The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(FLOM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Amongst the ways and means of the Tories for ac-
complishing the only purpose—that of the resumption
of power—which holds the party together, one is, the
support of a wholesale manufactory of political tracts.
Speeches and proceedings are reprinted at a rapid rate
for cheap or gratuitous distribution. We have lots of
Lyndhurst and bales of Brougham, gluts of Graham
and pennyworths of Peel, in quick succession. Perhaps
this is one of the most innocent things the party does ;
whatever may be thought of its consistency with the
atrocities of ;their Six Acts, and the legal terrors
formerly levelled at • twopenny trash. Still we do not
think it decent that the Judges of the land should
be found amongst the labourers in this propa-
gandist mission ; nor can we pass without com-
ment such an item in the twopenny catalogue as
that of the " Address of Lord Abinger to the Grand
Jury at the late Leicester Assizes." What business
has a Judge's charge amongst the paper pellets of party
ammunition ? Lord Abinger has .an unquestionable
right to hold the tenets of the Toryism to which Sir
James Scarlett apostatized. He has the right also to
teach those tenets and promote them as a partizan—
every where, save on the bench of justice. There the
privilege of the politician stops. Nor will we affirm
that his Lordship had any purpose to overpass the
boundary. If not, then the indecency is trans-
ferred to the Tory tract mongers, whose moral obli-
quity is such, that they deem it better to have
Judges for their partizans than to sustain the purity
end impartiality of the judgment seat. The party
is in this dilemma ; in claiming credit for Lord
Abinger, it discredits Lord Abinger's sense of judicial
decency. They may settle it between them. In the
" Address" itself, we do not see much to be made so
much of. The mischief is rather in the use which has
been made of it by the Tory Press anal at Tory din-
ners, than in the thing itself. It chiefly consists of a
tissue of common-place cant about the .Constitution :
rather imprrtinent in a Judge, whose business is to
administer the lairs as he finds them ; and certainly
tending, as was probably intended, to throw odium on
Reformers as impracticable theorists ; but still so
(ffete, jejune, and contradictory, as to be tolerably
innocuous. His Lordship Bolds that " the liberty of
an Englishman is English liberty ;" and that "no
true Englishman can be attached to any 'other sort
of liberty." The first of these propositions we sup-
pose nobody will deny. The second is contingent
upon the definition of a " true Englishman ;" al-
though it manifestly excludes from that honourable cha-
racter every Tory who is not content with the liberty
he enjoys under a Whig Administration, but is " at-
tached to" the further liberty of having his own fingers
in the public purse. By the judgment of their own
judge, the Tories are no " true Englishmen." Nor is
this the only hit which the ermined lecturer uncon-
sciously makes at his own faction. Appealing to her
Majesty's proclamation against vice and immorality, he
_lays the late disturbances at the door of the local aris-
tocracy. " Indeed I will venture to say, that if every
gentleman would strictly adhere, in his own sphere, and
within the circle of his own influence, .to the injunctions
contained in this, her Majesty's proclamation, the neces-
sity of providing gaols and new systems of prison dis-
cipline would be greatly diminished." It is to be hoped
that the squirearchy will take the hint, and avert from
the country the calamity of ally reform " theory," as
applied to imprisonment and punishment.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
INDUSTRY V. ARISTOCRACY is the great action new
pending before the political tribunal of Great Britain.
Into this grand question do all minor causes resolve
themselves. On the extreme flanks of the contending
parties we see hereditary slave- and hereditary senatot s
—men destined from their birth to labour, others to
legislate—one class " hewers of wood and drawers of
water," another, fashioners of laws, and as rrcent
laws have been, founders of new schemes of social
nuisance. The question may be stated in a variety 01

ways, viz :

INDUSTRY V. ARTSTOcTIACY,
PERSONS v. POSSESSIONS,
COMMERCE u. MONOPOLY.
