The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-27 00:00:00

having the Charter, seem likely to obtain,if not
annual Parliaments, Parliaments of a short du-

ration.

We learnt with muchpleasure from the debate
on Mr. T. DUI COMIIE'S motion, that. 398 out of
the 444 persons imprisoned for political offences
have already been released. Some, we presume,
have been pardoned and liberated, and the term
for which others was imprisoned has come to an
end. But though comparatively so few remain
•in prison, we regret that the Ministers found
it incompatible with their duty to comply
with Mr. T. DUNCOMBE'S well-timed motion.
We regret it as much for their sakes as for the
sake of the prisoners, for. nothing has so exasre_
rated the balk of the people against them as the
imprisonment of these Chartists. Be they
punished rightly or wrongly, the effect on the
minds of the working classes is the same. They
believe the Chartists were wrongly punished—
they regard the punishment as persecution, and
they despise and hate the law in consequence,
and bate the MiniAers, under whose auspices
it was carried into execution. Could Lord
JOHN RUSSELL have found it compatible
with his duty
,to comply with Mr. DUN-
CONDE'S motion it would have had a power-
ful effect in :iciothing the minds of the working
classes, and predisposing them toward; a union
with the middle classes in order to obtain the
common good.

Ministers must doubt whether they did not
make too great a sacrifice to a punctilio, when
ti-ley saw th 9. .notion supported almost
exclusively by their own friends and re-
sisted by every Tory in the House, except Sir
G. SINCLAIR and Mr. WALTER. Sir R. PEEL
and Lord J. RUSSELL voted on the some side,
both being apparently more intent on upholding
the prerogative, than on showing mercy or doing
justice to the people ; but Sir ROBERT was sur-
rounded by his friends, and Lord Joux was al-
mdst isolated from his. It is plain., therefore,
inimical as the people suppose the Whigs to be
to them, that the Tories are more inimical.
The Chartists have now an opportunity of
triumphing over both. The Whigs do not wish,
any more than the Tories, for the total abolition
of the Corn-laws. They will, however, we are
sure, assent to that, if the people of the towns
demonstrate, almost universallST, that they are
heartily resolved to have the total abolition. A
union of the working classes with the middle
classes, under the guidance of that enlightened,
sincere, and earnest body, the Anti-Corn-law
League, would accomplish the object, and ensure
for the Chartists a complete triumph over the
Parliament, and cheap bread for the people.We are
happy to believe, from many communications
which reach us on the subject, that the Chartists
are everywhere becoming desirous to co-operate
with the abolitionists. One struggle together, and
that sordid aristocracy, and that arrogant and sel-
fish priesthood, which have so long plundered and
insulted us, in the names of social order and reli-
gion, will be laid for ever- at. the feet of the
p eople.

The tone of deep sincerity which pervades

the Anti-corn-law meetings is a happy augury.
Earnest men are sure to succeed. One mission-
one fervent believer, la sufficient to make

his own opinion the creed of a nation. But the:
Anti-Corn-law question has already scores of
missionaries in every part of the land. No less
than ninety Dissenting ministers in Glasgow and
the neighbourhood, we are told, have signed a
petition against the Bread-tax, of which the fol-
lowing arc passages :

That, although they heartily coincide with their fel-
low-subjects in reprobating. the Corn-laws, from their
ruinous effects on the industry and prosperity of the
British people, they feel persuaded that the chief aspect
in which it becomes them, as Christians and as Christian
ministers, to regard thes3 impositions, is their flagrant
wickedness in the sight of Almighty God, to whose
Holy Word they are opposed, with the benevolent ar-
rangements of. whose Providence they are at war, and
whose just displeasure, if persisted in, they cannot fail
to draw down.

That your petitioners beg leave to assure your Ho-
ndurable House, that in these views they are joined. by
the great body of Christian ministers atld private
Church members who are known to them, with the ex-
ception of those who are directly interested, or who sup-
pose themselves interested, in the preservation of those
restrictive statutes ; and that on no subject have. the
virtue and piety of the country been more united in
raising their solemn and decisive protestation.
And that on these grounds your petitioners implore.
your Honourable House, in the name of the country, in
the name of humanity and justice—above all, in the
sacred name of religion, and of God ever blessed, to
abolish these unrighteous laws with the least possible
delay.

