The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT of-the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING TAI'ERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
In a recent Number of the Times an attempt was
made to grapple with the allegation, that a Tory Mi-
nistry could not stand in the present House of Com-
mons. The speculation is rather curious than practi-
cal. While one Ministry does actually stand, it would
be rather an odd reason for resigning, that another in
its place might be able to stand also. The time was,
when by means of Government boroughs and other ap-
pliances, any party might have sustained itself in the
House of Commons. The Tories then showed no sus-
ceptibility to the force of the argument ; yet they seem
now to wonder that it dots not convince their op-
ponents. Clearly, they only resort to it for want of
a better. They lack the real argument by which
the duty of resignation is demonstrated to a Mi-
nistry ; the argument of a hostile majority.
The uneasy consciousness of that want, with
a restless impatience at the privations of pro-
longed opposition, drives them into these ingenious
constructions of the Government which they contend
ought to be, in the face of the fact that a different
Government is, and continues to be, notwithstanding all
their reasoLings. They are like an army letting off
curious fireworks to celebrate the triumph which it
might, could, would, or should have gained, had it been
able to rout the enemy with hard shot. Until the shot
tells, the foe will simply be amused at the fireworks.
It is silly to say that Ministers stick to office though
they are beaten. A beaten Ministry cannot stick to
office. This was the position of Sir Robert Peel in
1835. After sundry successful skirmishes, only prepara-
tor), the struggle was brought to a point, and he was
placed in a dilemma from which there was no other ex-
trication. Bring home to the present Ministers a simi-
lar argument, and Toryism may write its Q.E.D. on
the Treasury benches. But the Times has brought an
alleged fact of private political history to bear on the
discussion. In the spring of last year, when the Whigs
did actually resign, notwithstanding the tenacity of which
they are accused ; when they resigned on a provocation
which both Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Welling-
ton seemed astonished at their thinking a sufficient rea-
son ; there were, it is affirmed, sundry supporters of
the present Administration who intimated their readi-
ness to support a Tory Administration. On these gen-
tlemen, who, in the opinion of the Times, " had pushed
the virtue of constancy to a fault," reliance is placed
for producing a Tory majority in the present House of
Commons. Where, when, and how this offer of service
was made to Sir Robert Peel, the Times does not in-
form the public. We are left in the dark also as to
' whether it was coupled with conditions, and those con-
ditions accepted. Of the names and number of the
band thus prepared for desertion, there is no disclosure.
We must admit, however, that the Times is much more
likely than ourselves to be in the secret of such Whigs
as ate ready to apostatize to Toryism the moment that a
Tory Ministry is installed. It has earned confidence of
that description. Its sympathy could be relied upon.
(From the Times.)
The observations of M. Guizot, that the Eastern
question was now abandoned to accidents and subal-
terns, has been strikingly illustrated in the recent
events at Constantinople and Beyrout. While
everything here tended to the restoration of a better
sort of feeling, and to assuage that feverish excite-
ment which for two months past has vexed all
Earope, while two at least of the Four Powers have
evinced a disposition to make some attempt for the
renewal of frank and friendly communications with
France, and France herself, growing calmer and
cooler, began to feel that she had neither cause nor
pretext for going to war, the Divan of Ambassadors
at Constantinople, in whom all the authority of the
Ottoman Porte has merged, by their reckless and
precipitate violence, do their utmost to disturb the
retuning harmony, and rekin3le the flame which their
Governments arc exerting themselves to extinguish.
The bombardment of Beyrout, of which we have as yet
but imperfect accounts, was a very useless sacrifice of
life and infl.ction of misery, and the deposition of Mehe-
met Ali from the Government of Egypt was in all re-
spects objectionable. It does not become a great coun-
try to rattle these pasteboard thunders, to pronounce
sentences without any intention of carrying them into
execution, and to be obliged to explain, with rather un-
dignified alacrity, that such mighty acts of vigour mean
nothing at all We have reason to believe that the Gover-
nment of her Majesty have already notified to that of the
Tuileries that they neverreally contemplated the deposition
of the Pacha, and that they have merely threatened him
with the loss of Egypt in order to frighten him out of
the occupation of Syria. This assurance will probably
satisfy the French Government, and serve to allay the
irritation of public opinion, always too vivacious, and
ready to jump to hasty and unfounded conclusions.
Greatly shall we rejoice if this in terrorern deposition
produces the expected effect, and terminates a dispute
of which it may be said that it is quite impossible to
underrate the importance of its objects, or to overrate
ti., ..,;.chief of its effects. We are heartily sick of
Mehemet Ali, e! Syria, and of the whole subject ; it is
one in which Englani has but little interest, and it is
not without pain that we English sailors employed,
and hear of English blood spat, la this contemptible
contest.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
Language cannot furnish a censure more condem-
natory of the political system of England, nor a pane-
gyric more commendatory of the industrial character of
its people, than is to be found in the fact of a law
against the importation of corn being allowed to remain
on the statute-book, while the Legislature is at the same
time shamed into the enactment of laws prohibitory
of the operative from taxing his strength beyond its
natural effort in the desperate struggle to maintain an
unpauperisod existence. The picture is one at which
posterity will look with horror and astonishment. On
one side, the Legislature preventing the people from re-
ceiving the food offered to their acceptance ; on the
other, with a sort of mongrel humanity preventing
them from labouring to the excess to which their ne-
cessities would goad them, in the desire of obtaining
by their own exertions the most stinted necessaries of
life. To object to the limitation of labour prescribed
by the Factory Laws, would be considered to evince an
inhuman indifference
butto 3 Corn-laws
is
the sufferance of our over-
wrought
support the
by
which
accursed cause of these suffering
operatives r ati v es
arc
the landlords pretended to be the most patriotic act of
which a generous mind il susceptible.
a most anomalous Proceeding i.ur le. It is certainly
to resolve that the operativeshall the Legislature, first
a certain price, staid then to not have food Irdow
resolve that he shall not
labour to the extent necessary to
the law has raised his sustenance.pay the cost to which
despotism never acted with The most barbarous
ca-
pricious control of hum more ill-reasoned and
in this prostitution of an action than is exemplified
authority to results so diametri-
cally opposite. In plain
terms, what is the alternative
which such Legislation inflicts upon the man anxious
of
even at the expense a shortened, suffering, and de-
formed existence to sunport himself by his own
whatlabour,s
i
independently of
such man exposed'.' 1 7
~i :
ey i
extraneous
. ttoo r ? I,v
obvious—let
Legislators reflect upon it.
li repessbeueks
not to excuse
his destitution on the plea, " I cannot work, to beg I

