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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1830,

Explanations will now be very shortly submitted to
• Parliament respecting the negotiations which have
' taken place between the principal European Govern-
ments in reference to the protection afforded by
Turkey, and indirectly by France and England, to
the banished Hungarians. Thanks are due to the
Noble Lord the representative of Marylebone for the
rapidity with which he has brought this most im-
portant matter under the consideration of the Legis-
lature. From the earnestness of his demand for some
official documents relating to this remarkable diplo-
matic correspondence Lord PALMERSTON would have
found considerable difficulty in evading the request
altogether had he been disposed to shroud in ob-
scurity the proceedings of the Cabinet towards
Russia under the late position of embarrasment.
Fortunately, however, the Noble Lord the Foreign
Secretary, had no reason whatever for desiring a
misapprehension of his conduct in a matter where
the whole policy adopted by himself and his ministe-
rial colleagues is of a character only redounding to
their honour as statesmen. Therefore it was, that
last evening he at once most cordially acceded to the
request of Lord DUDLEY STUART, with a judicious
reservation only of such papers in the recent corre-
spondence between the different Governments as com-
mon prudence assures us it would be rash to expose
to indiscriminate scrutiny. From the ready compliance
evinced under these circumstances by the Noble
Lord her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary, it must be
a subject of self-gratulation to Lord DUDLEY STUART
that he thus availed himself of the very earliest op-
portunity to require from the Government the direc-
tion of some glimmering of light upon a correspond..
ence hitherto only most doubtful and mysterious.
Even apart from this happy realisation of his wishes,
the Noble Lord has ample cause for experiencing
sentiments of satisfaction in regard to last evening's
discussion, if only for inasmuch as it elicited from
the great statesman directing the foreign affairs of
this country language so expressive of accordance
with the enthusiasm of those who sympathised
with the gallant Hungarians. For, speaking
of those feelings which have agitated the
whole framework of English society to its very foun-
dations, these feelings which we °twelves him

