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TO CORIitSPONDENTS.

We have rcceived the Address of " A Working Man,"
from Ipiwicb, to the Clergy and Conservatives of
England. The sentiments are well expressed, and do
credit to the writer, but we are unable to find room
fur the communication.

they are at most one 90Cth part of the popula-
tion, at least one 200th part of the national in-
come; -but they happen to be much divided
amongst themselves, both as to their own merits
and duties, and as to the merits of Sir R. PEEL.
They consist, moreover, of High Church and Low
Church Rationalists and Evangelists, Puseyites,
and Siineonites, with other ists and ites; and the
influential part of them, who have lately rekindled
the once bright embers of their faith, to whom
is mainly due the zeal, however mischievous, of
the priesthood, suspect and dislike Sir R. PEEL.
A Puseyite, under the signature of " CA-
TaoLicus," has attacked him in the Times, while
the British Critic, the organ of the Puseyites,
has furiously assailed him. Other ites have
drawn their pens in his defence, and we have
now lying before us a pamphlet, printed by an
orthodox Church printer, signed " VEnUS,"
which defends Sir R. PEEL, and bitterly attacks
the Critic and Mr. CATHOLICUS. The zealot
party in the Church are uncompromising,
thoroughgoing, downright men, and they
hate trimmers and treacherous compromisers
more keenly than they hate the Whigs. The
priesthood, then, are divided amongst them-
selves, and one part of them only want to be re-
lieved from the apprehensions of the Whigs to
make a vigorous attack on the worldly-minded
Sir R. PEEL.

Another body which thrusts forward Sir R.
PEEL are the landlords, to keep up rent. They
have no love fur the cotton-spinner's son. They
use him for their purposes, and that is all. Should
he not have the power to keep up rent, they
will desert him. We believe that he will not
have such a power,—that the effect and intention
of the Corn-laws to starve down the population
to a number very little greater than our own
soil will, on an average, supply, ensures a great
fall of rent, and a great injury to farmers, when-
ever one or two good harvests occur, as certainly
as water finds its level. The selfish crew will
then desert Sir R. PEEL, if he do not anticipate
them, and try to preserve his seat, by kicking
them off. These two bodies are Sir R. PEEL'S
great supporters : they amount, combined, to
less than 100,000 persons, and, by their help, he
is to set justice at defiance, and turn aside the
course of society.

We make no account of the constituencies
which the parsons and the landlords influence,
because they will follow their leaders whenever
they find it convenient to desert Sir ROBERT.
They will feel in their pockets, sooner than their
leaders, the ruinous effect of preserving mis-
chievous, selfish, and scoundrel laws, and will
be more ready to cry out " Down With PEEL !"
in a season of low prices, than ever they were to
shout " PEEL for ever !"

Neither do we prize as very forcible the an-
cient prejudices of the unreasoning, and the ap-
prehensions of the timid. The former lean on
authority more than they support it, and look
out for other help when it seems likely to fall to
pieces. The latter will lose their fears in the
reality, and a period of distress, surpassing their
apprehensions, will make them look out for new
leaders. The only effectual support Sir ROBERT
will find are the landowners and the priesthood,
both of which are daily declining in influence and
power, from their arrogance and their avarice.
If Sir R. PEEL be a prudent man, and look
before he leaps, encumbered, as he now is, by
the principles he has of late defended and sup-
ported only by a wrangling and disturbed
priesthood, and a selfish body of land-
owners, whom he cannot possibly satisfy,
he will hesitate to take the perilous spring.
Either he must throw off his iniquitous prin-
ciples, or he will fall to the ground loaded with
them. No power on earth can enable him to
alight in safety on his feet, and their help will
only the more surely and swiftly cast him down.
To govern this commercial and half free country
for any length of time on the principles of main-
taining the present system of class taxation and
class plunder, whatever majority may at present
vote for it, now that the toil-worn and suffering
population are aroused to a sense of injustice—
now that our moral and religious people are
aware of its iniquity, and see the immense
danger it involves—and now that our manufac-
turing classes are made painfully sensible of the
ruin it is bringing on them, is impossible ; and
whoever undertakes the task will be, as a politi-
cian, ruined fur ever.

Our commercial intelligence speaks of bank-
rupts and of the apprehension of bankruptcy.
We regret this; but it is to be expected. The
many
men of an alteration in the law has kept
men struggling on, whom the Tory majority will
drive to despair and insolvency. The same ma-
jority will probably induce our mechanics and
manufacturers to expatriate themselves in greater
numbers and as speedily as possible. The
triumphant yells of the landlords and the parsons
are the knell of Britain's greatness and her peace.
Forward the Tories will not allow her to go, and
backward, therefore, in the struggle—for " life
is a fight" for nations as for individuals—go she
must. The painful proofs of the commencement
of the retrograde movement are now exhibited
in bankruptcy, and in the alarm of bankruptcy.

