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THI-41 SUN, " LONDON.( TFIURSDAY, DECEMBER 30; 1841.

into despotism. They bawl with one discordant-
' throat for coercion to enforce submission to bad
and barbarous laws. They aim at Imperial rule.
They would exact for a PEEL, supported by his
motley crew of monopolists, the reverence which
was voluntarily paid to a BONAPARTE at the head
of his legions, though they can neither endow
the blind, shuffling gin-horse of a politician
with the talents of a great man, nor invest his
selfish CALIBAN followers with the attributes of
a victorious soldiery. They demand for a mer-
cenary aristocracy and a selfish priesthood the
consideration which is due alone to self-sacrificing
patriotism. The people do not agree with the
Tories; the Press questions the utility of the laws
which the aristocracy have passed to enrich
themselves, and stigmatises obedience to such
laws as a co-partnery in crime. The Tories,
therefore, like the mistaken M. GUIZOT, demand
rigorous laws to put down what they call the bad
opinions of the bad Press, and they would, if
they could, establish a tyranny over opinion here
such as prevails in France.
In pointing out the error of M. GUIZOT our
main object is undoubtedly to read a lesson to
our Tories and to our own people. We would
earnestly put the latter on their guard against
the supposition, disproved by the whole history
of France, that exacting a rigid obedience to
laws can secure national happiness ; and we
would make them ready, therefore, if it be in
our power, to resist the encroachments of the
Tories, who are prepared, we know, to imitate
that rigour in LOUIS PHILIPPE'S Government
which they admire and praise. We do not ex-
pect that they will be convinced that the object
of their admiration is a grievous error, but we
may, perchance, influence the public to believe
that to adopt it here would inflict as much in-
jury on England as it has inflicted on France.

We learn with pleasure from the unequivocal
testimony of the Tory Journals, that out of Corn-
law Repeal agitation a great political agitation is
arising. This is what ought to be, and what we
long ago predicted would be, the consequence of
the crying injustice committed by the Legisla-
ture. We told the landowners, years ago, that
they were exposing their property, and all the
institutions of the country, to danger by levying
an augmentation of rent in the shape of a tax
ordained by the Legislature on the people's
bread. What do we now find? The Corn-law
Repealers, says one furious Tory Journal, are
bellowing for a land-tax. The repeal of the
Corn-laws, says another, is not merely a fiscal
or commercial question with the Corn-law Re-
peelers; its ultimate object is essentially a poli-
tical one. So the selfish aristocracy will be paid
off in their own coin. They passed the Corn-
laws to enrich themselves, and keep down the de-
mocracy ; and those very laws are now stimulating
the community to demand an exclusive tax on
the landlords, and impelling the democracy to
require a complete change in the Constitution.
The greediness of the upper classes has com-
pelled the other classes to look into the founda-
tion of political power, as well as examine the
existing right of property, and the present result
is an extensive agitation against the political ,
power and property of the bread-taxers.
There is only one course which these gentle-
men can now consistently pursue. If they are
resolved, cost what it may, to maintain their
tax on the people's bread, they must follow up
this gross and palpable act of injustice by further
acts of tyranny. If their will be sufficient to
take away the people's bread and stop trade, it
must also be sufficient to annihilate their liberties
and take away their lives. The landlords dare
not leave so many people in existence to com-
plain, nor leave them with their present means
of organizing either complaint or resistance.
They must, for their own safety, diminish the
number of people, and diminish their liberties.
Whatever the votes of the electors may decide,
nwhatevermay be the majority in Parliament,
the.,continuance of a bread-tax places the land.!,
lOtd, witihiattility with the bulk of societ.:",They
cannot' belt mid-way, and must go on and de-
stroy, or be destroyed. They may retreat and
save themselves, and save the country, but that
the landowners declare they will not do; and if
they will not give up their scandalous injustice,
their only consistent course is to become the
avowed destroyers of the lives and liberties of
the people.
With folly and ambition, which are quite un-
equalled, these men institute agricultural so-
cieties, promote agricultural improvements,
study labour, and give rewards to produce corn
cheaper, and at the same time they pass laws to
keep corn at the same price. By the introduction
of improTred processes, including new manures
and new crops, the produce of agriculture has
been increased, on the average, not far short of
the whole increase of the population, or 56 per
cent., since the beginning of the century; but in
the same period the agricultural population has
not increased 20 per cent. The increase of the
agricultural produce is therefore obtained by
less labour; any proportionate quantity of it costs
less than it did at the beginning of the century,
or at any intervening time between that period
and now, and yet the landlords make laws in
order
,to keep up the price. What would they
have said of the possessors of spinning mules
had they required a law to keep up the price of
cotton as high as before the mules were invented ?
The landowners try, in fact, to accomplish in-
compatible things, namely, to produce corn at a
less cost, and yet to obtain for it the same or an
equal price.

