The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

tit 4
( 11,

LONDON:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1841.

On Saturday we stigmatised the policy of the
Tories breaking up the Ministry in June, be-
cause they would on no account permit the
Corn-laws to be touched and recommending in
August that very change, as an untrue, unfaithful,
insincere, and scoundrel policy. It may sound
harsh to some delicate and politely attuned ears
to use such language, but politics are a most se-
rious and important branch of morals, and no
more proper to be spoken slightingly of than
murder and parricide.
The line taken in June by the whole of the
Tories, from Sir R. PEEL downwards, was to op-
pose every kind of commercial relief and every
abatement of monopoly, and even Whig land-
lords voted against the Ministers on the sugar
question, because that was the precursor of Corn-
law repeal. On the principle then announced
the whole of the county elections were decided,
and to maintain it a majority of the House of Com-
mons was collected. Its ascendancy has already
banished hope from the minds of commercial
men and driven many to bankruptcy. It has
convinced the bulk of the working classes that
they can expect nothing whatever from the Le-
gislature, and they look with exultation rather
than otherwise at the Tory success as the herald
of confusion. Their convictions that the Consti-
tution never can work well are confirmed, and
they will rejoice at its overthrow. The Tory suc-
cess has also engendered great and just discon-
tent in Ireland. The cries for repeal have be-
come more urgent, and threats are now there the
staple of public harangues. The Tory success, by
nourishing arrogance in one party and dread in
another, kindling alarm and encouraging ha-
tred, has already done no inconsiderable mischief:
There can be no doubt that it was promoted
by the fierce denunciations of the Tory press,
but almost before the success has been achieved,
before the mischief is completed, a conviction of
error has taken the place of bold confidence, and
those who in June denounced every abatement
of monopoly have become in August converts to
the necessity of modifying or abolishing the
Corn-laws. The Tory success was also in some
measure due to the fierce denunciations poured
out against the Irish Catholics, as the allies of
the Whigs. Religious hatred was used to
strengthen political_ animosity, and stimulate
Tory exertion. Lord MORPETH was especially
rejected by the West Riding of Yorkshire, be-
cause he was the friend of Catholic Ireland, and
the ally of Mr. O'CONNELL. The journals and
the party that in June nourished these senti-
ments seem to repent of them in August, and
now essay in vain to heal the deep wounds they
have inflicted. These circumstances are so fu

of evil, nourishing seeds of frightful convulsion,
which are wide-sown in the land, that we can-
not treat them lightly or speak of the policy from
which they flow, however cunningly contrived,
in any other language than that of the severest
reprobation.
The Times yesterday gave us another speci-
men of the same conduct, and the Times is only
worthy of notice as the organ of the Tories.
After abusing the Catholic priests and the
Catholic population of Ireland for many months,
proposing at one time to reconquer the country,
at another calling the priests " surpliced ruffians,"
so that the Times has been singled out by the
Catholics of Ireland, as affording, by its large
circulation, an index to the hatred with which

the English regard the Irish Catholics,—the
Times yesterday uttered the following hearty
approval of the policy adopted by its opponents,
and the following severe condemnation of its own
conduct. Speaking of the Protestant Association,
the intemperate language of which has been re-

peatedly condemned in The Sun, the Times said--
When we find a professedly religious society speak-
ing of the collective clergy of that communion in the
sister island, as "not more honest than those of Maho-
met, not more pure than those of Paganism, not less in-
human than those of Juggernaut," we really cannot
sympathise with so wholesale and monstrous an accusa-
tion. It is too like the assertion made last year, at a
meeting of this same Society, that " Popery is the re-
ligion of the Devil." Words such as these are foolish,
intemperate, and profane ; they excite noticing but dis-
gust in the minds of practical and moderate men ; their
inevitable effect is to recoil upon those who use them.

