The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-27 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The Richard Anderson,Capt. Barnett, arrived at Liverpool yes •
terday evening fromCharleston,with papers from that city to the 3d
instant. We regret to state that the papers do not contain any
news of the President, nor can the captain give any intelli-
gence whatever of the missing steamer. It is therefore pretty
evident that she could not have reached Bermuda, as the
Richard Anderson has made the very short passage of twenty
three days from port to port. The papers brought by the
Richard Anderson do not contain any news of importance. We
are hourly looking for the arrival of the Independence arid the
British Queen, both now due.

The following letter was posted in the Underwriters' rooms
to-day:—
"Extract of a Letter received yesterday by Messrs. Crain. and
Paton from Captain Marr, of the Minerva, at anchor in
Loch Swilly (Ireland), which sailed from this port, for
Newfoundland, on the 11th inst. :

" I have had very heavy gales ever since I left Liverpool,
and have made but little progre3s to the westward, but am glad
to say that the Minerva sails remarkably well.
" On Sunday, the 18th inst., lat. 55. 9., long. 10. 17.,
saw a brig to windward, with loss of maintop, mast, and sails,
with a signal of distiess flying. She bore down upon us at
three o'clock, p.m., and turned out to be the Mariner's Hope,
of Sunderland, Hater, master, and bound from Sunderland
to Restigouche. The master hailed us, " for God's sake to
stay by him," as the vessel was in a sinking state, and try to
take them on board, the water by this time being over the bal-
last. We were under close-reefed topsails at the time, and a
heavy sea running. We accordingly lay by them, and at seven
P.M. they launched their long boat, put the crew's clothes
into her, and five men came on board ; but the boat was
stove, and was not able to proceed to her again. We lay by
her all night, and at four o clock A.M. next day, bore down
upon her again, but were not able to launch a boat, and as I
considered I had not sufficient water for her crew (14 men)
and our own, if wo-had a long passage, I spoke the master, and
asked him what he intended doing. He said he wanted to leave
the ship, and come on board, but the sea was running so high
that a boat could not live in it. I desired him to keep away,
as I would take him into a safe port. He did so, and I brought
him safe here. Having lodged my declaration for salvage with
Messrs. Alexander, of Londonderry, and the wind being fair, I
shall proceed to sea immediately.
(Signed) " JOHN MARII.'"

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TSB MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

POST.—Df.STAUCTION OF LORD MORPETH'S BILL.—
We heartily congratulate the country on the triumphant ma-
jority by which Lord Howick's amendment of the above mea-
sure was carried last night, in defiance of the utmost efforts
of her Majesty's Ministers. The object of Lord Howick's
amendment is to impart the right of voting in Irish counties to
persons possessing a beneficial leasehold interest in land to the
value of 5/. per annum, to be computed by the excess of rating
over the amount of the rent and charges to which he is subject.
This, though not the kind of franch se of which the Conservative
party can entirely approve, seemed to them so far preferable to that
which Lord Morpeth's Bill would have established, namely, a fran-
chise entirely unconnected with and independent of property,
that, voting in Committee, they thought it their duty to sup-
port it. The strong Parliamentary ground for the course
taken by the Conservatives was clearly and eloquently ex-
plained by Lord Stanley and Sir Robert Peel. But there is
another ground upon which the public at large will rejoice at
the course adopted by the Conservatives, and at its triumphant
result. They have given a deathblow to the Morpeth trick,
or a deathblow to the small remaining reputation of Ministers
for consistency and integrity. This is the alternative. Let
Ministers make their choice.

