The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-25 00:00:00

Mr. SPOONEIi considered this as: another inroad on
the constitution o: this country.

Mr. J. O'CoNNELL considered it 'a stigma upon the
character of the How to that they shc,uld consume four or
five hours in debating whether or no these laws, which
were admitted to be in 4 Iperative, should be repealed.
Mr. NEWDEGATE conisidered this as a measure which
would remove all the b iilwarlo. of the constitution, and
erect nothing in their place.

Lord G. BZNTINCIE supported the second reading of
the Bill.

Sir R. PEEL supported t, he second reading of the Bill,
reserving to himself the rigl 11t to oppose certain portions
of it at a future stage.

Mr. Liw and Mr. Gout. BURN opposed the second
reading, which was sapportea by Lord ARUNDEL; after
which, Mr. WATSON replied, And the House divided,
when there appeared,-

For the second reading
Against it ..
Majority for the second reading —3
The Bill Was then read a second time, and the House
adjourned.

THE GOVERNMENT LOAN FOR
EIGHT MILLIONS.

This morning a meeting of the capitalists of London
took place at the Treasury, to bid for the intended
loan of 8,000,0001. for the relief of the destitute of
Ireland. The CHARCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER took
the chair. There were present :—Baron Rothschild
and his brother, Mr. Bates, of the firm of Baring
Brothers, Sir I. L.Goldbmid ; Messrs. W. B. Williams,
Lawrence, T. Baring, Wills, Thomson A. Hankey,
F. Ricardo, H. St. J. Mildmay, J. G. Scott, James
Capel, George Barnard, and many other wealthy
capitalists.

The CnartcgrAmit of the EXCHEQUER stated the
terms upon which the contract for eight millions
was to be bid for. He said he must have the
money in whole before the 15th of October
next. He therefore proposed to take tenders on
Monday next for the loan, in one lot. The Govern-
ment desired to make the loan in Consols, and the
biddings would be in a money payment, 1001. Con-
sols (at a minimum price to be fixed by the
Government, a sealed paper with respect to
which would be placed upon the table) at
a price above the quotation in the sealed paper.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would not
upon any account allow of discount. Many of the
moneyed men who were present urged a more liberal
proposition on the part of the Government, but he re-
resolved to adhere to his proposition. The payments
to this loan are to be by monthly instalments, and
if regularly paid up to July, to hear interest from
January last.