To the use of such language it justly ascribes
much of the irritation which has been kept up
in Ireland; but till the elections were gained and
the temporary purposes of party Were served, the
Times, far from condemning such language, con-
tinually used it. While the stirring up of strife
and the encouragement of intolerance could se-

cure avote, the Times was the most diligent hand
at the cauldron. Now it puts out the fire in
order to smooth Sir R. PEEL'S difficulties with
Ireland. It takes the Protestant Association to
task for borrowing its facts, quoting its language,
and following its example.
Till the Whigs are fairly defeated, their policy,

We direct public attention to the letter of a
" Clergyman of the Church of England" to Sir
JAMES GRAHAM, and we are happy to say, for
the reputation of the Church, that he is not the
only one who has taken the side of justice and
the poor. It is not yet wholly too late for the
body of the clergy to redeem themselves in the
public estimation, and restore the Church to some
share of the confidence and affections of
the people; but they have 'no time to lose,
and must at once become, like the Reverend
BAPTIST NOEL, Corn-law repealers. JOHN
BULL was never yet starved into affection, and
the clergy never followed a more short-sighted
policy, than when they generally took the part
of the bread taxers. Unfortunately for them,
their pecuniary interest lies on the same side,
and the people look on them as having trampled
under foot the principles both of morality and
religion, to gain the most sordid ends. If they
do not retrieve their character by some general
demonstration against the dishonest regulation, by

which they are supposed to profit, no claims to
holiness will ever suffice to replace them in the
affections and confidence of the people.

A Liverpool Journal, an advocate of the Corn-
law and the aristocracy, tells us, by way of ac-
counting for the difficulties in which our com-
merce is involved, that
We produce the cheapest—Z. e., the lowest priced—.
goods of any manufacturing nation 4 Our goods are no-
toriously the rubbish of half the markets of the world,
and the least in estimation. It is no longer a recom-
mendation for any article to be of British manufacture ;
but, on the contrary, the term stamps it to be of doubtful
and spurious quality. We have become quack imitators
of other men's waxes, and pirates of other men's pat-
terns and fabrics. We steal even their labels and adopt
their names ; and, as a natural result, when we do pro-
duce and offer for sale an article of our own, it is viewed
with suspicion, and purchased only at a depreciated
price. From the consequences of such a system of car-
rying on our operations in foreign markets it is that we
are now suffering. To this cause at least is to be attri-
buted a great portion of our distress. We have for
years been afflicted with a mania for producing at a cheap
rate ; and, as is the case of all venders of cheap wares,
the buyers have become tired of exchanging their
money for trash."

We are much afraid that there is a good deal
of truth in this, and that our merchants and
manufacturersj—_driven by the difficulty of
making sales from high prices, are willing
to imitate the aristocracy and the priesthood,

who are notorious for taking that which does not
honestly belong to them—have been endeavour..
ing to keep their heads above water -by the arts
described by the Liverpool Standard. Suppos-
ing the observation to be correct, it is calculated
to excite no inconsiderable alarm. That Eng-
land cannot hold her high place amongst na-

tions, nor provide her present vast revenue
without extensive trade, is quite certain; but if
that extensive trade, or much of it,,be conducted
on the pi inciple above stated, it must soon come
to an end. Honest rivals will beat us out of the
field ; and, as the demand for our manufactures
decreases, our mills will stand idle, the popula-
tion will be unemployed, and the consequences
of that are enough to fill the stoutest heart with

fear and dread. We at least read the paragraph
of the Liverpool paper with apprehension, as an
additional proof to the many which crowd upon
us, that our national prosperity has reached its
height, unless the laws be altered, and an ex-
ample of honesty and justice be set by those who
make them.

