The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1835.

pounds 1 The distresses were made, and redeemed by
the poor people ; no opposition was offered to the po-
lice : and the business of the day seemed to have been
completed, when some of the police thought proper to
get up in their minds an apprehension that disturbance
was intended. The police party was divided into two
detachments, one of which went to protect the drivers.
The chief constable was anxious that the whole force
should be re-united, and made a movement in double
quick time for that purpose. The other detachment,
who were already on their return, perceiving this
movement, took the alarm, and loaded and primed
their pieces. About sixty peasants had collected by
this time, several of whom bore pitchforks and bludgeons
in their hands. One man had a gun :
" The constables having loaded (says Mr. Greene), re-
sumed their march, without any symptoms on the part of the
multitude of a design to attack or molest them. Thornhill
(who commanded the returning detachment) upon seeing the
man with the gun, said he would arrest him, and desired a
file of men to follow him for that purpose. He and two others
then left the road, crossed the ditch, and proceeded into the
field towards the crowd. The rest of his party went after
them. Upon Thornhill's arrival at the rock (upon which the
peasants were standing) he states that he called upon the man
who had the gun to surrender. He went up to the man, seized
hold of the gun, and attempted to wrest it from the country-
man, who struggled to retain it. An instantaneous attack
commenced upon the police. Showers of stones were thrown
at them ; repeated blows were given to them with sticks ;
their carbines were seized, and two were forcibly taken from
them. Two policemen were knocked down. Then, and not
till then, a shot was fired (by the police) and was followed by
several others (from the police). It is impossible to discover
by whom that first shot was fired, but no order to fire was given.
The men used their carbines, each as he could, without any
command or regularity, and almost in actual contact with the
multitude. One countryman named James Hughes was killed;
another was wounded."

This narrative requires no commentary. It is mani-
fest that the police were the first aggressors. The
people were at a distance, assembled on a rock : Thorn-
hill, without any provocation whatever, set out upon a
Quixotic (probably a drunken) expedition, to arrest
the man who had the gun, and he brought on, by his
gross imprudence, a general engagement, in which
Hughes was killed—Hughes, who happened to be
apart from the combat altogether; 'who took no share
in it, and was merely a distant spectator standing at
his own door ! Now all this took place in Blacker's
presence He gave no order to the policemen to ab-
stain from this wanton attack upon the people. It was
therefore made with his sanction ; and this, too, after
he had in his pocket the one pound nineteen shillings
which he came to collect We must return to this
precious sample of Irish history, and show the people
of England, without any disguise, and from the mouth
of the Tory faction itself, the sort of incubus which it
is summoning all its strength to force upon the Catho-
lic people of the sister kingdom—under the pretext of
the Gospel I—Morning Chronicle.

