The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-09 00:00:00

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)

On their Lordships coming into Caurt, they gave judgment
in the cases of Pascoe v. Pascoe, Bailey v. Norman, and
Yapp v. Harrington, all of which involved points of law of
great nicety, which had been argued during the present term.
The details were of no particular interest except to the par-
tics concerned.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JUNE B..—Wind E., fresh.—Arrived, the Concer-
cado, Defensor, from Lisbon.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 7.—Wind E., fresh gales and ?pally.—
Arrived, the Cornwall, from Calcutta.
Poarsmount, JUNE 7. —Wind E., fine.—No arrivals.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 7.—Wind E.—No arrivals.
HOLYHEAD, JUNE 7.—Arrived off, the Frances, Madras.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 7.—Arrived off, the Hope, from Bahia ;
Aci Golden Flocer., from Bahia ; the Actress, from New Or-
-144 Allerton, from New Orleans.
leans ; 6.—Arrived off, the Redwing, Memel.
DUBLIN, JUIN.. the Thomas, from Trinidad.
CORK, Jusa 6.—Ari.. —fined, the Neptunus, Memel.
LONDONDERRY, JUNE 6.—rt.. Peter, from St. Peters
DUNDEE, JUNE 6.—Arrived, the St.
burg; the Agenoria, from Riga.
MONTROSE, JUNE 6.—Arrived, the Jason, from sire; the
Liberty, from Riga.
HULL, JUNE B.—Arrived, the Fortuna, from Rostock.
CLYDE, JUNE 6.—Arrived, the Three Sisters, from Malaga ;
the Emiline, from Marseilles.
BRISTOL, JUNE 9.—The Zoa, from hence to Marseilles and
Mauritius, grounded on the Hotwcll House this morning, but
as she sits almost upright in the mud, it is expected she will
come off next tide without injury.
PENZANCE, JUNE 7. —The Ruby, from Dungarvon to
Portsmouth, and the Liberty, from Swansea to Falmouth,
have put into this port, the former with loss of head, bow-
sprit, &c.—the cutter with top sides stoved in a sinking state,
having been in contact with each other.
YARMOUTH, JUNE B.—The Blues, of Dover, was assisted
into this harbour yesterday, very leaky.

The Mercator, from Sunderland to Lisbon, was wrecked on
the Gutifleet Sand on the Bth inst. ; crew. saved.
VESSELS SCOKEN win's. —The Vigilant, from France to
Newfoundland, on the 2d inst., long. 51, lat. 18, with loss of
foremain-top mast, lower rigging, &c., having been in contact
with a vessel, and suPplied with a top-mast by the Thomas,
arrived at Cork.

The New Brunswick, from Dantzic to St. John's, New
Brunswick, is sunk in a creek near Christiana Sand.

We have from time to time alluded in terms of what
we have considered, and what we still consider, just ridicule
to the efforts which have been made in this city to discover
water by amens of that antiquated delusion, the Vivining
Rod. We hear that during the past week some further expe-
riments of this kind have been made in Bath, and that many
persons of consideration have been converted to a belief in the
wonderful virtues of the said Rod.—Bath Chronicle.

E. L. Bulwer, Esq., M.P., has presented copies of
his new work, " Athens; its Rise and Fall," to the Lincoln
Mechanics' Institute. Sir E. F. Broruhead, Bart., the Pre-
sident has also presented " Whewell's History of the Inductive
Sciences,- 3 v 01E.. -7Lincoln Gazette.

