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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1846.

The inviolability of the decrees of the Imperial Par-
liament is unquestionably a part of the political creed
of Englishmen. But, like all other arbitrary doc -
trines, that inviolability refers only to an ordinary
condition of society. To say that, simply in homage
to the authority of the two august Houses of Legis-
lation at Westminster, an Administration must behold
the population of these islands drooping and abso-
lutely dying from the effects of starvation, without
making a vigorous effort to supply the deficiencies
of provisions and without e xercising the prerogatives
of office in every conceivable manner for the salvation
of the populace, would be to speak from the dictates
of an extravagant insanity or of a despicable idiotcy. It
would transform the benignant institutions of our
country into a political MoLocn—a demon fur whose
glorification we should be immolating ourselves as
victims, and offering up our children as holocausts.
It would be the voluntary degeneration of patriotic
obedience into the very fanaticism of slavery. Mon-
strous, however, as such a notion may appear, there
are individuals who would absolutely carry it into
operation. There are men so ignorant, so degraded)
or so perverse, that they would insist upon the en-
forcement of this principle even while humanity
might be shrieking to them to desist. They would
see the country decimated by famine rather than the
edicts of the last Parliamentary session should be
violated by an extraordinary decree of the Cabinet
Council! They would behold the Irish peasantry
roving with haggard eyes and despairing looks among
their desolate streets and barren potato-grounds ;
they would see our English artizans pinched by in-
tolerable privations, and the lives of the community
at large placed in the most imminent jeopardy,
rather than the duties recently imposed upon .foreign
grain should be altered in one particular, rather than
the resolutions passed by the majority of our legis-
lators should be disregarded, rather than the ports 1
of Great Britain should be opened for the free im- 1
partation of Prussian or American provision. And I
why, in Heaven's name, would the impulses of (
common sense be thus monstrously thwarted? Simply I
because of a reverence for the majesty of the law ! ,
Why, Sir ROBERT PEEL violated the law, so to speak, I
last winter; and were not the hearts of his fellow-
countrymen grateful to him for so doing ? Was he I
not regarded throughout Ireland as a public benefac- 1

tor? Was he mlt beloved by the starving multi-
tude as he had never been beloved during any an-
terior portion of his political career ? The majesty
of the law, forsooth ! When a terrible visitation
turns a wholesome and hutritiJus article of food into
a species of vegetable poison, and threatens an entira
country with famine, the supreme governors of that
state are invested by Nature with an autho-
rity immeasurably above the law. You might
as reasonably allow a city to be con-
sumed by fire without attempting to extinguish
the flames by tearing open the water-pipes, on the
plea that no plugs had been supplied by the commis-
sioners. Blue books will not fill empty larders with
joints and cabbages ; political aphorisms and moral
saws are but sorry substitutes for dinners and suppers;
famine is to be prevented not by precepts inculcating
the blessings of subordination, but by "bread and
meat in the morning and bread and meat in the

evening."

What we have already insisted upon as absolutely
necessary at this period, when the peasantry are
perishing in Ireland from want, and scarcity,
and when scarcity is beginning to evidence
itself in England, is being acquiesced in
in all directions. We are rejoiced at this,
because, in the prevalence and continuity of the sup-
plication, we recognise its ultimate concession by
the Government. Let the Ministry but once
perceive that the country is throughout soli-
citous for the opening of the ports, and the ports
will be immediately opened. And when they are
open the shutting of them again will be a problem
rather difficult of solution. The dilatoriness of the
concession will then be compensated by the vastness
of the boon, though the unfortunate creatures who
have already perished in the sister country, through
the scarcity inflicted upon the population by existing
restrictions, cannot be thereby summoned from their
miserable coffins for the re-enjoyment of existence.
At a meeting of the Town-council of Manchester,
presided over yesterday by the Mayor, we are grati-
fied to observe that the necessities of the people were
estimated at their true importance. So impressed
were the members of that municipal council with the
exigency of the time, that they resolved, by a large
majority, upon petitioning the Right Hon. the First
Lord of the Treasury " to call the immediate atten •
tion of her MAJESTY'S Government to the present and
prospective condition of this country, in consequence
of the high and rapidly advancing price of corn, and
all other kinds of the people's food, in order to induce
them forthwith to open the ports of the United King-
dom to the unrestricted admission of every kind of
provision, from whatever part of the world it may
come ; or to call Parliament together, with the view
of immediately abolishing all duties on the importa-
tion of food."

