The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-03 00:00:00

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LONDON:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1841.

The hollow PEEL organs are endeavouring to
blow out their favourite rind into a show of sub-
stance by the sickly breath of spurious huma-
nity. He is said "to have acknowledged in em-
phatic language his sympathies with the dis-
tresses of the working people." How kind in
him to sympathise with those whom he dooms to
starve. Oh, but he does not believe, we are told,
that his preventing the cutlers of Sheffield from
exchanging their scissors and knives for the flour
of the inhabitants of the vale of the Mississipi
causes any distress. He does not believe that
for those to lay restrictions on trade, industry,
and liberty, who are honoured and paid to pre-
vent all such restrictions, is injurious or wrong.
What Sir ROBERT PEEL really believes, we pre-
tend not to say. He has been so long in the
habit of using words, lawyer-like, to attain an
end, not to signify his own belief, that we doubt
very much whether he himself knows how to
express what he believes; but if he really be-
lieve what is ascribed to him by way of excusing
him for withholding bread from the people, his
credulity surpasses that of the devout believers in

the slaughtered THom. We cannot except an
excuse for the Right Hon. Baronet which anni-
hilates his intellect, to give him a heart, and we
set down his pretended sympathies with the dis-
tresses of the people, as included in the part he
was for the moment called upon to enact.

He does not believe, it is said, that the passing
of such measures as the late Ministry recom-
mended would give relief to the people; which is
possible, but for that belief we should not quar-
rel with him. We never approved of the Budget.
We always saidsthat the duties on our colonial
sugar should be reduced, and a large reduction
made in the discriminating duty on foreign
sugar. We always said that, to make the reduc-
tion of the sugar duty profitable to the revenue,

it was indispensable that the Corn-laws should
be abolished. We never advocated or defended
a fixed bread tax in any shape or form. We
should not quarrel with Sir R. PEEL, therefore,
for taking a liberty with the Budget which we
took ourselves ; and our condemnation of him as
a statesman in respect to that, rests on very diffe-

rent grounds.
He admits, we are told, the distresses of the
people, which are undoubtedly very great, if not
unexampled, and he sympathizes with them.
He is aware of the deficiency in the revenue, for
that is the chief ground on which his party ac-
cuse, and most unjustly accuse, the late Ministers.
Here are two admitted evils, which any states-
man having a heart and a head would conclude
could not be too soon remedied. If he loved his
countrymen—if he valued our institutions, en-
dangered by deficiency of means on the one
hand, andgreat discontent on the other—be would
have discarded all other considerations, and.
called on the Parliament instantly to devote its
best energies to ascertain the causes of these
evils, and if possible to apply a remedy to them.
Did he so patriotically conduct himself? Not
he. Not only did he take no step, which was his
duty as a Member of Parliament, to relieve the
public distress and increase the public revenue,
but he would not allow others to take any such
steps, and stopped and threw them down when
they made the first feeble and tottering advances.
By that he served himself and his party, but he
committed a high crime and misdemeanor
against the nation.
Acknowledging these two facts of the distress
of the public and the deficiency of the revenue,
the Ministers announced a series of measures
which they affirmed would relieve the distress
and augment the revenue. Did Sir R. PEEL

allow the House of Commons patiently to ex-
amine those measures, and explain to the public
that after an examination they were ineffi-
cient and useless? Did he, too, at the same time,
having a stateman's mind rich in means to pro-
mote a nation's welfare, lay a Budget of his own
alongside that of Mr. BARING, and honestly earn
the well-merited confidence of his countrymen by
proposing some well-considered plan to give
higher wages to the people and money to the
State? He did not. He and his friends would
not examine the measures of the Ministers, and
would not allow the House of Commons to ex-
amine them, but rejected the proposed alteration
of the sugar duties on a ground wholly foreign to
the improvement of the revenue and the relief of
the public distress—namely, that it might by
possibility impede the well-working of the
plan for emancipating the negroes. Instead of
calmly examining what would be the effect of
the proposed alteration of the Corn-laws, sure of
being supported by the monopolists, he intervened
with a vote of want of confidence, and brought
about a dissolution of Parliament, so that instead
of hastening to give relief and to augment the
revenue, he has already postponed the 'possibi-
lity of either from May to September. In so
acting he sported with that deep distress with
which, .for a purpose, he pretends to sympathise,
and sacrificed the best interests of the state to
his mean and despicable personal and party