That the racecourse yesterday lacked none of its attributes
was obvious to the most casual observer, every stand was
thronged at " war prices," and the enclosed space for car-
riages at 20s. for the front rank, and on a reduced scale for
the succeeding ones, fully occupied ; behind this part were an
immense number of stage coaches, omnibuses, four-in-hands,
and private carriages, the inmates of which, unable to reach
the course in time, were feign to take a peep at what was
going on over the heads, or, may be, through the legs of those
in advance. The foot people flocked in by thousands, and
speedily filled up the space left unoccupied by the numberless
vehicles on the ground. For the amusement of so large a
concourse there was racing in abundance, tumbling, juggling
(in various ways), glee singing, thimble rigging, and at con-
venient periods eating anedrinkino-, every taste having ample
opportunities of suiting itself. The ensemble was one of ex-
treme bustle and excitement, but so praiseworthy were 'the
exertions of the new police it was marked by the most perfect
order—in fact, the quiet and systematic manner in which the
course was kept, and regularity maintained throughout the
day, was the theme of general admiration. The gambling
booths were liberally patronised, and the thimble-rig and light-
fingered gentry were more successful in their vocations than
on Tuesday.
The weather was not so favourable as we could have
wished ; a piercing wind, with a cloudy and threatening sky,
ushered in the morning, and doubtless deterred many from
risking a cold, or the destruction of finery, which they shrewdly
observed would keep fresh for Hampton or the Hippodrome.
As the day advanced the clouds dispersed, the air became
milder, and the pleasures of the afternoon, with one exception,
went off bvithout alloy. That exception, however, was of a
nature to throw a gloom over all. Her Majesty—prevented
by a severe cold caught, on Tuesday, and his Majesty's in-
creased indisposition=was unable to attend. It is almost su-
perfluous to add that the cause of the disappointment was
mere regretted than the disappointment itself. This is the
first occasion in the present reign that Ascot racecourse on the
Cup day has not been honoured with the presence of Royalty.
The races were appointed to commence at half-past one
o'clock, by which time the assemblage on the Heath was at
least equal to any thing seen on it since Zinganee's year. The
Royal Stand was thrown open to ladies connected with the
Stewards and their friends, and was quite full.
The following is a full list of the fashionables present as
time and the crowded state of the Heath permitted us to col-
lect :

Prince Hohenlohe Langenbourg, Prince Nicholas Ester-
hazy, Count d'Orsav, Count Matuszevic, Count Bathiany,
Count Waldstcin, and several other foreign Noblemen.
Dukes—Beaufort, Argyle, and Rutland.
Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, and Marquis of West-
minster.

Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earls Wilton, Uxbridge,
Jersey, Stradbroke, Earl and Countess of Suffield, Earls
Lichfield, Verulam, and March.
Lords G. Bentinck, John Fitzroy, Strathaven, Villiers, W.
Lennox, Gardiner, Lord W. and Lady Caroline Paulet, C.
Manners, A. Paget, Andover, and F. Lennox.
Honourables—General and Mrs. Grosvenor, Colonel and
Mrs. Anson, George 13yna, A. Villiers, C. Forester, Charles
Forester, Brand, Captain Macdonald, and H. Rous.
Sirs—J. Shelley, S. Graham, L. Glyn, G. Heathcote, J.
Elley, H. Peyton, &c.
Colonels—Peel, Bouveric, Cooper, Wood, Wemyss, &c.
Captains—Gardner, Clive, Fairlie, Vysc, Huntcr, Seymour,
Berkeley, and most of the officers of the regiment stationed at
Windsor.
Messrs.—Nfassey Stanley, Errington, Sloane Stanley, D.
Radcliffe, Irby, Cosby. Culling Smith, T. A. Smith, Gre-
vilie, Payne, Worrall, Crommelin, Poyntz, Forbcs, H. Aston,
Ricardo, F. Charlton, Wigram, Lamb, 13atson, Thornhill, J.
Mills, Payne, 13cntinck, Hungcrford, Portman, Shelley, Haw-
ker, L. Harvey, Newton, Rush, Sheridan, Wigram, Dolphin,
&c. &c.
The following is a return of the racing :
The Windsor Forest Stakes of 50 soya each, h. ft., for three years,
old fillies, Bst. 41b. The winner of the 2,000 Guineas Stakes,
Derby, or Oaks, to have carried 511). extra. The old mile. 8
Subs.
Lord Exeter's Velure Condi), 1

