The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 1840.

Prince de Conde, whence he was dismissed on suspicion
of theft. Having got another situation in a house, he
became aequvinted with the cook and married her.
This weman had a daughter who is now about 17 years
of age. She and her mother came to lire with Darmes,
in the rue flauteville, but they could not live long under
the same roof. Dames, a man violent, quarrelsome,
and addicted to drinking, acted frequently in such an
outragecus manner that the Lao pour creatures were
obliged to leave the house to avoid the ill-treatment to
which they were subjected.
Their d,pe.;.ture irritated Darmes, who at length
succeeded in ascertaining their residence. Seeing that
they would be unable to escape his persecution it they
remained in Paris, his wife and daughter reselved on
seeking refuge at a distance, and are now living in the
department of the Nord.
After his wife had left him, Dames made his mother,
the widow of a man called Lenoir, and who went out
as a nurse, come to live with him, but she was soon
obliged to leave him.
To the other trades of Darmes we must add that of
cobler. He has often worked as
a journeyman cobler
in a small shed. Gene rally speaking, he worked but
little, of course was seldom in cash, and was obliged to
pawn his effects and to contract debts which he never
paid.
In the places where he used to take meals, Dames
was a downright demagogue, preached the propaganda,
and emitted principles which were as absurd as they
were depraved and cynical.
Of late his habits had ill lergone a complete change,
and, instead of being turbulent and noisy, he had be-
come silent and sad. _ _

rectors must again plead guilty to gross negligence
and most faulty regulations.
We regret to see that the Coroner was disposed
to check the investigation, instead of promoting it.
He ought to have encouraged the investigation into
all the circumstances, and into all the regulations
as to lights, not have confined himself to the mere
person and engine,
by whose agency not by whose
fault the death was caused. We hope that Mr.
CA RTTA it will hereafter revise his law on this
point, or that jurors on inquests over which he
presides will refuse to give any verdict till they are
allowed thoroughly
to investigate every case which
comes before then). The deodand, we believe,
would have been,
and certainly it ought to have
been, greater, had the conduct of the Directors
been investigated.

Railways arc essential improvements. We are
deeply interated in their success, and their benefits
ought not to be weakened or destroyed, if inquiry
can prevent it, by the cupidity and ambition of
selfish and ignorant men. Human :ife ought not
to be spotted with ; and the Directors of all railroads
cannot, therefore, be held too strictly and severely
responsible for every species of neglect. The
Coroner
onot, our judgment, do his duty by
in
into all the regulations
t promoting did
an
employed to avoid such a collision, which occurred,
we affirm, from the gross neglect of the Directors.

It was not on the left of the guard-house, called Port
(10 Lion, that' Darmes was standing when he made his
horrible attempt, but on the right.
The amputation of three !lagers, which Darmes un-
derwent yesterday, presents no serious aspect.
Yesterday morning early, as a sergeant of the 57th
Regiment of the line was going his round, within the
garden of the Tuileries, he found on the terrace facing
the water, at about forty paces from where the murder-
ous attempt was made, and quite close to the sentinel's
box, the breech of the carbine of Darmes, with a por-
tion of the barrel still adhering to it.
An idea of the violence of the explosion may be
formed, when we state that the wall in that part of the
garden is more than twenty feet high, and that the
place where this portion of the carbine was found was
nearly fifty paces distant from the spot where the at-
tempt was made.
Among the things found on Darmes, when arrested,
was a pamplllet on Mallet's Conspiracy, published
~bout two months ago, by a man of the neme of Duu-
tette.

The Newcastle and Birmingham Urquhartite
performing a droll and novel part in
Delegates are
the drama of politics in Paris. Mr. CHARLES
ATTWOOD is so burlesquing the Eastern Question
that the vexation on all sides must yield to an im-
sistible inclination to laugh at the whole affair.
This gentlema;:s amusing impeachment of Lord
PALMERSTON b,. fore the bar of French pubic
opinion will be found in another column.

