The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-15 00:00:00

TilE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1841.

NEW ZEALAND LAND COMPANY.

A dinner was given on Saturday night at the London
Tavern, by the New 'Zealand Land C.Anpany to Lord
J. Russell. The number of persons who sat down was
about two hundred and forty.
The Governor of the Ist,-!cv Zmland Land Company,
J. Swans, Eig., in the chair.

Besides the noble guest, Lord J. Russell, there were
at the cross table, to the right and left of the Chair
man, the Rail of Devon, Lord Petre, Right Hon. R.
Shell, Lord E. Howard, Right Hon. Sir H. Vivian,
the Hon. E. J. Stanley, NV. Hutt. Esq., Mr. Alder.
man Tnompson, Raikes Currie, E,q., J. S. O'Brien,
E le the O'Conor Don, Lord Ingestre, Lord Ashbur-
ton, Lord Eliot, Right Hon. Henry Lebouchere, V.
Smith, Esq., Right lion. E. Ellice, F. Mauls', Esq ,
M. O'Ferral, Eq., C. Buller, E,q., J. Abel Smith,
Esq , Tuffnell, Esq., Admiral Young, &c. &c.
After the usual loyal and formal toasts,
The CHAIRMAN said I rise to propose the health of
the Noble Lord on my right (Lord J. Russell), who
has honoured us with his company on the present oc-
casion.—(Hear, hear.) You all know the great service
which he has rendered to the New Zealand Company—
and not alone to them, but to the large body of persons
located as settlers in New Zealand, making these islands
bona fide British colonies. His Lordship has even gone
farther, for he has granted to the New Zealand Com-
pany a charter based upon principles honourable to
them and creditable to himself and her Majesty's Mi-
nisters. I trust that the day is not far distant when we
shall see these islands rade among the best of her Ma.
jesty's doininions ; a circumstance whieh I trust his
Lordship will live to see accomplished. I shall not
trespass on your time, but propose at once the health
of our distinguished guest, Lord J. Russell.—(Cheers.)
Lord J. RUSSELL—Mr. Governor and Gentlemen—
When I say that I am embarrassed at returning thanks
for the honour you have done me, you will understand
me, and ascribe it to the true motive, when I tell you
that my accustomed mode of speaking is amidst the
noise of contention and party strife, and that I am not
used to the expression of such general kindness as you
have shewn me on the present occasion.—( Hear.) Your
worthy Governor, in saying that I have rendersd ser-
vices to the New Zealand Company, has alto disclosed
sny motives. I served the New Zealand. Company be-
cause
.I thought 111Birla IMUMI4-their efforts to bane:
fit the country were useful, and heceuse it seemed desi-
rable to give the aid of the Government and the sup-
port of the Crown to the objects they had in view. I
should be very far indeed—from serving them with any
other motive. In the position in which I stand towards
the Crows it is my duty to consider every questio n
connected with colonization and the colonies, as
it affects the interests of the Crown, the country, and
the colonies. I believe the colony of New Zealand is
conducted on principles that tend at once to sustain the
dignity of the Crown and to increase the future pros-
perity of this country. It is theref ire for these reasons,
thet.l have lent my humble efforts to support them.
In so doing I should be every way unworthy of your
approbation if I took any extraordinary merit to myself :
for, in the .first place, the value of colonies to the mother
country and all the advantages connected with them
have been long since suicertained by debate and discus-
sion in Parliament ; and in the second I had the advan-
tage of the most enlightened opinions as to the best
mode of colonization. I only take to myself the merit
of not having been behind these discussions .—( Cheers.)
Mr. Governor and Gentleman, I should be entirely un-
worthy the station I hold if I did not add, that with
respect to the colony of New Zsaland, as with regard to
any other of her Majesty's possessions on which it is my
duty to advise the Crown, while with respect to the
general principles I had the advantage of immediate
discussion, with regard to the past history and practical
details I had alto the advantage of being at the head of
an office where industrious, zealous, and able men have
been for years paying the closest attention to those details,
which it might have cost me many more years to master.
Therefore, with respect to principles and details, I claim
no extraordinary merit, the only merit I claim being the
fidelity, industry, zeal, and honesty, with which I Live
devoted my best attention to the subject.—( Hear.)
Permit me to say one word on the importance of the
colony of New Zealand. With regard to the prosperity
of that colony, I cannot for a moment doubt that En-
glish settlers, carrying with them English feelings and
English habits, will in no long time found a prosperous
and flourishing community.—(Cheers.) I could not
doubt this, and therefore the part of the Government
was but small in a province of this kind. The virtues
of Englishmen will make those colonies prosper.—
( Hear, hear.) But I cannot look without some anxiety
for the future to the fate of those who have been the
aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand.—(Cheers.)
When I look to the fate of other inhabitants of the
New World, it is impossible that I can see the conse-
quences that have ensued without horror and dismay.
I wish to God I could say that those were transactions
of three centuries ago, and that nothing like them had
existed in the present day. But lam sorry, indeed, to
say, when I -look et the sets of foreign countries, which
it would be invidious to mention—when I look at the
transactions that took place under our own dominion
in Africa and Australia—that I must add, we have all
reason to blush that such things should be in a
civilized age, and in consequence of the discovery
of those countries by men calling themselves Chris-
tians.—(Hear, hear.) I hope that the New Zealand
Company will pay attention to this subject, and I am
glad that in their proceedings hitherto they have consi-
dered fully what was due to the colony as well as to
this country. The people of the colony are capable of
receiving all the arts of civilized life, and all the bless-
ings of the true religion. Let us, then, impress upon
our minds this fact, that, whatever has passed in former
times, it is our duty in founding the colony of New
Zealand, to show that our practice dots not differ from
our precepts ; and that while brotherly love is written in
our Bible, murder and pillage do not form our actual
course of proceeding. It is impossible for me now to
enter on the detail of the transactions connected with
the New Zealand Company, but 1 am quite sure it will
do everything proper to tend to the future prosperity
of the colony. In this belief I give you " The Health
of Mr. Sotnes, the Governor of the New Zealand
Company."
Mr. SOMES briefly returned thanks, and concluded
by proposing " The Memory of the Earl of Durham."
" Her Majesty's Ministers" was then proposed by
Mr. HUTT, and replied to by Mr. LABOUCIIERE.

