The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC' JOURNALS.

(FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY,
(From the Globe.)

To blame the Government for every thing which it
does, and for every thing which it does not do—without
at the same time ever committing themselves to any de-
finite declaration of what it ought or ought not to have
done, is the arduous task of our Tory Contemporaries.
Such is the necessary consequence of advocating the inte-
rests of the most purposeless and dishonest Opposition that
ever attempted to embarrass the Government of this collo.-
try. On general questions, where great principles arc in-
volved, and tha purposes of the party may be served by
sounding declamation, not always couched in either the
best English, or the language current among well-bred
men, this task is not indeed very difficult, and may be
discharged, to the filling up of many
a column day after
day, with no particular fault except that of unmeaning
monotony. But wly.n we come to practical questions—
to matters in which something must be done—we see
in all its sterility the system of those who have no ob-
ject except that of thwarting and discrediting their pc-
Jitical opponents.

(From the Courier.)
In the debate on the clause proposed to be inserted
in the Printed Papers Bill, by Sir R. H. Inglis, the
Attorney-General observed, that be " hoped the
:stamped newspapers would continue to re-publish
.the reports of the House of Commons ; they were
lighly be: eqoial ; but he • opposed the clause intended
Ito protect them in this beneficial service, because " it
would be prejudicial, if not fatal, to the Bill, as it would
mot have a chance of passing through the other House."
We cannot, for a moment, entertain a belief that the
Lords, the uniform dispensers of public justice, and the
great protectors of popular rights, would reject the Bill
on account of a elau:;e, of which the principle is, that if
it be right to protect one party in the performance of a
service supposed to be beneficial to the public, others
engaged in the very service, with a thousand times more
facilities for extending its benefite, should be exposed to
prosecution.

(From the Standard.)
The Duke of Sussex and the other gentlemen who
attended at the Freemasons' Tavern on Thursday, to
protect the interests of Satan, and to enlarge the bor-
ders of his kingdom (for this, as we shall show before
we have done, was really their occupation), occupy
no very enviable place. There was, indeed, a display
of weakness and folly made by the speakers, happily cor-
responding to the wickedness of their purpose—for it
was scarcely the less wicked that the work of the enemy
of mankind was done rather for the sake of factious
or sectari❑n interests than for his owm sake.

It was until lately—and it may be there is still—
a charge made by our enemies, that we ultra Tories
are behind the intelligence of the age. What must
we think of the precedency of intelligence in the poor
pitiable Duke of Sussex, who talked of moving churches
from place to place, like booths transferred from fair to
fair; and, with grotesque gesticulation, determined the
roundest part of his person to be the seat of his religion !

CHARLESTON.—We have received Charleston
Papers to the date of Feb. 14. The bloodhounds which, in
the pursuit of their unholy purpose to drive the stricken
Indians from the homes of their fathers, the Americans,
availing themselves of " all the means which Ged and
nature have put in their power," have employed, to
hunt down their oppressed neighbours, have been brought
into active training. It may be remembered that the
fact of the transhipment of these unnatural emissaries,
which was in the first instance indignantly denied, has been
subsequently confirmed by the reluctant and official admission of
Congress itFelf. And now we are exultingly told by the pat-
tern Republic of modern days, that after the bounds had been
subjected to a series of experiments, "they” can rapidly, and
with certainty, follow a trail 24 hours old. Standard.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARen 20.

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The SrEtKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'Clock.
On the motion of Mr. ELLIOT the Roxburgh and
Selkirk Roads Bill was read a second time and ordered to
be committed.
On the motion of Mr. G. CRAIG the Cramond-bridge
Bill was rc:;cl a third time and passed.
On the motion of Sir J. Y. BULLER, Hausburgh's
Naturalization and Promoli's Naturalization Bills were se-
verally read a third time and passed.
Captain DUNCOMBE presented a petition from East
Retford in favour of the Corn laws.
Lord KELBURNE presented petitions from several
parishes in the county of Ayr zgainst the intrusion of Mi-
nisters.
Mr. MAUN S ELL presented a petition from the Poor.
law Guardians of a Union in the County of Northampton
in favour of the Poor-law Bill.
CORN-LAWS.

Mr. E. BUL LE Rlresented a petition signed by 4,300
persons engaged in one manufacturing and exporting of
china, praying for the total and immediate repeal of the
Corn-laws. Also from Newcastle and several other places
to the same effect.
Sir J: Y. BULLER presented petitions from several
places in Devonshire, in favour of the present system of
Corn-laws. _

Mr. DUG'DALE presented a similar petition from a
Board of Guardians in the county of Warwick. Also one
against any furthcrgrant to the Collge ?f Maynooth.
Mr. MACAULAY presented a petition from Nova