The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1835.

be not a shout of utter defiance—a declaration of un-
qualified hostility—we know not what is. Yet this
is the language of the WELLINGTON party, who,
nevertheless, profess to be more amicably disposed
towards the Bill than the NEWCASTLE and FAL-
MOUTH squad ! When the Moderates hold such doc-
trines, what may we not expect from the Ultras ?
The truth is, whatever they may allege to the con-
trary, both parties are at heart equally averse to the
passing of the Bill in its present—or indeed in any—
shape, likely to render it available. As for their
agreeing to let it go into Committee, this is a
mere juggle—a trick got up for stage effect. They
see that it will not do to oppose it boldly ; they will
therefore allow it to enter the Dissecting-room, where
they will mangle it at their pleasure. Lord
BROUGHAM foresees this, and openly expressed his
apprehensions on the subject last night. "He could
not," he observed, " help considering, that by this
course one of two, fates would await the measure ;
and that instead of being boldly opposed and defeated,
it would only be allowed to enjoy a lingering exis-
tence, and be reduced from its pristine state to such
a skeleton, as its own parents could not recognize.
Is this to be endured ? Never, while Englishmen
possess the will and the power to right themselves.
Grumble as they may, their Lordships must—
nay, they shall—do us justice. We are indis-
pensable to them ; but they are not so to us.
We can do very well without Lords. America
has none, and yet she prospers ! Why, then,
should we permit the longer continuance of an oligar-
chy which, judging from its present conduct, exists
only to our detriment ? The Corporation Bill is no
affair of their Lordships. It belongs to the people,
and to them exclusively. On this point Lord MEL-
BOURNE—in a speech marked by sound reasoning and
determined purpose—well observed, " the Corporation
Bill is a question which peculiarly concerns the middle
orders ; they feel it more, and consequently they un-
derstand it much better than your Lordships. This
therefore is a reason why you should pay particular
attention to their feelings on this subject." The
Leicester petition—(which, by the bye, we erroneously
::fated yesteiday so have men signed by only twelve
hundred individuals in twelve hours, whereas the
numbers amounted to upwards of ten thousand)—
holds pretty nearly the same language ; but as it
spoke, besides, some stern, salutary truths, their
Lordships' sense of dignity was offended, and
they at once decided on its rejection. In
future, therefore, we would advise the Leicester
Reformers to address themselves exclusively to the
House of Commons, for there at least they will meet
with considerate attention. It is monstrous that the
party who are aggrieved should be refused a hearing
by the very party who are aggrieving them ; be told
that they slander, merely because they speak truth ;
and that they ate insolent, merely because they give
expression to their sense of injury !

We congratulate our readers, and the friends of
Reform in general, on the safe passage of the Irish
Church Bill through the House of Commons. It
was read a third time last night, and passed, amidst
the loudest cheers, after a few desponding ejaculations
from the gentlemen who compose the fag end of " The
Faction" in the Lower House.
How this great measure may fare in the future
stages of its existence it is not for us to surmise. The
Lords may throw it out if they please, hut
let them not deceive themselves by imagining
that they will gain any thing by pursuing
uch a course ; for as surely as the present Bill
is rejected, will the next edition of it be. still more
unpalateable to its opponents. There cannot be a greater
—a more fatal error, than to postpone Reform with a
view to evade it. Every day supplies fresh illustrations
of its necessity, and adds new converts to the cause.
Public opinion is thus continually gaining strength--
co►►stantly receiving reinforcement, and as constantly
r;sing in its demands. The best policy, therefore, for
• those who are afraid of violent ciwnges, is to reform
at once. If they attempt to dam up the river, they
will find to their cost that they have rendered
the salutary and fertilizing stream a devastating tor-
rent. But we will not anticipate evils. We trust,
that when the Corporation Bill sh►ll have passed the
Lords, they will be in a more tractable humour than
they are at present.