These are the essential elements under which mav be
classified the antagonistic forces operating on our social
system. We aave an aristocracy rejecting the claims
of industry —a property class refusing to give consie.era-
tion to personal claims—and monopoly usurping the
rights of tree commercial intercourse. This is the state-
ment of affairs in the abstract, at which we presume no
offence can be taken by any party professedly patriotic.
But when we proceed to partidulars—when we exhibit
the aristocracy pressing, as through the Corn-laws, like
an incubus upon the industry of the country--when_ he I
protest against property usurping uncontrolled influence
in the State without reference to the rights of person—
and when we denounce 'monopoly in every shape and
form wherein it may militata against general commerce—
from every locality-as from a nest of hornets there springs
up a host of waspish assailants, whose industrial_ exertion
seems to have been renewed only to give more venom to
their sting. 'What will become of the landed interest 1 is
the question with which is constantly met the proposition
for the repeal cf the Corn-laws. But we never hear
any inquiries after the thousands of operatives who
arc doomed to be inhumed in workhouses in conse-
quence of those laws preventing the sale of their pro-
ducts abroad, and the supply of independent provision
to themselves at home. Our legislators, in their more
than religious veneration for the rights of property,
forget the rights of persons, and hence aristocracy,
property, and monopoly are permitted to "Lord" it
over industry, persons, and commerce, and thus will
it continue until the reflective industrial classes, which
embrace all honest and worthy members of society,.
combine for their own protection, and rescue the
country on one side from intolerant despots, and En
the other from incendiary demagogues.
(From the Times.)
One of the most remarkable cases on record arising
out of the Slave Trade is exciting at this moment the
greatest interest in the United States. The Amistad,
a schooner from Cuba, with a number of slaves on board,
had recently been run into and stranded off Suffolk
County, Long Island, where the crew, all blacks but
two, commenced taking in fresh water and purchasing
provisions. As they appeared to have abundance of
money, and altogether the circumstances of such a
crew and vessel had something suspicious about
them, a good deal of curiosity was excited amongst
the people on shore, who at length, not-
withstanding the precautions of the blacks, who
sought jealously to cut off all intercourse with the
vessel, succeeded in getting alongside, when two white
men, Spaniards. presented themselves on deck, im-
ploring protection. This being reported to the au-
thorities, measures were taken, and the schooner
taken possession of. From the Spaniards thus libe-
rated, and from the vessel's papers, the following
details were gathered :—About two months before,
the Amistad sailed from Havannah with an assorted
cargo of various kinds of goods, and the slaves on
hoard, lb; another part of Cuba, close by the plan-
tations of Senor Ruiz tiro owner, one of the -Spa-
Iniards thus found. The blacks were captives recently
imported into the island of Cuba from the coast of
Africa, who, after a few day's residence in the bars•
cones or slave-market of Havannah, were purchased
and shipped on board the schooner. A short time
after leaving that port, the slaves, headed by a resolute
man among them of the name of Cingucs, rose and
murdered the captain with all the crew, except Ruiz and
soother Spaniard nameak -Mentes. Their: lives
were
' spared for the sake of nAvigating the vessel. The ne-
woes desired only to return to. their own country, but
of the course to be pursued for putt end they and their
leader understood no more t-iiaun,_: that it lay eastward.
Early each morning thei tfiengielves took the helm and
steered in the direction of the rising sun, that is east-
ward, or compelled Montes to take that direction
with unnazes, and sometimes, on well-founded
suspicion of treachery, with blows and wounds.
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_ . __ ,
During the night, however, Montes with his UNWELCOME OR SUSPICIOUS Sl6llltg ‘-4
~
companion as regularly . changed the schooner sweep ,
course, so as to bring her
,almost to the same
er s sweep or baker pressing through a crowd ; orange ilieos
point thrown on the foot-path ; a working man' whO beet*,
where she stood in the morning. In this manner, every hats,
hour in fear of death, on several occasions meeting yes- dangling loose.; a workhouse funeral almost without ie-
wearily., his best every day ; a woman's hoOtala6
se's which the blacks compelled them to avoid, and hay-
tendants ; a rich man's funeral blocking up the street' ;
ing endeavoured on more than one occasion to run the
schooner on shore when in sight of it, but always (rug. two men fighting a pitched battle on a' Sunday art _
noon, with a large attendance of' men and'Vfoinen ; 'a.
