The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-03 00:00:00

tilE SUN, LONDON, tHURSDA Y, SEPTIMBER 3, 1840.

be derived from the spectacle which meets the public
eye in the alliance between the highest class of the
administrators of public affairs, and the sworn enemy
of all our Protestant institutions. The close con-
nection which exists between public and private profli-
gacy is one of the most interesting and most painful
studies within the range of political ethics.
( From the Morning Post.)
That Father Mathew has contributed something
towards the improvement of the social condition of Ire-
land cannot be denied. If only a small proportion of
his converts should be permanently reclaimed, to this
extent at least be will have effected a lasting and
unequivocal improvement in the habits and disposi-
tion of the people. But when we bear of Ministers
having diffused among the Irish people a disposition
to respect the law, and maintain order and peace, it
is not improper or unnatural to examine the means
by which so desirable a result is said to have been at-
tained. Is it by systematically withdrawing the coun-
tenance and support of the Executive Government
from the local magistracy in every part of the country
where the magistracy has not been O'Connellised ? Is
it by showering the patronage of Government upon the
authors and promoters of an agitation precisely similar
in its nature, action, and objects with that which the
Reform Government of Earl Grey passed the Irish Co-
ercion Bill purposely to suppress ? And if these are
not the foundation of rho Ministerial claim to partici-
pate with Father Mathew in the glory of reforming the
social condition of Ireland, upon what other foundation
does it rest? The merit of Ministers consists, not in
effecting any improvement in the social condition of
Ireland, or in contributing in the slightest degree to any
improvement, but in the ingenuity of its devices to get
up fallacious and fraudulent evidence of an improve-
ment which has not taken place. We need not stop to re-
mark that all such devices, in proportion as they are
successful, must of necessity obstruct and retard any
permanent and effective improvement in the moral con-
dition of a country.
(From the Illorninq Advertiser.)
More particulars will be found in our columns re-
specting the recent atr reious attempt at assassination
at Ludlow. These audacious and repeated crimes are
a disgrace to the country, and justify the Irish papers
in app.-aling triumphantly to the contrasted criminal
statistics of England and Ireland. There is a fearfully
dramatic interest in this last atrocity which speaks
volumes as to the state of society where it could
occur ; the assassin pursuing his victim (and at last
mistaking another for him) from place to place for the
sake of his presumed property e ith the pertinacity of a
shark pursuing a chip for the sake of his living prey.
The discovery arid death of the murderer of Lord W.
Russell (Courvoisier) has not diminished the excite-
ment which the event caused, nor mitigated the alarm
and suspici,m in families which its first promulgation
WAS calculated to produce. It appears that iii the
Ludlow case, as in Courvoisier's, :t was profligate
thirst for money which prompted and guided the knife
of the wretched. assassin. It was the same motive
which impelled Greenacre to saw into fragments the
yet breathing body of his intended bride. It has been a
consolinc, proverb that " murder never escves detec-
tion ;" but' how many murders of recent occurrence re-
main still undetected, and without any chance of detec-
tion ? There have been several undiscovered within

