The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-25 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

POILEIGN.
The French opposition Journals, Republican and Leg-i-
-timist, are unmeasured in :he condemnation of the rigour
with which the Government is carrying into effect the
September laws against the press. The Quotidienne,
Legitimist paper says :--"The seizures of Journals
under the present Ministry multiply as if by enchant-
ment. We give the following list of the prosecutions
against the press : though incomplete, it still is a curious
one. The National 5 ; the Journal du Peuple counts them
by dozens ; the Gazette de France, 4 ; the Quotidienne,
2 ; the Commerce, the Temps, and the Gazette des Tri-
hunaux, each 1. At Toulouse the editors of the Eman-
cipation and the Utilitaire have been imprisoned now a
month, and are not yet brought up for trial. The
Gazette of Languedoc has experienced one seizure ; the
Gazette of Auvergne, 2 ; the Patriot rf Macon, the
Courrier de ii Moselle, and the Journal de I Elll e, I
each. The Gazette du Dauphine was seized six mouths
ago, and has not yet been tried. But still the ardent
zeal of the Journal des Debuts is far feom being satisfied."
The Courrier Francais, influenced by strong sympathy
for the persecuted Journals, is more violent even than
the National. It would almost appear from the fol-
lowing article that it courts the hostility of the Govern-
ment, armed with the terrors of the September laws :
" The fury of the Ministers against the press exceeds
all bounds. The Government is never at a loss for a
pretext for seizing a journal which displeases it. It even
seems that the seizures become more frequent in
proportion as the journals of extreme opinions accustom
themselves to speak with moderation. It the National
had approved of the scenes of Clermont, M. Martin (du
Nord) would perhaps have abandoned it to the discredit
which falls upon such doctrines ; but the National
having recommended to its friends to respect the law, an
attempt is made to deprive it of the benefit of such
conduct, and it is persecuted, in order that it may be
rendered violent. We hope the press will not fall into
the snare. Violence is the weapon of the weak. The
Ministry has only a few days to live, and we can wait for
its end. It does itself a hundred times more harm by
its excesses than we could do it by any system of aggres-
sion. For our own part we have DO desire to disturb
the course f events. Let the Ministry play its last card
—it will be the sooner ruined."

The Journal des Debuts alone supports the Govern-
in its attacks upon the Press. The more Journals are
seized the more it applauds the vigilance of the Cabinet.
For this the Commerce makes the following attack upon
it :—" The language of the Journal des Debuts is marked
with a peculiar character of irritation and hatred, by
which this detestable Journal, the official organ of every
re-action since 1814, has been ever distinguished. Its
Violent aggression at the present day cannot be justified
by common sense, unless it be contemplated to support
that aggression y the establishment of a pure military
despotism. And it is at a most critical juncture, when
the whole country is in agitation, when our towns and
hamlets are the scenes of slaughter and riot, when it
becomes the duty of all good citizens to give the example
of moderation, that this Journal breathes nothing but
insult; defiance, and death, on all these inflaihmable ele-
ments of civil discord."
The Quotidienne accounts for the triumphal march of
the Duke d'Aumale from Marseilles to Neuilly, by
stating that an intrigue has for some time been on foot
for obtaining fur his Royal Highness the hand of the
young Queen of Spain. Queen Christina, Louis Phi-
lippe, Toren°, and Bermudez, are all at the bottom of
this plot. To bring this political romance to a happy
conclusion, is said to be the object of M. Salvandy's mis
sion to Madrid. But has. England been consultei about
this match ? Before attempting this second abolition of
the Pyrenees, it would be as well just to ask John Bull
what he thinks about the business.

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The Editor of the Spanish Journal Correo Nacioncl,
has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for pub-
Haling some laudatory verses upon Queen Christina, in
which the character of Espartero was unsparingly
attacked.

