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London, England, 1841-12-17 00:00:00

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Lord llorpeth ~was magnificently entertained by the
citizens of Boston, United. States, Tuttle 30th ult. The
guests numbered 1.10, including some of the most influ-
ential men in that part.of the United Statt s. The whole
tenour of the 'proceedings evinced a cordial wish to
maintain the most kindly relations between England and
' the United State. Lord Morpeth divides with the Prince
de Joinville the general admiration of the Yankees.
Yucatan has. declared itself an independent republic,
on the model of that of Texas. English is the lan-
guage of the new State, and the Anglo-Saxon race is
invited to settle there, to assist in repelling the invasions
of Mexico. We look forward to a time when the Eng-
lish language will be the language of every Government
in the New World. She is omed, at no distant day, to
become a Texan province.
The Gazette of the Rhine and Moselle of the 10th inst.
says :—" There is still a rumour that Austria will join
the German Union. This accession alone would enable
Germany to compete with foreign commerce, and
more effectually if Lombardy and Venice come into
the combination. ,It would be a mortal blow to the
French silk trade. The accession of Hungary would
enable the German Union to contend with its rivals
in American tobaccos, French wines, dyes, skins, and
other articles. It is Hungary, and particularly her
aristocracy, who raise obstacles by refusing to pay duties,
and at the same time imposing charges on exports. If
Galicia could be connected with the Baltic, all would as-
sume new lire and vigour. In a word, the Danube, the
Rhine, and the Oder would afford an immer.se extension
to commence. The Free Towns would not then hesitate
to enter the Union, and Denmark, Holland, Belgium,-
and Switzerland would find it to their advantage to be
incorporated in it."—This extension of the German
Custom's Union which threatens to exclude England
from all Continental markets is all the result of the
pernicious operation of our Corn-laws.
A letter from Constantinople of the 24th ult. states,
that the Porte has received a most penitential note from
the Greek Government. King Otho took fright when
he learned that 45,000 Turks were about to pay him a
visit, and at once made the ~ apology dictated to him.
This is so far well.
In the same letter from Constantinople we find the
following :—" The Divan is stated to have held a Council
in which it was resolved to send a commission to the
Lebanon, and to try the effect of mildness and concilia-
tion there with the revolted subjects of the Porte, but in
the event of failure in these means to resort to vigor-
ous measures of repression. It is added that the
Turkish Government has received a report from the Go-
vernor of Damascus, which has created great anxiety.
According to this report the Mussulman population of
Damascus are in a state of great excitement against the
Christians, and have demanded their expulsion, as also
that of the European Consuls by whom they are pro-
tected." The Courrier Francais of Wednesday denounces as
impolitic the reduction of the French Army. The
Courrier, however, abstains from suggesting in what way
the Government could find money to support an army
exceeding 344,000 men.
By a Royal Ordonnance just issued, the annual en-
dowment of the Sinking Fund will, from January 1, be
increased by 1,910,220 f., to be specially applied in re-
purchasing the 5,730,6591. Three per Cent. Rentes, ad-
judged on October 18, for the realisation of a loan of
150,000,000 f. This sum of 1,910,220 francs is to be
paid to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund by suc-
cessive ordonnances of the Minister of Finance. accord-
ing to the mode used with the other parts of the same
Fund, for which purpose a credit to the amount is opened
to the Minister of Finance out of the grant for the Sink-
ing Fund for 1842.
A letter from Prague, in the Nuremberg Correspon-
dent, states that it has bee resolved to make a railroad
between Vienna and Dresden, passing through the valley
of the Elbe.
The musical soiree given by the Duke and Duchess of
Orleans on Tuesday evening was very brilliant—about
150 persons were present. Their Majesties and the
Princesses, except Madame Adelaide, who is indis-
posed, arrived at a quarter-past nine, and the con-
cert commenced soon after. The King retired 'after
the first part, but the Queen and the Princesses remained
till the end, and retired at eleven. A duo from Doni-
zetti's Bouryuemestre de Saardam, by Madame de Mon-
tenegro and Lablache • a solo from the ldomenee of
Mozart, by Madlle. Nati ; a romance from Bellini's
Beatrice di Tenda, by Baroilhet; and a tarantella, with
some Neapolitan songs, by Lablache, excited warm ap-
probation.
The Spani-h Government has forwarded a sum of
200,000 f. (8,0001.) to Bordeaux, to defray the expenses
of the Infante Don Francisco de Paula during his resi-
dence in that city.

