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cal character. Added to which the insolent personali-
ties showered upon that illustrious diplomatist and
statesman would of themselves be sufficient to
extort from the multitude a strong and ener-
getic counter-manifestation. Hence it is far
from being any matter of surprise to us that
upon the eve of the division about to take place upon
the motion of the Honourable and Learned Gentle-
man the representative of Sheffield, the public should
betray an anxiety to demonstrate the fulness of their
admiration for the patriotic Minister at the head of
the Foreign Department of the Government.
Everything throughout the recent debates, in the
Peers upon Lord STANLEY'S motion, and in the
Commons upon Mr. Ronuccx:s--everything through-
out these discussions relating to the attacks
upon the Foreign Secretary has tended to
evidence the pitiful spite and rancour of the as-
sailants of the Noble Viscount, and to corroborate
the assertion of Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, that a dis-
graceful conspiracy has been formed to oust her MA-
JESTY'S Government. Several considerations combine
to impress this fact indelibly upon the general con-
viction. The mere circumstance of an alliance
suddenly being effected between parties in
the Legislature who cordially hate each other,
divulges an arriere pens& of a dark and
sinister description. Then, again, the fligrant
falsehoods advanced in the way of argument against
the policy of Lord PALMERSTON afford full evidence
of the unprincipled nature of the antagonism to his
administration. The inconsistency, moreover, of
men such as the Right Honourable Baronet the
Member for Ripon, who four years ago spoke
favourably of the very question which now becomes
the object of their vituperation!, has about it a sig-
nificance such as requires no exposition whatever.
The truth is, we repeat, that an intrigue, the
like of which for baseness and turpitude has
never been surpassed, has been set on foot, to employ
the language of the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman
the Representative of the county of Middlesex, by
Ministers of State in office and out of office, by
Kings with crowns and without crowns, and he
would add, too, without character. Aided by politi-
cal adventurers, struggling by every ignoble method

:o secure their own selfish aggrandizement, even at

the expense of all national interests and of the commonest
decencies of society, these conspirators are plotting
to accomplish the expulsion from the Cabinet of a
statesman in whose regard the feelings of the people
of England are cordial and enthusiastic. Blinded
by their own detestable ambition, these men appear to
forget that the great Minister of the Crown, whose
ruin they are striving to accomplish, was already fa-
mous throughout Europe, when many of them were
mere boys, and when the rest of them were crawling up

the lowest and dirtiest rounds of the social ladder. They
seem to lose a recollection of the circumstance that
the popularity of Lord PALMERSTON is not a mere
ephemeral ebullition of civic caprice, that it has not
suddenly sprouted into existence out of simply eva-
nescent interest, but that it dates back its vitality
during the larger portion of half a century, that it
has grown to its present fullness and maturity from
the earliest days of the present generation of
statesmen, that, above all and beyond all,
it has developed in strength and in perma-
nence by reason of a long series of glorious
and historical achievements. If for no other reason,
the foreign policy of Lord PALMERSTON would com-
mand the admiration of contemporaries and the
panegyric of posterity, seeing that to its sagacity
alone, under GOD, is attributable the preservation of
peace throughout the world during two most terrible
and perilous periods of revolution. Immediately after
the occasion of the great political explosion of the
three days of July, 1830, and subsequently
immediately upon the occasion of the yet
greater political explosion of the three days
of February, 1848—it was the good fortune
of England to be represented among foreign
nations by the policy of
_Viscount PALMERE”.
TON. That policy secured international peace to
Christendom when the whole surface of the European
continent was heaving with what Mr. Aciaort has
powerfully designated the " mind-quakes" of revolu-
tion. But for that conciliatory policy Great
Britain must inevitably have become embroiled with
one or other of the-great peoples then in a stare
of bellicose excitement. Especially during
the momentous epoch which followed the
grand democratic detonation of February, during
those months of alternate panic and enthusiasm, when
the princes of the earth were fugitives, when palaces
were pillaged, and thrones broken in the market-
place, and " the official holy of holies (to u'e the
expression of Mr. CARLYLE) was laid bare to dogs
and the profane—then, more peculiarly than at any
other period, the wisdom of Lord PALMERSTON'S
foreign policy became apparent to the judgment cf
the population. Imagine the consequences that
mast have befallen this country and the rest of the
nations of Christendom, supposing my Lord ABER-
DEEN had held the seals of the Foreign•office during
the days immediately after the revolution of July
and the days immediately after the revolution of Fe-
bruary ! Good GOD ! the mere conjecture is fraught
with the most frightful visions of calamity. How
the dupe of Louis PHILIPPE, and the catspaw of
GUIZOT, and the obsequious accomplice of METTER.
NICH, could have escaped from being himself involved
in the troubles which overwhelmed those, his patrons,
masters, and panegyrists, it is somewhat difficult to
imagine. And the entanglement of ABERDEEN
would have been the entanglement of England, had
the former at that period been unhappily at the head
of the foreign department of the Government.
Hence it is, we repeat, that the people of England
are enabled to recognize the value of that system
of conducting our diplomatic relations which
empowered the illustrious statesman, her MA-
JESTY'S present Foreign Secretary, to maintain
peace between Great Britain and the revolutionized
countries of Christendom, and to maintain that peace,
moreover, not only without any derogation of our
national dignity, but in a manner such as tended to
preserve, and enhance, and elevate the national inte-
rests and the national character. Never before, we
maintain, has England ridden so tranquilly through
such political tempests of revolution, and never before
have the name, and the fame, and the strength,
and the glory of England, been so conspicuous
over the whole globe as during these times of the
foreign administration of Viscount PALMERSTON
"Well, theretore, may that noble statesman challenge
the favourable verdict of the House of Commons, and
demand the reward due to his patriotic labours—the
formal approval of the LPgislatuets:

From every part of tt eJ country—north, south,
east, and west—from England, from Ireland, from
c_7cotland, from -Wales, from the Land's End to Johnny
Groat's house, from the Giant's Causeway to
Cape Clear, from the shores of Galway to the
Humber—complaints, both loud and deep, are
pouring in of the intolerable inconvenience, and of
the immense amount of Sabbath desecration, occa.
sioeed by the culpable yielding of the Ministry to the
f4natical, absurd, and, as we believe, illegal demand
of the ASHLEY Sabbattarian squad for the abolition
of the Post-office delivery on Sunday. We yester-
day gave, on the authority of Lord BROUGHAM' the
narrative of a ease in which Sunday labour, and that
a labour of necessity, had been fearfully increased in
coneequence of the closing of the Post-office of Castle•
tWe quote from the columns of
a
contemporary
lest.
the
on
following statement, addressed to
h
his correspondents :
:n
raby
one of
" I have been in business for many •
)eart. The shop
which I now conduct has been carried on by my self and
my father for above thirty years. In conjunction with
a respectable bookselling and printing business we have
carried on an extensive newspaper agency, but during
the whole of that Limo we have never sold a newspaper
or as much as a sheet of post on a Sunday. As in the
case of other respectable country newsmen, our Sunday
papers were addressed by a London agent direct to
the subacribcrs, and we visited them quarterly
for the cash. Now, I must surrender this
branch of my business, which I cannot afford,
or commence Sunday trader; and I have been obliged,
from the competition of others, to engage to-day
three messengers to deliver on a Sunday morning the
London papers to my subscribers. The other newspaper
agents are doing the, same thing; so we shall have now
on a Sunda y morning ten or twelve newsmen at the least
running about the town delivering and hawking papers,
white four letter, carriers have hitherto delivered all the
letters and newspapers for the whole town, in much less
time.

