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THOMAS NACQUF.EN, Enna.
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B4. GEORGE DAWSON'S LECTURE
011 TUB MOOS anvoLtmor.
From the Birmingham Journal.
According to promise given in the Town
Hall, a few weeks ago, Mr. George Dawson
Y.A., delivered a lecture at the same place,
oa Wednesday, the 28th ult., the subject
being the Frepcb Revolution. This lecture
was also at the request of the Mercantile
and Literary Institute. The hall was
Crowded, and amdngst those present were
aunt' of the'aioet ipfluential inhabitants of
the tdwn.
Mr. Diweos was received with much ap-
plause, and in opening remarked, that his
present purpose :night by some of them be
regarded as doubtful in its wisdom and
apocrypbat In its consequences ; but when
be looked around him and eaw the faces of
e • so many sensible and honourable men, be
could not suppose they thought he was
about to do anything wrong, else they had
no business thereto couuteoance him to so
doing. He would, therefore, take it for
granted that he bad not made any great mis-
take on the score of prudence ur wisdom •
and when be had finished, they who doubted
him wood 6a able to judge whether the ex-
pectation was larger than the potiormaece.
Every newspaper writer had been allowed
to write of recent events by the yard, and
why it .boeld be wrong for a man to "peal
of them be endowed hie igooraace. Liber-
ty of .poach tens the great characterise@ as
well u the saisgirard of a free country ; and
foltowiag his usual course of saying what
he t6eaght, without mesat.g to offend any•
ma; 6. was ouvay careless whether that
accident should happen or not. It appear-
d .Ndfut1,beiore taking into consideration
tie mesh& case which had meetly tic-
curr.d, that be should say a few words am
to what be considered to be the wturai
idsaory sad philosophy eie.vol.Iens. The
ewe saoaohg at1i.6M by oncee people to
a Revedst ea wee. that 4 wan a mere whim-
e isel i.ibs ea the part of a people to be
/Mad e, gwessaed. ipes 4sty looked at it
fres a dense* as ea improper and vulgar
thing, is regard to wb.eb it was the fust
deny et testy to have it pat down. That
It tan a deg to he put doves be (the lec-
turer) gene agreed. bet the true way to du
am trot to sot te work to ascertain how it
O MNI as all, tad of what needy it wee the
L ltd set rebel for Me
m• ho Merin se, a1jbatwll there were a few
teas er6s wee feed .(a Revolution fax the
Inse urs tlhisig, rather 14.n katicg any
.red eyaM a stew. Taw was doubt/eta
Min etas with the rosewood C.chrasite M..
,,6.1e .ttb.ngh to he sure it su said to
have W far re *set the assumption of a
dinente ftp Mer the fetatars oa 16e right-
kad i of Trafalgar Ross.. A Revolu-
tion Neer cans sheet chaste- wise. —
Then van always ether a real or alt IOW
fowl wren et ant bottom of it, a wise
miss W avid thea the it unaltered little
truth ef the two it happened t. bs—wbetb-
er red sr learned st ..flat saber to be re-
n ewed .r stsusd ee. T4.ee. aathas*ia, they
weed beer m,p.wle isdividnais tell
them thM the ewer daises of people bad
a greet drlehe of beteg g.ewed at all—
that thew bapalssese was eat se to this or
the ether bite eA reemement, bat against
ell hese- whees*W. Prow, *ie rule .f
MIN. w tail ens lied to be gelded
Ind geenned ; sad what they were stsp-
�t1 nee ied g.ueenaea void bed rid-
ing', 4!U we the nates n erhieb the
PIM* paliftoitenoilared the bed arrived ;
d�tutr'tlhe wasp gat ter the -good
efeert•thel/odilirnewel al tae ester
He weMsaaaes
d 4 shay had
tlrM" R i h �iis4 Md clew•
bS t...- d s.e.p.. r ,
Whin w ' . bei& g
esset wherewith
>�1 ism▪ oWr�wtlidled*Mese y'he(thebotarer)
Rohe a dwarf rennet le his proper oeuvre
Iffillisheme, Simi, tbe Wessel .a
~yew tame d ifmatesew, ed ea
tseetetNee teak itelli6t■w,y, bed phase
hire. •-HsIs tihdvel tet Mia
et if ewhene'te weep islatie.4 ec�e�pa
thg sew NeilleM eforuwe.f llietwtitlf,
fog he hadjidee lint basest '.t • ityllipesby
with fin eriaYMhad with the see ie ohs
stien efie'wasulp ily ht bene tleg the ass,
acid eie )fele, Id soy tan 4M parries of
hetet eishd.1f Uq tereAtify exude.
