The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-30 00:00:00

SALES THISMAY.

The East India Company's sales of Spices have just con-
cluded. Cassia Lignea was offered at 70s. per cent.g
but it was all bought in. The Cinnamon for first quality
sold at 7s. I Id. to 9s. Id. per lb. ; seconds from 4s. 6d. to
is. 10d. ; and thirds fetched inferior prices. Mace went.
at 7s. bd. per lb. ; Nutmegs from ss. 2d. to 6s. 2d. per lb.
Black Pepper at 314 d. to 3Nd. per lb. The sales went
off briskly for the CAturamon. Other public sides of Spices
are in progress.
TALLow.—The Market continues steady at rather firm
prices.

RUMFORD 51 Alt KET.—May
a. .1. to s.
Beef 2lO 4 0 Veal
Muttono 4 2 Pork
_ . _

t.
3 6 4:0
30 4 0

0.1. to 6s. Od.
Suckling Calves, 14s. to 265. ; Quarter old Store Pigs,
Mitch Cows, with their small Calf, AL to lit
Supply rather limited, and trade dull
HAILSIIAM MARKEf —May 28.
4s. Od. to 4s. 2d. 3s. 61. to 4s. 2d
4 0 48 I Pork 3 8 4 0
I atub . Od. to 5.5. 4d.

12.. to 20s.
10s.

_ .
Supply limited; trade with prime meat rather brisk, but
otherwise dull.

ARUNDEL MARKET —May 27.
3s. Od. to 48.0 d. 3i. SI. to 4s. At.
I Mutton «won. 3 4 4 4 3 4 4 0
Lamb ss 04 to 6s. 01.
Supply moderate, and trade dulL
CHICHESTER :11 ARKET.—May 28.
Beef 2s. 10d. to 3s Ekl I Veal--. 3s. Id. to 4s. 4d.
Mutton 3 0 4 2 Pork 3 8 4 0
Lamb ss. Cd to ss. 10d.
Supply of fat Beasts moderately good, of fat small stock It
mited ; trade rather dull In lean st: ck little doing.

ACCIDENT TO BISHOP WALDRON.—On
Saturday evening last, as the Right Rev. Dr. Wal-
dron, Roman Catholic Bishop of Killala, was stand-
ing on a chair in the lobby of his house at Ardnaree,
for the purpose of winding his clock, the chair gave
way, when he was precipitated against the balustrades,
which, also giving way, he fell headlong down the
stairs, and was so severely injured that great doubts
are entertained of his recovery.—. Dublin Evening
Post.

A countryman digging a ditch a short time
ago near Autun, in the Soane-et-Loire, found an
antique seal-stone bearing the head of Nero ; it was
of a green colour, full an inch thick, and of propor-
tionate diameter, and was purchased by a clerk at the
Subprefecture for 55 sous. A short time afterwards
a rich antiquary, M. Ganay, offered him 200 francs
for his bargain, but he refused to accept it, and sent it
to Paris, where first 3,000 francs, and afterwards
9,000 francs have been tendered and rejected, the for-
tunate possessor being confident of obtaining at least
12,000 francs.—Galignan.

STRIKE OF TAILORS (FRANCE).--The
Journal de l'lndre et Loire of the 22d inst., states that
a dispute had arisen at Tours between the master
tailors and their workmen, in consequence of the latter
requiring an augmentation of two francs upon each
coat. The masters have held a meeting, and resolved
not to accede to the demand, and, therefore, the shop-
boards have been deserted, and many of their men
have left the town. Similar discussions have been
held between the shoemakers and their men, but their
differences have been amicably settled. Other trades
are threatened with annoyances of the same kind.

The Gazette des Tribunalts gives an account
of an event as strange as it is deplorable, which has
just thrown three honourable families in Paris into dis-
may. A Mr. C—, residing in the Rue St. Lazare,
with his wife, a young and handsome woman, to whom
he had been but recently married, was in the habit of
receiving at his table a particular friend, a Mr. S—.
A few days ago Mr. C_____, from some sinister feeling
or jealousy, returned home from his office at an earlier
hour than usual. He rang the bell at the outer door
leading to his apartment, but no answer was made from
within. Mr. c—, thinking it strange, applied his
eye to the keyhole, and plainly perceived Mr. S—___.
sitting by the side of his wife. The infuriated hus-
band ran down to the porter's lodge, and asked the
porter who was with his wife. The porter denied that
any one had been to Mr. C---'s apartment. Mr.
C— immediately sent for a locksmith, and upon
forcing the door of his apartment, he was struck with
horror and surprise at discovering Mr. S by the
side of his unfortunate wife—both of them perfectly
inanimate. Madame C_____ was cold, but the body
of Mr. S— was still warm • and the surgeon who
was called in gave his opinion that he might have been
restored if assistance had been rendered five minutes
sooner. It is impossible to say whether the death of
these two persons is to be attributed to suicide, or whe-
ther they were suffocated accidentally by charcoal.
There is ground to suppose the latter, as some char-
coal was burning very intensely in an iron pot, which
. had been placed too forward on the fire-place, so that
1 the fumes from it did not ascend the chimney. There
was no disorder in the attitude or dress ('f the two
victims.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

