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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, tf444

ls'eueeten is one of those men who with zsal,
energy, and perseverance, backed by good intentions,
make no way in public life, but decline rather than
rise in the estimation of the community at large, and
this in exact proportion to the efforts they make to
be useful. The reason of this ill-success on the part
of the Hon. Member for Knaresborough, is, we think,
sufficiently obvious. He has spirit, but not judg-
ment—ability, but not an atom of discretion—in
tact, he has every sense but common sense. In every
thing he says—in every question he takes up—he is
ever in extremes. Moderation and prudence of lan
gunge he scouts with contempt, as matters beneath
his consideration, and seems to think that the true
secret of eloquence—the art of making an im•
pression • on the public mind consists in
hyperbole and virulent declamation. The con-
sequence of this mistaken notion is, that
Mr. FRIMAND'S speeches, whether within or without
the wails of Parliament, though they may startle fur
the moment, produce nut the slightest permanent
effect ; and after the first surprise is over, no one
thinks it worth his while to burden his memory with
the arguments, the sentiments, or the overcharged
statements, contained in them. The Hon. Gentle-
man, we see, has been recently edifying his Knares •
borough constituents with his opinions de omnibus
rebus, et quibusdani aliis, and in the course of the
fervid and incoherent harangue which he threw off
to them, after abusing all parties with nearly equal
beartine,s, he assured them that it was his firm
persuasion that " England had become a nation
of humbugs." Now, has Mr. }'ERRAND, who
talks thus glibely about humbugs, no recol-
lection of having published a letter in the papers,
wherein he 'stated, in no very equivocal terms, that
he owed his return to Parliament in a great degree
to the bribery that had been practised among his con-
stituents ? Our memory, we think, does not deceive
us in this matter ; we have an impression that we not
only read, but commented on the letter in question
at the time it appeared; and we now ask Mr. FER-
BAND how—after having penned such a conununica-
tion—he can have the face to come forward and launch
a wholesale charge of humbug against his country-
men, when he himself, on his own showing, stands
convicted of having practised the art in its highest per-
fection at his last election. But this is not the only
instanee of rash, headstrong assertion contained in
the Hon. Member's address to his constituents at
Knaresborough. Speaking of the New Poor-law—
to some of whose provisions, by the bye, we fear no
greater good will result than he dues himself—he ob-
served :—" It is a remarkable coincidence, that since
this law was passed, England has never. known what
it is to rest in peace. The New Poor-law has sown
the seeds of rebellion. In the northern districts strife
and dissension have reared their bold fronts, while the
south has been wrapped in flames by the incendiary."
What a reckless statement is this. The insurrection
in the manufacturing counties, some two or
three years since, had nothing on earth to do with the
New Poor-law, but originated solely in the depressed
state of trade, and the general strike among the
operatives for higher wages. Ail regards incendiarism
Mr. FURILAND's remark is gutsily unfounded, for
this atrocious crime 'was first eknown in England, and
was most generally perpetratedinthe autumn and
svelter of the year 1830, at which pe\rNiod,h the New
P or-law was not in existent,
can be placed on a politician who
_can
maatkreelisnce
as
tions like these with such an. utter disregu.rasero-f
dr,4l,lrtq I With the Holnuralli 1/ember's quarrel

with Sir JAMES GRAHAM we do not interpose
—for the Right Honourable Baronet is no fa-
vourite of ours, and we have not the slightest in-
clination to fight his battles but when Mr. FERNAND
says of Sir ROBERT PEEL, "he will not hesitate, if
you keep him in office, to sacrifice the religion which
he professes; and I know full well that there is not
a Protestant in England but believes that he is
stealthily and furtively aiming a deadly blow at the
Protestant religion in Ireland," we must enter our
protest against his statement as a most unfounded
calumny. To break up the monopoly of the Dublin
University, and put education on a more rational
footing throughout Ireland, is not ti) destroy the Pro-
testant religion of that country, but on the contrary,
to strengthen its foundations, and increa'e its effi-
eiency. Though no very impassioned admirers of the
Pr&mier, we deem it to be doing him no more than
ustice to say, that there is not a public man in the
empire, not even the Bishops, who is more desirous to
maintain inviolate the interests of Protestantism than
Sir R. PEEL.

