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London, England, 1835-10-05 00:00:00

purpose ? Does it gratify Tory malice to pass words
of calumny over a character upon which, like the breath
on the diamond, they cannot fix—are their eyes feasted
even by the malignant lie which the understanding re-
jects ? it is to .be re-marked, that the John Bull says
it assumes all that it has alleged as his Royal High-
ness's opinions; our honest contemporary having de7
tached words used y his Royal Highness from the
context, and quoted :them with inverted commas, inter-
woven with propositions of its own invention. As well
might we charge a man with horse-stealing, and- then
say that we assume i t because he looked over a hedge.
It was once the fashion to roast Jews for the ima-
gined good of Christianity ; and doubtless a John
Bull of that goo‘.lt ol.d time would have argued that
any desire to disc anti- nue such a practice must be as-
sumed to originate in a disbelief and hatred of the
Christian religion., A John Bull of the dark ages
would have iden'.iified the stake with Christianity, and
would have as serte d that to advocate the abolition of
the auto-de:fe was to advocate the abolition of Chris-
tianity, and that to stigmatise the burning of Jews as a
barbarity, was to :stigmatise belief in the Saviour—the
burning of Jews being a necessary consequence, and
manifestation of .such belief. Such would be the pa-
rallel to the Johm; Bull's assumptions, carried back to
the stage of into\erance in which the Jews suffered the
heaviest persect ttions ; but we are not aware of any re-
cord of the ravings of bigotry and malice against the
champions of hi, manity and toleration, which (taking
into consideration the different circumstances of ages)
equals the disgusting specimen upon which he have
observed.—Morning Chronicle.

The French. papers continue to be engaged in an
animated controversy on the respective merits of the
proceedings of M. Odillon Barrot in the north of
France, and of Mr. Daniel O'Connell in the north of
Britain. It, appears that M. Odillon Barrot, on his
arrival, some days ago, at TorignY, in Lower Nor-
mandy, woks feasted by the electors (his constituents)
and other- "'notabilities " of the department, 300 of
whom o2P_:red him a splendid banquet, in the course of
whir+. the Hon. Deputy delivered a sensible and tern-
pr..irate address, in which he reviewed and criticised the
policy adopted and pursued by the Government of the
barricades, up to the bills recently brought into the
Chambers by Ministers, the passing of which was at
the time visited with so much well-merited animadver-
sion. The publication of M. Odillon Barrot's speech
in some of the Paris papers was not suffered to
pass unnoticed by that portion of the .Cabinet which
has always stood up in vindication of the system
attacked by so powerful an adversary as the Hon.
Deputy in question. Accordingly, there appeared in
the Journal des Debats of last Monday and Wednes-
day too long articles, the object of which was to weaken
the impression of some of the glaring truths that M.
Odillon Barrot had spoken, not only by the force of
argument, but also by impugning the right he had
assumed of opening his mouth on the political concerns
of the country elsewhere but in the tribune of the
Chamber of which he is a member. M. Odillon Bar-
rot is therefore shown up as'a factious agitator, whose
aim is to revolutioniZe France quite as much as it is
that of Mr. O'Connell to revolutionize Great Britain?
and pains are taken to establish a conformity of pro-
.cceding, speech, and intention. It is undeniable that
in point of proceeding and main fact there is some
similarity in what the two orators have, by a singular
coincidence, been doing and saying at the same time.
But there is this difference between the two cases, and
a pretty wide one it is—that O'Connell aims at revolu-
tion when he requires the abolition of hereditary peer-
age ;" and that M. Odillon Barrot, in maintaining
that the French peerage should not again be made
hereditary, and moreover that it should be restricted to
its legislative functions, without being burdened with the
attributes which the fundamental law had assigned to
juries, calls for a rigid observance of Conservative prin-
ciples. Not a word has been uttered by Mr. O'Con-
nell which did not tend to the advocacy of principles
quite opposed to Conservatism ; not a sentence is to be
found in the speech-of M. Odillon Barrot which does
not show that the wants, the interests, and the feelings
of the country are decidedly in harmony with the spirit
of the revolution of 1830. In England democracy
has not succeeded, as it has in France, in taking hold
of power and keeping it in its exclusive possession
its efforts to do so have always been counteracted by
the wholesome influence of the hereditary aristocracy,
and a system of government has been based, on a
balance of powers, the excellent working of which ha;
been shown by the experience of the last 150 'years.
Those who seek to destroy the system resting on such
a balance of powers are necessarily revolutionists. In
France, since the destruction of the ancien
the power fell into the hands of the democracy, where
it has more or less remained ever since, and where it
was the object of the'revolution of 1830 to fix it. The
French social system has been so consolidated on
democratic principles, that every attempt to revile the
influence of the aristocracy must, sooner or later, prove
abortive. The system peculiarly suitable to the feeling
of the present generation of Frenchmen was strikingly
expressed in the Monarchie entouree d'institulions
republicaines recommended by Lafayette, after the tri-
umph of the barricades. No other kind of monarchy
seems, in fact, to have any chance of long existence in
France, and it is the one that was sanctioned at the
last revolution by the almost unanimous voice of the
people. Those who, like the" French Doctrinaires of
the present day, aim at a retrograde course which
should cause the Monarchy to be entourje cr institu-
tions aristocratiques, are revolutionists to the same
extent as Mr. O'Connell, by being convicted of a policy
which tends to counterrevolution. In Great Britain,
then, the proceedings which have distinguished the
career of Mr. O'Connell since the close of the last
Parliamentary session are, to use the mildest term, pro-
vocative, however lawful the means recommended to
bring about revolution. In France, the proceedings of
M. Odillon Barrot are both anti-revolutionary and
legal. Against them it is impossible to extend the
power of sound argument. Personal abuse and irony
are the only weapons that can be wielded by his oppo-
nents, and to them as well as to the startling, though
not (in that quarter) new, doctrine, that it is next
.to
high treason in any deputy to make public harangues
on the affairs of the country out of the legislative tri-
bune, the Doctrinaire organ, the Journals des Debats,
has had recourse on this occasion.. We regret that
want of room prevents us from giving the speech of
M. Odillon Barrot, to enable those of our readers Who
have not seen it in the original French to judge of its
temper and of its merits.—Times.

