The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-19 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The Tory press here, which exceeds, if possible, that of
London in scurrilous invective, is beginning to slander the
King. Nothing less was to be expected from those who had
the audacity, during the progress of the Reform Bill, to ascribe
his Majesq's acquiescence in that great constitutional measure
to imbecility of mind, and a dread of the cholera 1 Last year,
again, when Lord Melbourne succeeded Earl Grey as Premier,
insinuations of a still worse and more alarming character were
freely thrown out. For obvious reasons I shall not repeat
them. The break-up of the Cabinet set the King all square
with those conditional loyalists once more ' • and no Prince in
Christendom, that ever was, is, or e'er shall be, could be more
suddenly and miraculously endowed with all-brilliant qualities
and intellectual gifts. Well: another change has come
o'er the councils of his Majesty ; and 10, these impudent var-
lets unblushinly and daringly accuse him of wanting good
manners. The Evening Mail thus speaks of our most Gra-
cious Sovereign in its last number :
" The King receives with something approaching to rude-
ness all the Whig-Radicals iho attend his levees, being ut-
terly disgusted with the mean selfishness which induced them
to sacrifice the country for their own personal purposes. His
manner to Mr. Abercrombie, the Speaker, is most marked."
There was a time when the public writer who should send
forth such a scandalous lampoon, would not feel his ears
safe on his head. Attribute rudeness to the King—marked
rudeness towards a gentleman, whose sole offence, to render
him disgracious in the eyes of Royalty, is the marked prefe-
rence which his Majesty's faithful Commons have manifested in
his behalf 1 It is really monstrous.
It is amusing to observe the ways of agitators and faction-
mongers of every hue and colour—how identical they are in
contrivance and design. Their ruling principle is to produce
the greatest possible excitement that may be consistent with
perfect security to themselves ; and when they have con-
ducted their dupes to the very brink of danger, then to slip out
of the way, and evade all personal responsibility for what may
follow.
The recent conduct of the Earl of Roden is an example of
this. He made an attack in the House of Lords, on the pro-
cession in honour of Lord Mulgrave. It was unnecessary to
do so—Lord Wicklow having previously handled the subject
at large—unless to save a point for the Orangemen on their
approaching Commemoration. His observations, after those of
the other Earl, were altogether superfluous for any other pur-
pose ; and indeed he made his object sufficiently plain, by stat-
ing that, as the persons who went out to receive and welcome
the Earl of Mulgrave were not prosecuted, the Orangemen
should be licensed to celebrate their annual rites with impunity.
The hint %as been taken. Preparations are in a state of
forwardness for keeping the bloody festival with unusual pomp.
The Orangefnen make no secret of their determination to
march to Church in order of battle on the 12th of July. The
day will peculiarly favour their design, for this year it falls on
Sunday ; nor have any of those sanctimonious legislators, who
would debar the smoke-dried citizen from his weekly excursion
beyond the fetid air of the Metropolis, lifted their voices
against so wicked and dangerous a profanation of the Christian

Sabbath.
What an outpouring of candour and hatred will take place
on that day ! How will the name of HIM, who is " Love" itself,
be blasphemed by those who will kneel before him in a spirit
of oppression and revenge. Nay, the very pulpit will scarcely
be clear from the sounding brass of an uncharitable and un-
godly strife ; and if the day closes without the mingling of
blood in their sacrifices, it will be through the forbearance of
their adversaries rather than their own. We dare not hope,
however, that it will pass off without its usual concomitants, or
that the glorious memory of this year will be free from those
outrages for which Lord Roden has so considerately and
timeously bespeke impunity.
The Noble gall, true to the cunning nature of agitators in
every school, is uow backing out of his share of the blame of
what may follow. Having applied the torch, and waited until
the train is ready to explode, he now stands aloof, and says to
the combustible matter—" Pray, don't blow up." But he
should not be suffered to escape under so flimsy a cover ; for
of what avail will he his promised exertions now, when the
muskets are all polished and the powder glazed, to prevent any
meeting or procession on the 12th of July? He must be aware
that lie cannot prevent them now : nor, should any disastrous
event occur, must the public be suffered to forget his words in
the House of Lords on the 25th of last month :—" He wished
to ENTER A CLAIM for the same liberty to those loyal Protestant
subjects who were members of the Orange Institutions." His
Lordship's flag is nailed to that, and he must not, after the
signal has been repeated on a hundred hills, haul it down, and
pretend to play the peace-maker. Such a blind will not do.
He must abide the event, and stand by his full share of the
consequences. If he can really prevent the processions—well.
But if he fail in that, his repentance (if he do repent) is too
late. _

P. S. Christopher Whelan, the poor man who was stabbed
by some Orangemen unknown at Durrow, county Kilkenny, on
the 21st of last month, died of the wound, in the Maryborough
Infirmary, last Thursday. It may not be in reference to this
event that the following boastful paragraph is now going the
rounds of the Tory papers :—" An Orange Lodge has recently
been opened in Kilkenny, the first of the kind in that county,
and under Noble patronage."

