The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-05 00:00:00

ng their fault, they had no coitip,sion lot
the more excusable errors of the misled Char-
tists, and they were ready to visit the sins of these
brothers in error with condign punishment. Though
the conclusion to which the House came was to be
regretted, to hear it admitted within its walls that
the sufferings of the people was the guilt of the
Legislature, gave us pleasure, as an indication of
coining improvement.
We were also pleased to hear some Members re-
commend that the errors of the Chartists should be
treated leniently ; that they were not to be despised ;
that the cause of Chartism was not to be removed
by coercion ; that the House should endeavour
especially to convince the unrepresented classes
that it cares for their interests, and should en-
deavour to win back, by kindness and considera-
tion, their confidence and respect ; to all which
proper sentiments, untimely prosecutions and un-
seasonable attacks are opposed. Such language
will do more to reunite the alienated people than
the 5,000 additional troops. Why there should
be no confidence in the people we know not.
They are our brethren; they have the same wants,
the same interests as the other classes; they live
in the same community, and suffer by the same
bad harvests and epidemics. The only reason we
see for not having confidence in them is that the
State excludes them from the common advantages.
It injures, and then it dreads them. A great alarm
was expressed in time House for property, because
those who expressed it invade the property of
others. If the landowners, if the capitalists, and
if the servants of the State wish to have their pro-
perty respected, the surest way to succeed is to
respect that of
.other men. Of the industrious
classes labour is their only property, which
is grossly invaded when it is not allowed
to be carried to the best market. The
apprehensions which were expressed of the
Chartists and of their demanding an equal division
of property, are in truth born of the continued viola-
tion of property, ordained by the Legislature for the
most selfish purposes. All that the Chartists are
accused of wishing, the legislative landowners daily
and habitually practice.

We are authorised to state that the following re-
port of contemplated Ministerial changes, which
appears in the Chronicle of this morning, is wholly
incorrect :

" MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—It is rumoured that
the following changes are likely to take place at the
close of the session :—Mr. Poulett Thomson to be ap-
pointed Governor-General of Canada. Mr. Rice to be
called to the House of Peers, and to be succeeded, as
Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Mr. Francis Baring.
Mr. Charles Wood to quit the Secretaryship of the
Admiralty for a higher appointment, and to be suc-
ceeded by Mr. E. J. Stanley, Secretary of the Trea-
sury."

Some observations made by Lord HATHER-
TON upon the surreptitious publication by the
Dublin Evening Mail of certain unfledged pro-
ductions of the Committee on the State of Ire-
land, seem to have filled the condition of that fear-
less Journal with a strange delight. The " angry
petulance" of the Noble Lord is readily forgiven,
in consideration of the admission implied in his
complaint, that the article purloined was no coun-
terfeit : " The notice thus taken has set the un-
questionable seal of authenticity to documents that
must otherwise have relied on our own character
for their genuineness and truth." Viewing the case
in this light, it must certainly be acknowledged.
that his Lordship has relieved our Dublin Contem-
porary of an onerous responsibility.
This method of vindicating one's honour reminds
us of a case nearly parallel to it, for the truth of
which we arc answerable :—A friend of ours walk-
ing along the road, then scarcely inhabited, on the
south side of Waterloo-bridge, was urgently soli-
cited to purchase an extraordinary bargain of a real
Bandana pocket-handkerchief. He hesitated, not
liking his customer, and threw some doubts on the
quality of the silk ; but the vendor, more jealous of
the character of his goods than of his own reputa-
tion, warmly exclaimed—" I can assure you, Sir,
upon my honour, that it is the very thing, for it is
not five minutes since I picked it out of the pocket
of a most undeniable gentleman."
This is a high style of morality, as yet, indeed,
not sufficiently understood in " our duller Britain ;"
but most convenient to a publisher not over nice
as to means, provided he can accomplish the end of
furnishing exclusive intelligence. The public pays
for his news, not for his morality, and, therefore,
rem, quocunque modo rem.
Other Conservative Journals make a virtue of
their ignorance, and would not play the eaves-
dropper, though it were to find out the secrets of
a conclave of Cardinals. Thus the Standard, in
allusion to these very manifestoes of GLENGALL
and Company, says—with a sly grin at its success-
ful Dublin rival—" The papers of the House of
Lords are not to be purchased for money, except
by corrupting servants, to which we will not descend ;
and we have proof that, to apply for them in
the character of gentlemen, only exposes one
to disrepect and a failure." This is highly
dignified, no doubt ; but the laugh is, after all,
on the side of the Evening Mail. It has found
out the way to come at papers, which will be read
with avidity, in whatever " character" they may
be " applied for," and those Journalists who sneer
at the mode by which they are obtained, do not
scruple to reprint and circulate them to their own
advantage. Even Messrs. HATCHARD, the good
booksellers, have made un one portion of them—
that which treats of Ribbonism—into a book, in
perpetual.): rei memoriam, and the Standard not
only copies the whole of it, without acknowledg-
ing the original source of the supply, but recom-
mends every one to procure the pamphlet and dis-
tribute it among his friends. This is exceedingly
unfair towards the Dublin Evening Mail, to
which belongs exclusively the honour and the
glory of bringing Lord WHARNCLIFFE'S impres-
sions upon the subject to light.

