The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-09 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPXNION.

The Times reads Mr. Roebuck a lesson of gentility,
with reference to his alleged interruptions of Hon. Mem-
bers in the House of Commons. Our Contemporary is
certainly well fitted to play the part of political Arbiter
Elegantiarum, so rarely indeed is it that lie offends against
courtesy in his attacks on public individuals ! We sub-
join his observations on this edifying theme :—" Nothing
could be further from our habitual civility, or more at
variance with our known respect for the humbler orders
of our countrymen, than to represent Mr. Roebuck as a
nuisance. Having been made an honourable gentleman
by dint of getting into Parliament, that elevated person
has an undoubted right to exercise the privileges
of his sphere—we admit it. That those privileges entitle
him to fling orange- peel at the principal performers,
or to have a sally at the dress-boxes now and then,
might not, if his class license were moderately used, be
reasonably complained of. Chartists, such as he, arc
chartered men ; and their occasional impertinences are
both expected and endured. But Mr. Roebuck and
his associates must not be permitted entirely to forget
their station. That he should be allowed to injure
everything at his mere pleasure is wholly out of the
question. If he do not know his just limits and
latitude, the lesson must be seasonably taught him.
In point of personal and political influence, he
is just as fit to take a lead in modifying the New
Poor-law as the one-shilling , gentry of Drurv-lane."—
So it seems that no one is to cry, " Hear, 'hear !" or
" Oh, oh !" when a Tory Member is talking nonsense,
except at the peril of hem.. denounced as a nuisance by
the thunderer of Printing-house-square ! Every Whig
and Radical must preserve a discreet—a sacred silence ;
there must be no disapprobation of Ministerial sayings
expressed ; if otherwise, the offendin(r party will be in-
stantly denounced by the Times. Our Contemporary,
being a staunch monopolist, is naturally anxious to keep
the monopoly of interruption in the hands of his friends,
the Tories, prefe-ring the bray of a Borthwick to the
" Oh, oh !" of a Roebuck. The truth is, he is jealous of
the latter gentleman's interference with his pet grievance,
the Poor-laws.

In another part of the, same article the Times makes the
following sneering allusion to Sit James Graham :
"We do not and cannot forget Sir James Graham's
highly objectionable demeanour as a Member of the
.Commons' Committee fur inquiring into the operation of
the new law. Unless that Right Hon. person have ma-
terially modified his views and temper in connexion with
this subject, we can only anticipate that he would and
wiil do everything in his power to prevent any essential
improvement in its provisions and machinery."-It :was
but the other day that the Times was lauding the great
political sagacity of the new Home Secretary, yet now a
shrewd doubt is expressed of the wisdom of his " views,"
in reference to one of the most important subjects that
can engage the attentionof,the Legislature !
The Advertiser contains the following remarks on
Poor-laws:— " No more tinkering of the Poor-laws will
suffice to mitigate, to any perceptible extent, the seve-
rity of that distress which Sir Robert Peel admits to
exist in the manufacturing districts of the, country. The
Poor-rate is but a clumsy and inefficient attempt to com-
pensate by legal charity the injustice done to the indus-
trious classes, by depriving them of an equitable share
of the produce of their labour. Jf laws are made to
force the rich to-give. alms, surely they ought to be made
to force them to give a just participation to active indus-
try of the wealth it is the means of creating. This
would supersede the necessity of such a demoralizing de-
pendence as that which now exists bets' ee.l the poor and
the rich, rendering the former disconttnnd and the lat-
terapprehensive.."
_ _

