The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-08 00:00:00

01,"111r, PUBLIC JOURNALS.

West India Papers, brought by her Majesty's
packet Reindeer, which arrived at Falmouth on Wednes-
day, and the er:vate letters received through the same
channel, represent the new state of things in those colonies,
under the Abolition Act, in a light as firvourable as could
reasonably be expected. A few cases of insubordination
are stated to have occurred, but in general the conduct of
the negro population had been ememplary, and the general,
at least the prevalent, opinion seemed to be that the Ist of
Atreus!, the last stage of the great experiment of freedom,
would Tress off as the preparatory one had done, without
any of those disasters which the prophets of evil foretold
as the inevitable consequences of justice and humanity.
In an article which we copied from a Jamaica paper
into our impression of yesterday, but which our space
did not allow us to accomeanv with any comment
at the time, this dispasitien of a certain party iii
Jamaica, as well as in the other islands, to misrepresent
the conduct of the negroes, is strikingly manifest. The
article in question expresses great fears of the then ap-
proaching Ist of August ; but the papers since received
from the other islands represent, as we have already stated,
that everything was going on well, except upon the part of
the anti.abolitionists, who, by passing oppressive laws, con-
tending for starvation wages, and adopting every manoeuvre
to increase their own power, and, consequently, to abr:dge,
that of the negroes, were doing all that in them lay, but
still without any prospect of success, to exasperate that
portion of the community into acts of violence and outrage.
The Jamaica article is quite furious against the small allot-
ment system adopted by a certain proprietor in the neigh-
bourhood of St. Andrew's, though many benevolent indivi-
duals in this country have encouraged the same system as
a means of improving the character of the labourer, and
attaching him to the country and its institutions, by giving
him a direct interest in the soil. But the motive of the writer
soon betrays itself; the tendency of those small allotments
being,as he conceives to prevent the establishment of a certain
rate of wages, at which he is anxious to fix the remuneration
of the labourer. Thus every move the anti-abolitionists
make, and every argument they advance, is tainted with
that sordid spirit which first made them tyrants, and still
continues them incendiaries. One of the proofs adduced
to show that great fears are entertained of an outbreak
on the Ist of August is the fact of a proclamation having
been issued by the Governor of one of the islands, ex-
horting the negroes to good and peaceable conduct. Verily
a man must be at a great loss for an insurrection, if this
paternal act of the Government be, as it is in this case, the
strongest corroboration with which he can fortify his opi-
nion of its approach. But what will not men do, and how
will they not argue, who have an interest, or think they
have an interest, in breaking up the foundations of society,
and poisoning the very fountains of social happiness !
Upon the whole it is evident, on comparing the last
accounts with the one to which we have been alluding,
that, if there be an evil spirit at work in the West
Indies, it is the spirit of tyranny struggling for its lost
dominion. The Abolition Papers last received notice a recent
Act of the local Legislature, to show where the blame
rests, if there be any bad feeling between the planters
and the labourers. This is a rigorous Vagrant Act, ex-
pressed in terms so general as to give an almost discre-
tionary power to the planters and proprietors over every
unfortunate negro who may happen to be thrown out of
employment for a short while. Every one will see the
cautious vigilance that is required in legislating upon such
a subject in the present state of those colonies. No law
is more likely to be turned into an instrument of oppres-
sion, if not guarded by the most scrupulous exactness in
alias details. But it would require more time and space
than we can afford at present to notice the various expe-
dients resorted to for the purpose of restoring tyranny,
and defeating the good that has been done. We hope and
trust, however, that the prophecies of approaching vio-
lence will, like all their other prophecies, be contradicted
by the fact, and that the negroes will continue to prove
their claim to the rights and privileges of freemen by ex-
hibiting those qualities which their enemies deny them,
which their friends assert on their behalf, but which no one
can establish to the satisfaction of the world but them.
selves.—Morning- Trerald.
The Duke of Weliri7:ifton is, no doubt, an influential
ence of the Queen of these
man, and worthy the cont;,!.
realms. Upon military and affairs he must be an
