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POLITICS AND NEWS.

FRANCE.

We have received the Paris papers to Tuesday. The du- ties on foreign linens have become lately a matter ofserious discussion between the London and Paris press.

The Moniteur of Monday morning contains the ordonnance for dissolvingthe Chamber of Deputies, dated at Neuiliy, on the 12th inst. ,

All France is now engaged in the general election, so that they have no time to think of amulet, infernal machines, or any oddity peculiar to this excitable people. The papers are terribly dull, therefore, to an Englishman.

According to the Toulonnais of the 9th inst., a report pre- vailed on the 5th at Algiers that the whole province of Con- stamina had revoited against the French. Abd-eLKader was said to have arrival at 'l‘enez, in order to organise_tlie contingents of troops furnished by the eastern tribes of the

re ency. . _

Pixie Paris papers of Wednesday are chiefly occupied with speculations on the approaching election which Will, it is generally believed, give a considerable n ajority to the mi- niaters.‘ The Manitcur contradicts the report oi an insur- rection in the province of Constantina, on the ground that the government has received no intimation of it. '

Loms PHILIPPE.—Some weeks ago there appeared an article in the Sun, in which we stated, on excellent authori-

r ty, that the King oftlie French was labouring under an in- curable disease. This article attracted considerable atten- tion in Paris, but the journals, from prudential considera- tions, took no notice of it. Unhappily, the King’s disorder has so rapidly increased that it can no longerbe kept secret The members of the Royal Family have becmiie so alarmed, that they are ufi'aid to quit the Palace, lest they might never again behold their Royal parent. A l’aris correspondent, in a communication to a morning contemporary, says :—“In spite of an appearance of strength, his Majesty the King of the French has for some time past been a great sufferer, and‘

his ailment has been u source ofuueasiness to his (lccply-at- .

tached and devoted consort and his affectionate finniiy. At a recent consultation of physicians, the features of his Ma- jesty’s disorder, as well as general health, were narrowly ex- amined. The conclusion arrived at by the distinguished members of the faculty present was, that the disease was dropsy. 1 make this'statement on ample authority. ‘ His Ma- jest ’s life may not be in any immediate danger, but the com- plaint has become painful and serious.” The peace of En- rope—aye of the world,—liangs upon the life of the King of the French. He it is who really maintains the peace of Eu- rope. }le it is who compelled France to remain neutral

as the pasha was taking a ride in the neighbourhood, he was surrounded by a body of 1,200 sailors, mended the payment ofa portion of the arrears due to them. pnsha told them to eat that, pointing at the wood. The sailors took him at his word, and carried offu quantity of timber. The next day, however, the pashn ordered 300 ofthem tone flogged, in order to discover the ringleaders, four of whom Were delivered-up and executed, and ninety more were load- ed with irons.”

been permitted to transcribe the following melancholy pas- sage from a private letter,

bad, April 2?, 1842: intelligence has poor fellows have been about 25 officers and 700 men, sick could not hold their musketfi' ' the P. S. perceiving this, cl ‘,

try, from quarters on which we can place the utmost ro-

e who clamorously de- twenty- two months" Being then near the timber-yard, the

Arrousmsrax.—Tus Ganaisos or GHUZNE‘E.—-We have t

addressed to one ofhis friends in infantry 2—“ Ahmeda- just arrived that these destroyed to a man. There were included. The sepoys the Ghazis referred to in u and destroyed them.”

