The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

Mr. DUNCOMBE objected to the Bill that

would repeal all the local Acts for the govern.
meat of the poor of the metropolis.
Mr. Fox MAULS defended at some length the
conduct of the Commissioners.
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, while he pointed
out one grievous effect of the law during this
severe weather at Ashford, said he would support
the second reading of the Bill, but thought its
pi °visions, to some of which he was opposed, pre-
ferring that the Commissioners should be con-
tinued for only three years, would best be dis-
cussed in Committee.
Viscount HowicK cordially approved of the
Act of 1834, and strenuously supported the Bill.
Captain PECHELL objected to the Bill that it

contained a clause to- bring GILBERT'S unions
under the Poor-law Commissioners.
Mr. W. ATTWOOD complained of the severity
of the law, and the refusal of all amendment.
He despaired of introducing any amendment in
Committee, and he should vote against the se-
cond reading.
Sir E. FILMER believed the law required
amendment, but that the Bill would not effect
what was necessary; he, therefore, should not
vote for either the second reading or the amend-
ment.

Mr. LANGDALE would vote for the second
reading, but would in the Committee take means
to procure for the members of every religious
persuasion the same facilities for the exercise of

their religion.
Mr. H. JAMES said the new law had worked
well in Cumberland, and the poor were better
taken care of than when they were put up to a
Dutch auction.

Mr. FIELDEN of course opposed the second
reading, and objected to the Committee of last
year that it was partial.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL wound up the debate, and
defended the law against the obsertations of Mr.
WAX LET. He contended that the efficiency of

the Commission wodilVe impaired by limiting
its duration to five or three years. The House
supported the NOble Lord's views. On a divi-
sion, '2Ol were for the second reading and 54

against it.
Mr. \VAKLEY gave notice that on going into
Committee, he would move to divide the Bill

into two parts.
The Committee on the Customs Act, to take
into consideration the duty on East India Rum,
was postponed till Friday.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for Ireland obtained
leave to bring in a Bill to abolish arrest in per-
sonal actions (Ireland) ; and a Bill to facilitate the
recovery of Tithe Composition Arrear (Ireland).
The Administration of Justice Bill was brought
,n. by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, and read a tint
une.—The House sat till One o'Clock.
Th- )f

.te part of Mr. O'Cor---q1771;/J2B speech. on Lord
MORPETII7B Bill which was most effective) was

that in which he reminded the House that the
country might be plunged in war, and might
want the assistance of Ireland. The discussion
in the House of Commons last night, in reference
to Mr. M'LEOD, must have awakened, we appre-
hend anxieties that have long been slumbering.
The language of Lord PALMERSTON appeared to
us of ominous import. Lord STANLEY and the
Orangremen may be assured that the em-
pire cannot afford just now to throw Ire-
land into rebellion. Mr. O'CONNELL struck
the right string when he made the fears
of English gentlemen vibrate, and we are not
sure that a similar string, were there a master
hand to touch it, might not be made to vibrate to
the very heart of England. Here there is at
least as much, we believe there is great deal
more, political discontent than in Ireland, though
it may want an English O'CONNELL or a modern
`VAT TYLER, to organize it into a power formid-
able to the Government.

Look, says Mr. MARSHALL, in an excellent
letter to Earl FITZWILLIAM, published in the
Leeds Times—

Look at the condition of the agricultural labourer : enter his
bare cottage ; iee him striving to maintain himself and family
on the pittance of seven shillings a week. Consider what are
his sad prospects in life, on the very verge of absolute death by
hunger ; a single step, if so much, out of the poor-house
no hopes of amendment, of better or happier days ;—as has
been his youth, so will be his comfortless old age,

