The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-02 00:00:00

LONDON:
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1841.

In the Peers petitions were presented for the
liberation of Mr. BAINES and against the grant
to Maynooth, and that the depositions in Lord
CARDIGAN'S trial might be returned into the
Central Criminal Court, where Captain DOUGLAS
is to be tried, and where certainly there can now
be no difficulty in identifying the person who
was wounded.

The Earl of RIPON very properly wished for
some information as to the colony of South Aus-
tralia, and the Marquis of NORMANBY intimated
that it should be supplied. Their Lordships ad-
journed.
Mr. ARMSTRONG took his seat in the Com-
mons for King's County.
A great number of petitions were presented
against Lord STANLEY'S Bill, against the Poor-
law, for Church Extension, &c. •
In answer to Sir E. KNATCHBULL, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL said he did not mean to carry forward
the Poor-law Continuance Bill on Monday, but
he would on Friday state when he would proceed
with it.

In answer to Sir J. GRAHAM, Lord JOHN said
that Lieutenant M'Cormick had been granted a
pension for wounds received at the capture of the
Caroline, he acting under the orders of the Colo-
nial authorities.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL then stated that, looking
to the general business of the House, and the
want of further information as to the valuations
in Ireland, he should postpone the Committee
on the Parliamentary Voters Bill fbr Ireland till
April 23d. •
This announcement made Lord STANLEY ilia-
, mediately express great surprise, and utter not a
few reproaches at the Government having
brought forward their measure without possessing
Lordre ipnofosrtprnoanteiodi.i. He gave notice that he should
in Committee
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The House, after a few observations from Mr.
HuME about the deficiency of the revenue,
went into a Committee of Supply, in which
Mr. MORE O'FERRALL moved the Navy Esti-
mates. A- considerable discussion ensued on
two votes to make good the excess of ex-
penditure over the votes of last year, which
involved the policy of the Government,

but ultimately the vote was agreed to after a
division promoted by Mr. HuliE, and an under-
standing that a special Act of Parliament should
be introduced to settle the matter.

A considerable number of the ordinary esti-
mates were voted, some returns were ordered,
and the House adjourned at Quarter before
Twelve o'Clock.

We yesterday inserted in the columns of The
Sun an ably-reasoned, convincing answer to the
statements of the Treasury manifesto on the
Danish Claims, which must have satisfied all who
read it of the great injustice done the claimants
in delaying to comply with their righteous de-
mands. That the Treasnry manifesto should
have closed with a threat that the decisions of
the House of Commons in favour of the claimants
" may place in an attitude of mutual opposition
the House of Commons and the servants of the
Crown" certainly startled and astonished us.
What hag the Government forgotten that in
every minute of the. Lords of the Treasur
relative to these ciiims it is left to " the
House to decide whether any or all of
such classes of claimants will be admitted ?"
And has it forgotten likewise that so lately as
the years 1838 and 183!), and again in 1841, the
House did decide in favour of this very class of
claimants? Will the Treasury then, after re-
ferring the whole question to the decision of tin
House of Commons, now dare to call in questiot.
its right of jurisdiction ? Will it presume to set
itself up in opposition to the decision of that
House ? Let the Government beware of dit-
gusting by its coalition with the Tories upon thi,
question the most conscientious of its Liberal
supporters. We tell Ministers frankly that they
cannot afford to be dishonest. W itlt such ln
rifles as the old Boroughtuongering Parlia-
ment placed at the disposal of a Mini: ter.
the Government could do as it pleased. It
could cheat, and did cheat the nation witl.
the most perfect impunity-. But with a pure:
representation of the people necessarily must
come a more honest circumspection on the part
of the Ministry. If the Government, therefore,
be so ill-advised as to oppose the claims on the
strength of the support which, whenever evil is
to be done, they are sure to derive from the
Tories, we candidly tell Ministers that they will
not fltil to disgust some of their staunchest friends.
But we cannot credit the reports in circulation
upon this affair. Neither Whigs nor Tories can
be so utterly indifferent to the character of the
House of Commons as to make a mockery of its
votes in the way said to be contemplated by time
present CITA:SCA:LT.Oh Of the Exlctit:Qt• ES S.