The Times of yesterday published a leading
article, the text of which was supplied by the me-
morial of Mr. FRANCIS HEALY, one of the many
Victims (for many, we fear, there have been) of the
bad organisation, the bad management, and, worst
of all, the bad faith of the New Zealand Company.
We have recently animadverted on the defects of that
body's original constitution, and the wavering and
inconsistent relations at different periods subsisting
between it and the British Colonial Department; on
the exorbitancy and favouritism of the powers and
grants virtually conceded to this incorporated body ;
on the fearful responsibility accruing to the officer
exercising the authority of Government in the
colony, by reason of the virtually withholding of all
protection to those under his jurisdiction, and his
deportment subsequent to the massacre at Wairau.
Another Contemporary, the Morning Advertiser,
having 'devoted its columns to the exposure of the
wrongs and the spoliation sustained by numerous
complainants who had themselves, or were the re-
presentatives of those who had, invested money in
the New Zealand Company's scheme, on the faith of
promises and contracts which it has never since ful-
filled or redeemed, we shall not at present enter into
the particulars of the disgraceful charges so seriously
implicating the Direction of the Company at home,

and its vents abroad. But we observe in the Times
th following passage, which, as applicable to Etni-

gration Companies in general, seems to call for some
remark :—" To imagine that an Emigration Com-
pany is to be trusted on the point, of all others in
the world, of a bargain and sale of land! Why, for
what other object is an Emigration Company f
at all—if not for this of getting rid of supposed

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landed estates to would-be emigrants ?"
Perhaps the Times does not care for any distinc-
tion which may be taken between "Land Companies,"
properly so called, and " Emigration Companies,"
under which designation it attacks the New Zealand
Company. But we must observe, that if Land Com-
rinies are to be classed in the same category with
those Emigration Companies of which the New
Zealand concern is to be taken as a type, great in-

justice will be committed by the assumption of an
equality of mismanagement, to say nothing of the
much- graver question of moral delinquency. The
" Canada," or the " North American" Land Com-
pany, for example, has not, we apprehend, rendered
itself obnoxious to such a comparison.: It has not,
that we are aware of, been challenged by any Mr.
14.ALy with taking the money of a " would-be emi-
grant," as the Times calls him, or lands: Which he
cannot procure after going out to locate himself upon
them ; which either: were never in the possession of
the parties who have ostensibly sold them to him, or
Which, if so possessed by them, these pmrties have
either never been in a condition to transfer, or have
wilfully abstained from executing a legitimate title
to, for the benefit of the purChaser. We know of
cases in which blocks of land, some of very con-
shlerable, some of smaller dimensions, have been
purchased, transferred, and occupied in Eastern and
in Western Canada, with as much good faith and
prompt dealing as any transactions of the sort could
have-been conducted with in England. In short, it
is-neither reasonable nor consistent with facts to infer,
from the assumed misconduct of the New Zealand
speculation, that no Emigration Company is to be
" trusted in a bargain and sale of land ;" or to say
that it exists for no conceivable object, if not for
that "of getting rid of supposed landed estates." For

our ow•n parts, we entertain a strong and conscientious

impression that, for a country like ours, with all the
existing exigencies of its -social and moral condition,
to neglect the duty of maturing a sound, eiten.sive,
an.l permanent system of emigration, under well-
digested guarantees of encouragement and protec-
tion on the part of the Imperial Government and its
collnial officers, is to repudiate the magnificent career
which PROVIDENCE has opened to us and to our pos-

