The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-20 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Times has long ceased to bo the organ
Of any fixed opinion upon any matter whatsoever; but upon
the affairs of Turkey and Egypt it has been more than
usually in contradiction to itself. One day it has been kr
the Sultan, another day for Mehemet Alt ; and so by turns
it has varied its language and opinions according to
the shifting influences by which it has been guided.
Saturday last was Mehemet Ali's day, and baffled in-
trigue, thwarted cabal, and defeated plotting, lode in
the ascendant. Lord Palmerston and Lord Ponsonby
vet e the natural objects of attack, because they have
been mainly instrumental in marring such plots,
foreign and domestic. But spite is sometimes blind,
and so it
i has happened in this instance. Lord Pal-
merston s attacked because he would not or could
not, on a certain day in March, tell the House of Com-
mons what the Conference thought of the hatti-scheriff
of the lath of February; and the writer in the Times
thinks he has proved his charge against the Foreign Se-
cretary by pointing out that the very day alter he had de-
clined es enter into such an explanation, tee Conference
signed a noto in which they recorded their opinion of that
hatti-scheriff. Why, what a dolt this Mehemet Ali
man must be I This very fact is the justification of the
reserve of Lord Palmerston ; for how could he tell what
the Conference would decide on the following day ?
There might, indeed, have been considerations connected
with a due respect to the other Powers, which might
have rendered it unfitting for him to have stated what
the Conference of the Four Powers had written the day
before, if that which they wrote had been written the
day before ; but to blame him for not saying what they
would write the day after, is really too stupid to require a
serious answer. Then, again, Lord Ponsonby is repre-
sented as the author of all evil in this Turco- Egyptian affair,
and simply, forsooth, because it is well known that his energy
and activity have contributed greatly to the success of the
Allies. But what would the writer in the Times say if it
should tura out that Lord Ponsonby was not consulted
as to the drawing up and wording of those hatti-scheriffs ?
—that they were prepared chiefly by the Aus-
trian Minister at C mstantinople and by the Turkish Ca-
binut ; but that the principle on which the article in the
hatri-schcriff about the mode of succlssion for Mehemet
Ali's descendants was framed, had been unanimously
agreed to a fortnigl It before by the representatives of all
the Four Powers at Constantinople, when proposed to them
by the Porte, and that Lord Yonsonby is not more re-
sponsible for that pi inciple than are the representatives of
Austria, of Russia, and of Prunia. We have heard that
this is so, and we hel sieve it.

STANDARD.— -Of all classes who felt aggrieved by
the old adrninistrati, in of the Poor-laws, the landholders
bad the most just r Dawn to complain. The whole bur-
then of the main.tenanea of the poor fell upon them,
wide the martufac'urer3 had all the benefit of the
prevision. They, the manufacturers, re tieived the
labourers without the expense of rearing them, and
then threw them bac k when "used up" (to borrow the hu-
m::ne phrase of their to he supported bye class who had
never derived a shin op; profit from their labour. This had
a doubly incurious ell bet upon the landlords, who saw their
ebtates drained df a outhful and vigorous population, leav-
ing only a cap:a mor tuzun of old men end females, the un-
prefitable stock cot stantly augmenting by the returned
ri ruse of the manufactures when worn cut; add to this, the
e.':ormous expense of litigation arising out of the uncertain
tiles to settlement of a circulating population. Had the de-
m :nd for labour in :agriculture kept pace with the demand
fL;:. labour in manurac:otiei, the evil of th;s system might
hove been less seven( dy felt; hut the revere was the case.
The rapid accumuliation of capital introduced a mode
o: farming in which 'money was, to a great extent, the sub-
at itute for labour, and the landowners found their own unem-
ployed population isle ceasing, at the same time that the
r inufactures were pi ,uring back upon therm a flood of
p ,upers. Hence "tt c allowance system" and all the other
cntrivances by veb ich it was sought to make, the
t.trthen of supporting: the worn-out labourers to come ntel-
• re proportioned to eke profit previously derivt:dtrom their
lebtiur. These c.snstiderations are, etc think, sufficient to
rtplain why a we-at number of landholders should
a. xiously lock for some modification of the ell
law. A medißclition was off:red, bet it was
b Ned upon a false principlP. laste.l of attacking the
r, al cause of the cvii of I..a.uperism—the undue profits ob-
t:. ineei by capitalists and manufacturers at the expense of
t'he laboarerF, first, and afterwards of the landholders_
v c Poor-law reformers directed all their jtaloetiy aggiwt
tbx. labouring class ; and as these were the immediste
ectsions of loss to the landholders, the la't:r in many
i..stances looked no furthe-, end joined in the cry against
11

THE PRESIDENT STEA.ZI-SIHP.

