The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-29 00:00:00

KING'S SPEECH.

4.‘ If our grief is renewed in recalling to mind the event
which list year deprived us of your Majesty's presence, it
is agreeable to us, at the commencement of this session,
to see you accompanied by the hereditary Prince of
Orange, a branch of that family to which the security of
the Netherlands is so closely united, and to which we
mingle the same sentiments of affection which we bear to
our country. At this moment, when duty brings us to
your Majesty's feet to offer our respectful homage for the
communications which we have received, we feel those sen-
timents still more strongly. However, we all united round
the throne when, towards the close of last session, your
Majesty made us acquainted with the declaration trans-
mitted in your name to the representatives of Austria,
France, England, Prussia, and Russia, in the conference
at London. We were persuaded that the result would be
a prompt decision of our foreign affairs. It was just to
expect that that declaration, founded on a basis
irrevocably fixed by the Powers themselves, would
lead to such a result that justice would at
length be done to your Majesty's efforts for the defence
of the national interest, and to a people faithful to its
King and to its duty. We are deeply afflicted that no
answer has yet been returned to a declaration so pre-
cise and unreserved. Your Majesty still cherishes a hope
that this answer will announce an issue compatible with the
honour and the true interests of the Netherlands. May
this hope not be suddenly dispelled by the consequences of
an inconceivable policy. Your Majesty would then find us
ready to support your efforts for the purpose of obtaining
such an issue."
The States General concludes its address in these terms.:
—" At the opening of the Session we feel ourselves ani-
mated with the same ardour as when we entered on this
policy to co-operate with your Majesty in your exertions
for the advantage and safety of the country ; and in this
confidence we implore the blessing of the Almighty on our
combined endeavours."--Journal du Commerce d'Anvers,
Oct. 27.

