The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-27 00:00:00

England, in her Parliamentary legislation. Every
measure M. GUIZOT has proposed—and his reforms
are not feiv—has been triumphantly carried through
both Chambers. He his defeated every opposition to
his policy, he has also carried with him the almost
universal voice of his country; while Sir ROBERT
PEEL can carry nothing, can do nothing, and
remains like the ass between two loads of hay.
A. Ministry like this cannot last.. The English are
an active people. They will go a-head, and cast off
allegiance to a Government which seems determined
to stand still, and, what is of more, importance, has
noTfixed principles of action. One .part of the
Cabinet is hostile to the other. STANLEY, and
Rirort, awl GRAHAM, thwart EBEL in all his move-
ments ; and the Prime Minister of England, at the
present moment, is possibly the most helpless being
in the United Kingdom. The Whigs did something
—they introduced and carried many useful mea-
sures ; they unfortunately forgot the interests of their
best supporters; but, after all, they were an active,
stirring race ; they kept the public mind alive to
questions of great national iniportance, and were
only deterred by the House of Lords from doing
justice to the country. What has Sir ROBERT PEEL,
with both Houses at his back, done ? He has reduced
the duty on pickles, and corned beef, and live bullocks,
and every grievance of which the country complains
is yet to be redressed !

THE BOURSE-MONDAY, MARCH 25.
First Highest Lowest Last

Price. Piice. Price. Price.
Freitch Five per Cents 122 45 .. 122 45 •• 122 35 .. 122 40
Four per Cents.• • •
Three per Cents.•• • • 83 10 .. 83 20 •• 83 10 '.. 83 20
Bank of France 3105 ..3105 ••3050 ..3080
Laflitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslll6 25 —lllB 25 ..1116 25 ..1116 25
5,000 f. Sharessl2o -.5120 ..5120 —5120
Belgian Bank. ..... .• 660 .• 660 .. 660 •• 660
11841 1082 50 ..1082 50 —lOB2 50 .•1082 50
..... ion .. 105* 1051 . 1051

The Dublin Evening Mail—the clever but unscrupu-
lous organ of the Irish Orange party—is just now in a
grievous state of tribulation and discomfiture. It may
seem ungenerous that we should derive, enjoyment from
the manifest afflictions of our Contemporaries, but we
must honestly confess that the groans of this desperate
Tory partisan are " music to our souls." Not a wail he
utters, but it comforts us like a cordial, and the deeper
his sorrows the greater is our , sense of satisfaction.
At the present moment he is plunged " full fathom
five" in an abyss of despondency, and all because Sir
Roszwr PEEL has intimated by letter to the Irish Go-
vernment that no promotions are in future to be made
in the spotless Protestant Establishment of that country,
unless to such of the clergy as shall consent to support
the national system of education, and place their schools
under the control of the National Board! Though
the Standard, with a considerate regard for our Contem-
porary's anguished sensibilities, endeavours to comfort
him by the assurance that the Premier has intimated
nothing of the sort to the Irish Government, yet the
Mail, like RACHEL, " refuseth to be comforted," and
insists on the strict truth of its statement in the follow-
ing impressive spirit :—" We repeat, in the most em-
phatic terms of which language is capable, that such a
communication as that we have mentioned, has been
made within the last month, and that a deter-
mination of acting upon that despotic declaration has
been subsequently announced." As if this were not
emphatic enough, our Contemporary adds :—" Every
word of our statement is strictly and accurately
true ; and, alas, there is much more that we might have
said, but which, in the_ exercise of a fallible discretion,
we deemed it a duty to reserve." How much meaning is
there in that one little-touching monosyllable " alas r
What a tale of sorrow does it not unfold I Then, how signi-
ficant are the words, " there is intich more that we might
have said!" The Mail has evidently not yet disburthened
himself of half his griefs; grave causes for despondency
still remain shut up in the sanctuary of his own breast;
and there, no doubt, they will remain until he can find
heart enough to reveal them to a sympathising public.
It is an inexpressible comfort to us thus to learn, on his
own explicit declaration, that our Contemporary has
..good grounds for sorrowing. We derive a wonderful
encouragement from the spectacle of his tears, know-
ing, as we do, that they flow' from no worthier
,
cause than the ' " heaiy blow and , great dis-
couragement " dealt by Sir ROBERT PEEL to Protetst-
i
ant intolerance in Ireland. If it really be true, as he
Mail so confidently insists, that the Premier has coin to
the determination of promoting no more bigots in lw
Irish Church, he has taken -by far the wisest ep
that either he.or any of ,his. colleagues have to en
since their entrance upon office. • To show favour! to
such of the clergy only as shall "consent to support !the
national system of education," is to reward4he liblral
and the meritorious, to-place a check on the arrogance and
assumption of priesteraft, and, by so doing, to lay Ithe
foundation of a sound, tolerant, practical, educational iiys-
tem in Ireland. Protestant and Catholic have too long been
instructed apart from each other ; they have too long been
taught to regard each other with feelings of disttust
and jealousy—Sust as if both were not members of the
great Christian community ; .and any attempt, on the
part of Sir R )BERT PEEL, to. do away with this line of
demarcation, to repress this odious spirit of party, to; in-
trCduce more charitable feelings, and set the warm springs
of sympathy flowing in a fuller and stronger stream—any
such attempt as this, we say, deserves the approbation
and, support of every honest and enlightened man
.in
the kingdom.. It is much to the credit of the late
Government . that they were the first to project
this -improvement in the Irish system of education,

