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London, England, 1841-05-31 00:00:00

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LONDON:
MONDAY, MAY 31, 1841.

If we do not remark at any length on the
debates on the no-confidence motion, it is that
we believe the minds of our reader, are long ago
pretty well made up as to the enaracter of the.
Ministers and their (;-pponents. Whatever may
tiaal of the
wQr^lo gir ROBERT PEEL'S motion and his
`owner, that of the later is much

speech were both made to blacken the character

of his rivals, and we never Listen with any plea-

sure to scandal.

We do not shun the d iscussion from an
opinion that the Ministers were inferior to their
rivals in argument; for we think Sir ROBERT

PEEL'S constitutional doctrines, as we explained

on Saturday, were completely overturned, while
his own conduct refutes the first proposition of

his resolution. Mr. MACAULAY showed that the
chief I,lY;lness of the Ministers was to conduct ,
the executive government, and Sir ROBERT
PEEL himself did not deny the Ministers hi:
confidence in that capacity. He voted, the sup• •
plies into their hands; he seconded th e CHAN• •
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S resol, ition 01

the subject of the sugar duties ; he de -
clared that he had no wish to em -
barrass the Government but, as a n hone ;t
representative of the people, if he : had r.o
confidence in the Ministers, it was h is duty 'to
withhold the supplies from them, and' his duty to
embarrass and impede men in what h e suppos es
to be and calls a ruinous career. By taking an
opposite course his practice refutes 1 ais own : is-
sertions, and contradicts his affirm ation. ZVe
cannot comprehend the consistency • which ,Je-
clares Ministers unworthy of confidence, and
votes to place the national revenue in their hai

As the administrators, too, of th Le executive
government, the Tories do not den: T that Mi nis-
ters have shown consummate abilit3 r in defea ting
the secret designs of M. THIERS, without :pro-
voking a rupture with France. Nor do i;hey
deny that all our foreign relations have been well
conducted. As to home affairs, t' ne quietness of
Ireland, the peace which has bec :n preserve :d in
England, while the people have been subjf acted
to the greatest privations and ;reatest injuries
that ever were inflicted on a nati .on by dastardly
plundering it by law; attests the goodness cpf the
administration. It is true tat Ministers acted
more harshly than we ever app roved of towards
the Chartists; but when we c( )mpare the'ir con-
duct to that of the Tories under somewhat ,similar
circumstances, we must cone fede to them the
palm of equal vigour united f to much greater
moderation.

We admit that we began t D think, and so did
a large part of the public, 'that the Ministers
were fast forfeiting the con idence of the nation,
and their great superiority I ren their opponents is
manifested by the simple /fact that the instant
they took a step worthy of ;' their former conduct,
and calculated to restore • them to the confidenCe
of the nation, the Tori( is vehemently assailed
and defeated them. T' then proceeded to
record their own hatred I -to the people by a vote
of censure on the Minh 3t(!rs for proposing to re-
lieve the public distri e; ii;, If the Ministers by
their late conduct hay, e forfeited the confidence
of the House of Coro m )ns., they have regained
that of the public ; • which will carry them
triumphantly throW gh the fiery ordeal into whiCh.
they have been for :ed Ijy the Tories.
The readier wit ref nember that one of the
main, argutnents adduced by Sir R. PEEL as a
proof that the Mi piste rs.', had lost the confidence
of the Horse, was defeat on the sugar ques
tioa.

By- that n .easure -the Ministers intended
to give relief t o the '-people, and the Tories
would r lot allow theni. They maintain that the
Minist(!rs act cc ntra ry to the spirit of the Con-
stitution by ren lain ing in office after that defeat.
So tb e Tories c len .ionstrate their hatred of all
whic/.1 is for the Pr ,hlic good, their determination
to in flict distre: ;s and ruin on the nation, and
the:.r vast infer rity to their rivals. - •
One of the amstances which, in our estima-
tic )n, ought to re commend the Ministers to the
pprobation oft h 3 Tories, is made by them a sub-
j ect of bitter .re proach. They quote over and
.over again Lor. I VIELBOURNE'S speeches against
repealing the Cor 7i-la W, and against the agitation
by proposing such a. measure; and they con-
clude that -Lord 11rIF.J.nounNE must be really as
mad am', as uric: iced as the :Noble Lord
.described. those to b e who would agitate the coun-
try for a total and i n, mediate repeal of theCornL
laws. There can l3e nn doubt -that Lord MEL-
BOURNE, whO is di,. ;: inguished for his, frankness,
spoke his hone: ;t col evictions on those occasions.
Nor can there be ally ddubt that he has been
most reluctant] y com yelled, by the evidence. of
facts, to take a part w !alai makes him appear in-
consistent, ant-I practically exhibits him as the
• opponent of hi s forme >r St atements. Every mo-
tive, except t hat of de,‘,ermination to do his
duty, knowini ; the f. /wets clf the case, prompts
Ldrd M]mnou .Ilasrm to st. 3.nd those statements;
but public' d istress is so; grat,—lie is so well
'convinced by the - fad s,, from various quarters,
that the c ;ornmeree ofi fne country. has reached
its maxi mum under?. this • system, that the
revenue i s falling Oiti; • 7 that the greatest danger
is to be apprehended from, adhering to his
former oi ?inions, that 1i braVes all the censure to
which I; Lis presumed inc. ?nsistency exposes him
to do w... 0
.at he believes to be his duty to her MA-
JESTY Sl.l d the cou,ntry. Such high-minded con-
duct at could recommencl him to the Tories,
who for ever boast of th eir
,own high-minded-
ness; 1: ;ut it has brought c arjrirn the most severe
reproai :hes. :His self-saer ifiee, too, which ought
to cony ince them that the necesoity to which he
yielde,3 1, is overwhelminq ; and Ought to
them g ive up the Corn-I !Iwo- with a good grace,
only hat •dens them hr thei r iniquity. Their own
bare natilre disables thel n from conceiving the'
ei.dstence of an honoulrabl p motive in other men,
'And they _,et down the de vial which Lord MEL-
BOURNE is now giving l.. 1; .r his acts to his former
sentiments to a 'paltry boy( of office, instead of an
honest but reluctant cot, version to the Anti
Corn-law creed. •

