The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-08 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Imperial Government of Russia has just pub-
lished a ukase, interdicting all paid or unpaid func-
tionaries in Poland from marrying without authorisa-
tion. Those, from the Ist to the 6th class, are to ap-
ply for permission to the Council of Administration
of the kingdom ; those from the 7th to the 10th class
to the Government Commission, or to the superior
authorities dependent on it ; and all other classes to
the local authorities. The object of the ukase is to
prevent functionaries, by their marriage, acquiring a
position which they cannot maintain.

THE POOR MAN'S MONUMENT

TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUA.

Sts,—By the enclosed you will perceive that a
committee of tradesmen has been formed for the pur-
pose of raising a fund for the erection of a poor man's
monument to the memory of the late Sir Robert Peel,
the subscriptions to be limi'ed to one penny each per-
son, the money to he paid into the Bank of England,
in the names of trustees. lam anxious to give the
earliest information, through the press, of this inten-
tion, believing the working classes throughout the
country will manifest their readiness to join in pay-
ing a deserved tribute of respect and gratitude to a
distinguished statesman who did so much for them
and for their country. I shall be ready to forward
the object by every means in my power,
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOSEPH HUME.
Bryanstone-square, July 5, 1850.

" POOR MAN'S MONUMENT TO SIR R PEEL.
"Committee Room, Belvedere Hotel, Pentonville,
July 4, 1850.
" Sir,—A committee has been formed, consisting of
highly respectable tradesmen, for the purpose of raising
a Lund to erect a poor man's monument to the memory
of the late Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P.; the subscription
to be limited to one penny each person, and to be ex-
tended to the whole kingdom. It is intended that the
fund (as every 20/. is received) shall be paid into the
Bauk of England to the names of trustees—viz., Joseph
Hume, E,q , M. P., Right Hon. W. Ewart Gladstone. ,
M.P., Sir James Graham, M.P., Viscount Hardinge. and
John Ma terman, E4q., M.P., or three of them. I am
directed by the committee to solicit the honour of your
concurrence in the abovo arrangement, and shall be
happy to learn from you that you will allow yoer name
to be used as a trustee, in conjunction with some of the'
other gentl men named. The committee sit from seven
to nine every evening at the above rooms, and I am de-
sired to say that your compliance will be considered
honourable to thenaslves, and to the cause they have on
hand, and which they will do all they can to support.
I have the honour, &c.,
JOHN DOWNES, Hon. Sec."
"J. Hume, E•q., M.P."

THE LATE DIVISION ON THE FOREIGN
POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
(louse of 574 Members has declared, by a
majority of 46, that Lord Palmerston enjoys the con-
fidence of his countrymen, and that his policy is pre-
cisely the policy requisite to the maintenance of their
honour and peaceful relations towards the rest of the
world. In the state of political feeling prior to the
debate the Government had much to contend against,
and if their cause had not been inseparably allied wish
truth and justice, the division might have given them
a much smaller majority ; so the result is all the
more satisfactory, and carries the greater weight.
Those whose machinations are rendered futile, and
whose misrepresentations are exposed, would fain
make this division tantamount to a defeat. The
Morning Chronicle says that the majority of 37 in
the Lords deducted from that of 46 in the Commons,
leaves Ministers oaly a margin of 9! Is it possible
that the disappointed scribe can imagine for one
moment that the people of England will place the votes
or opinions of 37 hereditary legislators against the
voice of 37 of their own chosen representatives?
that 37 men who, qualified or disqualified, inherit a
certain legislative dignity, and in many cases a pecu-
liar legislative incapacity, will—so far as representing
public opinion goes—be placed alongside the same
number of those representatives, who have lately
shown themselves as superior in debate as they are
undoubtedly above them in popular estimation ?
Why, Sir, the thing is an utter absurdity, a paltry
quibole suggested by a spleen as impotent; designed,
I suppose, to deceive our friends abroad, now that
the game of deceiving the people at home is irre-
coverably lost.
Tne division is " a crowning victory ;" it has been
won in the teeth of a combination of parties as un-
natural as it is discreditable to some of the Members
concerned : it aftsrde ample proof that the principles
so nobly, so firmly maintained by Lord Palmerston
will prevail, though Bright and Broadley meet toge-
ther, Cobden and Castlereagh kissing each other ;
Gibson and Granby ! _Hume and Herries! ! Moles-
worth and Manners !! !

That the' C-)vernment have triumphed over such a
combination of the " Country Party" with happy-
go-lucky Peelites and crotchetty soi-disant Liberals
(whose constituents will not forget them at the next
election), surely rensiers the victory the more com-
plete ; the defeat the more decisive.
I am, Sir, your obedient gervant,
A YORKSHIREMAN.
Hun, July 1. 1850.