The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-28 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The seizure of the National, for the fifth time, on Fri-
day, occupies the leading columns of the Paris Journals
of Sunday, in conjunction with the two circulars of the
Minister of Justice, which appeared in The Sun of yes-
terday. The National, alluding to the circulars, says :
" The most moderate persons must now be convinced
that Ministers have hurried on to the utmost limits of
violence. They no longer aim at repressing the licence
of the Press—they strike at its very liberty, and, are
striving at the total destruction of those rights obtained
by long and painful efforts, The country will feel that
the prosecutions of the Press aro mere pilot-balloons,
and that the Press once destroyed, the Jury will have a
like fate. Then, when the Press and the Jury are both
down, nothing can arrest the progress of despotism."
The Commerce concludes a violent attack on the Go-
vernment as follows :—" But the destruction of the
freedom of the press is not enough for these imitators
of Prince Polignae. They must crush the manifestations
of public opinion in all its modes of expression. For
this the Minister of Justice aims at annihilating the
comities appointed to receive petitions for electoral
reform. How edifying is och an attempt by a Cabinet
whose most influential member' (M. Guizot) was once the
ardent promoter of electoral agiOtion against the res-
toration, and the indefatigable chief of the society called
' Help thyself, and Heaven will he ;n thee !' If the
Chambers do not show an enlightened tod decided op-
position to this arbitrary interpretation of the laws
against associations, we shall have to lamen,
t over the
loss of the right of collective petition insured xo us by
the Charter of 1830."
Nor is the Temps less decided in its condemnatioo of
these circulars. It observes:—" The order to prosecute
the electoral comities is an attack on our political liberty.
We are told that these comities are only apparently occu-
pied with electoral reform, • that their real object is to
agitate the country, and that, in certain circumstances,
they might serve as rallying points for the factious. But
at this rate, there is not one of our public rights, not one
political guarantee, the exercise of which may be al-
lowed; for any popular institution may be made an ill
use of by faction. Undeniably, then, the Ministei of
Justice takes away from us the right of petition."
The Courrier Francais, the Constitutionnel, and the
Seicle, all condemn the circulars as an attack upon the
charter. The Journal des Dehats and the Presse say
nothing about them, being satisfied with applauding the
seizure of the National for attacking the person of the
King. There appears to be a great deal of very bad
blood in France. We are much mistaken if dangers do
not threaten that country as serious as any experienced
since the promulgation of the fatal Ordinances of 1830.
The King of Prussia is on a visit to his Imperial
brother-in-law the Emperor of Russia at Warsaw. Con-
stitutional Europe will gain nothing by the deliberations
of these two Monarchs.
Prince Albert of Prussia is reported to have been sud-
denly seized with serious illness at his residence in
Silesia. Letters received in Berlin on the 19th command-
ing the prompt attendance of his Royal Highness's phy-
sician represented the Princess, his Consort, as greatly
indiiposed.

PARLIAMEN TART.
In the Lords last night Lord Brougham pointed out
to their. Lordships that the diet and the punishments
were very different in different prisons, for which there
is no warrant, as they ought to be alike. His Lordship's
humane and Statesman-like speech must cause attention
to be directed to the subject, and will tend to make our
prison discipline uniform. The Noble Lord concluded
by a motion for information to be laid before the House
at the beginning of next Session.
Lord Campbell called their Lordships' attention to the
necessity of having legal assistance for the Home-office.
A new writ was issued, in the Commons for Hereford,
in the room of Mr. Hobhouse, _ .

Sir Brook Vere entered into an explanation about the
Saxmundham Agricultural Festival, and denied that her
Majesty's health had been drunk there with fewer ho-
nours than that of the Queen Dowager. Several gentle-
men testified to the same facts, which shows that the
Tories are rather ashamed of their improper partiality.
In a Committee of Ways and Means the Chancellor
of the Exchequer moved a resolution to enable the Go-
verntnent to complete the Ways and Means of the year
by a loan of 2,500,0001, and by funding Exchequer Bills
to the same amount. In the course of his speech the Right
Hon. Member stated that the financial statements made
by the late Chancellor were so recent that he should
only weary the House by repeating them, and he there-
fore contented himself with stating that the deficiency to
be provided for beyond the Ways and Means already
provided was 2,400,0001. The Right Hon. Gentleman
stated that 3,540,0001. of the loan, a mixed fund of Ex-
chequer Bills and borrowing money, had been subscribed.
Mr. Baring took credit to the late Ministers for the
Money Market being 25 per cent. better than when the
Whigs came into office.
Mr. Williams strongly recommended economy, and
pointed out several reduction of expenditure which
might be made. He moved a resolution condemning the
increase of the debt, but it could not be put because it
was informal.

