The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-14 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1835.

Mr. O'CONNELL has commenced his tour of agi-
tation with great eclat. While Messrs. M'GrIEE and
O'SULLIVAN, those apostles of bigotry, intolerance,
and all uncharitableness, are labouring in the South to
stir up the minds of the ignorant Protestant populace
against their Catholic brethren, and if possible, to
kindle a religious war between the two sects, the great
Agitator has taken the field against them in the North,
and we are glad to find that his " mission," undertaken
in behalf of his much-injured country, is likely to be
crowned with success. Such at least will be its result
if the example of Manchester be followed by the other
towns in England and Scotland, which be intends to
visit. It will be seen by the Report which appears in
another part of The Sun that Mr. O'CONNELL was
received in the manufacturing capital of England on
Thursday last with a cordiality, we might say with an
enthusiasm, sufficient to satisfy the most inordinate
vanity. So great was the interest excited—such the
curiosity to see and hear the man whom the Duke of
WELLINGTON had declared to have more power than
any other man alive—that the dinner-tickets, which
cost originally 10s., are said to have been sold on
Thursday at 5/.

The great length of the Report leaves us little
room for any remarks on the speeches delivered by
Mr. O'CONNELL on this occasion, nor indeed is
comment necessary. Mr. O'CONNELL speaks for
himself, and his addresses will not disappoint those
who expected an eloquent and forcible appeal to
the feelings and the understanding of his hearers.
There is, too, in the speech which the Learned
gentleman delivered to the immense crowd assembled
in Stevenson-square, a tone of moderation which we
hardly expected, and with which we are much pleased.
He exposes, certainly, with the happiest effect, the
absurdity of employing tailors to make clothes who
have no other claim to a knowledge of their trade,
than that their fathers were tailors before them. To
these hereditary botchers he gives no quarter, but
would send them about their business, and em-
ploy duly-qualified workmen in their stead. At
the same time, he is not insensible to the advan-
tages of gradual improvement, and wisely coun-
sels the working classes to abstain from violent pro-
ceedings, and above all things, to shun secret socie-
ties, which he denounces in the strongest and justest
terms.

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Friday and Saturday. On Friday the session of the
Chambers for 1835, was brought to a close. The
Royal ordinance for the dissolution was delivered in
the Chamber of Peers by M. M. PERSIL, DE
BROGLIE, DUPERRE, and MAISON. There was a
very thin attendance of Peers. The session was closed
in the Deputies by M. M. THIERS, GGIZOT,
HUMANN, and DUCHATEL. The number of Depu-
ties in attendance did not exceed forty-five. The cere-
mony was gone through in the course of a few minutes,
after which the Chambers rose, and the Members dis-
persed almost simultaneously.
More space than we can devote to a single article
would be requisite to point out the flagrant violations
ercongiiii4gnal • • t , committed by Ministers and their
blyiegpporVis Chambers, during the late ses-
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3ures adopted in France, in a period equally short,'
since the downfall of the Directory. PERSIL, as Mi-
nister of Justice, has earned for himself, by his conduct
towards the political prisoners, a celebrity almost equal
to that of his famous predecessor DANTON. Often have
we had occasion to dwell upon the sufferings of his
victims, and we do not hesitate to give it as our opi-
nion, that the conduct of CARRIER in the celebration of
the Republican marriages on the banks of the Loire,
was marked by as many indications of humanity as
the conduct of PERSIL towards the Lyonese weavers
and their distressed families, against whom his agents
trumped up charges of conspiracy. The binding to-
gether of two naked wretches, of different sexes, and then
plunging them into the river, where their sufferings
ended in a few minutes, was not more inhuman than
the incarceration of the fathers of destitute families for
eighteen months together, without undergoing so
much the mockery of a trial. The apostacy of
TRIERS and GUIZOT—the historians of the first
Revolution, and the champions of liberty during the
reign of CHARLES X—would be a subject of regret,
even if it did not threaten to be instrumental in acce-
lerating that revolution which is destined to overthrow
the ORLEANS' dynasty, and finally abolish the power
of the Bourbons in France. We regret that men so
capable of rendering the most essential services to the
cause of freedom, have, for the sake of lucre, and the
perishable tenure of official rank, not only basely
abandoned their principles, but covered themselves
with a shroud of infamy, which will envelope their me-
mory as long as their names are found in the mouths of
their countrymen. We repeat tha t we regret the unforu-
nate circumstance of their voluntary apostacy without any
reference whatever to the results which we see clearly
will flow from it. As Minister of Public Instruction,
M. GUIZOT has rendered Prance some service by his
able and lucid educational reports—by his attention to
the establishment of normal schools—and by his Bills
on the subject of ecclesiastical revenue, and mode of
clerical remuneration ; but M, TRIERS' course has
been one of unmixed ev:J. In his Ministerial ca-
pacity he has filled France with spies and inform ers,
and so corrupted the morals of the people by sowing
the seeds of suspicion among them, that men rarely
meet for the expression of their thoughts, unless in
secret societies, where none are admitted without
going through certain .'formalities which ate assumed
as a security for trustworthiness. This state of things
cannot long continue, especially in France.
The Moniteur of Saturday contains a list of thirty
new Peers who have been ennobled for the active
part which they recently took against the republicans.
In this list we find ; even ex-deputies; eight officers
holding high rank in Abe army; nine lawyers, who are
either Prefects, or ho id Government situations in the