At a late hour last night the question of the
. .
ALitustry Was still unsettled, and every man, as
his" temper happened to be sanguine or dis-
trustful, indulged corresponding anticipations of
success or failure in filling up the vacant offices.
We have not heard of any further disposition
to retire on the part of Lord Grey's remaining
colleagues, and as all those .who continue in
the Cabinet must have made up their minds to
support to its . full extent the liberal policy
agreed upon in relation to the Irish church
question, the immediate difficulties of the noble
earl at the head of the government will be em-
braced, it is expected, within the single work
Of selecting substitutes for the four lords and
gentlemen who have resigned. We can do no
more than reiterate what has already been im-
pressed with all the earnestness of which we
were capable on Lord Grey's attention—
viz., the absolute and imperious necessity
of resorting to men of tried talent and
principle, and not of such qualifications only,
but of straightforward and unflinching reso-
lution in their enforcement of measures of
reform. Having state our confidence that
the moral coui-age of Lords Grey and
Brougham would be found adequate to thik
tnelnentous occasion, we shall not scruple to
declare the bitterness of our disappointment
should it turn out, that when there is but one
safe course, and that a bold one, the miserable
expedients and subterfuges of ordinary periods
or of timid and little minds should be visible in
any of the forthcoming artangements. It will
be irrecoverably fatal to the attempt at renovat-
ing the broken Cabinet, if any mere old stagers
of office, " red-tapists," and so forth, as an
evening contemporary has it, should be stuck in
for hole-stoppers, to the exclusion of men of
acknowledged decision and ability. On that
point there have been rumours which we dis-
miss at once as incredible, because it is our
conviction that should they be realized, the re-
sult would be the speedy annihilation of
the Ministry—nay, almost before its first
ene,ounter with the House of Commons. Should
again such patchwork as is imputed to ',Ord
Grey, not only by the conservative runners, but
by hangers-on of the Cabinet, and other parties
who palm their own fictions on the public for
" the latest news from Court,"—should that
he the immediate issue of his lordship's exist-
ing negotiations, it would so involve the honour
of other members of the Cabinet, that it is im-
possible they should ever concur in an experi-
ment so unworthy and so childish. By the
Lord Chancellor, for instance, it is out of the
question that a flimsy attempt at the " juste
milieu" system should be countenanced at a
time like this. There is but one alternative—
progressive and perfect, or incomplete and sus-
pended, reform. To the latter Lord Brougham
has often declared his utter repugnance, as a
fraud upon and insult to the country. He has,
moreover, furnished, by the number and magni-
tude of those measures of reform to which he has..
already pledged himself, many of which have been
introduced into parliament, and some of which
have been actually passed intolaw, such irresistible
demonstrations of the truth and integrity of his
processions, as well as of the zeal and ardour of
his attachment to—we might say his passion
for—the improvement of our national institu-
tions, that none but idiots can suspect that
learned lord of the capability of listening to any
proposal, let it come from what quarter it might,
for virtually defeating the great object which
has induced him to remain to this hour a mem-
ber of the Government, in the sole and exclu-
sive hope that the liberal basis of the Cabinet
might thus be eventually widened, and its spirit
quickened, elevated, and strengthened. Lord
Brougham would be the first to reprobate a
peddling or manoeuvring process in the. regenera-
tion of the existing Ministry, and that in such
case, but in such case only, he would feel com-
pelled to withdraw himself from the side of Lord
Grey. Were the noble and learned lord him-
self to advise or undertake the formation of a
Ministry, there cannot be a shadow of doubt
that it would be one at which the cordial and
enlightened friends of constitutional reform would
have no just cause to murmur.— Times.

Whatever be the result of the recent secession
of some of its ablest members from the Whig
Cabinet, it is somewhat refreshing to find that
a regard to principle has not altogether perished
from among public men—that the standard of
political morality has not universally fallen so
low as to make the possession of place be pre-
ferred, in every instance, to the preservation of
character. In the case of Baron Smith, the
upright judge, the accomplished scholar, the
veteran friend of civil and religious freedom,
whom the Whig ministers were about to offer
as a propitiatory sacrifice on the altar of Irish
agitation, a manly and truly honourable part
was taken by Sir James Graham. He not
only voted against the dastardly design of the
Whig Cabinet, but spoke of-the disgraceful act
in a manner that must have made Mr. Littleton
and others ,blush for their conduct, if, indeed,
any men capable of conceiving such an act of
injustice were susceptible of shame. On that
occasion Mr. Stanley adopted a course which
strangely contrasted with his former tone of
defiance to the repeal agitators, for whose espe-
cial gratification Baron Smith was to-be hunted
down. But Mr. Stanley has since shown that
there are some principles which he holds more
dear than any consideration of political am-
bition. If we thought him wrong as to his
opinion in this matter, we should still respect
him for his conduct. The fewer English states-
men emulate the cameleon facility with which
such a politician as Talleyrand contrives always
to assume the colours of the winning side, the
better it will be for the nation, and for the pub-
lic morality of England in the nineteenth cen-
tury. The wisest thing ever said by the Duke
of Wellington was, that " any loss is better
than the loss of character, which is the founda-
tion of public confidence ;" but. the Duke, as a
politician, has not always kept his own maxim
in view. Indeed the instances of gross incon-
sistency in public men, with regard to vital
questions, have of late years been so frequent
and so numerous, that public suspicion and
distrust have very generally succeeded to public
confidence, and no politician is trusted farther
than he is seen. How the breaches in the Ca-
binet are to be repaired remains yet to be seen.
Whether any more secessions than those of Mr.
Stanley, Sir J. Graham, the Duke of Rich-
mond, and the Earl of Ripon, will, as a Aiorn-
ing Paper intimated, take place, we do not pre-
tend to know ; but to supply those vacancies
well Lord Grey will find to be no easy mat-
ter. Besides, a Cabinet that once falls to pieces
from internal dissension, like a house divided
against itself, can never be so reconstructed
as to, last any long time. As to the nature of
the intended reconstruction, the report which we
mentioned on Wednesday of the probable re-