"Another matter to be borne in mind is, that a new
branch of active Sunday traffic is opened, as our walls
are phicsided with the addresses of competing agents,
announcing the. delivery of papers on a Suudsy morning;
and there is scurcely an inn or beer-house in the town

S UN,

but has been canvassed to take a Sunday paper under
this new pariesnie,sl regime."
Thus e e find that Suridly labour will be greatly
increased by the abolition of the Sunday Ptee-office
delivery, as it would be by the abolition of Sunday
baking. The Sunday baker cooks the dinners of
perhaps fifty poor families, and enables them to go to
church, when but for him they would have been
forced to stay at home to attend to the cooking of
their respective dinners; and the employment of tour
postmen in delivering letters on a Sunday morning
(and be it remembered this work is done by ten
o'clock, an hour before the commencement of Divine
service), sets twelve men at liberty who would other-
wise be employed the whole of the day. The mea-ure
of Lord Asuexr is not only absurd, not only fanatical,
but it is suicidal. We are rejoiced to find that the
proprietors of the London weekly news-
papers, whose property will be confiscated
by the operation of this measure, are
bestirring themselves to procure the recall of the
obnoxious order : a meeting of the preprietors of
newspapers was held yesterday, at which petitions to
both Houses of Parliament, praying for the restora-
tion of the Post-office Sunday delivery were agreed
to (the petition itself will be found in extenso in an-
other column), and we recommend that public
meetings should be held in all parts of the country to
protest against the order, and to petition for its repeal ;
but we fear that there is not time to huld these meet-
ings, so as to have the petitions emanating from them
presented to Parliament during the prevent session;
and unless some measure be adop'ed before the
close of the present session to obviate the
evils arising from the stoppage of the Sunday
delivery, those evils will become intolerable be-
fore any remedy can be applied to them.
The commonsense portion of the nation look, there.
fore, in this their extremity to the Legislature to re-
pair the evil before it be too late ; and more
especially do they look to Lord BaouGuase, who
has, to his honour be it spoken, opposed
from the commencement, with the arms of elo•
quence, of sarcasm, and of reason, the insane
proceedings of the SabbatarianF, and the culpable
weakness of the Ministry in giving way to

the ravings of those madmen They trust, and
they beseech that his Lordship will move an ad-
dress in the House of Lords, praying her MA-
JESTY to rescind the order prohibiting the
Sunday delivery of letters. The Ministers
have, in accordance with an address
_"snapped"
from the House of Commons at the dinner hour, per-
petrated what they themselves adroit to be an act of
illegal and criminal, because mischievous, absurdity
they cannot surely refuse to return to the ways of
common sense and of legality, in accordance with an
address from the House of Lords.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The organs of the Ely-ei are any thing but well
pleased with the narrowness of the majority by which
the dotation of the PRESIDENT was carried; instead of
tending to reconcile the differences already existing
between the Bonapartist, Legitimatist, and Orleanist
tractions of the majority, the result has only tended
to embitter them. The Pouvoir, the acknovvledged
or4an of the PRESIDENT, thus speaks of the result of
the division :

