The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-10 00:00:00

MORNING SUN, - _ THE BURNING ALIVE AN IRISH MANIAC. [We do not hold ourselves responsible for the strong expressions used in the following article, which has been communicated to us by a Corre spondent. Were the assumed facts true, no lan guage could be too strong to express our horror of so dreadful a crime; but to believe them with out further evidence is impossible. Still a ter rible mystery hangs over the death of the poor maniac, which it is the duty of the Irish Govern ment to clear up. Appended to the article of our respected Correspondent are the latest ac counts on the subject which have appeared in the papers.—En. Sun.] We lately adverted to the atrocious mur der ofa poor idiot in Ireland, by a party of in carnate demons, described in the newspapers as Ew2;lish military t;entlemen, and we again advert to it because we have not heard that the 1ri.7.11 lovernment has yet taken any marked steps to Ming the fiendish criminals to justice. There was a time, indeed, when to have tarred, feathered, and roasted a poor Irish peasant, \vas a recreation of which officers of any rank in Ireland were rarely denied the indulgence by the authorities at the Castle; but we tell Lords DL GREY and ELIOT that such times are for ever past, and that were Ireland passively to submit to the unpunished perpetration of such an inhuman crime as we have recorded in our (!olunins, the justly roused vengeance of England and Scotland would pursue and overtake the criminals. This is an outrage which must not be hushed up. In the sacred names of justice, of humanity, and of our country's honour, we de mand the fullest investigation into all the parti culars of this horrid murder. We insist, more over, upon the fullest publicity being given to them. What are the alleged facts A poor idiot, upon whose soul Heaven never reflected the light of reason, and therefore an object of commiseration to his poor countrymen, is seized by a number of demons usurping the designa tion of men—of gentlemen forsooth !—and wear- Mg the costume of British officers, and by them steeped in turpentine and oil, set on fire, and actuAlly burned to death ! Such is the account published in the Dublin papers—in journals every morning to be found at the break titst tables of the VICEROY and Irish Se- cretary. Yes, iu the nineteenth century, in the heart of a Christian country, and un der the boasted civilized and civilizing sway of a Tory Administration, wretches calling thkan selves gentlemen, and wearing the QUEEN'S livery, roasted to death a poor idiot, and, as the local journals tell us, with quite a conviction on their_part that not a hair of their heads would suffer for it. Now, indeed, we can fully under stand the O'CONNELL cry for equal justice. In Ear , dand no man can flog a donkey with impu nity ; in Ireland a scarlet coat purchases a sort of taal t, permission to burn to death a fellow-creature. Rat this must not be. The flames which en veloped the limbs, and drank the blood of this poor idiot, ascended to the Throne of Gun, cry ing aloud for vengeance upon Ins murderers. The Government is bound to prosecute the in quiry with the utmost diligence. Reports are circulate& that the criminals, by the distri bution of • money, have withheld witnesses from attendance at the inquest, so that the verdict of that tribanal over the ashes of time murdered mail is universally denounced (:reland as a mockery. As the character of the military is mi:“al up with this appalling crime, and as the officers chiefly accused ara said to be Ec.g.lishinen, we call upon the British army to hasten to wipe this stain from its honour by co-operating with the Government in drag into the lurid light of everlasting infamy the cowardly perpetrators of so foul a murder. (from the Dublin Eveniny Mail of Jan. 5.) With respect to the terrible outrage said to lw.ve been committed in the King's County, at the house of a gentleman, and by certain Eng offieers, by means of which it is alleged that ► idiot-boy lost his life under circumstances of 71 . 2: and revolting barbarity - , it appears Coroner's jury was legally assembled— br,:l.v was viewed by the members of ..iquest—that medical practitioners were ex:uninel as to the cause of the death of the de cea.ed, and that a unanimous verdict was re turned, tieclaring that the boy had " died by the vi!;itation of God." We are quite confident that the Monitor, in the columna of which this dreadffil story first originated, will cis justice to %air common nature and our common coun-- try - , by fully contradicting so horrible and dread fuL a statement as that it put forward—namely, that any set of gentlemen, or of human beings, e )uld be found capable of anointing the body of a poor simpleton and idiot with oil of turpentine —of setting fire to the inflammable matter, and burning the wretched victim to death—and this fo r amusement !! Indeed, we think that so deep at Id so unpopular a sensation has the occurrence woduced, that it would be well if the law officers o the Crown—who by the way are, in conjunc tion with the Government, charged by the fac tions press with screening the alleged delinquents from punishment—to call upon the Coroner tbr his notes of the trial and findin4, and publish the report—not in their own vindication from a charge so foul, but for the satisfaction of the public, and the credit of the country. flpp! (From the Dublin Pilot of Jan. 5:) 'llh Government organ of last night has the foil wing confirmation of the acconws that have already appeared of the Philipstown tragedy, which has been fittingly described as the most brutal and inhuman murder on record : An inquest was held so far back as the 19th ultimo, by the Coroner of that district and a re spectable jury, numbering '2l bonos et legales n es, on the body of a person named Fiana ,,m who died on the prece din g da y in conse so (Fictive of extensive injuries, by fire, received on the .I.lth of said month, in two houses of William Mu g an, Esq.. near Philipstown. Alter examining several witnesses, and amongst them the brother and sister of the deceased, with two , medical gentlemen ofthe Philipstown dispen sar4-, who attended Flanagan during his illness, the jury unanimously returned a verdictof " Ae eid.ntal Death." ( - From the Dublin Evening Post of Jan. 6.) '!'his article - shall be confined to the foul mitr- der s:! id to have been committed at Philipstown, ;iOll for which we have already twice called the puliiie attention. It was only on Saturday last a :it we first noticed it, expressing, in the part of ti'e paper where the detail was given, on the atthority of a contemporary—very truly— our (E.,:belict at the time, of the fiendish atrocity of the parties who perpetrated the murder. Sub sequent inquiry, however, satisfied us that the , statement was not overcharged—and we so ex pre.sed -eurselves in a shurt paragraph on the same evening. That we had not been made, 01. i!t:(1 Hot made ourselves previously ac- . qtainted with the fact, arose from the indis position.of crime-hunting, and of our natural in credulity -subsequently at the recital of such hot.- . Besides, we took it for granted, if such it event ;:ad taken place, the Government would necessarily he infintned of the circumstance, and would take prompt measures for the apprehen sion of the murderer, or murderers, if there were more than one, and placing them safely for trial in the felons' gaol of the county where the foul deed was committed. The reader, therefore, may judge of our surprise when we learnt from the Evening Mail of Monday—speaking evi dently about the matter on authority—that Go vernment had received no account at all of the matter up to Saturday night last! Upon this tact we expressed no little surprise in our last. The murder, we now learn for the first time, was committed on the 11th ult., the victim of the hellish crime died, we are told, on _the I9th, and the Mail of the 3d inst. tells us, : that the Government knew nothing of the facts on the Ist of the present month. This is a most extraordinary statement—and well night we ask has Lord De Grey abdicated his function—has Lord. Eliot been writing r:gtnaroles, or Squire Lucas fashioning his face betbre a looking-glass, into the most approved lineaments of wisdom ? A murder is committed forty-seven miles from town, and twenty days at least have passed over 1 i( love the Government 'ever heard a word upon the !,it'. ! jez . :t. Vigilant and active Administration! - w,, ar e told by the Parket in thief's Latin, that an inquest was held on the body of a per son, named Flanagan(the idiot boy), on the 19th ult.