The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-18 00:00:00

14.1VENING EDITION

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TDE RVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Standard.)
Ought we to regret or to rejoice at the impending
dissolution of the American Commonwealth—for im-
pending it is? To rejoice at it, beyond all question.
To rejoice at it, not merely as Englishmen, but as
friends of the human race. The experiment of a
great democratical government has been tried upon the
largest scale, and with such advantages as the
visions of Plato or More, or any other constructor of
a 'perfectly happy. State, never even surmised. A
'people descended from the most intelligent and thought-
ful of the races of human kind—the arts of civirzation
:already worked out—the treasures of literature opened
:in full abundance—a fertile and an inexhaustible
,country and a complete seclusion from ambitious
eoeighbours—these were the advantages with which
the American Commonwealth commenced its great
experiment sixty years ago ; and the result of the ex.
periment is a debasement 'and depravation of the na-
tional character, and a retrogradation of the national
mind, rapid beyond any similar decline of which the
history of the world affords an instance. When
we speak of the debasement and depravation of
the national character, need we go beyond this very
case of Mr. M`Leod ; or if we need, must it not be
enough to point to the universal smuggling of slaves,
and the Lynchings of the abolitionists, and the invasion
of Texas ? Would, or did, any of the fathers of the
present race of American citizens practise such atroci-
ties, while, with the British connection, they were proud
to participate in the generous virtues of Britons ? As to
the retrogradation of the national mind, we shall but
name Washington, Franklin, Adams, Patrick Henry—
nay, Jefferson. The United States, while connected with
England, produoed men like those we have named.
What men do the same soil and the same race afford
now under democratical institutions, to fill the places of
the heroes of the revolution ? We cannot find them ;
perhaps they are to be discovered amongst the admired
of Miss Martineau. It is no less for the interest and
honour of the Americans themselves than it is for the
interest and honour of mankind generally, that the
Union be broken up ; and broken up it will be.
(From the Globe.)
In the present state of excitement into which the
commercial world has been thrown by the appre-
hensions of a rupture with the United States,
ovary arrival from America is looked for with solici-
tude, and letters and papers from that country ac-
quire an interest beyond those from every other.
The expeet:d arrival of the Colombia from Halifax
occasioned considerable speculations as to the intelli-
gence she would bring ; and correspondent disappoint-
ment was esterday felt in the City, when, on the
arrive( of the train which left Liverpool, early in the
in°7-niag, it was found that the anxiously looked-for
°/' Ass' had not arrived. This anxiety was, however,
'etlieved by the intelligence brought by a later train.
The Colombia Isids arrived ; and, though the intelli-
gence she bring not of a decided character, nor
are any new facts connected with the cause of the rup-
tnre, or of the angry feelings which have grown out of
it, developed, we think we can discover in the tone
and character of the scanty information thus supplied,
sufficient to justify the firm hope and expectation that
nothing will arise to reader an appeal to arms necessary.
The whole of the contents of tee letters and papers
hro'ught by the Colombia, so far as they relate to the
Wein question of war or peace, will be found in an-
-ether part of our journal—papers from New York to
else Ist inst., and letters and papers from Boston to
t'sa eld, and from Philadelphia to the 28th ult. General
Harrison, the new President, was to be sworn into ofilee
on the 4th, and would immediately enter on his functions
Ps Chief Magistrate of the Republic. With a change of
Government there exist good reasons for anticip sting a
change of tone and procedure. Tee Van Burenites
had taken in dudgeon their defeat and expul-
sion from office, and were evide itly desirous of
crab irrassing their successors by embroiling them
in a dispute with England. To effeet this they
lied pandered to the lowest prejudices and passions of
the lowest class of the American citizens. The Pre-
sident, which sailed from Liverpool on the 10th ule.,
end was the bearer of Lord Palmerston's instructions
to Mr. Fox respecting the case of l‘lr. Nl‘Leod, had
been spoken at se s ; and as she had encountered very
bad wea•ber' it was calculated she woul I not reach
NdW York before the 3d inst. This detention may
have a favourable influence on the negotiation.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.

The following were the prices at the close of the market:—
THE TRIAL STAKES.-6 to 4 agst Coronation—taken; 3.)
to 1 offered he don't win it and the Derby.
THE CHESTER Cur.—The following were the prices this
a.ternoon. The attendance vas good.
Sh to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury—taken
12 to 1 ag.-4 Colonel Cradock's Gallipot
13 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Gibraltar—offered
15 to I a;st Mr. Orde's Queen itee
16 to 1 agtt Mr. Goodman's 13e,:ford
16 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Tuley
17 to I egst Mr. Painter's Ernest the First
20 to 1 agst Sir. St. Paul's Calypso
20 to 1 agst. Major Hay's Retriever
'0 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton'i The Young.un
25 to I agst Sir. Collett's Tubalcain
•23 to I agst Mr. Collett's The Dean
25 to 1 agst Sir T. stanley's Cowboy
40 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Prince Albert
59 to 1 agst 31r. Griffith's Tupsley
200 to 9 agst Mr. Hornby's Charniagne.
S(X/ to 13 agst Mr. Smith's The Jovial Bachelor.
THE o.xxs.-7 to 1 to 501. was willingly taken on Kelge,
and to 40/. on Lampoon.
The top offer on the St. Leger field was 20 to 1.