✓ We *fiMtiwetNC wwY est had
le tt see noble parser. H. eerie d a bad
stili, lad the sheikhs' ebowe itself lied
Ile its lot deseendenan • Me we. yet erre
th cal se•da Orme ti • piece et- tRti
be Miele-bashers,
•Iewyefet
red t
p 1, IOW
LasibMielbelhat ,to
a/ib.aal a a.d qmood•te gees Freon bye writhe be-
1.1141""-
ese! tit Sterlikinleola ehr..i eyed to
the a the Sim
Web N his
gesgeise thirty et • the
1y lases wase private property, heh.•g
W t• lases
4116. 1. 'isyN
Was 1a gel the .Hinge •sf lie yoke of
Poona • heist .ed by iii. sem.
.mid" o vas- *. whole of iia trenNily
1�aaaay�i
4he etewis -ed -plate-hesteleilfd
111ifIu •wen c..u...Ny'dohs
him. He also tried to rule the kingdom by
meals albs money bag, being one of those
who imagiied that everything was to be
bought by the puree. That he should bare
found is Guizut • minister to aid him io car-
rying on his schemes, was one of the sad-
dest things in modern life—a man who had
proved himself to be one of the soundest
preachers of constitutional freedom—e man
who up to the last kept his hand uncorrupt-
ed and pure, but et the same time • man
who knew that be was governing France
by ve.itity, corfbption, and bribery of every
possibly kind, as had, since his flight, been
proved beyond dispute. That Guizot
.hould run with his master, was good ; but
that he should run with Louis Philippe as
his Mephistophiles, was one of the most
melancholy things that had happenod in the
whole course of events. In every human
movement there were what might be called
proximate and remote causes, which made
the matter come to • crisis. Tho French
see themselves sinking lower and lower by
the grasping selfishness of those who
govern them, and find it at last unbearable.
The day at length comes when the proxi-
mate and remote causes of this bear upon a
reform banquet which is to be held in
Paris, and which had for its object the
widening of the suffrage, the amending the
law as to the representation, and also
the overcoming of tb6-toadies and place -
hunters hovering about the Court. This
banquet was forbidden and counter -forbid-
der, tatil it was at length announced that
it would not take place. The people are
determined tha4 this state of things shall
not continue—a little shunting takes place
amongst the Minister.—the people give lite
King one chance—he heeds it nct, and a
Republic comes in view. This revolution
was not so much a revolution of dynasties,
setting up the younger and deposing the
elder branches of the Bourbons. That day
was over, and the Bourbon reign was now
put aside as a thing not worth anymore the
troubling ono's head about. Looking, then,
at the remote causes to which this would
bring them, they would find that the power
of the working classes bad been i.ereutng
without l'beir having acorreapooding power
of putting it into practice—increasing,
without efforts being made to increase
their knowledge as to the best mode in
which that power was to be exercised.—
Tbe upper classes had played their day, the
middle classes were playing theirs, and it
was sot to be expected but that the lower
el wont, a1. pias theirs too. Tbe
great cause of this Freseb r.velettos end
bees the labour guanine. Now, what was
it? it came into this—was it right that
labour should get no part in the profits
thereof, that the profits of labour ehould al
ways flow into one channel, leaving the
labourer in the same position in which he
was originally found ? Was it right that
we should sit down despairing when it was
found that a large number of men were not
able to get a fair day's wages for a fair
day's labour? It. was easy for pe0tical
economists to tray tbat in the present state
of society it could not be otherwise? 1f
this were the case, then men must say, al-
ter society. He need not tell them that he
almost entirely disagreed with the political
ec000m pf the -Provisional Government of
France. We were more learned in that
pan of political enconomy which treated of
the production of wealth than in that whicb
treated of the distribution of wealth. It
appeared to him that the French knew very
little of either side of the matter, but :kis
they knew, that things as they were, were
very bad. They did not hold, however, that
men might sit down and say that u
now so It would seer be. They did not
say that there would not always be
peer men epos the earth ; but what tbey
end was, were they always to be so poor.
