The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-23 00:00:00

to follow up strong measures with constant firmness,
and in this respect Charles X. has yet to be tried.
It is generally believed in Paris that this measure is
to be followed by a dissolution long before the term
of the prorogation shall have expired. Whether
the Ministers will advise the King to take that step
will, we presume, depend on circumstances. To pro-
ceed to a general election now, with the mind of France
in the excited state it is, would probably be productive
of most unpleasant consequences. In the mean
time, how are the supplies to be provided ? If the
Minister, by any of that management which Minis-
ters in some countries know so well how to use,
could have only kept the Deputies in harness until
they voted the supplies, he might have cut short
their speeches afterwards, and turned the key in
the door for the present, with all that confidence
which a man feels who has got into his possession
the " sinews of war." But our Correspondent
says that the want of the regular votes is to he
obviated by the issue of Exchequer Bills, and
that the clamours of the journals are to be silenced
by a Censorship of the Press. There is great
alarm among the English in Paris, many families
of whom were preparing to ba gone; and if this
sudden storm should have the effect of sending
our absentees back to spend their money among
their own impoverished farmers and tradesmen,
we should be heartily glad of the event. As to these
things leading to a revolution, we have not much
fear on that point. People do not consider that the
fearful facility with which the former revolution was
brought about was accounted for by the crazy and
tottering state of an old feudal despotism, with all
the grievous abuses which had grown up under its
noxious shade for ages. This materiel of revolution
no longer exists. That despotism and those abuses
have been swept away—and, we believe, the dif-
fusion of intelligence has taught the people truly to
appreciate the advantages of a Constitutional and
limited Monarchy.—Morning Herald.
Under the head of Parliamentary Proceedings
will be found a speech of Mr. Barclay, in explana-
tion of the speech which he made yesterday week,
and which gave rise to so much excitement, and so
much astonishment among all those interested in
the question of throwing open the trade in Beer.
'We have much pleasure in giving this explanation—
which, be it remembered, we called for on Sa-
turday last--both on account of the high cha-
racter which Mr. Barclay has uniformly main-
tained, and on account of the important interests
involved in the question to which we have alluded,
and which he is so well calculated, by his influence
and abilities, to maintain and support. At the
same time we trust that we may be allowed to state,
that we not only did not wilfully misinterpret, but
did not even misrepresent, or attempt to mis-
represent, Mr. Barclay's meaning, when he de-
clared that " if the beer duty were taken off, the
Brewers would have no objection to the trade being
thrown open." It was impossible to misinterpret or
misrepresent such expressions -- their meaning was
evident on the face of them; and with regard to
" threatening," of which Mr. Barclay also accuses
us, we beg to say, that we not only never " threat-
ened," but that we never even expressed an opinion
on his conduct. To our columns we refer for our
justification ; and cannot help thinking, that when
Mr. Barclay accused us of threatening him, he had
only heard of our observations from report, instead
of taking them from the only satisfactory source—
the printed record. Be the case, however, as it
may, we have no more anger or ill feeling on the
subject. We have a public duty, as well as Mr.
Barclay, to perform ; and that duty we shall per-
form, without fear or favour. We are glad, how-
ever, to have Mr. Barclay on our side, in advocating
the interests of so meritorious a body of men as the
Licensed Victuallers ; and trust that his efforts in
their behalf, and influence with his Right Hon.
Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will avail,
along with the evidence which they may give, in
averting the threatened calamity of throwing the
beer trade open.—Morning Advertiser.

The threatened attack upon public-house property
is not only a gross breach of the law, which had
hitherto held it as sacred as any other species of
property, but, if «e are not egregiously mistaken,
a breach of faith on the part of one Member, at
least, of the existing Government.—We allude to
Mr. Peel, •rho, we believe, not only assured a de-
putation of Licensed Victuallers, who waited upon
him, while Mr. Estcourt's Bill, or the Hotel•Li•
censing Bill, was before the House of Commons,
that there would be no further meddling with their
property, but afterwards declared in his place in
Parliament, that the throwing open of the trade in
beer was a measure which he would never sanction.
Yet this same Right Hon. Gentleman is now the
member of a Cabinet which declares that the trade
must be thrown open !—We cannot, however, bring
ourselves to believe, notwithstanding what has
passed, that the meditated spoliation will be per-
mitted. The Licensed Victuallers in different parts
of the kingdom are very properly exerting every
endeavour to save themselves from the impending
ruin; and we hope and trust that there is still suf-
ficient integrity in a British House of Commons not
to strip of the hard-earned fruits of their industry,
one of the most meritorious, but hitherto most
persecuted arid oppressed, classes of men in the
community.—Morning Advertiser.

WRECK OF THE MAID OF MORVEN
STEAM- BOAT. —lt is with deep regret that we have to
announce the wreck of the Maid of Morren steam-boat,
which left Inverness on Monday the Sth instant for Glas-
gow, by the Caledonian Canal. The following extract
from a letter with which we have been favoured, describes
the accident, which we are happy to observe, has been
confined to loss of property:—" We arrived safe at Oban,
about four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, and, going
ashore, remained there all night.—The boat was quite close
to the quay, and when the tide receded and the waters left
her, the boat had overbalanced with the weight of goods
on board, and the water rushed in. All the goods on
deck were washed off by the tide, and the passengers' lug-
gage soaked with salt water. No lives were lost nor any
person hurt. The accident occurred about twelve o'clock
at night, and we knew nothing of it till six o'clock next
morning. When we came out, to our great surprise the
boat was under water. Our trunks were picked up at sea,
about half a mile out. In this dilemma, we got a horse
and cart to convey us to Lochgilphead, a distance of forty-
eight miles.—The weather was dreadfully stormy, and we
had wind and rain all the road. We reached Lochgilp-
head on Thursday, at three o'clock, and entering on board
the Invcrary Castle steam-boat, reached Glasgow, after a
very coarse passage, on Friday evening." Another letter
received from a passenger says,--" Mostly every person on
board lost what things they had, and I, among the rest,
could not get any of my things out." We are sorry to
add, that the cargo was extensive and valuable.—lnver-
ness Courier.

AN ALLEGED INFANTICIDE AT BAR-
BOURNE.—THOMAS WHEELF.Y, aged 67, tailor, and
ELIZABETT4 STOCKTON, aged 76, spiaster, were charged,
the former with having murdered by suffocation and
strangling, the illegitimate child of ELIZAZETII
and the latter with having been present, aiding and abet-
ting him in the fact. The body was found in Barbourne
brook, which tuns at the back of WIIEELEY'S premises, on
Tuesday, the 19th Dec., and an inquest was held upon it
the Thursday following, when the Jury returned a verdict
of still born. From facts which, however, after transpired,
the prisoners were taken into custody. The mother of the
child, EmzABETH Immix, a girl not fourteen years of age,
lived in the service of the two WHEELEy's, bcing their
niece, and she was admitted evidence for the Crown. The
girl stated that the infant in question was the offspring of
her uncle, the prisoner, Thos. WHEELEY ; that he was
present, and assisted at its birth, and afterwards put the
body away. She also detailed some particulars relative to
its coming into the world, tending to prove that it was
born alive; however, varying in this with the account
given before the Coroner's Jury, and it being also adverse
to the evidence of several experienced medical gentlemen
who were examined, the Jury, under the direction of his
Lordship, returned a vet diet of acquittal for both prisoners.
—The Grand Jury returned a true bill against TIIOnAii
WuEELEY fur perjury, alleged to have been committed
before the Coroner's Inque.,t. Upon this charge he will
be tried at the next Assizes, and having given bail for his
apvorance,tie hay been Chronicle.