The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-18 00:00:00

JUNE 18, 1846.

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letter on this subject EAlli COMMUNICATIONbjct
has WITH
PORT JACKSON via SINGAPORE.
beenrecently
addressedrlTH
to Mr. Secretary Gladstone by Lieutenant Waghorn,
RN , detailing the plan proposed for establishing regu-
lar steam communication between Singapore and Port
Jackson, and showing the advantages which must accrue,
both to the colonies and to the mother country from its
establishment. Before, however' detailing his own plan
Lieutenant Waghorn thus states his objections to a plan
formerly proposed for establishing a route to Australia
yid Panama.
" The possession of the Isthmus of Panama, for pur-
poses of transit, has, it is well known, been desired, with
much eagerness, by successive French Administrations,
almost from the day that the colonial and Indian acqui-
sitions of England began to be a source of jealousy to
that country and to Spain. Whatever might be the
actual value to France of a passage through the Isthmus,
its agitation, at all events, served her views by en-
couraging the idea of that being the only route; because,
by so doing, it helped to divert attention from the real
route to be sought ; namely, one promoting a more inti-
mate connexion with the Eastern or Chinese Archi•
pelago—whose islands are far too numerous to mention,
indeed so numerous, that over many of them the British
flag has never yet waved.
" About seven years ago, the French engineers who
then surveyed Panama, estimated the expense of cutting
a ship canal through that mountainous region, at one
hundred and fifty millions of francs, or six millions
sterling—an outlay altogether and at once decisive
against any plan involving it. But, independent of this
insurmountable pecuniary objection, the first and only
stopping place between Panama and Port Jackson is dis-
tant no less than 3,668 miles from the former, being one
of the Marquesa Islands, where the French appear to be
carrying on a second Otaheite affair ; and where, if the
most recent and best-informed writers are to be cre-
dited, the maintenance of a proper station would be all
but impossible ; in so barbarous a state are the natives,
and- so utterly IncapabretrteiretlfftliraclVements
that would be useful, or the abandonment of habits that
would be destructive to a depot of Europeans. Objec-
tions to the Panama route might be multiplied; but it is
superfluous to add another. Everything is against it ;
nothing is in its favour ; and it is to be hoped we have
heard the last of any such wild and insane crotchet in
connexion with England at all. Its fallacy and absurdity
become transparent on a moment's examination; though
it may look very well on the map, to those whose ac-
quaintance with the map is confined to the school-room,
and who do not reflect that space is to be reckoned, not
by rule and compass, but by the facilities or difficulties
of getting over the distance."
Having thus disposed of the Panama proposition, he
proposes his own plan vie/ Singapore, of which he gives
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LATE MR. CANNING.
The following letter has been addressed to the editor
of the Times :
Sir,—lt may perhaps be of some interest to recal the
attention of your readers to the circumstances of the
opposition which was raised by the " violence of the
young Members of the Tory party," according to a pri-
vate letter of the late Lord Eldon, against the Adminis-
tration of Mr. Canning in 1827.
On the 12th of April Mr. Canning accepted the office
of First Lord of the Treasury, and in consequence
vacated his seat in the House of Commons. An ad-
journment of the House took place on the same day to
the Ist of May, for the purpose of giving Mr. Canning
utmosts gaves
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course
time to fill up the subordinate posts in his Ministry.
On the Ist of May Sir R. Peel explained the reasons
which had induced him to secede from Mr. Canning,
and in his exposition avowed that " he had no personal
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some of the Whigs "the bases
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the Catholic claims himself, he observed that if Sir
Francis Burdett and his Whig friends did not " insist
that the Cabinet should propose the granting of the
Catholic claims as a Government measure, they would
be parties to one of the basest, one of the most unna-
tural, coalitions that this country had ever witnessed,
and would exhibit the grossest abandonment of prin-
ciple." After showing that the Protestants of Ireland
could have no confidence either in Mr. Canning, or in
Lord Lyndhurst, his Lord Chancellor, he proceeded to
contend, that " if the Roman Catholics of that country
should be deluded by the prospect then held out to them
by those in power, he should hold the Government and
the Ministers of the Crown, and them alone, responsible
for every calamity that might overtake that country and
be thereby entailed upon this."
For this ebullition Mr. Brougham administered a severe
castigation to Mr. G. Dawson, and advised h'm to indulge
in future, as he hitherto had done, "in silent votes"
rather than " in petulant sneers."
The debate was closed by a speech from Mr. Canning,
in which he admitted that during the adjournment of
Parliament for the Ministerial negotiations he had kept
up with Mr. Peel the most constant and confidential in
tercourse, and had found in him throughout the same
candour and sincerity, and the expression of the same
just feelings and a uniform exhibition of the same high
principle to which he had laid claim in the address
which he had that night delivered. He also made use of
the following language relative to Mr. Peel and his late
colleagues in the Administration:—
" Between my Right Hon. Friend and myself it is almost
unnecessary for me to observe, that upon every subject, in
every discussion I can call to mind, upon all great questions
of foreign or domestic policy and legislation— this one un-
happy question of Catholic Emancipation excepted—there
has been that sort of general agreement, that I do not be-
lieve there exists the individual with whom my opinions are
in more complete accordance. " " • But as to others
of my late colleagues, I am not prepared to express an
opinion on the proceeding they have adopted, because of its
motives I am not aware.'