CHURCH RA rEs ST. PA NC RAS• -- Yesterday
above twelve hundred of the inhabitants of St. Pancras parish
were summoned before Colonel Bird and E. Orme, 'Esq.,
county magistrates sitting in petty sessions, in the large room
at the St. Pancras Female School House, in the Hampstead-
road, to show cause why they have " refused or neglected" to
pay the amount of a church-rate laid in June last. A number
of the persons summoned immediately paid the amount, but
several objected for conscience sake, and on other grounds.
while a few questioned th“ legality of the rate, the whole of
whom were informed by the Bench that the payment would
be enforced. Considerable excitement prevailing throughout
the parish in consequence of the number of summonses issued
(upwards of four thousand), a public meeting of the rate-
payers is called for Monday next, at Messrs. Farlie's Rooms,
near the Regent's-park, to consider of the best course to be
adopted under the circumstances ; and it is reported that a
number of the inhabitants have united together, and pledged
themselves to resist the execution of any distress warrant which
may be issued in consequence of their still refusing to pay.
PREVENTION OF HYDROPHOBIA.—Letthe mouth
of the bitten person, after o ashing, if possible, the part, be ap-
plied directly to the wound, and suction performed with force
and determination. Then, as speedily as possible afterwards,
let water (warm, if possible, for ourselves we should say cold,
as being less likely to excite absorption) be directed in a stream
a foot or more in height, upon the part, thoroughly washing
and again sucking the injured part, and washing the mouth
immediately after each suction. This course should be pur-
sued by alternations for a quarter or even half an hour. If the
wound bleed, so much the better. Danger of absorption by
the mouth can occur where there is excoriation or other breach
of surface in that cavity, not a common occurrence, and most
likely to be prevented by ablution. However, under any cir-
cumstances, the bitten person applying to his own mouth risks
no attack to which he has not already been rendered a hundred
fold more liable. Another person may apply the mouth with
almost equal impunity after washing. The knife or caustic
may subsequently be used, when practicable, with the hope of
increasing the security.—Lancet.

Yesterday a public meeting of the Reformers of
Glasgow was held in the Town Hall, at the Cross, for the
purpose of considering the measures necessary to insure the
efficient Registration of all qualified persons, and more espe-
cially to consider the propriety of constituting a Reform As-
sociation for Glasgow.

Bridgewater and its neighbourhood have been vi-
sited during the past week with some very heavy thunder-
storms, accompanied with vivid flashes of lightning. A poor
boy at Stert was struck by the lightning, and was so much
injured that, his ,recovery is doubtful ; and a bullock, belong-
ing to Mr. Culverwell, of Durleigh, was killed by the electric.
fluid.—Dorset Chronicle.

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1835.