Naturalists tells us of a bird which fouls its own
nest. The same may be said of some of our parochial
reformers, who, after having on many occasions brought
about wise and salutary improvements in many of the
great parishes, in and about the metropolis, especially
on the score of that inordinate lavish expenditure in
which their predecessors had indulged, now mar their
own usefulness, by little paltry acts of malice, and
more extensive acts of miscalled economy. By malice,
we would particularly be understood to mean the hos-
tility which many of these persons seem ambitious of
exhibiting towards the Church and its ministers. To
cashier a bell-toiler, stop the church clock, unrobe
the clerk, darken the church, or refuse to wash the
surplice of the minister, are among the acts by
which these persons distinguish themselves, and
that in the very teeth of the well-known fact that
it is their duty to do precisely otherwise ; for
among the plainest duties of parish officers is that of
promoting the duties and usefulness of the parish
church. In proof of this, the churchwarden may be
almost said to be in some respects set over the minister,
whose conduct lie is called upon to report at the visita-
tion, if any material omission or irregularity in it takes
place. When we see these parish officers themselves,
for such select vestries are, throwing every obstacle in
the way of, and odium that they can upon the Church
and its officers, are we not justified in imputing such
conduct to petty malice, and that of the most hate-
ful description ? But worse in extent, though not
in motive, are the complaints we hear from Lam-
beth and other places, of the select having substi-
tuted oil for gas in the streets, or so cut down the
supply of the latter as to deprive the inhabitants
of this, one of the greatest improvements of modern
times. Must we add, in too many instances, their
treatment of the poor, when, in taking advantage of the
tender mercies of a law which has consigned to them
the care of their destitute fellow creatures, they seem