The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We have received the Paris Papers o't Thursday
and Friday, and the Messagcr des Chambres dated
Saturday. The intelligence they convey is of the
most alarming character. On the 21st, the silk-
weavers of the commune of Croix Rousse, which
adjoins Lyons, where distress has long prevailed,
broke out, and barricaded their quarters. They
commenced by assaulting several manufactories and
disarming several National Guards, and then marched
against Lyons. Their numbers are variously stated
at from six to twelve thousand. With the daring
spirit possessed by the French in so eminent a de-
gree,
they seem to have fought desperately during
the greater part of the 21st. The workmen having
shown a wish to parley, the Prefect and General
Ordonneau, anxious to stop the effusion of blood,
advanced towards the workmen, when they were
made prisoners. The rioters were driven back to
Croix Rousse—the armed force remained masters at
all points, and occupied all the avenues. Such
seen,s to have been the state of things on the 21st.
In a e evening of that day troops were sent for
from Bourgoirie and Trevoux. No intelligence
having reached Paris of the state of things on the
22,1, the alarm was very great, and the most gloomy
inferences 'tN ere drawn from the cessation of tele-
graphic communications. The accounts pub-
lished by the Government attributed the cir-
cumstance to haze ; but it was believed that the
insurgents had obtained possession of some of the
telegraphs. However, the 3foniteur, in a post-
script, dated four o'clock in the morning of the 25th,
state: that the President of the Council had received,
at midnight, an estafette, which a person high in
office at Lyons had succeeded in despatching to the
Government. His letter was written on the 23(1,
at one o'clock in the morning, and it announces that
the workmen had again risen, made themselves mas-
ters of the bridges, and intercepted the communi-
cations ; that the troops were defending the Town-
brill, the Arsenal, and the powder-magazines, and
that General Ordonneau had been given up. The
writer opened his letter again at five o'clock in the
morning of the 23d, to say that the Town-hall had
been evacuated, after an obstinate resistance, and
that it seemed that the authorities and the
bands, as well to avoid a farther effusion of
blood as to combine their union with forces which
Ihey expected from several points, had retired by
the Fauxbourg of St. Clair. Thus, then, we
find Lyons, the second city in France, in the pos-
agesion of insurgent workmen. The Moniteur adds
that "the National Guards and troops of the line had
done 'their duty with equal courage and devoted-
mess ;" that " this revolt, accompanied by threats
of burning and pillage, is directed only against prc-
petty slid industry ;" arid that, " in such a case the
issue cannot be doulatful, for it is a matter which
concerns all citizens as well as the Government."
So ,serious has this affair been deemed, that the
Prefects who were on leave of absence at Paris
have been ordered to return to their posts. The
Duke of Orleans was to set out immediately for ,
i.ynns,accompanisd by Marshal Soult, the Minister
of War. The Me:sager des Chambrer, of the dive
of the 25,1), states that the post from Lyons had
not arrived at eleven o'clock, and that they had not
received either the Journals or private correspond-
ence from Lyons, Grenoble, Nismes, Montpellier,
Marseilles, and thy whole line. The Gazette de
France of Saturday, of the date of the 25th, states
that all the letters from the banking-houses at
Lyons agree in the following details :—That for
three days they had been in a state of siege, that
the whole quarter of the Terreau, the Capucins,
end the environs, are closed. At five Pete
(23d) the cannon had been firing for three hours
on the people, and the people teturned the
fire with advantage, because they were mas-
ters of the heights. At seven P.M, of the same
day (23d) the intelligence states that forty of the
National Guards were killed, and above one hundred
arid fifty wounded; that despondency had filled
every heart—that the insurgents cry " Long live
Napoleon, Chief of the Republic"—that the General
and Prefect in the hands of the insurgents were not
released till three cannon belonging to the National
Guards were employed, and that two of these can-
non had fallen into the hands of the insurgents, who
were masters of all the heights which suarounded
Lyor;a. The Quolidienne of Friday contains several
letters, which give various details of the commence-
ment of the revolt, and the fighting during the 21st.
The insurgents had, it would appear, a considerable
advarnave in the outset. The central point of their
Cnion, Croix Rousse, formerly a suburb, but now a
town, is situated on one of the heights which corn- •
mend Lyons. A detachment of National G,,ards,
=Loin:mauled by General Ordonneau, and supported
by a company of the 66th, was directed to advance
against the rebels by a street, extremely steep, with
houses on bath sides, nearly all occupied by the work-
men. Scarcely had they reached a certain height,
when a thundering discharge took place from al.
most all the windows, and thus caught between
two fires, the troops and National Guards were
obliged to retreat with several killed and wounded.
