The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-20 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Globe of this evening, alluding to the Ministerial
measure for improving the state of the City Police, &c.,
says :—‘; If the corporate knot of opponents to a measure
necessary for completing the system of Metropolitan Police,
and for ensuring to Government the means (as it has the re.
sponsibility) of preserving the peace in the City as elsewhere,
were accessible to reason,when they deem their " privileges"
in danger, prudence might suggest the expediency of ac-
cepting quietly a change manifestly demanded by the s ery
nature of a police system, and by the changed proportions
between the City and the districts around it. Prudence
might suggest the danger of attempting a stand on the
position most indefensil le, and the wisdom of concentrating
their force on more tenable ground. That a small district
in the heart of a great metropolis should be allowed to ex-
cept itself, on the plea of privilege, from the general sys-
tem necessary for public security, is a claim too monstrous
to bear discussion at this time of day."
The Couritr contains a leading article on the subject of
last night's debate in the Commons respecting the pro-
ceedings of the French Government in Mexico and Buenos
Ayres, in the course of which our Contemporary obset yes
The unanimous condemnation passed by the House
of Commons upon the conduct of the French Govern.
ment, throughout the whole course of these Trans-
atlantic aggressions, must produce a great moral cfEct
France. The tone of every speaker throughout the win.le
course of the debate was so perfectly, so studiedly
respectful to the French nation, that the most fastidious
Frenchman would seek in vain for an expression on which to
fasten a quarrel, yet there was throughout a tone of dignity
and calm determination, calculated to raise the character of
the House of Commons wherever their proceedings of last
night are read."
The Standard observes, in an article on the new Blum.
wick boundary-line question :—" We confess that though
probably the danger of war is for the present postponed,
the impression produced upon us by this affair is unsatis-
factory. We do not forget that at the very commencement
of the Canada rebellion Mr, Van Buren disinterred
this question of the Maine and New Brunswick boundary,
and put it in the front of his Message to Congress as one
particularly suiting the time. The apology for Fairfield's
outrage upon the law of nations is altogether of a piece
with the palliatory terms employed by the President when
speaking of former piracies, and it seems but too clear that
Mr. Van Buren is not the man to avert very long that war
between Great Britain and the States—the first effect of
which will be involve both nations in enormous expense;
the next, to break up the American Confederation—in-
deed, the acknowledgment of the right of Maine to make
ear by herself is a great step towards that—and the last
and worst result, to throw back for centuries the civilisation
of our Republican kinsmen."

NATIONAL CONVENTION.
(TIIIS DAY.)

Mr. HETHERINGTON was called to the Chair.
REPORT PROM THE MISSIONARIES.

After the minutes of Tuesday's proceedings were read,
the Secretary proceeded to read several lettters from
various parts of the country, giving an account of the
progress of the gentlemen sent out to agitate the kingdom.
Among which, that from Bailie Craig stated that his
exertions to promote unanimity among the different sec-
tions of Radicals in Scotland had had the most happy
effect. Every shade of Radicalism was merged into a
desire of success for the objects of the Charter.
Several meetings had been held throughout Ayr-
shire, Renfrewshire, Stirlingshire, and Argyleshire, at
which the people were unanimous in according their gra-
titude for the conduct of the Convention since they had
begun their sitting.

SIMULTANEOUS MEETINGS AND ACCESSION OF IRELAND
TO THE CHARTISTS.

Mr. FEARGU O'CoNNoR said that it having been de-
tcrmint'd that the Missionaries should return next week,
he would postpone his motion for a certain day being ap
pointed to hold meetings in all the great towns of Eng-
land and Scotland, antecedent to the presentation of the
National Petitions from a sense of the importance of ac-
quiring new information on the feelings of the people,
of which information the Missionaries would have
a large quantity. He was the more inclined
to do so from his having but learned a piece of information
rdgarding Ireland, which, to the Convention, was of more
importance than anything which had occurred since they
commenced their proceedings in the month of February.
It was that—that at a large and influential meeting of the
citizens of Cork, held last week, Mr. Joseph Hayes, pro-
prietor of the Southern Reporter, one of the most influen-
tial men in that part of the empire, and always a steady
Whig, and no inconsiderable advocate of Whig prin-
ciples, had declared, that he was convinced that they@
was no hope for Ireland, and he would recommend
the people to go over to the Chartists. This declaration
was hailed with universal approbation, and the proposition
which it contained was only got rid of by its not being one
of the subjects for which the meetir:g was convened.