The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-19 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Three o'Cloch.

The affair of Mr. HOPE, late President of the Court of
Session, which has made some noise in Parliament, and
snore in Scotland, has done little credit to any of the
four parties mixed up in it. The motion of Mr. Fox
MAULE was extremely injudicious ; he knew well that
President HOPE had for years been waiting only
for the return of his party, to resign, and
unless he could have made out a continued series of er-
roneous judgments, or given some striking proofs of im-
becility, he might have been assured that the Tory
majority would be too many for him, and that the at-
tempt to stigmatise this venerable idol of the HOPES
-would be attributed to spleen, or unavailing re-
gret that the appointment had been taken out
of the hands of the Whigs. He has there-
fore been subjected to this obloquy, and has besides
been compelled to retract and express deep sorrow (as he
well might) that the subject had ever been mooted. And
why mix up the Strathbogie rebellion with this foolish af-
fair? The remarks made by the aged President on hear-
ing the ease appeared to us judicious and honest, and
the late Under Secretary, whose leanings are well known,
and who was an interested party, should have been the
last man to cast even the shade of an imputation on the
purity of the judicial bench. The conduct of Sir R.
PEEL was not much better. Had he, following the
oxample of his colleague, Lord STANLEY, when a
similar charge was made by Mr. O'CoNNELL against
an Irish Judge, acceded to the motion, the question
would have been settled in a constitutional manner, with-
out compelling two interested and accused parties, father
and son, to come before Parliament, and give covi-
deuce in their own behalf. As for the LORD ADVO-
CATE, the course which he chose to pursue, is totally in-
comprehensible. He denied point blank that the President
had been absent for even one day, yet refused to grant
the official information, which would give more satisfac-
tion than letters from every one of the numerous hopeful
family in Scotland. The paltry squabble has this re-
markable feature (a rare circumstance in such disputes)
that all tip parties have committed such egregious blun-
ders, that no one can crow over the other.

The Shareholders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow
itailwfiy are to meet on Tuesday the 22d instant,
to decide a principle which concerns the whole com-
munity, and we wish them a happy deliverance.
We have repeatedly called the attention of the
public to the absurd, nay more, the wicked
attempt to stop the running of mails on Sunday ; and
and from the numerous letters received on the subj&t,
and the indignation excited among the Proprietors by
the meddling and impudent interference of a hypocri-
tical; sect, to the certain injury of private pro-
perty, we confidently look forward to the triumph
of common sense and true religion over the bigotry and
the self-interest of the non-intrusionist clergy. Is all
'communication between the capital of Scotland and the
populous towns in the west—Glasgow, Greenock, Paisley,
Kilmarnock, &c.—to be stopped for twenty-four hours,
because the holier-than-thou men are pleased to de-
nounce a work of necessity, a work of duty, and often of
a desecration of the Sabbath ?

mere;

