The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-10 00:00:00

IE VEINING EDITION

rpHE MODEL OF TfrE BATTLE OF Reform, by the events of the last few hours. Will
-41- WATERLOO is NOW EXHIBITED at the EGYP-
TIAN HALL, PICCADILLY, by brilliant Artificial Light. i Lord M.'s.-LI3,OURNE, and those whom he will call
Constantly illuminated from Four o'clock in the Afternoon, to his Councils, blot out this last favouring gleam
and throughout the Day in Dark •i• unfavourable Weather.
Open from Ten in the Morning until Nine n the Evening, of sunshine ? Will they so far forget what
without intermission.
Admission One Shilling each. they owe to the country and themselves, as to
renew the lame phlegmatic course which has been
pursued for the last two years and upwards. Im-
possible ! We cannot believe it. Rendered wise
by experience, they will enlarge and elevate the
character, of their policy, and not again be guilty of
the error of distrusting their best friends—the

THE CHARTER NEWSPAPER AND THE LONDON
TRADES' COMBINATION COMMITTE.
A.T a very numerous MEETING of the above
COMMITTEE, (representing the Trade Societies of
the Metropolis) held on F riday last, at the Bell Inn, Old Bailey,
the following Resolution proposed by Mr. Allchin, Sawyer,
and seconded by Mr. Atkins, Goldbeater, was unanimously
adopted :

" That this Committee earnestly call upon their fellow-
workmen throughout ti ,e country to support THE CHAR-
R'T Newspaper by every means in their power, it being
the only Paper Publi shed, really belonging to the Working
Classes.''

people.

THOS. STEPHENSON, Cooper, Chairman.
* 1,0 VETT, Cabinetmaker, Secretary.
** The " CHA RTER " of Sunday Next will contain :
The he Resignation of 31 mister 4 !—The Approaching Revolution !
--The Arrests of the Char Gists—Latest and Authentic Intelli-
gence of Chartist Movements—The Police Commissioners slid
the Trades' Unions.
Office, 16, Catherit te-st,.eet, Strand.
Now

We are happy to be able to announce that Mr.
Sir A`Y LgrEvRE has consented to be put in
...lamination for the Speaker's Chair, and he carries
with him the full and earnest support of his whole
party.

Sow ready at ati tl-.e Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
CAPTAIN INEARRYA.T'S « PHANTOIN
SHIP."
A TA LE OF THE SEA.
Henry Colburn, Plah fisher, N. Great Marlborough-street.

Government have received good news from
India. The dates are of the 2d March, from
the Army, and 23d of March from Bombay.
The army had marched fifty miles south of
Larkahna, and was in excellent health and spirits.
Sir JOHN KEENE was still with the army.

HIS Majesty t h e EMPEROR of RUSSIA,
several DIIVIFIB 170 OsßlSorli
cal
T 9 Uw2ißciiA N(
houghE
they are NO LOI"TERLE S), offer many possibilities of
Obtaining

The Magistrates of Birmingham have issued a

proclamation or caution to the people against as-
sembling in multitudes to disturb the public peace,
which will not contribute to bring together the
great number of men, relying on whom has made
the Convention resolve on moving to Birmingham
from London. The Proclamation will be found
under the head" Chartists." Under the same head
will be found the Circular which Lord JOHN R us-
SELL has addressed to the Magistrates, offering to
accept the services of those persons who shall desire
to form associations for the protection of life and
property, and offering to provide the necessary sup-
ply of arms ; an account of the precautions taken
by the authorities of Manchester to preserve
the peace, including the additional troops which
have been collected in that town and neighbour-
hood ; and under the same head will be found an
account of the number of persons arrested at Llan-
idloes and its neighbourhood, and of the numerous
precautions there taken to prevent some expected
outrages. Our Paper also contains our usual re-
port of the proceedings of the Convention, with its
Address to the People on the subject of keeping
their arms bright and clean. All these are in our
opinion very unpleasant circumstances, for though
no one, we presume, will at present doubt the issue,
or have the smallest apprehension that the law will
not to be too strong for those who are disposed to
have recourse to violence, yet will the success of
the law but the more embitter the hostile feelings
which exist, and render the task of govern-
ing the people more costly and difficult.
Besides, the Government is constituted and
armed for the protection of all the people, and it
cannot conduce to prosperity and peace for a nu-
merous body of our fellow-subjects to despise its
authority, and put themselves out of the pale of its
protection. When it strikes down crimes, it ap-
pears like a benevolent Deity ; when it strikes the
people to preserve its power, they no longer regard
it as a friend, but as an enemy. Probably the
alarm at Birmingham, Manchester, ar.d in North
Wales has no good foundation ; the Conventionists
have no confidence, it is plain, in one another, and
no longer boast of having the great majority
of the people with them ; it is even admitted,
in one case at least, that the operatives are
against the Chartists : nevertheless there is enough
in the alarm, supposing it to be unfounded, and in
the conduct and language of a portion of the people,
supposing them to be extremely few and weak, to
justify apprehension. A state of society in which
a great body of the workmen are sullenly discon-
tented, and are only kept from violence by terror, is
known by experience in the slave colonies to be
most pernicious to the welfare of all classes; and
we cannot suppose it will be advantageous to Eng-
land. A contest between the Government, the
middle and upper classes, on one side, and the lower
classes on the other, though it be certain to end
in the success of the former, is amazingly to be
deplored.

LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE I iROTIII :RS at HAMBURGH,
are NOW SELLTSG SH A RES for any of the said DIS-
TRIBUTIONS of MONI:T V. Persons desirous to purchase
ma receive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROS-
PECTUS and PARTICU LARS, upon addressing, WITH-
OUT DELAY, a line to

HEINE B. & OTHERS at HAAIBURGH.
P. S. The next Distribut on contains portions of
3,5001., 7,(x N )1., and 24,000/.
The distributing day being VERY NEAR, NO TIME 'IS
TO BE LOST for those dr s irous to become shareholders. for
THIS NEXT DISTRIBUI ! lON.

THEATRE ROYA L , COVENT GARDEN.
The Public is respect fully informed, that the
PRESENT MANAGEM DENT WILL TERMINATE
WITH TH 11,S SEASON ;
The following Programme i s therefor. given of its final ar-
rangements :
The Standard Plays, as 1 n ought out at this Theatre, will
oath be performed once more , viz. '•—
THE TV( ! 0 FOSCARI,
lON, WERNE 3R, and VIRGINIUS.
THIS EV INING, MAY 10,
Will be performed the r iew Play, in Five Acts, called
RICHELIEU, C 7HE CONSPIRACY,
Written by Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart.
After which, the Nlem Dramatic Romance, called
AGNES BERNAUER,. THE MAID OF AUGSBURG.
To , conclude witk
SAYING.i: S AND DOINGS.
To-morrow, the New (Opera, called Henrique, or th. Love
Pilgrim, with' Katherine :and Petru chin, and The Quaker.

ROYAL SL TRREY THEATRE.
THIS EN "ENING, MAT 10,
Will be preset tted Bellini's Opera of
LA S(3 iNNAMBULA.
Count Rodolph, Mr. W. Balfe ; Elvino, Mr. Templeton ;
Amina, Miss Romer.
.er which,
THE W ATER.MAN.
Tom Tug, .Mr. Henry Bedford.
To czeclude with,
CI UCHTON.

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LONDON
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1839.

RESIGNATION

OF

SIR
It • PEEL •
We have good news for the country—the Go-
vernment of the
—the embryo Tories " is blown to the winds"
Administration of Sir ROBERT
PEEL is at an
, end It has not even had
time to chip the egg-shell. And what was
the cause of this sudden break-up ? A resolution,
on the part of the QUEEN, to resist the unwar-
rantable and despotic demands of T •
Toryism ! Will
it be credited, Sir R. PEEL not only insisted
that her MAJZSTY should change her present
Household, but that she should dismiss also her
private friends--all those who had surrounded
'her from childhood—all those to whom she was
bound by the ties of the strongest and most
disinterested atTection I Not one really sincere
friend would the stern, tyrannical Tory Premier
Lave left our young, unprotected QUEEN !
lie would have surrounded her regardless of
her own private feelings, which of course he never
dreamed of consulting, by creatures of his own
Party—not leaving her one single sincere friend.
To this proposed bondage, for it was no bet-
ter, her MAJESTY demurred, and justly. The
°Tdinary Household changes, consequent on a
new Administration, she would have acceded
to, but she could not endure the idea of
leaving herself without a single friend. Hence
the Tory break-up ! Our readers may judge by
this what would be the conduct that Sir
ROBERT PEEL would pursue, were he to be
allowed to take office. The man who could act in

The Inspectors of Weights and Measures in the
Clerkenwell district have been engaged for some
weeks in a most necessary duty, as it turns out,
both for the sake of the poor and the fair trader.
Butchers, bakers, coal-shed keepers, and petty
chandlers, have been brought before the Magis-
trates, and fined various sums from 3/. to Si., for
using divers weights and divers measures, which
are declared by high authority to be a great abomi-
nation. The fine, however, of Si., we believe
the maximum, is not a sufficient punishment
for such an offence. The delinquents go on in
this disreputable practice for years, many of them
escape punishment altogether, and when disco-
vered, how paltry is this penalty for robbing the
poor compared with the penalties for robbing the
revenue ? The rich do not suffer, they deal with a
more respectable class of shopkeepers, and what
is a still greater security, they can afford to keep
weights and measures of their own to check the
fraudulent dealer, but the poor must take what is
meted out to them. If fair traders were to form
associations in every district of the metropolis for
the purpose of rooting out this species of robbery,
and enforce, not a partial and occasional, but .a
continued and thorough inspection, they would be-
nefit themselves not less than the poor. It might
be a question, too, for the Legislature whether a se-
cond or third offence should not be punished by im-
prisonment and hard labour.

