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

THE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY, NOVEMI3ER 8, 841.

on the other hand, we say, successive inventions
and improvements in machinery lessen the diffi-
culty Or procuring the means of subsistence, and,
as they come into use, augment the wages of the
labourerand raise the standard of his reward. Such
are the results of invention and the use of ma-
chinery, when traced through long periods; and
to such results chiefly, not to its temporary and
local results, must the lawgiver look who aspires
to make permanent laws.

In another part of The Sun will be found a
letter from Mr. ALLEN, Messrs. GRISSELL and
PETO'S foreman, which we insert in a spirit of
fairness. In placing Mr. ALLEN'S defence be-
fore the public, we leave it to judge of the points
in dispute. We cannot pretend to decide which
of the parties states the case most correctly, but
if Mr. ALLEN'S statement be true the masons
have little to complain of. At the same time we
admit their right to withdraw from Messrs.
GRISSELL and PETO'S service, if they like, with-
out any other cause than their own good
pleasure. If it had pleased them to say, We will
not serve Messrs. GRISSELL and PETO, and we
will give no reason for not serving them, their
conduct might have been foolish, but to compel
them to serve would have been to reduce them
to slavery.

Mr. ALLEN states that he is indebted to his
withdrawal from the union for all the attempts
which have been made to ruin him with his em-
ployers. That is an accusation, too, of the truth
of which we cannot judge; but we desire to say
that union is not a bad nor an improper thing.
All society is a union for a common purpose, and
a union of the masons for a laudable purpose—
such, for example, as providing for their infirm
and sick members, or protecting individuals
amongst them from oppression—would be most
praiseworthy. It is not the union, therefore,
which is to be condemned, but the purpose
to which it is applied. At the same
time it is not to be concealed that a union of any
large body of men is apt to inspire them with
arrogance, and excite in othersjust apprehension.
For such a union to be respected, it is indispen-
sable that its conduct be moderate as well as just.
We are not acquainted with the fact stated by
Mr. ALLEN; but if, as he states, the union con-
stitutes a system which levels the good man with
the idle and the bad, such a purpose is improper,
and neither Mr. ALLEN, nor any other mason,
ought to support such a union. If the union of
the masons have, in fact, that for its object, we
cannot conceive anything more fatal to honest
industry, and the sooner the masons abandon
such a project the better. We advocate free
trade in all cases, and should wish to see its prin-
ciples acted on by the masons as well as the
landlords.

The municipal elections throughout the United
Kingdom will show the Tories that the reaction
of which they have so long boasted is all on the
wrong side. With the exception of the imma-
culate town of Liverpool, almost every borough of
any note has elected a majority of Liberal
Councillors. Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds,
Stockport, Derby, Hull, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Gateshead, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin, Cork,
and a great number of other populous places, have
testified that they have no faith in the PEEL
Cabinet, that they are not fairly represented,
and that, whatever the Cabinet and the Parlia-
ment may do, they are resolved to manage their
own affairs on liberal and rational principles.
The vast population of many of these towns
is calculated to make an impression even
on the Duke of BUCKINGHAM. Three of them
together comtain nearly a million of souls, and
most of the= can boast of the intelligence, in-
dustry, and. public spirit of their inhabitants.
The opinions of such men are not to be despised
with impunity.

The French political writers are the queerest
people in the world. There is no pleasing them.
If the Government happen to forget that there
is such a thing as law or a constitution in France
—a rather common occurrence by the way
—an outcry is raised by the Opposition
Press; the revolution of July and the shades
of the martyrs of the glorious days are
invoked to -witness the transgression, and an ap-
peal is at once made to the patriotism of the
people. On, the other hand if the Government is
the first to .set an example of obedience to the law,
as in the ease of allowing 2,000 men to return
to their ho mes, whose legal period of naval ser-
vice has e.Kpired, nothing is heard but shouts
and yells of fury on the part of the Opposi-
tion Press.. These Journals do not conde-
scend to enamine the claims of the seamen to
their disch exge ; and the fact of their being re-
placed by young conscripts, only provokes
a contemptuous sneer. They have not sense
enough to perceive that by this system
France, i n time of peace, makes the
best prorvision for war, by increasing
instead of liminishing the number of her seamen.
Should a war break out in Europe, the men who
are discharged now would be among the first to
respond t 3. the call of their country, upon
the destruction of those who are to replace
them. Butt this plain truth is too obvious for the
far-seeing sages who assume the guidance of pub-
lic opinion, in France. Were it otherwise, we
should nest meet with such a ridiculous
rhapsody :as the following in the National—a
fair specinaen, by the way, of the outrageous
balderdash, upon this subject, which fills the
columns 130 the Republican press of France :

