The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDO`isi-,MON bA_V, NOVEMBER 4. 1839,

NEW CONSPIRACY Ii PARIS•

(From the Maniteur Parisien.)
In consequence of information which had reached the
authorities that many persons who had formerly be-
longed to secret societies were in the habit of assem-
bling clandestinely, and that they were manufacturing
powder, cartridges and balls, and a kind of bomb, con-
taining balls and powder, warrant, were issued for the
apprehension of several of these persons, and a search
was ordered in the places frequented by them. On
Tuesday last the police entered a room at No. 22, in
the Rue des Lombards, where they seized a trunk
containing 95 parcels, containing each a pound of
gunpowder, and another containing 12 pounds, with
several utensils for the manufacture of powder and
cartridges. Three persons who were in this room
were arrested. At No. 80, in the Rue du Faubourg
Montmartre, the police found a bale containing 20
bombs or projectiles, packed in oiled cloth, and
carefully tied up ; each containing a pound of pow-
der in a first envelope, surrounded by a great number of
balls, and forming a total weight of 61b. or 71b. Each
of these projectiles has a lance with a fuse. The two
persons who occupied the room in which this seizure
was nu.de were arrested. One of them had been long
under the eye of the police. In the Rue de Neuilly, in
the Faubourg St. Antoine, a seizure was made of 251 b.
of powder, a great number of cartridges, several instru-
ments for the manufacture of powder, and a receipt
for the making of it, and also a number of guns and
pistols. At Creteil, a village two leagues from Paris,
an individual, who has been manufacturing fuses such
as those mentioned above, was arrested, as also his
sister-in-law, who lives in the Rue St. Jacques. At
the residence of this female a great number of articles
used in the manufacture of gunpowder were found.
The Ministerial evening journal adds that other
seizures and arrests have taken place. The total num-
ber of arrests is eleven, all of whom belong, it says, to
secret societies."

WARLIKE MOVEMENTS OF

RUSSIA.

Our correspondent in Marseilles has forwarded to us
the following extracts of a letter from Odessa :
" The utmost activity reigns in all the harbours and
dockyards of the Black Sea, as well as on several other
parts of the coast. In order to form an idea of this pro-
digious movement, one should have witnessed the pre-
parations for the campaigns of 1812, 1828, and 1829.
Every day feldtiegues, or Cabinet couriers, reach Odessa
with orders for the Governor-General, and who thence
repair express to different points of the country to
hasten the arming and departure of the troops. 35,000
men are already assembled at Sebastopol and its envi-
rons. Additional reinforcements, said to be considera-
ble, are shortly expected. Amongst the troops in march
for that city are the sth, 6th, 7th, and Bth regiments of
Dragoons of the sth corps of cavalry of reserve. The
Black Sea squadron and a large number of transports
are in readiness to take those troops on board.
"'Three divisions, the 24th, 25th, and 26th, of the 6th
corps of the army, are to form a reserve under the
orders of Count Kaissaroff, a General better known in
the circles of St. Petersburg by his taste for French
literature than for his military acquirements. On the
other hand, the cavalry General Rudiger has been in-
structed to reinforce the army of Bessarabia. He
brings with him 14 regiments of infantry (10 of the line
and 4 of light infantry), 6 regiments of cavalry, and se-
veral batteries of artillery. The destination of these
troops is not yet known, but it is easy to see, and we
way safely affirm, that they are intended to influence
the determination of the young Sultan, should he, as we
are informed, evince a disposition to abide by the advice
of England and France.

