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ITHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1816.

it has simultaneously renewed and confirmed their
inborn patriotism. The lamentations of their de-
parted countrymen resound in their ears from the dis-
tance of bygone days and the depths of their violated
graves. It is impossible, no doubt, for the dissevered
remnants of this population to re-assert their own
independence, to reclaim their own hearths, to re-
establish their own principality. They look to the
liberated kingdoms of Europe, they look to the
honour and the magnanimity of flourishing nations,
they look to those Governments which are based
upon the adamant of freedom and enlightenment.
From these they expect the vindication of their un-
merited woes.

To propose to embark thousands to reclaim
the earth of strangers, whilst millions of waste
acres surround-their own homesteads, is an idea the
madness of which lies palpably on the surface. Again,
the expense attendant upon it would be infinitely
greater than what could be incurred by inviting the
industrious and willing poor to drive the plough
through their own native soil. Emigration, as one of
a series of remedial measures, and when conducted
upon a scale of liberality and benevolence, might
undoubtedly present attractive advantages; but, to
suggest it, at a moment like this, and in an isolated
shape, when the people are on the brink of famine, is
one of the most dangerous propositions that could be
started. And this we press upon the attention of the
landed proprietary, that if they are favourable, as they
profess, and we believe them to be, to the maintenance
of the Union, they could do nothing more calculated
to strengthen the repeal of it, than by yielding their
consent to wholesale emigration. We adjure " the
constituted guardians of the poor" in Clare and other
counties to be wise in time.

Upon the movements and intentions of the Ad-
ministrations of London and Paris there are a thou-
sand conjectures, but few that are entitled to a mo-
ment's consideration. The Cracow annexation has
actually jeopardised the very existence of the Guizot
Ministry. Rumours innumerable are floating about
the vicinity of the Tuileries, and it is now
tolerably certain that the proposed successor
of M. GUIZOT is the statesman whose eva-
cuation of Ancona has rendered his name
somewhat unpopular amongst his warlike country-
men. We allude of course to Count MOLE. There
is unquestionably much sagacity in that insinuation
of the Courrier Francais, that M. TRIERS, amidst all
these official arrangements, is merely " lurking be-
hind the scenes, waiting to mount upon the stage" im-
mediately there is any favourable opportunity. There
is a preposterous corollary, however, to these reports
in relation to the protest said to have been forwarded
to Lord PONSONEY, at Vienna, by her MAJESTY'S
Minister for Foreign Affairs. The explanation given
in the Parisian press of the character and tone of this
supposititious document is manifestly inconsistent
and improbable ; and is not assureily the English
remonstrance at the atrocious convention of the 6th of
November. Of that convention the only apology pub-
lished under the auspices of the Northern patriecides
is the article inserted in the Austrian Observer of the
20th ultimo—an article founded upon the doctrines of
despotism, feudalism, ignorance, depravity, and expe-
diency. It is only by snapping their fingers at all
moral and Divine law that the Austrian and Rus-
sian Emperors can maintain the advisability of such
proceedings as the incorporation of Cracow with the
territories of the Kaiser FERDINAND. It is only by
deriding all the holiest laws of nature and revelation
that they can have the audacity to insist upon the
justice of their behaviour.

Madrid papers of the 23d have been received.

The Herald() admits that a Carlist band has ap-
peared in the neighbourhood of Gerona, but professes
to entertain no apprehension of any serious conse-
quences. There was some excitement on the subject
of the approaching Madrid elections. Senor MoN,
the Finance Minister, who represents one of the dis-
tricts of Madrid, will be opposed by a formidable
competitor, viz., Senor SALAAIAACA, the rich banker.

