The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-17 00:00:00

FROX THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

STANDARD.—Contrary to all expectation, the de-
bate on Lord Sandon's resolution was, once more, even
for the sixth time, adjourned last night. The Conser-
vatives attended in overwhelming force, and the ad-
journment was effected by putting forward all the
third and fourth rate men of the Ministerial party,
all, in short, who could manage to articulate a few
sentences, whatever they might be, and finally, by an
awfully long speech from the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, a speech so long that, after giving many
columns of an abridged report of it, the reporters are
compelled to apologise for omitting " the peroration" on
the ground that it was inaudible, the Right Honourable
Gentleman, doubtless, having worn out his voice. The
policy of this procrastination is obvious ; the Ministers
are, as a last chance, trying the effect of the " enormous
lying" to which they owe so much, in getting up
an agitation ; but even this last hope is failing them.
Previously to the commencement of the resumed
debate, Mr. W. Gladstone, seeing Lord Howick in his
place, proceeded to remonstrate against the liberties
which that Noble Lord had taken with the name and
character of his (Mr. Gladstone's) father, that gentle-
man not being a Member of the House, and no intima-
tion of the meditated attack having been given to any of
those who might naturally be expected to render justice
to its object. Mr. Gladstone reminded the Noble Lord
that, eight years ago he, the same Noble Lord, had ut-
tered precisely the same calumnies—that they were then
one and all refuted and retracted by the Noble Lord
himself, and that a pledge was given by him never to bring
forward any similar charges without apprising those who
ought to be able to answer them, a pledge which it was
plain he had forgotten, as he had forgotten what was due
" to the feelings of those against whom his attack was
directed." Mr. Gladstone then triumphantly exposed
the groundlessness of the imputations of which his ab-
sent father had been the object, and pointed to the ab-
surdity of his allusion to the merits of the late Mr. Ma-
caulay, in contrast to the conduct of his son, which
allusion was all praise, being made the pretext for slander
upon an absent man.
GLOBE.—The " plain tale" of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer last night put down effectually all the self-
contradictory sophistry of the Opposition. The Right
Hon. Gentleman remarked, with much quiet effect, that
"if by any possibility Mr. Huskisson could now look
down upon those who called themselves his pupils,
he would not feel very proud of them !" About as
proud, we venture to suggest, as Mr. Pitt might
have felt could he have heard the " glorious and
immortal memory" of intolerance towards the Roman
Catholics toasted along with his own tolerant memory
by !soi-disant Pitt clubs. That Minister, who, by the
testimony of his most confidential colleague, left office
in 1801, because George 111. would not hear of Irish
emancipation, or of " Scotch metaphysics," may be
supposed to have felt not much prouder of his Anti-
Emancipation adorers, than Mr. Huskisson of the
daws who would now trick themselves out in his
politico-economical plumage—Mr. Huskisson, whom
the military chief of the present Opposition forced out
of office for an insubordinate vote in favour of a partial
reform ! There is no mistake,—there can be no mis-
take
about these pupils of Huskisson ! They have
caught his mantle of liberal economy, as the Pittites
that of Pitt's tolerance ! We recommend them
straightway to institute a Huskisson Club, for the sup-
port of the Duke of Buckingham's doctrines on corn,
and Lord Sandon's on sugar. The principle of Mr. Hus-
kisson, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer justly stated,
was, that "if you wished to improve trade, you must ad-
mit some principle of competition ; and that the worst
possible thing that you could do, and that which would in-
flict the greatest possible injury on commerce, was to bols-
ter and cocker it up in order to prevent any other party from
competing." Mr. Huskisson, it may be said, did not abandon
the principle of protection. Neither does the present Go-
vernment ; but with him, as with them, freedom was
the general rule, protection the practical limitation of
that rule, in particular cases. With his pseudo-pupils,
restriction is the rule, relaxation the exception—the for-
mer to be maintained as much, the latter allowed as little
as possible. They accuse Ministers of attacking at once
all the great interests of the country. This means that
Ministers would remove those great interests from the
footing of monopoly, and subject them to that competi-
tion which Mr. Huskisson deemed vital to improvement,
and which the experience of his measures has proved to
have been so, even in partial application.
COURIER—The Ministerial Press is in happy and
heroic mood by turns. Whilst the Morning Advertiser
loftily counsels its patrons to act the part of " Curtius,"
and cast themselves into the gulf (of dissolution) to
" save" their country, the Morning Chronicle is deriving
sweet solace from small sayings at certain hole and cor-
ner meetings recorded under a heading of the most con-
spicuous dimensions, to swell the apparent numbers and
columns of which the reports of the meetings themselves
are ingeniously published by instalments from day to
day, or, as in the case of Bolton this morning, given in
duplicate. In vain, however, all this paltry trickery in
behalf of a drowning faction which by trickery has
alone existed so long ; the conscientious Journals
may as soon hope to whip a storm in a teapot into
a tornado, or set fire to an iceberg, as to coax the
people of England again into a political convulsion,
which may longer keep their unworthy employers where
they are. Among other sources from which consolation
is affected to be drawn, the Ministerial prints refer to the
meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
held yesterday at Exeter-Hall. After carefully perusing
the reports of proceedings, we can discover no ground
on which to build so convenient a conclusion in their
own favour. It is true that a few of the most furious
partisans of the Government were present, and did not
fail to vent, by fits and starts, a portion of their
factious spleen, although reminded by their worthy
Chairman that "the meeting had been convened for no
political object whatever ; but their reception was any-
thing but flattering, and they could only obtain a fur-
ther hearing on condition of forbearance, or by the tole-
ration of a portion of the audience, against whom, when
in turn they wished to be heard ; these very liberal tools
of a Liberal Ministry called in the police to put them
out of Court.

