The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1846.

social system. In plainer language, the Protectionists
form the symbol of those agricultural fallacies
by which the mercantile transactions of our forefathers have
been regulated and crippled ; and as the representatives even
of ancestral errors we have been, and still continue, ready to
award them a conceivable amount of consideration. If ob-
stinate in their attachment to a most erroneous and ob-
noxious cause, they may almost shadow themselves under
the umbrage of generation upon generation of a like obsti-
nacy. What we have considered as reprehensible in the
Protectionists, has not been so much their persistence in an illu-
sory train of arguments, as the manner in which they trifled
with the time most precious to a commercial country, and
the manner likewise in which we regretted to perceive them
forsaking a rational discussion upon the merits of a system,
for the somewhat irrational enunciation of personalities!.
For the nature of any one's opinions it is impossible
for us to condemn an individual ; and the same
reasoning is, of course, applicable to a company of individuals.
Freedom of opinion is indeed quite as desirable as freedom of
commerce : the one being as likely to fructify the mind as the
other is to nourish the body. It was not, therefore, for their senti-
ments, but rather for the unfortunate manner in which these
sentiments were propounded, that we regarded the Pro-
tectionists as worthy of reprehension. And it is be-
cause we are sanguine that their colleagues in the
Upper House will recognise, by the recent division in the
Commons, the futility of any extended opposition that we
turn to that Right Honourable Assembly animated by
a double curiosity and inspired by a double hope.
Those amongst their Lordships who are imbued with
genuine feelings of attachment to the old-fashioned
policy of emasculating agriculture and manufacturing
industry by a series of protective imposts, must,
nevertheless, allay their enthusiasm in its cause for their
own interests, for the interests of agriculture, and for the
general interests of the empire. They must, in the first
instance, perceive the impracticable nature of any endeavour
to sustain their own system by pertinacity of antagonism ;
they must derive this conviction from experience, from the
records of all former measures, from the pages of .Hansard
during the four months last past. With reference to their
own interests, the Peers must calculate the contingencies of a
rebuttal on their part, supposing that to be possible ; they
must reflectupon the consequences of this great Bill (which
has already received the accordance of the people-. and of the
House of Commons) being rejected by the aristocracy.
And what, according !Its the most rational deductions,
would those contingencies actually be ? What would be the
most probable effects of such a rejection, or which amounts
to something tantamount,- of such a mutilation of the mea-
sure as would ensure the refusal of the popular representa-
tives ? Would not much of their Lordships' influence among
the multitude be jeopardized? Would not the population
look upon the Chamber of Peers as the only obstacle
between themselves and untaxed provisions? Would not the
whole onus of that rejection rest upon their shoulders, and by
inference militate against that respect and that confidence
which the English people have hitherto reposed in their
councils ? The consequences of such a diminution of esteem
and of such a dispersal of confidence are too ostensible to re-
quire any more explicit definition. It_ behoves their Lordships
to weigh these considerations well before they tamper with a
whole people; It behoves them to reflect, also, whether by the
refusal of an act which the vast majority consider as an act
of solemn justice, they•may not hazard a still greater struggle
for political reformation— whether the popular mind might
not be so far excited by the contempt thus displayed to-
wards this Bill, as to insiet upon still more mo-
mentous changes—whether a people, thus thwarted in
their demand for cheap food and untrammelled commerce,
might require not only a removal of all importation duties
upon grain, but, in the flush of their indignation, revive the
question of the franchise, the ballot, triennial Parliaments,
and other similar requisitions. By refusing their ac-
quiescence to the present Bill the Lords would ensure the
instant dissolution of Parliament, and in conse-
quence an immediate appeal to the country. By
making that appeal to the country at this moment,
and under such peculiar circumstances, they would lite-
rally be tempting the excitement of the populace with-
out doors ; and, instead of extinguishing what some amongst
them erroneously conceive to be a mine laid down for their
destruction, they would be setting a torch to a most
inflammable train, and one whose explosion is at all times
and seasons to be avoided: Such considerations as these, fas
from being illusory or superfluous, are absolutely requisite
for the due appreciation of the juncture ; and ear-
nestly do we trust they will not be over-
looked by our aristocracy. We would fain an-
ticipate, from the quiet manner in which their Lord-
ships allowed the Corn Importation Bill to be read a
first time yesterday evening, that these reflections may al-
ready be influencing them as to their behaviour during the
debate. On Monday next the second stage of the measure
will transpire in that sedate and august assembly of our le-
gislators, when the people will look to their Lordships for a
rational opposition and a rational dispatch. More is involved
in the mode by which the Peers will signify their judgment
upon this question than human sagacity can possibly con-
jecture. We desire neither leniency nor precipitation ; we
yearn only for justice, and for a speedy and a peacefu
decision