he short space of four years. Are the murderers of
Mr. Richardson, who was shot near Epsom, detected ?
The murderer of Eliza Grianwood, in the Waterloo-
road, where is he ?—of Eliza Davis, the barmaid, near
the Regent's Pdrk—where ? What, too, has become
of the murderer of Mr. Westwood, in Princes-street.?
We believe it is generally understood that the neigh-
bouring, petty tradesman (thirsting for his neighbour's
superior property) who robbed and murdered him, is
no.v in a portion of Spanish America—where there is no
law for giving him up to our police—where assassination
is thought no very great crime—where a man for five
pounds English, can readily hire a bravo to remove
a rival—and where he is probably living en grand
Seigneur, on the three thousand pounds worth of pro-
perty, which he carried from the shop of his murdered
victim. The murderer of Eliza Grimwood, who moved
in a high rank in life, is supposed to be somewhere in
Italy, or which he is a native. These horrible events
have induced a portion of the press to censure our sys-
tem of police, which is charged with inability to prevent
and detect the highest des', of crimes. They recom-
mend a detective police, formed out of the old Bow-
street constabulary force, and whose merits are stated
to be, that " they detected crime, because they mixed
familiarlf with the haunts anti habits of the criminals."
The recommendation is highly objectionable, as it would
tend to re-establish the "Jonath in IVild" system of par.
tial connivance and temporary participation with criminals
—the abus..s of which (calling loudly for reform) contri-
buted to the present pnl,ce establishment. It is clearly im-
possible that city system of police can prevent murder,
viewing this crime as one generally conceived individually
and perpetrated secretly ; and we are convinced that the
reform recommended (viz., the Bow street detective
police) would subject us to much greater evils, by the
treacherous and immoral system of « blood money." or
by the intolerable tyranny of domestic surveillance.
We see no radical remedy but in an educational im-
provement of the moral feelings and habits of the
people, by a desecration of that pernicious idol of
English society—MoNEY,--and by the incessant labours
of the Ministers of that religion which was " preached
evecially to the poor," to counteract that assassinating
axiom (for its tendency is such) announced 1:1) the Rev.
Sydney Smith—that " poverty in English society is
the only crime, and money the only virtue." What is
the result ? The greedy or starving desperadoes, filled
with zeal to shun crime (poverty), and to possess that
permanent virtue (money), which gives impunity to I
guilt—considers, like the Spartan, not the act of rob•
bery but the detection of it as the offence.

It is some consolation, amid the angry strife of party
warfare, that sound principles of political economy are
swiftly making their way in every direction. The Times
has devoted much of its eloquence, and more of its
space lately to the enforcement of a Liberal policy, and
a generous legislation for British India. We had three
mortal columns and a half of small type in Tuesday's
Times, dedicated to the evidence before the Lords' Com-
mittee as to the expediency and certain success of cul-
tivating cotton and sugar in India, and yesterday a
leading article of great ability appeared on the same
subject. When journals like the Times reverse the
satire of Goldsmith, and do not
" Give up to party what was meant for mankind,"
They become public benefactors, and no sense of rivalry
or opposition of interests ought to deter us or others
from so considering them. The first—the greatest
duty of a Journalist is to consider the happiness of the
masses, and such is also his greatest gain. The Time:
has atoned for many party sins by its powerful though
rare attacks upon the Corn-laws ; and it is increasing
its services to the mercantile, manufacturing, and work-
ing classes by pointing out the vast continent of India
as being ready to supply raw materials for our manu-
factures ; sugar for a I the world by free labour ; and
a market, which, in proportion to our encouragement,
will be greater for our own produce in return, than
any of those other colonies which have been more
cherished precisely as they have less deserved it.
There is much sagacity in this. The Times knows
that whoever may be Minister—whatever party upper-
most—England cannot hold back in enterprise or ma-
nufacturing while other Stites are hastening onwards.
We are pushed out of old markets—we must seek new.
The Bankers' Circular, a eery safe authority, stated a
short time age that several species of cotton goods made
in America cad be sold for a profit in Manchester, at
ten per cent..under the present prices of similar Eng-
lish fabrics, and that axes made in the United States
fetch even a greater profit in Birmingham than those
made in that very town. Here, therefore, are customers
not only lost, but positively converted from buyers into
sellers "to push us from our stools." Again—let any
one look at the rapidly increasing manufactures of Swit-
land—ot Germany---of France—of Russia—let him be-
hold those States, formerly of leaden and lethargic idle-
ness and superstitiun, Spain and Portugal, now trans-
porting cotton from America to their colonies for the
purpose of manufacture ; nay, let him even turn his at-
tention to the proceedings of the Turks and Egyp-
tians, and read in the New York papers of the ar-
rival of Arab vessels for the purposes of commerce,
and ask himself what will be the end of these things,
if British enterprise be not "up and doing." When
the world is on the move it is not for England,
with her enormous debt and her vast population, to
stand still. The " masses" would hurl any Go-
vernment, however supported, into utter destruction
which should act upon any such principle. It is with
muen pleasure, therefore, we perceive companies, with
most respectable mei at their head, well acquainted
with India, prepari'ig to cultivate and manufacture, by
free labour, sugar, rum, cotton, &c., by the Hill Coolies,
and other aboriginal tribes of the East, and that pleasure
is not lessened by ob.erving the powerful aid which the
Times is lending these gentlemen, day by day. We
concur in every word of the following leader:--
" In the remark a we have made on the commercial rela-
tions which India bears to England and her colonies, it
will have beoo se, n that the questions which arise do not
aff..ct East and West India interests, but the in-
terests of the empire at large, whose property will be ad..
vanced in proportion as the resources of all its depen&n-
cics are equally and harmoniously developed. In so far,
however, as one national interest can be deemed to come
into partial or temporary collision with anather national in-
terest, we shall be found prepared to look at the subject in
all its rings, and to deal even-handed justice to both.
" Keeping this principle in view, we shall now advert to
the recommendation of the Lords' Committee on East
India Produce Duties ; and here, at the very threshold,
we meet with sentiments which we record for the sake
both of the doctrines which they embody, and the source
from which they emanate. The report distinctly recog.
nizes the perfect identity of interest between India and
England, the Committee declaring that they see in all
the facts they have detailed the most urgent reasons for
export toradeoefit flnvedialntdhze.a
auntmdoEstnpyolassnidb.,,le
freedom,givi n g t ohe
the our
This (tinnier] is expressed with special reference to the
large annual amount wlsich England draws from
and it is presented in a morn detailed form, which in few,
but just and strung terms, exhibits the very peculiarpusi-
Con in which India is placed amongst all the other

