The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT (W THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Since the Chamber of Deputies has adjourned its
sittings, in order to allow its. numbers to be corn-
pitted, the journals, which had before a kind of
concurrent jurisdiction with the tribune, have erected
themselves into its substitute. The boldness with
which they decide on public measures, or the au•
thnritative tone with which they support or oppose
eystems of national policy, is greater , than that of
The most violent orators in the Chamber, and pro-
duces probably a greater effect on the people. But
though the journals and the popular branch of the
Legislature agree in some respects, in others they
widely differ. The Chamber, before its late ad-
journment, seemed to have been reconciled to the
Ministry, and to have cherished the fond hope of a
long continuance of its own existence, without a
fresh general appeal to the electoral colleges under
a modified electoral law. The journals, on the other
band, are, for the most part, opposed to both. With
very few exceptions, they are as hostile to some of
the Ministers of Philip I. as they were to those of
Charles X., and clamour as loudly for n dissolution
of the present Chamber as they did for that packed
with the creatures of M. de Villele. The Govern.
ment, in the interest of hs own stability and power,
s:ems not to have acquired the least influence over
the organs of public opinion by the hie', liberal
tribution of places among theiimqr.:Usts. This is the
more to be lamented, when the ;mmense influence of the
daily press is taken hitt; account. Guaranteed in
its uncontrollable freedom I,y the new charter, and
worked with the restPjris energy of ambition and
faction by the most ardent spirits of the country, it
must be too Po`7..erful for any Ministry or any legis-
lative 'b°d": Even when under comparative re-
'lnd°. *it excited such abhorrence against the last
d, nasty, that it succeeded in overthrowing it. It
sloes not, as in England, follow public opinion—it
leads it. It confers popularity or covers with die.
grace at ha sovereign pleasure, and often with, little
reference to the real merits of the parties. In short,
In the present excited state of the public mind, it
would be too powerful for the Government or
the Chamber, if it continued to direct its assaults
upon either or both. How, then, does this ir-
resistible and irresponsible power of journalism,'
view the present Cabinet and the present re-
presentative Chamber ? In general with distrust
and aversion. 7 he Journal des J)el'ats is the only
paper which frankly declares for those bodies, and
waw:ors to employ their Oil inertia. to arrest the
tronement of the revolution. All the other journals
or extensive circulation, such as the Conelltutioneee
the Courtier Francais, the Journal du Commerce,
and the National, support particular members of
the Cabinet, but object to its general contexture,
land join in demanding a speedy dissolution of the
Chamber. The Keeper of the Seals, M. Dupont
de flare, the Ministet of War, Marshal Gerard,
and M. Latitte (a Cabinet Minister without a port-
folio), are the objects of their unceasing eulogy ;
but Baron Louis, the Minister of Finance, M. Gui-
got, the Minister of the Interior, M. Dupin, the
Duke de Broglie, and General Sebastiani, are no
less objects of attack. If we were required to
name an orator on the left side, whose talents and
eloquence had long defended the constitutional
cause, but who now approaches in unpopuhnity the
unenvied eminence of M. de Peyroneet himself,
we should mention the celebrated advocate M. Du-
pin. Of all the reputation which he had acquired
in the ranks of the old opposition, or in defending
the press against the assaults of the Bourbons, he
has not brought a shred to the new Cabinet, and we
observe many of the popular Journals exerting theme
selves to prevent his re-election. Baron Louis has
grown too old amid changes of Governments, with.
out charging his inclination to serve existing power,
to to a favourite with the people, who love eon-
*latency., The Duke de Broglie is always allowed
to be en amiable and enlightened man ; but he is a
high-minded Peer, and, moreover, a descendant of
the old noblesse. What sympathy can he, there•
Dore, have with the Bavoux and Corcelles, who
occupy the mountain in the Chamber, or how car.
he be appreciated by the interested demegogues
who direct the republican portion of the press ?
Count Mole has likewise the demerit of being a
Peer, a man of family, and an old servant of Duo-
naparte and the Bourbons. With respect to M.
(hint, no objection can be made on the score of
ancestry, family connections, or previous official
rank ; but lie is considered; a political theorist,
little acquainted with practical affairs, and is
accused of throwing the minist crial cost tune
over the professor's gown, in order to gratify his
personal ambition, and to dispense places to his
scholastic disciples or literary friends. In all these
charges moderate men would find no real objection
against the Ministry. Their resistance to a 'sudden
change of institutions—their attempt to hang a drag
on the wheel of revolution in its downward career
—their preservation of good faith with foreign
Governments, particularly in abstaining from inter-
fering in the affairs of Belgium—their endeavours to
check the appetite for blood in the lower orders by
a mitigation of the penal code--tine by sensible trier'
regarded as so many titles to confidence and eateetn.
But it is otherwise with the republican party, and
the Journals which direct it ; and therefore they
loudly demanded n change of councils. The seine
unpopularity attaches to the present Chamber of
Deputies. It is considered as not having fulfilled
its mission, because it did not at once abolish the
Chamber Peers,—because it did net vote for a
revision of the inagistracy,—because it did riot alter
the laws of the Press—because, in fine, it did not
pass a radical law of election, arid then retire to make
way for a Second National Convention, The
Chamber of Peers is always treated with sovereign
contempt when it is not thought worthy of more
active hostility. " The Poor Chamber of Peens !"
seys one of the popular Journals : " nobody thinks
of its existence, in spite of the great cause which
it will soon be called upon to decide I" " The
people," says the same paper—" the people demand
that the hereditary titles of the peerage shall be
destroyed;—that there shall no longer bean electoral
census ;that there shall no longer be shackles
on the Press;---that there shall no longer be rich
piney ;—that we shall have entire real full liberty
as the price of our blood !" ha time midst of these
unreasonable diseontente, the apparent conspiracy
of the Chamber, the Ministry, and the Court, in
the human attempt to cheat the people out of the
gratification of their sanguinary vengeance by the
premature enactment of a law to save the lives of
the Exalqinisters, has extispereted all the previeue
causes of di'truut and suspicion. In these eircume
stances the returns made at the approaching elee.
Lions of 130 Deputies, and the temper in which the
Chamber will meet, cannot fail to haVe a powerful
;disasters on the fate of the French monarchy.--Tireee.
Much and long as we have had reason to value
the eOMMtittiCatiotis of a Dublin friend, a letter from
wham will be found in this day's paper, we deeply,
regret that his correspondence has thus been re-
newed, because the *abject of it is no other than a
recommencement of Irish troubles, political as well
as social. We yesterday Aided to die condition
of a great multitude of wretched beings in Ireland,
ejected from their hovels, because the patch of
ground annexed to each no longer grew votes as
plentifully as potatoes. These people are in a suite
of distress sufficient to wring the most obdurate
heart, am) to appal the boldest. There is nothing
in the world left for them to fear :but death, far
more tolerable, than an existence from which every
gleam of hope is excluder% Execratieg the whole
race of landlords, by whom they have been first en-
snared, then abandoned and eau our, there is no dee
gree of vengeance, or form aggretaionagainst
rrittYi Which they are not eager to execute. It
it:: torah:Lb:7:: Vleiraannyittitrututta mere fitted to
purpose to which force
rogy be necessary, tltatt tits prottettett ti
*finial a body of inevitable merleinoeiersr 4$ tr. erartin
fortunately, tint opportunity 1$ tmot wanting,7ne; cal.'
upon the popular tastes aott regentmet-Its o.f trvimid
and there seems as little 1111Q11 to expect that
the
mien of excitement now et work 040110084 the

