The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-02 00:00:00

THE .SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1841.

POLITTP,CHNIC JOURNAL No. 25.
TVellington-s'reet, Strand.

The " Moral Treatment of Disease" is a medi-
cal paper, which endeavours to show the great
instrumentality which the mind possesses towards
the cure of bodily disease. This the author
styles the " Metaphysics of Medicine," and Kant
has himself shown how powerfully the effort of
the will can rule and conquer physical disease.
To the scientific, but to them alone, will the
achievements 'of " Kieseritzkiz, the Livonian
chess player at the Paris clubs," be acceptable.
The articles of " La Trappe," and " Latin and
Italian Literature in the Fourteenth Century,"
lead the reader back into the dusky past, when
all his time should be engaged in pushing on
into the bright future. A subsequent paper on
the " Mammoth Iron Steamer," squares some-
somewhat better with the arc, and " Mr.
Bain's Electro-Magnetic Printing Telegraph"
better still.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

VROlt THE MORNiNd PAPERS OF THIS Dit.Y.

POST.—Sir Robert Peel having acknowledged in em-
phatic language his Sympathy with the distresses of the
working people in the manufacturing districts—a sympathy
which 'every right-hearted man 'must feel—his party op-
ponents are not 'satisfied that he should have any credit
for this sentiment. What signifies it, say they, that he
feels pain at the condition of the distressed working
people, since at the same time he opposes the measures
which would reliever:them ? But is this assertion true ?
Does Sir R. Peel oppose measures which, if carried, would
relieve the distress of the people ? The unscrupulous
opponents who try to excite popular odium . against
him know that he does not. There arc, no doubt,
some who believe that the passing of such measures
as the defeated Ministry recommended would tend
to mitigate distress in the manufacturing districts ;
but of that number it is sufficiently notorious that Sir
11. Peel is not one. He believes exactly the opposite.
He thinks that such measures as have been pro-
posed would aggravate the existing distress. This ap-
pears.to be not only his opinion, but the opinion also of
large majorities in both Houses of Parliament, and of a
large majority of the Parliamentary electors of the
United Kingdom. And yet in the face of this, for the
purpose of exciting odium against Sir R. Peel, it is as-
sumed that the proposed measures would certainly have
mitigated the distress, and therefore that he who opposed
these measures can have no practical and genuine sym-
pathy with those who are suffering ! We can scarcely.
imagine a greater stretch of impudence than that of the
party writers who assume that the new system of taxa-
tion devised by the late Ministers would certainly have
relieved the distress which exists in the manufacturing
districts. We are not surprised at it, however, when we
call to mind that in his closing speech on the Address
Lord J. Russell assumed that the measures proposed by
his Giivernment, and rejected by Parliament, would have
given employment to the labourers who are now unem-
ployed.
CHRONICLE.—We have copied from a Contempo-
rary Journal a report of a case at Bow-street, on Tues-
day last, in which an individual of property, and con-
nected with the first families in-the countrya-was held to
bail by Mr. Jardine. We always reluctantly insert
cases of this description, and are not sure that public
morals would not gain by the absolute excluSion of them
from newspapers. We now notice the case merely with
reference to the point of bail. The object of hail is to
prevent the escape of the accused party, by which the
ends of justice may be defeated. The case tbr which Mr.
Bankes was held to hail, is one which men of fortune,
conscious of the truth of the charge, seldom meet. We
do not wish to prejudge Mr. Bankes. Notwithstanding
the very suspicious circumstances, detailed in the report,
he may have been a coward, and not a criminal.
But what we ask, and what the public are every
where asking, is, how came Mr. Jardine to demand no
higher bail for the appearance of Mr. Minims than he
would have demanded in the case of a mechanic or la-
bourer for any trumpery assault ? Is Mr. Jardine so
raw, so little acquainted with the world, as not to know
that in a case in which a rich man has a strong motive to
escape from justice, he can always obtain two sureties for
the paltry sum of 100/. each ? A rich man can have
little difficulty in indemnifying his sureties, when the
sum is only 1001 ; and, from the Bishop of Clogher
downwards, it is a matter of notoriety that bail is no
obstacle to the escape of rich parties. Mr. Jardine very
probably thinks that public morality is not benefited by
giving notoriety to these disgusting cases; and, as we have
said, we could wish never to see them in the columns of a
newspaper. But when a case of this sort is brought
before a Magistrate—when the Magistrate actually
knows that the accused party is a man of great wealtn
(and Mr. Jardine knew right well who Mr. William
Bankes was), we ask, if it is proper that such trifling
bail should be demanded ? What is this but strengthen-
ing the general impression that in England rich men
may always count upon impunity ; and that men suffer,
not for their offences, but their poverty ? Of all inequa-
lities the most offensive is that which wears the mask of
equality. To hold a drunken cobler for a trumpery
assault to bail for an amount equal to that demanded for
a man of rank and wealth, for an offence which carries
with it exclusion from respectable society, is a species of
equality which cannot be too much reprobated.
TIMES.—We rejoice that we may at last congratulate
the country upon the final transference of power from
the hands by Which it has been so long unworthily
wie'ded, into those of an administration which promises
to be as durable as the stanchest Conservative can desire.
It must be admitted, by all whose judgment is not utterly
warped by faction, that it would be difficult to imagine
a Government which should combine in its personal com-
position more of the elements of stability than that of
Sir Robert Peel. "Whether we look to the experience,
the ability, the influence, or the character of its mem-
bers, we find in each a certain guarantee of success. lho
Duke of Wellington gives to it not only the lustre of his great
name—a name which, like that of royalty, is a tower of
strength—but the weight of a judgment which, upon
all matters relating to foreign policy, and the internal
and external defences of the nation, is looked up to even
by his political opponents as little less than oracular.
The new Premier and the new Colonial Secretary are
men who far surpasS in eloquence and intellectual power
all their competitors in the House of Commons; and, in
the 'House of Lords, there is no man who can be com-
pared, in these respects, to Lord Lyndhurst (now for the
third time Lord Chancellor), except one whoae mercurial
and erratic genius has long disqualified him for coope-
ration with any political party. The acceptance of office
by noblemen in whom the agricultural interest places un-
bounded confidence is a complete answer to the insinu-
ation, of which we have already heard so much—that
the champions of that interest are unwilling to as-
sist in such a modification of the present Corn-
laws as Sir Robert Peel has intimated his intention to
propose, for the purpose of remedying the abuses and
evils connected with the present scale of duties. We ne-
ver gave them credit for being so unreasonable, and we
now see, in their accession to the -Government, a most
satisfactory security for the accomplishment of those ne-
cessary changes, without the slightest disturbance of the
union existing between all branches of the Conservative
party. The separation of the office of Chancellor of
the Exchequer from the Premiership, is most judicious,
and will form a salutary constitutional precedent for the
future.

