The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-13 00:00:00

SYMPTOMS OF THE, FUTURE.

Tie mere list of the Administration—and for the
present we have nothing more to guide us—gives us
but small means of prejudging the future. The names
are substantially the names which the public has for
some time past been accustomed to associate with Tory
politics, and there is nothing very new or striking in
the distribution of them. The Duke of Buckingham
has been taken into the Cabinet—which plainly shows-,
exclaims one class of commentators, that Sir Robert
has bound himself in slavery to the landlords. On the
other band, he has been admitted to one of the least
important posts in the Cabinet. He has been lured from
the independent and commanding position of mouth-
piece of the landlords by the bait of honour without
authority. He has been silenced and crippled, but
appears not to be trusted with real power. Accord-
ingly, another class of commentators feel confident that
Sir Robert has out-generalled the landlords. Our own
impression, and it can as yet be nothing more, is that
Sir Robert is playing the game, here as in Ireland, of
giving up useless injustice, and making a bargain with
those who cleave to the substance of the iniquity, to
rivet it upon us more firmly than ever.
In Ireland it is evident that the more " extravagant
aad erring spirits" are to be thrown overboard—that
is, the foolish rogues, the perverse bigots, the advocates
of an uncompromising and impracticable tyranny are to
be sacrificed.

There is to be no office for the leaders of the Irish
party par excellence. " Neither in the class of secon-
dary officers nor in the Royal Household, is Ireland
faily represented." So groans the Evening Mail. But
on the other hand, it is well understood, even among
those most closely connected with" the Irish party,'
that this "unfairness" involves no substantial departure
from the policy that {Fill alone be approved by that
estimable section of humanity. The Standard is satis-

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o. c. .co a Irish iippoiatments are deserving of
wteat'on. What he says of Lord Eliot seems to us
peculiarly apposite.
" Whom are we to have in this country as Lord
Lieutenant ? Why, Lord de Grey, and I find people
disposed to praise him very much ; but I wit. tell you
what Lord de Grey is ; he is an arrant Tory—
(Groans)—and his mind is so completely given up to
Toryism that he really don't think he is doing anything
wrong when he professes to be a Tory.—(Groans.)
He has no Conception of what injury a Tory Gayer:i-
nlet-it would be to this country ; to be sure, he has con-
nections belonging to that patty in Ireland !. for he is
brother•in-law to the Earl of Innisitillen—(°° Oh, oh!")
a very respectable connection, no doubt ; but I ask, is
it the brother-in-law of the Grand Master of the Orange-
men of Fermanagh that they should semi over to us as
Lord-lieutenant of Ireland ?—(Groans.) This is the
boon and favour—this is the inddrivss and impaitial,ty
that we are to ittt from this New Administration. We
get as our Lord Lieutenant a man who will he sur-
rounded by t.e Fermanagh Orangemen.—('Groans.)
I do not know whether he is conneetcd with Mr. Nixon,
the late High Sheriff of Fermanagh.—(Groans.)
Some person t Ad me that he was within his connection,
hot I don't say it from myself, because I don't ktion, it ;
but this is certain, that the men by whom h!.! will be
surrounded trill be those who always b,ve b- en most
open in the profes,ion of Orange principle=,—(Groins.)
What can we exatet from his AdministrAiou when he
is surrounded by such man? If he were as pure as
virgin gold, and as firm as steel, his connection with that
party in the country, and with men imbu,d with those
principle's, however respectable in private life they may be
(and I admit they arc most respectable as private indivi-
duals) would make it impossible for him to govern this
country with satisfaction to the Irish people.—(Cheem)
The next is Lord Eliot, who is to be the nem Chief
Secretary for
_lreland, and I am disposed to speak
well of him, fOr I think if he were free from the tempta-
tions of the Orange party, he would be an excellent
man. He is a man of mild manners and great Courtesy,
and as well disposed as any man of hi.s party can be
(Hear.) But he has no strength of mind, and the
consequences are to be dreaded, when we know be will
be surrounded at the Castle by the old clique, whose
object it will he to misinform him.and lead him astray.
—( Hear.) No man is so hard to deal with as an
honest man under bad influence. If he be a knave
Itmself, he is not so likely to be misled ; but when an
honest man is led astray, he will st.ck to his purpose
with the utmost tenacity. Therefore let Lord Eliot
be surrounded with bal advisers, and he is the man
for bad advisers to play their game with.—(Hear.")
—Tablet.