Tile Morning Post advocates the policy of the Corn-
laws in this left-banded fashion :—" The Corn -laws. are
undoubtedly a restraint upon trade. They are unques-
tionably a limitation, and a very important limitation of
its freedom. -• But other things more important to this
nation than absolute and universal freedom of trade de-
mand that native agriculture should be, up to a certain
point, guarded from the probable effect of unrestricted
fo;•eign competition. What would be said of the reason-
ableness of a man who should insist upon regarding the
question of the policy of the laws against the publica-
tion of libels, blasphemies, and seditions, merely upon
the principles of free publication ? Would not such
a person be at once set down as very stupid, or so con-
tracted of mind as to be incapable of considering a
large question upon broad foundations ? No one will
dispute the importance of the general principle of free
publication. Neither do we dispute the importance of
the general principle of free trade."—And yet, though
our Contemperary is perfectly aware of the importance
of the principle of free trade, he supports one party
who take office avowedly on the principle of restriction,
and opposes another who advocate his own views on
the subject ! He, who does not dispute the importance
of free trade, sides with a Monopolist Ministry, who
think it a sheer humbug I Such is party consistency !
We quote the fbllowing from the Herald The
circumstances which have caused the late change of Ni-
nistrv—the serious position of public affairs to which the
new Administration, after a long exclusion from office,'
succeeds—the unusual time for the assembling of .the
present• Parliament, and the necessity fur the holding of
another Session at the beginning of the next year—all
induce us to believe that, with the 'completion of those
measures which are indispensable to the public service,
and the passing of a few that are required by pressing
necessity, the business of the present Session of the Le-
gislature will close. The demand which the new Mi-
nistry will thus make on the confidence ofthe country is
,
anything ha :extravagant ; they will ask no more than
every Ministry has',poSsessed from time
in-upeinorial—
the epportunity'!'of, a recess from public business to
devise and 'ecimplete: such plans as they may deem ne-
cessary for the Welfare of the nation whose destinies
they control."

The Chronic&
by addressing a memorial to the
Queen. says The ...Manchester Conference
set a good example
this
re-
sponse of the people to her Majesty's appeal has been
quashed or intercepted. Ily factious management and
trick, the constituencies were made to answer a different
question from that which it was her Majesty's purpose
to submit to their decision. There is no doubt whatever
upon this fact. is so stated and affirmed, over and over'
again, by Tory journals and Tory statesmen. The con-
stituencies, under ail the influences to which they
suhect, even they
hnleostsmt-tilliimi,:ldtito(ii.thNeolricoaln stlttiraarim
;ed through the landlords' Parliament.
ammilitsilthcerCbm:ll,‘,,ys
It
will not, find its way through a Tory Government.
Let it be borne at once to the toot of the Throne. Let
receive that respectful response from the
ih,l,eirili.tiitsysl'tl)mich has been refused by the bread-taxing few,
in the plenitude of their power and triumph, All Anti-
Corn-law associations and meetings, ail societies or COP-
regations co-Operating with them, should address the
Queen. Let them reply to the yet unanswered appeal
and disregarded speech. And it may not be ankiss to
take
care that such addresses reach her Majesty. Peers are
entitled to present them personally,"—'Phis r
his is'a d
hint, which, we trust, will be generally acted on by the
people.
The Tyne Mercury-thus speaks of the prospectse- of the
new Ministry :—" If Sir Robert should ad
ultras, it is quite impossible he can manage The'LG' (tit :et"
Inuit. If he should go over to the moderates, the Govern-
ment.
would oppose him to time utmost. Indeed, the Tory.
papers are now openly admitting that he and his pro-
posed colleagues are very awkwardly situated. They

