The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TIItSDAY, APRIL 9, 1839

are constrained to believe that the Reformers
cannot be united, to know that the Conservatives
are also split into repelling sections. We see but
two means by which extensive reforms can be ob-
tained, either by the progress of knowledge, or the
progress of events, again unexpectedly kindling the
enthusiasm of the community.

great organ of the Carlton Club is perplexed
111 the extreme as to the course which it may
lie most advisable for the Tory party to pursue in
the important quest:on which is to be decided on
the 15th. What to recommend in the unexpected
circumstances in which the Tories are placed, the
Times is utterly at a loss, and therefore gives
them their choice of a variety of nos-
trums, to all of which, however, it admits there are
objections of neatly equal force. The first sugges-
tion is to meet the Ministerial proposition, be it
what it may, with a " direct negative." This mode
of proceeding, as the Times says, has boldness and
straightforwardness to recommend it, but for that
very reason we may rest assured that it will not be
adopted by the Tories while the voice of Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL is paramount in their councils. It
is, besides, liable to a fatal objection. It would
deprive the Opposition of all hope of assistance
from the Radical section of the Commons, who, it
is observed, would " refuse to concur in a vote
carrying even the semblance of a departure from
their own recorded opinions upon Irish Govern-
ment." The " direct negative" is therefore dis-
missed, as it leaves the Tories to fight the
battle single-handed, which they allow they
are not able to do successfully, and the question
is discussed how far the motion for a "general in-
culpation," suggested by the Spectator, is likely to
catch the votes of the Radicals. " The advan-
tages of any such amendment," says our Contem-
porary, " are, that it would unite the suffrages of
all who, for any reason, consider the removal of
Ministers essential to the well-being of the
country, and that it would not only ad-
mit, but compel into the debate, the whole
range of those considerations which call for
their dismissal. And this is perfectly fair," &c.
Perfectly fair no doubt it is, in the opinion of all
good Tories, who regard accession to office as the
summum bonum to be attained by all possible
means. Whether the Radical notion of fairness
coincides with that of the Times, remains to be
seen. We should hope it does not. We should
hope, too, that the Radicals are too clear-
sighted not to perceive the trap which
the Tories have baited for them, and too
much influenced by principle to allow themselves
to be caught in it.
The supposed " debate" would indeed afford a
spectacle no less edifying than novel. The parties
who are presumed to coalesce for the purpose of
passing a vote of condemnation on the Queen's
Ministers are the political antipodes of each other.
The difference in their views is not one of degree, as
it is in the case of the Whigs and Radicals, but one
of diametrical opposition. They hold not diverging,
but antagonist principles. When, therefore, the
members of this unprecedented coalition step forth
to deliver themselves of " those considerations
which call for the dismissal" of the MELBOURNE
Administration, there will be exhibited to the pub-
lic as beautiful an example of the concordia discors
as ever was seen or heard of in party combinations.
The one portion of the coalition must found their
vote of censure on the ground that Ministers have
gone too far, the other that they have not gone far
enough. The one set of confederate orators will
denounce the policy of the Government, because
they hold it to be, by its revolutionary character,
subversive of the Monarchy and all its " time-
honoured institutions ;" the other, because tha
policy has made no change in those institutions at
all commensurate either with the prevalence of
abuse, or the interests of the people. Such are the
conflicting elements by an unnatural and momen-
tary union of which the Government of the country
is to be wrested from a Liberal, and, to a certain ex-
tent, reforming Administration, and delivered into
.he hands of men who are the sworn enemies of all
Istitutional improvement, and popular advance-
,. Can anything be clearer than this, that any
vote of censure or non-approval of the Ministerial
policy which should be carried by a union of the To-
ries and Radicals, must be founded in the grossest
injustice on the part of one or other of the parties,
for it is impossible that both can be in the right ?
But we are not afraid that the Radical party in
the House of Commons will be guilty of any such
treachery—for such it would be—to the Liberal
cause. They cannot but see that there is no
shadow of reason to expect any other result to
them from a PEEL Government, and a PEEL
Parliament, than a considerable diminution of their
numbers, and an indefinite postponement of their
objects. Why then should they damage their own
cause, and that of the public, by lending them-
selves to the Tories, who will gladly use them as
instruments for achieving a victory over the present
Ministers, but who, when once seated in Downing-
street, will turn upon them, and oppose them and,
their system of reform with uncompromising, and,
we fear, not ineffective hostility /