(From the Ilioi ning Post.)
It is a strange thing, and by no means creditable to
the national good sense of Europe in the year 1840,
that two such kingdoms as France and England shout."
be upon the verge of war with one another iespecting•
the Government of Syria. What's Syria to us or we
to Syria, that two nations of mighty power and high
civilization should fall to the work of bloodshed and de-
struction because they have opposite views as to the set-
tlement of the affairs of this territory of the East ? The
balance of power in Europe is said to depend upon it.
Well, then, might not same other mode than that of
war be found out for determining that course which
is best for the preservation of the balance of power in
Europe ? England frankly declares that slie has no
other object in view than an arrangement of E..stern af-
fairs favourable to the general peace of the world..
There are five Great Powers that may be said to di
vide the political sway of Europe, aud, indeed, et ail
the world, save the American continent, among them.
These are Austria, England, France, Prussia, and
Russia. They all concur or say they concur, in wish-
ing for the general peace, and four of them concur in
thinking and in determining that a certain arrangement of
the Turkish empire, comprehending a r,-;•storation to
that Power of the direct government of Syria, will be
conducive to the general peace. One of them, namely,
France, cannot agree to this arrangement. Forthwith
she makes mighty preparations for war. What can be
more arrogant or unjust ? If the general peace be her
object, how can she suppose that object to be
advanced by resisting the arrangements of the other
Four Powers with respect to an external matter
which everybody allows ought to be arranged in some
way ? If the general peace be not her object, why does
she not honestly say what her object is and let it be can-
vassed and decided upon with sobriety and discretion ?
She hears the other Powers all declaring, not merely
1 by words, but by public documents, that they want no
acquisition of territory—no aggrandizement—no new
political influence by what they have determined upon
in respect of the Eastern question. If France have
doubts of the sincerity of these declarations and docu-
ments, why does she not say what it is she fears, and
ask for guarantees against the accomplishment of her
apprehensions? If she really desired the general peace,
this is what cotillion sense would •dictate. But instead
of taking a course worthy of a rational and thoughtful
and really civilized nation, she cries out for war—for the
clash of arras and the shedding of blood !
( From the Morning Herald.)

