The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TITESDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1842.

THE PAISLEY DISTRESS.

Mr. Wallace's motion was too important to receive
Tory support. They played the old game of "No
House" last night. But this is only wasting Parliamentary
time; for the Member for Greenock has so framed his
motion that it must come on whenever money is needed,
and we understand there is not a shilling in the Exche-
quer, and we are certain none will find its way there
until the distress of the country has been amply dis-
cussed. We subjoin the names of those Members who
were in their places at four o'clock yesterday. What will
the starving. millions say to this shameful delay in con-
sidering' their grievances?
Dr. Bowling Sir H. Douglas
Mr. Brotherton Mr. O'Connell
Mr. Wawn Mr. Bernard
Mr. Thornely Sir J. Y. Buller
Mr. Busfield Mr. Wrightson
Sir C. Najier Mr. M‘Kenzie
Mr. Crawford Mr. Darby
Mr. Wallace Sir J. Tyrrell
Mr. Brodie Lord Barnard
Mr. H. Baring Mr. Bulkeley
Mr. Comity Mr. Gregory
Sir G. Grey

IMPERIAL. PARLIAMENT.
110 USE OF LORDS, July 4.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the
Woolsack at Five o'clock.

Several private Bills were read a third time and
passed. •
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from a
place in Ireland, praying that no further grant le
made to the Regium Domini fund, and other grants
of a similar description. •
THE ATTACK. ON HER MAJESTY.

The Duke of _RICHMOND wished
.to ask her
Majesty's Ministers whether there was any truth hi
the report that an attempt had yesterday been made
on the life of her Majesty ? lie did not wish to
press the question, if Ministers should think it incon-
venient to give an answer ; hut lie thought that the
I louse ought not to separate without inquiry into the
truth of the prevailing report.
The Earl of ABERDEEN said that he entirely
concurred in the opinion expre.;sed by his Noble
Friend on the subject. He would only say that
the individual referred to hai been arrested ;
but as he was still under examination, it would
be premature for him (the Earl of Aberdeen) to make
any statement in the matter.

TAE ASSESSMENT OF STOCK •TO .THE

INCOME-TAX.

Lord BROUGHAM wished to ask his Noble
Friend (the Earl of Ripon) Nvhethei• there was any
truth in :4 report which had created some alarm
among the holders of stock, to the effect that the new
tax. would be levied upon the whole of the half-yearly
dividenils, which would become due to-morrow,
since the .sth of January. He thought that the as-
sessment could not in fairness be made upon more
than the sum due for the laA quarter.

The Earl of RIPON said that he should make in-
quiry into the subject, and he would be prepared to
answer the question to-morrow. •
Their Lordships then adjourned.

lIOUSi OF COMMONS, July 4.
1.1-i•-:?re not being forty _Members present at Four
O'Clock, the House adjourned till to-morrow.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS or YESTERDAY

GLOBE.--We confess ourselves unable to give
adequate expression to the contending feelings by
which we are agitated, while alluding to the astound-
ing flict, that another attack, similar to those which
have already excited unmingled horror and indigna-
tion throughout the nation, has been contemplated,
and, but for the merciful interposition 'of Providence,
would have been carried into effect, against the life
of our . beloved Queen, whose safety becomes
an object of daily increasing solicitude, from- the
perils and dangers by which she seems to be threatened.
We dare not trust ourselves with comment. The facts,
so far as they have been ascertained, will be found in
another column. The miscreant seems to have been
actuated by a more reckless disregard of his own
personal concealment than either of hisdaredecessors
in the same career of hideous crime. Motive for
his attempt—beyond the. desire for the notoriety
which attends the apprehension and the eclat of exam-
nation before the Privy Council, and the consequences
which result from a committal for trial for high trea-
son—there could he none,. Ile appears to be so tho-
roughly contemptible—except for the power he pos-
sesses, in common with his fellow-beings of the lowest
order of human faculties, to perpetrate the worst of
consequences by the simplest means—that it is humi-
liating to think that the- life of a beloved Sovereign,
and the happiness of an entire realm, should be for a
moment within the reach of a wretch so despicable.
We must Withhold our pen. To embody the feelings
which are prodUced by an attempt to allude to so
afflictive and alarming an occurrence is -a task we
are unable to accomplish. We 'must wait the return
of equanimity to enable us to employ the reasoning
faculties upon the recurrence of so atrocious a deed as
that we are again required to record.
COURIER.—Our readers, who may not through
other channels have received the astounding news,
will hardly credit the
,statement which it is our pain-
ful duty to communicate, that another attempt has
actually been made upon the life of our good and gra-
cious Queen. For the details we refer to the report,
‘vith:the latest information, which will be found else-
where. Let it be borne in mind that this nefarious at-
tempt took place on the very morning succeeding the day
on which our beloved Sovereign was pleased of her own
exceeding humaneness of heart to reprieve—to pardon
we may say-Francis, the second of two atrocious as-
sassins who had deliberately compassed, and so far as
in them lay executed, the diabolical design of taking
her Majesty's life. Such is the grateful return for
Royal . clemency of another incorrigible ruffian,
and such, we humbly take leave to warn the
Royal lady, may he expected as the return
where crime of the deepest dye may be said
to be rewarded with a premium by that immunity
from punishment which it has hitherto enjoyed. We
take it for granted, and indeed we feel assured of
the fact, that her Majesty in reprieving the wretch
Francis, acted upon the spontaneous impulse of her own
most beneficent disposition, and contrary to the advice
of her faithful councillors ; but we cannot refrain
nevertheless from offering our humble but earnest re-
monstrances against the boundless indulgence of that
innate clemency which is, and has been, the distin-
guishing characteristic of the Royal line of Bruns-
wick. We would submit, therefore, that mercy to
her people should forbid the further extension of
mercy to the desperately criminal, and that the law,
not yet totally revolutionised, should be permitted in
future to take itS course. So largely revolutionised
already, indeed, have been the laws, upon humanity-
mongering principles, that murder and murderers are
in reality invested with more legal consideration at the
Old Bailey, and more sympathy in Newgate, than
•,,overty in Somerset house, and pauperism in
union workhouses. If,• perchance, on occasions
rare and far between, some irreeemable villain
should make his appearance on the drop, the gallows
becomes forthwith the hallowed scene of melting woe
and heart-rending lamentations, and the execrable
murderer is transformed into something like • a sainted
martyr. - Philanthropic Mayoresses and benevolent
Mrs. Frys pay ceremonious visits of condolence to the
condemned,. and join their sickening sorrows with the
wretch in his cell over the unrelenting rigours of the
law which has sentenced him to suffer.

