The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TH CR ,DNY, JANUARY, 28, Is4l.

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERN-
MENT.
SIR VALENTINE BLAKE'S FOURTH LETTER,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—Like other venerable institutions, which bad
for their object the good of the commonwealth, Poyn-
ings' law was invented by succeeding generations to sub-
vert the civil and religious liberties of Ireland ; else
the boasted repeal of that much calumniated and mis-
understood statute (on a dispassionate consideration
of the harmony between the Crown and the people
which that Act, if rightly construed, was calculated to
establish--of the noble and generous conduct of the
magnanimous monarch by whom it was suggested, and
the unanimous and grateful adoption of it), would bo
justly condemned as an act of folly, if not a perfidious
violation of the public faith.
The law of Poynings was obviously introduced as a
mere personal res!riction upon the power of the Lord
Lieutenant to assemble the Parliament, or to recom-
mend measures for its adoption, without the previous
knowledge and approbation of the Crown. It was, in fact,
a security to the people for the perfect enjovmentof their
privileges, and when occasionally suspended, in succeed-
ing times the suspension was looked upon by the people
as a suspension of the Constitution, with intent to
throw odium of some abuse of power upon the local
Government, and accordingly there was no usurpation,
no oppression, no tyranny that could dishonour a King
or a Deputy, or that could defraud and enslave the
Parliament and the people of Ireland, that was
not resorted so under colour of Poynings' law,
on the pretence that it extinguished the Constitu-
tion of Parliament. Upon this misconstruction of
that statute, a corrupt Court majority always
interposed to refuse the permission of the House to any
Member to introduce any Bill upon any subject what-
ever, even a Money Bill, which had not been previ-
ously certified and agreed to, first by the Lord Lieute-
nant and then by the. King in Council.
So that, in fact, all law, human and divine, was set at
nought in the first instance, to feed the sordid and sensual
desires of a monster, to whose arbitrary will the acts of
the two Legislatures of England and Ireland were sub-
ordinato,and by whose orders the anti-Christian engraft-
meet of a Protestant Church, without a congregation,
was reluctantly submitted to with fear and trembling by
a Roman Catholic Parliament and a Roman Catholic
population.
This system was contrived and acted upon by Queen
Elizabeth and King James, who waged a war of exter-
mination against the rights and liberties, as well as the
lives and properties, of the population of Ireland, and
however otherwise and elsewhere pure and
upright the reformed religion may be, in Ireland
thus introduced, forced forward, and fostered by
extortion, confiscation, and persecution on the one hand,
and by inducements of temporal power and advance-
ment on the other, it will be described in times not
far distant as an impious mockery of religion by all
good men, and is so now by the true advocates
of real Protestantism—for it is unlike the Church of
England except in external form, and may be compared
in spirit to the acerbity of a convicted harlot in a sa-
cerlotal habit, seeking, by prostitution and defamation, to
extort money under false pretences of sanctity and religion,
If Poynings' law had not thus been perverted
to produce vice and immorality as a substitute for
the national religion, there would never have been
penal laws, confiscations, exclusive franchise, cor-
porate monopoly, or religious discord in Ireland.
The great error in 1782 was not to have vindicated
the true interest and meaning of Poynings' law—
instead of, by its condemnation and repeal, having as-
sented to the propriety of the misconstruction of its salu-
tary enactment. Had this course been adopted there
would have been ever since a resident and inde-
pendent Parliament in Ireland, which could not
have endangered the integrity of the empire—all I
would have been content ment and loyalty, and there would
have been equally diffused throughout Great Britain
and Ireland a reciprocity of feeling and interest far
more binding than any legislative enactment (even if
fairly obtained) can ever produce.
It is under those extraordinary and unprecedented
circumstances that the principle of Representative Go-
vernment, and the moral effect of the true Reformed
Religion, have never combined, or been fairly tried in
Ireland—the introduction there of the double onerous
union of a Reformed Church with an Unreformed State,
has created, for several successive generations, two
irreconcileable. parties : a majority of the landed proprie-
tors, yoked to a prolific idol, which they consider as the
shield and protector of their temporal power and ad-
vancement, worked up to a pitch of religious insanity
on the one hand, and the people to a man, including the
occupyieg tenants of the foregoing High Church
party, and a most respectable and highly influential mi-
nority of the lords of the soil on the other--and, there-
fore, the only question considered in Parliament by the
Asti :formers, woh reference to the Irish franchise,
or to any other rneasui e, is, how far it will be car sst-
ent evith, or prejudice the stability of the false Deity
which Lord Stanley represents and worships, without
any regard to the natural feelings, prjudiees of Cie
balk of the popelition—objects which ought. to be, and
are, a priaiary consideratioe, especially in matters of
religion, with a!! cons..itu:i3nal aid high-
s:.atesmeo, throughout the civilized
I have th,.l honour to be, S'r,
Your obliged and obedient servant,
VALENTINE BLAKE.

Gqbert Abbott a'Beekett aryl Henry Pvne,
Eqtli.ci, were yes.trdly calLd to the bar, by ttw 11,n.
.ciety c.f

Fres i\LP., has announced his Inten-
tion to re,ign Or: representa:lou of the united burouln cf
Penryn and Fa!rnouthin a future Par is Tient;

he Du! ,:e aud Duchcs6 of SutherTand, accom-
pani,cl by the Marquis of Staff,r,..l, and the Ladies I,,veson
flew r, will I v; Li'ilesha:l, Stßffordshile, early in ti.e
nsniog wc.',L,lc for Stalford House, for the szasoa.