It is true they have not succeeded; for every
successive law they have passed or proposed,
they have been obliged to lower the pivot at
which they could permit importation. How
could they ? It is not more certain that bodies
on the surface of the globe tend to the centre,
than that lowering the cost of production lowers
the price of a commodity. The folly of the
landlords is shown in their attempting to accom-
plish incompatible things—their ambition in
attempting to counteract a law of nature—their
folly and their ambition are now as palpable to
the meanest man of the community as their in-
justice, and they must subvert the laws of nature
before they can come successful out of the ter-
rible agitation against their political power and
their property, which their folly, injustice, and
mad ambition have provoked.

The Madrid Journals received are of the 21st
instant. The only news they contain is that
there was no prospect of the differences between
the French Ambassador and the Madrid Go-
vernment being settled before the arrival of
despatches from the Cabinet of the Tuileries.

The protest of the French Liberal Press
against the sentence of the Court of Peers, find-
ing M. DUPOTY guilty of a moral complicity of
treason, for editing a Journal read by conspi-
rators, occupies the leading columns of the
Paris Journals of Monday. The publica.
tion of this document at the opening of
the Chambers will greatly embarrass the Go-
vernment, and prepare the way to very important
changes in France. The Peers threw down the
gauntlet, and the Liberal Press has picked it up.
Mutual deflances are exchanged. The Peers
struck the first blow, but the heavy interest with
which the Press has returned it, is asyet incalcula-
ble. English readers will peruse with pleasure the
dignified masterly rebuke of the conduct of the
Court of Peers administered by the Liberal
•.Press of France.

An attempt at highway robbery was made on the
night of the 17th inst.. on the road front Dreux to
Nogent-le-Roi, when two carriers' carts were tried to be
stopped by a man, who demanded of the drivers their
money or their lives. 'The 'latter plied their whips and
got off, and the robber fired'fbur or -five shots after them,
but without effect. - • -
A few days since, says the Feaille de Cambrai, an in-
habitant of Briaaqe,named Delporte, who had left his
home at six o'cloek in the morning, for Solesmes was
found on the road an hour afterwards quite dead, having
been robbed and murdered. ,The journal adds that there
has been great frequency of crimes lately in that district.
A shoemaker of Forbacsit, in the Moselle, who had
long been given to habits or drinking, quarrelled, while
intoxicated a few days since, with his eldest son, and
seizing one of his cutting-knives, stabbed him to the

heart., His second son, who came to assist his brother,
received, several bad wounds. The wretched man has
been arrested.