Madrid papers of the I Ith have arrived.

BOLBA., 11.—Three per Cents., 33 for cash,
E xchange on London, 36%.

In Vie Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, 111.171vme brought
forward his annual motion for depriving magistrates of the
right of naming the journals in which legal notices should be
advertised, inasmuch as the power had been abused in the
Departments, for the purpose of corrupting the provincial
journals. The Keeper of the Seals denied that the power
had ever been abused, and the motion was rejected by 194
to 154.

The Gazette de France has been found guilty of a libel
on the KING in its observations on the attempt of
LECOMTE. The gerant has been sentenced to four month's
imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 3,000 francs.
The Moniteur contains official dispatches from Marshal
BUGEAUD, who was at Milianah on the Eth, en route to
Oued Rouina, to operate against the mountaineers of that
district. A/M-EL-KADER was said to be among the
Amianes Garabas, and Bou MAZA was preaching the holy
war in the Ouarensenis.

The Railway Bill sent up from the Deputies to the
Peers, sanctioning the direct adjudication, by the Minister
of Public Works, instead of adjudication by public
bidding, has been referred by the Peers to a Select
Committee. The Committee met on Saturday, and "we
understand," says the Journal des Dibats, "that three of the
members of the Committee are opposed to the measure,
three of them are favourable to it, and that the seventh had
moved the adjournment of the Committee until Monday,
which was agreed to, on which day the Committee will
examine the Minister of public works and the members of
the Council of Administration."
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILW4XS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 18.
Central ofSpain, I%—Ceylon, 36—Demerara, 2% —Dutch Rhenish,
i%—East Indian, h —Namur and Liege, 43i—Orleans and Bor-
leant, 11—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 73i —Rouen and Havre, 2914.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
!YEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT and ALDERMAN FAREBROTHER.)
Margaret Sorrell, a .; oung woman, servant of all-work to Mrs.
Bayley, Gold-street, St. George's-in-the-Fields, was indicted for
stealing two gowns, a shawl, shins, stockings, a purse containing 51.
in gold and siver, and a 51. Bank note, the property of her mistress,
on the 30th of April. On that day her mistress had occasion to
!eave the kitchen where the prisoner was, and the property, the shifts
Ind shawl, and the gown with the money in the pocket ; but during
mar absence up stairs the servant gathered all and made her escape.
Next morning she was found by the policeman with the property in
her possession, when she confessed she had left her place and robbed
her mistress.

