The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-30 00:00:00

tion. Though we are not much tempted by the
guile of the serpent, it is more dangerous than
the ferocity of the lion ; and quite as much calm
energy is now required to overcome Toryism as
when it roared much louder forty-seven years
ago, and was more openly ravenous than at pre-
sent. We trust, therefore, that all those who
yet prize civil liberty, and think it as much en-
dangered from the present combination of re-
creant Whigs and smirking Tories, as it was
from a similar combination, when those patriots
were exposed to persecution, will profit by the
opportunity to testify their devotion to the good
cause, and strengthen its adherents. No Chair-
man is announced, but we hope some person will
be retained who will do honour to the occasion.

because ESPARTERO sought to carry out the arti-
cles of the Treaty of Bergara, by appointing
officers who held high ranks in the army of
Don CARLOS, but who were parties to the Treaty,
to places of public trust under the Constitutional
Government. The appointments, however inju-
dicious, attested the good' faith of the Spanish

Government.
In the second place, the origin of a Govern-
ment cannot be vicious which is based upon the
popular choice of a nation.in the free exercise of
its libertiei. Spain fought for seven years for.
ISABELLA and CARLOS. Not a shot was fired to
arrest the downfal of CHRISTINA Musioz. There
was not even a mountain robber in the 'Penin-
sula, who thought it worth his while to unfurl a
rag at the end of a pole in her name, either as
guardian of her children or as Regent of the
kingdom. Even her well-beloved MuNoz fled
without shouldering a musket in her defence, or
once offering to resist the popularly-established
Government of the Spanish FABIUS, ESPARTERO.
As to the third alleged cause, the usurpation
of the Royal authority, we may observe, that in
a constitutional monarchy, where the represen-
tative principle is the basis of law and Govern-
ment, there can be no usurpation where the
whole nation is a consenting party. Now all
Spain promptly acquiesced in the sentence of the
abandonment of the guardianship of her children
and of the Regency, pronounced by the Cortes
against CHRISTINA MUNOZ. Not a municipality
raised its voice in defence of Madame Muisoz,
who, by her connection with a menial, had vir-
tually resigned the guardianship of her children
by FERDINAND.
The fourth cause embraces two distinct charges.
Of the observance of the Treaty of Bergara we
have said enough above to disconcert the parti-
zans of Madame MUNOZ. As to the hypocritical
babble about the Basque fueros, enough that it
was by the Government of Madame MuNoz that
they were declared to be for ever abolished.
Her rebellious partizan, MONTES DE OcA, now a
prisoner in Spain, and one of the confreres of the
rebels 01DoNNELL and LEON, countersigned as
Minister of the Interior, the very decree by which
CHRISTINA MuNoz, as Regent, abolished the
Basque fueros. So much for CHRISTINA'S veracity.
Respecting the fifth cause, we can only
that if CHRISTINA MUNOZ regarded the secret
joy with which all Spain beheld her removal
from the guardianship of wards whom she plun-
dered, as neither more nor less than a "stupor
of profound grief," she must regard objects
through a very different medium from that of
the rest of the world. The .self-love must be
indeed miraculous which discovers in ill-con-
cealed joy and suppressed hatred and contempt
a sorrow too deep for tears; and a commiserating
indignation too intense for muscular action. But
when in a whole year that sorrow finds neither
a tongue nor a sword, it becomes almost amusing
to hear it pleaded as the still existing cause of
national lethargy.
As religion and the POPE are thrown in by
way of make-weights, it is hardly fair to make
more than a passing allusion to them. Of the
first, the Holy See will hardly accept CHRISTINA
MU-NOZ as a spotless champion, unless, by way of
making reparation for the past she assist in
founding as many convents
.and monasteries as,
she enriched herself by supfiressing. And even
were she to do this, we doubt whether she would
be as acceptable at the Vatican as Don Can Los.
CHRISTINA'S participation in the rebellion in
Spain is now indirectly, but most conclusively,
avowed by herself. She glories in the crimes
that have been committed—exults in the blood
that has been shed. Instead of appearing ap-
palled with horror at learning that murder has
been committed under the roof which covered
her children, she applauds the daring intrepidity
of the murderers. Her rehearsal of the part of a
distressed mother separated from her children is
disgusting. Has she not two or three little
M u NOZES to dandle, one of, whom engaged her
~,,L,tioon more whpn P,,..-1-pN,r than both the
Royal infants? At ten years old_ the education
of the young QUEEN was so neglected by her
mother that she could not read or write a word
while the very money allowed to supply the
wants of her wardrobe was unscrupulously added
to her Royal mother's state perquisites. Yet
this woman makes a parade of her sufferings and
indignities as a Sovereign, and of her agonised
feelings as a widow and a mother ! Not con-
tented with plundering Spain of her gold, and
robbing her of her tranquillity, the ex-REGENT
parades a demand upon her sympathy ! The
Peninsular SEMIRAMIS is an adept in all the con-
trivances by which humility, credulity, vanity,
and unsuspecting singleness of purpose are made
the dupes of craft, avarice, and profligate ambition.