We were und.:r a necessity a few days ago to
point out, in opposition to a writer in the Herald,
that civilization was not dependent upon Christi-
anity, but grew up 'naturally as men multiplied, and
was different in different countries, existing to a
certain degree before Christianity existed, and ex-
isting in countries, like China and Mexico, where
Christianity was unknown. Since then we have
noticed a book advertised with the title " The
Natural History of Society in the Barbarous and
Civilized State, an essay towards discovering the
origin and course of human improvement." The
work is written by an LL.D. of Trinity College,
Dublin, and was suggested to the author by the
Archbishop of DUBLIN. This title, though the
book be got up by members of the priesthood, im-
plies that the cause of human improvement is yet
to be ascertained, and is nut therefore Christianity.
Since then, too, we have read an article in the
Times, in which " social order " is declared to be
one of the genuine fruits "of Christianity.'
I'he immense worldly honour now showered on
Christianity was never looked forward to by its author,
who repeatedly and emphatically declared that his
kingdom was not of this world.
If Christianity be, as these writers say, the
source of civilization and social order, they must be
reminded that Roman Catholic Christianity alone
existed for upwards of fifteen centuries, and that it
still prevails in by far the larger proportion of the
Christian world. Protestant Christianity is both of
very modern origin, and is yet of very limited ex-
tent ; but the very party which ascribes these poli-
tical and social virtues to Christianity, continually
speaks of Roman Catholicism as full of errors,
as dangerous to society, as an impediment to
civi-
rization, and as corrupting mankind. Now, one
or other of these propositions cannot be true.
Either Christianity is not the source of civilization
and social order, or the Papal superstition, as the
ultra-Protestants call Catholic Christianity, is not
chat dangerous, ruinous, unsocial teligion they de-
scribe it. The Protestant bigots, in their anxiety
to annihilate two antagonists, are shockingly in-
consistent. To the Catholics, professing the Chris-
tianity of two-thirds of Europe, and the Christianity

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five-sixths of -the-whole- time Christianity has
been known, hey affirm that the Cethelio supersti-
tion is pregnant with mischief to the unbelievers,
they avouch that Christianity—meaning chiefly the
Catholic superstition, if they mean anything—is the
source of civilization and social order.

done the Quailed! Reviewer no injustice in as-
cribing to him a proposal to raze half our towns,
and in declaring that such a proposition is agree-
able to the dispositions, projects, and practises of
the inconsistent ultra-Protestant priests of the
Church of England.
It is mere child's play in the Times to defend
the Quarterly Review, by any presumed deficiencies
of Mr. CARLYLE. The writer in the Review
either ought not to take up a pen on political sub-
jects, or he ought to know that there arc a score of
other remedies for the evils of the community be-
sides those suggested by Mr. CARLYLE. Befoic
the Reviewer suggested, therefore, that half our
cities may be razed, he should have discussed every
other suggestion, and especially he should have in-
stituted a searching inquiry into the utility of a self_
ordained, all-usurping priesthood. But the one
idea which fills the mind of the Reviewer, is the
all-sufficiency of that priesthood ; and to give
them power in conjunction with the landlords he
suggested, not only that half our towns might be
razed, but that the people should be drilled in sub-
serviency to the priest and the receiver of rent, as
if all civilization consisted in the rest of mankind
being their slaves. He knows nothing, or he cares
nothing, of the skill, ingenuity, and virtues which
grow up in cities, the true centres and sources
of all civilization ; he hears nothing, sees nothing
but the priestdom, and to the preservation of
its power would he impiously roll back society a
few centuries. To raz' half our cities is only a
consequence of the general system the Review and
the Times have embraced ; and not from au iso-
lated phrase, not from any single propoSition, not
from any part;cular doctrine, but from their lan-
guage and conduct—from their general doctrines
and practises, we denounce the priest party zs
being, at present, the great enemies of human im-
provement, and of all social progress.

