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tional improvement, adhering to the principles of our
mixed Monarchical Constitution, and relying on the
.
If an y proof were wanted of the fallen and despe- ! A
powers inherent to the Constitution itself:l • the attain-
sate s'ate of the Tory faction in this country, it would ment of useful and practical rebrms."--Times.
7oe found is the fretful and morbid articles again the In The Sun of Friday lost there was An able and
been
Catholic Priesthood with which the Times has well-written article on tho. 'at'hjeet of Ireland—on the
lately disgusting the public ear. We know of no wronos of the Irish por—their miserable and tltstitute
b
tOrztir whatever, treated even at the most angry periods condition-a
-a-016r willingness to wo+_:k) anti the low wages
of political agitation, upon which such atrocious- viola-
which they earn—and the necessity of finding a field
tions of ail the forms of fairediscuesion have been per-
for their exertions in order to relieve them from the
petreted as upon that now before us. There are u -
miseries, physical and social, which they ate and have
wards of two thousand Ca°nolic priests and curates
been so long enduring. We tordially Agee With our
Ireland, egg aged ill the active duties •of their inis-
contemporary, that nothing Cali
be 'More deplorable or
don. Of. theset no`. more than ten or twelve,
we
more destitute than the tondition of a great mass o!
drink at the utioo;st, have been mentioned in the evi-
the Irish poor—one clay's comfort, much less luxury,
Hence tekeit `before the Intimidation Committee, as
distinguished by an indiscreet zeal
beyond that which ushers in the abundance of the po-
on the Liberal side,
tatoe crop, out of the 365 of which the year is com-
pressions t'ee last elections. These men used strong ex-
posed, is utterly unknown to them ; even the supra;,
properly td them from their altars ; they denounced
pressionS in addressing, the' people. They spoke im-
of the common necessities of nature, and outs of
the enemies of liberty from the 'same sacred places. the coarsest food upon which human tkistence
inattet M itli times
We shall not -be the apologists of indiscreet zeal in can be supported, is ti
tty
either Protestant or Catholic Priests. Great allow-
uncertain, and a result but ra l realised. Even
once, ought, however, tb be made for men who witness the pig of an English (*truer is better fed, and
every day the sufferings of the peasantry for conscien-
fed from better materials, than a great mass of the
lions esifrerence to their opinions, and refusing to pol-
people of Ireland, who seem to be born to live for
lute themselves with the wages of corruption. But,
others and not for themselvei, and to be allowed to
adiratting the misconduct of the individuals in question, exist simply because their oxistence, on the one hand,
we are entitled to demand whether it is justice or tea- is necessary to, styplV kihe wants of others, and because,
:son to condemn the great majority of the Irish Catholic .4
on the other,*Oka be very like murder to put an
Clergy, for the faults, the crimes, if you will, of a dozen end to their existence by any other means than a lin-
of their Members ? The tyranny of the landlords is
Hering and often-repeated famine. For these truths
passed by—everything relating to that subject is sup-
bthe report ofy
The S-,,n, ahe Commissioners of Inquiry, as quoted
pressed—the furious harangues of the Boytons, the in the following brief analysis, bears but
too ar:,ple testimony :
M‘Ghees, the O'Sullivans, are forgotten—the relent-
" The Rev. P. Walsh, Roman Catholic Rector of the
less hatred of the °ranee Clergy and their armed satel-
parish of Headfort, in the county of Galway," says it,
Rtes is kept in the background—the murders of Ratio
" stated that for nine months of the year the bulk of the
comae are no lonaer thought of—the exaction -„-f t;;;)
0 b
or three half-crown tithes, at the cost of he- labourins poor could get nothing to do ; and such was their
_ ..nan blood, indigence that they could not afford to eat an egg, but
in the very presence of the Protestant
. Clergyman for were obliged to sell it to help to pay the rent of the
whose " use and benefit" the slau;:nter was directed— wretched con-acre. They supported themselves in half
the fell spirit of religious asc
:enclancy which pollutes starvation ; and he had known a hundred instances of indi-
the sources of all justice. in Ireland :—these and a victuals, during the month of July last, who had not more
,
thousand other wroroga Which agonise the hearts, and
than one meal a day, and who for two months previously had frustrate the peace;, subsisted am two meals a day, six of which, accordipg to
peace;, and mock the strength, o and trample
on the liberties tif the Irish people, are thrown in mass Mr. Ring, would not be equal to a dinner of bread and beef
with a pint of beer. The same person said that he kr
..,ew
into the shade, 'while the actions and expressions of a many poor people to subsist durino summer on cal.!eag
few of their priests are registered and held up to this salt, without a single potatoe ; anbd yet such
. was their deli.
