The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-23 00:00:00

heard that at Reading the mobs were very tumultuous Veit-
terday; the coaches were attacked and, the pannels broken.
It seem, to be such a general and indiscriminate Jacquerie
as was ,witnessed in France' about the beginning . of the
Revolution, when the chateaus of the nobility were burnt
in so many places. The mob make no difference, now,
between kind and unkind masters. Thus, for instance,
we have heard that Dale Park, in Sussex, the seat of Mt.
John Smith, the banker, has been attacked for purposes
of plunder.. Now, Mr. Smith is known to have occu•
pied himself very- much with the condition of the poer
in his neighbourhood, furnishing them with cottages
and bite of land at low rates, and hair settled, among
them reputable male and female teachers from the
metropolis, If kindness could ensure good treat-
ment, one might surely have expected it in this case. At
Dorking, in Surrey, we understand three or four indivi-
duals bad been secured and put into confinement; but on
the mob threatening to set fire to the houses of the
Magistrates, and to the town of Dorking, they were set at
liberty. We have already sufficiently expressed our
opinion on the subject of the conduct of the Magistrates.
We hold, indeed, the whole of these disturbances to be the
work of the Magistracy. It was obvious that the farmers
were without the mean of augmenting the wages of their
labourers, and that the 'Magistrates ought not to have re-
commended to them any such augmentation. Charity
and wages are quite distinct, and any attempt to force the-
hitter is neither more nor less than spoliation of the far-
mere. But when it became known that the labourers had
succeeded in one quarter in obtaining an augmentation of
wages by their turmiltriaCy assemblages, through thetecotn-
mended= of the Magistracy, it was clear that an en-
couragement was held out to all labourers to have recourse
to similar means. The great disease of the English social
system is constant interference with the labouring people.
A shoe cannot he mended far a child in a village, or a new
pair of stockings purchased, except through the compli-
cated instrumentality of Overseers and Magistrates. The
people have in this way been taught that everything ought
to be dote for them. We must gradually retrace our
steps. Instead of making the poor subjects for all
Manner of fanciful experiments, they must be placed in a
situation in which they can take care of themselves. The
perversion of the Poor Laws to the creation of what was
called a reserve of labour, has created a redundant popes
lation, and the temptation to poaching afforded by the
~,Gittrie- Laws to a redundant population, has formed every
where bands of vagabonds. We have long and often
warned the gentlemen of England of their danger. But
the principal feature of the times is the cowardice of the
Great Unpaid. A number of Magistrates are known, to
have akulked—endeavouring, on one subterfuge or other,
to keep out of the way. It is obvious that rigour and
spirit at the outset would have prevented the mischief. But
every Magistrate wished to keep out of the way of danger,
and to throw the responsibility on his neighbour. A. riot
took place in a town in Berkshire, of which county Baron

Hume was then Sheriff. There were nu soldiers nearer
than forty miles, awl the rioters were emboldened. The
inferior functionaries caught the alarm; but be forced two
of them to accompany him in the dead of the night to the
houses of the principal rioters, and holding a pistol to
their heads, succeeded iu carrying them off in the midst of
a hostile population, which only learned what bad takes,
place next day. The spirit of the rioters instantly sunk.
. .

Lord Grey declared last. night, that to relieve the distress
wbich now so unhappily exists in different parts of the
country, will be the first and most anxious of the delibera-
tions of a Council summoned for yesterday evening ; but
he declared that it was his determined resolution, wherever
outrages are perpetrated, or excesses committed, to sup•
press them with severity and rigour. There is certainly
no time to be lost. We' understand that an individual,'
said to be the son of a Scotch Clergyman, has been arrested
in Sussex with combustibles on him.—:-.Morning Chron.

