The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-08 00:00:00

*cronb92bitton

SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock.

A Morning Contemporary speaking of the
present state of Ireland, makes the following
remarks :—" Crime has opened its winter cam-
paign earlier, and in greater force, than usual.
In Tipperary; murder, with its train of minor
offences—such as destruction of property and
brutal assaults on persons—stalks abroad; through-
out Cork, there is an organised and tumultuous
confederation against the payment of poor-rates ;
in Longford, Ribbonism, with its threatening
notices and armed marauding parties, is prepar-
ing for more active and dangerous demonstra-
tion ; and there is generally throughout the south
of Ireland a passive resistance to the obligations
of the Poor• law." Discouraging as are these re-
marks, there is unfortunately too much truth
in them. The Herald is guilty of no ex-
aggeration. Agrarian disturbance is rife in
many parts of the south of Ireland ; discontent,
as usual, is the rule, and content, the exception.
in that most combustible quarter of the sister-
island a word, pacification is developing
itself after the orthodox Irish fashion, by nightly
hill fires, tumultuous gatherings of the peasantry,
house-breakings, house-burnings, shooting at
landlords behind hedges, and bringing them down,
like crows, at a long shot; and by those thou-
sand other sprightly but irregular contrivances,
by which the Irish peasant is in the habit of
showing his dissatisfaction with things as they
are. The inference—the inevitable inference—
to be drawn from this discouraging state of affairs
is, that the Tory Government, despite its boasts,
and promises, and affected impartiality, has
as yet done little or nothing towards the restora-
tion of tranquillity in the sister country. It is
idle to say that Mr. O'CONNELL—the favourite
scape-goat of Toryism—is to blame for the
present system of agitation progressing at
a giant's pace through southern Ireland. He
has clearly nothing whatever to do with
the matter. He is just now quiescent, and we
might almost add, acquiescent, for the Repeal
ferment, generally speaking, has no real hold on
the sympathies of his countrymen; it is limited
in its range, feeble in its effects, and is
gradually waning away, like shadows at the
approach of dawn, before the healthy
common-sense influence of that wonder-
working Reformer, the true moral regenerator
of his country—Father MATHEW. Mr. O'CON-
NELL, too, agitates the question, as if his heart
were no longer in the cause—or rather, as if
there were a sore struggle going on between his
natural impulses and his rational convictions
on the subject, in which the latter would even-
tually be triumphant. It is not, then, to this
gentlemen that the present disturbed state of
Ireland is owing. It is no longer possible to lay
the blame at his door. At whose threshold, then,
is the lusty bantling of Irish agitation to be
laid ? Unhesitatingly, we reply, at that of
the Tory Government. Earl DE GREY led
us to suppose, when he assumed the
reins of power, that he was about to do
great things for the sister country; Lord
ELIOT made an emphatic speech to his English
constituents, in 'which he volunteered the same
boast; strict impartiality was henceforth to be
the order of the day; there was to be no more
coquetting with Orangemen; no tricky, balanc-
ing of parties, one against the other
the Irish Government was to be conducted, not
only on the wholesome principle of showing fa-
vour and affection to none but the deserving, but
it was also to be distinguished by the energy and
promptitude of its movements, and by its anxious
desire to investigate minutely and searchingly
the existing state of affairs in the country com-
mitted to its charge, with a view to acquire, not
superficial, but substantial information, and to
apply, not a momentary, but a perma.,ient re-
medy. Such was the boast made by the Tory
party when it first entered upon office in Ire-
land. It took possession of power amid the
sound of drums and trumpets, " psaltery, dul-
cimer, and cymbal." It announced itself as
a mountain in labour, which in the fullness of
time was to produce something worthy of itself'.
Well, it has gone the full period of gestation;
the hour of delivery has arrived; and it has
brought forth—what? A Mouse! In plain
English, despite its boasts, it has done literally
nothing towards the pacification of Ireland. It
has shown no zeal—no energy—no forethought;
it has been simply a Government of expe-
dients—a timid unconditional dependent on the
Chapter of Accidents. Its name is Common-
Place ! It is without character of any sort. It
goes sniffing and sniffing at the two bundles, of
Orangeism on the one hand, and Liberalism on
the other, between which it is placed ; and though
it is perishing of inanition, is afraid to take
a bold bite at either. It cannot , make
up its mind to any decided course of conduct.
It is too timid even to perpetrate a dashing mis-
chief. Can we wonder, then, that, if not deci-
dedly unpopular, Earl DE GREY'S government
is at least a nonentity in Ireland, and that agra-
rian and other disturbances are the consequence?
We do not mean to say that the recent murders
in Tipperary are the direct and immediate con-
sequences of the feebleness of the Irish Execu-
tive, but we will unhesitatingly maintain that
they are more or less connected with it.
When a Government, after teaching a
people to hope for an improved state of
things, disappoints all their just expecta-
tions, and leaves them in a statu quo condition,
it is no more than truth to say that it is an-
swerable for the results of such disap-
pointment. By-the-bye, it is not a little
curious that the very county which, but the
other day, Lord DE GREY plumed himself so
self-complacently on having pacified, is the very
one, which is now the most convulsed in Ire-
land! His Lordship should have borne in mind
the old adage—". Never shout before ydu are out
of the wood."