That most important entreaty, coming from so im-
portant a body, and enforced by so many and such
striking circumstances, will, we are assured, com-
mand the most serious consideration of Lord JOHN
RUSSELL. As Prime Minister of this great country,
and therefore as the chief guardian of the lives of its
inhabitants, the Noble Lord cannot but entertain an
almost painful sense of the heavy responsibilities con-
nected with his elevated and illustrious office. Nor
can the Noble Lord but acknowledge that the pre-
sent extraordinary calamities demand most impera-
tively remedies equally extraordinary. When
men are dying literally from starvation in Skib-
bereen and other places ; when waggons, convey-
ing corn and meal, require the protection of the
soldiery, and when, notwithstanding those precautions,
the sacks are ripped open and their, contents ex-
tracted ; when, even in this country, bread is rising,
meat is rising, butter is rising, almost every individual
article of sustenance is rising, and that almost daily, so
as to render famine prices inevitable—unless some re-
markable remedy be speedily applied, it would be blind-
ness, or hypocrisy, or actual inhumanity to deny the
want experienced by the community for some prompt
and valorous effort on the part of the Legislature.
The annihilation of monopoly appears to be precipi-
tated by the decrees of Nature. Happiness, content-
ment, and prosperity appear to shun these islands
until that cheering announcement shall be heard—
" The Ports are Opened!"

Anything coming from Mr. O'Co3vIELL must be
perused with peculiar interest at the present crisis.
The deliberate opinions of any man possessing such
extraordinary influence with the great majority of
his countrymen, who has during so long a period been
the Bader of the people, and exercised a power greater
perhaps than that ever enjoyed by a public man,
unconnected with Government, and holding no official
situation, for an equal length of time, must command
the greatest respect ; but, when we consider the great
sagacity, the political wisdom, he has displayed, and
the perfect knowledge he possesses bath of the
characters of the people and their exigencies and
wants, that respect and authority is immeasurably
increased, more especially when the subject is uncon-
nected with any of the political questions on which
he had formally declared himself before the distress
had attained to such a fearful extremity as unhappily
is the case at present, and when none of his darling
projects, particularly that which he declares to be
the great end and object of his existence—the repeal
of the legislative union between Great Britain and
Ireland—can in any manner be influemed thereby.
If Mr. O'CONNELL was an unprincipled or un-
conscientious person, if he was disposed to make use
of every means, unscrupulonsly, to promote that end,
could he have reconciled it to himself to turn the
sufferings of the people into a weapon against the
continuance of the union, to inflame their passions,
and to excite their minds to the utmost pitch, it is
impossible not to perceive what an instrument has
been and is now within his power, and how formidably
it might be directed against the continuance of the
connexion between the countries ; but he has already
afforded the strongest evidence of the sincerity and
the purity of his motives ; he has incontestably
established the truth of his former statements, that he
will act by peaceful and constitutional means only,
that he will trust solely to argument, and that he
would consider the restoration of the Irish Parliament
too dearly purchased if one drop of human blood were
shed, one single life lost, in its attainment. To moral
force, and moral force only, would he lend himself,
and promptly and vigorously has he opposed and un-
hesitatingly put down every attempt, however in-
sidiously it might have been put forward, to justify a
recourse being had to physical force under any cir-
cumstances, or to speculate upon a contingency or a
time when such an appeal might become not merely
expedient, but necessary. His intelligent mind saw
the pernicious tendency of such doctrines, the fearful
effect they might have upon the popular mind if
_debated in the assembly he had himself called into
existence; and he risked to a certain extent his well-
earned popularity, and severed the political ties by
which many of his followers were bound to him, by
his conscientious opposition to their favourite doc-
trine and his rigid adherence to the fundamental rule
of the Association.

