The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-20 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Brighton Gazette.)
PORTSMOUTH, MAY I9.—The destination of the new brig
HitteN, IN, offered for commission by Commander the Hon.
B. Cart, said tg PR the North American and West Indian
station.

ThP Dublin, 50, has been commissioned at this port by
Captain John Tuekty, for the,flag of Rear-Admiral Richard
Thomas, appointed to the command in the Pacific, and to re-
lieve the President, 50.

The schooner Fair Rosamond, destined for the Cape and
African station, will be ready to proceed thither about the
28th instant, being quite manned.
The Monarch, 84, Captain Chambers, has arrived from
Sheerness, and remains at Spithead with the Indus, 84, Ver-
non, LO, and brigs Pelican, 18, and Nautilus, 10. The Edin-
burgh, 72' and Bellerophon, 78, are daily expected from Ply-
mouth to be paid off.
Lieutenant Lord Henry Russell is promoted to the rank of
Commander. This officer, it will be remembered, nearly lost
his life on hoard the Melville, 78, in this harbour, by the fall of
a block on his head,
The brig Trint-ulo, 16, Commander Coffin, has arrived at
Plymouth from Lisbon, in order to await a courtmartial, the
particulars of which have not transpired.
The new steam-ship Driver will be put into commission at
this port, it is reported for the Meditet ranean.
The schooner Cockatrice, Lieut. Oxenham, has left Ply-
mouth for Rio de Ja.neire, anti the #eamers Albert and Wilber-
force, for the Niger Expedition,
The Acorn, 16, Commander Adams, will be ready to return
to the coast of Africa about the 25th instant.

The frigate Pique, 36, Captain Boxer, is daily expected from
Chatham to await orders.

Captain Henry Codrington, late commanding the Talbot,
28, has arrived from Malta, And in a few days will join the
Queen, 110, as Flag-Captain to his father, the Port Admiral.
Lieutenants Clanwell and Tennant are appointed Flag-
Lieutenants, the former to Richard Thomas, Rear- Adrairal for
the Pacific command, and the latter to Rear-Admiral Sir
William Parker, for the East India command.

In Harbour—Queun, Victory, Excellent, Royal George
yacht, Dublin, Bittern, Fair Rosamond, and teudurs,

LICENSE!) VI UT UALLERS'
ASYLUM.
Ye;terday a special general meeting of the donors at large,
summoned by the Board of Management, was holden in the
Board-room of this Institution, for the purpose of electing
occupants for fonr vacancies, o,easioned by death, Twenty,
three candidates stood in nomination, varying in axe
,flom
fifty-three to sixty-four, fourteen of whom were males.
The following is the list of names, and number of votes ob-
tained by eaph tpdividualt"—•
Cushway, William..„.„ 407 Hamer, Elsanor2s
Sotherden, Sarah 5,666 Jewell, 5te14en....,,..„.
Dyer, Richard. .... 4,044 Mitchell, John Thonvis. 14s
Smith, Thomas 4,218 Ottley, Edward .......... 3,137
Cart r, Hannah. ..... 62 Seeker, Caroline Soph.. 272
Field Richard 3,757 swain, Caroline ......... . 32
Needham, William 54 Wright, Jame 5.......... 9s
sweet, Richard Bass l2B Howard, George 216
flooding, George 2,974 Morris, Sophia... ...... . 256
Jones Ann 5B Waterman, Sus. Mary.. 936
Neate, Jane 35 Watkins, Will,am . 28
Stew, Richard . 2,100
The Chairman, consequently,
Smith, and Dyer, dilly -elected,'

declared Sot4er4o, Cu!hway,

LONDON:
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1841.

It is to be inferred from no eminent person
having been sent for by her MAJESTY to-day,
and from no reports being in circulation that
the Ministers have resigned, that they mean to
carry forward the, public business to a point at
which will be convenient for them to dissolve •
the Parliament. ,
,If that be the case, Lo-rd 'JOHN
RUSSELL will most probably to-night give notice
in the House of Commons of the day on which
he means to introduce the annual Sugar
Bill, and, should that. be. the case, the public
may infer, with unerring certainty, that the
Ministers have made up their mind to dissolve
the Parliament, and appeal to the country
against themonopollsts. We confidently antici-
pate that this is the course which will be an-
nounced to-night in the House of Commons.
It will then be for the people to decide
whether it will have an honest or dis-
honest Government whether it will look
forward with peace to improvement, or go
through trouble and disturbance to a revolution.
A Government founded on a union of the
sinister interests, openly and avowedly to oppress
and plunder the people, would
.be a scoundrel
Government, and could not but arouse against it
•
as an enemy the bulk of the population.