—that he had died of extensive injuries by fire, received on the llth preceding, in two Alktiiits of NV.Magan, Esq., near Philipstown. ...r..t, e e ea ty are informed, moreover, that the Jury ;-"r ) - - lisis . .)a,d of twenty-one competent persons. It -: i.4t i ed l / 4 , that the . brother and sister of the de ,......it-iimoitt• tid two medical men we re examined, and that tittle was au unanimous verdict of acciden- AV ckttailk , '-,„&" NYc must first inquire, who was the Coro- rors NVW SI z - ),e r-7 ner—what were the names of the medical men — and the names of the Coroner's Jury''. The de. ceased was burnt to death, or, which is the same the a week, b u rll i f n r i o r the ßy original injury, was caused thing, death, after the lapseborf the statement of the Packet it is sought to be in sinuated that it was an accidental burning. But the verdict of the Jury is simply "accidental death." We demand the Coroner's notes taken at the inquest—the testimony of the witnesses ex amined—the Coroner's charge to the Jury—the exact finding, and the names of the Jurors. j For their honour and their character, the me i dical men must conic forward. Tluy are mixed 'up in the transaction ; for it is left to be in ferred that it is partly on their testimony the Jury came to the finding of accidental death. These gentlemen, of course, were called in to define the mode in which the burning produced death. They can say whether or not the clothes of the deceased were smeared with oil of turpen pine. The brother and sister of the idiot should also be brought fOrward, to testify to the cir cumstance. But, above all, Mr. pagan—in whose house, or houses, as the Packet- has it, the homicide took place—should be called upon to relate every thing within his cognizance relative to the death of the idiot. lie owes this relation to society j and to himself. The Packet may have clone with the subject; for hush, it seems, is the word. But, we repeat it, it is too late to play this game. The Lord Lieutenant must not be allowed to wrap hims , lf up in dignified silence. As the chief executive officer in the country, as well as the administra tor of our affairs, he will be called upon, when Parliament assembles—if it be not done before— fbr such official explanations as his Government may have received upon the subject. Lord De Grey cannot but know this, little else as he may know, that if the alleged murder—attended with the atrocities which even the Packet does not dare to deny—had been perpetrated by a gang of scurvy Irishmen—by the canaille, as the elegant and gentleman-like Packet would call his fellow creatures—the miscreants would be hunted (and they deserve it), we will not say to the death, but to condign punishment. There would be no hushing up the affair—that the Lord Lieutenant, • if he has the power of thinking at all, must know thll well. It was the Tory Chancellor, Lord Redesdale's aphorism—and it was perfectly true, until the Whigs came into power—that there was one law in Ireland for the rich, and another for the poor. People will speedily begin to think that the old system, denounced by the old Tory Chancellor, may come into full force once more, if some effective steps be not taken in the premises. THE SHORT TIME COMMITTEE AND THE MINISTERS: If we are rightly informed, the chief speaker at the whole of these conferences was Mr. G. A. Fleming, late Editor of the New Moral World, the organ of the Owenites. That one holding such opinions should eagerly seize the opportunity thus afforded of dilating upon the evils of machinery under the restrictive sys tem, and o! ts3ertino•, that no extension of our manu factures could possibly improve the condition of the labouring cla s, was all very natural. The apostles of Socialism omit no chance which presents itself of mak ing it appear that nothing, save the addition of a new social system, can ameliorate the condition of the suf fering classes. Sir Robert Peel appears almost a convert to the crude speculations of Robert Owen. If Ministers are actually inclined to favour the politico-economical views of the Socialists, let them boldly and honestly avow their in tention to do so ; but do not let them, in concert with the missionaries of that sect, attempt to bolster up the landowners' monopoly under the guise of extraordinary humanity to the working classes. Since writing the above, we have seen reports of three other conferences which have been held with the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Lyndhurst, and Lord Stanley The same names are appended to all—Mr. G. A. Fleming Socialist Missionary; Mr. Joshua Hobson, late pub lisher of the New Moral World, and also publisher of Feargus O'Connor's paper—the _Northern Star; Mr. Mark Crabtree, beerseller, and Messrs. T. S. Brooke and John Leech, whose occupations we have not learned. The members of the deputation appear to have been better pleased with the Duke of Buckingham than with any of the other Ministers on whom they waited ; but the report of their conference with him is very brief. By virtually expressing their willingness to support the food monopoly—from which all the worst evils of the factory system have sprung—the individuals composing the Socialist deputation purchased for themselves the liberty of talking to the members of the Cabinet for several hours on the evils of competition, machinery, and the other dogmas of Owenism ; and, what was of more importance still, of publishing to the world their crude speculations on those matters in the columns of the Times, and the other Tory .Journals, in connection with certain remarks of Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues. Altogether it seems to us that the tatir reflects but very little credit on Ministers. If they sincerely wish to gain the confidence of the labouring classes, it must be by some very different course than mixing themselves up with so contemptible a hoax as that of the soi-disant de putation from the Committee of Operatives of the West Riding of Yorkshire. —Manchester Guardian. ANOTHER SLIP ON THE LONDON AND CROYDON RAILWAY. On Friday morning, between eight and nine o'clock only a few minutes after the train which left Toole y' street at eight o'clock had passed the Newcross station much alarm was created by another most extensive slip of the cutting on the southern side, near a place called Finch's-bridge, and • immediately contiguous to, or ra ther a continuation of, the slip which took place a short time since. The quantity of earth which fell was im mense, and covered the rails on both sides for a distance of 140 feet, and to a depth of nine feet. It is very for tunate that this accident occurred after the passing of the train, or the effects might have proved as serious as that which so recently took place on the Great Western. There has been, however, as it is understood, a care ful watching of this spot for these last two months, in consequence of several flakes of earth having fallen at various times, from which a slip was anticipated, though not of so alarming a character as it has proved. A communication was instantly forwarded to Mr. Gregory, the resident engineer, who lost no time in repairing to the spot, and was shortly followed by Mr. Wilkinson, the Chairman, and Mr. Cubitt, the Consulting Engineer of the Company ; no less than 600 men were set to work, and with the aid of a quantity of earth waggons every exertion was made in en deavouring to remove the soil to a place near New cross. In the course of the day the number of men was increased to 1,000, and a platform was erected, which is to be covered with an awning, and is for the pur pose of conveying the passengers over the slip to the trains, which will be on that part of the line free from obstruction ; the effect of this will be to prevent the closing of the line, and enable the seve ral passengers to proceed on their journey without being detained longer than ten minutes. Gullies are being formed, but it - will be impossible to have the line pro perly cleared for upwards of a month. The soil is of a very pervious nature, composed of strata of blue clay, gravel, shells, ochre, &c., aria it is supposed that the re cent numerous alternations of wet and dry, frost and snow, have tended to destroy the adhesion of these various substances. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Illagaz;ne the sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the, week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandize _ Week Total. ended Name of Railway. O pened. £. s. d. Jan. 1 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 381 1,195 511 Dec.3l Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,4115 6 3 25 Brandling Junction 23 606 1 7 Jan. 1 Chester and Birkenhead .. 