The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY , OCTOBER 5, 1839.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.

THUB:SDAY AFTERNOON

The Queen's Plate was run as follows :—Alemdar took the
lead at a very slow pace to the dip, where he mended it, Men-
dizabal lying second, Antler third, Fame fourth, and Jenny
Jones last. They kept in this order to the barn, near Choke
Jade, where Jenny Jones, " Willy nilly," took up the running,
followed by Alcmdar to the corner of the plantation. From
this point to the end Mendiz,:bal and Fame ran together, the
horse having a slight lead, till they were landed at the top of the
bill, where the mare challenged, and, after a desperate struggle,
won by a neck. Antler was fourth, and Jenny Jones fifth,
both beaten off.

rtes.

cantile bills become due. We have nothing to add to
our remarks of yesterday in relation to the engagements
of Mr. Jaudon.

The price of Consols for Money rose in the middle of
She day to 901, and for Account to WI:. This ad-
vance was not, however, maintained up to the conclusion
of business, when business was transacted in Consols for
the first transfer day (next week) at 90a, for the L'ith
inst. at DOI, and for November at 91, sellers. The va-
lue of Exchequer Bills rose to par in the morning, but
it left off at 3s. to ls. discount. India Bonds were sold
at 3s. discount to par.
Business was brisk to-dav in the Foreign Stock
Exchange, but the alterations in prices were not co-
extensive.

The demand for money in the City to-day has been
rather pressing, but it must be recollected that an im-
mense amount of bills became due ; and we are glad to
state that by far the larger proportion of the number
sent out by the London bankers, have been paid. In
the present state of commecial credit and difficulty
this is a circumstaoce of no ordinary importance.
It is more than prjable that we shall now shortly
at
hare a superabund I: e of capital seeking employment
in the market at coca aratively low rates of interest.
The ft:reign exeba es were steady this afternoon.
The rate on Amster to was, in fact, a shade bigher
than our last post d 7. The latest quotations were_
Paris, at 2.5 r. 60e. tti of. 6,5 c., on Hamburg, at 13 104
to i ; on Amsterdatn,:ot 12 415 ; on Antwerp, at 12 3i ;
and on Frankfurt, at f-503- -T.-
4 .i.

SPIRIT of the iI'UBr,IC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORiiING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the .illorning Herald.)
When we find that,: in the very teeth of the praises
which Conservative credulity has bestowed on Lord
Ebrington, that exalted functionary humbly stoops from
his eminent. position, as the delegate of RoyziAy, to
applaud and be-puff that creature of O'Connelt's mut-
tifarious agitation, called the " Dublin Trades' Politi-
cal Union," can we regard him as ambitious of obtain-
ing a nobler fame as Chief Governor of Ireland, than
that. achieved by Lord Normanby. If Lord Nor-
manby were now Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, his
course as a flaming satellite round the orb of the cen-
tral fire of agitation would be, necessarily, a, miti-
gated one ; we should no longer hear of the monstrous
absurdities, the fantastic pranks, of the vagabond-
courting popularity tours, and the ragamuffin gaol-delive-
The notice which his Lordship's follies received
,rom the Upper House of the Legislature, however he
and his myrmidons may endeavour to brazen the thing
out, has made some impression, and excited a salutary
dread of worse consequences. Lord Normaaby had
been encouraged in his silly and unprincipled course by
the too excessive forbearance of the House of Lords—
but since the inquiry into his conduct as Viceroy of
Ireland he could have expected that indulgence no
longer. A Viceroy of Ireland is but the puppet of -the
Administration, and, as the Whig Administration is
but the instrument of O'Connell's will, of course a Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland is but the puppet of O'Connell.
Such is Lord Ebrington, and such will be every Viceroy
who shall at any time be placed over the destinies of
that unfortunate country by virtue of the treaty of
Lichfield House.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
As the exposure of innumerable fallacies alleged in
support of the Corn-laws become exhausted to its dregs,
the interest excited in favour of the abolition of these
laws becomes more rife in public anxiety. Imperative
necessity is now urging to its consummation a measure
for which justice, humanity, and sound policy had long
pleaded in vain. The doom of the Corn-laws is sealed,
and when they shall have become matters of history
posterity will not feel more astonished at the evils of
which they were the cause than at the indifference
which could. have so long telerated their infliction.
• Designed in the first instance to maintain for the landed
Aristocracy an undue ascendancy over the more bend-
ial rank achieved by commercial enterprise, their ef-
fects have exceeded the purpose of their institution,
ind by crippling our manufacturing efforts at borne and
olocking up the avenues of commercial intercourse
abroad, they have, by limiting the trade of the country,
re-acted injuriously on those interests they intended
'o sustain, and have at length brought on a crisis,
astened by a bad harvest and a pressure in the money
,narket, wherein England has scarcely an alternative
between a repeal of the Corn-laws or a national bank-
ruptcy. IVe mean not to cause alarm, or cry out
Wolf," we know the evil day may be deferred, but
to this complexion must we come at last. We have no
nisgivings of the resources of Great Britain ; she has
by her skill, industry, and enterprise literally wrought
miracles ; but to continue a successful competit.on in
the foreign markets while paying a shilling for the
bread of life which in other countries may be had
for sixpence, is a miracle which all her ingenuity cannot
achieve.