At a meeting of the Corporation of Dublin,
held on Tuesday, a motion was made to the effect
• that the Council, in congratulatingtheniselves on
the termination of the horrors of war in India
and China, tender their thanks to Ge-
nerals Sir HUGH GOUGH, NOTT, and POLLOCK,
Sir R. SALE, !and Sir HENRY POTTINGER, for
their services in both countries. One would have
supposed that no objection could have been rais-
ed to such a motion even by persons opposed to
these wars, and that Irishmen in particular, with
theirusual admiration for gallant deeds. and for the
honour conferred on their countrymen, would
have carried the motion by acclamation. It was,
however resisted by a town-councillor called
KIRWAN, and he was supported by an Alder-
man who rejoices in the name of KISHAN, being
a brother, or some relative, we suppose, of the
Chinese Commissionerwho distinguished himself
at Canton. The grounds for the opposition were
that the wars were unjust, and that the Officers
had only done their duty. This is a perverse I

mode of reasoning, to say the least of it. Why,
WELLINGTON at Waterloo only did his duty ;
NELSON at Trafalgar, gave as his last signal,
" England expects every man to do his duty," and
the signal was faithfully obeyed. Mr. O'CornvELL,
in rendering the most important services to his
native isle, has only done his duty ; and is lie
therefore to receive no monument to record the
gratitude and affection of his countrymen? It
should be remembered, too, that POTTINGER,
and GOUGH, and KEANE (all Irishmen, by
the way), did not originate these wars.
They acted merely as the servants of the public,
they obeyed, as all soldiers must, the commands
of their superiors, and deserve thanks and rewards,
not for the object of the wars :in which they en-
gaged,
but for the skilful and gallant manner in
which they brought the operations to a
peaceful conclusion. But the opposition,
to this well-merited testimony proposed
is the least remarkable feature in this
singular scene, for it would appear that some of
these Chinamen proposed a vote of thanks to the
Emperor of CHINA, and KIRwAN and KisuAll
actually embodied in their resolution a vote of
thanks to Lord ELLENBOROUGH. There never,
was a better instance of the " reductio ad a b.;
surdum," and we may therefore leave these
patriots to enjoy the singular honour of having
voted thanks to the man who would have left
109 unhappy captives to,. their fate, and made
the name of England a bye-word among
the nations of the East. As the mail has not
brought the conclusion of the discussion,
we can
not state what was the result, but have no doubt
that common sense and national gratitude would
prevail.