" The dis armament is ordained; it has commenced.
That fine floe t, our only glory besides Africa for the last
ten years, rand which for three years made England
tremble, is dissolved, mutilated. And who protests
against it? A few isolated voices; and scarcely do
they excite in the inert mass a feeble echo which will
soon be silent. There is no longer any response
in that France once so susceptible, amongst that
people who., although they may have submitted to ty-
ranny under a. veil of glory, never before submitted to
dishonour. How weak, how enervated, how cowardly
resigned use are become ! Tho Ministry is without
doubt culpable, but are we not the first the greatest cri-
minals ? What would the great men who lead us be if
we were not so little ? How profoundly astonished
Europe, which has felt the foot of our ancestors on
its neck, Inust be at the apparent final quietude into
which we. are sunk ! We have been frequently
told, that in 1814, the armies of foreign powers
entered with a sort of timidity on our soil. Ac-
customed to see us in their own lands, they could
hardly petrsuade themselves of the change of charac-
ters which had taken place. At every moment they
expected to see this nation, so frequently victorious,
rise, and with a single effort crush them. Even in the
intoxication of triumph they seemed to be under the of-'
feet of a feeling of repentance for some great act of rash-
ness. In 1815 on the contrary, they entered boldly ;
they then trod upon a conquered land, and their isso-
knee kntrw no bounds, and just such has bean their
conduct ler the last year. When the treaty of July 15
was signeil all Europe was affected, and there was every
where a silence full of respect. As in 1814 even they who
were in le ague against us, and who were invading our in-
fluence, p reparatory to an opportunity for invading our ter-
ritory, w ere not free from a feeling of great anxiety. They
have gore too far, said reflecting men ; they have too
deeply .offended a country so susceptible on points of
honour. Indeed, there was a moment when France ap-
peared -to warrant this feeling, but it was only a
moment. The Government disappointed the nation,
and the. nation was false to itself. Europe then saw
that wca were conscious of our weakness and defext,
and became bold. This was a second 1815. Fear dis -
appearcit from the minds of the other Governments of
Europe ;in proportion as it increased here, and when
fear hail ceased with them so did respect. Then canme
concessisons on the part of France. The miserable,
cowardly note of the Bth October, which will be clot:
eternal opprobrium of the Minister who signed
it, was. the signal of the debacle. All that was no iv
thought of was to return at any price into the family
compact of Europe, and the scandalous participation of
France, in all the shame which had fur a year been ac-
cumulating upon her head, was at length crowned by
the despicable convention of the 12th July, to which
even 144113 XV. would not have affixed his signature."
The Nctional proceeds in a similar strain of excite-
meat,we in honour could o
pudol
and then adds Have we now done all that
forw,as expected from us. We may suppose we have,
cl
renown ? We hate up ? Our old influencer-eor
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have not 200,000 men that we could draw out in line o
battle. Our fleet ? It is d" islocated,dispersed, destroyed.
It is now only a
vain show, or half-effaced reminiscence."

The most important political news in the
French. Journals are the decrees of ESPARTERO
for abolishing the fueros of the
Basques, and
suppr.ssing the political Juntas formed to coun-