e and
nation as a cause for new persecutions, new confisca- cacy, that if any person entered their °cabins while devour-
ing this miserable substitute for food, they sought- to
tions, new penal laws of the most merciless descrip-
tion. Is it possible that such monstrous doctrine as screen it, lest their indigence shaaild be made public.
this can receive the sanction of any
Christian, of an Mr. O'Flaherty, a gentleman of resY in his village there were tP- pectability, stated that
.1 families who were every summer
man not actually insane, in an empire and an age like
tohiethpouostthalf enough or, the coarsest food , and Mr.
people
'Christian ? Yet the Times has the courage to assert that a master, aave it as his opinion that the poor people
Chrietian Church must and can only be maintained by lost three aiontlas' subsistence in consequence of being
means such as these. " This country," it says,'" must obliged hy starvation to dig their potatoes before thoy Were
interfere." For what purpose ? To preserve in a ripe- This dreadful state of things does trot arise from
population of Catholics a Protestant establishment— either
'the laziness or the 'vices of the labourers, but solely
fro".n their want of employment. Mr. St. George of Head-
ritual wants, but as an instrument of political controlnot, be it observed, for the supply of Protestant spi-
'ford Castle, a magistrate and a landlord resident in the
~ a
banner of ascendancy, an engine of oppression, to be
county of Galway, assured the Commissioners that there
no want of industry among the people ; and that many
held perpetually in terror over a hostile community was
wwooruk,
d work and as many as could tina employment did
The tree is le-Town by its fruit. Three centoirie; for foil' rpence a day throaqbout a great part of the
of latent or active war, of private misery, of uni- year. Thgentleman A
The same MI that he never knew of but
versal discontent, attest the blessings -which Ire- one instance of a person committing a crime for the pur-
land has derived from the Church `c by law este- pose of being supported, by being sent to prison ; and that
blished." The Times, or rather the insatiable and theft, even to oritiate the cravings of hunger, was unknown
defeated faction by which it has 'oeen corrupted, would
among the people in that part of the country. Mr. O'Fla-
ha,rty's evidence was to the same effect. ' I have known,
tion of all ages ! But " how " is -
have us continue that state of things to the terming-
said he `poor creatures living on one meal a day, and they
this to be done ? were as well behaved as if they had three,' When ues-
Is the Legislature to make it death for any person to ti• q
boned as to the reason why the labourers did not work the
0
officiate as a Catholic clergymanin Ireland? That 'ohs ofground
rented by themselves, he informed the Corn-
has been tried. •
in England—in a Protestant country.._ missioners that the cause was to be found in their extreme
it failed. Try it amonst seven millions of Cotholics, indigence, which would not .suffer them to remain for any
and see how it will operate.
time without some remuneration for their labour, although
Obtain the
,estate first,
and then find Courts of Justice that would dare to con-
a delay of a few months would actually double it."