Mr. J. Day's Chapeau d'Espagne
Lord Chesterfield's Vaeuna

7 Betting—i to 4on Chapeau d'Espag,nc, and sto 2 agat Velure.
The latter made all the running, and won in a canter by two lengths.
Sweepstakes of 30 sore. each, 20 ft., for two years old; colts, Sst.
Sib ; fillies, Bst. 21b. The winner of a Sweepstakes before or
after naming to carry 31b. extra. T. Y. C. 6 Subs.
Capt. Fairlie's ch. c. by Sir Hercules—Zebra Wakefield 1
Duke of Rutland's f. by Hawker, dam by Pan, 31bs. extra
Mr. Stevens's gr. c. Girm.rack, by Stumps'
Betting-7 to 4on the Hawker filly. The winner not. men-
tioned. Gimcrack sprung off in front, and for fifty yards kept there
undisturbed ; the Sir Hercules cult then took the lead at first-rate
speed, and won in a hand canter by six lengths.
The Gold Cup, value 300 sons., &c., by subscriptions of 20 sous.
each, with 200 added from the Fund ; the second to receive 50
sore. out of the stakes ; three years, 6st. 101 b ; four, est. 21b ;
five, Bst. 121 b; six and aged, 9st. 31b. Mares and geldings al-
lowed 31b. About two miles and a half. 34 Subs.
Lord Westminster's Touchstone, 6 yrs ...Scott 1
Colonel Peel's Slane, 4 yrs
.2;

Mr. W. Edwarcls's Roial George, 4 yrs
Mr. Etvvall's Alumnus, 4 yrs
Betting-2 to lon Touchstone, 4to 1 agst Slane, 10 to 1 agst
Alumnus, and 25 to 1 agst Royal George. Alumnus went away
with the lead'at a moderate pace, Slane lying a couple of lengths
behind, Touchstone third, and Royal George fourth. There was
no change in these positions till they reached the Brick-kilns (a
mile front home), where Slane, took up the running at first-rate
speed, Touchstone following him round the turn ; about two dis-
tances from home he ran by Slane, and cantered home by himself,
six lengths in advance ; any thing so easy we never saw. The third
was b7aten off three or four lengths front Slane, and the fourth as
much from the third. The Cup represents two Centaurs, support-
ing a vase, and is one of the most splendid and tasteful prizes ever
contended for; it was manufactured at Garrard's.
The Albany Stakes of 50 soya. each, h. ft., for three years old;
coltsrBst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 31b. The winner of the 2,000 gs.
Stakes, Derby, or Oaks, to have carried bib. extra. The new
mile. 7 Subs.
Lord Exeter's Dardanelles -
Mr. Phillimore's Sheriff

, ..... Conelly 1

Lord Suffield's l'upil
3 to 1 on Dardanelles, who made all the running, anal won by a
length. Pupil was beaten off.
Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. ; three yrs old colts, Bst. 71b.;
fillies, Fist. 31b. Old mile. 7 Subs
Mr. Greville's Mango
Mr. S. Stanley's Rat trap
Betting-6 to 4on Mango. This was one of the closest races,
short of a dead beat, ever seen at Ascot. Mango took the lead at
a good pace, Rat-trap waiting on him until within eight or ten
strides of the Chair, where he ran up, and almost at the same in-
stant swerved; Robinson, however, got him straight in a moment,
and ran a splendid race home, Mango winning by a very short neck
The Buckhurst Dinner Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft., fur fillies.
From the Swinley Post in. 11 Subs
Lord Exeter's Corban
Lord Lichfield's Cassandra
Lon! F:xetei's Adrian
Celonel Peel's Garcia filly
Betting-11 to Bon Corban. 3to I agst Garcia, and sto 1 agst
Cassandra. Cassandra made the running, followed by Lord Exe-
ter's two to the distance, where Corban went by the mare, and,
after a short struggle, defeated her by half a length. The Garcia
filly could not live the pace. The races finished at half-past six.

