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own religion—their own sacred creed, and tc
vote arrainst their GOD as well as againq their
country. The appeal of the Minister at Wai-
riilgton has, therefore, come just in time, and
only in time, to save the Wesleyans of Walsall
from voting to their own perdition.

The lesson should not be lost on the electors
of Canterbury and Surrey. Let no honest man,
no religious man, no Dissenter, vote in any place
for a Tory and a bread-taxer, unless lie think if
right to honour plunder, to sanctify irreligion
and coerce all men into obedience to the cold.
formal, faith-killing ritual of the State priest-
hood.

Our accounts from all these three guar.

ters are most encouraging. At Walsall the
Tories are angry and full of complaints.
They begin to see that they are not likely to
succeed. They are afraid to trust their own voters,
and, according to a Manchester Paper, they
prevent the residents of Bloxwich, who have
votes, from communicating with Walsall, lest
they should catch the prevailing enthusiasm.
The bread-taxers are, in fact, so unpopular at
Walsall, that they dare not show themselves in
the streets ; and the same unpopularity would be
generally experienced. A Walsall elector Who
votes for GLADSTONE will be hooted in almost
every town of the empire. We are not sure
that a similar fate will not attend the elec-
tors of Canterbury who vote for SMYTHE,
though they have not been so directly
appealed to as the electors of Walsall. They
are, however, as much concerned in the issue.
To vote for SMYTHE, is to vote for the accursed
bread-tax—a tax which takes from the poor to
give to the rich—which extorts bread from the

half-starved industrious labourer to bestow it
on the idle landowner's hounds—which gives the
solemn sanction of the law to plunder, and honour:,
greediness and dishonesty. To the electors of
Surrey, we need address no such remarks, for
Mr. ALCOCK, a landlord, has undertaken to con-
vince them that the Corn-law is injurious as it is
dishonest. When, in fact, was dishonesty other-
wise than injurious? But to the electors of Wal-
sall, Canterbury, and Surrey, we say that the
peace and happiness of the community are at
stake, and will be irretrievably lost, we are afraid,
if they return to Parliament three bread-
taxers. The suffering people of this country will
not, and dare not, submit much longer to the
ruinous bread-tax ; and it depends on the electors
whether that scandalous violation of all moral
principle, of all honesty and justice, shall be
peaceably abrogated, or be the parent of a destruc-
tive revolution. Electors of Walsall, Canter-
bury, and Surrey, your country adjures you to
give an honest and conscientious vote.

The arrogant character of the Tories is well dis-
played by Lord STANLEY. No sooner did Lord
MoneETH give notice of a motion for a Regis-
tration Bill for Ireland, than a friend of Lord
STANLEY, in his name, gave notice of a motion
by the Noble Lord on the same subject to precede
Lord MORPTII'S. He is determined therefore to
take the matter out of the hands of Government.
He and his friend have been hooted as it were
by the bulk of a nation, but they are insensible
to the ignominy of a nation's hate, and ask to be
hooted again.
With a self-conceit which is perfectly
indomitable, which has over and over
again been convicted of extreme foolishness,
the Ultra-Protestant bigots insist on forg-
ing new chains for Catholic Ireland. The
Protestant landlords are not, according to
them, disliked enough for ages of persecution,
and they are determined to rouse against them
the concentrated hatred of the people. They are
too easy in their possessions, according to Lord
STANLEY and Mr. EMERSON TENNENT, and the
people are to be exasperated in their behalf;
that their enjoyment of life and property may be
made more precarious. They have already so
used their right of property, as in many cases to
make themselves hated; Lord STANLEY, by giving
them more political power, and a more certain
means of harassing their tenants, is determined
that they shall be universally detested. He is
probably envious, and wishes all to be reduced to
the same level. His love of coercion has made
the Irish detest him, and his Bill seems adapted
to make every landlord share his fate. It may
be natural in him to wish that they should be re-
duced to his condition, but we see no reason
why the empire should be convulsed to gratify
the malignity or love of despotism in any man.
The community can well spare Lord STANLEY—
it cannot dispense with peace.

The debates in the French Chamber, on the
project of fortifying Paris, present the singular
spectacle of the genius of NAPOLEON still domi-
neering over France, and fixing, by the hands of
such revolutionists as M. TRIERS, and such old
soldiers as Marshal SOU LT, the chains of military
despotism over her young and growing liberties•
By the authority of NAPOLEON, and by acts
drawn from his history, do the ci-decant Republi-
cans justify the fortifications of Paris. His
words are thus quoted by M. THIERS :
" But whatever care, whatever activity is employed in
reforming the ai my, in re-organising the defence of the
frontiers, it is to be feared that if hostilities began before
autumn, the combined armies of Europe might be much
more numerous than the French, and it would then be
under the walls of Paris or Lyons that the fate of
the empire would be decided. These great cities were
formerly fortified. Napoleon had frequently thought of for-
tifying the heights round Paris. especially at his return
from the campaign of Austerlitz; the fear of alarming the
inhabitants, and the events which succeeded, prevented '
him accomplishing this project. He thought that a great
capital it the county of the elite of the population, the
centre of opinion, the depot of everything, and that it is
the greatest contradiction to leave so important a point
without sufficient defence. At the period of misfortunes
States are frequently short of soldiers, but never of men
capable of defending the interior : 50,000 National
Guards, 2,000 to 3,000 artillery-men, will defend a ca-
pital against an army of 300,000 men. These 50,000 men
in the field, unless soldiers commanded by experienced
officers, will be routed by a charge of a few thousand
horse. Paris might have owed her safety to her walls,
ten or twelve times. In 1814, had it been fortified and
capable of resisting but eight days, what influence would
not that have had upon the events of the world. If, in
1805, Vienna had been fortified, the battle of Ulm would
not have decided the war; if, in 1806, Berlin bad been
fortified, the army beaten at Jena might have rallied
there, and the Russian army would have joined it; if, in
1808, Madrid hed been Fortified, the French army, after
victories of Espinosa, Tudela, Burgos, and the Somo.
Sierra, had not marched upon that capital, leaving be-
hind Salamanca and Valladolid, and the English and
Spanish army." He continued :—What Napoleon said
in these lines he did in 1815, before Paris, and at that
period he announced in the Moniteur that the field-
works should, at a future period, be replaced by perrna
neat works.

All the examples of capitals taken and empires
perilled or overturned are borrowed, then, from
the history of NAPOLEON, and Paris is to be forti-
fied to save it from the fate which the French
inflicted on Vienna and Austria, on Berlin and
Prussia, on Madrid and Spain. The French now
propose to put themselves to immense expense,
take immense trouble, and inflict vast injury on
themselves, to guarantee themselves against
being served as they under NAPOLEON served
other nations. What a wonderful and use-
ful law of mental association is that, thus
influencing the policy of nations, as it is felt
by individuals, which makes the cunning,
the dishonest, or the aggressive, always anticipate,
and always dread, retaliation. Paris is to be for-
tified, lest France should be paid in the NAPO-
LEON coin, which the French so much admired.
Her pleasant vices are thus made the instruments
of her punishment. The chalice she poisoned is
' commended to her own lips. The delight expe-
rienced in victories over other nations now re-
turns in alarm to herself. A s the veneration fir
BONA PARTE has revived, so apprehension has
increased ; and, in bringing him back to the In-
valides, France seems already to have brought
on herself many of the evils of his iron despotism,
without the possibility of reviving the glories of
his living genius.

We have received the whole of the Paris
Journals of Friday and Saturday. They are still
occupied with the interminable debate in the
Chamber of Deputies on the Fortifications Bill.
A brief but sufficiently explicit report of the