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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 140.

JOHNSON, MAYOR.
THE FIRST COURT of LORD MAYOR
and ALDERMEN, held in the Inner Chamber of the
Guildhall of the City of London, on Tuesday, the 24th day
of November' 1840, and in the fourth year of the reign of Vic-
toria, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Queen, &c.

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Resolved unanimously--
" That the thanks of this Court be given to the Right
Hononreble Sir Chapman Marshall, late Lord Mayor of this
City, for the able and courteous manner in which he has pre-
sided over this Court, and for his uniform urbanity towards its
members, for his watchful maintenance of the public order and
peace of this City, for his humane and impartial administra-
tion of justice, for his prominent exertions towards the relief
of the moral and religious destitution of the metropolis, for the
retaliness of access afforded by him to his fellow-citizens, and
for the punctuality and diligence with which he has discharged
the various duties of his high and important office."
NV 0 OD T HOR PE.

through the groin; another was shot in the back of the
neck, the ball coming out at his left ear, a portion of which
was carried away by it.
Should an "official" account of the affair be published,
we shall lay the same before our readers without delay, but
the above is the most precise account we have at present
been able to obtain.

THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE
BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER RAIL-
WA Y.

JOHNSON, MAYOR.
THE FIRST couliT of LORD MAYOR
and ALDERMEN, held in the Inner Chamber of the
Guildhall of the City of London, on Tuesday, the 24th day of
November, 1840, and in the fourth year of the reign of Vic-
toria, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Queen, &c.
Resolved unanimously—
" That this Court do present an humble and dutiful Address
to the Queen, congratulating her Majesty on her safe delivery,
and upon having given birth to an heir presumptive to the crown
of the realm."
Resolved unanimously—
. . . .

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEW S.

(TUESDAY EVENING.)
CH RONICL E.—The satisfactory turn which the E4S_
tern question has now to all appearance decisively assumed,
and the continued firmness in the Paris prices, have bleu
the cause of the buoyancy in our funds to-day. The state of
the Account has also tended to support the speculations for
a rise, which have been strongly maintained throughout the
day, although money has been worth six per cent. in the
English House. Out of doors the rates of discount con-
tinue the same, but we believe bullion has been rather on
the increase in the Bank coffers of late, and their position
is understood, on the whole, to be more comfortable.
The amount of bills out at one time in Great Britain
and Ireland dining the year 1839 has been estimated by
Mr. Leathern at 132,123 4601. •He arrived at this con-
clusion by the following process of calculation. For his
basis he took the return of the bill stamps made by the
Stamp-office to an order by the House of Commons, and
having, by an inspection of bills running, discovered the
medium sum which each denomination of stamp bears, he
then ascertained the mean average date at which bills are
drawn to be three months. His next step was to find the
proportion which foreign bills bear to the whole of the in-
land bills, which he estimates at one.sixth, and on these
data he gives the following results : --
AMOUNT OF BILL STAMPS IN THE WHOLE OF THE YEAR 1639.
Bill stamps for Great Britain, creating the
sum of
Irish bill stamps, creating
Bills created by compounding for the stamps,
. being found to be one-sixth of the whole
returned for notes and bills

BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY. —.The adjourned inquests upon
the bodies of Scaife and Rutherford, the two unfortunate
wen killed by the bursting of the boiler on the Birming-
ham and Gloucester Railway, were resumed before Mr.
Docker, at the Cross Hotel, Bromsgrove, yesterday. It
will be recollected that the inquest was adjourned at the
instance of the Coroner, to allow the attendance of Mr.
Horton, the boiler-maker, who, it was stated by Dr.
Church, the engineer, had made the plates of the boilers
thinner than directed in his instructions and specifications.
Dr. Church was again examined, and stated that he be-
lieved all the plates of the boiler had been made according
to order ; he considered a quarter of an inch would be a
safe thickness far a plate in the position of that which
burst, but the plate which burst was from some cause or
other only 3-laths of an inch thick.
John Riley, foreman of Mr. Horton, the maker of the
boiler in question, could not say whether a quarter of an
inch was a safe thickness for a boiler of that dimension.
lie recollected giving the order for the plate which was
rent to be cut out of the iron which was supplied by the
Doctor. Could not account how the plate which burst
was thinner than the tso others, except that Mr. Horton
bad exceeded his order in two plates, and acted according
to order in the one which was the cause of the accident.