The Eall of Sandwich has purchased a man-
sion in Dnver-strec-i, adjoining Vicount Powerseourt's arni
Earl of Mexharough's.

We have to record the demise of Major,Gen.
Sir Henry Worsley, G. C. B , which took place last wcck
in tllc Isle of Wight. The gallant General was in his
73• l scar.

On Monday morning a lad named Evans, the son
of a labcerrg man, was placed in the stocks at Watford,
alder rAtlicr pr eeliar circumatances, and which have
c eatcd a good dad of interest in the town and neighbour-
hood. It :-peArs that about seven o'clock on Sunday
evening, Evans, the lad in question, was w,lking• down
t',le 11 L;li-struet, Watford, nith four wild rabbits Li his
hand, %%hen he n:et Mr. Capel, a county justice, who
a,ked him some c,a.stions about tee rabbits, ar:d he told
mhe teas going to take them to a perton in the toir.n.
Caliel teen charged hint with offering aim for sale,
and laid hold of bins, and fur a constable and ordered
hint to t Ice ham to the cage and lock him up,
and the ea. er d'd so, and he remained all eight
in the c-'ge with nothing but some a:raw to
be upon. Tne next morning he was taken to the
private office of Mr. Pugh, where Mr. Capel attended,
and upon his own view convicted the &fondant in the pe-
nalty- of 53. for folio7'ing his wcedly calling on a Sunday,
and in default ordered that lie should he put into the stock,.
The boy said that he would try and get the money, and the
()Meer accompanied him for that purpose, but being unstic-
c-s-ssl'ul, he was eventually placed in the stocks, and re-
mained there for two hours on Monday morning before cc
was released. The father of the boy has for a great many
years been employed in the establishment of the Earl of
Essex, and his mother in that of Lord Clarendon, and it
does not appear that he was ever before charged with any
offnce.

CHARTIST B 4PTISMS.—The Chartist places
of Sunday .convocation, er " preacl,ing shops," as Mr.
Moir, the tea-dealer, termed them, continue to be attended
by numerous misled tradesmen and their families, and the
torn of baptism has been gone through on sixteen to
twenty children in one day. It is usual to giv.e the
children the names of some demagogue orator, or trcasoa-
able fel.on, who is suffering in the cause of the Charter.
On a late occasion, there were three John Frosts, an
Ann O'Connor, and a Mary Vincent, named in the
" Noddy" Church, when no fewer than twenty-five
children went through the form of baptism. —Glasgow
Courier.

PUBLIC REWARDS.—THE LATE CAPTAIN
IlawETT.—The situation of Captain Hewett's family is a
good example of how public rewards are distributed.
" Captain Basil Hall has published an appeal to the grate-
ful feelings of the nation in behalf of the widow and
eight children." The question which strikes every
man is, why should Captain Basil H-al have been
compelled to do anything of the sort? Captain Hewett
was a remarkably industrious man in her Majesty's
service ; and although he lost his life in a branch of
it in which the man of science Las to s:nother many
of the lr. d lew.ions of the sailor," he has left behind
him the fruits of his labour, at the Admiralty, which
will save thousands from the sudden watery grave
which he wet himself. Fortunately for us " Gentle-
men, who live at home at case," and think " nothing
of the dangers of the seas," as the Burns of our navy
once sang the late Captain Hewett had no chance of
distinguishing himself But look at Admiral Stop.
ford's despatches. Does be not give to the gentleman
who sounded so beautifully every spot where every
anchor was to be cast his share of the victory ? The
lost he,e night late Captain Hewett was employed in the same business
as t
n, w
home;tr
e a
on
swbwroetrleaers,iattnindghiast eldesthome
o
and
by our firesides I And Capt. Basil Hall has "to appeal
to the grateful feelings of the nation" for his widow I
Shame on it. Shama on us, if private charity is thus
to do public jastice I Shame on us, if the widow of
such a man as Hewett is, after privations hardly heard
of in romance, to starve with a large family, on a
dead Lieutenant's pension. Why do we say this ? Be-
cause we know (it was quite an accident that we did
know it) that the stream of private charity is stopped
towards the family, from a conviction that the Go.
vernment ought to take care of the widow, and that
not to • jga ra''v for we cannot replace husband, son, and
brother. [The' above remarks were suggested to the
writer by a gentleman, who is a large subscriber to
the fund. They are not in his own words, but it is
the substance. Ha is an influential M.P. and F. R S.,
and seems to live only to do good, forgetting politics where
science is concerned. Many of his remarks about the pen-
sions given to Messrs. Somerville, Airy, Faraday, Sze, arc
omitted; but if the Government, Whig or Tory, does not
remember the dead as well as the living, som:thine• will
be said of these matters hereafter.)—Morning Herald.

MONEY MARKET and CITY' NEWS.

