The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-04 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clcck.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
We hope the ulterior and undesigned effect of Lord
Stanley's Registration scheme, one-sided and party-co-
loured as it glaringly is, rri!l be to fix the attention
of Parliament and the public on the whole system—
not as regards Ireland only, but England and Scotland
also. In the latter division of the empire there are
anomalies full as great, and some of which were alluded
to by Lord Stanley himself, on Tuesday, as any
which can be adduced as prevailing in the sister
inc.l And even in this part of the empire, which
Mr. O'Connell describes as enjoying a system ho would
accept for Ireland. "as it is, whether for good or for
bad"—there are quite enough defects to render an
equal amount of legislation requisite as that wherewith
Lord Stanley is ready to bless Ireland. Indeed »tore—
for, in Great Britain as in Ireland, the franchise re-
quires to be rendered more simple, and easily ascer-
tainable, as well as tho registrat'oe more' efficient.
Neither object nbe attained fully without theP other ;
for we assume as part of the purpose entertained by
the legislator, the removal of obstruction and annoyance
from parties entitled to the franchise—the saving of ex-
pense, and the prevention of litigation—and the drying
up of the various sources of fraud and corruption which
prevail at present—as well as Lord Stanley's one object
of keeping out unqualified claimants. That is a leer mate
et j ct t ess, pursued honestly—but it is rather un-.
fe t nate Lord Stanley's party should aim at it only as rc-
ea:ds Ireland—only as egards ct netituencies which t'ley
are anxious to weed of oppeneuts. Their former
t fferts have mail ly gone to swamp the more solid
constitt ency with masses of drunkenness and depen-
dence, unq lab fled for ail public duties, except those
preached a' taverns, and paid for by candidates hard
ish. Who but the Tories retained sottish vena-
iitv ant' servile dependence as essential elements of a
system which should represent the true public voice?
Whem but the Tories have we to thank for the freemen
and tenants at-will ? (we beg pardon—we have also to
thank some ill judging Liberals.) Who kut the Tories
chiefly profit by those practices noticed by Lord Stan-
!, y, in Scotland, of multiple ing fraudulent votes—
where, the Noble Lord said, " parties are on the regis-
ter without a foot of land in the country—who, as all
the world knew, never had a foot of land in the coun-
try ?" It may be too much for Lori Stanley, in his
mil for purging the representation, to aid us to get rid
of Ltitiotss freeholders aryl degraded freemen. But
is it too much to ask Liberal and rational politicians to
look comprehensively at the whole system, and not con-
fine their views to one corner of it ? Shall it be said
that party zeal can crowd the benches of Opposition to
pull the mote out of thei- brothel's eye, while a
" Heusi:" cannot be made to pull the beam out of our
teen eye ? Truly the children of this world (Toryism)
arc wiser in their generation than the children of light.
(From the Standard.)

The Globe of List night commences an arti.:le on the
Canterbary and Walsall elections, with the following
parag.yipi:
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" The Canterbury and Walsall elections have resulted
in the defeat of the Liberal candidates. We will not
affect indifference when we feel regret. We do eincer, ly
regret the issue : although, with a knowledge of the power-
ful influences brought to bear against the Liberal candi-
ditte at Canterbury, and of the unfavourable circumstances
under which the Liberal candidate at Walsall was intro-
duced to the field, we are not disappoialed." _

Then follows long dissertation to prove that it was.
the ialuence of Canterbury Cathedral which returned
Mr. Smy the ; but as there is no cathedral at Wa's
not one word is given to explain the defeat of the.
Anti-Corn-kw Leaguers in that town. Surly it
was not Canterbury Cathedral that returned Mr..
