The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-10 00:00:00

THE SUM LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1811.

request of Ministers waived his own motion to
allow them to undertake the questio;l, and though
they were unable to bring it forward,
he might feel himself precluded on that account
from further moving at present in the matter.
But Mr. HANDLEY and other Members are un-
der no such obligation, and we cannot see why
they should not make, after the manner of the To-
ries, appeals to the hustings through the House of
Commons. We are quite aware of the technical
and formal difficulties that prevented Lord JOHN
RUSSELL from provoking a debate on the subject
by a motion but they only stand in the way of
Ministers, and it is the duty of other Honourable
Members not to allow the subject to sleep. Mr.
HINDLEY'S intention was excellent, the wording
of his motion implies an admirable principle, and,
well followed up, it may much contribute to the
success which we believe awaits the anti-bread
taxers.

A long correspondence has taken place between Sir
ROBERT PEEL and the Members of the Chamber of
Commerce of Manchester, which places him in the
same position, with reference to them, as Lord
STANLEY is placed in with reference to Mr. HANDLEY.
"We shall have more to say of this correspondence
hereafter. At present we must content ourselves with
stating, that Messrs. J. B. SMITH and HOLLAND HooLE
have convicted the Right Hon. Baronet of having sought
" to obtain a temporary triumph of party interests, not
only at the expense of the character and reputation of the
Chamber of Commerce at Manchester, but also at that of
truth and justice."
The Right Hon. Baronet is convicted of having re-
ferred to documents, as emanating from the Chamber, to
which the Chamber never called his attention, and which
it disowns ; and he is convicted of having styled a gen-
tleman a champion of the Chamber, to give force to his
arguments, who had no connection with it, and had never
been put forward by it. He is further convicted of hav-
ing admitted the accuracy of a report in which he is made
to accuse the Chamber of declaring that it would abide by
the book of its assumed champion, and yet of having ex-
punged that passage from a report of his speech cor-
rected by himself, as if he were conscious of its incor-
rectness, and ashamed of what he had said.
The two great Conservative leaders stand then in this
position before the public, of having calumniated and mis-
represented individuals to gain a temporary party triumph.
Of the two, Sir ROBERT PEEL is less sincere than Lord
STANLEY, for the Noble Lord has not persevered in his
error, while the Right Hon. Baronet has wriggled himself
deeper into the mire.
We had occasion yesterday to contrast his language
as an assumed free-trader, with the violent language
of the anti-free-trade Standard. But though in words
the Tory Baronet supports the manufacturers, by
deeds he tries to crush them. He maintains the
Corn-law, and submits therefore to be the tool of that
rabid party which actually attempts to extinguish our
manufacturing population. A greater degradation
than thus to be the instrument of executing
the wickedness he pretends to abhor, and of strik-
ing down the origin of his own and his family's
greatness, we cannot conceive ; except, indeed, it be that
of submitting to make misrepresentations in Parliament,
and to calumniate his opponents, in order to attain the
ends of the destroying party, of which he is the head.

Lord .MoaPETH has many strong claims upon the gra-
titude of the Irish people, and upon no question of great
national interest has his Lordship done more to
strengthen these claims than upon that of the necessity
of establishing railroads in Ireland. Men of a less san-
guine temperament, and of more contracted sympathies
than the Noble Irish Secretary, would have abandoned
the question of Irish railways in disgust, had their labours
met with half the opposition from aristocratic selfish-
ness and popular ignorance, which his former exertions
experienced. But temporary obstructions only increase
the zeal cf those who have really at heart the welfare of
their fellow-creatures ; and in the House of Commons
last night Lord MonPETH obtained leave to bring in a
Bill for making railroads in Ireland, which if not so
extensive as his former measure, has the merit of
oeing eminently R*tieable, and every way calculated to
facilitate the mot ysical, and commercial improve-
ment of Ireland. se outline of the Bill, as detailed in
the speech of the, -Noble Lord, is very simple, and may
be easily comprehended. Some large English capitalists,
whose names we omit for the present, have offered to
raise a capital of 1,300,0001. sterling in debentures, bear-
;:tg an interest of four per cent. for completing, in the
first instance, the great line of railway between Dublin
and Limerick. The construction of the works is pro-
posed to be under the management of three Commis-
sioners, which, to avoid all favouritism and jobbing, are
to be named in the Bill. The Commissioners proposed
by the Government are Sir JOHN BuncorsE, Mr.
RENNIE, and Mr. JONES, who, being Secretaries to the
Irish Railway Commission, are conversant with all the
details of the presumed advantages of conflicting lines.
These Commissioners will of course be paid for their
trouble, but the Bill proposes that the expenditure shall
be under the management of a Board of Control, com-
posed of seven members, to whom no salaries will be al-
lowed. The Bill empovvers the Commissioners to extend
the line of railway from Limerick to Cork, after the
completion of the line. between Dublin and Limerick, and
likewise permits private companies, who may construct pri-
' vate or cross-lines, to unite them with the great trunk in-
tersecting the kingdom.
Nothing can be simpler or fairer than the proposed
plan for paying the interest upon the debentures. Where
the line is profitable the interest is to be paid out of the
profits, and where for a time no profits are realised the
amount will be levied upon the counties through which the
railway passes, in proportions commensurate with the ad-
vantages which they derive from it. In Ireland this can be
felt by no party as a grievance. There roads have been
constructed and repaired from time immemorial by means
of county-cesses, or road-rates, imposed by the Grand
Jurors. The railway tax will, therefore, be but
an old tax under a new name, with the advantage
of not being liable to be increased through the obstinacy
of some thick-skulled country squire, or the dishonesty
of some landed proprietor eager to improve his own es-
tate by a rood at the expense of the county.
But, speaking seriously, it is not to be supposed that
a line of railway, connecting the capital of Ireland with
the mouth of the Shannon, and with a city of such im-
mense commercial capabilities as Cork, would prove,
even for a single year, an unprofitable speculation. The
immense impulse which such a line would give not only
to the interior traffic, but to the external corn-
ritere of Ireland, would be immense. Cork and
Limerick would become great depots of the trade
between Great Britain and the United States.
The cost of the transit of agricultural produce
of all ch scriptions from the interior of Ireland to the
best markets in England, by means of railways and
steamers, would not be greater than the present charges
for carrying them, to increase the glut in the market
of the nearest provincial city. The whole of
the people of Ireland are therefore most deeply in-
terested in the success of the Bill now brought forward
by Lord Monporn, but which will not be proceeded with
before the next session of Parliament. They have ample
time for reflecting upon the advantages of this measure,
and also for getting up petitions in support of it. We
trust they will not be wanting to themselves in ably
seconding the patriotic labours of the Noble Lord. Let
United Ireland put her shoulder to the wheel, and every
obstacle to her improvement must give way before the
application of a strength irresistible, if she knew but how
to employ it properly.

