The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOUUNALS.

FROM TOR MORNING FAPERS OF THIS DAY.
( From the Illorhinq Chronicle.)
kjunice towards the Irish ern alone inspire the I, ish
with a wish for separation. Both countries are benefited
by the Union : the rep,-2al of it vx ould be productive of all
manner of calamities to them. If the separation were to
be complete, and a Parliament, thoroughly independent,
to sit in Dublin, who could ensure a good agreement be-
tween the two Parliaments ? A war might be declared
by the Sovereign of the two countries. The British Par-
liament might approve of the war, and vote supplies
for it. On the other hand, the Irish Parliament might
adopt opposite views, and refuse to vote supplies.
The King of Ireland might be called on by his Par-
liament to do that which would embroil him with
his English Parliament. In the very short period
of the existence of an independent Irish Parliament
almzdy, it differed on a most material point with the Eng.
lish Parliament. The separation of the two Parliaments
would lead to collisions, and perhaps to hostilities, and
the result would be, that the two countries would waste
their resources in these broils, and England would be
compelled to attempt once more the conquest of Ireland,
or must sink to a third-rate Power. We agree with the
Standard in thinking that Mr. O'Connell has not the
power to effect a repeal of the Union ; but if Lord Stanley
were to succeed in carrying his Bill, and if justice be not
done to Ireland in some other respects, a power may be
placed in his hands of which it may be difficult to calcu-
late the strength. After all, the ways of justice are the
ways of safety.

(From the Morning Post.)
No man who looks to the foundations upon which all re-
gular and lasting government must be placed—no thought-
ful politician, who wishes that there should be such a thing
as regular and lasting government in this country, can re-
gard without alarm and disgust the circumstances of fel-
lowship and dependence in which the present Administra-
tion is placed. Whatever may be the intentions or the
hopes of the Ministers themselves, their character as a
Government must mainly depend upon their advocates and
supporters—upon those who come most frequently before
the public as communicators of the Ministerial intentions,
and defenders cf Ministerial policy. -It is by these people
that the Government must be generally known, and through
them that it must be generally appreciated. If these peo-
ple have contamination in them the Government must
either separate from them or wear the reputation of the
plague-spot. Government cannot avail itself of their sup-
po; t and advocacy, and yet keep clear of their abomination.
(From the Morning Herald.)
It is deeply mortifying to all who feel for the honour
and interests of England, that her rulers, when plunging
into a war against the greatest of the Asiatic empires,
should not have taken care to have justice on their side.
The Emperor of China, in protecting his people against
the destroying influence of a seductive and demoralizing
poison, will have the sympathy of all good men—of all
good friends to the interests of humanity in every part of
the globe. Pestilent and destructive as the slave trade
itself, the contraband traffic in opium is a curse to both
India and China—to the country in which the poppy is
cultivated, and to that in which its poisonous extract is, by
every foul means of fraud and force, made an object of
illicit merchandize. In India the monopolists of the poppy
cultivation apply to the growth of this poisonous product
the very best soil for rearing food for the subsistence of
man. They compel the wretched occupiers of the soil to
grew the poppy, and to sell the crop to them at the price
which they, the monopolists, choose to put upon it. Thus
the people of India are impoverished and oppressed by the
cultivation of the drug which carries to the inhabitants of
China the afflictions of physical debility and moral debase-
ment.