Some of the statements make the troops amount
to 6,000. One letter in the Quolidienne says, " We
have great need of reinforcements. Our garrison
has scarcely 3,000 men ; the third of our National
Guards are widi the insurgents." Another letter
;::n the Quolidienne, da'ed the 21st at mid-day, says
that the workmen descended from Croix Rousse to
the number of 6,000, armed with fusils, sabres, clubs,
and stones; that their despair found a vent in loud
howling. They displayed order, and their plan
appeared well concerted. The National Guard
waited for them above the great seminary, and while
on this point the workmen engaged the troops at
the line and the National Guards the remainder of
their body, composed of nearly two thousand men,
were in a camp which they had prepared at Croix
Reusse. This camp had been attacked by the Na-
tional Guards, but the latter were vigorously re-
pulsed, A great black flag waved in the middle of
their camp. It is impossible for us to form any
judgment of the issue of this civil war, for nothing
less it seems, from our not possessing information
respecting the state of opinion in the surrounding
districts. The accounts from Lyons even are con-
tradictory. The insurgents are stated to be merely
4istressed workmen, intent on pillage; but they
are in some of the accounts stated to shout for a
republic, with Napoleon at its head. In the South I
of France we have always understood that a • '
great pelt of the population were Carlists.
Whether advantage will be taken of the troubles
at Lyons, by the Carlists and the Priests, re-
mains to be seen. M. de Chateaubriand, in
11,
,es pamphlet, say—" If legitimacy were nothing
—ifit were nothing to banish a child ; if all France
me longer wished to have anything to do with the
elder branch of the Bourbons, how happens it that
more than one-fourth of the departments are by
yoerselv
es reputed Carlists, without mentioning all
the Carlist individuals who exist in the other de-
prrtments ? How happens it that they are obliged
to watch the south with 30,000 m, n, Britanny and
La Vendee with 50,000 men, like Belgium ; on the
one part to make anhlanglish King,i on the other to
unmake a French king ? How s it that of 130,000
electors inscribed, only 80,000 presented themselves
to vote ? Cities of 120,000 souls, like Marseilles, ,
Lave seen their Deputies named by 38 Votes; at
Bordeaux,at the last election, out of 550 electors,•
150 only have appeared at the College ; 74 suffrage:
have been sufficient to give a Deputy to a city which
has such extensive interests to defend," But this
affair at Lyons has an additional claim on our notice
from the lessen which it furnishes to us. We here
see the werkmen of a suburb of a city, which had 3
garrison of 6,000 troops (some accounts say 3,000)
and anumerous National Guard (two-thirds of which,
even by the most unfavourable accounts, were well
affected), carry everything before them, and retain for
three days military possession of all important points.
We would just call the attention of those twaddlers
among ourselves who task of special constsblesgeete
such support as eau be obtained from small detach..
elsta of soldiers and a few yeomanry cavalry, being

sufficient for the preieivation of the Oace, to what
has taken place at Lyons. In what town of this
kingdom, London excepted, have we 6000 troop, r
even 3000 ? But how many manufacturing neigh-
bourhoods have we, with populations fearfully- nu-
merous in case of a general want of employment.
Let those who calculate too confidently on the cow-
ardice of the mobs of this country, only recollect
what took place in the towns of Scotland at the last
general elections. There are among the working
classes, in the towns of the north, men with schem-
ing heads and daring courage, on whom the lessons
of Paris and Lyons will not be thrown away, if die-
tress should drive them to desperation. We have
received a sensible letter from ;Manchester, of the
date of the 25th (for which we haVe not room this
day), from an individual who happened to be in Sa-
lisbury on the 2d of November, which happened to
be- the drill-day of the Salisbury volunteers, and he
expresses himself astonished at the skilful manner in
which they performed the difficult manoeuvre of
street-firing, and their order at the charge with bay-
onet. His observations on the absolute necessity of
forming similar corps without loss of time in all the
towns, appear to us to deserve the utmost attention.