We must really endeavour to pay a little more
attention to the progress of affairs in Ireland.
Things are in such a bad way there, that. the
omission of a particular notice of them would seri-
ously reflect on our credit, as one of the oracles at
whose shrine all that is passing should be to be
learned. We repeat that things are in a very had
way—or rather in a most dangerously interesting con-
dition in Ireland. In the first place, the Conser-
vatives arc fighting like cat and dog, biting and
scratching each other most unmercifully, and now
and then indulging in language which the Times,
the Post, the Herald, and the Dublin Evening
Mail, have told us a thousand times over, was
confined to the squabbles of low Radicals ;
and, in the next, the Repealers are all to a man
ready to join the French, and, of course, to ex-
change as sovereign Queen VICTORIA for King
DANIEL the FIRST, and as Supreme Pontiff the
same illustrious and Royal personage for GRE-
GORY the SIXTEENTH. These highly important
facts rest upon no obscure authority. They are
stated in a letter addressed to the Evening Mail,
by a personage no less distinguished than the
Hon. RANDAL PLUNKET, who, as a Tory leader,
iv conclusive authority on all that relates to Con-
servative bickerings. •

As we are discussing Irish politics, a regard to
national propriety demands that we begin with an
account of a Conservative " scrimmage." On the
3d inst., the Hon. RANDAL PLUNKET attended
a meeting of the Irish Metropolitan Conservative
Society, to move a string of resolutions on the Re-
peal Question. They were not much in harmony
with the vow which the Hibernian HA M ILCAR
had solemnly promised his children should take
upon the altar of their country, but we pass that
over, that we may the sooner arrive at the Hon.
Gentleman's own description of his reception :

" Oa the day appointed for my motion (the 31 of (.),-
tober) I attended at the Conservative Society, prepared
to move my resolutions, when a scene occurred which •
almost defies description. Suffice it to say, that, not-
withstanding Major Crawfurd, a Vice-President or the
Society, was in the Society's house, having attended by
particular desire to take the chair that evening, a party
in the Sccicty, whom I believe to be the same who have
long kept up the great excitement in the Corporation,
Moved, and insisted upon retaining Alderman Archer in
the chair, with a view, as I was informed, of preventinj
my resolutions from passing—perhaps of allowing me a
heating, as they do to Mr. Shaw. This scene of riot,
uproar, and of the most disgraceful confusion, continued
until past ten o'clock, and there was not then the smallest
chalice of our getting to the business of the evening.
Major Crawford insisted, most properly, on his right, as
a V tee-President, to take the chair, in the absence of
any senior officer ; I, of course, supported him, aio
when we hat; stayed longer than could have been ex-
pected, 1 made a short address to the gentlemen assent-
bled in the Committee-room, stating that as it appeared
to me that the Committee, as then constituted, either
did not or would not govern the order of the proceed.
inns of the Society, so as to give me a chance of the fair
dealing which was usual in a deliberative assembly, 1
would withdraw my resolutions and myself from the
Society." _ . -

