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TELE SUN, LONDON, MONTIAY _EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1345.

mand of his Holiness the POPB, to desist
from such agitation for the future. In order to
render this rebuke mor! effectual, the Catholic pre-
latcs at their-last general meeting in Dublin unani-
mously resolved that they would use their influence
with the clergy in their respective dioceses to prevail
on them to forego all further agitation. Here, then,
is a strong blow levelled at the repeal crotchet,—the
most severe, in fact, that that measure has yet
sustained. Of course the majority of the Irish
Catholic ecclesiastics will take the emphatic warn-
ing sent them express from Rome, and thus
we shall have a vast amount of moral force
withdrawn from the side of repeal. Hitherto,
the priests have been among the most prominent and
successful agitators of that crazy measure, but hence-
forth they will perforce retire into the back-ground,
and Mr. O'Cornium. and the Repeal Association will
be left " alone in their glory." It is evident from
circumstances that hare recently transpired, that the
unity of action which has so long existed among the
Irish Catholics is well nigh gone, and that the more
intelligent among the upper and middle classes of
that party are about to separate altogether from
the more democratic and inflammable members.
When once this separation is fully accomplished—and
events are hastening it—Mr. O'CoNNELL's influence
over his countrymen will be diminished to no incon-
siderable extent; and as for repeal, the chances of
its success will be ten times more remote than ever.
We are not sorry for this ; for the agitation of such
an impracticable question for so many years succes-
sively, has cone infinite mischief to Ireland, by un-
settling men's minds—keeping one party in a constant
state of apprehension, and the other in as constant a
state of fretfulness and exacerbation.

We remark, in the columns of some of our Morn-
ing Contemporaries, some speculations, more plausi-
ble, perhaps, than probable, on the appropriation of his
surplus of public revenue which Sir ROBERT PEEL
will feel himself called upon to propose to Parliament.
'The " guess" which seems to Ise at once most dwelt
upon and mos t favoured is, that this surplus will be
devoted to the enlargement and increased manning of
her MAJESTY'S navy. Like all other sincere lovers of

peace, it is very probable that our hopes and wishes
warp our judgment. We may feel every confidence
in the permanency of our pacific relations with the
Continental Powers, and with France more espe-
cially, because their maintenance is the object of our
most profound solicitude. Nevertheless, it is impos-
sible to shut one's eyes altogether to the growing
strength and extreme virulence of that party in France,
so efficiently represented in the French Chambers,
which is unfriendly to the present able Sovereign of
the FRENCH, averse to his dynasty, and hostile to all
monarchical government in the abstract. It is im-
possible to be blind to the identification of that unfair
and rancorous opposition which is so unscrupulously
engaged in the attempt to overthrow the Administra-
tion of M. Gutzor with that bitter and ungenerous
hatred of England—that restless jealousy of British
power and grandeur, which seems to he the first doc-
trinal duty inculcated by the political credo of " La
Jenne France." Having these considerations in view,
we must own that the appropriation of the surplus of
revenue to the augmentation and reinforcement of our
naval strength appears to be an intelligible and very
expedient course. If to these grounds we add
others of equal significance and strength, and
tending to the same conclusion, such as the
unexplained activity and colossal preparations which
are said to animate every department of the
great naval yards and arsenals at Brest, Cherbourg,
and Toulon, we may fairly infer that the present is
one of those junctures at which the most certain
guarantee for peace is a condition well prepared for
war. If there really be, then, in the present posture
of affairs, a more than ordinary degree of danger that
the excitability of French feeling may precipitate its
Government, with how little soever of real justifica-
tion for se extreme a measure, into hostilities with
this country, we should not only support the appro-
priation of the Premier's surplus to a large surplus
establishment and armament for the navy, but be
content with the other, and we fear inevitable alter..
native, namely, the continuation of the property-tax,
until the exigency of which we speak had passed
away. Of course we assume, that to justify the pro-
longed existence of this last unconstitutional burden,
the case of facts to which we advert as alone compe-
tent to establish its necessity, will be established
beyond doubt, dispute, or suspicion.
In connexion with this subject, we may express our
strong hopes that the proper authorities will take
every care, and adopt every means, for the careful
enforcement of the provisions and enactments of the
new Act for the registration of merchant seamen.
She scheme of registration devised by that Act, and
(.be machinery for carrying it into execution, are
well calculated to provide and keep up a permanent
supply of experienced sailors, to conduct the infinite
operations of our commercial intercourse with all the
world, and to navigate our ships of war wherever the
service and the honour of their country require.

