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LONDON:
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1841.

We rejoiced to see the Address of the Wesley_
ans of Walsall to the electors of that borough,
which appeared in our paper of Saturday. It is
a proof that this respectable body of religionists
really believe the Bible, and mean to act on their
belief. For their hostility to the younger Mr.
GLADSTONE, a thick and thin Tory and bread-
taxer, the general conduct of the Tories, who are
also for the most part high and persecuting
Churchmen, offers a complete justification. We
find, for example, a letter in the Manchester•
Guardian, of Saturday, of which the following is
the substance :

Sir,—The Wesleyan Methodists have, for some years
past, preached in the village of High Legh, Cheshire, in
a house belonging to George Cornwall Legh, Esq., and
have a very good congregation, a considerable number of
whom are members of the society, and appear to be in a
very improving and flourishing condition. But it seems
that Mr. Legh has found himself aggrieved by the growing
prosperity of the Methodists ; as lie waited upon the old
woman who occupies the house, and informed her that she
must not allow the Methodists to conic there any more ;
if she did„ he should feel it his duty to turn her
out of the house. The old woman began at once to
tell him what had been the lot of all persecutors of the
people of God, and that such would undoubtedly be his
condition if he persisted in his opposition. He, however,
would hear no reason, but insisted on her prohibiting them
fr,,m coming to her house. Since then, be has had several
letters on the subject from Methodists who bad promised
him their support; and since he sees that it is likely to
lose him a considerable number of votes, he has consented
to allow them to preach, but not in Church hours; neither
must they get the house licensed. Now if such a misfor-
tune were to happen the country, as to have a majority of
Members of Parliament like Mr. Legh, what would be-
come of the Methodists, or any other sect who differ from
the Church of England ? If the Methodists ought not to
be allowed to worship God in High Legh, they ought not
to be tolerated anywhere else ; and as Mr. Legh would
banish them from his estate, a Parliament of Leglis would
gladly banish them from the country. I hope the Wes.
leyans will duly consider these things; and that not one of
them will record a vote for such a candidate. Assuredly
he cannot do so without betraying the cause he professes
to love and cherish, and his vote will be an everlasting
mark of disgrace upon his forehead.—l remain yours, &0.,
A WESLEYAN LOCAL PREACHER.
Warrington, Jan. 25, 1841.

The Tories are all persecutors, and the bulk of
them, like Mr. LEGH, enemies of Dissenters.
We hope therefore that the sensible admonition
to the Methodists not to record their votes for
Tory candidates, will prevail at Walsall, Canter-
bury, and in Surrey, where there are many Me-
thodists. The Church of England is extremely
solicitous to extend its power, and it adopts
all kinds of means, persuasive and coercive, to
obtain its end. Should the Wesleyans support
it, and support the Tories, they may be assured
that in the end the majority of Parliament will
be composed of CORNWALL LEG Hs, who will en-
deavour to constrain them by law to return into
union with the Church.

In Mr. GLADSTONE'S case, the Walsall Me-
thodists and Dissenters have a right to be ex-
tremely suspicious. He has been supported by
his brother, the Member fin. Newark ; and that
brother is the author of a book, written to sup-
port the most arrogant claims of the Church.
Mr. GLADSTONE is an advocate of apostolic suc-
e_!ssion—cf tie worthlessness of the sacraments
administered by any hands but those of an or-
dained priest; and, of course, he denies the pos-
sibility of salvation out of the pale of the Church.
For the Wesleyans, therefore, to vote for the
brother of such a man, who has been at Walsall
to support the candidate, is to vote against their
own religion—their own sacred creed, and to I
vote against their GOD as well
.as against their

country. The appeal of the Minister at War-
rington 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 he think it
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 quar-
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 honours
greediness and dishonesty. To the electors cf
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 arc afraid,
if they return to Parliament three bread-
taxers. The suffering people of this country will
not, and dare not, submit much ;onger 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 Tori,es is well dis-
played by Lord STANLEY. No sooner did Lord
MORPETH 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 MonPTH'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 SOULT, 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-devant Republi-
cans justify the fortifications of Paris. His
words are thus quoted by M. TRIERS