seem to see from present circtin;standes-that their party
will probably have but a very :short reign ! let this i 3
the party of whom we have been told that its members
hold together in such a way that nothing could separate
it, or split it, or in any way divide it—that it was tirm
and impregnable—that like a hollow square of British
infantry, it set all opposition at defiance. I Alas! their'S
is, indeed, a very ho4ow square I"
The Brighton Guardian contains the following
re-
marks on the New Cabinet :—" In the present Cab
the manufacturing and town population has no reps"
sentative. It is therefore not only completely one-sidea
as to party, but as to classes and pursuits. It is ruA
only Tory, it is wholly landed ; it is not only wholly,
landed, it is also anti-commercial. It is the MinistrY,OF
elass'and a sect. The very names of those whel:Cain-
pose it are ominous. Amongst them are fanatie'S for
high-church principles It is a 'Ministry of extreme
opinions and a, narrow party. It must be looked.on
hostile to dissent as well as trade, as the patron equally
of fiscal and religious extortion."
The Dublin Pilot observes :—" Peel 'is made. Prime
Minister upon the principle of persecuting our country,
and preserving menope.y over all. If. lie falsities the
principle upon which he is chartered, he betrays
trust, and will fall unpitied by both parties. Bittlie acts
already true to his principle. The man whobis'Alreail
made Jackson a Solicitor-General, must re-establish
prineiple of the Kildare-place' Society."
• COMMERCIAL ;:usroara.
On Tuesday evening an influential' mcetinga the itiJ
habitants of Somers'-town was held, at the Betvili'il;
Chapel-street, Somers'-town, to comider•the-existingk"
—Corn-laws. The'room was very:;crowded, and!rivi6
Sidney Smith spoke. resolution. Was passed„ legs
mining the, organization •of a i-A.rilti-,Corti *lair Assoeio
tion, to be 'called. the 3 " Somers'-ituwti and St; PalletA
Anti-Corn-law Association." : • ';; -. •
In Worcester, and'yariaus abet ',Wages, several/lei)'
ings have been held at the Wealeyin and
ir indepentlo,l;
chapels, of full congreations4;listening to the details
the late Manchester Conference, and engaged in prayee:,
meetings to alter the conditiisit.of-ihe'sullering poor, an.
,
put away complaining in the streets; •

AGIZI:CTJLTURA*
At Newcastle the harvest is pretty. general, and wiA,r
entirely so before the )yeck closes. hough thecrot*o
thin, little injury has been sustained. .

NAVAL AND ME L1T.8.73.1r.
Two first-rate Indiamen have been recently burnml in
the port of Mauritius.• The David Scott, of Load
June last, having on board a very rich eArn-o, ignited d,.
a spark in the spirit-room, and was consumed ,ito
water's urge. The loss is 30,00 Cd. On toe 21srof the
same month, the magnificent ship the IlepitblielOOkr67'
it is supposed from gunpowder on board, and -wag fit
totally consumed ; this ship is insured. Both, fotlui
nattily, were unattended with loss or life. ' ' •'.
The magnificent vessel, Belleisle,' after sailing to I)d`r
lin, has returned to Cork, She hasitow weighed atter-
for Plymouth, whence she proceeds to the Alediterranettru.

LAW AND POLICE.
On Tuesday Jules Le Jeuue, a, Frenchman,
charged at Union Hall with committing an Assault
qp
Mr. John Maddox, at Vauxhall Gardens. The /44
had incautiously addressed some ladies, but begge4,P",
don. Le Jeune, however, kicked him in the abdolta
and injured him severely. The defendant was ca,
upon to find. sureties fur his appearance at the Sessiqta
George Charles Smith, of Wellelose-square pctht-_,
open-air preacher, known by the title of " BoatilK
Smith," appeared at Guildhall before Alderman 00
on a charge of causing obstruction by preaching in..
tholomew Fair, with a group of children about
habited as soldiers and sailors, singing hymns. AI
ae'
man Pixie remarked that he had heard of Mr. Smith as
a worthy preacher, and a doer of much good, and !lA°
should be sorry to interfere with such a man. Mr. 'Steil':
had stationed himself in the middle of the pens, so tbl"
no obstruction had been caused.

ELECTIONEERING.
At a meeting recently held at Trentham Inn, it ', ,
's„s
determined by the electors of the county of. Stafford
present Edward Buller, Esq., M.P., with a piece of plate,
as a testimony of their esteem for his conduct in Parli3-
ment as their representative.