(From the Times.)
The Whigs and Radicals, terrified at the prospect of a
real reform in any abuse that profits themselves, are try-
ing all their resources of cajolery and of intimidation to
compel, on the next stage of Lord Stanley's Bill, the at-
tendance of the few respectable adherents who, from a
lingering sense of shame, refused to vote against the se-
cond reading of that indispensable measure. Exhorta-
tions and invectives, in Parliament and in the public pa-
pers, calls of the House, letters to the constituents of the
conscientious absentees, patronage acd promises without
stint—all these engines are used to prolong the reign of
roguery, and continue till another election the registra-
tion of the tenant whose lease, or it may be whose very
life, has already expired. But this unrighteous canvass
is not a thriving one. There seems to be a point of dis-
honesty, an extent of misprision, a stage in the abetment
of fraud, a grossness and foulness of conspiracy, which is
too much for the stomachs of some men even among the
Whigs ; and let the cat-o'-nine-tails whip as briskly as it
will, the 6th of May,. the day appointed for the commit-
ment of Lord Stanley's Bill, will be a dark and dreary
one for the mastery and Ministry of O'Connell.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The- " Cork Conservative Registry Association" has
discicsed rather more of the kind of agency by which the
worthies who are incessantly toiling to attain the
ascendancy in Ireland hope to accomplish their designs.
The following circular, lithographed, and duly signed by
" Robert Nettles, I-lon. District Secretary," every line
of which is instinct with Orange fears and Orange
cunning, is at present deserving of special regard. We
give it on the authority of the Cork Reporter ; and as-
suming it as authentic, so extraordinary a documut per-
haps never saw the light :

" (PRIVATE.) " Nettleville.
" Sir,—l have been directed to state to you that the
person whose name is mentioned on the other side has
sei ved notice to re-register his vote at the ensuing Cork
St ssions, which will commence on the Ist of April. As
our being able to return Conservative Members for this
county entirely depends on our preventing the re-registry
of our own tenants, the Committee trust that you will
exert yourself to effect that desirable object, and that you will
have the goodness to inform me, as soon as possible, whe-
ther his certificate has' been forwarded to our opponents,
or any authority given to produce it at the Sessions, as in
such ease it will be necessary for us to have a notice served
on him requiring his presence at these Sessions, where, if
he does not appear, the re-registry cannot take place.
" I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
" ROBT. NETTLES, Hon. District Sec."

Between Lord Stanley's hill for restricting the fran-
chise, and the operation of such conspiracies as the
above document reveals, it would be surprising indeed
if the expectations of the Irish Tories were not raised ;
and if, with their accustomed insolence, they did not
predict a speedy triumph of their cause. They still,
I owever, reckon without their host. The insidious
Lill of Lord Stanley has to pass the ordeal of a
Committee. The Irish Liberal Members are now
aware of and wide awake to its injurious character
and tendency. The 6th of May will see every Liberal
Member in his place ; and in a few days after—pos-
sibly in a few hours—the Bill will fall a lifeless carcass,
strangled by the determined opposition of those who see
in its provisions another attempt to render the popular
franchise a mere name in Ireland. The Cork Con-
servative Circular speaks for itself. It is neither more
nor less then a distinct revelation of a deep con-
spiracy against popular rights—an avowal of an
existing combination against the freedom of elec-
tion—an admission that without such illegal con-
cord and coercive appliances the 0-angemen
have no hope. " Our being able to return Conservative
Members for the county depends on our preventing the
re-registry of our own tenants." The qualified electors
must he prevented from re-registry—their hatred of
Orangeism—their dread of its again acquiring the as-
cendancy it incessantly seeks to obtain, is known. " Ex-
ertions" must therefore be used to prevent those honest-
hearted men from acquiring the right the law has
conferred on them. Every obstacle is to be
interposed. In the name and on behalf of the
great body of ' Irish county electors, we thank
the Cork Conservative Registry Association and
its sapient secretary, Mr. Robert Nettles, for
this candid confession of Conservative weakness in that
county. Orangeism on its own confession, impotent
in the county Cork. If the people, duly qualified by
law, be allowed to exercise the right the law has con-
ferred, there is no hope for Toryism. They must be
prevented from registering. " Landlords, to the res-
cue I Prevent the registering of your own tenants.
The power is in your own hands—use your power.
The tenure confers the right the tenantry insolently
claim. Threaten—harass—coerce—eject—ruin. The
cause demands your ' exertions.' The object' so de-
sirable ' to all true Orangemen will justify the means—
will sanctify the agency. Let each landlord prevent the
re-registry of his own tenants !"
(From the Standard.)
The first octennial registration since the Reform
Bill has run its course of fraud. Is the same system
to be continued to the end of 1848 ? If not, now is
surely the time to complete the Reform Bill. We put
the proposition to English Reformers. Is it not
time, at the end of eight years, or must
we wait to the end of sixteen ? They to whom
we address the proposition would have laughed at
any one who offered to grant the first instalment
of reform at the end of sixteen years, or even of eight.
Something, then, we may assume, must be done—
hut Ministers do not pretend to have any Cabinet mea-
sure in preparation ; the task thus devolves upon the
statesman whose honour as a public man is committed
to the completion of his own work. No man, in-
deed, can dispute the principle, that a supplementary
Reform Bill for the Irish registration is necessary—
that the time for it has been long present, arid i t is
not for the Ministers, who have no measure of their
own, to dispute the right of Lord Stanley to supply
the neglect on their part. Some measure is necessary.
Granted, a Ministerialist may say, but Lord Stanley's
Bill is faulty in principle. Then, we answer, let Lord
John Russell, or Lord Morpeth, introduce another
Bill, not open to objection on the ground of prin-
ciple,
i l and let Parliament judge between the two
Bills ; or again, Lord Stanley s Bill is right in
principle, but defective in the details. We once more
answer that it is the business of the House in Commit-
atenetoer tam end faults of detail. if Ministers will not pro-
► pose a rival measure to Lord Stanley's, or permit his
Lordship's Bill to go into a Committee, their con-
duct admits of but one interpretation—they want to
perpetuate what they have again and again confessed
to be a system of fraud, perjury, and corruption, because
they find their advantage in it—they want to defeat
•
their own Relbrm

