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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1850.

Elsewhere the treatment of the desolator of Hun-
gary by the industrious population of Bankside has
excited feelings as earnest and sentiments as opposite
as in England. Wherever this despicable and de-
tested soldier has made his appearance on the conti-
nent, the multitude has emulated the conduct of our
draymen and coalheavers ; while a very contrary
emotion has displayed itself among the leaders of
their despotic Governments. According to a rumour
now prevalent, it would seem indeed that the latter
are meditating a remonstrance to the British Cabinet,
in reference to the political refugees collected together
on these islands, and sheltering themselves under our
all-protecting Constitution. What the precise nature
.of this remonstrance may be it would of course be
somewhat difficult to conjecture ; but no doubt can
be entertained as to the response which would ine-
vitably be given by our rulers to any such imperti-
_tent interposition. So long as Lord PALMERSTON
continues at the head of the Foreign Depart-
ment there cannot be any more fear of a
foreign refugee being denied a secure retreat on
our shores than there need be a fear that
any Englishman can be oppressed with impunity by
a foreign Government. In the peroration of his
last great speech, the rhetorical masterpiece of the
session, the Noble Viscount, her MAJESTY'S Foreign
Secretary, maintained with an arrogance ex-
pressive of his haughty and patriotic tempera-
ment, that every Englishman may shelter himself
like the Roman of old under the aegis of an exclama-
tion—Civis Britannic= sum ! Had our great
statesman been vindicating at the moment that pecu-
liar glory appertaining to our country, of yielding re-
fuge in its turn to all classes and sections of fugitive
unfortunates, he would unquestionably have spoken
in terms not less energetic and conclusive. For, in
proportion to that sense of security which is felt by
every citizen of England when wandering over the
four continents, is the feeling that Great Britain,
while watching over the safety of her own children, is
prepared on all occasions to throw the mantle of her
hospitality over the children of all other kingdoms
and principalities. Regardful of the well-being
of her own offspring, when they happen to
be sojourners abroad, she is scarcely less so
of the offspring of other countries, when the
latter fly to her shores from the pursuit of cala-
mity. The truth of this has been long exemplified—
especially since the outbreak of the first French re-
volution, when the nations of Europe began to vomit
forth the victims of political fanaticism. However
much, therefore, certain classes of foreigners may be
labouring under the impression alluded to by " Boz,"
that the Englishman sits in his chimney-corner like
the surliest of curmudgeons, drinking tea flavoured
with lemons; and grunting Hoh I Hah ! Yeeae !
Gottana! and Ver gut! however much, we say, this no-
tion of our national peculiarities may be prevalent among
certain individuals, it is, nevertheless, indisputable
that the prows of all vessels bearing political refugees
from the European continent are continually
pointed, and never in rain, to the protecting shores
of Albion.

From these considerations it must be manifest that
if England arrogates to herself the right of claiming
all sots of immunities fur her citizens, when those
citizens happen to be beyond the limits of her do-
minions, she also displays the utmost possible
tenacity in maintaining the privilege of ren-
dering her laws the shield of misfortune.
Hence but little can be expected from the
British Government in the way of conces-
sion upon this head to the demands of the ab-
solute Cabinets of the continent. Prussia may