Such inconsistencies make us regard most of the
assertions of the ultra-Protestant priesthood, and
their ignorant cr stupid supporters who have an ob-
vious personal purpose to serve, with much suspi-
cion.- They are in the enjoyment of wealth and
power, and to preserve them their intellect is always
ready to suggest arguments conformable to their
interests. We do not judge these men b) any iso"
or any
W
any single work, but by the whole
their conduct. When we find
them prostituting religion to make out a defence of
ittaehtieleodcr da:iricitil:lea'ffiewes'c to;
when, for the paltry purpose o
increasing their own income, they lend them-
selves to the atrocious system of starving
the people ; when they
are content to wallow
to wealth, because the law gives it them, without
troubling themselves to inquire into the right of the
lawgivers to take away the produce of other men's
labour to bestow on them; when they encourage the
Legislature to pursue such a course, and continu-
ally petition it to bestow power and wealth or: them
at the expense of other men, when it is plain that
they have only used the power and wealth they
already enjoy to impoverish and degrade the people,
we conclude that there is no species of crime for way.
which they can obtain a legislative sanction which We now come to a more questionable, though a
they will not approve of. For our parts, we
far more alarming feature in the aspect of Irish
cannot possibly conceive a greater crime than
affairs, namely, the horrible designs which the said
that of slowly starving our population by denying
R
Hon. ANDAL, or rather RANDOM, P - LUNKET,
them the food they can honestly earn, and
are ascribes to the Irish Catholics and Repealers in the
willing to purchase ; and we shall continue to as- aforesaid epistle to the Evening Mail. We shall
sert that the men who do that, whether priests of begin with the account of the doings of the Catho-
the Church of England or pious landlords, are lies generally :
capable of any thing. Whatever, therefore, the " For many years the Roman Catholic peasantry of
7 bites may say in n defence of the
-,./10 Tie •
,ly Re-
Ireland have been drilled in the night. When they
want them, although concealed, they have arms is
view, and its suggestion to raze half our ✓
towns, large quantities, generally in excellent order. They
we shall assert that such a diabolicalwanting even pieces of ordnance, lying utterly
suarrestion are not
0,,
unprotected on dismantled marten() towers and other
is conger al to the whole iris of thesp ult
ra-P ro- unpro
forts. A sudden outbreak might put them in possession
testant priesthood, and their ultra-pious
supporters. of powder in many licensed shops, and even, perhaps,
i riated by havi •
They are not wont having it ascribed to in mlgazines. They have many of the remains of the
them. . Spanish Legion amonivst.theur —many non-commissioned
officers and others, who have been trained in a kind of
Has the Times forgotten, that, for the
sake of warfare very similar to what might be expected here.
power and wealth of
preserving the pOW the priesthood, I Many are in the police ; some after. learning with great
year or twofatigue and hardship the regular drill, have been known
it recommended, a back, that Ireland
d ? Has it for to leave that force when they had learned it, although
should be reconquere forgotten that, for then stationed in comfortable quarters."
the sake of the Church, the political rights of the We read this paragraph unmoved, till we came
li
Cathocs were for
Dissenters and a long period to where allusion is made to the possible exploits
foot ? Can it de •
trampled under deny that the priest of the remains of the British Legion, when sud-
: • that they alone arc •
party maintain _
.right, and that denlv our blood fioze with terror at the idea of
it is better that the whole world should perish than having to encounter, shillelah in hand, the warlike
pass away ? .1.
their dominion
_." 4 not asserted that , disciples of such heroes. We thought of the Isle
the Church is the source of, civilization and social Dogs and San Sebastian, and trembled for th
order ? And is not the conc. ssion inevitable, that fate of England. As to the concealed arms of the
whatever stands iii. its way must be remorselessly Catholics, we knew the thing to be a mere ruse,
f existence ? Has
swept out 0- not this prin- designed to frighten the good people on this side
11. acted
y
ciple been continuaon, and do not the of the Channel, who after a (for them) unusual
w demand that it be
priests no carried into fisurative fashion, suppose by arms to be meant
they not
Have denounced our °
execution ? manu- guns, pistols, swords, and such offensive • and defen-
and, indeed, all
facturino towns, great congrega- • A I Englishchildren are rarely
) ts we weapons. ....nt yet
tions of mcn over whom they are not suffered to
born
reign paramount, as
and crime ? the sinks of vice, infidelity, 1
° born without the arms which constitute the burden
of a treasonable charge against the Catholics of
And is it not, therefore, consistent i i ' t'
'
opinions
with all their II and practices, that th i Ireland .So much by way of proving
that Irish-
they en can sometimes be most matter-of-fact in their
should desire to raze half our cities ? Do
they 1
, m
1 statements. But the cream of the story is yet to
to keep down the
nee`, in fact, try growth of town ,be s i s
h itlldlil, thetvz r ~- retisaCu :--
I,opulatioi., „y . . ~..L.,‘,, tc all the Plun- .
' Viitally, Irish insubordination looks with a hin;og
deriug schemes of the. landlords ?We are con- 1 eye to French invasion—and France would fain frater-
vincedrevolution.
from all these circumstances, that we have I size with anything like repeal, rebellion, or

