The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FRONI THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—if the matters in dispute between this
country and America be settled amicably and satisfac-
torily—as we believe they win be—,it will not be the
fault of the Times ; which has used its best efforts to
blow up the coals of jealousy between the two nations
into a flame. The acquittal of M‘Leod furnishes a
new occasion for reiterating the sarcasms with which
journAl assailed the Court before which he was
arraigned, and the whole proceedings of his trial. The
fel:owing is a specimen of this unseemly treatment of a
tribunal which is fashioned after the model of our own,
so justly prized ; and the proceedings of which, in the
present instance, were marked with dignity and impar-
tiality equal to anything ever exhibited in the highest
court oferiminal judicature in our own country
" Poor -Sadie Gridley—one can scarcely read hi%
elaborate summing up without a compassionate smile !
Conceiving that he had to deal with the most im-
portant cause that had ever agitated the world, the
anxious functionary seems to have been literally
bowed to the dust under the weight of his fancied re-
sponsibility. The quiet and humble apartment he sat
in, became, in his excited imagination, the solemn
temple of justice.
" The entire circumstances of the ceremonial had
perfectly delighted Judge Grid:cy. Nothing, he
thought, could possibly equal the talent and learning
evinced by the Attorney-General of New York, except
perhaps the ability of rho prisoner's Counsel, and the
decorum of the people's jury. All the mass of worth-
less evidence adduced for the prosecution was as pa-
tiently analyzed by Judge Gridley, with the usual cau-
tious distinctions, as if M'Leod's life had been actually
dependent on the issue ; and after indulging in a
long and wasteful expenditure of profound judicial saws,
the complacent luminary was constrained at list to let
the Jury retire. They too, lest lhe farce should suffer
in their part of the representation, make a decent show
of hesitation."
As the public voice refused to respond to the war-
whoop of the Times, but, on the contrary, compelled
the "great god of war" to lay by his thunder, and
sound a note more in accordance with public feeling,
and more likely to advance the real interests of both
nations - so, or we greatly mistake, the insults hurled
at the high judicial functionaries and entire system of
criminal jurisprudence of America, will meet with as
little sanction from the intelligent portion of our emu.
try Men as the Times' attempt to get up a war-fever, in
which it most signally and properly failed. The trial
having terminated, and in a way which relieves the
public mind of all anxiety as to the possibility of a rup-
tare with the American republic; Which any further
detention of M'Leod must have produced, another
question fairly arises, viz., the necessity of such an al-
teration in the Constitution of America as will afford
security to this and other countries against the recu-
rence of a similar grievance, arising, as this has done,
out of the anomalous position of the Central Govern-
ment with relation to the abseace of a sufficient con-
trolling jurisdiction over the se\ oral Stales which com-
prise the Union.
STANDARD.—The Grand Storehouse and Ar-
moury of Small Arms in the Tower of London was
totally destroyed by fire on S iturday night and
yesterday morning. The loss to the public is esti-
mated at more than one million sterling ! The
particulars of this national misfortune will be found
in our next page. The destruction of the
Armoury following so closely upon the burning
of the Royal Exchange and the Houses of Par-
liament, as well as the successful attempt to destroy
the Talavera, anal the unsuccessful attempt upon the
Camperdown, all within about seven years, will
excite an unpleasant interest. The dealers in omens
wit!, of course, anticipate in such a rapid succession of
disastrrs some end incho!y presage. They have seen
the burning of the Houser of Parliament, followed
at a short interval by the renewed tenure of office
to the worst section of the Whig Radical party ;
and the destruction of the great commer-
cial rendezvous in Ike manner, seemingly at-
tended by the accession of Lord Monteagle
to the superintendence of the financial affairs
of the empire ; and probably they may fear
that the destruction of the Armoury promises that Sir
D: L icy Eraos, or Colonel Thompson, shall suceeed
Lord Hill at the Horse Guards. Fur our own part,
however, if tee must trace a prognostic, it is a good
one—the commencement of an era when arms shah
he less necessary than they have been—the corn-
utencecoont of a long period, not only of peace,
but of frredom from the apprehension of war.
Oa the other hand, alarmists will see. in all these
fires a systematic public ruin, contrived by some mys-
terious conspiracy. Here, again, we must take leave
to think for ourselv:s : that there has been an incen-
diary, though an abstract one, in each of the cases,
and that he-is the same incendiary, we have a strong
suspicion ; and though he has bosh too much a public
favourite of late years, we do not scruple to arraign
hint before the public, upon whom he his inflicted a
great amount of injury ; his name is Economy. To
this delinquent, we bulicv; must be imputed the fire;
of which vie Lave spoken.

ORANGE OUTRAGE.—ATTACK
ON HER MAJESTY'S MAIL.