interfere, Austria may remonstrate, Russia may
grumble and argue, but the Constitution of England
must still afford protection to all kinds of political
refugees indiscriminately, to Royalists and Red Re-
publicans, to Socialists and sycophants, to the minions
of despotism and the demagogic originators of revo-
lution. Happily there is no restrictive tariff in the
catalogue of those who are admitted to our national hos-
pitality. We ask not of the foreigners, as they step from
the steamboat on to our shores, if they have shown
the white cockade or the tricolor, the white feather
or the red standard. All without distinction are ad-
mitted to the rights of seclusion, no matter whether
it be Louis PHILIPPE in the palace of Claremont, or
Louis BLANc in a lodging in Piccadilly, whether it
be FRANCOIS GUIZOT in Brompton, or LEDRU
RoLLIN in Guernsey. Without taking into ac-
count the principles with which they are severally
identified, we yield them the privilege accorded
to all sojourners without distinction. Only on
the extremest of imaginable emergencies are the
powers imparted by the Alien Act to the members
of the Administration employed for the purposes of
deportation, namely, when insurrectionary move-
ments may be anticipated as a consequence of the in-
flamatory doctrines of men sufficiently ungrateful to
abuse the benefits of hospitality. As to that most
preposterous notion, that foreign Courts have reason
to fear the ill effects of conspiracies against their
authority on the part of refugees plotting in the
garrets and cellars of our capital, nothing can well
be more egregiously silly and preposterous. States
are not overthrown or even shaken by such hole-in-
the-corner machinations, no matter what may be
said to the contrary. And, for any power like the
Viennese Cabinet, or the Berlin Cabinet, or the St.
Petersburgh Cabinet, to pretend that reasons for tre-
pidation are Iscoverable in any such quarters, betrays
a pusillanimity as contemptible as it is idle and
ridiculous.

Whatever remonstrance may be or may have been
made to the English Ministry by the Austrian,
Russian, and Prussian Governments, it is tolerably evi-
dent that those Governments have been incited to
such a course of proceeding by the dismay caused by
the recent outbreak of popular feelings in our metro-
polis. That outbreak, considering that it was fortu-
nately not fatal to its object, will happily prove most
effectual in its influences. It will reveal to the world
at large the deep and impassioned horror felt
by all Englishmen at the ferocity indulged
in by despots. It will show those des-
pots that, at any rate, in these islands, the
mere panoply of rank cannot protect a distin-
guished miscreant from the furious abhorrence
of the multitude. It will serve as an example to the
peoples of the continent, inspiring them with a readi-
ness to utter their hitherto suppressed wrath when a
monster of cruelty,bke this grey-headed ruffian, dares,
unblushingly, to walk through the streets in the face
of day. It will send a panic home to the bosom of
every tool of tyranny,reminding him that the phantom
of Nemesis is no longer a myth, but the shadow of
popular vengeance. It will show that the
real sentiments -of humanity are more cherished by
the hind and the artiz m than by the administrator
and the aristocrat. As a token that already it has
begun to operate thus beneficially, we may again
direct attention to that rumoured interference of the
Austrian, Rus'ian, and Prussian Governments, an in-
terference which, under any circumstances, would
always fail to affect in the slightest particular the
opinions of British statesmen.

Either from that diversity of opinions, or from
that spirit of contradiction which are characteristics
of humanity, no single project, however excellent,
can be devised, and no action, however meritorious,
can be perfoimed,without meeting with misrepresenta-
tion, criticism, and unsparing censure. To a certain
extent this not very agreeable custom is productive
of public good, so that, for example, " her MAJESTY'S
Opposition" have been found at times as essential to
the public weal as her MAJESTY'S Government,
serving, as they occasionally do, as a counteraction to
Ministerial timidity, or a stimulus to Ministerial
inaction. Nevertheless, beneficial as criticism and
censure may be found on occasions, it is a matter of
equal a-tonishment and regret that some of the most
excellent schemes, some of the most beneficial pro-
jects that philanthropy can suggest, are especially
selected as tile objects of violent and undeserved
animadversion. Thus we find the Industrial Exhi-
bition of 1851 assailed as "an expensive toy," likely,
if carried into effect, to do " a vast deal of harm,"
and its projectors are exhorted to suffer it " quietly to
drop into the limbo of exploded schemes !" So
numerous and extraordinary are the faults recently dis-
covered in that magnificent project as to overwhelm
us with astonishment. With all allowance fir the
diversity of opinion and love of contradiction above
alluded to, we are at a loss to understand by what
process of reasoning a scheme so fraught with social
and commercial advantages can be so divested of its
excellent characteristics as to induce any one indi-
vidual to propose its entire abandonment. From its
very first announcement the proposition excited al-
most universal approbation and delight. The idea
of an exhibition of the works of indus-
try, to be held in the metropolis of com-
mercial England, is singularly in accordance with
the spirit of this age, and with the sympathies of this
country—an age in which peaceful glories have as-
sumed their fitting supremacy, anda country in hick
successful industry is held to be as ennobling as it is
honourable. Coming as it did at a momentous period,
when ancient dynasties and arbitrary dominions were
being overthrown, and the popular influence was making
itself felt in many places until then unused to its
effects, the proposition for an assembly which should
signalise the pacific tendencies of advancing civiliza-
tion, and call together men of many nations, no longer
as "ardent warriors to meet with hateful eyes," but
to congregate in peaceful rivalry as mutual admirers
and mutual teachers, was signally well-timed, and
fraught with the happiest auguries. As such it has
already elicited public sympathy, as such it now
claims and cannot fail to obtain public support. The
calumnies of its revilers will only prove effectual in
calling attention to the fact that it remains for public
spirit worthily to consummate what public spirit has
so worthily commenced.

