The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-16 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

COMPANION TO THE CURIOSITIES OF
LITERATURE.
In one volume, price 18.. cloth.
31ISCELLANIES OF LITERATURE,
By I. D'ISRALI, Esq.
CONTENTS.—Literary Miscellanies—Calamities of Authors
—Quarrels of Authors—Character of James the First—Lite-
nry Character.
Edward Mozon, Dover-st•-eet.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Brilliant Success. More Novelty. Another New Piece, and
Second Week of the Factory Boy, which has been received
with the most unequivocal marks of approval from crowded
audiences.

THIS EVENING, JUNE 16,
the Week will be acted Haines' New Drama, entitled
THE FACTORY BOY; OR, THE LOVE SACRIFICE,
Supported by the entire strength of the Company.
After which, First Time, a Comedietta, to be called the
LADIES' MATRIMONIAL CLUB.
The Address, Orders of the Day, Debating, and General Busi-
ness, Conducted Entirely by Ladies.
To conclude with the Nautical Romance of the
NCHCAPE BELL; OR, DUMB SAILOR BOY OF
THE ROCKS.

AI. SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THIS DAY. TUESDAY, Junt: 16, the FIRST GRAND
liseeilaneoua FLOWER SHOW for 1840, by the ROYAL
30UTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY. Un-
paralleled Exhibition of Geraniums, Roses, Heart's Ease, Cal-
ceolarias, Ranunculus', Orchidea, Ericas, Fruit, Vegetables,
&e. &c., surpassing in extent and splendour any previous show
in these Grounds. First public performance of the new Brass
Banal. organized and conducted by the celebrated Professor of
the Cornet-a-Piston, Mr. Handley.
GRAND PROMENADE MUSICALE et CHAMPETRE,
by Godfrey's Unrivalled Band, with the much-admired Me-
at ge tiorn " Robert le Diable ;" Overtures, Waltzes, Qua-
drities, and Souvenirs de l'Opera; intensely interesting deli-
neztion of Perils and Adventures in the Frozen Seas • Exhibi-
tion of t arter's extraordinary Light ; the ERUPTION of
MOUNT iIECLA, &c.
Admission One Shilling.
Gates Open at One o'Clock.

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LONDON:
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1840.

The Peers received several petitions last night as
usual, including some for the better treatment o: Mr.
O'CoNNoR.

In reply to Lord LYNDHURST, Lord MELBOURNE
said, that he did not intend to introduce any nicasure
to amend the boundary clauses of the Irish Municipal
Bill. _

The Marquis o" LONDONDERRY, who is quite re-
markable for the terseness and novelty of his jokes,
again asked Viscount MELBOURNE on what principles
he intended to conduct the affairs of the Govern-
ment. The Ministers had lately sustained half-a-
dozen &feats, the country was in an unexampled
crisis, and he begged for explanation.
Viscount MELBOURNE was ready to reply to any
spec fie question, but could not enter into the wide
field of discussion opened by the Noble Marquis.
On the motion of the Marquis of NORMANBY, his
amendment to the Commons' amendments to the Pii-
sons: Bill, intended to provide for such cases as that of
Mr. O'CONNOR, was agreed to.
Their Lordships adjourned at an early hour.
A considerable number of petitions were presented
in the Commons. including, we are glad to see, seve-
ral against Church Extension. There was one peti-
tion from a Danish claimant, of the name of HEYWOOD,
who complained that, while the Treasury were investi-
gating his claims, and delaying to report on them, he
was reduced to seek relief in the workhouse.

Sir R. biol.'s gave notice that he will move this
day, that on Wednesday, July Ist, the House will re-
so;ve itself into a Committee to consider an Address
to her MAJESTY in the terms of his former notice.
Mr. HL ME 13 to move an amendment, and the discus-
sloe, therefore, on Church Extension takes place to-
day. We hope that no enemy to priestly extortion will
be absent.

&.r FILEEDERICK TRENCH is also to move to-day for
the restoration of the wax lights.

