The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-24 00:00:00

TRE SUN, LONDON,SATURD ‘l7, JULY 24, 181:

here, a suitor for the hand of the youngest of the Orleans Prin-
cesses, Clementine. Her Royal Highness is a very good-
natured and unaffected person, and per se would make a fitting
consort for the line to the Duchy of Saxe Cobourg ; but the
having to be connected with a family holding their fortunes
and their political existence, by the insecure tenure of a life,
now more than seventy years old, is not very good policy: and
if the Prince wishes to get any money out of the pockets of his
august Beau Pere, he had better be quick about it, and not
wait for the division of the Orleans' property, which a chance
bullet may some day or other suddenly bring to pa s.
Queen Dowager of Spain is busy, furnishing her new rest
dente of the Hotel Braganza, Rue de Courcelles—no expense
is spared; and the apartments of her Majesty's morganatic
husband, Munoz, are, we understand, fitted-np with great
luxury and elegance. Her Majesty went to the Opera the
other evening in mourning for the Queen of Hanover, forgetting
that the Hanoverian Government had never recognised that of
the "beloved Christina," or the innocent Isabella."
Everybody here is handing about to-day a long-winded pro-
clamation from the King of Hanover, telling his faithful States
that he is going to work them a bit—as tar, indeed, as their
patience will let him.

A letter from Toulon, of the 17th, says—" The steamers
Cameleon, Velose, Passive, and Euphrate left this port to-day
for Algiers, where they will take on board the 17th Regiment
of Light Infantry, which returns to France. The 33d of the
line, which is in gal risen in this city, is forming some batta-
lions, which are to be sent very soon to Algiers. Advantage
ought to have been taken of the departure of the four steamers
which have been sent to fetch the 17th, and these two batta-
lions should have been embarked in them. A little forethought
would have saved the State a considerable sum."
Letters from Algiers say that Mascara is going to become
a very important point, and that it is in contemplation to
transfer to that place the head-quarters of the division of Oran.
It is likewise said that General Mustapha will occupy part of
the country with his Douairs, and some French troops.
It had been said that General Bugeaud remained at
Mostaganem, to wait for the submission of a tribe. A letter of
the 7th, from that town, gives us the following details on the
subject;__" The chief of the tribe of the Chelif came lately to
announce to the Governor-General that a number of tribes wished
to make their submission to France. This was doubtless an effect
of the late operations. The Governor waited for the issue of
the affair before he returned to Algiers. A column of 1,500
or 1,800 men, under the command of Colonel Tempourre, with
five days' previsions, left this town on the night of the 3d in-
stant, in the direction of the Chelif, conducted by the above-
mentioned chief, who, when they had arrived at the placeappoint-
ed, informed Col. Tempourre, after some parleying, that the tribes
had not decided on submitting, and that news had just been
received that Abd-el-Kader had sent a considerable force,
which would arrive on the following day. The affair having
failed, our people took the wisest course, namely, to return im-
mediately to Mostaganem ; but the signal for so doing was
scarcely given, when a swarm of enemies began to harass the
column. A warm engagemeat ensued, in which the Arabs
must have lost many men. We had 7 killed, and 30 wounded ;
among the latter is Captain Montauban.
" It is feared that this affair, which might have been of im-
mense advantage, if there had been on the spot a strong column
to withstand the reinforcements sent by Abd-el-Kader, will
have a co%trary effect, by confirming the tribes in their opinion
that we are unable to protect them against Abd-el-Kaaer."—
Le Commerce.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, JULY 22.

