6 NOVEMBER 1830, Page 14

ODD COINCIDENCES.

THE Ultras in France commenced by an attack on the press; un- able from weakness to face the Chamber of Deputies, they dis- solved it, and a new assembly made their opponents stronger than before ; incendiary fires in a province accompanied their crusade against liberty, and they are more than suspected of wishing well to the mobs of Paris. It were needless to remark the apparent coincidence at home.

Let us not be misunderstood ; we merely draw the parallel, not make it. We are far from supposing that any Minister enter- tains the idea of overturning the English constitution—albeit that some of them were the colleagues of SIDMOUTH. But it is credible enough, that the violence of the rabble, and the appearance of a war against property,. might not be disagreeable to men who may, perhaps truly, conceive that such proceedings would frighten the timid into their ranks, and give the mere trading politician an ex- cuse for joining them. Violence, at all times to be deprecated, is therefore more than ever to be deprecated now. With peace abroad and tranquillity at home, the amendment of our institutions is likely to advance with slow though certain steps. But let an alarm be sounded of revolution at home,—or, what would be 'still worse, let the enemies of freedom entangle us in a war—and im- provement might be retarded for years. It is on this account that we lament Mr. O'CONNELL'S ill-judged agitation of the Union ; but still more deeply do we lament the appearance of mob violence in England. And whether it emanates from the indiscreet forward- ness of persons mistaking the wishes of their superiors, or whether it spontaneously arises from the folly of the lower classes, we trust that the people will have good sense enough to abstain from a course which can only end in injury to themselves, and which may be working the will of those whom they believe to be their enemies.