The Sun. — London, England, 1832-06-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It seems to be a received notion that armed resistance to an established Government serves, if unsuccessful, to reinforce and fortify the power at whose overthrow it has aimed. This, like most other general maxims, must be taken with many exceptions and allowances, or we may be led by it into gross miscalculations. Apply the rule, for instance, to the late scenes at Paris, and mark the danger of drawing such an infe rence as to their results. A conspiracy when suppressed may prove, beyond all doubt, of great advantage to the Government which quells it. An inconsiderable party in any nation may be thoroughly discouraged by a disastrous appeal to arms—as may any given confederacy of factions —if urged to cooperation by selfish, that is, partial, motives, in which the body of the peo ple do not ccncur. An attempt, for example, by mere Carlists, or by a combination of a Car list and pure military faction, though it might maintain a desperate battle of many hours or days with the national Government of France, if such a Government existed, which, at present, unhappily, it does not, would tend, in all hu man probability, to render such a Government more secure and stable. On the contrary, a conflict, no matter how provoked, between a multitudinous force, acting under the vivid excitement of passions, which are felt by the combatants in common with tile bulk of the people, and the troops of a Government, de facto, which is odious to the majority of the people, may terminate one day unfavourably for the insurgents ; while from its very defeat may spring a more extensive and animated disaffec tion, and the certainty of a renewed and far more formidable assault upon the existing Govern ment. Louis-Philippe and his Ministers have taken pains to represent the recent battles in Paris as the effect of a " conspiracy between the Carlists and republicans," being well aware, first, that " conspiracy" carries with it, in the eyes of mankind, an air not only of crime, but of conscious weakness ; and next, that the name of an half-" Carlist" conspiracy would, if' any thing could, induce the nation to rally round the throne of Louis-Philippe. We see nothing, upon the face of any facts vet communicated, to hear out the inference that the Carlists had the smallest act or share in this commotion ; nor is there ground for imagining that the term " con spiracy," as respects the " republicans" them selves, had any thing to do with the collision. Let us hear what M. Montalivet, Minister of the In terior, says of the preparations made by some of tl:ose who attended Lamarque's funeral, for an attack upon the troops. He says, " they had armed themselves with daggers and pistols !" Was this the sort of armament which would have been made by a population so experienced in warfare as that of the French capital, for an engagement with a numerous army of infantry, artillery, and dragoons ? Next come the official acts of Louis-Philippe. He dissolves the Poly technic School,—he dissolves the artillery of the National Guard,—he declares the whole capital to be in a state of siege,--he makes open war upon the liberty and property of the press. Then is it to be concluded that the youths of the Poly technic School shall pass for " conspirators," and with the Carlists ? So—was the corps of National Guard Artillery to be stigmatized as a hand of conspirators ? Did the conspiracy, after being (said the Minister) " completely crushed," still embrace the greater portion of the metropo lis—and was it still so formidable as to require that all Paris should be deprived of the benefits of lawful government, and be domineerd over by courts-martial and by the bayonet ? Why have we entered upon these disquisitions ? Why, to show that the Ministers of Louis- Philippe have committed a glaring fraud upon common sense, honesty, and truth. They have represented the late conflicts as arising from causes which did not produce—which had nothing whatever to say to them. The sole act of pre meditation was the assembling of 100,000 citizens to do honour to the remains of a soldier and politician, whose memory had become popu lar from his having vehemently opposed a system of policy which was despised, and a King and Administration who were detested. An unani mous impulse led together that immense con course of people, always for months past ready to resist and eager to overthrow the Government, upon principles which, right or wrong, were re cognised by the national spirit of the French principles. But the acts of Louis-Philippe speak for themselves. He has attacked, after the alleged suppression of this revolt, not only the most popular establishments of the capital— those in which the Parisians took most pride— but the noblest defences of public liberty, namely, the laws and the press. Then it is obviously the impresssion of the actual Government that its foes are those institutions with which the love of the people is incorporated, and by which alone their rights and pri vileges can be secured against arbitrary power. If such be the view by which Louis-Philippe thinks proper to determine his own relations to the French people, is it possible that the late insurrection against his Government should be the last ? Is it possible that he can continue to rule over France but as a conquest ? A close observer of the progress of French affairs from the accession of Louis-Philippe to the death of Casimir Perier, must, we fear, have cont inced him self of the vast strides made by the republican spirit amongst our neighbours between those two important eras. It would be absurd and stupid for us to urge as an argument with French men, that a constitutional monarchy is a pre ferable mode of Government to a democracy, and still more to a military republic. The answer would be, " Mind your own business : we are the best judges of ours." That the French law of inheritance has