The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-25 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1835.

A new writ will be moved for to-night for Tiverton
in the room of Mr. KENNEDY, who has accepted the
Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. KENNEDY wrote to his
Committee last week of his intention of resigning, and
it is understood that Lord PA L MERSTON Will be invited
to become a candidate.

The -South Staffordshire electors are prepared to do
their duty, and on Wednesday next will return Colonel
ANSON as their Representative. But this will be no
fault of the Tories. They cannot be accused of
lethargy on this occasion, for during the last six weeks
they have been canvassing the division throughout its
entire length and breadth. In his speech from the
hustings, the Gallant Colonel alludes to this fact.
" Before I published my Address," says he, " the
Tories ransacked the county for a Candidate, and at
last all uncertainty was ended, by the Member for
Stafford making a sacrifice of his seat to the over-
powering representations of the Conservatives, and
putting himself forward as my opponent. It was
stated by some individuals that I had taken the
county by surprise. I allege that it was not taken by
surprise, because of the construction of the new Con-
servative Association; and I can bring forward instances
which occurred close to my own door, of persons who
had been canvassed six weeks ago. They knew not
to whom their votes were to be given, or for whom
they were preserved ; but many of the constituents of
this county have been, by these means, beguiled of
their most valuable privileges, which have been given
to Clubs, and not to individuals." And yet the very
men who have thus instituted this Club despotism in
Staffordshire, are the same who inveighed so bitterly
against the tyranny of Political Unions ! But no-
thing, it seems, is wrong that the Conservatives do ;
nothing right that the Reformers do. If the one per-
petrate an act of outrageous illegality, it is merely act-
ing up to the principles of the Constitution ; if the
other merely follow up the true spirit of Reform, it is
going a hundred degrees beyond them.

" That in the Captain 's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat Blasphemy."
But the electors of Staffordshire are not the men to
be brow-beaten and trampled upon by this sort of Club
despotism. They are of the true British mettle.
They know the difference between a hawk and a hand-
saw—between an ANSON and a GOODRICKE. They
see that the latter is a mere puppet, moved by Con-
servative wires ; but that the former is a man who can
both think and act for himself. He is, indeed, as in-
dependent a statesman as ever entered Parliament. His
principles do not date with his last coat. He has not
taken them up, in a sort of sulky deference to com-
mands from head-quarters, since last November. Co-
lonel ANSON 'was a Reformer;when to be such—or at
least to acknowledge one-self such—was at once to lose
caste in the aristoCratic. circles. For the last eight
years and upwards he has, voted for every _measure that
tended, in however humble or remote a degree, to fur-
ther the case of Reform. Where was his opponent
all this' while ? Following the hounds, no doubt, in
Staffordshire ; and, drinking ." Church and. State" at
the intellectual, festivals of the squirearchy. The
Conservatives must be hard pushed fore a candi-
date, when such a man as this is brought forward.
What are his claims ? What his principles? Let
him:;apeak,for himself.He entertained the fullest
disposition to reform every abuse in Charclrand State"
--mark how naturally he falls into the old hack Tory
phraseology ;—" but he was decidedly hostile to any
thing like hasty and ill-considered innovation." Who
does not know the meaning of these terms, when fall-
ing from the lips of a Conservative ? Who does not
know that "hasty" means " wait-awhile ;" and " ill-

considered," as" little-as-needs-be?" Say what they
please, the Tories cannot help betraying themselves.
The old leaven breathes in every sentiment they
utter. In every movement they make, the cloven foot
peeps out beneath their new flowing mantle of
Reform.

In the sentence above quoted, Sir H. GOODRICKE
has said just enough to ruin his claims with the Staf-
fordshire Electors. Far better he had shaken his head,)
like Lord Burleigh in the Critic, and said nothing ;1
for then his constituents could not have known that it,
was filled with all sorts of Tory crotchets and cru-
dities. They might have guessed that it was empty
but nothing more.
Men of Staffordshire ! follow the example set by:
Yorkshire, and return Colonel ANSON as your Repre-'
sentative. .His cause is yours. He has no interests:
incompatible with yours. He goes to Parliament, -not!
.to serve himself, but you. Sir H. GooDkicKE, may
perhaps say the same. But trust him not. He.is too
closely mixed up with the Conservative party, to be
able to. speak or vote, otherwise than as they may.
prompt..

