The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-11 00:00:00

IN AND OUT OR ALL THE DIF

FE RENCE.

But yester morn, and who so gay,
Like boys on a summer holiday,
As the Tory faction who, one and all,
Indulged in a sort of a Carnival ?
The good old Duke looked bland and sunny,
Sir Bob as sweet as virgin honey;
The Carlton Club rung out with the roar,
" Huzza for place, and one cheer more !"
There was simpering here, and laughing there,
And gladsomest greetings every where ;
In square or park, or lane or street,
Hope beamed on each Tory phiz you'd meet,
And wild to the sky rose the boisterous din,
'Mid shaking of hands, of " We're In—We're In !"

But yesternoon " saw another sight"
As Campbell says in his Linden fight—
A frown as gloomy as frown can be,
Came over Sir Bob's frank visnomy ;
The Duke looked black, and the Duke looked blue,
And his care-worn face as long as two ;
The Carlton Club (alas!) no more
Rung to the cheers of an hour before ;
But instead, there was seen a grievous pout,
And, at times, was heard from the Tory rout,
A dismal wail of" We're Out !—we're Out !"

Henceforth be warned, ye Tory brood,
And ne'er indulge in a mirthful mood,
Or shout, before you are out of the wood!

* " But Linden saw another sight."
Vide Campbell's Battle of Hohenlinden.

LORD BROUGHAM'S ANSWER TO

LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S LETTER.

We have room for only the following extracts
from this publication, which will appear in a day or
two. They relate chiefly to the " finality" system
and the working of the Reform Act :
Thus does this doctrine of finality or permanence,
in any view which can be taken of it, set itself against
all the most obvious rules of common sense. It assumes
that experience is of no avail in detecting the errors of
an untried scheme of polity, bidding us be satisfied with
the theory, and disregard the practice. It assumes that
the state of society, and the condition of its members, is
for ever stationary, bidding us act as if no change in the
affairs of men could take place in the lapse of time. It
assumes that lawgivers alone, of all human artists, at
once make their inventions perfect, bidding us reject
whatever new ideas present themselves upon further
reflection, for the improvement of our designs. It sins
against the dictates of sound reason ; it thwarts the inevi-
table course of affairs ; it is opposed to the eternal nature
of things—and, to crown all, a doctrine so wildly im-
practicable is presented to our acceptance, not as a
guide in groping our way through the mazes of some
mere speculative subtle theory, but as the canon of our
conduct in dealing with the most purely practical sub-
ject that can occupy the attention of men, the one where
any speculative errors of ignorance or inexperience are
fraught with the most perilous consequences—it is pro-
pounded as our rule in framing a constitution for the
actual government of mankind !
In all other sciences we profit by further reflec-
.

tion, and longer experience ; in all other arts,
we mend our first attempts by the result of our
first trials, and never rest satisfied until our experi-
ments show that our calculations were correct.
Where the question is about the force of steam, the
strength of cordage, the friction of beams ; -where
the known laws of motion are the subjects of our
investigation, and the ascertained properties of
brute matter can alone influence the accuracy of our
estimates, we never rest satisfied until whatever conclu-
sions we have built upon the theory most mathematically
demonstrated, have been put to the test of actual trial ;
and up to the last moment of our inquiries, we gladly
catch at any modification of that theory, any improvement
of the methods deduced from it, which our experiments
have suggested. But when the principles of human
nature are the powers by which we work ; when the fa-
culties of the mind are the subject of our reasonings ;
when the complicated interests of society are the ma-
terials of our machinery, and its moving powers are the
sentiments, the feelings of the soul, and our engine is to
be launched for action among the conflicting passions of
millions—then it seems we are to strike out our plan at
a heat—to frame a constitution in a few weeks that
shall last for ages—to rely upon our abstract theories
—reject in our wisdom the aid of that experience
which teaches even fools—proclaim that our handy-
work is perfect, because it is the result of calculation
without trial—and persevere in holdinc, by the machinery
we have devised upon speculation,without theleast regard
to either the defects which it shows each time it isworked,
or the faults which a further study of the subject
had disclosed. And all this is to be deemed a wise, a
judicious, an eminently practical course of conduct !
That is the praise claimed by the Finality Doetors ; that
is the argument which they put forward for their sys-
tem—lt is wise, and holds all reflection cheap ; it is ju-
dicious, and"AjeMir tEfiietieaostur orkw.arporidnewa it is
practical, and prefers theory to •experinaant, conjecture
to fact.

