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who suppose that their views and wishes are to
be laws for the rest of mankind. At Glasgow,
Marylebone, Edinburgh, Leeds, the Tower
Hamlets, &c: &c.; the Chartists have appeared at
the hustings, and have nominated their own can-
didates. At the last general election they were
unknown. The Radicals existed as a party for
many years before Major CARTWRIGHT put up
for Westminster, or Mr. HUNT for Preston. But
the Chartists have burst at once into notice as a
political party. Their supporters at the poll were
few, but they were numerous at the hustings,
and are numerous in the country. They dislike
and distrust the Whigs, but they cordially hate
the Tories. That numerous class are not to
be cajoled by the silvery, unmeaning words of
Sir RORERT PEEL, and his accession to office
will recruit their ranks, will supply them, pro-
bably, with funds and leaders, and will sharpen
their animosity. We see no indication in
these circumstances of returning or increasing
prosperity frqm a change in the Administration,
without a great change in the laws which Sir
ROBERT PEEL is to take office to oppose. He
may have a majority in both Houses of Parlia-
ment; but that majority, were it ten times as
great as it is likely to be, will never make wrong
right, or induce the intelligent community long
to submit to poverty, want, hunger, and injustice.
The Parliament may make what laws it pleases,
it can only govern the country on honest prin-
ciples, which Sir ROBERT PEEL and his followers
spurn with contempt.

The insurrection in Crete and the European provinces
of the Turkish empire excites no interest in England or
France at all commensurate with its importance. Among
established Governments the word insurrection has an ill
sound, but, in the majority of instances, history will bear
us out in asserting that in four cases out of five of popu-
lar insurrections, right and justice have ever been on the
side of the insurgents. As long as aominion, tounctea
on aggression and conquest, is maintained by tyranny
and oppression, so long do the conquered people retain
the right of regaining by force what they lost by weak-
ness. Now it cannot be disputed that the dominion of
Turkey in Europe has been upheld solely by tyranny.
The Turks never established any equitable claim to the
Government of any part of Europe. They introduced
no acts, they cherished no literature, they revived no
national recollections, they fraternized with no class of
the conquered people. Those whom they conquered
they enslaved and brutalized ; and by resting their domi-
nion solely upon force they justified every appeal to it on
the part of the objects of their tyranny. Now, small as
is the amount of political knowledge in Candia, and in
the provinces of Servia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, and Mol-
davia it is too great to allow the Christian inhabi-
tants to submit much longer to the oppression of the
Sublime Porte. Their independence may be delayed
for a few years by the threats of the Great Powers,
which have constituted themselves guardians of the
Turkish empire, but, assuredly, nothing can prevent
their final emancipation from the Ottoman yoke. Now,
the duty of the British Government is not to throw
obstacles in the way of brave men fighting for freedom,
but to take care betimes that they may not exchange
the yoke of the SULTAN for that of the CZAR. Upon
this question Austria and England have a common inte-
terest. Austria's persecution of the Greek 'patriots
during the war of independence originated in her terror
of that country becoming a Turkish province, and the
Emperor ALEXANDER betrayed the Greeks the instant
he learned that D. YPSILANTIS and his gallant com-
panions in arms had resolved to raise Greece to the
dignity of an independent State. Turkey in Europe is
large enongh to form an independent kingdom, and no-
thing will contribute more to restrict the dominion of
Russia than the formation of a Christian State between
her and the shores of the Bosphorus. We are the more
eager to express our views upcin this question
from seeing that hitherto the Candiot insurgents have
experienced great harshness from the European Consuls
in that island. As an instance we quote from the Na-
tional the following Address of the French Consul, while
that journal preaches obedience nominally to the SULTAN,
but virtually to Russia and Great Britain :
" Cretan Emigrants,—From the moment of your landing in
arms in the island of Crete, in my quality of Consul of his
Majesty the King of the French, I have incessantly declaimed
energetically against your hostile proceedings with respect to
the Porte. Blinded, hitherto, by the perfidious insinuations
which have misled you, you have remained deaf to the words
dictated by sentiments of peace and humanity; and, under
the pretext of reclaiming, I know not what rights, you have
introduced disorder into the island, by insurging a part of its
inhabitants against the Government of the Sublime Porte,
and you hive foolishly reckoned on the support of foreigners,
for at presht every power repulses your enterprise and consi-
ders it illegal.
" In the view of making you renounce the vain hope of a
pretended protector from France, I immediately sent back
your despatches, which I, as Consul of his Majesty the King of
the French, could neither keep nor forward to my Government.
.‘ This official act should have enlightened and convinced
you that, far from creating delusive hopes, I wanted to induce
you to leave a land where you could not long fail of being
punished by the forces of the Sultan.
_ _ _

" Now that the blockade is rigorously effected, and that
military operations have commenced, by opposing an illegal re-
sistance to the Sultan's authority, you will ..shed your blood
without any glory whatever.
" Depend upon it, the inhabitants whom you are misleading
will abandon you trusting their interests and their future
prospects to the kindness of the Government of his Highness.
" There consequently remains for you no other means of
safety than by submitting immediately to the authority of the
Sultan—by throwing yourselves on his magnanimous gene-
rosity.
" Hasten, Cretan insurgents, to surrender and confide your
persons to the humanity of his Excellency the Capitan Pacha.
Cease to endanger by your presence the inhabitants whom
you have misled by fallacious promises, otherwise you must ex-
pect the just punishment drawn down by your rebellious ag-
gression.
" Trust in the words of him who, far from abusing you, has
never ceased, conjointly with the other Consuls, to show you
your real interests, by stating to all the exact truth, which has
just received the unanimous confirmation of all the Powers."