Their fervent spirit pervades the great body
of the Anti-Corn-law party, and it cannot be
quelled by the cold, sordid fallacies of the land-
lords, or the barren formulas, borrowed from the
Church of Rome, of the English priesthood. The
repeal of the Corn-law is now regarded as a great
moral and religious question; and if the landlords
and the clergy of the Church cannot oppose it
on moral and religious grounds, they will only
provoke, by resisting it on sham and foolish pre-
texts, a more shameful defeat.

News from Turkey, Syria, Egypt, and Malta,
brought by the Levant mail, will be found in
another part of The Sun.

We have received the whole of the Paris
Journals of Tuesday, which were followed by
the Moniteur of Wednesday, brought by Extra-
ordinary Express. The Moniteur of yesterday
contains a tclezraphle deSpatch from Bayonne,
of the 25th, with news of the official appoint-
ment of a Madrid Cabinet on the 22d instant—
thus taking only four days and some hours to
communicate between Madrid and Londcn.
The following- is a list of the new Spanish Mi-
nistry, as of.Ceially given in the Madrid Gazette :

M. Gonzales, President of the Council and Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
M.-Surra y Hull, Dlinhter of Finance.
M. Mania, Minister of the Interior.
M. San Miguel, Mini ter of War.
M.. Garcia Gamboa, Minister of Marine.
M. Alonzo, Minister of Justice.

These are all men' who' have figured in the
athinet since the accession of Queen ISABELLA
the Second. We have but little confidence" in
any of them, and see plainly that all will depend
upon the firmness and integrity of the REGENT.
There is very little domestic news in the Paris
Journals. The trial of DAumr.s and his accom-
plices was proceeding, but was exciting no pub-
!ic interest whatever.

The scarcity of meat in Paris continues, and
excites a great deal of ill-feeling among the
working classes. The poor could hardly be in a
worse condition wera the city blockaded by
100,000 foreign bayonets.

MALTA, MAY 15.—A new determination has been made
respecting Admiral Stopford. His preparations for departing
were maths, all his luggage and that of his fareiily was em-
barked, and he was to sail on tho 15th, but the Oriental ar-
rived from England with orders for him to remain till he
should receive further instructions. What is the meaning of
this counter order? Is it on account of the affairs of Candia,
which are becoming serious, to which island the English are
going to send an armament ? or is it only not to leave the
whole squadron under the command of a Rear-Admiral? With
respect to Admiral Stopford, something rather curious, which
the press should notice, happened three or four days ago. The
officers of the very unmet ous fleet. assembled at Malta gave a
grand ball and supper; several speeches were delivered,
mud that of Admiral Stopfurd was very remarkable,
:or with the intention of doing justice to the conduct
(if all the Captains who centributed to the events in Syria, he
thought fit to observe that Commodore Napier had assumed
too great a share for himself in the speeches which he had de-
l•vered in F,ngland on the subject cf Ills campaign in Syria and
Egypt. The English journals will not fail to record tho Ad-
miral's speech, and Commodore Napier vv:11 doutelcss not fail
to reply in his turn. The impel Luce of the events in Candia
has induced the Admiral to send the Penhow and the Tyne
igate to that island.. They sailed this morn!ng. We know
that Tdhir I'scha, the Capitan l'acha himself, iscn his war to
Cr,ste, and fears are entertained of the ferocity of that implac-
ab'e enemy of the Christians, who may, perhaps, attempt to
suppress the insurrection in Candia in the same manner as has
just been employed to suppress that in Bulgaria, that is to say,
by mei,ns more calculated to extend the flame of insurrection
than to allay it. The Government of Athens acts a very me-
lancholy part in this affair of Candia ; and it. may be accused of
not having been able to stop the evil at the beginning by bin.
cluing the departure of the emigrants.— Constitutionnel.
BOURSE—PAEIS, TUESDAY, IVII,Y 25.

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