The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY ETENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1844.

justly assumed that this unexpected termination of a
great contest, the victorious issue of which, even in
the several States of the Union, was so unhesitatingly
anticipated in favour of Mr. CLAY, down to a period
almost immediately preceding the dates to which the last
Iclvices reach from New York, is a result as little wel-
come as it could be expected on this side of the Channel.
Few elections to the office of Chief Magistrate of the
American Union have occurred, ever since her confe-
deration was established, that have been associated with
relations calculated to prove of more profound interest to
Great Britain, than that which may now be looked upon
ts terminated. The results which are, in this view,
presented to our consideration, in the present in-
ntance, may be briefly combined. That numerous
and powerful party in the population of the United
States which is " the child and the champion" of an
unqualified democracy in civil government and its
institutions, and the rallying point for all hostility
:o this country, under whatever manifestations or
zetexts, has, in this election, clearly triumphed over
their more moderate and practical antagonists. These
latter, advocating, equally, popular rights and the
popular control of their own Government, carefully
respect the guarantees of treaties which they have
ntered into with other Powers, and will presume in
favour of the good faith
.of these Powers until overt
acts to the contrary towards themselves justify
their suspicions and mistrust of others. The
Loco-foco" interest which returns Mr. POLK,
is, beyond all doubt,.that which embodies the repre-

sentatives of slave property, and vindicates the prin-
ciple of slavery, on behalf of the southern States of
the Union against the northern. It is that powerful
faction which, identifying the renown, and influence,
and moral authority, of Great Britain among the
nations, with her bold, consistent, and disinterested
adhesion to the self-imposed principle of slavery
abolition ; devotes itself to her denunciation in time of
peace, and to the provoking against her a speedy war of
reckless jealousy and unprincipled revenge. It is
that vast section of American citizens who, animated
by these impulses, and heated by the prospects of
local triumph in securing to the States of the
west and the south that preponderance in the coun-

ells of the Union which has hitherto remained with
those of the north, urge on the annexation of
Texas to the general federal territory, by all or any
means, however contrary to national good faith, to a
sound Republican policy, to an expedient foreign
policy, to the paramount authority of Mexico, or to
the wishes of the great bulk of their countrymen
throughout the Union. It is that unprincipled but
vast cabal which would precipitate the occupation

,f the Oregon, or the violation of the Canadian fron
tier, to carry out its own primary objects of aggran

using the slave property and the legislative votes of
the States of the south, and insulting the dignity

and crippling the general power of Great Britain.
We may add, too, that it is the motley " class inte-
rest" of the Union which is for a tariff of absurdly
high protective duties for the assumed encourage-
ment, but the practical ruin, of the trade of America,
through the most impolitic discouragement, in the
meanwhile, of her best customers, those foreign coun-
tries against whom that tariff is directed.
We do not, therefore, blind ourselves to the nature
or the extent of the results which may be predicated
as consequent on Mr. Por.x's election to the chair of
the President. But we cannot participate in all the
gloomy apprehensions which the fact of that election
seems to have infused into the minds of some of our
Contempraries. We imagine that many of the evils
whose probable occurrence it is not easy to dispute,

on any argument of analogy drawn from the present
aspect of circumstances, have yet a practical tendency
to dissipate themselves without eventuating, BO to
speak. It is an important truth, and to be noted i❑
the first place, that whatever amount of influence, and
whether more or loss direct, the opinions and views and
wishes of the party to whom he owes his elevation,
may be expected to exercise over the career of the
new PRESIDENT ; there is but a limited capacity for
my independent political action in the Constitutional
scheme of his official functions. llis powers are
rather restrictive and negative than original and
transmissive. The recent example of the dead moves
of that most check-mated of PRESIDENTS, the re-
loubtable Mr. TYLER, may serve to show how little
the known personal prepossessions of the ostensible
head of the Government necessarily influence the de-
terminations of the great National Council. But,
again, the very force on whose shoulders Mr. PoLK is
borne to the chair is already split into a league of many
and almost antagonistic movements. The men of the