It will scarely escape the notice of the readers
of the debates, that Sir R. PEEL on Tuesday
evening., deprecated the introduction of details
of the misery of our people, "to influence the
reason and judgment of the Commons by liar-
rowinv, tip their feeling's." The Right Hon.
Baronet alluded especially to the misery brought
under the notice of the House by Mr. VILLIERS,
and Mr. THomAs DUNCoMUE, of Which this is a
specimen :

The Hon. Member also read statements from Oldham,
Nottingham, Leicester, and other places, of the existence
of. similar distress at those places, one of which stated
that a cow having died and been buried, the owner a day
and a half afterwards was besought by a number of
womon to allow them to have the carcass for their fami-

lies ; and that upon his yielding to their importunity,
they disinterred the carcass, and divided it among them,
and afterwards declared that it was the only meat they
had tasted for many years.
- 'Sir R. PEEL takes precisely the same view as
the Tory Journals; they do WA like td.; hear of

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ErrANTING EnT.TION!.
the sufforinp eausitql ity (b.:<ii,or.ibli..,l4lo
of
the Tories , they will not allow the low.iY.ciO°
to influence the choice of the,: ilepreselitatives'
they deny and oppose every 6:tension.- of the
suffrage, and they would fain prevent the advo'
cites of the people from inentionin;.; their miser
in Parliament. The Tories kno-T
Dully succeed by stifling the. .iialiile,iii!scll4lo
therefore,-in the 15r-e,.i.i" and. in Parliament they
are prone to deride the useful facts which alif
stated by such men as Mr. T. DU/NCO:118E
Mr. VILLIERS.

.:,ara

We know . from past times that Sir 11.0
PEEL has no objection whatever to influence th6'
reason and judgment of the House ofCofff moils
by harrolking,up their, feelings, when that 045
own purpose.- • In the memorable dehates.oll
Coercion Bill he did not disdain to harrow up 01°
feelings of the House of Commons, and evoke $
coercive and malignant spirit ag,ainst:lreland
narrating, in a most dramatic manner, the detailg
of a murder which had been committed. seule
years before. Even on Tuesday night he quote
...,
the evidence of Mr. ELLIOT, the Member f'
Roxburgh, on the great misery of the people °ff
India, to influence the feelings of-the House °f
Commons in favour of continuing the bounty 0
the production of sugar k the East
In the same:speech, in which the Right Pt;
nourable Baronet objected to the statetee°
tis
of Mr. VILLIEns and .Mr. DUNCOMBE, in Order
to enlist the feelings of the House in favour °
the sufferingßindoos, to provide for 10101'11e
continues to tax the English women who dig aY
a rotten:carcase .:to sustain life, he quoted til
following remarks
I recollect in the debate respecting the Hill C°°l
the speech of the Hon. Member for Roxburgh, who
personal experience of the condition of the Jabal
classes, and I refresh. the Hon. Gentleman's. .010-I°ie
for the purpose of calming his alarm as to the extre,t
ri
dangei of diverting the 'resources of India. The 0,67
Gentlemah;said he was -appointed to inquire int° /le
condition of the agricultural labourers . of Bengal'', .or
found that they were paid about is. fid. per ive",ce
23d. per day, that they "'Subsist on rice, a-d When rile
fails they starve." He says, " I 'have Seen the Ile:,10
by hundreds and thousands hurry towards - the poin"4,^
which relief was distributed by the Governor of PoTecii
And then he gives a picture of horror which, eonic.
anything that the Most romantic iniagination everrrte
tured. I know of nothing more striking than that Sts
ment.—(Hear.)
. It is not therefore that the Right Honour`''
Baronet has any repugnance to details w-1
harrow up the feelings ; he only oljecle
to them when they apply to the Petti
of England, whom he persists in oplirest:t
in behoof of the negroes. Those details eonviot
him of injustice ; they brand him. as an ignelj,
law-maker; and therefbre he would, if he eeu,
shut them out from the consideration of Peril,
ment. He was eloquent about balancing the ad
eo
vantages of different courses.of policy, but
mistaken, or so one-sided, that he excluded tild,
his view. the sufferings of the people of Engle,
and thought.only,or the probable or possible i
structjon of the capital of a few plaete r„,
0e
:Vet this man aims at being
.the . v,
for
Minister, and at governing the millions here'
whom he shows so much disregard, while l'ebe
so tender of the African. Such conduct eleYthe
statesmanship—but will it recommend itself to
people of England ? We hope that in the Ore,
test which is now begun they will alweY'der,
member that the Tory. leader quoted the se'
le
ings of the Hindoos as a reason why the Pe4b,
of England should be .plundered; but lie
jetted to other Members quoting the suffer;°e`i
of the people of England as a reason wllY
should be relieved. .