A correspondence, as our readers know, has arisen between
Col. Thompson, and Mr. Ward, M. P. for Sheffield, which
begun by the Colonel's correcting a misprint in the Morning
Chronicle, of October 16, in the report of his speech at Hull.
Mr. Ward replied in terms to which objection has been taken.
The following answer to that gentleman from Col. Thompson
is now published by the Hull Advertiser :
Dear Sir,—ln saying that you " set aside the question of
abstract justice," it was my intention to quote the words of your
Address to your Constituents, though there was not opportunity
at the moment for referring to the report. On reference to the
Sheffield Iris of Sept. 11, the words are found thus stated :--
t‘ I had enough of English feeling about me at once to set
aside the mere question of abstract justice." It is not often a
quotation from memory is so exact.
The meaning collected from these words was certainly that
they implied an admission, that you thought abstract justice
ivas with the Canadians, but moved with that feeling which
induces men to desire military success for their own party in
opposition to justice, rejoiced in the victory of the troops sent
against them. Nobody ever talks of setting aside the mere
question of abstract justice, who has not made up his mind
that justice is at war with him. At all events, a belief to this
effect was the basis of my conclusion.
The evidence within reach of the public may be considered
as reducible to the contents of the Canadian Newspapers; with
always a Hide reservation that this shall be considered as hos-
tile evidence to the Canadians, because the first operation of
the Government was to put down the Press of the opposing
side by force, " the Magistrates aad troops standing by to
support." My curiosity is to know how the people of England
would act under similar circumstances. The dangerous part
of your principle is, that a Government is only to break the
law and attack the liberties of the people, and then the res:st-
ance of the people furnishes your " impossibility of governing
by the ordinary principles of constitutional law." It is diffi-
cult not to see in this the total destruction of every security for
popular rights, so long as there exists a military force capable
of being employed to take them away. It is akin to Lord
John Russell's declaration, that stopping the supplies would be
a dissolution of the Constitution. The meaning of which
principle, combined with what has been denominated
yours, is that Lord John Russell is at liberty to
turn the army upon the people and the House of Commons,
the instant the people and the House of Commons use
their constitutional right of stopping the supplies. Put
it to all the little boys what meaning there is in a Con-
stitutional right, which the Minister is at liberty to put down
with the standing army whenever it is exercised. But the
word which is to cover all, is " necessity," meaning the ne-
cessity of either committing the intended treason, or being.
" crossed in despotism." A thief is under just the same ne-
cessity, of either committing his felonious act, or letting it
alone. A similar course has been taken on the subject of Ju-
ries. " We desire to punish men for acts which a Jury will
think laudable ; and so we are under the necessity of abolish-
ing the institution of Juries." In the cases of the Bermuda
prisoners this was done. In Chartrand's case the intimidation
of Juries was trusted to, and as soon as the real point on which
the defence rested was brought forward, to wit that Chartrand
was killed while acting as a clandestine enemy within the lines
of an armed force, it was stopped as indecent ; whereupon
the Jury—like men who knew what the institution of the Jury
was intended for—seeing that the defence was refused a hear-
ing, gave the benefit of it to the prisoner and acquitted him.
There is strong proof that the French Canadians do not
" monopolise all my sympathies ;" for it is clear enough that
a very large portion of the Anglo-Canadian population have
an equal claim on any feelings of that nature. There appears
no evidence that there was ever the slightest design on the part
of the Canadians of French origin to oppress anybody. There
is a body of English in that country who you know are consi-
dered by political economists of my class, as a detachment
quartered there to live by the plunder of the British public
through the intervention of a commercial monopoly ; and it
is of course double grief to such as us, to see military tyranny
introduced, not only for the preservation of no interest of the
British people, but for the support of a system of sheer loss,
damage, and discredit. But nobody has established the exist-
ence of any plan to treat even this portion with unjustifiable
rigour; and the fact that a very numerous party of British
origin, are in their hearts with the French Canadians, is to
me strong evidence that the outcry of danger to the Anglo-
Canadians was never anything but the ruse of an enemy, and
to be resisted accordingly.
My advice to the people of Hull, put together as it should
be done upon another opportunity, amounted to this ;—" Do
not think of employing physical force as the means of obtain-
ing further political privileges. But think it high time to be
considering what condition you are in for defending the privi-
leges your fathers left you, against such an attack as has been
tried in Canada. It will be tried here too, unless you quash
the danger by removing the Ministers who made the attempt,
and bringing them to a personal account for what they have
done already." The time will assuredly come for an appeal
from Philip drunk to Philip sober—from the British people
stupificd, to the people with their wits about them.
My great regret is that the Septennial Act should interpose
so long an interval before the people of Sheffield can pass a
judgment in the present controversy. In the mean time per-
mit me to say, that my obligation for this opportunity of going
over my case again, greatly outweighs any that can be due to
me for correcting a simple error of the press, which must have
been perplexing to you, and to the readers of the public prints
in general.—Believe toe, yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Ramsgate, Oct. 19.

TENACITY OF LIFE IN CATS.—A Correspon-
dent states that, a short time since, a litter of kittens were
immersed in water for an hour by a person connected with
King's College, in the Strand, and then buried in a dung-
heap, but that, after the lapse of nine days, ou the removal of
the dung, they were found alive. The kittens, adds our Cor-
respondent, are now in the possession of Mr. Partridge, one of
the Professors.

