The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-26 00:00:00

SLAVE TRADE.

Lord PALMERSTON brought in a Bill to continue an
Act of last Session enabling her Majesty to execute certain
slave treaties.

The House adjourned at Two o'Clock.

BIRMINGHAM RIOTS•

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY, FIVE O'CLOCK, P. M.
Peace, law, and order have at length been restored. How
long we shall enjoy those blessings the prophetic visions of the
Birmingham seers cannot conceive. Many are of opinion that
they will be short-lived, and that very few indeed, even amongst
the authorities, place any confidence in the present apparent
peaceable state of the borough. Neither the civil or militiry
authorities have been induced by it to relax for a moment their
vigilance. The Rifles and London Police still do duty in the
Public-office, and the streets and suburbs are patrolled.
From the following it will be seen that the fire of Monday
was the act of an incendiary :
FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.

Whereas, on Monday night last, July 22, some evil disposed
persons did wilfully and maliciously set fire to the premises of
Mr. Whittall, builder, of Lancaster-street, Birmingham, who-
ever will give information that will lead to the conviction of the
offender, or offenders, will receive the above reward from Mr.
Redfern, at the Public-office, or Mr. Whittall, Lancaster-street.
The Committee appointed to conduct Messrs. Collins and
Lovett's defence, have issued the following Bill:
" DEFENCE FUND.

" A Committee fur the defence of Lovett, Collins, and others,
sit daily. Parties who have made collections in aid of this
fund, are respectfully requested to pay the same, without delay,
to James Guest, No. 93, Steel House-lane, who is duly autho-
rised to receive the same. As the trials commence on Mon-
day, the increased exertions of every friend is respectfully re-
quested. _

" Signed on behalf of the Committee,
" WILLIAM CARDO, Sec. pro. tern."
The attempt to get up a subscription in behalf of the police
will, in all probability, prove a failure; and as little success
is likely to attend the petition for a Repeal of the Charter of
Incorporation granted to the Borough of Birmingham.

SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE.— On Wednesday
afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, at the
Buffalo's-head, New-road, St. Marylebone, on the body of
a full-grown female child, which was found dead in Devon-
shire-place Mews, at an early hour on Tuesday morning
last. W. Hassell, a coachman, deposed that about half-
past one o'clock on Tuesday morning last he was waiting
at the corner of Devonshire-place Mews for a carriage
coming home, when he saw a bundle lying a few yards
from him on the footpath, which turned out to be the body
of a newly-born female child, full grown, wrapped up in a
piece of white rag and a black silk apron, the latter nearly
new. It was quite dead. The Coroner, after viewing the
body, said the impression on his mind was, that the child
had been suffocated by the nose and mouth being kept
firmly closed, so as to prevent respiration, there being a
blue mark on the parts specified ; but, in the absence of
evidence of such facts, the only verdict they, the jury,
could conscientiously return was, that the child was found
dead, but how it came by its death, or whether it was born
alive, there was no evidence before them to prove. The
jury agreed with the suggestion of the Coroner, and re-
turned a verdict accordingly.
THE LATE INSULT TO THE QUEEN.--Yester-
, day Charles Willett, who was arrested in Hyde Park
on the 17th, for insulting the Queen, was brought
to the Home-office for examination. Messrs. Min-
shull and Twyford were the Magistrates present. Tne
prisoner expressed his regret, and attributed his mis-
conduct to excess in drinking. He was ordered to
pay a fine of 51. for the assault on James Light, the
Queen's outrider, or to be imprisoned for two months, and
to find bail, himself in 2001., and two sureties in 1001. each,
and in default of bail being given in, to be imprisoned for
six months. •

LONDON :
FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1839.

The Bishop of EXETER last night informed the
Peers that he had heard from high authority, that one
of the causes of the disturbances at Birmingham
was dislike to the Poor-laws ; and he added that
if it were so this source of dissatisfaction ought
as speedily as possible to be removed. It is
so seldom that we find ourselves agreeing with
the Bishop of EXETER, that we eagerly seize the
opportunity of recording our agreement ; but we know
not why, if the dissatisfaction of the people at the Poor-
laws should be removed, their dissatisfaction at the
Corn-laws, at being excluded from the representation,
at being obliged to pay tithes, should not also have
its causes removed. We are delighted, however, to
find the Bishop of EXETER laying down the satisfac-
tion of the people as the reason for making laws, and
if he will only stick to that text, and always preach on
it, we have no doubt that he will soon occupy the place
in the Convention left vacant by the secession of Dr.
WADE. Bishop PHILPOTTek, the pastor of the poor,
one of the direct successors of the lowly JESUS, would
be more in character preaching peace, charity, and
long-suffering in the Convention, than in fanning
the flames of bigotry and persecution in the House of
Peers.

