Star.
London, England, 1831-03-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.

Texes.—The Government could not be conducted under the *duel-
nistration of Laffitte, without exposing France to internal agitaticn, and
Europe to a general war. His Ministry passed on, from tumult to
tumult, making concessions at every alarm. and rill provoking to fur-
ther dis:urbauces in order to obtain further concessions. Titus we lad
mobs in October, which compelled the King to change a part of his
council, and to renounce his intention of submitting to the
Chambers a law to which he had been pledged. Again the
capital was the scene of riots in December, and a new modifi-
cation of the Ministry took place. In February acts of pillage and
profanation took place, which would disgrace the most barbarous times.
and the authorities, to gratify the mob, pulled down crosses front the
churches, and effaced the ancient ornaments from the Royal Arms.
The vote of thanks to the students of the University, for interfering
in the tumults of December, was of itself such an act of cul-
pable imprudence as ought immediately to have led to the dis-
missal of M. Laffitte. The citizens of Paris have how. in the
change of Ministry, a kind of pledge that they will not be pe-
riodically called upon as before to desert their business and their fumes,
to rush, in the uniform of the National Guard, to the head-quarters of
their sections when the drum beats to arms, and to bivouack in the
streets or squares, in order to disperse crowds of idle vagabonds who
choose to think that they have a right to express their political opinions
by menaces and violence. Another banker, who had raised himself to
eminence before the revolution of July, by his Parliamentary talents, is
now to be tried as a prime minister. As his capacity is infinitely supe-
rior, his judgment more discerning, and his knowledge of affairs more
ample and enlarged, we shall neither be apprehensive of the same pre.
sumption or of the WIC failure.
Poter.—We hate forborne for some time past to solutes:yen upon
Lord Palmerston's foreign policy. The contemptuous disregard of our
protocols and despatches evinced by the Belgic government shows in the
clearest manner to how low a station that policy has reduced us. The
timid, vacillating, and blundering manner in which the Whigs, of non-
intervention fame, interfered with Belgic affairs was the tint cause of
our humiliation, and of French and Belgic insolence. The 2;i was that
superficial information respecting our national resources which Mean.
Hume and Bo wr ing,and others of the revolutionaryschool,commu n laird to
the Belgic Deputies in London. The third cause was Lord Althorp's.
or rather Mr. Crolekelt Thomson's Budget. The attack on British
funded property, on steam navigation, on the shipping interest, on the
colonial interest, and on the Methuen treaty, were all viewed as revolu-
tionary in their spirit, and as subversive, in their tendency, of our national
credit and resources. The invasion of Aristocratic and Parliamentary
influence is held as the signal of downfal to all our Aristocratic in.
stitutions ; and whatever our Greys and Stanleys, in the spirit of pane
madness, may imagine to the contrary, all foreigners know that the high
tone which, up to this fatal year, ever since 1688, England has given to
Europeao Councils, will henceforth dwindle into the Revolutionary cant
of French Jacobinism. They know that from the hour the fatal bill passes
British preponderance in Europe is at an end. Farewell peace—f. ire.
well social order—farewell commercial prosperity—farewell credit—
farewell every principle of national honour, faith, and security, which is
now found in our Parliament, and which, when a club of obedient
country Whigs and democratic tradespeople is exchanged fur it, will
drag us down as low as the Clubbiats of Paris have dragged dewn their
Republican Monarch.
POST.—That party which aims at the establishment of a R public.
and who scruple not even now to avow their inicatiora in private, al.
though in public they screen themselves under the mask of hypo:risy—
that party of levellers, to which Hume, AVarburien, Pettlett Thonisoc,
O'Connell, Colonel Jones, Mr. Wakley, and others, arc known to be-
long, now hails the boon of Reform with unequivocaltielight. Why ? be.
cause they see in It Earl Grey's downfal and their own eventual triumph.
They know that the instant the independent poser of the ar.smeracy
is destroyed, that Instant the dependence of the othir two elates
upon the Commons for every monied grant plaus all government
at their disposal. If the downfal of an imbecile Wl.:g itdstry
were the only inevitable result of their present measure, etc a:;ould
not now be among its opponents ; but the lit publican party know
full well that when the people at arge are the depositaries ref national
power, their clan-tour will be our only court of appeal. The vox popish.
not the salsa poptsli,will then be our supreme law; and whoever underbids
a political rival in the auction of popular suffrag-, that man must be-
come the Althorp, Hume, or Lafayette of his day. 11'hoeeir seeds
before the gale may live longest in the sea of revolutionary troubles ;
but woe to him who attempts to alter his course against the wind. That
instant, be he King or be he Minister, King William or King Philip,
a Citizen King, with republican institutions, or a rcfurmine King with
aristocratic institutions, that instant the vessel of state will founder, and
with it all our national strength and greatness. The republicans, who see
through the vista of revolution a new state of which they will Le rulers,
laugh at the sinking of the King AVilliato, and if Sir J. Graham's little
cock-boat be epee they feel no anxiety for the lose. They wools' throw
Lord Althorp overboard after his budget in the very first se:•stor of a
new parlianunt but in whom would they confide our national ache-
pier ? Answer that, Earl Grey. To a L'itig Minister who adopts a
Tory Minister's Civil List? No. To a Whig who increased taxa-
tion ? No. To a Wltig who augmented OUT military and naval ate-
blishmeats, preserving at the same time national faith inviolate? No.
—The Government would be b'd for, by your shopkeeping,
pounds shillings and pence politicians.—your penny-a.live news.
mongers,—your Greek Loan Jobbers,—your Radicals like
Colonel Jones, or Mr. Sonic:, the buicher, now Candidate for the
Tower Hamlets—your Dr. Borerin ,s—your Mr. Place the ta:ler—
your Mr. efriteood of the Birmirgham Union —your liri. neys and Al-
true:, the linen-drapers and attorneys of Brighton—your Mints,
Humes,Warburlona, O'Connell:, and Whiffle purveys—al der.e.lats,
all lovers of cheap govvrnmcnt. all enemies of establishments, all pre-
tended friends of the people. The same clamour of which you, Earl
Grey, now most unconstitutionally avail yourself against the Tory
members of your order, will then be directed against that Stanley.,
Grosvenor., Cavendishes, Howlett's, and Russells, whose great Northern
Whig confetleracy you think to strengthen by the spoliation of southern
borou,ha. One year, wee single quarter, of misgoverr nit at. }Leh as that
which we have just lived to witness, will then furnish more than
enough feed for ambitious democrats and revolutionists.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK

Consols which were done in the early pail of the morni.lg
at 76, reached 762; since which they may be quoted at 76/to
for the account. The movement of the Austrian troops is
the cause of the market having. declined.
In the Foreign Market nothing doing at preyent.