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London, England, 1847-07-19 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1847.

solely with the institutions of the country! Truly we
were aware that the pride of upstarts was great, but we
did not imagine that it reached so high! It is a principle
say they. A principle! But we reply, with the charter
in our hand, that the sole principle of government is the
sovereignty of the people. The national will is at once
the origin and the term of all governments. It alone
creates them, according to its necessities, as it pleases;
and anybody must have a short memory to have for-
gotten already how that sovereign will destroys forms
which are contrary to its expansion, and casts into soli-
tude those ancient royal races when they pretend to
oppose their worn-out privileges to the eternal right of
the people. That Charles X. succeeding to his brother
Louis XVIII., who maintained that he had reigned 20
years when a foreign steam-boat cast him on our coast in
the year 1814—that those persons should have assumed
to be principles might have passed without ridicule. And,
nevertheless, when a meeting was held at the Vendanges
de Bourgogne without drinking the King's health, no-
body then thought of groaning and lamenting the con-
duct of Deputies who had at that period a dynastic
surface. And you wish and require that Deputies should
at present drink the King's health! Not only Deputies,
but the electors of Paris—but the press of Paris, and
that in the month of July, when the burning sun heats
the pavement, when from the heights wnich command
the capital we perceive the Louvre, where the people
were victorious, and the Tuileries, where they levelled
a throne, and the dust of the Carrousel, where the pe-
destrians trampled under their feet the fleurs de les
broken to pieces! But your adoration becomes ridicu-
lous by force of impertinence. You now style the King
the living, incarnate law! Good people, you mistake
yourselves for Louis XIV. In what article of the
charter have you found that the King was the law?
The law rules the King as well as the humblest of

rendered subordinate to electoral and Parliamentary cal-
culations. Ministers not supporting themselves on a
basis of public equity, or right, or virtue, seek strength
in the connivances of an ardent cupidity. In all the
regions of power they surround and envelop themselves
with creatures prompt to serve them. It is not merit
which gives title to favour—it is slavishness. The
Ministers have re-established serfdom in France, an
odious bondage, in which a man gives himself in ex-
change for a possession which ought to be the price
of honour and liberty ! We are obliged to confine
ourselves to general terms, for what crowns this orga-
nisztion of servitude is, that independence is a crime.
But who, henceforth, can hide from himself the fact
of trafficings which dishonour the country ? Who can
deceive himself as to the cause of so many for-
tunes, so many elevations, so many prodigalities of
power ? Does favour go to virtue ? Opulence to
modesty? Power to merit? Who is not alarmed at the
monstrous caprices which displace poverty and wealth, or
which sacrifice' honesty and services? On all this spec-
tacle no mistake can be committed by the conscience to
France. And if it be thus, if such be the conviction of
the country, how can we be astonished that when Minis-
ters buy the consciences of men, men in their turn have
the idea of purchasing the consciences of Ministers? Is
that not a natural exchange of corruption and venality?
And why should it be more criminal to tempt the cupidity
of a Minister than that of an elector? Before human
morality where is the difference? This simple question
is very grave, and we ask it of honest people. Ho-
nest people, take care! To prosecute and strike cor-
ruption in an isolated act is not to crush corruption, is
not to save France. France perishes because the prin-
ciple of corruption is at the bottom of politics; and as long
as that principle lives, it necessarily produces its conse-
quences. Ministers have need of this principle ; they
have often said that themselves, under the ambiguity of
their apologies. What is corruption they call influence,
action, exercise of the right of the State. That is, be-
cause their policy, having no strength in justice, they
cannot allow liberty to conscience! They mu-t make an
invasion in the private domain of man; that is all their
moral power. And then you have heard their irony ;
after having done violence to the free will of the citizens,
they cried, 'Do you feel yourselves corrupted?' All no!
the corrupted do not feel themselves corrupt, precisely
because they are so. It is the virtuous who feel that
corruptors are the enemies, the plagues of the liberty
and dignity of the people ! Honest people, quit your
security! France is perishing by Ministerial corruption.
Take care that impassibility does not resemble a sort of
complicity in this systematic conspiracy of depravation.
Call to yourselves, for it is time, all men who have at
heart the grandeur of the country. Protest ! petition!
speak! write! Let there be a league against the Minis-
terial system, which carries in itself the germ of public
degradation. The drama of the Luxembourg will not
be lost, if it be an occasion for honest people of all
parties to forget their quarrels in order to attempt to
save France."

