The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-10 00:00:00

( From the
_Courier.)

The necessity of freeing immigration into the West
India Colonies from the trammels by which it is at pre-
sent injudiciously clogged, becomes more urgent the
more the subject is considered. We assume of course
that the destruction or abandonment of those Colonies is
not contemplated, and that their preservation and im-
provement arc desirable elements in the general prospe-
rity of the whole empire. The promotion by every
means of the welfare and advancement of her few Co-
lonies, is considered by France of such overwhelming
importance as to justify the sacrifice of domestic interests
of considerable magnitude when found inconveniently to
interfere with the one great object in view. Thus the
im-
port duties on colonial sugars have been lowered, whilst
those on beet-root sugar at home, in the cultivation of
which an enormous mass of capital is invested, and labour
employed, have been surcharged with heavy additional im-
posts, so as to benefit and promote colonial proiluetian.
Nay more, the question has been seriously entertained in
the French Chambers, and by the Ministers themselves,
of suppressing the manufacture of sugar from beet-root
altogether, even to the extent of a national indemnifica-
tion for the loss of those interested in that branch of do-
mestic industry ; an indemnification necessarily involving
an immense pecuniary outlay. If such be the extent of
conviction in France regarding the paramount ascendancy
due to colonial interests, as so intimately allied with high
political as well its industrial considerations, what ought to
be their weight in this country, whose colonies arc com-
paratively countless, and whose colonial population num-
bers millions where that of Frame is reckoned by thous-
ands only ?

(From the Standard.)
There is no member of the present administration who
has escaped public notice so well as the Chancellor. His
Lordship owes-this immunity, however, altogether to the
meanness of his talents, and to the timid caution with
which he has slunk back from taking any public part in
polities ; certainly not to any merits as a Judge, a Minister,
or a Member of the Legislature. As a Judge, Lord Cot-
tenham does not give satisfaction. Upon this point
we may safely appeal to the profession and to the
suitors of his Caurt, who complain of him as uniting
all that was thought faulty in his predecessors for
thirty or forty years, without possessing any of
the great qualities by some one of which each
in his turn was eminently distinguished. Lord Cotten-
ham is as deficient in the learning and patience of
Lord Eldon as in the energy and boldness of Lord
Brougham, amid it need not be told how far he falls behind
Lord Lyndhurst in every qualification for the seals. As
many, however, "arc accounted wise only for saying
nothing," so a judge may for a time be thought sage and
impartial only for doing little or nothing ; but this security
cannot last very long, and the Chancellor has, we suspect,
reached its limits : the arrears in his court arc, it is con-
fessed, no longer to be borne.

There was a ballot yesterday afternoon at the
Carlton Club, for the admission of 1( 0 additional members, who
have been for some months on the list of candidates.

,
IMPORTANT TO PUBLICANS.—Last week, at
the Chelmsford Petty Sessions, an information was laid against
Mr. Seaton, the landlord of the Lion and Lamb Inn, Chelms-
ford, by the sergeant of a recruiting party stationed in the town,
for refusing to receive a billet. It appeared that the recruiting
party were in the habit of drawing monthly billets for their
men, and the man in this instance being in the country looking
after recruits, the billet was not presented to Mr. Seaton till
ten days after, which was fair night, when Mr. Seaton's house
was of course full. The Bench at the time thonght the pro-
ceeding was irregular, the billet being presented ten days after,
for at least it ought to have been presented to Mr. Seaton
when it was drawn, that he might have had notice of it. The
sergeant maintained that it was legal, and was in accordance
with his instructions. The Bench, therefore, adjourned the
case, and Mr. Bartlett wrote to the. War Office on the subject.
An answer had been received, which states, that under the cir-
cumstances, the billet not having been presented till ten days
after it was drawn, the Magistrates ought to dismiss the infor-
mation, and that, under the Mutiny Act, the Magistrates
might require the constable to ascertain that the billets were for
the number actually in the place, or on the point of arrival.
In consequence of this, the sergeant was told the information
was dismissed.— E,se.r Herald:

Loss OF THE ARABIAN.—We regret to state
that the disastrous effects of the storm which raged on the last
day of April and first day. of May near the mouth of the St.
Lawrence, have not been confined to the loss of the Chipetea.
On the first May the Arabian, Greenhorn, also from Glasgow
fur Montreal, was drivers on shore at Griffin's Cove, near
Gaspe hay, and within nine miles of that part of the coast
where the Chipewa lay. Fortunately all the crew and passen-
gers were saved; but the barque has been condemned, and the
cargo, which has been estimated at about 70,0001. in value, is
almost all damaged. Including 8 passengers, the total number
on board amounted to 35 persons, who have been kindly shel-
tered in a farm-house, and were all well when the accounts
left. Like the Chipewa, the Arabian was Greenock built;
she was 371 tons ; and during the three years which she has
run, she was a general favourite from her sailing qualities ; and
as a proof of it, we may mention that last year she was the first
spring ship out at Montreal from Great Britain. Her cargo in
this instance was a general one, consisting of goods fitted for
the B. itish American trade. She sailed on the Ist of April ;
and it really is peculiarly painful and disastrous that two first-
rate ships, leaving the Clyde within twenty-four hours of each
other, and bound for one port, shr.uld be destroyed within a
few hours of each other in the same hurricane. The loss is a
very heavy one, and must fall severely on the underwriters,
independently of injuring the returns of the spring trade.
Glasgow Herald. _ _

A most disgraceful riot took place about six
o'clock yesterday afternoon, which for a time endangered the
peace of the city. ' A drunken carter was pacing along High-
street, near Duke-street, at the hour named, when in th,3 pure
spirit of wantorsiscss he severely assaulted a boy. This being
witnessed by a police substitute, he attempted to take the man
into custody, but the latter resisted so strongly that he escaped
to the precincts of the High Church, when a party of police
again attempted to interfere. This was the signal for an out-
pouring of all the loose spirits from the closes in that vicinity,
and, led on by a man named Lindsay, the mob commenced a
general attack upon the officers with stones and nailed shoes,
by which some of them-have been much injured:- The nigh-
street, in fact, was filled by a dense and most disorderly crowd,
and for a space matters wore a very alarming aspect. The
officers, however,, succeeded in bringing down two or three of
the ringleaders, including the wild carter, who-no sooner was
placid in a cell than he smashed the bed to pieces, and it re-
quired no small exertion on the part of the officers to consign
the man to another apartment, where he would have nothing
to break but stone walls and iron bars.— Glasgow Herald.