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London, England, 1844-10-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1844.

The spirit which prevails in the Opposition journals
of France at the present moment create alarm and
horror throughout the continent of Europe. No
event of a peaceful character pleases the writers in
these mischievous publications. They have little
regard for the interests of the human race; they set,
at defiance even the welfare, the happiness, and the
security of their own countrymen. While under the
reign of Louis PHILIPPE, France has increased in
power more than she did at any former period of the
same extent, while her commerce is more than three
times greater than it was under NAPOLEON, and the
best of the population, who in the days of glory were
marched off as prisoners to kill Germans and
Russiaris, are now employed in the arts of peace, the
madmen who conduct the Republican and Carlist
press would return to the old system of
revolution and conquest, and throw the world into
commotion, with the vain hope of destroying the
ORLEANS dynasty, and taking vengeance on the Eng-
lish. Everything English annoys this wild party—
English horses, English dogs, Englishmen, and Eng-
lishwomen, nay, the Sovereign of ENGLAND, are their
abomination. They are like men without reason, and
would rush to destruction blindfold. The friendly
visit of their SOVEREIGN to the Court at Windsor
Castle excites the most bitter and savage exclamations.
Now, we ask them, presuming they are honest men
and gallant Frenchmen, " Could LOUIS PHILIPPE
have done less ? " The Queen of ENGLAND, disre-
garding all the usual etiquette of crowned heads,
threw herself into the arms of France. She
paid the highest compliment to the nation,
trusting, of course, to their well-known honour
and gallantry, landed on their shores without
protection, and was received by all classes with the
most unbounded enthusiasm. Would M. TRIERS
wish his country, so celebrated throughout Europe
for civilisation, and, above all, for the highest degree
of politeness, refuse to return the compliment to a
young female,. and degrade " Young France" by an
absolute act or rudeness ? Would he make his SOVE-
RRIGN a prisoner—a prisoner, too, in a country which
M. TRIERS regards as a land of liberty and a model
for all nations—would he prevent his SOVEREIGN
from maintaining the old, the hospitable, and polite
character of the people, and compel him to forego his
own ardent wish to maintain the chivalry of France?
Is the bloody spirit of the Revolution returned ?
Are all the common decencies of life, all the proud
acquirements of civilised society, all the experience
)btaineci by long, and fatal, and horrible wars, to be i

cast to the winds for the purpose of keeping up
eternal hostility to a near neighbour I' Such is the
doctrine of this sage legislator and his colleagues.
Would it not be well, however, for these warlike men
to ask then.iselves seriously what they expect to gain
by inciting; France against England ? Can they de-
stroy our commerce or our colonies—can they destroy
the Englii;h navy or capture the island ? Can they
invade Ittndostan or blockade the Indus—have they
the slighl.est chance of coming off better now than
when NeroLLoN was Emperor ? But we fear it is
needless to ask them questions, or reason
with them. Their great object is war
ut any price, and if by the mysterious decrees of PRO-
vIDENcE their wishes were granted, France would be
reduced to the same condition in which it was in
1815, and every nation in Europe would probably be
an equal sufferer. In is the duty, therefore, of all
mankind to hold up these firebrands as the greatest ob-
stacles to civilisation and public liberty, to put them
out of the pale of society, and denounce them as the
enemies of the human race. Louis PHILIPPE knows
them well. He has set them at defiance. Notwith-
standing their malicious remonstrances, he has fol-
lowed out the bent of his own inclination ; fulfilled
the wishes of the great body of the French people ;
crossed the Channel for the first time a French Sove-
reig❑ ever crossed it in peace ; has been welcomed at
Portsmouth, and every place on his passage, with the
most enthusiastic acclamations; and is now enjoying
at Windsor the hospitality from a nation which M.
THIERS and his clique still regard as the natural
enemy of France.

