The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-01 00:00:00

L:',VE,'NEN'G EDITION.

fiHE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
No. CXXXIX.
WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A FEW DAYS.
CONTENTS.
REIGNS of GEORGE the THIRD and FOURTH.—Public

Characters.
Mail AL and INTELLECTUAL STATISTICS of FRANCE.
GALLY KNIGHT'S ARCHITECTURAL TOURS.
4 CII `.li LES the FIRST and the SCO'II'ISH COMMIS.
lONERS
5. .57.13. JOiiN BARROW'S LIFE of LORD ANSON.
C. COMMISSION on the IRISH RAILWAYS.
7. LIFE and ADVENTURES of COLONEL MACERONL
S. rill, ANCIEN I' LYRICS ani MUSIC of SCOTLAND.
C. FALSE TASTE in CO kIPOSITION.—Rev. Dr. Charming.
.0. CH rj STATE.,—Mr. Gladstone.
NOTES.

London: Long-man, and Co. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black

;ow ready, No. 111., Trice Is., of the new and entirely ori-
ginal Work, entitled
)AV Y DR EAM Y.
Edited by FLIT !
With Two Comic Etchings by PETER PALETTE.
vof the scenes are quite equal to those of Nicholas
ti the illustrations to any of Cruikshank's."—Age.
to is a quiz of the first water, and will startle
oz r, out of their fair propriety. The illustra-
Caledonian Mercury.
and flext,ill, 265, Strand.

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S 0 N 0, P 0 L Y.-TOWER '
HAMLETS.
[.r;:vide:l. and most respectable MEETING of GAS
:',\IERS, held at Mr. Blay's, the Golden Eagle, Shad-
\i'edn.:.sday last, and thence adjourned to the old
as:, Mr. 1101-111 in the Chair, it was unanimously
hat the following Resolution be inserted in the Morn-
rrtiser and Sun newspapers :
Mceting feels indebted to the Committee of the
Gas Company for the prompt manner in which
are come forward to afford explanation and information
to the progress made by the New Company to relieve
isoi;:inrs of gas in the Tower Hamlets from their present
nn,and this Meeting public') pledges itself to support the
per ial Gas Company by every possible means, and to use
oileztive and individual influence to promote the welare
p-orperity of this great boon to the consumers of gas gene-
iy, by in -acing each consumer in the district to become, not
y a customer of, but a shareholder in, the Commercial Gas

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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, Arm 1,
Will be performed the New Play, in Five Acts, called
RICHELIEU, OR THE CONSPIRACY,
Written by Sir E. Lyttan Bulwer, Bart.
The Characters by
Elton, Mr. Diddear, Mr. Maeready, Mr. Warde, Mr. An-
o;1, Ir. Vining. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben-
, :ATI.. Howe, Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yet.-
, Mr. W. L. Payne, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Bender,
ra,,110, Mr. Gouili, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur-
Smith, Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth; Mr. Wal.
1, Mr. AlliiTe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, Miss
Ftu±. Miss Charles, Mesdames Reed, Corder, Lee,
t0:1,11.c,, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan.
v:liich will be revived the Grand Dramatic Romance, of
LOD OI SK A.
Thrrotv, Richelieu, with a Grand Dramatic Romance.

TO OUR READERS.
Printer on Friday blended together portions
le;,.!ers, and produced an article which it must
b-!eri impossib!e to understand. We regret the
a.,;(1 care has been taken to prevent the recur-

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MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1839.

troversy has sprung up among the Liberal
s as to the propriety of now endeavouring to
the country to procure a further reform of
On Monday the Morning
le began a series of articles, and continued
v day during the week, to demonstrate the
of the Reform Act, and the necessity of a
rlly of the Liberals to procure another
) Act. Our Contemporary requires the Bal-
mise hoid Suffrage,. Triennial Parliaments,
'Jnlition of the Property Qualification, and
are equal distribution of Ha presentation.
these are points on which we cor-
ly echo our Contemporary, and have long
in the habit of demanding them.
,)pearin% in the Chronicle, these articles indicate
comp!otc change in its views, and from being a
a very humble servant of the Ministers as long as
IliCy Were likely to remain in office, it has, all at
once, become, now that their fall seems at hand, as
the National says, furiously Radical. The new
aspect of our Contemporary, just at this time, has