The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in presenting a
petition from the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge, embracing a majority of the Clergy of the
Church, for the promotion of the Church Establishment
in the Colonies, said that the wickedness in the Colonies
was so great, that it was almost too shocking to speak
of ; the only proof of which given by the Most Reverend
Prelate was, that for fifty or sixty miles there was not
one Church. What monsters those people must be, by
this rule, who have only mosques. What an unholy
earth, too, ours must be, for only a very small part of it
is yet blessed with Anglican churches. The Marquis
of NORMANBY and the Archbishop mutually flattered
each other on their zeal for church-building, and the
Bishop of LONDON laid it down as a rule that the Go-
vernment was bound to meet the wants of the people
in the colonies for churches and parsons. Heaven, in
its mercy, help the Colonists, for should the parsons get
firm hold of their broad lands they will turn society
there as they have turned it here, into a den of strife.
Lord MELaounNE, in answer to a question, admitted
that the Turkish army had been discomfitted. Lord
BROUGHAM asserted that it had been totally defeated.
On the Order of the Day for going into a Com-
mittee on the Irish Municipal Bill, an instruction to
the Committee was agreed to, for removing Galway from
Schedule A. to Schedule B. The House then went into
a Committee, and the alien Lord immediately went into
a long statement of the mutilations he wished made
in the Bill, and his reasons for making them. He first
proposed to raise the franchise to 10/., next to appoint
the Sheriffs by the Lord Lieutenant, and objected to the
clauses transferring the power of raising money from
grand to petty juries. He proposed that those towns
only should have Charters which asked for them. His
Lordship declared, in conclusion, that if his amendments
were adopted he should support the Bill ; if they were
not he should oppose it with all his power on the third
reading.
Lord BROUGHAM opposed Lord LYNDHURST, and
was, in so doing, appropriately employed. After a
comparatively brief discussion a division was taken on
Lord LyNciiitinsT's amendment to raise the franchise
to 10/., which was carried by 93 to 50. That destroys
the merit of the Bill, and of course the House of Com-
mons will not pass it. We are to have another mock-
ing of the people therefore, but they arc getting tired
of this ridiculous game of do nothing, if the Lords are
not ashamed of it. The Bill, with other amendments,
went through the Committee, and was ordered to be
printed.
The Church Discipline Bill was read a third time
after some opposition on the part of the Bishop of
EXETER, and a division, on which the motion was car-
ried by 21 to H.
After some preliminary matter of little interest and
a brief dispute as to the order and mode of pro-
ceeding, the House of Commons went into a Commit-
tee on the Bank of Ireland. The CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER entered into a very long history of the
Bank of Ireland and of Irish banking. The Right Hon.
Gentleman denied that the Bank of Ireland was a mono-
poly, and repudiated the principle of free trade in bank-
ing. Singularly enough the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER made the great demand which had occasionally
taken place for gold in Ireland, deranging the circulation,
while no such demand had been made in Scotland, with
its system of banking, a reason why Ireland should not
have the Scotch system. He went at great length
into the evidence given before the Committee, and stated
that he proposed to leave the exclusive privileges of
the Bank within the same circle as at present, to con-
tinue the engagement with it till the engagement with
the Bank of England expired. The interest now paid
to the Bank of Ireland is 41. 7s. 6d. per cent., and this
the CHANCELLOR proposes to reduce to3i-percent.,which
will give the Bank of Ireland 23,000/. annually less than
at present of the public money. He made it out that
the Bank pays the dividend on the National Debt and
other services, which put it to some few thousand
pounds expense, and that seems to be all that it does
for the power which the improvident CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER is disposed to give it to tax the
community to a considerable extent every year. As
a bonus to the public, the Right Honourable Gentle-
tleman proposes to relieve it of some of the exist-
ing bad laws as to banking. He called on the
House, as the guardians of the people, not to allow
them to injure themselves by trusting bankers ; or not
to allow them, like the frogs, to commit suicide to save
themselves from slaughter. The Right Hon. Gentle-
man concluded by moving his resolutions.
Mr. HUME then made his exordium, and gave his
view of the Bank of Ireland, which we have no
time now to analyze, and concluded by moving a reso-
lution to put an end to the privileges of the Bank.
Mr. CLAY opposed Mr. HUME'S motion, and made a
long speech on banking, which wanted the merit
of being applicable to the question before the House.
Mr. O'CONNELL opposed the CHANCELLOR of the ,

EXCHEQUER, and moved that the Chairman leave the
chair. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON supported the
CHANCELLOR.

