The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-26 00:00:00

dining to take the oaths gent by others, and: read in
the Chamber itself, contained sentiments of :the
same kind as that' of M. de Kergorlay's, though not
,o fully developed or so boldly expressed. This fact,
et least, should plead the apology of the two journal-
ists, and secute for them a great mitigation of the pro-
posed punishment,if not an ahsoluteacquittal. 'We ate
willing at the same time to allow that the Noble Peer
deserves no favour from his judges on account of his
respectful treatment of their authority, and no
pardon from, his Sovereign from any, professions
of incipient loyalty. The language of his speech
was more offensive than that of his letter--his de-
fence was an aggravation of his etime. His contu-
macious' wertion of his former doctrines, with illus-
trations which increased their seditious tendency,
would make the trial more dangerous than the libel,
if the Court should show an ill-timed lenit)% Can
it be tolerated that a man standing before his judges
on a charge of attacking the constitutional authority
Of the King, should insultingly call that King the
" son of o,regicide," and, say, that if a free choice
were allowed between him and the " God-lent"
Duke of Bordeaux, the Crown would fall to the
latter ? With what feelinge must his judges ,have
heard, that under various pretexts they had abjured
the oaths which he (the Count) was only accused
of holding sacred ? The sentence was to be pro.
()minced on Tuesday. On occasion of passing the
definitive accounts of 1828 and 1829, M. de Mar=
tignac took an opportunity of entering on a defence
of the Ministry of which he was the head. The
P;x-Minister was listened to with a favourable at-
tention, .and seems to have acquired fresh claims to
general confidence. His Administration found a re-
ciprocal distrust existing between the people and
the throne, which tended to undermine the social
edifice, and they endeavoured to reconcile. them.
The result of their efforts was favourable to the
tranquillity and prosperity of the country, and they
hid the consolation to think " that their Adminis-
tration was neither dangerous to the throne, nor
menacing to the public liberties."—Times.

