The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-24 00:00:00

OUTRAGE ON MR. O'CONNELL.

In reference to the fearful and most disgraceful scene which tenni-
ria•ed the meeting of the employers and operatives at the Royal Ex-
change, in Dublin, on Saturday last, which is noticed in another part
of The Sun by our private correspondent, the Freeman says, " The most
terrific imprecations were yelled from several parts of the room, while
-Mr. O'Connell was assailed with the most opprobious epithets, such as,
Ha, ha, tyrant,"—" Ah ah, beggerman"—" Big beggarman"—" Be-
trayer of his country"—and, when the Hon. and Learned Gentlembn
was about t• leave the room, a fearful rush took place from the tables
where the trades had placed themselves towards the spot where Mr.
O'Connell was. The scene was really awful at this moment—it was
thought they intended to assault the Hon. and learned gentleman,
and the impression communicated itself like an electric spark. In
a moment numbers rushed to his assistance--but the Hononrable
and Learned Gentleman stood perfectly calm, evincing not the
least symptom of fear; and when he had adjusted his cloak, walked
out of the room amid the cheers of the people, and the groans
cf the trades. Fortunately for the trades themselves, and for the
character of Irishmen, no violence was offered to the person of Mr.
O'Connell, although we are free to confess that when the rush was
r...:ade it was generally believed such had been the intention. As soon
as the Lord Mayor and Mr. O'Connell had gone, the trades proposed
forming themselves into a counter meeting, and subsequently abandoned
the intention. Mr. O'Connell, on going into his carriage, -was enthu-
siastically cheered, mingled with a few groans from some of the trades.
men who were scattered through the crowd.
" We cannot believe that the intelligent tradesmen of Dublin were
represented at the meeting on Saturday. We cannot believe that even
a small proportion of our operatives have any community of feeling or of
interest with those men. Of this, however, we are convinced, that if the
individuals who acted as leaders or ringleaders, on the occasion, were au-
thorised by the general body to play the parts they did, the public will
be led to the inevitable conclusion, that the tendency of the system with
which they have identified themselves is outrage, and violence, and
crime. We say this with deep regret, because we are of those who
freely admit that the Operatives have a moral and natural right to sus-
tain the price of labour by every means not directly prohibited by law ;
but the conviction has been forced on us by the violent and infuriated
demeanour of the ruffians who attempted to lay hands on the father and
saviour of his country on Saturday last. Oh, Sirs, the system must be a
vicious and demoralising one which impels Irishmen not alone to forget
the services of Daniel O'Connell, but which actually prompts them to
Insult and injure a man whose whole life has been spent in one continued
effort to serve and elevate them. Mr. O'Connell believes that the present
system of combination if not the sole, is the principal cause of the
/decline of trade in Dublin. He believes it be alike ruinous to the em-
pkler and the employed—and, believing this. he endeavours to effect
ouch .an alteration as he thinks would be mutually advantageous. Mr.
O'Connell may be mistaken—but, surely he deserves credit, at least,
for good intentions. His past services and sacrifices entitle him to the
confidence of his countrymen ; he has already given sufficient proofs of
devotion to their interests. The wisdom of his course may be impugned,
but the purity of his motives is above suspicion. Supposing him even
.wrong, he was entitled to a patient and respectful hearing—but, suppos-
lim right, the denial of it was unpardonable."
On the same subject the Pilot has the following remarks :
_ _ _

The scene of shameful and unreasoning violence at the meeting on
satu.'day would go to prove a worse spirit in combination than Mr.
tyco, nell had attributed to it, and would serve to enlist in ardent hos-
tiwy so the system many who would be otherwise moderate. But we
shuuld lx' sorry to suppose that spirit met the approbation of the respect-
able portion of the tradesmen. There was an Orange feeling at bot.
tom, adding brutality and bigotry to the selfishness of combination—
and this feeling availed itself of the momentary excitement of the
:spirit of monopoly in labour, to avenge itself on O'Connell for
his long and persevering efforts to crush monopoly iu politics.
'his is Mr. O'Connell's real crime—a crime which will, with his
oil enemies, not tse forgiven, because, in this instance, his ob-
ea tions against thiv one monopoly, happens to chime in with
.the interests and feelings of some of them. The Orange
a I. onwill still hate him—nay, hate to him supersedes even now the
of ci. rrence in the particular case, and this hate has been the source
QC the assassin manifestations of the meeting, and no wonder it should
!thus tell, when murder has had sympathy in the Orange press, and in
Courts of ,Ju,ssiele, cause he was the person who opposed the system
lOC Ai too often - * the crime. Mr. O'Connell was able, courageous,
Lrlght on. principle ring this struggle. But we think, and thought
along be has throWilluch valuable- time away. He should have
a content to recoath opinion—to lift his warning voice, and then
Ahc•rest be done by seeiety, reflection, necessity, and competition.
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LONDON :
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1836.