We haie received the whole of the Paris 'papers-of
Friday and Saturday. In the Chamber of Deputies
on Friday an animated and exceedingly- intetesting de-
bate took place, on the_ motion for sending "M.. CP.II-
- and M. AUDRY DE PURAVEAU before the
Chainbei of Peers, to answer for the alleged bre?.ch
of • privilege. M. CORMENIN was presenti,and was
the first to address the Chamber in behalf of Wirnself
and his colleague, who was not in his place.„ The
speechof the Honourable Deputy did him the'greatest
honour, 'lt vv- -ai bOld, luininOus;,. and deciSives::: The
.following brief extract, is particularly .deserving of
, . •
attention :-- .

Some .days .ago _I was, chosen,,,,lty four of Ih.Q.,lepsoners
from St. Etienne, Lyons, and Marseilles, to be their defender.
I have been refused permission to plead, and, therefore all
that I can do for them is to declare that I feel honoured by
the confidence they placed in me, and thus publicly thank
them. A printed letter, it is said, has been addressed to the
prisoners by their defenders, at the foot of which my name
appeared. The Chamber of Peers has considered this letter
as an offence against it. It has demanded of you by a mes-
sage, if there arc grounds for my appearing at its bar ; and
it is in consequence of this message that l now ap-
pear before you. I have not made, nor have I had occasion
to make any disavowal. My constituents have not sent me
here to be dragged before the Peers to your political degrada-
tion. They might have me before them as a simple citizen,
but they ought not to have me as a Deputy. I would rather
afford them the satisfaction of my resignation, and then I
should be more the guardian of your honour than you are your-
selves. I have other important questions in this matter to my
friends, and as M. Audry do Puyraveau is not here, I feel it
my duty before I conclude to speak on his account. How has
he merited to be treated by the committee differently from my-
self? Why has it proposed to absolve me, and condemn him?
Where is his signature? Did he compose, print, or publish
the letter? Did he give any authority for this? Did he sig-
nify his assent to it? Where are your positive or even your
presumptive proofs ? All these are wanting to you as well as
the Peers. You confound the defenders with the editors of
the journals, and you prejudge the offence without the pro-
duction of the document on which it is founded. To me,
gentlemen, you owe nothing but justice, but to M. Audry de
Puyraveau you owe a debt of gratitude, for to him in part
you are indebted for the victory of July. I have not made
either revolution, King, or charter; but had it not been for
his heroic courage, the Ministers who now prosecute him, and
the Chamber which is about to deliver him up to them, would
not have sat upon the benches which they now occupy in this
place. I have declared, and do declare, that Ido not wish to
protect myself by my quality as deputy, and if a prey is to be
delivered up to the peerage, let them take me."

It is easier to imagine than to describe the sensation
which this powerful perroration produced in the
Chamber. Bursts of applause followed. M. PAGES
declared, that to deliver up a Deputy to the Chamber
of Peers, would be to deliver up a victim. M. PERSIL
defended the conduct of the Peers. " For ten days,"
said the Minister of Justice, "we have been living
under circumstances which are frightful to every friend
of his country.—(Laughter.) A horrible attempt
has been committed. The men accused of having
been engaged in it arc brought into the presence of
justice, and justice is defied. The defenders of the
accused have insulted their judges, and because these
have recourse to the law, they are said to wish only for
vengeance. But I, as the chief of the judges, say that
the law shall have its full force ; that the innocent
shall be acquitted, and the guilty only shall be
punished. For myself, I acknowledge that a Deputy
is inviolable only when he is acting as such—only
when he is speaking from this tribune ; but when he
leaves this Chamber, he becomes a citizen only, and
is amenable to the ordinary tribunals. The Hon.
Member who spoke last confounds the Chamber of
Deputies with the Members who compose it."
It would be difficult to conceive anything more ab-
surd than this attempt at argument. " When a De-
puty leaves this Chamber, he becomes a citizen only,
and is amenable to the ordinary tribunals." Indeed !
Why, then, was a formal message sent from the Peers
to the Chamber of Deputies, calling upon it to deliver
up two of its Members to the jurisdiction of another
tribunal ? The breach of privilege against the Peers
was not committed, nor supposed to be committed, in
a legislative capacity; and if Deputies out of the
Chamber are only simple citizens, how was it that the
Peers acting under the advice of this very M. PER-
SIL, Minister of Justice, deemed it necessary to ask
the Chamber's leave to prosecute the offenders ? M.
PERSIL talks of law—of letting the law take its
course. Was there ever effrontery more monstrously
offensive than this? The Peers take offence at something
said of them in a judicial capacity, and yet instead of
having recourse to the law, they fall back on their
privileges as Peers, and order the alleged offenders to
appear before them in their legislative capacity, in order
that they might gratify their malignity, without fear
of overstepping the limits of criminal jurisdiction.
This was well pointed out by M. ARAGO, who acutely
observed—