Why is a gun-cap like death?—Because it's a
debt-o'natur'.

GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS' COMPANY:-
An application was this morning made to the Lord Chancel-
lor for an injunction to restrai❑ this company from further
continuing their works to the injury of the Chartered Gas
Company. The motion was ordered to stand over until
Tuesday next, the Central Gas Company undertaking in the
meantime not to lay their mains in contact with the main
or service pipes of the Chartered Company, and not to prose-
cute any works in such manner as to interfere with or im-
pede the works of the latter.

FOREIGN CATTLE.—The extraordinary increase
which has taken place in the supplies of foreign cattle dur-
ing the last two or three weeks from the continent, may be
ascribed (although the arrivals from the Dutch ports during
the time have also been of a much more than ordinarily ex-
tensive character) to the importations of horned cattle from
the Hanseatic and also the Danish parts, which have, espe-
cially from the former, recommenced to a very large and im-
portant extent. Four or five arrivals of the kind have taken
place in each week from Bremen and Tonningen respectively,
each comprising as many as 200 head of oxen and cows, and,
in several instances, have also brought a quantity of the
smaller description of live stock, which has not been usual
from either of those states, and are therefore a feature of
interest.

RIVER, LEA.—STEAM COMMUNICATION.-At meet-
ings recently hell by the inhabitants of Hertford, resolu-
tions were passed, recommending the carrying out of a plan
of steam communication with the metropolis on the river
Lea. It is proposed to build small Steamers suitably to canal
navigation and traffic.

COBDEN ON CRICKET.-Mr. Cobden has written
the following reply to a request that he would become patrone
of a cricket club in the West Riding :—" Midhurst, Sussex,
sth Sept.. 1850. Sir,—l have no hesitation in allowing my'
name to be used as one of the patrons of the Wakefield
Mechanics' Institution Cricket Club. It is a game with
which I have been familiar from my childhood, it being
universally played in this part of the kingdom. It is still a
question, I believe, whether cricket had its origin in Sussex
or Hampshire, but I remember that upwards of forty years
ago every village in these counties had its cricket ground.
Since that time it has spread throughout the north of Eng-
land, and even into Scotland. It is a healthful, manly re-
creation, and if the game be played under judicious rules,
such as you have adopted, it is, in my opinion, the most
innocent of all out-of-door amusements. Wishing your club
good luck -in other words, dry Tuesdays and Saturdays, I
am, sir, your obedient servant, P.tonAnn COBDEN."

MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE. - On Wednesday
evening the body of a man was found on Dartmoor, near
Merivale, about five miles from Tavistock •, and from a
variety of circumstances it is generally believed that he came
to his death by violent means. His forehead was smashed,
in addition to other injuries. Some money was found in his
pocket, and some lying on the ground ; it is therefore ima-
gined—as the body was warm when it was discovered—that
the person or persons were alarmed in the midst of their
murderous intentions, and were obliged to fly before they
had time to rob their victim. Tho deceased was recognized
as a labourer in the neighbourhood.— Western Luminary.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.