The most contradictory statements are made in the
French papers of Monday respecting the Ministerial
crisis. The Presse assures its readers that Marshal
SouLT only talked of resigning, but that he does so no
longer. The Constitutionnel, on the contrary, states
positively that the Marshal's resignation was complete,
and that the most earnest entreaties of the KING failed
to cause him to withdraw it. The Marshal was reported
to be somewhat recovered on Monday. His complaint is
irritation of the stomach. On Sunday he was visited by
the Duke of ORLEANS, who remained closeted with him
for some hours. The KING came to Paris on Sunday
and presided at a Cabinet Council, which sat till four
o'clock. The deliberations of the Council were upon
the question as to whether it would be advisable
to summon the Deputies to Paris to adopt the
amendments of the Peers upon the Recruitment Bill.
Marshal SOULT had recommended such a course to the
KING, as the only condition upon which he could think
of resuming office. Those Members of the Cabinet who
at heart are tired of the yoke imposed upon them by the
illustrious Marshal, offered various objections to such a
course, but they were overruled by the KING and by
their colleagues. Before the Council rose it was gener-
ally understood that the proposal to summon the Depu-
ties to Paris had been adopted. If this be so the Minis-
terial crisis in France is over for the present.
The following paragraph, upon which we lay no stress
whatever, appears in the Commerce of Monday :
" It is reported that the friends of M. Thiers have already
invited him to return to Paris, whil,t others pretend that M.
Guizot has within his reach parties to replace Marshal Soult
and M. Teste, for the retirement of the two would be simulta-
neous. It is added thst M. Dufaure would accept the depart- '
ment of Public Works, and that M. Guizot, who would re-
serve for himself the Presidency of the Council, would hesitate '
as to the War department between General Schramm and
Marshal Valee, but the chances are said to be in favour of the
latter."

Under no circumstances whatever do we regard M.
THlElis's immediate return to °like as possible. His po-
litical charlatanism has disgusted all parties, and for the
present the BOBADIL of French statesmanship must re-
main upon the shelf, Nylwre the KING, M. GUIZOT, and
Lord PAL3IERSTON jointly deposited him.
There are various articles in the Pis Journals of
Monday on the domestic policy of England, and the pro-
bable results of the approaching elections. All approve
of the immediate dissolution of the present Parliament.
M. Humann I.as just addressed a circular to all the Prefects,
calling upon them to give the necessary orders, in their respec-
tive departments, for the proper collection of the different
taxes, adding, that although the Government feels the most
lively interest for all establishments for the comfort and in-
struction of the poorer classes, yet it must require the laws re-
lating to till taxes with which they are chargeable to be pro-
perly carried into effect, and urging the Prefects to guard
against improper exemptions being granted.
A Naples letter, May 23, say +—" The Honourable Mr.
Temple was occup,ed in bringing the treaty of commerce be-
tween England and Naples to a conclusion. It is said that by
the terms of this treaty vessels under the British flag will ob-
tain an advantage of 10 per cent. in the" entrance duties over