" When in order to put an end to the orgies of ti e
Provisional Government, France confided her fats to the
elect of the 10th December, she had naturally to com-
plete her idea by sending to the Legislative Assembly
represeutatices who would loyally and energetically
support the President of the R-puede. It is necessary
that the country should know that her hopes have been
deceived. There is in the Assembly a flagrant and per-
manent idea of hostility against Prince Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte. France chose him to save her; the Assem •
bly only accepted him to nullify him until it could rid
itself of him. Such, in two words, is the state et
affairs in all its desperate reality, and without
any manoeuvre being able -to mask it from the eyes ut
sincere men. The patriotism and loyalty of General
Changereier alone prey, nted that deplorable hostility
from breaking out oil Monday. Real political men,
those who know the value of public peace, confidence,
and general security; those who would be the natural
;faders of the Assembly, if passion, egotism, fanaticism,
and blindness would admit chiefs weighing with alt their
reason and all their gui d sense ou the Assembly, the
event every day proves that they,are powerl.sts to master
and to lead it. Thus, while the country seeks fur re-
pose, for labour, and for order, some senseless men in-
cessantly strive to keep up agitation, and te imeel
France to fresh cornmotions. It is necessary that the
country should be made fully aware of this truth. It
would be in error if it thought that it had nothing to
:ear but Socialism; it has still more to dre ad fetal, the,
incessant labour t.f some men, whose ambitions and wh,ee
raimours prevent the Government tram conerlidteing
itself. This is not what they gave out to be pre-
sumed anti to be feared at the period of the general elec-
ion!. They then proclaimed themse vas the support of
he elect of the 10ih December, because that. recoil:men-
dedon had a magical effect: then terror was general, and
every one rallied to the work of safety. New that secu-
rity is somewhat returned, these ungrateful men make
u 43 of it against himewho gave 1; to them. Tney act like
sailors who during a et am make a vow to the Medontiv,
and who laugh ai her when the danger is over. We do
root think that France will suffer. such conduct to be pur-
sued in her name, and it is fur that reason we think it
eecessary to point it out to her."
Although the Ponvoir speaks of the patriotism and
loyalty of General CLIANGARNIER, the PRESIDENT and
his friends are by no means pleased at the pstronieing
tone which he assumed on the occasion, nor at the
haughty airs which he has since given himself. It
was only by a judicious admixture of threats, promises,
and coaxing that he was induced at the last moment
to declare in favour of the Ministerial project. The
National says :
"Several representatives of the majority who voted
yesterday against the dcitition of the President, remark
in animated language that M. Changarnier, who yester.
lay broke through his hebitual silence to urge the adop-
;ion of the project of the Elytee had not ceased for a
week previously to advise the rejection of that same
project. M. Meguan has therefore, by his a: rival in
Paris, performed a double miracle; he has loused the
tongue-of M. Changrstnier, and operated a conversion.
The image of the Virgin which rest red Franc 'tar
Petitot the use of her legs is surpassed."
Tnis shows the threats. Now for the coaxing and
he conditions. The correspondent of a reactionary
journal thus speaks of the vote :
" The vote on the amendment Durufle was car-
ried by a charge of General Changarnier. The man-
ner in which this charge was executed is about to re-
oeive its reward by the removal from office of General
te'Hewpoul. It is also said that the Dye es is but mode-
rately satisfied with the numerical amount of the
najority."

It is considered as extremely probable that an ex-
tensive change will take place in the M►nistry ; an
announcement in the Pouvoir that M. DE PERSIGI NY,
who is at present in Pari, will not return to Berlin,
iwems to confirm this rumour.

The Akbar of Algiers states that upwartis of t.',o
3rr6ons have been arrested
.at Oran, charged with
being implicated in a Socialist conspiracy.
The directors of the Bank of France have declared
a dividend of 50f. on their shares of I,ooof. fur
half-year ending the Ist of July next.
It is a curious fact that the PRESIDENT has been
,nabled to obtain that which was al nays steadily re-
fu.ed to LOUIS PHILIPPE, notwithAanding his intri-
gues and his corruptions—the KING asked for a do-
atioh of 400,000 francs for the Duke DE NErtiouas,
and was refused.

At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday, several of
the Members complained that they had been repre-
sented by the division lists, published in the Moniteur,
as having voted for the dotation, or as having
been absent when they had bewn present, and
had voted against it. Among the complainants
was General .Lamoaictsan, who remarked with great
emphasis that it was not the first time that such mis-
takes had been committed by the officers acting under
the superintendence of M. DUPIN; while M. LA-
GRANGE observed that such mistakes had also' been
invariably made in favour of the Minister. In the
lobby General LAMORICIERE was even more severe
in his language than he had been in the tribune ; fir,
pointing to the division lists in the Moriiteur, he called
those around him to witness that he had been falsely
set down among the lackeys of the Elyati.
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SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 21st have arrived.
There are rumours of various projected Carlist
risings in various parts of the country.
The Duke of MONTPENSIER is exceedingly un-
popular among the Castilians, as the following anec-
dote will show. There was a bull-fight at Madrid on
the 18th of June, at which the Duke and Duchess of
MONTPENSIER were present, and according to the
custom which prevails when any member of the royal
family assists at the spectacle, the chief of the Torea-
dors requested their permission to commence the fight
on his beaded knee. At this proceeding the entire
assembly hooted and hissed. When the second bull
was about to be led forth the same ceremony was re-
peated with the same result, although the famous
Mow".Es, the conqueror in all his battles, was one of
the Toreadors. On the third bull-fignt being about to
commence the Toreador merely satu ed the Duke and
Duchess, without bending his knee. A shout of ap-
plause was immediately raised by the entire mob.