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that the lad had put on these garments for the
purpose of exciting compassion. In vain the
youth supplicated that a policeman might visit
his abode to see how lie lived; the Magistrate,
fully convinced of his own integrity and his own
immaculate love of justice, was again inexorable,
and the boy was sent for twenty-one days to the
House of Correction, to become most likely a
member of the copartnery of thieves.
We trace, in Mr. GREENWOOD'S decision, the
influence of a class of official publications, the
effects of which seem at present to be somewhat
mischievous. Commissioners have been em-
ployed to inquire very minutely into the habits
of vagrants; and though they have not, as far as
we know, discovered any means whatever by
which vagrancy can be prevented, they have
dressed up so many stories of the pranks of
vagrants, many of them resting on no better I
foundation than the boasting of the vagrants
themselves, whose word in other matters would
be considered wholly worthless, that the hearts
of the community have been hardened against
every vagrant. He is always considered an im-
pudent impostor. A vagrant is treated by the
Legislature, the Magistrates, and the public
generally, as a being without any rights, who
mhy be taken up at the pleasure of a policeman,
and incarcerated at the pleasure of a Magistrate.
In the olden times when a vagrant was a pil-
ferer, both by force and fraud, and in other

I make good his innocence, or leave the country in
disgrace. If the fact is established beyond the
controversy of even the Ministerial journals,
LOUIS PHILIPPE will probably disown the acts
of his representative, dismiss hint for a time from
office, and endeavour by all possible means to
hush up this revolt, like the other in which the
ex-QUEEN-REGENT'S party so signally failed.
He may, however, have other designs in view,
for we believe he would have recourse to any ex-
tremity rather than lose the opportunity of mar-
rying one of his sons, or at least one of the Boun-
DON line to the young QUEEN. The Consul,
therefore, may provoke a collision between him-
self and ESPARTERO'S Government, and under
pretence of avenging some imaginary insult,
Louts PHILIPPE may make war on Spain.
In such a case with which party would Europe
sympathise ? With the SOVEREIGN who che-
rishes at his Court a worthless woman, guilty of
two rebellions against a neighbouring State with
which he is at peace, or with a REGENT chosen
by the nation, who put down civil war, and has
since been actively engaged in healing the
divisions which so long afflicted that unhappy
country ? It is needless to answer the ques-
tion. The most despotic Monarch in Europe
would not abet such a deed, and it would be de-
nounced with ;general execration. ESPARTERO
on the former occasion acted with great prudence,
and gave the French Government no pretence
for any act of aggression. We trust he will pre-
serve that character to the last, and if affairs
come to extremities, throw the responsibility on
the proper head. The Spanish nation appears
unanimous on the question, and any course of
policy like that anticipated would rouse them to
madness. At present not one district or town in
Spain sympathises with the conspirators. The
Madrid Gazette of the Bth publishes dispatches
from the political chiefs of Toledo, Jaen, Pam-
peluna, Ciudad Real, Seville, Huelva, Guadala-
jara, Soria, St. Seba.stian, Burgos, Logrono, Le_
rida, Huesca, Almeria, Temel, Bilbao, Malaga,
and Saragossa, announcing that the utmost trap.
quillity prevailed in the districts under their care

times when the community was generally pros-
perous, comparatively little evil resulted from

- . ._...
he over-much righteousness and bard-hearted-

ness of the Legislature, the Magistrates, and the
public. But now when distress has reduced a
great multitude of respectable working men and
artisans to vagrancy, as was proved at the Anti-
Corn-law meeting at Lincoln—these general
dispositions cause, as in these two cases, a great
deal of mischief. Unmerited punishment is in-
flicted on persons more deserving of compassion
than anger. We make laws to deprive men of
food, and then we punish them with imprison-
ment fur not having wherewithal to eat, and
being hungry. We will not allow theth to
labour honestly, and then, under a notion be- 1

