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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1839,

SAINT PANCRAS, MIDDIASEX.
...Ex. 4 T a GENERAL MEETING of the YES-
TRYMEN of the said Parish, held on Monday, the
13th day of May, 1839,
RICHARD HORSPOOL, Esq., in the Chair,
And Fifty-four other Vestrymen present;
Resolved,—That the following Address be presented to her
Majesty the Queen, through the Secretary of State for the
Home Department:—
TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
The humble Memorial and Petition of the Churchwardens
and Vestry representing the Loyal, Populous, and Wealthy
Parish of St. Pancras Middlesex.
Sheweth,
That this Vestry has heard with feelings of deep indignation
that an attempt has been made to banish from your presence the
female friends for whom your Majesty entertains affec-
tion, and thus to render your social station more painful and
devaded than that of any other woman in your dominions.
That this vile attempt to make your Majesty a state prisoner
in your own Palace, to place a spy over every one of your do-
mestic movements, and to make your Royal office a mere pa-
geant to be used so!ely for the purposes of a reckless oligarchy,
are not in accordance with the Constitution of this kingdom,
and are insults which your people, this Vestry doubts not, will
re 14 in your Majesty's behalf.
That this Vestry, relying on your Majesty'sfirmness and con-
stitutional principles, dreads not attacks on liberty from the
Crown, but from the selfish and ill-instructed part of the Aris-
tocracy ; and therefore this Vestry humbly prays,
That your Majesty will be pleased to call to your councils
such Ministers as will uphold the just prerogative of the Crown ;
—support all necessary reform in our institutions ;--amplify
and freely extend the broad basis of the representa-
tion of the people in the Commons' House of Par-
liament, thus forming a bulwark to the Throne,
which will prevent us from being trampled upon by
a self-seeking oligarchy ; enlarge the bounds of civil
and religious liberty, and carry prosperity over your Majesty's
vast dominions.
And your petitioners will every pray.

LONDON :
TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1889.

who, advancing at a rapid trot from the Rue des Arcis,
received the first volley. The head of this detach-
ment had reached the top of the Rue de la Vauxerie,
when a general discharge of fire-arms emptied the sad-
dles •f the two horses which led the troop ; the re-
mainder of the platoon immediately turned into the Rue
de la Vauxerie, and re-formed itself at some distance.
At this moment other detachments of the municipal
guard made their appearance upon different points ;
several shots were exchanged without producing any
fatal result on either side ; the insurrectionists retired
gradually from the Place de Greve and the Quay Pel-
letier, and took the direction of the Rue St. Avoye.
At five o'clock the situation of affairs was as fol-
lows :

The three posts which had been disarmed remained
shut up and deserted ; the Municipal Guard occupied
the Place of the Hotel de Ville and the borders of the
river, which aro comprised between the Pont au
Change and the Post au Bles. The greatest emotion
existed in the quarters of St. Martin, St. Denis, and
Montmartre, caused by the rumours in circulation, and
the sound of the drums of the National Guards beating
to arms. Notwithstanding, no disturbance had taken
place in this direction, except in the solitary instance
of the pillaging of Messrs. Lepage's armoury. The
rioters, to the number of 300 or 400, marching in a
long file, directed their steps towards the Boulevard,
taking the narrow streets which run parallel to the Rue
St. Martin.

Up to the hour at which we write the movement
which we have described above remains within the
limits circumscribed by the Place du Chatelet and the
Hotel de Ville. The posts of the Market of the Inno-
cents and of the Church of St. Eustache have not even
been disturbed ; but, from the direction taken by the
armed rioters, it is probable that at this moment the
Portes of St. Martin and of St. Denis are the scenes of
some sanguinary struggles.