The Spanish Senate met on the 4th inst. to discuss
the Bill for the suppression of the slave trade, when
some opposition was made to it on the ground that
England, the great leader in the movement, had pri-
vate interests in view, and desired to ruin the Spanish
possessions in the Atlantic. The Minister for Foreign
Affairs said the progress of the age required the ex-
tinction of the traffic, and the Bill could not be dero-
gatory to Spain, as similar conventions had been
signed by other great powers. The principal clauses
of the Bill were then adopted without any amend-
ment or modification.

The Three per Cents. closed at 31f at 60 days ;
the Five per Cents. at 23k at 60 days ; the Float-
ing Debt at 77 for cash ; the Coupons at 26i at 60
days; and the Debt without Interest at 7i at 60 days.

We find no additional information in the Paris
papers on the state of parties, or the crisis which has
suddenly sprung up, threatening the existence of the
Gmzor Ministry. According to some reports the
KING had an interview with M. GUIZOT on Wed-
nesday, and afterwards sent for Count MOLE. Their
interview, it is said, related to a change of Ministry,
and a programme of the new dramatis persona was
presented by the ex• Minister to his MAJESTY, of
whom the leading characters are MOLE, BILLAULT,
VIVIEN, PASSY, and DUFAURE. What gives some
air of probability to the report is the circumstance
that TRIERS' name is not mentioned. He, of course,
will lie by for a time. It would be rather too abrupt
to yoke him and MOLE together at once, and a little

me and a little coquetting for the purpose of saving
appearances will therefore be necessary before
the coalition can be completed. One thing, how-
ever, is certain : GuizoT is in great danger, not
from his enemies, but his friends; and,:though he will
at last, to a certainty, make a gallant stand, and sur-
pass his opponents, both in argument and eloquence,
with the "chateau" against him, he" can only die
nobly. The Journal des Debats stands up for him
manfully. It is, indeed, almost the only paper that
he can depend on, and makes no secret of the fact
that an intrigue is in operation, conducted by men
who, in office, would maintain, to the full extent, his
political principles. There is, also, a significant
allusion to the real mover in this mysterious affair at
the conclusion of the following extract from that
j)urnal :—" What is the part the Opposition intends
ti take in the intrigue that is to form the policy about
t 4 be enacted ? There is no idea of changing the
play of the Government, or even of modifying it in
any serious degree. Better still ; the intrigue seems
to have but one fear—that it should be suspected of
being capable of not doing all that the present Mi-
nistry is doing. Listen to its programme. Not only
will it be Conservative, hut will be more so than
M. GUIZOT himself; not only will it be pacific, but
will; more effectually than M. GUIZOT can, insure
peace partout et toujours. It would not have endea-
voured to trick England in the Pacific ocean in order
to open new doors for our commerce. It takes little
account of those two or three petty islands which M.
GUIZOT has had the imprudence to place under the
protectorate of France. It accepts not from the
Chambers the mission of modifying the treaties on
the right of visit. If this question is wanted to be
settled, let the administration be given to the in-
trigue. The Chambers will then have nothing more
to desire ; the right of visit will then sink down again
into that happy state of oblivion in which it rested
for ten years. M. BILLAULT himself will not recol-
lect that the right of search ever existed. Whence
arises the insolent presumption of M. GUIZOT in
representinf himself as the only Minister for the