(From the Times.)
Why Mr. Poulett Thomson should have been chosen
for Canada is a question which his late colleagues and
present masters may answer. With no personal disre-
spect whatever toward the Right Hon. Gentleman, we
r never heard of his being qualified to lead a forlorn hope.
We have remarked that the government of the Canadas
it this moment calls for the most eminent statesmen in
the empire. What, then is Mr. Poulett Thomson ?
Originally member of an opulent mercantile firm,
who traded chiefly in Baltic produce, he took to
cultivate his genius by reading political economy.
The subject is one for minds of exact, but rather
small, dimensions, which see clearly what little they
do see, but whose vision is of short range, and with a
narrow compass of horizon. For a mere political econo-
mist to expand himself into a statesman would be but a
rehearsal of the frog and the ox. But there arc other
minus quantities in the understood character of Mr. P.
Thomson, besides thew which negative his intellectual
pretensions as a statesman. He is said to be a man of
as little energy as a sagacity. He has never exhibited
the slightest evidence of moral strength or power. He
has never exercised, or seemed to acquire, the least par-
ticle of ascendancy over men. He is not disliked, as we
have learned ; but he is not looked up to. Even the ques-
tion of "Panzegotiisr has not been tried with him, but on
the very humblest scale of mechanical action. Yet is
not British North America at such a crisis (or at any
time) to be ruled by a man of routine? " I want to
see our North American Colonies governed," saith a
man of governing mind; and if it were put to his
Grace the Duke of Wellington whether Mr. P. Thom-
son be the individual capable of realizing his Grace's
wish, what, oh ! what, would be the withering answer ?
Mr. P. Thomson's proper sphere is the counting-house,
not the Council Chamber, still less the Vice-regal
Palace ; least of all—though he be Captain•General—
the field. He is out of his element in the storm which

