The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY, NO 26 1841. f

Mr. LEYCOGK wished to ask the Chairman, before the
meeting separated, whether the Proprietors had heard
anything of a determination on the part of the French
Government to commence a line of railway between Ca-
lais and Paris. Such a work, if completed, would mate-
rially improve the affairs of the Company.
The CHAIRMAN said, that the affair had been mooted
by the French Government, and he was convinced that
the project would ultimately be carried out. The question
was, in his opinion, one merely of time ; but the project
was not in a sufficiently forward state to have justified
the Directors in bringing it before the meeting. He
had lately happened to have met at Dover the Chairman
of a Company in the North, and the ex-Chairman of the
South-Western Company; and it was certainly no little sub-
ject of triumph to him tolfind such gentlemen on their way to
France preferring the Dover line, even though one of
them was so largely interested in the prosperity of a
different line. But no doubt these gentlemen thought that
a voyage of two or three hours was less disagreeable
than one of twelve or thirteen hours.—(Hear.)

Mr. LEYCOCK wished to know whether the Directors
had come to any determination to establish branch lines
to Canterbury, Margate, and other towns in the vicinity
of the main line ?

The CHAIRMAN said that no determination had yet
been come to on the subject. But that also appeared to
him to be a question of time; and the Proprietors might
depend upon it that as soon as the Directors found they
had the necessary funds they would carry out the project
referred to.

A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman for
his services to the Company, and the Chairman having
returned thanks, the meeting separated.

BRITISH IRON COMPANY.

