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BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, JUNE ii.

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SIR ROBERT PEEL AND HIS "GOOD INTENTIONS."—
At the annual dinner gii •i by the Merchant Tailors'
Company on Saturday, Sir Robert Peel, who was present,
took great credit to himself for the individual and col-
lective virtue of his Cabinet, and the "good intentions"
by which it was actuated. This specious phrase,
" good intentions," is the cuckoo-cry that has been re-
peated by every Tory Government successively
for the last seventy years and upwards. It
was the " good intentions" of Lord North that
wrested the American colonies from our grasp. It
was the " good intentions " of Mr. Pitt that added several
hundred millions to the National Debt, plunged us into
a revolutionary war with France, and subsidized half the
kingdoms of the Continent. It was the " good inten-
tions" of Lord Castlereagh that lost us all the advantages
we might have obtained from our triumphant position
in 1814. It was the " good intentions " of Lord
'Sidmouth that originated the massacre of the people
by wholesale at Peterloo. It was the " good intentions"
of the Duke of Wellington that gave rise to the excesses
of Swing ; set fire to Bristol ; burned the Duke of New-
castle's seat at Nottingham ; and placed the country on
the very brink of anarchy during the agitation for the
Reform Bill. These are a few among the numerous
public blessings that we have derived from the " good
intentions" of Tory Governments ; and, as if these were
not enough, we now find the " good intentions" of Sir
Robert Peel developing themselves in the agree-
able form of an Income-tax ! What shape this
amiable and enlightened statesman's " good inten-
tions" may next take, it is impossible for us to pre-
dicate ; but as they have already had the effect of in-
creasing the distress of the country tenfold, it is far from
unlikely that they may terminate in a national bank-
ruptcy. Such a catastrophe, indeed, would almost seem
to be the legitimate and necessary result of the " good
intentions" of a Tory Government !
We understand that a deputation of gentlemen from
the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and York-
shire, has arrived in London, for the purpose of seeking
interviews w ith the most influential Members of Parlia •
ment, and others, in order to convey to them their own
appalling convictions of the present state of the popula-
tion of those districts.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, JUNE 12.

MADRID, JUNE s.—The correspondence received
to-day states that it was much feared that Rodil would
not succeed in forming a Ministry, unless compelled
to have recourse to the Opposition who upset the
late Cabinet, or to dissolve the Cortes. The Sunday
" reunions" of the Regent have been suspended, no
doubt owing to the Ministerial crisis. The Ministerial
Deputies have given a grand dinner to the retired Mi-
nisters.

MADRID, JUNE B.—Rodil has not been able to form
the Cabinet. All those to whom he has offered porte-
feuilles refuse to join him.

ACCIDENT TO THE ARCHBISHOP

OF YORK.
(From the Leeds Intelligencer.)
On Monday• last, his Grace the Lord Archbishop of
York left London for Sheffield, on his way to Ardsley,
near Barnsley, to consecrate the new church recently-
erected there. On Tuesday, the venerable Prelate
consecrated the church and church-yard, and after-
wards held a confirmation at Ardsley, whence his
Lordship proceeded, shortly after two o'clock, by rail-
way, to the Palace at Bishopthorpe, accompanied
by the Rev. W. H. Dixon. one of his Grace's chap-
lains. Before dinner the Archbishop took a walk into
the fields in the vicinity of the Palace, accompanied by
Mr. Dixon, and as they were crossing an ancient drain,
arm in arm, the united weight of the two gentlemen
caused the arch of the drain to give way, and they were
both instantly plunged into the filthy water and mud
beneath, almost up to their chests. Fortunately, Mr.
Egerton Harcourt, one of his Grace's sons, who was walk-
ing at a short distance in the rear of the two Reverend
personages, witnessed the occurrence and immediately
hastened to their assistance. Owing to the perpendi-
cular construction of the drain their release was a matter
of some difficulty; but we are happy to say that it
was effected without any other injury, either to the
venerable Prelate or to his chaplain, than what would
arise from their sudden and involuntary immersion.
After,undergoing the requisite lustration and changing
his apparel, his Grace partook of dinner as usual, and
ivas,.we understand, not a little jocose upon the conster-
nation which their sudden intrusion into the domains of
the frogs, porwigles, and tadpoles must have occasioned
to the reptiles in the vicinity of the accident. His Grace
consecrated the new church at Clifford on the following
day, Wednesday ; and we are glad to be able to say that
at that time hiS Grace had not experienced any unplea-
sant consequences from the accident.