" The Earl of Devon and the House of Lords" was
roposed by Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, and replied to
by the Noble Lord.
" Lord Eliot and the House of Commons" was pro-
posed by Mr. G. F. YOUNG, and replied to by that no-
bleman.

Dr. Hinds and the Church of New Zealand,"" Mr.
F. Baring and prosperity to the British colonies,"" The
Vice-President of the Board of Trade," and other toasts
followed, and the company then broke up, about half-
past eleven o'c!ock.

TILE WATER OF THE JORDAN.---This pro-
curing of water from the river Jordan, for the christening
of the Princess Royal, is a relic of that superstition which
looks upon Palestine as being now more holy than any
other part of the world. The river Jordan is not now
one whit snore sacred than the little river Kent which
inns past the town of Kendal ; and water from our own
little river might have been more fresh, and just as effec-
tive, as the water brought in a bottle from the Jordan.
Probably this water was brought home by some one
of " the shooting party" lately engaged off the coast
of Palestine ; and perbars one of the daring fellows
engaged in blowing down Acre, at the very foot of
Mount Carmel, on which Elijah stood, when he
called down fire from heaven, went to the Jordan,
after the fight was done, and drew the water for the
baptism of the Princess Royal. We arc sorry to he
obliged to notice this circumstance. The water from the
river Jordan may not have been looked upon, in the
Palace, in any other light than that of a curiosity. But
the using it at all, in such a ceremony, is keeping up an
old superstition VS hich has much retarded the spread of
pure Christianity ; and though Bonapaqe himself, when
he became a magnificent emperor, and tried, by his regal
splendour, to make the French people forget that he had
once been a plebeian, was not proof to the seduction of
having his son baptized in water from the Jordan, we had
fancied that more good sense reigned within our own Pa-
lace, It does this evil: it makes quiet and reflective
people to'thinh, at a time when their loyal feelings prompt
them not to be very critical.—Kendal Mercury.