excellent counsellor; but how did it ;,2open that he was
consulted before all others upon the doete.ne delivered
by her Majesty's Chaplain from the pulpit? With the
greatest deference to the Noble Duke, we cannot sup-
pose he, a soldier, aspires to the character of a theologian.
Upon doctrinal points, the Archbishop of Canterbury, or
the keeper of the Queen's conscience, were the persons to
dear up all conscientious scruples in the Royal mind ;
but we find by some of the public statements, that the
Governor 51 the Tower and Lord Warden of the Cinque
Ports is the man selected to give an opinion upon the
sermon of a minister of the Gospel, and decide whether
it be orthodox or not. The Duke is made to say the
sermon contained nothing the Queen might not hear, and
'he result is, a demonstration of her Majesty's good opinion
rd confidence in the preacher. There must be some
rill this statement.—Morning Advertiser.
The publication with impunity by Mr. Richard antler
such papers as his last address to the people of Eng-
And, proves that Mieisters see nothing in the circumstances
of the times to render it prudent to put the law in force
against him. That an express invitation to the people to
arm and train with a view to revolution is a violation of the
law, is beyond all doubt ; but if those who are responsible
for the peace of the country see in these threats only the
ravinge of a man who is ambitious of attracting attention,
and deein it imprudent to allow it even to be supposed that
they believe in the possibility of any portion of the people
being influenced by them, they do wisely perhaps in allowing
Eire; 0 istler to talk as big as lie pleases to his subjects.
We are far from under-rating the mischlef ceased by the man
who takes advantage of the ignoeence of the multitude toin-
Lm their animosity against all who seek to carry the New
l'eor'-!:ew into effect ; arid we are aware that great excesses
have been committed, which will no doubt draw down se-
sere pueislnnent on the beads of those who have been
guilty of them. But the persons liable to he wrought on
to offend the laws in such cases are not very formidable
ritetuies to the State ; and Mr. Richard Oastler's invita-
tions to civil war are perhaps less dangerous in reality than
tecret instigatioes to violence which it might not be so easy
to deal with. The people of the North of England St ern
to understand tolerably well the nature of the danger they
.ve to apprehend from the big talk about arming of the
Rev. Mr. Stephens and Mr. Richard Oastler. In fact, the
danger which is most to be apprehended is that fa OM such
organizations 36 those of the Uniane, of the fearful work-
ings of %Chic"' the late Edinburgh trials afforded a strik-
jets; evidence. What Mr. Richard Oastler really me-
ditates we cannot undertake to say ; but the tines
which precede revolutions and convulsions, are seldom
di tinguished 1,4 r such free talking es that of his late
address. Our weethy contemporary (the ,Standard) must
not believe that we the less y-tlu.! his good intentions, if we
say we place our reliance on Mr, Richard Oastler's not ern
barking in a civil war on surer groune.'„' •ban the success of
his exhortations. The pathetic adds ess of ns:r ContemPes
airy to King Oastler is, no doub!, exceedingly mo.7g
" I!'" says the Standard, " our voice might prevail v.:!11
Mr. Oastler, we should implore him to pau,,e and meditate
upon these two terrific words—•civil war'—civil war, so fright •
ful in any shape, but most frightful when the best men of a
nation arc the antagonist parties. Tht New Peor-law is
cruel—the factory system is cruel; but their combined cruel-
ties would net in three years produce such amount of
buffering to the humble classes as a single week of civil war,
entailing at tt.e same time as much misery to follow as even the
Poor-law and than factory system can inflict. 'We do not speak
or the palsy by which the industry and commerce of the country
would be smitten through the calamity, though this would visit
the working people of the island with unspeakable wretched-
siess. We entreat Mr. Oastler to array before his eyes the
bug melancholy train of widows, and orphans, and of childless
yr.rent3, whom a recourse to violence must prepare, to set the
land in mourning. We supplicate him to forecast, as with his
p rav erfu I understanding he can, the legacy of long-enduring
hatred among brethren whom any eruption of violence must
fasten upon England. We believe that in this appeal we speak
the sense of the Conservatives of England. We know that we
have often before urged the same considerations, without in-
curring the reproof of any one of them."
We have no doubt that our Contemporary really be-
hoves that there is nothing between us and civil war but
the effect of his exhortations on King Oastler ! and it is,
therefore, kind in him to use his influence so seasonably.—
Morning
Chronicle.