2 Dundee and Arbroath 2 Eastern Counties 1 Glasgow and Ayr , 1 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 221 789 1 5 . Grand Junet., Chester &Crewe 1031 No returns 1 Great North of England 45 889 0 11 2 Great Western 1 Hull and Selby 1 Lancaster & Preston Junction 20a 449 2 9J Dec.3l Liverpool and Manchester.-- 31 4,129 19 0 Jan. 1 London and Birmingham ll2l 11,716 19 7 6 London and Blackwell 1 London and Brighton 4 . 1 Ditto Shoreham Branch 4 London and Croydon lOl 349 12 oi r 6 London and Greenwich 3l 799 1 5 1 London and South Western Dec.3o Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 592 13 9 Jan. 3 Manchester & Birmingham 1 Manchester and Leeds 1 Midland Counties 57 2,111 14 4} 1 Newcastle and Carlisle 6oi 1,356 18 10 2 Northern and Eastern ... 1 North Midland .. North Union I Preston and Wyre l9l 176 5 5 3 Sheffield and Manchester 7 442 1 3 2 Ulster 2 York and North Midland 23 1,339 14 9 SUDDEN DEATH OF THE REV. R. RAT CLIFF E.—On Tuesday last the Rev. Gentleman left Acton Burnell, at an early hour, and on his arrival at Harley, two miles from Wenlock, about nine o'clock, two cotta gers saw him passing down the road, when he suddenly staggered and fell to the ground in a fit of apoplexy. They hastened to his assistance, and lifted him up ; but after breathing several heavy sighs, he expired. The body was removed to Acton Burnell the same day, and will be interred in the chapel to-morrow. The deceased was in his 70th year. He was a student at Douai College when the horrors of the French Revolution compelled the inmates of that semi nary to fly from France, and seek a shelter under the hospitable roofs of the wealthy members of the Catholic faith in Great Britain and other countries. He arrived at Acton Burnell, the seat of Sir Edward Smythe with other refugees, in 1793, where he remained up to the time of his death ; and, during the last twenty-six years, officiated as the Domestic Chaplain of the family. He was the last descendant of the house of Dement water, which suffered so much, in property and life, for their adheretc: to the cause of the Stuarts.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. THE SPANISH REGENCY. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. SlR—Absence fr)m London prevented my seeing until recently the speeches of the Lord Mayor of Dub lir, in which he assails the Regent, Government, and present institutions of Spain. I have read at the same time your just and admirable comments on them, with those of other Lfluential journals Connected by military service, as well as by valued relations of friendship, with that country, and feeling that if the imputations thus thrown out have any foundation, I am myself liable to a share of them, I trust I may be excused in offering a few remarks ou the subject. The facts specified in these speeches would seem, even if proved, scarcely in proportion to the sweeping inferences of criminality indulged in, and the fearful remedies invoked. But they are urged in the name of liberty by one long known as one of its ablest advocates, and, therefore, appear to challenge, in a peculiar de gree, acquiescence, or a frank avowal to the contrary. The Regent, it is alleged, " courted the aid of the most brutal and sanguinary mob in the world—that of Madrid ; who, when two gallant young gentlemen were on their trial, and the Court conceived that the terrible punishment of ten years' imprisonment would be suffi cient for their crime, the mob called for their destruc tion, and, with the approbation of Espartero, these young men were sacrificed." There is here an obvious mistake. It was the pro secutor appointed by Government, and not the Court, who conceived that ten years' imprisonment would be sufficient. And it was the Court, and not the mob, or the Regent, who, overruling this more lenient sugges tion, sentenced the prisoners to capital punishment. The approval of this finding of the Court by the Re gent, under the advice of his Ministers, is styled " slaughtering his brother officers." With as much propriety might (in my humble opinion) the punishment of Courvoisier be termed a " slaughter." The law which decrees death for high treason is com mon to all nations. Tae Legislatures which enact it may or may not be in the wrong. But in either case it would surely be an abuse of the privilege of discussion to heap contumely on public functionaries for not de viating from that which they have neither the power nor the right to alter.: The other prominent illustrations of the " despotism" of the Regent, dwelt on more than once, is that of an " eminent lawyer," tried (we are told) by some provin cial court and imprisoned for " merely defending his client, a clergyman." I have inquired from the only official source within reach, and am positively assured that no occurrence whatever, admitting of this applica tion of it, has taken place. The people of Madrid are, it is stated, the " most brutal and sanguinary mob in the world." How is this borne out by the event referred to? Notwithstanding the confusion and excited passions of a prolonged night conflict (except in the combat) neither loss of life nor injury of person or property appears to have occurred. The victory of the Constitution, the safety of the Queen, the presence of the Executive Chief of the State, were indeed hailed on the following morning with fervent enthusiasm. But so satisfied were the Government of the good and loyal disposition of the population, that the whole of the troops were with drawn to the frontiers ; the palace, Sovereign, and ca pital being left in the exclusive charge of the armed citizens. But though anxious to remonstrate, however reluct antly, against these injurious inaccuracies, I have far too strong a sense of Mr. O'Connell's memorable exertions in almost every good and just cause not to attribute them solely to the want of impartial informa tion, or of time (from the multiplicity of his functions) to attend to the transactions of foreign countries. But this conviction does not exonerate one from the duty of endeavouring to render justice to a friendly people struggling for the same sacred objects with ourselves. The leaders of the revolt at Madrid had ample time to prepare for trial. No discouragements were offered to the military or legal Counsel who honourably under took their defence. Five of them paid the forfeit of their lives for their error. No one has uttered a doubt of the completeness of the evidence against them ; and, as to the numbers thus subjected to punishment, you have already, Mr. Editor, pertinently suggested whether con siderably more might not have been deemed requisite, were the Palace of a British Sovereign similarly attacked. Why, the rigour of our own code - has been proverbial ; nor has its mitigation in practice been by any means conspicuous. For instances, the execution of Thistle wood and his wretched accomplices, whose crime, how ever atrocious, was only intended—not committed ; tbat of the many hundreds banged, drawn, and quartered, beside vist numbers left to perish in crowded gaols and holds of ships after the last rebellion in England, not a century since ; and even coming down to present times, were not comparatively far harsher penalties exacted for the mere local riots at Bristol ? We may leave out of question the barbarous system of razzias (for warfare it does not deserve to be called), prosecuted at this day in Africa, not owing to any casual excitements of the soldiery, but deliberately adopted as a process of exter mination, by authority of successive ministries of France, that of the present Conservative M. Guizot inclusive! The present Government of Spain is, io my opinion, to say the least, amongst the ,most lenient and forbearing of Europe. I cordially concur in Mr. O'Connell's regrets for the fate of tle young officers tp whom he has alluded, as well as for that of their few unfortunate companions. They were each of them distinguished by an honourable military career ; but pre-eminently so their deeply la mented chief, the chivalrous General Diego Leon, whose last aspirations in this life were for the preserve tion of those rights for which he had so often fought, and against which he had unconsciously, therefore, we must believe, on a single occasion raised his arm. But what other sentiment can this suggest than that of ad ditional resentment against the heartless and shallow instigators, whether foreign or not, who could hale de ceived and misled to his ruin so guileless and noble a spirit ! The unfairness, however, bas been adverted to of thus restricting our sympathy. It was obviously far better deserved