The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-27 00:00:00

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LONDON:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1841.

Th ,ugh the Tories have not spoken much in this de-
bate, they have said some things especially worthy cf
public attention. That memorable phrase of the Duke
of RICHMOND, which we yesterday quoted, considered
as a complete index to the intentions, and to the very
heart of the rent-owners, is one of these things which
we must impress on the public. " We," said the Duke,
in substance, speaking for the landlords, " are about to
send you,. Sir R. PEEL, into office to maintain our mo-
nopoly, and if you dare to touch it, out of power you
shall go." This brings home to every man's bosom the
arrogance of the rent-owners and the slavery of
1 besides. They also claim and possess the
political power of the State ; they determine who shall
be Ministers, and what laws shall be made ; they have,
as even Lord MELBOURNE stated, passed a law by
Aich they are re:uniatily benefited ; and they passed
that law, as we assert, exclusively for their own benefit ;
and now they tell us, that, whatever may be the neces-
sities of the people or the Government, this law shall
not be altered, and that the Government shall be kept in
existence only to maintain their monopoly. It is to be
nothing but the tool of the landowners to do their dis-
honest work. What does that high-minded statesman,
who owes his all to cotton, say to such a degradation ?
But if Sir ROBERT PEEL be willing to be the despica-
ble tool of despicable men, the public will not submit to a
similar degradation. The intelligent but suffering inha-
bitants of Manchester and Leeds have already begun to
inquire into the titles of the owners of rent and the
usurpers of political power, which they abuse to their
own gratification. It is said aloud and in many places
that the land of the empire is common property, and only
guaranteed by the public in the possession of individuals
for the public advantage. It is concluded, therefore, that
if they use their possession to injure the public they for-
feit their title and the land reverts to the people.
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It is said, too, that the land was conferred on individuals
to enable them to perform public services. The duty of
defending the State, now paid for by a tax on all the
people, was annexed to the possession of the soil. It
was the price paid for the secure possession of rent.
That duty the landowners have cast upon the public
and maintain possession of the soil without rendering
the services for which it was bestowed. Nay, more,
while they make us pay for doing that which they re-
C ,ive possession of the soil to perform, they make a
g; eat noise about the heavy burdens imposed on them
in order to conceal their malversations.

The scamp, some French Abbe who used to preach
vehement sermons against the petty faults of his congre-
gation, that they might have no time nor inclination
to notice his vices, is the type of our landowners ; they
cry out bitterly against their burdens, and against the petty
palling of the people, that their own great scheme of
Pifering by means of law, and their gross neglect of duty,
may escape the public observation. They are herein
proverbially ;tepid; for they live in glass houses, they
are surrounded by persons willing to demolish their
dwellings, and they begin by casting stones.
Another remarkable sentence was uttered by the Duke
of WELLINGTON. If any other person but his Grace
had said that such a measure as the repeal of the Corn-
laws required to be preceded by inquiry, we should have

been astonished at his impudence; in this frank but old
soldier, it Was only the forgetfulness of age. Why,
the Repealers have besieged the doors of both HoUses of
Parliament for inquiry, motion after motion has been
made to grant inquiry, and the Duke of WELLINGTON and
his friends have obstinately resisted them all. Moreover,
there have been, as the Marquis of LANSDOWNE ob-
served, a multitude of inquiries into the subject. Yet
the Duke of WELLINGTON made it a reproach to the
Ministers that there sliould have been an inquiry, which
he had refused before an alteration in the law was pro-
posed. In any meaner man than the illustrious Duke,
such conduct would call forth our severest animadver-
sions; in him we can only notice it as a striking evidence
how much the practices of Parliament, which Noble
Lords and Hon. Gentlemen will not have modelled by the
precepts of morality and religion, corrupt and pervert
the most ingenuous natures.
The frank Duke let out, too, a little secret of the par-
ties or factions who rule the State, which, for the sake
of preserving their scheme of humbugging the people,
ought to have been only talked over in some secret con-
clave of Peers or politicians. 'The Duke found fault
with the language of the Queen's Speech, which Vis-
count MELBOURNE justified by quoting similar words of
the Speech of George 111. in 1784. Very true, admitted
the Duke, but the quarrel then was one "in doors." It
was wholly confined to privilege and prerogative ; and
though many persons took an interest in it, it did not
concern the people. That was a family quarrel, and
you should be careful, however you may commit the
Crown in such quarrels, never so to commit it when
the dispute is out of doors and the people interested in it.
The frank soldier says, therefore, in substance, you
know, brother MELBOURNE, that this farce of QUEEN'S
speeches, and meeting of Parliament, &c. &c., is merely
intended to humbug the public, and you ought not to turn
them to the purpose of serving the people. The Royal
power may be used by one faction against the other, as
either may chance to get hold of it ; but it must not be
used in the service of the people against the oligarchy.
That is the sum of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S observa-
tions, andla the heinous charge he made against' Lord
MELBOURNE. The people are at the same time told that
they support the pageant of Royalty as a protection for
themselves ; that is all a mistake, says the Duke ; it is
wholly and solely intended for the " in-door" purposes of
the two factions of the aristocracy. We look on the lan-
guage used by their Graces of RICHMOND and WELLING-
TON as a kind of revelation to the public of the innermost
thoughts of the aristocracy, and on this account we refer
to it as worthy of public attention.