_
...b.
No authentic accounts of the submission of the_
Barcelona insurgents have yet been received,
but from various statements in the papers 44. the
the.
south of France, there can be no doubt
of
of the 29th fa:.t. It is said that the entire day
ult., was spent in negociations between EsP/it.
latter .
TERO and the Junta, and that the
offered to surrender on the following terinV--1
The removal of VAN HALEN and the P°litlca
chief; the garrison to be changed, and the.cpornee:;{;ol'l
sent National Guard to remain armed• i,,To
scription. We doubt if any such Prnlxoit4iirttooriels4
were made, but if such was the fact, EsPlittek(l-"9
to a certainty would reject them. The Serna.Pg-v'A '4l
of Marseilles states, that all was terminated, an,- 'sl
that the Junta had accepted the terms offered 7,1f1;
by ESPARTERO, one of which was the disarming .
of the National Guard. 29th '
The Constitueional of Barcelona, of the --„, . ;i1
ult, gives the following details relative to t'' :int
-1 ill 01
late Junta : • f,„9 ot
After the dissolution a Commission, chargeu-1 to_gcl.e4';clo.:4
vise and carry into operation the best means of pat7oo ,''''
an end to the difficult position in which the instarttesrtiFf
were plac€d, was appointed. It consisted 0 ~,rit4l
Commandants of the National Guard, and the 21.-1, ''''!',
caldes of Barcelona. At its first meeting, this elle1;01-,
mission called upon the Consultative Junta to asseill itof ii;
and deliberate on the course to be adopted, !Li*, •• All'
seems that only three out of the twenty-five Inenlll7tolq 'r
of that body who had been elected were willinsb.wbso-
assume any responsibility ; indeed, none of the 41. d file°
members would even show themselves at the meetin,l, :13
This journal adds, that on the 22d inst. the Deputies
Catalonia waited on the Regent, whilst on his journelot
to Barcelona, to entreat his clemency, and, above %ere
that he would draw a line of distinction betweenefito
criminal and the innocent. The Regent is reWrt .pa
have replied, " I am a Spaniard and love SPBl9,lst
cannot believe that the Catalonians would rise agtoi_
the cause of Spain. I will make a distinction ci
tween the people and those who have excited,""in
promoted disturbances ; but as to these latter, excited,
resolved,to chastise them with a heavy hand, annex,u..
let the arm of the law fall upon' them in an ee, :d
orable manner. - Either I or these seditious ri.. J
must cease .to exist. L know them, and I sr° teed . ,
tening to Catalonia not to destroy, but to protect to A'
Barcelona and its. industry. I have taken Ini c)atil 0' `i
the Constitution. I have obtained for it victory urs,-
victory, even to the summits of the Pyrenees,' allfoot, ~Lii
will die rather than allow it to be trampled under, 101
I will do this until the moment shall arrive f0r,..7, . tw-
j
give up the Regency, and place authority in tb.efiT 1 i
of the Queen, when I will retire into private. ing4a nee9
attend to the interests of my own property, se,..toeittir,i;:jis
having served my: country." The Colisin its
'
which 'had not appeared for some days, exP4ll-lats
non-appearance, by stating that the Directing-to..
having forbidden the publication in its cotton:l:pi° rreci,'
counts
dfroma
ditrs l.Madrididai3
Gazette
iaca
zan
tedi
to ttnhe. e provinces, it ha a p,..._e
• ~. blisbea ; :
of the 29t,11,,Ps of the .i
numerous reports from the political. chief -0 rice ,
different towns in Spain, all of iv.hick ann:T %ie ,
that the best spirit prevailed ia the . more.
real)" '•
districts. There never, in act, 'we- a'
• than
isolated attempt to change
this affair of Barcelona. drid °II
The Three per Cents. were done at Ma :, et
the Five P
the 29th at 22 21 15-16 at 60 days
Cents. at 261 11-16 k at 60 days.
a Governinent , •