All the letters received from the well-informed resi-
dents in Paris, Bordeaux, Bayonne, San Sebastian, and
Madrid, confirm the reports in circulation of the in-
tended outbreak of a Christino-Carlist conspiracy in
Spain. The pseudo French Ambassador, M. SALVANDY,
has bequeathed a legacy to the REGENT which we fear
Spain will be long in forgetting. It appears that this
official personage, while apparently higgling about a
point of etiquette, was in reality corrupting as many
disaffected Spaniards as were accessible to the blandish-
ments of the Ex-REGENT, the favour of the King of the
FRENCH, and the gold of which a_ worthless woman had
robbed the Spanish treasury. General CONCHA and the
Duke of SAN CARLOS, who directed the murderous attack
upon the Palace, were sheltered by M. DE SALVANDY in
his own house, eonreyed in carriages to France, and by
him presented as especial favourites to Madame Mutroz
—now the evil genius of Spain. Latterly all the Chris-
tino general officers in France have been gradually collect-
ing upon the frontier to be ready for throwing themselves
into Spain when the signal is made at Paris. General
JAREGUY (El Pastor) is within a few leagues of Bay-
onne, where he corresponds regularly with his adherents
in. Guipuzcoa. Generals URBISTONDO, PIQtTERo,
,and
ECHALAR are at Bordeaux, and, to crown all, it is as-
serted that CABRERA is concealed in Paris, assisting
CHRISTINA in settling her plans for again unfurling the
the standard of Revolution in Spain about the middle
of .April. As the basis of the combination of the Chris-
tinos and Carlists is a marriage between the young
QUEEN -and the eldest son of Don Cmos, the friends
of that Prince all are cordial in their support of it.
CARLOS himself is still somewhat obstinate, but the Prin-
cess of BEIRA, his wife, admits that the cause of CAR-
Los alone is now hopeless. The prime mover of
the plot is the CITIZEN KING, who, however, has the
tact to appear to the less trusted Christino chiefs
to know nothing at all about it. Nevertheless he is the
life and soul of the whole movement. He it is who
calms the fierce turbulence of the Carlists, and directs
the dark treasons of the Christino leaders. Well
aware of the anti-constitutional designs of the Court of
Portugal, he essays in that quarter to strike the first
blow against the Spanish Constitution and the Regency
of ESPARTERO. This is the secret of the Chartist in-
surrection in Oporto guided by COSTA CABRAL, who is
acting under secret instructions from Queen DONNA
Msnii. The abolition of the Constitution of Portugal
in favour of Don PEDRO'S Charter, would afford a pre-
text for the Spanish adherents of CHRISTINA to declare
in favour of replacing the Constitution of 1837 by the
Estatuto Real of MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA.
The firmness of the REGENT, and the patriotism of
the Cortes and army of Spain, will soon be severely
tested. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S declaration in the
House of Commons that the sympathies of the
British Cabinet are wholly in favour of the
dampesteab-
lished Government of Spain, has already the
hopes of some of CHRISTINA MUNOZ'S Parisian friends.
Besides, the REGENT has now had fair warning given
him, and has ample time to put Spain in a proper state of
defence. Should he triumphantly defeat the present
unhallowed alliance between the Christinos and Carlists,
he will have broken the neck of insurrection in Spain
daring the minority of Queen ISABELLA. The scan-
dalous and abandoned designs and conduct of Madame
:Muxoz will stand so exposed to the world, that a gang
of.be.rulits would shrink from the odium of fighting under
her banner.
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Scorn and contempt are showered by the French
mister's and their organs, upon the deVoted heads of the
Liberal Opposition. M. G UIZOT has set an example to
the Court and the retailers of its scandals, which we are
prepared to see very generally followed. Instead
of offering to confute the arguments of M. Ducos
and M. DE LAMARIINE in favour of an extension of the
suffrage, that able and distinguished Minister stooped
to the employment of fierce invective, notorious misre-
presentation, and the most contemptuous scorn of
every party opposed to the views of the Government,
He absolutely appeared to glory in trampling upon and
insulting them, and invited all his supporters to
unite with him in ridiculing their pretensions.
Such a course was equally unworthy of M.
GutzoT's intellect and his acknowledged political
sagacity; to treat a great party in the State with
contempt, however extravagant its demands may appear,
is to infuse it with a spirit of undying hostility. Lord
BACON, who was as great a statesman ss a philosopher,
regarded a Minister who treated his opponents with
scorn, as the most dangerous person in the State. "It
may seem strange," says that great authority, " that in
the description of men, formed, as it were, by Nature
for the destruction of States, SOLOMON should
select the character, not of a proud and haughty,
not of a tyrannical and cruel, not of a rash and
violent, not of a seditious and turbulent, not of
e, foolish and incapable man ; but the character of
a scorner. Yet this choice is becoming the wisdom
of that King, who well knew how Governments were
subverted, and how preserved. For there is scarce such
another destructive thing to Kingdoms and Common-
wealths as that the Counsellors, who sit at the helm,
should be naturally scorners. They despise rumours as
the breath of the rabble, and things that will soon pan
ever ; though the counsels of Princes are chiefly to be
directed from hence. '1 hey reject as dreams and melancholy
motions those counsels and precautions that regard futurity
• - -at adistance. They satirize and banter such men as
qtly prudent and knowing in affairs ; or such as
hii*thin binds and are capable of advising.. In short,
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it is not effected by open attack, but by secret under-
mining pnor is it by any means so much suspected
among mankind as it deserves." M. GIITZOT is no
stranger to the works of BACON, and we cannot
doubt that had the above passage met his eye before
ascending the tribune to speak on M. Ducos' motion,
he would have expressed himself very differently of a
question capable of enlisting the sympathies of such
' men as M. DE LAMARTINE. His forty-one of a majority,
and the vituperative buffooneries of the Court Journals,
will in the end prove but a weak defence against the
energy of men stung to madness by his taunts, his con-
tumely, and his unmitigated scorn and contempt. The
great body of the Opposition was before comparatively
passive ; the Minister has now infused into, it the fierce,
perturbed vitality-of revenge.
But the charge of employing scorn and contempt to put
down an opposition does not apply exclusively to the
French Cabinet. It applies with equal force to the Tory
Cabinet and Tory Press of England. The demands of
our own people for an extended suffrage, a free trade, an
equalization of taxation, and the protection of the ballot,
are all treated by the Tories with the most marked and
insulting scorn. The chair of the scorner is now placed
at the right hand of the President of the Council. The
right to occupy it on all great &bile occasions is a pre-
rogative which custom has assigned to a seat in the Ca-
binet. The people, seeing their misery made the subject
of the mockery of men in power, have gradually grown
to distrust their rulers, and to have no confidence save in
themselves.