THE RUINS OF COPAN.
(From Stephens's. Central America.)
" Since the discovery of these ruined cities, the pre-
vailing theory has been, that they belonged to a race
long anterior to that which inhabited the country at the
time of the Spanish conquest. With regard to Copan,
mention is made by the early Spanish historians of a
place of that name, situated in the same region of coun-
try in which these ruins are found, which then existed
as an inhabited city, and offered a formidable resistance
to the Spanish arms, though there are circumstances
which seem to indicate that the city referred to was in-
ferior in strength and solidity of construction, and of
more modern origin. •

" The a all was of cut stone, well laid, and in a good
state of preservation. We ascended by large stone steps,
in some places perfect, and in others thrown down by
trees which had grown up between the crevices, and
reached a terrace, the form of which it was impossible
to make out, from the density of the forest in which it
was enveloped. Our guide cleared a way with his
machete, and we passed, as it lay half buried in the earth,
a large fragment of stone elaborately sculptured, and
came to the angle of a structure with steps on the
sides, in form and appearance, so far as the trees would
enable us to make it out, like the sides of a pyramid.
Divergine from the base, and working our way through
the thick woods, we came upon a square stone column,
about fourteen feet high and three feet on each side,
sculptured in very bold relief, and on all four of the
sides, from the , base to the top. The front was the
figure of a man curiously and richly dressed, and the
face, evidently a portrait, solemn, stern, and well fitteci
to cxcite terror. The back , was of a different design,
unlike anything we had ever seen before, and the sides
were covered with hieroglyphics. This our guide
callod an " Idol ;" an before it, at a distance of three
feet, was a large block of stone, also sculptured with
figures and emblematical devices, which he celled an
altar. Toe sight of this unexpected monument put at
rest at once and for ever in our minds all uncert only
in regard to the character of American ai,fquities, and
gate us the assurance that the objects we were in search
of were interesting, not only as the remains of an un-
known people, but as works of art, proving, Ike
newly-discovered historical records, that the people
who once occupied the continent of Amy rice were
not savages. With an interest perhaps stranger than
we had ever felt in wandering among the ruins of
Egypt, we followed our guide, who, sometimes missing his
way, with a constant and vigorous use of his machete,
conducted us through the thick forest, among half
buried fragments, to fourteen monuments of the same
character and appearance ; some with more elegant
designs, and some in workrnawhip equal to the finest
monuments of the Egyptians ; one displaced from its
pedestal by enormous roots ; another locked in the
close embrace of branches of trees, and almost lifted
out of the earth ; another hurled to the ground, and
bound down bJ huge vines and creepers; and one stand-
ing with its altar before it, in a glove of trees which
grew around it, seemingly to shale and shroud it as a
sacred thing ; in the solemn stillness of the woods, it
seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people. Toe
only sounds that disturbed the quiet of this buried city
were the noise of monkeys moving among the tops of
the trees, and the cracking of dry, branches broken by
their weight. They moved over our heads in hag and
swift processions, forty or fifty at a time ; some with
little ones wound in their long arms, walking out to the
end of boughs, and holding on with their hind feet or a
curl of the tail, sprang to a branch of the next tree,
and, with a noise like a current of wind, passed on into
the depths of the forest. It was the first time we had
seen these mockeries of humanity, and, with the strange
monuments around us, they seemed like wandering
spirits of the departed race guarding the ruins of their
former habitations.