teract the late revolutionary atte:i: ht. These do-
.
euments will - .
A Paris correspondent wrote,on the Ist instant to the
Gazette de Flandres et Artois—" Louis Philippe was yes.
terday made acquainted with the conspiracy at Brussels.
He immediately sent fur M. le Hon, who, although Leo-
pold's Ambassador at Paris, knew not a word of the
news. Louis Philippe was much moved by the circum-
stances of the abortive plot. As soon as M. le Hon had
retired, the French Ministers who had been summoned,
arrived. A Council was held, and took into considera-
tion the measures to be taken in case the conspiracy
conceived to be extinguished should break out again.
Marshal Soult is said to have offered an opinion that
several regiments should be sent in all haste' to the fron-
tier, in order to awe the conspirators ; but M. Guizot, on
the contrary, thought that there was no urgency. It is
said that Louis Philippe participated in this advice, and
that he wrote to Leopold with the resultef the Council,
recommending him to act with rigour against the Revo-
lutionists, and promising that in case of emergency he
would march troops upon Brussels."
Extract of a letter from Alexandria in the Quotidienne,
22 i ult. :—" We have received from Cairo the account
of Ministerial changes we have long been expecting.
The duties of Minister of Public Instruction hare been
united to the office of Minister War. All the Europeans
attached to this Ministry have been dismissed. Seven-
eighths of them were French—one of whom was a person-
of some distinction, driven by the revolution of July to
seek employment rom Mehemet Ali, who engaged him
to write his life from particulars with which his High-
ness furnished him. The dissolution of the Ministry
has deprived this person of his rank, and a large portion
of his salary. We learn, however, that he remains
attached to the palace as Secretary of Artin Beys and
charged with drawing up the diplomatic notes, as he has
already done for a long time. Many physicians and
pharmacians have also been discharged. All the Euro-
peans employed at Alexandria are expecting.their dis-
missals. A great many of the schools are suppressed."
" The Minister of Commerce," says the Moniteur Pa-
risien, " in execution of the law passed in the last session
respecting child labour, has nominated upwards of 1,500
inspectors of manufactories. Although these appoint-
ments are purely gratuitous, they have been eagerly so-
licited. The choice of the Minister seems, to have fallen
almost exclusively upon medical men and retired mer-
chants enjoying general confidence. They have been se-
lected from lists transmitted by the Prefects of the De-
partments."
The Toulouse Journals state that two batteries of artil-
lery left that town on Tuesday, one for Bayonne and the
other for Perpignan, where it was to be met ,by a bat-
tery which had been detached to Beziers, but had re-
ceived orders to remove thither.

The Courrier Francais mentions a report of some
sanguinary scenes having been witnessed at Barcelona on
occasion of the demolition of the citadel, and of the Bi-
shop of the diocese having been arrested.
Accounts from Trebisond, says a letter from Constan-
tinople of the 13th ult. in the Constitutionnel, announce
that the sth corps of the Russian army, commanded by
General Lieders, had been beaten in the Caucasus by
the Circassians, and compelled to retreat behind the line
of Laba, which is guarded by the division of the army
under General Grabbe. The details of the affitir were
not known, but they were daily expected to arrive at
Constantinople. The same letter states that Hafiz Pacha,
Reschid Pacha, and Fety:Achmet Pacha, have formed
an association for a glass manufactory at Constantinople,
the first thing of the kind in Turkey. The managers of
this affair have engaged in their service a French che-
mist, and a Pole, who, 43 years ago, embraced Islamism,
and has been aide-de-camp of HafizPacha.
" Two evenings ago," says the Gazette des Tribunaux,
" several seditious placards were found posted up in va-
rious parts of the Faubourg St. Germain, and also on
the trees of the Palais Royal. They were taken down
by police agents, and remitted to the Prefect."
The annual distribution of prizes in the Ecole
Pratique of the Faculty of Medicine was held yester-
day, Dr. Orfila taking the Chair. The first prize, a
gold medal, was awarded to M. I. F. Jarjavay, of Sa-
vignac, in the Dordogne. The Monthyon prizes for this
year, were two, each a gold medal, won by M. Boudet,
of Paris, and M. Landouzy, of Epernay, Professor of the
Medical School at Rheims. The Corvisart prize was
divided between M. d'Astros, of Aix, and M. Lemaire, of
Bourges. The prize for Midwifery was granted to Mlle.
Frago, of Paris.
A letter from Bremen says :—" Our. Steam-boat Com-
pany is about to establish a regular communication
between Bremen and North America, which will pro-
mote the interests of our commerce and that of all Ger-
many. An agent of the Company is gone to Boston, to
ascertain the advantages ofThred by different American
ports. It is said to be projected that th 3 Bremen stea-
mers should touch at the Isle of Wight, or some other
English port, on their way. Their station in America
may be either Boston or New York. The fund for
building the steam-boats was collected twelve months ago.
The papers of Vienne, near Lyons, are filled with ac-
counts of the damage done by the flooding of the Gere.
The numbers of manufactories, houses, and bridges,
either carried away, or damaged, is very great.
Six missionaries, three priests, and three brethren of
the Mariste Congregation, whose chief establishment is
at Lyons, arrived a few days ago at Paris, and, after
remaining a short time at the seminary of the Missions
Etrangeres, proceeded to England, whence they will sail
to join M. Pompallier, bishop of Maronea, and vicar
apostolic of Western Polynesia. Fourteen missionaries
sailed from Portsmouth fur the same destination in last
December. Letters from them, dated at Sydney in
May, announced their arrival there in good health, and
their being hospitably received by the Irish Catholics of
the colony. They found letters from M. Pornpallier,
who was impatiently waiting for them in the Bay of
Islands. They were to embark for their destination at
the end of Mag.
The Journal du _Havre states that the French Go-
vernment has given orders to abandon Noss Bay, a set-
tlement lately mad. on an island north-east of Madagascar.
The Vienna journals state that the Russian Ambas-
sador, M. Bailli de Tatischeff; having received his
letters of recal, has] had an audience of the Emperor
of Austria, and received the accustomed present of a
splendid snuff-box.
The Municipality of Colmar has decided on raising a
monument in memory of General Rapp, who was born
in the porter's lodge of the Hotel de Ville in that town,
where his father was concierge.
An order has just been issued by the Sardinian Go-
vernment for the reduction of the export duty upon
cattle, the motives which, in the early part of the year,
induced the Government to throw obstacles in the way
of such exportation having, says the order, ceased. By
the new tariff the following export duties are fixed :
Bulls, oxen, and cows, 19f. 20c. each ; young oxen,.
bulls, and heifers, 12f. 10c. ; calves, Bf. 7c. ; sheep and
lambs, lf. 35c.; fatted pigs, 4f. 80c.; sucking pigs, 21. 40c.
This order appears to be limited to the island of Sardinia.
A letter from the Spanish Consul at Bayonne to the
Prefect of the Besse Pyrenees, published by the Memo-
ric lof Pau, confirms the statement that Espartero has
granted an amnesty to all the non-commissioned officers,
Frivates, and peasants who acted against his Govern-
ment in the late movement, and have taken refuge in