The jury found her Guilty, and she was sentenced to nine months'
imprisonment and hard labour.
George Ambers, a well-dressed boy, was indicted for stealing a
watch-chain, ring, and seal, a silver guard-chain, a brequet-
chain, a telescope, books, a pair of shoes, some money, and several
other articles,
Bromptou-road the property 01 Mr. Rayner, his master, pawnbroker,.
The evidence, which wits taken on only a few of the articles, went
to show that these articles were fcund in an open drawer, and the
edthweith an intention to steal.
lad himself admitted to his 'muter that they were his property, and
that:trifle.
had been removed from their place by himself.
prisoner, and said it did not appear
The jury found him Guilty, but with a recommendation to mercy.
In hope that the prosecutor might have joined in this recommen-
dation he was called up by the prisoner's Counsel into the witness-
box, but Mr. Rayner said he could not recommend the boy to mercy,
thingsr s
weree fe n
takend
knowing the things which had not been disclosed to the
Court. Being pressed by the Court to explain his 'meaning, Mr.
Rayner said, that there :was evidence that a great deal of property,
for which he would have to be answerable, had been taken away;
a great deal of it destroyed, parts of it havingibeen found in the water-
closet, and parts he had with him in Court. Two letters were handed
up to the Court by the witness, which we understood, for they were
kept private, made disclosures as to the theft and disposal of large
quantities of the property of the prosecutor.
The COURT, aster a good deal of consultation, sentenced the pri-
soner to six 'youths' imprisonment and hard labour.
The prisoner is only sixteen years of age, and came of respectable
parents.
_.. ..

Lydia Prior, Ann Eldridge, and Mary Davis, were indicted for
stealing 78 yards of printed calico from the shopdoor of Mr. Clay,
inendraper, Broadway. They were all three seen on the Bth of
May hovering about Mr. Clay's door, near to which the calico was.
Prior went into the shop and came out again, crossed the
street, and was joined by the other two. They returned after
x short time to the same shop, and Prior went in, followed by Bid-
ridge, while DAVIS stood at the door. Eldridge was seen to lift the
prints and walk out and down the street, with others in her cora-
-1 ally, for about twenty yards, when they separated. Eldridge was
taken into custody with the goods in her possession, and the other
two were arrested as aiding and abetting in the Act.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against each.
Lydia Prior, who had been convicted of a similar offence before,
was sentenced to twelve months', Ann Eldridge to six months', and
Mary Davis to four months' imprisonment and hard labour.

BOW-STREET.-( THIS DAY.)
STEALING FixTuaes NO TIIEFT.—An Irishwoman whose name we
did not hear, was charged with stealing a lock, the property of John
Murphy.

The Complainant said the prisoner lodged in his house, and owed
him some money for rent. On Sunday night she took the method of
paying the arrear commonly described as " shooting the moon." In
the complainant's own words " She went away, sir, and took her
things, and took the lock off the door."
Mr. HENRY—And what do you charge her with•—stealing her
own things? Complainant—Stealing the lock, sir.
Mr. HENRY—The lock is a fixture? Complainant—Yes, sir.
Mr. HENRY—Then it is not a felony, it Is a trespass
The complainant was about to enter into a charge of assault, but
the Magistrate would not allow that to be made a part of this case
as the prisoner was not charged with assault, but with felony.
The prisoner was discharged, Mr. HENRY observing that the com-
plainant ought not to have given her In custody on such a charge, as
toe only remedy was by civil law.

111ARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY).
A DARING FEMALE BURGLAR.—Elitabeth Brown, a female of
shabby appearance, about 25 or 30 years of age, was charged with
burglariously entering the dwelling-house of Mr. Henry Francis, of
No. 3, Brown-street, Grosvenor-square, taylor, with intent to steal,
&c. It appeared that between 10 and 11 o'clock last -evening the
Prosecutor had occasion to enter the back room on the first floor,
which he had left securely locked but a short time previously. Find-
ing the door was unfastened, he rushed into the apartment, and die.
covered the prisoner secreted behind the door. She instantly passed'
lihn, and running up stairs to the second floor landing-place, threw
lip the window, and dropped a large bundle of skeleton and other
keys into the street. She was then secured and given in charge to
be police. A key, which opened the door of the room, was found
t brown into a coal-scuttle by the fireside. The drawers, tea-caddies,
re., were found to have been completely rummaged, and property, I
c onsisting of plate, wearing apparel, &c., placed in readiness for
r enloyal.
2.11 r. MALTBY asked the prisoner what she had to say in answer to
,h`i charge against her ?—The prisoner said she was drunk, and
lQ:low nothing about it.
Air. MALTBY asked if she was known ?—Sergeant Tice, No. 3, of
the C division, said she had been convicted at the Central Criminal
Cmnrrt of a burglary, committed under similar circumstances, and
se iGteneed to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour, which
sue`' underwent, and had only been a very short time discharged. She
had also been identified as being inculpated in a robbery committed
on S aturday night last in the neighbourhood.
T 1 tomes Mauld, police-constable, No. 123, of the C division, said
If th e prisoner was remanded he had no doubt he should be able to
trao e to her possession the produce of several robberies she had been
env :ged in.
241 r, MALTBY ordered her to be remanded until this day week.
A

