The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-03 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

11012.EiGN.
The French Journals of Wednesday, like those of
Monday and Tuesday, are occupied with M. Guizot's
speech, and the accession of the English Tories to
office. 'We have already given the substance of their
remarks so fully, that we may be excused the quotation
of articles in which there is nothing new in thought, or
remarkable in expression.
The corn and olive crops are represented as more
than ordinarily productive throughout France.
The Spanish Government is reported to have remitted
60,0001. on the 24th ult., to meet the more pressing
claims of the London bondholders.
At Gratz, on the 19th ult., the statue of the Emperor
Francis was inaugurated with great solemnity. The
Emperor Ferdinand and the Empress were present. In
the procession waled a number of Bishops and Abbots
in full canonicals.

M. niers was received by the King of Prussia on the
19th. He went to Court in the dress of a member of the
Academic Francais. The audience lasted less than a
quarter of an hour. Next day the ex-Minister quitted
Berlin, on his way to Dresden, Prague, and Vienna.

. P11331.1C OPINION.
The Morning Post thus extols the excellence of the
new Tory Cabinet :—" It would be idle in us to claim
for a Cabinet thus constituted the confidence of the
country. There is not one of its Members who is not
already well knoWn to the people of England, or who
has not by his past conduct in public life earned for him-
self a high place in their confidence and esteem." As
respects Sir James Graham, never was compliment so
misplaced as the above. What is there in his past con-
duct that can entitle him to public esteem ? The utmost
that can be said of him- is, that he is a lucky
apostate,. who, after having been kicked out of his own
County with contempt, and rejected with equal contempt at
Pembroke, has at length contrived to wriggle himself
into the lucrative post of Home Secretary. And the
Duke of Buckingham, too ! Is there anything in his
conduct to justify the praises of our Contemporary ! He
is known to the people at large only as the repre-
sentative of the Monopolist land-holders ; and his acces-
sion to office will be regarded as a proof that little or no
substantial Reform will be made in the Corn-laws. As

for the Earl of Ripon, though a disciple of Huskissoh,
he may be supposed to be imbued with some liberal
free trade views, yet he is notoriously a timid, vacillating
statesman, and is chiefly remarkable for having taken
fright at the battle of Navarino ; broken up the Admi-
nistration of which he was the head, in breathless haste ;

and bolted from Downing-street, without even venturing
to face Parliament And this man is President of the
Board of Trade, the very post of all others which, at a
period like the present, requires the utmost energy and
decision of character !
The Chronicle speaks of the New Poor-law in the fol-
lowing terms :—" Whatever opinion may be entertained
respecting minor details, the law is working well ; and
not a. few of those who made use of the unpopularity

of the measure, in order to crawl into Parliament, under

the shelter of misrepresentation and excitement, will
now, doubtless, vote for its continuance ; and should
some of their disappointed constituents ask them the
reason why, their answer may be given in the words of
Cruikshank's long-nosed bribed voter, "Not a word
about the ducks !" One thing is wanting to extract
the sting from some of the necessary but apparently
bard and harsh enactments of the New Poor-law. Re-

peal the Corn-laws, or at least modify them : then,
when you have taken from the labourer pauper's bread,
and given him the free bread of industry, you can hold
up your heads unabashed in the presence of the people,
and gentlemen need not bustle to the hustings with " a
lie in their right hand !"
The Herald observes—" A great portion of the House
of Commons is far behind the intelligence of the edu-
cated portion of the community ; and it would, under
an extended suffrage, be an assembly intolerable from its
ignorance and presumption. The exposure of this fact
is greatly owing to adjourned debates,' which are
gradually becoming a positive 'wise-ace. It is in the
power of the Ministerial leader to put an end to this
waste of public time, and obstruction of national busi-
ness ; for, being at the head of a majority, he can always,
with temperate firmness and decision, defeat the motion
for adjournment, and bring the real question before the
House to an early decision."—We echo the Herald re-
mark that a great portion of the House of Commons is
far behind the intelligence of the educated portion of
the community. And the reason is obvious. The mo-
nopolists and country-gentlemen landholders—not usually
the most enlightened of beings—are predominant therein.
Even supposing that these men possessed the average
allowance of intelligence, still their interests, advice, and
prejudices, would disqualify them for sagacious legisla-
sion. With respect to the suggestion to the " Minis-
terial leader," to put a stop to speechifying, we doubt not
he would gladly avail himself of it, if he could, for
Whig and Radical Members are sometimes apt to blust
out truths that must be very offensive to Tory ears. _

