The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-21 00:00:00

WEEKLY BILL.

.NSPECTION OF THE ROYAL

ARTILLERY.

Woot.wrctr, Jour 19.—The annual inspection of the Royal
Regiment of Artillery took place to-day at the garrison at
Woolwich. Shortly after nine o'clock, A.m. the Royal Horse
Artillery and the field-batteries assembled on the Common in
heavy marching order, and received Lieut.-General Lord
Bloomfield, G.C.B. and G.C. H. on his arrival with the usual
salute. His Lordship was attended by his staff, and he minutely
examined the whole of the men, and expressed himself highly
pleased with tl.eir excellent appearance.
At the conclusion of the inspection of the Royal Horse
Artillery, Lord Bloomfield presented a silver medal to Farrier
Nlajor William Sealer of that branch of the service, and in the
kinde.t manner stated, that he always felt the greatest pleasure
in having to reward meritorious soldiers for their good conduct
during the period they were engaged in her Majesty's service
and in the service of their country. Wrn. Soaker, in addition
to the medal, will, agreeably to Art. 49 of the regulations for
pensioning soldiers of the Ordnance Military Corps, receive a
gratuity of lb/. besides the usual rate of pension to which his
services entitle him.

The Commandant, on his return from the Common, exa-
, mined all the barracks and internal arrangements of the garri-
son, with which he expressed himself well pleased.
At three o'clock the whole of the Foot Artilery assembled
on the Common, under the command of Colonel Lacy, and
the Ist battalion under Lieut.-Colonel Walker; the 2d batta-
lion, Lieut.-Colonel Blachely ; the 3d battalion, Lieut.-Colonel
Jackson ; the 4th battalion, Lieut.-Colonel Sabine ' • the sth
battalion, Lieut.-Colonel Cruthenden ; the 6th battalion,
Lieut.-Colonel Hunt ; the 7th battalion, Lieut.-Colonel Bran-
dreth ; the Bth battalion, Major Sweeting ; the 9th, Captain
Palmer, the two latter being temporary appointments.
The men were formed into battalions, and his Lordship
passed along each of them, and made a minute examination,
recei ;inz from each Commanding Officer a report of the state
of his battalion.
Several in the Non-commissioned Officers entitled to medals
and gratuities were present in plain clothes, and were called
in front of their respective battalions to receive the medals
from the hands of his Lordship, who on each occasion addressed
them in the kindest manner. His Lordship afterwards pro-
ceeded along the whole line, and at ten minutes past four the
men marched back to their barracks, having by their general
appearance given great satisfaction.

In Lord Howick the Tories have caught a Tartar.
Foul play could not be practised with impunity on a
man of his spirit and.talent. He is not the sort of per-
son to be tricked out of his seat, and to submit silently to
the dishonourable deceit. Nor is he the sort of man to
witness quiescently the oppression of electors, or the at-
tempt to subdue their integrity, for a love of justice is a
noble feature of Lord Howick's character, and the strong
love of justice never fails to inspire the loftiest courage.
It may happen that a man may be a Duke, and yet
capable of the " sharp practice," as it is termed, which
would disgrace a pettifogging attorney •, but a character
of thiS sort should have a care of men of Lord Howick's
sort, who will not be duped without exposing the deceit
that has been played off upon them.
In the moment of defeat, through foul means of more
than one kind, Lord Howick must have felt—
" It warms the very sickness of my heart,
That I shall live to tell him to his teeth,
' Thus did'st thou."
Now, though it was doubtless vastly pleasant to trick
Lord Howick out of his seat, it was by no means equally
agreeable to hear the denunciation of the conduct by
which this dirty exploit was brought about ; and vehe-
mently do we suspect that, were all to be done over again,
the great man of little ways would prefer leaving Lord
Howick in possession of his seat, to the detriment which
his own character has suffered from the method of oust-
ing him.
Lord Howick was given to understand that the Duke
of Northumberland did not intend to use his influence
against him ; and that he was content that he repre-
sentation of the county should remain as it was in the
last Parliament. Believing . that he was not to be op-
posed, Hord Howick was inactive, taken by surprise,
and consequently defeated.
Horace Walpole remarks, that the converse of Gray's
reflection that a Milton or aCromwell may have been lost
to the world in a ploughman, is applicable to the great,
and in indifferent Bishops and judges excellent tailors and
shoemakers may have been spoiled. So in the Duke of Nor-
thumberland, an attorney of sharp practice may have been
lost to Thavies-inn ; but sharp as his practice in a sphere of
life suitable to it might have been, there would have
been wanting the degree of sharpness of intellect neces-
sary even to the making of a bad attorney, so that after
all, following Horace Walpole's view, we do not see
what could have been made of the Duke of Northumber-
land but the Duke of Northumberland, nor that any-
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SHARP PRACTICE AND FOUL
INFLUENCE. _

