The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-25 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Morning Chronicle of this day, recurring to the
important question of the Corn-laws, says :—" The
Corn laws are a shift to throw taxes from the land-
owners on the other classes of the community. Why
should the agriculturists be exempted from paying their
share of the burden created by the war ? The manu-
facturers have no immunity from taxation. They can
have no protection, for they produce for the foreign
market, and the foreigner who buys from them does not
ask what taxes they pay, but what is the price in
the market? The manufacturers can have no protec-
tion against the agriculturists, and why should the
agriculturists have any protection against them ?
The manufacturers can have no protection against
the agriculturists, because the price of manufactures is

determined in the home market by the price;;;(1;
for, if the exporter could obtain more at home than
abroad, he would not be such a fool as to export. The
Corn-laws, then, are injurious in seasons of scarcity,
by limiting the means of supply; they are injurious to
our commerce, by narrowing the market for our manu-
factures abroad, and affording a bounty to rivals ; they
arc unjust to all other classes, by throwing exclusively
on them the share of taxation which ought to be borne

in fair proportion by the agriculturists ; and they,
besides, rob all classes of the amount which monopoly

otherwise adds to the price of food."
'fhe Illorning Post makes the following remarks on
certain rumoured Ministerial changes :—" Among the
offices now vacant are those of Secretary at War,
Master of the Mint, two Secretaries of the Board
of Control, Secretary of the Admiralty. With respect
to the last of these, we have already announced that
Mr. More O'Ferrall is to have it. We believe we may

now state very positively also that Lord Seymour is to
be one of the new Secretaries of the Board of Control.
It is not much less than a month since that office was
offered to his Lordship and acoepted ; and we confess
we are a little curious to know why the appointment
has not yet been officially announced. Is it because
Ministers find some difficulty in getting any pre-
sentable man to take the seat at the Treasury
Board which this appointment has left vacant?
Or is it Ministers are apprehensive that it may
become necessary after all to make Lord Seymour
Secretary at War as a pis alter on account
of the continued obduracy of Mr. Macaulay? The im-
portant office of Secretary at War has been vacant for

a length of time. It was offered to Mr. Macaulay with-
out a seat in the Cabinet, and refused with disdain ; for
Mr. Macaulay very naturally thinks that, con-

sidering what kind of persons are now considered
fit for Cabinet Ministers, the offer of a place
to him without a seat in the Cabinet bad
about it a good deal of the character of insult. It
is thought, however, by those who are best acquainted
with Mr. Macaulay that his anger, however warm and
just, will at length subside, at least to a point at which
it may not be incompatible with his acceptance of office.

Anotber of the Offices now vacant: that of Mas-

ter of the Mint, has given occasion of offence to
Lord Clarendon of exactly the same nature.
Lord Clarendon received the offer of the Mint with-
out a seat in the Cabinet, to which he returned a haughty
and unqualified refusal, and forthwith packed up and
set off upon his travels to the Continent. This is all
that we can aver with respect to his Lordship."
The Times, alluding to some remarks recently made
by the Recorder of London in the Central Criminal
Court, observes as follows :—" The bold and able stand
which the Recorder of London made during the last
Session of Parliament against the di) st step of the
Whigs towards the abolition of trial by jury, has caused
that Learned Gentleman to be marked out as an espe-
cial object for the vengeance of the Government, who
lose no opportunity of setting on their hirelings to misre-
present, to insult, and to vilify him. The most unprin-
cipled and the most slavish of these hirelings, who conduct
the only evening Ministerial print in existence, now that
the Whig-Radical scribes of the Courier have given place
to Conservative writers„have been selected to throw
mud at the Recorder, doubtless because they have
proved that there is no work too dirty for them to un-
dertake. The selection was judiciously made, more-
over, for this further reason—namely, that men who
have defended the bloody murders perpetrated by,
Maroto, and so given ground for the belief that they
•

are quite capable of committing as horrible offences
themselves, must necessarily stand greatly in awe of a
criminal judge ; and we can easily suppose the very
mention of the name of the Recorder to be enough to
give them a ' crick in the neck.' "

