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London, England, 1842-03-08 00:00:00

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The French Opposition Journals are furious with M. Guizot
and England, in consequence of the declaration of Sir R bert
Peel in the House of Commons, that Lord Aberdeen had not
recognised the conquest of Algiers by France. The Consti-
tationncl says :—" The conduct of our Government in this
affair has been pitiable. M. Guizot was wanting in dignity
when he hawked about a diplomatic conversation, establishing
a right which it was shameful to allow to be made the subject
of discussion. But the cup of humiliation is filled to the brim
now that Sir Robert Peel gives the lie to M. Guizot, and
proudly holds hack the adhesion of which our Minister had so
improperly boasted. This is what is gained by seeking for
strength in an understanding with Foreign Powers. It is now
two months since M. Guizot made the speech against which
Sir Robert Peel now protests. Why has so long a silence
been observed, and why has this tardy quarrel taken place ?
The reason is that M. Guizot has been compelled by the
Chamber to postpone the ratification of the Treaty for the
flight of Search. The English Government revenges itself
for this by creating embarrassments for M. Guizot, or rather
it adopts the kind of proceeding which has always succeeded
with him, and throws out this affair of Algiers as a menace, in
order to compel him to come to a compromise about the Right
of Search."
The Courrier Francais is as violent against the English on
this subject as the Constitutionnel. It says to the English
Government:—" Show yourselves frankly—as what you are
—an insatiable and implacable Government. Say that you
aspire to the supremacy or rather the sovereignty of the seas.
Do not attempt to conceal your irritation at finding that the
possession by us of Algiers is an additional obstacle to your
unreasonable pretensions. Avow that you consider the world
to be too small to contain at the same time the ambition of
England and the power of France. Aspire to dictatorship—
we in our turn will appeal to liberty. Europe has witnessed
a coalition got up by England against the Continental pre-
ponderance of France ; it may witness a salutary coalition
against the maritime preponderance which England has exer-
cised for the last quarter of a century with an insolence to
which we cannot give a name."
The Debats has a long article in allusion to the accusa-
tion against the French Government, by the opposition Jour-
nals, of favouring Intrigues in France for a counter-revolution
in Spain. The Debats declares that the accusation is wholly
unfounded, and that France is much above underhand
proceedings of this nature. The Debate adds :—" The
Government has no interest in fomenting revolutions
in Spain. It is true, its only interest, and respecting which
there can be no compromise, is not a mystery. France, as
M. Guizot has said, does not pretend to exercise any excai-
sive influence in Spain. The two countries must be left to
their natural tendency to union, and a policy of violence must
not be allowed to cause a factitious separation. France has no
Dretention to place one of the princes of her dynasty upon the
throne of Spain ; neither does she interest herself for a son of
Carlow, Her honour only demands one thing, viz. that by an
alliancew ith foreign blood the crown may not be permitted to
pass into another family than that of Louis XIV. and
Philip V. This is the true policy of Frarce as regards Spain,
and it may be openly avowed."
PARLIAMENTARY.
The Lord Chancellor gave notice last night that he
would move on Friday for the appointment of 4 1 Com-
mittee to consider the marriage law of Ireland, and that
he meant to introduce a measure on the subject of the
bankrupt laws ; while one referring to the Ecclesiastical
Courts would be brought into the other House of
Parliament.
Lord Aberdeen gave, in the House of Lords, the same
explanation of his speech to Count St. Aulaire which
has already been given in the public papers. He did not
say that he had no objection to make to the Frencn oc-
cupying Algiers, but he had no observation to make.
The Earl of Minto vindicated himself from some
charges, as he had gathered them from the newspapers,
which he supposed Sir C. Napier had made against him in
the House of Commons. His Lordship was properly takers
to task for violating their Lordships' orders, by irregularly
noticing what had occurred elsewhere. His Lordship
read a letter from Admiral Stopford, contradicting an
assertion which Sir C. Napier was supposed to have made
in the House of Commons.
Sir Hugh Campbell, in the House of Commons, gave
notice of his intention to move for a Select Committee to
inquire into the unhappy circumstances of the Scotch
Church.
Sir R. Peel laid on the table the Earl of Aberdeen's
despatch to our Minister at Paris, and at the same
time declared that Count St. Aulaire's misap-
prehension of what the Earl of Aberdeen had said was
quite unintentional.
In answer to Mr. Wood, Sir Robert Peel said he
thought the subject of Banks of Issue had been enough
investigated, and that the Government would propose a
measure for their regulation, if it thought that necessary,
on its own authority.
Mr. Ferrand renewed and repeated his attacks on
the manufacturers, but though the Honourable Mem-
ber was extremely vehement in his declamation
and gestures, slapping his thigh with great force,
be was comparatively little attended to. Even
the squires are ashamed of his assistance, and
he will soon sink to the level of obscurity. Some
persons had compared him to Mr. D'lsraeli ; but though
the latter prodigiously overrated himself, he is a scholar
and a man of letters. Mr. Ferrand is merely a gentle-
man, endowed with a wonderfully good opinion of him-
self, with capacious lungs and a loud voice.
Mr. Villiers stated that the declaration of the Man-
chester manufacturers had received about thirty addi-
tional signatures.
Mr. Fielden could not exonerate the manufacturers,
but he showed that the landlords were as bad as the
manufacturers.
Mr. O'Connell, in moving for a return of
the arms registered in the county of Down,
described to the House a brutal murder which a
party of Orangemen had committed, and for which, as
Lord Eliot admitted, the Jury had not very properly ac-
quitted the persons who had been brought to trial for
the offence. Lord Eliot deplored the continuance of
party spirit in Ireland, and declared that the Lord-
Lieutenant would do all in his power to discourage it.
In a Committee of Supply, after Mr. Williams had ob-
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observations had been made, the principal
The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and
the House adjourned at One oC'iock.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Advertiser has a leading article, whose object
is to point out the difficulty of a poor man's obtaining redress
in our Courts of Law, except at a ruinous expense. Our Con-
temporary goes on to observe Will any one venture to
say, that such a system as this does not inflict se'ious injury on
the middle and poorer classes of society ; and that it does not
amount, in point of fact, to a total denial of justice : creditors,
for want of sufficient funds, being induced to abandon their
just claims, while dishonest debtors, presuming upon their cre-
ditors' poverty, are tempted to offer an unjust defence ? The
superior Courts are rendered totally incompetent, by their
machinery and consequent costliness, to supply the desidera-
tum ; and we shall, therefore, watch with much anxiety the
progress of Lord Brougham's measure."
The Post hazards the following speculations, as regards Sir
Robert Peel's financial propositions in his approaching Budget:
—" An impression extensively prevalent is, that the deficiency
of the revenue will be supplied by means of a general tax upon
all incomes exceeding a certain amount. This measure, should
it be proposed, will undoubtedly experience a very formidable
resistance. It cannot, however, we imagine, be in the con-
templation of Sir Robert Peel to propose to Parliament the
re-imposition of an income-tax, unless, perhaps, as a tempo-
rary measure, to prevent an accumulation of debt during the
brief period that may be expected to elapse before nationa'
prosperity shall be revived."