REPLY OF THE INSURGENTS.

"In spite of the proclamation§ of the Consuls of the Chris-
tian Powers, the Provisional Government established by the
insurgents perseveres in the line it has traced relative to the
Sublime Porte, as is proved by the declaration it has addressed
to the Consul, residing at Canea."

The attention of the French public, and of the Paris
press, as we learn by our Correspondence from that capi-
tal of Sunday, is turned with the most vivid anxiety to
the electoral contest in our own country. The probabi-
lities are calculated with earnestness by the quidnuncs of
the Boulevards, and the hordes of individuals connected
in some shape or another with the existing French Ca-
binet are trembling, " some for their fortunes, some for
their trade," as poor GEORGE COLMAN'S Chough and
Crow erst did, according as they see the Monopolist and
Anti-Monopolist returns fluctuating in the accounts
brought by each succeeding post. Some of the leading
journals, such as the Debats and National, have got edi-
tors despatched to England for that special purpose, who
send them daily accounts of the most spirited hind, and
they work up the incidents of our " life on the hustings"
with a degree of picturesque dramatic effect, that has
created a strong sensation in Paris. The correspondent
of the Debats is said to be M. JULES CHEVALIER, now
in England on an Anti-Slavery mission ; while ARMAND
MARRAST, the well-known Republican, writes to the
National.

On Saturday Mr. HENRY LYTTON BULWER, who acts
as British Charge d'Affaires during the residence of
Lord GRANvvv.v.r. at the charming villa of La Jonchere,
between Malmaison and Manly, had an interview with
M. GUIZOT, and delivered a communication from Lord
PALMERSTON, to the effect that the hatti scheriff having
now been accepted by MEHEmET Au, no obstacle now re-
mained to France giving in her accession to the Confer-
0110A ©f the Four Powers nfl sioling_tlie_final_nrotocol
for the settlement of the Eastern Question. His Lord-
ship therefore requested M. GUIZOT to send powers to
that effect to the Baron DE BOURQUENEY in London.
We further learn that since the Treaty of Unkiar
Skelessy expires on the Bth inst., Baron BRUNOW has
declared that Russia is ready ad willing to sign this
final protocol without loss of time.
It appears that M. BRESSON, French Ambassador at
Berlin, had before leaving Paris a long interview with the
KING, whom, and not from M. GUIZOT, he received
special instructions to do all he could to promote a
friendly feeling towards France in the Prussian Court.
The KING and Court are now at Bizy, a small chateau
on the Seine, near Vernon, in Normandy, on their way
to Eu. It seems that very unfavourable reports of the
health of the Duke of AUMALE have been received from
Algiers. It was previously known that his Royal High-
ness was attacked by dysentery, but it is now said that
his condition is alarming.
It is said that the Queen of the BELGIANS will come
to Paris after.leaving the Court of St. James's. There
is a talk in military and fashionable circles of a grand
fete to be given this month by the Duke of ORLEANS,
at Villars mar Neuilly, in honour of the conquest of
Algiers.
There was a report circulated the other day of nego-
ciations being on foot for knocking down all custom
houses between France and Belgium. On this sukect
the Independent of Brussels says :
" It is true that at Paris as well as at Brussels the Govern-
ment is occupied with endeavours to draw closer the commer-
cial relations betweedthe two countries : but at present nothing
more than overtures and conversations have taken place. We
believe we can affirm that no actual proposition has been made
on one si le or the other. This matter is too closely connected
with the most important interests of Belgium for the Govern-
ment to lose sight of it for a single moment."
The Charivari asserts that Mademoiselle RACHEL,
wh(l.n giving one of her readings before the Duke
of WELLINGTON, perceived that all her audience were
ignorant of the French language,
except the Duke
himself. She went on, however, with her reading and
spouting, consoling herself, at least, with the idea that the
Duke understood her. After it was over his Grace ap-
proached the great actress and said, " Mademoiselle, our
guests have had a great advantage over me : they have
had the happiness of hearing you :—I am as deaf as
a pest !"

The death of the Queen of HANOI ER was known in
Paris, but had not produced any further sensation than
as it was expected to produce, much depression of mind
in the King ERNEST.

News has been received at Paris, via Marseilles,
from M. TRIERS, of M. MAVROCORDATO having posi-
tively refused to accept office. This was considered the