a strong demo cratic tendency is indubitable. That the general distrust and final hatred entertained by the na tion towards the principles of monarchy de veloped under Charles X., had infinitely strength ened the republican bias, must, we apprehend, be admitted; and with whatever upright and prudent intentions Casimir Perier may have prosecuted his juste milieu policy, no one can deny that it has generally operated as a severe disappointment to the hopes of the country, and augmented and stimulated the mass of anti monarchical spirit. That Louis-Philippe should succeed, therefore, in governing France upon the prin c ipl es e i t h er o f Ch ar l es X., who owed his dethronement to them, or upcn those of Casimir Perier, under whose sway the genius of democracy has become more intractable than ever, is equally out of all belief. Wbat remains, it is not gratifying to anticipate. We are afraid that no powerful Government can exist in France, whether in battle monarchical, or repub lican in substance, that does not display a decided military character. The people will pay an exor bitant price for " glory"—glory, however, deeply stained with blood. The Government which v - es war, may ex act coyly', False it may be, '44 02' —pernicious, inhuman, brutalizing, may be the system,—but we are not writing a book of ethics. It is our business to examine and state the facts as they appear to us. Our dread then is, that the policy of every French Government to be popular, must under present circumstances be, at home republican, abroad aggressive. Whether Louis-Philippe feels the inclination to adopt either of these courses, or to stand the risk of rejecting them, a short time will disclose. But where he has just placed himself,—viz. at the head of a despotic power, outraging all that France esteems and cling: to,—it is impossible for him to remain another fortnight. With the domestic policy of France no foreign Power has the right, and England at least has not the shadow of disposition, to meddle. But grievous and de plorable will be the calamity for France, for England, for Europe, and the world, should an appetite for foreign conquest, or impatience of general tranquillity, impel the French nation to objects incompatible with that adjustment of the continent of Europe, to which Great Britain stands pledged by treaty and sound policy ; for in that fatal moment would an alliance be dis solved, and perhaps an exasperation renovated, from which dissolution, and revival, those who live to see them, may too surely trace a fresh myriad of afflictions to mankind. In the time, as neither Napoleon executed, nor Charles X. attempted, measures more inexorably tyrannical than those of Louis-Philippe at this moment, we may probably infer a succession of sanguinary disturbances, a speedy subversion of the Orleans dynasty, or a capitulation with the country, and adoption of those measures at home and abroad which the more active and energetic portion of the French people shall dictate. The insurrec tion not being a disease, but a symptom, so far as the Government has yet proceeded, the temper in which it had its origin, has been rather aggra vated than assuaged.— Times. We are glad to perceive that Sir Robert Peel is not the only man on whom good advice is not thrown away. Sir Charles Bagot, in re fusing to become Lord Heytesbury's successor, has manifested a deference to public opinion which cannot be too highly praised. Sir Charles has, of course, seen the peculiar difficulties of his position. His Tory principles peculiarly un fitted him for representing a Whig Ministry at so important a court as St. Petersburgh, at a crisis like the present. In fact, it is imposing too heavy a responsibility on any public man to call upon him to aid the views of his political opponents. n hatever may be the peculiar no tions of Sir Charles with regard to the second ing the views of a Ministry to which he is opposed, he must have become sensible that the world would have been disposed to look upon his conduct through an unfavourable medium. His failure to overcome difficulties might be im puted to a want of zeal in the cause. These are the advantages of publicity. Our opinion has received attention, because it was felt that it was also the opinion of a large portion of the community.—Morning Chronicle. Our contemporary of the Standard is quite delighted with the honours paid to the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel at the close corporation of Merchant Tailors' Hall on Mon (lay last. " It is quite evident," he says, " that wherever any assembly of gentlemen are collect ed, there is no mistake as to their politics. No place can he found among them for the rabble Reformers of the Ministerial school." Most assuredly a better method cannot be devised for obtaining unanimity in politics than packing. A close corporation is the very place for having no mistake about politics. The electors for Old Sarum and Gatton knew nothing of rabble Re formers. The Scotch burgh corporations were always at once decided as to their politics. We wish the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel much joy of these honours. The names singled out as peculiarly distinguished are—the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Marquess of Salisbury, the Marquess of Douro, the Earl of Winchilsea, the Earl of Halewood, Earl Beauchamp, Viscount En combe, Lord Ashley, Lord Mahon, Lord Skel mersdale, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, the Right Hon. J. W. Croker, Mr. Justice Gaselee, Sir C. Wetherell, Sir J. Scarlett, Sir C. S. Hunter, Sir J. Malcolm, Mr. Sadler, Mr. Alderman Brown, Mr. Alderman Atkins, Mr. Alderman Lucas, Mr. Sheriff Cowan. These are the names of individuals who will be • found at all Tory meetings as a matter of course. That the Duke of Wellington Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Croker, and Sir Charles Wetherell, should avail themselves of all exhibitions of this