On the 3d of May Mr. George Dawson renewed his
attack on Mr. Canning; spoke of " the political farce
which the Right Hon. Gentleman had been carrying on
with wonderful success for the last five weeks ;" declared

that " Mr. Canning and his new allies had equally lost
sight of every principle which ought to have been sacred
to them; and denounced the conduct of the Premier

(Canning) as dictated by no other motive than the grati-
fication of his own personal ambition." He added, that
Mr. Canning " had not been over scrupulous as to the
means by which his ambitious course had been pursued."
Mr. Brougham said that a more violent and unhesi-
tating and unscrupulous party could hardly have been
gathered together, than that which had broken ground
two evenings before. He charged Mr. Dawson with
urging on the tried friends of the Catholic question to do
that very act which every rational man must see would
be fatal to the Catholic cause at that moment. He who
accused Mr. Canning of betraying the Catholics was
their ancient and avowed enemy. Such advice as Mr.
Dawson gave to the Catholic was the thinnest disguise
he had ever seen thrown by a virulent faction over its
naked depravity.
Mr. Peel then made a speech in defence of his own
policy, in which he again disclaimed all personal ani-
mosity to Mr. Canning.
Sir Francis Burdett remarked, in reply to it, that it
appeared to him that Mr. Peel was inoculated with the
virulence of the same spirit. He spoke at considerable
length in reprobation of the course pursued by Mr. Peel
and his personal supporters.
Mr. Canning, in reply to Mr. G. Dawson (and not, as
Mr. Disraeli asserted in his speech of Monday night, to
his Right Hon. relative), observed, that " he rejoiced to
find that the standard of opposition was at length raised.
Such an act is to me worth a thousand professions of
qualified neutrality. In whatever mind the feeling of
hostility lurks, let it come boldly forth, and boldly will
I meet it."

Mr. George Dawson closed the debate by declaring
that—

" Had he thought proper to go into all the details which
had been elsewhere alluded to, he might have recollected
some passages in the past life of Mr. Canning which would
justify some suspicions of that Right Hon. Gentleman as a
political character—some suspicions touching the manner in
which he had got his present office." He added, that " after
what had passed he must observe, that if Mr. Canning looked
back upon his experiences in past days, his reflections on
what had taken placE in those days m ould be of no gratifying
description."
Mr. William Peel, on the next day, spoke strongly
against the new Administration, and Mr. Canning as the
head of it :

" The appointment of Mr. Canning as First Lord of the
Treasury increased his apprehensions. He did not know how
the coalition was effected, but he thought there must have
been a sacrifice on one side or the ether." _

Of the effect produced by these debates I will give the
opinion of Lord Eldon, as stated in a letter
.quoted by
Mr. Twiss, in his life of that Nobleman, voL in., p. 1 :
" The violence of the young Members of the House of
Commons who are attached to the late Government has
done the ex-Ministers, as I feared it would, some damage.
John Bull don't like to see anybody too hard pressed, and
his pity sometimes leads him to inclination which his judg-
ment would not have approved, if commiseration had not
been excited." _ _ _

Shortly after the recess of Parliament Mr. Canning
died ; and the public impression at the time certainly
was that his death was hastened by the personal attacks
so incessantly made upon him by the near connexions
of Sir Robert Peel—whether with his approval or not,
others will decide. It is quite evident, from a letter of
Lord Eldon, inserted in the 3d volume of his life by
Mr. Twiss, that the family of Mr. Canning considered
him hunted to death by his political enemies ; for in a
letter addressed to Lady F. Bankes, on the 25th
January, 1828, his Lordship writes thus :
" Viscountess Canning has written a strong letter, as Lord
Ashley tells me, to Huskisson, strongly reproaching him for
joining (I use Ashley's own expression) her husband's mur-
derers." _ _ _

-------
The charge of being privy to these attacks has been
repeatedly preferred against Sir R. Peel ; but he has
always most indignantly repelled them. In his speech
on the second reading of the Catholic Emancipation
Bill he used the following language in denial of it :
" Allusions have been made to the memory of my Right
Hon. Friend, now no more (Mr. Canning), which have been
most painful to my feelings. An Hon. Baronet has spoken
of the cruel manner in which my Right Hon. Friend was
hunted down. Whether the Hon. Baronet was one of those
who hunted him down, I know not ; but this I do know,
that whoever did join in the inhuman cry which was raised
against him, I was not one. I was on terms of the most
friendly intimacy with my Right Hon. Friend down even to
the day of his death ; and I say with as much sincerity of
heart as man can speak, that I wish he was now alive to
reap the harvest which he sowed, and to enjoy the triumph
which his exertions gained."