(WEDNESDAY EVENING.)
TIMES.--The letters from Manchester state that very
large orders have been received there from Mexico for
British " throstle-yarn," to be exteuted within a limited
time, and subjected
to a moderate rate of duty only on
importation. This is animportant relaxation, though but
a temporary one, of the previously strict law, by which
English spun-yarns have been entirely prohibited in that
country. These orders, if they can be completed within
the time which has been fixed, will amount to above
200,000/., and have produced some increased activity in
the trade, the attention_ of the spinners usually engaged in
the German and Russian trade bring directed towards
this new market. Money had become more easy, and
the bankers were ready to accommodate the spinners and
traders of the second class.

Although the quotations for the English Funds have
been throughout the day as nearly as possible the same as
those at the close of business yesterday, or, if anything,
were slightly inclined toa further depression, the debates
of last night have, considered
is thought,
themselves, produced a
favourable impression, and it s thought, that had it not
been for the counteracting effect of the Speech from the
Throne, stocks would have risen. The absence of any-
thing in the speeches of the Members of either House
that could be interpreted into a disrespect for France, and
the general tone adopted in alluding to that country, what-
ever might be the different tendency of particular speeches,
have been considered satisfactory, as showing that no ill-
feeling exists in this country, but that, whatever may
be the opinions as to the foreign policy adopted in re-
ference to the affairs of the Levant, the desire of peace
is unanimous. This, it is thought, would have been
s;fficient to remove so much of the unfavourable im-
pression produced yesterday as was caused by the omis-
sion of " France" in the Speech, especially with the ex-
planation of Lord Palmerston, that it was occasioned by
the notion that it would be inconsistent to express regret,
when there had been no diplomatic termination of the in.
tercourse between the two nations. All good effect that
might be produced from this source is, however, counter-
acted by the paragraph recommending that provision be
made for exigencies, as the necessity of raising money
seems there to be too plainly expressed for its effect on
the stock-market to be easily removed. The Speech itself
has been further discussed to-day, and dissatisfaction is
expressed at the want of reference to the Boundary ques-
tion, the state of Ireland, and other important topics, most
persons seeming to agree with the strictures of Sir Ito.
bert Peel on this head, and to think that the Speech has
been even more than usually vague and unsatisfactory.
Altogether the English stocks were at the close of busi-
ness a shade lower than yesterday; but, nevertheless,
very few transactions took place.

CHRONlCLE:—Attention has been greatly directed to-
day to the debates at the opening of Parliament. The funds
still continue depressed, but the transactions have been
limited. The notice given for a Bill to equalise the
duties on East and West India rum, is looked upon as a
measure of which the West India interests cannot with
fairnesss complain, as the differential duties now existing
have excluded the East India rum from the home market.

POST.---The funds generally in both markets influ-
enced apparently by the same considerations as yester-
day, were again heavy, the dealings having still reference
priecipally to the Queen's Speech in Peril:intent.
A public meeting took place to-day of the shareholders
of the United Mexican Mining Company. A Repert was
laid before them which seemed, upon the whole, to afford
satisfaction. It transpired that the auxiliary loan of be-
tween 60,0001. and 70,000/. bad been entirely paid off,
and that, on the arrival of the next packet, IL ss. per share
on the red scrip shares would be paid, which will amount to
251 per cent, upon the only debt outstanding against this
Company. The sum is about 40,0001. This being redeemed,
if the workings continue to show a prosperous result, a ge-
neral dividend may be looked for. The claim of the Eng-
lish Company on the Raves family, a legally-admitted
claim, exceeds a million of dollars (250,000/ ) Under
such circumstances there is little doubt of a renewal of
the lease of the mine,which expires at the end of the pre-
sent year. The debt forms, of course, a prior mortgage
upon the property. Independently of this demand, the
works, engines, and other assets of the Company are va-
lued at from 300,000 to 400,000 dollars. Yet the original
registered shares are worth no more than 21. per share, or
as many shillings as the pounds subscribed in the first in.
stance, the black and red scrip share being at 31. and 61.
respectively per share. The symptom is a good one. We
may make sure, from the indications presented in the pre-
sent ease, that the public are becoming at length duly
sensible of the great uncertainty that exists, to say the
least of the matter, with regard to all foreign speculations
of this description.

SUN.—To day the Funds were depressed by the pre-
vailing disinclination of most parties to speculate or
invest, unless at a turn in their favour, until it is
known how the ways and means of the country will be
raised. Consols for immediate transfer receded again
11,- per cent., being marked 894 to -a, and for time the
accurrent value was 89 to The mlrket closed
heavily. Bank Stock was rat her firmer at 169 i, and
Eist India Stock was steady at 250. In the heavy
Stocks a good Lu3iness was done, but it was at prices
rather more against the sellers. The New Three-and-
s- Half Per Cents, ranged from 98 to 97 ; the Three
per Cents., from 89-1 to 90 ; and the Reduced T.ireo-
anl-a-l-lail per Cents. from 93t. Exchequer Bills wete
worth 4s. to Gs. premium, and East India Bonds ss.
discount.