Seven o'clock, r.m,

Nothing has occurred, as we feared would be the
case, either in the Boulevards or their vicinity. The
centre of the movement has, in fact, been displaced, and
at this moment it is concentrated in the lower por-
tion of the quarters of St. Denis, St. Martin, and
Montmartre, which is comprised between the quays on
both extremities, the line of passages formed by the
arcades of Commerce, Saumon, Grand Cerf, Bourg
l'Abbe, and Saucede, and the streets of Montmartre and
St. Avoye. Barricades have been thrown up, one near
the church of St. Leu, in the Rue St. Denis, composed
of an omnibus and a hackney coach turned upside
down. A second barricade was formed at the corners
of the Rue Montorgueil, and Figuetonne, and several
others exist, we are informed, in various quarters. At
half-past six the barricade of the Rue Figuetonne was
was stormed and carried by a company of the grenadiers
of the 3d legion of the national guards, which was
supported by a detachmsnt of the 15th infantry of the
line. A national guard was wounded ; several of the
rioters were made prisoners.
A municipal guard was killed at the Rue aux Oes.
We also learn that the Officer commanding the post
at the Palac• of Justice, together with two soldiers,
were killed.

Marshal Gerard has taken this command of the gar.
rison of Paris.

The company of grenadiers which carried the barri-
cades of the Rue Figuetonne is that of the lit battalion
of the third legion. The national guard who was, not
wounded but killed, was M. Leroux.

According to private accounts the number of
killed and wounded was very considerable. Re-
ports were in circulation that the garrisons about
Paris had been tampered with, and that if the Re-
volutionists succeed in maintaining their ground for
seven or eight hours longer they might expect strong
reinforcements. From the consternation which
prevailed at the Tuileries it was evident that the
Government had not the remotest idea that any plot
existed for overturning the throne of Louts
PHILIPPE.

We do not think that the Revolutionists have a
chance of success, but their suppression will be at
an expense of human life and suffering frightful to
contemplate. At the same time all anticipations
of any result of an insurrection in Paris are of
little worth. A mob easily sets the calculations of
political second sight at defiance ; but happen whit
may the KING alone is answerable for all the
miseries that must ensue. Had THIERS been
Premier there would have been no attempt at
insurrection. To obtain a personal triumph over
THIERS the pedling and intriguing KING of the
Barricades has driven France to the verge of social
and commercial ruin, and among the natural conse-
quences is this attempt to hurl him from the throne.

It appears that the day of adjournment of the
Commons has been altered since Lord JOHN
RUSSELL'S announcement in the early part of the
evening. It stood for Friday, the 24th, but it
appears by the Votes this morning that Lord
JOHN RUSSELL ii, to-morrow, to move 44 That
the House do adjourn till Monday, 27th May, on
which DAY the ELECTION OF SPEAKER WILL
TAKE PLACE."

Of course every true Reformer will be in his
place to ensure the election of Mr. SHAW LB-

FEVRE.

The Committee of the Lords now sitting on the
conduct of Lord NORMANBY is, we believe, pro-
fessedly a select and secret Committee, yet repeated
reports of certain portions of the proceedings have
appeared in a Dublin paper, and have been copied
into the Times, there garbled, and for aught we
know, false statements are evidently put forth to
create a prejudice against Lord NORMANBY, whose
conduct they describe as so partial and un-
constitutional, that nothing short of impeach-
ment will satisfy the ends of justice. Is
this fair towards the Noble Marquis ? Is
this the sort of justice Lord WHARNCLIFFE
would have dealt out to Ireland had the QUEEN
been forced to yield to the Orange-PEEL Cabinet ?
If there is any foundation for these reports, there
must be a breach of trust on the part of some Noble
Lord. or some witness or clerk, and in any case
it was the duty of the Chairman to call the
attention of the House to the subject, yet the
practice has been going on for ten days, and
no allusion has been made to it. The Orange
party are blind to their own interests,
and seem unconscious of the fact, that this parti-
ality will destroy even the small importance which
the Irish nation attached to the inquiry. Firebrand
M'GHEE thought the fabricated letter about PETER
DENS and the Jesuits a capital joke, and possibly

the Rodenites may consider this mode of conduct-
ing a grave inquiry also a joke, but the impartial
public will consider the whole proceeding as some-
thing worse than a joke.

