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LONDON:
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1841.

The Tories are ly,:silyengaged in providing for
the security of plunder and the destruction of
liberty. They will not allow the people to have
bread, and they are preparing to give them
bayonets. Barracks, it appear; have been re-
cently- erected at Ashtoa and; Derby, or are
about to be erected. The Horne-ofEce has also
put Colonel W.Emysr, into eaiumunieation with
the civic authorities at Thlton, in order to get a
barrack built in that. town, ,or in its neigh-
bourbood.

On Wednesday last a meeting of the inhabit-
ants of Bolton took place to consider the proposi-
tion of the Home-otlice and the Horse Guards
to build a barrack there, if the inhabitants would
find a site. The meeting, though composed
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exclusively ot til°3e who pay the highest
rates, declined the honour, and declared that
they would rather trust theAPotection of
their property
to their' townsmen than to the
military. They did not
rhesitate to say that
they thought the .object o, the Home-office and
the Horse Guards was to make the starving
people die quietly, and place the community
under a complete military despotism. The
patriotic men of Bolton are deserving of great
honour for resisting the insidious proposal of Sir
JAMES GRAHAM, one of the leaders of the
landed interest, and for revealing the designs of
the Tories. We now see why Sir ROBERT PEEL
wished to have so lung a period for deliberation,
and what he is to execute after receiving the fitir
trial Mr. WAKLEY advocated.

We have already, more than once, suggested
the suspension of the Corn-law, by order in
Council, as au instant remedy for the public dis-
tress. Anything, however, so just, so honest,
so simple, and yet so eilicacioug, is not to be ex-
pected from the Starvation Ministry, whose
power and whose very boing depends on mysti-
fication, dishonesty, and injustice. A modifica-
tion of thiSSuggestiol is strongly urged on 11.3 by i
a Correspondent, and has already been men-
tioned by other Jonrnals, buy it is worthy of
being repeated. The distress at Paisley, Spital-
fields, &c., has been, or is to be, we hope, par-
tially relieved by charity. At the same time, the increase of the poor is great, and they must
be fed by rate-payers, many of whom are on the
verge of pauperism. Now, although we dare not
hope from the starvationists that they should I
give up their adored starvation law, it may
perhaps not be too much to expect even from ,
them that they should forego their tax on the
rood which charity s"PPlies. (ur Correspondent ;
ccordingly recommends the subscribers to the

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The Tories have found out a new..effect of the
Corn-law, though we have been told, years ago,
that nothing new could be said on.the subject.
''The law tempers prices,” it is said; probably as
fire and water temper steel, and give it a keen
edg-e to slay the opponents of those for whom it
is tempered. The Corn-law, by tempering
prices, slays the manufacturers. The only effect
before ascribed to the Corn-law was, that it
raised or lowered prices, or gave them stability„,
or made them fluctuate. To temper them is
a perfectly new effect, the discovery of which.
must be ascribed, we are afraid, rather to the de-
sire to mystify the question than make it clear.
Besides tempering price, the Corn-law is said
to lower the price of food, and raise the scale
of wages, which is the reverse`of the inten-
tion
of those who made it. They designed
it to raise and keep up the price of food. We
know that the law bits not fully answered their
intention on this pOirit. They calculated that
it would keep the price of wheat up to 655. per
quarter; it has only-.kept up that price to 565. If
it have lowered the price of food, and raised the
scale of wages—as the present condition of
society, the Tories will probably say, testifies—
it is only necessary probably to repeat the dose
and make it stronger. Give us another Corn-law,
and let the pivot be 80s., and the protecting duty
then 253. It is impossible to have too much of
such an admirable an invention as the law which
lowers the price of food and raises the scale of
wages. If the landlords have done this for the
people, then, indeed are they Gods, and worthy
of adoration.

