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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1842.

We quite agree with the Chairman of the Anti-Corn-
law Conference, and with several of its members who
spoke yesterday, that we ought no longer to inquire into
the consequences of the Corn-laws, but how to get rid
of them. Their disastrous and murderous effects are
written in the misery of the people. Nevertheless, the
landed aristocracy are resolved to retain them. They
hwve told the empire, by the mouth of Sir ROBERT
3)lhia.. that they will, in spite of justice and remon-
str"krraiststarving
The q stifling trade and the people.
is, what_ then, which men have to ask themselves
l'r• do to be saved from this great

iniquity ? That will test their souls, and, as they
answer it, so will they be free men, or the slaves of a
grim and blood-smeared idol, which the aristocracy
have invested with the benevolent and majestic attri-
butes of law, and call on them to worship.
It was well observed by Mr. COBDEN yesterday, that
the people did not require to use physical force when
they are unanimous. This is the plain consequence
of the fact that legislation derives all authority from
opinion. The aristocracy has no power to enslave us if
we are not willing to be slaves. Government can only
coerce the people by the power of the people. There is
no means, as Mr. BURKE long ago said, of drawing up an
indictment against a nation. If the great majority,
then, is determined that the aristocracy shall not plunder
us, by that determination the power of their grim idol
will be at an end. Let the people then be true to them-
selves. Let them declare against the bread-taxers. Let
them support the noble and courageous proceedings of
the Conference. Let them cast off their respect, amount-
ing almost to reverence, for those who brutally oppose
them. Let them in one word resolve to be free, and di?
power of their oppressors will be annihilated for ever.
We can give, we are happy to say, encouragement to
the Conference and hope to the people. We learn from
various quarters that intense indignation is felt by the
multitude against Sir ROBERT PEEL. He is looked on,
not only as an oppressor, but as a cheat. He has for
several months excited hopes that he meant to relieve
the national distress, which were much augmented by
his cunning trick of ousting the Duke of BUCKINGHAM
from his Cabinet. But now lie not only denies relief.
he mocks at the national sufferings, by asserting that
the law has not caused them. In proportion to their
hopes is the indignation of the people at the injury inflicted
on them, and at the miserable trick by which Sir RO-
BERT PEEL has hoped to beguile and delude them.
Such consequences may inspire the Conference with con-
fidence, while its present conduct proves that it is the
worthy organ of the high and noble resolves of 'the
people.
To prepare our readers for the great crisis which is
evidently approaching, when reason shall be brought into
violent conflict with the blind obedience which has hi-
therto been preached as a duty, we have occasionally
adverted to the absurd assertion of the Tories, that unless
everything called a law be obeyed, whatever crimes it
may ordain, society will fall to pieces. Society is not
held together by strife-begetting, demoralising, murder-
ous laws, such as it has pleased our selfish Tandlords to
make for the purpose of enriching themselves. Nor have
such barbarous enactments, rightly understood—though
the ceremonies have been gone through of crying out
" the Ayes" or " the Contents have it," and of reading a
little Norman French, by which the Ministers for the
time being give the nominal sanction of the SOVE-
REIGN to the Bill to which they have obtained the as-
sent of the two Houses—the proper and just authority
of law.

Mr. Justice BLACKSTONE says, that all human laws
derive their authority from the laws of nature, and that
no human laws, which are contrary to the laws of
nature, are of any force or validity whatever. Found-
ing on this high legal authority, we have no hesitation
in affirming that the Corn-law, which cuts off' the com-
merce between nations —that is, ordained by the AL-
MIGHTY, like the different climates soils, and natural
properties of different countries, from which it grows.
which plunders one class of the community to enrich
another, and which starves a great multitude of human
beings, violating the two express commands, " Thou
shalt not steal," and " Thou shalt not murder,"—found-
ing on the acknowledgedly high authority of Mr. Justice
BLACKSTONE, we unhesitatingly assert, that the Corn-
law, which violates both the revealed law of GOD and
the law of nature, is of no force or validity whatever.
It follows, as a necessary consequence, that it is wrong
in the people to obey such a scandalous embodiment of
immoral selfishness of the landowners. They have, by
their obstinate adherence to an unjust law, brought
man's moral duties and their enactment into conflict.
The energetic proceedings of the Conference yesterday
has made this important truth apparent, and will make
it necessary for the community to choose between obe-
dience to the moral law, or obedience to the aristocracy.
We rejoice to believe that the bulk of the people are
ashamed of their long submission, and they will over-
rule any decision of Parliament which goes to perpetuate
the Corn-laws.

If Mr. COBDEN may be relied on, and we trust and
believe he may, the Members of the House of Commons
will be told the truth on this subject during the ensuing
discussion. He must, however, be resolute, and pre-
pared for much opposition. The forms of the House,
which have been partly constructed to stifle truth, on
pretence of preserving order, will be invoked against
him. It will be said that it is unparliamentary to at-
tribute motives; that he must not, in Parliament, de-
nounce Parliament itself ; and the young aristocrats
who, to the shame of the people, misrepresent them i❑
their own House, will endeavour to stifle arguments they
cannot answer. Let him, however, stick firmly to his
points, let him tell the House of Commons in plain terms
the ruinous consequences of their law, let him expose the
base motives of those who enacted it, and let him fear-
lessly unveil the effects on the public mind of persisting
in such an iniquitous enactment; let him do this and
the voice of truth will be more powerful even in that
assembly, than the ferocious tirades of Lord STANLEY,
the heavy hypocrisy of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, or the
shallow plausibilities of the PREMIER himself. We have
never, for one moment, doubted of the ultimate success
of our cause. The conduct of the Conference yester-
day, the encouraging news we receive from all parts of
the country, and the expressed determination of the
Liberal Members to speak out boldly in the House of
Commons, combine to convince us that, in spite of all •
the monopolists of the empire, complete success is both
near and certain.

