The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-01 00:00:00

E SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1841.

duty; so squeezed that in the chamber of his
heart, he cannot find space for a new:flower ; to
say nothing of. an entire evening sun, or an in-
pressing venal world, much less'for a starry fir-
mament; and the obligatory something is, as. far •
as we can judge, that alligator-eye to the least
moral gap or nakedness either of a prince or of
his servants ; it being evident that into the
former, the sucking-sting, and into the latter, the
poison-sting, may be inserted !" Doubtless there
are some readers to whom all - this farrago of
words will appear uncommonly fine, but.tO us it
seems sheer undiluted nonsense. The best writers
are always the clearest, and wherever there is ob-
scurity, as in the foiregoing extract, it may safely
be taken for granted that -a muddy;. imperfect
intellect is at work. " First LoVe of Lady Anne
Nevyl " is a pleasing tale, referring to the period
of the fifteenth century. " Fugitive Verses" is
a criticism on a volume of pOems lately published,
whose author is Joanna Baillie. In his intro-
ductory remarks, the Reviewer alluding inci-
dentally to Milton, says that " the degree of
popularity which his " Paradise .Lqst" appears' to
obtain, is more to be ascribedio its peculiar theo-
logical tenets than to its stupendous poetical
merits." Now • this is not the case. No man
cares a straw for the theology of -Milton's great
epic, but restricts his admiration to the 'lofty,
imaginative spirit that pervades it. If otherwise,
how happens it that his prose Tracts are not
equally popular with his poeMs? There, we
have religious controversy enough, and to spare.
" Cora" is a fanciful legend gracefully versified.
" Sketches of Spanish Generals" is a continuation,
from the last Number,: of the memoirs of the
famous Guerilla Chief, Mina, whose whole career
was one scene of romantic adventure. The
," Gathering., of Israel" is a poem by a lady named
Tinsley. As it is just a fitting length, and not defi-
cient in animation, ,we- subjoin it for the reader's
amusement :

A sound bath pass'd through the nations, heard
By the heart alone, when its depths are stirr'd ;
Mightier than that of storm-lifted seas,
Than the tempest's rush amid forest trees;
Mightier than sorrow's earth-born cry,
Than the shout of kings to victory :
And still, where its tale bath gone,
A voice to the breeze is cast—
" On to Jerusalem, brothers on !
We have gain'd our home at last 1
" Lift up thine head, 0 Israel ! yet
From the depths of the darkness round thee set ;
Rejoice, for the choien of the Lord
Have listened once more to His living word;
Calling them forth from the nations round,
To the hallow'd rest of their father's ground :
And still, as the goal is won,
Let the thrilling shout be past—
On to Jerusalem, brothers on !
We hay a gain'd our home at last!

" Was the scoffer strong in the days of old,
Fenced by his idols of dust-won gold,
Mocking their hope, while his footsteps trod
With the prophet-pther'd hosts of God?
Heed him not now in the times that be,
For ours is no common destiny;
But, with true armour, won

From the stores of the mighty past,
On to Jerusalem—boldly on !
We have gain'd our home at last
" Did the desert of old yield its gushing wave,
For the pilgrim-fathers their thirst to lave;
Did the vision of God before them stand,
Guiding their steps to the promis'd land ;
And shall we, their children, all forget
That His mighty arm is our refuge .yet?
No ! by the hope whereon
We have lean'd through the stormy past !
On to Jerusalem, brothers on !
We have gain'd our home at last !

" There flow the waters that How'd of yore,
Washing no truce from the hallow'd shore ;
There rise the hills where our fathers bow'd
When the voice of God shook the riven cloud ;
And the boughs of the stately cedar thrill
With that holy breath, for it stirs them still :
And we—are we call'd upon
By a voice to the desert cast ?
On to Jerusalem, Israel on !
We have gain'd our home at last !"

