The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-12 00:00:00

laud, and to take care that no mal-administration on their
part shall sanction the perversion or corruption of
that law. Most nobly have the Judges of the
Court of Queen's Bench, hitherto, performed hat
duty ! The pretensions of the House of Common- in
this matter are of the most preposterous kind. To '
tolerate these pretensions, would be to establi-h a
tranny of the most odious nature. The claims the
House are condemned by law, by common sense, and
by public opinion. Mr. Sergeant Wilde, in his very
clever speech on this question in the House of Com-
mons, recommended the House to attach the Sheriff,
and, if necessary, to commit the Judges to Newgate.
Neither Mr. Sergeant Wilde nor his official patrons,
oonts,
however, will in reality dream of pushing matters
such extremities. No ; the House of Commons will
swagger, and talk fustain about its privileges, and,
finally, succumb, as it did, on the last occasion. To
borrow Sir Robert Inglis's illustration, " the leek" will,
again, " be eaten"—although " horrible vengeance" may
be threatened by the leek-eaters !
(From the Times.)
We recommend to the notice of our commercial
readers the subjoined extract of a letter from Lima,
written by a gentleman fully conversant with the case
which he discusses. The boasts of Lord Minto, re-
ferred to by this correspondent, are still ringing in our
ears, when the Scotch First Lord had the modesty to
get up and attempt to contradict such a man as the
Duke of Wellington—the most guarded and cau-
tious statesman living—in the representation of
facts with resrect to the condition of our navy.
So far from our distant squadrons being equal to
those of Foreign Powers on their several stations, it
now appears that on the very important coast of
South America, where civil wars and convulsions are
tor ever raging, our Admiral has been for many months
together left, trusting to a single frigate, on board
which his flag was flying—a frigate not of the most
powerful description as to force, and with a crew not
exceeding, if it equalled, 400 men, while a United
States man-of-war of 90 guns of 1,000 mi n lay on
one side of him, and two sixty-gun frigates with
550 men each were on the other side of him,
to the no small mortification of British feelings,
and exposure of British interests to ruin. Even the
most ordinary services, viz., those of communication
and of the transport of bullion, were so entirely un-
provided for by the Admiralty, that our Admiral is
constantly obliged to have recourse to merchant ships,
from the absolute want of vessels of ever so small a
class carrying the Queen of England's pendant. This
is one sample of Lord Minto's good faith, out of many.
And yet no Englishman can venture to make known
and denounce to his country such disgraceful contempt
of her most important interests, and her national
honour, without being assailed by the vulgar imperti-
nence of some jackanapes of a clerk in your public
offices, or hired to write audacious lies in the columns of
Treasury Newspapers.
(EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LIMA.)
We observe in the English papers that Lord Minto
told the Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords,
that we have plenty of ships, and that our force on all
foreign stations is equal to that of other nations :'
whilst, at the time he was making that assertion, the
British Admiral commanding hereabouts, was in our
roads in the President frigate, his flag-ship, having an
American 90 gun-ship on one side of him with 1,000
men on board, and two French 60 gun-frigates with 550
men each on the other side of him. to the no small dis-
comfort and annoyance of our English feelings and in-
terests. The sad state of this country, and frequent
forced changes of its Government, necessarily kept our
Admiral here for our protection nearly a year, and there
are so few of our smaller ships of war for the duties of
this station, distant and important as it is, that we are
constantly obliged to have recourse to merchant ships
fer the conveyance of our treasure. Such is our real
state on this foreign station.' Surely Lord Minto must
beta bold man."

YROM THY EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
Amid the indignation and disgust called forth by the
recent effusions of disloyalty and sedition at Tory feasts,
and the excitement and alarm naturally produced by
Chartist violence, public attention has been diverted from
the brilliant success of British enterprise and valour in the
East. That the Opposition journals should touch as slightly
as possible the splendid triumph achieved by the band of
heroes under Sir John Keane, will not excite surprise.
Having condemned the policy of our Indian government,
and denouncedthe proceedings of Lord Auckland as preg-
nant with danger to our Eastern possessions, it is not to be
wondered at if the Tories manifest a desire to say as little
possible concerning what is a complete falsification of
their predictions, and—their " wish being father to the
thought"—the prostration of their hopes. We, how-
ever, owe it both to those who projected and to those
who executed the brilliant operations against
Dost Mahomed Khan, to recal public atten-
tion and to direct public gratitude towards them.
The wisdom which planned the expedition, and the
brave officers and men who so fully justified the
confidence placed in their enduring courage and enterpris-
ing valour, deserve a nation's plaudits. There are few pa-
rallels to the achievement in the history of modern warfare.
The length of the march—the nature of the country to be
passed through—the difficulty of obtaining the necessary
supplies, and the consequent necessity of employing an
army signally small when compared with the magnitude
of the undertaking—these, combined, strike the mind
with admiration approaching to astonishment at the
indomitable bravery of British troops. Since the
march of Alexander into India the achievement of
Sir John Keane and his army of heroes has not been
surpassed. It was Caesar's veni—vidi—vici, illustrated
with a yet nearer approach to fact. Nor was this exhi-
bition of what British troops will nobly dare, when
the honour aed interests of their country demand such
services and sacrifices, uncalled for by the circumstances
which induced the Governor-General of India to de-
termine on the expedition. Intrigue had been long
busied in endeavouring to detach Dost Mahomed
Khan from British interests. His successful defection
would have been followed by that of other native
Princes, who only waited to ascertain the result of his
treachery to imitate his example. We need not inure
distinctly allude to the quarter whence these intrigues
proceeded. The spirited remonstrances of Lord Pal-
merston with the Court of Russia, and the lame and
impotent explanations of that power with respect to the
conduct of her agents at the Court of Cabool, are fresh
in the recollection of all who take an interest in public
,iffairs. The promptitude and firmness of Lord Auckland
in meeting the exigency, and, by march ng an army
into the very heart of his territory, punish the delin-
quency of Dost Mahomed, gave occasion to Lord
Aberdeen, the Marquis of Londonderry, and other
statesmen, to express their disapproval of the measure,
and to prognosticate the worst of consequences from
is adoption.

(From the Courier.)
The Morning Chronicle, with the Ministerial Press in
general, either is, or affects to be, mightily bewildered
by a sort of Scotch mist from getting into the right
track of the Welch insurrection. With ludicrous obsti-
nacy, the Ministerial advocates seem determined to go
any road but the straight one, and with grave industry
beat about the bushes and bye-roads, when the broad
highway lies plain and open before them. We will
venture to offer to them a few hints, therefore, which
may perhaps tend to assist them in their investi.
gations. It may be worth their while to consider
how the simple unsophisticated Chartists were
to comprehend that the sacred right of insurrection
ceased, so far as they were concerned, on the dissolution
of that solemn compact of political unionship by
which the games, the outbreaks, and the bloodshed
of Bristol, Birmingham, and Nottingham were for-
merly justified during the progress of the Reform Bill.
There was no lack of evidence before them that tha
right was and would be acknowledged so long as it could
be exercised to the exclusive profit of the Ministers, and
their adherents ; for, even now, indications are given with
tolerable breadth of significancy, that Chartist sedition be-
comes palatable and legitimate when directed against the
Lords, the Church, or Toryism, in any shape, which
means, of course, according to their own showing, the
great mass of the property and respectability of the
country. In this same sense of " war to the knife
against Tories;' " but touch not one hair of the head of
Whiggery," the Chronicle teems rampantly, day after
day.

(From the Standard.)