The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-14 00:00:00

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THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1836.

On the bringing up of the Report of the South
Metropolitan Cemetery Bill last night, in the House of
Commons, there arose an interesting discussion, which
ended, we are glad to say, in the re-committal of the
Bill. It appears that the promoters of this under-
taking, not, we are sure, from any wish that sectarian
animosities should be continued in the grave, but from
a laudable desire to give satisfaction to customers of
all sorts, propose to divide their burying ground into
two parts, the one for members of the Established
Church, the other for Dissenters. This, on the face of

it, looks like what may be called an invidious distinction,
and as it is, we believe universally admitted that all dis-
tinctions cease the moment we enter the dominions of the
great Leveller, it is both irrational and indecent to at-
tempt to perpetuate them even in appearance. We are
aware that there are multitudes of Churchmen who
imagine they could not rest in their graves were a Dis-
senter to repose near them, but we are sure the Legisla-
ture—the House of Commons at least—will never
give effect to such unchristian feelings, by sanctioning
any scheme which has a tendency to embitter sectarian
differences. Others, again, cannot die happy unless
they know they are to be buried in ground that has
been made holy by the prayers of a mitred priest.
They cannot rot peaceably in unconsecrated earth.
This is an ignorant prejudice fostered, like many others,
by priestcraft for its own selfish purposes ; and
though it ought not to be needlessly encouraged, yet,
as it is in a great measure harmless, it may be left to
the effects of time and intelligence. The Dissenters,
on the other hand, think that all ground is alike,
whether consecrated or not. They take care, though
this Bill insinuates the contrary, " that their burials
shall he Conducted in a decent and solemn manner ;"
but they have not the least misgiving thought that the
repose If the dead wilL.be interrupted, or their future
state in any way influenc.ed, by the accident of the
burial being in a certain place. The public are much
indebted to Mr. POTTER, for calling the attention of
the House to the subject. It is now pretty certain,
that if the Company wish: to get their Bill passed,
they must consent either to have the whole or none pf
their ground consecrated.

We observe that a motio n was made by Mr. WYNN,
and agreed to by the House of Commons last night,
for the attendance of Mr. CUNDY, the Engineer, at
the bar of the House, to an serer for certain words com-
prehending a breach of 1 nivilege, said to have been
spoken by him respecting an Honourable Member.
According to the statem :nt of Sir C. BURRELL

(the Member .alluded tc Mr. CUNDY is re-
ported to have said to t he Member for Wiltshire
that he (Sir C. B.) had b !en influenced by interested
motives in supporting STEP 'HENSON'S line of railroad to
Brighton, inasmuch as tha t line passes through his
property, and puts 15,0001 into his pocket. More-
over, that two other mem bei s of the Committee were
in a similar predicament, t, he one receiving 12,000/. and
the other 8,000/. Sir CI IA RLES denied the truth of
the statement, and there IN "e think the matter ought to
have rested. We like to sc :e :Hon. Members squeamish
upon points of honour, but we like also to see

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them consistent. It is very possible that no specific
engagement has been i. !ritered into between the
parties, yet there may exist an understanding
that in the event of the Bill passing, ample rc-
munciation shall be given. If Members of Parliament
wish to avoid the suspicio ' of acting from interested
motives they ought to absta in from sitting on railway
Committees, or taking any ~7 art in Parliamentary pro-
ceedings when the railway ii ; to pass through their

own property. No man is qualified to be judge, much
less judge and juror too, in his own cause.

