The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-25 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'clock.

Scarcely a day passes without some additional
proofs that the conduct of the metropolitan police
is directly at variance with the spirit of the Con.
stitution, and dangerous to the liberty and secu-
rity of the subject. No investigation, as far as
we can learn, has been instituted into their vio-
lent and illegal proceedings at Kennington-com-
mon ; the rest of the body, therefore, naturally
follow the example of the Inspectors who rode
down the people, and the constables who used such
unnecessary violence, add unless some measures
are taken by the Home Government to abate this
dangerous, system, no man's life will be safe. Is
further evidence than the following required?
On Tuesday two men in a frolicking manner
knocked down a flower-pot in a street within the
Clerkenwell district, when a policeman was sent
for, and one of them by design or accident in the
scuffle which ensued, struck him on the mouth
with his hand. No evidence was given that
the blow was intended, or that the police-
man had suffered the slightest injury, yet
for this trifling affair, the constable, whose name
is Marsh, dragged him into the road, knocked
him down, and then raising him up, dashed him
with great force against the road. He then re-
peated the act, when the man appeared quite
dead, and was carried away on a stretcher. Well
might the Magistrate say that "the policeman's
conduct was most violent and atrocious, and with-

out a shadow ofjustification." The other case is
still worse, as the unfortunate victim was entirely
innocent, and the wanton assault was committed
by a Superintendent, we presume, on horseback.
A youth fifteen years of age, was pass-
ing through the open space in front of the
Clerkenwell Sessions-house, on his way home
from the City, and while there, says the corres-
pondent of a Tory Contemporary, " a cowardly
brute, mounted on horseback, rode up, and with
a violent blow of his truncheon struck the un-
offending individudl senseless to the ground;
when partially recovered, the monsters (mean-
ing the dismounted force) showed him no com-
passion, but told him to go round by the City-

road. This he did, was laid on a soia,
and was immediately seized with vomiting,
uttering wild and incoherent expressions." And
are such deeds of atrocity to be endured in a
land of liberty, and committed, too, daily by
men paid by their victims to preserve the peace ?
No exertion appears to have been made by the
Police Commissioners to discover the unmanly
assailant, for all the satisfaction the father of the
youth could obtain was, that if the man could
be identified every assistance would be rendered.
Now, this is pure mockery. Can there be any
difficulty in ascertaining who the Inspector was,
when the deed was witnessed by, perhaps, fifty
of the men, and the Commissioners know what
mounted officers (probably not more than one or
two) were on duty at that spot? Sir R. PEEL
would do well to look into these proceedings.
He has the credit of having established this new
force, and if he abet such unconstitutional con-
duct, the public will justly say that his object
was to break the free spirit of the people, and
maintain his political principles and a Tory Go-
vernment by means of brute force.

We have adyices from Madrid of the 17

instant. General ZURBANO, of whose cruelties
Europe has heard so much, is to be rewarded for
his recent services by the title of Marquis of
GIRONA. The Infanta Donna CARLOTTA ap-
pears not to have been idle during the short
period of her stay in the Spanish capital. Her
Royal Highness's genius for match-making is
thus alluded to by the Castellano—a journal
which rarely supports the measures of the RE-
(ENT. It appears that ESPARTERO had good
grounds for removing her from further commu-
nication with the young Queen Donna ILA-

BELLA 11. :-

" It has come to our ears that certain intrigues, to
which we alluded in one of our previous numbers,'
have had no small share in producing these disagree-
ments—intrigues contrived, if not by the uncle and
aunt of our Queen, at least by their partisans. It is
known who put into the hands of the Queen a certain
little box, in which the portrait of her cousin might
be discovered on touching a spring. It is
known who informed her Majesty of another se-
cret spring in a bracelet, under which had
been concealed a lock of hair. It is known who
brought about a certain meeting in the Re-
tiro, and the change of fans, in which that left with
the Queen contained a letter written in sympathetic
ink. It is necessary to know these and other similar
little things before the acts of the Royal Guardian can
be judged correctly. Our august Queen is still in
the age of innocence, and both those who contrive
these intrigues, and those who contribute to their
execution, are worthy of the most severe censure.
At present it is not in contemplation to choose
a husband for her Majesty. In two years
hence it will be quite another thing, and then
they may bring into play the means which
they have now so prematurely begun to employ.
In these occurrences in the Palace there are very
serious consequences involved. Not only the Gnar-
-1 dian of her Majesty, but the Regent of the kingdom,
and the Government, have had to interfere in these
disagreeable affairs, and our impartiality requires that
we sincerely eulogise their conduct."
On the Madrid Bourse, on the 16th, two bargains
took place in the Threes, for a millions of reals at
21f 11-16 for sixty days, and eleven bargains in the
Fives for 7,460,000 reals at 27 for cash, 272 for
sixty days. Two bargains in the Debt without inter-
est for 7,399,429 reals at 5 13-16, 51 for fifty-six
days. Exchange upon London, ninety days, 371.

