The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-13 00:00:00

EVEN ENG EDITION•

6PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
.sterday was a proud day for the Reformers of
j;cses ; and their triumph will be shared by the
ornaers of every town and village of the empire,
will read with delight of the respectful and cor-
dial tribute of grateful attachment which rank,
talent, influence, wealth, and beauty, assembled
with the Reformers of Middlesex to pay to Mr.
Byng, one of the earliest and most consistent friends of
constitutional liberty. This aged veteran in the cause
of freedom, having completed fifty years' service in
Parliament, was invited to receive from the hands
of those he had so long, and faithfully, and laboriously
served, the well-deserved meed of their gratitude.
The civic crown was placed on the head of the veteran
patriot amid the acclamations of one of the most nume-
rous meetings ever brought together to do honour to
private and public worth. The occasion was one of sur-
passing intorest. The mind almost involuntarily turn.:
to the history of the eventful and unexampled conflict of
principles which the last half century has witnessed.
(From the Courier.)
In the notice which we yesterday took of the extra-
,riaoary production of those constitutional lawyers.
6,rd John Russell, the Attorncl -General, and lawyers.
Macaulay, for suppressing the regular Courts of
Justice, we overlooked a passage, which declares
ti: at nothing contained in the Privilege Act " shall be
tleeceecl or taken, or held or construed, directly or indi-
rectly, by implication or otherwise, to affect the privi-
leges of Parliament in any manner whatsoever." We
fully agree with the Times, that this proviso renders
the whole Act nugatory. The object sought is to
declare a privilege: the proviso would enact that the
very declaration wh:cla is the essence of the Bill, shall
have no influence upon ;nrivilegc. We arc not now con-
sidering the accuracy, propriety, or utility of the privi-
lege to be established and noiintained by the Bi
ersonall, but
the means proposed by these yeti astute pges to
carry the intended object. It seems to us, however
elaborated it may have been, as sheer a piece of non-
sense as ever emanated from a body of people per-
plexed and amazed at their own measures.
( From the Standard.)
Consistently with the view which we have always
taken of the libel laws, we cannot concur with some
of our most respected Cotemporaries in condemning
Lord Sohn Russell's Bill for the protection of Parlia-
mentary papers. We do not set a very high value upon
the licence claimed for Parliament by the Bill, because
we know that, practically, the utmost publicity might
be obtained for every Parliamentary paper without it ;
but we do set a very high value upon the example of
the House of Commons submitting to the law.
'f.tut the proposed law will expose the characters
or ;Selina of the people to serious injury we
cannot bring ourselves to believe ; indeed,
the fact that, even in the first three or four
years of the experiment, but one complaint has been
male, and that 'uch a one as that„'! the case had been
pro-,..dy defended, must have failed, seems decisive
of the absence of any danger from the p:iblication of
F.per,4, after the House been put upon its :nerd as
a has been.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S—YEszEanaY.
THE DERBY.
13 to 1 agst Angelica colt (taken)
14 to 1 agst Confederate—taken
14 to 1 agst Theon
IS to 1 agst Launcelot
24 to 1 agst Monops--taken
25 to 1 agst Gambia—taken
28 to I agst Bokhara
30 to 1 agst Ottoman—taken
40 to 1 agst Black Bess—taken
40 to 1 agst Grey Milton—taken
40 to 1 agst Assassin
50 to 1 agst Chameau
50 to 1 agst Muley Ishmael
50 to 1 agst Torres Vedras
50 to I agst Diplomatist
1000 to 15 agst Molineux—taken
1000 to 20 agst Maroon
1000 to 30 agst Warden
THE OAKS.
4 to 1 agst Crucifix—taken
8 to 1 agst Black Bess—taken
17 to 2 agst Lalla Rookh
10 to 1 agst Duke of Graften's Currency
15 to 1 agst Filly out of Rowton's dam
16 to 1 agstCarahontas
10 to 1 agst Japonica
TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES.
2 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Angelica colt—offered
6 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wardan—taken
10 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Crucifix
10 to I agst Grey Milton

IMPORTANT FROM THE EAST
INDIES.

(Extract from the Benzbay—Price Current of Jan.
The latest advices from China reach to the beginning
of last month, when an Imperial Edict had been pub-
lished to the affect that all trade direct or indirect with
the British would be forbidden ' should their ship
not proceed to Whampoa, and furnish the Bond
by the 6th ultimo, but which her Majesty's Su-
perintendent had intimated he would if necessary
use means to prevent. The Americans continued to
pursue their trade unmolested, showing respect to the
laws, and their ships were arriving and departing as
usual. The advices further notice that a special
exception in the edict had been made in fa-
vour of the ship Thomas Coutts, which had
proceeded up in October, and complied with the regu-
lalons, and that a like protection was proposed to the
ship Royal Saxon, which was prevented from proceed-
ing to Whatnpoa, while on her way up the River, by
her Majesty's Superintendent.
The general trade at Bombay, at the above date,
was inactive, with the like want of demand as had ex-
isted for some months previous, with no hopes of any
alteration for the better while the trade with China con-
tinued so deranged.