In an article entitled the " Spirit of Whiggism,"
which appears in the Times of this morning, the writer,
who signs himself " Runnymede," endeavours to prove
that the Whig, or Liberal, body has no hold on the
esteem or confidence of the people ; but is a mere fac-
tion aiming, by insidious means, at the overthrow of
the Legitimate Constitution, and the establishment of
a despotic oligarchy. In order to make good this
fool-hardy assertion, " Runnymede" falsifies contem-
porary history with the recklessness of one to whom
falsehood is familiar. Thus, speaking of the newly-
' modelled Municipal Institutions, he says, " These
Corporations have neither prescription in their favour,
nor property. Their influence is maintained neither by
tradition nor substance. They have no indirect au-
thority over the minds of their townsmen ; they have
only their modish charters to appeal to, and the newly-
engrossed letter of the law. They'have no hold of the
national mind ; they have not sprung from the na-
tional character ; they were born of faction, and they
will live by • faction. Such bodies must speedily be-
come corrupt ; they will ultimately be found dan-
gerous instruments in the hands of a revolutionary fac-
tion." Now, the very reverse of this is the fact, for
the New Corporations are remarkable, above all things,
for the rigid accuracy with which they represent popular
opinion. In them, the national character is reflected,
as in a mirror. They are the slaves of no sect ; the re-
gisters of the decrees of no faction ; they belong to
neither Whig, Tory, nor Radical ; swear neither by
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir ROBERT PEEL, nor
DANIEL O'CONNELL ; but spring directly from the
people, to whose interests they are exclusively de-
voted, and deprived of whose fostering influence they
cannot subsist a day. We grant that the old Cor-
porations were factious, isolated bodies, standing
disdainfully aloof from the people, and se-
conded in all their encroachments on popular rights
and defiance of popular opinion by the Aristocracy,
whose willing and corrupt slaves but too many of
them were ; but certainly no charge of the sort can,
with even the shadow of truth or justice, be brought
against the re-modelled Municipal Bodies. But grant-
ing, for the sake of argumept, that they are all that
" Runnymede" states them to be, whose fault is it
that they have been called into existence ? The Lords',
of course, who foresaw the danger, but lacked the
courage to destroy it in the bud ! If, as this writer
assures us—and no doubt he speaks the sentiments of
his party—if the New Corporations " will ultimately"
be found dangerous instruments in the hands of a revo-
lutionary faction," how shamefully remiss in the House
of Lords to have permitted the re-organization of such
belies ? Holding the opinions they did, and still do, on
the subject, it -was their bounden duty to have thrown
out the English Municipal,Reform Bill. But no—they
dared not. They sacrificed their dUty to their
,fears,
and allowed a measure to become law which they,
nevertheless, firmly believed, would be followed by the
most disastrous results to the Constitution. Is it for a
Tory then to come forward at this tim! of day, and
condemn a measure as " revolutionary," which was
passed with the approbation of his own party ? Far
better he preserved a discreet silence, for every syllable
ha utters on the subject is a virtual condemnation of
the House of Lords, who, within the last few years,
have shown themselves to be as pusillanimous at
heart, as they are braggarts in speech. They
allowed the English Municipal Bill to pass,
• because they feared to rouse the indignation of !
JOIIN BULL ; they kick out the Irish Municipal
Bill, because they imagine that brother PAT may be
insu:ted with impunity. In the one case they play the
part of the craven ; in the other, of the bully: and in
both, legislate with no regard to any considerations but
their own caprices and interests. If this he not faction
—and of the worst and most abject kind—we, know
not what is. But "Runnymede" cannot see this
besetting 'Tory blemish. In his eyes Toryism is all I
that Eva was in the eyes of ADAM, " wisest, vir-
tuousest, discreetest, best." Not a single charge does
he bring against the " Spirit of Whiggism" that does
not apply with tenfold propriety to the " Spirit of
Toryism ;" and we would advise him, therefore, should
he ever think of republishing his letters, to substitute
the word " Toryism for "Whiggism," which is the
only alteration wanted to make them apt commentaries
on the character and conduct of the one great faction
of the day.