A thick fog still prevailed at Paris onoe.°:
telegraph with the provinces, it is sup Posed
day, and as it prevented all communication r.
to ;
general throughout the country. The PaPeb,
consequently are very barren of news. The °ILI
article of interest is the following, taken froth
the Presse, on the rumour of the French Goversaite
ment having taken possession of the Marcleee of
Islands, in the Pacific. "The full importaec-4
the Marquesas," says the Government jour-eg
" will not be understood until the day eclat
when the Isthmus of Panama shall be 'for:
through, and thus a free passage be opelied,
time commerce of Europe. More than onto
ready the idea of realising this project has
seriously entertained. Companies liaoe
formed in the United States, and elseoe„rtg'
which have obtained all the necessary gre-50
from New Grenada. Unfortunately, these s.t
of
ciatiuns have not been carried on with a sPirifivi..
perseverance, and have suffered their
leges to become extinguished. It is o
possible, however, that this isthrnosas
much longer be suffered to renisiti
au.tve
a barrier against the enterprise of m e
I 0
nations. It would be a disgrace to the ag sic
suffered its progress to be arrested by "'lig
an obstacle, when three centuries ago 09 116 e
to open a channel for the spice
bold and noble attempts were successfullY,7i.ter
trade,
e.an that by the Cape of Good Hope. 121,e,i1s of
sibility of making a way through the Ist"";5 of
Panama is no longer problematical. .-°ll,,te'ers
the ground have been made by able en
—O, be
and it is ascertained that a wide canal 111-'
%ceedit4
cut across at an expense not e-
-12,000,000f. At this very time, if we :reed In
informed, a new company is being .orgeja3l:ititia
London, under the auspices of 31c..41 portant
for carrying into execution this --1^ cap'"
project. Let, therefore, the net recourse
tal be raised in London, or let
be had to the contributions of other place:eel:
will be easily found. The late treaty bet
de l .ske
.
England and the Emperor :of CHINA is
I'his
o
of the question. Henceforth, the gates f
01,
vast continent will be opened wide to the
:Ce,..4
coerce of Europe, and will become the
thearn,
of rivalry. All maritime nations have all '1,1;
terest in piercing passages which will shorteta tra:
voyages of their vessels, and reduce the
eXPedeo.
of transport and competition on the new Dail,
opened to them at the extremities of the. earl,:
The cutting through the Isthmus of PanstP4
the only means of securing all these inter
Our forefathers prided themselves in having
found a way to India without haviog
to double the Cape of Storms. The
discovery of Cape Horn appeared to them to be
an immense advance ; but it is in our power to
we
realise one a hundredfold inure important. Front
the day on which our ships may pass from the
Carribean Sea into the great Southern,Oceanf
the voyage to China, Japan, and the Oceania,
will be but a mere ordinary passage,
-sas. we' nustraighY
then be said to be able to take
one
course. Then, on this great highway for' 'all
the ships of Europe, France will have twO.'
cellent stations. The consequence
tilles will then become as great as it is itOif .111"
of
significant. They will be, as it were,
the firtWstage
of all great commercial expeditions. The' Msr"
quesas, placed at the entrance of .thi S 0
ea.t
oceanic labyrinth, which extends to
a 101 af
4,000 leagues, would become the seCond'stge,•
It is easy to conceive all the advantages,cl_,,,i",.
may be drawn from this admirable position. I'v,sl.
do not hesitate to affirm that the possession of
New Zealand, to which England attaches so tote
value, is far from being worth, in a Maritl'

'slew, the possession of the Marquesas.
Fs useless after this to complain of the
4rr-p'ne'l Government nct having thought
must this new colony a penal settlement. It
le.:t be confessed that it would be a strange man-
ill of establishing the sovereignty of France on
~e," shores, were we to send in the suite of our
lulers and our sailors the refuse of our hulks
of"lti our Prisons This would be a. singular mode
I: using our name to be beloved, and our in-
peZee to be respected, by sending among a new
the most corrupt and criminal of our own !
it is not an establishment for transported
tel3nvicts tl
4%4,, - DUPETIT THOUARS is gone to
In .this virgin land, hithert9 unbroken up
liadanY;lll'ol)ean colonists. Such a conquest is
isvC for better purposes than to serve as an
"uiri for robbers and murderers."
BOURSE _PARIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6.
First Highest Lowest Last
Pk% Price. Price. Price. Price.
P.Lve Per Cents. 119 55... 119 75... 119 55... 119 76
Far Xe per Cents 106 50... 106 AO—. 106 50... 106 5()
per Cents.• 101 30... 101 30 .. 101 30... 101 30
irrarn Cents. B9 75...
80
75•••800 80
i
ttoe 121takce,000f 105.75 50...33-10 ..334
..1057 50-1057 50...1057 50
4 5 000 f 5080 ...5082 50...5080 ..5082 50
Pe 810 ... 810 ... 810 ... 810
glaa Fives
103 i ... 103 i ... 103# ... 103#
SCtnith 1840 1041 ... 104, ... 104 k ... 104 k
Active. •
..231, ... 23} ••: 23fr ••• 23}
.... 107 ... 107 ... 107 ... 107
-•••• .....
104 i ... 104 i JO4ll
Fives
INIII RAILWAY SHARES.
„les ,LB B5 85 • 85 ...85
c4rlea"
i~d...... 5 ... 0" 0 607 5... 606 25... 607 50
urg to
Aeu BELGIAN FUN s.—BaussaLs, Dnc. 6.
ttottgal I.)ebt, 24 per
.Cent ,
ch ,l (i's Loan, Five per Cent. RV%
of Thirty Millions Four per Cent 9236
Three per Cent.
Thirty-seven Milli.ns, ditto
Imo~i I( 3%
Nic, of City, 1832, Four per Cent.-- ...... ~ 97
lt4,l?_tY of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent
78
i-Tooalf Belgociety ium, Five per Cent
s
e"onge on London (short)
--Brussels Papers, Dee 6.
AUS'T'RIANFfe FUNDS.—VIENNA, NoY. 28
1,8
ko: Per Cents. Metalliquee
iitmj Per Cent 5.......•••••• lOO%
livr, Per Cents
4„Sherell ...... . . ...
it7r .neine Zeitung, ..... t.