Ie dditioo to this, there bad long been
spreading a feeling against the competitive
principle of labour; they wished to try
whether association war or was not better
than competition. That we could do with-
out competition be did not believe. He had
little faith in any mechanical tailoring
fashions of reforming the world, that put
oar property into a common stock ; and be
could not see how societies of men dwell-
ing in parallelograms, or shakers' Tilltgee,
or trappers' settlements. or anything of that
INK ween 16 bring about any great god
for the world. Nevertheless, it might be
asked whether our competition was not
overdose, and "hither or sot usoctation
might sot be tried ? instead, therefore, of
Fourierism*, er commusisms, being sneered
at, give them room for a trial, whether they
ween eepable .1 beteg carried out. Tutees
dotage have long bees "weeding in France:
Ker have long bees lryisg what sight be
dose by 'pptet-stook speculation. The great
people .lea. i did try the associativepried:
pts tberesuee, for what was the problem of
the west end clubs but u to whether a
man could not live as well there upon
£100, as epee £fgne0, a year elmwhere.
Tbe ballet -.baa WWI gewerMfy sneered at
also by these people es is Itegli.h aid us-
coestttataml, ass a swerdfy way et dotal
thins, but yet they themselves pet their
bands into the blackballiog x, 1. order
that It might bot be emu web Moaned.
And yet tbeno were the i deals who
forth to prsieb agafnet working -mat
M4etlit :tea sons weeeiple for themselvtm,
atihaogh atter a.sesewbat ruder feohijis.--
fest. Beery
All ha asked Lair play for the .#peri.
a who talked of com-
bauoiem wee apo. as wishing to knock
Moiety upside dews. It b•d no .och ob-
)ect. Tse ge .stlee wit►' net for ne to ecru -
eider wbefher theca w11e thibk latent bed
not tilt ply is the earth weretrelf:rt
must, bet mmwly whether they
they west tight or wrest, and there war a
street teeing abroad throughout Europe
t e workie`` • man had set scope "°12111"°12111tipa
tut the
Mead. or run Bis raes in the
. To slow tbat thle •te really the
ease, be would now read an bxtrteet from
a speech froth Lord John Russell, delivered
in )843, when be was in Opposition. He
had a high respect for his lordship whilst in
Opposition, for he then made good speeches,
and delivered himself of sensible ideas, but
so soon as the sun of place rose upon Aim
they vanished and faded away with the
morning dew. The extract was as follows:
41f we look at the labouring classes—if we
look to the men who either till the soil or
labour in the factories—if we look to the
quantity of necessaries which their wages
could buy in the middle of the last century,
and that which they could btiy now --I
think that we must be convinced that they
have net participated in an equal. degree in
the advantagee which civilization and im-
proved knowledge have conferred upon us."
