The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-02 00:00:00

THE WIND AGAINST MINISTERS !

(We copy the following humourous Squib from the Morning

- Post.)
THE STEAM-SHIP LlVERPOOL—lntelligence has been re
ceived at Liverpool from Cork that this fine vessel, which
sailed from Liverpool on the 20t1, instant, has been compelled
by stress of weather to put into Cove, after contending ten
days with most tempestuous weather, during which, however,
she had completed about a third of her voyage, but at the
expenditure of so large a portion of her stock of coals,
namely, 400 tons out of 563, that the remainder was found not
sufficient to enable her to complete her voyage, and there was
no alternative but to turn back. This, we are happy to say,
she has accomplished without any serious damage, putting
into the Cove of Cork on Sunday about three o'clock.—
Morning Post of yesterday.
[The Liverpool was the veszel selected to bear the des-
patches to Lord Durham, entreating him to remain in Canada.
She was chosen in preference to the Great Western, as having
an earlier day fixed for her departure, and being pretty sure of
arriving b,fore his Lordship could have left for England.—
Our Dublin Correspondent.]

Our Ministers from Canada
Heard news of sore despair,
How Durham loudly had declaimed,
And fiercely did declare,
That since his friends had treated him
So little like a brother,
He'd give up his Dictatorship,
And embark on board another 1
He would come home I—the dreadful news
Came booming o'er the deep ;
It shook the dust in Downing-street—
In woke Glenelg from sleep 1
The placemen, at each other stared,
By Durham all undone !
His going off made such a noise,
For he was their great gun !
Alas ! they cried, he is not one
To lay upon the shelf ;
Who'll go out to succeed him first
And next succeed himself;
The Peerage does not hold his peer
Mild, gentle, and urbane
We'll send across the main at once
To beg him to remain 1
They did. The huge Great TVestern ship
Was very soon to start ;
But still might not arrive before
Lord Durham should depart.
So, as the steamer Liverpool
Would first be on her way,
Not to "miss stays," they sent by her,
Imploring him to stay 1
The Liverpool—the Liverpool—
From Liverpool forth went ;
O'Connell bless'd its sails, and pray'd
That they might have no rent 1
Whigs hoped that the o'er-mastering winds
Its masts might never split ;
And Tories prais'd its Durham coals,
Because they came from Pit 1
Away she went—no boiler e'er
Such steam got up before !
She staggered thro' the seas like one
Already half-seas o'er!
Her rapid paddles made the wave
One briny sheet of foam—
She seem'd determined to get out
Ere Durham could get home !
But, woe ! even steam cannot control
The spirit of this age !
Macready got a Tempest up
On Covent-garden stage,
The jealous winds beheld amazed
False elements wake fear,
And bellowed " Blow us if we don't
Get up a tempest here."
And so they did ! Poor Liverpool
About the seat they drove,
Till she all the Whig coves undid,
By getting into Cove !
The way she'd made, away was thrown,—
Untack'd was all her tack
As if she'd been commanded by
The famous Captain Bach !
No doubt she soon will sail again,
With all her wrongs redress'd!
But my Lord Durham's ship meanwhile
Her homeward path bath press'd I
And when the proud and haughty Peer
Does homage at the Throne 1
The Ministers may well get up
A tempest of their own
MEXICAN BLOCKADE.

On Tuesday a deputation, consisting of Messrs. Cotesworth
Marshall, Ellwand, and Fowles, London ; Messrs. Watson
Ta)lcure, and Campbell, Liverpool ; Messrs. Black and
Longworthy, Manchester ; Messrs. Ferguson, Graham, Hen-
derson, and M'Dougal, Glasgow; and Nlessrs. Curell and
Fenton, Belfast, had a conference at the Foreign-office with
Lord Palmerston on the subject of the French blockade of
Mexico.

