The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-31 00:00:00

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It is with feelings of sorrow and regret that we an-
nounce another attempt to assassinate her MAJESTY.
At the same time we announce, with feelings of gra-
titude to the ALMIGHTY, that the murderous attempt
was happily a complete failure. At the Home-office,
and by all the authorities, the strictest silence is pre-
served, and nothing therefore is yet publicly known
of the name and character of the assassin. We are
only acquainted with the fact that, on her MAJtsry's
return yesterday from her ride, accompanied by Prince
ALBERT, in her pony chaise, an attempt was made to
fire a pistol at her by a young man, who was 'name-

gliately seized and conveyed in custody to- one of the
lodges of Buckingham Palace. He was afterward.,
examined by the Privy Council, and finally committed
for the night to Tothill-fields prison, to be brought
Up for re-examination to-day. In this case we fear
that premeditation and deliberate design are too appa-
rent ; for we doubly regret to say that the attempt
yesterday was the repetition of an attempt made the
day before, which, not being known to her MAJESTY,
was kept secret from the public. The would-be
assassin then remained undetected.

Her MAJESTY, we are informed, was aware of the
attempt that was made yesterday, and displayed her
usual coolness and self-possession.
The circumstance occasioned the greatest excite-
ment at the West-end. Both Houses of Parliament
were immediately adjourned, and all the Ministers
hastened to attend the examination by the Privy Council.
Crowds collected round the Home-office, and at other
places where information was expected, and the whole
population seemed to take an intense interest in her
MAJESTY'S welfare. To attack the life of a Sovereign
is an awful affair; but when that Sovereign is a young
and amiable mother, surrounded with all the enjoy-
ment as well as all the pomp of Royalty, it is at once
an attack•on what is most lovely and endearing, and
most lofty and commanding. We cannot be surprised,
therefore, that the attempt has excited intense interest
and equal horror.

We have several times had occasion to notice re-
semblances between France and England; it is de-
plorable that we find a likeness also in a disposition in
some of the people to assail the life of the Sovereign
in byth countries. Such a disposition at home and
abroad must have some similar cause, and we con-
jure our statesmen to make this a subject of delibera-
tion. When it becomes the practice to asail the life
of the Sovereign, they may be sure-that political so-
ciety is not in a sound condition.

