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LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 20, 1535,

THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH PRESS.

(From the Mor;.ing Advertiser.)

Our attention has been drawn to an article in the
Morning Post of yesterday, imputing the opposition of its
contemporary of the Chronicle, as well, we presume, as
that of the anti-ministerial press generally,. to the disap•
pointment of various pleasant expectancies of Commissioner-
ships and other good things, the lamentable consequence of
the expulsion of a liberal Ministry. The assumption is
charitable enough, and might easily be retorted, but let that
pass as an argunientum ad hominem which cuts with two
edges, if at all, and is the affair of the Chronicle rather
than ours. Our object in alluding to the subject is merely
by way of peg, to hang some remarks upon, touching the
comparative position of the gentlemen of the press here and
in France, at present and retrospectively, and their actual
position in this country compared with their standing some
very few years ago. We propose to state facts rather than
to raise an argument.
Before the Revolution of July the press had attained,
and almost monopolized, political power and public opinion
in France ; its conductors were looked upon as the equals
—nay, more than the equals—of Ministers of State.
That great social event only confirmed its importance,
and the immediate result was, to raise some of its ablest
conductors to the first offices in the Government. Moral
influence impartied personal consideration ; and we have
-^c been witness, in high society, when Casimir Pe-
Minister, has stood in the circle with
than- Prime • 1, onour, whilst Cauebois Le-
scarcely a satellite to do
or ‘lalvandv of
mire, then editor of the Constitution,.....
were s'ur-
the Journal des Debars, or Camel, of the Niationa., • ~
rounded by admiring throngs, hanging with devoted attentio.., ,

and in silence the most profound, upon the wisdom or the
eloquence flowing from their lips. Numberless were the
Prefectures, the Sub-prefectures, and other responsible em-
ployments to which men of the press were elevated, and in
many instances most deservedly ; the list would be too nu-
merous even could we pretend to give it from memory. We
shall content ourselves with' selecting a few names which

now figure in the Councils, in employments, or in the
Chamber of Deputies, since the accession of the Citizen
King :
M. GUIZOT; formerly one of the Editors of the Globe, is
Minister of Public Instruction.

The Duc DE BROGLIE, his co-Editor, was lately Minister for
Foreign Affairs.
M.-TIIIERS, late Editor of the National, is Minister of the
interior.
M. ETIENNE, Editor of the Constitutionnel, is Vice-Presi-
lent of the Chamber of Deputies.
M. CHATEACERIAND, one of the Editors of the Journal des
Debats, and formerly Minister for Foreign Affairs.
M. BERTiN, one of the Editors of the Journal des Debats,

holds an office. the title of which we forget ; but the duties of
which, like those of our Lord Chamberlain, relate to a super-
intendence of the Theatres and the Opera.
M. BA RTIN DE VAL•X, principal Editor of the same journal,
was lately Ambassador to the Hague, and has been created a
Peer.

M. SALVANDY, another Editor of the same journal, is a
Member of the Chamber of Deputies.
M. LAFITTE, a proprietor and writer in the Journal du Com-
merce, was three years ago Prime Minister of France, and is
now a Member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Here we close the account, although there are various
other conductors of the press situated as honourably.
In England, the press and its managers have been, until
of late, most unaccountably depreciated in the social scale.
Wielding a power inferior to that of no interest in the
State, and perhaps superior to all, vulgar prejudice and the
jealousy of the higher powers have alike combined to force
them down and keep them down. But the empire of mind
will, in the long run, assert its sway. Public opinion begins
to do justice, tardily, to an interest and to a class of vital
consequence to the great interests of all, because of all the
direct voice and undeniable representatives. Justice is
slow, but sure, and in the following statement of the prefer-
ment of men, whose only claims are those of having served
the public cause, or the.interests of their party well, faith-
fully, and ably, there are just grounds for expectation that.
the services of a body of men for talent unsurpassed in the
empire, for experience and industry rarely equalled, may be
still more extensively called into action for the advantage of
the nation.

Lord BROUGHAM, formerly a Chief Editor of the Edinburgh
Review, Lord High Chancellor of England.
The Right Hon. J. W. CROXER, one of the Editors of the
Quarterly, late Secretary of the- Admiralty.
The Right Hon,. F. JEFFREY, Chief Editor of the Edin-
burgh Review, late Lord Advocate of Scotland.
Mr. ROEBUCK, one of the Editors of the Westminster Re-
view, a Member of Parliament.