It is unOestiond,bly curie MIS to see a nobleman, '
who denouv.ced tl-,e opinici ns which we, in com-
mon with Ow AT Iti-Corn-h tw League, have long
held, as the 01 ;Pillions of ani, adman, at the head of
a Cabinet will( qa. is now 11 'yoked to carry them
into effect, an 1 which is p Jepared, as the only
means of savii ig the Stati '., to take one stride
towards our obj ect. But A . ough curious it is not
unexampled, n( )r even unrisi tal, to find those who
have most yell(' :rnently e7Lpif, 'ssed the most erro-
neous opiniong , become the I .speediest and most
hearty convert sto the t;rutli . Lord MELBOURNE
is an ingenuoi Is, frank gent] Leman, and we do not
despair; we i AO not even d .oubt when the true
nature of tln , starvation It L w is made known to
him, by th e : lccumulated . evidence which the
public prey s. ha ~s brought tc ) bear on the question,
that he WI ii b, .c ;cane that ma tdman he formerly de-
scribed, / end gt ) along wit:, i us in abolishing at
once, ar . the endi y safe, prat ...i.cal, and just method
of proceeding, i, lie whole system of Corn and
Provi ision_laws.

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. e hen once tiler, s have r.ittained the conviction
'la' c the Corn-law' curtails the supply of food,
ancliannuallystarvc s sti. considerable number ofmen,
wo men, and' child; ri:n out of existence, it seems
fl
to us not merely sT we:uous, but almost a mock-
ery, to justify the , aboh:fion of the law by any
.
less imposing ar kumenito., authors cont-
it
mit slow and de liberate ms.;rder—murder the
most painful to which- man, can be sub-
ject, murder by tl • D., c lingering, cret.k."inr wasting,
torments of stars ;11,, ion. To be shot tZsrough the
heart, to be expo! ied . ‘.,0 instant death by as.;-3assina-
tion, though a crir ' Ile of *the deepest dye in the iisur-
derer, is a mete char ge of being to the victim,
r.O. -%d or for evil is known
and• whether it .be ! for
only to HIM • tow from all s are known. But
‘vc-th2,.:1
murder by a . star' ration a and unna-
foc land unnatural
as at best" -murde 1:r is, is
be said to ' be con-
tural," for the tt )rture 1' at 'Y
(‘ most fou2
tinual, and them .urderer, ; see and hear, year
after years the par, igs and t .
0., 3ans of their victirds,
and hear and see tl tern unrc kie nting and unmoved.
The -murder is b iasely cm '
0 fitted, too, by those
who are trusted wi tit the gua rd ianship of their vic-
t.
ms. The autlu )rs of this g., -eat crime ask the
obedience, ask t' Ue respect, as, i the reverence of
the
people, on a
,ccount of afi 'or( ling them protec-
tion ' • they call . themselves pat ernal legislators,
and having'
owe they use it to.
o' otained confid
consign a uni ititude of the pc ~opt, e annually to the

horror's of -.starvation and a premature grave.
Such being the effects of the Corn-law on our
suffering people, and being made by those
who claita authority for their superior goodness,

seems to us a great mockery to argue the ques-

tion of abolition on any grounds of price, or ad-
vantage to commerce, or extension of civiliza-
tion, and the preservation of national peace,
though all these be in our favour.
The awakening perception throughout the
community that such is the real nature of the
Corn-law—that it withholds food from the peo-
ple, and dooms a great number to death, is the
main cause why the question is now taken up by
the ministers of religion, and is now argued as a
most important moral and religious question.
The public feel, and in particular the ministers of
religion feel, that so great an injustice—so heinous
an offence, never can be expedient, and they
have a deep conviction that the continuance
of such a crime must draw down upon the nation
the punishment of the ALMIGHTY. In fact they
see it already overtaking us in public distress
and public strife—they see it in future' aggra-
vated and embittered by more violent quarrels,
by convulsion and bloodshed.
What can those doomed to starvation care
for a Constitution ? What is it to them
that our ams triumph abroad and that
certain arts, encouraged by wealth, flourish at
home? The sacred principle of self-preservation
commands them to resist the starvation law, and,