We fear the ominous prospects to which lie alludes
will render such a resource indispeesible. For what
is the state of things in this country '? The
Leeds .illercury of Saturday, received yesterday,
states, that the unemployed workmen in Leeds
are becoming more and more numerous. On
Monday last there was a public meeting at
Paisley, for the purpose of raising a subscription
for the unemployed weavers, the report of which oc-
cupies two columns of the Glasgow Chronicle. At
this meeting great fault wee found by some of the
speakers at the conduct of some of the constituted
authorities. Mr. Spies, of Elderslie, said, "he
held it to be a shame to the county that the Lord
Lieutenant was not present. He had long felt dis-
satisfied with the conduct of Government in keep-
ing such persons in the important situation of Lerd
Lieutenant. What would a poor thirty pounds a
day do to keep the starving opeiatives of Paisley
in existence ?" He added, " that he himself (Mr.
Spiers is considered at the head of all public affairs
from his age end character) was no longer a Lieu-
tenant of the county, for es he had told them, he had
sent in his resignation, but from the letter he had
received from the Provost, he considered it a dis-
grace that the Lord Lieutenant was not present as
will as the amount of his subscription (fifty
pounds)." He added further, that "he considered
that it wee wholly to the Political Uniun they were
indebted for the peace of the country being pre-
served, and if the authorities we; oat stirring tip
mischief, they were not taking proper means to pre-
serve the peace•—(Cries of Order !' amidst min-
! glad applause and hisses.)" Such is the aspect of
affairs among ourselves. If Ministers do not make
provision tieuirot it in time, dreadful will be their
•
responsibility.—Morning Chronich-,

While the German Papers amuse the werid with
accounts of the merciful intentions of the Autocrat
to the Poles, which, as these veracious oracles of
despotism inform us, he is prevented from putting
in praceiee by a powerful faction of Nobles in his
• own dominions, the reign of terror is established at
Warsaw, and proscription, banishment, end confis-
cation, are the order of the day, The patriots, who
relied upon the capitulation of Warsaw, and who
either remained or returned there since its surrender,
• have found what other subjugated countries have
• learnt by fatal experience—that Russia is not more
distinguished for the barbaous ferocity of her con-
quests than for her Punic fain;. They have found
that, in spite of capitulation or treaty, Russia as-
surne.s the power of disposing of the life and liberty
and fortune of every man in Poland; they have
round that the promised clemency of the barbarians
means nothing else but the miseries and tor-
ments of a persecution less expeditious, but scarcely
less effective in its destructive consequences, than im-
mediate extermination by the sword. We never
hear of the Autocrat being prevented by any cabal
or faction among his subjects from pursuing any
bad or oppressive measure, however criminal and
atrocious ip may be. It is only when the despot
intends to carry ;rite effect some wise or good in-
tention that we hear of hia becoming powerless ;
unrestrained in every evil purpose, it is enly when
the Imperial ambition relents into virtue that the
Cesar of the North is deprived of his absolute
sceptre, and reduced to the condition of the servant
ofhis slaves. What a country that must be where des-
potism only ceases to have authority when it at-
tempts to exercise power for beneficent :-purposei
Yet such is the country which the great Powers of
Europe, by a most disgraceful compliance with its
ambitious pretensions, have allowed to proceed
from orie sehetne of aggrandizement to another,
until it has attaineei:a dangerous pre-eminence among
the nations of the civilized world. With regard to
the fate of the Poles, some of the foreign journals
speak of earnest interceteliona having been Made in
. favour of that brave people by the agents of
the French Government at the Court of St. Peters-
burgh,
and that those intercessions had been pushed
io such lengths as to offend the Russian Aristocracy.
We believe nothing can be farther from the truth.
