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London, England, 1848-09-16 00:00:00

preface), he showed that improvement is 'invariably 10
proportion to the more or less of respect in whiSb due
institution has been held. He cited the East, Ds s ease
in point, in a remarkable passage:—" You will ling there
cultivation neglected and abandoned to the carrot slaves,
because it is the most exposed to the rapacity
of despots
ism? You will find trade preferred, because it can the
most easily hide itself from the inquisition of tyrannYt
personal property, gold, jewels,. moveables, these things
belong to commerce: you see these valuables in the
hands of a proscribed race, who avenge themselves—•
do you know how? By usury. On the otber
hand, where property is respected, and rpricei
_
are regulated at their legitimate rate, land recovers
its natural value, no industry is preferred more thin MP
other—all are alike pract'sed according to their repulse'
rative worth, interest falls, and the proscribed race, re-
instated in its original dignity, becomes on a par /so°
all the others." In his definition of liberty, M. Tbiel,
is as bold in his zeal for the status quo. "By liberty,
he says, " I do not mean political, but social liberty'
that of disposing one's faculties as one likes, of devoting_
one's energies to agriculture, manufacture, mining, 8;
it may be; in one word, of choosing one's profession
Society says to a man, You are free, work ; work at
your own risk and peril ; it depends on yourielf, if yOll
work with application and ability, whether you shall be
rich or otherwise.'" We remember the Duke of Wel'
lington, in the Houselof Lords, saying much the slur°
thing a few years ego, and being greatly abused in the
facile cant of phrase-ridden Librals. It requires such
scenes as France has traversed to educe truths, and to feel
their value. Tile third proposition of M. 'Thiers, that one
of the-safeguards of.moderst Society is competition, is fe'
Millar-se:eats inerbis ebuilify. The industrial facts, too,
(which he arrays agaiat that sentimental pessimiso
still in vogue); .he shows the great end.daill
airgrisenting amelioration in the condition of the masses,
have been entertained by all thinking politicians 10
England since the days of Arthur Young and Adige
Smith. " A maid of honour," says Sir F. Y. FAA
" breakfasted on roast beef, but the ploughman so
those good old times, as they are called, could, I fee'
only banquet on the strengthsof water gruel." Such is
the course and the tenor of M. Thiers's argument
contrasting the demand and the wages of the preses
day with those of fifty years ago. Let us, howeret
hope, that as M. Thiers has at last become sensible to
the virtues of competition, he intends for the future to
abjure those Protectionist heresies, in vindication o',
which he has vied in sophism with Mr. Disraeli, and i 0
audacity with Lord George Bentinck.
ADVERTISER.—PubIic attention is beginning to
turned to the approaching State trials in Ireland. They
will be of a much more serious character than the Stew
trials which took place in Dublin in 1843.- Whell
O'Connell and his seven associates were arraigned at thl,
instance of Government. the charge was only one 0'
sedition, and consequently, in the event of conviction
the punishment could not, at the worst, extend beyond
a temporary imprisonment and a fine. The pasties ee'
cused were not only safe, so far as their necks were soy,
cerned, but they had not even to fear a seven yea°
transportation. It is otherwise with the unfortusete
men who are now about to be put on their trials Tbeff
are to be arraigned on the charge of high treason.
convicted they will be amenable to the extreme penalty;
and, in any case, cannot receive a less severe punish
ment than transportation for life. It might be supper
that, under circumstances of so grave a nature, the
soners, their agents and their friends, would all look for:
ward to the proceedings at the trial with that seriousness
of mind and manner which becomes the solemn occasi°
It would seem, however, that this is not the case, 1.,,e
far as some of the parties are concerned. It Wear
that the agents of Mr. Smith O'Brien have actually soli;
swotted Lord John Russell to give evidence on the
gentleman's trial. This must have been done by way of
joke, for every one knows that the Prime Minister lei
no evidence to give in connexion with the crimes with
which Mr. Smith O'Brien is charged. All we can selo
is, that it is a wretched joke. It would be impossible 1.,
imagine anything in worse taste. Whether or not
has directly emanated from Mr. Smith O'Brien, f,
have no means of knowing; bat it must at all Wel
have received his sanction. The circumstance will net
be lost on the public mind. It will greatly diminish, "0
not entirely extinguish, whatever sympathy may Ileld
been felt for that gentleman. If he is just now dispose,
to regard the position in which he is placed as a legitio!„l-1
one for jocularity, he will change his mind before On
weeks have elapsed. This indecent levity is not °calf
to Mr. Smith O'Brien, though it has not, in the case
any of the other prisoners, manifested itself in the sae'
way. Mr. Duffy is described as taking a special
°P light in playing at ball in prison, whenever any :
is present, and affecting to be as light-hearted e'
if he were a simple-minded thoughtless boy, full of .v
spirits, and having no idea beyond that of how be in'y
most abundantly gratify his propensity for Paltia)ei
Mr. Meagher, we are told, alternately whistled, hutsts%
to himself some broken notes of a song, and smoked hie
cigar, while the process of reading over the indicts/Os'
against him was going on. Now all this mu" bo
affected. It cannot be real. It is not in accordasea
with human nature. It is indecent as well as assumed'
Men of truly philosophic minds would, in similar cit.
cumstances, scorn to demean themselves in this mantle!:
It has its origin in the same idea which leads a convict
at the bar of the Old Bailey, when sentence of transport
tation has been passed upon him, to express a hope the'
the judge may remain in his seat until he returns tc
England, after his " term " has expired. Real fortitude
is dignified in its demeanour. It comports itself with
calmness, and challenges admiration for its unobtrir
siveness. So far from there being real courage in the
conduct of the three prisoners whose names we
have
mentiornals-their demeanour indicates the existence and
operation of the opposite feeling. They remind us O'
the schoolboy of Dr. Blair, who is described as whist'
ling to keep his courage up" when passing through till
churchyard on his way home on a dark night. *IP'
regard to the subf (cueing of Lord John Russell, sot
only is the thing calculated to deprive Mr. Stst
O'Brien of that measure of sympathy which, with all hts
talcs and crimes, many persons would still have felt
disposed to accord to him, but it throws an air of die,
respect around the judicial bench which every one rays'
witness with regret. It will not only prove an infinite
annoyance to the Prime Minister, but a grave trifiiog
with the eacrulnees of justice. And yet, so far as we
know, there is no way of preventing Mr. Smith O'Bijen'
or whatever other party the idea originated with, frost
~
gratifying his miserable taste. Lord John must obey ti
lommoosjust as any other person. Though it is wellkeel
to all parties connected with the judicial proceedings, t,bsils
the Noble Lord has no evidence to give which can affeet
result of the trial one way or other, no one has the PO."
to release him from the obligations which the Jae; it;
poses upon him to be present. It would be impossih*;
to conceive a greater abuse of the right to call what;
t
witnesses an accused party pleases than is furnished.r
this case. The subject is one which may, possibly,me;
mend the attention of the Legislature before the etc
of the coming session. If so, it is to be hoped 1%
Parliament will not run to the other extreme. There:,
a danger of this. Nothing is more common than to
the abuse of a right or privilege urged as an argument
why that rigfit should be entirely done away with, °t
the privilege altogether withdrawn. We do not expect
any such result in the case in question ; but we are 0;
without our apprehensions, that should the Legislator;
take up the question, it may, in its anxiety to prove
>'
being called to give evidence who notarial/4o
have none to give, enable persons to absent themselve
from trials in courts of justice, whose evidence may ~
of essential importance to the case of the prisoners.