THE DUTCH COLONIAL SHIP " REGINA."-
This vessel, Captain James Clunies Ross, sailed horn
Batavia on the 17th of March, 1840, for Cowes, and ha 4
never since been seen or heard of. A severe hurricane
prevailed at the Alauritius from the Bth to the 10th of
April last, which did much damage, and another subse-
quently occurred off the same island on the 4th of May, in
which several homeward-bound vessels from different parts
or India were dismastcd, and it is too probable that the
Regina foundered in one of these hurricanes, most likely
in that of the 10th of April, which agrees best with the
time of the Regina's sailing from Batavia. The Regina
was a new vessel, barque-rigged, and carried the distin-
guishing flag of the firm (Maclaine, Watsoc., and Co.), a
blue St. Andrew's cross on a white ground. She had a
native crew, principally of Javanese, but was commanded
and officered by Europeans—viz , Captain J. C. Rass,
and officers, Mublendoi IT and M‘Neile, all experienced
navigators and seamen. The passengers consisted of
Gillian Maclaine, Esq , Mrs. Maclaine, their two children
(a boy and girl), Mrs. Van Beusechem, Miss Harriet
Van BeuLechem, and Miss Jane Beusecbem (Mrs. Mac-
laine's mother and two sisters) ; in all seven souls. Mr.
Maclaine was universally esteemed and loved, bath by di
Dutch and English residents in Java. He was nephew to
Sir Arch. Maclaine.

We find the following paragraph in the
Times of yesterday :—" The Courrier Franca;s say s
that the Duke de Bordeaux, who is travelling under the
name of Count Chambord, is shortly expected in this coun-
try (England), and that Lord Palmerston, who was con-
sulted, has undertaken that he shall be well received. The
Courrier Francais further alleges that our young Queen
had proposed that he should be honourably treated at her
Court." We are enabled to state most positively that there
is not one word of truth in the above paragraph, so far as
it relates to any announced intention by the Duke de Bar.
deaux to visit this country, or to any undertakings as to
his reception in such an event,-- Observer.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS,

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.

PUBLIC COMM 11'1-TES FOR THIS DAY, FEB. 15, 1641
South Australia, at two, Mr. Speaker's House.
SUR-COMMITTER ON PETITIONS FOR PRIYATE
No. 4, at orie, Mr. Speaker's House.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
Friday, 12th February, 1841.
I. Gourdon Harbour (No. 2)—Committee on Petition, Monday,
Ist March.
2. Neptune Marine Insurance Company—Committee on Petition,
Tuesday, 231 February.
S. Glasgow House of Refuge—Committee on Petition, Monday,
Ist March.
4. London Bridge Approaches and Royal Exchange Avenues—
Committee on Petition, Tuesday, 23d February.
5. Portbury Pier and Approaches—Committee on Petition, Tues.
day, 23d February.
6. Pill (Somerset) Dock—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, 23d
February.
7. Wakefield Waterworks—Committee on Petition, Tuesday,
23d February.
8. Newark Court of Requests—Committee on Petition, Tuesday,
23d February.
9. Abingdon (perks) Melo ure—Coznmittee on Petition, Wed
nesday, 24th February.
10. Whitmore (Stafford) Inclosure—Committee on Petition, Wed.
nesday, 24th February.
11. Tinsley and Doncaster Road—Committee oa Petitior, Thurs.
day, 25th February.
12. Northern and Eastern Railway—Committee on Petition, Tues.
day, 23d February.
13_ Northern and Eastern Railway (Hertford and Ware Branch)—
Committee on Petition, Tuesday, 23d February.
14. Middlesex Sessions—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, 23d
February.
15. Whittlesea Inclosure—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, 23d
February.
16. Birmingham and llcagley Road—Committee on Petition,
Tuesday, 23d February.
17. Whaddon Chase Inelosure—Committee on Petition, Tuesday,
23d February.
18. Liverpool Local Acts—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, 23d
February,
19. Woodside and Hoylake Road—Committee on Petition, Tues-
day, 23d February.
20. Liverpool horsey Conservancy—Committee on Petition, 'rues.
day, c:3d February.
21. Birmingham. Inclosure—Committee on Petition, Tuesday,
23c1 February.

COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS
FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.
This day, 15th February, 1841.
I. British Plate Glass Company.
2. ka►4Rs CoUrt of `ltequests.
3. Gainsbiligh Small De Is.
4. Wells (Someteati
3. Chords of Eiithead -Life and Fire Assurance, Trust, and
•
Annuity Ccswany.
6. Forth and Clyde Navigation.
7. Birkenhead Church.
8. Lirkenhead Gas an& Waterworks.
9. Forest Canal.
10. Harrogate Improvement.
11. Whitby Improvement.
12. King's Lynn Port.
13. Manchester Infirmary,
14. Newport Melt.
Tuesday, 16th February.
1. Bury (Sussex) Inclosure.
2. Britannia Life Assurance Company.
3. Durham and Sunderland Railway.
4. Upper Heyford Inclosure.
5. Derby Gas.
6. Middlesbrough Improvement.
7. Stumpeross Roads.
8. Ipswich Docks.
9. Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company.
10. Kidderminster Small Tenements.
11. Salisbury Small Debts.
Thursday, 18th February.
1. Exmouth Market.
2. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway.
3. Wishaw and Coltuess Railway.
4. Harborough and Brampton Road.
5. Leeds and Wakefield Roads.
Friday, 19th February.
1. Meerbrook-Sough Drainige, &c.
2. Wigan Small Debts. •
3. British Commercial Insurance Con-paly.
4. St. Ives Fishery.
5. Wells (Somerset) Market.
6. Dalton Pier.
7. Burwell Fee Drainage and Naviga!lon.
8. Chz:veley Inclosure.
9. Levcriugton, &c. Inclosure.

PARLIAMEARY DIVISION%

(From the rotes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
FRIDAY, YEB. 12.
LORD KEANE.

Queen's Message (Bth February) considered in Committoe :
Motion made, and Question put, " That the annual sum of
2,000 net be granted to her Mdjesty, out of the Consolidated
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the said annuity to cemmence from the Bth day of February,
1841, and to be settled in the most beneficial manner upon
Lieutenant-General John Lord Keane, and the two next sur-
viving heirs male of the body •f the said John Lord Keane :"
—The Committee divided :

MAJORITY-AYES,
Adam, Sir Charles Goitiburn' Henry
Alston, Rowland Graham, Sir James
Anson, Hon. Colonel Grant, Sir A. C.
Arehdall, General Grattan, J.
Ashley, Lord Greene, 'l'.
Bagot, Hon. W. Grey, Sir C.
&tithe, Colonel H. Grey, Sir G.
Baldwin, C. li. Griinsditch, Thomas
Baring, F. T.Grimston, Lord
Barnard, E. G. Grosvenor, Lord It.
Basset, John Harcourt, 0 ft
Bateson, Sir K. Hardinge' Sir IL
Benett, John Hawkes, T.
Bentinek, Lord G. Hawkins, J. H.
B wes, 'l'. Heat hccat, J.
Blake, W. J. Hobhouse, Sir J. C.

195.
Parker, J.
Parnell, Sir H.
Peel, Hon. Sir N.
Perceval, Colonel
Phillipps, Sir It. P.,
Phillpotts, J.
Pigot, D. R.
Pigot, R.
Planta, J.'
Plumptre, J. P.
Polhill, Fretterick
Ponsonby, C.
Prae.l, W. T.
Protheroe, Edward
Rawdou, J. 1).
Reid, Sir John R.
Richards, R.
Roche, E. 11.
Russell, Loid John
Rutherfurd, A.
&Indent, Lord
Scarlett, J. Y.
Seale, Sir J.
Shaw, Fr,derick
Sheil, R. L.
Shir'ey, E. J.
Sibthorp, Colonel
S:aney, R. A.
Smith, It. Vernon
Somers, J. P.
Somerset, Lord G.
Standish, C.
Stanley, E.
Stanley, Lard
Staunton, Sit G. T.
Stock, Dr.
Stuart, Lord James
Stuart, Villiers
Style, Sir Chat les
Sugtien, Sir Edward
Surrey, Earl of
Talfourd, T. Noon
Tancred, H. W.
Teignunouth, Lord
Thompson, Aid.
Trench, Sir P.
Troubridge, Sir T.
Vivian, Major C.
Vivian, Sir R.
White, Colonel H.
Williams, Robert
Wilmington, Sir
Wodehouse, Hon. E.
Wood, Sir Matthew
Wood, Colonel
Wood, Colonel T.
Worsley, Lt rd
Wrightson, W. R.
Wynn, C. W.
Wyse, Thomas
Yates, J. A.
Young, John
Young, Sir L. W.