The Moniteur has the following announcement

" The Minister of War gives the most formal contra-
diction to the assertion of the Times relative to pur-
chases of horses said to be effected in England fur our
cavalry. No agent has been charged by him to purchase
horses in England. All the details in the Times are
completely inexact. The French breeders may rely
sufficiently on the just encouragement of the Govern-
ment to refuse credence to reports which have no other
object than to create agitation in the country."
The Ordre, the organ of the Odilon-Barrot section
of Orleanists, has the following on the present state
of France :

" Fears have been long entertained for the continu-
ance of the peace of Europe and of the tranquillity of
France. These feelings begin to wear off. Abroad,
Russia has recalled her armies from Hungary; Prussia
and Austria, occupied with their own affairs, think no
longer of us; Switzerland has removed all pretext
for any intervention in our neighbourhood;
and Greece, our protegee, has obtained the satisfac-
don which we demanded for her. These are facts
calculated to tranquillize us as to the maintenance of
European peace. If the events which have just occurred
in the state of Hesse Cassel arc at this moment a sub-
ject of consideration, it is sot at least to the people that
they are owing, and it is not probable that the madness
of an obstinate petty prince can lead to any great com-
plications in general affairs. At home, events are not
less tranquillizing; the Socialist party, conscious of its
weakness, has renounced the idea of attacks by brute
force; the Legitimatist party confines itself to political
interviews, and the Orleanists are now less than
ever disposed to noisy manifestation. It is evident
that with us the public mind is calming down, and
that if the faction which covers itself with the
name of Napoleon would renounce their provocative
turbulence, confidence already half restored, would
become more and more strengthened. To the indac-
dons drawn from facts, may be added those derived
from considerations of interest. Never did agriculture,
manufactures, the bank, and shipping interest cry for
peace, repose, and stability, with a stronger and more
unanimous voice, because their labours have never been
more enlightened or more connectel together. There
is not at present any state that has not a part of its
capital engaged in neighbouring states, and in no one is
there a branch of industry that would not be benefited by
he prosperity of others. Thus, for instance, the invest-
ments in railways have all the same interest in view, be-
cause all the lines are connected together and complete
each other; all the speculations on lines and steam-
packets which unite the different quarters of the globe
ire jointly interested ; there is not in fact one
interest, the prosperity of which does not affect others;
(here is between them a kind of electric fluid, which
establishes and keeps up a constant communication. On
the other hand, national animosities are becoming gra-
dually extinct, thanks to the relations which commerce,
curiosity, a taste for instruction, and facility of commu-
nication have so prodigiously increased. War is besides
no longer, as formerly, at the will of Governments.
Instead of having to consult only dynastic ambitions,
Court caprice, and personal views, they have to
take counsel from the nations themselves, without the
consent of whom they can no longer have armies,
or money. This is more particularly true with
regard to our Government, to whom military fancies
are as evidently interdicted as it was to our fathers
to complain of the Russian campaign. If, then,
we have litt:e to fear of foreigners disturbing our tran-
quillity, we have also some right to rely on ourselves,
~nd that having Leen instructed by misfortune, and en-
lightened by refl2xion, as may sovereignly dispose of
cur fate, without shock and without conflict. In the
meantime wisdom compels us to confide in the majority
of the Assembly which represents us. That majority
ha 3 neglected nothing calculated to tranquillize the
public mind. By its financial laws it has reassured ma-
erial interests, gives fresh life to lehour, and thus pro-
vided for the first wants of the working classes. By its
firmness and its moderation it has prevented faults and
restrained ambitions. There would be real ingratitude
and the greatest imprudence in not following it in that
path."
The Courrier du Havre says—

" M. Sentis, consuiat Pernambuco, arrived on the
15th at Havre, on his way to Paris. From letters we
have received, it appears that the facts stated by the
English journal aro nearly exact. However, it appears
that far from expressing regret to our consul, tho Pre-
sident, M. de Souza, Ramos, refused him any satis-
faction."

