The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-03 00:00:00

THE SPORTING REVIEW.

" A Chapter on Cricketting; by Lord \Villi ;m
Lennox, and " The Late Sir W. W. Wynn, Baronet,
as a Sportsman," are both excellent in their kind, though
we think his LorOship would have displayed better
taste by singing in more piano strains the praises of the
iehmond family. The Derby and the Gold Cup
"cyf,y, of course, a large portion of this number, in
Which ample justice is done to the splendid scenes
the most magnificent, perhaps, to be found in any coun-
try. There are, as usual, some well executed plates,
?mong others a likeness of Little Wonder, engraved
°Y Prior after Hancock.

THE CHURCHMAN.
The observations on Bishop Barnett's characters of
Edward VI. and of Queen Mary possess interest, aud
are remarkable for a rare quality in this periodical
something like impartiality, cn matters connected with
the Church. The writer's object is to prove that the
virtues of the Protestant and the vices of the
Catholic sovereign were much exaggerated by the
stroeg bias which political but still more religious
feeling gave to the judgment of annalists during
that distracted rriod. The conclusion, therefore,
to which he comes is, that Edward, notwitstand-
Lig all the humanity attributed to him, hail " too much
Tudor blood in his veins," and that the Queen, in all
eases except where her bigotry was concerned,
to have justice administered with clemency and equity,
and in this he is borne out by some eminent Protestant
writers. Oa one occasion she evinced an anxious
desire for Church reform, and the Christian wel!are of
her people, which we wish the Protestant Church Re-
formers of the present day would imitate. She wrote
a letter to the Council on the subject of Church, in
'which are these sound remarks t—" Many benefices
should not be in one man's hood, but every priest ought
to look to his cure and r side upon it ; and she looked
on the pluralities over England to be a main cause of
the want of good preachers, whose sermons, if joined
with a good example, would do much good. and without
that she thought that their senices would profit little."
The iettrr a Durham Vicar denounciog Earl Fit z-

williant. is a fine srecirnrn of ChurcL-run-mad as airs
Corn-law rcralets, and the article on el,cralt
would have been more acceptable had it been longer.

CONINIEfICIAL JOINT-STOCK BANK, MAN
('HEsrEa.—'l he paid. up capi'al of the Bank is 260.0001
raised in shares ot each. There ore twenty-three branches
connected with the head office at Nanchestrt. This gives a
very limited cipital indeed to each, say ts,ol 01. allowing only
the mo, «rate sum of 70,0001. to the head office. As there are
many knawn very wealthy proprietors of this Bank. not only
:clatiehester, hut also in other towns, where branches are
established any ultimate loss is deemed quite out of the ques-
tion. 'I hat. there is a numerous body who Kept. their accounts
at the Batik and branches, and in the habit of receiving accom-
modation, who will be put to a serious inconvenience, there is
"0 d, uld, neither is there any doubt but that many will in eon-
Begin nce be compelled to stop altogether. ( n.e of ocr wealthiest
srierolc;nts purchased on Wednesday last 400 or 500 sh•res in
this Ilanl^.. at 2/. is. 6d. per share ; and, as the ;:entleman was
Prtvionsly rict only a large shareholder, but also supposed to
1"' intimately acquainted with the affairs of the estalalishment,
the eircum,tanre is looked upon as a favourable omen that
all will end well. The engagements of the Bank are said to be
enn,idei able, and will pr, ',ably exceed 1,000,000/. sterling
This occurrence will, it is to he feared, operate most prtju-
nicially on the market for some time to come : indeed, it has
already been felt—many spinners full manufacturers, some
directly and others indirectly interested, will, it is certain, be
compelled te raise the ways and the means at any sicrifice.
The Bank has been brought into this dilemma by excessive
advances to parties keeping their accounts with the establish-
ment at its various branches. A deputation of nine gentlemen
has left Manchester for London, with the object of laying before
the Bank of England the state of the Commercial Bank, and
to solicit, of course, the necesary aid, and that it may be soon
is most devoutly to be wished.
A lady was asked by a gentleman, " If Queen
Victoria were to die, who should we have next ?" "Oh !"
said the lady, '° we should have the Devil in Ernest then." The
gentleman, who was a person ,f rather a serims turn, quietly
remarks (2, " There is many a truth spoken in ju st."
A farmer at Hilldyke Bar, its SibAty, has at this
time in his possession a s'oev, that at three litters, within two
days of twelve months, produced the immense number of fifty-
- twu a.) the first, sixteen; sN.A.vrid,--leveatee a; and
last week, ainetaen.--Desto:

LIEUT.-COLONEL CAMPBELL

AND THE COLONIAL OFFICE.

FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE.

Whitehall, July 2, 1840.