kir ,r-'4l, COMMITTER or THE PRIVY COUNCIL:—
t4l.4ordships this morning resumed the hearingliattOitnister's application for an extension of his
!ttee,,..a°t stays. The case of the opponents to the
,cve Was concluded, and the Court proceeded to
tei;',-Vnent, refusing to grant an extension of the
f„"' There being no other case for hearing on the
Vt(l,- 1. to-day the Lords present rose immediately
V'vingjudgment.
%Public will be rejoiced to find, that the orals-
titieti°l Sir Robert Sale's name in the, honorary dis-
ketite.s granted to the heroes of our late achieve-
to pedin India, proceeds in no degree from a desire
cote„errac, te the merits of that gallant officer. Sir
qtlliWa:le very recently received the Grand Cross
;the; -uatil for his noble defence of Jellulabad, and
44di etainent services on the north-west frontier of
,1%,;'!4.nd it 'Was therefore impossible to give him the
inction which has been conferred on General
~loZti General Nott, and Sir 'William Parker; but
,41 e, ueea notified to the Governor-General of India,
i,,,,,4llPliance with his recommendation, that it will
licned to Parliament to grant to Sir Robert and
Iltlar:ue, with the benefit of survivorship, an an-
of
b' Crlsion of 500/. as a special public recognition
Cal merit.--Times.
Chancellor of the Exchequer begs to acknow-
ot,le.
tue receipt of 101. conscience money, as an
7 Payment on account of the Income-tax.

ERICAN NEWS

tPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.
tt, LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
CaP the arrival of the ship North America,
lqijern Lowber, one of the New York liners,
hkve I sailed from that city on the 19th ult., we
teQe. received papers two days later than those
how'l'ed by the Great Western. • They do not,
11ever, possess much political interest.
tik 'e North America brought 15 passengers in
litt:, bin, and about 140 in her steerage ; the
are chiefly emigrants from this country,
1e are returning home disappointed and penny-
4a‘ Off Wateiford she met and spoke the
The
Britannia.
04 thYse Mail steamer Acadia arrived at Boston on
13 iii ult., after an excellent voyage of
'a,
great°Y excitement has occurred in New York
who we suicide of John C. Colt, the individual
for rheas tried and condemned a few months ago
poi murder of Mr. Adams. On the day ap-
Ilteses' for his execution he was married in the
rle,e of the sheriff and officers to a woman
iewri, w7°lll he had formerly cohabited ; and at a
kee-:,::11111es before the hour appointed for his
forth hoe, and when he was expected to be led
his ' ;he sheriff and attendants on entering
441 'ell, where he had been left for a short
4'41, alone, found him stretched lifeless, he
*llit't stabbed himself with a large clasp knife,
teetillhe had managed to secrete, or which had
hecliveyed to him. He declared to the last
"e had killed Mr. Adams in self-defence only.
ktTh e schooner Creole, Captain Delvaille, arrived
ta,,„,apew Orleans on the Bth instant, from Mata-
itt ten days. The army under General
had retreated beyond the Rio Grande, and
kr.t of them had arrived at Matatnoras. The
tio4lQan authorities had prohibited the circula-
TO, newspapers out of the Mexican territory.
'Creole brought 27,693 dollars in specie.
11.9fficers and crew of the Spitfire, one of
r,itisli Majesty's steamers, wrecked on the
op 11;411dia station, were brought to New York
Pne 18th, in the brig Anawan, from Belize.
tali:: of those disgraceful scenes of outrage
klat; Lynching had occurred in Barbour county,
litizmaltla, where a mob of 130 persons violently
triedja M. G. W. Lore, who had been thrice
ktiC2r a murder, of which he was suspected,
ti4:lthout further legal proceedings, he having
from gaol, seized and hung him.
Gehle Mexican troops under the command of
tl•gfier,,al WoLL, consisting of 1,200 men, had re-
qct,e' from the invasion of Texas, which incur-
lq' was attended with the loss of 600 men. No
ttiiltle,ao papers were allowed to be sent to the
The intelligence conveyed to Boston by the
had reached New York, without having
is'leet upon the markets. Cotton was in pretty
t••demand at steady prices; and flour was in
guest at former rates.
ot,-15nall amount of business was done in.bills
England at 106 to 1061, and on France the
t
e
exchange was 5 40.

