The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-03 00:00:00

ancient enemies as Sir Charles \Volseley, and
the Baronet must greatly mistrust his own
party strength, or he would never form such a
Holy Alliance. When the Tories have given
him a second imprisonment, he may come back
to his senses.—Morning Chronicle.

The report of Mr. Lennard's Bill to repeal
the punishment of death for the offence of
housebreaking (in cases that do not amount to
burglary) is to be brought up to-day. It will
be recollected, that rhen the Bill was first
brought in, his Majesty's Solicitor-General ap.
proved of its principle, as far as simple h(
breaking was concerned, but objectee, to the
extension of the principle to cases of stealing
in the dwelling-house, where any person was
" put in fear." The provision thus objected to,
Mr. Lennard has withdrawn ; and we
presume that it will meet with no opp'Osi-
tion on the part of the Crown. If it should
meet with opposition -from that quarter, the
inconsistency will be as remarkable as the spirit
of hostility which it will evince to the most
moderate measures for tile further reform of the
criminal code—a code which still preserves a
more sanguinary character than that of any
other in the civilized world. Mr. Lloyd has
given notice that he will, on bringing up the
report, move a clause repealing so much of the
Act of 2 and 3 William IV., cap. 62 (Ewart's
Act), as makes the offences in that Act specified
punishable by transportation for life only,
and, instead thereof; providing that such offences
shall be punishable either by transportation or
imprisonment for a limi.ed period, at the dis-
cretion of the court. The excellent and unan-
swerable remaiks of Lord Lyndhurst, upAn the
injustice and absurdity of the " amendments"
introduced into Mr. Ewart's Bill, with the ex-
press consent of Lord Melbourne, ntust be fresh
in the recollection of our readers. As these
amendments have been universally condeioned
by the judges, we cannot anticipate any objec-
tion to Mr. Lloyd's motion. But the friends of
reform should be at their post.—Morning
Herald.

We insert in another part of our paper an
address from Lord In,estrie to the electors of
S Staffordshire. r'Our readers will learn
from it that the rumour to which we alluded last
week has more foundtv ion than we were autho-
rized to assin to it ; and that the constituency
of that important district will have an °ppm.; u-
nity of giving, by their reception of an honour-
able and able man, one more proof of the in-
creasing belief in the dishonesl and incapacity
of the Whigs. Lo-d Inge,trie takes the field
under many obvious; disadvantages. Mr. Lit-
tleton i- the master of extensive possessions in
South Staffordshire, and • the influence which
his property gives him is used with an unscru-
pulous effrontery. The Whigs would have
shrunk from South Staffordshire as they shrank
from Ports.i,outh and from Edinburgh, if they
had not counted more slaves in South Stafford-
shire, than they could find in Portsmouth and
in Edinburgh. Moreover, Mr. Littleton
has been tacitly but diligently canvassing the
district ever since Lord Grey suggested to his
ambition a pilgrimage through the toils of office
to the pleasures of the Pee.age. His agents
have carefully pointed out to the stoutest ad-
herents of Toryism the impossibility of the ap-
pearance of a Tory candidate; and his friends
assert that many Conservatives, anticipating no
struggle except between a Radical and a Whig,
have so pledged themselves to oppose the one
that they are no longer able to oppose the other.
What result Lord Ingestrie's very brief and
imperkct canvass may produce, commenced
as it is against the influence of this powerful
property and the effect of these early ma-
nceuvres, we cannot tell ; but we confidently
predict the Noble Lord's triumph from
circumstances which are quite independent
of the possession of some thousands of acres,
or the timely solicitation of some thousands
of votes. We predict his triumph because the
contest lies between two men, the one the votary
in succession of every creed, the supporter in
succession of every Cabinet ; the other the con-
sistent advocate of the opinions he holds, whe-
ther those opinions be popular or unpopular ;
the steady associate of the friends with whom
he sympathizes, whether those friends be on the
right or on the left of the House. We pre-
dict his triumph because on the one side there
is a man who has no selfish interest to serve, no
private ambition to gratify by the success of his
efforts ; on the other there is a man who has
been for years the impatient expectant of the
"balls and strawberry leaves," and who now
begs the electors of Sunlit Staffordshire not so
much to send him to the 1-louse of Commons as
to sent him to the Ilouse of Peers. And we
predict his triumph because in this as in many I
recent conflicts one plain and simple question is
to be asked and answered, " Is the country sa-
tisfied with the Adionustiation of Earl Grey ?"
The journals which give their venal aid to the
Government and its creatures !ive already co,n-
menced their accustomed cry against what they
term a " coalition." In Westminster the Whigs
were furious because the Tories would not vote
fur Sir John. In Staffordshire they will he quite
as angry if the Radical; will not vote for Mr. Lit-
tleton.—Norning Post.

ANOI HER FIRE AT SIIELFORD.—LISt
werk we recorded a fire at this vil age. Oni W, drie.d iy
!night last, as one of the watchmen wis going his round,
he observed the corner of Mr. PEA RSON'. barn to be on
e, which he immediately tried to extinguish, but find-
ing his efforts in vain, he alarmed the inhabitants, whose
exertrons, with the help of the parish •-n.irre. prevented
vie fire spreading beyond the bare,—Cambridge Press.
FRITHS OF FORTH AND CLYDE.—There
are many reasons for supposing that the Fr tirs of For ti,
and Clyde must, at a remote perio I, have formed one strait
or c. annel between the German and Atlantic ocean, thus
cutting Scotland into two parts, anti that Loch Lomond
arid the Lake of Monteath are tie rein tin. of this union.
[diked, this is almost demonstrable from the trrrnatiori of
the strata and soil found along the whole vale ; tor, an
digging to the depth of 10 or 15 feet, the blue clay is um-
molly found to rest on a hed of pure silo...ions sand, e..n-
raizning marine shells and other organic remains. In 1700.
a bo rt was ound some miles from the short-, embedded in
the clay n-ar Farkirk. The skeleton of a whale was also
discovered near the same town a few years ago. An an-
chor was once found on Duninore-hill, and the entire vet
telnw of a whale, 40 lest long, were dug up about ten
years ago, at Loris Church, nearly two mi.es from the
river.Quarter/y Journal of Agriculture.
NORTH ATLANTIC OCCA N.--Vessels bound
to itoitax have the t,ddnumal risk of stumbling upon that
giganric sandbank, Sable Island : several ves-els have
thereon terminated their voyages. The establishmen-
which has been formed there tor the relief of ship-wrecked
iriners is creditable to the humanity of the Colonial
Assemhly of Nova Scotia ; but such can only mitigate,
not prevent, the evil. That the mother country does not
cause a lighthouse to be erected on some convenient paint
of u
elsurprising, but greatly to be rr,
( a second Ascension of it ? Surely,
d
e .t' Whyiriestitait ntfi.s nut
r!iti rockiorttyil miles, sotne sort of productive soil
might be found besides sand ; at leas', where the juniper,
blueberry, vetch, and gross thrive, it might he possible
flesh-water ponds• and the scud-girls are elevated 140 feet
to grow culinary vegetables, and to rear stuck. It has
above the 1, vel of the sea. The establishment of a light-
, ouse on Sable Maid is well worrliy the consideration of
our Colonial Goverawear...—Nuuti„i muycizine,