The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-01 00:00:00

DNESDAY

without a hearing—a bearing long deferred, if you
will, but still inevitable, on the meeting of the Impe-
rial Legislature. W hereupon precisely in the
unluckiest " nick of time" for all parties—comes the
writer of Blackwood with his flower-basket and his
bludgeon, with six words of eulogiurn for the Cabinet,
and half-a-dozan of the coarsest abuse for the
Opposition.
The Earl of DEBBY is spoken of, during the course
of this article, in .Blackwood, as a statesman whose
personal character has long been known and spoken
of as one of chivalrous honour. To the accuracy of
that assertion we subscribe with all alacrity
and with all cordiality. But we should be
compelled to acknowledge ourselves to have
been most painfully and egregiously mistaken
in our previous estimate of Lord DEBBY, if we did
not conceive that his whsle nature would revolt from
the sentiments attributed to the Cabinet by his
rather excited apologist. Supposing the PRIME Mr-
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mayed by the furious tone of the writer in Blackwood
will be the Noble Earl at the head of the DEBBY
Administration.
Speaking, as it were, "in the name," or, at any
rate, in behalf of an eminent group of statesmen, our
contemporary might be expected to speak, according
to its wont, in language appropriately sedate and
statesmanlike. But—we put it to the community at
large, without respect to differences in party or
religion—is it statesmanlike to talk, as the political
article here referred to actually does, in terms the
most fierce and unmeasured, of everything and every-
body that can be supposed to come in any manner
within the rringe of the Opposition. Blackwood speaks
for example (Vol. lxxii., p. 357.) of the Manchester
School—a body of distinguished public characters)
including such men as Joux BRIGHT and RICHARD
COBDEN—thus :—" They are squinting swine, hud-
dled together in a filthy sty, believing that there is, o
ought to be, nothing in the world but their swill-tub."
A little further on the Irish ecclesiastics are described
as "so many incarnate fiends" (page 359)—they are
depicted as having " ridden roughshod through blas-
phemy and blood" (page 360)—and the very thought
of them or of their proceedings is said to be enter-
tained with " loathing and abhorrence." b this, we
ask, statesmanlike ? Nay, let us put it a little more
definitely, is it barely decent ? Is it in this manner,
with this fire, and fury, and detestation, that Minis'
ters are to be presumed to be preparing themselves
for the revelation of their policy to the newly-elected
Parliament ? Must we believe that the Earl of
DEBBY and. his colleagues are such outrage-
ous partizans that they feel disgust as
at swine in the presence of democracy—or that they
are such arrant fanatics that their hearts sicken before
the mere idea of Popery ? Are we then to find in,
the DERBY Cabinet a Government consisting of
nothing better than ultra-Tories and red-hot Orange-
men ? Alas--under those circumstances our hopes
would indeed be doomed to disappointment—our con-
jectures that by placing themselves boldly in the van
of the wend cmward movement of the age, the present
Ministry might become consolidated into a strong
Government. Yet that supposition we cannot even
now regard av extravagant. We cannot believe that
the golden opportunity before them will now, at
the eleventh hour, be so basely abandoned. We cannot
believe that the Earl of DERBY will voluntarily place
himself in diirect antagonism to vast and important
sections of the community be is called upon to govern
—to the Catholics of Ireland in one direction, and to
the Manufacturers of England in another—lighting
afresh the smouldering brands of civil discord, and
engendering the passion of hatred where be ought
only to have fostered the principle of conciliation.
We look for better things than these from the brilliant
genius of Mr. DISRAELI, from the common-sense of
Mr. WALPOLE, from the disprqsionate judgment of
Sir Joan PAMINGTON, from the astute intellect of
Lord ST. LEGNARDS, and—(turning our eyes from
Florence ko She Bei of Fundy)—from what we are
_
of AiALMESBUBY. We cannot believe that the DERBY,
or any other Cabinet, would venture upon a course of
so much narrowness and bigotry, that even a sup-
posed and unauthorized exponent of its views should,
without the severest reprehension, betray the con-
tempt entertained for swine towards one part of the
community, and the abhorrence due to fiends towards
another among the more important classes of the Bri-
tish population... Party feeling can never so far blind
the judgment of our administrators. Sectarian ani-
mosity can never so far infuriate the councils of our
Government. We cannot believe that a policy so
base as would. be hereby implied is in preparation.
The " RUPERT of Debate" has other, and nobler, and
grander revelations in store for the inauguration of
the first session of the new Parliament.

