The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-13 00:00:00

mutilation after the glorious days,- they must have suc-
ceeded. The discussion was only postponed—the cause
lot lost. One of the supplementary articles of the charter
declared that this part of the constitution would be brought
under the deliberation of the Deputies in the following
session, and this promise is as sacred as any other
article of that great compact between the King and
his people. This striking circumstance—which is
nearly always forgotten in this country, when the
question is discussed—deprives the proposed measure
of its revolutionary terrors. It shows at least that if the
abolition of the Peerage in France is a revolutionary
change, it at least was contemplated and hypothetically
promised in the same great act by which the f anchises of
the people were remodelled and the royal dynasty changed.
We have already stated our reasons for believing that the
abolition of the Peerage will be a matter of much less
onsequence in France than persons, superficially ac-
quainted with the French socisl system, or with French
institutions, would he apt to imagine. The Chamber of
Peers in France—a board of mere modern creation,
without fortune, birth, or rank, formed for discussing
laws and conducting judicial proceedings—bears no
resemblance, except in name and functions, to our
Upper House, the Members of which compose an
aristocracy as well as a legislative assembly. No
change in its constitution, therefore, calculated to ren-
der it a better expression of the opinion and senti•
merit of France, need excite alarm in this country or in
Europe. Two difficulties will necessarily occur in the
St ttlement of this interesting question—one relative to the
manner of effecting the abolition of the Peerage, and the
other to the institution best calculated to answer the pro-
fessed objects of the suppressed Chamber. In framing
the Charter at the beginning of last August, the Deputies
acted as a kind of Convention Parliament, and neither
looked for the concurrence of the Peens, or the legislative
assent of the King. But as the Government and the Le-
gislature are now finally constituted, and have been acting
for the last ten months, the assent of the Peers is as ne-
cessary to the validity of a law as that of the Deputies.
And will the hereditary Chamber consent to abolish its
own rights : will it, in fact, commit suicide? Suppose
I this obstacle to the change removed, how is the second
Chamber or Senate to he constituted ? Will it elected
for life or for a term of years, and who is to have the
nomination of its Members ? These questions will furnish
the subject of long debates for the ensuing session.—
Times.

On Saturday the workmen commenced erect-
ing a new lodge in St. James's Park, near to the New
Palace ; the lodge is to he similar to the one at Grosvenor-
gate, in Hyde-park, with two entrances. Several houses
in Stafford-place, and in James-street, are to lie taken
down to make a suitable entrance into that part of the
Park, and in a few weeks it is expected the workmen will
I egin building new mansions on the Westminster side of
the Park, which are to be called " King William's
Crescent."

THE R HINE.—To him who has once traversed
its banks, with a heart at all alive to the beauties and au-
blimities of nature, the remembrance is imperishable.
Those patriarchal bastions, which are now grey with
the dust of centuries, and stand as the sepulchral monu-
ments of a race of warriors which they have long survived,
leave an impression upon the sense ❑ever to be effaced.
Dr. Beattie's German Courts.