The deputation, referring to the memorial presented by the
London Committee in August last, stated that all the evils
then complained of as resulting to British interests from the
blockade remained in full and increasing force, and must
continue to do so while the blockade should last. They felt,
therefore, most desirous to learn from his Lordship whether
the British Government had been able successfully to exert
any influence with that of France towards the removal of this
interruption to British trade. The deputation stated that this
interruption to the pursuits of the commercial and manufac-
turing interest connected with Mexico was the more severely
felt, because the trade could not but perceive that the conduct
of France was distinguished by remarkable severity in conti-
nuing the blockade after the offer of the Mexican Government
to leave all matters in difference between it and France to the
arbitration of an independent Power ; and further, that the
conduct of France towards Great Britain in thus seriously
cutting off, at a moment's notice, an important branch of her
trade, was not such as might have been expected from a state
with which we were on the most friendly terms.
Lord Palmerston assured the meeting that the Government
felt all the importance of the question, and a deep sense of the
interests at stake in it ; that it was perfectly true that the Mexi-
can Government had offered to refer the matters in difference
to the arbitration of the British Government, and that the French
Government had declined the offer; that the British Govern-
ment had notwithstanding been using its best endeavours to
get the dispute brought into a train of settlement, and that he
could not help entertaining the hope that a settlement would be
accomplished. lle had instructed Mr. Pakenham, the British
Minister, to return immediately to Mexico, where he bad no
doubt his services would be useful towards effecting the above
object, and that gentleman had just sailed from Plymouth.
The Government had further instructed Sir Charles Paget to
proceed with a naval force from the St. Lawrence to the coast
of Mexico, to render any protection to British interests that
circumstances might require.
The deputation remarked to Lord Palmerston, that without
desiring to make any allusion which might be offensive to
France, they could not but recollect that when a dispute of
long standing between that power and the United States was,
a few years since, on the point of producing serious conse-
quences, the French Government did not hesitate to avail
itself of the mediation of Great Britain. They urged that
there
was something revolting to the common principles of
justice in any power assuming to determine for itself the pre-
cise nature of compensation to which it was entitled, and
then saying, " here is our demand—we will not relax one
iota of what we claim—we will refer to no intermediate tri.
bunal whatever—we are the sole judges of what we require—
and if you do not pay all we claim, we will blockade your
ports until we compel you." The deputation next adverted
to the case of the blockade of Buenos Ayres, which was even
still less justifiable than that of Mexico—for every point of
difference had been removed there, and yet the blockade
continued.

Several of the gentlemen present said they had commercial
establishments in those countries, which were exposed to the
most grievous inconveniences by the proceedings of the French
Government ; such as they felt no friendly Power oLght to in-
flict, except under circumstances of pressing and unavoidable
necessity.
Lord Palmerston paid the greatest attention to all that was
said by the deputation during the conference, which was a very
long one, and concluded by assuring the gentlemen present
that the Government would spare no pains to effect the remo-
val of this interruption to their trade.

LADY JOHN itUSSELL.—It affords us very deep
regret to announce the alarming illness of Lady John Russell.
According to a communication I.vh;cli we received last night
from our Brighton Correspondent, it appears that her Lady-
ship has been seriously ill ever since her confinement, and on
Wednesday night she was pronounced to be in a very dangerous
state. Up t,) three o'clock yesterday her Ladyship remained
in the same precarious condition ; and we regret to hear that
but faint hopes are entertained of her recovery. Messengers
have been constantly passing since Wednesday night from
Lord John Russell's house in Kemp Town, to the Duke of
Bedford's, in Brunswick-square.—Morning Post.
The extraordinary clock in Cornhill still continues
to attract great attention, and the shop window of Mr. Cox
Savory's clock department is much crowded with the curious.
The general impression appears to be, that the unseen power
by which the hands are moved is magnetic. The bands are
placed in the centre of a perfectly transparent pane of glass,
and no mechanical power appears to pass through the glass
to the hands, although they continue in motion, and denote
the hour very accurately. The means by which they are
moved is a complete mechanical puzzle, several clockmakers
have been asked, hut they do not appear to be at all aware by
what power the effect is accomplished.
SAM SLICK.—In answer to numerous inquiries as
to the author of this very clever book, we beg leave to state
that the gentleman is a Judge of Nova Scotia, of the name of
llalyburton. His situation in lite, as well as his British origin
and probably British prejudices, should always be remembered
when reading his humorous account of the effects of democracy
in the United States. No book published in our time is so
full of genuine humour as Sam Slick
and while we mention
the condition of the author as likely to give a colouringoi to
iera.
some of its opinions, we heartily recommend it to g I
perusal.
Nineteen persons have already been killed since the
commencement of excavating the tunnel for the Great "51
eru Railway, at Box•bill, near Bath.