The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-31 00:00:00

LORD TORRINGTON'S CASE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. •
Sang—Beliiving that the cause of the human rate is se-
riously ,darunitisd when 'a public writer, of known ability,
advocates unsound principles, I am induced to enter my
feeble protest'agairist the doctrines enunciated (by inference)
in your comments on the above case.
God forbid that I. shOuld pronounce any (pinion on the
guilt or..innocence of Lord Torrington. lam not sufficiently
in possession of the evidence.
Your comments, however, are a different question. From
their tone we are authorized to infer that you hold to be in-
nocent any actions tending to the (supposed) advantage of
the country of which the actor is a native.
Upon this assumption the Government of France did right
to reward Pelissier for suffocating 1,000 Arab men, *omen,
and children, in a cave, instead of taking him to the Champ
de Mars, degrading him from his rank, tearing off his epau-
lettes;and then " injecting" a doze. -..usket balls into his
breast, as a wretch unwortby to tre:, the soil of France.
The reason of the French GI en* or its different
course was, doubtless that " t 4,bbenefit of

-Let us exatii!ne this doctrine, oia of country"
is to overrule all laws divine and Inman, and justify every
act dictated by it. •
If a man, in the days when forgery was punishable by
death, had been convicted of having ruined an innocent
family and defrauded it of thousands, by means of forged
documents, I apprehend, that the culprit's plea, that "he
was induced to eommit the crime, by love for his own fa-
mily, and an ardent desire to place his children in affluence,"
would not have availed to suspend the judge's sentence, that
he should "he taken to the place from whence he came, and
thence to the place of execution, to be there hanged by the
neck till he be dead." -

Now, why should:the love of a portion of our fellow-crea-
tures. termed a " nation," be accepted as a better apology
than the love of a smaller portion, termed a " family?"
But I shall go further, and maintain that the good derived
by our nation in consequence of any crimes we may commit,
is far outbalanced by the example of unpunished villanies—
to say nothing of the total human race, the • mere fraction
comprised within the designation of " Englishmen," have
been more injured in their most important interests (the
moral), by the escape of Haitings, than any 'imagined (God
knows altogethei imaginary) advantages to their pockets or
glory! (may the curses of mankind rest for ever on the
abused word) can repay.
Justice, combined with absolute power, would have sus-
pended Hastings from a gallows twice the height of Haman's,
and every biped in the' House of Commons, who " rose and
Uncovered" in honour of the monster, deserved a year .on the
treadmill. _ .

His prosecutors are, designated as persecutors; bow soon
will those who brought the Slosnes and Birds to justice be
similarly honoured; and when will Ilaynau la recognised
its an • illustrious Old man?'.' Is it to be ifdthitted-that suc-
cess is virtue—failure, only, vice ?
Ever yours, &c.,
• JUSTITIA.

[Our Correspondent has placed an entirely false construc-
tion upon our arguments. We insisted that Lord Toning-
tr,n was entitled to the thanks rather than to the condemna-
tion of the Legislature, because, on inquiry, we regarded him
as not only innocent of all the charges directed against him
by, his assailants, but as having nobly fulfilled the duties
devolving upon him as the representative of his Sove-
reign among the Cingalese. A clear majority of 80 out of
484, has since then proved that our sentiments coincide en •
tirely with those of the Commons House of Parliament.—
ED. Sun.l

• THE LACE TRADE.—We stated some time since
our opinion, that instead of having so large a demand for our
goods this spring as we generally have experienced during
the vernal season, it was probable the, trade would be spread
more overt the summer than we have heretofore found it, on
scant& of both home and foreign buyers waiting to make
their purchases until they made their visits to the metropolis,
to the "World's Fair," and to this opinion we still hold. Up
to the present time, we certainly have not had anything like
the demand for goods generally that we battiest year at the
corresponding period. The sales for the week have been but
moderate.—Nottingham Journal. -
THE IibsIBRY TRADE.— There are a few flying
orders, that keep some houses busy, but on the whole our
trade is much depressed, and the number of hands out of
employ is increased rather than diminished this week. The
price of yarn is about the same, with but little doing; hosiers
are expecting to be able to buy it lower very shortly.—Not-
tingham Journal.
CONTEST FOR VESTRYMEN IN ST. JAMES'S.—The
scrutineers made their return yesterday, when the result was
—for the blue list ( Reformers), 791 ; black list (Cone rva-
tive), 557—majority for the liberal list, 234.
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HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION.—The tenth annual
meeting of the governors and subscribers to this useful
charity was held on Thursday,.in the Board-room of the insti-
tution at Brompton, Earl Alauvers in the chair. Thueerne7
port stated that the number of in-patients receivieldadd g
been
the past year was 488. Of this number r?
discharged more or less benefited,
ha
The num-
there were now remaining in the hospital 90c.eeded that of
ber of patients admitted during the year
63 33d
died, and
the preceeding year b 128, and that of
the past
by not less than 206• whilst the deathsthe,eierariogbefore last
hoge of the preceding
year had only exceeded by
year. The number of out-patients under treatment dur-
ing the past year had been 3,C61. The daily average at-
tendance of patients at the hospital was not far short of
100, the recorded number of such attendances being 28,176
in the year. The medical.
o. office
results of treatment inrs continued to assert
the frequent occurrence tthehappy
many and severe cases of the malady against which they had
to contend. The report having been received and adopted,
a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and the meeting
separated.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of me-
dicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday,
the 29th of May :—George Edmund Smale, Plymouth ;
Francis Ayrton, Liverpool ; Edward Somerset Cleveland,
Madras ; Thomas Lowney Ridley, Newcastle-on-Tyne ;
Charles Rothwell, Bolton-le-Moors ; George Henry Edwards,
Royal Navy.