The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNA

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Herald.)

At half-past two o'clock this morning, the debate on tot'
Irish Registration Bill was again adjourned by means of
one of those factious and cowardly manoeuvres with whirl:
O'Connell and his Tail arc conversant. The big beTrgar..
man himself has not, as Lord Stanley observed, matte an
attempt to speak, during; the debate, extending as it 'nits
done through two %%hole evenings ; yet the adjou,ntrier,t
always :moved on the pretext that some Irish Memb!ir or
other is anxious to deliver his sentiments on this •‘ tital
question." Tho object of course is to prevent the fhiuse
coming to any decision at all on the subject of that s!steru
of electoral perjury which places O'Connell and his crew
of mercinaries in Parliament.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
If the Tories imagine that by Lord Stanley's .:40.1ti-
Irish Registration Bill Mr. O'Connell's influence in Ire-
land would be impaired, they miserably deceive ti!ern-
selves. The enactment of the Bill would immediately
place at Mr. O'Connell's disposal a greater power in Ire-
land than be ever wielded in the whole course of Hi; poli-
tical life. Mr. O'Connell, no doubt, exercises great in.
licence with the Liberal Irish Members, as well fr

intellectual ability as from the deference which the irloh
constituencies pay to his advice ; but it is in tbri
millions that Mr. O'Connell's chief power centrwT. awl
this power will ever incroase in the direct ratio of th,.l
wrongs which the Legislature may -inflict upon thoie in
whom it is vested.

(Frcm the Morning Post.)
The present Government, bad as it has ever been, never
descended to a course so completely factious as that Whielt
it has taken upon Lord Stanley's Registration Bill.
What would they have said—what would their journxis
have said—if the Conservative party resisted the toctin
for go;ni. into Committee upon a Bill, the second rez.-tig
of which had been carried in a full House after a long -.A
anxious debate? What epithet of abusiveness is
that would not have been lavished upon the faetiou3 .'.•,-
strusiveness" of such a course ? The principle k,
all was affirmed upon the question of the second re.
It then remained to eiscuss the details, and the emu
as every one knows, is the proper place for such
cussion.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The speech of Lord Stanley on Monday night is p74.,-
fessedly a disproof, but virtually a confession, that his Friais what its opponews describe it to be—a measure of re.,-
striction and disfranchisement. Every argument of 1-. in
testy oration confirms the charge. His Lordship seems to
have been so blinded by irritation as to be utterly uncon-
scious of the tendency and bearing of the various topes to
which he had recourse. His dialectics are like the pugilism
of an angry boy: he knocks about furiously till he cuts a
most pitiful figure.

NOTICE.—Never prepay your letters to Totic,
they complain of cheap postage.
THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON'
AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—An inquest was held J:7,1
Monday at Worth, near Winchester, on the bodies of the engtt..e
man and his assistant, who had been thrown off the engine, which
had gut offthe rails, and killed. Several servants of the Coin-
persons, gave evidence very fully, the
in the mind either of the Coroner
resultpa o as t
whichwellas lefto th
no other
or the Jury, that though the precise cause of the accident coat
not be ascertained, no blame whatever attached to the Com-
ny or their servants. A verdict was returned of Accidental
DDeath, with a deodand of Is.
THE LATE 'MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT Al'
ETON.—On Monday an inquest was held at Eton on th? tarty
of the young gentleman named Montague, the particulars of
whose death have been previously published. The evideiie,
given was corroboratory of our account, and the Jury returm.d
the following verdict —" Accidental death by drowning ; deo-
dand Is. on the I,arge, rope, and horses. Tho Jury are sat e,f,
that every precaution is used by the College to prevent
dents of this nature, and that every means was used bv
medical gentlemeii to restore animation. Their thanks are d:l7
to the Huinana Society, to the lad who went in the boat. and
more especially to Captain Inane, for his humane efforts to re-
cover he body."

Imes has been in the habit, for a consi•
derable time past, of admittinerlletters from Scotland, advocating
the b•trusion policy in the Church. Some of these comreuni-
cationi hare been exceedingly intemperate, and have dealt
freely in coarse personal allusions. One in Thursday's paper
of last week contained a disgraceful and unmanly attack on
Dr. Chalmers It was sirrned, "An Elder of the Church' of
Scotland," but was headed, in large caiiitals, evidently inulv.!:::-
tently, with the name of " Professor .tiun'aar
to ithe
or-
inburgh." It appears as if this had been appendedl
parr as a private memorandum, but, by an "
it,' printer, had been emblazoned at the head ofacky the
Scottish Gum dian.