The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-25 00:00:00

feathers, strings of glass beads, or great skewers run
through the nose, which, on account of giving him
some nominal superiority over his fellows, the savage
regards as a mark of dignity and honour. Our
Tory aristocracy, for the sake of their plumes of
coloured feathers and nose ornaments would arrest the
progress of society, but they will fail, as the red men
have failed to prevent the whites from spreading over
their country. Whine and moan as they may, revolu-
tion will succeed to revolution in the future as in the
past ; and our Tories and Bishops may esteem them-
selves lucky if one of their order should be preserved
as a specimen of the curious idols after which the
hearts of our fathers went astray.

Our readers will find in another column a fine illus-
tration of the Magisterial character, when thoroughly
imbued with Toryism, in the conduct of that ornament
of the Bungay bench, Justice BUTCHER. It is not
long since we had occasion to show up this worshipful
personage, who did not think it in the least deroga-
tory to his office as an impartial distributer of justice
to sit in judgment in a Church-rate case in which he
had been an eager and active partizan. In whose fa-
vour Mr. Justice BUTCHER'S decision was given we
need not say. We need not remind our readers that
the party who had had the benefit of his eloquence in
the vestry room, found him a good friend on the bench.
Justice BUTCH ER is a consistent person. He does
not act upon the plan of those who undo the one day
wir.:t they do :he other. Once wrong. always wrong is
his excellent motto, and we find it studiously acted
upon in the proceedings which took place at Bungay
the other day. We here find his Worship figuring as
an interpreter of the law, an auctioneer, a Tory can-
vasser, check-clerk, &c. at county elections. One
SPA LL by name gets the job of selling the goods dis-
trained under his friend Justice BUTCHER'S warrants.
Of course an auctioneer, like other men, can at times
make out a good long bill, and Mr. SPALL'S being
rather too long in this instance, is objected to by the
owner of the goods brought to the hammer, who com-
plains of an overcharge. The complaint is brought
before the Magistrates of Bungay, alias BUTCHER,
Esq., J.P., sho, though an Act of Parliament limits
and defines the auctioneer's charges, will not allow evi-
dence to be produced to show that the prescribed limit
had been exceeded. The case is adjourned, and at the
next hearing there happens to be a second Magis-
trate—not of the BUTCHER breed—present, who
gives it as his decided opinion that the charges
are illegal. Mr. BUTCHER, however, adjourns the
proceedings, and the following week, sitting alone,
decides that the charges of his friend SPALL are
legal, and dismisses the complaint with the summary
remark that " one Magistrate is competent to decide."
Who shall question the competency of this worthy
for the office intrusted to him after this sample of his
judicial abilities ?
It may perhaps be said that a mistake in matters of
law is pardonable in a country Magistrate. Undoubt-
edly, where there is any room for mistake ; but it is
utterly inconceivable that BUTCHER can be such an
ass as to think that the Act of Parliament which re-
stricts the expense of advertisements in cases of dis-
tress to 10s. could possibly have intended that an auc-
tioneer should be at liberty to crowd into one adver-
tisement sixteen distresses, and then to charge 10s.
a piece, or eight pounds for that advertisement. Yet
this is exactly what he has decided to be the meaning
of the Act.

It is quite clear that something ought to be done
to counteract the pernicious effects of such proceed-
ings. The remedy, indeed, is obvious enough. Why
do not the people of Bungav represent the state of the
Magistracy in their district to the Secretary of State
for the Home Department ? Surely there are enough
of respectable men in that quarter from whom to select
a Magistrate or two in whom the community would
have confidence, and who would not allow the persons
whose political or religious opinions may not accord
with those of the majority, to be oppressed and
trampled under foot. Why is not Mr. Rolls CIIILDS
in the Commission of the Peace ?

The Times ycs!crday justly said of the British Asso-
ciation, " We confess that w•c think these meetings ate
calculated to bring ridicule on philosophical pursuits,
and to retard the progressof useful knowledge." To-day
we see an account of a long discussion in the Medical
Section on the history of a skull supposed to be
that of EUGENE ARAM, and an attempt to prove
phrenologically that he was not guilty. To omit all
notice of the discrepancies between the masters of the
science, the great Dr. SPURZHEIM having pro-
nounced EUGENE'S supposed skull to be that of a
female, such a discussion seems to us more calculated
to offend and cLsgust the public with such science as
that which occupies the Association, than to promote
useful knowledge. It may, however, be useful to unmask
the quackery of scientific men, and teach the world to
despise them—a species of useful knowledge the Associ-
ation is very likely to supply. To discuss the justice
of the verdict which consigned EUGENE ARAM to
the gallows, by the bumps of hiS supposed skull, is an
extraordinary piece of nonsense, such as could only
be tolerated amongst the " talking, eating, drinking,
dancing," and unthinking members of the British Asso-
ciation.