The Irish journals are still full, as might be ex-
pected, of the subject of. Repeal, and some even of
those which advocate Tory, or rather Ministerial
opinions, candidly e.cknowledge the rapid progress
which the question. has recently made among men of
all parties. Mar'A the significant language of the
Drogheda Conservative !—" In proportion as the Pro-
testants become divided and disgusted with English
ingratitude, the cause of Repeal advances with giant
strides. For we must not in candour pass over the
marry respectable Protestants who have lately joined
the Association, nor overlook the number who
are Repealere in their hearts, and who are
only restrained from the avowal by fear
of the contempt of their party. Every
man of judgment must be aware that a change of
things is inevitable ; we cann,r4 return to the policy of
former years, neither can we remain stationary, for
the people are endowe.d with a power which they
seem determined to use to the utmost. A change,
then, being inevitabix, it becomes the bounden duty of
all to consider ho w such can be brought about with
the least possible injury. Repeal would create Romish
ascendancy—Federalism lead to dissension, and ulti-
mately to Repeal—therefore the assembly of the Bri-
tish Parliament in Ireland every three years is the
safest and surest remedy for the evils with which we are
threatened." The language of the above passage is
of snore than ordinary import, when we consider the
quarter whence it emanates. Conceive a "Tory journal
—and Toryism is nowhere so obstinate, bigoted,
and immitigable as in Ireland—deliberately con-
fessing that the policy of former years can no longer
be maintained, and that a change is inevitable ! Why,
this is virtually surrendering the first great principle
of Irish Toryism—an abhorrence of innovation ! It
is not only giving up the outer line of ramparts, but
the very citadel itself into the hands of
the enemy ! If change be " inevitable,"
away goes the long-cherished Tory theory
of political immutability, and the entire
fabric falls with a stunning crash to the ground. But
ten—nay, but five short years ago—who would have
believed that a journal like the Drogheda Conserva-
tive would have openly acknowledged the defeat of it,
party, and that the policy which it had pursued with
inflexible consistency for the best part of half a cen-
tury, could no longer be persisted in ? Having once
been brought to confess their humiliation and admit
the sad necessity of change, the Irish Tories will
henceforth be far from stiff or unyielding in their
convictions; and we should not be at all surprised,
were they—under the combined influence of
disgust and despair—to become just as zealous
innovators as they once were the reverse.
Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute. It
is the first step only that is the great difficulty.
When once that has been taken, and the deep-rooted
prejudice's of years surrendered, a rapid progress fol-
lows almost as a matter of course. CESAR never
halted after he had passed the Rubicon. It was on
its banks he paused, hesitating whether or not to cross
it. In admitting that change is inevitable, the Tories
have already crossed the Rubicon, and as to go back
is impossible, and to halt where they now are, is only
to cover themselves with ridicule, and exhibit their
weakness in the most pitiable light, who can doubt
that they will press fiercely onward ? We quite
agree with our Drogheda Contemporary that " Fede-
ralism would lead ultimately to Repeal"—and will
even go further, and state our firm conviction, that
Repeal would not merely be the ultimate, but that it
would be the immediate consequence of such a tame,
shilly-shally, inefficient measure. A Federal Parlia-
ment would not have been three months in existence,
before the excited masses of the Irish population,
finding that it could do little or nothing, where in
the wildness of their hopes they had expected
it would do everything, would regard it with feelings
of the most sovereign contempt, and clamour more
vehemently than ever for a Repeal of the Union—that
is to say, for a dismemberment of the empire, for the
two things are synonimous. As respects the project
of a triennial Parliament in Dublin, of which the
Drogheda Conservative approves, our objection to
this scheme is not so much that it is dangerous, as that
it is impractable. The Court—the Law—the Aris
tocracy—and all that vast body of traders who live by
ministering to the fashionable tastes of the day—all these
must of necessity follow in the train of the Parliament ;
and once in every three years, London must consent
to become a second-rate metropolis, and see her su-
premacy transferred to Dublin. But the inconveni-
ence of the project would not stop here. As a matter
of course, Scotland would insist—why should she
not ?—on a Parliament being held every three years
in Edinburgh ; and seeing how successful agitation
had been in Ireland, she would begin to play the same
game• on her own account, and thus we should have
the national jealousies which have been laid aside for
years revived with all their ancient acrimony.