trated, the Spaniards stated that they had been driving
about. Methodist parson holding forth with stentorian lungs o
for two months, when at length they were a ree individuals ; a servant waiting at table with' dirty
enabled to effect their aim and strand her off Long bands; a justice fining persons for getting drunk, who
Island. When discovered, Montes, who seems to have frequently gets " fresh" himself ; a drunken coachman
been more peculiarly the object of suspicion with the driving his horses at full gallop down a narrow street ;
blacks, was in a deplorable state, with several dangerous a woman slipping in at the back door of a public-house,
wounds inflicted with Spanish knives. Ruiz, the owner, with a little jug at tea time ; a poor raggld wife seek-
on the contrary, had been treated with uniform kindness. ing her husband at twelve on Saturday night ; a man
exceedingly drunk and noisy at a temperance weeting
On these facts becoming known, the vessel was taken pos-
session of, and the blacks, for safe custody, removed a tee-totaller coming out of a "tom and jerry'' wiping
to Newhaven, where they were placed in confinement, his month.
but, as it appears, treated with attention and humanity. The General Steam Navigation Coiripstny'g
There they were to remain for trial en a charge of pi- Steam Ship, Giraffe, Captain R. Stranack, arrived off
them by the racy on the high seas, brought against ., , the Custom-house from Rotterdam, on Sunday,'after a 1
owner, and on this trial hinge many contested points, favourable , .
passage.
both of jurisdiction of the Court of the
.United States,
THREE MEN KlLLED—Yesterday niorning
.and with reference to the nature of the crimes of mur.
rid -
der and piracy charged, and the right of property in the (F a 3), while Mr. Andrew King
assisting at the excavation of the earth at Shedden Hill,
blacks, claimed as slaves by the Spanish. Consul. on. was .engaged in
near Paisley, the mass gave way, and being on ,
the toe
of international law,
the part of the asserted owner. These. points involve,
of course, important questions at the time, he was precipitated to the bottom of the
Stogie-street,
which were earnestly engrossing the attention of the railway line. He was so severely injured that he did
legal authorities in the United States. The process
of not speak a word, and. died. sh,odrtlyireaifaterswtoa
circumstance until'
for recovery of the blacks under the designation was carried home to his alliteitethew
" property" was considered to be so invalid, and so un-
his reaching the house. 'What
who . was not
.made aware o
within a few minutes of
likely to succeed in the civil courts, that the criminal
prosecution for murder and piracy was preferred by
child on last Sahhatly—sl
pain
,h,mei`jilicie_d•ednartof
makes fire circumstance very distressing is, that she was
delivered of her first-bornltuiz and Montes for the purpose of gaining time fora
formal interference in their behalf for the restoration .tuidaY one of tiyh,e
thcaratn.aesfteatr
9_llll.fflre.r:•aa:
.rsey''.,,tl
, way, and in its fall struck one
of the slaves as property. It is difficult to understand morning,
quarry, Ferguslie, Plevvere..
r, k,rea
how the charge of murder can be supported in the ease of the workmeenxstomsorning
—Monday' last, of the
of Cingues, more particularly challenged as the ,one who 3, on: the Railway. near Bishootne
the earth, preparatory PtoGhlan.rsi4ll);.;
actually slew the captain, as be had been seized, made a men
slave, and as such was being foreibly.carried away from
lexcaEatiriitah ppiles, the whole miss fell ti
Havannah by that captain, against the well-known laws ;ItisaSeviait'h was instantan.nons. Another woproknmaZ. w4-hriad
of the very country where these acts were taking place. j egiplay.ed, .Atith the deceased,. ciasuf.,aareenly
No other possible means. existing to procure liberty-"`"escaped the same fate.—Paisley Advertiser.