APPALLING MURDER—The Kilkenny Pa-
pars, received in town, contain accounts of a murder
committed at Garyduff, near Kilkenny,ria Sunday morning
last, provoked by disappointed love. The criminal and
his victim were fellow servants to Mr. Hely, and were
both paying their addresses to a young woman resid-
ing in their neighbourhood. On Saturday night they
both retired to rest in the same bed, after having
exchanged some angry words on the subject of their
attachment to the fair one ; and it is stated that about
four o'clock on Sunday morning Daniel M'Cabe aroie
and struck his more fortunate rival, James Comiran,
while sleeping, several blows with a stick or spade
handle on the head, which deprived him of life. On
Monday an inquest was held on the body of the de-
ceased, when a verdict of " Wilful murder" was re-
turned against M'Cabe, who was arrested and brought
into the gaol of Kilkenny-, to abide his trial.

The Bristol and Exeter Railway will be oven
to Bridgewater, a distance of 36 miles, May 31st. It is
on the same plan as the Great Western, but, if possible,
more smooth and easy. The Great Western Railway
will be open to Chippenham next Monday fortnight ;
there will be then only 13 miles to travel by coach, and
that over an excellent road. Your Paper may then be
had at Bath at 8 in the evening, and at half-past 8 in
Bristol. It is expected the journey from Bridgewater
to London on Whit-Monday will be performed by the
two railways in less than seven hours. The distance is
156 miles. From a Correspondent.

ATTEMPT OF A MOTHER TO DROWN FOUR
CHILDREN.—During last week a woman, living at Sau-
verny, near Gex, on the frontier of Switzerland, who was
then mother of five children, and, as believed, enciente with
a sixth, left one of them with a neighbour, and took the
rest with her to the banks of the river Versoix, and
threw them all in. They were carried down by the
current to a mill, but fortunately, 'the flood-gates being
shut, they were stopped from being drawn by the fall
under the wheel. A young man, with admirable cou-
rage and humanity, plunged in, and brought three of the
victims to land, while some women, who were washing
in the river, succeeded in saving the fourth. Proper
means were promptly taken, and they were all happily
restored. Meantime the mother disappeared, and no
intelligence of her could be learnt. Some apprehension
of further disaster was entertained, as the eldest of
the children, who is only eleven years old, has declared
that she had uttered threats of burning down the houses
of her enemies. Little doubt was entertained of her
insanity.