south combine with the men of the north and the
west in a feverish desire, probably, for a rupture with
Great Britain. But the Borth is opposed to the south
on the question of the Texas annexation, from a con-
viction of the disturbance of that superior authority
they now wield in Congress, which such an event
would occasion ; and if the Loco-focoism of the north
were content to abandon its anti-slavery views in favour
of a combination with that of the south against Great
Britain, there are other questions besides the Oregon
occupation to sow incurable jealousies between
their various members, should such a compact
1,,,! ever acted on. The preponderance of the
\\lig party influence, at least in the Senate, will
for some time, at any rate, maintain the foreign political
relations of the States in their present course. This
seems to be the opinion of some of the American
journals, even, which are favourable to the cause of
l'or.K. And although the New York herald is con-
,g-ratulating its readers on that gentleman's election,
in the teeth of all its recent enthusiasm for CLAY,
assures them that the prospects of the United States
are brightening every day, we must say we perceive
many symptoms in their social aspect, their in-
ternal economy, and the condition of her
(-oasts, marine, &c., which hardly warrant
:hese congratulations in reference to the mischievous
and hostile purposes to which they are addressed.
Up3n the whole of this intelligence, though we
regret, in our respect for and confidence in Mr. CLAY,
hat his discomfiture seems partly attributable to a
Effie want of singleness of purpose and decision in
recent public declarations that have been made by him,
touching leading questions of American and European
interest; we are yet prepared to believe that the
salutary influence of his talents, his integrity, and his
party, may still predominate over, and regulate, the
action of the United States Government, under its
new President..

The grand " Repeal Demonstration," to celebrate

the liberation of Mr. O'CoNNELL and the gentlemen
who were his fellow-prisoners and traversers, took
p!ace in the city of Limerick, on Wednesday evening
list. It consisted in one of those " monster gather-
ings" of the Irish people, which aro really among
the most remarkable phenomena that our times or
country can exhibit—in a most extensive and iin-
phsing procession ; and in a sumptuous banquet of
honour, given to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
and his friends, in the Theatre. We trust that this

"demonstration" will not be without its salutary in:
iiaence on the counsels of her Majesty's Government, in
calling their immediate attention to the danger of
delaying " justice to Ireland." Mr. O'CONNELL was
everywhere greeted, from his arrival in Newcastle,
in Limerick county, to his reception at the banquet,
with the most enthusiastic welcome ; and his addresses
to the people in acknowledgement of the honours
thus paid to him, were distinguished by their
animated freshness. For these, and other parti-
culars, we must refer the reader to the detailed
report which we gave on Saturday. 'We intend, at pre-
e'nt, to recur to the " Liberator's" speech at the
banquet, inasmuch as it raises the question of the
soundness of Mr. O'CoNNELL's views on certain

points connected with the great question of repeal,
from which views we have heretofore had the mii-

I)rtune to differ essentially. As sincere and con-
sistent advocates of the just and indefeasible claims
of the Irish nation upon the Legislature, and the
rople of this country, for the removal of numerous
civil and political grievances, we have thought it in-
cumbent upon us distinctly to propound the grounds of
such difference. If this was a task not unaccompanied
with difficulty, in consideration of the eloquence and
Went of the various speeches to which our remarks
were, in such instances, addressed, that difficulty is
now much enhanced by reason 'of the ability and
force which pervaded the Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man's remarkable speech of Wednesday, on returning
thanks for the sympathy and acclamations with
which the toast of the evening, his health, had been
received by the 750 gentlemen who were assembled
at the banquet.

Mr. O'CoziNBLL distinctly nails his colours to the
mast. The one great cause he fights for he avows

to be the repeal of the union. He declares that he
will accept nothing less; that there must be an inde-

pendent national Parliament for Ireland in Dublin ;
that there shall be no such thing as the centralization
of legislation, so far as Ireland is concerned ; that as
for the wrongs, even, of which she has so long com-
plained, and the grievances the redress of which she
has so vainly solicited from the Imperial Parliament,
any compromise with her, founded on the satisfaction
of the one and the removal of the other, which might
now be proposed, would not be accepted by the
Irish people. "We will," said he, " make John
Bull understand us ; and even if he should then
offer to remedy them in the Imperial Parliament, we
will tell him ' you spoke too late. We have come to
the understanding that we shall do it ourselves.'"
And again, in a preceding speech, delivered from
CRUMB'S Hotel, "Well, there had been no surrender,
no compromise.—(Cheers.) Some blockheads said
that he wanted less than their rights. It was the
ether way, for those repealers were calling for twenty
shillings, but he asked that, and ten shillings more.
—(Laughter.) That was by the way of tilly.—
(Laughter.)"