if they can, to overturn the. Constitutiol which
sanctions it. The authors of such laws, there-
fore, enlist against all authority the 'strongest
passions of human nature, and foster anarchy, if
they may not be said to decree it. The Rev.
Mr.BuuNETT observed at the Lambeth meeting—
It was said that the aristocracy considered • the Corn-
laws necessary to their existence andwould defend them
as part of themselves. He could scarcely believe that
they would be so foolish. He did not think the Corn-
laws necessary to the aristocracy, but if they were so,
then he would say have at the aristocracy itself.
Not only must they have at the aristocracy,
they must, for their own safety, if the Corn-law
be continued, subdue the aristocracy—they must
annihilate it. They dare not tolerate, much less
submit to, an organized system of murder. They
may be told of the sanctity of property; but
they will be told in vain, as long as property is
the produce of a tax on their bread. What
is it to them whether the land is to be-
long to a person called RICHARD PLANTAGENET
TEMPLE CHANDOS Duke of BUCKINGHAM, or to

some money-lender called JOB GURNEY or
MOSES ROTHSCHILD? What care they who are
the recipients of the bread-tax ?-:—they only care
to avoid the tax. The people will not
maintain a law which starves them in
order to keep the estates of the aristocracy
from passing out of their families. On the con-
trary, they have a strong motive, from being
taxed to prevent mortgagees from foreclosing,
to hasten the foreclosure, and substitute the rich
money-lender, who has no claim on their purses,
for the poor Duke. Those men, then, risk
the safety of property who confound it with
taxation, and assign to it no more sacred origin
than a Custom-house or Excise law. We are
not .sure that the right of property can be
suffered to stand in the way of a starving
people. 'We are sure that in their pre-
sence it is not safe, and that a right of
property, 'founded on taxing them will not
be long endured. The safety of the aristocracy,
the safety of the Constitution, and the security
• of property are all put to hazard by that wicked
law, which was passed, and is maintained, to in-
crease the wealth of idle owners of rent at the ex-
pense of the comfort, health, and lives of the in-
dustrious classes.

Mr. MACAULAY, in his able speech on Thurs-
day evening, laid down a principle which we
refer to,.because it is undoubtedly correct, and
because it is a part of the Tory usurpations to
overlook it, greatly we think to the public disad-
vantage. He was understood to say, in allusion
to the defeats of Ministers on certain pro-
posed measures of legislation, that it was the
first duty of_the Ministers of the Crown to admi-
nister the existing law; whence it is to be inferred
that the making or proposing new laws is only a
secondary part of their duty. On this distinction
the Right Hon. Gentleman justly concluded that
it was no proof that the House of ;Commons had
no confidence in Ministers if it withheld its as-
sent to any new legislative measure proposed by
them, or refused, when asked by theth, to sanction
the alteration of an old law. The Right Hon.
Gentleman illustrated the distinction by several
examples of Ministers who, having failed to
carry the legislative alterations they proposed,
never, on that account, thought for one moment
of resigning the Government, of which it was
their chief duty to administer the existing laws.

We think Mr. MACAULAY'S doctrine sound,
but it is rather in opposition to the modern prac-
tice introduced by the Tories, and extended by
the Whigs, of monopolising all legislation by
the Ministers. Government has its own days
for its own business; it has, in fact, so much
control over the whole formal proceedings of the
House, that it can prevent any individual Mem-
ber from carrying any measure to a successful
conclusion. It has become, therefore, responsible,
as it were, for the whole proceedings of Parlia-
ment, and now to oppose it on a question of le-
gislation may be considered as tantamount to
saying, that it is by the Parliament no longer
thought fit to conduct the business of Parliament.

We conceive this monopoly of legislation to
be a modern innovation, which lays on the Mi-
nisters of the Crown the burden of initiating all
necessary changes in the law, and imposes on
them, perhaps, a higher duty than that of merely
executing the existing law. Ministerial ambi-
tion thus tends, as much as anything we know,
to extend the onerous duties and responsibility of
Ministers, and to make it almost impossible to
carry on the QUEEI4 Government.
Within our political experience, most of the
great disputes which have either broken up or
tended to break up a Ministry, referred more to
the alterations in the existing law, or to making
new laws, than to any neglect on the part of the
Ministers in performing their chief duty, that of
executing the law. The abolition of the Test
Acts, the emancipation of the Catholics, the
Committee on the Civil List, the Reform of
Parliament, the little improvement made in the
Irish Church, the Irish tithe question, &c.
&c., were all questions of legislation;
and the modern practice of the House, some-
what contrary to Mr. MAcAuLAy's just theory,
made the passing or rejecting such measures the
test of the confidence placed by Parliament in
the Ministers.

It is more easy to account for the origin of the
practice than to defend it. Under the borough-
mongers a union of a few aristocratic families,
for whose especial advantage the laws were both
made and administered, sufficed to turn out or
keep in a Minister. The same parties were, in
point of fact, the law-makers and the law-ad-
ministerers, and it was for their convenience that
no laws should be made which they did not like
to carry into execution.. Hence they
usurped, and placed in the hands of
the Executive Government, which since
the Revolution has been carried on for their
benefit--the power .of making as well as admi-
nistering the laws. The Ministers were the
servants of a dominant party of the aristocracy,
who . employed the same hands to conduct legis-
lation, as well as the Executive Government,
for the advantage of the aristocracy.
Now that we have weakened this aristocratic
domination, and have got, in a Reformed Parlia-
ment 7 something like a popular representation,
the stria union of these two functions in the
hands of Ministers is no longer either convenient
or necessary. Hence we conclude that Mr.
MACAULAY'S theory is more correct than the
modern practices of the House of Commons. We
conclude, too, that it he for The advantage
of the I;XMOY9. CIEO7I9TP 9 0114.0 n
ti lair part of 6 usurped control over

