The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-08 00:00:00

MoRNING EDI 1•1024

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
" What," three evening guns !" says Snarl in the
Critic. ", Aye," says Puff, " when these people get
hold of a good thing they never know when to have
done with it." So our Contemporary, the Examiner,
still goes on firing his evening guns on the Turkish ques-
tion, but as he certainly has but a bad thing of it, we
'wonder at his. perseverance. It is an old saying,
however, that there is nothing like the obstinacy of
au ingenious man who finds himself in t'he wrong ;
but we must in candour admit that the wonted in-
genuity of the'Examiner seems to have deserted him
on t'uis occasion, and that the feebleness and want
Of perspicuity in his arguments seem to be in the
th rect ratio of the badness of his cause. Indeed the
attempts of the Examinee to defend Mehemet Ali by
the pen have failed as signally as those of Ibrahim by
the sword. The bad logic of the one is only equalled
by the bad tactics of the other. The difference, how-
ever, is this—that Ibrahim has been routed by the allies
of the Sultan, and the Examiner by the allies of Me-
hemet AIL There is not one word, or one attempt at
ar4smenta by which the Examiner for the last six or
s veto 'weeks has laboured to run down the treaty of
July and the policy of the Government, that has not
four ..11 its fullest and completest refutation in the speeches
of Monsieur Thiers, Mensieur Remusat, Monsieur Bar-
hyer, Monsieur Guizet, and others in the French Cham-
ber. The Examiner asserted that the Treaty of July was
concluded for objects in which England had no earthly
interest ; that the fact of its having been concluded was
sag iesult to France; nild that by that act the English
Government wantonly broke off the alliance between
England and Frances The debates in the French Cham-
ber, and the speeches of the persons we have mentioned,
here proved to demonstration that the alliance between
England and France had virtually ceased to exist many
mouths before the Treaty was signed, and that it had so
ceased in consequence of a divergence between the nationds
policy and national interests of the two countries ; nay-;
as M. Tuiers most forcibly expressed it, because the
iestinciivc policy of the one country was directly op-
posed to that of the 'other in regard to the affairs of
the Levant. Those debates further prove that Eng-
land had a great and paramount interest in accomplish-
ing the objects which the Treaty was destined to effect,
and that no insult was offered to France, nor any in•
tstational incivility or slight ; and. that the only thing
:shish France now- complains of is, that the Treaty
itsslf was not made known to hereafter it was agreed
upon, and before it was signed.
(From the Standard.)
The. Carlow election has terminated in the return of
Co'ond Bruen by a large majority—a majority so large
as so insure the return of two Conservative members
for this so long and so fiercely contested county at the
next general election. Mr. Ashton Yates may look
cut fur a seat elsewhere. The Romanist Radical jour-
ne'..s ascribe to the substitution of a Protes:ant tenan-
try ova some of the Carlow estates the defeat of their
party on the present occasion. We hope that the
cha-ge is well founded. Nothing could be
mere likely to deter the priests from continuing
to tore-cot the unhappy peasantry- than such a
I . The more we reflect upon the subject,
and the snore diligently we read the rebukes of our cen-
surers, thus more thoroughly are we convinced that the
landlorils owe it to themselves, to their country,
to their faith, and to the wretched peasantry them-
scless, is replace every one win proves himself by his
conduct the mere sieve of the priest by a free Pro-
. It is nothing to tell us that the
ave act 6 conscientiously : so did the slaves of the
oil snan of the mountain. We are not bound to re-
spect, i,n practice, consciences which command our
tisetruction, whatever we may in theory consider due
to such consciences. The Globe of Saturday bad a
long ariele Linen the Protestant plantation of Irish
estate., in which it gratuitously assumed for us the
(.!o:trine, that a ratan may " do what he will. with his
own," in submission only to the law of the land. We,
however, mentioned another law as -qualifying this li-
berty of action—a law above the law of the land ;so
th it our Contemporary's condemnation of our doctrine
upon moral grew ids is a little out of place. We
sag thet the highest of all laws assigns a prefe-
rence to those " who are of the household of faith"
—not a pre;erenoe urging to commit injustice in
the it behalf certainly; but a preference demanding such
worldly sacrifices, as a descent from cruel rack-rents to
henest and moderate charges.
(From the Courier.)
generally has travelling by railway become, that
in the central counties of the ceuetry scarce a coach
new passes, and it is a fact that a railway will absorb
petemizers from a distance of two-thirds its length on
viiher side of it, at an angle of GO degrees. It is not
alone, then, the persons immediately in the neighbour-
hood of the line who become part of its traffic, but all per-
seas living within a very extensive boundary ; and are
we, then, to condemn wholesale these stupendous and
useful works and their management because a power
which has been so recently created, has not been so
cesefatly conducted as we could have wished it to have
been, but which we can alone hope for when all
men their duty exactly as they shout,' do it,
and masters have an intuitive knowledge of when
they shall not? WC regret for any man's own sake
that he cannot read, as he loses all the higher feel-
ings of consolation and independence of mind ; but
we should be very sorry to condemn any man as unfit
for the mechenical operation of driving an engine he-
cause he could nut read what be could just as well un-
derstand when properly explained to him. On the last
mail we travelled by, and that, too, a day mail, the guard
could not read , but he nevertheless left his letter bags
cli right, and did his duty by the coach just as well as if
lie could, and all the letters is his charge, whether they
were Lard Palmerston's squabbles with M. rulers or
seeple love epistles. To suppose for a moment that a set
of first class men were to spring up as engine-drivers,
all superior in their way, and who could brave the
vslecily of such travelling and the changes of oar cli-
mate, or to suppose that railroads should be so per•
f.‘ealy managed the moment they arc brought into use,
is as unseasonable as we have declared our Contem-
poraries to be for their loud praise of the verdict at
Harrow. No institution of any sort has as yet been
brought- into a state of comparative perfection under
cars of labour and experience ; and if we look at the
rapid strides made by steam engines, both on land and
s,a, they form-almost an exception to the general rule
of nature, and appear to have started at once into re
fined action.

