The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-08 00:00:00

STATESMEN AND NEWSPAPERS

A good example has been set by the Whigs, two or,
three of whose noble leaders, as we formerly remark°,
have been uniformly actuated by a real respect for in-
tellectual excellence, while others have at least had the
discretion to desire the credit of such views. Lord
Palmerston remains Secretary for Foreign Affairs der
pitc of his alleged contributions to the Glube an,'
several persons of inferior rank, even more extensisel
connected with the London papers, have received lucra-
tive appointments from Government within the last
few years. To be sure, what has been dme in thliS war
is not much, but it is something to estab ish the PriP"
ciple—to let men of acquirement know th tt they 'flair'
adopt the readiest rnd often most effective mode
communicating with the public without compromising
their prospects or losing cast in society. In fact, our,
immediate demands are extremely humble, as we seek
merely to get rid of a factitious state of public feeling,
and place newspapers in this respect on the srrn: foot-
ing as other periodical works, in which it has never be"
deemed dangerous or derogatory to write.

THE MARKETS.

COUNTRY MARKETS,

Wheat. j Barley. ' Oats. ; rp•se
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s, to a. a. to s. s• w
Bath
Blandford 73 78 32 40 0 90 48 50
Bridport 68
Chard 56 78 30 86 20 26 40 44 I.IL Ait
Gloucester '54 SO 34 52 25 35 41 43 2,
Exe• er
Guildford 40 16 £l3 34 40 44
Newbury 44 82 20 42 24 34 38 41i1 ,c
Reading ... 5O 63 'A 5 48 :6 35 45 50 38
Salisbury 60 77 34 445 22 30 49 52 --
Shtrborne , 78 36 41 '22 18 42 48
iheptonslallet! 6U 76 30 48 26 32 40 48 •
Uxbridge —37 43 23 32 Warminster 52 78 36 54 27 38 50 58
Winchester ) 64
feovil !CU 70 40 45 30 321 46 50
LEEDS CORN MARKET.—May
Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 00lb. ••. . Ms. to M.,
York. and Lincoln. 001 b.
...... sss. to 744,
3arley, Norfolk and SuffolkSi
37a. to 414. ic Yorkshire and Lincolnshire • 335• to
Grinding
9
3enns
Jats, Potatoe
2811. to 325. —Alealing, For.—d. to—d Eng. 15d. to 17d. per st._one.-
GUILDFORD MARKET, Shelling
375. to ; 84. petic"lf
Wheat, Old (Per Load) 194 to 204 Cs.—New 164 'WM 06. Barley (Per Qr.) 4os. to Cs. I Beans (Per Qr.) ... 44
Oats 23 34 Rye . 40
Grey Pease, 425. to 445.
DEVIZES CORN MARKET.' - - L.
Per Sack. s. d. e. d. Per Quarter.
rst Wheat O/1' to 5 '36 oto3B 0 Oats... ... . ....... ° 2.1 •
Second
33 0 35 6 Beans (per sack)... 20 S 0„
'third
darlcy 24 0 42 6 Bread (per ga11.)... 3 "