It is impossible to predict what may be the
consequences of the threatened interference with

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the internal administration of Spain by a Confer-
ence of European Powers sitting in London.
With all its faults the Government of ESPAR-
TERO is more powerful and more respected at
home than that of Louis PHILIPPE. No secret
societies threaten its existence in the capital
and while an army of 50,000 men are requisite to
defend the person of the KING of the FRENCH
from the bullets of assassins, the REGENT of SPA IN
walks the streets of Madrid in perfect safety, un-
attended by a single soldier or National Guard.
Nor has the :R.EGENT acquired his authority,
neither does he maintain it, by being the tool of
any faction in the State. The Exaltados of Bar-
celona
find no more favour in his eyes than the
Christinos at Pampeluna and Vittoria. HiS guide '
is the Constitution and the laws, which, while
they secure the liberties of the people, uphold
the dignity and maintain the just preroga-
ti,Ves of the Crown. From the accession of
ESPA RTERO to the Regency, till the Christino in-
surrection, Spain was tranquil, and her Govern-
ment as firmly administered as that of any na=
tion in Europe. Now the Christino insurrec-

Lion was the wr•ork of France, and a handful of
Spanish fugitives, having no hold on the loyalty
or affection of that country. ESPARTERO but
put forth his hand to grasp his sword, when the
revolutionary faction vanished like smoke. In
Barcelona the news of his approach put the
Exaltadcs to flight, so that the Government is
now without an internal enemy. Can this be
said of France, with her numerous Secret Socie-
ties for hurling Louis PHILIPPE from the throne?
But then France is too powerful to-admit of fo-
reign interference, while Spain, on the contrary,
is weak. This is, in truth, the reason why the
latter is selected as the fitting theatre for dis-
playing the power of the new Holy Al-
liance. But if the principle be once ad-
mitted that such interference is allowable
in the internal administration of weak
States, a combination cf the Powers can easily
reduce any one nation to a level with such Go-
vernments as those of Portugal and Spain. What
a combination of the Powers made France in
1815, a similar combination could make her in
1845. If, then, she sanction foreign interference
in Spain, because French gold was capable of
corrupting a Spanish garrison at Pampeluna, she
may yet
.have to justify to Europe her retention
of a form of Government under which nothing
flourishes but regicidal and revolutionary con-

spiracles.
Should a Congress, of the character indicated,
assemble, we implore the Government of this
country to have nothing at all to do with it.
The honour and interests of England are bound
up with the freedom of, and the right of; volun-
tary choice of institutions by the Spanish people.
The people of Spain have, in the most unequi-
vocal manner, testified their attachment to the
Constitution and the Regency of ESPARTERO
and it is the duty of our Ministers, be they Whig
or Tory, to do all in their power to maintain both
as we now find them established. British To-
ryism
can have nothing whatever to fear from
the triumph of Liberalism in'Spain nor has any
nation in Europe more to hope froth the conti-
nuance of friendly relations between Govern-
ments, than Great Britain has from an uninter-
rupted friendship with Spain.
The letter of the Provost of PAISLEY will be
read with
place painful interest. The distress in that
cont to increase. From the returns
referred to in tl
6th of November letter, it appears that on'the
with h the number out of employ-
ment, together
those
risen to 8,841, and
is now 9,701 ; thus increasingdependent on them,
was 7,884; on the 13th it had
at the rate of about
1,000 per week, and formincr
according
one
fth part of the
whole population,
to the last
census
5. which,
towns of Johnstone,
las
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distressof relie
fperxe--
Kilbarchan, and Barrhead, similar •
vails, without the slightest prospect
cept from the hand of charity. Unfortunately,
however, Paisley and Spitalfields are not the
only places where the poor are driven to the
last extremities. Every manufacturing town
more or less suffers from the same cause. Men,
ashamed to beg, are dying of want in the richest
country of the world. Such a state of things
cannot be allowed to continue. The rich must
come forward liberally in every district, as they
are now doing in London for the distressed
weavers of Spitalfields. Let this example be
imitated, and then the poor of the land will
look fbrward to the dreary winter months
without the dread of starvation. We rejoice to
learn that the best feelings on the subject prevail
in the City, and that the Spitalfields Committee
have every prospect of support in their humane
endeavours to relieve the sufferers.