ADVERTISER—Even were the demon of monopoly
to lay his clutches on -every other article of trade, it
might be supposed that at least one solitary exemption
would be made on behalf of food. To tax the staple
article of human food is to assume an attitude of anta-
gonism to the Creator and Benefactor of the world. It
is virtually to incur the guilt of audaciously telling the
Divine Being to his face that the bounties of his provi-
dence shall be intercepted in their course to his depen-
dent creatures. It is on the part o:' m mopolists an
avowal, by actions, if not in words, that his benificent
purposes shall be frustrated, and that the beings whom
be has made shall be deprived of that food which he
meant for their sustenance. And such is the appalling
effect of the Corn-laws at this moment ! Myriads
of God's creatures are at this instant enduring the
horrors of starvation through the operation of these
accursed imposts, who, but for them, would never
have known what it is to want their daily bread !
The Royal Duke, after laying down the axiom that
the prosperity of a great manufacturing and commercial
nation depends on foreign trade, and access to foreign
markets, concludes his protest by asserting the self-
evident principle, that a system of fiscal laws which ex-
cludes foreign produce, by imposing high duties on it,
for the sake of protecting particular interests, impedes.
on the one hand, the free course of industry, and on the
other, enhances artificially the cost of subsistence. The
present position of this country affords a painful proof
of the truth of this position. Our trade is not only im-
peded, and, indeed, brought to the very verge of extinc-
tion, by the fiscal restrictions and prohibitions which
stain the Statute-book, but millions of our population
are suffering as much from the effect of these restric-
tions and prohibitions, as if Divine Providence had vi-
sited the land with the calamity of famine. The protest
of his Royal Highness against mohopoly, in every shape
or form it may assume, appears at a most seasonable
moment.

