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first a slave, and afterwards the owner
of slaves, and the argument of Dr. MOBERLEY
may prove convincing to such an auditory,
but it will scarcely carry much weight with it to a
body of free-born Englishmen. .Ve trust that a

speedy inquiry may take place into the entire sys-
tem. Winchester, as well as other public schools,
derives a large revenue from endowments; and the
manner in which they are expended, and whether or
not the practices there sanctioned are conducive to
the public benefit, form a legitimate sulject for the
notice of the Legislature. Much more attention has
of late years been paid to education than was
formerly the case, and recognised abuses will be
no longer tolerated. It is not for the children of
the middle or humbler classes that protection is
required, but we demand it on behalf of the wealthy
and highborn, the offspring of the magnates of the
land.

The Central Committee of the Swiss Popular As-
sociation has just published the following manifesto,
addressed to "the sovereign people of Switzerland,"
as a reply to the calumnies of which it says it is the
object, and a s an exposition of the end it seeks to
attain, and of the means which it intends to em-
ploy : _ _

" On the 10th of July last the Bernese section of the
Popular Association invited all good citizens to unite
themselves to detend the dearest interests of the country.
This appeal was heard! The meeting which took place
at Berne on the 27th July furnished an irrefragble proof
of it. The cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Valais, Bale-
Campagne, Argovia, and Berne, were there represented
by about five hundred citizens, who founded the Swiss
Popular Association in the western parts of the Con-
federation. Thus is realised that national idea, the
object of the ardent wishes of so many patriots! The
Swiss Popular Association declares itself by this act for-
mally and definitively constituted. But, to dissipate the
alarms which the common enemy perfidiously endeavours
to spread by misrepresenting our intentions, and to
paralyse ulterior efforts, we declare positively, before God
and the dear country, that we will never quit the path of
right, and that we energetically reject all malevolent and
false accusations directed against our institution. On the
other hand, we declare that we are decided to employ all
legal means which may tend to free the country for ever
from its most dangerous enemies, the Jesuits and the
Sonderbund, and to throw off the yoke of the pact of
1815. Such is the object of the association. We give,
besides, the formal assurance to our Catholic brethren
that we have no intention to injure their faith; on the
contrary, we affirm, on our honour and our name of
Swiss, that our only object is to combat the enemy of all
confessions and religions—the Jesuits! - Swiss, who
sympathise with us, and who are impatient to see the
country freed from the bonds which, paralysing our in-
tellectual and material development, prevent us from
becoming a Switzerland united and grand, capable of re•
sisting the foreigner, unite yourselves to us, and let us
take the oath to have neither rest nor truce until the
Helvetic soil shall be purged of all the elements which
stain it. Then our fathers of the Grutli will rejoice at
the patriotic spitit which animates their descendants!
Come to us, Swiss citizens, animated by a firm and
en.-rg.-tic determinatton to defend our rights and liber
ties, and let us tie the knot of an indissoluble union!
Salutation and fraternity !"

The Poles, THEOPHILUS 1S ISNLOWSKI and JOSEPH
KAPUSCZINSSI were executed on the 31st of July, at
Lemberg. The execution was 1.-,oked on as a mar.
tyrdom. On the scaffold the victims urged the
people to persevere for the liberation of Poland.
Crowns of flowers were showered upon them as they
proceeded to their death. It was a triumph rather
than an execution.

The Prussian State Gazette publishes a notice by
the KING of the proceedings of the Diet, in which his
MAJESTY promulgates his royal will for giving the
force of law to the decisions respecting the Jews and
other matters approved of by that body, and exprew,ea
his intention of modifying for a future Diet some of
the propositions which were objected to by the late
assembly. With reference to the refusal to authorise
a loan for the construction of the railroads of the
east, his MAJESTY stares that he cannot promise tl,at
he will submit a new proposition to a future Diet,
but he reserves to himself to ordain, according to
time and circumstances, whatever may be necessary
for continuing the construction of the line ; always,
however, taking into consideration the opinions ex-
pressed by the Diet, and the resources of the State,
so as to be able to give aid for the construction of
other important lines. The language of the KING is
throughout the *hole document firm, but at the same
time moderate, and betrays nothing like irritation
against the Diet, although there are expressions of
regret at the rejection of some of the measures
which were submitted to it.

A letter from Vienna of the 3d states that the new
Tototiyo to the prent3 which the Germanic Diet
is about to adopt, will borrow their principal dispo-
sitions from those of Denmark. In that country
there is no censorship, but the Government has the
right to seize the whole edition of any number of a
journal. The editor may consent to the seizure, or
demand to be brought before the tribunals, which
will either declare the seizure good or void, and if

good will inflict the penalty awarded in the law for
the publication of the offensive article. Among the
penalties which the law inflicts on responsible editors
of newspapers is the interdiction for a certain number
of years, or even for life, of the privilege of publish-
ing anything without previously submitting it to the
censorship.

Letters from Rome, of the 2d instant, state that
Monsignor MORICHIN is appointed Finance Mi-
nister, and Cardinal ANTONELLI, the former Finance
Minister, has been sent as legate to Forli.

Madrid papers of the 7th histant, have arrived.

A forged proclamation, i,sued in the name of the
KING, and urging the nati,.n to upset the Govern-
ment, has been seized by the authorities. The KING
denies all knowledge of it.
It wi.s forwarded to his MAJESTY at the Prado
with a request that he would affix his name to it. The
lima immediately forwarded the parcel to the Mi-
nister of the Interior.

It
is said that PACHECO BAHAMIINDE and PASTOR
DIAs are about to retire from the Cabinet, which
will be remodelled by SALAMANANCA. General
CONCHA, the Marquis (d. AIIRAFLOKES, and General
SERRANO will, it is said, have seats in the new
Cabinet.

It is said that SALAMANCA not being able to raise
the loan of 100,000,000 of reals in Spain, has sent an
agent to Paris to endeavour to raise the money among
the French capitalists.

A royal decree has been issued, permitting the
exportation of grain from Spain.

MADRID Bome., Aug. 7.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 26i for cash; the Five per Cents. at
171; and the Coupons at 15.

The Paris jiurnals of Thursday have been received.
From a correspondence published in the Moniteur
Parisien, it appears that the Bishop of ST. BRJEUX,
who from his conduct must be, we should imagine,
the PRILLPOT'S of France, has managed to get into
a squabble with the civil authorities, which promises
to afford matter for amusement to the quid ;tuna
during the recess of the Chambers. It appears that
in consequence of a difference between the diocesan
authorities and the directors of the College of St.
Brieuc, the Bishop demanded the immediate dismissal
of three functionaries of the College, viz., the Prin-
cipal, Sub-Principal, and Chaplain. A refusal having
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Bishop, and the affair is now in the bands of the
Minister of Justice and Public Worship, who will,
it is supposed, bring it before the Council of State.
This demand on the part of the Bishop, for the
dismiss=al of three of the officials of a coil ege over
which he had no control, is one of the cool eat pieces
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suits in Switzerland iris emboldened the Pctriti Pretre
in France, who imagine that they will obtain from
M. GUIZOT and LOUIS PHILLII'PE that power which
even POLIONAC and CHARLES X. dared not grant them. I

It would be well, however, that G' mot. should
awaken to the signs of the times. The spirit of li
berty in France is not so dead as he wound desire;
witness the reform banquet at Colmar, of •which the
following account appears in the Notional
Itossee, First President of the Royal' Court of
Colmar. accepted an invitation to preside on. /he occa-
sion. Tlrs Prefect, togetber witb the privicival tune-