The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-11 00:00:00

ENGLAND AND PHYSICAL FORCE

CHARTISM.
In a country where the right of petition and of public
meeting, the license of printing and the licentiousness of
speech are unlimited, where eeerytnale adult possessed of
20L, may, by the existing franchise, command a county
vote, and the door of the constitution is open to at least
three times the number of those who choose to take the
trouble of entering it, sedition must be supported by
the credentials of the most disinterested patriotism, to
make itself at all respectable. But at our present advanced
stage of intelligence, and in the state of implicit mutual
dependence, in which, in our artificial social condition,
we all exist in this country, any man who proposes to
accomplish any political good by means of disorder and
violence can only command credit for his sincerity at
the expense of his understanding. Order is. the. firs.t.
law of nature—it is the very life and soul of 1v
society. To twenty-eight millions of human beings
crowded together on two small islands, surrounded
every where by rivals or enemies, and so broken
into civilization that even the poorest and
the meanest cannot be helped to the supply of his most
ordinary wants without the assistance of many of his
fellow-subjeets, the peace, regularity, and security of the
movements of every part of the social machinery are as
essential to the stability of the fabric on which all de-
pend, as the harmonious working of bees is necessary
to the existence of the hive. Our soil does not
nearly support our population, increasing now at
the rate of 450,000 souls every year. Our mere
nataral and physical resources are totally inadequate
to our subsistence. Our very being depends on menu-
factures and commerce. We are the ministers of the
artificial wants of the world. We cannot, like Antceus,
fall upon our mother earth and gather our strength from
that. Not one-fifth part of our population find employ-
ment in the cultivation of our soil. In the present
year we have fed nearly six millions of our people
entirely on foreign produce. Three millions of
Irish have been maintained exclusively at the
public cost. The failure of a bank may make a
whole county starve. Send half a dozen manufacturers
into the Gazette, and tens of thousands will be reduced
to rain. A run for gold in Threadneedle-street, a fall
of 10 per cent. in stocks, the bankruptcy of a score of
merchants, consigns millions to beggary. And of all the
sufferers, the poorest are the greatest. Those who have
land can fall back upon that—those who have capital, can
take flight with it so long as anything is left. But those
who live from hand to mouth, and exist on wages, who can
get no food without money, and no money without em-
ployment, and no employment without capitalists, and no
capitalists without credit, who so helpless and destitute
as these, whea anarchy and distrust bring the social en-
ginery to a stand still ? If we grant that the French
Revolution was necessary, we must also concede that
it was only a necessary evil. It has transferred
the money market of the Continent of Europe
from Paris to London. It has driven the
whole available capital of France into our stocks. It
has brought employment, and therefore wages, and
therefore the means of mere physical existence, to a
temporary close in that devoted Republic. The heroic
men of France have lost their capital, and have no
means of conducting manufacturing enterprise. Their
powers of production are arrested by want of money,
and they have, consequently, nothing to sell.
They have no current coin, and they can, there-
fore. buy nothing. Cargoes of produce, chartered
for French ports, have been sent directly to England to
sell for what they would bring. Whole fleets of mcr
chantmen, laden with the raw material of manufacture,
cotton, silk, wool, and leather, have turned helm at
Havre, Toulon, and other Gallic harbours, the moment
their captains heard of the disorders of the Republic,
and steered their ships at once for Liverpool, Bristol,
and Southampton. Upwards of 6,000,000/. of
English money were annually spent in France
by our absentees—as much more was yearly
squandered in the other countries of Europe. These
12,000,0001., and their owners have all been frightened
home. Hosts of wealthy continental foreigners, losing
faith in the stability of their property from the
threatened violence offered by the people, have col-
lected all their money, invested it in our securities,
and are trooping here to spend it among us.
Vast consignments of colonial produce intended fur the
continental market are sent on to us, and large orders
for manufactures, originally destined for Germany,
Switzerland, Belgium, and France, have been trans
!erred to England. Five millions of dishonoured bills
have been returned to the United States alone from
Havre. Trade has no lofty aspirations. Commerce has
no preference for one paper constitution more than an-
other. Money is sordid, timid, and without magnaui-
it. They look to profits alone. Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity, are to them but sounding brass and a
tinkling
cymbal, unless they mean security, prompt
payment, and sure profits. They fly from the
Continent, because they cannot trust it. They
Paiute here because theych think they are sate. They
tiefurse to give for enThree per Cents., because
they cannot rely upon payment—they Bl-1
English Three per Cents.b
is
they glee
hnfifor
in their stability. So timid s
capital,se nervous a thing
is trade, that in a few months we mightbe in. possession
bf that which made us great, omnipotent,
—the commerce and manufactures of
during the war
Europe. lntr-
oduce order among us, shatter our credit creating
fears of violence, destroy confidence in our securityy by
threats of rebellion, treason, or the subversion of our
stability, and the golden opportunity will be lost,acaxitbal
and trade will fly from us to the United States, n
masses of our population will suffer an amount tof I
misery and permanent disaster, far greater time
that which is the lot of any other country in
the world. The majority of the population of
every other state, except Holland and Belgium, is
dependent upon the soil, which can never fail them,
whatever other changes may happen. The masses
of our kingdom are as completely dependent upon credit
and commercial security, as the price of Consols, or the
rates of discount at the Bank. France, with her
6,000,000 of yeomen may survive a shock to credit. Eng.
land must sink irredeemably under it. At this moment
we have the ball at our foot. The fine weather is rapidly
reducing the price of food. The returns of the revenue
are less discouraging than was anticipated, exhibiting an
increase on the quarter ending on the sth of April, of no
less than 402,575/. In the next three months the in-
crease of consumption from the influx of absentees,
foreigners, and capital, must be materially enlarged, and
it is just at this turning point in our fortunes that the
physical force Chartista do their best to frighten our
prosperityo away from us, by the'open avowal of designs of
treson, disorder, and violence.fhey import the Celtic fury
of Meagher and Mitchell, and the cellar martyr (O'Brien),
into the sober regions of the more calculating Saxon,
and considerately
ecome , rwarn us that if their Irish patriots
ion itn Engmartland the whole Milesian popula-
punishment the law !la' " masse.
and revenge on us the
deration. While w:nlete on the heroes of the Confe-
of our insular position, cold be enjoying the advantages
profits and the credit which are political neutrality, of the
are the material fruits of a con-
viction among mankind of
love of order, the most strenOauorusstability, good faith, and
who must inevitably suffer efferts are made by those
Popular convulsion
to saw off the branch on which thbYey are
months of tranquillit
Inoanted from
the tree that supports it. Thr
harmony, and peace, would seeur the wholseuritarbaladnledasnYll
nrogp:bitisiseo
the greater portion of the capital ovi
our revenue flourishing—our tabourE7
ployment—our middle classes afforded breathing taimieerato-
notextensive retreneh-
devise and enforce needful reforms and
only deprive us oral'
merit. Our internal distraction may
these advantages, but encourage the violeatand turbulent
theb peaceful
spirits of the continent of Europe to overbear
tendencies of the Provisional Governments
our weakness as their opportunity for stkkyinPgleadlng
blow at our power, and plunging us with Ireland a
fatal
o
hands into a war that must be paid for out of thesnwoetiart
of our toiling masses, and which may so era our
finances as to end in our ruin. The Reform Bill embarrass
raal
Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Annualll'iaarlcied
relents, within the reach of the people by peaceable,
constitutional, lawful means. Nothing can keep the
Charter from them, if they choose patiently to fight
the battle of the-Constitution in the registration Courts.
The power which achieved Free Trade can achieve
a Universal Franchise. There are thousands of the
loudest bawlers for the Charter, who are qualified
to be registered under the existing law, but refuse
to take the trouble. There are tens of thousands more
who could buy a life-rent charge of 40s. for 101. or
151, but prefer to spout and plot, and pick the pockets
of their gaping dupes, rather than to work out their
political salvation. If we are misgoverned, it is in vain
to day that, wish our present opportunities, it 13- our