With singular inconsistency the Opposition Press of
France, and a considerable number of the French people,
condemn the census and abuse M. GUIZOT. The impo-
sition of taxes to defray the expenses of war preparations
drives them to a state of insurrection bordering upon
open rebellion ; and yet they treat to a concert of mar-
row-bones and cleavers the statesmen who of all others
contributed most to save them from the infliction of
war taxes. The National of Thursday (yesterday) relates
with evident delight that the inhabitants of Caen to the
number of 3,000, gave a char ivari to M. GUIZOT on the
23d instant ; and yet these persons, in insulting the
Minister, kept shouting, " Down with the census."
Were these maniacs ignorant that it was not M. GUIZOT,
but their idol M. TRIERS, and his darling organs of the
Paris press, that rendered the taking of the census, with
a view to the imposition of fresh taxes, neces-
sary ? Did they expect that Paris could be bastilled
for nothing, or did they forget that the warmest sup-
porters of the new bastilles were the Constitutionnel, the
Courrier Francais, the National, the fighting Minister
TRIERS, and the Radical lawyer ODILLON BARROT ?
Had the individuals, the journals, and the corporations,
who now make such a noise about the census, opposed
the war policy of TRIERS as M. GUIZOT did, or de-
nounced the embastilling of the capital as he, we regret,
did not do, then could 'we sympathize with those ebul-
litions of passion which seek to cover with popular ob-
loquy the character of a time-serving Minister. But
when true patriotism was called for M. GUIZOT was the
only Frenchman who distinguished himself by the adop-
tion of a humane policy ; and now his opponents have
the meanness to revenge upon him the consequences o f
their own want of public virtue. This is the ne plus
ultra of baseness.

In our summary of Public Opinion we have given
the comments of the French Opposition Journals of
Wednesday upon the excellent speech of M. GUIZOT at
the Lisieux banquet. They are not wanting in the bit-
terness of defeated malice. They abound in the venom
of a faction ever ready to unfurl at the mast-
head of the great vessel of the State the black
flag of piracy. But they have no longer any
commanding influence either at home or abroad. In
the name of humanity we thank M. GUIZJT for the ser-
vie,s his moderation upon tho question ren•
tiered to Fran.. to Europe. But for his sagacious
councils, and the firmness of the KING, who had set his
face against the mad career of conquest projected
by M. THIERS, England and France would be now
engaged in a contest which would have shook 'Europe to
its centre. To whom is national gratitude due, if not to
the men by whom two great, but heavily-taxed nations,
were spared the infliction of such a calamity ?
A letter from Eu of 22d inst. says --" The Rodeur, after'
firing a salute of 24 guns, left Treport yesterday to return to her
station off Dieppe. If the afternoon of yesterday the King, ac-
companied by Marshal Soult and the Minister of Commerce, went
to Treport, where he received a salute from the Grondeur, steamer,
and from thence proceeded to the village of Mers. On arriving
near the Church, the cure, who was there, expressed a hope
that his Majesty would condescend to allow a poor priest to
call down in his humble Church the benedictions of Heaven
upon the head of the Sovereign, who had preserved peace for
his people. The King entered the Church, and a simple and
affecting ceremony took place, which was followed by the
Domine salvum, sung by the village congregation. The Ali-
nister of Finance has arrived this day ; the Alinister of Justice
has left for Paris."

The Courrier Francais says—" There was some talk yes-
terday of the intended retirement of M. Humann. We be-
lieve this rumour is without foundation. Far from thinking of
retiring, M. Hamann is approaching the moment for realising
the scheme whieh he has most at heart. He has deferred the
emission of the loan, because he knew this was the best way
to retard the Ministerial crisis. By postponing the loan, Al.
Humann has necessarily postponed the session, and by post-
poning the session he has given two or three months more to
the Ministry. On the 22d September the Treasury has to pay
nearly 80 millions to the holders of 5 per cent.. 4i per cents.,
and 4 per cents. By fixing the emission of the loan for Octo-
ber, the Minister hopes that the greater part of this money
will be converted into new rentes, and return to the Treasury."
Of 90 young carrier pigeons belonging to the Societe d' Abeona
of Brussels, which were let fly at Paris on the 22d instant, at ten
o'clock in the morning, nine got home between two minutes
and nine minutes past two o'clock the same day. A similar
trial was made between London and Antwerp a few days ago.
No less than 147 young pigeons were let fly from London at
eight o'clock one morning ; the first that got home reached An .
twerp at seven minutes past two o'clock, thus gaining the prin-
cipal prize (a clock and a silver article) for its owner, M. Segheri.
The Ministry announces in the Messager this evening a
wholly unexpected application of the laws of September. We
find in that paper the following statement :
" The Editors of the Gazette des Tribuneaux and the
Quotidienne have been summoned to-day, at the Instance of
the King's Attorney-General, to appear before the Tribunal of
Correctional Police, for having given an account, contrary to
the IGth article of the laws of 9th of September, 18.35, of the
action brought by M. Simon Didear against the Editor of the
Courrier der. hire, in the Civil Tribunal of Grenoble, to ob-
tain damages for an article which M. Didear pretended to be a
libel on his father's memory. The article of the laws of
September, the application of which is asked, is as follows :
" The journals and periodical publications are forbidden to
give an account of actions for insults and for defamation.
Where the proof of the defamator's facts is not admitted by the
law they can only announce the action on the demand of the
plaintiff. In all cases they may insert the sentence."
This Grenoble plot must certainly be a terrible affair, since
recourse is had to the most unforeseen exaggerations of a le-
gislation already so severe, in order to keep this mystery in ob-
scurity.—Le Commerce.
Advises from
Algiers of the 16th inst., in the Toulonnats,
state that great activity prevails at Coleah, Blidah, and other
fcorntteudouTdinittcsh on the letidjah, in making the
o
to keep ouittts of the 1‘
the Arabs.
The Tuscan Consul at Algiers, M. Tobler, a merchant of
high respectability, had failed for 800,000 francs. His
creditors were principally at .Leghorn. A correspon-
dent of the Sentinelle estimates his liabilities at only
half the above sum. It is stated in this journal that the chief,
of the Madjouts near mn
--ianah, is disposed to come over to
the French if they will ensure him an eminent position in his
own part of the country, and
efficien rotection against Ab-
del Kader. The Governor-General is asserted to have come
with th
open rupture e Bishop
to anof Algiers, and to have
forbidden that any more Priests should be sent to make over-
tures about exchange of prisoners. This was believed to have
exasperated the Arabs against the Bishop, whom they had
more influence than
con-
sidered possessed of .was the.case, and are
disappointed at not receiving any more envoys
from him. It was thought that the sudden departure of the
Bishop for France was not unconnected with this misunder-
standing with General Bugeaud.
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- A letter from Kirchberg of the 14th nag:, quoted by the
Duke de Bordeaux is.
France, says, that thegoing on in the
ahgnant s messenger.
,st satisfactory manner.-- G

most satisfactory
BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25.

:fret Ripest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
french 5 per Co us .........." 116 20 ... lld C 5 ••• 145 20 ••• 116 25
4 per Lents ll9 70 ... 90 70 ... 00 70 .. go 7,41
3 per Cons. ex. die 77 2LI ... 77 2.5 ... 77 20 ... 77 20
Ran 4 of prance
Leftists: dent I.ooof. St arcs 1(.40 ..1040 ...11'40 ...1040
Spent. Scares 5125 ....513.1 ...5125 ...5130
Belgian 5 per Cents. ....
New Loan •143% ... 1,3% ... ICIA ... Ilk%
iparnsh Active ..... .........." 1:11,4 ... SON, ... 10,4 ... ..os4
Pa115ive."......".
Neapolitan .....».».» lO4 25 .. 1114 25 ... 194 5.. ',05
Roman...
If AILWA V BHANEB.
St. Germain 725 ... 725 ... 725 ... 725
Versailles. LB. . ..." ..... ..
H. 11 327 50 ... 327 5e ... 327 50 ... 327 50
Rouen 452 50 ... 452 50 ... 45.4 sil ... 451.
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Mir:lshtar to Bali , sharesred 237 50 ....37 50 ... 226 25 .. 230
Orleans . 4BO ... 480 ... 478 75 ... 480

We are rejoiced to learn that, notwithstanding
the apprehensions which have been entertained on account of
the crops, the damage which they have sustained has been
comparatively trifling. Prayers for fair weather are regularly
offered in the churches of our city and its vicinity, and it gives
us much gratification to find that this is also done generally in
the kingdo.n.—Batle Chronicle.
The fall in the prices of corn in the market of
Brussels has at length enabled the burgomaster and Magistrates
of their city to lower the price of bread.

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