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of an increased expenditure under a Tory Ad-

ministration.

may perhaps boast as to Russia, they are com-
paratively of no importance whatever, unless
they be supported by the mutual and reciprocal
interests of the different nations. But the ob-
ject of the sulky national independence advo-
cated by the Tories, is to isolate England, and de-
stroy these mutual and reciprocal interests. When
they are at an end, treaties of alliance will not
be worth the paper they are written on, and con-
sequently, by denying us an extension of trade,
the Tories increase the chances of war.
With respect also to our colonies, the Tories ad-
vocate governing them from home. They always
have opposed, as long as possible, the wish of the
colonies to have an independent Constitution. The
wishes of the colonists being refused, they can
only he governed by force, and thus the Tories
may be expected to increase our expenditure in
relation to the colonies.
Report assigns the post of Secretary at War to
Sir H. HARDINGE, who is a great advocate for a
more rapid and extensive system of relieffor our
colonial garrisons; and if he act on his principles,
he must require an additional military force-
It is plain, therefore, that the Tories, who have
defeated the Ministers, and are preparing to take
their places because the Ministers proposed to
lighten the public burdens, cannot decrease the
expenditure, and must add to the taxes.
The most rabid enemies of the Ministers
never accused them of persecuting the mem-
bers of the Anglican Church by proposing to
place the Dissenters and the Catholics on an
equal footing with them, and nobody ever
dreamed that they would break out into re-
bellion, however much they might grumble,
because justiceiwere done to their fellow subjects.
At the same time their claims of exclusive pri-
vileges are injuries and insults to the Dissenters
and Catholics; and many persons 'anticipate,
when the Tories get into power, that their arro-
gant extension of these exclusive privileges will
provoke opposition and resistance from the Dis-

senters and Catholics. Injustice is ever very
expensive. The Tories, by continually refusing
to give equal rights and equal hinmunities to the
Catholics and Dissenters, act on principles of
injustice, and their Government will necessarily
be more expensive than that of the Whigs.
One of their greatest, indeed almost their
only measure, last session was Lord STANLEY'S
Irish Registration Bill, which, under a sancti-
fied garb, was exclusively directed against the
Catholic population of Ireland, who have already
expressed their detestation of that Bill. As a
Minister Lord STANLEY will bring it forward
again, and go far to provoke the Catholics into a
just and forcible resistance to him and his
measures. And we beg to inform the Tories, re-
assuring by the remark many of our Liberal
friends, that open and forcible resistance to the
Tories, with their bribed and bought majority, is
not rebellion. But if it were, rebellion against
tyranny such as they have practised would be
justified, and whether justified or not, it is very
very likely to ensue, if the Tories, as Ministers,
act on the principles they have professed as an
Opposition. Lord STANLEY'S Bill followed out

would be another source of increased expense
and diminished resources.

No doubt Sir R.' INcms will renew his motion
for Church Extension under happier auspices,
when his friends are in office. No doubt, too, that
Sir R. PEEL, who voted for that motion, will
give it his official support. His Ministry, there-
fore, will inflict an additional injury on the Dis-
senters, and will justly provoke their dissatisfac-
tion and resistance.

There is another great class of men in whom
Sir RORERT PEEL'S accession to office will excite

many angry feelings.

M. DE TOCQUEVILLE has

written an elaborate book to point out the grow-
ing and certain ascendancy of democracy, and to
recommend statesmen to endeavour to guide and
govern it. Sir ROBERT PEEL, however, as is
avowed by his adherents, is forced into office by
an aristocratic movement, to resist the demo-

cracy. The democracy are the many, the aris-

tocracy the few; and he, therefore, assumes

power to rule the many, in spite of their wishes,

for the benefit of the few. He acts consist
ently, for his whole life has been a sue

cession of defeats, battling against the
democracy. Every extension of the suffrage,
every plan to give liberty to the multitude,
and enable them to exercise a• fair share of

political power, he has most strenuously and
most consistently opposed. He will undoubtedly
abide by the same principle in office ; and hence,
on the partof the unenfranchised,—on the partof
the democracy, dissatisfaction, anger, and most
likely strenuous, if not violent means, to obtain
their rights, and give a legal expression to
their will.

In this statement we have plainly set down.
a few of the circumstances which will make the
Tories—who are about to turn out the
Ministers because they proposed to re-
lieve the people and increase the revenue—
augment the national expenditure, curtail the
national resources, and add to the burdens of the
people, w
wished to deceive. In our judgment,
have neither exaggerated nor
the princi-
ples of the Tories are vicious, their system of
Government most unjust, and we can anticipate
nothing from it, if Carried out in office as it has
been developed in Opposition, but a great increase
of public distress.

We hope Lord JowN RUSSELL'S disclaimer of
all vexatious opposition to the Tories does not
extend beyond the walls of Parliament. For ex-
ample, when the Tories accept office they will
have to vacate several seats, all of which ought
to he contested. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the
Whigs will surely exert themselves to oppose
the re-election of Tories.