Having thus furnished the public with means of de-
ciding on the point recently raised in Parliament as to
Sir R. Peel's connexion with the party who are charged
with this cruel treatment of Mr. Canning, I shall not
make any comments, or draw any conclusions of my
own from it, but subscribe myself
June 16. YOUR CONSTANT READER.

ROYAL ARTILLERY,--WOOLWICH,tain Price, Lieutenant Reilly, JUNE 1 6.—Cape
and Lieutenant Ford, one non-commis-
sioned officer, 27 gunners and drivers, and one drummer, embarked
at the Royal Arsenal, at four o'clock P.M. yesterday, on board the
Emily, for a passage to
Quebec, to fill up the vacancies in the compa-
nies in Canada. Captain Price and Lieutenant Ford join Captain
Symond's company at Kingston, Canada ; and Lieutenant Reilly,
Captain Bent's company at Quebec. Major-General Frederick
Walker has been appointed Commandant of the 7th battalion, vice
Fyers deceased; the appointment is dated MAY IS,
1 INQUEST ON THE HON. (COL. BuTLr,
s, York-road,
day, Mr. Carttar held an inquest at the Orrin
ed 72,f0r Kilkenny.
1546:p.
Tut
11.
Lambeth, on the body of Colonel Didier,
sag
Richard Green, ;re, he went, being requested,
last, whilst on duty at .Astley's Theatre, _
to York-street, and found
a police-constale, dopo ed that on Saturday night
to the house where the deceased
n resided.
first flr, locked from the inside.
°discovered heedeceased partially sitting
dining upon some lin H - e was quite
,and his hea re ,
tHhaevindogorfooref Tie
tbaheedkooro:mhd,e
upon a
us clothes on. IN itness noticed a bottle of medicine
mantel-piece, but nothing indicating that he had
deleterious mixture. Mrs. Eliza Femanday
taken any
sdteaandd,
ing and
on had
the
the deceased had regularly resided in her house
said
, ‘.
town,ears, during the period he had to be in
forgthe several j t,,,
attend ' his Parliamentary duties. She saw him last
alive oil Saturday at noon ; he then appeared more composed
than he had been during the previous day. An hour prior,
he was seized with a shivering sensation resembling the ague. Wit-
ness asked him to let her send for medical assistance, which he at
first refused, but afterwards he sent her to Mr. Farmer, a chemist, of
the Westminster-road, who gave him a mixture, of which he took
one dose. Witness then left him, and on her return to his bed-room
shortly afterwards silo found the door locked. Having knocked at
the door, she said, "It is time, Colonel, to take your medicine." Ile
replied, "Aye," a very common expression of his. At five o'clock
she heard deceased cough ; and at seven o'clock, on her husband re-
turning theme, he went to inquire whether he could be of any service
to the deceased, but he could get no answer. Their apprehensions
becoming excited, the door was forced, and the deceased was found
in the position previously described. Mr. William Culverwell, licen-
tiate of the Apothecaries' Company, said he was sent for to attend
the deceased on Saturday night. On his arrival he found deceased
dead, at al he had been so some time, probably three or 'four hours.
He had no doubt deceased died from natural causes. Verdict—
" Nature l death from general decal, of nature."
Ihe asphalte pavements in Manchester have melted
with the h eat of the sun, and the pedestrians have, in some instances,
found dozeolty hi releasing their feet from the pitchy substance:—
L*4,7W fitakwlan 1.

RAILWAY" BILLS (GROVP 58).
Report, That the parties opposing the Bristol ant: Blinthlgham
and Midland Railways Bill, and the Bristol and Gloucester and Bir-
mingham and Gloucester Railways Bill, had stated to the t._ mni",`.".—
that the evidence of John Wodley Hughes was essential, to enable
them to establish their case before the Committee ; and it Ihr(11;g
been proved that his attendance could not be procured without 1"
intervention of the House, the Chairman had been instructed by the
Committee to move the House, that he do attend the said Committee
to-morrow, at twelve of the clock.
Also, Report, That the parties opposing the Bristol and Birming-
ham and Midland Railways Bill, and the Bristol and Gloucester and
Birmingham and Gloucester Railways Bill, had stated to the Com-
mittee that the evidence of George Tate was essential, to enable
them to establish their case before the Committee ; and it having
been proved that his attendance could not be procured without the
intervention of the House, the Chairman had been instructed by the
Committee to move the House, that he do attend the said Committee
to-morrow, at twelve of the clock.

