The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-06 00:00:00

SUMitiARY OF NEWS

AND
Public Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The Duke d'Amaule, fourth son of the King of the
French, has returned to France from Africa, thoroughly
disgusted with the cut-throat and incendiary system of
warfare carried on between the soldiers of General Bu-
geaud and Abd-el-Kader. French Africa is a bad school
for the education of such preux chevaliers as the Royal
scions of the stock of Orleans, and we are therefore not
surprised that Princes so honourably and virtuously nur-
tured, shrink from the very touch of such victorious bays
as encircle the brows of a Bugeaud and a Clausel. A
son of France would blush to conduct a razia.

The late Municipal Council of Toulouse protested
against the Royal Ordinance pronouncingits dissolution,
and in mimic imitation of the first National Assembly
voted its sittings to, be permanent. It also refused to
admit the new Mayor, Baron Lejeune, whose installation
on the 31st was effected by force. The late Mayor, M.
d'Arzac, has been arrested, and will most likely be sent
to Paris. These Toulousians are such troublesome fel-
lows that the Government is likely to lose more than it
will gain by quarrelling with them.

The leven of insurrection has been discovered in
the heart of the military garrisons at Paris. Several ar-
rests were reported to have taken place in consequence
on Wednesday morning. The French soldiers have a
trick of remembering, reciting, and construing literally
certain orations made by the Citizen King immediately
after the July revolution, which, to say the least of it,
manifests a poor progress in the discipline of Courts.

The . execution of three criminals at Home on the
20th ult. led to a tumult, in which 12 Persons were
killed and 200 wounded. The last of the three dying
wretches uttered furious imprecations against the spec-
tators, who thereupon were seized with a panic, and fled.
They were attacked by thieves, and the result we have
stated above. This is another of the bitter fruits of an
adherence to the murderous and inhuman system of
capital punishments. And then think of the horrible
iniquity of extinguishing the life of a wretch while in
the act of imprecating destruction Upon his fellow-
creatures ! Sending him with hatred in his heart and.
curses upon his tongue befOre the awful judgment-seat
of God It is awful.

The Sultan and Mehemet Ali, as .the Tamworth
quack in days of yore said of the British nation and the
national debt, are " quite in a family way ;" the Sultan
having made an offer of the hand of one of his sisters to
a son of the Viceroy. Such a mark of the Imperial
favour often occasions the object of it many wry faces.
The happy bridegroom of a Sultana cannot increase his
harem without her permission ; cannot enter her
apartments without leave ; must place no limits
to her extravagance ; and wanting, in the discharge of
any marital duty, must patiently endure the application
of his lady's slipper to his mouth, without so much as
daring to look offended. Sultanas are privileged terma-
gants, and are usually bestowed upon Paellas of whom
the Porte has some dread. The Sultan, if he pleases,
may either destroy or mutilate their offspring.
A letter from Constantinople of the 14th ult. repre-
sents the Candian insurrection as virtually suppressed,
and denies that the Albanians were guilty of any ex-
cesses. If they have subdued the Candiotes we have
little doubt that it will be discovered at Constantinople
that they behaved like lambs. It was their gentle bleat-
ing that frightened the Candiotes into submission. Is
Tahir Pacha, then, to send no heads to Constantinople?
Reschid Pacha, the ex-Turkish Premier, is to be
sent as Ottoman Ambassador to Paris. We may hence
infer that the Reform party is regaining -its lost ground
at the Porte.

The English are in bad odour at Alexandria. This
is because they keep too vigilant an eye upon the move-
ments of the Viceroy, whose intrigues are known to our
Government. But for England, Mehemet Ali would
quickly regain all the ground he lost in consequence of
the Treaty of London. He is raising 20,000 Albanians,
nominally to assist him in restoring the tranquillity of the
holy cities of Mecca and Medina, but in reality to re•
establish his authority over the portion of Arabia for-
merly subject to his arms.
The Belgian exhibition of arts and manufactures
was opened at Brussels on the Ist inst. All the authori-
ties were present assisting at the ceremony.
M. Bartolot, formerly editor of the Courrier Belge;has
been fined 10,000 f. for a libel on the chief of the Medical
Staff.