We Lave received a copy of the Imperial Firman,
addressed by the Sublime Porte to FERIK
PACIIA, Governor of Jerusalem, in favour of the Chris-
tian population of Syria. This document bears date the
24th of June, and is no doubt well intended ; but unless
its execution be carefully watched over by the Consuls of
the Great Powers, there appears to us no difficulty what-
ever in evading its provisions. The following is a
translation:—

The law permitting the Christian population of Syria to
profess their religion and carry on their business, and all the
favours and graces granted them by former Sultans, arc hence-
forth maintained. When members or superiors of convents
have recourse to justice for anything done against them,
the judges and authorities shall not take money from
them fur justice, nor wrong nor oppress them. Any act
of the kind kali be referred to and examined by
the Sublime Porte. Monasteries and churches shall be
respected, as well as their old exemptions and privileges.
'f he Greek, Armenian-Catholic and Armenian-Schismatic,
must refrain from renewing their old contentions about their
churches, and from calumniating each other. No innovation
must be made in the old rules of the Oriental ritual, and for
the grades and classes of priests and monks. When churches
and monasteries suffer by fire or time, firmans will be granted
for repairing them ; nor must the Judges receive presents on
this occasion. The entrance of the church of Camanca is
forbidden to the soldiers of the guard, who must have all reve-
rence for the Bishops of Jerusalem. Such is our sovereign
will, &c.

To prevent Turkish judges from taking bribes with
both hands, and CI ristian sectaries from fighting tooth
and nail, will requi. e a power more potent in Syria than
the voice of the KHALIF- UL-ISLAM, arrayed in all the
sanctity of the mantle of the Prophet. The vices which
c. enturies of tyranny have ingrained in one race, and of
be. eradicated
period of degradation in another, are not to
b , eradicated by the mere expression of the
Imperial will. A couple of generations must at least
p a
ienr t
pass away, the Turks and Christians being mutually re-
strained by the h presence of a foreign Power equally in-
d ilf fes tit
of tic::oth,
eb
before the biprejudicesblessings
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ment can be-
ein
a generally and permanently felt in Syria.
The Turks
astsh e laws between Turks and .
Syria what the Orangemen are in
Ireland ; and it i preposterous to expect a Turkish
Cacti to administer
Chris-
tians impartially, as it
would be to suppose that an
Orange Magistrate .i‘
Orangemen and Roman Catholics
equal justice to
The following extract from a.
by the Presse, presents
a.letter from Constanti-
nople,s withpublished
of the state of the Turkish
of
a thedep2jorthable silt.,
picture
u
:The penury of the Treasuryo_ that it has been ne-
ce TreasuryS
aureyh to"se l l or pawn some jewels f the Palace to provide
days ag o moneylaid
means for paying the daily expenses. A f
surplus
eptemment
arrived from the provinces, but part was
out upon the expedition to Candia, and the Immediately sent into
Bulgaria and the other disturbed provinces,
being aware that it is not by force, but by mildness
pe-
cuniary sacrifices, that the insurgent districts are to be and
Daeified
These movements have, however, been greatly exaggerated,t
and have only been dangerous from the weakness of
Go-
vernment. For several months the fears as to the health eof the
Sultan have become serious. He is feeble and delicate, and
as
he continues to pursue his enervating habits,. his physicians
have few hopes of saving him. He is said also to be suffering
under a liver complaint.

Thursday's Extraordinary Express from Paris enabled
us to anticipate the news published in Wednesday's
journals. We except, of course, paragraphs of local in-
telligence to which we readily give insertion in our
columns of this day. Poor M. MAntm, the ex_
Prefect of Toulouse, gets a dreadful mauling
from the Opposition press, for setting forth in
his defence that he did not shrink from shedding
the blood of the factious. And yet what is there
to wonder at in such a declaration ? • When was
there ever a coward who was not cruel ?
Who that ever fled before a mob would not shed their
blood if he could with impunity ? And if no other proof
of M. Mantles want of courage_ could be adduced, might
we not refer to this very declaration made only when
he found himself safe in the capital ? He did not dare
to make such a boast at Toulouse.
The Courrier de P Indre et Loire has the following narra-
tive :—Mr. Villiers, the head of a numerous English tenni:, 1

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