A few days- ago, a cart.apparently empty was stopped
at one of the barriers of Cambrai by.the officers, for the
usual formality of inspection. The driver, as soon as
he had stopped his vehicle, took to his heels, and the
officers, on looking into the cart more closely, discovered
that the bottom and the sides had tin cases concealed in
them, in a very skilful manner, containing 360 litres or
88 gallons of spirits. The cart and horse have been
confiscated;
A few days ago, two journeymen tanners at Montreuil,
on the Calais road, died of the glanders, which they
caught , from .a horse killed by the disease, and which
they hiul flayed.
• The. Journal de Rouen announces that a lady in that
city was, a few days ago, made a great-great-grand-
mother, by the birth of a little girl, making the fifth ge-
neration living in regular descent from herself.
A letter from Nice states, that a few days ago, the
bridge of the Var was carried away for the second time
within three months. The.engineer in chief of Nice was
engaged with nine workmen clearing away the trees
which obstructed the passage of the water through the
arches when the bridge gave way, and they were swept
off by the current. The engineer and one of the work-
men were drowned. The others were saved with great
difficulty.
Dispatches from Avignon announce that, on the 23d
inst., the Rhone again overflowed its banks, and that se-
veral quarters of the town were again flooded.
The Marseilles Journals represent the Rhone to be
still very high ; the lands dear Arles, Boulbon, and
Tarascon, being still under water. The road between
the latter place and St. Remi is from three to four feet
under water, but public carriages continue to run on it.
A proposition has been addressed to the Council-Ge-
neral of the Calvados for converting the small port of
Porten-Bessin into a harbour of refuge. From the pre-
sent state of currents, along that part of the coast of
Norinandy, the project would be both easy and advan-
tageous.
A considerable slip of earth took place, a few days
since, at Tourville-la-Riviere, on the Paris and Rouen
Railroad. Five men were buried under the fallen mate-
rials, but were got out after some time without any
serious injury. The Directors of the works gave a gra-
tuity on this occasion to the men who helped to rescue
their companions; but a very bad use was made of their
generosity, for the workmen got intoxicated in the even-
ing, and in a violent quarrel which ensued several among
them wounded each other dangerously with their knives.
The Council-General of the Meuse has voted 1,000,000
of francs towards the formation of the Paris and Stras-
bprg Railroad. The Municipal Councils of Bar-le-Due
and Commercy have voted 200,000 fr. and 30,000 fr. re-
spectively, for the same purpose.
" It appears," says the Memorial Bordelais," that the
railroad from Paris to this city is to be included among
the lines which Government intends proposing to the
Chambers."

The Municipal Council of Toulouse has refused to
allow indemnification claimed by several inhabitants for
damage done to their property during the late riots
there, on the ground that the Prefect, M. Mahul, held
the sole municipal authority in his hands at the moment
of the disturbances, and that the Municipal Council was
at that period deprived of the means of repressing them.
The Gazette des Tribunaux relates a gross instance of
ingratitude towards a poor but kind-hearted female of the
working class. She had given shelter and food to a girl
with whom she had formerly worked, but who had fallen
into great distress, and, on her return home the other
day from her work, found that the girl had stript her of
everything portable that she possessed. Fortunately
some neighbours had seen which way the thief went, and
a pursuit being set up, she was discovered, and taken into
custody whilst in the act of selling the stolen property.
The waters of the Seine have fallen so much within a
couple of days, that it is expected the navigation of the
river will soon be resumed as usual. The water now
marks 4 1-5 metres, or 13 feet 9 inches; by the scales at
the bridges.
The Bordeaux papers mention that at a recent meeting
cf the creditors of the house of Balguerie and Co., the
temporary syndics of the bankruptcy, Messrs. Alauze and
Furbeyre were confirmed in their functions ; and, on the
demand of several persons present that a third syndic
should be appointed, M. Emile Galos, of the house of J.
Gales and Son, was named by a large majority.
A journal of this morning has the following article:—
" The reports which have been circulated on the rejec-
tion of the petition for mercy to Quenisset, Brazier, and
Colombier have no foundation. This question has not
been brought before the Council of Ministers ; we be-
lieve that the Council will not be able to attend to it in
less than a week, unless the King should spontaneously
exercise the finest right which the Chamber has given
him. Till then there is a respite, and this respite is a
proof to us that the unhappy culprits will not have ap-
pealed to the royal clemency in vain."—Constitutionnel
TOULON, DEC. 22.—The news brought by the Alger
(of the line) are really important. If General Mustapha
has not ebtained the absolute submission of the Aga of
the Trara, including the great tribes of the Oulassa, he
has been able to promenade as master on the left bank
of the Tana, among tribes which have 3,925 houses,
and which are protected by 300 horse and 9,000
foot (the Kabyles generally fight on foot) the brav-
est troops in the western part of, the regency. As for
the tribe of the Bordja, which Genera/ Bedeau has
just chastised, and from which he has ,taken 6,300 head
of, cattle and 750,horaes and beasts cpf,Ainiden,',At :is part
of the eastern region called: Clinelc, 'and :cannot defend
itself, not having more than 200 Combatants-
The Phaeton steam-boat has arrived from Tunis and
Bona, which it left on the 17th with some despatches
and 37 passengers. All was tranquil at Tunis and Bona,
when it left those places. The Bey of Tunis had left the
Goletta and returned to his palace after having inspected
all the batteries.— Commerce.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, DEC. 27.

