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London, England, 1847-08-02 00:00:00

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LuNDON. MONDAY. AUGUST 2, ►s47.

Several of the constituencies in England and
Scotland have irreparably disgraced themselves by
sacrificing either men of distinguished character or
principles of the truest patriotism, by the most
sordid, the most contemptible, and the most splenetic
opposition. Edinburgh has in this manner, from the
pettiest of all possible motives, forsaken a man whose
genius, whose eloquence, whose liberality, and whose
consistent statesmanship were honourable alike to
himself and his constituency. In rejecting the Right
Hon. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAT the Liberals
of Edinburgh have gratified a momentary grudge, but
in so doing they have permanently separated them• I
selves from an orator and a legislator of consummate
ability. This electioneering apostacy on the part of
an important body of electors has risen out of an
ignoble emulation with the voters of Bath. Mr.
ROEBUCK is ousted after fifteen years of eminent
Parliamentary services; Mr. MACAULAT is dis-
comfited with equal callousness by the very men
whose interests he has been supporting with such
unrivalled oratory and such unyielding integrity
of purpose. Like the ingratitude evinced by
the people of Lambeth in throwing out
their veteran representative, Mr. IIAwES, that
of- the people of Edinburgh is without any
palliation whatever. It is as deplorable a piece
of tergiversation in point of sincerity as the rejection
of Sir JOHN CAM 110BHOUSE by the electors of Not-
tingham. The Liberal interest has lost in Mr.
Hawes and in Mr. ROEBUCK two strenuous and emi-
nent supporters. The Government has., in the ill-
success of Mr. MAcsim.y and of Sir JOHN CAM
HOBHOCSE, been grievously worsted for the time

being.
A miserable example is afforded to the minor con-
stituencies of the empire by the meanness of the po-
litical desertion of Edinburgh. It is not so much
because Mr. MACAULAY is one of the most brillithr
orators of the age —it is not so much b -cause he is one
of the most eloquent and majestic writers in the
English language—it is not so much b catue of the
scope of his literary attainment.;, and the superb
fecundity of his imagination, that we con-
ceive the electors of Edinburgh have evinced
extraordinary obtuseness of perception in re-
jecting. him. It is because, with these lavish and
beautiful evidences of Mr. Macs CLAY'S genius, he
combines the most generous principles and the most
staunch consistency. By rendering him the unsuc-
cessful candidate on the city hustings, Edinnurgh
has for ever severed the connexion hitherto main-
tained between herself and the present Pay-,aster of
her MAJESTY'S Forces. Mr. MACAULkY himself de•
Blared this on the termination of the contest ; nor can
we be in any manner surprised at the resolution or
the Right Hon. Gentleman, when we consider that he
bas been discarded, not from any positive difference
of political opinion between himself and his con
stituency, but from a sorry laroxysin of local ani-
mosity, under the transparent pretext that he was
disentitled to the suffrages of-the- E iinhurgh voters,
because he objected to pledge himself deliberately and
definitively to a particular line of conduct upon a
certain problematic question of a politico-religious
sclyi,raeter. In refusing to enter into this conditional
agreement, illr. MacauLay has sacrificed his imme-
diate chances of obtaining his old seat in Parliament,
la. he has thereby likewise preserved his character
linhi.emished. Not so.his late constituents. In pro-
posing this pledge they degraded themselv.s, and
lost a man of a capacious intellect, a sound heart, and
as pure conscience.
Glasgow has acted in a manner singularlYP o po
site. It has elected as its representatives twoeand:
dates qualified for that office by their official and
municipal experience. Mr. MAconenoa will, we are
eati,fied, fulfil the anticipations which have be,n
heretofore excited by the genius evinced by him
In political economy, both as a writer upon that science,
stud es a practical promoter of free trade in his capacity
vicretary to the Board of Trade—Mr. MACGREGOR
will, we are satisfied, fulfil all the anticipations thus
created now that he has obtained a passport to the
Legislative Chamber at Westinin,,ter. if Stockwip th
ort
has betrayed the popular party b; asspciating
Ni'. COBDEN a man imbued with all the Conservative
prejudices -of Mr. Ileano, Glasgow, at least, has
been true to itself and to the people by giving Mr.
ataccuisoCat PS a colleague to Provost 11LSTIE. Mr.
liaziats.w has been, rejected by Stockport, but Mr.
atts.coasoos has been accepted by Glasgow.
;AmohgSt all the vicissitudes of the general elec-
tionv— liuwever, it is most satisfactory to watch the
istracadinary success which has hitherto attended
Liberal candidates. Birmingham assumes a
in
posl-
only denied to it hitherto by a bewilder
sends two Liburais to Parliamentg
tivity if
cas----
Bradford "se= d 4 two-s-,Cambriage two— Chester,
cockernreth, Disaty, Devouport, Durham, Erb::
bttrgh, iFitAbury, tril..l.sgow, Greenwich, Hereford,
Kingston I-1 offs Issalbeth, Leicester, Liehfi,ld,
Macclesfield, )4•44151 P44401K AUrfitlhopap