The capital, too, is quite tranquil, and awaits
with patience the development of this extraor-
dinary outbreak. There is no later intelligence
from Barcelona, but th,3 Minister at War pub-
lishes the annexed dispatch from General VAN
HALEN

gotten by elaborate Reports, we imprison every
seeker after food and work as a vagrant. In
this matter neither the public, the Magistrates,
nor the Legislature is free from blame, and
neither are those Commissioners who have
dressed up, perhaps for the sake of making an
impression, the Reports on vagrancy.
From such scenes as those at Clerkenwell,
from the remarks of the Magistrates, from the
terrible tales we read every day of people dying
for want of assistance, from the many cruel
crimes we read of in the papers, and from the vast
number of punishments inflicted by the Magis-
trates for actions equally as harmless or meri-

In consequence of the events which I have already
described, from eight in the morning of to-day (the
4th), the generality of the population, to stop the ef-
fects of the cannonade, decided on disarming the
'groups which the revolutionary Junta had armed.
A little after, Commandant Garcia, who headed those
of Barcelona, faithful to the Government, announced
that we could enter the citadel, as white flags were
displayed from the Atarazanas and other points. I
gave orders to the regiment of Zamora, to the Foot
Artillery and Sappers, to occupy these forts. I or-
dered General Zurbano at the same time to enter the
citadel if there were no great obstacles. The Com-
mittee of Proprietors then coming to assure me that
the population were prepared to receive the troops
pacifically, I marched from Sarria to occupy the place,
which was accomplished at three in the afternoon.
At half-past five the ordonnance and address enclosed
were issued. The Commandant of Barcelona gave up
200 of the most turbulent who were arrested, and who
will suffer condign punishment. The Treasurer of the
Provincial Department tells me, that besides 47,000
crowns taken by the revolutionary Junta, 37,000
more were stolen by the last Junta, &c.

FINE WEATHER.

torious as the two punished by Mr. GREENWOOD,
we begin to think that our countrymen and
women are becoming a very hard-hearted, cruel
set of people. Want and hunger, and the fear
of hunger, seem to press on all classes, and
threaten to convert them into ferocious savages.
We trespass on one another; and were we to
decline as fast in the next six years as we have
in the last six, the morals and condition of the
Chinese would be exemplary in comparison to
the morals and condition of the English.
The Morning Chronicle very properly styles
the sending of these two youths to prison as
" manufacturing criminals." Unfortunately for
society, nearly all the Magistrates throughout the
country are employed, like Mr. GREENWOOD,
in " manufacturing criminals." They manu-
facture some twenty or thirty thousand
a year, and are much honoured for their labour.
Our Contemporary suggests that there should
be a supervisor of the Magistrates; but who is to
be supervisor of the supervisor? Who shall

Butterflies in flaunting pride,
Showing off at Christmas-tide!
Sun with June's effulgence glowing,
Winds with August's mildness blowing!
Birds exulting, as in season,
Thinking, doubtless, and with reason,
That December's iron sway
Ihs yielded to the smiles of May !
Never yet was seen a change
So unparalleled 'and strange I
Baffling to their great surprise,
Moore's and Murphy's prophecies,
And proving that the year is thrown
Topsy-turvy, upside down !
Ten to one ! who takes the bet !
In a week or's° we get.
Summer's daintiest fruit-pies,
Peas, and beans, and strawberries,
Parsnips, born of April's shower,
Lamb, mint-sauce, and cauliflower !

The intelligence from Lisbon is to the 12th
instant, and will be found under that head. If
the statements respecting the duties charged on
English manufactures and produce be correct,
and Portugal refuses to make material re-
ductions, England certainly has no great reason
for altering the wine duties. It would appear that
most articles are charged 50 per cent. ad valorem
duty, and some so high as 130 per cent. Even the
Dutch are more favoured than the English. This
is a strange return for good services so often ren-
dered to a country that, but fbr foreign aid,
would long ago have been swallowed up by her
more powerful neighbour.

