The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-27 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

reItEIGN.
The speech of M. Guizot at the grand dinner given
to him by his constituents at Liseux, on Monday lust, is
producing a great sensation in France. One passage in
it contrasts advantageously for the philosophic character
of the French statesman with the intemperate allusion
to France in Lord Palmerston's address to the electors of
Tiverton. M. Guizot, with equal good sense, good feel-.
ing, and good taste says :—" I could not forgive. Myself
were I to let drop one word which might ferment, or
keep up between France and England, or between France
and Europe, worn-out prejudices or bitter feelings. , To
every sensible man, to every sincere friend of European
peace, such language must appear a grievous wrong.
Situated as I am, it would be to sin against justice, pru-
dence, and tact. I will not incur the reproach." Such
conciliatory language from the mouth of a French
Minister of M. Guizot's high character, will greatly tend
'o allay those suspicions which the warlike preparations
of France have for some time awakened in the public mind
of Europe.
_

The ltioniteur Parisien states that it has reason to
believe the Government will not prosecute the Journals
seized at the Post-office on Sunday. This is a strange
announcement, and speaks strongly for the conduct of
the Ministry. Either the Journals seized were guilty of
a breach of the laws, or they were not. If they were
guilty it is the duty of the Government to punish them,
not by seizure, but by prosecution before the ordinary
tribunals ; if they were not guilty against the laws then
was it a most tyrannical stretch of the Crown preroga-
tive to seize them on any pretext whatever.
The Commerce has a rumour to which we attach no
credit, that Baron Pasquier, President of the Chamber
of Peers, has resisted the taking of the census in
his private domicile. M. Pasquier is an old
rat, capable of no such stretch of public virtue.
When he is found opposing any measure of the
Government it may be taken for granted that another
royal sun is about to break upon and illumine the poli-
tical 'horizon of France. When M. Pasquier deserts
the Court the Orleans House will, indeed, be tumbling
about the cars of its supporters.
The King and Queen of the Belgians left Ostend on
Tuesday for the Chateau of Eu, in Normandy, where
the Royal family of France is staying. The two Courts
were to proceed to Paris, and thence to St. Cloud. King
Leopold wishes to arrange with his father-in-law the
basis of a commercial treaty between France and Bel-
gium, and to talk over some projected family alliances.
Letters from Constantinople of the 4th instant state
positively that the insurrection in Candi& is entirely
suppressed. _

lii a letter from Alexandria of the 25th July we find
the following statement:—" Trade here is in a sad state.
On one side proprietors have had their strongest and
most able workmen taken away to be employed in the
fortifications, under pretence that they belong to the
Pacha and Ibrahim. The result is, that the landed pro-
prietors cannot even get in their harvest."

PARLIAMENTARY.
•
The Peers did not meet yesterday.
In the Commons Mr. Roebuck asked five questions re-
lative to M'Lleod, all of which were satisfactorily an-
swered by Lord Palmerston's reading an instruction from
Mr. Webster, the American Secretary of State, to the
Attorney-General of the United States, in which the
declamation of our Government, in relation to M'Leod,
is fully acknowledged and set forth. It is also stated
that the President felt himself called on to interfere to
stop all proceeding:4
So far as the Federal Government can it will protect
31‘Leod. The question of the destruction of the Caroline
will then be discussed and settled by the two Govern-
ments. The power of the State of New York, in Tela-
tion to the Federal Government, the Americans must
decide.

