The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-23 00:00:00

LONDON :
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1339

EVENING EDITION.

Every night affords us strong evidence of the bro-
therly love which the people of this United Empire bear
towards each other. Petitions for and against the
Corn-laws, that is, one class complaining of another as
desiring to plunder them, or actually doing so, were the
firs. specimen of this love presented to our notice last
night in the Lords. Then came petitions from Irish
Catholics, complaining of the abominable Protestant
ithe System, and petitions from Protestants praying
that the Catholics may not have one farthing of the
public money, to which they so largely contribute, for
their College at Maynooth. As we nightly pursue our
task of noticing the proceedings in Parliament, and see
the conflicting accusations and claims of the different
c!asses, it seems to us as if we were dealing with the
ancals of different nations, as much opposed to each
other as the Arilled Chinese and the untamed Esqui-
We, however, are all brothers, living under one
ternal Sovereign.

The Earl of .ATINTO gave a further explanation about
tle insult offered to the British flag, and read an ex-
tract from the despatch of Commodore DOUGLAS as fol-
lows :—" I have also had the satisfaction of receiving
an exploration from the French Admiral on the subject
ut the pilot who was taken out of her Majesty's packet
Express, the-affair having been entirely through inad-
yerti n .e on the part of his Royal Highness the Prince
DE JoiNviu.r..” As the Noble Earl said he had re-
ceived no other information on the subject than
this, he must be one of the most easily satis-
fied and most placable of mortals. But both be
and Mr. WOOD in the Commons, seem to have
no other standard of the national honour than the discre-
tion of Commodore PETER DOUGLAS, and both agreed
in expressing an opinion that if he thought our honour
was vindicated, it must be as bright as the sun. We
rather approve of Lord COLCHESTER'S hint, that our
OtTii e: who suffered the insult ought to receive a notice
to b mere peppery in future.
The Earl of RODEN asked the Marquis of NOR-.
NBY very solemnly three questions concerning the mur-
dcr of Lo .d NOR BC RY, as if he half suspected the Noble
Marquis to be in the secret of the murderers. The
Marquis assured him that three persons had been ap-
prehended on suspicion, but as to the alarming con-
spiracy against life and property, of which the happy
Protestant landlords in Ireland live in continual dread,
he had received no evidence of it. The heat displayed
by Lord CHARLEVILLE towards the Noble Marquis
make'', us wish that he had been in the command of the
Express, and he certainly would not have allowed a
man to ba taken from her if he were as prompt at sea

3 in the red papered room in which the Lords now

assena'A.

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Lord— C.,LCIIESTER moved for some returns con-
I
Lected with the Navy, and brought the whole sub-
ject before their Lor.iships. The Earl of MiNTO
made a defence, and gave a long account of the state
of the Navy, both under the present and former
administrations. Earl DE GREY said a few words about
his administration of the Navy in 1835, end admitted
that the clamour for economy had compelled even the
Tories to keep the fleet low. The evening was
' wholly occupied by tlis discussion, in which Lords
,RIPON, HARDWICKE, and MELBOURNE, took part. We
nave, however, referred to this debate in another article
There were numerous petitions presented in the Coin-
mons cotn,,!ainng of grievances inflicted by one class on
another, and complaining of some acts of oppression ;
1 and like those presented in the Lords, they were striking
proofs of the brotherly love which exists between our
Government and its subjects, and the different classes of
our people.