" That an Address of Congratulation be presented to his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the safe and happy de-
livery of her most Gracious Majesty the Queen, and on the
birth •f a Princess Royal."
Resolved unanimously—
" That compliments of congratulation be presented to her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, on the safe and happy
delivery of her most Gracious Majesty the Queen, and on the
birth of a Princess." WOODTHORPE.

£394,203,000
55,615,722

3,176,000

CORONER—Can you account for it how the plate which
burst, and which, when made, was a quarter of an inch
thick, is now only 3-16 the ?
Witness—lt might partly arise from expansion, and
three years' wear is a long time.
The Foreman—lf you had made that boiler, indepen.
dent of any order, what strength would you have made
the plates?
Witness—Three-eighths.
By the Foreman—Now do you think a boiler of one
quarter of an inch thick safe or insecure ?
Witness—l do not think it would be safe at less then
3-Bths, but I only speak from my experience as always
making boilers thicker. lam not much acquainted with
the making of locomotive boilers.
Mr. Horton was also of opinion that the plate of a
quarter of an inch thick for such a boiler was not safe.
After some further evidence, the CORONER addressed the
Jury, and said the first consideration in this case was the
degree of criminality which attached to any parties, if any
criminality did exist, but to establish criminality it was
not requisite that design should be established. To as-
certain if any degree of criminality did exist, the Jury must
look to the circumstances, and, if they could be ascer-
tained, the causes from which the accident arose. As it
took place on the Gloucester Railway, the first responsi-
bility rested upon the directors and officers of that esta.
blishment ; and he therefore called their attention especi-
ally to the evidence with regard to the precautions taken by
the Company before the engine was introduced upon the
line, and the subsequent experimental trips made by the
Company's servants. The next responsibility attached
to the proprietor of the boiler, who it was stated
had no knowledge of the nature of boiler-making,
and that he placed confidence rather in the engineer,
Dr. Church, than in the opinion of the boiler-maker, Mr.
Horton. The Coroner next referred to the first evi-
dence of Dr. Church, which, in his opinion, was highly
censurable. With regard to the actual cause of the acci-
dent, he thought they woula agree with him, that it was
to be attributed to the thinness of the boiler. It was by
every witness except Dr. Church declared that a quarter
of an inch was too thin a plate for a pressure necessary for
working locomotive engines, such as the one which had
been the cause of the accident. With respect to the deo-
dand, he might then state, that it was the law that any-
thing moving to the death of an individual was forfeited.
The Jury would have to say whether in this instance the
engine was a deodand. After citing various authorities
he gave it as his opinion that the engine as well as the
boiler was liable to a deodand, and, after reading the whole
evidence, he left the case for the consideration of the Jury.
The Jury retired for about two hours and a half, and
upon their return, about half past twelve o'clock, brought
in the following verdict :

6)452,994,722
Add one-sixth of the inland bills for foreign
bills

75,499,120

PROVINCIAL BANK OF IRELAND,
London, 42, Old Broad-street, Nov. 23, 1840.
The Public are hereby requested to take notice, that all
BILLS of EXCHANGE and LETTERS of CREDIT,
drawn upon Messrs. WRIGHT and CO., from any of the
BRANCHES of the PROVINCIAL BANK of IRELAND
will, if at maturity, be instantly paid, or, if requiring ac-
ceptance, will, on presentation, be accepted by Messrs.
SPOOAR, ATTWOODS, and CO, 27, Gracechurch-street.
By order of the Directors,
JAMES MARSHALL, Secretary.

Total of bills is circulation in the whole
yearof 1839 4)528,493,842
Divided by 4, the average rate of bills being
three months 132,123,460
Mr. Leatham also gives tables of the bill circulation of
Great Britain and Ireland for five years, from 1835 to 1839
inclusive, as follows:—For 1835, 101 350,7621. ; 1836,
121,455;8681. ; 1837, 113,771,111/. ; 1838,116,376,0101.;
and for 1839, 132,123,4601.