On moving the Order of the Day for a Committee on
the Clergy Reserves Bill, Lord JOHN RUSSELL entered I
into the subject cf Lord STANLEY'S Registration Bill.
After pointing out bow very unconservative was the
course proposed by Lord STANLEY, as well as its in-
convenience, and after expressing his determination to
resist it if it were persevered in, he proposed that the
Howe should proceed with Lord STANLEY'S Bill in
Committee on Friday next.
Lord STANLEY defended the course be had adopted ;
denied that the Government had any right to transact
its business exclusively on Mondays ; insisted that
the Government held that privilege solely from
the courtesy of the House, declared that his
°hied was to procure a deliberate discussion for his
13ill, and ensure its not being shoved off from day to
dry ; and finally consented to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
proposition, on condition that the Noble Lord would
on Friday use his influence to procure for his Bill a
fair discussion in Committee.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL promised to use his influence
to prevent any obstruction to the Bill, though Mr.
O'CONNELL declared that he would use every oppor-
tuni;.y to defeat a measure calculated and intended to
injure and insult Ireland. So, however, ends for the
pretent the fight about the Registration Bills.
Loid JOHN RUSSELL then moved the second read-
ing of the Clergy Reserves (Canada) Bid.
Mr. GOULBCRN assented to the Bili going through
this stage, expressing his hope that the Goveimment
wood alter some provisions of it in the Committee.
Mr. GALLY KNIGHT, Sir R. INGLIS, Mr. PARING..
TON, and others, opposed the principle of the Bill,
and the Hon. Baronet described it as a gratuitous
robbery.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. LABOUCHERE de-
fended the Bill, as essential to the peace of Canada.
At the end of the debate, on a division, the Bill was read
a second time by 152 to 35 votes.
The Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill went
through a Committee.
The Timber Duties Bill, the Tobacco Duties Bill,

and the Glass Duties Bill were severally forwarded
a stage, after some conversation on the propriety of
not exacting the duties on glass melted a second time
for scientific purposes.
'[he House then adjourned.

Before society has recovered from the shock it
received by the murder of Lord WILLIAM Rus-
sEL, it reels under the more startling attempt on
the life of the QUEEN. It was awoke by the
former from a dream of security, and found itself
trembling on the brink of great danger. The lat-
ter not made so profound an impression as to
the insecurity of individuals, but it has much in-
creased the alarm.

:Yainst crimes which grow from the manners
and morals of society, no police—no military
power, can effectually guard us. The protective
system, under these two heads, is as complete,
perhaps, in France as the art of man can make it ;
and the number of diabolical attempts there made
on life, from the KING downwards, proves that they
are ineffectual. Hitherto assassination has been
foreign to our manners ; violations of the right of
property are the crimes which grow from them, and
the increase of commitments every year for these
offences equally testifies to the inefficiency of our
protective system. If to the many crimes
born of cupidity, the crimes which spring from
the more violent of the passions, reckless of human
life, are now to be added, the whole expense of
the naval and military services will not suffice to
make England a safe and habitable land.
Such circumstances require investigation.
Thourdi
it be admitted that assassination is
brutality,
red
into action by fanaticism, or set in motion by royal
bribes, there must be a fund of cold, hard
or intense ignorance, in society to give either gold
or supernatural terror such power over the mind.
We are much afraid that the main cause of all
these evils lies in our manners and opinions, and is
not to be removed by laws. For example, we have
been taken to task by more than one correspond-
ent for inserting Mrs. ROBERTS' petition, and for
the few remarks we made on her husband's case.
Our correspondents are in love with the oppression
exercised on others. For example, too, the prosecu-
tions instituted by the Government of the Chartists,
for somewhat violent speeches, were neither so early
nor sp vigorously followed up as many re-
spectable men thought was due to their
feelings. For example, also, at this moment
there are sundry prosecutions instituted against
Socialists and others, not by the free-will of the
Ministers, but because there are various respect-
able classes, clergymen and others, who insist on
the honour of GOD being vindicated by criminal
prosecutions. In copying the following remarks,
therefore, from the Leeds Times, we must say
that the system of which it so justly complains
our manners and opinions, and could
springs from
not exist, were it not in accordance with them.
There must be ductile clay, as well as the potter's
hand and wheel to mould it ; and, in like manner,
the ductile masses must be willing and ready to take
the forms into which legislation presses them, to
become what they are. Our Contemporary says—
" The character of a people is operated upon, in no
small degree, by its laws and its government ; and it ought,