" A Ministerial Morning Journal two or three days
ago, favoured its readers with the pleasant announce-
ment that the pension' to be granted to Sir John
Newport on relinquishing the Controllership of the
Exchequer amounts to One thousand pounds per
annum !' How comes this ? Why does Sir John
Newport vacate the Controllership of the Exchequer ?
So the Controller of the Exchequer has had, and will
of course continue to have, a salary of 2,000/. per
annum. Why does Sir John Newport give that
large revenue up for half the sum ? The Right
Hon. Baronet is not in the slightest degree more
superannuated, or more inefficient, or less capable of
rendering service to the public in the proportion of one
per cent. for such a salary than he was when, by a dar-
ing exaggeration of every previous instance of Whig
corruption on record, he was saddled upon the office
in the year 113834. The question, therefore, is still un-
answered—why has this irksome old Irish partisan
resigned ? But again, how came Sir John Newport
originally to be installed in the office of Controller of
the Exchequer ? Ay, and how came such a place us
Controller of the Exchequer into existence ? It never

was heard of before Sir John Newport staggered into
it. The answer is, that the place was made for Sir
John Newport—for Sir John—in the first instance—
there being, as is perfectly well attested, a sharp 100 -
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out upon the successorship to the Right Hon. Baronet,
from the hour :it which his first appointment was

dated. Well, then, in the year 1833, and antecedently,
Mr. Henry Ellis, an active and able public officer,
held the office of Clerk of the Pas.' Mr. Ellis
was, and is, a near relative of the Earl and Countess
of Ripon. But he had not been baptized in the
water of Whiggery. So, as Lord Ripon was not in

,he best of odours with his colleagues, it was resolved
:o get rid, by fair means or foul (foul for choice), of
. .

,hebrother-iii-law of the half-and-half Colonial Seere-

.ary. Mr. Ellis did the whole work of the office for
1,400/. or 1,500/. per annum. He was in the prime of
ife, and a gentleman of no:inowledged capacity. But

it comported,' I.s the Yankees say, with Whig expe-
diency, to supersede him—to supersede him for no
shadow of misbehaviour, negligence, error, or in-
efficiency—quite the reverse ; the most ostentatious
and lavish compliments were showered upon Mr.
Ellis from all official quarters. Never was victim for
the sacrifice decked out in gaudier colours. But he
was superseded ; and by whom ? Why, by Sir John
Newport, who had passed the prime of life by more
than 30 years—an old worn-out rag of factious Whig-

gery—even in his best days nothing more respect.
able than a prating, pragmatical, voluble, virulent,
fatiguing drudge upon the back benches—a tedious, pe-
tulant finder of mares' nests—a daP.y dinner bell to the
most patient of his party, which all men heard, but to
which none listened. It comported, we say, with Whig
dislike of Mr. Ellis to put on the mask of pity for an an-
cient huger-on, and to manufacture (though not for him,
any otherwise than as a warming-pan) a new receptacle,
to be called " Controller of the Exchequer," abolishing
the name, and the name only, of Clerk of the
Pens,' but dismissing the substance of Mr. Ellis.
Further, since no particle or pretence of reason was or
could be assigned for this ungenerous and offensive job,
it was necessary to bestow a retired allowance on
the outgoing Clerk of the Pens. His whole salary
for life, therefore, was Mr. Ellies compensation. But
something more was to be done in connexion with the
name of the quondam Member for the city of Water
ford. The salary which had sufliccd for Mr. Ellis in