HERALD.--From South Australia the dates are to the
middle of July. Here also colonial revenues are in dis-
order, the excess of expenditnre over revenue for the last
year being calculated at 45,0001. The number of vessels
which had entered Port Adelaide and Encounter Bay
during the year, during the six months previous, is stated
at 108, of the tonnage of 20,153. Of these 20 direct
from this country, the remainder from Sydney, Port Lin-
coln, India, &c. The total tonnage of the first half of
last year was 21,109. In August, 1839, the population
was estimated at 8,250, but is now supposed to exceed
13,000. In the same month last year the sheep in the
colony were calculated at 58,000, horned cattle at 6,250,
horses 520, pigs 1,000, and goats 180. The sheep now are
estimated at 150,000, horned cattle 10,000, horses 1,000.
On the increase of stock and the promotion of agriculture the
existence of the colony no less than its prosperity may be
said to depend. The people, however, seam more anxious
and noisy about municipal corporation bills than about ma-
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ENGAGEMENT AND DISASTROUS
DEllz-L'IT OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP FAVOU-
RItE BY THE INHABITANTS OF TONGA,
ONE OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.

(From the Sydney Monitor of July 25.)
The following are the facts, as related to us, and seldom
has it been the task of any writer to record so dire an
issue of an expedition in which British courage and British
thunder were opposed to barbarians. Report says, that
the islanders were commanded and instructed in the detente
of their fortress by an European armourcr, who has been
resident among them for the last eight years. On the
arrival of Captain Croker in the Favourite at the island
of Tonga, be found that the missionaries were embroiled
in a quarrel with the heathen or unconverted natives of the
island, touching some religious dispute, and that the hea%
then population had retired, and eschewed all cutiltillinica-
tion with the missionaries and their tiaaVe converts. As
soon as the dispute bad reached this crisis, the
heathens took possession of a fort situsto at a short

distance from the beach, which they proceeded tc strengthen
and fortify; Captain Croker arriving at this juncture,
endeavoured to effect a reconciliation between the dis-

putants ; this he had nearly accomplished, the bottle
natives having received into their garrison a flag of truce
sent in by Captain Croker on behalf of the missionaries,

6' We find that Thomas Scaiffe came to his death in
consequence of the bursting of a boiler of a locomotive
engine called the Surprise,' the property of Mr. Samuel
Aspinall Goddard, by the boiler being constructed of iron
plates which in evidence appear to have been of insufficient
thickness." Deodand 601. on the engine:
Mr. Whateley—Will you allow me to ask whether the
Jury express any opinion as to the conduct of the Railway
Company ?
The Foreman, in reply, made some observation which
we could not hear, when

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The Coadtien' interfelsd, Ind said be could not allow the
question to be put. he verdict must be taken as deli-
vered by the Jury.
The CORONER than swore the Ably as to the cause of the
death of Joseph Rutherfe*-when the Jury found the same
verdict, with the exception of the deodand, which was nil.
The two inquests lasted from II yesterday morning
until after 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning, a period of lo
hours.

