Star.
London, England, 1829-11-12 00:00:00

ERRATUM.

Ts our ankle yesterday on Mr. O'Conerst., foe—" be should
remind him of the old nursery proverb," mad: nis Amid remind
hits.

We noticed some tune since the efforts of a corres-
pondent in the Times—signing himself E. E.—to bolster
up M. DE POLIGNAC and his party. Having proved,
from his own words, Iltat this writer must have been
employed for the express purpose, it is creditable to his
modesty, or the prudence of our contemporary, to per-
ceive that he has not since appeared in print as E. E.
Prom the meaner in which these letters have been
treated by the Liberal Papers of Paris, we are satisfied
that our comments were perfectly well-founded. It would
now seem, that the POLIGNAC Administration has found
another partisan : one of the Paris Correspondents of the
Thies—X.—begins his letter of the 7th instant which
appears this morning, as follows:
" We begin to feel lees seriously the attacks on the Ministry by
the liberal journals, lad easy persons believe that the Royal au-
thority, is appointing them, will come vlctosiovsly oat of the
straggle ; set because it is in the tight, bat because hb Majesty

takes every opportunity of declating that his resolution to maintain
them in power is unchangeable. You will no doubt have beard of
the reception which the King gave to M. de la Ferronays at his
audience of leave, before be set out an his return to Italy. On
that occasion, his; Majesty having turned the conversation
to the attacks on the Ministry, and testiliKl his surprise.
M. de la Ferronays remarked. among other things, that
M. de BOUNDOIK *peered in the highest degree to have ex-
cited public odium by his conduct at Waterloo : the King
answered, " What M. Bourmont then did, he did by my orders."
It is to be regretted that his Majesty should compromise himself
by such speeches, which can never add to the respect which his
exalted station ought to command."

Although the imprudent declaration attributed to the
KING is followed by a seemingexpression of disapproval,
still it is impossible to mistake the object and intention
of this paragraph. Indeed, its closing sentence is so little
in accordance with all that precedes it, that one would be led
to suspect it had been added by the translator, who thought
thus to escape the animadversion of persons, who—like
ourselves—are not indifferent to the conduct and con=
sistency of their more influential contemporaries. This
man, whoever be is—who signs himself X—attempts
to establish, by a line of argument as absurd as '
it is improbable, that the refusal of the Budget, would be
an injury to the cause of liberty ! The preposterous-
ness of such a doctrine betrays the fountain from which
it springs. He must be shortsighted indeed—or have
his perception strangely vitiated by interestedness—who
does not see that such a determination of the liberal ma-
jority would operate with electric impulse in favour of
European freedom ?
It would prove that the feelings of a whole people
cannot be impunely sported with, and give a lesson
to surrounding Ministers and Princes, of which every day's
experience only proves that they stand more and more in
need ! Now that England has not merely ceased to be
regarded as the friend and champion of freedom, but
that her inclinations are to uphold despotic forms
wherever the influence of her Ministers extends, we
candidly confess that the firmness and patriotism of the
French constitutional opposition becomes naturally an ob-
ject of warm and anxious solicitude with us : and not with
ns merely, but every where else throughout the kingdoms,
where the love of justice and humanity prevails. It
is indeed consoling to reflect, as some knowledge of
the real state of popular opinion among our neighbours
enables us to do, that neither public liberty nor public
principle can retrograde in France.
We cannot resist quoting another passage from the
Correspondent of the Times—
" The tendency of our liberal journals is to provoke a civil war,
and a war with Europe; but, as I have above observed, these ex-
aggerated opinions do not find partisans, and the high price of our
public funds—the general tranquillity which prevails every where
—proves that the nation is not easily to be misled."
As we have little doubt that the organs of a party which
embraces an immense majority of the French people,
will reply to this wanton attack, we shall only say—
as we have often said—that it is strange such tirades
should be perpetually appearing in the columns of a
Journal which has derived all its influence and prospe-
rity from the advocacy of liberal principles. It is with
no captious feeling of personal resentment, nor jealousy of
its success, that we have so often noticed the extraordinary
aberrations of the Times: but in the prosecution of a
great public duty. We are fully aware of the motives
which weigh with our contemporary to treat us with af-
fected contempt—thus escaping from the necessity either
of denying our exposures, or replying to our charges:
but it is euough for us to know and feel that we should
be neglecting a sacred trust if we remained silent on the
occasions which have called forth our commentaries.
Nay, more; we appeal directly to the public—who may
judge between us—whether such a correspondence as
that which we notice to .day, could be allowed to figure
uncensored in the columns of such a paper as the Times,
without a disgraceful reflection upon the connivance of
its silent contemporaries ?