England, by an ofiiccr ofthe 3d native

to be. found. _ of fin-ms, especxally grass manufacturing town's,

No district has sufleret owned principally by Sir

the severity ofthe times, never was so little domg.

ofthe town, to make purchases.

which indeed are ofa nature to speak for themselves. V

‘can Association for oil the 8th

of ground was eagerly taken, there are no tenants No rents can be obtained from the occupants farms, in the neighbourhood of and the farmers are greatly distressed. i more than Osbaldeston, which iS R. Peel. . the metropolis, the last place to. experience the general complaint is that there The shopkeepers in the west end have in no season taken so little 'niouey as in f'visitors from the country in a condition

very bit

And even in si

R

his, from the want 0

\Ve have confined ourselves to bai‘estatements of facts,t

si

EMIGRA’l‘iON. ' consulting Council ofthe British Emigration and Colonizationtw June, at the house of the Association, New, Blackfriurs—the President (his Grace the

A meeting ofthe Ameri-

' fl Bridge Street. . l' a ‘7 Duke- of argyll) in the Chair. _ , 1 “RE A [‘ iI‘AlN. The minutes ofthe fbrmer Council having been read’a g 0

DISTRESSED STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

( From the .Morning Chronicle.) The accounts which we receive from all parts ofthe coun-

liance, are, we regret to say, of the most alarming character.

The state of Mitiicbester may be inferred from a printed requisition, to which the names ofa number of respectable shopkeepers are attached, which runs thus: “ Ban TRADE AMONGST Snorxasrizns.—VVc, the finder- signed, impi'csscd‘with the necessity ol‘calliug p meeting of shopkeepers, &c., ofthe borough, to take into consiicration the present depressed state of their trade, and se ‘ing no prospect of‘escnpc from the generaitiinpciiding ruin which tlii‘bzitciis nearly all classes iii this district, rcspectiilil ' invite you to attend a preliminary meeting, to behold ut the‘dprcad Eagle, Hanging Ditch, on Monday eveningr next, the 13th inst, at seven o’clock precisely, to determine what steps should be taken in order to make kuowu their present alarming and distressed condition.

“Manchester, June 8, 1842.” '

This brief document speaks volumes. From the great wealth of Manchester, the immense capitals and established credit of many ofthe houses engaged in business, it was one ofthe last places to feel the pressure; but now all is gloom, and the working classes'are suffering severely. .

Onc fact will serve to give an idea ofthe intensity of the distress. There is an establishment for distributing soup,

during the war in Syria. Whatever may be his political faults, and they are many and serious, Europe stands indebt- ed to him for the peace which it now enjoys. But’shail we have peace when the royal peace-preserver is gone? That, indeed, is a seribus question, to the solution of which the at- tention of the statesmen of Europe cannot be too quickly or too seriously directed. ‘For our part we confess that we ap- pi'ehend the worst. Vtht abilities the Duke of Orleans may ssess We know not; but from all that we have heard, he is at indifi'erentiy qualified to steer the vessel of the state in waters in which any heimsman less able than his fatherwould have foundered. Besides, the war-fever rages so madly, that war with him will be a political necessity. He will be compelled to fight orabdicate, unless the French oplo come to their senses before it pleases God to remove their present Sovereign. With the question, as to whether anothe.‘ revolution will take place, or be attempted, upon the death of Louis Philippe, we have here nothing to do.—Lon-

donS‘un.

SPAlN.

MADRID, May ‘27.—\Ve are evidently at the commence— ment of serious events in Spain, for the whole system ofGo- ' vernment is so rotten, or. so corruptly administered, that it mass of speculation, bribery idle- and prostitution ofall kinds. it is and the whole hive of empleados(csla Carts) is in an uproar. What Perhaps the work- ing bees will drive the drones out to labour for their subsis- tlie palaces of Madrid _ v sh ll efflpltal, every one . rhe Worst of the pied with l p uce~buni-

is dying of—an incurable

ness, ititrigue, treachery, _ _

‘ now brought to a stand-still for the want of maney,

the result will be, Heaven only knows!

tence, instead of living at their ease in

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9 provinces.

are so occu

their rang-(mm in one politician

may do. as he pleases in th

{nutter is, that the deputies

lag, and the gratification of

that not one oftheir patri

skghtest wish to re -’ ’ a

I 6y are evmhmgiy exposin them. It see " g ms as if a

party squabble

Spain.

who' _ pow ’ were at" hand.

wherever the y ' they are ready 0 applaud it,

two executed “on account.” With these propensities and

these necessities at work, it strikes me that we shall see

some in:eres:iug doings shortly.

