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London, England, 1842-12-02 00:00:00

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On lesday the King of the FrencrathhoearGrer°fisTvNee.°rnduarainteb;llhe
et
Tuileris from St. Cloud, and presided at a Councill..
of Miniters.
moTcheo!,euottohdeienDszeilleointorn-oGtoicnienrgalaocfonthfeeregt:fire:
had on fonday with the Minister of Finance, men-
tions
a }port that the object of it was to discuss some.
arrangeients for a uniform postage in France, and
that a 111 for the purpose will be presented to the
efirnibef in the approaching session.
The ctstruction of the tomb of the Emperor is; "
poleon isibout to be commenced, and for some days .
a model X the work has been exposed to public view.
at the Inalides. An equestrian statue of the Dupe'
ror is to :e placed in the middle of the great court,.
and on to pedestal will be represented the arrival of •
his ashes .t the place where they now lie. . •
The e:-Commissary of Police Lencrmand, con-
demned br default, at the Court of Assizes of the
Haute-G:ronne, for corruption in his office, and who
was late]) arrested at Paris, has been sent to Toulouse,
to be plaed at the orders of the Procureur du Itoi.
The Propaganda Fides of Rome received last year
the sum o' 113,0001. which was employed in follow-
ing the misionaries from the English Churcb, wheree
-
ever theywent, for the purpose of counteracting th
• effect of tleir labours by instilling into the minds ot
the heathen the errors of the Roman Catholic faith. v
The ustal annual mass was performed on Tuesdi_i.,
at the Church of St. Roch in commemoration of the
last revolttion of Poland. The numerous Polish re'
fugees wh) were present afterwards dined togethek:....
The poke of Lyons has been put on a track ni
baiidolloa
ffiftyhtvheievleast,elybeen
robbers
raannsdacdkeiog thatpredaesitynfar
kinds, voi
..
its envircns. A liberated convict, having bets" dm
trayed by one of his accomplices, had denQuile`-
whole confederacy.
Accounts from Vienna state that Prince Mettq;
nich was quite recovered, and had resumed his, ils4ll-1
labours.
A letter from Rome, Nov. 17, in the Atiglbiregj
Gazette, says—" The King of Naples has endeavour
to induce Don Miguel to relinquish all claims
the Crown of Portugal, on condition of his reeeir,,in,
a pension from that country. All the efforts <4l:
King, however, on this point have been fruitless.
According to the latest accounts the affairs ofSeir;
were still in an unsettled state, the clergy being
tile to the new Prince.
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We quote theP
—" Twelve months ago that perpetualr Iload; •
Cobden instructed his confederates of the sinti-Cortr,
law League that through the instrumentality of P. 1.5,
tection to domestic agriculture there was far too greigi
a breadth of land devoted to corn cultivation, atue
that upwards of two million acres of our soil u nderA
plough was unfit to produce anything but this!l;,...
and was only worth rent because of the Corn. 1.114,
Ile then insisted on the absolute necessity of 084,11,4 :.
to cultivate poor clay lands; he then persisted few.l
we grew far too much wheat and fed far too
nillsifater
cattle ; and he then attacked landowners for their per'
fishness in persisting to tear up land which netviin
should, he declared, have been disturbed. Then
ier
curse of the country was described by this "ac- ss
leaguer to be an obstinate determination to h.enble;
independent of foreign supplies of corn as P 51 hes
then thegreatest national blessing that could
gr to
fall us was said to consist in giving up all attempts
as ~
feed ourselves ; then high rents were pourtrartn;
the iniquitous result of pro-Corn-law legisiat e,;
then farmers were characterised as public nlllOO4lO.
and then the very idea of our ability to increase wild
production of bread-corn was scouted as thenwo
fancy of foolish and interested landlords.
with home agriculture and up with foreign gf—the
was but three short months ago the war erY le
Manchester League. How changed is now the swim
of the discourse of this man and his associates;
anti
Corn-law is now assaulted because it prevent-she.
delays the introduction of improved systems of one
bandry—because it has a tendency to check h
ore.
production—because it stands in the way d 4{o
draining, better hedging, better fencing, "-to,
ploughing-, better sowing, better everything---beP-.4
it restricts the demand for agricultural labour, fit'.;
1,4
because it limits the domestic- consumptiell
manufactures." viler
The Chronicle says, with reference to Lord,s-- Ell{ ea
boravgii,. Indian policy—" It is no longer attclierf.'
to be denied that the recent successes in-Affifian,iiai'
were achieved by the Generals in spite of Lord
borough. The Governor-General ordered an inn,a
nious retreat; the military authorities accomplish 6-a
most triumphant advance. The recovery. °„` .
