The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-02 00:00:00

IMPERI.

AMENT,

110U5E OF LORDS, Fee. 1

PERSIA.

The Earl of RIPON gave notice that on Monday
next he would call the attentio❑ of the House to the
relations of this country with Persia. He could not at
present say whether he should do so in the form of a
relation or by question.
MEDICAL REFORM.
The Marquis of NORMA NBY presented a peti-
tion from Devonport in favour of Medical Reform.
CASE OF THE EARL OF CARDIGAN.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY brought up the Re-
port of the Committee appointed to inspect the jour-
nals of the House on the forms of the trial of Peers,
and also to consider the proper mode of proceed-
ing, in order to bring James Thomas Earl of
Cardigan to a speedy trial. The Report was not a
final ono, and he therefore begged leave that the Com-
mittee should be allowed to report from time to time.
The Committee had considered the matter referred to
them, and had come to the following resolutions :
First, that, as already a considerable delay had
occured since the bill of indictment against the
said Earl had been found, and as it appeared
most desirable for the ends of public justice
that the trial of the said Earl should take place with all
convenient speed, and whereas, in consequence of the
destruction of the Houses of Parliament, the access,
it appears, from that House to Westminster Hall
could not conveniently be made, it was the
opinion of the Committee that the trial of the said Earl
be had at the bar of the House ; secondly, that
Tuesday the IGth of the present month be fixed for the
trial, and that all the Judges be ordered to at-
tend ; and, thirdly, that the Lord Chancellor
should write letters to all the Peers to acquaint
them that he expected their attendance on
that day at three o'clock ; and that in the letters written
to the members of the Royal Family their attendance
L 3 desired, and not ordered, by the House.
The Report was then received.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY then moved that an
Lutrible address be presented to her Majesty, praying
*bat her Majesty would be pleased to give orders for
iha necessary fittings-up of the House for the:said
trial ; and likewise that she would be graciously pleased
flo appoint a Lord High Steward to preside at the said
q.ial.—Agreed to.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 1.
There being only thirty-four Members present a
lour o'clock, the House adjourned till to-morrow.

POST-OFFICE.

HAMIWROTT, JAN. 18.—The nego:iationa with England
;or the reduction of the postage proceeds slowly. It dc-
panda chiefly on the Hanoverian Government how this will
terminate. The English Government naturally requires
reciprocity ; but we cannot reduce our rates while we
hi,vo to pay a large sum to Hauover for the pAssage of the
mails from Cuxhaven to this city. Before the establish-
'slant of steamers the packet-boats brought the bags to
Cuxhaven, when they were forwarded by land through the
Hanoverian territory. Now this is done only when the
steam-boats are prevented by the ice from coming up
the river; cequently in mild winters for a short time or
not all, and in evere winters for a few months only, and yet
we have to pay to Hanover the same sum as before, be-
sides the large sum paid to the General Steam Navigation
our postage has been reduced by the
Company., though o
Convention of Altona 33 per cent,

Colonel Bruin is now one of the sitting Mem-
bers for Carlow County. A tremendous price has been
paid for the honour, and enjoy it he may as
long as the
present Parliament continues—but not ore single instant
longer. We have already noticed the Reform movement
ih operation in Carlow for the effective registration of the
Liberal interest, and the decided success which has at-
tended it, even in the very ouset. —Dublin Evening Post.
About four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, as a
van belonging to Mr. Bates, of Ludgate hill, organ.
builder, was proceeding along Moor-street, Seven-dials,
containing a valuable organ, it suddenly broke completely
soros% just behind the fore-wheels. A man who was sit-
ting upon the organ was with it thrown violently to the
ground, and had both his legs broken. Ile was imme-
diately taken to Charing.eross Hospital. The organ was
oohed to pieces, and one of the horses injured.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the WOO]
sack at Five o'Clock.
EAST INDIAN PRODUCE.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH presented a petition
from the East India and China Association, praying for
relief from those grievances which formed the subject of
their petition. It had been laid down as a general prin-
ciple, that the commercial regulations affecting the inter-
course between the United Kingdom and the colonial
dependencies, and the mutual intercourse of these depen-
dencies with each other should be based on perfect equa-
lity, subject to certain exceptions where the permanent
interest of all the members of the trade might render
such exceptions necessary. 'I here was to be no advan-
tage given to one party over another either in the colo-
nial ports or in any of the ports of the United Kingdom.
Parliament was not to secure to any persons or compa-
nies trading to these ports any partial advantages what-
even. He would now state to their Lordships that British
manufactured goods were imported into Australia
free of duty, while a duty of 5 per cent. was
imposed upon the manufacture of India. Nov, it
so happen that the main part of the In-
dian produce imported into Australia was grain,
and that was only imported in times of distress
and privation, and yet that duty of five per cent. was
levied upon all the grain imported. When he had the
honour of preparing the Report for the Committee,
'Pe had suggested to them the propriety of reducing
the duty upon East India rum within the next
two or three years. The Committee, however, did not
feel themselves justified in assimilating the duty upon
all articles of %Vest India produce, not deeming it
expedient in the present state of the West India
colonies to include rum. He trusted, how-
ever, that the House would see the justice and
propriety of making a gradual reduction upon all the
artic'es of East India produce. If East India rum
was admitted on equal duty a great quantity of East
India sugar would be imported ; and looking at the
present high price of sugar in Great Britain, and the
privations to which the public were subjected, he trusted
there would not be a second opiiion upon the subject.
He had mentioned the subject with the view of
calling attention to it, and of inquiring of the Noble
Marquis (Lansdowne) what part of the report it was
the intention of her Majesty's Government to act
upon. _