Mr. COBBETT, the Member for Oldham, but far
better known as the author of the Political I?egistei-
,l, •
died yesterday at his farm in Surrey, at the mature age
of 73—but one fortnight after his last prediction, that
he had full ten good years yet to live ! In every sense
of the word, Mr. COBBETT was a remarkable man.
His physical, were only exceeded by his intellectual,
energies. He had unrivalled faculties of application
—perseverance that nothing could daunt—great natu-
ral sagacity, often misdirected, but powerful, even
when most perverted—much and various literary infor-
mation, chiefly, however, of a practical character—
consummate knowledge of every-day life in all its forms
and gradations—which, joined with humour, pathos,
sarcasm, readiness of conception, and felicity of exe-
cution, whether applied to the drawing of character,
or the description of that luxuriant, sylvan style of
home scenery in which he so much delighted, rendered
him one of the most accomplished and successful
writers that England has known since the days of
DRYOE. We may add, also, that he was one of the
most original ; for, confident in his own powers, he
seldom availed himself of the aid of books, or the ar-
guments of his contemporaries ; but stamped and co-
loured everything he said and wrote, with the peculiar
impress and hue of his own mind. There was no
mistaking the writings of WILLIAM COBBETT for
those of any one else. He set all serious imitation at
defiance. But perhaps his most striking peculiarity was
the air of truth and earnestness which he imparted even
to his most preposterous absurdities. He was more con-
vincing in the wrong, than such a tom-tit of a politi-
cian as ROEBUCK would be, in the right. He made his
readers believe, or at least attend to, his reasonings, in
spite of themselves—so complete, apparently, was
the conviction, in his own mind, that he had
adopted the only sound view of the case.
Mr. COBBETT'S egotism has been much condemned
and ridiculed. He certainly was one of the most con-
ummate egotists that ever lived ; but then he was also
the most amusing. He had none of the maudlin sen-
sibility of ROUSSEAU, or the stern, selfish gloom of
BYRON ; but threw a social, sunshiny air over his talk
about himself, which redeemed it from insipidity, and
pleased the reader, even while it made him smile.
Besides, never was man more thoroughly sincere in his
egotism. Ho did not ask you to believe, but he him-
self was firmly of opinion, that Wm. COBBETT was
the greatest man of the age I He asserted this from
no silly principle of vanity, but simply because he
felt it to be an important truth, which he ought nei-
ther to deny nor conceal. Hence whatever subject he
discussed always had reference to himself. Fain
would he have kept " I"—for he despised the more
modest " We"—out of the field ; but he was under the
spell of that officious pronoun ; and he either could
not, or would not, break the charm. In this
respect he was the very antipodes of SCOTT, who
throughout his voluminous works, makes a point
of keeping the author in the back ground.
As a writer, COBBETT has been constantly reproached
with vulgarity. That, conventionally speaking, he
was apt at times to be vulgar, we grant ; but that he
showed anything inherently mean, or frivolous, or af-
fected in his writings—and this we take to be the es-
sence of vulgarity in authorship—we utterly deny.
His intellect was a plain, blunt, straight-forward one,
scorning all the refinements of art ; and his style is
every whore characterized by the same contempt for
all West-end models. His writings may be homely,
but generally speaking, they are not vulgar. If, how-
ever, it be vulgar to express plain ideas in plain lan-
guage ; to write for the majority as the majority
can best understand ; to be invariably forcible and

often picturesque in description ; to enforce opinions
in the pure, idiomatic vernacular ; to think for oneself,
without regard to what etiquette may say ; if this be
vulgarity, then indeed COBBETT was a vulgar writer ;
but grant this, and, Heaven help us, what a shoal of
common-place, petty, insipidly-elegant authors, whose
sole merits are the steering clear of unfashionable ,
expressions, are at once raised to the ranks of gentility!
We have observed that COBBETT is a picturesque ,
writer. He is so in an eminent degree, and always
judicious in its application. Thus, in speaking of the
probability of the Reform Bill being thrown out in the
Lords, he expresses himself in the following language,
than which nothing can be more suitable to the quality
of the audience he is addressing :—" Reform is as a
feast prepared ; we smell it from the kitchen ; our
appetites are whetted for the assault ; woe, then, to
those who shall come and tell us there is to be no
dinner I" Of the same picturesque character is his
famous "Rat-Hunt ;" to say nothing of those exqui-
site sketches of English scenery, in which even his
dryest and most practical writings abound.
In the incidents of their lives, perhaps also in the
structure of their minds, there is no slight resemblance
between COBBETT and DEFOE. Both were the lead-
ing mob-writers of the day ; both were alternately
in favor of, and against, Government ; both were
equally English at heart ; both used the same forcible,
unadorned style : were equally devoted to rural occu-
pations ; died at a good old age ; and wrote nearly the
Same number of works. DEFOE was, at one period of
his life, the idol of the British nation and Parliament.
So was COBBETT, when Mr. WYNDHAM stated in
the House of Commons, that he deserved a statue of
gold. Both afterwards fell from their high estate ; but
DEFOE'S case was the hardest, for he died in penury
and obscurity, deserted even by his own children ; while
COBBETT, though no longer what he once was in po-
pular influence, gained the great object of his ambition,
—a seat in Parliament. In thus comparing COBBETT
with DEFOE, we do not mean to assert that he possessed
anything like the fancy or invention of the latter. He
could never have penned such works as Robinson
Crusoe, or the " Plague ;" still, in his " Hints to
Young Men"--which, strange as the assertion may
appear, contains one of the finest love-tales in the lan-
guage, the account of his own courtship—he has shown
himself not far inferior to the author of the " True-born
Englishman."
We have said little of COBBETT as a political writer,
for this reason, that every one is familiar with the ec-
centricities of his Register, for the last forty years and
upwards. He was certainly not remarkable for steadi-
ness, his politics being less the results of reflection
than impulse. Wrong or right, if he once took up a
crotchet, he would stick to it, till some new vagary
turned his thoughts in a different direction. If his
readers went with him, well and good. If -not, no mat-
ter : he would flounder on through the bog by himself.
He was great in attack, but weak at defence. He
knew how to bully, but if his adversary met him with
his own weapons, he was apt to slink off, like a dog
with his tail between his legs. Thus, when in one of
his cleverest Registers he committed a most tremendous
assault and battery on Mr. O'CONNELL, and Mr.
O'CONNELL replied in the same style ; he abruptly
dropped the discussion, notwithstanding he promised
to renew it; and ever after, was one of the warmest of
the Agitator's friends. Though an acute, COBBETT
certainly was not a sound, reasoner. His logical
faculties showed themselves by fits and starts. There
was nothing continuous about them. Nevertheless
with all his faults—and no politician ever had more—
his death has left a blank in this department of litera-
ture which will not be easily filled up. He was a
Titan in intellect, without a prototype, and without a

