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structed, not only as regards these French refugees,
but as regards G sue:al Kearaa, wham he repre-
sented as being in England at the time he spoke,
whereas General KLAPIKA had for months previously
been resident in Paris, and of whom he stated that
he had issued a proclamation, which proclamation, if
ever issued, was a vile forgery, concocted by the
Austrian
things,
trian authorities,—Lord
LYNDHURST, seeing
will, we trust, hesitate before he again
ventures to make statements in the House of Peers,
which rest solely on the representations made to him
by his clients, and which are not supported by any
corroborative evidence. That Lord ABERDEEN, cet
excellent ABERDEEN, the prompted of METTERNICH,
the commanded of GUIZOT, should, in conjunction
with Cardinal WISEMAN, fraternize with the
monster HATNAU, and, falling in the wake
of the veracious Bishop HENDREN, denounce
these unfortunate refugees, does not surprise us ; it
is the conduct we should have expected from the man
who opened MAzzlNl's letters, for the purpose of en
trapping the unfortunate BANDEIRAS ; but that Lord
LYNDHURST should condescend to become a de-
nouncer of unfortunate exiles, is indeed a mat-
ter of regret. If the principles laid down
by Lord' LYNDHURST are correct, then ought they
to have been acted upon some three years since—
then should the royal, and the noble, and titled
plotters, who in 1848 abused the hospitality
of this country by plotting the destruc-
tion of the Republican and constitutional
Governments of Europe, which had risen uy
during the course of that year, have been at once
deported as conspiring to overthrow Governments
with which we were in amity and alliance; then should
certain persons who are still engaged in schemes' for
the restoration of Monarchy in France, and for the
destruction of the Republican Government, with
which we are " in amity and alliance," be also deported.
But my Lord LYNDHURST and his coadjutors must go
much further than this. Negro slavery is as funda-
mental a portion of the constitution of the United
States as the Hapsburgh rule is of the
constitution of Austria; therefore it is as contrary to
the principles hid down by Lord LYNDHURST for
any Americans in this country to do any act tending
to the abolition of slavery in the United States, as it
is for MAZZINI and his compatriots to do an:.
act tending to the deposition of the Houle-
of Hapsburgh. Will Lord LYNDHURST and
his coadjutors dare to interfere in any manner with
any American citizen residing in this country who
shell adopt any means he thinks right for the aboli-
tion of slavery ? And if they dare not so interfere,
on what grounds would they interfere in any
other instance ? These false and calumnious ac-
cusations against the refugees come with a very
ill grace from those who have made common
cause with the murderers of ROBERT BLUM and
BATHYANI, with the woman-flogger of Hungary and
bornbarder of Messina ; but the former conduct of
these refugees when in power proves the falsehood of
the present accusations against them. "We may be
calumniated," say these Republican exiles—
" We may be calumniated, but the world will never
believe that men, the very first act of whole advent to
power was the destruction of the scaffold—men who
accomplished a great revolution without shedding a
single drop of blood, without commuting an act of
violence, without imprisonment and without confiscation
—the world will never believe that we are assassins or
incendiaries."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
They announce the failure of the negotiations for
the formation of a quasi-Legitimatist Cabinet.
All parties now appear to have come to the con-
clusion that the PRESIDENT has never had any serious
intention of forming a Ministry, but that he has
projected impossible combinations in order to have
an excuse for recalling the BAROCRE Ministry to
office. M. ODILON BARROT is so annoyed at the
manner in which he has been "used," that he has
publicly announced in the Ordre that he will not
enter any Ministry of which M. DUFAURE is not a
member, which i 3 tantamount to declaring that he will
never form part of either a Legitimatist or of a
Bonapartist Cabinet.
The Ordre publishes the following as the reasons
which induced M. LEON DE MALLEVILLE to decline
making part of a BARROT-BAROCHE-FOULD Cabinet.
It says:—
" 1. It did not appear to him respectful to the Assem-
bly to restore to Ministerial functions, without any new
circumstances occurring, two of the Ministers whom the
Chamber had visited with a vote of distrust two months
back. 2. Supposing that the difficulty of forming a
Ministry ought to cause personal questions to be
overleaped, M. de Malleville thought that at least the
new Ministers ought to agree amongst themselves, and
with the chief of the executive power, on the most im-
portant political questions. These questions he con-
ceives to be, in the first place, the law of May 31.