The French Government and its agents,--and we
know it from authority upon which we can rely—
have not only not been earnest in intercession with
-he Autocrat on behalf of the Poles, but they have
shown a most heartless indifference to their sufferings
1 and misfortunes. As to eending the Russian Em-
peror, or any party that has influence et his Court,
ey an ardent zeal on behalf of humanity and Poland,
he present weak and pusillanimous Government of
France would as soon think of marching an army
upon Moscow. They talk of a repeblic as a chimera;
out a manly and generous system of policy is in their
eyes still more chimerical and ridiculous. We under-
stand that our own Government have, since the fall of
Warsaw, interested themselves more on behalf of the
Poles at the Russian Court than the French. Indeed
the most ineelligeet Poles complain of the French Go-
vernment having completely deserted their cause, or
of having only brought to }sear upon it the smooth
hypocrisy of cold deceit. To England they feel more
indebted, though they also feel that neither .England,
nor any d:4'tiropeete nation, has acted that firm, honest,
and dignified part in tills question which became the
Govertaneee of a great peopi,, ;net merely in de-
fence of a getters= and 'oppressed nation, Put in
vindication of a great principles, involving the obli-
gations of treaties, the balance of European power,
and tbe rights of humanity. Is it proper or becoming
that England, cr any other Power that was a party
to the Treaty of Vienna, aehich guaranteed the in-
dependence of Poland, not so !verde for the sake of
that country as that she might be a cite* ori the
growing ambition of Russia, should stoop so low as
to become a suppiiartt for mercy to the Poles at the
foot of the ,RueSian deapot'e throne, when, with the
Treaty of Vienna in her hand, she oughe to demand
justice for that heroic and ceuellyetreated people ?
if diplomatists cannot answer this question, public
opinion will.—Morning Herald.
The long rtiononoly of power in this country by'
the Tory faction, lai deep been pointed out as the
source from which many of the ;;,buses in our poli-
tical system have arisen, and by which all, without
exception, have been aggravated. Nor is it owing,
to arty vice peculiar to the Tories, as individuals or
as politicians, that such evil effeets have flowed from
their contireeens administration of the Government
for more than GO years: they were chosen by the
Crown for its especial counsellors, when the So-
vereign was so far independent of popular influence
and feeling, as to experience too little necessity for
consulting the wishes of his subjects, either as to
the persons who ohould exercise his prerogative, or
as to the principles which should guide :hem.
Hence all those acts of the executive Government
which operated immediately upon the distribution
of political power in this country, and cerise-
fluently upon the relative position of King, parties,
and people, were calculated at once to extend the
patronage of the Crown, and to confine the fruits of
it, to the friends and connexions of the Ministers
whose business MS to increase it. Had the Whigs
happened to Ile the 591e0C/ favourites of George

111. from the commencement of his long reign down-
wards, there is no room to question that their mo-
nopoly of office would have been attended wit!: no
less mischief to the Constitution than that of their
antagonists. The same bad construction of our
representative system, and independence of Par-
liament upon the people, and consequent irre-
sponsibility and impunity of public officers,
would have encouraged the Foxes and Caven-
dishes, just as much as it has done the Pitts
and Rutlands, to quarter their tools upon the
public revenue,—to seize for their benefit the ma-
gistracy, the judgment-seat, the Peerage, the county
government, and the Church,—and thus to strike so
deep a root in the country, that no storm of national
resentment or displeasure—no demand of justice, or
right, or reformation—should disturb them. This,
we say, would have been the result of Whig domi-
nion, not less assuredly than of that of their rivals,
had the same opportunity for an equal period been
afforded to the former body. The crime is in
the thing, not in the men; and the sense of it
ought both to make the people of England attach
more real importance to principles, and less to
persons, and to abate some portion of that relent-
less animosity wherewith individuals, availing them-
selves of the corrupt indulgence held out to them
by defective institutions, are too often
inrgelgearfddecdtiobny,
their countrymen in angry times. To such a pitch,
however, has the evil of a prolongued gripe of
the powers of government, by a
been carried throughout the 'empire, that with
the exception of a very small number of en,
bordinate functionaries, the Whig Cabinet has
not yet, since its accession to office, been sure
of co-operation from the constituted authorities
of any one county, or city, or other subdivision
of Great 4ritain, though for purposes of the
highest national importance. On all occasions
have the retainers of the boroughmongers, whether
salaried from the revenue or invested with unpaid
power, been zealous in directing their most hide-
` fatigable efforts for the disappointment of whatever
measure was undertaken by the present Ministry, in
connection with, and furtherance of, the Reform •
Bill. Lords-Lieutenants, Magistrates, Clergy,
Sheriffs,—all have made their several powers and
