The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-15 00:00:00

EVENING EDIT/ON,

EPSOM RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

THE DERBY- BY EXPRESS.

The Derby Stakes of 50 so,:s. each, -11. ft.i.for
three-yr-old colts, Bst. 71b. ; and fillies, list. 21b.
Last mile and a half ; the owner of the second
horse to receive 100 SQVS. out of the stakes, and
the winner to pay 100 sous. towards the expenses
•of additional police officers. (143 Subs.)
Air. W. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury ~.Templeman 1
Farrar Craven's Decc-ption .........
Mr. Thornhill's Euclid , ......... ..... „...
21 Ran—Won Easy.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)

11,1AN,LAUGHTER.—George Lovett was indicted for the
rnat.slaughter of Mary Lovett. The deceased lived with
him as his wife, and on the 14th of March last he was seen
to strike her and kick her, in consequence of sLme words
which had passed between th4m. Erysipelas in the face
and various parts of the body followed, of which, in the
course of a week or two, she died. It appeared that she
was addicted to drinking, and that this caused a predispo.
sition for the erysipelas, which, however, the surgeon stated
was beyond all doubt produced by the blows.
The prisoner's defence was that on the day in quettion
she had kicked him, and that thereupon be had struck her
on the face.

The Learned JUDGE, told the Jury that the gueitioes for
them were, whether the prisoner had inflicted the injuries
stated, and whether those injuries had produced the
erysipelas of which she died.

•The Jury, to the immeasurable and inexpressible 'u-
prise of every one in Court, acquitted the prisoner.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL
SUMMARY.

The Times of 'this morning speculates on the prospects
of the Whig Ministry in the following terms:--" The im-
mediate cause of the Whig downfall was the shock frost
the Radicals. Can the future recurrence of such crakes
be prevented ? No doubt. it may be, by throwing off the
noble author of the late " L,tter to the Electors of Stroud,*
and all that section of the Cabinet who concur with Lord-:
John Russell in the opinion that the time is come when tny
further organic change must be resisted, and that " England
cannot afford to have a revolution every year." Protest
against those Tory doctrines ; eject those of die Ministry
who mince their treason to the Constitution, and eplacto'tbtra
by resolute fellows who for the fatted call will go the whole
hog : the entire force of the Radicals will then support you
and you may start as a tliorongh-going Ministry.
But then what becomes of those among your supporters
who agree with Lord J.,bn and the finality sect? Why,
as your irregular auxiliaries march in at one end of year
camp, your own veterans file out at the other, and the
whole hog Government begins in a state even weaker than
its predecessor left off. What L trd Melbourne and Lord
John, in alliance with the rank and property of the
Whigs, could not achieve, Lord Normanby will hardly
effect in opposition to that Brice, even though to the
Irish tail he add the off;courings of every prison, gaol,
penitentiary, compter, br dowel!, and house of cor-
rection in England, Scotland, and Wales. Os the
balance, the renewed Cabinet's whole gain is a losi."
Our Contemporary then goes on to argue the question of
a union between the Whigs and the Radicals, observing,
however, that the Jamaica Bill will be a great stumbling-
block in the way, and ironically recommending Ministers
to throw it overboard—" Now, then," says our Contem-
porary, "all is right; the Conductor blows his horn, and
off you go. But what is that awkward thing that lies
across the road only ten yards on?—that huge black mass
that blocks the way from side to side? Another moment,
and your leaders are upon it. It is the Jamaica Bill I
How are you to drive over it, or through it, or round it?
In that direction, at least, the Radical team will not pull.
Act nobly, then, retract with candour, and magnanimously
sactifice the Jamaica Bill to the altar of general conci-
liation."

The Morning Post, recurring to the subject of the ex-
planations in the House of Commons, on Monday night,
says :—lf the speech of Lord John Russell have any dis-
tinct meaning it is this—that Sir R. Peel has declined
office under circumstances which be (Lord J. Russell)
thinks would have justified him in taking office. This is
the plain state of the case, and we have no doubt it has
been very sincerely and fairly stated in Parliament;
but we know the !Whigs and their mean malignity of
party warfare too well to suppose that they will be in
the least governed in their future proceedings by that
which their present position has required totem to admit
We shall still have them crying out that the Tories are
actuated solely by an appetite for office, though they now
confess that the Tories had it in their power DD obtain of-
fice upon terms which would have satisfied Whigs if places
iu similar circumstances, but, being more scrupulous than
the Whigs. they refused."

