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London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

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FOEEIGN•
Public opinion in Paris is still occupied by the Census,
and the progress of events in the Peninsula. The Minis-
terial journals state that the Government has triumphed
in the South. The Messager announces officially that
the census is now taken with little or no opposition at
Ceret, at Perpignan, •at Saint Livrade, at Toulouse, at
Villefranehe, at Bordeaux; at Lille, and at Evreux. The
correspondence of the Liberal journals from several of
these towns proves the. incorrectness of the official
statement.

Some of the French. papers have got it into their
heads that England is intriguing to. .prevent a com-
mercial union between Belgium and France. •
of a piece with the fabrication about Lord i'almerston
compelling Espartero to expel the French from the
Island Del Rey (Minorca). But it serves for an excuse
for the expectoration of fresh venom against England. •
The Courrier Franca is is as red. hot in favour of the
beef-monopoly in France, as the Post is for the bread-
monop ly in England. There are seasons when all good
Catholics eschew the sinfulness of eating beef, but the
Courrier stoutly- contends for the iniquity of eating
cheap beef at any season.
The Journal des Debuts -renews its attacks upon the
Spanish .Regency, and, to the utmost of its power, tries-
to bring about a revolution in Spain in favour of Queen
Christina. There -can be no dotibt that these attacks on
the Regency are made with the entire concurrence of the
French Court.

The Emperor of Morocco 'is Preparing to kick up a
a bobbery in the Mediterranean. His Majesty has armed
a fleet of two brigs and as many schooners, which are to
make war on the flags of all nations who are not represented
at the Court of Fez. Russia, Pruisia, Mecklenburg, the
,Hanse'Towns, and Sardinia., are 'to be the first objects
of Imperial vengeance. It is a pity .that so puissant a
naval power as Morocco is prevented by treaties from
attacking Russia in the Black Sea. The appearance of
the two brigs and two schooners off Odessa, in presence
Of Russia's twenty sail of the line, would doubtless con-
tribute more to the mirth than the terror of the inhabi-
tants.

The Spanish Government has taken the very unneces-
sary trouble to contradict officially theabsurd rumour that
Espartero had addressed to Lord Palmerston the letter
which we some time since quoted as a Carlist
fiction from a French Legitimist Journal. For our-
selves, we denounced the letter from the outset as a
very poor hoax; and so, without exception, did the whole
of our Contemporaries. But we suppose that in Spain
Journalists are more credulous, and that a contradiction
was necessary to tranquillize the public mind, everywhere
so jealous of supposed British influence.
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The Austrian 11Iinister, Count de Bombelles, has been
ordered by Prince Metternich to inform the Swiss Diet
that the disputes of the Cantons, if continued, will end
in breaking up the Federal compact. His Imperial Ma-
jesty will not allow the Convent of Muri to be sup-
pressed, and herein be is supported by Russia, Prus-
sia, and France. Of all independent States Switzerland
has the least share in regulating either its external or
internal policy. It is never out of the harness of one or
other of the great Continental Powers.

PUXULIC - OPINION.
The Chronicle, in a long article interspersed with quo-
tations from Tory and Tory-Radical Journals, says—
" By one set of politicians the Whigs are blamed for not
having come forward with the repeal of the Corn-law
during the ten years of their ministry; and by another
they are blamed for bringing forward at all a rixasure
calculated to ruin them as a party. These two sets of
politicians may both be said to be in the wrong. The
Whigs, aware of the difficulties attending the corn mono-
poly, might wish to bring it forward only when the gene-
ral conviction of the impolicy of the law might facilitate
its abolition ; but when they found not only po-
litical economists, bank directors, and leading
merchants expressing the opinion that the corn mono-
poly was ruinous to the country, and threatened a Bank
suspension ; but the manufacturers throughout England
and Scotland complaining of the ruin which hung over
their heads, they may have deemed it irreconcileable