The state of the manufacturing operatives seems
getting worse and worse, and the numbers which this fine
weather induces to perambulate the country, as beggars, is
absolutely deplorable. In Kendal, we learn that in several
branches more is doing, while in the fine trade, and in foreign
goods, things were never worse. Wools are stationary. The
fine fleece wools are selling at a very low price, and with the
present demand for worsted, there seems no prospect of an ad-
vance. The fell wools are not yet clipped ; but, in the York-
shire moor fleeces, which are earlier off than in this country,
very low prices are ranging.— Kendal Mercury.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 11.—The Report on Primary In-
struction is to be laid on the table of the Chamber of Repre-
sentatives to-day. If we are rightly informed, the Govern-
ment has got the Central Sections to adopt a resolution for the
establishment of two national schools at the public expense, one
for the French, and the other for the Flemish part of the
kingdom. The Minister of the Interior persists in desiring that
this law may be passed during the 'present session. In the
discussion of the Budget of Public Works, the Chamber has
earnestly recommended the Minister to observe the greatest
possible economy in the management of railways. This re-
commendation has been attended to; 136 supernumerary
officers were dismissed on the lot of this month. The Rain-
bow steamer, which arrived at Antwerp yesterday morning,
had 65 passengers, among whom were the Earl of Oxford and
Captain Osborne, R.N.
MAD DOGS.—CAUTION.— he following notice has
been issued by the Lord Mayer :—"Pirie, Mayor. The Lord
Mayor having received various letters. complaining of the num-
ber of dogs which are permitted to range about the streets of
the City, to the great alarm and danger of the inhabitants, re-
quests that those who keep dogs within the City will nut Permit
them to be at large, without being muzzled, or otherwise se-
cured; and doth hereby give notice that the utmost severity of
the law will be enforced on all persons. who neglect the above
precaution. By order of the Lord Mayor. Francis Hobler.'
Sheridan knowles's new play of the Rose of Ar-
rayon is nightly increasing in public approbation ; and there
can be no doubt, so long as town remains as full as it is at pre-
sent, that the Haymarket Theatre will continue to receive its
full share of the fashionable patronage it has been honoured
with during the past week. To-night, after the first per-
formance here of Jerrold's caustic comedy of The Bubbles of
the Day, the piquancy of which, from recent events, must
more than ever tell upon the town, a Mr. O'Neil, of whose
comic powers in Irish assumptions report speaks most highly,
will make his debut, as Doetor O'Toole, in the Irish Tutor.
His singing is spoken of as "beyond compare."
The Duke of Cadiz and the Duke of Seville arrived
in London on Sunday by the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's mail packet Giraffe, Captain R. Stianack, from Rot-
terdam.

S J1itg " ; •IV LI •

AND
tittiotir eptuton.

" Who runs may read."

WOIT.EXGN.

The French Chamber of Deputies on Saturday afternoon,
closed its Session. There were about eighty Members pre-
sent. The Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Interior, and Public
Works were on the Ministerial Benches. M. Duchatel read
the Royal Ordonnancc closing the Session of 1842. The same
ceremony took place in the Peers. The decree of dissolution
will appear in this day's Moniteur, convoking the Electoral
Colleges for the 9th of July,
A telegraphic despatch from Bayonne of the 10th, published
in Saturday's Moniteur, has the annexed intelligence from
.t tadrid :—" On the 6th General Rodil accepted the Ministry of
War, with the mission of forming a Cabinet, of which he will
be the President. An attempt has been made at Burgos to
proclaim the Constitution of 1812. General Hoyos has been
sent from Madrid with troops to put down this attempt. The
Government has published energetic circulars against all at-
tempts of this nature."
Another telegraphic despatch from Madrid, received by the
French Governmention Sunday, states that on the Bth instant,
General Rodil had failed to fo.rn a Cabinet.

