The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-20 00:00:00

EV ENING ED I V lON.

spiaiT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM T aE DAILY PAPERS OF rE3TERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Tieze..l this morning has a laboured and anxioes
panegyric on Lord Lynd]aursc, intended to promote his
election as High Steward of the University of Cam-
bridge. lot is with consi derabla satisfaction that we find
the Tistee in a whining %one, which assures us there is
a " screw loose" in his Lordship's election-machinery.
The Times is dismayed at the possibility (which shows
that it thinks it higlity probable) of the success of Lord
Lyttieton in the expected contest with the veteran
politician—" hie success in which," it says, " would re-
flect little credit on the University, and would inflict a
great injustice on one if the greatest ornaments of the
country." A prophet, it has been said, has no honour
in his own country ; neither, it would seem, have some
:national ornaments honour in their own college. A
Cambridge correspondent writes to us—" With refe-
rence to the probable contest between Lord Lyndhurst
and Lord Lyttleton for the High Stewardship of the
University of Cambridge, it has perhaps excited some
surprise that the requisition to the former, which was
published in she Cambridge Chronicle of Saturday last,
contains not a single name from Lord Lyndhurst's
own College, of which he was formerly a Fellow,
althougla the residents there are notoriously three-
fourths of them Conservatives. What cen induce Tri-
nity College, where the esprit du corps is generally
pretty strong, thus to disown her own flesh and blood,
you will perhaps he able to imagine when you observe.
in the address to Lord Lyttleton, which was published
in the London morning papers of Saturday, that one
qualification of that nobleman is stated to be his un-
blemished moral character.' The clerical members of
that royal and religious foundation seem to have thought
that the support of the ex-Chancellor would be hardly
a fair thing to Alderman Harmer. after the way the Li-
very of London have treated himl"
(From the Standard.)
The Paris Journals are naturally filled with par-
tlealars of the late attack upon the life of the Kiwi,
and with animadversions upon the probable motives 01
that atrocious attempt. The assassin has spared the
necessity for much speculation. He has declared
himself a R laublican, and a war fanatic, and
avowed that his resolution was to murder the
monarch as a tyrant, the greatest tyrant that
France had ever produced. This is enough. Every
king is a tyrant, says the Republican ; every one who
will not obey the command of a faction is a tyrant
in the judgment of that faction ; but all who are
tyrants, or ate thought to he tyrants, are justly punish-
able with death according to the new morality of
France. Would that we could limit this abominabl.:
code to France ; but though that country may have the
disgrace of its invention, we cannot shut our eyes to
the truth that it has too many votaries among our-
selves. Oxford was a madman : of this there can
be now no doubt, but the papers found upon him prove
that he had received his execrable bias from those who
we not mad. The champion of " young England" had
learned something from the importers of the doctrines of
" la Jeune France." The truth is, that the minds of men
in our part of the world have, in too many cases, lost
the guidance of those moral and religious principles
which constituted the safety of elder, and, whatever
reproach we may incur by the confession, in our
opinion, wiser generations. The supremacy of the
Divine law, and, under that, the supremacy of the
municipal law, while they were recognised among men
presented a sure guard to public tranquillity and per-
sonal safety. The only tyrant was he who violated the
law of the land ; and as the security of the Monarch's
state constituted part of that law, all who resisted
the Prince were rebels ; but when the Monarch had
violated the law, his punishment was the act of
the nation. These were plain intelligible prin-
ciples ; but these principles have suffered the fate
that has confounded all political principles during
the last half century. Men begin with active or
passive resistance to some law which may happen to
displease them. Here the first step is taken in sub-
verting the supremacy of that sovereignty to which
alone a free people ought to submit. From resisting a
aw to resisting and overturning a constitution, the
transition is easy and obvious ; and still easier is the
transition to regicide, on the part of sanguinary
and irreligious men, who see, or think they see, no F., it
between them and the fulfilment of their wishes, but
one man, and he a man whom they have been industri-
ously taught to hate. Here we have the solution of
the six attempts to murder probably the very best, and
certainly the wisest King who ever occupied the throne
of France. It is remarkable that in none of these
six attempts was the vindication of a private wrong
pretended. What better proof can be required that
the King of the French is not the tyrant which his
assassins would represent him? The tyrant of
thirty-three millions could not fail to have com-
mitted thousands of acts of private injustice ;
and Abet has happened proves that these acts
would not go unmarked by some attempt at
assassination ; but nothing of the kind has oc-
curred : five attempted murders assailed the life of
the King, as the pledge of order in France. The sixth
murder is attempted in order to remove the pledge of
peace. Let no man say that these horrid attempts are
the acts of individuals ; they are not ; they are the
acts of all who teach to trample upon the supremacy
of law, the acts of all who denounce the King as a ty-
rant, the acts of all who, well knowing of what it was
and ever must be the prelude, swell the chorus of the
terrorists and Septembrists of the first revolution, the
chant of blood, the Marseillaise. We trust to the
mercy of that Providence which has given peace to
Europe for twenty-five years, to protect the life of the
King whose reign has proved the guarantee of peace ;
and if he live we can have no doubt that the late at-
tempt will add to his political influence, than which
nothing can be more desired by the lovers of peace
throughout the world.