Business in Forcizn Market was dull all day. Spa-
nish Actives were worth 241 to 2,Q ; Portuguese,
New Fire per Cents declined from to :31 3, but rallied
and closed at 32 ; Columbian Stock was without 11-
teration, but Mexican was 281 to ; Peruvian
brought 15i ; Buenoi Ayres, 22 to 21/, and Brazilian,
73; to 70 ; Dutch Two-and Half per Cents., were
at 50/ to and the Five Per Cents at 9t to 98i.
Tile Market fur Shares kept up pretty well. Great
Western broutrlit 27 ; the Fifilis GElf to C 4. ; the Bir-
mingham Quarter 25 to 241 ; and the New 28 preen.
The cause of the advance in the Birmingham Shares
is said to be a plan that has bean projected fur calling up
an additional capital to pay cif the certificates, and thus
ielieve the Campany of these incumbrances at once.
The Indigo sales terminated this afternoon. The
'quantity actually sold was 4,200 chests, being more
than nine' at this time of year, and ;he priccs rtaliz•7d
were fully equal to expectation, and such as give rise
to the hope of a brisk trade in most branches during
the summer.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

PROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Mites ) •
The Queen's Speech has now been read threuglieut tile
greater part of England, and has abundantly confi: riled
the graphic description given of it by Sir Robert Peel_
as a document after Telleyrnnd's own heart, in its eapeity
of concealing the thoughts of these from whom it issued.
The country never 'lewd of a Speech so rich ia its nee a
qualities, FO perfect in the art of leaving all unsai:l en
which the publ:e were best entitled to be satisfied, end
which they were most anxious to learn. Whi'st we are
told by Mr. Daniel O'Connell of the hundreds of thou-
sands of the Queen's subjecte who have seem them-
selves in to his banded conspiracy for teering to pieces.
the ' Act of Union, the Queen's Ministers, as if
dreading to look the mischief or its author in the
face, pass both ever without a s} liable of notice !
Whilst a war has been raging upon cur Indian
frontier, one of the last events of which was a battle
wherein we lost twenty British officers, and of the other
results of which no detailed knowledge has reached
the people of England, what says the Royal Speech
upon this alartmirg subject? It never mentions ledia at
all? Whilst the State decuments of North America aro
full of the critical question of the north-west frontier, re-
specting which no syllable satisfactory or reassuring, be-
yond hopes that Great Britain will maintain peace by
giving way, has yet been uttered in any quarter, official
or unofficial, what says her Majesty's Speech to comfort
us ? Literally, not one word Whilst • naval armaments
and expeditions have been carried on exteneively, the
weans of the country anticipated, the Sinking Fund sacri-
ficed, Lens and taxes have become inevitable, what says
the Speech with reference to our financial condition ? Nut •
a single word I Whilst former Speeches, during actual
peace, have dwelt with satisfaction upon the assurances
from " all " foreign Powers of their friendly disposition,
and of their anxiety to keep at peace with England,
in the opening paragraph of the present speech the
significant term all is omitted. Whilst England has been
threatened, and Europe agitated by open threats of war-
like measures by one great military Power against Great
Britain and her Allies—whilst it woul.d have been a natu-
ral and easy method of tranquillizing the public apprehen-
sions, to indicate (had it been true) that the cause for
such alarms had disappeared, or had even diminished, by
including France among those Powers which bad conveyed
to our Government an expression of their friendly anti
pacific spirit towards Great Britain, France is in the Speech
passed over by the NI hi,g Ministers, as if she formed no part
of the European Commonwealth, or deserved no notice on
the part of Queen Victoria but one of avereion or contempt.
How far it may suit the taste of France to be put
on a level with Mr. Daniel O'Connell and his repeaters,
in a document addressed to the whole civilized world—
how far it may comport with the pride of a nation which
has talked so loudly, we might say importunately, about
its honour, and dignity, and offended grandeur—a little
time may show ; but this we can vouch for—viz., that all
Englishmen whom we have conversed with are hurt, for
the sake of France, at so glaring an omission, and sur-
prised at the inconsiderate levity of such a neglect. Still
a far graver consideration is, that had the existing state of
our diplomatic intercourse with France been sueb as would
bear a favourable or promising construction, the British
Government cent/4 net fail to have seized the opportueeny
of so representing it, or so implying
its amicable character,
to Europe.
(From the Morning Post.)
The Globe, in reply to the just animadversions of the
Conservative press on the foolish and mischievous suppres-
sion, in the Queen's Speech, of topics which ought to have
been intrauced into that document,
w it, we ask, if the Speech were really de_
has nothing to ad-
vance but the following. miserable and shallow argument
ad !manes :—" If the document so unmercifully assailed
were really as rich in defects as is asserted of it, how is it
that in neither House, although the Tories posses.; a de-
cided majority in one, and. a powerful minority in the
other—heer
fieient iiisome and erroneous in its other topics, that the
Toras did not move an amendment on the Address,
which was an echo of the Speech, and tint; manifest to the
country their supei ior- nequaintance with its foreign rela-
tions—its colonial dependencies—arid its domestic condi-
tion ? That the Tories are exceediegly desirous of exhibiting
their superior capabilities of goverment will not be doubted,
That a successful onslaught on the Ministry at the very open-
ing of the Session, and on the Address to the Throne, in re-
Ply to the Speech of the Queen—which we are again and