"Itis a principle that no person should be judge in own
cause; yet the Chamber of Peers is both judge and plaintiff.
I will never consent to prostrate the mandates of the electors
before the diplomas of Ministers.—( Sensation.) I have an
esteem for certain Peers ; but it is no less true that the majo-
rity regretted the revolution of July."

The scene that followed the closing observation is
indescribable. Several of the Deputies, including M.
LAFITTE and M. TEULON, reprobated the conduct
of the Peers since the Revolution of 1830. The Pre-
sident alone supported them, and denied that they
had opposed the wishes and interests of the nation.
In the midst of a dialogue, which was far from
being remarkable for dignity or order, and which was
interrupted by intermingled groans and cheers from all
parts of the House, the following scene occurred :

•
Mr. Jaubert—Mr. President, exclamations were uttered
from the reporters' gallery. I demand that this impropriety be
immediately punished—(sensation).
The President--From which gallery ?
M. Jaubert pointed to the reporters' gallery.
The President—Ushers, clear the reporters' gallery.
Three ushers went out and signified the order of the Pre-
sident, upon which the reporters withdrew, protesting against
M. Jaubert's assertion.

After a lapse of about ten minutes the ushers went out and
informed the reporters that, ih pursuance of the President's
orders; they might return to their gallery.
Only one or two reporters resumed their seats, upon which
several Deputies exclaimed, " There is nobody in the re-
porters' gallery."
The President—lt is not essential to our deliberations
that tht reporters should be present. The Moniteur is in its
place.
M. Teulon concluded his speech by addressing an eulogium
to M. de Cormenin, whom he styled the prop and the hero
of the sovereignty of the people.
The President—Let it be so, but I wish to have it fully
certified that the reporters's gallery was re-opened as soon as it
was closed, and that if the reporters did not return, it was by
their own will.

The clearing of the Reporters' gallery was followed
by some angry discussion out of doors. The excluded
individuals considered themselves insulted; and resolved
to demand an explanation from the Deputy through
whose officiousness they were ordered to quit the

Chamber. For this purpose, they posted themselves
outside the main entrance to intercept M. JAuBERT
on his departure, and call upon him for an explanation.
This resolution was immediately communicated to se-
veral members of the Chamber, who formed themselves
into a body-guard to protect M. JAUBERT. As soon
as he appeared the Reporters approached him, as they
affirm, to demand a civil explanation of his conduct ;
but according to the friends of the Honourable
Deputy to inflict corporal punishment upon him. A
conflict instantly ensued, the Deputies having previously
provided themselves with canes which the Reporters
all declare they used pretty freely. As the re-
porters had not calculated upon such a reception, and
were all unarmed, they were soon overpowered and'
made prisOners, although they were all set at liberty!
after the lapse of a few minutes, with the exception of
one Who continues in custody. This shameful affair,
created the greatest amazement in- every quarter.. Im-
mediately after the opening of the sitting on Saturday,
the reporters handed in
,a protest against the order for
their expulsion. on the previous day, signed by
upwards •of forty well 'known public Journalists.
This gave rise to a long and angry- discussion,.
in which the Deputies vented their rage against the
several. journals 'in which they had been attacked.
Public writers were denounced as reptiles—as assassins
—as unprincipled knaves—as vile stipendiary hacks—
as incendiaries—Lin a word, as all that is vile, con-
temptible, and wicked. Several, of the Deputies
denied that they had raised their canes when attacked
by the-reporters, and that .their object simply was to
protect from insult a member of the chamber. The
discussion closed by agreeing
,to a motion, that the
Editor of the Rflormateur should be summoned to
appear at. the Bar for-a breb.ch. of -privilege.
.
The peers:sat on Friday and Saturday, in a judi-
cial capacity ; but nothing occurred wnrthy of notice.
A few witnesses were examined relative to the affray

