The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

An inquest was held yesterday on the body of
James Chaplin, and the jury returned a verdict of wil-
ful murder against George Smith, a soldier in the
Coldstream Guards. The foreman intimated that the
jury had wished him to express a strong protest against
the improper practice of allowing soldiers to wear side-
arms ; and it certainly does seem strange that soldiers,
when off duty, should be allowed to wear deadly wea-
pons. If gentlemen were led to discontinue the prac-
tice of wearing swords, from a conviction that no man
ought in his moments of excitement to have constantly
at hand a deadly weapon (and Dr. Johnson, we be-
lieve, states that the fatal affair in a tavern, in which a
man fell by the hand of Savage, contributed greatly to
produce this conviction), surely there is much more
reason to be apprehensive of the discretion of men in
the station of soldiers in their quarrels. In this coun-
try the army is not recruited from sober and prudent
men, but generally from men of strong passions and
little prudence, who are driven by indiscretion to
what is considered the last resource of desperation.
The circumstances under which the army is re-
cruited are assigned as the reason why the prac-
tice of flogging cannot be discontinued. And
yet men of this class, at all times prover-
bially reckless, and, under intoxication, particu-
larly prone to quarrel, are to be suffered to wear mortal
weapons, while gentlemen, who are in the habit of
putting a rein on their actions, have discontinued the
practice. After the fatal affair at Woolwich, some
years ago, in which a poor woman was stabbed by a
marine, an end ought to have been put to this nui-
sance. Hardly a day passes in which soldiers, in their
drunken quarrels, do not draw their bayonets ; and
though the results may seldom be fatal, yet the public
ought not to be kept in a constant state of alarm on
this account. Some of our Contemporaries attribute
the determination of the heads of the army to the
Machiavelian policy of breeding hatred between the
soldiers and the people, but we attribute it to no such
deep design. We are inclined to believe that there is
really nothing more at the bottom of the determination
than a piece of silly affectation. It is thought, no
doubt, that to refuse to make any concession to a de-
mand, however just, of the people, is a proof of spirit.
Of this the people may rest assured, that if they do
not take the matter seriously up, they will continue to
be exposed to the insults of soldiers armed with bayo-
nets. The Horse-Guards may be inclined to capitu-
late after a few murders, especially if public indignation
be roused by the loss of some individual of considera-
tion. As Chaplin is merely a poor man, it is probable
that this matter will have no result.—Morn. C'hronicle.

A Ministerial print was pleased to declare, a night
or two ago, that "the Queen is with the kingdom, and
the Court with the country." Plain people, we ac-
knowledge, may fail to hit the meaning of this ver-
biage ; hut being somewhat conversant with the
Sphere from whence it emanates, we venture to say
(what is rather rare in that quarter) that one of two
interpretations is all it admits of—either that her
Majesty, concurring with her ancient Protestant
kingdoms of England and Scotland, condemns the
O'Connell Government ; or that, in opposition to the
British coestituency and the House of Peers, our liege
Lady, siding with a Popish minority of her subjects,
considers Ireland alone as constituting her " kingdom
and country." To the former of these hypotheses we
'yield, of course, our ready assent ; not merely because
we deem it to be more honourable to the Crown, but
because we have every reason to hope it is more con-
sistent with fact. The people of Great Britain, con-
stituting an overwhelming, majority of her Majesty'
subjects, have ircently given allistinct and emphatic
deliverance on all the great political questions of
the day. They were asked to do this by the