In spite of all struggles to the contrary, the return
of Lord Morpeth for the West Riding of Yorkshire
is almost certain. On this great—this glorious occa-
sion our compatriots of the North will do their duty
—.will act like men determined to set the seal to their
country's liberty. They will not disgrace themselves
like the electors of Devon ; but, respecting their own
patriotism and honour, will return the friend of free-
dom, civil and religious, to represent them in Parlia-
ment. This we assert with confidence, for it is im-
possible to suppose that so large and independent a
body as the electors of the West Riding would vo-
luntarily sell themselves the victims of Toryism. Let
them ask themselves what have they to gain from
Toryism ? With what evils has not the base and ma-
lignant spirit of Toryism already overwhelmed the
country ? What have Tory Governments been but a
consecutive series of the most withering oppressions,
corruptions, and crimes ? Since the name of Tory was
first known with what has it been linked but arrogance,
injustice, and their sequences, war, taxation, debt, and
rancorous hostility to every interest of the people ? In
their foreign as well as domestic relations has not the
same squan-
dered British money, and spilled British blood, against
the just claims of America ?......The Tories. Who
squandered British money and spilled British blood in
attempting to maintain despotic principles, and to up-
hold an execrable Bourbon dynasty in France ?—.The
Tories. In both these instances the feelings of the
English people were outraged by their tyrant rulers ;
but in submitting to, they became the accomplices of,
despotism, and an irredeemable debt is the just pe-
nalty of acquiescence in the barbarous and bloody
policy. But we need not seek in other countries, or
in history, the blighting operation of Tory principles ;
sufficient evidence of their atrocities may be adduced
in our own land and generation. Who sent emissa-
ries to Ireland to excite the people to rebellion, and
exposed that country to the horrors of a civil war ?
As appears by the Report of a Secret Committee of
the House of Commons, the Tories. Who massacred
the people of Manchester, for assembling to petition
for that reform which they now profess to be their
principle of action ?—The Tories. Who opposed
Catholic emancipation with fire, bloodshed, and hor-
rors, that the mind shudders to contemplate ; and after.
wards, to keep office, recanted their principles, and
caned it through the Legislature ?—The Tories. Who
at present prefer barbarism and spoliation and blood-
shed, in Ireland, to a just appropriation of Church
property to the purposes of education ?—The Tories.
Who upheld the extravagances of the civil list, of the
army and navy estimates, of monopolies of every
grade and denomination ?—The Tories. When they
opposed Catholic emancipation, " No Popery and
Church in -clanger" was their Shibboleth. When
they opposed a Reform in Parliament' " no revolution"
was their war cry. But now, with pharasaical cant,
they attempt to mingle with Reformers, and uphold a
bloated and hydropic Church, by returning to the ex-
ploded and insensate cry of " No Popery and Church
in danger." Will they re-enact the penal code ? Will
they abrogate the rights which the Reform Bill re-
stored to the people ? They dare not acknowledge
such intent ; but, if they be consistent—and in villainy
they have ever been so—such must be the cherished
end of their hopes and principles. Men of Yorkshire,
will you choose your Representative from such a
party ? Will you betray the highest privilege that
freemen can exercise, by turning the weapon entrusted
for the defence of liberty against its bosom ? If there
be any amongst you so besotted as to be duped by the
false promises of a Tory---if there be any so base as
to barter liberty for lucre—if there be any so ignorant
and vile as not to appreciate his own liberty and his
country's weal, may a righteous indignation
put in every honest hand a whip,
To lash tke rascal naked through the world,
Even from East to West !"—( Morning Advertiser.)

