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

Page 73.—" The history given above of the nego-
tiation of the treaty, and the analyzation of Lord Pal-
merston's speech, will have shown most distinctly that
the acrimonious accusations made by his Lordship
against the Portuguese Government were destitute of
foundation and of every appearance of justice. His
Lordship did not hesitate, in order to substantiate
them, to refer to the proposals which were made in
the course of the negotiation, and which had been
abandoned, as may be seen from the treaty negotiated
by me with Lord Howard de Walden, the only docu-
ment where the final pretensions of the Portuguese Go-
vernment are consign►ted—it being sufficient to per-
ceive this voluntary anachronism to destroy all the ar-
guments based on it."

" The narration of this transaction made in Parlia-
ment by the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, was believed,
as was natural ; but I have demonstrated that the re-
ality of facts was entirely lost sight of therein. Had
Parliament been in possession of the real facts, it
would not have given its consent to a measure con-
trary to the law of nations, and directed more particu-
larly against one which has been for centuries past the
ally of Great Britain.
" One voice, however, was raised in Parliament in
defence of the independence of Portugal—it was that
of the great Captain, who during six years, led the
Portuguese army to victory, when it fought as much for
the independence of its country as for the cause of
treat Britain."

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)

The Papers and gossips of the Tory party have, since
the division of Thursday, a new theme of reproach
against the Ministry. The offence alleged is indeed no
new one, being no less than the one all-comprising sin
of staying in the offices into which the Tories are
anxious to get. But it is supposed that a new argu-
ment is furnished by the rather more frequent defeats
which Ministers have recently experienced in the House
of Commons. Three times since the commencement
of the Session have they been in a minority ; and it is
urged that it has hitherto been customary for Ministers
thus uncertain of the support of the House of Commons
to resign the Government into the hands of their oppo-
nents. We might retort upon our opponents that Sir R.
Peel set a very different precedent ; and that the pre-
sent Ministers may surely hold office after three defeats
in a month, considering that be did not give it up after
three defeats in a single night. But the example of
Sir Robert Peel would be no justification for a deviation
from constitutional practice. The real truth is, that this
is a point in which the constitutional practice must neces-
sarily be regarded as entirely altered by the Reform
Act. If a Ministry were to retire for such defeats as
those which the present Government has experienced,
the consequnce would be that we should never again
have a chance of a durable Ministry. The questions
on which the Government has been in a minority
are not of the kind on which a defeat has been
invariably regarded as fatal to the Ministry. Lord
Liverpool's Government, in the days of its greatest
strength, experienced many such a defeat.

(From the Standard )
The Irish Municipal Bill is, we believe, to be re-
ported this night in the House of Commons. We pre-
suiee that the Conservative Members in that House
will make an effort to stop the progress of the pernicious
measure, as all their attempted amendments have been
rejected. If they have no prospect of success in their
own assembly, assuredly they can, at least, record
a protest, and greatly facilitate the rejection in tote
of the measure by the House of Lords. The letter
of the Duke of Newcastle to the editor of the Dub-
lin Statesman—(printed, by the way, as the context
proves, with an awkward mistake, " vile" for " vitai")

—has given rise to a very general, and, we trust,
a well-grounded hope, that the true Protestant Peers
will exert themselves to resist effectually this new
scheme for handing over the Protestants of Ireland to
the mercies of Popery. If the Illustrious Duke find
those who concur in his views to imitate his courage and
his singleness of purpose, there is an end of the deadly
project. We shall look with great anxiety to the votes
of these professing Protestants, an anxiety arising not
merely from a sense of the present mischief which they
are summoned to resist, but also from a conviction that
unless the aristocracy shall assert its independence of
party engagements and Parliamentary tracasserie.--
Let their Lordships examine the question upon plain
common sense principles, and there can be no doubt as
to the conclusion at which they will arrive.
(From the Courier.)
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'A standing, h stereotyped, boast with Lord Palmer-
ston, on each of those field-days when foreign policy
comes under review, is the lofty pinnacle to which
Great Britain has been elevated in the scale of nations,
and the super-eminent station in the opinion of the
world to which she has been exalted, under the com-
manding influence of his large, liberal, vigorous, and
enlightened administration. This is the theme ever
uppermost in his harangues, and on which he uses to
descant with most magniloquent verboseness. Never, if
we may credit him for one tithe only of his achievements,
since England was a nation did she stand so high in
general conception ; the mightiest of empires waiting on
her smiles, or trembling beneath her frowns. The
glories of Chatham and Pitt '' pale their ineffectual
fires" before the blaze of his triumphs, and the thunders
of Jupiter are impotent before those of ancient Cupid.
And yet 'tis strange how the great Colossus that doth
affect to bestride the world is sported with by the petty
things that crawl under its huge legs, or preyed on by
the larger class of Titanic creation. France gulps
Algeria at a meal ; the Gambia, Brazilian Gu:nea,
and Minorca, by way of bonbons and eau lucre; crown-
ing the enjoyments of the feast with divertissements a
la illexique and dla Buenos Ayres, Russia benevo-
lently trusses up Turkey far future digestion, reposing for
the present upon the repast of Persia, C, rcassia, and Khi va.
Prussia, less greedy and aggressive territorially, levies
poundage upon cottons and woollens only, and manages a
decent livelihood at our expense by highway rebbery and
the Zoll Verein. To Egypt, Consul-General Hodges, the
gigantic is despatched in terroretn, but the heroics of
the long Pedroite Colonel serve only to bristle the
longer heard of the septuagenary Pacha into defying
" quills of the fretful porcupine." Portugal, the grateful
debtor, remits to Palmerston more kicks than half
pence, and Maria da Gloria revenges the wrongs of
Miguel the monster, by taxing the trade and crippling
the resources of his British foe. Spain, too—ct
Brute—recompenses the slaughter of Hernani and the
ignominious rout of red-ribanded Evans with the
petty mosquito bite of a refusal of an English chapel at
Havana. Such is the descending scale of the gamut of
Lord Palmerston's jarring harmonics.