It is very Natural that Mr. O'CONNELL should
feel an absorbing, uncompromising, solicitude about

the result of a grand scheme of national agitation
to which he has bent all the extraordinary energies
of his powerful organization, physical as well
as mental, with a degree of ardour and
devotion—rarely, if ever, exhibited by the youngest
of political leaders. But we cannot help thinking
that his enthusiasm tempts him sometimes into indis-
cretions, the inevitable tendency of which is to defeat
his own object. In the first place, he miscalculates,
in our judgment, the influence of public opinion in
Great Britain (which is not unlikely to suppose it-

self interested, as the more important integer of the
empire), on the question of repealing the union; by
altogether overlooking the disinclination of the majo-
rity to consent to the dismemberment of Ireland. Mr.
O'Cormzu.'s own complaint is—and he puts it in his
Limerick speech with some degree of bitterness--that
the people of England cannot be made to see the
justice of his demand. He proposes "to make John
Bull see it." This purpose can be achieved in one
only of two ways; and we have much too high an
opinion of Mr. O'CoNaßnes sagacity and tact to
doubt, for an instant, which course he has selected.
But does he—we would put it to his own candour—
follow out that course of conciliation by this indiffer-
ence to the opinions or the wishes of "John Bull ?"
We are sorry, too, to find Mr. O'CONNELL throwing
to the winds, beforehand, all or any adjustments of
Irish grievances which " the Imperial Parliament"
may " offer to remedy." We would repeat the ad-
vice we have before pressed upon the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman—to await that closely-approxi-
mating day, at which those in authority who have
given strong manifestations of their individual adhe-
sion to liberal principles of government will feel
themselves strong enough to carry out those measures
they have long contemplated for the amelioration of
Ireland, by fair and frank concessions of remedial
justice and equity to that country. It seems at least
questionable in point of judgment and policy to put
in jeopardy, by ill-considered taunts, the fruition of
events of which the tendency, in our notion at any
rate, is—rapidly to determine in elevating Ireland to
her due rank, and the full enjoyment of all its ad-
vantages, as a member of the Imperial Union.
We may be forgiven if our profound interest in
that beneficent consummation prompts us to submit
the apprehensions we thus express to the calm con-
sideration of Mr. O'CONNELL. It would be a de-
plorable termination to a career of such matchless
zeal and activity in reclaiming, one after another,
rights and franchises so long denied to, or so long
lost by, his native country—to see her onward march
arrested and turned by the force of fears, or pre-
judices, otr ill-will (no matter which), needlessly ex-
cited, or rashly challenged. The Liberator must be
satisfied that he has given to the agitation of her just
cause—her demand for full equality of rights and
careful redress of injuries and wrongs—a momentum
which no power can now stop short of its destined
and legitimate end, save that which imparted to it the
impress and force of its wonderful movement—
hi.s own—

At parting with this speech, to the general ability
and effectiveness of which we must again bear testi-
mony, we must own to the feeling of surprise and re-
gret with which we read the following passages.
That feeling has no reference to the charge against
English journals, for newspapers are, by the doom of
their original institution, fair marks for the shafts of
all the world—their friends and their foes, their
readers and their defamers. But we cannot suppose
that a little more reflection would not have suggested
to Mr. O'ComsTELL's mind the many noble manifes-
tations which the last thirty years—and of that
period, the latter term more especially—have elicited,
on the part of the people of England, of an active,
generous, and disinterested sympathy for the political
wrongs of Ireland, and the domestic misery and pri-
vations of large communities of the Irish people.
Whether or not they want the readiness which the
Hon. thud Learned Gentleman attributes to his own
countrymen in arriving at conclusions, we shall not
stop to inquire, but they have betrayed no sluggish-
ness, no insensibility, we apprehend, in responding to
the appeals of Irish social suffering to the best feelings
of our common nature. There is nothing graceful or
felicitou.s, surely, in these allusions to them :
" I have much thought upon the impenetrability of
truth into England, and I solemnly declare that it ap-
pears to inc as if a kind of adamantine wall surrounded
that courary, making it impervious to every approach of
truth. It may arrive on the four wings of heaven, and
with the force of electricity to every human being else-
where ; Lout the fact is most astounding, that it never
can penetrate into England.—(llear, hear.)"
And again :

" It might be said that the use of the English press
SVA3 to keep up the ignorance of the people. It sup-
ported the delusion under which John Bull is labouring,
and told hizn that the Irish people had no grievances to
coreplain orf ; but I am determined to give an opportu-
nity to every man, woman, and child in Great Britain to
understand the contrary. To be sure I cannot answer
for the capacity of their genius, for they have but little
of the shrewdness which enables Paddy to arrive so
rapidly at facts."
For his own sake, very much—for the sake of Ire-
land, much more—we trust that the lion. and
Learned Gentleman will abstain from this random,
but not ia-noxious skirmishing. His own eloquence
wants no such aids—his country's cause is but da-
maged by them.

