The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-18 00:00:00

EvENING EDITION.

POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE

DAILY JOURNALS.

The Globe of last evening thus speaks of th,
Queen's Speech :—" The Speech yesterday pronounced
by her Majesty to her assembled Parliament is helm-,
the public ; it was such as the circumstances of her
empire justified ; and contained, with the expression of
regret which domestic distress and criminally excited
outrage in some parts of the country unhapp !y &-
mended, much to justify congratulation and o encou-
rage hope."
The Courier, speaking of Sir R. Peel's allusion on
Thursday night to the negotiations carried on by Lord
Palmerston respecting the Slave Trade, observes—" The
Portuguese Minister is deliberately advised of the most
specious pretexts, under colour of which to reuse con-
currence with a proposal for the effectual suppress:o n
of the Slave-trade, solemnly and publicly made in the
r.erne of the British nation ; and this exhibition of
shameless hypocrisy is attempted to be justified on the
scandalous allegation that " Lord Howard de \\ kilden
did in that note what any person engaged in negotia-
tions of the kind would do." We assert fearlessly
that " negotiations" were never so disgraced in their
conduct until the advent of the new era of Whig diplo-
macy and morality ; and such will be the sentence of
the people, never so dishonoured as by that diplomacy."
The Standard expresses itself in the following terms
on the Breach of Privilege question :—" If the House
of Commons has by law the power of declaring at plea-
sure new privileges which the tribunals of the country
may not canvass, this is a law, like the rod of the prophet,
which swallows up all the rest. The House of Commons
is in reserve the sovereign legislature, and every other
branch of the so-called legislature may be dispensed with.
It may be asked why distrust the House of Commons ?
We reply by answering, why does the House of Com-
mons distrust the other branches of the Legislature, by
assuming that they will not agree to any special law ne-
cessary for the exercise of its functions ? The House of
Commons has given ground for distrust by abusing its
privileges, or claims of privilege, in other times !
P,

OSTAGE STAMPS.—The delay in the appearance of
the stamps has been unavoidable. Long investigations
and experiments into the best means of preventing
forgery were necessary, and could not be prosecuted
until all the proposals submitted to the Lords of the
Treasury had been examined. Designs for the stamps
had to be made, and approved, and after many inqui-
ries into the best modes of engraving, &c., passed
through the bands of the several artists. Machinery
to produce hundreds of millions of stamps or impres-
sions must oeviously be of an extraordinary character
of corresponding magnitude. The inconveniences now
felt for thy.: want of stamps, and that there are many
cannot be denied, prove the soundness of the plan in
Its integrity. But those who complain should ask
thernselves whether they do not prefer Penny Postage
vothout stamps, and all its inconveniences, to the old
rates of Postage, or even the fourpenny rate. The
Practical details for carrying into effect a novelty of this
kind must be numberless—inconceivable by those who
have only to look on and not conduct them.
DEPORABLE DESTITUTION.—On Tuesday, at
10 o'clock, an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at
the George and Vulture, Ratcliff-highway, on view of
the body of Daniel Flynn, aged 60 yeaas. Elizabeth
Lansdown, of No. 10, Sparrow-court, Afdgate, deposed
• that she knew the deceased, who was a porter at the
docks, but had latterly been very much reduced in
his circumstances in consequence of having scarcely
any employment. On the previous Friday night he
called on her to borrow sixpence, which she lent him.
In about three-quarters of an hour afterwards his
(deceased's) wife came, and said she thought
her husband was struck with death. She (witness)
went instantly, and found him sitting on a chair ;
he never spoke until two o'clock on the following
morning, when he exclaimed, " I am a dead man." He
never spoke afterwards, and expired at five o'clock on
Saturday morning. By the Coroner—The deceased
had four children, and with the sixpence she lent
him he purchased some coals, a candle, and a
half-penny worth of oatmeal. By the Fore-
man•—The wife of the deceased worked for a slop-
seller, 'out, in consequence of her great distress, she was
obliged to pawn some of her work to procure food, as
they bad nothing but potatoes and oatmeal to cat. By
a Juror—The deceased said on the Sunday previous to
his .death, that unless the work which his wife had
PLslged was redeemed, he should die of a broken heart.
llitr. Garrett. surgeon, of Itateliff-highway, deposed to
having been called in to attend the deceased, to whom he
administered some brandy and wine and. water, but he
expired at five o'clock on Saturday morning. Hail no
doubt he died from natural causes, but his death was
manifestly accelerated from the want of the common
necessaries of life. By the Coroner—The deceased re-
ceived Is. and a 41b. loaf a week from the board of
guardians. Verdict—" Natural death."
BRUSSELS, JAN. 12.—We are assured that the
Count de Ribeaucourt is appointed Ambassador Ex-
traordinary, to represent Belgium at the marriage of
Queen Victoria.