men

It will be seen by our report of the proceedings
of the Convention yesterday, that one of the leading
members made a bold attempt to identify it with the
Tories, and take part against the cause of Ireland
and Lord NORMANBY. The project was defeated
by the good sense of Mr. FEARGUS O'CoNNon,
and the Convention adopted a resolution to stand
neuter in the contest, contrary to the well-accredited
maxim on the subject of civil commotions. We
know no more certain method to cool the zeal
of those Noblemen who would serve the cause of
the people than to treat them with contumely.
The members of the Convention, who made the
motion, must wish, if possible, to drive Lord
NORMANBY and his friends into the a►ms of the
Orange-men, and induce Statesmen of all parties
to make common cause against the people. It ought
to be recollected that peculiar habits of thought
and action are common to the different classes of
society ; that a Nobleman born is unfortunately
bred up in a high notion of aristocratic privileges
and power ; and both the precepts of his teachers
and the general conduct of the people in. times past
inspire him with a high idea of his own dignity,
and lead him to expect great deference, and even
implicit obedience. That may be wrong, it may
result from vicious social institutions, but such is
and such has long been the case. When the
people, therefore, find a Nobleman deferring to them,
or, as Mr. SANKEY called it, courting popularity,
surmounting the prejudices of his birth and educa-
tion, and disposed, in ever so trifling a manner, to
promote the cause of liberty, and do justice
to the masses, though they be Irish Catholics,
it is in our estimation not wise, not prudent, to re-
pel his advance with scorn, and even to speak of
him as worse than a coercive, aristocratic Tory.
We congratulate the Convention, therefore, that its
decision was adverse to Mr. SANKEY'S motion, for
its success would only have damaged the character
of the Convention, and increased the alienation of
those who were its friends.

We observe that placards have been issued re-
commending the trades of the metropolis, in the
name of the Convention, to form a new organiza-
tion to promote the success of the Charter. Per-
haps that proves a continuance of unwearied zeal,
but at the same time it looks as if the organization
of the Convention itself had not answered the ex-
pectations of its authors.

We can have no doubt from the tenor of several
articles in the German Journals, purporting to be
correspondence from Constantinople, that Russia
is now as busy in fomenting a quarrel between the
SULTAN and the Pacha of EGYPT, as she was a few
months ago in fanning the sparks of war on the
confines of British India. If she can but get the
SULTAN and the VICEROY by the ears she hopes,
by playing the part of the mediator, to reduce
both to a condition bordering upon that
of avowed vassalage, so as to enable her at any
moment to crush British influence from the shores
of the Bosphorus to the confines of Abyssinia. The
dishonesty of her agency, is worthy of the crooked-
ness of her policy. While her Ambassador at the
Porte is perpetually chafing the haughty spirit of
the SULTAN, by reminding him of the all but regal
independence of his powerful vassal, her agents at
Cairo are insidiously at work inciting MEHE-
MET ALI to restore to the map of the
world, the ancient kingdom of the PHAROAIIS I
MAIIMOUD and MEHISNIET ALI have received
equally strong assurances of the ulterior support of
the Cabinet of St. Petersburg ; but it is very easy
to perceive that the promises made to the Vice_
Rol would stand the better chance of being ful-
filled. By joining the VICEROY, Russia would

at once close the new British highway to India,
and facilitate the " retirement," as the Cza-
rina CATIIA RINE 11. politely termed it,
of the Court of the CZA R, from St. Petersburg to
the more genial climate of Constantinople. The
well-timed publication by the House of Commons,
of the official papers relative to the late trans.
actions on our Indian frontier, exposing the base
intrigues of Russia in Persia and Affghanistan,
will, however, tend to disconcert her schemes with
respect to Egypt. In these papers, proofs are given
of the prodigality with which she wastes her trea-
sures for the corruption of Governments, which,
were they not so well authenticated, would
appear wholly incredible. And yet what are
the motives which prompt Russia to carry on in-
trigues at Teheran and Herat, compared with the
magnitude of those which must influence her de-
ceptive policy at Cairo and Constantinople ? They
are as a grain of sand to the countless heaps on
the sea-shore.