In the HOUSE of LORDS last night, the only public business
transacted was the following:-The Duchess of KENT'S Annuity
Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord RIPON pre-
sented a Bill for coutinuir... the Bishopric of Sodor and Mann.
Lord BRIM:MUNI ,resented three petitions : the object of the
two first petitions (one of which was adopted at a meeting
held in Birmingham consistinc, of upwards of 5,000 persons)
is th:.: enforcement of the conditions' upon which Parliament
voted twenty millions of pounds as a compensation to slay e-
owners upon the abolition of Negro Slaveey. The other pe-
tition presented by the Noble and Learned Lord prayed for
improvement in the law of Debtor and Creditor, and espe-
cially for giving creditors increased facilities in proceeding
against debtors who had removed abroad. On the motion
of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, farther papers relative to Canada
wore ordered.

In the HOUSE of Commoss Mr. Lucas obtained leave to
bring in a Bill to improve the conacre tenure in Ireland.
A snies of resolutions relative to private Bilis was agreed
to on the motion of Mr. P. THOMSON. The resolutions are
in conformity with the decision of the Committee that sat on
the subject last year.
The adjourned debate on the committal of the Canada Bill
was then resumed : it occupied the House till past two o'clock.
The motion that the Bill be committed was carried, against
Mr. HOME'S amendment that it be committed " this day six
months," by a majority of 246—the numbers being 262 and 16.
On a division cord JOHN RUSSELL'S succeeding motion
that the Canada Bill take precedence of all Notices of Motion
on Thursday next was also carried by a large majority.

The New York Packet of the Ist inst. was off Holy-
head yesterday afternoon, so that it is possible we may re-
ceive news from Canada, a week later, this evening.