Count Nesse'rode (son of the Russian Minister
for Foreign Affairs at St. Petersburgh) arrived at Mivart's
Hotel on Friday, charged with important despatches for Baron
Brunow, the Russian Alinister, on a special mission. The
Count has since removed to the Embassy in Dover-street,
where he has been appointed Secretary of Legation.
BRITISH Loss BY THE FRENCH BLOCKADE
or BUENOS AYRES.-By a statement which has recently been
drawn up at Liverpool, and which shows in a striking manner
the most prominent points of the origin and present state of the
dispute between Buenos Ayres and France, it appears that all
the real damage occasioned by this war has fallen upon
British commerce. Mr. Mandeville, it is stated, had ac-
quainted the Government that the produce belonging to
British subjects detained at Buenos Ayres, amounted
to 400,0001. only, but it is contended that this account
was far below the mark, as it did not include manufactured
goods and bullion held by Briiish houses, or the amounts of
produce in the hands of German and American houses for
British account, or provided for by British advances. From a
valuation, founded on the official returns of exports in 1837, in
conjunction with information, it appears that the amount of
produce, on which British capital is advanced, or on British
account, is 955,0001., to which is to be added 105,000!., for
British manufactures, giving a total of 1,060,000!., the interest
on which at 5 per cent. would be 53,000!. Valuing the expen-
diture of British importing houses at Buenos Ayres at 16,000!.
it follows that the merchants sustain a yearly loss of 69,000!.,
exclusive of the capital sunk in property which is continually
deteriorating.

PENANCE IN CHURCH.—Between eleven and
twelve o'clock on Wednesday morning, Church-street was
crowded by a mass of persons who had either been to see, or
were anxious to see, a woman belonging to that class of per-
sons proverbially famous for their power of tongue, viz., a fish-
woman, who, clothed in white, had being doing penance in St.
Peter's Church, for having applied to a quondam female
friend, in the same calling, an epithet of the most unseemly
kind. This penance was performed for the purpose of warding
off a threatened prosecution on the part of the calumniated
dame, who, with a small troop of most respectable-looking
friends, went to church to witness the ceremony in a half-
broken small cart, the horse being ornamented with a few white
rags or shreds of ribbon, and a vouth inside, carrying a shabby
pro tempore flag, consisting of a piece of calico or linen at-
tached to a stick. The ceremony was, to the regret of many,
performed privately, in the vestry of the church. When the
repentant. fish-wife left the church, she, to escape from
the gaze and pressure of a curious and laughing crowd, got
into a hackney coach, and was driven away.—Liverpoo
Standard.

INADEQUACYOF THE COUNTY ALLOWANCES.
—At an inquest held on Friday before Mr. Carter, upon two
lads who were drowned, a Mr. Skettirell, to whose house they
were taken, inquired of the Coroner whether the county al-
lowed any remuneration for the trouble, inconvenience, and ex-
pense he had been put to. He did not mean to say he had
done more than his duty in affording every assistance he could
for the purpose, if possible, of restoring the poor lads to life ;
but they had been lying at his house now for four days, and no
less than four of his blankets had been torn up to rub the
bodies with. The Coroner said the allowance, as it was only
one inquest, was but ss. for taking care of the bodies ; but,
considering the case, he woulddouble that sum, and that was all
he could do. The applicant said four times that sum would
not remunerate him for the expense ho had been at. The
Coroner said he was very sorry, but he was obliged to confine
himself to the sums allowed by the county magistrates. Se-
veral of the jury observed that if persons were thus treated,
after behaving so humanely, it would make them and others
cautious for the future.

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CAUSE AND EFFECT.--We understand that
the sale of the New Moral World has increased more than a
hundred-fold in Canterbury since the commencement of the
lectures of the Bishop of Exeter on Socialism in the House of
Lids.—Kent Herald.
INIPORTANT REGISTRY DECISION.—It has
been at length decided that the claimant is entitled to his fran-
chise, if he holds a ten-pound interest in his possession, over
and above a portion of the entire rent, equal to the nun-deer of
acres in his hand, and 'hat the Barrister is bound to aprortion
;he rent at ; lie time, and to give the claimant his franchise 44-
ccadwg' Post.
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