Alderman MARSHALL, sheriff of Norwich, has
jug arrived in town with a most important Petition
from the inhabitants of that city in favour of the Cor-
poration Reform Bill. This petition is signed by
6,631 persons, being about a fourth part of the whole
male population of Norwich. Among the signatures
are those of five Bankers, four Aldermen, one Sheriff;
and NINE HUNDRED FREEMEN 1 The Petition
will be presented to the House of Lords this evening
by the Prime Minister. It is couched in re-
spectful language.—protests strongly against the state-
ment made to the House, that the presen tresident in-
habitants are satisfied with the Municipal Corpora-
tion—declares that the petitioners are ready to substan-
tiate by evidence at the bar of the House, the truth of
the Report made by the Commissioners—and prays
that their Lordships will pass unimpaired the Bill
now before them, which the petitioners consider well
calculated to effect that general reform in our Muni-
cipal Institutions which they have long earnestly de-
sired, by restoring the privileges and endowments
usurped by the fire to the many, to whom they
rightfully belong.
Nine hundred freemen in one Corporation petition-
ing the Legislature to deprive them of their RIGHTS !
This is something. This tells a tale as to the nature
and origin of these so-called rights. This petition
will, we think, somewhat damp the ardour of certain
hot-headed statesmen, who have declaimed so loudly
against the robbery committed upon the freemen.
Will the Duke of NEWCASTLE condescend to tell us
when men ever before petitioned to be robbed ? Or
will he deny to the freemen the right to "do as they
like with their own ?:' _

And now we beg to return our best thanks to those
hereditary politicians, who belong to the fire-and-fag-
got school, for the excellent service which they have
(lone to the cause of Corporation Reform. But for
their violent, explosions of wrath and vengeance against
the Bill, there would not have been those striking
manifestations of the popularity of the measure, which,
during the last ten days, have burst forth in every part
of the kingdom, and which, if they do not annihilate,
will certainly overwhelm all opposition to it. Thus
Providence, from apparent evil " still educes good."
Thus the ignorant, the factious, the wicked, are made
to work together for the general benefit. Thus the
labours of a WINCHILSEA are rendered subservient
to the spread of religious peace, a CUMBERLAND
struggles hard in the cause of virtue, and a NEW-
CASTLE becomes an involuntary instrument in the ex-
tension of freedom.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday received this morn-
ing, bring further intelligence of the tyrannical pro-
ceedings of the Government of Louis PHILLIPPE
against the liberty of the Press. On Monday the
Quotidienne and the Bon Sens were seized at the Post
office, and their respective publishing offices, for in-
serting an article condemnatory of the new law against
the Press, which appeared in The Sun of Friday last.
We regret that the honest expression of our opinions
of the conduct of the French Government, should sub-
ject the conductors of the Parisian Press to a system
of persecution as subversive of the Orleans dynasty,
as it is ruinous to individuals. This is the second time
within a period of twelve months, that the French
Government seized its Journals for the insertion of
articles copied from The Sun. Nevertheless, we shall
continue to discharge faithfully what we conceive to be
our duty. So long as the KING of the FRENCH aims
only at the subversion of the liberties of France, we
shall lose no favourable opportunity of denouncing his
condues as perfidious, reckless, and tyrannical. We
hailed his elevation to the Throne of France in 1830,
because we believed the nation had found in him a
deliverer from the yoke of despotism ; and just with as
much earnestness shall we recommend his deposition,
whenever we are persuaded that his Sovereignty is incom-
patible with the existence of civil liberty. Our principles
are unchanged. We supported Louis PL L IrPE so
long as he respected the rtghts of his subjects, and npheld
the charter ; we opposed him when he perfidiously
abandoned his principles, and sought to support his