We never despaired of the Protestant people of
ENgland when the doctrines of the Puseyites should
be fairly brought under their notice. Englishmen,

fortunately, are not hasty in their decisions—they
take time to consider, and no people, perhaps, after
mature deliberation, ever come to a more upright and
conscientious judgment. They have now had at
least three years to form an opinion on this new
Popery scheme, and laymen of all ranks—men,
indeed, of every grade in society, excepting those who
wear the shovel-hat and the surplice—are unanimous in
condemning PUSHY and NEWMAN. This is a noble
tribute to the blessings of the Reformation. Parishes
in every direction are rising up against their Popish
rectors, vicars, and curates ; they will have no Roman
Catholic ceremonies, however harmless and innocent ;
they justly regard them as the forerunners of slavery
and the re-establishment of a religion to which the
whole constitution of the country, in Church as well
as State, is directly opposed. It is a reproach to
Protestants to say that this feeling has been created
by the wild schemes of certain bishops to force upon
them a weekly collection for the poor. Their objec-
tions are of a much higher and more sacred character.
The Church of England is purely Protestant. It has,
till within the last four years, shunned the
Court of Rome as the " mystery of iniquity ;" it has
denounced evtiry concession to Catholics ; it has
grudged the paltry pittance to Maynooth ; it strug-
gled to the last against Catholic emancipation ; it up-
held, in every instance, the great and glorious prin-
ciples of the Reformation; and the people naturally
believed that a e Church would adhere to principles
which it had averred as the very essence of its exist-
ence. A new race, however, sprung up in the
University of Oxford. They were regarded at first
as mere drivellers, as contemptible as the Mormonites,
or the followers. of JOANNA SOUTIICOM, till they were
taken under the especial care of the Episcopal Bench;
The people -rebelled against the missionaries
sent forth by firis new sect, appealed for protection to
the bishop of the diocese, but in many instances the
replies to these appeals were jesuitical, and in others—
we refer to the Mishops of LONDON and EXETER par-
ticularly—the Protestants of the Established Church I
were insulted and branded 83 disturbers of the Ca- 1

tholic Church. Everything the Puseyites did was ,
right—they adhered faithfully to the rubrics, and
every ceremony offensive to Protestants was sanc-
tioned by these fathers of the Church. Even the
Archbishop of CANTERBURY, from whom they expected
some relief, dismissed them with an evasive answer; and
all men saw that there was a general combination
in the body of the Church against the Protestant
religion. The Primate of all England is generally
regarded as a person of a meek and Christian disposi-
tion—he is so quiet and imperturbable, that no man
imagines he can sanction any measures contrary to
his sacred oaths. Yet, notwithstanding several
appeals, he has allowed the heresy to go on increasing,
without taking one step to obstruct it, and has per-
mitted members of the University of Oxford—men
paid by the Protestant establishment—to denounce
the Reformation as a great crime, and to advocate
all the most obnoxious doctrines of a religion
which he professes to abhor. These meek church-
men are the most dangerous characters in a com-
munity. While they pretend to be passive, they
are secretly encouraging egregious encroachments on
religion and liberty, and always find tools to carry
their baneful purposes into effect. To the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY, with all his meekness, we
attribute the entire blame of this lamentable divi-
sion in the Protestant Church. Of what use are
archbishops and bishops, if not to keep their clergy
in order ? Yet the Church is divided against
itself, and these superintendents, whenever
they interfere, only add fuel to the flame.
The only safeguard of Protestantism rests
with the people themselves. The Church is
bent on a march to Rome. The Puritans who
opposed LAUD, justly sacrificed on the scaffold, have
been scoffed at by all churchmen, but they manfully
opposed the encroachment of the clergy, and to them
the people of this country owe the giarious consti-
tution which they now enjoy. They denounced such
men as PUSSY, and BLOMFIRLD, and PIIILLPOTTS, an►l
Howm, and it remains for the laity of England
to imitate their example, and resist all perjured
churchmen who receive pay as Protestants, yet are
doing everything in their power to undermine the
Establishment, and bring the people back to the most
nsufferable state of slavery.