The Parliamentary triumph of Ministers upon the
Canada question is now complete. Supported by the
Tories, and even a considerable section of the moderate
Radicals, it rests entirely with them to take what steps
they please with a view to the future administration of the
affairs of the Colonists. The divisions of last night must
show the hopelessness of future opposition to the Minis-
terial Bill ; but that consideration shall not deter us from
denouncing it as a most inefficient measure—as a measure
which (unless greatly modified) will have the effect of
eventually widening the breach between the Province of
Lower Canada and the Mother-country. That the Go-
vernment plan of pacification is preposterous requires no
stronger evidence than appears on the very surface of
it. Thus the Earl of DURHAM is to be sent out as a
Dictator, with the restriction of only summoning
as a council of advice, six Legislative Councillors,
and twenty Members of the Legislative Assemblies, from
which Council his Lordship is to acquire all the ne-
cessary information on the subject of the abuses, Legisla-
tive and Administrative, in both Provinces. Now, can
anything be conceived more absurd than this restriction
of Councillors ? Wherefore restrict -the Noble Earl to any
given number ? Wherefore not allow him to summon a
thousand persons to his assistance should he deem their
opinion necessary in the progress of his inquiries ? Be-
sides, what can be more preposterous than fixing the bodies
by the opinions of the members of any portion of which
Lord DURHAM is to have his judgment influenced? The
British Parliament is already in full possession of the sen-
timents of the different parties in the Legislative
Councils, and the Houses of Assembly, respecting the
grievances to be redressed, and the Reforms demanded
in the Canadas—so that gravely to propose a further in-
quiry confined wholly to them is preposterous. Were the
Supreme Government to judge it necessary to define and
fix a mode for ascertaining the real feelings and opinions of
the Canadians, respecting a modification Of the old, or the
framing of a new Constitution, the only rational plan would
be by a general election of delegates for that purpose, in
which every district or parish in the colony would be fairly
represented. But if such a scheme be objected to, as sa-
vouring too strongly of Republicanism, in the name of jus•
tice, leave the hands of the Noble Earl unrestricted.
Let not the Noble Lord be fettered by Parliament or
the Government in the discharge of duties for which his
country and posterity will hold him alone responsible.
Allow him to call whom, and as many as he
pleases, to assist him with advice, and leave it
to himself to determine where, when, and in wha
form and manner such advice may be tendered
Lord DURHAM, to acquire any knowledge of the state of
public feeling in ;Lower Canada, unknown to the Parlia-
ment of this country, roust not confine his personal obser-
vation to the state of things in Montreal and Quebec ; nor
his social intercourse to the official clique who monopolize
the ear of every Chief Governor. He must see with his
own eyes, hear with his own ears, and in deciding, abide
by the conclusion to which the exercise of his own sound
understanding may lead him. Above all, it will be neces-
sary that his Lordship's power to exercise the Royal pre-
rogative of mercy be unlimited, as well as the means placed
at his disposal to curb the licentiousness of the victorious
Royalists. The excesses already committed by the QUEEN'S
troops in the Lower Province have excited a strong feel-
ing in favour of the insurgents in various districts of the
United States. We select from the Albany Evening Jour-
nal, received yesterday, an extract from a leading article on
this subject, to which we respectfully invite the attention
of all who desire the tranquillization of our colonial fellow-
suhjects :
The public sympathy and the popular feelings are with the Patriots
These cannot be repressed. And yet our relations with England are of
a character so amicable as to impose the strictest neutrality upon us.
With these views we have thus far pursued a course dictated by con-
victions of duty. We cannot promise, however, to remain long indif.
ferent, if the Royalists continue their sanguinary mode of warfare. De-
fenceless villages may not be burned with impunity. Fires thus kindled
will blaze higher and burn longer than the incendiaries contemplate.
This is not the age for oppressors to pierce the hearts of the oppressed.
The Government officers are pushing their advantages too far. There
is
a principle in human nature which rulers are slow to comprehend.
Men fight most desperately when driven to extremities.
The Government is not so clearly right, nor the Revolutionists so
palpably wrong, as to warrant the rigorous course pursued. If a majo-
rity of the citizens of Canada are in favour of governing themselves,
there is nothing worthy of death or bonds" in the expression of that
opinion. Nor was it in accordance with the spirit of the times for the
Royalists to mob and destroy the presses which ventured to discuss this
question.

If the lessons taught by our revolution have been forgotten in

England, that Government will assuredly lose its Canadian provinces.
The Tory presses in Canada are thirsting for blood. " The Gallows,"
says a Toronto paper, " is impatient for its prey, and will speedily have
carrion in abundance." Should the Government venture to try and
hang for treason, its power to wreak such vengeance will be short-lived.
The moment the Royalists condemn citizens to the " gallows" for poli-
litical offences, a warfare will be commenced which must terminate in
the independence of Canada.
The New York Courier and Inquirer, commenting upon
some extracts from the Canadian Tory Journals, calling for
the sanguinary punishment of all who participated in the
rebellion, has the following striking observations, not more
indicative of the general feeling in the United States, than
that which we are truly happy to say, now prevails in every
part of Great Britain and Ireland :
If the punishment of the insnrgents is followed up in the cold.
blooded policy which is recommended there can be little reason to doubt
on which side the symyathies of civilization will ultimately attach.
As the blood of religious martyrs was the seed •f the Church,
the blood of political martyrs—misled, mistaken, infatuated though
they may be—is the seed of revolution and independence. The
day has gone by for the sanguinary enforcement of such claims as those
of Great Britain in her colonies. The insurrection is now in all proba.
bility crushed. Let not the British Government light a spark in its
ashes that shall rekindle the flame that is extinguished. But when the
Tory journals talk so freely of the " halter" and the " scaffold," and
"fattening men for the gallows," they embody sentiments which cannot
fail to excite all the sympathies of humanity in behalf of even an ill-
timed and unjustifiable popular insurrection.
In conclusion, we repeat there ought to beano limit to the
temporary power of the Earl of DURHAM, and no Go-
vernment regulation of the way in which he should be per-
mitted to exercise it, unless it be proposed to summon a
Congress of Delegates to propose the plan of a new Con-
stitution. As there can be no divided responsibility, there
should be no division of the power with the Colonial-office.
As for the Radical Members who have hitherto opposed
the Ministerial Bill, they must now be convinced
that further opposition can only be injurious—in-
asmuch as it will but excite bad feelings, and,
unnecessarily waste' the time of the House of Com-
mons. They have put their opinions upon record ; and
seeing their weakness in point of numbers, they should
remember that there is other business for the Pafliament
to do as well as legislate upon Canada. Much valuable
time has already been lost in a contest of which we fore-
told the result—while lamenting it—several weeks before
its commencement.

