The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-08 00:00:00

IVIONEY-TIZA.DE-COMMETWE.

At a meeting of the journeymen printers, held last
Thursdayjn Edinburgh, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the best method for alleviating the distress
of the unemployed letter-press printers in London, it
was finally resolved—" That a committee be appointed
to draw up an appeal to the nobility, gentry, and the
public generally, in behalf of their unemployed brethren
in the metropolis, and be empowered to receive subscrip-
tiers fur their behoof."

- At an Anti-Corn-law lecture, delivered last evening
by Mr. Sydney Smith, in Marylebone-lane, he stated
• that the poorer the locality the richer were the public-
houses, and thu more magnificent the gin-palaces. It
Was literally a true saying, that sorrow was dry.'
Tbe poor unemployed labouring man poured liquid tire
down his throat, to drown for a time his pain and sorrow."

AGRICULTURAL,.
At the show of the Horticultural Society in Regent-
street, yesterday, there was a dish of rare but fine
fruit, called the purple guava, from the gardens of Lord
SOndes, at Swaffham, Norfolk. Also some oranges
and a shaddock, grown out of doors, by Mr. Wigels-
worth, of Clitheroe. .
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
Martin Von Wagner left Rome last month
.to resume
his functions as Secretary to the Ac&demy of Fine Arts
in. Munich.

• The celebrated sculptor Thorwaidsen is• suffering at
Rome under catarrhal -complaint. He employs himself
in making designs, said to be of extraordinary beauty,
more especially one series, in which the seven days of
the week are represented by Genii.
The brother of Stothard, the artist, some years sinco
recovered in Normandy the lost effigies of several of
our deceased_English monarchs. Stothard now pro-
poses that they should be deposited in the Abbey of
Westminster.

A high mass was lately performed before forty luna-
ticS at the church of Bicetre, by order •of Dr. Lewret,
who considers that nothing is -better capable than music,
along iyitti the cultivation of the mind, to procure a
return towards sanity.

The Papal Government by decree has placed several
new works in the In:dex;.‘ Among otherS thus honoured
are " Ranke's History of the Popes," and the novels of
Babzac. No English bOok figures in the list.

MAW AND POLICE.
At Guildhall yesterday three men, named Griffin,
Steptoe, 'and Sharman, were charged with stealing a
bale of silk, value 1201., from the Chipping Norton wag-
gon on the Ist of December. The waggoner, who was
also a prisoner, had turned evidence against his accom-
plices. As further evidence was required, the prisoners
were remanded till Friday.
A summons was issued yesterday at Bow-street, at
the instance of a.common informer, against Mr. Yates,
proprietor of the Adelphi Theatre, for allowing spiri-
tuouS liquors to be sold
.on the premises without a license.
At the Woolwich Police-office, Mr. Clark, the respect-
able proprietor of the Three Danis public-house, ap-
peared on an information laid against him by the police
authorities, for suffering drunken and disorderly persons
to assemble to his house.. The clearest evidence was
adduced that a number of drunken soldiers and women
'from a neighbouring house rushed into the tap-room,
and that the landlord had made every exertion to prevent
them entering, but without effect, and had refused to
serve a drop of liquor. The case was dismissed on pay-
ment of 2s. c)sts.

The case of Snasse v. Dick (the Member for Waldon)
Was struck Off the list on Saturday, because the plaintiff's
attorney, had riot re-sealed his record. The action, how-
ever, will come on shortly, as Mr. Quiutin Dick rejects
any thing like compromise, and is resolvedto defend.
Four men attached to a notorious gang of poachers
in Lancashire, known by the name of the "Long
Company," have been taken taken into custody on sus-
picion of' being the murderers of Mr. Grayson; the
farmer, at St. Helens.

Ernest Rapallo was liberated yesterday, on the appli-
cation of counsel.

SPORTING.

Frederick Vane, kiri. VvliiSii.itTiiting with the Oakley
hounds, seriously broke'his ancle last week. He is now
doing well at Lord St. John's, Melchbowin Park.

