The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

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POREIGN.
The Great Western steamer. which arrived at Bristol
oa Tuesday, in 13 days from New York, brings no poli-
tical news of interest. She has brought, however,
500,000 dollars in specie, and thirty passengers.
St. John's, New Brunswick, appears doomed to de-
struction by fire. On the 15th ult. a dreadful conflagra-
tion broke out there, which destroyed 75 buildings, in-
cluding the new market-house, 40 vessels from Market-
street Wharf to Whitney's Wharf, and an immense
quantity of merchandise. The fire was not extinguished
when the latest account left St. John's.
Another dreadful fire destroyed a great deal of pro-
perty at Vicksburg on the 9th ult. Two entire squares
of the town were burned down before it was extinguished.
The American Papers contain a long account of the
late revolution in Mexico. Santa Anna was at the head
of 9,000 veterans, when, on the sth of October, he pro-
posed an amicable settlement with Bustamente. Peace
was concluded on the 9th. Whether Santa Anna will
observe good faith towards Bustamente, now that he has
him in his power, we know not, nor can we help recol-
lecting the fable of the wolf and the crane.
The Paris Journals of Monday publish a telegraphic
dsspatch from Avignon, dated the 4th inst., announcing
that a great part of that town was inundated by the
overflowing of the Rhone.
The Hanover Gazette denies that the Dukes of Sussex
and Cambridge have protested-against any of the public
acts of the King of Hanover. It is so much the fashion
of the Hanover Gazette to discredit whatever exposes
the tyranny of King Ernest, that we care not a straw
for its denia'. The Duke of Sussex's whole public lift
has been one continuous protest-. against the tyrannical
proceedings o the ex-Duke of Cumberlsnd.
PUBLIC OPINION.
In a leading article suggested by Lord John Russell's
answer to the Plymouth Address, the Morning Chronic'e
introduces the following incidental observations on Sir
Robert Peel :—" When Peel introduced the Emancipa-
tion Bill, he grossly violated the principles of his whole
public life. His political existence and importance were
the creation of his No-Popery professions. They had
given him a name in a House where the Tories had a
Canning for a leader. They had exalted his mediocrity
into a sort of rivalry with genius. He had used the
power they gave him to thwart the policy and enhance
the difficulties of that great man. They had made him
Member for the University of Oxford ; a position for
which, otherwise, he had about as much valid
pretension as the Reverend Messrs. Garbett and
Williams have to the Professorship of Poetry in that
same learned establishment. With him, No-Popery was
law, and constitution, and monarchy, and religion, and
what not. And so, under the Duke's orders, he got up
one night and proclaimed that all religious denomina-
tions should be equal in the eye of the law. We shook
be glad to learn what there is like this in Lord Johr
Russell's proposition to lighten the burden of class taxa.
tion upon the necessaries of life?"—The worst fault o
which Lord John Russell has been guilty, has been hi:
occasional tardiness in promoting the work of substantia
reform; an apparent apathy has been at times too visi-
ble in his conduct, and this hasyery naturally given rise
to distrust ; but his Lordship has never, from motives of
expediency, and to maintain himself in power, apos-
tatized from the one great principle, the perse-
vering support of which bad alone enabled him,
to acquire political distinction. He never stated em
year in the House of Commons that he did not think the
time would ever come when he would grant Catholic
Emancipation ; and then, scarcely six months afterwards.
when the position of affairs was not in the slightest de-
gree altered, turn suddenly round on his betrayed sup-
porters, and carry the measure without reserve. Though
we approved at the time of his changed policy, and still
approve it, yet we never did, and never shall, think for
an instant that Sir Robert Peel was influenced by honest
conviction, or leaped from intolerance to liberalism from
disinterested or conscientious motives. The reasons for
his change—beneficial as that has proved—were purely
selfish.
The Post says :—" Lord Palmerston says that the
Parliamentary decision of 1841 was produced by a com-
bination of monopolists, making private interests triumph
over public good. Does he mean to say that the very
same decision which was come to upon the same subject
in 1840, and to which decision he and his colleagues
contributed, was produced by a, combination of mono-
polists, or was a triumph of private interests over public
good ? The fact is, that the assertions of Lords John
Russell and Palmerston, relative to their conviction o:
the excellence of the principles of trade brought forware
by them this year for the first time, is the most enor-
mous impudence that ever was uttered, and totally un
worthy of the credence of any one professing sanity. I
they believed these principles to be sound, why did they
not bring them forward whop they had great power ant
influence ? If they did not believe them to be sound,
why did they bring them forward at all ?"
We fear, no good answer can be given to these home-
truths; but it is not for the Tories to taunt the Whig.,
with their supineness in bringing forward good measures.
it is not for the men who, wielding all the powers of the
State, and exercising all but unlimited authority, re-
fused to give the slightest Law Reform for years ;
for years, too, though the necessity was made apparent to
them, refused to strike oil even one link of the heavy
chain that galled the Dissenters, and drove the Catholic,
well nigh to desperation—it is not, we say, for men
like these, to presume to object to others that they were
tardy in doing what they had the power to do.
