The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1838.

hardly sufficient for Mrs Bishop's toilet, and the little Misses
Bishop's dancing and music I " Cease your funning."
But, in sober sadness, how your plan differs from that of the
great Lord Stanley 1 He is a zealous Protestant, and wishes
to Protestantize Ireland ; and finding the Protestant Bishops
a species of nuisance in his way, he at one blow strikes off ten
out of twenty-two; and very properly declares there is less
mischief in twelve than there would be in the entire number ;
and yet you have the audacity (I must use the word) to differ
with so great a Protestant and so great a man, and to multiply
Protestant Bishops in Ireland, while he is striking them down
like ninepins I
Your next project is the sale of the Church lands, for the
purposes of founding schools and colleges. Here is, indeed,
a gleam of pure good sense, and I thank you heartily for it.
And, then, your plan of reducing the emoluments of the Pro-
testant livings is safe, salutary, and, above all, practical—one
which, I trust, we shall see effected, and in which I readily
offer to co-operate with you. Again—your good sense breaks
out when you contrast the real Reform which has taken place
in the Catholic Church, with that fraud, hypocrisy, fanaticism,
and plunder, which have been called " Reformation" by her
enemies. The Catholic Church—unalterable, because truth is
unchangeable, in matters of faith and of essential discipline—
has thrown off the rust, " the straw and the stubble," which
ages of peace and security had flung upon some of her prac-
tices. Besides, she has banished for ever Simomacle con.
tracts, and all the abuses of pluralities. You are quite right,
in saying that thousands daily return to her fold—" the one
fold of the one Shepherd ;" and I hope that the spirit of
Christian charity, the greatest of all virtues, will come at
length to be cultivated by the enemies of the eternal Church
—enemies who have too long spent their time in vile calumnies
and useless revilings.
There is much matter for serious thought and statesmanlike
counsel in your plan of emigration, and in your notion of the
distribution of the Crown lands. But it has been deemed
more flippant to cut short all wiser schemes, in order to fling
upon us a poor law ; to sink our property in workhouses, and
to make us rich by causing us to support with money masses of
our poor, at the expense of an establishment, the cost of which
would produce most valuable results if employed in the man-
ner you suggest—in canals, in railroads, and in other useful
works. You are, however, mistaken in supposing that the
rent of land is higher in Ireland than in England. It is a
mistake in which so many concur with you as to be quite
blameless.

Ido confess you have made me melancholy. There are in
some of your suggestions materials of incalculable utility to
Ireland. But how are they to be worked out ? What chance
is there of obtaining a patient and thorough investigation of
the discordant elements which belong to our political economy?
Our absentee landlords—our hostile resident proprietors—our
impoverished agriculturists—our extinguished or expiring ma-
nufactures—how is the remedy to be found for these, and one
thousand other evils with which the social state in Ireland is
filled ? I will tell you. By a DOMESTIC LEGISLATURE ; and
by a DOMESTIC LEGISLATURE ALONE.
The last experiment to obtain a fair consideration for the
claims of Ireland is being made ; and before twelve months are
over, I, for one, shall, I believe, be driven to labour to expunge
for ever from the statute book that " desperate act of scoun-
drelism," which you have characterised with no less severity
than truth, as far as relates to the Act itself,
I am, Sir, &c. &c. &c.,
DANIEL O'CONNELL.

COMPARISON OF FOREIGN GRAIN
AND FLOUR WITH THE ENGLISH MARKET.

The price of white wheaten bread of the first quality at
Paris is 791 e. the loaf of 2 kilogrammes, which is less than
6.1,d. the loaf of 41b. English weight; and the price of bread
of' the first quality in London being 10d. the loaf of 41b., the
difference is 53i per cent. that bread is dearer in London than
at Paris. The highest quotation of flour of the first quality
is 67f. the 159 kilogrammes, which answers to 425. 2d. the
sack of 2801 b. English weight, and the highest quotation of
flour of the first quality in London being 60s. the sack, it fol-
lows that flour is 42+ per cent. dearer in London than at
Paris, and that with the sum of 3/. a man may buy 3981 b. of
fine flour at Paris, whereas with the same sum he can buy only
2801 b. in London.