AMERICAN NEWS.
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY JAMMING.
The mail steamer Pacific Ilea arrived with advices
from New York to the 21st ult.
A letter from Washington of the 20th states that
the Committee on Foreign Relations did not consider
itself called upon FS yet to take any steps towards a
settlement of the Fisheries question. It leaves it to
the President to ask Pa advice.
The Herald correspondent states, that unless the
British Goverament disavows the intention of carry-
ing out her construction of the treaty by an armed
force, retaliatory duties will be imposed.
The .Herald says the official advices received by the
last steamer by Mr. Crampton confirm the opinion
that the British Government is determined to press
the offensive construction of the treaty as inter-
preted by the Crewn officers, upheld upon all occa-
sions by the Earl of Derby whilst Lord Stanley.
The English Government will not en to any nego-
tiations for opening the fisheries, unless such negotia-
tions also embrace the whole subject of reciprocal
trade with all the provinces.
A collision bad occurred near Buffalo between two
steamers, by which 200 persons were drowned.
The New York stock market was very active, at
firm prices. Money was in good demand, at late
rates. Exchange on London, 1101 to 1104.
The cotton market was very heavy.
The Pacific has 600,000 dolls. on freight.
Havannah accounts to the 14th instant mention
that the greatest excitement prevailed, in consequence
of the daily committal of a large number of Creoles
to prison.

Late accounts `:em Hayti state that the inhabitiots
were suffering from the effects of a plague.

AUSTRALIA:
The ship Albatross hes arrived in the river, with
dates from Australia to the Ist June, 60,000/. in gold
dust, and 1,060 tons of copper ore.—Times.

Messrs. Thorntons attended at the Foreign-office
yesterday on the subject of the claims on Portugal.
Mr. Conyers had an interview with Mr. Secretary
Walpole yesterday at the Home-office.
~lIPA.ItING HOUSEBREAKING AT KENTISH TOWN.--
y .molialralyo
box ender
was sent round from the central po-
llee station Scotland-yard, to the several metropolitan police
divisions, Of the following daring robbery, which took place
on Friday afternoon last, at the residence of Mr. Dolan, No.
15, the Grove, Kentish-town. About four o'clock a man,
public highwur
having a
of the
contents of ttiiir.b
the box away
and housemaid Nveren''
not aware of what bland
that a man had got 0
nation was then rnadue
tbe box containing
silver table forks, (lessee t
nuder his aiat, was observed stepping out
window,
whenadfor otahmerwe,
precipitateh;lceh wh nes descended
retreat.
eTrnhpetycotohke
andox into
t h e Lish house
ups pocket, caktett
h,
ea after
time, whichbut they h efiwuenrge
resetre
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taken place till they received word
of the parlour window. An exami-
tlieoooll which it was discovered that
back wall, and it is supposed
whole of the plate, consisting of
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The
man
a"se.Twhaes
it appears, must have gotOP:eprnas'
that he had an accomplice, a
walking to and fro in front of sthue ITan was a lon while
&c., was stolen. The thief,
wlio got out of the
initials
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dark
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kn
window had on a blrck frock coat blackandn
was about five feet eight inches i height, waistcoat. Re
complexion, and had bushy whiskers.
the plate were
We have to record the death of the Hon. Airs.
Knox, relict of the late Archdeacon of Armagh, C.
She was
suddenly Eeized whilst on a visit to her son, the Rev.
Thomas Knox, rector of Lurgan, and rapidly sunk, till ii
pleased God to remove her to a better world. She has left
four cons, including the bishop of the diocese and the vicar-
general of Down end Connor, to lament her loss.
FISHING EXTRAORDINARY.—A singular capture
was effected on TuP-
lay last by Mr. William Sprott, of
Ambleside, in Lake Windermere. On the previous evening
he had Eet a night-line in the lake for the purpose of catch-
ini3 pike, and on going early in the morning to bag his
Slimy game, he was not a little astonished to find a fine
c_ormorant, or scarf, fast to one of the hooks, it having
dived down in 10 feet water, and swallowed one of the small
e',';',‘'Yll which it was baited. The bird is now stuffed, and
xninited at the Salutationl Ambleside, with the mode
of its curio on,
tw capture appended.—Preston Chronicle. 1