The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-12 00:00:00

EVENING ED unoN.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TROSI THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The debates and resolutions of Congress and the
gaine representatives, brought by the England, have
nothing so surprising in them as the Report of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and afford no additional
reasons for apprehending a rupture, as they merely pro-
ceed tom the twofold sources of discord which we
were already acquainted with—the local spirit of some
of the American people, and the party spirit of others.
The adherents of the party who have been lately de-
prived of power are making use of the popular suscep-
tibilities to embarrass their successors. It may, reason-.
ably be hoped that the same reaction against their prin-
ciples, which had strength to expel them from power, will
'have strength to frustrate their attempts out of power.
The difficulty of dealing with our independent American
kinsfolk is the same which sometimes occurs in legal
transactions with lesser associations—the difficulty of
knowing by what name, or agent, they will sue and he
eued—what responsibility they will admit or will abide by
collectively. If the federal authorities had in any way
soaectioned what they did not prevent (and what we can
lairdly blame them for not preventing, in the present
&We of their power)—the lawless acts, namely, of the
"•antraordinary and adve- turous characters" on the fron-
tiese--then Great Britain must have already gone to
war with the United States. Again, if the federal au-
thorities had seen proper to resent the treatment which
we gave to their " extraordinary and adventurous
(ammeters," then the United States must have already
gpao to war with Great Britain, for most assuredly we
coald have given them no satisfaction for that merited
tee tut. But what a singular and anomalous position
it
,ta, for the federal Government, which represents
tliNa vesplo of the United States is their foreign relit-
lione..;-what an extraordinary position it is, for this Go-
ren:meat, which we must resort to, when aggrieved by
arbrereeedings of the State authorities—that it gives no
Age of feeling itself the responsible party towards
teats nations—the power which has to pronounce
iff the local authorities, against whom the British
tatreeramont appeals to it in the case of a British
subject, are, or are not, to be supported, in detaining
that subject, by the will and force of the whole Union!
That is the plain question for the federal authorities to
decide. It can only be darkened by such rambling and
ridiculous diatribes as that of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs (or rather, Mr. Pickens of South Carolina.)
(From the Standard.)

The speech of-Sir Robert Inglis last night upon the
the new. Jew bill may be fairly taken as the protest
of tho religious portion of the British people, whom
tho Honourable Member for Oxford so faithfully re-
presents, against the de-Christianising of this nation.
Ma law of Engiand, from the earliest times, has

assumed that the people of Engl Ind are a Christian

people ; and for nearly 300 years had assumed that
they are a Protestant people. The assumption was
practically easy and obvious while the religion of the
Sate was guarded by penalties. Penalties, however,
ai they are the instruments of intolerance, have
been justly and wisely laid aside, and the especially
Protestant character of our State has been with less

justice and wisdom abandoned ; but still, according
to Inv, we are a Christian people. " The faith of a
Christian" is still held to be an essential requisite of
British citizenship. Is this intolerant? Then Chris-
tianity itself must be intolerance ; for there can be no
question of the right of Any society, whether national
or otherwise formed, to declare its profession and to act
apoc the declaration. At is said by Coke (17 Co.lB. v.)
—h is not "mlunt nec soluni" which constitutes a
11,414.30, but a compact of allegiance and law. The
British nation, then, constituting a Christian society