In another part of The Swi will be found a
letter from that untiring opponent of the sliding
scale, Earl FITZWILLIAM, making it quite plain
that the duty on foreign corn rises, and is high,
not because corn is abundant, which is what the
law-maker professes, but because it is bad. The
more wheat there is sold, which is small in the
grain, damp, and mouldy, fit only for hog's meat,
the higher rises the duty, and the more strin-
gently is good foreign corn kept out of the coun-
try. They must be wise law-makers who enact
that; and we thank Earl FITZWILLI Am very much
for making their wisdom so apparent. "

The Metropolitan Police, in addition to a
variety of modes already in practice of annoying
respectable publicans, as well as offending public
feeling, have lately hit upon a new system, which,
with the exception of one instance, occurring
in the City, we are happy to say has been
hitherto without effect. Not being allowed,
when on duty, to entera public-house to take
refreshment, they seem inclined to subject other
persons to the same restrictions, and have lat-
terly been very active in laying informations
against landlords for selling spirits and beer to
persons whom they consider of doubtful charac-
ter. They have repeatedly arrested unfortunate
girls in the street, who were giving no annoy-
ance to any human being. In almost every in-
stance within the last month, they have been
reprimanded by the Magistrates for this
officious and cruel interference. Some of them,
convicted of swearing falsely against these poor
creatures, have been reported to the Commis-
sioners without the result being known, and
others, whose conduct was too gross to be over-
looked, have been suspended or allowed to make
their escape. A. Correspondent of a Morning
Contemporary, hitherto favourable to the New
Police regulations,__ makes the following com-
munication, in which we regret to say there is
too much truth :
I have heard, and I believe it to be true, that police-
men often extort money from women under the threat of
taking them to the station-house.; and, if this is per-
mitted, I wish to know what woman is safe ? But I
maintain that the liberty cfthe subject is grossly violated
by any person being taken into custody who has not po-
sitively offended in a very decided way the public de-
corum which it is necessary to maintain-in our streets.
It is surely approaching very near to inquisitorial powers
when the subaltern officers of the law are permitted to
inquire into the private characters of persons whom they
may either see frequenting the streets or the taverns.
If this system is permitted to exist, it will not stop here,
and the police will be at last but a corps of spies, and
the tools of an inquisitorial power, which may be carried
to any extent.
The Chief Clerk at the Mansion-house, who has
so long filled the office with, credit to himself
and great benefit to the City, and whose opinion,
from long experience, is entitled to great weight,
described them as tyrannical, the power entrusted
to them, he said, was enormous, and enormously
abused, and something must be done to prevent
" respectable people from being completely
over- ridden." The tyrannical conduct of these
men, supposed to have been abetted by the
Government, returned a Tory for Westmin-
ster; and, had another come forward, would
have achieved what neither money nor influence
ever before accomplished. Two of the Liberal
City candidates, it is firmly believed, lost their
1 elections ror tire znutc ettoii. 33.. .I,s,

