-
giving will, in most cases, be anything but heartless,
Will not the father, whose household has_ been passed
over by the destroying angel—will not the mother,
who can yet press all her little ones to ber bosom—
will not those happy few, who mourn no vacant place
in the circle of friendship ;—will not these offer
something more than a verbal thanksgiving ? Nay,
even those who have wept over the victims of
cholera, even they who can best appreciate its
terrible puwer, will rejoice that at length
the plague is stayed—if some have been taken,
many have been left. Let us be grateful then.
But, in order to prove our gratitude to be sincere,
and our prayers not a hollow mockery, let us be zealous
in doing our part, and in using the means with which
PROVIDENCE has blessed us. Such is our practice in
other cases. The most worldly will pray at the
couch of a suffering friend, but the most pious will
not refuse to employ the aid of medicine. The hus-
bandman trusts to the sun and shower to ripen his
crops, yet he is careful to prepare the ground and to
Sow the seed. While we have lips to utter praises
and prayers let us remember we have hands to work.
Theretore let no one who to-morrow will kneel be-
tween the porch and the altar, and offer up his thanks-
givings, return home satisfied, and think he has per-
formed all his duty.. On the contrary, be will only have
incurred a heavier responsibility. Whatever the
ch.,lera may not hay e been, one thing it certainly was
—a lesson. As death, the death of their own first-
born children, was alone able to wrest from the
Egyptians compliance with the just demands of
so it has required a fearful warning to
the oppressed,
make the cry of the suffering find a hearing amid the
din and the turmoil of business and revelry, which
drowns all other sounds in this rich and rejoicing
capita:. Let not us, Christians, be more obdurate
thaw the Egypti-ins of old. The lesson has been a
'severe one—let us show that we have profited by it.
It is a duty incumbent on every one—every one
is called upon to do his best, and of course
that best will differ materially in different circum-
stances. More especially are these remarks appro-
priate to those who are even yet making money from
the sources of corruption. Many of them (we do
not wish to speak invidiously) are, perhaps, respectable,

church-going people, yet what profanation it will
be if those hands which are ordinarily busied in
sowing the seeds of death and gathering the profits of
corruption, are to-morrow held up in gratitude to
Heaven for arresting an evil they are doing their best
to propagate ! Again, what mockery, what
horrible hypocrisy it will seem if the grateful
anthems be chaunted in those churches whose
graveyards have done and are yet doing
such fatal service to the pestilence ! Yes, let us be
thankful to Heaven, but in GOD'S name let us be in
earnest. If sickness and sorrow and pestilence and
death be evils—evils worthy of being mentioned in
our addresses to OMNIPOTENCE, then they are surely
worthy of human thought and human care. If the
matter be sufficiently important that the churches
should be opened for a special service in consequence,
then assuredly it is worth while that the grave-
yards should be closed. The Government have
ordered a day to be kept as a festival ; it re-
mains to be seen whether they will be
equally ready to enforce anti- cholera reforms—
whether, for instance (one example out of a hundred),
they will take off the iniquitous window-tax, which
excludes light and air from the noisome cellar. We
might fill up many columns, and yet leave the
enumeration incomplete. The subject has, however,
been so often reiterated of late that recapitulation is
almost needless. We trust sincerely that the holiday
of to-morrow will impress upon every thinking brain
and feeling heart the imperative duty imposed upon
them, namely, that while they thank GOD for His
mercy, they must (more than ever) be mindful of
their own duty. Among the various texts of the
many sermons that will be preached to-morrow,
there will be few more appropriate to the occasion
than the maxim above-mentioned—" Help yourself,
and then Heaven will help you." And
few among the chaunts composed for the occasion
will be so well-timed as the American poet's always
apposite " Psalm of Life."
" Trust no future, howe'er pleasant,
Let the dead past bury its dead,
Act, act in the living present,
Heart within and God o'erhead."