In 1845 herd John said that it was then a
favourable opportunity for trying to per-
manently improve the state of the workiug
classes, but this opportunity was allowed to
fade away and had not returned. Now this
was the testimony of one of the higher
classes that the working man had not ob-
tained his proportion of the advantage de-
rivable from the world's progress in knowl-
edge• It was not right in this matter the
passage of scripture should be fulfilled,
which said that to him who hath should be
given and from him who bath not should bo
taken away. That the labourer was out
gaining what be was entitled to was felt in
France. and hence the desire that the next
revolution should bo one by which they
should gel something. They got soothing
by the first revolution, and still leas by l6e
second, and it was not to be wondered at,
therefore, that they should try to gain
something' by their motion this time.—
They turned out to the streets to fight,
and he could not ■utiiciently admire the
men who could quietly return to their
houses unnoticed and unknown, after strug-
gling for something from which they might
not perhaps expect to•reap any benefit
whatever. They turned out to the streets
for the purpose of overturning a Govern-
ment obnoxious to them. They succeeded,
and they now attempted to set up a new
one which should tie govern France asethat
labour should take something by its last
and most emphatic work. The Govern-
ment were willing to grant this ; but be
had nes faith in Governments trying to
manage joint stock bakeries and provision
shops for the people. He did not believe
a was the province of a Government to feed
the population, but rather to see that emu
tom sma,U fya ll.'Aad to ;arta
ie utility of Government pottering ass
but that it was not able at present to do so,
be had not the slightest doubt. This prob-
lem was only to be solved by France and
England joining tugether, with that end w
view—it was not solvable out of this coun-
try. The next important question was as
to the likelihood of war now. Ile believed
that this was far more unlikely than before
Louis l'bihppo's fall. Happily there was
no person to fight. The Gertnaos_had
risen and bad .Lown that they could
be something more than mystics and pipe
smokers when it was needful. They bad
sent Metternich to the nee -about, were
brioging the King of Prussia to book, and
were also taking to task their old tory
friend of Hanover. The great fear was
that that unholy alliance in the north be-
tween Austria, Prussia, and Russia, would
go to war with France ; but Austria had
better take care of itself, as there waicvcry
prospect that it ,would soon settle into a
third-rate concern indeed. Prussia would
not darn to go to war with France, as it
had enough cut out for it to mind and mend
its own affairs fur plume time to come.—
The great danger of war seethed to be re-
duced to the will of one nation, and that
was Russia. Would Nicholas, however,
try to wage it against us alf 1 The ('ole
was likely to rise again and assert his
oatio'nality, and the Circassian was not yet
put dews ; and should Russia attempt any
wars against western Europe, it would find
such universal rising as would dive its
savage bear back to his native icebergs, and
show him the detestation in which his des-
potiem had so long been regarded. As for
this country it would go to war, but in a
very different manner to that of which it
had long mace had sufficient. When the
first E reggb Revolution broke out, this
country engaged in a most unholy crusade,
and we were smarting under it to this day,
in the shape of debts and taxes, which had
taught us to let the French alone. '!'hero
was still, however, too much petty meddl-
ing with other nations ; and in reference to
our recent 'interference with Portugal, ho'
considered it was a disgrace to a free nation
that we ehould step in to prevent a people
from settling with as Government any vio-
lation of pledge or dereliction of duty of
which it had been guilty. He considered,
then, that this country should leave the
French altogether alone ; nay, further than
this, that we should recognise their right to
be governed by a republic, or by a monarchy
of three kings, just as they pleased. Were
Di r"t'senetlteriali4tri lir. amaii vias si
Newport lately, where a few years ago they
tinkering at workmen's wages, or Talking i bad a revolution oe, a small scale ; and hay -
about the hour at which a moo should Im!e ing asked what they bad made by their
j motion did that occasion, a barracks of 600
effect of narrowing tee preemies of • Gov- I soldiers was pointed out to him u tho re -
kis work. These things would bare the
ernment rather than enlarges( it. This , salt of tbetr going out to the streets to
modern Government, however, was not to fight. He considered it to be the glory of
be despised because they might make a few ear constitution that it was imperfect ; for
mistakes in the outset, before the expert- , t showed them that only such a conrtttu-
meat wu fully put into operation. The' cos could accommodate itself to the times
Provisional Goveremest bad ben placed to through which it had to pass. The French
office ander Ike meet trying cire.rwata.res. had brought their Parliament to book, and
They found an traumatise exchequer. and' it was now our bounden duty to do the
the national credit almost is state of tank- ease ; but as most of those now present
ruptcy, sad it could net but be expected know that pottage( was to be got from win- �
that in their efforts t. meet the crises Willi, dew be•kug and tomfoolery of a like sort,
t!ey had to eDeonater, they shoed monn he was sot afraid of their resorting to such
some mistakes. Six or *eves .ass seer - a tons'. Tbe Preach could not get it by
bad barber work put epee thee nate the edgy other seams, as they had no free press,
world bgen. They bed semis tate boost asp tttbt e( meeting togs then, and nut even,
esom
ostler the most uafareassbils aresmemee s. tie ngbt of trembliog when they
masa of lying sad e.erwpti.., sad the mai twee w
pe, with free Vlspeech, and certain
assigned them of redeem( • Masa of see- nom pawhich we tend see to extracting
fusion aid starchy toeenetfgg tib pasa
-(ipert.a. seser . from sewtltseg legisla-
ceable order. (hest sWwasese shoed WHet, d we were wily able to raise the
made for sae. who bad eons te tis whet elf eatassal enthusiasm ; lad a oewspaper had
• aim just as it wait, genas w pewees ea• wisely seek that the revolution we needed
les *bore. Thy were not dwe awgetber bee s s v.veleteue .f the wheals of progress.
