The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-15 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Times of this morning observes, in allusion to Dr.
APHale's petition, which was rejected last night by the
House of Commons Dr. M'Hale is desirous that Ro-
man Catholic children should receive religious instruction
apart from those of other churches. We have the same
desire with regard to the youth of our own church. The
scheme of harmonizing sects by obliterating from their
lessons received in common all those passages which mark
the peculiar colour and texture of each distinct congrega-
tion, while the more characteristic and exclusive doctrines
of each are taught under the same roof by their respective
tutors, must lead to inevitable jealousy, controversy, and
ill blood, so often as differences of religious doctrine be-
come subjects of what may be called extrajudicial discus.
sion, and may be productive of much danger to children of
a church which inculcates liberty of conscience, from mi-
nisters (having easy access to them, but) engaged in the
service of another church which enjoins the act of making
proselytes as a primary and sacred duty."
The Morning Herald speaks of, what it is pleased to
call, the orgaxized Conservatism of the City, in the fol-
lowing exaggerated manner :—" Perhaps it will not be
very gratifying to those organs of the Treasury that still
retain a vindictive recollection of the result of the late
unhapry attempt to drag the wronged, insulted, and
snubbee Corporation in degraded vassalage at the heels
of the Bedchamber Ministry to learn that there is now
belonging to the Conservative party in the City an organi-
sation and unity of action which it previously wanted, and
which the next general election will make more manifest
than it has yet been. The fate of the struggle on the
rejected address' was only a foretaste of what the Whig-
Radical tools of the Downing-street incapables have to
expect. The ' inert mass' of Conservatism among the
shopkecrs of the City has now bad that feeling of confi-
dence infused into it, which was alone necessary to active
exertions and victory."

The Morning Chronicle, recurring to the subject of
the contest now pending between the House of Com-
mons and the Court of Queen's Bench, arising out of the
libel case of Stockdale v. Hansard, expresses itself strongly
in the following terms:—" The House of Commons has
itself to blame for the formidable character which the con-
test now assumes. It has made the giant which it must
slay. At the time the Court of Queen's Bench first pro-
voked the combat, the feeling was nearly universal that the
House bad but to will the thing, and all opposition to it
would be instantly crushed. But when people saw the
House resort to the usual expedient of the faint-hearted
—talk big, and do nothing—it fell fifty per cent. in their
estimation ; and though the House might_ not see
it, everybody else saw that the course pursued Would
necessarily provoke to further aggressions, and that
the battle would have to be fought under more unfavour-
able circumstances. A body like the House of Commons
cannot be too cautious ; but there is an immense difference
between caution and want of firmness. When we con-
sider how much the liberties of Englishmen are bound up
with the privileges of the House of Commons, how essen-
tial these privileges are to the effective exercise of those
inquisitorial powers by which all other bodies throughout
the country arc kept in check, we attach immense conse-
quence to the decision of the House at this crisis. If it
suffers its privileges to be questioned in courts of law (the
very lowest court of record may decide their legality ac-
cording to 11Ir. Justice Patteson), the Peers become its
masters It will no longer be an independent branch
of the Legislature, but subordinate to the House of Lords."
The Morning Post thus refers to the question of the
Ballot, which, it is evident, is a sore subject with our Con-
temporary :—" The grievance which it is said the Ballot
will remedy has been magnified into ten times its real
amount. The foundation of the grand clamour that is from
time to time made about the Ballot is principally fudge.
Bat there is some grievance—there are some cases of inti-
midation and persecution. Should not there be a remedy
for these ? Certainly there should, but not, in our opinion,
a remedy .which would affect the voting of every man who
uses his elective privilege in these, kingdoms, and would
painfully affect a great many. Is it because A suffers a
grievance once in five years, and X once in ten, that the
whole alphabet is to be put under duress, and to be forced
to alter an ancient and constitutional mode of proceeding ?
Is this reasonable ? We say, then, to the Ballot-men, first
prove your grievance—prove that it exists to anything like
the extent which you are continually in the habit of vaguely
asserting. We believe you cannot do this; but we think
you may show that some grievance does exist. We then
demand that you apply a rational remedy, and not one
that is revolutionary."
The Morning Advertiser comments as follows, on the
conduct of the Tories, with regard to the Jamaica arid Ca-
nada questions:—" The course which has been taken on
the Jamaica question, and which now eppears to threaten
us on the Canada question, has led not a few Tories to re..
fleet both on the personal loss of respectability which the
individual members of the party must suffer, and alSo on
the inextricable difficulties into which the whole country
may be plunged by this method of carrying on Parliamen-
tary business in regard to colonial questions. With no
feeling of disrespect, but rather with a feeling of concern
for the characters and reputation of our public men, upon
which in no slight degree the welh werk.ng et our institu-
tions is dependent, we would caution both Sir Robert Peel
and Lord Stenley against the detrimental impressions
which such conduct in their f►rllowers is likely to create in
the minds of the respectable classes of this country."