The able and caustic rebuff of Lord LONDONDERRY,
in reply to the Orange circular, issued by the village
conclave, held at Dundram, has, it would seem, ren-
dered very irate that little nest of insignificant bigots.
They are very indignant that a nobleman, of his
Lordship's political tendencies, should not join in ex-
pressions of condolence with the dismissed Orange-
men, and should refuse the sanction of his high name
to a manifesto condemnatory of the Irish Govern-
ment, for acts which have won the approval of every
reasonable and honest man in the British empire.
We are not surprised that the terms of dignified
rebuke in which his Lordship's admirable letter is
couched should be deeply and keenly felt. The con-
'elusiveness of his reasoning, the sound principles of
loyalty and Christian feeling which he enunciates,
must be very distasteful to men who could indulge in
triumphant rejoicings at the recollection of the
murderous scenes of Dolly's Brae—men who have
proved themselves more remorseless than the un-
civilized and vengeful savage. The wild un•
taught Indian will gloat over the bloody
trophies won from the invaders of his woods and wilds;
he wields his tomahawk and scalping-knife against
the pale-faced usurper of his hunting grounds, who
speaks not his language nor worships his gods. But
the Ulster Orangeman will shoot down the innocent
child, the feeble old woman, and the poor being that
even the ferocious savage would have spared. The
idiot (!) meets no mercy at his hands. To keep alive
the recollection of an unjust and effete Ascendancy,
he would shed the blood of his fellow-man--the
inhabitant of the same island—the worshipper of the
same GOD—the believer in the same redemption.
How humiliating to our common humanity to reflect
upon such atrocities ! The merciless red-skin is
outsavaged in ferocity by these vile factionists, yet
it is to sympathise with wretches who glory in deeds
like these, that the generous and sober-thinking
people of England are appealed to. But we glory to say
the only response that appeal has received is one of
deep and universal execration.
In all the sympathetic meetings which have been
held by the Irish Orangemen—in all the addresses
and resolutions which they have issued, has there
been one word of sorrow or remorse for the innocent
blood that was shed? Oh, no 1 These revolting
horrors have evoked a song of triumph from every
bigot in that wretched land. lo Triumphe ! has
been sung by every insane fanatic, from M'ILWAINE,
of Belfast, to the notorious TRESHAM GREGG, of
Dublin.

There is a chivalrous disposition in generous
minds to sympathise with the unfortunate, and we
can conceive in how painful a position many of the
high-minded gentlemen of Ireland have been placed
towards Lord RODEN by the indiscretion of that
nobleman's Orange sympathisers. Many of the
most respected and respectable amongst the gentry,
nobility, and clergy of Ireland, who appreciate the
amiable private qualities of that nobleman, and
whose approval would, we believe, be more valued by
him than " a whole theatre" of the furious fanatics with
whom he has the misfortune to have formed so unholy
an alliance, have been coerced to give public expres-
sion to their condemnation of the part taken by
his Lordship in the unfortunate scenes at
Castlewellan—scenes, which these wretched bigots who
countenanced them should, if they were affected
by the ordinary feelings of humanity, endeavour
to hide for ever in the darkness of undisturbed obli-
vion, scenes which none possessed of the smallest
sensibility can think on without pain, and which the
absurd and wicked agitation of the " sympathisers" is
every day exhibiting in more hideous colours. " Quem
Deus vult perdere, ille prius dementat." The folly
of these Orangemen will, we feel assured, soon bring
their wicked career to a close. The spirit of malig-
nant intolerance manifested in their addresses and
resolutions is arraying against them all the worth and
respectability, the talent and virtue of the land. Even
in the county of Down, the present headquarters of
discord and bigotry, the factionists have been able to
secure the sanction or sympathy of but a very incon-
siderable section of the landed proprietors and gentry ;
indeed, with the exception of Lord DOWNSRIRE and
a few others, who possessed some property and in-
fluence, all the other sympathisers are the mere
dregs of the Orange Lodges. They have to be
sure KEOWN, the Orange High-Sheriff, and by what
legerdemain he wriggled himself into this high office
we cannot well conceive. It is one of the strongest
evidences of the unhealthy social condition of Ireland
to see men like this, of small fortune and less influ-
ence, chosen to fill places of trust and honour. He
is, howevever, an Orangeman—the brother-in-law of
the Grand Master, WILLIAM BEER!, and the protege
of the Deputy Grand Master of Ireland ; perhaps
these qualifications had some influence in his appoint-
ment. But even Sheriff KEOWN, with all his vapouring,
had not the courage to call a public meeting in the
county town. How gladly, how exultingly, would
he have done this, if he were not well aware that
the sense of the country would be against him. No,
he knew he dare not do this, and, therefore, con-
tented himself by inviting a few fools and bigots
to a hole-and- corner meeting in a paltry vil-
lage. The furiou; resolutions and addresses con-
cocted on the occasion have been circulated through
the country, and have received well• merited rebukes
from many of the talented and Christian noblemen
and gentlemen to whom they were addressed.
Sheriff KEOWN appears particularly furious against
Lord LONDONDERRY for his crushing reply to the
Dundrum Circulars—a reply which is,, creditable to
that nobleman's understanding, and does honour to
his loyalty and patriotism. KEOWN has stepped forth
on the occasion as a candidate for literary fame. The
mantle of WILLIAM BEERS appears to have fallen upon
him ; indeed he seems likely to outdo that meek
gentleman in silly petulance and unreasoning bigotry.
He attacks Lord LONDONDERRY in terms of vulgar
personality, which that gallant nobleman can well
I afford to despise. KEOWN'S logic is as absurd
" his presumption ; he says, "I do not believe but
you are seeking Wbig favours, because you refused to
attend a county meeting against the rate in aid."
KEOWN thinks his Lordship politically dishonest be-
, cause he will not narrow his patriotism to the Black
North. He says—
You call the declaration that a premeditated insult
has been attempted on the Protestant interest in Ireland,
under the authority of our Protestant Queen, 6mischie-
vous and wicked. I regard it as true and necessary."
Can anything be conceived more monstrously ab-
• surd and ,presumptuous than this—a paltry squireen

