The Sun. — London, England, 1830-08-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS, The affairs; nl France progress, as the American* call it, tranqoilly, and, as far as we can judge, happilyitoitar'da a re-establishment. We have seen *tubing hitherto of the . Chamber of Peers. Their meetings, it is known, are not open : hut the French Papers mention, that they are occupied in preparing an address to the Duke of Orleans. Two of the Ex. Ministers, as we stated yesterday, are taken. This being the case, and it being now certain that they will be brought to trial, we shall abstain from press. ng their conduct against them. We are not strangers, neither is France a stranger, to the fact, that the party most dreaded in its councils by all just, humane, and honourable men, i the repub lican party. That it exists cannot be denied ; but that it is small and odious, is, we think, proved by the circumstance that it has no organ of its wishes. Among the numerous newspapers now published every day in Paris, not one of them is republican, or our puts forth a principle but in support of a mode rate free, constitutional Monarchy, is best adapted t* the present situation of France, and the general repose of Europe. In the provinces it appears that a paper which took a republican tone has been publicly burnt. The public choice has lighted on the Duke of Orleans as the person fittest to mount, the vacant throne. Some mention has certainly been made, though in one only of the journals, of the Duke of Bordeaux; and the Ex-King Charles, with his son, the Duke of Angouleme, honours that young personage with the Royal title and address now when they are all running away together. This is is the usual infatuation of that wretched family. It was certainly free to the French people to choose the Duke of Bordeaux for their Sovereign ; but they have not done so; and it is surely not compe tent to a King who his quitted his throne, and be taken himself to sight from a justly enraged nation, to invest another with that authority which has been already torn from himself. We hear that the Duke of Buckingham has offered Hartwell as an asylum to the miserable and guilty fugitives.—Times. The King has expressed himself in respect of the late proceedings in France, as a constitutional mo *arch ought, and is a way which cannot fail to gratify the people of this country :—" Charles the Tenth said he, " was my friend, and I pity him; but he has been misled. His Majesty also added the word "priest-ridden," as applicable to the Ex-King.— Morning Chronicle. The Chamber of Deputies has chosen the Duke *f Orleans King of the French, subject to the con ditions expressed in • modified Charter. The Crown Is to be settled on him and " his descendants in perpetuity, according to the order of primegeniture, and to the exclusion of females and their descen dents." We refer our readers to the letter of our Correspondent for information respecting the modi fications of the Charter. The translation of the old Charter, which he has added, will enable them to understand the extent of the alterations. There is, Itowever, a material difference bet Ween the inference which our Correspondent draws from the suppres- Ilion of the State religion, and the report of the epeech of M. Du in, sem, as given by the Mearoger des Chamber% We are inclined to think our Car respondent mistaken. He says— " The sixth, which established a National or State Re. Moles, is to be suppressed !! 1 Let Mr. Hume take swage! Let the moderate Reformers and Dissenters per. severe ! Let them remember that we have thousands of Priests who exercise the roost fearful influence over the consciences of men; and yet they are all deprived of State pay, and the nation is relieved from religious taxation ! What will be the effect of this ? I will tell you: people will go to church who never went before. The Curates and Priests, who are humble, active, and useful, will he well psid by the Voluntary offerings of those who attend the churches ; the insolent Bishops and Archbishops will be compelled to follow the example of the poorer Clergy. sod I n leer than one year there will be not only more of pesaticel religiou, but even more of going to church than has been known in this country for the last thirty years." The account given in the Report which we have adopted, " We propose to you to suppress the oth Article. This is the Article which has been ro much abused ; but to take sway every pretext for malevolence, we would not have it thoeght that It intends the slightest violation of the Ca. tholte Religion. The llth Article says every one professes freely his religion. The 7th Article, speaking of the cup. pert of the several modes of worship, will say, that the cnihelie r e ligion it that of the majority of the Fr: rich, sad that the Ministers of that religion shall be paid by the Government." There is a material difference between having no State religion, and leaving the Clergy to be paid by the people. The truth is, that in many districts of Prance ibis people arc SO poor, that neither Catholic nor Protestant Clergymen would be paid tit alt, if they were not paint by the Treasury. To leave the people to pay their own Clergy would, therefore, give rise to much discontent. But we question the policy of leaving the Priests to tax the people themselves for their support, as the Dissent ing Clergy do in America and England. The Priests theMselves may gain by this, but we are afraid tire people will not be gainers. In Germany, where the State pays the Clergy of the different denominations, they discharge their duty in a quiet unostentatious manner. But to say *lathing of Lag land, what is the result of the system of America Professor Cooper, who being a warm admirer of his adopted country, may be safely tuken as an evidence respecting the United Stites, says:— " In no other country, is the wise toleration established by law so eomplete as in this. list in no country what. ever, is a spirit of persecution fur memo ()pinhole so priori. lent as in the United States of America. It is a country most tolerant in theory, and most bigotted ito practice. 