The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-27 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A master-bricklayer was brought before the Sit-
ting Magistrate at Marlborough-street this morning,
charged with cutting the throat of one of his lodgers in
a fit of jealousy. He was remanded till further accounts
should be received of the nature of the wounds inflicted
on his victim.

A curious case of insolvency was heard in the In
solvent Debtors' Court, which is too good to abridge.

PUBLIC OPINION.

An opinion is expressed in the Times that Mr.
Shaw Lefevre ought to be turned out of the Speakership,
because he is friendly to the rural police and the new
Poor-law, two measures which Sir Robert Peel supports.
Will the Times or Sir Robert prevail ? That journal
has evidently begun to dictate to the Right Hon. Baro-
net, and as he will scarcely be more docile to its dicta-
tion than was Lord Melbourne, we must expect that
after the Right Hon. Baronet has had a six months' trial
that the Times will be against him.
The Times is also of opinion that no other nation
has ever witnessed the spectacle new exhibited by Great
Britain to the admiration of the world of a triumphant
reaction of sound public opinion against the progress of

a partially successful democratical movement. The
Times, therefore, justly looks on the present decision of
the constituency in favour of maintaining the Corn-laws
—to which, by the by, our Contemporary was adverse ;
what her present opinion is we know not--as the suc-
cess of the aristocracy against the democracy. We have
maintained that opinion throughout, and it is well
that both the aristocracy and the democracy should know
the real nature of the contest. Notwithstanding the
temporary defeat, the latter ought to feel unbounded
triumph at the admission. The aristocracy have nailed
their colours on a battered and sinking hulk, and when the
starvation monopoly goes to the bottom, as go it must,
will not the aristocracy, unlamented and unhonoured,
sink with it ?

-- A writer in the Herald has evidently no knowledge
of the history of England prior to his own time, and he
is yet a juvenile, at least in understanding. He ascribes
trades' unions, operative associations, universal suffrage
clubs, Owenite schemes, &c., to the Reform Act, as if
there were no universal trades' unions and combinations, no
Luddite marches and insurrections, no Spencean plans
for dividing the land, no agrarian systems, no
" Devil's chaplains" or Carlisles, with avowed con-
gregations of unbelievers, and as if every strange
and monstrous birth of time were the product of
the Reform Act. We question whether there have
not been fewer such associations, and fewer seditions and
rebellions during the ten years that the Whigs were in
office than in any preceding ten years of our history. In
fact, as long as the people could hope that Parliament
would reform abuses, they were disposed to rely on Par-
liamenti; now that such a hope is at an end, by the elec-
tion of a monopolist House of Commons, out-of-door as •
sociations will be, and must be, more numerous and for-
midable than before.

The Post follows the Examiner of last Sunday, in
attacking \ r. I..l.‘Culloch's late pamphlet, though on dif-
ferent grounds. That gentleman, whatever he might
have meant, has pleased neither party ; and both are
more anxious, however either may use his statements, to
censure than to praise him. Whether the suspicion be
just or not, both parties suspect that he had motives for
his statements, and distrust them.

The Chronicle seems to look upon the officers of

the Customs as the greatest rogues in existence. What
a history of fraud, exclaims our honest Contemporary,
would be unfolded were the frauds practised in the
River Thames alone, through connivance with the
servants of the Custom-house, to be revealed ! There
is hardly a widow of a waterman below bridge who
does not receive a pension from some quarter or other
of the Custom-house to keep her from divulging th,
secrets she might obtain a knowledge of during the life
time of her husband.

The Post is as furious against the Chronicle as that
journal is against the delinquent Custom-house officers,
and accuses it of a determination to conduct the opposi-
tion to a Tory Government in the Jacobin spirit of the
first French Revolution, and in resentment of the loss of
office, involve Great^Fin in the horrors of a sangui-
nary democratic revolution.

Our Liberal Contemporary, the Advertiser, makes
a violent attack on Lord John Russell for not following
out the principles of Reform laid down by his Lordship
in the House of Commons in 1831. Considering the
difficulties in which Lord John was involved by Whig-
Tory colleagues, Tory, alliances, and Tory courtiers, the
animadversions are too severe, but they are not destitute
of truth.

The Ipswich Express states that, when the present
condition of political parties, and of popular ignorance,
as disclosed by the elections, is considered, it is by no
means a subject of regret that the advocates of advance-
ment and civilization should be again in opposition, or
that the maintenance of public grievances should once
more occupy the high places.
The Liverpool Chronicle observes, in a leading
article on the subject of the Registrations—" We have
no hesitation in prophesying that we shall have an elec-
tion almost immediately, and we can give precedents
enough to show that our late defeat is no reason for
despair.

The Cork Southern Reporter congratulates the
Reformers on their not attempting in any way to extenu-
ate the victory of their opponents, observing :—" This
is an indication of an elevated and healthy tone of the
Public mind, and so long as difficulties are viewed un-
shrinkingly and calmly prepared for, there is no just
cause for desponding."