borne by a native female ; the bearer of the flag of truce
and propositions of Captain Cooker and the niiasionaries
was treated with courtesy by the garrison, and, aftee the
terms proposed had been discussed by it of war of
the chiefs, convoked on the detesinn, It was determined to
invite Captain Croker to a conference on the subject,
which that gentleman acce;;,,i. The terms proposed (as
we were infor-
ue were us follow; --That the fortress
r then
eeeupied by the heathens, with two other small and
me
‘ess formidable garrisons, should be surrendered and
immediately demolished ; all furniture, stores, &c ,
to be removed ; that the fortifiers of the garrison:
should resume their former avocations and intercourse
with the missionaries and their converts on the
same terms as before the dispute, the missionaries being at
liberty to preach without restraint, in their endeavours to
makem proselyteseetimeeting should
thetake
Christianp
pucee t e ilOith)
accepted. During the time these negotiations were taking
place, Captain Croker had caused three earronades to be
ratifyand thetiat oiinndilticirionn ic i
dii.
brought from on board his ship, and dragged to an emi-
nence commanding the heathen garrison, being distant
at out 500 yards. These guns he had mounted, and brought
a supply of ammunition to enable him to drive the natives
from the fort, should they attempt to resist or refuse to
comply with the conditions offered them. Captain Croker
found, on entering the garrison, that it contained about
1,500 natives, all of whom treated him with great defer-
ence, and at the close of the conference requested half an
hour longer to come to a decision. This (.captain Croker
consented to allow, and informed them, that unless the gate
of the fort was thrown open et the end of that time, he
should batter it down. Captain Croker then proceeded
and made what he deemed the necessary prepara-
tions to storm the fort if not surrendered ; scaling ladders,
&c., were hastily constructed, and a large party of
seamen, marines, and converted natives, to the number
of 1,700 or 1,800, were assembled on the tibinence,
ready to open a fire on the fort. The garrison, ere I
the time allowed had expired, sent to the European catty '
to sette that they were willing to concede all things
demanded of them save the humiliation to which they hove
gined they would subject themselves in at OnVt; flieet-
ing and holding intercourse with their ; they would
rather not meet them face to free
Captain Crolier's ""
for some Om to come.
t
—PIY Wait, that the ernes propose
must be COMplted further trim% iOati
with, and, no o _ n o . r-
riving at,
ere upon tift tea, but this playing at lone-bails not inc appointed the Paiittirite s int n et opened
COra.ing with the ardent temperameht a the bone%
murder, he sordeied bia inn 4o toile)* him, and pro-
ceeded th Within I'so yards of the fort. On getting
within this distance the effect of the enemy's musketry
was immediately felt, the balls flying about like
The natives who had accompanied (Apt: Veoket• hietw ..ed
in all directions, for the peiente In the tort fired out through
the oseel and
hopelessness titfen e
otft ese
thinking en eh
the walls front the loopholes, and thus: in otter security,
kept up a
galling ire front ens pets and riikei ulion
p
; CaPk
the fort anCrrotie by firinger,now seebulletsing
from muskets and fusee: against invisibletake
foe Secured )sy.
walls of immense thickness, 'or'd'ered al liande nri td 'fhb
wall, man •
ning the scaling laddeee OSr htrrig,'
If imse lead-
ing the way, to endeatoer to aef:le the wall ; we accordingly
formed, the marieee; and t
ing forward, ars giving three cheers, and charge
till within piste, • trig their gallant and impetuous leader,
e,-snot of the fort ; our poor fellows now be-
gan Tall fast on every side ; our. Commander was struck in
(he thigh by a bullet, the first Lieutenant seriously
a at least a doten of out. rands hit. The Captain,"
deunde.d,
and
his wattle!, peeteed forward to the gate of the fort, and, thrsp'ustte
ing his sword against and through the jamb of the gate, made
frantic efforts singly to enter. From violent exertion, high
excitement, and the loss of blood, the C • -
aptain was seen to
retire fainting from the gate, and to lean for support against
a tree, where he had leaned but a few seconds %%hen a rifle-
ball struck him in the left breast, penetrating the heart
and passing ;through the back. The action had lasted
little more than twenty minutes, yet that short space of
time had sufficed to rob us of our captain, and two blue
jackets killed, our first lieutenant and nineteen others
wounded ; it therefore became necessary to retreat, bear-
ing off our wounded and slain, and leaving our guns, am-
munition, &c., behind us. It now remains but to add that
the last sad rites were mournfully observed, and that the
gallant and unfortunate Captain Croker reposes in peace
in a spot pointed out by himself some time previously as
the resting-place of his choice, should he die in the South
Seas. We regret to state that amongst others, Lieutenant
Dunlop is severely wounded, and one of the men shot

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SUN.—The Foreign Exchanges were without alter-
ation this afternoon. The rates were—on Paris, 23f.
314 c. to 571 c. ; Hamburgh, 13 74 ; Amsterdam, 12
21 to h Vrankfart, 149 ; and Trieste, 10 3} to 41.
The English Funds are still advancing, on account o
the approaching settlement, which is likely to be against
the Bears. Consols closed at 90 to ; Bank Stock at
159 ; India Stock at 2401 ; Exchequer Bills at Is. dis.
and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 99g.
The Foreign Securities left off rather flat as regards
Spanish, but for other Stocks the same. Portuguese
New Five per Cents. were 358 to I ; Spanish Active,
231 to t ; Colombian, 254 ; Mexican, 30 to ; Chi-
ller), 59 ; Brazilian, 76 ; Belgian New Scrip, ti to 1
prem. : and French Five per Cents., 110 f. 75c.
The Share Market was very dull up to an advanced
hour of the day, when business became rather active,
and prices more buoyant, and generally higher. Great
Western Railway Shares brought 20 to 214, the New
81 to 91- prem. ; the Brighton 124 dis. ; and the Black-
wall 44 dis.
Accounts of August last from Sydney, describe the
markets as having been dull, the only article in demand
being tea. There had also been an unusual and rather
alarming scarcity of money, short loans having been
made at the enormous interest of 15 to 40 per cent. on
good paper. This state of things had excited serious
apprehensions among the mercantile community, but
the payment of dividends on the Stock of one or two o f
the large Banks and Joint Stock Companies, bad proved
a sensible relief in mitigating the pressure.