his malihood was deemed an unworthy remuneration fo
the age and imbecility of Sir John Newport. So the
nor,-patronage Whig economists raised from the country,
for his immediate benefit, an income, not of 1,400/., bui
of 2,000/. a-year. We ask, was the office coital
dered an effective one ? If so, why superannuate
Mr. Ellis, for the sake of calling to a troublesome post
a man whom nature had superannuated twenty year.
before ? Or was the Controllership to be a sinecure ? A
sinecure! What ! with Grey and Newport declamations
against sinecures yet ringing in the ears of the commu-
nity ? It seems, however, that more than met the public.
eye or car was contemplated by the coiners of this new-
fangled office. Sir John Newport could:not last for ever.
It was notintended that he should. TheControllership was
destined to outlive him. But who was to succeed him ?
That was the arriere pensee which engaged the atten-
tion of certain parties who ostensibly busied themselves
in making an arrangement for the comfort of Sir john
Newport.. We ask them—was it not ? We put it to you,
Mr. Thomas Spring Rice—we put it to you, who boast. of
being a religious man, and, barring the use of pious
frauds, conscientious equivocations, and a few analagous
figures of speech, may be a tolerable graduate in reli-
gious observances, for aught we know ; but we put it to
you, on your oath, or if a declaration, ' upon honour'
do nor sit awkward on so young a Peer, we do solemnly
adjure you, Baron Monteagle that is—Viscount Vul-
ture, Earl Cormorant that is to be—was it not your
earnest and anxious hope, nay, your fixed and dogged
determination from the very outset, that, whenever Sir
John Newport carnet() have a successor forced upon him,
you yourself should be that successor ? Hence, the
enormous magnitude of the salary then granted ; hence
the knavery of saddling the public with 2,000/. a-year
under the pretence of liberality to poor, old,
zealous, faithful Sir John Newport,' who is now—
now, when his interests only are to be considered, and
no reversionary anticipations thought of in favour of less
aged aspirants after pensions—is now, we repeat, put
off with one thousand pounds per annum instead of two.
Why, if a thousand pounds a year be at this time of
day enough in all conscience, under the head of kb'
rality,' to Sir John Newport, was there aught but
the grossest prodigality as against the public in the as-
signment of two thousand for the same identical oi

ject, no longer than five years ago ? But we have al-
ready explained the motive for this iniquity. When
the office of Controller was invented in 1834, it was
Mr. Spring Rice, in his quality of remainder-man,
%; hose future advantage occupied the heart and soul of
that right honourable personage : at present, in fixing
the retirement of Sir John Newport, when the superfi-
cial-inch gentleman has had no one but the octogenarian
to consider, he feels for the public, and patriotically
limits his exaction to a single 1,0001. Then how
stands the case in its financial bearings upon the
Queen's Exchequer ? Behold the contrast. In the days
of profuse and rampant Toryism, under that old rogue
the Duke of Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel, that
wholesale dealer in corruption, the cost of the matter
stood thus, viz.:—
Right Hon. H. Ellis, per annum, for discharging
the duties of the office £1,400
Under the frugal Whig Reformers, thus, viz.:—
Right Hon. H. Ellis's retiring pension forced
upon him by the Whigs £1,400
Ditto Sir J. Newport l,OOO
Lord Monteagle's salary 2,000