demo to the gallows an educated anal respectable minis-
There is no gainsaying of this evidence—it is not
ter found guilty of inculcating .the tenets of his reliaion, only undeniable, but cumulative. But we cannot, at
If you pass the law, and create the court, find, if you the same time, agree with our contemporary, that the
want of employment, the low rate of wages, and depth
can, the millions of bayonets which must attend the
of misery so prevalent among a large portion of the
execution of its sentence—for no number under mil-
people of Ireland, and the outrages of all kinds which
lions would effect that object. Are we to confine
are daily perpetrated in almost every county, are not
the Catholics behind a pale ? That has been tried,
-with what success we need not describe. Are we to
the cause of the absence of capital, but the consequence*
rob them of their lands and churches ? That has
of it. Cause and effect, in this instance, act and re-act
even
been tried. Men who can cling to their religion with such progressive and steady energy, that it is in-
in poverty, and who can convert their
mountains into
deed difficult to disjoin the one from the other, and to
temples, would laugh to scorn the Legislature that say what is to be traced to cause, and what to effect ;
lint in the non-application of capital to the many ceps-.
would thus dare to outrage every principle of justice.
Are we to deprive them of education ? That has been bilities of profitable investment and improvement which
Ireland presents, there is no difficult there is no
tried. They educated themselvaa at home and abroad,
cause for doubt. Put the question to any man r*r,
and thus raised an O'Collliell. Are they to be ex-
capital and enterprise, why he does not ao-
chided from Parliament and from all offices under the l'' the
Crown et' )
energies of his mind and means to aoea promising
Crown ? That has, been tried and abandoned, under
sources of wealth, and he will tell you at once that it
the imminent dangers of a sanguinary civil contest.
is on account of the disturbed -
state of the country,
Are we, to convert the people to Protestantism ? That
and- the insecurit of pers-
_on and property. Ask him
too has been tried, and what has been the result? The
again to what the w-
ent of employment, low wages,
increase of the antagonist faith--the ruin of the
Establishment. There is no system of hostility de- general. penury., mac,, are attributable in Ireland, and he
will answe- with
as much frankness, to the absence of
~
visable by the wit or the wickedness of man, which has ,
that P.,apital of which he and others are possessed ;but
not been put into requisition for the propagation of the
Protestant Church in Ireland. . Every law passed for
.nick they cannot venture to apply to the relief of the
•
p
that purpose has failed, every farthing of the ':,an of Ireland, on account of the insecurity which
.
would attach to it, and the danger of superintending
millions paid for the attainment of that olo•- ject has
its application. We drop this point, however, which
been flung into the sea, and yet we are now
coned uon,
p, because the cause and the
justice towards 'lreland, to retrace our ste d to re-
after having entered upon a course of conciliationp is indeed not worth lying
and
effect, in this limited view of the matter, so frequently
peat the barbarities and follies ps, 4nst three cen-
change hands, and may so often be mistaken for one
tutees I. And for what ? Forsooth, that the Tor fa of theda
another, that to be critical upon the subject would be
lies mere waste of time, and a mere bandymg of words.
lies should again sport with the destinies of this
mighty empire I Those restless and ravenous hordes A more profitable employment of time will be found in
-- tracing existing effects to primary causes, and in en-
ther incursion upon the
the locusts of our region—are longing to make ano-
deavouring to find out the proper remedies for the evils
'c fatness of the land :" place,
of which the people of Ireland so justly complain
profit, power, are all they desire. Give them the
task to which, with how much profit remains to be
Cabinet, and not a word shall be said against the
seen, we shall address ourselves in the course of our
freedom of Ireland. They, good clap-trappers, wordy next publication.—Morning Advertiser.
legislators, fair-trial beggars, would soon change their tone, and ape the measures of the Reform men in The French Press, if not extinguished by its un-
-words, but counteract them in practice. But let them grateful- offspring, the Orleans Government, has re-
not soothe their pillows with the dream that they can ceived from it a mortal blow. The rising generation
ever again get up a" No Popery" cry in this country of Frenchmen, nursed in the sanguine aspirations of
to serve their purpose. No human being knows the revolution, might have had the cons lat ion a ion of see-
better than themselves that they are Join g all the can ing the blow to free opinion dealt by a less ignoble
to excite that cry; not because they care a
rush about hand. The baffled genius of the revolution might
religion, but because they find a temporary revival of address Louis Phillippe in the words of the Cyclops
a frenzy that was once national, arid that perished with Ulysses :—" It was predicted that I should fall.
the ale which gave it birth,
them some But I expected it would be by the handof
some demi-
chance of once more usurpingthe Government. Let g or Giant not
P ' by this ti k t •who took
~ rc sel,advantage
0
them rail on. Our firm conviction is, that they might of my intoxication.