ambition.
But if he feels so much for this distress wh

measures will he now take to remedy it? Report
says that he is to ask for a vote of credit, and
postpone all legislative measures till he has had
time to master all the secrets of office, which it is

in Dublin was to make a marked reduction in
supposed will be about next February. This is the mendicants of the streets, but the places of
adding intolerable humbug to bad ambition. §ir those who took reftgxe in the workhouse were
R..PEEL knows every thiug'necesBarY to be 4noivn soon filled by a fresh influx of beggars from the

surrounding districts. After a short time, too,
some of
_those who went into the workhouses,
got tired and returned to the streets, so that
Dublin was, after a short time, more fully
stocked with beggars than before. Such a re-
sult does not say much fur the New Poor-law.
It is more satisfactory to find from the Report,
that the Irish are becoming more provident, and
have begun to acquire a clearer perception of
their real interests, and of the necessity of rely-
ing on their own efforts. They are likewise bet-
ter informed with respect to their social condi-
tion, and the duties it imposes on them indivi-
dually and collectively, and hence their improv-
ed habits and more general self-reliance. It
is stated by other authorities, that the use
of wheaten bread is extending in Ireland,
and superseding potatoes. We are inclined,
therefore, to hope that the condition of
the Irish is fast improving, and we hope that im-
provement will not be stopped by the change of
Administration. We trust, too, as it seems to

spring up amongst the people themselves, that
Tory legislators, as it makes itself more manifest,
will not take credit for an improvement which
they have not been able to mar. It would be as
well also if the Poor-law Commissioners, in
speaking of such improvements, were to ascer-
tain, if possible, how much of them are the fruit
of natural causes, always at work to increase the
prosperity of society, and how much flows from
legislation.

to avoid seeming to interfere with the Greek Government.
Communicate this despatch to the Government. If it is
not more developed, it is because its aim is less to obtain
an immediate and complete adoption of its views, than
to invite the allied Courts to take the subject into consi-
deration and communicate their reflection. We will
give them the most serious examination. It concerns
the honour of European States to apply a remedy to the
evils which might compromise their common efforts in
founding the kingdom of Greece.

We may hereafter discuss the question of the
presumed unfitness of Greece for receiving a re-
gular constitutional Government, without going
through the course of initiatory instruction re-
commended by France. But at present we are
chiefly anxious to learn in what way the mode-
rate propos:ion of the French Cabinet will be
received by Austria, Russia, and Prussia. To
the Porte it must be a matter of the utmost in-
difference what form of Government prevails in
Greece.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached
us, but their contents are without political inte-
rest, having for the most part been anticipated
in our impression of yesterday. In the shape of
general news, all that is to be found in them is
included in the subjoined extracts :
" The crop of olives in the South of France," says the
Courrier du ward, " promises to be very abundant, and
to indenuify the inhabitants in some measure for the
rave.ges of the late inundation."
A letter from Saragossa, in the Castellano of Madrid,
says :—" On the 16th inst. a band of seven robbers plun-
dered with impunity all the travellers near Huesca, in
the plains of Violada and Gurrea, six leagues from Sara-
gossa. The number of persons robbed during the day
was twenty-eight, of whom two were females."
A letter from Haarlem, 27th instant, in the Handels-
Mad, announces the arrival of the Countess of Nassau,
lately Countess d'Oultremout, and consort of the ex-King
of Holland. She left immediately fur Dieren, on a visit
to the Countess Van Wassenaar.

