The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1836.

yourselves, since those whom you have so oppor-
tunely befriended, seem unable or unwilling to do it for

in the shape of tyranny, if it be of their own infliction,
and provided the remedy for its removal be at their own
disposal ; but they will not endure an imaginary wrong
when it wears the appearance of having been forced upon
them by the Crown. Now, if it be proposed to place
the entire organization mind controul of the rural consta-
bulary force under the supreme direction of the Secre-
tary for the Home Department, the Commissioners
had just as well save themselves the trouble of drawing
up their report, for the people of England never will
submit to such a regulation. We are convinced of
the great necessity for some such force ; but we main-
tain that•its entire controul must be placed in the hands
of the several Parochial Vestries, the Town-councils,
and Benches of Magistrates. The French and
Prussian systems of espionage are not—to use the
language of SHIPPEN—" fit for the meridian of
England." They are not suited to the habits of our
people, and if any approach were made to their esta-
blishment here, none could answer for the conse-
quences. But, as we before stated, it would be unfair
to impute motives to the Government or the Com-
missioners, before the proposed remedy for an acknow-
ledged grievance has been submitted to the country.

you. Show Government that your hostility is as much
to be dreaded, as your friendship is to be courted.
Act, one and all of you, as CHILDS, of Bungay, did,

and you will find a Whig Ministry will emancipate you,
as breathlessly as ever a Tory one emancipated the
Catholics. We regret that we should be com-
pelled to have recourse to this language. We would
willingly avoid it, but when we see Ministers inclined
rather to take credit for what they have done, than
for what they intend to do ; looking back rather
with self-complacency to the past, than with
boldness to the future, we feel that no alternative

is left us, as public Journalists, but to speak
out. Ministers will not find their best friends
among those who are constantly larding them with
their eulogy. They never had truer ones than the
Dissenters ; yet here we find these aggrieved indivi-
duals, four years after the passing of that Bill which
promised them a relief from their burdens, cum-

pelled to go over again the old struggle, jus
as if a Tory, not a Liberal, Government,
were at the helm I In hastily running over the report
of to-day's meeting, we find the following pertinent
remarks in Mr. LusitiNGToN's opening speech :
" As a Churchman, I should undoubtedly refuse to
contribute any compulsory payment for the embellish-
ment of Dissenters" chapels, or to provide clean linen
for its services—(Laughter and cheers)—and therefore
it is perfectly unjust that Dissenters should be required
to contribute by compulsory means to the repairs of our
edifices and their proper administration. Be assured that
you do not stand alone ; there are a large number of your
brethren belonging to this Establishment who deeply
sympathise in your complaints, and who feel a sense of
humiliation that for their advantage you should be re-
quired to contribute to ordinances from which you not
only derive no benefit, but from which your convictions
are averse. Nor, let me tell you, is this feeling con-
fined to laymen of the Church Establishment ; I am
satisfied that it is largely shared in by many Clergy-
men, who lament that the exaction of Church-rates
has been a fruitful source of political animosity—that
it has led to the alienation of Christian from Chris-
tian, arid has sundered those who should otherwise be
united in peace and contentment." Dissenters, bear
these sentiments in mind, and act on them in a worthy
spirit. All now, we repeat, depends on yourselves,
for, as your Chairman assures you, "it must be
borne in mind that Ministers, unfortunately for
themselves, had made declarations unfavourable to
their cause. They must therefore expect opposition
in the House of Commons, and the most vigorous
hostility in the House of Peers.—(Cheers and
laughter.) The work, therefore, must be done out
of Parliament—they must do their own work."
Let this wholesome truth stimulate you to exertion.
Enough has been given to forbearance ; now, there-
fore, act as men who will not lie trifled with. The
Scotch Cameronions, few as they were in number,
compared with the armies sent against them, would
not allow themselves to be beaten. Why, then,
should the English Dissenters ? Are you any way
inferior to these brave Covenanters. Have you not the
same unconquerable love of justice ? Why then
should you not be equally energetic and determined ?
Half measures never yet gained a triumph, though they
have often ensured a defeat. To be successful, therefore,
you must be resolved, and, above all, unanimous. Well,
said Mr. HuSIE this morning, "during his experience,
he had known nothing removed until the shoulders of the
people had become restless." Admirable also was his
advice to the Dissenters to resist, by every constitu-
tional means in their power, the odious impost of
Church-rates. Not so, however, his remark, that
" Ministers would not be able to carry a Bill for
the Relief of Dissenters." Indeed ! How is this ?
What then are they in office for ? Is it to yield to
the Tories, or to do justice to the people ? Have we
a make-believe Reform Ministry at the helm ? Not
so, Mr. HUZvIE, or the close of this present month
would not see them in office. The Whigs were not
re-instated from any love of Whiggery on the part of
the people, but from immitigable hatred to Toryism.
They were selected as the best that the country could
then find. Woe to them when the country wakes to the
conviction that better Ministers are to be found : And
this, if justice, long promised, long delayed, be not soon
done to the Dissenters, that country will soon find out.
The power that made, can unmake, as the Duke of
WELLINGTON has already found to his cost. In
conclusion, we may observe that the resolutions pro-
posed and agreed to at to-day's Meeting, breathe a
spirit of calm resolution that can no longer be trifled
with. It is that of men who have talked long enough,
and are now resolved to act. We subjoin a portion of
one :—" that this Meeting do not ask for an alteration
,
of tne rate,—but for its utter extinction. That
it is not with them a question of mode, nor a ques-
tion of value, be it more or less, but that it is a ques-
tion of principle." This is the right light in which to
view the question. It is one, not of pocket, but of prin-
ciple ; and, as such, must be defended at all hazards.
Heaven help the bloated High Church when " princi-
ple" is brought to bear against it by the Dissenters !
We have already seen what " principle" did in Scot-
land. We have seen also what it did for the Catholics
in Ireland. Shall it do less for the Dissenters in Eng-
land ? Not if they be men I