own fault. We could point out many physical force
Chartists in the large boroughs who sold their votes
at the last election for Tory gold. We know of
hundreds who were placed on the register by
the exertions of the Anti Corn-law League, in the
metropolitan boroughs, who hawked their franchise
to the highest bidders, and at last knocked them-
selves down to the monopolist candidates. It is
time that all this tomfoolery were put a stop to. Let
the Irish, who are maintained in England, beware how
they abuse our hospitality, by putting into execution any
attempts to create a disturbance among us, as the sym-
pathisers of the Mitchell conspiracy. If they once
stimulate the national animosities of John Bull,
and the prejudices of the Scotch, they may
be the first to repent the retaliation their
ruffian bluster may provoke. Meanwhile, it is time
for the well-affected to be up and doing. The best way
to suppress disorder is to 'prove that it cannot succeed.
If the Government is paralysed, that is no reason
why the people should be unprepared to suppress
violence, or to concert measures to meet any emer-
gency which may result from the state of Ireland.
The cause of order is the cause of liberty. Tyrants
and thieves alone thrive by confusion. The progress
of popular power is founded on knowledge, and the
best fruit of knowledge is peace. It is kings and
autocrats whose trust is in the bayonet, and whose only
faith is in the rifle and parks of artillery. Let the people
show they are worthy to be free, by practising the vir-
tues of freemen—by a reliance on the power of reason,
on the march of intelligence, on the force of public
opinion, on the justice of their cause, and the certain
triumph of truth and right, naked and unarmed,
except in the panoply of virtue, and the majestic
spirit of humanity. Let them lock upon the
moral miracle which Lamartine is working and be
ashamed at their own scepticism of the efficacy of
moral forces. And let our middle-classes and rulers
redeem this stirring time, and by timely reform avert a
merited revolution. Not an hour should be lost in pro-
posing to Parliament the more necessary and pressing of
many wholesome measures, which may relieve industry,
and promote popular contentment. Let them mingle
conciliation with firmness, and concede redress while
they enforce authority. While all EuropeisEos
reforminglandto
itself, or being reformed, it will not do for
lag behind.— Weekly Dispatch.