- The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was glad of the
opportunity of stating that, having presented himself a
petition last year upon the subject, at the suggestion of
the Noble Baron, his entire concurrence in the subject
having been referred to a Committee of their Lordship s
House, ho had thought that course necessary from
the great importance of the trade with India, and from
the still greater importance of the claims of the people
of India themselves to the fullest measure of the justice
of the Mouse in all that regarded their interest—
he still retained the same opinion, and was glad to find
that his anxiety was participated in by the Noble Baron,
of extending to them without unnecessary delay
those advantages to which he believed them justly
entitled.—( Hear, hear.) Having said so much
he would state his entire concurrence with the views
the Noble Baron had expressed last year, that the
report which the Committee had sanctioned and adopted
ought to be the foundation of all future legislation.
But it must be manifest to all who considered the mag-
nitude of the interests at stake, and how many those
interests were, that it would be impossible at
once to effect that change which, in point of justice,
it might be desirable to effect. It was admitted
that if any change took place, it might be a
change favourable to the interest of the pro-
ducer and trader in India, and in that view, he
explained, that on the fullest consideration of the state
of the supply of rum from the %Vest Indies and
from her Majesty's East Indian dominions,
her Majesty's Government were prepared to propose
to Parliament to do that which, when the Bill came to
be introduced, it would be easy to prove was not only re-
concilable with justice, but with the interests of our
West Indian colonies themselves, namely, the equaliza-
tion of all duties on rum, whether produced in
her Majesty's dominions in the East Indies, or
her Majesty's colonies in the West Indies, leaving,
of course, to the West Indies the advantages
which they derive from their geographical position.
If the removal of those restrictions upon the commerce
al India had not already been effected, it was not be-
Qause there was any doubt as to the propriety and
'Antics of the proceeding ; and he had no doubt
that at the very earliest moment an extension
of Indian commerce would take place. Many of
-those matters to which the Noble Lord had alluded,
particulat cotton, were so connected with questions of
revenue that k was impossible not to see it would be
necessary well to consider the subject before alterations
note made. Not only was it necessary to pause in
forming any opinion on the subject, but even when that
opinion was formed it would be inexpedient, in re-
gard to taxation and revenue, to state that opinion
before the Government was prepared to act upon it.
He certainly was not aware at present that it would
be possible to extend that relief to the growers of cot-
ton, but he considered it to be a most important ques-
tion, and one that ought always to be present to the
minds both of the Government and Parliament.
COPYHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL.
Lord BROUGHAM stated that he should to-mor-
row move the second reading of the Copyhold Enfran-
chisement Bill, and afterwards move that it be referred
to a Select Committee.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE DAILY I' IPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Post, as protector of its noble patrons, is ex-
ceedingly wroth at the historical reminiscences of the
house of Strangford, which have been revived by the
clumsy attempts to aid the electio❑ of the Hon. Mr.
Smythe. Allusions to the " virtues of his ances-
tors," and to the " eminent public services of his
father," the present Viscount Strangford, did not
originate with his political opponents. Had the
Tory Press been content to rest the Honourable Mr.
Smythe's claims on his own personal qualifications
—his superior wisdom—deep experience—commanding
eloquence—inflexible integrity—or any and every virtue
with which they might have thought fit to invest him, as
likely to reader him acceptable to the Canterbury
Tories, we should have looked no further than the subject
of their praise, and should not havo imported his progeni-
tors into the controversy, nor regarded them as parties in
the cause. The Tory Press, however, was not content to
rest the Hon. Mr. Smythe's cause on the basis of his own
character. The claims of " hereditary virtues" were set
forth by his Canterbury supporters ; and the Times
paraded " the public services of the father " as an ar-
gument to enforce the pretensions of the son. What-
ever there was of argument in such claims—if
those who urged them really supposed they could
impart either strength or ornament to his cause
—surely such have no right to complain if their
argument is overturned by the evidence of in-
dubitable records of recent date, and thus demon-
strated to be utterly destitute of truth. If we have
plucked the laurels of " immaculate ancestry" from
the brow of Mr. Smythe, it was because he had no
right to wear them. The journals of the Irish Parlia-
ment (1784), and the records of the Court of King's
Bench in England of 1828, are open to all ; and these
public documents attest that we have not shown up the
" blushing honours" of the Strangfords on idle rumour,
or without enabling all to investigate the validity of
the proofs we adduced in justification of our state-
ments. Whatever annoyance or injury these state-
ments have occasioned to Mr. Smythe, is chargeable,
not on us, but on his supporters. Had they never ven-
tured on advancing such claims in his behalf, their
futility would never have been demonstrated by such
evidence.