'lke laws controul tto moist opinions ; they coutroul hie militia only. They guarantee freedom of conscience, of profession, red of discussion, to every creed and form of warship, the framers of them well knowing that the result sK witsflisties opinion and open discussion can only be wptk; stud that so opinion deserves to he protected which sumo, protect itself. Rut the Clergy of this country— lhope, nos of all sects—the Calvautstio Clergy chiefly, are united in persecuting every roan who calls in question any of their metaphysical opinions, or who Mots at their !views of ambition and aggrandizement." When the Clergy are paid by the State, they have a less powerful motive for the rancorous bigotry of which the Professor complaint. Were the people previously educuted, the danger from the eltelilea zeal of a Clergy paid by their flocks would not he so great. And, perhaps, in France, where Citivinitm never appeared in the repulsive puritanical form it assumed in England and America, the danger from the zeal of the Clergy might trot be so great as in some Other countries, But still it is as well not to make rash experiments..Mortang Chronicle. Ths attempt to oust Lord Palmerston from the representation of the University of Cambridge, which we noticed at the time when the agents of I Govannuent were busy obout it, proved, as it is ' known, abortive; but Oxford adheres, with true Tory pertinacity, to the worthies by whom that se minary of toilful learning is so appropriately rove mated. The University of Dublin, however, hav ing the illustrious Duke of Cumber l an d for its Chan seller, Car, on the occasion of the present election, by far the sorriest figure. The franchise of the Irish University belongs not, as in the English, to the 1 4,1wtttre of Arts , but to the Fellows and Scholars, Who do not, in the whole, exceed one hundred per sons. Yet did this small body of electo rs create, whim convened for the exercise of their "11l t"' a KAI)* of tiOt violifse, and contusion unparalle l ed in tits conduet 'of 40)1404 the , most popular constituency to„tersd<triu ilia favours altationa. The pre.. voters wa re moo ot : 'of this choice body of s e ,j uot /.060 ut, *Y worthy of themo— awl Mr. 3, .1-1, `, l „,:" l 'ker. of the Admiralty, was the successful candidat e , tr° 11 11 4 :1 named peteon gentlemen in private to e , b ut o t"Pvet 4l / 6 a ell art religion-..having talent: _ titer utum " tier strength to the party he esv olii , s , w it h : 4 a i / 4 1 41 `i with all its fury, has a dash iu it of t r "t a : 11 ' 41 te..,cro t which, as in the case of Sir Chitties w e it s ,„•, :ti ';' , Apt to make men laugh when the lodic' is him ' S V E pi9St in earnest. Serie:on Lefroy will add in i tem to a knot of politicians from whore nothing is to he feared; and regarding his election, therefore, as a mere innocuous effort of Orange zeal. we are fr 4 to rejoice in the disappointment of both his rivalS, Mr. Croker nod Mr. Norththe first, a person with less character than any living public man of a moiety of his talents; and the latter, a mere popiejay rhe torician, to whose small traffic in tropes and meta phors all men of principle and good sense mutt-de sire a termination.—liforning Chronicle. We can no longer complain of the want of public meetings to enable the inhabitants of the metropolis to give expression to their admiration of the conduct of the brave Parisians. A meeting of the inhabi tant householders of the Ward of Cripplegate Without is appointed to take place this day, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the City Pantheon Stub scription Theatre, Milton-street. The chair will be taken at three o'clock precisely, by Mr. Alderman Wood. The inhabitants of the great and populous parish of Mary-le-bonne have called a meeting for to-morrow (Wednesday) at twelve o'clock, in the great room of Messrs. Marks and Co., of Lang ham-place, Portland+ place. A requisition, too, we learn, is in the course of signature, for a meeting in the city, and it is hoped that the Lord Mayor will grant the Egyptian Hall.— We cannot quit the subject, without calling the at tention of our readers to a paragraph under the head, " Tribute to the French," containing a speci men of the wisdom of that city oracle, Sir Peter Laurie, one of the churchwardens of Mary-la-bonne. Sir Peter could find no precedent for a meeting to express the sympathy of the people with the brave Parisians. Well done, Justice Shallow. The in terest taken by the great body of the people in the proceedings at Paris is remarkable. We have al ready noticed a collection sent to us from one public-house. We this day have to announce another, with an accompanying letter, in few words, but those few energetic in the extreme.—Morning Chronicle. Our readers saw from the contents of our Paris express of yesterday that the Chamber of Deputies, after some discussion respecting the act of abdica tion of Charles X., resolved to deposit it in the archives of the Chamber, contrary to the opinion of some, who would have passed to the order of the day, considering that act as in itself a nullity. We consider it a weak proceeding for the Chamber to have taken any notice whatever of the act of abdi cation. They, to be constant with their own prin ciples, should have regarded it as a piece of waste paper, and regarding it in that light they surely would not have deposited it among the archives of the empire. The language of the Committee, as conveyed by their report to the ChaMber, is ex plicit, and such as the occasion demands—what is that language? " The Committee has unanimously recognised the vacancy of the throne, but at the same time that it recognises it as a fact, it has thought it its duty to declare it as a right emanating from the legitimate resistance of the people to the violation of its rights." If then the vacancy of the throne be created by the right which the people have to resist the violation of their own rights, that va cancy cannot be the result of the act of abdication. The act must, therefore, be a nullity, and ought not to have been deposited like a valid in tartnent in the archives of the Chamber. — The King had not only absolved his sub jects from their allegiance by changing the form of Government under which he came to the throne, but he had, ie support of his tyrannical measures, etude the appeal to force. The decision of force was against him. All the rights of conquest passed to the conquerors—the sovereign power became the property of the victorious people—and they have a right to bestow it on whom they please. This is the plain and simple state of the question. If the King had the power to abdicate—that is, if his act of Abdicat ion wet e meessary to cr eate a Vite;iney of the throne—he had a right to wales conditions to that abdication. But the fart wit , , the throne was vacant before that act received the Royal signature. The people had already acquired the best title to a new settlement of the Crown. The King's acknow ledgment of his own regal deprivation could not make that title better. Besides, if his act of abdi cation were necessary, it would be null and void, as being compulsory and made undei duress.