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r. 4 A ---
T NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
41"1e returns for the week ending Dee. 3, 1842
:
tigers 44, ............ ... .......... £BO7 7 6
"'handise ........................... 546 12 4
-----

£3,153 19 10

tliirl'n',,onding week last year ...£1,122 10 10
`°ll. Dec. 7 W. O'BRIEN. Secretary.
•

111140t11,11131tIEs IN CLERKENWELL THIS MORNING
41Vrti,„,."4,_bitants of Aylesbury-street, Goswe.ll:stiyet,
141:1% ~„-LK, enwell-green, have recently been visited by
uttilarillsed gang of depredators, who have hitherto
very successful in eluding the vigilance of the
' A- middle-aged woman, respectably dressed,
e 1 ued this morning in robbing no less than five W.eite
,lia len of their cloaks as they were on their
Ai :' school, most of which were absolutely pawned
Ai-,Lieamediata neighbourhood as soon as stolen.
Nvith —ld half-past ten this morning, a frock-coat
„, velvet facings, was stolen from the shop of Mr.
-onks
hi I,_, N. 2, on Clerkenwell-green, and no trace has
Art 11 discovered of the thief.
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Sii-,-.MARY Orr' NEWS

AND
Vittbitc eptitton.

" Who runs may read.'

FOREEGN.
The King of the French and the Royal family
were to take up their winter residence at the Tuile-
ries on Wednesday:
Advices from Algiers to the Ist inst. have been re-
ceived in Paris, but bring no news of General I3u-
geaud's expedition, in which the Duke d'Aumale takes
a part.
It is currently stated that the disgrace of Lelievre,
the hero of Mazagran, is certain, and that he had im •
posed on the Minister of War by gross exaggerations
of the defence of the place.
The celebrated Vestris, for many years known
throughout Europe as the first dancer at the Academy
of Music, died at Paris on Monday, aged 83.
During the last month, the amount paid into the
Savings' Bank of Paris was 2,771,468 f. by 19,557
persons, of whom 2,513 were new depositors. The
amount of reimbursements was 2,216,000 f.
The new suspension-bridge which has been substi-
tuted for that called the Pont Rouge, uniting the Cite
with the Isle St. Louis, is so nearly finished that
it was submitted two days ago to the customary trial
as to strength. The experiment was satisfactory, and
the bridge will be almost immediately opened. It is
made for foot passengers only.
A discharged convict named Lauban was con-
demned to death on the 26th ult. by the Court of As-
sizes for the Meurthe, held at Nancy, for two distinct
crimes of murder androbbery.
At the Court of Assizes for the Eure, held at. Ey-
reux, on the 3d inst., a man named Dangeul was con-
demned to death for the murder, on April 19, at Pu-
teaux, near Paris, of a person named St. Omer, whom
he afterwards robbed; and also for an attempt to mur-
der and rob on May 8, at Miserey, near Evreux, a
woman named Deniot.

A rich farmer, named Clavier, residing in the com-
mune of Ruffey (Jura), and who has 200,000 f. in the
funds, was found, a few days back, murdered in his
dwelling.
A convict, named Pascal, condemned to hard la-
bour for life, lately escaped from the bagne of Brest.
The next day a custom-house officer on half-pay, in
the commune of Larnbezellac, was found pierced with
six wounds given by this desperado.
The Leipsic Gazette publishes a rumour that a
partition of Turkey is already arranged ; Austria to
take Moldavia and Wallachia, the Duke of Leuel-
lantz Constantinople with Turkey in Europe, and
Russia to have Poland to the Bug. This journalist
must be at a sad loss for rumours.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Post alludes in the following desponding terms
to the recent speeches of the Members for Somerset :
—" We have again looked through the speeches of
the Conservative Members for Somerset, upon which
we commented yesterday. The object of our search
was to find some avowal of some high principle of
duty—some patriotic sentiment—some generous
sympathy—some affectionate remark. Our search
has been in vain. We find nothing that a heartless
Whig might not have spoken. There is really no
indication in the speeches of Mr. Acland and Mr.
Dickinson, that they have any warmer feeling for
the people of the county which they represent than
a lecturer on some branch of science may be supposed
to have for bis auditory. Mr. Acland said much upon
the suhject•of " improvement" mingled with allusions
to his own merit in having " come so great a distance"
to attend the meeting at Yeovil, but nothing fervent
—nothing kind or warm-hearted towards the farm-
ing people around him—does this gentleman appear
to have uttered in any of his speeches. We implore
the aristocracy and gentry of this kingdom not to let
this be an example to them, but a warning. This
substitution of the character of the schoolmaster for
that of the kindly protector and friend is one of the
vilest vices of Whiggery. The English people will
not long endure it, nor is it to be wished that they
should."
In an article on the subject of parochial and na-
tional schools, the Chronicle observes :—" Attempts
to proselytise are a portion of the religious freedom of
this country which, in some degree, all sects enjoy,
and to which the Church has incontestibly an equal
right. But children, the children of parents of a dif-
ferent religious body, are not legitimate objects of
proselytism. Great differences of opinion exist
amongst the clergy as to the right of private judg-
ment, and a consequent freedom of choice, on matters
of religion, even in adults. About children there can be
no question. To proselytise them is disingenuous and
cruel. The endeavour is a gross abuse of the influence
bestowed by station and professional character.
In the Church schools called National, so far as