maintenance of peace and alliance with England ?
It is he, on the contrary, who compromises this
peace and alliance. The entente cordiale is not
tttacked ; it is a mere watchword or pretext;
it is M. GUIZOT who it is wished to assail.
Turn out M. GUIZOT, and the entente cordiale will
become a moist excellent thing, and a new Ministry
would have a thousand times greater facilities in satis-
fying England than the present Ministry can have.
In home affairs, in order to give a different bias to the
passions, should not something be conceded to them ?
Let the present Ministry be sacrificed to them; they
will be contented, and, for a time at least, they will
require nothing more. The dismissal of M. GUIZOT
will be worth a Parliamentary reform, or a'clefinition
of the attentat formerly promised by the Ministry of
March 1. M. THIERS has guaranteed the silence of
the left Centre if M. GUIZOT is turned out. Perhaps
the old Centre will not be so quiet ; but what
can it do when reduced to its own strength alone ?
It will be put off to the calends. The great
secret for not changing measures is to change
men. A new Ministry has so many advantages!
It adjourns—it refuses to give explanations—it
knows not the meaning of what is required of it. Is
it not just that time should be allowed for it to study
the questions put to it ? Can it be expected to form
decided plans before it has made itselfacquainted with
the state of affairs ? It will give its answers in the
next session. Add that a change of Ministry puts at
their ease many persons whom caprice, personal dis-
content, or an imprudent electoral promise have
thrown into the opposition, and who are kept there
against their own inclinations. A change of Mi-
nistry affords them an opportunity for this change of
sides. Do you know what would happen if M.
GUIZOT were to remain too long Minister ? Two
great parties would be formed in France as in Eng-
land and iAmerica, and in all countries where a re-
presentative Government is really brought into prac-
tice. The Opposition would end, perhaps, in being
good for something more than upsetting Cabinets ;
it might become capable of having a decided
policy, and of seeking seriously a triumph of its
ideas. This is what must be prevented at any
price, and :the means must, for want of better,
be by creating diversions with changes of Ca-
binets, without making any other change whatever."
The latter sentences plainly imply that the KING
himself fears both Ministry and Opposition ; that his
object is to play the one off against the other, to de-
stroy their authority with the nation, and deprive
both one and the other of the power of setting up
for themselves as arbiters of national policy. The
following are a few of the reasons urged by M.
THIIIIIBI paper for the ejection of M. GUIzoT :
" There is a curious balance-sheet to be made up, of
the various indemnities which, in consequence of the
Ministerial policy, France has to pay or receive. A com-
parison of both will suffice alone to enable the world to
appreciate the dignity, firmness, and cleverness of our
Ministers. France has to pay—an indemnity to the
English merchants for the blockade of Portendic—the
SUM figures in the supplementary credits ; an in-
demnity to her own agents, pillaged and ruined
by the Moors—this sum is also proposed ; an in-
demnity to the ex-Consul Pritchard the promise
is formal ; the expenses of the glory in Morocco—
the sum is submitted to the votes of the Chamber.
On her side, France has at least to receive—indemni-
ties, which the Dictator of Buenos Ayres has to pay to
French merchants unjustly despoiled, and to the rela-
tions of the victims slaughtered by his agents. The
complainants, have, however, been sent from La Plata to
Paris, and thence back again, and several, after three or
four months' useless endeavours, are neginning to lose
hope. The indemnity due to MM. Lemire by the Em-
peror of Moroceo, and recognised by him. M. Guizot
shamefully tricked the petitioners, for, before the war,
he told them to wait a more favourable moment ; after
the war, he promised to negotiate later. The indemnity
which England owes for the Marabout, towards which
her agents violated the text of the treaties on the right
of search. The affair has been these two years drag-
ging on, and England, condemned by a court of law,
pursues with perseverance an interminable suit. Who
would dare answer for the paynn nt of these items ? Is
it not, on the contrary, certain that, as long as M. Guizot
shalt be Minister, not one of them shall come in ?
France offended, and insulted even when victorious, pays,
and is not paid. Such are the financial results of M.
Guizot's diplomacy. Our honour and our money are
both compromised in the matter."
There are symptoms yet, however, in favour of the
Minister. The appointment of the Committee on the
Address he carried by large majorities, and he has
also carried another important point—the election of
M. HEBERT, his nominee, as reporter of the Address.
In all probability the Address will be as favourable
to the Minister as that presented to the Peers on Sa-
turday by Count Polurams. That is all that M.
GUIZOT could require, for it approves, in almost every
respect, his general line of policy. The following is
the draft of the Address to his MAJESTY'S speech;—
" Sire,—We have received with respect and gratitude