Influenced by these considerations, we gave credit
to Mr. O'Comsm.r. for the perfect good faith in
which he put forward his proposition for the as-
sembling of a National Committee of Landed Pro-
prietors in Dublin; we felt and expressed our full
conviction, that if the project was carried into
execution, no attempt would be made at the intro-
duction of any question of an irritating nature likely
to produce party dissensions or religious differences;
indeed any effort of the kind would most assuredly
take away from the efficiency of the committee, and
destroy its value. We examined the proposal with
unprejudiced minds, and we satisfied ourselves of the
vast benefit that would be conferred upon the nati.,n
at large by the formation of such a body. It would
act as a central committee, to receive and maturely
consider the suggestions offered by individuals or
smaller bodies, and if their suggestions should he
thought worthy of adoption, the sanction of such an
assembly would give them great additional weight ;
they would co-operate with the several relief com-
mittees and procure immediate attention to their re-
presentations. Everything relating to the procuring
an adequate supply of food for the people, and that in
the cheapest and most beneficial manner for the
owners of the soil, would come within the sphere of
their duties, and a more cordial and kindly feeling
would be produced between persons of all classes,
creeds, and parties, who would assemble together on
a neutral ground for the benefit of their common
country ; prejudices would be softened down, and in
short time every one would think better of his

quence.

brother Irishman, and regard his opinions and actions
with a less jaundiced eye.
In the usual weekly letter which Mr. O'CONNELL
has put forward, he rives additional evidence of his
good faith. He expresses his opinion that the wise
and bold determination of the Lord-Lieutenant, the
vigorous decision at w hich he has arrived, has com-
pletely done away with the necessity for an immediate
meeting of Parliament; indeed it would no longer
be expedient or desirable, as it might tend to em-
barrass and retard the carrying out of the plans of
his Excellency, and that at a time when immediate
action is of the utmost importance. Mr. O'CONNELL
mentions an additional calamity that has recently
been occasioned by the terrific storms that
have prevailed for the last fortnight or three
weeks, and uldch have prevented the arrival
of vessels laden with food for the people, and it is
feared in too many instances have caused their total
loss. This has added to the difficulties of the G -
vernment and the nation, and of course extraordinary
and increased exertions will be thereby rendered
necessary, in which the National Committee might
ai 1 with the most beneficial results. He has also
ii.ggested the formation of sub-committees for each
of the provinces, wko should report from time to
time to the parent body in the Irish metropolis, and
thus measures for the relief of every locality in each
province would be going on simultaneously and
without interruption. The proposition appears to be
an admirable one; and the sub-committees of which
he speaks would naturally grow out of the general
committee ; indeed, if formed in the first instance, they
would furnish the materials for the central commit-
tee, which might be composed of representatives
from each of the provincial committees. The most
valuable part, however, of his letter is that in which
he expresses his decided opinion that the Repeal As-
sociation should have nothing to do with its forma-
tion. The National Committee should have no poli-
tical or sectarian character ; their entire exertions
should be directed to the alleviation of present cala-
mities, and the prevention, if possible, of their recur-
rence in future years.

The following extract from his letter expresses
clearly the nature of the proposed committee and the
manner of its formation, and canr.ot, we think, be
thrown away upon the Irish landlords. He says—
" For the present I dismiss any further consideration
of the National Committee. If it take place, it must
originate, and be modelled in its constitution, by
other hands than mine—in short, it must emanate
from the sense of imminent danger, and anxiety for
preventing the fatal consequences arising in the minds
of great leading proprietors of land in Ireland. If
they do not feel the necessity for such a committee
my voice ought to be heard in vain. To effectuate
any good, the body should have, from the nature and
number of its members, powerful influence in Eng-
land as well as in Ireland. In short, it should em-
brace within its members the leading nobility and
gentry of all parties; and unless a very influential
number of men of all parties concur in forming such
a body, it ought not to exist."
Comment is quite unnecessary on this paragraph.
We sincerely hope it may be maturely considered, as
it deserves to be, and that it will remove the doubt
and suspicion that hitherto has alone prevented the
formation of such a committee.