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ENTRIES (THIS DAY).
The Members' Plate

Brown f. by Shakspeare, out of Caradori, 3 yrs, Candia, 3 yrs,
Clifton, Grand Cairo, Magnet, and Ote.
The Beaten Plate.
Royal George, Sheriff, and Hornsea.
The Wokingham Stakes of 5 sovs. each, (First Class).
Valentissimo, 5 vrs, 9st ; Lucifer, 5 yrs, Bst. 101 b; Lady Anne,
4 yrs, Bst. 81b ; Magician, 4 yrs, Bst. 81b ; Rat-trap, 3 yrs, Sst. 61b ;
Louisa, 6 yrs, t;st 61b ; Willesden, 4 yrs, Bst. 41b ; Toothill, 4 yrs,
Bst ;,Corban,- 3 yrs, ist. 41b ; Edgar, 3 vrs, 7.st. 21b ; Helga, 4
yrs, 7st. llb ; Garcia f., 3 yrs, 6st. 1•2 lb ; Vacuna, 3 vrs, 6st. 71b ;
-`:(ton, 3 yrs, 6st. 91b; Cassandra, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b; Sister to le-
••c, Ost. Slb.
-"1,1 Wokingham Stakes (Second Class).
• -1h ; Alumnus, 4 yrs, 86t. 131 b ; Florestan, 5
Slane, 4 yrs,l2st.
vrs, Bst. 61b ; Felix, 5 vrs, Bst. 41b ;
vrs, Bst. 131 b ; Lyrnessus,
4,7 st. 101 b ; Jack Brag, 5 yrs,
-Ethilda, 5 yrs, Bst; Bodice, 5 • Foozool, 4 yrs, 6st. 131 b;
ist. 6lb ; Dardanelles, 3 yrs, 7st. 61b , _
3 yrs, 6st. 111 b ; Ote,
ligi
Brother to De.t, 4 yrs, 6st. 111 b ; Cairo, „rs, Gst.. 71b
3 yrs, 6st. l llb ; Fifes, 3 yrs, 6st.. 101 b ; Sheri.., 6st ; Pupil,
Slight colt, 3 yrs, 6st. bib; Zister to Hatfield, 3 yr.,
3 yrs, bit. 12Ib.

nana, 3

Stand Pte.
Slane, 4 yrs, 9st. 71b ;The Florestan, S yrs, 97t. llb ;
5 yrs, Bst. 111 b ; Famine, 6 yrs, Bst. 91b ; Felix, 5 pi, 6st. Sib
Louisa, 6 yrs, Bst. 41b ; Willesden, 4 yrs, Sit. 41b ; Magician, 4 yrs,
Bst. 41b ; Lady Anna, 4 yrs, Bst. 41b ; Bodice, 6 yrs, ist. 121 b ;
Jack Brag, 5 yrs, 7st. 71b; Rollicking Bob, 5 yrs, 7gt. 211 ; Helga,
4 yrs, ist. Ilb ; Toutbill, 4 yrs, 6st. 121 b Rgebal, 4 Yrs' 6st'
1 21b ; Mlti• Mae, 3 yrs, 6st. 121 b ; Eder, 3 yrs. 6st. ; Pocket
Hercules, 3 yrs, 6st. 81b ; Grand Cairo, 3 yrs, 6st. 4lb ; Shcriff,
3 yrs, 6st. 2W ; Cornborough, 3 yrs, 6st. 216.

AQUATICS.
SGULLERRS' WAGER.—The double-scull wager between
Doubledee and Leach, agaiust Everard and Thornton, came
off yesterday. The distance was from Westminster to Putney.
with tide, and it was expected that much amusement would
be afforded. Th's, however, was not the case, as the contest
was all one way, and the losers never stood a shadow of chance.
Leach and his partner took the lead, rowed steadily a•beadt
and won by fifty lengths.