A man, it is said, should live with his friends as if
they were one day to become his enemies. Para-
phrasing this, we would hint to the upper classes the
propriety of treating the people as if they were at
some time likely to get the upper hand. It wil! only
be acting on the admirable precept of doing to others
as you would wish to be done unto. To-day Lord
ASHLEY is to move for leave to bring in a Bill to make
regulations respecting the age and sex of persons ad-
mitted to work in mines and collieries ; and it is
apropos of that motion that we have referred to these
maxims of civil wisdom.
We do not for one moment doubt the humane and
kindly intentions of Lord ASHLEY, and of his
prompters and advisers; but between humane and
kindly intentions, and the knowledge which ought alone
to be the foundation of laws, there is an immense
difference. His generous impulses recommend him
to our affection, but they do not qualify him for a
legislator. It is given in evidence by the Commis-
sioners to inquire into mines, that the well-intended
regulations which have had the effect of keeping
children out of comparatively healthy factories, where
the work is easy, have made their mothers solicitous
to get them employed in mines. Any kind of labour,
they feel, is better for their offspring than starvation
or the poor-house. It is given in evidence before the
said Commission, that it is the poverty of the young
girls, rather than their will, which makes them con-
sent to descend and labour in the bowels of the earth.
IWe must believe our legislators when they
tell us, as they do constantly and inva-
riably, that they have made the laws not
for their own benefit exclusively, but for the
public advantage. Their motives, they assert, have
been, like those of Lord ASHLEY, of the most amiable
kind, their intentions the most benevolent ; and the
plain and palpable result is extreme poverty, great
destitution, and great degradation of the classes
they have so benevolently meant to serve. Fear-
ing that such may also be the result of
Lord ASHLEY'S well-meant, but perhaps not
enlightened intentions, we beseech him to weigh well,
not merely the supposed material or physical conse-
quences of his Bill, but all its moral consequences on
the minds of all those classes with whose industry and
occupations he is about to meddle.
As long as there is a bare possibility of the present
upper classes not being always in the ascendant, they
ought to be careful how they set the example of in-
terfering with other men's business. Suppose the
Chartists to get the upper hand, and issue a Commis-
sion of Inquiry into the occupations, amusements, and
manner of living of the nobility ? Does Lord Asx-
LEY suppose that a Commission of medical democrats
could not make up as harrowing a report of the con-
sequences of idleness and dissipation, as the Mine
Commissioners have made of the consequences of
overworking and underfeeding ? Could such a Com-
mission not state that the muscular development of
the idle and dissipated classes is imperfect—that
they are the prey of numerous disorders which
shorten life—that amongst them, owing to idleness
and high living, licentiousness of the most
revolting kind takes place, such as is quite un-
known to collier lads and collier lasses ? We
are afraid that, deeply as we mourn over the de-
gradation of collier girls, worse scenes than disgrace
the pits might perchance be unfolded were a Commis_
sion rigidly to inquire into all the practices of public
schools and universities. We are sure that such a
Commission, following a pampered youth of the rich
classes from a school to college, from college to town,
and in town to all the haunts he may visit, would
paint such a picture that all the vice, and all the dirty,
disgusting toils of the colliers would appear pleasant,
as we are sure they would be innocent, by the compa-
rison. We have no inclination to follow out this
comparison; we have hinted enough to justify our
conclusion that a Commission of medical democrats,
appointed by a Chartist Parliament, might find much
that was extremely reprehensible in the employments
and amusements of the rich.

We are happy to observe, in the several files .of Ame-
rican papers received yesterday from New Xork and

Washington, the return to a friendly tone in the discus-
sion of questions jointly affecting British and United
States' interests. In none of them do we find a word
about war, or the necessity of preparing for it. Lord
ASHBURTON appears to have entered upon the delicate ne-
gotiations with which he was entrusted with ability, good
temper, and a wish to conciliate such Members of Con-
gress as were under the delusion that England desired a
rupture with the United States. The consequence has
been a marked improvement in the public feeling to-
wards us throughout the Union. The Secretary of
State, Mr. WEBSTER, addressed a circular letter to the
Governors of Maine and Massachusetts, calling upon
them to take measures for constitutionally settling the
North-eastern Boundary question. This document appears
at length in another part of The Sun. The Governor of
Massachusetts stated that the representative body of that
State had given him full powers to adjudicate upon the
question; and the Governor of Maine convened by procla-
mation a meeting of the Legislature on the I Sth of May.
As the people of Maine are- the most difficult to be

dealt with, Mr. WEBSTER intended to be personally
present at the meeting of the State Legislature, with a
view to employ the influence of the Federal Government
in the removal of any difficulties in the way of a pacific
and speedy arrangement.
The Secretary for the Treasury, the Hon. Mr. FOR-
WABD, had made a Report to Congress of his Bill for
settling the new tariff. It is a long, and to English
readers, exceedingly uninteresting document. The
new duties will be in several instances more than twenty
per cent., and he calculates from this source to supply
the deficiency in the revenue, and pay.- off the public
debt in three years. Many branches of trade will be
completely ruined by it.; as for example that of
sugar refining, en per cent. of the present drawback
duty: upon which is to go into the Treasury. Redun-
dant importations are to be checked by the duties being
required to be paid in cash. Need we say more about
the Bill to show its utter absurdity? True, if passed as
proposed, it will greatly injure the commerce of England
and France. But it will do ten times more injury to the
Americans themselves.