A letter from Athens, of the 4th, states that it was
rumoured in that city that the Pacha of CANDIA had,
in accordance with the expressed wishes of the Greek
and Turkish inhabitants, declared that island inde-
pendent. The Archipelago is still infested by pirates.
It was rumoured that the Duke of DEVONSHIRE was
expected at Athens on a special diplomatic mission,
the object of which is to negotiate for the cession of
the island of Egina to Great Britain, as a compensa-
tion for the English guarantee of the Greek boar.
The rumour however, did not obtain much credit.

The Universal German Gazette of the 16th says
that there is reason to believe that Austria and
Prussia will protest against the possible consequences
of the marriage of the Due DE MONTPENSIBIS with
the Infanta Luxsa. On this subject the Allgemeine
Preussiche Zeitung (the official organ of the Prussian
Government) contains the following communica-
tion :

"It is now manifest that Lord Palmerston, when he
saw that it was too late to prevent the marriage of the
Infanta, took his stand upon the renunciations which he
hopes to obtein from the French Prince and his bride of
their own claim and those of their children's children to
the throne. We must wait to see what the result of this
political blow will be, for it is certainly open to no little
hesitation and objection. In the first place, an set of re-
nunciation is required from the Duke de Montpensier of
rights to which he does not even lay claim, which he
neither possesses nor ever can possess; and, secondly, in
so far as the Infanta and her children are concerned, a re-
nunciation of a right to the throne on her part would be
nothing less than an alteration of the lineal succession to
the Spanish crown, as it has been confirmed in that king-
dom by the Cortes, and by the events of recent date. If
Queen Isabella 11. dies without issue, it is clear that the
Infanta Donna Luisa Fernanda, and her posterity, are the
sole representatives of that branch of the royal house o
Sp tin which the Act of Ferdinand VII., the acquiescence
of the nation, and the co- operation of England and France,
have placed on the throne ; if, however, in the teeth of
those facts, Viscount Palmerston insists upon excluding
that Princess and her posterity from the succession to
the throne, it is no less clear that England throws the
weight of her influence into the scale in favour of the
Carlist party. The Count de Montemolin then becomes
in the eves of England the heir presumptive to the
throne of Spain.

" Such plans as these hardly belong to the department
of a Foreign Secretary of. State ; no such renunciation
of the throne is worth the paper on which it is written ;
for if the Spanish nation thinks proper to call the
Infanta and her children to the throne instead of the
posterity of Don Carlos (Charles V.), England
is, at all events, bound by the whole course of
her Spanish policy to acquiesce in the choice of the
country. It is more than probable, however, that this
proposed renunciation will be treated with ridicule, both

in 11;ladrid and in Paris, and, if ever the contingency
against which Lord Palmerston seeks to take preottu
tioaary measures should unhappily occur, and Queen
Isabella should die childless, the utmost that can be said
is this, that England, resting upon the fundamental
principles of the treaty of Utrecht, may have in prepare,-
tion a cams bell. Such views, however, lie too remote
to be built upon with certainty. A far nearer and greater
probability is, that-the French faction in Spain will soon
excite the hatred of the people of Spain against them,
and that a general movement will take place for the pur-
pose of expelling all the members of the Bourbon family
who have taken part in tnis intrigue.
" No surprise will, therefore, be felt if the views of the
son of Charles V. should assume a wholly different.
hap ; and the Court of the Tuileries has rendered no
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great service to Qapen I abella by identifying her cause
with French domination in the Peninsula.
" Soener or Eter this French dominion will either
have to be supported by a French army, or those who
set it up will be buried beriea:h its ruins ! Here is an
alternative!"