A; 5
The ingratitude, of the Tories is Pruu'6l;o'
Out of deference to them and their system, ail
in opposition to the-Liberals, the Ministers li!itt
postponed, to the eleventh. hour, a reform of '0
commercial. code, • - including' the Corn-lace,
: Now that they have,. as -we have before said,
luctantly and unwillingly 'proposed
the revenue was falling off, the Tories
mently abuse. them for not havinc, done it before,i
" They resisted Mr: ViLtiutesttnOtion," sit:Ys
er
"when corn was nearly 80s.'pei. quarterrand no
%O .i;
len it is • down 'tin' 663., and t 1 de3rt,
is ever, they propose .toi alter the Corn-la's,
" They opposed Mr. ''WART'S plan -to lower- Pot
sugar duties,". says another, "when sugar wa ,0
605., and now when it is down to 375. r and to,Pe
supply plentiful, they recommend a challiees
in the sugar duties." So the ungrateful Tleo
abuse the Whigs, for deferring to their svi'tltie
and their policy as long as possible. Let ,„re
Ministers take a lesson from that, and- in fa"(l4
do what is right, and what their ONVII frleilol
wish them, not what will please ..the,ungrLite
Tories. . •
qinrie4
But if;theMinisters had done what .the
now reproach them. for not having done, 1'3.,
would have been the denunciations of the Vr 64
~b
To have taken advantage of a momentary' l'l'A
price of corn to denounce the Corn-law ,10
ally themselves with the repealers, would 1),, it
been stigmatized as a great crime. " Wait' till
would have been said, " till calmer times 00
the passions are abated ; do not make a latest
the momentary hunger of the people. 'O4
year the -crops•may be abundant, both eer° to
sugar will be cheap, and if it is neeessil."Eiet
alter the law, do it then, when reason, °mit
than famine, shall dictate your enactt-hent":lo
when corn and sugar are cheap." Reproaeheveo
these, but tenfold more bitter, would''hive, the
hurled against the Ministers. At presen't e
objectors; wise men 'as they are, forget I'3
consequences of successive short crops 0f co'
and sugar have. first revealed to .Minist'-'rleof
willing to believe, the injury Corn-laws and
Duties are inflicting on the country, andtlie
grateful Tories really reprove them for not Pitio
acted last year on a knowledge. which 'lva. hi'
then in existence. The Tories are sagacious
losophers after the event, and wonderful rot
ticians when they Lave to talk or write
nevertheless they are always, and in this Cret b e
in others, like the bandy-legged drummer, la
rear of society.. _ , • . -

a.- • . eP
The modest request of the landlords, a' 00
pressed in a petition agreed to at ColCliesterbil
Saturday last, .and signed.",WESTERI4;"4" b,/ de,
of the sheeting, is,. 'that Parliament:lilt' el
,termine to put down. agitation on:l6e silictictl
the .Corn-laws, , and: the, azricuitatists-wil` ' I
undertake, ' " by -4)l' additional: application op
skill and capital, .to raise' 'ft..s uticinntst WO pi
an average of seasons for the -wants of 011
i
ereasing,population." In the meantime/ Vt I
ever, till the skill of the agriculturist--- if Pl3/1.,-09
very slow growth—and till his. capital, iner ell; 01
which the landlords take care shall also 09111, tit
pass very slowly, if at all, the populatjoli ~ree
hunger and starve. They have for the last t'ooo
years been, year after year, slowly starved cl,,ivil
to the supply produced by the skill, and °rod
of the agriculturists, and Lord WEsT-Eusi 000
his co-mates modestly request that they s'ines.4;
continue patieptly to . submit to this., Pr°-ite
that if the skill and capital of the agric-ope
lists cannot overtake the principle, ,9f Poitig
lation, population may be kept . froP gari/
a-head of the skill and capital of Pe iiid
culturists. In order, too, that population Di 4
not run too fast, Lord WESTERN .and nolf
friends, however stupid and wasteful they t if
be, modestly hint to the Parliament tbaopel
should put down further agiution, and citlif
the people—at the point of the bayonet, fordo tpe
or the gallant yeoman's sword—to s3bllllrd
tiently to starvation. One iniquity recess
trot
grows from another, and it is as „Laura
re to
Lord WESTERN and his friends' ili-duld, de' 0
- -,, -,- .;., iav,, ~
compel the people to submit to the -(c'ir- ot'
it is that a highway, robber should bO''drivetr4
murder the victim he haS plund erediii 4Pi311 1)6
all the evidence of his theft. the i4:atiq 11 beeo
slow to believe that this modest.deMituall° .se'
, i.- Adirerti 60
,
made, but here are the words CI:. !,---.. -- Asp - •
meat of a Colchester meetingi-on *Sitto I.`"
given in the .Esse: .Herald: --- • 7.-.:--; - ~, 00
- , - -..__.4.- 0 ..t.et b
That your petititiouers are confident= fu 0
Honourable House will determine:to: rit coll 4,1"
agitation by the sameinnequh-Ocal deFiti_ll.s,, '"""
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