After some discussion, the Committee divided on Mr.
O'CoNNELL's motion, which was lost by 55 to 115.
Mr. HUME'S amendment was then put, and lost by 36
to 112. On the main resolution being put, several
divisions were taken, Mr. O'CONNELL having stated
that he would divide on every stage, on questions that the
Chairman do report progress, do leave the chair, &c.
Finally the House resumed without deciding on the reso-
lution. We are glad of this, for the question wants more
discussion. It is scandalous to bring on such a question
on the 25th of July, when two-thirds of the Members of
the House are not in town, and when more important
business falls to be discussed night after night,
than at any previous period of the Session. We
quite agree with Mr. HUME, that there ought to be a
Call of the House before proceeding with such a mea-
sure There have been more than 500 Members to
decide on the choice of Speaker, but the welfare of Ire-
land, which is involved in a good monetary and banking
system, is settled by only 120. Will the country
tolerate such a miserable fraction of the House of
Commons bartering away its best interests to a set of
money-jobbers at the command of Mr. RICE ?
We hope not ; and that the scheme to bolster up
the Bank Monopoly here, by continuing an almost
equally monstrous monopoly in Ireland, will be de-
feated. The House sat till Two o'Clock.

The distinguishing feature of Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL'S new Rural Police Bill is, that it places in
the hands of the. Justices meeting in Quarter Ses-
sions the power of raising any number of police
they please, of officering it as they please, making
the rate-payers of the district pay all the expenses,
subject only to the approbation of the Secretary
of State for the Home Department. Let us sup-
pose, no unlikely thing, that Lord MELBOURNE'S
Ministry is at an ead, that Lord JOHN RUSSELL
ceases to be Home Secretary, and is superseded
by Sir JAMES GRAHAM or Sir EDWARD
KNATCHBULL ; and we ask Mr. HUTT, we ask
Mr. M. PHILLIPS, and we ask all the advocates
of the abolition of the Corn-laws, who seem in-
clined to support this measure, to reflect for one
moment on the fact, that they are placing all this
new power in the hands of the landowners, in the
hands of the Corn-law makers, in the hands of
those who avow a disregard of the prosperity of
the empire, of the lives of the people, and a hatred
of free trade. Then the squires, encouraged by
one of their own august body, as Home Secretary,
who thinks that no national suffering can for one
moment be put in comparision to the evil of a re-
duction of rent, and of heavy clay lands going out of
cultivation, would be able to raise an army of their
own, officered and controlled by themselves, but
paid for by the people, wherewith to enforce
obedience to that most finished specimen of human
wickedness, the law for starving the industrious peo-
ple to enrich the do-nothing squires. Such a system
has, unhappily, come down to us, it is our boasted
Constitution ; but we implore the lovers of free
trade, we implore all the Anti-Corn-law inhabitants
of the empire, to refuse it an additional sanc-
tion and additional power by placing this new police
in the hands of the squirearchy. Not enough
that the squires have the yeomanry at their
command, allied to them by interest and dependent
on them by feeling, to make the starving peasant
hunger on at Bs. or 9s. a-week, but they must
now have a new police created for their pur-
poses, for which the starving labourers and
shopkeepers, who want a free trade, must pay !
We are not astonished at the great majority of
the Members of Parliament acquiescing in this
scheme ; it is an admirable contrivance to disarm
the hostility which Lord JOHN RUSSELL knew
awaited his own better-liked project " of one uni-
form system, placed under a central head ;" but we
shall be much astonished if the advocates for the
abolition of the Corn-laws, within the House and
out of the House, do not strenuously resist the
scheme. The abolitionists who allow it to pass
without resistance, may still assume the airs of