According to the official return the average price of wheat
at Paris for the precedi►,g month ( September) was 18f. 78c.
the hectolitre, which equals 435. the quarter.
The following is the state of things in other parts of
France :

At Abbeville the highest quotation of wheat of the first
quality is 25f. 50c., which equals 58s. sd. the quarter. At
Bergues the registered price of wheat of the first quality is
2Sf. 51c., of the second quality, 261. 71c., and of the third
quality, 251. 37c., which gives a mean price of 26f. 86c., and
which answers to 61s. 7d. the quarter. At Bordeaux wheat
rules from 21f. to 221., which is from 48i. Id. to 50s. sd. the
quarter. At Blois the registered mean price of wheat is 201,
BSc., which equals 475. 10d. the quarter. At Rouen wheat
rules from 22f. to 24f., which is from 50s. sd. to 555. the quar-
ter. At Verdun the quotation of wheat of the first quality 13
20f., which equals 455. 10d. the quarter. At Marans wheat
rules from 171. to 181., which is from 38s. 111. to 41s. 3d.
the quarter. At Toulouse the highest quotation of wheat of
the first quality is 201., which equals 455. Iod. the quar-
ter. At Soissons the quotation of wheat of the first quality
is from 3041. to 3131., of the second quality from 292 f. to
303 f., and of the third quality from 2681. to 288 f., all per
muid of 13 hectolitres, which gives a mean price of 221. 67c.
the hectolitre, and which answers to 51s. 11d. the quarter.
The highest quotation of flour of the first quality is 68f. the
159 kilogrammes, which equals 425. 105. the sack of 2301 b.
English weight, and the highest quotation of flour in London
being 603. the sack, it follows that flour is 40k per cent.
dearer in London than at Soissons, and that with the sum of
31. a man may buy 3921 b. of fine flour at Soissons, whereas
with the same sum he can buy only 2801 b. in London.

INSOLENCE OF TIIE SERVANTS OF THE BIR-
MINGIIAM RAILWAY.—Mr. Kendrick, of Crewe, Cheshire, on
Monday last, booked himself and his family toßlisworth, by the
Birmingham Railway. On arriving at the station Mr. Ken-
drick and the ladies alighted, when he asked for his luggage,
and was answered " You can't have it." Mr. Kendrick na-
turally desired that it might be instantly taken out of the box
and given into the possession of his servant. The railway
officer said he should not have it, and that it should go to
town and be returned by the down train ; " and if," said the
fellow, with threatening gestures, " you give any of your in-
solence, you shall be taken into custody." The train then
started, and the whole of the gentleman's family were left
without a change of clothes until five days afterwards, when
the things were sent from London, and Mr. Kendrick had
6s. to pay for them. We simply ask whether this conduct
from any set of tradesmen will be tolerated by the public? and
whether any Jury would fail to give, or Judge fail to recom-
mend, damages for such conduct.—Northanipton Herald.
DEATH FROM ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT IN
A LUNATIC ASYLUM.-An inquisition was commenced on Sa-
turday, at the White Hart Inn in this town, before Mr. G. B.
Corfe, Coroner, having reference to the death of Mary Ann
Strong, late a pauper lunatic confined in Mrs. Middleton's
Asylum, at Grove place, about four miles from Southampton,
on the Romsey.road. After evidence had been heard at con-
siderable length, for which purpose the inquest was adjourned
for three days, the Jury, after deliberating about two hours,
returned unanimously the following verdict :—" The Jury are
of opinion that the death of the said Mary Ann Strong was
occasioned by natural causes, accelerated by the ill-treatment
she experienced from the two nurses, Mrs. Rose and Cathe-
rine Sellens, during her confinement in Grove-place Lunatic
Asylum." The Coroner, considering the verdict an important
one, thought it advisable to hare the inquisition engrossed on
parchment ; and he therefore adjourned the Court until to-
morrow evening, at six o'clock, when the Jury are to attend
and sign such inquisition.—Abridged from the Hampshire
Independent.
Letters from Naples, dated in the last week of Sep-
tember, represent the weather to be remarkably fine, and the
concourse of strangers great, with every prospect of a very
animated winter.