Sir John Byng was last night gazetted a Peer by
the title of Lord Strafford, of Harmondsworth, in the
county of Middlesex. This was less a tribute to the
professional or other merit of Sir John Byug (albeit
we are not among those who would disparage the ser-
vices of a brave and experienced soldier), than to that
bitter party necessity to which so many other Minis-
terial acts have of late been ascribable, and which,
in the present case, renders it indispensable that the
rejected Whig Secretaries of State, Lord Palmer-
ston, dismissed from Hampshire, and the Lord John
Russell, whom Devonshire has discarded, should
have some place within the bar of the House of
Commons whence they may address the Speaker.
Poole, therefore, is the refuge for the destitute pro-
vided to meet the predicament in which one of
these two Noble Lords at present finds himself—
which of them we know not. But Lord Palmerston
is the individual generally marked out as candidate for
the honour of replacing Sir John Byng, and room is
to be made for Lord J. Russell in the snug pocket-
borough of Totnes. But if the rumour we have
heard be well founded, one or two of the party votes
which were given by the late Member for Poole have
so indisposed a large body of the constituency towards
the existing Government, that Sir Colquhoun Grant,
who stands upon the Conservative interest, will, with
good management on the part of his friends, be very
fLpt to smash whatever Whig shall venture to set up
against him. There is another Peerage in last night's
Gazette which will be variously regarded by Conser-
vatives and Whigs. Of the former some rejoice,
though we do not, that the new Baron Hatherton was
not created before his freaks in the Chief Secretaryship
for Ireland had succeeded in helping to shove Lord
Stanley and Sir J. Graham as well as Lord Grey himself
out of office, and to lay the foundation of those subsequent
occurrences which.have so matey and fatally broken
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up toe whole Whig party, in its numbers, reputation,
and political efficiency and: prospects—in our eyes a
serious calamity to Great Britain. While, for the same
causes, Lord Melbourne, and such of his colleagues
as are not Conservatives at heart, must wring their
hands with vexation that the Hatherton peerage is
not at least a twelvemonth older. It is passing strange
in Lords and gentlemen to complain that the cry of
" No Popery" should be raised, and so successfully
as to oust them from their counties, when, in fact, it
is themselves who have raised it. We have been struck
by the truth with which an evening contemporary treats
this interesting subject. If Lord John Russell and
his brethren, by all their acts, though not in express
terms, proclaim war against the Protestant institutions
of the empire, and embroider the word " Popery" on
every banner, is it not too much for them to express
surprise that the people of England should meet them
with " No Popery ?" Is it for Whigs to murmur at the
prevalence of an honest fear throughout the country,
lest their own good work, the work of Lord Somers
and his enlightened associates, should be destroyed,
and the abominable tyranny which James lost his
crown for struggling to perpetuate, should be revived
amongst us ? Let us bring to the recollection of our
Whig Protestant brethren, that the sting of Popery
did not lie in James, or in the House of Stuart, or in
any layman. The inherent vice, the peril, the venom
of Popery, were in its collective mechanism, not in its
individual agents. An hundred Stuarts could not of
themselves involve us in the slightest danger from
Popery, but the re-establishment (not the formal, for
that is out of the question, but the substantial re-
establishment) of Popery would soon raise up a myriad
of Stuarts to enforce its principles and realize its pro-
jects. We, in this country, are perhaps too near to
the political movements among which we are placed to
take in a comprehensive survey of their relative propor-
tions or of their conjunct tendency. We are driven by our
contiguity to look at things too much in detail,—a bit
here and a bit there.---a speech—a letter—a murder—a
vote—.we see them in their separate shape and occur-
rence, but seldom venture to pronounce upon their ne-
cessary and harmonious connexion. Truths the most
obvious are therefore denied, because we cannot bring,
a sufficient number of intelligent and authoritative per-
sons to contemplate them at a proper distance and
from a fitting point of view. The inhabitants of other
countries can do that for us. As the eye cannot see
itself, nor a man without some artificial appliances
paint his own portrait, so are the greater number of
unaided Englishmen incapable of perceiving those
operations of which they are themselves the instru-
ments. But see how intelligent foreigners construe
what is in progress here. They who can meditate
us and our proceedings in masses—they who can fol-
low the outline, and trace its collective character—.
affirm plainly that we are now drifting towards revolu-
tion. We do not blame the intentions of the Whigs,
we blame nought but their position : our censure of
them goes no further, than that they have blindly
placed themselves in that humiliating position, with-
out heeding to what results it must inevitably force
them. A Paris Journal, of strong political bias it is
true, but of vigorous ability, contains some remarks
upon the political state and tendencies of England,
which are too important to be withheld from our
readers—insisting that Lord J. Russell must profit of
his Devonshire " victory," (the victory which it was
quite understood at Paris four days ago that his
Lordship must inevitably gain I)---the Gazette de
France—the priestly and Popish paper tells us,
that the mode of deriving profit from his victory is
by " extreme measures." On the House of Lords re-
fusing to obey the Ministerial mandates for the extirpa-
tion of the Protestant church, " the Parliament is to be
dissolved" (more than one word, we believe, to that
bargain), the candidates are to be commanded at the
hustings how to proceed with that refractory assembly ;
and then, says the Gazette de France—and so we say—
Cron, coaL3 a " through-
out the whole of Great Britain !" Next folio rs Lorl
John Russell's philosophical dictum, which we pre-
sume will become one day or other as famous through-
out the world as any saying of the seven wise men
of Greece---" I find England placed between despotism
and anarchy, and I have preferred anarchy" ; which
his Lordship, as quoted by the Gazette de France,
regards merely as a state of transition, a half-way-
house to the grand consummation of all things, the
millennium of Popery throughout this mighty empire.
We repeat, therefore, that the cry of " no Popery" is
not, as it used to be, a bigotted and senseless watch-
word. It is a note of self-defence. It is the " vox
Dei" which now alone can save us.
(From the Gazette de France of Wednesday.)
" The sole question in the political circles now is the Devon-
shire election. The Tories have expended upon it more than
50,000/. sterling ; nevertheless their candidate, Mr. Parker,
has no chance. The re-election of Lord Russell is certain.
This is a blow which the Conservative party will long feel.
" To triumph, however, is not enough ; one must know how
to make use of the victory.
"We shall see how Lord Russell will profit of his. His
plan of reform for the Church of Ireland is looked for with
impatience. It is much to have adopted the principle of it,
but the application in practice must present difficulties of more
than one description. Probably these difficulties have been
foreseen by the Noble Lord and his friends ; at all events, they
cannot be long before manifesting themselves. But, however
this may be, though the plan of reform should be the wisest
and most prudent possible, the House of Lords is fully re-
solved to reject it. Every measure contemplating the appro-
priation of Church property is irrevocably condemned before-
hand in the Upper House.
" It is then asked, what part will be taken by the Melbourne
Ministry ? Doubtless an extreme part, but still a necessary
one. The Parliament will be dissolved, and the electors will
receive at the hustings the members charged with a special
command relative to the Peerage. Thus you have good rea-
son for saying that this question of the Church of Ireland in-
volves the germ of arevolution, extending through the whole of
Great Britain. You are agreed upon this point, with the
opinion which Lord Russell has lately expressed in the follow-
ing words