country will la drop so tempting an occasion. If
poor laws had been established to maintain the nip
nails of pauper families at home, or funds been
provided to convey them to a railer where 1
elbow-room was more abundant, and rents but
trifling, the matter whereon intrigues and disaffec-
tion had to operate in Ireland, might have been :so
reduced as to deprive political contingencies else-
where of whatever was most formidable in their
aspect and their influence, and Belgium might have
achieved her separation from Holland, as she did in
another century from Spain, without the fear of en-
gendering mischievous sympathies amongst the bulk
of the Trials people. Now, however, it need not be
disguised that a question of the repeal of the Union
has been broached in every part of Ireland,—has
met crowds of partisans among all classes of her in-
habitants,—is pushed with characteristic activity,
subtlety, and success, by Mr. O'Connell and a
crowd of indefatigable coadjutors,—and must of ne-
cessity move onwards to a crisis which, skilfully or
rashly seized, will perpetuate the United Kingdom
or destroy it. 8o much is wrong in the relations
between rich and poor in Ireland, that every evil,
however remote from those relations, may neverthe-
leg, be brought to bear upon them, and insensibly
to aggravate their pressure. So a multitude exas-
perated by hunger may hope that every approach to
change will tend to alleviate the pangs which over-
power them; and problems, which perplex the
minds of Statesmen, may thus come to be deter-
mined by the empty stomachs of the poor. We
beg to repeat, that in our bumble opinion too much
attention cannot be bestowed by the King's Minis-
ters and by Parliament on the nature and progress
of this growing spirit on the other side of the
Channel; nor can measures too early or too decided
be employed for the frustration of itsobject.—Tintes.
We have received a variety of communications
from Belgium, from the most respectable sources,
agreeing in the main points—that there is the
strongest disposition among all influential persons to
obtain for their country the blessing of tranquillity,
with as little delay as possible. As far as we can
judge, there does not seem to be the slightest
foundation for the charges brought by a contem-
porary (the Times), that De Potter and his col-
leagues have not been all along sincerely desir-
ous of a speedy arrangement of all differences. In
that Paper, of yesterday, we are told that," Ever
since the resistance of the people of Brussels to the
King's troops, and the establishment of a Provi-
sional Government in the persons of De Potter and
Co., the Belgic nobility, the members of the States-
General, and other persons of rank, have ceased to
take any part in public affairs. They may have
joined in the desire of no administration distinct
from that of Holland, but that is almost the only
point in which they concur with the present pos-
sessors of supreme power. They have therefore kept
aloof from the ruling Junta, and have shown a strong
disposition to make ass arrangement with the Prince
of Orange, by which they might at once secure the
independence of the nation and their own personal
weight in the new state. Several of them have
remained at Antwerp with the Prince, and 'others
have declined taking any side in a contest so un-
certain." And, moreover, " Neither a French nor
a republican Government could give the Belgic
church so great hopes of maintaining its power as
the Government of a domestic Prince. It may,
therefore, be inferred that the privileged orders
I will be strongly inclined to the accession of the
' Prince of Orange, whatever may be the inclinations
of De Potter and Co. towards a republic." Now all
the accounts we have received concur in representing
De Potter to have been from the first anxious to ob-
tain the Government for the son of the Prince of
Orange (giving the guardianship to the father), on
terms which would secure the liberties of the people.
Whatever notions De Potter may entertain with re-
spect to the comparative advantages and disadvan-
tages of different Uovernments—as be is allowed to
possess in no ordinary degree ability and discern-
ment—he would consider in a conjuncture like the
prement, what, under all circumstances, would be
most eligible at the present moment. We repeat
it ,we do not believe there is the slightest founda-
tion for supposing De Pot ter is riot labouring in all sin-
cerity fora settlement of the government on the Duke
of Brabant. The following letter is from a gentle-
man of great influence in Brussels