Sir,—l beg to forward the enclosed correspondence
between Lord John Russell and myself respecting Mr.
Under-Secretary Stephen, which I shall feel obliged by
your inserting in your paper.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
11. D. CAMPBELL, Lieutenant-Colonel.

(Cory.)—No. 1.
Downing street, June 27, 1840.
SIR,—By the direction of Lord John Russell, I
transmit to you the copy of a letter which was addressed
to his Lordship yesterday, the 26th instant, by Mr.
Stephen, inclosing copies of a correspondence which has
passed between yourself and that gentleman on the sub-
ject of a statement attributed to you in a report in The
Sun newspaper of a public meeting of the British and
Foreign Anti-Slavery Convention.
Supposing the accuracy of the report in question,
Lord J. Russell thinks it necessary to ascertain from
yourself what is the ground on which you made a state-
ment reflecting so mucu discredit on the public offiecrs
of a colony, of which you were so recently the Lieut.-.
Governor, and appearing to impute to a member t
this department a culpable negligence in regard to so
great an abuse.
Lord John Russell, therefore, directs me to request
that you would inform him whether you are correctly
reported to have stated that the women brought into
Sierra Leone in slave-ships, were given away to any one
who chose to come and take them, the officers of the
Government having the first choice ; end that Mr.
Stephen knew that as well as you did.
If this be really an accurate quotation of your lan-
guage, Lord J. Russell would wish to be informed what
are the grounds on which this statement rests, whether
the abuse in question prevailed during your own admi-
nistration of the government of Sierra Leone ; whether
it was ever reported by you to her Majesty's Govern-
ment, and at what 'hue.

And whether you ever adopted any measures for the
prevention of it, and what those measures may have
been.

I am, Sir, your obedient bumb'e servant,
(Signed) R. VERNON SMITH.
To Colonel H. D. Campbell.

(Co .)—No. 2.

Downing-street, 26th June, 1840.

My LORD—On Wednesday, the 24th inst., I re-
ceived ( I know not from whom) a copy of ?he Sun
newspaper, of Tuesday, the 23d inst. In that news-
paper, I found a report of a speech, attributed to
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, the late Governor of
Sierra Lcene, in which that officer is made to state
that I knew as well as he did, that the women brought
into Sierra Leone in the slave ships were given away to
any one who chose to come and take them, the officers
cd the Government having the first choice.
If I had really rosscs,cd this knowledge, I should
have ben guilty of a very culpable failure in my duty,
in not communicating it to your Lordship, or to any of
your predecessors. Had Colonel Campbell's speech
represented that the fact in question was known to her
Mpjesty's Government, to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, or to the Colonial Department, I should
at once have forwarded The Sun newspaper to your
Lordship, for any measure you might think proper to
found upon it. But as Colonel Campbell was made
to wtribuie this knowledge to myself personally and
individually, I thou ht it my duty, in my own per.
sonal character, to request him to state whether he
had used such expressions, and if so, then on what
grounds he attributed this knowledge to me.
Trstrrdny, the 25th inst., 1 received a note from Co-
lonel Campbell, asking whether he was to consider
my communication as official. I immediately answered
that my letter was not official—that it was not written
by your Lordship's direction, or with your knowledge,
but that, when I was in possession of the Colonel's an-
swer, I proposed to lay the whole correspondence be-
fore you. . _ _

I have now received anwlier note from Colonel
Campbell, in which he states that my intention of
laying the correspondence before your Lord,hip seems
to him to stamp it with so strong an official charac-
ter, that lie must decline offering that explanation he
would have been most ready to afford me as a private

I inclose the whole of these letters for your Lord•
ship's information. As far as as the matter affects my-
self personally, it is necessary for me only to state that,
until I read Colonel Campbell's speech in The Sun news-
paper, I never heard, and had not the very slightest
knowledge of the facts to which he there refers.
I can, of course, state this only from my recollec-

tion ; but, after the most repeated consideration, I find
my memory a complete blank upon the subject. And on
inquiry of other members of this Office, who are most
likely to rewember the arrival here of any such intelli-
gence, I find them, like myself, entirely uninformed
respecting it.-1 have, &c.
(Signed) JAS. STEPHEN.
To Lord John Russell, &c.

(COPY.)—No: 3.

Whitehall, 30th June, 1840.