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THE WHIG SUPPORT OF THE TORY MINISTERS.—
The cry of the Whig papers on the eve of the elections
was, save the Queen from the Tories. The Tories wish to
coerce her Majesty. The Tories, therefore, according to
the Whig journals, in the doctrines of which we cordially
concur, are the enemies both of the Queen and the peo-
ple. Sir Robert Peel is to be forced into the Govern-
ment by a majority of the aristocracy and the priest-
hood, against the will of her Majesty, to do their plun-
dering work on her long-suffering and patient people.
Under such circumstances we deeply regret to see the
preux chevaliers of her Ministry giving up the fight,
and not only giving her up into the hands of the Tories,
which they perhaps could not prevent, but declaring by
the mouth of Lord John Russell, that they will ofter no
vexatious opposition to their schemes to fetter the Queen
and plunder the people. If Lord John had stated this
much a month ago, he would have saved our Whig
Contemporaries and ourselves from some waste of cha-
racter. At least, we had no notion then, when we
saw what was said in the Chronicle and Globe about
the constraint to be put on the Queen by the Tories, that
one of the first acts of Lord John Russell, after their
success was known, would be to declare that he should
not offer any vexatious opposition to their attempts,
though they have a majority, to carry on the Govern-
ment in opposition to the principles of justice and the
wishes of our sincere and truthful Queen.
SCIENCE AND ART.—Lord Stanley is very ready at using
words, but we have some doubts whether he comprehend
their meaning. At the dinner of the Agricultural So-
ciety, on Thursday, at Liverpool, he twice over called agri-
culture a science, and so spoke of it, that it is impossible
to ascribe the mistake to the reporter. There being no
little confusion on the subject, even in the clear minds of
Lords, it is due to correctness to inform Lord Stanley
that agriculture is not a science but an art. The dis-
tinction is between knowing and doing, science being me-
thodized knowledge of creation, and art the skilful acts
of man's mind and hand. As Lord Stanley said, there is
hardly a science which is not the handmaid of agricul-
ture, but that does not make agriculture a science. Bo-
tany, the methodized knowledge of the properties of
plants ; Zoology, the methodized knowledge of the pro-
perties of animals ; Chemistry, the methodized knowledge
of the effects and properties of substances on one another
at insensible distances--all throw light on the operations
of the farmer, and instruct him how to apply his means
and his strength, but they no more convert agriculture
into a science than they convert the manufacture of glass
or steam engines into a science, both of which are im-
proved by, and founded on, knowledge.
The only rational application of the term science to
agriculture, is to its history. The methodized knowledge
of all that has been done, and is done in the art, may
form a science of agriculture, but to speak of the opera-
tions of drilling and hoeing, of crossing breeds, and laying
drairing tiles, however enlightened by a knowledge of
the chemical properties of soils, and the laws which
regelate the motions of water, or the laws of ani-
ma [ nature, as a science, is a' confusion of all lan-
guage. What resemblance is there between the sci-
ence of astronomy, our methodized knowledge of
the stars—using that word in its largest acceptation—
and the daily toils of the third part of our population ?
Agriculture is a noble art, extended and enriched by
science in all ages. Would to God it werb exonerated
from the stifling protection of idle quackish and ignorant
Lords, who think they are adding to its dignity, while
they are only in this, as in so many other instances, ex-
hibiting. their a:rogance and their folly. Some excuse
may be found for ordinary persons, for the misappli-
cation of the two terms, science and art, in the general
and heedless manner in which even learned men apply
them ; but when a master of oratory like Lord Stanley,
though he be a master of nothing else, not even of his
tongue, commits such a mistake, it is a suitable oppor-
tunity, bygibbeting his gabble, to warn and instruct others.
Ma. MACAULAY.—We observe that one of our Contem-
poraries condemns Mr. Macaulay as having forgotten the
proprieties of his station, as a Minister of the Crown, in
writing the article which has just appeared in the Edin-
burgh Review on the subject of Port Royal. Mr. Ma-
caulay's defence is very simple. He certainly did not
write the paper in question. The name of the real
writer is well known to us, and we believe to all who take
any interest in this kind of small literary gossip.—Globe.
—[We are rather sorry to see this contradiction, for we
accounted to ourselves for Mr. Macaulay's inefficient ac-
quaintance with the topics, of the day by supposing that
these other studies, for which the world gave him credit,
engrossed his attention. We are now at a lose to con-
jecture where the Right Hon. Gentleman has hidden
those talents which we know him to possess, that neither
by his tongue nor his pen has he made himself conspie
cuous in defence either of the Ministerial policy or th,asa
doctrines of free trade which are the stirring topic) of our
day, and the arbiters of the fate of that Admini4Crution of
which he is a member.]

Scot and lot voters will be disfranchised v.niess
they pay,on or before the 30th of July instant, all the
poor-rates which have been demanded of them •.ip to that
day.
It is stated that the returns of the census taken
at Devonport show a decrease, as compared with the last
census, of near 6,000 persons, which reduces the popu_
lation of that borough to 31,000.

