The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-11 00:00:00

SURIF` Aillf OF NEWS

AND
liubftt Opinion.

" Who runs may 7 cad."

FOREIGN.
Two thousand muskets had been delivered up on
Sunday by the National Guards of Toulouse. This in.
dicates a sweeping system of disarmament, and must in
crease the popular disaffection.
- The towns of St. Omer, St. Quentin, Dijon, Tours,
and Nevers, have declared against the imposition of ad-
ditional taxes. They have compelled the authorities to
suspend the taking of the census.
L- All the fortresses on the coast of France are pre-
paring to mount Paixhan's guns. The destruction ef-
fected by them on the coast of Syria has induced the
War Minister to employ them in all fortifications pure
defensive. We shall next hear of their being mounted
upon the walls of Paris.
The Regent of Spain has published a manifesto in
answer to the protest of Queen Christina relative to the
guardianship of Queen Isabella and her Royal sister;
We shall publish, perhaps to-morrow, a translation of
this document.
The Spanish Government has ordered the Portisl
disbanding of the Royal guard. This is an excellent
measure. The army in Spain is enormously dispropor-
tioned to the resources of the country, and ought to
diminished by at least one third. Spain wants bus'
headmen and artisans, not soldiers. An enterprising'
merchant is of more value to Spain than a score of her
decorated Generals.
Espartero has hurled defiance at the head of the
Pope, and in the provinces the priests are preaching
another civil war. The French Government connives';
every attempt to overthrow the Regent. The embers °
rebellion begin to emit dangerous sparks in Spain.
Discontent prevails extensively among the Chris-
tain population of Turkey. This morning We
news of an insurrectionary movement in Syria-
`-e
agents of France are hard at work in that quarter.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Advertiser urges Ministers to take
opportunity of,recommending in the Queen'sSPeec.„
decided measures of llepresentatiie reform and
cial amelioration. " Whatever (adds our Contemporarl)
Ministers mean to do for the redemption of their charac;
ters, and the furtherance of the popular cause, they teuisv
do quickly. In three weeks they will be comparati'eZ
powerless for good. If they suffer the Queen's srec.,;;;
and the discussion to which it will give rise, to pass
out identifying themselves with one or more poPuTii
measures, they will neglect the only opportunity `chi%
will ever be afforded them of regaining the good opielp
of their countrymen, and of promoting the princiPl les
on which their Government professes to have been lose'
They will perpetuate for ever their own exclusion o°lll
offioe, and sink, as Statesmen, into utter insignificance' e
The Post professes to be quite shocked at the obilid
which the Liberal party is pouring forth on the clecc'ehte,
head of Sir Robert Peel, and says—" We call upon ,
reasonableness and the good feeling of this countrY
meet such a torrent of malignity—such a depraved °,,„.
pouring of selfish hatred and party spite—as it deser/—t
to be met. And we feel satisfied that we shall P°
make the appeal in vain. Englishmen, at all events,
not so mentally constituted as to look on with aPPI7,
at the paltry and detestable warfare which is carrieu—
against the proximate Minister. They will demand falell
and a judgment upon his Ministerial acts, and these ite'
calumnies of the defeated party will recoil upon themselves:,
Sir Robert Peel has certainly a right to demand 4`1*".(...1
play" from the country ; but why does not he hus
set the example of " fair play ? " Wherefore alt
studied reserve and mystery on the subject of his 011ie:
dial measures ? has his patient no right to, et leas
o',
the promise of a speedy cure of the malady that stfil!cef
him ? Is it " fair play" to keep him in all the torture
suspense when he is daily growing worse ? new 13
John Bull have faith in a physician who, when he
on him to exp!ain the nature of his prescription, gr3l.c,,
shakes his head and says nothing ? It is neither.
nor fitting that the " fair play"—like Irish reciproelC%

should be all on one side. ab-
- The Herald contains a lengthy article on the 5 n
ject of colonial sugar, which ends as it begins, "11 5