ALLEGED CASE OF ABDUCTION.
On Friday, at the Marylebone Police-court, just
before the usual period for the closing of the
court (the greater part of the day having been
devoted to the swearing in of special constables),
Mr. Thomas Buxton Barnes, surgeon, of Thaxted,
Essex, was brought up by Inspector Tedman, of
the D division, upon a warrant before Mr. Broughton,
charged on the oath of the Rev. Thomas Harvey with
having, on the Ist of April instant, at the parish of Pad-
dington, in the county of Middlesex, unlawfully taken
an unmarried girl, to wit, Marion Frankes Jane Harvey,
she being under the age of 16 years, out of the posses-
sion of, and against the will of him, the said Thomas
Harvey, her father.
The complainant is the person who has made repeated
appeals to the public with regard to the conduct of the
Bishop of London in removing him, as he alleges, in a
most cruel and unjust manner from a chaplaincy which
he enjoyed at Antwerp, and thereby leaving him and
his family in a state almost amounting to destitution. A
complete history of the affair has been submitted to the
public through the medium of a pamphlet, and it will be
remembered that several of the diurnal, as well as the
weekly papers, took up the case warmly in favour of Mr.
Harvey. The proceedings against defendant were insti-
tuted under 9th Geo. IV., cap. 31.
Mr. Wilkin, solicitor, Furnival's Inn, attended for
Mr. Barnes, who appeared to be upwards of forty years
of age.
Inspector Tedman, in reply to a question from Mr.
Broughton, said that the Rev. Mr. Harvey- was unable,
from illness, to come to the court. The young lady, his
daughter, was not present, but her mother was.
Mrs. Harvey, who seemed greatly affected, and who
was accompanied by a female friend, was led along sob-
bing audibly, and she was accommodated with a seat
near the magistrate.
She was then sworn, and deposed as follows :—My
husband was taken ill this morning, and that is the rea-
son why he is not here. He is a clergyman of the
Church of England, and he resides at No. 30,
Queen's-terrace, Bayswater. My husband had a curacy
at Thaxted, Essex, and we left there the 14th of last
month. I have one girl (Mrs. Harvey here became
completely overwhelmed with grief, but in a short time
she was able to proceed); that dear girl was fifteen on
the Bth of last month. I have also two boys. While
we were living at Thaxted, which was about a year and
a half, defendant was the medical attendant of our
family.