4,400

Balance against the country, as the price of
Whig virtue, precisely £3,000
We now ask the people generally—we ask Lord Mel-
bourne individually, to gloss over, if he be able, this
nefarious
wickedness. It is not the act of Mr. Spring
Rice : it is not the job of the ex-Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. Don't let Lord Melbourne flatter himself that
the nation will let him off on such a plea. It will not do
for Lord Melbourne to smirk and rub his hands, and
protest that ‘: he is very sorry for it, and that really he
can't excuse !t," as his Lordship in a fit of desperation,
under the guise of candour, has often done before. My
Lord, it is the job of your collective Ministry. My Lord,
it is your own job. You have begotten it, and in spite of
the new bastardy clauses, you must father it. However
your own exquisite moral sense may acquit you of this
atrocious public robbery, you must bear the blame ;
yes, and before long one moiety of the punishment also.
As for the new Brummagem Peer Monteagle, he has
surpassed—he has out-Riced himself. He will scarcely
have the impudence to insist on the patent for his plun-
der, and the certain indemnification for the country is,
that at the first moment of a new Minister's accession
to office, the whole villainy must be ripped up from top
to bottom, and either the " Controllership" of the Ex-
chequer smashed, or a less odious officer appointed."
The Morning Advertiser, speaking of some remarks
made in the new Tory manifesto of the Courier, respec-
ting the present state of the country, says :—" As we
have already admitted that a temporary gloom hangs
over the mercantile and trading community, we can
have no difficulty in also admitting that at present the
finances of the country are not in a healthy state ; but
our existing financial unhealthiness is not only tempo-
rary, but is in no respect attributable either to Minis-
ters or to the Reform Bill. It is the result, like the
dullness which prevails in the mercantile and trading
world, of accidental circumstances and physical
causes. The bad harvest of last year must necessarily
have had an injurious operation on our financial
system. Perhaps the Courier has forgotten—as it is
very convenient for the new masters whose lacqucy it is
to forget—that until the harvest of 1838 our financial
circumstances were much more prosperous and healthy
since the passing of the Reform Bill, and above all since
the accession of the present Ministry, than they had
been for a long series of years before. The most un-
answerable proof of this is to be found in the fact, that
in the course of those five or six years the taxation of
the country had been reduced to the extent of nearly
.5,000,000/. annually. Would this extensive reduction
of taxation have been achieved without the Reform Bill?
Certainly not. 'Would a Tory Administration have
effected it ? Never."
The Morning Herald croaks in the following lugu-
brious style, of what our Contemporary is pleased to
call the present " aspect of the times :"—" The as-
pect of the times—and the character of our political
and commercial relations with foreign countries—render
it more imperative than ever that our colonies should
be governed with wisdom. The importance to England
of her Indian possessions becomes more marked every
day. We are threatened with the loss of our trade
with China. India offers the means of rendering us, in
,ime, independent of the celestial empire, for the article
of tea. Our trade with America is, at this moment, to
considerable extent in jeopardy. The bills of the
United States Bank have been, within the last fourteen
days dishonoured ; and the fears of a panic in the money
market of America, have not yet passed away. Scarcely
three years have elapsed, since the suspension of cash
payments by all the banks throughout the Federal
Union inflicted a heavy blow on the commercial pro-
sperity of England."
The Courier of last evening makes the following
comments on the present position of the Bank of Eng-
land :—" The Bank of England is in a difficult position.
Whatever step it may take, it is sure to displease
somebody. If it is liberal in its discounts, it is
-barged with unnecessarily increasing the amount
of the circulating medium ; if it restricts its issues,
It is accused of illiberality towards the trading
interests. Either way it is sure to be found
vault with ; and at the usual periodical crises in
the Money Market, a general attack is made on the
establishment from all sorts of discontented per-
sons for reasons as various as their individual causes
of complaint. Now we think the Bank of England
.8 hardly dealt with. It is impossible for the Bank
to do more than the laws which bind the currency
Allow. The law says that the Bank shall pay its notes
n gold ; the law makers being perfectly aware at the
:ime of enacting this law, that if the Bank were to re-
Strict its issues to the amount of gold and silver bullion
chich it would be possible to collect in its coffers, it
would not be worth the while of the Bank, as at
present established, to carry on the banking business,
Ind that under such a restricted currency, almost all
commercial and trading operations would be necessarily
suspended, and a general national convulsion would be
the result. How is the Bank to act under these cir-
cumstances? In ordinary times its task of managing
the currency is difficult and delicate enough ; but in
imes of extraordinary emergency, the Bank is required
her discontented censorists to do that which is Im-
possible—namely, to assist the commercial and trading
community with money, when money is• most wanted,
and at the same time to retain her stock of gold and silver
qullion in readiness to change for her notes, precisely
when the course of exchange is most powerfully acting
to remove the precious metals from home to foreign

