The Demetian Mirror

(From The Times.) The fresh attempt to get rid of King Louis Phil- ippe by a foul and hideous murder in open day may have shocked every human being out of France, but no man who comprehends the state of that country or the morals of French democracy can have been in the least surprised at it. Was it without reason that we quoted on Friday last from the Journal des Debats the following dreadful passages P—" Are there in France either laws or charter, or Monarchy or Gov- ernment of any description, or are we at this moment under the full sway of anarchy ?" There is on every side the most furious excitement to insurrection _the most incredible outbreak of the most unbridled passions. Already, whoever is suspected of being favourable to peace is denounced as a traitor, a coward, an enemy to the country. And they are the journals of the Ministers themselves which circulate this shameful scandal. As for the laws, they are openly set at defiance. As for the charter, the Minis- terial democrats declare their contempt for it. The Crown they insult without remorse. The Chambers they threaten with the vengeance of the people. The revolution speaks as if it were the universal master. No man is permitted to have an opinion of his own. He who is not for immediate and universal war is a partisan of Foreign Powers." And it was" as a par- tisan of Foreign Powers," no doubt, that the Mar- seillois assassin -fired at the brave and enlightened King, a musket loaded to the muzzle. Said we not truly in the same number of the Times, that the question of the East was but a hollow pretext for violence in all quarters ?" Said we not on that occa- sion that there is afaction at work, which will force both King and Chambers into foreign war-into universal tvar-ON PAIN OF DEATH ?" Why, what was the horror aimed at by this assassin, named Darmes, but to inflict" the pain of death" on his Sov- ereign, because he considered the life of Louis Philippe to be the only obstacle in the way of uni- versal war?" Then, what must be the nature and ends of that war towards the excitement of which the means amount to regicide by fierce assassination ? What must be the character of the faction which pants for such a war, and which attempts to procure it by such methods? Among the most disgusting traits in the history of any faction, or of any people (apply it to which you please), is this avowed identity of the war party with the party which abets assassina- tion. The intending murderer in the recent instance declared that his sole object was to remove the sole obstacle to a war. Well since it ought to be assumed that concientious casuists like M. Darmes are disposed to administer equal justice to all their enemies as well as friends, let us suppose for a moment that a few more obstacles" to war should happen to present themselves by and by—suppose that when the Cham- bers are assembled to decide, in concert with his Majesty, the question of peace or war, and that a majority of the Chamber of Deputies should, contrary to the expectations of the Constitutionnel the Courrier Francais, and others of the Liberal faction, happen to vote against the said Liberals, and for the mainte- nance of peace, every member of that majority be- comes at once what M. Darmes pronounced his Majesty Louis Philippe, after he had shot at him- an obstacle to a war with the allied Powers." By what parity of reasoning or equality of justice can any single member of such majority be suffered to escape the same visitation at the hands of the war faction as would have been inflicted on Louis Philippe had not a merciful and beneficent Providence interposed ?

(From the Globe.) We regret sincerely to have to announce this new attempt upon the life of his Majesty Louis Philippe, the King of the French. It is thus that the rage of unfledged heroes, with their virgin swords and prosti- tute pens, and the no less rabid virulence of renegade priests—translates itself into gun-shots Assassina- tion, like the conscription, provides substitutes, and acts by proxy. A Lamennais is a wiser man in his gene- ration than a Clement or Ravaillac the fanatics en- chef slink behind gerans responsables; and as in En- gland there are go-to-prison editors, so in France. It should seem, there is an equally advanced division of labour between firebrands and assassins. The French will have the singular honour, should these accursed attempts succeed at last, of having rid themselves, twice by assassination, once by judical murder, of three of the best monarchs to be found in their his- tory. They are bringing back, with prodigious pomp, and all the posthumous glare of false glory, the remains of the most illustrious scourge of God" since their Louis le Grand and with remarkable con- sistency in wrong estimation, here are shots fired at the man in France who certainly has worked hardest to re- pair the thousand internal evils in the reign of Napo- leon. Louis Philippe is a monarch who would have been highly respected in England; and perfectly safe from pistol shots, excepting from madmen. He would have found in the peace-loving portion of our aristo- cracy, and of our people, sufficient support to carry out his views, without incurring that odium which the French Monarch, thrown into the ferment of petty factions—not one of them strong enough to screen his person, and few honest enough to wish to screen it- has incurred by exerting his voice in the Government, in the midst of the confusion of tongues prevailing around him. We can hardly conceive a position more cruel than that of a monarch, who feels himself fit to govern, and is told that he must not do it; and who, when he seeks around him on whom to devolve the functions, which he is told it is unconstitutional for him to take any part in, finds little else than over- weening pretensions, and selfish ambitions, parties with- out party discipline or lasting cohesion and finally coalitions which set even party morals at defiance. This has been the position of the King of the French we have called it a cruel one; if he sink under it, he will deserve to be deemed the martyr of principles, which, be they sound on all points, or not, be they li- able, or not, to the charges which have so often been brought against them, have at all events, been the result of large experience, and sober conviction—infinitely more solid therefore than the stock in trade of talking politicians. If France cannot bear the caution of a ruler like Louis Philippe, she may try again how she likes an Emperor, and praetorian guards.

