The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-20 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. 31AY 20, 1833.

man in the shape of an Italian Prince or Count
in all the wanderings and exploits of this ex-
traordinary Duchess. Count Hector is then
nothing more than " Count After-thought !! "
To save appearances—to please the Holy
Alliance—to keep friends with the \Vertlters,
D'Apponys, and Pozzo di Borgos of Europe
—to prevent those "nursing mothers," and those
" Royal Fathers," called Kings and Queens,
from becoming the objects of scandal ! and
" carcans," and to shield from the vulgar gaze
the vices and the bad example of Princes and
Princesses, the Doctrinnaires of France have
agreed that the Duchess of Berry shall be mar-
ried—that Count Hector de Lucchesi Palli shall
be the victim—that some pretended act of mar-
riage shall be got up—that then the Church
shall interfere, and dissolve the marriage which
is to be fabricated—that the Duchess is then to
be free—to be sent back to Italy—and the
Ambassadors in question are to engage that
neither Madam Palli nor the Duchess of Berry
are to trouble the place of La Vendee—or ex-
cite the Chouans to civil.war and crimes. That
such a lick-spittle—well-bribed—well-paid Si-
cilian or Neapolitan—or some other Italian
Count as M. Hector may exist, I will not doubt
—but that the Duchess of Berry was ever mar-
ried to him either by Church or State I must
stoutly deny.
_ _ _

I had not intended to have said another word
after yesterday about this unfortunate and
wretched woman :—but though the mere cha-
racter of her sex should always protect her from
unnecessary exposure or attack, her position in
society should not secure her front being held
up as an example. These are the sort of people
who govern mankind ! These are the sort of
beings called Princes and Princesses! These
are the sort of intrigues in which they are en-
gaged, and to which their lives are devoted !
And yet these are the persons whom we, the
people, labour and toil to support, with all their
hopeful progeny, both legitimate and illegiti-
mate. Let us, then, hear less of courts and
more of the people—less of courtiers, and more
of patriots—and let public attention be taken
away as much as possible from tho contemptible
and wretched exhibitions of crowned profligacy
and Royal vice.
The Doctrinnaires have been defeated by the
Court of Cassation ! This is a triumph for the
press in France—and a cause of no small un-
easiness to the Cabinet of M. Guizot. You
remember the trial of Benoist and Bergeron for
the pistol plot ! You remember that the Na-
tional, the Temps, and the Charivari were
cited by the Judges to appear at the assizes of
the Seine, for having published incorrect, and
even false and injurious reports. You remember
that the prosecution was commenced in conse-
quence of the Judges who tried the Republicans
being handsomely and deservedly attacked by the
journals in question, for their partial and unjust
conduct during the trial. You remember that
an old law was resorted to, made under the
Restoration, which reserved to Judges the right
of deciding on such offences, instead of Juries,
as should now be the case since the Revolution
of 1830. You remember that Le Temps was
acquitted, but that the National and Charivari
were condemned to the .maximum of the penalty
both of fine and imprisonment. You remem-
ber that this condemnation excited the indigna-
tion not only of the press, but of all France,
and that every one counselled the journalists to
appeal to the Court of Cassation. That appeal
was made, and after a long and able discussion
on Thursday and Friday last, the Court of Cas-
sation yesterday pronounced its decision, which
overthrew the judgment pronounced by the
Judges of the assizes of the Seine, and sent
the journalists to be tried at the assizes of a
neighbouring department. Thus all the vio-
lence, hatred, fury, personality, and party rage
of the Duboises, the Barthes, and the Persils,
have been defeated by the Court of Cassation—
and the Judges, who thought by their decision
to have aided the Doctrinnaires in their invete-
rate hatred against the press, and their deter-
mination to take the strongest measures to put
it down, have been taught to be more moderate
in their judgments, and more just in their ver-
dicts, it they do not wish to fall into the disgrace
of having their decrees set aside by the highest
tribunal in the land. This is the second great
occasion in which the Court of Cassation has
rendered essential service to the country during
the last year. The first by declaring the mili-
tary courts illegal, and the second by supporting
the liberty of the press against a little coterie of
" juste-milieu" Judges.
The French Government has to-day an-
nounced, that it has received intelligence of the
detection of an extensive and formidable con-
spiracy in Savoy. It declares—first, That the
ramifications were extensive ; second, That the
discovery has been made in sufficient time ;
third, That a vast number of arrests have taken
place at Genoa and Turin ; and fourth, That a
great many Frenchmen, and especially inhabi-
tants of Grenoble, are compromised or implicated
in this affair. As we are yet without information
as to the precise object of this conspiracy, and as
to the agents and means employed to carry that
object into effect, it would be premature to offer
any decided opinion. But the inhabitants of Gre-
noble are eminently patriotic, and the mere fact that
they have mixed themselves up with this " conspi-
racy," as it is called, is an argument in its favour.
The condition of Savoy is deplorable. The King
of Sardinia has not answered our expectations, or
realized our hopes. He has listened to the
counsels of Austria ; and instead of placing
himself at the head of the movement party in
Italy, he has joined the party of resistance. The
Prince de Carignan was a very different man
to the King of Sardinia—as the Prince of
Wales was indeed opposed in character to
George the Fourth. It is a fact which history
will confirm, that the mere atmosphere which
surrounds a throne is contagious, and that a
man cannot place a crown on his head without
being infected with the poison of royalty. If
this conspiracy were formed to improve the con-
dition of the Savoyards, to put an end to the
state of humiliation in which they are kept, and
to break that yoke under which they have so
long groaned, I regret that it has been disco-
vered that all the benevolent and virtuous inten-
tions of the conspirators have, for the time, been
prevented from being realized ; and I hope that
t he Government of Savoy will be taught, ere it
be too late, that " even a worm will turn," and
that the poor little boys who amuse us with

