The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-21 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Morning Advertiser speculating on the changes likely
to be made in tie composition of the Cabinet. puts forth
the following judicious remarks, deprecating any imme-
diate chang'.::—" We do not think that the Ministry
teoulel act a prudent part in making the expected changes
in its ace,npoeition al the present no ment, much as we may
agrftitsith other people in the opinion that on all accounts
semi. changes will be expedient. No change can be made
in f.be Cabinet without a resettlement of its entiTe corn-
pF sit ion. for any change must lead to a general shifting
places among the present holders of office. Two conse-

gnences would follow; those measures which the present
Ministers have prepared for introduction into Parliament, or
which they have already introduced there, must be post-
poned, to be re-considered by their successors, and intro-
duced by them in another Session ; and almost all the
members of the Goverameat must go to their constituents.
i✓y such a course the present Session would be lost; and
it would be far from certain that, if the members of the
Government should be re-elected, it might not be neces-
sary, from the conduct of the Tories, to make a general
appeal to the country ; so that two sets of elections must
be gone through.'

The Times, alluding again to the subject of the Tory
downfall, takes the opportunity of indulging in the fol-
lowing sneer at the Queen :—" It was surely too much
thus to paralr.e the whole business of the country and of
its colonies., at this juncture not a little urgent, and to
oppose br.th the pronounced judgment of the House of
Lords and the plainly intimated opinion of the House of
Convaions, for the mere purpose of keeping one lady, or
even a whole quadrille of ladies, in the rotation of office.
Pcr *es weeks of the very heart of the Session, the
public affairs will have been suspended, and the national
loyalty put to a needless test, upon a question which,
though very important on the one hand to the security of
the intended Administration, was a mere matter of per-
sonal fancy on the other, as related to the Queen herself."

1 The Morning Chronicle insists on the imperative neces-
sity of further Reforms in these terms:—" The main body
of the Reform party is determined on the amendment of I
the representative system. They have borne with the 1
bea.kwardness and compromises of Ministers till their own i
'credit for consistency suffered ; and they have forborne
Ito press their convictions of needful change till the cause
.43‘ Reform itself suffered, rather than divide the strength
^vy which Toryism was excluded from power. If this for- ,
tearance be continued, it will assume a very different
icharacter. It is no longer a source of strength, but of
, weakness. To prolong it will be to deceive the Queen,
end to betray the people."
The iforiting Post makes the following flippant re.
marks on the subject of the Ministerial policy :—" The
fact is, that as far as can be made out, the Whig Ministers
1 do not find it conrenient to make any very remarkable
change just at present, either in the persons who compose
the Government, or in the character of the policy which
ith' Governmen.% has hitherto pursued. A break-up to any
extent would, be an awkward thing. They have certain
in' livinga II to what might be the end of such a proceed-
/r.g if c'ole it began. Besides this, they perceive that they
are I*.arrallously well suited to each other. They dread
that the intrusion of any stranger might break up the de-
-I!,r,,htful harmony and unanimity which prevail amongst
tnevn."
The Morning Herald denounces the Ministerial scheme
of National Education, in the meet approved style of bi-
gotry and intolerance :—" The mean and pettifogging
device of Lord John Russell to introduce the system of
Education into England in the shape of a money grant,
without any previous inquiry into its general nature and
Icudencies, without the advice, concurrence, or co-opera-
, "t!en of the heads of the English Church—without affording
r, talc for the demonstration of public opinion—the ' hop,
i 'l4, and jump' style in which the whole nation were to be
I tricked into the sanction of Popish versions of the Scrip-
tures, lured to endanger its existing schools for the poor,
i and offer a national insult on the Bishops and the Clergy
f; of the Established Church—all this, we say, is so much
ai ;..kin to Jesuitical fraud, and so utterly foreign to the manly,
ij plain, and straightforward spirit of an English legislator,
that we may at on,ze denounce it as the first gift and
. cifering to the per,ple of England of that junta of Papists,
, infidels and Ra':iicials, which forms the Irish Education
Board, and Which now seeks to extend its domination over
, cur Protest'ant shores,"
f'
The
Globe of last night, recurring again to the subject
j of Sir r.obert Peel's resignation, observes :—" Without
a majority, but with the Court, Sir Robert Peel faced Par-
-6 ham' ut in 1835, and certainly made as good a fight as
i 1 11141 d 'oe made under such unpromising circumstances.
11t1".iout a majority, and without the Court, he abandons
," hope of making a fight at all. We think that, in this
; l'' ,st case, he has judged very rightly ; and the same circum-
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stances which have very rightly decided his judgment form
i •eqaally valid grounds for that of the opposite party. This,
k ia politics, is a rare felicity ; but the more the case is ex-
arnined, it will seem the clearer. Sir Robert Peel had
his reaeons to insist on the change; and her Majesty had
1, terra „to resist it—the more so as the hack-organs of Sir
Robot, Peel's party had been teeming with most disgrace-
nut
ay.acks on her Majesty's Household. All the reasons
~ svhic t., prompted the resolution against a change in 1812,
n.w, existed in tenfold force ; and those reasons—by the
T, 'ries of that day, and even by the public—were deemed
F affibient to justify Lord Moira in breaking off the nego-
-1 ci ttions pith the leaders of the Whig party. The sun is
I oil the Whig side of the hedge nosy—that is all the differ-