superior courts; and Circe ex-ministers plenipotentiary
at Foreign courts. In a word, there are only two
among the thirty new Peers who arc not supported by
pensions granted by the Government ! The design of
LOUIS PHILLIPPE is now to govern by the army, and
occasionally through the exercise of an unjust preroga-
tive by the Chattily. of Peers.

The law for abolishing the liberty of the Press
has already extinguished several political publica-
tions in Paris. The Figaro may be numbered among
its earliest victims. That publication is now no more ;
and its fate has been_ :shared by a variety of publications
in the same style, btu of greatly inferior merit. It is
supposed, that in thle course of a week, the New Bill
shall have strangled. above an hundred political journals,
besides those published in the Department of the Seine.
This state of things is no longer regarded with indif-

ferencc by the people . In Paris the populace begin to
appear moody and dis contented, to a degree very unusual
with the citizens 0.1 that light-hearted capital. A
storm is gathering irr France. The KING knows this,
and is reported to pl ace great reliance on the firmness
of the army, which h:e is strengthening by every means
in his power. We v,nould not have him deceive him-
self. He has gone far to establish a military despo-
tism in France as he can do with impunity. The Na-
tional Guards will not discharge a musket among the
people.

Baltimore papers to the 18th ult. were received on
Saturday at the North and South American Coffee-
house. On the 17. th the Mayor of that city published
the following add ress to the Major-General of the
third division of'the Maryland Militia, by which we
learn that the ci.vic authorities were under no appre-
hension for the preservation of the public peace, or
the security of the city :

" The Mayor has the honour of informing the Major-Gene-
ral commanding the third division of the Maryland Militia that
the causes which led to the requisition of the 10th inst. for the
services of the military have ceased to operate, and that their
aid is no longer necessary to the maintenance of the peace of
the city, excepting a small detachment for the security of the
gaol and other public buildings.
" While making this communication of the happy restoration
of tranquillity, the undersigned would do injustice to his own
feelings and those of the large and respectable community over
whose security h a was so unexpectedly called to preside, were
he to omit the expression of his gratitude due to the prompt-
ness and energy ,with which the officers and men of the division
have obeyed the requirement of the law.
" Averse as our institutions and habits are to hasty ap-
peals to the sword, it is highly gratifying to find that Re-
publican citizens can as readily respond to the call of their
country, when seriously menaced by disorder, as the subjects
of more absolute Governments, and that whatever temporary
ascendancy over public opinion delusion may occasionally at-
tain, our establishments are permanently secured by the arms
of an enlightened and virtuous people, from whose will they
they derive their existence.

‘; To the Commanding-General the thanks of this depart-
ment are especially and respectfully tendered, for the courtesy,
ability, diligence, and zeal which have characterised his co-
operation in every measure to preserve the public peace.
(Signed) "A. MILTENBERGER,

" Mayor of Baltimore."
The changes in the condition of the United States Bank
during the month of July, are stated to have been as under :
Dollars.
Diminution of loans 883,174
Diminution of specie
Diminution of circulation 1,003,598
Diminution of individual deposits
Due to State Banks, about 0,000,000
Loans on Stocks in Philadelphia..
Loans on Stocks in New York 2,185,336

Among our extracts from the French Journals o.

Friday and Saturday will be found copies of the De-
crees of the Queen Regent of SPAIN, denouncing the
formation and acts of the Provisional Juntas through-
out the kingdom. Her MAJESTY'S Decrees are im-
portant, inasmuch as they apprize us of the opinions
entertained by herself and her Cabinet respecting the
conduct of the people ; but if she expects by such
decrees to deter the people from insisting upon
the establishment of the Constitution of Cadiz, she
will find himself greatly disappointed. If Decrees
could execute themselves, then might her Majesty
of SPAIN issue them with some effect ; but as that con-
sists riot with the nature of written instruments, and
as she has no power by which she can enforce their
execution, we cannot help thinking that the Queen of
SPAIN would have acted more wisely in the present
state of her affairs, had she employed the power which
the Juntas were preparing to place at her disposal in
crushing the Carlists in the North ; after which it would
havebeen time enough to settle the question of a Consti-
tutional Charter.