Newtastle-upon-Tyne, Northampton, Nottingham,
Oxf..rd, Pieerh gh, Ponstnouth, P. eston,
li.;f•hatorol, Rochester, Salisbury,
andN ich, add, Southampton, Southwark,
Stroud, Taunton, Tewkesbury, Tiverton, Tower
Hamlets, Westminster, Weymouth, Wolverhampt,,D,
and 1V2,-combe--311 send two Liberal representatives
to Pirlimnent. Other places not enumerated in the
foregoing catalogue might, in like manni-r, he men-
tioned as sending two Liberals to the House of Cotn•
mons, considering that the avowed ti)llowers of Sir
ItonEwr PEEL are in all essential respects coincileNt.
with the supporters of the Government. Such con •
stitueneies as these are the cities of L. 1 and
ivcrpoo
Canterbury.

The elections in Ireland commence this day, and
for the next fortnight the peace of the Green Island
will be nisturbed by the conflicting clai.ns of Protec-
tionists, Conservatives, Tories, Liberals, Radicals,
moral .force and physical-force Repealers, et hoc
genus onine. The cutlet s of Conciliation hall have
been, and will be enriched by sundry 61. contribu-
tions, which, by a rather rermrkable coincidence,
flow in at this particular period with extraordinary
rapidity, from recent converts to the advantages of a
domestic Legislature. It now appears that such a
subscription is the sole test require d from a candi-
date to entitle him to the popular suffrages, and-flint
the most tried and faithful services ate to be lost sight
of, and disregarded, in the overwhelming claims of
the new five-pounders. No matter what might
have been the former opinions of the
donor, whether he fought under the Orange
banner, Or proclaimed his ultra-Tory princi-
ples at Conservative meetings—all is to be forgotten
and forgiven. Nay—no impertinent question will be
asked as to what changes may have occurred in his
political feelings. The 5/ -like charity will cover a
multitude of offences, and a plenary absolution wilt be
afforded to the liberal convert from every other sin.
While the Irish Secretary is to be opposed in
Drughed,i, and the Master of the Mint in Dungai-von,
the fiercest and most thorough -going opponents of
every liberal sentiment are to he suffered to wa.k over
the course, without even the excitement of a con-
test. It is a strange, an unaccountable inci-
dent in the history_. of the present erections,
that much fiercer hostility, more bitter ani-
mosities are excited by . some trivial and petty
differences between those who, in alMost every other
respect, are identical in IN laical teeliiig, than is telt
igainst those with whom there i, no sentiment in,
co:ninon. This has been remarked in R.gland and
in Scotland, but it prevails vi i ill tenfold force in Ire-
land. The out-and-out Conservatives are suffered to
remain unmolested, 'out in every Liberal constituency
a contest mostly takes place, even though a taveur-
able result may be utterly hopeless, and the only con-
sequence an increased expense and annoyance to the
Liberal candidates.
In many of the constituencies a triumph could
easily be obtained if there was a judicious
arrangement to semi-tine all the pother of
the Liberal electors in favour of some eligible
person, which will now, troin a blind obstinacy on
the Part of the Wit-Paters; he handed-evertO tile come,
met enemy. In Dub!in, for instance, such a person
as Mr. GEORGE ROE, the second Lord Mayor of the
reformed corporation, recommended to that high
office by the lsmented Liberator as his most fitting
successor, would moat assuredly be returned by a
large majority over either of the late Members.
There are many slithers of almost equal pretensions
who would doubtless gladly come forward and rescue
the Irish metropolis from the stain which must other-
wise be affixed to it, of sending two Tories to the
Imperial Legislature as its rep-esentatives ; but, un-

fortunately, they cannot swallow the repeal pledge,

_ .
or make up their minds to the required contribution
of Si.; and these are essentials which cannot be
overlooked. The metropolis is still to be tnisrppr!.

