The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-29 00:00:00

S PinlAfillf OF NEVIS

AND
Vt/bltt Opinton.

" Who runs may read."

FORMIGN.
The seizure of the National, for the fifth time, on Fri-
day, occupies the leading columns of the Paris Journals
of Sunday, in conjunction with the two circulars of the
Minister of justice, which appeared in The Sun of yes-
terday. The National, alluding to the circulars,' says :
" The most moderate persons must now be Convinced
that Ministers have hurried on to the utmost limits of
violence. They no longer aim at repressing the licence
of the Press—they strike at its very liberty, and are
striving at the total destruCtion of those rights obtained
by long and painful efforts- The country will feel that
the prosecutions of the Press , are, mere pilot-balloons,
and that the Press once destroyed, the Jury will have a
like fate.
...Then, when the Press and - the Jury are both
down, nothing can-arrest the progress of despotism."
The_ Commerce concludes a violent attack on the Go-
vernment as- follows But the destruction of the
freedom of the press is not enough for these imitators
of Prince Poli.gnac. They must crush the manifestations
of public opinion 'in all its modes of expression. For
this the Minister of Justice aims at annihilating the
comities appointed to., receive, petitions for electoral
reform. How edifying is such an attempt by a Cabinet
whose ipo,st influential member (M. Guizot) was once the
ardent promoter of electoral agitation against the res-
loration, and the indefatigable chief of the society called
Help; thyself, and Heaven will help thee !' If the
Chamber; do: not show an enlightened and decided op-
position to this arbitrary interpretation of the laws
against associations, we shall have to lament over the
loss of the right of collective petition insured to us by
the Charter of 1830.'1
Nor is the Temps less-decided in its condemnatiA of
these circulars. It observes:—" The order to prosecute
the electoral comities is an attack on our political liberty.
We are told that these contities are only apparently occu-
pied with electoral reform, that their real object is to
agitate the country, and that, in certain circumstances,
they might serve as rallying points for the factious. But
at this rate, there is not one of our public rights, not-one
political guarantee, the exercise of which may be 'al-
lowed; for any popular institution may be made an.' ill
use of by faction. • Undeniably, then, the Minister of
Justice takes away from us the right of petition."
The Courrier' Fran9ais, the Constitutionnel, and the
all,coudemn the circulars as an attack upon the
charter. The Journal des Debats and the Presse say
nothing about them, being satisfied with applauding the
seizure of the National for attacking the person of the
King. There-appears to be a great deal of very bad
blood in-France. We are much mistaken if dangers do
not threaten that country as serious as any experienced
since the promulgation of the fatal Ordinances of 1830.
The King of Prussia is on a visit to his Imperial
brother-in-law the Emperor of Russia at Warsaw. Con- .
stitutional Europe will gain nothing by the deliberations I
of these two Monarchs.
Prince Albert of Prussia is reported to have beensud-
denly seized with serious illness at his residence in
Silesia. Letters received in Berlin on the 19th command-
ing the prompt attendance of his Royal Highness's phy-
sician represented the • Princess, his Consort, as greatly
indisposed. •

PARLIAMENTARY.
The Lords merely passed the Frogmore Estate and
the Kensington Gardens Bill through the stage of a
second reading, after Lord Brougham had expressed
his regret that it was so easy to get large sums for
Royal accommodation, and so difficult to get small sums
for the education of the people. Their Lordships ad-
journed till Thursday.
In the Commons Mr. Cochrane's return for Bridport
was petitioned against.
On the Administration of Justice Bill being read a
third time, Mr. Ward again adverted to the scandalous
job of giving an annuity out of the public purse to Lord
Abinger's son, and properly referred to the much more
honourable conduct of Lord Brougham in somewhat
similar circumstances. But, although Sir James Graham
then took sound views, of which he was toM last night,
and though the present job was indignantly denounced,
the Bill was read a third time and passed, and the annuity
is now safe. How the Scarletts will rejoice.
' The House was occupied through the remainder of the
evening with the Poor-law Bill. On the motion to com-
mit it Mr. Sharman Crawford moved a resolution to
present the formation of new Unions, and to allow .of
the Guardians giving out-door relief. A tedious and
protracted debate ensued, which was, however, remark-
able for a potent speech by Mr. Ferrand, for Sir James
Graham declaring that the Government adhered to the
principle of the. Poor-law, for a•captious speech by Mr.
Wakley, and a castigation which he received at the hands
of Mr. Ward. He was told that there was no Member
of the Rouse so audacious in making assertions, and so
cowardly in giving effect, to his assertions by his votes.
Mr. Crawford's resolutions, though Mr. S. Wortley said
he would support-the first, were lost, and the Bill com-
mitted. It is to be read a third time on Friday. _