kind, in compliment to themselves, is natural enough. They are the guests. But who are they who gave the enter tainment ? Richard Hotham Pigeon, Esq., may be a very respectable man, but who ever heard of Richard Hotham Pigeon, except in connexion with Merchant Tailors' Corporation ? We observe none of the distinguished Mer chants and Bankers of the metropolis taking a part in the proceedings. Where are the gentle men ? Richard Hotham Pigeon makes about a dozen of speeches, of a very flat prosing de scription, and he is answered in kind. A more dull common-place exhibition cannot possibly be conceived. We have no evidence either of the talent or respectability of the meeting, except the list of guests so ostentatiously paraded in the out set of the report, is to be taken as an evidence of respectability. But it may be said it is cruel in us to deprive the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel of the consolation they can de rive from such hole-and-corner dinners as that in question. As they dare not face any meeting of Englishmen where the ceremony of packing has not previously been resorted to, it is hardly fair to pursue them into these retreats. His Grace and Sir Robert have exchanged the people of England for Mr.Hothain Pi geon, Mr. Alderman Atkins, and Sir C. Hunter; and much good may the exchange do them ! There was a time la hen the Duke of Wellington needed not to confine his visits to packed parties like that of the Merchant Tailors' Corporation, and when any company of English gentlemen would have willingly acknowledged the eminent ser vices rendered by his Grace to his country. But the recklessness with which his Grace has spa:ted with principles during the last two years has sunk him so in the estimation of Englishmen, that in charity to him they are willing to consider him politically dead. No real friend of his Grace's can wish to dwell on his conduct since the open ing of the Parliament, in which he made the famous declaration against Reform. Every plunge he has made since that far-famed decla ration, has only sunk him deeper in the mire. By the by, it was rather malicious in the Mer chant Tailors' Company to bring the Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel together. Mr. Hotham Pigeon, w ho is a copious orator, must he very simple n to know that these t wo Statesmen, after what has taken place, must kel themselves rather uneasy in the ,•ompany of each other. Sir Robert Peel floored the Duke ; by his refusal to serve with the Duke, he pronounced a cruel libel on the otter want of principle of his Grace. Sir Ro bert had, no doubt, an eye to his future eleva tion,. after the extinction of the Tories as a party; but in the mean time he gave the coup de grace to the Duke, and through him to the party.— The Duke must curse his cowardice twenty times a day ; and Sir Robert having injured his Grace, must dread his resentment. We trust, :it all events, that care was taken to interpose some third person between the two ex-Ministers. We suspect, by the by, Mr. Hotham Pigeon meant unfairly by the Duke of Wellington when he dwelt so much on the estimation in which his Grace was formerly held. "He well re membered (he said) the day when the Noble Duke was first received in that Hall, and when his predecessors hailed him as the man who had upheld the destinies of this great country and of the world." This is a sort of date obolunz Be lisario lt suggested the lament .. able contrast between his Grace of that day and his Grace of the present. These comparisons are grating at best. It was as much as saying there was a time when Merchant Tailors' Com poration were proud of the honour done them by the presence of his Grace ; and now he is happy to seek an asylum among us from the unpopularity which awaits him everywhere.— Morning Chronicle. The Government of France announces in the same breath that the insurrection of the sth and 6th of June is crushed, and that the return of tranquillity is followed by the suspension 9f the laws. We recollect that Sebastiani announced in the Chamber of Deputies the extinction of the Polish struggle by the memorable words " order reigns in Warsaw." That " order" was not the peace of the law, but the dread tranquillity inspired by the establishment of a power that superseded all law. We would not for an in stant confound the righteous cause of the Poles with that of the insurgents of Paris ; but we are sorry to see the revolutionary Louis-Philippe aping the autocratic Majesty of Nicholas—substituting the dragoon and the sword for the lictor and the fasces, without any necessity whatever, and taking advantage of the moment of triumphant security to try the experiment of absolute power. We are told, indeed, that this suspension of the laws may not last many weeks. What then ? It is an experiment of arbitrary power all the time. Nothing can justify the proclamation of martial law in a free state but the actual ex istence of a force in arms, which threatens the subversion of the Government, and makes it dangerous or impracticable to proceed according to the course of the ordinary tribunals. In our own country bad and corrupt Ministers have ever been prone to take advantage of moments of public alarm to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, the great legislative protection of personal liberty, without sufficient cause. The suspen sion of that Act but in a case of the last necessity—such a necessity as justified the Ro man Commonwealth in appointing a temporary dictator—ne respublica detrinmenti capiat, is highly unconstitutional, and a high crime and misdemeanour, although had Ministers have contrived to discharge themselves of the respon sibility in the eye of the law, by obtaining the sanction of venal and corrupt majorities in Par liament to this iniquitous proceeding, which is always the signal for letting loose upon society the mercenary wretches that speculate on the price of human blood, and who are stimulated