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excited more the attention of the Contemporary
Press, than lips been vouchsafed to the Chronicle
1,7; r a long period. The Globe, the Courier, and the
Examiner deprecate the changeas unseasonable in re-
qtad to the Ministers, and,comingat this time, itgives

rise to no pleasant suspicions. The Spectator, the
Weekly Chronicle, and perhaps other Liberal Jour.
nals, praise the articles of the Morning Chronicle,
and highly approve of the time of issuing what has
been called its manifestoes. We feel called on,
therefore, to state our opinion on this point, and
having made up our minds as to the impropriety of
the course now recommended by the Chronicle, we
sha!! unreservedly assign our reasons for this con-
clusion.

We are not finality men, but, like the Chronicle,
we have advocated the changes which it demands.
The only difference between us is as to the time of
raising this rallying cry. We think it most injudici-
ously chosen. The question must be looked at practi-
cally ; between us and the Chronicle, there is no
difference as to the object, but we ask how it is
to be achieved ? The Chronicle has been driven
to open its batteties just now, because the Corn-
-1:-Iws are insultingly maintained ; and it would
avowedly effect a further reform in Parliament to
carry the repeal of the Corn-laws. The Chronicle,
however, has written strongly against appeals to
arms, and decreed within these ten days the use of
physical force, with all its might. It would there-
fore procure a further reform of the Parliament by
constitutional means, in order to procure a re-
peal of the Corn-laws. Does the Chronicle sup-
pose that the men who resisted that repeal will yield
*further Parliamentary Reform ? Not they indeed.
They will oppose it to the utmost. No sentiment
of justice can be brought to operate against them on
that point, and the men who would not yield this
unjust tax on bread will not yield another change
in the Constitution. They will be able to say
Seven years only have elapsed since you carried
'eat change in the Constitution ; it was all, or
all, which you then desired ; you promised
corntry from that the greatest blessings, and
here now and tell us that it has been a
failure. What reason have we to suppose
present changes you demand will be more
? What guarantee of their expediency or
can you possibly offer us ?" They would
rot be convinced by the arguments of the
It', and very nearly every man of the ma-
jority of 342 who voted against Mr. VILLIERS'
;,n, would resist to the utmost the Chronicle's
furi.l-ier reform.

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Besides this majority nearly all the Ministers and
i:,1-eat body of the Whigs who voted with Mr.
• TEES on the Corn-laws, wr:,::d vote against
,;osition to establish the :-;allot,to shorten the
cr to extend t..e Suffrage. We want to
.refore, bow that much larger majority
n opposed Mr. VILLIERS' 'notion is to be
? L hat force can the Chronicle hope
against them to obtain an Extension of the
or the Vote by Ballot ? For our parts we
. not the slightest chance of present success, and
it is unwise to endeavour to excite po!itical agita-
Con without the least hope of achieving the object

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there can be no hope of inducing the Parlia-
ment to yield on this question, without exciting a
complete commotion amongst the people, is there
any hope that they could be excited zealousy to
':nand the changes required by the Chronicle ?
C:e failure of the Reform Act, so vehemently