" I have seen England placed between despotism and
anarchy, and I have preferred anarchy ; but anarchy is neces-
sarily a stage of transition—it will bring back England under
the sceptre of a religious legitimacy—the Roman Catholic
faith, for it is in the restoration of this that all revolutions end.
Before the lapse of a few years the bond of union amongst the
three kingdoms will have been severed; and nothing but the
hand of Catholicism will be sufficiently powerful for its resto-
ration ; that is, if such a result enters into the mysterious views
of Providence respecting this country.' "
" To obviate a suspicion that we misrepresent the Gazette
de France's version of Lord John Russell's speculation, we re-
print the original text

«' J'ai vu l'Angleterre plade entre le despotisme et l'anar-
chie, et j'ai prefer 6 l'anarchie ; mais anarchie est necessaire-
ment un etat de transition ; elle ramenera l'Angleterre sous
le sceptre de la legitimit6 religieuse—le Catholicisme Romain,
car c'est a restaurer que toutes les revolutions aboutissent.
Avant peu d'annees, le lien de l'union entre les trois royaumes
aura ete rompu, et la main du Catholicisme sera settle assez
puissante pour le renouer ; si ce dernier resultat toute-foil
entre dans les vues mysterieuses de la Providence a regard de
ce pays.' " Times.

A few days since, the tumulus known by the appel-
lation of " Peppering Burgh," about three miles from Arun-
del, was opened under the direction of George Augustus
Coombe, Esq. A cyst was discovered two feet six inches
below the original surface of the ground, which contained a
male skeleton in good preservation, six feet one inch in length.
Below the hand on the left side were the remains of an iron
sword, and above the head on the right a piece of the same
metal, conjectured to have been the point of a spear. The
resting place of this warrior of a distant age is not far from
the ancient camp of Burgham, or as now called Burpham, a
work attributed by antiquarians to the Belgic Britons. Other
tumuli in this neighbourhood are about to be opened by the
above-named gentleman. These interesting relics are in the
possession of J. Drewitt, Esq., of Peppering.—Hampshire
Telegraph.

DEATH OF DICKY GOSSIP.—A grey horse,
known by this name, which had belonged to the different
occupiers of the Bear Inn, Devizes, for the last five-and-twenty
years, and had taken a share in almost every matrimonial ex-
cursion from the town, during that period, was last week shot,
in consequence of its great age, and " increasing infirmities."
—Devizes Gazette.

A POLISH REFUGEE.--A weather-beaten look-
ing person, Dombrowski, who wore a medal of " the Legion
of Honour," solicited the pecuniary assistance of the Lord
Mayor, first inquiring " parlez vous Francois." An explana-
tory dialogue took place, from which it appeared that the ap-
plicant had fought and bled for his unfortunate country, and
had received a sabre wound over the left eye, (a tremendous
incision three inches in length was visible); that he had made
his escape from Poland to this country ; he had also been an
officer under Buonaparte. He had travelled with his wife and
two little ones, since his arrival, seeking aid from the charita-
ble. He came from Liverpool to Newcastle, and from thence
to York ; it was his intention, if the means could be raised, to
proceed to Hull, and by sea to London, where he intended to
embark for Philadelphia, on a visit to one of Buonaparte's
brothers, who, he was sure, would receive him kindly. The
Recorder, on hearing the tale of the unfortunate man, put his
hand in his pocket and gave him some silver—the Lord Mayor
did the same, and he departed apparently with gratitude.—
York Chronicle.