SCIENCE AND ART.
The report that Mr. Faraday's indisposition obhg€
him to discontinue his scientific labours is totally untO,
Mr. Faraday, though temporarily indisposed. has I.`'
covered, and is now enjoying himself in Switzer '
in excellent health and spirits.

TIZZATZLICAL.
Mr. Davidge, the ' proprietor of the 'Surrey The3tre
died on Monday night, after a protracted illness. It ni:
at this theatre, it may be remembered, that Mr. re`-pti ,
Borthwick first appeared as Othello, when he cleared 01
House as effectually as he cleared St. Stephens Ille
other evening.
There is no truth in the report that Mrs. Nortol is
about to appear on the stage.

COUIVr—rASIIIONABLE.
The departure of the Lord Lieutenant will not o.ol°
tki"
place till to-day or, to-morrow, when Lord de GreY
rives to succeed him. Lord Fortescue, it is believed,
10.%
hold an undress levee on the morning of his depart
and afterwards proceed from the Castle to Kingstotir
The Duchess of Kent arrived at the baths of
gen on the 28th ult.
LordWharnelifle will give a Cabinet dinner to-day' ale
Lord Hotham is improving in health, but is still all-
to attend to his Parliamentary duties.
The Duchess of Buceleuch has accepted the office 0,"
Mistress of the Robes, lately held by the Duche66
Sutherland. v.ris
The Earl and Countess of Granville are to leave
in
Ca ortnight or Nice.
of mmodoref Sir Charles Napier and family arrive'T
Havre on Sunday from Southampton.

MZSCEILLANEOUS.
It is rumoured that, from a letter received, anotheti;
mittance of 1,000 dollars will be forwarded frow
York to the Repeal Association, on the 10th of SePt,
ber, a day chosen, it is said, as the anniversary o'
American victory over England. tor'
The Chronicle says—" We hear the Marquis of A.:lt,
donderry has refused to accept any diplomatic
ment from the monopolist Ministry." How' cruel 0f ~c 6
Noble Marquis ! He was just the sort of man to re Pi
lustre on such a Ministry, whether we regard his
quence, his statesman-like coolness and sagacity, or
incomparable genitis for discovering mares'-nests.

COURT CR.
The Marquis of Exeter IRCULA
arrived at ClarepOitti
park at twelve o'clock yesterday froth town-1.31d
had an audience of his Royal Highness Pllijof
Albert, and also of the Queen. The Ea L'''
Rosslyn, the Earl of Uxbridge, and the Prbe
Delawarre, arrived at Claremont soon[afteQy
Noble Marquis, and had audiences of her-i'
jesty and his Royal Highness •Prince'Albert•
In the forenoon Princc Albert went out-511°
ing in the Park.
The Earl of Listowel and Mr. George Ed‘v3t(l •
Anson rode in the Park yesterday morning„.•
His Serene Highness Prince Ernest Of Pe d,
Philippsthall, attended by the Rev. J. R. W°o'
left Marlborough House, Pall-mall, soon °her
eight o'clock yesterday morning, on a visit t°
all,
Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Sudbury °doll
His Serene Highness travelled by the Lo°
and Birmingham railwa. -
A meeting was held yeysterday at the reside4he
of Sir Robert Peel, in Whitehall-gardens, ws
was attended by Earl de Grey, Lord Eliot, Plo.i
Stanley, Sir James Graham, and Sir gee?'
Hardinge. Sir Robert attended 'at the Tit
sury in the afternoon, accompanied by
Thinnas Fremantle.
ti Si!
Dr. Nicholl, M.P., had an interview vi7",.e.o'
• Robert Peel yesterday afternoon, at his '-
dente in Whitehall-gardens;
The Marquis of DoWnshire, the flight Itr•
J. W. Croker, and Colonel Darner, had no
views with Sir James Graham yesterdaV
, alit
Home-office.
Sir Henry BouVerie had an interviecde.
Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial.oeiotc"
Mr. C. R. Pemberton has been apVil
Private Secretary to the Chancellor ofitbe
chequer. .
•
rtle
afternoon,Chanllc:f
yesterday the Dxciiegtrer left
cfUte
fir Cainbrid e. ~3d
a{3
leaving town the Right Hon. Gentleman
interview with Sir Robert Peel. 00
The Marquis of Londonderry left tow 3
Tuesday.
•` ,•Pe
Tice Marquis and Marchioness of-Lansd°l°•
left town yesterday afternoon for their seat/ "
wood Park, Wilts.