Government by establishing a system of demoralizing '
espionage, without regard to the inclinations of his
people. 'We opposed him still more strongly when we
saw an apostate Government, acting under his imme-
diate commands, fostering police conspiracies through-
out the country for the base purpose of crushing the
Liberal Press. This is a fact now too notorious
to be questioned. It was repeatedly moved in the
course of the trial of the prisoners of April, 1834. As
we said before, we regret that the republication of our
articles has exposed the Parisian Journalists to the
fury of the French Government ; but even their suf-
ferings for such an offence will have a salutary effect
upon the public mind. The people of France will at
least learn that they are behind us in the European
march towards free popular institutions.
The Committee appointed to examine the new pro-
ject of law for abrogating the liberty of the Press, has
consented to hear the opinions upon it, of such
Editors as think proper to present themselves. Seve-
ral have already attended the Committee, who all de-
clared that, were the project of law under consideration
approved of by the Chambers, the publication of a
political journal would be absolutely impossible. Some
changes will be made, but it is supposed they will not
affect the principle of the Bill, which is most atrocious.
The KING, alarmed at the menaces of the Republican
journalists, has consented to have the articles with-
drawn which relate to the inviolability of his person.
This is so far well, at least till he ceases to act as his
own Cabinet.

The Chamber of Peers having closed its judiciary
proceedings against the Lyonese section of the pri-
soners of April, it is expected that it will sit to pro-
nounce judgment on or about the 20th ink. The
number found guilty exceeds thirty, of whom only those
charged with being ringleadets will be transported for
life, and the rest incarcerated for terms varying from
five to ten years. Louis PHILIPPE IS too consum-
mate a political tactician to decline extending the
Royal clemency towards some few of the individuals
found guilty ; the more especially as he is quite aware
that in a moral point of view they have committed no
crime for which the Members of his Government have

not eStal:S:ie.d a pc,:c-eurrt.
And now that all is nearly over—now that the ac-
cused have been found guilty and are to undergo the
penalty of expatriation—what great advantage has the
French Government gained by its unconstitutional
mode of conducting the trial? The prisoners will be
banished ; but was it not possible that the Govern-
ment might have had influence enough over an ordi-
nary tribunal to have them condemned to undergo the
same punishment ? And even were it otherwise, was it
prudent in a Government, as yet only a mere experi-
ment in the estimation of its people, to set aside the
charter which formed the bulwark of their liberties, for
the despicable purpose of striking clown thirty or forty
poor misguided artizans, who were mad enough to be-
lieve themselves justified in attempting to remodel the
institutions of their country ? When the guardians
of the Charter of 1830—when the very persons who
solemnly swore in the face of Heaven and of Europe
to maintain its every article inviolate—set it aside to
gratify their desire of personal vengeance, is it
to be expected that those individuals who never
entered into any compact to uphold it will
respect the laws made under it, when such
laws are found to stand in the way of their
revenge ? No, no : human nature is too prone
to copy itself, particularly where with -increased
responsibility the obligation is, on every side, mutual.
If the French Government, with adequate power to
prosecute the abettors of rebellion before the ordinary
tribunals, resorts to the frightful expedient of increasing
its means of inflicting punishment by violating the
I Charter, it tacitly encourages all who are disatisfied
with it not to be more scrupulous in the choice of
means to overturn it. With regard to the degradation
of the Peerage, in being made the tools of a faithless
and vindictive despot, we shall say nothing till the pri
soners have had sentence pronounced upon them.
The arguments which •,ve have employed against the
conduct of the Government with respect to the Lyonese
prisoners is equally applicable to its more recent violation
of the Charter to abolish the liberty of the Press. The
repetition of a perjury so fatal to the liberties of
France. will
.at once rouse: the people in defence of
those rights which their knowledge and their bravery.
wrung from the grasp of a tyrant. Lours PHILLIPPE
has now openly placed himself not only above the law
but the Charter, which he dares to regard as an instru-
ment which ought to be made subservient to his des-
potical and vindictive caprices. He forgets that his
contempt for it may awaken a kindred feeling in the
breasts of his subjects, and that once fostered- and
communicated, there is an end to the 'ORLEANS
dynasty in France. -
Four battalions of the Foreign Legion, amounting
to something less than three thousand men, sailed
from Algiers on the Ist of August, on board a
squadron of four French ships of the line. The
port to which they are bound is not stated, but it is
supposed to be Barcelona.
Our advices of this morning from the North of Spain,
are not of a later date than those published on Tues-
day. The report of the disturbances in Catalonia is
confirmed. General L LAUDER is universally detested.
FRENCH FUNDS—PARIS, Alluvia, 11,
Five pm Cents., laif. 10c. sc. 108 f 95c.
Three per Cents., 7z4f. 60c. 65c. 55c.
National Loan, 108 f. 95c.
Rank Actions, 2,0'5f.
Rente de Naples, 971. 97f. sc. 10c. sc.
Roman Five per Cents., 101 M.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 24 2414.
uov, snail:so Loan, 38N.
Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 374 %1 1,1
Portuguese Loan, Three pc r Cents, 5814%.
EXCIIANOL oN LONDON.
0.4 e MOlit li pai,er, 25.50::.: money, —f. —c.
Tree moat., paper, 251. 50a ; money, —f. —c.
BOURSE, THREE O'CLOCK. —The market has remained steady
to-day, and very little business was done. The 3 per Cents.
have been done at 78f. 80c., but they receded to 78f. 70c.
There being no further news from Spain, the securities of that
country have not varied.
QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 109 f. —c. ; Three
per Cents., 78f. 65c. ; Five per Cents. panish, 37k; Three
per Cents. Spanish, 24+; Cortes, —; Coupons, 20; Gueb-
hards, 38 ; Differes, 15; New Loan, 46i ; Actives, 45 ;
Passives, 13 ; Ducats, 97 15 ; Romans, 101+; Pedros, —;
Belgians, —; Dutch, —; Haytians, —f. ; Brabant
Bank,

