The Sun. — 1841-07-21 (London, England)

MACAULAY.—Some persons who have read with home is unsafe, and his property depreciated. much attention, and no little pleasure, the Gibbon-like This is not a fancy portrait, but actual facts. article_i on the Port Royalist s, in the recent number of The the Edinburgh Review, which is ascribed to Mr. Maclaw, in all that concerns the relations of landlord caulay, have given it as their opinion that the learned should and tenants—it may be impartial enough in author is infinitely better adapted to a library than to the House of Commons. Mr. Macaulay, they say, questions between tenants or landlords exclusively—is made to promote the landlord's pur- rive up politics and betake himself to the Fathers. Whether the electors of Edinburgh may, on a (f)lithture occasion, sanction this opinion, by electing anposes, and is the mere instrument by which his person to represent them, is beyond our .ken ; but. lusts and his arbitrary will are gratified at the the ;lib lc at large have some right to complain of Miexpense of the tenantry. In turn, the peasantry, nisterial duties inefficiently performed, when they find allied "ifiiirsst " Cabinet Minister devoting his precious time, wonders of Port Roy excluded from any benefit by the law, disregard sgrebat talent, not to the Sugar Duties and the al. The importance' . it, and make a law for themselves, which they Corn-laws ut to Herr Reuchlin and the mystical also execute whenever they have the power. the Right Hon ' It is for us a matter of regret that this state ofi Gentleman to such a subject at this time, ad the h. of the Crown,l3raindziilgresiTaesresntitatitoilvi,e the law is continually overlooked by our Tory encir' cle a sad aanod wdi?rni. which. he has endeavoured.. to assigned by iso,f. Contemporaries, who make it a crime in the Minister Ilthe tenantry that they do not love and reverence for important rigfits; rather insulting . than otherwise. 0. „ —°, mPetent judges, who have attended this instrument of the landlords' tyrannyas much people, .troggii4g would do much' better to muster the‘ principles- f puliI to Ms. Alacaulay s tate Orations, are of opinion that he as the landlords themselves, The Tory Journalists 1 i (1.0 what is AM worse, Keeping this state of the : acid seisms than study controver ' d divinity, v bit  The Paris Journals 'a Monday have reached us, with intelligence from the..t city of yesterday's date ; and from Madrid of the 13t;i1 inst., which will be found in another part of The SuU, Galignani's Messenger of Monday contains a verb sensible, temperate, and cleverly written article exposing the gross ignorance of those French -writers who have denounced the occupation, of Fernando Po by the English. . To the no small surprise of the French public, Vie Consrantionnel, M. Tninas's journal, defends the conduct of the Government at Toulouse, while the Courrier Francais, M. O'DILLON BARROT'S organ, fiercely denounces it. The following paragraphs include the general news in Monday's Journals :- An Imperial Ukase has been issued at St. Petersburg'', conferring upon all persons who will go into the more distant parts of Siberia, in search of gold mines, the privilege of working them for their own profit during twelve years, after which they are to revert to the Government. A letter from the Piraeus (Athens), of the 30th ult., relates that on the preceding day the charges were drawn from the guns of the French corvette Embuscade in that harbour, and placed on the poop to dry. At the same time the gunner was inspecting the mortar connected with the life-buoy, and, by some accident, touched the spring which lights the fuse, and discharged it. The fire caught about SOlbs. of powder, laid out to dry near it, and a general explosion of that and the charges took place—broke up the deck, destroyed other parts of the ship, killed three men, and wounded twelve others. Captain Mallet, the commander, who was writing in his cabin, was covered with fragments, but fortunately received no injury. Yesterday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a violent storm of rain, attended with thunder and lightning, and a strong wind from the S.E., burst over the capital. The quantity of water which fell was enormous. Towards nine weather cleared a little, but rain fell heavily at interval- - the .. the day till three in the afternoon. Much damp• during . done to crops ; several trees have been blown ' de has been quarters, and the fetes round Paris must a" down in various - We learn that the crops have have been put off. round Paris by the stormy wee neen severely damaged istricts. Much injury has been done to gardens, and in al- being entirely laid in several -gee or yesterday, the corn blown heights s g dw of eu ' -'lost every village trees have been calk fluid fell in several places on the The Jourral ' est- erday morning. Belabre, Peuple states that the soldier, named clown. - el" ' man one as our readers may remember, shot a drunken rail night while attempting, as he thought, to scale the or.ineto of the Gardens of the Tuileries, and whe was acquitted ais trial upon the ground of stupidity, has since been made a corporal; and adds, that the same grade in a picked company has been given to the soldier who shot one of the prisoners at Sainte Pelagie net long since. The inhabitants of the Rue de l'lle, at Berne, were awakened on the night of the 10th instant, by the explosion of a large petard or bomb in front of the residence of the Deputy from Uri, by which upwards of thirty window-frames were broken. The perpetrators of this outrage and the objects of it are not known. The editor of a new opposition journal at Amsterdam, of which only two numbers have appeared, committed suicide three (lays ago by taking arsenic. Family quarrels are said to have been the cause. The deceased was not 30 years of age. The assassin of the Bishop of Ermeland, and his housekeeper, the circumstances of which horrible murder our readers will remember, was broken on the wheel at Frauenburg on the 7th inst. He had been confessed, and took the sacrament the day before his execution. On reaching the scaffold, he took off his upper garments without being desired, knelt, raised his hands towards heaven in prayer, and then calmly laid him-• self down to receive the strokes of the wheel. In ten minutes all was over. A Belgian schooner is on the point of sailing fr Ant weep for Alexandria, with twelve Paixhans' cannons,om cast al Liege, and 2,000 shells.