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BORGIA. f ment are not disposed to recommend any general plan
BY THE AUTHOR OF " WHITEFRIARS. tfor educating the people at large, for which the reason
Revised, with a new Preface. advanced is, that the wide differences and keen
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ential sections of religionists in this country present
) difficulties which would render any educational
scheme, intended to be universal in its application,
completely abortive.
It is to be lamented that the bitterness with
which the public mind still continues to be, more or
less, impregnated with the odium theologicum re-
mains an incontrovertible fact. Lord Baoucuass,
whose whole life has manifested a continuous patrio-
tic ardour for conferring upon the masses of the
people the inappreciable blessings of education, yes-
terday conceded the leading obstruction to their de-
velopment to be that, much as the two great classes
—Churchmen and Dissenters—regarded the benefits
of education, they nevertheless preferred their love of
controversy, the obdurate maintenance of which
paralyzes every effort to cultivate, by any comprehen-
sive system, the mental faculties of the vast numbers
which constitute the humbler ranks of the community.
Under such circumstances, the Government have con-
centrated their energies in favour of the next best
step that could be taken—viz., to extend the existing
system in a variety of excellent ways. Additional
inspectors are to be appointed—the best scholars are
to be instructed to render them eligible schoolmasters,
and, if they should not attain to the requisite degree
of proficiency, employment to be open to
`them
in the great revenue departments—
schoolmasters and mistresses to be rewarded
with retiring pensions and gratuities—the pupils, in
towns, to have the means of gaining a practical
knowledge in agricultural and mechanical pursuits,
that parents may be induced to send their children to
school ; and, finally, to the reformation of schools in
workhouses will the Legislature be invited to afford
every facility. Such is the outline of the Marquis of
Laeisnowein's statement. It was generally ap-
proved of, and with good reason. 'lt is a
most laudable endeavour to do much in a
direction where all that is desirable to be
accomplished cannot, for the reasons to which
we have adverted, be accomplished. We must get on
by degrees. All sound legislation is, for the most
part, a judicious compromise of opinion. .Are sutor
ultra crepidum. The Government are entitled to
great praise fur the practical wisdom they have
evinced in the important suggestions which we have
enumerated. We hope their anticipations will be
amply realised.

Just ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo.,
ADVENTURES OF

THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS.
By WILLIAM GRATTAN, ESQ.

Late 88th Regiment.
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For the first time within the memory of man two
measures of a great and comprehensive character
relating to Ireland, involving principles of great
importance and magnitude, declaring how and by
what means an entire people are to be fed during a
crisis of extraordinary difficulty, and on whom the
expenses thereby incurred are to be chargeable, have
been discussed in a calm, temperate, and statesman-
like manner, without any opposition being offered
on any side, and with agener.4Lapproval of all parties;
indeed etery:one
sseemed.toTt once to have resisted the
temptation of attacking theSe in authority ; and,
although some thought the Ministry went too-far in
their propositions, while others argued that they did
not go far enough—while one declared that the Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland should be invested with full
regal powers—and another demanded the total abo-
lition of the office, while some declared against Go-
vernment interfering directly with the reclamation of
the waste lands, and asserted that the sum demanded
for the purpose, 1,000,0001. sterling, would be quite
inadequate to do any good, and others expressed their
most favourable anticipations of the good effects
thereof, esteeming it the most valuable of the projects
already announced, and one calculated to effect the
greatest and most beneficial change in the social con-
dition of the country—both Bills received their
second readings, and were forwarded a stage, without
a division, nay without a single voice being raised in
opposition to their progress. " Measures, and not
men," are now looked to on every side ; and if the
proposition is good in itself it is supported without
reference to the quarter from whence it originates.
These things, however, are too good to last. We
fear that it is but a temporary truce, and not a per-
manent and lasting peace, that has been effected, and
that when the enactments necessary for the present
emergency have received the legislative sanction, the
Senate-house will again become the theatre of fierce
contests and party dissensions, of angry recrimina-
tions and hostile divisions. The common enemy is
too formidable, the exigency is of too grave a
character to be encountered by a divided and dis-
united Legislature; but when that diMculty is
removed things will resume: their ordinary course
and flow in their accustomed channels. • •
It would be very desirable ifitch. measure was
considered on its own peculiar points and on those of
others immediately connected with it, and Honourable
Members should not be impatient, because everything
that may be necessary during the progress of the
session has not already been brought forward, or even
alluded to in the Ministerial scheme. The first
grand necessity is to carry into execution the means
necessary for obtaining a present provision for the
people ; the hungry must be fed, the naked must be
clothed, the sick must have their wants attended to,
before any of the more permanent measures are even
discussed. The grand jury laws may and most
assuredly do want revision and an extensive reform,
but full time still remains for the most searching in-
vestigation (if such should be considered necessary)
into their mode of working, and the vile system of
road jobbery that has been effected by their means,
that too frequently has transformed many of the Irish
farmers and gentry into what, in one point of view,
may be termed "highway robbers," and for passing
the necessary changes into law.
We have as yet only reached the period when
Parliament has usually been assembled, and
when the preliminary skirmishing is about to com-
mence, and yet much has already been done. The
public woiks on roads are to be abandoned, save so
far as it may be necessary to complete the under-
takings already cornrieucvl. The destitute ,doo2r arr
to be fed by rations aistriLuied to tlcein, and thus
their labour will be left free for, and applicable to,
that most important description of work—the fit and
proper cultivation of the soil—the adequate prepara-
tion for the ensuing harvest ; and a sum of money is
ready to be advanced by the Government (which will
doubtless be increased, sif lb sh?uld appear that there
is an urgent necessity for a larger expenditure in that
manner), in order to enable the more impoverished of
the small farmers to obtain the necessary seed to sow
into the land, which they are now unable to procure
from their own diminished resetieep. Thp
Irish Poor-law is to be extended with the