In reply to Sir C. Napier, Lord Palmerston stated that
the inhabitants of Syria are to be compensated for the
loss of their property.
Sir M. Wood's Committee on the Metropolitan Im-
provements was reappointed.
Dr. Bowring obtained some returns to illustrate the
working of the Quarantine-laws.
The adjourned debate was renewed by Lord San-
don. He was followed by Mr. Milner Gibson, and a very
dull debate occupied the whole evening. The principal
speakers were Mr. Borthwick, Mr. O'Brien, Colonel Sib-
thorpe, whose uncouthness still provoked a smile, Mr.
Escott, , the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who dis-
cussed finance, Mr. Goulburn, who refuted what
the Chancellor said, and Mr. Wakley, who com-
plained of the mystical manner in which the pub-
lic accounts are kept, so that rival Chancellors
can draw from them any deduction they pleased. The
Hon. Member was less happy than usual, but he did to-
wards the end turn a joke or two against Lord John
Russell, now become a metropolitan demagogue. Our
space will not allow us to repeat the Hon. Gentleman's
jokes, and our readers will find them elsewhere. Not-
withstanding the extreme dullness of the debate, the
Members were exemplary in their attendance and atten-
tion ; and, from their patience, we infer that it is.pos-
sible for the debate to last another week. The opinion
that it would close last night, was never countenanced
by the appearance of the House. On Mr. Wakley's re-
suming his seat, the debate was adjourned till this day.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Times is slowly waking to the discovery that
electioneering corruption is notorious, and that a
prompt and decisive stop should be put to such an ini-
quitous system. If our contemporary grounds his as-
sertion on the bribery that took place at the Late elec-
tions under the especial patronage of the Tories, he has
ample warrant for what he says, and we cordially agree
with him in the truth of these remarks :—"fhere
never was a House of Commons, in the election of
which bribery was so universal. The greater part of
the electors—the whole, in truth, of the electoral body
created by the boasted Parliamentary Reform—
consider the elective franchise as the mere means of
serving themselves and their families—as an article
for sale, to be obtained by the highest bidder. The
awful crime of perjury has been thought nothing of."
This is giving the Tories as hearty a slap in the face as
Mr. Roebuck gave them the other night in the Com-
mons. But this is not the first, nor will it be the last,
blow that the Times will give the Tories. It is noto-
riously a slippery party organ ; has strange fits, not of
manly independence, but of capricious waywardness ;
and will leave its friends in the lurch at the time that
they most calculate on its support. As the Baron of
Bradwardine said to his guests, " Beware the bear !" so
we say to the Tories, " Beware the Times !"
The Morning Post accuses the Liberal party of being
divided among. themselves, and hints at the same time
at the unanimity that exists among the Tories. The
unanimity of these latter is yet to be proved. As yet
they have bad no time to exhibit discord. But' when
Lord Stanley comes prominently into action with some
pet crotchet or other, such as his absurd " Irish Arms Bill,"
we shall confidently expect to see some very pretty quar-
relling among the Tories. The following are our Contem-
porary's words :—" While the Conservative body are re-
proached with having divisions among them, but exhibit
none, the party which takes the liberty of making the re-
proach is palpably and practically divided upon what is at
present considered the great question of the day, namely,
the law which restricts the importation of foreign corn.
It would be great injustice to some of the opponents of
the present Corn-law to confound them with the rabble
of revolutionary blasphemers who make such a noise
about ' repeal,' and yet when Ministerialists sum up
their forces they reckon all sorts of opponents of the
Corn-laws as belonging to their party."
The Chronicl3 says :—" It is a palpable fallacy that
the displacement of the present by a Tory Ministry is
essential to the satisfactory results' of a legislative
deliberation' on the Corn-laws. Those results cannot
be rendered one jot more or less satisfactory by the Chris-
tian name of a Secretary of State being Robert instead of
John. The satisfactoriness must be, if anywhere, in the
results themselves. If those results be wise, just, and
useful; if they tend to revive trade, to promote steadiness
of price and demand, and to exonerate the commu-
nity from the class impositions of monopoly, then
they will be sat'eactory, whatever Ministers be
in ; and it not, then they will be unsatisfactory,
whatever parties be out. No Government can make a
heavily taxed loaf satisfactory to the toiling mil-
lions. No confidence' can feed the half-famishing."
We agree with the spirit of the above remarks, that a
Ministry should be tested by its measures rather than
by its men ; but if these latter, from mingled prejudice
or self-interest, are notoriouslyincornpetent to the task
of just and enlightened legislation, then it is fair to pre-
same that the measures they bring forward will partake
of their own incompetency. Men do not gather grapes
from thorns, nor figs from thistles, nor can a liberal re-
form in the Corn-laws be expected from a Ministry
whose majority was gained by the Chandos clause, and
whose chief supporters are those who are entrusted, in
maintaining the abuses of the Corn-laws.
The following is from thfaiercild That portion
of the Queen's Speech which emanates from the Foreign-
qffice is quite characteristic of Lord Palmerston. Its
chief assertion is a stupid, because a notorious, falsehood.
The temporary estrangement of France is not at an
end, and the best understanding does not prevail
among all the great Powers of . Europe. Lord Pal-
merston deals only with verbal declarations or written
assurances, while the rest of mankind look to actions and
realities, and judge from practical and material results.
That Marshal Soult and M. Guizot desire to place
France on terms of perfect amity with England we
have no doubt ; but were the greatest obstacle
thereto removed—which is the savage and hos-
tile feeling, revived by the Treaty of July, towards
this country, entertained by nearly all classes of
Frenchmen—there would still remain an insuperable
difficulty, and that is—Lord Palmerston himself.".
The Worcester Chronicle thus alludes to the late Man-
chester Conference :—" Prayer meetings' may engage a
due share of attention, but there is leisure also for Corn-
law Conferences.' No one, except such as profit by the
corn monopoly, who has read the valuable report of the
proceedings of this Conference in the Morning Chronicle
can justly accuse the ministers who composed it of misap-
plying their time, or hint that they had better been em-
ployed in prayer. Action is the test of sincerity."
The Stafford Gazette, alluding to the Queen's Speech,
says, " Ministers have, in the Royal Speech, raised the
question of the budget. They have, in that Speech,
presumed to dictate measures to the nation, though by
the angry voice of that nation they have been pro-
nouncedo f guidiguiding
unworthythe reins
f confidence,Government. an d utterly
object
3 incapable
, of this
hitherto unheard-of proceeding is the hope of embarrass-
ing the Conservatives in the formation of their reply."