,
81ak.,, M. J. Hobhouse", T. B.
Bodkin, John James Hodges, T. L.
Bo)(Ur°, H. G Hodgson Richard
. .

,
Pctrield, Beriah Hogg, J., W.
Brainston, T. W. Holmes, W. A'Court
Bridgman, Hewitt Holmes, W.
Broadley, H. Houston, George
ltrocklehurst, J. Howard, B. G.
•Brodie, W. D. Howard, F. J.
Brownrigg, J. S. Howard, C. W. G.
Boller, E. Ingestrie, Lord
Buller, Sir J. Y. Ingham, Robert
Burr, Higtord Inglis, Sir R. H.
Campbell, Sir J. Irving, John
Canning, Sir S. Jackson Serje;nt
('antilupe, Lord James, Sir W. C.
Carew, Hon. R. S. Jenkins, Sir R.
Chapman* A. Jones Theobald

Christopher, R. A. Kelburne, Lord
Clay, W. Kibghtley, Sir C.
Clerk, Sir George Labouchore, H.
Cochrane, Sir T. Lascelles; W. S.
Collier, John Law, Hon. C. E.

Colquh.oun, J. C. Lennox, I.ord G.
t wry, Bight Hon. H. Listov;el, Earl of
Courtenay, Philip Litton, Edward
Cowper, lion. W. F. Lockhart, A.M.
Crawford, W. Lowther, J H.
Darner, Hon. G. Lushington, Hon. S.
Darby, George Lygon, Hon. Gen.
Donkin, Sir Itufatie Macauley, T. B.
I)ottin, Abel Rous Mackenzie, Thomas
Douglas, Sir C. Mackenzie, W. F.
Duncombe, W. Macnamara, W.
Eliice, itt. Hon. E. Marton, George
Evans, Sir De Lacy Meu!e, Hon. frog
Feilden, W. Meynell, H.
Ferguson, Sir Robert Miles, W.
Filiner, Sir Edward Morpeth, Viscount
Fit zalan ;.,ord Neeld, Joseph
Fort, John O'Brien, NV. Smith
Fortescuc, T. O'Connell, J.
Fox, S L, O'Connell, M. J.
Fremantle, Sir T. O'Connell, M.
French, F. (rFerrall, R. M.
Gladstone, W E. Ord, W.
Gladstone, J. N. Ossulston, ord
Gore, 0. J. It. Paget, Lord A.
Gore, 0. W. Paget, F.
Goring, H. D. Palmerston, Vlsct;

TELLERS.
Stanley. E. J.
Tufnell, H.

Aglionby, H. A.
Ainsworth, Peter
'Brinhridge, E. T.
Brotherton, J.
Biller, C.
Busfeild, William
Currie, ltaikes
Duke, Sir James
Duncombe, T. S.
Ellice, E.
Ewart, W.
Fielder, J.
Godson, It.
Ilawes, B.
rie‘:tor, C. J.
Heron, Sir It.

NORITY-NOES,
' Hindley, Charles
ttrwICIC, Lord
Hutton, R.
Jervis, Swynfeli -
Johnson, Goma'
Langdale, Hon. C.
Leader' J. T.
Lister, E .C.
Lushington, C.
Motesworth, Sin W.
Morrison, James
l'attison, J.
Philips, M.
Pryme, G.
Rice, E. B.