prerogatives subservient to their ancient inte-
rests or prejudices, and have wholly lost sight
of the pbiigations imposed upon them by their actual
duties. It is no wonder that Reform bag hed so
perilous a struggle, when almost the entire personel
of the public authorities, from north to south of Eng-
land, is arrayed together for its overthrow. How-
ever, if the Tory party has become artificially
and lamentably strong, so has the party of the
people swelled into rapid power by the develop-
ment of its naturel resources, If the old occupants
of office have multiplied their tools, so have the
people outgrown them. Of the two engines by
which the English nation bad hitherto been sub-
jected to an unconstitutional controul, one exists no
longer. They may be ruled for a time by some hun-
dred thousands of bayonets, but they will never
again, as formerly, be cheaSed,--that game, at least,
is gone by. But if among the displays of a spirit
adverse to that of the people there be one more
offensive, as well as absurd and impotent, than ano-
ther, it is that of the sheriffs of counties, who pre-
sume to disregard the requisitions transmitted to
them by the property and intelligence of their 'ce-
spective bailiwicks, for the calling together of county
meetings. The folly of such a proceeding is mani-
fest, because the law has provided means through
which a county may assemble and declare its senti-
ments, in spite of the contumacy of that executive
; officer,—who, therefore, very seldom gets any thing
better thaa contempt or odium ice his pesvereerieste
Although, with hardly any exceptions, the counties
throughout England have already met, or are meet-
ing, to promote bytheir declarations the sacred cause
of Reform, it appears that the High Sheriff for Es-
sex has thought fit to reject a requisition most
authoritatively signed, and has thus yielded to some
of the county magistiates the honour which he
himself might have acquired. If the gentleman
Matters himself that he can stifle the voice
of a great county by such an official humbug,
he is in an egregious error. The C'helms-
fOrd Chronicle gives an interesting account of an
anniversary dinner, where eighty gentlemen of the
Meldon Independent Club," and amongst them
'efessre. Western and Lennard, with several others
of great distinction iii the county, met, and in a suc-
cession of able and eloquent speeches recorded their
sentiments in favour of Reform and in support of
his Majesty's Government. We insert one passage
Isere the speech of Mr. Western, which is worthy
of general attention, if it were only for the soiind
manner in which he treats the objection to a large
ereetion of Peers on the score of precedent ; as if a
good act for a patriotie objet could serve as "prece-
dent" for an act and object of a nature diametrically
opposite :—" I cannot help saying that the hostility
displayed in the Lords was most distinctly a spirit
of party—a deterrnipaticia to oppose and thwart
the Ministers in their endeavours to serve the
public, I repeat that I cannot help thinking that
such was their motive.—(Cheers.) In this state of
things I hope that the majority of the Lords—
reckless as they have shown themselves of cense,
queeces, will not again have recourse to the same line
of conduct, and egain reject the Bill which his
Majesty has told us he wiil direct hie Gera/ante to
present on the opening of the Session.—(Hear,)
If such should be the case, the consequences may
be most fearful.—(Hear.) I for one am ready to
support the exercise of the Royal prerogative on
an occasion like that, which I consider would war-
rant the creation of a sufficient number of Peers to
give a majority to support the Ministers.—(This
observation was received with loud t}nd universal
cheering which lasted some time.) X know it will
he said that this would be the establishment of a
bad precedent, and that another Monarch might
avail himself of it to abuse it ; but I contend that it
would be no precedent,—(l- ear.) Tile precedent
of a virtuous act, which is necessary to establish the
rights of the people, is no precedent for destroying
them.—(Cheers.) It would be an act to which
the House of Lords have driven the Government,
-et:Cheers.) I admit that the Levis have a right
to enjoy their o..yn opinions—they negatived the
Reform Bill, and they had a ',,ight to do so, but men
must be responsible for the exercise even of a right,
—(Hear.) It does not follow that they are war-
ranteal in doing it because they have the right. It
must be a proper acr—a wise and discreet exercise
of that eight—which will justify it.—(Hear, hear.)
I say they have fatally and injudiciously ea:ercised
it. The House of Commons has a right to etfuee
the Supplies, and if circumstances justify the act,
they ought to do it; but on the other hand, the
exercise of the right may be treason to the Sove-
reign and to the -taSe."-7-- Times.
The accounts from Lyons, which wili be fend in
another column, present an edifying picture of the
natured progress and results of political innovation.
We thence may obtain a faint and imperfect notion
of the seetiea which must inevitably arise in Great
Britain if the present system of Government be per-
sisted in much loner,asystem similar to that orthe
Liberal party in France, of promising the labouring
Masses of the community an exemption from evils,
and kin eeetesition of advantages, as the consequences
of change's in the tis'enatitution, which such changes
have a direct tendency not to produce but to prevent.