at Lyons.
The Government continues its orders for drafting
troops to Paris, under pretence of guarding against
the violence of the Republican party. On the
nights of this day and Friday the spies were unusually
busy, and managed to ercate something like an out-
break in several divisions of the capital. This system
of Government conspiracies bids fair to overturn the
Throne of Louis PHILIPPE.

FRENCH FUNDS -Fokts, MAY 22.
Five per Cents., tact.. 30c. 60c. 55c.
Four per Cents., 98f. 90c.
Three per Cents., Rif. 55z. 40c. COc.
Na'ional Loan, io44f. 40c.
Bank Actions, 1,9;21. 50c.
Rente do Naples, 98f. SO,. 99f.
ii0IO:111 Fire ver Cents., 100'4 14-0.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 48 45 41%.
utite d'Espaene, Three per Cents., 29 AI
Snanisii Loan, 443
Fent, PerpeceMpagne, Five per Cent., 46 4434%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 102.
Portuguese Loan, live per Cents., 991 A.
Ilaytian Loan, 148 f. -c.
BNCOANG6 ON LONDON.
0 ielliOntit, paper, 25r. 411 c.. ; money, 2.5`'. 40c.
Tiiree months, 'paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, 251125 c.
-t u..es Authentique.
FRENCH FUNDS.-Ponts, MAY 23
Five per Cents., 108 f. 108 f. sc. Pic.
Four per Cents., 99f. 20c.
Three per Cents., 82f. sc. 10c 15e.
Bank Actions, 1,970 f.
liente tie lsiaples. 981. 00e. 931. 98f. 75e.
Roman }lye per Cents., 994.
Rente d'Eqagne, Five per Cents., 41.
Itente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 26 25 !4.
Royal Spanish Loan, 15 46 4531 i.
Rente I'erpet. d'Espaene, rive per Cents., 41 41% 42.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 10144.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cent., 176. •
Ilayuan Loan, 1371. Sc' 4501.
EXCHANGV. ON LONDON.
Cne month, paper, 25!". 40c ; money, 25f 40c.
Three months, paper, 25,. 23c. ; money, 25f. 25c.
-Cesurs Authentigue.

BOURSE, THREE o'CLoca.—The panic on the English
Stock •Exchange has been communicated here. The 3 per
Cents. fell to 81f. 25c. sellers, but have since got up to 81f.
40c. ; their present price is 81f. 36c. Spanish stock has had
a very sudden fall : the 5 per Cent. Perpetuelles to 41 ;
Cortes, to 41; Definitives, to 55 : and Passives, 131.
QUARTER TO FO UR. —Five per Cents., 108 f. 20c. ;
Three per Cents., 81f. 30c. ; Five per Cent. Spanish, 41 y ;
Three per Cent. Spanish, 451; Cortes, 401; Coupons, 23 ;
Differes, 17f ; New Loan, 54; last price, 52 ; Definitive,
55 ; Passive, 14; Ducats, 98 75 ; Romans, 99i ; Belgians,
1014- ; Pedros, 96 ; Miguels, 26 ; Haytians, 4sof. ; Brabant
Bank, 20 premium.

