The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-27 00:00:00

fairly influence the Legislature in giving a monopoly
to the Bank of England ? The Bank of England I
by reason of its position and monoply of metropoli-
tan paper circulation, is the main regulator of the
currency. It has therefore the office imposed upon
it of adjusting the issue of paper money of the
country, so as to maintain it at a par value with the
metallic circulation. This is the duty the Bank of
England owes to the public, and for which it has
obtained a monopoly as a Bank of issue in
London, and within 65 miles of the metropolis.
But the Bank of Ireland has no such obligation
imposed upon it. The foreign exchanges have no
sort of action upon it. It is no more a regulator of
the circulating medium, by reason of adverse or
favourable condition of exchange, than that of any
other Bank of issue in Ireland. It offers no safe-
guard to the public in exchange for the insuffer-
able injury its existence as a monopoly and a scourge
inflicts. We, therefore, call upon the people of Ire-
land who value the opportunity that may now be
fairly secured, of placing their condition beyond the
caprice and the unreasoning power of a long-endured
monopoly, we call on the supporters of Joint Stock
Banks throughout Great Britain—on the advocates
of free trade, and the press—leaving out all party
distinctions, to unite on this question; and to con-
vince Mr. SPRING RICE he cannot at this late
period of the Session of Parliament (after allowing,
as it were, the subject to slumber till his own conve-
nient opportunity), impose so palpable and destruc-
tive a job as that of bestowing a monopoly of bank-
ing on the Bank of Ireland.

Enough Members did not attend last night to
form a House of Commons; the Lords had ad•
journed over till Thursday, and we therefore have
no Parliamentary proceedings to report. There
were very few Meuribers of the House of Commons
present the night before, after Mr. WA RD rose to
bring forward his motion, though few persons who
have looked at the debate will escape the con-
viction that it was on one of the most important
subjects that the House of Commons • has been
called on to discuss during the whole session.
All the speakers admitted that it involved the
future prosperity of our people, and might affect
the future peace of our country. The character of
past Administrations was assailed, and the present
and future Administrations were emphatically-
warned against incurring a similar condem-
nation. Yet, as it was not a party ques-
tion, as it did not refer to keeping out
the Tories, or t o keeping in the Whigs,
the benches of the House of Commons were
almost deserted, or just crowded enough to
prevent the House being counted out. Looking
at the importance of the question, and the able
manner in which it was treated (for though we
differ, as we shall presently explain, from Mr.
WARD, we must state that. he brought great dili-
gence to his task, and lucidly explained his princi-
ples), we think the subject worthy of the reformed
House of Commons.
In the unreformed House, consisting mainly of the
Jobbers and their friends, who were vehemently
attacked, it would not have been tolerated. Look-
ing, however, at the small audience, and at the
little interest this momentous question excited, it
does no credit to the reformed House. The best
interests of the people were discussed. The
question was neither more nor less than how
boundless regions of fertile land should be dis-
posed of, while all parties agree that civilization is
much influenced by the manner in which land is
appropriated ; and that mighty question, which may
affect the prosperity hereafter of many great nations,
which is now closely interwoven with the
employment and happiness of the living generation,
had no interest for above threescore Members of
the House of Commons. Had it concerned the
Court women, not a Member who could have
crawled to the House, though he had paired and
could not vote; but would have attended to hear the
explanations.

Some excuse may perhaps be found for them in
the remoteness of the cure emigration offers for our
present evils, and the pressing nature of those by
Iwhich the country is assailed. Mr. WARD began
his statement by referring to the present condition
of the working classes, and affirmed that the
whole of the agitation which has been directed
against law and property during the last year
has been caused by physical suffering. Chartism,
he said, was a knife and fork, a bread and cheese
question, and the evils of which the Chartists
complained could not be remedied by means of
political changes. Nay, while he admitted that
it was impossible to convince people with
empty stomachs, who work sixteen hours a day
for a bare pittance, he strenuously insisted, that
the destruction of our artificial system would only
injure the working classes, who would be left, if
they were to achieve what they have been strug-
gling for, to absolute starvation. He contended
that the immediate and pressing evils of the country
were social evils, beyond the power of legislation
to cure. He defied the Chartists and their friends
to produce one law, the removal of which would
place the working population of this country in a
healthy state. Now, such being Mr. WARD'S
introduction, we find some excuse for the Members
of the House of Commons absenting themselves from
a debate, when they were told that the evils to which
Mr. WARD called attention they had no power to
cure ?