en
seeither. tie did set .den Use rest Ml
oe. reo.et of shoe country was not
ember. of weeding was, nab by their tidy setsetd by the deems to grrad and
preemies triad to contrail the flenneweel Useple the people in toe dust; but its
d
Government ; but this wooosis cermet whale cashmere was Damp.red by routine,
itself. The Govee.neet nisei U restr�- .keggsd by foie, and a dead weight attach-
ed re this maw wooed ewe bether..gh- aIs m
11. ov.metts from the belief that
ly great one. Mach r y be desseted prthe right to Hovers was in the bends of a
spine. yet be was eeomd that
vsese fees lbw !.mdse., and as if the country could
country could do without lad any cot be governed bet by the proper patent
attempt that should be me& m disc. d
Prase* to c. for dng so. Another great evil
make the elector, vote me way he s6osid 1s Cha Government of this couutry was the
consider a falsity to fho /rat riper** of coataual hankering after party purposes,
a
constitutional goverment, lad one eliek'sed threats held out that unless much and
e.te
would end to morrow d Memo. 1f : such a thing was complied with Lord JulieUsers, was s larger ..sw .► of Ropa►ti. , would resign. Then lot him, he should
cams them of those wtabiag the renal .f i say. There were surety other, men to be
Louis Pbihmil
ppe and 61. fay, ec of Legtu-, foetid who were able to govern the people.
mots than either, let it be k.ows. A goy- Tim Hoe of Commons appeared to be so
ou
ernment never cad,' as b. carried o. well , Home
composed, that the mini/ray voted, so
where it had not the opportunity of know- the amenity of the nation thought ; and this
ing the feelings of any coseiembie party I was a state of thing* which •uugbt not to
r wet that was in the eountry. They I continue. Mr. Dau son then went on to
b
, ald remember that to legislate for the: enforce this argument by instancing the
working man alone was as great a sin as tot movements in favour of the abolition of
legislate for the middle classes alone. It capital puni.hment, the Game Laws, the
having a debt bequeathed then of a gloat spore dnMd
e..at. 'e, however, had a
was as much a class Government, and there-
fore as wicked, as any other; and if French-
men should see this clearly, and should feel
that their Republicanism was a safe and
sore thing, that must they take care that
tbe7 did not experience th..t the Govern-
ment of • mob was greater tyranny than
the Government of a few. Nothing so
hampered a Government, either, more than
the supposition that i1 could do everything,
aad had • magic wad at command, which
would keep people in food and raiment
without working. But was h. (the
leetsree) hopeful l m►taiaty he was. He
was sot one of those who mournfully pre-
dicted that it would sod in autarchy and
bloodshed. Tbat the men of France would
try to govern rraoce was likely, but that
the Pans crowd should attjrnpt to dictate
to the rue of the kingdom was a great Ont.
