The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-04 00:00:00

S FORIARY aF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

A Toulouse correspondent of the Commerce states
that the inhabitants of that city are resolved to offer a
determined passive resistance to the taking of the census.
The agents of the Government will be obliged to break
open all the doors before they can make the returns. A
resistance of this sort is a thousand times more to be
dreaded than a hostile revolutionary outburst. Passive
resistance paralyses all the powers of any Government
against which it is opposed.

On the 26th ult. M. Arguelles took the oaths as
guardian of Queen Isabella IL, in the saloon of the Se-
nate at Madrid. All the great officers of State were pre-
sent, and the ceremony was very imposing. The protest
of the ex-Regent was officially delivered to Espartero on
the 25th. No notice was taken of it.
Nine Spanish ecclesiastics entered France on the
25th ult., preferring voluntary exile.to an obedience to
the Regent's injunction respecting the Pope's allocution.
Will Louis Philippe discover in this expatriation of the
clergy another attack on crowned heads ?

Her Most Faithful Majesty • Queen Donna
Maria is trying her hand at match-making. She,
too, is among the candidates for the honour of
giving a husband to her Royal Sister of Spain. Her
Majesty's protege is her brother-in-law, a good
Catholic, and quite an enthusiastic admirer of ma-
trimonially-disposed virgin Sovereigns. Queen Donna
Maria's experience of the mental virtues of the illus-
trious house of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, imparts much
weight to her Majesty's opinions upon an affair of such
exceeding delicacy.
Royalty continues to have its inconveniences in
France. The National states, that " since his Majesty
Louis Philippe fixed his residence at St. Cloud, a great
display of military force was observed there. Cannon
was placed in convenient positions, and the numerous
regiments in garrison at Versailles, Sevres, St. Germain,
Rueil, Nanterre, and Courbevoie were on the qui vice.
The brigade of safety,' composed of select policemen,
was established and reinforced. • Horse and foot patrols
were constantly on duty, and the bridge was occupied by
a numerous guard, which extends to the Paris road."

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Chronicle has another article on Sir Robert Peel's
late Tamworth speech :—" We gave him credit," says
our Contemporary, " for the external semblance of a
better morality than it now appears he put on for the
occasion. The incautious protest of the Post strips off
this rag of decency. Its rash denial brings out into
bold relief the fact that Sir Robert Peel is a states-
man who withholds what he knows, or professes to
know, will benefit the nation, avert public calamity,
and ensure public prosperity, until he first grasps the
fee' of office." We do not believe that it is the " fee
of office" which causes the Right Hon. Baronet's present
reserve ; but that he withholds his remedy, simply and
solely because he is unprovided with one. Instead of
taking time by the forelock, his policy will be one of
shifting expediency—to do no more than he can help—
to have no settled principle of action—but to trust to
chance for escape from perplexity.
The Herald reads a long lecture on propriety•to the
expected Tory Government, exhorting it never to lose
sight of " the straightforward, genuine earnestness of the
British character." From the exceeding earnestness
with which our Contemporary enforces this exhortation,
it is pretty evident that he is somewhat distrustful of
Tory policy, and thinks that the party stand greatly in
need of his refresher.
The Times gives some amusing advice to the British
Association—in default of a more important subject for
discussion—recommending it, inter alia, "to elect an
agreeable philosopher, President—a man of rank, Vice,
to fix the next meeting at Cheltenham, and have plenty
of experiments and eloquence," in which case, we are
assured, " it will be likely to prove one of the most for-
midable antagonists that horse-racing has encountered in
our days."
The Advertiser justly remarks, " We deem the ques-
tion of the Corn-laws one in which the ministers
of the Gospel, whether belonging to the Establish-
ment, or ranging themselves under the banners of
Dissent, may not only with propriety take a part, but
in which they ought to take a part. They are bound to do
this by every consideration of humanity and religion.
Were the clergy to follow this advice, they would really,
instead of nominally, be showing themselves Ministers
of the Gospel. But this is almost too much to expect
from well• endowed Pluralists, who have an interest in
maintaining Tory abuses.

The Post contains an article whose object is an ex-
ceedingly novel and edifying one—namely, to prove that
the present Tory leaders in Ireland are " men of un-
usual moderation and sobriety of judgment." If so,
they must be strangely altered from what they were
only six months since.