We are happy to see that Exeter, which it is
supposed Sir Wm. FoLLETT will vacate, is already
prepared with a man to contest the seat, and that
Mr. BULLER has a good chance of being success-
ful. In the same manner every seat vacated
ought to be contested, and whether Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and the Whigs help the people or not
to harass the Tories, the Liberal electors will, no
doubt, du that to the complete conviction of the
Tories that political rogues, such as they are,
will never be allowed to•have any repose.
Every day brings to light new facts, and be-
fore those elections take place, many of the pre-
judices engendered by the Tories may be dissi-
pated, and they may afford to the Liberals an
easy conquest. We cannot even suppose that
Lord STANLEY, after his insolent and fallacious
speech to the electors of North Lancashire, can
safely calculate on his re-election.

We earnestly conjure the electors, therefore,

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- - - The Tories are much more hostile to France
than the Whigs; and the Tory Press has assidu-
ously endeavoured to excite the-anger and wound
the morbid vanity of France. They have
succeeded; and the feelings. of irritation which
now prevail will be strengthened by the acces
sion of the Tories to office. But the mutual
jealousy which exists between Fiance and Eng-
land is already a source of great expense to
both. They probably do each other
.more in-
jury from that cause than any other two nations,
and their mutual jealousy and mutual expene
will be augmented by the expected change in
our Ministry.
Moreover, the Whigs strove to extend
trade as a means of cementing peace be-
tween nations. They wished to open our mar-
kets to corn from Germany, Russia, Prussia,
and the United States, and all parts of the world,
which, establishing or extending commercial re-
lations with those countries, would be a guaran-
tee against war, and would enable us to lessen
our fleet and army. The Tories have strenuously
opposed the extension of trade. They will on
no account allow a regular trade in corn between
England and those countries; and their advent
to power must cause a diminution of national se-
curity and additional expense, without any in-
crease of resources.
As to treaties of alliance and friendly disposi
tions between Sovereigns, of which the Tories

of all the places likely to be vacated, to be pre-
,,pared with a man to oppose the re-election of
the Tory, and to be resolved to harass the plun-
dering monopolists to the utmost extent of their
me:lns. The striking imanner in which Lord
STANLEY'S speech has been shown up in several
Lancashire papers, will make it a complete dis-

grace to the Lancashire freeholders if that piece
of loud-mouthed gabble be again elected without
opposition, in order to misrepresent and starve
the people of Lancashire.

As the Tories begin to find out that the prin-
ciples on which they are to act, will not bear
looking at, they are putting forth claims to the
national respect on the ground of their moral cha-
racter. They are to be permitted to plunder,
because they.are well-bred and well-bG hayed. The
Whigs are paw-paw people, and therefore no
political principle proposed by them can be
good. The Tories are all decent Church-going
folk, and therefore they may do as they like with
the people's property. It is their boast that
they are unanimous in putting on a decent ap-
pearance and maintaining monopoly. *Like Vir-
ginia planters, they are the soul of honour to-
wards one another; the people they treat as the
planters treat their slaves.

It is quite amusing to notice the self-compla-
cency with which the Anglican Church monopo-
lists, who take to themselves the property
that was destined to provide instruction for
the whole people--the landed monopolists
who insist on starving the people down so
that they may just live on their estate and
must live nowhere else—the sugar monopolists,
who will not allow our people to consume a grain
of sugar unless it grows on their estates, and
pays a heaVy tax to them—and the mono-
polists of rotten ships and Canadian tim-
ber, who insist on preserving an exclusive
right to drown some two thousand seamen an-
nually,—it is quite amusing to notice how all
these resolved and determined plunderers of the
rest of the community boast that they possess all
the virtue of the empire, and that the country
will be well governed now that they and their
man have got the ascendancy. No doubt the
country will be well governed for their interest,
and the preservation of their power, but the rest
of the community will be enslaved. How
long such a species of misrule may last,
will depend on the patience of the insulted and
injured people.