CHURCH-RATE.-00 Wednesday the friends of
civil and religious liberty in Deptford entertained at a ill
(inner, at the Lord Duncan, Deptford, their respected
parishioner, Mr. John Wade, for the purpose of presenting
with a splendid silver tankard, as a token of their esteem on
account of his firm and patriotic resistance to the suit lately
brought against him in the Ecclesiastical Court for the payment
,
of Church-rates. About one hundred gentlemen sat down to
dinner. The chair was taken by Colonel Fead, of Lewisham'
and around the Chairman were Mr. Muskett, M.P.; for
Albans : Capt. Voys • Mr. hall, of Croom's-hill, Greenwich ;
Mr. Haycraft, Mr. Aluskett, Mr. Lyle, Mr. Jones, Mr. Pqr,
percorn, and other supporters of the cause of Liberalism in that
locality.
THAMES FISHERY.—A Thames fisherman
was on Wednesday charged at the Brentfjrd Petty Sessions
with having fished in the liver wtth night-hooks, contrary °
the Statute. The defendant had set eel lines, which it was
contended were not night-hooks. The Bench, however, (I";
cided that eel lines were night-hooks, and illegal, and Sncd
he defendant in the lowest mitigated penaltY of 2/. JO'',
nd 10s. costs, on the condition that he would appeal to the
ext. Court of Conservancy, that the poitA might be final
(Tided. Mr. Guy, for the defendant, accordingly enterec
nto the necessary notices of appeal, and several other ease'
were adjourned until the appeal can be dee'.ded.
FlRE.—Wednesday morning, at half-past well
o'clock, a fire broke out in a shed belonging to Messrs. 11. an(
J. Aste, corn-dealers and coal-merchants, on the north side f
Mortimer-market, Tottenham-court-road. There were in the
building upwards of twenty loads of straw,
corn and coal sacks, the whole of which were consumer's ant the
interior of the building was completely destroyed. Tiler,: had
been four loath of straw taken in that morning, some portion od
which•was scattered outside the premises, and it is sunrsieth
that the fire originated from some boys who were playing w"
the
loose matches, and who let a lihted match drop upon t
loose straw. The engine No. 9 oft he tire brigade was soon sn
the spot, followed by several others, tut not before the whole
of the damage was done. The stock was insured to the fa-
extent.
of
with oil, bendre 1
EFFECTS OF TEMPERANCE.—The vintners -
Dublin held a meeting of their body yesterday at the 11°Ya
Exchange, when it was agreed t ) petition Parliament for com-
pensation for the loss of their tra le, consequent upon the opers
tion of some recent Acts of Parliament, and the rapid sPrea
of teetotalism which, they say was encouraged by the Govern-
ment to their detriment.—Let'er from Dublin.—sew

SETS of PLATED CORNER DISHES, with
or without Warmers. The price of the Set of Four Dishes,
and Covers, without Warmers, varies from Eight to Ten
Guineas. The Warmers are from Five to Nine Guineas the
Set. Engravings of the various patterns will be forwarded, P°.s_
ree, if application is made, post paid. The dishes are complete
glo
themselves without warmers, and the handles take Cu, the
covers thus forming four extra dishes when required.
T. SAV,
Silversmith, &c., No.o OX OR Y
47, Cornhill (Seven doors from
Gracechurch-strv2t), London.

BIT4IST--
On the Bth inst., at ArtillerR
y-olace West, the lady
of Reg'-
nald Read, Esq., surgeon, of a son.
On the 2d inst., at Eltham, the lady of P. Green, Esq*' of a
daughter.
On the sth inst., in Cavendish-squar ~ the lady of the
H. E. C. Cobden, vicar of Charlton, Wilts, of a daughter.
, '"„a„,
On the 28th ult., in Alfred-place, Bedford-square, the
of John Collyer, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son.
On the Ist inst., in Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park,
of William Fulcher, Esq., of a daughter.
On the Ist inst., in Bernard-street, Russell-square, 31"•
Speed Davies, of a son.
On the 2d inst., at Hounsdown, Ealin;, Hants, the lady of
the Rev. F. R. Phillips, of a son.
On the 2d inst., at West-end, Hampstead, the te of the
Rev. J. Hamilton, Great Baddow, of a son.
On the 2d inst., in 'Woburn-square, 11Irs. W. Hoskin, of a
daughter.
On the 3d inst., Mrs. Basto, Holmes-terrace, Kentish-town,
of a daughter. the lady
onC:nEtshqe.
Esq., of
itnhset
Middleat
Temple,zroy Fitzroy-square, aorfea, theau gwhitfeer of. W. Lang
d
On the 3d inst., in Grosvenor-crescent, the la iy of M.
Esq., of a son.

16i4 R.RIED.
On the sth inst., first at the Catholic chapel, York-place,
Portman-square, and afterwards at St. John's, Paddington, the
Count de Crouy, to Emilie, widow of the late Major-General
Sir George Matthias Cox, Bart.