The Portuguese Government has not yet ratified the Slavery
and Commercial treaties. What shuffiers these Portuguese
Ministers are !

The Board of Directors of the Belgian railroads has adopted
the following additional means of security on the north line.
It consi-ts of a species of tower placed on the tender, rising
above the chimney of the engine, on which is seated a watch-
man who, from his elevated station, can see the whole road to
a great distance. He carries a horn, with which he can imme-
diately warn the engine-man to stop the motion, should he
perceive any obstacle in the way, or any accident likely to
MM.

A letter from Amsterdam, June sth, says :
" Harmony has been entirely restored between the ex-King
and the reigning family. Yesterday the Count and Countess of
Nassau visited the Queen at Ler country residence at Soestdyk.
the Countess was received by her Majesty as the wife of the
father-in-law. It is said that the Queen expressed her sincere
acknowledgments for the great kindness and attention paid by
the Countess to the Count de Nassau during his recent illness.
This reconciliation will give grreat pleasure to the nation."
Berlin is about to be et.riched with a collection ot 84.5 Indian
manuscripts, almost all in the Sansc it, and containing the
hc4e of the Vedas, which M. Bunsen, the Privy Councillor ot
the Embassy at London, has purchased from the heirs of the late
Sir R. Chambers. The Vedas are in no Ilerary either in Lon-
don or Paris, and the Bodleian collection at Oxford has ob-
tained this work only within a few weeks, by Professor Wilson's
agree:ng to cede his precious collection. The copy of the
Vedas purchased for Bel lin, alone cost 1,0001 in India, and the
Vedas comprise 120 numbers. The whole collection cost M.
Bunsen 1,250/.

PARLIAMENTARY.
Lord Beaumont called the attention of the Ministers to the
injurious effects of the gold coin pi oclamation, and Lord Wham-
cliffe, speaking for the Government, promised to remedy the
evil. There is only one way to de that— recal the totally un-
necessary proclamation.
It was settled that the discusson on the Income-tax Bill,
should take place on Friday next, instead of to-morrow, when
the Bill will be committed pro forma. The Marquis of Clan-
ricarde stated, that he meant at some stage to give a negative
to the measure. _ _

Lord Campbell brought before the House the case of a Judge
in Scotland, refusing a man's testimony, and putting him on
trial for blasphemy, because he did not believe exactly as
that Judge thought he ought to believe. The Learned Lords
only engaged in the discussion, and they all declat ed that the
practice in England was different from that followed in the case
in question in Scotland. Nothing came of the motion and
discussion, except to excite attention, perhaps, to the meaning
of the words which were the subject of dispute in Scotland.
In the Commons, there were more petitions about the South-
ampton case and Mr. Wrenn, which seems likely to occupy the
House for the remainder of the session, if the party feud be
encouraged.
In reply to Mr D'lsraeli, Sir R. Peel stated that he meant
to fulfil the treaties entered into with Texas, though he inti-
mated that he thought them unwise.
Sir Robert Peel, in reply to Mr. Hutt, said he had altered
his scheme as to the duty on exported coals, and meant to
propose a duty of 2s. on round coal, and Is. on screened coal.
The debate on the question isto take place this day; Mr. Hutt
is to oppose the new scheme.
'I he Chancellor of the Exchequer thanked Mr. Childers
for again adverting to the " light sovereigns," as it enabled
him to inform the people, after he has exposed them to much
annoyance, that they have been imposed on, and that the sove-
reigns are not so light as those who have been proviced with
scales have asserted. Many persons, however, have already
been defrauded.

Mr. Shaw gave notice that he will, this evening, move for a
new writ for Belfast.