43.
Salwey, Color el
Scholefield, J.
.Stanstield, W. R. C
'Strickland, Sir G.
"rhornely, Thomas
Villiers, Charles I'.
Waklcy, Thomas
Walker, R.
Wallace, X
Warburton, 11.
Williams, W.
Wood, R.

TELLERS.
Hume, J.
Muntz, O. F.

LORD CARDIGAN'S TRIAL.

(From a Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday.)
Lord Chamberlain's office, House of Lords,
Feb. 13, 1841.
REGULATIONS. TO BE OBSERVED UPON THE ADMISSION
CF STRANGERS AT THE TRIAL OF THE EARL OF
CARDIGAN, FEB. 16, 1841.

The entrance to the House, under the colonnade, to
be closed and guarded by the police, and no person
whatever to be admitted at that door.

All strangers having tickets for either of the gal-
leries, the seats below the bar, or the steps of the
Throne, including pass tickets and the reporters for
the press, are to be admitted at the Peers' entrance,
the doors of which will be opened at half-past nine
o'clock. •
All persons so admitted are to produce their tickets
to the officers of the H3USC, stationed at the entrance,
but to retain them until they reach their places in
the House.
stationed
of
at each of these
The doorkeepers, assisted by the police, stationed in
to thethe steps of the
'Throne, her on: the doorkeeper,
the Royal Gallery, will examine the tickets;aantds
below
direct
strangers the way to their places.
the
the u t
r bar,
places, will receive the ticket from each granger, tear
off the corner, and return the ticket to the party, de-
siring him or her to retain it for the remainder of the
e andc in :ce the of
eachob bygallery,
leading
eay.
Persons quitting the House cannot return with the
same ticket ; and the doorkeepers and officers, sta-
tioned at the entrance, are, therefore, to take care that
no person is admitted with a ticket the corner of which
has been torn away.
When strangers are ordered to withdraw from the
House, those who occupy the seats below the bar are
to retire to the long gallery lending to the House of
Commons :—those in the galleries, Nos. l and 3, ate
to be conducted to the Royal gallery :—the members of
the corps diplomatique to the robing-room :—and those
in the g,illery, No. 4, to the lobby loading to the bar.
Ladies are expected not to wear bonnets in the
Court ; strangers will not be required to appear in full
dress.
(Signed) WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY, G.C.

The well-known theatrical agent, W. Sims,
breathed his last en Tuesday at his house in Long acre.
Ho and hii father had for fifty years acted in the capacity
of theatric.il agents. Through the instrumentality of the
deceased many of our greatest actors, in bygone as well as
in present da}s, were introduced to the stage. Amongst
theseinaybe mentioned
Mrs.mention Mrd
edieaynn 0/cherry, C. IncLedo'',
Hamblin, Meggott, , M! s. Alsop (Mrs. Jor.
den's daughter), &c. Mr. Sims was in his 53i year, and
has left a wife and two daughters.

TORY ATTACKS ON SIR R. PEEL.

(From the Examiner.)
The Times has opened its columns to a series of
attacks on Sir Robert Peel. The articles appear as
the contributions of a Correspondent, but the con-
ductor of the Times takes care to mark his opinion of
their merits by giving them the honours of the edi-
torial type, and to indicate the judgment on the case,
a reply in defence of the Tory leader is published in a
less conspicuous manner.
The attacks are written with much care, and a ma-
lice studied and ingenious. We have heard them as-
scribed to the most pugnacious of Bishops, supposing that
he could write like a gentleman, which, it was added,
he might do to disguise himself. Such a masquerade
would certainly be most complete for the purpose of
concealment, but we doubt whether the habit could be
worn, even for the nonce, by a person so inveterately
addicted to abuse. The malignity, too, is under a re-
gulation of art which the passions of the Prelate re-
ferred to would never brook. Besides, we c Annot be-
lieve that, even for the greater success in assaulting a
character, he would refuse his vanity the pleasure of
sending forth his writings with the signature of his
name, so hacknied in every kind of contention for the
'est quarter of a century.
We are not in the habit of complimenting Bishops,
hut we must say that it is to the credit of the Bench
that these letters on Sir Robert Peel's Taniworth
speech have only been imputed to one of the number;
and after all it is said that they are toe good for him
and too bad for any one else.
The head and front of Sir Robert's offending is the
opinion that men are the better for knowledge of any
kind. For this he is declared to be a Brummagem
Brougham, and a disciple of a school of philosophy not
accepting Christian principles as the guide of life ; in fact,
he is argued to be little better, Vat allbetter, than a heathen,
and charged with preferring heathen to religious lights
when both shine on the same truths. His assailant,
indeed, is indulgent enough, in the manner of Mrs.
Candour, to declare that it would be "cruel uncha-
ritableness to suspect Sir Robert Peel of disbelief," and
he even goes so far as to say,
" Most cheerfully do I render to so religious a man
as Sir Robert Peel the justice of disclaiming, on my
part, the idea that he has any intention at all to put
aside religion." _ _