" We returned to the base of the pyramidal struc-
ture, and• ascended by regular stone steps, in some
places forced apart by bushes and saplings, and in others
thrown down by the growth of large trees, while some
remain entire. In parts they were ornamented with
sculptured figures, and rows of death's heads. Climb-
ing over the ruined top, we reached a terrace over-
grown with trees, and, crossing it, descended by stone
steps into an area so covered with trees, that at first we
could not make out its form, but which, on clearing the
way with the machete, we ascertained to be a square,
and with steps on all sides, almost as perfect as those
of the Roman Amphitheatre. The steps were orna-
mented with sculpture, and on the south side, about
half way up, forced out of its place by roots, was a
colossal head, evidently a portrait. We ascended these
steps, and reached a broad terrace 100 feet high, over-
looking the river, and supported by the wall which we
had seen from the opposite bank. The whole terrace
was covered with trees, and even at this height from
the ground were two gigantic ceibas, or wild cotton
trees of India, above 20 feet in circumference, extending
their half naked roots 50 or 100 feet around, binding
down the ruins, and shading them with their wide-
si,reading branches. We sat down on the very edge o!
the wall, and strove in vain to penetrate the mystery
by which we were surrounded. Who were. the people
that built this city ? In the ruined cities of Egypt,
~ten in the ong lost P,tria, the stranger knows the
story of the people whose vestiges are around him.
America, say historians, was peopled by savages ; but
N.,,va,res never reared these structures—savages never
carved these stones. We asked the Indians who made
them, and their dull answer was, 4 Quien sabe ?'—
Who knows?'"

On the morning of Wednesday, the 'lst inst.'
a party of between 20 and 30 persons set out in one o
Ithe pilot sloops upon a watery excursion in our roads
At noon time, whilst at ebb tide, 4he vessel was off the
sand which is situated between the Whiting and Thief
beacons,' about ten miles down channel from the town,
12 or 14 of the party proceeded in it boat from the vessel
to the sand to look for cockles, when, after having walked
about some little-time upon the dry part of the sand, it
was proposed to bathe, when all but one pulled off their
clothes, and went to a part of the sand which was but
slightly covered with water. Here they walked some
distance, the water not reaching higher than their knees.
waists, or armpits, when suddenly and unAwares, several
of them stepped over a steep precipice into deep water,
and instantly plunged out of their depth. Three were
unfortunately drowned, namely, John Stevenson, Robert
Towler, and Robert Scott. Stevenson was a leather
cutter, and occupied a shop in High-street, near the
Tuesday Market-place ; he was 35 years of age, and has
left a disconsolate widow and four small children. The
other two were young men unmarried, Towler being 23
years of age, and Scott about 17. The body of Robert
Scott has not yet been found, though daily search has
been made for it ever since the fatal catastrophe.—
Norftli Chronicle.
An INTRUDER.--A curious circumstance oc•
curred in the stables of Sir John Hall, at the back of
gig-horse
up
the Crescent, Minories fish-salesman,
of
igt_hheor name
of Ford, residing at Billingsgate, k
the mews, near the stables of Sir John. Whilst the
horse was exercising by his boy, it took a sudden liking
to the neighbouring premises, walked up the staircase to
the coachman's apartments, and turned short round
through a door into the hayloft, with the boy on his
back, whore he remained several hours, whilst means
were devising to endeavour to remove him, and which
was found to be no easy matter. Fortunately no injury
was done, and the descent was at length accomplished
by means of planks, with cross step-bars, from the win-
dow of the loft.

The only candidate at present for the North
Riding of Yorkshire is the lion. 0. Duncombe. The
election is fixed for the 6th inst. —Stockport Advertiser.

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NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

There was a goad supply of meat, but owing to the faveut-
able change of the weather, the demand was dull, and prLeell
badly supported. Beef, 3s. to 4s. ; Mutton, 3s. 2d. to 411-
•2d. ; Lamb. 4s. 8/1. to ss. 6d. ; Vcal, 4s. 6d. to 5: ,)(L::
and Pork, 4s. to ss. 2d. per stone of 81bs. Poultry tvas
good rupoly, and the demand limited. Only a small q+ !n"
City of game came to market, the demand goad. and p, Ice.
the same as last week. Eggs dull of sale at Ls. 6d. to 7'
6d. per 120.

WHITECHAPEL MARKET.
The trade was indifferent. owing to the extreme mildneg3
the v‘eather. The supply, however, being small, prevented
what would otherwise have been a very bad trade. I'lf'
.2s. 4d. to 4s. ; Mutton, 2s. Bd. to 4s. 4d.; Veal, 3s. Bd. t°
si. ; Pork, 34. 4d. to 55.; Lamb, 47. 4d. to ss.—Clover,
31. to 61. ; Meadow Hay, 41. to 41. 15s. ; Straw, 21. 41. t°
2/. Bs.