The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-01 00:00:00

" In the course of the night, three men and the boy, the
remainder of the drew of the captain's boat, returned to the
vessel, and stated, that directly the captain's boat landed, the
natives, apparently attracted by the glitter of their instruments,
attacked them, shot ti.e coxswain, and then speared the • cap-
tain. But they were so intent upon plunder, that they allowed
the rest of the creek to easy* ichtolaid4ketogelves in the
.trosh, te'tniontber •-•AtlM..:,accsj,.llo-40tartacti.
where they were so fortunate as to discover the boat of the
tender to the Etna, signalled her, and only escaped from the
natives, who had again discovered them, by wading through
the water to the boat.

NOTICES of MOTIONS, and ORDERS of the DAY,
irhich now stand in the Order Book of the House of Coin-
coons, for the ensuing week.

MaNDAV., WAWA 3.--01tDSDR OF TDB DAV.
Riithhn Catholic 'Marriages "(dothiridtl3llY—Sec-thierreitilhi.
2. Ways and Means—Report.
3. Ways and Means—Committee.

4. Supply—Report.
5. Supply—Committee.
6. North American Postage Bill—Committee.
7. Smuggling Act Amendment Bill—Report.
S. Juries (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
9. Marine Mutiny Bill—Committee.

" Thus a melancholy end has been put to this expedition at
its very commencement, and the public has lost the services of
a most excellent and meritorious officer. Captain Skirling
served under Captain Hewitt, in the Fury, in the survey of
the North Seas. He then sailed in Captain P. P. King's expe-
dition round Cape Horn, and succeeded Captain Stokes in the
command of the Beagle. He was a most charitable and good
man, and has left a wife and two young children to deplore his
early death."

10. Anatomy of Criminals (Ireland) Bill—Second reading.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

1. Mr. Lynch—Bill or Bills for the better employment of the
labouring poor in Ireland.
2. Mr. Edward Ruthven—Return of the number of Irish Re.
presentative Peers who have been raised to the British
Peerage since their election as Representative Peers, with

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

the dates of their creation.
3. Mr. Rotch—Bill to alter and amend the Law of Forfeiture

as regards the personal property of convicted felons.
4. Mr. Ellice—Army Estimates. (In Committee of Supply.)
5. Mr. Hume—On the Army Estimates, to propose a reduc.
tion of the Staff at Head Quarters, of the Governor of
Windsor Castle, of the Army Pay Office ; and to oppose
the Grant for Volunteer Yeomanry or Infantry,
TUESDAY, MARCH 4.—NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

Sir John Campbell (late Solicitor-General), who suc-
ceeded Sir William Horne as Attorney-General, went
down a few days ago to Dudley to ascertain the feelings of
his constituents towards him; and on the new election
caused by his promotion as Attorney- General, the
leaned gentleman has been defeated by the Conservative
candidate, Mr. Hawkes. This is, no doubt, a dis to-
' pointment, not merely to the Attorney-General himself,
but to the government, which has thus for the present
been deprived of the learned gentleman's personal services
in the House of Commons. How it came about is ano-
them question. The general opinion seems to be, that the
dissenting interest, which is powerful at Dudley, had been
disgusted at the tardy and imperfect measure of professed re-
lief which Lord John Russell, after a long delay,and not in a
firm the most flattering to the Dissenters, brought forward.
The result of this was the refusal of that active and in-
telligent body to vote for the government candidate, and
the consequent loss of his election. When will pubic
men be taught that in a free country, and among a people
so masculine and decided as the English, half measures
are always looked upon with contempt? The recent (so
called) relief bill in favour of the Dissenters, is as awk-
ward, ungracious, and incomplete a piece of courtesy,
as ever was projected. There is nothing in it hearty
—nothing frank. It everywhere smells of episcopal
distrust and jealousy. But the Dudley miscarriage may
give Lord John and other lords a hint that coteries, cabi•
nets, nay Courts themselves, cannot safely take fur gr nted
the paramount value of their own prejudices, schemes,
or private compacts, as compared with the solid satis-
faction and general comfort of large classes of men. '1 he
late piddling attempt to stop the mouths of the dissenters
must now, we suppose, be laid aside, and tom rting m re
efficient nobotituted. Far bettershad it ossoto with t •
compulsion. With regard, however, to the Attor ,'-
General, it is not the first time that remarks have been
made upon the absurdity of the law which compels an
officer of the Crown to vacate his seat in Parliamert upon
removal from an inferior to a higher office. Much may
be said, and justly, in favour of such an oblieatton to
vacate, when the cause is afirst acceptance of office under
Governor, nt. But how is the relation between. a member
and his constituents altered by this mere promotion frost
one degree of rank to a higher? Why, therefore, should
Ire in such case be forced to undergo the ordeal of a new
election? Is it to rouse and provoke tl,e wantonness
of caprices which might otherwise have slept ? Now,
this becomes to th' hest interests of the crown and the
idministration a matter of the ere ite t import. if there
be no power to interchange offici .1 duties among the se-
veral members of the government, but that every endea-
vour to make the public business work mare easily and
harmoniously, without, be it observed, the slightest change
of principle in the parties, shall expose the whole struc-
ture of a Ministry to be overturned by a single adverse
election, we can conceive nothing more embarrassing or
more detrimental to the public service. Suppose, instead
of Sir J. Campbell, that Lord Althorp, Mr. Stanley, Mr.
Ellice, or any two or three others of the existing
Ministers, lead, in a moment of popular ill humour,
been subjected to defeats like that sustained by the
Attorney-General, why the Ministry must have been
altogether broken up. The consequence of such
habiliti s must be—first, that the Crown will, as a thing
of course, select its most active and effective servants
from among the peers, and that the House of Commons
will contain no members of an administration, but the
mere rink and file of office ; or, second, that a law must
be made for annexing some four or six seats in the Boise
of Commons to cabinet offices 'order the Crown, and thees
rendering ministers, after their first adpointment, inde-
pendent of popular impulse. This last suet:trim' was
made occasionally during the progress of the Reknit Bill ;
trot its adoption wool i leave implied a distrust of the teen-
stituencr, which experience had not at that time justified.
Sir J. Campbell is not merely a learned law officer, hut
a man of shr•wd and •igorous intellect, and his loss must
be severely felt, though we hope a reentrance to Pasha
ment will b. speedily found for him through some other
channel.— Times.