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The Herald is quite delighted with, what it calls, the pre-
sent tranquil state of the country, observing :—" Amongst the
phenomena attendant upon the return of the Conservatives to
power, the least obtrusive, but not the least important, is the
repose which the country enjoys from political agitation. In
this repose there is nothing of weariness, or of indifference.
Men think as actively as ever, and take as great an interest
as ever in the administration of public affairs; but the storm
of public strife has subsided, and the heat of private altercation
on party politics has cooled down into reasonable discussion of
the general weal. Nor will the beneficial effects of this change
be perceived only in the restoration of social harmony. The
attention of the people, no longer distracted or amused by the
'tug' of party warfare, will revert to industrial pursuits."
The Times contains an article on the subject of the navy,
from which we quote the following passage :—" On the in-
sufficient manning of our vessels we should have expected but
one opinion. We should have thought that the lessons which
we received thirty years since, in the American war, would
have been sufficient warning against that slovenly mode of
sending out ships, which is only to be palliated by an undis-
puted supremacy, amounting to 'dominion over the sea, and
hardly by that. It is satisfactory to find that the principle of
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The Chronicle discusses some of Lord Campbell's proposed
Law Reforms. " In this laudable attempt at real reform of
the law," says our Contemporary, "he was but partially sup-
ported by Lord Cottenham, and opposed by Lord Lyndhurst and
Lord Brougham. Both took the same ground, the needlesnesss
of change, because of the non-existence of arrears in the
Privy Council. The non-existence of arrears may be a proof
of excellence in a tribunal ; itgenerally is proof of its being very
bad. There are no arrears in the Court that nobody likes to re-
sort to ; and by making any Court as bad, fluctuating, dilatory,
and expensive as the Privy Council and House of Lords, yOu
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p down arrears. If ' keeping down the
arrears' is, as
Justice, the best way would be to transfer the appellate jurisdic-
tion to the Commander-in-Chief."
The Glasgow Saturday Post says that many of the farmers
in the neighbourhood of Paisley, " who hitherto have been
unconvinced, are now, at their cost, becoming converts to the
repeal of the starvation laws. The farmers now find it difficult
to dispose of their dairy produce in Paisley, but have, in seve-
ral instances which we have heard of, had to proceed to Gies-
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gow, or else submit to such a reduction as would soon land
them in the same position as the insolvent manufacturers."
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tinental ports when prices here are low, and being brought in
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suddenly when a bad harvest occurs, and paid with geld, it de-
ranges the currency, and paralyses trade.'
The Liverpool Chronicle remarks that the late debates on the
Corn-laws have done thus much good—viz., "They have opened
the eyes of the people to the true state of the representation of
the country. They have convinced them that the House of
Commons is the mere House of the landlords in which the in-
terests of that class only are studied and cared for. They have
taught them that the men of the landed interest, who were
once supposed only to be selfish, are now become cruel also."
The Dublin Evening Post asserts, with reference to Sir
Robert Peel's Corn-law measure :—" The Bill will pa3s ;
without any alteration whatever in the scale—and now, we
may be permitted to say, with the Duke of Buckingham, that
Sir Robert Peel has driven the point of his wedge into the •

r landocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. He may not do it,
• but circumstances will drive it home. It is a heavy blow, and
a great discouragement to the monopolists. That it will do
any good to the manufacturing and commercial interests, we
deny ; but its failure in this respect will be no relief or conso-
lation ti. the landlords. They must reduce their rents."
We take the following from the Leeds Mercury:—" An
attempt is making to ' reconcile the middling and labouring
classes,' and to join them in a demand for Universal or Com-
plete Suffrage. Those of the middle classes whom the New
Corn Bill has made into extreme Radicals, look to this union
as the only means of obtaining Free Trade in Corn. They
are therefore paying great court to the Chartists, and are
seeking to persuade them to join in a new agitation, in which
two or three of the Six Points are to be struck out, the ob-
noxious name of the Charter is to be sunk, and the united band
is to be led by new middle-class leaders. To this proposal,
however, the Chartists very naturally and justly demur."
The Somerset County Gazette says :—" Toryism has been
ever inveterately hostile to the possession of the franchise by the
people, and has ever sought to withhold and restrict it. Now
that Toryism has the power of carrying that hostility into prac-
tical effect, and accomplishing its darling slesire of undoing the
little good the Reform Bill has accomplished, it should riot ex-
cite surprise if it ventured upon the experiment. We, there-
fore, warn our readers to prepare for this threatened attack upon
their constitutional privileges. If it come, it will be in the co-
vert form of a registration, so complicated and costly, that only
the wealthy and the idle will be enabled to devote to it theneed-
ful expense and time."
MONE T—TRADE—COMMERZE.
At Bradlord the business is far short of an average for the
season : at I-Talifax the sales are better ; as also at Leeds ; Lei-
eester and Manchester both labour under depression ; Hud-
dersfield and Rochdale are both stationary in their trade.

