The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-11 00:00:00

claims " equal wages" for all classes of labourers.
Higher wages may, indeed, be claimed for all kinds
of labourers ; but " equal wages" are not amongst the
demands of the most discontented of the operatives, in
either country. The Chronicle then proceeds to adlit
that on the " unskilled labourers" the whole brunt of
modern " improvement" falls. The " unskilled la-
bourers" must endure unlimited competition with steam
and iron ; and groan under a sense of what they can-
not avoid feeling to be social injustice. " And, more-
over," adds the Chrcnicle, "if they be net educated in
the mode that would most benefit them, there is a kind
of education continually going on which is not lost upon
them. Their minds are stimulated. They look around
on their growing numbers, and have notions of the
power of multitudes." And what may be the Chronicle't
prescription for this state of things ? The conversion
of " unskilled" into " killed" la'reurers...—the diffu-
sion of " education"—and a repeal of the Corn-laws !
" There ought not," urges our Contemporary, "to
exist in this country, a numerous race of unskilled
labourers. So long as it does exist, we are treading
upon gunpowder. The permanent safety of society
through all its ranks, and in all its institutions, is eon•
tingent upon the instruction of the poorer classes.
Every one should bo put in training to became a skilled,
instead of an unskilled labourer." The Chronicle evi-
dently misunderstands the meaningof the terms "skilled,"
and " unskilled" labour. The labourer is 'denominated
" skilled," or " unskilled," not by virtue of any reference
to the state of his general knowledge—or to the quality
of his " education"---but to the character of the work
which he performs. The humbler kinds of labour—
those, to master which no " apprenticeship" is re-
qtred, are essentially " unskilled ;" and all the
" education" in the world, if lavished on the men who
perform the kinds of labour in question, would fail to
convert them into " skilled" labourers. Before tire
class of " unskilled" labourers can cease to exist, all
the humbler and more easily-performed kinds of labour
must be annihilated 1 But, " education"—" education"
is the panacea! How very strange, that the Chronicle,
after showing with infinite care, that exactly as " edu-
cation" has extended itself, have misery and discontent
become diffused amongst the labouring classc's, should
still look to this indescribable thing " education," as a
cure for the evils that afflict the humbler portions of
society. It is, not Whig " education" (which is merely
education in error) that the labouring classes require—
but protection from the schemers who rob and oppress
them. It is worthy of note, moreover, that the men
who clamour most loudly in favour of " education" for
the poor are invariably the men who never weary in
their attempts to lower permanently the rewards of la-
bour—are invariably the men who never cease extolling
" cheapness"—" cheapness" being only another name
for low wages to the labourer !
(From the Morning, Post.)

For the last three nights the statesmen of Europe
have not rested in their beds. The report of artillery
full audible to diplomatic ears, has come booming
through the murky atmosphere of the night and mur-
dered sleep. We feel, however, most happy under the
circumstances to bo able confidently to state that the
repose of her Majesty's advisers his not been one whit
disturbed, and they have enjoyed a somnolency as com-
plete during the last three nights as the silence of the
Ministerial organs has been absolute during the three
last days. Such is our position at home. If we look
to the Ministry of our once dearly beloved Gallic ally,
we must induce from their former history that answer
as to the fate of Europe which we have demanded
in vain from our egregious statesmen at home.
There is an anecdote of M. Thiers, the President
of the French Council, which, at it has never ap-
peared but in a mutilated form, and as it teaches us
what we may have to expect, we consider interesting
here to record. One night Pozzo di Borgo, the great
Doctrinaire Royer Collard, and M. Thiers were chat-
ting in one of the great salons of Paris. M. Thiers,
carried away by his habitual volubility of eloquence,
developed before the two statesmen the secret plansi
which haunted his dreams. "M. Thiers," suddenly ex-
claimed Royer Collard, " you are ambition itself."
" Yes," answered M. Thiers, " I am as ambitious Satan,
and, like Satan, Je bouleverserais le ,sonde!" Upon
this M. Thiers left the room, and it was then that Royer
Collard uttered those memorable words :—" Ce Mon-
clear Thiers eat la fatalite de la Revelation de Jolliet.'
This scene took place in the salon of Prince de Talley-
rand, the political godfather of M. Thiers, who, to his
great astonishment, had just been unexpectedly raised
to that Presidency of the Council which he lost by
insizting upon aPron,L, ~.rmed intervention in Smile.
in accordance with the wishes of Lord Palmerston.
Such, then, is the man wh• rules with his dan-
gerous coterie, as far as he dares, the councils of
France—such is the man to whom the quintuple treaty
has given arms against Louis Philippe, and, we may
add, against all the legitimate Sovereigns and Govetn-