Also, Report, That the parties opposing the Bristol and Birming-
ham and Midland Railways Bill, and the Bristol and Gloucester and
Birmingham and Gloucester Railways Bill, had stated to the Com-
mittee that the evidence of Humphrey Browne was essential, to enable
them to establish their case before the Committee ; and it having
been proved that his attendance could not be procured without the
Intervention of the House, the Chairman had been instructed by the
Committee to move the House, that he do attend the said Committee
to-morrow. at twelve of the clock.
Also, Report, That the parties appearing on the petition of Foray
Glynn, against the Bristol and Birmingham and Midland Railways
Bill, and the Bristol and Gloucester and Birmingham and Gloucestet
Railways Bill, had stated to the Committee that the evidence et
William Burgess was essential, to enable them to establish their case
before the Committee ; and it having been proved that his attendance
could not be procured without the intervention of the House, the
Chairman had been instructed by the Conunittee to move the House,
that he do attend the said Committee to-morrow, at twelve of the
clock.

Ordered, That John Wodley Hughes, George Tate, Humphrey
Browne, and William Burgess do attend the Committee on Group
58 of Railway Bills, to-morrow, at twelve of the clock.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS

'otes and Proceedi;gs of the House of CoinssonS.)
TUESDAY, JUNE 16.
GLASGOW, DinaIFRIES, AND CARLISLE RAILWAY BILL.
Report considered ; Motion made, and Question proposed, " That
the amendments made by the Committee to the Bill be now read a
second time ;"—Amendment proposed, to leave out from the words
" That the" to the end of the Question, in order to add the words
" Report be taken into further consideration upon this day six
months," instead thereof:—Question put, " That the words proposed
to be left out stand part of the Question :" The House divided.
Numbers reported by the tellers :

'rom

,MINORITY—AYES, 119.
A'Court, Captain Emlyn, Viscount Oswald, James
Adare, Viscount Entwisle, W. Paget, Colonel
Ainsworth, P. Estconrt, T. G. Palmerston, Vis,
Alexander, N. Evans, William Philips, Mark
Archbold, Robert Fitzmaurice, W. Plumridge, Captain
Arkwright, G. Forman, T. S. Polhill, F.
Arundel, Earl of Forster, Mathew Price, Sir Robert
Bailile, W. Gardner, J. D. Rashleigh, W.
Baine, Walter Gill, Thomas Rawdon, Colonel
Baldwin, C. B. Goring, Charles Scott, Francis
Bell, John Greene, Thomas Shelburne, Earl of
Bantinck, Lord H. Hale, R. B. Shirley, E. J.
Blake, Martin J. Hamilton, G. A. Smith, J. A.
Bouverie, E. P. Hayter, W. G. Somerset, Lord G.
Bowring, Dr. Hildyard, T. B. Spry, Sir S.
Boyd, John Hobhouse, Sir J. Stansfleld, W. R.
Bright, John Holland, Robert Stuart, Lord J.
Broadwood, H. Holmes, W. A'C. tnart, JT.
Bruce, Lord E. Hernby, John Stuart, J.
Bruges, W. H. L. Hume, Joseph Strickland, Sir G.
Buckley, Edmund Hutt, William Strutt, Edward
Buller, Sir J. Y. James, William Tai:cred, H.W.
Busfeild, W. Jermyn Earl ThorritlY, Thomas
Carew, W. H. Pole Jocelyn,, Viscount Townalej:. iohn.,
Cholmondeley, H. Johnson, General Trelawny, o'.. S.
Christie, W. D. Labouchere. Henry Turner, EdmuZ
Christopher, R. A. Langston, J. H. Villiers, Charlet
Collett, John Lascelles, E. Villiers, Viscount-
Collins, William Layard, Captain Vivian, J. E.
Colvile, C. R. Lemon, Sir Charles Wadding-ton, H. S.
Connolly, Colonel Lindsay, Captain Warburton, Henry
Cartels, H. B. Loch, James Wawn, .T T.
Dalrymple, Captain Mackinnon, W. A. • Whits, Samuel
Davies, D. A. S. Maitland, Thomas Wilde, Sir Thomas
Denison, E. B. Marsiand, Henry Wodehouse, E.
Dennistonn, J. Mitcalfe, H. Wyss, Thomas
Dived, E. Molesworth, Sir W. Yorke, Henry R.
Duncan, George Morris, David
buncombe, 0. O'Brien, Timothy TICLLIZE.
Dundas, Admiral Ord, William Clay, Sir W.
Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Oswald, Alexander Ewart, William