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belief, that hewould be defeated; he allowed it to
pass that stage, in order that he might beable, by
intrigue, to perpetrate his wrong to-night—we
ask, is such conduct worthy of a Liberal Minis-
try ? If it be, The Sun shall support such Ministry
no longer. If the perverse obstinacy of one man is
to rule and commit the Cabinet, let the Cabinet
take the consequence. We care not for the
Cabinet collectively, though we respect several
individual exceptions, and we only wish that,
they had more power or more heart to assert
the great principles on which their political
power is at present founded.
Our cause—our party, is essentially that of the
people—we are in the same boat with them, and
we must swim or sink together. But that
time will be doomsday ! Men are not to be
eternally the cat':-paws of others merely because
they hare been once or twice duped. The more
deceived, the more determined. Men are just
the same in political as in private life—if they
forfeit character once, they forfeit it for ever.
To the admirable speeches of Sir STRATFORD
CANNING, Mr. HUME, Mr. CRESSWELL, Mr.
O'CONNELL, and other gentlemen on the discus-
sion of the Danish claims, the justice of which they
have long and uniformly supported, we have
much pleasure in directing the attention of our
readers.

As to the speech of Sergeant WILDE, it was
quite unworthy of his abilities, if not of his repu-
tation. The ghosts of many poor claimants, who
have perished while their money was lent or given
away for political purposes by former Admini-
strations, may yet meet some recreant Members
at the hustings. Let them remember that the
race is not always to the swift, nor the battle
to the strong. "We shall meet at Phillippi !"

It is delightful to see Lord BROUGHAM
again at his post, and devoting his transcen-
dent talents to the cause of the people. As
might naturally be expected, the Orange Tory
prints have commenced to abuse him, and the
Standard goes out of its way to inform its
pious readers that he had the profaneness to
travel on a Sunday. Lord BROUGHAM, from his
first entrance into public life, has been the friend
and advocate of popular rights; and as such has
been .looked upon with an " evil eye" by the
aristocracy. Will the elegant and accomplished
WARWICK venture, in his presence, to amuse his
fellow Peers with sneering at the ignorance of
the people ? It is a well known fact, that the
clergy and aristocracy never forgave BROUGAAM
for forcing on a reluctant Government the
commission to inquire into the abuses of
public charities. The scandalous disclosures
that thus were made exceeded all belief;
and there were numerous instances of re-
verend and titled plunderers, and rotten Cor-
porations, quietly pocketing the funds bequeathed
by benevolent persons for the education of the
children of the Poor. In his celebrated Letter
to Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, which was republished
in the 13th volume of the " Pamphleteer," No.
25, he thus describes some few of those iniquities:
" We were equally unable to ascertain how
much in value of the St. Bee's school property
remained in the hands of the Noble Lord,
who sustains in his own person the double cha-
racter of trustee and lessee. It was in like man-
ner impossible to estimate the arrears due to the
poor from the worthy Magistrates of Hunting-
don, and the noble family whose political interest
in that borough has been founded upon the mis-
application of the charity estates."
Who can wonder, after this, at the desperate
struggle the Tory Peers made in 1839 to prevent
the Education of the Poor, when they had dis-
covered so much more profitable a way of em-
ploying the charity funds ?