general approbation of the Irish as well as the
English Members. As in other matters there are

differences as to the details, and some of those having
property in that country have expressed great fears
of the effects of a concession of the right of out-door
relief to the able-bodied poor, we think, however,
that such a fear is unfounded; there are ample op-
portunities for the profitable employment of all the

labour of the country in the cultivation and impro;e:
ment of its soil, and the certainty that the labour

must be paid for, under any circumstances, will
stimulate the landlords to direct it into profitable
channels. They will thus be compelled to accept the
benefits and assistance offered to them by the nation,
and to bring their lands into the highest state of fer-
tility and productiveness. Like children, they contend

against the salutary medicine, which may at first be
unpleasant, but will assuredly produce the roost
beneficial effects. , We most sincerely hope that all

the other measures relating to Ireland may be dis-
cussed in the same spirit and temper that has
hitherto characterised all the debates relating to that

country.

A letter from Homburg of the 29th ult. says—

" When the late Landgrave, Philip Augustus, granted to
Messrs. Blanc, brotbe►s, of Nantes, in France, the exclusive
privilege of keeping the gaming-tables at the baths of -Hom-
burg, the only condition imposed upon them was tbat they
should pay to the State an annual sum of 26,000 francs; but
reserved to his successor the right of increasing this contri-
bution, or of withdrawing the privilege from Messrs. Blanc
and granting it to other persons. The new Landgrave, Gus-
tavus Adolphus, who has just taken the reins of government,
has exercised this right, and, taking advantage of the sup-
pression of public gaming-houses in nearly all the baths of
Germany, has signified to Messrs. Blanc that ho should with-
draw their privilege unless they entered into an engagement
to pay an annual contribution to the State of 62,000 francs;
to pay annually into the treasury of the municipality of
Homburg 10-1,000 francs to be employed in the embellish-
ment of that capital; to build at their own expense a theatre
at Homburg, and lastly, at their own expense, in the city, an
hospital for 150 sick paupers, and to have them constantly

taken care of without any charge to the Government or city,
However exorbitant these terms may appear to be, they
have been accepted by Messrs. Blanc, upon the only condi-
tion that they may be allowed to form a joint-stock com-
pany, with a capital of 3,900,000 francs, to be divided into
3,000 shares of 1,300 francs each, which condition the Go-
vernment has acceded to.''

Madrid papers of the 29th ult. have arrived.

- - A Ministry is at length formed, under the Presidency
of the Duke DE SOTOMATOR. The following is its com-
position:—
The Duke DE SOTOMAYOR President of the Council
and Minister of Foreign
Affairs.
M. BRAVO MURILLO.... Grace and Justice.
M. SRLTAS LOZANO lnterior.
M. ROCA DE TAGORES Public Instruction.
M. SANTTLLAN
General PAVIA.
M. BALDASANO Marine.