We are obliged to infer, from the language of
the Tory journals, that the Tories are the rues!.
sensitive, feeling, and kindly mortals into• whom
the breath of life was ever breathed. STERNE'S
"Maria" was not half so affectionate and tender as
the Tory journalists, nursing, dandling, and
helping fin-ward the lamed cause of Toryism.
Sir THOMAS TROUBRIDGE, for example, did but
quit his house at the Admiralty to go down to
the House of Commons on Thursday night, while
his daughter was yet, we believe, unburied, and,
according to the Tories, he " committed an outrage
on all the decencies of life." The dead was only
left for a short period, and although the Scriptures,
which the Tories at times quite adore, tell us to
let the, dead take care of the dead, and
though the SAVIOUR emphatically warned men
to be diligent while it was yet day, and leave
other work and follow him, yet the Tory journals
exclaim against such " degrading and brutalizing
conduct." It is said to be " a violation of the so-
cial and domestic affections, and a disregard of
all the decencies of ordinary life." They bless
themselves that they are not like these publicans
the Whigs, and do all they can—all they ought—
to " stern the contagion of hard and savage fe-
rocity in a sphere of life where civililation and
humanity should be most conspicuous." How
exquisitely tender and susceptible,low regardful
even of the departed, who can feel no more!
Surely the Tories must be paragons of humanity.
We wish they felt as much for the g. But
while they moan and whine over a trifling depar-
ture—if departure it be—from the ordinary forms
of life, they are ready •to strike a whole nation
with pain and anguish. •They are, in fact, forging
chains for the Catholic Irish, exciting animosity
throughout one-third of the empire, and seeking to
vex, harass, and disfranchise a great miltitade,
by means of a law—such a law as the Tories can
always dress up in the garb of religion and mora.-
lity, to stab liberty _to the heart; and Sir
THOMAS TROUBRIDGE left his house to arrest
their arm. He fulfilled the precepts 'of the Scrip-
ture, and laid aside his own domestic grief's to do
a good deed while it was yet day. A good cause,
a noble cause, had need ofhim, and he followed it.
Honour, say we, to Sir THOMAS TROUBRIDGE,
that he did not allow his own private grief lo
make him neglect a great public duty. But he
contributed to defeat the Tories, and their po-
litical disappointment, assuming immediately
the mask of domestic affection, ranted and
raved, and whined and moaned, in the very
excess of sentimentality. Such transparent
hypocrisy is shockingly disgusting. Why, the
stern doctrine of the Tories is, that all human
affections, that all the kind and 'tender feelings,
all the noble and endearing sentiments which are
native to the human heart, must be trampled
under foot to give effect to their political theories
and secure their power. Affection, kindness, re-
gard to human feelings in the Tories! Pshaw !
W hat has their whole conduct towards Ireland
been but one continued torture, of which their
resistance to the Irish Parliamentary-Voters Bill
was a part? Regard for human feelings! We
turn disgusted from the barefaced hypocrisy, for
we remember that they justified the mur-
der of a widow's son for the sake of a few
shillings of tithes. Nay, we remember that for
some similar paltry extortions they long deluged
Ireland with blood, and impiously asserted that
it was done in' the name of the God of Love and
Peace.