Frvnce.' About 1,500 persons are affected by this-mea-
sure; but, as the Consul states, they are required to
aply for leave to profit by it. The same Journal states
thf t the Spanish refugee officers quartered there have
be( n ordered to Orleans and Tours.
The Sentinelle of Bayntne states that the title of Mar-
quis of Guevara is to be given to General Zurbano.
Accounts from Constantinople of the 17th say that
the health of the Sultan appears to improve. The
French .A.iiibassador, M. Pontois, had paid his visits to
take leave, and was expected to depart at the beginning
of November.—Gazette de France.
The Moniteur of the 6th has no official part.
The affair of Madame Lafarge will come before the
Court of Cessation on the 11th of this month.
A letter from Bordeaux states, contrary to what we
have learnt from Spain, that the Infante Don Francisco
de Paula has arrived at Madrid. The papers of the
Spanish capital of the 29th, make no mention of the cir-
cutnstance.—Constitutionnet
A letter from Constantinople of the 17th October,
says—" An immense crowd blocked up the yard of the
pai ace of the British Ambassador, to witness his depar-
tor 2. All the inhabitants of the village of Therapia,
wl o had been constantly protected by him, and relieved
wl en in want, flocked to the spot in order that they
mi. ;ht kiss his hands, or even his clothes. This unani-
mc us and spontaneous manifestation of gratitude, so
deeply affected the old Lord, who, at the age of eighty,
ha.; been forced to quit a place in which he had resided
for nine years, and which has become to him a second
country, that he burst into tears."—Quetidienne,

BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, NOV. 6.
first Highest Lowest I.ast
Price Price. Price. Price.
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4 pe- Cents lOO 60 ... 1( 0 80 ... 1 0 60 ... 110 80
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5,00 if. Shares 5093 ..."' ..."-- *-- -
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Re!gian 5 per Cents.
5 ver Cents., 1840 10234 ... 1023#' ... 10234 ... 102%
3 per Cents 72 ~. 72 ... 72 ... 72
Spanish Active to ~. ti 2 ... 22 ... ...2
Passive 5 ... 5 ... 5 ... 5
Neapolitan
ltoinar, ex. div jo,n ... 101% ... 101% ... 101 A
RAILWAY bHA REb .
St. Germain 745 ... 745 ... '737 50 ... 737 50
Veramitta. i.. t; 2uo ... 200 ... 200 .. 200
R. IS 3ll 25 ... 311 25 ... 311 25 ... 311 25
Rouen 445 25 ... 446 25 ... 440 25 ... 446 25
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THE PROTESTANT AssocavoN.—ln former times,
when this body was in the vigour of youth, we were in
the habit of exposing its absurdities. At present, when
it is falling into the grave, we should disdain to give the
wretched, tottering, decaying thing, a single blow. It
finds numerous assailants, however, amongst the Tories;
;ma even the Standard, like the ass, can now kick the
d ping liDn. They flattered and used the Association
for a political purpose ; but now it suits them to hunt
their old ally and friend to death. We leave it with
pleasure to their vengeance. Generous men are satis-
fied with defeating their enemies—to butcher decaying
' friends, is a sort of ruffianism which can only be prac-
tised by the Times and the Standard.
THE RoMISH STATE CL,IZGY.
Church of —A brother of the re-
nowned Colonel Sibthorp has left the ministry of the
England, and reconciled himself to the Bishop
of Rome. According to the Standard he is only one of
several clergymen who might be expected to leave the
Church if their honesty and their convictions went
together. They repudiate the doctrines of Protestant-
ism, but hold fast to its good livings. They adopt the
faith of Rome, and the wealth of England. What a cha-
racter does the Standard give the State priesthood ? Can
it be supposed that those whom it thus denounces are
,safe guides for a Protestant people ? It is, however, for
a nch double-tongued instructors that the Standard and
it party calls on the nation to erect and endow more
cb .urches.

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

Don Carlos has authorised an agent at Paris to nego-
ciate with MadaMe Munoz a marriage between his eldest
son and the young Queen of Spain. How the negotia-
tion will proceed we neither know nor care, inasmuch as
Madame Munoz has no more to do with the marriage of
the young Queen than we have.
By a decree dated the 27th ult., Espartero has sup-
pressed the political Juntas formed at the breaking out
of the late insurrection. In this document the Regent
says :—" The moment is come for the provincial autho-
rities to recover their authority, as granted by the Con-
stitution, and the laws I am determined to enforce
without scruple or infraction; to which end as Regent of
the kingdom in the name of Queen Isabella 11., I have
ordered the immediate suppression of the Juntas, what-
ever be their denomination in the provinces. Consider
this as heard."

By another decree dated the 29th alt., Espartero has
suppressed the fueros of the Basque provinces, replacing
them by the municipal and provincial deputations com-
mon to the rest of Spain. Espartero has chosen an
excellent time for carrying out this great measure.
The Courrier Francais, the Constitutionnel, and the
National, reprobate in the severest terms the disarmament
of the French Navy. It would appear from their columns
that the first duty of the French Government is to tax
the people to the utmost to keep up a force for frighten-
ing Europe.. Popular writers in France have very odd
notions about the functions of a constitutional adminis-
tration.

During the last month there were brought into the
market of Paris 14,645 ducks, 17,655 capons, 53,072
turkeys, 27,395 rabbits, 93,475 geese, 95,061 pigeons,
and 171;489 fowls and chickens.

A report prevailed in Paris on Saturday that the In-
fante Don Francisco de Paula had arrived in Madrid.
The journals of the Spanish capital of the 30th ult, state

,hat the Infante was to remain at Valladolid till after
,ho return of the Regent from the provinces.

The. Turkish Minister of Finance, Moussa Paella, was
thrown out of his chariot while driving in Constanti-
nople, on the 16th ult., and had his legs and one of his
arms fractured. On the same day the new British Mi-
nister, Mr. Bankhead, was presented to the Sultan, who
received him very graciously.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Herald has a leading article on the sub-
ject of the state of affairs in Canada, the object of which
is to impress on the Government the necessity of keep-
ing up a strong military force there, and settling the
Boundary question without delay. " The acquittal of
M‘Leod," says the Herald, " has allayed the irritation
against this country of a considerable portion of the
United States public ; but as by the release of that gen-
tleman the border incendiaries have lost a victim, and
an opportunity of an outbreak on Canada, it has doubt-
less increased the fury of these frontier plotters.
Another rebellion in Canada may not break out,
and a border warfare may not occur; the avoidance of
such eventualities will, however, arise from the
absence of time and opportunities on the part of the
rebels and pirates. What, then, is to be done under such
prospects? The supreme duty of the British Govern-
ment is to have such a force in Canada as will set both