" Brussels, I litit October.
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" Cartwright goes to Frankfort, never to return here,
(rust. Politically, every thing remains much as it has
been for dome time, and as it will probably remain till the
Congress meets. The party for the Prince, or rather for
his ►on, gets daily stronger. The citadel of Yost has not
surrendered, nor Antwerp nor Maestricht. Deserters are
coining to ❑s in shoals. Privately, it is said, the Dutch
wish to gut quit of all the Belgians. They will want, for
their own proservation, both men and troops. We are so
well supplied with artillery and military stores, that we
have no fear of any farther attacks."

in our Brussels correspondence, via Paris, it is
said that the French deem the Belgians ill-advised
in not clearing their country of the Dutch before
proceeding to constitutional waters'. We should
say so too, if we did not think the King of 116 Hand
will see the utter hopelessness of overcoming the re-
luctance of the Belgians to connect themselves with
the Dutch, and that all further effusion of blood may
thus be avoided. We shall give to-morrow a letter
from, a gentleman of influence in Antwerp, on the
state of afra;rs in Belgium. According to this gen-
tleman, the great obstacle in the way of an arrange-
ment €1 rantiable is the King, who will riot consent
to resign Belgium. He thinks the Cabinet of Eng-
land ought to endeavour to bring the old man to
reason, as it is for the interest of England that Bel-
gium should have a Government to which the people
might be attached ; HO that they might not feel
disposed to throw themselves at any time into the
arms of any other Power. He thinks the English
Press ought to atone for the mischief some English
Journals have done to Belgium, by encouraging the
King in his errors,--Morning Chronicle?.