COURT—rAgIIZONABLE.
Thp Earl and Countess of Kinnoul have left • their
marine residence, near Edinburgh, for Dupplin Castle.
The Earl of Cadogan will give a dinner to the Fo-
reign Ministers on Saturday next, in Piccadilly.
The Earl of " Tankerville gave a dinner-party in
Mansfield-street, on Sunday.
The Earl of Aberdeen will give a grand dinner to
the French Ambassador and a distinguished party to-
morrow, at Argyle louse.
Lord Lyndhurst will give a grand dinner-party on the
14th instant.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The monuments erected in Westminster Abbey and
St. Paul's, at the public expense, from the year 1750 to
the present time, to the number of about 54, have cost
the natiou 82,17 U

Commissioner Lin and his favourite wife, attired in the
splendour of the Celestial Court, have been added, we
perCeive, to Madame Tussaud's collection.
Government, it is understood, have determined on of.
fering a reward for the discovery of the persons who set
fire to the premises at Chitton, Berkshire, on the 22d of
November last.
The old oak teoerplabledi .360 years ago, by Bishop
Ridley, in Pembiotee College Garden,. was blown down
by the hurricane 'of last Monday.
A warm contest is expected at Woolwich for the office
of organist. The election is to take place this day, and
is expected to make as great a noise in that, place as the
election of music-master at Oxford. We have not heard
which of the candidates is supported .by the Puseyites.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the execution on
Tower Hill of Algernon Sydney, the famous English
Republican, in 1683. Ho was the second son of Robert,
Earl of Leicester, tried by Judge Jeffries, along with
Lord William Russell and others, for the Rye-house
plot. One of the first acts of the Revolution was to re-
verse his attainder. All who maintain the principles of
free Government honour his name.

A meeting was held last evening at the Horns Tavern,
Kennington, Dr. Bedford in the chair, to propose ad-
dresses -of congratulation to: the Queen, Prince Albert,
and the Duchess of Kent; on the birth of the Prince of
Wales. The meeting was not well attended. The loyal
addreSs to her Majesty was agreed to with an amend-
ment, praying for an inquiry into the complaints of the
people, pardon to all political offenders, and for the
Charter to become the law of the land. Addresses were
then: moved to Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent,
and amendments, in both'instances, to consider them that
day nine months were carried by great majorities.
HUMOURS Or THE DAT.
Mr. Williams, the Pnseyite candidate for the Profes-
sorship of Music in the University of Oxford, will bo
elected. He has a majority of three to one among the
residents, a circumstance which, it is thought, will have
a great moral effect upon the country masters. The new
Popery mania has made great progress within the last
few Weeks, attributed by some to the remarkable de-
ranOment of the magnetic instruments, and Mr. Mur-
phy calculates that if the strange phenomena should again
manifest themselveS, the University of Oxford, in less
than six months, will be more Catholic than Maynooth.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.
There have been few arrivals of Corn since Monday.
Wheat firm at last prices, with some demand for foreign.
In other grain no alteration, and very little doing. Flour
met a rather better sale.
COLONIAL MARKET.
Prices were firm, and a fair amount of business was
transacted. by the home trade, but the shippers were
cautious in their proceedings. The imports were fair.
• Flaw Sugar in good request, and stiff rates were paid.
The deliveries large, and arrivals small.
TEA MARKET.
There was a fair business transacted in Free Trade,
and prices were firm. Company's Congou, I 5..9 id. per lb.
cash, and the lowest rate of Free Trade common Congou,
cash, was Is. pid.
TALLOW MARKET.
A.good demand, and prices fitm,-at 48s. 3d. to 48s. 6d.
on the spot, and 48s. for delivery up to the end of the
year. For spring months 495. was asked.
SPIRIT MARKET.
The demand for Rum was good, and a fair business
was done at Is. 91d. to Is. 10d. for proof Leewards.
Brandy firm, and wanted.
FRUIT MARKET.
The grocers were eager purchasers of New Fruit.
Valencia Raisins at 365., and Currants 565. to 61s. per cwt.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
WATERLOO PICTURE COURSING. MEETING.
In consequence of the flooded state of the Altear mea-
dows, this interesting meeting is postponed till Monday
next, the 13th inst., at a quarter before ten. The subscri-
bers meet at the Waterloo Hotel, Livepool, on Saturday,
the 11th, at four o'clock ; the entry of the dogs (64 in
number) to close at six, and the drawing to take place
immediately after dinner. There are subscribers from
most of the coursing districts in England, and two from
Scotland, viz., Sir W. A. Maxwell, two nominations, and
Mr. A. Graham four.
BIGGAR OR UPPER WARD OF LANARKSHIRE
COURSING MEETING, DEc. 2 AND 3.
lord Douglas's Cup was won by Marquis of Douglas's
Cequett, boating Mr. A. Graham's Molly Loo.
The Nonination Stakes were won by Lord Douglas's
Kers° and Negro, beating, in the third tics, Mr. Bor-
ron's Barmaid; and Mr. A. Graham's Princess Royal.
The Douglas Water Stakes were won by Lord Doug-
las's Barefoot, beating Mr. Dickson's Tam O'Shanter.
Bet.