The House was chiefly occupied during the evening, with
the tariff, the greater part of which was gone through. It
will be wholly completed, we believe, this day. Several divi-
sions took place, but they all left the Minister's plan unaltered.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer obtained leave to bring in
a Bill to continue the composition for assessed taxes. At One
o'Clock the House adjourned.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Herald thus alludes to the Affghanistan ques-
tion :—" The most popular fallacy rela ive to the Affghan
war—a fallacy on which alone any human being attempts to
justify perseverance in the policy which is now again marching
our armies across the Indus—is, that it is necessary to re-
triumph in Affghanistan in order that British India may be
saved from internal danger. How the tranquillity of India
is to be preserved by sending one-fourth of the Indian army
into Central Asia, without increasing the force within the Indus,
is a question far beyond the ken of ordinary solution. If there
be danger in India, we need every soldier we possess within
our own territories ; if there be not present danger in India,
are we not more likely to create hazard by dim►nishing our
military strength in that empire, than by keeping it at home ?
This cherished excuse, that we must prosecute the war in
Affghanistan to support our position in India—that it is neces-
sary to be successful where we have been defeated, in order to
prevent disturbance in India, is in every aspect in which it can
be placed, most poor, most worthless. The exeuse—we will
not dignify it with the appellation of rea,on—is a gross and
scandalous libel on the British Government of India."

The Advertiser has the following remark• upon the present
state of public affairs in the country :—" The best part of the
session is over, and it were certainly as well to inquire in what
situation is the country?, In this we broach a substantive
question—rather, the only real one with which legislation has
to do. From this time last )ear have we advaneed a step?
Are the agricultural, manufacturing, or general interests of the
country improved one jot? Are we lightened of our onerous
burdens of taxation ? Our commerce--is it enlarged? The
national happiness—is it augmented? Nearly a year has
elapsed since the Peel-power came into operation. In that
period there are manifest evidences that art, that science has
progressed—that the luxuries of the rich have accu-
mulated ; on the other hand, we now ask, what
has Government done ?—what has it effected in ad-
vancing the circumstances of the people ? For an
answer, let us look to its measures. Its first act was
the renewal of the hateful sliding scale ; its second an
income-tax ; its third a mock profession of commercial enfran-
chisement. Under the renewed sliding-scale the people will
not eat bread cheaper than hitherto ; u.,der the income-tax a
po-itive bearing down of the means of all classes will be the es •
sential result ; under the new tariff commerce will scarcely be
aught from what it was. In the meantime the population has
gone on increasing—the profits on commerce gone on decreas-
ing—and the wages of the people, constantly adjusted by the
profits of their employers, at that last term lower than which
they cannot go. Oh, for the corning winter ! Added to this, a
Poor-law retained in that affluence of barbarity, which denies
the bounty it feigns to proffer ; and, as if this were not enough,
a disturbed currency, by which men are to be robbed of the
very gold they retain in their hands. Without any fiction this
is the condition we are in at the present moment."
The Chronicle comments as follows on Lord John Russell's
proposal respecting bribery at elections :—`• We are bound to
express our entire dissent from all that part of Lord John Rus-
sell's proposed Bill that provides for an inquiry to be carried
en by a joint Committee of Peers and Commoners. The
object of this can only be the disfranchisement or other punish-
ment of the borough. With respect to the seat, the House of
Lords has no pretext for interfering, and its assistance is not in
any way required. Nor is it wanted to aid in the mere work
of exposure ; a Committee of the House of Commons is per-
fectly competent to get all the information requisite to satisfy
the public mind. The only case in which such a Committee
can be of any use is where it is proposed to follow up its inqui-
ries by disfranchisement, or any other such measures of
severity against the particular borough as require an Act
of Parliament to carry them into effect. In such a case, as
each House affects to require evidence taken before itself as
the ground of any penal legislation, it would certainly be as
well to have one common tribunal, to which both Houses might
refer the inquiry. If there is to be such a tribunal, Lord John
Russell may as well frame it according to a plan of which the
House of Lords has already approved. We were sorry, how-
ever, to find him saying that, with the exception of the mon-
strous provision of having a Common-law Judge to play the
Judge to a Jury of Peers and Commons, he meant to take the
clauses sent down by the House of Lords in 1834 ; fur on look-
ing over those clauses we find them as ill-drawn as it is yissible
ts sonteive."