E. L. BULWER, Esq., late Editor of the Monthly Maga-
zine, a Member of Parliament.
Of the newspaper press, the far higher and more influ-
ential branch of political literature, the following facts may
be recorded :
JOHN WALTER, Esq., the Proprietor and late Editor of the
Times, a Member of Parliament for a county.
Mr. GROTE, Proprietor of the Chronicle, Member for the
City of London.
Colonel TOREENS, Proprietor and one of the Editors
'of the Globe, Member of Parliament, holding some place
beside.
Mr. PRAED, Editor of the Morning Post, Member of Par-
liament and Secretary to the India Board.

COBBETT, Editor of the Register, and Member of
Parliament.
Mr. BAINES, of the Leeds Mercury, Member of Par-
liament.

Mr. COULSON, formerly Editor of the Globe, one of the
late Commissioners for inquiring into the Poor Laws.
Mr. CHADWICK, late one of the Editors of the Examiner,
now Secretary to the Poor Law Commission.
Mr. WAKLEY, Editor of the Lancet, Member of Parliament.
Mr. D. W. FlAßvar, late Editor of the Sunday Times, a
Member of Parliament.
Mr, BUCKINGHAM, of the Calcutta Journal, of the Argus,
&c. &c. &c., Member of Parliament.

Mr., Sergeant SPANKTE, one Editor of the Morning Chro-
nicle, late M. P.,, candidate for a Judgeship, and actual Coun-
sel to the East India Company.
Mr. §milL, formerly Reporter on the Chronicle, Member of
Parliament.

Sir JOHN CAMPBELL, formerly Reporter on the Chronicle,
ate Solicitor-General.

Sir JOHN JEPFCOTT, formerly Reporter o:' tho New Times,
Judge at Sierra Leone.'

gir JOHN STODDART, Editor and Proprietor of the a..,
Times, now Chief Judge of the Admiralty Court at Malta.
Mr. DemiLING, formerly Reporter of the Chronicle, a Judge
at Sydney. •
Mr. FARREN, formerly Editor of the British Traveller, now
Consul General in Syria.
Besides many others, who have ably served in various
commissions and other capacities, which it would take up
too much of our space to enumerate.
We shall be pardoned, in conclusion, for stating that the
Editor of this journal might have been placed in the pre-
sent Parliament, free of expense, if his ambition had that
way tended. The offer was made, and declined.

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ADMIRAL NA PIE R.—When the enemy's fleet
first hove in sight on the sth of July, the breeze was so light
that Napier could not get near it, and he asked certain steamers
to tow him towards the enemy ; the mercenary captains of
which said, " Yes, if you will pay us 2,0001. each." However,
•le gallant old fellow, named Wilson, joined the Admiral with a
steamer without fee or reward, remained near his Excellency
during the action which ensued, ready to tow him out of it, if
it had been requisite to haul off to repair damages ; and was
afterwards rewarded with a share of prize-money and a long
brass gun, with which he used to paddle up to the enemy " end
on," blaze away, and " back out " again. A four• knot breeze
enabled the Queen's squadron to attack the enemy without the
assistance of steamers ; and as the Admiral closed
to engage, he called all hands aft on the quarter-
deck of the Rainha, and pointing to the Miguelite
fleet, " Now, my lads," said he " is'nt that a fine sight? Go
to your quarters ; I give you half an hour to take them." His
Excellency finished his part of the work in half an hour, by
flinging himself with his crew on the deck of the Don John, and
his coadjutors were not backward in aiding him to finish with
the rest of the enemy's ships. Cholera broke out in the fleet
soon after the action, the Don John losing 80 men on the voy-
age to Lisbon from St. Vincent. The patients were laid two
and two between the guns in the smaller vessels, and for want
of proper medicines, the surgeons bandaged the patients trunks,
le and arms, and gave them some laudanum. In the Villa
Flor, ten out of twenty-five were saved in this way. It ought not
to be passed over without notice, the judicious manner in which
the Admiral conducted himself after capturing the Mi-
guelite fleet. Instead of wounding the feelings of the anti-
constitutional party, when he entered the Tagus, by carrying
the prize-flag„ the blue and white of the Queen, over the blue
and red of Miguel, he merely hoisted the Queen's colours.
He also reinstated in command of their vessels the Miguelite
officers who had fought them best ; on which some one re-
marked to him, " That's not judicious; suppose these men
were to turn against you?" " Well," says Napier, "we'll fight
them again, that's all." The Admiral sometimes made a
triumphal entry to a place, seated on an ass or mule, cocked
hat athwart ships, and cutlas by his side. At one of the towns
of the Algarve, where the Mayor or Corporation came off to
pay him homage, and had prepared a laurel crown for his Ex-
cellency, he impatiently called out, whilst waiting in the cabin
to receive them, " Come, bear a hand with the ceremony."