As the French are more prone to be affected by ridi-
cule than the English, the contemptuous bearing of a
Minister is more likely to produce a speedy explosion in
France than in England. There to taunt a faction with
its impotence is the surest way to rouse all its latent
energies, which are sure to be directed, not against a
Ministry, as in England, but against the constitutional
throne, and the entire framework of society.

Some of the French Deputies are by no means pleased
at the length at which the Parisian Journals report
their speeches. Instead, however, of removing the
stamp-duty, which prevents newspaper proprietors
from increasing the size of their sheets, M. GOL-
BERY brought forward a motion on Thursday last
for printing the reports in full at the public expense,
and allowing all the electors to have free copies. A
motion so ridiculous ought to have been
scouted at once, instead of which the Chamber pro-
ceeded with as much gravity to discuss it, as
if the object of it was to extend the
electoral franchise. The French Deputies are paid for
their services by the country, and it is rather too much
to tax the nation to gratify the vanity of a few long-
winded orators among them. If they want to read full
reports of their own speeches, they have only
to establish a Journal like the English Mir-
ror of Parliament, at their own expense ; and if
they would have the country participate in the
pleasures derivable from the perusal of their
eloquence, let them only abolish the stamp
duty, and give freedom to the press. The self-
interest of newspaper proprietors will do all that M.
GOLBERY proposes to do, without imposing a sous of
additional taxation upon France.
The Bureaux will meet to-day, to examine the project of
law, relative to iron railways, and to deliberate on the motion,
of which notice has been given by M. Chapins de Mont-
laville, relative to printers.
The editor of the Gazette de France appealed yesterday to
the Court of Cessation, against the sentence passed by the
Court of Assize on the 14th of February.
The affair of the Haro, a journal of Caen, came on before
the Court of Assize of Calvados, on the 15th inst. M. Massot,
the Advocate-General, having read the article inculpated, called
on the Court for a verdict of guilty on M. Barthelemey Pons,
the editor of the Haro, according to the law of 1819 and 1822.
M. Barthelemy having suffered judgment to go by default,
the Court, at the instance of the public prosecutor, delivered a
sentence which condemns the editor of the Hero to a fine of
10,000 francs, the costs, and 15 months' imprisonment.
L' Univers says—" One of our correspondents in India writes
to us from Bangalore, on the 24th December, 1841, as follows :
—' War is said to be now inevitable between the English and
Tharawaddee, King of Ave, who,
_ besides other acts of aggres-
sion, is said to have seized the Proserpine steamer, with de-
spatches for the government of India."— Constitutional.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, FEB. 17.

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A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office,
Downing-street, this afternoon, which was attended by
all the Ministers except the Duke of Buccleuch, who has
gone to Scotland.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council met
this morning, and gave judgment in a case in-
volving property to a large amount, belonging to
the late Mr. Peter Rainier. The parties to the
appeal being " Deare v. Elwyn." Their Lordships
pronounced for the validity of the will of the de-
ceased of 1837, in favour of Mrs. Elwyn, the respondent.
Judgments were given in several other appeals, which
had been heard at former sittings. Lord Brougham,
Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Wynford, Mr. Justice Erskine,
and Dr. Lushington, were the Lords present.

BRADFORD-FRIDA Y.
(PROM ♦ COARRAPONDENT.)

Ever since the plan of Sir Robert Peel was known, we have
been in one continued ferment, and many have been the plans
to show our abhorence of Sir Robert Peel's Sliding Scale.
Foley, the Inspector of Police, and upwards of twenty of his
men, were ou Tuesday night here, on account of a report that
Peelwas to be burnt in effigy that evening, and also on Wed-
nesday evening. Last night they mustered stronger, and many
in disguise, and fully expected they should make a job ; but
the inhabitants of Bradford, wei e too wide awake. The effigy
of the Premier was brought into the town by water, and
stopped just below the bridge, and every place that commanded
a view was crowded to excess. The Judge and his clerk were
landed on one of the slips formerly used by our manufacturers
for washing wool, and now to exhibit and condemn the enemy
of our trade and commerce.

The effigy was brought down the river on a large scale with
slides under it, so that it could be slid up and down, it being
intended to slide it throngh the town, had net the police been
sent for the purpose of entrapping the unwary. It was well
tarred an A feathered, and then with stone round the neck, sunk
in the river.

MEETING AT DARLINGTON.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR-Our Anti-Corn-law meeting is just closed. We have
not had such a meeting since the days of the Reform agitation.
large party of the Chartists were present, and cordially co-
operated in passing several stringent resolutions, condemning
the injustice and cruelty of the torn-laws, and the insult
offered to the people by the Ministerial propositions. The re-
solutions and petition were put seriatim, and carried unani-
mously with great enthusiasm.—l am, Sir, your's obediently,
Darlington, Feb. 17. T. A. C.