s T r ‘tt
E VEN 'NG EDIriON
•
77.
but by violence, no other verdict et‘W be returned
honest jury but justifiable homicidek
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(From the Morning Pbst.yittL:-,
We exposed in our Saturday's paplistilittilialtbulA4
blundering stupidity of the " regulations" which it has
pleased some of the Lords of her Majesty's Council
to send forth upon the subject of grants of public
money in aid of schools for public education. The
folly of these people is evident upon the face of their
doing or saying.
own document. They seem not to know what they are
And yet they are pompously metho-
d
leaf too; witness the solemn provision in rule No. 5,
that in the plans of school-houses on behalf of which any
application is entertained not less than sir
-square
,acct
shall be provided for each child ! This—if
we may
ftbe
excused the verbal contradiction—is carrying super-
cial philosophy to a very great height indeed. No I
doubt the education must be of the most enlarged de-
scription, and suitable to the fattest capacity, when,
by the wisdom of the Lords, of the Council, six square
feet shall have been provided for each infant pupil. A
ranting parasite of these education quacks proclaims
that in the schools both of the National and the British 1
and Foreign School Societies " there is wide space for
improvement." Doubtless their Lordships intend that
for the future the space shall be still wider--six square
feet at. the least ! Another sublime regulation is, that
for et ery ten shillings to be granted by their Lordships'
Committee the mewls of educating one child (at least)
shall be provided. Exquisite wisdom! Surely Doctor
Lardner and Joseph Hume must have been the coun-
cillors of this Council. No other men could have sug-
gested such bright ideas upon the philosophy of educa-
tion. Under all circumstances, whether in dear Mid-
dlesex or cheap Merionethshire, their Lord Ships rtre
willing to entertain the project of education at half' a I
sovereign per head, and in a space of six square feet
for each two•legged urchin ; but should the rate of • half !
a-guinea be :proposed, or only five and a half square
feet of superficial space, in which to imbibe :fresh
air and the rudiments of literature, then there is to be
no help, or hope of help, from their sapient Lordships of
the Privy Council! Perish education, rather than vary
sixpence a head in the allowance for it, or give it in less i
than six square feet of space!
(From the'Morning Herald.)
Why will the Irish Conservatives indulge in the, self-
delusiou that Lord Ebrington, or any other Viceroy of
Ireland appointed by the Melbourne-O'Donnell Cabinet.
will or can act independently of the anti-Conseniative
and anti-Protestant influence by which the whole and
every part of the empire must continue to Les governed
as long as that Cal;inet continues, by the belp Dfll-sh
tail and bed-chamber petticOat, to drag tv its
wretched and degraded existence ? Irish 'Coi.sset-
vatism wants to be roused not lulled. Greatly do sve
tear that if the well-wishers to the Church and
narchy in Ireland get the notion in their heads tf-1
that Lord Ehrington is doing the work, not of his
political creator—the tyrant demagogue—hot of the
rational, sober, loyal, honest supporters of -British
connection and constitutional principles—the cone-
quence will be that Irish Conservatives, already too de-
ficient in vigour, vigilance, and energy, will bereme
more tame than ever. Why should they put themselves
to any trouble about their dearest interests as members of
a Protestant community who have the good fortsine to
find in O'Connell's chosen Viceroy a guardian of rhos
interests—a protector of those principles which O'Con.
nell himselflabours incessantly to break down and destrcy.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
li
(From the Globe.) ' I,
Lord John Russell's note to Lord Glenelg, dated I
bth of last January, and on which are founded the. I.