The Times, returning to its yesterday's theme, re-
marks as follows :—" Lord John Russell and Lord Pal-
merston are, in their own way, expert political cam-
paigners ; and accordingly, dreading lest a cessation
from party warfare during so long a period as the recess
might have the effect of hurrying them into a premature
oblivion, they seem to have formed a somewhat sudden
conspiracy for reminding the public that they are still
alive, and for astonishing their suecessors with a smart
concerted peppering. The angry little effort of Lord
John at Plymouth we have already disposed of. Lord
Palmerston, as a humble imitator, discharges his harm-
less decoction at Bridgnorth ; and as the former emitted
his spleen in a highly concentrated form, the latter,
doing homage to the superior dexterity of his original,
it,
contentedby
adding
a himselflittle
a with
weakeninggiving us a mere dilution of
of his own."—Lord
John Russell's answer to the Plymouth address seems
to sit like an incubus on the Ti.ntes, which it would fain,
but cannot, shake off ; we do not wonder at our Con-
temporary's wincing under it, for it has administered a
severe shock to self-complacent Toryism.
We quote the following from the Morning Herald :
" The outcry of monopoly' from the Noble Lords is a
mere springs to catch woodcocks ;' the late Ministry
was not ejected from office on account of the budget pro-
pcsitions, monstrous as they were. Those propositions
were brought forward to stimulate that popular support,
which five years' maladministration had lost them. The
then Opposition refused to debate their proposals—they
replied to them by a vote of non-confidence, which was
carried. The country was appealed to from that vote ;
the result of the appeal was its confirmation, and the
new Parliament repeated the vote. What was the com-
plaint of the late Ministers, from the budget night down
to the last hour of their disastrous official existence ?
That their opponents would not debate their plans, and
that they were condemned without having their measures
s the victims of a free-trade
considered.to
represent
policy. Their fate as an Administration was sealed long
before their budget was thought of."---The fate of the
themselves eles
late Administration was not sealed until the Monopolists,
one and all, took the alarm ; in every sense of the word,
therefore, the Melbourne Government was, really and
truly, the victim of its free-trade policy.
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. -
The mines of Cornwall maintain a direct population
of 100,000. About 18,000 are strictly miners, adult
men, for the most part employed under ground : of the
rest, 6,000 are boys under 18, and as many females. Not
less than three-quarters of the total number are engaged
in the mining districts west of Truro.
The General Annuity Society held their annual meet-
ing in the Poultry, yesterday. From the Report it ap-
peared that the balance in hand amounted to 1911. 17s. 3d.
The Lord Mayor was elected one of the Vice-Presidents
for the year ensuing.
The railroad about to be constructed in the Brazils will
embrace a length of sea-coast, north and south, of 2,100
miles. The ',provinces and districts through which it,
will pass, commencing from the capital Rio de Janeiro,
contain 300,000 people. The cost of construction will
amount to million.

meeting of the Metropol Youn Mens' Anti-
Monopoly Association was held last night at Finsbury.
Among the resolutions passed was, " that the meeting
most strenuously deprecated the system of emigration
now proposed as a remedy for the existing distresses, as
being totally inefficient for promoting the general good,
and only advocated for the purpose of sending Britons to
distant lands in search of that food which was not per-
mitted to be imported into their own."—We were sorry
to hear it stated that there was a want of funds, but aro
confident that every member will come forward in its
support.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
The magnificient pier at Whitby, Rants, has shrunk
from its foundation to a considerable extent on its west
side, about a dozen yards south of the lighthouse.
LAW AND POLICE.
At Marylebone police court yesterday, n ivolicc con-
stable of the E division charged a man with Veing drunk
and making use of unseen language.
As a:tribute of respect to
SCIENCE A.Nr ART.
+:ite memory of Sir Francis
Chantrey, the membersrmined thatthe t .
of the Royal Academy have de-
te ...tennial distribution of gold medals,
'nts of that institution only.
shall take place in the presence of the
thec)n membersTlOh 10th in
ada
students y
TUZATRICAL.
the Woburn Abbe was a theatrical divertissement in
Hon. Abbey Theatre, under the patronage of the
General Grosvenor, commencing at nine o'clock.
The piece selected was Who's the Dupe? the different
characters being sustained as follows :—Dorley, Lieute-
nant-Colonel Keppel • Gradus, Lord Henry Russell
Granger, Lord Caarics Fitzroy ; Mrs. Sanford, Lady
Charles Fitzroy; Elizabeth, the Hon. Miss Foley; Char-
lotte, Miss Wilbraham. The several parts were ably
discharged by the above distinguished persons. The
party broke up on Saturday.
An alarm of fire was given yesterday at the Surrey
Theatre, a few minutes after the peformance of Brutus;
a scene caught fire, and occasioned a general panic among
the audience, but luckily the fire was soon got under.
A batch of strolling players, in order to disarm the
scrupulous, wrote the following singular words at the
bottom of their bills of fare, circulated about Ampthill
phis last week
Strict Attention to morality !"