The Irish Tories were paragons of older and
.noderation, while the law allowed them a subsis-
tence out of the plunder of the people. Their
boasted loyalty was the coin in which they paid
for wealth and influence. But now that loyalty is
not a gainful commodity, they will have nothing at
all to do with it. They cast it and decency from
them as they would dirt that incommoded their
walking. The virtues of Toryism are all purchas-
able and valuable in the market for so many places
and pensions as their possession is likely to bring.
Every Tory, and more especially every Irish Tory,
fancies himself of that importance to the community
that lie has a claim to be supported out of its re-
venues without himself contributing to them in any

France has said that she would (in the event of war)
carry Catholicism and Liberty on her banners, that is to
say, Popery and Revolution.
" Whut are, at the same time, the opinions of some
of the Irish Roman Catholic; on this matter ? I have
learned a great deal, and from good sources lately. A
respectable person of the lower orders, on being asked
by a Protestant gentleman the other day whether ho
real!), thought they would get repeal, said Le did not,
unless there was a war, and that then he was sure
they would.

" Two Roman Catholic gentlemen of rank, one an
Hon., and the other a Rght Hon., at different times,
and to different pecple, stated to some Protestant gen-
. timer' of very strong Radical sentiments, who were
fa!king with apparent indifference, perhaps disparagingly
of the repeal of the Union, the one, that his friend had
better not talk so of the repeal, for that if they (the
Roman Catholics got it, they would not leave him even
as steward on his own estate ; the other told his hearer,
with a sgniticant look—' I might say so, because I am
a Roman Catholic ; but you --!"
From the extent of the weight attached by the
public to the opinions of two gentlemen, the one
an Honourable and the other a Right Honour-
able, on the repeal question, we refer Mr.
PLUNKET to what the Corporation of Dublin
have decided to be due to the convictions of him-
self and his Right Hon. Friend Mr. Su A w on a
matter of far more importance to the members of
that body. We are not to be frightened out of our
wits by what two anonymous Honourables or Right
Honourables may say about repeal. Our only
source of alarm is to know that a "respectable
person of the lower orders" has arrived at the con-
clusion that war would bring repeal. To which of
the lower orders, since there appears to be a
plurality of them in Ireland, does this brogued
political seer belong ? Did the inquisitive " Pro-
testant Gentleman". take the trouble of inquiring
if he could read, and in what way he had con-
trived to jump at a conclusion so startling ? Is it,
moreover, the custom with Irish Protestant gen-
tlemen to consult the lower orders of Papists as to
I the result of great political questions ? We
greatly desire answers to- these queries, which we
doubt not a gentleman so communicative as Mr.
RANDAL PLUNKET will have pleasure in sup-
plying to our entire satisfaction. In the mean-
time, we must look a little closer after the vagaries
of the Irish Conservatives and Repealers. With
the grave prospect of a war with France, we are
sadly in want of something to provoke merriment
at home.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice BesANQuET and Mr. Justice
EitSKINE.)
THE EARL OF CARDIGAN AND CAPTAIN

TUCK ETT.