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agitation amongst the whole people, we cannot love-
see; hut, till circumstances rouse them the efforts of
writers will be in -vain ; and we sie at piesent no
circumstances which afford the least proof of a dis-
poaisloo in the people to serious political excitement.
Wean; afraid that the middle classes are alarmed by
the doctrines of the Chartists, and the meetings of
the Convention, and that they would be just now
total;i,a, erse fi (En adopting the " furious Radi-
(alisin of tl e Chronicle. Whatever, therefore,
way be the demerits of the Houses of Commons
and Lords and nobody is more sensible of them
than we are, we see no signs in the public opinion
which can induce us to suppose that a national
movement can now be excited against them ; and
unless there be a national movement, they will only
laugh at newspaper pellets.
Besides objecting to the deliberate agitation of
these questions now, because there is no hope of
success, we object to it as interrupting the pursuit
of a positive good. Though the Chronicle may
not have taken the lead on Corn-law agitation,
arid may only have come third or fourth into the field,
that we believe is a cause which still interests great
multitudes. To complete one thing at a time is
gool policy. There exists a great Anti-Corn-law
league ; to that most of the towns of the empire
have adhered ; funds are collected, Delegates are sit-
I ing, justice is on their side, and we are not to give
tit, that great cause in despair, and chase after
some other good at the first rebuff. No great be-
nefit was ever so won. The Chronicle would
divert ts from that pursuit to another,
wh:Lli, licwever proper in itself, is now unseason-
able. We will not folloW the Chronicle. The
eviloilee we lay before our readers of the failure of
the Couvevaion inspires us with a hope that the
working classes may yet be roused to demand in
thuieler the repel of the Corn-laws ; and when
there ;s a hope, 07 even a possibility, of that, it is
extremely hail polic% to direct attention to any other
object. On these great public grounds we decide
that the Cbionicle has badly ' osen its time ; pri-
vate 3
gleutist; and bow its ,sertion may affect
the Miaistcrs, enter not into o , consideration. We
shall merely say that, as a party journal, its tactics
are as bad as those of the Ministers who have sa-
crificed the interest of their party and their friends
to individual crotchets against the Ballot and about
finality. We hope that the vanity of a somewhat
strong and eloquent mind, and the hopes of taking
the lead on a question of reform, have not over-
mastered bustling, pompous, but prudent shallow-
ness, and led our Contemporary to aim at gratifying
private ambition at the expense of public advantage.

The secession of the Birmingham representa-
tives to the Convention from that body, which was
indicated in our report of its proceedings on Satur-
day, is confirmed by a letter which we publish from
Messrs. HADLEY, SALT, and DOUGLAS, the
Birmingham M. C.'s. Their secession coming so
immediately after that of Dr. WADE, and after
the disputes which have arisen in that body, be-
token, we think, its speedy dissolution. At any
rate it is now pretty evident that the Convention
will effect nothing considerable, and that it would
probably be politic and prudent in them to disperse,
and spare the funds of their constituents for a more
favourable occasion. Although we never approved
of the object the Chartists had immediately in view,
and although we did all in our power to dissuade
the working classes from demanding the Char-
ter, and earnestly called on them to join
us in endeavouring to obtain a repeal of the
Corn-laws, we have never thrown any obstacles
in their path; we have written nothing against them,
and have opened our columns to as full a report of
their proCeedings as was compatible with our duty
to the public. We, therefore, have in no wise con-
tributed to their failure. The impossibility of
reaching the object they had in view without the
assistance of the middle classes, and the struggles of
private ambition, which always will penetrate into
such assemblies, are the true causes of their want
of success. They will now return to their consti-
tuents disappointed and discomfited, as we have
always anticipated, and as we told some of
the leaders ; but how different would have been

their position, and how much better would it have
been for themselves, their constituents, and the
country at large, had they followed our advice,
humbly but sincerely tendered, to unite with the
middle classes in demanding the repeal of the
Corn-laws.
The whole course of the debate and discussion

on that subject, both in Parliament and in the
newspapers, demonstrates that had the working
classes bestirred themselves in that cause it would
have been achieved. The main practical argument
of the landowners and the Tories was that the
repealers were not supported by the people. The
Tories kicked out Mr. VILLIERS' resolution be-
cause they had been told they had nothing to appre-
hend from the misled multitude, whose trade they
were destroying, and whose wives and families they
were consigning to poverty and starvation. Under
the influence and direction of persons who
are suspected of having been hired by the
Tories, but who, if they are not, could riot
have better served their cause, the working men
of England have lost an excellent opportunity of
achieving the freedom of industry. The extinction
of the Corn-laws would have been the annihilation
of the chief of those restraints which prevent the
inhabitants of England from prospering beyond all
other nations. We shall not, however, regret this
failure if its instruction be not lost on the working
classes. The error, happily for them, can be yet
retrieved. The Anti-Corn-law League is in full ope-
ration ; other motions to repeal the Corn-laws will be
made during the present Session, and if the work-
ing classes, beginning with the tin-canister men of Bir-
mingham and their representatives, will cordially and
uanimously rally round the Anti-Corn-law League,
which has now engraved on its banner the sacred
principle of FREEDOM OF INDUSTRY—if they will
unite and demand a repeal of the Corn-laws, that
may yet be carried. The landlords are terrified at
the very thought of the working men agitating the
subject, because on this point they are sensible of
their own weakness and the people's strength ;
justice is against them, and their own consciences
are against them ; and it depends at this moment
on the workmen of England, who must be convinced
that by the Convention they can get nothing, whe-
ther or not the landlords shall be compelled to give
up the most scoundrel, ruinous, and degrading tax
that ever was levied on a free people. If, however,
the workmen of England will turn aside from a sub-
stantial improvement to pursue a chimera, they
will convince their best friends that they are not yet
ripe to enjoy the blessings of freedom which they
despise.

