The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-24 00:00:00

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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1842.

We regret to see among the workmen of the
North some symptoms of sulkiness. They do
not resume their avocations so willingly as we
anticipated. Statesmanship may probably be
more efficacious in completely restoring tran-
quillity than the military and the police. Let
us have a general amnesty, and let the soldiery
be removed. Let it be remembered, that if the
working classes have inflicted, they have suffered
many injuries. Forgiveness must come from
them, as well as their superiors. Let wliat has
passed, then, be forgotten as soon as possible,
except its emphatic warning.
What can possibly be got by substituting terror
for kindness? An •organised military force,
backed by a police, and supported by the gentry,
must succeed, we admit, against an unarmed
mob ; but what will be gained by success ? The
gallows may have its victims, but incendiarism
will not therefore be extinguished, nor will pro-
.perty be secure. The military may prevent an
outbreak, but that will not be the restoration of
prosperity. Our factories may be converted into
barracks, and our manufacturing cities into
camps, and the nation may become a military
population, ready, like the French, for want of
useful peaceful occupations, to overflow on other
countries; but will that promote the national
greatness, or the happiness of the people ?
Trade cannot thrive under the gleam of bayo-
nets, and there is an immense danger at hand
in trying the scheme. Across the Atlantic is an
independent and free people, speaking our lan-
guage, who open their arms to our artisans, ma-
chinists, and capitalists; who promise them pro-
tection, and ensure them the remunerative em-
ployment of providing for an ever-increasing po-
pulation. Other countries besides America are
ready to invite our skilful workmen to enrich
them by their labours. Hitherto internal peace
and freedom—the power of the manufacturers to
regulate their own concerns, which is not pos-
sessed in other countries—have given a pre-emi-
nence to Britain ; rob her of those advantages,
convert her towns into camps, and her Govern-
ment into a centralized military despotism, and
you will lay the axe to the root of her greatness.
We believe that a military Government may
succeed here as in France, and as in Russia, in
subduing all individual independence under it ;
but is it worthy of any British statesman to re-
duce his country to the level of Russia and
France?; We rely, however, more on the public
than on any individual; and we put it calmly but
earnestly to all classes, what will they gain by
converting England from a workshop into a bar-
rack ?

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert walked to Adelaide Cottage this morning, and
returned through the Home Park.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal have
been taken their usual airings, accompanied by the
Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
The Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, attended by
Baron de Gruben, went to town by the train which
left Slough at twenty minutes before ten o'clock, and
returned at half-past two o'clock.
In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert,
the Duchess of Kent, and the Duke of Saxe Coburg,
rode out in a carriage and four, followed by Lady
Beauvale, the Duchess of Norfolk, and the Maids of
Honour, in another carriage, and attended by the
gentlemen on horseback!
Sir Robert Peel, after having an audience of the
Queen, returned to town shortly before four o'clock.
The Marquis of Ormonde has arrived to succeed
Lord Byron as the Lord in Waiting on her Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady i
Charlotte Dundas, Sir George Couper, La Marquise
de larcourMr. and Mrs. Harcourt (St. Leonard's),
and Mr. G.T. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, will join
tloe Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening. I

The Prince of Leiningen, attended by Colonel
i 4 George Couper, -Bart., left Frogmore yesterday
morning, where his Royal Highness had been on a
visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
and proceeded by the Great Western Railway to
town, to embark on board the Princess Victoria
steam-packet for Antwerp. Sir George Couper re-
krned to Frogmore is the afternoon.
The Lord 6hancellor had an interview with Sir J.
Graham at the Home-office yesterday morning. His
Lordship remained at the Office a considerable time.
Lord Fitzroy Somerset had an interview with Sir
James Graham in the afternoon.

The Attorney-General attended at the Home-
office during the afternoon.
Sir Robert Peel left his residence in Whitehall-
rdens at half-past one o'clock ye3terday, to have an
aLdience of her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Baron de .Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister,
b ansacted business yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
Lord Stanley arrived at Bromley, on Monday, from
Nei herby.

NAPOLEON CONQUERED UT A FEMALE.—Napoleon
lived on friendly terms with the family of Mr. Balcombe-
in St. Helena, at a small white house, called the Briars.
Miss Balcombe was a great favourite with the Emperor.
Sbe was very young, and Ntpo!eon used to condescend
to romp with her. However, one day she drew his
ay oil, and gc# him up in a corne7, laughing at him and
preventing his escape. " Now," said she, with glee, " I
have the greatest man in the world at my mercy." The
Emperor, it is said, was so annoyed at this.sally that he
never spoke to her afterwards •
STEAM. AnovE .hSutday , last, there
landed M riktee/ fro& thaateainets. '5,967 persons, indc.l
pendently'of those who landed from private boats.