'Not this weak imy wretch of mean design ;
as well try to harangue the tempest into tranquillity, Who not by forcedercamc me, but by wine.
as to benight these kingdoms, in such an aoe as this, We have lately had occasion to notice the pet-seen-
with the doctrines which they are now evoking from • M. •
o tion of M. Le:naire, the excellent Editor of the Pon
the sepulchres of history.—Morning Chronicle. Sens, who had contributed to place the Orleans dy-
ne • example of Lord John Russell, who declared nasty on] he throne. ll'
es tonstquent secession was
the other
constitution, has been followed by the Chancellor of heroes, by the saerifie of
c numerous victims ; among
the Exchequer. Most of our readers - Iwhich be '
may rappen to may nam:zu the Charivuti and the lifforma-
recollect that for many years Mr. Spring Rice well tear, the latte
-
r of which has been ottincruished by the
n
and faithfully served the electors of Limerick as th • • l• -. '
their more ia:ate severity of the sentence. This is a most
repi esentative in Parliament. It must, no doubt, have 1' •I• •
..ummating rccoril. It is most disaraceful to Fiance.
0
'been from a ' • • •
disinclination to put Mr. Sprino Rice I •
t is perfectly incredible that a state of things like
that trouble any longer, and from a desire to- 'in • '
aiark, m this tan last. Looking to the inferences drawn from
some very strong way their ' •
. that they
, gratitude for his past all history, and looking to all the motives which
services, tney came to the resoleof
anon relieving prompt human actions, either individually or in
him from the burden of their ri - '
Whether society, it is impossible to avoid being driven to the
Mr. Rice understood and e2"esentati".
. properly Appreciated the conclusion—not only that the revolution of France is
compliment—whether he wee Properly appreciates} of the degree
sensible d—not only that another revolution of
to which it was enh-
enced b 1. •
y us former constituents perhaps a more formidable character than any which pre-
choosin. as the, did -
choosing,, a " Repealer" in his stead, ceded • •
it is now on the ihreshold—but that the present
we will not ei
• ,op to inquire. I: appears unhappy-
however,. Sovereign of France—(for every man corn-
that the good folks of Limerick, not contented •
with Pew:"... or prompted to do such acts must be deemed
these testimonies of respect and gratitude to Mr. Rie-
e, unhappy, notwithstanding. a transitory flush of for-
actually made to him. the other dav the vet,. • -
striking tune)—and all his immediate advisers, are in great per-
a.dition of an invita •public cl•
invitation to a inn-.
~i, Sending that sonal danger. The people have been generous to
:' •.tat.
.in‘i ion moreover (how deli- ate]
a _ lc considerate i) their enemies ; but it is, questionable if they will re-
through Mr. Roche, the " v irt epe.ale.r, who (if we re- peat their generosity. The people have forgiven their
collect rightly) succeeded
Mr. Rice in the representa-
tion-
oppressors; but it is doubtful whether the patience
of Limeaick, and who certainly holds it nono jorr. and long sufferin. of forgiveness will not at last be
Rice's letter
, b
declining the invitation will 1-v-
-h.
another aoluoin. He excuseshimself on the score of the generosity and forgiveness are converted to the
pressore of public business
of those who forgive.