The Courier, in the course of a leading article on the
subject of National Education, says—" This is the princi-
p, of religious liberty recognised by our present rulers;
this is ti-,e proposition which their enemies declare to be
firrt step to the destruction both of Church and State.
The -plan, says the Times, will undermine the foundations
of oi ir sacred and venerable Church. ' The scheme,' says
the Britannia (a new weekly journal, strong in Toryism),
sow the seeds of a revolution.' This is what the in-
tol'onnts think of the proposal. They see that it re-
gniaes a principle of toleration, of justice, of religious
.redom, resistance to which has ever been, and we now
inovr will ever be, the distinguishkg feature of thir po-
licy. Moderate as the scheme ie, it is fraught with gigantic
evils to them—to them it will be a heavy blow and great
discouragement. Is it not, then, on every ground to be
aought for as a thing of value in itself ? and is it less to be
regarded as a practical proof that even this Government
is, by its liberality of sentiment, entitled to the sympathies
of every friend to religious liberty—even were the ene-
mies of religious liberty, and liberty of every kind, not
likely to become their successors in pwer."
The Standard contains the followinq observations on the
subject of the recent Chartist diKarbances :—" The
Chartists are becoming gradually troublesome—to men
Ignorant of the ingrained loyalty of the mass of the English
people, they are becoming even an object of terror. While
we disclaim all serious alarm as to the result of this mad
sedition, we cannot be blind to the evil, though second-rate,
which it must cause to the country, or to the sure destruc-
tion which it must draw upon thousands of its deluded vic-
tims. The Chartist sedition must, however, continue to
be progressive under the present Government, first—be-
cause that Government labours with the ' crisis' palsy ;
xocondly—ly,:couse even were it in possession of the vigour
rlecessary t..) the discharge of its duties, the very existence
of such a Government is a standing encouragement to trca-
iol.4l-11`1 nctivity. Why may not sedition be as safe a
hire nit in 1839 as in 1331 ? Why not as profitable to
tie' as to the incendiaries who caused the burning of Bristol
P.nd Nottinghana ?' is the natural reflection of the Vincents,
and the Roberts, and of hundreds besides. Let us only
persevere, and we, too, may be Cabinet Ministers, and
commit the Queen in safe custody with our wives."