dependencies of the British Crown, and the peculiar elaims
arising out of the position which it has upon the justice
and the generosity, *3 WOI as upon tha policy of Par-
i a men t."

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIvERpooL, SEPT. 1.

BLUNDELL V. LORD CAMOYS.

This morri,..,;, at nine o'clock, the Attorney-General
the case of. the plaintiff,
r_sumcd his address in open,,,; .
h.:•en sent
and read a great number of letters which tutu ..
to Mr. Blundell by various persons of note in this coun-
try and elsewhere, which it was intended to give in evi-
dence. The Attorney-General concluded his address
about twelve o'clock.

The will of Mr. Henry Blundell, the father, and the
previous wills of the present testator were then proved
and read, together with the record of the recovery
suffered by Mr. Blundell. After which witnesses were
The will of 1837 was taken as read.

Various letters referred to by the Learned Attorney-
General as having passed between Mr. Edeu and Mr.
Blundell on the subject of the last will were then proved
and read. Their perusal occupied the remainder of
the day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

PICKING POCKETS IN TUE CITY.—TWO young men
named Thomas Jackson and George Jones were placed
at the bar before the presiding Alderman, charged by
Constable 253, with having attempted to pick a gentle-
man's pocket in Farringdon-street. The policeman
stated that he saw the two prisoners, whom he knew to
he reputed thieves. follow the gentleman, and in the
usual manner, while one was trying the pockets, the
other stood so as to hide him from observation.

The person whom they attempted to rob not appear-
ing they were sentenced to a month's imprisonment.
Two other lads Darnel Williams and Dawson, were
also charged with picking pockets, the one in Fleet-
street at two o'clock in the afternoon, and the other
at Holborn-bridge, about seven o'clock in the evening.
Through the unwillingness of' many to sacrifice time in
appearing as prosecutors, they also escaped with a
summary conviction, as the persons robbed would not
appear.

•
It was stated that the number of young thieves now
haunting the City is almost incredible, and it requires
the utmost vigilance of the police to protec the public ;
particularly in the neighbourhood of Holborn-hill and
Fleet-street.