F:r SGFeloirgOell
and Lady ouciToi,,EEks:L LIGEI**IC.
jilf:r33l;irlns;itsnitmeolGivicatity.inietialastiflcieitiamaitrdtriteleli,y,fl3:ffeit.r:.rrri
(liiitinSit
(toil
mu South sea ;; r. aft 73, risr.li sate°c4.eue:ctr:
Cumberland-street,
ttheirrec,
t,h Mrs. and itliss C`~t•cuil
ouse in (;harl
stt eet,
and Mrs. ~tiortoo 31r•
Harlev- •
for
EBiatudieinm;aniNtl)rr.,
Nottittghamsltt
and Mrs. Goddard, famt the Burlington "Mid' to,a
Swindon House ; Captain- John C. Vivian, 31-`,'"'
Lady,
John Harford, Esq., AL.P ,fru om ditt the Puke '• ;
bufera and suite;rr from the Brunswick Hotel,
Vis,eountess Stuart, from ditto, for "Norfolk . 6.1 r ols
and Lady Lawson and familv, from ditto, ibr 13rt0i,ro4
Edward Heneage, M.P., and Mrs.•lleneage'
,i;tot
ditto, for. LiLeoln ; Colonel Conolly, M.P., t'roin front
'for Ireland ; R. Eaton, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. :Egionin..,lol.
ditto ;C t Coma and o ,
untuss Chabular, from. lt.
Paris ; H. Dover, Esq., from ditt:,, for Norib'toont
Sanderson, Esq., M.P., and the Him. 'Mrs. San",
from Belgrave-square, for Gunton. Tad:, Norfolk..
ARRIVALS. • •
Lads' Charles Bentinek and family, from a tour tote;;
Lloyd'Clayton, I.:sq., in Portmansquare, from
lain
Mrs. and Miss Ravenseratiffr9m 'Miss Cotton s'itt
grove Manor house ; Rev., Ilatzh
Bath Hotel, from Bacoasfield: •

•
At a General Monthly Meeting of the Clia't heir
of this town, held on Wednesday evening last at ietiol'
meeting-room in Portland-street, the folOving
tr
was carried by acclamation :—" Resolved, tnt
thank:, of this ni4;eting are due and are truly
pre,.`ii,
to Captain Pecheil, one Of the Members for thyv3 borcn'ca•
for his manly vote in -support of the addition to theijorti
Cress to the Queen, as ino-ad by Mr. Sharinan
in the:l-louse of Commons on baturday last.
"--Brl9
Guardian,