The Marquis of Douglas, the Duchess of Hamil-
ton, and other very distinguished persons from Great
Britain have arrived at Brussels.

ruitmic OPIAVIOINT.

The Morning Poet institutes an elaborate comparison
between the state of the operatives in manufacturing
towns and the labourers in agricultural districts, the
object of which is to show that the landlords and farmers
are, generally speaking, a less selfish and grasping class
of men than the master-manufacturers. Our Contempo-
rary, though he insists warmly on this point, fails to es-
tablish it by argument.
The Times, in an article written,with some address
on the case of Macleod, endeavours to embroil this coun-
try with the United States, by putting the worst con-
struction on the case, observing :—" As long as the
American Government find that we may be trifled with.
with impunity, they are willing to gratify the passions
of the populace by anticipations- of the judicial murder
of one of the Queen of England's officers. If by any
fatal mischance that monstrous act should ever be con-
summated, the horror and disgust of the whole civilised
world will fall as heavily on the statesmen by whom it
was tolerated, as on the savages by whom it was com-
mitted."

The Morning Advertiser refers in just terms of
praise to the convocation of Ministers of the Gospel who
are about shortly to assemble at Manchester, for the
purpose of deliberating on the best means for pro-
curing the immediate and entire abolition of the
corn monopoly. " These Rev. Gentlemen," says our
Contemporary, " very properly disclaim all political
or party feeling in the enterprizes in which they
have embarked. They have been induced to
enter the arena against the corn monopolists, solely from
considerations of benevolence and humanity." This Con--
vocation speaks trumpet-tongued for the enlarged hu-
manity of those who have projected it. Never before
were clergymen engaged in a juster or more righteous
cause. It is an attempt at a practical enforcement of the
favourite doctrine of our Saviour—Peace on earth, good-
will to men.

" It is nothing new for the nobility or gentry of
either party"—says the Herald, with reference to Lord
F. Egerton's rumoured scheme of raising a body of Ca-
valry—" to maintain bodies of cavalry to aid the civil
force in those districts where experience has shown that
such aid may be occasionally useful ; nor (lid any one
ever suppose that such bodies were raised.with an ulterior
and sinister object. No sensible man would have sus-
pected the Whig Lord Yarborough, for instance,
of meditating feudal oppression or compassing
civil war, because he maintains a splendid corps
of yeomanry in North Lincolnshire." Certainly
not, for we have confidence in his Lordship's principles,
and know that he will never exert his influence to dis-
perse or cut down bodies of people assembled peaceably
to discuss their grievances,. But is this the case with
the Tories? With the example of the Peterloo massacre
before us, perpetrated by a troop of Tory yeomanry, we
are fully justified in regarding with distrust the creation
of another such troop, officered' by men .who have always
looked on public meetings with the eyes of fear and
jealousy.
The Chronicle observes—" We have received a let-
ter from Manchester, which gives a most alarming ac-
count of the state of things in that great capital of the
manufacturing districts. You will hear (says our cor-
respondent) of meetings of the unemployed thousands
soon—quiet at first, but who can answer for the results
when angry and hungry thousands meet ? Now, Sir,
you may believe me or not, but I must state my opinion,
and that very plainly—nothing but commercial reform,
including a great alteration in the Corn-laws, and that
very speedily too, can save this country
I shudder while I write it, but ask nine men out of ten
that you meet here, and the impression on their mind is,
that there is something In the present &stress so awful
as to defy descripfAn, and therefore they fear the worst.'"
And where is Sir Robert Peel's remedy for this state of
things ? The Whigs have boldly and frankly proposed
theirs ; but where is the great Tory leader's ? Day by
day matters are getting worse—yet not one syllable
about a remedy do we hear breathed bY the Tories—not
a word even that can give the people encouragement
While thousands are starving, the faction is wasting its
time in selfish exultations at the thought of approaching
place and pay ! So Nero fiddled while Rome was
burning !
The Ballot, according to the Cheltenham Examiner
has made prodigious progress lately. Men who have all
their lives opposed secret voting—seeing at last the ne-
cessity of some measure of protection to the voter—
have given in their adhesion to this un-English method
of ensuring fair play. The undisguised manner in which
Tory tyranny has been exercised throughout the king-
dom, and the extent to which that tyranny has produced
the desired effect, have forced the conviction in number-
less instances, that the only method of preventing the
constituencies being bound over hand and foot to the TO-
ries, is a vigorou application of this radical remedy.