Rhode Island continued in a very disturbed state.
One party was for maintaining the old constitution
and the other for universal suffrage. The President of
the United Status had interfered, but to little apparent
good purpose. It was not expected that the conse-
quences would be serious. Moderate men were for re-
storing harmony by extending the suffrage to the whole
of the male population above 21 years of age. This
would satisfy the disaffected.
The New York Commercial Advertiser of the 14th of
May, says that the merchants in that city were doing
very little business. The activity in trade which existed
for some weeks before had disappeared. For some years
mercantile transactions had not been so few during the
spring months. Merchants had large stocks on hand, of
which they sold but little during the winter, and as the
policy of the sound banks is now restrictive, they receive
little assistance from them towards emptying their ware-
houses. In the meantime the *unsettled state of the tariff
was playing the deuce with all parties. Some were doing
nothing because they dreaded to hazard purchases for
importation, and others were idle, in expectation that the
tariff would raise the price of goods already imported,
and locked up in their warehouses. The Journals, as
little conversant with the true principles of commercial
science as their readers, cry aloud for the protection of
class interests, just as the Ultra-Tories are doing in the
House of Commons. Could the American press foresee
what evils it is about to inflict upon that country, we
have sufficient confidence in the integrity of its conduc-

tors to believe that it would adopt a very different
course. The error that is now about to be made, cannot
be rectified without inflicting severe hardships upon the
fictitious interests created by it.
From Canada the news is cheering. The people were
peaceable, and gradually becoming more prosperous.
The rebellion had taught the Government to look more
to their wants,.and in this instance it really appears to
have acquired wisdom from experience.

The Session of the General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland was to close yesterday, when the last of its acts
for this year would be a vote of censure, or perhaps depo
sition, against seven of the members, for taking part with
the ministers of Strathbogie. Dr. GRANT, Dr. STIRLING,
*Dr. BRYcE, and a great number of the most pious
and excellent clergymen in the Church, sympathising
with seven of their brethren who had been cruelly
deposed by the last Assembly, visited them in their
affliction, and assisted at the celebration of the
LORD'S Supper, in the different parishes: For this
religious act of charity they were denounced
by the Commission at Edinburgh, and being summoned
to appear and answer for their conduct, they were placed
at the bur like culprits on Thursday last. The parties;
from respect to the Church, accordingly appeared, ad-
mitted the charge, and a Committee was appointed to
" deal with the said Ministers." What may be the
nature of this dtaling we cannot tell, but the proceeding
altogether was considered so unjust and arbitrary
that not one clergyman or elder on the other
side would sit on it, wisely leaving the
whole odium to the Non-Intrusionist party. But
why did they not go farther ? Four hundred
ministers at least are equally guilty, they deny the
validity of the judgment, and have declared their firm
determination to set it at defiance. Dr. CHALMERS and
his brethren should not do the business in this miserable,
timid manner ; they should have brought the main ques-
tion to an issue at once, and arraigned the whole of the
four hundred at the bar of the Assembly. This, no
doubt, would have been the reductio ad absurdum, but
they know the affair must either come to this at last, or
the authority of the Assembly will be utterly annihilated.
A great number are anxious to imitate the conduct of
Dr. GRANT and his friends. One gallant elder (Captain
DALavmPLE) said he had committed the Offence with
many others. Professor ALEXANDER denounced the
principles of the dominant party as essentially Popish.
"These principles," he said, " were subversive of the
law of CHRIST, and of the rights of the people of Scot-
land, which they would override and overbear in an un-
checked, irresponsible, and spiritual despotism." This pithy
sentence was loudly cheered. Another member charged
Dr. CHALMERS and his colleagues with " preaching 74edi-
tion, and stirring up rebellion." The Church of Scotland is
reduced to a melancholy condition. She is indeed a
house divided against itself, and unless the hearts of
those who direct her councils be speedily turned to
wisdom, nothing but the most disastrous consequences

