Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-04-04


day because one, he said would believe him. Hear,
near We cannot confront that example, the growing
the asprngs and the feelings of our own peo-
pie or the prevailing tendencies of the age, of the
country In which we live and Of the world at large if do
not consent to administer work out our arstocratc nst
uuons inraher more Of democratic spirit than heretofore.
Loud cries of hear. j"
Ii was TO be expected that man situated and
connected as Lord MoRPETH is in his own country
would not return with any diminished attachment
to the aristocratlc or TO the monarchical elements
of his own Government, which are vitality connect
ed He possesses the signal benefits Buthis con-
trast of the wretcbedness of the British masses with
the abundance and comfort which pervade the
whole face of the American people, might have
converted mere philanthropist and philosopher to
the pure and unaffected democracy which could
surveying its whole history and that of any mon
archy for the same perod) bear, in reality, in the
points of order, peaceableness moderation, and good
faith, to be confronted with any other polity where
soever.
| In the debate in the House of Commons, Sir
JAMES GRAHAME said the working population of
England, although they do not subsist altogether
on potatoes, are in great measure dependant on
them for their daily food" Mr.. M. GIBSON,
member Of Parliament stated that it was notorious
that the subsistence of millions reduced TO the
lowest point at which human beings could be kept
alive"
Father MATHEW has just emerged as the apostle
of Indian corn, Of which the nutrve and palatable
qualities at last imagined the other side of
the channel. He laments the long prevalence or
monopoly of the potato. By the way, the diffu-
sve and dreadful increase of crime in Ireland, by
which the new Coercion bill is indicated in the
House of Lords, might lead us to the conclusion
that the Temperance reformation has not proved
effcacious for its most important object. Hear the
London Morning Chronicle:
Famine and the chief facts in the condition Of
great province of the British empire to which the attention
of Parliament is called in the middle Of the nine
teenth century. Irish desution has been for nights
the subject Of debate in the House Of Commons and the
House of Lords will this evening be asked to give second
reading bill for suppressng crime in Ireland, by ex-
peden desperate and revolving to of justice
well be imagined The ordeutenant is to proclaim
district in which murder other outrage dis
urbed and the whole of the inhabitants of that district will
be bound after such proclamation to remain within their own
homes from sunrise that to say during certain
of the year, for sixteen hours out of the twenty
All persons found ransgessng the regulation will be appre-
hended but those who prone lawful occasion for be-
ing out will escape punishment. Failing such proof the
transgession misdemeanor punishable by tansporta
ton from to fifteen years, by three years mprson
ment."
O'CoNNELL protests, likewise, against the bill, in
letter included in my budget of printed articles.
Some of these appalling exhibitions of the mise
ry of the laborng classes throughout both islands.
They bear out the current idea of the French Jour
nails !" The fear of imminent revolution is the only,
the primuns mobile of the policy of the British
: Government in this crisis"
i The question of more numerous nations food
has been under discussion, for four sttngs in the
French Chamber of Deputies. Cattle, hitherto,
have been taxed entering the cities by the head,
and not by weight; and meat introduced in p0r-
tons has paid higher duties than that of the cattle
slaughtered by the butchers within the walls. This
system operated of to lessen the quantity in
troduced, and to raise prices. In Paris pound of
! meat costs the days wages of good work-woman.
Proportionaby to the population, the consumption
of animal food was, in 1883, fifty per cent. more
: than it is at the present time. The Journal des
Debats proved this allegation, and argued that meat
diet is far the most conducive human strength and
energy. large majority have pronounced in fa-
vor Of the bill, which the Journal des Debas pro-
claims truly democratic, it is designed and must
operate for the welfare Of the people. LAMARTINE
exclaimed, in the debate: I" live in Democra-
cy, let us give the people cheap living" This &c
centric, and too often visionary, but sometimes truly
eloquent genius, delivered characteristic, effective
harangue. He mentioned his conviction in regard
TO France-such as Lord ASHLEY recently express
ed relatively to Great Britain and Ireland-that the
masses are greatly ,u,derfed and he lavshed enco-
MUM on Sir ROBERT PEEL and the members of the
British arisocracy who adhered to the Premier, for
their measures of free and low prices.
La Revue NouueLe, Of the 18th instant, CON-
mences with article of forty pages, on the Ore
gon question, from the pen and with the signature
of Monsieur DE MoFRAs, author of the two volumes
on California and Oregon, which were published at
the cost and under the immediate auspices of the
Ministry of War. Considering the character and
design of La Revue NouueLe, the article may be
considered sem-ofhcia and the author remu-
nerated by both French and British subsidies He
has studied to give the whole the most favora-
BILE aspect for the British claims and dispositions
protesting the while sympathies for the United
States and strong repugnance to the encroaching
British power In his book, he took care in affect
ing the same bias, to decide peremporly in confr-
nation of the British title; the pretended bias re-
, commended his final judgment. Thus is it in the
elaborate and sinister article. He argues Justify
against us; shows egregious ignorance bad faith
in various statements; relates how he visited Ore
gon and whatconversations he held with Sir GEORGE
SIMPSON, and with the officers of Commander
WnKEs's Expedition. He holds the measures pro-
posed in the Presidents message to amount TO uo-
ation of the treaty. He deems a compromise I'M
possible under the solemn declarations OF the two
Governments, and therefore predicts an early war.
His grand ideas are--that the Canadas will, ere
very long, be independent; that the French race
will predominant in them, and that the settlers in
Oregon being French Canadians, there must arise
an independent Oregon power, which, without for