STANDARD.--It is idle to be ingeniously inquir-
ing why a Sovereign, universally beloved, has been
the object of so many attacks, such as the most hate-
ful tyrants are seldom exposed to. The age, charac-
ter, and condition of the three miscreants, by whom
these attacks. have been made, plainly indicate the
truth.. The Queen is attacked because she is the
Queen, and because an attack upon her offers
a promise 'of indulgence. to the vanity of idle and
desperate boys without threatening any serious
punishment. It was known from the first that
"Francis would not be hanged because Oxford was
not hanged,, f:,nd the penal colonies have as little
terror for these idle boys as Bedlam. • The wretch
who was the hero of yesterday's villany probably
now counts upon the same impunity. The truth is,
that the want of a sufficient secondary punishment is
at the bottom of all these mock assassination projects.
But a secondary punishment admirably adapted to the
• case of the pot-house Brutuses of La Jetine Augleterre
is easily found—a succession of good sound whippings
to precede transportation, or a long imprisonment.
This is notoriously the punishment most dreaded by
the thief class, who prefer transportation; or even
the halter, to one moderate flagellation, and the
patriot class are near akin to the thief class.
Let all attempts upon the Queen, then, which
Cal; short of treason, be punished with a succession
of good sound whippings—say. 1,000 lashes—admi-
nistered in four half-yearly instalments, and admi-
nistered more militari, and we shall have an end of
such vile wickedness as that of yesterday. Had
Francis known that Oxford's term-day was coming
round, he would have &ight twice before making
his attempt; and it' yesterday's hero was aware in
tin morning, that the back of Francis was raw
and bloody, he would, ten to one, have taken
his walk in a different direction from the Park.
it is very well to preach of the inhumanity of
whipping. Is there no inhumanity in exposing
the first, and one of the purest and best persons in
the empire, to a life of constant misery' For our
part we have seen with regret the gradual disuse of
this most wholesome and efficient, and therefore most
merciful, mode of punishment. It is only by the
whip that you can discipline brute animals, and the.
whip is found to control the most furious maniacs.
Is not, then, the whip the proper instrument with
which-to govern such brutal- and insane miscreants as
Oxford and Francis ? It has this advantage, too—
Mere is no glory in it; wounds in the back are not
li6nourable, but the back Wounds which are most
carefully concealed, are there inflicted by the scourge.

ELECTION' COMMITTEES.
BELFAST.

The Committee met yesterday morning at twelve.
Mr. Gordon, Nv ho was in attendance, applied to be al.
lowed to make some alterations in his evidence, given on
the first day of the inquiry. " The alterations were ad-
mitted, but they in no way affected the general purport
of his statement.

Patrick Murphy, a farmer, residing at Monaghan,
proved the delivery of .a letter signed "Kennedy,' and
addressed to Mr. M`Cullogh. The witness identified the
letter, but, though he said he could read writing, he- had
great difficulty in getting through it when asked to pe-
ruse it ; it was to this effect—" Mr. M`Cullogh will hand
you this letter along with 2/. to bring you and your
friends down to Belfast, where you will be treated like
princes." Witness then proved that several individuals,
himself and a former witness (Wood) included, went to
Belfast in a car, in consequence of this communication.
Wood voted in the name of Andrew Hunter, whose cer-
tificate he had in his hand when he came back from the
poll. Ile was drunk at the time. He proved that money
was paid to the parties who voted in the name of other
persons, and that they changed their clothes, in order
that they might not be suspected.
Francis WAnseny proved that he came from Mona-
ghan to Belfast, changed clothes, awl voted in the elec-
tion. They changed dress in the Conservative tally-
rooms. M'Connell and Wood were sent nut to vote
several times. On the 14th of January he disclosed the
whole of these proceedings to Mr. Leonard Dublin, at
Armagh.
Alexander Warnock was the next witness called, and
was under examination when the Sp?aker was an-
nounced to be at prayers.
The Committee then adjourned.

of bribing them. It was about half-past three o'clock
in the day ; the election was then nearly over.
The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow.

LAW IN TELLIuENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, July 4.
Their Lordships sat to-day at eleven o'clock, to hear ap-
peals. The Peers present were—Lord Cottenham, Lord
Brougham, Lord Campbell, and the Earl of Charleville.
ROBSON v. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
The arguments in this part heard appeal were resumed to-
day, but had not concluded when our Evening Edition went
to press. .