NVe need not show that the Reform fedi, had it
been carried, would have failed to produce any ame-
lioration of the condition of the great mass of the ,
people, otherwise than by calling the attention of
the community to certain facts which are undeniable,
viz., that tlee authors of that Bill, who must in the
very nature of things have designed it to increase I
the number of men like themselves in the Legisla-
ture, have proposed few measures of pracsicel ame- '
lioration; and in the few which they have proposed
have shown themselves to be ineompetent judges
of what might conduce to the real advantages of
the people. The 401 then would have given us irt
the House of Commons a greater number of Al-
thorps, Grahams, Russells, Poulett Thomsons,
O'Conitalls, or it would not. In the latter case it

is plain that the framers and supporters of the Bill
• have been working in ignorance or at random, since
it is quite certain that in their estimation no Reform
could be practically beneficial to the country any
farther than as it tended to increase the number and
strengthen the influence of such Statesmen as we
have mentioned. In the former we are called upon
to inquire what great advantages of a practical na-
ture the mass of the community could have derived
from an infusion of Members of a character similar
to those who, with the most obsequious House of
Commons that ever in this country obeyed the nod
of any Ministers, have attempted nothing of a prac-
tical nature for the public advantage and relief, and
who have been driven to resort to theoretic innova-
tion, simply because, after large promises to the
nation, and the most violent and factious denuncia-
tiorss of their predecessors in office, they found they
had been anticipated in every measure of prudent and
practicable improvement. This view of the subject
shews perhaps more clearly than any other that the
Reform Bill of the present Ministers was a fallacy
and a fraud. An honest and consistent innovator
upon the institutions of a State is bound to shew that
the changes lie wishes to effect are the necessary pre-
paratives and precursors of some solid practical ad-
vantages which he desires to bestow upon his coun-
try. The whole conduct of our Reforming Ministers
has shewn the reverse of this, and we are therefore
ettitled to conclude that the more ignorant and un-
reflectieg classes of the community, who, in the
hope of practical advantages, in the hope of a posi-
tive improvement of their condition, have been
taught to clamour for the Bill, would have expe-
rienced in the event of the Bill having come into
operation the most severe, gelling, and exasperating
disappointment. For the effect of such a disap-
pointment we refer to the scenes which have been
acted at Lyons. The French people have had a
Parliamentary Reform, and a Monarchical Reform
into the bargain. They have got a Citiaen King,
a Reformed House of Commons, and a degraded
House of Peers. What more could they desire ?
The answer is short, but it is, or ought to be, ap-
*ling to the hearts of agitators and innovators
in every country. Employment arid bread ! And
is it possible, then, that a people can want
employment and bread who enjoy the unspeak-
able advantages of a Citizen King, a Reformed
House of Commons, and a ilev;.e.derl Peerage ? The
people of Lyons feel to their cost that it is so, and
they naturally, we had almost said justly and pro-
perly, wreak their vengeance upon the rash or
wicked experimentalists or impostors who excited
expectations which they now find to have been ut-
terly delusive. The well-dressed people, the payers
of direct eontributione, the National Guards, those
portions of society which most contributed to the
excitement that preceded and produced the revolu-
tion of July ; the voters who returned that Cham-
ber of Deputies which attempted to subvert the
legitimate authority of the French Crown—these
are the classes who are now the objects of indigna-
tion to the sufferers of the lower orders, whom
that revolution has not benefitted, as they were
fraudulently led to expect, but has, on the con-
trary, reduced to wretchedness and famine. And
who shall deny that this is just ? or, if a simi-
lar fate should heftl the more desperate or more
foolish men who in this country have agitated
the popular rntnd with hopes equal), delusive—
men more desperate and more foolish, inasmuch as
this country is more happy and prosperous under its
existing Constitution than France ever was in the
best of her days, that they also will meet with rio
more than their due reward ? Those who disturb
the tranquillity of a nation, unsettle its habits,
paralyse its commercial enterprise, render its capital
stagnant, suspend its peaceful industry, reduce the
multitudes of its inhabitants to wretchedness and
want, for sake of speculative improvements in the
frame-work of its Government, incur a terrible, and
in most cases a needless responsibility; nor can it
excite regret in any reasonable mind that when the
season of popular disappointment and popular
frenzy shall arrive, as arrive it must, they the origi-
nal authors of the calamity should be among the
first of its victims.—Morning Po.a.