The determination of the French Government to
coun-
tenance the conduct and enforce the demands of its diplo-
matic agent in M.:•xico, coinciding with the simultaneous
action of its diplomacy and marine on the South American
s
States, proves the dchborate adoption by France of a sys-
tematic line of policy in her transatlantic relations, whic,
ftom its anti-national characterand its direct opposition to
the interests of England, implies its being traced out and
supported by a power hostile to nn alliance between
Er gland and France, and consequently. to the prosperity
of totb. The ambitious views of Russsia and the United
States on the territories of the Mexican Confedera-
tion, evinced in the appropriation of New Albion
and in the separation of the Texas—acts which could
not have been accomplished without a consciousness
of the ignorance or supineness of England—would
hay e sufficed to stimulate France to claim a share in
the partition of Mexico, had not such a design been
indispensable to the progress of Russian aggrandisement, as
forming the bond of an alliance between the three mari-
time rivals of England fnr the defence and extension of their
respective usurpations, and as diverting the attention of the
West from the establishment of the supremacy of the Em-
peror over
the Eastern hemisphere by the occupation of
coLsontinople and the Dardanelles. The coincidence be-

tween the dcm;,nds of France on tie Me\ican Gov(rom,2:lt
and the stipulations extorted by Russia from the Sultan
in the treaty of Adrianople,* is not has remarkable than
the indication of ulterior views equally betrayed in both.
A portion of the claims advanced by the Baron de Def.-
faudis, if they can at all be gathered fron; the 28 pages of
his id/in/a/um, the most disgraceful state paper that has
ever et issued from a civilized Government, is compro-
mised in the following extract :
" I. Within the term, reckoning from the date hereof, to
tie 15th of next May, the Treasury of the Republic will de-
liver in Vera Cruz, so that it may be shipped onboard the ves
sels of the French naval division which are 13ing off this port,
the sum of 600,000 dolls.: the liquidation of which the Govern-
ment of the King reserves to itself, as also the division thereof
amongst the Frenchmen who have been sufferers in the
Mexican territory of the injuries indicat(d in the three follow-
ing caes :
" Ist. Plunder and destruction of property by the mob, and
by the belligerent parties during the civil disturbances.
" Forced loans, collected by violence.

" 3d. Denials of justice, or arbitrary decisions, iniquitous
and illegal sentences against the security of prson end pro-
perty, which have been given by the administiativa authorities,
both military and judicial.
This payment being carried into eff,,ct, the Mexican Go-
vernment wiil remain entirely free from all claims on the part
of France, which arc comprehended in the three clases above-
mentioned, and which may be of a date anterior to the Ist of
the present month of March."
_ _