The French authorities having refused to permit
the English policeman, whe accompanied the Nepau-
lese Ambassador, to remain any longer in attendance
on him, his Excellency applied for the attendance of
a certain number of sergene de yille for his protec-
tion, as he had been informed that a plot was laid to
waylay and rob him of his jewels, while en route for
the theatre. The required guard was granted. his
Excellency had expressed a desire to be introduced to
LOLA MONTES, but she refused to receive him. _

' The Independence of Brussels has the following
from its Paris correspondent :
" In the news which I sent you yesterday on the
Orleans family—news, which as you know, came from a
perfectly well-informed source—l neglected to speak of
the candidateship to the Presidency of the Republic of
the Prince de Joinville. This candidateship is a fiction,
if it be not a cunning trick of the enemies of Orleanism.
But be assured it will not be generally credited.
Some simple•minde3 bourgeois have, however, been
caught by it. They considered it a solution, and as
solution finding is the fashionable monomania, they
were glad at not being behind other dreamers.
They must, however, abandon their illusion, for the
Prince refuses to allow himself to be brought for-
ward as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic.
This refusal has been given by him in the clearest and
most categorical terms. His friends have been directed
to spread this declaration. The Prince is of opinion
that he has no right to aspire to the Presidency. To
do so would, he thinks, be separating his cause from
that of his family, and that he will not do on any ac-
count. Why,' said he, 'do me individually an honour?
In virtue of what exception can an offer be made to me
which would not be made to my brothers, all of' whom
are my equals if not my superiors in merit? Hare I not
an elder brother, chief of the family by age, and would
be so, if necessary, by intelligence ? Have I not a
❑ephew, the heir of his father? And yet it is supposed
that I would permit myself to be isolated from, them!
Never! There is no candidate to the Francium), in
the Orleans family. All make only one—all r.re pos-
sessed of only one ambition—to be called together by
the voice of France to serve her together.' if these
be not the precise terms employed by the prince„ I be•
lieve that I can assure you that they are the exau't sense
of what ho said. Some journals have announced that
on the return of the President General Changgrnier
went to meet him. This is a mistake. The ( ieneral
left the Tuileries to go to the station, but was obliged to
return in consequence of some communications nude to
him. He charged a❑ aide-de-camp to present his excuses
to the President. This absence of the General astonished
the President. His face, ordinarily unmoved, could
not conceal an expression of surprise. The next morn-
ing the General went 'at an early hour to the Ely
but he was told that the President was not up. This
gave rise to commentaries, and it was said the General
had fallen into disgrace. The General hirnsc.l.f, it is
said, believed that he was out of favour. But h e only
smiled at that. Before, however, the morning had
passed away, a very friendly little note invited ti'le Go-
neral to call and have a chat with the President.. The
interview was a very friendly one. At present t2le two
personages are on the best terms. The Presider it will
shortly dine at the Tuileries. I say—will dine—the
compositors will please not put will sleep; we must not
go too fast? General d'Hautpoul, like the President, is
on the best terms with General Changarnier. Decidedly
it appears that they cannot quarrel with the core wander
of the army of Paris!"
A funeral service was celebrated at Aix-la-Chapelle
on the 12th inst. for the repose of the soul of the late
King Louis PHILIPPE. The service had been ordered
by a Polish family out of gratitude to the d sensed
Monarch. Amongst the persons present was the
Duke of ALDIIFERA.

PARIS BOURSE, SEPT. 18.—Latest Prices— Tive
per Cents., 93f. 70c.; Three per Cents., 58C. 15e.;
Bank of rance, 2,315 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SErr. 18.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7 i ex div.—Central of France
(Orleans and Vierzon), 14—Namur and Liege, 7—Orleans
and Bordeaux, 27—Paris and Rouen, 24%—Rowan and
Havre, 101;3—Sambre and Meuse, 2%.