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agE, ted ? Would a separation
tnore i Why, then, should
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Lord Grey could not " swamp" the latter: who line
not how he tan deal with the House of Lords ? Let
readers exercise their minds for names of contempt
illustrations of feebleness to be applied to the House
Lords, and we engage to subscribe to them all, and to
beyond them all in saying, that it is the house which,
der an undisguised duresse, passed Lord John Ru
bill. But, however despicable the House of Lords
be as a legislative chamber, or mock legislative club,
class of nobility in this country can never be an u
portant class: never, except in times of seditious ex
ment, can the possessors of the soil of the country,
heirs of Its ancient families, the possessors of traditi
rank, be less than the most important class. Now,
the general revolution in property which will very s
follow the late political revolution, if the House of
regain not its position—until this approaching comple
of Lord Grey's work, the nobility of Great Britain m
be taken as representing out of doors the rank and p
pert of the country ; and they have declared agaid,
ministers—declared with a degree of decison and pool,
which demonstrates that either the nobility or the mini
try must fall. If all the former do their duty to the
selves, their country, their posterity, and the fame
their ancestors, as the nobility of Scotland have doe
there can be no doubt as to the result. If, however, thi
do not do their duty, they may be sure that their person
power will disappear as rapidly as that which they on
held in the House of Lords. This, however, is a wii
topic. At present we take leave of the subject, mere
congratulating his Majesty upon the possession of se
vants who can show him "a deadly animosity" betwo
the populace and the gentry in one division of his kin'
dom, and between themselves and his nobility in tl
other.—Standard.

PREPARATIONS TO ENFORCE 'I
amused at the extreme surprise
Irish journals at the prevalence
meat deems the state of Irelai
the propriety of adopting every
may be necessary to enforce a c
ity and to law. It may appear
and the most innocent thing in
ling down woods to form pike 1
transform the said volunteers
summon a national convention,
to the country all who refuse to
impede legal process; to inurd'
1 man or farmer now and then u 4
other trifling deviations from th
1 der; but we can assure them tit
escapades are regarded as indica
,yalence of, and even a belief in,
tatural. Were Mr. O'Connell
dally to assume the dictatorship
doubt not that the same sort of
any small demur on the part of
Would be manifested. But that
Carolina should suggest any t
against agitation fur a repeal
these unconscious scribes more
Life rest ; that is to say, a glartn,
ale frailness of the federal tie is
against a return to a similar in,
Country in which it was once
; tended by the most unhappy div
lion itself. We are not, howev
of day to canvass the political an
tiv,es that led to the union, whit
IRELAND. too wide a field; but we may be
DEMOCRACY AND TERRORISM.—The public,. who take
to the pleaded reasons for it as
Prise of our Irish contemporarie:
deep interest in the affairs of Ireland, are anxious to kno' ca, rolina, producing certain a
what is the standard of outrage in that devoted co.untr, minds in relation to the kindred (
fixed upon by government, ere the arm of the law is to b instances are dissimilar, it seem!
stretched forth to arrest the march of murder, and F 0 our Irish repealers are not declat
down that system of denouncement which has caused ead, the Carolina people. True ; :
man to hold his life, as it were, by sufferance. Irelan
in point of fact, is not, at the present moment, under wanted Catholic emancipation
Mr. O'Connell plainly avows th
sway of England or of English law. She is ruled by .
arch-agitator, through whose
_incendiary machinate one thing at a time, and it may L
talk of separation until the vole
those desperate bands have been formed, by whom ter bite the national guard. Be tl
desolation, and death have been borne through the I
There is in this beggared country a power beyond t brother journalists must no long
of the monarch's, and far above that of the la.w—.a poval supposition on the part of simpli
bidding defiance to the gove.rnment, and issuing. vernment may deem a little prude
dates with an audacious confidence that they will be Ut it m?'" maintenance of authority essenti:
plicitly obeyed, which can proceed only from a perfec disclose all which they intend to
iltimate views of patriots who,
knowledge of the monstrous, despotic, and sanguinar,
influence it possesses. Whether under the name to stimulate every dignified and
" Captain Rock," of " Whiteboy-s," of " Volunteers,' e Cience
le assumption of a poson vvhic
which is due to it. As t
of " the Liberator," this authority is alike potent ; ail 1.
now nor affect to know the exac
the secrecy of its organisation only
renders more alarnt. went ,
ing the sudden and evidently combined mode in whiff in
as respects the repression o
la Ireland. But this much we wi
in different places it, at the same moment, displays it
barbarity. This many-named tyranny may be
.divide Pose that the existing state of par
not call for early parliamentary a
into two classes—the One, that of the orators who inflani
by their maddening speeches the worst passions
.of tbt, a direct view to repression—won
deluded multitude, and who boldly take their stand.. 00 Government and the parliament,
the very verge of treason ;the other, that of the =dn. bi of this opinion must we be suppos
assassins who immolate the victims denounced in tlf
'g Ministers are called upon to et
i earnestness into a thorough env:
inflammatory harangues of. the former.
.These form
.on
body, having one aim in view,
.and that aim the extinct grievances, especially as respect
tion of all remnant of authority possessed by En.g!aa fi,
ministration of justice, and the 1
over that portion of the empire. But are the minis.t
calmly to look on and see thus rent away, without. resist
ante, one of the most important members of the ki.ngdout
Are they to deliver up the loyal portion. of the. Irish co
munity, with their possessions, to the infuriated sway uothin_
ul
....e numerous peasantry. But b
come an imperative duty, the d
thoritv by the government, by wl
performed, is doubly necessary ;
than suspect, that in the estimate
g would be more fatal at
the ruthless hordes by whom they are at this moment a quiet attainment of so much goo
sailed ? Or ought they not energetically, and at once, 0
iriWn interested objects and misc
put in full force the powers with which they are entruste& Globe.
and put down with a vigour proportioned to the emer .