TilE WIFE OF TWO HUSBANDS AND THE
TIFSIIAND OF TWO WIVES,-On Wednesday last, Waters, a
I y,ker, in Exmouth-street, Clerkenwell, was informed that
tits wife, the mother of five children, and to whom he has
-en married Lille or ten years, was seen very frequently
iii the cfmn-any g,of a gentleman of property, named Tur-
tier, also a married man, who is his next-door neighbJur,
end hints -mere thrown out of a very unpleasant kind
Waters '.id not for a momentgive credence to the story'
Still, 'ilowever, he considered it nothing but fair to let his'
`l)°,,ige know the gossip of the neighbourhood. She heard
.atn repeat the scandal with the fortitude becoming her
sex, and at once insisted that her husband should hear from
.lier lips, and from the lips of Mr. Turner at the same time,
n anqualified denial of all that was imputed to them ;
and'to mike the affair more business-like, the wife of the
latter was invited as a witness to their disclaimers. The
pz,rties met, and a scene the most distressing and extra-
ordinary occurred. Mrs. Waters had satisfied her husband
and likewise Mrs. Turner, of her entire innocence of the
insinuations thrown out, and had called on Mr. Turner to
give his denial, when, instead of doing so, he claimed her
as his wife, told her that he would prosecute her for
bigamy, and said that four out of the five childen which
are under the care of Mr. Waters were his. He
Iso mentioned that they were married at St. Andrew's
church, in the month of April, 1837, he being then
the husband of another female, the present Mrs. Turner.
Mrs. Waters retorted upon him, and produced a letter in
his (Turner's), hand-writing, written recently, in which he
dsmanded her immediate elopement with him, and
threatening to do her and himself some serious injury if
she refused. In conclusion blows passed between Mrs.
Waters and Turner, and the latter escaped from the pre-
mixes, leaving Mrs. Turner and Waters in a state of mind
bordering on frenzy, On the Blowing day Mr. Waters
having well considered the serious subject, determined that
his wife should go before a Magistrate and obtain a war-
rant against Turner for the assault—he supposing that it
would be the means of causing a full explanation and dis-
closupe of this extraordinary affair, and en Saturday it was
appointed that the matter should be heard. Neither Mr.
Waters nor Turner, however, was forthcoming; but Mr.
Waters and Mrs. Turner were in attendance with a copy
of the certificate of the marriage of the two first-named
parties at the Church and at the time already mentioned,
and abundance of other proof was forthcoming if necessary.
Such, so far, are the particulars of this most remarkable
case.

Shortly before twelve o'clock on Saturday night,
rn alarming fire broke out in the extensive coach manu-
factory of Mr. Angus, situated in Arthur-place. Knights-
bridge, and directly opposite Trevor Chapel. The tames
were first disoovered raging in one of the upper lofts, and
'a a short time threatened the entire destruction of the
Actory, and of the extensive range of stabling in the rear,
known as Fulham Bridge-yard. By great exertion the
whole of the valuable stock of carriages was got out, and
placed for security in Trevor-square, and by that time the
district engine of St. Margaret's, Westminster, was brought
fo the spot, and being promptly followed by that from the
13,1:onapton district of Kensington, and those from.. the
_-•__ti_,lnts-street and King-street stations of the Brigade
ptreeuCourtty Fire Office, the destruction of property
was nt,ed from being so extensive as was at first feared.
will. be more lc"
must, however, be considerable, but it
than covered by his insurance in the Phoenix
Firs 011ie.

LONG IMPRISONMENT.—On Monday week,
Mr. William Tinmouth, formerly of Bishopwaarmoutb,
innkeeper, was released
i from Durham prison, after having
suffered incarceration n that place for nearly nineteen
years, for non-payment of a penalty to the Excise.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

The Assembly met on the 16th, when her Majesty's
Commissioner, Lord Belhaven, held his first leve • at
Holyrood House, which was attended by no fewer ban
two hundred and forty noblemen and gentleme —a
number far exceeding that which attended any similar
levee for many years. Among those present were the
Marquis of Huntly, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Earl of
Leven and Melville, Count Martigny, Lord Torphi-
chen, Lord Greenock, Lord Robert Ker ; Hon. Mr.
Sandilands, Hon. 13. Primrose ; the Lord Provost, Ma-
gistrates, and several of the Council of the city.
The Rev. Dr. Duncan, of Ruthwell, well known
for the active part he has taken in establishing Savings'
Banks, was unanimously appointed Moderator. The
great subject of discussion this year will be the Auch-
terarder case, lately decided in the House of Lords,
and on that two notices of motion were given—one by
Dr. Cook, and the other by Dr. Chalmers. A motion
was made to refer the subject to a private Committee ;
but after some discussion it was withdrawn, and Wed-
nesday next was appointed for the debate on this im-
portant question—the most important, certainly that
has occupied the Supreme Court of the Church of
Scotland, for the last hundred years.