The Morning Chronicle, in the course of a leading
article suggested by the late Parliamentary explanations,
remarks as follows on the conduct of the Queen :
" Every particular that has transpired of her MaVgty's con-
duct is a pledge of its entire faithfulness. The point in
dispute appears to have originated wholly with herself. It
had been utterly unanticipated by her advisers. Her own
strong heart and clear head have been her ablest counsel-
lors. From the moment when she received Sir Robert
Peel with the confession of her regret at the loss of her
former Ministers, to that in which she appealed to Lord
John Russell for the constitutional correctness of the resist-
ance she had offered to Tory bondage, 136 r behaviour
shows " one entire and pe, feet chrysolite." Were not
political cunning blinder than the bat, Sir Robert must
have seen that she was not a tool for his purposes. Faith
not bigger than a grain of sand in human nature might
have convinced him that her moral being was never framed
to act the fllsehood in which he had planned its entangle-
ment. Thanks to the dimness of his perceptions, he w cut
groping on to his own exposure and discomfiture."
The Morning Herald is unusually choleric with. the
Whig Ministry, as will be seen by the subjoined passage,
which is the most temperate one to be found in oar Con-
temporary's leading article of this morning: --" Lord Mel-
bourne and his corrfederates, we repeat, have, for their own
most despicable purposes, betrayed their, young and inex-
perienced Sovereign into a false position. Lord Mel-
bourne admitted, a week ago, that ha had forfeited the
confidence of the representatives of the people. He returns
to oCce, as he assures the world, simply in order to gratify
the Queen : in other words, he represents the sovereign
as being desirous to conduct the afrairs of the country by
the agency of Ministers who do not enjoy the public confi-
dence 1 Whether the inevitable results of such an unconsti-
tutional course nir the part of her Ministers must aot prove
bitterly repugnant to her Majesty's foelings,' the lapse of
a very brief period will determine."
The Morning Advertiser makes the following comments
on the explanations in the House of Lords last night:--
" To the admirable speech of Lord Melbourne last night
in the House of Lords, it is almost unnecessary ba direct
the attention of our readers. It will be read by every one
who takes an interest in the present state of the country,
and by every qne it will be read with pleasure and satisfac-
tion. Its honest, bold, and straight-forward tone leaves
nothing to be desired on the part of all loyal subjects. It
was also well matched by another speech, which will, no
doubt, attract the attention of our readers—that of the
Duke of Wellington—who, in a sentence which we now
quote, gave the death-blow to the tyrannical, low-minded
leader of the Conservatives in the House of Commons :
If he (the Duke of Wellington)lad gone a little farther
in opposing that influence than might suit the taste of the
Noble Viscount, he could not help it ; but this he would
say, that he would have put his right hand in the fire
sooner than have proposed to her Majesty to make any
arrangement which could appear to hint to be repugnant to
her feelings, in order to enable him to undertake his share
in the Government of the country.' "

DEMONSTRATION IN FAVOUR

OF THE QUEEN..

(PROM A CORRESPONDEN r.)

ROCHDALE, MAY 12, 1839.—As soon as The Sun ar-
rived in Rochdale (eleven o'clock on Saturday morning),
bringing the intelligence of the degrading insult offered to
her Iklajesty by the Tory Premier, Sir Robert Peel, a
meeting was immediately called, and an address got up to
her Majesty, thanking her "for having so nobly and justly
resisted the degrading terms attempted td be imposed upon
her—terms which would have been indignantly rejected by
the meanest of her Majesty's subjects." The address was
sigr&td in two hours by nearly three hundred of tho elec-
tors, and sent off by post on Sunday morning to Lord
Melbourne for presentation.
The Tories here are completely "chop fallen," to
have the cup of expectation so suddenly and unexpectedly
dashed from their lips, with even the promised lanti in view.

The lion. W. Cowper, whose seat for the bo-
rough of Hertford becomes vacated by his acceptance of
the Commissionership of Greenwich Hospital, again offers
himself to his constituents, and we understand the Tories
of the borough do not intend to offer any opposition to his
re-election. The Hon. Gentleman is well worthy of the
cordial support of his constituents.
We regret to announce the death of the wife of
Sir Edward Parry, and daughter of Lord Stanley of Al. si
dericy. Her Ladyship had recently becomes the Another
of twins, pnd died in consequence of the peculiar circum-
stances of her confinement. Several distinguished families
will be placed in mourning by this lamentable bereavement.
On Thursday morning fresh herrings were caught
in Gare Loch, several of them weighing thirty ounces
each. The oldest fishers on the coast have no recollection
of having seen such herrings.—Glasgow Courier.
Dr. Arnold, the Head Master of Rugby, has been
preaching a series of sermons to his boys against the pre-
valent Oxford doctrines.
Count Munster, who has altogether retired from
public life, is in a very delicate state of health, and intends
very shortly to leave Hanover.
We hear that when Sir Robert Peel was called
upon by the Queen to construct an administration the
Earl of Ripon consulted the Duke of Richmond as to 'what
course he ought to take in so unevected an ernergesey,
asking his Grace what he would adise bi
n)
Ministry.
to
.." I would
do in case
he should be solicited to join the new
advise you," replied the Duke, drily, " to wait until you.
are asked. Morning Paper.

REDUCTION OF rOSTAGE.—SUCII is the tit'
sire prevailing in the City for this measure, that a Mr.no-
rial to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common 0;01161,
for the use of the Egyptian Hall, has been signed by thir-
teen Bankers, and upwards of one hundred and thisq
Merchants, Brokers, and others of the f•.rst news in the
City.