The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-16 00:00:00

in our opinion, to be made matter of the most serious in-
quiry, how far this growing ferocity on the part of the
people, is attributable to misgovernment and injustice on
the part of our rulers.
" How have the governing classes educated the people;
how fed them ; how dispensed justice to them ? What ex-
amples have they set before them ? Were they of charity,
religion, morality, generosity, or kindness ? Have the
clergy taught the people love, the law-makers humanity,
the judges mercy, the teachers knowledge ?
" On the other hand, has not industry been oppressed,
and the industrious millions been starved and fleeced by
their governing aristocracy ? Has not justice been de-
filed and polluted at its source, and the laws made the
means of coercing and spoiling the multitude ? Has not
the education of the people been utterly neglected ; and
the religion taught and exemplified in the lives of their
Established priests, been merely a cold and heartless wor-
ship of Mammon, which leaves the heart untouched, asd
nourishes ia the public mind an avarice so intense as to
brave the fear neither of shame, disgrace, nor punishment?
" In short, the people have been demoralised by mis-
government. What are termed the " lower classes"
have been cast beyond the pale of society. They have
been abandoned to want, and poverty, and degradation.
Everything has worked against the " slave-class "
pne;er, and wealth, and pt ivilegc, and property ; and the
effects are now becoming apparent in that reckless disre-
gard of human life which is so distinctive of our time. In
these the higher classes are certain to share. The conse-
quences of their own heathenish neglect of the poorer
classes cannot fail to recoil upon themselves. Cases,
like chickens, always come home to roost.'
" This attempt upon the life of the Queen is a fact that
speaks louder than ten thousand tongues."
We should find much consolation, even under
this view, could we suppose that these late startling
events would arouse, not merely the Legislature,
but the community, which breathes power into the
law, to a deep consideration and perhaps timely
revision of current manners and opinions. One
thing is quite dear, that no terror of death can or
did operate in such cases as that of OXFORD. He
could have no hope of escape, and none of mercy.
The crime he committed is liable to the heavi-
est punishment the law can inflict ; nor has murder,
though of late so frequent, been released from the
penalty of death. While such hostility of class
to class exists, therefore, as we have above indi-
cated,—while the masses are willing to persecute
and prosecute one another,—while the priesthood,
instead of teaching the virtues and duties now re-
quired to hold society together, inculcating charity,
brotherly love, and honesty,—inflame all the viru-
lent and sectarian passions, and set an ex-
ample of most barefaced and continuous extortion,
being more rapacious than wolves ; while such
are our manners, it will be in vain to hope that
the crimes which spring from them can be re-
pressed or prevented by any severity of punishment.
If they, as the Leeds Times remarks, .‘ indicate
the growth of a reckless ferocity among the people,
and prove the forerunners of great social convul-
sion ; if they are the straws on the surface, which
mark the approach to a destructive whirlpool,"
what can save us from being engulfed ? The terrors
of death are of no avail; what greater terrors cao
the law command ? With signal advantage, a
great melioration of our sanguinary code has of
late years been male ; the reform now required is
in our manners, which, if not sanguinary, are re-
pulsive, unbrotherly, and cruel, causing diabolical
acts, which excite universal alarm.

The case reported under the head of tl►e Queen's
Bench, " The Queen v. The Chapter of Exeter," is
well worthy of public attention. Were it an iso-
lated case, we should think less of it ; hut it must
be taken in conjunction with the efforts of the
Scotch clergy to set the law at defiance, and with
the efforts of our own priesthood to revive the Con-
vocation, and to procure an increased portion of
the public resources—and taken in conjunction
with these, the efforts of the Chapter of
of Exeter to set aside the authority of the Crown
in nominating the Dean, after it has been so exer-
cised for 300 years, is a confirmation of a design
on the part of the priesthood to usurp every possi-
ble power and every source of wealth they can.
We shall forbear from comments on the case till
the Court delivers its judgment, contenting ourselves
with thus calling the public attention to the new
attempt of the Anglican priesthood to revive, for
their advantage, the dominion which their Papal
predecessors exercised before the Reformation.
We must at the same time notice that.
the Church of England, which makes such extra-
vagant demands on the public, is obliged to wait
for orders before it can allow its congregation to
, return thanks for her MAJESTY'S escape. The
Jews, the Catholics, the Dissenters, spontaneously
offered up their thanks to the Throne of Grace
► last Sunday; the poor enslaved congregations of
the Church of England did not dare to give a
voice to their feelings in the temple of their GOD.
And this formal pharisaical day and time observing
1 sect is now, if Sir R. INGLJS be successful, to be
endowed with more wealth and more power to sup-
press all the best emotions of the heart.