PUBLIC OPINION.

In some. comments on the lay. policy as regards Ire-
land, the.e.hrmeicle remarks ai. follows Veni, Vidi,
Vivi ! . Elie bare calling in of the •Dotor, though he. still
deelipes to prescribe, has operated at. a febrifuge in Ire-
land. Peace and security now, reign there, by the ac-
knowledginent of the Tory oracles, and in consequence—.
as they do not hesitate to assert— of the late change in
the Government. Everything in this neighbourhood,'
says the Tullamore Correspondent of the Evening Packet,
' savours of peace.. The new change of men and mea-
sures has already had its influence on the peasantry,
whose deMeanor ,to superiors is quite respectful.' This
account comes &Um the; very heart of the king's County
—that theatre of war,. where the lion-hearted, ,Earl of
Charlcville so lately beat his Outmode, and :retired to
pour his plaint into the ears of Parliament. But now
'our bold Peer may go back again when lie likes, secure,
that. while Sir Robert Peel bears the sway every peasant
will touch his hat in passing, and Father O'Rafferty him-
Self, perhaps, ' lessen his big, looks.' Such fruits spon-
taneous spring from a change of men."
The Morning Post states,. in.,eference to the compa-
rative degree of applause with which the healths of her
Majesty and of the Queen liOwager are respectively
greeted at igricultUral and other Tory meetings :—" We
aver that at such meetings the health of the Queen is
always drunk with such testimonies of loyalty and re-
spect as Englishmen attached to the Constitution of their
country, and warm with loyal affection to the person of
their Sovereign, might be expected to display. But, say
the traitor-sycophants, the health of the Queen Dowa-
ger is frequently drunk with more exuberant rapture.
Well ! what then ? Does this annoy them ? Do they
not know that this arises, in part, from the long expe-
rience which the country has had of the excellent quali-
ties of the Queen Dowager, and in part from the slan-
ders with which they and the faction to which they
belong have always delighted to assail that illustrious
lady, on account of those exalted qualities with which
they and their faction are incapable of sympathy ? "
We do not dispute the fact that the Queen's health is
now everywhere drank by the Tories with a prodigious
affectation of loyalty ; but itis not so very long since the
fact was quite the reverse. But the Tories were in
opposition then ; and they are in office now, which
makes all the difference. As for the slanders with
which our Contemporary asserts, that the Reformers
have assailed the Queen Dowager, we deny that this
illustrious Lady was ever slandered by them ; but we
distinctly remember the time when the Tories and their
organs assailed Queen Victoria with all sorts of foul
calumnies. " The woman Jezebel" is a comparison not
soon to be forgotten. •
The Advertiser thus attacks the Ministers for their
conduct as regards the new Poor-law :—".After all their
inflated professions of sympathy for the, poor, they now
find It inexpedient to consent to the slightest modifica-
tion of the most oppressive clauses, against which they
had previously been so active in directing public execra-
tion. The discussion was altogether eschewed by the
Home Secretary, Sir James Graham, and when it was
proposed everito rescind the clause enforcing the sepa-
ration of man and wife, Mr. Stuart Wortley,, who was,
on his election, so insensately furious in the indiscrimi-
nate denunciation of this oppressive but much-vilified
enactment, declared it to be inexpedient at the present
moment to enter upon its discussion. So much for the
Tories and their sympathy with the poor ! . There was
no deliberation necessary in regard of expelling the
Whigs from office and installing themselves therein ;
but when the public good, for which only they pro-
fessed
to be solicitous, claims their attention, they
evade the subject on . pretence of requiring time for.
deliberation."