successor.

While the public hail the advent of Municipal Re-
form with feelings of unmixed satisfaction, there
are certain parties who cannot be induced to co-ope-
rate in forwarding the good work, or even to look
upon it with a favourable eye. The parties to whom
we allude are not the Tory Members of the House of
Commons—for they, bless them I are desperately eager
for Corporation Reform ; but the members of the Cor-
porations which are destined to undergo the ameliorat-
ing operation. It is not, we apprehend, merely the "hor-
ror of falling into nought"—though that is by no means
a pleasing sensation—which agitates their hearts. There
is something beyond this. There is the fear of what may
come when they have " shuffled off " the Corporation
coil, to harass and torment their minds. When we
think of the deeds they have done, we are not at all
surprised that they should look to the future with any-
thing but agreeable forebodings, or that they should
strive by every means in their power to avert the doom
which awaits them. But we can give them no hope.
The irrevocable mandate has gone forth, and they must
make up their minds to suffer with a good grace—to
eat the fruit of their own doings, however bitter it may
be, without making wry faces.
The attempts they are making to oppose Lord J.
RUSSELL'S Bill, by sending their town-clerks as re-
pmentatives to London to hold a little Parliament for
discussing the Bill while it is passing through the great
one, will, they may rest assured, do them no good, but
a great deal of harm. Their safest course would
have been to remain quiet, and not to attract the
public attention to their proceedings, to which
they must know that the greatest suspicion will attach.
This little Parliament wet yesterday, for the first time,.
at the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street ; and we
understand the greatest unanimity prevailed as to the,
necessity of giving the most uncompromising opposi-
tion to the hateful measure. The Hon. Members for
Liverpool, Leicester, and Lincoln, or the three great
L's as they have been designated, particularly distin-'
guished themselves by their eloquent appeals to jus-'
tice and liberty, while they advocated the cause of their.
injured Constituents. Before the House adjourned, iti
was moved, seconded, and unanimously resolved, that
no power on earth should ever prevail on them to as-,
sent to the Corporation Reform Bill, unless a clause,
were introduced granting a full indemnity for
the past. The Member for Lincoln remarked that
his constituents felt particularly anxious on this point,
as no longer ago than Saturday last they had con-
verted their leasehold property into freehold on the
payment of a fourth of the value of land and a ffilt
of the value of houses, which property had been
hitherto leased at nominal rents with nominal fines on
renewal.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Wednesday have
been received. The Bill for the indemnification of
America has received the Royal Assent ; so that
France only waits for the apology of Congress to com-
mence the fulfilment of her part of the treaty of 1832.
The KING has thought proper to follow the example
of Great Britain with respect to the question of Spanish
intervention. The Moniteur of Wednesday, in its
official part, contains the following article :
" It being the intention of the King to authorize French-
men who are so inclined to enter into the service of her Ma..
jesty the Queen of Spain, and at the satoe time preserve their
quality of Frenchmen, the demands for such authorization
should be addressed to the Minister of Justice, conformably to
the 21st article of the civil code."

The Royal President of the " best of Republics 7
does not think it worth his while to make the least
reference to his Council. This may be impolitic, but
is at least honest, for we are very certain that his
Cabinet had no voice in the matter. It is very true