to de nounce indiscriminately the innocent and guilty, by the consciousness that the ordinary obstacles which the regular Courts of Justice place in the way of the success of malicious and perjured evidence, and which, even with the greatest care of Judges and Juries, are often too weak to pro tect innocent life, are all removed, and the liberty and existence of every man is made to depend upon the polluted testimony of those artificers of falsehood who, in the congenial atmosphere of courts-martial and secret and arbitrary tribunals, anticipate no legal castigatio❑ and dread no ju dicial exposure. We are told that the rioters in Paris, who for two days withstood the efforts of 60,000 regular troops and National Guards, never exceeded at any one time 500 persons. This does not appear to us to be probable : but, if it were the fact, never did 500 men per form such superhuman efforts of valour. Well, let their number have been what it may, their effort was completely suppressed : most of them have been killed or wounded, the remainder are prisoners. The Government admits that the rioters, or insurgents, or whatever they are to be called, perished, of isolation—in other words, they were lost because the people did not sym pathize with them. No temporary success of their's augmented their numbers; their rising, then, served to prove, not the weakness, but the strength of the Government. At the end of the insurrection the Government was stronger than it was before. It could consequently afford to be magnanimous and merciful, and it had before it the example of the clemency and moderation of the triumphant people of the " three days" of July. The battle which the illegal ordi nances of Polignac and his accomplices had forced upon the people was not fought with more bravery than the victory in which it ter minated was distinguished by temperance and mercy. Yet we find that a London Evening Paper—an organ of Government—refers with approbation to its private correspondence, which, in denouncing the routed Republi cans, if Republicans they were, utters sentiments that would scarcely have been unworthy of an orator of the Mountain in the hey-day of the reign of terror. It is there said, the only thing to be regretted is that any prisoners were taken at all—and that to the ruffian bands of insurgents no quarter should have been given. Why that would have been to convert soldiers into executioners, and to lay up large store of ven geance for the sanguinary retaliation of the Re publicans at some future day. Yet this is the view of the case which the official organ of our Government says there is reason to believe is not unsupported by much influential opinion in Paris. Thus it is the case that the sycophants of power never consider clemency a virtue but when the people are called upon to exercise it. It is an attribute, in their eyes, beneath the dignity of Kings—whose triumphs, to be truly regal, should be implacably revengeful, and who should never know that mercy was better than sacrifice, until, reduced to the condition of Charles X., they claim the benefit of a virtue which they never recognised. There were Pagan Sovereigns whose political morals would shame those advisers of Christian Kings. A ferocious saying of Sylla is quoted, but the maxims of a Sylla or a Robespierre would sound ill from the lips of a Titus or an Aurelian. Henry IV. of France, a name which the Bourbons are fond of invoking, was kept out of his lawful possession of the throne for years by the rebellion of tie people of Paris, but he troyed none of his enemies in cold blood. Hie world is feu more advanced in civilization than it was at that period. NA re hear a great deal of the " march of intellect," and of the schoolmaster being abroad," and of the moral victories which are thereby to be obtained—yet there are public instructors of Englishmen at the present day who think it quite right that Louis-Philippe should indulge an appetite for cold-blooded revenge in a moment of triumph, and enact those sanguinary scenes under the colour of justice from which Henry IV. would have turned away with disgust and abhorrence. Something has been intimated of an intention of sending to the guillotine a number of the boys of the Polytechnique School, who, finding the gates closed against them at night, were driven to the necessity of bivouacing with the insur gents. We admit their offence to be great, but it is only two years since they lavishly squandered their blood to raise Louis-Philippe to the throne. If but one of them should be im molated by the guillotine, the moral consequences to the throne of Louis-Philippe will be far more mischievous than the physical efforts of the insurgents. If that dreadful machine be called into action at all, on the present occasion, what becomes of the humane horror which the King of the French affected to feel in regard to the sacrifice of human life for political, or, indeed, for any crimes, while the fate of Polignac and his accomplices were yet in the balance ? It will appear to have been but well dissembled distaste for civil slaughter, but let him who begins to work the guillotine beware of the example which it may teach the people. We would advise Louis •Philippe rather to listen to the rational and humane advice of such a Journal as Le Temps, than to take counsel of those parasites of a Court who flatter and stimulate the passions of rulers at a moment when honest and judicious advisers would endeavour to pacify and control them. Well and forcibly does Le Temps say, " It is a feeling of its strength which disposes a nation to humanity—but parties are cruel, because they are. They raven after violent measures, without reflecting that power will one day turn those very means against themselves, and that opi nion will refuse to acquit them of the guilt. Forty years of revolution have furnished many examples of it. Louis XVI. immolated by the Girondists—the Girondists immolated by the Mountain