-IVhy, then, should it be taken into consideration at all ? Supposittg the King had abdicated in favour of the Duke of Orleans, would that make the Duke's title to the Crown better ? Certainly not. If ke re ceives it in conformity with the report of the Com mittee, he will hold it by the title of original com pact between him and the nation. So that whether the act of abdication be in favour of that Prince, (a of any other, it is but a piece of waste paper as regards the new settlement of the Crown.—MOrn lag Herald. Though there is no occasion on which a difference of opinion cannot display itself, yet there are some on which it could hardly be expected to appear. Of these the amelioration and freedom of the human race might be expected to be one : but no; even that is a subject on which mankind are not agreed, and so innate in some few minds, and so irradicable is the hatred of public freedom, that, the overthrow of despotism in any State is too sore a subject of mortification not to show itself through the medium of the very few organs which, happily, such princi ples posießs ie a free Suite. Ott the subject of the late event* in France it so happens that " the powers which were" contrived to put themselves so entirely in the wrong, that we were scarcely pre priced to find that there was any part of the Press of England, however so inclined, which could find a peg to hang its note of vituperation upon. In this, however, we were mistaken • and we are doomed to see, in the native land freedom, the laudable efforts of it whole people against the wanton unprovoked attacks of their oppressors, stigmatised as rebellion and treason. This is hither too much. Of what strange materials must the mind be corn posed which can calmly look on upon a people ass sailed by the most violent aggression, and can deem resistance to it reprehensible, and the aggressors the objects of sympathy arid applause I According to this rule in morals, the thief is to be pitied, and the party robbed the object of venge a nce an d condemnation. Never, perhaps, was there an in stance upon record where the people have been so decidedly in the right, and the Government so un questioeubly in the wrong, as in the circumstances which led to the lute events in France. But take t otherwise. 'For argument sake, let its admit that the people were pressiag upon their rulers, and were threatening the overthrow of the Charter. Could insanity itself have contrived arty nines to put the latter more in the wrong than the steps which they themselves had taken ? If there has been any trea son it has been altogether the treason of the Go vetmneet against the governed. But we readily admit that the writers its question, who happily re present but n very small party in this country, May well feel sure upon the events in question. They have put, we apprehend, a final extinguisher upon the last [tepee which they could entertain of ever seeing the spirit of despotism re-established among the natives of Europe. That any British heart mold have such a wish seems almost incredible. But let that pass. Sufficient for them that it can not be. In this country, at least, it could never have been, 1111(1 events in France been what they might. But there are other countries differently situated; and in Spain and Navel, fur instance, to say nothing of other States, the star of freedom in France is, and must tw, a beacon to light them to a regeneration of their political rights.---Morning Herald. -- , We are authorised to contradict the statement which appeared relative to the indisposition of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussxx. We are assured by the hest authority that the intiispositi,in has been of the slightest nature, and that no apprehension whatever for the safety: of lint Royal Ilighneo has been experienced by itW ird tnytherl rUtittithints, Dr. MATON Mid Mr. PIGTTIGRIZW. I Highness, we are most happy to see, is entirely Pratti frtint Attliti)4.....Aturning Herald. FRENCH REVOLUTION. SPIRIT OF TUE PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. (From the Manchester Times.) A glorious Revolution has taken place in France! If our hearts did not bound with exultation in making the announcement, we should be unworthy of the freedom we enjoy, and of our descent from the men who shed their blood in achieving it. But the present is not a time for declamation on the noble contest. Two important ques tions press themselves on our consideration. What will the Government of England do ? What ought the people of England to do ? Two months ago, the Quarterly Review, supposed, in France, to be on this occasion the organ of our Government, recommended the very met• sures the French ministry have adopted ! It said "we hope and trust that the King and his present Ministry may succeed, Usual be their object, in establishing a cen sorship of the press, and likewise in acquiring so decided a preponderance in the Chamber of Deputies that its existence as an independent body capable of beard ing the monarchy, as it has recently done, shall be no longer recognized." We need not stop to en quire how far the suspicions in France as to these being the real sentiments of the English Ministry are true. We need not remind our readers of the Whig Attorney-General's simultaneous attack on the liberty of the press. We need not speak of the delay of operations in France till the dissolution of the English Parliament. We need not detail the past struggles, un fortunately successful, of the English Government, in op position to the principles established by our own revoht tion, to place upon the throne of France a family which France had repudiated. The question, what will the Go vernment of England do, may be answered by asking another. Would Polignae have dared to do what he has done without assurance of support from Wellington ? Would Charles, after be bad recovered from his first alarm at the burst of patriotism, have retracted his offer of abdi cation, if he had not calculated on aid from England ? What ought the people of England to do?