Mr. BRot:ortToN—Has your daughter had any par-
ticular illness which required his attendance ? Mrs.
Harvey—Yes, in February ; and he had her then under
medical treatment.

Mr. BROUGHTON—WhiIe thus attending her, did you
observe any improper conduct on his part towards her ?
Mrs. Harvey—No, sir. He expressed great regret
upon our leaving the country to come to town.
Mr. BROUGUTON-1i your daughter entitled to any
fortune by settlement or otherwise ? Mrs. Harvey—
At our death, sir, she will be possessed of 3,0001.
Mr. BitouGuTos—When did you miss your daughter?
Mrs. Harvey—On Saturday morning last, at about
half-past seven o'clock. The defendant had dined
with us the day before. At the time I have mentioned,
I was awoke by my servant, who asked me where Miss
Fanny was? Her father (my husband) jumped out of
bed, and proceeded to my daughter's room, which he
found vacant. He discovered two letters therein, one
of which, written by his daughter, alluded to her having
gone off with Barnes, and the other was in the handwrit-
ing of Barnes himself, in a hich he admitted that he had
broken the laws of hospitality, and must be held amenable
for what he had done. He further alleged in the said
epistle that perhaps something more might be heard of
them that night. They were gone to Bristol, and pursuit
would be quite useless. Fanny had gone willingly with
him, and he had used no compulsion at all.
Mr. BitouarrroN—Have you seen your daughter
since ? Mrs. Harvey—She is now, sir, thank God, with
us; she was brought back by her father on Tuesday
morning. _ _

Inspector Tedman, D division, said I saw the Re-
verend Mr. Harvey here last Monday, when he made
known the particulars of his daughter's abduction.
Ile (Mr. Harvey) seemed greatly excited, owing
to his loss. In addition to myself and the
Reverend Mr. Ilarvey, were two other persons
Mr. Anderson and Mr. Lee, and we all went down to
the defendant's house. Defendant refused to restore the
young lady. After a severe struggle they gained an
entrance into the house, and succeeded in extricating
the young lady, who at the time was in bed, and she was
brought up to town. A pistol was, as alleged, found close
to her pillow.
Mr. WILKIN cross-examined the inspector, but did not
elicit any thing tending to shake hie testimony.
The answer made by the defendant's solicitor to
the charge was, that there was no taking away of the
girl in an unlawful manner. They had kept up a cor-
respondence together, and he had, as he should be
able to prove, on a future occasion married her with
her own free will and consent. The Learned Gen-
tleman cited several cases, which he considered had
a bearing upon the particular case in favour of his
client; and said that letters which had passed between
the parties, and which would be forthcoming upon
another day, would put a different complexion en-

tirely upon the affair.
Mr. BROUGHTON, after making many observations
upon the evidence which had been adduced, and upon
the defenca set up by the solicitor, came to the con-
clusion that he had no other duty to perform than
that of holding the defendant to bail, himself in
2001., and two sureties in 1001. each, for his
being forthcoming on Wednesday next, upon
which day letters which have passed between the parties
will,e
ano doubt, be brought forward and read in court.
Rev.T Mr. Harvey will, from the opinion of a medical
gentleman, be '
namol. sufficiently recovered to appear on the day