An express from Madrid bringing letters and papers
to the 18th inst. has just been received in the City.
Tranquillity then prevailed ; and such was the confi-
dence inspired by the firmness of the Government, that
the Funds were rising rapidly. The people everywhere
appeared to deprecate the recent attack made upon
MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, and the more influential citi-
zens had come forward to make a tender of their
fortunes to support the rightful claims of their
Infant SOVEREIGN. It is now clearly proved
that most of the recent disastrous accounts from
Spain were forgeries, promulgated for the most infa-
mous stock-jobbing purposes. The Chamber of Pro-
curadores is still employed with discussing the Bill for
arranging the mode of liquidating the internal debt.

The latest arrivals from the Biscayan provinces are
to the 19th inst. VALDEZ was then at Pampeluna,
JARREGUY (El Pastor) at St. Sebastian, and ORAA
at Elisondo. ZUMALACARREGUI was then travers-
ing Alava, where he was endeavouring to raise fresh
levies. No active warfare was being carried on.

We have this day transferred to our columns from
the Norwich Mercury a letter on Church Reform,
addressed by Archdeacon GLOVER to the Dean of
NORWICH, which we think eminently calculated to
serve the public cause. It is impossible to read this letter
without recognizing it as the production of a highly gifted
mind, a mind in which the powers of a superior in-
tellect are directed by the genuine spirit of Christian
charity. Archdeacon GLOVER is not one of those
purblind bigots who perceive ruin in every at-
tempt to separate the rotten, from the sound parts of the
Ecclesiastical Establishment. He wisely considers
that the real danger proceeds from the attempt to resist
this separation, and to oppose the Reform of those abuses
on which the public voice has passed a sentence of con-
demnation that must be carried into execution.

It is not the Prince of Salerno, the brother of the
Queen, but the Prince of Syracuse, his nephew, who is ex-
pected in Paris. He is unmarried, and is 22 years old—pre-
cisely the age of the Princess Marie, and four years younger
than the Princess Clementine. The Prince reached Lyons on
the 12th, when he devoted two days to visiting the principal
establishments. The Prince de Joinville has gone to Fontain-
bleau to meet him. Leopold, Prince of Syracuse, is next
brother to the King of Naples.

On Saturday a fine lamb, led by a little boy, was
paraded about the Strand and Fleet- street, having on its back
a placard, inscribed, " Our friends will meet on Wednesday
next, at two o'clock, at Exeter-hall." The idea, though a
good one, has not the merit of originality, it being borrowed
from Jonathan, in one of whose cities, a recent traveller in-
forms us, he saw a " lively turtle," properly secured by a
tether, marching backwards and forwards in, front of a tavern,
and having on his back-plate, inscribed, " Turtle to-morrow."
One of the most splendid shows of flowers that has
been attempted in this country is to take-place on Tuesday
next, at Lord's, Cricket-ground, in, honour of the Princess
Victoria's birthday. • The preparations for the reception of the
Royal Family and nobility are on the•most expensivwseale, and
an orchestra, formed of three full military bands, will play during
the afternoon. • The silver Victoria. Cup is to be awarded for
the best twelve hardy flowering plants, and gold and silver me-
dalS for hot and green house plants,. which are to be exhibited
in collections of twenty-tour. ,
Lripsic.:—.The fair is very lively, and- ,the .city of
Leipsic has no reason to complain. ' There are sellers in
abundance, purchasers on a small scale from .Prussia, are of
course more numerous' than before the commercial union,
but the general purchasers' are waiting We have' buyers
from Tiflis, but few Greeks and Jews from. Brody. The
latter, it is hoped, are only delayed by their religious festi-
vals, perhaps by the great fire at Brady: -.At former fairs,
however bad they' might be, leather and woollen cloths al-
ways went off. ' This time a great deal of 'leather has indeed
been sold, but at extremely low prices, and the woollen manu-
facturers also. complain. English manufactures are dirt cheap.
In Saxon manufactures, especially cottonsfe great "deal of
business has been done ; but on the whole.; complaints are as
usual made, and even more than •at last year's Easter fair.
The booksellers will be glad'when they arrive to seethe build-
ing of their Exchange proceeding so rapidly:-.-.The Angus-
tenn, too; is nearly finished. , • • -•
LORD DERBY'S STOCK.--A portion of the tho-
roughbred stock was sold on Thursday at Liverpool. Falcon-
bridge fetched 1451., Felt 2601., the others went at low prices.