We regret to say, that we cannot yet congratu-
late either ourselves or the country on the renewed
tranquillity of 'the diriturbed parts, though we can-
not perceive, upon the whole, that the mischief in-
creases; and exaggeration Is certainly most busily
at work. In many places, the rioters have turned
to mere robbers—highway: robbers—and demanded
money this at least is a capital offence, to be
punished by death. We hear from all parts, that
there has been a very great deal of weakness at
least displayed by people in the better stations of
life, whose timely resistance, mingled with kindne,s,
persuasion, and sincere promisee, would-have-pres
vented the infatuated mobs from proceeding farther
in ceases which can only end in their own ruin.
From our souls, however, we compassionate the poor
creatures whose first stimulant to break the laws
was want. The " people in the better stations of
life," of whom we have spoken above, are not wholly
without blame bere...And in general we may observe
that those who, in their public assemblages as Ma-
gistrates or landowners, have been the most zealous
in forming " resolutions" that they would not yield
even just remunerating prices for the labourer's toil
under n system of intimidation, have bet n the most
ready
,to give up that which the rioter had no right to
demand, namely, their purses, under the influence of
pure fear. With respect to the destruction of
thrashing-maebittee, the infuriated creatures who
commit this outrage do not perceive that thrashing.
machines are their best security and ours against
sudden rises in the Corn-market. Towards the
close of the autumn, in particular, the price of grain
usually mounts: up on account of the exhausted state
of lust year's crop by the thrashing-machine the
new corn is brought to market with a rapidity that
could not take place under the !Watery operation of
manual process, and the prices instantly fall. But
we are to lay aside thrashing-machines, why are
we oet,tilso to throw away the flail, and suffer the
" unmuzzled ex" to tread out the grain, as under
the Mosaic law ? Besides, grain may, in all eases,
be afforded cheaper to the consumer in proportion es
the expense in dressing it is' diminished ; neither has
the threshingsmachine superseded thrashing by the
hand. In the disturbed and uncertain state of the
market, the methenicid process undoubtedly has the
' advantage; but in is tranquiland ordinary state the
labourer or teskor goes on thrashing in the barn.—
His work is preferable, and for this obvious cause
that the machine spoils the straw ; and wheat-straw,
.besides being indispensable for thatching and other
home-purposes, is a-very important article of sale in
the markets of London and all the great towns. We
conjure the labourers' to whom these remarks
may be read, to cease from their present ruinous
outrages; and, above all, not to give themselves up
to leathers who are not of their body, who have laid
no common sufferingi with them; and have now no
common cause with them. And we entreat farmers
and landlords to consider. the case of the poor
labourer in hisni (finery state..a.to think of his stem.
"rig: family and illsrequited toil—of the game laws,
the poor hews, the parish rates appropriated to his
pay, the hireling overseer, the insolent bailiff, and
all the traps and gins' whieh are laid for his:liberty,
and have at last sunk into the dcgradid being
that hale new, rattiest reckless of his own life' and
the lives of other:. Our readers will no doubt have
been struck by the prucedings et .Riogmer, in
guestx, contained in our journal of yesterday, from
whence it appeared that Lord Gage had had many
men working et hedging and ditching on his estate,
from dayslight to (link; for two shillings a week, and
that they had been sent to the parish fur other three,
malthig; in the whole; five shillings a week!! I Lord
Gage said he was ignorant of these circumstances,
bet would ask his steward. We have only to say
Otis statement be true, the first thing that
Lard'Oege, tito ep honest man, has to do, is to go
to those poor labourerg )vlio have been thin; atro-
ciously robbed of their hard pareinge, and make up
the two shillings to twelve ehiiiitiga a week, during
all the time they have worked for him; and.the
next thing is to drive the steward from his house
with hisses and hootinga, The misery of the pea-
santry in the lower parts of liieriAlte is described
to us as exceeding all credibility; anti we liestojestete
with the Royston postsmerk, 'speaking of a family,
of Many mend;ere, on the borders of CaMbridge-
shire and Hertfordibir4thei have raised theMselves
from penury to wealth,. entirely by grinding the
faces of the poor." What an expreesom l 'few
forcible 1 Grinding the faces of the poor !" How,
ever, we rejoice-to sat that wages are every where
rising and but too requeriat by the good will of
the farmer, and in spite of the magiatraey..-sfsrimec

We hope it is a calumny against the King of the
Netherlands whirr!) has been put forth in a Belgium.
Paper, stating that $4: the. Pinch intended to destroy
Antwerp as soon O. they shall hays learned that
the Congress has pronounced the exclusion pf the,
Monte pf Nassau from all power in. Belgium ; and
that, to carry this into effect, General Chasse was
preparing furnaces to beat red-hot bulls 1" if the
King of the Netherlands he calialdepf giving orders
for the execution of such a diabolical act of for•
tent resionge, be must hare a hennas wicked as his
head is weak. There are two triodes of carrying
on war; one, after the toc.tiver of barbarians—and
the other, according to the rules ciyilized nit-
dons, Barbarians delight in rendering war as I;or.
tilde us potiailibr infl'cting unnecessary cruelty on
all'who are ineapai42 of offering resistance, and, by
indulging in the exterminat;oo of fire and sword,
withotg reference to any better or nobler object
than the immediate gratification of a wild reeelige,
But it is not of Ow' spirit of civilized war to
slaughter and, destroy merely for the sake of de.
struption. The-calamities which it incid;mt4ly in•
filets up... mankind must he its pursuance of some
plan of ia-Atilities .--oipst an armed foe, the object
of which is v:ctoty, Can tile 1';1,o0 of the Nether-
lamb expect to conquer Belgium by lay;ng
wcrp ipt No; he does not pretend that
it 1,011 have any..sAch effee:. On the contrary,
lie kijows that to perpettate aunt a crime will
extinguish, any; spark of hope he might 'still
volertnin of the Belgians ryturning under his
dynasty. Whet objett thin could he have in view