The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-17 00:00:00

SPlttrr of tte PUBLIC JOURNALS. it our duty to be impartial), have shifted their ground in argu-
i ment, replying in effect to themselves and reasoning as if two con-
FROM THE MORNING PArEas OF THIS DAY.
tradictory propositions could stand together, or whether he
CHRON ICL impatience of delay in. the dengue-
contrast contrasted the pompous magniloquence of the premises ad-
meal cf t. ,tending crisia, manifestsd in the looks ant eonver-
vanced, on one stile at least, with the miserable inconsequence
saiion of the Tories, is very entertsining, nor is it unnatural.
a
The Erielish To. y lawyers, gaping for the good things which and imbecility of the conclusions derived. from them, he would
be equally disconcerted. And if he happened to know some-
English Judge, and the situareperted arrangements for the retirement of more thin one
thing of the lives and characters, of the former professions,
tona to be created by the Bill for
the .Reform of the Court of Chancery, may place at the im-
of the actors on this motley stage, he might perhaps view the
whose adhesion or of the present conduct and language on collateral subjects,
mediate dispae
to their al of their prt ,has been confirmed atrons ; the Scotch Tory
'° in the advocates,
Whole discussion as a political game of blind-man's-buff, or a
worst of times" by the yassurance of the retirement of pa
rhetorical exercise of that peculiar school which teaches that
language is the instrument for concealing thoughts. Under
the Lord President, and one or two other venerable or-
this description we sio not, of course, mean to include the
naments of the Scotch bench, on the advent of a Tory Ca-
binet ; and the Irish Orange lawyers waiting upon sand arguing withStanle fairness anwhich d ability the real question at isasue,
a- similar providence for the successor to Chief Justice Bushe i or to deny the praise of sincerity to such men as Mr. Glad.
and some others of his brethren, are in consternation for fear stone, Dr. Lushington, and several others who might be named
the expression of feeling from the country may become stronger on both sides of the House. lt looks odd, to say the least of it,to see
with the protraction of the debate, and still lead to some act.
the champions of the West India interest arguing a sugar
dent between the cup and the lip. It is said, also, that Si question upon purely philanthropic principles, from an abstract
James graham is suffering severely from the agonies of expec- horror of the slave trade. But it is odder still to hear Messrs.
tation and suspense, tearing that India may escape his grasp, Hume, Hawes, Ward, and James, the champions of the New
and that the alarm spread among the minor Tory expectants
jobbers Poor-law and of infant labour in our factories, pathetically
for places in diplomacy and at Court, and the Tory descanting upon the horrors of white slavery at home, and
of every description, toth in and oat of office—the one set
to be told by a Whiz Lord of the Treasury (Mr. J. Parker),
wailing for pensions on retirement, the other for places
in the very Session wt en the Whigs have been straining
held by their confederates, through infirmity, inconve-
nience, and disqualification, for the happy advent for every nerve to carry out the extreme principles of the
Poor-law Commissioners, that "in preserving the rights
which they have been so long desirous, is becoming very
of the negro I opulation, they do not at the same time
serious, and likely to lead to the most fearful conse-
forget the rights of the people of England,"—that
quenees. We really pity them, and sincerely. regret that any „
feeling,: for the wants, the miseries, and the lust claims of the they are advocates of humanity, but their humanity
suffering populetion should for one instant interfere with the is of a large character,"—that " they are as much advocates of
humanity for the peg le of England as for the negroes of the
fine castles in the air they have been building. The country West Indies." The people of England will never forget, that
knows full well their only object. The old crib and manger of
in 18.33 these same Whigs increased the permanent burdens of
their new ally, the pride of Westminster—the loaves and fishes
the country by a loan of '20,000,0001. for negro emancieation,
good places for those in office—high rents for their sup-
and that in 1834 they passed a measure for suspending the con
porters without—what in comparison with such considerations,
stitutional rights, and filching away the legal inheritance, of the
are the decay of trade in Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow Birming-
English poor. And it. has a singular sound, when Ministers,
ham, and Bolton, or the starving condition of the thousands of
who do not suffer an ounce of sugar to find its way into the
artizans now wandering about these towns in want of employ-
ment or bread ? and, as if to add insult to injury, in the union workhouses, represent that article as one of the necessa-
ries of life.