Our readers will find in another part of The Sun
nineteen resolutions on the subject of Post-office Re-
form, which Mr. WALLACE has given notice that he
,will move in the House of Commons this evening.
We cordially approve of th 6 first sixteen ; but we
question the expediency—nay, even the justice—of
moving the three last in conjunction with those which
precede them. Were Mr. WALLACE to take our
advice, he would rescind all the resolutions after the
sixteenth—leaving those of a condemnatory character
for future consideration. There is no connec-
tion whatever between a resolution for regulat-
ing mail-coach deliveries in town and country,
and one which brands with infamy persons :through
whose instrumentality the public may have sustained
certain losses in this department of the public ser-
vice. Mr. WALLACE, in his eagerness to reform
the Post-office, and to punish the abettors of its
past abuses, falls into the very common error
of blending the judicial with the legislative
functions. Those who have encouraged extrava-
gance in the Post-office, are either culpable in
the eyes of the•law as it now exists, or they are not.
If they be guilty let their guilt be proven, and then
punish them ; but if they have not sinned against the
provisions of existing statutes, in Heaven's name do
not load them with the recorded censure of the British
Commons.

The apathy of the British Government with respect
to the unjust condemnation of Dr. BEAUMONT to
solitary confinement for life by the French Chamber
of Peers, for the alleged crime of belonging to the
Society of the " Rights of Man," has forced the people
of England into a determination to see the national
honour vindicated and respected in the person of that
gentleman. 'We regret that it should be found neces-
sary to stimulate a British Minister to exert himself in
behalf of the national dignity, when outraged in the
person of a British subject. Such an occurrence
ought not to be passed over, because the people
may happen to be ignorant of, or indifferent with re-
gard to, the merits of the case ; and we feel bound to
observe, that there was a time when our Foreign Mi-
nisters did not leave the national honour so outraged
to the vindication of Crorm and Anchor preetingF.
Some months have now elapsed since the French
Chamber of Peers dared to insult Great Britain by
comdemning to perpetual imprisonment a British sub-
ject. The particulars of this mock-trial and most unjust
sentence were early communicated to the Noble
Viscount at the head of our Foreign policy ; and yet •
we are now called upon to report the proceedings of
public meetings called together with a view to bring
the question regularly before Parliament ! This is
not creditable to Lord PA LMER S TON, and we consider
it no more than our duty to tell his Lordship that such
is our opinion. Dr. BEAUMONT was guilty of no
crime—neither was he amenable to the law under
which he was brought to trial. It was not proved on
his trial that he belonged to any Society ; neither was it
attempted to be proved that he harboured any enmity
against the Sovereign of the FRENCH. In our opinion
the Court of Peers condemned him out of pure ma-
lice against the Press of this country, for having de-
nounced their Lordships' exercise of judicial func-
tions. But whatever was the object which the Court
of Peers had in view, in condemning a British subject
to perpetual imprisonment, it is no less the duty of
Parliament to interfere—now that the question has not
been satisfactorily dealt with by his MAJESTY'S GO-
verninent.

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The whole of the French Papers of Tuesday have
been received. At one o'clock on that day the Cham-
bers were closed, the business of the year 1836
having been formally concluded. AI. MoNTALIvET,
Minister of the Interior, read the Royal Ordinance in
the Chamber of Deputies in the presence of about
fifty members, the rest haying left Paris for their
country residences. The same ceremony was gone
through in the Chamber of Peers, where the atten-
dance of members was by no means so numerous.

Thus Paris is relieved, for some months at least, of
the presence of A King-ridden a hody of legislators as
were ever congregated to watch over the interests of a
great nation.

The execution of ALIBEAUD continues the all-
absorbing subject of comment with our Gallic Con-
temporaries. With the exception of the official or-
gans of the Government, there is not a single journal
in which the policy of carrying the sentence of the
Court of Peers into effect is not severely censured.
The Government has certainly ventured upon a dan-
gerous course of proceeding. We condemn that
course. If the assasination of the KING be contem-
plated by a great number of persons, the infliction
of capital punishments will only serve to inspire • the
traitors with fresh energy. If, on the contrary, so
monstrous a crime be abhorrent to the feelings of all
but men of abandoned character, it is not to be hoped
that the execution of one will serve as an example to
others. Such men are indifferent as to consequences.
They trouble not themselves about the past ; all they
seek is notoriety, and of that they are sure whether
they fail or succeed, so long as the Peers of France
continue to constitute themselves their Judges. We
greatly fear that the death of ALIBEAUD has neither
lessened the number of the KING'S enemies, inspired
them with a greater reverence for his MAJESTY'S
person, nor filled them with amore wholesome terror
of the just severity of the law. On the contrary, they
will be maddened by the enumeration of the many
persons who have suffered death ; of the hundreds
pining in solitary confinement ; of the crowds driven
into exile ; and of the millions Pining in misery—all,
in their opinion, for having failed to deliver France
from a tyrant, who observes his solemn vows to his
people as if he believed that
" Oaths are but words, and words arc wind"
—in fact, no more than mere forms for cajoling the
credulous.