o*Conne:l Ministry, and they have done it under
all the influential appliances that could be em-
ployed to bias their honest sentiments by the
official dispensers of patronage. Pensioners, with
their incomes in abeyance, were reminded that the civil
list niioit possibly undergo a revision. Purveyorships
to the Queen were hung up to he played snap-dragon
with all over the kingdom. A heavy file was kept up
by the Ordnance and Admiralty, both upon garriNon
towns and naval dockyards. Our mAiden Monarch
was subjected to the indignity of signing the me-
inerable Mulgrave letter, which, though purporting to
be only a written character ill tavuur of a sus.peettd
servant, was confessedly put forth to answer the pur-
pose of a successful " electioneering squib." Lord
Durham and Lord John Russell were simultaneously
coganed in the same enterprise : the one saying to the
Givc up ;" and the other to the South.
" Kerp not back." Now, although the grand object
of this combined effort was undeniably to persuade
F.:nglishinen that the political predilections and inte-
rests of the Queen were identical with those of her
Whig controllers, the failure of the conspiracy has
been in exact proportion to its impudence and base-
ness. The British constituency have shown by their
election returns, that the habitual " postponement of
truth" which a Radical journal imputed to O'Connell
is, in their opinion, equally chargeable upon his
Cabinet tools. The Ministerial cant of " vote for the
Queen," as implying a request to vote for the Mi-
nistry, has been scouted in every Protestant district of
the country ; and if anything could show more clearly
than another the shameful indifference of the Whigs
to her Majesty's popularity, the fact of their having
identiti,..d her august name with such exch.] par
tisanship (as if they are to be believed) must lead to
the conclusion that Great Britain has actually declared
against her, is sufficient to demonstrate it to every
unprejudiced mind. But no—the shrewdness of our
countrymen in detecting Whig artifices is at least
eqUalled by their generous and confiding loyalty.
Exonerating their youthful Sovereign from all conni-
vance in the scandalous uses that were made of the
Royal authority, they have voted throughout the greater
part of these Protestant realms in the perfect convic-
tion that her Majesty is a Conservative, and an enemy
to democratic innovations. They have accordingly
returned a House of Commons as much as possible
to the Queen's mind. The British counties and
boroughs have. elected a constitutional majority deci-
dedly opposed to that wretched faction from whose fet-
ters the Royal captive is panting to be emancipated. Her
subjects generally desire to set her free. We therefore
agree with our Contemporary, that " the Queen is
with the kingdom ;" and more than this, we will gratify
him by adding, that her redemption draweth nigh.
But as it is probable that the meaning we have thus
put upon the writer's expressions may be not exactly
such as he and his employers will like to own, we now
submit for their adoption the only other interpretation
of which those expressions are susceptible. " The
kingdom" which he speaks of, though not excluding
Ireland, is generally understood to comprise Great
Britain, as by far its larger section. Nobody can deny
however, that Ireland is also a kingdom, as part of
Victoria's united dominions. Now, observe how the
case stands. The constituency of this country and the
Popish majority in Ireland are divided on sundry great
questions ; the former proceeding on enlightened prin.
ciple, because they are educated ; the latter being the
dupes of priests and demagogues, because, in the ab-
sence of mental or moral training, they are the un-
reasoning and unresisting victims of Papal imposture.
But on no question are the two sides of the channel
more thoroughly at variance than whether the O'Con-
nell Ministry be entitled or otherwise to the confidence
of the public. Considering the insatiable demands of
Popish aggression, especially as illustrated in the case
of Belgium, whose Romanist population would never
rest till they had thrown off their allegiance to a Pro-
testant Government, the people of Great Britain, per-
ceiving that the analogous elements of disruption
between Ireland and this country are so fostered and
fomented by Whig policy that the repeal of the Union
is the only consistent and inevitable terminus to the
existing system of clamour and concession, have
shown their disgust at the Melbourne Administration,
and have ignominiously blackballed it. On the other
hand the papists and priests of Ireland, convinced
that the joint Cabinet of O'Connell and Lord Mel-
bourne is securing to them every thing they can wish,
have declared that that Cabinet is the very best they
have yet seen. If, then her gracious Majesty be not
with her British subjects in the view they take of this
matter, it follows, as a matter of course, that she is
with her Popish ones ; and if, notwithstanding our pre-
ceding reasonings, it is still argued that the " Queen (as

a supposed supporter of 0:Con nt .11) is with the king-
dom," then the predicament in wlaic h our Contemporary
places her Majesty is just this, that the Royal Lady,
adopting Ireland as her only and exclusive kingdom,
is prepared to spite the resolutiontl, and throw off the
allegiance of her loyal British sub jects. Such is a spe-
cimen of the counsel and suppotrt which Victoria re-
ceives from the Whigs. If absurdity or infamy can be
found deeper than this, we at hvaitt have no plumb to
fathom it. Whether the logic or ?atriotism of the Pal
merston journalist be most worthy,. 'of admiration, we are
at a loss to say. He is said to plume himself upon
both !—Times.