After such rare change, I trow,
Nothing need surprise us now;
We may soon expect to trace
Smiles on Whiggery's sullen face ;
Tories shouting out with glee,
" Down with Corn-Monopoly !"
Dan O'Connell and Dick Sheil
"Voting side-by-side with Peel ;
High Church Bishops in a row
Kissing Antichrist's great toe ;
Hume, inspired by novel hopes,
Sporting choice, poetic tropes;
Sibthorpe, gone his past alarms,
Clasping Russell in his arms;
Feargus and his Chartist clan
Turning Peelites to a man;
Borthwick speaking, two months hence,
Almost like a man of sense;
And (queerest change of all) John Bull
Grown so incorrigibly dull
As actually—A, thought distressing !
To deem the Income-tax a blessing !

guarantee the public that the Secretary of State
will not neglect his duty or prostitute his func-

tions as well as a Justice ? Has the Minister of
Justice in France or Prussia escaped without
reproach ? We believe not ; and, considering
the hard-heartedness from which the evil flows,
we hold our Contemporary's suggestion to be no
adequate cure for it. We have said before, and
we say again, our whole system of criminal juris-
prudence requires to be investigated by philo-
sophers. Its principles must be examined and
proved, instead of ever building and building on an
insecure or rotten foundation. To inflict pe-
nalties, seems for the public, which has over-
whelming power, the easiest thing in life ; to
draw good out of the infliction, one of the hardest
tasks judging from the want of snecest--that
men every undertook.

It gives us infinite pleasure to see that the
Income-tax is working just as we anticipated it
would work—just as such a tax ought to work
that is to say, in so offensive, vexatious, and
tyrannical a manner, as to inspire us with san-
guine hopes that Sir ROBERT PEEL must, at no
distant period, consent to its total repeal. At a
numerous and highly respectable meeting of
the merchants, tradesmen, and inhabitants
generally, of the Ward of Tower, which
was held yesterday, the greatest possible dissa-
tisfaction was expressed at the surcharges in the
returns of this detestable impost ; and a gentle-
man named MAITLAND observed that "having
been surcharged in all his returns, he could not
refrain from coming forward and asking the
meeting to go along with him in denouncing the
whole system of surcharging which had been
practised. He considered the time and trouble
expended in seeking relief by appeal more
intolerable than the pecuniary loss itself."
Meetings of a similar character to this, and at
which similar language is held, arc, we per-
ceive, getting up, not only in the metropolis, but
also in many of the more influential provincial
towns; and at all these meetings, the bitterest
complaints are uniformly made, of the preposte-
rous and impudent nature of the surcharges. Is not
the Income-tax sufficient of itself to supply the
wants of Government, but its amount must be
increased by every artifice to which ingenuity,
unembarrassed by principle, can have recourse ?
This invariable system of surcharging is not the
result of mere accident. It is scarcely possible
that there can be a mistake in the case, A hint,
we suspect, has been thrown out from head-
quarters. Money is wanted—friends and sup-
porters are clamorous— so money must be
raised, and the machinery of the Income-tax
furnishes—or, as it hoped, will furnish—the
necessary amount. The last election must have
cost an immense sum; and who shall assure us
that the scandalous system of extortion now so
generally attempted, under the plea of collecting
the Income-tax, has not its origin in the
anxiety of
G
its unscrupuloZeralgtmenetniit
atot ms of
to Toryism, was a matter of life or death ?

_____--,---
,
• The mystery in which the origin of the insur-
rection at Barcelona was at first involved is now
gradually disappearing. ' The suspicious and med-
dling part taken in the affair by the French Con-
sul, the lying telegraphic dispatches transmitted
to Paris, and the lamentations of the Govern-
ment journals on the failure of the conspiracy,
showed that others besides the Christinos
and Republicans were mixed up in this atrocious
scheme. The Madrid Gazette of the Bth leaves
no doubt on the subject. It positively states
' that it was got up in Paris, and implicates in
the plot the French Consul at Barcelona. The
Barcelona Constitucional confirms the statement,
and openly accuses a "certain Consul" with hav-
ing been instrumPrital in creating the revolt.
" The time is not yet come," says that journal on
the Bth i!lstant, "for expressing an opinion on
recent events. At a later period we will expose
the foreign hand which, under a semblance of
philanthropy, spreads gold to corrupt the vile,
to bribe traitors, and to direct the arms of mis-
guided men against their country. Neither will
we hesitate to criticise certain acts of the Go-
, 3:ertnnent, which are of a nature to produce a
very different effect from that which was expscted
from them. At prevent it is only permitted to
us to mingle our tears with the blood of the vic-
tims, and to ' implore the Government not
to give way to an unworthy feeling of ven-
geance, and not to shed a drop of innocent
blood." The affair, therefore, canuot rest as
it is. A remonstrance will be made by the
Spanish Government, and the Consul must either I

TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1842

dare it. Propagandism ? This is practised, though
not avowedly. If all intervention, whether friendly
or hostile, be declined ; if the conspiracies which are
plotted and the insurrections which are excited are
blushed at, we have the right to come to this conclu-
sion :—Either take off the mask and affirm boldly,
that you desire to plunge Spain into complete
anarchy, in order that she may afterwards throw her-
self into the arms of your friends ;
.or declare, with
us, that ill-humour is not becoming a Government
like France with respect to Spain. Let not the mean-
ing of our words be exaggerated. We know that the
occasion of the bombardment of Barcelona would be
badly chosen to recommend our Government to adopt
some new and benevolent measure towards Spain ;
but we regard as fatal the policy of those who, for the
last two years, have not ceased declaiming against the
Spanish Government, who eagerly catch a false intel-
ligence, in order to separate as widely as possible
France from Spain, and who seek to identify our
cause with that of all the enemies of the Regent and
the Constitution. The bombardment of Barcelona,
therefore, afflicts us much more than those who make
so much noise about it. We condemn it in the name
of humanity, and we see, besides, that it is used as an 1
argument to induce, if possible, France to come to a
complete rupture with Spain.
BOURSZ—Pinis. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15.
First Highest L.owest Last
Price. Price Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 119 60... 191 60... 119 45... 119 45
Four per Cents. 101 50... 101 50... 191 50... 101 SO
Threes, ex div. 79 20... 79 20... 79 05.. 79 05
Bank of France 3345 ...3345 ...3342 50...3342 50
Laffitte Bank 1,000f...1053 75 ..1055 ...1053 75...1055
5,000f...5080 ...5080 ...5080 ..5080
Belgian Bank
Belgian Fives
1840 1044 ... 1044 ... 1044 ... 1044
Spanish Active. .
Portuguese Fives 32* ... 32i ... 32 ... 32
Neapolitan
Roman .. 104* ... 104 i ... 1044 ... 104}
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain 852 50... 855 ... 852 50... 855
Versailles, LB 125 ... 135 ... 125 ... '32 50
R. B 270 ... 272 50... 270 ... 272 50
Rouen
Orleans.
Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 205 ... 202 50— 205

The tribute to Sir John and Lady Pirie for
promoting, (luring the late Mayoralty, the public
welfare, the charities, and the benevolentinstitu
lions of the City, w•e are glad to Fee has not been
proposed from any party or political feelings, but
solely from the esteem and gratitude entertained
by the public in general for their services. Mr.
Grote, the late Whig Member fbr the City, and
Mr. Masterman, the present Tory Member, are
two of the joint treasurer.,, and the subscribers
belong to all parties. This is creditable to all,
and renders the gift doubly valuable.

THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT

" As an illustration of the remarkable mildness of
the weather during the past week, it may be men-
tioned that on Tuesday last several butterflies were
observed sporting in the sunshine,"--Herald of this
Morning.

