The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-03 00:00:00

P.ELIIMIAIVIENTARY.

The Income-tax Bill was last night carried up to the Lords,
and read a first time. It is to be read a second time this day
week.

Lord Kinnaird moved for a Committee to inquire into the
general distress ; but after the Duke of Wellington had made
a few objections to the motion, the Noble Lord withdrew it.
Their Lordships sat till nearly Nine o'Clock.
The Commons did not make a house.
PUBLIC OPINION.

The Times remarks, with reference to the recent attempt on
the Queen's life :—" We cannot but feel pleased and proud of
the warm feelings which this attempt has every where called
forth. East and west—Parliament and working men's
classes'—the levee and the theatres—we are happy to see vie
with each other in the display of enthusiasm towards the person
of our Queen, and indignation at the atrocious and deliberate
attempt which has been so providentially frustrated. And on
this, now, one word. Nothing, of course, could be inore cruel
or unjust than to allow our zeal for the personal safety of
our Sovereign to transport us into the infliction of a punish-
ment not authorised by the laws of the land or natural justice.
If there is (or, rather, were) any doubt as to the deliberate
intention of this miscreant to perpetrate the alleged crime, he
should, of course, have the benefit of that doubt. If it becomes
clear by the evidence on the trial that be is really beside him-
self, let him be dealt with accordingly. It is a belief we would
gladly indulge in—it is the belief which first suggests itself
on the mention of a crime so apparently devoid of motive. At
the same time none would deprecate more strongly than our-
selves the entering on this investigation with any determina-
tion to pardon—none would more entirely abhor that fatal
promise of impunity which an over lenient procedure in this
instance would hold out to all those whose vanity or discontent,
exaggerated into a kind of moral madness, may tempt them to
similar unnatural attempts. If it is not a clear wrong, it is an
imperative duty to make an example."
The Post has a mischievous, insidious article, the object of
which is to sow the seeds of discord between this country and
France. Our Contemporary comment:es as follows:—" The
snore or less immediate withdrawing of the respective Ambas-
sadors from the Courts of St. James's and the Tuileries—how-
ever it may be disguised under the denomination of temporary
leaves of absence—is an incident which must follow from the
present state of relations betwixt Engiand and France. How-
ever much the proceedings of our neighbours may partake of
comedy—of electoral and party comedy—the results are too
serious to be buttered over by the flattering unction of words,
however honeyed, or to be disguised by all the attitudes and
pirouttes of diplomatic courtesy. The King, the Government,
and all men of sense, true dignity, and patriotism in France,
are overpowered, and the noblest and truest-hearted, and
withal the most gifted statesman our neighbours can boast of,
is reduced to that conduct with which Cicero stigmatised Ca-
taline—' Crejuslibet rei simulator et dissimulator!' The
ascendancy ot that great man gone, the body politic is left to
the mercy of the vermin of revolution—to the parasitic rep-
tiles who revel in the morbid humours ot corrupted states.
Our grievances against France are palpable and flagrant."
The Chronicle, in an ably reasoned article, suggested by the
Bishop of Canada's exclusion from the church ot a monument
to the memory of a distinguished British officer, merely because
he did not receive the sacrament according to the forms of the
Church of England, observes :—" The exclusion, be it ob-
served, does not rest on alleged immorality in the deceased.
In the case in question there is no such allegation, but most
honourable testimony to the contrary. Nor does it rest on
any impropriety in an inscription. That is provided for by the
regulation that every inscription shall be subject to the pre-
vious inspection and approval of the clergyman,
It turns
solely mid barely on the fact of non-participation in the sacra-
mental ceremony as
performed in the Church of England.
Monumental honours are to be confined to orthodox communi-
cants. And is this the mode in which the country ought to
deal with those who devote their faculties and lives to its ser-
vice, and who die in that service, afar from their friends and
home? One, by his courage in colonial service, may strike
