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LONDON:
MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1841.

Lord STANLEY, in his address to the elector s
of the northern division of Lancashire, assumes
the livery of the Whigs. " C have ever been,"
he says, " a friend to civil and religious liberty,"
and then he enumerates the good measures he
supported while he was a very junior, but a
rising member of the Whig party. He claims
the confidence of the Tories on account of his
Whig principles. He boasts of no present per-
formances, but of what he did before he forsook
his friends, and became an apostate, because he
had been bred a bigot.
"I cordially supported," he says, " the removal of
political disabilities on the ground of religious opinions,
whether of the Roman Catholic or of Protestant Dis-
senters." . .

That was in 1828 and 18.29. Why has he
not since supported the claims of the
Dissenters to be relieved from Church-
rates ? Why did he not support the attempt of
the Whigs, after cutting off under Earl GREY
ten Irish bishoprics, to give the Catholics a small
share of that national property intended for the
encouragement of religion and learning, which
was originally appropriated to all the people,
and from a share in which certainly Roman Ca-
tholics, who constituted the bulk of the nation,
were not excluded? Why, if Lord STANLEY
has ever been, as he says, a friend to religious
and civil liberty, did he separate from the Min-
ters the instant they attempted to appropriate a
small portion of this property to the educa-
tion of the Catholics ? Surely it is inconsistent
with both civil and religious liberty to be com-
pelled to support a Church Establishment, which
men regard as not teaching the true religion.
But the Protestant Establishment in Ireland is
almost entirely supported by the labour and
property ofßoman Catholics; and Lord STANLEY,
lover of civil and religious liberty as he is, left
the Ministers because he insisted on extorting
-import from the Catholics, and would not
the smallest share of it. Why was
Childishly inconsistent? He

that
allow then,
Lord STANLEY

answers,
mi
" I never considered that the
1,-- nciples of religious li-
berty were inconsistent with the main. mince, by the State,
of the national religion ; nor that the remo 7a,1 of invidious
distinctions, and a perfect equality of civil rigli 4of were in-
compatible with a firm determination to suppcnl". uphold,
and strengthen the National Establishment as an itt:egral
and most valuable part of the British Constitution."
In this passage the phrases " national reli-
gion," and " National Establishment," both

mean the Anglican Church, and Lord STANLEY
does not think it incompatible with civil and re-
ligious liberty to uphold that Establishment
against the will of a majority of the Irish. It is
not, according to his doctrines, a trespass on
civil and religious liberty, and civil and religious
rights, to make men pay fur a Church which
they regard as unchristian. If Lord STANLEY
were a Roman Catholic, he would equa?ly make
the Protestants pay for his pet religion. It is pl.-iin
that he has not a just conception of civil and re-
ligious liberty, and that he sacrifices both with a
view to secure political power and wealth to his
own sect. An inquisitor acts on the same prin-
ciple, but he carries it a little further than Lord
STANLEY can carry it in this country.
Lord STANLEY'S next boast is—

" I was of opinion, prior to 1830, that the lapse of
time had produced abuses in our representative system
which required to be corrected ; and I warmly sup-
ported the measure of Earl Grey, which aimed at sub-
stitutin a real for a nominal representation of the
people in the House of Commons."

And why does not Lord STANLEY now carry
out that which Lord GREY aimed at ? Why has
he essayed to substitute a nominal for a real re-
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might be protected from the threats of wealthy
lordlings? His answer is—
" I looked upon that measure (the Reform Bill) rather
as a protection against, than an introduction to, perpetual
change ; and I am prepared to resist endeavours rashly
to break in upon a settlement so recently made, by alte-
rations of a more democratic tendency."
He will not now carry out the principle he
adopted in 1830. He has shrunk back affrighted
from his own work, and gone over to the Tories,
but he shows his respect for the principles he
has deserted, and demonstates his belief that
they prevail among the electors to whom lie ap-
peals, by putting them prominently forward, and
claiming credit as a servant of the good and
noble cause which he has deserted and be-
trayed. If that should be doomed for a mo-
ment to be in a minority in the House of Com-
mons, which for the honour of our countrymen
we will not believe till the fact be recorded
by votes, it must only be to obtain a more cer-
tain and speedy triumph, since Lord STANLEY
promises himself success by hoisting the colours
of freedom.