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Royal Assent was given last night to Lord Keane's
Annuity Bill ; a subject on which, as we did not agree
with the only objections which appeared to be brought
against the grant, we have not hitherto expressed our
opinion. We think there are objections, and grave
ones, to the present manner cf rewarding services ; but
we do not think those objections consist merely in the money
voted for them. In an instance such as the present, vsl ere
the money burthen upon the public is neither very large in
amount nor long iu duration, we do not object to the grant,
so much as we do to the Peerage. We should hesitate gi early
to show our naval or military defenders, by our parsimony,
that, ef,er the most signal succes,,ea they might gain
for their country, their families would be left, by its in-
gra'itude, in a worse position than if they had de-
voted themselves to any obscure private occupation.
The mass of services performed to the country are
ill paid enough ; but when those services are very dis-
tingut-ihed, we hold it a bad economy to damp
whatever ardour for distinction exists, by failing to reward
them. It is a declaration to all whom it may concern, that
we do not'value the generous qualities spent in our service,
at the price of talent in other vocations. The feeling implied
in such an avowal would bring on us justly the fate of Car-
thage. But we think the device of ennobling the families of
public servants exceedingly questionable. If the nation
is burthe..ed in perpetuity to keep up their dignity, it
is burthened to maintain what may be very little worth
maintaining. Who looks for a long succession worthy
the first Marlborough, Nelson, or Wellington ?
Those who had lucked for it, in some future instances,
would have been disappointed. But it the public
bounty is limited and temporary, as in the present in-
stance, what is the policy of turning the peerage into
a pauperage ? How is the dignity of Lord Keane's
descendants to be provided for ? They will be em-
barrassed with a distinguished name and hereditary
rank to support. How is the State expected to aid
that. _in oupporting data cLargo inapogrca before birth ?
By rewarding their merits in turn ? —Yes, if they
happen to have any. But if they happen to have none,
the times are passed for providing for peers ad libitum.
(From the Standard.)
Last night's debate in committee on the New Poor-law
Bill as is intereiting and instructive, and, on the whole,
gratifyi g. Mr. Colquboun's motion for the appointment
of chaplains to workhouse union schools was carried by a
great majority, 119 to 33, notwithstanding a viru-
lent o?position by Messrs. Hawes and Hume. Dr.
Lushington, much to his honour, supported Mr. Celqu-
houn's Christian proposition, in a very able speech, which
he concluded by expressing " his conviction that no one
in that house was so base as to consider a diminution of
the posx-rates an object of the least importance, when put
"in ecinpetition with the interests of the poor." Now
we could wish to impress the words of Doctor Lush-
ington upon the mind of every man, Dissenter or
Churchman. Here is an extreme difficulty, op-
posing a proposition about the wisdom, benevolence,
and piety of which there could he no question, if it were
not for the jealousy of Dissent. What can more awfully
illustrate the evil and the sin of schism ? What can
demonstrate more clearly that Dissent, in its hostility
to the Church, is the great drag upon the religious
and moral improvement of our people ? Well and
truly was it explained by Doctor Croly in one
of his late admirable discourses at Walbrook, that
schism is the darnel sowed by the enemy among the wheat,
the pernicious weed which cannot be eradicated without in-
jury to the crop, because its removal would be fatal to Chris-
tian liberty. But how tremendous is the responsibility
of those who lend themselves to promote the work of
the enemy 1 We could seriously entreat them to think of
this. Let them reflect that the extreme difficulty of re-
conciling it to the views sf Dissenters is the obstruction
of every great national Christian work, whether at home
or in the colonies. Let them reflect upon thin, and then
ask themselves, are they quite sure that they are in the
right path.

(From the Courier.)
It will be seen by our reports that after all the vapour-
.ng of the Ministerial press, and in spite of the bold
attempts to bolster up the case of the petittiners, the seats
of the recently elected Conservative Members for Wal-
sall and Canterbury are secure. With respect to Canter-
bury, we said long ago that if the Ministerial bangers-on
were bold enough to prosecute the case, they would only
subject themselves to mortification and disappointment,
and so the event has proved. But they began, with their
usual audacity, by presenting twopetitions ; one, however,
was speedily abandoned. The result of the second peti-
tion is equally mortifying to them, and gratifying to
the good cause. Mr. Smythe, the Conservative Mem-
ber, retains his seat for Canterbury, and so deei Mr. J.
N. Gladstone for Walsall. The Bedchamber majority
is, therefore, pretty nearly extinct, in spite of the lucky
chance which enables Lord Listowel to misrepresent St.
Alban's. Of the result of the proceedings in this case
we may perhaps have something to say at a period of lei-
sure, but in the meantime we wish the Government and the
Liberals (liberal enough where seats are to be secured by
bribery), joy of such a supporter as the Noble Lord, whose
seat was obtained by means such as those disclosed in the
evidence adduced, and who &es not blush to retain that
seat in spite of the contempt which every honest man, of
whatever side, must entertain for those who strike at the
root of freedom by degrading and intimidating the electors.
Yet these soi disant Liberals have the effrontery to prate
about purity of election.