Look again at the crowded streets of our great manufacturing
towns, peruse the various statistic accounts by impartial ob-
servers of the terrible destitution, the feerful want, disease, de-
gradation, misery, physical and moral, in every shape, that
reigns there. Look at the wan and haggard faces of the work
people that come into our Courts of Justice, that attend at our
public meetings. See how the very race of Englishmen is
dwindling down and degenerating under the effects of the un-
remitting labour, the insufficient and unwholesome food that
their country's laws allow them to enjoy.
Then adverting to the growth of democracy in
Europe, the onward movement of. which is irre-
sistible, he says— .. •
Stand aloof from it with unmanly fear and suspicion, refuse
to speak to it or understand it, treat it with mixed hostility,
contempt, and dread ; then expect war, and the result, a little
sooner or a little later, that aristocracy and monarchy, with hi-
deous confusion and fierce violence,will be overwhelmed and
swept away.
Aye, stand aloof from it nobles, deride it To-
ries, go on plundering it landlords, tell it to be
patient with starvation, as the work of GoD,
priests, but do not expect its aid when you get
involved in difficulties and war. When that time
comes, and the Tory Press seem anxious to hasten
it on, then will the Chartists, and all the half-
starved, openly plundered, and discontented mil-
lions arise in their might, then iron-hearted and
iron-headed leaders will not be wanted, and then
the priests and the landlords, the Tories and the
nobles, will cry out for help, and there will be
none to save them. Then will they wish, but
wish in vain, that they had been righteous,
just, and honest, that they had made timely con-
cessions to the demands of the multitude, and
treated them like equal and free men. Depend
on it, whenever a foreign war is forced on Eng-
gland, a civil, or rather, a servile war will be its
accompaniment, unless justice be done to the
masses, and those who will not now share the
franchise, or abstain from making laws to plunder
the people, will then have to contend for their
property and their lives. Either the disfran-
chised and injured multitude, if they receive no
redress, must be reduced to complete slavery,
and kept in awe by whips and swords, or they
will bring about, as Mr. MARSHALL says, a vio-
lent revolution. May GOD inspire the hearts of
the aristocracy with fear now, and make them
speedily do justice, in order to save them from
destruction.

The nomination for East Surrey took place
yesterday, and the show of hands was triumph-
antly in thvour of Mr. ALCOCK. In the evening
a meeting of that gentleman's friends was held,
and the reports from several quarters were most
encouraging. A considerable degree of enthu-
siasm prevails throughout the county, and in-
fluential men are everywhere exerting them-
selves to secure Mr. ALCOCK'S return. Mr. AL-
COCK cordially seconds the efforts of his friends,
and has announced his determination to give the
electors of Surrey a full and fair opportunity of
recording their votes. It will be their business
to take advantage of it, and elect him. We
trust they will. These are critical times. We
have too many youngsters in the House of Com-
mons. The public needs the services of mature
well-informed men, and the electors of Surrey
will not be true to themselves if they do not pre-
fer Mr. ALCOCK to Mr. ANTROBUS.

Copies of treaties between her Majesty's Go-
vernment and the Argentine Confederation and
the Republic of Hayti, for the suppression of the
Slave Trade have been presented to both Houses
of Parliament. The zeal with which the Govern-
ment labours to unite the civilized world against
this infamous and inhuman traffic is deserving of
the highest praise; but we have doubts whether
it ever can be suppressed while domestic slavery
exists. When France, Spain, and Portugal have
abolished slavery in their colonies, and when
domestic slavery is abolished in . the United
States, then, indeed, we may hope to realize the
objects of the great and good men who devoted
their lives to the enfranchisement of the coloured
race. To prevent entirely the exportation of
slaves from Africa, there must be no soil to re-
ceive a human being in a state of bondage. We
can only utterly root out the traffic in slaves by
the abolition of domestic slavery, and this will
only be accomplished by it being proved to the
satisfaction of slave-holding States that free la-
bour s cheaper, and consequently productive of
more profit, than slave labour. This proof—
better than a thousand abstract arguments on
the injustice of depriving men of their liberty by
brute force—England, we trust, will, be soon in
condition to supply from the example of her
own colonies.

The Paris Journals of Saturday and Sunday
have been received. On Friday the Chamber of
Deputies was engaged with the Customs' Bill.
In the course of the debate M. VICTOR GRANDIN
had the peculiar French !mob patriotism, and
the French mob refinement of taste to oppose all
commercial intercourse with England, alleging
that if a treaty was concluded with us, a repeti-
tion might be expected of our conduct towards
China, to whom we say, " Receive our opium or
we will murder you. Take your choice ; the
poniard or the poison." The Constitutionnel and
the Journal des Debuts do not report these ex-
pressions, which we regret to add called forth no
manifestation of disgust in the Chamber, but they
figure very distinctly in the report of the debate
which appears in the National of Saturday. The
man who could utter them after the perusal of
the first night's debate in the British Parliament,
mustbe too contemptible for serious notice on this
side of the Channel. We leave this man and his.
speech to the chastisement of the Journal des
Debuts, and the reflections which every honour-
able mind in France must make upon an out-
rage of all decency, truth, and international good
feeling.
The Journal des Debats of Sunday publishes
the following letter, addressed by Admiral
STOPFORD to the Governor• of Malta dated the
14th of January :
" Sir,-1 have the honour to make known to you that
Mehemet Ali, having restored the Ottoman fleet, recalled
his army from Syria, and accepted all the conditions which
the Sultan had: offered him ; the port of Alexandria and
the coast of Syria are no longer exposed to any hostility
on the part of the Sultan or his Allies.

