The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

\Ve have re< elv, d the letter of Sir P. Mostyn, but after
the denial of the HoneUrable Lady, which has up-
peared in The Sun, we are not disposed to publish
ary nior, statements on the subject.

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LONDON:
TUESDAY, SEPTEMI3EII 14, 1841.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
ONE OF THE SONS OF

LOUIS PHILIPPE.

The follow•iny distressing intelligence has just
been brought by extraordinary express from
Paris. It appears that the Duke D'AUMALE
who had marched with the 17th Light Infantry
through France from Marseilles, had just
arrived in PaKis, and while proceeding at the
head of regiment, together with three of his
brothers, to Neuilly, an assassin fired at the
party, and aimed the shot, as was supposed, at
the Duke D'AUMALE. Other accounts state
that the assassin aimed at the Duke of ORLEANS,
but all three fOrtunately escaped unhurt. The
assa;sin was instantly arrested, when the regi-
ment continued to march to Neuilly, where
the Royal family at TE.-es2nt resides. Public
feeling at Paris, it appears, was in a very
excited state.

" PARIS, MONDAY.
" An attempt has been made to assassinate the
Duke d'AUMALE to-day. lie was at tile head of
hi* regiment, proceeding along the faubourg. St.
Antoine to Neuilly, where a grand banquet was
pre!,ared by the King and Queen for him and
his comrades in arms, when a man dressed
a• blouse started from a cabaret and dis-
cha,rged a pistol shot at him. It is said that the
shot was directed at the Duke D'AumALF., be-
cause
he was a little in advance of his Royal bro-
thers ; but the Dukes of ORLEANS, NEMOURS,
ana.MONTPENSIER were with him, and the as-
aimed at the Duke of OR-
sassin migirt 11M
LEANS as the heir to the throne. Fortunately the
shot did not take effect, but the horse of a Ge-
neral VAILLANT was killed, and it is said that
the General was slightly wounded in the knee.
The assassin was about thirty years of age, and no
doubt a member of the secret societies that have
lately been creating disturbances in Paris, but
as yet no particulars have transpired concern-
ing him.
" After a few mitrates' delay the march of the
regiment was resumed, and it passed along the
Boulevards, the Princes still maintaining their
places at its head, and cheered by the people. It
proceeded to Neuilly, and, up 0 the hour of
writiri~, Lo account of any other d:sag;ecable oc-
currence has arrived here.
"Very disagte.eable events have taken place ai
Clermont, in Au vergne. The people, resisting•
the officers in the taking of the recensement, had
fired on the military who supported them, kill-
ing and woundit g seventeen soldiers. At one
moment the thin} looked very serious, but addi-
tional troops wert called in, and the riot was put
down.

" Groups of lcrw characters paraded the place
de Chatelet and several streets of old Paris, ut-
tering seditious cries, on Saturday and Sunday
r t•A t' night. Cries of c a bas Louis Philippe, a bas
Gnizdt, we must have blood,' were heard. No
otire\- force was emp7Aoyed against those people
bat' the sergeants de vale, and by their aid
aloife, the x.aob Avert, dispersed without a riot
to place.
2,,tkublic oi)inion is evidently very uneasy, and

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a serious disturbance is by _many expected to
take place this evening, but no doubt the police
will be fully prepared, and consequently no
serious ill consequences are feared..

" Count de ST. AULAIRE has been ordered to
proceed to London immediately.
. _

" The name of the assassin is PAPART.

Madrid Bourse—Five per Cents., 251 for 9th
and 19th current.

The noblest actions are those for which men
ought to expect no other reward than the testi-
mony of a good conscience. Whatever exceeds
the every-day standard of patriotism or self-
denial is sure to be ridiculed as preposterous, or
sneered at as hypocritical. A superficial observer
of what passes in the world, would have supposed
that the transcendant efforts made by England
to put down the inhuman traffic in slaves would
have obtained for her the gratitude of every
Christian State on the face of the globe. In this
measure she could have no self-interest. She
was destroying a most lucrative branch of the
traffic of her own merchants—she was unsettling
the whole frame-work of society in her numerous
and thriving colonies—she was placing in peril
old vested interests—she wss crippling her own
commerce by raising enemies among the African
Princes, who sold their subjects into slavery—
and she was expending large sums annually in
the support of a fleet employed in the pro-
tection of the African race. Here, instead
of the selfishness usually common to mercantile
States is exhibited an excess of generous hu-
manity without a parallel in the history of na-
tions. And yet the part which we have taken
and the immense expenses which we have in-
curred in the suppression of the slave-trade, has
brought down upon us a load of odium greater
than was ever visited upon a people accused of
the blackest crimes. We have been vilified by
the French, traduced by the Spaniards, scurri-
lously abused by the Portuguese, threatened by
the people of the United States, and, last of all,
stigmatised as tyrants and bullies by our old neigh-
bours and friends the Germans, for the excess of
severity which we have felt it necessary to em-
ploy in the represssion of this infamous traffic.
The recent seizure of two Harnhurgh vessels, the
Louisa and the Echo, on suspicion of being en-
gaged in the slave-trade, is actually denounced
in the Gazette of Upper Germany as a f' faithful
picture of the indignities to which a powerless
flag is exposed." From the very nature
of the service in which the officers
charged to suppress the slave-trade are engaged,
it is to be expected that acts of oppression will
occasionally take place ; but it is too bad to
charge either the Government or the people of
this country with defending, much less encou-
raging, them. If such acts are brought under
the cognizance of our Courts of Law we can as-
sure the good citizens of Hamburgh that there
will be found British Juries and British Judges
prepared to give a just and impartial verdict
against the wrong-doers. The Times, which
yesterday called attention to this subject, inti-
mates that the soreness with regard to England
is aggravated by Prussia, with a view to provoke
the Hanse towns to join the German commercial
league. We believe this is true enough. The
following extract from the article in the Times
will be gall and wormwood to those twin agri-
cultural Nestors in office, KNATCHBULL and
BUCKINGHAM :