donnanee has just been issued relative to the
The Paris papers contain no news. An or-
importation of books into France. In place of
booksellers' packages being sent to the Prefec-
ture nearest t
helplace of_landing, to be verified,
they are for the
future to be examined by agents
specially
appteinted at
the sea-ports through
which such articles are allowed to pass. All
pirated editions are to be seized, and, when a
doubt exists, the matter is to he referred to the
Minister of the Interior, from whose department
an answer is to be
given within forty days,
French works, the property of persons in foreign
countries, or being a foreign edition of works
which have become public property, may be im-
ported, provided that proofs of their origin be sae
tisfactorily given. The re-importation of French
works is to be permitted only on a special appli-
cation of the publisher to the Minister of the Inte-
rior. These conditions are applicable to lithogra-
phic prints and engravings. Books taxed at less
than 150 francs for 100 kilogrammes are to be
packed separately according to - the several
works, so that the different parcels in one large
.package may be clearly perceived. Should they
be mixed indiscritninatelY, the highest duty is
to be levied on the whole. Books intended for
transit are to be similarly arranged. All books
sent to France must be either half-bound or
stitched. The following places are given as those
through which books may be admitted into
France; those marked with an asterisk are open
to the admission of French books :—Dunkirk,
*Lille, *Valenciennes, Forbach, Sierck, Wissen-
bourg, *Strasbourg, St. Louis, Verrieres de Joux,
*Les Rousscs, Belleg•arde, *Pout de Beauvoisin,
Chapareillan, *Marseilles, Perpignan, Behobia,
*Bayonne, Bordeaux, Nantes, *Le Havre, Rouen,
Boulogne, Calais, Ajaccio, *Bastia.
AccOrding to the National the following is
the amount of foreign merchandise dispatched His Imperial Highness the Archduke of Austria
through France in transits during the year 1841,
has, during his sojourn in this country, received the
most marked and distinguished attention from noble
and the countries to which it belonged. The individuals, as also public bodies; and, on the occa-
total was 203,000,000 f,, of which 70,000,000 f. sion of his last visit to 'Windsor Castle, to take leave,
wercforwarded by Switzerland'; by Great Britain, was honoured by his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
who accompanied his Imperial Highness from thence
•
30,900,000 f.; the German Union, 29,000, 0001. ,
Sardinia, 22,000,000 f. ; and the United States, to Mivart's Hotel, where the illustrious party were
16,000,000. also attended by Lord Liverpsol, the Marquis of
A letter dated Toulon, the 9th inst., published Exeter, Sir E. howater, fetiCHlNA.—The Hon. East India Company's war-
in the National, states that the ships ordered to steamer Nemesis, Lieutenant W. 11. Hall, R.N.,
be laid up in ordinary have still on board three- Commander, has been ordered to Formosa, to effect
fourths of their crews, and all their artillery. the release of Captain Gully and the crew of the Ann
,
The Paris journals still continue to debate and about 200 of the troops embarked in the
with acrimony on the result of the Barcelona transport Nerbudda, which, as well as the Ann, was
some time since wrecked on that island, a calamity
insurrection. It is some relief to find even one
eo..
e t Hwed by the captivity or till on board.
of them taking a rational view of the affair, and
.-.
uica POST TO CHlNA.—Extract from a letter,
artkle fc©m we therefore copy with pleasure the following qdated Macao, September 18, 1542 :—" I owe you an
the Constitulionnel : ackfioseledgment cf your very kind and friendly
We have for these two years past declared our- letter, of the 28th of May, which reached me among
selves partisans of a policy of ll good understanding the earliest of that month's overland—viz., on the 4th
and conciliation between the French Government and of August, Which was only 60 days after their dis-
the existing Government of Spain. This is an addi- patch from London—the quickest post on record to
tional motive for us to deplore and censure the violence this part of the world, considering the whole was
of which Barcelona has been the object, the bombard- brought from Bombay to this in a sailing vessel."
meat of that manufacturing city, and the cruelties Yesterday the Chambre des Requetes was occupied
which are said to have been committed after its sue- with an appeal from the judgment of the Cour Royale
render. We are of opinion, however, that the latter of Rouen, in the action brought against the owners
have probably been exaggerated in the accounts that of the English steamer the Britannia, plying be-
have appeared, A