Greater excitement existed about the two Houses
of Parliament last evening, than we have witnessed
since the period of Reform. Palace-yard and the
vicinity of the two Houses were nearly crowded
with spectators, and the leading Members of both
Houses were cheered or hissed as they passed
by the respective partizans of each. A body of
paid Conservatives waited, apparently, on Sir
R. PEEL, and conducted him to the House,
where his partizans loudly cheered him. Lord J.
RUSSELL also was warmly and repeatedly cheered
on entering the House. Lord MELBOURNE, WC
understand, cheered on his was also respectfully
ap-
proach to the House of Lords. The crowd in both
Houses was very great, and in the Commons not a
place, except a seat or two in the Members' gal-
lery, was vacant. His Royal Highness the Duke
of CAISIB RIDGE was under the gallery, and every
foot of space below the bar had its occupant. Those
who were in the House of Commons were not dis-
appointed, but those who went to witness the pro-
ceedings in the Lords had the mortification to have
the House adjourn without hearing any explanation.
The Peers collected in great numbers, and collected
the public, apparently, only to make fools of all, for
after receiving' a few petitions their Lordships ad.
journed.
The Commons behaved differently. A conside-

rable number of petitions were presented, and after
some manifestation of impatience the expected
explanations were entered upon amidst profound
silence.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as the Minister of the
Cror►n, announced that her Majesty had given her
gracious permission to Sir ROBERT PEEL to state
the circumstances which led to the fa;lure of the
attempt of the Right Hon. Baronet to form an Ad-
ministration. The announcement looked quite
patronizing in Lord JOHN, and his oponent
began, on Lord JOHN'S invitation, to give his
permitted explanation in a very humbled and sub-
dued tone.

He first disclaimed all the statements which have
been made in the Tory journals, and declared that
if his wishes had been consulted they never would
have been made. With an assumption of generosity
Sir ROBERT begged the House two or three times
to throw all the blame of any misconception or
misunderstanding on him, and as the more prudent
course, proposed to avoid all reference to any con-
versation, which had taken place to which he alone
could bear testimony in that house, and to state
his case only by the letters which had passed
between her MAJESTY anti him. The
Right Hon. Baronet first read a letter from Lord
MELBOURNE, giving him permission to use the
correspondence ; he then stated the facts of the
Duke of WELLINGTON having been sent for, and
the Duke having advised her MAJESTY to send
for Sir ROBERT, chiefly because the difficulties of
the Government would be found in the House of
Commons, of his having accepted the office of
Prime Minister, and proposed to submit to her
MAJESTY as the eidef members of the Cabinet,
the Duke Of WELLINGTON, Lord LYND-
HURST, the Earl of ABERDEEN, Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH, Lord STANLEY, Sir J. GRAHAM,
Sir HENRY HARDINGa, and MR. GOULBURN.
In substance, the Right Hon. Baronet's explana-
tion corresponds with what has already been stated
in this Paper, and we observed no new point in it
except that it was not till Friday morning, while it
has generally been stated to have been Thursday
evening, that he received the letter from her MA-
JESTY, declining to accede to his request to be
permitted to remove some of the members of
her Household, and consequently after her
MAJESTY had communicated with Lord MEL-
BOURNE, and a Council was held on
Thursday night at the Noble Viscount's House.
All went on smoothly with the Right Hon.
Baronet and her MAJESTY, till he came to ask, or
rather to demand, from her MAJESTY a power to
remove the Ladies of her Household. He stated
explicitly, and he appealed to several of his Right
Hon. Friends for the truth of his assertion, that his
intention only was to remove those Ladies of the
Bedchamber who had political connections ; he de-
clared that he never dreamt of removing all the Ladies
of her MAJESTY'S Household, and he denied indig-
nantly that he had ever contemplated separating her
MAJESTY from the Baroness LEHZEN. To his de-
mand, however, for the power to remove the Ladies
of her Household, which, as Lord Jorm R us-
SELL subsequently and pointedly proved, would
hereafter have enabled Sir ROBERT PEEL to move
every woman from the Palace he disliked, her
MAJESTY returned an answer which, from its
truth, sincerity, and consequences, deserves to be
engraved in letters of gold, and hung up over every
hearth in the kingdom, around which the domestic
virtues are cultivated. Her MAJESTY said—
" THE QUEEN HATING CONSIDERED TILE
PROPOSALS MADE TO HER YESTERDAY BY SIR
ROBERT PEEL, TO REMOVE THE LADIES OF
HER BEDCHAMBER, CANNOT CONSENT TO

ADOPT A COURSE WHICH SHE CONCEIVES TO

RE CONTRARY TO USAGE, AND WHICH IS RE,

PUGNANT TO HER FEELINGS."
On receiving that letter Sir ROBERT PEEL gave
back into her MAJESTY'S hands the power of
forming an Administration, and her Majesty again
applied to Lord MELBOURNE.
Sir ROBERT then entered into an elaborate
vindication of his conduct for insisting on this
point, the burden of which was that
he must hare the power of removing the Bed-
chamber Ladies in order to make a powerful im-
pression on the public and ensure a demonstra-
tion that he enjoyed her MAJESTY'S confidence.