The Moniteur contains the following tele-
graphic despatch from Bayonne, with the latest
intelligence from Spain :
" Van Halen entered Barcelona on the 15th, His

Mendicity Society, to the Paisley fund, and to
other charitable societies, as well as the borne
down rate-payers, to petition the QUEEN, and
implore her benevolently to pass an Order in
Council to allow foreign grain and provisions of
all, kinds to be imported and taken out of bond
for the use of the suffering poor without paying
anS, duty. Her MAJESTY would cheerfully con-
sent to the prayer, and hasten to grant it, as soon
AS its purport was known ; but her masters and
our tyrants will frame a thousand objections to
'such a scheme, and will allege as an excuse for
their sordid hard-heartedness that the plan
would be impracticable, that others than
the poor fed by charity--that the half-starved
workman,would by these means obtain cheap
bread, and they will prevent her MAJESTY from
assenting to so reasonable a request. It would
be of no use, we are afraid, to state that the un-
taxed
food might only be issued to the respon-
sible officers of charitable associations, and of
the Poor-law unions. The men who refused to
allow foreign corn to be ground in bond, lbst a
gain of the untaxed bread should pass into the
stomaelmof the hungry labourers, who feed and
elotheYselelty, are capable ofanything; and they
will, nitl,3'Elikely,refuse even this little diMinit-
tion oCtge cruel wrong they inflict on their
brethren: We mention the matter,' however, in
obedience to our Correspondent's wish, and add
that the only way to obtain even this trifle is
for all the persons who subscribe to relieve dis-
tress also toitinititi petitioning that the provisions
bs'.- •
neeessary 42140, the poor may be imported
duty free.

THE S

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troops occupied all the posts without resistance.
city and the province have been placed in a.s,tos: t. 4 4iege.
The Regent was still at Saragossa on the ,14th.,
" The members of the Radical Junta of Barcelona em-
barked on the night of the 13th, for London, passing hY
France.