party—and the Mountain becoming its own destroyer, and Barras, who had organized the 18 Vendeiniaire, a victim in his turn to the 18 Brumaire. The Regicides have never been able to clear themselves of the foul stain of the 21st of January. The executions of Rochelle and those of the Prevotal Courts have been the principal cause of the general horror entertained for the penalty of death for political offences." Again, " There are persons who think necessity justifies every thing. These men invoke bloody and numerous executions, proscriptions against the Press—a reaction against liberty. The nation did not speak thus in Judy. It did not create irregular tribunals for the purpose of convicting the soldiers who had massacred the Parisians with grape-shot." If ever there was a crisis when the regular tribunals of justice and the laws which protect the lives of citizens as well as punish guilt, should not be subverted by irregular and irresponsible power, it is such a crisis as that which has just occurred in Paris, when the Exe cutive Government has come triumphant and strong out of a fierce conflict with a portion of the people, and the dread of anarchy being ex tinguished, the only cause of alarm is lest un controlled power might degenerate into tyranny, as a necessary consequence of which justice must be superseded by vengeance. It is in this way a train of calamities is sometimes laid for a State, which, for a long course of years, stain its his tory with events injurious to civilization and afflicting to humanity.—Morning Herald. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. IM PE RIA L RLIAMENT THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. BULLER presented a petition from 600 rate payers of the city of Exeter, in favour of the Exeter Im provement Bill. Lord EBRINGTON presented a petition, signed by 2,400 rate payers of Exeter, agreed to at a public meet ing called by the Mayor, praying the House not to pass the Exeter Improvement Bill, without very im portant modifications. The petitioners preferred in curring whatever inconvenience might be created by delay to the Bill, as it was now framed. The whole num ber of rate-payers wet e about 6,000, and as this petition was signed by 2,400, and the one in favour of the Billbut by 600, it was only fair to presume that the naajwrity of the rate-payers were against the Bill. Mr. BULLER then moved the third reading of the Exeter Improvement Bill. Lord EBRINGTON did not rise to oppose the Bill, but to propose certain amendments, some of which he un derstood the Hon. Member (Mr. Buller) would accede to. The Noble Lord went through his various amendments, one of which was, that instead of 15 or 16 members of the Corporation being on the Board, the number should be reduced to six, and another related to a certain number of Commissioners going out by rotation. After some observation , , from Mr. Buck, Mr. Courte nay, Mr. Wilks, Sir G. Watrender, Lord Granville So merset, and Lord Ebrington, the first amendment was agreed to without a division. - Lord EBRINGTON then moved an amendment, to the effect that all rate-payers should vote under this Bill as under the former. After a few words from Mr. Wilke, Mr. Buller, Lord Ebriugton, and Sir G. Warreuder, the House divided, when there were— For the amendment Against it Majority —26 The clause was then ordered to be added to the Bill, by way of rider. The Bill was then passed. Mr. BURGE wished to know when the Noble Lord opposite intended, as we understood, to lay before the House his promised plan for financial relief to the colonies. Lord ALTHORP was not aware Government had en gaged to submit any measure for financial relief to the co lonies. Mr. BURGE called the attention of the Noble Lord to a letter written by Lord Goderich, in which such a measure had been expressly promised. Lord ALTHO . RP replied that that proposition had been subject to certain conditions which, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman knew perfectly well, had not been complied with. _ Mr. K. DOUGLAS thought, after the unsatisfactory ex planations which Government had been in the habit of g i v ing on all matters connected with the colonial interests, it was absolutely necessary that the subject should in some regular way he brought before the House. Mr. STANLEY moved the recommittal of the Irish Reform Bill. Before the question was put, Dlr. LAMBE begged leave to present a petition from Dungarvan, complaining that the Reform Bill for Ireland would diminish the number of electors in that place from 350 to 200. Mr. LEADER supported the petition, and complained that the Irish population returns had not been Lid before the House. Lord ALTHORP did not think it necessary to inter- pose delay, as the documents referred to would Inure pro perly be produced when the Boundary Irish Bill came to be considered. Mr. 0 CONNELL considered the population returns necessary to enable him to show the number of towns in Ireland which either had no Member at all or only one, which exceeded in population and importance towns which in England and Scotland had received the fran chise. The miserable substitute for their returns, with which they were required to be content, had only reached his hands that day ; be mutt pro •eat, therefore ; although As there were 90 many points in the Irish Reform Bill on which he meant to divide the House, he should not now trouble them with a division, yet he must protest against their proceeding, without at least the delay of a day to study this document. Sh, ~,• fluid judge from it, Dungan/an and Youghal would still continue nomination boroughs of the Duke of Devonshire. The liberties of the latter being, by the Boundary Bill, cut off from the town, and thrown into the county. He was informed also that Bandon would still continue to be nominated by that nobleman and Lord Bandon. Mr. STANLEY said that the delay in distributing the present document amongst Members had been quite un avoidable. But he could assure the Hon. Gentleman that it contained no more information with respect to population than papers which ha I been on the table of the House for a month past.