The new Ministers, made the:r appearance last night
in one House of Parliament; and by the writs moved in
the Commons it appears that even the subordinate places
are filled. If their future measures be as prompt and
efficient as the constitution of the Cabinet has been rapid,
the public will have no right to complain of their want of
energy. It was but on Monday week that Earl Grey, as
he last night stated, had listened to the admirable speech of
the late Lord Chancellor on the suhject of the proposed
Regency, with in little isles of being fully installed Prime
Minister within seven short days, as of being Regent or
Sovereign. The interval has indeed been one of extreme
activity. It is unnecessary to repeat here, what the public
will find with precision and Accuracy, in the Noble Earl's
own words, in the report of the House of Peers on the
two greet subjects of Purliemeotary Reform and retrench.
Meat, and on, the not less important subjects of pew e
abroad and tranquillity at home. We shall not now do
more than refer to the speech of the Noble Premier. His
Lordship's declaration is as satisfactory as " words" can
bC to the sane and intelligent part of the community : the
acts must follow and confirm the words, and we shall he
content.. We hail with great satisfaction the accession of
ea respectable a Nobleman as Lord Wharneliffe to the
cause of Reform; but there is another and snore impor.
tent auxiliary. Among the friends of Parliamentary Re.
fArm—of a temperate, rational, and definite Reform,—
there now appears the King of England himself. We
do not say this with a view to sway the decision
of Parliament upon the momentous question, but in order'
to rescue his Majesty from that odium to which he would
be unjustly subjected if it were thought for an instant
that he were opposed to the universal wish of his loyal
subjects in a matter that appertains to their rights. And
while the cause of refgrsn boasts such a partisan, let Mini.!
eters recollect by whom it has been chiefly defeated before,
and by whom, next to an insincere master, the continuance
of men of their principles in office has been universally
abridged. The mischief has been always effected by the
adherents of that old faction of Pitt and plunder, of which
the Government avenues were never sufficiently cleared.
While the present Ministers, therefore, impose retrench-
ment, and cut down extravagancies wherever they can,
they will, if they are wise, be extremely careful, to select
for the efficient and indispensable offices which remain in
church and State, men of their own opinions, and who
have but too often been the victims 'of these opinions in

their several professions and pursuito.— Times.
We are glad that the scruples of the Duke of Richmond
have been overcome, and that be has taken place. There
was unquestionable delicacy in his hesitation to accept the
emoluments of office, but there is something invidious in
even the appearance of greater disinterestedness than be.
longs to the other members of a community, whether of
Cabinet Mit-linters or any other co-operative body. No
doubt
.the good sense of his Grace has led him to the same
conclusion, for he has accepted the office of Postmaster-
General—an office which we are glad to see consigned to
a man of great firmness and of uncompromising integrity.
The Master-Generalship of the .Ordnanct, which. was at
first intended for hit Grace, is we see (from the Court

Circular) given to Sir Willoughby Gordon—we suppose
provisionally ; for though the gallant Officer is, and has
long been, a most efficient public eervunt, his political im-

portant% would hardly entitle him to an appointment
usually filled by a person of considerable rank, and fre-

(Fiend), by a Cabinet Minister. There is, indeed, a ru-
mour that the Duke of Gloucester is likely to swept the

Offiee.—.Times.

We regret to state that the disturbances in the counties
still pontinue unthated, though the apprehension of the
ringleaders in several parts, which is . the first step to-
wards their punishment, must also leed to the exposure
Of all the secret counsele, if there hinny. Pur our own
parts, we cannot help observing that there is no general
proposition or resolution for the rise of wages, some.
thing ought to be done in this way; and the oh,tiaaey of
the farmers and the landowners, in still resisting. every
measure of that tendency is most undoubtedly the princi-
-1 pal cause why puldie,trantoiliity was at first disturbed,
and why. it remains so. The pretext that. no: concession
should he, made to threats--that there must be uolield-
jog to intimidation—is a very flimsy one indeed. Every
one acknowledges that the wage. are too low, and
men ought, to, do what is right, whether they are
threatened or no. Indeed, those who pretend, they will
not yield to intimidation are, as our correspondent*
generally inform us, the moat frightened, but still de
loth to act justly by the pour, In the Mem time, what
is to become of the poor wretches who. are in a state of
riot ? Undoubtedly they must he put down by force, if Pe!
teesary.We do not justify turbulence and tumult, though wi
would inspire pity., or prescribe
wheuinlimanete;
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whilewhen the
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dacaterd4:wriethteigbruentitonlencrelna; to the reel labourers, measure
but very stern law to any strangers who might be de-
tected among them. We say this in compliance with the
rumour so industriously circulated, thatther ate not the
agricultural poor of any district who commit the devasta-
tiutte or kindle the conflagrations there, but certain mys-
terious persons, "flying from place to place. It is,an easy
way to avoid obloquy, or even self-reproach, in those who
have dealt hardly by their own labourers, to say that it is
not they who are doing' the mischief,. because such
an assertion would imply that they have no cause for die-
satisfactiop. With respect to the
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with extreme pleasure
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