" But whatever care, whatever activity is employed in
reforming the army, 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 is 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 artillerymen, 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. Iu 1814, bad 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 1606, Berlin had been
fortified, the army beaten at Jena might have rallied
there, and the Russian army would have joined it ; if, in
1808, Madrid had 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 perma-
nent 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. As the veneration for
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 Jour-
nals of Thursday. It appears from them that the
French Government expected that a paragraph
in the
QUEEN'S Speech would refer to our rela-
tions with France, and its omission has inflicted
a wound upon the sensibility ofour Gallic neigh-
bours, which we trust will be healed by the pe-
rusal of the first night's debate in Parliament.

Tue Court organ, the Debats, has
significant remark upon this omissiou :
" In the paragraph of the Speech of the Queen, which re-
fers to the relations of Great Britain with foreign Powers, no
mention is made of the name of France. That is a circum-
stance the force of which we have no intention to disguise.
We accept this silence without exaggerating or lessening its
signification. These sorts of national courtesy should be alto-
gether free. We have no right to complain of their omissioe.
fhe debates already opened in Parliament, without any doubt,
will throw a light on the consequences of the events which have
occupied Europe. We wait for them before we judge definitely
of the dispositions which the discourse of the Crown abstains
from speaking of."
The Chamber of Deputies was- still occupied
on Thursday with the Fortifications Bill. Gene-
ral SCHNEIDER had proposed a whole string of
amendments, which were supported by
LAMARTINE and MAGUIN, and opposed by MM.
DE BESSIERES and DE REMUSAT, who spoke en-
thusiastically in favour of the original Bill. M.
ODILLON BARROT was ascending the tribune
when the mails left Paris. The speeches have
no interest whatever for English readers.
The following extracts include all the news of
any interest in these papers:—
On Wednesday evening the first grand ball for the season
was given at the Palace of the Tuileries. The invitations
amounted to 4,000, and carriages continued setting down till a
very late hour. All the Ministers, many of the members of the
corps diplomatique, numerous foreigners of distinction, includ-
ing many English, and most of the Members of the two Cham-
bers, were among the guests. The supper was given as usual
in the theatre of the chateau, and the effect produced by this
hall, when the ladies were adseated, was very dazzling. Danc-
ing was kept up to an early hour.
A letter from Pau says :—" The return of the Carlist
refugees to Spain by way of Oleron, continues to take place
with all desirable regularity. Three or four hundred refugees
are forwarded every day. In Spain, too, the regulation
for their route appears to be very satisfactory. The neces-
sary provision and pay are allowed with equal humanity and
judgment. The Government of Jaca has given notice that
all the refugees sent to that place have arrived without one
being missing.
" On the 20th of January, 2,794 refugees had recrossed
the frontier by the road of Urdoz."—Moniieur.
The Messager of yesterday having said that the first three
letters publivhed by the Gazette are falsified, appropriating
to itself the article of the Morning Post, which it quoted
some days ago, we ca'inot suffer a violation of the truth by
that Journal, and a calumny so odious as that which tends
to excite a belief that we have published falsified letters, and
that we knew that they were falsified. Consequently using
the right which the law gives us, we are resolved to-day to
bring an action for calumny against the Messager.
We have repeatedly declared that the letters published by us
were authorised. We have required that they may be sub-
mitted to a legal examination. The Messager is really not ex-
cusable in repeating that they were falsified. There are two
contrary assertions before us, and we desire public opinion to
decide between its assertion and eurs with full knowledge of
the fact. It must be known whether it or we are calumniators.
—La Ga:ette de France.
The ordinary estafette from Calais has not yet arrived, but
the Speech of the Queen of England, which we subjoin, bas
been brought by an express.
Admiral Mackau arrived at Paris on Wednesday morning,
and immediately waited on the President of Council and the
Minister of Marine and Foreign-office.