dread of this new body was not con-
fined to London; it extended throughout
the whole of England, particularly among a
very influential body of electors, the publicans,
and contributed more than any other cause (ex-
cept the Corn-law question), to turn the balance
against the Government. Yet, notwithstanding
all these proofs of hatred to this inquisitorial
system, manifested by the spontaneous feelings
of free-born Englishmen, an ex-Ministerial
Evening Paper, in a heavy pharisaical article,
more than a column in length, and written, it is
said, by the Member for Lambeth, denounces
those who will not crouch to tyranny, and lauds
this obnoxious Act to the skies, It is iinmacu-
late. Daily miracles are performed by it.
Father MATHEw is a mere drone in the great

work of regenerating the lower classes, corn-

The Paris Journals of Wednesday have all
reached us. Their contents are more than usu-
ally uninteresting.
A letter from Toulon, of the 22d inst., an-
nounces that the squadron of Rear-Admiral
CASY got under weigh on the evening of the
:21st for Brest.

pared with-Mr. liAwEs. "No restraint," says
the Globe, "is imposed on any one, except those
who require to be restrained,from doing themselves
positive injury, and who are prone to insult and
outrage public decorum ;" and thus exultingly
concludes :—" The law improves, as we have

seen, the habitt3 of the people, and conse-
quently tends to raise their character in
the estimation of other nations." It
melancholy to see a paper professing Liberal
principles so mischievously influenced by party
prejudices, and so utterly forgetful of a principle
which the Whigs profess to prize above all others
—the liberty of the subject.

-
The Veloce steamer left Toulon on the 20th
for Constantinople, with the Baron DE BOUR-
QUENEY on board.
The Prefect of the Haute-Vienne has just suspended
from his functions, for a period of two months, M. Patier,
Captain of the National Guard of Limoges, for having
publicly given his adhesion to the address sent to the
National Guard of Toulouse.
An individual suspected of being implicated in the
crime of Quenisset, has been brought this morning from
Melun to Paris. He is confined in the Cancier, where
he is kept without any one being allowed to communi-
cate with him, at the disposal of the Chancellor.
Thelndieateur, of Bordeaux, of the 23d, has news
from Madrid of the 20th.
The Cortes had . been convoked for the 19th of No-
vember, which is Queen Isabella's fete, in order to coun-
teract the political centralisation of the popular junitas
formed at Barcelona, and other places. A general
amnesty will be proclaimed on the occasion of her Ma-
jesty's fete for all the Carlists, without exception, in
consideration of their patriotic conduct during, the late
; events, having refused to take any part in the insurrec-
tionary movements of O'Donnell.
An army of observation of 60,000 men will be assembled
between Alcala, Burjou, and Vittoria, to keep the north-
ern provinces in awe, and shortly tq,bring., about a modifi-
cation of fueros in harmony With are constitution of the
Monarchy.---Constitutioned.
The Journal du Havre gives a report of the captain
and crew of the brig Palmyra, of Lorient, which was
run down at sea on the 14th inst., by the Jane Frances,
Captain Crosby an English.vessel, bound from Sunder-
land to Marseilles. It appears that in the evening, when
at about 12 miles to the E.N.E. of Whitby, running
close to the wind, the. Palmyra saw the other ship com-
ing down upon her, and hailed her to keep clear, but
she ran aboard of the French ship, with such velocity
and force, that her crew had only time to jump on
board the Jane Frances before their own vessel went
down, carrying with her the cabin-boy, whom it was
impossible to save. The report complains that the people
of the Palmyra stood on the English ship's deck a quar-
ter of an hour before any one belonging to her spoke a
word to them, a proof that all the Englishmen were asleep.
It adds that the Jane Frances continued her eourse
towards Marseilles, but in half an hour, finding that she
had sprungher bowsprit, she tacked about and returned
to Sunderland.
The sister and brother-in-law of Barbes, who is con-
fined at Mont St. Michel, have addressed a memorial to
the Procureur du Roi of Avranchcs, complaining of the
undue severity to which Barbes is exposed in that pri-
son. They state in this document that Barbes was placed
with some refractory robbers in close cabins immedi-
ately under the roof, whereby he was subjected alter-
nately to all the severities of extreme heat and cold.
Returning one day from taking the air, he found that
the aperture in his door by
which light had been ad-
mitted into his cell was stopped up, and he declared that
he would not go in until he had seen the director. In-
stead of this being allowed, twelve gaolers came, and
after having cruelly beaten him dragged him by the hair
and head down the stairs, and put him into a damp and
unwholesome dungeon formed in the rock on which the
castle stands, his legs being thrust into a sort of iron
boots. The Temps, in noticing this subject, adds—
, that Steuble, one of them,
" The treatment of the political prisoners is so rigorous,
another, Austen; became mad, and is now confined
onl
ebrys this
di
disapprove,
spi3 treatment
ve,
they
and a third, Auguste
among the lunatics at Pontorson ;
Blnnqui,. has fallen into a state of pthisia and mares-
mum; so that his life is in (longer. When the prisoners
killed himself in despair ;
theirare d driven
ro overwhelmed with
complain in terms which
blows."
M. Fortune d'Est is now imprisoned in Paris, and
the Examining Magistrate . has been occupied in interro-
gating the persons to. whom he is indebted.
An elderly woman of insane mind, living in the Rue
Beaurepaire, was attended by her daughter with unre-
mitting care, and never left by her except when asleep.
The morning before last, the daughter, believing her
mother to be in sound repose, left her for a few minutes
in their apartment, which was on the third floor, but she
had scarcely closed the door, when the mother, who had
feigned sleep, stole from her bed to the window, and