desperate hope of covering their despicable designs, POST.—Everybody asks why this debate in the House of
they would put on the new man and assume the
hypocritical guise of the advocates of the Nigro. Of Commons is dragged on to such a tedious and wearisome
length? The answer is threefold. First, that Ministers ex-
alt Tory attempts to practise upon the credulity
pect to be beaten, which is a very disagreeable thing, and to
the public this has been the lowest: and the basest. An Ant?!
Slavery Orange and Tory Society ! ! The explosion at Exeter I which even custom has not reconciled them ; they, therefore,
keep back the division as long as they can. Secondly, that
Hal!, every day's debate in the Hones. of Commons, the meet-
in,gs throughout the coungy, have done much to disabuse the Ministers are very apprehensive that the division, whenever it
does come, will have the effect of turning them out, with very
public, and to expose the Tory conspiracy against the interests little chance of getting back again through so clever a Palace
of the people. Delay and discussion are, therefore, most es- trick as they managed two years ago; and that, as every
sential, although necessarily disagreeable to the vultures, ho-
veringthey over their prey, as they suppose, within their reach. very latest hour possible their claim upon the Everything tends to encourage in us the hope that the Minis- sury for pecuniary competition. Thirdly, that they
Trea-
ters will not disappoint our reliance on their energy and deci- have persuaded themselves that by degrees something like an
sion, if their opponents should drive matters to extremities.
agitation for " free trade in everything," as Joseph Hume
When the time should arrive for the solution of the question of s, may be got up in the country, and give them a sort of ex-
resignation or dissolution, no reason short of the impossibility
case
for pretending that the country and the House are not of
of dissolution will satisfy the country that it should be delivered o
over, bound hand and foot, to Tory domination, without, at one opinion. Very probably all three motives are operating
all events, giving the people an opportunity of making the best together, and as they are all of them very worthy of tee pre-
sent Administration. But, whatever be the reason of the de-
light they can against monopoly and restriction. We
lay, the thing itself is very wearisome, and we had almost said
know the difficulties either way. When we urged
this course before, we did so without regard to cal-
disgusting. Viehope that, whatever trick or stratagem may
be at the bottom of this Ministerial policy, the Conservatives
culations mace by either party, as to the chances of the
returns to a new House of Commons. We know the opposi-
will no longer submit to it, but compel the Government to take
ti ~n the Liberal party will have to struggle with in the coun- a vote of the House upon the question which has now been be-
fore it since Friday week.
ties, and against Tiry gold in the smaller boroushs. Still, we
believe those most capable of forming a correct judgment see
no reason to doubt as liberal a return as at the last election ;
and think there are considerable chances of sonic improvement
in it. Much, of course, depends upon the combined efferts of
monopolists on one side, and upon the additional exertions
which the hope of relief from their exactions may excite on
the ether. But we own that there are, in our opinion,. even
graver considerations, which would weigh in the decision of
the question. The Government must have foreseen the extent
of the present opposii ion to their measures; they could
scarcely have celculated upon the assistance of the
lauded Aristocracy in the repeal of the Corn-laws—
of the East and West Indians, or Canadians, in interference with
their monopolies. They must have looked to the people, solely,
fur support to carry plans intended for their advantage;
and to the effect of the expression of public feeling and opinion
for else removal of the prejudices and apprehensions of classes,
whose interests might be partially affected by the proposed
change'. if they refuse to give the people the opportunity of
expressing tir-iropinior, and of throwing their weight into the
sea c at another election, they may have done greater` harm than
good to the cause of reform, whether in trade or in our institu-
tions, by the course they have taken. If we are to be delivered
over to Sir Robert Peel, and it be left to his discretion when to
disselce this Parliament and call another, what must be the
inevitable consequences? A large numerical majority in the
Moue! of Commons. brought together by a combination of
class 'interests with the Tory party, or rather brought in
opposition to the general interests of the community,
by the joint eterses of monopolists and the Carlton Club ?