But Mark what follows—the veuomed sting in the
tail of the concession,

" Yet his words either mean nothing, or they do, both
on their surface, and when carried into effect, mean
something very irreligious."
So that we have here the great leader of the party
pretending to the possession of the wisdom and religion
of the country, charged either with uttering words with-
out meaning, or with a meaning "very irreligious" both
on the surface and in effect. At best, the chief of the
Conservative party is thus the fool flinging about fire-
brands. His morals are only acquitted only on the
grossest inculpation of his understanding for a meaning
" very irreligious on the surface" is charitably supposed
to have escaped his apprehension.
Observe, too, the insolence with which exbotta-
tions of Sir Robert are treated in this passage,
where tho Conservative chief is likened to " a street
preacher, or the cad of an omnibus" :

6' Whence these cries rising on our ears, of ' Let me
entreat you!' Neglect not the opportunity !' It
will not be our fault !" Here is an access for you !"
very like the tones of a street preacher, or of the cad
of an omnibus, little worthy of a great statesman and
a religious philosopher ?"
And in the same paper in which these crowning con-
tumelies appeared, the Times editorially says :
" We insert one more letter from our correspondent,
Catholicus.' It is necessary to use some caution upon
this subject. We find an idea gradually creeping forth
—probably only among very hasty reasoners—that our
attachment to Sir Robert Peel is sustaining some di-
minution. A morning paper also, the organ of the
Government, throws out hints to that effect, and casts
an imputation upon us of being influenced by a bigoted
party—acting under the highest impulses of Toryism.
Now the answer to such an imputation is, to mcn of
taste and judgment, easily found in the letters them-
selves. Was it fit that such letters should be sup-
pressed or rejected ? Sir R. Peel himself, we arc con-
vinced, as a man of learning and knowledge, would
answer that question in the negative."
Would any degree of skill in argument and compo-
sition induce the Times to give a conspicuous place in
its columns to a panegyric on Lord John Russell or
Lord Melbourne ? Would any excellence in style or
reasoning at this moment tempt it to publish a series
of elaborate attacks on Lard Stanley or Lord Lynd-
hurst ?
The Times, in continuation, says-,-

" We know not whether it be our misfortune or not,
but certainly the fact isand we refer to the past his-
tory of this journal for the confirmation of it—that we
have judged of public men, have adhered to or rejected
them, without any reference whatever to their political
position : whether they were in or out of office has
made no difference with us ; and Sir Robert Peel's ob-
vious approach to her Majesty's councils, from the in-
capacity of those who now direct them, does in no de-
gree tend to make us think cr speak a-lore highly of his
talents than we have hitherto done. - lie is beyond ail
doubt a great and able statesman—virtuous and disin-
terested—much more capable of directing the councils
of the Sovereign than those by whom her Majesty is
at present surrounded ; but still not infallible ; and it
is right that he himself should know what great and
able men think of him."
When before •has the Times held that it was desir-
able that the chief of a party should be set up as a
cock-shy, in order that he might have the benefit of
perceiving what men were disposed to have a fling at
him, and what they were pleased to fling, whether
cabbage-stalks, rotten eggs, stones, or brickbats? You
will not object to standing in our pillory, says the
Times, in effect, to Sir Robert Peel, as it will make
you intimately acquainted with the precise missiles
which people think you deserve to have flung at your
head.