EVENING EDITIO.I.,

the House of Commons, and leave re-
forms and alterations of the law, much
more than at present, to individual Men'.
bers of the House of Commons. There a,
many cases, such as the Corn-laws, and most et
our taxes, in which it is necessary for the Execti-
tive to take the initiative ; but there are otiler3'
such as bribery at elections, registration of voterl;
which they may with propriety leave to suci
Members as choose to propose alterations in the"
Mr. MACAULAY also expounded a just tile°rY:
when he stated, in opposition to Sir .11.
that it was highly inexpedient to affirm a state
s;
things to be contrary to the spirit of the Coo
tution, which might be inevitable. He gave'xi
an illustration of his theory, the present hala.oc-A
state of parties in the House of Commons, su;
the scale being turned now to one party and
to another by a few independent
would, by first defeating one party and then tile
if
other, render all government impossiblevr,
the resolution ofSir R. PEEL were adopted' „to.
MACAULAY by this remark, gave a practical io fe..
tration of our statement a few days re at
rence to the dissolution, that ROW, 950 a
first, circumstances domineered over hots -cei
constitutions, and that whatever circuulstatio to
command is fully justified though oPP°secei
constitutional p
oractices. But into cireumstallre
the Tories will not look ; they look only at P
cedents ; for them the House of Commons '5„,5.
whole world, and its former deeds the only r
sible wisdom. -So Sir ROBERT PEEL, flu. Irti°e'cl
examining if the conduct of Ministers be j'lst! ().
by the new circumstances of society and let
vernment, growing partly out of the Refill'i•
and other Acts of modern legislation, bitt c'Le„iti
out of the natural progress of society, COLlA'the
only the votes of the House of COMMOUS 311"1
speeches of former Members. But if Are to
stances, as Mr. MACAULAY and we say, ark-id
overrule constitutions and laws, it is a valet -„,111
of policy to take advice and instructions -the
from the latter, and never inquire %4'113t 'icy
former command. Second-hand or valent P•e'4,
is, however, the highest ambition of tile -I°v-

SIR CHARLES NAPIEII. jo
The following paragraph has appear
festel
Sunday paper, evidently concocted by int,e,,pot
parties to make an impression against the u"
Commodore :
fro,...eed

" Sir Charles Napier has received order 3 -
„i- r s,„
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty's'[
in the Pelican to Lisbon, and take commandul h 0
Tagus, vice Commodore Coffin, who is at Pivin,otther
It will, be seen from a communicaticn
part of the Paper, that the statement is.cll put
-
destitute of foundation. - The parties wll°
tlO
forth the paragraph must have known vela (V
Sir CHARLES NAPIER, after his speech St
000
trict meeting in Marylebone, on FridaY' d-tbd
not have accepted such an appointment, ail -cool'
must also have known that they sent tile. ;let
munication to the Sunday Paper with tl-1. 911'-'OO
purpose of influencing the next election t").1. °.• of
borough of Marylebone. We wish then'
their knavish tricks.