PIT/ILIC OPINION.
The Times gives the following s!y hit at the rapacity
of some of the hungry Tory jackals :—" One of the diffi-
culties that most embarrass political leaders, whether in
larger or in smaller spheres, is that of satisfying their
friends in the season of success. It is not so hard a task,
by many degrees, to keep the party together while aim-
ing at power, as to maintain its union when power has
been achieved ; as before the issue each man's hope is
elastic, so, after the victory, his disappointment and con-
sequent displeasure are apt to be inordinate. It always
turns out that the conqueror has not lands enough to
.reward his knights in any sort of proportion to their
real merits, much less in proportion to each man's own
opinion of them ; and thereupon arises a cry for extensive
confiscations to augment the distributable bounty. This has
been remarkably the case in some of the provincial town-
councils since the reaction in favour of those now in power."
—Tory ravenousness must indeed be great, when the Times
the favourite journal of the faction—feels it its duty
to reprobate it. How significant the remark that the
conqueror (Sir IL Peel. of course) has not lands enough
to reward his knights, in proportion to each man's opi-
nion of his own merits ! Nothwithstanding the huge
amount of loaves and fishes these hungry Tory subal-
terns have already received at his hands, they are still
clamouring for more. They have a wolf in their belly,
and to satisfy them—as the Times candidly states—is a
sheer impossibility.
The Post, speaking of the approaching struggle for
the Poetry Professorship of Oxford, says—" We are, on
every ground, heart and mind, with Mr. Williams. Not
that we have anything to say against his opponent, but
we have a great deal to say for him which cannot be said
for his opponent. And though we have nothing to say
against his opponent, we have a great deal to say against
the party which supports his opponent. It is a coarse,
presumptuous, self-idolising party, ►with all the old de-
testable leaven of Puritanism in its composition. It com-
bines mock humility ►with real arrogance ; it questions
authority, and adores itself; it grossly misrepresents the
Opinions of others, while in the very act of asserting the
superior holiness of its own. It is very unfortunate for
Mr. Garbett that lie should be supported by so odious a
party—a party which carries the heart of the prowl Plia-
risee, while it-assumes the language of the humble and
devout Publican."—Mr. Williams is the Puseyite candi-
date, with which party the Post, it seems, is hence-
forth determined to identify itself. If it brings
no more knowledge or spirit to its advocacy
of Puseyism, than it has already brought to its at-
tacks on the principles of Free Trade, it will be' no
very formidable enemy to the antagonist party in the
Church. As regards Mr. Williams, he, we suppose, is
to be considered the Poet Laureate of Puseyism, as Mr.
Newman is its Doctor Sacchavarel. They are a con-
genial couple, and worthy, the one to sing, and the other
to preach, his associate's praises : but not►witlista►ding
the poetic warbtings of Mr. Williams, and the prose
Tracts of Mr. Ne►v►nan, neither will be able to make a
deep or lasting impression on the public mind, for the
days of imposing ceremonial pomp and high church
bigotry are already with the years beyond the thud.
The following is from the Herald :—" When the
happy event occurred which gratified the nation by the
birth of an heir male to the British throne, we took an
early opportunity of adverting to it, as offering an occa
sion for the concession of a boon which had long been
earnestly desired by a large, and certainly not an unim-
portant class of her Majesty's subjects. We allude to
the eseation of an order of knighthood, the object of
which should be to reward the services of civilians as
well as military men, on the principle of desert, as it
exists in other countries, and as it did exist in this prior
to the necessary transfer of• the Guelphie order to the
kingdom of Ilanaver. The ►wish ►which we then ex-
pressed found a ready echo in various psi•ts of the coun-
try, and many were the communications which we re-
seived on the subject. Since that period the question
has, we perceive, been agitated in Liverpool, where a nu_
merous . meeting was held last week of the Welsh inha-
bitants of that great and important commercial town, for
the purpose of drawing up a petition to her Majesty,
praying for the establishment of ti►e desiderated order
of knighthood, and the establishment of two 'Welsh
professorships a! the English UniVersities."—The
best petition, or address, that could be presented to
the Queen on such an auspicious occasion as the birth of
a Prince of Wales, would be, not a petition for the crea-
tion of an Order of Knighthood, which of course would
be confined to the Tories, but for the removal of the pre-
sent party in power, as being either insolently indiffer-
ent, or directly inimical, to the best interests of the
cluntry. This is a petition which, whether granted us
or not, would still be of public utility, and no doubt
meet with the most respectful consideration of her.Ma-
10,ty ; whereas a petition for a new Order of Knight-
hood would be a boon confined merely to the few, and
consequently of no earthly value to the community at
large. We want 111) more, aristocratic or semi-aristocratic
creations ; God knows we have quite enough of them
already.

In reference to the late Leeds Meeting, the Advertiser
says:--" The advice which we have so often given to the
marble-hearted monopolists, to take care lest they carry
their -experiment ou the powers" of human endurance•too
far, was repeated at the great Leeds meeting with pecu-
liar earnestness and force. They may still persist in dis-
regarding this solemn warning. They will not always
do so; they will not du it long. If not before, they will
learn to heed it when what we have predicted as the ne-
cessary consequence of their seorallthlisregard of the
elaitns of justiee and the ones of the perishing pope-
law has actually taken- place. Lord Bacon said, and
all history verities the justice of the remark, that of all
rebellions the rebellion of the belly is most to bc dreaded.
We tremble to think' of the probable results of any
outbreak on the part of the masses in the manufaetur-
ing districts in the existingeircumstances of the country."
—We greatly fear that the Tories will only be brought to
their senses by §(-114 such 4041 outbreak us the Adver-
tiser here alludes to. They are deaf to supplication—
deaf to remonstrance—callous to a sense of justice—and
dead to all the more generens feelings of nature.