internal and external outrage at defiance. It is not by
words that the determination of Queen Victoria to pre-
serve Canada to the British Crown must be shown ; but
by the exhibition of a physical power which the traitors
and pirates will know they cannot successfully attack.
The loyal British settlers of Canada must not be allowed
to defend themselves ; they must be protected by their
Sovereign's forces ; they must not be instructed in the
art, and brought up to the demoralizing cruelties of bor-
der warfare ; they must be taught to cultivate their lands
in peace under the safeguard of their country's power.
It is to their Government alone they must look in the
hour of danger."
The Advertiser accounts as follows for the Rev. Mr.
Sibthorp's recent conversion to Catholicism :—" The
Rev. Gentleman, until within the last five or six years,
was distinguished for his zealous attachment to Evan-
gelical principles, and for the earnestness and success
with which he inculcated these principles on his large
and respectable congregation—that of Ryde, in the
Isle of Wight. About that time, however, he became
infected with the Puseyism now so prevalent in the
English Establishment, and forthwith introduced its
popish intolerance into his church. For a time he per-
sisted, as others still do, in maintaining that Popery and
Puseyism are essentially different; but being an honest
and conscientious, though weak-minded and mistaken
man, he has at length come forward, and candidly
avowed that he regards Puseyism as nothing else than
Popery under a different name—we use the term Popery
not in an offensive sense, as regards creed, but as it is
applied to express religious despotism—and entertaining
this conviction, we admire the manliness and integrity
of the Rev. Gentleman going over openly to the Roman
Catholic religion."—ln the Rev. Mr. Sibthorp's conversion
we see the natural results and tendencies of Puseyism. He
diligently investigated its dogmas, and finding that they
were neither more nor less than those of the Church of
Rome under the flimsiest possible disguise, he boldly
followed up his calm and dispassionate investigation by
adopting Catholicism. We respect him for his manli-
ness and sincerity, and wish that the rest of the Puseyites
would be as conscientious. But they are a race wise
in their generation," and have no notion of becoming
martyrs to their convictions. Though Catholics in
their ideas' they keep a fast hold of the Protestant
loaves and fishes, and act on the discreet principle of
running with the hounds and holding with the hare.
The Tines endeavours to justify the dilatory, or rather
the do-nothing policy of Sir Robert Peel, observing :
" The events of the last fortnight, combined with the in-
telligence which has been received within the same
space of time from foreign countries, justify in a remark-
able manner the wisdom of that determination to avoid
hasty legislation for which Sir Robert Peel has been so
unscrupulously assailed by the Whig-Radical party.
Seldom, perhaps, has a similar concurrence of circum-
stances, affecting so materially the situation and pro-
spects of the Government at home and abroad, been con-
densed into so short a period. On the one hand, there
have been extraordinary and unforeseen disasters,
by which the immediate pressure of our financial
embarrassments is greatly increased ; on the other,
what seemed lately to be the darkest cloud in the
political horizon has entirely. passed away, and symp-
toms appear of a speedy revival of our trade in quar-
ters where its stagnation had greatly contributed to--
wards the distress of our manufacturing population."—
We have not yet seen any symptoms of a revival of trade,
on the contrary, the horizon appears just as clouded as
ever. But it suits the interests of the Tories to declare
otherwise ; and accordingly, their unscrupulous organ,
the Times, is ready with its party declaration. But
whether trade be reviving or not, Sir Robert Peel is cer-
tainly not justified in allowing five months to elapse
before he inquires into the circumstances of the case ;
nor is it a sufficient excuse for his delay that Hon. Mem-
bers will be engaged till then in shooting game on the
moors and preparing for the revelries of Christmas.
The Chronicle says—" What are the intentions of
the Government with respect to popular education in
Ireland ? Have they made up their minds upon it, or
is this one of the questions which they require time to
consider? As yet no sign has been given except
negative signs, but these are sufficiently ominous.
Lord De Grey has not looked in upon the commis-
sioners of National Education since his arrival in
Dublin, although he has found leisure to visit several
institutions of minor interest and of infinitely in-
ferior importance. He has gone to the theatre, to the
Dublin Museum, to the show' of flowers, to the show
of wild beasts and creeping things, to other places which
possess various objects of attraction for a scientific and
inquiring mind ; but the admirable normal and training
school in Marlborough-street, and the model farm at
Glasnevin, solicit his curiosity in vain. His Excellency's
selection of chaplains is regarded as a still more marked
indication of aversion. In number they far exceed those
of his predecessors; yet amongst them all there are not
three individuals known to be favourable to the national
system of education."—So far as it has yet been deve-
loped, Earl de Grey's policy is not likely to lessen the
weight of Sir Robert Peel's difficulties in Ireland. It
exhibits an evident leaning towards the one-sidedness of
Orangeism, and so far, therefore, is at variance with the
spirit of Lord Eliot's declaration to the East Cornwall
electors.
We quote the following from the Post : " The repeal
fanatics assert broadly that as far as the Corn-law tends
to attract labour to land, which returns less than could
be obtained in exchange for the same labour otherwise
employed, it is mischievow.' We shall not stop now to
laugh at the ridiculous affectation of this phraseology.
It is the vice which runs through all the dicta of modern
chatterers on subjects of political economy. But let us
look at the proposition which is affirmed. We hold it to
be sheer nonsense in a practical point of view, because,
in point of fact, there cannot be in this country any such
thing as the labour of husbandmen otherwise em-
ployed' than in husbandry. In young countries, where
the population is scanty in proportion to the breadth of
soil, and where people are brought up to labour in vari-
ous ways, sometimes tilling the ground, sometimes build-
ing, sometimes making rude furniture with saw and
hatchet, sometimes cobbling their shoes or mending
their breeches, in such countries, and under such circum-
stances, it is all very well to talk of the inexpediency of
applying labour to one thing when it might produce
more if applied to another. But let us look to this coun-
try as it is, and we shall find that if we take away any
very considerable body of people from the branch of in-
dustry to which they have been brought up, the result
is, that they produce nothing at all, or very little, com-
pared with what they did produce."
The Bolton Free Press says ;—" We are:glad to per-
ceive that the attention of the Radical press begins to
be seriously turned to the task of uniting Chartists and
Corn-law Repealers, on a basis calculated at once to
promote the attainment of complete free-trade in food,
and the progress of political reform. Never was there
a more absurd or fatal error, than that of viewing the
Free Trade and Suffrage movements as opposed to
each other."
The Dundee Chronicle gives the following advice to
the Chartists :—" We regret to see that a spirit of fac-
tious opposition exists among the Chartists of England,
and which if persisted in will inevitably destroy them as
a body. These are not times to encourage factious dis-
plays of power ; these are not times to begin breaking
one another's heads, as was the case at Manchester
lately ; for if we carry on that game the Tories will
throw down a stake and break both our heads together ;
besides, there is no policy in doing that which will only
tend to weaken the force of the Chartist body, by alien-
ating from it their best and wisest men."
The Somerset County Gazette makes the following re-
marks on the present state of the country :---" Recur-
rence to this painful theme is forced upon us by the con-