The origin of a jealous feeling towards England in
commercial matters is no doubt traceable to our so-called
protecting duties, which formerly met our Continental
neighbours in every branch of industry with which they
sought to effect exchanges. Its growth, however, and
recent acrimony are mainly attributable to the writings
officially and semi-officially published during the last ten
years. The Whig Ministry, unable to produce a satis-
factory plan for modifying the Corn-laws, created and
nourished an agitation from abroad against them tvith-
oat taking the trouble to inquire what other results be-
sides the one desired might accrue from such a state of
things.

So the Times has yet the honesty to denounce
our heavy import duties as "so called " protec-
tive, and to intimate that the Tories must modify
ttlA
that the Germans never sought a modification
ofour Corn-laws. The Germans, like the Times
itself before it ratted upon this very question,
denounced the Corn-laws altogether as injurious
to them, and ruinous to us. The Germans de-

manded their abolition; and but for the Tories,

now constrained to hear the odium of the praise
of the Times, the late Ministry, backed by the
starving millions in this country, would have
abolished them, and thus inflicted a death-blow
upon the commercial schemes of Prussia. How
these Tories can have the face to glance at this
question is to us among the most wonderful in-
stances of incredible impudence.

We are glad to see that the borough of Man-
chester is to hold a meeting on Thursday next
with a view of memorializing the QUEEN not to
prorogue the two Houses of Parliament till they
have entered into a full consideration of the corn
and provision laws. Manchester only does its
duty, and its example, which, as the promoter of
the Anti-bread-tax League has already been of
commanding influence, will no doubt have many
imitators.

The people there do not move till they are
compelled. The deep distress of the hand-loom
weavers and others of the working class is already
but too well known t' the public. At a great
meeting held at Manchester on Wednesday, to
hear Mr. CURTIS, the free-trade missionary from
the United States, who has come hither to ex-
plain to us the advantages which we should de-
rive from a free trade in corn with the United
States, Mr. COBDEN referred in the following
language to the distress of the middle classes:—

A good deal has been said, about the working class here
and I like, in a popular meeting of this kind, to address
the working class, for the majority always consists of
them. But my opinion is, that there are two other
classes in this district, who at the present moment are
just as much entitled to sympathy as the poorest work-
ing men in the town. I speak of the middle class, and
the upper class too. The middle class in this town, I
venture to say, from my own experience, are suffering as
much in mind, body, and estate, as any class in her Ma-
jesty's dominions. And well it is that it should be so ;
well it is that the capitalist is suffering in a commen-
surate degree with the working-class, if but to teach us
what we did not know two or three years ago, that
society is but a series of links, and that you cannot in-
jure one but almost as quickly as electricity itself it per-
vades the whole chain.—(Hear, hear.) Yes, gentlemen,
I believe you have had proofs yourselves that the misery
and sufferings of this country are not now confined to
the working class. I think I have seen, in the suspen-
sion of operations amongst the capitalists, and in the
increase of bankruptcies, proofs enough that the disease
has reached a little higher ; and this, I tell you candidly,
is one of the symptoms which I rely upon as encouraging
the belief that these laws, these monopolies, will not much
longer be allowed to remain to the disgrace of our statute
book, to ruin our capitalists, and to starve our operatives.
—(Cheers.)

If it be true, as we believeit is, that the middle
ctalalissstessaraeregobgiine,tnondinegca3tro, suffer that the ca
that the upper classes
are not thriving'', it is quite certain that the laws
which cause their sufferings, and the Adminis-
tration which insists on preserving those laws,
will be most seriously attacked, and ultimately
destroyed. Laws are intended to promote the
public welfare, and when they fail to do this,
being of themselves evils—when they injure ()Teat
masses of her M AJESTY'S subjects—they will no tbe
long endured nor obeyed. The penal laws
against the Catholics, on account of their injus-
tice, provoked the resistance of the people, and
they were then abolished. But the Corn-laws
are
.o.ow regarded, both by friends and foes, as
similar to the penal laws against the Catholics.
At the above-mentioned meeting Mr. COBDEN
said—
You remember that, fur many years, some of the most
eminent and most eloquent men in the country were
pleading the cause Of the Catholics in the House of Com-
mons.' There was Grattan, who has been so immor-
talised by Byron, speaking for many years, almost with
the voice of an angel, but he effected no conversions.
But when O'Connell—(Loud cheers)—who was not al-
lowed to come into that House at all—and it was a great
mistake to keep him outside--(Applause)—when he had
got up his two or three millions of emancipators, then
they passed the Emancipation Act, and without any con-
versions, mark you. They said,
" We are
same opinion, but we must pass this Bill." still of the
—(Cheers.)
And if you will only get a couple of millions too—and
mind, you must 'have, what I do not think you will
easily rind, as clever a leader as he was in those days—
, then you will get the repeal of the Corn-laws from reel