given voice to unremittingly, ardently, and we might '
almost say passionately, from the first rise of the
great Magyar movement up to the days of its calami-
tous termination—Viscount PALMERSTON said, last
night, thus emphatically in the House of Commons—
" I can only observe that those feelings and opinions
which I knew were entertained upon this
matter by the great mass of the people
of this country are opinions and feelings
which have done great credit to this country, and
which I trust—and I almost wish—no Englishman
would differ from in any respect whatever."
Those expressions, it is true, are only cor-
roborative of the sentiments already expressed
by the Noble Lord the Foreign Secretary,
immediately before the close of the last Parliamen-
tary session, and are, consequently, far from causing
us any agreeable surprise ; but the reiteration of
this acknowledged coincidence of his own feelings
and opinions with the feelings and opinions enter-
tained by the bulk of the British nation towards the
patriotic Hungarians must necessarily be grateful to
all those individuals who might even for a moment
have continued dubious as to the sentiments of the
Administration. Henceforth, upon this point, there
can be no longer any uncertainty whatever. Hence-
forth, the whole world must recognise that not
without avail have we and our brother sympathisers
in the cause of Hungary kept alive in our own
bosoms, and kindled in the bosoms of others, this
sacred light of enthusiasm, that not ineffectual have
been those speeches and leading articles, those meet-
ings in the provinces and in the metropolis, which
woke an echo in every corner of the land and in every
section of the community. No 1 the sympathisers
with Hungary are not, as was pretended by the apo-
logists of Austria, and proclaimed by the reactionary
journalists, a merely isolated and Quixotic band of
political fanatics ; they are proved by the manly and
honourable avowals of the Noble Lord her MAJESTY'S
Foreign Secretary to be "the great mass of the
people," whose views throughout have been in ac-
cordance with the views of her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment! Happily for England it has so fallen out
that the rulers of the State during the period of the
terrible struggle between the heroes of Hungary and
the combined armies of Austrian assassins and Rus-
sian barbarians were not drawn from that Conserva-
tive minority which even at this time dares to lift its
voice in vindication of the murderers of BATTIIYANY,
and to advocate the cause of a Cabinet rendered in-
famous by its unparalleled atrocities I Upon the head
of an English nobleman has devolved the disgrace of
that unblushing effrontery which presumes to speak
in the language of panegyric of a Government whose
very name has become a synonym for treachery, and
bloodshed, and barbarisms, and assassination. To
Lord CLAUD HAMILTON belongs the odium of de-
fending an Administration whose unexampled in-
famies have made it the abhorrence of Christendom.
0 for the days of chivalry and true nobility if such
are the feelings of the aristocracy of the nineteenth
century 1 That the language of extenuation
uttered in regard to the Austrian Govern-
ment—the Government of lying and butchery,
the Government of the poison-bowl and
the dagger, the Government of the turnkey and the
hangman—should have been tolerated in the British
House of Commons, is a circumstance that casts
shame upon the people of these islands through the
persons of their representatives. Base, indeed, must
be that heart, or clouded that intellect which can re-
cognise any subject for homage and admiration in the
Cabinet that celebrated the victories obtained by the
hordes of the Russian AUTOCRAT with the scourging
of noble ladies, with the confiscation of the fortunes of
the innocent, with the shooting of heroes like dogs,
and the hanging of great statesmen like malefactors!
Saturnine, indeed, must be that temperament which
does not revolt with unspeakable horror on the dis-
covery of conspiracies to stab a noble enemy in the
sanctuary of his refuge, and to poison the food of an
unfortunate driven from the land of his nativity !
That such conspiracies are no mere old wives' tales,
but the bloody embryos of crimes that have been
actually discovered, are facts adequately attested by
the authorised avowals of the Turkish administrators
—and yet there are men in the English House
of Commons who have not sufficient nobility
in their disposition to recoil from the detes-
table office of vindicating a Government alto-
gether infamous for its atrocities, and from
eulogizing a Cabinet which is little less than a
Cabinet of assassins. Thank GOD ! however, if my
Lord CLAUD HAMILTON does not shrink from thus
calling down upon his own head the detestation of " the
great mass of the people" of England, the character
of the House of Commons is preserved by the gener-
OUS opinions expressed by Lord DUDLEY STUART
and by the noble sentiments articulated by the lips of
Viscount PALMERSTON.

The able and efficient Chief Secretary for Ireland
has given notice of his intention to introduce, for the
consideration of Parliament, a measure eminently
calculated to improve the moral, social, and political
condition of that portion of the empire. This even-
ing, in accordance with the :recommendation in her
Gracious 'MAJESTY'S Speech, it is announced that he
will ask leave to introduce a Bill to restrain party
processions in Ireland, and we think we may anti-
cipate for his proposition ;the hearty concurrence of
every Member of both Houses of the Legislature
anxious for the peace and prosperity of that unfor-
tunate country.
The history of Ireland for ages has been the dark
record of the atrocities resulting from party feuds.
The demon of religious discord maddened men's
minds, and ruled with a baleful supremacy in the
land, and no measure, however wise or salutary,
could improve the condition of a people while the
social elements were in such antagonism and dis-
order. We are no advocates for any unnecessary
restraints upon the rational liberty of the people.
We are no advocates for curfew bells or domiciliary
visits ; we would place no hindrance upon their
sports or amusements, and least of all would we pre-
vent assemblages of the people for legal and consti-
tutional purposes ; but we would " curb those cruel
devils of their wills," who would perpetuate the me-
mory of bygone feuds, and who, to indulge their
folly and wickedness by an annual exhibition of
mummery on the 12th of July, or any other anni-
versary, would re-enact the revolting tragedy of
Dolly's Brae. Yes, we would prevent the recurrence
of scenes like those by wholesome restraint, and we
therefore hail as a boon to Ireland, in common we
believe with every good and wise man in the empire,
the announcement of the Bill by Sir WILLIAM
SOMBRVILLE.