citizens. He contributes one-third to it—he executes it
—he is bound to obey it—or, rather, as he acts not
without his Ministers, in constitutional language we
must thus explain your splendid phrase :—The
living and incarnate law is M. Jayr, M. Dumon,
M. Cunin, Gridaine, father, at Sedan! A fine incar-
nation, well worthy of adoration ! In truth, one is sur
prised to find to what a point the spirit of the Court, the
miserable spirit of subserviency, is perpetuated in this
country, notwithstanding the terrible lessons of history.
It might be said that the residence of the Monarch was
closed against the external air—that the movement of
generations, and the permanent progress of ideas had not
I been felt there. It appears to it that an intelligent,
active, powerful, and energetic nation like ours should
halt because a system has described its parabole—that
the immovability of the upper part ought to paralyse
the entire social body—that all France should be con-
demned to drag its limbs like a decrepit old man, because
it pleases all those who lead it to be from 70 to 81 years
of age ! Those are the men of the Left and the Lett
Centre, to whom they do the honour to attribute
some good sense. They perceive that the pre-
sent policy degrades and corrupts all parties. They
contend at the Chamber—their efforts are destroyed by
a majority of satisfied members. They propose an
electoral and Parliamentary reform—they are ridi-
culed, and told that the country is laughing
at them. They then address themselves to the
electors—the latter reply and appeal to men of every party
attached to the revolution of July who desire a modi-
fication of the existing system. A common feeling
unites different sections of the same party. Each brings
his followers and maintains his flag. A cry of anathema
is immediately raised because the national sovereignty
and the Revolution of July have been invoked in place
of the King! The Marseillaise was chaunted with en-
thusiasm, but Vive Henry IV. was neither played nor
sung, and Deputies were present! What a scandal !
And it is expected that this extraordinary manifestation,
of which the echo has been heard in London and in
Germany, shall be imitated in France! What an im-
prudent expectation! Ah! we are well aware of what
grieves you. It is because ao disturbances interfered to
derange this sincere and powerful expression of the
Parisian electors. It is because in that assembly of
1,200 persons the heat and excitement diminished in no
respect the dignified demeanour of the guests. Itis because
that amongst the 5,000 or 6,000 persons who responded
outside to the applause of the company, and to
the music of the Marseillaise, your police found
no opportunity to interfere to repress the slightest
confusion. This consciousness of right, which is gra-
dually penetrating everywhere, and which fortifies those
amongst whom it penetrates, afflicts you because it me-
naces your existence, and it becomes the more alarming
to you as it is consolitary to society in general. You
invite by your provocation agitation and riot. You
would have cried less loudly if an opportunity had been
afforded you to disperse the meeting as illegal. You
would not perhaps regret, crouched as you are in your
filthy den, that some violence should have assisted you
in creating alarm. Do not place any reliance on vio-
lence—that must come from you. We have waited pa
tiently for your system to produce its fruit. The coun-
try has seen and has tasted the poison. You are edu-
cating the naticn. You are enlightening the most blind
by the light of your policy. Parties have learned that
bad Governments are not destroyed by their efforts.
Bad Governments commit suicide, and you will not fail
to succeed in consequence of the care with which you
charge your weapons. Our part will henceforth be go-
verned by yours. You may act, we shall wait."
The Ministers, if they are wise, will henceforth
taboo this subject of the banquet of the Chateau
Rouge. The dynasty has nothing to gain by reviving
recollections of 1830.
Some short time since the Semaine hinted at some
unfair practices in the granting of a mining conces-
sion to the Talabot Company in Algeria. The
National, of Friday, takes up the subject, and
is more explicit in its accusations of unfair play. It
says that on November 9, 1845, four-and-twenty
hours before Marshal SOULT gave up his place as
Minister of War, four royal ordonnances were issued
conceding for 99 years certain mines at Belchita, in
Algeria, to the Marquis DE BASSANO, M. TALABOT,
and others. Since then the Marquis DE BASSANO,
the story goes, received a formal promise from Gen.
ST. YON to be accorded a concession of the copper
mines of Ain-Barbar, but in spite of that engage-