In alluding on Thursday to the Manchester
Guardian's attael; upon us, for denouncing as in-
comprehensible and absurd Mr. POULETT THOMSON'S
Trading Companies' A►nendinent Bill, we concluded
by stating that we would take another opportunity of
noticing more particularly that portion of it which had
reference to the conduct of Lord BROUGHAM and
ourselves with respect to that measure. That we may
not be supposed to attribute to the Guardian state-
ments which our Contemporary may hereafter wish
to have believed that he never made, we shall quote
the gravamen of his charge against us in his own
words :

'6 The Sun, doubtless for good and substantial reasons, has
undertaken the advocacy of an institution, called the National
Loan Fund Society, which recently had a Bill before Parlia-
ment seeking similar powers to those intended to be granted by
the Trading Companies' Bill. To the National Loan Fund Bill
Mr. Thomson was opposed,on the very rational and proper ground
that the powers sought under it ought to be conferred by some
general Act of Parliament, and not by any piecemeal legisla-
tion. Hence he incurred the hostility of the National Loan
Fund people, and, with them, of their advocate the Editor of
The Sun, who, if he cannot understand the provisions of an
Act of Parliarn,git, is master of a very pretty style of scur-
rility and abuse."
Our inasterAip of a " very pretty style of scurrility
and abue" has never yet been displayed in the impu-
tation of corrupt motives, as influencing the public
conduct of a Journal among the most zealous in devot-
ing its energies to the promotion of the interests of the
many. We have never, after the ungenerous fashion
of the Guardian, jumped at the conclusion that be-
cause a newspaper supported a Bill which, though good
in itself, necessarily exposed the official incapacity of a
Minister, there must have been, on the part of the
Proprietors, a sacrifice of public duty to private inte-
rest. Mr. POULETT THONISON opposed the Na-
tional Loan Fund Bill, argues the Guardian, " on
the very rational and proper ground that the powers
sought under it ought to be conferred by some general
Act of Parliament, and not by any piecemeal legis-
lation." So, then, it is not pretended that the Na-
tional Loan Fund Bill was not a really good Bill.
On the contrary, it was so very good, even in the opi-
tshtaot
of importanceextend iie
every deemedtr trading
n itg
nion of Mr. Potou
IET Tits"pr%lsvi°'sNi
company in the kingdom. Seeing then that the Loan
Fund Bill was based on sound principles--that its p

object was just and benevolent—that it harmonised
with the more extensive views of the President of the
Board of Trade—might it not have occurred to the
Guardian that it was something of a departure.

both from common sense and common courtesy, to
charge us, by implication, with being influenced
by corrupt motives in supporting it ? Had Mr.
POULETT THOMSON evinced any disposition to
introduce his Amendment Bill at an early period of the
Session, the Directors of the National Loan Fund
Society would have gladly avoided the trouble and
expense of carrying a Private Bill through Parliament.
So far, however, was the President of the Board of
Trade from giving himself any concern upon the
subject, that, notwithstanding the inoperation of his
own Act of last year, he suffered ten months to elapse
before preparing any measure upon the subject ;
and when he did bring forward his Bill, it was notori-
ously with a view to escape from the reflections upon
his conduct, which he dreaded would attend
upon the discussion of the merits of a private Trading
Company's Bill in the House of Lords. The Direc-
tors of the National Loan Fund Society were fully
aware of the little dependence that was to be placed in
Mr. POULETT THOMsON's promises of voluntary
legislative exertion. They had, moreover, in the in-
operative Bill of last Session a pretty specimen of the
sort of legislation to be expected at his hands—even
supposing that they regarded his influence as sufficient
to ensure the passing of a general measure. They,
therefore, persevered in bringing forward their Bill.
Mr. P. THoMsON opposed it at every stage—and
was defeated, Nor did he confine the exercise of the
influence which he supposed himself to possess to the
House of Commons, nor to means justified by the
usages of strictly honourable Parliamentary opposition.

We now come to the Guardian's attack on Lord
BROUGHAM, which is still more preposterous than
what has been urged against ourselves. We again
quote the language of our Contemporary :
" That Mr. Poulett Thompson's Bill was abused by Lord
Brougham, and thrown out by the House of Lords, is true
enough; but that is a fate which it experienced in common
with many other useful measures ; and we should rather think,
that, in a matter relating entirely relating to regulations of
trade, the unanimous approbation of the House of Commons
(which the Bill received) is of far greater weight than the
censure of twelve Lords, evidently packed for the purpose,
and led by a mischievous and disappointed man, eager to vent
his spleen upon any member of an Administration who have
chosen to dispense with his services."
Mr. POULETT THOMSON'S Bill, as we stated
before, was smuggled through the House of Commons'
and so secretly, too, that there was not one word of
discussion upon the subject. It actually stood fora third
reading before its title appeared in the Daily Journals—
a circumstance all but unprecedented "in the annals of
modern legislation. We may, therefore, safely affirm that
two-thirds of the Members of the House of Commons
received the first notice of its existence from the re-
port of its being thrown out by the Lords. So much
for the unanimity of the House of Commons. In the
House of Peers Lord BROUGHAM opposed it from the
outset, and even gave notice that he would move its
rejection on being brought up for a third reading.
Mr. POULETT THOMSON'S friends in the Upper
House had, therefore, fair warning. The day arrived,
the House met, Mr. POULETT THOMSON'S B►ll
was put to the vote, and just ten Peers were found
to say " content" to the measure I There was no
gathering of Tories upon this occasion. Though the
Bill was a Ministerial Bill, yet nobody supposed that
the Cabinet would be weakened by its loss. Ten
votes were given to mark the confidence of Ministers
in tile commercial ability of the President of the
Board of Trade !