tinued c,-(,lling of th^ “le of distress. I'''r rozr,-.• months

tile 1,1:1.-Litiact•ki.ring td,riets I:tve „re, of
awful misery—but the country generally seen:; to have
viewed them with indifference, or rather with some
doubt as to the truth of the pictures drawn by the re-
presentatives of the sufferers. Unhappily it is the in-
terest of the Monopolists, who command a majority in
the present Parliament, to keep out of sight the misery
they have occasioned, and are now banded together to
maintain at all hazards." . .

We quote the subjoined observations from the Edin-
burgh Weekly Chronicle :—" Political advancement in
this country has ever followed in the steps of social ame-
lioration. The people have always contended with most
energy and most effect for their abstract rights, when
their circumstances were the most prosperous. In times
of distress like the present, they become dispirited,
disunited, and disregarded. Physical, suffering absords
all their own concern, and all the sympathy of their
neighbours."
Speaking of Mr. O'Connell's election to the Dublin
Mayoralty, the Evening .Post says—" For the first time
in our annals, a political party in Ireland has used its
victory with moderation and forbearance—has availed
itself of its power to conciliate its opponents, and to
extinguish sectarian dissensions, at a moment too, when
our National Theatre has been converted into an arena
for factious and insulting displays against the very
people upon whose behalf Mr. O'Connell has held out
the hand of good fellowship. It is thus the Reformers
have proved their determination, in the exercise of that
power from which they had been so long excluded, to
avoid the evil system of intolerance and exasperation of
which they themselves had been the victims."