Regicidal plots are become it appears the of der of the
day. The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 7th inst. announces
the discovery of a plot for the murder of the Emperor of
RUSSIA at the review at Kalisch. If we are to credit
the report of this affair which is given in that Journal,
fifty-four individuals—Frenchmen, Poles, and Piedmon-
tese—have been sent on this mission by the Parisian
Propaganda. How the plot happened to be discovered
we are not informed ; but we should prefer learning
how, confided to so many, it could have escaped the vigi-
lance of His Imperial Majesty's spies at Paris. Hear the,
German Journalist on the feeings awakened by the report
of this conspiracy :
" The indignation that this plot has excited is universal,
and even those who were more inclined to the Liberals open
their eyes, and behold with horror the abyss of guilt through
which these men would lead nations to a new form. The re-
gulations respecting passports are much more strict, and no
person is allowed to cross the frontier from our provinces to
Poland ; exceptions are made only in extraordinary cases.
Even in the country itself travellers must have a passport to
go from one province to another, and cannot go further un-
less notoriously above all sul,ieion.,,
Here we have a revelation of the EMPEROR'S motives
for mooting this sham conspiracy. Poland is to be crushed.
Her nationality is not yet so far destroyed, as to allay all
fear of her resurrection in more than pristine vigour. The
Emperor of RUSSIA knows that both Austria and Prussia
are prepared to demand the restoration to the people of
Poland of their just rights ; and as he wants an excuse
for declining to comply with such demands, he trumps up a
trumpery plot about his life being endangered by Polish con-
spiracies. As to the alarm or horror, which in reality would fill
any mind at such a termination of his reign, we had as well
say nothing about it. The Court of Russia is too averse to
scenes of blood to presume that such spectacles could be
endured by the people.

Brussels and German Papeis have been received
this morning. Accounts from Scios say that an or-
dinance of the SULTAN has been published in that
city, according to which the subjects of Eur,,pean
Powers who possess landed property in Turkey are con-
sidered as Rayas, and must pay taxes and charatz as
such. The free Greeks in that city have also been
called on to pay the charatz. The subjects of Russia,
Austria, England, &c, are exempted for the present,
because further instructions are expected from Salonica.
The German Papers are filled with details of pre-
parations for the great review at Kalisch. Among
other particulars they state, that the Emperor of
RUSSIA will have in his train 300 horses, the Em-
peror of AUSTRIA 100, and the King of PRUSSIA