by the soldiers of the line and national guards, who fell, while faithfully as well as gallantly re sisting this deplorable enterprise ; and by none more than by the valiant inhabitants of Pamplona, who— acquainted by sad experience with the horrors of civil war, and yet preferring the destruction of their city and every consequent peril, to compromise with the enemies (according to their belief) of the Constitution and a patriot Regent—resolutely withstood in their open and defenceless streets, at musket-shot distance, a protracted bombardment, remorselessly poured on them, from the ramparts of their own citadel. In what country has this been surpassed—whether as a fete of arms, or as a trait of devotion to public interest? The National Guards, under the direction of the municipalities of San Sebastian, Santander, Sarragossa, and almost every other town of the kingdom, either ac tually took the field with the same intent, or equally de- monstrated their determination to stand by the Govern ment, and emulate the spirit of Madrid and Pamplona. The difficulty was to restrain, not stimulate the general zeal. The conspiracy, though not wanting, it was said, in the sinews of war—though emanating, as generally believed, from a powerful external source, was thus, by a spontaneous national effort, crushed in its birth. %Vas there ever a people, in the history of the world, who thus came forward, at a moment of need, for the sup port of one whom they deemed a tyrant, or of laws which had not their esteem ? No ; these are not the men whom the champion of Irish liberty would, on being reminded of these facts, deliver up again, bound with ignominious chains, to the tender mercies of a French army ! But what is more satisfactory, is the conviction, that the accoropliiihment of any such project would sig nally fail. and assuredly recoil on whoever should at tempt it, in the present day. The Regent is charged with being a " robber of the Church." You have already shown that not an act of the Cortes, touching this class of property, has originated with Ministers of his choice. All these measures date from the Regency of Christina, and the Ministries of Mendizabal and Calatrava. Should it be yet contended, however, that spoliation of this kind has really been perpetrated, then I must take leave to say, that the Lord Mayor himself can no more disclaim than I can, having been a zealous accomplice in that unholy deed. To prove this, it seems only necessary to enumerate the strenuous aid afforded by himself and family towards raising some regiments of the British Legion in Ireland ; the numerous officers appointed at his recommendation to the Queen's army, all of whom assisted in fighting the battles of clerical robbery ; the coincidence of the acts of the Legislature for abolishing monasteries—for appropriating their landed possessions to the State—for regulating a pro vision for ecclesiastics from the public funds, and even that of the Constitution itself, having been all passed or adopted during the co-operation of the British Auxi liaries in the ranks of the Liberal army. Neither should we omit to mention his generous support of this corps, and the cause it was engaged in, against all their assailants in Parliament ; and not merely by a lawyer's opinion on the right of succession to the throne, but by a vigorous, impassioned eloquence, which he may, it ap pears, forget, but of which I preserve a fresh and grate ful recollection. Spain is taunted for the embarrassment of her trea sury, and the clergy may, it is deeply to be regretted, be amongst the sufferers. Few countries, however, have passed through a similar ordeal without a similar result. The North American States were for a long time unable, and seemingly not yell willing, to settle accounts, even with their own native army. The French were bankrupt repeatedly during their revolution. The guillotine and bayonet supplied their deficiencies. The anguish of a violent internal contest has but ceased in Spain, and she is already straining every nerve, by peaceful and useful means, to meet her obligations, gradually, but to the utmost of her ability. And if dis appointments on this bead in future occur, it must be distinctly attributable to the unprovoked policy of a powerful neighbour, which will not allow her to deve lope her resources or reduce her military establishments. Louis Philippe receives in these speeches a warm eulogium ; on which, I will only beg to say, that there THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1842. is at least a difficulty in reconciling the present with some former opinions expressed in Parliament on the political character of that Monarch. But the portrait drawn of Espartero involves soma thing more than a difficulty ; for who that ever saw or know the original will discover in it the remotest fea ture of resemblance ? " Vile, wicked, base, bitter, treacherous, tyrannical, jacobinical, &c., one who has seized, without virtue or merit, by artifice, bribery, and intrigue, on the whole civil and military power of his country," against whom all voices and all hands should be raised, against whom a crusade of the civilized world should be directed ! Such are the char3cteris- tics, such the pith of the epithets, bestowed on this occasion! . Mr. O'Connell has been miraculously imposed on, and should he extend his inquiries, not confining them to parties, perhaps unavoidably aggrieved by the mere course of events, I am convinced he will be disposed, with the candour and manliness that belong to him, to acknowledge that he has been deceived. I should think there is not an individual in existence more conspicuously the opposite of the above descrip tion than him to whom it is appiied. 0.. e who, what ever may be objected to him, possesses, by general noto riety, a frankness, kindness, and generosity of disposition —which have, in fact, been important elements of his success. Equally is it known, that if his earnest ad vice and entreaties had been listened to, the necessity for calling him to the station he so well fills, but never sought or thought of, could not have arisen, and his predecessor must have been still at the head of her daughter's Government. He was lately received by a procession of the population of a city through which be passed with this brief inscription on their banners—that, " Above all others he had the honesty to obey and the courage to execute the laws." This is the description of tyranny of which he is sup posed by Spaniards to be guilty. He has checked licentiousness and vindicated discipline with unswerving sternness, and yet his generous, affectionate personal conduct, and brilliant soldiership, won for him the hearts of the army. He has shown none of the infatu ated egotism which shipwrecked the power of the greatest of modern warriors. Nor has he the poor am bition, because placed in the ducal rank, of giving to an aristocracy that prestige and consequent influence which the general interests of the nation may claim at his hands. His prudence, fortitude, and constancy— the example of his undaunted courage and endurance, were the means by which he happily terminated (amidst obstacles that no commander of these times has encoun tered), a cruel and devastating civil war. And no man ever rose to eminence through the different gradations of his fortune by a straighter or more honourable path. These are the actions, the virtues, and merits which, with the public conviction of his sin cerity, elevation, and goodness of purpose, have pointed him out as capable and worthy of the greatest trust that can be reposed in man—the protection of the in- I fent liberties of his country ! The destruction of the Constitution which embodies those liberties will not be desired by any Liberal who informs himself on the subject. Austria is the gaoler of Italy—Russia brandishes her sword over the man `led corpse of Poland ; is France to be invited to the same odious office in Spain ? Fortunately, however, to this extent, at least for a permanency, it is impossi ble. But the scheme of dismembering her territory was avowed ; and of the pretension of peculiar access to her Sovereign, of swaying her measures, of over throwing her present Regency and Government, the evidence is not less morally conclusive. The last vain effort of foreign influence in Spanish counsels was to destroy the municipal rights, on the basis of which the new institutions rest. This, and this alone, was the cause of the change of the Regency. The extinction of these local rights, so long enjoyed and cherished, must, it is well known, immediately follow the resump tion of that influence. Thus may probably be afforded an antidote