THE GOVERNMENT SURVEY OF LONDON.—MEET-
ING OF CIVIL SURVEYORS.—On Saturday a meeting of
the civil surveyors of London, and of some from the
provinces, was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great
Queen-street, their chief objects being to obtain employ-
ment in lieu of the Ordnance surveyors in the incipient
survey of London, and in other surveys contemplated
by Government, and to form a permanent association.
Mr. Elerbert Baker was voted to the chair. The speakers
spoke of the distress likely to be entailed on a large
class of highly and expensively educated individuals it
the national surveys should be confined to the employes
of the Ordnance. They maintained that those surveys
peculiarly belonged to civilians, who were better cal-
culated to make them accurately, with expedition, and,
on the whole, more economically than military sur-
veyors.lnstances were adduced of the incompetence of
t
wasd agreedgovern
governed
abtyan p associationrecise rules
asnhdourledgbue.
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formed,
the la teur.nitel
nt, the execution of all the national
to Government, lations, and ready to undertake, giving sufficient guaran-
teessurveys
Parliament, praying that the Government
that might be ordered. A petition is to be pre-
sented to
left
to competition amongst civil
Observer.
surveyors on y.
BlLL.—According to this Bill, the
THE SANITARY
might
_be open
I England are committed to the cus-
todypolitan central Board of five
s an itar surreysy
and keeping oAct is not a general one, but local and
gentlemen. The
d being the sole arbiters as re-
gardstral boar
shall be put in
partial, the central destinies of
ametro
; P nof the local committees is
operation. The constitution
of the great five.
They to the arbitrary will an
of pleasurevoting for the local boards,
the towns and laces where it .
They determine the mode
The persons composing
1 expenses to be allowed them. .
metal for any exer-
cise boards might be made of cast
expected of them.
1 the number of members to be appointed to each, and the
cise of volition or discretion that is
and ap-
proval of these officers, except under the sanction .
officers
They cannot appoint their own officers, or fix the sala-
ries
of the central five. Neither they nor their_
can undertake any work whatever, unless with the pre-
vious express and formal consent of the central board,
without whose ordonnance it would seem, indeed, that
not a hammer can be raised or a pick plied.--Liverpool
Mercury.
SCIENTIFIC PRESENTS.--A package of books has
been forwarded by the Royal Society of Arts and Science
iverpool
at Amsterdam to lan: Excellency ter Count Schimmel-
penainck, the Netherlands Minister at this Court, for
the purpose of presentation to the Royal Philosophical
Societies of London and Cambridge, and other learned
institutions in England, anhy will be delivered, with
the sanction of the authorities, free of duty to the several
institutions to which they are directed.
The steam-packets employed running between
Pembroke and Waterford, are each ordered to be sup-
plied with a guard of Royal Alarinos,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, April 10.

Their Lordships met this afternoon at Five o'clock.
ODD FELLOWS AND BENEFIT SOCIETIES.
Lord BEAUMONT presented several petitions from
Odd Fellows' lodges, praying to be admitted to the legal
privileges of benefit societies.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY was understood to
present similar petitions.
KENNINGTON COMMON.

In answer to a question,
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that he was glad
to inform the Noble Lord that the proceedings which
had so alarmed the public, had been happily put an
end to without the interference of the soldiery, indeed,
without the appearance of the soldiery being required.
He was glad to say that that meeting had been dispersed
by the police, and the police alone. The petition which
had been made the occasion of all this preparation,
had been brought quietly across the bridges in cabs,
he believed hired for the purpose, and had, in the other
House of Parliament, received that attention which all
petitions emanating from the people were entitled to
have.
Lord BROUGHAM thought some steps ought to be
taken to prevent the recurrence of these meetings,
whether in Ireland or in England. He thought that all
monster meetings were illegal, and he trusted that en-
deavours would be made to put a stop to them.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that the city of
London had, within the last few days, been kept in a
state of alarm, which must have told seriously on the
trade and commerce of this great city, and occu-
pation of every man in the metropolis. The
present had yet been a short session, yet
during its existence the metropolis had been twice
alarmed and disturbed from this cause, once already at
Kennington-common, and again at Kennington. common
they had been alarmed with a threat of holding a
meeting of 200,000 persons. Now, this number
could not be met for the purpose of discussion, and he
hoped that measures would be introduced for the pur-
pose of preventing meetings of such dense numbers for
the purpose of discussing questions of policy, because he
felt assured that the evil to the country, if these were
allowed, would be greater than the good to the persons
concerned.

The Marquis of NORTHAMPTON deprecated the
gathering of large crowds in the metropolis, while he
at the same time desired to preserve the full right of the
people to petition.
The Marquis of LANiDOWNE passed a merited
eulogium upon the police, and assured the House that
the middle classes had vied with the well-disposed
of her Majesty's subjects in preserving the peace,
while the admirable arrangements of his Noble Friend
opposite, although fortunately they were not required to
the full extent, had the effect of overawing the masses
that had been assembled. He had to give notice, on the
part of a Noble Friend, that as he was in the country,
he was to postpone making any inquiry on the subject
of corn-law returns till Friday next.
The llouse then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Aprillo.
The SPEAKEa took the Chair at Four o'clock.
The House was exceedingly full of Members, an
unusual circumstance at so early an hour.
THE NATIONAL PETITION.