having the folly to place his stupid contradiction in
contrast with the sound reasoning of a highminded,
venerable, and experienced nobleman ? Lord LON-
DONDERRY must feel crushed by the weight of
KEOWN'S ipse dinit! lie then repeats the
dull nonsense about Lord CLARENDON and
the POPE, the Bishopric of Limerick,
and, " though last not least," in the Sheriff's own
words, "a Jesuitical, back-stairs letter, written by
one of the favoured creed," &c. The writer of that
letter is one whose blameless life Mr. KEOWN would
do well to imitate. Mr. FITZSDXON'S public cha-
racter has ever been consistent and manly, while in
private life he is respected for his amiable qualities
and the practice of the social virtues. Mr. KNOWN
would drive Lord CLARENDON from the government
of Ireland. We have no doubt he would, we have
no doubt his vile faction would plunge the country
into% civil war to carry out their malignant passions.
How we wish our voice, our words, our advice, could
reach those deluded persons; we would appeal to
them in the name of humanity, of truth, and of
Christian feeling, to offer up their dark
passions at the altar of their bleeding
country, and unite in peace and love with
the good and wise in their endeavours to improve the
moral, social, and physical condition of a miserable
people, to aid the Government in establishing peace
and order, and thus to secure for themselves the
respect of man and the blessing of GOD, instead of
being a shame and a disgrace to the civilized world,
a foul blot on the page of history. We cannot hope
that our advice will be heeded by these unfortunate
and misguided persons, but we would earnestly call
upon all the rational and Christian men that, from
folly, or fashion, or early prejudices, may have joined
the Orange body, to come out from amongst them.
We would-call upon Lord RODEN and all others, who
can have no sympathy with the violators of the law
and the shedders of innocent blood, to abandon their
mad orgies and insane processions, and thus give
practical lessons of peace and love.
We would implore Lord RODEN to withdraw the
sanction of his high name from those nurseries of evil
passions, the Orange lodges of Ireland—in them the
Irish Protestant youth are indoctrinated in principles
of ill will and uncharitableness :against their fellow-
men and fellow-Christians; and if Lord RODEN will
persist in countenancing such unhallowed confedera-
tions, we trust the Irish Government will take
efficient steps to put an end to secret societies in
reland.

rHE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic has accorded an
amnesty, by virtue of which 700 of the insurgents of
June, 1848, at present detained at Belle Isle, will be
set at liberty. This important fact was announced
to the Assembly by the Minister of the Interior
during the course of the sitting on Monday. Shortly
after the PRESIDENT had taken the chair the discus-
sion commenced on the Bill introduced by the late
Ministry, authorising the transportation of the in-
surgents of June to Algeria. During the course of
the discussion—

M. Ferdinand Barrot, Minister of the Interior,
said that he should apprise the Assembly of a fact
which would materially modify the Bill. The Pre-
sident of the Republic, in virtue of the right con-
ferred on him by the decree of the 27th of June,
1848, had ordered the liberation of the greatest
number of the:insurgents contained in Belle Isle. He
only excepted those who had already been convicted
of crimes or offences by courts of justice previous to
the period of their arrest, and those who by the
violence of their conduct since their arrest exposed
themselves to a just and severe chastisement on
account of their spirit of revolt. The exceptions
amounted to about 500. The first consequence of
chat aat would be a considerable reduction in the
credit demanded to carry the project into effect. The
Government, relying on the efficacy of the existing
laws, and confiding,in the measures it intended to sub-
mit to the Assembly, answered for the maintenance of
tranquillity. At the moment when he resolved strictly
to enforce, in the name of the safety of the Republic
and of the entire society, the execution of the laws
of repression, the President did not hesitate to show
himself generous. As respected the establishment of
the penitentiary colony, a place situated near Bathua
had been chosen, but the neighbouring country being
now in a state of fermentation in consequence of the
revolt of some Arab tribes, all the troops disposable
nad taken the field, and none could be spared for the
defence of the new establishment. He accordingly
proposed to refer the project to the committee in
order to be amended.