1, Lord Viscount Ebrington—To present petition from the
County of Devon, against the operation of the Tithe Laws.
(Morning sitting.)
2. Mr. O'Connell—Bill to amend the Laws in Ireland relating

to Juries.
3. Mr. Hardy—Bill to consolidate and amend the provisions of
the several Acts rotating to Bribery, and to charge and

expense in the election of Members to serve in Parliament.
4. Mr. Murray—Bill to repeal Act 59 Geo. 3, relative to Fo-
reign Enlistments, except so far as it repeals former

Statutes.
5. Mr. Buckingham—Select Committee, to take into consi-
deration the practicability of devising some plan by which
a regular and voluntary supply of Seamen may be procured
for his Majesty's Navy, without having recourse to the

practice of forcible Impressment.
6. Mr. Hutt—An Account of the amount of the Duties levied
on Timber Deals, arid other articles of Wood, imported
from the British Provinces in North America, in each of
the years 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833 ;
stating also, the amount of Duties which would have been
paid upon such Timber, and other articles in each year,
. _

and also the total amount if they had been imported from

the Baltic.
7. Mr. Wigney—To call the attention of the House to the
petition of Mr. Cohen, now a prisoner in Chelmsford Gaol
for a Libel ; and to move for an Address for a remission of

his sentence.
8. Sir Matthew Ridley—To continue the Act 3 and 4 Will. 4,
c. 34, for al:owing Compositions for the Assessed Taxes.
9. Mr. Tooke— To present a petition from the united parishes
of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George the Martyr, for
an equalization of the Land Tax. (Morning Sitting.)
10. Mr. Hume—Resolution--That this House, taking into
consideration the present amount of Taxation and the
resolutit.ns of the House of Commons, especially those of
the Bth June, 1819, of 27th June, 1821, of 12th Fe-
bruary, 1830, and of 30th July, 1833, are of opinion that
the Salaries of the Puisne Judges in the Courts of Exch..

quer, King's Bench, and Common Pleas, ought not to ex-

ceed 4,0001. a year.
11. Mr. Ward—Committee, to inquire into the existing laws
respecting Sewers, and to suggest such changes in these
laws, as well as in the Board of Commissioners of Sewers,
as the public convenience may require.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH S.—ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Carrickfergus Disfranchisement Bill—Second reeding.
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2. Stafford Borough Bill—Second reading.
3. Equitable Apportionments Bill—Second reading.

4. Warwick Borough Bill —Committee.
5. Liverpool Freemen Bill—Committee.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS,

1. Mr. Lynch—Select Committee, to inquire into the Admi-

nisttation of Justice in the Court of Chancery in England.
2. Sir Francis Vincent—Bill to alter and amend the Law of

Libel.