RNING StLIS

CONDUCT ,OF THE BRITISH

IN INDIA.
['We copy the following article from the Times
of Tuesday, because we heartily approve of
its principles, and because the reprobation it be•-
stowsi on acts of brutal oppression, committed
abroudi.!by our people, cannot be too widely
spread, nor too much enforced. It may serve
to' cheek similar excesses at home, and serve to
snub that arrogant spirit, essentially Tory-and
arl4fOcratic, from which all such excesses How.]
We repeat frdm Saturday's paper the account of one
of trio outran* in India, which, if our Correspondent's
aeetei,nt of diem is fair, are about as atrocious as ever
asgraced' Anglo-Indian history :
" Kbelat i Ghilzie, an old fort, was thought to be a
'very proper place for a post of the Shah's troops, so
two battalions and some horse were sent to take posses-
sion of the place. No opposition whatever was offered,
but on the arrival of the force at its destination, three
volleys of musketry were fired, and some salvos of artil-
-ICrY.---I believe in the Shah's name. This had a very equi-
vocal appearance in the eves of the G hilzies of the neigh-
liMerhood, who did not understand it; and asLieut. Lynch,
the Political Agent, was riding past a small fort, at some
li!t9e. distance, the next day, I believe, accompanied b;y an
.1110,rt:of cavalry, he saw a body of men, thirty or forty
an nuinber, who retired, as he advanced, towards the
gate. To'threaten them, he galloped towards them with
the
cavalrYPlttietfselsav drew their swords, flourished
them in the air,, andigot: into-the fort- Lynch summoned
lheplace, and the citild, one of Shah Soojah's most stanch
hdhtrent's in thoshiparts, sent word -that no evil was
twarit, that thensenhad not understood, the movement,
and.that he woubbpaaA2is respects next morning ; but
this,wauld:not sultitge' fiery Lieutenant; an express was
*erst;off for a regirvient",and,the guns, which arrived in
the course of the night ; the place was attacked at once,
.4"1"4-74fe, the- 41-Attfir blown in, and the fort stormed ;
but gone of the ,defenders, of
the place were- killed,
deSperately,
t,hting.•
awl a) -gate,: le. poor chief among
twb or three -survivors wounded. Sir
scot ttiwierf; but the
th _ tnaghten is. said lo have :been very angry at
Governor-Genet-al's sentiments. hava
made whether Lynch will be
rtes
his' lo;onli!tieilttipliayment, which he
limey ,„; rtes.' The affair' IMS not, however, ended.
te Gliilzies, who are a powerful tribe of about
'OOO strong, turned out to a man, as might have been
tehxPeete used' "Ind- swore ma the;:Koran to • have' revenge for
insult and injury, and for the innocent blood of
their people. No attempt was made to pacify them,.or
to explain the affhir ; indeed, what explanation could be
? And they-are to be coerced."
NOW, t us try to make this case our own. Sup-
pose French Canada in revolt, and the English popu-
lation engaged.in concert with a tribe of North Ameri-
can Indians in putting it down ; how should we feel at
hearing that the, first act of a detached body of Indians,
under the command of an insignificant chief, on
arriving at tho post •which they were to occupy, had been
to stores the position of an English officer of distinction,
and massacre him with " all but four " of the Loyalists
under his comMand;after an amicable message from him,
professions of alliance, and an offered explanation of what-
ever might be suspicious to them, merely because his men
had galloped about and brandished their 'swords in
is Way which the said insignificant chief did not (as
should be?) understand? Still more, how should
•4we feel' if our allies, the perpetrators of this wanton
slatighter, had been, not ignorant savag,es,-hardly know-
ing themselves what they were at, or against whom they
were employed, but instructed Americans—Men who
',Ought: to have learnt what national laws, faith, and
mercy are—and, to draw the parallel closer, allies who
lad shown no slight disposition to wrest from us the ter-
ritories which they were professing to protect ? What
kind of compensation should we not demand ? How
should we be satisfied at hearing that " the President's
sentiments had not been made known, whether the
American commander would be dismissed from his em-
ployment ?" Should we not say promptly and angrily,
" You must do that, and more too : you have done a
frightffil wrong; you must take the consequences : you
must humble yourselves. for what you, through your inca-
pable agent, have done ; you must not encourage your in-
struments to think that human lives, the lives of their allies,
are to be sacrificed in mere carelessness ; and if they do
think so, you must, by some tignal example, convince
them of the contrary ?" And if it so happened that we
were at that moment the weaker party, and unable to
right ourselves, what should we think of American jus-
tice and American mercy, if we heard that in New
York people said, " It was a sad affair—quite a mistake,
certainly ; but the English Canadians had- taken it up so
warmly, that accommodation was impossible ; receding
'was out of the question ; • the matter must take its
course ;. fresh troops, might be. easily:sent out ; -and, if
the quarrel went on, English Canada must be ' coerced?' "
Or let its put the matter to ourselves in another
relation. If one of our own officers had committed
this kind of rtrocity, not in the north of India,
but in the centre of Europe—not, against a tribe
of 5,000 Ghilzies, but against r, power able to take
its own part, against_l7rance, or Russia, or Austria;
and if it were a case in which the public feeling of
Europe would plainly be called upon to express itself—
not one in it hich the mouths' of 'complainants may, (if,
indeed, they may) be stopped by extermination, but one
where the character of our quarrel, if one ensued,
would be known and judged by all civilized nations,
who would all demand redress for the savage insult
which had been offered to one—how would the English
station, or at least all that is honest in it, be pleased
at hearing doubts whether this officer, this standing
outrage upon all Europe, would be continued by Lord
Hill in his command ? Would not every one of us
who are anxious for our country's character feel
almost as if our personal honour were at stake ?
-Should we not feel each of us half disgraced till all
foreign Powers had been taught, .by some act of
justice as strong as our laws allowed that the nation
repudiated as an unbidden, unwarranted act of madness,
the outrage of its servant=—was ready, was impatient to
make all redress, all acknowledgment that could be
asked for the injury for which it was unwillingly re-
sponsible ?