(From the Dublin Monitor of Saturday.)
We have received this morning the following ac-
count of a ferocious attack made on the C
coach, in Cuher, on the night of the 28th instant, by a
party of Peel's " Orange vagabonds," healed by nable-
men and i;niletuen. Itis as fell sets :
" .00T. 29.—A most frightful outrage and
riot.took place here last night, or rather t'ais morning,
on the arrival of the Cork mail coach.
":A party of gentlemen, who had been at the Cabe'
races that day, rthhed out of the hotel on the arrival
of the conch and commenced an attack on the paisen-
gem The guard was assailed, and the way-bilt taken
from Vim, when it • was found that Mr. Murphy, of
Cork, was an inside passenger.
" The mob immediately mistook him for the Catholic
B:hop of (lark, and commenced an :es lult on the
coach, con iqiiing the " Papist Bishop" t, como out.
Sticks and stones,. were employed, and many persons
injured.
" Mr. Murphy, who is brother of the Catholic Bishop
of Cork, and above eighty years of age, was very much
alarmed, an I endeavoured to keep the coach doors shut,
when a rt es was malt to burst them opon—tie win-
doss were all smashed—doors burst open—the doctor
dragged from the coach into the strict—his hat
knocked off—his wig torn off and slapped in his 13.1 e,
and he was otherwise seriously indurated.
" The mob all this whi!e was increasing, and there
could not be less than eighty persons engaged in thi,
one rage—most of them being in a station of life en-
titling them to be called gentlemen.
" I learn that several of the parties can be identified,
arid that to particular the person who dragged Mr.
Murphy from the coach—tore off his wit, and beat him
with it about the head and face—was a celebrated noble-
man of sporting notoriety, who can be sworn to.
" During the riot the police were not to be found, aril
the rioters ha lit all tl.eir own way. The coach was
detained long past time. All the passengers were mal-
treated, and 50111 C suffered severelv.• Indeed, nothing
caul I exceed the determined violence of the mob—the
uitial Orange cries of "To hell with the Pope," &e.,
were the watchwords on the occalion
j wr:tc this that it may reach you. in time to use it
as you think fit on Saturday. The people regard this,
as but a sample of what is to be expected now that
Orange insolence and ferocity wain the aseendaat."
We have made inquinet as to the attack in question,
;
and find that our correspondent
is Inbmstar. nt
Morphsail y correct
in the account he has given nsOfit.i
was
mistaken for his brother the bishop, and it was-ls.
provi
dential he did not fall a victim to the sanguinary ferocity
of the mob.
We have also learned that our correspondent is right
in stating that the rioters were chiefly gentlemen—
Orange Tories from the surrounding district—and that
the principal leader in the attack was the sporting
nobleman alluded to by our correspondent.
It is also true that the police rendered no assistance
for the protection of life and property thus attacked at
midnight. Where werethe): Had but an unlettered
intoxicated peasant spoken gruff word to a "Prete,:
taut" gentleman, meeting him on the road at night, we
would have had all the district out—Orange Tory
moetings would have been held—Protestant Magis-
trates would have been at their posts, for the protec-
tion of " Protestant" life and property—and little short
of martial law would have been proclaimed ! Tho
Tory journals would have represented the country as
in a state of insurrection, and rewards opon rewards
would have been offered' for the apprehension of the
imaginary assassin I
Yet, here we have her Majesty's mail coaches—for
there were three of them, we understand—attacked in
the town of Caber—Lord GlCaguli's own town, too !
the passengers ferociously assailed—one individual, on
being mistaken for a Catholic Bishop, dragged from
the coach and brutally assaulted—an old man, upwards
of eighty years of age, thus savagely assailed, not by an
ignorant, excited mob of peasants, but by persons of
property_ in the country—men ranking as gentlemen—
some of them; we suppose, in the Commission of the
Peace ; and yet we hear no word of this violent out-
rage figuring la the police reports. Is this what we
are to expect from Lord de Grey's " justice and-mode,
ration" government
Th

ae accounts in the provincial journals received
this morninr, all agree in describing the amount of rain
which has latelyfallen as far beyond the average of any
season for many years past. A great deal of mischief
has been done the farmer by its continuance.
We regret to have to announce the sudden
death, icy gout in the stomach, of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir
Francis Geary Gardner Lee, whose decease took
place early on Saturd% morning, at the Royal Marine
Barracks at Woolvvi . Sir Francis had seen distin-
guished service, having been at Copenhagen, the siege
of Cadiz, and various boat affairs in the East Indies and
on the .French coast. He also served in Spain, under
Gen. Evans, with considerable distinction. Several fo-
reign orders had at TariotVl times been; conferred upon him.