he goes to encounter. He will be on his beam-ends the
very first squall—he has no bearings—he has no ballast
—he is not seaworthy.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
England has always been distinguished for its legal
fictions. The law is said to be the same for the poor
and the rich ; but so was the road the same to the giant
ind the dwarf in the fable. Among other fictions, re
ire told that no man ought to be punished till after
conviction by a jury of his Peers ; the fact notoriously
'oeing that, as the prisons would not contain a tithe of
our juvenile criminals alone, there is no choice between
absolute impunity and summary convictions. Persons
guilty of felony are punished summarily for another
offence. The common sense of Magistrates revolts against
the inhumanity (to say nothing of the absolute want of
prison room) of committing for trial numbers of juvenile
thieves ; and thus practice gives the lie to the letter of
the law. Jeremy Bentham, were he alive, would not
attribute Lord Lyndhurst's opposition to summary con-
victions to a desire to preserve means for future Tory
jobbing, but would at once place it to the account of the
love of mendacity, which he supposed inseparable from
all who had ever dedicated themselves, to the, study of
English law. It is certain that no people have a greater
abhorrence of doing things in a natural - and straight
forward way than English lawyers ; but Mr. Bentham.
certainly pushed his theory too far ; and we are willing
to believe that the opposition to summary convictions
has its origin, not in a warped understanding, but in
less creditable motives. But truth is never set at defi-
ance with impunity. We remember well the difficulty
with which jurors could be brought to convict, when
stealing in a dwelling-house to the amount of five shillings
what encouragement crime
was a capital offence ; and
received from the belief that prosecutors would not
come forward, and jurors would not convict. The law
in respect to punishment was, after a severe struggle
with the old lawyers, made more accordant mith com-
mon sense, and the growing humanity of the age. The
old hatred to improvement has assumed a new shape.
It has actually borrowed the robes of humanity. Let
us not, say these lovers of humanity, have one law for
the rich and another for the poor—let us not say that
we will only punish a Nobleman after he has been
found guilty by his Peers, and that We will place a
poor man at the mercy of a single Magistrate. And is
it true that the poor are not punished till after convic-
tion by a jury? If that were the case the country
would scarce be habitable. But what does actually
happen ? This pretended humanity of the haters of
improvement nourishes into premature precocity hosfs
of thieves, who, if dealt with rationally in the commence-
ment of their career, might be rescued from a wretched
end. _ _

(From the Morning post.)
We learn from the northern newspapers that the
Bishop of Durham (Dr. Maltby) visited Barnard Castle
the other day, for the purpose of consecrating a burial
ground and " holding a confirmation?' His Lordship
preached a sermon which is described as being very elo-
quent, and chieflyabout funereal matters, and, although
it was a week-day, most of the tradespeople, it is said,
shut up shop, and went to church. The sequel to all
this, however, and especially to the " confirmation," if
there really were any such thing, was somewhat novel
and curious. There was a " splendid repast" provided
at the King's Head Inn, and partaken of by a company ,
of hotwpen sixty and scv,T.tr. This was in honour of
ikicre vvii.; JUAN
of sociable drinking. The " usual loyal toasts having

been disposed of," the health of the Lord Bishop was
drunk with respectful enthusiasm, and in return for
this courtesy his Lordship made a speech to the com-
pany. He gave a pledge which it would be very gra-
tifying to serious Churchmen generally if they could be-
lieve that his Lordship would intelligently adhere to,
namely, that he would compromise none of the doc-
trines of the Establishment to which he belonged, but
he trusted he should ever maintain its true interests
without giving offence to those who differed on specula-
, tive matters of doctrine from himself. He thought
that by acting thus, he should best inculcate that uni-
versal charity which was the leading principle of
their common Christianity, and he conscientiously
believed that this line of conduct would be most con-
ducive to the union of all branches of the Church of
Christ, described in the beautiful language of the
Psalmist, " Behold how good and how pleasant it is
for brethren to dwell together in unity." That Provi-
dence will bring this about at some time or another, and
towards the end of time, we do not doubt ; but the
means at present cannot be seen. We know not where
Dr. Maltby and others have beheld, or supposed they
beheld, that unwonted diffusion of the principles of to-
leration and charity of which they speak. To us it
seems that Popery and Protestant dissent are more do-
mineering and contentious in their character now than
they have been for the last hundred years. kVe cannot
intelligence
can how any being of merely human
can be at once determined to compromise none of the '
doctrines of the Established Church of England, and to
inculcate this firmness upon others, and yet be capable
of seeing his way towards a union of all sects as one
Church.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Courier.)
On this matter of the " Repeal of the Union " we are
inclined to think that Mr. O'Connell finds himself in
a dilemma. He cannot deny, and indeed admits, that
all parties are opposed to it ; and how does he seek to
account for it ? Why, by asserting that so strong is
the " antipathy" of the English to the Irish, that they will
not consent to the repeal. Surely if Mr. O'Connell is
correct in his assertion of the " antipathy " of the
English, that antipathy would prompt the English
rather to desire a disunion political and social with a
people towards whom Mr. O'Connell says they enter-
tain so strong an antipathy. It must be an odd sort
of an antipathy—quite Irish—if it be true that in the
ratio of its intensity the disinclination of the English
to disunite themselves from the objects of their
antipathy increases. Will Mr. O'Connell never
understand that the antipathy is to himself, his
designs, his agitation, and to his incessant endeavours
to create jealousies, misunderstandings, and ill-will be-
tween two countries, whom nature and political circum-
stances have decreed must form one kingdom and one
people, and whom, in spite of Mr. O'Connell's plots and
denunciations, we firmly believe will continue to remain
in union with the same kind-heartedness and cordiality ;
which the English have always exhibited and felt towards
their Irish brethren.