The Moniteur of Sunday contains a Royal
Ordinance, renewing the Ordinance of the 21st of
January last, forbidding the exportation of grain
from the several ports of France. It likewise an-
' nounces the arrest of from two to three hundred
persons, who, on Saturday evening assembled be-
tween the portes of St. Denis and St. Martin, and
attempted, by revolutionary cries and songs, to
disturb the peace of the capital. Were it not for
the timely appearance of a large body of troops, it
is supposed that an attack would have been made
upon the Chateau.
The Chamber of Deputies was occupied on
Saturday with the verifications of the returns of the
Deputies, whose elections were disputed. The
Report of the Second Bureau or Committee on the
election of VATOUT, a partizan of the MOLE ad-
ministration, and the known creature of the Court,
having bee❑ read, M. MA UGUIN rose, and
stated, that although the Report asserted
that no overt act of bribery could be traced to M.
VATOUT, he was able to satisfy the Chamber of
the moral guilt, not only of that Gentleman, but
of nearly every partisan of the late Cabinet. He
then proceeded in a strain of impassioned eloquence
to describe scenes of intimidation and corruption
wholly at variance with every principle of elec-
toral freedom. He maintained that the patron-
age of the Government was shamefully and
notoriously prostituted for the corrruption
of the representative principle both in the
Chambers and throughout France. Attempts hav-
ing been made by a present and an ex-Minister to
defend by retaliation the conduct of the late Go-
vernment with respect to the elections, M. JAU-
BERT repeated and confirmed the statements made
by M. 'MA uGmic, and with unusual fervour de-
clared that it was not enough that the MOLE
Cabinet was officially defunct, it was a solemn duty
which the Chamber owed to itself and to France, to
extinguish every hope of its revivification in any
form. This declaration totally disconcerted and
confounded the Court party. M. MARTIN (du
Nord), ex-Minister of Commerce, attempted a se-
cond defence of his Colleagues, but encountered
such a storm of disapprobation, that he was not
allowed to finish two sentences together without
indignant and decisive interruptions from all parts
of the Chamber. This augurs well for the ulti-
mate triumph of the Coalition.
We have reason to believe that Marshal SOULT

has completely failed in all his plans to form a
Cabinet. MM. DUPIN and PA SST, seeing the
way in which the tide is setting in the Chamber of
Deputies, have re•united themselves with M.
TRIERS, and on Saturday they told the KING
that they could not enter any Cabinet of which
TIIIERS was not a Member.

The accounts from Madrid are of the 31st ult.,
but they bring no news of interest.
PARIS, APRIL 6.—A letter from Madrid, of the 31st.,
has the following paragraphs :—The news of the dismissal
of Baron de Meer, has caused an extraordinary sensation in
Catalonia. Apprehensions are entertained for the tran-
quillity of the province, which has been restored by the
Baron, if this measure should be carried into execu-
tion

Some uneasiness is likewise felt respecting Va-
encia. It seems to be absolutely necessary to send en-
'orcements to that city, in order to protect it against the
continual attacks of the insurgents, and the attempts
of the anarchists.

The Government has received satisfactory information
respecting the progress of the negociations with the
Northern Courts, which have been commenced under the
auspices of England. It appears that the negocia-
tions, the only object of which is to induce the
Northern Governments to recognise Queen Isa-
bella, are the result of negotiations opened at the
same time at Vienna and Berlin. The Spanish Commis-
sioners are at this moment at Dresden. Some persons
have endeavoured to connect their journey with pretended
projects of matrimonial alliance which have never been
Cabinet, which has taken an
thought of. The English
active part in the negotiations, knows very well that they
relate exclusively to the resignation of Queen 15abe11a......
Le Temps, April 7.
PARIS, APRIL 6.—We have a letter from Brussels of
the sth inst., saying that a report was spread that King
Leopold refuses to sign the treaty because he has been in..
formed, officially or otherwise, that King William would
not send an Ambassador to Brussels.—Le Constitutionnel,
April 7.