3. Mr. George Fergusson—Bill to amend an Act passed in

the reign of George the Third, to encourage the improve-
ment of Waste Lands upon entailed Estates in Scotland.
4. Colonel Davies—Select Committee, to inquire into the
best mode of expediting the business of the House.
5. Mr. Brougham—Bill to establish a General Registry of all
Deeds and Instruments relating to Real Property in Eng_

land and Wales.
6. Mr. Guest—To call the attention of the House to the
Committee of last Session on the House of Commons'

Offices and Fees.
7. Mr. Rinerson Tennent—On the Committal of the Carrick-
fergus Disfranchisement Bill, to move, that it be an In-
struction to the Committee to regulate but not to destroy
the Elective Franchise of the Town of Carrickfergus, and
for that purpose that the Freemen of the said Town lie
from henceforward disqualified to vote at Elections for
Members to serve in Parliament, and that that right be

continued to the registered Freeholders, Leaseholders,
and 101. Householders of the Township of Carrickfergus.
8. Mr. Halcomb—On the Second Reading of the Stafford
Borough Bill, to move, as an Amendment, the following
Res lutions, viz., 1. That it is contrary to the first prin-
ciples of justice, to the spirit of the British Constitution,
and in violaion of the rights and liberties of his Majesty's
subjects, that this House should proceed to deprive any
Electors of the United Kingdom of their Elective Franchise,
for any misconduct alleged to have been proved against
them by evidence, either not given under the sanction of
an oath, or which the Electors sought to be affected by it
have not had full opportunity of cross-examining and
answering by other evidence. 2. That the only evidence
by which it is sought to affect the Borough of Stafibrd not
having been taken upon oath, this House will proceed no
further with the proposed Bill for its disfranchisement.
9. Mr. John O'Connell—ln Committee on the Liverpool Free-
men Bill, to move, that no person who has been admitted
a Freeman of Liverpool prior to the year 1803, shall
henceforth be entitled to vote at Elections for Representa-
tives in Parliament for that Borough in right of any fran-

A letter from a very respectable quarter has been ad-
dressed to us on the subject of the Rev. (once military)
Mr. Gleis's promotion by Lord John Russell to the chap-
laincy of Chelsea Hospital. Mr. Gletg is, we have no
doubt, an unexceptionable moral character, and we have
already borne testimony to his talents ; but as an object
of patronage to Lord John Russell, we believe that his
lordship might have travelled through the whole Church
of England without finding another clergyman so ineligi-
ble, on various grounds, as this reverend gentlem in fur any
appointment in the gift of a Whig minister. It is enough
to alienate the entire body_o• literal friends and supporters
of the Administration throughout Great Biitain ; and
Lord John Russell may depend on it, that neither his
lordship nor his colleagues will derive reputation or
strength from giving way to the sort of influence, how-
ever respectable in titivate life, through which alone it is
conceivable that Mr. Gleig should in this instance be pro-
vided for by a Whig Minister.—Times.
The defeat of the Attorney-General Sir John Campbell
at Dudley, in a constituency of seven hundred, which
triumphantly returned him as their representative in
December 1832, is a political event which has created no
common feeling of surprise and regret. No meurber of
the bar, of modern times, has more justly bean esteemed
as a liberal politician and a lewyer, His consistent profes-
sion of liberal opinions, and his acknowledged services in
the cause of law-reform—the soundness of his judgment,
and his official connexion vvi.h many important measures
for the reformation of the common law and the law of
real property, and his relation to the ministry, confer
on the result of the Dudley election no ordinary im-
portance. The Tories will of course turn this event.
to every possible party advantage. It is therefore im-
portant that the real facts of this case should be fairly
stated. The Tories are the last persons who have any
just cause for rejoicing. Dudley contains a popu-
lation of 23,043 persons : it has 800 ten-pound house-
holders, of whom only 670 were entitled in 1832 to the
lective franchise? In December 1832, in the e.?atest
between an Ultra Tory, Sir Horace St. Paul, and Sir
John Campbell (then Solicitor. General), 540 electors

chive whatever.
10. Mr. Hodgson—ln Committee on Liverpool Disfranchise-
ment Bill, to move the insertion of a Clause to disfran-
chise (by name) those persons who have been proved to
have been concerned in procuring the Votes of the Free
men of Liverpool by corrupt means.
THURSDAY, MARCH 6.-NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

1. Mr. O'Connell—Bill for the total extinction of Tithes in

Ireland.
2. Mr. Hume—That this House do resolve itself into a Com-
mittee of the whole House, to consider of the Corn Laws
(9th Geo. 4, c. 60), and of substituting, instead of the pre-
sent graduated scale of Duties, a fixed and moderate Duty
on the import at all times of Foreign Corn into the United
Kingdom ; and for granting a fixed and equivalent bounty
on the export of Corn from the United Kingdom; with
the ultimate view of establishing a free trade in Corn.

