The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-04 00:00:00

The inhabitants of London will rejoice to learn
that the undaunted and persevering attempts of the
Chief Magistrate to put down the starvation con-
spiracy are about to meet with their due reward.
Deputations from coal-owners in Ireland and many
counties of England waited on his Lordship last
week, and informed him that the canal proprietors
had agreed to reduce the tonnage dues on coals,
and that they had made preparations for sup-
plying the London market in the course of
this month with the best coals at a price fully one-
third less than the coal monopolists had hitherto
charged. We refer our readers for further particu-
lars to the Report of the interview which the Depu-
tation had with the LORD MAYOR. We congra-
tulate his Lordship on the result of his arduous
contest with a body of monopolists which no former
LORD MAYOR dared to attack. It is not too much to
say, that never did Chief Magistrate deserve better
of his fellow-citizens for his unwearied exertions to
benefit all classes, but one, of the metropolis ; and
we confidently trust that he will receive from them
that meed of reward which may induce other Ma-
gistrates to imitate his good example.

Mr. O'CONNELL-as will be seen by referring
to another part of The Sun—has addressed a letter
to the Chartists of Birmingham, which is well en-
titled to their serious consideration. There is in
this production of the Liberator's pen, none of that
passionate and spirit-stirring eloquence which he so
successfully employs in his appeals to his own coun-
trymen. It is completely didactic in staple. Reason
and argument are the only weapons here used by the
writer, to convert the Chartists from the false system
which they have adopted to what he conceives to
be the true faith, and, whatever be the success at-
tending the attempt, no one can possibly take of-
fence at the 7nanner in which it is made. Nothing
can be more mild and temperate than the tone of
the address. Mr. O'CoNNELL, at the same time,
speaks his mind freely, and, we doubt not, honestly.
He blinks none of the evil consequences which he
thinks have resulted, or are likely to result, from
the course pursued by the Chartists, both to them-
selves and to the cause of Reform, and pbints out
in a friendly spirit, as well as with great power of
reasoning, the path which will enable them to ap-
proach the nearest and the soonest to the object
which they seem to have in view. We sincerely
hope they will lay to heart the excellent advice he
gives them.

There is an absolute dearth of important poli-
tical intelligence in the French journals received
this morning. The rumours of a war in the East,
which the French Minister of Marine turned to so
profitable an account on the 25th ult., by surprising
the Deputies into a grant of ten millions of francs
for re-enforcing the squadron in the Mediterranean,
turns out, as we expected it would, to have been

without foundation. Still the wary Minister has
not ventured to state the fact broadly at first. To
do so might appear as if he knew that he was
making a safe display of energy when he called
upon the Chamber to second him in enabling
France to assume a maritime attitude calculated to
awe the Oriental belligerents. Accordingly, we find
the following official communication, intended to
pave the way for a more explicit avowal of the pre-
servation of peace, published as a telegraphic
despatch in the Afoniteur of Sunday :--.

" MARSEILLES, JUNE 1, 1839.
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL, MINISTER FOR

AFFAIRS.
" We have news fromFOREIGN Tarsus which informs us that hos-
tilities had not commenced, but which states that the
Turks had approached the Egyptian frontier, and that
Ibrahim was collecting his forces in order to give them a
vigorous reception.
" Letters from Aleppo state that the Turkish troops
had actually passed the Euphrates, and that Ibrahim, whose
army increased in size daily, had also marched to their
encounter ; but that, upon the demand of the European
Ambassadors, the Sultan had sent counter-orders to the
Seraskier."

f The Journal des Debats has a long article on the
relations between Turkey and Egypt, directly re-
commending the recognition of the VICEROY'S
dynasty. The following extract from it will place

people, and excluded from our hearts and affec-
tions. Unfortunately it exists among all classes,
and we must be regeneratea, we believe, be-
fore we get rid of Toryism. As it is poetically,
but very untruly said, that 64 every woman is at
heart a rake," so it may with great truth and pro-
priety be said that every man is at heart a Tory.
Toryism is nothing but the common desire to have
one's own way embodied into laws and institutions,
and enforced by physical force. It is man under
the influence of a strong will, and unscrupulous of
the means of gratifying it. Toryism is savage,
untamed nature, which civilisation is in the progress
of subduing. All the Chartists are in this sense
thorough, regular Tories. They want to have their
own way, and proclaim themselves ready to use
force to obtain it. The Orangemen are their mo-
dels ; they imitate to a hair in their professions
the Tories in Parliament, but are prevented by a
counteracting force from commencing their physical
operations. In their much and justly censured
proceedings the Tory legislators, striking however
with the arm of a paid soldier rather than use their
own, may see their own conduct, hateful and repro-
bated, correctly reflected. The sectaries are Tories.
The Methodists are resolved to have their own
way as to education, and they are, we must take
leave to say, quite unscrupulous in the means they
take to get it. Lord BROUGHAM justly said on Satur-
day, on delivering a piece of plate to Mi. SIMPSON,
that every sect was equally as intolerant as the Church;
" They all preferred spiritual dominion, a triumph
over a rival sect to every thing else. When it came
to their own case, there was no one sect but was
as intolerant and as anxious for spiritual power, for
a triumph over a rival sect, as ever the Church was."
That is to say, they are all Tories at heart ; and
the Church, with which they are compared, is avow-
edly Tory. We have, unfortunately, no hope that
Toryism such as we have now described it, will abate
very rapidly ; for the spiritual guides of society, the
teachers of youth, the framers and expounders of
codes of morality are deeply, and incurably afflicted
with Toryism, and infect the whole society. As
long as Toryism is thus prevalent in our manners
it cannot be banished, we are afraid, from our laws,
and the attempt to exclude it from them is begin-
ning at the wrong end.
We admire very much Mr. O'CoNNELL'S Letter
to the Chartists of Birmingham, in which they are
very forcibly but very calmly enjoined to put aside
Toryism. Our only objection to the advice is, that it
is too limited, and should be general. The Char-
tists should not be the only persons called on to put
aside Toryism. They are not expected on other
points to set the fashion either in dress or morals.
All kinds of mild and heavenly virtues cannot be
exclusively demanded of them, to the encouragement
of Toryism in the other classes. We should
have more claims on them if the other classes
set them a better example. The middle
classes, however, are as much affected with
genuine Toryism as the priesthood and the aristo-
cracy, and seek, so far as the lower classes are
concerned, to have their own way and accomplish
their objects by the force of the law. As long as
the Church, the aristocracy, the sectaries, and the
middle classes are deeply embued with Toryism, we
cannot possibly expect the lower classes to escape the
infection. We expect very little benefit, therefore,
from Mr. O'CoNNELL's letter, though we highly
approve of his object. But as long as the upper
classes, and our spiritual teachers, set the example
of seeking to attain their wishes by force, there will
be no hope of the Chartists putting aside their or-
ganization, or giving up the employment of force,
whenever they suppose that circumstances will en
sure them success.