foil
We are glad to learn from varions.o.l4 0
that the Chartists are everywhere be,ria'slete
make common cause with the rest of the P lbef
in demanding a repeal of the Corn-lows' ober, I
are to have a great open air meeting at ..'"-.1%. 01'
ter. In all cases they go for a total rePea i'pe:‘
it is, we believe, quite hopeless t° ,helio $
their co-ope a ion in order to est-3'3.'lre'
fixed duty. It will be incumbent/ to ar
fore, on those who look for their P-'1 i 4 t°
sign some good reasons why a fixes'. dittlotl
be preferred to a total abolition. It will l'olote'
at
,i 0 to say that the. landlords wilt not gra
The same force which can extort a fo'eti,,pf
from them can extort a total abolition; ail to
own that we scarcely think it worth whloo
excite the public feeling for so small a 1)_°0?
an Bs. fixed duty. The Chartists and the rtiet
are wiser, and in conjunction they will be $
.0
'achieve the total. abolition. 'P
We trust the example set by the Char.' ijoo
Manchester and other places will not be IfiticeSt
its beneficial influence in London. The -,,i11'
meeting to be held at Guildhall .to-naorfori,iio
we are sure, be undisturbed, and will etur/01/
resolutions unanimously. It will do Miniiittle
no harm whatever to urge public opinio,°9 pr"'
beyond the point at which they think, fr°"-,,,,,0e
dential motives, it is at present expedient°
it
, air
The General Assembly goes on braedbel.:)l
_the work of destruction. On Monday it - 10,'/,
Mr. WRIGHT, of Borthwick, 011 C Of ibilerebr
respected and able Clergy men of the Clio,
Scotland, for constructive heresy,. on I.4stiatlii:
at one fell swoop, it deposed the Seven, e. 109.,
bogie Ministers for obeying the law of
tic pt:a
on Friday it deprived Mr. Enwartns,i iciecOrg
sentee to Marnock, of his licence,• aol!f ~, 0t1.:,.
him incapable of accepting a call foul 10' 0 )
parish, or of admission into any offiee that
it
nister of the Church, and report states roil,"
tentions were at one time seriously' entitefy c',,,
of deposing all that side of the .Assellwe''9le"co
taming one hundred and twenty-fiv le
bees, who voted for the Seven ele)7;(e`'
of Strathbogie. We feel no regret fort i
eo,!„'
sion as, regards these reverend gentle- 11110 sll'
cause Dr. Cu A LMERS and the nodule! ':stnr til,;f
port him will find the law too strodl:'cooti.,,'l ,
The seven suspended clergymen '''4.l tai, i..
their sacred functions, draw the F:L.113e1.1,,,0
keep possession of the glebes -,,nd I' sl'7i
usual, and the Supreme Court, will, 'vital d tev
hand, vindicate their rights. After the,:, '011,,e
was pronounced, steps were immediateqe of'',
in the Court of Sessions :'at the install oie fit,
Duke of RICHMOND, tO ' set aside the 0 e roil
0,1
ceedings, and no doe,'
But the case of Mr", WRIGHT, we fear, i 0 Fif
the power of the Civil Court. For eft fell 04d
t remains as to tli i)e)q ~
trines, which tl'.ese disturbers of the eil'iji to td
the peace of d omestic life, have suffer deck'
unnoticed fob . twenty years, he has beeti Der of
of his livinc and expelled the Church its volt,
Before sentence was passed, a prayer "454,0011
for his repentance, but the cruel i° elfecillt
would not wait even a day to see thc'ioflic"t /
their prayers, but proceeded at once t° eoltY,
highest punishment the law allowed tboolop
minister. But such proceedings ealli,,,ii'
be winked at by the Legislature, o.ll' "/, toV
a Bill like that of the Duke of Anol!'. loll',"
them more power to do mischief, st‘:l, r t?!
taken to bridle their wickedness, 3 -1".,-0,/ 1$1"
,t`'
them from degrading the most exerlll),`%lilir
ters of the Gospel, -and ruining their
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gratify their own malignant passions. - to',
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0- 1(i stlioer
We are glad to find that some of our -, the II
!Wormers are likely to be ret lea t-i:" ol''''
ur. .
~,, aip,
general election. Mr. Roebuck bas el%-e- II"
for Bath, and though in some Pohl° i 111 11'
from him, we believe there is no 111." Ile 4
Country so much wanted in Parliainerit'llif,";:''
no hypocrisy about him. He attrxlcs iAOil,
of Whigs, Tories, and Radicals wit 4 or Iflle
partiality, and is, besides, one °*t,cifor. •Dopi
eloquent . speakers of the .p-ieseht oat
Iv r,.,,ie:
e people of Bath have found 11 r;
, o`l
much they have suffered by , 1:104. {.''tree
tion at the last election. colonel std 1
111' 0 0
too, is in a fair way co recover ~,-,, o•veo
position in Hull. The Whig pg';',:oP,0011;
may now say the Liberal pa.r7Y, in,i'aib.ed,"rlieti,/
their adhesion to him, and have Pr°l-o.o(`'ofoi
port him on the question for cheaPingoy 511,4
sugar, and good timber. In inept
a ' )
independent boroughs other mei' - inqf irt,i
stamp are coming forward, c;atl if le.reitli-olti,
from what we have learned front I"' he ~pro
of the country, Sir Relyert Peep tivoiwt,lo,l
Buckingham, and the other greatdisei'l
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will have no cause. to rejoice on the
Parliament.
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the .aatf t
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We have received by express No- , ,e, do
of Satur(lity night, with the Paris Lotto 7,1,
pers of the same date. The only illiri, ti°4#'•
appear in the Afternoon Editimi ° iiiio',t,
f Di' ,r,je
in Vriday's Journals reached tn. ylie fOl
Saturday evening. The trial 0 - ote •ct
ulthrt", par°
lawght to a close, when the •
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7hat this sentence will be carried into effect we
---Cannot suppose for an instant:" A regard for the
future safety of the KING'S person will induce
' the Ministry to advise his MAJESTY to CdMILIUt
The sentence to one of confinement and hard la-
bour for life. Had the INoble Judges of Fing-
'• ' -cur and his accomplices pronounced these
Wretches. insane, and sent them to a -,Lunatic
• Asylum instead of to the guillotine, the world
• would have been no longer shocked by the de-
plorable spectacle of a KING momentarily in
danger of death at the hands of his own
subjects. High treason is more effectually
represSed by shaving heads than by cutting them
off—that worst of all remedies for the repression
of crime.
All the Journals have articles upon the con-
tradiction given by M. GUIZOT to the report that
the KING had promised to evacuate Algiers.
The Quotidienne is the only paper that declines
•..• to accept the assertion of the Ministers as a
proof that such is the fact.
The accounts from European Turkey are 'yery
alarming. It was beginning to be doubted
whether the Porte, without the co-operation of
• the Great Powers, could put down the insurrec-
. • tion.s in Bulgaria and Candia.
A protest of Prince Lou's NAPOLEON against
. the harshness of the measures for his deten:ion
at Ham, appear in the Commerce. We- shall
endeavour to find room for it in our columns of
to-morrow.
TRIAL OF DARMES—SENTENCE OF THE COURT