they are supported by subscriptions, and by legacies
or endowments of which the conditions are restric-
tive, there is the right of as rigid an exclusiveness as
the inspector pleases. The most formal certificate of
baptism may, if it seem good to the authorities, be
required. With parochial schools, and those sup-
ported by legacies and endowments, not restric-
tive, the case is different. To require a certificate
of baptism becomes then an act of injustice. It robs
the poor child of a right, of the most precious right
which that child inherits—the right to instruction.
It aims at enforcing a ceremony which is dese-
crated when only submitted to for the sake of
an advantage that would otherwise be unjustly
withheld. There is plenty of work for an inspector,
in securing efficient instructien for the children,
without wandering into these by paths of crookedness
and bigotry. His duty is to see that all goes,on well
in the national and parochial schools. What business
has he with " reclaiming" the children in dissenting
schools ? Nor can we deem the questions at all ju-
dicious, which relate to the training of children pro-
perly belonging to the Establishment. The public
catechising in church during divine service is no
very edifying exhibition. It tends to make the
children vain of their memories, and bold; and as a
test of intellectual comprehension or religious train-
ing, it is very worthless. Regular habits of attend-
' ance en Sundays are, no doubt, desirable ; but why
trouble the infants about fasts and festivals ?'"

The Times says, with reference to the late prose-
cutions against one of the St. James's gambling-
houses :—" If gaining is, as Lord Abinger says, a
pernicious vice, degrading in its moral effects, and
prejudicial to the honest industry of the country,'—if
Parliament has devised extraordinary remedies to put
it down—why, then, any connivance on the part of
Government at establishments for the practice of this
vice must be a flagrant breach of duty. Governments
in this country do not connive at it on principle; so
much is clear; for, under every Government, we hear
of the police using, and being directed to use, their
ample power for the purpose of entering the inferior
gaming-houses frequented by the lower orders of the
people, and seizing and breaking up the tables, imple-
ments, money, &c.,found in such houses, and taking all
persons detected in them before the Magistrates for
punishment. Why is this done except upon theprinciple
that gaming-houses ought to be suppressed ? But if
Government do this on the principle that gaming-
houses ought to be suppressed, what can be a greater
insult to the moral and common sense of the people,
than the spectacle which presents itself to every one
who walks down St. James's-street? Enter that
street from Piccadilly, and the Palace of the Queen in
your front is surpassed in magnificence by the pile
on your right hand. Do you inquire what it is ?
Every man in the metropolis, from the Queen's
Prime Minister to the policeman on duty, and from
the policeman on duty to the beggar who sweeps the
crossing, can tell 'ou that it is, and has for many
years been, the principal and most notorious ' hell
in London—the place where more noblemen and
legislators have been depraved, more ancient and
honourable families ruined, more individuals fitted
to adorn high stations plunged into irretrievable dis-
honour and misery, than in any other spot within the
four seas. Not to know this, argues yourself un-
known.' Proceed a little further, and you come to
another stately mansion, with a 'pervius usus,' not of
any linen ccecceque fores; but of a large and highly-
decorated doorway, with lamp-posts in the most am-
bitious style of cast-iron architecture. This is ' hell
the second'—the ' Junior St. James's Club House'—
the lord-trap of Mr. Bond. Here it is that Lord
Cantalupe and Marquis Conyngham, and the other
gentlemen whose follies have been exposed by Mr.
Smith, were victimised. Here, night after night, the
hazard-table is spread, and the flies of fashion swarm
into the bloodsucker's net."
The Advertiser has the following remarks on the
atrocious murders lately committed in Tipperary :
"The origin of the occurrences, again tracing the
annals of Tipperary with a finger of blood, is beyond
all doubt in the nature of the relations subsisting be-
tween landlord and tenant. The horrible murders of
Mortimer, Scully, and llaly, are manifestly the result,
not of party spirit, not of religious animosity, and
not of any interference on the part of the Conserva-
tive authorities to foment popular hostility to the ex-
ercise of the governing power; but really and di
rectly attributable to the malignant influences of an
agrarian system, which places whole bodies of pea-
santry at the mercy and the caprice of a possessor of
certain allotments of the soil—to be dealt with as
selfishness may dictate—to be racked for rent, or
ruined by ejectment, just as the wants of extrava-
gant expenditure, or petty dissatisfaction on the part
of the landlord, may suggest for actuating motives.
To be superadded likewise to this is unquestionably
the new Poor-law—a measure literally inciting to the
very evils it was instituted under the profession of
being calculated to remedy—a measure not only
eminently foreign to the temperament of the Irish
people, but an odious novelty even to the many evils
of the general system already inflicted upon them
—in fact, a measure involving a principle which
no society aiming at progressively improving appe-

