The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-10 00:00:00

MORN! arc ED IT EON.

POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE

MORNING JOURNALS.

The Morning Herald of yesterday, in a leading article on the
subject of Pickeos's Report on Col. .31`Leotl's caw; ob-
serves :-L-.‘• Arnoeg all the extraordinary doeuments which have
fallae under our notice from time to time, professing to belong
to the historical category el grave State-papers, this is beyond
ail question the most extraordinary. It is -difficult to say whe-
ther it abounds more in absurdity or falsehood. It is indeed
so extravagant a specimen of democratie dialectics run read,
that, if it did not point to a tragical conclusion, it would be
utterly unworthy of any serious notice." Tee Morning Clira-
aide remarks, with reference to Sir Hobert Peel's speech or
:Monday in the House of Commons, on-the case of tire of
Cardigan and the Eleventh Hussars :—" Sir Robert Pee
di:i himself very little credit by his affected cern-I
passion for Lord Cardigan. The presumption is,
that the officers of the Elsve.ath are -exposed to in-
justice because Lord Cardigan is a man of rank, ra-
ther than tint his•rank exposes him to injustice from the
press. The gentlemen with whom the press has sympathised
have many of them served their country in various climes, and
under commanding offirers who bore the hirhest testimony to
their soldierly qualitics an! gentlemanly-court. -The Right
Honourable Baronet has sic sympathy to expend on these
otlieerss-but he is full of sympa'hy for the man of rank. The
Earl-of Cardigan had been already.driven. from one regiment,
by sentence of a court-martial, stigmatised for ungentlemanly
conduct, while the officers of the 'Eleventh came before the
.public'yeith unspotted reputation. When he was restored to
command, all that has taken. place was confidently pre-
"-dieted. Those who hid attended to ti e Court-martial
were terta'n that Lord Cardigan's* faults INCiC incurable. But
it Robert Peel must lend his lungs to abuse the press, which,
. wi'hout ret'erence to party, has .unanimously espoused the ease
of the victnns of military despotism. Has
_S:r Robert Peel
the hard hood to pretend that the press 'and the public
feel -differently with regard to the Earl of Cardigan?
Doei he mean to say that there is not one fee'ing through-
out society against the Earl of Cardigan and -in favour
of the officers? It may be mean to seek popularity by un-
fair means, but it is fully to court unpopularity by pertina-
ciously abetting conduct which is deserving of reprobation."
The Morning Post thus expresses itself on the subject of the
American Report on Colonel M'Leod's affair :—",The report
contains within itself abundant evidence that its authors-were
actuated by a spirit of jealousy and enmity towards Great
Britain, combined with a determination to do everything in
'their power to embarrass the Government of the new .Presi-
-dent, which they- clearly anticipate will be desirous 'of avoid-
big any collision with this country." The Times, in an article
on the subject of the Pweyttes, • remarks as follows :
"We thought, and still think, it a matter of fact, that
the illjLertee of these_ -and other,
,avriterk_ has
beeA. much more extensive. than their 3rliritetliate party, ,-
and Mfiat ',chaffer these -who approve of all which
they have said or written be many or few, they have been the
means of reviving very generally among the clergy, and with
great and increasing power, the profession of certain leading
korertnes which (in their judgment) broadly distinguish the
-Church of England from every sect of Dissenters. Our co:-
.respondent names certain Bishops whom he considers to have
censured portions of the teaching of the Oxford divines. We
aepeal to his candour to say, whether some of those very
Bishops have not seconded the teaching of the same divines,
upon et rtain controverted points of the greatest possible im-
importance ?"