The French Journals of Friday and Saturday
have all reached us. Their leading columns are
for the most part occupied with the affair of Tou-
louse. upon which however, they add nothing new,
either in the shape of fact or argument. The
following extracts from them include all the
news they contain of any importance :-
- The King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess of
Nemours, Madame Adelaide, and the Princess Clemen-
tine, the Count de Paris, and the young Duke of Wur-
temberg, accompanied by the Count de Montalivet,
Generals Athalin, Heymes, and de Rumigny, Colonel
Dumas, Baron Fain, Lieutenant the Count de Grave
of the Navy, and Captain de Sailly of the Foot
Chasseurs, a suite of orderly officers, ladies of
honour, and other attendants, arrived at Eu at
half-past ten on Thursday morning. Their Majesties
and
met at the entrance of the town by the Prefect
prefeAelitliotfarCommandant of the department, the Sub-
whole
Dieppe, and the Mayor and authorities of
Eu, and were greeted
population.byaccl Immediatelyamtatio
nsof.elc
on ome
from nearly the
his
arrival, the Rinjudicial authorities,g
and'
all the civil and military and
Guards. i:las, and the officers of the National
Guards, four compje then reviewed the National
of the 55th Regiment of the
Line, and a squadron of
of the chateau. no! the 4th Lancers, in the court
of the Marine at Afterwards,Havre, who
tne Commissary-General
re-
ceive the King's orders r was in attendance to re-
vice, presented to his Majesty
to the Marine Ser-
gteam-vessel Grondeur ande the brigs Marie Arnelie,
- sty the Captain of the
and Leerier, and other officer
s. In the afternoon,
the King, accompanied by the Count
Generals Athilin and Heymes, de Montalivet,
trator of the Domaine Prive, and Messrs.G;rente, Adminis-
Leg] and, an 1 Cailleux,: went to visit Fontaine,
Mr. Packks a, which have been considerablye mills of
enlarged
since last y •ar, and now comprise two manufactories of
sea-b.:cults, one for lamp-oil, and a saw-min. At 44
o'clo( k his Afajesty returned to the chateau. the
evening the Prefect, Generals Maisonfort, Gerard, anl
Feisthamel, the Sub-Prefect of Dieppe, the Mayor of'
Eu, the President of the Tribunal de Commerce, and
other functionaries, the Commandants of the Gendar-
merie of the Seine Inferieure and Somme, the Colonel of
the 55th of the Line, the Captain commanding the
squadron of the 4th Lancers, and the Commandants of
the National Guards of Eu and Treport, had the honour
of dining with their Majesties. The Duke and Duchess
of Orleans, accompanied by General Marbot and a lady
of honour, arrived at half-past eight in the evening.
A letter from Orleans, in the Messayer, states
that Serein, the man charged with having carried off two
children, has confessed, dreading discovery, he had
strangled them, and put them into a cask, which he car-
ried in his cart to Vouzon, where he concealed them in
sonic undcrwood. The account adds, that a gendarme,
who had been sent to the spot indicated by the murderer,
had discovered the bodies, but the thigh of one of them
had been devoured by wolves. They had been stabbed
and mutilated in several places. The wife of Serein has
been arrested on suspicion of having known of the crime
of her husband.

Extract of a letter from Aleppo, June 21st, given
by the Sentinelle of Toulon :—" The two English steam-
boats for navigating the Euphrates arrived a fortnight
ago at Boles, the point nearest to Aleppo for the princi-
pal establishment. There is every reason to believe that
an understanding has been or will be come to with the
Arabs, but without which the proposed communication
cannot take place. The passage from Bassora to Boles

and the character and conduct of that part of the
population who supported them, were incessantly
condemned ; but now that their opponents have
a great chance of acceding .to office, their
policy is praised and adopted, and their sup-
porters are not to be vituperated by the Protest-
ant Association. Such changes can only make
the PEEL party thoroughly contemptible. They
must be regarded as dishonest politicians, and
the sincere men who supported them, from a
belief in their sincerity, must be ashamed of
their company. The Protestant Association was
one of their pillars. The bigotry which that
Society has nourished was one of the elements
of Tory success; but now that the Tories have
scaled office, as they suppose, the ladder is to be
kicked down as a worthless instrument. The
Tories, in fact, find it is impossible to carry out
the policy they have long been advocating with
such mischievous effects, and they are now
jostling against each other, in their hurry to
leave it. The country will, however, yet call
them to a severe account, and brand them as
wilful and designing political knaves.
The writer, who abuses his imitators to vaunt
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S moderation, proves at the
same time that Sir ROBERT PEEL can govern
neither Ireland nor England. Sir ROBERT iS
to vindicate the supremacy of the law. If that
remark be not that mere common-place stuffing
with which writers and speakers fill out their thin
mannikin of sense to some required fullness, it