It may be said by some gentlemen, sensitive on the
point of constitutional freedom, and tenacious of the

liberty of the subject, that there is no necessity for
this Bill, and that the common law of the land is
quite sufficient for the purpose, but the answer to
those gentlemen appears to us sufficiently simple.
There are, it would seem, in Ireland certain persons
entrusted with high and important legal functions,
who are, or affect to be, so ignorant of legal know-
ledge as not to know what constitutes an illegal
assembly. Even one of the Peers of Orangeland,
with the experience of two branches of the Legisla-
ture, boldly outstepped his compeers in ignorance,
and at one fell swoop extinguished the whole com-
mon law of the land. This enlightened nobleman
would have the Ulster Orangemen bound by no law,
save one made specially for themselves. His Lord-
ship, perhaps, thinks that laws to bind Orangemen
should be as exclusive as their principles. The lex
non scripta is unknown and unhonoured in Down.
It is this real or affected ignorance that has pro-
duced the necessity for the Bill of Sir WILLIAM
SOMERVILLE. It is because the Orange magistrates
of Ulster have refused to act upon the constitutional
law of the land as it is—and which would be all-
sufficient if they properly discharged their duties—
that it has become imperative on the Legislature to
make the law on this subject more stringent and in-
telligible; and the country will have to thank the
bigotted recusants of Castlewellan for any infringe-
ment on its rights and liberties imposed by this, per-
haps, unconstitutional but necessary law.

But a strong necessity calls for this measure
beyond the ignorance or obstinacy of magisterial
bigotry, a necessity written in deep red characters of
fire and blood. Desolate hearths, desecrated altars,
murdered innocence, the peace of Ireland, all alike
demand this measure as one of stern necessity.
Without some such measure it would be impossible
to prevent the annual repetition of the Dolly's Brae
tragedy, Nyithout suchA measure all attempts to

ameliorate the condition of Ireland would be fruit-
less. Employment is the great desideratum
for that country, but what capitalist would invest his
money there, while the people were in a state of civil
war ? We look then to this measure as calculated to
lay the foundation of peace and order in that dis-
tracted land, and we think the thanks of Ireland
and the empire are due to the Right lion. Baronet
the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and we have no
no doubt he will receive the support of every honest
man both in and out of Parliament.

The Government appear disposed to do justice to
Ireland. Notices have been already given of several
measures of great importance and utility to the suf-
fering people ; the great and crying evil of the
landlord and tenant question is to be considered and
legislated upon. The gocd of all parties, then, should
unite in aiding the wise and wholesome intentions of
the Government. Our Gracious QUEEN is gratefully
impressed with the loyal welcome she received from
her warm-hearted Irish subjects, and is kindly dis-
posed towards them; everything, in fact, gives
fair promise of a better state of things in that un-
happy land. Let us then hope that this opening
dawn of a better state of things will be no longer
marred by the insanity of religious strife. Let us
hope that Irishmen will at last lay their feuds and
follies on the altar of their prostrate country. Let us
hope that as they have so long and so ruinously
" joined in hate," they will for once " join in love,"
and form one holy confederation of peaceful brother.
hood for the benefit of fatherland.

DIAMOND DUST.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
It is easy, and even delightful, to relate miseries con-
quered and sorrows that have passed away, when hope
and comfort are left behind; but when, instead, despair
stands by and refuses to depart, the recollection is appal-
ling, nor can sympathy or kindness soothe it.
The three most difficult things are—to keep a secret
—to forget an injury—and to make good use of leisure.
Wickedness is generally a plant of slow growth, and
we rarely find that extreme youth is totally devoid of
virtues, though it may be stained with many vices.
Go not to your doctor fur every ail, nor to your lawyer
fur every quarrel, nor to your bottle for every thirst.
A ready wit retorts upon our persecutors, and they
get laughed at, but by displaying it we make ourselves
enemies.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Baron PARKE, Mr. Baron
ALDERSON, Mr. Baron ROLFE, and Mr. BATOR PLATT.)
RELAY SYSTEM IN FACTORIES.—IMPORTANT DECISION