HAMBURG I3ORSEN lIALLE, Antrr, 5.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents. ... lO6 1051
Rank Shares lll7 1404
An 10-Russian Loan 11)74 107li
Russian 4 per Cent. Ist series, Certifloate
Russian b per Cont. Hop, and o. 3d and 4th
Se ies CO
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch ,ctual Debt, 2y4 pa Cent 541,i 54
Ditto e per Ctn. 921 !,34
Polish Bond,
New icket
Anglo-1 apish Loan, 3 per Cent 72 i' 72
NOTISCIOAII Loan, I k. 34, 4 per Coat. ltO 99S
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
.H•sfauna, APRIL 5.-16. 61,.—Tivo months, 13. 5.
STocanomil, MARCR :?R,—Ninety Asps, 11, 11.
Faltors, APRIL f,:f!.—Tfirce instiths, 6.21.
VIENNA, MARCH :27.—Two mouths, 1146!,
CEN

TRAL CRIMINAL COURT
(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Serjeant ARABIN.)
William Palmer was indicted for uttering a forged order,
for the purpose of obtaining certain goods with intent to
defraud James Foster and another.
It appears that the prisoner on the 26th of March, sent
a lad to the warehouse of Messrs Foster and Co., with a
forged order for certain shawls. The order was suspected,
but the shawls were given to the lad, who took them to
the person who was waiting for them, and he was given
into custody.

The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
him to mercy.

The Curt sentenced the prisoner to two years impri-
sonment and hard labour in the House of Correction.
William Bray was indicted for stealing and embezzling
Bs., the property of Edward Dowley.
The prisoner was in the service of the prosecutor, a
baker, at Upper Tooting, and was accustomed to receive
money on his master's account. It appeared that he had
received Bs. from a customer, named Newberry, for which
he had omitted to account, and when asked said he had not
received it.
Mr. PAYNE, in defending the prisoner, contended that
there was au account bntween the parties.
Several witnesses were called to character.
The Jury retired to consider of their verdict. On their
return they found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly recom-
mended him to mercy. He was sentenced to three months'
imprisonment, and hard labour.
James Jones was convicted of picking pockets at
Greenwich Fair—sentenced to six months' imprisonment,
and hard labour. _ _

„„,...
Selina— Sinunonds was indicted for stealing, one petti-
coat, one brooch, one purse, and other articles,
the property of Edward Murray. The prosecutor lodged
in the house where the prisoner was servant, andmise to
sed
the articles in question. A jeweller named King, swor
haying purchased the brooch of a female resembling the
prisoner, and Mrs. Ralph, the prisoners mistress, found the
purse in her box.
The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty,
The prisoner was again indicted for stealing one shawl
and other articles, the property of W. Ralph. The pri-
soner lived as servant with the prosecutor and in consequence
of some suspicion the pr toosecur's wife searched the pri-
soners box, in which she found several pawnbrokers dupli-
cates, and sundry articles of wearing apparel.
Several pawnbrokers produced different articltese
whichprose-
were pawned by the prisoner, and sworn to by h

cutrix.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The prosecutor recommended her to mercy.
Sentence deferred.
George Edward' was indicted for embezzling 20s, and
also 103., the property of Samuel Martin.
whoy e dso
had
m some
appearing that the prisoner had ern
person to deliver a brief to Mr. C. Phillips
,
ne-
glected to do so, the case was ordered to stand over, in
order that inquiries might be made
into the circumstances.
Maria Cane, alias Martin, was indicted for stealing en
the 28th of March five yards of cloth, the property of
Henry Martin. The prosecutor is a woollen draper. The
prisoner came to his shop under pretence of making a pur-
chase, and on her quitting it prosecutor desired her to open
her cloak, when the cloth in question dropped from her
person.
Some witnesses were called to character.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and she was sen-
tenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.
Joseph Kemp, indicted for picking the pocket of William
Tye, on Snow-hill, on Good Friday last, was found Guilty,
and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard
labour.

Edward Potter was indicted for stealing and embezzling
several hums of money, the property of Fanny Walker, his
mistress.