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Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
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leibb.
On the 10th inst., at Boston, the lady of Thomas Garat
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 11th iast , at Royal-terrace, Glasgow, Mrs. Alex'
ander A. Laird, of a daughter.
On the 14th inst., the wife of Mr. George Tucker, of Upper
Ground-street, Blackfriars, of a son.
On the 12th inst., at Brussels, Celia, the wife of T. J.
Amos, Esq., of a son.
On the 12th inst, at Clifton, the lady of Major-Geieral
On the 13th inst., at Roehampton, the lady of Francis I)*
Tyssen, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 13th inst., at Cheltenham, the wife of Dr. Jibe'
Whisb, of a son.
crombie, of a daughter.

On the 13th inst., at Deptford, the wife of Mr. "A• fr.
Hood, of a daughter.

f &FLIED.
On the 14th inst., at St. James's Chinch, Paddington,
Cockburn, Esq., of Edinburgh, to Caroline, youngest daug
ter of C. Page, Esq., of Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park. On:the 14th inst., at Chiswick Church, Captain Slugt,
K.H., R.N., to Elizabeth Isabella, only daughter of the 1
P'_ Benjamin Sharpe, Esq., of Fleet•street.
On the 14th inst ,at St. James's Paddington, C. 5m,,,1 ,
Esq., of Lincoln's Inn-fields, to 'Anne Elizabeth, eldest
.
daughter of J. Padmore, Esq ,of Conduit-street West, Hy e"
park.

On the 12th inst., at St. Mary's, Rotherhithe, J. Austin'Esq., of Cowley, near Uxbridge, to Louisa, fourth daughter
of the late Mr. George Reid, of Lower Grosvenor-street.
On the 13th inst., at St. Mark's. Mydrielton-square,,,,ell::
F. W. Sinale, of River-street, Myddelton-square, to iu""
Jane Waters, youngest daughter of the late J. WaterthEigl.
of Cheltenham.

DIED.
On the 13th inst , aged 57, Sir W. H. Richardson, °f
Chessel-house, Hants.
On the 9th inst., at Holt, aged 76, the Rev. Josiah VP-
hb
Flavell, 47 years rector of the parishes of Stody and Hui"
worth, and an acting magistrate for the county of Norfolk.a
On the 12th inst., at the Grove, South Lambeth, Alfre
Bedford, Esq., aged 28.
On the I:3th inst., at Boulogne-sur-lifer, aged 27, Mail
Anne, wife of R. Kettle, Esq., barrister-at-law.
On the 14th inst., at Nelson-square, Charlotte, relict of the
late Dr. J. D. P. French, M.D., aged 74.
On the 12th inst., aged 49, the Rev. Arthur Trollope, BLA -
,
for 21 years curate of the united parishes of St. Mary -4
Bow, Cheapside, St. Pancras, Soper-lane, and Alll3OO 0,
Honey- lane.
On the 12th inst., at Brentry, Gloucestershire, age 4 ¢6'
Mary Anne, the wife of W. Cave, Esq.

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