Intelligence from Lisbon to the 20th inst. has been
received, but it is not important. The state of the
revenue is every day becoming worse, and in order
to meet pressing wants: the Cortes were engaged in
discussing measures for increasing the taxes five per
cent. Some of these taxes it is said will affect Eng-
lish manufactures. In the Chamber of Peers Count
AVRADIO called the attention of the Government to
the miserable state in which the widows and orphans
of the officers who died in the service of Don PADA()
were left by the Government, their pensions being
then twenty-two months in arrear ; but the Minister
of Finance said that he lamented exceedingly that he
had no money at his disposal to pay these and many
other pensions.

We have received Madrid journals of the 17th inst.
The Gazette of that date publishes two royal decrees,
by which ZUUBANO is stripped of his rank and
honours for high treason, and he and his followers, on
being captured, are to be immediately led to execu-
tion. At the meeting of the Chamber on the IGth, a
Deputy put some questions to NARVABZ, respecting
the revolt, who replied, " That the Chamber might
rest assured that the Government was determined to
maintain order and tranquillity at any price. Gene-
ral ZURBANO, being suspected of disaffection, had, he
said, been ordered to quit Navarre and repair to San-
tander. lie had given the authorities every assurance
that he would lead a retired life, and obey the laws.
The Government saw in him a General whom the
country had loaded with favours and wealth, and did
not question his loyalty. If they had called to mind
his birth, education, and past life, they might have
predicted what had now occurred.—(Applause.) The
Government is of opinion that, perhaps, it has been
ordained from Heaven that a salutary example
shall be given to the people, and that the faithful
Spanish army shall not suffer the disgrace of
seeing their uniform borne by a rebel. It is true
that the rebel ZUIDANO has proclaimed a man more
contemptible than himself, but he had not found a
single soldier to follow him, and he commands but
70 robbers. Thera exists no danger of the public
tranquillity being disturbed."
The following proclamation had been issued by
that sanguinary and ruthless chieftain, and it will be
fortunate for humanity if his attempt at insurrection
is thoroughly crushed. It is dated Najera,
Nov. 13 :

"ARMY Falt THE RESTORATION OF LIBERTY.
" Whilst the rulers of every constitutional country in
Europe are the guardians of liberty, we behold Spain
oppressed, in the name of royal authority, by a perfidious
and mongrel band, who, in violation of the laws and the
sacred code, overstep all the bounds of their power,
labour only to promote injustice and venality, persecute
' with fury the generous Liberal party, and stop at no in-
famy, imposture, or calumny, to attain their end.
" The moment you receive the present proclamation
you will communicate it, under penalty of death, to all
vovearundment that maythe that the authorities of the district, in order that all the
authorities ofu i
functions,
t r u s ie Government
adminis-
trative authorities,relinq both elective and judiciary, who pre-
viously exercised their functions in conformity with the
relinquish their
i
60th article of the Constitution, and before the promul-
gation or the infamous municipality law, shall be forth-
with reinstalled.
" Whoever shall disobey this order shall be fined
1,000 douros (200 Z), to be applied to the expenses of the
war ; and any officer of the intrusive Government at-
tempting to resist, shall be shot as asenemy of the in-
stitutions which the nation had conquered at the price
of so much blood and so many sacrifices. The same
penalties shall also be incurred by those who should col-
lect for the Government taxes not voted by the Cortes.
" MARTIN ZURBANO."
Great interest continued to prevail in Madrid re-
:Tooting the fate of Pan&, and the decision of the
Supreme Military Tribunal was looked for with
much anxiety. On the 15th Mr. BULIYHR gave a
grand entertainment to the French Ambassador and
most of the Foreign Ministers. The Duke DE
RlANzAups, Queen CHRISTINA'S husband, better
known as Munoz, formed one of the party.
On the 16th the Three per Cents. were done at 27i for
cash, and 271 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 20i at
60 days ; the Coupons at 25i for cash ; the Floating
Debt at 64+ on the Ist of December; and the Pro-
visional Debt, 5i at 58 days.

Most of the Paris papers have accounts of the at

tempt made by ZURBANO to excite insurrection in the
north of Spain, and they generally agree that he has
failed and been deserted by the few adherents who
had joined him. 'She Journal des Debals says, "We
learn by extraordinary express that ZURBANO and
his troop have been attacked and dispersed between
Burgos and Vittoria by General JAUREGUY, well
known in the civil wars of Spain by the name of
EL PASTOR. ZURBANO, with a few of his men,
seeks, it would appear, a refuge in the mountains of
Navarre, where the Captain-General of that province
is already in pursuit of him." According to the
Presse, all the persons who followed him into the
mountains of Soria deserted him in twenty-four
hours, disheartened by being isolated and repulsed
by the whole province on which they had chiefly re-
lied, and in which they had made their first coup de
main. ZunnAxo has only five or six horsemen left
with him. They are said to be his sons and other
relations, and with whom he is endeavouring to pass
the Ebro by its fords in the environs of Fuen Mayor,
flying before the QUEEN'S troops, who, aided by the
inhabitants of the country, are hunting him in every
direction. The Globe gives nearly the same account,
and the National admits that the insurgent band had
split into small parties, for the purpose of dividing
and distracting their pursuers.