MY LOAD-1. have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of a letter trom Mr. Vernon Smith, of the 27th
inst., addressed to me by your Lordship's order, with
the enclosure of the cepy of a letter from Mr. Under-
Secretary Stephen to your Lordship.
I will not cavil whether the expressions attributed to
me in The Sun newspaper are, or arc not, literally
correct. They sufficiently indicate the spirit of the
meaning I intended to convey.
Your Lordship, in referring to the newspaper, will
find that the extract sent to me by Mr. Stephen, and
subsequently partially submi:ted to your Lordship,
was preceded by a question with these words : " But
what was the practice which he found ?" To this
question the extract was in answer; and I regret to
repeat that this practice was in existence on my as-
sumption of the Government.
I took, however, immediate measures for its discon-
tinuance, which I reported to the Colonial Secretary
in my dispatch, No. 150 (sth Sept. 1836), and which
despatch I have this day seen in the Colonial-office,
wherein your Lordship will find the following passages :
'lle women were disposed of to any person who
would take them." " I have as far as possible checked
the bad effects attending the giving away the women,
by sending them to the villages, and placing each
with r the care of a resident married female of good
character."

Having thus far sati,fied your Lordship in respec
to the erounds of a spec eh delivered by me at I pub-
uneetioe, I request your Lordshp to order that 1
may be furnished with the copy of the despatch
%,shich 1 have refeired, for the purpose of publication,
as 1 feel it (WC to myself, atter the manner I have
been called triion her explanation, to leave no doubt
upon the public mind as h the truth of my assertion,.
Your Lordship will no doubt notice with surprise
that the above extracts from my despatch ;are almost
the very words attributed to me at the public meet-
ing ; but, from the tenor of your Lordship's letter,
your astonislinn nt will be still grester, when you find
that the reply to that despatch, No. 106 (Ist Dec.
1836). does not contain the slightest alluson to any
sine of my representations in regard to the state or
apprenti..eship, which I characterised as being " sla-
very of the worst description," nor does it contain any
remark upon the treatment of the women.
This reference to my despatch, and to the reply re-
ceived to it from the Colonial-office, must satisfy your
Lordship that I did not " impute to Mr. Stephen, a
member of your Lordship's department, a culpable ne-
gligence, in regard to so great an abuse," without abun-
dant justification ; and I cannot comprehend how that
gentleman, with these documents existing in the Colonial-
office, could venture to assure your Lordship that " he
had never heard, and had not the slightest knowledge of
•hese facts, and that his memory was a complete blank
on the subject ;" nay, further, that he should attribute
a similar want a recollection and information to every
other person. in the department. But this denial of Mr.
Stephen's veil appear still more strange, when I state
tat his name is affixed to the copy, in your Lordship's
office, of the despatch sent to nie.
Having answered the questions which your Lordship
has put io me, I take the liberty of saying that I feel
at a toss to understand upon what ground your Lord-
ship, as Secretary of State, has addressed me in a
matter, in respect to which Mr. Stephen had, in the
first instance, appealed to me zoujie.'ally, and which,
the Wore, appeared to have been personal between that
gentleman and myself. Far, however, horn feeling any
regret at being thus called upon for explanation, I re-
joice in the opportunity, thus afforded me, of directing
)our Lordship's attention, as well as that of the public,
to a mi.tter very near and dear to my heart—the wel-
tare of he oppressed and deep'y injured liberated
Africans.
It is, perhaps. needless to inform your Lordship that
I shall publish this correspondence, in connection with
that which has preceded it.—l have tl.e honour to be,
my Lord, your most obedient servant,
11. D. CAMPBELL, Licnt.-Col.
To tits Right Hon. Lord John Russell, &c.

We understand that ore of the finest frigates in
the service, the inconstant. has tailed from Plymouth for Kings-
town, where, we have heard she will remain during the Regatta,
—Dublin Evening Pest.
ASSAULT ON TIIE POLICE AT BOLTON.—A
brutal assault was committed on John Thomas and James
Hilton, two of the police force at Bolton, on the sth of April
last ; the pa ties who committed it absconded. In consequence
of information received, the superintendent and Hilton went to
Birkenhead, near Liverpool, on Wednesday last, and arrested
two brothers, brielinvrkers, named Joseph Haslam and Robert
Haslarn, and brought them back to Bolton. They were taken
before the mauistrates on Saturday last, and clearly identified
by the officers as the parties who threw them down and kicked
them about the head. An alibi was attempted to be proved in
defenc:. ; but the Magistrates conceived the evidence to be such
as to warrant them in committing the defendants for trill at the
next Safford s,e”ions.•r-hloxcnaw:er Guardtm.

DEATH OF MAJOR AGLIONBY,

M. P.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

CARLISLE, JULY I, 1840.

SlR,—Having for some time witnessed your extra-
ordinary exertions to furnish early int'lligence, I am
induced, in consequence of a very sudden death having
taken place here this morning, to give you the necessary
particulars.