We published yesterday the substance of an
official note, dated the 11th of August, addressed
by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to the
Powers of Europe, on the internal state of
Greece. We have now the text of this docu-
ment before us, and as the subject to which it
relates is of the utmost importance, we
shall give it at length for the more correct infor-
mation of our readers. Nothing can better de-
monstrate the hopelessness of private remon-
strances addressed to King OTHO than this ap-
peal to the Governments of Europe. Indepen-
dent States are naturally jealous of the shadow
of foreign interference in their internal affairs,
and it is a maxim of international policy that such
interference is only warrantable in cases of the
last extremity. Nor have the Governments of
France and England been less observant of
this maxim as regards Greece, from any
undue protective claims arising out of the
share they have had. in consolidating the in-
dependent nationality of the Greek people.
While it was possible to hope that private remon-
strances would make any impression on the
councils of the Royal idiot who sways the des-
tinies of that country, the idea of an appeal to
Europe was not once entertained. But a King
whose only answer to the official remonstrance
of a friendly Cabinet made through the mouth
of an ambassador was in the first instance a
month's silence, and when repeated, a silly
laugh, could not be expected to adopt any course
likely to keep the world in ignorance of his de-
plorable imbecility. We are not here indulging
in mere declamatory charges against the King
of GREECE. The outline of one fact, which -we
have had from a well-informed quarter, will
demonstrate this. Some time ado the Am-
bassador of a Great Power at the Court
of Athens obtained an audience of the
KING to read to him a despatch received front
his own Government, setting forth in strong lan-
guage the abuses which prevailed in the Admi-
nistration of Greece, and adding, that unless pro-
per remedies were employed, the Powers friendly
to Greece would behold with sorrow the destruc-
tion of her most valued institutions. During the
reading of the despatch, King OTHO, stretched at
full length on a sofa, amused himself with strok-
ing his hair, and giving it a school-boy gloss
with the palms of his hands, and when the Am-
bassador demanded what answer he should re-
turn to his Government, a stupid stave of no
meaning was all the notice his MAJESTY cande-
sceuded to take of the matter. The Ambassa-
dor withdrew much displeased, but by the ad-
vice of his Government he went again after the
lapse of a month, and read over a second time
his dispatch to the KING. His MAJESTY amused
himself as before, and when the reading of the
document was finished, burst into a horse-laugh
in the very face of the Ambassador, whom he
again dismissed without a word. If the
weakness of the KING'S intellect was exhi-
bited in harmless eccentricities of conduct it
might be borne; but unfortunately he is as
mischievous as he is wanting in. all the higher
faculties of the mind. He fancies himself an-
other NAPOLEON, talks incessantly of governing
the kingdom by his iron will, and imagines that
Providence has destined him to overturn the
Ottoman Monarchy. He meddles with every-
thing, and is as great and as arbitrary in the
kitchen as in . the Council of State.
His first great care is his hair,
which he is constantly smoothing with his
hands, so that it looks as sleek as the skin of art
otter. It costs him more trouble to supply the
fancied deficiencies of his barber than to rule
his kingdom. In such troubled times as these
such a man is not fit to be placed at the 'bead of
any Government, and, in fact, the circular of
the French Minister is tantamount to an invita-
tion to the Powers of Europe to establish a vir-
tual Regency in Greece. We now subjoin this
remarkable State paper, which we recommend
to the careful attention of all who take a deep
interest in the regeneration of the cradle of all
that is greatest in arts and in literature :
The attention of the French Government is turned
anew to the state of Greece, now that less pressing ques-
tions absorb it. The solicitude of the English Cabinet
was lately awakened, and the other Powers have directed
their attention to unpleasant facts, which, though not at-
tributable to the Government of Greece, would excite a
fear that that Government is not strong enough to keep
its employes within the bounds of a just, regular, and
humane administration. This is the more to be re-
gretted, as the state of the kingdom, created by France,
England, and Russia, seems to evince, that the Powers
wero not dominated by a mere illusion in making such
sacrifices to regenerate and render independent that
country. The population has increased, agriculture
has improved, and the revenue has been enabled to
meet the expenditure ; there are symptoms of vitality
and force, which, however, may be paralyzed or com-
promised by the weakness or negligence of the Ad-
ministration. King Otho, it is true, has exclusively
the right of applying the remedy to these evils,
which, though exaggerated, exist. To impose any
measure on the King of Greece would be to deprive it of
its effect, and none of the Powers would wish to call in
question his Majesty's independence. But all the Pow-
ers are interested in offering such councils to the Greek
Cabinet as may avert the catastrophe which threatens
the interests of Greece. But such councils, in order to
be efThetual, should be unanimous, and should not ema-
nate from rival influences. They should also be maturely
considered, and couched so as to offend neither King nor
country whilst exercising that moral authority requisite
to serve that country. The greatest of these evils, and the
cause of all others, is the weakness and inertness of the
Government, unceasingly harassed by the rival preten-
sions of parties and individuals, and taking refuge there-
from in an isolation which removes it from the popular
feeling, and places it in a position where it can neither
know nor direct that feeling, it becomes alarmed, it stops
short, puts off resolve, and appears as if it would full
into nullity, for want of support anywhere. The most
crying 'abuses and the greatest perils have been the result.
It has sometimes been believed that a constitutional
Government, in the general sense of that term, would be
the best remedy for this state of things, by admitting in-
dependent powers to participate in legislative functions
and in the direction of affairs. Far from sexing any ad-
vantage in this, the French Government do not see in the
anterior organization of Greece, nor in the habits of the po-
pulation, the conditions requisite to ensure success. It
thinks that such a combination would not be understood by
the subjects of King Otho, and would furnish, on the con-
trary, fresh materials for disorder and anarchy. Instead
of exposing the nascent monarchy of Greece to this new
danger, the French Government thinks that the means of
communicating fresh life, regularity, and support, to the
Greek Government, might be found in some of the existing
institutions of the country. For this purpose it might
suffice to augment the attributions of the Councilsb of
State, adding provincial Councils to this Institution, as
well as municipal ones, of which the basis already ex-
isted in the customs of the country, even under Turk-
ish domination. This combination would fortify and
guide the Royal power, and would have the advantage
of being grafted on national traditions, as well as of giv-
ing a clear meaning to promises which may be differ-
ently interpreted, but which there might be danger in al-
together neglecting. This arrangement could inspire
no fear in those who dread the effect of popular in-
fluence on a throne not ion.. established. I have suc-
cinctly stated the nature of theb Councils th;t the Powers
might offer to the Greek Government in case they should
join the English Government in thinking it advise-
able to offer advice to Kiug Otho on the abuses of his
government, and the dangers which might result there-
from. I have mentioned that the greatest delicacy should
I be observed, and the most confidential manner employed

