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Lord Aberdeen and Buren Thilevf4SY:fortner der*.
eating the elevation of the duties English iron
menaced by the Prussian Government. Benin Bu•
low's answer was more firm, though less ill-tempered,
than Lord Aberdeen's. The controversy ended by
Prussia carrying her threat into effect, despite of all
Lord Aberdeen's efforts to prevent it, and raising the
duty on iron. And this is not all, for we find by the
new treaty between the Zollverein and Belgium, that
the iron from the latter country, either raw or in
bars, will have to pay just one-half the duty imposed
upon English iron of the same kind. When some
one questioned, and was about to provoke discussion
in the House of Commons on the angry correspon-
dence between the Prussian and British Ministers,
Sir Robert Peel stood up, and declared that d:plo-
male communications between the countries' had
grown much more amicable. Are the proofs of this
amicability to be found in these differenial duties
upon iron ? We have very little faithin Lord Aber-
deen's capability of defending himself from his foes ;
but heaven defend us from his friendship and his
friends! for by these he is sure to be doubly mal.
treated.

LONDON, MONDAY » G S NI SEPTEMBER 9, 1844.

PRIOR sd.

POST.—The Repeal agitation has once more coms
menced in earnest. The final sentence pronounced
by Lords Denman, Campbell, and Cottenham, has
released O'Connell from prison, and added fuel to
that fierce fire of hatred against England which
,eerr.s to burn in the breasi-s of tens of thousands of
irish Romanists. O'Connell has already taken part
in two processions, and he has delivered, at least, one
speech in the old strain, and on the old subjects.
'the " Liberator" looks, moreover (as all accounts
agree in stating), sleek and lively. He wears a green
cap, as of old ; and, if we confine our attention merely
to the surface of things, a long series of triumphs
would seem to be opening upon him. In sober truth,
however, O'Connell's position is exceedingly critical.
It may be doubted, indeed, whether any man in
the Queen's dominions has deeper reason , than
O'Connell has to regret the zeal which has led his
good-natured friends, Lords Denman Campbell,
and Cottenham, to unbar the doors of his retreat
at Richmond Penitentiary. Imprisonment was to
O'Connell the most convenient thing in the world.
It saved him from the necessity of action at a time
when action might have led him to the scaffold. The
" monster meetings" were becoming quite as serious
to O'Connell as to Ministers. They were regarded
by the thousands who composed them as " precur-
sors" to that agreeable process by which Ireland WU
to be, according to promise, restored to the Irish-4
process, in other words, of massacre and confiscation.
The military virtues, however, do not belong to
O'Connell ; and it would little suit him to give prac-
tical application to the verse which he delights to quote,
and " wreak Erin's wrongs in battle line." A line of
battle is not, in short, the line in which O'Connell is
fitted to make a figure; yet his followers had, last
year, begun to ask whether the " monster meetings"
were destined to lead to no practical movement in the
way of an attempt to avenge " the wrongs of seven
centuries," as these wrongs are embodied in the
lying legends which the " Liberator" rehearsed for
the edification of his followers. The rehearsal of
such legends, and the fabrication of equally veracious
statements of his own, constituted, however the sum
of O'Connell's resources as an avenger of the wrongs
of Erin. To him, therefore, imprisonment, we re-
peat, was a Godsend. It restored him to his posi-
tion in the affections of those of his followers who had
begun to doubt his honesty and courage. It secured
to him a luxurious life for twelve months. It ensured
him an enormous revenue for a time ;—while the ne-
cessity imposed on him of " keeping the peace" for
two years after his liberation would have supplied
him with an excuse for keeping at a respectful dis-
tance from that " battle line" which the more enthu-
siastic of his followers would be only too happy to be
allowed to form. Things are changed now—and
O'Connell must, once more, commence a bourse of ac-
tion. He must, once more, devise means to amuse and
gull his followers. To do so will not be difficult
for six months to come. Dinners, fetes, process-
sions-rmasqueradings of different kinds, will occnoy a
portion of the Parliamentary recess. Still of the pro-
blem—how to " give Ireland to the Irish''—.a practi-
cal solution will, at no distant period, be demanded.
The Romanist peasantry are bent on driving the
" Saxon robbers" from the " Green Isle"—and they
will, doubtless, expect Mr. O'Connell to lead them on
in the glorious attempt. Mr. O'Connell, however,
entertains a not unnatural antipathy to the gallows—
nor does he love hot lead and cold steel. Richmond
Penitentiary, with its turbot and champagne, is more
to the Liberator's taste than the most beautiful field
that could be selected by the " finest pisintry" to
try conclusions on with Saxon soldiers. While,
however, it may be doubted whether O'Connell's
position has, in his own opinion at least, been
changed for the better, the condition of Ireland has,
in virtue of the sentence of the Whig law Lords,
been, assuredly, changed for the worse. The most
brutal passions of the most brutal portion of the
Irish peasantry have been called into more ferocious
activity by O'Connell's triumph over English law.
To them that triumph appears to involve an accession
of strength to the anti-Saxon party in Ireland. They
imagine that they are more near the advent of that
blessed period when Ireland shall, in very deed,
belong to the Irish—when a Protestant Church shall
no longer riot on Catholic endowments--when Pro-
testant judges shall no longer presume to repress
Romanist tendencies to robbery and murder—:when
Protestant landowners shall no longer presume to
exact rent from Romanist squatters on the soil.
Things cannot go on for ever as they have recently
gone on in Ireland. The policy of " conciliation"
will at last produce its natural fruits. Sooner or later
—under circumstances more or less favourable to
England—a struggle must commence for the dominion
of Ireland. Ireland must, in fact, be abandoned by
England, or Ireland must be reconquered. The re-
peal faction will, ere long, render necessary the adop-
tion of one or other of these alternatives. O'Connell
possesses now no power to avert this ultimate issue.