THE SHAKSPERE CLUB.--, Ja, turd ay
members of the Shakspere Club gave a splendid enterteie,
ment to Mr. Macready, at the Piazza Coffze-house,
Covent-garden, to commemorate his great exertions in the
restoration and support of the legitirna!e drama. There
were present about fifty gentlemen, most of whom are as-
sociated with the literature and the fine arts of the country,
and some of them their brightest ornaments. Charles
Diekens, Esq. (Boz), was the Chairman, in the absence
of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, the President of the Club,
who is engaged on the Midland Circuit.
A Bristol Coal Company is in operation in
France, and the cur,iosity of the Parisians is not a little ex-
cited by the manner in which their business is managed.
The carts, horses, harness, fiec., bear an exact resemblance
to these in this city, and even the coal-heavers, with their
hats with the flap behind, and their long whips, differ in no
respect from their London prototypes. The coals are ex-
ported from Wales, and fetch 75 francs the 20 cwt.
ST. JANIES'S THEATRE.—This Theatre was
opened on Saturday evening, for the purpose of affording
a favoured few an opportunity cf witnessing the perfor-
mance of M. H. H. Schryer's celebrated company of
monkeys and dogs previous to their public debut, which
will take place this evening. The exhibition is certainly
an extraordinary one, and will no doubt attract as much
attention in this country as it has already done in Paris and
and others of the principle cities on the Continent. It is
difficult to conceive by what process of training the animals
have been brought to imitate humanity as they do. At a
supper party, at the toilet, in the riding academy, or in
military evolutions, the bombardment and capture of a
fort, they seem equally at home. They waltz, fight duels,
ride a la Ducrow, and jump a la Jim Crow, with extrem.
(finery propriety and decorum. We shall defer entering
into the details of their performances until they have ap-
peared publicly, which will be tl,i; evening,
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. last public supper
for the season took place last night ; when, in addition to
a numerous and brilliant party, his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge honoured the institution with his pre-
sence. The duty was read by the senior Grecian, Mr. It.
Andrews, after which the Easter anthem (the words by
Mr. H. S. Maine) was performed. His Royal Highness,
after partaking of refreshments at the Treasurer's residence,
left the Hospital highly gratified.
Workmen are employed in fizing a new gasome-
ter under the window of the library of the House of
Commons, preparatory to an attempt to light the house
with gas.
Nlendelssohn being invited by the Philharmonic
Directors to recommend to them one or two of the best
singers in Germany, mentioned Miss Clara Novelle) and
Mrs. Alfred Shaw. The Directors, who were expecting
some Fraulein von Donnerundblitzcn or Madlle. von Ho.
henstanfen, must have been astonished at the pleasantry of
recommending to them their own old familiar friends ; -
a serious and sober truth is at the bottom of it. —ilitteica,
ilroi Id.
NEW ERA IN AGLICULTURE.—A gentleman
just arrived fi.:rn Georgia, who has brought with him a
new colossal and prolific clover-aced from Bokbara, which
he is going to submit to Mr. Loudon. According, to the
accounts of the most celebrated travellers who have visited
that distant and important country, which is equ,.l in
climate to that of Great Britain, all grains, herbs, and ve-
getables distinguish themselves by their gigantic growth.
The clover seed just imported grows to the enormous
height of twelve to fifteen feet, and can be cut every
month. But this is not the only valuable property of this
most extraordinary production of the vegetable kingdom.
Out of the stem a hemp is prepared which is so highly
esteemed in the distant region of which it is a native, that
preference is given to it over all other sorts. Should
the plan succeed in England, and of which there can be
but little doubt, it will form a new era by rendering this
country independent of foreign supplies of clover-seed.
It is fortunate that it has arrived in time to be tri-cl th's
year. It must be sown in April. It is said that each
grain will produce 300,000 seeds.—Globe.