Lord STANLEY strove in 1836 to form a
party of his own, and at that time, as his
communication to Mr. HANDLEY proves, placed
no confidence in the Ministers. If he found it ne-
cessary to tell the electors that he had not confi-
dence in them, he might have accompaned it with a
true statement of his reasons. Since 1835 he
has been zealously endeavouring to circumvent
and overthrow the Ministers, yet he assigns as
reasons for not confiding in them their conduct
since 1839. Nay, he has lost confidence in the
Government, he says, because " they brought
forward, in 1841, such a question as the Corn-
laws with a distinct avowal that they have
no expectation of being able to carry it."
He avows himself a friend to protection
and the fluctuating scale; be is a friend
therefore to plundering the consumer for the
sake of the landlords—a friend of restraints on
commerce—a friend to dealing with false mea-
sures—a friend to the accursed system which im-
poverishes the many for the sake of the few; and
he expects, we presume, to be believed, when he
At the same time describes himself as the friend
to civil and religious liberty. terrible mistake.
Lord STANLEY may delude himself by well
rounded phrases ; at that he is an adept; but
he will not deceive the clear-headed
men of Lancashire.
down, with his fluctuating protective
will set him
his desire to strengthen the Church,duty,
as
t and
e
de-
clared foe of civil and religious liberty , and they
well know that he is r.upported by men who are,
like himself, foes to both. He is a renegade,
who still wears the colours he has deserted and
betrayed; and were he to be expelled from the
representation of North Lancashire, he would
meet with his deserts.

certain,
Whichever party may have majoritytilleue
in
the new Parliament, one thing s git
the counties and the towns will take opposite
sides. The Tories boast that several county
Members have been obliged to resign; and the
Whigs boast that several Tory borough Members
will not be returned. Thus we shall certainly
have in the next Parliament the Members for
the towns ranged on one side, and the Members
for the counties ranged on the other. The old
feud will be revived of the country against the
town; the contest will be one of substantial mate-
rial interests—nothing shadowy and uncertain—
nothing vague and nationally unimportant, like a
contest whether one nobleman or another shall
hold the seals of office, but a contest between
great social interests which, according to the
theory of society, are one and the same.

We look on that, as a much more serious
matter than whether Lord MELnotTnNE-or Sir R.
PEEL shall be Prime Minister. These statesmen
now stand at the head of great adverse social in-
terests, not merely political parties, and they
number their adherents, not by hundreds in the

Home of Commons, but by millions in the
country.

How come the people, who are' said to have a
common interest, to be thus banded against each
other ? Why should town and country—which are
mutually and reciprocally as beneficial to each
other as area weaver and a spinner, one being the
customer or the mark et for the produce of the other
—be thus drawn up in hostile array. The Corn-
law, which enables the country population to ex-
tort from the town population more than properly
belongs to them, is the source of the animosity.
It is the necessary consequence of the law, and
must be reckoned amongst the benefits or evils
that it inflicts on the country.

The conflict between such material interests
seems to us a great evil; but it will continue as
long as one receives a very undue preference to the
other. We must inform the Pro-Corn-law men
that the contest which they deplore, and which
is heightening every day, is one of the beauties
of the system which they uphold ; and town will
be arrayed against country, and country against
town, to the great detriment of the peace and
happiness of society, till the cause of the dispute
be removed.

A new candidate has started for the Tower
Hamlets, an old Member of the House of Com-
mons, and remarkable in that Assembly only for
the fickleness of his character, namely, the re-
jected of Worcester, GEORGE R. ROBINSON. He
represented Worcester in the garb of a Liberal,
he spoke, and long tedious speeches he made, in
favour of reform and free-trade, and when the
tide went strong in that direction he was always
found in the majority, but whenever there was a
nice balancing of parties, he never failed to vote
against his Liberal constituents, and join with the
aristocrats who resisted to the last gasp the
Reform Bill. We always put him and another
ejected Member for a northern borough, of the
same Christian name, down as wolves in sheep's
clothing, and we have not been mistaken. Mr.
ROBINSON comes forth now as a true Tory, and
in an address to the electors denounces the " weak
vacillating policy of her MAJESTY'S Ministers,"
but, at the same time, takes care to keep a loop-
hole open for jumping into place whjchever party
may prevail. "To the alteration of the Corn-
laws and the Sugar and Timber Duties," he says,
" under the circumstances in which they were
brought forward, I am decidedly opposed ;
but it would be my duty to give to any
proposition that might be made for their
improvement the most impartial and delibe-
rate consideration." He is thus prepared
to give any vote that suits his convenience, and
we know well from his past conduct to which
side he would give it, should the Electors of the
Tower Hamlets be deceived by his professions.
The Whigs would give him nothing, because
they could not trust him, and when he lost all
hope in that quarter, he shook off the dust of his
feet against them and joined the Tory camp.
We do not blame him rashly ; his own address con-
firms the worst suspicions of every Liberal
elector of Worcester. No one accused him of
asking for profit or favour, but his guilty con-
science could not conceal the truth, and he there-
fore comes forward with these pompous declama-
tions,"bound by no obligation to either party, seek-
ing no favour from any Administration, my object
would be to promote your welfare and serve the
country." We see there are four Liberal can-
didates in the field opposed to this patriot, whose
only object ~.4 " to promote the welfare" of the
inhabitants of :lie Tower Hamlets. They are
not mad enough, we confidently hope, to divide
the Liberal interest, and allow the numerous
and independent constituency of the most popu-
lous borough in the metropolitan d!.stricts to be
represented by a renegade. Let them tiicrefore
consult together in time—let the weaker giv.:
way to the strongest, and save themselves from
the reproarl of contributing to the success of a
party who havd ever shown themselves the ene-
mies of the people. _