(From the Courier.)
Elsewhere will be found the details, as extensively
given as they could be procured, of a deplorable misfor-
tune on the South Western (Southampton) Railway.
We have no desire to understate the extent of the cala-
mity, or to extenuate the apparent defects in adminis-
trative detail to which it may have been attributable.
On this head, however, we reserve ourselves for a more
formal expressio• of opinion when all the facts are before
us, and the parties, that is, the Directors, arc in Court.
But we may be permitted to remark that, at any
rate, the disaster is primarily the consequence of that '
management., not to say system, which would seem
peculiar and exclusive to this railway ; which is, that the
time should be so inexactly kept, as in the present in-
seance, that one train, casually perhaps more punctual,
should arrive unexpectedly on the heels of another, and
with an impetus of motion, necessarily uncontrollable,
rush destructively upon its lagging and passive prcde•
cessor. We nre compelled, however reluctantly, to
confirm from our own experience the truth of the ac-
cusation directed by the Times against the irre-
gular mode in which time is kept on this railroad,
and on this alone of all on which we have chanced
to travel. The. cause will be found to be, we appre-
hend, a deficiency of moving power adequate to the
weight of carriage, attributable probably to ill-advised
notions cf economy in the administration, and too great
haste to arrive at a realization of profits. This unlor-
nate occurrence will no doubt be made a pretext for
reviving the ill-judged clamour against railways in gene-
ral, upon which, with the ascertained facts of this case
more fully before U 3, it «ill probably become our duty
to resume the consideration of the railway question.

SO UTIIA NIPTO N.—Greater actwity is now dis-
played in the construction of Southampton Docks than at
tiny former period, and numbers of persons are daily at-
tracted to the beach to witness the busy scene, where up.
wis of three hundred men arc constantly employed.—
Salisbury Herald.
A GOOD TENANT AND A GOOD MASTER.
—Mr. John Bond, a highly respectable and much es-
teemed yeoman, is now, and has been for forty years past,
in the occupation of a large estate. the property 'of the
Earl of Egremont, at Ilion, near Ilminster, which estate
was first taken by his father in 1765. Mr. Bond has also
rented a large estate belonging to another landed pro•
pretor for forty-two years, and likewise the great rectorial
tithes of Ilton for thirty years, flis dairyman has lived
with him twenty-eight years, his housekeeper twenty-live
years, a carter and his three sons twenty-one years, several
labourers thirty years, and one of them forty years.
Sherbourne Journal.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Monday last, as
the Rev. J. Griffiths, of Llanerehymedd, and the Rev. A.
olis, were returning thanks to God for the blessinct of an
abundant harvest, in the parish of Llangwyllog, the gal-
lery carne down with a fearful crash, and a large number
of the singers and others were precipitated into the area.
Providentially no one was injured. An eloquent and im-
p e prayer was delivered by the Rev. J. Griffiths. on
;
the won.-3erful escape, and also an appropriate sermon from
Acts xiv. i.
instance of the cheerfulness
•
A ve:v gratiryznp,
with which British seamen are ewer
theirofready to give their
country in the hour
need, was aff,,r(lc,l
services to a
few days since. More the Sparrow iawk , which, after
serving four years in South Americian,vitweadstopanicd4tr ten
Portsmouth, the ship's company were
expirationThisproposition was
of that time
days' leave of absence, and at the
to return and enter for other ships.
not only immediately acceded toby them,but othnerathseelf,o.el;
lowing morning the whole of them presented
before Commander Shepherd, assuredl
themselveshi theym h
of leave
had node-
sire
n
under the circumstances to at
of absence, but were ready to re-enter for service at once;
and they have been drafted on board the Queen.
SUICIDE.—A woman, residing in Valenti"-
, Blaskfrars-road, destroyed herself yesterday by
• 1 a knife. It appears, from the
!siding in the next room to the one
Innate woman, that she heard a
,ut the night, and, on going in the
was the matter, she found the door
laside. She immediately gave the
next public-house, the pot-boy of
a ladder, and entered the room I,y I
oPened the door. he ran for r. I
.Ickfriars-road, whommediatelyM at-
,amined the wound, i
he pronounced
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