The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-04 00:00:00

SHERIFF EVANS.

About two o'clock on Thu y afternoon,
a
board was stuck up by a carpenter at the
corner of
Old Bailey, bearing the following Questions and Answers
in red and black letters :
WHERE IS WILLIAM EVANS, ESQ., SHERIFF?
IN PRISON.
WHO SENT HIM THERE?
THE COMMONS' HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT.
FOR WHAT OFFENCE?
FOR OBEYING THE LAWS.
A great crowd of people congregated as the board
was being stuck up, and kept staring at the operation,
while several wags amused themselves at the Sheriffs
expense, by crying out, " I wish he may get it !"*...
(Shouts of laughter.)

COUNTER STATEMENT.
WHERE WILLIAM EVANS, ESQ., SHERIFF OC
LONDON?
CONFINED IN BELLAMY'S COFFEE-HOUSE.
BY WHOM WAS HE PLACED THERE?
BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
FOR WHAT REASON?
FOR NOT OBEYING THE PEOPLE'S REPRE-
SENTATIVES.
WHAT IS HE DOING THERE?
HGLDING LEVEES, RECEIVING PRESENTS AND
ADDRESSES, AND EATING GOOD DINNERS.
WHAT KEEPS HIM THERE?
REFUSING TO PETITION THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS.
WHO A h E HIS SUPPORTERS ?
THE CORR UPT CORPORATIONS OF THE
OF LONDON AND DUBLIN, AND THE DREGSCITIES
OF
THE TORY PARTY !

POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THN
MORNING JOURNALS.

The Mot ning Post of this day encourages the Tories ie
the following gracious and condescending terms Ai
we do not hesitate to find fault with the conduct of our
fiiends in Parliament when we think them remiss in their
duty, we think we may very fairly indulge in the morn
pleasing task of giving them praise when they evidently
deserve it. We have great pleasure in congratulating the
Opi.osition upon the vigour, the industry, and the sPirlk.
with which they are fulfilling their proper functions in the
present session. The work goes bravely on. It is an se'" mating thing to read the debates. If it be possible tO
make anything of so frivolous, so lazy, and so unfeeling
an Administration as the present, this discipline of active
opposition will do the business."—The Morning Herald
thus expresses itself on the subject of the Factory or!'
tern :—" The factory system has long been an unmiti-
gated disgrace to England. So far
as public morelitY,
is concerned, the breaking up of the
old system t"
cottage manufactures has entailed on this country
incalculable mischief. Children of the tenderest
years are now huddled together, to work for an unnatural
period during each day, in an atmosphere most unge•iite
to the human constitution. To parental restraint--o
parental instruction—those little creatures are utter
strangers. Little girls are retained in a state of e:heriv
lute ignorance of all those duties with which it eiPeelAaj.
behev< a females to be conversant."--The Mornl.ll4,`',
vertiser remarks, with reference to the case of Mr. 'Tit;
riff Evans :—" We admit the hardship of the 61).1.i--
case, but it is a necessary consequence of the f law
whichoso he undertook to
iso
attackedex . acute.
byT lite",
the
lawnprivilege a n a'
d were that privilege to be sacrificed to the executive
authority, the House might as well at once Y'v
to despotic dictation,
and, as Cromwell desired them'go about their business elsewhere."—The M°° tl:;
ing Chronicle contents itself with a summary of -1., Nrliamentruy proceedings last night.—The Times,
.2
luding to the vacancy in the representation for Perthshire'
„,s Last week we intimated on good rounds,g thin
asfiile the Ministry's indecent haste to
despatch the Per
ed
shire writ in, violation of the forms of Parliament betokened
an evident design on their part to stea of with the repro"
_r
ssensation of that county by dint of mere tacticianship,ev7Z.
advantage would be taken of the present state of the two",
intrusion question in Scotland to render it tributary to
ea,
gives us 1013.
success of the Government candidate. It
pleasure to learn that our early announcement of this nctl_.
oeuvre bids fair to defeat it, and that the Perthshire r_cni.
intrusionists, otherwise favnurablu to Conservative Prle_ke,
pies, have been eff• ctually put upon their guard against the
insidious snares of the enemy."

HAMBURGH MAIL.