.BORIGINES' PROTECTION SOCIETY.—The. ninth an-
nual meeting of this society, which is established to watch over the
inter eats of the various races of free aborigines in different parts of
the 1 vorld, by protecting them from the aggressions of the whites,
aria affording them medical and spiritual aid, was held yesterday in
On a d
r. loy Hall, Bishopsgate-street, Charles Hindley, Esq.,
M.P., in the
eh: Dr. Hodgkir, the secretary, read the report, from which it
ap .g ared that in Australia there were one million, in the South Seas
on :, . million, in North and South America half a million,' in Southern
an.i' Western Africa two millions, exclusive of several millions of
abo :1 Sines in British India, the Eastern Archipelago, and Indian
Oc 3; n. The report having detailed at great length the efforts of the
so< i ety on behalf of these tribes, stated that after the year's expendi-,
tn. ...c there remained a balance of 1391. 135., and that Mr. Samuel
nin bt: joit'clllocklNyesliteridi;
Go r, ley had been elected president, vice the late Sir Thomas Fowler
Bn ,xi en, Bart. The report was adopted, after which the officers for
the y ear ensuing were elected, and thanks voted to the chairman.
bn, tie out in the stabling of Messrs. Soulsby and Co., coal-merctanntea
111 iford-lane, Strand. Workmen had been employed
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morning- L A Na Ef I
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attendedT E A/ i D .
with STRAND.—Shortly h o
seriousr tl
dbamaefog.ree:
:e3sary for soldering used by the plumbers that the beams
ign - ilied. On return from breakfast the fire was discovered, when
nnee: W cistern for the horses, and it is supposed that frionm%b:claigmhet
ev, try parson present used his utmost exertions to arrest the progress
of Cie tire, whilst others went to Farringdon-street, Chandoa
str
withips W dapied 10 GOP
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et t, and other fire-stations. The firemen and engines were soon
on
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tend and watch the proceedings; but this was not all, civil
CP
proceedingkwere also instituted, and in each case a verdict
of 400/. damages, with costs, was obtained against the par-
ties. We cannot too earnestly impress on all persons who
have apprentices the absolute necessity of treating them
kindly. They take upon themselves serious duties and solemn
obligations. The above case will, we hope, convince them of
the danger they incur of severe punishment and heavy
pecuniary loss if they violate their obligation, and take un-
due advantage of the situation in which they are placed, of
the power entrusted to their hands.

We find in a Frankfort paper of the 15th a short account
of a collision between the military and the people at Ulm,
in which many were wounded; the cause of the collision is
not stated.

. According to the Frankfort Journal, it is Prussia which has
prevented a partition of Cracow. On the other measures to
be taken in consequence of the ista insurrection there was
little or no difference of opinion between the three Powers.
The Weser Gazette gives the credit of preserving the inde-
pendence of Cracow to M. Gumar. "On the 18th of April,"
says that journal, "a dispatch was sent from Vienna to Paris*
calling on the French Government either to banish the
Polish exiles from France, or confine them to some one par-
ticular department. M. GUIZOT, in reply, declared the Go-
vernment could not do either; and, on the part of France,
protested against any infringement, by the three Powers, of
that portion of the treaty of Vienna which guaranteed the
independence of Cracow,"

The Gazette contains a decree appointing M. VILLAVERDE,
a Member of the Cortes, Under-Secretary of State of the
Interior.