" u.iii e might, we think, bane, and injury,and •
grievance
. erall the circumstances " ,have found a truer and Such schoolmasters as the modern Dionysius of France
mere manly reason for refusing to attend such
a dinner —ex-schoolmaster and tyrant—and destined possibly
and upon such an invitation boutwe willingly forgive to be a schoolmaster again—teach fatal lessons on the
the want of spirit his excuse manifest • '
s, in consideration impolicy of foraiveness to the people. They may be
/of the following passage of 1 • letter o
•no ex-
to the repealing I considei:ed as the chief cause of those unpityr,,„
i.
mouthpiece of his former us
constituents, who having so I cesses whirl:, toderethe name of " reactions, c re.-
lately feasted Daniel
O'Connell—eheered his • gross. ractiota, • -•' - "••• ramps being fully understood, the
abuse of- the House of Lords, ' b without De
approved his project ou t - . ward
for getting rid of that asseinbl
y—and hiccupped till ais
t • aspq.c! of
...
two or three o'clock in the morn' • •.„la to ?say 1 fPr9hiti9i, Tim
Huzzah for 1 inmate! 1.1 It.
4 wr
Repeal,' must have read it with smallnomg' " , Y p ant ib • 9p.ged .4 ' revollitiouists
sur • ' . '
prise . Hal clesi•nv fL,ea to . 42,4
t,, • , Plund a 'op e
foot 4,„.,,,,..i4. , , ere 4 Tv], the -ontrary ,
" Whether in opposition,
or as a Ministerof I'd • ' ''''
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, the - ',.., 'lO ", triumphthe IvrOna. • f countries .-'• n, ePe-....unce of the flans of tne- - ..
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hose Ititi. . . Russia auu•jr,_ . e inch py flollouce of the flap 'the resne,dy 0; , Courts: xfonl.a. .v--- ,
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C JOURNALS.

these circumstances cahinirliate
.With every ran-
corous epithet Whith laiigUage fuinislies. ~
c. They
qre, forsooth, " tigers" aPd mOilste'rs',"," *oilers,"
and " demagegUeg" ho'WeVei', is tile natu-
ral consFoe+t tt:t. alid the fatal result of such
-acts tt Louis Phillippe is now committing. Let
any men, or class, or nation, place themselves, if
possible, in the position of Frattee; aiid ask .With What
feelings a gal;:aeit'peOpl:e 'On'teiiipla`te ii§ Pl'ese'nt
misgoverameizt 0 What people -Unforgiv-
ing ? The pckiple disaffected and turbulent ? They
have been infinitely - too uncomplaining, too sub-
missive, and too forgiving. Is it not th‘OUstioils
that at this moment, looking at ilte Orleans Govern-
ment, tort ?eVohlitiOr‘ imy 'be kistly prohOtineed scarcely
to haVe adViVited itov;:notwitlitiaiiairig all
the difittidties the French pad le haVi gotie through
for forty-five Y`W'r§:=-Siitte they. first commenced it
by the WieMbrable capture and destruction of the Bas-
tile? They may have gained some few social ad-
vantages—but nothing to compensate for the disgrace
ful spectacle ,we have pointed out. Not one of the
successive demagogues and tyrants of the Revolution
dared to lay so heavy a hand upon the. press as the
apostate son of Egalite. It was the tlii'ValitUs good
nature, the generosity, and the forgivingness of the
people, after the three days of July had placed the
reins of popular authority once more their hailik
which indueed them to yield theffi hitO the hands
of cajoling imbecility bt Loyal hypocrisy. They list-
ened to the superannuated Lafayette, with his idle no,
tion about " citizen Kings" and the." best possible
govemment"—forgetting that he had wavered Mite
before, when he addressed his recantirig letter to
the despots of Europe from tive prisous iif
Olmutz. In their intoxicated tit of jOyOus enthu-
siasm, the people threw away their great card. They
had then the power to accomplish all that the'eplotidid
phalanx of philosophers--including the (irondists.,
who originated or sustained the RevolUtion=--
meditated or desired. They might have eretted an
Americo-French Republie. Who was to hinder them ?
1f Lafayette refused to take a station in Europe like
that of his f':',end Washington, there was at hand one
enWP:ntly fitted for the station,—illustrated by con-
nexion with Napoleon, but still more illustrated by his
.own republican consistency—one who, though less
brilliant, was not an apostate from liberty, like his
brother ;—we mean Lucien Buonaparte. wWho was,
we repeat, to hinder this choice of a Republic and a
President ? Not England; that is perfectly certain.