t. taLt teaant

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

.(SATURDAY EVENING.)
TIME S.—The recent failures of private banks have
direteed general attention to the perfect security, as it is
held cut to be, of joint-stock banks ; but the public should
be, aware at the same time, that it is quite possible in the
p:estnt state of the law to have so many impediments
:thrown in the way of creditors, on the failure of a joint-
stuck bank, as to render this fancied security nearly nomi-
nal. The Act 6 George IV., passed to citable large com-
pae;ies to carry on the business of banking, was thought
to sfferd sufficient-protection to the public by enabling
creliturs t.;) sue the "publi,3 officer" of the bank, and
having ointeieed ju.lgment against him, to take out exe-
cution against any one of the proprietors. As the pro-
prietors arc directed to IP, registered judicially, there
would neecEsarily be no difficulty in selecting a solvent
person against whom legal proceedings might be taken.
vi the spirit of the Act been carried into effect, the
leakslic would, it seems, have been sufficiently secure, but
:the wording of the Act has operated so as to throw inape-
,tl;rne-nis in the wey of any proceeding by creditors. Thus
;eselgrneets had been obtained in the case of the Imperial
Ilsek agateist the "public officer," and the Court of
Queen's• Bench was moved to allow execution to issue
egsinst the registered proprietors, but it was decided,
atter much delay, that a fresh action (legally, a scire
fifrils) must he brought, to ascertain whether or not the
party oeglat to be charged ash partner. The creditors
aftrrvvardii fcilowed that course, and brought the wire
Jocias Realest sacral solvent registered proprietors, when
it was objected that these were not responsible until the
proprietors at the time of obtaining judgment (perhaps
d.ff,rent parties) had been proved insolvent, and this argu-
ment prevailed. As the great guarantee which the joint-
stock banks offer to the public for security is the number of
p.ersens liable to the depositors, a state of the law which
renders it almost impossible for a creditor to recover against
any individual proprietor must be fatal to their pretensions
on the score of credit and security.

REVIVALS.—Within the last fortnight the feel-
ings of the religious put3ll, at Wished], Long Sutton, and
ether places in the district,i3hraevoeklnen highly outraged by
the proceedings of a Mr. it is said of an opulent
fainily in Yorkshire, who was introducede by the Rev. 11.
Bond, of. Wiabech, and supportedsleety:her mini.ters in
the Wesleyan connexion. The
which took place:la' religious re-
-37,
many
is said. beggar
vt•hy and dissipation
females were
all description : suffice it to sa
dragged, c.4jolled, nay, frightened and forced to tho " pe-
nitent pew," where the mixture of screaming and sing..
ins and -praying was carried to such an excess that
some even fainted, and others have not yet re°
vored from the shock which their nerves sustained
from the excitement. These scenes were kept up till
licarly 'girl:light, and the latter part of the time the doors
were fastener! ; so that, though many had gone away dis-
ras:ed. those who were in were obliged to remain to wit_
r: ha all this devilry.. It Cs much to be regretted that men
who 3.re hi 1116:1V instances doing good, should allow them.
frank
t 4 l)c- ieti iota then extravagances, driving away
"-4-4!t the;ir chapels those who cannot encourage and abet
5i.....13 proc.-edings. A few pA-sons of right feeliwts have
glvett up„sitiie,s.in the Methodist chapel since th 73 above
aft 3,r. it :. .coped
~...,
..., 4 tho enthusiasts will in time stop short,
77',.‘1%r.0• more cause to call them " mountebank
"ea'-'r.s, --:=Lincolu Mercury.
A FV:oW ELECTION.—CoIoneI
b9oe,elbrivrerestkrie4l:for,
Carlow by a majority of 161. Mr. Pon-
' )gucd on Friday.
dif-
ferent causo.a.a,u ri This defeat is scribed to
he Dublin Evening Post says it was
produced by
and meo4ate,
weti,rir of tile. Liberals, who were pacific
the Brueuites breathed nothing but
vengeariee ann es,. e
t.l -e other -hand '`termlnation. The Repeal Papers, on
c,„,en
pu-t.,41)".-- ' contend that a Repealer ought to have
The: .Duke .of Rutland left town, on Saturday
last, for_ pelvom Castle, Leicestershire, where a large party
will sliortly 'assemble.