Barce ona otters ofthe 8th state ti -' ' Catalonia were on the increase Felipllliiutlhliiglliliesrittiind'ilm mwnpripoll, seized its garrison, and ) e w contributions, without being molested.

Accoupts from Madrid of the 11th June have reacl d Parigwhich state that the ministry was not vet formed 11:1: that nodoubt—was entertained that it would. include Count

. Almadovar and Senors Landem, Ramon Calntravu, Labola

da Capaz, and Vadillo; and that General Rodii would be its

president. The Prom directs attention to the f'

- act that non of these persons were members of the coalition which over? _- ll'pW the Gonnies government, or took any part in the re- 1 M ution of September. For these reasons it antici t ‘ h mt Will be com ell d t - '~ - pa a“ at

k p e o tame a few days after its appoint-

Rent. . In” June 7pm PORTUGAL. ‘ . I , rom our own corres ) —

grap icvdespatcheis from Oporto and Coimtirgngt‘iiliz)thalt‘£ile- government capdidates have carried the primary electiole there by a considerable majority. ln Lisbon, as far as tlileS Ireturnsare known, there appear to have’ been 34 districts in which the government candidates have got elected and 24in which the combined opposition has gained. the day The elections ‘_have one off quietly, as far as the accounis have been received. here was an attempt to make seine disturb~ once at Santa Isabel, where Costa Cabral is candidate but the firmness ofthe latter put a stop to it. ’

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our pfv t8 'IAURKEfY AND THE EAST. i a a Vices rom Constantino is of the 27th gate shut the accounts received by the Ports from Syria cldlti? troughs; légpighlyqslansfactory, and that there was every 3" that coymtwanqui ity and oidei being soon re-estabhshed ,. The news ii‘otn Persia is satisfactor V rum-[y abandoned all intentions ol‘encdiira'giiiir illizhAhig'shfrls by a march of troops towards Herat. The aRussiansghave _ mgards us, behaved well in that quarter, and their rcseni diplomacy in PerSIa appears to be open and fair p Eerr'rf—Our correspondent says—“ They write li'om Alonndm, uigier date the 26th ult., that a few days before,

t 011in _ . ll"'t|ie ‘ties were directed to cherish abuses, and to

secure the exclnswe maloadministration thereof for their own benefit. It is a great misfortune for Spain that Espartero is notcr'uel. The very idea would frighten these tricky politi- ciansinto honesty, or at least into decency. Now they have no fear and no check to their intrigues, corruption and trea- son. Between these habitual tendencies and thehnonetary “pressure frat Without” (administered so perseverinoly by the Family In Eat-“4 should not be surprised if ~Zti5rbano felt, humelfcou'elled, er necessitate, to become dictator in . _ He isflusfiie stump of man to succeed here—an tili- beau ng hyphen. like Minn, Cabrera, or Zumiilacarrevui _ uglit teething of human life, and would not wgstd

and shot'ou their victims while bayonets or liutclicts

. l‘hese people convince their countrymen

that the are in earnest, and then thcy are feared obe 'ed follows ,admu‘ed, Well served-—in short, carried bu toytri: um h: I‘he mess of the people—the industrious honest, su ering people—feel the oppressions exercised tliizouwh the knavery ofthe employésso severely, and know so \Velrtvllat a mass ofsiii there is iii authority “unwhipt of justice ” 'but ar of what we would call cruelty in a,chief-

and receive it as so much JUS:

3‘" 0f}; tiller levying

which opens at six o’clock in the morning. Several ltull- dreds ofpeopie surround the place by four o’clock, in order, by being first, to have a chance of receiving some, as the soup, though extensively distributed, is quite insufficient for the numbers who crowd to partake of it. Several failures have taken place this week, which, from the respectability and high character ofthe houses, have thrown much gloom around the place. The Manchester Guardian, a remarkably cautious paper, in its state of the market on Wednesday last, observes, “that the condition of the working classes gciic- raily, through the districts in which hand-loom weaving has been extensively carried on, is becoming worse daily; and the patience with which these privations have hitherto been supported has of late greatly diminished."

