The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-21 00:00:00

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LONDON:
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1341.

It is c ear, from past experience, that union
is necessary to enable the people to obtain re-
dress from the aristocracy. On this account we
regret that there should have been an interrup-
tion to the unanimity of the meeting held in
Southwark yesterday, even more than we re-
joice in the great number of per,sons assembled,
and in the powerful speeches which were ad-
dressed to them. The meeting will, notwith-
standing this drawback, have an excellent effect
throughout the country.
If there were at present the least chance of
uniting the bulk of the people in favour
of the Charter, we should have no objec-
tion to pursuing that object ; but there is
not ; while, as the bulk of the Chartists
are favourable to the repeal of the Corn laws,
there is a great probability, by using common
discretion, of being able to unite all classes for
its attainment. We cannot, therefore, too
strongly reprobate such attempts as were yester-
day made at Southwark to thrust in on meetings,
having for their object the removal of comtner-
, cial restrictions, including the Corn-laws, reso-
lutions for the promotion of the Charter. They
only serve to defeat the purpose of the Chartists,
They nourish the arrogance of the aristocracy by
at once convincing them that they have nothing
to fear.

We must add that this conduct on the part of
the Chartists is heartless and cruel to their suffer-
ing fellow-workmen in the manufacturing dis-
tricts. It is but too clearly and too abundantly
proved, that thousands of human beings there are
reduced to the last extzemity of want. It is sup-
posed, asserted, and, we believe, demonstrated,
that the total and immediate repeal of all the
would give immediate relief
starvation laws,
to them. Employment and food would
both
be instantly obtainable. That hu-
mane and noble end can, however, only be
reached justice can only be wrung
n. from the
bread-taxers—by a union of the suffering people.
Under these circumstances a few crotchety or
misled Chartists, or unfeeling leaders who
consider only their own ambitious purposes,
present themselves at all meetings, and,
with a wicked, dog-in-the-manger spirit,
prevent their fellows from
Totting food, because
they cannot immediately get the suffrage. The
injustice of the aristocracy is great, but the
heartlessness and cruelty of these meddling
Ch artermongers are, to the public and to their own
at: Irving fellow-creatures, quite as injurious.
Following out these remarks, we repeat that
t! :ere is no hope for the people but in combina-
tion. Manchester has done well, South-
ivark Las followed its excellent example,
Glas-
gow is about to imitate, and, we hope, surpass it,
. but these few meetings are not enough. Meet-
ings must be held all over the country, and the
procrastinating, cunning Premier, who evi-
dently designs, by the slow but effectual
means-of penury and starvation to crush for ever
the now humbled spirit of tine people, and so be
enabled to curb and drill them after the true
Tory fashion—the cunning Premier must be
at once convinced that his designs are seen
through,. And 'that the people will not be con-
ducted by the painful process of a winter's star-
vation to -..the Tory goal of perpetual tyranny.

The mis cellaneous estimates were voted last
night withc ut much opposition. Air.
CRAWFORD
divided the House on going into Committee, on

the ground that the public distress should be in-
quired into. Mr. WILLIAMS divided the Com-
mittee on the vote of money for secret service,
but in general the Members on the Opposition
side agreed with the Ministerialists in disregard-
ing the embarrassed state of the finances and in
voting away the public money. Grants for
Schools of Design suit Mr. WILLIAMS'S consti-
tuents, and Mr. EWART'S opinions. Dr. Bow-
RING likes exploring, and therefore, the Niger
Expedition has his approbation. Grants for
aiding the opulent inhabitants of towns to pro-
vide public walks for themselves and the poorer
classes are agreeable to Mr. BROTHERTON'S
benevolent disposition. Such votes as these,
thyrefore, met with the support of
these gentlemen. We object to these
grants, that they are bad as an .example,
and bad in principle. If the Government must
promote a knowledge of design, and provide
public walks, why should it not promote agricul-
ture by a Corn-law, and civilisation by enrich-
ing the land-owners, raising them, end, by their
example, stimulating others to rise ? We know
that this is said in favour of Corn-laws. Either
these soi disant Liberals, therefore, have no cor-
rect conception of the principles on which alone
Corn-laws can be resisted and overthrown, or
they heedlessly sacrifice the great cause in which
they pretend to be engaged, in order to gratify
their whims or personal feelings. The demand
for money to provide schools of design and pub-
lic walks in manufacturing towns, which the in-
habitants ought to provide for themselves, is a
quasi justification of that protection which is de-
manded and obtained by the rent-owners.