The Diario of Lisbon, of the 9th and 10th, has
arrived. It contains a great number of appointments
of governors of military posts, in place of these
appointed by the Palinella Ministry. A telegraphic
dispatch of the 9th announces the arrival at Santarem
of the new cotninandant of the 10th regiment of
infantry. The dispatch says he was received with
enthusiasm. A report being current that a great
number of the disbanded National Guards had refused
to deliVer up their arms, the Diario asserts that all

the arms, with the exception of a small quantity, have
already been received by the Government. A royal
decree replaces the National Guards in the capital by
three battalions, one of the clerks and others in the
service of the Government, the other two of volun-
teers from the trading classes. The Diario publishes
the following decree, suspending the constitutional
guarantees :
" Article 1. All individual guarantees are suspended
throughout the kingdom for thirty days. Arrests may
be practised without any previous forms of procedure."
Article 2. During this period the publication of all
journals and other periodicals is prohibited—with the
exception of literary and scientific publications and the
Diario do Governe

The Diario also publishes a royal decree dated the
9th, signed by the QUEEN and all the Ministers, re-
voking the decrees published by the last Ministry re-
lative to the direct election of Deputies with extraor-
dinary powers, and for the convocation of the Cortes
for the ht of December.

These decrees do in fact establish in Portugal a
pure, absolute, irresponsible despotism. The QUEEN
is at this moment by virtue of these decrees more
absolute than ever was Don MIGUEL, and this is
what M. GUIZOT calls constitutional Conservatism.

Madrid papers of the 15th have been received.
That day was the anniversary of the execution of
DIEGO LEON, and the fetes were suspended in conse-

It appears certain that ere long there will be some
sort of amnesty published. The Herald() says it
will include all military men, without exception,

from the rank of colonel downwards, and civiiians
of corresponding rank'. The Popular adds that many
others of higher rat will b spcially ardoned be
name. The Tiemp9 says that the wnnesty will
have no other exceptions than Don CARLOS
and his family, ind General CABREaA. Unless
the personal wishes of the QUEEN are over•
ruled by the interference of the French Ambassador,
there can be no doubt but that the atnnuty will la?
an extensive one, since, according to the Espanol, the
QUEEN has on more than one occasion declared
emphatically that she will sign no stinted measure,
but will have a comprehensive pardon, or none at all.

Queen CHRISTINA was hissed on her return from
the bull fight on Tuesday. The young QUEEN was
loudly cheered.
The Cortes were to be dissolved on the 20th, and
the new Cortes convoked for December.
The Duc D'AUMALE was to leave Madrid on Mon-
day last, the 19th. The Dlc DE MONTPENSIER and
his bride will not leave until the 28th.

The Mercantile Association of Madrid have given
a grand dinner to Mr. COBDEN in the Fonda del
Principe. Senor Aniceto Alviro, President of the
Association, presided, and besides Mr. Cobden and
his travelling companions, Mr. Shwabe, of Manchester,
and M. Roux, of Bordeaux, there were invited the
Duke of Sotomayor, the Count of Santa Olalla, and
Senors Luzarriaga, Florez Estrada, Barzanallana,
Teijas, Bellvan de Lis, Calderon Callantes, Moron,
J. M. de Mora, and Senor C. Marrieta, of London.
MADRID BOMA, Ocr. 15.—The Three per Cents., :35,
buyers; the Four per Cents., 2114. ; Five per Cents., 22,
buyers, with the Coupon. Passive Debt, 6%, sellers;
Coupons, 201,/x. Exchange on London, 36%.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. It
is evident that France is meditating an armed inter-
vention in the affairs of Switzerland. The Debats
says—

" Although we have not, thank Heaven, any new dis-
orders to deplore in Switzerland, we cannot dissemble
that the situation of this unfortunate country appears to
become more and more afflicting. A rumour prevailed
yesterday that Basle-country was about to attack with
rms Basle-city, and the intelligence of that event may
soon be expected. In another direction the free corps
are in agitation, and the league of the seven Catholic
cantons is preparing for resistance. At Friburg already
the Council of State has decided to call into the town
three companies of infantry and a company of artillery,
to pass a review throughout the whole canton, of the
landwehr of the first class, and of the lai.dsturm ; to
form a battalion of the landwehr of the second class ;
to augment the battalions of the landwehr of the first
class by voluntary engagements ; and, lastly, to organise
in companies, and to arm with carbines, men forming
part of the landsturm and of the landwehr of the second
class. Thus fears are entertained of seeing repeated in
this canton the scenes which have just ensanguined Ge-
neva. The rabble are numerous there and in arms, and
the example of their neighbours causes a dangerous ex-
citement."