so stern, tyrannical a manner—presuming upon the
helplessness of her situation--to his young QUEEN,
would have little -hesitation in playing the part of

We request attention to the letter of a Bath Cor-
respondent, which appears in another column. It
gives a detail of certain magisterial proceedings in '
the West which show that the partizans of the exe-
crable faction now in the ascendant are determined
to lose no time in wreaking their vengeance on the
people and their advocates. The malignity and
cruelty of Toryism, its natural hatred of everything
liberal, its innate love of tyranny, have all been
bridled and kept in check for some years past. These
characteristic virtues, however, burst forth with re-
novated splendour, and are called into energetic ex-
ercise the first moment that they can be exer-
cised with safety. No one can read the ac-
count of Mr. ROBERTS' treatment, as stated
by our Correspondent, without perceiving how
grossly the law has been violated in his case, and
how insidiously the Magistrates have behaved to-
wards him. These worthies first ask this gentle-
man to use the great influence he possesses with the
people to prevent them from transgressing the law,
and then, for doing this, they gratefully dispatch
him, hand-cqed, to gaol T. This is a blessed ear-
nest of what the people have to expect from a Tory
Government.

the most determined despot towards his country-
lien. But, thank GOD, we are rid of him—we

hope for ever I

Sir ROBERT PEEL is ot—that is to say, if a
'llan Can be fairly said to be out, who was never in,
°ffiee--and her MAJESTY has sent for Lord MEL-
BOURNE! This intelligence will give all true Re-
formers the sincerest gratification. It is another
chance for retrieving that cause which but just now
seemed desperate. Under a PEEL Adminis-
tration our only movement would have been
of a retrograde character ; one by one our
hopes of national improvement would have
been blasted ; until at length we should
have been brought to the very point of desperation
at which we were, previous to the accession of Earl
GREY to office. A few hours have sufficed to
change all these gloomy prospects. We have now
another chance of progressing in the work of Re-
form. Lord MELBOURNE'S sudden recal to power
is the rainbow hung out in the political atmosphere
to warn us that the hour of cloud and storm is past,
or passing.

Notwithstanding the 101'1(11y-expressed dissatis-
faction of the French people, Louis PHILIPPE
persists in his endeavours to get through the Ses-
sion with his ad interim Cabinet. On Wednes-
day, when the Chamber of Deputies assembled to
discuss M. MAUGUIN'S address, which had been
postponed from Friday to allow the KING time to
render its adoption unnecessary by the appointment
of a really efficient administration, it was found
that during the interval the Court had been
as inactive as the Chamber. Even Marshal SOULT
told his friends on Monday and Tuesday that he
was not invested with any authority to form a Ca-
binet, nor was he aware that the KING had en-
trusted such a power to any of the candidates for
office. On Tuesday evening there was a meeting
of the old Ministerial party at the house of General
JACQUEMINOT, when out of 95 members present,
54 voted against M. MAUGUIN'S address being
taken into consideration, and 41 in favour
of it. After an animated discussion the majority
agreed to support the pi inciples of the address, as
the only way of bringing the crisis to a speedy
and constitutional termination.

We take for granted that in resuming the seals
of office, Lord MELBOURNE is prepared to act
with the vigour and promptitude that the emergency
demands. That he will not play fast and loose
With Reform ; that he will not stand still when he

should move onward, or coquette with the Tories
when he should hold no one political principle
in common with them ; but stand firm
in his allegiance to the people, who
once before enabled him to vanquish the Tories,
and will again enable him to keep his foot upon
their necks. But then, in order to ensure this ir-
resistible popular support, his Lordship must con-
sent to forego all trifling—all evasion—all un-
worthy equivocation—and act in a manly,
straight-forward spirit. Above all, he must en-
large the basis of his Administration, so as to
embrace the suffrages of as many intelligent, influen-
tial Reformers as possible. The country is hear-
tily sick of merely playing at Reform—as children
Play at soldiers—what it now desires is, to set to
work in right earnest.
1i Clue more chance, we repeat, is yet held out for

Emboldened by the length of time they have
been allowed to keep their places, the ad interim
Ministers begin to assume all the high functions of
a really responsible Government. They have
changed functionaries, countersigned ordinances,
and published commercial regulations ; and they
are now preparing various projects of laws which
they propose submitting to the Chambers in their
official capacity. Despite of the jeers and ridi-
cule of the OppOsition, and the silent contempt
of the old Ministerial party, they insist. upon being
burthened with a virtual responsibility. This
is the most amusing part of the whole perform-
ance. These pretensions, however, begin to give