Nee feel confident Nit the Government has too mueh good
sense, good feeling, add,patriotism, to subject the Queen or
the prople to the oppresjon and danger of such a state o
things. We say morh-•if they do so. the day of the refusal
of their liberal and well-meant budget will be one of annual
mourning for some time to come, for the whole commu-
.nity. Furthermore, we would impress upon Ministers the
sdangerous consequences to which a dissolution by the
Tory party must lead. We understand the smooth march
of Sir Robert Peel's administration for the remainder
of this session—possibly in another session of the pre-
sent Parliament, until the questions of taxation, or
Lord Stanley's Irish Bill should be forced upon him.
But then would come the difficaldes of his position. He
must either go with the country, or with his party.
The principles of the present budget, now fairly mooted, will
be insisted upon by the • country. The Duke of Buck-
ingham, Lord Darlington, and their adherents will scarcely
be more reconciled to them, even if supported with all the
hypocrisy which has distinguished the oppoetion to the sugar
duties. eir Robert will, probably, be governed by his tail
in this case, as he was governed during the earlier part of
his career in his censtent opposition to the removal of re-
ligious disqualifications by the bigots of Oxford. In fact, he
knowa from some experience, whet the slightest deviation front
a system of Toryine and o•angeism must lead to. He can-
'pot reckon on support- tram the Whigs, nor would the Whigs,
without the Radieid section of the -Liberal party, be sufficient to
sufficient to counterbalance the desertion of his Tory allies, on
the slightest symptom of concession to the pimple. His necessi-
ties • would, therefore, drive him to a
.dissolution, for
,re ter numerical power in the House of Commons, to
.enable him to govern ag inst the principles of the budget.
rHe may find i t from the sources we hate stated ; and what
are the consequences? Who desires to see the battle fairly
begun, between the masses, aggrieved by monopoly, possibly
suirering the greatest privations fyom further decline in trade,
their interests represented and supportel by the members
cif the great towns of the empire, and urged and en-
forced boloilv by a hostile press on the one side, and the
Tory landed aristocracy, banded with class interests,
contending for • .exclusive advantages on the other?
And yet this nay seem to be the condition of the
country, if the present crisis is not dealt with calmly,
prudently and with deterceination. Tory gentlemen, lawyers,
and place-hunters—patience, we pray you. Your prey may
still fall into your hands. We hope not ; but at all events, do
not quarrel with those who feel deeply the gravity of the cir-
cumstances in which we are placed, and who are more con-
cerned in finding bread for the hungry, and employment for
the distressed, than in pandering to the lust for place or poker
in any party of the State. We pray, in sphe of your impa-
tience, for a little delay, and much more consideration, before
it is decided that no other course cat' be taken than to deliver
the affairs of the country to your benevolent and disinterested
administration.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—By the New York papers it appears that the
scheme of a National Bank, which many believe to be a
favourite project with the present Government, is still much
iseussed. Formerly the notion was prevalent of an entirely
new and gigantic institution, to be raised by the subscriptions
of the States, while now there appears to an inclination to
believe thst one of the existing banks would be selected,
and there are several conjectures that the New York Bank
of Commerce would be preferred. The State stocks have ge-
nirally improved, principally because of the abundance of
money ; and with respect to the State of Illinois, on ac-
count of the renewal of a loan due on the Ist inst., which it
is expected will render possible the payment of the July divi-
dend. The New York market is altogether in a healthy state.
The Revenue Bill that has passed the Senate of Pennsylvania,
and at the date of the latest intelligence, was under discussion
in the House of Representatives by the name of "Tie Relief
Bill,' contains a clause which provides that the stockholders
of the United States Bank shall be enabled to authorize the
President and Directors to assign all the effects of the bank,
each sharehoMer voting according to the number of shares
entered in his name, in the ratio fixed by the old charter. The
object of this enactment would seem to be to enable everybody
concerned in the bank to make a general disposal for the benefit
of creditors.