MAIL BETWEEN SOUTHAMPTON AND CIIEL.
TENHAM.—We understand that the Secretary to the
Post-office is instituting inquiries with a view of esta-
blishing a new mail between this town and Cheltenham.
—Southampton _lndependent. •
The Lords of the Treasury have consented to
allow Gulignanz's Messenger to pass through the Post-
office, the same as French Papers printed in the French
language.—Southampton Independent.
We have learned from an official source, that in
consequence of the extensive preparations required for
the grand ball in behoof of the Spitalfields weavers not
being in sufficient forwardness, her -Majesty has been
graciously pleased to authorise its postponement until
the 23(1 ofJune,—British Queen.

ANOTHER SHOCEING STEAM-

BOAT ACCIDENT.

A little past six o'clock last evening, as the st,,am
tow-boat Henry Eckford, Captai❑ Tice, was leaNing
the dock at the foot of Cedar-street, North River, and
just as the escape of staam through the chimney had
been rtopped, her boil2r burst with a tremendous ex-
tearing her machinery and upper works to
fragments, and killing or wounding nearly every one
on board, as follows :

Captain Tice, blown sixty fret across the slip, over
the like boat in tow, into the water ; one leg broker,
and otherwise severely injured—not scalded. His re-
covery is doubtful. _

--, engineer, terribly injured ; both legs
broken ; not scalded ; can hardly recover.
-- Welsh, of the lake-boat in tow, was killed out-
right—struck by a piece of the cylinder, and terribly
mangled.

One fireman killed outright.
Another fireman nearly killed ; limbs broken.
One passenger in a state-room on deck, llmbs broken.
One deck hand had his head badly cut and bruised
by flying fragments of the boiler.
A son of Captain Tice had his wrist dislocated.

The Captain of an Eastern schooner alongside was
knocked over by the water from the toiler, and one
side of his face slightly scalded.
The Captain's wife (in the cabin) was immersed in
water from the feeding cylinder, but not scalded.

The engine, piston, smoke-pipe, shafts, and upper
work, wheel, pilot-house, deck-cabin, &c., were blown
completely away—most of them into the river, so that
they cannot be found. One half the boiler is pushed
forward, and remains on the boat, the other half was
blown into the river. The steam and contents of the
boiler were blown out aft, so that very little injury by
scalding was experienced. The wreck was taken in
tow by the Citizen for the foot of Seventeenth-street,
East River ; but she was sinking so fast that it was by
no means probable that she would reach her destination.
The Henry Eckford was probably the oldest steam-
boat running in the vicinity of New York. She was
built some seventeen years ago by Eckford, and has
been used as a tow-boat on the river and in the harbour.

The customary stereotype phrase on such occasions
imports that " No blame can be attached to any one."
We cannot use it here. It seems to us that there was
gross recklessness of life evinced in the running of so
old and worn-out a boat—that her engineer must have
been unqualified for his station—and that the United
States Inspector, who examines and licenses boats, has
been grossly unfaithful to his duty. We will not pur-
sue this subject now, but await further developments.
A man who was on the wharf at the time, remarked
to us that he was looking at the Eckford as she started,
and heard her squeal when the escaping steam was
shut off. He instantly observed—" There is too much
steam on—we had better get away from here." The
next instant a roar as of cannon was heard, and a cloud
of steam, pierced by flying fragments of boiler, engixe,
works, &c., proclaimed thAt the boat was a ruin.
We understand that three or four persons are miss-
ing in addition to those abovementioned possibly
escaped, but more probably blown into the river dead.—
New York Tribune.