We exhibit in another part of our Paper a very in-
teresting statement of the progressive increase of Cotton
Yarn annually exported from Great Britain since 1813
It is we believe an axiom of the political economists
that the price of an article is governed by the demand,
but it will be seen by the statement rcferred to, that in
proportion as the demand for Cotton Yarn has increased,
its value has decreased from 4s. 4d. per lb. to 17d. As
a trading question merely, it will be seen that the price
of the raw material has decreased in a still greater ratio ;
and although, after deducting the cost of the raw material,
there is relatively a less amount left for interest of capi-
tal, wear and tear of machinery, profits and wages, than
in 1814: spinning is still a profitable operation, it seems
destined, however, to involve itself in the same fatal
competition which has befallen the weaving operations.

Various conjectures are entertained with regard to the
object of Mr. ST RAT YORDCANN IMG'S intended mission.
We were naturally startled when we saw the paragraph
announcing that the Right Honourable Gentleman had
been suddenly sent for by Lord AB ERDZEN. We trust
that the object of the mission is in accordance
with the policy of the great Statesman whom
England still deplores. Nothing else would reconcile
us to the Right Hon. Diplomatist acting under the per-
sonal enemies of his great and lamented Relative. We
well recollect the indignation excited on a former occasion,
when it was reported that Mr. SPRING RICE had accepted
a place in India immediately after the resignation of Lord
LA NS DOW NE. And if we were among those who depre-
cated his departure, we also were the first to congratulate
the patriotic Member for Limerick, on his resolution to
remain at home.

If we have been somewhat later than some of our con-
temporaries, in noticing the death of Euoaatvs Rocua,
Esq. late EDITOR of the Courier, we can unaffectedly
say that it has not proceeded from insensibility on our
parts to the many meritorious and amiable qualities which
distinguished that lamented gentleman, and justly en-
deared him to a wide circle of friends and acquaintance.
It has been well observed of Mr. Romig by a °Mem-

porary, that he never lost a friend, and never made an
enemy : and we can sincerely declare, for ourselves—
though in political advocacy we sometimes came into
collision—that we never cherished a sentiment of more
unalloyed regard, than that which we entertained for
him. To a gentle disposition and remarkable urbanity
of manner, he joined intellectual resources of no mean
description, and the moral excellences in a high degree.
During the many years we had the happiness to
know him, we ever found him the same—without affecta-
tion, and without guile. No man carried a more scrupulous
integrity and punctuality than he into all transactions of
business, and in his domestic life he was a pattern worthy
to be copied.
Mr. RocHE—we believe—was thrice married, and
when we state, that he leaves a young widow and
nine children to mourn the irreparable loss of such a
protector, we hope that his MAJESTY'S Government—
whom he so long and so usefully served—will not suffer
the family of their old and tried adherent to struggle,
unassisted, with calamity.

We have Buenos Ayres Papers this day to the 12th
September, from which, without any preliminary com-
ment, we make the following interesting extracts. In
another section of this sheet will be found the copy of
a private letter to the agent at the North and South
American Coffee-house, on the same subject as these
papers ; and both are highly deserving an attentive
perusal :