CURIOUS AFFAIR.— At the Brighton Police-
office last week, Miss Mary Ann Preston, a lady of about
thirty, still possessing considerable beauty, giving her name to
the bench, said she had to complain of several assaults, and
of being robbed of her shawl by a gentleman of great consi-
deration in that town. " Give his name," said the Magi-
strates ; "His name—his name,".emphatically responded Mr.
Wigney, the Chairman. "I do not like to do so," said the
complainant, " he is one of the Magistrates." " Oh, oh," said
Mr. Wigney, " I will leave the bench." " Then his name,"
said the complainant, " is Isaac Newton Wigney, the banker
and Magistrate." The complainant then stated that she had
been three times assaulted and caned by Mr. Wigney, who at
the last assault took her shawl from her back and kept pos-
sess;on of it. Mr. Wigney denied the charge, and pro-
duced witnesses to prove that for years past Miss Preston had
followed him everywhere, annoying him and his family . and
in endeavouring to hold her till an officer should make his
appearance, she ran away, leaving her shawl in his hands,
which he gave up to the police. On the Bench asking both
parties what had passed to cause such strange conduct, both
lady and Magistrate coughed and hemmed. At last the
lady said that Mr. Wigney had falsely stated himself to be
a single man, some years ago, and had first engaged her af-
fections, and then, disclosiag his marriage to her, made dis-
honourable proposals offering to keep a splendid establishment
for her if she would become his mistress. The Bench, dis-
believing the lady's story, said Mr. Wigney was justified in
acting as he did, and dismissed the complaint. The worthy
banker then preferred a complaint against the lady for walk-
ing before his house, and creating a disturbance, and she
was ordered to enter into her own recognizances to keep the
peace for twelve months.—. Abridged from the Brighton
Guardian.

EQUAL JUSTICE.—Last week a poor woman was
fined ten shillings for slapping a boy's face for grossly ill-using
her, and in default of payment was sent to gaol for a month.
Three days ago, Mr. Crisp, a commercial gentleman, was
quietly taking his tea in the coffee-room of the Saracen's Head
a fas
Inn, when hionable tailor, residing in Sackville-street, Pic-
cadilly, London, whose name is Hernon, came into the room
in a violent
gross a 'eassion, and, after abusing Mr. Crisp, gave him a
severe blo-
oon the face. The worthy Magistrate thought this
assault, the cause of which was not even inquired into,
fully punished by a penalty of five shillings. We should be
C .ail if any member of the Bench would favour us with his
opinion as to which case the greater justice has been done.--
Lincoln Chronicle.

A broker was arrested the day before yesterday for
attempting to set fire to a warehouse which he rents in the
Rue Judas, and which he recently insured for a sum much
above the value of the goods deposited in it.—Galignani's
Messelger.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

We are told by the Scotsman that " from the first agi-
tation of the Reform question the Tories denounced the
apostles of the new doctrine as men bent on destruction,
and aiming at the overthrow of the State. No charge
against Reformers has been so repeatedly, so zealously,
and perhaps so successfully urged. When an appeal to the
understandings of the community was hopeless, it was
always an easy alternative to address their fears ; and ac-
cordingly we find the Tory party made up in a great mea-
sure of those who cling to existing abuses, simply from a
dread of change." With all deference to our esteemed Con-
temporary, lie does here more than justice to the Tory party.
There are few disinterested Tories. On going through any
neighbourhood it will be found that the 'Forks are almost
to a man bound up with some profitable abuses in Church
or State. We are speaking of those who are Tories them-
selves, and not the poor creatures who are subservient to
Tory purposes, through bribery, intimidation, &c. We are,
however, ready to admit that in this country there are vast
numbers without any decided political principles, who in
times of strong political excitement, are tossed to and
fro by every wind of doctrine, and whose fears are
often worked on by the Tories in the way described by.
our Contemporary. The diffusion of sound political know-
ledge has a tendency to thin the ranks of this large body ;
for we need hardly observe that, if ignorance be at one time
rash and over-confident, it is equally apt to fall into the
other extreme of unreasonable apprehension. But the To-
ries are free from doubts and apprehensions. They have
taken up the opinion that Government ought to be carried
on for the benefit of those who govern, and they are quite
certain that Reform, while it adds to the power of the
people, must diminish the profits of those who seek power,
not for the sake of benefiting the people, but of benefiting.
themselves. Your undecided men, who halt between opi-
nions, are not, therefore, Tories, who, if they do not, like
Lord Stormont, profess to hate the ♦ery name of Reform,
do not the less hate it in their hearts. But the Liberals
are by no means so decided as the Tories. It is an easy
thing to agree when all that is sought for-is to plunder the
people, and to preserve the system by which the
plunder may be continued. But when men are
disinterested politicians, they cannot be expected to
have all the same opinions as to the extent to which Re-
form ought to be carried. The point on which Reformers
are most apt to split is the degree to which the Suffrage
ought to be extended. Many men who are strongly dis-
posed to support administrative Reform, to remove the
gross abuses which prevail in our judicial institutions, and
who are, above all, anxious to provide a good and sub-
stantial education to the people, are yet afraid of the in-
fluence of popular ignorance, should the Suffrage be uni-
versally diffused. They may not only not be satisfied with
the existing state of the Suffrage, but greatly dissatisfied
with it, and yet afraid of exposing to hazard the consti-
tutional advantage we enjoy by giving political power
to those whom they see led by such charlatans
as Feargus O'Connor, the Rev. Mr. Stephens, and
Mr. Oastler. If the people of the manufacturing
towns, who are comparatively clever, are thus
easily seduced into an approbation of the wildest
and most mischievous notions, what might be expected
were the peasantry of England, who in many places are so
brutishly ignorant that they cannot even comprehend the
most common terms used in argument, to be at the mercy
of every demagogue ? But the position of the Scotsman
(whose able article we have elsewhere transferred to our
columns), that the best security for the stability of our in-
stitutions is their progressive adaptation to the wants of
the people, and that agitation has always some substantial
grievances for its justification, is incontrovertible. It is not
the less certain that the Tories are determined that no
substantial reform shall take place which they can possibly
help. We wish our Contemporary would tell us in what
way an end can be put to this state of things. Allowing
Ministers disposed to pursue a vigorous course, the Tories
will not yield to the mere vigour of Ministers ; and the
question is, whether the time is favourable for exciting the
people to an effort such as was made during the Reform
Bill, by which, once for all, we might be placed in a con-
dition to count securely on an uninterrupted progress of
political amelioration adapted to the wants of the people.
—Morning Chronicle.