" Casualties—Cut her throat, murdered, 1 ; over-
laid, 1 ; smothered accidentally, 1.
" Christened—Males, 154 ; Females, 156.
" Buried—Males, 1252 ; Females, 248.
" Price of Corn, &c.. at Bear Key, London.
Per Quarter. Per Quarter.
Wheat 3os. to 335. Horse Beans 20s. to 21s.
Barley l2s. to 16s. Pale Malt ... 19s. to 20s.
Oats los. to 14s. Brown ditto 16s. to 17s.
Old Hops, 5/. ; New Hops, 61. and 71.
N.B. This paper has been continued, I helieve, with-
out intermission, and is now called the Sherborne:and
Yeovil Mercury. Sold by Wm. Webb Penny, Sherborne.
The editor gives no opinion on the foreign or domestic
politics of the day, and the present conductor is a sort of
milk-and-water man.
CAUSE OF THE RIOTS AT
TOULOUSE.

thing can have slumbered in him, unless it be the honoUr
of the Percys, which will be rather astonished if it
should by any miracle chance to wake. But we are
wrong, the Duke would not be accountable to the spirit
of the Percys, for he is a Smithson.—Examiner.

(FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.)
Pants, Jeer 18, 1841.—The principal talk of the week in
the French capital has turned upon the events of Toulouse,
which, though they may he regarded as circumstances of only a
lecrl nature, by politicians in other countries, are of serious
importance in this. The Government has, throughout the
whole matter, been decidedly in the wrong. M. Humana, the
Finance Minister, found himself dreadfully hampered on coming
into office with the enormous deficit which the expenses of the
fortifications, and that most atrocious of all humbugging de-
ceptions le Gouvernement a bon marche, as interpreted by the
wily despot at present on the throne of France, aua the swarms
of his needy retainers whom, since the Revolution of 1830, he
has raised into opulence. This deficit amounts, as is well
known, and as the returns produced in the Chamber of Peers
this Session showed, to nearly one thousand millions of francs,
to meet which there is not a single sou, except what can be
raised by the intended loan (450 millions, or not half the re-
quired amount) and from fresh taxes. Now the Chambers have
not voted any fresh taxes, and the Government knew well that it
was of no use asking for any. M. Humana, therefore, is bring-
ing forward his Budget of Ways and Means, gave it to be un-
derstood that he should use all possible measures for making the
taxes as productive as possible. A good occasion presented itself
in the taking of the census, for by making the population
returns of the larger towns rather larger than they had hitherto
been, a provision of the law would be laid hold of for increas-
ing their proportional rate of taxes. Thus a town of 28,000
inhabitants does not pay such a heavy proportional tax on cer-
tain articles as one of 30,000; and by including in the fixed
numbers of the population, the floating numbers, such as the
garrison, the patients from the adjacent districts in the cen-
tral hospital, the pupils from the country in the town schools,
&c., it was obviously an easy matter to swell the population to
the numbers required for the purposes of the Treasury. Thus
if need should be, an extra regiment or two could be marched
into any town, the population of which might be a thou-
sand or two under the mark, and up would go the return,
and down would come the tax-gatherers. This was a
notable expedient, quite worthy of the Charte-verite people ;
but they had also got another, and that was to get the tax-
gatherers, and verifiers to be authorized to help the persons
employed to take the census, on pretence that the latter are
not numerous enough; and thus by letting these lynx-eyed re•
tainers of the Treasury into each man's castellum, a golden op-
portunity would be afforded of looking over all the num-
bers of windows, doors, furniture, &c., and thus t f giving
ground for an augmentation in the direct taxes. These
manceuvres were almost immediately detected in the various
provincial towns, and met with a stout opposition, when,
though the Government did not expect it, there wan most
likely to be a solid objection to anything that should become a
question affecting the plus or minus of the pockets—we mean
in the Municipal Councils. The tradesmen and manufacturers
composing these bodies. would, of course, be the most affected
by any increase of taxes : and thus at once set their .fa"
against M. Humanns schemes with much resolution.
Grenoble was the first town to set the example—it was followe
d
by Marseilles, and most of the towns in the South of France_
by Strasburg and others in the East—by Caen and many
more in the North —and last, not least, by Toulouse in atnhye
South-west. Here the municipality set themselves so strongly
against these shabby ways of picking their pockets, which
were also not in accordance with the positive stipulations of the
fiscal code that M. Floret, the Prefect, an amiable and clever
man, found himself obliged to resign his post rather than be
unable to carry such unjust orders into effee t It was upon
this that the Ministers at Paris immediately selected the most
unpopular broutllon they could pick out M. Mahul, director
of the infamous police department, and pack him
off to Toulouse. The result of this m been
seen; the authorities of Toulouse refused toeTtra underhs
-ed resigned their offices. The people, indirectlya encouraged
--mole, expressed their indignation in a louder and
"nen M. Mahul ordered the military
Litter, treating the-people of
'hey have been sous-

tag Warr..