If such a Parliament were to imitate Lord ASHLEY and —r
l can be anticipated. Lord M ll. CHALMERS
ONCRIEFF
' must now lament the day when they threw that firebrand,
and propose, on the Report of such a Commission, a 1 - 1
the Veto Bill, among a peaceful, religious, and moral
series of laws to improve the moral and physical con- :
i animosity, destroying the usefulness .of the
dition of the opulent and idle, we are inclined to sup-
t community. From 1834 to the present time there has
A been but one continued series of battles, increasing every
in
pose the lives of the latter would become unbearable.
year
Prom the best intentions and the most kiiidly motives . '
Church, alienating from one another the best friends
a Chartist Parliament, imitating- Lord ASHLEY and'
i and rendering the most excellent ecclesiastical establiSl:
his friends, might conclude that a very considerable
ment in Christendom a bye word among the nations
portion of daily muscular exertion would be extremely i 'rise result has only been what we anticipated. This
beneficial to the opulent of both sexes, and might im- i Journal has ever taken the same view of the question.
pose tasks on them not half so hard as the colliers, Four of our London Contemporaries at first supported
both lads and lasses, voluntarily undertake, but 1 the Vetoists,. and contended that their claims were just,
which would be a torment to those accustomed to the 1 an d that the Legislature would do well to pass an Act
indulgences of opulence. Let Lord ASHLEY then, and i age:4st Non-Intrusion. The madness of CHALMERS,
his followers and friends, be careful not to make his CANIOLISH, and CUNINGUAME soon convinced them of
their 6.,r0r. ' Three of them are now silent as the grave
own ideas the guide and rule of other men, lest it be
on the subject ; and a fourth, the Times, is decidedly
hereafter measured out to him and them as he now
metes to others.
opposed to them. The principle of election and an
•
We see no reason why any class or description of , establishment are declared incompatible. CHALMERS is
justly accused of seeking only the aggrandisement of the
men, whether Lords or labourers, whether Bishops or jclergy, and mocking the people with a shadow. This
Chartists, should set themselves up as model men for has been Jam doctrine all along, and as our Contemporary
sianeiftohrem
all the rest of mankind. We know not why their par- so cordially concurs with us in this view, we quote with
ticular mode of living, their pursuits, their ideas, pleasure the hallowing extracts:----
should be esteemed exclusively right and proper, and As friends of n'te Church of Scotland, with no di,position to
themselves we know not why other men should be required toofil Church
theu
ract rac
government,t, ort o thatwe
deeply lamentoft that the
country, underrate thehe ad v. . :nbtyaigeer
general Assembly have precipitated mat-
asconform to them. In his sphere a collier is as useful rt
,vi,eLempt
apparently
both a Bishop, and a collier lass as valuable a member tens in that country to a rISS
i'istta"btlii'
ttwlah fieehel
that I
hct
ehh the
House
oeelux s e
we may safely assume ren-
.of society as a nobleman's daughter. The colliers (tAelstlitiee preservation oftthw%_en
all mankind,
b9th men and women, therefore, ought to be treated
the same as other people by the law. The personal the din,culties in
talsaoarndiensatary
which the Church
seanrtemaoltmveen to,
independence of each individual ought to be held sa- blittanntce
of Lords