" Russia, who is only waiting for a pretext to interfere
in a military way, has hitherto succeeded in protract-
ing the negociations. Her object is to tire out the
patience of the Pacha cf Egypt, whose resources are
exhausted by the hesitations of diplomacy, and to
compel him to march his army upon Constantinople.
The Cabinet of St. Petersburgh would then have a
favourable oppor:unity of putting an end to that young
Egyptian dynasty, which can alone dispute with her (at
least with a better chance of success than any other
power) the inheritance of the Sultan.
"In the event of Ibrahim Pacha's advancing upon
Constantinople, Russia, by means of her fleet and of the
army of Caucasus, could throw several corps of troops
on the flanks and rear of the Egyptians, and endeavour
to annihilate them in a drawn battle. This plan had
been suggested by General Jom;ni, and was actually
adopted by Russia previous to the campaign of Turkey,
should Mehemet Ali have marched to the assistance of
the Sultan on the side of Anatolia. Prince Paskie-
witsch is the man of confidence of the Czar, and will
be charged with the execution of this plan, which it is
probable, however, the prudence of Mehemet Ali will
defeat."—Courrier Francais.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Sir Robert Peel has by this time, we suspect, made
the discovery, that if he ever contemplated profiting
by the base warfare in which the Tories have embarked
against the Queen—a warfare disgraceful beyond any-
thing of which we have an example in modern times—
without being himself mixed up with it, he has made a
grievous mistake. The Tories will insist upon his wal-
lowing in the mire with them. The treason of Mr.
Bradshaw was the treason of the clergy of Canterbury
and the gentry of East Kent ; for it was received by
them with tremendous applause. At the anniversary
dinner of the Ashton-under-Lyne Operative Conserva-
tive Association, at which were present Colonel Thomas,
M.P., of the 20th regiment of the line ; Major
Maclean, Captains Horne and Murray, Lieutenants
Brooke and Sharpe, all of the same regiment ; Captain
Clarke, of Hyde ; Captain Ainslie, &c. ; a Mr. Raby
was rapturously applauded while uttering the most atro-
cious libels against our amiable Queen. " I hope," said
that foul-mouthed brawler, " that Sir Robert Peel and
the Duke of Wellington will purge the Court of the
filth— of the filth, I repeat the word—which offends
the nostrils of all but those whose sense is so vitiated
that they know not vice from virtue, or purity frfrom im-
purity. Innocence is confounded with guilt ; virgin in.
nocence is banished the palace while vice riots ram-
pant at the Royal board.—(Applause.)" This beastly
language is heard, not merely without challenge, but
with applause, by an assemblage containing gentle-
men, many of them bearing the Queen's commis-
sion. If there were the slightest foundation for
the calumny—if it were not as notorious as the
sun at noon day, that the throne of England
never was filled by a Sovereign whose every
thought, word, and act bore stronger evidence of
purity—if her Majesty were not, in all that most en-
nobles and adorns the female character, an example to
her subjects—we might understand how this dastardly
libeller presumed to bespatter his Queen with his
abuse, however much we might condemn the attempt.
But it is utterly unaccountable how English gentlemen,
officers whose profession ought to inspire them with
something like gallantry, should allow faction so far to
degrade them, as to applaud imputations against their
virtuous Queen, which they know to be false and
calumnious, merely because that Queen would not
belie her convictions, by declaring a confidence in
Sir Robert Peel which she did not entertain. When
Burke expressed his astonishment that ten thousand
swords did not leap from their scabbards to avenge
even a look that threatened the Queen of France with
insult, be thought merely of her beauty—he was not
unaware that the life of Marie Antoinette had
afforded ground for scandal. What would have been
Burke's indignant language, could he have foreseen
that men calling themselves gentlemen, officers
wearing the Queen's uniform, dared to apply to
their own virtuous Sovereign language such as
could only be applied to the lowest and most de-
graded of her sex ? But such is Tory chivalry ! And
yet how short is the interval since the throne
was filled by a Sovereign whose life was pro-
fligate beyond example, but who was nevertheless
worshipped by the very Tories who are now driven
to invent calumnies against her present Majesty !
Dignitaries of the Church of England were ready with
their incense to this modern Sardanapalus ; and his
brother, whose life certainly was not a model of purity,
and whose gambling and other vices have entailed ruin
on so many innocent families in this metropolis, was
idolized by the Tories, who had a ready apology for all
his faults. But the Queen will not endure
them, and their love of virtue, forsooth,
which never burst forth before against royalty, is so un-
governable that it leads them to trample on truth and
decency, and to divest themselves of every manly feeling.
We said that the Canterbury Tories would not have
applauded as they did the treasonable ebullitions of Mr.
Bradshaw, if he had not given expression to sentiments
with which they were before familiar ; and the Morning
Post candidly admits that we correctly interpreted the
proceedings. He has spoken, as we are told, " what
thousands of loyal Protestants feel, though they have
hardly ventured to express it to themselves, and
certainly would be very cautious of expressing it to
others, with that distinctness and force, from
which the language of Mr. Bradshaw did not
shrink." The Standard, too, qualifies Mr. Brad-
shaw's speech as sound and able, though there are afew
unjust and intemperate allusions in it. In short, he has
merely revealed on a public stage the madness by which
Tory society is infected. It is notorious that in Tory
society treason is openly meditated, and wishes expressed
that the Throne could be filled by the King of Hano-
ver. We may well admit, with the Standard, that
wrong-headed men are never a very inconsiderable class
or destitute of influence in Tory society ; but, then,
how can Sir Robert Peel govern this country, sur-
rounded by this wrong-headed class ? It is quite clear
that Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington
will not be suffered to wear the guise of moderation :
" We must," says Mr. Roby, " have no trimming, no
half measures; the enemy is not only in the gate, the
enemy is in the citadel ; Queen Victoria sits at her
Royal Council with Popish advisers. What next?
Will you, Englishmen and Protestants, sit tamely by say
ing-6 God help us !' Will you, without an effort or a
remonstrance, allow these profligate rulers thus to perpe-
trate their blows against our Constitution in Church and
State? Where are our leaders ? Where are they who
ought to have defied this profligate administration, and
have dared them at their peril—aye, have them dared at
their peril—to perpetrate their miscreant acts against the
very Constitution which they had sworn to uphold ? I
hope that, in the next Session of Parliament, our Peels
and our Wellingtons (and I wish they were present to
hear me), will say, with Major Bridgnorth, in Sir Walter
Scott's ' P.veril of thePeak,' We may forgive our own
enemies; but we dare not, we hold no commission, to for-
give the enemies of our country.'"
The difficulties of Sir Robert Peel are only beginning.
He may have thought that he could profit by Tory folly ;
but Tory folly will prove his master. He must degrade
himself to its level, or he must withdraw. In the mean
time, we trust the men of Canterbury will, at their
meeting, at twelve o'clock to-morrow, prove to
their country that they have no part in the feelings
which dictated the foul slander of their Sovereign.
(From the Morning Herald.)
" Evil communications corrupt good manners." So
saith a high authority, and, if we are not mistaken, Dr.
Kay, the Secretary to the Education Committee of
Privy Council, affords a memorable illustration of its
truth. The time was when this gentleman could re-
turn the following answer, in his examination before the
Select Committee for the Education of the Poorer
Classes in England and Wales ;—" 1 have recently
been engaged in introducing improvements in the train-
ing adopted in the workhouses of Norfolk and Suffolk,
which are not yet complete. But the system we pro-
pose to pursue is, that the boys shall, under the Com-
missioners' regulations, be instructed during three
hours, tat least, every day, in reading and writing, and
the principles of the Christian religion ; and that, during
certain others, such instructions shall be given them as
are calculated to train them to habits of usefulness,
industry, and virtue. The expedients which we
adopt for this purpose are as follow :—The
Bible, the Testament, and the Book of Common Prayer,
and the Church Catechism, are considered essential
school books ; and if any other religious books besides
these are employed, they are submitted to the chaplain ;
and if difference of opinion should arise between the
chaplain (who is to be licensed and approved of by the
diocesan) and the board of guardians, respecting any
books which might be supposed to influence religious
belief, or to relate to the essential doctrines of
Christianity, we think it right that that difference of
opinion should be referred to the diocesan. Of
course duo regard is had to the provisions
of the 19th section of the Poor Law Amendment
Act, by which relief for the conscientious scruples
of Dissenters is provided."—Report on the Education
of the Poorer Classes ; ordered to be printed 1838,
Pp. 15, 16. Now we do marvel that Dr. James Philip
Kay who, as an assistant Poor-law Commissioner, in
the year 1838, could thus feel himself bound most
punctiliously to own the jurisdiction aria authority of
our diocesan bishops, even in questions relating to
parish paupers, should now be content to act as the
agent and official of a Privy Council Committee, which
would abrogate the authority of these diocesans, even
over the National Schools within their several dioceses.
This, we say, is a marvellous conversion, and whether
it has been achieved by the Marquis of Lansdowne or
Mr. Wyse—by the friend of Priestley or the friend
of the Pope—it shows up Dr. Kay as what would
have been called, in King James's-time, " a thoroug,h
confider."