You have now a right to ask what changes I would
make in the Act, as the result of further consideration,
and of the trial we have given it. But lam much more
nterested in exposing the general error of your doctrine,
than in explaining the particulars of my own. On these
then I will not enlarge, further than to indicate the course
which seems fit to be pursued. The Act has called into
existence many boroughs with so few voters, owing
to its limitation of the franchise, that as much
scope is given to jobbing and influence, and even direct
corruption, as at any former period of our Parliamen-
tary history. My remedy for this is, not certainly the
disfranchisement of these places, but the extension of
the suffrage and the protection of the voters. The
same remedy will remove another and a still greater mis-
chief, the exclusion of so many thousands who have
as good a right to mix in the political affairs of the
country as any class of voters now on the register, and a
far better right than many. I don't at all consider the
possession of a house any test of fitness for the fran-
chise. We have taken a ten-pound house for our stan-
dard ; but if every householder had a vote, I should be
very far from thinking enough was done. Many would
vote who had no real quality of an elector ; many more
would be excluded of those best fitted to exercise the
right. Who can think without indignation of the
numberless men thus deprived, and whose knowledge,
industry, skill, is as eminent as their habits are indus-
trious, and their lives respectable ? Can no test be
contrived which should entitle every one who has
belonged for a given time to Mechanic's Institu-
tions ; or who has attended school for so long as
to obtain a certificate of being a well-educated man ?
What danger in this qualification ? What safer deposi-
tory of political power than personal respectability and
a good education ?
I never bad any ()pawn of the Bal!ot as a protection
for the tenant against
his landlord's influence. As
against customers, I believe it may be of some use to
the tradesman. It is a plan to which I have ever felt
great repugnance ; I know that the artizans do not de-
sire it for their security ; I am quite sure that without
a great extension of the franchise, it would be positively
mischievous ; but I am of opinion that the great body
of the present voters, in town or in country, have set
their hearts on it as a protection ; and after the great
abuses committed during the late elections, I can see
no harm, but much justice, in affording it to them.
Observe, too, the progress which it has made in Par-
liament, as indicated by the increase of the divisions
upon our friend Mr. Grote's motions, which is greater
than the similar progress upon your Reform motions,
and that progress made Mr. Canning declare, in 1822,
that the question was carried.
'That the duration of Parliaments should be short-
ened is a proposition so clear as to require no proof at
this time of day. Should we ever have seen the votes
of last Session, had not the Members known that they
had a six years' lease of their seats ?
I am sorry upon all these things to differ even for an

hour with one to whom and to whose family, not more

illustrious by their blood than by their deeds, my at-
tachment is unalterable, my gratitude, as well for perso-
nal as for national benefits, profound. We were long fel-
low labourers for the People while in Opposition, long fel-
low-workmen while invested with the powerof building up
and repairing the sacred edifice of the Constitution, for
their benefit. How we should for a season have ceased
to be in power together, I believe neither you nor
I can very well tell—possibly no one can form to him-
self a very distinct idea. It is my consolation to
know, that though I might while in office with you,
have felt it necessary to take far more than my share in
the Government, I never refused a still more dispro-
portioned share of the labour, nor ever shrunk fron► the
whole responsibility of the Government's acts. It is
an equal comfort to reflect that though I may have
spoken frankly and strongly—more so than the habits
of men trained through all gradations of office would
have taught me to do—me, who never held but a single
office, and that the highest in the realm—yet I never
11 spoke to any one colleague any one word on any
one subject which I should have had any kind of
reason for desiring that every other of my colleagues
should not hear.
To men who bold such a conduct towards each
other, if the general views coincide, the maxim of inimi-
ediac morlalcs amicifice sempiterme is peculiarly
applicable ; nor indeed have I ever found the least
disposition among you to swerve from this line in
any but one very amiable and excellent individual, of
little political experience, who having for a season been
clothed with vice-regal authority, seemed to fancy that
his measures were placed above criticism, and thought it
becoming to pronounce a sentence of exclusion from his
personal friendship the moment I ventured, in the dis-
charge of my public duty, to comment upon his public con.
duct. No man has indeed ever dared to impugn my