whichhen itashabseecnon-tinouwed s),Aematically and boast.
fa Scotland is placed—while
cred. . Colliers and peers should be equally at liberty ingly to act on and enforce thehvetnoa
to go and come, to labour or not to labour, to play or tiitioplidtto be a violation of the_ statutet leaowntoefndthaeollealnyd—agwabinial
not to play, so
.far as the law speaks, just as the eirn tor tuhs
iein hianvteo hpeaer? f
shiers° oefs'linmgprooper presentees without
they like. It is the perpetual meddling of the Legis- adequate checks, and had been inducing their friends
!attire with the poorer and humbler classes which which was
in support of the Duke of Argyll's Bill,
was based on the maintenance of patronage
destroys their sense of independence, substitutes regula- as a matter of principle, the General Assembly in
tions for discretion, and makes them the mechanical I ono of these tumultuous debates, in which
t(as in the French
Constituent:
and almost degraded, beings we find them. To begin ;clamour,
ourat one
sitting Assembly) _ the moss
have voted, on then tmeortsioanroef t carriedthe Rev.-
in a right direction, we should knock off some of fib.. Cuninghame (without modification), that patronage is a
their fetters ; remove some of the impediments to the
.51;i,e,
jai; !Ise, e. „ have
in
which det: l airedcttantrittbisi,; "i
of! ed7lt.ieadin
acraidustehaotfitth
ee
odg-t
free and healthy action of their own naturil powers, to be aboli.hed andt they have resolved to petition Parliament
not impose new restrictions and place more impedi- for that object.
This
is reall ' too bad. It is time now to say very plainly
ments in the way of their cultivating their faculties. that the course 3
.
whi ch that :sta . I.bre} i
r • ment has been following,
Let Lord ASHLEY and his fellows undo their own requires serious attention. For three years since the solemn
eotes to tax the butter and cheese and bread of these •
judgment which the House of lords pronounced on their owr
appeal, they have, in defiance of law, and in a tone and with
people, and so cease to impose on them a neces- a degree of insolence calculated to awakent tdhe authorityh of law
sity to labour twelve hours to obtain subsistence, amongia.untdioonrclzihh
hall rank,sitofLtohme!lopelea,rea
(el to be illegal on t
at
veatomriebsoe:
when, but for these taxes, six hours might suffice. If ~cond their powerse .
rte
es
is the cououet of an established church.
the Legislature will only allow the people to have %Ye say, Mr. Cuniiighame, Mr- Ctnd"
shf, tshseood"lfficuorlttiews
in two
plenty of food as the reward of little work, we will other ardent spirits, are the sole cause .
They are principle Independents, tho„u -gh hey retain the
answer for it that there will be no more need for re- emomuments and exercise the power of an establishment, and
gulations in England to prevent children and females they ought to leave the Church, the laws and conditions of
f which they will not comply with •
.-om working themselves to death in coal-pits, than Havin-
g told these ardent spirits what they should do
there is at present to prevent the negroes in Trinidad with themselves, the writer thus lectures poor Mr.
and Demerara from doing too much sugar hoeing fur A.MP.., o
~.ELL and Dr. CHALMERS ;
'he planters.
Here is a. declaratien which sets at defiance and laughs to
scorn poOr Mr. Caitnpbell and the Duke of Argyll's Bill, and all
' other remedies. Election by the people of
,all their ministers
alone will satisfy them. "By the people, ' did we say ? We

