The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-30 00:00:00

our Liberal Contempories in carping at what Sir
R. PEEL said, but we have thought, and continue
to think, that their attacks are unjust. It is
also doing an injustice to our own cause—the
cause of peace, and the cause of the Ministers,
when Sir R. PEEL and the Duke of WELLING-
TON spoke so strongly in their favour—to dwell
with pertinacity on the very small difference of
opinion which Sir IL PEEL manifested. We will
freely confess that we were too much pleased
with the honourable, humane, and statesmanlike
declarations of both, to look for little hooks of
discrepancy on which to hang carping objec-
tions and quibbling censure.

We must return once more to Walsall.
There are, we believe, in the borough many
little tradesmen, nailers and locksmiths, who
are necessarily, in some measure, dependent
for accommodation on bankers and iron-
masters, and who are likely to suffer if they
honestly vote for Mr. SMITH. To force
men, who are made dependent by the Corr-
laws, to vote against their convictions by any kind
of pecuniary coercion, is a scandalous tyranny,
and the members of the League can employ
themselves no more usefully than in ascertaining
the names of those persons who use this kind of
compulsion, and of those who are exposed to it.
The former, if indeed any men can now dare to
affront the honest enthusiasm of the people by
such conduct, and risk the personal consequences,
should be held up to general opprobrium. Tl:e
latter may be assured that the public will throw
its shield over them. Their associates in this
good cause will come to their relief from every
part of the empire, and save them harmless from
the consequences of doing their duty.
It was suggested sometime ago that a subcrip-
tion should be entemdlnto, to ensure the electors
of Walsall against personal loss for the votes
they may give. Such a subscription will, we
trust, be set on foot, so that the electors may rely
on being protected against the injustice of any
overbearing monied or landed tyrant who may
pretend to command their votes. Let them, then,
fearlessly do their duty, and rely on receiving
not only protection, but applause from their
countrymen.

The Tories show the respect in which they hold
the electors by the candidate they offer to their
choice. Mr. GLADSTONE, a young naval officer,
has never acquired any distinction either in his
profession or .out of it. He is conspicuous only as
the representative of his father's purse, heavy with
the sweat, and tears, and blood of toiling slaves.
He is the type of a double monopoly, that of corn
and that of sugar, and his supporters vote to enrich
West India planters, and English landowners,
by levying a tax on the sugar and the bread of
the people. To constrain men against their con-
sciences to vote in favour of such a double iniquity
is a species of tyranny scarcely to be surpassed.
To resist it is the bounden duty of every man.
Throughout the empire, accordingly, there are
many throbbing hearts anxious to be placed in
the post of honour like the men of Walsall; but
they alone can fill that, carrying with them,
however, to the contest the sympathy and the
prayers of millions of their fellow-creatures.
GOD grant success to the righteous cause !

We call public attention to the letter in an-
other place, headed "Tithe Commutation Ex-
penses." The subject is likely, we understand,
to be brought before Parliament in the shape of
an amendment in the Tithe Commutation Act.
Certainly the principle complained of: that of
imposing the whole expenses of the commuta-
tion on tenants for life, while they can reap only
a small portion of the benefit—is unjust.
Whether Parliament will be able to find a
remedy for its own wrong, may be doubtful ;
though there does not seem to be an insuperable
obstacle to fixing on each estate the expense of
the commutation, so that every succeeding pos-
sessor should pay in proportion to the advantage
he derives from the commutation.

We have received the whole of t ParmJour-
nals of Wednesday. The speech of M. TILLERS
which occupies more than eight columns of the
Afoniteur, is too long to allow us to give even
a summary of it to-day. This speech, which
occupied three hours in the delivery, and which,
says the Constitutio /met, refuted every objection
made to the Committee's plan
of fbrtifying
closed the general debate upon the Bill, which
the Chamber proceeded to discuss, article by
article. If all France was inspired by the sen-
timents of M. THIERS, WC should not long con-
tinue to enjoy the blessings of peace. Instead of
contending, like M. GuizoT, that the fortifica-,.
tion of the capital was a guarantee of peace to
Europe, he proved that the idea was never enter-
tained but when France indulged in dreams of
conquest: He assured the Chambers that if it
employed all the resources that national
grandeur, art, and a long peace had placed at its
disposal, France might brave, not only Europe,
but the world. In a still more Vandal spirit he
alluded to the stripping of the Louvre of works
of art in 1815, and asked the Chamber in what it
differed to France whether these works were
destroyed by the cannon of a besieging army,
or carried away in triumph to adorn other ca-
pitals ? M. TIIIERS chose to forget that the works
of art of which the Allies deprived Paris, were
those of which they had been disgracefully
pillaged by her. Not a picture, nor a statue,
nor a relic of antiquity to which France could es-
taLoblish other than a robber's title, were taken
froM her. But whether or no, who but a Vandal
would destroy an immortal work of art rather
than witness its humanizing and ennobling
effect upon the mind of an enemy ? M. TRIERS
had also the hardihood to affirm that the Eng-
lish and the Allies within the lines of Torres
Vedras amounted to 70,000 men, that MA SSE-
NA'S force was 40,000 ; and that had Marshal
SOULT ably supported 11.1AssENA the lines would
have been forced. This brought the Marshal
upon his legs, who in substance told the ex-Pre-
mier that he knew nothing of what he was talk-
ing about. The bulk of the Allies were engaged
with him, and yet MASSENA could not force the
lines because they were impregnable.
On Wednesday the discussion of the Bill fzrticle
by article was commenced: M. BEA LTMONT moved
an amendment upon4the first article for reducing
the grant from an hundred and forty millions of
francs to twenty millions. It was rejected. M.
JANVIER next moved its reduction to thirty-five
millions, and upon this amendment the Chamber
was debating up to the departure of the mails for
London

The Univers of this morning has the following para-
graph :
" The letters ascribed to the King, of which those
published by the Gazette de France a few days ago, and
those which the Government prosecutes, are said to be one
hundred and ninety-three in number. It is affirmed that
20,000 francs were paid for them by the two honourable
gentlemen whom the Morning Post accuses of having
purchased them."
The affair of the National is to come on before the
Court of Assize on the 13th of February nut.
We find the following account in a letter from Bilbao of
the 19th A frightful event has just spread consterna-
tion in the country.
" On Sunday, the 17thlinst., the inhabitants of a small
e
village, in the district of Sopnata, in the Encurtaciones,
wTaereeeit o the aftotrecjejddignrtghouenpons mass;
rs six armed men entered the church.
present to fall down with their
fchd, they called Don Augustin San Gine,
dragged him out of the church, and after they had mur-
dered him, found their way into his house, where they
seized his son, whom they also assassinated. They fled
into the mountains before the few inhabitants could recover
from their terror. The motives of these murders are
unknown.
THE Ex-KING or HoLLAND.—We learn (says the
Journal des Flandres) from very good authority, that the
at Liege. This union, which we have
always
marriage of the ex-King William to the Countess d'Oultre-
mont is definitely fixed. The outfit of the bride is actu-
ally preparing as probable, will be solemnized next
Spring.
The damage done by the inundation at Degnie and
Thiel, and the environs, is considerable.
consideredßßUSSELS, JAN. 27.—Some journals have stated that
the University of Brussels had sent an address to M. de
Lamennais. This is a mistake.
BRUSSELS, JAN. 27.—The average price of Wheat lest
week was 18f. 35c., and that of Rye, llf. bBc.
BO UR SE.— Km, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price
French 5 per Cents
4 per Cents p 99 ... 90. go
S per Centa.....N.gq 17 10 mpg 77 13 u, 77 10 „, 71 15