DEATH FROM PUGILISM.—Two men, engaged in
two different contests at Leicester, have lost their lives from
being engaged in boxing matches. A verdict of manslaughter
last Monday was recorded in both cases. What a compound
of folly and brutality is suggested to the mind by these de-
moralizing contests.
On Thursday an inquisition was held at the Jolly
Coopers, Clerkenwell-close, on the body of Mrs. Mary Com-
mander, aged 57. The husband of deceased deposed that she
had not been in good health for some time past. About two
years ago she had a breaking out in one of her legs, and the
wound had never healed up. On Saturday last tho deceased
appeared much as usual, and about half-past eleven o'clock the
a Mme evening went up stairs to her bed-room. In about half
an hour afterwards witness found the deceased lying on the
floor, apparently having fallen from the foot of the bed. She
was insensible, and the body was surrounded with a pool of
blood which was still flowing from the wound in her thigh. A
medical gentleman was sent for, who arrived in a few minutes,
and pronounced life to be quite extinct. The doctor gave his
decided opinion that she died from a rupture of a blood-vessel
in her leg. The jury returned a verdict accordingly.
On Thursday an inquest was held at the London
Hospital on the body of Mr. Charles Thompson, aged sixty-
six years, who died in that institution from the effects of poison.
From the evidence given by the wife of the deceased and other
witnesses, it appeared that the deceased a few years ago had
been in very good circumstances in Scotland, but, owing to
severe losses in business, became very much reduced, and left
that country about twelve months ago and came to London.
About ten months ago be opened a chandler's shop in Nicholas-
street, Bethnal-green, where, owing to the poverty of the
neighbourhood, his prospects were not much improved, and
this circumstance, together with his former losses, so preyed
on his mind, that for several weeks past he had been in a low
and desponding state of mind. On Tuesday morning, at an
early hour, he swallowed a large dose of arsenic, and, becom-
ing very ill shortly afterwards, he was removed to the hospital.
On being questioned there by the medical gentleman, he at
once acknowledged having taken arsenic. Every ;means were
used to counteract its effect, but such was the quantify he had
taken that they proved unavailing, and be died at I I o'clock
on the same forenoon. Verdict—" Temporary Insanity."
PREVENTION OF JEALOUSY IN A WIFE.-One
thing every husband can do in prevention, and that is, to give
no ground for it. And here it is not sufficient that he strictly
adhere to his marriage vow; he ought farther to abstain from
every act, however free from guilt, calculated to awaken the
slightest degree of suspicion in a mind, the peace of which he
is bound by every tie of justice and humanity not to disturb,
or, if he can avoid it, to suffer it to be disturbed by others.
A woman that is very fond of her husband—and this is the
case with nine-tenths of English and American women—does
not like to share with another any, even the smallest portion,
not only of his affection, but of his assiduities and applause;
and as the bestowing of them on another, and receiving pay-
ment in kind, can serve no purpose other than of gratifying
one's vanity, they ought to be abstained from, and especially if
the gratification be to be purchased with even the chance of
exciting uneasiness in her whom it is your sacred duty to
make as happy as you can.—Cobbett.
Bo NA PA RTE PAPERS.— A large mass of letters and
other documents, written by Napoleon, when between the
ages of fifteen and twenty-one, have been discovered in Cor-
sica, containing much curious matter, and are preparing for
.
publication
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The schoolmaster has surely been abroad to some
purpose. The other day a gentleman asked a most varmint-
looking cab-driver what was meant by the letters V- It-
( Victoria Regina) on his new badge. "Vy (be replied),
don't you know ? They means Vittle R. V., to be sure; be
as is now at the top of the conweyancing business."---"e"
rary Gazette.
On Saturday afternoon, between four and five
o'clock, the body of a man, apparently between fifty and sixty
years of age, was found on the shore at the south side of Lon-
don Bridge. He has every appearance of having been a caul-
ker, being dressed in a blue frock and trowsers. In his pockets
were found a knife, tobacco-box, and rule, and a note desiring
him to proceed to Lambeth to work. From the appearance of
the body the unfortunate man is supposed to have been in the
water but a very few hours. The body awaits a Coroner's

Inquest.
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WORCESTER. -We
cester was seized with violent and alarming hiccuping when
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SERIOUS IwLeLrNeEgSr:t OtoF
sit down to dinner on Saturday last. He was better
aohnoumtotnoday
and Tuesday, but on Wednesday had a relapse,
which has occasioned considerable anxiety as to the result.
The Worcester Papers of Thursday contain announcements
that the consecration of St. Peter's Church, in that city, was,
;n cons-quence, postponed, and that the committee are not
prepared to state when it will be performed. The ceremony
was to have taken place on Tuesday, and a dinner given to
the Chairman of the Building Committee. —Brighton Herald.

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