The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-03 00:00:00

hands may earn . from 255. to 30s. a week.—
" I most earnestly wish that the labouring classes
of this country would attend to their interest !" said
Mr. Peel. But how much pains do we not see
taken every day to mislead and mystify them ?
What has the higher ranks of this country ever done
to instruct the people ? There is not throughout
Europe a country to be found in which so magni-
ficent a contempt for the moral and intellectual im-
provement of the people has been manifested as in
England. In spite of neglect, in spite of all man-
ner of cant and hypocrisy practised with regard to
them, the labouring classes are beginning to see
their way. If their superiors would but meet them
half way,—if the immense resources which are at
the disposal of the State for the instruction of the
people were not wasted, but applied in such a way
as to spread over the country enlightened men, in-
stead of the miserable fanatical creatures who, ac-
cording to Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, issue from our
Universities to bewilder the people,—then it might
be allowable to reproach the labouring classes.—
' Merning Chronicle.

It appears that Mr. Cavendish has yielded to the
wishes of the members of the Senate and University
of Cambridge, who, in so flattering a manner to him,
proposed his name on Monday last as their future
Representative. In consequence of this nomination,
Mr. Alderson has withdrawn from tl►e contest, and
the struggle will now be between Mr. Cavendish
and Mr. George Bankes, who has no claims on the
score of literature and science, that we are acquainted
with, to oppose to the high academical reputation
which his rival has earned. What right has Mr.
Bankes to obtrude himself on the notice of the
learned in connection with Cambridge ? What has
he done ? What honours and distinctions has he
gained ? None. Illiberality and Ultra-Toryism
constitute his only recommendations. There can be
no question as to the proper person to choose; and
we trust, for the honour of science and learning, that
Cambridge, by returning Mr. Cavendish, will vindi-
cate the character of our Universities from the re-
proach that has been cast on them, of preferring
mediocrity and dullness, and a dislike of improve-
ment, to talents and learning, united to independ-
ence of mind and enlightened and liberal principles.
—lbid.

The appointment of Major-General the Earl of
Rosalyn to the long vacant office of Privy Seal in-
dicates two points in the Premier's policy—the one,
his intention, as far he can accomplish it, to compose
his Government of members of his own professiop ;
the other, a wish to propitiate the V higs, who have
all along hung upon his outposts, half friends, half
foes, willing to act on any side for pay, but on no side
very zealously without it. We rho not attribute to
such a man as Lord Rosslyn any sordid views of this
kind, but to his party we do. His Lordship we
believe to be a truly honourable man, and to have
possessed up to this time, in its truest sense, that
rare quality, political consiste.ney. We suspect,
however, that the Duke's line was 'baited fo a larger
fish, and that it is only because Lord Grey could not
or woeld not be caught that Lord Rosslyn has been
brought to I=l, This, however, with the re-ap-
pointment of 'Sir James Scarlett to the post of
Attorney-General, may be coesideu4 3s a complete
amalgamation of the old Whig Party with tile
Government, and, of course, Mr. Brougham, the
leader, c4nun:t long remain unprovided for. Report
again assigns him the Roils.. Whether that may be
intended or not we cannot say, but that Mr.
Brougham has for a long time calmed himself down
into a temperance fitted for office, no one who com-
pares his recent with his past Parliamentary conduct
can for a moment doubt.—Morning Herald.
Sir James Mackintosh, as our readers must be
aware, brought forward his motion on Monday last,
for papers explanatory of our relations with Portu-
gal, 4tid the conduct which the British Government
had hitherto thought proper to pursue respecting
that miserable and opidessed country. Its result
was successful, not only in procuring the papers in
question, which will be speedily laid before the pub-
lic, but in eliciting from the House of Commons an
expression of feeling respecting the usurpation of
Don Miguel, and thg cruelties of which he has been
guilty, which, we would fain hope, would not be
without its use in checking the fury of the dezpot.
These, however, are the only satisfactory results of
the motion; for of the explanation given by Mr.
Peel, of the conduct pursued by the British Go-
vernment, we cannot speak in terms of approbation,
either as regards its consistency or policy. With
regard to the former, we are willing to allow that
nothing can be more truly injudicious and unwar-
rantable
in the abstract, and in all ordinary easel,
than interference in the internal affairs of other
countries ; bat there are exceptions to the most
approved rules, and the case of Portugal must, in
the judgment of every impartial mind; form one of
the clearest and most undoubted. The usurpation
and tyranny of Don Miguel are not of an ordinary
cast. They bear away the palm from every other
case which has existed in either ancient or modern
times ; and, to render it still stionger, that tyranny,
there was every reason to suppose from the prpyi-
oua gpnduct of England, would not be allowed to
exist. But Aapsidering the matter on the pure
ground of consistency, what difference is there
between the case of the Portuguese constitution-
alists and that of the rebellious Greeks, whom thp
Sultan, was desirous of again bringing under his
dominion ? There is none. Greece was an in-
tegral pertion of the Turkish empire, and the
Greeks as much, nay more truly, his subjects as
those who rebelled against the usurpation and ty-
ranny of Don Miguel were his. We 4410 the
former both directly and indirectly; but to the
latter we would not only furnish no aid, but would
not eueu permit them to leave our shores with the
means which they possessed, for giving a different
form of Goverunient tq Portugal, and overthrowing
,;:e Usurper 1 Such is the couch-boasted consistency
of the Dritish Government, and the system of non-
interference, which, in accordance with the law Gf
nations, it has thought proper to sanction. We wish
n accordance also with
we could add that it was
sound policy; but justice Ia this case, as well as in
that it
the other, requires it to be stated, tpat is as
faulty in the one way as in the other; arol that
while it has tended, on the one hand, to furnish the
Usurper with the means of inflicting on his subjects
the most dreadful tyranny, which was ever expe-
rienced in any country, it has proved extremely
ruinous to the commercial enterprise of British s4by
jects. Mercantile confidence has been long extinct
between Portugal and England, and the lost occa-
sioned by the stagnation of commerce a source of
ruin to those engaged in the trade between the two
countries.—.Morning Advertiser,

VIENNA, MAY 16.—1 t is DOW decided that
the EMPEROR. will not visit Prague this year; but it
the fins weather which we have had for some days con-
tinues,-he will go to his country seat at Lasembourg. His
MAJESTY has resolved that the sum of money, which was
intended for the visit of the Court to Prague, shall be em-
ployed in the relief of the inhabitants of Dalmatia, who
are reduced to the greatest distress, in consequence of the
total failure of the harvest last year, and thus the pious
intention of his MAJESTY, in his profound visit to Prague,
will be fulfilled in a different manner.

DRESDEN, MAY 15.—There is no truth in the
news published by some Journals, that the Marcolini Palace
in this city is to be purchased for a Jesuits' College to be
founded here. The purchase of another large building was
lately spoken of, f..- r the purpose of establishing a seminary
for Catholic schoolmastews, which came to nothing.—
This perhaps gave rise to the report of the admission of
the Jesuits.
From the large quantities of small haddocks
daily taken at Arbroath, the fishers anticipate the largest
supply of this fish which has been Lad for many years.—
Incerness Courier.
At one of the meetings of the Paris Horti-
cultural Society, a M. FOURQUET presente m
d soe pot atoe
plants, upon which had been grafted the stalks of the
temata (solanum lgeopersicum, L.) The vegetation of
these plants was very vigorous, and the potatoes are de-
scribed to have beers of excellent quality. —Literary Ga-
zette.