HERALD.—We perceive that the third edition of the
Times is dated " twelve o'clock" yesterday afternoon.
That is, about the same time 'that Sir Robert Peel was
starting, by the Great Western Rai!way, to wait upon
her Majesty with the list of a Ministry FOR "authenti-
cation" in the only way in which that authentication
could be procured—namely, " by the high and indis-
pensable sanction of her Majesty." Now, we are enabled
to state, on the authority of our Windsor Correspondent,
that Sir Robert Peel quitted the Royal presence at two
P.M., so that by no possibility could any " authentic"
list have been published -0" r even heard of in London,
until two hours and a half, or three hours, probably after
it had been gravely published by the Tunes. Unless
the influence of this latter has accomplished the prayer
of the two lovers in the Oar=
" Ye gods ! annihilate both space and time,"
we must demur to any such idle pretensions to " authen-
ticity" as it has claimed for a paper in which one mate-
rial
error at least, upon its own showing, had been in-
corporated
throughout the entire of its first and second
impressions. The third left the ..Times still at issue
with the Post on-tbe question of the Duke of Richmond's
presence in the stew Cabinet. " Non nostrum—tantos
componere lites." Yet we have some right to remind
both our Contemporaries that„.,.so long ago as the 21. q
ultimo, we published (with the permission of the party
by whom it was communicated) a list of the pro-
bable constitution of Sir Robert Peel's Ministry,
before any of our brethren had promulgated any
intelligence on that subject. The point on which
we were permitted to speak with most confidence was,
the intention, on the part of the Conservative leader,
not to oppose the re-election' of the Whig Speaker, Mr.
Shaw Lefevre. The public will not have forgotten, pro-
bably, the very angry comments which that publication
drew down upon us, from contemporaries of all parties.
The predicted re-election of the Speaker, however,
seemed to be the " head and front" of our offending.
Some of the profoundest arguments in the world .were
launched against us day after day to prove that such a
notice was preposterous—that such a course would be
instantly suicidal to the Conservative party. It may be
a, very great hardship, but it is a very certain fact, that
the nomination and re-election of Speaker eventuated
precisely and literally as we had foretold.

SUICIDE OF AN OCTOGENARIAN.— On Tues•
day an inquest was held before Mr. T. Charsley, Coroner
for Bucks, at the Swan Inn, Denham, about two miles
from Uxbridge, on view of the body of Thomas Jude,
aged 80 years, who hung himself under the following
circumstances :—From the evidence it appeared that the
deceased was a pensioner at Is. per diem, which was all
he had to support himself with. Latterly two of his
sons having become out of work, were a great burden on
him, which preyed upon his mind, and made him very
low spirited, und un Friday morning he wus found har=-
ing in an outhouse near his own dwelling, quite deadrs
and cold.—Verdict, " Temporary insanity,"

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)
lIERALD.—The commercial advices from Manches-
ter -and Liverpool to-day are extremely unfavourable.
The anticipations under this head yesterday of more
failures in the former place are realized. In addition to
the one already reported, accounts of three more failures
have .been received to-day; and of three also in Liver-
pool, the names of which it is not necessary to mention,
as probably some of them may be enabled to resume
business by seasonable arrangements. There is no rea-
son to doubt now the truth of a statement received from
a respectable source some time since, to the effect that
one, if not more, of the Lancashire joint-stock banks had
been obliged to solicit, and had received assistance from.
the Bank of England, and probably only 6n the express
condition of curtailing their discounts, and calling in
their advances. With scarcely more than one exception
that of the Manchester and Salford Bank, joint-stock
banking appears to have been extremely ill understood
in its principles, and mismanaged with singular indiscre-
tion in practice, in the cotton manufacturing districts.
TIMES.—The Government Securities were a trifle
flatter to-day, not because of the extent of sales, or the
delivery of • stock, which was made on account of the
bargains concluded some few days since, although both
these circumstances are said to have had their due weight
on the market; but the more prominent cause ascribed is
the withdrawing of money by capitalists who wish to
participate in the profit which is expected to be realized
in the approaching negotiation of the French loan. This
has made cash scarcer for all purposes, and even at the
Stock Exchange it is worth from 4i- to 5 per cent., and
where accommodation has been pressing; it is under-
stood 5 per cent. has been actually paid. As compared
with. the current quotations yesterday, the • decline is
nearly one quarter per cent.
The accounts, both from Liverpool and Manchester,
are such as not to be at all acceptable to the trading
interest, as they announce the failure of three or four
firms, the principal of which were two houses at
Liverpool of some importance. One of these, Messrs.
J. Maury and Sons, are engaged largely in the cotton
trade, and, having encumbered themselves with too
great a stock, and being moreover disappointed of
remittances, which, in regular course, should have
arrived by the Great Western, are compelled for the
present to ask time for the liquidation of their en-
gagements. Their liabilities are said to amount to
upwards of 60,09 C/, of which 20,0001. are fully
secured. Ultimately, it is supposed, no loss will
accrue, and the creditors will receive full payment.
This house has always maintained a high character.
The other Liverpool house, Messrs. Anderson, Gar-
row, and Co., is connected with the Canada trade, and
although it may occasion some little excitement among
those engaged in that branch of commerce, it will produce
no great effect generally, notwithstanding the firm is ac-
knowledged to be one of some importance. The Man-
chester failures are of. houses of no eminence, although
they comprise a large amount of liabilities.
Among the tea speculators in Mincing-lane the publi-
cation of our telegraphic despatch from Marseilles, ad-
vising the arrival of the overland mail, with accounts
from China to the 20th of May, produced but a momen-
tary excitement, inasmuch as the news by this source
does not give them sufficient data on which to found
their operations. Teas during the day fluctuated about
Id. per lb., because of the stated determination of the
Emperor to resist, that being the only fact the speculators
could lay hold of.
CHRONICLE.—The news from China had no influ-
ence on the value of the public Securities ; the details,•
however, are looked forward to with anxiety.
The accounts from Manchester and Liverpool this
morning are unsatisfactory. We regret to learn that
several houses extensively concerned in business have
been obliged to lay a statement of their affairs before
their creditors. _ _

