The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It is amusing to witness the conduct of the Con-
servatives in the unpleasant predicament in which they
now find themselves placed. Lord What ncliffe, one
of their leaders in the hereditary House, says, that if
the Peers have not the people with them, their branch
of the Legislature cannot long exist.. his admission
18 worth something, coming as it does from the mouth
Of a Tory Lord. It is a tribute of homage to the people
which, a few years ago, nothing short of the rack
would have extorted from an hereditary legislator of the
Conservative class. Then the people were " the swinish
multitude," " the unwashed," and so forth ; and the
daily practice of the Tory Lords was to treat them, in
words as well as by acts, with the most sovereign con-
tempt. But the march of events, and the force of cir-
it seems, work miracles, even on the
euiristances, can,
birth. They have compelled the
minds of legislators L'IT
Tleople with at least an external
Tory Peers to treat the
respect, whatever may be the feelings the y entertain
towards them in their own mincis!. The truth is, that
being formerly secure of the Commons; ).)y means of
pocket boroughs, they could afford to treat the people
with the most marked scorn ; but now that the' "ice oft
the country is so far heard as to retnrn a majority (,
the Members of the Lower House, the Peers fin'

themselves placed in very different circumstances.
They now see the policy of assuming, if they do not
feel, respect for the people of England. It must be
no small triumph to the Reformors to sec the haughty
Legislators of the Upper House compelled to stoop so
low as openly to court the support of the very humblest
classes of operatives. Who would have dreamt of this
a few years since ? Certainly not these Tory lord-
17ngs themselves. But will the forced humility of the
Conservative Peers, in associating with the hard-
working operatives of Liverpool and other places, be
of any avail to them ? . Not the slightest.. Poll the
entire working population of England and Scotland,
and it will be found that for one that is on the side of
Toryism, there are at least five hundred against them.
And even of the two or three thousand operatives who
profess themselves Conservatives, we doubt if there be
a dozen who are so from principle or conviction. The
secret of their professions of Toryism will be found in
the cogent argument of dependence for their bread on
some Conservative employer, or the use of some other
underhand influence. The fact is, that a Tory opera-
tive from conviction would be a moral anomaly. If
we could believe that any working man had come to
the conclusion that Conservatism was the right poli-
tical creed for him, there would be no resisting the
conclusion, that there was a defect in his upper story.
Lord Wharncliffe may, if he please, dignify the two or
three thousand operatives, whom circumstances over
which they themselves have no controul compel to
make a profession of Toryism, with the name of the
people of England ;" but he and the other Conserva-
tive Peers will find, before twelve months elapse, that
there is another and very different people of England.
Just now the Noble Baron conveniently assumes that
the Peers havp the people with them. We have no
wish to torment their Lordships before the time by dis-
sipating the delusion. Let them, by all means, dream
on a little longer. They will open their eyes, and
awake from their pleasing slumbers in good enough
time for the people, if not for themselves. We
promise them that before next Session is half finished,
the nation will speak in such a voice of thunder as will
make the deafest of their Lordships to hear, and that
too, as the humble adage has it, on the wrong side of
the head.—Morning Advertiser.
The Conservative press is accused by the Whig
journals of dealing unfairly in its opposition to the
principle of the Poor Law Amendment Act. We wish
the Whig journals would tell us distinctly what that
principle is ? Is it, or is it not, that an individual, in
whatever circumstances of helplessness or destitution,
who exercises his or her legal right to parochial relief,
forfeits by this Act every other civil and social right?
If such be the principle of the Act, we can scarcely
imagine any mode of warfare against it which would
be unfair ; for it is an inhuman and detestable prin-
ciple. If such be not the principle of the Act, then
the Commissioners who pretend to administer it have
most greatly exceeded their authority. We leave the
advocates of the Act and of the Commissioners to
make their choice between these alternatives ; or, if
they refuse this, to confess frankly to the world, that,
in their liberal opinion, close incarceration, denial of
the free air of heaven, interdiction of access to relatives
and friends, the putting asunder of those whom God
hal joined together, the forcible prevention of the pub-
lic worship of God, unless in a form and in circum-
stasces objectionable to the consciences of many per-
sons, are not violations of the civil and social rights of
Englishmen. Such is the real state of the question.—
Morning Post.