POST.—The permanent funds improved a. fraction this
morning, a change which is imputable to the necessity always
existing day by day for the investment of moneys ander every
aspect of our national affairs, and, as far as we can learn or
judge, to that alone. Exchequer Rills, as well as India
Bonds, again declined. The former are, in fact, rapidly run-
ning, as the latter had previously done, to a discount, and,
apart from political considerations, without any inteligible
cause. The value of such securities ought, however, in pro-
priety to be referred to, rather than that of Consols, as a crite-
rion whence is to be derived an idea, if not a positive know.
ledge, of the popular feeling and popular expectation on mat-
ters connected with the legislative movements in progress and
in prospect.
The commercial letters brought by the Great Western
steamer from New York speak more encouragingly of the state
of trade in the United States. European manufactures were
in some demand, and we understand that the orders which
have come forward for fresh supplies from England are more
liberal than had been looked for. This is no doubt owing in a
great measure to the fact that the M'Leod affair was pretty
sure to be amicably settled.

ARRIVAL OF THE COLUMBIA.

The C ambia steam-ship arrived at Liverpool on
Saturday afternoon. She left Boston on theist end
Halifax on the 3d inst, a-id has made fle passa4e in
about twelve days. The following are the only extracts
from the American papers of the slightest interest :
LIBERATION OF M'LEOD,—Thc distingiihhed
Charles 11. Delavan is again in town from Washington,
where he spent the last two months. Mr. Delavan in-
forms us that at a Cabinet Council on Saturday. last, it
was ageeed to deliver,up M'LQod to the British authori-
ties—and perhaps Mr. Delavan himself will be appointed
to the important trust of making the delivery.—New
York Herald, April 30.
GENERAL JACKSON.—The newspapers have busied
themselves very much of late with the pecuniary affairs
of General Jackson, and considerable sentimentality has
been expended upon a statement made in several of the
journals that he had become poor by endorsing for his
friends. The old Roman don't stand this, and has
authorised a Pennsylvania paper to pronounce the story
" false in every particular I.' We need not say that we
are very glad to hear it.

EXECUTION OF NEGROES.—HAVANNAIL—Havannah
papers to the 15th have been received in New Orleans.
The Courier says—
" A few hours previous to the departure of the Natchez,
intelligence reached Havannah that 62 negroes from
Jamaica, believed to be abolitionist emissaries, had
effected a landing on the south side of Cuba. Thirty of
those black subjects of Queen Victoria had been arrested
and ordered to be shot. The Spanish authorities were in
pursuit of the others."
The Bee, of the same city, says, that these thirty
" were immediately arrested, tried, condemned, and ex-
ecuted."

ADVERTISER.—There is but one opinion, we perceive,
.amung the Liberal press as to the course which the Govern-
anent ought to take in the too probable event of the Tories oh-
isining a majority on this debate. It is true that the Tory
journalists hold a different language, which makes but a
stronger reason in 'favour of it. The feeling of the country
leo, which is daily becoming stronger on behalf of the Minis-
erial measures, constitutes another reason fur taking the
bold, the honourable course of a dissolution, in preference
tto the questionable one of a resignation. We agree with
our Contemporary the Examiner, that there is no reason to
believe that the elinistry contemplate the reverse, and that
there ought to be question about the matter; but the voice
of the charmer may not be without its influence, and there-
lure we. venture our .deprecatory growl. It is enough
that the crooked and the wrong course has been suggested by
the enemy ; it would he a foolish thing to abstain from utter-
ing our sentiments thretmh any feeling of delicacy, for by one
of those caprices of honour, which sometimes dictate the wrong
line of action, the proper line may not he taken, and there may
afterwards remain nothing but lamentation for the general si-
lence on the subject. To the country, to the Queen, to them-
*elves, the Ministry owe a dissolution, as the only means of
°Valuing strength to carry out their excellent measures. Till
now a revisal of our teriff, the modification of our Corn-lawn,
and the abeiitlon of monopoles, have been a dream, which it
was pleasant enough to hope to see realised, but far beyond any
present expectation. The subject, too, is in itself so com-
plicated, that the publie is only just acquiring a glim-
3nerini notion of all the advantages proposed. And the
Tories, skilful humbugs ! know so well how to appeal to the
prejudices of the people, and to take hold of their most amiable
A eengs—fin a wrong direction, that it requires a little time
and opportunity to expose them. This debate will do much—
in spite of the soft sawder of Sir Itubert Peel—to open their
eyes ; but it will not do enough. Every man in the country
must be made to feel that the question is put to himself per-
wnally ; that he, and not his representative, incurs the re-
esibility of the result. Besides, how relishing it will be
to Meet the Tories one he hnstings—to put them to the ques-
tion, and it may to the pledge. One, two, or three,
with the subtilty of Peel, or the assurance of Stanley,
may encounter, scatheless, the ordeal ; but the lesser fry
will writhe under the torture, and mar their leaders'
tactics. esamtious
These are important atvantages, which
m
be lostt if we did not give battle to the enemy at once.
