The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-12 00:00:00

to believe than that the 7.. of +' ea.:th
from the attraction of ths ibn.Av her
course in the heavens.
We fear, however, that neither the voice of
philosophy nor of science will avail with our
rent-owners, for they have already re-
sisted the more urgent and powerful demands of
humanity and justice. Supposing it proved that
the landlords are responsible for any evil caused
by a wet season and a late harvest, their respon-
sibility will not extend beyond what at present
rests on them. They are accused of causing po-
verty, crime, and death, and a heavier catalogue
of offences cannot be thund.

At the Guildhall yesterday, no less than four
individuals were brought before Mr. Alderman
KELLY, who committed offences for the mere
purpose of gaining the temporary shelter of 'a
station-house, and the chance of a crust of
bread. Crime, therefore, is better off in
England than •poverty. To be entitled to pro-
tection, shelter, and food, a man must be a
criminal. Such a fact, though there were only
one in a year, instead of crowding upon us four
in a day, would be an unerring indication that
our legislation requires revision.
The process of debasement and degradation
seems to be this : scarcity of employment and
scarcity of food, as they are felt in class after
class, make one class press down on the other,
and squeeze out the lowest to utter destitu-
tion. Amongst the humble classes there is
a great deal of charity; they help each other;
hut when all find it difficult to live, they are
obliged to deny succour to the most distressed,
who are driven to commit offences that they may
drag out their miserable existence a few days or
weeks longer. We are much afraid that the
misery which thus forces itself into public notice
bears only a very small proportion to that which
hides itself and perishes in obscurity. We are
much afraid, too, that reckless despair in-
stead of blithe and careful hope is becom-
ing, from continual disappointment, the
prevalent disposition of our people; and that
those who deny them bread and a fair field for
their exertions, will have to answer, not only
far starving many put of existence, but for the
moral debasement of all.

Ours is a curious system. On the one hand we
call for schools and education, and stimulate the
mind of the people to unwonted activity;
on the- other we enact laws to restrain en-
terprise, to bind down genius, and prevent
those who have been trained to exertion from
finding a reasonable mode of exercising their
talents. If the present system of hemming in
enterprise by la;vs be continued, it will be cruel
to continue, at the same time, • the system of
training the mind of youth to activity. If men
are not to have free trade, and free scope for their
activity, the whole political system should be
adapted to that, and all mental activity should
be nipped, not foqered, in children. At present
we train them to be emulous and ambitious;
compc.,tizion at school prepares them for compe-
tition in life, and, when they are ripe for exer-
tio;', find themselves walled in by restric-
tions, and unable to move. They cannot get
bread by honest labour, and they steal or break
the public lamps, as the least offence they can
be guilty of; to ensure them a week's lodging in
a gaol.

We anticipated in our Afternoon Edition of
yeseerday all tliv important news in the Paris
journals of Tues&y, Private letters from that
capital state that the. ex-Regent, Queen CHRIS-
T:NA, is actively at work intriguing to effect the
downfal of EsPAItTERO. Her MAJESTY meets
with ail the sympathy she can desire from
K nz• Louis PHILIPPE, and from that section of
the French Legitimists whose polar star is
the Pme.e. In the Spanish army CnaisaaNa
has many influential partizans, some of •
the priests arc willing to declare fbr her now
that the cause of Don CARLOS is utterly hope-
less,.and in such an assembly as the Cortes it is
to be supposed that there are many members
' liable to be dazzled by the smiles of Royalty,
seduced by titles, and purchased by gold.
CII RISTINA is rich, persuasive, and unscrupulous.
Though her administration, while Regent, was
decidedly liberal, the instruments by whose
means only she could hope to be restored,
would oblige her to pursue a retrograde
policy. Her tools now are the Legitimists and
the Carlists, and were another revolution to
place her once more at the top of the wheel,.
they would become her masters. England, there-
fore, has a deep interest in this question. As
well might we have declared for Don CARLOS
after the death of the Royal embroiderer of Vir-
gin petticoats, FERDINAND, of infamous memory,
as to countenance in any way the claims of
CHRISTINA to be restored to • the Re-
gency. So Liberal France there is no
use appealing. The national vanity is too much
flattered by the prospect of re-establishing the
Court relations arising out of the old BOURBON
finally compact, for us to expect any assistance
in; that quarter. In the meantime these in-
trigues are fatal to the development of the re-
sources of the Spanish nation, and deeply inju-
rious to the Regency. Instead of extending com-
mercial alliances, fostering trade, encouraging
agricultural industry, and promoting popular
education, the Spanish Government has enough
to do in providing for its own safety.
• The great difficulty in contending against the
intrigues of CHRISTINA in Spain is found in the
want of men of commanding intellect in the ranks
of the Liberals. No man has arisen on the Li-
beral side in Spain since the commencement of
the civil war adequate to the direction of the Na-
tional Councils. There have been an abundance
of smart, clever men, of limited capacities, but
not one man of genius either in the field or in
the Cabinet. The only men who at all soared
above the herd of common-place respectability
of talent, were ZUMA LAC:ARIL-BO UY and CABRERA,
both on the Carlist side, and both feared and dis-
trusted by the sanguinary tyrant whom they
served. ESPA RTERO is a man of industry, per-
severance, and considerable rigour, but as yet
he has proved himself nothing more. His in-
tentions,ticaland however, are honest ; his views, poli-
oaonenninceereial, liberal and enlarged, and
the perm
of the power which he now
sways is essential to the maintenance of consti-
tutional liberty in Spain. Let us hope, there-
fore, that the British
aban-
don him now in his hour of trial.
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spends her time in prison concocting libels
glut the shelves of that wretched class of pub-
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We subjoin the only extracts in these Papers
of any general interest:—
A new 40-gull frigate,
to be called the Clorind©,
and two 20-gun brigs, the .Aigle anti.
.Agile, have b
,An
wan on
I ordered to be immediately laid d the slips at
I Cherbourg.
The Moniteur publishes a royal ordonnance, pre-
ceded by a report from the Minister of Public Instruction,
directing that catalogues shall be made out
in all the public libraries of France (those on and ofpre-
Paris ex-
cepted), with a view either to their classification
servation in their present localities, or to their transfer
to other libraries, under circumstances to be determined
between the Minister of Public Instruction and the local
:iiithorities. The expenses of these operations are to be
• paid by G uvernment.
Tin: following distressing occurrence took place
lately at Ecox Chanties, a watering place in the Hasse
Pyrenees. A gentleman and his wife were taking a
walk in the environs, and came to a chasm between two
rocks. The lady dared her husband to leap over it.
Being a better judge of distances and of his own powers
he at first declined, but, piqued by her reproaching biln
with cowardice, he made the spring, and fell into the
space between. When taken up, it was found that his back
was broken, and in a few hours afterwards he expired.
The Intendant of the Civil List has given large
orders to the Gobelins' manufactory for various new arti-
cles for the Royal Palacts, the church of St. .Germain.
i rAuxerroip, and the Bishop of Algiers.
' 1 The Moniteur rectifies the account which has been