(From the Standard)
A Correspondent of the Times states that " Mr.
Coppock has been sent down to Canterbury, and
sits down as the presiding deity in Mr. Henniker
Wilson's Committees." We have no desire what-

ever for a melee with that truth-suppressing law
which is known by the name of the law of libel, and
we shall therefore at once refer to the Report of the
Ludlow Committee, and to certain late law proceedings
arising out of the Ludlow election, for information
as to the character and profession of Mr. Coppock, if
any one should happen to stand in need of informa-
tion on these points. \Ve may, however, we hope,
say with safety, even though we have a Liberal
to deal with—Liberals being always the great
movers of the law of libel—that Mr. Coppock is
a broker in a particular lint ; that his profes-
sional practice at Ludlow was very bold, and pur-
sued by him to a very great extent—how boldly
and how extensively may be seen in the report, and
in the legal proceedings referred to. Now, a broker it
is known is a dealer between two parties, and they who
employ a broker, as well as the others who favourably
entertain a broker's propositions, give the plainest proof
that they are not unfriendly to that peculiar department
of trade in which be prosecutes his industry ; nay, give
the plainest proof that they are desirous of doing
business in that way. 'Well, the Ministers have, it
appears, sent Mr. Coppock to Canterbury, from which
it is evident that they are anxious to do business
in the Coppock line of brokerage. The Ministerial
party at Canterbury have accepted the Govern-
ment agent as the presiding person in their com-
mittees—proof that they are not averse to Coppock bro-
kerage. So far the commercial negotiation has advanced ;
but it remains to be seen to what extent will the
electors of Canterbury admit the traffic. It must be
quite clear that every elector who receives the broker's

overtures, even for a moment, shows his willingness
to deal, though he may haggle a little about the price.
Indeed, if there should be anything illegal or criminal
in the matter of the brokerage—the man who does not
turn with indignation and resentment from the first
advance of the broker—the population which does
not repel him with scorn, acknowledges that he or it
has but a slight or qualified objection to crime, and
to the violation of the laws.

(From the Courier.)
The four election contests now in progress constitute
the special feature of the day's interest. So far as
Reigate and East Surrey, we are entitled to assume that
the contests are more in name than in reality, for we
hold it an in-possibility that the respectable constituency
of East Surrey should accept upon any terms the re-
jected of Ludlow, with the disgraceful certificate of
character endorsed by a Parliamentary Committee
upon the election petition, with his name and that of
the notorious Mr. Coppock his agent. And as the
return of that amiable and accomplished gentleman,
Mr. Edmund Antrobus, who brings an honourable and
unimpeached name as the guarantee for his pretensions
and professions, is secure, as is universally believed, we
may also assume that Lord Eastnor is not lass safe for
Reigate, since we have it under the hand of Mr.
D'Arcy his opponent, strange to say, a fellow Con-
servative, that his cause is hopeless, and that he goes
to the poll only to redeem a pledge inconsiderately
given. It is no small honour as well as advantage for
the interests of a thriving community like Reigate to
be placed in the keeping of a young nobleman spring-
ing from the lineage, and emulous of the merits and
virtues, of the illustrious Somers. It is only, therefore, in
Canterbury and Walsall that the electioneering conflicts
may be said to hang in suspense, and that the W hips
or Radicals themselves claim to have any prospect of
success, whatever that prospect may amount to. Their
hopes are, indeed, founded in both cases upon the prac-
tice of the most unblushing bribery, and recourse to
the most ferocious intimidation against those conscien-
tious electors who are known and have intimated their
resolution to abide by Conservative principles as nobly
represented by Conservative candidates.