The Whigs, being practised traders in agitation,
and having derived great profits from the trade, are
very sore about any thing like competition in their fa-
vourite commodity, and with the jealousy of monopo-
lists, would have no rivals in that line. They and
their Journalists are now very much alarmed, lest their
political opponents should agitate upon the subject of
that beautiful—that unrivalled specimen of Whig po-
litical science—the Poor Law Amendment Act. They
now find out that agitation is a very bad—a very dan-
gerous thing. So it always is when it is against the
Whigs ; but when it is for them it is quite another
sort of thing ; it is a thing to be lauded by Whig
Senators, encouraged by Whig Journals, practised by
Whig emissaries ! The soul of agitation, whether it
becomes embodied in a jacobinical convention in
Dublin, or animates the terrible array of 150 Bruin-
magen hammermen assembled on Newhall-hill, to
teach the Lords how to legislate ; or inspires the
smoke-enwreathed oratory of the Codgers, of Codgers'
Hall; or becomes seditiously magniloquent in the corpus-
cular fractions of the " three tailors of Tooley-street,"
—it is in all these, and a thousand other shapes
and manifestations, when exerting itself to get the
Whigs into place, or to keep them there, a most pro •
per and patriotic sort of thing, deserving of all coin-
inendation and encouragement. But only let agita-
tion take the other side, and iris a most disagreeable
and dangerous practice, if not positively illegal, and
deserving of being prosecuted by a Whig Attorney-
General, who knows what agitation is, from having
practised pretty strongly in that way, on a time, •for
the benefit of his party, and the preservation of his
place. Within our own recollection the Whigs se-
lected a British Nobleman to be Viceroy of Ireland,
because on a former occasion he addressed to the ex-
citeable population of that country the emphatic ad-
vice, " Agitate—agitate—agitate 1" And surely the
docile Irish have followed the advice with the most
implicit obedience, from that day to this. It is true
that Nobleman lived to be the victim of his own ad-
vice, as the inventor of the brazen bull of Phalaris
was made to bear bellowing testimony to the ago-
nising efficacy of his own invention. Never was
there a counsellor of agitation against whom the bat-
tery of that electrico-popular science was directed
with more effect than against the Marquis of Anglesey.
Then came new penal- devices—Wing proclamations
and Whig Coercion Acts, to catch and punish agitators.
Then came prosecutions against the leaders of agitation
—even against the very chief of the Councils of those
who followed the advice contained in the thrice-repeated
trisyllable before mentioned. Agitation was then against
the Whigs. It was therefore a crime. But the com-
pact at Lichfield House was more effectual than State
prosecutions. It secured the benefit of Irish agita-
tion for the Whigs, arid it is now only a lively emo-
tion of patriotic virtue, which, instead of leading its
professors to the docks of Courts of Justice and to
dungeons, qualifies them for, the highest and most lu-
crative appointments under the Crown. Indeed, since
Irish agitation has been enlisted in the Whig service
—that is, in the service of the ci-devant " base, bloody,
and brutal" coercers of agitation, it is necessary for
every ambitious applicant for office—every aspiring
Barrister, and other " disinterested" candidate fur the
Government loaves and fishes, to prepare himself, in
some school of agitation—all other qualifications being
worthless compared with what he learns there. It
'was only in the last Session of Parliament that Lord
Holland edified the House of Lords with a warm
and eloquent enlogiutn on agitation, the propriety of
establishing normal schools of agitation in Ireland
being then, if we recollect right, under discussion.
It is true that only two or three years before Lord
Holland was as zealously assisting to pass Lord Grey's

Coercion Act to crush and extirpate that most admi-
rable system of agitation, of which, under the Mel-
bourne auspices, he became the panegyrist. Lord Hol-
land had also joined Lord Grey in denouncing in the
hind's speech the chief Agitator, in whose trade he
has since discovered so much to praise, and even to
imitate, for he actually agitated the House in favour
of agitation. But agitation on the Whig Poor Law
Bill is a thing which the Whigs and their journalists
view with perfect horror. It actually makes " their
hair stand on end," as the inflammatory speeches "of
Sir Francis Burdett did the then Tory locks of the
sapient Sir Thomas Lethbridge, who has lived to prac-
tise in that way for himself ; but we suppose he now
wears a wig. We told the Whigs and their Journalists
sometime ago that, as they were fond of agitation they
were likely to have plenty of it on their Poor Law Bill,
which is a scandal to a Christian land. It is horrible to
think of Lambeth or Shmeditch being agitated unless
on behalf of the Whigs. As to the symptoms of rural
agitation on the subject, they must be reduced at once,
by the sharp medicine of a rural oensdarmerie. The cen-
tral Board of Bashaws must have their centralized army
of policemen. The poor, who will not starve in quiet, or
thankfully submit to be imprisoned for life, must be
taught by our legislative " philosophers " that the
groans of nature arc treasonable when starvation is ac-
-yaw to law. But we observe that the cries of the
cor,
afflicteL: poor are now met by the promise, or the
,:-n0,7 not which to call it, of a Parliamen-
thre2t, we
'9 we had a Parliamentary inquiry last
tary inquiry.