(From the Morning Post.)
The paltry and selfish Ministerialists, while they
affect so much loyal horror at the unguarded expres-
sions of Protestant indignation, which !heir base policy
has called forth, know well in their hearts that the only
true friends of the Monarch and the monarchy of this
country are the Conservatives, and such of the Whigs
as most despise the support upon which the present
Ministry is dependent. The Ministerialists themselve,
we say, know well that those upon whom they rail are
the very men upon whom her Majesty may trust to the
uttermost ; not indeed for the amusement of her Ma-
jesty's Court, but for the security of her Majesty's
Throne. The Conservatives pity her Majesty's youth,
imposed upon by ill advisers—they regret her Majesty's
predilections, which, unfortunately for herself And for
the country, are not in harmony With the national
feeling of Great Britain ; but they deeply re;wAeet
her Majesty's lawful authority, and in its 40ectmlan4
in her's, they are, if need were, ready to di,e,„ 1r
. ier'pr-vsent
servants, as her Majesty will 0110 day34l3over, are mere
hypocrites—creatureg whnse design is to serve them-
selves,
at no matter what expense to the principles of
the monarchy--at no matter what sacrifice yf her Ma-
jesty's permanent welfare as Soyereign of these realms,
If there were Any WI telt her Majesty of the conduct
Ls4cci by the present Ministerial party before they
arne courtiers, her Majesty might better judge he
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authority, as absurd ineumbrances upop the progress