The Madrid Gazette, of the 30th ult., announces
an interview on the 23d between the QUEEN and a
deputation from the province of Guipuzcoa. Don
PEDRO DR ARANA thus addressed her MAJESTY :

" Madam,—Circumstances, independent of my will,
have hitherto prevented my expressing to you the feel-
ings of respect and profound gratitude which the foral
deputation of your very faithful province of Guipuzcoa,
re-established by your royal decree of the 4th of July
last, commissioned me, on the 26th of the same month,
to convey to your Majesty. This deputation, Madam,
is the same that governed the country in the fatal month
of October, 1841. Faithful to your Majesty and to your
august mother, it nobly fell with the generous men who,
at that memorable and unfortunate period attempted,
more bravely than successfully, to save the precious
object which the nation later reconquered. With that
deputation also fell the ancient and liberal institutions
of the Basque provinces—patterns of the wisdom of past
times, and monuments of government and administra-
tion which might afford instruction to modern times.
On commencing the work of restoration, your Majesty
has given us to understand that, as a just and religious
Sovereign, you respect tho sanction of the legislative
power, and that your noble heart will not forget the
sacrifices made in your cause and that of the country.
We therefore beg your Majesty to accept our sincerest
thanks for this act of justice—the prelude, no doubt, to
other acts more important still. May your Majesty be
assured that„ the foral deputation of Guipuzcoa will never
forget such a blessing."
The QuiszN replied—

"It is extremely agreeable to me to hear from thy
mouth the homage done me by the foral deputation of
our most faithful provinces of Guipuzcoa. I am Rot
ignorant of the exalted deeds whereby they have ac-
quired claims to my gratitude in times unfortunate to
the monarchy, and the share they had in those ever
memorable events. I thank you for your loyalty, which
has never belied itself. I hope I shall be able to acknow-
ledge it by labouring for your happiness."
It was generally believed that the Marquis DB
MIRATLORES would be President of the Senate.

Madrid Bourse on the 30th.—Three per Cents.,
for cash, 27 15-16; for account, 28 ; Five per Cents.,
for cash, 20i- ; for account, 21.

The King of the FREIS'II) on his arrival at the
Chateau d'Eu, granted an amnesty to fifty State pri-
soners, confined chiefly for political offences. The
fact is thus announced in th, Journal des Debats
" The KING, :n corarneqnoration of the late events in
Morocco, has just signed at the Chateau d'Eu an
ordonnance, granting full and entire pardon to fifty

