The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-11 00:00:00

TORIES AND CHARTISTS-.

• Where the carcase is, there will the &tours be. gathered
together."
Under whatever plausible pretext the Chart-
ist may attempt to justify his recent conduct at
Nottingham, to every reflecting and consistent
Reformer, his coalition with the Tory faction will
appear most "foul, base, and unnatural." View
it in whatever light you may, it still presents
itself. in hideous deformity; and, so far from
being calculated to•make proselytes to the cause
of Chartism, will have the effect of deterring
many who were otherwise favourable to a very
extended suffrage-, from advocating its adoption,
viewing, from recent proceedings, what would be
the result if additional power was placed in the
hands of men, *hose.. party have proved them-
selves ignorant or criminal in the exercise of
what they now possess.
It is of no avail the Chartists attempt to screen
their folly under an assumed opposition to the
Poor-law, bad as many of the provisions of that
Bill may be, which provisions it was the earnest
desire of the enlightened Larpent to see revised;
its enactment (saying nothing of its being as
much a Tory as a :Whig measure), is but an
effect produced by causes, upheld, maintained,
and advocated by the very men their infatuation
has led them to unite,themselveS with.

Who most strenuously and tenaciously uphold
the cruel, famishing, unjust system of Corn-
laws ? Who imperiously denounce, from selfish
impulses, freedom of trade and extended com-
merce ? Who riot in luxury and extravagance,
by means of the scanty pittance abstracted from
a toil-worn and suffering people ? I answer, the
Tory aristocracy of the country—the men who,
by the assistance of the Chartists, have succeeded
in misrepresenting Nottingham, in the person of
the Berkshire apostate.
It is, I maintain, from the Corn and Provision-
laws, from a restricted commerce, and from the
system of extravagance ever upheld by the Tory
faction, that the present distressed state of our
manufacturing districts is to be attributed, and
consequently that a system of Poor-laws, though
aversive to the independence of Englishmen, is
unfortunately rendered necessary. How incon-
sistent, then, is the conduct of that man, who,
while condemning a law, votes for the political
weathercock who advocates the perpetuation of
those abuses that renders such a law inevitable ?
And how unprincipled and Jesuitical must that
apostate be who attempts to blind the people by
declaiming against a law, which is the offspring
of the pride, avarice, and selfishness of
_himself
and class.

The Chartists again attempt to vindicate their
conduct by pleading the imbecility and inertness
of the Whigs. Is it consistent, because they can-
not obtain all they demand from those whose dis-
position is to grant an extensive reform, were
they not frustrated in-their intentions by the phi-
lanthropic Tories, to throw themselves into the
arms of those Tories, to hug the chains of slavery
forged by them for their inheritance, to abjectly
fawn upon the tyrant who waits only his oppor-
tunity to trample them under his feet, to pros-
trate themselves before the enemies to all im-
provement, the supporters of every species of
injustice and oppression ? To the Chartist, I
would say, beware of such infatuated conduct.
Can he suppose for a moment that the Tories feel
any sympathy, or such an alliance with him, ex-
cepting as a means of advancing their own inte-
rests? Can be doubt but that while they are
making him the stepping-stone to power, they', at
the same time despise his pusillanimity, and Me-
ditate his destruction when that power is attained?
Let not the Chartist lay the flattering unction to
his soul that his infatuated conduct will secure
the friendship of his avowed enemies.
Toryism is composed of different materials to
gratitude and forbearance ; it may use the ho-
neyed language of flattery, but bitter indeed will
be the results. Once secure in place, depend upon
it one of their first acts would be the extirpation
of the Chartists as a party, for however they may
disguise the fact, their hatred to them will be sa-
tisfied only by their extinction.
It is therefore idle in men possessing reasoning
faculties to plead in justification of their misdeeds
enmity to the Poor-law, and hostility to the
present Administration. Let them ask themselves
first, if they are taking proper means to redder
Poor-laws unnecessary by their opposition to the
repeal of a principal cause of beggary—the Corn-
laws; and secondly, whether the suspension date
Habeas Corpus, and a return to the palmy days
of Castlereagh, are to be desired in preference
to that progressive reform, those principles of
Civil and Religious Liberty, and those generous
feelings towards suffering Ireland, that animates
the councils of the present Ministry, which prin-
ciples, carried out, could not fail of promoting
the interests and happiness of the people,l but
which are unhappily thwarted by the madness
of Toryism, aided by the wild fanaticism of igno-
rant, deluded, and, as was evident at the late
election, venal Chartists.
An indignant, non-resident
BURGESS OF NOTTINGHAM.
May 3, 1841.