The debate which ensued, in which Mr. Hawes, Mr.
Ewart, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Palmerston took part,
Was rather smart, and is an indication that the two
parties mean to carry on a brisk war. Sir R. Peel, on
the authority of a nameless Magistrate, contradicted a
statement which had been made by Mr. Hindley on a
previous -• evening, which ought to make Hon.
Members be quite sure of their facts, and be cautious in
stating them. •
The resolution was agreed to.
On the motion for a Committee on the Poor-law Com-
mission Bill, Mr. York moved his amendment, which oc-
cupied the remainder of the eveniDg. Mr. Yorke's
amendment was lost by a large majority. The considera-
tion of the Poor-law Commission will be resumed this
evening.

PUBLIC OPINION.
In some comments on the Tory policy as regards
land, the Chronicle remarks as follows :—" Veni,
Vici I The bare calling in of the Doctor, though he still
declines to prescribe, has operated as a ebrifuge in Ire-
land. Peace and security now reign there, by the ac-
knowledgment of the Tory oracles, and in consequence—
as they do not hesitate to assert— of the late change in
the Government. • Everything in this neighbourhood,'
says the Tullamore Correspondent of the Evening Packet,
• savours of peace. The new change of men and mea-
sures has already had its influence on the peasantry,
whose demeanor to superiors is quite respectful.' This
account comes from the very heart of the King's County
—that theatre of war, where the lion-hearted Earl of
Charleville so lately beat his chamade, and retired to
pour his plaint into the ears of Parliament. But now

our bold Feer may go back again when he likes, secure
that while Sir Robert Peel bears the sway every peasant
will touch his hat in passing, and Father O'Rafferty him-
self, perhaps, ' lessen his big looks.' Such fruits spon-
taneous spring from a change of men."
The Morning Post states, in reference to the compa-
rative degree of applause with which the healths of her
Majesty and of the Queen Dowager are respectively
greeted at agricultural and other Tory meetings :—" We
aver that at such meetings the health of the Queen is
always drunk with such testimonies of loyalty and re-
spect as Englishmen attached to the constitution of their
country, and warm with loyal affection to the person of
their Sovereign, might be expected to display. But, say
the traitor-sycophants, the health of the Queen Dowa-
ger is frequently drunk with more exuberant rapture.
Well ! what then ? Doss this annoy them ? Do they
not know that this arises, in part, from the long expe-
rience which the country has had of the excellent quali-
ties of the Queen Dowager, and in part from the slan-
ders with which they and the faction to which they
belong have always delighted to assail that illustrious
lady, on account of those exalted qualities with which
they and their faction are incapable of sympathy ? "
We do not dispute the fact that the Queen's health is
now everywhere drank by the Tories with a prodigious
affectation of loyalty ; but itis not so very long since the
fact was quite the reverse. But the Tories were in
opposition then ; and they are in office now, which
makes all the difference. As for the slanders with
which our Contemporary asserts, that the Reformers

have assailed the Queen Dowager, we deny that this
illustrious Lady was ever slandered by them ; but we
distinctly remember the time when the Tories and their
organs assailed Queen Victoria with all sorts of foul
calumnies. " The woman Jezebel" is a comparison not
soon to be forgotten.
The Advertiser thus attacks the Ministers for their
conduct as regards the new Poor-law :—" After all their
inflated professions, of sympathy for the poor, they now
find it inexpedient to consent to the slightest modifica-
tion of the most oppressive clauses, against which they
had previously been so active in directing public execra-
tion. The discussion was altogether eschewed by the
Home. Secretary, Sir James Graham, and when it was
proposed even to rescind the clause enforcing the sepa-
ration of man and wife, Mr. Stuart Wortley, who was,
on his election, so insensately furious in the indiscrimi-
nate denunciation of this oppressive but much-vilified
enactment, declared it to be inexpedient at the
present
moment to enter upon its discussion. So much for the
Tories and their sympathy with the poor ! There was
no deliberation necessary in regard of expelling
Whigs from office and installing themselves therein
but when the public good, for which only they e
pro-
fessed to be solicitous, claims their attention,time
they
evade the subject on pretence of requiring for
deliberation."
y, is asked,
nisters in these sophistical terms :
in this Session, will
The Times apologizes for the dilttyh politcy. of -
or
if Sir Robert Peel can do nothing
he not tell us what he means to do
bine blindthen iexfted?e intro-
duce them. As they
dThoe
wiseacres who ask this question must
apsoistiitoinontotofraamnne anoun
mea-
sures, he must a
not see that, if hlseowbeerie in n
a
position
the general principles of the Right
Hon. Baronet, on the subject of the Corn-laws especi-
ally, they are per What perfectly well known. more can the
know, except the
f his scheme ? Agan, t is asked, why—
details oin, i i
Manchester gentlemen desire to
if the re
p sent Government do not profess to have
any instantaneous and infallible specific for the
wants of the people, did they oppose the late
Ministers, and refuse to try the panacea which
they offered to the country ?—and why re-
quire the New Parliament to assemble at the earliest
possible
moment, if it was to be prorogued without
settling the pressing questions of the day ? Again
we answer, is Sir Robert Peel to countenance a
quack doctor, and swallow his medicine, because he
is not prepared to turn quack himself ? As to the
other point, it is obvious that if the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet had acceded to office at a later period, he would
have required the same time for deliberation as 1101 V