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LONDON:
--,NESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1840.
The

.v Paris
eti d Journals of Monday have been re•
illy: by Extraordinary Express. Those of Sun-
I' which had not reached us when we went to
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!t,,,1f4n r lay, have likewise come to hand. We
~.rt'Y to state that nothing is said innt.htehsee
p---4,: aboutS
the
,ittx
lioi,
.11, rumoured yesterday in the City,and re-
c. 'led in the City Article of our Afternoo.n. Edi-
-71. w
oitk - e Most confidently hope that it will turn
thitious ghatitivzte
iatattoffirst believed it—a foul and atro-
some trafficker in the fears and
ulild_es of stock-jobbers and speculators ; and it wasit
417 this
impression that, while not rejecting
ki:rgether, we declined
to give it that marked andh
taiertlei!ng Prominence in our columns which it o
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kh —4
in the pages of the Globe. The public wi
,rPmer in
this caution at its proper worth.
• rea :THIERs' note of the Bth of October is
it— 'n all the Paris Journals of Monday. The
tile Isterial organs are well satisfied with it, while
tip C 1 °on Journals hint sarcastically that the Pre-
be, t °f the Council has discovered that he has
tithn Nitting with shadows. "In his note of the
protest October," says the Presse, ~ M. TIIIEItS
ktuests at length against the deposition of ME
lit°l3 rr' arguing that such a measure passes the
0I eof the Treaty of London. Is not this de-
ob;
eeg hAplicitly that the French IVlinistry does not
RnTt to any measures arising out of the Treaty ?
ti,a, Ilihns it very bold to prevent the deposition
,;oho-I'NI
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,41 eha makes the funds rise, not fall." So much
ii btu._
w 4 Bay we. After the Prase comes the

Coturier Francais, a more moderate, hut a not
less decided organ of the Court, though by no
means so bitter an assailant in ordinary of the
TnIERS' Cabinet. Hear •:hat it says on the sub-

jcct :
The note of M. Thiors, in answer to Lord Palmers-
ton the 8:b of October, may be considered as being the
counterpart of the treaty of the 15th of July. The
Four Powers have guaranteed the existence of the Sul-
tan ; France guarantees that of Mehemet Ali. She
declares that the power of the vassal is not less neces-
sary to the balance of power in Europe than that of the
Sultan, and that she can admit the destruction neither
of one nor the other. This declaration, immediately
following the act of deposition, would have given France
a noble and resolute attitude. Unfortunately six days
elapsed between drawing up the note and sending it ;
and while the Ministry were deliberating, Lord Gran-
ville as well as M. d'Appony intimated to the French
Cabinet that their Governments did not approve of this
measure, which could only be executed in certain cases.
The note, modified alter this step of the Ambassa-
dors, appears somewhat merely to ask what was known
to be, granted. We appe.lr to be attempting to break
down an open door, and to combat an obstacle which
has disappearet'a Yet it is something so extraordinary-
to see France declare a cases belli in the face of Eu-
rope, that the Government ought to have credit for
this proof of energy, insufficient as it is.
Several parts of the note are worthy of remark as
so many protests against the policy of the Four PoNers ;
but this document, though allowing the point of the
sword to be seen, indicates also how negotiations
may be resumed it the Powers should feel inclined
to treat. Thus, if Syria for life were granted to the
Pacha, France would guarantee the arrangement, and
give its sanction to the intervention of the European
Powers in the affairs of the Ottoman Empire. The de-
claration which terminates the nose bespeaks that calm
pride which becomes a strong Government. M. Thiers
hopes the Four Powers will take the same view of the
question of the East as France does. Should they do
otherwise, this will not turn France from its path. How
much better would have been our position had this lan-
guage been held from the commencement
We quote this article to show our readers the
way in Nvhich the Court organs regard the Minis-
terial concess'ons ; and to enter our protest against
the sarcastic and provoking spirit in which it is
conceived. This is not a time to taunt M. TM ERS
with his return to a pacific policy. He has com-
mitted blunders, but for the sake of peace we are
willing to forget them. How much more so ought
the organs of a Court which as yet can but surmise
the extent to which he has the power of compro-
mising its dignity and its repose ? No concession
made by the French Government, however late, or
however mata-propos, will be attributed in Eng-
land to a dread of the Allies. England knows
France to be what she is herself—incapah:e of fear-
No oversight or delay on the part of a French Mi-
nister can compromise the greatness or the heroism
of France in the eyes of the world.