Subjoined is an '':Extract" from a Dispatch from Lord
GLENELG to the Earl of DURHAM, relative to the Govern-
ment of the Canadas, dated the 'L'Oth Inst., and just printed
by order of the House of Commons. It is certainly among
the least intelligible of the " Elegant Extracts" submitted
by the Noble Colonial Secretary for the laudation
of the Parliamentary supporters of her MAJESTY'S Mi-
nisters. The tact with which the Noble Secretary blends
up with his official instructions the main provisions of a
Bill, which has not yet passed through one branch of the
Legislature, convinces us that he is not asleep to
the importance of being before band with the Par-
liament. Now this is really being a little too
soon ; and out of respect to the deliberative wisdom of
the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Noble Secretary,
iu withholding any part of the despatch, should have with-
held that part in which he anticipated the passing of
the Ministerial Bill without amendment by fixing the
composition of the Earl of DuatiAm's Colonial Council of
Advice. There is a cool assurance about this part of the
" Extract" which has rarely been stirpassed even in a Minis-
terial capacity. As to the despatch itself, it is enough to
say that we repudiate the idea of tying up the hands of
Lord DURHAM by instructions from the Colonial Office :

In order to lay the ground fur the p rmanant settlement of the
questions which agitate Lower Canada, and also of those which create
divisions between Upper and Lower Canada, it will probably be four.d
necessary to resort to some legis'ative measures of a comprehensive na-
ture. But benne such measures can be framed and submitted to Par-
liament, it would be highly desirable to ascertain the wishes and opinions
of the people of both provinces regarding them.
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This object could best be attained by a personal communication on
your part with such persons selected from each Province as may be pre-
sumed from their station, character, and influence, to represent the feel-
ings of their fellow-countrymen in general. It seems advisable,
therefore, to authorize your lordship, if yon should so think fit, to cail
around you a certain number of such persons, with whom you might
take counsel on the most important affairs of the two Provinces ; the
time of meeting of such a Committee of advice being left entirely to
your discretion. You are, therefore, empowered to select three mem-
bers from the Legislative Council of Upper Canada to attend such meet-
ing ; and to invite the House of Assembly of Upper Canada to nominate
ten of its members for the same purpose. Under ordinary circumstances
the same course would be pursued with respect to the Legislature of
Lower Canada. But if the Bill now before Parliament should be
passed into a law. recourse must be had, during the suspension of that
Legislature, to another mode of supplying the deficiency.
You will, accordingly, during such suspension, select three members
of the body at present composing the Legislative Council, and will
take measures for calling on the electors in each of the five districts
into which Lower Canada is now divided, to erect two persons to sit in
the Committee. Your lordship can obviate any difficulty which may
stand in the way of holding such elections by r.n Ordinance for this
purpose to be passed by the authority of the Governor in Council.
The Committee will thus consist of twenty-six members, over whose
deliberations you will of course preside.
The Committee being thus formed, you will bring before them the
subjects on which you desire to receive their opinion and advice.
Among the most important of these are the questions in debate between
the two Canadian provinces.
In the last Session, both Houses of Parliament passed a resolution,
" That great inconvenience has been sustained by his Majesty's subjects
inhabiting the Provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, from the
want of some adequate means for regulating and adjusting questions re-
specting the trade and commerce of the said Provinces, and divers other
questions wherein the said Provinces have is common interest ; and it is
expedient that the Legislatures of the said Provinces respectively be
authorized to make provision for the joint regulation and adjustment of
such their common interests."