If the Tories come into power on the principle
of maintaining monopoly, how do they mean to
govern the country ? The electors are bound to
ask themselves that question before they resolve
to vote for the Tories and monopoly. If they
can sce a reasonable prospect of quietly conduct-
ing public affairs on the principle of making laws
to plunder one another, they may venture to
vote for a Tory ; if they cannot, let them not
precipitate the country into anarchy by esta-
blishing a Ministry on an avowed principle of
injustice.
Since the Reform Act was passed, if not be-
fore, to govern by prescription was at an sad.
From that time forward every institution was to
be tested by reason, and if it cannot be on this
ground defended, it is not likely to be main-
:a.ined. Since prescription is at an end, it is
now more than ever necessary to make the
opinions of the people the chief consideration.
They are the
persons to be governed, and to dis-
regard them, while Ministers and statesmen act
on what are called constitutional maxims,
is like a builder setting about to con-
struct a house on some ancient model,
without considering the materials which are
at his command. Statesmen who defy the
opinions of the governed, like Lord STANLEY,
are manipulating chemists, who scrupulously
watch their mea2nres, weights, and retorts, with-
out troubling themsAres to investigate the nature
of the substances contained in their vessels.
It is, then, above all thi.,lto necessary that the
statesman of our day should cOnsider the opinions
of the living generation ; an there is one
opinion in which all men agree. They affirm
that Government is established to pfomote the
good of the whole community. That is a theory
universally adopted. But the Tories are to :ake
the Government on the avowed principle of sub-
stituting class legislation for the general benefit.
They are to maintain sugar duties for the plant-
ers, timber duties for the London capitalists en-
gaged in the Canada trade, and corn duties for
the benefit of the owners of rent. They are,
therefore, to establish the Government on a prin-
ciple which they, in common with all men, con-
demn, and in direct defiance of their own de-
clared opinions.
Moreover, as the opinion that government is
established to promote the general good, is just
and wise, it must every day acquire more and
more force and consistency. Daily, then, the
Ministry which is established in defiance of it,
must become weaker, and must speedily be de-
stroyed. It will not do to say that government
was practically conducted on a defiance of the
general good in former times. When prescrip-
tion came to an end, that argument ceased to
have any force. The multitude are now aware of
the object and intention of government, and to
be quietly governed they must be convinced
that the laws they are required to obey are for
their own good, as well as the good of the law-
makers.
The practical question then is, do the Tories
expect, or can they hope, that all the manfac-
turers, that all the artizans, that the great body
of consumers will obey a law to enrich sugar
planters, by taxing them ? - Can they rationally
expect that the multitude will put up with short
commons and deficient employment, with
poverty and starvation, to swell the rent rolls of
law-making landlords? These are such manifest
violations of the general principle on which go-
vernment is founded, that it is unreasonable to
expect that men will obey such lays. Their
sense of justice, their hatred of lies, their want
of food,—moral rectitude and self-preservation,
the strongest sentiments, and the strongest pas-
sions, will urge them to resist such laws.
To establish a Ministry, then, on the principle
of supporting monopoly is a sure way to bring
government into peril, and introduce anarchy
into society. To us it seems a fearful experi-
ment to attempt to establish a Ministry in oppo-
, sition to the general principle of all govern-
; ment, and in opposition to justice, inviting and
• I directing against it the strongest passions of the
great multitude of the governed.
We know it is said that the landlords-and the
parsons, and those they can dupe, are in favour
of their injustice; and zealously- support this class
legislation; that they constitute a large and ea-

lightened body of the nation, and that by their
support a Government fbunded on monopoly
may be maintained. Do not believe it. In
1834 the landlords themselves required their
class legislation to be altered. Another such
year as 1834 will come with the first abundant
harvest; and the classes on • whose support the
monopoly depends, will then fall out, and the
Government and the country will be a prey to
anarchy.
What. a lesson, too, does this Tory system
read- the multitude. It says, that by legis-
lation men may enrich themselves, and it
tells them to acquire legislative power as
a means of engrossing wealth. It is a
direct bounty on revolution. The Chartists
have learnt the lesson of the Tories. They
imitate the Peers. They want to get
hold of the power of law-making, that they
may tax other people to support them. That is
the abominable precept the Tories teach, that is

the abominable example they set, and both are
followed. They are the very essence of plunder
and anarchy, and in the ensuing election all who
wish to give complete ascendancy to plunder
in order to bring about confusion, will vote for a
Tory. Some cunning and unprincipled men sup-
port the Tories because they know that to install
them in office is to ensure the destruction of go-
vernment and the dominion of anarchy.

nr. HINDLEY last night gave notice that he
would, on Friday, on the Order of the Day for
going into a Committee of Supply, call the atten-
tion of the House to the injustice done to the
lower and middle classes of society by the exist-
ing system of taxation, and especially by the pre-
sent Corn-laws. The Tories may, therefore, be
unable to escape the discussion they dread on
the bread-tax. Mr. VILLIERS, to whom the sub-
ject properly belongs, could not perhaps bring it
forward, because, as he said in the House, the
Ministers had taken the task out of his hands.
We understood that to imply that he had at the
request of Ministers waived his own motion to
allow them to undertake thelquestion, and though
they were unable to bring it forward,
he might, feel himself precluded on that account
from further moving at present in the matter.
But Mr. HINDLEY and other Members are un-
der no such obligation, and we cannot see why
they should not make, after the manner of the To-
ries, appeals to the hustings through the House of
Commons. We are quite aware of the technical
and formal difficulties that prevented Lord JOHN
RUSSELL from provoking a debate on the subject
by a motion ; but they only stand in the way of
Ministers, and it is the duty of other Honourable
Members not to allow the subject to sleep. Mr.
HINDLEY'S intention was excellent, the wording
of his motion implies an admirable principle, and,
well followed up, it may much contribute to the
success which we believe awaits the anti-bread
taxers.