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MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
TIMES.—The delay in the arrival of thelndian mail is
much aggravated by the consideration that through the
want of a steam-boat at Alexandria., when the letters of
the 19th of July by the intermediate mail from Calcutta
arrived, the merchants are deprived of advices from that
part of India as late as they could have had by the Bom-
bay mail now hourly looked for. Of the cause and
remedy of this the annexed letter treats very Hilly :
" Se.
"It was generally known on Monday lapsttember that 7 the
Bentinck, bringing dates from Calcutta to the 19th of
July, arrived at Suez on the 17th of August, and that
the letters by her were hourly expected at Alexandria,
when the French steamer le Caire left that poit en the
20th ult:-

If either of her Majesty's steamers had been waiting
at Alexandria, these letters from Calcutta, Madras,
Ceylon, and very likely some important 'news from
China, might have been in London last Tuesday, and
answered this day, and thus a month would have been.
gained on them all.

" Perhaps your readers do not generally know that all
her Majesty's steamers which carry letters are under the
sole direction of the Admiralty, and therefore the evil
complained of in this instance does not rest with the
Post-office department, which is merely the executive.
but with the Admiralty, whose duty it is to have three
or four steamers always lying at Alexandria, to bring
on, arrive,
as it may casually any eastern intelligence
to Malta, whence it should be forthwith sent by another
steamer to Marseilles, where an English messenger
should be in charge of it to the Post-office in London.
Therefore it lies with the Admiralty only to remedy the
present defective arrangement at Alexandria,.
" When Mr. Waghorn, who projected the overland
route, was in Egypt, he attended to these matters ; and
some three or four years ago, when there was no Eng-
lish steamer at Alexandria, he induced the:Pacha to lend
him one of his own, and brought on the letters that had
arrived there to Malta, whence they were dispatchei vex
Marseilles to London. Why does not our numerous
officials in Egypt apply for similar favours ?
" All merchants in the Eastern trade have a right to
complain
written hoping that the Admiralty may take note of it,
and remedy of
the he
the late alteration of duty on marine
insurances, a correspondent says--
explained.".
says—
" Allow me to bring before the notice: of the stamp
laed.
Respecting ' -
athorities a great inconvenience which is felt by every
merchant and broker in the City. Previous to the late
alteration of duty on marine insurances, the rates were
tse
evil i n annoying
the way y delays,
pi and this letter is
is. 3d., 2s. Cd., and ss. per cent. ; so that insurances for
4001. at Is. 3d., 2001. at 2s. 6d., and 1001. at 15s. per
cent., would each require a ss. stamp. In consequence
of there being seven rates of duty now, instead of three,
and those not all bearing the same proportion to ea
other as formerly, it requires a greater variety of stamps
to meet the demand. In place of increasing, the stamp
authorities have diminished, the variety of their stock,
so that a large insurance can seldom be done now, with.
out putting it on two stamps, which, besides occasioning
great inconvenience, makes errors more liable to totcur.
Surely something might be done to remedy the evil,
either by increasing the variety of the stamps, or pro-
viding a machine to stamp the policy forms as wanted at
the policy-office, Prince's-street, Bank, insteadof obliging
us to send to that out-of the-way place, Somerset HOMO,
for any stamps that are not kept at the-former place."

ELECTION FOE THE OFFICE OF CHAMBEELAIN,...
On Saturday the election proceeded at a very. slow
pace. A few members of the Livery appeared in the
Hall, and at three o'clock the state of' the gross poll wsta
stated to be—for Brown, 1,826; for Heppel, 53. Mr.
Heppel having respectively addressed the Livery, the Hall
was formally adjourned by Mr. Potter, the secondary.
until this morning.
STETNING, SEPT. 6.—The harvest in this neigh.
bourhood may now be considered as closed. The wheats
have been housed in excellent condition, and piove one
of the finest crops, both as to quality and quantity, ev,r.
known. The barley and oats are not o good ; but far
better than was expected.—Briyhtmt
EXPORTATION OF MACHINERY. —The exportation
o lace machinery to France is again in operation,, The
exporti.rs allege that it is done to evade t e potent laws,
and that the National Institute of Paris levies a duty of
60 per cent., but if the machinery is upon a new prin-
ciple not known in France, the duty is only 15 per cent.,
as heretofore.—Nottingham Review.