an, we think also that Europe would tvveen Loudon and Havre, for having run down
do well to wait for the judgment of Spain herself on the French steamer the Phenix. Heavy damages
these events. In the meantime we cannot, even on the had been awarded against the English Company,
occasion of this sad event, make use
of the same language as the accident was dedlared by the tribunal to
as those journals which for two years have declared have occurred through the negligence of their ser-
a Personal war against Espartero, or which ha 4 stnnt Vanta, and against this decision the present appeal
othermotiveofpoliticalsympathYw With th„ernbel§. Spain was lodged, on the ground that Art. 14 of the Civil
has for eight years presentee us with a sad spectacle, and Code which allows a French subject to cite before
all parties fusee to reproach themselves with having the French tribunals a foreigner for money due, did
shed blood with barbarity. We will excuse in none not apply to offences attended with injury to property.
of them the fury and vengeance and cruelty which arts The Chambre des Requetes, after hearing the argu-
distinguishing traits in the Spanish character, go tilents of the Counsel of the Company, confirmed in
heroic in other respects. But let Ils not be expected every respect the judgment already given.— Gelignani
to join in the furious cries which are now set up 'of Thursday.
against Espartern by those who would have found ex- PRICE OF BRFAD IN PARES AND LONDON.—The
cases for the insurgents who murdered 800 soldiers, if highest price of white wheat of the first quality in
ment, o
they had
asucceeded in proclaiming another Govern- Paris is 32f. per 11 hectolitre, which is equal to
r nother Regency in Spain. We blame with ; 48s. 10d. per quarter ; and the highest price of white
energy the
bombardment of Barcelona, but we do not wheat in London being 555. per quarter, it follows
go the length of wishing for Spain a new revolution,
that wheat is 12i1 per cent. dearer in London than in
anarchy, or a republic. What do those persons de- , Paris. The duty on the importation of foreign corn
sire, who connected as much as thee-. could the haine 1 into trlland is U4lv 20s. per quarter, which is' equal
of France with the revolt of Barcelona ?Do they 'to per cent. an the price of wheat in Paris.
nearly 41
wish to make a conquest of Catalonia, and transform I
highest- ' '
price of flour in .L. __
-o,is is 54f per 159
. it into a French department ? Suppose that Catalonia i
, 1.1 The
which is equal to 335. lici.
1 °grammes.,
p- ,
had been all on fire, and that the insurrection, had '' . • Ise
spread , 2801 b English; aid the highest price of flour in Ise
spread into a civil war, would they have found, an ' •
„ ..Y. ' don being 455. per sack, it follows that flour is 3.2 i
thing but words to support the ineurgeme' ',9‘AUSO ? '
i per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. The price
Yet it is necessary to know clearly What ie desired. There has a good deal been said On:the sub' • , ._1 of bread . . of the first quality in rill,§ is 31c. per kilo-
, Ject.fk gramme, which is equal to rather pore than sid .per
substituting in Spain French influence for that. of -,
elb. En lish, and the price of tbi,'s 4P?. loaf at the full
England. That, no doubt, li"vory Ane. . 'Bet ' what . pricqd bakers in LOndon being /iovv.7t-,d.,. it follows
means are to be employed for the.Piirpose ?' Is 'it . that llread is nearly 43 per cent. dearer in London
an armed invasion ? Certainly not, no one.
would
I in p •
,k khan ans.

THE TORY DINNER.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
We understand that the Gallant Commander-in-
Chief of this district, Major -General the Hon. H.
Murray, has promulgated the following praiseworthy
caution among the military officers under his com-
mand. We should be happy to see the same spirit
also carried out by the heads of the naval depart-
ments ; as in all decided political demonstrations, we
think officers in active service display gool taste in
absenting themselves :

" The—Major-General thinks it necessary to caution
the officers against attending any political dinners or
political meetings which may take place in the wes-
tern district.

"It is seldom that meetings of the above nature
pass off without some imprudent speeches being made,
of which the objection does not exclusively attach to
the speakers, but extends to the assembly. A much
greater evil, however, results from subsequent misre-
presentations, by which officers who have attended
such political dinners or meetings, might find them-
selves involved in serious blame for language they
have not used, and opinions they have never enter-
tained, but to which it is presumed that, contrary to
their duty as officers, they have given sanction by
their presence.—Dec. 3, 1842."