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
We find that sort of satisfaction in the perusal of the
Report of Congress by the Committee of Foreign Affairs
—which arises from the impossibility that a cisitzed end
enlightened community should rush into war on such a
cause. Otherwise we should have been apt to read it with
very melancholy reflections. rids, then, is the sort of
language which men, responsible to no power but opinion,
feel irresponsible enough to set before the eyes of their
izeas I It is said that the Repoit was passed by
the partisans of the defeated party, merely with a view to
embarrass their successors I There are too many prece-
dents in cur own history for this sort cf dishonest tactics to
pe.rnic. us to feel or affect m'ech surprise at any offspring of
political prefligacy. Certainly, however, this bantling
is not a little one—not susceptible of extenuation by di-
minutive epithets, like the small six-pounder, which the
Committee admit as part of the baggage of sine of the
Caroline's passengers. It is surprising the Committee
should fancy they can invoke with consistency the rights
of neutral?, and the righti of non-neutrals—the right cf
having from us peaceful treatment, while making upon us
piraticai warfare. This blowing hot and cold with one
breath pervades the report. In one sentence we are tell
their citizens could not be expected to distinguish between
one portion of British subjects and another; and it is
the tacit infeseece that therefore they had a right to
assist cue portion in fiyhting the other, and to maintain
warlike occupation of an island "nominally" in the Bii-
tish dominions I. Now the same sauce that is good for
the goose is geed for the gander. If the fact, that
a portion of British subji.ets war ready to receive
the assistance of American citizens in committing
arson and robbery on their fellow subjects, is suffi-
cient to justify those citizens, who could not, it seems, be
expected to distinguish whether they ought to fraternise
with peaceful neighbours, or wi'h rebels in arms, if this
feet is sufficient to justify the American sympathisers in
teking possession of the territory, and fi. ieg upon the flag
of England—then a like difficulty of discrimination jus-
tified our reprisals. You cannot eat your cake and have
it too; you were either neutrals—and neutrality has itsdu-
tie as wall as its rights; or else you failed in neutrality from
an incapacity for nice distinctions ! It is but equitable,
surely, to excuse the like dulness on our part. Indeed, it
was the mere difficult for us to distinguish between the
neutral and non-neutral territory, and citizens of the
States, as all the local resources of that territory, and all
that we saw of those citizens, appeared to be entirely at
the seivice of our aisailants.
(Frem the Standard.)
We do not complain that Lord Melbourne off red
no explanatory reply to L' el Mounteaeheld's question
upon tae repay of .foreign pe4;e7—e-ottrmiaeo
the- United States Represeatative Assembly. S.lence
was probably as much his Lordship's duty al it was the
duty or Lord Mountcashell to show that, though our
Got e-nment are prudently silent, the re ,ple of
Eng'and of all ranks and parti -a have their eyes intently
fixed upon I h sajeca The fate of Mr. 51' Leod i selves
the honour of tie 13/his's empire and the future safety of
British subjects in all parts of the world. If our Govern-
ment )i Id now one hair's breadth, no Englishman's life
la ill be safe anywhere, one hour of er he shall quit
the dominions of his Sovereige. Whenever any nation
shall hate a desire t; bully us without ineurriag the dal-
gee of vae it will be only eesessary to entrap and mur-
Lei an Esglishinan or two; and, aster we shall have sub-
mitted to flee wrong and insult in Mr. M‘Leod's case, how
can c. e reA:ut any one thing so ? We have lately been
ie tiUng Lord Jecayti's delightful sketch of the Chine:e
campaign—as shi iced, g.apll••, aid unpretending a little
volume a; eter came into cur bands; and we hrve been
forcily struck tci h the In' tha' the Uta e I States'
mo,le of adjusting a national dispute aid vindimt-_
ing America-1 hocour—very A nerican honour—is prc-
ci~c'j tie resorted to by the tricky aid cowartily
Chinese. Seize a t unprotcc:ed irtcici lualL--it is
tio:Wg ti the Furpose' that he had taken no part
against Li: c, late i, r that airossel orders of his
ceen tecososised Gove.-arricut acquit rim cf ail personal
rescon,il,,l ize hini, rnur,ler hix, and his t 1 'cid
is a sslve fr t e wouetle I honour of Vie ccuntre.
Thet t' e ation - of t; it court y is re •mertiug
strongly under ;hi in ult offered by the [republic ins
Of N. rah Anteriee, is not our duty to conceal;
but se s:L I a hot e in thi better seoce cf the pea
bri.,y of t'le AQsetrib':,-, and of the now
at, :hat tsar may be f r the fle sent avoided;
Lot neitl.er now nor liereaf.er tsi l the c' awes of
tzar b., eirulriit.e I by a truckli g conduct on the
part if tie British alai ter -111's courtly has
lyirne quite enough front Sate-, and
win ohs' foci roust be obti ins to t very one. Had
an indemnity for the injuries so t ,ined by our CAnadian
1111;-);',3nbj: f....un the pirate rabble •;f Butrilo. Schlosser,
&c., b, co p. renvtcli'y insisted uper, w.? should hear rut-
t'iag now c f th burning of tLe paste versa las a 511.,,Pet
of comp!sin.. It i, al •igays dAngerous to subitit to a wrontg►
doer, fur if you de not Lvorgc the wrong vitoa him, Le 7.
aVe,ige 1113 COnSCiOti,W..S3 of it upon you.
(From the Courier.)
Chronicle this morning cunt ;ins what, foom the
oral i y of tr.e in e:ro-I evi,le::ce, may he assume I to b.!
Doi7r,mg-.tieet view cf. the Reprt on Forci
Atriirs a d heft C9egr,s and puLl'exed in the Courier
3.e.te IL is a clear nod decisiv-, but 't •inp• rat:
T rzu:;:e eircurtwaaces and prilri,,:ea not dyed in the
r atra.r, tad, we I:a% eno doulet, on collation her -
slier, when tato oceasioa is presented, will be f ,end al-
most a file simile impression in its mainLatures, if not
in form cf words,' of tlp.ise (le:patchts of Lord Pa'me--
ston to 141-. Fox, and of the owes of Mr. Fox ti the
American Secre'a-y, by which the whole responsibility of
the net of tho Caroline's destruction was accepted on se-
Count of the B lash Government and people. We repeat
eat atically the "B. List' Government aid people ;'' for
on ;his head there Mlle, as Clerc can be no mistake, and
it etc " h and
e
it is imp:Merit to be publisle i
aith of doltty:lised world; tfar the sate f Upper'
Canada, esajeal g.illarey vindicatedhl her loyal adle-
n:nee to the parent country' i t most critical Vines, at
great odd , all he.zards. and nt the cost of her !eat
'
blood and treasure; Le the sake also cf rate conti.
nuance of peace and fri !tubby wi
be
the Un:te
States, the people of which might °therm tie grosly be:
.yed into the grievous error of mistaking the s!rigle note
Orcaleirge of Mr. Joseph Hume far the vo.ce of the
d
h.e.
veva: of Euglaea. We :lieuld hope that the indignant a.
uaiv,n.sal reprobation, here and in Canada, of Lis pernicious
and treasonable counsel tone latter to cast off the "baneful
doninet of of the mother country," would have taught the
people of the United Stat,:s that E' and and her colonies
ore one and indivisible in nff_ctions as in interest, and that
nether people nor (.I..vernment here a e so peace-at-any-
price infatuated, as basely to surrender the cause a f those
more di .cant portions cf near common empire which have
suffe-el from the wanton aggressions., aed ate yet exposed
to the rapacity aid ambition of the citizens of a State with-
out at head, or cf a host cf petty State tyrants who arbi-
trarily domineer over the feaeral throne.