A meeting of the Proprietors of this Company took
place yesterday at the Company's office, Broad-street, City,
for the purpose of taking a ballot with respect to the re-
solutions proposed by Captain Richardson, at the meeting
lately held at the London Tavern. Our reporter on ap-
plying for admission was told that the meeting was
strictly private, and that no person from the press would,
therefore, be allowed to attend.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—That Toryism, the inveterate op-
ponent of popular rights, the very essence of
which is tyranny, and the means by which it has
ever sought to strengthen its position and per-
petuate its rule, exclusion, restriction—mono-
poly, in all the forms in which it can be made
to operate in the arrangements of the social
system—that Toryism should fraternize withChar-
tism, the avowed object of which is to change the
very form of our national institutions, break down
the barriers which the Constitution has erected
for their protection, and thus let in the mass of
the population, irrespective of property- to direct
and control the legislative and administrative
functions of Government—that such extremes
could be induced to act together in a political
struggle, was no less disgraceful to the contract-
ing parties, than it was dangerous to the peace and
safety of the nation in which it took place. It
would either be quietly dissolved by the con-
trariety of its component parts, or be destroyed
by an explosion, in which the country would be
convulsed by the concussion. The alliance is, it
seems, at an end. The Chartists are no longer
to be cajoled. The repeal of the Corn-laws—
that monster-evil, which at once diminishes
wages by depriving the working classes of employ-
ment,and raises the price of food by excluding that
of foreign growth from our markets—is discovered
to be of more essential worth to the working
classes than the Charter's " Five Points."
Though still disposed to obtrude their dogmas,
and still fond of manifesting their importance by
upsetting the proceedings of meetings called for
purposes altogether wide of their peculiar objects—
they have discovered, to the sore annoyanee of the
Times, that the Tories are neither theoretically
nor practically the friends of the working classes ;
and that in proportion as Toryism strengthens
its hold upon the institutions of the country,
there will be an invasion of popular rights, and
an increase of national suffering. Hence the
recent interruption and dispersion of public
meetings called in different places for objects in
which the Tories, as a party, are known to be
particularly interested. Instead of interrupting,
at the instigation of Tory landlords, lecturers
on the injurious operation of the Corn-laws on
the springs of national industry, the Chartists
now attend public meetings to insist that the
distress of the working classes, produced by
the operation of those laws, shall be re-
cognized as an integral part of the pro-
ceedings of the meeting. Abstaining from
the tumultuous noises by which they inter-
rupted the meetings of the Liberals, and to
which they were chiefly incited by the Tories,
who instigated them to conduct so disgraceful,
the Chartists pertinaciously insist upon being
heard; and, in proportion as they conduct
themselves with decorum, and urge their claims
with respect to the rules which must govern
public meetings, they in general succeed in ob-
taining a hearing. But just in proportion as the
Chartists become rational, they are obnoxious to
the Tories, and the objects of denunciation by the
Times. "To muster their forces ;" and "no
matter how alien soever the declared object
of such meeting might be from any political
aim," to "persist by dint of a preconcerted
rendezvous, in obtruding Chartist amendments,
where party differences cannot be legitimately
introduced, and thus rudely thwarting the
proper business of the occasion," is, evidently,
very censurable when perpetrated against
Tory assemblies ; but equally commendable
when arrayed under Tory marshals and directed
by Tory fuglemen, to enable them to act the
more effectually against the Whigs.
STANDARD.—We shall not assist Mr.
O'Connell in tracing the reason of the system un-
happily necessary to be pursued towards Ireland,
because we remember that "male tractatur pax
repetitis causis dissidii ;" but we challenge any
imputation upon the conduct of England towards
any of her other dependencies; and it is by its
general conduct a nation is to be judged, as it is
by his general conduct we judge of the character
of an individual. Must we add, that it is by such
general conduct we are, in the absence of other
proof, to judge of the individual who is found an
exception. If we find a man of sound judg-
ment,dealings, pure in his
m
in Iris sentiments, and kind
upright
generous in his
to all his children but one, we are apt to
conclude that there must be something in the
character of the excepted one to justify a
distinction. This conclusion would not be
much shaken if the excepted one should place
himself under the guidance of a domestic O'Con-
nell, teaching his pupil to wish for the ruin of his
father and his family to supply an occasion of a
scramble profitable to himself. The spirit of li-
berty, as we have said, is libelled and misrepre-
sented in company with England. " History af-
fords no confirmation of the fact that in the degree
in which freedom is possessed by a nation is its
injustice towards dependent nations." History
attests the very opposite. 'While Greece was free
the Greek colonies enjoyed the same freedom
with the parent States, and protection into the bar-
gain. The Morning Chronicleis mistaken in speak-
ing of Sparta as a free State, and of the Helots
as a dependent State. Sparta was governed by a
grinding oligarchy with monarchical forms; and
the Helots, who were przedial slaves, had no
State. Rome, during the period of her freedom,
crave the same freedom to all her' depen-
dencies—they were either incorporated into her
own State, or protected in the enjoyment of
all their own institutions, like ' the Tuscan
Care. Of England we have already spoken. The
reason of the opinion propounded by the Morning
Chronicle ever having received a moment's coun-
tenance from rational men will occur upon a very
little reflection. Under an absolute Govern-
ment all are equally slaves, and the dependent
State feels nothing to mark a condition of
inferiority. Under a free Government the de-
pendent State must be always one degree less
free than the metropolitan State, or it would
not be dependent. Wise men submit cheer-
fully to this slight inferiority as the price of
a cheap protection, but the perverse and silly see
in it, a constant occasion of discontent—a never-
&Hing topic of seditious excitement. Hence the
dependencies otta; free State are, like all other
free States, more prone to rebellion than the de-
pendencies of a despotism; but rebellion must be
guarded against by rigorous laws and punished
with seventy—and such rigorous laws and such
severity pass. for injustice with the unthinking.
It may be observed, however, of all free States,
and of our own country in particular, that the
State always punishes its own rebels more se-
verely than the rebels of its dependent States.
If the Bristol and Nottingham incendiaries
had been Irishmen they would not have been
hanged. Mr. O'Connell went at large while
Messrs. Feargus O'Connor and Bron terre O'Brien
occupied felons' dungeons; for though Ireland
is not a dependent State, but an inseparable
part of the
allowed to enoy all the advantages, free from the
disadvantages,
geoaft
dependence.metro ol p it an State, Ireland is

The Marseilles journals relate the following
lamentable accident:—On the evening of the 17th inst.
the steam towing-vessel Utile, Captain Andrac, was
bringing into the harbour two vessels, heavily
laden with coals, when one of them was found
likely to be drawn under water. Upon this the men
of the steamer called to those in the vessel in question
to cut the hawse, and take to their boat. This was
done while the rope was at its full stretch, and the re-
coil was so violent, that it struck Captain Andrac on
the head, threw him to a distance against the bulwarks,
split his skull,
the barges sunk, and of three men who were in them,
was
one only and killed him. In the confusion both of
saved by the boat of the Utile.