their antics in the streets of Paris, or interest us
with their native airs, and their " white mice,"
cannot play on their hurdy-gurdvs the " Mar-
sellaise" and the " Parisienne," without catch-
ing some portion of that love of liberty which
led to the composition of those inspiring sounds.
The Savoyard population have heard of free-
dom—cannot be indifferent to that which they
feel they need—and sooner or later even Savoy
will he free, and the inhabitants of those wild
and interesting mountains will no longer be ex-
posed to the degrading system of servitude which
is yet continued even amongst eternal snows.
The affairs of Belgium are nearly as bad as
they can be, and the Constitutional King of
that country is now in the hands of priests and
jesuits. Of all the priests in Europe, those of
Belgium are the most bigoted, selfish, and un-
enlightened. I know them well—l have lived
with . them—l have conversed with them—
watched them—noted down their conversation
and their sermons—their prayers and their coun-
sels. They hate liberty. They hate education.
They hate the progress which civilization and
freedom are making in spite of them. They
did not oppose King William's intolerance
against Catholics, because it was intolerance—
for if he had prosecuted the Protestants they
would have made him a Saint—even the Saint
of Belgium—but they opposed his intolerance,
because it affected themselves. We opposed it
also—but not because it was directed either
against Catholics or Protestants, but because it
was intolerance. The priests were useful to a
certain point—not as maters but as servants—
not as leaders but as agents; and if they only
demanded in return that the Catholic Church
should enjoy, as it now does in Belgium, all the
liberty Much it can possibly demand, I should
applaud their patriotism and rejoice at their
success. But it is far otherwise. They demand
to subject all things to the Church—to govern
in civil as in spiritual matters—to re-establish
the papal hierarchy which the Reformation de-
stroyed—to have the Church endowed and the
clergy owners of the soil—and then they declare
that the virgins will he pure as snow, and the

young men virtuous as angels. But we are not
to be tempted to make another experiment. We
have broken our cords asunder, and are not
now to be tempted to relapse into a state of
obedience and submission to the Romish Con-
clave. The King of the Belgians does not suffi-
ciently feel this. The influence of all priests,
whether Protestant or Catholic, is to be depre-
cated and averted—and if Leopold shall hope to
destroy the French party in Belgium by raising
on its supposed ruins the party of the Church,
he will find that his staff is but a reed, and that
even a sharp and poignant arrow is concealed,
which will wound him to the heart. _

Nothing is settled ! neither in Belgium, Hol-
land, Poland, Savoy, Portugal, Spain, France,
Germany, or England ; but every where the
people are in motion, and the revolution of 1830
is advancing.—Your obedient servant,
0. P. Q.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 18

Their Lordships met at a quarter to fotir o'clock this
afternoon.
Earl GRANVILLE was introduced by Lords Ripon and
Morley, and took the oaths and his seat, with the cus-
tomary formalities, on being el.vated to the Earldom.
STAFFORD ELECTION.
_

On the motion of Earl RADNOR, the Stafford Elec-
tion Bribery Bill was read a third time, and passed with-
out comment.

Several private Bills were then forwarded a stage, and
the House adjourned.

THE CORN LAWS.

LIST OF TH.
ON MR. W. WMITMORE'S 31
ENGLAND.