to the distractions of party, and new bonds of union between every village, town, and city of the kingdom against the unwise interference and hated do mination with which they are cnnstantly threatened from the Tuileries. It is true that Spaniards, for the most part, look on the British people, including the Irish, with the most friendly feelings, and on the Bri tish Government, be it Whig, Tory, or Radical, as as their truest, safest, and most powerful ally. Of this one of the causes is our abstinence from all improper meddling. It furnishes no Just ground of umbrage, and with us, at all events, should insure reciprocal disposi tions. Thy form of Government they have adopted, after so many conflicts, carries out the representative principle, perhaps, more consistently than any other which exists. And what is, above all, indispensable, it appears to harmonise with the manners, customs, and wishes of the people. In its stability and the prosperity it promises to Spain, the true interests of France and of all other countries, are materially interested. But it guarantees a greater degree of freedom than is per mitted to their neighbours. Herein appears a cause of hostility ; and whence it seems conjectured that a quar rel is sought as a pretext for the renewal of the policy of Napoleon and the elder Bourbons, in 1808 and 1823. The disclosures' on the Syrian question ; the delu sions successfully practised in regard to it, on the French people ; the vast warlike preparations (not by any means yet wholly abated), while not a Power of Eu rope had a thought of curtailing the due influence of France ; the enormous fortress constructing, whether as a Parisian prison or the basis of foreign conquest, or as both, remaining to be shown ; the Cabinet design admitted to have been entertained of seizing the Ba learic Isles—to say nothing of the events of last Octo ber—render anything from that quarter possible. The jealousies and suspicions of Europe have been again awakened. Is it certain that the great Powers would now view with confidence an important enter. prise beyond the Pyrenees, or would all stand by with folded arms? The French factions, too, of which we hear so much, are they for ever subjued ? At all events t h e cov ert system of hostility will no longer avail, and if the overt be resorted to, it will not this time be a march to the Trocadero. Spain is tolerably fore warned ; she has now a national army, one worthy of that name. The national spirit bas gained new force — the national intellect new development ; and amongst the consequences, it seems far from improbable, would be that which awaited the two last. Frenck dynasties who undertook the same unprincipled project. Having spent some years of my life in that country in the former and late ward, the associations ad verted to occasion the interest I have expressed and the observations I have offered on this topic, which I trust my opponent in those opinions will receive as they are meant, in the feeling of just appreciation to which his transcendent services to our common country so richly entitle him—l am, Sir, obediently yours, Bryanston-square, Jan. 4. DE LACY EVANS. WOOLWICH.-FRIDAY. ROYAL ARTILLERY. Captain Griffiths proceeds to Ipswich, to relieve Cap tain Burnaby, as recruiting officer at that station, the latter officer having nee' appointed Assistant Fire master at Plymouth. The Master-General has been pleased to approve of Second Captain Taylor being posted to the first battalion, and Second Captain Young to the third battalion. The Master • General has been pleased to make the following appointments, viz.:— Brevet Major Sandilands to be Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, vice Romer, promoted to Lieute nant-Colonel. Captain John Bloomfield to succeed Major Sandilands as Captain in the Brigade of Horse Artillery. Major Sandilands is, therefore, posted to the fifth battalion; Lieutenant-Colonel Gray is posted to the sixth battalion, on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Sinclair; and Lieute nant-Colonel Romer to the eighth battalion, on Major's pay, vice Gray. JAN.- 6.—The detachment at the Tower was relieved by Major Vaughan's company, 6th battalion. Major Vaughan and Lieutenant Crofton accompanied the de tachment. _ _ Captain Lethbridge takes charge of Captain Drew's company, 9th battalion. at present in battery, in place of Captain Mitchell, appointed Adjutant to the 3d battalion. Major Eyre's company, 7th battalion, has commenced a course of Repository instruction:, The Master-General has been pleased to approve of Second Captain Mitchell being appointed Adjutant to the 3d battalion, provisionally under the regulations con tained in the general order of Feb. 5, 1826„vice Griffith, promoted. Second Captain Innes is, therefore, posted to the 6th battalion, vice Mitchell. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Monkey steam-vessel, Second Master William Saunders (acting), is ordered from Chatham to Wool wich, to proceed to Pembroke, in place of the Alban steam-vessel, as the latter steamer will have to remain longer in Dock at Deptford, to have her defects made good, than was at first anticipated. Ships in Woolwich Harbour.—William and Mary yacht ; Mastiff surveying vessel ; Woodlark and Violet tenders ; Firebrand, 'hearwater, Lightning, Meteor, and Kite steam vessels. In Woolwich Basin.—Salamander, Confiance, Colum bia, and Acheron steam-vessels. Woolwich Dock-yard. —Yesterday afternoon the heads of the various departments were introduced to Captain Sir Francis A. Collier, C.B. and K.C.H., on his entering upon the office of Superintendent of the Woolwich Dock mustered, employed as s n u t s h u a a t w x t h e enn say yard, d e , wa naval nadp ptestablishment t - l ee ie rine charge of the Dock-yard takes place. HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA. — We learn from a source on which unquestionable reli ance can he placed, that the arrival of his Majesty the King of Prussia may not be expected before the 20th instant, and as that potentate is the especial guest of' her Majesty, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle will b e the abodes of that Sovereig n during his Majesty's vi s it in this country. On his M a jesty landing at Woolwich he will be escorted by a troop of the Royal horse Guards to Buckingham Palace, where apartments are already or dered for the reception of his Majesty and Suite. His Excellency Chevalier Bunsen has, in consequence of' his Royal Master's visit, taken the elegant mansion of Lord Stuart de Rothesay on Carl ton House-te rrace, the same which Count Stroganoff, the Ambassador E xtraor di nary from Russia, engaged during the Coronati on o f h er Ma jesty in 183 S. His Excellency intends givin g a series of sumptuous entertainments in honour of the King of Prussia's visit. THE LATE WALTER. H. WATTS.I Died on Tuesday last, at his lodgings in Earl's court-terrace, Old Brompton, after many months of severe Linen and painful suffering, which he endured with the most manly resignation, Walter Henry Watts, Bel, at the age of 64. He was the son of Captain Watts, of the Royal Navy, and we have heard him say that he was born in the Bay of Bengal ; and at a time when Colonels were under the discipline of nursery maids, the same abusive system ex tended to the navy, and Mr. Watts was entered a midshipman, and received pay, from the time of his birth. Mr. Watts was educated in Chester, and began life as au artist. He travelled through Scotland and its islands, towards the latter end of the last century, with Dr. Garnet, and contributed the drawings to the tour published by that gentleman, in quarto. He pursued ' his profession some time in Glasgow, and repaired to the metropolis about forty years ago. Professional distinction is slowly acquired here, and without any idea of de voting himself permanently to literature, Mr. Watts was induced to accept of an engagement as a Parliamen tary reporter on the Morning Post, at a time when the House of Commons could boast of a Pitt, a Fox, a Sheridan, a Windham, and a Tierney. As a reporter, his qualifications were of the very first class, and the value of his services was acknowledged by conditions more than usually advantageous, which enabled him to devote much of the time of the session,.and all the recess, to professional pursuits. As a miniature painter, he attained considerable ex cellence, and was a regular exhibitor at Somerset-house for many years. At one time he occupied very expensive apartments in Bond-street, and wished to devote himself exclusively to art; but the experiment did not succeed, and ha was obliged to continue his connection with the newspaper