The national petition, which had been previously
brought to the House in three cabs, lay on the floor
at the foot of the table. It consisted of three very large
bundles, and was dragged into the House before the
Speaker had taken the chair, by Mr. Feargus O'Connor,
assisted by two strangers.
NEW MEMBER.
_ _ _

Mr. P. HOWARD took the oaths and his seat for
Carlisle.

MANCHESTER CEMETERIES.

Mr. BROTHERTON moved that it be an instruc-

tion to the Committee on the Manchester General
Cemetery Bill, to entertain the petitions of purchasers
of graves and vaults in the Manchester General Ceme-
tery, and of subscribers and holders of shares in the
Manchester General Cemetery, notwithstanding that the
same were not presented within the time limited by the
standing orders.
The motion was opposed by Sir W. HEATIICOTE,
and ultimately withdrawn.
HENEAGE'S DIVORCE BILL.

This Bill was read a second time and ordered to b©
committed.

CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS.
The following reports were brought up and agreed
to:—Sufferance Wharfs (Southwark) Bill, Shrewsbury
Market Bill, Oswestry Markets and Fairs Bill, Leicester
Navigation (Sale of Lands on Forest Line) Bill, Wor-
cester New Gas-light Company (Additional Capital and
Amendment) Bill, Morley Gas-light Company Bill,
Southampton Gas-light and C,,ke Company Bill,
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

Captain PECHELL presented a petition from the
inhabitants of Brighton, stating that it was the duty of
all Governments to protect life and give security to
property; to educate the people, and to make such laws
as should provide for the happiness of the multitude;
and the petitioners, therefore, prayed the House to make
such alterations in the law that every class in the empire
should be fully and fairly represented.—(Hear.)

THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER.
Mr. FEARGCS O'CONNOR, amidst almost breath-
1--ss silence, said—Sir, I rise to present a petition, signed
by 5,760,000 persons ; also another petition, signed
by 100,000 persons, whose names are not appended
to this large muster. The petitioners pray for Annual
Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, Equal
Electoral Districts, no Property Qualification, and Pay-
n ent of Members. I beg, Sir, to state, that from
the courtesy I have already received from the
House, I shall say no more than simply move that
the petition be read by the Clerk at the table.
The petition was accordingly read by the Clerk.

At the conclusion of the reading of the petition,
Lord MORPETH rose amid much cheering, and
said—Sir, my Right Honourable Friend the Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department would have
been in his place had he not been greatly occupied by
the necessary business of his department this morning.—
(Ilear, hear.) I may, however, in his absence, state

that, whatever may be his opinion of the sentiments
contained in that petition, he does not wish that he
should be considered by his absence as wanting in that
respect which a petition so numerously signed was un-
doubtedly entitled to.—(Hear, hear.)
The petition was then removed from the floor of the
House by four of the messengers.
_ Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition from Brad-

ford in favour of the People's Charter.
Mr. WARLEY presented a petition from Marylebono
against the Bill fur the better protection of the Crown
and Government, and praying her Majesty to dismiss
her present advisers.

Mr. lIASTIE presented a petition from Paisley in
favour of the People's Charter.
Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from Carlisle
praying fora modification of the criminal code.

CoGel MITRE presented a petition from Glasgow
and other places, in favour of the People's Charter.
Mr. BRIGH r presented a petition from the delegates
of Manchester in favour of the Charter, and praying
for the establishment of local boards for the regulation
of trade and payment of wages.
COLONIAL EXeENDITURE.

Sir W. MOLESWOItTII gave notice-that he would,
upon an early day, bring before the House the question
of the colonial expenditure of the country .
BE WDLEY ELECTION.

Sir F. HANYER gave notice that he would, upon
the moving of the issue of the writ for Bewdley,
i
move the delay of
the issue, for the purpose of
affording on opportunity of inquiring into the state of
the elective franchise in that borough.
GREAT YARMOUTH DISFRANCHISEMENT