The subjoined late and rather important news from
Spain, has reached London, by an extraedinary express
from Paris, dated yesterday :
MADRID, JUNI 3.—A new Commission has been again
named, for taking into consideration the establishment of banks
in the provinces, for the purpose of furnishing funds to the
agriculturists at a fair rate of interest. The Minister of Fi-
nance has not yet succeeded in obtaining any advances from
the different capitalists, the latter trying to drive too hard a
bargain.
The resignation of this Minister is talked of, and although
merely a rumour, the funds declined yesterday to 26% for cash,
at which price they remain to-day.
The Ministry has just received a check in the Chambers.
In spite of their opposition to it, the Cortes have adopted, by
82 against 52, the project of the Commission, to the effect that
Senators holding situations under Government shall not receive
any salary during the session.
The Member Lopez has resigned. M. Calatrava has been
named Senator. '1 he health of the young Queen does not im-
prove. The Council of Regency, and the guardians appointed
by Ferdinand's will, in case of any unforeseen event to the
Queen-Mother, have put in their claim to the guardianship.

By an Extraordinary Express from Paris, we have
news from that capital of Wednesday's (yesterday's)
date. Marshal SouLT will discharge the duties of his
office during his temporary sojurn in the country, for the
benefit of his health, by means of estafettes. He will
be accompanied by his son, the Marquis of DALMATIA,
who will not proceed as Ambassador to Rome until his
father's health is restored. The absurd trepidations of
the National and the Gazette de France, on the
score of the existence of a Thrkish partition treaty,
signed by England, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, are
very properly ridiculed by their more sober Contempo-
raries.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday add little to the intel-
ligence of the same date received yesterday by Express,
and published in the afternoon Edition of The Sun.
Marshal SoutT's good humour has been restored by the
appointment of his son, the Duke of DALMATIA Am.
bassador to the Court of Rome. The illustrious Mar-
shal will therefore remain in office for the present. Ac-
cording to a statement in the Constitutionnel, the Cabinet
has not come to any resolution touching the summoning
of the Deputies to Paris to adopt tho Peers' Amendments
upon the Recruitment Bill. The Courrier Francais
states that Marshal SouLT will go into the country for a
fortnight to recruit his health, during which time he will
transact no business whatever. This will lead to the ap-
pointment of an Under Secretary of State of the War
Department.
It would appear from the following article, which we
copy from the .National of Tuesday, that the closeness
of the alliance between England and Russia begins to
excite serions alarm in France.
All Paris has been in excitement to-day. in consequence of
extremely serious reports relative to the attitude of Russia and
England with respect to France. While M. Guizot was en-
deavouring to reenter the European conference, the work of
the Treaty of July was continued in the East, by the manoeu-
vres of the two Courts, which divide the influence in that
quarter. Thanks to England and to Russia, thanks to both of
them, the work of decomposition which is gradually dissolving
Turkey, is every day penetrating deeper into the heart of the
empire. One insurrection follows another—every thing seems
to be giving way, every hour shows some new ruin. There
is nowhere any authority that is respected. Accordingly
Russia, which sees the conclusion approaching, which it has
long expected, has comprehended that it was necessary
thought of, but it does not see the ne-
to make haste. It conceives that the partition ought
td be immediately
ce„;,:, of admitting France to this partition. Its meaning is,
si-
tuation in w.!7ich they were placed by the Treaty of the 15th of
that tlin:s should remain, witli respect to the East, in the
to England, which immediately re-
July. Four p„-:rs treated : therefore, four ought to regu-
late the sequel of the :.reat.Y• It is said that a note to this ef-
tett has been addressed
's share. Austria to re-
flected and found all kinds dei•cuses not to sign the new pro-
tocol. Thus, the principle of tiic Treaty.of the 15th of July
provinces. Prussia to
would be applied even to the question of partition. England
s
obtain something in another quarter. Such are the reports
andce re-
ceive eR Su es vi at ni said,
a part
which have obtained great credit to-day. We believe that they
ar
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ssible that
are much exaggerated, but it is certainly no:
England and Russia strengthen their alliance, an;
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our expense. We shall return to this subject.
We can assure the National, that England h2s not
the remotest intention of following up the Treaty of .;:'IY
by a partition treaty. There is a page in the history•
of the relations of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, towards
Poland, which Great Britain will be the last to quote as
supplying an example for the imitation of civilised States.
The following are extracts from the papers :
A son of the Duke Decaze left Paris on Monday with de-
spatches for St. Petersburgh. It is said that the object of his
mission is to understand the reasons of the delay given to the
signatures of the treaty said now to be under consideration in
London.
Queen Christina, of Spain, now at Paris, is said to be ern-
ployeal in writing a sketch of her political life, to be entitled
" Eleven Years' Reign."
The Commerce says that—
. The King of Sardinia, by an ordinance dated 11th May,
has charged his Legation at Constantinople to creato imme-
diately two sanatory establishments—viz., one at Constanti-
nople and the other at the Dardanelles. This measure is in-
tended to facilitate the navigation of Sardinian ships trading
with the Russian ports of the Black Sea, and of the Sea of
Azoph. In this view the Sardinian vessels are to stop on their
passage...by the two straits at the two new sanatory establish-
ments, and, avoiding all communication with the Turki4i
ports, will obtain a considerable diminution of the quarantine
prescribed. This wise measure is worthy of being imitated by
the French Government."
A letter from Florence, dated 2Flth ult., in the Constitu-
tionnel, says that the Grand Duke of Modena has just granted
to the clergy privileges and franchises which have seriously dis-
pleased all the Soverelgns of Italy, not excepting the King of
Sardinia and the Emperor of Austria, and it is added that the
Empress of Austria has endeavoured, during her stay at Me-
dena, to destroy the excessive influence of the clergy over the
mind of the Grand Duke. According to this letter the favour
shown by him to the clergy arose from his desire to obtain abso-
lution from the Pope for the offence of having hanged, without
the previous Co,USent of the Court of Rome, a priest who was
implicated in the revolution of Modena. The Jesuits, who
were charged by the Grand Duke with the negotiation at Rome,
are said to have made it a condition of their success that he
should enlarge the privileges of the priesthood in his dominions.
The Gazette de France ine;,tions the death of a gentleman
of Savoy, the last of the illustrious family of All.nges, leaving a
fortune of 25,000,00 f.
BO LESE—PAnts, TUESDAY, JUNE 8.
tirst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
rrepch per Cents
4 per Cents ,i9 20 .. 99 35 30-.. 99 351
3 per Cents 77 20 .77 50 ... 17 77 51
lank ol ;ranee
Lattitte flank I,lloor. Si arcs
1165 ...1065 ...lees —toss
5,0e0f. spares 511,5 ..,5165 ...5165 ...5165
Belgian Ilank
5 per Cents.
New Loan IOIN 1' 144 -.• 10)% ... 101%
Bpanish Active C.4% ... :;4%
Passive SX, ••• 4;
t4eapolitan.... ......... .„ 10^ 90 ten3o "' 89 "' 10°3
..... 102 "' I
AILVV AY SHARES.
Versailles. Lai:—
• • "' 322 53 ... 2. so ... 3.32 50 ... 242 50
Roan ............. 457 50• 457 ... 457 50 457 50
Orleans . """ 4t,6 25.... 486 25 '••. 496 25 ... 485 25
Thasburr to Is4le* 2'47 ... V 27 50 ea, 228 75