The True Scotsman newspaper, one of the
organs of the Chartists, gave up the ghost on Saturday
last. In announcing its approaching end, the editor stated
it as a known fact, that no Chartist newspaper published in
Scotland was paying itself.—Glasgow Argus.
We are assured that the report which appears
in some of the Irish Tory Journals, that Lord Eb-
rington is to be recalled from Ireland, to take the place of
Lord Normanby, as Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, who is, it is also said, to proceed to India as
Governor-General, in the place of Lord Auckland, is in
all parts a mere fabrication.
FRENCII EXTRAVAGANCE.—The extrava-
gance (1 the French is scarcely credible, and nothing in
England ever equalled it, at least that I ever heard
of. The trousseau of Mademoiselle de Matignon, who
is going to marry the Baron de Montmorency, is to
cost a hundred thousand crowns, (about 25,0001.
sterling.) There arc to be a hundred dozeti of shifts, and
so on in proportion. The expense here of rigging out a
bride is equal to a handsome portion in England; five
thousand pounds worth of lace, linen, and gowns, is a corn.
mon thing among them ....Swinburne's Courts of,Europe.

UNIT ED STATES.

BY EXPRESS Fit.. 031 LIVERPOOL.
ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA.
,LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The' fine steamer Britannia, Captain Cleland,
which'had been looked for with much anxiety,
and been the subject of many wagers, fired a gun
and entered ,our river at a little after four o'clock
this morning. She brings papers from New York
to the 15th, and Boston 16th inclusive, having
sailed thence on the latter day, and from
lialifax on' the 17th. She has therefore
made the voyage in 141 days,. which, consider-
ling the very tempestuous weather she has ex-
perienced, Must confirm the opinion previously
entertained of her good sailing qualities.
By her we learn that the President, so long
expected and anxiously looked for, sailed from
New York on the 11th instant. She has, there-
fore, now been at sea 20 days, and her news is
anticipated by this arrival.
Upon the great point of interest, the detention
of Wil,eod, these papers do not bring any deci-
sive news. He was still in gaol at Lockport, and
nothing more than a very prevalent report that
Mr. Fox had demanded M'Leod's release or his
own passports, and which is strongly com-
mented upon in the New . York papers, was
known. It does not appear probable that
the demand could be officially made before
the 10th or 11th, as the presentations of the
foreign Ministers, and of course the British
amongst the rest, did not take place until the
9th. The , Americans are very sore that the de-
mand should be accompanied with a threat,
which, as they say, puts it out of their power to
accede with due regard to their national honour.
It seems to be generally believed at New York
that he would be set at liberty.
The Boundary dispute remains unnoticed, and
the Canadian news generally is not important.
The business of New York; and of the country
generally, remains in a sad state • of prostration ;
the rate of Exchange on London 7 to 8
for New York Bills, and 7 to 71- for South-
ern Bills. United States Bank Stock, which
had declined to 15 on the 11th, had rallied, and
was quoted 17 a 171 at New York Ofi the 15th.
The Britannia, though she has experienced a
rough passage, looked in excelled trim, and had
sustained no damage. She brings a large number
of passengers, and the heaviest mail brought
since the establishment of this fine line of packets.

(From the Daily Advertiser and Patriot.)
BOSTON, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 15.

THE CASE OF M‘LEon.—We do not yet hear
any thing, of an authentic character, of the
nature of the communications which have been
made by the British Government to our own, on
the subject of the arrest and imprisonment of
M‘Leod. The better opinion seems to be that
the rumour of a peremptory demand for his
release is unfounded. That it is so is a sup-
position much more consonant with the
character and temper of the British Ministry,
than the supposition that it is true. They have
.given too many proofs of a disposition to avoid
occasions of irritation and unnecessary excite-
ment of popular feelings, in their mode of ma-
naging the negotiations between the two coun-
tries, to make it probable that they have at this
time adopted a course at variance with that cour-
tesy and moderation which it is manifest is most
likely to bring this question to an amicable ad-
justment.
The steam ship Britannia, Captain Cleland,
takes her departure for Liverpool to-morrow.
The passages of the Cunard steamers will be, for
the ensuing eight months, semi-monthly. The
Caledonia, whose day of sailing from Liverpool
was the 4th inst., may be expected to arrive here
by Friday or Saturday next.

SNOW STORM.—We had a severe snow storm
on Friday night and. Saturday morning—equal
in violence, we believe, to any which we
have had this winter. The snow was much
drifted. The cars on the Worcester Rail-
road, however, with the land mail, arrived, by
the aid of two powerful engines and a snow
plough, at half-past nine, A.m., having forced
their way through the snow drifts, a distance of
45 miles, in a little over three hours. The train
from Springfield was much obstructed by snow.
It arrived, however, at 10 o'clock at night. The
Norwich train with the New York Steamboat
passengers, arrived at 12 at night. The Provi-
dence train, with the New York passengers by
way of Stonington, at half-past eight. The storm
was violent in the Sound.

been much sickness in the Texan navy, and
some of their ships have been laid up in ordi-
nary, and officers and men have returned to the
United States.

