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    So little is the general course of French affairs attended to in this country , that when ., as at present , some single event , either from its importance or its strangeness , attracts a certain degree of notice , its causes , and all which could help to explain it , have

    been . forgotten . It is true that the most assiduous reader of only the English newspapers , even if he retained all he had read , would understand little or nothing of the real character of events in France ; for the editors of the English newspapers are as ignorant of France as they probably are of Monomotapa ; and their Paris correspondents , being mostly Frenchmen , write as if for

    frenchmen , and repeat the mere gossip of the day , pre-supposing as already known all which Englishmen would care to know . By being the solitary exception to this rule , the writer who signed € O . TP . Q . ' in the Morning Chronicle' gained a temporary popularity , merely because , unlike the rest of the fraternity , he assumed that his readers knew nothing , and had to learn everything . In the Examiner' alone , for the last four years , those who take

    interest in the fate of that great country , which divides with ourselves the moral dominion of Europe , have had the passing events placed carefully before them with regular explanatory comments . From that paper we quote part of an article which appeared on the 26 th January , 1834 , descriptive of the character and objects of that portion of the French republicans against whom the procesmonstre is mainly directed .

    ' The Societe des Droils de VHomme is at present the hobgoblin or bugbear of the junte milieu . The language and manner of the partisans of Louis Philippe with respect to that association are a curious medley of affected contempt and intense personal hatred , not without an admixture of fear . They are constantly and studiously imputing to the

    members of the society the ahsurdest opinions and the most criminal purposes ; they are incessantly averring , with a degree of emphasis which betrays a lurking doubt , that those opinions and purposes are abhorred by the French people , and that the society has not , and never will have , the support of any class whatever , even the lowest . Yet , in

    the very same breath in which they declare it to he harmless by reason of its insignificance , they proclaim it so mischievous and so formidable , that society is certain to perish unless it be put down , by whatever means . 4 In truth , the alarmists are equally wrong in both feelings , whether the feelings be sincere or affected . This much- talked-of association is

    not to be despised ; neither , on the other hand , is it to be feared . It does not aim at subverting society , and society would be too strong for it if it did , Weie we to believe some people , the edifice of society is so tottering , and its foundations so unstable , that a breath is enough to blow it down ; nay , there cannot he any stir in the surrounding atmosphere , nor any knocking upon the ground , without its certain destruction . But wo have another idea of society than this ; for us it is something more

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    THE M 01 WSTER TRIAL .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/29/