By the brig Scylla, which arrived at Falmouth on
Thursday, we have received adviccs from Buenos
Ayres to the oth of June. On the 3d the French
blockading squadron was reinforced, and preparations
were making for bombarding the town. The French
blockading force consisted of six vessels, none of them
carrying more than twenty-two guns. Two British
ships were stationed to watch the proceedings of the
blockading force.

The Paris Journals of Thursday have all been re-
ceivcd. In the official columns of the Moniteur, we
find the following intelligence from Spain
:
BORDEAUX, AUGUST 2:l.—According to the official despatch
of the military Commander of Caspe, the Queen's troops be-
sieging Morella opened the breach on the 15th, and the next
day carried the place by storm, and took the troops of the
garrison prisoners.
" This intelligence was given by some insurgents, who suc-
ceeded in escaping to Favarra."
The French Evening Papers of Thursday contain
no additional news from the Spanish frontier.
Our Advices from Madrid are of the 16th, but
they do not bring a syllable of news of any political
interest.

The following are extracts from the Paris papers :
Tile Naiade corvette, Captain Cuindet, arrived at Brest
from Mart nique on the 19th inst. She brings journals from
that colony up to the 13th of July. Rear-Admiral de Moges
had arrived, and, on taking possession of the Government,
had addressed a proclamation to the inhabitants. The Colo-
nial Council had been summoned to meet on the Ist inst., at
Fort Royal.
A trial at present pending before the Royal Court of Paris
excites the public interest of that capital to an extreme de-
gree. Our readers have heard of the attacks against M.
F,mile de Girardin for having set commercial enterprises on
foot, and sold shares wi►h the conviction that they were mere
bubbles. M. de Girardin was acquitted. The present pro-
secution is directed against M. Cleemans, man of business to
M. de Girardin, accusing him and others of having established
a Company for the working of the mines of St. Berain,
which mines were a mere bubble. The whole force of the
French bar is employed on either side. - MM. Teste and
Charles Dupin for the defendants ; M. Odillon Barrot and
the public prosecutor fur the prosecution.
Thi' Royal Court has condemned Cleemans and Bluen to
three years' imprisonment and 3,000 f. fine for having formed a
Company and issued shares of the coal-mines of St. Berain,
with a mendacious prospectus stating the coal to be of the best
kind, and found in the greatest quantities, when the facts were
directly the reverse. 'this sentence has excited the greatest
interest in France, where so many bubblei in shares have been
sent forth during the last year.
LITCERNE, Ace. 20. —This day the envoys of Austria,
Prussia, and Baden demanded and obtained of the President
of the Diet an interview, at which they declared to him that
"the Fiench Cabinet having communicated to their respective
Courts the vote of the Ist of August last, concerning Prince
Louis Napoleon, they had been instructed to support verbally
the demand of France."

The President replied that " their interference was perfectly
superfluous ;" that " either the application of France was well-
grounded (and in that case Switzerland would acquiesce in
it without their intervention) or it was unwarranted, and if so,
the Swiss would prefer burying themselves under the ruins of
their country than submit to unjust pretensions."
The above- mentioned envoys agreed that the President was
right, and I can assure you, on my part, that they are doing,
underhand, all they can to encourdge the Diet to resist.
The Franconian Mercury contains an article from Bruns-
wick, wherein it is observed that several Journals had stated
that Duke William and the King of Hanover were not agreed
whether at the Duke's death the ducal crown should belong
to his children or to those of Duke Charles ; and that the
King had hitherto been in favour of the children being legiti.
mate issue of Duke Charles. " This is a mistake," the
Journal in question observes. " for the House of Hanover is a
junior branch of the house of Brunswick, and it is to this house
that the decision of a question of this nature belongs. It is to
be observed that the Germanic Diet had decided that Duke
Charles had forfeited the Crown, but that his legitimate
children were not included in this rigorous measure, for the
public law of Germany would have been opposed to such an
extension of the penalty inflicted on the Duke. If Duke
Charles leaves legitimate children, we think the ducal crown
will belong to them, to the exclusion of the heirs of Duke
William, who, however, will be entitled to an apanage in the
Duchy of Brunswick.
It is stated in a letter from Naples that the King, on oc-
casion of the recent birth of his son, has published an ordi-
nance of amnesty and commutation of punishment in favour of
a great number of prisoners.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PAkts, AUGUST 23.
LATEST PRICES.
Three per Cents., 80c. 9:c.
Bank Actions, 2,6L0f.
Romans, 10.:.
Rolgian Loan, 10414,
Belgian Bank, 1,444.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 2374%,
un.
Spanish Actives, 2,%.
8 ;
Spanish Ditreres, 8
Spanish Passives, t!,6,
tw o months, 13 7.
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