" The demolition of the citadel has been interrupted.
" The Regent has published a, proclamation directed
against the Exaltados."
The fugitive Junta landed at Marseilles, but the
French Government ordered them to re-embark
for London', as by their abuse of France, they
had rendered themselves unworthy of French
hospitality. , The following is a copy of the Pro-
clamation of General Espartero, alluded to in
the above telegraphic dispatch :
" Spaniards—On the 18th inst. I addressed you with
a soldier's feelings, and with the authority of the first
Magistrate, charged -to watch over the happiness, pros-
perity, and liberties of Spain. I announced to you
my departure from . the 'capital, with the view ,Qf
stifling at the birth, a fatal and perfidious revelt,
which threatened destruction to all. The patriotism of
the army and national militia, and of every Spaniard
worthy of that name, transformed my expedition,
into a march of triumph. The designs of the ene
mies of justice were frustrated by the loyalty and bravel,
of patriots. Between' revolt and victory there were but
a few short moments, and those who fancied to raise-
themselves on the ruins, of the nation fell first. Spain
hailed with enthusiasm this triumphant day, and gave'
herself up to the agreeable prospect 'of the consolida-
tion of a peace alwaya so, much desired, and now more
than ever, when fresh sounds of discord burst upon her
ears, announcing an attempt on the, laws and on the dig-
nity of the Government. Thus were our pleasing illu-
sions replaced by bitterness.
" A handful of turbulent men, enemies of the public
repose, allowed themselves to be carried away at Bar-
celona by a remarkable act of violence, rendered more
odious still by the circumstances which accompanied it.
In contempt of the laws, they destroyed a public
monument, the property of the nation ; they abused
the confidence which had placed in the hands of the
national militia the guard of walls which have been
destroyed by them ; they have despised the voice of mili-
tary authority which called for the disbanding of the mili-
tia; and, finally, they have furnished the scandalous sight
of deciding by brutal force what was the peculiar attri-
bute and deliberation of the Cortes and of the Govern-
ment. The citadel of Barcelona threatened neither the
property nor the liberty of the population of that indus-
trious town. Could suspicions be entertained of the pre-
sent Government, whose observance of the laws is their
first rule of conduct ? Was not this fortress confided to
the patriotism of the national militia ? Was it
noble thus to profit by the absence of the brave
soldiers who had gone to shed their blood against
the enemies of the country ? Spaniards, this act was
accompanied and foil-owed by other acts of violence in
which a Junta, calling itself One of safety and vigilance,
constituted itself master of property, and created itself
as an arbiter of the destinies of a whole province, and
usurped the functions of the powers of the State,
at the very moment when the Government was watch-
-with the greatest solicitude, over the observance
of the laws.' These events have been heard of through-
out Spain with disapprobation. The Regent would
be wanting in duty to the nation and to justice if he
left unpunished violations of the laws, and if the princi-
pal and guilty instigators were encouraged to commit
fresh excesses. Have confidence, Spaniards, in the jus-
tise which animates a Government cemented by the laws.
The arm, always raised for the defence of the Consti-
tution and of public liberties' well knows how to re-
press all the excesses produced by the abuse of that same
liberty.
(Signed) " THE DUKE OF VICTORY.
(Countersigned) EVAOST SAN MIGUEL.
" Saragossa, Nov. 9, 1841."
The Report of the Peers on the treason of
QUENISSET and his accomplices is the subject of
fierce contentions in the columns of the Paris
Press. The Opposition Papers laugh at the Re-
port, while the Ministerial Journals are moving
heaven and earth to prove that it does not in
the least exaggerate the danger that threatens
France. Hear what the Court organ, the
Presse, says upon the subject :-
4. It is pretended that the smallness of the number of
the adepts of these under-ground sects and associations
ought to prevent our feeling alarm. The Report, it is
said, mentions only about sixty of them, and there are
not 1,200 to be found in all Paris. Persons who talk
in this way may, if they please, console themselves
with the reflection that there are not 1,200 political
assassins in Paris. But unfortunately the disclosures
of the Report have but raised up a corner of
the veil which conceals the extent and projects
of secret societies. Is it to be supposed that
this plot, which is fostered by the Communist and
Radical publications, this permanent plot, which has its
seat in the bosom of secret societies, had its only or its
principal establishment in the public-house of Colom-
bier ? Is it not evident that the conspiracy now before
the Court of Peers is but a fraction, and that a very
small one, of a more general conspiracy ? Is it not evi-
dent that there are ramifications established between
these various subversive associations ? The anti-social

propaganda, which is revealed to us by the present pro-
secution is not confined to an obscure corner of one of
our faubourgs. There were only 60 persons at the meet-
)ings of which we hear, and there were not 60, perhaps,
surrounding Quenisset on the 13th September ; but how
Many were there on the 12th May? Were not the same
associations at work on the 12th May ? was not the
same anti-social object aimed at ? and were there not the
same oaths, and perhaps the same secret chiefs ? If the
' Report of M. de Bastard does not expose the whole of:
the odious truth, it shows, at least, plainly and clearly,
the intimate connection of the parties engaged in the
attempt of the 13th September with those who were con-
cerned in all the preceding attempts."
Does the Court really want the heads of a few
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of the poor wretches now before the Peers ? It