Gladstone. So far from doubting that the clergy of Car.-
terbury have indirectly contributed to the restoration
of the public mind in the c9ital of Kent, we
rejoice to believe in the direct influence of the clergy•.
everywhere in bringing back the public mind to what
Lord Clarendon calls the ancient good humour and
good temper of the English people." By their lives.
and their doctrines such a body as the clergy of
England must engage the affections of any right-
hearted people ; and we have no doubt that the
hostility against the clergy avowed by Whigs and
whig-Radicals has gone farther in crowding tLe
Conservative ranks than any other cause. That the
clergy of Canterbury, however, bare exercised no more
direct influence than that naturally arising from their
fidelity in doctrine, their benevolence, and the blame-
lessness of their lives, is pretty clear from the fact,
that no specific charge of interference is made against
any clergyman, but the other fact, that until
men bad recovered from the reform passion, which
prevented their seeing enemies from friends, the
electors of Canterbury returned a Radical, and the
eitivins have now the enduring rffliction of a Radical
Corporation incurred during the same fit. of folly. %And
again, we ask a light from Walsall: there was no
cathedral there : why may not the same causes which
returned Mr. Gladstone have returned Mr. Smythe
also ? There is no escape for the Liberals as to the
two cases. They must confess that the tide has turned,
and that it is making rapidly on the Conservative side.
(From the Couricr.)

The certainty that the death-blAv of registration
frauds and perjury in Ireland is to be struck this Ses-
sion will be understood, and cannot be better under-
stood, than by the despairing cries and ferocious
appeals of the faction which rankly vegetates only
from day to day upon nourishment derived from
the peetcerous a'mosphere of that hot-bed of cot-.
reption. We need no other proof, indeed, that the
last hopes of faction and O'Connell repose on re-
gistration fraud and perjury, than the ravings of the
Chronicle this morning, which does not pretend
to deny the wide-spread existence of these enormous
evils, though they are softened down in its columns into
the more courtier-like phraseology of the " existing
defects of the law of registry," but will not tolerate
their attempted eradication by any other hands
than those of Lord John Russell and Lord
Mor?eth, which is just the same thing as to say that
the criminal shall only be tried and sentenced by those
who are profiting by the crime. Upon the argument of
what is somewhat facetiously still denominated the Re-
form party, that Lord John Russell, as the parent of
the Re'orm Bill for England, was beat entitled aid
ought preferentially to be trusted to work out his own
measure, so it might be thought that Lord Stanley, as
the author and propounder of the Irish Reform Bill,
and the detector of the frauds engrafted on the re-
gistry system as it now stands, should be the man
of all others best qualified to complete his own
Ithours, and drive home to 'the very vitals of corrup-
tion tFe wedge first intio-kee-d into the dry rot timbers
by himself. This is the just stad common sense
,flterpretation of Lord Stanley's principles, and there-
fore of Lord Stanley's Bii', but therefore it is not that
of the Chronicle, by %bleb we are told that in their
crusade against his Reform Registration Bill, and in
the counter proposed Bill of their own for eluding the
Refotm, " Lord John Russell, or Lord Morpeth, is
to be cheered and supported," whilst virtually Lord
Stanley is to be hissed and hunted down.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Lord Holland took the oaths and his seat sh)rtly
b fore four o'clock.

At Five o'Clock the LORD CHANCELLOR took Lis
seat on the Woolsack.
WAR IN SYRIA.
The Earl of MINTO rose in tonsuance of the
rotice he bad given to move the thanks of their
Lordships to Sir Robert Stopford and the officers arid
men who served under him on the coast of Syria.