countries."
The Globe makes the following comments en the
Recorder of London :—" The Recorder of London is,
is is well known, a violent politician, more remarkable
for zeal than discretion within the walls of Parliament,
and not unfrequently allowing his political prejudices to
oeep out when on the Bench. The Honourable and
Learned Gentleman's remarks on the Houses of Lords
ind Commons respecting summary jurisdiction being en-
trusted to Magistrates in cases of petty larceny, which
supplied him with occasions for some very pretty politi-
cal prattle with the jury box during the past and present
session, we have already alluded to, and should not again
return:. the subject, were it not to show how invariably
such ebullitions of folly in the Judge are caught at by
the Bar, and produce caricature imitations by some
babbler who must earn the half-guinea he has received
with his brief by saying something for his client. The
case, if it supplies nothing favourable, must be kept
from the mind's-eye of the Jury by some extrinsic, pro-
bably grossly indecent, attack on another party, or by
an allusion to some event which has no possible rela-
tion to the subject of investigation in which the Court
is engaged."
The Standard, commenting on a leading article in the
Globe of yesterday, on the subject of some remarks
lately made by the Recorder of London in his address,
to a Jury of a Central Criminal Court, says—" Now,
instead of finding anything objectionable in these re-
marks, no reasonable man can doubt that they were ex-
tremely judicious and well-timed. The assertion of
the Globe, that such cases are, in these days of fre-
quent occurrence, is notoriously untrue, and even
if they were more frequent than they are, they
would not justify our Contemporary's pet plan of sum-
mary jurisdiction' by Magistrates. One swallow
does not make a summer, neither does an oeca-
±ional case of the description alluded to warrant so gross
an invasion of the liberty of the subject as our Liberal
Nlinisters have attempted to establish. But our Con-
temporary knows as well as we do that summary
jurisdiction' was not to be limited to the cases of children
under the age of 12 years. It was intended to extend over
a very wide surface of crime, and to embrace charges
of various degrees of importance. In reminding the
jury, therefore, that the solitary case in question
afforded no argument in favour of summary Jurisibilict,
tion,' Mr. Law was preaching' no politics,
it
simply directing their attention to a fact with v
rescuing
was essential they should be acquainted, andl
the committing Magistrate from the imputation
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having outsteppod his duty on the
occasion r
the
rest, the force of public opinion will deter prosecutors
o the law oil juvenile delin-
(it has already greatly diminished their number), from
invoking the vengeance f
quents for such trespasses.

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ARRIVAL OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR C. ADAM
AT THE BROOMIELAW.-On Friday, the Admiralty steam-
yacht Firebrand, commanded by Captain Saunders, having
on board Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, one of the
Lords of the Admiralty, arrived in our harbour. The visit
of Sir Charles Adam was, we understand, to inspect the
engines, now completed by Mr. Robert Napier for her
Majesty's steam-frigate Vesuvius, and also the harbour of
Glasgsw. Sir Charles was waited up'm by Mr. J. Hut-
chinson, Chairman of the Committee of Management of
the River and Harbour, and Mr. Bell, one of the Trustee..
accompanied by Mr. Bald, engineer of the Clyde, who
were received with much courtesy by Sir Charles Adam.
After viewing the interior arrangements of this beautiful
vessel, the party had the honour of dining with Sir Charles
on board of the Firebrand. The Firebrand left our har-
bour on Saturday.—Glasgow Herald.

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EVENING EDITION.

BUENOS AYRES AND MONTE

VIDEO.

By an arrival at Boston, Buenos Ayrean papers have
been received to the 20th of June, and letters by the
Editors of the N. V. Journal of Commerce from Buenos
Ayres of the 23d, and from Monte Video of the 24th
of the same month.
The United States sloop Independence sailed from
Monte Video June 23d, for Rio Janeiro : and the Fair-
field for Buenos Ayres on the 25th, all well.
By order of General Lopez, Governor of Cordova,
the Unitarian Chief Pedro Nolasco Rodrigues, formerly
Provincial Governor of the same State, was shot at
Conception on the 21st of May, under a charge of
high treason. Domingo Cullen, another powerful mem-
ber of the Unitarian party, has probably shared the
same fate.

The blockade of Buenos Ayres still continued, and
from the circumstance of several French ships of war
having recently arrived at Monte Video, it was thought
a more rigorous blockade was contemplated. The Go-
vernor of Buenos Ayresis said to have 16,000 troops
under his command. The French, it is stated, have
no vessels that can approach near enough the town for
an effective cannonade ; and should a bombardment be
determined on, they would have to build vessels of a
lighter draft.