OF PEERS.
On Saturday at seven, P. as., the Court pronounced its
Judgment. Darrnes, condemned to death, is to be conducted
to the place of execution and punished as a parricide, namely,
bare feet, en chemise, and a black veil over his head. He is
then to be guillotined. It is expected he will be executed on
Monday at five, A. M.
Considee and Duclos were acquitted, but the latter is to be
detained, to Le tried for illegal detention of arms.
Darmes appears resigaed to his fate.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.—Both the Moniteur Parisien
and the Presse announce that the signature of the final pro-
, toeol on the Eastern question is postponed.
NEWS FROM SPAIN.
It appears from our Madrid letters of the 23d that a powerful
opposition is preparing in the Deputies against the new Ministry.
~Doo Carlos has issued an order of the day, dated Bourgos,
•"'ay 16, countersigned by Don Jose Tamariz, releasing
the Carlists from their oaths to him, in order that they may
return to Spain if they think proper, as the French Govern-
'. Inent was about to withdraw all supplies from the refugees now
in France. This decree is expected to be the forerunner of
Don Carlos's liberation.
Negotiations are still going on at Rome to induce Don
Miguel to resign his pretensions to the Portuguese throne on the
condition of receiving an allowance.
The Moniteur announces that the Jemappes, ship of the line,
had sailed from L'Orient for Toulon on the 24th instant.
The Didon and the Minerva frigates; and the .Acheron
man-of-war steamer, sailed on the 28th, from Toulon for the
Levant. This concentration of the French navy in those
Raters was held to prove the degree of uneasiness suggested by
the distracted state of the Turkish empire. The disturbances
had extended to Romania.
Letters from Vienna of the 21st inst. state that Prince Met-
lernich had, in consequence of the, probable dissolution of the
Melbourne Cabinet, resolved not to leave for his estates before
' the latter end of the month of June.
'Lord Beauvale hadulso postponed his departure for the same
• reasons. •
Letters from all parts of the Continent represent the stand-
ing crops as the finest ever seen.
A correspondent of the Toulonnais writes from Algiers
Amongst the female prisoners who have recently arrived at
`lllPers, and have just been exchanged, were three remarkable
for their personal appearance. One, in particular, was very
Pretty, and was attended by a negress as her servant. This
Arab beauty, attired in a black burnous, on arriving at Algiers,
remained reclining on her mule, being wounded in the thigh
by a ball. She excited the most lively interest among the
males, and the most romantic sympathy amongst the females.
'3. A tale has"been told of her which the habits of the Arabs ren-
'der' not improbable. She was, they say; the wife of a Mara-
bout, whose tribe was pillaged and nut to fire and sword by our
soldiers on the sth instant. Her husband was mortally
• wounded, and her father used the greatest efforts to prevent
her falling into the hands of the French, but he himself fell in
• 411 -e rencontre. Her foster brother seeing the impossibility of
saving her, and unwilling that she should become a prisoner.
fired at her almost point blank, but by some chance the ball
airily hit her in the thigh, and she became the prize of the
conquerors."
A letter from Salzburg, of the 20th of May, in the Augs-
In'rg Evening Journal, says—" The report which has been
so often repeated, that Don Carlos will obtain passports from
the French Government, ani will shortly leave Bourges to
tome to this city, obtains at this time more credit, because
letters from Vienna, coming from an authentic quarter, make
attention of it. This news has excited a great sensation in our
eity."— Gazette de France.
fhe mission which Messrs. Piscatory and Foy are going to
eio.lute in Greece, appears to be urgent, for they arrived at
Toulon on the 23d, and were to leave it on the 24th or 25th
for the Piraeus. This mission, says a letter ti om Toulon, is en-
veloped in profound mystery; but it is believed to be very im-
Portant. If, as the La Presse says, a squadron is sent to these
seas, it is to support, if necessary, the demands of our Envoy
addressed to the Greek Government. It is certain that a
xiaval division has been for some days ready to sail under the
command of Rear-Admiral Baron Lasusse, who has lately
been summoned to Paris, but is expected here every moment.
The Triton and the Ville de Marseilles are ordered to convey
to Africa apart of the sharp-shooters of Vincennes, who are
txpezted at Toulon at the beginning of next month.
araiirs redof
thet E coapsty_ofL of thee
le,Pe. ats, MAY 29.—The Univers says that the MinistrY his
protocol of London relative to the
TRIESTE' MAY 19 Commerce.
.—The steam-boat which arrived to-
y brings us news of importance. At Alexandria the Hatti
Selerif for the regulation was expected, but, as we learn from
Constantino le by letters of the 6th, the sending of it had been
delayed by the troubles in Bulgaria, which required all the at-
tention of the Porte; for the same reason theConsul-General had
deferred his departure for Alexandria. Other accounts from
Constantinople of the same date say that tranquillity is restored
in the districts of Nissa, Sophia, and Phillippepolis, that is
after sixty villages had been totally destroyed by the Albanians.
'Captain Zencovich reports that he met in the sea of Marmora
with the Turkish squadron which is to blockade the island of
Candia. It consists of a ship of the line under Admiral Tahir
Paella, a corvette, a steam-boat, arid eighteen transports. The
blockade was to commence on the 15th of this month.
BOURSE—him, SATURDAY, MAY 29.
first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prico s
000000 •••••• Price_
Wrench 5 per Cent 114 40 ... 114 45 1.4 30 114 40
.
4 per Cents 99 ... 99 ... 99 ... 99
3 per Cents 79 79 78 95 ...
'Sank of Franco
!Canine Bank s,oGVSll.a.res 5145 ...5150 ...5145 .4145
. belgian Bank
1841
5 per Cents.
Dutch New Loan lot% ... 1,14, ... 101% ... 10153%
2% per Cents. 53 63% ... 53 4
tiPaniss Active .........2 t 4
N Passive
..earKg4tan
102 102% ... 102 104%

•AILWAY SNARES,
at, Gerrnani
Versailles. ......... 170 187 50 ... 170 187 51
it. ..
322 50 ... 325 ... 22 50 325
...Orleans .
tasburg to Bale 228 75 2'28 75 ... 225 ... 2a 50

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
`&lll—The Editor of the British Queen has
been kind enough to appoint me to the naval
comma-Ltd at Lisbon. I have to request you will
• have the goodness to contradict this statement,
and say that 1 bave resigned my command in the
• Mediterranean, and am now endeavouring to ob-
tain a command in Marylebone.
I have the honour to be your obedient servant,
May 30,1541. CHARLES NAPIER.

