The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-15 00:00:00

SEIZURE OF ARMS.

CHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.
This morning, in consequence of information, the
high constable of the Hundred of Wirral seized 273
chests, containing 5,460 stand of arms, at the warehouse
of the Chester and Ellsmere Canal Corndany ; which
had been directed to be left at the warehouse ti:l further
orders. The chests had been forwarded by a person
named Scott from Birmingham, and from the circum-
stance that the guns were somewhat similar in appear-
ance to those recently seized from Mr. Tnompson of
Birmingham, many people foolishly set out a report that
the arms were intended for the use of the Chartists.
The arms were, by order of the Magistrates, lodged in
the armory of the Castle.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Globe of last evening, remarking on Tuesday's
debate in the Commons on the Manchester Police 13111,
observes as follows :—" By the way, the absence of Sir
Robert Peel last night seemed significant. Why was
not the Right Hen. Baronet in his place, to support
those principles of police efficiency which be himself
had suggested to Ministers ? Had he left the Hon.
Member for Liskeard in charge to explain his absence,
and ascribe it to his dislike for unconstitutional powers,
and his unconquerable objection to their extension from
Birmingham to Manchester? If Sir R. Peel's absence
was really a slippery trick, which we will not believe,
unless the course of his party elsewhere should confirm
the suspicion, he was certainly obliged to Mr. C. Buller
for saying for him, i❑ a semi-serious way, what he could
hardly have said for himself.

The Courier thus refers to the discussion on Tuesday
in the House of Commons on the Manchester Police
Bill :—" Ministers have thought it right that Parba-
ment should not separate without making some special
provision for the peace and security of the town of
Manchester, as well as of Birmingham ; and with this
view the Manchester Police Bill has been framed, to
which Lord G. Somerset last night offered an unavail-
rg opposition. We regret to see that he was joined
by Mr. Buller, whose arguments against the unconsti-
tutional character of the measure would be exceedingly
applicable at a less excited and perilous season, but
which are really of little weight at the present moment.
The objectors appear to overlook the important poir.t
that the Bill, if of an arbitrary and anti-popular cha-
racter, is devised expressly to meet the exigencies of the
time, and is only to be temporarily in existence."
The Standard says, with reference to the three Char-
tists capitally convicted at the late Warwick Assizes :
" We understand that it is not the intention of Go-
vernment to let the law take its course on the
three unhappy men, convicted of riot and incendia-
rism at Birmingham, at the late Warwick Assizes,
and left for execution, without any hope of mercy,
by Mr. Justice Littledale. With his characteristic
meanness, however, Lord John Russell has at-
tempted to shift the responsibility of reprieving these
men on the Judge who tried them ; who, convinced of
the necessity of some severe example at the present
jnncture, and satisfied of the atrocious guilt of the crimi•
mils, has declined to interfere. It is thus that Ministers
invariably attempt to remove every act involving the
slightest responsibility from their own shoulders."