MLECIICONEETZING.
Various parties are alrealy named in consequence of the va-
cancy in the representation of Brighton, occasioned by the
failure of Messrs. Wigney, viz. on the Liberal side, Lord Mor-
peth and Lord Edward Howard; and on the Tory, Mr.
Lawrence Peel, brother to the Premier, and an old resident at
Brighton, as also Lord William Harvey, and Sir Adolphus
Dalrymple.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
At a meeting of the Architectural Society, held in Lincoln's
Inn-fields last week, the President gave an account of the la-
bours of Colonel Vyse and Mr. Perring, among the Pyramids
of M ddle Egypt. They found the original dimensions of the
Great Pyramid near Gizeh so vast as to be almost incredible.
The Pyramid was stated to have been 764 square feet at the
base, and 430 feet of perpendicular height, covering 13 acres,
1 rood, 22 perches of ground, and could not now be boat for
less than 30,000,000/. sterling.
The northern part of Siberia is about to be explored by order
of the Emperor of Russia, who has granted 13,000 roubles
from the treasury in furtherance of the expedition.
The second portion of the library of the late George Chal-
mers is to be sold at Messrs. Evans's to-day. Among the
scarce works, is the first edition of Sir P. Sidney's " Apology
for Portry," which was not printed till 1595, nine years after
the author had been killed before Zutphen.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
The Hon. Edward Plunkett, Lieutenant in the 95th Regi-
ment, is now under Court-martial, at Chatham, for conduce
subversive of good order and military discipline.

THICATSLICILL.
Yesterday in 1575, the General Assembly of Scotland
enacted that no comedies nor tragedies, or such plays, shall
be made on any history of canonical Scriptures, nor on the
Sabbath-day. If any minister be the writer of such play, he
shall be deprived oI his ministry. As for plays of another
kind, they shall be examined before they be pronounced
publicly." In the following year, the Assembly refused its
permission to the Bailie of Dunfermline to represent, on
Sunday afternoon, a certain play which was not founded on the
canonical part of Scriptures.

C 0 rA.S IO NAB Z
Viscountess Palmerston had a brilliant soiree on Saturday
night at her mansion on Carlton-house-terrace.

The Countess of Jersey returned to town on Saturday for the
season.

The French Ambassador will give a grand dinner on Thurs-
day next in Manchester-square.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have been enter-
taining a large party at Blenheim during the past week.
Viscount and Viscountess Villiers have taken a mansion in
Grosvenor-pace for the season.
The Dowager Duchess of Cleveland is now on a visit to tha
Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, at their hunting seat, near
Grantham.

The Earl and Countess of Bandon have left Dublin for
London.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Brighton Bank was established in 1796, by the late
Mr. William Wigney, who si as a coal merchant and large
brewer. On his decease, Mr. Clement and Mr. J. Newton
Wigney, the sitting member for the borough, conducted the
bank, and Mr. George Wigney the brewery, During the
panic of 1825, when three Brighton banks failed, this possessed
as much Confidence as before.

The purchase of the Auchenmalg estate by Lord Stair, was
celebrated with rejoicings by all its tenantry in common, with
the Liberals of South Scotland, at the beginning of last week ;
Captain Dalrymple, the Liberal representative of Wig ownshire,
Mr. Horsman, Sec. added to the festivity, by their
presence.

Mr. Edward Hitching, the next of kin of the late eccentric
Mr. James Wood, and one of the parties in the great will
cause, died on the 3d instant at the age of ninety. By the
decision of Sir Herbert J. Fust, Mr. Hitchings would have
inherited the immense property of the rich banker, a decision
reversed by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
The celebrated Aut gold, which has attracted the attention
of travellers in the East of late, is found extensively in the
regions between the Himalaya mountains and Thibet ; where
it appears in the shape of a natural exfoliature from the rock
in which it is deposited.

RUMOURS OT THE DAY.
Sir Robert Stopford, Sir George Cockburn, and Sir Edward
Codrington, are spoken of as about to be raised to the Peerage
by her Majesty.