Our esteemed county Member, Major Aglionby,
whilst on his way to the Court this morning, to pre-
side at the Quarter :.;ossions, was seized with a fit, and
died almost instantly. This event has caused a gloom
throughout the town, and the Magistrates in court
assembled adjourned the business till to-morrow, out of
respect to the deceased. Two important offices are
rendered vacant by this catastrophe—that of Chair
man of the Quarter Sessions, •nd Member for the
Eastern Dhi:ion.

The Reformers will lose no time in deciding upon a
cardidate to succeed him.

In haste for the post,

I am, Sir, yours,

A CONSTANT READER.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

F RCM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The speech of the Duke of Wellington on the second
reading of the Canada Government 13111 will be read, if we
mistake not, by the country at large with feelings of
painful surprise. The circumstances under which this
Bill was brought forward—sanctioned as it was
by the almost unanimous assent of the Upper Cana-
dian Legislature, by the vote of the Legislative Coun-
cil of the Lower Province, by the high authority of the
Gosernor-General, by the loudly-expressed wishes in its
favour of the colonial population, sod especially of those
most distinguished for their loyalty and attachment to the
British connexion, and finally passed by the House of
Commons with a degree of unanimity on tue part of the
leading men of all parties unexampled iti the history of an
important legislative measure—these circumstances, we
say, had so completely satisfied the public mind of the ex-
pediency of tee proposed plan of uniting the two
provinces, as to induce them to look upon the question
as one too clear for discussion, and upon which no reason-
able man could entertain a doubt. This being the case,
it will not be without regret and surprise that the public
will learn that a man of the Duke of Wellington's de-
servedly high reputation has thought fit to come forward
with a public declaration of his difference of opinion,
upon this important question, from Sir Robert Peel and
the other influential leaders of his own party in the lower
house, by whom the Government measure was supported.
(From the Standard.)
About twenty Roman Catholic gentlemen voted in the
majority against Sir Robert Inglis's motion ; not one in
the minority. It is worth while to notice this fact, be-
cause it shows that if the question had been decided by
Protestant votes alone, Sir Robert's motion would have
been carried, and, as a necessary corollary, that the
Protestant Dissenters generally, as they are repre-
sented, and certainly represented in their full propor-
tion throughout the United Kingdom, are not
averse to extending the means of usefulness of
the Church. But though we think it right to let the
public know that the majority by which the hopes of a
Christian people have been defeated was a Romanist
majority, we are so far from blaming men for voting according
to their conscience, that we offer the conduct of the Roman
Catholic members who soled on Tuesday night as an ex-
ample most worthy of imitation. These gentlemen have been
returned to Parliament, chi, fly for the purpose of overturn-
ing the Established Church; their duty to t heir constituents,
in this respect, corresponds wifh what must be the admo-
nition of private conscience; and we frankly own that they
were free to follow the summons of duty and coneience,
unembarrassed by the oath which, upon other occasions,
they have teought it necessary to violate. Now let Pro-
testants
imitate this example when education grants and
Maynooth grants shall conic before them in Parliament.
( From the Courier.)
Amongst the numerous demonstrations of loyal feeling
to which the late atrocious attempt on the life of her Ma:
jeaty has given rise all over the country, we may particue
tally signalise a grateful evidence of an improved tone
of good feeling_ in the loyal addresses poured in, and
presented at Court, front those districts s• recently
distracted with insurrectionary movements and a prey to
Chartist delusions. In the Merthyr Guardian, as well as
in the Silurian of Brecon, we have perused with infinite
satisfaction the records of numerous meetings 'of the coun-
ties and towns of Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Brecon,
where with a generous unanimity and warmth of devoted
and dutiful attachment which testifies to the inherent loy-
alty of all the inhabitants, without distinction of party or
sect, the Throne was addressed in the most fervent lan-
guage of affectionate congratulation and thanksgiving fur
the providential preservation of a uatrcn's hope. It may
seem invidious, where all have deserved so sell, to select one
spot preferentially fur distinction arid remark, but we shall
stand absolved by the circumstance that Merthyr Tydvil,with
its large population of 35,000 or 40,000 souls, was more
eepecielly looked upon as the grand focus of revolutionary
principles in those parts, as, indeed, the head-quarters of
the rebellion which eventuated in the attack on Newport.
The larger portion of the misguided men who on that
occasion followed under the banner of Froa, sure from
that great mining district, and on it that daring man
relied for the further array of numbers and support by
which to accomplish the full measure of his nefarious de-
signs, whatever hose might be. This same town, so un-
fortunately distinguished of late, is now, however, nobly
retrieving its character. At a meeting numerously at-
tended, and composed to a large majority of the men be-
fore so lamentably known only for the most extreme
prevalence of Radicalism, addresses to her Majesty, Prince
Albert, and the Duchess of Kent, were unanimously voted;
moved and carried, moreover, L.y these whose loyalty from
late antecedents was erroneously regarded by many as
more than questionable.