The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-11 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Courier of last evening observes, in reference to
Lord Roden's letter to Captain Hill, wherein his Lord-
ship ventures on complimenting the present Irish Vice-
roy—" It will be necessary to watch Lord Ebrington's
policy with particular closeness. Lord Roden's satis-
faction must always be a signal for suspicion. We trust
he will not persist in praising the Irish Government ; if
so, he will, among his other discoveries, have discovered
the sure and only way of ruining it entirely in the affec-
tions of the Irish people."
The Standard thus sounds an alarm respecting the
rural police system, which Lord John Russell hinted at
on Tuesday in the Commons :—" Sir Robert Peel put
some questions to Lord John Russell as to the late em-
ployment of the London police at Birmingham. Lord
John admitted that the London police had been em-
ployed in suppressing the recent tumults, and threw out
an intimation that he intends to organise a migratory
police force transferable to any part of the kingdom.
The audacious and most stupid project, thus coolly an-
nounced, cannot receive too early attention from the
people. It is a project for the organisation of an army
—of an army not controlled immediately by the Crown
—not kept up by the consent of Parliament annually
obtained—but a standing army at the disposal of the
Minister who may want, as in the late King's time, the
confidence of the Crown, and, as at present, the confi-
dence (habemus coVitentes) of the Parliament and
people." ,;;

The Globe, referring to the Bishop of London's late
speech in the House of Lords on the subject of the Minis-
terial education scheme, says :—" The Bishop then ac-
cused the Government of adopting a system by which
they were to have the power of choosing schoolmasters,
and prescribing what books were to be used—an asser-
tion which we need hardly state is a fruit of the Bishop's
fancy, without the least foundation in fact. The Right
Rev. Prelate then proceeds to fasten on the Government
certain views entertained by the Central Society of Edu-
cation, and charges them with adopting plans of edu-
cation which that Society had endeavoured to establish.
This charge is equally destitute of truth. The Govern-
ment have shown no deference to the opinion of that
Society ; for this obvious reason, among others, that
the Society, as a body, expresses no opinion at all ; and
has expressly stated in its prospectus, that it is not re-
sponsible for all its publications contain ; in fact, they
contain almost as many opinions as articles, many of
them conflicting ones. The Bishop is not original in
this uncandid and unjust mode of treating the Govern-
ment. He is but a humble imitator of Mr. Colquhoun
in the Commons."

GREAT CRUELTY TO A Doc.—Gibbins, one
of the Animals' Friend Society's officers; and Harring-
ton, Eeq., a naval officer, last week charged Henry Wil-
liam and Rachel
. iSlater with having used a dog with great
barbarity by putting it to draw a very heavy cart and vio-
lently whipping ; the poor animal having been brought
to Lambeth-street office so exhausted that it could scarcely
move. Shekels, the police officer, said that the dog was
not overworked, and it was owing to the hot weather.
Upon which Mr. Norton dismissed the case with costs on
the Society ! saying that there was no Act to prevent the
working of dogs in carts, and that, as this dog was unused
to work, it must have a beginning. Gibbins, during the
week, caused the cabman 153 to be fined 10s. by Mr.
Traill for cruelty to a horse.
Evidence of the close connexion that exists be-
t‘s een crime and ignorance, is furnished by the Gloucester
Journal. In this paper we see that the calendar of pH-
soners for trial at the county sessions now proceeding, con-
tains about 90 offenders, and of this large numher only cTe
can read and write with any facility. A county magis-
trate, a Conservative gentleman of great respectability, has
taken some pains to compile a statement of the actual con-
dition in this respect of the large number of prisoners now
undergoing their trial for a variety of offences, and the re-
sult of his investigation is, that out of 88 prisoners, 36 do
not even know their letters ; 24 can barely spell; 27 can
read very imperfectly and not understanding what they read,
and, as we have above stated, only one can read and write
perfectly.
HERRING TRADE.—Our accounts from Thurso
are up to yesterday; our correspondent says—`:The fishing,
both here and at Sandside, has been better this week than
last. This morning the Thurso boats had 7,8, 10, and
11 craps each. The fishermen state that they were from
20 to 24 miles off due north. The herrings are of a
mixed description." Our, correspondent at Sandside, under
fishing, for two weeks past,
hdaastebe3edn Jveurlyy, The
limited, but still, when the weather admitted
of the boats going to sea, a few were got. The highest
fished boat landed nine crans this morning. This offers
well for this week. Tho fishermen say that the fish are
quite near the shore ; the boats closest in last night were
best fished.—John o' Groat's Journal.