Another of those inhuman monsters, who violate all
the rights and claims of nature by ill-treating their own
offspring, has just been condemned, at Strasburg, to the
totally inadequate punishment of 12 months' imprison-
ment, having been convicted of confining in darkness,
and an accumulation of filth, and beating constantly, so
as to leave the body covered with bruises, excoriations,
and scars, his daughter, who was only four years of age.
A violent attempt at murder; followed by suicide, has
just taken place at Pothieres, near Dijon. A farmer,
named Trison, had long, solicited the hand of a widow
of that place, who, on some pretence or other, constantly
Postponed the day of their marriage. He at length be-
came furiotis, and calling on her, a few days since, seized
her by the throat, and, as he thought, strangled her. He
then cut his own throat, and fell dead beside the body of
his victim. The Woman, however, soon after recovered
from her insensibility, and with proper attention is in a
fair way of doing well.
Yesterday morning, in pursuance with the Ministerial
circular recently issued, the soldiers of the garrisons of
Paris, whose time of service had expired, being the
class o( 1834, were discharged and sent home. The
men were marched to the outside of the barriers, and
there had their fuilles de route deliVered, while an
officer and some men were stationed there to pre-
vent their return into Paris. On the previous day an
order had been read to them, stating that any soldier
so liberated, and not a resident of the department of the
Seine, who should be found in the streets of Paris,
would be arrested and taken home by means of the
gendarmerie. A similar measure took place with regard
to the garrisons of the Banlielie. It is stated to be the
intention of the Minister of War to send home on pro-
visional furloughs, the men of the class of 1835, as soon
as the recruits of 1840 shall have received the first rudi-
ments of their military education.
A man named Lambert was tried on Saturday before
the Court of Assizes for having murdered another
named Lejeune on the 22d March, at La Chapelle,
St. Denis. • He had suspected that Lejeune was the
paramour of his wife, who had left him on account of
the bad treatment she had experienced ; and without
sufficiently ascertaining whether his suspicions were
well founded, attacked him on the day in question with
a bottle, by a blow from which he felled him to the
ground. Lejeune cried out for mercy, but Lambert
struck him on the head with an axe for cleaving wood,
stamped on his body, and killed him. He afterwards
informed his uncle of what he had done, and made little
or no resistance to the gendarmes who arrested him. The
facts of the case were proved by evidence, but Lambert
attempted to excuse the act by affirming that Lejeune
had previously menaced him with a knife. The Jury
found him guilty, with extenuating circumstances, seve-
ral witnesses having sworn to his good character, and he
was sentenced to 12 years' hard labour in the hulks.
The official Gazette of Breslau announces that the
King of Prussia has authorised the construction of a
railway from Breslau to the frontiers of Saxony, passing
through Liegnitz and Goertletz.
A letter from the Baths of Kissengen, 16th instant,
states that among the visitors at present stopping there
ar© the Duke of Beaufort, Lady Morgan, Admiral La-
lande, M. de Nagler,Prussian Minister, &c. The Duchess
of Kent, and the princely family of Leinengen, were
expected.
The Prussian journals publish a police regulation, by
which any one inflicting wilful cruelty on animals is
liable to imprisonment and personal correction.
The third section of the railroad from Berlin to Frank-
fort on the Odor, passing through Dessau and Rosslau to
Koswig, has been opened to the public. All the por•
tions of the line which traverse the Duchies of Anhalt-
-I)essau, Anhalt-Coethen, and Anlialt-Bermbeiy, are thus
completed. . . .

