POSTSCRIPT,
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The Peace Conference at Manchester renewed its sittings on Thursday evening. Letters were read from Athanase Coquerel, the celebrated Pane testant -preacher at Paris, and from M..Carnot. The former thinks that the days of warfare are drawing to a close ; and the latter, without speaking for the French Government, suggests that the friends of peace and the course of events have almost accomplished the reconciliation of France and England.
The principal orator of the evening was Mr. Cobden. But he,only fired off his " 1793 and 1853" pamphlet rhetorically, with a " decies re. petits'" of all his old speeches on the subject, and a new infusion of bit- terness provoked by the general opposition which he now encounters front the press.
The demand for national defence he styled "the merest child's ory- mere baby's talk." He sneered at -the press—" these public instructors' — for backing theory and abusing "the Emperor " ; and he would like to test their sincerity. To that end, he engaged that if a certain journalist would pay a shilling a week to a school, he would pay him down 1010001. on -the Invasion of this country. He -testily insinuated, that if he and others were not kept." trotting about the country to prevent the mischief these alarmists create," he could be -troublesome to some party in the.Government, and do great good. There is quite as inuoh knavery as folly in this cry. Referring to the Peace agitation he exclaimed—" We are going to make this axe-- vival, gentlemen ; this is to be a revival. We have had a meeting which reminded me of the good old time of the League." He had seen 6001. put down by one name -that morning, and they meant to make it 10,0001., and send their lecturers and -their tracts through every town in the counts" to disabuse the public mind respecting the intentions of France. Among the speakers yesterday, was Mr. Charles Gilpin. Mr. Joseph. Sturge made and carried unanimously a proposition for a Conference Ma the Centinent ; he did not know whether Paris would be the best place. [Decidedly ,Parie ; and, no doubt, "the Emperor, Napoleon II,I." will he delighted to preside, for 4‘ rEB1pl.170, C'eiSt la paix."]
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