• •
The Times apologizes for the dilatory policy. of Mi-
nisters in these sophistical terms :—" Why, it is asked,
if Sir Robert,-Peel can do nothing in this Session, will
he not tell us what he means to do in the next ? The
wiseacres who ask this question must be blind if they do
not see that, if he were in a position to announce mea-
niottisparoskfeesds' to have
mea-
sures, he must also be in a position to frame and intro-
duce them. As tor the gelieral principles of the Right
Hon. Baronet, on the subject of the Corn-laws . especi-
ally,why—
they are perfectly well known. What more can the
Manchester gentlemen desire to know, except the
idfetadillesgadion,
any instantaneous
and infallible specific for .the
wants of the people, (lid they oppose the late
presento f
his
. seue
Government ik
Ministers, and refuse to try the panacea which
they offered to the country ?—and why re-
quire the New Parliament to assemble at the earliest
possible moment, if it was to be prorogued without
settling the pressinge, question questio of the' day ? Again
we answer, is Sir Robert- Peel to. countenance a
quack doctor, and swallow his medicine, because be
is not prepared to turn quack hiMself ? As . to the
other point, it is obvious that if the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet had acceded to office at a later period, he would
have required the same time for deliberation as now ;
and, therefore, had Parliament assembled later, a pro-
portionately greater delay must have taken place."---
The allusion to quack-doctors in the abth,e;,:tss.te,is
somewhat unlucky on the part of the Tines '
foe it in-
stantly sugfestS the recolliQtion of the notorious Tarn-
worth Quack, who, with a degree of effrontery unsur-
passed in the annals of quackery, has pocketed his fee,
and refuses to give his prescription. Not even the Smallest
Hygean pill will he give his patient. There has been
no instance of such an unprincipled Quack within the
memory of that mysterious personage_., the oldest in-
habitant!" Even the bottle-conjurer was a
prodigy of
fair-dealing compared with him!
The Herald predicts the following, anion_
other r-
rors, g from an alteration in the Corn-laws:_,, alte-
rationAn in our Corn-laws which would realise Lord Pal-
merston's sawmill bonuntl' a constant flowing stream' of
foreign corn, without the contemporaneous concession of
reciprocity from the great corn-growing countries, would
be nothing short of au act of national bankruptcy. We
should bare large balances of the precious metals to pay.

yearly to almost every European country; we should
have never-ending advetse exchanges; we should have per=
petual IoW prices; with their in:variable concomitants, re-
stricted issues arid discotints ; we should be deprived of
that influence over foreign produce which we now possess;
in short, our command over the precious metals would be
completely taken from us. The mercantile supremacy
of England is immediately based on the power this coun-
try possesses over the precious metals. This power is
very much the result of superior skill, industry, and
energy of our manufacturing artisans ; it generates a
higher scale of prices than those of countries less
favoured in these respects, and gives to our agricultural
produce a higher range of quotations than is to be met
with elsewhere."

WON ET ADE—COZYZIVIERCE.
A Bill for a railroad from Yarmouth to .Norwich—a
distance of 20.1 miles—is about to be applied for.in the
House of Cgmmons. The expense is computed at
10,00 C/. per mile, and the traffic is calculated to yield 12
per cent. on a capital of 200,0001.

LITER/MY AND SCIENTIFIC.
A singular lunar phenomenon was perceivable on Sa-
turday evening last, at seven o'clock. A broad pale circle
formed round the moon, while at the east and west ends
of its horizontal diameter two mock moons appeared,
each having a taper tail. The moons and circle gradually
brightened for a short space, and as gradually faded.

:6J Lt.CTIONEERING.

At the close of the Registration Court for Glasgow,
the Liberal claims admitted amounted to a clear majority
of 441 over the Tories.

