The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
G LOBE.—When there has peen a collision on a rail-
road, the officers are generally instructed to say as little
about it as possible ; and on this principle the late
collision of the Tory party, occasioned by a want
of caution on the part of the conductors of the
Dublin Evening Mail, it is recommended by the
Standard should pe hushed up as snugly as pos-
sible. Nevertheless, it has taken place, and it is
not unlikely that there may be many occurrences in
the same quarter, of a much more serious character.
Like the animal that, in hiding its head, believes that it
conceals the whole of its body, the Tory evening Journal
in London seems to suppose that if the matter is hushed
up here, though still the subject of discussion in the
Dublin papers, it may pass over without doing any
damage to the Conservative Cabinet. The difficulty,
however, is not to be so readily surmounted—the split
has taken place—and in Dublin, at least, there
seems every prospect that it will widen rapidly.
The subject is, we find, to be dropped in the English
Conservative press, and to be left in the hands of the
Irish Editors—which is certainly a new way of arrang-
ing a dispute, for our brethren of the sister kingdom
are remarkable rather for getting up differences
than putting an end to them. It was " a very
pretty quarrel as it stood ;" but now that it has
been committed to the charge of the O'Triggers of
the press, we may expect it to become much prettier.
It has all along been predicted by the Tories them-
selves that Ireland would be their difficulty on assuming
the reins of government; but it was not so much appre-
hended that the dilemma would take the turn it seems
likely to do, now that the new Premier appears disposed
to try the soothing system upon those whom it has
been the constant aim of more than one of his col-
leagues to injure, insult, and irritate. While Sir
Robert Peel is willing, or pretends to be willing, to
propitiate, there are those around him that are im-
patient to coerce; and we suspect, after all, the latter
will be the predominant policy, for discretion dictates
the outward smoothness which the Premier has put on,
while there is more sincerity in the injudicious zeal for
Protestant ascendancy a tout prix exhibited by those who
have been hitherto his fbllowers. We do not trust the
tiger the more because he has the power of concealing
his claws beneath a texture of inviting softness—nor do
we expect that the Irish people will gain much by ap-
proaching too near to the hand that professes to be ex-
tended towards theta in gentleness and amity.
STANDARD.—The Dublin Evening Mail of Wed-
nesday has a very angry article of two columns and a
half, the objects of which are, our excellent Contem-
porary the Dublin Evening Packet and the Standard.
We are sorry to have unconsciously provoked thg anger
of the Dultn Evening Mail, but we consolve our-
selves with the reflection that it has been unconsciously.
The long attack of the Dublin Mail, which somewhat
inconsistently conclude; with a resolution to " let by-
gones be by-gones," (a resolution our acting a little
earlier upon which is all the offence that can be charged
upon us), is, in a great measure, composed of extracts
from articles of the Packet and Standard, written
when the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill was in
progress, viz., in 1838 and 1839. While that mea-
sure was before the Legislature we took a view of it
different from that taken by Lord Eliot, and- frankly
and strongly expressed, as is our custom, the
Opinion which we entertained of his Lordship's Par-
liamentary conduct'; but the most ingenious in de-
tecting latent malice will find it impossible to trace in
our animadversions any allusion to the Noble Lord's tem-
per or character, or indeed any allusion except to the te-
nor_ of his arguments and votes. We thought Lord Eliot
very wrong in 1838, just as we thought Sir Robert
Peel very wrong in 1829, and we said so in bitter
language, but without malice. We believe that, as
respects Sir Robert Peel, the Dull n Evening Mail
stands in the same predicament, of having once se-
verely censured him, and afterwards as sincerely given
him support and applause. The Irish Corporation Bill,
however, like the Act of 1829, has passed, and there is
no more reason why we should injuriously recal
the conduct of a statesman upon the one question
than upon the other ; though for ourselves we can say,
that were either now presented for discussion, we
should act as we acted before, with this only differ-
ence, that we should give to the more prominent
agents the benefit of that knowledge which we have
since obtained. There is unhappily a body in Ire-
land which calls itself " the leaders of the Protestant
party," by which English statesmen have scarcely
suffered less than Irish Protestants. We have already
described this party. It is by this party the states-
men of England have been misled ; it is by this
party that the Irish Protestants have been so often
betrayed—certain explanations that have since been
made in Parliament will show how some of the mem-
bers of this party were occupied at the very time
when they were seeming to oppose the Irish Cor-
poration Bill, and when Lord Eliot was incurring
our 'reproaches, unjust in their severity, for support-
ing that measure. If we glee Sir Robert Peel credit
for knowing the hollowness of the opposition to the
11111 of 1829, as we have long since done cheerfully,
are vie not equally bound to give Lord Eliot credit tur
knowing the hollowness of the opposition to the Cor-
poration Bill? Let it not be overlooked either that
Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buck-
ingham and Chandos, and other statesmen whom no
one will call unworthy of trust, were opposed to
Lord Eliot on the Corporation Bill. They never-
theless have adopted him as their colleague. Is it
any disgrace to us to acquiese in what they have done,
more particularly when we know that the object of their
adoption is an able, an honest, and high-minded man ?
Are we to have no confidence in the selection made by
• the Prime Minister of 1833, assisted by such advisers
as we have named, even when all other circumstances
afford a presumption that their choice has been a good
one ?

