The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-24 00:00:00

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LONDON:
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1841.

Lo.ok before you leap is a homely proverb,
pregnant with wisdom. Sir ROBERT PEEL, aided
by Lord STANLEY and the majority of the repre-
sentatives, is about to leap into the Govern-
ment—has he looked at the means by which he
is to carry it on? We think not, or he would
foresee that his jump must end in a terrible fall.
It is remarked, however, that every individual
expects to draw the prize in the lottery of
life, as well as in the lottery of Mr. BISH,
and in the lottery of the criminal law, though
there be a hundred or a thousand to one against
him. Probably Sir ROBERT PEEL is no excep-
tion to the rule, and, like the burglar, he trusts to
his luck to escape the fate which, in the majority
of cases, overtakes him who violates the rules
of prudence, or the principles of morality.
Sir ROBERT PEEL is to jump into • office to
maintain and preserve our unrighteous legisla-
tion. He is to govern the people of England
for their benefit, asking obedience on that
ground; and he is to preserve a tax of 3d. per
lb. on their sugar, in order to enrich a few hun- '
dred planters, or maintain in splendour a few
thousand emancipated negroes. He is, at the
same time, professing throughout the same prin-
ciple of governing for the benefit of the people
of England, to tax all the timber they use cent.
per cent., to enrich a few shipowners and Ca.
nadian lumberers. He is also to maintain a tax
on their bread, amounting at this moment to
nearly 40 per cent. on the price of corn, for the
purpose of adding to the wealth of a few thou-
PA PARIS, JS
oo cuci
°nun: occupied
liviihdoeafre
are
defending thou-
sand idle landlords and mischievous parsons. Sir
OWN (?11,11BSPONDENT. )
IY°32‘2°.--..".The. political organs of the French Mi.
ROBERT PEEL, then, is to jump into office to n;stry are busli
functioharies of Y•
gc
hi civil iyl
routed
e military
i lit a
therery
promote the splendour of the few at the expense
Iry 'the stra: htfro gthothroeu
of the many, contrary to the very principle he
from the charges rowfarllll,lamons.ttrations of a few honest men,
professes, of .promoting the happiness of the them some.rliaht abundantly 1; ymtihye Liberal ;all ejcP•tlierni taYA's ,henagdonolyn
many, or the public benefit, and ore adhering to
tinheythaerecali)nt 1
a dilemma,tinallfrrutslof France. At the same time
to which alone, gives him, or any other Minister, have been exceedingly faulty, teisiseytheeaynandmt it thleir conduct to
a title to ask or expect the obedience of the of their dismissal.. A long letter has teoenexphalinh thei cause
pu is et by M.
Mahul, the obnoxious Prefect, in his
people. own defence • but it
only makes him more ridiculous than he was before,'
Sir ROBERT PEEL iS to jump into office, also, while it betray the diabolical doctrines of ph ysieai
force
1
expressly to prevent society from going a-head.
menadop adopted by be
myosthe u
nCourtfit top ahret y,
entrustedit aiso showswit that he was of all
He is to mount on its back as a strong man the responsibility implied by a Prefe2ture.anYmrna,i.ssi'lialn of half
mounts a horse, and rein in the whole popula- understood to have written a letter in no very me , Souls
ure
to General St. Michel, military Commandant -
lation, starving some, and hanging or banishing t.TeroumlLse division, acquainting him with his dismissal-
of the
others—to run just as he bids. He is to make which he certainly-wouldthnote „
phaveedeone hatitlie oot—bacetnininng-
society subservient to Government, and that Go- ~,i strutteddiree
directs
so th t _
thea deeffstintiesyof France from the th'ro'ne of the 't°
Tui-
vernment a Tory Povernment, not Government leries. Public attention is now eirected to the suites of this
subservient to society. Without
knowing,
or affair. andevery bodylis looking out for further mistakes on the
par
t of a most unpopular Administration.
being at all able to conjecture what will be the Yesterday Louis Philippe held a review of the troops of the
condition of the community in the next few I garrisons in the Place du Carrousel. Ho loo!iet1 haggard and
cars-score, and seemed anything but at his ease, even in the
years, and without, therefore, having the most re- j midst of the only portion of the nation on whom he can place
mote conception of what laws will be required, any reli.ncv. The army, howevera,isnr,
of a military otm uchmtioberdeapsendd
he jumps into office to maintain and preserve sassin
springing
I.Tnacrt hinetroe( iisayjuasst 0
faas muchuei) dnuhlieang e
one. An inc4nt con..
both the institutions which have no other va- spiracy was nipped in the bud only a couple. of_ monthsl ago at
due but their antiquity, and those, which beino
of
France.ersilles i soldier . inaniidfiaenr lied trviregsmatelonnt,ed himself on just arrived fromthet ireutsdouhtyh
of yesterday's date, like-the Corn-laws, serve no which the King was expected to arrive one day, and had a
other purpose than to maintain the power of the pistol ready to dileharge at him. He was attendedbysome. of
il?oirs, comrades prepared to aid him, but they were t
d observed;t'aristocracy. Sir ROBERT PEEL is to stage war given to the poace, and the suspec e par parties
against the progress of society, and the odds are dealt with accordingly. The fact of much disaffection prevail-
that society will throw him. ing in the army is notorious.
within the last few
By what force is he induced to make. the `days Amlioausgbeoeinhetrh
eCourt movementstransferring
o f
effectedthe heart of the Regent,
spring, and what meanswill help him
to keep 1
Philip Duke of Orleans, who opened the last centuij in a man-
hi• rer so fatal for Franc?, and the remains of Philip Egalite, who
s seat? First and foremost we place the •
priest- ;closed that century so infamously—from their places of sepulture
hood. They are filled with dreadful alarm at in Paris to the family vaults of the Orleans dynasty at Dreux.
the reforming sheers of 1 The body of the father of Louis Philippe, whose very name
Whiors tvhave is
already docked some of theirt!e i, 9 ho
, superfluities. Their the col of the lamented Princess Mai ie—one of the brightest
consciences tell them that tneir vocation will not jewels that ever belonged to Bourbon blood—is a most unna-
. tura and revolting collocation, Prince Albert's brother is oTpf

Our commercial intelligenCe speaks of bank-
rupts and of the apprehension of bankruptcy.
We regret this; but it is to be expected. The
hope of an alteration in the law has kept many
men struggling on, whom the Tory majority will
drive to despair and insolvency. The same ma-
jority will probably induce our mechanics and
manufacturers to expatriate themselves in greater
numbers and as speedily as possible. The
triumphant yells of the landlords and the parsons
are the knell of Britain's greatness and her peace.
Forward the Tories will not allow her to go, and
backward, therefore, in the struggle—for " life
is a fight" fbr nations as for individuals—go she
must. The painful proofs of the commencement
of the retrograde movement are now exhibited
in bankruptcy, and in the alarm of bankruptcy.

Besides the news from Paris of Thursday's date, which
appeared in our Second Edition of last night, there is
very little intelligence in the French journals of Thurs-
day of any interest to the majority of our readers. The
most disastrous are certainly the rumours generally pre-
valent of the failure of the crops throughout France.
Of the political gossip in the French metropolis, our own
Corrosponde.nt furnishes us with the following sum-
mary :

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