made a mistake; for Dr. Chalmers, who, v. i,h that " elas-
ticity of conscience" which he has said he possesses on these
questions, is found speaking in support of this resolution ; he
having propounded the veto, as he declared, in support and for
the preservation of patronage, takes great pains to explain that
" household or resident election," or anything, in short, like
real popular election, he abhors and repudiates.
Two questions we would wish to ask these ministers of Scot-
land. If patronage is a sinful mode of obtaining a living, why
do not they resign, and see if the people will build them
churches? What would be the fate of Mr. Cuninghame, with
his miserably small let sittings?—and, again, if the people are
to choose their own minister, why not the whole people of a
parish? and why are they to be restrained in their choice to a
minister of the Establishment, or of any sect, if they find one of
another whom they like better, who can edify them more, and
is in all respects more acceptable ? How can an establishment
be defended, if the principle of election be conceded ?

The Council of the Birmingham. " National Complete
Suffrage Union" have just issued a document which con-
tains some pertinent comments on Mr. SHAR3IAN CRAW-
FORD'S proposed amendment on the third reltding of the
hateful and inquisitorial Income-tax Bill. In this
document the Council boldly state that " the House
of Commons is corrupted, and that, not longer the
organ of popular feeling, it has become the instru-
ment of a class ;" and add, that they " protest
against the infliction of any new tax ,until such
a radical change has taken place in the representative
system, as may effect the destruction of that course of
class-legislation, the continuance of which they firmly
believe would be fatal to our very existence as a free and
independent nation." In this protest we feel strongly
disposed to coincide, for it is in strict accordance with
that principle of the Constitution which provides that no
man shall be taxed without his own consent, or that of
his representatives in Parliament. And have the people
their own representatives in Parliament ? To a certain
extent they possibly may have, but not to an extent capa-
ble of producing substantial good ; for the popu-
lar voice is heard there only in faint, timid whispers,
being drowned by the loud, clamorous uproar
of the selfish advocates of class-legislation. , As at pre-
sent constituted, the House of Commons—notwithstand-
ing the Reform Bill—has unquestionably few or no
sympathies in common with the great bulk of the com-
munity. It expresses the Opinions of parties; not of the
people. It giVes utterance to the purblind prejudices
of the Few, not the calm, settled convictions of the Many.
Had the case been otherwise—were the House really
and truly the advocate of national, instead of class, inte-
rests, never would such a flagrantly unjust measure
as the Income-tax Bill have been allowed to reach
even a second reading. The suceess of this de-
testable impost has been - achieved solely by
means of the veriest trickery—by a dexterous playing
off of one party against another, and hoaxing both alike'
Throughout the discussion the popular interests have
been wholly lost sight of and the question treated as if
Whig and Tory were the only parties concerned in it.
But all things—even an Income-tax--" work together
for good," and the present notoriously corrupt state of
the House of Commons is the best possible guarantee
for its reform at no distant period. We cannot long go
on as we are now doing. The popular voice must make
itself heard in Parliament; and sound, enlarged legislation
must supply the place of miserable party juggling.
What between the equivocal, time-serving reforms of
the Whigs, and the selfish, thick-skulled obstinacy of
the Tories, the country has been brought to a condition
from which nothing can extricate it, but a voluntary
abandonment, on the part of the monopolists, of their
iniquitous system of class-legislation ; or, failing that,
such a desperate convulsion as shall shake the who!e
social and political fabric to its foundations, and shatter
to atoms the two wretched factions that have so long
made the people the mere blind instruments of their am-
bition and cupidity.

The PITT Club Anniversary was celebrated on Satur-
day at the Linden Tavern—and such a miserable show
of Members ! Not a man of the slightest political emi-
nence was present ; there were no PEELS, no WELLING-
TONS—not even a GOULBURN or a KNATCHBULL ; no-
thing but a couple of KENYONS, a couple of DUNCOMBES,
three small Baronets, one Militia Colonel, and about
two dozen or so of the tiniest possible Members of
Parliament. Such being the attendance, it may be guessed
what were the speeches ! The Chairman—one of the two
KENYONS aforesaid—twaddled pathetically about the
" days of good old King GEORGE ;" and then, having
duly wiped his eyes, proceeded to institute a parallel be-
tween PITT and- PEEL. They certainly resemble each
other,inthis respect—namely, that each has four letters
in his name, and that each name begins with a P ; but
we are not aware of any other points of resem-
blance between them. As for his " moral su-
periority," on which the Chairman compli-
mented Sir ROBERT PEEL, what a face the man
must have had to have made such a remark ! " Moral
superiority" indeed ! The allusion must certainly have
been hazarded in joke; and as a joke we accept and laugh
at it, though at the same time we are by no means im-
pressed with an exalted sense of its brilliancy. But
what better could haVe been expected from the Chairman
of a PITT Club, and that Chairman a KENYON ?