" Prove your grievance," said Sir Robert Peel,
when he had not the honesty to grant, nor the hardi-
hood to deny, the claims of Reform—" prove yoer
grievance," echoes the Times, and re-echoes the whole
gang of Tories when they wish to conceal their hos-
tility to popular rights, under pretence of a desire to
abolish all recognised abuses in our institutions—
" prove your accusation," excla;,ms the conscience-con-
vict when he "fancies that, from want of evidence, pro-
fessional quibble, or legal su'btlety, he may escape the
penalty of his offences ; and throughout every fraternity
of political and social knavery the cry for redress and
justice is ever sought to be defeated by an evasive de-
mand for proofs in demonstration of the wrong. To
witness the air of confident insolence and affected indig-
nation with which the Tories vociferate " prove your
" grievance," one unaccustomed to their subterfuges
and devices might be induced to believe that our laws
had attained perfection, or that it would require micros-
copic powers of vision to detect a flaw or defect in the
statute-book ; that, in fact, the offer of the Tories to
remedy abuses was merely given to appease the cla-
mour of a few malcontents, and not in expectation of
being ever called upon to fulfil their promise—the
Constitution being already considered to be without
blemish. And such is in fact the view which the
Tories take, and intend should be taken, of our

institutions, when they profess themselves ready
and desirous to effect all necessary ameliorations.
To state unequivocally that our institutions are
perfectly free from abuses and need no improve-
ment, would be a falsehood too repulsive to common
perception and common sense, and too monstrous to
be digested by the British people, as was experienced
by the Duke of Wellington, when he dared to as-
sert in his place in the House of Lords, to the amaze-
ment of Europe and indignation of England, that
the rotten-borough House of Common: was the per-
fection, the ne plus ultra of human wisdom—that
the ingenuity of man could not devise a more perfect
system of legislation. The effect produced by this
daring assertion was such as to make the Tories
ever since shrink from exhibiting themselves in their
true colours—the enemies of all Reform. It is not
to the leading measures of Reform only they are hos-
tile : they are actuated by a common sympathy which,
even at the removal of the slightest wrong, makes
every Member of their unholy fraternity thrill with
apprehension for the safety of that abuse in which he
is more immediately interested. Such is at heart the
feeling of every genuine Tory, however concealed
under false professions, or disguised by such seem-
ingly honest demands as " prove your grievance."
To this demand we have only to reply circumspice.
Those who can look at the mass of injustice and evil
accumulated on the statute-book, and the machinery
which gives it operation, the condition of the plun-
dered peasantry of Ireland, and the burdens despoti-
cally imposed on the people in all divisions of the
empire—taxation without due representation, the ex-
orbitant exactions of the Church, the equally enormous
bread tax upon a manufacturing population, which
ought to be done away with at once, and numerable,
or rather innumerable, abuses on all sides around us
those who can look at these things and demand a
proof of grievances, must he either blind to what is
visible to all others, or determined, for the sake of their
own selfish purposes, to uphold institutions and modes
of management utterly at variance with the best inte-
rests of the country. "To prove the grievances" of
the country would be an idle task. Let those who
deny that any exist, recapitulate those which have
been redressed by the Governments of Lords Grey and
Meaourne and we will furnish them with a list of
those which still require to be redressed, which shall
shame them from their pretended " conceit. "
Morning .4,lccrtiser.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

THIS EVENING.

WHITEHALL, OCT. 16, 1537.
The Quecu has been pleased to present the Rev. John Kirk to
the Church an parish of Arbirlot, in the presbytery of Arbroath
and sounty of Forfar, vacant by the transportation of the Rev.
Thomas Guthrie, late Minister there, to the Greyf►iars Church in
Edinburgh.

CROWN-OFFICE, OCT. 17.
MEMBI:RS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE NEW rnIII.I.AMENT.
CARNARVONSHIRE.—John Ralph Ormsby Gore, of Pockin:ten,
in the county of Salop, Esq.
CARNAKVON.—WiIIiam Bulkeley Hughes, of Plaseoch, in the
county of Anglesey, Esq.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Wilts.
Royal Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry.—Salisbury Troop.—The Right
Hon. Jacob Beuverie Lord Viscount Folkestone to be Ccrnet, vice
Craven, deceased, Oct. 2.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
WILLIAM ALLEN, innkeeper, Yeovil, Somersetshire.
BANKRUPTS.
FRANCIS GILES, silk-manufacturer, Fore-street, Spital-
fields, to surrender Oct. 28, at half-past ten, and Nov. 28, al
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, Copthall-build-
ings, official assignee ; Smith, King's Arms Yard, Coleman-street,
TUOMAS JOHNSTON and WILLIAM BEVERN, tailors,
Panton-street, Haymarket, Oct. 21, at one, and Nov. 28, at ele-
ven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Jonhson, Basinghall-street,
official assignee ; Davies, Leicester-square.
ROBERT WICKSTEED, victualler, Paradise-street, Bother-
hithe, Oct. 27, at twelve, and Nov. 28, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Green, Aldermanbury, official assignee ; Asprey,
Furnival's Inn.