_
first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Frit'. Price.
french 5 per Cents .......... ll6 60 ... 116 65 .., 116 50 ... 116 55
4 per Cents lOl 05 ... 101 05 ... 101 05 ... 101 05
3 per Cent:. ex div 78 50 78 55 ... :8 49 ... 78 40
Bank of trance :'39o ...2390
„moo
...539e
Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sharer 1012 50 ...Pea 50 —lOO2 50 ...1002 50
Koloan Bank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
S per Centl., 1840 lO3 ... 103
... 10.3
... 1(13
Spanish Active 94% ... 24% ... 24% ... 1'4%
Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5). ... 5%
Old Deferred
Neapolit.th
Portugueses per Cents.
rumen.... 10.2% "'112% ... 102 j,
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain B3O ... 830 ... 830 ... 830
Veraai Iles. L.b l9B 75 ... 198 75 ... 1,7 50 _ 197 50
B. B 323 75 ... 3 .43 75 ... 32.3 75 ... 323 75
Rouen 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50
Orleans
Montpellier to Cette 250 .., 250 ... 250 ... 150
Strasburg to Bale 225 ... 225 ... 223 75 ... 225
AUS LILIAN FUN DS.—ViEwws. , DEC. 18.
riveper Cents. Metalliques .„.,.... 106%
Fob: per Cents. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••.••••••• ....... ••••••• 99%
Three Fr Cents. ' s. . . ' 75%
Rank Shares ... ..... ..........4..........4..•......
—illikenteine Zettung. Dec. 22.

We gave a paragraph on Tuesday, furnished by
a Correspondent, setting forth the high opinion
some Aldermen had formed of the New Police
Act, the vigilance of the Commissioner and the
constables, and attributing the boasted " City
sobriety," during the holidays, to these combined
circumstances, but chiefly to the closing of pub-
lic-houses on Christmas-eve and Saturday night.
We looked upon all this as " mere moonshine,"
and so the upshot has proved. One of the " vi-
gilant" constables let the secret out on Tuesday at
Guildhall. " The police," said he, " received
instructions not to take any charge of drunken-
ness unless compelled to do so, but to pass the
drunkards'home from one policeman to another."
Wag this notable scheme got up because the
ditirikards were too numerous for the receiving
'houses, or was it contrived by Commissioner
Harvey to protect stray Aldermen who might
happen to be wandering home at a late hour re-
markable for anything but " City sobriety ?"
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS UPON HER
TRIAL.—So say the Tory papers. The truth,
however is, that she has been upon her trial for
upwards of two centuries, and has been found
guilty of inefficiency, want of Christianity, and
rapacity. Any sentence pronounced on her at
Oxford,-will.- only -be the parental condemnation
of a vagabond whom the Magistrates have,
doomed to destruction.

Ps°
S Vlll, V ia S

AND
Vutatc Optttion.

" Who runs may read."

rO3IZEIGN.

