The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-01 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION

SECON D EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Cloak.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP THIS DAT.
(From the Globe.)
Whenever the Tories happen to be in a small mine,.
rity upon a division of the House of Commons, the
Conservative organs of the Press amuse themselves
and their readers by endeavouring to show that the
defeat their patty has sustained is, in fact, a victory.
It may be very satisfactory to the patrons of the
Standard to be carried through a series of statistics
about " pairs," " absentees," " deserters," " the Irish
tail," and " place-holders," until they are brought to the
comfortable conclusion that a majority of five against
them is one of thirty two in their favour ; but as long
as the simple yet inflexible rules of the unerring
Cocker continue to prevail, it will be impossible to
snake 294 a greater number than 299, however hard
the Tory scribes may ltbour to prove it so. It is really
amusing to notice the various ingenious devices to
which Conservative calculators resort, in order to
" lay the flattering unction to their souls" that the
state of numbers in the recent division was the result of
anything rather than an expression of the sense of the
Howe of Commons,—which is the obvious and only
solution of the triumph of tl e Government. The Oppo-
sition papers go into absurd and puerile details about
casualties having kept away from the House on the
eventful night such and such of their frionds—whereas,
if these casualties arc to be taken into account, it might
probably be shown that the greater number of absent
members would have voted on the side of Ministers.
There is something particularly cool in the proposi-
tion to deduct 40 from the majority as about the num-
ber of Ministers and place-holders who voted on Thurs-
day last,—the objection taken to them being grounded,
it is presumed, on interest ; but, if there be 40 who
voted holding place, it would be curious to ascertain
how many were, by the hope of place, induced to swell
the minority. Taking it for granted, at a moderate
calculation, that for every office filled by the Whigs
there arc on an average at least three greedy expectants
among the Tories, surely, if 40 place holders are to be
struck off on one side, 120 place hunters ought to be
struck off on the other.

(From the Standard.)
The two grounds of apology for Lord Morpeth's
Bill are, fist, that the franchise qualification is un-
certain in Inland ; and, secondly, that the consti-
tuencies are in a dec!ining state, and in danger of
being further diminished if purged of fraudulent votes.
The fal,ehood of both pretexts was triumphantly de-
monstrated in the four days' debate. The franchise
qualification was proved to be as certain in Ireland as
in Great Britain, if words wean the same thing on the
one side of St. George's Channel as on the other.
It is nothing, to the purpose to say that a few Whig-
Ridical 1 twyer.., iltvated to the bench from tie obscurer
ranks of the bar fo:- factious purposes, interprt t the law
d:fferently from all the Judges of Eiigl led and the
gre it majority of the Irish Judges. The law is still
the same. rite law was not altered either as to cer-
tairty or effect by the corrupt misinterpretation of
the Judges of the first Charles or the second James ;'
two and two make four, though knaves may try
to mislead u., or loots may mislead themselves
by saying that they make five. It is a remarkable
fact, that every English 1 twyer, who spoke in the
debate, from Sir Wiliiam FoLett downwards,
langhed to scorn the pretence that the e could
be any honest or rational doubt as to the Irish fran•
chise que.l ficatior, and the only Irish lawyers who
affected, however faintly, to defend such a doubt we-e
Mr. Pigot the Precursor, and Mr. Daniel O'Connell
the R'pealer. The motives of these Persons are easily
urderstood.

(From the- Coutier.)