The girl named Grace Young, who was lately
assaulted in a cowardly manner in the quarry adjoining the road
leading to Port Dundal, died on the sth inst. of the injuries she
then received. Her assailant has not yet been discovered. A
reward has been offered for his apprehension.

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On Sunday night an alarming tire broke out on
the premises of Mr. Vickery, bookseller and
ic-ery, with stationer,his No. 42,
Mount-row, Westminster Bridge-road. i r. .
family, were sitting in the first-floor, when a strong smell of gas
was perceived by them, and on his proceeding to the shop with
a lighted candle in his hand, the gas, which had escaped from
' therein, immediately exploded with a loud noise, and the
a pipe
blaze.
shop was instantly in a The engines from the WEterloo-
road fire-station promptly arrived, and were quickly followed by
those of the 'West of England, Westminster, Chandos-street,
and County, and by the united efforts of the firemen the upper
part of the building was saved from destrucion ; the whole of
the valuable stock of books, &c., are, however, totally destroyed.
Mr, Vickery is insured in the County Fire-office.
On Monday week, while a bow was attempting
to descend a coal-pit at Aberdona, by one of the sliders, lie lost
his hold, and fell a depth of nine fathoms, and miraculously es-
caped with a few bruises. lie is now in a fair way of recovery.
BARBARITY AND SUPERSTITION.—it will
scarcely be believeil that the following disgusting act of super-
stition and cruelty could be practised in the nineteenth cen-
tury,e and in a city like Norwich ; but such is unfortunately the
fact. Children who are sickly are taken to a woman
living in
St. Lawrence, to be cut for a supposed disease called
mojai_ie
Monday
`°spinnage ;" the woman performs her operatio: 0
morning only, and charges threepence. On theltin a
first Inc
woman ems the lobe of the right ear with a pair scissors,
and with the blood makes the sign of the cross '.von the child's
forehead. On the second Monday she df.,,s thesani
to subject
e with the
left ear, and in some instances it deemed necessary
the little sufferers to ninenineoperations of
t parents will not
his ridiculous cere-
mony. We hope- drier this exposure,that
again sultite.Zt l'neir infants to such barbarous treatment.—Nor.
,folk rjniele.
HAMPTON COURT PALACE.—On Easter
Monday, the Palace of Hampton Court was thrown open to the
public, when, beside: the Railway,
upwards of a dozen spring-
vans, gaily adorned with ribbons and blue and red hangings,
brought their loads of Londoners in fine spirits for a day's fro-
lic. Between two and three o'clock not less than 2,000 people
were wandering through the Palace and gardens, yet nothing
could be more decorous than their behaviour.