But it is not true that there is no law by the
removal of which the working population of the
country may be placed in a healthy state. What
does Mr. WARD say to the Corn-law ? Why did
he vote for Mr. VILLIERS' motion if the re-
peal of that would not better the condition
of the people ? What does he say to the Timber
Duties, for the repeal of which Mr. VILLIERS is
to move ? Would not the abolition of that law
extend our trade with the North, and immediately
give employment to our people ? What does he
say to the Bank monopoly, which perpetually de-
ranges the whole course of trade, striking down
employment at times, as a blight which passes
over a field turns every standing ear of wheat to a
heap of mildew ? 'What does he say to the law
giving tithes to the priesthood for preaching bi-
gotry and strife, encouraging fanaticism and cupi-
dity ? Would not the abolition of that law, and
giving the priesthood a moderate income, such as
becomes the servants of CHRIST, improve the con-
dition of the people ? What does he say also to
the law of primogeniture, which ties up land in a
few hands, and makes, in fact, many wastes, or
parks that are little better than wastes, in the
midst of this crowded country ? What does he say,
also, to a great variety of taxes on the poor man's
tea, and sugar, and coffee, &c., which go to en-
rich monopolists like the West India planters, or to
reward and pamper pensioned idleness and political
corruption ? Mr. WARD is totally in error, when he
says that there are no laws the removal of which
would restore our working population to a healthy
condition. The Statute Book is crowded with laws
made by one class exclusively for their own ad-
vantage, and Mr. WARD does but minister to the
ignorant conceit of that class, does but seek
excuses, we ale afraid, for the culpability of the Le-
gislature of which he is a Member, does but lay a
flattering unction to his own soul, does but delude
himself and delude others, when he declares that
the evils in the condition of the working classes oF
this country are not caused by legislation, and are
not to be removed by the abolition of bad laws.
In this great principle, then, we differ totally
from Mr. WARD ; and we object to his zeal in
favour of emigration, that it tends to perpetuate
evils at home, which ought to be remedied instead
of being transplanted abroad. Mr. WARD say

.4 Accounts from Alexandria of the sth inst. announce
the commencement of hostilities in Syria. Some Syrian
villages in the neighbourhood of Aintab have been occupied
by the Ottoman troops ; in consequence of which Ibrahim
Pacha was collecting his troops upon Antab and Aleppo.
He had sent an officer to Hafiz Paella to demand explana-
tions concerning the movements of his troops."
This despatch is given in a garbled form. The
communication made to the Government stated that
the Turkish army had occupied seventeen Syrian
villages within the territory claimed by MEHEMET
ALI, and that IBRAHIM PACHA had ordered
25,000 men to advance from Aleppo to regain pos-
session of them by force. This, it was expected,
would lead to a general engagement. The following
letter from Alexandria of a date one day later than

LADY FLORA HASTINGS.— From Inquiries
made at a late hour last night, we learn that this estimable
and distinguished lady continues in a very dangerous state.
Last night, about ei2rlit o'clock, as Mr. O'Con-
nell was going
considerable'crowd, who cheered him Inos enthusiastically.
along the Strand he was followed by a
The lion, and Learned Gentleman, appeared much gra-
tified with the hearty plaudits with which he was greeted.

The best conundrum that we have heard lately
(says the New York Era), is this :—" If Mr. Cather-
wood's panorama should burn down, why would he be like
an orphan ?—Because he would not have a pa-nor-a-ma."

DETERMINED SUICIDE IN THE LONDON
HOSPITAL,—On the sth inst. a man named Joseph Hayes,
aged sixty years, living in Hope-town, Bethnal-green,
attempted self- destruction by cutting his throat with a razor.
He was conveyed to the London Hospital, where the case
was considered as one of a serious description, and only
faint hopes were entertained that the man would recover.
He gradually grew better, but was far from being in a fit
condition to leave the hospital. Early yesterday morning•
the unfortunate fellow was found suspended by the neck to
the sashline of one of the rooms in which he had been
placed. The nurses of the ward immediately raised an
alarm, and the deceased was cut down, but all efforts to
restore animation were fruitless, as he had evidently been
dead some time.

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SUDDEN DEATII.—On Monday afternoon a
w
young woman staying at Windsor for the
benefit of her health, got into the five o'clock train of the
proceed to town, accompanied by three friends. She
ough station, in order to
was in a very weak state, but no immediate
danger was apprehended. She sat in one position
in the carriage, and excited no particular atten-
tion. Great Westernßhaoil hadwa y
h
The train stepped at Hanwell for a short time
previous Go starting. Her friends attempted to rouse her,
but were horror-struck on finding that she was quite dead,
and nearly cold. Her body was brought by the train to
the Paddington station, and then placed in a hackney-
coach, and conveyed to the residence of her friends at
Camberwell. Her name did not transpire. Such in-
stances of sudden death are of daily occurrence at this
season of the year.
Mr. Monckton Mikes, whose speech on the
Ballot the House would not listen to on the 18th instant.
has taken the usual revenge of such gentlemen, and
printed the speech. He modestly informs the reader,
however, it is only printed for the use of his constituents.
It is an empty production, and if nothing better had been
said against the Ballot than what Mr. Monckton Milnes
has said, the arguments in its favour would have been
unanswered and untouched.