We remember, too 7- we cannot forget for
an hour—that these hypocrites are at this mo-
ment shutting out the people of England from
the food of Poland and America, entailing al-
most endless misery on a great multitude of the
most ingenious and industrious people that ever
lived, and annually, but slowly, starving many
thousands to death. It is a gross
mockery of
the great sufferings which the Tories inflict, and
have inflicted on the living people, for them to
prate, with affected sensibility, about a gentle-
hisyman few hours,
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the long debates on the Irish Bill, which,
though mainly turning on personalities or
trifles, are not in this sense uninstruc-
tive. To speak • a speech, like writing a
book, lays a man open to his enemies; and the
Tory leaders did not talk for so many hours
without allowing an observer to see more of their
minds than they ought prudently to disclose. For
example, the main objection which Mr. THESIOER,
Mr. SHAW, Sir R. PEEL, Lord STANLEY, Sir J.
GRAHAM, and the rest of the Tories'made to Lord
MORPETH'S proposed franchise was, that it would
enable the landowners, who constitute the aristo-
cracy, to create spurious voters. It was not said
that the people were dishonest or corrupt, but
merely that they were poor, and that the land-
owners, like pirates, would be on the watch for
political plunder, and would pervert the franchise
to obtain it. That was the character which the
Tories gave of the Irish landlords, and which they
proved by many facts in past times that these
landlords richly deserved. They did pervert the
40s. franchise—they did degrade and corrupt the
people—and therefore, said all the Tories, " the
landlords will do so again; the landlords are such
rogues we cannot trust them, and the people shall
not have the franchise."
A further apprehension was indeed expressed
by the Tories,, of another class of men whom,
when it suits their purpose, they seek to invest
with much reverence. Some dread was expressed
of the influence of the priests, who belong to the
governing body, or to the aristocracy, more than
to the people. They, it was hinted., would use
their spiritual power for political purposes, and
cause unpleasantness and heart-burnings between
the landowner and the vassal on whom he had
conferred the privilege of registering a vote for
his nominee. Such s the :character given by
the Tories in the House of Commons of those
landlords for whom they seek political power,
and that order of men for whom they claim spi-
ritual reverence.
Now we beg our readers will observe that the
statement of the Tories implies no fault in the
people. It does not say they are corrupt or dis-
honest. The Tories do not deny them the fran-
chise on account of their own demerits. No. The
Tories tell us that the people are to be disfran-
chised because the aristocracy are dishonest, and
because the priesthood are political impostors.
Was there ever such a monstrous, such
a barefaced proceeding ? The Tories are
describing their own friends—they are de-
scribing their own party—they are describing

themselves—they are describing one another—
they are filled with suspicion—they make the
foulest accusation-they admit that they are
political rogues, and because they are political
rogues they insist that the people ought to be
slaves. We say that this is a most memorable
lesson. It was taught by the great debate of last
week. The Tory aristocracy deny the people
political rights because they themselves are poli-
tical rogues. Sir J. GRAHAM wound up his long
speech by a sneer at a " turbulent democracy ;"
let us conclude our article by asserting that a
turbulent democracy is by far more honourable
than a knavish, hypocritical aristocracy.

We are happy to direct public attention to the
following extract from the Liverpool Albion, and
to repeat the hope that the same course will be
followed throughout the principal sea-ports and
:nanufacturing towns of the kingdom. What is
Londondoing, we must again ask ? Is it landlord
and Tory ridden ? Is it become a pocket borough
of the aristocracy, that it has no voice in the
in )st important commercial question that ever
was agitated in this or any other country
The Mayor in compliance with a requisition most re-
Tectably signed, has convened a public meeting for Alonday
next., the 6th inst., " to take into consideration the restric-
tions and prohibitions of our commercial code, and to de-
termine upon all proper measures for obtaining such alterations
therein as may appear expedient." The same course will, no
doubt, be followed by the principal sea-ports and manufacturing
towns of the kingdom. Their united appeal to Parliament
and the Government for the removal of restrictions and pro-
hibit ions cannot but prevail, and bring about a complete reform
in our commercial code.

It is worthy of notice that at the public dinner
yesterday given to Mr. VINCENT, that gentleman
strongly recommended the working classes to
attend to their domestic duties, forsake the gin-
palace, and prove to the aristocracy that they
were worthy to exercise the power they claim.
This is excellent advice ; but much we fear that
the More worthy the working classes are found
the more strenuously the fury aristocracy will
deny them their rights. The Tory aristocracy
are the patrons of that vice, which they can
easily bribe.