FItoM THE MORNING PAPERS OF Ting PAY.
(Prom the Morning Chronicle.)
The fall of St. Jean d'Aore has left the Podia o
Egypt without a single strong place on the west coast
of Syria. If M. Walewski had had Me greatest
diOculty in the world to prevent Mehemet Ali from
yielding to the conditions offered him by the Silken
and his Allies, while he believed M. Thiers at the head
of the French Ministry, now that the loss of St. Jean
d'Acre is added to his other reverses (to say nothing
of the losses mentioned In the article dated Vienna,
Nov. 16, in our extracts from German !Japers, we
may be sure that he will no longer hesitate. TheViehad
nna
article alluded to states, indeed, that intelligence
beets brought from Trieste that Count Walewski bad
gone front Alexandria to Syria, with orders from the
Viceroy to Ibrahim to evacate that country. This
may perhaps, be premature u;
but the anxiety with
the Ilacha must now be to know whether he will be
suffered to possess Egypt. No unnecessary delay on
his part need now be apprehended ; and, we m
laybut
in
fact, consider the Turco-Egyptian question as al
arranged. The 3ifessager of Tuesday evening contains
the project of the address of the Chamber of Dew putie
esit
It ranks high as an eloquent composition hil
breathes ill that susceptibility on the score of national
hu which might be xpected front a French Cham-
bono er ofr Deputies, there e
is nothing like menace orbra-
vado tehtaidi other Powers.
" Prudence," says ttid ptojedt, " commanded your Ma-
jesty to guard against all evetittiaiitles by precautionary
armaments ; extraordinary credits have bde
afi redepee t )
meet them : we shall appreciate the motivesand tn
ployment of them. In this state of things, Sire, our con-
currence is acquired by you for an onourable as
well as a just war. A peace without dignity would never
butt been accepted either by France orher Kingun-
just was, ' violent agyre,sstion wlthout cause and without
our manners nor
object, would have acc:.""" it!tet leith
ft propresston peace,
ilizotion
with our ideas of . . sure ntace, which
then, if possible, an honourable Ctiultia
shall preserve from all infringement the Bur.,r_ • --ld
brium, is our first wish. But if from events it an.—
, become impossible on these conditions, if the honour of
France demands it, if her rights are not recognised, if
her territory menaced, or ber interests seriously compro-
mised, exact it. Speak then, Sire, and at your voice the
French will rise as one man, the country will shrink from
no sacrifice, and you are assured of the national concur-
rence."
This is strong language ; but it is language to which
no exception can be taken by any other people. In
England we should have been less ready to suppose the
possibility of insult and aggression, and should have re-
served the expression of our readimess to make sacri-
fices to vindicate the national honour and insure its
safety, till we had reasanable grounds of suspicion. But
great allowance must be made for the efforts which have
o long, and but too successfully, been made to represent
the Treaty of the 15th of July as an insult to France,
and to inflame the national mind with sentiments of hos-
tility towards the Four Allied Powers. Let us hope
that now that tho Egyptian question is advancing ra.