EVENING EDITION.

KINGSTON PET FY ,SESSIONS.

TilE NEW POLICE ACT.

(Before Sir R. FP.EDERICK, Bert., Chairman, B. BAR..
NARD, H. WEsTcAr., Esq., and other Justices.)
An elderly man, named John Davison, who was for-
merly in a respectable business as a licensed-victualler
in this town, but who has latterly become very much
reduced in his circumstances, was brought up in custody,

charged, under one of the clauses of the New Police

Act,-with having, in a public thoroughfare, made use of
provoking and insulting language, and calculated to
provoke a breach of the peace, towards Mr. Thomas
Charles Phillips, the manager of an extensive brewery
establishment at Kingston, and for which offence he
had incurred a penalty of forty shillings, or one month's
imprisonment.

Mr. Phihips being sworn, stated that be had felt
him-elf compelled to institute the present proceeding
under the new Act of Parliament, by reason of the
grievous annoyance to which he had been for a very
long time subjected by the proceedings of the de-
fendant. Mr. Phillips then proceeded to state
that, in c..msequence of some fancied claim the
defem'ant had upon him for a considerable sum of
money, whenever he met him, he accused him, publicly,
of robbing him, called him a rascal, and other opprobrious
epithets, and, in fact, insulted him in die grossest pos-
sible manner. Upon the present occasion, while he
was standing in the Market-place talking to two gen-
tlemen, the defendant came up to him and demanded
130/. of him, telling him that he had robbed him of that
amount, and in consequence of what he said several
persons collected together, and he gave the defendant
into custody.
_ _

Mr. BARNARD asked the complairant whether the
defendant assaulted him ?

Mr. Jcmmett, the Clerk to the Bench, explained that
proof of an assault was not at all necessary. The clause
under which the proceeding was framed, merely said that
if any person made use of insulting or provoking lan-
guage calculated to provoke a breach of the peace to-
wards another, he should be liable to the penalty stated.
The Magistrates were merely to express their opinion
as to whether the language made use of was, in point of
fact, calculated to provoke a breach of the peace.
The defendant, upon his being asked for an explana-
.

Lion, went into a statement of alleged grievances he had
endured from Mr. Phillips, and said that he had merely
asked him for his own money, and he did not consider
the law could make that an otrence.
The MAGISTRATES told him that it had been proved
that he had accused the complainant of robbing him of
130/., or, in other words, telling him he was a thief,
which was certainly language calculated to provoke a
breach of the peace, and unless they had some gua-
rantee that such conduct would not be continued, they
should feel themselves called upon to put the law in
force.

Mr. Phillips said that he had no vindictive feeling
against the defendant, but he had suffered so much by
his annoyance before the 6w afforded him any remedy,
that he felt himself compelled to take advantage of the
new Act, to claim protection at the hands of the Bench.
The CHAIRMAN then asked the defendant whether he
would promise the Magistrates not to repeat the anucy-
once complained of ?

He replied that most certainly he should continue it
until he obtained his rights, and added that he did not
think the Mdgistrat( s had any power under the New
Police Act to interfere in the matter.

The CHAIRMAN told him that the Magistrates
were the parties who had to decide upon the law, and
they considered that he had committed the offence
created by the act, and 'unless he gave the required
promise, they should fifrq'hcrn forty shillings.
The defendant then ifaid that while he bad life and
memory he should perset;ere in endeavouring to obtain
what he was sntitled to. -

The CHAIRMAN, after this, said that the bench had
come to a decision to fine hint 40s.
The defendant said be could not pay.
CHAIRMAN—Very well ; then you must go to the
House of Correction fOr a month.
The defendant was then taken away in custody ex-
claiming that the punishment would not have the best
effect upon him, and that be should apply to Mr.
Phillips again the moment he was set at liberty.