• .
vented by the " quarter-acre " advocate and his con-
genial associate. True it ii that a con-
test is still talked of; but, unless some
person with greater pretensions than Mr. JOHN
REYNOLDS can be submitted to the electors,
it will be vox et preterea nihil. We do not desire
to say anything personally disrespectful to tbat gen-
tleman; but he is certainly not a person in any re-
spect qualified to represent the chief city of Ireland.
Even Mr. FAGAN, a gentleman professing repeal sen-
timents, who was requested to stand as a candidate,
and had nearly been induced to do so, positively re-
fused, it h said, to he associated with him, although
he dec!ared that if any other Repealer, prepared with

,he sum of money requisite to atEml a fitir chance of

uccess, would consent to take the field, he (Mr.
FAG AN) would be prepared to coalesce with
him, and to make every exertion for suc-
cess. Surely some discretion should be mani-
fested by those on whom the mantle of O'Cos-
IVELL has descended as the leaders of the Irish
people. That sagacious patriot never suffered
a real injury to be infl,cted en the best interests of
his beloved country from u-eless and unavailing con-
tests; he never rejected the benefits that were ten-
dered for his acceptance on behalf of Ireland becau-e
they did not go to. the full extent of his wishes. No;
he gladly received every instalment of justice so his
native land, and avowed that he Vereby gained ad-
ditional strength to f-sable him ultimately to obtain his
desire-. lie knew where to 3 it ld, andalthough, when oc-
casion required, firm and unbending, he never damaged
his cause by reckless and wayward obstinacy. Hence
his peaceful t iumphs, his bloodless victories. By
these means he purged the sta•ute- hook of the atro-
cious penal code—he advanced the cause of civil and
rel ious liberty arid entitled his Roman Catholic
brethren to places in the Senate, and to a participa-
tion in every p privilege with the professors of
the more favoured creed. Had it been otherwise,
he would not have attained the European reputa-
tion he enjoyed, nor would his name have
gone down to posterity as one a the greatest bene-
factors of mankind ; the most successful popular
leader that ever lived, the attainer Of a bloodless
and peaceful revolution, and the vindicator of the
rights and liberies of his oppressed fellow-courrry-
men. Would that his children would follow in the
footsteps of their illustrious parent. Ar present they
are sustained by the prestige attached to his name ;
but it mast dekiend ou their ()is!' wisdom ani
ifis-
cret;on wh ther they will maintain their position.
Let their first qua stion he—how woul,l he have
acted in similar circumstances ? And if they
act in a similar manner they cannot err. lie
would never suffer the ultre-Tory, the uncom- -
premising. opponent of progressive reform-i, the
stickier for the abuses of bygone days, the yearner
aster Protestant Asc,raiency, and the palmy days of
Orange Administrations, to be sent to the Senate in
preference to the honest 1%-hig Reformer. Let them
act in a similar manner, and not be led astray by the
headstrong folly, the ridiculous absurdity of the
Young Icelanders, and their brainless leaders; by so
doing. they will advance their country's cause, and
prove themselves fitting successors to the great de-
parted. But. it othervei,e, they will only of trd an
additional proof of how seldom have the sons of
remarkable fathers maintained the position to which
they had been elevated on the strength of their pro-
genitor's achievements.

The Hekale of the 29t1; says—"
Accounts, which
may be regarded as certain, state that the French
Government has renounced every sort of intervention
in the affairs of S%itzerland. I<here will be nu more
notes in favour of the Sonderbund."
A letter front Tesino, of the 26th, states that five
waggons laden with ammunitions having arrived at
Lugaeo, for the use of the Catholic League, the
populace asaetnbled, and threatening to throw tte
ammunitions into the river, the regency of Lugano
resolved to prevent the transit until the decision of
the Vorort should be known.