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

ADVERTISER.—In common with many other
branches of commerce abroad, the silk trade has been in
a vo:T depressed state recently, and our reports from vari-
ous quarters notice a decline in prices, besides the evi-
dence of a very limited demand, and a gloomy feeling in
regard to the future. The disorganised condition of af-
fzirs in the United States is regarded as the main cause
or the inactivity of the demand. At Tournon, Vans, St.
Genes and De Beauzon, Joyeuse and Aubenas, Ro-
mains, Crest, and Saillans, the markets all wore the
same dull aspect at the date of :our accounts received
to-day.

lIERAID.—The tea market has been a good deal
agitated to-day and the price of Company's Congou fell
to is 9d per lb., although ultimately recovering to
is 101 d. The more immediate cause of the decline was
attributed to the inability of a house in the trade to meet
its engagements ; but in some quarters it seemed to be
taken for granted that the arrival of two ships from the
Chinese coast reported this morning with about a mil-
lion and a quarter pounds weight in teas on board had
much more to do with the fall in prices and with the
quasi panic in the market. The latter appears the more
plausible explanation of the two, for the confidence of
speculators for the rise was not likely to be greatly en-
c„braged by the fact of such an additional quantity ac-
tually in port.
yo:-iT.—The Directors of the Bahia Steam Naviga.
tion Company have issued a notice that for the present
it is not expedient to call a meeting with the view of dis-
solving the Company, as originally intended upon the
return of the packet, the communications expected by
i
her not being of that satisfactory nature which woulo
warrant them taking that step. In the meantime
ppear to be continuing their exertions to prr_inota- ultye
to preserve
imorests of the Shareholders generally, a.- Jct
the property of the Company.

A MAN SHOT BY A. GikNIEKEEPER.--On
Saturday afternoon Thor4as Gudgeon, under-gamekeeper
to .Joseph Feilden, F, A., of Witton-hOuse, was out upon
Billinge about 1.41 f-pa-st tour o'clock, shooting rabbits,
On seeing the keeper they
when two passed him.
ran oh'. -tie immediately called to them to stop, ° tellino•
them chat if they did not do so he would fire. The
to• no notice of him, however,
but continued to y
Jk..run,
when the keeper fired, and hit one of them in the back.
The man was enabled to ;et over the park wall, and to
rea.ll his own house in the nei,ghbourhood, where he was
discovr-ed to have been vetT seriously injured. His
}gam is Thomas
.:Unswor',:n, though better known by
t:dat of Bunser.
rma.tion was
Mr.
given to the police,
and Gudgeon «;.y soon after taken into custody by
INl`Cabe,
lir-vector of police. Gudgeon was taken before
John -:Aster, Esq., on Monday, and remanded until t0m0r,.0„..--insworth,
mor,.0„..--insworth, we are happy to hear, is recover-
'4.—Blackburn Gazette.'
Gazette.'
Jusr IN TINIE.--On Thursday last, the wife
Af Eben Vanning, orderly at Coatbridge, proceeded to
the Suraraerlee cut of the Monkland Canal, for the pur-
Vose o; drawing a pailful of water, when she overba-
le herself and tumbled in. A crowd soon collected
to the woman's rescue, but only one individual dashed
into the wattr. and caught her cap as she rose to the sur-
face, without effocting anything else. The poor woman's
case was now considered hopeless by the bystanders,
when they thus saw the man who had strived to save her
quitting the scene of her struggles. At this moment
another individual, who had mingled in the crowd, came
forward to lend his assistance, without being aware of
the object struggling for life ; and as the woman rose
fur the third time to the surface, he rushed wildly into
the water, exclaiming, " It's my wife!" and the next in-
stant he had the unspeakable joy of catching and carry-
ing her, more dead than alive, to the opposite bank,
where, by timely attention, the woman gradually reco-
covered. About twelve months ago the same Eben Van-
ning saved a young girl's life under similar circum-
stances, at the same cut of the canal, but the pleasure
of doing that generous deed was evanescent, in compa-
rison with his more recent, but immeasurebly prouder
triumph of saving the life of his wife.—Glasgow Consti-
tlaional

" I stand in need of small raps," as the prin-
ter's wife said when she presented her husband with a
little responsibility.