There are still 3000 persons out of work in
and around Huddersfield, chiefly belonging to the fancy
nianuideture.

COUNTERFEIT GOLD.—A German, Dr.
1-leauBTan, has discovered a mixture of metals, which is
not only of the colour of real gold, but also possesses its
lmina*, all its ductility, and the same specific weight.
The inventor, hoWeVer, does not assert that it is as tin.
ebangeablo as gold; and there Can-be no doubt that if he
had- met with that quality in it he would not have failed
to mention it; for in that case he would have toned the
secret which has been so long and so vainly sought by the
alehymist. This material is thus composed —Out of
twenty-four parts, equal in weight, there are sixteen
of platina, seven of pure capper, and one of pure zinc ;
this is to be covered with powdered charcoal, and placed
in a crucible, on a strong fire, until the fusion has reduced
the threteinto one mese, which will be the said counterfeit
gold.—Journal des Connalsianees Usuelles.
EXTRAORDINARY.. AcctlnNT ON THE
RIVE% Ttsanxs.—On Saturday afternoon, about a quer-
ter-past nnie'clock, the collier brig, Queen aldelairk,
ROO tons burden, was upset in the river; Thames, under
very extraordinary circumstances. She was lying elf
Princess Stair Pier, Itotherhithe, exactly opposite the
Thames Police.office, and about an hour and a half before
high water her head moorings gave way, and the vessel
swung round the flood, tide, and being light, her cargo'
of coals having beers discharged on the previous day, she
turned gradually over on the starboard side towards Wap:
ping, anti went down. At the time of the accident the '
crew were on board, but they all escaped. The vessel
came right athwart the bows of the other ships in the pier,
without doing any damage, although several were under
the necessity of slackening their moorings, and warping
up with the tide. The greatest consternation prevailed
when the:, ship went down, and the Thames Police-boats,
by order of the Magistrates (who were greatly alarmed,
and observed the accident from the Bench), put off, and
rendered assistance. By two o'clock nearly 490 small
boats were around the vessel, and chain-lighters were em-
ployed during the day to weigh her, list at a late hour the
ship was not got up. The Queen Adelaide is a new
vessid, anti Ma only been one voyage front Sunderland tat
..Lontion. She him been advertised for sale at Lloyd's.
eVtain Bur, did master, was ashoreat the time, but ease
the Olt go down

SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFlCo',lSeven o' Clock.

tHE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

Whitehall, Oct. IS, 1830.
The King has been pleased to appoint Thomas 'With
Earl of Kinnoul, Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of thi
shire of Perth, in the room of the Duke of Athol!, de-
ceased.

Lord Chamberlain's Office, Oct. 16.

The Lord Chamberlain has appointed Frederick Hodg-
son; Esq. of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Must Honour.
able Privy Chamber in Ordinary.

Oct. 18.

The King has been pleased to present the Rev. John
Purees to the church and parish of Jedburgh, in the
presbytery of Jedh ugh and county of Roxburgh, vacant by
the death of Doctor Thomas Somerville.

• Whitehall, Sept. 28.
The King has been pleased to give and grant unto Wil-
liam Johnson, of Haggerstone Mead, in the county of
Durham, land steward, his Royal licence and authority
that he and his issue may take and use the surname of
Appleby only, in compliance with a proviso contained in
the last will and testament of Margaret Appleby, of East-
field, in the parish of Warkworth, in the county of Nor•
thumberland, spinster, deceased, hearing date the tad of
October, 1828 ;
And also to command, that the said royal concession
and declaration be registered in his Majesty's College of
Artr.a.

Commissions in the North Somerset Regiment of! Yeo.
menry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Somerset.
R. A. Langworthy, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Sept. 22.
T. Davis, Gent., to be Cornet, Sept. 29.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVANCY.
William Thomas, High Holbo.in, linen-draper.
Geolgo Lane Victor Gray, London-terrace, Hackney-
road, oilmen.