I motives, since I was reluctantly driven into a constant
opposition to your Government. No man believes me
capable of abandoning my principles for any earthly
consideration, or of suiting my conduct to my interests.
Am I then an exception to Walpole's rule ? Am I
one who has no price? Far from it—l am venal—l am
to be bought. I stand here for sale c.t the bidding of
your own or any other Ministry who may succeed you,
as soon as you shall be tired of your subserviency to
those I won't natnc, and begin to find place not
the more palatable for being unenvied, nor the
iiater load for being disencumbered of power.
How then am I to be gained—seduced—pur-
chased—bribed ? Easily enough, should any Go-
vernment think it worth their while. The path
to my corrupting is not base—vile—impure. It is
lofty and noble, and honourable to tread. Rule by
constitutional means, and fling away that filthy and
most deleterious nostrum of suspending the Constitution,
and creating a dictator each time you find a difficulty to
to solve. Pursue the Emancipation Act in its true
spirit, trampling under foot all pretended colonial rights
of legislation, and completing the great work of negro
liberty, by giving the freed slave all the privileges of
freemen, whether his former master will or no. Abolish,
abolish, abolish I say,the infernal Slave Trade all over the
earth ! Sweep it instantly from every sea that it pollutes !
Keep peace in Europe by a tempered firmness and modera-
tion, nor suffer your subjects any more than your armiesto
disgrace themselves by mingling in a hateful and
disgusting warfare—the mere competition of con-
tending murderers. Improve the condition of
your countrymen at home, by amending the Con-
stitution wheresoever it requires repairs. And, above
all, for this would be my choicest bribe, and this
would make many an adversary with me fall
down before the benefactor of the people—above all,
establishing a system of National Education upon the
sure foundation of religion and of morals, but according
to the sacred principles of civil and religious liberty.
I am your sincere and faithful friend,
HENRY BROUGHAM.
May 4, 1839.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW S

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 10.—The aspect of
our market does not improve; the business doing is still
very limited in extent, and although some of our largest
holders are less inclined to sell, prices have again given
way to -I per cent. the middling and inferior qualities of
American having declined the most. Very little has been
done to-day, not more than 1,000 bales; the Market dull;
speculators have only taken 100 bales of American. Ex-
ports nothing.
During the course of yesterday morning the City was
in great agitation, in consequence of a report that Sir
Robert Peel had given up the formation of a new Ministry,
and great excitement prevailed among the Tories and
monied interest. At first it was not credited, but on its
being confirmed in the afternoon the Tory party were thun-
der-struck, and could scarcely believe their eyes when they
perused the intelligence in the Evening Journals. Those
on the opposite side, the Whigs, strongly applaud the
noble spirit of her Majesty; and the prevailing opinion is,
that her Majesty will gain numerous additional friends by
her bold resolution, in not suffering herself to be separated
from her friends and youthful companions. It now appears
that the Whig Administration will be resumed, which will
be hailed by tens of thousands of her Majesty's subjects,
throughout the United Kingdom.
By the way of Marseilles despatches were received from
India yesterday. They are of a favourable nature, al-
though they do not announce any important operations of
the armies in that quarter, with the exception of various
movements; they are dated Bombay, 25th March.
No particular alteration has taken place during the week
in the value of money; discount on good Bills at four per
cent.

The official returns of the exports of bullion during the
period between the 2d and Bth of May, state that in gold
bars the exports were 56,000 ounces, and in coin 3,440
ounces. In silver bars 3,855 ounces, and coins 232,557
ounces—the latter to the colonies.

Towards the close of tc.e Exchange yesterday the conti-
nental exchanges rather improved.

THE FUNDS.

Consols which closed yesterday at 93ai, Money, Ac-
count 93ii, opened this morning rather lower, 93ia for
Money, 93 s for the Account, with little doing at
present ; Exchequer Bills, 39 41 ; India Bonds, 44 46 ;
Bank Stock, 196 197.