--Instantly to declare that they see in the contest with the Bourbons a repetition of their own contest with the Stuarts, and that they will be no party to any design that may be entertained of forcing upon a brave and noble people a tyrant whom they have most justly dethroned, or of interfering in any way with their internal arrangements. We have already told our readers it was " high time to be up and doing." We earnestly recommend to their notice a warn ing, drawn up, as events have proved, with prophetic accuracy. (From the flolifax Chronicle.) A revolution so sudden and complete, and, compara tively, so bloodless, has no parallel in the history of modern Europe. Formerly, when a people rose against the op pression of their Kings, they were generally involved in a protracted civil war, during which the nation bled at every pore. Whatever party triumphed the community inva riably suffered ; for even the most successful war of resist ance against regal tyranny must always write traces of ruin upon every domestic household. 13ut France has fur nished the world with a splendid exception to those me lancholy precedents. In the course of one week she has conquered the despotism which threatened to crush her liberties ; and has compelled the Sovereign to seek his safety in Bight ! All the proceedings of the French people, from the moment when the designs of the Court were made known, until the establishment of a Provisional Government, are remarkable for vigour, prudence, and sagacity, (From the Hull _Advertiser.) FBA Ner..—What we anticipated when giving in our last week's paper a statement of the infatuated proceedings of CharleirX. has come to pass, but certainly more suddenly than we contemplated. In the short apace of four or five days from the publication of the Ordinances abolishing the liberties of the Press, and the late elections, one of the most complete revolutions recorded in history, has been effected. With the exception of those evils arising out of bloody contest carried on for two or three days between an undisciplined and unarmed populace and a large body of the finest troops in Europe, not a single act of plunder or outrage appears to have been committed ; and the French of the present day have thus nobly retrieved the national character front that stigma with which the pro. ceedings of forty years ago had branded it. The wild and soiseless theories of the leaders of that period appe ir tube discarded, for the rational and temperate regulations of a limited monarchical and constitutiooal government. The persons at present placed at the head of affairs are mee of aelcuowledged tdente, and moderate principles; and if their views ate seconded, as we trust they will be, by the Lrgisla'ive bodies, and the people at large, the result must be highly beneficial for France„...... So far as matters have yet gone, the French carry with them the and best wishes of all parties in this country. This will prof) ibly not be the case with some of the Continental powers : but so long as their measures are L zoverned by the same spirit of temperance and sound judgment in which they have been commenced, they may defy all opposition from whatever quarter. (From the Sheffield Mercury.) We last week gave a gloomy picture of the state of things in France; and we then anticipated that the desperate measures of Cli,rles amt his Ministers would had to serious, if not to app filing consequences. We were not, however, prepared to expect Such awful and decisive results in the brief interval of three days, as those which have taken place. The people were enr,iged at the despotic ordinances of the King, and with a combined zeal, which we could not have believed possible, determined to rid themselves of the tyrants who sought to drag them back into all the thraldom of the darkest ages. Happily for Europe they have vuccerded, at least so far as to render their cause all but triumphant. The pleasure that we should feel in their success is much alloyed by the thought of what it has cost them. They have gained the victory over oppression, inch by inch, and with a vast expenditure of human life; hut still it is a victory for which England, as well as the Continent, may have cause to be thankful. (From the Falmouth Packet.) TII g PRIMO( IlxvoLuTtow.—We have given pretty full details of this event in subsequent columns, the perm sal of which will excite such reflections in the minds of our readers ac will render comment for ua unnecessary. The noble conduct of the French people, however, deserve* the hearty commendation of every lover of constitutional government, and we trust that it will receive it by som e public expression on the part of Englishmen, whose native lend presents $0 pleasing a contrast to disturbed France, England is happy and contented under the paternal rule of our most excellent and gracious King, who considers him.. self honoured in associating as a father amongst his chil dren, requ►res no guard but his people's affections, and com mands our admiration by his manly and honourable con duct, by his warm, unassuming, and gracious manners, and by his determination to govern us according to the law* of the land and liberties of our charters : these and his countries' love are all that William IV. aspires to. (From the Hampshire Advertiser.) Ws are indeed gratified in being able to dissipate the anxiety which the news from France, given in our Second Edition on Saturday last, was calculated to excite. The tyrannical conduct of Charles was met by a condnct worthy of a people sensible of the blessings of freedom, and deter mined to possess them. Though the Sovereign has pro fitted nothing by the lessons of experience, the nation has; and the convulsion, instead of leading on to excess and producing a civil war, has driven a religious fanatic from the throne, and terminated in the restoration of order, The transition from anarchy to composure is wonderful. In three days the revolution in this great kingdom may be said to have been completed, anti gives to the page of his tory a character original, and a lesson of inestimable value. Nations, inspired by the example of France, will learn to view their sovereigns in a right light, and the dictum of Charles the Seventh, " Qui veut la roi, si vent la loi," will not long pus current in any kingdom. Engl►nd was the first to achieve the possession of rational and substan tial liberty; and France, following her steps, is now esta blishing a constitution on the same basis ; the neighbouring kingdoms thus assin►ilated in laws, will be united in inte rest, their commercial regulations reciptocal, anti their advantages mutual. (From the Devanport Telegraph.) The predictions of last Saturday bete been fulfilled. The House of Capet has ceased to reign. Charles the Tenth is expelled from the throne of France, and is now a fugitive, indebted for his personal safety to the people whom he insulted and attempted to enslave. Th e p rou d 500 . web, who in his prosperity so far forget what lie owed to Providence and to circumstances, was glad i n his ex tremity and danger to accept