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London, England, 1845-12-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1845.

The hostile feeling towards England, which animates
many of the writers in the French Opposition journals,
occasionally leads them into strange vagaries. In the
bitterness of their resentment for supposed injuries, and
in the overflowing of national prejudices directed against
their nearest neighbours, they confound right with
rong, forgot the very history of their own country,
and make assertions which the most common observer
sees at a glance tell infinitely more against France
than England. The National but the other day drew
up a fearful catalogue of the losses which Great
Britain had sustained in North America in 1782,
and the acquisitions made by the United States both
at that period and afterwards. Those are facts
known in history ; they are honourable to the Anglo-
Saxon character, and only show that the spirit which per-
vaded their ancestors was still cherished by the WASHING-
TONS, and JEFFERSONS, and Muamos, and that the Eng-
lish were compelled to yield to that spirit, not so much
from the power of the young and exhausted republic, as
from the sacred principles of justice and liberty, and the
cordial approbation which the noble deeds of these pa-
triots received from a vast proportion of the British
people. England lost her dominion over these pro-
vinces, but liberty was established--a fresh barrier
was raised against despotic and monarchical Go-
vernments her trade with the independent
States continued undisturbed, and on the whole
she gained infinitely more than she lost by the American
Revolution. It is singular, that in making statements
of this description, for the purpose of humiliating this
country and cheering on the Americans to pursue their
victories, the French writer should have utterly forgotten
the exhibitions which France has made in regard to her
colonies, her trade, and her commerce, since the middle
of the seventeenth century. No country in the world,
if wa except helpless and effete Spain, ruled by
women and priests, has suffered such colonial
losses as tho mighty kingdom of France ; and
one of these losses, the greatest of all, was
sustained, or rather promoted, by the idol
of the war party in France—the man who looked to
ships and colonies as the only substantial means for
conquering. England, or, at all events, of sharing with
her the dominion of the seas. The French kings
of the Ca PET race did a great deal in that
r.spect fcr France. They established colonies,
a/ lule of them of the most noble description.
Need we mention Pondicherry, and Lower Canada,
and Louisiana ? Never was there a more thriving set-
t!ement, nor one so likely to benefit France, as Penal-
c hery was about the year 1750. French settlers
were trading with the natives, commerce was
increasing daily, and the shipping and commerce
.)f France felt the beneficial consequences ; yet
all these were sacrificed, not from any love of
libert or an noble sentiment whatever, but from sheer le sudden rise in the Paris Stock and Share-market,
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misman thewh hoicwhtole of okplac
eon Thursday, continued throughout
ag ement and national a p ath y. Quebec and all its
dependencies were lost somewhat in the same way; but Friday, and on Saturday morning, prices
what are we to say of Louisiana ? It was settled,
appeared rather firm ; but towards two o'clock every-
thing gave way, and a heavy fall ensued, though prices
-we believe, under the reign of Lours XIV., and remained considerably better than they had been about
Promised fair to be one of the noblest
the middle of the week. The Three per Cents. rose to
colonies in the world. After many negotiations with
82f. 15c., on Saturday, and the Fives to 117 f. 15c., but
thpain, who claimed it as a portion of her the former closed at 87f. 70c., and the latter at
domain in the new world, it was finally ceded to France, f. 75c. Shares in several of the railways also
and handed over to NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, when First 116
fell considerably, but we hear of no serious fail-
Consul. What did he do 2 He imitated the profligate son
ures, and anticipate a more settled state of business.

Gross as have been many of Lord LYNDHURST'S pre-
vious jobs, we doubt whether his last is not his worst.
One of the Commissionerships of Lunacy, created by the
Act of last session, with a salary of 1,500/. a-year and a
retiring pension (all this emolument was argued to be
necessary in order to secure the services of first-rate
banisters), has been filled up by the appointment of a
Mr. CAMPBELL, who is a briefless barrister of some nine
years' standing on the Northern Circuit, and the expla-
nation of whose appointment is that he is a natural son
of a late Peer. We had hoped that the Reform Act had
done for the system of making the public pay for aristo-
cratic indiscretions by blows. We still hope that it has
found its last upholder in the present LORD CHAN-
CELLOR. There is only one word for this appointment,
and that word is disgraceful. Mr. CAMPBELL has been
jobbed into an appointment for which certain
members of the bar have strong claims—viz., those of
the former Metropolitan Commissioner s of Lunacy, who
were not included in the selection for the smaller num-
ber of Commissioners created by the Act of last session.
If none of these gentlemen were to have it, then many
distinguished members of the bar would have been glad
of it. It is an office much better paid than those of
police magistrates. or assistant poor-law commission-
ers, or inspectors of prisons;—and distinguished mem-
bers of the bar are candidates for all these offices.
When Lord JOHN RUSSELL said of the Lord Chan-
cellor, that he received the best pay and did the least
work of all the Ministers, we presume he did not in-
clude his job-work. Lord MELBOURNE had some time
before traced Lord LYNDRURST'S mode of using his
talents to a certain infernal personage ; but he beats his
supposed instructor hollow—
" When the Devil was sick,
The Devil a monk would be."

But in sickness, and at a time of life when sickness
might be supposed to occasion serious retrospection,
Lord LYNDHURST does not cease to job.

We have received Madrid journals of the 22d and 23d,
The election for Deputies to supply the places of mem-
bers appointed to Government offices was going on favour-
ably for the Government. At Cadiz, Valladolid, and several
other towns the Ministerial candidates were at the head
of the lists. This is extremely probable—indeed it is
beyond doubt. NARVAEZ has so arranged matters that
elections in Spain resemble very much county meetings
in England, as described by the Duke of WELLINGTON.
The Opposition, however, propose to make a show of
resistance Ivy nominating PACRECRO as a candidate for
the Presidency of the Cortes, but they may save them-
selves the trouble. On the 23d the Three per Cents.
were done at 35i at 60 days, and the Fives at 24i for the
tame period.
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