The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-04 00:00:00

THE PAISLEY DISTRESS.

Mr. Wallace's motion was too important to receive
Tory support. They have played the old game of "No
House" to-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 foni o'clock to• day. What will
the starving millions say to this shameful delay in con-
sidering their grievances?
Dr. Bowring
Brotherton
Wa w n
Thornely
Busfield
Napier
Crawford

Sir H. Douglas
Mr. O'Connell
Bernard
Sir J. Y. Buller
Wrightson
M'Kenzie
Darby
Sir J. Tyrrell
Lord Barnard
Bulkeley
Gregory

Wallace
:tßredie3
H. Baring
S. G. Grey

ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE
OF HER MAJESTY.

LATEST PARTICULARS.

The Council broke up shortly after four o'clock, when
the prisoner was remanded for further examination to
Wedneiday next, at one o'clock. The public seemed
to be scarcely aware of what was going on at
the Home- office, and shortly after the prisoner's
arrival there Whitehall was not more crowded than
usual. A number of persons had assembled around the
wicket-gatl leading from the Rome-office into the Park,
expecting that, as .in the case of Francis, the prisoner
would have been brought out by that entrance. They
were however disappointed. A cab drove up to the great
door in Whitehall, the prisoner was led into it by two
policeman, and drove off Tothill-fields. He is stated
to be very much dejected. It appears that great impor-
tance is attached to those conducting the investigation,
to tracing the pistol With which the prisoner made the
attempt, so as to ascertain how it came into his posses-
sion. It.appoars that he has had it about a month ; that
it was.out of repair.at the time it was first seen in his pos-
session, :but that about a week since he had it repaired.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
1,11031 THE EVENING PAPERS' OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.--IVe confess ourselves unable to give
adequate expression to the contending feelings by
which we are agitated, while alluding to the astound-
ing fact, that another attack, similar to those which
have already excited unmingled horror- and
tiara - throuihout 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 his predecessors
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 exami-
nation before the Privy Council, and the consequences
which result from a committal for trial for high trea-
son—there could be none. He 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 ecimMuniCate, 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,
with the latest in ormation, 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 waslpleased 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 stiett, we humbly take 'leave to warn the
Royal Jody, may be. expected as the. return
where crime of the deepest dye may be said
t-o be rewarded with a premium by that immunity
frown punishment which.it has hitherto enjoyed. We
take it 'for granted, and indeed we feel assured of
Ihe.fact, that her Majesty in ,reprieving the wretch
..Francisi acted upon the spontaneous impulse of her own
:most beneficent disposition, and Jontrary to the advice
of her faithful councillors ; but we cannot refrain
nvivertheless from offering our humble but earnest re-
nnonstraalces. against the boundless indulgence of that
I.l,,nate,clemeney 'which is, and has been, .the distin-
gois.hing characteristic of the Royal line of Bruns-
wi ek. We would submit, therefore, that mercy to
het4 people . should forbid the further extension of
me Tcy,to the desperately criminal, and that the law,
not; yet totally revolutionised, should be permitted in
fut ure to take its course. So largely revolutionised
all xltdv, indeed, have been the laws upon humanity-
angering principles, that murder and murderers are
in ,reality invested with more legal consideration at the
Olt 1 Bailey, and more sympathy in Newgate, than
P' ie. rty in Somerset-house, and pauperism in
un' ion • workhouses. If, perchance, on occasions
rin .e and ..far between, some irredeemable villain
ah ould make his appearance on the drop, the gallows
b comes forthwith the hallowed scene of melting woe
le id heart-rending lamentations, and the execrable
B itlrderer is transformed into-something like a sainted
iartvr. Philanthropic Mayoresses and benevolent
Irs.'Frys pay ceremonious visits of condolence to the
se•endemned, and join their sickening sorrows with the
•ta retch in his cell over the unrelenting rigours of the
la w which has sentenced him to suffer.
STANDARD.—It is idle to be ingeniously inquir-
kn g why a Sovereign, universally* beloved, has been
tb e object of so many attacks, such as the most hate-
ft .1 tyrants are 'Seldom exposed to. The age, charac-
ten*, and eondiicn of the three miscreants, by whom
(hese attacks' have been made, plainly indiCate the
itrath. The Queen is attacked because she is the
‘Queen,. and because an attack upon her offers
m promise of indulgence to the vanity of idle and
II es, kergie boys without threatening .any serious
panisllrnent. It
ged known from the first that ,
Pwas
ra.ncis would be Oxford was
tot hanged/ and the- penal colonies have es little
t Error Erthese idle boys
as Bedlam. The wretch
, ,
who was tne nero of yesterday's villany probably
r oow counts upon the same impunity. The truth is,
hat the want of a sufficient secondary' punishment is
a $ the bottom of all these mock assassi
nation projects.

But a secondary punishment admirably adapted to the
case of the pot-house Brutuses of La Jeune Angleterre
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 tha
patriot class are near akin to the thief class.
Let all attempts upon the Queen, then, which
fall 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 thought twice before making
his attempt ; and if yesterday's hero was aware in
the 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 instruniant with
which to govern such brutal and insane miscreants as
Oxford and Francis ? It has this advantage, too—
there is no glory in it; wounds in the back are not
honourable, but the back wounds which are most
carefully concealed, are there inflicted by the scourge.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY)
BELFAST.

The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock.
Mr. Gordon, who 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 21. 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. He 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 M'Anseny proved that he came from Mona-
ghan to Belfast, changed clothes, and voted in the elec-
tion. They changed dress in the Conservative talley-
rooms. M'Connell and Wood were sent out to vote
several times. On the 14th of January he disclosed the
whole of these proceedings to Mr. Leonard Doblin, at
Armagh.
Alexander Warnock was the next witness called, and
was under examination when the Speaker was en-
nounced to be at prayers.
The Committee then adjourned.