When we heard this part of the statement, we set
Sir ROBERT down as little better than a ninny,
who sacrificed power, when it was within his reach,
to a short-sighted, contemptible, ungenerous
greediness. The Government was offered to
him ; he and his partizans say that the safety of
the empire depends on his accession to power, and
he threw away his chance from his desire to remove
the Marchioness of NORMANBY and Lord MOR-
PETIeS sisters from the presence of the QUEEN.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL demonstrated, by nume-
rous examples, that Sir ROBERT PEEL had, by his
demand, overstepped the usages of the Constitu-
tion. He had received, said the Noble Lord,
as large powers as ever were conceded to any
Minister ; but they did not content him,
and he demanded what was repugnant to her
MAJESTY'S feelings. Lord JoHN explained to Sir
ROBERT that a generous man would only have
gained more on the confidence of a high-minded
generous woman like the QUEEN, by not press-
ing such a demand ; and that had he obtained
his object, it would only have irritated her
MAJESTY, and weakened his own power.
These sensible observations, the truth of which
visibly affected the Tories, made them retort
on Lord JOHN RUSSELL, a loud, chuckling, and
bitter laugh. They then felt and knew, if they
never felt and knew before, that Sir ROBERT
PEEL, from wanting the soul and breeding of a
gentleman, had sacrificed substantial power to a
silly dread of some Ladies' influence.

We cannot conclude, without making our read-
ers in Ireland sensible how deeply they are indebted
to her MAJESTY. The great point of difficulty for
his Government, Sir ROBERT PEEL said, was
Ireland ; and his great difficulty in governing that
country, as he was determined to govern it, in oppo-
sition to the present kindly policy of her MA-
JESTY'S Ministers, lay in Lord MoRPETH's
sisters, and the Marquis of NORMANBY'S
wife being continually with her MAJESTY, and so
shielding Ireland from his malice.

To those Ladies, then, under her MAJESTY, the
Irish are indebted for not having the Earl of
RopEN for Lord Lieutenant, and Sir HENRY
HARDINGE for a Member of the Cabinet. To
her MAJESTY'S kind, generous, and affectionate
attachment to her friends, that amiable and noble
virtue, to her firmness and correct judgment, the
Irish owe their continued preservation from the do-
minion of the Orangemen. Let them then, and let
all the people, fervently pray for the high-minded
generous QUEEN.

We have no doubt, that at the moment at which
we are employed in communicating to our readers
an account of the important proceedings of the House
of Commons last evening, more than one of the
scribes attached to the Tory press are engaged in
preparing a flaming announcement to the country of
the reception which greeted Sir ROBERT PEEL on
his leaving the House of Commons this evening.
We have more than once observed, on occasions
where there was a probability or certainty of
unusual interest being attached to a debate,
that Mr. CHARLES Ross has invariably been
seen prowling about the purlieus of the House of
Commons, and we have as certainly noticed the
attendance of a party of shabby-looking idlers
waiting at the corner of Palace-yard, attired in an
uniform that bespoke their recognition of