—(Hear, hear.) De lay, therefore, for the purpose mentioned by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was needless. This docu ment related to the Boundary Bill, and nothing but that. The population returns were not necessary in this case as they had been i❑ that of the English Reform Bill, because there being no borough disfranchised or enfranchised, no necessity was created ffor calculating the relative value of any. With respect to Dungarvon, it had been treated exactly i❑ the same manner as Mallow, and on the same principle ; namely, that it was not right that any man should possess a double vote on the same property. That power had existed in those two boroughs, but it was now proposed to continue it only in the present life-holders. With respect to the manner in which the boundary line had been drawn round Youghal, the general principle on which they had acted, had been to draw the boundary line round all boroughs as close as possible, because the borough returned only one mem ber, whilst the county returned two. And was therefore considered the more desirable franchise. j z do ia Sir R. MUSGRAVE said that at present Dungarvon was an open borough. Sir R. MUSGRoVE said that at present Dungarvon was an open borough; and the result of the present ar angement would be to make Dungarvon a close borough. If Hon. Members sanctioned such arrangements, he con sidered they would act in total apposition to pledges which they had given to vote for Reform. Mr. KNIGHT wished to know whether, under the present arrangement, a small borough which he saw at the corner of the map was to bear the same name.— (Laughter.) The name of the place at present was Snug borongh.—(Loud laughter). After some ob,ervattons from Mr. STANLEY and Mr. POWER, the petition was read. Mr. LAMB, in moving the printing of the petition, observed, that the principal reason which induced him to present the petition to the notice of the House, was that, among other things, it prayed for the non-disfranchisement of the IL householders, he seeing no reason why so intel ligent a class should be deprived of so great a privilege. He should on all occasions use his utmost endeavours to support the franchise of the 5/. householders. Mr. STANLEY observed that they had dealt with the 5/. householders in Ireland, in exactly the same manner us they had done in England ; they had retained the franchise to the present possessors, but hadataken it from prospective ones. (LEFT SPEAKING.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday,lianz Thomas, a young man of fashionable appearance, was brought to this office, charged with having stolen a valuable great coat, the property of Henry Patching, E , A., merchant, and on suspicion of having committed several other robberies. Thomas Baites, a porter at the Golden Lion, St. John-street, Clerkenwell, stated, that yesterday morning, about half-past eight o'clock, the prisoner entered the coffee-room, and called for a glass of ale, which was served. Shortly afterwards, witness saw the prisoner leaving the place with a great coat across his arm, and being aware that he had no such article on his going into the coffee-room, he ques tioned the waiter, who informed him that Mr. Patch ing's great-coat was hanging in the eoffee-room. tie immediately ran after the prisoner, whom he saw, at some distance from the house, and called out " stop thief ;" when a gentleman tripped the prisoner up while he was running, and secured him. He was afterwards given into the custody of a policeman, who took him to the station-house. John William Turner, police constable, of G divi sion 218, stated that the prisoner was searched on his arrival at the station house, but nothing was found upon him. The coat was in his possession when he was apprehended. The proprietor of the Golden Lion suspected the prisoner of having committed other robberies; a person answering his description entered the Cross Keys tavern a few days before, and shortly after his departure property to a considerable amount was missing, and there was little doubt that he was the person who had committed the robbery. Other places in the neighbourhood had also been robbed in a similar manner. Lloyd, the officer, had received information of a robbery of an extensive nature having been commit ted at the Windmill tavern, St. John -street, on the 2d of June, by a person answering the prisoner's description, who visited the place, and not being suspected in consequence of his superior manners and appearance, the door of an appartment, adjacent to that in which he was accommodated, was left open, and property consisting of wearing apparel, plate, and 50 sovereigns were stolen. Mr. ROGERS asked the prisoner if he wished to say any thing ?—The prisoner s i m pl y rep li e d , " Nothing at present ;" and he was remanded till Wednesday next, when Lloyd was directed to bring forward the proprietors of the Cross Keys and the Windmill, and to make necessary inquiries prepara tory to the next examination. The prisoner was dressed in a blue coat with gilt buttons, grey trousers; his hair and eyes were black. He is about five feet eight inches in height. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) emand for Muscovadea last week was general and extensive ; the arrivals were large, but there was no adequate supplies brought forward, on account of the necessary time required in unloading the ships and sampling the Sugars; the new descriptions brought for ward met an immediate sale at full prices. The estimate of sales, 3,000 hhds. and trs. The market was shut this forenoon on account of the holyday. The imports were large last week, but both the wholesale grocers and re finers are out of stock, and the quantity in the grocers' hands in the country is reported to be very low indeed, and as there will be a short supply, the prices are ex pected to be maintained. T he great appearance of Fruit is also favourable for the Sugar market. The stock of West India Sugar is now 17,017 hhds. and trs. which is 1,275 more than last year. The stock of Mauritius is 72,035 bags, being 1,378 less than last year. The deli very of West India Sugar is 2,919 hhds. and trs. bein g three more than last year. The delivery of Mauritius is 11,318 bags, 3,867 more than the corresponding week of 1831. The Refined market was very firm last week towards the close, when there was some heaviness, but the late advance was fully maintained ; low goods were taken off at 665. ; fine crashed was in good demand. There is little doing this afternoon on account of the holydays. FOREIGN SUGAR.—There were no Foreign Sugars of any extent sold last week ; a smell proportion of the Rio Sugars offered at public sale on Tuesday last were taken afterwards at sale prices; the market is firm. EAST INDIA SUGAR.—There was no alteration in the price of Mauritius Sugars last week, except that the brown, 50s. and 515., were rather higher, and the very tine were also in more request, and realised rates a shade higher. In Bengal, Siam, and other Sugars, there is no alteration to notice. Average price of Sugar, 1/. Bs. 9id. per cwt. COFFEE.—The inquiries for the low descriptions of Coffee, particularly East India, were renewed yesterday; the market was very firm, and rather higher, both for East India and Foreign Coffee. The British Plantation has been steady, but the buyers are not anxious to pur chase, on account of the expected large arrivals. The sales last week are aboutB,ooo bags; Sumatra sold 525. a 555. ; Ceylon, .50s. a 51s. ; Batavia, 575. and 58s. ; St. Domingo and Brazil, 595. and 60s. ; coloury St. Do mingo, 635. There were no public sales this day, and up till a late hour no purchases by private contract were re ported ; the market, however, looks very firm. BUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS......The Rum market continues firm. The sales of Jamaica are inconsiderable, but sarge sales of Leewards have been reported ; one and two over at Is. 6d. ; five per cent. over at Is. 7d. ; 30 per cent. Demerara, 2s. 4d. and 2s. 5d.; and 32 over at 2s. 6d.—Brandy is heavy, and the sellers anxious to ..ffect sales.--In Geneva there is little variation. _Hers. —The late mina and hot weather have ma .ioned the Hop plant to look vigorous, but there le much fly. The estimated duty has commenced at 135,000/. to 140,0001. FRUIT.-There is a little good quality left; the late sales are quite inconsiderable. publit::ares of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Laud Wool went oil' briskly at advanced prices, particularly on the two last on Friday, which ave• raged 2d. per lb. higher than last year's prices for the same flocks. This was partly owing to a great improve. went in the condition of the Wool, the fleeces generally being cleaner than formerly. The Cape Wool sold from 6:i to Si per lb. ; the market otherwise is not so brisk, the buyers holding off for new Wools. The stocks on hand are old, and not of a selling kind, so that for want of better choice the buyings are very sparingly made. The German Wools are very dull, and much lower, on account i,f the competition of the Va❑ Diemen's Land and Sydney Wools, particularly the former, belonging to the Austra lian Agricultural Company; the latter is rapidly impro. ring, and will likely be a favourite article in this market TonAcco.—The sales of Tobacco continue confined to small parcels for export (strips) and some small lots for Ireland. RICE.-In Rice there is no alteration. INDIGO.—There is no alteration in Indigo; the East India sale, it is reported, will be increased to 7,000 chests. SILK.-Our market still continues steady, and the de mand is but limited, but, on the whole, Silks are a shade higher ; the alteration is but trifling. Manufactured ar ticles are selling at better prices. CO UN FRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. .1 Wheat. 1 Barley. 1 Oats. I Beans. Per Quarter. Bogton ---- 8. tO ..... Gainsborough Grantham -- 54 Grimsby Horncastle Lincoln Spilsby Stamford York— s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. 60 27 19 35 61 37 18 61 37 44 18 2.5 65 '2.8 32 17 21 58 30 35 16 20 62 39 40 18 24 &I 30 36 18 22 60 30 36 21 25 66 36 44 16 25 36 28 30 40 30 34 35 37 34 36 98 38 30 0 NORWICH, June 9. Wheat (per qr.) 585. 635. 665. I Beans (per qr.) 34x. 375. 28.. 3:25. 345. Pease, Orey.----..355. 388. Oats 20s. 21s. 265. Flour, fine (per sack) 465. 48s CANTERBURY. June 9. Wheat, white 58s. to 675. to --s. —s. red 50s. to Ms. Old —4. to .—g. Barley, Malting 325. to 345. Grinding.. 24 8 . to 30s. Oats Beans Pease --8. to —S. 39.3. to 365. 38s. to 40s. 383. to 40.. Grey...—. 335. to 375. MANCHESTER, June 9. Wheat, per 701 b. 9s. 9d. to 10s. 4d. Red 9s. 64. to 9s. 9d. Barley, per 601 b 5 6 6 0 Oats 3 6 3 9 Beans, per Imperial quarter Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 5 6 Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 42 0 48 0 Flour, per Sack of 2801 b. 4B U 54 0 EXETER MA] Beef (score) Bs. Od. 9s. 6d. Mutton (Ib.)--...0 51 0 6 Veal and i an)-0 6 0 7 Perk 0 4 0 6 Geese (each) 4 0 5 6 Ducks 'coun!e \ 4 0 5 0 Fowls 0 4 0 KETS —June 8. Wheat (bushel) Od. Bs. 6d. Barley 6 4 9 Oats 2 3 '2 5 Beans Butter (113.)—„,--.1 0 1 3 Eggs (12) 0 0 1 0 Potatoes (peck) ...0 6 0 7 .RKETS. _ , 'I'E.—FRIDAY, June 8. From To Average. 336 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 28 0 36 0 33 4 0 Bele l6 stone 0 0 0 50 Barley l6 stone 17 6 0 0 2,796 Oats l2 stone 9 6 12 0 10 10 9,639 Cwt. Flour.---..... 9 stone 6 0 22 0 0 0 1,338 Oatmeal 8 stone 10 0 14 0 11 10 Sold to Bakers only. 8,242 Cwt. F10ur....... l6 0 22 0 19 11 4 Average price l2 o; 08 WheatSeconds,...,, Firsts, o from 4d. 20, p . e a r . tsack.o22 e. 041. from 16s. Od. to 19s. Od. 9 ' 639 I' v h e i " rd li s, from 6s . Od. to 12s. Od. s ß a e l c e e s i o p f ts of Iploo.ur, IRISH MA DUBLIN MARKET NO PRICE OF BREAD. ...,......84d. 1 Half Quartern Quartcrn Loaf. Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, per cwt. per barrel per barrel per barrel 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. Ist. 2d. --- s. d. a s.d. s.d. a s.d. s.d. a s.d. s. d. as. d. le. d. as. d. Cork 300 32 311 4 14 610 0 10 7 16 6 190 90 16t) Limerick 127 6 30 013 0 1401120 13 6 16 0 199 00 15 0 Waterfordl29 0 30 013 0 16 010 0 11 017 0 19 010 0 16 0 Clonmel —,29 4 30 0 12 0 16 013 6 13 917 0 19 0 13 0 16 0 Carlow —l3O 0 32 016 0 17 010 0 10 620 6 21 0 00 00 Beef, Mutton, Pork, Butter. per lb per lb. per cwt. lst. .2el. 3d. tth. sth. 'd. a d. d. a d. s. d. as. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. . d. Cork 4i 5 31- 5 290 320 SO 078070 0 64 0 0 Limerick— 3 43i 434 0 35 0540780720 64 0 56 0 Waterford 3 6 3 532 0 38 0780750700 66 0 60 0 Clonmel 4 5 5 6 370 38 0840830 (I 0 Carlow— 4 51 0 0 0 0 0080075070 0 60 0— 0 KILKENNY.—Butter —s to —s. per cwt. ; Wheat 265. to 28s. per barrel ; Flour 20s. to 345. per bag; Oats Bs. to 10s, per bar rel; Barley 13s. to 15s. ; Beef 4d. to U. per lb. ; Mutton 4d. to 3d. ; Potatoes 2d. per stone; Coals Is. 2d. per cwt.; Bacon Pigs 325. to 335. per cwt. The cholera, is, we are sorry to find, on the increase in Liverpool. From Friday to Monday, there were 39 new cases, 20 deaths, 6 recoveries, and 16 re mained ; total, from commencement on the 12th ult., 127 cases, 63 deaths, and 48 recoveries. EXTRAORDINARY SUlClDE.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the Middlesex Hospital on the body of THOMAS PRIDE, aged 50. On the 14th of April the de ceased entered the hospital, and untying his neckcloth, showed a large wound in his neck. The windpipe was nearly divided, and he just articulated that he had done it the day before, but for what reason he did not state. He was attended to and he afterwards said that his name was THOMAS PRIDE, and that he had a sister living in Eus'on square. He gave the address, and a lady called upon him once or twice. That address was now lost, and it was not known what the deceased was. He was seized with a fever, of which he died on Sunday. Verdiet--. Died from fever. SIR WALTER SCOTT.—Last .week Sir WALTER SCOTT left this city, intending to return to Ab botsford by way of Florence, Venice, Munich, Stuttgard, Frankfort, Cologne, Holland, and England. On the whole, his residence in Italy has been very beneficial to him ; though the effects of the severe paralytic stroke will probably never be wholly removed, as the lameness in his foot was much increased, and he speaks with difficulty. Those who are able perfectly to follow him as he speaks► soon perceive that the intellectual stream still flows in un interrupted purity, rapidity, and strength. This is also proved by his activity; besides the work which he has already sent home—" The Siege of Malta," he is now putting the last hand to a Calabrian novel " Bizarre," which is founded on the extraordinary adventures of a very formidable bandit chief. He greatly regrets the death of GOETHE, because, as he expressed himself, " be wouli have been so happy to see by his own fire-side the power ful genius on whom the world turned." Sir W. received an invitatio❑ to Weitnar the very week that GOETHE died. If he attended only to his health, he would return by sea ; but he is drawn by an irresistible longing to the romantic mountains and antique castles that look down into the blue waves of Father Rhine.—Rome, May 17, 1832. The young gentlemen who assemble occa sionally in Mr. Ttms's Lecture Room, to take lessons i$ the art of making speeches, are too fond of borrowing their imagery from the quiver of Mars. It answers very well now and then to round a period with the butt end of $ blunderbuss, or point a bit of irony with a yeomanry bay onet; but to be always dinning cannon into one's ears 15 too bad. We thought Bowan'. had put that practice out of fashion. It almost appears as if they got together once a week, for no other purpose than to conjugate the ver b pugno through all the moods and tenses, and that thei r corresponding members in London and e l sew h ere were in structed to do the same. Alight it not save t h e E ven io9 !hail a quantity of heavy work, a n d i ts readers a vast deal m ore, if, instead of filling its Co l umns with speeches n' long as a pike - staff , it were to ab r id ge t h em t h us :• Capt. Corriticuan rose and spoke as follows pugno, I am fighting. :srrpugnabans, I did fight. Ego pugnabo, I will fi g ht. Sir G. Rictr—E go A C T ? . t. G G -E G. pugnem,l may fight. Lord RonEN—Ego pugnarem, I should fight. To all which we should add—provided the youths prowl to confine th e i r martial ardour to the war of words, (60 we rather think they will too) Pugnent, pugnanto—Let them fight. — Plaindealer, a new Dublin evening paper. BIRTHS. On the 11th inst. at Kensington, the wife of John Mair, of Friday-street, of a son. al On the 10th inst. in Park-place, North Brixton, the lady ° f Samuel Cohen, jun. Esq. of a slaughter. On the lah inst. in New Broad-street, the lady of Gilbe rt llackmurdo, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. At Esher, Captain Frederick Chamier, R.N., to Elizabeth; eldest daughter of the late John Soane, Esq. and grandaug hte to the highly-talented architect of that name. DIED. On the 11th inst. Ann, daughter of Mr. H ar d w i c k, o. r SO/ Bond-street. On the Bth inst. in Milton-street, D orse t -square, Mrs. AO' Maria Moore, in the 87th year of her age. On the 3d inst. at Tunbridge W e ll s, w h ere h e had gone.-,°,9J visit to his brother, Lieut.-C o l one l T o d , l ate o f t h e :29th 0 " ment, after a few hours' illness. On the 7th inst. at Dunm ow, E ssex, Eli za b et h , w ife o f T' James, half-pay 58th Regiment. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, , T SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDQN.