The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-16 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. \

WANDS IN NEW ZEALAND.
The DIRECTORS of the NEW ZEALAND LAND
' COMPANY hereby give notice, that Orders for Land may be
pnrchased at their Office, which will entitle the holders thereof
to select Country Sections, either at the Company's principal
Settlement, or at Hokianga, Kaipara, Manutau, the islands
of Wai-heke and Paroa, the borders of the Thames, or any other
part of the territories already purchased by the Company, as
oon as the same shall be surveyed. The holders of such Land
Orders will also be entitled to claim from the Company a pas-
sage to New Zealand, free of cost, for themselves, families, and
servants, to the extent of 60 per cent. of their purchase money.
Further particulars as to the terms of purchase, may be ob-
tained on application to the Secretary.
By Order of the Directors.
JOHN WARD, Secretary.
, New Zealand Land Company's Office.
No. 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, 2,3 d July, 1839.

fITIS Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA,
ill having AUTHORISED end GUARANTEED
2(1.
DISTRIBUTIONS of ...‘IONEY PREMIUMS, which
(though they are NO LOTTERIES), offer many possi-
bilitias of obtaining
LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH,
are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU-
TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVI-
,.-)US to ,giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR-
TICULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a
line to
HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH.
P.S. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions
front NINE POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS and upwards,
to i'EN THOUSAND POUR HUNDRED POUNDS.
A RISE IN THE PRICE of the SHARES for the
NEXT DISTRIBUTION will very soon take place, there
being only fel.; of them on hand, and nearly all cleared off.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
The FUCCeSS of the old English Drama, entitled the " Ladye
tit Lambythe, or a Bridal- Three Centuries Back," has been
fully enflamed by the acclamations of approbation and de-
llght that. ha -e accompanied each representation, and the
cheers of crowded audiences at the failing of the curtain.
TO-NIGHT (FRIDAY)
Will be acted the Old English Drama of
THE LADYE OF LAMBYTHE.
Era, Mrs. Vining. Katherine, Miss. Grant.
Lucie, Miss Martin.
Waiter More, Mr. E. F. Saville. Wilbert, Mr. Dale.
John the Jester, Mr. Smith.
After uhi,eh,
PETER BELL;
Or, The Murderer of Massiac.
To conclude 'with (for six nights only) Buckstone's popular
Drama,
THE DREAM AT SEA!

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
'inkier her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE.
On MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY,
Aun. 12th. I:.;th, and Lith. .

GIZAND .11iISICALES ET CHAM.

_
PETRES,
By the unrivalled Band of this' Establishment,
Conducted by Mr. Godfrey.
7..alidiition of the Wonderfclly-intense and beautiful new Light

KONIXPHOSTIC,
Urder the superintendence of dr. H. Carter.
And the ERUPTION of MOUNT HECLA.
Admission One Shilling.
Feeding Hour Five o'Clock—Concert at Six:
In compliance with the incessant requests to secure places
fin. viewing the Eruption a number of reserved seats have
been erreted. which may be engaged by previous application at
the Walworth entrance.

RAILWAY COMMUNICATION

AND
LATE NEWS.

N ()TIC a—in consequence of the increased faci-
lities daily afforded by the Extension of Rail-
way Communications to the principal Cities,
Towns, and most populous parts of the
Country,—and in accordance with the wishes
of various Commercial News-rooms, Clubs,
and others—

LONDON :
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1839.

Several Bills were sent up to the Lords from the
Commons, with which their Lordships will no doubt
make some havoc.
Lord MELBOURNE stated that he had no official news
touching the opium row at Canton, neither has he re-
ceived official news from the Lrmies in the East.

The Excise Licenses Bill, or Dealers in Spirits Bill,
was put off for three months on the motion of the Duke
of RICHMOND.

The Birmingham Police Bill was read a second time,
after Lord BROUGUAM had presented a petition against
it, and moved that it',be read a second time in three
months, but did not press his motion to a division.

An amusing conversation was caused by the Rogue
Money (Scotland) Bill, which was read a second time.
Viscount STRANGFORD called their Lordships' atten-
tion, on presenting a petition from London merchants,
to the conduct of the French Government to our mer-
chants on the coast of Africa. Viscount MELBOURNE
admitted the subject was important, and might lead
to serious results, unless some means could be found to
terminate the dispute in an amicable manner.
Lord MELBOURNE moved the second reading of the
Portugal Slave Trade Bill, wh:ch the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON opposed. An eloquent debate ensued, in
which Lord DENMAN and Lord COLVILLE distinguished
themselves, the latter Noble Lord taking part against
his usual leader, the Duke of WELLINGTON. The mo-
tion was in the end carried by 39 to S.

The Poor-law Commissioners' Continuation Bill went
through a Committee, after a division of Bto '2. The
Poor-rates Collection Bill was read a second time.
Their Lordship sat till One o'Clock.
The House of Commons met at the usual hour of
Four. Several Bills were forwarded a stage. The
Manchester Police Bill was passed. On the third read-
ing of the Bolton Police Bill being proposed, Mr.
BULLING strongly objected to it, and declared that all
the disturbances in that town arose from the
present Mayor having been a Chartist not above
a t., elvernonth ago. He said there were 1,500
special constables in the town. It was his native place,
and he felt hurt at its present degraded state. The
Bill. however, was passed without any division.
The District Constables, or Rural Police Bill, was
taken into further consideration, and some discussion
enseed on a proviso proposed by Lord GRANVILLE
SOMERSET, that nothing in the Bill should invalidate
the appointment of parish constables, on which the House
divided, and the proviso was rejected by 3'2 to 30,
winds implios that the parish constables are to be done
alyvay_writh. The motion that the Bill do pass was opposed
.b.._ t 53 7-DISRAELI, but on a division it was carried by
1,-)o
1 3and sent, with other Bills, up to the Lords.
'Tae Bank of Ireland Bill occasioned another un.
seemly discussion and contest. We should like to
know why Mr. IslulpepEorpteerisists, from his own mere will,
for he is not
Recuordbey a single Irish Member,
except the Dublin
menr, in forcing his Bill down
t ha throats of his country
a House of Commons barely'
eonfi
and in forcing it through
posed of forty Mem-
bers. What motive can lie b:ave
What interest
can he have in the Bill ? Whyer daOneds he persist in
degrading the House of Commos,
in degrading
1 the Government, by what appears to be
a mere
jo, of his own? No public principle demands
the public good he disdains to consult
ceedings, improper
pr( buts ibte;
compels the Membi2rs opposed to him, by hise
House tot to employ all the forms of h
defeat his odious plan.
Mr. O'CoNNELL again fought every question. He
mostd that the Bill be re-committed in three months.
Soin hard words passed between him, Mr. SPRING
Met:, and Mr. ELLIS ; and after one division, and
tw, attempts to count the House out, Mr.
O'CoN NELL succeeded in counting out the House, and
so defeating Mr. RICE for one night at least, and, we
horse, for the Session, at his own weapons. Such a
personal contest, night after night, degrades the House
'of Commons to the level of an Irish fair. Mr. RICE
is, according to rumour, about to quit it for ever, and
he means, before he goes, to make it despicable in the
eyes of the people.

We learn with great satisfaction that the lives of
the men sentenced to death at Warwick have been I
spared. The general humanity of the age inspired
the hope that such would be the case ; neverthe-

less, knowing that it is said political agitation of
one species must be put down at all hazards ; and
supposing that those who, act on the principle of
putting down that agitation 'by the club and the
sword would regard it as a weakness to spare the
life of any Chartist legally given into their hands, we
did much fear that the persons cionvicted at War-
wick would be executed. We (headed that those
who to preserve peace will make no concessions,
and who set at defiance, in scores of subordinate
matters, the principles of justice,—as when they
uphold a starvation law, walaction dispersing by
violence a mixed assemiligife of men, women, and
children, hearing a newspap(o read,—would think
only of the necessity of crarying out their prin-
ciples, and would conclude that to check the present
agitation a great example must be made. Much do we
rejoice that the general. humanity of the age has
prevailed over the obvious and consistent dictates of
that coercive Tory policy to which we are so
strongly opposed ; but, believing that the humanity
of the people is the source of the mercy, we will
not compliment the Ministers for doing that which,
perhaps, they could scarcely avoid.
The fact is that these men are not to be executed,
and the source of their pardon bears with great force
against the Tory system of ruling by terror, which
the Whigs have so unhappily adopted, and must
carry out to its full extent of leaving no action
ungoverned, no motive free, no business unpres-
cribed and unprovided for. When the common
principles of humanity, we have before said in this
journal, will not allow a Government to put a fel-
low-creature to death who has committed a grie-
vous crime, to preserve any political system by
terror, has become hopeless. When the age revolts
at putting a human being to death for forgery of
the most destructive character, it will never tolerate
judicial murder for what are called political offences.
To better his condition is the perpetual object
kept in view by every human being, though he fre-
quently mistakes the means. Laws, constitutions,
and political regulations are continually described
as the great means by which such improvement
can be effected. Hence, if we may infer from the
general and instinctive pursuit of improvement a
command for the race to improve, we must equally
infer a command for them to improve the laws,
constitutions, and political regulations of society.
What is commanded by the very nature of man
cannot possibly be criminal, though any person
may b.: as easily guilty of a crime in choosing his
means to secure political improvement, as in choos-
ing his means to attain wealth or fame. Our pro-
found ignorance of the means of promoting gene-
ral prosperity, which seems a work more fit for a
God than man, which ignorance is as fully shared
by the Corn-law-making landleivds as by the pike-
brandishing Chartists, necessarily makes it a ve-
nial offence in the Chartists to differ from the
landlords as to the chr ice of those means.
Opposition to any political system must be a
venial offence, and it w auld be a strange contra-
diction to decline inflicting death fc,r a terrible
crime, and yet willingly inflict it for a mere dif-
ference of opinion on a very doubtful and uncertain
matter.,

We look on the employment of death, even as
the punishment of treason, to be about to pass into
disuetude. But if death, legally pronounced for
treason, or against house-burners, who have com-
mitted a great offence, cannot be executed, how
will the humanity of the age suffer that the people
should be beaten to death by the clubs of police-
men, or cut down by soldiery, to support any mere
political system ? We conclude, therefore, that the
necessary pardon of the men at Warwick, is fatal
to the Tory system of governing by terror, which
has been adopted by the Whigs. If her MAJESTY'S
Ministers mean to continue to act on the principle
of making no concessions to the people, if they are
resolved not to use the power of the Government to
put an end to the starvation laws, and a multitude
of other unjust laws, the pardon, in which we
rejoice, is in them an act of the greatest folly and
the greatest weakness. But we cannot so describe
it. It is the beginning of a better system, and the
mercy which her MAJESTY has been advised to
show is the herald of measures to relieve, soothe, and
and pacify the injured and insulted masses.

The persons tried at Chester for a conspiracy,
and having arms in their possession for an illegal
purpose, whose trial appeared at length in our
Evening Edition, were all found guilty. We ex-
pected nothing else. The report of an immense
quantity of arms having been seized at the ware-
house of the Chester and Ellesmere Canal Com-
pany, came appropriately to bring about such a
result. Nor was the strange interposition of the
Grand Jury hostile to it. That body, after finding in
their own chamber, on consultation, a true bill against
the prisoners for a conspiracy, came into Court,
and in the presence, we presume, of the Jury, in-
quired
if they could not indict them for high trea-
son. The Judge advised these merciful gentlemen
to be contented with the milder course proposed by
the ATTORNEY-GENERAL ; and after they had
made on every person in Court a profound impres-
sion of their conviction of the enormous guilt of the
prisoners, the latter were arraigned for the lesser
offence. Such conduct in a Grand Jury, which,
as far as our memory serves us, is unex-
ampled, would have contributed powerfully, if any
doubt could have been entertained c,f the prisoners'
guilt, to procure their conviction. The ATTORNEY^
GENERAL made a good use of it. He could refer
with a good grace to the letter found on DAVIS,
which produced the wish on the part of the Grand
Jury to find a bill for high treason, and his mild
course procured for him great credit, and great con-
fidence that he would bring nothing forward which
he was not able to prove. We have before called
attention to the general bias of Juries, and, of
that general bias, the thirst of the Grand Jury
for the blood of the offenders is a striking proof.
Petty Jurors, belong to the same class nearly as
Grand Jurors, they are certainly influenced by them
in their opinions and feelings, and have a similar
bias. Thus a verdict of guilty was the natural
and necessary consequence of the trial.
We find no fault, be it remarked, with the ver-
dict ; we only explain how it was necessarily
against the prisoners. We certainly do not
approve of the conduct of the Grand Jury,
and there is one point in the conduct of the Judge
which is worthy of notice. He stopped Mr. COT"
TINGIIAM when alluding to a Peer having advised
the people not to pay taxes, by observing " that
what was said in one place is no justification of
another person doing the same." Now, with all
deference to the Learned Judge, we beg to remark
that the common law of England is known only
by customary decisions. What takes place and is
unreproved is, on this principle, as much law as what
is reproved. Of customary or common law it may
undoubtedly be said that

" We bid this be done
When evil deeds have their permissive pass."

For the law, therefore, not to have punished a
well known declaration, an advice—which, by-the-
bye was not given in Parliament—not to pay taxes,
made such declaration and advice legal ; and Mr.
Baron GURNEY was, in our opinion, wholly un-
warranted in preventing Mr. COTTINGIIAM from
appealing to that law on behalf of his client. The
bulk of the people can know nothing of the sta-
tutes ; their only knowledge of the law is derived
from the practice of Courts ; and whether it be the
law or not that one man may advise another not to
pay taxes, the people at large are clearly justified
in considering that such is the law, when such
advice passes unpunished.

The British Queen has arrived ; but as she sail-
ed from New York on the Ist of August in company
with the Great Western, she brings no additional
news of interest. In quoting from the Toronto
Examiner the following account of the celebration
of the 12th of July by the Orangemen of Upper Ca-
nada, we cannot help noticing the gratuitous insult
offered to a religious body remarkable only for the ex-
cessive loyalty of its members during the late rebel-
lion. To the Catholic clergy of the Upper and Lower
Provinces, the Crown is peculiarly and deeply in-
debted for the active pact which they took in incul-
cating obedience to the laws, and loyalty to the
person
of the British Sovereign ; and therefore the
conduct of the authorities in p
to their ''ermittina
feelings, an exhibi-
tion, illegal in itself, and
calculated to provoke party outrages, is most repre-
hensibleTNvEiL — F hurtful
:TH JULY ORANGE PROCESSION AT
DINNER AND BALL G MENT HOUSE.—When
we stated last week ouTrA4c9ronßvOic°Nt
Orangemensigned not t.o
7,io,TEnGßONet.hoat the very extraordi-
narywe certainlyw,lk on the
ateiy
eunntroeffiactiinagl
the
eter
Arthur," affection-
would be treated with contempt,l2th,
ex-
pect that the contemplated pro • - did not
cessioa would
thing of the kind we had ever witnessed in Canada.surpass any
however was not the case. No less than 10 Lodges,Such
num-