shows that Sir IL PEEL cannot be successful.
The Irish, like the English, with respect to
trade, complain of the laws, not of their supre-
macy not being vindicated. The laws of Ireland
have always been made by a small and narrow
oligarchy for the purposes of preserving their
own tyranny. To vindicate the supremacy of the
laws in Ireland is to ensure Orange domination,
and maintain the hated Church Establishment.
In Ireland, as in England, the law is the source
of the mischief ; and to take office with a deter-
mination to vindicate its supremacy, and pre-
serve it unaltered, is to provoke and justify re-
bellion. It seems now desirable to enforce on
politicians, and particularly on the Tories, the
maxim that unjust laws ought not to be obeyed,
and the only way to vindicate is to abolish them.

may be made in fourteen days, the distance being about
twelve hundred English miles. It is too late for com-
mencing this year, as the waters of the river have been
lowering ever since May the sth ; the current, however,
remaining so strong that boats are obliged to keep near
the shores."

The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort hsts the fol-
lowing from Carisruhe, 31st ult.:—" This afternoon the
Second Chamber of the States, which is to be pro-
rogued till November, had a farewell dinner, at which
several liberal toasts were. proposed. The Vice-Presi-
dent, M. Bekk, in proposing the health of the Grand
Duke, said—' The Grand Duke, who as a man possesses
the greatest qualities, is as a Sovereign the object of the
veneration of all of us, notwithstanding our differences
with his Ministers. Let us not forget that the Duke is
placed in too elevated a sphere to receive the slightest
attack, and let our devotedness to him be the greater
from the hope that his intervention will put an end to
all unhappy dissensions."
The New Gazette of Wurzburg has the following
from Berlin, July 30 On the morning of the 28th,
some workmen, in the musket manufactory at Potsdam,
excited by some French workmen, made an attempt at
revolt, which the police and the gendarmerie were un-
able to repress, and which was only put down by the
presence of troops. In this manufactory there are 700
persons employed, who would not submit to a customary
diminution of wages, and even demanded an increase.
The ringleaders were arrested, and tranquillity was re-
stored. The improper conduct of some young men of
the upper classes at a concert having reached the know-
ledge of the King, through the journals, he has ordered
the Minister of the Interior to proceed to an investiga-
tion, and to report the result. More than 50 witnesses
have already_ been examined."
The Thlvetie states that the storm of the 18th ult.,
which was felt severely in Switzerland, was followed by
an inundation in the Valais, which produced almost as
calamitous results as the inundations of 1834 and 1839.
On the 19th, the torrents from the mountains rushed
down with such force, that the bed of the Rhone in a
few minutes reached nearly the same height as in 1834,
and_they brought down with them fragments of build-
ings destroyed in their course. Several mills and houses
were swept away by the Rhone, and the water was be-
tween five and six feet deep on the road from Tourte-
magne to Louesch. A post-chaise was there carried
away by the current, and the postillion with great diffi-
culty escaped with the horses.
A letter of the 28th ult. from Naples, in the Sema-
phore, says :—" The King on the 26th held a council of
Ministers, which prolonged its sittings for five hours.
His Majesty, it appears, will not go into Sicily until the
designs and plans for the alterations to be made in the
Lazaretto at Messina are determined upon. The revenues
of the city of Naples are so ample that hitherto it has
never had occasion to raise the smallest loan ; but it is
so anxious to complete some important works that it has
decided upon borrowing 500,000 ducats, rather more
than 2,000,000 francs. Messrs. de Rothschild have of-
fered to make the advance at 51 per cent., but it is said
the city will give no more than 5, nor will allow any
commission. The heat has for several days been exces
sive, but is so sensibly diminished as to become sup
portable."