We recorded some months back an extraordinary
case of a gun-shot wound at Newport Pagnell. The as
re-
covered. The whole charge passed thrGugli his body,
in witlTut
the least degree affecting any of the organs essential. to life.
The poor fellow is now working on the London and
prming.
ham Rail4ay, suffering very little from the injury.—Aorthamp.

toll Merettr!;,,

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLII; JOURNALS

The discussion on privileges was renewed last night
by Sir J. Campbell, who moved that Mr. Hansard
should be instructed to plead before the Court of
King's Bench the order of the House as the justilica-
tn.:l of his conduct ; and we must do Sir Robert Peel
the justice to say that few men have ever' delivered
witibin the wells of Parliament so weighty and convinc-
inn; a speech as that in which he vindicated Parlia-
mentary rights. If thi re be anything in long-estab.
lished and almost undisputed precedent, in authorita-
tive opinions, and judicial decisions—if there he any-
thine, in fact, which is and ought to be paramount
to these—paramount either to precedent, opinions,
or decisions—:f there be anything in public neces-
sity, absolute and undeniable, that can maintain
a claim or sanction a privileg,c—then the House
of Commons stands upon a rock when it contends
- for the publication of those proceedings which, if passed
in silence, with closed doors and actionable printers,
would be a mockery of that old Home of Commons
which has hitherto existed within the hearing and
under the eye of the people. The question now is
that—it is whether Parliament should sit in solitude
and secret—a Venitian council—a midnight and myste-
rious body, whose whispers are never to traverse beyond
the lobby, leSt some treacherous echo should carry
them to the Court of King's Bench ; or whether it
should be as it has ever been—anti as more especially
f late years we have endeavoured to make it—a British
assembly invested with the British character, inviting
publicity by having persons to report its speeches,
and to print and circulate its inquiries, confident that
.in this way it can alone execute a responsible
trust, doing justice alike to those from whom it
iece'ved power, and to those over whom that power
is exercised ? Mr. Sergeant Wilde, who made a very
full and able speech, said truly, " the question may
not be one of unmixed good, or unmixed evil—in
human institutions it rarely is so. Some abuse may
possibly arise from the exercise of this privilege we are
contending for ; but what abuse will not arise, if that
privilege be taken away ?" Why, indeed, there are
the proceedings of courts of law published ? There is
a case in point. The proceedings of those courts arc
published, and cannot be prosecuted, because it has
been wisely considered that more good than evil must
arise from such publication. And is, then, the Court
of Parliament, the highest court in the empire, to be
denied the privilege which is possessed by every other
court in the realm—from the Court of Chancery to the
Court of Conscience ? Is the decision of almost every
Judge, from Sir J. Fortescue down to Lord Ellen-
borough, to be set at nought, because a remarkably
punctilious gentleman takes offence at some reflection
on his spotless character ; that gentleman having, once
upon a time, when his fair fame stood dirt a little
better, counselled his own advocate to plead that
he had published matter too grossly scandalous and
libellous to be printed. Mr. T. Duncombe and Mr.
Hume seemed to think that the Attorney-General had
shrunk from the former resolutions by the course he
was now pursuing. They were mistaken. It was ne-
cessary in some way or other to instruct the King's
Bench formally as to the plea on which Mr. Hansard
stood. This seemed most fitly done by that person
stating that he acted under the sanction of the House
of Commons. Upon this simple statement, and it
should only be a simple statement, the Court will have
to take its course ; nor will it, under any circum-
stances, find the majority of the Commons unprepared
with theirs. Lord Chief Justice Denman will 'expe-
rience the truth of the adage, that one false step leads
to many. We foretold from the first the consequences
which would result front the absurd ground he had
taken. His notice of a motion on the subject in the
House of Lords was, to say the least of it, extremely
inconsiderate ; and though, on Tuesday night, he in
some sort withdrew the notice, yet he advanced opinions
which can only add to his embarrassment when the
privilege of the House is pleaded. He must give
way ; and he is quite mistaken if he suppose that the
Upper House feel any disposition to abet him in his
resistance to the Commons.—Morning Chronicle.