There are some passages in that elaborately verbose
document, published under the title of "Manifesto of
the British Government on the Eastern Question," and
bearing the signature of Lord Palmerston, which de-
serve to be brought under the particular- notice of the
British public, few of whom will ever have patience to
wade through the solemn dullness of the document
itself, and still fewer will be able to understand it.
There is one passage above others which we would
pl.lee in prominent relief. It is this :—" Her Ma-
jesty's Government has stated that it considers
Syria to be the key of Asiatic Turkey ; and that if
Mehemet Ali were to continue to occupy that province
in addition to Egypt, he would be able, at all times,
to menace Bagdad to the south, Diarbekir and Er-
zeroum to the east, and Koniah and Brusso, and Con-
stantinople, to the north. That the same spirit if am-
bition which has led Mehemet Ali on former occasions to
revolt against his Sovereign, would soon prompt him
again to take up arms for further encroachment ; and
that for this purpose lie would always keep a large
army on foot. Tha the Sultan, on the ether hand,
must see the danger by which he would constantly be
threatened, and must be obliged also to remain armed.
That thus the Sultan and Mehemet Ali would continue
to maintain large armies to watch each other ; that colli-
sion must inevitably ensue out of mutual suspicion and
alarm, even if there were no intentional aggression on
either side." Nobody of any intelligence wilt question
the correctness of the position that "Syria is the key cl
Asiatic Turkey." It is for that very reason we
wish to see Syria in the hands of Mehemet Ali, because if
it be not in his hands, who can vigorously govern and
defend it, it will soon and inevitably fall into the hands
of Russia, for the Sultan has neither the power nor
ability to prevent such a result. Russia does not wish
that the key of Asiatic Turkey should be in the hands
of Mehemet Ali, because she wishes to have that key
in her own custody. The Autocrat of the North de-
sires to have every facility possible for opening the
gates of Constantinople when his plans for the absorp-
tion of the Ottoman empire into the gigantic mass of
Muscovite dominion shall have become as ripe as those
by which in former days Crim Tartary, Courland, Mol-
davia, Wallachia, and Poland were so absorbed—=for
when it was seen that Moldavia and Wallachia were
compelled to furnish " contingents " to the troops of
Diebitsch for the subjugation of Turkey in the cam-
paigns of the Balkan, what can they be considered but
j Russian provinces?

TILE REGISTRATIONS.

MIDDLESEX.

The Revising Barristers held their Courts yesterday
at the Abereorn Arms, Great Stanrnorc.

Mr. COYENTRY revised the list of voters for the
parishes of Hendon, Kingsbury, Stanmore Parva, and
Pinner, and Mr. SHADWELL the lists for Edgware, Stan-
more Magna, and Harrow.

(Before Mr. COVENTRY.)
Thomas Carvick, described on the list as of the
Union Club-house, was objected to by the Reformers on
the ground that the description of the place of abode
was insufficient.

Mr. Coppock mentioned that on Saturday 'Mr.
Shadwell struck the name of Alderman Harmer off the
list because he was described as of a place at which his
letters were left.

Mr. Adey alluded to the case of Major Dowbiggin,
in which Slaughter's Coffee-house was held to be a
sufficient description.