Imam 'ex, and dwelling particularly on
the great uyustice of the latter impost. Ile
oleo referred at some length to the inequali-
ty of the taxes on land, compared with
other property. Ile considered that we
were coming to a point beyond which it
wee impossible to pay more taxes than we
already did, and the only way for us to tree
ourselves was by entering an energetic
protest against any further demands beteg
made upon us, and a determined resolution to
clear the country of all frivolous end un-
oeeemory expenses. Vi hat,. "for instance,
was the us. of a .alared Nailer of the
Soekhouwds ; the tunes were retch tbat if
hedid not get out of the way, It wipe very
probable that, like Aeueoo of old, he would
amid every chance of being made 'u meal
of by his hounds. The diplomatic corps
as also an expensive piece of frippery, that
stand aga;Mt deeaoeraey led a great evil. aught to be eu,taitd of its proportions very
That the ptrpeetatiowe el a great easy per- much, As to the much talked of subject,
sees would be bkgtstd and dieappeiat d he oar national defence*, he coeddered the
had no doubt, aid it would be so -much the peens juncture affords 1 an opportunity
better. That France weuld do its bat in for diminishing them rather than increasing
eodeavoering to work out the Kettles of them. TIe again reputed that the recent
OM greet labour gwestioe, was hie hops ; Wrests which bad occnrrd afforded a favour-
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able opportunity fur their entering a great
protest, calm but firm, that they must have
• cheaper Government, a wider franchise, a
better representative system, and a larger
measure of progrewiun, than they Lad had
yet. Ile behoved t!o ought say thus much
for 16o working claimer, that if they saw a
Government setting about the work of te-
formation in a right way, they wuuld do all
they could to assist that Government In the
fairest possible manner to carry It out.—
They merely demanded Reform. 1f the
Government could give it, good ; if not,
then they must move nut of the way, and
some one else would be got to fill their
places. Mr. Dawson sat down amid much
applause. The lecture occupied above an
hour and a half in lts delivery, and con-
aequeatly the above is a mere outlaw. lit
was listened to with the greatest attention,
and the audience repeatedly evinced, by
their hearty applause, their concurrence in
the sentiments of the lecturer.
Alderman Pitmen having been:called to
the chair, a vute of thanks was proposed by
Mr. WalouT 10 Mr. Dawson, ubech was
seconded by Councillor DAaNIITT, sad pass-
ed by acclamation. Mr. Dawson shortly
acknowled the compliment, and the meet-
ing separated.
LONDON CORRESPONDENCE
Or TUE BRITISH COLONIST.
LONDON, May 3, 1848.
The chief event to be chronicled this
week is the roeult of the elections in Fraise.
It is an event, indeed. kern touch mistaken
if it doe. not exert an incalculable influence
upon European society. 1t has proved,
once and for ever, that •n extended suffrage
is not dangerous to a community, but tends
rather to preserve and consolidate it. Ono
would certainly have supposed that a violent
and r :citable people like the French,—Re-
volutionists by inheritance, and ultra -demo-
crats by instruction—frenziod at once with
a desire for revenge upon their enemies,
and, with the joy of victory—urged by the
turbulent.spinte of the time, and inci-
ted by the blinding promisee of ambition—
would have taken advantage of the great
opportunity which universal stiffretre afford-
ed to choose for their apostles and repre-
sentatives men of passion and violence,—
men who would minister to their wild and
ambitioussdesires. But how nobly t
he
ruedtOtwPsUsWo.VilliftisitirillernIfigt,M
ing with their unanimous suffrages the per-
sons who have endeavoured to inflame there
into outrage, and to urge their adoption of
physical force as a means to secure their
rights, they have emphatically registered
their disapproval of such wicked doctrines
and such unworthy men, and have chosen ,
instead to declare their confidence in the
peaceful sentimnents•and lotty virtues which
distinguish Lamartine above all his peers.
