The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-08 00:00:00

lieved that the present Ministry had not done all they
ought to have done, but they had done a great deal for
the benefit of the people as compared with the wrong-
doing of Tory governments, that had usurped power for
the last eighty years. He had drunk with great plea-
sure the toast of the continued improvement of the
Administration, but he thought they might be made
a great deal better if the people were not so apawere
-
The apathy and indifference of the pple
as much to be apprehended as the want of rapid pro-
gress on the part of Government. If the people did not
speak out and express their wishes and views for the
promotion of their own interest and welfare, it was not
likely that the Government would be always in the van
when the people were contented to remain in the rear.
The people should become the vanguard, and then they
would have a chance of marching soberly and prudently,
but at the same time firmly and fearlessly. It was to
him a matter of particular satisfaction that the present
Government had not in any way interfered with the free-
dom of the press. It was true there were Bradshaws and
boobies in the Tory ranks, and he should be very
sorry to stop any manifestation of their opinions.—
(Cheers.) He was persuaded that the more
they spoke out the more they would commit themselves.
--(Cheers.) These men fought the battle of Reformers
much better than they could fight it themselves, and he
would say,give them plenty of rope.—(Cheers.) Let them
have a full opportunity of going the whole hog in their
own way, and, without claiming any pretension to be a
prophet, he would undertake to say that between this and
the assembling of Parliament there *would be a precious
squabble between the Tory leaders and those indiscreet
men who were so replete with folly and absurdity as to
utter the weak and contemptible sentiments they had
manifested.—(Cheers.)
The toast was received with cheers.

The CHAIRMAN proposed the next toast—" The
Liberty of the Press"—which was drunk with applause ;
and after the health of the Chairman, and some other
toasts had been proposed, the meeting separated.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

(FROM TEE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.)
(From the Globe.)
The Times follows up the foolish and factious
attempt of the Standard to ascribe the insane out-
break in Wales to Liberal government, beginning
with the Reform Ministry. " The Chartist rebel-
lion," it says, " in the same way as the fatal riots
at Bristol, and as every other atrocity which has
desolated England during the last eight years, may be
traced to Whig mal-administration. The impetus given
by Ministers to rabble power, by coquetting with, and
cherishing, and feeding its excesses, under the base
guise of liberality,' has gone far towards the ruin
of all civil government amongst us.' It would be
to very little purpose to remind the Times that
at the period of the Bristol riots, its own columns might
indeed be chargeable with " giving an impetus" to the
" rabble power' of " brickbats and bludgeons ;" and that,
since that period, it has gone on, though under opposite
colours, to " give an impetus" to the " rabble power" of
the Oastlers and Stephenses—indeed to supply them with
stores of "enormous lying" to fill out their firebrand
speeches. The Times has always kept a corner for
" coquetting with" rabble power, and " cherishing
and feeding its excesses," under one guise or other ;
and therefore does not come into court with clean
hands as a witness against others. We grant that,
if it could implicate Liberal Govenments in all its
own violence while it thundered on their side, it
might make out against them its present case. But
the party to which it now vends its precarious advocacy
would hesitate to hold their opponents responsible for
its past violences, on condition of accepting the like re-
sponsibility for themselves at present.
(From the Courier.) . .

According to the latest accounts from Newport it is
not at all certain that the Chartist movement, vigorously
repulsed on its first onset as it has been, may be consi-
dered as finally arrested. Rumours were current of out-
breaks in other parts of Monmouth and Glamorgan, and
of the repetition of the assault on the town of New-
port by another corps of mutineers. The currency of
such rumours in so excited. a state of affairs may rea-
dily be accounted for, and of course in their circulation
from hand to hand are not likely to lose anything
of their exaggeration. But it is quite evident that
the Chartist organisation of South Wales must be
on the most formidable scale, when the advanced
guard, if so we may term it, under Frost, is variously
estimated at from 10 to 15,000 persons. As we hinted
yesterday, the point from whence danger may most spe-
cially be apprehended is Merthyr Tydvil and its neigh-
bourhood. The. Morning Chronicle considers our esti-
mate of its population, or rather of the borough popu-
lation, to be understated by one-half ; but it must be
remembered that we referred to Merthyr and Dowlais
alone, taking no account of Aberdare and the circum-
jacent population, whether comprised within the limits of
the borough or not. We believe our statement to be sub-
stantially correct, although from the extraordinary pros-
perity during the last four years of the mining interests,
the number of inhabitants may have increased. The Chro-
nicle is, however, misinformed in the facts upon which
an indirect attempt is based of begging the question in