press, which only terminated within a few years of his death. With the exception of a brief period during which he was one of the editors of the Courier, Mr. Watts was from 1817 a parliamentary reporter on the Morning Chronicle. He was the author and editor of theAnnualObituary, and of the " Political Memento," and contributed, for above twenty years, criticisms on the fine arts to the Literary Gazette. Mr. Watts possessed qualities rarely found together in the same man. The wealth of worlds would not have induced him to do or say what he could not reconcile with the strictest principle ; and he was, at the same time, indulgent in the extreme to the weaknesses of others. A man of a kinder disposition never lived, and his purse and services were always at the command of the distressed. Of a chivalrous disposition, he held everything mean or little in peculiar abhorence ; and though driven about for forty years in a metropolis, the atmosphere of which is sappesed not to be peculiarly fa vourable to exalted principles, it may be said with con fidence of Mr. Watts, that he remained to the last a model of all that was pure, honourable, and disinterested. No one who knew him could ever conceive of Mr. Watts that, under any circumstances, he would not prove himself an example of the most unbending integrity. In his private circle he was beloved, and we used hardly say that his virtues obtained for him the highest consideration with all who were connected with the daily press. He possessed an influence with them which no man ever before possessed, and, in all probability, no man ever will . again. We close our short tribute to the memory of this excellent man with the following extract from a notice in the Lite rary Gazette, by his friend Mr. Jerdan : " He was an artist and an author ; and in both pur suits his career was honourable and honoured. In truth, his manly integrity and unflinching firmness in every circumstance of life shed a lustre over it so bright, -! that the greatest of men belonging to history might be proud to have it like as a hale round their name and memory for ever. There could be no station in so ciety which it would not illuminate and adorn ; and there are hundreds of living witnesses to what we now write, in London, who will bear testimony to the fact, that we could employ no language too expressive or forcible when speaking of the excellence of the indi vidual who has been taken from amongst us. It was not his general attainments, though they were of no com mon order ; it was not his judgment, though penetrating and sound; it was not his artistical skill, though of ac knowledged talents; it was not his authorship, though of the purest English style and the highest British prin ciples; it was not these gifts and qualities, separately or combined, which endeared him to all who had the hap piness of his intimacy; but it was the possession of a fine and superior nature, which shone through all lie said or did; and made even slight acquaintance look up to him as a model of uncompromising worth and human virtue. Mr. Watts was very many years a reporter of the debates in Parliament for the press; at one period for the Morning Post, and at a later period for the Morning Chro nicle. In the discharge of the duties thus imposed upon him he has not been surpassed, and seldom equalled. On all difficult occasions he was resorted to as the referee and oracle of the parties with whom this employment con nected him ; and it may be recollected, that when the Duke of Cambridge presided at the festival on behalf of the infant formation of the institution for the benefit of newspaper writers, at the Thatched House Tavern, about three years ago, Mr. Watts was chosen by that body to be their spokesman, and delivered on the occasion an address of singular appropriateness and brilliant effect, for which his Royal Highness complimented him in the warmest terms. He was, indeed, one of the most zealous founders of this most laudable Association, and always took an earnest interest in its prosperous establishment." THE SHORT-TIME COMMITTEE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-I am really astonished at the impudence at tempted to be palmed off upon the country, by the prominence and importance given to the inter views of the " Short-time Committee" and the Government. These fellows appear as the representa-• tives of the working classes of the West Riding In the name of my fellow-workmen, I protest against such nits • - representation. What, Sir, represent the working classes, and say nothing of the price of food I—nothing of dear bread!—nothing of the right of every man to exchange the fruit of his labour for the corn, &c., of other countries ! I marvel at this (doubtless well paid) impudence. Who are these men ? Whence came they ? Who sent them, and trained them to enact this farce ? " Aye, there's the rub." Let Lord A***** an swer. The public should know, Sir, that the whole thing has been got up for the express purpose of diverting the public mind from the great " master grievance ' (as Lord Melbourne truly called it) of the Bread-tax, and to make it appear that theirs were the opinions of the working classes I Pray, Sir, let me call upon the working men of Leeds and other large towns to appoint a real, not a sham depu tation, who shallwipe away the stain inflicted on them by the senseless jargon of those fellows about machinery caus ing their present sufferings ! What employment should we have but for the machines, when with them, we can only barely compete with other nations ? And why ? Simply because we pay double for our feed. Machinery Faugh Would a man have a well dug with fingers and nails, because it would employ more hands than if done with a spade and pick-axe ? and yet, herein lies the whole question. If any be so foolish, let him ask, how many wells would be wanted at the price they would then cost ? and he will see at once the utter absurdity of attempting to do without machinery. The hypocrisy also of these landowners joining the outcry ought to be exposed. Just think—these very men are themselves offering premiums all over the country for the best ma chines for the purposes of agriculture ! and the renegade Times is printed with perhaps o ne o f th e most wonder ful and labour-saving machines in the world ! Sir, I admire the noble stand you have made for the working classes, in advocating the destruction of their worst enemy—the Bread-tax ; and I trust you will yet live to see your reward. A deputation should immediately be sent to Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham, to do away with the mummery so recently practised, and as they were so delighted to see and receive such a deputa tion, they could not refuse to see another, though with very different views. To conclude, as there is a law to keep up the price of food, let them be sure to ask where is the law to keep up the price of labour. If the for mer must be still maintained, the latter is only justice. ONE OF THE WORKING CLASSES. Manchester, Jan. 6, 1842. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTII, FRIDAY.—The Volcano steam-ship, Lieut.-Corn. C. J. Featherstone, sailed early this morn ing for Woolwich, with the marines of the Powerful, one hundred and twenty in number. She came in yes terday afternoon with eighty-six volunteers from Ply mouth, fifty-iiix of which were for the Vindictive, twenty-seven for the Queen. and three for the Warspite. The last named ship is now fully manned, with the ex ception of a dozen or fourteen hands. The Powerful, 84, Captain M. Seymour, was paid off yesterday, and it is expected that she will shortly be re commissioned by Captain M. Lockyer. A number of her hands have volunteered to the Queen, now at Spithead, the Alfred, at Sheerness, and the Carysfort, fitting out a t the Dockyard. The arysfort has obtained the great es z proportion of these volunteers. The Warspite, 50, Capt. the Right Hon. Lord John H a y, has been reported ready for sea for some days. She will go out of harbour on Tuesday, and will not remain at Spithead more than a few hours, whence she will proceed to the Downs or Sheerness, preparatory to her Sailing to Ostend or Antwerp, to convey the King of Prussia to this country. The Vindictive, 50, Captain T. Nicholas, is ready for sea. She, as well as the Warspite, is a first-rate frigate, and admirably appointed ; but of the two the Warspite is considered the finer, and is nearly 200 tons heavier. The Vindictive's crew do not by any means admit of the Warspite being the finer frigate, and there is an extreme jealousy between the two ships' companies on this point, so much so that when the Warspite and the Vindictive's liberty men meet on shore there is generally a battle be tween them. This has been carried to so great an ex tent that the civil authorities have been obliged to inter fere, there being upwards of 100 belligerents engaged in the last rencontre. DEATH OF THE GOVERNOR OF THE MILI TARY KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR.—On Friday morning Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Basset, who had filled the ap pointment of Governor of the Military Knights of Windsor during a period of about 20 years, expired at the Governor's residence, in the Lower Ward, at the advanced age of 85 years. The deceased, who had been suffering from indisposition for a long time previous to his death, was late of the sth (Northumberland) Regi ment of Foot. He had seen great service, hav'ng per formed an active part during the American war in 1788. In the year 1799 he accompanied the late Duke of York in the unfortunate expedition to Holland, where he landed on the 27th of August in that year, and was engaged in the actions fought on the 10th and 19th of the following September, and on the 2d and 6th of October. H e afterwards proceeded to Gibraltar with his regiment, where he remained for a considerable time. He was much respected by his military brethren at Windsor, and he died deeply lamented by a large circle of friends. THEATRE R()YAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 10, Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Play of THE MERCHANI OF VENICE, from the Text of Shakspeare. Dike, Mr. G. Bennett; Antonio, Mr. Phelps ; Bassani°, Mr. Anderson; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Macready; Portia. Mrs. Warner ; Neris,a, Mrs. Keeley ; Jessica, miss E. Phillips. After which will he repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, caled HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors to be opened at Half past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55.. Second Price, 2., 6a. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Price Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. •••••••••••••••••• THEATRE ROYAL, COVENI-UARDEN. • UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 10, Will be performedEhakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.—Theseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Harley; Flute, Mr. ()sherry; Snout, Mr. Mea dows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW, Doors to !•e opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, Norma, with the New Pantomime. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS TONES. Upwards of 30,000 persons have witnessed the Pantomime at this Theatre, pronounced the best of the Season. THIS EVENING, JAN. 10, Will be acted a New Domestic Drama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself; supported by the entire Company. After which, a Nautical Burletta, entitled JACK JUNK ; or, a SEAMAN'S FIRESIDE.—Jack Junk, with Two Songs Mr. Walton. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN ; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Hatlequin ' M. Hnline ; Patch, M. R oc h e t ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers , Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantomime. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Enormous success, and Second Grand Juvenile Week, in con sequence of the thousands of Children that have witnessed the performance of the Pantomime as Second Piece ; and First Week of " The Story of Geraldine !" THIS EVENING, JAN. 10, Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE STORY OF GERALDINE ; OR, THE TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle, Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin cent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ' • and the Opening of the Pantomime supp or ted by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. To conclude with THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.— Ilowbcll, Mr. Gardner ; Gimbo, Mr. Howard; Aboulifan, Mr. James ; Irza, Mrs. Lee. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, lg.—Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. NEW STRAND THEATRE. OPEN EVERY EVENING. Combined Talent—Crowded- Houses—Enraptured Audiences. Those who wish to obtain comfortable seats to witness the extraordinary wonders accomplished at this neat little Theatre must not delay until a late period of the evening ; numbers during the past week have been unable to gain admittance. JACOBS!—MAGICIAN JACOBS ! has once more made his fame resound throughout the Metropolis. All Wizards and. Magicians who have preceded this great Professor of the Ne cromantic Art may now hide their diminished heads, and re turn to that oblivion from whence they came. His Ventrilo quism is astonishing : he imitates the voices of twelve persons, to the surprise of everybody. The following performances are also added : —Mons. ROUSSEAU, the FRENCH EQUILI 13RIST ; the PATAGONIAN WONDERS, the DISSOLV ING PORTRAITS, and Mr. J. SCATES on WHEAT STONE'S PATENT CONCERTINA. Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Children, Is. 6(1. Pit, Is. 6d. ; Children, Is. Gal lery, 6d. Clo:e Ten Minutes to Eleven. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 10, 1842. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have no recollection of receiving any Hudibrastic lines of a political tendency. A Portuguese Bondholder, who writes from Guis borough, will find his request attended to next week. THE WEATHER.—NOON, JANUARY 8. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET Thermometer... 29 1 Highest 4l I Lowest 27 Barometer 30.5.—Wind N.E.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WA TER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning. 59 minutes after 0 I Evening `.. ) 2 minutes after 1. LONDON: MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1842. The strong language used by Mr. STEVENSON, which we quoted on Saturday, and the almost equally strong language of the American PRE SIDENT'S Message, preclude the possibility of supposing that the United States will submit to our clai.o of visiting their vessels. At the same time, the language used by Lord PALMER STON, and adhered to in substance by Lord ABERDEEN in his letter to Mr. STEVENSON, pre cludes the possibility of supposing that England can, without dishonour, recede from her claim to examine any American vessels, which her naval officers may deem liable to suspicion. Lord ABERDEEN said— " It has been the invariable practice of the British navy, and, as the undersigned believes, of all the navies in the world, to ascertain by visit the realnationality of mer chant vessels met with on the high seas, if there be good reason to apprehend their illegal character. In certain la titudes, and for a particular object, the vessels are vi sited not as American, but either as British vessels engaged in an unlawful traffic, and carrying the flag of the United States for a criminal purjose, or as be longing to States which have by treaties conceded to Great Britain the right of searc h, and which right it is attempted to defeat by fraudulently bearing the flag of the Union; or, finally, they are visited as piratical outlaws, possessing no claim to any flag or nationality whatever. The Noble Lord then proceeds to discuss the possibility of Mr. STEVENSON maintaining that England ought to allow her own subjects, or the subjects of other States with which she has con cluded treaties to defeat her laws, and asserts, that " unless Mr. STEVENSON can maintain these propositions the whole fabric of his argument falls to the ground." England, therefore, is resolved - to maintain, as the Times positively asserts, the right of visiting every ship showing American colours, in certain latitudes, which the officers of her MAJESTY'S ships may regard with suspicion, and of making the captain of that ship prove her nationality, and prove that she is navigated according to the laws of the United States. The United States is equally resolved to resist the exercise of that right, and the conflicting views of the statesmen of the two countries threaten such serious con sequences that we must again revert to the subject. This question involves a war between the two countries, by which the industrious people ahine, as is well known, suffer, and of which they pay ail the penalties. Statesmen and military ►nen who urge it on, and naval captains who implicate the country by their intemperate zeal, '110..)' gain honour and glory by conducting it or carrying it on; and they never have such strong motives as the industrious classes for avoiding the cala mities of war. The people, then, must exa mine this question, and must express all op►ci►on whether or not they will sanction a war with the Ay) 00 .