-letvveen twelve and one o'clock this morning, a
,oung man, named. Charles Lovell, living at No. 2, New-
street, Kensington Gravel Pitts, was in the act of climb-
ing over the pailings of the Green Park into Piccadilly,
when, through being intoxicated, he slipped, and one of
the spikes perforated the inside of his left thigh to the
depth of between four and five inches, and tore the flesh,
by his whole weight hanging on the pike, into a frightful
wound of eight inches in length. He was conveyed in a
state of dreadful suffering to St. George's Hospital.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The annual
performances of the Illessial4 at Exeter Hall are an-
nounced for the 10th and 17th instant, a fortnight before
the usual time.
Our weather has been fearful ; rain, rain, rain,
such as we have not seen in this town for twelve years.
The consequence has been a very great deal of sickness ;
especially in the shape of scarlet fever. Several children
have fallen victims to it. Yesterday a north wind,
searching and bitter, brought dryness on its wings. It
is to be hoped, as the glass has been gradually rising
since Thursday, that it is the commencement of a change
for the better, as regards the elements and the general
health of the conamunity.—Boulogne Gazette of Monday.

.
• FRANCE.
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.)
The topics that most occupy public attention in Paris
and in France, at the present moment, are the political
trials going. on in the capital, at Paris, and at Aix, in
Savoy, to which a fourth series, that of the rioters at
Clermont, will shortly have to be added. Several per-
sons begin to ask of themselves, with no small justice,
what can be the cause of the simultaneous hostility to
the Government, evidenced by this extraordinary display
of legal. measures of repression ; whether it be not in
some. deeply seated, and widely spread disgust of the
whole system under which the country is at present
managed, and whether the hatred of the public will not
one day or other—at no remote period, perhaps—end by
overthrowing the obnoxious authorities. We confess,
that we believe the people with their broad and plain
common sense to be right : that nine men out of ten are
disgusted'with the hypocrisy of a Government calling it-
self liberal, and being thoroughly despotic in heart ; and
that they would do any thing to get rid of of this
kind. The people, perhaps, make little • distinction be-
tween the various Cabinets, and they are right. The
differences of political opiniOns between the public men
of France are nothing compared to what exists in other
nations. •The fault lies with, and the blame comes direct
home, to the real head and director of the Government
himself, to the King, the author and inventor of the
present dishonest and deceitful system, the deceiver of
his country, and, at the present moment, its oppressor.
By far the majority of French statesmen have only one
principle—that of getting into place, keeping in it as
long as possihle, and getting,as much money for them-
selves, and favours for their relations or friends, as they
can. Thiers or Guizot, Soult or Mol4, it is all the
same—they will all
.profess and promise, and lie
'and cheat, and intrigue one as hard, as the other; and
there is no man in France with a grain of common sense.
in his head who would take the word of any one among
them for a- ten-sous-piece. As for the King his cha
racier is known, and devised as it deserves. By an
able act of political legerdemain he shifted his
amiable but weak cousins out of their posses-
sions, wheedled himself,in, and is now stopping at