We have received the whole of the French
Journals of Monday. The Constitutionnel of
that date has the following remarks on Lord
JOHN RUSSELL'S address to the electors of
London :
The plan of Lord John Russell is skilfully conceived,
and, if perseverinly followed up, and none of his
party should fall off; he will create inextricable
embarrassment for the future Tory Ministry. A
clearly defined position has the advantage of lead-
ing to a clearly defined course of policy. As Ministers
the Whigs were perpetually driven to compromise, some-
times by yielding to the Tories, at other times to the
Radicals, satisfying nobody, and eventually finding To-
ries and Radicals united as their enemies. The Whig
party has no longer any of these concessions to
make. In opposition it can say what it pleases.
Lord Russell clearly lays down the programme,
" Civil, Religious, and Coinmercial liberty." This is a
fine theme, and what is passing in England sufficiently in-
dicates the reforms which are still necessary for securing
the triumph of this principle The Tories who are not
terrified at the idea of political liberty, because, with the
habits of the country, power is the inevitable prey of the
richest and most sailful, have not the same toleration for
religious and commercial liberty. Whatever may be the
moderation of Sir Robert Peel, he will, on religious ques-
tions, be compelled to yield to his party. who make of
the Church the sacred ark of the old English constitution.
Lord Russell will not therefore be in want of occasions
for a struggle, and the griefs of Ireland will offer a vast
field of battle to parties. As to commercial liberty, it is
quite the question of the day.
The measures lately proposed by the Whigs, and
which led to the vote of confidence, will be resumed
with great advantage as a theme of opposition. The
Tories are themselves a little divided on this point,
and we should not be surprised if' a sensible altera-
tion were to take place in the majority on the ques-
tion of the Corn-laws. If, as there is reason to fear,
the harvest should be bad, the mass of the people
will throw upon the new Cabinet the responsibility of
their sufferings, and the Whigs will find all that popular
sympathy which, unfortunately, they have not lately
possessed. The position of Lord John Russell and his
friends is therefore good. A minority of nearly 300 is
always formidable, and the force of circumstances may
change the parts in the political drama, or at least act
so powerfully upon the public mind, that a new dissolu-
tion would bring about a majority for the Whigs.
The afternoon edition of yesterday's Sun con-
tained all the important news published in the
Paris Journals of Monday. The following ex-
tracts from them include what other paragraphs
they contain of any interest.
Lieutenant General St. Michel left Toulouse on the
22d, in the evening.
On the 22d, the President, who has to investigate
the affair of the disturbances, issued a warrant for the
arrest of an individual suspected of being one of the
ringleaders in the riots. The Journal of Toulouse says
that a search having been made at his residence some
firearms were found. He was taken to prison. The
agents who arrested him likewise conveyed a woman to
the same prison.

On the 21st, the Rector, accompanied by the whole
academic body, waited on M. Maurice Duval, who ap-
peared to be much gratified by this step, which he con-
sidered as a pledge of the sympathy and the co-operation
of the whole of the Learned Professors at Toulouse.
M. Duval took the opportunity to congratulate the
Rector on the conduct of the students, who, as we know,
took no part whatever in the late disturbance.—Le Con-
stitutionnel.

—We find the following lines in the Revue de Paris :
—" The Magistracy has not lost M. Plougoulm for ever.
There is every reason to.believe that it has not lost him
for a long time." Are we to consider these lines as a
confirmation of a report which was circulated two days
ago, that the first vacant seat in the Court of Cassation
was insured for M. Plougoulm ?—Le Commerce.
According to a letter from Vienna, the loss of the
Empress-Dowager by the house of Geymuller is about a
million of francs. Prince Gustavus Vasa is said to have
lost a similar sum.

Independent of the usual funeral service in all tho
parishes of Paris in commemoration of the victims of
July, there will this year be special offices performed in
the church of Saint-Louis and Saint-Paul, rue Saint-
Antoine, which is the same parish in which the column
of July stands.

nuring the first six months of the current year
there were born in Paris 10,500 legitimate children, 4,735
natural children ; the number of marriages was 4,400 ;
the number of deaths 12,660, and the persons taken to
the Morgue were 150.

The Minister of 'War has issued an order, that in
future all shoes and boots for the infantry and cavalry
shall be made rights and lefts.
The King of Prussia has just issued a Cabinet order
directing that, in future, any foreigner wishing to marry
a Prussian subject, within the territories of Prussia,
must produce a certificate of the local authorities at
home, attesting that, by the laws of such country, the
marriage can be contracted, and will be deemed valid
tliere

" The accounts from Champagne, Burgundy, and
Franche Compte," observes the Quotidienne, " represent
that the next vintage is likely to be a great failure, the
rains having spoilt the blossoms ; consequently the prices
of wines have all a tendency towards a rise. The vine-
growers of the south are equally alarmed for their
gathering, unless the weather should immediately change,
and remain warm till the end of the season. In good
lands the wheats are laid, and the barleys are too ripe.
In Franche Compte, in particular, the farmers are very
apprehensive.
A letter from Alexandria, in the Augsburgh Ga-
zette, says that every body round Mehemet Ali is now
learning English, and that the dragomans are taking
much pains to perfect themselves in the tongue. The
Pacha has the English Papers translated in all those
parts which relate to himself, and has had the speech
delivered by Commodore Napier at Liverpool printed in
Arabic, and widely circulated in Egypt. He has also
had the diplomatic papers communicated to the House of
Commons by Lord Palmerston carefully translated.
On the afternoon of the 13th inst. three vibrations
of the earth, from north to south, were perceived at the
Observatory of Vienna, and other parts of Austria, but
were so slight, that the inhabitants in general were not
aware of it. In the environs of Wiener Neustadt the
shock was more severe, but no accounts of any accidents
have been received.