We have received the Madrid Journals of the 21st inst.
In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 20th, a proposition
was made for taking into consideration a Bill submitted
to the Chamber by several of the Deputies, and
the object of which is to permit the admission
into Spain of foreign cotton manufactures, which
are now either nominally or virtually prohibited.
M. GUIBUT, a warm opponent of the prohibitive
system, reproached the Ministry with its delay in pre-
senting the long-promised Government Bill on the sub-
ject ; and, although the Minister of the Finances
declared that in a very few days a Bill should be
presented, and requested M. G rIBUT to withdraw his own
motion, that Deputy persisted in going to the vote, and
it was decided by a majority of 74 to 36, that the
Bill proposed by M. GUIBUT should be taken into con-
sideration. M. MATA then asked the Minister of Finances
whether, not' ithstanding this vote, the Government
would bring in its own Bill this session, and was an-
swered in the affirmative, the drawing up of the Bill being
nearly completed. In the sitting of the Deputies on the
21st, M. TORRENT° called the attention of the Chamber
to the circumstances under which Mr. TURNBULL, the
la:e British Consul at the Havannah, has continued to
reside there. He had, said M. TORRENT°, been de-
prived of his functions as Consul, on the remonstran-
ces of the Spanish Government, but was kept up
at the Havannah as protector of slaves, in which
capacity he sought to excite the negroes to revolt
against their owners. The Honourable Deputy
indulged very freely in remarks against the English
Government, which, he said, was anxious for the
rebellion of the slaves, in order that the trade of the
Havannah might be ruined, and that it might have the
monopoly of the supply of its own sugars in fbreign
markets. He concluded by calling upon the Spanish .
Government to demand from England the recal of
Mr. TURNBULL. The President of the Council of
Ministers, in reply, stated that he had already made
the demand, and that if Mr. TURNBULL were not re-
moved by his own Government, * the authorities at
Havannah would expel him from the island by main
force, as the Spanish Ministry would never recog-
nise him in the office which had been conferred upon
him. The Bill authorising the Government to issue trea-
sury bondi, to the amount of 160,000,000 of reels, was
adopted by the Senate on the 21st inst., by a majority
of 78 to 2. There is no other news of interest in these
journals.—A Madrid letter of the 21st alludes to a re-
port of the failure of the eminent house of SAPONT and
Co., which has been talked of at the Paris Bourse, on
the authority of mercantile letters from Madrid, and de-
clares that it is utterly without foundation.

The debates in the French Chamber of Deputies on
Friday and Saturday were rather interesting. A dis-
cussion arose respecting the conduct of the Government
in keeping General NEGATE'S. in Africa, after it was
generally known that he always walked about attended by
the public executioner, and that he put men to death with.
out trial, after the old Turkish fashion of the
Pachas. Marshal SOULT excused himself by reading
despatches, showing that NEGRIER had acquired great
influence among the Arab tribes, and by contending that
the reports were exaggerated, as the persons executed were
murderers. This was poor work for a French Minister.
The system of fortifying Paris was next complained
of, and an attempt made to extort a promise from
Ministers that no cannon would be planted upon
them save in case of invasion. What exqui-
site simplicity ! What wore the walls raised for,
but to mount guns to play upon the turbulent citizens?
The Parisians are the only enemies dreaded by Louts,
PHILIPPE. The Ministers declined to say a word in
answer to anything said upon the subject, and doubtless
laughed in their sleeves to see the extent to which they
had duped some of the leaders of the Opposition, as well
as the whole Republican press.

The Thulonnais gives the following as an instance of the dar-
ing courage of the Arabs
In the recent return from Alilianah, the tents were pitched
and the soldiers were beginning to enjoy repose, when three
mounted Arabs dashed into the camp, caught up three men,
and made off with them before a single shot could be fired. On
hearing the cry raised in consequence, the Colonel of the Ist
Cbasseurs galloped in pursuit of them, followed by a captain
and one of the privates. These three came up with the Arabi,
and would have cut them down, had they not dropped imme-
diately in their way the three men which they had taken.
Two of these were alive, but the third was dead, having re-
ceived two balls in his body."
The Gassendi steamer, Capt. Gerard, with a crew of 119
men, coming from Rochefort and Cadiz, has cast anchor in our
road. This great steamer is to remain in the Alediterannean."
Commerce.
BOURSE—PAPIS, SATURDAY, MAY 28.

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TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1842.