As a mighty and irresistible power is preparing to direct
its influence on the next Session of Parliament, it is above
all things desirable to guide that influence to practical pur-
poses, and not to attempt at the realisation of theories,
which, however just and plausible in the abstract, are of
uncertain capability of accomplishment, and if accomplished
of equally uncertain result. To secure that success most
advantageous to the national interest, there are two objects
to which the efforts of those presuming to direct the public
mind, should be unceasingly directed—the first, the propo-
sition of measures practicable, just, expedient, and appli-
cable to the times ; and the second, such a skilful
adaptation of those measures to the wishes and necessities
of all parts of the kingdom, as may induce the people of
Great Britain and Ireland to unite cordially in their ac-
complishment. Our Irish correspondent informs us that
there are at present two distinct agitations in active pro-
gress in Ireland—one connected with the Precursors; the
other directed solely against tithes. In England there are
also two objects to which Reformers are advised and so-
licited to direct their efforts—one, an improved repre-
sentation ; the other, the Repeal of the Corn-laws. Both
countries appear to have fallen into a similar mistake in
confounding constitutional with legislative Reforms. The
objects of the Precursors are of a mixed character, but one
of the most important is constitutional, or an improvement
in the system of Representation ; and the others are of a
purely legislative character, such as relate to tithes, corpo-
rations, &c. So also with the English Reformers ; they
combine the Corn-laws--a legislative question—with the
great constitutional question of a more perfect Representa-
tion of the people in the House of Commons. Between
these two questions with which each country is occupied,
an important distinction should be observed. The consti-
tutional question—the fair representation—is entitled to
indisputable priority in application and importance. Even
the abolition or due appropriation of tithes, or the abo-
lition of Corn-laws, sink into comparative insignificance
when compared with the advantages which, not only in
these respects, but all others, must flow from a full and
fair Representation of the People in the House of Com-
mons. To this grand object, therefore, should the united
efforts of both countries be mainly directed.—Morning
Advertiser.