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EAST SURREY ELECTION.

The Tories here are now pursuing a new system of
tactics. Instead of misrepresenting Mr. Briscoe, as was
their plan a few days ago, they are now endeavouring to
lower Major Beauclerk in the opinion of the constituency.
A hand-bill has been profusely circulated among the elec-
tors, extravagantly eulogizing Mr. Briscoe and Captain
Alsager, and depreciating, in a like proportion, the talents
and services of Major Beauclerk. It is to be hoped, how-
ever, that the electors of East Surrey xvill have good sense
enough to see through the paltry manoeuvre, and defeat the
cunning machinations of the Tories.

Incredible exertions were made during the day to place
Mr. Alsager at the head of the Poll. It is generally thought,
however, that they yesterday exerted all their strength, and
that very few voters will poll for them to-day. The aggre-
gate state of the poll from Reigate, Kingston, Croydon,
and Camberwell, amounted to—
Alsager
Briscoe...,
Beauelerk

... 1,039
871
647
Majority —242
A band of desperate-looking fellows, wearing the colours
of Captain Alsager, were Stationed from an early hOur
round the hustings at Camberwell, and by their uproar and
hootings endeavoured to intimidate the liberal voters. By
the exertions, however, of the Returning Officer, order was
in some measure restored, and fair play allowed to every
voter. At the close of the polling at Camberwell,
Major BEAuer4aK:camesforivard, and was received with
continued cheering. He said he had reason 'to believe his
opponent had brought up his whole strength that day, and
had thus been placed at the head of the poll'; but he was
happy to state to them that one-half of the electors had not
• "-d. He regretted they had held back as they had
Yet P°"- -ho id • • forward •
u ,cromein a manly way and
done. Tiles,
Jezir, hear.) It was not the cha-
racteristicrecord their votes.—k
..,rin! in the hour of danger.
of Englishmen to
He had been informed much intimnal! ion had been used on
this occasion.—(Cries of " Shame, shame,- _ Prove it.")
He was not disposed to accuse Mr. Alsager or ?;is
com-
mittee, yet it was so, and he could prove it—(Shame)—:::
could not, however, believe Mr. Alsager would lend himself
to such practices.—(Hear, hear.) He had canvassed Mr.
Bosaufoy, of South Lambeth, a gentleman of affluence and
independence, and one who was opposed to him at the last
election—(hear, hear).L-but on the present occasion he had
come forward and supported him, in consequence of the
unfair acts of those by whom he was opposed.—(Cheers.)
This gentleman was neither a Tory nor a Destructive. He
(Major B.) had addressed a large number of the agricul-
tural electors on Saturday last in the town of Croydon,
when they passed a unanimous resolution in his and his col-
league's favour, promising them their support. He after-
wards dined with them, and it was gratifying to him to say
tile same encouraging support was spontaneously offered.
He would assure the gentlemen present, that although he
was not the first upon the poll that day, he felt confident
that to-morrow would give them a decided majority.—
(Cheers.) It was only necessary for their friends to know
their situation for their exertions to be secured—(cheers)—
he was not one of those wbo retired from the field before
he was really beaten.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BRISCOE said it was true he did not occupy the
same distinguished situation upon the poll which he had
done at the last election, yet he bad no doubt of his suc-
cess. He remembered that, in 1830, on the first day's
poll, the opposing candidates had three times the number
of himself ; notwithstanding which he beat them.—(Cheers,
and "So we will now !") His principles were unchanged,
and would continue so.—(Cheers.) They had heard from
his Hon. Colleague, the support promised to them by their
agricultural friends ; and he had no doubt, if such of their
friends as resided in this portion of the county were not
strong enough to beat the enemy, which he knew they
were—(Cheers)-their agricultural friends would still bring
them in. He begged they would not lose one hour in
recording their votes. He called upon them to exert them-
selves in the true cause, and urge their friends and neigh-
bours to come up to-morrow (this day) and support them,
if they felt that their late representatiies had done their
duty.—(Cheers.)
Mr. FISHER then offered himself to the notice of the
meeting, on behalf of Captain Alsager ; but the groans,
hootings, and yells, with which he was saluted, prevented
us from hearing a single word that he uttered.
A meeting of the friends of Mr. Briscoe and Major
Beauclerk was afterwards held at the Three 'Funs Tavern,
Southwark, Mr. Fox Smith in the chair, when several reso-
lutions were passed, engaging the meeting to use every ex-
ertion to secure the return of the reform candidates. Many
complaints were made as to the want of organization
among the several district committess, and several influen-
tial gentlemen volunteered to use their utmost endeavours
to supply the deficiencies which unfortunately existed.
Many hundreds of Reformers have not yet polled ; and
notwithstanding the majority which the. Tories possess on
the day's poll, the most confident hopes are entertained that
Messrs. Briscoe-and Beauclerk will yet be successful.

PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. RIPPON,

AT GATESHEAD.

(Abridged from the Dutham Chronicle of Friday.)

On Thursday se'nnight, a public dinner was given to
Cuthbert Rippon, Esq., M.P., at Mrs. Calvert's, Half-moon
Inn, Gateshead, in honour of his election as representative
of the borough of Gateshead,

W. H. BROCKETT, Esq., in the chair).
The company was highly respectable, and as numerous
as could be conveniently accommodated in the room..
The cloth having been removed, the following toasts
were given in succession from the Chair, and drank with
three times three ; " The King, and may he ever remember
that his interests are identified with those of his subjects ;"
" The People ;" " The Princess Victoria, and the rest of
the Royal Family."
The CHAIRMAN then begged leave to propose the health
of the Gentleman they had that day elected as their repre-
sentative in the Commons House of Parliament.

CUTHBERT RIBBON, Esq., M.P. rose, amid the most en-
thusiastic sPplause, and said,—Gentlemen, believe me that
I feel as I ought this renewed proof of your kind feeling to-
wards me. I regard the proceedings of this day, as form-
ing the proudest period of my short political life. No one
more aware of the importance of that crisis in which our
countryQnds, and I therefore feel the peculiar force of
:
renewed confidemZl by reposing your power in my hands at
such a juncture. If you. .
regard the state of affairs in this
country at the present moment.,l think you will concur
nortentous prospect
with me in this opinion, that a more t
The
never before discovered itself to any of our get...
late Government, whose measures I ever blamed *to.: .their

faltering timidity, who were submissive to irresponsible in-
fluence, and shaped their course with regard to the stream
of Court opinion, received at length their death-blow from
that power which they should have previously strangled, and
became the victims of back-stairs intrigue. The cause of
their hesitation was long suspected, their faltering policy
was the deserved subject for honest condemnation, the
workings of the secret conspiracy against the rights of the
people were known to all, and we now see the state machine
of mischief in all the hideousness of its exposed deformity.
You remember a memorable speech made by the King to
the Bishops,—l said then, and I say now, that after that
proof of influence and counsel, superior to, and secret from
the constitutional advisers of the Crown,it was a duty which
the minister owed to himself, his sovereign, and his country,
to show that independence of spirit and purpose which was
unfortunately not then manifested. No person respects
more than I do the constitutional oxercise of the royal pre-
rogative, and no one more unspararingly condemns the ca-
pricious abuse of that privilege. Let it be remembered
that though the constitution, and the laws, place power in
the hands of various persons, still from the chief magistrate
to the lowest officer, that power is entrusted to them for one
purpose alone, to serve the interest and welfare of the com-
munity. So long as the late ministers hesitated from car-
rying into effect the bill for reform, so long as they abstained
from performing the duty for which they were appointed,
they were honoured with the royal sufferance—but the
moment that they evinced a determination to be honest to
the people, they received a brief dismissal from office. Now,
gentlemen, I maintain that the power placed in the hands
of the Sovereign should be used by him, merely to preserve
a unity of opinion between the people and his advisers. A
ministerial defeat in the House of Commons, or the superior
force of an adverse party in that house, confesses at all
times to th© Monarch, that the measures of his counsellors
are such as meet not the views of the nation declared by
the majority of their representatives ; but if ministers are to
be dismissed merely to please the whim of one man, to
gratify personal partiality or private humour, or satisfy the
vengeance-of a tyrannous oligarchy, then see the position in
which a statesman would be placed ; he must no longer
seek to retain office by the power of. public approbation,
but by pandering to the extravagance of a prince, the Ii
centiousness of a court, the rapacity of a church, and to the
ne !cly cravings of royal parasites. He must be the creature
of the court. He must be their minion, and not your
set want : he musi propitiate 'his masters by the betrayal of
y(Qur interests : be ,must no longer regard public favour,

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