We find in the columns of our Contemporary, the
Post, of this morning, an extract from a letter, pur-
porting to be from « the highest quarter," which states
that the dislocation of the Emperor of RUSSIA'S
shoulder was the consequence of an attempt to assas-
sinate him. It will be remembered that such a state-
ment was made at the time when this occurrence took
place ; but as it appeared to us exceedingly improbable
we expressed doubts of its correctness. As the ex-
tract from the letter is remarkably explicit on this
point, we shall take the liberty of copying it entire :
" You have perhaps received no further information as
regards the assassination of the Emperor of Russia. His
Imperial Majesty was shot at by a ruffian. An aide-de-
camp was killed by his side. Whether from the effect of
the shot, or the violent convulsions of his dying neighbour,
his Imperial Majesty had his shoulder dislocated. The
result of this attack has been exaggerated. His Imperial
Highness the Grand Duke Michael, who was on the point
of going to England, was sent for by express, and his voyage
thereby put off for a time. His Imperial Majesty, how-
ever, I am happy to say, is completely restored from this
sanguinary attack. If the Emperor Nicholas had fallen,
we should have deeply lamented it. He has the genius of
a great Sovereign and the heart of a true man ; but we are
happy to think that whenever it occurs the genius of his
country will survive—as it did after the assassination of the
Emperor Paul. Fortunate the country where a principle
reigns paramount at all times, and Le Roi est mort ! vive
le Roi !' Such a principle is, lam afraid, totally absent in
more southern latitudes."

Well, there is something wonderfully consolatory in
the closing observations of this laconic letter-writer.
The idea of the genius of a great Sovereign being
quenched without injury to his people, is a most happy
and complimentary conception. Should it ever fall
under the eye of his Imperial MAJESTY, he must
feel extremely flattered by the writer's partiality for
him. " Die when he may," philosophically writes
this illustrious Russian, " he is so great a Monarch,
and good a man, that the country will never miss him,
any more than it did his august father, into whose
heart the secret command of a son' impelled the
steel that drank his life-blood ! Happy Russia !
ever accustomed to find in thy Emperors but the
personification of a principle—what carest thou
for the assassination of thy rulers ? By thee all are
prized alike, for to thee all are equal 1" This is sim-
ply the substance of the paragraph which we have co-
pied above ; and had we not reason to believe the Grand
Duke MICHAEL to be a most faithful subject, we should
be tempted to ascribe it to his Imperial Highness, as
a prelude to a Calmuc performance of RICHARD M.
We have repeatedly expressed our abhorrence of the
fiendish crime of assassination in every shape, and
under all conceivable circumstances. We have taken
every occasion to declare that nothing can justify such
cowardly attempts to deprive others of life—no matter
how exalted their station, and how heinous their guilt.
But the very fact of such attempts being made, proves
that where the law cannot redress wrong, individuals
will be found daring enough to brave death itself, to
avenge injuries done to themselves and their country.
This ought to teach an useful lesson to kings.

The Paris Papers of Monday, the arrival of which
has been delayed beyond the usual hour, have just
been received. The following extracts include all that
they contain of any importance to English readers
:
PARIS, OCT. 16.—M. Guizot has been elected Deputy
at Lisieux, by a majority of 312, out of 377 votes.
Admiral Rosamel has been re-elected Deputy for Toulon,
by a majority of 151, out of 156 votes.—La Paix,
Oct. 17.