no measures, the -most unconstitutional, - or the
most dishonest; to retain his ill-gotten wealth
and power. One of his ablest stratagems has been to
involve so many of the leading men of the country in
the same treachery towards the nation with himself ; he
has damaged so many men's political characters, by in-
veigling them into his toils ; he has so skilfully played
with their ambition, or other passions, that he is as yet
able to make a stand, and to .force his obnoxious measures
down the throats of the people. But this cannot-go on
for ever, and the whole superstructure of political fraud
and deceit which he has built up with so much pains,
will come clattering down about the ears of his successor,
and will bury the " beloved dynasty," or the " illustrious
race "in its ruins. The trials above mentioned are an ad-
mirable illustration of the mannerin which things are now
conducted in France, and afford an excellent measure of
the degree of judicial justice and administrative honesty
which exist here. The conspiracy of Quenisset, an
obscure pot-house plot, was .soon found to be en-
tirely an "apire mangue," that is to say, the
law- officers of the Crown soon perceived that they
had only a set of poor devils to deal with, whose
hunger, much more than whose republicanism, had
urged them to make the mad attmpt against the Princes
at the head of a large body of troops. The evidence, as
far as it has hitherto gone, has shown that the idea of
Quenisset, perhaps of the others, was, that they were
going to attack the whole regiment, not the Princes
alone ! The absurdity of ten or twelve men attacking
a corps d'elite, just returned from an active campaign,
shows the degree of intelligence which directed their
:proceedings. Government soon perceived that it had
Made a mistake in giving cognizance to the Court of
Peers of such a trumpery event, and therefore it was
determined at all hazards to bring somebody of more
importance into it. The Editor of the ropulaire, a
Republican paper, was therefore arrested—why ? be-
cause his paper, though the law'offiCers of the Crown
had never found a line in it which they had considered
liable 'to prosecution, was taken in at the wine-shop.
where Quenisset and his companions met, and was as-
sumed to be the journal that had put their republican
ideas into their heads. One of the prisoners, too, after
his arrest, had written a letter to the Editor of the paper
to complain of some arbitrary treatment in prison. M.
Dupoty, the Editor, was therefore, some weeks after the
attempt, taken out of his bed one morning to the Con-
ciergerie, and is' now on the prisoners' bench before the
Court of Peers. A more arbitrary and unconstitutional
proceeding was never perpetrated in the worst days of
Louis NV. Not one of the conspirators had ever seen
M. Dupoty : he, too, was totally ignorant of the exis-
tence of any among them until he read their names
amongst the list of persons td be placed on their trial,
and he had no more to do with the plot than the man in
the moon. The Popullirc is a journal professing very
ultra opinions, no doubt; but if these opinions are cul-
pable, why not prosecute it for them : otherwise, if the
law can find no fault with them, why arrest its
Editor for publishing them ? and why implicate
him in a plot of which he was totally ignorant ? The
Commerce and the National were taken in by the con-
spirators, as well as the Popatire. Why then not arrest
their Editors also ? Merely because Government was
afraid ; this would have made rather too much noise ; it
would have been too absurd : and besides, one Editor
was as good as a hundred for what Government wanted ;

