The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-02 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY.

Both Houses met yesterday, at an early hour, to carry up the
Address to her Majesty. The Lords did not afterwards meet
to transact any ordinary business.
The Commons were again occupied with petitions from
Southampton, complaining of bribery, describing those who
petitioned against the bribery as having fraudulently usurped
the style of electors, and also again vituperating Mr. Wrenn.
Some little bickering took place about printing these petitions,
but it was not of much public interest.
Mr. Roebuck presented a petition, complaining of bribery at
Lichfield, adding that to the number of boroughs of which the
late election has destroyed the character. Mr. Divett, the
Chairman of the Lichfield Election Committee, said that
nothing had been brought before the Committee to criminate
the borough, and he doubted the propriety of petitioning
against it.
The Southampton case was again discussed, on thg motion
to issue a new writ for that place, and the charges against it
were again gone into. Sir Robert Peel decided tor suspending
the writ for a limited time, and said that it was only by a cor-
dial co-operation of both sides they could cure that disease
which was destroying the House. In the end the issue of
the writ was suspended for a fortnight.
The House was occupied the principal part of the even-
ing with a discussion on Captain Rous's Public-
house Bill. Several amendments and clauses were
proposed and not adopted. On one of the discussions
the Church was spoken of with some irreverence, as thrusting
itself across all the paths of the people, and one Honourable
Member just caught himself in time to prevent the utterance
of a wish that the Church was at the -.
Mr. Pakington moved his clause, which found few supporters.
The Honourable Member even turned his back on himself,
and proposed to amend his own clause, but the House would
not swallow it on his terms. On a division, it was lost by 110 to
7. Other divisions took place, and finally the Bill went through
Committee. The House sat till a quarter to Two o'Clock.

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Times remarks, with reference to the recent attempt or,
he Queen's life :—" We cannot but feel pleased and proud of
the warm feelings which this attempt has everywhere called
forth. East and west—Parliament and working men's
classes'—the levee and the theatres—we are happy to see vie
with each other in the display of enthusiasm towards the person
of our Queen, and indignation at the atrocious and deliberate
attempt which has been so providentially frustrated. And on
this, now, one word. Nothing, of course, could be more cruel
or unjust than to allow our zeal for the personal safety of
our Sovereign to transport us into the infliction of a punish.
ment not authorised by the laws of the land or natural justice.
If there is (or, rather, were) any doubt as to the deliberate
intention of this miscreant to perpetrate the alleged crime, he
should, of course, have the benefit of that doubt. If it becomes
clear by the evidence on the trial that he is really beside him-
self, let him be dealt with accordingly. It is a belief we would
gladly indulge in—it is the belief which first suggests itself
on the mention of a crime so apparently devoid of motive. At
the same time none would deprecate more strongly than our-
selves the entering on this investigation with any determina-
tion to pardon—none would more entirely abhor that fatal
promise of impunity which an over lenient procedure in this
instance would holdout to all those whose vanity ordiscontent,
exaggerated into a kind of moral madness, may tempt them to
similar unnatural attempts. If it is not a clear wrong, it is an
imperative duty to make an example."
The Post has a mischievous, insidious article, the object of
which is to sow the seeds of discord between this country and
France. Our Contemporary commences as follows:—" The
more or less immediate withdrawing of the respective Ambas-
sadors from the Courts of St. James's and the Tuileries—how-
ever it may be disguised under the denomination of temporary
leaves of absence—is an incident which must follow from the
present state of relations betwixt England and France. How-
ever much the proceedings of our neighbours may partake of
comedy—of electoral and party comedy—the results are ton
serious to be buttered over by the flattering unction of words.
however honeyed, or to be disguised by all the attitudes and
pirouttes of diplomatic courtesy. The King, the Government,
and all men of sense, true dignity, and patriotism in France,
are overpowered, and the noblest and truest-hearted, and
withal the most gifted statesman our neighbours can boast of,
is reduced to that conduct with which Cicero stigmatised Ca-
taline—' Cujuslibet rei simulator et dissimulator!' The
ascendancy of that great man gone, the body politic is left to
the mercy of the vermin of revolution—to the parasitic rep-
tiles who revel in the morbid humours of corrupted states.
Our grievances against France are palpable and flagrant."
The Chronicle, in an ably reasoned article, suggested by the
Bishop of Canada's exclusion from the church of a monument
to the memory of a distinguished British officer, merely because
he did not receive the sacrament according to the forms of the
Church of England, observes :—" The exclusion, be it ob-
served, does not rest on alleged immorality in the deceased.
In the cave in question there is no such allegation, but most
honourable testimony to the contrary. Nor does it rest on
any impropriety in an inscription. That is provided for by the
regulation that every inscription shall be subject to the pre-
vious inspection and approval of the clergyman. It turns
solely and barely on the fact of non-participation in the sacra-
mental ceremony as performed in the Church of England.
Monumental honours are to be confined to orthodox communi-
cants. 'And is this the mode in which the country ought to
deal with those who devote their faculties and lives to its ser-
vice, and who die in that service, afar from their friends and
home? One, by his courage in colonial service, may strike
down the banner of rebellion or roll back the tide of invasion ;
easntoatbhleisrh, btLhriesigwnisodf loyalty
may heal the discord of parties, and
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and A third, by enterprise and
philanthrophy, may enlarge the
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get over the following broad facts. The best manufacturing
freight included, than
Copenhagen, &c., at considerably less,
be 'twat d *th*
the coast of England, even though it should 13
one half the price at which they are laid doWP in any
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thirty, or even twenty miles from the great coal-mining ise,
tricts l The coals sent along our own coast are supplied to the
foreign consumer at much less than the prime cost to the coal.