The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-13 00:00:00

of tFe Poles to the yoke of foreign barbarians!' The
.
Poles did not rise to carry into effect any nevo
theories of Government, to change their institutions,
to.alter the relations of society; or to establish a new
distribution of power among the different orders of
the state. They rose to assert their claim to a
country,—to preserve and not to enlarge their char.
tered rights,—to maintain the established laws of
their land, and to drive away less civilized masters,
who had peifidiously subjugated and barbarously
oppressed them. Let Europe read their declara-
tion which we have printed in capital letters, and then
a ly if they are to be confounded with Jacobins and
revolutionists! While on the subject of Poland, we

beg to call attention to a sworn statement of the
manner in which the Russians treat British subjects,
in that country.—Times.

It has been correctly observed, that a lie uncontra-
dieted for a fortnight assumes the stability of a truth.
About a fortnight ago somebody induced the most
credulous and least discriminating of the daily
journals to publish with great gravity the monstrous
'falsehood that " the King's Guards were to be di.-
banded, or, at all events, that their pay Wai to be
reduced to the rate of the line." We heartily
acquit the journal in question of the ability to invent
even an absurdity ; but the simplicity of its gullibi-
lity gave such a natural air to the fabrication which
it announced, that even the knowing ones were some-
what staggered. The least reflection, however,
showed that the report was a mere paltry invention
of the Tory faction to annoy the King arid to frighten
the female politicians of the Household and Almack's.
The thing was too contemptible for refutation. Yes-
terday, however, a journalist, who if he has no other
power of mischief has at- least shrewdness to we
what is mischievous, thought he might take advan-
tage of this uncoutradicted falsehood to frighten the
Lords and Gentlemen who meet to-morrow at West-
minster. With, therefore, the cool effrontery of a
practised hoaxer, this writer coolly assumes that the
Ministers had intended either to disband the Guards
or to reduce their pay, and that though for the
moment forced to abandon their intention, they will
undoubtedly, at their own fitting opportunity, re-
sutne their project. Perhaps nothing can more
clearly eemonstrate the utter despair of this baffled
and beaten faction than the concoction and propa-

gation of this gross falsehood. It has been whis-
pered at soirees, prattled about at clubs, and gal-
lopaded at balls, t:Il its very authors began to think
there must be something in it; and yet the whole
story is a mere invention without an atom of foun-
dation—without a semblance of truth ! Nothing of
the kind 111.7. S ever for a moment contemplated!—
Need the Reformers fear such puny enemies ?
Times.

In reference to the projected negociation of a
Russian loan, we ought to mention, if only for the
sake of producing a contradiction to it if not true,
a report which is current of some most unfait pro-
ceedings on the part of the Russian Government
towerds the batik at Warsaw. That establishment,
at the breaking out of the revolution, held an in-
scription of Russian six per cent. stock to the amount
of 30,000,000 paper rubles. OrdErs have, how-
ever, it is said, been issued to the 'treasury of• St.
Petersburgh, not to pay any dividends on the stcck
held by the \Vaisaw bank, and further not to allow
the transfer of it, or any portion of it, to other
hands. This proceeding is the more flagrant,, as
there is, we believe,! au expres clause in all the
Russian loan contracts (with the view of making
them circulate more freely in foreign countries),

that no circumstances whatever, either of war or
othersvie, shall be made a plea by the Russian Go-
vernment for not fulfilling its share of the contract.
No honourab'e capitalist throughout Europe, we
conceive, will engage in a treaty for a new loan to
Russia, until this matter is satisfactorily explained.
—7'inzes. .

A curious feature in the famous Reform Bill is
this: with all its complicated levers and wheels—
its double schedules, marked A. and B. for ancient
boroughs, C. and D. for new towns—its one Mem-,
ber between 2 and 4,000 inhabitants—its two Mem-
bers between 4 rind 10,000; one Member again,
oddly enough, from 10,000 to 50,000 arid after-
wards two—its Privy Council division of counties,
and Privy Council addition to towns, by which
operations ninety-nine English boroughs lose the
whole or the half of their privileges—the Ministers'
three principles, fur as the rainbow has but three
primitive colours, and Lord Milton's election fig
has three also, so Lord John Russell's Bill has
three principles—abolition, enfranchisement, counter.
poise. These principles might have been to the
same extent carried into effect, by transferring
twenty-three charters from decayed boroughs' to
new centres of business—by extending perhaps
twenty-three more to the neighbouring hundreds.
The simplicity of the operation would be some gain:
the respect for ancient titles, local remembrances, old
county attachments and ties, would be more gain.
The diminution of the sweeping impulse of change
would be gain also. There would be another ad-
vantage,—that the more simple Bill would per-
haps stand. How could our Ministers imagine
that the twenty new boroughs they set down
in their Bill each for one Member only, would
not within the year demand a full representation for
their ten or fifty thousand inhabitants ? The plainer
proposal would give at once the two Members,
which in the end they must have, to such towns as
Halifax, Macclesfield, Blackburn, arid Kiddermin-
ster. There is indeed much au kwardness in both
the one-membered schedules. The new semi-bo-
roughs must immediately ask, " If Horsham have
two Members with five thousand inhabitants, why
not we with fifty thousand ?" The old boroughs
which have been shorn on one side may say also,
" Your Privy Councillors throw us into neighbour-
ing parishes, some of them twenty miles off; arid,
when you have thus made us thoroughly indepen-
dent, you take from us one-half of our privileges;
for what ? That you may be enabled to give two
Members to Halifax ? No. To the agricultural
interest ? No. To trade or the colonies ? No.
You cut our forty-four ancient charters in half, that
you may expand the representation of the growing
people of England, by taking sixty Members from
their Pediment's actual compternent." 'Away, then,
with Schedule D. and its half measure of giving;
away with Schedule B. and its half measure of
taking. Let not Great Privy Councillors ride
through our corn while they divide our counties 111
twain, or Little Privy Councillors add to our bo-
roughs Whig parishes. If Halifax, Macclesfield, arid
Huddersfield are to have representatives, let the
boon not be granted by halves. If Dorchester,
Guildford, and Huntingdon are still to be boroughs,
let them return each two Members in peace.—
Morning Post.
It is again our painful duty to point the attention
of our readers to the dreadful accounts of distress
prevalent in Ireland, which we have inserted else-
where, arid to call upon them, in the name of huma-
nity and Christian charity, not to turn a deaf ear to
the cries of the famishing and dying, but to come
forward, as Englishmen have always done, and ad-
minister promptly and abundantly to the necessities
of those who, if not relieved, will soon cease to
crave their sympathy. These accounts we heart-
rending, and mast give rise in the bosom of every
human being, not wholly divested of human sympa-
thies, to mingled feelings of deep pity for the suf.'
ferers, and bitter indignation towards those who, by
their carelessness, their negligence, or their reckless
rapacity, have brought their fellow-men to such a
pass of huff. I.rig. They state that the people
are reduced to the greatest extremity of dis-
tress—that they are living on wild 'herbs—on
the carcasses of animals which had died of disease,
and which have been dug out of the earth in the
hope of finding, in their half-putiified flesh, the
means of averting a horrible death—on -animals
which have hitherto never been used, except by
savage s, as human food—that they are even neglect-
ing the care of the dying and the dead to attend to
their own wants—and, in a word, that every thing
filthy and disgusting, in which the slightest nutri-
ment is supposed to be contained, is greedily de-