The Paris papers of Tuesday contain little or no
intelligence of moment. No doubt existed that
the Regency Bill would be adopted, without
any amendment, by the Chamber of Peers.
The Commerce states that the KING sent one of
his Aides-de-Camp to M. THIERS to thank him

fbr the support he had given that measure. , The
Bill is expected to pass the Chamber of Peers
on Saturday, when the KING will come to Paris
to give it the Royal sanction. The Duchess of
ORLEANS is so far recovered as to be able to go
to Eu with the Royal family, where, with her
children, she will pass the [remainder of the
summer.

There is little new. in the leading articles
of the Paris Journals, which are for the
mDst part occupied with the schism be-
tween M. Tux Ens
and M. ODILON BARROT.
Tile only extract we shall give ;is from
the Siecle, which, being the reputed organ of
the ODILON BARROT party, its statements and
opinions have a certain degree of weight on the
present occasion. Replying to the assertion of
the Constitutionnel, that it is a calumny on
M. TRIERS to say that he was actuated in his
vote on the Regency question by any desire of
place, or other motive of ambition, the Siecle
says :

‘: We accept these declarations as true. We have
alieady declared that, although we cannot explain the
unlucky speech spoken on Saturday, we put no cre-
dence in those calculations of an impitient ambition,
`hy which others attempt to explain it. A zeal purely
dynastic has therefore influenced M. Thiers, but he
must allow us to say that• this zeal has led him

astray on this occasion. He believed the danger
to be too great, too imminent ; he appeared to
distrust far too much the wishes and strength
of France ; he has morally weakened, rather
than strengthened, in the eyes of Europe, that dy-
nasty which is dear to him, by coming forward, in
the name of its safety, to try and force the convictions
of the Left on the Regency Bill. The new monarchy
is not so weak and so threatened as some of its de-
fenders appear to think ; its existence does not depend
on a difference of opinion—on an accidental and spe-
cial question ; and as long as it remains faithful to
the contract of 1830, it can support, unendangered,
the test of the free discussions of the tribune. Were the
Chamber no longer to discuss with full independ-
ence, and no longer to vote according to its con-
victions, then the monarchy would be weak, and
might be considered in danger. We believe that
the free and regular play of the constitutional
institutions gives it a much greater and more real
strength than vain demonstrations obtained from fear or
complaisance. As to the invitation which the Con-
stitationnel addresses to the Opposition, to remain in
their place, not to allow themselves to be drawn away
by the suggestions of extreme parties, and to show
themselves what they are—devoted to the Govern-
ment and to the institutions of July—let it set its mind
at rest ; we are accustomed to resist suggestions of
this kind, as well as to brave injustice. Calumniated
and abused yesterday for having persisted, as much as
we could, in the alliance of the Left Centre, we may
be so again to-morrow without being moved by it.
The difficulty is not to resist one's natural adversaries,
whatever means they take to intimidate or persuade,
but to tell the truth to one's friends when it is dis-
pleasing to them. We have fulfilled this last-named
duty, and we shall not hesitate at any other."
The Alsace of Strasburg gives an interesting ac-
count of the arrival of the Duke de Nemours in that
city on Saturday last, between four and five o'clock.
The Prince, having been met at Kcenigshoffer by a
post of honour and a body of citizens, entered the town
thus escorted, by the Porte Nationale, where he was
received by all the civil and military authorities of the
city and department, and attended to his hotel amidst
the acclamations of an immense assemblage of
people. On entering his apartment, he received
all these authorities, and replied to their ad-
dresses with perfect tact and propriety, seeming,
by his affability and self-possession to have
overcome that reserve and timidity which he had
previously felt became him as a younger brother, of
the Prince Royal; his conversation being carried on
in conformity with the official characters of those
whom he addressed. All left his presence with the
conviction that he was worthy of being a brother of
the Prince Royal. At six o'clock his Royal Highness
retired for a short time to prepare for the dinner, to
which about seventy guests were invited. The
Alsace, in another article, states that the Duke in a
conversation with M. Champy, the Deputy Mayor,
on the dispositions of the inhabitants of Strasburgh,
said—" I know that they are good and loyal ;" to
which M. Champy replied, " Yes Monseigneur, and
have a true German spirit." "With the hearts of
Frenchmen," added the Prince. Conversing in an-
other group, among which was the Mayor of Colmar,
on the military spirit of the Alsatians, the Prince re-
marked that the Bth Hussars, a regiment which had
distinguished itself in numerous brilliant actions, was
entirely formed of men from Alsatia, and named seve-
ral superior officers who had been promoted from it.
This proof of his possessing a good recollection of
persons was further strengthened by recognising
among a crowd of others, and addressing him by his
name, an officer whom he had not seen for nine or
ten years.
BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, ATM 23. _

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