The whole of the Paris Opposition press, with one
exception, devote their usually leading columns to the
publication of the protest of the sixteen Journals against
the conviction of M. Dupoty. The single exception is•
the Constitutionnel, which, however, contains a clever
article denouncing the sentence of the Court of Peers.
The protest of the Journals created a much greater sen-
sation in Paris than the King's speech.
" Sir Robert Peel," says the National," has written to
King Louis Philippe a letter in extremely pressing and
flattering terms, to request that M. G uizot may be kept at
the head of affairs."—What nonsense shall we have next?
The King of the French's Speech was followed on
Monday by a fall in the funds of a quarter per cent.
The repressive threatenings which so delighted the poli-
tical rats round the Throne produced far other sensations
in the bosoms of the financiers. Never before was a
Throne Speech of Louis Philippe followed by such a result.
Mehemet Izzet Paella has been appointed President of
the New Turkish Cabinet. A more incompetent person
to fill such an office could hardly be found in the Otto-
man Empire.
Advices from Erzeroum of 20th ultimo, in the Leipsic
Gazette, state that Sir H. M'Neil has been received in a
splendid manner at Teheran, and that 10,000 persons
came out of the town to meet him. At the gate he was
complimented by the Prime Minister of the Shah, and
afterwards resived a valuable horse from his Majesty.
Such is the result of Lord Palmerston's firmness.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Post contains a lengthy leading article suggested
by some remarks in the forthcoming Number of the
Church of England Quarterly Review, wherein. our Con-
temporary strives hard to prove that the late Ministers
were a mere squad of " Shuffiers," whose policy it was
to do every thing that they should not have done, and
exhibit nothing but inconsistency on the question of the
Corn-laws.
In an article discussing the question of the heavy
deodand with which the Jury accompanied their verdict
on the inquest lately held on the eight persons who were
killed on the Great Western Railroad, the Herald de-
fends the justice of that deodand, observing that the
accident was undoubtedly caused by the negligence and
inattention of the Great 'Western Railroad Company,"
and that the " evidence adduced fully establishes a
case of great carelessness against them."
Referring to Mr. Christopher's late speech on the sub-
ject of the Corn-laws, the Chronicle is of opinion that
that speech is a good sign of the times, evincing some
improvement ; and adds, that "it indicates that there
is some change in contemplation ; that the Government
dares not take its stand on the perfection and immuta-
bility of the present Corn-law ; but that the whole sys-
tem is to be thrown open to full discussion by those
who have heretofore refused to hear evidence, answer
argument, or permit debate."
The Times has an article on the King of the French's
speech on the opening of the Chambers, in which our
Contemporary observes that the greater part of the do-
cument is occupied with domestic affairs, of which the
King.speaks " with a straightforward and characteristic
manliness, which indicates a very considerable degree of
confidence in the stability of the existing order of
things." The Times adds that all Europe must "hail
with satisfaction these indications of a strong Govern-
ment in France."
The Advertiser observes, with reference to the late
great Anti-Corn-law meeting in Dublin, that the enlist-
ment of Ireland in the efforts to procure a repeal of the
Corn-laws, is " another heavy blow and great discourage-
ment to the landed oligarchy."
We take the following from the Dublin Pilot :
" There is no people on the face of the earth on whom
kindness has such influence as on the Irish. No greater
proof of this can be given than in their reverential affection
for the Queen. They know that she is kind and just,
and they consequently love her, because she has not, like
others, resorted to coercion, and because she can, with-
out cruelty, preserve orders in this country, and win an
obedience as unbounded as that of the Queen Bee."

The North Devon Journal say s:—"The suffering poor
naturally look to the Government for relief ; and al-
though no legislative enactment can entirely remedy the
complication of evils which have conspired to produce so
wide-spread a state of distress, yet it is certain that the
immediate attention of Parliament must be directed to
the subject ; and we would encourage a hope, that the
statements of wretched destitution which have pervaded
the public prints for months past, may have engendered
sympathy in the bosoms of the powerful class to whose
interested legislation it is attributed, and induce the
landed proprietors to consent to forego the injurious pro-
tection which they have too long enjoyed."
Alluding to Mr. Christopher's late speech on the Corn-
laws, the Tyne Mercury observes as follows :—" We
mentioned the general terms of the new sliding scale ;
Heaven knows but that before we go to press another
sliding scale may have been invented 1 We have always
been opposed to any sliding scale ,at all ; but this
sneaking, paltry, ridiculous sliding scale, above
•all others, we strenuously repudiate, Its be-
ginning at 45., as we ,stated, „WA., week, and
ending at 18s., is enough to nooiviiaufriMoe ta its fully, as
well as its impropriety. Tho lowestitiltosibei,ag 4a. (Mr.
Christopher in his derni-official speech, makes it 55.,).
will not maintain an equilibrium, in the mind of any
person at all acquainted with commerce, with the ex-
treme duty of 18s."
The following appears in the North Staffordshire Mer-
cury :—" The Church-rate question is again vexing the
parish of Stoke-upon-Trent. After the experience of
the past, in the trial of the relative advantages of the
compulsory and the voluntary system, it does surprise
us that the professed friends of the Church should so far
stand in the way of their own comfort, and the credit of
the Establishment itself, as to seek to extort another rate
from the unwilling hands of their fellow-parishioners."