again reminded is the composition of her Ministers—would
have been seized on by their hungry partisans as a realiza-
tion of their hopes, as the fulfilment of their confident pre-
dictions, uttered in every finial of language during the re-
cess, cannot be denied, and yet they suffered the golden
opportunity to pass by 1" We can inform the Globe why the
Tories, although they possess a decided majority in one,
and a powerful minority in the other House of Parliament,
did not move an amendment to the Address, and we arc
the more bound to communicate this information as the
inducement to Tory forbearance was one which our Mi.
nisterial Contemporary, from any experience he can have
bad of the conduct of its own party when in opposition,
need not be expected to conjecture. It is that the Tories
in Parliament, having it in their option to achieve
a party triumph over their political opponents, or
to render an important service to their country by
counteracting in some degree the mischief which
the imperfections of the Speech from the Throne was cal-
culated to produce, had an instinctive preference for the
latter alternative. That a Wl:ig Journal should neither
understand the force, nor even perceive the existence, of
such a motive, is quite natural, and perfectly in unison
with the invariable conduct of the Whig party when out
of office. The defects of the Royal Speech which the
Conservatives in Parliament chiefly censured and deplored
were, the omission of any notice of the state of our rela-
tions with France, and of any censure of the re-
peal agitation in Ireland. The opinion entertained of
the latter omission, not merely by the Conservatives
of Great Britain and Ireland, but by every man in
Great Britain, in whose breast the spirit of party has
not extinguished every manly and patriotic feeling, was
well and forcibly expressed last night in the House of
Commons by Sir Robert Inglis. It is the unanimous
opinion of all men, without distinction of party, excepting
only those who enjoy or hope to reap sonic private and
personal advantage from the Ministers of the Brittsh
Crown continuing to truckle as they have hitherto done to
Mr. O'Connell. But between entertaining this opinion
and moving an amendment to the Address, in pursuance of
it, there is a wide and important distinction. The amend-
ment to be practically useful, must have comprehended
the suggestion of measures for the repression of the Re-
peal agitation, or at least a direct censure of Ministers
l'er the encouragement they have afforded to the per-
sons most actively engaged in it ; and upon such an
amendment the Conservatives would unquestionably
have obtained a great party triumph in recording in its
favour the votes of an overwhelming majority in one
House of Parliament, and of a majority within two or
three in the other, The party triumph would have
been signal, and if the Conservatives in Parliament for-
bore to seize it, it was in the pure spirit of patriotism
that they nbstained. The amendment might have been
lost in the House of Commons by a majority of two. or
three; and had the majority been only one, it is quite
certain that the repeal agitators in Ireland would
have taught their dupes and victims to regard it as
an expression of the opinion of the House of Com-
- mons in favour of repeal, and would thus have been
enabled to extend the sphere, and increase the in-
tersity, of a dangerous and pernicious excitement.
(From the Morning Herald.)
Neither the Duke of Wellington in the Upper House,
nor Sir Robert Peel in the lower, would have taken the
pains which they did, upon the first night of the Ssssion,
to conciliate the feelings and soothe the temper of France,
if both the one and the other were not strongly convinced
that the course of our foreign policy during the past year
had not been such as to afford some just ground of ofleace
to,that country. Indeed Sir Rsbsrt Peel, who went more
into the merits of the case than the illustrious Duke, ex-
pressly acknowledges that unnecessary cause of irritation
was given to France by the course which the diplomacy
relative to the Eastern question took under the auspices of
Lord Palmerston. Whoever recollects the view which we
took of the conduct of our Foreign Secretary, in the month
of October last, touching his unnecessarily discourteous
treatment (not to use any harsher term), will find the opi-
nion which we then expressed, and which, among the Lon-
don journals, we stood alone in expressing, fully borne
out by certain passages in the able speech of the
Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Conservative op-
position, who cannot be accused of a disposition to exag-
gerate the errors, or be too severe upon the policy of Mi-
nisters at any time. The conduct of Lord Palmerston on
the Eastern question should always be considered in con-
noCen with the previous policy of the Whigs, who, during
ten 3e irs, assiduously cultivated, and it was their frequent
boast that they had dune so successfully—a close and in
timate alliance with France, as absolutely essential to the
preservation of the peace of Europe. That being so,
everybody must admit that to justify Lord Palmerston in
suddenly breaking off a connexion so long and assidu-
ously cultivated, he ought to he able to offer auth grounds
for abruptly signing the Treaty of the 15th of July
without the participation, or even the knowledgemf France,
as would amount to an overwhelming necessity ; nothing
short of this could justify him or any Britise Minister
in putting the peace of Europe in jeopardy, as he un-
questionably did, and reviving all those ancient feelings of
national animosity in a great and gallant people, which
had all but involved Europe in the conflagration and cala-
mities of a general war. But Lord Palmerston has not
been able to other any such grounds of justification—he
has not been able to show any necessity for taking a step
ehich gave an appearance of capricious levity to the
policy of England, wounded the pride of Feince, and
endangered the peace of Europe. Let us see now in
whet way Sir Robert Peel treats this subject, after having
had some months to consider it in all its bearings, and to
form an opinion recommended to the approval of his
judgment and his conscience by alt the advantages of de-
-I.b,rate and matured reflection. On the question of the
''wheyof interven'ion betvvcen the Porte and the vassal
Prince of Egypt, the Right lion. Baronet expressly re-
serves his opinion until the production of the documents by
which Government is bound to establish the necessity for
that inte:vention of which this country has not yet ascer-
tained the cast or the consequences. But in regard
to the soit'of spirit displayed by our Foreign Secret:try
towards France, the documents, or at least the statements
both in crtmination and defence, are befx e the public. It
nould have been better and more satisfactory if there had
been in reality documents producible in relation to every
step taken in these negotiations. But Lord Palmerston
chose to depart from the old and safe course of conducting
negotiations, by substituting oral cornmurricati..lis for
written documents: for this he received a sh:irp reproof
from the Duke et Wellington, who said " he did not know
why it wal that the negctiatio:!s hal been carried on con-
filentially and by conversation, rather than in the usual di-
plurn2tic manner, by notes." \Vilma Lord Palmerston
was a Tory he seas obliged to adhere to the old ru'es, but
sines be became a \Vhig lie has riforincd all that, prefer_
rang fur some p::rscn or other which the Duke of Welling-
ton ea.-.r.ot die ire, the testimony of uncertain tradition to
that of authentic records.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The electors of East Surrey must be up and doing.
They were late in taking the field ; the greater is the
nccesity for vigorous exertion. Their flag is hoist,d ;
and they have a candidate in Mr. Alcock well qualified to
unite the suffrages of all who deprecate the calamity of a
Tory restoration to power so long abused. The county
representation of England is, generally speaking, in a
most incongruous and discreditable state. It is neither
with the Government nor the people; it is the party
neither of Court nor country. In its policy, the honour
of the Crown and the interests of the nation are alike
disregarded. It chiefl; represents an oligarchy, and a
monopoly. The sturdy independence that once charac-
tenised the yeomanry 11?,3, to a great extent, evaporated.
An honourable and stimulating exa-nple is required.
The men of East Starry arc in a good position to
make the first advance towards a change, a great
practical Reform in county representation. • Should
they. succeed, timid serfs will become trusty yeomen
in the political struggles of other counties. Their
example will be es a trumpet blast, and the main strength
of the Tory battalion will be broken, its heavy horse, that
Las so often rode roughshod over the industrial classes,
both of town and country. The principles of the Liberal
candidate are such as may claim the support of all friends
of a sound system of popular education; of all friends cf
a protected, honest and independent suffrage ; of all friends
of the combination of an Established Church with reli-
gious toleration and freedom; of all friends of a broad
a tad firm basis for representation in an extended franchise ;
and of all friends of that free trade in the produce of the
earth, which is a surer pledge of remuneration for the far-
mer than any bread-taxing, rent. raising device ever invented
by the shott-sighted cupidity of a dominant class. The
electors of Walsall and Canterbury have motives for exer-
tion equally strong with those which should act t.pon the
Surrey freeholders, though of a different kind. The Libe-
ral cause has not only to make an invasion upon the
county representation, but to repel an invasion of
the town representation. The success of a Tory party in
a borough of not less than ten thousand inhabitants is a
strange phenomenon, indicating a problem to be solved,
and an abuse, somewhere, to be corrected. Perversion,
corruption, or delusion, is implied in the fact itself. The
natural and entire Liberalism of the town representation
has been acted upon by ad ;hree; by perversion, in the
organized efforts of Toryism to avail itself of the technical
defects of the registration; by corruption, in the whole-
sale application of the sinister influences of intimidation
and bribery; and by delusien, in the adroit use of such
topics as the backwardness of the Whigs to make further
institutional reforms, the pressure of the new Poor-law,
and other points tending to obscure, in the perceptions of
the many, the immense difference betnecen the present and
a Tory Government. Three mouths of a Peel Ministry
would dissipate all these fallacies for ever. But the. con-
viction would be purchased at a bitter price,