•
The Foreign Market is inactive. Spanish as they
closed, 19/, 20 ; Portuguese, same ; Three per Cents.,
21i 22 ; Belgian, 1021 102; Brazilian, 781 ii; Colom-
bian, soi 311 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 5021
Five per Cents. 1021 103.
No arrivals of the least consequence.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 196!4 61 India Stock
3 per Cent. Red. SSMC Ditto Bonds 44 pm.
S per Cent. Coss. SA% N, South Sea Stock —
35‘ per Cent — OW Annuities —
Ditto Red. 100 097, New Ditto
''
New 3% per Cent lOl% 100 X 3 per Cont. Annuities, 1731
..,--.
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities tpirs Ditto 600 ... 39 41 pm.
Jan. 5, IWO 4 9-16% Ditto Small 39 41 pm.
Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial pm.
Jan. 5, MO 14% Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, ISSO — Bank Stock for Account ... 194
April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account ...
Jan. 5.1870 — Consols for Aetount Wst%
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds —

Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds
tt•Account

Ditto Account
Portuguese Bonds
Ditto New Bonds
Ditto Account 3sll;‘i
Ditto, :3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Prussian Bonds
Russian Bonds, MI

Columbian Bonds
Ditto Account
Columbian Bond., 13.2-1
Ditto Account
Danish 'Mods
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds
Ditto Bonds, 15.5
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Account

Ditto Account ....
Ditto iklidallic
Span i,h Bonds
Ditto Account
Ditto Bonds, 1534
• Ditto Account.
French, 5 per cent.
--- 4 per cont.
3 pee cent.
Exchange.
Dutch, `.2<, per cent.

Dltte, 6 per Colt
Ditto Ascount
Neapulitaa

- Ditt's :Account
- Ditto, 5 per oont ...... 103 '2
—, Ditto Account

fItIOES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Shato.
ealtorn Omahas Railway l6 1014
Erlzhton ttailway
Le.lon and Southampton ...... . ........ .... :Pl. as. N. 41N,

COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam C.F. 12 4 i riihrquar 45
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam " U l2 4% Genoa 25 75
Antwap...
Limburg,
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 35 Palermo per oz. 114)5„
Ditto... .... ........... 3 Ms. 95 05 Lisbon 54%
Marseilles.
13curdcaux
Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M. 151 Bahia 27
l'etersbuigh,ruhle...3 Us. 10U Buenos Ayres —
Berrut

Vie.ma, effective 9...3 M. 10 5
l'ricitc ditto lO 6
liadrid 37
Lich z 374
6:11ioa ... ''(;}(2
B:ircclonx 't
.!;',.
Se (ale 3i3i

4ti -
PRICE OE BULLION, per ()Z.
Portugal Gold, c0in.....t0 0 0
Foreign Gold, in bars... 3 18 0
New Doubloons
New Dollars
Silver in Bars

HALF-PAST ONE.
To the present hour we have no further information in
the City respecting the Ministry, than that Lord Mel-
bourne and his party continue in office.
The British Funds continue rather heavy, and may be
quoted at 9341 Money, and for the Account 93i. Exche-
quer Bills 39 41 ; India Bonds, 44; Bank Stock, 193;
India Stock 256.

In the Foreign Market scarce any business doing.
Spanish Active heavy, 19 k; Portuguese 35 ; Three
per Cents., 241; Colombian, 302-H ; Dutch Two-and-a_
Half per Cents., nothing done; Five per Cents., 109,34-
lowcr.

We have no further arrivals--the French mail conticues
due.

A report pi evails of disturbances at Birmingham. A
party of ponce were ordered to proceed there from London
this morning.

In the case of Harmer v. Somerton, tried in
the Court of Exchequer on Thursday, the Jury could not
agree in their verdict, and were locked up all night. The
action was for an alleged libel contained in the report of a
speech of Mr. F. Berkeley, at a public dinner which took
place at Bristol in January last. The Jury, at eleven
o'clock yesterday, came into Court, and the foreman stated
that they had not agreed, and were not likely to agree,
and that only one Juror had held out against the eleven,
upon which Lord Abinger, with the consent of the Coun-
sel, discharged them. There was another action by the
same plaintiff against the proprietors of the Bristol Ga-
zette, for the publication of the same libel. The Jury,
after being informed by Lord Abinger, that the publica-
tio❑ was a libel, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages Is.