INTELLIGE3GE EXTRA.
HIPPODROME JUNE MEETING, 1841.
WEDNESDAY—Acceptances for the London Handicap :
Itetriever, 5 yrs, 9st 41b—Fitzroy, 4 yrs, 9st-10,5 yrs, Bst 121 b
:7-Confederate, 4 vrs, Bst 111b—Molizeux, 4 yrs, Bst 51b—Wel-
tare, 4 yrs, Bst 21b.—Brother to Prizeflower, 5 yrs, Bst—lsaac of
York, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Perseus, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—lliona, 4 yrs,
fist 61h—Busk filly 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Nicholas, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—
Carlos, 4 yrs, Est 71b--Whisperer, 3 yrs, Est—Humility, 3 yrs,
sst 101b—The Witch of Whorley Hill, 3 yrs, ssl 71b.

-!4'4'11'7 ASCOT HEATH, 1841.
kJ 'l`r DAY— A cceptan ces for the Ascot Stakes—Hyllus,s yrs,
m , '9A 21b___ Arctic, aged, 9st—Corsair, 5 3 rs, Bst 1311)--Eedford,
fit r, b vrs, Bst i,llb—lo, 5 yrs, SA 51b--Broadwath, 4 yrs, Bst 411bri
Currier, 5 yrs, Bst 3113--Benjamit, 4 yrs, Bst3lbweuoare-, N
11411 I;etlx, 4 yrs Bk' 31b—Quicksilver, aged, 7st 121 b
yrs, 7st .1
lib—Janus, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Isaac of York, 4 yrs,
Tat 51147—M,oneys, 4 „ITS,
"to,
511),—Spaugle, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—
litorta 4 rs, rst 21b—.1"..t0, a yrs, 7st—Hellespont, 4 yrs,
tl,. 63t 111 b— Mobarek, 3 yrs, 6st ilb--Father Mathew, 3 yrs,
lib bat 71b—H.umility, 3 yrs, sst .11h.
•
•
MANCHES'I"ER 1841.
'-nrl 4 F Cup :—HumphreY,
,
AinAl --Acceptanees of the Trades'
' Yrs, Bst 111b—Wee Willie, 6 yrs, Est Ilb•—Bolus, 5 yrs. Bst
it
~41. nodantl le, 4 yrs, Bst—Kingston Rebid, 4 vrs, 7H st 121b—
(14411"°' yrs, 7st 81b--Margaret, 5 yrs, 7.st:ylba6tboy,
r„ 4 yrs, 7st.. 61b—Clinker, 5 yrs, 7st 41b--Nort nem T en, yrs,.„
7st 41b_t
: --La Fe. The Maid, 4 yrs, ist 1 llb—Aimwell, 0 11
yrs, 7st P
(, clime Sage, 4 yrs, 7st—Galaor, 3 yrs, 7st.

MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY Evitwirra.
The attendance this morning was very limited, and "bespol:e':
anyth. wig but a good Derby settling. Coronation does not
seem to have suited the little men's books. The numerous
folio viers of Scott's stable look very blue upon their luck. A
few offers were made on the Oaks,—say 50 to 20 against
Lai spoon (t) • 5 to 1 bar one ; 7 to 1 bar the 31arqu's (off.)
Che Manchester Cup was not named. As far as we could
gl. saw, the nominal prices aro :--5 to 1 agst Kingston Robin ;
• ; to 2 agst Clinker; 7 to 1 agst Cornuto ; four agst the
field.
TnE ST. LEGER.—We have not heard a bet laid since
I .:oronation's victory on Epsom Downs.

11.cr Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prinoess Royal, and attended by the Royal Suite, arc
expe&ed to leave Buckingham Palace shortly before
three o'clock this afternoon, for Windsor Castle. Her
Majesty and his Royal Highness will attend the Eton
Montem to-morrow, and are afterwards expected to re-
xurn to town.