The followine, letter is published by the Legitimist
papers, as having been addressed to M. Berryer by the
Duke de Bordeaux :—" I have just learnt, Sir, the loss
you have sustained by the death of your worthy father,
and I have wished to express to you, with my own hand,
the share I take in your just grief. I seize this opportu-
nity of informing you with how much attention and in-
terest I have followed the important discussions in which
you have so frequently and so effectually spoken. Pro-
vidence has willed, and for this I offer up my thanks,
that the most eloquent voice of our times should be con-
secrated to the defence of those principles, which so long
insured the happiness and glory of our country. Con
tinue, Sir, thus to serve France, by enlightening her
upon her true interests, and believe that you will thereby
acquire fresh claims to my esteem and affection, of
which I take pleasure in hereby renewing to you the
very sincere assurance.
" Kirchberg, July 10. " HENRL"
The Echo de la Nievre gives the following affecting
instance of the force of conjugal affection in an industri-
ous couple at Nevers. A journeyman cabinet-maker,
named" Paris, and his wife, being both attacked with
violent illness, were removed to the hospital, where the
wife soon recovered ; but the husband remaining ill, she
refused to leave him, and was constantly at his bedside.
She was at length prevailed on to leave him for a short
time, but she died soon after being removed to another
room from excess of grief, and at the same moment the
husband expired in the arms of one of the sisters of
charity.

A miser, who possessed a fortune of more than a
thousand francs, but who did not expend daily more than
six creutzers a•day for the milk and bread which formed
his only food, lately committed suicide at Neufchatel, in
Switzerland, by shooting himself with a pistol, which he
had purchased the day before, after bargaining for a long
time in order to obtain a diminution of price on the
weapon.

-1 A man with the appropriate name of Paternelle, as
yet only 33 years of age, of the commune of Saint Martin
in the Nord, lately entered for the fifth time into the
holy state of matrimony, after a fourth widowhood of
only 29 days, upon which occasion his neighbours gave
him a spirit-stirring charivari. He Was first married
in 1830, next in 1835, thirdly in 1836, and fourthly
in 1839.

M. de Lamartine has returned to Macon from a
tour in Switzerland.
The Ministerial evening journal says—" Toulouse
has during several days been making marked progress in
its return to order. Accordinc, to despatches received
to-day, the disarmament of the national guard is being
effected without the least difficulty. Yesterday, in the
afternoon, the persons employed at the Prefecture were
scarcely sufficient to receive the arms brought in by the
National Guards."
The Moniteur Parisien states that the number of
persons arrested at Toulouse is considerable. Menaces
of death, it adds, have been addressed to the new Mayor
and his colleagues, and it was this that caused M. Lari-
gandere to give in his resignation.
The Etna steamer left Marseilles on the 3d, the
Meteor and Crocodile on the sth, all bound for Algiers.
Several emigrant Spanish priests have arrived at
Paris. Immediately after their arrival they repaired to
the Prefecture.
-- The Acheron steamer which returned to port on the
31st of July, had seen the squadron off the Balcarie
islands.

Seray's division was still at Tunis, and was said to
have many sick.—Le Commerce.
Letters from Toulon of the 2d inst., on the autho-
rity of letters from Algiers of the 28th of July, represent
the situation of General Lamoriciere at Mostaganem as
difficult. Abd-el-Kader, they say, has resumed
offensive operations, and has a sufficient force
in the field to render the return from Mostaganem
to Oran by land dangerous. The Euphrate steamer
had left Toulon on the Ist on a secret mission, in con-
sequence of an order received by telegraph, and the
Cameleon was preparing to follow. It was thought at
Toulon, that they might be going to take in troops at
Port Vendre to convey them to Mostaganem, and that
they would be assisted in this service by the vessels of
Admiral Hugon's division to which they would give
notice as they passed.