The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-07 00:00:00

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LONDON:
MONDAY, JUNE 7, 184 1 .
AMERICAN NEWS.

FIVE DAYS LATER FROM THE
UNITED STATES.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING.
We have an arrival at this port to-day from
New York, with papers five days later than these
previously received by the Roscoe. They are to
the 16th ult., and were brought by the Stephen
-Whitney, which has made her passage in twenty
n days. She has forty passengers on board. By
this arrival we have nothing satisfactory respect-
, ing the President steamer. These papers con-
tain a long examination at the British Consul's
Office of Captain Bowman and mate of the Bri-
tish bark Recovery, who had reported that
they had seen the wreck of the steamer
on their passage from Bristol to New York.
The evidence does not, however, bear out
the opinion previously entertained. There
is a much more probable report made by the
Captain of a vessel from Havre to New York,
who states, that on the 16th of March he passed
several fragments of a wreck about which were
a quantity of chains such as are used in the rig-
ging of a steamer. The ease of M'Leod was to
come on upon the day the Stephen Whitney
sailed. It excited the most intense interest at
New York, and would probably occupy some
days.
Cunard's steam-ship Britannia was advertised
to sail on the 16th, but np to this hour she has
not made her appearance off this port. It is
generally considered here that she would be de-
tained to bring out the decision on IVPLEop's
case, and the extreme punctuality in the arrivals
of these ships certainly- warrant such a conclu-
sion. She is quite full of passengers.
Business at New York was rather brisk, andl
the late advance in the prices of American
Stocks have been fully 'maintained. The ex-
change on England ranged at 71 to 71 per cent.
premium, with a good business doing for the
Britannia, by which almost all the letters and
papers were despatched. Yreights to Liverpool
for cotton were Ito per lb. United States
Banks, remain stationary.
We regret to state that the communication
received by this packet does not hold out the
slightest hope for the safet:,- of the President. It
is now three months since; she left New York,
and no intelligence that can be depended upon
'las been received from an; quarter. •

The great debate and rhe great majority of
ONE, will have no influence whatever on the fate
of the Ministry or the country. It was altoge-
ther a sham fight, the reail fight will take place
at the hustings, and in the country at large. It
abounded in personalities it contained a little
constitutional lore but it is impossible for any
person to perceive in it a ray of light to guide
the community across the stormy sea on which it
is now embarked.
Lord STANLEY, indeed, violent andrash, assured
the House of Commons that he and Sir ROBERT
PEEL, cautious and timid, after seven years' most
intimate and unreserved communication, candidly
concurred on all political questions. Such an as-
surance, which delights the Tories, will be for the
public a clue to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy. He
was taunted with not explaining his views, but
wherefore, since he and Lord STANLEY cordially
concur, and since he, zealously supported the
Noble Lord's Bill for disfranchising all Ireland
except the landlords? They both agree in en-
deavouring to deceive, coerce, disfranchise, and
starve down the people to the conveniency of the
landlords, and no person, except one who wilfully
shuts out the truth, can have the least doubt as

to the policy of the PEEL-STANLEY Cabinet,
whenever it shall be formed. The principles
will be those we have ju3t stated, but the hot-
headed recreant Whig, to attain more securely
his fatal ends, consents that those principles
shall be brought into operation by the wily cun-
ning of his plausible ally.
With the exception of this sudden flash across

the darkness, which revealed the terrific danger
which lies in our course, that five nights' debate
was as little instructive for the people as any dis-
cussion that we ever remember. Nor is the de.
cision of more value than the debate. A House
of monopolists which had previously, by a con-
siderable majority, practically refttsed to confide
in Ministers, did absolutely nothing by putting
in words that which it had before exhibited by
its deeds. True Sir ROBERT PEEL induced
the monopolists also to say, that for the Mini-
sters to continue to hold office after having
lost the confidence of the House, was at
variance with the spirit of the Constitution ;
an assertion which the Ministers practically ad-
mitted both before and during the debate, by
having formed a resolution to dissolve the Par-
liament and appeal to the people. If the Minis-

1 ters had persisted in holding office without ai
pealing to the constituencies, there might have
been some ground for the motion, and some
ground for making out a case, if possible, against
it; but admitting that they mean to appeal from
the monopolists to the public, there was no
ground whatever for the discussion. It was an
objectless mockery of the public, who are Well
aware that the only questions now at issue will
be decided by the press and on the hustings.
Much of the matter, too, was as futile, and as
much a mockery of good sense, as was the dis-
cussion on the undisputed truth of the resolution.
One of the great charges, for example, which the
Tories brought against the Whigs, one of the
most striking proof's which they urged of the
weakness of the Government, was that many of
their measures had been supported •by the Tories
themselves. Aftcr giving this support they re-
• proached the Government with it, as if they
were conscious that they had acted wrong.
should
hern not?
If the measures were Proper, why
the Tories praise the Government fo
If they were improper why
not condemn
themselves, instead of reproaching the Ministers?
The Tory :idea which peeps out through the re-
proach is, that it has been all along the business
of the Opposition to break up the Government;
and these honest patriots claim credit at the
hands of the public for not having broken it up
when the Ministers acted so as to merit their ap-
probation, and deserve their confidence. ,
The Tories chuckle very. much over their ma-
jority of one. We regret it, we admit, but lie
cause it was notgreater. It would haVe been More
creditable to the Ministers, a strongernsf.urance
to the country that they: are in doWnright•ear-
nest.and that they.and.the monopolists have irre-
vocablv broken, had the whole 36, or even
more, who refused to allow the starving.Emirtish
to obtain cheap sugar, on the pretence that it
might be the produce of slave labour, while they
allow that sugar to be consumed on Mr. GLAD-
STONE'S estates, and ibr Mr. GLADSTONE'S profit,
voted that they had no..confidence in the anti-
monopoly Ministers. We expected, and we
hoped that every Corn-law man would have de-
clared against the Ministry, and would, one and
all, have rallied round Sir.ROBERT PEEL, so that
there could not, by any possibility, be a doubt in
any man's mind of the principles of the two par-
ties. Far from being pleased that . the majority
was only one, we should have. rejoiced had it been
forty.

We have scan with great satisfaction the work-
ing men at Sheffield, Manchester,Liverpool, aad.

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