MADRID BOLSA, Nov. 23.—The Funds continued
stationary. The Three per Cents. were done at 34+ ;
the Four per Cents., at 20f ; the Five per Cents., at 21};
the Coupons, at 191 ; and the Debt without Interest,
at 64.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The Journal des Debuts pub!ishes a letter from
London, dated the 27th of November, which gives
the following as the substance of Lord PALMER-
STON'S protest against the annexation of Cracow :
" Lord Palmerston yesterday dispatched to Lord
Ponsonby, the English Ambassador at Vienna, the pro-
test for some days past talked of, against the coup (1'44
with which the city of Cracow has been visited. In this
long document, which is drawn up in dry and cold terms,
Lord Palmerston argues on the supposition that the
usurpation of Cracow is, as yet, but a project, and
strives to point out the inconveniens of such a measure.
He next discusses the two questions of right and neces-
sity. As regards the question of right, he urges, ap-
pealing to the text of the treaties, that the stipulations
agreed to in a solemn engagt meat by eight Powers
cannot be modified and annulled by three of them. As
regards the question of necessity, Lord Palmerston
does not admit the resolution which northern courts
seem willing to adopt. That three of the most
powerful States of Europe should invoke necessity
to destroy the existence of a poor little republic, the
population of which reckons not 130,000 souls, is inad-
missible. The Powers also complain of Cracow having
become a focus of conspiracies and political intrigues;
but, admitting the real ty of the allegation, two supposi-
tions present themselves—either those conspirators are
people belonging to the country, or they have come from
other parts. In the second case, it is not Cracow, but
the Powers themselves who are to be blamed, inasmuch
as their territories surround on all sides that of the
republic. In the first case, is it possible to believe that
such a city as Cracow would refuse, on the demand of
three such Powers as Prussia, Austria, and Russia, to
check the conspiracies, and put an end to the intrigues
of which those Powers would then have such just reason
to complain; and, if it committed the folly of not com-
plying, what difficulty could ever be encountered by the
three Powers thus reduced, to take justice into their own
hands within the limits of the treaties?

Let the spoilers of Eastern Europe hearken to the
cry of the banished countrymen of SoniEsxr, let them
listen to the voice of those whose souls are ani-
mated with the great memory of Kosausx.o. It

proclaims :
" You have seen Poland protest in arms on a hundred
fields of battle—you will see it again ; she prepares her-
self for fresh struggles, and this last attack on her, by
causing her efforts to be redoubled, will hasten her de-
liverance.

"The treaty of Vienna no longer remains to Europe ;
that part of spoliation, which was never binding on
Poland has been destroyed, by its very authors. In its
place will arise a more powerful alliance of people, which
nothing will rend asunder."

Those threats may appear impossible of accom-
plishment to the monarchs of Russia, Prussia, and
Austria at this moment, but a persistance in their
foregoing atrocities will ultimately render such
threats no longer contemptible. The Northern
Powers must be warned by the reflection that the
laws of GOD and man cannot be scorned for ever
with impunity.

" Sucb, it is said, is pretty nearly the protest of the
English Minister for Foreign Affairs. A copy of this
document has been also dispatched to Lord Normanby,
in order that it be communicated to M. Guizot."

It would appear, from an article in the Courrier
Francais, that the Ministerial crisis is over, and that
M. GuizoT remains in office. According to the
Courrier the choice was only between M. GuizoT and
Count MOLE, between whom there is scarcely any
perceptible difference :
By his concessions and pusillanimity, M. Guizot has
encouraged the Absolutist Powers to consummate the
most revolting iniquity. And who is designed as a suc-
cessor, when the France of July shudders with impa •
tience and indignation, and burns with revenge ? Count
Mo 4 !—the man who evacuated Ancona ; the man, who,
at our very gates, allowed a portion of the territory of
Belgium to be mutilated ; tho man, finally, whom M.
Guizot himself, during the storms of the coalition, ac-
cused from the tribune, and with justice, of having suf-
fered the dignity of the country to be degraded on all the
points of Europe, where international questions were
agitated. M. Guizot or M. Mobi ! The 15th of April
or the 29th of October ! Behold the alternative held
out to France, when she is insulted and defied beyond
her frontiers, and when to punish such insolence she
would require all her energy and patriotism."
If the following, which is the conclusion of the
same article, is to be believed, M. GuizoT's threats
last week against the Northern Powers were mere
words " full of sound and futry, signifying nothing":—