The Grand Jury having found true bills against the
Earl of Cardigan, and his second, Capt. Douglas, their
names were pla2ed on this day's list. The bills pre-
ferred against Captain Tuckett, and his second, C;p-
tain Wainwright, Lave bean thrown out.
On the arrival of Mr. Justice Bosanquet and Mr.
Justice F.rskine, at ten o'clock,

Mr. ADOLPHUS (with whom was Mr. Bodkin), said
that in looking into the list of cases he observed, that
No. 7, was that of the Earl of Cardigan. The Court
would be aware that the Earl of Cardigan being a Peer of
the realm, could not be tried here ; therefore he sub.
mated that his name should be taken from the list. His
Lordship would of course be tried be!ore the proper
tribunal when the proper time arrived.
Mr. Justice BOSANQUET said that the proper course
would be to remove the case from this Court to the
House of Lords, where the Earl of Cardigan would
take his trial.

Mr. ADOLPHUS—That would he the proper course.
Mr. Justice BOSANQUET did not think any order o!
this Court necessary.
Mr. A DOLPHOS—I should think not, my Lord;
but the Noble Lord is under recognizancos to
appear here, and I think they may be discharged, or
they may be cstreated.

Mr. Justice BOSANQUET asked if it was usual to
estrcat the recogninnees before the end of the session ?
A. writ of certiorari might in the meantime be issued
for removing the case from this Court to the House of
Lords.

Mr. ADOLPHUS—As the House of Lords is not sit-
ting at present, we are in doubt what to do exactly.
Mr. Justice ERSKINE—You may move a certiorari
out of the Court of the Lord High Steward.
Mr. ADOLPHUS said there was another case, No. 8
in the list, similar to that of the Earl of Cardigan. The
indictment was against John Douglas, the second of the
Noble Earl ; and the charge was the same as in the
other case. It would be desirable if he could bu placed
in a situation to be tried after the Earl of Cardigan, for
the one case was subsidiary to the other. Capt. Doug-
wasmerely an accessory, and it would be most con-
venient to dispose of the case of the Eat] of Cardigan
in the first place.
Mr. Justice flosiQuET—lt would be inconven'ent to
try the else of John Douglas before the one is
disposed of.
The Conn. inquired if the party was out on bail?

Mr. ADOLPHUS said he was, and the witnesses were
also undrr rccognizinces to appear and prosecute.
The COURT ordered the recognizances to be respite('
until next session.

Mr. BODKIN—I du not perfectly understand your
Lordship's order respecting the case of the Earl of
Cardigan. Is it to be postponed whether the certiorari
shall arrive this session or not ?
Mr. Justice BOSANQUET said it was understood that
the recognizant:es of all parties should be rcspited until
the next session.
Mr. Fox Manic came into the Court immediately
after the application was disposed of, and took his seat
on the bench.

MANSLAUGHTER.—John Davis, aged 21, a respe:c-i-
-ablc.:ooking young man, who was stated in the calendar
to be a perfumer, was charged with fcloaiously killiag
and slaying Richard Bone. He was committed on the
Coroner's inquisition.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner at
the bar, and two others, were, on the 2d of this month,
at two o'clock in the morning, making a great noise in
the streets in the neighbourhood of Christchurch in
Surrey, and amusing themselves with striking and push-
ing about the passers by. The policeinterfered ; and one
of the prisoner's companions knocked down one of the
policemen, and was illusing him on the ground, when the
deceased, who was an old man, came up to the assist-
ance of the policeman, and taking his rattle sprung it,
on which the prisoner, making use of a disgusting ex•
pression, said that he would stop him from springing
the rattle, and he went up and struck him and kicked
him on the leg slightly. The deceased fell, and the prisoner
kicked him in the side, and on the leg. When he was taken
up it was found that his leg was broken, and that he also
was suffering from violent pain in the side. lie was
ultimately taken to Guy's Hospital, where he died.
The medical man who attended the deceased was not
called.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he did not strike
Bone until after the latter had struck him with the
rattle, when he returned the blow. He denied that he
kicked or struck him after be was down. He then
called witnesses to character.
Mr. Justice ERSKINE summed up, and animadverted
severely upon the absence of medical testimony as to the
cause of death.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty of Manslaughter.
Mr. Justice ERZKINE sentenced him to twelve months
imprisonment with hard labour.