The Sun. — 1846-06-25 (London, England)

CHATTERTON. Had there been some rational allowance made by the State for those who are struggling in penury through the treasures of intellect, the bloody and horrible catastrophe which on Monday morning terminated the career of poor prevented. And surely HA.itlxm, might have been we are not endeavouring to extort an exaggerated moral by merely playing upon the sensibilities of the people when their hearts are wrung and their imaginations inflamed by a spectacle of such ineffable desolation and de,pair as that of the suicide of this most remarkable man ! Surely there is a tendency to commisseration in the mere retrospect of the evil against the existence of which we are inveighing ; surely there is a mournfulness and a rationality about it, altogether irrespective of any temporary cause of incitement to those sentiments! Can any one remember the premature decay and the torments of involvement which had rendered the death of JOHN BANIM inevitable before the Government vouch,afed him the miserable pittance of 1501. a year, without feeling the horrible consequences of this legislative apathy ? Can they remember the death-bed of Thomas HOOD, that saddest death-bed poet ever came to, without mourning that the pension to his widow was only sealed by his last breath ? When we find, indeed, that 9,6741. is all the money annually conceded to literary, scientific, and artistic eminence, and that one hereditary pension alone from the ExCise revenue (and in recompense for no good service whatever), amounting to 10,5841., is paid yearly into the pocket of a Noble Duke, we cannot but revolt at such a disproportionate distribu tion of the national funds. In the lamentable self-destruction of LAM AN BLANCHARD, only the other year, an instance was afforded us of the fearful effects of thus contemning the unfriended worshippers of knowledge. In the recent calamity, so analogous in some particulars to the preceding, the truth is forced still more vividly upon our conviction that the contingencies of poverty to intellectual men should be foreseen and prevet.ted. Unless some effort in behalf of our militant and suffering genius be officially made, the blood of our men of arts or letters, shed by themselves in the madness of destitution, will continue to be an indelible stain upon  the Legislature. The Premier has, in this recent case, been preserved from the pos-,ibility of having any stigma of neglect cast upon himself by an act of genuine benevolence, which would never have been revealed but for the unanticipated decease of the historical painter, and which will serve to stabilitate the popularity and assure the love of the people towards Sir Romai. PEEL; the more especially so as this beautiful and affecting instance of generosity is simultaneous with the malevolent and vulgar derision with which he has been himself treated. From that unfinished painting of " King ALFRED and the First English Jury," before which was discovered the dead body of Havrios, shall we not diaw a moral ? Must genius still continue to starve, and become madmen, and commit self-murder?  Madrid papers of the 18th have arrived. The only intelligence that can be gleaned from them is that, for a wonder, tranquillity prevails throughout the length and breadth of Spain. MADRID BoLSA,