We observe it was stated by Mr. Sergeant Adams at
Clorkenwell, the other day, that the charge upon which
Scott has undergone the mockery of a trial without evi-
dence, anera verdict of acquittal as a matter of course, was
not a charge of felony. Undoubtedly there are frauds
which are not felonies, and some of those frauds are of a far
more heinous character than many felonies. As the article,
however, to which the Learned Chairman of the Middlesex
Sessions referred, was written by a gentleman who is in no
way connected with the legal profession, he might naturally
enough have fallen into the mistake of supposing that a fu.
gitive treasurer of parochial funds, who was charged with
some indictable offence, touching the pecuniary transactions
of his office, stood accused of felony. But, felony or mis-
demeanour, isthetechnical distinction worth disputing, when
the great point is, whether justice has been defeated by a
compromise between an alleged delinquent, for whose capture
5001. was offered, and the prosecutors who had offered that
sum for his apprehension ? A pauper who defrauded the
parish authorities to the amount of two shillings, being
convicted thereof, was transported for seven years. Is a
treasurer of a parish, who is charged with fraud to some
very large amount, to be allowed to go free, in consequence
of a compromise with the parish authorities ? and shall it
not be said that there is one law for the rich delinquent an
another for the poor ; and that the maxim which says" the
law is no respecter of persons" is practically abolished ?
Will the technicality upon which Sergeant Adams has re-
lied alter one iota the merits of the case, as a question of
public justice ? We say not. Whether the case be one
of misdemeanour or felony—of swindlingorembezzlement—
the moral indignation or the public mischief which attaches
to the transaction can neither be lessened nor increased—nor
can the injurious effect on the mind of the people at large be
altered. Had the exact nature of the fraud for which Scott
was indicted been stated in the Court over which Ser-
geant Adams presides, ignorance of what that precise
charge was by a journalist would have been the less excus-
able ; but neither Court nor Counsel having stated what
the precise charge was, and as there was nothing more to
be collected from the report than that some species of the
crinien falsi was the object of the indictment, we must en-
deavour to obtain for ourselves the information which the
proceedings in the Learned Sergeant's Court did not afford.
The Learned Sergeant has chosen to say, that the charge
of compounding the offence was made against the Court.
It was made against the prosecutors, not against the
Court, whom everybody knows could not be a party to
the prosecution, and must decide on the evidence, or no
evidence, which a prosecutor chooses to offer or with-
hold. But, inasmuch as Courts have the right—a right
which is not unfrequently exercised--a right which, if
we mistake not, Sergeant Adams has himself sometimes
exercised in gambling-house prosecutions, of commenting
upon the dangerous practice of tampering with justice,
which compromises of certain indictable offences present,
we should have thought that the compromise of the fraud,
or compounding of the felony (we will not quarrel about
technical niceties) into which the prosecutors of the indict-
ment had entered with Scott, was a subject peculiarly well
adapted for the exercise of that right, and, that, although
Sergeant Adams could not have directed the Jury to con-
vict the accused without evidence, yet, on learning from
the statement of the Counsel on both sides, that a com-
promise had been entered into for the purpose of defeating
the ends of
,justice, yet he might have reprobated the pro-

ceeding if it were only to prevent the public from errone-
ously supposing that the silence of the Court was to be
taken for its consent.—Mar ning Herald.

T UEATRES.

DRURY-LANE.
Rossini's Opera of La Gazza Ladra was produced at this
house on Saturday night, under the title of The Maid of Pa-
laiseau. Madame Albertazzi appeared in Annette or Ninetta,
and exerted herself very commendably to render justice to its
touching and rather arduous personation. She looked and
dressed the part pleasingly, and we willingly accept from her,
in her more zealous efforts, reminiscences of Grist's gesticu-
lation. We need not say that she sang to admiration. The
" Di placer" was greatly applauded, as was the concluding
cavatina. In the different concerted pieces with which the
Opera abounds, she made her sustaining powers be felt as
became the prima donna. Perhaps the most charming mor-
ceau in the night's performance was the duet between her and
Miss Poole (as Felix or Pippo), in the prison scene of the se-
cond act. Miss Poole acquitted herself admirably in this and
her other efforts in the Opera. She is now probably the singer of
purest style on the British stage ; her voice improves every
day in richness and evenness of tone, and in her execution she
more and more developed the delicacies of a well cultivated
taste. Mr. Phillips supported the part of Fernando, and both
in his acting and singing deserved much applause. The fine
trio " 0 1 Nume benefico I" was given with excellent effect by
him, Albertazzi, and Giubilei, who appeared as the Podesta.
It was warmly encored, Mr. Allen, who played the part of
the young soldier, Albert, has made considerable advances
towards a claim on public favour, since his debut in Don Oc-
tavio, which, we understand, was made under all the disad-
vantages of a particularly short notice. Mr. Stretton's per-
sonation of the old farmer was the best thing in which we
have seen him, and gave many indications of the good actor as
well as singer. Miss Forde played the farmer's wife agree-
ably, and Duruset deserves his share of encomium for his
touch of the comic to the Jew pedlar. The opera was well
got up, although not quite with as much taste, in respect to
dresses, as at the Italian house.