The rabble of Geneva are, if we may judge from
their acts, a much more orderly set of persons than
the respectable ultramontanists of Lucerne. The vic-
tory of General SONNENBERG in Lucerne, by which
the Jesuits obtained an ascendancy, was followed by
wholesale incarcerations, banishments, and confisca-
tions. The reverend fathers showed no mercy. The
rabble of Geneva, on the contrary, have no in any
single instance p:osecuted or persecuted one of
their opponents, and even their enemies are obliged
to admit that Geneva has never been more orderly
or quiet than it is under the Provisional Govern-
ment. If the French Government will cease at-
tempting to force the Jesuits on those cantons
which reject their interference in the education of
the people, Switzerland will be tranquillised at once.
For his own sake we hope M. GUIZOT will not
attempt an armed intervention in support of the
Jesuits. The Chamber compelled him to expel the
Jesuits from France. Is it likely that the Chamber
will approve of his wasting the blood and money of
France in support of Jesuitism in Switzerland? So
intense is the hatred borne to the Jesuits by the
French people (and just cause the French people have
for their hatred), that we believe, even in the present
Chambers, M. GurrioT would not be able to muster a
majority to support him in an attempt to force the
Jesuits vi et arnais upon the people of Switzerland.
The recent coup d'etat in Portugal is commented on
at great length in all these papers. The National, in
the language of honest indignation, thus comments
on the more than Yankee smartness exhibited by the
Camarilla in bringing about the recent change :
"If all these wretched tricks had been employed to
overturn not a ministry, but a revolution, to ,receive by
aid of the army, seduced and led astray, the manifest
wish of the country, to cover a whole city with soldiers,
to surprise it by an Act placing it in a state of siege and
by the proclamation of the dictator, supported by
bayonets—if all that had passed in a country, called
constitutinal, by the caprice of a Queen and by the aid
of foreign gold, what suitable name could be found to
qualify such infamy? Such is, however, an abridged
.ecount of the last exploit of Donna Maria. She placed
herself at the head of a veritable conspiracy against
her own Ministers. Her right permitted her to change
them, but openly, in full daylight, and according to the
formalities which the law requires. She lays a snare
for them, draws them to the Palace as into a trap, and
calls on the General in command of the division of Lis-
bon to write the necessary orders for all the troops of the
garrison to be drawn up by daybreak in the open space
in front of the Palace. When she had obtained what
she desired, she imprisons the Ministers and the General,
then destroys the National Guard, suspends the consti-
tution, and arrogates to herself absolute despotism ! She
does not even give herself time to wait for her new
satellite, Saldanhts, to change the commanders of the
different corps ; she had beforehand replaced them
all, unknown to her Ministers ; she had signed
commissions for the old officers brought back
by Cabral ; she had renewed, on her own irre-
sponsible authority all the civil and military posts ; and,
that being done, she had sent her agents to arrest
at the same time the persons who had not been
inveigled to the palace. We cannot say what will be the
denouement of this drama, but we were anxious to enu-
merate the facts, in order that the opinion of Europe
may judge them beforehand. And if, us we hope, this
audacious insult to a whole nation be followed by a
Marked and exemplary chastisement, wkat political
party will there then be that will dare to find too severe
the act of justice that shall ensue ? Nations can:see
every where at present at what sport monarchs amuse
themselves what importance they attach 'to their
liberty—what respect they profess for their manifesta-
tions I Where force is wanting, corruption steps in ;
where war dares not be openly declared, all kinds of
stratagems, falsehoods, and perfidies are had recourse to.
It is supposed, perhaps, that by such means insurrections
may be discouraged ; but, on the contrary, this is the
way to prepare
them, to render them inevitable, and to
unteach victorious nations that moderation which
they made use of the morning after victory ! This
Leeson will one day cost dear to those who gave it, and
then it will be too late to repent of what is done."
The Constitutionnel thus analyses the old and the
new Portuguese Ministry :
" The names of the men who formed the late Ministry
were so many guarantees both for liberty and the throne
of the Queen. The Duke de Palmella, a tried Mode•
redo, but who surpassed by M. Costa Cabral as
anxious to work at the task of the Absolutists as M.
Gonzales Bravo was at Madrid, naturally found himself
placed sit the head of the Liberal reaction opposed to the
first; Viscount Sada Bandiera, the most chiva!rous Por-
tuguese of the present day, chief of the honest and per-
severing Exaltadcs; Count de Labradio, a Liberal, con-
stant and without stain, Minister to Donna Maria during
the emigration; H. Aujuiar, an old Chartist, and Mo.
rieho d'Albuquerque, more strong in his opinions than
the Duke de Palmella, and less so than Viscount Sit da
Bandiera, and with a. mind and character suited equally
to accord with both. Two worthy acts have above all
others marked this Administration—the re-establish-
ment of the National Guards, which was proposed by the
Duke de Palmella, and the order given by M. Bernard
da Sa to the army not to use terror in influencing the
voters in the elections—a thing never before heard of in
Portugal or Spain?'
After censuring in severe terms the QUEEN'S pro-
clamation it thus proceeds :
" Let us now consider the acts of the new Ministry.
A decree for disbanding the National Guard, and ano-
ther abolishing the constitutional guarantee; despotism
and anarchy ! This is too close an imitation of Spain !
And who were the men who undertook this duty ?
What were the tools made use of in this task ? Who
were the instruments, not of this counter-revolution—
the word is odious although not wanting in grandeur—
this intrigue ? Marshal Saldanha, the perpetual suc-
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not accept, and the other yet to be sought for ; in a
word, the Queen, or rather the King, or much rather the
German mentor. Of Portugal, of her interests, and of
her men, there is scarcely more thought, or question,
than of the constitution. We cannot treat these petty
intrigues with too much severity. The Constitutimmel,
so long asM. Costa Cabral did not make an abusive use of
power, expressed wishes for his remaining in cffice.
It has desired that the successors of the Costa Cabral
Ministry, more worthy than it of inspiring confidence,
might for a long time hold the direction of the affairs
accomplice
of their country. It may now be permitted to deplore
the absolutismndofinasatiegnaltiogrhtoefneadnaCrcohuyr.l/4 making itself the
The Courrier Francais has a long article recom-
mending France to seek an intimate alliance with
Prussia, rather than with Russia, Austria, or
England.