A sumptuous dinner was given by Moses Solo-
mon, Esq., and other friends, on Wednesdayy, las:, at
Gravesend, to Captain Richard Lightfoot, Commander of
the Ruby steam-packet on that station, on which occasion
Mr: Solomon, in a neat and .ppropriate epeesh, presented
Captain Lightfoot; on behalf of himself and the company
present; with a Superbly chased silver cup. as a tribute of
their respect for him in private life, and also to testify their
approbations of his gentlemanly behaviour and experience
in his capacity of Captain of the Ruby.
ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—John Mars, the
keeper of a public-house at Liverpool, together with his
wife, Margaret Mars, and his step-daughter, Jane Hal-
lighan, were brought up before Mr. Rushton, on Wcdnes.
day, on a suspicion of having been concerned in the robbery
of jewellery which recently took place at the Saddle Inn.
The three prisoners were committed to take their trial at
the Session,.
The Kentish Gazelle states that Lord Melbourne
has intimated to Sir Edward Knatchbull, that the Govern-
ment is of opinion that no case has been made out by the
fruit-salesmen for altering the scale of duty fixed by the
Bill of last year upon foreign fruit.
ACCIDENT AT THE SURREY ZOOLOGICAL
GARDENS.-On Tuesday afternoon a policeman, named
Michael Maddigan, of the P division, while on duty at the
Surrey Zoological Gardens, approached the den in which
a large polar bear is kept, and placing one of his arms
within the bars, began to stroke down the animal's head.
Bruin seized the policeman's hand between his paws, and
gave him such a squeeze as to make him cry aloud for help.
Mr. Cross, who happened to be near at the time, ran to
the spot, and instantly threw a large bone into the cage,
which had the effect of inducing the animal to relinquish
his grasp of the hand to seize upon the bone. The police-
man's hand, however, was found to be so dreadfully lace.
rated that he was obliged to be sent to the hospital, and
hut for the presence of Mr. Cross at the moment, it is
probable that he would have suffered still more severely for
his fully.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.—On Tuesday night
a man named Bailey, whip-maker, in the Old
.Kent-road'
attempted to murder a woman with whom he cohabited by
cutting her throat. For the last week they have both
been in the habit of drinking to excess and quarrelling
with each other. The woman so far recovered the use of
her speech the following morning as to be enabled to
state that, having had some dispute with Bailey, she re.
tired to bed with her child, and that soon afterwards she
was awakened by Bailey, who was in the act of cutting her
throat with a case-knife; that she put up one of her arms
to defend herself, and that he drew the instrument across
it, and gave her the wound which was apparent. She
afterwards made the most vigorous efforts to escape from
her assailant, who seemed only intent upon murdering
her, and succeeded in getting out of the bed and rushing
down stairs, out of the house, and then fell upon the pave-
ment in the court from exhaustion and loss of blood,
where she was discovered by a policeman, who subse-
quently found the knife covered with blood in Bailey's
room. Bailey, when taken to the station-house, ex-
claimed several times that he only regretted that he did
not do the deed effectually, and then kill himself. Yes-
terday morning Bailey was taken before Alderman Lucas,
at the Town Hall, and remanded upon the production of
the surgeon's certificate, describing that the female was
too ill to be enabled to attend the examination. Picton,
in giving his evidence, stated that Bailey was evidently
under the influence of liquor when he was taken into
custody.
THE DIFFICULTY OF CHOOSING.—" We
know," says Madame Emile de Girardin, who writes in
La Presse, ander the name of the Viscount de Launay,
" a lady of a very irresolute character, who, unable to se-
lect a dress among a hundred chef d'oeuvres laid before
her, to resign such pattern or colour, for such other pat-
tern or colour, after many a hesitation suddenly made up
her mind for fifteen yards of gros de Naples gris de Lin.
The sacrifice of everything was to her less painful than
the enduring any longer the excruciating torture of choos-
ing. This irresolution is ridiculous enough, but it is bet-
ter than what I know an Englishwoman did who was one
evening bargaining for diamonds at Fossin's. Her object
was, a wedding present destined to a niece ; the jeweller
was exhibiting to her all all his parures, and successively
pointing out their beauty in detail. My English Friend
examined the diamonds with silent admiration, when sud-
denly she said, ' Ah I I know what I wish to give her.'
This necklace, Madam ?" No.' This bracelet ?'
' No.' This glass and chain ?" No, I will buy her
a carriage in London."

FEMALE FASHIONS IN NEW YORK.-" Dear
Bennett—Do for Heaven's sake blow up those lovely wo-
men who have cut their dresses off above their knees for
the purpose of showing their pretty petticoats—And oblige
yours, &e." Blow up the pretty women ! We will do no
such barbarous piece of work. We don't care how high
they cut their dresses—or if they choose to show the whole
of their pretty petticoats. Several beautiful young ladies
have appeared in Broadway in these short dresses, and thet
very novelty of their taste increases the interest thveye:raeliie-
rally excite, as well asgives them a distingue air.
invariable
favour of all gradual change in drapery. 4of mind.
fashion in every thing is the mark of imbecilityeanty
and
Every thing in changing around us—atehtoembn,
spring,
delight of day, night, summer, winter, .
all consist in change.
gradual ebange in
the beauteous vales spring from their
Why should not the
colour, complexion, and drapery. 0 _
The charms of the wild woods and
ladies follow the the principle of change
principle f nature—the very es.
sence of the divinity who who has, givenßlow up the lovely women
to every species of creature
you can.—New York Herald.
prinel
indeed ! Catch us at that if .
lEF ORM AcT.—La t •
FAILURE OF THE -t S
people. are still without that substantial
Fri-
day completed seven years since the passing of the Reform
in the institutions of the country, which is RAcefto,rmbut the
essen-
tial to their -happiness and prosperity.