a safe conduct from the Pro- I visional Cievernment, and under their protection he is now on his way to England, travelling incognito, with the title of the Duke of Milan. The events which have led to this mighty revolution in the fortunes of Charles the Vnth are related according to their order of time in other parts of our Paper. Sanguine as wit were that the fatal Dr dinanees against the Prins and people would seal the fate of the lelourtions, it was impossible that we could have an ticipated a triumph so sudden, so glorious, and e o deciAve, as that which has occurred. The trensection he unpa ralleled in the history of social communities, not only for the completeness of the overthrow, but for the moral gran deur and dignity of the whole event. F act i on h ere had no inAusnos—tia spirit of party shrunk appalloti at tii• burst of general indignation. The people rose in their strength, and the harriers with which Kings surround their palaces were dissolved in a moment. (From the Western Times.) Tux REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.—A few days only have elapsed and a revolution has been effected in France—so just in its origin, so magnanimous in its progress, and so splendid in its results, that history cannot produce its parallel. Be a man ever so British in his principles, his feelings, and associations—be his partiality for his own country ever so predominant,he cannot but be struck with wonder and admiration at the determined, vigorous, and successful opposition which the French have raised to a tyranny as reckless at it was unconstitutional. (From the Carlisle Journal.) GREAT AND GLORIOUS REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.—III seven days a tyrant has been hurled from the throne, a great people have asserted by their blood their right to freedom, a new dynasty has been established, and peace and order restored to the cEpital. We trust, however, that the new Government will not stop until they have brought the infatuated madman (commonly called a King) Charles Capet, and his seven Ministers, to the block. Until that be done there can be no safety to France. While they exist, the peace of the country must be in constant danger of being sacrificed. The lesson which the last week has read to the arbitrary rulers of every nation, is beyond all value. To our own country it will show the aris tocracy the danger of any longer setting themselves against the freedom and rights of the people, and to the Ministry it will prove the danger of allowing such block heads as Scarlett to tamper with the liberty of the press. The Revolution in France will advance the cause of Re. form in England by fifty years. The most dangerous man in this country, to the reign of the King, and the ex. iatence of the Aristocracy, is he who would venture to say that Reform is unnecessary. (From the Berwick Advertiser.) We this day lay before our readers a pretty full account of the Revolution of France. The despot Charles X. has by his arbitrary measures, in violation of the most sacred obligations been hurled from a throne of which he was was never worthy. The Parisians have immortalized themselves by the vigorous resistance they have made against tyranny, and in support of national liberty. They have deserved the thanks and approbation of every friend of the human race—they have given a most important lesson to the other European despots, and demonstrated to the whole world that Kisp are only to be obeyed and en dured so long as they act agreeably to law, and no longer. We rejoice to see th►t the noble conduct of the capital has been imitated wherever it was known, and that even the army in which Charles and his besotted and priest-riddea Ministers chiefly trusted for support in executing their liberticide measures, has abandoned them. The infatuated and unfortunate Charles may once more be obliged to take refuge in this happy island, where, if he had not been blinded by the absurd and ridiculous notions of the divine and indefeasible rights of Kings, he might have learned bow to conduct himself among a people who had long struggled hard for liberty, and knew how to appreciate it. (From the Dublin Morning Register.) Faztron Revoturrox.—The lesson France has given cannot be lost upon the world. if rulers (ever slow to learn) are not instructed by it in their real weakness, people have at least discovered the secret of their strength. It is now proved that soldiers are no longer liveried but chers, to cut the throats of their countrymen at the bidding of tyrants, for so much a day—and it is made manifest that undisciplined and unarmed valour, urged on by a sense of right, will triumph over all the artificial organization of military di►cipline. The cause of mankind was at stake the day French blood flowed in the glorious cause of free dom. On that day the battle between oligarchy and des potism on the one hand, humanity and public rights on the other, was fought—eternsl gratitude to the brave French people, tyranny was struck down and liberty—not to France alone—but the cause of universal liberty has had a signal and glorious triumph. Had the tyrant been the victor, there is not a government in Europe which would not have been emboldened to make fresh inroads upon liberty. As the people were victors, the people of every nation in Europe should follow up the success, make fresh efforts to diminish the impunity of the powerfel, and secure the exercise of popular rights. The Bourbons ex pelled from Francs, will the base Ferdinand be long per- mated to infest Spain with the infamy of his misrule? is there no litnp-post in Lisbon destined to exhibit the fero sinus Miguel—infamous in life, but in death an example to tyrants, and calculated to make hearts know fear which never knew compunction? The glorious example of France may, perhaps, restrain rulers also. England her self may never have to endure (and tamely did England endure) the experiment of another Manchester massacre. In Ireland, too, it may be found convenient to modify the plundering vestry hill, anal the murderous sub-letting act. (From the Elgin Courier ) Itsvourrtorz isr FRANCE.