The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-26 00:00:00

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- PORE/ON.
The right of search, which the principal European
Powers have mutually conceded to ships-employed in the
suppression of the slave-trade, is again denounced in the
Paris Globe of Tuesday. That Journal will have it that
the French flag is dishonoured by permitting an English
officer to overhaul -it, evert When it eTiiewa7 slaver.
Their Majesties the King and' Queen of the French
gave a distinguished reception on- Monday to the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Clanricarde on their return from
St. Pe tershurgh. ,
The Presse denies the right of the King of Holland
to prevent the steamers of the German Commercial
Union from navigating the Rhine.
General Rodil has ordered all the fortresses in the
Basques to be dismantled within fifteen days, except
that,of Pampeluna. The .penalties of rebellion are at-
tached to a refusal to obey this order.
The funeral of the late Queen Dowager of Bavaria
took place on the 19th inst., and was followed by almost
the whole population. By the side of the King were
his Majesty ,the ,Kine• of, Prussia, and by the side of the
"Crown Prince the 'Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse.
The diplomatic body also followed in the procession.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Horning Herald fires off a few penny pop-guns
at the new rural police, and evidently thinks that it is
pouring in a destructive cannonade against that institu-
tion:—" If it had been the object of the Government,"
observes our Contemporary, " to devise one scheme more
hostile, more disgusting to the feelings,—the prejudices, it
may be,—more abhorrent to the moral and physical tem-
perament ofEnglishmen than another,—it would certainly
have paused, content, at, the suggestion of a 'rural police.'
In every vicissitude of ,fortune,--;-under the fiercest ac-
cess of that salutary malady of grumbling, for which he
is so notorious,--rin his;highest prosperity, or his lowest
fall ;—successful abroad: or desponding at home,—your
Englishman is essentially a rural . denizen ,_throughout
the world,—here or abroad. He loves tithe country.
He endures towns. In. the woodlands; the. plains, the
mountains, he carries with him that confidence,—be-
yond all price to hint,—that he shall be undisturbed.
His steps will not be watched.. -His passion for locomo-
tion, natural or artificial, may be safely: indulged."-
-What a farrago of words is here 1 What lackadaisi-
cal sentimentality I Does. our Contemporary suppose
that an Englishman cannot stroll in the fields, or along the
high-roads, without a policeman dogging his every step?
That he cannot scale a mountain without a policeman scal-
ing it immediately, after him,, to take, him into custody,
should he feel inclined to walk off with a loose rock or
two ? That lie cannot ramble by the side of a river
without a policeman being on the watchi.to see that he
does not .set it on fire,• as .Mr. Peter Barthwick is very
likely to do with the Thames ? That ,the rural police-
may in some cases stretch duty to.the extreme point of
officiousness is likely enough ;, and whenever this is the
case, the nuisance should be abated ; but they are by no
means so great a bugbear as the Herald would have us
believe they are. In fact, the institution is the necessary
consequence of the general establishment of beershops
throughout the country, which, though they may have
done some good, have done more harm.
In an article on the subject of Chartism, the Times
observes:—" The
,Chartists, though at present only can-
didates for electoral privileges, set public decency at de-
fiance. Only empower them to influence election pro-
ceedings and Parliamentary debates, as they now embroil
anti distract public meetings, and what sort of a country
should we then be blessed to see? The power conferred
on them would be an irresponsible power of the worst
possible kind: because, judging from their behaviour
as non-electors, they seem to. be lost to every sense
of decorum, and impervious to all the wholesome
social influences which govern an orderly people.
Some decent fellows have, indeed, been induced
to join the Chartists, and by their influence
some good has been effected ; but, really, the gene-
rality of them are rank incorrigible scoundrels."—
This is A fair sample of the way in which the Tories
treat their tools. They first flatter them ; get them
into their meshes ; make them suit their own party pur-
poses ; and then, having no longer occasion for their
services, cast them off, and denounce them as a set of
scoundrels. If the Chartists' eyes are not now opened
to the incorrigible baseness of Toryism, they deserve,
indeed, all the reproaches that this powerful faction is
now daily heaping on them.
The Post says We observe with deep regret—not
unmingled with some indignation—the use which cer-
tain public journals are trying to make of the differences
which exist in Oxfold University as to the election of a
new Profesor of Poetry. The attempt which is made to
fasten upon Dr. Pusey the imputation of desiring to
force a Professor of Poetry upon the University, out of
regard merely to the theological party to which the
proposed Professor belongs, is in the last degree un-
just. It has no foundation in fact, and the endea-