SarArichctoiardhianvge tboeetnheope.4nugl vss6lluprgPI Gazette, Austria and
.'
with arms, and France has bee:, 3d'c,llg,
the
rancesahrue thing
rhe Sonderbund
surreptitiously. The supply by
er r-Idn
managed by M. (vizor in a manner completely
characteristic beenly
characteristic of that Protestant Jesuit. If asked
the Chamber whether he has assisted the Sondbu
by supplying
.them with field artillery, M. a
...UIZOT
can (acting with the same mental reservation as in
the utnir of the Spanish maraiagcs, and treating the
Chamber ~s he did Lord NORMANBY) answer nu! lie
has not given them cannon, he has only sold cal.nou
to them at a very low price.

Mairid journals of the 25th and 26th ult. have
Wives!.

General IRIARTE 11.3 arrivrd in Madrid. The Eco
del Comercio announce 4 that the parties who took
tbv qinek,iSer contract have paid up ti t•. sf:eond ie..
stlinent ta4ire it became due. COSTA CABRAL has
resivied the PortugueF:e embassy at Madrid, and his
resignation has been accepted.

tl"e have received the Paris papery of Fri:lay ard

Saturday.
The fetes of July base passed off without any dis•
turbance. The Revolution of 1830 commenced, it
will be reioefoly-red, by the publication of the protest
of the journalists against the illegal ordinanc sof
H A IMES X. On this subject we find the following
in the Presse:—

•• It is, perhaps. interesting to ascertain what has he-
c-rne. after seventeen years. of the journalists
sign. d the celebrated pro est. of the press to Jul), 1830
Of the tarty -our jourmilis:s who signed that act, whit
proclaien.ll a v.-volution, and cave the throne to th.
•an,il) of Orleans, eight are (1,001, Mvs rs. Larri guy.
Aria e, Armand Carrel. Ch .11as, 1.3.-rt, Au-
us e Fahr.. Ev4riste Du Moul:n; four have quittei-i
France, M. s Albert Stapter. Pla;,:lool, see;
Fez• . The last ha .; tak,-n an imp mini part the re-
cent revolution at Geneva Two nave bec tine Ministers,
Messrs. Thiers and De Remusat ; eight have become
Councillors of State, Directors-General. or Pretects,
N!es.rs. Ramie, Bilitard, Drjean (now Postmaster
Geneial), De Jussiou, Mignet. De Ilitizard, tiaujaret,
and Bohain ; tont have high offices under Government,
- Messrs. Caucho,s-L. more, Seisty, Ader, and Mou-sette.
One is a priciireur-4entril, M. Baibiroux ; anwh ris
a comail, M. Lev asseur ; two have become millitary
kius-intendans. M. 3,?. \radiant isnd Haim-slam; ; tour have
b 'spine ians,.M Avenel, Voss Rolle, and Gu)e't;
wo are din ctor, of ti;eatres, MM Leon t and
Itt,qutplan ; and Otte- directors of jour nil-, MM. Chain-
hot e, Corte, and Valentin de 14 Pelouz ; two went inr-,
trade, Ai M. Dibuchet and Dussard ; and la,tly, th. ee
as they were at first. joernitists, MM. Pierre Le'
ro x, Busoni, ant Sat-rims. Of this number eight Lave
heen or are at the present mom nt Members of the
Chamber or D. putie. namely— MM. Thiers, )e Remu-
sit, Chatn'uolle. D. Ju.s: en, De G uiz ird, D-jean, and
13aude._ The whole 'of the tort) • fair have received the
decoration of the Legion of H inour."
It has hitherto been the custom for all the journals
except_ those adv::cating Legitimatig priceiplei„ to
give the workmen a holiday on the last day of the
fetes ai,d to suspend the publication of their papers.
This year, however, the Presse, and the Journal des
Debuts have both joined the Legitimatist journals in
refusing to give their workmen a holiday in honour
of the revolution, and in publishing their respectivi,
journals. The Presse compliments the Journal des
Debuts on this, and recommends that the anhiversary
of the revolution should cease to be observed. The
other journal- are vt-ry severe upon the the tendency
thus t.itimi:Anketilv exhibited by the dynasty to repu-
' dizite its, origin.• We give the following from the
Autioned as an example of the feeling which at the
present moment actuates, we believe, the great ma-
jority of the people. of France : .
" IliMoUr to •he ;Journal des Debuts ! It is the /Wan
which yesterday ter: S. this cry of
Trio behatk,,u,,ht to be tlittered at it. The
• Posse thul. a. thiutile, tni-tit in that journal;„ the day
b. I ..rt. it had given an xcellent article availing the
Mini-tr) ; the next day it did an excellent thing in re-
fusing to join with the iitaimim.b as journals %ski -11
brated a. it fete ti versary o- Jut) 99 -Honour to
tlle Journal des liekutv ! The PresAe izes
tu. di-v-i.l) -altar) on political anniversaries. They
areailct.erially bat. ter- they keep up civil diSc .rd, an
it is oil coat aec not that this subluw, j uenet ealts:tor
a policy for which the uta;ntenauce. of material order is
not evsrything. for which the triumph ed moral order is
ttlso totnething, anti filch plac a tot ce bet WP.•II reason
unit nuignanitnity.' Tt.e.e are very fine sentiments,
and the triumph of mural order, at the present
time, would be a thing much relished in France.
But an utid.r tal.ding ought to tie come to.
Is the r voltrion of Jul) consider. d a lust, legitimate,
and enrnentl) moral act? If this victorious in,urre,tion
was on:y au outbreak of ph) siva! forte, ie.. it be so d •-
c,ar,4l: but in that case lei us he consistent; let us send
shout their business Louis Phillippe and his dyi ast‘, and
every ag..lit of the present Goverumeht! Let us tecal teat
heir of Charles X, and let the crown be rrstore.l to him.
Reasoning lead' to that c.tie:usn.n, and Alien the P, e,se
boats of being dynastic, it is completely nc, insistent. 'no.
dynas'y f.vis •utistitu•eil surreptitioush for another,
and the crhne of the Duke sit Oileatis merits execration;
he, placid on the steps of the throne, loaded with he
benefits of the I.ler nrai.ch, in ilace partakim.; thiir
bad fortune, has, accord rig to this, acc-ved a crown
'which ought to pollute his fiirehesd; and this contrary
to right; to obey the regulation of a blind force which