The Dublin Evening Mail is truly of opinion that
Mr. O'Connell is the sole cause of the disturbed and
criminal state of Ireland. Owing to his machinations
the landlords consolidate their estates, and turn wretches
out to starve or murder. He alone has kept Ireland
from reaping the harvest of peace, union, industry, and
prosperity ; which language, translated into an idiom
which we understand, means that Mr. O'Connell is the
sole cause why the landlords of Ireland have been
checked in the most villainous career that ever a well-
fed set of gentlemen ever pursued towards their half-
starved and over-worked brethren.
The Tyne Mercury says, " Sir Robert Peel admits
that the Queen has the power of choosing her own Mi-
nisters, at the very moment that he is urging in every
possible manner the necessity of the House of Com-

mons acting as the great constitutional power. He plays
into the hand of the Queen, but he will not relinquish
the trump cards of the Commons. He is like the man with
the enormous squint, who was said, in vulgar parlance, to
look two ways for Sunday. He is like the inconsistent boat-
man who looked one way and rowed the other. He
does, indeed, act, or rather say, by and bye, in the same
speech with considerable candour, more than we could
have expected of him, for men's real motives, however
evil and black, are sometimes most beautifully wrapt
the most rough and ugly and unsightly determinations,
are not uncommonly very admirably folded in the finest
muslin—as some old phrase about the Archipelago has
it, it's very easy to put a pirate's head in a golden
cloth.' But not so Sir Robert. He is more candid than
usual. He says, my advice for the present is, dismiss
those who are at present in office.' This is all he wants.''
The Brighton Guardian says :—" The nation consi-
dered as a patient has been placed as much in Sir R.
Peel's hands as a Member of Parliament as in those of
the Ministers. Her disorders are legislative, not admi-

nistrative ; they lie in the digestive organs, in the vital
functions, not in the nerves of the will or the organs
of locomotion. So far from not being admitted
to feel the national pulse, as a legislator he has his
hand continually upon it, and as a legislator he con-
tinually prescribes for the patient. The Corn-law is one
of his pills, the discriminating duty on sugar is another,
the timber duties are a third, Church-rates a fourth,
Ecclesiastical Courts a fifth, a great limitation to the
franchise is a sixth, with a great multitude of powders and
draughts, steel pills, and, great depletion by taxation. It
is quite false, therefore, to say • that he is .n 7t admitted
to the patient ; he is a regular attendant, and continu-
ally forces, withever injurious effects, the most disgusting
nostrums down her throat. England is already dying
of Dr. Peel's attendance and Peel drugs ; and there is no
hope of a cure but by throwing the physic and the doc-
tor out of the window."

moN Ey—TRADE—CC cZ.
On Monday last another large failure took place in
Manchester, and more hands have been thrown out of
work. On Saturday night the number of individuals
then out of work, from the stoppage of different mills,
amounted to no fewer than 4,000.

.A.GYLICULTITRAL.
We learn from several Irish journals that the pros-
pects of the harvest are anything but encouraging in the
great corn counties of Meath and Lowth.

We learn from the Tyne Mercury that the late
rains have had a most beneficial effect on the potatoe and
turnip crops, which are looking extremely well, and that
the wheat is also looking very healthy, and is beginning
to change its colour ; but is rather deficient, as well as
oats, in quantity.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the Ipswich Assizes a baker of the name of
Pettitt appeared, for having lighted up his stall on the

FOREIGN.
Louis Philippe is reported to have addressed a let-
ter to Espartero, in which his Majesty states that he
regards the vote of the Cortes, declaring the office of
guardian of the young Queen vacant, and appointing
M. Arguelles to fill it, an attack on crowned heads. Sup-
posing this to be the case, which we willingly admit, as
all the acts of a free people attack some prerogative or
other claimed by crowned heads, a regard for public
decency should have withheld the Citizen King from
being the first to complain. Was the revolution of
July no attack on crowned heads ? Was Louis
Philippe guilty of no attack on crowned beads, when he
encircled his brows with a diadem, which he had solemnly
sworn to preserve inviolate upon the head of the exiled
Charles the Tenth ? Louis Philippe is so very young a
member of the family of Kings, that any expression of
his resentment at attacks upon their prerogative sounds
in the public ear like an impertinence.

' race-course at Eye, astonishing the good people of the
place, with four carriage-lamp candles. Their unwonted
brilliancy attracted the policeman, who remarked he had
got some "spicy" ,candles, and the prisoner "fancied
he had." The police Man knowing that nobody but
" the general shop in Eye" furnished such can-
dles, repaired thither, and learnt that they had of
late been robbed. All other candles of that kind there-
after, were laid on the counter, and a black pin stuck in
the bottom of a dozen. These also disappeared. The
police adjourned to where Pettitt " burnt," who denied
all knowledge of the candles, except that he had such,
" but they,vvere his own ;" when to his horror, the police-
man told him they had each a black pin stuck into the
bottom, which he showed to the affrighted eyes of the
baker. He was tried, and sentenced to imprisonment
for two years.

The trial of the Sandyses, charged with poisoning
their children for the alleged diabolical purpose of ob-
taining the burial fees from a Siockport funeral society,
is now proceeding at Chester, before Mr. Justice Erskine.
The trial has already taken up two days, and the investi-
gation of witnesses has, so far, been thorough and minute.

ELECTZONEEP.27,7G.
Mr. Maule, the Solicitor to the Treasury, was seen
in Chester yesterday, and it is presumed he was there on
business connected with a number of indictments which
are to be tried to-day for outrages committed at the
late electioneering contest for South Cheshire.

A Reform Banquet was held at Canterbury on Tues-
day last, to entertain the late Reform candidate, Thomas
Twisden Hodges, Esq. The company numbered 400.