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HAMBURGH MAIL.
\VintAn, AUG. 13.—We hear from several persons
who have come direct from St. Petersburgh, that no
accident whatever disturbed the fetes, which sur-
passed in splendour everything of the kind before
seen, celebrated on the twenty-fifth anniversary of
their Maz;stlesl marriage, as the mysterious hints of
many journals would lead us to believe. Petersburg,
they say, was lost in astonishment at the unparalleled
magnificence displayed on the occasion. The grandest
fete, they say, was a great tournament.
FRANKFORT, AUG. 13.—Well informed persons of
this city, affirm that there is not a word of truth in all
the reports which have been circulated respecting
events at St. Petersburgh. People here are vexed that
the Russian papers have not made mention of the
festivities. The public curiosity' will, however, be
soon gratified, for we learn that a competent Ger-
man writer will shortly publish a circumstantial de-
scription of these fetes.
ST. PETERSBURGH, AUG. 19.—While the King of
Prussia was here the fleet assembled in the roads of
Cronstadt, consisting of 18 ships of the line and 20 fri-
gates, together with 2 Dutch frigates and 60 smaller
vessels, which presented a very fine sight, which was
heightened by innumerable steamers and merchantmen
which at this time always fill the roads.
An Imperial ukase of the 6th of July, respecting
the building of the bridge over the Neva, declares that
it being impossible to defray the expenses from the
ordinary resources of the city, his Majesty finds it
necessary to borrow the sum required from the banks
of the empire ; for the reimbursement of this loan
which is to be effected in 37 years, all foreign goods
imported into St. Petersburgh shall pay, in addition
to the present duties, 1i per cent. The levying of
this additional duty shall commence from the Ist of
January, 1843, and is to be extended to all articles
of import which, up to the time fixed, remain in the
warehouse of the Custom-house of St. Petersburgh.
'After several weeks' uninterrupted rain, we have
had, for the last few days, hot and dry weather,
which is very welcome to the farmers, who can
now finish their hay making.
BERLIN, AUG. 16.—For some weeks we have had
oppressively hot weather, which being accompanied
by a dry wind, has done much injury to the fruits of
the earth, and been the cause of the leaves of the
trees withering and fading off as in autumn. Though
our city lies so low, the springs which supplylmany
mills are already dried up, and this evil is stil more
seriously felt in the neighbouring villages which are
situated on higher ground, On account of the scar-
city of water the grand review will not take place.
The garrison of Potsdam returns home to-morrow,
and a change in the weather is much wished for.
HAMBURGH, AUG, 19.—We, too, suffer from the
extreme heat. To-day at noon Raumer's thermome-
ter was at 24 deg. (Farenheit 86.9).—Hamburgh
Papers, Aug. 19.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Banams, Am 20.
Actual Debt, 254 per Cent , 52%
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. lOO%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ....... 91
Three per Cont....—.
---Thlrty.seven Millicns, ditto
(1 840) lOO%
7054
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. 92
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. 86
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent. 77
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Aug. 20,
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Am. 12
Five per Cents. Metailiquesi..“ .................. 118
Four per Cents.
100;,.
Three per Cents,
Bank hared ••..• ... .. . ...
Allgoneine;Zeiru ..—..
ng, August 16.

THE METROPOLITAN
CHARTISTS.

At the three great foci of the Chartists on the
Middlesex side of the river, namely, Paddington-
green, with Clerkenwell-green and Islington-green,
there was but very slight demonstration of popular
feeling during yesterday evening, owing to the strict
prohibitory regulations of the police. At the bridge
joining Westbourne-g, reen, Paddington, the people
had collected in detached groups, and were discussing
with much apparent vehemence the conduct of the
police in connection with what they (the speakers)
contended was only an exercise of the right of public
discussion. Large bodies of workmen were engaged
upon the numerous new buildings which are about
being erected in the neighbourhood, but they took no
notice of the idlers who were lounging about. At
Islington-green up to nine o'clock there was no sign
of any meeting being contemplated to be held there.
A number of individuals, apparently belonging to the
lowest class, thronged all the avenues leading to
Clerkenwell-green, but the regulations of the police
being to prevent them congregating in masses upon
the green, they were compelled to move from place
to place, and as many as possible were prevented
from returning. As an indication of the animus of
the people, we may state that in almost every instance
all the placards issued by the police Magistrates and
Commissioners which were posted along the New-
road were defaced.