RICHARD CARR, butcher, Headington, Oxford, Oct. 20, at
ten, and Nov. 28, at one, at the Roebuck Inn, Oxford. H. and
J. Walsh, New Inn, Hall-street, Oxford ; Pownall and Cross,
Staple Inn, London.
EDWARD KNIGHT, currier, Ulverston, Lancashire, Oct.
30, and Nov. 28, at eleven, at the Sun Inn, Ulverston. Yarker,
Ulverston ; Bignold, Pulley, and Alawe, New Bridge-street,
Blackfriars, London.

WILLIAM LINEHAM, slater, Cheltenham, Nov. 3, and 28,
at ten, at the Fleece Inn, Cheltenham. Stephens, Blaekfriars-road,
London ; Stephens, Cheltenham.
JOHN WELLS licensed victualler, York, Oct. 24 and Nov.
28, at two, at the Town-hall, Sheffield. Fiddcy, Sergeant's-inn ;
Rayner and Thompson, Sheffield.
EDWARD MI FIN, general warehouseman, Lancaster, Nov.
7 and 28, at three, at the Commissioners'-rooms, in St. James's-
square, Manchester. Cooper, Marsden-street, Manchester ;
Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row.

CERTIFICATES—Nov. 7.
S. Worthen, miller, Hinckley Mills, Drayton, Shropshire.
R. Reynolds, bill-broker, Leeds.
J. Holt, inn-keeper, Balton, Lancashire.
H. Brown, carrier, Gloucester.
E. Allwright, cheesemonger, Little Newport-street, Newport-
market, Middlesex.

A. S. Stocker, machinist, Birmingham.
W. Anderson, baker, New-road, St. George's in the East.
T. G. Poston, auctioneer, Aldersgate-street.
T. Barrow, innkeeper, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancaster.
J. Rees, chymist, Stratford, Essex.
H. Pegg, hotel keeper, Tonbridge Wells, Kent.
C. Bean, coach-maker, Long-acre, Middlesex.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Gaskell and J. Schofield, cotton-dealers, Liverpool.
T. Hill and W. Morgan, bankers, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.
A. Price and M. Andrews, milliners, Llandovery, Carmarthen-
shire.
J. Rowley,J riest, W. M'Kenzie, R. Roberts, and A. Hop-
kinson, fancy woollen manufacturers, Huddersfield.
T. Cex and T. W. Ingram, horn and bone button manufac-
turers, Birmingham.
R. and J. C. Jones, corn and flour-dealers, Liverpool.
T. Underwood and J. Penfold, London.

J. and W. Robinson, colour-manufacturers, Burslem, Stafford-
shire.

T. Moore and G. Moore, card-makers, Halifax.
L. Bennitt and E. Robison, linen-drayery, Sherborne, Dorset.
R. Matthews and J. Conte, auctioneers. Witham, Essex.
J. Maunders and J. Drew, jun., confectioners, Weymouth.
J. Leigh and J. Scholes, calico-printers, Denshaw -vale, Yorkshire.
J. F. Burkill and I. Burkhill, jun., corn-factors, Leeds.
J. E. Down. and C. Edwards, solicitors, Totnes, Devonshire.
A. Sawer, R. T. Toms, and H. Godfrey, silk commission
agents, Milk-street, London.
H. Ade and J. Filder, farmers, Jevington, Sussex.
G. Day, M. Hirst, M. Milnes, J. Wharton, J . Newsome, B.
Armytage, W. Crossland, G. Lister, D. Wilcock, M. Fox, J.
Dixon, E. Fozard, J. Wharton, C. Wharton, J. Parker, J. Por-
ritt, and A. Naylor, scriviners, Batley Carr, Yorkshire.