PARKS AND ENCLOSURES.
EAST LONDON.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE -SUN.
As one who long in populous city pent," &c. &c.
SlR,—Your Correspondent, a Resident of
the Tower Hamlets," has confirmed me in some
opinions partly formed some time ago, and with
a reference to the most confined suburbs of Lon-
don and those least favoured by circumstances,
which I beg permission, in the first instance, to
submit through your widely disseminated paper.
To prove to you that I think this the very last
subject which ought to partake of a political com-
plexion, I will candidly avow that on the subjects
which you are at present discussing I differ from
you toto ca.lo. Your Correspondent specifies se-
veral tracts of land, each of which comes far short
of what, I believe, were the proposed dimen-
sions of " the Parks"-200 acres. It has also
been stated, I am sure correctly, that there
would be great difficulty in finding a single tract
which would not be from two to three miles dis-
tant from several parts of the whole, formed by
Bethnal-green, Shoreditch, Spitalfields, White-
chapel, with part of Stepney, not to mention
the long shore" line. This brings me to my
point. Why one Park or enclosure only—why
not three, or more ? Division here would be so
far from frittering away the good, that it would
multiply it tenfold.
In a case where things cannot be done on a
gigantic scale, as in a "Park" of 2,000 acres
and upwards, it is surprising how much can be
done by " laying out" with a limited space.
" Example is better than precept." I will refer
your readers to a place not very distant or un-
known—Brighton, to the " Royal Gardens" be-
yond the New Church, and to the " Pa-rk." In
the former the limits are entirely lost sight of,
from the beautiful disposition of the ground.
The latter has a wild and spacious appearance,
and certainly would conveniently hold 30,000 or
40,000 persons ; yet, if I recollect right, though
double the size of the former, it only includes
sixteen acres.
Like the besieged cook, in the " Fortunes of
Nigel," a person of taste can do a great deal
with small means. " Capability Brown" would
not have wished for more than 25 acres. Trees—
those of quickest growth—may be planted,—an
artificial precipice may be formed--or a sunken
level, to be filled with water; and with the earth
excavated, ti "mound " may be formed 40 or 50
feet high, and upwards, from whence not only
a view, but, what is here of intense importance,
" a snuff of fresh air" may be obtained. In
fact, large erections of this class, even without a
" Park," would be of the utmost value.
The primary expense of all this would be con-
siderable ; but, like Zeuxis' paintings, it would
last, with moderate care. Of the tenacity of
earth-works, where no care has been used, many
an ancient agger, Valium, and castrum, affords
incontestible proof.
The object is not to form a " public establish-
ment," with a" staff," butto do the greatest good
for the multitude, with whatever means can be
procured. Even if the expense ofkeeping up se-
veral proved more, it ought not to deter. I
should be glad to live to see this idea spread ;
that other suburbs of London, as well as towns
in the country, where it was needed, should
each have its " little Park," where a grandfather
could sit on a bench on a summer's eve, and tell
his grandson of " the things that are gone"—
places loved in youth, and loved for memories in
age, when the spirit is but half of this world,
and longs to rejoin the friends of its youth.
Don't call either of these by such a conceited
term as has been used at Derby—arboretum,
("arbour eaeem I" I believe the honest rustics
term it): to one who has not had the advantage
or accident of a clasical education, this conveys
as clear an idea as abracadabra would, or Xeno-
phon's nafaLicros in the original Greek. Call
it by the old English word, a Parh, which is
quite sufficient to convey the idea of meadow,
wood, water, hill, or valley.
I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
May 7, 1841. P.

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The number of corporal punishments inflicted in
the royal navy in 1838, amounted to 1,730, and in 1839 to
1,381.

INTREPIDIfir 01-4- Li POLICE-

CONSTABLE.

The Magistrates sitting at the Town-hall, Croydon,
last week had to dispose.of a charge against two noto-
rious poachers, named Nicholson and Page, and a third
man named Denham, of being in Sanderstead-park, for
an illegal purpose, and also with committing a violent
assault upon Thomas Tappin, one of the police-con-
stables of the P division. It appeared from the evidence
of Tappin, who had his head much cut and his nose split
in the affray, that while on duty, about half-past two
o'clock in the morning at Sanderstead, he saw the de-
fendants and two other men get over the hedge into
Sanderstead-park, and suspecting they were about com-
mitting some offence, he shortly afterwards followed
them, and -on his going into the rookery he found
that some iron chains had been fixed in one
of the trees, and two of the men had ascended,
and Page was about following them, when the
constable seized him by the leg, and pulled
him down, and a struggle took place between
them, and on Page calling on his comrades to assist him,
Durham and Nicholson did so, and they all attacked
the constable. The constable, however, being a very
powerful man, would not relinquish his hold of Page,
and he actually succeeded in getting the other two
men down, and they all struggled together, as afterwards
appeared by the state of the ground for a distance of
thirty yards ; and during this time the constable was
kicked and struck in the face and very much hurt.
By this time an alarm had in some way been given, and
a private watchman who sleeps at the residence of Mr.
Hills the tenant of Sanderstead-park, got up, and armed
himself with a gun, and accompanied by a blood-
hound, he proceeded to the spot, where he found the
three prisoners and the constable struggling on the
ground. The dog immediately seized one of the men, and
dragged him off, and with the assistance of the private
watchman the three prisoners were eventually securedand placed in safe custody, but the other two made their
escape. Upon an examination being made, the ground
presented very plain appearance of the desperate struggle
1 that had taken place, and six young rooks were also found
lying dead, so that the prisoners' object was, no doubt,
to plunder the rookery. The next day the prisoners
were taken before Messrs. Sutherland and Currie, at
Croydon, when the above facts were deposed to,
and the constable in addition, stated that he did not
draw his staff in the affray, because he was afraid they
might get it away from him and use it about his persons
The Magistrates ultimately committed the defendants
for three months to the House of Correction. The pri-
soners are notorious characters, and one of them stnne
time back underwent an imprisonment of twelve months
for a violent assault upon a gamekeeper. It is said that
the Commissioners of Police have directed a gratuity to
be given to the constable Tappin for his intrepid conduct
upon the occasion.