The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-21 00:00:00

KING'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY.)

The Lord Chief Justice did not sit this morning. The
Judges on the Bench were, Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE, Mr.
Justice TAUNTON, and Mr. Justice PATTESON.

EAST INDIA AFFAIRS.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL having obtained a rule Nisi
for a mandamus, commanding the Directors of the East India
Company to forward a certain despatch to India according to
the Acts of Parliament for regulating the affairs of India,
Mr. Sergeant SPA NKIE to-day showed cause against it. In
giving a summary of the Acts of Parliament for regulating the
affairs of India, he stated that the Act of the 33d George
the Third, which confirmed the former statutes, invested the
Board of Control with full power over the civil and military
Government of India, and the Board of Directors of the East
India Company, by that Act, was invested with a control over
the trade of India. The forms pursued in this country required
that all orders and instructions sent out by the Board of Di-
rectors to India should first be submitted to the Commissioners
ofthe Board of Control, in order that that Board might per.
ceive there was nothing in them relative to the civil or military
Governments,—and on their approval the instructions were
then forwarded to India. If the instructions so ap.
proved of should be refused to be sent by the,
Directors to India, then the Commissioners were em-
powered to send them out themselves. All the powers of the
Board of Control were confine/4 to the civil and military Go-
vernment, and did not extend to matters of trade; and in case
of any dispute between the Directors and the Board of Control
thesubject was to be referred to his Majesty in Council. The pre.
sent application was founded on the affidavit of Mr. Jones, the
Assistant-Secretary of the Board of Control. The affairs
of Messrs. W. Palmer, and Co. in India, it appeared were being
wound up, and it was found they had an account with a wealthy
native of Hyderabad, who lived in the dominions of a
Sovereign Prince, not under the dominion of the East India
Company, but only connected with them by certain treaties.
The despatch in question related to the account between Palmer
and Co. and this native, which had been approved of by the
Board of Control, and not sent out by the East India Company.
The Learned Counsel contended at great length that the East
India Company could not be compelled to send out the de-
spatch, altered as it had been by the Board of Control.
The case was proceeding when our Reporter left.

DEATH OF MR. JAMES BALLANTYNE.

It is with feelings of sincere regret that we have to announce
the death of our able and excellent contemporary and friend,
Mr. James Ballantyne. His health for several months past
has been very delicate, and he expired yesterday (Thursday) at
noon, rather unexpectedly by his friends, as he had fallen into
a soft sleep in the morning, after a night of painful suffering
from a vomiting of blood, with which he had of late been
visited. Mr. Ballantyne began his career by establishing the
Kelso Mail in his native town; and it was while he was thus
engaged, that, in consequence of some suggestions from Mr.
Hughes, then and long after in his employment, he made some
successful attempts to improve the typography of Scotland. In
these the success which attended his efforts was so conspicuous,
as to attract the notice of some distinguished individuals, and,
amongst others, that of his illustrious friend, Sir Walter Scott,
and a new era in Scottish typography, as well as of Scottish
literature, was ushered in by the printing of the Border Min-
strelsy at the Border press. Mr. Ballantyne's well.merited
fame for elegance and accuracy as a printer soon extended
in the marts of literature, and the encouragement which he
received from the booksellers of London and Edinburgh
induced him to remove to this city about the year 1805; and it
is no disparagement to any of his brethren to state, that from
the time that Mr. Ballantyne devoted himself to the pursuit,
the art has been improved among us to the highest pitch ; for
nothing in typography can exceed the beauty and accuracy
which have ever characterised the productions of the Ballan_
tyne press. The intimate connection which subsisted betwixt
Sir Walter and Mr. Ballantyne from their school.boy days—the
confidential nature of that connection—and the unceasing
kindness which was veiled only by the shadows which darken
all human friendships in the grave, were such as to associate
the name of Ballantyne with that of his much loved and
honoured countryman, and to invest it with consideration and
honour. During the last 15 or 16 years, Mr. Ballantyne has been
the editor and a proprietor of the Edinburgh Weekly Journal,
which has uniformly been distinguished for its candour, sound
constitutional principles, moderation and independence. In
private life Mr. Ballantyne was amiable and gentlemanly in his
demeanour, accomplished, courteous, cheerful ; and to have
been the intimate associate of Walter Scott, John Leyden,
James Grahame, Robert Lundie, was of itself a proof not merely
of his intellectual superiority, but of what is more estimable,
of his moral worth.—Edinburgh Observer.