The attempt to assassinate our most gracious and
-beloved Sovereign and her Royal Consort, is the sub-
ject of grave reflections in the Paris Journals of Sun-
day. The National states that a number of private
letters were received in Paris on the subject, filled
with sundry rumours, one of which attributed the crime
to the agency of the Duke of CUMBERLAND and the
Orangemen, who sought to kill her MAJESTY before
the birth of an heir to the Throne. This Journal
1 dwells upon the fierce personal attacks made upon the
QUEEN by the Tory Papers during the publication of
the correspondence relative to Lady FLORA HASTINGS
—upon the yell of di light with which they all re-
ceived the speech of Canterbury BUADSHAW, threat-
' eninl the deposition of her MAJESTY—and upon
the unmanly and treasonable virulence with which
on all occasions they individually assailed her, oven to
the exclusion of her Ministers. The French journals
likewise notice that Mr. (not:rifles greatest crime,
in the eyes of the Tories, has latterly been his ardent
loyalty to the QUEEN, and the manliness with which,
on the floor of the House of Commons, he hurled de-
fiance at the recreant head of the Canterbury traitor.
When our Paris contemporaries read the strain in
which the Irish Orange journals narrate the mur-
derous and treasonable attack upon her MA-
JESTY, they will turn towards Hanover with
still stronger misgivings than they have yet
expressed. The Dublin Evening llTail rc'ates
all the circumstances of this atrocious crime in
language a thousand times more cold and measured
'than it would employ in narrating an attempt to shoot
one of the King of liasovEß's dogs or horses. The
report will bear no comparison in the expression of any
indignant feeling to the account given of the murder of
tithe-hunters, lay or ecelesiastical,in Ireland for the last
seven years. There is something more than suspicious
in all these things. It may turn out, and we trust it
will, that the boy OxFoRD is insane ; but might not
the brooding over such a crime produce insanity ? And
what is there unaccountable in traitors employing a
madman ?

The Casior packet arrived at Toulon, on the 10th
instant, from Algiers, with news that Marshal VALLEE,
dreading the influence of his enemies at Court, who
are intent upon his removal, had again taken the field
against the Emu... On the 4th instant he marched
from Blidah towards .Medeah, which he proposed to re-
victual, arid thence proceed to Miliaoa. To add to
the perplexities of the Marshal, his army was suffering
greatly from sickness. In the hospitals at Algiers the
number of inmates was estimated at 1,000. The
French hospital at the island of Mahon was only capa-
ble of receiving 500 patients, and even the ap-
pearance of that number greatly alarmed the in-
habitants, who dreaded nothing so much as a per-
manent settlement by the French. Such of
the sick as could not he provided with accom-
modation at Algiers or Mahon, were to be brought in
steamers to Toulon.

The Madrid Papers of the Bth state that the QUEEN
REGENT and her august daughters were to set out for
Catalonia on the Ilfh inst. Her Majesty had created
the Duke DE LA VITTORIA (EsPAarEao) likewise Duke
of MORELLA, and conferred upon him the order of the
Golden Fleece.

In all the Dissenting meeting-houses the metropolis,
on Sunday, thanks
were offered up to the Supreme
olleitnigefo
jre,risehsersvyinngaztoh,e, life of the Queen. The heads
event, and prepared a beautiful prayer without
for delayhcr after,,. i e s
tt the
safety, and a tribute uad, eanfdoirn pastehte,erry
deli-
verance. The Catholic ochurches In London imitated the
example. In every kirk in t.gl.'t.,thaint
juncture toertnul r c
of
ik\r!raiter and praise fur the
house, the walls rzisounded w'
saving a life so
mee ti g-merciful dispensation of the
dear and so ,ssenti:il at the presentg'Y I'''
to
prayer the
peace and security of the country. Ttog
for the En,;iish Church was agreed
an] will not he read in the churches tilt Sunday,
Yesterday,
parlia-
ment, while this dominant. Church excludes Jews franytr;
ment, would expel Catholics, tramples on Dissenters,lia.
denounces the Kirk as no Church, and claims for he..se
the exclusive title to loyalty and true piety—_she is tie
t
very last in perfartning this great act of public devotion.
We have received numerous addresses, agreed to
unanimously at various places, congratulating the Queen
on her pinvidential escape from the ball of the assassin,
but can afford space for only a few. The joy is universal,
and by publishing even one in a hundred we should only
weary our readers with repetitions of the some expres-
sions of loyalty to the Tyrone and gratitude to the
Giver of all Good. For stronger reasons Stilt we tie•
dine giving at length the accounts concocted one day
and contradicted another, about that wretched being who