The two vessels which were sent by the Pope to bring
the alabaster from Egypt for the church of SL. Paul, at
Rome, entered the port of eivita, Vecchia on the 10th
instant.

" A few clays ago," says the Memorial des Pyrenees,
" an old man of eighty was murdered on the high road,
in the commune of Amendeuix, by an indiot, who, when
discovered near the body of his victim, said, The old
fellow has had what he deserved, for he said to me bon
jour.' The poor idiot remained by the body during the
whole of the night, keeping guard with a knife, and in the
morning attempted to stab the gendarmes who went to
arrest him, but they succeeded in disarming and con-
veying him to prison."
The Courrier de l'Eure gives the following account of
an involuntary hoax played off a few days since at Ver-
neuil :—" The Bishop of Evreux being expected to per-
form mass at the Church of the Madeleine, and confer
confirmation on . the pupils of the convent, among
whom prizes were to be distributed, every prepa-
ration was made to receive the prelate in a suitable
manner. At the hour at which the prelate was to
arrive, a carriage was seen approaching from Bre-
teuil, and at once concluded to be that of the new
Bishop. The inhabitants went out to meet him, the bells
rung a merry peal, and the carriage was escorted with
every demonstration of joyous and respectful welcome
to the Hotel du Grand St. Martin, the court-yard of
which was almost paved with expectant faces. At
length the door of the carriage was open and the steps
let down, when instead of the Prelate came forth
the Marquis de D., who resides near Evreux, with a
countenance exprgsine,o• the utmost astonishment at such
an unexpected cordiality., of reception, rendered still
more in contrast with ecclesiastical gravity by an im-
mense pair of moustachios. Having ascertained the
cause of all, this empressement, he goodnaturedly sent
the ringers a liberal donation for their exertions, recom-
mending them to outdo themselves when the Bishop
should really arrive."