(From the New York Sun of March 15.)
" CROWNER'S QUEST LAW."—The American
of last evening, speaking of M'Leod, points out
the way in which persons indicted for crimes
may be taken out of the custody of the law by
the will of the Executive. it says there are
two modes of doing the thing. " The first,
by representation to the Governor of the
merits of the case, and calling upon him
to cause the party to be set at liberty :
which, if satisfied of the propriety of the call,
he could at once do, by directing the Attorney
General to enter a nolli frosequi. The other is
to execute its own power, through its own officer,
by directing the Marshal to proceed to the place
of confinement, and set the Prisoner free. Re-
31qance to the Marshal, under such circum-
stances, would be nullification
Oh, iDogberry ! beat that if you can.
We repeat that we do not believe that England
expects any such base compliance on our part, and
has only taken the course which she has for the
purpose of furnishing the prisoner what she con-
siders a perfect defence on his trial. We may
rest assured that she will never go to war with us
on this noint at ally rate. If she does she must
be quick about it, for we understand that M'Leod,
confident of proving that he was not one of the
party engaged in the destruction of the Caroline,
leas determined to be tried where he is, at Lock-
port, and that his trial will take. place next week.
We are glad of this, and trust that instead of be-
ing at war in the course of ten days, we shall
within that time be entirely free from this fruitful
source of excitement. We certainly hope that
the citizens of Lockport and its vicinity will,
during the trial, remember the importance of
their position. The least disorder—the least dis-
turbance of the peace—any unlawful violence, or
riotous demonstrations, will tend to bring dis-
grace upon the whole country. Let •the pro-
ceedings be calm, orderly, just, and in every
respect becoming the character of the American
citizens.

FROM HAVANNA.H.—The steamship Natchez,
from Havanah, arrived at New Orleans, on the
28th ult., bringing dates to the 23d. Business
was dull in Havannah, the liilarities of the holidays
taking precedence of commercial transactions.
Coffee MI a U cents. It is said that at. these
prices the limited orders from the United States
could not be fulfilled. Sugar was quoted at 6 a 7
cents; abundant supply and small demand; flour
$1.4 50; lard 121 a 13l cents.
Havannah papers of the 23d contain extracts
from Mexican papers, from which it appears
that the department of Sonora, stretching
along the Gulf of California, is now in a state
of revolt against the Central Government
of Mexico. The Governor, Don Manuel
Maria Gandara, issued a proclamation im-
ploring all the authorities of the department
to second his efforts to quell the insurrection at •
the onset—but without avail. He and the few
soldiers under him were compelled to retreat pre-
cipitately beyond the frontier, and at the latest
date " every man did what seemed meet in his
own eyes."
All the prisoners confined in the gaols of the
city of Mexico are being brought to Vera Cruz,
to be employed as labourers on the public works,
aqueducts, Scc., now in progress in that city under
the superintendence of General Rincon.
By other extracts it appears that the news that
Texas did not contemplate an invasion of Mexico,
occasioned great rejoicing! in that country. An
institution for the instruction of the deaf and
dumb is about being established in the city of
Havannah. Some of the streets of Havannah
are about being paved with wood.
As an item showing the growing trade of the
port of Havannah, the fact is stated that on the
21st ultimo, there were boui:d for foreign ports
1 ship, 4 polacres, 17 brigs, and 11 schooners—in
all 33.

The Legislature of Marylthd adjourned on
Wednesday last, to meet in extra session on the
24th instant.

LATEST FROM TAMPlCo.—Passengers arrived
at New Orleans, on the Ist instant, who left
Tampico on the 14th ult. They were landed at
the Balize from the brig Charles Carroll, bound
for New York from Tampico.
Business was remarkably dull when the left.
A conducta had arrived from the interior with

half a million of dollars, about fifty thousand of
which was said to be destined for New Orleans ;
there was then no vessel there to convey it hither.

A rumour was bruited about in Taiiipico that
General Arista was about joining with Canales,
for the Purposes of embracing the Federal cause.
Everything was quiet is the interior.

(From the New York Herald.)
FROM NEW GRENADA.—By the Neuva Gre-
nada, Captain Martinez, we have received late
advises from Colombia. Troubles continued.
The Government troops under Herran, sixteen
hundred in number, and the Federalists, twenty-
three hundred strong, under Carmora, were
every day expected to have a battle. It was
thought that they would fight at La Cruz, a
short distance from Ocana. Those small South
American republics will ever be in war.

OUR NAVY.---We understand that the Secre-
tary of the Navy intends arming either the steam
frigate Missouri or Mississippi with two of Coch-
ran's famous bomb cannon.

This is right. In the present aspect of our
foreign relations it behoves the Government to
advance pani passu with other nations in the art
of killing off the surplus people now on the globe.