The brig Nervion, which had pronounced at Vigo,
and on board which the insurgent chiefs, including
General lIIIARTE escaped to Portugal, arrived at
Gibraltar on the 3d of May. The Spanish authorities
at Algesiras claimed her on the sth. The Governor deli-
vered up the shiii, but offered the protection of the Briti:th
flag to the crew, thirteen of whom availed themselves of the
offer and remained at Gibraltar. The, vessel herself was
taken to Cadiz.

The Grand Doke CONSTANTINE of Russia had arrived at
Gibraltar, where he found the Duke and Duchess of SAGE
COBURG.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
In the Chamber of Peers, on Friday, the Marquis Ds
BOISSY complained of the conduct of the Government in pro-
moting a colonel to the rank of major-general merely be-
cause he could command a: certain number of. votes.
According to the statement of the Marquis DE BOISSY this
colonel, who was desirous of promotion, could not obtain
the necessary recommendation of his superior officers, and
applied to the Minister of War, who refused to grant him
his promotion, as being contrary to the rules of the service,
whereupon certain Members of the Chamber of Deputies
waited upon MM. GUIZOT and DUCHATEL, and declared to
them that the officer in question must be promoted to the
rank of major-general, as the price of his promotion was
thirty votes at the approaching elections.
The Minister of War indignantly denied the accusation,
end enumerated the services of the officer in qiiestion, who
had been in the army forty-three years, which he considered
quite sufficient to entitle him to his promotion. A very
animated debate appeared likely to ensue, but it was cut
short by the Due DE BROGLIE, who declared the whole dis-
cussion irregular.

iII'AILWAY COMMITTEES

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
GROUP I.
LONDON AND YORE.

The Committee met this day at eleven o'clock, the Earl of Lore•
lace chairman.

The first witness sailed was a Mr. Radler, cattle dealer, of York,
Who was examined by Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKB—The grazing of cat-
tle was carried on to a very great extent at Lincolnshire. Lean cattle
w ere brought to that place and then fattened and sent to Rotherham
and other places to be disposed of. They were driven to those places,
and that had a deteriorating effect. The want of railway communica-
tion was much felt with regard to cattle. There would be a traffic
of 54,000 lean cattle alone brought by the railway from Lincolnshire
is the. ear. There was that amount at present, but when the rail-
way was constructed the numbers would considerably increase.
Spalding was a very rich grazing district, and would afford a very
large cattle traffic for a line of railway. had made out a table of
the cattle traffic from information which he had collected from
various sources.

Mr. HILDYARD said he had to object to such tables : he did not
object upon any other principle than that of guarding himself against
a similar objection on the part of his Learned Friend at another
stage of the inquiry. It was held to be the same in a Committee of
their Lordships as in a court of law, with respect to evidence,
namely, that the witness should only depose to that which came
under his knowledge.

The NOBLE CHAIRMAN—ExactIy 80.
Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE said that the tables which he put in could
be taken for what they were worth. With respect to objecting to his
Learned Friend under a similar position, he could assure him that no
such objection should be made.
The examination was then resumed—The cattle from Lincolnshire,
Peterborough, and other parts, had been driven to London. This
was very tedious, and occupied from six to seven days. They were
driven from one market to another on the way, and those which
were not disposed of reached the London market.
The NOBLE CHAIRMAN —What is the number of miles which cattle
travel in the day?

The witness-:That depended on the condition of the cattle; fat
cattle were not able to travel at such a rata as the lean ; the
former travelled at an average of ten or twelve miles a day, but the
others at the rate of twenty miles. The income from cattle traffic
alone would bring to the railway about 29,5151. 16s. 2d. Had no
doubt that the railway would be of the greatest advantage to the
cattle-dealers.

The witness was cross-examined by Mr. HILDYARD at great length,
for the purpose of showing that much of the traffic was already pro-
vided for by a line about to be made. The witness acknowledged
that his tables were prepared from the traffic which existed in 1844.