political prisoners. The royal clemency is extended
to two classes—first, to all the individuals whose term
of imprisonment would expire in the year 1847, or
before that period ; and, second, to a certain number
of individuals condemned to punishments much lon-
ger, some of them extending to twenty years, and
even to transportation." Neither this, however, nor
any act of grace on the part of his MAJESTY, will re-
concile the Opposition press to Louis PHILIPPE, or
make them pardon him for daring to cross the Chan-
nel and visit the young Queen of ENGLAND. M.
TRIERS'S journal is more furious than ever on the
subject. If the two countries were on the eve of a
bloody war, more exciting language could not be used
' for stirring up the worst passions of the human breast.
" The voyage of the KING to England," says the
Constitutionnel, "undertaken at the present moment,
! has not the character of a simple exchange of politeness
with the Queen of ENGLAND ; and whatever care may
be taken to give to this visit an air of being purely
personal, public opinion in both countries will, with
reason, see in it an act of a political character. What
can the KING do in England at such a moment ? At
a time when, at the instigation of the English, brave
Frenchmen are having their throats cut without
benefit to their country ? How could the Ministry
have advised such a deplorable voyage ? Why have
they not rather laid hold of every plausible excuse
to postpone it ? If they had been a little more
jealous of the honour of France; if the Government
had a just sentiment of what becomes her dignity,
would they have gone to solicit in England an ap-
pearance of a good understanding, which no longer
exists ? When they shall have received some praises
in the English journals, some applause from the Eng-
lish public, some skilful flatteries from the Court of
England, they will return to France, mystified and
content. Our Ministerial journals will bo charged to
extol English hospitality, and to congratulate the two
countries on their union, and fresh sacrifices will be
made at Otaheite or elsewhere. Paltry vanity, and
profound weakness—a search after trifling suc-
cesses, and indifference to the true glory of the coun-
try, are the true character of our Government. It
abandons the honour and the interests of the country
to gratify itself with the insignificant ovations pre-
pared for it by our neighbours ; it has created a Duke-
dom of Isly, and at the same time abandons the fruits
of the victory. The Government desire to revive
the entente cordiale, and the English alliance is spoken
of! The state of public feeling in France cannot be
known to them. Let them go through the provinces
and interrogate, not our Opposition men, but those
who from calculation or from indifference give their
votes to Ministerial Deputies, and they will every-
where find a feeling of discontent and irritation
against the English Government. Nothing can be
less popular than this entente cordiale, which has pro-
duced for us nothing but embarrassment, humiliations,
and the disavowal of the acts of our brave officers:
After other similar phrases the article thus con.
eludes :

" The entente cordiale is then, as it is understood, a
vain word, and has never produced but sacrifices on one
side or other for small objects. The English Ministers
have created embarrassments for themselves, the French
Ministers have accept. d humiliation, the two nations are
discontented in different degrees. It was a forced mar-
riage. and is always on the
_point of being dissolved for
incompatibility of temper. What then is the King to do
in England ? To renew false appearances ? To simu-
late an alliance which our Ministers did not choose to
accept when it would have been glorious and profitable
to us, and of which they do not appear to be jealous but
when it humbles us ? to accept the plaudits of England
at the moment when the subjects of England are killing
the French at Otaheite ? The Ministry which recom-
mended this journey has seldom given the King advice
more improper or impolitic. Does M. Guizot think that
the Administration can never be sufficiently unpopular ?"

The Journal du Havre exhibits the same hostile

spirit :

" We are assured by a person connected with the
Chancery of the Legion of Honour, that the Grand Cor.
don of the Order founded by Napoleon, is to be conferred
by the King in person, before he quits Windsor, upon
the principal Ministers of Victoria ; among others
Robert Peel and Aberdetn. This will be in the way of
return fur the Garter, which is to be conferred on the
King. This resolution, which has been adopted in a
high quarter, has excited a clamour even among those
who are accustomed to what is passing. They asked
whether the prejudices of the people would not be roused
on bearing of such a piece of news ? M. Guizot replied
that he answered for everything, and that before the
country and Chambers, one must savoir tout oser."

The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 3d instant,
states that the Duke D'AustAs.s arrived at Bona on
the 18th of September, on his way to France. The
Prince was met by the Mayor of the town, and in re-
ply to an address said—
" I am very grateful to you for the flattering senti-
ments you express towards me and my family. The
King has long demonstrated the lively interest he takes
in the future welfare of Algeria ' • he proved it by
actions as well as words, and will be happy to hear that
his intentions are so well appreciated. Called by his
will to the command of this noble province, I have en-
deavoured to study all its wants. Those of the district
and town of Bona are well known to me, and you may
rest persuaded that your interests will not have a more
zealous udvocate than me."

The Moniteur contains a long list of promotions and
decorations bestowed on several of the officers engaged
in the battle of Isly. General BEDEAU had been pro-
moted to the rank of Lieutenant-General, and
Colonels Ds LA Tom; Du PIN, and CAVAIGNAC to
that of Majors-General.
The French Funds adranced on Sunday. At
TORTOKI'S a good deal of business was done, and the
Three per Cents. were quoted at 82f.

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