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or those of foreign -States we can readily un-
derstand ; but that this, in men aspiring to the
character of British Statesmen, should resolve
itself into a hatred of liberty every where,. pre-
sents a species of anomaly which no power .of
reasoning which we possess, or which they have
hitherto exerted, can lead us to understand. Can
they flatter themselves for a moment that there
exists the smallest chance of their being able to
resist the spirit of freedom which exists at home, or
that the Government of a nation of freemen can, by
any possibility, become the effectual opponents of
free institutions elsewhere? Unhappy Poland,
indeed, isolated and hemmed in by the iron
hand of oppression, may, for a time, at least,
present a scene over which Freedom may mourn,
but where Hope may still linger in the pro-
spect, however remote, of a day of retribution ;
but in no other part of Europe can such a scene
present itself, or the smallest chance be said to
exist that despotism can ultimately triumph aver
the active and awakened spirit of the age. And
if such be the state of things abroad—if France,
if Belgium, if Italy, if Germany, if even Spain
and Portugal, present no prospect of the spirit
of freedom, however for a moment thwarted,
being effectually crushed, what room is there for
the crooked policy of the Aberdeen school to
hope to worm itself into ? And how less room
and possible chance is there at home that even
the bugbear of a cry of revolution can make any
erectual stand against the ultimate success of a
measure which, in fact, has the prevention of re-
volution as its basis ? We repeat, eien, what
can men, aspiring to the character of British
Statesmen, look for by their persistence in such
a career as this ? They may, by untoward
events, force themselves into office—though even
that is not very probable ; but had they talents,
had they sophistry, had they influence ten times

greater than they have hitherto displayed, what
the most remote chance is there of their retaining
power for one single month, but by becoming
Reformers at home, and the friends of liberal
institutions in other countries ? —Morn. Herald.

The various pretexts upon which the three
despotic Powers of the " London Conference"
repeatedly evaded their solemn engagements to
ratify the Belgic treaty, which they had concur-
red with England and France in framing, we
treated all along as false pretences used to gain
time for some unavowed and ulterior purpose.
That purpose is now manifest to every person
who can reason at all upon public occurrences.
It was the expectation, that the second reading
of the Reform Bill could not be carried which

led to so much shuffling and evasion ; for, with
the expectation that the Bill would be rejected,
the despotic Powers on the Continent enter-
tained the sanguine hope that the Duke of
Wellington's party would be recalled to office,
and, of course, all the "bad examples" which had
been of late years given to Europe by the reac-
tion of tyranny against oppression would be put
down ; and, of cours?, revolutionized Belgium,
and, perhaps, revolutionized France would be
brought under legitimate discipline by mea-
sures as strong and as effective as had been
employed to reduce to " order and tran-
quillity" the refractory spirit of Poland. No
sooner, however, was the second reading of the
Reform Bill carried, and, of course, the hope of
a return of Tory misrule in England rendered
hopeless, than the Governments of Austria and
Prussia gave in their reluctant adhesion to that
treaty, which, if they had a particle of political
honesty, they would have ratified, as origi-
nally , agreed upon, the 15th of November
last, instead of avoiding the fulfiment of their
contract for four long months, upon the
most flimsy excuses, while they awaited the
occurrence of an expected political change in
England, which would have enabled them to
get rid of the whole Babel of protocols which
they had helped to construct, as easily as the
Autocrat of Russia has annihilated the treaty of
Vienna, without deigning to ask, or care, for
the consent of the other parties to the com-
pact. But, after all the ratifications of Austria
and Prussia—if the foreign journals, which
are the organs of the despotic, can be be-
lieved—are by no means of that complete and
satisfactory nature which, even if the ratifica-
tion of Russia were also exchanged, would bring
the Belgic question to a settlement. As the
Allgemeine Zeitung, in particular, explains the
affair, it is to be taken as a ratification that ra-
tifies nothing, but only marks the opening of a
new chapter of negotiattons. For instance, that
Journal, speaking of the negotiations, which
were commenced with a view to effecting some
modification of the Belgic treaty, says—" These
modifications are not given up, and, so far as
they are founded on indisputable claims, will
certainly be brought about ; the only difference
is, that they were before considered as preceding,
the ratification, and will now be subsequently dis-
cussed, but without losing any thing of their
weight." Thus, upon the showing of the
organ of the Holy Alliance, the treaty is
only ratified by Austria and Prussia with a
view to altering it, which is, in fact, con-
firming one thing, with a view of presently
substituting something else for it. This is
as bad as taking an oath with a mental reser-
vation. As to modifications, founded on indis-
putable claims, why were they not put forward
before ? The articles of the treaty were more
than once altered before it was draWn up as final
and conclusive in the names of all the Five
Powers ; and now, after the shuffling and evasion
of many months, the ratification is only to be
provisional. The more we see of this matter,
the more strongly do we adhere to our original
opinion, that our Government ought to have
-abstained from their foolish intervention in the
affsairs.of Belgium and Holland, by which we
have entangled ourselves in very useless and em-
barrassing' obligations.--/Iforning Herald.
Among the various surmises which have been
propagated by the organs of the Tory faction, or
rather among
.the downright falsehoods which
are now their only, resource, as a means of an-
noyance and irritation to-their-opponents, there
is one to which we slightly "adverted a few days
ago, and which has since appeared under a
different form, which we feel .bound to notice,
as a gross
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