3. Mr. Gillon—Bill to regulate the granting of Certificates for
the sale or Ale, Beer, Spirits, Wine, and other exciseable
liquors, ill Scotland, and to transfer to the Sheriffs of Coun-

ties the power of granting such Certificates.
4. Mr. Thomas Attwood—Resolution, that it is expedient to
authorize the issue of notes under 51. by all persons duly
licensed for that purpose.
5. Lord Viscount Althorp—Bill to repeal the House Tax.

ORDER OF TUE DAY.
Highway Bill—Second reading.
FRIDAY, MARCH 7.—ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Exchequer of Receipt Bill—Committee.

2. Mumbles Lighthouse Bill—Second reading,

. oiled ; of which number 4ir John Campbell had a ma-
jority of 90. We believe the gross number of registered
electors iff now about 710. Of these 564 polled on
Thursday—Sir John Catnip'',ll 242, Mr. Tfromis Hawkes
322—leaving a majority of 80 in favour of the latter.
Now, Who is Mr. Hawkes? The successful Alembic fel

7Z,(ji7j*:6 //2e'(-9
i is
c , ttt y u t fora repre.-
sentative. His political pr,uriples or as unknown to him-
self as they are to' his-constituents. ' Itt 1831--2 he signed
the county protests agiiiiit-refam, and at the same time
contested-the rotten borongh of'StaKtra as an advocate of
the ministerial measures—being :defeated Str John
Campbell. On the enfranchisement of 'Maley ' Mr.
Hawicea was a candidate tor its re ottientiiibn, but ulti-
mately withdrew his pritensii. - dre well in-
formed that his personal sad f ;nreial -conn c-
.
don with the town gave him a co 'elool-aritAnta2( ;
---""e and as an old though backsliding Toll he was selected by
the Conservatives to fight their gintenn the recetit Oceasi,
against Sir John Campbell. This contest has been Con-
ducted under many peculiar circumstances, varying from
those of the preceding election. SOrne; addition- had been
subsequently made to the register. After the election of
1832, the TiirieS in 'their malignity commenced a. grievous
persecution of the lower class ofelectors. "Notice to Oh"
were notoriously ; rents were raised ;: even Charities
were perverted to politiCat purposes, and &Tel:Wee dealing
was brought to bear, to coerce the electors hostile to Con-
servatisa. We record 4.4;paitieidar narrative of faces, be-
cause it is right tbat VAIL: iboultbe disainidedbf.false
impressions and. fulltinfottned-on this subject. ,Witave
-een letter's io :which 'the niitti,.iss of Sic John Cipriihell is
described -as." tt,prtetkWcoMmentary on 'open -'l'.'voting."
cTleb4rctort sre tanch be:
ctititYro:re:4lifd—,.illtvTedrtenhe
thebf
propertyiet4 tt7ss-e°l!
nd.'i!tagia,:tates'isf,the• iviv are Ultra-Tijr--tvilf net be
xpeoted •by any-sithe periZtr.. -And tho
most intelligent inhabitants of Dudley en -
crane') isemen t Without.the Pkis :were• tit leie nit c nt-
..rinces the.i,nly impeditninis! to ilie.tuebeSibf n
Campbell ?, No-;--Abe truth' roust be:talil, hbwever
'stable. Sir J.diti Campbell found favnar 'at litudyty in
December, 1832, as a 4.*-tititt'sterial candidate." HIS con-
nection with ministers :iri 1934 'vas .4etrirriental to his
success. It .is itnpoikible-;to conceal our-regret
.at the
palpable state of public opinion. An impression, almost
eniversal,prevailramongwe.'llber.ll arty, that the.keform
of the-representation' has not been allowed its full affect..
Many practical titicsiiens 'Of -vital importance to the ssoCkal
condition of the penple have ,f*n wholly -ntstikted.
The -,paiiattlltattantilt'elir.,,,tgliiises,oo society
• '*-6PeVitttiht '