- 2. 4 0!f4 4 ' A z ,)414 11, 4,o l Vraza 0 41 • ,•••• XV, tilyg MORNING SUN United States to enforce the doctrines of Lord PALMERSTON and Lord ABERDEEN. It must at once excite great suspicion 111 the Liberal party, to see the right of England to visit and search American ships now strenuous l y urged and maintained by the Tory Press. It bee been taken up by the Times, the Morning PA the Quarterly Review, the Morning Herald, &C', and it is pl eased vehemently by these high: flying monarchical Tories against theßepublicaus, wh° ll/ , they continually d er id e an d d eprec i a te. W it !: them it is a personal quarrel, founded on o ' l ' hatred of freedom. They press it, too, in the 'Wi le of humanity, wh en th ey i were t h e men who resil ed to the utmost of their power, through a succe f of years, every att em pt to c h ec k t h e progress °f the slave trade, or meliorate the condition of the slaves. It excites great suspicion, too, that the pall which is so eager to involv e us i n war, in ° l.dr to promote the advantage of th e Africans, is, the advocate of monopoly at home; and while it Pr it tends to feel for the suffering negroes $ cruelly starves our own people, inflicting thousands instances a more lingering. and pain middle ful death th an ever di sgrace d the ~, passage. While we feel that the Tory cant a b° ha s humanity is a sh eer p re t ex t, we canno t forget.t' s the tree re p u bli cans, against w h om t h e y vi ell direct the wrath o f our h umane p eo pl e , are, t" he dwellers in the boundless plains of the Mis 6l '; sippi, and off er t o our starv i ng mu ltit u des t " , food which the Monopolists withold from til eill ; A war against the m wou ld b e an e ff ec t ua l rnet' e of indirectly pres erv i ng t h e monopo ly of bread-taxers. tUG Another source of suspicion is found in allies of our Tories. Russia, Austria, Pruss i t t and France form th e l eague which is to di ctate a new code of inte rna ti ona l laws to the Repu bo whose capacious. bosom yielding nourishmen t all who ask it, whose strong arms to O fe a, them, and cheap institutions constitute a s tan i a ing condemnation of all the Monarchieg. ,a . r th despotisms of Europe. Is England to unite W . l o f them to put down freedom under th e pretf,%'' putting down slavery ? yd' The language used by the defenders an vocates of this holy league, is calculated tV 4;.ce cite grave suspicions. They want to en f° ,:d " maritime order," just as they h a v e establi 4 ' terrestrial order, or slavery; they want to s9res a "police over the sea," as they have spre, , l ier over the land ; they lik en a s hip t o a trave' t; and they contend, as the latter is subject t° l / 30 0 his passport overhauled on the Continent/ s° e a shipowner can complain if his vessel be stepp e , till she has proved to the satisfaction of the ',; tain of the vessel stopping her that she right to wear the tiag she hoits, as a travelled if stopped by gens d'armes on the Continent, aprd compelled to prove that he is entitled to Ca the passport he exhibits. de' Passports are inventions to preserve . o r 01 They are to prevent the escape of criminals/ $ . O , enable a Government to bring offenders to J# tice. That is their best defence, but they °l e o prodigious annoyance to honest and ioneetieor, men. Let these Powers obtain the s4P e e t e of maritime England to establish a police 0 11 ,,, e (1 sea—let our people approve of the plan now lirtlop, by the Tories in the name of humanity, ef ,s e of ping and examining every ship in time of Pe av o io which a naval officer may choose to ente r $ l , suspicions—and very soon no vessel wiq e °i ice lowed to cross the seas unm o l e st e d by th .d el l to oe . cruizers of all the tyrants of Europe: a te' of their victims would then be . able ,todstoti ; fuge from their wrath in the United StatOt ea rti vessel would then be able to cross the sea:eir m : the on a traffic of which they disapprovederfe commerce of England a sea police .t 4: .P ti9 B maritime order would be a fatal enthralmtl"l o o hope that our own merchants and shiOr. - $ ll who would not submit to such a practice. ; 105 t careful not to support the present cIOMM i rb e the United States, lest the precedent l ier-C#' applied to themselves. • e ' From these circumstances, thoug4o l %e l ( I ' 4 our Liberal Co n t em p orar i es have, salt. side of the T or i es , an d o f L or d PALbitt i ? 7 , i ' look on the claims, now put forili l b,y, o !";, e rr vernment with great dislike, and we- 50 . '` deavour to show that they are . foundedA lt° 47 ther on new and erroneous assumption4 ,- may stand alone in our resistance to th.e. t ic made in the name of England as againti o ol United States, but it is better to be righ t ." than wrong with a great multitude. It is rather late to begin our stateole:;4 principles, and our argument at the tail _ fo ri , many observations, and we must, the content ourselves with observing t hat the co of now made by England has entirely gr ° `. fig out of a new set of circumstances, and 11,,e1t itself a novelty should unquestionably 4 1 c° enforced by violence on the unwilling joil t 0 of any other Go vernmen t. I n con tradic t asg er i my Lord A BERDEEN , we w ill venture tc)vritl4l' that it never was t h e pract i ce o f t he f iei t f navy, nor of any nav y, t o ascerta i n , by .heat during peace, the real na ti ona li ty of Ifl, e ' r d e l, ? vessels nzet with on th e hi g h seas, if e lf good reason to apprehend their Wee, e re'' racter. When th e nat i ons are at pea ce ti ! t h 1)f; no motive for examining vessels met ' 111 0 51 : the high seas. I t wou ld b e a gratuito° s 4 o „, of time. Ex ce pt a man - o f- war b e sen t after ill' particular pirate v es se l, or some partieu i o i oe gal trafficker, it is not the practice to e°o6 O_•P vessels met with on the high seas duri°7 a - t` In fact, the right of visit, or the l i r' It 1 . search, is altogether a right of war. oe s , instituted and acknowledged solely as of preventing an enemy from receiving s ti . t r to (l" and never was either practised or sub or; during peace. We are now at peace, an d a tiO fore, according to the customary law of a 0 we have no right to visit American ship; oci t e But the American flag, it is said, l 9 bets carry on a trade which we and some O t an d ‘ tions have recently declared to be piracP e ao tl3: ' order to put an end to that it is conten d , t in certain latitudes where ships are hrible oi g '0 picion, vessels bearing the Americanflaviej be stopped and made to prove to all is i°e3 cruizer that they are American vess f 1 .13 it, t navigated according to the laws of llt r States. Now this declaring a parti de of O piracy is a complete novelty in the e a it' s , Lions. We are not sure, however wele °°l- to our zeal for humanity, that it is wit l ).. fi l cno do pe To kidnap the blacks, as is sometime b ,a' the Slavers, is undoubtedly almost as bo o' . our practice of impressment; tobuy those e e l already enslaved, however heinons atv °l i fe ° Tr morality, can scarcely be called piracY.,oe latter never had the sanction of the ti' world; the slave trade, and slavery, receive: le t i sanction for ages. To class the slave Wlao ir piracy, is, therefore, a novelty, arid we l e i whether it be proper to enforce a no ve others by such extreme measures as stti American ships at sea, and making the c s .r fr 0 111 P prove that they are bona fide American A The Quarterly Review admits that "Pr° ircf i t thi s l q a u t i e o s n t i o a n n l d ias t r g e r a o t w i out ofThe o ur sTimesla that" it has arisen upon the slave trade tree reced?' "It is only a means of enforcing Cala r e a" n en actments of partial obligation." 'O IF been careful to obtain the consent of other .og°l where we could, to our means of etlf° l l .. ez t . i ,e o their subjects obedience to our e nact . lo e • P i aea l l the Government never thought itselftu.st:tig t , P e , enforcing obedience, without first obtalos'restioi consent of other nations. Hence our .a ht nationsuld havegiving sary had such a right been, s w e i a t r h e. h t , h N o r s h e icl w 1 oi ls , - l o ce w my Lord ABERDEEN, always in 00 1 bee a n olun ielP ol ) " and the piracy being novel and ary t o be peace. The enactments creating the niternailonal—it was clearly necess 0 0 time consent j O t i sv e e v s e s r e y is, i t n o d : s P t e a t b iri l i e s t i l l t a S e j o V n e t i ra %:e s il i t , mutualN%''a( e l l c Y o d Slate, fir' tilt' fir' fuse • and theY 0 1 of our municipal law. 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