S T RABISM vs.—Mr. Curtis, who has lately vi-
sited the hospitals of Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Prague,
&c., and witnessed Professor DieffAlbsteli operate for
squinting, has introduced a new mode of curing that de-
formity without an operation.

DEFINITION OF A GENTLEMAN,—One de-
finition is as good as a thousand, and there is one at band
which embodies as much truth and wisdom as mind can
conceive, or man utter!! Need I say that I allude to that
which is now matter of history—to a definition of the term
"gentleman," at once comprehensive, plain, correct, and
perfectly proper, delivered by the eminent
:Mr. Thurtell,
at the Old Bailey, before the bar and bench, assembled to
pronounce en the merits of a celebrated performince of
his in a branch of the fine arts (Viz. Murder
considered as one of the fine arts in Black-
wood, November, 1839) 11;s night-scene murder
of the gamester Weare. This consummate artist's
definition strikes me as being equal, if not superior, to any
of the dicta in art delivered by Sr Joshua Reynolds him-
self. To the question asked of Thin-tell, what do you
mean by a gentleman ? this great man ar:d magnificent
arlium mayisler readily replied—" A gentleman is a res.
yeetable person, who keeps his horse and gig." What
force l what surprising simplicity we have here ! Blood-
Harvey, steam. Watt, gravitation. Newton, are in comparison
to our defining discoverer, nothing, noodles, nobodies, next
efk:n 'o Lonentitics. Thurtell bad the bead to conceive, and
the moral courage to develope and declare a great social
truth, involved in a definition which net only remains in
full force to this day, but which will descend to future
ages an indestructible landcatu k for the enlightenment of
society. --Sportsman,

POLICE IN TELLIGEN CE.