and-we do hope to see it actively and ener-
getically, followed up by the present Ministry,
for: it is a reform that 'cannot fail to bring
blessings in its train, and tend greatly—and this at no
distant period—to put a stop to those party strifes, those
unworthy feelings of estrangement between Catholic and
Protestant, that have so long been the curse of the sister-
country. We are, .however, by no means so
firmly persuaded as is the Dublin Evening Mail, that

Sir ROBERT PEEL has come to the determination to
prbmote no Trisb, clergymen but such as will support
the national system of education. We can only hope
that that is true, which our Contemporary broadly de-
clares to be a fact that admits of not a shadow of doubt.

The accounts from Madrid, which are of the 19th
inst., are of the same frightful character. The journals
in one column describe, the movements of the Court at
Aranjuez, and. in another the wholesale murders com-
mitted in the provinces. It appears that not less than
thirty-five persons hare been shot for the insurrection
against a despotic. Government at 'Alicant, and sixty-
five more are doomed to the same fate, without the semi-,
blance of a trial. RoNcAu remained inactive belfore
Carthagena, for the want, it is said, of heavy artillery.-
But with that, he can disPense. hai- only to bribe
some half a dozen of renegade Spaniards,, as at Alidant,
who will betray their nearest friends,• and make him
master of the place. France and 'England, who could,
check such scenes of hOrror, and who have so often in-.
terfered for political purposes, incur a heavy responSibi-
lity by their cold-blooded indifference towards the fate
of the unhappy victims.

The Paris Moniteur of Monday publishes the folloiving
telegraphic dispatch from Africa:—

" GENERAL DE DAR TO.THE ZILNpTER OF WAR. ' '
" ALGIERS, 20T11.
On the 4th the Duke d'Aumale entered Biskara Without
striking a blow, and was well received in the place. The
'villages of the .Ziban followed the exaMple of that anal'.
capital. . : . . .;
"The Prince was on the Bth at Sidi Okba, a day's march
$o theTsouth of Bi4kara. • The chiefs of the wandering tribes
had all repaired to 'his camp. . '
'9lis Royal Highness was to have left Biskar4 on the 13th,
arid marched towards Mount Aures.

" Ben-Allinet-Ben-Hadja, the. Khaliph of Abd-el-Kader,
abandoned by all- his folloNters, had lied in the direction of
Mount Aures. _ . . •

""The sanatory condition of the troops is excellent;' the
Princes are in good health."