-by compact, ahem can be no theoretical intolerance
is iiits strictly maintaining that character, unless Chris-
tianity itself constitute a form of intolerant;.. But
is there any practical intolerance ? Questionless
there is not. The Dissenters from ChriStianity who
. feeds our shore?, or who, being born here, continue
te live among us, attest by their conduct that the
government of a Christian society is that which
tbel prefer. They practically acknowledge that
they 'have all the benefits which the bulk of man-
kind can ever hope to derive from good go-
vernment protection of life, property, and ho-
nour, an open field for the exercise of industry
and adventure, with the most complete indulgoece
in the eojoyment of their particular opinions ; in
short. a perfect equality in all the unconditioned rights
of citizenship. More, howtver, is now claimed for
them; they are made to demand, in addition to the
full enjoyment of the effect of good government, tic
right of themselves constituting a part of those by whom
the Government shall he administered. This is more
than say one has fae right to demand absolutely. All
- YMCA are enftled to be well governed—that is a univer-
sal right—but from it results this qualification, that no
nag bus a right to share in the Government, except
Vey, 'conditions insuring its general goodness.
(From the Courier.)
We see by the Paris papers of Tuesday, tl at the
Chamber of Peers has convicted M. Delaroche, the Editor
of tt e Nationnl, of the offence laid to his charge ; the
toed ated front of which was an insiauction that the
raves were old and antiquated, and were, therefore, ra-
ster fitted for the grave than for the exercise of legs-
iit'Orie duties. This offence seems so heinous in
the'eyes of the Members of the Upper House, that
they have condemned M. Delaroche to a fine of 10,000
france; about 400/. It would appear from this, that
the Peers of France are somewhat more tenacious
sof their dignity than those of other nations, and
more particularly anxious not to be held up to the
-world as being too old. The senators of Venice
-did not seem to take any offence when Othello
addressed them as " reverend seigniors," and as the
counsel for M. Delaroche observed, our House of
Lords were not dismayed when Edmund Burke called
them a " House of Incurables.' To come to the pre-
sent day : the Radicals are exceedingly fond of attack-
ing the Upper House. O'Connell has declared it
• nuisance, and in spite of the wholesome con-
trol it has exercised over the _ destructive meet:

t urea of the Whigs, all sorts of insinuations md
laccusations have been made against it. Its
decision in the case of the Earl of Cardigan has
4beeta impugned in the coarsest and most injurious terms,
end the insinuations have not diminished although
is Judge at the Central Criminal Court, in the exercise
of his honest opinion, directed an acquittal in the similar
Case of Captain amglas. Yet that august body is not
,quite so thin-skinned as the Members of the Chamber
of Peers, who estimate the damage done to them by a
criticism upon their functions at the price of 4001.
sterling. It may truly be said that " they order these
thiogs differently in France."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(LLOYD'S.)