Day follows day, and night succeeds to night, and
after all the denunciations hurled by the Tories against
the Government, and all the direiul prognostications
of the approaching destruction of the State, unless re-
deemed by the accession of the Tories to office, which
have for mouths been thundered forth by the high
priests of Corruption, from their tottering temples,
we still find the Ministry in office—the country calm,
and preparing to work out its own salvation—and the
Tories in their relaxation from the cares of office, em-
ploying their not honourable leisure in concocting new
tales and ghost stories for the admirers of the marvel-
lous. With the latter it is in truth " the patent age
of new inventions." No sooner is one fallacy de-
molished than its place is supplied by another. Scarcely
has the public mind recovered from the disgust of the
calumnious accusations againSt Ministers, and their
s ipporters, of conspiring to overthrow the established
religion and establish Popery on its ruins—scarcely is
the atmosphere purified of the noxious exhalations
which the forgeries of M'Ghee, the filth gleaned to-
gether by Xneas M‘Donnell, and the putrifying
abominations of the Tcry Press diffused abroad, than
out comes the awful announcement that the country
is at present " without any Government whatever."
" Oh day and night,
,hut this is wondrous strange !"
And as a stranzer the author gave it welcome by making
i. the text of two long and laboured attieles—certainly
ably and ingeniously worked out, and having but one
fault—that of being based on a self-evident fallacy.
And yet, according to Locke, a high authority in such
cases, the writer is neither a knave nor a fool—no 1 he
comes under that description of persons who work nut
correct conclusions from false premises, designated by
the immortal essayist—madmen. And the furious
zeal with which he enforces his baseless notions corro-
borates the accuracy of Locke's definition. One would
have imagined- front the pompous flourish,
,which he-
ralded in his demented dissertation, that he had made
a discovery which affected the interests of universal
man—that he had found, the spot on which, as was
imagined by Archimedes, he might rest his lever and
move the whole political world ; but the fulcrum failed,
and Great Britain remains in siren quo, the Ministry
neither one whit higher nor lower in public estimation,
nor public opinion in the slightest degree less deter-
mined .in its adhesion to Reform, than previously to
the employment of this most wonderful machinery.
This is miraculous. And most anxiously do we look
to the Times for an explanation of the-cause of the
failure, or a repetition of the experiment. W,e need
not be surprised to perceive the stars moved from
their spheres—the wonder will be to see Ministers
keep their places after such portentous manifestations.
—Morning Advertiser.
To-night" the House of Lords will resume the con-
sideration of the Irish Municipal Bill, Or, we presume,
will repeat their refusal to consider it. They post-
poned it to this day, with the avowed expectation
that in time interim the House Of Commons wom,'
find
time to mature the other measures for t',,e benefit
of
Ireland which had been. recommende.-:. ;tom
the Throne,
and that they might he enable.)cto-review all these mea-
sures together, as parts :re one large and compseinn-,sive
plan. This hope a the Hinis'e of Lo
:,is was frus-
trated by its .
eery announcement. As soon as they
declared "...oat they would Wait for the Irish 'Titheßill tloe House of Commons determined that for the
•D'..sh Tithe Bill they should have full liberty to wait.
The appropriation question, which seemed two little
Sessions ago of such urgent importance, was put
by for a more convenient season ; and their Lord-
4hips know -of the Irish Tithe Bill just as ligle on
the Iltit bf June as tlity knew on the sth of May.
We thn conceive nothing more silly than this
e%hibition on the part of our two Houses of Parlia-
ment. " We will not go on with the Municipal Bill,"
say the Lords, " till you give us the Tithe Bill."
" We will not give )ou the Tithe Bill," say the Com-
mons, " till you go on with the Municipal Bill." And
while the Lords and the Commons are thus fencing
and foining with one another the public business
stands still, and men reckon that as nothing has been
done since the commencement of the session just as
much will be done before its close. Of the two
Houses, the House of Commons u»questionaly takes.
up the less defensible position. The Upper House
refuses to discuss one important measure, without the
means of reference to the provisions of another not less
important. Bet Ween the two measures, it is alleged,