Mr. CLARKSON stated the MO to the Jury. The pro-
secutrix is a, carrier at Eltham, and tho prisoner vras in
service. appeared that on several occasions the
prisoner had received money for the carriage of parcels,
Without accounting to his mistress for the same. The pro-

secutrix discharged the prisoner in November last, and in
consequence of her sending in bills for the amount of car-
riage to different parties, a discovery took pllce.
Mr. PAYNE addressed the Jury for the defence.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to one year's imprisonment, with hard labour, in the
Houso of Correction.
Joseph Fuller• was indicted for stealing sixteen dozen of
slippers, the property of Simeon Lyons.
Mr. PAINS stated the case to the Jury.
Simeon Lyons—ls a slipper maker; the prisoner came
to him on the 4th of March, and said he had an order for
sixteen dozen of sippers, at 15s. 6d. the dozen; he
agreed to allow :the prisoner 6d. a dozen for the order,
but said ,he must be paid ready money. The slippers
were packed up and carried by a porter to the warehouse of
Mr. De Passe, Cateaton-street. Witness and the prisoner
accompanied the porter. Witness stood at the door while the
prisoner and the porter went in. The prisoner came out and
said that he had an order for four dozen more of slippers,when
he should receive a check for the whole amount. They went
towards witness's house when prisoner escaped. He saw
prisoner afterwards in Houndsditch when he collared him.
The prisoner escaped and summoned the witness before the
Lord Mayor on a charge of assault, but when his Lordship
heard the case he ordered the prisoner and prosecutor to
change places.
Cross-examined by Mr. DOANE—Does not know what
selling by commission is. Has been in business five
months, before which he was a reader in the synagogue.
Gaye the prisoner no authority to part with the slippers ;
never trusted him with the goods at all.
By the COURT—Never got either the slippers or money.
Is a Pole. Went with prisoner in order to get the money.
David de Passe lives in Cateaton-street. Prisoner
came on the 4th March to know if he would buy a job lot
of slippers. Witness told him he might bring them ; he
bought 16 dozen, and was paid a check for 91. 4s. ; said
they belonged to a person who wanted money. Prisoner
had been in the habit of coming with slippers to him ; never
gave him orders for four dozen more slippers.
Mr. Doane defended the prisoner, and contended that
the prisoner had merely been guilty of a breach of trust.
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN summed up,iand said, if they be-
lieved the prisoner got possession of the goods by an ;art-
fully preconcerted scheme, they must convict the prisoner.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.

le majority of the inhabitants of Derby, in-
cluding all shades of political and religious opinion, have
sent a letter to the Postmaster of the town, requesting him
not to forward to them any letters, &c., arriving on a Sun-
day, unless especially marked on the outside to be forwarded
immediate!y. The same individuals have signed a peti-
tion to be presented to Parliament, praying the mails may
not in future run on Sundays.—Derby Mercury.
Died at Urlar, near Aberfeldy, on the 24th of
March, Mrs. Christian Andrew, relict of Alexander
M.Donald, in the one hundred and second year of her age;
MODERATORSHIP OR THE GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY.—We understand that the gentleman intended to be
proposed for this high office is the Rev. Dr. Henry Duncan,
Minister of Ruthwell, the distinguished originator of
Savings' Banks, and author of the Philosophy of the Sea-
sons, and °ther excellent works.—Kelso Chronicle.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—La Sonnatn-
bula was performed again on Saturday evening with the
same cast as on Thursday. As on the latter occasion
Madame Persiani elicited the enthusiastic applause of her
audience, in despite of the inefficient co-operation of a
tenor, whom it is high time the return of Rubini should
remove from a station so much above his powers. On the
fall of the curtain Persiani was called for, and if her
brilliant performance was acknowledged somewhat less
loudly than on her first night, it was because the
house was less numerously attended. All the great
singers, whose combined talents promise us a season of
unprecedented splendour, have now arrived in town, in-
cluding, wo believe, Mademoiselle Pauline Garcia, though
it bad been rumoured that she was not to make her
debut at her Majesty's Theatre before the month of June.
Of the presence of the universal favourite we had certain
evidence the night before last, when Grisi was to be seen
paying, from an upper box, her tribute to the sweet notes
of the sleep-walker. She looked, we are glad to say, in
excellent health, her fair form having no reason to regret
some loss of embonpoint. We are also happy to hear that
through the active exertions of her husband and father, the
casket stolen from her travelling carriage, on her departure
from Paris, has been recovered, with the whole of its
valuable contents. Grisi, we understand, is to appear to-
morrow with Tamburini in the Puritani. It would appear
that the dillettanti of Liverpool and Manchester are to be
under another obligation to the rapidity of their railway
communications with the metropolis, it being, according to
rumour, the intention of M. Laporte to make those cities
occasionally enjoy. during the opera season, the eminent
musical talent which he has so liberally provided for the
frequenters of her Majesty's theatre.