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It is clear that some plan must be devised to meet the just demands
of Upper Canada. It will be for your Lordship, in conjunction with the
Committee, to consider if this should not be done by constituting some
joint legislative authority, which should preside over all questions of
common interest to the two Provinces, and which might be appealed to
in extraordinary cases to arbitrate between contending parties in either;
preserving, however, to each Province its distinct Legislature, with
authority in all matters of exclusively domestic concern. If this should
be your opinion, you will have further to consider what should be the
nature and limits of such authority, and all the particulars which
ought to be comprehended in any scheme for its establishment.
The Constitutional Act of 1791 will supply another subject of de.
liberation with a view to determine what measures may safely be taken
to correct the defects which have hitherto interfered, at least in the
Lower Province, with its successful working, The Constitution of the
Legislative Council has formed the chief topic of complaint with the
House of Assembly of Lower Canada, and they have insisted that the
only remedy is to be found in making the Council elective. On this
subject the following Resolution was last year passed by both Houses of
Parliament: " That in the existing state of Lower Canada, it is unad-
visable to make the Legislative Council of that Province an elective body,
but it is expedient that measures be adopted for securing to that branch
of the Legislature a greater degree of public confidence."
It will be for you and the Committee to consider in what manner the
udgment thus pronounced by,Parliament can best be carried into effect.
'There are other very important subjects regarding which you will
probably think it right to consult the same advisers--such, for example,
as the provision that should be made to meet the necessary expenses of
the Civil Government in Lower Canada—the state of the law affecting
the tenure of landed property in that Province—the establishment of a
Court for the trial of appeals and impeachments. There is, in truth,
not one of the many interesting questions relating to the good govern-
ment and well-being of tie two Canadas,
which might not very properly
engage the attention of the Committee.

On all the subjects which I have specified, and on others which may
come under the notice of the Committee, your Lordship will
have to recommend the adoption of some legislative measures in this
country. You will transmit to me an explanation of such measures in
the fullest detail, in order that the Government may consider of the pro.
priety of submitting them to Parliament. probably
You are authorised to 5x the times an d place; of the meetings of the
Committee, to adjourn them from time to time, and to frame all regu
lations necessary for the despatch of business. You are also empowered
to dissolve the Committee at your pleasure.

We bad occasion to notice, a few days ago, the disin-
genuous conduct of Sir ROBERT PEEL with respect to the
Canada question. Monday night: afforded another example
of that slipperiness of principle which hu so often betrayed
the Right Honourable Baronet into an " untoward " posi-
tion. The great leader of the Opposition, as every one
knows, is and has long been trying to stand well with two
parties—to follow
.that sly hypocritical course in politics
which is expressed, in sporting language by the phrase to
run with the hare and hold with the hounds." Sir ROBERT
has sometimes advocated measures really and truly liberal,
but the whole merit of such advocacy has been neutralized
either by the illiberality of the principles on which it was
conducted, or by some countervailing sacrifice made to ap-
pease the offended idol of Toryism. Thus the last ten
years of the Right Honourable Baronet's life have been
spent in a state somewhat resembling that of a dancer on
the tight rope, whose constant ,a!tention is fixed upon the
artificial means of support which he derives from the
balance pole—without which, he would be in imminent
danger of tumbling either on the one side or the other.
There is no doubt this little difference in the case of the
two candidates for popular favour—that we admire the dex-
terity of the one, as much as we despise that of the other.
But to return to the exhibition of Monday night. Sir
RosiEwr gave notice that he would move, in Committee,
on the Canada Bill, " the omission, from the Preamble,
of all reference to instructions stated to have been
issued
herNIAJ E SoTfY t fpoprey.suamnmd onLinogwer Canada,
a meeting
within
consisting of persons to be appointed by her MAJESTY,
tbhye Provinces
or on her MAJESTY'S behalf, and of certain other
persons representing
• the interests and opinions of
her MAJESTY'S subjects inhabiting the said provinces;"
and also, " the omission of the clause which enables
her MAJESTY, with the advice of her MAJESTY'S Privy
Council, to repeal the enactments of the. present Bill,
should it pass into a law." We suppose, from the high
Tory import of these motions, the Right Hon. Baronet
has some scheme in view for the execution of which he is
anxious to rally round him the whole strength of the party.
The first clause objected to has for its object to secure for
the Canadians something like a representative voice in the