Yet this would scarce equal what we ought to feel
Lere, for it is the helplessness of the sufferers which goes
liar to make the baseness of the imputed act.
Let men- give to the weak what they dare not deny to
the strong—to others, what they would enforce for them-
selves. Let us not think that these things have no disho-
nour in them because they are done a long way off, or to a
wild people, or to a poor people, or to a weak people.
We are running up an account in India that we shall
Lave to settle.; our empire . will not stand these acts of
,cruelty, or rather the morality which is not appalled at
them. Our Government has been an improvement on
that of the native Rajahs, or it would not have risen; it
must be an improvement on itself, or it will fill. If we
fear not God, we had best fear man : we are ruling over
millions by the muskets of thousands, and those thoii-
sands natives.; we are increasing those millions.—if
in
doing so we increase the odium in which they hold us,
we are collecting a weight to crush us.

"It will-not, nor: it cannot come to good."
Our mere strength is a feather in comparison with the
miss which is gathering over it. As a mere act of policy,
we must be just and beneficent, as well as strong. Men
tell us that we cannot appear to recede—that England
must not apologize to a weak tribe—that the prestige of
suceets will be destroyed. It will not. The shadow
will follow the substance. In action we shall succeed
by the discipline of our troops and the steadiness of
-their commanders ; and we shall have the credit of suc-
cess. But we shall lose what is of more consequence
than men think to avert that national rising which might
sweep us away discipline and all—the prestige (as they
call it) of truth, justice, and mercy..
Let those whose business it is act -; let them, that is,
first examine. We hope a Conservative Government
will make them. The alleged misconduct of this Lieute-
nant may be false. If so, It, is most necessary he should
be cleared. But it may be true ;' there is a prima fade
Case to demand inquiry. Audi altercim partem, but lose
no time about it, for till it is fully done we lie under the
stain of this act, and the not unnatural suspicion that
there may be many more like it.
811IPWRE-7—' -
CKED FIS H E RMEN AND
IVARLNERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
-..-.:l.4xcuoLy Loss LIFE.—The following letter
has bee' received 1i
Sh wreck ed F West, the Secretary of the
ishertynenira.nd Mariners' Benevolent So-
ciety, 6., Iluckhasbi, ry, London
Eyemouth, Sept: a, 1841.
toSIn communicate to you the particulars of
the followi g distressing_ case :—Oti the evening of
Friday, the 6th instant, a fishing boat, named the Jabeze,
belonging to this port., was lost of Marshall Meadows,
betwixt this port and Berwick, whilst prosecuting the
:herring fishery, and all the hands, five in number,
drowned, viz., Thomas • Dougal, John Dougal, his son
• George Dougal, another fisherman of the name of George
Dougal, and ,John Grieve, a landsman, employed in the
herring fishery. Thomas Dougal has left a family of
five children ; the youngest son is seven years old, the
eldest seventeen years. George Dougal has left a widow.
and five children, the youngest Only' six inenths, the
eldest not exceeding eight years of age. George Dougal
has left a widow and seven children, and the widow seven
months pregnant ; the youngest child is only eighteen
months old, the eldest only ten years. Such a calamitous
case has not occurred here fir many years, and I
hope that the Committee of Management of the Society
will lend all the assistance in their power.
Your most obedient servant, •
• (Signed) THOMAS BOWHILL,
Treasurer of the Eyemeuth Branch.
Edward West, Esq.