It is clear from the first of these paragraphs that the
600,000 dollars in hard cash were not required for the pay-
ment of the French citizens at Mexico, who could have
been paid by bills negotiable on the spot, without the ne-
cessity of the dangerous and double transport of specie from
Mexico to Vera Cruz, thence on board the squadron in
the Gulf, and then back again to Vera Cruz and Mexico.
The destination of the 600,000 dollars to an entirely
different object than the French claims is manifest,
from the fact of their being required for intended
distribution among the vessels of the squadron—from
the French Government reserving to- itself the liquidation
of the sum—from the aggregate of the claims specified in
the ultimatum, amounting to only 46,666 dollars—and
from the otherwise inexplicable refusal of the French Mi-
nisters to admit the arbitration of a third power, or even a
French and Mexican Commission of Adjudication. Of the
honesty of France towards her own subjects on similar oc-
casion, we have a notable instance in her treatment of the
pretended French sufferers in the regency of Tripoli, who
have not to this day received a fraction of the 800,000 f. ex-
torted by Admiral Rosamel from the lley in 1830, in a
a treaty which had never been alluded to prior to the con-
fessions of Marshal Bourmont, and had never seen the
light until published by the Times on the 20th ult. The
attempted plunder of the treasuries of Mexico and Buenos
Ayres, like that of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, appears
intended to maintain the extraordinary augmentation of the
navy of France, incessantly communicating with al-
most every port from New York to California.
The demands of France for an exemption of her
citizens from militia-rates, from the taxes necessary
for the defence of the country in which they reside, from
the jurisdiction of the native tribunals—in other words,
from the laws to which the natives are subjected—are in-
compatible with the freedom and independence of Mexico,
since by placing foreigners in a position of superiority over
the natives, the concession would tend to the formation of
an exclusive influence in favour of a foreign State, render-
ing the authorities and institutions contemptible in the eyes
of the natives, and necessarily leading to anarchy. The in-
jury to French commerce and manufactures from this un-
justifiable policy will be apparent, if we look to the probable
diversion of the commerce of Mexico through the adjoin-
ing British settlement of
.Honduras, a consideration no less
important to the commercial communities of England than
of France, to whose united exertions both nations can alone
look for safety against the demoralising influence which is
still suffered to direct the counsels and compromise the in-
terests, honour, and existence of each. Of the position and
importance of our possessions along the south-western fron-
tier of Mexico, the reader will be enabled to form his own
opinion from the extracts inserted yesterday of our treaties
with Spain and her emancipated colony.—Tintes.

• ARTICLE 7 OP THE TREATY OP ADRIANOPLE.—" The sub-
jects of Russia shall enjoy throughout the whole extent of the
Ottoman Empire, as well on land as on sea, the full and en-
tire liberty of commerce secured to them by the anterior
treaties concluded between the two high contracting parties.
No impediment shall be offered to this freedom of commerce,
and it cannot be thwarted in any case, nor on any pretext,
by any prohibition or restriction whatsoever, either of adminis-
tration or internal legislation. The subjects, vessels, and
goods of Russia shall be protected from all violence and chi-
cane. The former shall remain under the jurisdiction and
exclusive police of the Minister and of the Consuls of Russia.'
Next to the celebrated Stoney-Stratford story of the
late Mr. Joseph Miller, we do not remember a finer speci-
men of the genuine non-sequitur than is to be found in
the Morning Chronicle of yesterday. Our philosophical
Contemporary gives an extract from a speech of my Lord
Normanby's at Roscommon, in which the Noble Lord is
made to hint his feeling that " the existing laws are not in
every instance in unison with the wishes and circumstances
of the people," It would be very odd if the law were in