changes adopted subsequently in our Transportation
system, is a highly interesting paper, and opens views on
the subject combining, as we think, justness of Theory 1
with caution in practice, and pointing out how the por-
tion of good which undoubtedly has been realised (for
characters detrimeetal at home have been got rid of,
end prosperous colonies founded) may be separated
from the evils of the system, or rather total want of
system. The Report of the Transportation Committee
set those evils in so clear a light, that neither the ptiblic
nor the Government could view them any longer with
apathy. It has become evident that the benefits of •
cheap riddance of a certain number of criminals, and
cheap labour to a certain number of colonists, are not
sufficient to counterbalance, in the view of morality and
sound policy, the corruptions propagated and pet-petuated
by the present (or rather past) treatment of con victi. It
is, however, the part of bad workmen to throw mealy their
tools ; and though the total abolition of the syst.em of
transportation might be naturally suggested by a review
of its preceding abuses, such a measure would not hove
been justified CDpractical grotolds. It has indeed been
said, and said with justice, that colonization and trans. !
portatien should not be mixed up' together—that, the I
resort of enterprise or of indigence _should not be dis-
graced by association with crime. Th., ohjection is
applicable, in the fullest force, to the old s:stern, under
which the very ponishment allotted to crime v. faS turaod 1
into a new lottery, in which the chances of esca,:le ill-1.1 i
cnricl meet were multiplied to the hopes of tho FRI 1
guine, and the arts of the clever convict. = -3i,
.!*P.O i t 1
.1t
(From tho Courier.) - - : : t
The state of affairs in the Money Market in London 'l
and in the Utited States, has caused the arrival of :the i
!Great Western from New York to be looked forward to
with very great anx sty. The a..-li, ices which sft:r
tiine
will, no doubt, afford temporary, relief in prffe
quarters (not that we attach any importance to the
driblet of 117,051/. in specic.;'; but it is not what the:
Great Western has brought, nor' all thet many sucees- f
sive Grer.t Westerns can bring, that will suflicot o .e- I
move the difficulty under which the monetary .systems !
in London' and in America reciprocally labour. ' It I
may be useful on this occasion, when the
,publie
mind is anxiously directed ito the mono) affairs of the
two countries; to call the attention of our readers' to the
rapid growth of trade in America, and to the conseq4nt
necessity of- bullion to represent occasionally a pare; of
its eaten-tied monetary operations. To attempt to 'go
deeply into this subject, would far exceed the limitsl of
a newspaper article ; all that we
,can pretend to (14 is
from time to time as the occasion offers, to endeavour
to bring before our readers a few brief remarks oil the
main points of the question. Our cpinion is, that the
monetary system of this country, and of America, is
wrong ; that it is pretended to be established on a fotm.
dation thst does not exist; that the fiction of the paper
circulation of the two countries being the representative
of gold is a fallacy ; and that it is the obstinate per-
sistence in this error that is the main cause of the
periodical derangements of the currenpy with which
every man must now be familiar.
. . ,
(From the Standard.)
We have received letters from various parts, of
Canada by the Great Western. They confirm Our
assertion that the statement of the Morning Ckronkle,
!bat Sir John Colborne himself applied for the
separation or the Governor Generalship from
the command of the forces, was a pure fabricatian ;
palmed, we have little doubt, on our Contemporary
for the purpose of staving off some of the indigna-
tion which the appointment of Mr. Poulett Thomson
was so well calculated to create. There 'MHO,
however, no other confirmation than the fact, . tbat
the instant Sir John Colborne was required to resign
the Governor Generalship of the Canadas to Ali. P.
Thomson. he determined to give up his commend:elk
and Sir Richard Downes Jackson was eppeinted,tii's c-
ceed Ilia). With every other honest man who has ever li d
the misfortune to be connected with Lord Melbourn 's
Administration, Sir John Colborne is thoroughl,:.ti d
of them, and is probably not dissatisfied . - t e
opportunity which they have afforded him ;if . jiFtitig•
wp
an end to it. From the accounts which we hai4l? 'Ativkd
this mornin7, from our Bristol CorrespondeKkVotild
seem that the most disastrous consequences hrd"tb4t4i-
pated from the imposition of Mr. Poulett ThOtritOli pn
the Canadas as Governor General. The rumour Isles
regarded in the first instance as so perfectly alisiard ass!o
outrage credibility, but when the authentic news -of is
appointment shall arrive, we may expect the pul!g :
in-
dignation to bel
even' more vehement. `'