Star.
London, England, 1831-01-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TER JOURNAL&

Canoxicr.z.-11 has been well remarked by a coatratgamy that
almost the only instruction received by the ageleedineal is
conveyed by the Executioner. But with the puma war at of
the country, we fear the lesson. recently Awns and Ana la ho ghat,
by that personage, is calculated to paiaee a vary Alarm kora-
don from that which was intended. The azaaia which we pow
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day gave from the Hampshire Telegraph, aaatt•mtdeg as the so.
called-for severity of most of the sentences, speaks the language of
a number of communications which we have received. That punish-
ment may be ea:scions in the way of example, it ought not to re.
volt the general feeling. However, this in delicate subject at pre-
sent. It is high time we had recourse to scene other instructor 1111 M
the Executioner; but we shall not:now occupy ourselves with tto
question of education.

Tuna—beast of all men have we been disposed se raise the cry of
Church and King, or that of " No Popery"—abused as it has been to
such deplorable purposes ; but if there ever was an attack deliberately
projected against the Protestant Church and State of the United King-
doms, we have no hesitation in averring that this O'Connell-scheme of
the " repeal of the Union" has to other LlO2. We declare broadly.
that it breathes civil and religious war, and nothing else. That Ireland,
governed by a separate Parliament, will at once become such a country
as James 11. would have made it. There is no trilling with suds a pros-
peel, conspiracy must be put down. Freedom, peace, and prosperity, and
religion, are endangered. Lt net the disavowals of any but " lawful
gleans," on the pan of theme (anodes in the united cause of revolution
and superedtion, be listened to. bet with distrust. Violence is medi-
tated when the it moment comes, and fraud is method to over the
organisation of violence. Were the intention of these men as beset es
we In our coneekoce believe it to be otherwise, the Instrument they
resort to is inconsistent with any policy but that of skidoos war. Im-
ams numbers of half-barbarous men can never be wielded but as a

physical power a talk of opiates acting thinegb such • stedhus,
is ant impatient. Lash at their conduct is she county of
:ai=ted by OUT private coneapondent. Tbe preteoes of hotlin-
es an crease for metering in almost innumerable force,—
the &mined's at a domes's terei Wine his face, what he refused
to supply their dwsi of these weapons for escroisa,—the circular spa.
potions against down= in bodies of sew sal thou...oda, le " petition"
for a reduction of tithes, in a far different spirit ,han rho /a of the poss
gailish labourers, for with us is is an affair of claws, bat is Waled

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of religious hatred. inch proceedings, we eity, rate proofs that a re-
peal of die Union is neither to be peaceably maght, iii.'whar gain*,
will it be applied to tranquil noes. Bat one fear which we bad esters
wined a @bat time age is funny now abatedv The boast of the a
tators was, last week, that Protestants had been insane- enough
to lead themselves to this fatal plot. The trick vat inginious. but. it
was a trick--a mete falsehood. It apposes, by declamations in the Irish
toutuale, that names said to have been those of Orangetn, were not
zooms among that Ira ; sad it Is aimed that the orange ribands ex.
ovqtaus
hibited on the day API Lord cruelly exorcised, by his
Peentim, tbs nil gbh at the , were assumed by old
Catholic pardons of Mat diffillilli, to carry on the delusion
that the NMI of the Union was en, buts downright aati.Pro-
talent smespiliey. The (J.._ -1 sf Lord Anglesey, we re-
joice to lied, Ma lama a skysks to the magisuntes of Inland,
wit" ma, tend to being maims to a crisis rather sooner than Mr.
O'Connell would ibilso. as Ms bow, *bleb is well and %igneous!y
framed, the rest shims et do alsdhisoi are placed in lucid contrast
with their rilissolusi red while the 11111 Oka -tonal rights of the sub.
jeer to Pliant pekßhmes aid to enjoy mimeo, are spoken of with rea -
pest, and who lid/ astral by the tra , the abuse of such privi-
lelp to lawless sod tribalism ends is belated to be a legitimate cause
in Assouslesi badman sad coercion. If the Ministry, having right
Nibs dda be ins, we ban as ism for the result. The canker of ir -
justice no Isere bless the natural authority of the state, and the
boons of pd isms, sal dig ma of brave ones, will make common
cause apM a susbasms sad malignant enemy.

POST.—TIN INN Law of libetion proposed to the French Chamber
of Derides AIMS 004111101 perfectly conclusive of the disposition of
the Fon& Adshdetnelee to restrain within safe and prudent
the Mow et maks feeling and opinion in the representative
bor. sdl ddsv=ed be permitted to pass, or should it fail even
se least a vegetal WI die popularity, and to put a speedy end
to the pasha esineeme, of ap euthurp, the proof will be complete that
an andwowlettieway neventeet, no leas important than rapid
has already inks-place in the retied of the French nation....;,
Should, however, regenerated France be content to accept o'
such a representation as this project announces. we may reasonably ein-
elude het le be very near the discovery, et: to have made it already, tha
whatever advantages she may have acquittd in other respects by her re-
volution, they have ben purchased at a price infinitely above their va-
lue. The new scheme of representation seems to us to be in a very Coil.
siderable degree less popular, than that which it is intended to super-
sede, and which the general voice of the nation had condemned, simply on
the ground that it wu too exclusive and aristocratical in its character. The
number of electors, it is true, to to be doubled ; but the lists are no longer,
as heretofore, to be composed with an indiscriminate and exclusive re-
ference to the amount of direct contributions paid to the State by each
individual citizen. This system of impartial selection m the privilege
and the trust of voting in the election of members of the representative
branch of the legislature, is to be exchanged for a system which creates
a very numerous privileged class of voters, to the members of which it
not only imparts an absolute franchise, but gives them, moreover, the
important right of priority of inscription in the electoral lists, the total
number of names upon which is previously and inflexibly determined.

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