' LoNnoll, MAacil 11.—Wind this day at noon, N.N.E.,
-Cm+ clear weather.
DEAL, MAacii 10.—Wind, S.W.—Arrived her Majesty's
ship Asia, from the Mediterranean. Arrived from the River,
the Little Catherine. Alexander, for the Alusquito Shore;
Georgians, Garden, Jamaica ; and sailed with the rest of the
outward-hound, except the Renfrewshirc for St. John's. Ar-
rived the Eleanor, Newcastle, and sailed for .Malta.
Po wrsiuotiTn, MA Re it 10. Wind, S.E.—Arrived the
British Queen, (steamer), failed for New York ; Montreal,
Turkey, sailed for ditto. Sailed Glenelg, Bombay ; Claudine,
Brewer, Madras ; Sophia, Margaretha, iiaslop I'l -mcruth
DA RT MOUT 11, MA [ICH ..B.—Arrived, the 1.0 3
tits, from I"er-
nainbueo ; Lucid, Gress, Antwerp.
SWANSEA, MARCH 9.—Arrived Mary Ann, Valparaiso,
HOLYHEA D, MARCH 9 —The Mary Ann, from Cork to
Liverpool, which was on shore in Carnarvon Bay, has been
.got off, and brought in here.
LIVERPOOL, 3IA Ron .o.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the
Lima, front Paraiba, sailed `.:4th Jan. ; Queen of the Isles,
Monte Video; Martha, Martin, Barbadors ; England, Waite,
- New York ; Dili(rentia, Lisbont.tn
Sailedi, Mauritius ; Tinamara, the Sughalien, Brown
, for Singapore ; Vocdstock, us
VVildlip, Pernambuco ; Emma, Graham, Monte Videol,era;c 1,...,z lait);
a.eitrirn, Clements, Antigua; Bridget,
ge
6,...1"'01./elrrae(ilgen, , Rogers, Ha-
General Parkhill, Hoyt, New
Yorkuern
lax; Tarrow, Partridge, Africa ; Briton, Graham, Naples ;
fiensam enta Felix, Solito, Oporto. Arrived off, the Q
Victor'da, from New Orleans; Scotland,
•
New,recked on the York. The
Patsf.y. from Clyde to Hasannah , was totally Is
Cer.cus Reef on the 23d of Jan. ; crew and part of cargo
rsaved.
O,JII2LN.SEY , MARon 6.—Sailed the Albion,
pietta ; Taletta, Jansen, Gratzypt.
Derutix, MARCH B.—Arrived the Sisters, nankin, from
,P.oncion ; &rah and Maria, 01.tridge, Trinidad.
CORK, Alaacit B.—Arrived the George Gordon, Stirling,
'll*Rl uras. Helen Mar (cotton laden), lat. 44, lon. 39,
Asidire by the George Gordon, arrived at Cork, from Honduras,
wh" she left 26th Jan. end reports that the Tyne would sail
lir
thet,c dargs after ; the Horn was loading ; the British Lady
bail about thirty logs in ; the American schooner Ocean was
'Kest in Ghtmlico Bar, 9th Jan.
SToccroN, MA RCII s.—Arrived the Bren, Sorenson, from
Rotterdam ; Eugenie, Iloehef, Cherbourg.
IIuLL, MARCH 10.—Wind W.—Arrived the Jane, Whit-
4oall, from Bruges.
SHIELns, 11.1aacu B.—Arrived the Rose, Lavalle, from
Cravelines; Loreott, Pastel, Havre; Oscar Ernest, Carter,
Dunkirk ; Julie, Benoist, ditto ; Petit Fortune, Wadoux,
Gras-elines. Sailed the Thomas Rickinson, for Marseilles.
YARMOUTH, MARCH 10.—The Elizabeth, from Carnarvon
to Stockton, got on the Seroby Sand last night, but was.asi,ted
ad' this morning.

LESS ELS SPOKEN WITS!.
The Whitton, from Liverpool to Port-an-Prince, 9th
ult., lat. 19, long. 39, by the Essex, arrived off Ports-
mouth ; Wilson, of Whitehaveo, for Monte Video, lat.
44, long'. 14, by the Abeona, arrived at Bristol ; Lisle,
of Baltimore, outward-bound, 22d, lat. 42, long. 33, by
the Robertson, arrived in the Clyde ; Hill, steamer, Cur-
lew, entering the Cape by Origa, arrived at St. Helena ;
Calcutta, from London to Sydney, sth Oct., lat. 18,
long. 31 ; Helen, from the Clyde to Port Adelaide, 10th,
Ist. 29, long. 24 ; Queen Mab, from Liverpool to Cal.
cottn. 27th, lat. 39, long 15 • Fairfield, from London to
the Cape of Good Hope. and South Australia, Nov.,
Ist 39, 100 g. 48 ; Fenelon, from Calcutta to Bourbon,
30tb, lat. 8,, loug. 84 ; Rose, from 133mbsy to Singa.
pore, 17th Dec., lat. 5, long. 89, by the Duke of Ar-
gyl, arristd at Madras ; Mid Lothian, Oct. 23, lat.
long. 11 ; and Sultan, from London to Port Jack-
son, btla Nov., lat. 36, long. 31.

MYSTERIOUS CASE OF POISONING. We
again regret to state that nothing has yet transpired
cal-
culated to throw light upon the diabolical attempt at Mer-
rimsn's Hill. The Government has offered 1001. reward,
in addition to that previously offered by the Rev, Mr.
Webster,... Worcestershire Chronicle,