PARLIAMENTARY.
A new writ was issued for East Retfurd, the Hon. A.
Doncombe having accepted the office of a Groom in
Waiting on her Majesty.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is on Monday to
move a resolution about Exchequer Bills.
Mr. V. Harcourt again referred to the quantity of
wheat grown in Russia, as if the Hon. Gentleman had a
cornphobia, and %%as haunted with the idea of the
people getting too much corn, and getting it too cheap.
The Admiralty, it appears, by what fell from Mr.
Sidney Herbert, have resolved to fully man all sea-going
ships. We think they are right.
In the Report of the Retiring Annuity to the Vice-
Chancellor, Colonel Sibthorp objected to the amount,
and Mr. Ewart moved that it be reduced from 3,5001. to
3,00C1., but the amendment was lost on a division by 150
to 56. The Report was received.
In Committee on the Administration of Justice Bill
the clause giving compensation to the Hon. Mr. Scarlett
was resisted by Mr. Ward and other Members, but on a
divi,iou it was carried by 140 to 81 ; so the country has

to give an annuity to another of Lord Abinger's sons.
What has this young man or his father done for the pub-
lic, that the public should nourish him to the end of his
life ? The Bill, after this scandalous waste of the suf-
fering people's money, was passed through the Committee.
Mr. P. M. Stewart, on Sir George Clerk moving that the
House resolve itself into a Committee of Supply, made
a statement of the great distress which prevails at Pais-
ley, declaring that the funds of the Friendly Societies
were gone, and the operatives had no alternative but
pauperism. The Hon. Gentleman made an eloquent and
feeling speech, declaring that if the Parliament were to
be prorogued without doing something for the people,
prosperity would be at an end.
Mr. Gibson supported similar views in an able manner,
dwelling on the poor pay of agricultural labourers, the
iiniited field of employment for them, and pointing at
foreign trade as endless in its demands.
Some other good speeches were made, and then the
House went into a Committee of Supply, when it dis-
cuss ed the constitution of the Ordnance Board, and the
quality of muskets, with Mr. Warner's invention to blow
up by wholesale, voted away the public money, and then
adjourned.

