The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-02 00:00:00

)sue titte:sta,:aab!c acts
a and th,ft;nd,d at Clic Ihnne-offim.

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artud with u diseretioi:ury power to

lay as,

political purpose

And imprison all persons daring to dispute
their antnomity. They only are authorised first to in-
terpret and then to execute the law for the punishment
m-:..eilition„ As the ease now stands it is a , highly
criminal offence to walk in a contrary direction from
that pointed out by a policeman. Take, for example,
that or Dr. .M.DotraLL: It wits proved, in evidence, aiid
sic:`..:' elAiit by Sir JAmEs that when
Sop, MAI , tIAEU dragged him down from the
pump, uldresing the people, he was &-
aim ;2;mm aO,.mmi his im,siness, and a passage made for
him. 'He therefore, up to that time done nothing
which tit! Superintendent regarded as authorising. his
arrest. 1)r. M‘DocAta,, however, rented to walk in the
path pointed out, aliegiug, most -unpardonably it ap-
pears, that his home lay in a contrary direction. This,
therefore, constituted his crime ; for it was for this he
was arrested, imprisoned .all night in a felon's cell, and
hold to bail by- the ,Magistrate. Had he walked
Etway•• as time Superinteudent ordered him, nothing
that followed .would have taken place. Disobe-
die.ace, then, to the orders of Superintendent Maiza.laEu
constituted his real offence—an offence only to be expi-
ated by arrest, incarceration, and bail on the part of the
offender, and two sureties not to transgress so in future.
We trust some 'eminent lawyer will bring this case
before the Judges. If the conduct of the police be
judged-legal in Westminster Hall, Parliament must come
forward, and by a suitable enactment protect the. liberty
of the subject, Unless this be done, scenes will take
place in England which no good Man can contemplate
Nrithoirt alarm and even horror.

Ail•,

There must be some very waggish people in what the
Exeter-hall saints call the " religions world." Such, at
least, is the impression made upon us by the droll peti-
tions which they now and then address to both Houses of
Parliament. On these occa4ions they make mouth-
pie. es of their jokes of the most solemnly dull men in the
two Honses,, as if to give practical zest to the creations
of a sportive Sauey. In the House'Of Commons last night
Sir R., INGus tried the gravity of, that assemloly,
by presenting a petition from some, humorous Irish gen-
tleman: setting forth that he found in the estimates no
money for paying Ministers of the Gospel to preach the
word of Got) to his benighted fellow-countrymen. It
would
,be wonderful, indeed, if he had—more wonderful
than a grant for carrying coals to Newcastle, or supply-
ing the Thames and the Liffey with water. The Pro-
testant priesthood in Ireland quietly pocket their mil-
lions without saying a word on the subject to the CHAN-
CELLO'', of the EXCHEQUER. If they do not preach the
Gospel it is not for lack of being well paid for it—better
paid, in fiv!t, thdn any other priesthood in the world,
that of Spain, in the palmiest days of Popery, not ex-
cepted. We know nothing of SAMUEL GORDON,
the petitioner in this case, but were a SWIFT
at th 6 head of the' Irish Church, he would cer-
tainly promote him to the first vacant prebend,
and recommend him as a candidate for a mitre.
Now that Mr. FERRAND has resigned the Punchshii) of
the House of Commons, might not some of the Irish
boroughs be persuaded to enliven the dullness of Parlia-
ment by returning that practical humourist, SAMUEL
GORDON, '0.1) 'amusingly ' wonders that no money is
voted to preach the Gospel in Ireland.

Advicea from Madrid of the .25th ult. state that M.
AuovELL-1:;s has resigned his situation of Guardian of
the Queen of St.!_kis. The " divine " ARGUELLES IS, We
fearya very vain and rather impracticable old man. He
has been always quarrelling with the women of the Pa-
lace, upon whom his eloqUence makes no impression ;
and latterly .he has been at daggers-drawn with the
Lady High Chamberlain of the guEEN. Philosophers
arc the last persons in the world to whom we should
entrust the'rearing of a couple of girls of the respective
ages.of ten and twelve years.

There is an absence of political news of interest in the
Faris Journals received this morning. • The Journal di s
Debut.
...devotes nearly seven columns to remarks sug-
gested the death and proposed funeral of the late
lamentetbDuke of OILLEANg. We entirely agree in all
the praises which the Debuts bestoWs upon his memory.
As a s,,p, :a husband, a brother, and a father he had few
equals in Fi :Ince. All good, and many &eat linen de-
ilore his 10.,Fz, not only as a domestic calamity, but as one
orthy to be deplored by Europe.