Business in the Foreign Market has been again con-
fined to Spanish Actives, in which Stock some consider-
able purchases were effected. The withdrawal of the
Bill for the sale of the Island of Fernando Po is also
looked upon favourably, as it was considered an injudici-
ous scheme, calculated to give rise to a strong opposition
in the Cortes, on the ground that it might lead to a par-
tition of territory. The price asked from the British
Gos;.ernment for the Island of Fernando Po was 60,0001.,
and it is understood that the Spanish Ministry have con-
trived means for obtainiiia that sum elsewhere, which
will be remittedsto England in payment of interest on
the Indemnity Bonds. The Bill authorising a loan of
60,000,000 of reals having passed into a law, it is re-
ported that the Spanish Government have made impor-
tant progress towards the final arrangement of obtaining
the money, a part of which will be appropriated towards
the payment of the Three per Cent. interest on the capi-
talized Coupons.
SUN.—The Public Securities wore a less buoyant appear-
ance to-day, in consequence of the preparations for the
fourth of the month, and also owing to the rather unfa-
vourable tenor of the advices by the Overland Mail. For
immediate transfer Consols were 891 to 81, closing at
89 to and for Account 90-k to ; Exchequer Bilis
were not higher than 14 to 16 premium, and East India
Bonds dropped to 2 premium and par ; Bank Stock was
firm at 169 to ; the New Three•and-a-Half per Cents.
were at 9.4 to I, and the Three per Cents. at 90 to h.
The Foreign Securities did not appear to participate
in the declina of our own Stocks, Spanish Bonds having
gone higher, in fact, on account of the favourable advices
received from Madrid. The Actives advanced to-day. to
211 and 214 ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were at a
rise to 30i to 301, Mexican Bonds were at 261, Colom-
bian at 20,4 to and Brazilian at 664 to 67, being for all
a slight improvement. Austrian Metalliques were at
10.9 A-, Danish at 79k, and Dutch Two-and-a Half per
Cents. at. 51:1 to 52.
.Railway Shares were rather pressed on the market
and dropped in value. Great Western Shares wore 1.5:4,
the New 5,A, the Birmingham 69 to 70, and the New 22
premium.' Brighton were 21 to 3a, Croydon 1, and North
Midland 35 discount. Colonial Bank Shares were 41
premium. •
The expresses published early in the day giving the
contents of the telegraphic despatch in anticipation of
the Overland Mail caused some excitement in the Tea
market, but parties were generally indisposed to operate
until further details shall be received, and prices did not
vary much. Company's Congou was 2s. 3id. per lb. cash,
closing at that rate on 'Change, sellers.

THE LATEST IMPORTED.

FROM TILE NEW YORK PAPERS.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.