M. Crouseilhes, the reporter, having concurred in
the opinion of the Minister, the Bill was sent back to
the committee.

61. Rouher, Minister ofJustice, next rose and de
posited on the table a Bill on transportation.

It was as follows :

" Article 1. In every case where the penalty of death,
Abolished by the sth article of the Constitution, is
applicable, that penalty shall be replaced by transporta-
tion and confinement in a citadel situated out of the
continental territory of the Republic, and fixed by law.
l'he citadel of Zaoudze, near the island of Mayotte,
shall serve for that destination.—(Loud interruptions
on the Left.)
" Art. 2. The Island of PADIRLIZI and the Marquises
Islands shall serve for the transportation of convicts
sentenced to the penalty mentioned in the 17th article
of the Penal Code.

" Art. 3. In case the jury should bring in a verdict
with extenuating circumstances, if the penalty pro-
nounced.by the law be that of transportation in a citadel,
the Court may apply either the penalty of transports-
don or imprisonment.
" Art. 4. Condemnations to transportation shall not
involve civil death, but merely civil degradation.
" Art. 5. The Government shall determine the mode
of employing the convicts who should demand employ-
ment, and provide for the maintenance of those who
bhould not be able to live by their own resources.

_
" Art. 6. The present law is only applicable to crimes
committed subsequently to its promulgation."
This proposition has excited the anger of the oppo-
sition journals of all shades.

The trials at Versailles were concluded on Monday.
The counsel for the prisoners persevered in their
refusal to plead unless they were permitted by the
Court to adopt their own line of defence. Other
couusel were officially appointed by the Court to
defend the prisoners. At the sitting of the
Court on Monday, M. Moussoir, of the Ver-
sailles bar, one of the counsel so appointed,
rose and announced that in consequence of the ex-
pressed wish of the accused that they should not be
defended, the counsel appointed by the Court felt it
incumbent on them to abstain from taking any
further part in the proceedings.
The President declared the pleadings closed, and
summed up the evidence.
The jury then retired to consider of their verdict,
and yesterday morning they returned it, acquitting
Colonel Forestier, National Guards ; Louriou, R.;
Angelot ; Delahay ; Berme, R.; Verion ; A. Bureau;
Maillard ; Merliot ; Lemaitre ; Achintre ; and finding
the others guilty.
The following are the sentences pronounced by
the Court. The letter R is to mark such as are
representatives of the people in the Legislative As-
sembly :
To DEPORTATION—CoI. Guinard, R. ; Deville,
R.; Gambun, R.; Bach, R.; Schmitz, R. ; Paya;
['jibes, R. ; Vautier ; Langlais ; Fayalle, R.; Haigue,
R.; Lamazieres ; Dufelix ; Sergeant Commissaire,
R.; Lebon (Napoleon) ; Andre ; Chipron.
To IMPRISONMENT—Suchet, Fraboulet, Maubue.

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These sentences are universally stigmatised as far
too severe, and the prisoners are regarded as martyrs.
General BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS left Paris for
Marseilles on Sunday evening last, accompanied by
his two aides-de-camp, Major DIEN and Capt. FAY.
The committee appointed by the Legislative As-
sembly to institute an inquiry into the condition of
the French navy held its first sitting on Monday.
M. DUFAURE was appointed President, MM. DARU
and BENOIST D'AZY Vice-Presidents, and MM.
COLLAS and DAIIIRAEL secretaries.

A search for firearms was made by the police on
Monday last in Paris at the residence of M. HEaVE,
one of the editors of the Voix du Peuple. None,
however, were discovered.
Some sensation was occasioned in Paris by the
appearance in the Journal des Debats of what may be
called the manifesto of the Monarchical, or as they
delight to term themselves the Moderate party, in
which it is declared that the moderate party consists
of the Legitimatists, the Orleanists, and the Impe-
rialists, to the :exclusion of the Republicans ; that
party. is advised to hold together until the time
fixed for revising the Constitution shall arrive,
when they may upset the Republic, and is re-
commended in the mean time to adopt the STAN-
LEY policy of obstruction to all measures
tending to ameliorate the condition of the people
in order to prevent the Republic from con-
solidating itself. The Siecle comments on this
manifesto, and, in order to show how much more
liberal the Republican regime is, supposes HENRY V.
to be on the throne, and a journal to publish an analo-
gous definition of the Moderate party, running thus:—
The Moderate party is composed of three grand
opinions—the opinion Orleanist, the opinion Im-
perialist, and the Republican opinion. Would not the
Procureur- General, it asks, be at once let loose upon
the offending journal ? Again, :it supposes the case
of the Count DR PARIS, with the regency of the
Prince DE JoINvILLE, and puts the hypothetical case
of a Journal defining the Moderate party to be com-