PARIS, OCT. I7.—His Majesty, the King of the Bel-
gians, arrived at the Tuileries at half-past seven o'clock in
the evening.—llloniieur.
It is affirmed that the motives for the new visit of King
Leopold to Paris, is the arrangements for the approaching
marriage of one of the young princesses, his sister-in-law,
wigi the King of Naples ; on which arrangements King
Louis Philippe wishes to consult his son-in-law, in whom he
has much confidence.
A letter written by Marshal Clausel, and dated 6th Oc-
tober, has arrived at Paris, in which he announces that
authority to undertake the expedition had just reached Al-
giers. The Marshal was preparing to take the field imme-
diately, and hoped to be in the capital (Constantina) on the
lit of November, if the reinforcements, which had been
announced, should have reached their destinations by the
20th of this month.
It is affirmed that some English capitalists have placed
at the disposal of the Porte a sum of two millions sterling,
to rebuild the quarter of Constantinople lately destroyed
by fire. The Sultan, it is said, has, in return for this ser-
vice, granted new privileges and exemptions in favour of
the English commerce, and especially the right to form, on
the European side of the Dardanelles, a depot of the ma-
nufactures and productions of Great Britain, which are to
be imported free of all duty.
Sir Robert Peel intends to spend a great part of the win-
ter with his Lady at Paris, and not to return to London till
long after the opening of the session.
Persons well informed think that, whatever may be the
result of the affairs of Switzerland, the Duke of Monte-
bello will not retain his embassy.—Messager, Oct. 17.

Our Government has been for some time past en-
gaged in making enquiries on the subject of establish-
ing a regular constabulary force throughout England
and Wales, for the more effectual protection of life
and property in the rural districts. It is universally
acknowledged that adequate protection is not extended
to the smaller villages in remote parts of the country ;
that travellers are liable to be robbed with impunity on
most of the great roads at any distance from the
metropolis ; and that the perpetrators of agrarian out-
rages—such as arson and the like—easily elude de-
tection, where sufficient inducements are not held out
to their accomplices to betray them into the hands of
justice. In order, therefore, to ascertain more fully
the most effectual means of establishing such a pro-
tective constabulary force throughout the kingdom, a
Commission has been appointed to institute a regular
inquiry upon the subject ; and to report thereupon before
or immediately after, the opening of Parliament, so as
to afford time for legislation upon the subject, should
it be proved necessary. The Commissioners are Mr.
SHAW LEFEVRE, M.P.; Lieut.-Colonel ROWAN,
Chief Commissioner nf the Metropolitan Police ; and
Mr. CHADWICK, Secretary to 'the Poor Law Com-
missioners. The Commissioners are to receive no ad-
ditional salaries for their labours; as the Commission
is classed with the unpaid.

IN FRANCE.—George Robins is instructed to Sell
an Estate in France, next Tuesday, in the Province of
Britanny, where the English agriculturist is held in high
favour, from the superior tact and knowledge the English
possess in this art. Great temptation is held out to emi-
grate there, and lots of accommodation is offered in respect
of price and payment. On the same day he announces the
Sale of the Patent right to a Steam Boiler, of exceedingly
small dimensions and high fame, which it is proved can ef-
fect (without danger) thirty miles an hour. It is intended
to operate as a successful rival to the quick travelling by the
railway. Steam carriages with this boiler, and vessels of
large dimensions, will thus realize the fondest expectations
of the mechanical artiste, and railways may in consequence
look down. The Steam Carriages are to be sold on the
same day, with all the equipage connected with them.
About 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon, as a young
man named Jones, residing at Hanwell, was walking down
a brlane, called Dormer Wells-lane, Southall, on the Ux-
bridge-road, his attention was attracted by the faint cries of
an infant, which appeared to be suffocating. Having
searched about for three or four minutes, he proceeded
across the lane to a pond, from whence he found the cries,
which were momentarily getting fainter, proceeded, when,
on moving aside the long grass by which the pond was
covered, he discovered a fine female infant, apparently about
four months old, struggling in the water ; he instantly car-
ried it to the house of Mr. Farebrother, the overseer of the
parish, who directed it to be taken with all speed to the
workhouse, where in a short time it revived sufficiently to
swallow a little warm milk, and it is hoped it will recover.
Owing to the clothes, which were very plain, though neat,
being unmarked, no clue has yet been discovered to the in-
human wretch who attempted to drown the little innocent.
The Poor Law Commissioners have issued an order
directing the dismissal of Mr. Kingston from his situhtion
as medical officer to the St. Alban's Union, in consequence
of his neglect of attendance on a pauper, the wife of a
labourer named How, he having received notice of her ill-
ness on a Wednesday afternoon, nd not having given his at-
tendance till the Friday morning following, on the plea that
the order for hig attoodqnr.- " did not set forth that the
case was urgent." The order for his dismissal was the re-
sult of a lengthened inquiry into the case, issued by com-
mand of the Poor Law Commissioners.

Before the Commissioners have made their report,
it would be alike unjust to them and to the Govern-
ment to presume that there exists, on the part of either,
a wish to encroach upon the liberty of the subject.
Englishmen are extremely jealous of their liberties,
and would sooner put up with a decided grievance
than risk the hazard of exposing themselves to the
wanton exercise of an irresponsible power. They
are, moreover, extremely opposed to every thing
having the appearance of a system of official
espionage ; detest the semblance of organized super-
vision and ~eldoin allow others to inquire into
their motives, or to pry unnecessarily into concerns
personal to themselves, They will submit to any evil