It is due to the character of the Dublin Evening
l'lail, whose industry all must acknowledge, to de-
clare our belief that it was not by corrupting ser-
vants the possession of these prohibited documents
was obtained. If there be any breach of faith or
of honour in the transaction—and our persuasion is
that they could not have fallen into the hands of a
publisher without a violation of both— the blame
must be ascribed to the " undeniable gentleman"
out of whose pocket the genuine article was allowed
to be extracted. We do not suppose that any
Noble Lord could have been such a fool as to leave
himself in the power of the Correspondent of a
Newspaper, by actually placing the confidential
documents of a Secret Committee in his hands ; but
that they were appropriated, while the distinguished
owner winked or turned conveniently aside, or per-
adventure slept, and would not be awakened, there
can be no doubt at all.

Here they are, however, genuine as subducted ;
and being now before the public, together with the
authorised Report, it will be our part to inquire,
in a few subsequent articles, in what degree the
judgment, half-pronounced, and then repented of
and cancelled, by certain members of the Committee,
is borne out by the whole evidence.

We have received Hamburg papers, with ac-
counts from Hanover of the 27th, the substance
of which will be found under the head " Ham-
burg and Flanders Mail." It appears that King
ERNEST, emboldened by the prospect of Prussian mili-
tary aid, had on the previous day refused to grant the
petition of the citizens tor the restoration of M.
RUHMAN to the office of Chief Magistrate. The
citizens were deliberating. about petitioning a second
time ; and should they either not do so, or their peti-
tion be refused, the Charter directs that they shall pro-
ceed to a new election, in which case M. RUHMAN will
assuredly be re-elected. What will the KING do then ?
This is a question which it might puzzle VON SCHELE
to answer.

W. e are happy to announce that our Government
has just concluded a Treaty for the suppression of the
slave trade with the Republic of Buenos Ayres.

Lisbon Papers of the 29th ult. have been received,
but they merely bring rumours of a speedy change in
the composition of the Portuguese Cabinet.

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question. The Gazette de France, a Carlist organ,
affects surprise at the silence of the English press on
the subject ; alludes mysteriously to the fact of Captain
WALKER being on board the Capitan PACHA'S ship ;
and expresses a wish to learn the precise instructions
given by Lord PONSONBY to Captain WALKER pre-
vious to his embarkation in the Bosphorus. This me-
thod of insinuating jealousies is worthy of the France
and the National—the organs of the extremes of
Regalism and Republicanism. The object of
Captain WALKER'S presence on board the Capitan Pa-
cha's ship is no secret to all Europe. He is there to