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The Cambridge Advertiser is of opinion that
country will not put up with the government of so trick'',
shifty, weak, and selfish a Minister as Sir Robert Peel,
and that no plausibility, however cunning, no deception,
however powerful, can cajole the people of Ireland. No
Administration which numbers Stanley and Peel among
its members will ever be toler;ted by Ireland.
The Worcestershire Chronicle regards the projected
establishment of corps of yeomanry as a demonstration
in support of the tax upon bread, a scheme to bolster up
at once the Corn-laws which force the working man upon
the parish, and the Poor-laws, framed, as is well known,
with a view to relieve the landed interest.

MONEY-TEADE-C0MY13532.C35.
Trade at Irvine is very flat at present. The sewing
of muslin is scarce, and low-priced.

LAW AND POLICE,
A respectable mechanic being tried at Hampton
Court, for breaking a bough off a tree in Bushy Park, was
ordered by the Magistrate, instead of the five shilling
fine, to draw a large roller over the gravel walk of the
Wilderness for half an hour.

SC/ENCE AND Arm
The Directors of the Royal Polytechnic Institution
have opened a school, where the qualificative duties for the
situation of railway-engine driving are taught. It has bOI
established six months.

sronTiliCr.
Otter hunting in the New Forest began on Thurs•
day. The Hon. Grantley Berkeley speared the fir 34 $
fine dog otter, after a chase of two hours. It was the la? j
ever seen in that part of the country, and

nearly, 161bs.
The black game in the New Forest musters strong
this year. The young poults are earlier on the wing
than usual.

counT—PASHlpmansms•
Earl and Countess Grey arrived at Howick 1131!'
the close of last week.
The Duke and Duchess of Leinster have started for
Carton House, Maynooth.
The Duke of Wellington returned to Wr3luier
Castle on Friday last.

THEATRICAL' which
--Sheridan Knowles has written a new pAT, %to-
is now in rehearsal at the Haymarket, and will be r
clued in a few weeks.

MISCELLANEOUS. 'brsll
--The first half-year's report of the Tam worth
states, that " the Committee ragret they have netl
i"je;
been able to allow books to be taken home to be re,,
but they hope, early in the month of August, W yle
such a number of volumes in their library as will e/13 „
them to do so." We presume Doctor Peel, the 113thr:.•
intends to shovel in some few cart-loads of quack
macopceias and politico-medical essays. Burdett
--At a recent Derby dinner Sir Francis 0
praised the Tories, and Sir R. Peel in partictilar,.o,
being all that statesmen could, or should be. Thisil;lits
silly old man, complained some months ago to the I
one
electors, that he had " a most debilitating ehei's,, :s„tb)r
in his heel." From the tenor of his speech at -1-"
we should be apprehensive that the "chalk-stone" has '

reached his head ! qarcl'
In the bedroom of a person named Farrier,ot" ;op
with, a pair of swallows have built their nest on th'
of his bedstead, where they have hatched their Y°lsl''
and fly A
fine sin an out at pleasure. lie
d pecimen of the sturgeon was caught in t roo
salmon-net at Reiss on Saturday last. It was of 0 es
size, measuring 6 feet 7 inches long, and weigh'°-°

60 pounds.
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