MANSION-ISOU USE.

THE Loss OF THE DRYAD AND AltOTlllill CHAP:GE I
OF FRAUD UPON INSURANCE COMPANIES AGAINST M.
S. S. WALLACE AND P. M. S. WALLACE.—AIter time
witnesses relative to the loss of the Dryad had been erg j
amined on Tuesday, s

Mr. Clarkson addressed Sir Peter Laurie in dm
following manner :—On behalf of thoso I represent:-
here, I have to request of you again to remand those.
prisoners, and I know that in making that applicationi
I shall be expected to bear in my recollection what
passed in the Court of Queen's Bench upon this matter
a few days ago.

Sir PETER LAURIE—Do you mean a remand gene-
rally or a remand till to-morrow morning?
Mr. Clarkson—A remand over the present Session.

Sir PETER LAURIE—Then you had better apply t o
me to-morrow. I cannot tell what I shall do until thus:
whole of the examination is complete.
Mr. Clarkson—Then I think it right before I leave
this presence to-night to state, in the presence of the:
prisoners and their advisers, that I shall be instructed'.
to-morrow morning to lay before you evidence of
a similar transaction by the prisoners, in respect
of a vessel of which they are they are the owners,
or part owners, called the Lucy. X shall be prepared.
to show the effecting of an insurance by them of goods
on board that vessel, of which a third brother is the
acting master on board if she is now at sea. I shall
show insurances effected in Scotland, and insurances
effected in this country, to a considerable amount. I
shall be able to give you to-morrow morning reasonable,
but not conclusive evidence from a custom-house of
Scotland, and from the custom-house of the port of
Bristol, that the goods so insured never were on board
that vessel called the Lucy. She was chartered on a
voyage from Bristol to Llanelly, and from Llanelly to
Valparaiso. At Llanelly she was to take in a cargo of
coals, and that cargo she did take in, but with the
exception of those coals, I am instructed that she
never had'an article of goods on board. There will be
also this singular fact laid before you, that. at the In-
surance-office in Scotland, and at the Insurance-office
in England, the goods which are specified in one of the
policies which I now hold in my hand, consisting of
earthen ware, barrels of pork, and tierces of beef, iron,
anchors, and the like, amounting altogether to 930/.
were actually insured both at Glaegow and in England.
Insurances were effected for the very identical goods in
both places and to the same amount, so that they were
insured twice over. I shall be able to satisfy you that
none of those goods were ever on board that vessel at
all, and then I shall ask for time for the purpose of en-
abling me to complete that inquiry. I do nut wish to
anticipate any thing, only I think it right to state that
I intend to lay that evidence before you, not in a shape
that I can ask that the parties may be committed, be-
cause Pihave not evidence sufficient for that purpose, but
I have letters which will satisfy any reasonable mind,
and which I have r.'3 doubt will satisfy those who
appear here for the prisoners, that time ought to be
given to us to complete the inquiry. Idu not mention
this with reference to the view which may be taken by
the Magistrate as to the course to be pursued with re-
gard to the present inquiry, for the Magistrates' de-
cision will depend wholly upon the evidence given in
support of the charge now under consideration, separate
from any other.

Mr. Charles Philips—l do not complan of the men-
tion of this subject, but I wish the Magistrate to 'un-
derstand that it is our full intention to oppose with all
our might a remand over the next S, scion ; for if the
prisoners are not remanded there is a very easy mode of
dealing with the matter, by applying to postpone the

Mr. Humphreys—Sir Peter Laurie has said, very
properly,.that he will not entertain tho application till
all the depositions have been taken.

Sir PETER LAURIE—If this second inquiry is gone
into, J think the prisoners ought to have a day or two
to prepare themselves for it. Ido not think it will be
right to oblige them to bring on one upon the tail of
another, without giving them a little breathing time.
I know nothing of the ease.

111 r. C. Phillips—Nor any of us, of course. But
with respect to the case in which you have been labo •
riously employed, and for so long a time, I shall cer-
tainly press yoU either to commit the prisoners for trial
or else to discharge them.
Mr. Clarkson-1 abstain from saying anything about
that now.

Sir PETER LAURIE—I wish you in the meantime to
turn it in your mind whether you know an instance in
which, where a person is accused upon more than one'
charge, he has been committed before the evidence has
been taken before the Magistrate, on the second charge.
Mr. G. Phillips—There are plenty of instances of it.
It is the custom to convict upon one charge, and to
prefer half a dozen afterwards, and give notice to the
prisoner of it. It is every day's practice.
Silt PETER LAURIE—This does not square with
what has been said that everything that passes before
the Magistrate must be taken down.
Mr. C. Phillips—l will put this case to you. Suppose
a party is committed, and after his committal a charge
is discover,,d, of course the prisonor gets notice of the
charge, otherwise the party would be debarred from
bringing any.

Sic 13E-riAt LAtiarE—Yes, if Ihe discovery is made
after the commi'-tal ; but here is a discovery before
committal.