He who toils with with pain will eat with plea-
sure. No duns cutside'and no doctors within. Forbear-
ance is a domestic jewel. Something is learned every
time a book is opened. To stop the hand is the way to
stop the mouth

THE CROPS IN CONNAUGHT.—We regret
that accounts from the west of Ireland represent the
state of the potato crop to be very unpropitious. In.
many places they have come up thin in the ground ,
whilst in other districts the vegetation has been tc,o
rapid. On the whole, the appearances in Leitrim, r,nd
some of the neighbouring counties, is very dishearter.ing.
Among the black cattle the distemper is still rp,ginn•
and .in some districts with increased fatality.—Dizbia;
Evening Post.
GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF TEMPERS NCE
SocrETlEs.—Wc hear that on Monday, the 2d of fialga_t,
the Temperance Societie3 from Birmingham, Tr.niworth,
Chesterfield, Belper, and the intermediate r
Jams, will
assemble in Derby by railway excursion tra;.ns. A pro-
cession through the principal streets of I)erby is ex-
pec;;ecl to Like' place about eleven o'clock ;
inter which
the Societies will dine together. In the afternoon they
will proceed to the Arboretum to take tea in the Arbore-
tum Pavilion.
Sheridan pacified a quarrelsome fellow one even-
ing by observing, " I should not like to ge up in a bal-
loon with you, tbr fear of our falling out."
The General Steam Navigation Company's
mail-packet Ocean arrived off the Custom-house yester-
day, at two, A.M., with the Dutch mail.
A Tartar ver viPhin was th' wold Jan Cott.
wl'i es owve kncn
nv'ci .liPek chap goo out wi nothin but a vly made
hair, an' a kidnoy-bayne-stick ver rod, an' lug
out two er dree darnt gurnt sat/limn iu one marnin'.
Wet er dry, hot er coold, day er night, 'twas all's one ta
he. In shart, Jan was a sari ev a 'phibbus animal, an'
used ta think th' water 0,1 houze an 'hum ; an' I rely be-
lieve that if theph; hller'd liv'd much longer, ee'd a-had
a 041 !ecc.t.P,Sl a mermaid.—Piscator,

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claim to papal infallibility. Talicil . the old,',lays of
Toryism it says " That there we, great deal r`t..:..thy 9f
blame in the Tory practice oilhese days, we do net
deny. Where is the man, orae party" asl s the Post
" that a long possession of poor, with great. temptations
to corruption, will not lead itt evil ways '"Thus far
the Post apologises for its par), and declares them to be
sitting on the stool of reperinee, for Walking in evil
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ways. ' '

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The Times, says the 'nick, will soon have an
opportunity of ascertainin Aa extelit to which Sir
Robert Peel and the great yof the Tories are die-
posed to get rid of tb or law, and perhaps that
Journal will obtain . w light with regard to
it, as well as to t: rn-laws. That veracious
Journal still publi ly all . the falsehoods col-
lected by the f: _talon on the other side
of the channel.
.sh epithets every week for the
priests and the' The last are " The usurpers of
titular hieraro' _le rrgged peasantry of the bog."
" Longford ".:
,er ell:claims, in evident dread of a
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general -a, *hoes the war-whoop cf Clare,
ar4.. 1 '
.clove light their torches at the firebrand
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et Peel, says the Morning Advertiser, is not
rson who has found that it is easier to pull
_n to build up. Tory Contemporaries have all
t.l Sir Robert a ready-made Cabinet, but in most of
,un the make _is so defective, as to require them at
least to try their hands a second time.

Even while we write (says the Leicestershire Mer-
cury 3 the streets are filled with umbrellas and great-
coats. The moon has changed and yet it rains. Thrice
in our lives have we ate damaged wheat, 'dear beyond
precedent, and unhealthy. If we have a wet harvest,
what provision is made to feed the millions ? Where is
the stock in hand ?

It is now become obvious, says the Brighton Herald,
that the Reform Bill has failed in giving full, free, and
fair representation to the people.. The people must be
moved again to obtain it... Thel3allot must be had.
" The cause of libtrb-x,"
flowing of the sea ; single waves recede, while the tide is
still gaining." The result of the late elections, observes
the West Briton, is an illustration of this truth.

The strength or weakness of the embryo Adminis-
tration, says the Hull Advertiser, depends upon the prebise
meaning i may attach to its pet phrase Conservatism. If
it be to entirely discountenance social progress it ensures
an early termination of its career. A barricade of chss
interests will afford no protection against the pressure cf
public necessity.

Such is the state of things, exclaims the Dublin
Post, in the middle of a rainy July. The weather doubt-
less will continue as it is for a fortnight. The wheat
crops must be seriously damaged. The corn markets
are getting up rather rapidly. The sliding scale of
duties fell a shillicg last Friday. It will fall another to-
morrow, perhaps more. The bonded wheat is kept back,
and speculation on tip-toe. Bullion has already been
exported to the Continent for wheat and barley, and the
funds and shares are also very heavy. Such is the actual
state of things.