egregious sophism: le
n s-
- The Chronicle observes :—" The Corn-law t
tion is truly a religious question, if we are to take -' our
h
ard
religion from the New Testament. Our Saviour
ly
ever opens his mouth in the Evangelists, withont Man':
festing his anxiety for the support of the poor. To fee
°
the poor, as well as to instruct them, was his constant
theme. Indeed, with all due submission to. Mr. W.'
Gladstone and the Puseyites, who look with suei;
disdain on the simple beginnings of Christianity, and
fasten their eyes on the hierarchical and worldly struc-
tures which have been raised on them, the collection
and distribution of the funds for the support of the po°
was long the chief business of the successors of the
Apostle." The Corn-law question being, as a Coe
temporary justly calls it, " a religious question," we 4
surprised that it has not yet received the sup Poll r
those pious Evangelists, the Bishops. What is Est
about ? Why does he noticome forward with a psorici
let in its behalf ? And Lonclon, too ; surely he Oti f
be much better employed in advocating the abolition '3
this monopoly, than in summoning Middlesex net°
before him, for sitting in their drawing-rooms reading Stl_drii-
day newspapers, with their legs cocked up on the wieciu7
ledge?
elr
The Times puts forth a remarkable article, we
ject of which is to exhort the proximate Ministers is
stick, like wax, to Mother Church. The Whigi, 59
our Contemporary, fell, because they treated 0° °if
lady with rudeness ; and, the Tories will fall, t°°,'
they be guilty of the like incivility. Mother Chn'",
is now all in all with the Times. He is never '!e
of preaching in her praise. In his pious eyes she i 550
paragon of perfection. Our Contemporary has bee, hit
often converted and re-converted in the course .1
weathercock career, that we should not be at all sur
prised if his next conversion were to be to rank. '";:t
.thodism ! From the subjoined paragraph, it would 407_
appear that he was qualifying for an Indian Missionari;be
"India is a heathen country; and we, who profess t°
Christians, not merely, tolerate (for that we are he the
to do), but we .cherish, honour, and all but worship ,;
idolatries of the most abjectly submissive population 'ley '
the face of the earth. So far from attempting the!n
conversion to Christianity, we throw direct obstacles s,.
the way of it ; reviling, and even persecuting (bY di
t -
missing from public employments), tho few convert
who are made. This state of things, we repeat, 0311110
cease, or there can be no moral support given bi .1

Church of England to a Conservative Ministry." „
The Brighton Guardian, speculating on the P.:l
bable conduct of the' Tories, says :—" Sir Robert l'eh-
has not the character of being a bold politician, arld.
is nothing of a schemer. His friends want the ert)°;to-
ment of place, not its annoyances. They want
exercise freely their little spites and their petty esta.,,,'
Lions. They will be for amusing themselves with to
ing out this man and putting in that, getting this 00;
to resign that some other may have his place ; old so
nestling themselves and their dependents snugly go
possible vacancies. They would be startled and annoy'
by a novel proposition, or a large plan of any desellifi
tion ; it would give trouble, and its consequences cott._e
not be foreseen. Thus the wishes and disposition of tn
Tories, as well as Sir Robert's own character, forbid "
to expect a bold' or comprehensive policy." ,
The Cambridge Advertiser says, " After htrfir4
secured power by the aid of the people's worst eneodet
Sir Robert's next object will be to obtain just that degrete.
of popularity which will enable him to make use of
the power he possesses. The imposture of a Pte's_
tended great discovery in finance will be exposed on hi
first assumption of office, and for a time he will endetr
your to amuse the people with pirated copies of the°
measures which his predecessors have introduced."
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The Dublin Pilot, referring to the recent proceeditic
in Exeter Hall, makes the following remark :--"
Robert Peel was of opinion, some two years ago, till'
Ireland was the chief difficulty in the way of his tic:
cepting office. He fancies he has got over the difficulty
but he will find, before he is a month in Downitir
street, that the Orange Associations of Ireland, and the
associated slanderers and fanatics of England, wils
the chief difficulty in the way of his retaining it. b..
The Tyne Mercury thus expresses itself on the su
ct
ject of Tory statesmanship :—" A more blind or bigote
race than the present Tories, from their representatii:
in high rank and in the newspapers, we never yet se.",°d,
heard of, p
and at the resent day could not have expee'e
We had looked for a change in Toryism ; we see at ?re
sent no signs of any favourable alteration."

AGRICULTIMILX.
Reports from Essex say that the stock of wheat on
hand there is so short, as to be sufficient for only three.
week's consumption. On Friday last an individual showed
in the market a sample of fine new wheat, of which ha
offered to deliver 120 quarters. He was offered VI. fi
load, which he refused.
The past week at Cork has been one of
alternate
rain and sunshine, with high winds ; but though
here
and there a field is laid, no extensive damage has beell
done.
experience
A Correspondent of the Chronicle,
corn-merchant, writing from Woolsley, thus rerl34rk
in a letter on the prospects of the wheat crop:---
• I have taken a ridethis place with a view of 6
" iv
ing how the' lopss look, Land find them much moo b6c
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