there is no immediate or necessary connection. What
then ? All that can be imputed to the Upper •House
is an obstinacy in demanding information which to
some eyes appears superfluous. In the discussion of
the Municipal Bi'l it may be asserted that a know-
ledge ...of the Tithe Bill would give the Lords no
help ; but it cannot be pretended that it would do
the Lords any harm. There may be little reason for
accelerating - the Tithe Bill, in compliance with their
Lordships' demand ; but there can be no re ason for
retarding the Tithe Bill, in retaliation for their Lord-
ships' error. The Lords may have assigned an unsa-
tisfactory reason for their postponement of the
eine! Bill ; but for the postponement of the Tithe Bill
tire Commons have positively no reason to assi,,en. But
it is not erroogh for us that the House of Lords should
be less wrong thin the House of Commons. We regret
that the House of Lords should be wrong at all. We
drink they hive adopted an irrational course on this
matter ; we learn, with regret, that they are likely to
persevere in that course to-night ; en:l we are sure that,
as their progress in it hitherto has not increased their
strength or their dignity, a further continuance in
it is likely to impair and endanger both. ,The
argument for the conduct of tire House of Lords
is this :—lt is desirable to give municipal insti-
tutions to Ireland ; but the existence of municipal
institutions would add power to the party, -now
banded together against -the Established Church. It
is, therefore, necessary first to see that the property of
the Established Church is surrounded by sufficient
legislative security. Now, really,
,we think that thiS
reasoning requires a very short reply. What sort of
municipal institutions will the Lords ultimately allow
to Ireland ? Good municipal institutions? They
may be allowed even befbre the passing of a Tithe
Bill ; for good municipal institutions will give power to
the intelligence, the loyalty, and the Protestantism of
Ireland. Bad municipal institutions ? They should
not be allowed even after the passing of a ;
for bad municipal institutions will give power to the
ignorance, the sedition, and the Popery of Ireland.
Though the Tithe question should remain unsettled,
there can be no reason for withholding municipal insti-
tutions based on right principles ; and though the
Tithe-question should be settled satisfactorily, there
can he no reason for introducing municipal institutions
based on wrong principles.—Morning Post.
A report of the public meeting at Brighton relative
to the extraordinary conduct of his Majesty's Minis-
ters in regard to the Brighton Railway Bills will be
found in our columns -to-day. The meeting, which
was held in the Town Hall, was very numerously at-
tended, there being about 1,500 persons present. The
Resolutions were carried with only three dissentients,
one of whom is one of the solicitors for Stephenson's,
alias the Government line—the line which the Mel-
bourne Ministry have taken up, and in respect of
which they have evinced more energy and persevering
•determination than any great national question of the
-Session has been fortunate enough to draw forth from
them. What an idea it must give the world of the
vast capacity and elevated ambition of our Whig
statesmen, to see the great concerns of the nation
neglected, its commercial interests falling to pieces,
and its credit melting away, while the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer and the President of the
Board of :Trade are jobbing a private Bill through the
House, and a railway undertaking is made a Cabinet
question i A provincial paper of considerable talent
and influence, the Brighton Gazette, in speaking of
the meeting of yesterday, says, " The extraordinary
and unprecedented conduct of the Ministers has•raised
a local question, like that of the Brighton Railway, into
one of national importance ; for if they are thus capa-
ble, in addition to their other merits, of jobbing upon
a private Bill, it is high time that the people at large
should interfere. Even Captain Pechell, it will be
seen, threatened—or rather hinted—a withdrawal of
his support from the Government ; and it must be no
trifle which causes the Gallant Captain to venture
upon such a threat. When, in connection with this
state of things, we look at the lamentable condition of
the public business in Parliament, which the feeble
hands of these incompetent men are powerless, even
when unopposed, to guide—when, above all; we cast
our eyes upon the awful state of trade and corn-
meree—the time has surely arrived for requesting
our Gracious Sovereign to dismiss a Ministry
whose sole care seems to be the preservation of their
places." Their " places" are, indeed, dearer to our
"liberal" Ministers than any principles ; but still, even
in the prosecution of those schemes and manoeuvres
which Ministers are eternally devising for the purpose
of keeping place and salary, while in all essential mat-
ters the country is really without a Government, they
sometimes make great mistakes, and by a misplaced
activity %here they should be quiet, as much as by he-
sitation and inertness where they should be active,
reveal their own weakness and accelerate their doom.
Only think of the Ministers of a great nation.putting
forth their whole cabinet strength upon a private Bill,
to swamp the decision of a Committee, and succeed-
ing by a miserable majority. of seven I Only think of
their putting forth their strength again on another
motion connected with the same subject,and being beaten
by a majority of two I Now, it so happens, and here-
in is the egregious folly of the timing, that, upon
the Committee, whose solemn and deliberate de-
cision they are thus desirous to swamp, are many
Honourable Members who have been their staunch
supporters, and , whom they seem aneious, by this.
Course of conduct, to alienate and disgtist. No-
thing could justify the insult which has been passed
upon the Committee, by taking the case out of their
hands, but the grossest misconduct or. proved corrup-
tion on the part of the Committee, which is not pre-
tended. On the part of the public we protest against
the precedent which is hereby established. Is it to be
tolerated that our SecretarieS of State —our Chancellors
of the Exchequer—our Presidents of Boards of Trade
and Control, and even our-Attorney-Generals, English
and Irish, arc to run down to the House in a body to
job a Railway Bill, while the nation can hardly get
them to move, even at a snail's pace, in any question
of national importance and public utility ? They who
have erected a Government engineer into a " Court of
Appeal" from the decision of a. Parliamentary Com—
mittee, must hold in no small contempt the capacity
and discernmNt of their supporters, who constitute,
we believe, the majority of that Committee. On this
subject time Standard says—