The Times observes, in an article defining- some of the

more important duties of the new Government :—" The
most difficult part of the duty of the new Government,
in the present anomalous predicament of society in Eng-
land and Ireland, will be to distinguish, clearly and
constantly, between' toleration' and liberalism.' The
one is an essential principle of the constitution ; the
other is absolutely opposed to it. The only real
friends of toleration are those who know where to stop.
This is a knowledge that the Tories possess in perfec-
tion. Their self-interests have here uniformly stepped
in to the assistance of their natural cunning, and
taught them " where to stop." Indeed, the art of stop-
ping is the only art which they have practised with un-
deviating consistency.' They have been stopping every
Session for the last fifty years and upwards ; and, not
content with stopping themselves, have compelled almost
every valuable reform to stop also. To be consistent to
the last—and we trust they will be so—they should
take an early opportunity of putting a full stop to their
own Administration, and leave the task of governing to
those who know, not simply when to stop, but when to go
forward.
In another article the Times thus mildly and be-
nignantly speculates on the future sufferings of O'Con-
nell :—" \V hen the tellers announced the majority of
ninety-one, the knell of O'Connellism was tolled. Now,
it is quite right that the indocile spirit which formerly
animated that lifeless carcase should pass into purgatory
in the usual canonical way. It has a frightful amount of
iniquity to get rid of. We hardly know of any fires that
can sufficiently purify it. The Parliamentary ordeal,
however, which still awaits it is a pretty hot one. Its
libels upon the women of England will be burnt to tin-
der. Its calumnies upon the " six hundred scoundrels"
will be consumed in a blaze. Its money malversations
upon the factory question will demand extra fuel. Its
venal boroughmongering must crackle in the flaming
furnace. Its rent extortions will be reduced to ashes :
and after the bellows and crucible have taken their
inevitable effect, Mr. Daniel O'Connell will be delivered
to his executors in the form of a calcined mummy."
There is an amount of torture proposed to be inflicted
on one solitary individual ! Why, the Smithfield fires
were nothing to it ! Not only is O'Connell to have his
" frightful amount of iniquity" purged away in purga-
tory ; but previous to this, he is to be "reduced to
uslies,” "burnt to tinder," and then "delivered to his
executors in the form of a calcined mummy !" Our
Contemporary has been often convicted of absurd, intem-
perate declamation, but he has fairly surpassed himself.
The Dublin Evening Post, commenting on the debate
on the Address, remarks as follows :—" The very fac-
tion now virtually in office, grounded their opposition to
the Address, on the pretence that the alteration in the
Sugar Duties would be injurious to the Free Negro Pe-
pulationave
of the Colonies—they—the patrons of the
Trade—the opposers of the Abolitionists—taking
credit for their humanity, forsooth. and high principle.
But this is onlyh one amongst the innumerable practical
lies of which they have been guilty. Indeed, it is upon
the ,
thattentmcre
vaen, and the. propagation of such lies as
thcse
a party, depends."
'rho
Worcester Clireorxiics trircecn,aarls, an article sug-
gested by the late debate—" The debate in the Corn-
inons, though it has resulted unfavourably to them. ea-
sures of free trade, by which Ministers had honoutabl
determined to stand or fall, will go far to prove that the
Liberal party hare right in their favour, though their
opponents are isghtier than they. Though they were
out-numbered on the division, they had an immense pre-
ponderanCe of facts and arguments in their favour.
The Ayr Observer contains the following remark on
Sir Robert Peel's speech :—" Though Sir Robert cauti-
ously abstained from giving any explanation regardingthe precise measures he might deem proper in the exist-_
ing state of affairs, it could nevertheless be gathered
from the general tenor of his remarks, that the course
which he means to pursue will be one of straightforward
independence."

IVIONEY—TRADE—COMMEIZCE.
The supply of provisions of all kinds from Scotland to
London by the steamers has been great during the last
three days. The Perth, in addition to upwards of 100
cattle, sheep, and 200 boxes of salmon, imported 150
boxes of grouse from the moors. The Duchess of
Sutherland imported 126 fat cattle, 300 boxes of salmon,
besides hogs, sheep, and lambs, and upwards of 300 bar-
rels of herrings. The Royal `'ictor►a supplied 80 tons of
dead meat, and the Rapid, from Berwick, imported 114
boxes of salmon, 82 sheep and lambs, 450 barrels of
fresh herrings, and 30 tons of dead meat.
The house of Lebean, brothers, at Manbuege, has
stopped payment for 450,000 francs, the assets arc
scarcely sufficient to bri❑g 33 per cent.

AG2tICULTITRAL.

In Edinburgh the alarm for the crops has completely
subsided. In Perth the harvest has commenced for all
kinds of crop. In Fifeshire, Barley-harvest is general.
In Roxburgshire and Berwickshire reaping is actively-
carried on.
The rapid progress made in the growth of the hop-
bines during the last few days, has not been equalled
since 181,5'. The estimated duty for Kent is 104,0001. ;
Sure ;"43,0,001.; Worcester, 20,0001.; Farnham, 9,0001.;
the Kingdom, 5,0001.: total, 181,000/.
The olive crop in tht;South of France is this year over-
abundant.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the•Eton Petty Sessions application was made to
the Bench for license to open a large and splendid build-
ing as the Royal Hotel and Tavern, just erected by
Charles Doteno late steward of the Earl of Chesterfield,
at an expense of upwards of 12,000., close to the rail•
way. station at Slough. •It was opposed on the ground
that the house was not required by the public, and that
it would inflict serious injury on the established inns at
81Plkgb, and vauso 010 ongregation o iinproper charac-