In our extracts from the French Papers of Monday
it was stated that M. LEDRU, ALIBEAUD'S advocate,
had addressed the KING on Sunday, praying his
MAJESTY'S clemency in behalf of his unhappy client.
The following is a copy of M. LEDRU'S letter :

" Sire,—Alibeaud, who is determined to die, has bequeathed
to me the care of consoling his aged father.
" In order to accomplish that holy mission, I come to en-
treat you to cast a look of clemency on a condemned man,
whose unshaken resolution will render still more conspicuous
the pardon which your Majesty will let fall on him from the
throne.

" It is impossible, Sire, to conquer the obstinacy of a man
too disdainful of life to wish to prolong it by one day ; but it
strikes me that if it be the duty of a simple citizen to forgive
an enemy, it would be still more praiseworthy in the first
citizen of the State to pardon his assassin.
" I remain with respect, &c.
(Signed) " CHANLES LEDRU.
Paris, July 10, 1836."

To this letter the KING paid no regard. It is 'un-
necessary for us here to repeat how deeply we regret
the course which his MAJESTY, in concurrence with
the advice of Council, thought proper to adopt on this
momentous occasion.

In our extracts from the French Journals of Tues-
day, we have given some important observations on the
state of the war in Spain. We direct particular atten-
tion to the copy of a letter from the English Consul
at Bayonne, on the subject of reports concerning the
return of General EvANs- to England. Subsequent
events may have determined the Hon. and Gallant
Member for Westminster to remain in the service of
the QUEEN ; bw with all due respect for the veracity
of our Consul, we beg to re-assert that the report of Ge-
neral EvANs's intended return to London was not
groundlessly propagated.

PARIS, JULY 11.—The account from Spain state that,
among the rumours circulated on 'Change, only two were
facts—one of which was already known, viz., the recapture by
Espartero of the prisoners taken by Gomez from General
Tello, and the entrance of Cordova into Tolosa.

" The occupation of Tolosa, which was before occupied by
:he Carlists, and is situated in the centre of the insurrection,
is the more important, as it enables Cordova to threaten both
Ernani and Villa Franca, which are at a very short distance.
The news, however, requires confirmation.

Towards the close of the Exchange a report was spread
of a victory obtained by Bernelle over the Carlists in Na-
varre; but no details were given, and, perhaps, the news was
invented'to keep up the price of the funds.
The Messager quotes, from the English Globe of the 9th,
the news of the dismissal of the Reis Effendi, and adds,
" Letters from Constantinople of the 15th, in the evening, an-
nounce, it is true, that Lord Ponsonby was on the point of ob-
taining satisfaction ; but we must observe that letters of the 2d,
direct from Vienna, say not a word of the news given by the
Globe. The express that brought it to London must have
pasted through Paris, and it is therefore probable that, if it

were true, we should have known it before it would arrive a
London."—Messager, July 12.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Ps tits, JULY 12.
Five per Cents., 1181. 9.7:c. 90c. 95c.
Three ner Cents. 801 55c.
Bank Actions, 2,2751 2;272f. 50e.
ffente de . al l(s, ItAlf. 70c. 75c. 60c. 6:.e.
Roman Five per Cents.. 103%.
Spanish Actives, 4114 40%.
Spanish Ditleres, 183 i%.
Spanish Passives, 12X,1,4%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 105%.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 511 A.
Haytian Loan, 3951
EXCHANGE ON LONRON.
One month, paper, 25E 32%c. ; money, 25f. SOc.
Three months, paper, 251. 1714 c.; money, 25E 15c.
Authentique.

POURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.-This has been again a
blank day' at the Bourse. No business has been done in
the Three per Cents. and the price is nominal at 80f. 70c.
Spanish Active Stock has fallen to 41, on the pretended con-
firmation of some bad news, insisted upon by the Carlists of
the Bourse.

LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 109 f. —c. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. 70c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb-
hards, —; Differes, —; New Loan, —; Actives, 40i; Pas-
sives, 121; Ducats, 100 80 ; Romans, 1038 ; Pedros,
Belgians, 103-14 ; Dutch, ; Haytians, 385 f. —c. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 21/ ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 18k; Five per Cent. Perpe-
tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —.

BELGIAN FUNDS, BRUSSELS, JULY 11.
Actual Debt, 2 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lO2
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent MOM
Society of Commerce, 4 per Cent llB
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent I2IN
....Brussels Papers, July 12.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS—VIENNA, JULY 4.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1257
—Allgenzeine Zeitung, July 9.
DUTCH FUNDS—ANISTERDA.SI, JULY 11.
Actual Debt, 25l per Cent. 58% 5(11,4
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A inort Syndic, 44 per cent l/8% 981,4
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent , ..... ... 8.1% 82
Commercial Company, 41,4 per cent 173% 177
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Loan 1836, 4 per cent.
—Dutch Papers, July 12.

Letters from Lisbon to the 6th inst. have been re-
ceived. On the sth the PRINCE set out on a visit to
Oporto, where great preparations were making to re-
ceive him in a manner befitting his exalted rank. The
Ministry was going on better than was anticipated,
and the country was generally tranquil.

We understand that it is the intention of Earl
Spencer to visit Scotland this season, and that he will attend
the great cattle show to be held at Perth in October, under
the auspices of the Highland Society.—Scotsman.

An inquisition was held last night at St. George's
Hospital, before Mr. Higgs, on view of the body of Rosina
Draper, a fine little girl, six years of age. The deceased re-
sided with her sister in Church-street, Twickenham, and on
Saturday last, during the temporary absence of the sister, she
was playing with some children, and having some gooseber-
ries was trying to make what is called gooseberry fool ; while
in the act of lifting the saucepan from the fire in which it was
boiling, the fire caught her frock, and she ran screaming into
the street all in a blaze. The flames with great difficulty were
extinguished, and she was conveyed in a fly to the above hos-
pital, accompanied by her sister and the overseer of Twicken-
ham, where she died early on Sunday morning. Verdict
Accidental Death.

Letters from Hamburgh to the 28th ult, state that
the Flora, Stockflesh, had arrived on the previous morning,
from Greenland, having left the ice on the 9th of that month,
with five fish, (5,400), a full ship. The other foreign ves-
sels engaged in the fishery had in the whole 27,000 seals. The
Mary, of Peterhead, had three fish and one river horse; and
the Ellison, of Hull, had 800 seals.

ELopEsrENT._Great sensation has been produced
in the establishment of a family of considerable importance in
the neighbourhood of Tonbridge by the sudden disappearance
of a young lady aged seventeen, highly accomplished, and
possessed of considerable personal attractions, who was on a
visit to the family alluded to. The gay Lothario arrived at
Parker's Hotel at eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, and pro-
ceeded in a chaise and four early the next morning, by a cir-
cuitous route, to Sovenoaks. The fair lady was anxiously
waiting under some trees near the mansion, and upon the ap-
proach of the chaise she instantly sprang in, and was soon on
her journey. The affair did not become known until the fa-
mily had assembled at the breakfast table, when every inquiry
was immediately made throughout the establishment for Miss
--, and her flight was not ascertained until a tradesman
called at the house, and related that at an early hour he ob-
served the chaise in question pass through the village at a
most rapid pace. There is little doubt but that the adventur-
ous couple were destined for Gretna-green.---Maidstone
Gazette.