country people, whom Lord Ellenborough Nvolulri
ing for a hazardous and expensive
sacrificed, is of itself compensation to the natiooa"•
prise; but this result, as we have shown; f°rlne
part of the Governor-General's design. What adva
tape, then, has Lord Ellenborough contrived to
.0,
tract from these triumphs, which, if his order? hrt
been obeyed, could never have been aChleVed•
would really appear as if mortification at o,en
been defeated in his attempt to defraud the na`‘o,,
of what was due both to its character and 1•.,
r
terests, had urged him to a course as nearly as ors
military eidleeteif
ble similar to that upon which he had at first
mined. The retreat which he ordered in the 4:;,0
clamation of the Ist of October, with the exeerere„
of the unpremeditated recovery of the Prisnnors
differs but little in its result from that which he
tiered in the spring of this year. Battles haveninrst
fought, forts have been destroyed, a great-a—t 110
lesson' has been taught in Affghanistan. hos
sooner has all this been accomplished—no soner .
the avenging sword fallen indiscriminately urn gtbleen
and innocent, the seeds of future animositl, the
broad sown from one end of the land to the other!tea
elements of greater disorganisation than ever e'r;o4
before effectually let loose, than forth comes the sloe,
proclamation ; and, to strengthen the g moral Able {u,;
tells the Affghans, ' Though we have been abriks
overrun and lay waste your country, yet I coke-,
that we are unable to keep possession of it. • ;se
fore we let go our hold, and undertake .to reeptunra
any Government you may establish.' This is
i„0013.
Ellenborough's moral lesson ; which, howevert.- that
not be complete without the additional assurance , ens
all the hostilities in which the British empire h3"kees
gaged against these people were crimes of the blaeory,
dye—for none deepey can there be than unneeess
and therefore unjustifiable, war." „aloft
The Post says It has always been our °r-, to
that very little good could come of 'coneessi°ll6 ore
persons whose principles are bad, whose afotiveil we
selfish, and consciences callous. So we said wh,ehring
saw the gifted head of the present Government but.
forward measures of a nature which could the„
have the effect of making bolder and stronger,
party whose political extinction the people sei,en
into office to accomplish. So we say.novi, T:tura•
see this hungry, impudent, and grasping paqiinz. for
ing round on the Premier, and taunting "-leader,
giving to them conditions which, their OM
would never have been able to obtain for 'thel%6ol,
Robert Peel has said and done much that 11,,a5.11;b:
able to the principles of the Liberals. itle• 104;..
advantage of the pre-eminent position of him ohaes-
his party, but seemed more anxious to en°
his fallen foes than the friends who. soliePttyn"
siastically supported him. Sure welll.B
acted on a firm conviction of being in the rig
tc
of doing all that was best calculated,
circumstances, to promote and establish his countrY,,?›
welfare. No doubt in this he made many per' _e:
rl
sacrifices—no doubt, by steering a different cou...
he might have secured for himself a great arnoun;:s
popularity with the faithful friends on whom he nj,ol„'
for political power. We did ourselves, with the
.n. Z is;
sincerity of true friendship, express our alarm al the off,
principles propounded, and disapproval of some 0t„.1,,t'.e ..n
under.
measures introduced by the Tory Government.
Radicals, in a paroxysm of petty exultation, br°',::4ll
into exclamations of delight at the course they giro,
things taking. But what is now their tone ? Al fi11,a,091 •
pudent calumny and vituperation of the Prem.iets;,of
character and motives. Nothing, they declare, k
been done—nothing that can satisfy the philosophle,
the enlightened, the foes of farms and friends of fac-
tories. Let this be a lesson. Let men who have
principle—let men who have the destinies of an empire,
in their hands—think now that it is time to stop In •
this career of concession."
MONEY—TRA.DE—COMNIERCE.
The charity of the Royal Free Hospital,nGsivreevpilrlee;
street is about to be removed to the exte
mises Hof Messrs. Seddon in Gray's Inn-lane, former
..,
these premises have been fitted up at a
the barracks of the City Light HorseooVstoolufnnteareeri. ,sy;
10,0001. for the purpose. •
NAVAL AND IV/ILITAICT•
ato.f
be of timber and tallow. Some metallic substance slagrani
ascTerhteainTtehleeranaagtutiree olifasshebrjUi
had obstructed the passage of several of the harp:enrol
eeonargsou,ffiwc iheinothlyi rfaoiusnedd_
Accounts brought by various vessels and' stead's
vlo
state that no less than the wreckage of 12 large bOO.B
sels, and the complete loss of their cargoes,
place during the late hurricanes, as well has
airtn,Tf
which have been burnt to the water's edge; uPwr,l'Asoci
of 32 persons are ascertained to have perisheditbiutrnhen.„tro
*long with an unknown number in the vessels
LAW AND POLICE.
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Wilmot Buckley, the murderer of his wife at
_f
Helen's, has confessed his crime in the presence. u_
aGftreerezilrl,,i
iamendintqhueeSstu.perninetesntdateendt otfhpoatilteq
dal‘iellicdr:ased had goaded him to distraction about