so M. liupoty was selected. Hitherto the trial has gore
no further than the public interrogation of the prisoners—
in itself a most unconstitutional and arbitrary one, but
justified by the atrocious principle of French criminal
law, that a prisoner should be made to inculpate him-
self as much as possible, and that every one is assumed to
be a malefactor until he can be proved innocent (an honour-
able cOmpliment,this, by the way,A7 the..opinion which
Frenchmen entertain of their own-characters). This in-
terrogation, however, as applied to M. Dupoty, has un-
veiled the most arbitrary and atrocious disposition on
the part of the Crown lawyers--that is, of the King.
Many of the articles published in the Populaire have
been read in court, and declared as seditious and inflam-
matory in the highest degree ; several articles found in
the Editor's basket, where he had thrown them after re-
jection from various correspondents, and which, of
course, had never been published, were also read, and
urged as crimes against M. Dupoty ! And even some
verses, which he wrote a long time ago—a sort of para-
phrase of one of Beranger's songs—written, we believe,
during the rumours of war last year, and which, if a war
had taken place, would have been lauded up to the
skies these very verses are alleged as a crime
against poor M. Dupoty ! Ile has defended
himself' with great presence of mind and abi-
lity ; hairing, by the way, one of the most
easily defensible positions that any one can well be ima-
gined to have; and has protested against this a posteriori
incrimination of articles which in the eye of the law were
perfectly innocuous. But what, it may be asked, have
all these documents to do with the showing that ho vas
concerned in the plot ? Nothing at all : but what does
that matter to the Crown lawyers ? M. Dupoty has
been 'arrested : some charge or other must for decency
sake be brought against him ; and if no constitutional
matter can be found, why something unconstitutional
must be resorted to. There is only one opinion in Paris
as to the illegality of this proceeding : but Government
will carry this point. M. Dupoty will be found guilty,
not of what he is tried for, the having encouraged Quenis-
set to make his attempt, but of something else lie is not tried
for, and that something happens in itself not to be illegal.
This is the way in which justice is administered wide!:
the " best of Republics." The speeches of old Pasquier,
the President of the Court, are disgusting as usual. He
keeps lecturing the prisoners an the extreme sinfulness
of conspiring against Government ; the old perjurer who
has cursed himself fifty times over by all his gods—if
indeed any of the inhabitants of Olympus would own
such a weathercock—if ever he would forsake Napoleon,
if ever he would abandon Charles X., and, no.v, if ever
he will cease to lick the dust before Louis Phiippe—
cujusque addictus jurare in verba mayistri. The trial
before the Court of Peers presents a melancholy spec-
tacle. . First, that there should be found such misguided
wretched men as Quenisset and his accomplices, to
make so absurd or so dastardly an attempt ;- and
next that the Government should have so little regard
to Constitutional morality, as to violate for its own pur-
poses all the principles of common equity—to say no-
thing of law. Thus France is constituted : such is its
political condition, and the occurrence of this affair just
before the opening of the Legislative session is, no doubt,
considered as a God-send by the King, upon the strength
of which he can continue to demand of the Chamber of
Deputies a good round sum of secret service money.
The prosecution at Pau shows the unconstitutional
Proceedings of the Government in another point of
view—in the actions of its subordinate agents in the de-
partments. The rioters at Toulouse .have been trans-
ferred from the scene of events—where all the respect-
able inhabitants are hostile to the Government—to a quiet
country-town where there is a Royal chateau with a cer-
tain number of persons in direct dependence on the Crown
for their salaries ; and where the Jury is known to be
generally tolerably subservient to the wishes of the
authorities. Here, however, the forms of law are observed
more or less ; nearly all the persons arrested are tinkers
and tailors, caught jlagrante &lido breaking lamps or
windows ; and there can be no hesitation in condemning
them for a breach of the peace. But among them there
is the Chief Police Commissioner of Toulouse, a man
named Lenormant, whom the Government have been
forced, by the turn of events, to arrest, and who is
proved to have been the main instigator of the riots. It
was he who sent men into the streets to cry
out against the Prefect and the Procureur du Roi,
and it was by his orders that lamps were broken
and the troops opposed. The Procureur du Roi, and
the Prefect, who both ran away from their posts, and
the Lieutenant-General who commanded, and has been
also dismissed, all these functionaries have made their
depositions, and they do nothing but accuse each other
and the Government. On the whole it is a most dis-
gusting affair. The trial at Aix in Provence is less so:
it concerns some more pot-house conspirators, arrested
at Marseilles, and other towns in the South of France ;
and the evidence hitherto adduced has shown that seve-
ral Secret Societies for the spread of Republican 'opinions
exist in that part of France, though few, if any, overt
acts of rebellion can be proved against them. We repeat
that all those judicial proceedings are considered, by re-
flecting people, as unanswerable indications of the Un-
settledand unhealthy condition of France.
We understand that there is not much likelihood of the
Ministers being weakened 'by the result of the Session :
and that, contrary to the universal rule since the revo-
lution of 1830, Marshal Soult's Cabinet is likely to con-
tinue in office throughout a second Session. The fact
is, that the King dares not take Thiers into office
again ; and that Count Mole, without Thiers, is not
strong enough to oust.. M. Guizot, from what he is
dying to obtain again. Between the policy of the pre-
sent Cabinet and that of one under Count Mole, there is
not a shadow of a difference,
hpineeiortphlliaentettlholaafnteEoGnnugdiluzaociddwaooneusd:dEbbluie!
the only thing is that
Mole would job for otherts
irnopfeoraeriegnmpoostliicnty,eraensdteidti