ment the concession has been since granted by Gen.
TitEzEL,',the present Minister of War, toll. TALLBOT.
The National demands, if it be true or not, that on
May 3, the representative of the Bassano Company
sent in a very energetic protest against the formal
and obligatory violation of the promise of his prede-
cessor. It adds—
" Is it true, that the letter from the Bassano Com-
pany contained very grave accusations against the em-
Algeria, of which proof
übbeligcivweonrk in
?s
" Is it true, that the matter in dispute was referred to
pwloayses offeredo fthe
toP
the Council of State, which declared itself incom
petent, in consequence of the nature of the facts alleged?
~ Is it true, that M. Talabot summoned a number of
persons to join him in making up a company ; and that
to a M. J--, one of the number, it was stated that,
before any union could be effected it would be necessary
first of all to set aside 4,000 shares, representing a
capital of 2,000,000 francs, to provide for contingencies
(besoins accidentels)?
" Is it true, that these
"were designated by the cabalis-
tical name of shares ?
The (Currier Francais of Saturday publishes the
whole of the deed of the society for the working of
the mines, with a capital of ten millions of francs, and
by which it appears that a fusion of coneessionnaires
was established in order to render competition im-
possible. The first paragraph of the deed commences
with the usual words, Entre les soussignes, and a
blank for their names, the reason of which the
Courrier says it will give hereafter. At the end of
this deed the Courrier says s..—
" Suppose a simple and honest man to have discovered
a mine in Algeria. He has devoted his time and his
money to trials and researches. He demands a conces-
sion for his discoveries, and immediately the society of
monopolists launches against him one of its members as
a competitor. This person is naturally supported, pro-
tected, and represented near the Government by its
managing • director, M. Talabot. M. Talabot is the son-
in-law of M. Cunin- Gridaine, and Marshal Soult is his
partner.
The competitor of the company carries the
day, and the concession falls.to the lot of the company.
industrial ho to succeed
How can the unfortunate pe
against the influence which is at the command of his
for a g land. The
competitors? It is the same
and obtains
forward a competitor
Society Talabot puts
it. Is not this an organized monopoly? This is thehaving
reason why the Compagnie Bassano,
nthe re-
ceived a positive promise that the concession
of cop.
be made to them
per mines of Ain-Barbar should
of the , saw
the Minister of War at the moment
change of the last Ministry hasten to give to .
resenta-
M.
Talabot a permission to work those
last, the mines. This is
rep
the reason why, on the 3d of May
tive of the Compagnie Bassano addressed to the
present Minister of War formal and binding
This is why the letter lively
nding engage-
remonstr remonstrances
against the violation of a -0
ment given by his predecessor. .
ed grave accusation
of the Compagnie Bassano contamorks
of Algeria, ands
against employes in the publ:c.w
,u
ort of the accusa-
offered to bring forward proofs in * pp
• •
ms.
victims.
Lions. We could cite the names of several other
How many persons applying for concessions have been
1 the Societe Tala
repulsed by the permanent coalition o
titors and it '-
bot! This society is an army of conspF
we Will b co is
always victorious. Why ? We say again e me
be given to us. We will ex-
aminemore explicit if' no answer
' s clause of the company's
to-morrow this mysterious
have this day been
deed of settlement.—` Other shares
Talabot, who
subscribed for by Messrs. Jules and
Leon
to join this
may transfer them to different friends. wishing
of
• to it the concurrence
present company, bringing In these friends to
their labours and endeavours.' Who are
whom Messrs. Talabot may transfer these other shares?
?
What are their names? What is the number of shares
Why this reserve, when in the deed all the other share-
holders, whatever they may have brought into the com-
pany, are named and described, an • d the number of their
shares inserted? This is a point upon which the public
has a right to demand a categorical and full explanation.
Messrs. Talabot cannot fail to give it themselves. We,
on our part, formally demand it of them. We are quite
sure that they will not refuse it from the moment when
we say that this stipulation resembles very much the
clause which was the leading point in the affair of
Gouhenans."
In commenting on these constant exposures of the
system, the Union Illonarehique says—
" Ministerial corruption is a system applied to all
parts of the State. Administrative justice is everywhere