honest men, but they must give up all pretensions
to the character of wise or reflecting politicians.
On what account are riots likely to rise ? From
hunger caused by the Corn-laws. This scheme
of a police is avowedly intended to put down such
manifestations of displeasure, and will thus enable
the landlords to suppress every expression of
feeling which they dislike. It is a means of
putting down Anti• Corn-law opinions ; and the
squires, by the aid of this new police, will be en-
abled to imprison, transport, and slaughter, those
who are resolved not to see their wives and families
starved out of existence. Till the Corn-laws be
abolished, or the Justices be chosen by the great
body of the people, and be made responsible to
them, we can only consider a rural police, organized
by the landowners and officered by them, as a means
of maintaining the most iniquitous law that was
ever tolerated by civilized men. Should the land-
owners be enabled to triumph over righteousness by
the aid of the Anti-Corn-law Members of the House
of Commons, we shall see in it an evidence of the
approaching termination of all the glories of Eng-
land, for Providence wisely and humanely maddens
men before it destroys them.
In directing our remarks against these measures,
we wish it to be understood that we do not point
them against the Ministers, except as they are the
unreflecting instruments of a ruinous system. They
are the organs of the middle and upper classes,
who are so terrified that they know not what they
do. They have pressed on the Government for
strong neasures. " The middle classes here,"
says a correspondent of the Morning Chronicle,
writing from Newcastle, " blame the Ministers for
not having before now put down the Chartists."
The bulk of the Liberals in Parliament who repre-
sent the middle and upper classes exclusively, join
in the same demand. All our theorists look for
safety only in a strong and centralized power ; and
the Ministers are urged, both in Parliament and out
of Parliament—both by practical men, who speak
from their fears, and by speculating men, who speak
by system—to establish an extensive and vigorous
police as a means of preserving order and peace.
Such being the fact, we only blame them for not
knowing that their present plans are only a continu-
ance and extension of the system that has plunged
the country into its present difficulties, and for
not having firmness enough to resist the solicitations
and demands of the constituencies.
The QUEEN, whose power the Ministers hold,
reigns over all, and should do justice to all ; the
Parliament, including both Houses, represents only
one-fifth of the people. It is a fact, however op-
posite may be the theory, that at present this one •
fifth of the community has an interest adverse to
the other four-fifths. Capital, or property, and
labour are unhappily at variance. We do not in-
quire into the cause, we only affirm the fact. We
are not a Court, to say which has justice on its side,
but Journalists recording the existence of the dis-
pute. One party only, the fifth of the com-
munity, is represented in Parliament. Now,
what we blame the Ministers of the QUEEN
for is, that they act as the servants and instru-
ments of the fifth part of the community only.
That they study only its interest and wishes, and
are driven by its alarm and terror into extending a
system which has for its object to put down the
four-fifths of the community, and to suppress the
opinion and measures which the single fifth dislike.
They are in fact less the servants of the QUERN
than the Parliament ; less the organs of the whole
community than of the fifth part ; and the great
change which this marks in our Constitution, the
decay and even extinction which it proves of all
separate power in the Monarch, it being all ab-
sorbed by Parliament, so that the Crown can no
longer stand between one class and another, toge-
ther with the existence of the dispute we have
mentioned, and the conduct of the Ministers in
yielding to the minority, justifies the demand of the
Chartists for Universal Suffrage.