the expressions of your Majesty. Witnesses, like your-
self, of the internal prosperity of the State, we return
thanks to Providence which permits our national activity
to multiply on every point of the territory the precious
fruits of peace. We feel pleasure, Sire, in acknowledg-
ing with your Majesty that those blessings are due to
the wisdom of our laws, to their intelligent and faithful
execution, and to the progress of public opinion.
" Our confidence in the superior sagacity of the King
has not been disappointed, when complications deemed
worthy of the serious attention of the country, and of the
solicitude of your Majesty, manifested themselves at the
close of the last session. At the moment when it became
necessary to repel by force the hostile and repeated in-
cursions which disturbed the course of the pacifieation of
our African possessions, a clear-sighted policy directed
our arms, and, discerning the real object of the expedi-
tion, proportioned the means to the end. Thanks to the
bravery of our soldiers and of our seamen, thanks to the
skill of their chiefs, the war was but momentary. A
double victory promptly re-established on land and sea
the peace which had been interrupted. After having
given a proof of her power, France might demonstrate
her moderation.
" Sire, Algeria has been the glorious theatre where
three of your sons exhibited a zealous rivalry for the
service of their country. On board our ships, at the head
of our battalions, in the ranks of our warriors, they have
been seen to obey, to command, to govern, and ever to
give an example of that subordination acquired by com-
mand, and of that enlightened mode of command which
induces a love of obedience.
" Your Mesty assures us that the relations between
France and England have not been affected by discus-
sions which might have compromised them. We con-
gratulate you on it, Sire, well convinced that the Govern-
ment of your Majesty is persevering in its efforts to ar-
range in a manner conformable to the dignity and to the
interests of France the difficulties which might menace
peace in future. A good accord between the two States
is of importance to the repose of the world. The interests
of civilization and humanity are engaged in it. The high
degree of prosperity enjoyed by those two nations, who
have equal rights to the esteem of each other, depends
upon it. May a mutual spirit of equity ever preside
over their relations.
" In the visit paid by your Majesty to the Queen of
Great Britain, the reception which you experienced, the
spontaneous manifestations which took place everywhere
on your appearance, evince in an unequivocal manner the
sentiments of the British nation. Your presence at
Windsor, which is a signal testimony of the existence of
an intimate and mutual friendship, will not have been
sterile. It afforded the inhabitants of the two empires a
favourable opportunity of appreciating and understand-
ing each other.
" The continuation of the good understanding which
so fortunately prevails between France and the Foregn
Powers guarantees the duration of that general peace
under the aegis of which the conquests of industry and
of the arta increase every day the wealth and power of
nations.
" The assiduous care of your Majesty to perpetuate
those blessings has
placed our country abroad in a situa-
tion becoming its power and greatness. At home, the
development of industry, the free action of our Constitu-
tional institutions, the high state of public credit, a
marked progress in the welfare of all, are the happy
effects of a wise policy.
" Your Majesty announces to us that the balance is
persetassbedlis,hwill be a
edbetweegnrenotusrtep annual receipts and expendi-
tures. The realisation of a public wish, so often ex-
towards the improvement
of the general affairs of the State, and a powerful mo-
tive of security.
" We will examine, Sire, with anxious attention the
laws presented to us by your orders. The Bills relative
to various objects of public utility will be the subject
of our special study. It is the duty of the Chambers to
attend to the application of the salutary rules which
govern the administration of the public revenues and
credit, and to prevent the exhaustion of future resources.
"Sire, the blessings which Heaven bestows on your
Royal Family are felt throughout France as a public
benefit. She sees with joy the number of your children
increase, and thereby add to the consolation which God
reserves for you. She applauds that new union which
commits to a princess of your blood the happiness of
one of those princes whom she counts with pride, from
their tenderest years, among her defenders.
" Fourteen years of constant and generous devotion,
and of a firm and loyal co-operation, great works exe-
cuted, painful trials supported in common, have cemented
the intimate alliance of France with her King. That
alliance, contracted under such solemn auspices, con-
firmed by so many acts of a no less solemn nature, by
the adhesion so often repeated of an entire people, will
be continued in ages to come by your sons, the heirs of
your virtues, and, like you, devoted to the country ; and,
Frenchmen, after being free and happy under your long
reign, will not cease to bless your glorious memory under
that of your descendants."
TUE BOURSE--SaTuanay, JAN. 11.
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