Another telegraphic dispatch from Bayonne announees
the arrival of Queen CHRISTINA at Aranjuez, on the
21st, where great rejoicing took place. The Mule of
Bayonne furnishes the following intelligence, which
forms a sad contrast to the scenes going: on at Court.
"Four of the persons who were condenined to death at
Barcelona, on the 17th, on a charge of conspiracy, *ere
'shot on the. Bth. One was a notary; another'was orie, of
the chifs of the last insurrectionary movement at Bar-
celona, and the other two were perions in trade. Two of
the females who were arrested on the same charge have
been tried, mid sentenced one to six years, and the other
to two years' imprisonment.

M. BERRYER took his seat in the Chamber of Depu-
ties on Monday:. No business of the slightest intrest
was =transacted in either Chamber on that day. The
funds were a shade lower, the Three per Cents. having
closed at 83f. 5c., and the Fives at 122 f. 45c. The fol-
lowing are additional extracts from'the papers :
"A Madrid journal having stated that M. Bannon, who was
decapitated by order of the Emperor of Morocco, was the
representative of Messrs. Salavy and Co., of Marseilles, those
gentlemen have addressed a letter to the Marseilles journals,
in which they say :
", M. Victor Darmon was one of our correspondents, but
neither he nor any other person was our representative at
Morocco. He was established' at Casablanca, where he ful-
filled the functions of Spanish Consular agent. It appears
that his enemies had injured him with the Emperor of Mo-
rocco, as he was forced to leave Casablanca for Mazaga, and
remain there until further orders. It was there that he was
beheaded on January 25th by the' Emperor's direction, with-
out any one's being able to make out up to the present day
the' cause of this severity."

The Post-Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, contains the fol-
lowinerom Wilna:—
" In order to avoid giving to the Government pretexts-fbr
adopting vigorous measures against the Jews, the Rabbins of
the frontier Governments have put up a notice, declaring fhat
every Jew engaged in smuggling should bnread out of syna-
gogue. All Jews aware of such acts are to inform against
thepersons engaged in them, under pain of being subjected
to the same penalty. This threat will be attended with
benefit, as the Polish or Illusion Jews fear spiritual punish-
meat morithitn _ - ,

TIME 7,SITN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY_ T*WrENING, MARCH 27, 1844;

P OLICE INTELLIGENCE

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
A raffianly-looking fellow, named Thompson, without jacket
or vest, and with other garments indecently ragged, was
charged with violently assaulting the potman at the Sun
public-house, Islington, and police-constable 90 N.
The prisoner went into the Sun last night and asked for
some drink, on which the landlady, seeing he was already con-
siderably under the influence of liquor, very properly refused
to serve him. He then tossed down sixpence on the bar and
asked for" six-pennorth of brandy and water." This, too, was
refused, and becoming insolent he was desired to leave the
house. The prisoner refused, and when the potman at--
tempted to expel him he attacked him with great violence.
The policeman was then called in but the prisoner "pitched
into' him too, and strove to throw him on the flags •, he was
at length with much difficulty secured and removed to the
station, using the most obscene and blasphemous language
all the way thither. -
The 'prisoner said he had been four years on board the
Phoenix man-of-war, Captain Richardson, master; he was
subsequently ayear on board a collier, plying between London
and Neweastle.

Mr. COMBE observed, that such a strong able fellow ought
to engage in some useful employment, and not be wandering
about the streets.

The fellow,. in a very artful manner, referred to the de-
pressed state of the skipping service, and said there were 400
able-bodied seamen out, of employment in the neighbourhood
of London.

From the evidence of Waddington, the gaoler, a very
shrewd officer, arid the evidence of other constables, it appeared
that the prisoner is nothing more nor less than a common im-
poster, and derives a livelihood from "cadging.'-' He is a
very sturdy beggar, and if he meets females alone,-generally
succeeds an extorting money, from their fears. He was never
at sea, and, when questioned by the Magistrate, showed his
utter ignorance of nautical affairs.
Mr. COMIiE seht him to prison for seven days.