—..The interest attached to home politics has, within the last few days, been in a great meusnre absorbed in that excited by the intelligence received from France. It is more than probable that at the moment at which we write, that country is the scene of horror and of bloodshed. If it be not so ; if an nut raged people have been so far able to repress their feelings, neither Charles nor his Ministry are to thank fur it. In plain terms, the French King has by one blow annihilated the charter ! It now exits only as matter of history,— Oho would have thought that this would have been a suf ficiently hold action even had he obtained the concurrence of the Chambers previous to his performing it ; but to have done it in scornful defiance alike of the Legislature, his subjects, and of his own most solemn oath to uphold the Constitution, is, we hold, not only the essence of cri minality, but the ne plus ultra of infatuation. Even the former history of Bourbon folly and rashness affords, in all the circumstances of the case, no parallel to it. It is in effect proclaiming to France and the world, that Charles the Tenth knows no other law or rule of conduct in the government of his kingdom, than his own royal pleasure. France, in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, is not the proper meridian for such monstrous doctrine. (From the lowness Courier.) Who can wonder that a gallant and spirited people flew to arms to avenge themselves on a despot whose arbi trary principles can only be exceeded by his ingratitude and imbecility ? We do hope, however, that our own government will not meddle with the French, and that the French King will keep far frmn our shores. Let them fight single-handed, as Britain fought, the good fight of their political redemption,-and, above all, let them beware how they again trust a Bourbon on the throne. France has within the last fifty years passed through the ordeal en tailed upon England by the Stuarts. She has had a monarch beheaded, like our Charles 1.--a military despo tism under Napoleon which matched the usurpation of Cromwell—and a restoration in the person of Louis XVIII. which may be compared with the return of the exiled Charles 11. One more struggle yet awaits her to complete tee parallel—a revolution which shall bring order and freedom out of chaos and anarchy, and establish her constitution on a sound and lasting basis. Can we not recognize in the present awful crisis, the seeds of this glorious c,oueummation? (From the Caledonian Mercury.) The annals of the world do not present so great a moral lesson of the speedy and condign punishment of a royal traitor. It is impossible to refrain from admiring the heroic bravery and civil courage which the citizens of Paris have exhibited in equal propirtions en the present ()evasion, and which we are satisfied the inhabitants of no other city in Europe could have shown. The readiness, too, with which a Provisional Government was organised, stoma that this was not a revolution of the mob, with pillage and robbery in prospect ; and we may be satisfied, from the prudent conduct which has always distinguished the Doke of °ileum; since his return to France, that he would not so readily have accepted the proffered Regency, if he hail not been satisied that " the game was entirely u p" with Charles X., and that if he did not accept, he would share in the proscription which awaited the reign ing branch of his family. All the accounts which have reached us from other parts of France prove that the whole nation is actuated by one spirit. (From the Aberdeen Observer.) The doctrine of the French Ministers finds grace in the e yes of every despot, anti the King of France has accord ingly issued an ordinance suspending the liberty of the pOl4 and no political publicati on i s to b e permitted with ,tut the King's authority, and even a f ter t h e authority is re granted, it may at any after period be withdrawn. By A nother ordinance the Chamber of Deputies is again dis solved—the election laws are changed, and the elective franchise taken from the greater part of those who for merly enjoyed It. By these arbitrary proceedings it is evident that a limited monarchy is icnverted into a pure despotism—that the Constitution is subverted by the King —.and thtt all Constitutional restraints, anti legal limita. tions of power, are at an end. When intelligence of these extraordinary proceedings reached this country, all eyes were fixed on France, and there was the utmost anxiety to know if the French would tamely submit to these sults, or tratnple in the dust the absolute authority as. sumed by this bigotted despot. The inhabitants of Paris, we rejoice to say, have contemned the King's authority, and displayed a noble enthusiasm in the 0111116 of freedom, They hare flown to arms in defence of their liberties, and driven the despot from the capital. - Paris has been the seem) of tumult, civil war, and bloodshed, and the na tional guards, and many of the King's troops have risked their lives in defence of the liberties of their country. The King has fled, accompanied by some of his troops, and such is the general feeling of France that it may be pre sumed that the reign of Charles the Tenth is at an end, Such is the effect of infatuation and folly not to be paral leled in history. (From the Glasgow Herald.) The week commencing on Sunday the 25th of July has been astonishingly eventful. That day saw the King of France in his insolence of power declaring himself arbi trary, and in six days be was a fugitive from his capital, and another appointed to act in his place. In the middle of the week a sanguinary war pervaded the whale city; by the end of the week the utmost tranquillity prevailed in every part of it. Never did a man act so foolishly for himself, so injudiciously for his brother Kings, and so in famously towards his people. Altogether his conduct, and that of his Ministers, is most inexplicable; for after venturing upon a dead which bore the appearance of the utmost daring, they never once showed front when the danger presented itself. But while the King has sunk to the lowest grade in character, the French people bare raised themselves to the highest point of moral excellence. The populace of Paris, after displaying the utmost energy and heroism in defence of their rights, ceased from all violence the moment those rights were acknowledged, and from being the bravest of warriors became the most peace ful of citizens. POLICE INTELLIGINCIL MANSION-HOU/IL A big fellow, who turned out to be a watchman, belonging to Broad-street ward, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with rioting in the streets and breaking the windows of a well-known old gentleman, who is remarkable for not having worn a hat for forty years. The defendant, it was stated, had taken the opportunity before his comrades were on duty, to get himself into a beastly state of intoxication, and to " show fight," as the pugilists say of a man who puts himself into a boxing attitude, to those who approached him. At last he took a fancy to quarrel with the windows of Mr. Ward, a carver and gilder in Bishopsgate•street, and believing that as the old gentleman was fond of keeping his head cool and never wore a hat, he might wish to keep his body cool too, punched the glass and let in the air upon him. Mr. Ward, however, did not approve of this mode of accommodating him, and called an officer, to whom he complained of the conduct of the watchman. The officer instantly seized the warlike watchman, 'and requested that he would quietly march before the Lord Mayor. " No," said the watchman, " blow'd if I do. I don't want to see no Lord Mayor," and he thereupon called aloud to the crowd, " Here's the Jenny Darbya; we shall be pulled and destroyed by the Jenny Darbys."