The Tories, after worrying the Irish, and har-
rassing the Ministers with monstrous accusations
of wholesale perjury and Registration Bills, :o
disfranchise nearly all the Catholics, seem to
repent them of their iniquity. At least, Sir
ROBERT PEEL, last night, very coolly threw his
Noble Friend's (Lord STANLEY) Registration Bill
under the table. -The Noble Lord will probably
be too busy as KING of the Colonies, and too
happy in his diligence, to care about Irish Regis-
tration Bills; and the task, therefore, of annoy-
ing the Irish will henceforth be consigned to the
meaner hands of Mr. E. TENNANT and Mr. Ser-
geant JACKSON. The accusations of perjury
have attained the object proposed, by making
them contribute to carry the Tories into office,
and the sooner and the more completely, they
are forgotten by the party the more agreeable.
Will the Times be silent? It has proclaimed aloud,
over and over again, that the perjury in Ireland
is a most crying evil. It has demanded, over
and over again, that it be redressed. How will
it like the cool manner in which the new Pre-
mier throws aside Lord STANLEY'S Bill and its
violent tirades?

We read at the top of one column of a news-
paper " ATTEMPT to ASSASSINATE one of the SONS
of LOUIS PHILIPPE," and we read at the top
of another column of the same paper, " ROYAL
PASTIME—GRAND SHAM FIGHT IN THE HOME
PARK." So reading, the thought immediately
arises by that familiar and yet incomprehensilAe
principle of suggestion, that these two events,
and all similar events, are connected with each
other. We ask how that can be ? Those who
draw the sword, we are told by high authority,
shall perish by the sword, and in confirmation of
that, we see that class which engages in war, and
which familiarises the minds of- men with deeds
of violence and bloodshed, by even getting up
mock wars for their amusement, exposed to the
assassin's ball. Louis PHILIPPE, like other
Royal persons, sometimes indulges in the pastime
of mock wars, while the son who was shot at
has just returned from sharing in real contests
in Africa, including those barbarous razias for
which the French warfare in Africa has been
so murderingly notorious. Now it very naturally
suggests itself to those who, from political or other
causes hate Louis PHILLIPE, that if he may use
bloody violence to get rid of his enemies, so may
they. The very sight of a sham fight, in which
men pretend to pistol or sabre each other, would
suggest the diabolical thoughts of using the
same means to take revenge. Between the
business pursuits of warrior Princes and their
amusements, and the violence with which they
are assailed, there is a close connection, and to
avoid the assassin's ball, they should abstain as
much as possible from actual warfare, shudder-
ing, rather than gazing with pleasure at, those
mock scenes of strife which are suggestive of
deeds of violence and bloodshed.

We have been again assured by the Post, that
the new Ministry will adapt their conduct to the
wants of the age, and will do what circumstances
and events require. Sir ROBERT PEEL, it is ac-
cordingly supposed, has put off till February his
explanation of what he will do, in order to as-
certain what the people will demand. He wishes
to learn by experience how the nation will bear
his rule, before he states whether he will make
large concessions, or govern with a strong hand.
If the public, between this and February, dis-
play much res?ect for Tory domination, a readi-
ness to yoke themselves to the Tory chariot, and
if the Right Hon. Baronet finds continued sup-
port in the country, he will make no concessions.
He will then conclude that circumstances do not
require them, and he will maintain all the mono-
polies and abuses he was carried into office to
maintain.

If the public, however, or a large part of them,
betray continued impatience under Tory rule—if
commerce does not revive—if the Anti-bread
taxers increase in numbers and importunity—if
distress and discontent increases—if insurrection
against the bread taxers be threatened—the Right
Hon. Baronet will then inform his rent-owning
colleagues that he cannot with safety maintain
the Corn-laws, and he will make some concession,
though as little as possible, to satisfy the people.
He puts off acting till next spring, in order to
learn what he must do. He has no definite course
of policy marked out, and, therefore, he is not
prepared to state what he will do. He must gain
time, not to mature any measures, but to see
what the public will require. With all the cir-
cumstances of the country—with the amount of
expenditure and revenue—with the effects of the
Corn-laws—he is as well acquainted now as he
will be in February; but he does not know how
little or how much will satisfy the people.
While he and his friends pretend to make
light of public opinion, they closely consult it, in
order that they may always be ready to give way
when it becomes dangerous to resist. Placed in
office to resist the demands of the people he will
fulfil that condition. He postpones all permanent
legislation, that he may be able, in the mean-
time, to consolidate his Government, and resist,
in behalf of the monopolists, the demands of the
people as long as possible. To beguile the people,
is, we believe, the chief object Sir R. PEEL has
in view by the delay.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have all reached us,
with Madrid Papers of the 12th inst. They contain no
news which was not anticipated in our Afternoon Edition
of yesterday. The following extracts from them are all
that remain to be noticed :

The Temps announces that searches were made yester-
day at the shops of the dealers in arms to ascertain whe-
ther the regulations are executed, and if the barrels of
the fire-arms are dismounted, &c. In these visits seve-
ral sword-canes were seized.