CHRONICLE.—The demand of Lord John Russell led to
a very ridiculous misconception of the object of it, which ob-
tained currency in the clubs—that Ministers were contemplat-
ing a resignation. We will not offer such an insult to the un-
derstanding of our readers as to suppose that they would ex-
pect us to contradict so silly a rumour. No Ministry
would think of resigning on a question which cannot be
deemed a trial of the strength of parties. Lord Howick
had no intention by his amendment of forwarding any
Tory objects ; and though the Tories chose to divide in
favour of it, the Amendment could not have been carried
without Liberals who conscientiously coinbided in opi-
nion with his Lordship. Ministers would very imperfectly
fulfil the trust reposed in them by their Sovereign, and ill re-
quite the confidence reposed in them by the supporters of-Li-
beral opinions, were they to make such a division as that of
last night a pretext for throwing up office. Time for delibe-
ration as to the course they. ought to pursue with regard to the
Bill was very properly inquired by them, because it is neces-
sary they should weigh well the various circumstances which
may render it necessary to abandon the Bill altogether, or to
adopt the alterations of Lord Howick. But why should they
hesitate as to continuing the Government? They would
indeed incur a very serious responsibility were they
to suffer the reins of Government at this time to be usurped
by a party with no claims to the confidence of the country, and
over whom the leaders and moderate men among them have no
control. What! resign government in favour of men who
one day are violent Orangemen, and the next coquetting with
Chartists ? Besides, the Tories do not possess a majority in
the House of Commons, and must, if they took office, resort
to a dissolution—a dsssolution at a time, when, by their al-
liance with Chartists, an election would throw the country into
the greatest confusion. The vote of last night is immaterial,
as far as continuance in office is concerned, though it may add
to the difriculties or Ministers in geverning Ireland.
TIMES.—The precise degree of respect which the 1-louse
of Commons entertains for the Whig compact with O'Connell,
and also for the Popish liegistrationßill, which, under pretext
of defining the quaLfication of Irish voters, propo,e,t to enfran-
chise every applicant who might happen to bear the im-
primatur of the Repeal Association, has been pretty signifi-
cantly shown by the division on Lord Howick's amendment,
whereby
.the Ministers were kicked into the kennel by an ad-
verse majority of 21. By the amendment of the Noble Lord,
though scarcely effecting what the exigencies of the case re-
quire, such a substantial improvement has been made
upon Lord Morpeth's collusive measure, as will at
least prevent fraudulent tenures from acquiring the
elective rights due only to a bona fide qualification
ascertainable by the Poor-law rating. So manifest to the
Whigs was the tendency of th's proposal for destroying their
stock-dependence in Ireland, that they opposed it with the
most desperate and convulsive energy. Lord Morpeth fawned,
flattered, and implored. Lord John Russell philosophized,
crossed himself, and almost screamed for extreme unction. But
the House happened to be in an obstinate fit : or, we should
rather say, more patriotic and philosophical than its nominal
leader could control. His own troops tore their mountings
from their uniform, and flung them in his Lordship's face. The
discomfiture to the disconcerted Whigs was an astounding one.
What new evidence of Whig tenacity and meanness will be
forthcoming nn Wednesday, until which day the further con-
sideration of the Bill is postponed, our readers will be at no
loss to conjecture. Alas for the Whigs !
ADVERTlSER.—Notwithstanding the proceedings of last
night, we scarcely regret that the Tories were not to be conci-
liated. A Tory- Whig policy would be the most dangerous to
public liberty 'that could possibly be established in England.
However, therefore, the Tories may cajole the popular suffragss
about the Poor-law, we rejoice that on other miles of policy
they scorn compromise. The people have nothing to gain and
everything to lose by a Whig-Tory fraternization. There has,
however, lately been a strong tendency to this consummation.
The anecdote which the Times told of the " worthy gentle-
man" who withheld his subscription from the Conservative
Association, on the grounds that " to displace Ministers would
be merely to drive out ene set of scoundrels to make way for
another," seems to have stimulated the wavering Tories into
the more envenomed assertion of their principles. Hence the
taunts of Sir Robert Peel last night. "No surrender" is now
the watchword of the Tories. Ministers must, therefore, deter-
mine decisively and at once, " to be or not to be."
HERALD.—The Conservative leaders would certainly have
some show of reason on their side, if, in the exuberance of
of their many triumphs over their political antagonists, they
were tempted to indulge in somewhat decided expressions of
exultation. We trust, however, that they will withstand the
" strong temptation," and, by a steady perseverance in that
collected constancy of purpose which has hitherto dignified
their noble and sustained efforts at upholding the true interests
of the country, in the uncompromited integrity of the Consti-
tution—will assert new claims to the confidence and respect of
all their fellow-subjects. And yet—in the contemplation of their
crowning triumph of last night, when they difeated the Whig-
radical Ministry and their party, in a house of 561 Mem-
bers—on the question of the elective franchise according to the
51. (or Universal Suffrage) standard, so recently set up and
insisted upon in all its stringency by Lord Morpeth, as the
amount of rating to the Poor-rate which should qualify for the
elective franchise in Ireland, they must have felt somewhat of
the abounding self-gratulation of the Macedonian hero, who
" fought all his battles o'er again
And thrice he routed all his foes,

And thrice he slew the slain."
It is our duty now to record that, last night, on the debate
being re-umed in Committee on the Parliamentary Voters
( Ireland) Bill, Lord Howick moved an amendment which, like
most of his Lordship's kind efforts to assist his political friends,
has proved, in its results, very well calculated to oust them
from their seats.

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