(From the Globe.)
There can be no doubt that Spain is now in a state
to invite ail kind of enterprises on the part of her neigh-
bours to work the resources now, for the first time, ren-
dered available. Lord Clarendon has referred to the tracts
of property liberated from sloth, and opening a nea field
for capital and for cultivation. The Debats talks of a fresh
treaty of commerce with Spain as highly desirable, and of
the powers possessed by France of establishing a mutually
beneficial interchange. There can be no doubt that the
improvement of Spain will develop at least equal faci-
lities for highly profitable commercial relations with
this country. The capabilities of her soil and people
are not merely unexhausted, but untried. A dead
system of spiritual and secular absolutism, and an an-
tiquated colonial and commercial regimen,, have re-
pressed her energies. It is only now—we again quote
Lord Clarendon's authority—that Spain has begun to
rouse herself from the long sleep of ages, and to ad-
vance in the course marked out for her by
her noble. site, and antique character. It was
well remarked by Lord Clarendon, that if the
Spaniards have net yet recognized the benefits of un-
restricted commercial intercourse, we should not forget
the existence of the Corn-laws in England. In the
career of national improvement to which we trust we
may look forward, the extension of her agriculture must
long hold the first rank in Spain. It is impossible
to look at those territories which once peopled
the south of Ireland, to see them brought by steam
within forty-eight hours' voyage of her wretched
Peasantry, and not to be s:ruck with the open-
ing to cheap and most productive emigration
which appears to be held out by the fertile fields
of Spaizi under Liberal government. The great
problem every where demanding solution is to bring la-
bouring people (the source of all wealth, as well as all
power) in contact with a field of production which can
employ and repay their labour. Spain appears to open
such a field to immense numbers of cultivators. And
here exist those sympathies of religious tradition and
education, which the Debats talks of between Spain and
France, but which are far more real between Spain and
Ireland.

(From the Standard.)
Another of the Elliots has been provided for. Ad-
miral the Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleeming, cousin
to Sir Charles Adam, half brother to Lord Elphin-
stone, and Commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, has
been appointed to the Governorship of Greenwich Hos-
pital. It has hitherto been the practice to make this
appointment the reward for long and distinguished
services ; but these are considerations which her Ma-
jf!sty's Government rever allow to influence them in the '
distribution of their patronage. If, however, Admiral
Fleemine•' has seen no service at sea (and we are assured
he never had the good fortune to take part in a battle in
his life), he possesses what in the eyes of Lord Mel-
bourne arid his associates constitutes a much stronger
claim to reward ; he has been an active supporter of Whig
principles for many years ; and recently assisted to stay
the torrent of public indignation against Ministers for
their neglect of the British navy, by describing the
Russian fleet as a " pasteboard fleet." This clever
sally has been quoted on all occasions by Minis-
ters as a proof that no precaution was necessary
against such an antagonist, and Admiral Fleeming
was forthwith rewarded by the naval command at
Portsmouth, having previously held those of Sheer-
ness and the West Indies. This was not deemed com-
pensation enough for so distinguished an officer. He
has accordingly been appointed to a situation where
his tenure is more secure than it is likely to have been at
Portsmouth. How worthy a successor of the gallant vete-
ran in whose arms Nelson breathed his last,and who shared
with him the most glorious of his triumphs, is Admiral
Fleeming ! It would seem as though every succeeding
appointment of the Whigs were destined to exceed in
corrupt favouritism its predecessor. Of all their re-
cent performances, however, this is the most dis-
gusting and the most corrupt. We predicted
that Greenwich Hospital was too good a thing to
be allowed to pass out of the Elliot family, and our
anticipations have not been disappointed. Per-
haps the confidence which prevented Sir Charles Adam
from appropriating the appointment to himself was ill-
judged ; at all events, an Elliot, and an active supporter
of Ministers, has been provided for.