TIIE GOLD-DUST ROBBERY.--SIIIGULAR
INCIDENT.-After the prisoners who are in custody for the
gold dust robbery were removed from Lambeth-street
office on Thursday, Lea, the officer, got a man to carry the
box containing the five bars of gold, valued above 3,0001.,
a part of the produce of the robbery, from the office to his
own residence in Berners-street, Commercial-road, it
having been previously arranged that he was to keep it in
his custody that night, and lodge it on the following
morning at a banking-house in the City. A crowd of
persons remained about the office, and some among them,
having recognised the box, exclaimed, " There goes the
gold-dust;" upon which the greater part of those present
followed behind, and many among them continued to keep
up the cry. The bearer of the box, while passing along
Church-lane, gave it a sudden jerk on his shoulder, upon
which the bottom gave way, and in an instant the five bars
of gold, its contents, and which weighed within six ounces
of seventy pounds, fell to the ground. At this time there
could not have been less than two hundred persons present,
but Lea having luckily taken the precaution to have the
box guarded by two policemen as well as himself, the
crowd was kept back, while the treasure was being picked
up and replaced in the box and borne away in safety. It
has since, in accordance with the direction of Mr. Hard-
wick, and with the consent of the prosecutors, been placed
in a City banking house.

HAYMARKET THEATRE. -- The following
fashionables attended this theatre during the week :—The
Marquis and Marchioness of ilastings, the Hon. Mr. Me-
thuen, the Countess of Hillsborough, Lord Maryborough,
Lord Segrave, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl of
borough, C. Cullen Smith, Esq., Earl \Valdegrave, the
Earl and Countess of Tyrconnell, the Duchess of Cleve-
land, the Duke of Beaufort, Lord and Lady Gardner, Sir
Clifford and Lady Constable, Captain Bigge, Mr. and
Mrs. Baltield, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, Mr, and Mrs.
John Bainbridge, Lady Oswald, Lady Fitzpatrick, Lord
and Lady Kinnoull, and Lady Tankerville.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne
have issued issued invitations for a grand entertainment, on
Monday evening, to his Imperial Highness the Grand
Duke AleNander and his Royal Highness Prince NN
Itenry of the Netherlands, at Lansdowne House.

FATAL EFFECTS OF TIIE LATE STORNI.
A shop-boy, named Martin, aged 15, in the employ of Mr.
Parker, grocer, near the College, Greenwich, during the
storm on Wednesday evening, was closing his master's
shop, when he was struck, and knocked down by the
electric fluid. The lightning totally deprived him of
sight, and it also affected his intellect so much that he
continued in a state of delirium until last night, when
death terminated his sufferings. The body awaits a Co-
roner's inquest.
More remarkable proof of the fullness of the town
at the present time, cannot be givon than what may now be
daily observed in Regent-street and in line with the
Regent's Park. From three till about five o'clock there
are in that celebrated street three or four rows of carriages
and other vehicles, besides numerous equestrians, and it
Is seldom that they are able to proceed beyond a walking
pace ; and during that time the pavements are equally
crowded, and chiefly with well-dressed and fashionably-
looking persons. Bond-street,
Pall-mall, and Hyde Park,
also afford their proofs of a similar character.
LONDON AND PARIS PICKPOCK ETS.—A great
number of pickpockets have already been arrested in the
crowds at the Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures in the
Champs-Elysees. Among them are four notorious cha-
racters; one of them, only 17 years old, has been several
times in the hands of justice. This individual was seen
on Monday, by one of the police, emptying the pockets of
a lady, and was seized at the moment when the process was
complete. Finding denial out of the question, he turned
the affair into a jest, and said, while giving up a purse
containing 55f., with a gold ring, and some other articles,
that he would not have crossed the Channel home again,
from England, if he bad known that a visit to the exhibi:
tion would be so unfortunate to him, " for the pinches
i
(thieves) lived in London like fish n water."—Gatignani
ROBBERIES AT PUBLIC-HOUSES AND COr-
FEE-HoUSES.—On Tuesday, about ten in the forenoon a
picture in a carved gilt frame, subject " A Farmer's Boy
going to Market on a Grey Horse," was stolen from the
coffee-room of the Lord Nelson publaicn-ehouse in Duke's-
row,.9ueen public-
St. Pancras. From the Kin,*
71t.oinbeSilavebr;asbsy.found. er by trade, 24 years
house, Chapel-street, St. Georgea'sm-
C'riantiwAtho had lodged in
Last, was stolen
of fair complexion, and vi;
ghieon,ugold
stated and
o,tl,l.f9'iet,hla. plaid. On Sunday
was sttohlee n
\iLoemt nightt
e house of Mr. Biles, tha
a brilliant ring, set in
Oxford Arms, in
figured gold,
(ins, b
asifmson%s,teerr...road.
and 21.
S. a ti&clea,r
morning 16 sovereigns,
contained in a bag marked " C. H. B:," were from
the beer-shop of Mr. Fryett, in York.strcet, Westminster.