Positive information was received on the 16th at
Grenoble, not only that the census had been resumed at
Saint Barnet, without difficulty, but that the doors of the
houses had been opened to the tax-collectors. The writs
for the arrest of the instigators of the resistance made on
the ;,first day, to the controller have been executed.
Twelve persons have been arrested and conveyed to the
pris -on of Gap. Others have fled to avoid falling into the
hands of justice.—Le Constitutionnet
The Emancipation of Toulouse of the 16th says—
" Yesterday our garrison was under arms in the bar-
racks, where all necessary. preparations were made to
put our city in a state of siege; all the posts were dou-
bled. It is probable that these arrangements will be con-
tinued to-day. Our population has remained calm amid
all these demonstrations, which it attributid to serious
news received at the Prefecture."
The census has commenced at Cascapare. It is
expected that the inhabitants of that town will close their
doors, as those of Toulouse did.
Several persons who were arrested in the late assem-
blages, have been set at liberty.—Le Commerce.
On the Plairte de Chalillon, near Paris, there are seve-

ral old quarries still leftopen, though no longer worked.
Two days ago, M. 1). of Paris, who, had been out early
shooting, finding himself fatigued, lay down on the
grass, with his gun and his gamebag by his side, and,
falling asleep, did not wake till the sun was going down.
On rousing himself, his first thought was to take up his
gun and bag, but to his astonishment they were both
gone, and he soon also ascertained that his watch and

money had been stolen from him. As he was about to
return home, and reconcile himself as well as he could
to his loss, he perceived that he had been lying near
the mouth of one of the deserted quarries, with
the ladder or steps still standing. On looking down,
something glittering struck his eye, and, braving all
danger, he descended; and found his gun and bag. Con-
cluding that they were left there by the thief, until he
could remove them under cover of the darkness, M. 1).
resolved to lie in wait for him. The sun was now down,
and soon afterwards a man with cautious step approached
the quarry, and prepared to descend. The gallant sports-
man rose from his lair, and levelling his piece at the
rogue overawed him, and made him march forward to
the nearest Magistrat-, who, after having the fellow
searched, and recovering M. I).'s watch and part of his
money, sent him to the Prefecture of Paris.
The Ami de la Charte of Cletmont informs us that a
female who was crossing a street in that town during the
firing of the 11th. was killed by a stray ball.
The Moderateur of Mons gives the following account
of a deplorable accident:—" On Saturday M. A. de
Rouille, son of the Senator, was out shooting near his
father's seat at Armeignis, when, in drawing his fowl-
ing-piece by the muzzle through a hedge, the gun went
off, and the charge not only carried away his ear, but se-
veral of the shot are supposed to have penetrated to the
brain and placed his life in imminent danger. His bro-
ther Ademar, who was in advance of him, narrowly
escaped receiving part of the charge in his back, but
happily only four or five of the shots lodged in his hat."
The sloop Ville de Rouen, which arrived yesterday
at Havre from Rio de Janeiro, brings word of a disas-
trous event, in which ore of our whalers had the good
fortune to save the lives of 180 English.

EX PRESS FROM PARIS.

FRANCE.

Accounts from Paris of Monday state that the funds
still continue to improve. This circumstance was
ascribed to the absence of haste observable in the terms
fixed by the Minister of Finance for his proposed loan,
and to the perfect indifference with which the proceed-
ings of the disaffected were viewed by the public. No
erneute occurred in Paris on Sunday night.
It would appear that the rumour that the assassin
Quenisset was giving information was incorrect.
The Quotidienne states that the infante Don Juan,
second son of Don Carlos, bad fallen from his horse at
Salzburg, and broken his arm. The Prince, however,
was doing well. As soon as his arm be completely well,
he is to leave for Switzerland, with his brother Don
Fernando.

Prince George of llanover had returned to the capital
from Norderney, where the sea-bathing had done his
Royal Highness, much good.
The Emperor of Russia arrived at Warsaw on the
9th inst.

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