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Chronicle contains an article on the subject of the
brief discussion on the Corn-laws that took place in -the
House of Lords last night, and observes, in allusion- to
the implied promise of Ministers, that if her Majesty
would give them her confidence, they would enter on the.
examination of the questions which she had recommended,
remarks as follows :—" The strung Government is
formed ; her Majesty has fulfilled her part of the bar-
gain ; and now it is not only fair, but just and decent,
that Parliament should redeem its pledge solemnly given
to the Crown. Yet the expecting and suffering portion
of the people see a strong Government that dare not even
face a discussion on the question ; and the great majo-
rity in both Houses of Parliament are literally about to
skulk from the consideration of a question, which thou-
sands of her Majesty's subjects declare is affecting
their health, their property, and their lives !"
None who are versed in the history of Tory tactics, could
have expected that the present Ministers would have
acted otherwise than they have done. Had they re-
deemed their promise, and entered at once . boldly and
honestly on the question of the national distresses, they
would have falsified their character as Tories. Your
true Tory never considers aught but his own per-
sonal interests. His thoughts wishes feelings
begin and end in Self. His humanity never travels be-
yond Number One. He is now desirous of a prorogation
first, because he knows full well that his party can, and
will, do nothing for the country ; and secondly, because
he considers it a great bore, and an impeachment of his
gentility to be seen in London during the autumnal
sporting months. What are the distresses of the people
to him ? They are used to starvation, as eels are to be
skinned ; and he deems it unconstitutional to make any
innovations on their condition.
The Post, like the rest of the Tory Journals, is quite
delighted with—what it calls—" the present very cre-
ditable Parliamentary conduct of Mr. Wakley," as will
be seen by the following paragraph :—" Men smarting
under the infliction of recent defeat and degradation
are seldom very correct reasoners, and we can, there-
fore, forgive an organ of the late Administration for
forgetting that two rather important facts are wanting
to justify the inference it draws from the present
very creditable Parliamentary conduct of Mr. Wakley.
One of these is, that this gentleman is, or has
ever been, a Chartist, and, the other, that the support
or the forbearance of this gentleman has been
courted, or his favour cultivated, by Sir Robert Peel,
or by individuals connected with his Government."--
The great eagerness with which the Tories court the
alliance of the Radical Member for Finsbury, is a proof
that they are far from easy in their present position, and
have strange misgivings respecting their continuance, in
office. One would imagine that, backed by a majority of
ninety-one, they would treat Mr. Wakley's advances—
and those of a hundred such—with the most sovereign
contempt ; but they seem to be aware that majorities are
capricious things now-a-days, as changeable as the Times,
and just as likely to be found one fine morning on the
Whig side of the question, as that weathercock journal.
Some months ago the Tories were clamorous in their
abuse of the Melbourne Cabinet for condescending to
accept the assistance of Mr. O'Connell ; yet now this
haughty party stoop still lower--exhibit still greater
condescension—in courting the alliance of Mr. Wakley!
And the men who thus abjectly prostrate themselves,
exult in the idea that they are connected with the most
aristocratic Government that England has known for
years! Alas, how closely in some natures is pride allied
with meanness ! Pope in his Satires, has hit off a Tory
to the life, when he speaks of " the meanness that soars,
and pride that licks the dust," of Lord Fanny.
The Herald is so transported with Lord Stanley's late
election speech, that it devotes not less than two columns
and a half to the subject, and observes, inter alia :
" Like Lord Stanley we have ridiculed the idea of a
specific for the cure of national evils ; and with him we
have exposed the absurdity and the danger of the Legis-
lature giving way to the prevailing prejudice or fashion
of the time. Had it so given way during the last ten
years of Whig rule, there would not at the present time
be an institution either in Church or State left standing.
There would now have been no national establishment,
no House of Lords, no public debt, no army, no navy,
and, we verily believe, no Sovereign ; but there would,
in their stead, have been universa suffrage, annual
elections of the House of Commons, the Ballot,
general confusion in ecclesiastical matters, a na-
tional guard, a centralised and tyrannical demo-
cratic Government, and confusion worse confounded."
—So, the "idea of a specific. for the cure of national
evils" is now a flagrant absurdity ! Lord Stanley has
declared it to be so, and the Herald endorses his opinion.
What, then, did the Tories take office for ? The answer
is ready—to promote their own party interest ! They
are a mere set of political swindlers, who have sneaked
into place under false pretences ; and now that they are
fairly housed in Downing-street, laugh at the fools who
obtained them admission there. To hope anything from
men like these, is to hope for mercy from a slave-owner,
or toleration from a Philpotts !
We quote the following from the Times :—" It is un-
questionably a growing feeling, that the Queen's Govern-
ment ought to keep the sole power of coining money,
whether in gold or in paper, in its own hands ; sub-
ject to the constant inspection of Parliament. This
would prevent the sudden increase of the circulation
in one year, and its sudden diminution in another.
It would save many, still solvent and respectable,
from the fate which has already overwhelmed thou-
sands of innocent victims. A gentleman at Liver-
pool was left by his father, four years since, the
handsome fortune of 100,000/. He employs it, as
his parent had done, in the wholesale cotton trade. He
is naturally a large dealer, and holds a large stock.
The late contraction in the currency works a rapid Call
in cotton. He holds forty thousand bags; and before
he can sell, a reduction of 31. per bag takes place ! He
is stripped,at once of his whole property, almost with-
out a fault on his part. This is only one instance out of
many. The depressions of 1819 and 1826, each arising
from the same cause—a rapid contraction of the cur-
rency—produced thousands of such instances of cruel
and lamentable spoliation."
The Advertiser, in an article on " Puseyism" (the
baneful tendency of which we have often exposed), gives
two opinions of Sir Robert Peel, furnished by his
friends :—'• The circumstance of Mr. Gladstone being
appointed to the Vice. Presidency of the Board of Trade,
has indeed led, in some quarters, to the surmise that the
Tory Premier is himself a Puseyite. On that point it is
not for us to express an opinion in the absence of proof.
Though to be sure very little religion—we mean the re-
ligion of the New Testament—be required to constitute
the Puseyite character, we doubt whether Sir Robert
Peel is theologian enough fully and clearly to compre-
hend the details of that system. At all events, if Sir
Robert is a Puseyite now, his conversion must have been
of very recent date ; for within the last twelve months
this very Mr. Gladstone, in a work already named, de-
-1 nounced the Right Hon. Baronet as a man 'devoid of all re-
ligion,' and a person who was consequently, though pos-
sessed of considerable abilities' as a politician, alto-
gether unfit to be entrusted with the destinies of the
State. Nor is this the most recent or the most terrible
denunciation With which Sir Robert has been visited by
the Puseyites. Little more than two Months have elapsed
since he was gibbeted in the British Critic—the recog-
nised quarterly organ of the party—as a cold, heart-
less, selfish man,' without a particle of religion in his
composition ;' as an inveterate egotist ;' as a man of
mean, sordid, earthly mind;' as a hypocrite in
heart, and a traitor to his professed principles in ac-
tion ;' as a man whom it was impossible to respect in
his public capacity, though possessing some amiable
qualities in private life;' and as a person in whom no
one ought to repose the slightest confidence.'
In reference to the Penny Post, the Inverness Courier
observes :—" There is a report that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer intends raising the rate of postage from one
penny to fourpence. We trust this will prove to be
erroneous. The number of letters is rapidly increasing,
so that, in a few years, the revenue from this source will
be equal to its former amount. In our Highland dis-
tricts the change would be a serious evil ; as, from the
poverty of the people, the clergy and others had often to
advance sums to enable their poor parishioners to pay
letters from their distant relatives and children."
The Plymouth Journal commenting on Sir Robert
Peel's first Ministerial speech, says :—"'The mountain
has at length been safely delivered, and Sir Robert Peel's
anxiously anticipated manifesto has come out—a very
ridiculous little mouse. The cry had gone forth for some
decided measure to restore the revenue, to relieve the
distress of the country, and quell the rising discontent—
and 10, and behold, a most magnanimous appeal from the
Grand Vizier on—the Ventilation of the House of Com
mons."

