Star. — 1830-04-10 (London, England)

ALGIERS. The French, to prove they mean no mere naval parade, now talk, to our surprise, of marching upon the enemy by way of Tunis; a project which not only includes that State in her hostility and intended conquest, but 'sill render the works thrown up and improved before Algiers since the EXMOUTH bombardment, of no avail ; while it cuts off the retreat of the enemy to the mountains behind him, to which, in case of defeat, it is apprehended he will endeavour to convey his treasures. To a regular infantry and artillery, commanded by the best officers in the world, the devoted Day has nothing to oppose but an army of wild cavalry, principally composed of negro slaves and ragged Arabs, unaccustomed to warfare, and ignorant of the first elements of tactic. The result then of the expedition depends upon England—for Spain is too prostrate, too low in the dust, to vindicate her interests so fearfully at stake in this quarter; and England is left, in the alarming eaergsacy,• to decide for both. Is it not curious ?—is it not lamentable ?—to bobohl British senators and journalists, clamouring, as tonal, on the petty detail at bome-:.questions of divorce, ban', leather "and prunella,"—while the blow is aiming from without, at our dearest, sad most important intonate t They are like merchants trading with the few raft= of the world, by -L swinges  Representative of the People in Parliament ; a very use ful member of that House, in which,—the effervescence of his heated imagination, and the ebullitions of his excited temperament being repressed, not only by the established forms which regulate that grave deliberative assembly, but by the conscious inferiority of his powers, and the inaptitude of his oratorical habits to the sober purposes of Legislation,—he may be content :with the merit of utility, where he can never hope to be influential or dictatorical :—but, as the Head of a Political Association, we have long regarded him as the most unsafe nay, the most dangerous man in society. Not that we ever ascribed to him, individually, even the con temptation of any act, boldly outraging the safety of the country in itself, or calculated to involve him, personally, in any dangerous consequences ; but we have felt that his eagerness for popularity—mob popularity, too !—has led him, in the pursuit of that" darling passion of his soul," into excesses which it has been impossible to witness without  trembling for the result. It is true, that, in the moment of his most apparent enthusiasm, he retains all that self-pos• session which enables him to restrain the expression of his  own feelings within the pale, though on the extreme verge, of legal privilege ; but it is in the effect of his agitation upon the less prudent, or leas calculating, minds of his countrymen, that the danger is to be apprehended.— It is in the effect which his harangues are but too well qualified to produce amongst men whose feelings, whose passions, whose prejudices, nay, whose very thoughts, are kept in a perpetual state of excitement,—and whose most ardent sensibilities may be easily roused to the very mad-'l, ness of desperation by the mere recurrence to the wrongs, the sorrows, the oppression, and the persecutions, of which they have long considered themselves to be the victims,—that the mischievous tendency of such inflammatory addresses must ever be deprecated. We had hoped that the calm and moderated tone which Mr. O'CONNELL assumed in the part which he took in the debates of the " Collective," was the result of a more ma tared reflection upon the achievement of that measure which opened to him the doors of the Senate House ; and that the system of agitation, to which he deemed it necessary to resort for the attainment of that object, would give place to a laudable endeavour to allay every particle of political ferment, and to realise those promises of conciliation and good feeling without which the tranquillity of Ireland never can be secured. We find, however, that we had given him credit for principles which he did not possess, and for motives by which ,he never has been actuated. His Addreeees to " the Society of the Friends of Ireland"—a revival of bis old Association—breathe—•not the spirit of the Patriot —but the turbulence of the factious partizan ; not the wisdom orthe senator, but the rancor of the disappointed detnagegee. We shall return to the .object on Monday.  The murder then is coming to light I and the lasting Peekifieu of the* Barbary territories is a thing really, site all, seriously, and, it would seem, unntokstedly, projected by France.--Fasuce MISTUU or