Mr. BONHAM as their Lieutenant-Colonel.
Yesterday this knot was most conspicuous ; we no-
ticed Lord MELBOURNE and the Marquis of NOR-
MANBY coming down to the House of Lords, and
we observed them, because our attention was called
to their presence by the hearty and enthusiastic
cheers of a patriotic and impartial assemblage.
The knot to which we allude remained compact, and
wisely abstained from any demonstration of feeling
adverse to that which was manifested by the large
mass of people who were present when the Noble
Lords passed ; but on the breaking tip of the
House of Commons near eight o'clock (when
the crowd which surrounded the avenues of Palace-
yard at five o'clock had dispersed, we still
observed the presence of this well organized
band, who, on the appearance of Sir ROBERT
PEEL, gathered round him in a moment,
and escorted him to Privy Gardens, with
cheers as loud as their limited numbers could raise.
Not a passing observer joined them, no casual pas-
senger helped to swell the chorus of approval of the
conduct of the domineering would-be Premier ; on
the contrary, we assert, that the impression of all
who saw this scene was, that a band of hired ap-
plauders attended the welcome, to create an im-
pression on the mind of the public that PEEL is
the favourite of the people. Men of West-
minster, will you permit the hired servants of
the Carlton Club to be the organs of your at-
tachment to the constituted authorities and the per-
son of your Sovereign ? But we deviate from our
original purpose in making such an appeal: we
rather sought to offer an apology for your ab-
sence in this short account of what took place,
and we desired to expose the practices of the
Carlton Club rather than attribute want of con-
stitutional zeal to the inhabitants of Westminster.

There is one part of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S speed
which we hold to be worthy of a special notice
He said he knew that he took office under great
difficulties, but he was prepared to brave them, in-

superable though they were, if he could reform the
Household. India was a subject of painful consi-
deration, but he would-undertake to meet it if he
could remove the women. Jamaica was full of
difficulties, but he would encounter them if her
MAJESTY would allow him to deal with her
Ladies. Canada required immediate attention ;
he would give it if he could get the women under
co.mnand. More than all, Ireland would embarass
him, and he could not possibly overcome that diffi-
culty unless he were allowed to command the
Bedchmber-women. He could not get rid of the Bed-
chamber women, and he gave up the Government.
Mighty persons, then, are these women. Not his
own indomitable courage in venturing on the Go-
vernment with a minority of five was to be the main-
spring of his Ministry, but the Court women. He
could not rely on the serried phalanx of Conserva-
tives at his back, nor on any vacillating Whigs whom
he hoped to seduce, nor on the immense number of
supporters he has in the country. No, he could
only rely on appointing some new Bedchamber
women. The pure principles of Protestantism—
the steady backing of Oxford—the loud bawling
of all the parsons in the empire, could not carry
him through, for he had not the appointment of
the Bedchamber women. For a quarter of an
hour nearly, did the Right Hon. Baronet dilate on
the theme, that in this great crisis of the country,
he could not save it—all the Conservatives could
net save it—the whole virtue and power lay in the
Bedchamber women. We have long been of opinion
that it is impossible to allow the public closely
to examine the machinery of Government without
bringing the whole into contempt ; and to hear Sir
ROBERT PEEL expatiate on the mighty impression
he was to make on the public, by removing a few
women from the Court—the wonderful influence, the
power of appointing them was to give him over
public opinion, made us conclude that the whole
was a wretched farce, which has not the merit of
exciting laughter or of being well acted.

The news from Spain is not of a later date
than the accounts received yesterday. ESPAR-
TERO'S inaction before Ramales was loudly con.
deinned.

By the arrival of the Liverpool steamer at Fal-
mouth yesterday from the Mediterranean, we have
received Lisbon Papers to the evening of the 6th
inst. inclusive, announcing the arrival of her Ma-
jesty the Queen-Dowager of ENGLAND at that
capital. The Hastings, with Queen ADELAIDE
on board, entered the Tagus on the 30th ult., where
she was received with salutes from the batteries and
ships in the river. The Queen of PORTUGAL
and her Royal husband proceeded on board, and
invited her MAJESTY to occupy apartments
in the Royal Palace of Belem, which she de-
clined. The next day she went ashore,
with her suite, when a grand dinner was given to
her by their MAJESTIES of Portugal, to which
all the principal Nobility were invited. On the
sth the QUEEN DOWAGER visited the Infanta
DONA ISABEL MARIA. Her MAJESTY was to
sail for England on the 7th inst.
The ad interim Cabinet continued to direct the
affairs of the country greatly to the satisfaction of
all parties. The motion for employing Colonel
FONTOURA in the Algarves was carried, after se-
veral days' debate, by a majority of eight in favour
of Ministers. Still trade was very bad, and smug-
gling was carried on to so great an extent as almost
to ruin the Customs. So much for the advantages
of a high tariff for the protection of borne manu-
factures.

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