The Obsjrvateur of Brussels states that the Queen of
Wurtemberg, being a few days ago with her two
daughters at the village of Brock, the inhabitants of
which are remarkable for their originality, expressed a
wish to visit the interior of one of the houses, the prin-
cipal doors of which, it seems, are rarely opened to re-
ceive guests. The house of .a rich widow was pointed
out, and the owner was requested to allow some foreign
ladies to visit it, but; a refusal was given. It was then
hoped that by mentioning the name and quality of the
Royal visitors the permission would be granted, but the
widow replied that neither Queen nor Empress should
enter her house, having no business there.
A grand historical fete took place at Arras, a few days
ago, and as we learn by the Progres of that city went off
with great eclat. A concert and ball were most nume-
rously attended ; at the former, M. Marie and Mmes.
Dorms and Pauline Garcia lent the aid of their powerful
-
talents. A grand pageant, representing t 4 entry of
Charles-le-Temeraire Into Arias, in 1469, Was, got up in
excellent style, all the parts being most efficiently filled
by inhabitants of the town, the Duke deßourgogne wino.
represented by M. Leroux-Duchatelet. In -his suite'
marched the Lords of the Court of Bitrguntly, and of
the'provinee of Artois. The corporations of the • the
were all
dignitaries of the church, the Mayors, the , ejt:'rs of
the province and of the city,
procession in the costume of that represented er%
the
°inn nies of
Archers, Pikemen, and llalbeodiersageon. horseback C—a and
on foot, gave an imposing and warlike aspect
scene. Three • large bands ofi attend-
ance. A tournament
was executedrnilsie were a
mostenct to the
admir-
abler • manner, • and •to the admiration of twenty
thousand persons who were assembled. Thirty-two
knights, • with
their' squireq, entered the lists, and
went through a regular course of tilting. Several of
the sub-officers of the 4th Lancers assisted at this part
of the pageant, and contributed much to the eclat with
which it went off: In the midst of the brilliant cortege
of knigh:s were five young ladies, representing Mary of
Burgundy,Margaret of York, and their ladies of honour,
who personated their characters to admiration. It is ex-
pected that this fete will be repeated another year. The
subscription raised by the Citizens has covered all ex-
penses, and has left 2,400 f. for the poor.
ThE HAR,E,T.—It is now possible to form a pretty
correct idea of the harvest of 1841. The principal kinds
of grain are almost everywhere got in, the quality and
the quantity • ,wly be estimated, and it appears that the
result is, that we have an average year, and that the
prices will not be such as to affect the subsistence of the
industrious classes.—(Then follows some notices respect-
ing the crops in different parts of -the kingdom.)—We
will add to theSe details, which appear to us satisfactory,
that the stacks of old corn are still considerable, and
that in many places they will make up for the deficiency
in the crops of 1841. It would be difficult at present to
form an opinion respecting the prices ; the .prices in
foreign markets are about the same as in the
French markets, so that we cannot rely on im-
portations ; in fact, the importations in the first
six months of this year, have amounted to no more
than the value of two millions of francs ; in 1840 they
were to the value of fifty millions.
The crops of potatoes, beet-roots, turnips, carrots,
&e., are remarkably abundant and of excellent
quality.
—La Constitutionnet
The Session of the Spanish Cortes was closed on the
24th, but not by the Rekent in person, who was pre-