terity in another hemisphere, and under other sides.
The primary condition on which we hold our almost
unbounded colonial dominion we conceive to he to re-
lieve,.at present, the pressure of our native redundant
population and surplus industry and unoccupied en-
terprise .to those transmarine possessions, of every
variety of climate, soil, and produce, which open
exhaustless fields fur their settlement and - improve-
ment ; and by the process of gradual and beneficent
development, finally to establish in these wild and
h;:lf-reclaimed regions, and among their now semi-
barbarous people, the arts, the sciences, the religion,
the institutions, the commerce, the genius,- and re-
finement of the old country, from whence it _ will be
their pride hereafter to date.the era of their improve-
ment and their greatness. With these views and
opinions we cordially concur in the concluding sen-
timent of the article from which we have already
quoted. " The more" (writes our Contemporary)
" public attention becomes fixed on our modern
int.thods of colonisation, the more remarkable will be
found our inferiority, on this point, to the heathen
nations of old." Undoubtedly. May we add an ex-
pression .of regret that the writer does not lend his
p )werful aid and influence towards the organisation
of some great emigration movement, which may
rival, in the extent of its application, the benevo-
lence of its objects, the wisdom of its details, the sa-
gacity of its management, and the liberality of its
superintendence and administration, those generous
efforts by which Phoenicia and Carthage,.. Egypt,
Greece, and Rome, hired their own redundant swarms
of native population in the most eligible localities for
their future establishment and prosperity, and thus
diffused their inventions, their learning, their his-
tory, their sciences, their civilisation, over the fairest,

but, in their time, least peopled countries of the
globe ?

Madrid journals of the 2d inst. have been received.
General PRIM had arrived at Cordova, on 'his way to
Cadiz, where he was to be shipped for the Marianne
Islands.• lie was in a very bad state of health, and
his mother had hastened to Madrid in order to peti-
tion the Que.Ex that her son might be sent to Cuba
or Porto Rico, in place of the Marianne Islands, the
climate of which, it is feared, would be fatal to him;
but the NARVALIZ Government cruelly prohibited an
interview. The eighth section of the Reform Bill,
relative to the minority of the Sovereign and the
Regency, was discussed on the 2d, and that clause
of it, which conferred the Regency on the nearest re-
lative was carried by a large majority.

The Three per Cents. closed at 30 for caah, and
341:q at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at '2l fur
cash, and 21i at 60 days.

The robberies and murders which have been com-
mitted in Paris and the suburbs for the last eight or
nine years, and the conviction of a gang of fifteen
which have long infested the metropolis, has at last
induced the Prefect of Police to adopt some measures
for the protection of the inhabitants. The first step,
says one of the journals, is to increase the patrols,
each of which is to consist of not fewer than three
men. This, however, will afford but a trifling relief,
for, from all accounts, never was there a race of
cOnstables, not even the old watchmen of London, so
utterly useless as the present guardians of the French
capital. In 1836 the band of felons just convicted
commenced their operations, and since that year a
vast number of crimes have been committed with im-
!- punit2,-, not one of them having been at all interrupted
in their course by the interference of the police. The
noise of the scuffles in the streets, says the Coy,iti-
, tuiionnel, the cries of the victims, have brought the
iniabitan.i3 to the windows, but they durst not
descend; yet the tumult caused by these- savage
a,:ailanta, and by
the desperate resistaLc9 tf their

unhappy victims taken unawares, never brought
to the scene of crime one patrol, one
constable, or a single individual of a body
formed for the protection' of the public.
Nay, more. After the robbery, the thieves Here
generally allowed to escape peaceably with their
booty. Only one had been caught, because he had.
not the sense to throw away the heavy load with
which he was encumbered. It appears theses nsale-*
factors were at last discovered, not by the police, but
by a leader of the gang, who betrayed his comrades.
This journal recommends a system of police like that in
existence here, but with still more authority and power.
It is surprising that in a city like Paris, and with a
Government so watchful and generally careful of the
public safety, scenes should have been allowed to con-
tinue which would disgrace Rome and Madrid. The
Journal des Debuts has another article on the election
of Mr. Potic to the Presidency, which it considers
unfavourable to order and the cordial union of the
northern and southern States. " This time," it says,
" the question was more clearly than ever a struggle
betsleen the north and the south—between the free
and the slaves states, which have opposite interests.
Of all the characteristics of this election, this is per-
haps the most annoying. In fine, this election, by the
very choice which it has made, appears not a fit one
to resolve the difficulties in which the States have
been places for the last eight years. For such a re-
sult, a firm and able hand like Mr. CLAY'S would
have been necessary. It has brought forward in re-
lief the tendencies which may become dangerous to
the repose of the States, and even for the maintenance
of the union. Ai to the great questions of the
custom-house tariff and Texas, there appears little
propability of their being soon settled. But the elec-
tion of Mr. POLK having opened the field to many
intrigues, and having set public affairs adrift, to be
acted upon by accidental causes, and passing unex-
pected influences, it is impossible to foretell with any
certainty what may occur in America (luring the
next four years in regard to the conduct of public
affairs."