The Toulon Sentinelle de la Marine of the 24th instant has
the annexed article:—
" The British packet Hydra has arrived at Marseilles from
Marmoriee direct, and it is supposed that it brings despatches
of the utmost importance for its Government. But this packet
had but one despatch for Lord Palmerston, which was sent off
by estafette ; and as the vessel is in quarantine, there was no
means of obtaining any information from the officers, who have
received orders, no doubt, to say nothing. Therefore the
greatest uncertainty prevails with respect to the affairs of the
Levant, the usual post not having yet arrived; besides, it will
only bring news to the 7th. There is a vast field for conjec.
tures. Admiral Walker left Constantinople on the 29th Dec
in the Stromboli ; he was the bearer of Mehemet Ali's pardon,
and the hope of being recognised hereditary Pacha of Egypt,
under the quadruple condition of restoring the fleet, evacuating
Syria, reducing his land and naval forces, and of proclaiming
the fundamental laws of Turkey in his pachalic. Admiral
Walker must have arrived at Marmoriee on the 31st of Decem-
ber, and at Alexandria on the Ist or 2d of January. What
has passed from that period to the 13th, the day of the depar-
ture of the Hydra, is not known."
The Augsburgh Gazette of the 23d has the annexed letter
from Beyrout of the 21st December:—
" In a very short time four Governors of Antioch have been
changed. One expelled the other, and this catastrophe has
crested reports tending to compromise the authorities. At La-
takia the Christians are treated in the most revolting manner.
The priests have been beaten and insulted most grossly. There
was a meeting in broad day, before the British agent's hotel,
and there a native of the Levant, named Elias, uttered excla-
mations which resounded. We will give up our finances,' said
this infuriated individual, to Arab soldiers, rather than sub .
mit to the dominion of Christians,' and the people applauded.
The most bloodthirsty songs were repeated with frenzy, the
dogs of Christians were to be subjected to the vengeance of the
people; Ibrahim is no longer here. Those cursed dogs of infi-
dels shall be trampled under foot by us. At Aleppo, Tripoli,
and everywhere the Mussulmea are very numerous, the same
excesses are renewed. At Damascus only tranquillity prevails,
that city still acknowledging Ibrahim's authority. It is to be
hoped t hat Mehemet Ali's enemies, who have so much ex-
claimed against him, will repair to Syria in order to form an
idea of the prosperity which a change of Government has
effected in this country. Assuredly Mehemet Ali's despotism
is better than anarchy !"
BO URSE.--•PARIS. THURSDAY, JAN. 28.
first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price
French 5 per Cents.. ..... 112 40 ... 11,3 40 ... 112 10 112 10
4 per Cents O9 ... 9D ... 99 99
3 per Lents 77 5 ... 77 5 76 S 5 in 85
13ai k of Prance
Lathue Bank 1.0001. Sh 10.47 50 —.1047 50 ...1047 50 ...1f47 50
5000 f. Shares 5110 ...5110 ...NW
Belgian 5 per Cent, 28% ... 233 h ... 28% ... 28%
New Lean 98% ... 984% ... 98% ... 98
Spanish Active 25% ... 25 25% ... 25%
Passive 639 ... ... 6 ...
New inferred
Portuguese 3 per Cents 2l 21 ... 21 ... 21
Roman lOl ... 101 ... ICON ... 100
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles,R. R 4:35 ... 435 ... 432 50 ... 435
LB 320 ... 320 ... 320 no
Orleans ..............
Strsshurg to Bale 243 75 ... 248 75 ... 247 50 .. 2 7 5
Rouen

Madrid Journals of the 21st inst. have reached
us, but they do not contain a syllable of political
news of the slightest importance. The following
extract from a private letter is of some com-
mercial interest :
There is some rumour in the financial world of a combina-
tion which Safont, the capitalist, is said to have proposed to
the Government, by which he purposes to place at its disposal
100 millions of reels in money at different periods, and 500
millions in paper ; the latter to be negotiated at 25 per cent.
The capitalist requires as a guarantee the revenue arising from
the saltworks. No reliance can be placed on these rumours,
which emanate from parties interested in stock-jobbing opera-
tions. The elections are said to be entirely at the mercy of
the Exaltados. The Moderados resolved to keep away, and
they have fulfilled their promise.
According to a statement published by the Madrid Gazette,
933 of the national domains have been sold during the month
of November ; they were valued at 10,251,188 reels, and sold
for 27,179,166 reals. By adding these figures to those of the
domains sold in the preceding month, there have been 35,159
domains sold, which were valued at 623,082,691 real., and re-
alised a nett sum of 1,375,347,543 reals.
The Fives were at 30 for cash on the 21st.
Undr