E MINORITY
OTION ON THE CORN LAWS.
Ord, W. H.—Newport, Isle of
Wight
Parker, J.—Sheffield
Philips, Mark—Manchester
Ph illpotts, J.—Gloucester
Potter, R.—Wigan
Ramsbottom, J.—Windsor
Ricarddo, David—Stroud
Rippon, C.—Gateshead
Robinson, G. It —Worcester
Itumilly, J.—Bridport
Romilly, E.—Ludlow
Ryle, J.—Macclesfield
Sheppard, T.—Frome
Strickland, G —West Yorkshire
Strutt, Edmund—Derby
Tancred, H. W.—Banbury
Tennyson, Right Hon. C.—
Lambeth
Thicknesse, R.—Wigan
Thompson, Ald.—Sunderland
Torrens, R.—Bolton
Turner, W.—Blackburn
Vernon, H. G. J. V.—South
Derbyshire
Walker, R.—Bury
Walter, John—Berkshire
Warburton, H.—Blidport
Whalley, Sir S.—Marylebone
Whitmore, W. W.—Wolver.
hampton
Williams, G.—Ashton
Wood, M.—London
Wood, G. W.—S. Lancashire
Young, G. F.—Tynemouth

Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth
Baillie, J. E.—Bristol
Bainbridge, E. T.—Taunton
Barnett, C. J.—Maidstone

Bish, T:—Leominster
Bolling, W.—Bolton-le-Moors
Briggs, R.—Halifax
Brotherton, Joseph—Salford
Buckingham, J. S.—Sheffield
Buller, E.--North Staffordshire
Bulwer, H. L.—Coventry
Burdett, Sir F.—Westminster
Clay, \V.—Tower Hamlets
Dashwood, G. H.—Bucks
Davenport, J.—Stoke-on-Trent
Dawson, E.—South Leicestersh.
Divett, E.—Exeter
Ellis, W.—Leicester

Etw.ll, IL—Andover
Evans, Wm.—Leicester
Evans, Wm. De Lacy—West-

mins:er
Ewart, W.—Liverpool
Fenton, L.—Huddersfield
Ferguson, Sir R.—Nottingham
Fielden, W. J.—Blackburn
Fielden, John—Oldharni
Fryer, t.—Wolverhampton
Gaskell, Daniel—Wakefield
Godson, R.—Kidderminster
Grey, Sir G.—Dcvonport
Grote, George—London
Guest, J. J.—Merthyr Tydvil
Gully, John—Pontefract
Hardy, John—Bradford
Hawes, Benjamin—Lambeth
Hornby, E. G.—Warrington
Hughes, Hughes—Oxford
Hume, Joseph—Middlesex
Humphery, John—Southwark
Hutt, Wm.—Hull
Hyett, W. H.—Stroud
Ingham It.—South Shields
Jervis, ..Chester

SCOTLAND.
Dunlop, J.—Kilmarnock
Ewing, James—Glasgow
Ferguson, R.—Dysart, &c.
Onion, W. D.—Falkirk, &c.
Maxwell, Sir John—Paisley
Oliphant, Laurence—Perth
Oswald, It. A.—Ayrshire
Oswald, James—Glasgow
Yarnell, Sir H.—Dundee
Ross, H.—Montrose, &c.
Stewart, R.—Haddington, &c.
Wemyss,

Key, Sir J.—London
Langton, Wm. Gore—East So-
mersetshire
Lester, B. Lester—Poole
Lister, E. Cunliffe—Bradford
Marshall, J.—Leeds
Marsland, T. —S toc kpo r t
Martin, J.—Tewkesbury
Milton, Viscount—North Nor-
thamptonshire
Molesworth, Sir William— .East
Cornwall

IRELAND.
(Evans, C.—Dublin Co.
Lalor; Patrick—Queen's Co.
O'Connell, D.—Dublin City
O'Connell, Mau rice—Tralee
O'Connell, C.—Kerry Co.
O'Connell, John—Youghall
O Connell, Morgan—Meath
Ruthven, E. S.—Dublin
Vigors, N. A.—Carlow

Morpoth, Id—. West Yorkshirc I
Morrison, J.—lpswich

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Leeds Mercury.)
LEEDS.—The sales of cloth this week at the cloth hall-
have been considerable, especially in the low and middling
qualities. The demand also for goods of similar sorts from
the merchants is brisk, and there is some difficulty in
obtaining c'otlas from 6s. to 10s. per yard, in consequence
of the business done in the above descriptions.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY EVENING.—Things
have been very brisk during tie whole day, and conside-
rable sales have been effected both for the home and foreign
market. Six-quarter merinos are somewhat higher, in
consequence of a slight advance in wages. A small advance
has been obtained on some of the fine wools; the stronger
qualities are rather heavy.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—Our market on Tuesday
was characterised by a great demand for goods, especially
those of the old stocks which were yet remaining. The
merchants are, of course, anxious to secure these, rather
than pay more for the goods manufactured of higher priced
wool. The raw material, we are informed, still manifests
a tendency to advance. The manufacturers affirm that,
notwithstanding this improved demand, profits have Oct
obtained a proportional elevation. Merchants are at
present, both at Huddersfield and in other places, under-
stood to be purchasing largely for the United States.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—On Monday last the
flannel market was not quite so well attended as on the
preceding week, but several sales of the finer qualities, and
at an advanced price, were effected. Middle and low goods
were both in brisk demand. Pieces to finish at from 40s.
to dele. are much sought after, as well as those for dyeing.