The Tories having been foiled in every intrigue
which they have concocted to the prejudice of his
Majesty's Ministers and the cause of Reform—
having been defeated in every encounter—and proved
to be false prophets in every einistee prediction at
which they have tried their hands—are now, we
perceive, having recourse to the first system of tac-
tics which they tried awl abandoned—a system
based on the invention of false reports, respecting the
views and conduct of his Majesty's Ministers—
changes in the Reform Bill—the existence of an
Anti-Reform disposition on the part of the
most Illustrious Reformer in the. kingdom—an
unwillingness to create new Peers, Fao, Of
such inventions it would be unworthy of any
respectable Journal to take the slightest notice,
were it not that they have received circulation,
arid a sort of current credit, in consequence of
having being copied by some of our reforming con-
temporaries, without appending to them the neces-
sary contradiction, We now take notice of them for
the purpose of stating--which we can do, on the best
authority,—that they are totally destitute of truth—
that the King is firm, and has never wavered, or
even appeared to waver, except to avoid the per-
plexing importunities of an Arei•Reform junto by
which he is surrounded—that new Peers will be
created in abundance when the proper season arrives
—and that no change will be made in the Re-
form Bill, on its next presentation to Parlia-
ment, except such as will necessarily render it
more popular and more efficient. A few days
will prove the accuracy of this information;
and in the mearime we would beg the quidnunc; of
both sides to reflect that it is not in the power of
Ministers, if they were so inclined, to change in any
essential degree the principles of the Reform Bill—
that the Bill has already been passed by the people
—that a majority of the House of Commons is
bound to support it, and it only—and, finally, that
if Ministers were to attempt to break faith with the
country, that House would be bound to oppose them
with as much seal and spirit as it has hitherto exhi,
bited to support them. The Bill is the people's
Bill, and nothing less efficient will either be pro-
posed on the one hand, or accepted on the other.—
Morning Adve!,lisr.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD `This well-
known picture, painted by the late Sir THOMAS LAW•
RENCE, President of the Royal Academy, was an original
poFtralt of a dau.c,diter of Mr. ANPERSON, the West India
broker, who resided in Russell-square, a near neighbour,
and very particular friend of the deceased artist. Atter
the first sitting the painter received his usual fee, and
placed the portrait in his large room, where it remained,
with other unfinished pictures, for several years, notwith-
stxpding constant entreaties, on the part of Mr. Aiinza-
Oli, tlfat it migl4 be completed. When the President
did finish the picture, the chill had become a woman; he
therefore designated it Little Red Riding Hood, and sent
it to the exhibition at Somerset House.— Court Journal.

The father of BISHOP, who has been com-
rait;:e4 for trial on a charge of having murdered the Italian
boy, was a worth' anti industrious man, who for many
years kept an el rand cart betwern liighgate and London.
On the Bth of November, 1816, he was unfortunately
run over by one of PICKFORD'S vans, the wheels of
which passed over both his legs, and crushed them so
dreadfully that amputation was rendered necessay. He
Aid not lung survive the operation. The estimation in
which he waa held was evidenced by the fact, that imme-
diately upon his decease, the inhabitants of Nigh; ate sub-
scribed upwards of 300/. for the 'relief of his family. 11,
left his rvidow far advanced in prlnancy. The money
thus subscribed was placed in the hands of trustees, to
be dispensed to the family as occasion might require. It
was soon discovered that the objects of this liberal benevo-
lence were utterly unworthy of the exertions that had beet,
made in their behalf; for the widow of the deceased and
her son-in.law scrupled not to live together openly 1.5 man
and
were P
wife.pestered
Aapplications until the family had re-
ceived great portion of it went into the
thehands of the widow, the son, and the daughter, who is now
The
the wife of Wttx.i.s74* alias}lX"'
t nhowever, had been raised for
them, and the trustee., who had no power to withhold it,

POLICE INTELLIGEN'C'E,

BOW-STREET.