We have received the whole of the French
Journals of Sunday. The Secret Service Bill, or
rather the Vote-of-Confidence-in-the-Cabinet-
. Bill, passed the Chamber of .Deputies on Satur-
day by.a triumphant majority of OU votes !—the
numbers being for the Bill :233, and 143 against
it. The political death knell of M. THIERS is
thus rung hi France. The bell-ringer was M.
jouFFuov. The professor has extinguished the
:iistorian. We do not forget that M. DUFAURE,
who voted for the Bill, delivered a powerful
speech in favour of thearmaments and the policy
of isolation. We are moreover aware that -M.
Dur trues speech was loudly and enthusiasti-
cally cheered by the majority of the Cham-
ber. But it was a momentary spirit of na-
tional enthusiasm. M. DUFAURE had touched
a chord which never ceases to vibrate in a French
bosom. But it does not follow that those who
cheered a speech representing France isolated
as the mighty mistress of the destinies of the
world—unassailably by-land, unconquerably by
sea—bestriding the world like the mighty angel
whom the Evangelist saw standing with his
right foot upon the sea and his let upon the
land—it does not follow, we emphatically repeat,
that those Deputies would support such a policy.
Oa the contrary, is not M. THIERS'S exclusion
from office proof sufficient that the policy of iso-
lation is not the policy of the majority of the
Chambers. Of this there can be na doubt, in-
asmuch as all M. THIERS asks for his support of
the Cabinet is that France shall continue iso-
lated. This he distinctly stated in the Chamber
of Deputies on Friday last, and the refusal of
M. GulzoT to accept his co-operation upon such
a simple condition, is in itself an indirect pledge
to Europe of the pacific intentions of the French
Ministry. This is evidently the conviction of the
Journal des Debats, in which we find the fol-
iolving pertinent remarks upon the division in
the Chamber of Deputies :

What is its signification ? In a few words it is this. The
Chamber rejects and condemns the policy of the Ist of March.
Some differences on secondary points may exist amongst the
various shades cf opinion composing the majority, but on the
present question, the majority is unanimous and decided. Proper
names always render questions more explicit.. The majority
does not mean to try the experiment a third time of M. Thiers
and his policy. Hence we have no hesitation in saying that
was the question to be resolved. Why did M. Thiers, to the
great surprise of his friends, and even of the Left, become
so moderate all of a sudden? Why did he endeavour to
lessen the d stance witich separates him from the present
Ministry by representing himself as the innocent victim,
the martyr of the infatuation which France allowed herstlf
to entertain for the Pacha of Egypt ? How is it that in his
mouth the Eastern question, which has agitated Europe for
the last eight months, has been suddenly reducal to the pro-
portions of a national prejudice which M. Thiers has respected
without being the. dupe thereof, which he respected s• far
as to wish to arm nine hundred thousand men, and even to
threaten the world with a general conflagration ? Three
months ago, in a debate on the Address, M. Thiers was not so
humble. He boldly opposed his warlike policy to the pacific one
of the Ministry. . But the Paris Fortification Bill had not been
voted. It is the vote on that Bill which has propped up M.
Thiers's hopes. All his tactics from that moment have been to
cut off that majority, and to set one fraction at loggerheads
with the other. In the Secret Service Money Bill M. Thiers
expec'ed to haVe the auxiliary assistance of M. Passy and M.
Dufaure, as he had the Ministry itself;in the Fortification
Bill. This is the calculation which the debate and vote of
Saturday have completely dispelled. To whom is that result
due ? kis due especially, and we persist in saying so, to M.
Jouffroy. What would have happened if M. Jouffroy had made
an insignificant Report ? There would have been no debate.
The Chamber, the Ministry, and the country would have re-
maked in the obscurity of the vote on the fortifications. M.
Thiers, tough his Journals, would have continued to under-
mine tile majority. We have not obtained all that we wished
for, we candidly confess it. We have got the principal—a vote,
which, in the present day, clearly separates the Opposition from
the majority.
M. DUFAURE stated that the external condi-
tion of France could not remain what it is, but
that to change it with honour and dignity it
would be necessary to increase the army, aug-
inent the fleet, and improve the finances of
the country. The improvement of the finances
of a country is hardly compatible with an enor-
mous increase in the national expenditure. But
we are more sanguine than M. DUFAURE. We
are confident that the Great Powers of Europe
will readily afford France an honourable and
dignified opportunity of joining their councils,
without exacting from her the display of a single
ship or soldier, beyond what she already
possesses. Those sacrifices which M. DUFAURE
requires to uphold the dignity of France are not
required, and being unnecessary we can hardly
persuade ourselves that the Government will be
at the trouble and expense of making them. M.
TRIERS'S organs may rave on about the conditions
upo,n which the Ministerial majority can be kept
together. The vote of the Chamber has inflicted
a death-blow upon the war faction.
Marshal Victor, Duke de Bellune, is on the point of death.
From official returns in the Moniteur, it appears that in the
French Colonies the Governors have emancipated, by ordon-
nance, the following number of slaves in 1840:
Martinique
Guadaloupe.
French Guiana
Bourbon