BIOGRAPHY OF M. SAY.
(Abridged from the French of M. Blanqui,)
M. Say was born at Lyons on the sth of January,
1767 ; he belonged to a family of Protestant refugees,
and was the eldest of three boys. His father, a re-
spectable merchant, gave him a substantial education,
and sent him to England in order to learn the English
language, and to get acquainted with commercial matters,
&c. It was then that a circumstance, apparently trifling,
produced a deep impression upon his mind, and deter-
mined his taste for the study of political economy. At
the period when he was at a boarding school in a village
near London, the door and window tax, which is
known to be extremely severe in England, had just been
voted. Young Say occupied a small room lighted by
two windows, and his master found it a very easy
matter to ged rid of one of tbem, in order to escape
the tax. " Here, then, am I, deprived of a window
without the Treasury being any the richer. What,
then, will be the use of this tax ?" exclaimed the young
economist to himself ; and thirty years afterwards he
published, in his " Complete Course of Political Eco-
nomy," the curious chapter "On Taxes which bring
❑othing to the Revenue."
The events of the Revolution turned aside Say from
the career of commerce. He published several po-
litical and literary works. He established, in con-
junction with Chamfort, Ginguene, Amaury, Duval,
and Andrieux, the " Decade Philosophique," and
he continued for six years to hold the chief editor-
ship of that collection of writings. In 1789 he was
appointed a member of the Tribunes' office. The First
Consul, who had divined the tendency of his mind, en-
deavoured to seduce him, but could not conquer his
natural repugnance to taxes on articles of consumption.
The Tribune rdused the lucrative appointment of
Director of the Droits Reunis, and was soon ejected from
the tribunate. It became necessary for him to seek, in
works of industry, the independence which public offices
denied him, and he established a manufactory for the
spinning of cotton. He settled in the department of
the Oise, and subsequently, upon a larger scale, in that
of the Pas de Calais, being by turns engineer, archi-
tect, mechanist, and potter ; by this rude exercise of
all trades he learned to know and to analyse the pro-
cess of the various arts.

It was in 1803 that the first edition of the
" Treatise on Political Economy" appeared, an im-
mense work, which was completed successively in five
editions,
which
h perfected the doctrines of Adam
sminsure an immortal fame to M.
ith. and
What w
will
Say are the demonstrations by which he supported his
theory of Means. This theory, founded upon a scru-
pulous observation of facts, proved that nations only
paid for products with products, and that every law
which forbids them to buy, also forbids them to sill.
Say extolled the liberty of commerce in the teeth of
the continental blockade ; and also the alleviation of
taxes, in consideration of the increasing exaggeration of
the droits rennis. The spectacle of the Imperial
regime caused him unconquerable aversion. He could
only behold in the Emperor a wholesale dissipator of
capital, and an inflexible destroyer of men.
Say profited by the peace to revisit England, with a
commission to ascertain the industrial condition of that
country. He was received with great distinction by
the great economists of that period—Ricardo, Malthus,
and Jeremy Bentham. He was made to sit down at
Glasgow in the chair of Adam Smith, a signal and deli-
cate honour, with which he was deeply touched. Tne
brochure which he published on his ret Ira, entitled
"England and the English," displayed his strong anti-
pathy to extravagance on the pact of Govern-
ments. This was followed by the " Catechism of
Political Economy." He also published under the
title of " Little Volume," a collection of ideas
written in the style of Franklin, aid stamped with an
artless ingenuity, in which the caustic satire of his
mind is quite predominant. This little book pourtrays
him better than his other works, and describes him as
he existed in private life—sceptical, bantering, an enemy
to all prejudices, rigid in his morals, independent, in-
dustrious, and economical. The satirical powers of his
mind ever delighted in exercising themselves at the
expense of men without fixed principles, the number of
whom is always great in periods of trouble and political
changes. He speaks thus--" A man without princi-
ples meets another who possesses principles ; they talk
together, and they both despise each other. Which of
them most despises the other? Do you think that it
is the man who has principles ? You are mistaken ; it
is he who possesses none !"

The incrrasing success of his doctrines drew public
attention towards him more and more every day. His
works were devoured with ardour ; people desired to
hear him ; he gave his first lectures at the Royal
Athenaeum of Paris during two successive winters, with
great success.

Say had then to defend his doctrines against cer-
tain. opponents; the iniist formidable of whom were
Malthus, Ricardo, and M. Sismondi. The first
had just published his " Essay on the Principle
of Population," and a hazardous theory concerning
some of the phenomena of production. SA), addressed
five remarkable letters to him, which have been
printed in the collection of his posthumous works. He
ought to have attacked the terrible book of " Malthus
on Population," but be fully adopted all its conclusions,
so severely commented upon and unravelled by Ricardo
in his work upon the " Principles of Taxation." Mal.
thus condemned to celibacy two-thirds of the human
race. He scolded the children who thought proper to be
born without fortune, and announced starvation to them
in a paternal voice, whilst the eloquent M. de Sismondi
implored mercy for them from machines, and for their
parents from bankers. Ricardo coldly calculated the
number of victims necessary to be sacrificed upon the
alters of competition, as a General calculates the loss
of men indispensable for the blowing up of a redoubt.
Say died on the 15th of Nov. 1832, aged sixty.six
)ears. He left four children, two sons and two daugh-
ters. One of the latter was the wife of the Hon. Ch.
Comte, whose death the Academy will soon have to
deplore. Say did not belong
France, but he was a member of the principal academies
of Europe. to any learned body in