The feet 'peeks volumes in their prat+e.-e
It shows that although they have abolished
the nobility of circumstance, they are proud
to bow before the nobility of character;
and it further proves that in the midst of
revolution they have the magnanimity to
discard insurrectionary agents, and to re-
pose with confidence upon the champions
of order, purity and peace. I said above
that the result thus brought about cannot
fait to have -a, powerful effect upon the
world at large. It will be a wonderful ar•
gement for the friends of popular liberty to
use. For who cannot now argue that if
the Fronch people have thus signalised
tbemmelves in their first use of a power long
withheld from them, there is no nation in
Europe that with fail to act at leant as well
undersimilar circumstances. Already the
reedit of these elections has been power-
fully urged by the Complete Suffrage agita-
tors here in England; and as we are duubt-
leas on the ore of great electoral changes
in Great Britain, it u both interesting and
instructive to u. -in the highest degree to
note the excellent example which a couu-
try, even while in the very thrums of Revo-
lution, is noble enough to set us.
1 meet confess myself not in the least
surprised at the cheering turn French af-
fairs have tbu. taken. Let the people say
what they will abo :t the tendency of the
lower orders toward. Anarchy and Violence,
there is a stronger tendency still in thew
towards Goodness and Peace. '!'hero it a
quietindertrgttiblo reverence for Gruatnc±s
even In t6ehumblest bosom, and though in
a moment offierce excitement the popular
will may follow the directing of an anarchist,
just as the upper current of a stream
may follow tha straw that floats upon
its surface, it will yet bo found that as in
that stream there is • deeper rind stronger
current at a lower depth, so in the great
stream of lluman Life there is a vast under-
current
ndercurrent which always runs towards 'Truth
and recoeniz-s tho solo Guidance of virtue.
Popular Feeling is a wild, but a geoerue'
and noble steed ; always t.. bo trained by a
firm end kind hand into the meat iwpucit
docility. Turn to what page you will in
history of the present day, and you a ill see
that in every popt.lar outbreak, it is the
people who set the example of goodness
and forgiveness.— Even in the height of
Frenzy, a wicked monarch like Louis
Philippe can be suflured to depart unbaru,•
ed : even in a moment of plunder. • Philu-
sopher'a name (Von Humboldt's) can secure
its owner safety and reverence ; even at an
hour of triumphant Justine, a mob Guava -
event can abolish the revengeful penalty of
death, and proclaim sublimely, though sur•
rounded by slanghterd wives and children,
that the murderer abaft be Rafe from retalt
atio.,--for life t• a Gift of God, and man
had no reit, under alloy circu.ust. dices 1.
invade ht.
Of " England aid the Eighth" my re-
marks need not be vary lengthy. The
most notable sign of the preoent moment
NUMBER 18.
desesnimeereineeMeirairei
is the vigorous efforts which it toeing
made to enlist the middle classes in the
movement now commcr.cing in favour of
complete suffrage. 1 toll you in my last
two lettere of the new Radical couthi-
nation iu Parliament : but a far more im-
portant cumbioaIit n is taking place out of
doors among the people. The respectable
part of the Chartist body has now agreed to
wake the famous flex Points and to join the
middle classes in • great effort to extend
the suffrage until it becomes almost univer-
sal. In London, Liverpool, Menshester,
Birniingharn, Leeds, and many other large
towns in Ergland, aid in EJinburgh and
Glasgow, great meetings have been ht Id to
advance the ubject in view, and to assimi-
late the middle with the working classes in
the endeavour after Parliamentary Reform.`
The cause is token up by influential and
busiueseliko men, and threatens to become
as "great" a " fact" as the celebrated Anti •
Corn Law League. ft is IAs general
opinion iliok ii .kfr. Cobden will dead this
movement, he sill Lem/win a eery fear years
l'rims ltfiaiatcr of Englund. This is • bo'd
opinion, but more unlikely things have come -
to pass in our time. That great changes
will soon occur among ter, is quite clear.—
The mind of Britain is inconceivably agita-
ted, and will certain) du something. Al-
ready the doctrine of�Rmryotintnt( as been
{;reached among us. 'fhb celebrated Mr.