On Saturday Mr.) Long Wellesley drove to this
office, accompanied by a military gentleman, and
made application for an assault-warrant against
Stewart Derbyshire, Esq., a barrister, for attempt-
ing "eto horsewhip him. The fracas took place at
the office of the Sunday Times, in Fleet-street,
where, we understand, Mr. Wellesley called, for the
purpose of demanding a contradiction of some
paragraph which appeared in the paper in question;
and in so doing mentioned the name of Mr. Derby-
shire, who was within hearing. That gentleman
immediately came forward, and high words took
place between the parties, in the course of which
Mr. Wellesley said, " You know I cannot meet you
as a gentleman," whereupon Mr. Derbyshire at-
tempted to strike Mr. Wellesley with a horsewhip,
but was held back by some gentleman present. A
second attempt was made by Mr. Derbyshire to
horsewhip Mr. Wellesley in Fleet-street, but he
was again restrained from doing so. Mr. Wellesley
then entered his cabriolet with his friend, and drove
immediately to this office for a warrant against
Mr. Derbyshire. The assault however having taken
place in Fleet-street, Mr. Wellesley was referred to
a city magistrate, but was told that he might give
his information here, and any warrant which he
might obtain in the city would be backed by a magis-
tme of this office. Mr. Wellesley accordingly
gave a short information of the facts of the assault,
and proceeded to the city to apply for a warrant.
In the course of the morning Mr. Thomas ap-
peared before Mr. HALLS, and stated that the female
dress found in the privy of the house No. 2, Nova
Scotia-gardens (next door to the residence of Bishop),
had been identified by two females (Mrs. Hitchcock
and Mrs. Low), who had called upon him the pre-
ceding night at the station, in consequence of having
seen an advertisement stating that such clothes had
been found. It appeared that a poor woman named
Fanny Pighorn, who used to obtain her living by
washing, left the house of her sister, Mrs. Low (one
of the applicants), who resided in Chart-street East,
City-road, about six weeks ago, at eight o'clock in
the evening, and had never since been either seen
or heard of, When she left her sister's, she said
she should not be long, as she was going as far only
iie Mr. Campion's, in Chmeh-tireet,
It appeared that she had called there on the evening
in question, and left the house at about nine o'clock,
for the purpose, it is supposed, of returning to her
sister's. Mrs. Hitchcock, who had known the
missing woman for 35 years, described the dress
which she used to wear, which exactly corresponded
wi,h the clothes found in the privy, She spoke
particularly to the shawl, which she said she herself
had worn, arid afterwards gave it to Fanny Pighorn ;
and she also identified the b:ue cloth pocket found
with the other articles, and the fellow of which she
produced, saying that they had both belonged to a
Mrs. Bell, who on her death had bequeathed one of
them to her (Mrs. Hitchcock), and the other to
Fanny Pighorn. The moment that the clothes
were produced, they were identified by both women,
and Mrs. Low positively declared that they were
the same which her unfortunate sister had on when
she left her house to go to Church-street.
Mr. Thomas then called forward Mrs. Hitchcock
and Mrs. Low, who fully corroborated the above
statement.

In reply to questions by Mr. HALLs, Mrs. Low,
who wept bitterly, said tfat her sister was about 45
years of age, that she was of a cheerful disposition,
in the enjoyment of good health, and of particularly
sober habits,

Mr. Thomas said, that the shawl which Mrs.
Hitchcock had so fully identified was not found with
the rest of the clothes, but in a deep well in Bishop's
garden, where it had been sunk by means of a large
stone, and he had ascerained that about the time
spoken to by the applican,s, Bishop had disposed of
the body of a woman at one of the hospitals. Ile
had also been informed, that cries of " murder"
were heard to proceed from the direction of Bishop's
cottage, late one night about six weeks ago.
Mr. HALLs observed, that the circumstances were
most suspicious, and he advised Mr. Thomas to take
the applicants to the clerk's office, in order that their
information might be !educed to writing.
At a subsequent period of the day ;he two women
were brought by Mr. Thomas before Mr. MiNsbut.
in the private room, when the clothes were produced
and again fully identified by them (except the petti-
coat and shift, which could not be distinctly sworn
to) as the clothes of Fanny Pighorn. Mr. Harmer
was present, and submitted that a warrant should
be lodged at Nesvgate against Bishop and Williams,
charging them on suspicion with the wilful murder
of Fanny Pighorn.
Mr. Thomas should .;se every exertion for the
purpose of ascertaining the hospital at which Bishop
disposed of the body of a female übout the period
stated, with a view to obtain further evidence tend-
ing to identify it with that of Fanny Pighorn,
It was understood that the warrant was lodged
by way of detainer against Bishop and Williams in
the course of the evening.