He proposed to detain their Lordships but for a very
few moments. The events were so recent that it was
unnecessary for him to enter into any d:ltail of matters
that must be fresh in their Lordships memories. It
was perfectly true that on many former occasions the
British fleet had been called upon to contend with more
formidable enemies, and to engage in more sanguinary
conflicts; but he was quite sure their Lordships would
agree with him in saying that throughout the whole of
the operations on the coast of Syria there were abun-
dAnt examples to be found of the skill, of the bravery,
of the reiources, and of that originality of enterprise
and character which had always (mtoently distinguished
the British navy.—(llear.) But there was one feature
so peculiarly distinguishing these operations, which he
must be a,lowed to call their Lordships' attention to,
meant the singular rapidity of execution, and the small
space of time within which was comprised so many
brave and gallant enterprises, ending in such im-
portant results. It was on the 9th of September,
after having received the refusal of the Pacha to
nee pt of terms that had been offered to him, that
Sir Robert Stopford arrived before Beyrote, and without
the lo.s of a single day, or even a single hour, he
;eunehed Cummodere Na:iier in that career of victory
and success which he had continued unremittingly to
pu:oue. It was on the sato:: (lay, the 9tit of September,
that Commodore Napier WAS landed. The contest was
brought to a glorious termination in consequence
of the reduction of the fortress of Acre. Every,
post—every town--from Tripoli to the extremity
of Syria had been reduced by one or other of the de-
tachments of our fleet. Commodore Napier had twice
marched forward on shore and defeated and dispersed the
enemy, and in the interval between those two actions
he had proceeded to Sidon, which he entered, and took
by sierra, putting himself at the head of scarcely 1,000
men, Turks, Austrians, and British, and bringing in
his train nearly 3,000 prisoners.—(Cries of " Hear,
hear.") lie (Lord Minto) had dwelt a little upon
the extraordinary rapidity with which these ope-
rations had taken place, because in this contest time
had been every thing. It was not oulv most important
to the success of their operations, but it must be
cbvioUl to their Lordships that if the contest had been

protracted to another campaign it might have been at-
tended with the utmost peril. If ho wanted another
example of the promptitude, design, and execu-
tion which had characterised those operations
he would refer their Lordships to the dispatch of Sir
Robert Stopford, of the 3d of October, and in that
dispatch the Gallant Admiral stated that he had
just received the instructions of the Government
for the attack of the fortress, an enterprise
which he before had entered upon. That re-
solution was taken on the 29th December, on
the 31st, the Admiral wrote that all his arrangements
were completed, that he was prepared and, in fact, that
he actually did sail on that day, and in three days:from
the date of his letter, the fortress had fallen before Bri-
tish valour. The Admiral was most ably and gallantly
seconded in all his operations by Admiral Bandeira,
commanding the Austrian squadron, as well as by the
Archduke. In his account of the affair at Sidon,
Commodore Napier spoke in the very highest terms of
the conduce of the Archduke, and at Acre he landed
during the night, along with the marines of the squa-
dron, in order to secure the safety of the town and
fortress. To Admiral Walker, too, much was due.
His services had eminently contributed to the success
which had attended her Majesty's arms—he was in
every action, and in all he had proved himself emi-
nently qualified for the place which he now so ably
filled. He felt certain that it was unnecessary for him
to add one word more in order to induce their Lordships
to concur in the vote of thanks which it would be his
duty to conclude by proposing, he would only once
more say that throughout the whole of the operations
and more especially in the last, the attack upon
St. Jean d'Acre, in which the precision and accuracy
of the British fire had proved Cult we had added a new
element of strength to the British navy, and that the
talents and skill of the officers and sailors of Britain had
tar from deteriorated.—(Hear, hear.) lie trusted
their Lordships and the country would receive
this as an earnest of what they might expect should,
unfortunately, the fleet be brought into any more
formidable collision, and he thought the bravery and
actions of our officers and sailors had given the best
answer te all those cavils and compleints of the dege-
neracy and decay of Cie British fleet which had
been made in many quarters during the last year.
On that head he would not add one word more ; all
must feel that the brave men in the fleet lied given a
better answer to the calumny than any which he could
do. He had no doubt but their Lordships would wil-
lingly concur in giving the thanks of the House to
Admiral Stopford, the officers, end men, for the
bravery displayed by them on the 31 of November last.
The Noble Lord then proposed that the thanks of the
House should be given to Commodore Napier, and to
the naval officers and captains of the fleet em-
ployed upon the coast of Syria ; to the seamen
and Royal Marines employed in that service ; to
Major-General S'r Charles Smith, and the officers
and seamen serving upon the coast ; to the Royal
Artillery and Royal Engineers ; to Admiral Bar-
ilierra, Commander of the Austrian fleet ; to Admiral
Walker for his gallantry in the attack upon Acre ; and
that the Lord Chancellor hould communicate the said
resolutions to Admiral Stopford.