Considerable attention has been devoted of late years
to the subject of lunatic asylums, and generally the pub-
lic have foil stved with much interest the course of those
improvements in the treatment of insane and unhappy
objects, and is hospital discipline, which have honoura-
bly characterised the present time and the many phi'an-
tbrapic persons by whom promotel It was therefore
natural that ttose who had t teen leading parts in per-
fecting new institutions and reforming defective modes
of practice, where falling within the scope of their du-
tics or observation, should in the progress of their la-
bours be led to inquire into the systems prevailing in the
noble and older foundations of the country, with a view
to correct such abuses as might have crept through time
into the general management, and of ameliorating, or,
if need were, of ref )acing, by more enlightened modes
of treatment, the special methods established when the
moral phenomena of the limentable disease of lunacy
were more imperfccrly understood only, or when, in
fact, it was treated almost exclutively as the province
of nac.lical art and medicine, to the neglect of the appli-
ance of those moral agents, which aro now found so cf-
fectire to the end, of kind treatment, soothing language,
gtntle demeanour, gradual weaning of the less cx•.
cited brain from the particular origin of irritability and
impercepfble restoration at length, as symptoms bccan e
list disturbing and lucid intervals more frequent, of the
mental faculties. Under the influence of such feelings
and desires, it wa•, therefore, that the state of the
Royarklospital of Bethlem attracted the notice of certain
inquiring and benevolent minds among the governors
thernselae,, as well as among the public, and this nas
t`►e less remarkable, as, so far back as 1814, the result of
a Parliamentary inquiry disclos- d the existence of 1 e o 1 t-
in g barbarities in regular practice there upon the most un-
protected and unfortunate of all objects. It is not
with the intention of now throwing discredit on the
management that u e allude to the disgusting de-
t i s embo lied in that Report, such as we find them
quct•d in a very able pamphlet of " Six Litters to the
President of Bethlhem Hospital, on the Management
of that Establishment," lately published by Simpkin and
Marshall. We arc quite of opinion with the candid
author, that " A perusal of the List of Governors is alone
sufficient to sati.fy the most prejudiced objector, that no
abuse will be wilfully upheld ; and that if Bethlem does
not take that rank in public estimation to which, by its
wealth, its power, and its respectability, it is entitled, it
is because of the sluggish nature of its constitution,
and the uchesitating belief of its members that all is
rightly done when all is rightly intended." But it
cacnot be denied that there has been, and still is, pro-
bably, much wanting to promote the more extensive
usefulness of the Hospital.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lord hips met at Five o'clock.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS—CASE OF

MR. BAINES,

Lord MONTEAGLE preserted a petition from
Leicester for the liberation of Mr. Baines, and for an
alteration of the laws relating tl Ecclesiastical Courts.
The Marquis of NORM ANBY laid on the table
tl,elast B.' plrt of the Poor-law Commissioners.
The
Bishop of EXETER presented a petition from
Carlow, against the Parliamentary grant to the Col-
lege of Maynooth.
The Earl
of RIPON begged to ask his Noble
Friend the Secretary for
h
whether there was any objection itioemla on the table
Home Department
Department
of the House papers relating to the condition
of a. new colony, known
tby.lle name of
as
he
South Australia. That colony, understood,sto hasr,e
bad been formed on a new principle, and v
supported itself, but t'e managers of ita
they contrived
to incur a debt of upwards of 30,0001., w i
no means on earth of paying. It was said that thcy iand-
tended to call upon the pablic to pay it ; and if that
was their intention, he (Lord Ripon) thought it desir-
able that their Lordships should have some information
on the subject in the mean time.
The Marquis of NORMANDY said that if his
Noble Friend tiould put his question in a definite form,
be would endeavour to lay the information desired
before the House.
THE EARL OF CARDIGAN'S TRIAL.
Lord DENMAN presented a petition from onehof
i
the clerks of the Central Criminal Court, praying t at
the depositions forwarded from that Court, in the case
of the Earl of Cardigan, might be returned, as they
would be required in the approaching trial of Captain
Douglas, Tne Noble and Learned Lord supported
the prayer, and moved that the depositions be returned
by messes of of their Lordships' own.—Ordered.
CHURCH INTRUSION (SCOTLAND).
The Earl of DALHOUSIE gave notice that he
would to-morrow evening put a question to the Earl of
erdeen , as to the course which he meant to pursue
this SessiOil,on the subject of the intruson of Ministers
in the Church of Scotland.
Their Lordships then adjourned at Twenty Minutes
past Five o'Clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
Mr. ARMSTRONG took the oaths and his scat as
Member for the King's County. The Hon. Member
was introduced by Lord Morpeth and Colonel Wasteora.
On the motion of Mr. WALLACE, the Glasgow,
Paisley, and Greeoock Railway Bill, was read a second
time.

Mr. HURT presented a petition from a place in
Derbyshire against the Poor-law Amendment Bill.
Mr. DUNBAR presented petitions from places in
Armagh and Antrim in favour of Lord Stanley's Irish
I
Registration Bill.
Mr. HUTTON presented a petition fromtheJes
of Dublin, praying that they
might be
allowed to
th of the Ist
ac-
cept of corporate offices by taking the oath
and 2d of Victoria.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL presented a petition
from Liverpool, signed by 22,t,00 persons, praying for
the repeal of the Union.
Captain BRYAN presented petitions from parishes
in Kilkenny, in favour of Lord Morpeth's Bill ; and
against that introduced by Lord Stanley, for the Re-
gistration of Voters in Ireland.