D/HD.
On the 3d inst. at. St. Paul's-square, Bedford, the rev. T.
Gadsby, M.A., aged 81.
On the sth inst., at Northaw, Mrs. Le Blanc, widow of the
late T. Le Blanc, Esq., aged 93,

On the Ist inst., at W'ellinnton-place,Woolwich-common,
Kent, Sussanna Ann, the wife of J. Bridges, Esq., Prof?ssor
of landscape drawing at the Royal .11ilitary Academy at W ool-
wieh, aged 27.
On the 3d inst., at Veptford, R. I3owring, Esq., formerly of
her 91a,j2sty's Viet a"cd 79.
Surveyor-General of her Alajesty
On the 3d kilt, at Clapham-rise, T. 11. Davis, Esq., Tate
'S
Customs.

I.,:ndon • I'rpft.,l and Publkhed Vt,v 1I /Jim° y()ING, "I
No. I Str::nd, at The Sun Utlice, No. 112, Strand in the
county of Middlesex.—Friday, May fa, 1840.

(From the Quarterly Review.)
We happen to know that distinguished Statesmen
tat no very distant epoch, have declared that any regu-
-1.4r connexion. past or present, with a newspaper, must
be regarded as a fatal bar to promotion in the higher •
&part ments of the State. We happen to know, more-
over, that when this resolution of theirs was incidentally
mentioned to Prince Metternich, he inquired, with a
look of wonder, if they were mad He might well ask
the question. There is, certainly, a traditional remark
of Mr. Canning to the purport that no effective service
could be rendered out of Parliament ; but the
remark (if the Anti-jacobin ever made it, which
we doubt) is inapplicable to times like the present, ithen
the chief care of the bulk of our representatives is to di-
vine the opinions of their constituents. A single writer
capable of showing up the errors of an opposing party,
arid giving clear plausible expositions of the policy of his
own, does more to advance their real interests than ally
twenty members taken at random ; and if it were asked
who bad best executed Lord Stanley's memorable threat,
" Step by step, measure by measure, failure after failure,
we will watch and we will check, and we will control
the Government," we-should say without hesitation, not
Colonel Sibthorp, nor Mr. Liddell, nor Sir Robert Peel,
nor Lord Stanley himself, but the .Morning Post, the
Herald, the Standard, and the Times.
Inefficiency, therefore, cannot be the real ground.
Those who raise or rely on such objections obviously
partake the prejudice, or they are actuated by a paltry
feor of public opinion founded on it. In either case, the
prejudice is the root of the evil ; and a greater evil it
would be no easy matter to conceive than any doctrine,
aphorism, or resolution tending, directly or indirectly, to
degrade the class who supply the entire mental aliment
of the larger half of the community. This view
of the
matter has been confirmed by one great statesman, at all
events—a man always remarkable for his superiority to
narrow notions of expediency. Lord Lyndhurst ev
pressed himself thus at the last anniversary of the News-
paper Press Ber.cvolent Society, held in July, 1839
" It had become the duty of every man sensible of the
power of this engine to do his utmost for the purpose ,_Ol
17°1
adding to the respectability of those who directed it,
ought to be sought rather than avoided as associates, oil
treated with the courtesy and respect to which their
character and attainments entitled them. The Plasm
had by degrees become an important profession; and i—
t hose who supposed that only a moderate share of ab►-
lit was requisite for it, he would say, Try your hands,'
and it such a person did attempt to write a leading arty
he would afterwards entertain juster notions on the
subject."
The required talent, however, is beyond dispute. Let
t
fops and fools sneer as they will, the writer who is daily
read by thousands must have a consciousness of his
power ; and the capacity of bringing widely-scattered
information into one lucid focus,—of drawing just results
from well-selected data,—of arranging, amplifyink.ord-
pressl.ng, illustrating a succession of important toples►".
all on the spur of the occasion, without a moment's stet
to think, to examine, to refer—this surely argues a big
degree of intellectual cultivation—this surely constitutes
a just title to a fair share of the rewards or honours at
the disposal of a Government.