In the narratives of mariners we find many in-
stances of ships weathering the most dreadful
storms only to founder in the smoother waters. A
similar fate appears to await the SOULT Cabinet.
Having weathered the popular tempest without and
d avoitl e 1.-4: breakers within the Chamber of Depu-
ties, the State pilot has run the vessel upon some
sunken rock within sight of the haven of rest, and
the cry is raised that it is going to pieces. To drop
metaphor, the dissolution of the present French
Cabinet appears frotn the French Ministerial
journals of Wednesday to be determined upon by
the Court. The Budget is voted, the labours of
the Session are ended, and the Ministers having
sufficiently disgraced themselves, by sacrificing their
principles and popularity to forward the KING'S
views, will be dismissed. LOUIS PIIILIPPE has
sucked the orange, and of course cares nothing for
the peel. A reconciliation between TITTERS and
GUIZOT is talked of, and it is plain that some in-
trigue is on foot, and that .THlErts is at the bottom

'of it. SOULT has already consented to sacrifice!
some of his colleagues provided he will be allowed
to retain his present office. But that the recent
events in the East renders impossible, unless
LOUIS PHILIPPE choose openly to assume
the functions of Foreign Minister. SouLT
is not acquainted with the rudiments of diplo-
macy ; he does not understand the princi-
ples of international policy sufficiently to decide
how far any change of circumstances ought to
modify the conduct of the Government without
previously consulting the KING, and in the event
of the appointment of a Conference for the settle-
ment of the Eastern question duties would devolve
on a French Foreign Minister which even the
KING could not perform through the instrumen-
tality of such a diplomatic tyro as SOULT. WC
are therefore of opinion that in the event of a
change in the Cabinet— a change which appears
from the Journals to be inevitable and immediate,
Marshal SOULT will be obliged to resign the
portfolio of the Foreign Department.
The Gazette de France—a Royalist organ, con-
tains the following account of the battle of Nezib,
fought between the Turkish and Egyptian armies :
The Turkish army occupied a strong position at Nizeb.
Ibrahim, who had received the Pacha's permission to make
an attack, wished to assail this position in front, but Soli.
man Bey (Colonel Selves) succeeded in restraining his
ardour, and it was agreed that the enemy should be drawn
by manoeuvres from his entrenchments. The Egyptians
made a feigned retreat, and the Seraskier, Hafiz Pacha,
sent out a strong division of cavalry. The first corps it
came up with, composed of Bedouins, dispersed according
to the order they had received, and the Seraskier, ima-
gining that the Egyptians might be easily routed, advanced
with the whole of his forces. Thus he abandoned his
strong position, and two formidable k edoubts constructed by
Prussian officers,from which great advantage was anticipated.
In order to draw the Turks still further from their entrench-
ments, Ibrahim and Soliman continued to retire for two hours,
hastening to gain a field of battle which the superior
judgment of Selves had previously selected as one of the
most favourable. On reaching this ground the Egyptian
army suddenly faced right about, and, availing itself of the
nature of the position, formed into compact masses, the in-
fantry in the centre, the cavalry and light artillery on each
wing, and made vigorous charges on the Turks, who were
astounded by this sudden attack. The ranks of the latter
were soon thrown into disorder. The Seraskier, however,
rode up to the front, and by his valour, and the bravery of
the corps around him, remedied for a time his false step.
His heavy artillery, unfortunately for him, could not
come up, and the light guns of the Egyptians, directed by
European officers, and seconded by well-timed charges of
cavalry, threw his ranks into disorder. His wings were
at the same time too extended, and his troops, excited by
the ardour of pursuit, had not preserved any regular order
of battle; they could make scarcely any resistance ; and
at this period some corps of Arabs, which Ibraham in his
retreat left in ambush, on the right and left, fell upon the
Turkish rear, and thus completely put the Ottoman troops
to the rout. The disorder became so great, that the
Turkish soldiers threw away their arms, and fled in the
utmost confusion. Part of the troops endeavoured to re-
gain the entrenched camp, while others made for the
most fordable points of the Euphrates. It appears that
a large portion of the fugitives succeeded in escaping, and
that the massacre was not so great as might have been
expected. But the camp, artillery, baggage, and even the
muskets of the Turkish army fell into the hands of the
Egyptians. The Seraskier, carried away in the general
rout, crossed the Euphrates. His horse, wounded by a
ball in the shoulder, fell from loss of blood in the middle of
the river, and would have been carried away with his
rider, when a young Albanian, on a small Epirote horse,
seized the Seraskier by the middle, and contrived to get
him safe to the other bank. Three hours afterwards
Ibrahim was reposing under the tent of the Seraskier.
The Univers states that the Turks lost 6,000
men killed, and that as many were made prisoners.
The same journal asserts that the French Govern-
ment received des patches announcing the sailing of
the Ottoman fleet from the Dardanelles on the 28th
ult., without any opposition on the part of the
French fleet then in sight.
The Bayonne letters of the 19th inform us that there
was in fact a combat on the 15th, in the environs of Allo,
between the Queen's troops under Diego Leon and the
Carlists, commanded by Elio. The Carlists confess a loss
of 26 killed and 122 wounded, Goni, who commanded
their right wing was wounded in the thigh. The loss of
the Constitutionalists is not known. It seems to have been
an affair which had no results of any consequence. On
the other hand the Eco del Aragon of the 18th speaks of
an action said to have been fought by Amor and Aspires,
in which the Constitutionalists are reported to have had
the advantage, in consequence of the arrival of the Gene-
ral-in- Chief in the heat of the battle.

Lastly, the Sentinelle des Pyrenees, has the following
letter from the frontiers, dated the 18th :—" The provin-
cial deputation of Navarre has addressed a proclamation to
the inhabitants of that province exhorting them to abandon
the cause of the Pretender,,which a deplorable error had led
them to embrace. It tells them that the struggle has al-
ready continued six years ; that it has swept away thou.
sand of their children, that the Queen's armies march from
victory to victory, that France, in concert with England,
has manifested its desire to establish the throne of Isabella."

A Dutch Journal (that of Utrecht), has the following
letter, doted Curacao, May 30
The Congress of Venezuela has refused to sanction
the treaty concluded with France. The conduct of France
towards Mexico is disapproved of by all the Journals of
South America, and is censured by some of them in very
bitter terms. The conduct of France has rendered the
States of South America very averse to conclude treaties
with France."—Le Commerce.