Mr. Coppoek observed that there was no proof before
the Court that Mr. Carvick was a member of the Club,
Indeed, the letter sent to Mr. Carvick, at the Union
Club, almost showed the contrary, for the address had
been altered to " Portland-place, Southampton."
Mr. COVENTRY thought those who objected to Mr.
Carvick, ought to show he was not a member of the
Club. The objection was overruled, and the name there-
fore retained.

(Before Mr. SIIADWELL.)
John J. H. Humphreys, whose residence cra; stated
in the list to be" Exeter College, Oxford," was objected
to by the Reformers on the ground of cliatige of
residence.

Mr. Burnard proved the service of the notice of
objection on the porter of the College, who told him that
Mr. Humphreys had taken his degrees, and left the
College a considerable time.

Mr. Turner handed in a letter from Mr. Humphreys,
stating that he had resided at the College on tho 31st
of July last, and that the letter which had been ad-
dressed to him at Oxford, had afterwards been for-
warded to him in Ireland.

Mr. SHADWELL thought the letter of the party him-
self was better evidence than that of the porter, and
therefore allowed the name to be retained on the
register.
The following is the result of the day's proceedings

/
Overseers' Liberals.
made lust. made sust.
3 3 1 1
23 23 5 3
6 i 6 6 5
5 5 0 0
9 ( 9 6 3
5 5 1 0
5i 5 1 0
- - 1
56 t 56 1 20 1 12

Tories.
made I sust.
I 2 0
3 1
3 1
0 0
3 2
0
4 0

PARISHES.
Stanmore Marva
Hendon ...........
Pinner
Kingsbury
Harrow-on-the-Hill
Stanmore Magna
F.dgeware

15 l 4

T0ta1......

To-morrow (this day), and Wednesday, the. Revising
Barristers will I►old their Courts at the Suss ex Arms,

Hammersmith.

REGiarrtATloN.—North Warwickshire, Revi-
sion Court, Nuneaton, Friday, Oct. 2,184 O.—Samuel
Avis, and fifteen others were objected to by the overseers,
but the words '• objected to," were written irk the column
appropriated to the situation of the property, and not in-
serted as the Act directs in the margin agaiuit the name.
Mr. Morris, on behalf of the claimants, insisted that the
objections being made contrary to the express provisions
of the Act, the Court could not entertain them. The
claims were ail admitted.

A very great number of cases, under the deno-
mination of English cholera, have recently been admitted
to the Royal Free Hospital in Greville-street ; most of
them from among the more humble classes residing in the
crowded neighbourhood of Saffron-hill and Cow-cross.
The number of out-door patients suffering from diarrhcaa
is stated to be very great.
Jane Prest still remains in prison, where she
has been since Sunday the 10th of May, for " contempt"
of the Ecclesiastical Court, in not appearing to answer a
charge of " perturbation" in the church of Workington,
she not having been in the church for four years and a
half. The expenses on the "contempt" amount to 501.
, that this
The unfortunate creaturo has not fifty shillinds in the
prison for five
world; her littlm busin-:ss has been ruined, and her
sister, who was her par.ner, reduced to great poverty, but
death relieve her
—On Tuesday P
until the 501. tr, pain, from prison Jane Prest cannot be
released. It is a aisgrace to. the age that ouch oppraisio,
is to be allorred in n Christian country. It is at the suit
the North
The
Johntrofouth s. Ha
iri.drrin4loany,
CoEnstqi .n,two ftoWliiii,t,clutallvtei
in
poor
and stabbed the elder in the
rou stry .
woman his been lying in a cold and damp
vening tyro
from a'.l persecution —Carlisle. Journal.
Bridge, when the
Siatro us CASE,
,3:oouurnzgerladdrsewquaacrrlaeslipedknoiti.et,
arm severely, but not (alai nigrelfir wounded youth
was takwar to the Roy
reiniturd by the police to themvy. and his assailant was
being k:ompe.ent in the Felice : Lagistratcs, the case not
, nick. Court.—Edinburgh Chro-