The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-06 00:00:00

No. IV.

Dasa Lcao In reply to your note just
delivered to me; I beg- to say you have correctly inter_
prated Mr. Fitzroy Kelly's letter, wherein he states that
while giving- a professional opinion, he had no intention of
casting any imputation upon Mr. Craven Berkeley, or
upon any other mdividual.—l remain, dear Lord William,
Your's truly, W. F. JOHNSTONE.
6, Green-street, Jlay 5, 1340, 12 noon.
Lord W. Lennox.

No. V.

28, Pall Mall, May o, 1540, 'oefore 1, P. M.
DEA4 Sttt,.l bog to acknowledge the receipt of your
note of this morning's late, the content 3 of which are
perfectly sat.-dartcry. I hare, agrecabie to my intimation
of last crenint;, forwarded the col re;ponder,ce to the newt
p:Ters.

I remain, dear Sir, your's truly,
W. P. LENNOX.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

(Fro:n the Globe.)
Lord Stanbopo intends to assure her Majesty (in the
terms of his vrovesed motion) that, " if any additional
powers he felt necessary for the purpose rof preventing
British subjects bringing- opium to China] this House will
cordially concer in granting them." It is very satisfactory
4o,know this beforehand, because the " additional powers"
aecoqsary for as effectiv, blockade against smuggling
along. the whole coasts of China may be something con-
siderable ! It is also something new for a Sovereign to be
petit oned to prevent smuggling, not into her own tarrito-
rie., hut into those of a foreign stiite,—a state which, to com-
pensate for its inability to prevent smuggling by legitimate
means.(atter having cncouruged it for a long series of years,
tilt a taste has grown up amongstits people determined on
gratification), has already taken the law into its own hands
:agyinst our whole nation, intuited her representatives, in-
jured her subjects, threatened their lives, and wantonly
destroyed their property. It is evident that the wise folks,
who follow the lead of so wise a lord, are resolved to con-
firm Commissioner Lin and his celestial master in their
.presant impressions of the perfect impunity with which
:they may heap ill-usage on Englishmen. Do these Wise-
acre. imagine that our trade would be placed in static quo,
ivy submittiug• to insult, and forbearing to seek reparation
for ifijury

(From the Standard.)
The debile upon the s.Tond reiding of the Irish
Municipal Bill in floe Hoace of Lords is, we tru;t,
ominous of the failure of that iniquitous and most dan-
,geraus measure. Notwithstanding- the decline of the
:minorities is the other House, a fact of which the
supporters of the Bill male good use, and for
which the absentees and the recent converts will,
•we suppose, receive corresponding acknowledgments
from the Protestants of the United Kingdom—not-
withstanding this unpromising indication, it is quite clear
that the House of Lords is less favourably disposed than
ever to the Bill. This 1; wkat we anticipated all along,
from the justice yid good sense of their Lordships. The
measure is unjust and dangeFous in principle.. and the more
thoroughly it is canvassed, the m -ire glaring do its injustice
and hazard appear. Other cause.: have, however, co-ope-
'rated to reinforce the. effect of a mik,re perfect understand-
ing of the subject. The continued and more embittered
war against the Chu-ch proves that .nothing less than the
subversion of the Protestant Establishment will satisfy
the Romanist party numerically predominant in Ireland;
aor will that satisfy them without a dismemberment of the
United Kingdom ; while the working cf th 2 New Poor-
law demonstrates that whatever of power be placed in
the Sands of this numerically predominant newly will be
steadily directed against the Church, and the
integrity of
the empire. Mr. O'Connell, also, has wasted
repeal
thwider; the fear of which has had too much
'epon cautious politicians.

- (From the Courier.)
It has lately been- asserted, that the newest stroke of rtn-
piadence in the opposition to Lord Stanley's Registration
Bill is the assumption that it must be a bill for the disfrom
ohisement of the Irish constituency. This pieco of
impudence is not new ; it appeared at the first aggr
meeting., which was called almost immediately
after the announcement cf the nature of the intonde d

reform. Though novelty may not be one of its charac
teristics, it possessed of one which hat long distin

guiahed the oft-repeated lie—it obtains build from tilt
inventor himself. This is, however, of no particular im-
portance. We deny that any disfranchisement is attempted.
Every man who has a legal right to vote for the return of
is Member to Parliament will be :n stutu quo; but perso as
who have ceased to hold the possessions which gave the al
the qualification to vote, and the fraudulent personatora c
deceased electors, will no longer have the facilities of prac- •
tisinr, the deceptiOns which are indispensable to the Li-
berare, and which require the commission of exormous per- •
jury.