with their duty to hesitate any longer to propose a
liberal budget. This is the fair way of viewing the
question, and we can understand why a Tory should
misrepresent their motives •; but we cannot so easily un-
derstand why a paper professing a regard for liberal
commercial principles, should gloat, as it were, with
evident-satisfaction on their failure to accomplish a praise-
worthy object."
What is most culpable in the conduct of the W higs
that they delayed their commercial reforms till they had
lost by their finality measures the confidence of the
country. In their fruitless effOrts to conciliate the To-
ries they sacrificed that trust which the people reposed
•in them as the authors and champions of the Reform
Bill. Had Ministers brought forward their present
measures five years ago, they would have been carried .
with a shout of triumph which would have resounded
from the banks of the Thames to those of the Mississippi.
The Times, which only a few weeks ago lauded to the
skies Lord Palmerston's Oriental policy, now blames his
Lordship for keeping so far aloof from the counsels
of France. The Times forgets its own lessons of a few
days back, about the delicacy due to successors in
office by an expiring Cabinet. Referring to the reconci-
liation of the Porte and the Pacha, the Times observes:—
" The reconciliation of the Porte and the Pacha is perhaps
not so sincere as it seems ; the former is not' so con-
fiding, nor the latter so weak, as to lay aside all
mistrust and all precautions. The chance of. Me-
hemet's death may have some weight at Constanti-
nople, and the probability of the young Sultan's pre-
mature decay is not without interest at Alexandria.'
But it is • impossible that the ' Divan should fail to
perceive that the union of the forces of the empire
is the sole means by which its internal authority-and its
external security can be maintained. Thepolicy of Rus-
sia first contrived to instigate the Pacha against the
Ports, and then to assist the -Porte 'against the
,Pacha ;
and the consequence has beep the entire subjection of
both parties to the dictateS 'of a conference, in which a
Russian Minister played no insignificant part. If that sub-
jection was to be perpetual, or even to-be much prolonged,
the moral power of the Ottomans would have been en-
tirely dissipated ;; the disaffection and rebellion of the
dependent races in the various provinces would have
broken out into general revolution ;, and the dissensions
arising out of the 'melancholy condition of the empire
must have hastened the advancement of Russia's designs.
To these disastrous consequences the union of the Sultan
and his powerful vassal appears to us to offer the. only
real mode of resistance. The mutual interest of Turkey
and of Egypt is obviously to support each other."
The Morning Herald, which on all occasions deems
itself especially' called upon to watch with jealous vigi-
lance the honour of the British Crown, has the follow-
ing remarks on the question of M'Leod's trial at Utica
by the authorities of the State of NeW York :—" Mr.
Fox is instructed to demand his passport only in the
event of the authorities of New York daring to carry any
judgment on Mr. M'Leod into effect. Wily, the impri-
sonment and the trial constitute the outrage on the ho-
nour of Great. Britain the application of any punish-
ment awarded against Mr. M'Leod is a purely personal
matter. The breach of British rights and the viola-
tion of international law have been made, and Mr. Fe.c's
presence •at Washington, while Mr. M'Leod is tried
at Utica, will be nothi‘g less than an invitation
to hang and galvanise that. unfortunate gentleman
Mr. Fox has demanded Mr. M'Leod's immediate re,
lease ;. Mr. Webster has declared that if he poSsessed
the power he would comply with that demand ; and
by the latest advices it appears that the latter has
entreated the Governor of the State of New York
to deliver his prisoner into the custody of the
Supreme Court of the United States ; on compliance
with which a none prosequi would be at once entered,
and Mr. M'Leod thereon discharged. The material
questions, then, are, will the British Crown bow
before the Majesty of the State of New York ? Or
will it assert in practice the dignity of the public law in
regard to the relations of the union with foreign States
so ably laid down by Mr. Fox in his note of March 12,
1841 ?" Of whom does the Herald ask theswquestions?
Of Lord Melbourne or Sir Robert Peel '? If of the
former will the Tories consent to forego office till the
Whig Premier can give effect to his answer ?
The Morning Advertiser, which follows in 'the wake
of The Sun, in attribtiting to bad laws much of" the 1111=
series of the working classes, says :—" Pauperism exists
to a frightful extent. What of that ?. Enact Poor-laws,
and billet the victims of unjust legislation on the industry
which survives accumulated wrong. Not a word about
measures to decrease the infernal evil.— The people are
doubly taxed and half paid ; a sense of wrong inflames
them, as at Dudley, last week ; not a thought of dispers-
ing the inflammation : strike it inward, by calling out
the police, and bringing in the dragoons. Because the
beast is restive under his heavy load, clap another
burden upon his back. What if it break ; or what if the
beast cast off its burdens ! No matter, " That Will not
happen in our time, our successors must look to that."
And so goes on legislation at the wrong end ; and there
is no end to wrong-end legislation.. . Never ending; still
beginning ; but the upshot will be, that the people will
at length take the work of legislation into their own
hands, and then their rulers will be glad to make, as
they have often done before, a bungling compromise,
from which neither party derive a due share of advan-
tage, and both remain liable to an accession of difficulty
and danger,"

"Parliament has assembled," says the Edinburgh Chro-
nicle," the most extraordinary Parliament which, perhaps,
was ever elected. Its character and objects are well un-
derstood to be the very opposites of the character and
objects of the people it pretends to represent. The Royal
Speech will be delivered early next week, and if it turn
out what it is expected to be, the novelty will be presented
of the Sovereign speaking the sense of the public against
the. mind, and in spite of the bitter opposition of the
people's representatives. Should the newly-hatched Par-
liament, on chipping the egg, prove itself such a cocka-
trice as appearances seem to indicate it will, we may
safely predict that its existence will be- short."