of society." Their speeches were invectives against the
Crown, and their writings—but one of John Dryden's
couplets will best describe them
" Their business was by writings to persuade,
That Kings were useless, and a clog to trade."
Such was the character, even at this time but a few
years old, of those who now—because they have wages
for it—pretend to loyalty, while they do all that they
possibly can to give offence to the really loyal. They
now batten upon the corruption of the Court as they
did formerly upon the corruption of the populace.
They formerly sought to ruin the State by putting it
under the dominion of' the rabble ; they now yield it
up to ruin by putting it under the dominion of the
Romanists.

(From the Times.)
For what reason Sir John Campbell's political
keepers deemed it prudent to cage and diet their lion
in private, rather than risk an exhibition of him to the
Edinburgh public, we must leave our readers to de-
termine. The Learned Knight having stolen in upon
his constituents on the Tuesday evening, or at latest
on the Wednesday, measures for securing a crowded
assembly of spectators, though certainly not approving
ones, might have been adopted immediately. With
an advertisement in Thursday's Courant, aided by
decent handbills, which in so small a place generally
effect their purpose in an hour or two, an immense
public meeting might have been convened at twelve
o'clock on Friday, not only with the utmost ease,
but without interfering with Sir John's engagement
to the constabulary dinner, which the Whig Provost,
having previously disbanded the independent mem-
bers of that body, had procured Sir John Campbell
an invitation to. Why was this not done ! The
electors, we have good reason to know, were anxious
to hear Sir John. They wanted an unbought opi-
nion from him, although aware he is retained and
feed by the Whigs, respecting the recent Popish ap-
pointments of Messrs. Shell, Wyse, and O'Ferrall.
They had also a variety of other matters to inquire
about. They wanted to know, more particularly, if
the scheme of sectarian education proposed by the
Whigs shall continue to be infected with a rotten and
anti-Christian liberalism. had the Attorney-General
been disposed to front the constituency, his opportunites
for doing so during his stay were abundant. We ask
again, why those opportunities were shrunk from ?
The fact is, he durst not venture to encounter them
upon such delicate and dangerous ground ; so his friends
dexterously contrived to smuggle him through with a
select party-breakf4st and a non-political dinner, where,
of course, cross-examinations were wholly out of the
question.

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