The most abject partizans of CHRISTINA MU-
NOZ find a difficulty in attempting to advocate
her atrocious defence of the insurrection in
Spain. There is something in the conduct of
this woman so utterly abandoned—so entirely
dead to every sentiment of gratitude and paren-
tal tenderness—so indifferent to the magnitude
of the crimes committed in her name—so callous
to the sufferings and death of the misguided
dupes of her avarice, ambition, and thirst of re-
venge,
that even the unscrupulous champions of
every assumption of despotic power in Princes
shrink from 'the obloquy of undertaking her
defence at the bar of public opinion. Destitute
alike of decency and shame, she, in order to in-
crease the listof the alleged crimes of the Spanish
Government, unblushingly charges the Executive
Government at Madrid with the very acts com-
mitted by herself, while Regent of the kingdom,
in the name of her august daughter. In vainly
attempting to exculpate herself from the guilt
of immediately and directly kindling the civil
war in Spain, the ex-Regent adduces no fewer
than five causes of the revolutionary outbreak
with which she charges the Spanish Government.
Called upon to defend her own conduct, she first
shuffiingly equivocates, and next proceeds to
impeach the integrity of her accusers. As many
of our readers may not have much attended to
her manifesto published in The Sun of Tuesday,
we quote from it the causes alleged by her, of
the attempted CHRISTINA revolution in Spain:—

" Those causes are to be found —I. In the attempts '
of Barcelona and Valencia ; 2. In the vicious origin
of the Government constituted in Madrid, the work
of the revolution of September ; 3. In the usurpa-
tion of Royal authority, in the illegality and un-
ruly injustice of, the measures of Government in
numerous and flagrant infractions of the constitu-
tion and the laws • 4. In its imprudent and scanda-
lous obstinacy in violating the faith pledged at Bergara,
and trampling under foot the ancient and venerable
fueros of the generous Basques and Navarrese ; 5. In the
violent and iniquitous usurpation of the Queen's right
to the guardianship of her illustrious ilaughters, a usur-
pation which lo: al Spaniards viewed with stupor equalled
only by their Profound grief, because they witnessed on
this and several other occasions the contempt entertained
for divine and human laws • and because they saw the
honour and dignity of the mother of their Sovereign seri-
ously offended. In this uninterrupted series of-violent
1 attempts against all that was most worthy of respect and
most sacred in the nation, against the holy religion which
it professes, and against the common father of the faith-
' fal--.11 those acts of iniquity, oppression, and political
insanity which have scandalized the world—the Chris-
tian world—and cruelly exasperated the nation, behold
the principal, the real cause, the efficient cause, of the
last insurrection, which the excess
of so many evils had
rendered inevitable.