What is to be done with Ireland ? The question
has been repeated for years. No matter how great is
the sum of legislation for Ireland comprised within
even the last quarter of a century—no matter how
large the boon, be it essentially political, social, or
purely pecuniary, for which the Irish have thundered,
and not in vain, at the doors of the United Parlia-
ment,—no matter how intensely successive Cabinets,
whether swayed by the genius of a CANNING, GREY,
MELBOURNE, PEEL, or RUSSELL, have devoted their
energies to the political redemption of the sister
isle—no matter how much of the time of each session
has been given up, and in an increased ratio,:with the
view of mastering her difficulties,—every year the cry
seems to become louder, and the question to be
more emphatically put, of what is to be done
with Ireland? As yet all would appear to have
been in vain. A variety of treatment has, in turn,
been resorted to, but always with an illusory result.
The coercive and the lenitive system, the rigorous
and the ameliorative, has been, as it were, by fits and
starts, adopted, and yet, with all our endeavours to
lay the foundations of peace and prosperity, we appear
to have been only grasping at shadows.
If anything were required to add to the conviction
of the distracted condition of Ireland, and of the
perplexity of attempting to improve it, it would be
found in the discordant views which the Irish them-
selves take of the state of their country, and in the
nature of the suggestions, for the most part crude,
wild, and efficient, which are propounded on all sides
for its improvement. It is a medical rule, that when
a man is sick, he should never prescribe for him-
self. Yet, in Ireland, where the body politic
is so deeply affected, and different parties
are severally willing to quack themselves with some
peculiar nostrum, the notion is entertained by a large
body of the inhabitants that, with a domestic legis-
lature, all their ailments would cease ; that if they
had only the power of swallowing every political
dose as rapidly as it could be compounded, Ireland
would be completely revivified. It is well for Ireland
that she has Great Britain to advise and control her
in her hours of affliction and disquietude.
The intelligence from the other side of St. George's
Channel is by no means inspiriting. Severe destitu-
tion continues to prevail, particularly to the south-
ward and westward, and the impositions that have
been practised upon the relief committees, by whom
persons have been employed on public works, whose
circumstances are not sufficiently distressed to entitle
them to relief, to the exclusion and prejudice of others
whose want is excessive, have in many parts spread a
a spirit of dissatisfaction and disaffection which must
be promptly allayed. This, we have no doubt, will
be quickly accomplished, as every devisable means is
bein
and heartless
gfollowedupw intrudersithalacri upon h
alacrity for expelling
these
cunning benevolent
resources of the public.
There is nothing, however, we regard with so much
of apprehension as to their probable consequences
unless immediately and authoritatively discounter
nanced, than the recent proceedings of the gentry in
the county of Clare. The board of guardians for
the union of Kilrush have passed resolutions, and
addressed a memorial to the Prime Minister, recom-
mendatory of a wholesale scheme of emigra-
tion, as the best method of relieving Ireland
from its cumulative destitution. They suggest
that the present remedies of the Government
are utterly inadequate to meet the calamities
of the country, and therefore jump to the conclusion
that thousands must be shipped off from their father-
land to cultivate large unreclaimed tracts of our
colonies. It may be true, and we have been of those
who have indicated the necessity, that—to use the
words of the memorial—" some more effective and
permanent measures" are required to get rid of the
universal pauperism, with its concomitant evils, of
Ireland. But, " the more haste the worst speed," and
notwithstanding the memorialists allege they have
‘minutely investigated" the state of their electoral
divisions, which has led them to " hasten to lay their
deep conviction before the Executive, and not to
hesitate to suggest an extensive system of emigration
by families," we dislike the precipitateness with
which they have arrived at their conclusions, and
unreservedly
impugn the soundness of their judg-
ment. What I are the landed proprietors to
turn round upon a hardy race of peasantry, and,
addressing them like so many cattle or bestial droves,
to exclaim, " There are too many
of you here; be
off to the nearest ports; ships are there lying in
readiness to transport you to other climes. Food
and labour may or will be within your reach on
strange shores, but, believe us, that at home, the land
of your birthright, and that of your forefathers, you
look for these primitive blessings in vain." We
warn the landed gentry
of Ireland against coun°.
nancing for a moment any such project, one so re-
volting to the social feelings of any population, and
particularly to so excitable an one as the Irish.
Once let their language and councils take this
direction, and the torch of rebellion will be lighted
up from one end of Ireland to the other. Such a
storm would arise as would not be, easily hushed.
i