It is too late now to call for a league against a
system which carries in itself the germ of public de-
gradation. Such a league should have been formed
before Paris was fortified. That which has been ac-
quired by fraud, whether in France or Spain, will
be maintained by force; witness the complaints of
the Ministerial and Palace journals of the attempts of
the Opposition to prolong the session, witness the
fierce denunciations of all those who took part in the
Reform banquet at the Chateau Rouge, witness the
camps of 25,000 men each at Compeigne and Lune-
vine, witness the army of 40,000 men to be assembled
at the foot of the Pyrenees, witness the constant com-
munications between the officials of the Palace and
BUGEAUD and NARVAEZ.

The 15th being the fete of St. HENRY, was cele
brated with great éclat by the Legitimatists. .

The Paris Bourse on Saturday was a singularly
cheerful one. Government stock opened at the prices
of the previous day, but closed at an improvement.
Shares were, however, in the ascendant. Northerns
opened at 567 E, and ended, firm, at. 575 E, being a rise of
8f ; Marseilles and Avignon, which fell to 620 f. on F:i-
day, rose 171 E; Orleans and Rouens rose respectively
71f.; Bordeaux, which closed at 480 f. on Friday, rose to
490 f. on Saturday.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Saturday at 77f. 75c. ; the Five per Cents. at 118 f. 70c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,280 f. ; Rouen, 970 f. ; Havre,
642 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 575 f. ; Avignon, 637 f. 50c._;
Vierzon, 587 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 490 f. ; Boulogne, 390 f. ;
Troyes and Montereau, 270 f.; Basle, 182 f. 50c.; Dieppe,
310 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 420 f. ; TOurs and Nantes,
395 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 430 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 432 t.
50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 457 f. 50c. ; Spanish Three per
Cents., 3214.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE,JuLY 17.

East Indian, 'Ai—Luxembourg, I%—Northern of France,
12% ex int.—Orleans and Bordeaux, SA—Paris and Lyons,
4%—West Flanders, 4.

UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA.
( THIS DAY.)
The annual general meeting of the proprietors of this
company was held to-day at their offices, 38, Old
Broad street.

JOHN CUMMINS, Esq., Chairman of the Company,
presided, and read the report, which stated that the af-
fairs of the company were in a very prosperous condi-
tion, and no loss of any importance had occurred during
the past year, while the amount of the bad debts had
been considerably reduced. The Chairman also read a
statement of the accounts, from which it appeared
that the liabilities for the past year amounted to
957,0661. ss. Id., and the balance of undivided profits
to 37,6771. 10s. 11 d., leaving a reserve fund of
50.008/. 11s. sd.

The report was unanimously agreed to, after which
the Chairman and C. E. Mangles, Esq., were re-elected
as directors.

The meeting then separated.

INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY.)

IN RE WILLIAM HAMBER, JUN.