MORNING SUN.

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toined to use the Arabi- since the war in Algeria has degene- r expression to enlightened opinion, aml tu inlinence Par- =#,„
rated into a series of, marauding expeditions against women Lament. Let them he 1 public meetings, engiiio:ll:Ctur- 4 Zr.",toP
and-children, flocks and herds, drive the otherwise peaceable
inhabitants into open insurrection. It should be remarked, 1 them attend to the important Inr,in,,-ss of
ers, and diffuse knowledge toy me„ns of
much to the credit of the populace of Toulouse, that their fury the ur- ""
and contest every seat that may hc- vaeant
remained concentrated against the proper objects of it. Mahul,
forces of the Anti -Monopolists eteleer •,P 1_ --" •
r•..l.olf_Plic-,
the Prefect, and Plougoulm, one of those hard-hearted re-and
at worthy übjcct of manifest pi•at., Rai ,
pd
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tainers of Louis Philippe, who has ever shown himself ready to gre
stretch the action of the penal laws to its utmost extent Justice,
and, with a vigorous application or those ore 4!,
against the liberties of the Press and the nation. No pillage their success at no distant period is certain.—Leeds
took place; and on the flight of those two functionaries the Mercury.
disturbances ceased. The Government once entered on a
bad line, and unable to retreat, has sent off to Toulouse a
man more obnoxious, if possible, than Mahul, in the
person of M. Maurice Duval, who was forced to leave Nantes,
because he mad- himself so obnoxious to the respectable
classes of that wealthy and enlightened city, and who has ob-
tained the cheap dignity of a Peer of France, as a reward for
his readiness to do any dirty work the Government, that is
"the beloved dynasty of Orleans," might have for him. This
" rough and ready" personage has been despatched to the fated
city, several regiments have been ordered to march upon it.
and the tender mercies of the citizen King, the elected of the
Barricades, will no doubt be showered upon the inhabitants for
their moderate, and on the whole, laudable conduct. A curious
episode of this affair is that an artillery officer who had threat-
ened to horsewhip the editor of the Liberal paper of Toulouse,
the Emancipation, if he should criticise his conduct during
the disturbances has been called out by the latter and shot
gead ! Meanwhile, Government feels very uneasy about the
feelings of the Republican party in Paris, and the " sword of
Damocles" has been vibrating over the head of the old Bonze
at Neuilly with unusual agitation for some days past."

THE TORY PRESS AND THE

PEEL CABINET.

The loyalists, who have remained firm to their politics,
and have therefore been affronted, and are to be turned
out of their offices, will never vote with the Duke of
Wellington again as long as he remains Premier, or Mr.
Peel is in the Cabinet.—John Bull, March 15, 1829.
Mr. Peel seems to have made a hit in the chief part of
Sheil's play—the apostate.—Blachtrood's Magazine, Fe-
bruary, 1829.
Mr. Peel will be the greatest sufferer in the end. His
character is ruined for ever. No man will trust him
amain. No acts of his future life—no services, however
valuable, no personal sacrifices, however great—no cant-
ing, no whining, no sanctimonious deceit—can ever
wash away the damned spot. He stands before the public
the victim of his own mean ambition—the slave of his own
avarice—the sacrifice which an aspiring family offer at
the shrine of pensions and sinecures.—Aforning Journal,

'eb. 10, 1829.
Should the sad necessity arise, however, we shall put
into the hands of some Protestant nobleman the grounds
of an impeachment (against Wellington and Peel), and
the means of the substantiation of these grounds from
the hands and from the oral evidence of some of the
King's present Ministers.—Standard, Feb. 14, 1829.
Mr. Peel is a hollow traitor, whose words are false-

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hood, and nothing but falsehood. The father of lies him-
self never lied more shamefully than Peel, when he told
the House that a change ought to be made so far back as
1825.—Age, March 8, 1829.
As for Peel, his talents qualify him for no higher task
than that of repealing Acts of Parliament which impose
the penalty of death on people found to have kept com-
pany with Egyptians for an hour. He is a poor, creep-
ing, mechanical drudge. His political existence is sacri-
ficed. If the Duke turned him off to-morrow, of what
possible harm could he be to his Grace's Administra-
tion ? He—he, the disgraced, the characterless, the
" false, lying, perjured turn-coat"—he go into opposi-
tion ! No • he depends upon the good pleasure of the
Duke. A:long as his Grace thinks his hapless victim
of any use to him, so long may he cling to his place.—
Age, Feb. 22, 1829.
0, Tories, dear Tories, who still are as true—
In spite of defeat—and as trusty as steel,
An apostate, a- trimmer, a rat is in view ;
So after him, boys, and come spit upon Peel.