To show the utter worthlessness of this woman's
testimony, we shall go through these charges in
the order in which they are made, that the public
may see what truth there is in them.
We have, first, the attempts of Barcelona and
Valencia. These attempts at insurrectionary
movements were made by the Ultra-Liberals,

THE SUN, LONDON"; SATITIMAY, OCTOBER 30, 1841.

'rhirty4even

threw herself out. Providentially in her fall her foot
was caught by the rails of a balcony on the second floor,
and thus she remained suspended for a considerable time
with her head downwards. The neighbours brought
out mattresses and a quantity of straw, and laid them in
the street to receive her, in case of her hold giving way.
Others hastened to the balcony, and, by passing sheets
round her body, took her in. The foot by which she
was caught had been broken, but she bad not received
any other injury.
M. Rubini left Bordeaux again for Madrid on the 23d
inst. The whole proceeds of the concert at which he
sang were given, according to the intention we have an-
nounced, for the benefit of the poor of the town.
A Berlin letter Says—" It is believed that the marri-
age of the Prince Royal of Bavaria is determined upon.
This affair was of some importance, as the Protestants of
the kingdom required, as a guarantee, that the future
Queen should be of the. Lutheran Church, as the present
Queen and the Queen Dowager are. The intended con-
sort of the heir, to the Bavarian throne is the sister of the
Queen of Greece; the. Princess Elizabeth Maria Frede-
rica, daughter of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. She
was born on the Bth of June, 1820. The hand of the
Princess Aldegonda will not, ,it appears, be granted
to the Duke de Bordeaux, but to the hereditary Prince
of Modem". _ _ .

