The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-26 00:00:00

TELLERS.

'Steuart, Robert—Haddingto n, &c
Clay, W.—Tower Hamlets

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

Returns of the Expenses incurred in the Papers printed
by Order of the House of Commons, for each
Year since 1830; and of the Sums paid into the Trea-
sury, or accounted for by Messrs. Hansard, for each
Year, resulting from the Sale of Printed Papers ; in
pursuance of the Resolutions passed on the 13th day of
August, 1835.
Session 1830-1831 £21,151 3 6
Ditto
Ditto lB3l-1832 63,801 17 6
Ditto ... 1833
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Return of the Sums paid into the Treasury, or accounted
for by Messrs. Hansard, for each Year, resulting from
the Sale of Printed Papers; in pursuance of the Reso-
lutions passed on the 13th day of August, 1835.
Session.
Ditto
(The Bills for the Session 1838 have not yet been
delivered.)

J. R. M'CULLOCH, Comptroller.
Stationery Office, July 1839.

ARMY.
Supplemental Estimate of the Charge which will probably
be incurred to the 31st March, 1840, for the Levy
Money, Maintenance, Clothing, &c., of Men, to be
raised for the Service of her Majesty, for the purpose of
augmenting the several Regimen's of Infantry of the
Line employed at Home and on Foreign Stations, ex-
clusive of India, from 739 to 800 Rank and File each.
Upon Account ........................ X 75,000
War Office, July 24, 1839. HOW K.

Her Majesty
From the thinness of the town, of
Buckingham Palace.
gives a grand hall, to-night, at
course it is not likely to prove so brilliant as those given
earlier in the season.
SOUTHWARK LITERARY SOCIETY This
Society having lately proposed a prize of 101, to the best
essayist "on the influence of Poetry on the Mind," a very
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kindly undertaken by Sir E. L. Bulwer,
be said it gave him great pleasure in
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being able to present to the members Mr. Henry Webb,
of Beresford-terrace, Walwortb, as the fortunate candidate
for that prize, which the Society had offered for honourable
competition and rivalship, and he congratulated Mr. Webb
on the talent he had displayed in his composition, and the
society as being the first of what he called " the universi-
ties for the people," which bad set so noble an example as
I that of offering a prize for open competition.

COUNTY AND DISTRICT NEW
CONSTABULARY FORCE.I.
,
(From the Times.)
With respect to Lord John Russell's " Count .4.#C.:
District New Constabulary force " (the appellation ofelig
is as long as a constable's staff)—with respect to this new
force, among many other new things, the friends of the
Constitution are put into a great difficulty. If it be requi-
site, undoubtedly it should be granted. But whose and
what counsels have rendered it requisite? In the case of
a foreign war, for example, an Opposition in the House of
Commons may have warned Ministers that they were so
proceeding against some neighbouring Government—so
insulting, oppressing, and wronging it, that war must be
the result ; but the same Oppositicn, when the enemy is
upon our backs, must, however painfully, acquiesce in
raising troops and manning
ships to repel their attack.
In the preceding argument merely substitute " people
of England" for " neighbouring Government," and you
have the fact. The people of England have been so
treated by the present Mrbig-Radical Administration, that
con,rnotion was inevitable; but now, life and property must
be protected, and that by an apparatus which we have no
question will be injurious to pulislic and general liberty, and
the free expression of opinion; and all that Mr. D'lsracli
did, who was taken up in so impassioned, not to say furious,
.a manner, was to assert that some inquiry should take place
with respect to the conduct and c .urse of proceeding of those
gentlemen who have, by the introduction of many others,
rendered so great a novelty in our constitution as a
fresh " County and District New Constabulary Force"
requisite or expedient. No ' • there must be no inquiry.
The mention of that puts Mr. F. Maule, Mr. Spring
Rice, and Lord John Russell, into an incomparable fidget ;
and even some Tories seeing the unhappy necessities of the
country, are more willing to supply a painful and unpalat-
able remedy, than inquire into the predisposing causes of
the disease. It is absurd to say that these new trammels
are invented and to be applied to protect property from
being stolen. All that the thief does in that case is to
escape apprehension, by flight or escape—no addition of
strength is wanted for his capture. The object of the
new and very expensive Bill (as we have no doubt it will
prove) is to protect property from illegal violence, excited
first by the language of these Ministers themselves and
their adherents, and then put in motion by their acts and
the course of their administration. They began by insult.
ing and putting down the yeomanry, and now they are
endeavouring to supply their place by subjecting English.
men to a force of a perfectly servile character.