The Post observes, in an article on the subject of light coin-
age :—" The Government plainly has no other power in the
matter than that of punishing the clippers when it can catch
them; and it is at least equally plain, so it seems to us, that
the public, and the public only, have, and have always had,
this control, although it now appears they have not exercised
it. No man is bound to take a sovereign not of the legal
weight. No man is prevented from using whatever means he
thinks necessary to ascertain that a sovereign tendered to him
is of the legal weight. We are old enough to remember the
time when no house into which there was much chance of a guinea
finding its way was without an apparatus for ascertaining the
weight of a guinea. For a considerable period we have been
freed, by the admitted and notorious excel ence of our gold
coinage, from this trouble. But it was easy to foresee that the
time must arrive when we should be exempt from it, no longer,
and that whenever it did come some loss and much temporary
inconvenience would have to be endured. The re-awakened
vigilance of the public will henceforth, no doubt, supply what
nothing else can supply, an adequate check to the operations of
the clipping and filing gentry, in whose interest the Whig
writers are so gealriusly exerting themselves, unless what they
write is to be regarded as utter nonsense. The evil now expe-
rienced will, we are persuaded, be of short duration."
The Times, spraking of Lord John Russell's Bribery at
Elections Bill, says He has introduced a Bill in every way
worthy of its author—a measure of such profession and pre.
tension, revolutionary like the Reform Bill, arbitrary and des-
potic like the New Poor-law, empirical like both of them, and
bidnieg fair (if adopted) to originale more serious evils than
any which it proposes to cure, while its tendency to give an
effectual check to bribery is (at best) most problematical. For
ourselves, while fielding to none in our desire to see bribery
extinguished, and deploring as a national misfortune the great
expense of elections, we feel bound to declare that the worst
excesses of bribery would be less intolerable than such a ma-
chinery of vexation and plunder, public and private, as Lord
John Rus,ell's Bill would ieevitably create. Some of our
readers may have imagined, from the trine of Sir Robert Peel's
speech on Monday, and from the opening words, in which he
promised "hia cordial support to the Noble Lord's motion for
leave to bring in the Bill,' that the measure, of which we. so
strongly express our disapprobation, has been approved by her
Majesty's Government. This, however, is far from the case.
Sir Robert Peel's speech, though expressing agreement in the
general object stated to be in view, was throughout a quiet ex•
peg tire of the follies of Lord John Russell's Bill."
On the subject of the present distress, the Leeds Times
says :—" It is now obvious that the great bulk of the people of
this country are in a state of deep suffering and distress, out of
which nothing short of a general and combined effort on the
part of society can extricate them. without involving in the
risk of ruin all the settled " institutions" of the country. After
various attempts to palliate and deny the existence of distress
in the manufanturitig districts, it is at length fully admitted by
the Government, and even proclaimed by authority from every
church pulpit in the kingdom."
We take the following from the Scotsman :—" A law to put
down bribery and intimidation effectually, if indeed such a law

were possible, would be an intolerable tyranny. It would de-
stroy a man's liberty of dealing with whomsoever 1•e pleases,
it would interfere with his private and social it ,ter, our-c, a,;(1
visit with pains and penalties the very expression of his counte-
nance. We hail Lord John Russell's measure as a remedy for
some of the inure clamant abuses which prevail at elections;
but it will not serve as a substitute for secret vo'ing, which we
regard as by far the most likely means of ensuring honest re-
presentation."
The Dublin Evening Post says :—" After all, the Mail-
man, it would appear, is right—and Lord De Grey goes, after
trying his 'prentice hand on the Government of Ireland. And
never, surely, was there a more bungling apprentice. We
aro willing to believe—nay, we do believe, that he came to this
country with the best intentions. But, he did not see his dif.
ficulties—he did not know the people into whose arms he would
be thrown—he did not, he could not, perhaps, appreciate the
peculiarities of Irish Society. "
In an article on the sugar duties, the Somerset County Ga-
-1 zette observes—" Mr. Labouchere's motion for the reduction
of the sugar duties was negatived by a large majority; but the
debate will be serviceable, by showing the country the extent
of the robbery to which it is subjected by this most barefaced
of monopolies. The fact is, that the West India interest is too
powerful to be resisted, and, therefore, it has escaped the mea-
sure of justice dealt out to other monopolies. Let the latter
now unite to pull down their gigantic brother."