MONEY M i.RKWIid CITY NEWS.

YESTERDAY.
anio'.
FROM THU MORNING PAPERS OF YF
TIMES.—The intelligence from America sooner
received this morning than Consols declind par cent.
A sale by the Bank broker to some extent furthera
af weakened
the market In the course of the day, however,
lators took advantage of the depression to make some purchases
specu-
rachases
for the account, and this cau7eti a reacti,m, thowrih'
siight one, which was in some measure aidel by the easi'.'c's
very
of menet', row obtainable on the Stock Exchange at 4
r
cent. Indeed the movement, both towards the decline and the
reaction, such as it was, was solely owing to the operations of
parties on the Stock Exchange, and the public do not seem to
base had any notion of alarm. Among the jobbers the opinion
on our relations with America is divided, but the general
feeling seems to be that the disposition cf the Harrison Co-
vernroent is too pacific to allow of any serious outbreak, even
Supposing
tilities.Nehe Americans were in a position to commence hos-
tilities.
arrival, on
vertheles, the effect of the news, both of this and
the last
the Stock Market, has been very serious,
the fall amounting t
to the quotation of to nearly 1 per cent., if reference be made
the full extent of the Wednesday last. Even this would not give
the first arrival progre:47, ay the funds were previously to
of quotations, the rising, and, besides the mere dif-
ferenceto be taken into consideration. check to the general advance ought

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