Council of the Governor-General. How far it may be
practically successful we cannot tell ; but the intention is
good. It is, in fact, too good—it smacks too much of
liberality for the would-be Premier's political frame of
mind for the time being, and therefore he op-
poses it. The other clause we can easily suppose
to be still more unpalatable to a Tory stomach.
The Bill humanely provides that the suspension of the
Canadian Constitution shall continue no longer than
the absolute necessity of the case may require ; and it
therefore invests her MAJESTY in Council with the power
of repealing its enactments, the very first moment that that
necessity ceases to exist. Now, what does Sir ROBERT'S
motion say ? Simply this :—" Lay what restrictions you
please upon the Canadians—the more severe the better—
you shall have my approbation, my cordial support, my
most energetic assistance, and that of all my party ; but
if you falter in your coercive career—if you show any
touch of humanity, or abate one jot of the allotted measure
of punishment—if you infuse a single drop of mercy into
the cup of judgment, you shall have my uncompromising
opposition." This is an excellent illustration of Toryism—
a genuine reflection of its spirit.
Sir ROBERT PEEL is too well versed in political chi-
canery either to avow the motives by which he is actuated
in endeavouring to get the obnoxious clauses expunged
from the Bill, or to drop the least hint as to the inevitable
effect of the success of his endeavours. From his speech
of last night we gather that he means to act fully up to the
estimate which the public have formed of his character,
by shielding himself under the pretext that all this zeal on
his part to make the Bill as tyrannical as possible, and con.
sequently to make the Ministers who enforc:, it as hateful as
as possible to the people of Canada, is entirely free from any
admixture of party feeling, and springs from that pure and
ardent love of Constitutional Liberty which burns in his
breast ! Happy man ! Most fortunate of Statesmen !
Wonderful tactician !—to be able to balance his principles
so nicely as to take credit for liberality, while he is serving
the cause of despotism.

Mr. WAKLEY'S motion relative to the Glasgow Cotton
Spinners, will, in all probability, not come on before next
week. We see, by an Edinburgh paper, that the convicts
have been hurried off from Scotland, and are to be trans-
ported without delay. Why this breathless haste? How-
ever bad the crimes of which they were convicted by a ma-
jority of one, if an inquiry is to take place, and their peti-
tion is to be heard, why should they ❑ot have the benefit of
anything that may turn up in their favour?

As the Canadian Bill will to a certainty be carried, the
paramount duty of the friends of the Canadians is to use
every means to render it as little offensive:and as liberal as
the unsettled state of the country will admit. If the
House of Commons wish to make it a Bill of pains and
penalties only, they will follow the advice of Sir ROBERT
PEEL. They will not enact that the Governor General
shall consult a certain number of the representatives in
drawing up a plan for the Constitution, afterwards to be
referred to the consideration and final decision of the
Imperial Parliament, but leave every thing to the arbitrary
will of a Dictator, and they will enact that the Sovereign
in Council shall not have the power to suspend the Act.
Were a Bill of this sort to be passed, a GOVERNOR might
be sent out holding political opinions the very reverse of
those of Lord Duramst, and supposing such an event to
occur—for the dismissal of Lord MELBOURNE in 1834, was
equally improbable—would the Canadians pay the slightest
regard to any recommendations that might be forwarded to
the Government from such a quarter? The plan for
remodelling the Constitution and settling differences ami-
cably, would be vitiated at the very source—there would
be universal dissatisfacticn and distrust—the people
might be kept quiet by force, but they would be utterly
alienated from the British Crown and British Par-
liament. But really it is preposterous to suppose that even
the present House of Commons could act such an absurd
part. Sir ROBERT PEEL evidently knows not to what
hand to turn. He even is unacquainted with the Bill, and
argued last night at great length against a provision which
Lord JOHN RUSSELL told him it did not contain. He
joins Lord BROUGHAM in blaming Ministers for not send-
ing out a larger force, and consequently sets up his opinion
against that of the Duke of WELLINGTON. For a fort-
night he has been hesitating what course to take ; he has
made up his mind at last to the most despotic, and let all
who prefer violent measures to conciliation and peace be
prepared to follow him.