A deficiency of intelligence in the dispatches from
our Oriental possessions is always to us matter of
earnest gratulation. Like many other ancient
apophthegms, that which asserts "no news" to be
synonymous with "good news," is peculiarly correct
in reference to India. Instead of containing deplor-
able narratives of slaughter and duplicity, the papers
received in anticipation of the Overland Mail are cha-
racterised by an agreeable and consolatory dearth of
information. Little more than the ceremonious rati-
fication of our treaty with the Seikhs has diversified
the monotony of Asiatic affairs, that ratification
having been formally completed by the Governor-
General and DHULEEP SINGH, on the festival
of Christmas. Although we can scarcely count
upon the permanency of any quietude among the
fickle habitants of those territories, there is some pro-
bability that the arrangement just completed between
the British Government and the° Durbar of Lahore,
will be of much longer continuance• than any which
has been hitherto effected in that quarter. The so-
journ of our regiments in the subjugated districts
must for a considerable time be a .sufficient guarantee
of the stability of the recent pacification ; and the
presence of our representative in the capital will in-
sure the prevention of any hostile conspiracy among
the political leaders of the Seikhs. Beyond what has
already been accomplished for the preservati,n of
tranquillity since the banishment of the QUEEN'S
paramour, it is ascertained that four Seikh corps have
been enrolled, under the direction of Captain
LAWRENCE, as a frontier brigade at Peshawur.
Every measure, indeed, is being adopted by the
Executive for the carrying out of the principle of the
stipulations, and we would fain anticipate the most
beneficent con.seret!nLrom...tlis ac.tLityies but that.
efforts
_‘
are necessarily being effected irresistibly impress the
mind with a sense of uncertainty.
Among the miscellaneous intelligence obtained
from India we regret to perceive a repetition of those
wanton paroxysms of cruelty which have already
attached so much odium to the name of AKBAR
KHAN. It would seem that that redoubtable
chieftain has been wreaking his vengeance upon the
unoffending inhabitants of a village situated near
simply for the gratification of a pique
the disinclination of his father,
tanostan, to reject the
Chn hes
pa
ir
re
ekda r ,
advances made by the Vakeel who had
venerableby Dowr m
been deputed to Caubul by the British Government.
The recurrence of such infamous depravities, the
depravities of a licentious and ignorant despot, muse
only tend to facilitate the progress of European
civilization onwards arid onwards from the southern-
most extremities of Hindostan to the wilds of Tartary
and the frontiers of China. Acting upon the fervid
imaginations of the Oriental races, the benignity and
suavity of the principles allied to the regenerating
influences of Christendom must inevitably in
the end excite an admiration and an affec
tion which will merge into a co-operative
obedience. Nor can the interference of our
thel devotion, abate the love to us of
their theirh
more
deoatrous Khonds of Goomsoor attest the ardour
o
emissaries with the bloody immolation! of living men,
gentle and more enlightened brethren.
While it is incumbent upon us, as the vindicators of
moral and physical freedom, to respect the religious
prejudices and superstitions of all tribes and people in-
discriminately, it idolatrous
ciiscriminately, it is likewise a duty devolved upon us,
by our professed liberality, to prevent those accursed
and abhorrent acts of barbarity which are
too frequently the accompaniments of Ori-
ental sacrifice. Wherever Budhaism is developed
only in innocent eccentricities, or for the actual
inculcation of something approximating to morality,
Budhaism should be tolerated by the followers of the
Nazarene. Such toleration would only be in accord-
ance with the holiest dogmas of his sublime faith. In
the prevention, however, of the atrocities arising
from the ignorance of a sanguinary creed, that
tolerance would be confirmed and enforced. Under
the 2Egis of Christianity the victims of the inhu-
manity of the Klionds of Goomsoor should find the
shelter most consonant with its character. It is in
incidental advantages of this description, as well as in

:he amelioration of their social condition by the diff

sion of the light of knowledge, that the primitive

.ribes of India receive ample compensation for whit'

ever territorial or individual rights may have bee

abstracted or diminished. The sword of authority
thereby tempered with a salutary beneficence, and
the harshness of our insular domination assuaged by
the leniency of our religious disposition.

There are few subjects to which the public attention
has been more pointedly directed of late years than
that of the education of the rising generation. The
vast importance of training and cultivating the
youthful mind, so as to prepare it to bring forth
timely fruit, to qualify those destined to fill the va-
rious situations in life duly to perform the duties
incidental to their several stations, is now fully known
and appreciated. Why, however, should the neces-
sary improvements be restricted to the seminaries for
the middle:, or lower classes ? Why should the
Universities, where the future occupants of the
senate, the bar, and the pulpit receive their first im-
pressions and have their intellects matured and fitted
for the grave functions that will hereafter be imposed
upon them, be exempted?
Many, and, we fear, too well-founded complaints,
have, from time to time, been preferred against the
system in force at our Universities. Few parents can
now commit their children to the care of the colle-
alike
those doubted,
that übted .
venerable
authorities without a feeling of fear and dis-
trust; their faithfulness and power to preserve the
youth placed under their superintendence from error
are
Thissaol wide-spread
something
bn dnu rwg er
so
ngg
the
necessity
apprehensionoi ng o
n
within
evidences
e is g
walls,
of a rigid and searching investigation into the causes
thereof, and of a great and comprehensive reform in
the entire system
of university education. The pub-

