The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-23 00:00:00

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY•

A meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of the
Eastern Counties Railway Company took place this day
at one o'clock, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street.
The meeting was convened for the purpose of authorizing
the Directors to enforce the payment of calls upon shares
in arrear. Mr. 13c SktiQL ET in the Chair.
A resolution to that effect was proposed and seconded,
and an amendment moved that the affairs of the Com-
pany had not been managed satisfact)rily. There being
no seconder the amendment fell to the ground, and the
original proposition was put and carried.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and the
meeting separated.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The 7 imes of this morning, still harping on the late
Ministerial majority in the House of Commons, says, in its
bitterest and most envenomed style:—" It is not a majority
of some two dozen votes on behalf of Ministers, gained'
through ilia dextrous complaisance of Mr. T. Drincomhe
—it is not the combined manceuvreing of Mr. E. Ellice a9d
his journeyman,;Mr. Under- Secretary Stanley, nor the On?
fulfillment of our reiterated prephecy, that after all their
flashy talk, ar.d pompous condemnation of Whig treachery
and falsehood, the whole pack of movement orators Wad,
on the late occasion, yelp in with the Whitehall kennel'
It is not because the Radicals have, in this instance, been
sold by their arrogant, vain-glorious, and lately •elected
leader ; or because Lord Durham has, on certain conditurgi
been once more received at the Court of Queen Victoria,
that the foundering state barge can again be floated, and
the Melbourne Ministry saved. It is not henceforth in the
power of the House of Commons to rescue them. It is bld
the feeleg throughout the country that they must stars
and fall, and by that feeling which spreads from the Pt'
boy to the peer they are thoroughly despised and axe;
crated," It is this universal feeling of contempt and
execration, we suppose, which gained Ministers their
late majority in a reformed House of Commons, and
roused all Ireland, to a man, in their favour I On the °theer
hand, it is the universal feeling of admiration for their
enlightened policy, we presume, which still keeps the Coo;
servatives on the wrong side of the Speaker, despite their
manifest desire to cross over the way, and make an irrur
tion on the Treasury benches, as the Goths of old did upon

Rome I
The Morning Post comments as follows on Mr. Pigot'
(the Irish Solicitor-General) late speech in the House o
Commons :—" Mr. Pigot's harangue was distinguished by
all the impartiality of a retained advocate, and all the ca"s
dour of an adept in special pleading. It was eminently
Irish too, in the facility with which his imagination was
drawn upon for the facts that the learned zentleman thought '
it needful to supply to the House. Mr. Pigot undertook
to defend the Government for the new rules which it II
introduced. He did not venture to do so by an aloPell
to experience, by showing that in practice no e° t
result had grown out of the new rules. No, !1,1::
would have been rather too much for Pigotian ingena),;
so he wenti nto the abstract consideration of the just,,,;
andl ibcrslity of the instructions which had been given ~:d
the Crown prosecutors. He said that it had been direcii;
that no Juror should be challenged on account of his 130;
tics or his religion. This he of course knew would dtrara-t
forth a cheer; and we certainly do not deny the abs l 5
justice of the rule ; but we do also contend that even th
rule should not have been made an absolute one."
The Morning Chronicle remarks, with reference to the
character of the recent majority in favour of Ministers.l!
the Commons—" The Tory Journals appeal to the vote
the
Saturday morning, and exclaim that a majority of ,t
English Members were hostile to Ministers. To th? '
b'
may be answered that the distinction between Ergu ;
Irish, and Scotch Members, the Parliament being nett es
English, Irish, nor, Scotch, but Imperial, is both invial°°„
and absurd. So long as Ministers have a majority lace -
Legislature composed of representatives of the tbro,
kingdoms, the Tories are estopped. The objection, t°
comes with peculiar bad grace from a Tory to whoa] he
defectiveness of the representation is its greatest roc,°l;
mendatiou. The Reform Bill isnot that which its eatul'n't
intended it should be. The people of England ate 11;
represented. Fifty representatives are teturned by cube
stituencies, the aggreeate of which does not equal
the
constituency of Manchester alone. A majority o', "
English Members are returned by corruption and WWI.
dation."
The Morning Herald contains a short leading article °:
the subject of the City Police Bill ; and another on tse.
Bill for suspending the Constitution of Jamaica. IA The
course of this last, our Contemporary observes :--
case is one beset with difficulties of no ordinary characte..
The conduct of the House of Assembly has been use
doubtedly most indefensible; yet the suspension for s
years of the Constitution of the colons, does appear to btebe
course, on the part of Government, -unwarranted by
to
exigency. At all events, it will undoubtedly be scow ms
adopt Sir Robert Peel's suggestion in the matter, and i
co is
municate once more with the representative body
Jamaica."
Speaking on the subject of the Ministerial meatur!: we
spccting Jamaica, the Morning Advertiser says: sin
freely admit the necessity of strong and decisive mnasurneo
reference to the proceedings of the Legislative Asse
in Jamaica ; but we strongly object to the establishmen.tn ut:
an unrestricted authority for five years, which 2.
e amnilabluse
month fall into the hands of a party who maYwhi"
it for the worst purposes. This is a point c
be especially borne in mind." h should