CHURCH-RATES.—
Preparations are making
amongst the Dissenters of St.p George's, St. Mary's, St.
Michael's of Coslany, and many other parishes of this
city, to resist the .proceedings of the Archdeacon by all
lawful means. Ilre may safely assert that no Church-
rats will, hereafter, be made in these, and many other
parishes of this city. To the end that they may be suc-
cessfully resisted, an Anti-Church-rate Association has
been formed, and every possible resistance will be made
to these demands. For this the Church-people have to
thank themselves ; the Dissenters having offered to enter
into a voluntary subscription for the expenses of the
Church services only to be insulted by the Church
people, who will not give way one iota while they have
the law on their side.—Norwich Mercury.
The municipal council of Nantes has just voted
the guaranteeing of a minimum interest of 4 per cent.
on a capital of 1,500,000 f. for the Nantes and Orleans
Railroad,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, May 15.
JACOBS V. DETTMAN.

Mr. noggins conducted the case for the plaintiff, and
Mr. Clarkson appeared for the defendant.

This was an action brought by the plaintiffagainst the
defendant for an assault and false imprisonment. On the
11th December the plaintiff was standing on one of 'the
bridges viewing the exploits of Scott, the American
diver, who lost his life some time since on Waterloo-
bridge. The defendant was also on the bridge, and, as
it would appear, close to the plaintiff. A sudden rush
took place, and in an instant some person collared the
plaintiff, and the defendant, who is a most respectable
person in the employ of Messrs. Rothschild, charged the
plaintiff with having attempted to tile a gold pin from
his neckerchief, and gave him into the custody of a
policeman. He was taken to the Compter, and the next
morning was produced before Sir Peter Laurie, who,
after hearing the case, was of opinion that the evidence
was not sufficient to show that the plaintiff had actually
taken the pin, dismissed the case, and set the plaintiff at
liberty.
The defendant's counsel contended that the defendant
had acted with the most perfect bona fides ; he felt some
one attempting to take his pin, and he found the plaintiff's
hand on his shoulder, and he had therefore been led to
believe that the plaintiff was the person, and accordingly
had given him in charge ; he had no malice against the

The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages, 51.

WALTERS V. WALTER.

Mr. James conducted the case for the plaintiff, and
Mr. Thesiger that of the defendant. From the statement
of counsel, and from the evidence produced on the part
of the plaintiff, it would seem that the action was brought
to recover a sum of 19/. ss. 10d. for money paid out and
expended and work and labour done for the defendant
when he was a candidate to represent the Borough of
Southwark in Parliament. The plaintiff was a painter,
and had been introduced by a person of the name of
Appleton, who was steward of a Gravesend steam-vessel,
to an attorney of the name of Rodgers, who, it was
stated, had acted as the agent of the defendant in the
conduct of the election. Mr. Rodgers, after some com-
munication with the plaintiff, said he should be happy to
have his services as a chairman of two of the commit-
tees—one at the Three Tuns and the other at the George,
both situate in the Borough. The plaintiff claimed
61. 155., being at the rate of 15s. a day for nine days, and
the residue of the demand was claimed for money dis-
bursed, some to cabmen, and about 21. to persons called
" Ruffs," who, it would appear, are persons in a profes-
sion of ancient and well-known standing in this large
Borough, and whose duty one of those gentlemen (a most
formidable looking personage) stated was to protect the
candidate from being torn by the mob of the other party,
and to attend before the hustings and hold up both
hands in favour of the candidate whose political senti-
ments agreed with their own, or, in more understandable
language, whose money they took for their performances.
Another sum was for regaling these gentlemen with
porter and gin. The captain stated that his regiment
consisted of from 30 to 50 strong, and that from long
experience he knew them all, and manfully well they did
their duty.
Mr. THESIGErt, on behalf of the defendant, felt it
necessary to explain to them the situation in which the
defendant was placed ; he had no doubt they well knew
that at contested elections there were very exorbitant
and very unjust demands made upon the different candi-
dates. If they knew the character of Mr. Walter, and
if they adverted to the amount of the present claim, they
would be perfectly satisfied that Mr. Walter would not
have resisted it 'unless he felt it was an attempt to impose
upon him, and he was determined to resist such an at-
tempt, although at the heavy expense which he (Mr.
Thesiger) must now admit must fall upon him. This
was the first time he had ever heard of a chairman of a
Committee being paid for his services. No one ever
thought that a person taking upon himself so responsi-
ble a position would expect to be paid, or would think
of making any claim. He had heard with astonishment
of the different charges made by the plaintiff, but after
the evidence- of one of the witnesses he would not resist
the claim to something, and it would be for the Jury to
say how much the plaintiff ought to have paid to him.
Lord DENMAN having briefly summed up, the Jury
said—" We find a verdict for the plaintiff for the full
amount."