lublic

We have already noticed, under another head,
the acquittal of the National on the 20th in-
stant, accused of having published a libel upon the
KING of the FRENCH. The gist of the libel consisted
in attributing personally to his MAJESTY the blame
and the responsibility of the acts of his Government.
The article in question was written in consequence
of the recal of the French Consul from the Mauri-
tius. It contained, incidentally, some severe
reflections upon the p glicy of the Montpen-
sier marriage, and argued indirectly, but iii
an unmistakeable !stunner, that Louis PHILIPPE had
compromised the honour and dignity of France.
Hence, the nature of the libel, and the peculiar con-
juncture of public affairs, imparted a lively interest
to this trial. It was not only that the liberty of the
press was seriously involved in the issue, but the pro-
secution afforded the first seasonable and solemn
opportunity for ascertaining, to some extent, through
the medium of a French jury, the feelings of the
people with reference to the Spanish alliance. We
have of late, more than once, alluded to the absurdity
of regarding the proceedings of the French Legisla-
ture as approaching to anything like an index of the
real sentiments of the nation. Their Chambers, con-
stituted as they are at present, are neither more nor
less than pliable instruments in the hands of the
SOVEREIGN. Of course, in this light, we mereiy treat
of them in a collective sense, not doubting that, in
either branch of the Legislature, there are to be
round members of such honour, intelligence, and
patriotism, as would reflect the greatest credit upon
the councils of any state. But these form the excep-
tions, and not the rule. All that is worthy to con-
stitute an essential representative, is completely
swamped by the influence of the
.7/.ltetn—to use the
guarded language of the National--which affects the
entire Government of France. This system is sum-
med up in a sentence--the power of Parliament is
rendered subservient to the power of the Throne.
Thus, upon every question where the interests of the
nation come in contact with the personal
wishes of Royalty, the people find that
their influence is reduced to a cypher, whilst
that of the Sovereign obtains an uncontrollable
sway. It is the knowledge of these things that leads
every reflective statesman, desirous of acquainting
himself with the real state of public opinion in France
upon any matter of material importance, to regard
with indifference the acts of packed and hired ma-
jorities in the Chambers. But the statesman will
view quite otherwise the solemn deliberations of a
court of justice, where the people, impersonated by a
jury, really have a voice. Therefore it is that
every real lover of liberty will derive intense sa
tisfaction from the finding of the jury, who,
by their verdict, and the promptitude with which
they returned it, administered a marked rebuke to
Louis PHILIPPE. The verdict is the more precious,
on account not only of the ability, powerful reason-
ings, and moving eloquence of M. MARIE (himself
A Deputy) but also of the bold and uncompromising
nature of the defence which lie set up. He adopted
the article of the National in its full length and
breadth. He attempted neither to ex-
tenuate nor explain away any portion of it.
Ile showed himself to be well versed in
the philosophy of constitutional freedom, and evi-
dently felt that he was vindicating one of the most
sacred principles of liberty. The opinions of eminent
public men, dead and living, were felicitously quoted
in support of. his argument; and the counsel for the
• Crown were covered with confusion when M. MARIE
proved that some of the present Ministers, especially
M. GuizoT, had at different times, in the Senate and
elsewhere, used language of precisely the same
import with that of the National; and yet these
very men sanctioned a trial intended to bring
down punishment upon the publisher of consti-
tutional strictures, which they had repeatedly stamped
with their own authority. Moreover, M. MARIE did
not hesitate, and apparently not without effect, to refer
to the staunch resistance which, in different periods of
English history, had been offered by some of our most
distinguished political ancestors to every effort made
by the Crown to crush the liberty and independent
privileges of the subject. M. MARIE reminded M.
Gutzter that the celebrated Earl of CuATuas! refused
to continue Minister, because he would not submit to
hold power without its responsibility, and because he
felt that to permit the irresponsible influence unduly
to predominate would have been to submit
to a
system of personal government certain of de-
generating into baseness and corruption. Lord
CHATHAM, like other great men, sided with the
constitutional privileges of the people, and so held
the authority of the Crown in wholesome check,
; whilst, at the same time, he best served the cause of
monarchy itself. This was hard hitting for M.
GUIZOT ; it also served as an admonition to Louts
PHILIPPE that M. MARIE knew far more profoundly
than the Sovereign himself, what best conduces to
the stability of the throne. If the Ministers of France
would only promptly vacate their offices whenever the
Sovereign seeks to violate the undoubted rights of the
people, kings would soon be brought to a sense of their
iniquities. This is the only efficacious mode to be pur-
sued for thwarting inordinate ambition and selfish
ends. Monarchs might find servants more obsequious
to their will, but their possession of power would be
very short-lived. One of two things would happen

