The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-22 00:00:00

or any other channel, the name of the Irish
Member who in public voted with Mr. O'Con-
nell and his tail, while he privately encouraged
the Ministers to an act which would eventually
crush that demagogue and his faction, should
happen to transpire, neither that member nor his
family would be safe in their beds by night, or
at their meals by day ; their murder would as
surely follow, in Ireland, as contempt would be
the portion of such miserable trickery here. Mr.
Hill, therefore, would have at least one life to
answer for, should he answer affirmatively the
demand made upon him by Mr. O'Connell ;
and, indeed, we acquit the demagogue himself
of any wish to have the name of the culprit
announced. For the rest, the tone of the letter
is more worthy of him who wrote it than we
hope of any English Radicals, however uncivi-
lized and conceited.—Tinzes.

When we have alluded, as we have often done
In terms of condemnation, to the " Brewers'

monopoly," we have done so wholly in reference to
their possession of, or interest in, public-houses,
to the forced trade which is thereby
imposed
upon such houses, and the state of thraldom
and dependance in which a large portion of an
otherwise highly-respectable class of the com-
munity, the licensed victuallers, is thus retained.
Their ability to manufacture the best article, and
that at the cheapest rate, we never doubted.
For these results the magnitude of their capital,
the size of their " plants," and the skill which
they are enabled to employ, arc sufficient gua-
rantees. For these reasons the public would
have no cause to complain of the quality of this
very essential, we may say national, beverage,
beer, were the trade in its consumption really
an open one, but which never can be the case
while so large a proportion of the retailers are
tied down to the particular brewery at which
each must deal. But not only is this monopoly
in appearance effectually insured by the owner-
ship acquired in public-houses, but, to make
assurance doubly sure, the chain is, as it
were, rivetted by a conspiracy among the
principal houses not to allow any recreant
tenant of one house to obtain a solitary butt
from another. This combination very much re-
sembles what is called vulgarly " honour among
thieves," and is much more worthy of resistance
and of being broken down than the very minor
evil, that of the prying annoyance of common
informers, to meet which an association of pub-
licans has very lately been instituted. We wonder,
indeed, that the great brewers themselves do not
see the folly and the danger of committing these
acts of tyranny, which are almost sure in the end
to get wind, and load the actors in the scene
with no very gratifying share of public notice.
We long since recommended, and are quite sure
that, in the end it would be the best thing
for all parties, after a reasonable time being
given to get rid of existing interests, brewers
should be prevented by law, under severe
pe-
nalties, from being owners or otherwise interested
in public-houses. Do not let the advocates of
free trade take offence at this as an encroachment
upon the unrestrained use of capital. It is in
the very spirit of free trade that we make it ; for
how can that be a legitimate or desirable use of
capital which ties down the capital, the industry,
and the very personal free agency of hundreds of
persons—to say nothing of the still greater
evil it inflicts in helping to poison a large
portion of the community? From the Magis-
trates, unfortunately, there seems to be nothing
to hope. They might, years ago, have broken
down this monopoly if they would ; but, as far as
I all evidence goes, they appear rather to have
fostered and cherished it. The press, however,
we are well entitled to say, has done its duty,
and in the publicity which it has given to the
case which recently occurred at the east end of
the metropolis, and which has been the imme-
diate cause of our present reference to the sub-
ject, has, we have no doubt, made an additional
and effective move towards a reconsideration and
reform of an evil of great extent and importance.
Nor would the brewer himself, in the end, be
otherwise than benefited by the change. By
opening a door to competition he would take
pains to excel in the quality of the commodity
of which a known forced sale now renders him
comparatively indifferent ; and we need not add
that increased consumption would soon reward
improved quality. To the publican the eman-
cipation would be everything. No longer the
slave or mortgagee of the brewer, persons of
capital and character alone would embark in the
business; while to the public in general, but
especially the lower and middle classes, a boon
would be extended most essential to their health,
their comfort, and social propensities.—Morning
Herald.

The liberality of the Government of the
Queen Regent of Spain may be understood
from the suppression of a journal, without any
process of law, because it had given some
offence to her Minister Zea Bermudez, by
venturing a jest or two on that high functionary
and absolute politician. M. Zea is one of those
nice critics upon public discussion, who thinks
that a bad joke may be very good constructive
treason—at least so far as to incur a forfeiture
of the property of the unfortunate literary wit-
,ling who indulges in such a mode of conveying
political feeling on the wrong side of the
question. The editor of the Madrid Courier
somewhat emboldened by an intimation that
the press was to be allowed greater freedom of
discussion than before, which was none at all,
ventured, it appears, to try the extent of the
amount of liberty that might be taken, by
stroking the lion's beard, and soon found
himself pinned to the ground by his paw ! The
aristocratic spouter of democratic speeches
in the north of England could not have re-
sented an insult to his dignity, in the shape
of a newspaper squib, with more lordly indigna-
tion. But Zea Bermudez, if he have not a
better inclination to construe the freedom of the
pressh only into the freedom of flattering him,
a
power to act upon his intentions than
smore
the English reformer, and so he forthwith pro.
ceeds to silence the facetious journalist, and
confiscate his offending types. The best of the
matter was that the censor had, as he imagined,
cut all point out of the jokes; but it is possible
the intention to be jocular was still evident ;
and as it was not known what dangerous effects
this might have on the gravity of the loyal
Spaniards,—the exterminating decree of the
Government went forth, and El Correo Literario
ceased to exist. Such a proceeding is worthy of
a Governmentin which Louis Philip has a sort
of family interest, for a more bitter and un-
wearied persecutor of the press than the King of
the Barricades does not exist—witness the 400
or 500 State prosecutions which have been car-
ried on during his hitherto short reign against
those very Journals which were instrumental in
raising him to the throne. There is no doubt
that if it were not for what is called the
Liberal Press, the result of the sanguinary
struggle of the " three days of July" would