EXHIBITION OF ARTS, SCIENCE, AND MA-
NUFACTURES, EDINBURGH.—The exhibition in the
Assembly-rooms, which was opened on Tuesday, attracts
great attention, and is crowded by all ranks of society ;
among whom we have noticed the Duke and Duchess
of Argyll, the Marquis of Lorn, Lord Altemont,
Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Colonel Douglas, and
the officers of the 78th Highlanders, the Reverend
Mr, Bennie, President of the School of Arts. The
practical illustrations are in hill operation, and include
a magnificent display of the applica•ion of science
to art on a scale such as has never been previously
witnessed in this country. The lighthouse reflectors
and lenses, including the lime ball reflector, the re-
flector with coloured light, and the revolving lenses,
occupy the east end of the large room, and shed
a flood of the most brilliant light upon the specta-
tor. The printing, copperplate, and lithographic presses
are continually in action ; and the jacquard loom, the
weaving of stockings, turning of wood, modelling in
clay, basket-making, paper-making, &c., present a se-
ries of processes of extreme interest to all ; while the
magnificent illustrations of the Polariscope, on which
alone the Committee have expended upwards of fifty
pounds, present to the man of science a treat which
has not hitherto been accessible to him in this part
of the island. The experimental arrangements of the
Polariscope are under the superintendence of Mr. E.
M. Clarke, who has arrived from London at the invita-
tion of the Committee for this purpose. It will give
some idea of the magnitude of the arrangements
which have been made for this exhibition, when
we state that the value of the insurance of the various
models and specimens is between forty and fifty thousand
pounds. We have much pleasure in adding, that the pupils
of numerous schools and academies have already visited
the exhibition, and on Saturday morning we understand
that upwards of 800 boys, from different charity schools,
are to be admitted gratuitously.—Edinburgh Evening
Courant. [We understand that this exhibition has been
achieved principally through the indefatigable activity
of Dr. Reid, whose arrangements for warming and ven-
tilating the House of Commons have given such satis-
faction.)
THE CLERGY.—A meeting of the Clergy of
the Archdeaconry of Ely was held on Tuesday in the
vestry of St. Michael's Church, Cambridge, to take
into consideration the steps it became the Clergy to
adopt, in consequence of measures now in agitation.
ROYAL EXCHANGE —The Gresham Com-
mittee met on Tuesday to consider the best mode of selecting
a plan for the new building. The result was that Mr. Smith,
the surveyor, was directed to report on the eight first plans by
the 31st of this month. Nothing further has been done, and
the merchants, notwithstanding their outcries about delay,
and for whose peculiar use the Exchange is to be built, take
no steps for forwarding any plan, or for raising money to carry
one into effect. For that part of the Bank- buildings nearest to the
site of the Exchange, the Bank authorities have received between
16,0001. and 17,000/., as a remuneration for the freehold, and
f considerable sums have been paid to their tenants. This large
/ block of buildings will be shortly sold and levelled with the
ground. The old site will be forthwith levelled, and a passage
will be made across it from Cornhill to Bartholomew-lane.
THE COPYRIGHT.—Knowles's new play, on a
single sheet, for three cents, is now advertised at the cffice of
the Boston Times!
The Court of Session met on Tuesday, after
the Christmas holidays. Lord Glenlee has resigned his seat
on the bench, which he has held for the long period of forty-
five. years, with a high reputation for sound judgment, impar-
tiality, and industry. He will be succeeded in the Second
Division by Lord Moncrieff, as the Senior Judge-Ordinary.
He is nearly 90 years of age.
THE STRIKE.—We are happy to learn that
the master power-loom manufacturers and their workmen have
come to an amicable arrangement, and that the latter have re-
turned to their work. A compromise was effected at a meet-
ing on Monday evening, it having been agreed to halve the
difference that existed as to prices.—. Glasgow Argus.
THE TURKISH FLEET.—The following pat a-
graph in reference to the Turkish officers and seamen, whose
escape from Alexandria gave rise to the rumour that the
Turkish fleet had been allowed by Mehemet Ali to return to
from the Meliterraneo:—" The
Constantinople, we copy
officers and seamen belonging to the Ottoman ships, who
deserted from Alexandria some weeks ago in a launch,
have reached Constantinople in a Greek brig which they
boarded and took possession of on the high seas. Other attempts
have been matte at desertion by the Turks, which have been
detected and punished with death. His Highnesso theb Pael.a of
Egypt pays the officers and crews of. the toman s ips t.o. the.
prejudice of those of his own. Disease and abroken spirit is
nevertheless visible in the countenances of the Turks, who can-
not but look upon themselves as prisoners of war.
OPENING OF THE NEWUNITARIAN CHAPEL,
YORK-STREET.—This neat and comfortable Chapel, lately
purchased for the convenience of such members of the Uni-
tarian body as could not find suitable accommodation in
the Meeting houses of the First and Second Congrega-
tions, was opened en Sunday last for public worship, by
the Rev. Doctor !Montgomery. The Rev. Gentlemen took
for his t, at, Acts xxviii. 03—. But we desire to hear of thee
what thou thinkest ; for, as concerning this sect, we know
that it is every where spoken against."—The discourse,
which was listened to with deep attention, was distin-
guished by clear and convincing argument, not less than
true eloquence. The Rev. Gentleman also preached,
in the course of the evening of the same day, in the Meeting-
house of the second congregation to a large and highly-re-
spectable audience. On both occasions, collections, amounting
to 631., were made, for the purpose of defraying a small debt
due for the repairing of the chapel.—Northern Whig.