The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-17 00:00:00

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Sat soNty; beside other usef4 kesults which it had ac-
complished, bad brought down the price of books one-third,
to thh delight of every class in the community save one,
and that one the class professionally engaged in the sale of
books. It was said that the society was a monoi3olist of
books, and that it was impossible for individuals to compete
with it. Now, if it were a Monopoly, there was this dif-
ference between it and other monopolies. The objection
to other Monopolies was, that they tended to raise the price
of the articles which they monopolized—the objection to
this monopoly was, that it had lowered that price. When
that society Was originally formed, he had said, in private,
that if it succeeded, their excellent friends, the clergy of the
church, would immediately afterwards act upon the same
plan, and so it turned out even as he had predicted, for we
had scarcely published our Penny Magazine one week, when
the Saturday Magazine was brought forward as its rival.
God forbid that he should say one word of disparagement to
the church on that account. No; he was too much delighted
with the co-operation of the establishment to breathe the
slightest whisper against it ; but the fact was, that the date
and the chronology were for us, and that they prove beyond
all dispute that the church acted after us in point of time,
though they did exactly the same in point of substance.
They nobly came forward in planting schools, in planting
infant schools, and in producing cheap literature, in point
of time after the Dissenters had begun, continued, and
succeeded, in all those three different objects. If, then,
the clergy of the church were not entitled to a monopoly of
the gratitude of the country, they were at least entitled to
a great share of it, for we should not have succeeded to
more than half the extent to which we had succeeded if we
had not had the honour and benefit of their assistance.
Lord WYNFORD contended that before the Dissenters
had performed any of these splendid services, respecting
which his noble and learned friend had vaunted so largely,
the clergy of the church of England had sedulously pro-
moted the cause of education in their respective parishes by
promoting the formation of parish schools. Before any of
these dissenting associations were in existence, there had
existed in the church a society for diffusing religious
knowledge.
After a remark from the Archbishop of YORK, which
was inaudible in the gallery, the conversation dropped.
Several bills were then advanced a stage, after which the
house adjourned at seven o'clock.

PARIS, APRIL 15.

( FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
You will doubtless have been informed by the Paris daily
papers of the scenes of havoc and assassination—for in
truth they scarcely deserve even the designation of revolt—
of which several quarters of this capital were the theatre
on Sunday night, and during the early part of Monday
morning. I shall therefore content myself with now add-
ing such further particulars as have transpired since the
first moment of alarm, or rather of surprise.
The republicans, if so they may be called, though the
term of assassins would be more applicable, commenced
forming barricades, &c., at an early hour in the afternoon
of Sunday, and after nightfall mounted on the house-tops,
and placed themselves at windows, principally of the upper
stories, their intention being to fire upon the troops of the
line and of the National Guard from their comparatively
advantageous position. The necessary measures were
adopted with as little delay as possible ; and, in addition to
the disposable military force of Paris, which was in imme-
diate readiness, the four legions of the National Guard of
the banlieue were ordered into the capital, into which they
were marched at about one o'clock in the morning. The
second legion proceeded to the Place de Carousal, the three
others to the respective barriers to which they were ordered.
It was judged advisable that the troops should not com-
mence a vigorous attack upon the rioters till the first ap-
pearance of dawn, as any such movement, if attempted
during the darkness of the night, could only have exposed
the military to serious losses without producing the desired
result. Patroles, however, were directed upon the prin-
cipal points where the rioters were at work, and after some
skirmishing, several of their barricades were carried. At
day-break, the troops, consisting of the National Guards,
the Municipal Guards, and some regiments of the line,
surrounded the theatre of the partial insurrection, and the
doors of the houses in which their assailants had taken up
a position having been burst open by the sapeurs-pompiers,
a sufficient force was enabled to. penetrate into these tem-
porary fortresses, and to deal in the most summary manner
with the rioters. In a few hours resistance was com-
pletely at an end, if I may except a few indiscriminate
assassinations which took place here and there on the per-
sons of some isolated soldiers. At about half-past eight
o'clock on Monday night the last shot was fired, which un-
fortunately killed one of the National Guard.
The character of this last business appears to have been
widely different from that of any of the emeutes which
have of late disturbed the peace of the capital. The whcle
affair was indeed a series of gratuitous and useless assassi-
nations. I have heard of several cases which strongly
exemplify the cold-blooded, and, at the same time, the
stupid nature of this insurrectionary attempt. At an early
hour in the morning of Monday, a captain of the 35th
regiment of the line was murdered in the most cowardly
manner. He was entirely alone, in the Rue St. Martin,
when he was met by an armed band, and immediately
surrounded. Before he could make any attempt at self-
defence (which, hoivever, would have been hopeless against
the numbers of his assailants), he was stabbed in several
places, and left dead on the spot. In some quarters, prin-
cipally inhabited by manufacturers, the mob broke into
houses into which they had been refused admittance by
the proprietors, who were naturally averse to running the
risk of becoming the victims of the military. Here the
most appalling scenes took place. An old porter who in
obedience to his master had closed the door of his house,
was slaughtered without mercy. A party of the mob
having forcibly effected an entrance, blew out his brains in
his own lodge, and the horrid spectacle of the unfortunate
man's blood on the walls may at this moment be witnessed.
During the morning, a boy of about 13 years of age,
armed with a pistol, walked deliberately up to an officer at
the head of a party of National Guards, and shot him
through the head, before he was at all aware of his boyish
assailant's presence. The exasperated soldiers imme-
diately ran their bayonets through the young miscreant's
body.
It is to be lamented that some excesses were committed
by the troops and the National Guards ; but these, how
deplorable soever, must in reality be attributed to the ori-
ginal authors of the disturbance. Irritated almost to
frenzy at seeing their comrades fall by the hands of con-
cealed
assassins, the military forced their way into several
houses whence the fire had been directed against them, and
put all the inmates to death.
It appears that at the corner of the Rue Transnonin the
mob, among whom was a female, had kept up a terrific
fire from the upper window of one of the houses. The
barricade, however, which defended the entrance to the
house was soon forced, though with much loss of life, and
the female and her companions were sabred by the infu-
riated soldiers. There is no doubt that many innocent
persons perished with the guilty, but the military have at
least the excuse (though it may be a bad one) of exaspe-
ration, which cannot be pleaded for the wanton excesses of
the originators of the tumult.
In the Rue d'Enfer some students, in their search for
arms, broke into the house of the celebrated professor, M.
Royer Collard, but on the appearance of the venerable
man, who calmly advanced to meet them, they became
abashed, and retired.
It is proved beyond a doubt that the attempted insurrec-
tion on Sunday night was premeditated. On Saturday
some deluded workmen belonging to certain manufac-
turers, gave notice to their employers that they should ab-
sent themselves from work for some time, and in many in-
stances even their riotous intentions were stated, threats
of death being held out to their masters in the event of the
latter making any disclosures to the authorities !
It was at first apprehended that in consequence of what
had taken place, strong measures would be adopted by Go-
vernment ; such, for instance, as placing Paris under mar-
tial law, but the address of the Chamber of Deputies to the
King, and his Majesty's answer, do not warrant a conclu-
sion of this sort. I must, however, add a report now pre-
valent, that the rioters who have been taken prisoners are
to be tried by courtsmartial, and that the secret votewill be
adopted by the juries.
Paris is at present quite tranquil, and but for the nightly
bivouacks of the National Guard, and the crowds of gazers
which occasionally. assemble on the scene of action, it
would hardly be imagined that any thing serious had
occurred.

P. S.--It is reported, but it is hardly credible, that 800
people have been killed or wounded on the occasion of the
late afflicting events. As an instance of individual cool-
ness, I may mention that one of the Municipal Guards
whose finger had been shattered by a ball, himself per-
formed the operation of amputation on the mutilatedstump !

Such is the hostility shown by the Bank of
England to the new banking companies now beginning
to do business, that in the case of the London and
Westminster bank a refusal has been given to open any
account, either in the names of the trustees, or even
with any of the directors individually, without any
official character having been given to them. This is
a matter in itself perhaps of little public importance,
but as a specimen of the use made by the Bank of the
so recently granted privileges, it ought not to pass un-
noticed. That such powers should be converted into
the means of gratifying private pique and hostility, is
to furnish the strongest argument possible against their
being placed in such hands, and the sort of scrutiny
that must take place before the Bank can be satisfied
whether the account proposed to be opened is really
for an individual or for other parties whom he repre-
sents, is unworthy not only of men filling a high public
trust, but of men of character or common respectabi-
lity. What is asked is simply the safe custody of
notes issued by themselves, and this they refuse,
because they believe or suspect that the notes belong
to a rival establishment ! The moneyed interest will
not fail to draw their own conclusions, nor will it, it is
to be hoped, be lost on the government, from such a
specimen of arbitrary power exercised from such un-
worthy motives.— Times.