the di
it stressed agriculturists, and
year into the case o. „ . did the suffering farmers of
no doubt, the result of
England infinite service The have derived as much
benefit from it as from Mr. Spi."ng "
.1
Evening Paper
and
vening Paper
gin buchiet." • When a Ministeri:
isholie opera-
talks of a Parliamentary inqury into the
tion of what it is pleased to call the anoint, '4 system
of Poor-laws, surely it cannot be serious in supp,„
that the public will place any reliance upon the opinion
of a Committee packed by the Whigs to sit in mock
deliberation upon upon that precious specimen of
Whig political science which has abolished the poor
man's charter, and uprooted from the soil the system of
Christian charity which for ages had been a protection
to property and an ornament to the social state.—
Morning Herald.

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A villain concealed himself a few nights ago in the
church of St. Remi, at Dieppe, and attempted to rob the
poor box ; but either from unskilfulness or tremour, he
managed so as to wound himself severely with the instru-
ment he used for the purpose, and failed to break open
the box, leaving several 'marks of blood on the pavement.
LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, NO-
VELS, &c.—lt is seldom at this early period of the pub-
lishing season that we have to notice the appearance of so
many interesting works as are at present engaging the atten-
tion of the reading public.' Among others are " The
Prince of Canino's Memoirs," " Memorials of Mrs. He-
mans," " Madrid in 1835," " Hazlitt's Literary Remains,"
" The Great Metropolis," " Inklings of Adventure," " The
Desultory Man," " Mr. Midshipman Easy," " Tales of the
Woods and Fields," " Rienzi," by Mr. Bulwer ; " A Pedes-
trian Tour through England and Wales," " Sir Granville
Temple's Travels in Greece," " Japhet in Search of a
Father," &c.
THE DRESS OF THE LADY MAYORESS.—The
mantcau was composed of rich royal purple velvet,
splendidly embroidered with gold lama; in a superb pattern.
The corsage was cut low, and tight to the shape. The sleeves
of white satin, ornamented with puffings of gold-coloured
gros de Naples ; they were of small size, and intermixed with
blond—super blond manchettes, not so deep as the antique
ruffles, terminated the sleeves. The robe was white satin,
trimmed with blond, and embroidered in lama acorns and
leaves. The corsage ornamented in front in the stomacher
style, with narrow gold cord and acorns—a superb cordeliere
descended from the ceinture ; the back trimmed with an
Elizabethian ruff. Head-dress—feathers and diamonds.
White kid gloves, embroidered in gold ; white satin slippers.
To BOOK SOCIETIES AND FAMILIES.—We
are requested by Mr. Bull, the Librarian, to announce that
he-has lately established at his Library a system for supply-
ing Book Societies, in all parts of the Kingdom, regularly with
the New and Standard Works, Reviews and Magazines, for
perusal, at a cost to each member of less than One Guinea
per annum. Full Particulars, with Terms also for Families,
and a copious List of Books, including all the valuable and
popular New Works, can be had, or will be sent per post,
as a single letter, on application to Mr. Bull, Librarian, 19,
Holles-street, Cavendish-square.
The French papers mention the death of the
Countess Isabelle Theotski Albrizzi, a star in the world of
Italian literature, on the 27th of September last, at Venice.
She was a Greek by birth, being born at Corfu ; but, like
Ugo Foscolo, came early into Italy, the language of which
she studied, and afterwards wrote with great beauty and
purity. She was twice married, first to Marino, a man of
letters, at Venice ; and lastly to the Count. Joseph Albrizzi.