The battle begins to-day, and it is encouraging
in London to know that the spirit of the people
in the manufacturing districts in excellent. There
Southwark, we presume, where there is no op-
position, will be the first return made. Let the
City, on Tuesday, only show itself worthy of its
ancient honour, and all will go well. In and
around the Metropolis one-fifteenth part of the
population of the whole empire is concentrated,
In that space there is a still larger portion of the
wealth and intelligence of the empire. The ex-
ample, therefore, will have a powerful in-
fluence over the whole. Let the citizens of
London remember that the fate of the empire
mainly depends on them, and as they do_or neg-
lect their duty, so will the country be prosperous
or miserable, and they be „honoured or despised
in time to come. To vote for the Tories anre-
straints on trade, to vote for more taxes and less
freedom, is to commit a great social crime, The
only honourable course is to elect the champions
of free-trade, and of providing for the exigencies
of the State without adding to the burdens of the
people, by great and triumphant majorities.

Besides the ordinary French snail of Thursday,
bringing the Paris journals of that date, we have
received, by Extraordinary Express the sub-
stance of the news in Friday's journals. The
Budget of receipts for the year 184 was voted
in the Chamber of Peers on Thursday, by a ma-
jority of 105 votes against 10. This concluded
the business of the Session. On Friday all the
Members of the two Chambers in Paris assem-
bled, when the Chambers were 'prorogued by a
Royal Ordinance.
Not only M. de Saint John, the English Consul General at
Algiers, accredited to the Dey at the time of the conquest, but
the English Consuls or Consular Agents in the several towns
on the coast, most of whom have entered on the office since our
occupation, continue to exercise their official functions without
having obtained, or even asked for, the exequatur of the Go-
vernment. How then can we credit promises to retain a con-
quest which we cannot get our allies to acknowledge or respect ?
—La Gazette de France.

The Courtier du Bus Rhin, a Strasburg Journal, says,
" The German Journals repeat for some days past, with
what view we do not know, that the French Gosernment
are concentrating a force of•forty thousand men about Stras-
burg. This assertion is entirely destitute of foundation ; there
is no extraordinary movements of troops in Alsace, and the
garrisons of our fortresses are not more numerous than they
were a year ago. We are assured that Switzerland is negoti-
ating with France to remove and forward its Dutch corres••
pondence by way of Luneville, the postage charged in Ger-
many through which this correspondence now passes being
exorbitant.

The Andromede frigate, which is preparing to quit Toulon
for the Levant, is the third vessel of that class lately ordered
to those seas. The Minerva and Didon have successively
sailed for that destination; the latter which sailed on the 29th
of May, had on board Messrs. Foy and Piscatory.— Le
Commerce.

..11IELANCHOLY AND Arexcnwei.—A man named Durand,
of Juvisv, a contractor for carrying atone to face part of the
Paris fortifications, sent off the morning before last several
loads, and after a time followed them, accompanied by his
only child, a boy, 9 years old. They were proceedieg en the
way, when the ears of Durand were assailed by a piercing cry,
and he found his son under the wheel of one of the carts, which
was still resting upon it, the horses having stopped. M. Du-
rand had sufficient resolution to back the vehicle, and, as soon
as the poor boy was relieved from its weight, he sprung up with
a dying effort, threw himself into his father's arms, exclaiming
Kiss me, father, for I am killed !" and instantly expired.
M. Gartner Pages, so long known as one of the leaders of
the Extreme Gauche in the Chamber of Deputies, died on
Wednesday evening at seven o'clock. He had been suffering
for some time under a phthisical complaint, which left his
friends but little hope. M. Gamier Pages was little more
than 40 years of age ; he sat for the department of the Sarthe,
aid was much respected even by his political opponents.
Thd children of M. Begis, a farmer, at Courceroy, near
Nogent-Or-Seine, a few days ago were about to convert an
old chest, had many years stood useless in the yard, into
a rabbit hutch, wh,'n on pulling off a thick cloth with which it
was covered, a rouleau fell out. Believing it to be a cartridge
they put it aside, with tli,t intention of converting it into
squibs and crackers. Immediate!y afterwards another rouleau
tumbled out, and as its shape was irregular the children's
curiosity was excited. They therefore opeitefl it, and found
fifty gold pieces, among which were several of 48f. each, or
double Louis d'or, of the reigns of Louis XIII, and Louis XI V.
The first rouleau contained fifty single Louis. 'The cheat had
been bought in 1814 of a broker at Nogent.
The French, Flemish, and Italian collections of pictures in
the Grand Gallery of the Louvre will be re-opened on Tues-
day next.
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himself with the humble honours of Mayer of his village con-
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