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London, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

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FOTLEIGN.
The King of the French and the Royal family
were to take up their winter residence at the Tails-
ries on Wednesday.
Advices from Algiers to the Ist inst. have been M
ceived in Paris, but bring no news of General Bu-
geaud's expedition, in which the Duke d'Aunaale takes
a part.
It is currently stated that the disgrace of Lelievre,
the hero of Mazagran, is certain, and that he bad im-
posed on the Minister of War by gross exaggerations
of the defence of the place.
The celebrated Vestris, for many years known
throughout Europe as the first dancer at the Aeadassir
of Music, died at Paris on Monday, aged 83.
During the last month, the amount paid into the
Savings' Bank of Paris was 2,771,468 f. by 19,557
persons, of whom 2,513 were new depositors. The
amount of reimbursements was 2,216,000 f.
The new suspension-bridge which has been substi-
tuted for that called the Pont Rouge, uniting the Cite
with the Isle St. Louis, is so nearly finished tba,
it was submitted two days ago to the customary tria!
as to strength. The experiment was satisfactory, se.'
the bridge will be almost immediately opened. It is
made for foot passengers only.
A discharged convict named Lauban Was con.-
demned to death on the 26th ult. by the Court of As;
sizes for the Meurthe, held at Nancy, for two &tin'
crimes of murder androbbery.
At the Court of Assizes for the Eure, held at E"
reux, on the 3d inst., a man named Dangeul was ene"
demned to death for the murder, on April 19, at rt:
teaux, near Paris, ofa person named St. Omer, vibe'
he afterwards robbed; and also for an attempt to our:
der and rob on May 8, at Miserey, near Evreux, vi
woman named Deniot.
4.}.
A rich farmer, named Clavier, residing in„,.—e corn.
funds, was found, a few days back, the
mune of Ruffey (Jura), and who has 20°,' -1° in his
murdered
A convict, named Pascal, condemned
dwelling. ard la-
bour for life, lately escaped from the bag °f
to b . st.
Bre
in
The next day a custom-house officer on balf-PaY;ith
the commune of Lambezellac, was found
six wounds given by this desperado. that
The Leipsic Gazette publishes •a
rumour
-; to
partition of Turkey is already arranged ; Au
take Moldavia and Wallachia, the Duke of Leand
lantz Constantinople with Turkey in EuroPe, list
Russia to have Poland to the Bug. This jeurila
must be at a sad loss for rumours. pierced is

The Post OPlNlON.alluPduesiliranltchefollowm. gep tern".
to the recent speeches of the Members for Somerset i
—" We have again looked through the speechesh.ceh
the Conservative Members for Somerset, upon Iv larch
wweasCtoommfinendteadomyeesterday.
avowal The
seomobejehcitghof our sei
princiPleo;
duty
—some
hsdyaumst
Oa sea
vsoaminpae.triaoNiftviecectifiosnneadntteiment—some gener
eh
heartlessn°
Whig might not have spoken. There is reallYmr.
indication in the speeches of Mr. Acland end for
nortehminagrl'ihat
Dickinson, that they have an Y warmer feeling an
the people of the county which they represent used
a lecturer on some branch of science may be saPt)°,,,,' Ti
to have for bis auditory. Mr. Acland said much tiro
the subject of "improvement" mingled with allasie_,,
to his own merit in having " come so great a distancevnt
to attend the meeting at -Yeovil, but nothing ffarm,
—nothing kind or warm-hearted towards the s
ing people around him—does this gentleman 'Oro
to have uttered in any of his speeches. We imp let
the aristocracy and gentry of this kingdom not ,rhis
this be an example to them, but a warning' for
substitution of the character of the schoolmaster the
that of the kindly protector and friend is one of ill
that
should.
In an article on the subject of parochial and 11,1;
tional schools, the Chronicle observes :
Atternrof
to proselytise are a portion of the religious freecini%).,
this country which, in some degree, all sects °Lai
and to which the Church has incontestibly an,e3dif..
right. But children, the children of parents 0 n,g of
ferent religious body, are not legitimate objectexist
proselytism. Great differences of oPinic'n •ug
amongst the clergy as to the right of private matters
ment, and a consequent freedom of choice, on 1113:11 be
of religion, even in adults. About children there can
and
no question. To proselytise them is disingeowAlitionce
cruel. The endeavour is a gross abuse of the in' oter•
bestowed by station and professional choe'a 0
In the Church schools called National, 5° j'ircies
they are supported by subscriptions, and by legacies
-
or
_endowments of which the conditions are r„e5,45 as
baptism may,
tive, there is the right of as rigid an exclusiv.ce-c,"te of
the inspector pleases. The most formal certnie-,, be
ported by legacies and endowments, saP
required. With parochial schools; and those „lie,
if it seem good to the authoritie-,
..
of baptism becomes then an act •not reilate
tive, the case is different. To require a nit robs
right
the poor child of a right, of the most precious
e°.