It is not a little remarkable that these attacks on
the Tory leader should be made at a time when, ac-
cording to the Tory prophets, he and his party are
on the very threshold of office. Tho industry em-
ployed at such an instant to pull down the character
of cx7' *oviv, the _ man of character of the Tory
party, is passing strange.
It has been often observed that Sir Robert Peel
is too good for his party, and is• it that they are
cow blackening him a little to make him appear more
suitable to their occasions ? To borrow Sheri-
dau's words, do they disfigure him to pass him
the better for their own? Whatever may be the object,
the attempts to damage Sir Robert Peel's repute make
the most curious exhibition in party history. That the
Tories hate their leader has long been . notorious, but
that they cannot do without him is equally certain ;
and in this case of aversion on the one side and ne-
cessity on the other, the middle course of damaging the
indispensable is a most singular result of the composi-
tion of forces.

But perhaps the Tories are beginning to flatter them-
selves that they can do without Sir Robert Peel, and if
so, it is natural that they should think proper to apprize
him that he must conform to the narrow, bigoted views
of his party, and renounce every popular or- liberal
pretension, or cease to be their chief.

There was a time when we believe that th Tories
would have done better as a party, and of course
worse for the people, under the guidance of a
Lyndhurst than a Peel ; there was a time when
they might have made a stouter stand for things as they
were, when the system existed as an undisturbed whole,
and it was asserted impossible to improve it. Sir Ro-
bert Peel destroyed the prestige of excellence, admitted
faults, did enough to impair the credit and stability of
the o:d pile, and not enough for a reconstruction on
better principles. Ho just did enough himself in inno-
vation to let in the larger and more beneficial innovation
of others. In thus going far enough to unsettle, he hit
his party, most luckily for us, between wind and water ;
but that once done, and compromise sot going, Sir Ro
hers has become as necessary to his party in its present
state as he was perhaps detrimental to is in its former
state:; and, us enemies, we can wish it no worse than to
lose its plausible leader.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GRAND JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.--WHITMORE, THURSDAY.—A frightful
conclusion took place at this station between the Man-
chester and Liverpool goods trains this morning, which
was attended with the less of life of one individual. Both
engines were slightly damaged, the two pig-waggons were
smashed to pieces, and, with the pigs, strewed about the
line in every direction. One of the pig-drivers, James
Nester, 'from Telsh, county Roscommon, was found
amongst the pigs with his face covered with blood, one
thigh broken, and otherwise injured. lie was conveyed
with all possible care to the railway office, and an express
sent to Newcastle for medical assistance ; but the poor
fellow never spoke, ar.d just about the time of the arrival
of the surgeon he breathed his last. The other driver
was also injured, but not so much so as to prevent his
being removed to the infirmary at Stafford. Twenty-five
of the pigs werc killed by the concussion. The luggage
waggons were only slightly injured, and, strange to say,
the engineers kept their places on the engines, and were
of in the least hurt.

MURDER AT 111ExsoRouGH.—A murder has
taken place at Mexbarough. The deceased's name is
Ann Seigel], a widow. 62 years of age, who resided in a
house near the Don Pottery. On the night of the 23th
of January some persons were heard to say they would
have a spree with the old woman, and they then began
to throw stones at her doors and windows, breaking
several panes of glass. The deceased went out with an
old gun, thinking to frighten them away. The gun,
which was without a lock, was taken from her by the
two men, whose names are Wm. Hepworth and George
Eastwood, the latter a resident of Mexborough, and who
then, having forced their way into her house, beat her
with the gun over the head and body so severely, that she
lingered from that time until Tuesday last, when she died
from the effects of the wounds. A Coroner's Jury have
returned a verdict of" Wilful murder against Wm. UV-
worth and Geo. Eastwood." They are committed, to
York to take their trial at tte easuirg assizes.-1"'"
caster Gazette.