Mr. C. Pbiiiips repeated that it was every day's prac-
tice to commit a prisoner on one charge and to give him
notice that there were a variety of other charges intended
to he brought against him.
Sir PETER LAURlE—According to the decision of
the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench it does not
appear to me to be the custom at present.
Mr. Clarkson—lt is right I should state that with
respect to the vessel called the Lucy, there has been no
account at Lloyd's. Nobody knows whether she is lost
or whether :.he is forthcoming.
Sir PETER LAURlE—According to your statement of
it it is a fraudulent insurance.
Mr. Clarkson=Yes. I am not in a condition to
charge the prisoners with any felonious act with respect
to that ship.
Mr. C. Phillips—So far from it thd ship may be
swimming in the water now.
Mr. Clarkson—l am willing to admit that if lam
not entitled to a remand upon the present charge, I
cannot expect a remand upon the second charge, for 1
am not in a condition to show anything amounting to a
felony ; and therefore it is a charge on which the pri-
soners would be entitled to be admitted to bail.

Mr. C. Phillips—Therefore the only question for
Sir Peter Laurie will be whether he does not think that
this case is ripe for a committal.
Mr, Ciarkson—That is, in other words, whether in
the absence of a witness, who is still i❑ the Mediterra-
nean, for whom we have sent, and who will he brought
here without loss of time, the Magistrate is bound to
send the witnesses for trial before we arc ready to make
out the case against them.

Mr. C. Phillips—My friend knows very well that
on such a statement a judge would postpose the trial in
a moment.

After some further conversation,

Sir PETER LAURIE thought it would be advisable
to postpone the case of the Lucy till Saturday, and
Mr. Clarkfon readily assented.
. _

A!derman PutrE stated that intelligence of the
Lucy could not be expected until about May.
The proceedings were then adjourned till Saturday
next.

It is supposed, that, by the exertions of Mr. Phillips,
the solicitor for some of the insurance companies, and
Mr. Farquhar, the solicitor for others, an embargo has
been laid upon property in the possession of the priso-
ners to the amount of 5,0001.

Sir PETER LAURIE said, that in his 14 years' expe-
rience as a Magistrate, he never saw a case so skilfully
conducted on both sides.

BOW-STREET.

LIBERATION OF MR. VINCENT THE CIIA RTIST....-
Yesterd y Arthur D) son, bo3kseller, of No. 146,
Kingsland-road, and Richard Cameron, Lracer and
stock-maker, of No. 12, Dorrington-street, Clerkenwell,
attended before Mr. Hall, for the purpose of putting in
bail for Henry Vincent, the Chartist, at present a pri-
soner inOakham gaol.

Mr. HALL inquired of the parties whether they
were housekeepers, and had paid their rent and taxes?
Mr. Dyson said he paid 30/. per annum rent, and had
paid both rent and taxes.

Mr. Cameron said he paid 501. rent, and all was paid
up with the exception of the last quarter, which was
ready for his landlord when he called for it; he had
paid all his taxes.

• Mr. HALL asked whether they had their receipts
with them ?

Both parties having answered in the negative,
Mr. HALL said that they were to be bound for Vin•
cent for the term of three years. It was necessary
that their receipts should_ be produced. He had no
doubt that all would be right, but it was his duty to
make proper inquiries into the matter,
. It was then arranged that the parties should attend
again on Friday, when, if the documents produced were
satisfactory, their bail would be taken.

Colonel Peel, M.P., and Lady Alice Peel have ar-
rived at Farrance's Hotel, from Marble Hill, Twickenham.
RELIEF OF THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS
OF THOSE WHO PERISHED IN THE THAMES STEAM VESSEL.
—Alderman Pirie on Tuesday stated to the Lord Mayor
that a distinguished member of Lloyd's had signified his
willingness to Necive subscriptions for the distressed
widows,- orphans, and other relatives of the unfortanate
craw who perished in the Thames steamer on the 4th of
January. It was, lie observed, unnecessary to detail the
particulars, as the public papers had so fully stated the
nature and horrors of the disaster, hut his great object in
coming forward on this occasion Irss to assure his Lordship,
and through his LQrdsbip the public: that the necessities
of the relatives of the poor follows who were lost were
very great. The Lord Mayor expressed his gratification
at the exertions which the highest characters in the City
were determined to make to raise a subscription for such •
objects, and stated that he had no doubt of the result,

EVFNING EDITION.

I
COURT OF SEW OF -WEST.
j MINSTER AND PARTS OF MIDDLESEX.

A special meeting of the Court of Sewers for the Citj
and liberty of Westminster and part of the County of Mid*
dlcsox, will be held at the Sewers -alice in Greek-street
Soho-square, on Friday next, to proceed with the following
business :
went
1. To try Traverses of such parts of the Presentment
of the Jury on the Ranelagh District, delivered into Cool
on the 27th November, 1841, as relate to Buildings n(lf
heretofore rated, Chapel and Wards, and 57 Acres
Land of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea—St. Luke's Chu°,
Robert-street, Chelsea—the Chapel (late old Church/I
Church-lane, Chelsea—the Workhouse in Gloucester-
road, Kensington—and the Burial-ground and Workhouse'
Arthur-street, King's-road. ocl
2. To make a decree for a Rate on the Ranclagb
on the Counters Creek Sewers, on houses, &e. 6""
and on Land at 2d. in the pound. sat
3. To sign the Rate-books for the New Rates, Putt of
to the said Decree, and the Abstract of the Rate-books-
the Rates made 15th Novemb,:r, 1839.