PRICE 5(1.

pidly towards a settlement, the good feeling betwe
the French and ourselves will speedily revive. The
good and the intelligent of the two nations will feel
themselves called on to use their best exertions to
smooth down the animosities to which the last few
months have given rise. The preservation of peace
is a blessing which cannot be sufficiently prized.
But if our neighbours be somewhat too ready,
in the moment of excitement, to undervalue the
calamities of war, some of our own countrymen advo-
cate peace on grounds which arc not the best calcu•
lated to secure its permanence. There are many
well-disposed persons in England, who are unable to
perceive in what manner a disturbance of the balance
of power can affect this country. :f Mehemet Ali
had not been checked in his career, and Turkey had
become extinct as a political body, haw long would the
great Powers have abstained from seizing the fragments
and how long would Europe have looked with pa'

,ieuce on the seizure of Constantinople by any o-
he great Powers ? Would not a war among the

other great Powers of Europe be attended with the
most disastrous consequences to ourselves as a trading
and manufacturing nation ? But let us suppose
that England in the outset took no part in the war
—how long would it have been possible for her
to preserve peace amidst all the casualties of
war by sea and land ? Even the people of
the United States, remote as they are from
Europe, were dragged into a war by the interference of
the belligerents with their ships. It is not, therefore,
by wishing for peace, that we can always preserve it.
Lord Palmerston has acted more wisely in guarding be-
times against the occurrence of a state of things which
must have led eventually to war. Something must be
risked in most determinations, but a wise man makes
his calculations in order that he may adopt the course
which promises to be attended with the least risk. In
the present case there was, on one side, all but the cer-
tainty of a general war, if the integrity of Turkey was
not maintained ; and on the other, there was the possi-
bility of the French, in moment of frenzy, coming to the
insane determination of making war on all Europe for
the sake of supporting the Pacha of Egypt in his

usurpations and .;iews of aggrandizement at the ex-
pense of Turkey. Lord Palmerston would not have
been justified in assuming that the rulers of France
could be guilty of the madness impl;ed in the above
supposition. Justice will soon be done to Lord Pal-
merston even by those who, with peace in their mouths,
were taking the most effectual means to produce war.