down the banner of rebellion or roll back the tide of invasion ;
another, by his wisdom, may heal the discord of parties, and
establish the reign of loyalty in the hearts of alienated millions;
and a third, by enterprise and philanthrophy, may enlarge the
region and empire of civilised life, reclaiming the savage and
the wilderness : but in the scene of their deeds and their death,
where their deserts might claim statues at the public expense,
the honour of a monument is denied because they did not take
the sacrament according to the rules of the Church of England.
This is alike unjust to the nation's servants, and disgraceful to
the nation's character. The country is dishonoured by any
busy, meddling priest' who thus interposes with the pitiful
posthumous persecution dictated by his sectarian peculiarities.
We trust the Bishop of Canada will yet be taught, notwith-
standing the haughty pretension of the metropolitan prelate,
that he is responsible to the Legislature of his country."
:The.lierald has the following remarks on the coal mono-
poly t--`• With respect, however, to the countries of the Baltic.
we re-assert that a duty of 4s. on all coal exported thereto,
would be beneficial to the revenue—would be beneficial to the
British manufacturer—and would be beneficial even to the coal-
owner. Whatever may be advanced by or for coal proprietors
in support of what is supposed to be their interests, we cannot
get over the following broad facts. The best manufacturing
coals are laid down in St. Petersburgh, Stettin, Hamburgh,
Copenhagen, sfee., at considerably less, freight included, than
one half the price at which they are laid down in any town on
the coast of England, even though it should be satiated within
thirty, or even twenty miles from the great coal-mining dis-
tricts ! The coals sent along our own coast are supplied to the
foreign consumer at much less than the prime cost to the coal-
owner, and the freight is less than pays the shipowner for na-
vigating his vessel. This inconceivably preposterous state of
things arises, as we have before explained, from the combina-
tion of the northern coalowners—of which union the operation
is.to adjust the quantity of coal allowed to be sold to the home
consumer within a limit far below the powess of each mining
establishment, and thereby to greatly keep up domestic prices."
The Advertiser says—" The complicated system of injustice
and wrong which is at present working its fatal results in the
misery of the industrious classes and th exorbitant luxury of
the aristocracy, will remain wholly untouched by the measures
of the Peel Ministry. Although that injustice and wrong has
been fully recognised by the Premier, and the showing of more
righteous principles has been adopted, yet the deep curse that
grinds down the operative is unremoved. With an affectation
of cordiality and frankness the wily Premier puts on the pro-
fessions of truth and justice, and assumes the guise of honesty
and liberality, only to deceive his opponents, while he more
securely fences round the atrocious system of aristocratic plun-
der, and fastens it more tenaciously upon the vitals of the
People. That he kno's s and admits what is right, only aggra-
vates the iniquity of his course in committing the wrongs that
he does."

Ex.racrrONEICIZING.
On Tuesday the Reform and Tory candidates addressed the
electors of Ipswich, both parties urging on them activity anti
vigilance in inusteting at the poll on Friday.
The case of brawling, brought by Burder against the Rev.
Wm. Langley, perpetual curate of Wheatley, chfnr4,.!as

gain opened before the Arches Court on Wednesday. The Rev
Defendant entered on hs defence, but the arguments will nOt
be resumed till next session.

NAVAL AND IMILITATLY.

The Lord Lowther transport has just sailed fo China, laden
with upwards of a thousand tons of bread for the use of the
naval and military force there. She also carries out several
of the flat-bottomed boats required for service in the Chinese
rivers.

Major Wathen, one of the military knights of Windior, was
placed on the upper foundation on Tuesday last, in the room
of Captain Skelton, deceased.
UAW AND PO-LICE.

Thomas North was on Wednesday brought up for final exami-
nation at the Mansion-house, on the charge of obtaining upwards
of 440 prints upon false pretences, the- property of Anne Tre-
gear and Thomas Cramp Lewis, the print-sellers in Cheap-
side. The case was fully made out, and the prisoner committed
for trial.