The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-17 00:00:00

iPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.

The calamitous event which has rendered the
spectacle of the Manchester RAilWay fatally me-
morable will be found deieribed in our columns of
to-day by various correspondents. Friuli the na-
ture of the injuries which Mr. Hushisson received,
there did not eppear' by the last accounts, any
ground for hopin that he could long survive the
accident, Indeed, a report has reached town that
the unfortunate gentleman, who had already under-
gmemptation, is no more I Still this may be a
premature aatteitmereekt of an event which appears
to be inevitable, It is onljeirweek or two since we
had the melancholy task of recording the untimely
death of another individual upon this too celebrated
railway. At the present moment, when the state of
Great Britain, anti of Lurope, requires all the et-
tendon of the ablest statesmanship to 'control and
direct to beoeficial .purposes the extra_ ordinary
events that are or daily occurrence, we thought
that the Premier of tegland might have beeo
better employed, than in indulging in the _ pa-
geantry which htss led to this mournful issue.
We like to see works of mechanical inge-
nuity and useful enterprise promoted by those who
have the means and influence to contribute to
their success; but there seemed always to be more
parade and ostentation connected with this railway
undertaking than was necessary to'recommend to
public patronage a work or substantial public utility.
There was too much of the " showman". about-it
to please our taste, and to this bet the. life of
Huskisson been unhappily, sacrifice‘ yhen Sbites-
men come forward to assist, by their countenance,
and support undertakings of a trading company,
they should take care to distinguish between. that
sort of patronage which can only have the effect of
enhancing, for a time, the value of shares, and that
which really promotes the practical success of works.
Surely if the Manchester railway is calculated to
realize all the advantages, in a mercantile point of
view, which are said to be its necessary conse-
quence, it did not require the system of
" puffing" which has been for a long time
past pursued with regard to it in the
_provincial
and some of the London papers. 'rite most
stupendous public works of our homely and ho-
nest fort father* recommended themselves by their
merits to the good sense and right judgment of the
nation which they benefitted and adorned ; but, ever
since the joint-stock era exhibitions, pageantry, and '
puffing, with regard to enterprises of science and
commerce, are in more favour than they ought to be
among a sober and reflecting people. If the Duke
of Wellington had leisure time, as it appears he had,
tom the cares and business of state, why did he not
employ it in visiting the abodes f the distressed
manufacturers, and in perambulating the tracts of
country from which the petitions of the complaining
agriculturists had been poured .into Parliament of
late years ? He' would then have seen with his
own eyes whether the statements that were made of
the suffering and misery of the industrious classes in
the last Session of Parliament, in particular, were
exaggerated or not ; and, if he found that they
had not exceeded the truth, be would have
known how to rebuke and silence the taunts,
and sneers, and flippant levity of those syco-
phants of power who treated the miseries of the people
with acorn, and turned front their petitions with
cold disdain. But the Duke had eyes for nothing
but the indications of national prosperity I De
looked at railways and canals, and extensive piles of
brick and mortar, and told the assembled Senate
that these things furnished abundant evidence. of
the country being hi a most flourishing condition ;
but he had not visited the dilapidated farm-house—
the ruined cot—the hovel of the mendicant labourer
and starving artizan, where no longer were to be
seen thelreces of .".a bold peasantry, their country's
pride," but the squalid family of him, who " rose
early and lay down late, Olio! ate the bread.ol.care-
fulness," surpassing. in the cineunstaneea of misery
ell that pathetic fiction has described\ of human
wretchednese. These were the scenes in which an
able and humane Statesman might have learned
useful truths—such truths as would have taught
him to endeavour to repair, by a wholesome policy,
the evils which those who had an interest in de-
ceiving him denied—.such truths as he could not
learn amid the glitter arid pomp of sumptuous ban-
euets and gaudy processions. There he saw only
the bright side of the picture, and obstinately ad-
tiered to a system which wisdom rejects and huma-
nity deplores I—Morning Herald.
Some of our contemporaries have endeavoured to
depreciate the courage of the Belgians, and ridi-
culed them, partly by broad assertions of their own
and partly by their Brussels correspondence, which,
from its invariable partiality, and general 'gnomee
of the eubiect, appears to be of home manufacture.
The Belgians have ever been famous for their
human. belligucuse. Without going beck to the re.
cords of Roman history, which extols the valour of
the Belgian cavalry on many occasions, and particle.
lady for the protection it afforded to the Roman
legions on their disastrous retried from Persia, tinder
Caw, we need only striven to the high renown
the Walloon regiments acquired in the Austrian
service during the lute revolutionary French \ver,
these facts being perfectly within the recollection of
the present generation, with the exception of only
very young men, young politicians, and some news-
paper correepondents, whose recollections are, per-
halm, es limited as their reading. The regiment of
Latour dragoons) served with the greatest distinc-
tion, and was long the terror of the French army.—
Your times was this regiment renovated during the
campeigus between 170 and 1801, every officer and
men having bees either killed or put hors de combat, it
being always indulged with the post of honour--that
ie,the poet neereet to the enemy. The Belgian infantry
was equally celebrated, and not °wily their regular re.
glments of foot in the Imperial service, but even the
contingent of the Ecclesiastical Prince of Liege,under
Colonel Weatieige, fought most gallantly upon all
occasions, op-Wally at the celebrated lines of 'Weise
iseribourg, Many of the best Austrian Generals
were Belgians. (letters! Clairefait, Beaulieu, Bel-
',garde, and Prince de Ligne, to wit ; and the re-
giment of Duke Albert of Saxe Tesehen, one of the
diets cuirassier regiments in the Austrian army, wag
—etreemit-44 anti officered from Belgium as well as that
or Bosse Cheeseurs a Cheval, who suffered so much
NI their charges on the Consular Guard at Marengo,
bed been recruited ire Belgium. On the other haed,.
let us imoire into the testimony of facts as to the
warlike spirit of the modern Dutch' either far titans..
selves or for any one else. In 1701, aed 1794 the
:French overran all Holland, and scone gioiat
fired. In 1799 the Texel fleet struck tee regiment
of English dragoons, and the Ai-10°4111001mi army
gdagneed to Wain seven leagues of Amsterdam,
the flativierei retreatiegbefore them, till s French
force hastened from the Upper Rhine, by forced
;flambee, to their assistance, and turned the Outline
of the campaign; and, afterwards, when the Beta.
visits for Med separate corps in tIM Frentth army,
under General Pemmican, anti even tinder Marshal,
Augeresu, the Duke at Castiglione himself, they
Rem achieved any brilliant fait:d'armes ; for Napo-
litie,,Who knew how to form a very correct jutlg-
realdotit intrunted them with any military opee-
atklDtatcansntjuence. As to the patriotism of the
hs. inhabitants of this classical land of
liPorY-e4eild gunpowder to Louis XIV. so blow
their-own towns about their ears, hatter satisfied to
turns penny its this way than to drivers trade in un-
profitable patriotism.—Morning Herald,

''l “ hitter rrOM a naval officer, who signs
blin"11 "C. N. N.:' m subject of great national
import/thee, viz. th 4nittotil viola ofa legalized code
of regohstitios for the discipline of British seamen
engaged in the triercitent.servieo of their counq.
Some of the police reports have exhibited within
these few day*, ss picture of the relittiOliff teed csfners,
lilt we ere told, subtristing between the officers of
East India Company's ships tad their settee*,
which it wee impossible to look et without diaglifit
at the system, or without iwrious alto rn forits cop-
sequences to the welftre. It appease than
on oo d tlitue Vtilifikbit rotrobvit.ibipsi and its