BRADFORD MARKET.—This market last
Thursday was rather better than thAt of the preceding
week. Fine stuff goods were in much request, and a
small advance in price was generally obtained. In low
goods and wool, however, the advance was greater, and
the demand very brisk.—(Halifax Express.)

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING. JANUARY 21, 1833.

It is now admitted by Ministers that very ener-
getic measures are to be adopted towards Ire-
land, but it is at the same time declared that
they are to be merely measures of precaution.
They are apprehensive that the discussions on
the state of that country will increase the excite.
ment ; and whatever they may have in contem-
plation for the removal of the evils by which the
Irish nation are affected, they are resolved that
nothing shall be extorted from them by force.
Like despotic Sovereigns who sometimes do kind
acts from what they call motives of magnanimity,
Mr. STANLEY—for Mr. STANLEY it is who
governs Ireland—would make some concessions
provided they be not extorted as rights, and
the Irish be willing to acknowledge them as the
result of his great condescension.
We are very far indeed from contending that
in the present state of Ireland, it is unnecessary
to take precautionary measures, and we are not
sufficiently acquainted with the localities of that
country to assert that the force now in Ireland is
sufficient for all the purposes of precaution ; but
considering how long and how grievously Ireland
has suffered—how much she has been . disap-
pointed as to the professions which have been made
to her, how grateful she has shown herself even for
promises of kindness—how easy it had been for a
statesman of ordinary skill and honest inten-
tions to have quelled her turbulence and to have
roused all those warm and generous feelings
which belong to the Irish character, we confess
'hat we do not like to hear of precautionary

coercive) measures towards Ireland, withcu

,heir being accompanied by a positive assurance

that they are intended only to check those who
demand more in the name of Ireland, than Ireland
really desires, or could safely receive ; and that
all her real wants are to be supplied—all her
grievances redressed—all her just hopes accom-
plished.

We hear nothing of this. It would seen as

if Mr. O'CONNELL and Mr. STANLEY were
all Ireland, and that in their personal struggle
every other interest were concentred. Mr.
O'CONNELL harangues the people upon their real,
and—what is usually more effective in popular
harangues—their imaginary grievances. He shows
them how truly wretched and oppressed they are,
and makes them believe that they are still more

so than in reality ; and he then holds out the
Repeal of the Union as the cure for all their
misfortunes. Mr. STANLEY denies that they
have cause of complaint. He would compel,
by the force of bayonets, the ragged and the
hungry to thank him for warm clothing and

good living, to both of which they are strangers,

Amidst all the luxuries and enjoyments o
the Castle, it is not very surprising that his de-

spatches are filled with representations of the
turbulence of the people of Ireland. If he has
seen the squalid inmates of the mud-hovels
—if he has beheld the ravages of disease
engendered by poverty, the effect has been
but transient. The pomp of Dublin Castle
has drowned the recollection, or it has
been destroyed by the air of Downing-street.
It is in the nature of man to undervalue sufferings
of which, from experience, he can form no con-
ception. If it be true, as we have heard it stated
a thousand times, that, but for the personal
hostility of Mr. O'CONNELL and Mr. STAN.
LEY, Ireland might, long ere this, have been
tranquillized and made happy, we can only,
without casting undue odium upon either of

•
these gentlemen, express astonishment that an
entire Cabinet should allow so many millions of
men to suffer injury From the rivalry of two in-
dividuals.

The whole labour of Ministers seems now to
be to prevent the Repeal of the Union, and to
show the absurdity of those who are attempting
to accomplish it. Would it not be as well if
they were to attempt to prove that absurdity by
making the Irish so happy in their union with
England, as to leave them nothing to hope for
from its destruction ? Where would the avoca-

arguments,be
agitatorstheir if the
and
address r ess
pt ieoonp
loef t toh ew
hroemp e atlhe resy
were in a different condition ? It is not difficult
to convince ragged and starving men that their

limbs are cold, and their bellies empty ; or to
persuade them that GOD made no man to perish
from want who is willing to labour. Rid Ire-
land of the locust& who devour the produce—