JDR.JENNEWAND ROWLAND HILL.—ROW-
Iand Hill, the once eminent preacher, ably defended Dr.
Jenner's discovery against its opponents. " This," he
said, is the very thing for me ;" and wherever he went
to preach, he announced after his sermon, " I am ready
to vaccinate tomorrow morning, as many children as
you choose ; and if you wish them to escape that horrid
disease the small-pox, you will bring them." Once a-
week he inoculated the children who were brought to
him from `'Notion and the neighbourhood ; and it is well
known that one of the most effective boards in London
was established, and still continues in operation, at Sur-
rey Chapel. Mr. Hill once introduced Jenner to a
`Nobleman, in these terms :—Allow me to present to
yoUr Lordship my friend Jenner, who has been the
means of saving more lives than any other man." " Ah !"
said Jenner, " would that, like you, I could say souls."--
Physic and Physicians.
THE ROYAL NAVY.--PORTSMOUTH.—The
battalion of Royal marines serving on shore in Spain arc
ordered to prepare to return to England ; Colonel Aslett,
second in command, will go to Plymouth, being appointed
to that division. The Blenheim, 72, Capt. Sir N. Sen-
house, and Belleisic, 72, Capt. Nicolas, have been de-
spatched from Plymouth to Lisbon, where they will re-
main pro tem., and be followed shortly by the Revenge,
Captain Waldegrave, from Cork, as SOOl4 as she has
completed her complement of men. The Imogene, 26,
Captain Bruce, is daily looked for from Brazils, with a
large freight of dollars on merchants' account. Com-
mander Thomas Ogle, promoted to Captain, from the
President frigate, is expected home in the Imogene. •
She has nearly 2,000,000 of dollars on board.
TIIE APPLE CROP.—The crops of apples in
the neighbourhood of Barnstaple, are far more produc-
tive than was expected ; parts of several cargoes have
been, and still continue to be, shipped off ; the price a
fortnight since for apples was 7s. tici. per bag, which is
now reduced to about (is. per bag, and a still greater re-
duction is expected to take place.—Plyntouth Journal.
Yesterday morning, between ten and eleven, a
frightful acc►dent occurred to a fine young man named
John Hull, aged 24, in the employ of Messrs. Whit-
bread, brewers, Chiswell-street. It appears the unfor-
tunate young man was riding upon the shaft of his
dray, down Skinner-street, Snow-hill, whilst his compa-
nion was driving, when in turning the corner sharply
into King-street, to avoid another vehicle coming in an
opposite direction, his legs were jammed between the
iron-post at the corner and the wheel, which crushed
them in a frightful manner. He was immediately re-
moved to St. Bartholomew's ; but it is feared that am-
putation will be unavoidable.

BRIDGWATER.--OnSaturday Colonel Tynte
gave a splendid entertainment to the officers of the
West Somerset Yeomanry regiment. Nearly thirty
officers and some other gentlemen were present. The
banquet was s'rved in the same style of baronial bos•
pitaiity for winch Halswell House has for centuries
been o.debrated.