ELECTIONEERING.
According to the resolution of last session for rcgu.

lating the order in v.,hich electign petitions.. should_ be
taken into consideration' the names of the places were
drawn in the Hor-e of Commons on Wednesday night
from a boy. They stand-Great Marlow, Nottingham
and Weymouth. •
At Bradford, the two candidates in the field are Mr.
W. Busfield, of Upwood, who represented the borough
in the last Parliament on Whig principles ; and Mr. W.
Wilberforce, Conservative, late Member for Hull. Mr.
Busfield was only four votes lower on the poll than the
late Mr. Lister.

AGRICULTURAL.
The accounts of the Maidstone Hop plantations still
continue unfavourable. Though the goldings are full of
bine in the Weald, yet the grapes on the heavy soils are
short. The crops are, for the most part, expected to be
small. At Brenchley. however, Horsuaonden, Watering-
bury, and Farnham, the crops will be rich if some sunny
days ensue.

In Berkshire, on the high and light lands, an immense
breadth of oats has been cut and carried ; so also the
wheats, which are pretty free from smut.
In Somersetshire, the heavy rains of late have greatly
rotted the teasel crop ; so that good judges say there
will not be a peck per acre cut, and those will be of
wretched quality.

LAW AND POLICE.
.Caroline Williams, a woman of dissolute habits was
brought before the Magistrate it Marlborough-street
Police-office on Wednesday, on a serious charge of assault.-
ing a girl of the name of Seymour, in Oxford-street, be-
tween four and five that morning. The poor creature's
dress was saturated with blood, and as she was scarcely
able to speak from exhaustion, Mr. Maltby directed that
she should be conveyed to a surgeon's shop in the neigh-
bourhood, whither he proceeded, and took down her de-
positions. It appeared a petty quarrel about a glass of
gin, provoked by.the prisoner, had led to the melancholy
result. The surgeon considered her in extreme danger
from internal hzemorrhage, and the prisoner was re-
manded till Wednesday.
At the Liverpool Assizes an action was brought against
the proprietors of the Woodside Ferry by Walker and
others,. Birmingham jewellers; for damage caused to a
quantity of jewellery, weighing some hundreds of
pound), and of the value of 8,0001., concealed in the
trunk of a carriage, which on being landed at the slip at
Liverpool, ran hack into the water. The salt water had
got into the trunk, and seriously injured the watches
and jewellery, causing a loss of 2041., and besides
71. 10e. for. injury done to the carriage. Verdict for the
plaintiff, damages 2111. 10s.

TREA.TILXCAL.
The erection of a bust or statue to the memory of the
late Mrs. Siddons, in Westminster Abbey, will, it is
hoped, be soon effected. - Subscription-books are open
for the purpose at all the chief bankers.

COURT-FASHIONABLE.
The Duke of Montrose arrived in Belgrave-square, on
Monday last, from Scotland.

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Viscount Morpeth will leave town in the course of the
ensuing week for Dublin.

Viscount Howick has joined his Viscountess at Howick
PIA Northumberland.

Viscount 13eresford's attack of paralysis was no better
on Wednesday, and Drs. Watson, Latham, and Brodie,
were in attendance.

MISCELLANEOTJS.
A correspondent in the Morning Advertiser states as a
positive fact, that two hundred people die annually of
starvation in London alone

Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of Prince Al-
bert, who completes his twenty-second year, having.been
born in 1819. It is the anniversary also of the celebrated
battle of Cressy, which was fought in 1346.
On Tuesday the Collingwood, of 80 guns, was launched
from the Royal dockyard at Pembroke. She is built on
the same principle as the Vanguard, but is six feet
longer. The vessel was.ehristened by Lady Jackson.
Two officers of the Life Guards were on Weduesday
fined 51. each by the BrentfOrd Magistrates, for throwing
detonating balls from the windows of a carriage, while
passing through that town ! This is a strikinc, exem-
plification of the march of mind in the upper classes.
The sixth anniversary festival of the East Surrey
Conservative Society was celebrated on Wednesday at the
Horns, Kennington. The speeches were of average dull-
ness and prolixity.
The steam-boats brought down nearly a thousand
persons to Margate on Saturday last.
On Wednesday morning a destructive fire broke out in
some farm-buildings on the land of Mr. Miller, at Lovel
Heath, near Crawley, by which seven horses were de-
stroyed.