She had had enough of anti-Republican crusades. The
three despots who have lately assembled at Toplitz ?
Ridiculous the French people would have laughed
their menaces to scorn. They might have " tried an-
other fall" if they pleased, in a wrestling match with the
republican giant, and liberty would have as certainly
again won the wreath of the arena. They might have
issued another Brunswick manifesto, and they might
have attempted another Brunswick invasion. Liberty
would have profited both by their threats and their
acts ; and that war of opinion which Mr. Canning
predicted, and trembled to predict, would have begun,
which would have only terminated by sweeping away
the very fragments and memorials of their thrones.
France, after the Three Days, threw asi ay this great
chance. Will she endeavour to redeem her error ?
That remains to be. seen.—Morning Advertiser.
It has long been our opinion that the subjugation of
Turkey is but a secondary) or rather an auxiliary, ob-
ject to a much greater enterprise, which Rtissian am-
bition has in view—that is the curbing of the maritime
supremacy of England, and the seizing an important
portion of the spoils of British commerce, by pos-
sessing, along with Constantinople, the keys of the
Mediterranean, without which her naval arsenals on
the Black Sea, and all the vast materiel there col-
lected for the extension of maritime dominion, would
be comparatively useless. The French Journal the
Quotidieune, a Journal strongly biassed in favour of
the policy of the Autocrat, attempts to justify the po-
licy of Russia upon grounds which throw light'upon
the ulterior object of her ambition—that ulterior object
being, as we had often stated, the extension of the
naval ann of that Government from the Black Sea
into the Mediterranean, so as to make the latter sea
the southern Baltic—as it were—of the Russian
Empire. The Qtiotidienne, indeed, denies that the
" conquest of the Bosphorus has entered into the
political speculations of Russia." We say that
the " conquest of the Bosphorus" is no longer a
" speculation." It is a reality. The subjugation of
Turkey is virtually" achieved. The treaty of Hunkiar
Skelessi, which the English Government 'Should have
considered a declaration of war, reduced the once
mighty Ottoman empire to a state of provincial depen-
dence upon the throne of the Autocrat. By that
treaty, Count Orloff, with a dash of his pen, abrogated
the relations of England with her " ancient ally ;" and
had England acted with becoming spirit then, and sent
a fleet into the Black Sea—not to made an idle " de-
monstration," but to insist upon the cancelling of the
" secret treaty" at the cannon's mouth, she would
have been saved the struggles which she will yet be
compelled to make to preserve her naval dominion
in the Mediterranean. Orloff's treaty directly con-
travened the provisions of the treaty with England
of 1809, and ought to have been instantly met,
as England used to meet insolent aggression on her
rights, by an energetic demand for redress, sup-
ported by the means of immediate chastisement.
The Russian Government had learned, however, to
estimate at its real value the patriotic spirit of the
Whig Cabinet by its pusillanimous and almost trea-
cherous conduct with regard to Poland—with regard to
that ill-fated country, about whose independence the
Whigs, when out of office in 1794, had made so loud
an outcry. Their conduct since the revolution at War-
saw has been eminently disgraceful to the faith, the
honour, and, we believe, the interests of England.