M. de Malleville is in favour of its absolute main-
tenance. Are all the Ministers and the chief of the
executive power of that opinion? In the second place
he deems them to be Articles 45 and 111 of the Consti-
tution. According to M. de Malleville, the public un-
easiness is above all caused by the unconstitutional pre-
tensions of certain friends of the Elytge Is there any
intention to disavow these pretensions? Is there a firm
resolution to declare publicly that the Constitution will
be strictly conformed to, and that, if three-fourths of the
votes should not be obtained in favour of the revision,
no proposition will be made to the Assembly to vote that
course by a simple majority ? la there also a firm deter-
mination to announce that the President, not being re-
eligible, will not be a candidate in 1852? If M. de
Malleville had obtained complete satisfaction on all these
points, no doubt he would have accepted."
In the Legislative Assembly, the law regulating
the National Guard was read a second time by a ma-
jority of 432 to 206.
M. LAMARTINE has addressed a long letter to the
editor of the Pays (of which journal the Poet-states-
man has become proprietor) instructing him in the
line of policy which he is henceforth to pursue. M.
LAMARTINE gives the following as the resume of his
policy :
"It is in fine that policy which, since the Constitu-
tion is at work, has sincerely desired the fusion of the
Republicans by preference with the Republicans by rea-
son, and with the Royalists united by a patriotism to the
moderate Republic. It is that policy which bewailed
whenever disaccord appeared to arise between the legis-
lative power and the executive power; which honoured
the first magistrate of the Republic when he used lan-
guage in conformity with his constitutional position, and
which blamed him when ill-sounding projects were
allowed to buzz about him, and when his future fate was
placed to all appearance elsewhere than in that of the Re-
public. Is is that policy which, in place of wickedly
and falsely dividing the social classes into opposite
interests, and in so creating the antagonism of pro-
fessions under the derisive name of fraternity, believes
that there is but one and the same interest for all
classes and all professions ; and that all political genius
consists in discerning the point where ail interests con-
centrate, and make use of each other to create social
-harmony, the masterpiece of civilisation as of religion.
It is that policy which, like every one, admits that there
are some practical faults in the Constitution, but which
does not think that it is necessary to break it to pieces
in order to amend its machinery. It is that policy
which desires the revision of the Constitution, if the
Assembly, well inspired, should vote it, to satisfy the
country, but which does nut desire it at any price, and
which doss not c eesider it good unless voted fairly by
the majority prescribed by the fundamental compact. It
is that policy which, above all, desires to see universal
suffrage restored to the people, and which bet eves so-
ciety to be stronger with the co-operation cf all than
with the monopsly of some. It is that policy which,
when once universal suffrage shall have been restored,
believes that the Government will resume its security,
that the Assembly will gain new strength in the act of
prudence and justice which it will have accomplished
towards the people, that the President of the Republic
will recover a lawful popularity, that the country, re
stored to its rights, will also be restored to tranquillity,
that it will vote coolly in place of passionately iu the fu-
ture elections of the Assembly, and for the office of Pre-
sident, and that the danger of 1852 will be only a warn-
ing to it to be prudent, and the starting-point of a se-
cond period, backed by labour and prosperity, or the
Republic or order."
Toe Assembly has determined to adjourn from
Wednesday next to the Wednesday following for the
Easter holidays.
We find the following in the Constitutionnel:—"Some
perscns having interested themselves eu behalf of M.
Mania, ex-President of the Republic of Venice, who
now resides in Paris, and demanded an allowance for
him from the Government, the request was imme-
dately granted by the Minister of the Interior,
and M. Mania was requested to call at the office for re-
fugees. He yesterday went to the Prefect of Police, and
after expressing his thanks for the generous intentions
of the Government towards him, said that, having ob-
tained some pupils for the Italian langunge, he could at
present dispense with any assistance, and hoped that the
The in
Petrie
flunidei of finding
last allowance intended for him would be divided among some
r e s resources."
others of his countrymen who had not been equally for-
tunatesays:—" M. de Lairartine,
from to-morrow, assumes the direction of the Pays. M.
Arthur do la uCtronniere, chief editor of the Presse,
quits that journal and joins the Pays. It may be
remembered that this gentleman, before he be-
came connectedF with the Presse, was the editor of M. de
Lamartine journal the Bien Public." The Bul-
letin de Paris states that the Pays wilt support the prin-
ciple of the revision of the Constitution and the re-election
of the President. It adds that the Conseiller du Peuple
will be united to the Pays under the same management.
The Bourse was agitated, and less confidence was en-