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gency of the case those who have set themselves ahoy°
the common feelings of humanity ? It is time the reign r 011:1---aGN iNTE3
of terror and of blood should end ; and, if the laws as nos 4,
FRANCE
framed are too weak to combat with the Machiavelian an
In the French Chamber of Deput
tagonists they are brought to cope
with, let them
strengthened until the educatedincendiary is made t a discussion of considerable interes
dame in the new departmental law
pay for the double guilt of instilling treason for the pur triode of election, and the number c
pose of engendering murder. Let this be done, and rondissement is to send to the genes
quickly too, or men will turn from loathing those who of the interior
the several
districts,ath si
insinuate, and those who do the deed of blood, those
to by which the number of membe
who permit it to be done with impunity.-11fornmg Pot, to elect ought to be regulated. On
importance of
Bizoin, Las Cases, Charlemagne, an.
Canton should have the privilege of
out reference to its pfaplilatiou and
was almost equally divided on this
divisions, but the result of both wi
then demanded; when there appear
proposition, 168; against it, 164.
staunch friends of the centres were
of 4. This decision goes to prove
ohambers, notwithstanding in most
wand a very great majority.
The Chamber of Deputies has pa
the Ultra Royalist law of 1816, whirl
of the anniversary of the execution
close holyday. This bill was sen
onlendecrit, after their fashion, by
jug articles—
!. The 21st January shall continu
Mourning,
2. The law of the 19th January lE
This amendment was intended,
laittee informed the House of Peers,
f that melancholy event alive in tl
of the country." But the Chamber
this amendment, by an immense rr
expected that, at their next meet
Would reject the bill altogether, unl
Posed, s
and made it a cabinet questic
remark, that out a
b
voted with them on this chignon.
The French papers bring us an
tween the Chambers, which will end,
eflotr i
e w
the o r
t openingyworthy
of the . session
voted on
of the democratical faction. The If
to reject the bill for desecrating th
bon of Louis XVI., but they ventur
°0 considered as a day of general in
bybeing
a majority of 96 to 65. Imm
.."eing communicated to the Deputi
L'l. Mauguin, voted without any de
14 43, that the bill, as originally s
oe, returned for their instant accei
Paris that the Upper House would
Neet it again, but they must submit
'lilt soon be as insignificant, as
Iteform Bill has rendered the peers
11, ow House of Commons may vo
tokens of respect for the martyrdoi
of whichs'they are so appropriate]
first meeting. If they do, the Lord
they will in France. A reduction
amount of 100,000 men is annoue
kitandard, Friday, Jan. 18.

THE IRISH PARLIAMENT.-The Irish papers con'
tain an account of a meeting of the " Irish Volun'
teers' Society," on Saturday last, at the Corn Er
change. The names of those refusing to attend the,
dictation of this incipient convention, were Messrs,
James Grattan, J. Jones, Mervyn Archdale, and Niche.
las A. Vigors. Every thing was conducted according
to form, and with the most punctilious regularity,
The Secretary read over the names of the member,
who ought to have been , there, in like manner as t
names of the members of the House of Commons a
read over when absent from the House. But as ne
Sergeant at Arms has yet been appointed, the recusant
members, instead of being handed over to the civil cuF,
tody, were consigned to the uncivil vituperations of thoo
engaged in the rehearsal of the proceedings of an Irish
Parliament. What these proceedings would be, may be'
pretty well guessed at from the speech of the dictator 0
Ireland, and agent of Catholic priesthood. The first
grand Parliamentary measure to be proposed is the mill'
tary organization of the whole of the Catholic popula'
lati on of Ireland. Nothing can exceed the regularity
the order, and peaceable association with which the ob'
ject is to be effected. None are to be admitted as volun,
teers but those whose characters will bear the strictest
examination by the parish priest : so as to insure the
admission of those only whom the opportunity of auri'
cular confession enables the priest to vouch for as 0
persons to aid in the accomplishment of the
_purpose fot
which the association is designed. The " Volunteers
are not to be armed ; Oh ! no ; that would be agains!
the law; to be sure the designation of " Volunteers
has an ominous sound, and it is difficult to contemplaV
them as an unarmed body ; but, then, they are Irish
Volunteers, which explains the apparent contradiction,
What can be more delightful contemplation than an assn'
elation of all the males of a population of six
and a half, regularly enrolled as volunteers, with the
means of taking up arms at any moment, and still philo'
sophically abstaining from their use ; trusting for victo'
ry, not to guns, but to argument ! To a philanthrope
mind, such as that of Mr. O'Connell, such a sight inn
be as gratifying as novel; more particularly when it 0
considered that the inhabitants of Ireland, who are
compose these " Pacific Volunteers," are not remarkably
' celebrated for mildness of demeanour during excitement
or abstinence from the argumentunt baculinunt, even of
festive occasions. To suppose that the spirit which 0
now calling into existence this array of Irish logicians
discuss abstract questions of civil and religious govern'
meat with the British legislature, has any ulterid
designs in their organization, would be equivalent t°l
suspecting the agitators of the selfish desire of person'
aggrandizement. It is true that this measure bears verf
much the appearance of an attempt at inthuidation 1
and some persons pretend to see in it the occult d
sign of using it as a means to force a separation. 130'
what motive can the agitator have for desiring a separw
tion ? Has he not disclaimed it ? And, besides, has hi°
not already an income of X 12,000 a year from tb°