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

received by Lieutenant Tracey, the Governor, and, after
. being treated as prisoners usually are upon admission
to that gaol, he was placed in a cell with a turnkey.
The Council broke up shortly after four o'clock, when
the prisoner was remanded for further examination to
Wednesday next, at one o'clock. The public seemed
to be scarcely aware of what was going on at
the A-lonic-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-gate leading from the Home-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 to Totbill-fields. He is stated
to be very much dejected. It appears that great impor-
tance is attached to those conducting the investigation,
to triv_ting the
.pistol with which the prisoner made the
attempt, so as to ascertain how it came into his posses-
sion. It appears that he has had it about a month ; that
it was out of repair at the time it was first seen in liis.pos7
session, but that about a week since he had it 'clawed.

SUP POSED THIRD ATTEMPT TO
ASSASSINATE THE QUEEN.

The following are the opinions of some of the morning papers
respecting the late supposed attack on her Majesty :
POSf.—The metropolis was yesterday afternoon thro;t•n
into general agitation and alarm, by the rumour that her Ma •
jesty had been again the object of a malignant, brutal, and trea-
sonable attack from the hand of an intended assassin. We
deeply lament to say that the rumour was not wholly unfounded.
A youth pointed a pistol at the Queen as her Majesty was pro -
ceeding in her carriage from Buckingham Palace to the Chapel
Royal, about twelve o'clock, or a few minutes earlier. 'I he
pistol was not fired, neither did the circumstance of its haring
been levelled attract the Queen's attention or that of ant• I er•
sons of her suite, a fortunate accident, since it permitted her
Majesty to repair to the chapel, in pursuance of her intention,
without experiencing at the moment any of that horror or dis-
may which, in connection with the painful memory ot• recent
atrocities of a similar nature, it could not have failed to pro-
duce in the Royal mind. The traitor was seized by a spec-
tator. and this pistol was taken from him. But from the unpar-
donable apathy or stupidity of the police constables who were
desired to take him into custody, he was permitted to escape.
t•he statements are contradictory and obscure as to the im-
portant question, whether the pistol was loaded or unloaded,
and not altogether unequivocal !is to the fact of the person in
custody being identified as the individual who presented and
snapped the pistol. We cannot express in adequate terms the
disgust and indignation whi:ll these repeated atrocities in,
spire, nor is it in the power of language to convey a just idea
of the grief and sorrow whieb they excite in the general mind
of the community. The utmost terror of the law must be
awakened, and the strength of the law, if necessary, must be
reinforced, with a view to the suppression of so great a ct ime as
that of wantonly sporting with the fee'ing.s of the Sovereign, and
presuming to interrupt her-innocent enjoyments and laudable
pursuits:
. . .

TIM ES.—We publish in our paper of to-day the account
of the reprieve of Francis. We hardly know with what feelings
to regard—how to credit or understand—another statement,
which we also have now to eJmniunicate re4pecting a second
attempt, intended, nr supposed to be intended, upon the life of
the Queen on her way to the Chapel Royal. 'flat any man
should he found to attempt in earnest the life of a Sovereign
so popular, and-so justly popular, as our young Queen, is in
itself so incredible, that even on the plainest evidence we
have fond -it difficult to believe it in the case of him to whom
the Royal clemency hasju4t been extended ; that a man should
choose 'for such an attempt the first day after that mark of Royal
goodness hid been shown, is a fresh and no less marvel ; that in
a dense muted, waiting for a sight of their Sovereign, a seizure
should be made of this man, with a loaded pistol in his
hand, prepared os repeat the attempt which had been so lately
pardoned—as if with every intention el tiring out or punishing
the-Royal mercy, without attracting in any effectual way the
notice of the by-standers—anti- that by two persons ; that a
poleentan, when appealed to, should treat the matter as a
hoax or joke this chain of circumstances is really se mar-
vellous, that we might be pardoned if we treat it for the pre.
scut a. insufficiently explained—if, from the very m»rmity and
strangeness of the facts, we do not at once express that horror
which see should feel at it if thoroughly established. The
question which instantly suggests itself regards the miserable
man to whom mercy has just been extended. Ilas that mercy
been misplaced ? It is impossible to Fay with certainty. But
one thing. we will say—that we do not regret this instance of
Royal clemency.
ADVERTISER.—Another attempt at an execrable noto-
riety has been made, by the feint of an intention to take her
most beloved Majesty's life. It is gratifying to perceive that,
itt the present instance, the would-be assassin was merely a de-
formed urchin, not more than sixteen years of age, and his
pistol was loaded with no more destructive material than part
of a tobacco itipe and some gravel. The absence of a mur-
derons intention and of more deadly agencies, however, scarcely
extenuates the enormity of the offence. The disgusting and
infamous tendency of morbid minds suppurating into regicidal
exhibitions, must be controlled and eradicated. A public
execution would rather operate as a premium to those ready to
seek at any sacrifice a notoriety even in public abhorrence. The
most appropriate and effective punishment would be something
hke the pillory or a public whiping, followed by imprisonment
under strict discipline, which might be expected to suppress
as effectively as, in the present phase of society is possible,
the depraved propensities of these amateur aspirants to public
abhorrence.