lder the head of " Literary and Parliamen-
imry Agency," among the advertisements, will be
found a prospectus of a new establishment, which
is much required, and we trust will ultimately be
successful. The mode in which Petitions to
Parliament, Memorials to Govennnent, and
statements on subjects connected with various in-
terests are drawn up, cannot fail to influence more
or less the parties to whom they are addressed; and
it ought, therefore, to be one of the primary ob-
jects of those interested to have them shaped in
such a way as to produce the strongest effect.
This appears to us one of the most commendable
features of the undertaking. Travellers, also,
who have taken notes of the manners, cus-
toms, and institutions of foreign nations,
but unacquained with the best mode of
exhibiting these remarks in an attractive form,
will find advantage by applying for information
on this subject from one of the parties who has
visited almost every country in Europe, who is a
good scholar, and well skilled in literary compo-
sition. The undertaking altogether is one which
promises success, and which we are convinced
will be fbund useful to different classes of society.
For particulars, we refer to the advertisement.

DARTMOUTH.—We are glad to say that the
Government have adopted the Report of the Commis-
sioners, and Dartmouth is now fixed upon as the Packet
station. The Government have acted in this matter with
great firmness and disinterestedness ; and we hope the
Dartmouth people, who are quite alive to the benefit which
the measure wili confer on them, will do all that they pos-
sibly can to improve the communication with their town,
and that the South of Devon will generally co-operate in
any measure to improve the communication with Exeter.
We understand that most of the contracts are taken for
completing the line of railway from Bridgwater—since the
line has been leased to the Great Western Company. The
admirable plan on which the Great Western line has been
constructed—a plan so compli-nentary to the sagacity of
the engineer, Mr. Brunel, and the spirit and enterprise of
the enlightened capitalists who stood by him—has placed
this line first in reputation in England. The Company
have attained immense strength in consequence; and, at.
far as we can judge, there is no doubt that, now it is
leased to them, the whole work will be completed to
Exeter within three years. The adoption of Dartmouth,
and the acceleration of the completion of this line, is a
fortunate conjunction, of which we hope the Dartmouth
people will fully avail themselves, by an endeavour to
make their communication with the line as perfect as air-
curntance. will permit.—Western Times.
THE FRENCH CAVALRY.—GeneraI Count de
Sparre has, according to the Echo de la Frontiers, arrived
at Valenciennes as Inspector-General cf the horses pur-
chased for remounting use cavalry at that town and Dun-
kirk. This Jouroal adds—'' The Remount-Commission
at Valenciennes. presided over by General Dandre, has
already received about 3,500 horses, and expects only be-
tween 800 and 1,000 more. The lowest price paid has
been 493 t., the highest 850 f. The first are intended for
the waggon train, and the last for the Carbineers. The
paymaster at Valenciennes has paid for horses to the
amount of more than 2,000,000 f. The prohibitions in
Germany against the expert of horses have not had any
sensible effect on the supplies brought to this place."—
Galignant's Messenger.
AFFAIR. OF tioNoux..—On Wednesday last a
duel took place in Rots-shire betwixt Duncan Davidson.
Esq., of Tulloch, and Hugh Ross, Esq., of Cromarty and
Glastullich. The quarrel originated in the proceedings
of the county meeting lately held at Invergordon on the
subjectvies, fir. Davidsonof the Prison
fired,onßoard.
as
we a
After
informed,rtheus ualprelirnina-
e"somewhat
in the direction" of hia opponent, and Mr. Ross discharged
his pistol in the air. The seconds now interfered, and the
principals having shaken hands, left the ground.--Inver-
mess Courier.