Mr. POULETT THOMSON last night brought forward his
motion for reforming the practice of the House with regard
to Private Bills, by causing a Breviate to be printed before
the second reading, which should contain such an abstract
of the clauses as the SPEAKER might deem requisite. In
making this motion, the Hon. Member confirmed the:state-
ments we have previously made as to the smuggling of
Bills through the House, and the injustice thereby done,
both to communities and individuals. He mentioned one
pertinent instance lust Session ; but he might have men-
tioned an hundred. Instead of arguing from an individual
case, he might have argued from classes. Look at the
various Enclosure Acts that have been passed, or rather
smuggled through the Legislature, without the poor, who
have been affected by them, having been informed of their
provisions or operation. Hundreds of thousands of families
have been defrauded of their rights, and their means o f
subsistence, by these Acts—the almost invariable conse-
quences of which have been to divide the common lands
between the lord of the manor, or leading landlord
in the neighbourhood, and the parson of the parish—
the former getting the Lion's share and the latter the
Jackall's. Mr. P. THOMSON'S intentions are very good ;
but we are afraid the mere printing of Breviates will not
sufficiently grapple with the evil. Un'ess he can devise
some means for sending those Breviates to all the parties
who may be interested, in all Bills giving the power of levy-
ing rates, i. e., such as Water Bills, Gas Bills, Railway
Bills, &c., which will comprise every inhabitant householder
of the district affected by them, his ject cannot be at-
tained. After all, we think our plan of briefing such Bills
through the Press will be found the most useful, and as our
columns will always be open to comirents upon them in
cases where parties are interested, and nely to be injured,
we flatter ourselves that Mr. P. TH,.:`,ISON will find in
The Sun an efficient ally to carry into 'sect the important
and praiseworthy object he has in view.

The Paris papers of Monday have all been received,
together with advices from Madrid of the 14th in-
stant. The news from Spain is very unimportant,
being merely confirmatory of the accounts previously
published respecting the wretched condition of the
Peninsula. The Carlist Chief, Don BASUTO GAR,
CIA, penetrated to the vicinity of Toledo, whore
great confusion prevailed, but he was not strong enough to
profit by it. The following are extracts from the French
journals of Monday :

The Frankfort Journal of the 19th inst. states, that the garrison of
the city of Hanover was about to be reinforced by 5,000 men, and that
the King intended to raise a regiment of Royal Guards.
The States of Wurtemburg discussed, on the 18th inst., the motion
made on the 17th for a declaration of the Assembly on the late proceed_
jogs of the King of Hanover in abolishing the Constitution of that
State-
After a long debate, an amendment was proposed (and carried
by a majority of 82 to 2), declaring that his Majesty the King of
Hanover in abrogating the Constitution of that kingdom had committed
an act which affected the legal condition of all Germany."
It has been reported for some days past that the Northern Powers
gave promised a large subsidy to Don Carlos. A first remittance
of three millions of francs is spoken of, which is to be succeeded by
another to the amount, it is said, of six millions more. We do not know
whether this fact has attracted the attention of the Cabinet, but we are
vssured that a Council has been held, at which the question was seri.
ously discussed relative to the sending of succour, whether in money,
ammunition, and various effects, it was said that a Courier had been
dispatched, in order to agree on the mode which would be preferable.
We hope that this news may be realised speedily and extensively.—Temps.
The Madrid Gazette announces that the band of Origeta has been
defeated on the confines of Estremadura. The confirmation of this
affair, in consequence of which the Carlists have been forced to raise
the siege of Balmaceda, has been received.
The order of the day of the 31st December, published in the Algerine
Moniteur of the 9th January, informs the army that General Castellan,
takes the command of Bona and Constantine, in the room of General
rrezel, who is allowed at his request, to return to France. General
itapatel sailed on Sunday on board tin, Styx, steamer, for Algeirs. The
Government has confided to this able and experienced officer the com-
mand of the troops of the division of Oran ; he is to con inue the system
of military colonisation sketched by General Bugaud.—Eclaicreur.
A regulation of the superior authorities already obliged all French
functionaries employed in cur possessions to study the Arabic languago ;
all natives employed by the French Administration, in the several
branches of the service, and still of an age to learn, are now ordered to
study the French language.—Le Commerce, Jan. 22.
FRENCH FU NDS JAL 22
Five per Cents., 109 f. 65c. 70c. 85c. 80c.
Four and a Half per Cents. Insf. 40c:
Four per ('erns., 102 f.
l'hree per Cents., 79`. 55c. tioc. 75e.
Bank Actions, 2,l 07f Sic. Y,600f. '2,593f.
Rente de Naples, 9Sf, Gee.
Roman Five per Cents.,
Spanish Actives, 2:,14%%•
Spanish Passives, 4}4.
Brussels Society, 10334.
Belgian Bank, 1,511 f.
Haytian Loan, 370 f.

EXCIIANOSI on LONDON.
One month, paper, —f. —e ; money, 25f. 4751 r
Three months, paper, 251. 35e. ; money, 251, av,ir.