(Signed) " ROBERT STOPFORD."
The Moniteur Parisien denies that there is any
truth in the report that Marshal SOULT wanted
to get rid of MM. GulzoT, UUMANN, and MAR-
TIN du NORD. The harmony of the Cabinet is
undisturbed and complete. _

The following- paragraph appears in the Na-
tional of Saturday :-
011 Friday morning M. Montour, proprietor of the
France, and M. Lubis, the principal editor of the same
journal, were arrested at their dwelling-houses, and after
having been examined before M. Justice Jourdain, they
were committed to the prison of St. Pelagie, on a charge
of forgery.
A private letter from Naples, dated Jan. 29, contains
the following passage
" A frightful land-slip occurred in the commune of
Gragnano, aeari Castellamare, about 14 miles from this
city, on the night of Friday, the 22d instant, when the
inhabitants, who were almost entirely agricultural labour-
ers, were in bed. That part of this populous commune
which lies nearest the mountain which overhangs it, was
suddenly overwhelmed, and 113 persons perished in one
grave. The King immediately sent a large body of
pioneers, and went himself to superintend their work, As
yet only 65 bodies have been dug ont, and five persons were
found still alive, who, although in great danger, may yet
be recovered."

The Venus frigate and the Veloco steamer sailed on the
12. d from Brest for Toulon.

The Suabian Mercury, under date the 28th ult., states
the Austrian army was on its full war footing. At a mo-
ment's notice the Austrian Government could bring into
the field 300,000 men and 600 pieces of cannon. The
Cologne Gazette publishes a letter from Frankfort, stating
that the Austrian Government was about to borrow
40.000,000 or 50,000,000 florins of the houses of Roths-
child and Bethmann.
The Malta Times of the 28th of January says—
" Soliman Paella has arrived at Cairo, with all the
artillery of the army of Syria, 8,000 cavalry, and 8,000
ii friary.
" Ibrahim Pacha was at Jaffa, where the Viceroy's
' steamer, the Nile, was to convoy him to Alexandria."
We hear that the nomination
of General Bcrthon, aide-
de-camp to the King, to thri-post of Chief of the Staff of
the Army of Africa, has just been signed by the King.
We have frequently remarked that England, always so
ready to complain of what it calls the spirit of conquest,
neglects no opportunity to extend its oval influence in all
parts of the globe. At this moment it is towards central

Africa that it directs its investigation, and ❑o doubt w(
shall soon sec her established there.
The following details are given by a London Jeurnat.
respecting the expedition preparing for the Niger, of which
we have already spoken —( Here follows a quotation which
has already appeared in The Sun.)
What io the meantime arc we doing ? Are we taking
advantage of the position of Constantino to establish a
communication with Timbuctoo, which may become the
route of a caravan as important, perhaps, as that of India?
No ; we shall wait till the English have obtained a pre-
ponderance in these countries and exclude us from them,
when we might have anticipated them.
A letter from Luneville, of the Ist of February, says it
is decided that the Duke of Nemours is to go to Africa,
as soon as he recovers from the effects of a violent sore
throat, but will return to Paris, and proceed to Toulon
as soon as General Bugeaud has re-organised the army of
Africa. The Duke of Aumale will command two of these
detached battalions, and perhaps lead the vanguard in the
division commanded by his brother.
Numbers of sailors have passed through Paris to-day, on
their way to Toulon, Brest, and Cherbourg.—Le Cont.
coerce.

Beussu.s,rFßß. 6 —His Royal Highness the reigning
Duke of Saxe Coburg arrived at Brussels from Liege to.
day by a special train. Some of his Majesty's carriages
were sent the day before yesterday to Liege to fetch his
Royal Highness, who was received at the station by the
officers of his Majesty's household. His Highness will
pass the night here.

The King and the Prince of Saxe Coburg have gone to
Ostend to-day by the railway. He will set out this even-
ing for London, where he will spend a fortnight.
A letter from Maastricht of the 3d inst. says, " that n
letter from the Hague mentions the nomination of Mr.
Brandes as: Clerk to the Provincial Assembly of Limburg
as very probable. The Maestricht Journal says, it hopes
the statement is unfounded, because this nomination would
not be agreeable in Limburg.
BERLIN, FEB. 3.—Major-General Von Hess has arrived
here from Vienna.—Prussian State Gazette.
QUEEN CHRISTINA.-Our private letters from Naples
of the 25th ult., deny that the King had sent an invita-
tion to his sister, Queen Christina, to come to Naples.
It appears, on the contrary, that his Majesty had Notified
to the ex-Regent of Spain, not to presume to appear at his
Court, and had expressly forbidden the Dowager- Queen
going to Rome on a visit to her daughter. Oar corres-
spondent adds, that the Roman Court, usually so gallant
towards ladies, received Queen Christina with much cool-
ness, notwithstanding the pressing recommendation of
King Louis Philippe, and the officious interference of his
representative at the Vatican.