Mr. THESIGER, with some warmth—How much is that
—what has been proved ?
Lord DENMAN—There are some of the items upon which
there is no evidence ; we must tax this bill.

Mr. JAMES—I don't wish to give trouble—what does
my friend seek to take off ?
Mr. THESIGER—I seek only to be charged with that
upon which there is evidence, and the Jury have fixed me
with that upon which there is no evidence.

Lord DENMAN having taxed off several items, the ver-
dict was taken for 131. 18s., allowing for 31. paid into
Court.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 15.
MARTINEZ AND ANOTHER V. GERBER.
_

This was an action to recover compensation for in-
jury done to a person named Goss, who was the plain-
tiff's traveller, through the alleged negligence of the de-
fendant.

Mr. Sergeant Bompas and Mr. Butt appeared for the
plaintiffs ; Sir F. Pollock and another Learned Gentle-
man for the defendant.

It appeared that Mr. Goss was travelling near the
town of Leeds, when the defendant came driving up, also
in a gig, at a violent rate ; the vehicles came into colli•
sion ; Mr. Goss was thrown out, his ar.cle was dislo-
cated, and other severe injuries were inflicted upon him
by the fall. The main charge against the defendant
was, that ke was driving a horse which lie knew to be
vicious ; and evidence was given by Mr. Goss of con-
versations in which the defendant had stated to him that
his horse had run away with him on several occasions.
The consequence of the accident was that the defendant
was prevented from following his ordinary pursuits for
some time, and the plaintiff in the meantime engaged
some one else.

Sir F. POLLOCK, on the part of the defendant, sub-
mitted that the action ought to have been brought by
Goss himself, and that these plaintiffs had no right f
action at all

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE thought that they had a
right to recover for the loss of the defendant's services,
as a master might for the seduction of his servant.

The Learned' Counsel then addressed the Jury, who in
the end found a verdict for the plaintiffs—Damages, 631.

DEXTER V. GIBSON.

This was an action for overworking three horses,
which the plaintiff let out to the defendant for hire.
Mr. Thesiger and Mr. James appeared for the plain-
tiff ; Mr. Sergeant Bompas and Mr. Cleasby for the de-
fendant.

It appeared that the plaintiff was a large livery-stable
keeper in Whitechapel, and the defendant a timber-mer-
chant at Stratford, in Essex. The plaintiff's business
consisted principally in letting out cart-horses to hire ;
and the defendant in February last hired three cart-
horses of him for an indefinite period. In a short time,
however, one of them was sent home very ill, and died
the next morning ; a few days after that the plaintiff re-
ceived information that another was ill, and before he got
to the defendant's premises that horse also died. The
third was subsequently sent home ill, but he did not die.
There were post mortern examinations of the two former,
and symptoms appeared of their having been considerably
strained. The evidence was very conflicting. The plain-
tiff's case was that they must have been cruelly over-
worked and ill-fed ; the defendant's case being that
every possible attention was shown to them ; that dur-
ing the time they were with the defendant they had
several days' rest, and before that time they had been put
to very severe work by the plaintiff himself.
The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE Summed up, and the Jury
found a verdict for the defendant.