—Blackwood's Itladazilie, June, 182 9.
Mr. Peel is lost for ever as a statesman. His conduct
stands undefended, indefensible. No party ever will, or
ever can, trust him again.—Glasgow Courier, 14th
Feb.,leBel29,.and the bullies of his crew, it is needless to
saf I
yO a word when addressing a Christian community—
since no nOn possessing a spark of moral or religious
feeling, ever dared to insult the ear of his fellow-man by
defending Judas Iscariot. Let the worm then sink into
his native mud, a prey to " the worm that dieth not."
We will never again disgrace our columns by the mention
of the reptile's nan:e.—Leicester Herald, April 4, 1829.
Mr. Peel has reali; fallen so low—he stands so de-
graded—he is so completely the jest of his new friends,
and the butt of his old ones, that he cannot possibly be
of the least use to any Ministry. He is a dead weight
even upon that of the great Duke, his master.—Morning
Journal, 9th June, 1829.
The Protestant who puts his foot under the same
council table as Peel, is disgraced for ever. Eject him,
like a foul thing, from the Cabinet--he ought to be
ejected from the society of gentlerneii, " Peel
must be the Azazel, the scapegoat, sent forth for the
sins of the Cabinet, loaded with the curses or the people
—and we say, Amen.—Age, 19th July, 1829.

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The Presbytery of Niagara, New York, . have
passed a formal resolution, declaring that Byron's works
and Bulwer's novels " are books of an infidel and licen-
tious character." There will be an immediate run for
both.
THE WEATHER.—Since St. Swithin's day, orr
which rain fell in torrents, the weather has been warm,
dry, and beautiful, and yesterday the thermometer stood
at 70 degrees in the shade. The effect of these three
days of warmth, acting upon the earth, which was al-
ready sufficiently watered, is already beneficially ap-
parent ; the pastures are rough and abundant ; the wheat
in many parts is assuming the autumn tinge, and more
has been done in this short space to forward and com-
plete the hay harvest, than for nearly three weeks pre-
viously.—Glasgow Herald. .
SALE OF THE LIBRARY OF THOMAS
THOMSON, ESQ., ADVOCATE.—The Bibliognostes and
Bibliophiles of Edinburgh have recently had a banquet
of delicacies spread before them, by the dispersion of _
this, the most complete historical library ever sold in
Scotland. The sale commenced on the 28th ult., and
flourished under the venditorial sceptre of Mr. C. B.
Tait, during the space of thirteen days. The collection
was rich in rare and privately-printed volumes, and the
books, for the greater part, were in the most desirable
condition, garmented in all the splendour of russia and
many-coloured morocco bindings bravely gilt. The
prices which they produced were proportionably smart,
and the entire library realised nearly 3,oool.—Glasgow
Herald.
CURIOUS, IF TRUE.—The Phare of La Ro-
chelle has a communication from a correspondent at
Surgeres in that country, that being in the fields a short
time since, he observed a weasel come repeatedly to a
plant called bouillon blanc (the mullein or torchweed),
rub himself against it, and then run off again. The ob-
, server, in order to see the effect, pulled up the weed,
and threw it to a distance. The weasel came again, and
missing the plant, was greatly agitated, and soon became
swollen, and died. Folowing the direction the little
animal had come from, the person soon descried a large
viper, which, at hearing his footstep, erected itself as if
expecting the return of the weasel, with whom, no doubt,
he had had a battle. The conclusion come to was, that
the plant mentioned is an antidote to the bite of veno-
mous creatures.
The former Earl of Shrewsbury's brother, Hugh
Talbot, a Catholic priest, is a very prominent character
in the new and very striking historical romance called
" The Old Earl and his Young Wife." This persecuted
gentleman underwent strange adventures—suffered more
from flagitious oppression—and, in his flight from the
myrmidons of the heartless and crafty Minister, Lord
Salisbury, had more curious and hairbreadth escapes than
can be narrated of any other fugitive. In its lavish dis-
play of historical and invented character, and in the
richness and contrast of its incidents, this new work of
fiction will " give the world assurance of a novelist," in
the best acceptation of that word.
PREVALENCE OF A DISTRESSING DISEASE.
—From accurate estimation it appears that the afflicting
complaint of hernia, or rupture, exists in one person in
eight throughout the whole male population of the king-
dom, and in a much greater proportion among the la-
bouring classes in the manufacturing districts, and those
employed on the water as boatmen. In one district in
the western part of England, comprising 200,000 inha-
bitants, it has been recently ascertained by actual ob-
servation, that one in every five of the population la-
boured under the malady.
The Paris National states that corn has risen
three francs since the 15th, in consequence of the excessive bad
weather.
SOUTH HACKNEY CHURCH-RATE.--• The
poll has been decided to be in favour of the anti-Church-rate