R
Peel dissolve at his own time. fie would con-
trive svesilg"n, "'
and let
to interpose something between cne event and the other,
which would damp the credit
of the Liberals, and mend his
own case.
Strike wbile the iron is hot. Give the enemy no
advantage. Let the public
see by the promptitude, the energy,
add the uncompromising
s
manner in which the battle is fought,
that those snarlers who pretend that the present measure is
only a party shift, and that the Government intend a cross-
f
•
fight, are adding another tb the shafts ts o calumny by which the
Liberal cause has beeit so foolishly injured during the last
..few years. We have watched for several years the steps of
,be Government, lamenting, indeed, at times the feeble-
giros of their movements, but
o it.
eompell,--I afterwards to acknow-
, , ledge that they saw their occasion, and
took advantage
pres,e'nt isf not
Still we must be permitted 'to observe, that the
one in which they can indulge in too great nicety ot demean-
.our. The calm and aristocratic bearing that suits the in' laee
,and the drawing-room, is inapt for the battle-field; nor is it
a time to act according to the mere etiquette of party. It le
nation's cause, wheel must be fought with zeal and enter-
pi2se, as if the very fate of the country depended upon the
Issue, as in truth it does ; for without cur manufactures and
.our commerce, our prosperity is lost, and the maintenance of
them torten& upon the success of the Government mea-
esures The Tories (who, by the by, do not crow so
3oudly as they eid a :tee's ago, before the Anti-Slavery party
ad repudiated the false tactics of their Committee,
4C.111 the countr; had had time es pronounce at all on
the
criestem) say that the Duke has threatened, if he come
into power,
ve again if the
citsso. Whip dissolve now. Be
it so; on him be tee. responsibility. Thu is nething but a
eesee to induce the Whiel:s to forego their opportunity. What
would he do if he were _n power ? Why as he did in the
Peninsula, and every where e se, fight when he could, an. be
'prepared for the veer battle when it came. So must the Whigs
act. Dissolve and tight. It is not among impossible things, but
very probable, that many Tories, when put to the question,
wilt shun their own policy, and that many others will be beaten.
We say again that toe case is new—that when the people know
it in ail its bearings, they will decide rightly, and that if
we
conquered in boroughmongering times, there are more than ten
'
,efeances to one that we shall succeed now, and that we shall
a more liberal Parliament than we have had for many

The Courier adds, " It was understood at Havannah,
that 8,000 troops were about sailing from Cadiz for Ha-
vannah. Indeed, a few of them arrived last week. This
looks as if Espartero was apprehensive of an attack on
Cuba from some European power or other.
THEATRICALS.—PARK THEATRE.—The state of the
weather last night was enough to damp the ardour of
even a more ambitions aspirant for the honours of Mrs.