—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR begged to know from the officer what he meant by Jenny Darbys.—The officer said the defendant meant the French police, and although he called them by their French name, the Jenny Darbys, it was wonderful how the com mon people, what knowed little or no French, understood his meaning. The LORD MAYOR—Aye, it was a serious word to use. The officer said it certainly was a dangerous %lord, for the moment the defendant called out, the mob rescued him, and it was with difficulty he (the officer) again got hold of the unruly fellow. The LORD MAYOR—What I did nobody go to your assisiance?—.The officer said, "Not a soul, my Lord ; the minute he called me a Jenny Darby, all persons cleared away from me, and we was left alone, arter I took him the second time, and then he refused to walk. He would, us he was going to the Mansion-house, g►o like a gentleman, and so we was obligated to get him a coach." The defendant—Please your Lordship, I was drunk; but I hope you'll look over it this once--I did'nt mean no harm. The LORD MAYOR—At what hour did this out rage take place ? The officer said the watchman was at the height of his glory at five o'clock in the evening. The LORD MAYOR—I shall represent this to the watch-committee of Broad-street, and I am con vinced they will not be troubled any longer with such a protector. You must also find bail, and pay for the coach and the broken window ; and I advise you in future to stick to your own language. The watchman was then taken to the Compter, and will, probably, as long as he lives, remember the mistake he made, in addressing an English mob in the French language. A poor Irish woman likewise made a mistake, but of a different kind. It however greatly marred her fortune. Margaret O'Brien came to the Justice-room, ac companied by a gentleman, and presented to the Lord Mayor two Bank of England notes for 1001. each, which she said she had found on the curb-stone in Biihopogate-street, as she was going to borrow is., to buy herself a stock of fruit, by means of which to support her family. The LORD MAYOR highly applauded the poor woman's integrity, gave her money to begin business with, and told her that he should make the neces sary inquiry into the matter, and recommend to the loser to pay her liberally. At this time the notes had not been stopped at the Bank. It was soon, however, ascertained that a gentleman had dropped a letter containing the notes in question, and addressed to Messrs. Deacon, of Lad-lane. The letter, it was then found, had been broken open, without ceremony by Mrs. O'Brien, and she took it to a gentleman to whom she told what good luck she had met with, but she refused to leave the money in his hands, or to go anywhere with it except to the Lord Mayor. His Loapanto asked Mrs. O'Brien why she had opened the letter, and why she had not taken it to the persons to whom it was addressed ? He con sidered her conduct very suspicious. Mrs. O'Brien —Why, my Lord, the bit of paper the notes were foulded up in was such a dirty, shabby, poor-look ing thing, that I thought it no harm to open it. Well, sure, when I see what was in it, 1 didn't like to give it up to anybody but the Lord Mayor. The LORD MAYOR—Why not to the persons it was addressed to, or to the gentleman whom you knew, who would make inquiries about it. Mrs. O'Brien—Why, my Lord, I thought if there was a bit of a reward I mightn't get it, except I came to you. God knows, I never wanted to keep it, or do wrong with it. The LORD MAYOR, and the gentleman who lost the letter, said they believed that if the letter con tained 51. notes instead of 1001. notes, they would never had any conversation of this kind now. The money would not have been forthwith coming, if it had not happened to be of a dangerous size to get changed. Mrs. O'Brien's character, however, it appeared, bad never been impeached ; and she re peated, with a great deal of simplicity, that the bit of paper was such a poor looking thing, it wasn't a gentleman's letter, nor any thing like it, and she thought it not the least harm in the world to open it. The LORD MAYOR—..WeII, I advise you to be more careful the next time. You may have acted with a good intention, but you had no right to break open the letter, Mrs. O'Brien--.I will be more careful the next time I find money, my Lord; but this was such a dirty, shabby--- Mr. Hobler—litell, what is it proposed to give to Mrs. O'B r i en ? M r. Deacon's correspondent thought a sovereign would be enough, but consented to give her two, which she most thankfully received. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Nathaniel Harding, captain of a west country barge, was charged before Sir PETER LAU. RIP. with assaulting Mr. White, the wharfinger, at Trigwharf, Upper Thames-street. Mr. White did not wish to press the usault, and the prisoner was set at liberty. Anthony Cunningham, the young man who was brought up on Saturday in consequence of having jumped of Biackfriars'•bridge, nada the idea that some men were pursuleg him for the puniest e Dorking him, was again placed at the bar. Sir PETER asked him if any one wespresent *lto knew him, but the prisoner replying in the nip. dve, Sir P. Laurie expressed his surprise, aifttle case had obtained so much publicity. He asked the gaoler how he had behaved m the Compter? The gaoler replied, that the prisoner behaved very quiftlp keeping apart from the other prisoners, and w.*.W., speaking. Sir PETER asked him how long he had suld that persons intended to sell his body to t heO W geons ?—The prisoner replied it was about a week. " Did they speak to you?" said the Magistrate. -- " No," replied the prisoner, " but they followedrno wherever I went." Sir PETER endeavoured to erase the unfortansto impression from the poor fellow's mind, and 211110 him there was no Burki ng going forward in London. He awakened his mind also to the wickednend attempting to put himself to death. An officer was sent with him to the pawnbrokee• where his pipes were pledged, and the money wo, given to redeem them ; and Potter, the b ubo Blackfriars', undertook to pass him on. Al the poor fellow's feet were quite bare, a pair of Ow° were given to him. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'CkS THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Whitehall, Aug. 7, ISSO. The King has been pleased to grant unto John T i 1 0: Viscount Sydney, the office or place of Chief:Rog er Keeper of Hyde Park and St. James's Park. • , The King has been pleased to constitute and appet o n t i William Brent Brent, Esq. Barrister- 044w ' Stew a and one of the Judges of his Majesty's Pasco CoIUt WestmThe K inster. Other ing has been pleased to appoint di e3 es Esq. Barrister-at-Law, to be his Majedy's Atteinet neral in the Isle of Man. The King has been pleased to nomiaste the 80. ‘ ll ---, rIP topber Carr, Clerk, to be the o ffi ciating Minister 10_,„,*" church of Newborough, in the county of Northeinr • and diocese of Peterborough. It. The King has been pleased to present the Grant to the church at Rothiemurchns, in ns' parishes of Duthel and Rothiemnrchuk in t he P r" of Abernathy and shire of Inverness. Whitehall, August 7. i el the 1 The Right Hon. Sir R o bert Peel hat 5P10i2....t Right Hon. Lord Granville Charles Henry Robert Gordon, Esq. ; the Right Hon. Lord Mlle! Right Hon. Sir George Henry Rose; the R i pi l ick Charles Watkin Williams Wynn; the Hon' _, twist Gough Calthorpe; William Ward, Esq. ; , Sit Esq. ; George Byng, Esq.; Charles Rots, eA1t,,14 Sir George F. Hampton, Bart ; the Hon. BatiT o o; Bouverie; Sir T. F. Freemantle, Bart. ; Cni• •T• Cli Aol ll Spencer Perceval, Esq. ; John Edmund DeW' s hi; Esq. ; Vernon Smith, Esq. ; the Rev. Dr. 00 ,1 1 , 1 4 herd ; the Rcv. Archibald Montgomery CeinF""4littt Thomas Turner ; Dr. John Bright ; Dr. 0,,„ 11 1,r Southey ; Dr. John Robert Hume • and Dr. rA";', 4 004 Jam Seymour ; to be Commissioners for ' licensing 1111 " all houses, within the cities of London and Weltt and within seven miles thereof, and within the 44- ' Middlesex, for the reception of lunatics. Crown-Office, August 10. SO Y ItILIIBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS rungs - MEET* L im o WO Extria.—Lewis William Buck, F.sq• ; v worth Buller, Esq. Pls pt' HASTINGS.....-Sir Henry Fane, Knt. ; Esq. W SANDICH.—Joseph Marryat, Esq. ; Samuel 0" Price, Esq. 1 114 ' Doexa—C Poulett Thomson, Esq. ; Sir J. R. ROHM—The Hon. A. Trevor, of Whittlebarlille county of Northampton ; William Miles, BOW , Hill, Nottingham, Esq. HYTUZ—Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. ; John Lozbj,.: RYlL—Hugh Duncan Baillie, Mortimer-street, IL, dish-square, Middlesex, Esq. ; Francis Robtrs hero, Old Steyne, Brighton, Sussex, Esq. Wi lli Nc it i l i d t le l e s e r x 4 ; — H j o t t n id l e V n i ry llia D m u s' nd El as l , Majesty's 85d Regiment of Infantry. SEAFOAD—Hon. Augustus Frederick Ellis, Seafordi!t; Colonel of kis Majesty's 60th Regiment of bor t ' John Fitzgerald, Esq., Seaford. BE gwicx- UPON -Twzzo—Marcus Beresford, Esq., 0, dish-square, Middlesex; Sir Francis Blake, BA mouth-park, Durham. LiNcot.x—Charles De Last Waldo Sibthorp, Esq.; Fardell, Esq. Lieut .- Colonel YORC—Samuel Minn Bayntun, of Regent-strotnc' the county of Middlesex, Esq. ; the lion. Thotnlsivw;o' das, of Carlton, near Richmond, in the county of Office of Ordnance, Aug. 9. Royal Regiment of Artillery. , Second Lieutenant George Maclean to be Firrloo• mint, vice Severne, reeigned. Dated sth Augurt► DECLARATION OF INSOLVENC Y ' Benjunin Clegg, Oldham, Lancashire, victuallsr• BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Henry Smyth, Piccadilly, hosier. BANK Hums. Philip Homden, York-house, Five-fields, Chet_ j e ill 'sot dlesex, bookseller, to surr e nd e r Aug. 17, OP Tuithern 21, at two, at the Court of C omm issioners. Freeman's-court, Cornhill. t opt*/ John Preddle, Rathbone-place, Oxford- be tel: sterer, Aug. 17, 20, and Sept. 21, at two, 11 1 If lt o st , A Commissioners. Brooking and Suer, Lontbsto . . e l ge t '" John English, Strand, hosier , Aug. 13, Al t i i. ""roiter twelve, and Sept. 21, at one, at the Court 0 0 ' sinners. Hardwick and Guest, Laurence-lane, llichard Dixon Mott, Church-row, New e ,:t.% Pancras, wine -merchant, Aug. 13, at eleven , ,:„F il iotr ten, and 21, at eleven, at the Court of C°P 3l Drawbridge, Arundel -street, Strand. George Huddl ea t on , G rea t D r iffield, Yorkshit e, 0 ,eller, Aug. 26, a t s i x 27, an d llis on S Sept. 2l et ten' Blue Bell nn, Great Daiffield. 1 a 01° 0 00 , rdr Chancery.lane, London ; Se" otchburn and Sher' Driffield. William Hill, son. and William Hine kin" .... 1 1/1 " - Southwark, salters, Aug. 20, 24, and Sept . nate° at the C o u r t o f C omm i ss i oners . Richardson , 1 ? 001 William Mosley Ileginhothato, 5t0rher„7411,...,,°' spinner, Sept. 3,4, and 21, at nisi, at I b e IMltichester. Hurd and Johnson, Temple; shave, and Higson, Manchester. shte l r lta James Yalden Compliu, New Alresfortl, corn-merchant, A u g. 20, at six, 21, at nin e,eou at two, at the White Hart Inn, Winchester. Finsbury-circus ; Caiger, Winchester. sof t, BIRTHS. On the 9th inst. at Woodford, the lady of A• Esq. of a son. I to leli,ll l On the 9th inst. in Upper Baker.streete coter Baron de Kutaleben, of the Hon. East service, Madras Establishment, of a dsugh ter. . S r On the 7th inst. in Bolton-street, Ors. 1 311 i fir of a son. • of pr. lb° Oa the 12th u lt. a t Geneva, the lull thl 11 O n of a n. so the 3d inst. at Llangollen, North w olee ll e i of the Rev. T. Griffith, of a daughters 5111/.l)er o te MARRIED. i . 0 ,4 VA' , 11 1 On the 4th inst. at Glasgoter W illiatn dot rOOl chant, Glasgow, to Mar area bo 01 1 1 late William Forlong, Esq. of Wellshot, 10 95 • i 0 Lanark. f Oa the 9th inst. at St. Luke% th mb e to . 49 .1 rAr lli tog' wood, 13. A., of Trinity Colleges croft" Binfleld, eldest daughter of the f ate Job Re aves AO °ge tit t e of Horton. at S l ' GAY On the 7th inst. by special liab se i . 0 0. r of 44 ' Guernsey, St. Andrew St. John, Eq. do shte hail, Norfolk, to Dorcas Serrel, yoolllol Iremonger, Esq., of Guernsey. s cifkie tc l,7, 1 1` DIED. On the 9th inst. at Paddington, 1:5-0,30ift Esq., formerly of Westborpe-ho uses in kis 75th year. P*7- On the Bth inat. Mrs. Milner, relic" , • t o• santklee lls s t ed Milner, Esq., of Tooley-stre et s , 00 ), 11°14r year of her age. $ On the Bth inst. at Claphon, A VA. aged 89, °' „ un D h b PRINTED AND PLIBLISHZD IT '---- $ l4 VIZ SUN OffiCS, lit, aIA