But if matters are in this state in Manchester, in other towns they are much worse. Some idea may be formed of the distress in Bolton, when we state, that though the rate- ablc property is £86,000, there is actually £36,000 which con- tributes to the rates. The rest of the parties are utterly una- ble to pay anything. in this place there are 14,000 persons on the books receiving support.

In Stockport the poor’s-rate on the real rental amounts to eight shillings in the pound, which is at least equal to 165. on the old convoutional rental. In this town twenty-nine concerns have failed, and the works are unoccupied, for however low the rental of the works may be, or the price at which they can be bought, the rate to'thc poor is so formid- able a§ to deter tenants or purchasers. \Vith the breaking up of every concern, the evil becomes more remediless. :

In the township of Marsden, between Burnley and Collie,

rfiififltmft , -' 3le .one shilling 5 month. in a“; district 2000 “ownsbip is ruined. Of 5,000 people i , zuc Without any means ofstipport. then

rate. One lilifjflPQ=rlyLdv 1- —'—-xrr1.:eeds, {Him beginning ofthe distress, the poor-law guardians bad a saving 0f£10,000 to fiili back on blit that has long ago been exhausted. A number ofhands ai‘e thrown out of employment, and the difficulty ofsupplying the ne- cessuous wutli food is every day increasing. Some time into £7,000 was rinsed by the wealthier classes to meet the 03i- gcncc, but all attempts to raise more is given up. The pau- pars actually beset the houses. They go in bands demnudiiur relief in a tone which implies it must be given. The dish-es: of what may be called the better classes, who are ashamed to soiiCit charity, and conceal their stifl‘erinws, is awfiil In some of those houses which have been e‘niaered the pee do have been found boiling nettles to make a meal ofthem rlu this, as well its all the other towns iii the i‘nauufacturiuri dis- tricts, the pawnbrokers have advanced money till tiiea cab advance no more—the articles pledged are never redezmed Enlpdththe trade ofthe pawnbrokers cannot be carried on. 5:2“: e woollen .uid flax trade are in the most depressed 1n Macclcsficld one great n‘muufacturer is discharai'io hands at the rate of'ahout two hundred a week, and beach: peptsfisomli toihave 2,000 persons thrown out ol'empioyment. dcsglfggggmt , both in the west and east, the distress exceeds

Tile letters received yesterday from several parts of ire- land all concur in representing the state of thinvs to be alarmng in the extreme. Potatoes were 10d. a static and the price of meaihas risen considerably. In the soutlf-Wcst of lrelailid there is no employment for the people, and they itiilréhpp‘tailpti: means of making purchases for the supply df

In all the maiiufucturinc towns ofEncr ’ ' numberfif' persons who heave what is calibeiiflitdit3:33:13; tlemeut, ’ and who must be thrown on their parishgs ' in i there is nothing which these poor creatures dread so dumb as being sent back to the agricultural districts. Such is their horror oftlus, that they suffer all manner of privations ["1- ther than expose themselves to the chance of beinv seht back to their parishes. In Stockport, for instance thdi‘e are at this time above one thousand heads of families who have settlements at a distance, chiefly in auricuiturai parish- es; but there is'no catching any of these opeople in any act of vagraucy which would subject them to removal. When it happens that any of them are sent off, they are sure to find their way back again, so dreadfully xiii-aid are they of the tender mercies ofthe rural districts. Their languave is that they ivould._sooner die than remain in their parigbes. In Leeds fifty persons were sent last week to their parishes and more. would be sent, but the overseers cannot succeéd in catching the people liable to be sent away. They keep lingering, more like l'shadows than anytiiinw else about the places where they once were employed. a ’