We do not say, because we do not know, whether Mr.
Poulett Thompson, or any of his brethren of the Cabinet,
has, in his own name, or in the name of any other person,
a share, or shares in the favoured line. But one thing is
certain, every one of the Ministers maybo a ahnrel- -•

certainty arises the great probability +1
ci„il speculations be habitually

without the fact corning before the pu-blic

this
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. ...adelna measure% after
d Ministers will be tti
,sattntreial jobs for theti,olk.i?o,l'
part we presititit Vtot to know -exactly
is the realmotite kading to the line of conduct
which the Ministers have pursued in this business.
We only know that it is a line of conduct on the part
ofd ti"ernmer; not more unprecedented than disre.
Pul'sjAc! tinides, it is a gross practical absurdity to
set up a military engineer to supersede by his opinion
the evidence of the most practised civil engineers upon
s Railway Hill. It would be just as wise in Govern-
ment to put the fortifications of the kingdom under
the superintendence of a civil engineer. 'Whatever
may be the motive of Ministers for acting in the way
which they have done in this matter, it is quite cer-
tain that the practical evil must follow, which our
evening Contemporary anticipates, if the conduct
which excites the .astonishment, and calls, forth the
the condemnation of the public to-day, should to-mor-
row pass into a precedent.—Morning Herald.

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•
An only child, and the sole representative of a long
line of ancestors, was drawn as a recruit. The father, willing
to make any sacrifice rather than lose the society of his only
son, made repeated applications to have the youth exempted,
and went so far as to offer on his bonded knees, in Napoleon's
presence, that he would raise and equip, and mount at his
own expense, a squadron of cavalry, provided his boy were
restored to him. But Buonaparte remained inexorable :
" Your son has been drawn," was his answer, " and he must
go with me ; but don't fret, old man. If he conducts himself
well, and shows that he possesses talents, I will make a Ge-
neral of him; so go home and leave him and his fortunes to
my keeping." The young man and his fortunes were left to
the keeping of the Consul, and during the first action in which
he was'engaged he died by a musket-ball. The old man wept
bitterly as he told us his talc. "It was my only child," con-
tinued he ; " he was dearer to me than the air that I breathed."
—Gleig's Hussar.

THE SUN, LONDON,