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been returned without opposition. This is another
symptom of the " re-action."

As the time fixed for the decision of the contest be-
,ween the Reformers and the Anti-Reformers in De-

vonshire approaches, the public interest in the issue
of the struggle goes on increasing. We never,
indeed, remember an election (except the last
for the City of London) respecting which the
pu'ul:c feeling has been excited to so intense
degree. When men meet each other in the street,
the eager—.the only question asked is, " What is the
news from Devonshire ?" Every other subject seems
for the present to have sunk into insignificance, in
comparison with this all-engrossing topic. The two
great divisions of the political world, the friends and
the enemies of improvement—the sons of light and the
children of darkness—seem to have staked their re-
spective causes on the event of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
triumph or defeat.
In such a state of the public mind it is to be ex-
pected that great exertions will be made on the part of
individuals to promote the success of that party on the
side of which they have ranged themselves. We find,
accordingly, Lord ROLLE (that noble personification
of bigotry,) coming down with no less a sum than 1,0001.
as an offering at the shrine of intolerance. The
Carlton Club has also opened its hoard of Tory plun-
der, and every other engine which can be made to
bear upon the cause, is set to work, without regard to
any other consideration than the effect to be produced.
The means are nothing—the end—the triumph of
Toryism—sanctifies every thing.
The Reformers are not ignorant of the character of
those with whom they have to do—they know well the
unscrupulous nature of their enemies, and they must,
therefore, be alive to the necessity of determining that
no efforts, however great (provided they are sanctioned
by principle,) shall be spared by them in maintaining
the cause to which they have sworn allegiance, and
which never stood more in need of their support than
at the present moment. This is the feeling which
ought to prevail, and which, we are trill) happy to
perceive, does prevail among the friends of Re-
form throughout the country. The many testi-
monies of respect which have been manifested
towards Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and the noble
subscriptions which have been raised to promote
his return are a proof of it ; but it must ever be borne
in mind that, until the victory has been achieved, it is
in danger. There must then be no relaxation on the
part of the Noble Lord's friends, until the last vote has
been given at the poll. Let those who are upon the
spot give their personal assistance by going about
among the electors, disabusing them of those delusions
which the partizans of the Tory candidate with their
usual artifice, are instilling so busily into their minds,
and rousing them to a proper sense of their own in-
dependence and interest. Let those who are at a
distance contribute what they can in a pecuniary way ;
for without ample funds every effort will be unavailing.
This is the one thing needful. Let every man, there-
fore, in his own circle, do his utmost to promote the
subscription of funds. There must be no stopping of
the supplies—no hesitation in such a case as this,
where all depends upon liberality and promptitude.
There is one portion of the community, and that a
most influential one, on whose most cordial support
Lord JOHN RUSSELL may reckon with perfect confi-
dence—we mean the Dissenters. The Noble Lord
has stood their friend " through good report and
through bad report ;" they know it, and they feel it.
They have now a glorious opportunity of showing
their gratitude to a benefactor, as well as their attach-
ment to civil and religious liberty, and we are gratified
to find that they are not slow to embrace it.
The Committee of Deputies of the Three Deno-
minations have passed the following Resolution, which
we are sure will come home to the bosom of every
genuine Dissenter in the empire :
" That at the present crisis it is of the greatest im-
portance to the cause of civil and religious freedom
that Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S re-election for South
Devonshire should be secured ; and this Committee
therefore earnestly recommend to the Protestant Dis-
senters in all parts of the Kingdom, to render every
assistance in their power to effect this desirable
object." _

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Monday, with the Journals from the South of France
of the latest dates. The Courrier de Lyons publishes
a letter from Milan, stating that the late frost is likely
to do great injury to the silk crops in Italy. The same
Journal attaches great blame to the French Govern-
ment, for its neglect of some millions of mulberry trees
in the colony of Algiers, which, if taken proper care
of, would render the sudden appearance of a Spring
frost in Italy, and in the South of France, of com-

paratively no consequence.
We have no domestic intelligence from the French
capital. Public attention is solely directed to the
trials, which continue to be fixed for the sth of May.
The report of the departure of Mr. LIVINGSTON from
Havre on the Ist of May is confirmed in all the Paris
journals.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, APRIL 27.
Five per Cents., 107 C 45c. 55c. 60c.
Four per Cents., 99f. 25c. •
Three per Cents., 82f. 81f. 95c. 82f.
National Loan, 107 C 45c.
Bank Actions, 1,972 f. 50c.
Rente de Naples, 9Sf. 90c. 95c. 99f.
Roman Five per Cents., 1023] 143 ti .
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 5234.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 32 3254.
Royal Spanish Loan, 51
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 511 A 51.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 1( v.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cent., 99}434.
Haytian Loan, 445 f. 450 f. —C.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 251 45c.
Three months, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 251'. 3234 c.
—Cour, Authentigue.

BOURSE, THREE o'CLocx.—There is a report in circulation
to the effect that the Duke of Frias has positively demanded
from the French Government its interference in the Spanish
question ; but it has had a very slight effect on the 3 per
Cents. ' Yesterday they were done at 82f. 25c. to 30c., and
to-day the lowest price has been 82f. ; the present price is 82f.
sc. buyers, 82f. 10c. sellers. The Spanish securities are also
somewhat lower, but there is very little business doing in them.
QUARTER TO FOUR o'CLocx.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 53c. ;
Three per Cents., 82f.; Five per Cents., Spanish, 51 ;
Three per Cents., ditto, 32k; Cortes, 54 ; Coupons,
$:1;1 ; Guebhards, 50i ; Differes, 23* ; New Loan, 70k
Ducats, 98 95 ; Romans, 104; Belgians, 104 ; Miguels, 27 ;
Dutch, 58 10 ; Haytians, 450 ; B72.bant Bank, 21.

Mr. ENEAS MACDONNELL—the agent for the
Catholics of Ireland in 1829--has favoured the British
public with a pamphlet, entitled " The Roman Ca-
tholic Oath Considered," which will not fail to create a
stir among those Members of Parliament who profess
the Roman Catholic religion. The object of the au-
thor, in the publication of this pamphlet, is not quite
clear. He is not himself a Member of the House of
Commons. Though known to some Bible Societies as
a noisy polemist, we have never heard him quoted as an
authority on those disputed questions of faith and ec-
clesiastical discipline which constitute the main dif-
ferences between the Churches of England and Rome,
and contrasting his present position with those which he
severally occupied during the earlier periods of his political
and polemical career, it appears to us not unlikely that he
has had snbstantial motives for thus coming forward to
assist in unfurling the oriflamme of Toryism. Mr.
ENEAS MACDONNELL thinks it most important that
the world should be made acquainted with his views on
this great question ; and the Times and Standard, and
all the other bellowers and yelpers in the wake of bi-
gotry, raise a shout in honour of the late demi-god of
Popery, whom they themselves stigmatized as the
quintessence of Monkish superstition.
But without calling in question Mr. MACDON.