The Sentinelle of Bayonne, of the 23d inst., says—
" Two sloops from Deva, with fugitives on board, were
stopped yesterday at sea by some -trincadores of Saint
Sebastian which had perceived them. One was taken,
but till other made her escape, thanks to the energy of
one of the passengers, who fired a pistol at one of the
sailors of the pursuers, and these being intimidated al-
lowed the sloop to proceed. She afterwards entered the
port of Soco in safety. About a hundred officers, non-
commissioned officers and soldiers, arrived at Bayonne
yesterday evening. About 400 others are following.
Several hundreds have left the Aldudes for different
localities. Two companies of the 43d regiment of the
line have left for Espelette, to relieve two other cora-
panies, who have to conduct Spanish refugees."
The evening before last, a corn-rick in the farm of M.
Mignau, Mayor of Mesnil Aubry, near Ecouen, in the
Seine-et Oise, caught fire, arid, notwithstanding the most
prompt and effective assistance from all the surrounding
communes, the flames communicated to a barn against
which the rick stood, and also to other ricks ; nor could
they be extinguished until the building and upwards of
30,000 sheaves of corn were consumed. By the great
exertions made, there was every hope of preserving the
other buildings ; but the flames continued to rage till
nine o'clock yesterday morning, when 230 men from the
garrison at St. Denis came to the relief of the men, who
had been employed all night, and were worn out by fa-
tigue. The fire was not extinguished when this account
came away.
A letter from Perpignan states, " The municipality
of Valencia has placed itself in communication with that
of Barcelona—the Junta of Surveillance of the latter
place has released most of the persons who were ar-
rested by way of precaution, but against whom nothing
has been proved. General Baratell has been appointed
by the Regent Governor of Barcelona. Measures of
surveillance continued in Catalonia, but up to the 23d
the province was tranquil. The Ocean steamer, after
having touched at Barcelona, has arrived at PortVendres.
A great many persons were unable to leave, for want of
passports."
A pleasant mot of the mother of Mademoiselle Rachel
is cited. Since this accomplished actress's triumphant
reception in London—since the favours lavished on her
by Queens Victoria and Adelaide, Madame Felix,
the name of the fair tragedian's mother, has been so
intoxicated with the young actress's success, as to
have almost perdu la tete.: The wags allege that
nothing short of the title of " Queen-Mother" will
satisfy the old lady's exigeance. They add, that she has
taken Royal state and dignity upon her, and that if
any one speak to her on the subject of a "civil list," he
would be speedily shown to the door by her subjects
(domestics). In illustration of this idiosyncracy of the
elder Rachel, the following anecdote is related:—A few
days since one
.of the most celebrated female haber-
dashers and getters up of fine linen in Paris, called upon
her for the price of a magnificent cambric handkerchief,
embroidered and fringed with lace of great value, which
was especially made and supplied several months
back to " llermione," to wipe away her tragical tears.
The sight of the poor plaguy lingere's bill set the old
lady in a rage, and she -refused point-blank to pay; the
tradeswoman, forgetting the "Royal" dignity of the per-
son whom she addressed, took the incredible liberty of
insisting; whereupon the superb Felicia, irritated and
provoked beyond all the bounds of restraint, rose from
her seat with the air of a wounded sultana, and exclaimed,
" W-)man, withdraw. Yon are not included in this
month's budget if"—Paris Paper.
BOURSE--Perils, MONDAY, OCT. 25.
f lest Highest Lowest I.ast
Price Price. Pricy. Price
',ends 5 per Ce-t• ll5 29 ... 115 40 115 20 ... 115 40
4 per Cents LS 50 ... 98 50 ... 98 50 ... 48 50
3 per Cents 79 S 5 .79 60 ... :9 55 79 60
• Loan
ink of France
Laffitte Bcr:k I,ooof. Si area 11,35 ...11'35 -112 i -.1035
5.000 f. Stares LO 5 ...5055 .4055 ...5055
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 her Cents., 1840 102% ... 102% ... 102% ... 192%
iparosh Active 22% ... 5y ... 22% ... !22%
I'assts-e 5% ••• ••• 5% ••• (*.
105 20
,Icapoittan
Roman ... IC-4 .. 104 ...1Q3% ...104-
RAILWAY SHARES.
11. Germain
Versailles. L.B 2.15 ... 205 202 50 ... 202 50
.nuen 450 ... 450 - ... 445 ... 446 as
10 wpm., us. isnleAnares red 275 .--255 - ...-ise,
FuNDS.-.-AlitlerititnAte, Oar. 20.
Money. Mile.
Actual Debt. 2'4 per Cent
Jitto, ditto ti per cent.
Amen Svndie,4;i, percent 90% 914
Ditto, ditto. 3y4 per cent......,.... ........ 7514 76
Commercial Company, 4!4 per cent 154% 15-1%
Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... Mg 102
Loan IS3I, 5 per cent. O7 9,S
Exchange on London, One month l2 10
Two months
Hambureh, One month :35 75
Two months 35 50
Dutch Papers, Oct. 27.
i> MG' AN 10 UNDS...riatiSaLl. Oct 27.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant lOl
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92
• 3 per Cent. .....
71%
(1(340) lOl%
Loan of City, 1.32, 4 per Cent. 23
Society of Commerce, 44per Cent 93
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... • 2
National Society. O.lO. s
Exchange on Londe (short)
-Brussels Papers, Oct. 27.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-VIENNA, OcT. 20
five per Cants. Metalligues
Foal' per Cents. 98%
Three par Cents.
Bank Shares ll3O
-Allgemeine Zeilung. Oct. 24.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, OCT. 20.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. -
Bank Shares 1545 -
Anglo-Russian Loan lOBl4 108
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate -
Inscription, Ist Seies loa --
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. lid and 4th
Series
Ditto in Certificates -
New 4 per Cent. (1810) B6 b 5%
Dutch .tetual Debt, 2% pe Cent 50% -
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bond:

zolisi. _ Au.
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent -;574, 75%
N..twegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Ct0t......
52..rdsh, New 5 per Cents. 15%
EKCHANGE% ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, OCT. 26.-13 7.—Two months, 13 5%.
Srootuome, OCT. 19.—Seventy-five days, 12. 5.
RERUN, OCT, 16.—Three months, 6. 18 lA.
LEIPSIC, Szvr,27.—Two mo . ths, 6.15%.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, OCT. 23.
Bills. Money,
St, Schuld. Sch., 4' per cent. III .ICCi%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102 101 b
Jixchange on London, three months 6 18%
—Prussian State Gazette. Oct. 24

HOW THE POOR ARE BURIED BY THE POOR MAN'S
Caunerr.—One day last week, a person, on whose vera-
city we can rely, went into a church-yard, St. John's
Wood, attracted there by a few persons assembled.
Presently one coffin was brought out of the church; then
a second, then a third, and then a fourth, and so on—in
all, nine coffins—six of children, and three of grown per-
sons—which were placed in one truck. Speedily there
followed a few persons without any mark of mourning or
decorum—in truth, a ragged pauper mob—and then
came the parson. The truck was immediately wheeled
off to a distant part of the church-yard, and into
one hole were the nine bodies cast. The parson then
hurried through the burial service, our informant says,
reading only a part of it ; but, perhaps, that is a mis-
take, and then earth was thrown in, and the nine bodies
were hidden. As they were placed in this hole a little
girl, pointing to one of the little coffins, said " That is
our's, mother." There was a mother present, therefore,
and a sister, to note the way in which the Church and
the parish treated their child and sister, while the public
will now learn with some indignation, we weep, how the
Church and Parish shoot the poor into a hole in the
earth in bulk. Our informant, one of the humbler
classes, was indignant at the unseemly exhibition and
declared that she would submit to any strait while living
to be spared such an indignity when dead. There is no
doubt great distress and no little mortality among the
poor, but this scene reminds us of the time of the plague.
As there is no plague now, however, we cannot imagine
an apology for this conduct by the poor man's Church.
CRIME IN THE AGRICULTURAL COUNTIES.—The fol-
io% ing pargraph is going the round of the Tory papers:—
"In Berkshire, as in most of the agricultural counties,
there has been a great decrease of crime of late. The
number of prisoners in Reading gaol, in October this
year is 138, whilst in the corresponding quarter of last
year there were 209, and of this number but a very
small proportion could read and write, and fully one-third
could not read at all." Whether this paragraph be true
or not, the object of the persons who publish it is to throw
a slur on the morality of the manufacturing districts.
The landlords first reduce the labouring manufacturers,
by their iniquitous enactments, to the deepest poverty,
mid then set their scribes to calumniate them. This is
a part of their abominable system of decrying manu-
factures. Let them do justice to the manufacturers,
let them allow the manufacturing labourers the free use
of their honest industry, and .to enjoy their own pro-
perty, and they will be more moral than the landlords
themselves.

A KEEPER OP SECRETS.—(From a Malta
paper.)—We have no news from Egypt and Syria that
would interest you. The affair of Tunis, too, I, mks little
likely to be as productive for us newspaper folks as .it
promised, and we have gotten a sour curmudgeon of a
non-newspaper loving sailor for an Admiral, who seems
to think that his secret orders, received or given, are not
the property of the press. Ido not mean anything per-
sonal, but shall ask, is it likely that Sir John Omman-
ney, or any other sea monster afloat, will be suffered to
retain a command who is .capable of
.a sentiment or an
immorality like those conveyed in the following anec-
dote :—Very lately ha was reminded that his predeces-
sors did not hesitate to communicate intelligence to par-
ties who would make it reach the light. "Did they?"
(asked the haughty lump of pitch and tar), " Then I'll
be d—d if I do!" Now, there's a fellow to have a flag!
There's a fellow to be entrusted with.sectrets! See that
he be superseded de suite.