The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-04 00:00:00

DUDLEY 3IONTAGUE PERCIVAL'S CASE.

The Learned Barrister also gave judgment in this
case, ordering the name of Mr. Percival to be retained
on the list of voters.

Mr. ARNOLD also gave judgment in the cases of
Thomas Fitzburgh, Henry Beauclerk, John M‘Mahon,
and Henry Trott Fisher, ordering their names to be re-
tained on the list of voters for St. George, Manover-
square.

The claim of Mr. Robert A. Watson was disallowed,
sir. ;Tames Brent's claim was allowed.

The Learned Revising Barrister then proceeded with
the futther revision of the lists for St. George's Hanover-
square. In the course of the day, Mr. Arnold intimated
that he should, if possible, proceed with the revision of
the lists for St. James's Westminster, on Monday..

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel's grand plea for his present
refusal' to propose measures for the country's good is,
". that he is without the information that official_ power
alone can bestow," and which it is absolutely necessary
'for built° possess before he can afford the relief that he
promised; or must at least have been held to promise
virtually, he would on his accession to office at once ad-
minister. Now this is not a very honourable plea to be
urged by a.statesman who; for a long series of years, has
devoted his whole attention- to • pulic affairs ; but we
must admit that the defence which Sir R. Peel. has put
upon the record, his Grace the Duke of Wellington has
fully borne out by his evidence. If the illustrious mem-
ber of: the Tory Cabinet, whose. anomalous position of a
seat Withouran office is typical of the whole body who
are advisers of the Queen, without advising her—if, we
say, theignorance of the Duke as to what should be done
is shared by all his colleagues, we must at once allow
not only- their self-acknowledged unfitness to biing for-
ward any measures for the next six montha, but we will
even go 'further, and express a doubt whether six years'
meditation would be sufficient to qualify them for per-
forming in these difficult times the duties of Government.
The Duke of Wellington, who has already distinguished
himself by the laying down of two or three dogmata re-
markable-for their positive tone and their superlative
unseasonableness, thought proper last night fto declare, '
that though distress necessarily prevailed in .some parts
of the country, he was quite sure that there Was no dis-
tress from want of. food among any portion of the com-
munity. We confess that, even after the allegation
of ignorance, and. the - demand of tithe for inquiry,
which the 'Tory Ministers 'have put forth, we -were
somewhat, ,startled by an assertion, from one so
justly distinguished tuueupt them, which bespeaks such
a frightful necessity for information as is exhibited in
the sentiment uttered' last night- by the Duke of Wel-.
lingten. lie admits there is distress, but he will not
allow it is occasioned by want of food. What on earth,
we would ask his Grace, brings thousands of poor fa-
milies within the walls of the workhouses ? For if it is.
not want of food, it must, we suppose, be want of so-
ciety, or an insatiable appetite for workhouse fare—not
to supply a necessity, but to gratify a taste for parochial
cookery.
STANDARD.—The Poor-law Commissioners are
tyrants, to put an end to the Commission without making
any other arrangement would be simply to 4b embalm
their tyranny." It is proper to repeat it, that the Bill
passed last night is not a Bill to prolong the New Poor-
law ; that is already a permanent law ; but to pro-
vide for its continued administration until Parliament
shall decide upon the course to be pursued with
respect to it ; and were the Bill resisted by Mr.
Fielden to fail, the' only effect must be a kind of
posthumous administration of the law by the
present Commissioners—an occasion, questionless, of
much confusion, but of more cruelty—for of late the
Commissioners have been compelled by public opinion
to abate, however reluctantly, the rigour of many of
their regulations. Mr. Fielden could not wish that a
power which has recently been exercised chiefly in
mitigating its severer regulations, should be extin-
guished at once without any substitute to exercise
the same power of mitigation. Had the question
before the House contemplated the continuance of
the law, instead of contemplating only the con-
tinuance of the Commission, it would still be a question
whether an unqualified negative would be the proper
mode of meeting it. A great part of the efficacy of the
old law, which old law we agree with Mr. Fielden in
thinking to have been grievously calumniated, rested
upon habits and associations obliterated during seven
years. These habits and associations cannot be re-
stored, and it would be no less impossible to destroy at
once the other habits and associations by which they
have been replaced.

COURIER.—The recent intelligence from America
is of a more than usually interesting character as regards
this country. M'Leod's trial was to have commenced on
Monday last at Utica, and from the anxiety of the federal
Government to defeat the object, when it failed to silence
the pretensions of the sovereign state of New York, and
to remove this cause of dispute between the two Govern-
ments. there seemed but little doubt of M'Leod's ac-
quittal. But the point really at issue between Great
Britain and the United States' Government—for with the
State of New York we had nothing whatever to do—was
not as to M'Leod's participation, or non-participation
in the destruction of the Caroline, but as to the ame-
nability of M‘Lcod to an American tribunal, for an
alleged share in an act authorised and avowed by his
own Government. And what complicates the affair still
more, and sharpens the insult offered to Great Britain, is
the feet that the Federal Government, through its accre-
dited minister, had months ago disavowed the claims
set up by the State of New York :of its competency to
try M'Leod, and admitted that he was not amenable
to American law, and therefore not triable by American
juries. His acquittal under such circumstances, although
tending to allay excitement, and diminish the,chances of
an immediate rupture, will Le far from offering a solu-
tion of the questions at issue between the two countries,
or from reconciling Great Britain to the outrage offered
to her honour and dignity. We agree with a Morning
Contemporary in thinking that the great acknowledged
fact that a British subject, avowedly not amenable to an
American tribunal, has actually been put to trial, in-
volves the. honour of her Majesty's crown as much as if
he were sentenced to death.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS
FROM TEE MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
POST.— Our attention is called to a subject which has
not, we think, been sufficiently reflected on by the dif-
ferent Railway Companies in operation throughout the
country. We desire to bear testimony, to the fullest ex-
tent, to the zeal and spirit displayed by the managers of
this novel and rapid mode of conveyance, which are not
we believe to be surpassed. There is, however, a point
connected with their proceedings that should not be
overlooked by Railway Boards of Directors. It is to be
borne in mind that the Acts of Parliament, by virtue of
which railways have been constructed, arc concessions
not for the benefit of the projectors solely, but for the
good of the public, whose interests may be combined with
have
those of the parties to whom the privilege may h
been granted. It is, we repeat, importantoela.co
that this
principle should be kept in view. But observations
have been addressed to us on the management of
i
certain lines which furnish good reason to doubt f
it is in all cases. It is, for instance, represented
in that of the Brighton Company, that
the convenience
to us,
onvenience
of those who reside between the termini has not been
adequately considered ; and it' the charge be well
founded, as it certainly'appears to be, we shall be ren-
dering a service to the Company by pointing out the
circumstance ; nor can we question that a remedy will
be afforded. The practice more particularly complained
of relates to the regulation of h
them leaves Brighton at a
quarter before sevfOntne the morning-, and another at half-
past eight. The, latterxstops nowhere on the line except
at Croydon. The next train starts at a quarter before
eleven, so that, for four hours, people living intermediately
along the line have no communication with the me-
tropolis although trains are passing their very doors.
Tins] is a hardship to which exoeption is in cur
opinion justly taken ; and when the reason for the
want of
_accommodation is considered, ;it seems so
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