The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-22 00:00:00

THE CHARTIST REItELLION.

- - -
The Chartist body, like all other bodies, has the usual
proportion of fools and knaves comprised in it. But
it has been its peculiar misfortune to have found
the majority of its councillors composed of
members of these extensive classes of society.
This has been evident on various occasions.
We need not refer to Chartist opposition to the
movement for the repeal of the Corn-laws, by which the
tax on the working man's loaf has been repealed; nor to
the steady determination of the Chartist leaders
❑ot to take one point of the Charter unless they
could get all the others with it—unduly des-
pising the doctrine of instalments as it appears
to all practical man—nor need we refer to the signal
act of folly, in refusing to co-operate with those who
would go for all the points, but not for the name, because
the name had been disgraced by brutal of ferocious doc-
trines of physical force and threats of civil war. These
facts aro evidence enough of past folly. But the last and
crowning act of madness, is the determination of the
Chartists to unite with the Irish repeaters, in order to
strengthen Ireland, and to promote the interests of
the factious portion of Irishmen, and to play their
game at the expense of England. In pursuance of
this scheme, the Chartists have been wantonly
holding meetings, for the purpose of creating
alarm in the minds of the middle classes, by
threatening to rise and secure the freedom of Mitchel,
the pikeman. Their efforts at making a disturbance
have had no effect beyond the creation of an uneasy
feeling, and harassing the police. Indeed, it would
be very surprising if they had. The leaders of the
disaffected Irish have professed their determination to
injure and degrade England. Mitchel gloried in the
thought of crippling " the bloody old British Em-
pire"—that was the degrading epithet he applied
to our country. Smith O'Brien and others hastened to
Paris, immediately after the Revolution, with the ob-
ject, as it appeared, of exciting the French people to aid
the Irish itepealers to rebel against England, and
to make war upon her, to shame and cripple her—
to bring disgrace upon England, and turn
loose upon her, all who envy her success,
and wish to plunder her of the fruits of her industry.
What interest can the working men of England have
in such unnatural vicious proceedings as these?—
and yet the Chartist leaders have been endeavour-
ing to join the Irish rebels, and have only been
prevented by the law seizing hold of some of the
plainer spoken members of the body, who spoke too
,tpenly of their intention. We should be sorry to en-
courage feelings of hostility between races which, for
their own strength, glory, and profit, ought to be inti-
mately blended as ono nation ; but we would ask the
working men of England, what they can expect to gain
by playing the Irish game of running down and in-
juring England, and endeavouring to degrade and lower
her in the eyes of Europe ?
The Irish democrats want to set up a republic—their
first fight would be with the British empire—their next,
if they succeeded, would be with the Irish priests—but
the sternest fight would be with the working classes of
England, whose interests, which are not at all promoted
by the competition of Irish labourers and workmen at
present, would be vitally attacked by the ruin which the
Irish policy, as now attempted to be carried out by cer-
tain of the Chartists, would entail upon the nation at
large.
In making these observations, we desire only to up-
hold the unity and stability of the British empire. We
wish to see equal rights and liberties extended to all—but
we do not wish to be a party to any attempt to drag down
this nation—the leader of civilization, and the benefactor
of nations—from the moral height she enjoys. She has
been placed where she is by the hand of Providence,
and we, her children, should be careful, lest by any
neglect of ours, she fall from her high estate, and over-
whelm all her sons in the ruin of desolation that must
follow her dismemberment.—Eacter Western Times.

45
41 Os.

36%
154

VENTILATION OF TOWNS AND DISTRICTS.—It has
been recommended in the pages of the Civil Engineers'
Journal, to erect large chimney sha!ts at elevated points,
:•onnected by tunnels with sewers, and the sewers with
the flues of houses and factories, 39 as to afford a pas age
•or smoke and offensive effluvia, and at the same time be

the means of supplying pure air to the streets, courts,
and houses. The principle of the pla❑ is not new, as at
some of the copper works in the manufacturing districts
of South \Vales subterranean shafts or funnels are used

for the purpose of collecting and conveying away the
smoke and vitriolic fumes to the summit of the adjacent
mountain, where it is diApersed in the atmosphere; this
is the means of preventing considerable injury to vege-
tation that would otherwise take place, which travellers
between Neath and Swansea cannot fa►l to have ob-
served.—Builder.