The Earl cf COLCHESTER rose and said It must
have increased the satisfaction with which the Noble
trl had proposed these resolutions, that he had a son
who was one of the officers employed in the late opera-
tions upon the coast of Syria.--(Hear, hear, hear.)
The Noble Earl had so fully described the series
of operations which had taken place, that he (the Earl
of Colchester) would not trouble their Lordships by
lgoing over that ground again. He would only say that
,he fully concurred in all that had been said by the
,Noble Earl, as to the activity and dauntless courage
shown by Sir Charles Napier, and in the tribute o' prai e
which he had given to the officers and seamen for their
gal'antry, and especially their gallantry shown in the
attack upon Acre. It had been said that the navy of
England had degtneratod.—(Hear, hear, faom the Duke
of Wellington.) He (the Earl of Colchester) was not
eware that any charge bad been brought against the
officers and seamen employed on this service.—(Cries
of " Hear, h ear.") He would tyke this opportunity
O.! offering his tribute of 'maitre to Sir Robert Stop-
ford. Were he to go through the whole of the ser-
vices of that Gallant Admiral, he would have to
recount to their Lordships the naval history of this
country for sixty years past. That gallant officer
bad received the thanks of that House for his services
on previous occasions. On the 11 th of June, 1794,
Sir Robt. Stopford commanded one of the frigates em•
ploycd in the fleet of Lord Howe ; he then received
the thanks of the House as one of the Captains
engaged in the naval action fought in that
year. He had received thanks for his conduct
in the expedition to Copenhagen ; and also
by name for his services in the capture of the Island
of Java, the latter being an expedition of so
much importance that the Governor. General him-
self took the command of the expedtion. In
1830, full of years and honours, being then seventy
years of age, he might have expected to retire from ser-
vice, but his country demanded his services, and now
for four years he had been in command in the Mediter-
ranean, an employment which, from the political state
of the countries on the coast, was one of the must arduous
nature. In the hostilities of last summer his former
skill and talent had been brought into action, and he
had given new proof of tt e skill and judgment which bad
ever) characterized him,—the fortress of Acre, which
had been deemed impregnable, having been in a few
hours [reduced to ruins by the skill and courage of the
Britirh fleet under his command. These services, in
his humble opiuion, demanded the warmest thanks of
the House. Thanks were all that House could give,
but he trusted that promotions and decorations
were bestowed upon those employed in the capture of
Acre, their Commander (as we understood the Noble
Earl, who spoke extremely indistinctly) had not received
any public mark of his Sovereign's approbation.
The Duke of WELLINGTON then proceeded to
address their Lordships, but spoke for some minutes
before a sentence could be heard in the gallery. His
Grace was understood to express his cordial approbation,
of the merit of the services performed by the navy in
the Mediterranean, and of the motion before the House.
His Grace was then understood to advert to an ob-
servation that had fallen from the Earl of Minto
respectirg the time employed in the operations,
and to ext r:ss h:s wish that such an expression had not
been used on that occasion. That was a matter entirely
irrelevant to the present question, for al y had to do
was to record their thanks for the services that had been
performed by this gloriousexpedition.—(Hear, hear.)
" My Lords (said the Noble Duke) I have had a lit-
t'e experience in these services, and I think it my duty
to warn your Lordships on this occasion, that you
must not always expect that ships, however well
commanded, or however gallant our seamen may be,
are capable of engaging commonly ',with stone walls.
I have no recollection, in all my experience, ex-
cept the recent instance on the coast of Syria, of
any fort being taken by ships, excepting two or three
years ago—no longer ago—the fort of St. Jean d'U,loa
by the French fleet. That is, I think, the single in-
stance, though I believe something of the sort occurred
at the siege of Havannah in 1763."
(LEFT SPEAIINC.)