was not moved by any true idea, by any moral senti-
ment, which caused only an odious iniquity to prevail in
pl,ceot an eternal principle I In truth, the Pres..e. of
which the th. ory involv-s theSn• cot clio.ions, appears to
us more Itus,ian than Oth-ard ton the occaoon We
are obliged t., it, however, for its frankimss,
as it i,t; and challi-nged by it, the Journal des Debuts
will, without (Luta,. xplalo the e4u:se why it did not wish
to celebrate the anniversary of Julyl"
As a proof of the retrograde tendencies of the pre-
sent Government, it may be mentioned that a party
of respecteble ciesens at Seinur were ref used permis-
sion to celebrate the anniversary of the revolution, by
the Mayor, who stated that he had " received in-
structions to that effect from superior authority."
The Congtitationnel has the following, on the reply
of the Archbishop of PARIS, to the students, who
asked him to pronounce a funeral oration on °Tort •
NELL, in woich that prelate intimated that the Roman
Cathode bishops in France did nut enjoy full reli-
rious liberty. After quoting the observations of the
Archbishop, the Constitutonnel says :
" All this is not serious, awl the clerioil party subsists
upon very ridiculous para.!. xis. Ihe Arch,ish-p of
Paris ki:ows well as we d . that this pretended liberty
or the Catholic re.iLtion in Ir. land consis's in being put
out of the cm:mum.' I iw. A moil, worship is not fr. e
when th•4e who prole-s it are by that alone di vived of
the po:it.cal and soval rLhts which are enjoyed by their
fellow cit z as, are nut-them d with public charges w Inch
the rest hat, n tto hear, and are truly oppressed. The
Cathoiic retigio.. is not onty tree in France, bit has all
the favour of the 1.. w and tine State. We can compre-
hend a i'einatio by the decoy of freedom like that in
BsAginui, bi cause in lie,gium this freialoin amounts to
pity I ge and domination; but to demand such a liberty'
as is. nj,.y.d in I, eland is a to elcer‘ of the people. The
sophists of the theological school tansy he h4v - proved
their theme when they have only combined a parcel of
words. But the public Irliks int ► the depths of things,
and learn, how to uppreriate them. Gray.• tre.n, like
the Archbishop of Paris, are in the wrong when they
forget this."