" M. Guizot keeps his portfolio, and, as it is no more
contemplated—we do not say to act against the Northern
Powers, but—to protest against their infamous usurpa-
tion, we may now appreciate the value of those trans-
ports of rage of which the Ministerial journals offered
to us the spectacle during some days. It was on the 6th
of November that the Powers signed their monstrous
convention ; and, although twenty-three days have since
elapsed, France has not yet even expressed her displea-
sure. Our rulers await, or rather pretend to await, that
England come to a resolution, as if, in such a question,
France was not bound to assume the initiative ! As if
England, in spite of herself, will not be compelled to
follow the example set to her by France !"
M. GUIZOT has, it is said, protested, but it is tole-
rably certain that he will do no more.
A protest against the annexation of Cracow, from
the Central Polish Committee of Paris, signed by
Count DE LASTETRIE, the President, and by M.
VAVIN, the Secretary, a Member of the Chamber of
Deputies is published in the Courrier Francais of
Sunday.

Provision riots are taking place in the French pro •
vinces ; the distress consequent on the scarcity of
food is becoming general, and in many of the de-
partments is driving the people to desperation. At
Chateaurenault and at Azay le Rideau, a mob of 600
persons took forcible possession of the market-place,
notwithstanding the presence of a brigade of gen-
darmerie, and forced the farmers to sell their corn at
two francs a bushel, and in many cases carried it off
without paying for it at all. They also took
possession of the grain stores, and sold all the wheat
they contained.
The Reforme states that there has been a rise dur-
ing the last week in the price of wheat, in the corn-
markets of Bergerac, Montlucon, Treguier, Luneville,
Bayeux, and Charmes, averaging 50 centimes the
hectolitre; whilst there has been a fall in the corn-
markets of Louviers, Lille, Vic-sur-Ainse, Coulom-
miers,
averaging if. the hectolitre.
The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de l'Op&a,
on Sunday, at 82f. sc.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 30.
Boulogne and Amiens, 131,0—Demerara, 4%—Dutch
Rhenish, sk—Northern of France Constituted, 10%—
Orleans and Vierzon, 12%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7%
—Rouen and Havre, WA—Trinidad, lA.

ELIZA Coox.—We observe with pleasure the an-
nouncement of the intention of the proprietors of the
Weekly Dispatch newspaper to present their sub.
scribers with a likeness of this distinguished poetess.
Those who have lingered over the beauties of
" Melaia," who have laughed at the exuberant
sprightliness of her satirical pieces, and who have
been moved to tears by her tender and pathetic
ballads, will welcome so suitable a memento of this
eminent songstress. And they will welcome it none
the less because it is copied from a portrait which is
acknowledged to be absolutely marvellous for its
vraisemblanco, representing not merely the moulding
of her poetic head and features, but the indefinable
expression of intelligence and gentleness by which
the latter are illumined. The popularity of the
writings of Miss ELIZA Coox—a popularity which
is diffused among the million both in the cities and
the homesteads—is attributable to no adventitious
aid, it is owing to no spurious ebullition of feeling,
it has originated alone in the merits of those charm-
ing compositions. They have won their own way,
and they have acquired so much celebrity became
their authoress does not content herself with penning
glib rhythm and melodious rhyme; she does more—
she writes from the dictates of a warm and over-
flowing heart. Those who have read her lighter
productions know that she can evoke our laughter.
Those who have read the " Old Arm Chair"—and
who has not ?—know that, when she lists, she can
make us weep. With the true alchemy of a poet,
she invests even the meanest thing with a golden and
enduring beauty. It is an appropriate and graceful
act on the part of the proprietors of the Weekly
Dispatch—an act equally appropriate and graceful to
their subscribers and contributor—to issue the por-
trait of a lady who has so frequently adorned their
columns by her genius.