Contradictory accounts of the growing disposi-
tion of the English for peace were current in
Paris on Monday. The Dcbats has it that the
peace party had prevailed, while the Constitution-
nel is persuaded that the war party were upper-
most. Our Contemporary, the Chronicle, will
have it that, like the contest of the knights about
the metal of the shield, both were wrong, as the
Cabinet remains exactly where it was a month
ago. The Chronicle is a small authority on
matters connected with Downing-street, whatever it
may be +•ith respect to transactions on the Stock
Exchange. Now we only state what is well known
to all in communication with Ministers, when we
assert that the disposition to maintain peace at any
price has greatly increased in the Cabinet even
within the last ten days.
The Tou/onncis of the 14th list., published
the following important news from Alexandria, con-
veyed to Toulon by the Etna steamer. When the
Etna left Alexandria, which she did on the even-
ing of the 3d inst., the two French steamers, Ful-
ton and Castor, and the brig Diligente, was in that

port :
On the 26th ult. a portion of the Anglo-Turko-Au!-
trian squadron appeared under the walls of Said, which
it bombarded from eleven o'clock A.M. until four in the
afternoon. The town was then carried by the troops
landed from the ships, and the British flag hoisted on
its ramparts. The steamer Castor received on board
the French, the Maronites, monks, and other persons
resident in the town, who were placed under the protec•
tion of France. Every point of the Syrian cont, with
the exception of Beyrout and St. Jean d'Acre, was in
the possession of the All:es, who had likewise taken a
strong position Within two miles of Beyrout, where
they bad entrerched themselves. Ibrabim and
Soliman Paella where waiting until the bad weather
compelled the blockading forces to quit the coast, in
order to attack the Allied troops in their positions. The
Viceroy appealed satisfied. Towards the close of Sep-
tember he published a firmin exempting the Syrian
mountaineers from the conscription, and promising to
free from the payment of taxes during their life al
those who should enter the army of Ibrabim. Me-
hi-met Ali had ordered several ships of the line to sail
out and give battle to the two English ships Asia and
Revenge cruising off Alexandria, but was advised to
the contrary by M. Cochelet, the French Consul, and
countermanded that order. Some differences had
arisen between the Egyptian and Turkish seamen at
Alexandria ; blood had flowed, and several arrests had
taken place.
On the evening of the 13th instant the steamer
Meteore sailed from Toulon to Alexandria, with
despatches from the Government to the French
Consul-General M. COCHELET. Of their import
nothing was known, but it was supposed that they
recommended the greatest moderation on the part
of the PACII A . _ _ _

The only other article worthy of remark in these
Journals is one in the Courrier Francais, on the
vial of the assassin DA RM ES by the Court of
Peers. It certainly argues a most defective state
of the criminal law in France, when a wretch like
this cannot be hied by the ordinary tribunals of the

country :
(From the Courricr Francais.)
The Court of Peers is convoked. A Royal ord'
'lance charges it with the cognisance of the criminal at
tempt made on the Isth October. We regret to see
so high a tribunal, forming a portion of the Legislative
power, employed about an assassination, and about to
judge a vulgar criminal like Darmes, after having
judged Louis Napoleon. Here the solemnity of the
trial has no excuse. In the present case there is no
grandeur in the conspiracy, no difficulty in the law pro-
ceedings, no partiality to he dreaded from ordinary
Judges, nor any mistrust to be conceived respecting
their firmness. If, as it has been affirmed, the Keeper
of the Seals proposed that the culprit should be given
up to the justice of the Jury, we congratulate him on
remembering as Minister the doctrines he professed on
the Opposition benches.
Is it not a pity to see it hundred or a 1 undred and
twenty Peers, whose hair has whitened in the highest
functions of the State, assembled to ascertain the more
or less perverse intentions of a wretch «ho has fired on
the King? The crime ispositive—the assassin is a low-
born conspirator. Unless it be intended to display his
horrible monomania to every eye, as if publicity could
increase the disgust it inspires, we do not understand
why he should be tried at the Luxembourg.
The rssassins of Kings are not to be treated, it ap.
pears, as common assassins. This is a tradition the
Ministers found established, and which they follow, as if
they were not come for the purpose of changing tradi-
tions. It is there that the evil lies, While madmen
imagine that crime ceases to be crime when committed
against a King, the Government, instead of villifying
such a horrid act, involuntarily teed to remove it from
degradation by taking it out of the class of common
crimes. Parricide is tried by the Jury—why then
should regicide be tried by another tribunal ? This
manner of classing crimes according to the rank of the
guilty or the dignity of the victims, is a remnant of the
prejudices of the middle ages ; nobility long possessed
the privilege of being tried but by its Peers'. But such
anomalies should not take place under a Government
possessing the principle of equality. The intervention
of the Court of Peers should be limited to cases
where Ministers are impeached. To call the Peers
to judge frequently, and all kinds of criminals, is not
only weakening their authority, but it is also altering the
justice of the country.
Ordinary justice is annulled by a too frequent use of ex-
traordinary justice. The jury, thus deprived of a part of
its attributes, in favour of the Court of Peers, loses a
part of its character of universality,: which formed the
chief feature of this grand institution. When there is
a tribunal for one kind of offences, and another tribunal
for others, repression becomes a specialty, and equality
before the law ceases to exist. We are drawing the
logical consequences of: the measure that the Govern-
ment bas just taken, but we do not pretend to say that
it intended acy such censequecce:s. The. Gus eminent
did nut dare he- itself, and that is its real fault.
FURTHER DETAILS Of THE ASSASSIN DARMES.
Dorms, in 1830, was a frO
teur in the service of the