meats -of Europe ; for at this moment, and we say it
advisedly, all the Jacobins, demagogues, and bloody
sans culottes, are rising wherever they can be found.
Inflammatory proclamations already begin to circulate
in Europe ; the Lombardo-Venetian Provinces—the
combustible territory of Genoa—in a word, all Italy, is
now to be thus assailed. Hungary is not less in their
mind's eye; the Rhenane provinces are the most imme-
diate objects of these seditious manceuvres ; and the
armies which France, if the present state of things
continue, will march towards her two moat im-
portant boundaries, and the two most assailable
of her neighbours, will be revolutionized themselves,
and their appearance, it is hoped by the dema-
gogues, will be the signal of revolt across the
Rhine and across the Alps! It is but justice, at the
same time, to say that nothing can be more contrary bo
the wishes of the King, and all people of respectability
and property in France, than a war. The manufactur-
ing and comtnerciAl people of France, as we have

shown elsewhere, are no less opposred to hostilities. But
the repeated insults which have attended the treaty,
and which are not anywise necessarily attendant ota its
execution, prevent all Frenchmen, with their colour
propre, from backing out, with the indispensable sacri-
fice, amidst the hisses and contumelies of the dema-
gogue spectators of their disasters. Though France
will succumb ultimately to the effects of war, we must not
deceive ourselves as to the intense danger and enormous
sacrifices we are exposed to. A fortnight hence 15 o
20 armed steamers may be ploughing the Channel, captu-
ring our rich returning argosies, bombarding our unpro-
tected maritime towns, and firing the commercial
navies in our exposed seaports. It is true we shall
find means to annihilate the enemy, and in the meantime
to fun ish us with the necessaries of life. The Ameri-
cans may perhaps remain neuter, and supply us, whilst
plunged in a headlong war, with all ether articles of
commerce, as she does now in China with respect Lb
the important article of tea. There is another point of
view in which our situation will be serious indeed.
This is the fiscal view of the subject. There is at this
moment one general complaint throughout the eountry
at the sudden increase of taxation which has just come
into operation, thanks to the Whig Ministerial ma-
nagement. What will not be the outcry when to our
debt of nearly nine hundred millions, incurred in a pre-
vious war against France, we must add, with an im-
paired commerce, the burdens of fresh hostilities, and
of the subsidies, or loans at least, without which our•
continental allies, if we judge Imp the past, cannot
long keep their armies on foot ?

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage
of the Hoa. Miu M. A. Jervis, only daughter of Viseooat
St. Vincent, with Colose' Dyco, will, we understand, be
solemnized on Saturday next.

WITCHCRAFT IN THE NINETEENTH CEN-
TURY.—The following lamentable instance of superstition
occurred in Lich-street, in Worcester, on Saturday last.
The infant daughter of Thomas Pitt, a labourer residing
in the above street, had for some time been suffering
from severe inflammation of the face and gums, conse-
quent on the process of " teething ;" and the panel do-
mestic remedies having proved unavailing, the moker of
the child was induced, by the pressing solicitations of the
neighbouring gossips, to seek the abode of a certain " wise
woman," alias.' The Witch a Sidbury," for the purpose
of having her infant " charmed," a process which, it was
averred, would speedily eradicate the disorder. Manifold
were the testimonies borne in favour of the " charm," and
numerous instances adduced where the restoraMOn f
bstrayed
stolen
n cattle,
property,the cbuarde
been
weans
" uly fortified
po-
tent influence. Accordingly,. having
ebumakchenievh
achieved
heads, and and theodfetietsctioon
herself against the machinations of "Ptrheberl.°gae
leafntl
osiathine
black," by attaching a sprig of rosemary d
reputed
bent her steps towards the dwelling of
purport of her
de known the
"witch," to whom she ms .
Bible in the hem of her garment, the Crodtuhlrepareet
visit. The " weird sister," after
f the palm, and other
terious shakes of the head, crossinge
°too he infant in her
gestures of equally cabalistic import,
of '. charming,"
arms, and commenced the ceremony _
head of fhe child with
indulging in several mys-
This consisted in sprinkling tigund
its neck a strip of
common salt, and
PchaYunt, occaeiegially varied by a
cies of low monotonous
gibberish, which savoured
rapid enunciation of i
ravings of insanity. At the conclusion of
virgin parchment, accompanying affixingan ing the operation by a ape.
lasted about ten minutes, the
farce, e
this absurd
~ .
" wise woman resigned the babe to the care of its mater-
nal gravely assuring her not only of its apeed,v
nal protector, the
hich
to the sovereign`virtue of the " charm,"
strongly of
rbeuctoovferiyt; future exemption from She thousand ills that
flesh is heir to." And—such is the power of superstition
.....the mother of the infant not only entertains a devout be.
lief in the efficacy of the above-named rite, but loudly
vaunts the benefit already derived from it in the present
case, her child having, as the affirms, recovered most
charm.ingly since her visit to " The Witch of Sidbury."---
Worcestershire Chronicle.