The insolvent, a surveyor, was opposed by two of his
assistants, named Newland and Walker. He was sup-
ported by Mr. Nichols.
It appeared that the insolvent had been engaged in
the Great Leeds and Direct Railway Company, from
whom he now claimed upwards of 8001. He had em-
ployed about 150 men.
Newland, the creditor, stated that he was to have
been paid two guineas a day for his services. He op-
posed as for a debt contracted without reasonable means
of payment.
The insolvent denied that Newland was to have more
than one guinea a day.
The other creditor, Walker, claimed 81.
It further appeared that the insolvent had 1,100/.
owing to him. lie owed about 3,0001., and had a great
many creditors and debtors on the schedule. He had
been connected with several lines, and had employed a
great number of assistants.
The COURT a as of opinion that no complaint bad been
proved under the Act of Parliament against the insolvent.
The insolvent was discharged.

MARLBRO'-STREET--(THIS DAY.)
A Rica BEGOAR.—Michael Scanlan, a sturdy-
looking fellow, was placed before Mr. Hardwick for
begging in Oxford-street.
Police-constable Smith, 115 C, stated that on the pre-
vious afternoon ho was walking along Oxford-street, in
private clothes, when his attention was called to the pri-
soner, who was soliciting alms from every person that
passed, and if his wishes were not complied with he
began to abuse them in the foulest manner. Witness
watched him for some time, when he came up and
begged of him (witness) stating that he was without the
&cans of getting a night's lodging, and that he had not
tasted food for several days. Witness told him to go
about his business, and that he must not beg about the
streets. He then went away. Witness followed him into
the Nag's Headpublic-house, where the prisoner begged
of several persons, who refused to give him anything.
The prisoner then said, " if you will not give me money
I will have beer," and deliberately seized hold of a full
pot of porter, and nearly emptied it at a draught. By
the aid of the landlord, witness took him into custody.
On their arrival at the station, the prisoner was searched,
and 21. 13s. 3d. found upon him, secreted in his small
clothes, besides five pounds of bread in his coat-pocket.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he was too decent to
beg. The money was the produce of his own hard earn-
ings at haymaking.
Mr. HARDWICK said, it could not be allowed that a
strong man like the prisoner, with all that money in his
possession, should impose upon the public with a tale of
pretended distress. He should commit him to the House
of Correction for fourteen days, and a portion of the
money set apart for his keep.

THAMES.—(THIS DAY.)
Patrick Gorman, an ex-policeman, who was recently
dismissed the force for most infamous conduct to some
very respectable females, was charged with an indecent
assault on a married woman, named Eleanor Moore, re-
siding at No. 10, Brunswick-street, Commercial-road
East.
The complainant stated that she keeps a general shop.
On Thursday last the prisoner came into her shop, and
coming round the counter pinched her, and conducted
himself in a most shameful manner. She struggled
violently, and at last got away. He then took up a
ginger beer bottle, and threatened that he would kill her
if she die not comply with his importunities. He struck
at her, but missed his aim, and witness screaming, he
ran away. He came again on Saturday morning, and
said "Are you in a better humour this morning ?" when
she recognised him as the individual who had so un-
justifiably assaulted her, and a policeman coming by,
she gave him into custody.
It appeared that he was on the eve of sailing for
America, having paid his passage money. He offered
her two sovereigns not to press the charge, which she
indignantly refused.

This evidence was corroborated by a young woman
named Rosetta Brown, who witnessed a portion of the
occurrence, and saw the prisoner conduct himself in a
most disgraceful manner.
Mr. Pelham defended the prisoner.
Mr. YARDLEY observed that this was a most unwar-
rantable and scoundrelly attack, and sentenced him to
pay a fine of 40s. to the Queen, or be imprisoned for 14
days.
The fine was immediately paid.
Gorman then, with the utmost impudence, walked into
the witness box, and complained of his not having been
admitted to bail.
Inspector Scott said he did not think he should have
been justified in admitting a man to bail on such a
charge who was known to have taken his passage to
America.
Mr. YARDLEY thought the inspector perfectly right,
and if Gorman had any complaint against him he must
make it to the Police Commissioners.