LYME, CT., JULY 28.—Our community was much agi-
tated yesterday and to-day by an awful occurrence here.
Atwell Tucker, one of the residents, yesterday morning
purchased at Warren's store three pints of rum, which
he drank in the course of the forenoon. In the after-
noon he met old Dr. Noyes, with whom he had previously
a quarrel, and followed him for about a mile, threaten-
ing to shoot him. The Doctor finally escaped and took
out a warrant for the apprehension of Tucker, and gave
it into the hands of, Huntley, the constable, who imme-
diately proceeded to serve it.
A short distance from the village he saw Tucker in a
field near the road. He alighted from his waggon, and
proceeded to the colprit, who fired and shot him through
the bowels, inflicting a wound so serious that the unfor-
tunate man lived but fifteen minutes. He has left
a wife and five children entirely dependent upon him.
He parted from his wife in full health half an hour be-
fore the occurrence, and the first information she hack of
it was when he was brought home a bleeding corpse.
A guard was placed around Tucker's house last night.
This morning he was tracked into the woods, and it was
ascertained that he was concealed in a swamp near • the
jumping rocks. The spot was surrounded, when the re-
port of a gun was heard close at hand. On proceeding
to the spot whence the sound proceeded, Tucker was
found stretched on the ground, a disfigured corpse, part
of his head blown entirely off. He was a murderer, he
was a suicide, all through the influence of rum, rum, rum.
When sober, Atwell Tucker was an excellent work-
man, and an honest man, but when under the influence of
liquor, he was as furious as a tiger.—New York Ad-
ertiser. .

Some Yankee has invented a new kind of ink, called
" the love letter ink." It is a sure preventive against all
cases of " breach of promise," as the ink fades away and
leaves the sheet blank again in about four weeks after
being written upon!
MorrmoNs IN NEW JERSEY.—The Trenton State
Gazette states that the Mormons have two societies in
Nfonmouth county ; one at Hornor's town, and the other
at Tom's River. About. 100 belong to the former, and
seventy or eighty to the latter. They have also meet-
ings regularly once a week at New Egypt, besides occa-
sionally meetings at other places.
Ex- President Van Buren lives very quietly and hap-
pily now at Kinderhook. _ _

FANNY ELSSLER.—We understand that Fanny Elssler
left town on Tuesday, en route for Philadelphia, where
she has some business to transact. It is still uncertain
whether she will return to Europe or not by the Great
Western. We would say, " Don't go, Fanny—you can
make $BO,OOO in the coming year--why throw such a
cluster of grapes away?"
SINGULAR.—Miss Clifton lost recently, while bathing,
a diamond ring, worth $l,OOO, given to her by the Mar-
quis of Waterford. Next day a shark, a sort of marine
Bill Wiley, called upon her, and returned the ring for
eight per cent. reward.
Go to New Haven—you can go for a shilling. Go to
Hartford—you can go for a dollar. Go to Albany—you
can go there, too, for a dollar. Go to Staten Island—you
can go there for sixpence, and get an excursion downthe
bay into the bargain, and be brought home, too, if only
you do not go ashore. Go on the Fishing Banks—you
can go and be gone all day for a shilling, and be jammed
half to death in the crowd. Go somewhere—go every
where—it's so very cheap. Pray don't stay at home.

CORPOREAL PUNISHMENTS AT POLICE-Or-
FICES.—A few days ago a lad of the name of Peter
Moore, about,fourteen years of age, was taken before the
Magistrates al Union-hall, charged with having stolen
some account bsooks from his master, and selling them
for waste paper. Upon being re-examined he was or-
dered by the Sitting Magistrate to be flogged and dis-
charged. The boy was accordingly taken back, and the
constable who had taken the boy into custody was in-
formed by the gaoler that it was his duty to inflict the
punishment upon the lad. The constable not approving
of thus bi•ing made to perform the executive part of the
law, refused, and ultimately applied to the worthy Ma-
gistrate upon the subject, when he was informed nat it
was his place as well as his duty to flog the boy. Accord-
ingly he carried the sentence into effect, entertaining at
the same time strong doubts as to the legality of what he
hid done, and a statement was subsequently made to the
Superintendent of the Division of the circumstances, and
which was afterwards communicated to the Commis-
sioners of Police. The result has been, an order has been
issued froth Scotland-yard to the Superintendents, and
which was yesterday read to the various divisions, pro-
hibiting any constable in future to carry out any order'of
Magistrates to flog any prisoner whom the Magistrates
might order to receive corporeal putilihraelit, it being no
part pf their duty.