The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-25 00:00:00

the perusal of those to whom they are addressed, is a
most iniquitous—a most unjustifiable one, suited
only to the meridian of St. Petersburgh ; and, there-
fore, one can hardly wonder at finding it sanctioned
by a Conservative Government, and supported by a
majority of forty-four sycophantic Conservatives !

The subject of railroad travelling, and, in con-
nection with it, the marvellous improvements and
advances in the art of locomotion which almost
every week's experience developes or improves, are
matters of such universal interest in this country,
that the Legislature appears to be impressed with a
salutary sense of its own responsibility in dealing
with them. They come home, in fact, to the every-
day business of every man. They concern equally
his business and his pleasure. They regard a new
power which approximates the remotest points of
these islands to the metropolis, the extremities to
the centre ;—a power, whose velocity outstrips the
wind ; whose strength mocks all living forces—whose
endurance is measured only by the supply of a simple
vapour, and the capacity of machinery to resist its
expansive pressure ; and is regulated by the limita-
tions of its employer's pleasure, through means of
the simplest imaginable construction—applied with,
at ease, a certainty and a facility of control, that
seems magically disproportionate to the terrible
power and the enormous bulk to be acted upon.
If such be the mechanical triumphs of this
wonderful application of steam power to locomo-
tion, the moral effects of that application have been
yet more wonderful. Local prejudices and district
prepossessions have been more sensibly extinguished,
during the 10 years for which our principal lines of
railway have been opened, than they had been in the
previous half century. Sections of society, between
whom it has been customary to imagine there existed
almost instinctive animosities, hare been more largely
brought together in the course of railway communi-
cations, than without these aids, in the lapse of very
many years would probably have been the case. The
reciprocal isolation of the capital and the provinces is
fast disappearing ; and in less than another decade we
may find it a favourite relaxation with,the farmers of
Caithness to traverse the wealds of Sussex, and for
experimental reclaimers of the moors in Cornwall or
Devonshire to inspect upon the spot the turnip hus-
bandry of Norfolk. By an analogous process, this
growing interchange of opinions and intelligence and
observation may, at no distant period, push the march
of agriculture into districts, the capabilities of whose
soils have not yet been adequately tested ; and establish
manufactures in localities where the power of raising
raw material has been hitherto little more than sus-
pected. It may be found that hops may be taught to
flourish in the north as well as the south of
these islands ; and that there are still large
wastes in the home counties, those adja-
cent to the metropolis, on which the enterprise,
sagacity, and industry of cultivators from bleak but
unproved and productive sections of the border coun-
ties of England and Scotland, may raise excellent
crops of barley and farinaceous produce. Far more
sanguine than these were the anticipations under
which Dr. CAMPBELL, seventy years ago, developed
in his " Political Survey of Great Britain," the
fititural resources of these kingdoms. To an extent far
more extraordinary have his views been since verified—
and by means and under encouragement infinitely less
—than those which now justify us in looking forward
to an incalculable amount of national benefit and
social wealth, as likely to he derived from the more
general establishment of railway lines through the
length and breadth of the land.

We recommendattention to the abstract we publish,
in another column, of the principal features of the
new Government Bill, relative to the conditions to be
observed in respect of the construction of future rail-
ways, &c. We hope it may receive the careful dis-
cussion of Parliament, as one of the most important
measures that has been brought forward in the pre-
sent session.

Our readers, on referring to the Queen's Bench
report, will see that the Baron DE BODE has
at last obtained justice. He has been struggling with
the English Government for twenty years. That
Government had received from France money to pay
all just claims to French emigrants, but had disposed
of it in a way only known to GEORGE the FOURTH
and the Earl of LIVERPOOL. The Baron DE BODE
was one of the sufferers. lie has had the courage, and
the indomitable perseverance too, to prosecute his
claim to the last. He threw himself on the honesty
and judgment ufan English jury, and he has not been
disappointed.

After a trial of three days, the jury returned a
verdict, yesterday, in favour of the Baron's claim,
awarding him the full amount, 364,2661., with in
tcrest. There are some other claimants still on the
Government for money which has been swamped in a
similar manner, and which, from this auspicious ver-
dict, we trust will yet be restored to the rightful
owners.

In the report from Worship-street office will be
found another instance of the tyranny which the new
police force would, if they could, establish in the
metropolis. An industrious man, selling ginger beer
and other beverage requisite in this hot weather for
the poorer classes, is taken into custody, his little
property carried to the Green-yard, and his whole
stock probably destroyed, because a policeman thought
fit to interfere on a pretended order issued by a
sergeant of police. An inspector attended to give
some explanation, and stated that he knew
nothing of the order in question. The Magistrate, of
course, set the man at liberty, but what remedy is
that for such an outrage upon the poorer classes ? If
the public do not support the journals that take an
interest in restraining the inroads of the police on the
liberty of the people, they will speedily find that
Colonel ROWAN and Sir JAMES GRAHAM will treat
Englishmen like Russian serfs. There is an evident
tendency in that direction. We believe Sir J. GRAHAM
to be the most dangerous Home Minister that ever
filled the office, not even SIDMOUTH excepted; and if
the people of this country wish to preserve their
liberties, they ought to get up meetings in every dis-
trict to pray the QUEEN to dismiss the renegade. He
opens letters entrusted to the Post-office, he disperses
harmless multitudes when they assemble to petition
Parliament for a redress of grievances. He was once
the advocate for sponging out the national debt, the
most radical leveller of the present time ;
and ho is now the most bitter persecutor of the
men who follow out his original principles.
We could bear with some degree of patience such
conduct from an old consistent Tory ; but such de-
spotism on the part of a Radical-Reformer, an osten-
tatious friend of liberty—a professed friend of the
people, and one of the leading men who carried the I
Reform Bill, is quite insufferable.

Madrid papers of the 17th have been received, but
are entirely devoid of interest. Reports prevailed
that all the Ministers had been summoned to Barce-
lona, but for what purpose is not stated. A letter,
dated Bayonne of the 20th, contains the following
remarks, which, probably, are more true than the
fulsome reports published in the Madrid journals :
" The people of Barcelona appear to take very little in-
terest in the movements of the Spanish Queens. Altogether
their Majesties have met with a very cold reception from the
Catalans. If it were not for the soldiers in their new uni-
forms, and the coaches and horses of the Ambassadors, and
General Narvaez, Barcelona would be very dull.
" Several insulting pasquinades, reflecting upon Queen
Christina, have been affixed to the walls of the Palace and
against the Theatre in the Rambla.

—"
Queen Isabella continues her course of sulphurised tepid
baths, but the irruptions on her face and hands remain the
same."

The Funds have advanced. The Three per Cents.
were done at 271 for cash, and 28 at 60 days ; and
the Five per Cents. at 20i for cash.

We regret to find from the Paris papers of Sunday
that the troops of the Emperor of Moaocco have
made another attack upon the French troops under
General LAMORICIERE, and according to the account
given by General BUGEAUD, in a most unfair and
treacherous manner. These facts are announced in
the following telegraphic dispatch :
"TOULON, JUNE 23, 8 O'CLOCK, A.M.
" LALLA MARGUJA, JUNE 16.
"THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF ALGERIA TO THE