Siddons than Miss Clarendon is likely to prove, although
we see it insinuated for her by some of the Fungus order
of critics, that the mantle of the great actress is destined
to rest on the shoulders of this, their latest protege. All
this preliminary puffing is bad. And all the talent that
ever manifested itself after a regular probation' ivould
have been most certainly blighted if subjected to the
foolish ordeal which this young lady has had to undergo.
She makes her debut in Mariana, a part which Fanny
liemble appeared in, and then tries Pauline in a city
where Ellen Tree is still remembered. Can any one be
astonished that the house is empty ?—Brahani is in the
neighbourhood of Savannah, giving concerts.—Fanny
Fitzwilliam and Buckstone played the same night at the
American. Of John Povey's whereabouts we are not
advised.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—An attempted
murder and. suicide occurred on board the steamer Clip-
per on Sunday evening last, while on her way from this
As we could learn the particulars, city to Bayou Sara.
it seems that Mr. Tiernan, an old and respectable planter
of Point Coupee, had a sum of money stolen from him
while on board the Clipper, and soon ascertained that it
was taken by a yellow boy belonging to him some fourteen
years of age. He did nothing to the boy at the time,
but threatened him with a severe flogging on reaching
Point Coupee. Shortly after Mr. T. went to his berth,
lay down, and was soon asleep. The boy, probably in-
sogated by the fear of future punishment, procured a
large butcher's knife, went to his master's state room,
and stabbed him twice in the throat, inflicting severe, and
it was feared mortal, wounds. He then fled to the bow
of the boat, and, as the men were approaching to secure
him, jumped overboard, and was seen no snore. We
learned the particulars at Donaldsonville on Sunday even-
ing last, at which time it was feared that Mr. Tiernan
would not survive.—New Orleans Paper.
The notorious vessel the Malek Anhel arrived at Bal-
timore on Tuesday, from Rio Janeiro, under command
of Lieut. Ogden of the U. S. Navy. The crew have all
been arrested, examined, and committed on a charge of '
piracy. Joseph Nunez, the Captain, escaped at Bahia
and was not retaken.

Five young men are now in gaol in Brooklyn, New
York, for committing a most atrocious rape on a married
woman, in Myrtle-lane. They were of a gang of fifteen,
and strong hopes are entertained that those now at large
will soon be secured. The poor woman we understand
is dead. No punishment can be too severe for these in-
human rascals.

MORE MORMONS.—The St. Louis Bulletin say s—
" Two hundred and thirty-seven Mormons came up in
the Moravian yesterday from New Orleans. The; are
from rad om
are bound for Nauvoo, Illinois. -
Westmoreland, Lancaster, and Yorkshire, England,
MR. Fox.—lt is intimated that Mr. Fox, the British
Minister, is about to marry a sister of the Russian Minis-
ter's lady, Miss Williams. The bridegroom in this match,
should it occur, will be aged about 60, the bride about 16.
—New York Taller.
The Temperance Reform is exciting the most intense
interest in Montreal. Meetings are frequently held and
fully attended, eloquent addresses delivered, and during
eight days 328 new signatures were obtained to the
pledge. Its beneficial influence is felt, particularly among
the soldiers stationed at that place.
MANUFACTURES.—Numerous cotton manufactories
have been erected within a few years at the South, most,
if not all, of which are successful in their operations. In
the city of Feyteville, F. C., six large mills have been
erected, and the amount of capital invested is 11300,000.
MORE ILL NEWS FROM FLORIDA.—The correspondent
of the Savannah I?epublican, in a letter dated Pilatki,
April 19th, says—" I am sorry to inform you. that the
war has broken out anew. I have just learned that all
the Indians, save about twenty, have left Tampa—among
them Wild Cat, and, in fact, all of any, note. They

yeara.
a plain man were desirous of understanding
the question which has now occupied the House of Commons
for the unexampled perioti of seven nights, and for that purpose
desert of tedious debate
were to wade throotth the dreary
*hick those seven nights have produced, he might prs.bably
rise from his task with all his idea+ of truth and falsehood ut-
teil? confounded. Whether he regarded the strange manner
in which the speakers, on both sides of the house (for we teet