A Toulouse paper called the Emancipation has
published a letter from Otahaite, describing in the
most violent language the conduct of the English
missionaries, to whom they attribute all the disturb-
ances in the island. The following extract is a speci-
men :

" It is now evident that it is solely to the perfidious
councils of some wicked men, who cannot relinquiila
their old instinct of internal hatred, that the present de-
plorable state of this country is due. These men cannot
see a regular and strong authority established in a coun-
try where they *ere nearly masters, and where their
iwrigues, Secimded by their influence over Queen Pu-
mare—a poor, spiritless woman, replete with vanity—
gave them a supremacy which they have not feared to
wake even Europeans often feel. They, therefore, had.
rather see the unfortunate Otaheitans perish by famine,
or decimated by our grape-shot, than see them escape
their yoke, and live quietly and happily under French
authority. Nothing is spared to deceive them, and keep
up their hostility to us ; the most absurd tales, and most
extravagant promises—everything, in short, is resorted
to for the purpose. Every day the insurgents ascend
the mountain, to discover the English fleet that is to ex-
terminate us."

The Natio-nal, as a matter of course, believes every
word of the latter, and thus attacks the Government
and the English

" The Emtincipution'e correspondent has still the good
nature to ask whether the French Government will de-
mand some reparation, of that of Great Britain ? We,
unfortunately, know, on this aide of the ocean, what is
to be expected. Instead of demanding reparation, we
have ►acrificed the men who had worthily upheld the
honour of France against the odious intrigues of Eng-
lam'. But how has the disavowal which has fallen on
those men •been received at Otaheite ? This the GO:
rerniuerit knows but takes care not to tell. It has re-
ceived dispatches, and, according to its custom, it keeps
them shut up in the navy department's cartons, or in
otter car tons which it is useb-es to name. The report
has, nevertheless, spread that the English frigate Cary's-
fort, which carried to Otitheite the disavowal of Admiral
Dupeiit Thouars, has been received by the French with
indignation. It even said that their emotion has been
so great that some artillerymen have threatened to fire
on the friendly ship which brought the news of the dig-.
avowal of the Admiral and :.of his being superseded.
The Ministry will, probably, not explain themselves re--
garding these rumours ; but the Chamber well know
how to force them to it, provided the Chamber have in
their heart a single drop of blood which runs in the veins
of our countrymen,. who are exposing their lives yonder
in defending our flag against the enemies of France."

The French Three per Cents. were quoted at.
TORTONI'S, on Sunday, at 84f.

PRIYT COUNCIL.--CONDUCT oP THZ GOVERNOR OT
GUIERNSET.—The Lords of the Priry Council sat yes-
terday, the Lord Chancellor presiding, to investigate
a petition 'from Guernsey, touching the conduct of
the Lieutenant-Gorernor of that island. Sir James
Graham and other Lords were present.
A number of equipages, belonging to the dif-
ferent members of the Royal Family, left town
at an early hour yesterday morning for Black-
heath, to join in the funeral procession of her
late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda.
The procession was appointed to leave the ranger's
house (the Princess's late residence) at one o'clock; to
proceed to -the Great Western Railway station at
Paddington. A special train was ordered to be in•
.readiness to convey the royal remains to Slough,
from whence a procession was formed to St. George's
Chapel, Windsor. :*

FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL.
Ilaussp,s, Dric. 6.—ln the night of the sth inst.
the mercury in the centigrade thermometer at the
Observatory, suspended three yards above the ground
in a north aspect, fell to 4 deg. Reaumur (23
Fahrenheit) below. zero. In December, 1843, the
greatest degre .of cold was only 2 deg. 2 min.
(1 deg. 8 min.-.Reaumur) below zero. The greatest
degree of cold since 1833 was in the night of the
16th Deceniber, 1840—viz., 12 deg. 9 min. (10 deg.
3 min. of Reaumur.)
BRUSSELS,. DEC. 7.—Last night the mercury in
the centigrade thermometer fell to 83- deg. Resumer
(16i- deg. Fahrenheit) below zero. Since sunrise a
strong north-east wind has increased Vie intensity of
the cold.
The navigation in the canals from Brussels to Ville •
brook and Charleroy is completely stopped, and also
the canal -of Louvain. • The ice is already several
inches thick. The rivers-Pyle and Senne are begin-
in freeze.
the arrival at Brussels, of Mr. Defrandis, is not
without importance. It has been long known that
Mr. Deffandii would be commissioned to stipulate
thr the interest of France,- in the commercial negotia-
tions that might be opened between the two coun-
tries. Thiastep, therefore, whether it has been taken
at the leave of our Cabinet, or spontaneously by the
Cabinet of the Tuileries; shows that notwithstanding
all that has been said, the treaty of the Ist of Sep-
tember has not canard any serious difference between
France and Belgium : M. Deffandis may easily con•
vince himself during his stay at Brussels that, on
concluding the treaty of Sept. 1, Belgium by no
means renounced its desire to form a close commercial
connexion with France as far as the interests even
of France itself permitted.
HANOVER, DEC. 2.—His Majesty the King, ac-
companied by Prince William of Sohns-Braunfels,
set out at eleven o'clock this morniag by a special
train, to join a hunting party of the King of Pr ssia
at Quedlinburg. •
The Earl of Westmoreland, who, with his family,
has been here some days on a visit to the King, and
lodged in the royal palace, has now left us.
ST. PETEISIIURGU, NOV. 26.—8 y an Imperial
ukase directed to the Minister of Finance, the Em-
peror, considering the expenses necessary in 1845
for the construction of the railroad between Peters
burgh and Moscow, orders that a loan of twelve
millions of silver
.roubles shall be opened abroad,
on the same basis as that of the third Four per
Cent. Loan. The inscription of 500 silver
roubles each are to be divided in 184 equal sections
and to bear interest from the Ist of August this year.,
The repayment commences in August, 1846, The
capital destined for this purpose is, in the year 1846,
125,000 roubles; and in the following year, 300,000
silver roubles, in 21 per cent. of the nominal capital
of the loan.; The realisation of the loan is entrusted'
to Baron Stieglitz, in Petersburgh.
HAMBURGIii DEC. 6.—The mercury in the ther-
mometer is now constantly below zero. The greatest
degree of cold we have yet had is 7 deg. below freez-
ing point (probably Fahrenheit).
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussExa, Vote. 3.
Actua Debt, 9% per Cent.,
....•
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent... ......».».,,.....
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent mu
-- Three per
Thirty-sevea Millar ns, ditto
(la4s) • ill
102
Loan of City; 1843; Four per Cent...-. ........... ICC
19,3' lO3
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cert —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent. •••
Issue of .....
—Brussels Papers. Dcc.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Dear.it
money.
Austrian 5 per Cents. - 1656
Bank Shares
Anglo-Russian Lean ll4
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate... 103 105
Inscription, lit series
Russian o per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series... ............... 99
Ditto in Certificates • •. Vg„ ~
Now 4 per Cent. (1540) ........ 9031
Dutch Actual Debt. 2% per Cent.
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Coat. • to
Vampish. NewS per Cents. .. . ..... l9k /9
Polish Bonds. . : ........ •••• •
New Ticket 5........... .... . ' ..... •
Exchange on London.
Hanalrugh, One Incnth •
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