The new Ministers were sworn into office on the 29th.
MADRID BoLsA, Jax. 29.—The Three per Cents.,
32 buyers, * sellers; Five per Cents., 2.04 buyers,
sellers; Passive Debt, 61 buyers, t sellers; Coupons,
184 buyers.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
There is to be a debate on the subject of the Mont-
pensier marriage after all. M. GUIZOT'S refusal to dis-
cuss the matter on Tuesday, his appeal to the patriotism
of the Opposition, was merely a trick, quite worthy cf
the other tricks which M. GrizoT has practised in re-
lation to these marriages. Tho object of this trick was
discovered on Wednesday, when the Journal des Debats
and the Frew raised a song of triumph over the
Opposition pretending that they felt themselves beaten,
that they did not dare to attack M. GUIZOT on the sub-
ject of the marriages, and that the silence of M. THIERS
was a tacit admission of the injustice of the charges
brought by the Constitutionnel. On the meeting of the
Chamber M. Tunas stated that he should have spoken
en the subject of the marriages but for the appeal made
to his patriotism by M. GulzoT, and the declaration by
the Minister of the inconvenience which would attend
the discussion. M. GUIZOT then rose, and with mar-
vellous effrontery denied that he had made any appeal
on the subject, denied that be had attempted to
stop the discussion, denied that he had ever
said the discussion would be inconvenient, de-
clared that be had never seen any inconvenience in
a moderate debate, but added, that as he had not been
attacked, he did not see any reason to provoke discus-
sion. This brought up M. CREMIEUX, who reminded
the Minister that his speech, upon the conclusion of
which, on Tuesday, M. GUIZOT had made his remark-
able declaration, had been one continued attack on the
Government. It was finally arranged that the discus-
sion should take place on Thursday, and that M. TRIERS
should begin. A discussion followed on the Cracow
question, and the ambiguous words of M. GurzoT's pro-
test are made use of in the Address:—"La France desire
sineirement le respect de l'independence des Cats, et le
maintien des engagemens, dont aucune puissance ne peut
s'affranchir, sans en affranchir en memo temps les autres."
These words are purposely ambiguous. They contain
an arriere pensee, and are intended to be a covert re-
pudiation on the part of France of the Treaty of Vienna,
to be referred to as such whenever the day shall arrive
in which she shall find herself strong enough to carry
out her ambitious views of aggrandisement at the ex-
pense of her neighbours; indeed, M. VITET, the re-
porter of the Address, characterised it as a pretest for
the past and a reserve for the future—a description, the
truth of which was confirmed by M. GulzoT. The sitting
was enlivened by a Radical speech from M. DE GENOUDE,
the Legitimatist, which so horrified the other members
of the party, that they have excommunicated the culprit.
On Thursday the discussion on the Montpensier mar-
riage was commenced by M. TRIERS, who was speaking
when the post left, at which time he had been addressing
the Chamber for three hours. He went fully into the
question of the negotiations which had preceded the
marriage, and declared that he had read with attention
all the documents, and he gave it as his solemn convie•
Lion that the Whigs had not in the least deviated from
the engagements entered into by their predecessors. In
every respect had they been faithful to the principles
laid down by England as agreed to with Lord ABER-
DEEN. Here the Honourable Idember dwelt for some
time upon Lord ABERDEEN'S letter to the Due
DE SOTOMAYOR, Lord COWLEY'S dispatch of the
13th or July, and Lord PALMERSTON'S letter
to Mr. BULWER of the 19th of July, arguing
that Lord PALMERSTON had done nothirg more than
had Lord ABERDEEN. It was, however, in consequence
of that dispatch of the 19th July, that M. GulzoT con-
sidered himself relieved from his engagements. What
was more, the: correspondence between Lord PALMERS-
TON and M. Gutzerr continued after this date, and his
Lordship reiterates and confirms anew his declaration,
that Don HENRI appeared to him,-the fittest candidate
for ,the-land, ortheQuar7.l/ow did M. GUIZOT
• reply ? Let us, said he, unite our efforts in favour of
Don HENRI; and in conformity therewith, Mr. BULITER
receives orders to use his efforts in favour of
Don HENRI. On the 22d of August, both Cabinets
are in accordance, or, at least, appear to be. How-
ever, Count BRESSON, at Madrid, is acting in a very
different sense. In London, it was said, Count
BRESSON was acting horrors—at Paris ho was said
to have been doing wonders. He was, however,
not capable of doing either one or the other—
Count BRESSON had just executed the orders he
had received. On the 28th August the marriages were
decided at Madrid. He approved of the QUEEN'S mar-
riage, but certainly that of the Due DE MONTPENSIER
was not, in a political point of view, worth the sacrifice
of the English alliance. " You have," said M. TRIERS,
"given England a check ; but, mark my words, you
will have to pay for it." He proceeded to observe upon
the assertion that the Court of Spain had insisted upon
both marriages taking place together ; but such asser-
tion, he said, was not supported by the official docu-
ments. Id. TRIERS then condemned the policy pur-
suedser ; in his optine questioniontliem to thearriage twoporfoctehdeesobve sistersobserved,
he declared
with both brothers would have been best. Passing
froluthepolicyof h
that they were abominable. The French!
Cabinet, in the &A place, was wanting in frankness'
Having decided upon escaping from its engagements, it
continued negotiations commenced under the emprise of
those engagements. Want of frankness was particu-
larly manifested in M. GUIZOT'S interview with Lord
NORMANBY.
The Opposition journals make some strong remarks
on the explanation given by M. GUIZOT on Wednesday
of his conduct on Tuesday, which explanation they con-
sider an insult to those Members who had addressed the
Chamber before M. GUIZOT made his remarkable de-
i3tohnast,
ohfe the only
statesman.defende t et
The Constitutionnel says--
. Guizet, in presence of the
' tto speak, and demanded the suppres-
sion'found it inconvenient
as a desire
of the ciiicussion as a concession,
Yesterda M. Gil' whicht
every one felt to see peace confirmed. y
difficulties of the situation, and not to add to its gravity,
w self-loveitrb.thought
goufhi zt:hotend Tuesday
authore not.sd aaytP.
tethrhcaeeti veil°
as
replying to adversaries who
C 6who
pointed by MM. Berryer and r
was strongly s
was the explanation given by
pointed out how unbecoming f B
himself cis dared that he wwanerteednottowaovrtohlyd
of theh'
italro.ublTeiz:oief
had another duty—to
de-
claration of M. Guizot that he had not appealed to any one:
in the disanesion taking place, but
that he saw no inconvenient e
hadl
taking a pre-
M. Guizot of his declaratatikoen
foofrti
nh
ao dnaoytebeo
fo before.
the
reiterated ut Bi. Th ier
he was unwilling to commence it ; that he
of that assertion, the motives which had determine_h.
Opposition to guard silence existed no longer, and M. T iers
caution for himself, and not for the country. In consequence
of
announced that he intended fulfilling the new duty thus
The representative Government is one
imposed on him by the declaration just made by
important with the dignity of the assembly
questions that have been examined since 1830 should be
Is what M. Timers expressed
ofbdilyscu that discussion, le' andiT u
it o
is
gravest
completely discussed. This
amidst the applause of the whole Chamber."
We read in the Quotidienne:—" Our number of yes-
Lerday was seized at the post-office,
and in our bureaux.
The warrant does not name the article which called forth