your to make a current'prejudiee subservient to the pro-
mulgation of this calumny.'shows a cunning depravity
which we are ashamed to witness in those whose busi-
ness should be to guard the public from beine• misled."—
There need be no'squabbling or disputing about who is
best fitted to be elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
One Oxonian, provided at least he has not an atom of
imagination, will do quite as well as another, for the
appointment is of no earthly benefit, except to the pos-
sessor. It has never encouraged, and never will encou-
rage, a taste for poetry. No -young man has ever been
made a poet by attending the lectures of the Oxford Pro-
fessor, though many of them have thereby been imbued
with such false principles of taste, as should lead them
to despise the genius of a writer like Burns. If Mr.
Macculloch happened to be an Oxford man, we should
strongly recommend him to the Professorship of Poetry,
for he has quite as much fancy as the majority of these
Professors ever had, and would lecture quite as know-
ingly. on the subject, and almost with as little real sen-
sibility. Joseph Hume, too, would make a most ortho-
dox Professor.
The Chronicle thus alludes to some of the more re-
cent tergiversations of the Times—" When Sir Robert
Peel came into office, there were decided indications that
he bad not forgiven the Times for its recent assaults
upon him. The Times had, therefore, the mortification
of seeing itself placed on the second or third list of Mi-
nisterial papers--a mortification which it evinced by in-
termittent fits of uneasy querulousness and sulky silence.
Latterly there have been signs that it has been taken
into favour, and its grateful joy, like that of the spaniel's,
has been sundry times evinced by fawning adulations
and frisking impudence. Its zeal has, in different in-
stances, outrun its discretion. It sneered, for instance,
at the meeting for the relief of the distress in Paisley;
but when it found that her Majesty, Sir Robert Peel,
and others, were subscribers to the fund, it tried to make
amends by eating up its words; and it sneered at the dis-
tress of the London compositors, and then tried to re-
move the impression, by publicly offering a situation to
a solitary compositor, who had,,. anointed it with honey
and butter." - .

Speaking' on the subject of emigration, the Ayr Ob-
serccr says :—" Much has been said by sickly philan-
thropists about the hardship of expatriation—and, no
doubt, where large bodies ..of people have been com-
pelled to leave their native land without any means of
their own, and without the smallest provision for them
in the country of their adoption, the circumstance is
deeply to be deplored ; but in a kingdom so limited as
Great Britain, it would neither be wise, nor possible—
even though there were ample employment and pro-
vision for them all—wholly to restrain the migratory dis-
position of the people."
We quote the subjoined extract froin the York Cou-
rant :—" On every hand do we hear of the abounding of
distress ; and not only so, but of its rapid and alarming
increase. It is not one particular branch of industry
that is assailed—it is not the trade of one particular lo-
cality—but all seem liable to be involved in the widening
and destructive circle. Tales of woe and suffering, that
are almost too horrid for belief, are repeated from the
West Riding of Yorkshire, whilst Lancashire awakens
echo with the painful response. From Paisley to Spital-
fields, a cry-of all but absolute famine prevails."
The Dublin Evening Post observes, with reference to
Lord De Grey's Irish policy :—" Lord De Grey, this
will not do. You are a great patron of the arts, but to
such arts as are required to bawl a shrewd and consi-
derate people you seem to be an utter stranger. Either
you are too honest, or else (which is more probable),
you have too much of the Goosey Goderich in your com-
position to work out the policy of the crafty statesman
who sent you here. If Peel thinks it necessary to go on
with the humbug, he must regal ,your Excellency, and
send over something of a more refined dissembler."
The Worcester. Chrorticle anodes . the following
terms to the present distress of the Copitry :—" Sir
Robert Peel was warned of the risk helBtild incur by
disregarding the remonstrances of the -13041e' and pro-
roguing Parliament. lie cannot complain that he has
been taken by surprise. The, state of things that has
'come upon us, and which promises; if it be trot cor-
rected by prompt legislation, to sink England in the
rank of nations to the level of a petty German or Italian
State, has been foretold by a million and a half of
voices. It has been foretold in and out of Parliament;
by the clergy and by the laity ; on the hustings anti
in the hall ; at public meetings and private assemblies;
from the pupit and the professor's chair."
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MONEY—BADE—COMMENCE.
The whole quantity of iron made in the United States
in 1830, computed in pig-iron, amounts to 191,536 tons,
produced from 230 furnaces; The quantity made in 1837
was about 250,000 tons.
ECCLESIASTICAL.
The mother of Dr. Pusey was Lady Lucy Pusey, for-
merly Lady Lucy Cave. When Dr. Pusey was a child,
the family of the Puseys held the greatest intimacy with
the Throckmortons, the head of which house was then
Sir John Throckmorton, a Roman Catholic Baronet, in
whose family the Rev. Joseph BerringtOn, a Catholic.
priest, of very mild and insinuating manners, was sedu-
lous in making converts, and in his chapel there was
scarcely standing room. Some trace of the birth of a
schism, which bids fair to disturb the
peace of Protes-
tantism, to these circumstances.
STATISTICS-
The number of pupils now at Eton College is greater
than' ever: before known, and even larger than in 1830,
when the students amounted to 630. The College num-
bers at present G 35.

Naval. LED DZILXTILIVIC.
Colonel Cuyler, the oldest Colonel in the service, hav-
ing been longer in it than the Duke of Wellington, died
suddenly in his 73d year on Monday. He was accus-
tomed jocosely to
say, that there were three great men
born in one year—the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon,
and himself, but that one of them had not been so fortu-
nate as the rest.

A general order has at last been issued at Woolwich
by the Master-General of the Ordnance, conveying his
thanks to Captain Maclean, Lieutenant Radcliffe, and