The noble Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House
was again the scene of a brilliant banquet en Tuesday
evening, when the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress
entertained a large party of the Court of Common
Council and their ladies. Covers were laid for 180.
Amongst the company we observed Mr. Mastermau,
M.P. for the City ; Mr. Pownall, chairman of the
Middlesex Sessions ; Alderman Sir George Carroll,
Mr. Alderman Farneomb, Mr. Alderman Salomons, Mr.
Sheriff Cubitt, M.P. and Mrs. Cubitt, Mr. Sheriff Hill
and Mrs. Hill, &c., &c. It is needless to add that the
entertainment was of the most magnificent description,
and bore ample testimony to his Lordship's well-known
hospitality. We understand that his Lordship intends
giving a similar entertainment on Friday next, the 23d
instant.

DREADFUL BATTLE.—Of late a series of well-
contested engagements have raged in Renfrew-street.
These skirmishes take place between a gallant and
pugnacious, though diminutive cock, aided by the
ladies of his establishment, and a number of thievish
rats, who, without any invitation, drop in when they
feel inclined, and take pot-luck at the expense of
their feathered friends. The other day a rat of large
size coolly came forward to take a share of the
good things just laid down for the comfortable support of
the chuckies. Mr. Cock, irritated at such impudence, im-
mediately showed fight. Mr. Rat, nothing loath, accepted
the challenge, and to it they both went, teeth and wing.
Cock advanced to the assault, and struck with beak, heel,
and wing. Rat received the charge, standing on his hind
,eet, and repelled it like a pugilist, occasionally making
effective use of his teeth. The dreadful strife raged for
teswfiothodr
and
dd
tshueccreessps,ecbtutoroh,eil:
rwemasagleamtoei
hisma honour,ny min
u his

lowers. all were at stake, and he -fought on only as such
a cock animated by the purest motives of cock honour
ca❑ fight. At last Mr. Bat began to show symptoms of
distress, and without waiting to take respectful leave of
his adversary, sneaked off to his hole, pursued by the
victorious bantam, who, when his pilfering enemy had
disappeared, set up as loud a crow as his little ihroat
woul i permit, in token of his gallantry and success.—
Glasgow Examiner.
THE ART-UNION AND THE BOARD OF TRADE.—
The question of Government interference in the Art-
Union, says a correspondent of the Builder, has very na-
turally called forth the complaints of artists whose daily
bread, in a considerable degree, depends on that popular
institution; but it is as much a subject for the serious
consideration of the subscribers whose guineas are to be
taxed and who would no longer be allowed to spend their
money as they thought proper; nor is it less important
to the public at large, who must perceive that so med•
dling a spirit in small affairs, may be looked upon as a
prelude to a more general invasion of the rights of pro-
perty. These are not times for Government to attempt
paltry dealings of the sort, in opposition to the best
principles of administration and justice: surely wh►lst
defending themselves against the charge of undue in-
terference in the internal affairs of other countries, they
would do well to avoid meddling with the management
of popular institutions in our own. The meeting of art-
ists is but a small beginning; we, who have not yet met
may in due time do so, and place the question on the
highest constitutional grounds.
THE PANCAKE.—Why was a pancake made cir-
cular? Why might it not have been, for all mere edible
purposes, a square, an oblong, a cube, a polygon, an
isosceles triangle, or like one of those old French
yaufres that the venders squeeze out from a pair of
tongues into a vile caricature of a curricomb modeled in
batter? But it was fashioned like unto none of these.
It had all the deep significance of an Egyptian hiero-
glyph, and therefore was it bound, as by a Macbeth in-
junction, to " take any shape but that." Listen—it was
bounded by a ring, as the emblem of eternity; it was
circular, on account of its dedication to Pan the universal,
and as the mystic symbol of the world itself, it was round.
Ay, in a pancake have we the very rolling territory on
which we live, move, and have our being figuratively
shadowed forth. Is not sugar and lemon—the sweet
and acid concomitants of the dish—a faint type of the
mingled good and evil found within the world ? Is not
the main secret of the relish which attends upon the
junction of the two antagonistic elements, to be solely
traced to this union of two opposing qualities ? And is
it not so with life ? Doth not the good absorb and mel-
low down the evil, and doth not the evil give an extra
appreciation to the good ? Are not the two visibly de-
pendent on each other for their mutual benefit influence
upon the heart ? and is not the real source of our mun-
dane delights to be traced to the intimate blending of
these antithetical compounds ? Already must the reader
perceive a pancake rising in his estimation, and growing
up into the dignity of a fine moral preacher ! We boldly
assert, that he who is a lover of pancakes must be a lover
of human nature also. The annual custom of banquet-
ing off the one, engenders the habit of critically contem-
plating the other.