The antstitutionnel is right. " The Catholic reli-
gion is nut only free in Fiance, but has all the favour
of the law and State;" but this is not enough to
satist. the Tara- Pretre. The liberty wh;ch they
r.-quire is not the l►berty of equ:iliry, tut the liberty
of superiority—the liberty of lording it over the Stare,
and of persecuting every other sect.

In the Chamber of Peers, on Friday, M. DUBOU•
CHAGE made some severe remarks on the conduct of
the French Government in arresting the Spanish re.
fugees, ai.d sending them as prisoners to towns in the
interior of France. The act was ju'tified lay M.
I )UCIIATEL on the ground of the existence of a con-
spiracy amorg: the. re:ligees to efr ct a counter-revo-
lution in S fain. The Alatquis DE Borssv denied the
existence of the conspiracy, and reminded M. I)u.
cux-ria, that he himselt (M. DUCHATEL), a Minister
of State, had actually aided the refugees in getting
up a conspiracy against EsPARTERO. The Minister
of the Interior insole no reply to this home thrust.
RonasE. Juts 31, THREE O'CLOCK —Tt.is was an-
other very heavy day at the Bourse, especi4lly in Itml.
way Shares, all of which, with only one or two exce-p•
dons, expc.rienc, d a further decline. Th,.! Funds were
4,ll,ilier. nod closed at very hWe under 4.- prices of
yes'erday. F4,r the Account, the French Thee per
Cents. have fallen 10c. ; the Five per Cents, have risen
sc. Fur Money, the Three pr r Cents. have fallen 15e.,
and Five per 1..e:11:4. 10e. hank or, France Shares are as
eoerday. uni Biallt 1 coOf. :quires not qnored.
Gannte on B ;ilk Shares as yesterday. Belgian Bank
Shares at 98u; Two and-a-110f per Cents. not qtvted.
Spanish Funds, nothing dune. Boman Las slightly de-
clined. Neapolitan Bonds are as at last quotation.
Railway Shares fur the Account, settling of AII=USI 3:—
Orleans have fallen 3E 75c.; 1-tou.,n, 6f 25..; Havres,
2f. 50.!.; A vignons, 7f. 50e ; Vierzons, 5•.; Bordeaux,
21. 50t.; Str.shings, If. 25c.; Lyons, If. 25c ; and
nobs, 2t. 50..; Northerns ate uuchater..,; Nantes have
risen If. 25., and C. trea 2f. 50.2 ; the St. 0, maim;
Versailles. gal s, and Boulogne* not quuttd. For Money
the business was very looked.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE,Juur 31.
Boul,,gne and AmienS, 14—C. Lott, 14—East Indian, 1/4"
—Great Southern of Nlatira,,li —Luxembourg, lA—Rouen
and Halm .stl—`'eat Flanders, 33k.

DEATH FROM BATHING.--On Saturday an inquest
was Lketi by Mr Bak r, at the Ad-in. and Eve,
View of t lie holy of Ben .itt e. aga ti 34.
.a•a'in wax maker, who was downed in the river Lea.
It appearkd in,tit the uvldellee Unit the deceased, who
was living at No. 5, Bru• k-,,tr. et, Bermondsey, on
Thursday last went to the• river Lea for the purpose of
fishillg off the Hackney marshes. Atter a short time
then- he was induced to bathe. Being able to swim he
plunged in, but was not I,.ng in the water when he was
obs«•rvnd to sink. The drags were obtained, and the body
was gut out in about a quarter of an hour. The usual
tn:llte.iarntn:
rwa:igeprtlie:
:trnieltissgo
.mht for the restorati"n 0: life, but
without. «ff,et. He t le:t a wife and six ehildr-ti. Ver-
us
41.rnemorial has been
Ver-
dict, " Areidental death." In mom (pence of the tal-
have
ut
i p.i.d with water from thea ilivaerrt
taken
theplace b this
griver,
h. u
ten the it -
hubitauta atitt oth‘r rrovito to bathe tu.
Li.feathe