The Messager gives the following intelligence
from Otaheite :—" We have letters from Valparaiso,
under the date of tne 18th August. A French ship,
which left Otaheite in the beginning of July, brings
news of our establishment. Governor Bituar, in-
formed that a certain number of natives of the south
of the island had risen, thought it right to march
against them. He attacked them at Rapape on the
30th of June, and completely beat and dispersed
them. The Queen POMARE has left Papeiti and
embarked in the English frigate Fishguard for the
island of I3olabola." This intelligence affords ground
to the Opposition for attacking M. GUIZOT, who,
they say, kept back the intelligence till it could be
no longer concealed, nearly the same account having
appeared in some English journals. M. TnlEas and
his party have apparently arranged their tactics for
the next session, and from the subjoined article in his
journal it will be seen that the affairs of Otaheite, the

right of search, and the evacuation of Magadore are
to oe the war-cries of the party :
" The following piece of news is given us as certain.
We have it from excellent authority, and yet we cannot
credit it. It is confidently affirmed, is positive, is true,
and yet it is impossible. We are told that M. Guizot,
up to the present time, has not obtained from Lord
Aberdeen the abolition of the right of search. He has
pressed and supplicated, but a firm inflexibility has been
shown him—the right of search will be maintained. We
declare that the thing is most unlikely. How is it pos-
sible that M.Guizot, who had so confidently spoken before
the Chambers of arriving at the desired result; who has
paid England the price of it two or three times over ;
who went to Windsor to celebrate the entente cordiale,
has not at least wrested this concession from a Govern-
ment with whom he pretends to be on such intimate
friendship? It is inadmissible, incredible, and yet so it is.
However, we are not yet at the 26th of December—a
a month separates us from the speech from the Throne,
It is to be supposed that before that period, M. Guisot.
who has made so many sacrifices of honour, who has dis-
avowed our officers and all their brave seamen of
Otaheite, the blood of whom has b, en shed in pure loss
—who has put France under the feet of Mr. Pritchard—
who has evacuated Mogadore—.., ho has had it declared
that France was rich enough to pay for her glory in
order to spare Abderrhaman the expenses of the war
—who, in fine, has made so many positive concessions to
Sir It Peel, it is to be supposed, we say, that M. Guizot
will finish by obtaining this modification, altogether of
form, in the treaties of 1831 and 1833. We therefore
persist, notwithstanding the positive assurances that have
been given us, in asserting that the speech from the
Throne will announce the complete abolition of the
treaties of the right of search."
Marshal BIIGEAUD had arrived at Marseilles, where
he was received with great enthusiasm, and a grand
banquet was given to him in the theatre. On his
health being given, he made the following• brief
speech, which, however, contains a great deal :

" The conquest of Algeria is complete. There is peace
everywhere—from the frontiers of Tunis to those of Mo-
rocco all the tribes are in a state of submission, with the
exception of a few of the Kabyle tribes of the provinces
of Bugia and Gigelli. The most perfect security reigns
on all points. An immense progress has been made.
The revenues of the colony, which, in 1840, were only
tour millions, arc now twenty millions ; the European
population, which, in 1840, amounted to only 25,000,
now amounts to 75,000. It was thought, even a short time
ago, that the territory open to relations with us extended
only to the Tell—that is to say, in a zone of forty-five
leagues' breadth only. This is an error. We have now
certain knowledge that the Arab population extends to
a breadth of 200 leagues, with 250 leagues in length, a
surface as large as that of France. The Arab popula-
tion amounts to five millions, perhaps six. Here is an
immense future, which, perhaps, considering my age, I
ant not destined to see ; but as long as any strength
shall remain to me, as long as a drop of blood shall flow
in my veins, I will devote them to the service of my
country. I repeat that peace reigns throughout Algeria.
Our enemy, driven from our territory, has taken refuge
in Morocco, and I have just received information which
I regard as nearly positive, although I have not yet any
official certainty, that Abd-el-Bader has dismissed the
small force which remained with him, and plunged into
the interior of the empire."