They allowed the merciless Autocrat to blot from
the map of Europe a nation of brave men, to the pro-
tection of whose independence the faith of England
was pledged by the treaty of Vienna in 1815. They
permuted the Autocrat to violate the " settlement of
Europe" as to the national independonce which we had
guaranteed to Poland, while he held us strictly to the
stipulation concerning the Russian Dutch loan, although
the consideration for the payment of the money had, by
the severance of the union of Holland and Belgium,
ceased to exist. Accordingly immense sums of British
gold were paid by our " Liberal" Ministry, supported
by a servile majority of mock-Liberals in Parliament to
the despot Nicholas, to enable him to bring down
fresh levies of barbarians upon the heroic defenders of
Polish liberty, who had overthrown their Muscovite
tyrants in successive battles. English gold assisted
the Russian steel in recovering the dominion of bar-
barism, and in beating down the independence of
of Poland, which even the Tory Government of Cas-
tlereagh insisted upon as a necessary barrier to We's-
tern Europe against Russian ambition. There can be
no doubt that the Emperor Nicholas, when lie con-
trived the plot which resulted in' the treaty of Hun-
kiar Skelessi had been emboldened thereunto by his
experience of the pusillanimous spirit of the Whig Cabi-
net, in reference to Poland, and the incapacity of the
Minister at the head of our foreign policy, who, laden
with panniers of protocols, was floundering in the
swamps of the Netherlands when he ought to have been
observing the movements and arresting the progress of
Russian ambition in the East. In fact, Russia be-
trayed Holland at the time of the inquitous Anglo-
Gallic convention, for the purpose of pushing her own
France
designs upon Turkey, while the British Government
assisting n
ieocnraof
ft crafty Louisprovin
province
Phillippenc to
e
wasreduce engagedß el Belgium in
to the
—thus effecting the very reverse of what our States-
men in the glorious reign of Queen Anne thought ne-
cessary for the protection of English interests and the
peace of Europe, when they accomplished the work of
the " Barrier treaty." The Quotidienne alludes to
something more than the design of Russia to establish
a maritime power in the Mediterranean—it says
that it views the increase of the power of Russia

Russia than. with our own tia4 1044 beef' mani est to
ally butitbe,l,big thents.elyes, wbo tit,-
4e>; sane iTgarrdAo 446, frNJ-
atil6iit assnhthies Ot :king OfrtheParri7
cades and his treacherous Doctrinaires. The I.iis4:ll;
laws, more destructive to the liberties of France than
the ordinances of Charles X., are the offering of Louis
Islii~lip~l 51' ilool-1 altatter Nofttitit) aeqieltisM. The
lairs t hied stihkiert the Charter " his le1;8.:
lutionary. title, and hOe Cenieiited ail irittiiiate Union
between hiM acid the Liar: It iS; clietetdre, tick at all
unlike] ; that if eVei the sl3ijlt td
resist
.tile prggiess of Russian aggression, otir Gallic
ally will act the part of a treaclierdds
,neighbour, and
seiic the faVoiirable ilidtrlelit td did* Cldset its dflianee
with tisiiia, dthi pay oil" sonic of did scdfd6 df the idg
war, by assisting to break down our maritime supre-
maey.—Morning Herald.

CHANCERY CatlßT,_sATvßattv,

JONt§ PoWELL.

WAKEVIEtti said that this appeal Was heard be-
?oft Lod Brougham, and his Lordship decided it but
his decision Was not satisfactory to any one of the nume-
rous parties concerned: They therefore wished for an
early day; to be appointed to re-hear it. The Master of
the !tolls refused the motion.

VICE-CHANCERY.-SATURDAY

NiAL6OLM O'CALLAuIIAN.