this act of authority. We have searched in vain for a
phrase or word which could hive been a motive for any

act of severity."
COURS AUTIIENTIQUE.—PARIS, FEB. 4.—French Five per
Cents., 118 f. 60c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 109 f. 75e. ;
Three per Cents., 35E 40c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,280 E;
Obl. of the City, 1,325 f. ; Neapolitan (Rothschild's) Defini-
tives, 101 f. 30c ; Romans, 100Uf. ; Belgian Five per Cents.
c 1840), 101 f.; Ditto (1842), 102 XE ; Ditto Bank, 910 f.;
Spanish Three per Cents., 341,4 f.; Exchange on London--
one month money, 25f. 22;ic.; three months, money,
25f. 71Ac.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FESZTJAAT 5.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—Luxembourg, 2 Si—Namur and Liege,
2%—Northern of France, 12S—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7 —Over
rase', 3 dis.—Paris and Lyons, 7% —Rouen and Havre, 26% —Sambre
and Meuse, 6%.

LADY JOHN RUSSELL.—Her LadyshiP, we are happy
to state, was improving this morning. The answer
given in Chesham-place to all who called to inquire this
forenoon was, "her Ladyship is better."
A deputation from the Health of Towns Associa-

tion, consisting of the Rev. Mr. Lusignan, Dr. Gavin, Messrs.
Abraham, Riadore, Clarke, &c., waited upon Lord Morpeth
this afternoon with a series of suggestions for sanatory im-
provements, to which his Lordship promised his most atten-
tive consideration.

JERSEY WREAT.—The Greyhound smack, from
Jersey, arrived here on Saturday last, with wheat. A rising
took place by some inhabitants 'of the islands to prevent tho
export of the corn, and an attempt was made to unship her
rudder. The Zebra smack also arrived here the following
day with wheat, after having had some difficulty to clear out
from the island.—Plymouth Journal.

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