Newman, of Oxford, has put forth a plan
fur the extinguishment of the National
Debt in sixty years. It we follow this gen-
tlemaa's advice we shall instantly give
notice to the fundholders that at the expi-
ration of the time, named their interest, in
the National Debt will have ceased for
ever 1 There's • respectable proposal for
you ! But 1 think I am sufficiently in the
confidence of Lord John flossed to assure
you that Ministers de sot intend to recom-
mend it fur the adoption of the •Legislature.
Bssuur Parr.rorr.—A trial took place at
Exeter Assizes, on Monddy, in which the
Bishop of Exeter prosecuted Mr. Latimer,
(Atha Western Times, for a libel in his pa-
per. It declared the Bishgqpp to bo so noto-
rious it brawler, that any'Story, not iniput-
ing to hint the milder virtues, concerning
his rule and discipline, was received without
question, and circulated as gospel ; it also
raid that the Bishop had once in the House
of Lords " stood brended•'ae a consecrated
car-eless perverlcr of facts, and one wheeled _.--
c
1832, the Duke of Somerset built a cburcb
in hie manor of Bridgetown, and that the
Duke and the Bishop had personal negotia-
tions on the subject of Ite consecration.—
The church war filled for some years by
the Reverend Mr. Shore, who has lately
been battling with the Bishop in the eccle-
siastical Courts.. In 1843 Lord Broughe
presented a petition fror.
m Mr. Shore to -tthe
House of Lords ; and on that occasion the
Bishop of Exeter told the House that the
Duke of Somerset had made engagements
in respect to the use of the church, which
he aftereserd. hruke ; he had registered the
ChurchAli! a .Diaserting chapel, for 111r.
Sbo,4 to.pnach-in, after he seceded from.
the Cbuichh if -England.
On occasiun of this charge by the Bishop.
against the Duke, Mr. Latimer published is
his paper. the language now impugned, and
• the B.diop bruught his indictment. The
defendant put In two pleas,— namely,. a
fennel one denying fhe charge of publishing
a libel, and a plea of jaatification. The lat-
ter compelled the jury to judge between
tho Bishop and the Duke on their relative
veracity. The 'Bebop was personally put
in the witness box, and examined on all the -
circumstances of the negotiation" about fho
church. Mr. Cockburn proposed to the
Judge to ask the Bishop if he had not been,
by Lord Grey and ethers, charged on )arti-
cular occasions with misrepreJentiona and
the making of unfounded atatementa.—
Baron 1'iatt, however, would not allow &hi.
course. The jury, after an hour's conside-
ration, gave a verdict of guilty on the first
plea, ben of acgnittal on tho plea of justifi-
cation. The verdict was received in the
court w itt. irreprcr'ible appl ,ure i,pnd bands
of music paraded Exeter io triumph.—Lon-
don Spectator, .April 1,
ENGLAND
TIIR PARI.IAas*KT Or" Smarr IIOLr.OR.
"—The House of Commons (says the Care -
Id gradually ceasing to be the centre
of political thunght and action. Great
questiuna and grievances, instead pf being
brought forward in Parliament, ars' mutated
in the newspapers and placarded to the
streets. You aught as well look to the
Gazette for the history) of the national mind
fur the last six months, 55 to the debates
and the division -lits 01 the so called popu-
lar breach of the Legislature. Abroad, th.w
political world if going round at the rate of
twenty revolutions in nut month.. Franco
casts ',Whet past like a w,.rn-out garment,
and rushes nal ad tato the future. Germa-
ny springs from her reverie, Italy Froin her
tomb. Austria gathers up her huge un-
wieldy limbs, rubs her Jemmy eyes, sed
stagger. toward a new eta. All the unl.
verve Is waking. Orer the p .rials of the
British Parliament, as over those of tate-
cemeteries of French atheistn,nne reads the
mournful legend,` Hero is eternal sleep."
Wbst do you suppose the world thinks
01 es, required • ptdantio ) oung man of
Dr. Johnson ; Why, 1 suppos , said the
doctor,' that they tvuuld think me a bull
dog, and you • tin kettle tied to my tail.
A conceited tccaveher being asked if ha
had teen the ' Midge of tiyrtts' st Venice,
replied that ' there was no Midge td say
site in the wbulu Citi .' e,,
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