(Eam the Liverpocl AEion of yesterday.)
We lament to bay that no inteltigence has yet ben
rteiyed of this unfortunate vessil. Tae .arrival of the
JLoyal :nail steamer Caledonia, on Tnursday morning,
f, 3m Boston and Haiifax, dissil.atA the hopes which
l ad bean previously entertained, that she would bring
n::ws of the rnissinz shin baying, put in to som,.; Nova
li,!otian or United States port. Neither at Halifax on
tt'ic 4th instant nor at New York on the slat ult. had
tidings been heard cf her; nod the friends of thg
prosongers on board were in happy i;zncrance that
8„y ;misfortune had befallen her. From the in-
t-rval ohieh had elapsed between her sailing from
New York and the date of the advices from that.
vlrt by the Caledonia, twanty days, it is evident,
Ciat, if she survived the effects of the storm on
the 12th and the; 13th ult., she must haze made
r some southern port. At first, be opinion was, that

s'le would make for the Western Isles ; but, if she had,
Acient time has, it is supposed, slipsad for news of
her arrival at Faye; reaching England. The first opinion
Ens, therefore, been abandoned for a second, which is,
teat she would, after repairing the damage she might
I ave sustained in the gale (and damage of some kind
os other, it i 3 quite clear she mutt have sustained), make
far Bermuda. Now, the latest advices received, in the
United States, from that island were of the 20th ult. ;
) that a sufficient time had not elapsed then for her
rrrival at Bermuda, even should the conjecture turn
cat correct, that she made for that port after t!-,e storm.
Captain Fayrcr, who commanded the President on
1 A. first voyage, hazards in a letter to a friend in Li-
v ,rpool, dated on the 17th inst., the following conjec-
teres respecting the probable course Captain Rolierts
ould follow wader the circumstances supposed in tha
1. tter. The gallant Captain takes, it will be seer, a
consolatory view of a very distressing occurrence :
"No President yet ! Rather awkward ! If oho lost
r rudder, which I think most probable, on the Bank
of Newfoundland, in lat. 45 N., and long. 50 W., she
t-ould be distant from Bermuda about 1,000 miles.
rile gale at N.W. or W. would prevent the possibility of
Ating either to New York or Halifax. Bermuda would
Le the place ; if so, I would give her three days after
the gale to fit a temporary rudder. Having sailed
el the 1 1 th, she would be in the position above in
tee or six days ; so that, with the three days fitting
a rudder, &c., she would be on the Bank
rtiil on the eighth day, or the 19th of March.
Then Captain Roberts would run down to the
latitude and the longitude below 50 and 53 W., till in
tie parallel of Bermuda, so as to be in the eddy, east
of the Gulf Stream, then hard up west for Bermuda. Now
ae a cripp:ed ship, and, in those latitudes, particularly
sete.r a ga'e, calms are common, so give him, from the
lath, fourteen days to get to Bermuda. This would
L a the 2d or 3d of April. Say they get in on
the 3d, I give Lord Lennox and Power two days
to get ready a schooner, five days to Philadelphia,
taree days to Halifax ;days would make it
t!.e 13th or 14th of April before they could be
beard of from Bermudta, according to my notion
a
even if she could be Bermuda from the Bank in
the time I allow. They
waey vessels, but I haveliatcrtaoyothhmavuechbeen seen by
experience in
the inattention of small craft on
ecsoast of America ;
I give till the
t! ey care for nothing but themselves.
25th of this month to hear from Bermuda,;unless some
tassel is dispatched by the Government of that island,
as the mail packet calling is very uncertain.
" I lost my rudder off' the Cape of Good Hope, in
t"o Lady Flora, drawing 21 feet water, in a severe
I: de, and fitted one after my own plan, and made an ex-
c _lent passage to St. Helena. Captain Roberts
b a sharp fellow, and will do much
under any difficulties he may be placed in.
He has his own engineer and officers—everything to
pave confidence. It is my opinion, strongly so, that the
Presideut will turn up at Bermuda."

FLEET OF STEAMERS.—The General Steam
navigation Company intend increasing their numerous and
p :werful fleet of steamers by the addition of several first-
s to ships, the keels of which are about to be laid down.
't he Trident, of 1,000 tons burden, building for the Com-
p rsy, will be launched from Wigram and Green's yard,
text month. The Princess Royal, of 800 tons, launched
A week, and now fitting at the General Stearn Novi-
Estion Company's factory at Deptford is, we under-
F and, ictended for the Rotterdam trade. The Wilber-
f rco steam-ship, formerly trading between London and
I ull, which has been purchased by the Company, is now
gyring with new engines at the same place, and will run
tween Hamburgh and London. This fine ship was a
reat favourite on the Hull station, and has made two voy-
ages to Lisbon, during which her sea-going qualities were
severely tested. She will be an important addition to the
toot of her new owners. The consumption of coals by the
erseral Steam Navigation Company is enormous, and
1 st year the expense for fuel alone exceeded 45,000/.
I';urieg the same time the vessels of the Company carried
uswards cf a million of passengers, without the loss of a
t,-gle individual, or any one receiving the slightest injury,
Inch speaks yolzunes in favour of English steam-vessels,
and affords a refreshing contrast to the nurnSrous acci-
tS.nts, explosions, and loss of life, so frequently occurring
the United States. The fleet of the General Steam
Navigation Company will soon number fifty large vessels,
acceding in tonnage and power the steam fleet of France,
Ls any other nation in the world, and exhibiting in a strik-
ing lig:.t the amazing effects cif British skill and ot.terprise.
ARREST OF ALDERMAN PERRIN.-A letter
iseeived by the Caledonia steamer states that Aldesreau
Perrin, or, the very day of his landing in New York, ad
I can arrested in a coffee-house upon a civil hill process,
at the suit of Mr. Hunt, merchant, of this city. Hay-
i g given bail, however, he was at once set at liberty.
sublin Mercantile Advertiser.--[This is the Orange
Alderman Who fled trom DuLlin two months ago, alter
raising about 20,0001.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, APRIL 16.- '
give Way in price seriously an
-I rapidly.
Sugars continue to
The business transacted under such circumstances is nceessas I
ilv but trifling..—Bristol Mercury.