CHRONICLE—We can impute to no class these attempts
on the life of the Queen, because we can conceive no motive
which any class can have for encouraging them. It actually
seems as if a certain number of weak-minded, and at the same
time depraved individuals should' have, under the influence of
some strange spell, been driven to attempt her Majesty's life.
But, while we cannot bring our minds to attribute these acts to
anything, like combination, a circumstance has just come to nor
knowledge which certainly wears a suspicions appearance. Mr.
Thomas Steele, well known to all who have paid any attention
to Irish affairs, was last night presiding at a repeal meeting of
the Bloomsbury district, when one of the speakers stated that
at a meeting, not of Repealers, but of another class, held some
evenings .ago, a person had declared " that the Queen should
semade away with." Mr. Steele instantly left the chair,
broke tip the meeting, and went with his informant to Bow-
stiTet, to give information of the circumstance. We know no-
thing more than what we have communicated. The statement
so made may turn out to be an invention; but if it be true.
that at a •meeting of Englishmen such a wicked proposition
could have been made, without instantly eliciting from all who
heard it sentiments of deep abhorrence, and without the seizure
of the guilty individual having followed as a matter of course,
some strange change must have come over our countrymen.

DETENTION OF THE 0 V ERLAND
MAIL TO INDIA. BY GOVERNMENT.

The following, notice was put up yesterday at the
General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand :

" The Overland Mail to Malta, Egypt, and India,
of this day, via Marseilles, detained.-Letters in time,
on Wednesday evening, the 6th inst. The mail from
India, via Marseilles ; the dates are, Bombay, May
23 ; Alexandria, June 21 ; Corfu, June 23 ; Malta,
June 26, The contract steamer, Great Liverpool,
with mails from England, of the 31st of May, arrived
at Malta from Gibraltar, on the 12th of June
at noon, and sailed for Alexandria on the 13th June,
at noon. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Polyphemus,
with the mail from England of the 4th of June, arrived
at Malta from Marseilles on the 12th of June, at
13 A.M. The contract steam-vessel Great Liverpool,
arrived at Malta from Alexandria on the 26th June,
8 A.m., and is appointed to sail for England on the
_'7th ,Inne, at 8 A.m. Her Majesty's steam-vessel
Phoenix, sailed from Malta for. the lonian Islands,- and
Greece, on the 16th of June, at 1 P.M., and
arrived with the return mails on the 26th
of June at I P.M. The next mails for Malta,
Greece, and the 'lonian Islands via Falmouth, will
ha nwle up here on the 16th instant, and for Egypt
and India on the :31st instant. • The Tagus
,steam-
pAeket, with the Malta, Egypt, and India mails of the
30th ult., sailed from .Falmouth on the 2d inst., with
all letters arriving up to that date.—Lisbon mails:
The Liverpool steam•paeket arrived at Falmouth on
t'.te 241 instant, with letters from Gibraltar, June 23 ;'
Cadiz„24; Lisbon, 27 ; Oporto, 28 ; and Vigo, '29.
Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayres : Her Maje:sty's
brig Swift for the. mails July 3 (this day).—West
Indies, Madeira, Panama, Mexico, New Orleans, &c.:
The Medway steamer for the mails of the 15th inst."