Ni hich that child inherits—the right to inst.rucdEi.se,
It aims at enforcing a ceremony which sakes ' of
crated when only submitted to for the
unjustly
an advantage that would otherwise be .
pector,
withheld. There is plenty of work for an in,iiiidren,
of injustice.
in securing efficient instruction for the
00‘'kedness
without wandering into these by paths of er on well
and bigotry.' His duty is to see that whataestiosiness
in the national and parochial schools. • nting
has he with " reclaiming" the children in cirsaeil it
schools ? Nor can we deem the questions a' ro.•
dicious which relate to the training of children Poe
catechising in church during divine The PLI
perly belonging to the Establishment. .ce is PO
serVi the
very edifying exhibition. It tends to ialc_ed as s
children vain of their memories, and bold ;II;
treirl"
test of intellectual comprehension or rehe, attend'
ing, it is very worthless. Regular habits or,_,t why'
once on Sundays are, no doubt, desirable i,,1),"
trouble the infants about `fasts and festivals? , „rose
The Times says, with reference to the late4iieg,
cutions against one of the St. James's gliii s, 'd
houses :—" If gaming is, as Lord Abinger 63Y so
eCtS, ;f
pernicious vice, degrading in its moral eff
retnedio art of
prejudicial to the honest industry of the countl;--pt'it
Parliament has devised extraordinary
it down—why, then, any connivance on the
_Pt. this
Government at establishments for the practice
°volts
vice must be a flagrant breach of duty. G°er le; 9°
in this country do not connive at it On proci4)., bear
much is clear ; for, under every Government, _ their
of the police using, and being directed to use' for
ample power for the purpose of entering the of the
gaming-houses frequented by the lower ora, e,''itople:
people, and seizing and breaking up the tabrt:ong el
ments, money, &c., found in such houses, anatrate, fur
Persons detected in them before the Meg risciPl.e
punishment. Why is this done except upon theP But if
that gaming-houses ought to be suppressed ?
~.ciing
Government do this on the principle that g''',..roter
houses ought to be suppressed, what can be a Sneople•
insult to the moral and common sense of the r- one
who walks down St. James's-street? Elwell in
than the spectacle which presents itself to everyter that
street from Piccadilly, and the Palace of thei the Ole,
your front is surpassed in mag.n fi
Leence
,101.Y._t it is;
on your right hand. Do you inquire ii,r3 Queen 5
Every man in the metropolis, from the from
Prime Minister to the policeman on duty,
weeps the
the policeman on duty to the beggar winsfor
crossing, can tell you that it is, and 134'
WWI° hell'
d
years been, the principal and 'most "obienien "d
in London—the place where more
re ancient an.
mordeividuais fitted
legislators have been depraved,
honourable families ruined, more in
etrieyable cll5.-
to adorn high stations plunged into irr t within ule
honour and misery, than in any other spo
ourself 1111-
four seas. `Not to know this, argues you come We
known.' Proceed a little further, and y.; not el
another stately mansion, with a ' pervius taniivhir
any ' limen aectrque fores,' but o a large ant ;Caw
decorated doorway, with lamp-posts in the.la._ ig , hell
bitious style of cast-iron architecture. Tru:fouse,---
the second'—the' Junior St. James's Club it.
Lorj
the lord-trap of Mr. Bond. Here it is thm
.bn other
and i• - lir,
Cantalupe and Marquis Conyngham,
ht, the
gentlemen whose follies have been exposed. by i'
Smith, were victimised. Here, night after nig
__.,rto
hazard-table is spread, and the flies of fashion sv,"
into the bloodsucker's net." on the
The Advertiser has the following remarks
..„_.
atrocious murders lately committed in Tipperarf ,0
"The origin of the occurrences, again tracing
and
annals of Tipperary with a finger of blood, is bey ,11_,
all doubt in the nature of the'relations subsisting be,
tween landlord and tenant. The horrible murders
Mortimer,
not of party spirit, not of religious animosity,er;
not of any
•interference on the part of the Cons 1!.
Scully,andHaly, are manifestly the result,
inly and or'
ercise of the governing power; but. re _ _
tive authorities to foment popular hostdi—tv to the e,,1-agrarian
agrarian system, which places whole bodies f of
ice of a possessor I
rectly attributable to the malignant influden. ceso
_opt an
santry at them ercy and the c.apr
be racked for rent, °r
selfishness may dictate--to
t as the wants of extra
allnts of he he
be dealt with as
ruined by ejectment, jus
or'f the landlord, may suggest for actuating motalv,''__
(rant expenditure, or petty dissatisfaction on the pert.
To be superadded likewise to this is unquestiotn nI.Y_
the new Poor-law—a measure literally inciting. until',
very evils it was instituted under the professioonio'
the P
eminently foreign. to the temperament of ii,
being calculated to remedy—a measure not y_isir,
n t e
people, but an odious novelty even to the manY 11 to
of the general system already inflicted upo ~,,eb
—in fact, a measure involving a, principle Nv'''
no society aiming at progressively improving PPP°.