news to report this week. Strenuous exertions are made by
both mandy. He is busied in preparing for a grand entertainment to
The attempt to unseat Messrs. OCONNELL and RUTH YEN b these crises ; there is no use in dissembling it. Our Government, impelled by
y imprudent councillors, has shown a want of confidence in the country at the the Committee charged with examining them is sure to suppress them. Asso- quence? Why, that our governors, affecting to construe in their favour a Government has broken through the engagements contracted by it. Necessity
was always the plea. And yet we thought this time to escape. The Charter shall henceforth be a truth were Royal words, and we believed them. After that, how would you have the people believe in any thing ? How can they trust !ben, seeing the most exalted change their principles with their positions ; or how confide' in institutions, when these are tote shaken by the first reactions of fear or by the intrigues of ambition ? In private life we stamp with ignominy the man who violates his sacred word. Yet, when the people behold Govern- ments doing this daily in public life what can ensue but disgust and demoraliza- tion? How can you wonder to behold self-interest and brutal force remain the sole principles of such a state of society ? I have stated the evil—you may de- mand of me the remedy. If the violation of the Charter had been effected by ordonnances, as in 1830, I would say, as then, let force decide the quarrel ; but now, since it is by laws the crime has been perpetrated, by laws too let it be amended. In the hands of the electoral body lie the destinies of the country."
As long as such speeches as these are spoken and published in France the despotic system of government adopted by Louis PHILIP cannot be secure.
The editor of the Reformateur was again convicted on Monday of provocation to disobey the laws, excitation to hatred and con- tempt of the Government, and of insults to public functionaries in the execution of their duty. For these three distinct offences he was sentenced to a month's imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 francs.
The Journal des Debats is very angry with the proceedings of the Committee of Censorship, who have endeavoured to suppress the sale of VOLNEY'S Ruins of Empires, DIDEROT'S Nun, Jacques, the Fatalist, The Social Contract, and The Pucelle, on the ground of their irreligion and immorality. From the course taken by this paper, it is inferred that a portion of the Ministry is averse to the exercise of some of the powers vested in them for the persecution of the press.