She was known to all the' literati of Europe. Her best
work was that called Rizatti, which was a series of contem-
porary portraits sketched by a clever hand. She also ob-
tained some distinction by her defence of the Mirra of
Alfieri against the criticisms of Arteaga. Her character as
a clever woman, however, appears to rest more upon her
powers of conversation and graceful manners than the pro-
ductions of her pen. Lord Byron called her " the Madame
do Steel of Venice."
We regret to learn that the crime of incendiarism has
again commenced in the county of Norfolk. On Sunday
last, about five o'clock, a fire was discovered to have broken
out in the stack yard of a farm belonging to Sir Thomas
Hare, Bart., and occupied by Mr. Henry Lemmon, situate
at Shuldlitun, near Downham Market. Mr. Lemman was
on a visit to a neighbouring farmer at Wimbotsham, when
the alarm was given, but within a short period after his re-
turn the produce of three large wheat stacks was entirely
consumed. The fire did not extend itself, the stacks being
in an isolated situation. We are happy to add the whole
were insured to their full value, although there can be no
doubt the fire was the diabolical act of an incendiary, there
beine no house near to have occasioned the mischief.
The severity of the weather is nowhere more keenly
felt in this neighbourhood than in the hills which lie between
Macclesfield and Buxton. A poor' woman of the name of
Heatheote, a resident of Bran-side, had been to Buxton
Fair, which was held on Friday. During the afternoon
she got in company with a man named Nadir, with whom
she remained drinking until four o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing. She then started to go home, and on arriving at Dale
Head, near Axe-edge, it is supposed from the effects of tho
liquor and the intensity of the cold, she fell down and went
to sleep. The neighbours finding that she had not re-
turned, set out to search for her, and on Sunday morning
she was found almost covered with snow, and quite dead.—
Macclesfield Courier.
MAJOR SKINNER AND THE DAMES OF DA-
MASCUS.—I rambled all the afternoon among these singular
scenes, giving nearly as much amusement to those who
had never seen the Frank dress before as I received from
all that was new to me. It is only six months since an
European has been 'able with safety to appear in his own
costume, and very few have yet been here to display it. I
am to many, therefore, a most singular exhibition. I appear
so mean a figure in comparison with those of the flowing
robes about me, that I am miserably out of conceit of my
wardrobe, and have no occasion to be flattered with the
notice I have attracted. The Turkish women mutter " God
is merciful," as I pass them, and scan to call for protection
from my ill omened aspect ; the Christian women laugh
aloud, and chatter with their sweet voices comments far
from favourable to my appearance. As I walked in front
of a group of these merry dames, I drew my handkerchief
from my coat-pocket, and, naturally enough, applied it to
wipe the dust from my eyes. I was assailed by such a shout
of laughter that I thought I had committed some frightful
indiscretion. I stood in great perplexity, with my hand-
kerchief in hand, evidently an object of intense interest, for
many women came shuffling from a distance to see the show.
This was at length ended by my returning the cause of all
the amusement to its place ; when, forgetting their propriety,
they clapped their hands, and laughed with double enjoy-
ment. * * * As the congregation was coming from
the church, I strolled up and down the pavement. l have
already spoken of my attraction to all the Christian children
in Damascus about me : in a little time the women took
courage to approach me also. Among them were-some of
the merry ones whose laughter had been so excited by the
management of my pocket handkerchief on Friday. • By their
signs and actions I discovered at length how I had caused
their mirth, for they prayed me to play the scene over again.
When I had gratified this reasonable curiosity, so many fair
hands were thrust into my coat-pockets that I struggled with
some difficulty to escape, lest my clothes should be torn to
pieces, and distributed throughout the .city as relics of some
extraordinary monster. In our customs, too, we equally
perplex them. When I confessed the circumstance of being
yet single, " Why, why, 0 Frank?" they all cried, and
crowded still closer about mu to have the mystery explained.
The old servant of the convent, who was standing at the
door, perceiving the sensation, Caine to my relief, and inter-
preted to me a question that an old woman had proposed
with sonic anxiety, for I despaired of giving a satisfactory
.reply to the other. "Is it true," asked she, " that in Fran-
istan men and women walk arm-in-arm in the streets ?" I
ccould not deny the fact. This had such an effect upon
my audience that I felt nearly ashamed of the confession,
for I knew not how to vindicate it to them.—Major Skin-
ner's Overland Journey to India.