ENGLISH M A NUFACTU itEs.—l am more im-
pressed with the wealth and resources of England since
I left it, but lam less surprised at them. The compass
of this Portuguese vessel was made at Wapping ; the
quadrant in Holborn ; their knives are stamped "sheer
steel ;" the bell for the watch, and the iron of the wind-
lass, are from an English foundry ; the captain uses an
English watch, and calculates by John Hamilton Moore's
" Seamen's Complete Daily Assistant ." " sail-maker" is
stamped on one of the sails, and Le passengers are
dressed in TAlancliester prints or Leeds cloth. Every-
where it is the-mime-yott meet in the solitary mountain
paths of the almost-unitnown islands, a pedlar with two
square braes slung on each side of his ass, and see him
in the villages tempting the women with the bright
handkerchiefs and gay, prints from Manchester. In the
obseureSt village, the, neat blue paper needle-case from
Birmingham hangs from a string at a cottage door-way,
to tell that English needles are sold within ; and in
grossing in an open boat between two of the remotest
islands, Flores and Corvo, an English sailmaker's name
• am! residence were printed legibly on the sail. V--
tells me that the other evening he had just landed in a
fishing ;nun!c t—a lonely place at the mouth of a deep
ravine which parts two gloomy mountain ridges—when
his reveries were disturbed by a fellow passenger, who,
having caught sight of some village girls, suddenly ex-
claimed. " Look, those are all my prints."—.Residence in
the Azores.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS MORNING.)
WARWICK'. PACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs., with 30 added.
Lori Chesterield's All Fours ;5 yrs, 9st 41b
Mr. Denham's f by Pantaloon—Souvenir, 3 yrs,
7st slb
Lord Warwick's Syria, 3 yrs, 6st 13 lb
Mr. Isaac Day's Mulciber, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b
Mr. Goodman's Sister to Glencoe, 3 yrs, 7st 21b
Captain Pettat's Caliph, aged, 9st 61b,
BETTING. —l5 to 6 against the Don, and 15 to 6 agst
Caliph. Won half length.
The Avon Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, once round and
a distance. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Cooke's Sequidilla, ist 1116, walked over.
The Warwick Cup, by subscription of 10 sovs. each ;
4 miles. (29 Subscribers).
Mr. Wreford's Wardan, 4 yrs Bst. 31b (J. Day, jun.) 1
Mr. J. Day's Viola, 3 yrs. sst 81b
Mr. Collett's The Dean, 5 yrs. Bst 131 b 3
5t02 on Wardan. Won by a length.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; h. f., with 50
added. (6 Subscribers).
Mr. Holmes's Vulcan, 4 yrs, fist 7th 1 1
Mr. .T. Day's Tamburini, 5 yrs. Bst 1216 4 2
Mr. G'oodinan's Mungo Park, 4 yrs. ist
Mr. Morris's Fat Jack, aged, Bst 71b
The Hunters' Stake was not run for when our account
left.