The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-05 00:00:00

PIInZIC OPINION.

The Herald has the following sensible remarks on the late
attack on the Queen :—" We regret to observe the almost
universally-excited comment which Sunday's outrage on her
Majesty has provoked, because we feel convinced that the edi-
torial silence of the press would have a much more wholesome
effect on such occasions—if we are to have a constant succes-
sion of these criminal and brutal offences—than overwrought
expressions of just indignation and general loyalty. There is
wisdom, we are certain, in silence about these attacks, and
the less the public knows about the details of, and the smaller
comment there is made on these crimes, the greater safety is
there for Queen Victoria, whom God long bless and preserve
to reign over a people who are satisfied with her rule, and who
honour and respect her personally. Depraved minds are ever
on the alert to discover how they shall most easily obtain bail
notoriety; and the elevation of these insults into the promi-
nent topic of passing discussion stimulates, if it does not beget,
other treasonable assaults."
The Times recommends that the experiment of a strenuous
flagellation should be tried on Bean, observing :—" For our-
selves, we are inclined strongly to agree with a coteir porary
and with sundry correspondents• who have confided to us their
ardent desires on that subject, that the present is a case which
most eminently invites those painful and disgraceful corporal
punishments which are now so nearly disused. One or more
very hearty floggings in public are the kind of medicine which
this disgraceful vanity best deserves. Our respected friends
are liberal in their views in this respect—flogging, ducking,
pillory, tarring and feathering, nay branding, as furnishing a
fitting crown to this young gentleman's aspirations after noto-
riety. We do not know whether he is of that age at which we
believe flogging is still occasionally administered by public
authority ; if so, we earnestly hope that that wholesome disci-
pline may be applied zealously and effectually to his person.
His act shows that transportation is without terror to that par-
ticular compound of knave and fool which he represents ; we
should like to try the effect of a different medicine."
The Advertiser thus alludes to the meeting, announced for
this day, of the Deputies from the Anti-Corn-Law League :
" This day the Deputies from the various manufacturing dis-
tistricts assemble in the metropolis for deliberation and action,
in reference to the distress of the country, and the remedy
which it demands. Never did a body of men meet under more
solemn or responsible circumstances. Our eyes are turned
from the bribe-bought Parliament, which has thus far legisla-
ted only to deceive and oppress the people, to those whose mis-
sion is undertaken solely with a view to restore justice and re-
vive the days of honest toil and sweet contentment, which have
so long been banished by the cruel demon of monopoly. The
men now in town stand in a position peculiarly sacred and corn-
mai,ding. They come, not merely to contend for a principle
just in itself, but to contend for it at a time when life and
death hang upon the issue of contest."
We take the following from the Chronicle :—" Letters from
all parts of the kingdom give uniformly the same accounts of
the universality of distress and suffering. If Stockport and
Burnley be somewhat in advance of other towns, this is a
distinction which they will not be long suffered to preserve.
Numerous other places in every quarter are fast approximating
to the same degree of wretchedness. Every day things assume
a darker appearance. We were yesterday shown a letter from
Leicester, in which it was stated that two manufacturers, who
spent 8001. a week in wages, six weeks ago, had found it ne-
cesary to curtail their business so much that they now spent
only 2001. a week, and it was believed that they would not
continue long to give any employment whatever. A most re-
spectable solicitor, just arrived from Manchester, states that
every day a fearful addition is made to the number of hands
thrown out of employment, and that in the course of last week
upwards of 2,000 have been turned off. Agriculture is be-
ginning seriously. to feel the difficulties of the crisis. The
farmers in the neighbourhood of Rochester are reducing the
wages of their labourers, to be able to meet the Income-tax.
Incendiary fires, on the other hand, are on the increase. One
palter, the Wiltshire Independent, contained in one number,
Est week, accounts of no fewer than seven fires. The insur-
ance offices are in consequence raising their prices."
IVIONET—TIZADE—CONEIVIERCE.
By the . late fire in Bermondsey losses to the amount of
15,5001. fall on different insurance companies in the metropolis.
At a meeting of the Anon Gold-stream Works Company,
held yesterday in Cornhill, it was stated that a stream of gold
had been discovered in the Anori river, New Granada, which
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fortnight to consider of a further vote. ,
MLECTIONEETUNG.
The names of four candidates have been mentioned as likely
to be started by the Duke of Buckingham to succeed Sir Wil-
liam Young : Colonel Vyse, Mr. Drake, Colonel Ilanmer,
and the Hon. Mr. Fitzmaurice,
NAVAL AND
Lieut.-General Sir William Parker Carroll, K.C. H., far-
meiey of the 18th or Royal Irish Regiment, and commander of
the troops in the western (Athlone) district, died at Nenagh
last Sunday.