In the Paris Evening Journals of Saturday we find
a rumour to the effect that a Junta has been esta-
blished in Madrid, and that the QUEEN has consented
to co-operate with it in the suppression of the insur-
rection in the North. We believe this intelligence is

premature, although we think the establishment of a
Junta in Madrid an event more than probable. If MEN..
DIZA BEL join the federalists, as he is expected to do,

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1-N835.

TORENO must yield to a power which, under such cir-
cumstances, would be irresistible. This is the only safe
course Ministers have it in their power to pursue. The
federalists, unless overwhelmed by a foreign force,
would have no difficulty in expelling both QUEEN and
Carlists, and we really believe they will do so, unless
their just claims be conceded.

THE PRESCRIPTION.

JOSEPH FIUME toquitur.

A month ago I chanced to meet
Lord John Russell in the street,
lie looked pale and languishing,
Like Sir Robert Peel last spring,
Sunk in eye, in visage longer,
Than East Retford's boroughmonger,
When he found his power and pay
Stopped alike by schedule A.

Grieved to see him look so ill,
I advised some sothing pill;
But his Lordship shook his head,
" Tis of no avail," he said,
" Pill and potion cannot cure
What I day by day endure,
With a brain roused, racked, and rent
By the toils of Government ;
Mine's a case might make you weep ;
'Tis a constant want of sleep—
Constant in its power to hurt,
As the sight of Wetherell's shirt,
Protruding with its darns and stitches
'Twixt his waistcoat and his breeches."—
Nought can cure me, for my brain,
I fear, will ne'er know rest again."

" Tis a grievous case indeed,
And makes my very heart to bleed,"
Quoth I, and therewith heaved a sigh,
" But I know a remedy
Which shall speedily restore
Your Lordship to your state of yore ;
You must go then, once a day,
To hear dull Newcastle bray,—
(The dose is horrible, I know,
But desperate health like that you show,
Aye requires, 'twixt you and me,
A like desperate remedy)—
Go then, listen to his Grace,
Where he sits in pride of place,
And if, when you have heard him bore
Your ears for some half hour or more,
You do not only sleep but snore,
Why then, I say it in affright,
Your case, my Lord, is desperate quite !!"

Full of transport, in a trice,
His Lordship followed my advice,
And scarcely had the Duke begun
His willing listener's ears to dun,
When rest, so long denied him, crept
O'er his senses, and he slept ;
And ever since, when cares oppress him,
Or long, dull, sleepless hours distress him,
He goes right glad, and self-assured,
To hear Newcastle, and is cured!

FINE ARTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE LAST NUMBER
OF THE COURT MAGAZINE.
Churton. London, 1835.
As we spoke of these in such terms of praise as they
appeared to us to deserve, in our Monthly notice of the
Court Magazine, we shall here say no more than that
we are glad to see them reprint ,A 1 in a separate form.

THE SPANISH FLOIVER GIRL.
Hodgson. London, 1835.

A careful and spirited engraving, executed by Ro-
binson, from a painting by Murillo. The attitude of
the figure is remarkable for its naturalness ; and the
expression of the countenance conveys a very fair idea
of the laughing graces of the young Spaniard, as we
see her—the shy gypsey !—,zoquetting, with her arch,
but would-be demure eves, and half-shut mouth, on
the canvas of one of the most expressive masters of his
art that ever existed.

PORTRAIT OF LORD BYRON.
Moon. Londvn, 1835.

This, we are assured, on the testimony of his sister
and those friends who were most familiar with him,
is the best portrait of Lord Byron extant. There is
nothing ambitious or theatrical about it ; no " clap-
trap"—as Lord Melbourne would say—expression of
sentiment in the countenance ; the likeness is simple
and unpretending—the likenes:,.., in fact, of one who
has evidently known sorrow in its sharpest and most
enduring form, as we see by the thoughtful melan-
choly repose of the eye ; and who can " speak dag-
gers," as the habitually scornful, short upper-lip unde-
niably betokens. As a worl: of art, the engraving is
admirable ; chaste and refit led in its character ; and
executed with a lightness and freedom of touch, that
we were afraid had expired with the manhood of the
late Mr. Stothard.