--;The Derby Reporter thus describes the Tory Cabinet:—
"It is like Nebuchadnezzar's image, its feet are com-
posed partly of iron and partly of clay; it is strong
in the support of Parliament, strong in the
support of the aristocracy, but weak on the foundation
on which all Governments must stand--the affections of
the people. The millions are against them ; the middle
classes are rallying to the rescue of the country from
destruction, awakened to the danger that awaits them
from the intention of Sir Robert Peel to put off the con-
ieleration of the corn duties till next year."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
Sixty vessels, laden with wheat, have been entered at
the Plymouth Custom-house, from the Ist to the 20th
Sept. inst., averaging GO tons ; the great majority are
from France, a few from Jersey. The duty now is only
13. a quarter; a month since it was 235. Bd.
The glove-trade of Yeovil has been improving the
last few weeks, and the distressed glovers somewhat re-
lieved thereby.
The whole line of railroad between Strasburg and
Bale was opened on Sunday last.
The Salmon Fishery has now closed north of the
Tw,ed, ;;nd has been comparatively productive.

COMMERCIAL nErost M.
Anti-Corn-law meetings, since our last notice, have

taken place at Marylebone, St. George,- Southwark, and
Old Brentford, and petitions adopted for signature to the
Queen.

On reference to The Sun's report of yesterday's pro-
ceedings at the Court of Common Council, it will be
seen that the City are resolved on petitioning her Ma-
jesty to urge the question of the Corn-laws in Parlia-
ment before prorogation.