as the necessary result of good example—either that
the people would insist upon having an improved
Constitution, and infallibly obtain it, or else the So.
vereign would be obliged to abdicate in favour of a
worthier successor.

The Piedmontese Gazette of the 15th contradicts in
the most positive terms an article from Rome, published
in the Herald° of Madrid, stating that the Government
of Sardinia had openly authorised the embarkation from
the porta of Genoa and Cagliari of arms and ammuni •
tion for a Carlist expedition to the Balearic Islands or
Coast of Spin.
A grand banquet was iven QU the pth Februar to

WORSHIP-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
A young female, of lady like manners and dep6rtmeni,
about 28 years of age, applied to Mr. Arnold, the sitting
magistrate, for pecuniary aid from the funds of the poor-
box, under the tollowing circuirstances
The applicant, whose none is Letitia Hannan presented
he, self at this court a few days since, when she stated
that she had been a teacher in some distinguished mid
highly influential families abro.ad, the last of which wtay
that of the late Baron Le Pie, Commandant, de la Place
de Strasburg. The Baron, however, dying, she was induced io
ret urn to England in August last,but herexpectations here were
blighted, an t she was at length compelled to occupy a miserable,
dwelling in Long-alley, Worship-street, and her little stock
of cash being altogether gone, she was reduced to the neces-
sity of parting with even her under garments during the
recent very inclement weather. She thought, however, not-
withstanding this, that she should with a little assistance be
enabled to estabdsh a small school, and thereafter to support
herself creditably. Temporary aid was then afforded her,
and Hayward, a warrant officer of the Court, was directed to
make the necessary inquiries respecting her.
The officer Hayward bad found, in addition to her state-
ment, which was perfectly correct, that she had been known
to be without food or firing during the space of twelve and
even twenty hours.
Some of her papers were produced, and several of them
contained certiticates of her excellent character from persons
of distinction, residing at Paris and other parts of the Con-
tinent. Her passport from Paris, dated the 29th of August
last, was also produced
The applicant, who stated that she had removed to No. 17,
Union-street, Bishopsgste, was then desired to retire; and
Hayward was directed to inquire what was actually necessary
for her to commence opening a school on a small scale.
The applicant, with tears of gratitude, then left the office

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)
Joseph IVaiArd, a grazier and cattle dealer, residing near
Bath, was brought before Mr. Greenwood, for having as-
saulted a female so violently as to render it necessary to re-
move her to the hospital, where she at present remains, and
also with kicking police-constable 31 G iu the groin, and
biting off the top of his little finger.
It appeared from the evidence of the constable, that about
half-past one O'clock this morning, hearing a noise in Bri-
tannia-street, he repaired to the spot, when he saw a female
lying on the ground, and the prisoner standing over her, and
beating and kicking her in the meet brutal mariner. When
the prisoner saw him he attempted to make his escape, and
upon the constable seizing him, he got his ringer in his mouth,
and bit a piece of it completely off. Another policeman
coming up he again assaulted them both, and gave police-
constable 31 G a tremendous kick.
A eertificate from the house-surgeon of the Free Hospital
was put is, which stated that the woman was in such a
dangerous state from the injuries she had received that it
would be impossible for her to attend to give evidence for
some time.

Mr. 61tEzNwooD said, he should defer the consideration
of the female's case for the present. For the brutal and
cowardly assault on the policeman he should sentence him to
a month's imprisonment, without the alternative of a rine.
The prisoner was then removed in the van to the House of
Correction.