BUCKlNGHAM.—Preparations are making to
return a member selected by the inhabitants. GEORGE
Mottoasr, Esq. of Biddlesden Park, has been solicited to
stand forward on the popular interest, and a handbill was
published en Tuesday to call a meeting for the adoption of
measures to secure his election. To the bill the names of
eighty-seven electors were affixed, promising Mr. MORGAN
their support, obtained in a few hours. This novel event
was soon made known at Stowe, and speedily afterwards
occasioned Mr. MORGAN a visit from a Noble Personage,
who, after the usual salutations, congratulated Mr. Mott-
A N on the honour intended him—by those who ought to
have no such honour to confer—but at the same time qua-
lified with the declaration, that a certain influence would
be opposed to him, it being already promised to a well-
known liberal Baronet. The public meeting was held on
Tuesday. Mr. BARTLETT in the chair, when a Com-
mittee of 24 gentlemen was appointed for the purpose of
carrying into effect the intentions of the meeting, which
contemplate the rescue of ,Buckingham from family influ-
ence. We do not profess to have been present, or to have
have heard what transpired ; but we can picture to our-
selves that it may have been, we will not say it was—
something as follows So, Mr. AIouGAN, I understand
you are about to be a party to an attempt making to take
away from me my Borough." " IVhich Borough, my
Lord?" " I mean, lam told you propose coming forward
as candidate for Buckingham." "As your Grace inti-
mates, I am certainly solicited to stand for Buckingham ;
and I cannot refuse so high an honour." " Well, well,
you will do so if you choose ; but I cannot give you my
support, as I have promised my kinsman, Sir T. FRE-
MANTLE, and I cannot forsake him, you know."• A bow
of acquiescence (somewhat in dudgeon)—" I am perfectly
astonished that the inhabitants of Buckingham should have
evinced so little consideration as to attempt anything of
this kind without soy concurrence."—Buclis Gazette.
PA GA NI N I.—His personal appearance is
most extraordinary. His long locks down to his shoulders
—his broad, high, wrinkled forehead—his wild eye, pale
hue, and gaunt form—all strike the beholder with awe
mingled with pity, and put one in mind of FUSELI'S un-
happy supernaturals. His deportment cannot be called
awkward—it is only unlike every other body's. He seems
to be about fifty years of age, and is a melancholy contrast
(if we be informed right), both in habits and appearance,
to what he was in his earlier days. We think it is PLATO
who says that the organs of a philosopher or poet could
hardly be those of a miser. We trust the same doubt
may be extended in favour of musicians ; and in the hope
of it being so, we hereby announce ourselves sceptical u to
the stories of the Signor's ultra-cupidity of gain. As to
his performance we know not how to commence even an
outline description of it. We recollect a passage in a pe-
riodical of the last century, the writer of which, alluding
to a totally different matter, seems to have anticipated
PA GANINI by what we will presume to call a converse
simile. We will transcribe the passage :—" The sounds
of our English words are commonly like those of string
music—short and transient, which rise and perish upon
a single touch; those of other languaees are like the notes
of wind instruments—sweet and swelling, and lengthened
out into variety of modulation."—Metropolitan.
CHOLERA MORBU s.—The following para-
graph is extracted from a letter which has been received
in Leith from a most respectable merchant, resident in
Hamburg :—" I can assure you that there is nothing to
apprehend, nor are we in the least distress that that dire-.
ful malady will reach us. The precautionary measures
that have been taken may lead those who are at a distance
to be suspicious without any cause for its existence."
We are happy to mention a fact which
evinces a disposition on the part of the French Govern-
ment to set a liberal example of reciprocity in the diffusion
of information. Prince TALLETR AND has been instructed
to propose to our Government, that it shall send to Paris
one copy of each work published in England, and that, in
r,turn, the French Government should send to this
country one copy of each of the works published in France.
The English works to be deposited for public use in the
National Library at Paris ; the French works to be placed
for public use in the Br;tish Museum. There is not one
of the other so called public libraries which has the privi-
lege of receiving a copy of every published work, from
which that privilege might not be withdrawn, and be ad-
vantageously transferred to the purpose proposed by the
French Government. It would be of great public ad-
vantage, as well in the example of a national exchange of
good offices as for the promotion of literature, if the same
system were extended to other Continental States. The
internal recognition of copyright would be another step
trained in civilization. One measure called for from our
Government, and immediately practicable, is the removal
of the duty on foreign books. - This duty, contemptible
in amount, forms part of the taxes on knowledge, and is a
barbarous tax on the cultivation of foreign literature.—
Westminster Review.
The good people of the commune of Senzach,
in Switzerland, in imitation of the American practice,
have resolved on paying their Deputies to the Grand
Council for their legislative labours. The services of the
Swiss law-givers, however, seem to be held in even less
estimation than those of our English Parlianient under
the boroughmongers, their daily stipend being fixed at two
francs, or one shilling and eightpence English, with the
condition that they shall forfeit four francs for every sit-
ting at which they neglect to attend !
An accident of the most shocking description
occurred near this town last Friday. A young man
named
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plunged
gehde teaspikn i assist-
ing
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bundle of bay on the cart on which he stood in order to
raise it to the stack, when the pikel missing its hold, the
young man was overbalanced, and falling, the prongs of
his pikel entered his body near the stomach, tearing his
flesh asunder till the bone of his breast stopped it, and
wounding him so dreadfully that he died in a few hours.
He was an active, intelligent,- and industrious youth.
,Sltrewsbury Chronicle.