really looks like it; but suppose we admit the
statement of the Presse to be true, can a greater
libel be written upon the ORLEANS dynasty ?
Of what use, then, are the September laws,
and the laws against Secret Societies? What
has France gained by the Revolution of July
if such be her present social condition ?
If the Peers have only lifted a corner of
the veil that covers the moral gangrene
that pervades the social system of France,
the much-talked of London Conference of
the Great Powers will find more to occupy their
attention in France than in Spain. In recog-
nising the mischievous principle of interfering
with the internal administration of other States,
France has authorised the other Great Powers to
draw round her that cordon sanitaire with which
Louis PHILIPPE is so eager to encircle less
guilty and disorderly Spain.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, as
the King was returning from Versailles to Paris, a stone
was thrown at his carriage by an individual standing on
the side of the road. The miscreant guilty of the at-
tempt effected his escape and could not be overtaken.
A Constantinople correspondent writes:—" A rene-
gado, named here Mahmoud Effendi, who was physician
to the late Sultan, died recently, without his real name
and family having been positively known. It is now said
that his real name was Fromann, and that he was a na-
tive of Coburg. In 1809 he was a surgeon-major in the
Austrian army, and in 1815 was involved in a plot for
carrying off the Duke de lteichstadt ; but, being disco-
vered, fled to Constantinople, and there became a Maho-
metan, and physician to the Sultan. The Turkish Go-
vernment, in violation of his will, by which he bequeathed
his large property to a young Greek, called Youssouf
Effendi, has seized ,the whole to itself • declaring the le-
gatee to be a Giaour,,or infidel, and therefore incapable
of inheriting. He has made a petition to the Sultan,
but can have no hopes of its being available."

The fire at the Chateau de Barante, in Auvergne,
which we have mentioned, consumed one entire wing,
but was stopped before it reached the main building.
The loss is estimated at from 30,000 fr. to 40,000 fr. The
part destroyed was the richest part of the chateau, and
some family portraits, with other valuable pictures, are
said to have been lost.

The assassin COllot, who was condemned to death by
the Court of Assizes at Lyons for the murder of his
uncle some time ago, was executed on the 16th instant
at Lyons. When the rejection of his petition for pardon
and the warrant for his execution were brought to him,
he was awakened from a profound sleep, into which he
fell again as soon as the reading vas finished. He pre.;
served the same coolness till the last moment.
A melancholy accident took place at three o'clock yes-
terday morning, at the Hotel de l'Earope, in the Rue do
•Rivoli. Mr. Charteris, who was residing there with his
family, set fire during the night to his clothes and other
articles in his room, and then precipitated himself from
-the window, which was on the third storey. The unfor-
tunate gentleman in the fall broke both legs and frac-
turad his skull; he was picked up in a state of perfect in-
sensibility, but notwithstanding the assistance of 1)r.
:Benin and Dr. Higgins, who were immediately called
in, was too seriously injured to survive, and died in two
hours.

A man named Glemee was executed at Rennes, a few
days since, for the murder of his wife. His behaviour was
suitable to his position; he received the spiritual su,:-
cours of the chaplain with resignation, and admitted the
justice of his sentence. On the scaffold, the executioner,

contrary to the usual practice,
had placed the coffin in-
tended for his body close by the fatal plank, and the cri-
minal on beholding it was observed to shudder violently;
in other respects lie conducted himself with firmness. An
immense crowd was assembled on the occasion.
The Prefect of the Dordogne has adopted a system,
which, if general, would be invaluable to the historian.
He has °paned a rem
ster, in which is to be inscribed,
with due authentications, a summary statement of every
remarkable event that occurs within his department,
such as the erections and demolitions of public or private
buildings of interest—important occurrences—storms—
epidemic diseases-LActs doing honour to individuals and
families—in short, every event and circumstance whit&
may furnish historical materials for posterity.
Among the numerous visitors who have waited •on
Lord Cowley sincehis arrival has been a deputation from
the "Dames de la Halle," who came to offer his Excel-
lency an enormous bouquet, with the congratulations of
the "illustrious" body they represented. His Lordship
received his "fair" visitors with the utmost good nature,
and acknowledged their civility by a handsome gratuity.
The ladies, on coming down stairs, strongly pressed the