347
Total —7B2

The price of bread in Paris is fixed for this month at twelve
sous (sixpence per 41b. loaf) for the best quarty ; but as the
bakers in the French capital set the authorities at complete de-
fiance, by giving false weight, the real price is about 25 per
cent. more. The oyster,: is this, the bakers who sell adulte-
rated bread give good weight, and those who sell good bread
give false weight.
All that we have said on the authority of letters from Ma-
drid of the ambitious designs of Espartero is confirmed; by a
passage in a letter addressed to the Memorial des Pyrenees.
" Espartero is surrounding himself with troops, and calls to
Madrid all those resolute men who may assist him in case of a
e isis. Diego Leon has been sent for, as well as other well
known Generals, and Zurbano, that daring partisan chief, who
is devoted to the Duke, likewise arrived a few days ago. All
this gives reason to believe that an 18th of Brumaire is not far
off. A review of the troops will take place, and the new Pre-
toria', bands will proclaim the dictator. The bayonet Is ill do
the rest." _ _

We announce, with great sorrow to our friends, that the
health of the Marshal Duke of Bellurio, who has been suffering
severely for some months, is now in a very alarming state.
The illustrious Marshal could not fail to close his glorious ca-
reer by a manifestation of his Christian sentiment. The Abbe
de Breze, in compliance with the request of the patient and his
family, hastened to administer to him yesterday and this morn.
ing the consolation of religion.—La Gazette de France.
PARIS, FEB. 28.—The Moniteur of this morning has no
official part. The National of this morning says that Mr.
Delaroche is considerably better. He will doubtless have to
suffer for a considerable time from the effects of the severe illness
with which he has been attacked. The physicians, however,
think that a salutary crisis has relieved him from immediate
danger.—Le Constitutionnel.

GELMAN P UNDS—Exusens, r EB. 27.
Actual Debt, 23 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 99%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. B9
..—,------....----. 3 per Cent. —
---- Thirty.seven— -- 69%
---( I 340) 98%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent EG%
Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent IC2
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............
National Society .
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Feb. 27.
AUSTRIA N FUNDS.—Viense, Fee. 19
live per Cents. Mctalliqucs
Foist' per Cents
Three iezr Cents
Rank Shares 16.32
--Allgemcine Zeitung, Feb. 24

GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER COIN.—The fol-
lowing is the number of pieces of various sorts
coined at the Mint from the Ist day of January.
1837 to the 31st day of December, 1840. Sove-
reigns, 4,395,373; Half Sovereigns, 434,778;
Crowns, nil; Half Crowns, 567,072; Shillings,
9,741,600; Sixpences, 7,524,000; Fourpences,
6,070, 680 (the total number of fourpences issued
being 10,325,300) ; Pence, 174,720; Halfpence,
1,075,200; and Farthings, 10,913,280.

The wreck of the Governor Fenner was seen
floating off Lambay, on the Irish coast, on Friday