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every instance in unison with the wishes of the people, and
especially of such a people as the Irish, who, from whatever
cause, are peculiarly exposed to the operation of it. One
could not reasonably expect, for instance, that the
law - that intePferes with attacks on life or property
should be very popular with the midnight legisla-
tors who set fire to a cottage, fur the sake of a little
ball-practice at the inmates, as they endeavour to
escape through the burning roof. But to remind an Irish
audience that the laws are not in unison with their wishes,
does not, at first sight, appear the best way of keepine-
them quiet. The Chronicle, however, thinks—or speaks
at
Last--differently ; and therein consists the notability of
the non-aquil/ir, " These are not," quoth our Ministerial
Contemporary, " the words of one who seeks to arouse the
passions of a people smarting coder the recent sense of
wrong and insult." That this inference is not quite legiti-
mately deducible from the premises, must, we think, be ad.
mitten ; but if it he not a logical conclusion, it nevertheless
affords a vei-; useful hint. To be sure, the hint wants the
c!iarm of novelty ; for a too welt-known Irish milndieant
has acted on it for some time past, though not with the
happiest effects. Mr. O'Connell bas continually told the
" seven millions" that the laws aril inapplicable to their
state and circumstances ; and he has tailed to produce
tranquility by so telling them. We suppose we trust
consider his failure its a mere accidental mode, fur we have
now the weighty authority of the Chronicle, that to make
men discontented is not to arms:ie tholp passions ; and as
the Irish are a decently-behaved sort of persons ;sitlN9 tis Air
passions arc not aroused, it s!ems dear, from the converse
of the proposition, that to make them disaffected is the sure
way to keep the m quiet. A valuable light is thus thrown
on the hitherto mysterious anomaly in the condition of
Ireland, The Conservatives have not only endeavoured

to make the ;lid) satisfied with the existing laws, but they
have even passed laws for no other purpose, that we can
see, except to satisfy them. Duos Oita not fully account
for the milk in the cocoa nut ? The Irish are still a dis-
contented people. The political world ought really t ► reel
deeply indebted to the joint labours of Lord Normanhy
and the Moriiiiq, Chronicle.—Morning Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-110USE.

young woman 0: respectable appearance, whose nanitt
A
was not mentioned, was bros::lit before the LORD MAYOR,
charged with having made a most der,rmined__ attempt to drown
be-self.
It was stated that the poor young creature had left the place
in which she had been employed as children's maid for nine-
teen months, and much respected, in order to make prepara-
tions for an expected change in her condition,
His Lordship then had some serious conversation with the
poor unhappy girl, who promised to do all in her power to
get rid of the idea of the cruel manner in which she had been
treated, and willingly returned to the Giltspur-street Eompter,
to be advised by the Rev. Mr. Boddington, the Chaplain of
that prison, and to be taken care of by the matron.
A man, named William Davey, and a girl Sophia
Bush, were charged with having stolen a haunch of venison,
value three guineas.
The Loan MAYOR—Where were you going to have the
at all, your venison
cooked? Davey—I wa'nt a going to get it cooked
wittles. Lordship; lam too poor to afford to eat such
_i
The
he LORD MAYOR—Why, it didn't cost
you much ? Davey
am wretchedly poor, my Lord. I hadn't a halfpenny to
get a bit of bread.

- The LORD MAI-on—And so you took a haunch of ♦enison.
Why did you take so large a quantity? Davey—lt was the
most convenient piece I could see. As for the young woman,
I don't know who on earth she is. I never saw her before.
Sophia Bush—Never, my Lord. I only followed to sec
what would be done to a man who had the imperence to take
a haunch of veniiion.

The LORD MAYOR.--I shall send the old man to Bridewell
for two months, and I shall remand the girl till Saturday, in
the expectation that her friends, if she have any, will attend.

Q UEEN-SQ UA E.
Caroline White, who has been in custody since Monday on
ja charge of stealing two gold watches, a quantity of plate,
ewellery, linen, and furniture, the property of her mistress,
Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan, of No. 47, Coleshill-street, was yes-
day placed at the bar for re-examination, with John Smith, a
lad 16 years of age, who has since been apprehended on the
same charge.—They were remanded until Friday.

wQRSHIP- STREET.
Yesterday James Duke vv.; ;'.!aced at the bar, charged with
a brutal assault upon Sarah Heard, a young ;7;?roan with whom
he cohabited.
A policeman of the H division deposed to having heard
exclamations of " Murder F' when he went to the assistance
of the complainant. Upon seeing the state in which she was
(being covered with blood), he took the defendant to the
station house. •

The prisoner vas about to make a defence, but was vre-
vented by Mr. GROVE, the Magistrate, who held him to bail
for six months to keep the peace towards the complainant and
all her Majesty's subjects.