'ormers have been disgusted with some of the temp,.
',rising and juste milieu acts of Ministers. The re-
action has been not in favour of Toryism but against the
Tories. The King's speech gave little satisfaction ; the
practical roopositions" of reform " were few and far be-
tween." The towns bad almost unanimously expressed
their determination to resist the imposition of church
rates. It was a manifest injustice that Dissenters should
be taxed for the maintenance of the established church.
The church rates of England and Wales were 587,8051.,
by the Commons' returns of 1830. Was this no heavy
charge on the pockets of the community—no grievance
requiring immediate redress 2 And yet the Protestant
Dissenters are at this moment uninformed of any minis-
terial intention of relief! A substitute may be difficult,
hut is not impossible; and the public at least expected an
admission of the injustice of the tax, and the promise of
come ultimate release from the burden. The D ssenters
justly claimed a level registration of births, marriages,
and deaths. Lord John Russell, only two days since, pro-
posed a measure of relief in respect of the celebration of
the tights of marriage only; on the other two grievances
not a word of promise is vouchsafed ! The Protestant
Dissenters remonstrate against their exclusion from the
privileges of the universities of Oxtord and Cam-
bridge. On this vital point of sectarian grievance the
Dissenters are without any ministerial satisfaction. And
that is the universal complaint on the subject of ['Hitlerl
patronage—the army—the navy—the church—the law—
the diplomacy—the colonies ; all these departments of the
State, with rare exceptions, are administered for the be-
near of the Tories: Few Liberals appear to have a chance
of appointment or promotion. Lord Ingestrie (the oppo-
nent of Mr. Littleton in Staffordshire), who coalesced
with the currency Radicals last year, for'the purpose of
opposing the re-election of the ministerial Irish Secretary,
receives a ship from Sir Jemes Graham, under circum-
stances of such peculiar favour as tender the transaction
the subject of special remark in all naval circles. In tie
church we see Mr. Gleig, the Blackwood contributor and
Sent Gazette editor—the guest of the Duke of Welling..
ion at Widmer Castle, and the literary dry nurse of Lord
Lonaoederry—appointed by Lord John Russell, prop
pru tor I to the valuable preferment of Chelsea Hospital;
while the majority of honest and deserving liberal clergy-
men are suffered to pine in poverty and neglect. In the
meanwhile no reduction is made or promised in the dura-
tion of Par iament—no improvements in the mechanical
details of the Reform Bile have been adventured.--
-Mr; O'Connell la-allenved to originate—tte itupertant
measure of a libel bill—members are dragged
through the dirt on the pension list, when some
days afterwards, ministers themselves give notice of select
committees on the state of civil sinecure officers—and this
extraordinary and paralytic state of the government is con-
sidered satisfactory to the public. These are strong ob-
servations, but it is the duty of the Morning Chronicle,
witch has honestly and zealeusly upheld the Whig minis-
ters, Ca put them forth. It is better that the truth should
be known, and that ministers should be informed of the
Otinoi et
sufferens nd
with
t:oeituisirtria.eergnmaetd;ll,
real and adverse state of public opinion. There is a very
hostile and altered
eeanenlidanng,ntionmit,ahmneglyepruci
to them. The desire is loudly and generally expressed
eto
eengage
the inan
Tories,
and resources of the people to be flitted away by pre-
tended or timid friends. Much may be unreasonably re-
quired of tninisters, and much just allowance for their
ticulties may be denied them, but there is yet time and
space for a more decided and liberal action. The people are
not ungrateful for past benefits. Satisfy the dissenters in
t heir reasonable demands—reduce the duration of parliament
—tearlessly face the Tory aristocracy, and uphold the liberal.
majority of the House of Commons—openly countenasoce
the bills for the reformation and extension of the rotten
ceristituencies of Liverpool, Carrickfergus, Stafford, Hert-
ford, and Warwick—in fact, act on liberal principles, as
well as profess them, and all may yet be well. But it re-
quires net the gift of prophecy to foretell that a perse-
verance in a vacillating and obnoxious policy may tempo-
rarily vest the government of the country in the hands of
the Tories, but will ultimately terminate in a complete
dissolution of the present social system and political insti_
tutions of the country. Any government of the Tories
of six months' duration is absurd, as no man better
seems to know then Sir Robert Peel ; and if ministers
will stand by the re ormers, the latter will supper; them,
and the Leeds anal Dudiey elections are bitter lessons,
which we hope and trust will net be thrown away on the
present cabinet..—Morning Chronicle.