The French Government is actively employed in

improving the state of its navy, and accumulating
naval stores at its different docl;yards. Last wefk
a contract was concluded by the Minister of the
Marine for oak timber for shipbuilding to the
amount of trimards of one million sterling. Contracts
have also been taLen for a large supjiiy of coal:, to

be delivered both in France and in the French
colonies. A French company has just concluded a
contract to deliver four thousand tons of coals in
Madagascar, where it is rumoured the French Go-
vernment intends to send another expedhion, if the
disturbed state of their relations with the other states
of Europe should not prove an obstacle. By the
terms of the different contracts both the coals and the
timber must be carried in French bottoms. From
this it will be seen that our neighbours, though they
profess to be under no alarm fur peace, do not
neglect preparations for war.

PA ass BOURSE, OCT. 20.—The market has been scarcely
so firm to-day ; Threes have, however, closed within a shade
of yesterday's prices, but the Fives have slightly receded,
the last price called for the former being 82f. 65c., and of the
!after 117 f. 65c. The market closed as follows :—Three per
Cents. for Cash, 821. 70c. ; for Account, 821. 65c.; Five per
Cents. for Cash, 1171. 75c ; for Account, 117 f. 65c. ; Bank
of France Shares, 3,480 f.; Neapolitan, 102 f. 10c.; Spanish
Fives, 3514 ; Ditto, Threes, not quoted.
linitmAys.—The Share Market has varied but little, but
the change for Cash transaction, where it has occurred, has
been pretty generally against the seller. For Account the
market has been a shade better. For Cash—Paris and
Orleans, 1,250 f.; Paris and Rouen' 9321. 50c. ; Avignon,
8911. 25c.; Strasburg and Bale, 2251.; Northern, 25c.;
Bordeaux, 5581. 75c.; Fampoux, 400 E ' • Paris and Lyons,
5201. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4961. 25c.; Nantes, 502 f. 50c. ;
Dieppe, 3651. ; Havre, Vierzon, Boulogne, and Montereau,
not quoted.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 21.

Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—Demerara, 2%—Direct Bombay and
Madras, 14—Dutch Rhenish, 5 14 —East Indian, s —Namur and Liege,
836-- Orleans and Bordeaux, BIA —Paris and Lyone Constituted, b .

GUILDHALL.--(THIS DAY.)

Maria Donald was placed at the bar charged with
stealing a purse containing 19s. and some trinkets from
a gentleman named Goodyer, in Farringdon-street, on
Monday evening.
When the case was called on the prosecutor was not
in attendance, and the Alderman, Sir Peter Lriurie,
having ascertained that the prisoner was not known to
the police, anti certainly was not one of the females who
infest the streets of the City, strongly censured the con-
duct of the prosecutor in omitting to come forward to
substantiate the charge, said, that in consequence of the
statement cf the police, he was disposed to think that
the prosecutor was mistaken.
Whilst the magistrate was speaking, Mr. Goodyer
came into Court, and having apologised for his un-
avoidable delay, and declared that he had no intention
of abandoning the charge, of the truth of which he was
perfectly convinced, he said that on Monday evening,
at seven o'clock, as he was passing through Farringdon-
street, the prisoner accosted him, and asked him the
way to Bride-lane. As he was giving her an answer le
was hustled by two " gentlemen" so violently that his
" breath was taken away," and in the meantime the pri-
soner abstracted his purse from his great coat pocket,
and ran off. Last evening he met her on Blackfriars-
bridge, and gave her into custody.
The prisoner denied the charge, and referred for her
character to the person with whom she resided, and to
the tradesmen for whom she worked.

After hearing the inspector of police and other con.
stables, as well as the friends of the prisoner, the magis
trate dismissed the case.

BOW-STREET.---(THIS DAY.)

A cabman named Sidney Kersey, was charged before
Mr. Hall with being concerned in stealing a watch and
chain from the person of a gentleman, whose name we
did not hear.

The prosecutor said that last night he was at a public-
house in Long-acre, and seeing the prisoner with his
cab opposite the door, he offered to hire him, but the
prisoner said he would not take him, as he was en-
gaged. Witness then went away, but had not got far
from the shop when he was met by some women, who
laid hold of him, and attempted to seize his watch.
Witness pushed them away, but the prisoner, who had
followed him from the cab, caught him by the arm and
held him while the women robbed him of his watch and
chain. Witness was not quite sober, but he was per-
fectly collected, and able to know what parsed.
The prisoner called in his defence a witness, who said
that he and a friend took the cab in Barbican, to drive
to Long-acre, when they stopped at the public-house to
get change, and give the prisoner his fare and some-
thing to drink. The prosecutor was there, very drunk,
and was twice turned out by the landlord, and he offered
to take the prisoner's cab, but the prisoner refused to
drive him. The prosecutor went away, and the prisoner
returned with witness and his friend to the public-house,
where he remained for some time. The prosecutor,
after some time, again came into the public-house, and
charged the prisoner with stealing his watch. Witness
told him he must be mad to make such a charge against
a man who had been in the public-house ever since he
himself left it, and was there at the time he said he was
robbed. The prosecutor, however, insisted on giving
the prisoner in charge.

The other witness corroborated this statement.

Policeman F 53, who took the prisoner into custody,
said that he and his witnesses were sober, but the pro.
secutor was drunk.

Mr. HALL said there was no foundation for the charge,
it ought not to have been made, and the prisoner ought
not to have been taken into custody. If the prisoner
chose to bring an action for false imprisonment he
would be pretty sure to get heavy damages.
The prisoner said he would do so, for it was a very
hard case.

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