(From the Morning Post.)
We conceive that a goad deal of consideration must
be allowed for the peculiar position of M. Guizot at
the present moment. The difficulties we allude to are
such as might well have prevented him from taking
office, were it not that graver consequences still, to
his country and to all Europe, would have been
the result of his refusal to take office. He is obliged
to change the policy of the late French Government in
respect. to foreign affairs, and to declare a very different
policy. This is due to his own character, and necessary
to extricate Europe from the circumstances of alarm
and from the prospect of proximate; war which existed
while his predecessor was directing a shuffling diplo-
macy, and preparing vast armaments for no declared
purpose. But while the new Minister adopts and
declares a different policy for the future, he is by
the necessity of his position thrown upon a defence
of the acts of the Crown, under the guidance of the
late Minister. He cannot say that the acts of the
preceding Government were wrong—the armaments
needless and irritating—the expenditure extravagant
and wasteful. He finds himself obliged to support the
previous actions of the Crown, while changing the po-
licy of the Crown which led to those actions. Hence
we perceive an unavoidable contradiction, or, if not
that, a want of harmony in his statements to the Cham-
ber. But we arc glad to recognise throughout the
whole a spirit in favour of peace, and a frank avowal of
what we may call the philosophy of peace as the basis
of his policy. "In the past," he says, "he has no-
thing to defend, and the utmost reserve is imposed upon
him with regard to the future." Still, however, he does
state something of the past, and maintains that a neces-
sity existed for what has been done ; and as to the fu-
ture, if he abstains from detailing anything specific, he
does not:withhold his distinct opinion that France should
no longer seek to establish influence by war and revolu-
tion. The treaty of the 15th July, he says. appears to
the King's Government to be fraught with danger,
because the Four Powers may be led on further than
they wished or intended, and " hence," he argues, the
necessity of the armaments ordered by the King, neces-
sary, though the dangers they are intended to meet may
never come." Now, it is clear that the justification of
the enormously expensive armaments ordered by the
Government depends upon the amount of probability
that the acts of the Four Powers would require France
to go to war. If there were a very slight probability of
j a slight expense,
usly
such a contingency, itevrekl
but no more. If, how sower appear that the
greatest, and almost the sole, probability of general war
arose out of the very preparations of France against a
general war, if, we say, that proposition be established,
it will not be easy to show why such expense should
have been incurred unless war, for its own sake, be held
to be an advantage to France. M. Guizot says that
France has nothing to reproach herself with ; but after-
wards he speaks of the fault she has committed although
he couples this country in the same transgression
France and England were agreed as to the necessity
of preventing hostilities, and as to the necessity of gua-
ranteeing the independence of Constantinople. They only
differed as to the arrangement between the Sultan and the
Pacha. I think it a great
.fault on the part of the two
countries to have allowed this difference to continue and
to widen, and to have ntade it the knot of the question.
The great policy and superior interest of Europe was the
maintenance of peace everywhere, and always the mainte-
nance of security in people's minds and tranquillity in
events. But the great policy was sacrificed co the little
policy, and the superior interest to a secondary one.
Count Montalembert calls my view selfish and mean. On
the contrary, I think it the only moral, just, and universal
policy. For fifty years the world has been torn and shaken.
The most salutary results have arisen from the convulsion,
at least to France. But they cast dear, and the results
are worth nothing, if they be not allowed time and calm
to acquire solidity. Peace alone can do this. The fifty
past years have been the reign of passion and of force. It
is time to substitute something else, viz , the reign of order,
justice, and right. Peace is desirable, not merely for ma-
terial interests, but forth e great moral interests of society."
If it be true that the great policy and superior interest
of Europe lies in the maintenance of peace, and of a
sense of security and tranquillity in people's minds,
surely M. Thiers has much to answer for. Who so
much as he spread alarm and disquietude throughout
Europe within the last three months ? Yet M. Guizot
says that the Treaty of the 15th of July being con-
cluded, and France, abandoned, isolated, could do no
other than that which she has done, assume an armed
attitude, but still pacific and expectant. No one can
suppose that M. Guizot is blind to the inconsistency of
a cou„:ry being armed to an extraordinary degree, and
yet pacific. No one is better aware than M. Guizot I
that the arming of 17.?nce went very nearly far enough
to make peace impossible, ,:rid that if it had gone to the
extent intended by M. Thiers a General war would, in
all probability, have been the result. We fear
tuheT the
harmony with the general character of t
philosophy of M. Guizot is not verrh
nation. The greater will be his glory if,
e renriccth.
withstanding the difficulty which this fact throws
in his way, he should be able practically to
establish his philosophy as the rule of French
policy. If he can, it will be a great achieve-
ment for his country and for Europe. We are, how-
ever, more decidedly in favour of his policy than he is
himself ; for we think it would have been always best,
whereas he avows that war and revolution have been
legitimate means of French influence. We do not
like such avowals, even with respect to thethpaatstt.h. e Ittimise,
however, fully admitted by the Minister
and haft
for such means of influence has gone
dby,
l'he
posite means should now be employe.
For a long period we have had a
is very important, and, therefore,
d twice() ignrseearttmiteahapsearasesfi'ne.
I do not accuse
fiance in Europe—revolution and war.
to see to France the int
.g
mate
them, far from it. They were
elronnal
reeciemssearsyheanhdadlengeiteid-
t for France as
But now war
external
and
revolutionindependence
ar
ad
wornt e,
shehadhniccoehuwoulddoahregraetlf
ploying them. The
of and tbe
serious wrong
ifsfoer France at the present day is peace;
means of influ:nce ihn Epurrosipsete,danin
erma
means of influenceaf a
good government in the bosom of a
gained by a revolution ; the means of influ-
encegreat freedom eign over the minds of men, and to
of France are
it is the spectacle
upon to extend her credit, her
strength,
conquer every where, ton`t territories, but hearts. It is thus
that France is called
d • h
and her power over Europe ; an in t e moment of
y, war in
dan-
ger, when war in a good sense shall be necessar •
-rest and just cause, France will reap the benefit
e of her
-dent, but not less real conquests—of those COll-
-st resolvable into provinces and tributes,
- surely lead to an increase of

8
slow ana
quests which:ire
IC
but which do not tlt,
e ba
strength and power.
We think that such a policy as M.
to be now desirable is best for every country
by a manly, rational, and thoughtful people. We dour,•
that it is possible in France. It is certain, however,
that if any two men are likely so to change the public
disposition of France as to make such a policy possible,
it may be expected from the present King and the pre-
sent Minister for Foreign Affairs. We need not
.s.sYv
how fervently we wish them all good speed in their polle.
of peace.

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(From the Morning Advertiser.)
Times of Saturday had a long article on the
subject of an alleed contemplated coalition between
theThWc exists
and al Pognlay
stable Ministry. TrTZret: so
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