9aø{jion¿tbIe obtmtntø. ARRIVALS. A t the Belle Vue Hotel.-Capt. and Mrs. Halls; Capt. Thomson Major Vaughan Capt. Scott; Mr. Joule and family; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Payne; Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Brigstocke; Mr. and Mrs. Burnham; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. A. Phillips; Mr. and Mrs. George Blake; Mr. Saunders Davies; Mr. Lloyd Mr. Nugent; Mr. Tupper; Mr. J. Bond; Mr. H. N. Powell; Mr. Gill; Mr. S. Amos Mr. H. Sanderson, and Mr. H. Sanderson, Jun. Mr. C. J. Lloyd; Mr. Roberts. At the Gogerddan Arms Ilot.-I.-A-laior Bowen Mr. Beynon Mr. J. Lloyd Davies; Mr. Lloyd Mr. Hall; Mr. Williams; Mr. Stevenson; Mr. Fussel; Mr. and Mr. Riddell; Mr. P. Griffiths Mr. Hutchinson; Mr. Eade; Dr. J. H. Thomas; Mr. Gwires; Mr. Banbridge. At Private Residences.-Alr. and Mrs. W. T. Hall, at No.'6, Marine Terrace; John Boultbee, Esq. in Portland Street; J. G. Walker, Esq. at his resi- dence, 29, Terrace; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Stephens have arrived at their residence North Parade, from W. R. Stretton's, Esq. Dan y Park. DEPARTURE. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K. G. from Hafod, for Clumber Park, Notts.

25 tons of Lead Ore from the Lisburne Mines were shipped at Aberystwith, on Friday, July the 23rd instant, on board the Fanny and Betty, Davies, master, for the River Dee.

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ABERYSTWITH TABLE OF DISTANCES. DISTANT FROM Miles. DISTANT FROM Miles. Aberaeron 16 London, by Birmingham 225 Devil's Bridge 12 London, by Worcester ..207 Hafod 15 Machynlleth 18 Lampeter 274 Plinlimmon 16 Lampeter, by Aberayron 29 Rhayader, by Devil's"! Llanidloes, by Devil's-* 30 Bridge J 31 Bridge f Rhayader, by new road 32 Llanidloes,by new road. 28 Towyn, acrosstheDovey 15 London, by Ross 210 Tregaron ]S

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ABERYSTWITH INFIRMARY. Patients admitted fnr the weekending 21«tdayof Oct. 1840. Out Patients 2 Discharged In 0 In Patients 1 Out 0 Total on the Books 41 Out Patients 35 In Patients 6 Visitor for the week, Rev. John Hughes. Dr. Richard Williams, Physician, John Philipps Esq. Surgeon. H. Humphreys (Chemist) Secretary, and Dispenser.

The additional note" rests, we have said, on an if, and this of the safest kind, for it is nothing more nor less than that if the outlawry of the Viceroy by the Pasha be confirmed by the Allied Powers, and Mehe- met Ali be deprived of the possession of Egypt in hereditary sovereignty, France must interfere. Last week we observed that this outlawry was a mere form, a shadow without substance M. Thiers in this very document acknowledges that the Allied Powers had disavowed all participation in the outlawry issued by the Sultan and when an extreme case is thus con- jured up by a diplomatist, who confesses, or tanta- mount to it, that this extreme case cannot happen, it is a very safe inference to conclude that he means, as they say in a street row of words, only talk, and that he is more inclined to back out than go on. In a word, the pacific policy of Louis Philippe appears in the ascendant, and it would seem that brittumfulmen alone is likely to be hurled against the proceedings of the Four Powers.