advance by way of vindication or excuse for the igno-
rance or supineness of the Government. It assumes
that " in no part of the country could an organization be
formed, with so little interruption, as in a district
where the lower orders speak almost universally a lan-
guage unknown to the educated classes. In no part
of the country is there such facility for obtaining arms as
in a district of iron-works." It is so far from being true
that the " lower orders" of Glamorgan, and of Mon-
mouth also, so far as the coal and iron districts, '° speak
almost universally a language unknown to the educated
classes,"that the contrary is much moregenerally the case.
(From the Standard.)
The latest accounts from the neighbourhood of its
scene, hold out a hope that the insurrection in South
Wales is at an end, although serious apprehen-
sions of a recurrence were entertained upon the spot.
Such apprehensions are natural, but they are seldom
realised in cases where insurgents have been so promptly
and decisively beaten, as, thanks to the gallantry of the
Mayor, Magistrates, inhabitants, and military they were
at Newport. Supposing, then, as we think we may,
that the reign of order and of the law has been restored,
the public has a right to call for the earliest and the
most full investigation of the causes which have led to
an event so disgraceful as that which has so lately oc-
curred, and which has led to the death of fifty or a hun-
dred of our fellow-subjects ; taking into account
the mortally wounded with those actually dead,
the total will not, we are assured, be found to
fall much short of the latter number. A special

commission for the trial of Mr. Justice Frost and his
accomplices, is the proper form for the commence-
ment of this investigation ; and we can scarcely believe
that, however reluctant to let out the whole truth, the
Administration will dare to refuse one. A special
commission will be, however, no more than a commence-
ment ; for if Parliament does not most criminally ne-
glect its duty, an ample and unreserved inquiry into the
growth and progress of that selition, which has at
length ripened into treason add open rebellion, will be
I among the very first labours of the Session.

There was an investigation held on Thursday
last in Limerick by the Magistrates of the county, at
which Mr. W. S. O'Brien, M.P., presided, for the pur-
pose of inquiring into the conduct of Mr. M. Singleton,
S.M., towards Mr. Henry Croker, a Magistrate for the
county of Limerick. The Magistrates assembled una-
nimously agreed to a resolution condemnatory of the
conduct of Mr. Singleton, and calling upon his Excel-
lency to direct an investigation into the course pursued
by him. At the same meeting a resolution was passed,
unanimously approving in the strongest terms of the ju-
dicial conduct of M. Fallon, Esq., assistant-barrister for
that county, and expressive of the confidence of the
Magistrates assembled in his impartiality, integrity, and
highly honourable conduct, while Chairman of that
county.—Dublin Pilot.
CRIME IN THE AGRICULTURAL PARTS OF
WORCESTERSHIRE.-Dr. Cooper had shown that the
commitments had enormously increased since he first
became a Magistrate ; that, he (Mr. Pakington) con-
ceived was a cogent argument for the adoption of the
present measure. The increase of crime was in enor-
mously greater proportion than the increase of popula-
tion, and there could not be a stronger argument than
this for the introduction of a force to suppress it.—Mr.
Pakington's Speech on proposing the appointment of a
chief constable in Session, on Monday, the 4th instant.
The Municipal Elections for the Boroughs in
this County have terminated, with one exception, de-
cidedly in favour of the Liberal party. In our own
city ten Town Councillors of Liberal principles have
been chosen out of twelve, at Kidderminster five
Liberals out of six, and at Evesham and Droitwich
the whole number to be elected, four in each place,
were chosen from the Liberal party. Bewdley is the
only borough in the county where Tory ascendancy has
triumphed, in the return of four Tories to the Council,
hut as the four retiring members were of the same
party, the absolute gain or loss to either on the pre-
sent election is nil. There is " something rotten in the
state" here which demands the serious attention of the
Reformers, and the sooner they devote their attention
to it the better, lest the evil by long standing become
incurable. Let them be better prepared against the
next election or they will rue the consequences. At
Ludlow three of the retiring Councillors have been re-
' turned and a fourth elected, all drafted from the party
advocating good government and free institutions. At'
Gloucester and Hereford the result has been satisfac-
tory, and in the former city it will be learned with plea-
sure that the Liberals command a majority in the Town
Council for the first time.—Worcestershire Chronicle.
THE CUSTOMS, GLASGOW.—The growing
increase of the Customs' duties, payable at the port of
Clyde, continues to evince most pleasingly the industry
been informed that business and enterprise of our mercantile mmunit . We have
that the duties paid
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show an increase of 62,0001., as compared with the
corresponding period of last year ; and by the end of
1839 the duties are expected to reach nearly, if not al-
together, half a million sterling.—Scots Times.