DUTCH FUNDS.-.AIUTP.tDArd, int 7,
Moues his.
Actual DaLt, 2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Anlolt Sndic,4 hi per cent 9O , 91
Ditto, ditto, OV, per cent 7,% 74%
Comn:ercial Company, 41..2 per cent 1654 113J14
Ditto (1M and 1537) 5 per c.ent
Loan 1837, 5 per cont. 97% 97%.
Exchange on London, One month l2 7
Two months
Dutch Papers, June 1.

ASCOT RACES.
THIS DAY-(BY EXPRESS).

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
Prince George of Cambridge and a numerous party,
arrived at half-past one. The company great and the
weather delightful
The Grand Stand Plate of 1001., &c.
Lord Albemarle's Janus (Robinson) 1
Mr. Osbeldeston's fby The Colonel, out of Galatea... 2
Mr. Wilson's Quicksilver 3

Four others ran.
The Two-yrs old Stakes of 30 sovs. each, &c..
Mr. Shackel's Meal
The Windsor Forest Stakes of 50 sovs each, &c.

Mr. Treen's Una (Conolly) 1
Duke of Grafton's Florence 2
Lord Albemarle's Minaret
The Gold Cup Stakes of 20 sovs. each and 200 added.
Mr. Ramsay's Lanercost, 6 yrs (Noble) 1
Mr. Pettit's St. Francis, 6 yrs 0
Duke of Rutland's Flambeau, 5 yrs
Bloomsbury, Teleta, and Bokhara also ran. A dead
heat for second place.

CORN, CURRENCY, AND CONSOLS.—Mr. Wyld, of
Charing-cross, with indefatigable industry, has just
brought out another Statistical Table, which will be
found of great use in discussing the important measures
now agitating the country. In addition to the price of
Corn and Consols formerly published, the present table
contains the total circulation of Bank of England notes,
(with those of private Banks), the amount of exports and
imports, and the expenditure of the State for each year from
1790 to 1840. The outlines of the table have the appearance
of mountainous ridges, and to a fearful height some of
them rise. For instance, the circulation of the notes of
the Bank of England reached, in 1817, the enormous
amount of thirty millions, and the expenditure in 1813
about four times higher than that of last year, being not
less than 172 millions sterling.