The following remarks on the subject of a correspond-
ence reported to have taken place between Lord ABER-
DEEN and M. GUIZOT, is from one of the Paris papers
received this morning. We find nothing else in them
worth extracting:—

It is affirmed that Lord Aberdeen has expressed his dissatisfac-
tion at M. Guizot having made use in the Chamber of his Lord-
ship's I tter relative to Algeria. It seeuis that notwithstanding his
Lordship's assurance, the esequatur continues to be asked of the
Sultan, and not of France, by virtue of the supremacy of Turkey.
It is added that Sir Robert Peel intends to take up the question
again in Parliament on a principle which would entirely change
the nature of it.

It seems, too, that M. de Bourqueney is taking much pains at
Constantinople to hinder the departure of a Turkish expedition des_
tined for Tunis, but that his endeavours have hitherto failed of
success. If the Porte takes a position in that Regency it will be an
additional embarrassment in respect to our possessions of Algeria.
It is rumoured in the diplomatic world that notwithstanding after
the vote of the Chamber on the paragraph of the address relative to
the right of search, the exchange of the ratification of the Treaty
between the Powers is going on, al dis probably completed. It is
remarked that the Queen of England would not have spoken so
positively of the conclusion of the Treaty if she had not been cer_
fain of the issue of the affair. —La Gazette de France.

BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9.

Fait Highest - Lowest

Last

Price Price. Price Prier.
French 5 per ..... . 119 25 M 25 .., 19 10 ... 119 20
4 per Cents... ..... 103 ... 1,3 ... 103 ... 103
3 per Cents BO 20 80 20 ... 80 10 ... 80 /5
dank or rrance
LaMtte Bank 1,0001. Starei 1015 ...1015 ...Icls
4rlitan Bark
Belgian 5 per Cents.
per Cents., 1840 105% ... 105% ... 105% 105%
,panssh Active ......... T 5% ... 25% 15%
Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5%
Neapolitan lO7 ... 157 ... 107
104% 1041( ... 1043( ... 104%
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain ........ 855 ... 855 ... 665 ... 840
Versailles. K...... 336 25 ... 238 75 ... a% 65 ... 337 50
.... 2uB 75 ... 208 75 .. 208 75 .10975
Rouen •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 520 ... 520 512 50 ... 512 50
Orleans .

Strasburg to Bale ******
.....
233 50 ... 232 50 .. 230 ... 230

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean are at present on a
visit at Roborough.house, the residence of Sir Henry Blackwood,
uear Plymouth.

THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAIL-
WAY.—The finishing of this magnificent undertaking is now draw-
ing to a close. The terminus shed at Queen-street, erected by
Messrs. Miller and Bank*, of Argyll-street, continues to elicit the
admiration of all who visit it, and we can say for ourselves, after
having seen many works of a similar description, that it is the most
beautiful of them all. There is only one little thing wanting to
render the station perfect, and that is the gilding of the spear-heads
of the very handsome railing by which the shed is enclosed. As to
the extra expense, that would be an exceedingly small affair to
boggle at in such a work, and we shall he bound that the chaste
lightness which this small bit of display will impart to the,build.
ing, especially in the ensuing summer months, will amply repay the
trifling sum of fifty or sixty pounds, which is all that would be
required to decorate the stations both at Edinburgh and Glasgow.
We trust this will be attended to previous to the grand start. The
gilding of such railings is universal on the Continent, and every
one who has been abroad knows the degree of elegance imparted
by the embellishment. On paying our usual visit to the terminus
yesterday we found that the workmen had already made consider.
able progress in boarding in the great shed, preparatory to the
gr,nd dinner which takes place there on the 18th current, and that
the greatest activity prevailed in every department to forward the
work, so as to be ready by the date alluded to, on which occasion
we learn that twenty-five carriages will start with the company
from Glasgow. After arriving at Edinburgh the party will return
to dinner, accompanied by other twenty five carriages, with the
Edinburgh gentlemen, making in all fifty carriages, which will
contain nearly one thousand persons. It is needless to mention
that all the eminent men connected with the railway, as superin-
tendents, engineers, and managers, are assiduous in their en-
deavours to render the works as perfect as possible previous to the
opening.—Glasgow Constitutional.

We find the following in a letter from Athens, of
the 20th ult. :—A horrible murder has just been perpetrated in
this city. The house of Monsieur Negroponte was forcibly
entered at night by msassins, who stabbed him through the
heart, while in bed with his wife. N. cause has been assigned
for this diabolical act ; the victim had only recently returned
to his family from England, where he had resided as a Greek
merchant for some years, and was justly esteemed for his amiable
disposition and upright dealings, This is the third assassination
which has occurred in Athens during the last month, and with
shame be it said, with impunity, as the police are too much oc-
cupied in espionage for political purposes to And time to look
after such trues,

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