LAW AND POLICE.

At Bow-streetonkonaiyThOn7LYoore, a young man
in the service of Mr. Dawe, Keeper of a Post-office re-
ceiving-house in Maddox-street, was charged with steal-
ing a letter, containing a 51. bank of England note. The
prisoner declined making any defence, and was remanded
until Friday.
At Hatton-Garden a journeyman tailor was convicted
in the penalty of 205., and in default of payment fourteen
days' imprisonment in the House of Correction, for rude
behaviour in the street to a young person connected with
Covent-garden theatre.

At 'Thames-street John Aylmore, the steward of the
Lord Lowther East Indianian, and William Jarrett, a
stoker on board the steam-ship Jupiter, from St. Peters-
burgh, were convicted in the penalty of 1001. each fin•
smuggling tobacco.
At Liverpool, last week, a wretched-looking woman
named Ashworth, and her child was take!, into custody
for haVing stolen half-a-crown from a shop-drawer. She
had not tasted food for three days, and in the cell on
the morning she was found to have murdered her child
by suspending it from a gas-pipe in the prison by a strip
of its clothing as a rope, and ended her own existence in
the same way.

COUP.T—PASESIONABLE.
The Queen Dowager arrived at Belvoir Castle, the
seat of the Duke vf Rutland, on Friday last, and left on
Monday for her own residence, Sudbury Hall.
Lord Eliot arrived in town from Cornwall on Thursday.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel leave town this afternoon,
on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an audience of
Sir Robert Peel on Monday afternoon.
The Duke of Manchester arrived at Paris on Thurs-
day from Nice.

'Bad De Grey arrived at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, on
Saturday last.

The Earl and Countess Grey have arrived at Howick
Hall, where they are entertaining a select family circle.
Viscount Beresford continues gradually to mend.

RUMOURS OF THE DAT.
It is reported that the Duke of Beaufort is to become
the representative of this country at the Court of one of
the great European Powers.

MISC7ET+Y+ANEO VS.
Yesterday in 1736, when the " Gin Act" was passed
to prevent the retailing of spirituous liquors in small
quantities, a detachment of 60 soldiers was obliged to
protect the house of Sir Joseph Jekyll, the Master of
the Rolls, in Chancery-lane, who procured the statute.
The punch-houses on the occasion were put into mourn-
ing, and the keepers of the gin-shops made a mock cere-
mony for "Madame Geneva lying in state ;" which creat-
ing a mob, many of the chief mourners were committed
to prison.

A. workman, employed at a brewer's in Ipswich, from
the insecure stage giving way under him over the cop-
per, was precipitated into the hop-back below, in which
there were 600 gallons of beer in a boiling heat ; he was
mortally scalded, and expired next day.
Lord Farnham has just received from Italy a valuable
collection of paintings by the ancient masters of the
Italian and Flemish schools, which he selected during his
tour in Germany and. Italy last year.
The Ipswich Express states that on Wednesday week,
the Sir Robert Peel, a vessel laden with wheat, got on
the Yarmouth Sands, and it is feared will be lost. It
will not be long, we suspect, before the State vessel of the
same name, will get upon the political quick-sands, and
go down, with all hands on board.

In taking down some boards in the Chapter-house
Record-office, Poet's-corner, several ancient paintings
have just been found, the most prominent of which re-
presented the Vision of St. John of the seven candle-
sticks; his being put into a cauldron of boiling oil by the
Emperor l)omitian; and his exile to the isle of Patmos.
Colonel Sibthnrp stated in the House of Commons on
Monday night that he " had implicit confidence in the
present Administration r—This is highly important in-
telligence,. and must create . a . wonderful sensation
throughout the country. As yet, however, we do not
find that the Funds have risen in consequence. •
The Morning Post asserts that " the institution of an
Order of Poetry, by conferring. a cross or a riband,-
would tend to stimulate British genius !"—The prover-
bially empty.stomach of poetic genius would be far more
stimulated by a rump-steak and a bottle of wine.