This petitiOn has occupied the last two days, and is
yet unfin.ishel ,
Mt ,ioribilt Itqt,ii Mr. irOLEa, hate begit hettrd an
the part of the petitioner:
Charles Burton Wyatt is the fdediVer in this cause,
which ha§ hivii lotidlog hit 1198 for the administration
61'16 estate of Colonel Stopford. The petition is a sort
bf appeal front the decision of the Master in passing the
reteivet's I-trowels, tho Nittottie having disallowed four
tilt of nine journies which the petitioner took to
Paris between 1816 and 1821, for the purpose of
carrying on a French law suit ; and the only inte-
rest the petition possessed arose from some curious
details respecting the origin of the law suit, and the
mode in which it was conducted. Mr. Wyatt, whose bro-
ther was married to one of Colonel Stopford's family, was
appointed receiver in 1816. At that period he was reques-
ted by the family to undertake the investigation of a sin-
gular transaction in the French Funds, between Colonel
Stopford and a person named Daniel Parker. The peti-
tioner took a vast deal of trouble in the business, and by
means of documents, and of information he obtained from
Messrs. Lockhart, the bankers, he learned that in 1795,
Parker had 14,500 livres Rentes in the book of the Public
Debt of prance, a moiety of which, during a visit he made
to this count,.‘y, he sold to Colonel Stopford ; and he depo-
sited the certificate and documents, with a power of at-
torney, with Messrs. Lockhart, the Colonel's agents. Shortly
after Parker went to France, and no steps having been
taken by Colonel Stopford, who was not a man of business,
to have his moiety transferred, Parker made oath before
the French authorities that he had lost his titles. The
French authorities, on the credit of his oath, and finding
the money standing in his name, granted him fresh titles,
by means of which he sold out the whole fund, and appro-
priated it to himself. Mr. Wyatt, upon obtaining this in-
formation, procured a letter from several of the parties in-
terested in Colonel Stopford's property, authorising him to
proceed to' Paris, and take measures for the recovery of
this money, in value about 11,0001., and promising that
they would readily meet all his travelling expenses and other
disbursements, and, if necessary, sanction an application '
to the Court of Chancery for the purpose. Mr. Wyatt,
therefore, made his first journey in August, 1817, and
ascertained that Parker was livitr, in great splendour at
Paris, and he took the opinion of M. de la Grange, a
French Advocate, as to the mode of substantiating this
claim. Upon his return shortly after, to procure pro-
per legal authority for proceedings in the French Courts,
he obtained a general indemnity in writing from several
members of the family for all his expenses and the expenses
of the law suit. It appeared it was also necessary to pro-
cure the attendance of Mr. Lockhart as a witness. That
gentleman said he could not go to Paris under a certain
sum, and refused to go without 150 guineas for his journey
and all his expenses. Accordingly Mr. Wyatt received a
further authority from the same persons to make these
payments. Armed with these authorities Mr. Wyatt took
his second journey, and then commenced the proceeding,
which (observed the Learned Counsel) formed a finer
practical illustration of what the operations of a code were
than could be afforded by ten thousand philosophical dis-
quisitions, and the Learned Counsel proceeded to make
some observations on the tedious and troublesome process
for the tardy administration of justice in the French Courts.
The last time he (Mr. Knight) happened to be in Paris
he went to the Cour Royal, where some of the proceedings
in this case took place, and he saw the Judge on the right
and the Judge on the left sound asleep ; palpably, noto-
riously, absolutely asleep ! and snoring too ! To do justice
to the Bench, the Judge in the centre seemed to be awake.
(Loud laughter.)
The VICE-CHANCELLOR—Perhaps, Mr. Knight, the
Learned Counsel was making some observations to the
Court not very material.—(Reiterated laughter.)
Mr. KNIGHT assured his Honour it was not so. That
able advocate, M. Hennequin, was at the time engaged in
a very learned and interesting discussion on the principles
of the law of evidence. The Learned Counsel then de-
tailed the law proceedings against Parker, and Mr. Wyatt's
exertions in conducting them. The Learned Counsel con-
tended there was not a shadow of pretence for the allega-
tions made by the other side that Mr. Wyatt had been, in
truth, making all these journeys and living in Paris all this
time for his private purposes.
Mr. KINDERSLEY, in opposition to the petition, ad-
dressed the Court for a short time, and had not concluded
when .the Court rose.

KING'S BENCH.-SATURDAY.

THE KING V. ST. JAMES'S, COLCHESTER.

Sir W. FOLLETT showed cause against a rule for a man-
damns to restore to his office of parish clerk of St. James's,
Colchester, a person named Isaac Webb.
Mr. THESSIGER was heard in support of the rule, and
The Court made the rule absolute.

without any alarm, and that it is even glad of the
increase of her naval strength, because it can never
surpass that of France in the Mediterranean ; but that,
^ in establishing

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