- . -
Of the.-aetticl state of parties nothing definite can be
kno%n before the ChambLim are constituted, and. the
business of the cession regularly entered upon. There
is some tniC.: of a reconciliation between M. DuFAtrra:
find M.. a basis for-the ejectipent of M.
GLTZCT f:•,-;1-: the Cahinct. Much as we regret. we
tqrizi r milt itl. Guiz.o:r.i3 retireEnent cannot now
Xo Ali:lister could withstand
ths• ,N.); : :I.Ltnot nirived. for hi overthrow.
roe Journal des Vales et des Campaynes says—" Yester-
idav, the.29th of .Inly (the twelfth anniversary of a resolution.
mots in the Rattle of the fi.ei.doni of the press), the manager
4(Ger,rit) of the Gazette de France was condemned in default
to two years' imprisonment, cni a Erie 0'24,000 francs. This
Is a flagrant, contradiction to the promises made in 1830. Let
us boi...e that the
"jurywill not satisfy the triumph obtained by
the publie:prosocutlol.
The Gassei.di steamer arrived on tie 2Gth from Algiers,
which it left on the of3j. It touched at ,('ette on the 25th,.
where it landcd4so soldiers ' - it hasrought despatches.
On th,_!, same 4ta“the 26. h), the Gregeorg ste,”:ee arrived
irom Boas, 71):iioh it I,ft on. the 2:3d with 91 suaers as pas-

sengers, and despatches. It left there the Lemprore Phitor,
Ramier, and Styx.
The Veloce steamer has arrived from Naples, which it left
on the 23d. This steamer brought the three eleven of the
French navy who were implicated in the affair of the duel
which took place at Naples, on the l3tk.—Commerce.

GOOD NEWS FOR ALDERMEN.—We learn from the
Hants Advertiser, that " some twenty turtles were
landed from the Tweed on Wednesday, and taken to
the Custom House to be weighed."—This news will
occasion a prodigious sensation among the Court of
Aldermen. Had twenty poets landed—or twenty
philosophers—or twenty scholars—or even twenty
patriots—the Worshipful Court would have received the
intelligence with sovereign contempt; but twenty turtles—
this indeed is quite another matter! Mere is abundant cause
for rejoicings and mutual congratulations ! What shout-
ings and clapping of hands will there not be at Guildhall
—what crowing of lungs at the Mansion-house ! Alder-
man Humphery will sing " 0 be joyful !" and the Lord
Mayor exclaim, in full conclave, " This is the proudest
moment of my life !" Indeed, we should not wonder if,
in the ardour of his extacy, his Lordship were to have
the Mansion-house illuminated, in honour of the arrival of
the illustrious foreigners. It has been often observed that
in process of time husband and wife grow like each other;
and no one will be hardy enough to deny that, in nine
cases out of ten, the older an Alderman grows, the more
closely he assimilates to a turtle, in face, figure, and in-
tellect. We know one Alderman, at least, who bears so
astonishing a resemblance to this amphibious animal, that
it would be difficult to say which was which.

MORE TORY BARRACKS.—An Evening Paper, of yes-
terday, informs us that Government " has decided to
build a very extensive barracks, in addition to the one
already at Brecon, at a cost of from twenty-live thousand
to thirty thousand pounds."—This, we suppose, is one of
Sir Robert Peel's remedies for the distress now raging,
like an epidemic, in South Wales—the Tory mode
of calming what, Lord Castlereagh used to call.
the People's " ignorant impatience of taxation."
There is nothing like barrack-building to comfort
an impoverished country, more especially when it is
called on to pay the expenses of such erections. To give
the people bricks, when they demand bread, is an in-
genious device every way worthy of the "Peel of Peels,"
as, in the excess of his admiration, Sir John Hobhouse
once called our present straight. forward Premier.
Blessed, as the country now is, with Whig Unions and
Tory barracks, it must be its own fault, if it is not
happy, flourishing, grateful, and contented.

... •
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.—We understand that the
Bishop of Exeter will shortly publish, in two volumes
oetavo,.a, Journal "of his recent Vo;,, age to the Scilly Isles,
with portraits and memoirs of those Native Chiefs whom
—at the small expense to Government of ninety six
.poundi—•-he succeeded in converting to Christianity.

OVERLAND MAIL.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
The India Mail, with letters from Bombay of the
18th June, reached Marseilles at six o'clock on Sun-
day morning.