tencies would ever adopt, so bad that to retain, where
'it had been in operation for even centuries, were
only as an equipoise to other parts of an order of
things of which evil were the predominant character.
In this country, for instance, we may endure a
Poor-law as a balance to the desolating ravages of a
Corn-law ; a double evil, it may be urged, but of which
the half is not to be got rid, without the whole. But
in Ireland the imposition of a poor-law was unquali-
fied ill, not only radically abominable, but inappli-
cable and injurious in all its ramifications of conse-
quence. The swarming population of poor in Ire-
land could not be thrown upon the next class for
relief, without bringing down that class to irreme-
diable pauperism. The sign, it was also the cause
of national distress; and, instead of suffering from
one grand fundamental cause—an over-competition
for land where there is not so much land as demand
for it—not so much soil as there are thousands of
human population pressing upon it for more than it
can yield of subsistence—a poor-law must be added
to the miseries of the country, which, incapable of
alleviating earlier oppressians,:,necessarily becomes an
oppression itself, the most wantonly cruel and the
most direfully calamitous. The %Vhigs take credit to
themselves for appeasing the anguish of Irish grievan-
ces through a system less coercive; and the Tories
vaunt themselves upon the merits of their ' strong
Government' in suppressing the clamour of com-
plaint ; but if either had applied themselves to correct
the radical evils of her condition, would such facts
rise in judgment against them both, as those to which
the whole south of Ireland is at this moment furnish-
ing testimony ? If in any part of the British domi-
nions, it is undoubtedly in Ireland, where the opera-
tion of enlightened principles of Government is wanted.
It is there where statesmanship should go abroad. It
is not so much education of the individuals of her sys-
tem that is required, as justice; and where not justice,
wisdom in the political contingencies which affect the
whole masses. There must be something wrong at
the central base of her system, when such scenes are
enacted upon her stage as these dreadful Tipperary
murders."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
From the report of the City of London Association,
held yesterday at the London Coffee-house, it ap-
peared that , the Committee had distributed from
December to March amongst the poor inhabitants of
the City 27,508 bushels of coals at a charge of 6d.
per 841b5., and 385,1121b5. of potatoes, at a charge
of 3d. per 141bs. The balancein hand was 3071.155. 6d.
The Bank, it appears, is re-issuing at their full
value, many of the old sovereigns. A private indi-
vidual was paid wholly in old gold coin last week,
many of the sovereigns being of George 111. ; upon
paying this sum into the saving's-bank of St. Cle-
ments, a deduction of 2s. Bd.s or 10. on each coin,
was deducted for twenty out of the number.
The Committee of the Polish Ball dined together
last Saturday, at the London Tavern, in celebration
of thessuccess of their benevolent endeavours. The
net proceeds exceed 5001.
The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the
Regent's Canal Company took place at the Dock-
house yesterday. It appeared from the report that
the balance of profit for the last half-year was stated
to be 10,2041., and the amount of the reserve fund,
6,4001.