TUE EA.Att, OF CARDIGAN.—We have learned that on
ballot being- taken at.the United Service Club for the
admission of this Noble Peer, he was black-balled by the
laumber 57. •

-
The Duke and Duchess. of Cleveland, who left
own on Thursday last for the Continent, embarked at Dover
,On Saturday for Ostend, on their way to Wiesbaden, where
the Noble Duke and Duchess purpose staying only a few
,weeks. It-is their intention to return to this country ear:7 in
tati,Neptembe

. _
QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

COATS AND ANOTHER V. CHAPLIN AND ANOTHER.
This action was tried in the Bail Court, before Mr. Justice
Wightman, on Thursday last, when a verdict was found for the
plaintiff.
Mr. PLATT now moved for a rule to show cause why the
verdict ought not to be entered for the defendant upon the
second plea. It was an action brought against the defendants
for negligence in their calling as carriers. It was not neces-
sary for him to go more at length into the evidence than to say
that a truss of goods were sent off by the plaintiffs, addressed
" Messrs. J. and J. Morrison, London," and that it had never
arrived at its destination, which was the premises of Morrison
Dillon and Co., in Fore-street. The goods were ordered by a
traveller of the Messrs. Morrison. 'I he plaintiffs at the same
they sent off the truss, sent a bill of parcels, or invoice, which
was headed J. and J. Morrison and Co., debtors to Coats and
Shaw, and then followed a list of the goods and their prices.
The Learned Gentleman cited several cases, in which it was
laid down that the property in goods so sent off vested in the
consigness the moment they got into the hands of the carrier,
and he contended, upon their authority, that if any cause of
action existed, Messrs. Morrison, Dillon, and Co. ought to
have been the plaintiffs, and that the plaintiffs had no right to
maintain the action.—Rule granted.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
Their Lordships were engaged with the Special Paper all
day. , liothing or public interest transpired.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
James Smith, an old man, between sixty and seventy years
of age, was placed before Mr.-Hall, under the following cir-
cumstances :
Thomas Riley stated that the prisoner came to his master's,
who keeps a livery.stable, and engaged three stalls, stating
Oat he was coachman to Lady Craven, who was coming from
Tu,lbridge in a few days. The prisoner then requested the
witness to get him a lodging, and the witness offered him a
part of his house till he could get one, which the prisoner ac-
cepted ; the prisoner took the whole of his meals with the
witness, am,' requested him to lend him two shillings, as he had
nothing less t'lain a check of 131., which Lady Craven had paid
him for wages. The witness gave him the money, and sub-
sequently 16, snore, He had since ascertained that he was
not in the establishment of Lady Craven at all.
Mr. HALL said he could not interfere in the matter.
Witness—But, Sir, this is not the worst part of it, I am
sorry to say. As the prisoner was going out of the house, he
put his hand into one of the drawers, and took out a pocket
handkerchief, which he has pledged,
Mr. HALL—Oh this is something tangible.
to hear the evidence.
Evidence was then adduced to prove the robbery, and the
prisoner was fully committed for teal.

I can proceed

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON,"MAY 31.—Wind this day at noon, pleasant south-
westerly breeze, and fine clear weather.
DEAL, MAY S 9. —Wind N.N. W. light breeze. —Arrived`the
Ceylon, from Hon,iuras; Diana, New Orleans; Ellen, Brown,
Jamaica ; bark No. 3,197, Rendezvous flag, Westward. Arrived
from the river and oailed the Gilbert Henderson, and Stan-
derings, for Sydney ; Robert Archer, Calcutta ; Vanguard,
Mauritius ; Troubadour and Williams, Cape of Good Hope ;
Hartley, Sierra Leone; Julia, Grenada • Sandwich, St. Lucia;
Hawksbury, Quebec ; Manchester and Nautilus, Halifax ;
Middlesex, Port Phillip ; Augusta Jessie, Calcutta; Narcissus,
Buenos Ayres ; Toronto, New York ; Clio, Trieste ; Caroline,
Malaga ; Millman, St, Übes; Vixen, Bilbao ; Frankland, Cal-
cutta.
DOTER.—Arrived off, the Franklin, from Hamburgb, for
New York.
LivEnroor, MAY 30.--Wind N.—Arrived the Catharine,
from _Savanilla ; Caledonia,' Laguna ; Sisters, Nassau ; Cale-
donia, New York, sailed the 3rd instant ; John Walker, New
Orleans ; Kate, Doming ditto ; Potomac, Berry, ditto ;
Warsaw and Kensington, front ,111;)bile ; Elizabeth Bentley,
Hunt, Savannah ' • Consbrook and Eliza, Keith, Charleston ;
Parker, Risien, Demerara, sailed the 22d ult. ; Empress,
Scott, Jamaica; Maid of Athens, Odessa. Sailed the Friends,
for Singapore ; Wild Irish Girl, Calcutta ; St. Christopher,
Trinidad ; Britannia, Barbadoes ; Emerald, Havannah ;
Triumph and Iris, Ancona.
GUERNSEY, MAY 28. —The Jannette, Ot ten, from Antwerp,
got in contact with the Fortunas, from Danzig, off the Pas-
kets ; the former was abandoned by the crew:and the latter has
not suffered materially. The Jannette was taken into Sal-
combo on the 27th.
PLYMOUTH, MAY W.—Arrived off, the Fanny, Spoyles,
Paraiba ; David Banks, Jolly, Tarrazona, arrived off Hebor,
from New York.
FALMOUTH, MAY 28. Wind S. to S. W., strong
breezes.—Arrived the Fox, from Palermo ; Rosalind Media,
Glyme, Chester, for London, with mainsail split and main
boom sprung, having been in contact with the Breeds, ofWey-
mouth ; Lapwing packet, Barbadoes, sailed on the sth ult.
from St. Lucia, Martinique, 6th, Dominica, 7th, GuadaloUpe,
Bth, Antigua, 9th, St. Kitts, 10th, St. Thomas's, 21st, Pato
Rico, 22d, Cape Hayti, 26th; arrived off, Joseph Hume,
from Sierra Leone.