We understand that in a few days a report will he receiv- ed from Manchester on the state of tiie retail trade contain- ing the most astounding facts. Many shopkeepdrs of the second grade have not for months taken as much money as would pay for their gas. Charlton union workhouse (Man- chester) is filled with the wives and families ofmen goinrr or-whp have gone, to America in quest of'employment. This: privatiotis of the poor maybe conceived from this, that those who receive out-door reliefdo not receive half so much per head as the cost_ of a pauper in the work-house. At no time in the memory of man,‘ was there ever in any winter so many persons out of‘ work in Manchester‘as at this season, a time when employment is usually abundant. Emigration is‘ gomg on extensively. a But distress cannot long be confined to particular branches pf industry. The distress is now extending to agriculture. I‘he demand for farms begin to oiacken. 1.; Suffolk, for the first time, there has been rather a want of tenants than of forms. In the country round Saddlewortli, where, till lately,

report Was submitted from the .Board of Commissioners, showing that since the last meeting ceeded to Scotland, for matiou and objects iiig

\ able the _ I . had been read, moved, and unanimously adopted, expressing

that, in the opinion ofthe meeting, the destitution in Scotland, which has been gradually increasmg smce the peace, has i ‘ reached an extent which demands the vernmeiit, and ol'all persons interested ciai welfare ofthe industrious classes; that her

a mill is meant it ’ ' i , 0 one Will venture on t ‘ _ v _ 1‘7 i‘lEfi’a' U 1115' Report huvin

a deputation had pro- the piirpose ofmakiug known the for- of the Association. that at a public meet- held at Edinburgh on the 24th of May—the Right Hopor- Lord Provost in the Chair—a series of resolutions

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attention of the go- i in the moral and so- Majesty’s possessions in British America present an inexhaustible out— let for the redundant population of the United Kin rdom, whilst it is a matter of national importance that their re—

sources shall be made available; that the British American six years of agar PHe iiilariped ll: lsvglllotlzeheelde“ Association for emigration and colonization is entitled to pub— the first ling oP 0itfir(li]i(i),;tlolr:,mi;tl' conglem hit. ' 'Ol fidence 'lll(l su mm as an institution calculated ma— t e on. 0 ti arne . - _ a? _ he L I ‘ pl ’ children. His late lordship succeeded his e v

teriully to advance the opulence, prosperity, and peace of the mother country alid the colonies, and that contributions to the Benevolent Fund ofthe Association should be solicited, for the purpose ofnidiug in the erection of'churches, schools, and other such charitable foundations its concern the re- ligious and moral welfare ofour British American fellow- subject's. '

Further, the report proceeded to show, that at a public meeting held in the Town Hall ofthe city of Glasgow, the Right. Honorable the Lord Provost in the Chair—it was, on the motion of Mr. Sheriii'Alison, seconded by the Rev. Dr. Norman M‘Lean, declared that the destitution in Glasgow, the manufacturing districts, the west of Scotland, and the Highlands generally, has reached an appalling character and extent, and cannot in the opinion of the meeting be effectu- ally remedied by any measure short ofemigration on a na- tional scale; that the resources ofour British American Provinces, if'drawu out by on extensive infusion into them of capital and population, will aflbrd an immediate and ef- fectual remedy for the distress prevalent in the United King- dom fi'on'i redundant labour; and that the British American Association,.which has been formed for these combined ob— jects, is entitled to the support ofali persons in the kingdom desirous of advancing the moral and social welfare of the la- bouring classes.

The report detailed a similar meeting held at Paisley—the Provost in the chair—which was very numerously attended by all classes, including niembers ofthe various Emigration Societies in that town, at which, on the motion ofthe Rev. Robert Burns, seconded by the Rev. Mr. Baird, Resolutions were passed by acciamation, declaring the thanks of the meeting for the gratifying information conveyed by the de- putation; of the great satisfaction felt by the meeting at the formation ofthe Association; and appointing a cemmittee to correspond with Mr. Andrews, one of the deputation, in order that able-bodied men, willing to emigrate, might take advantage ofthe facilities thus placed within their reach.