The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-22 00:00:00

LONDON :
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 18.39.

The highly-important—intelligence has been re-
ceived in London that the Shah of PERSIA has
yielded aq the demands of the British Government,
that ample reparation has been offered for the in-
sults offered to our Ambassador, and that every
cause of quarrel being thus happily removed the
diplomatic relations between England and Persia are
about to be resumed in a spirit more amicable than
before. The SHAH, in proof of his sincerity, has
offered to conclude a commercial treaty with Great
Britain on the terms previously proposed by the
Government of this country. This is another of
the results of Lord. AUCKLAND'S wise administra-
tion in the East— .another triumph over Russia in
Central Asia.

We have no re collection of a popular outbreak
n which the people were more completely in the

wrong than in the Newport insurrection. Not one
excuse can be assigned for the outrage, and not one
voice through thew hole length and breadth of the
land has attempted to apologise for it. It was
connected with no specific grievance—it was pro-
voked by no immediate injury, and was not intended
to redress any gr eat wrong. In secret, bands of
men armed themrielves, formed a military force,
pressed others to join them in their march, just as
seamen are pressed to serve in ships, and, without
any warning or summons, made a murderous at-

ack on the authorities of a town in their own coun-

try. They began a civil war, the most heinous of
all wars, without any adequate cause. Such is the
case in outline as it now appears, and the autho-
rities which shall proceed calmly to punish the per-
petrators of this gross and scandalous outrage, ac-
cording to known and established laws, will have
the sympathies and the support of the whole com-
munity.

It will he a great pity if those who have the ma-
nagement of the in vestigation should lose sight of
these special facts, wander into discursive inquiries,
make unwarranted investigations, and so turn the
sympathies of any portion of the community in fa-
vour of the accused and against themselves. To
institute a searching investigation into the causes of
the wide-spread discontent which exists amongst
the bulk of the people, to trace the leaders from
place to place to ascertain the topics on which they
appealed to their auditors, and by which they in-
flamed the passions of the multitude, to probe to the
bottom those grievances which continually threaten
the peace of society, is the duty of the Legislature,
or Commissioners authorized for this purpose ; the
ordinary Magistrates should confine themselves
to investigate definite charges and specified acts
of. delinquency. They have power to commit or
punish offenders, but no power to remedy abuses or
redress wrongs.

The opinions of the Chartists, as we know
by the gigantic petition presented to the House
of Commons, or at least strong and we be-
lieve well founded convictions of injury which
gave rise to that petition, are common to
the bulk of the people, while not one in twenty
persons, and perhaps not one in a thousand
approve of Mr. FROST'S plan of obtaining redres?.
On this account we regret to see that the examina-
tions concerning the conduct of JOHN LLEWEL-
LIN chiefly turned on meetings held at his house,
some of them as long ago as New Year's Day, and
his language and conduct at them. The only thing
in the evidence which we can see at all to criminate
him, or connect him with the flagitious outrage on
that a meeting was held at his house,
Newport, is,
on the Tuesday before the riots, the prisoner
was present, and the room was full. No connectien
between the persons meeting at that time and the
rioters was established, nor do we see any more con-
nection between the earlier meetings 'held at LLE-
vrELLIN's house, though FROST was there nomina-
ted a member of the Convention, and the recent dis-
turbances, than between them and the meetings of
the Convention at London, or the meetings at
Newcastle or Carlisle.
At these, and at several
meetings of the Convention, violent and unseemly
language was used, and the Reverend Mr.
COLES, with the other Justices, might as well
inquire into the language
h
into the language held in L LEeilvdE LaLtnit'lls e m
housea
last January. On account of those meetings,
and the language used at the
Vote by Ballot,
m, in advo-
ror
cating Universal Suffrage and
LLEWELLIN was committed to take his trial for
sedition. With the principles he expounded hun-
dreds and thousands of men will sympathise,
we cannot but consider it extremely injudicious slid
in
the Magistrates, by such a course of examina-
tion, to run the risk of enlisting sympathy on the
side of the outrages committed by FROST and his
followers.

I At the present day, it should be observed, treason