tilrii of torn turbam to tie cabinet has since
gained a more general acceptance. The party
Most hostile to the church, and whose policy,
if acted upon, will produce a state of confusion
in this country which may turn even reform
into a calamity, as was the case in France,
where the crimes committed in the name of li-
berty, rivalled those of the worst despotism
which the world ever saw—that active and
eager party are straining every nerve, and
using all the influence that they can command
in the press and elsewhere, to raise Lord Dur-
ham to the head of affairs, as the only man
qualified to take the bold measures necessary
to save the country. If the country is to be
saved by an indiscriminate destruction of all its
most ancient and venerable institutions ; if the
road to national salvation is to be through con-
fiscation and ruin, we do not question the ta-
lents of Lord Durham for the purpose, though
we hope he has not the courage for the task, and
we should be sorry, without the best evidence,
to ascribe to him the inclination ; but there is

proof enough that he is thought to be a fit
tool for a party to work with, who, with liberty
and reform for ever on their lips, have the most
selfish ambition, and care nothing for the mass
of the people provided they can aggrandise
themselves. Indeed all parties seem very well
disposed to betray or forget the interests of the
people in their anxiety to take care of them-
selves. We have seen Tory, Whig, and Re-
publican combine in the House of Commons to

force upon the country that bill to appoint cen-
tral bashaws, and build parochial bastiles all
over the kingdom; which for its violation of the
principles of English freedom, and the rights of

humanity, surpasses every thing that has been
dared to be proposed in this country since the
expulsion of the Stuarts. Thus, whoever tri-
umphs in the conflict of party, the people are
but too often called upon to suffer. For our
own part, we have long advocated reform in the
church,—such a reform as would purify its
abuses, but not impair the integrity of an esta-
blishment which is identified with the growth
of religious truth and religious toleration in
this country—which is identified also with the
cause of civil liberty at the Revolution, which
is glorified by the acts and sufferings of illus-
trious martyrs, and which has produced the
most learned and the ablest champions that ever
defended against its infidel assailants the ark of
Christianity' A reform of the church requires
great discretion and judgment. If intemperately
undertaken, if injudiciously conducted, reform
may be converted into subversion, and the infi-

del and scorner may sit upon the pillars of the
overturned sanctuary of our faith, like the Ro-
man soldier resting from the work of desolation
on the ruins of the temple of Jerusalem. Now
if Lord Durham have at any time displayed
ability for pulling down, we have yet to learn
the proof of his talents for reconstruction.
Without meaning any offensive allusion to his
Lordship, but merely by way of illustration, we
may be allowed to observe that a Vandal can
destroy what it required the genius of a Palla-

dio or a Wren to construct ; besides Lord Dur-
ham, with all his pretensions to liberality, has
shown himself to be a petulant and waspish
aristocrat. His pompous embassy to the Auto-
crat of Russia ended in utter insignificance,
and his prosecutions of the press showed a na-
tive intolerance of opinion, and an anxiety for
the penal protection of his fame, only worthy
that class of patriots who seek to mount by the
ladder of a spurious popularity to the tyrannie
exercise of power. But another hope of the
country has also been started in the person of
Mr. Spring Rice, who is said to be des-
' tined to fill the office. of Chancellor of the
Exchequer, as we yesterday intimated, in '
the new Whig, or ultra-Whig Cabinet,
whichever it may happen to be. To. make
room for him it is said Lord Althorp is to be
put upon the shelf of the Colonial Office, where
his incapacity will be less conspicuous than in
his present station. It is certainly impossible
that any change in the office of Chancellor of
the Exchequer can be for the worse ; Lord Al-
thorp having proved himself to be the most
incompetent Finance Minister that England
has had, at least within living recollection.
Whether his office or that of Lord Palmerston
has been conducted with more ignorance and
feebleness it would be difficult to determine.
But is Mr. Spring Rice capable of retrieving
the errors of Lord Althorp? We believe not.
Our whole finance system is wrong in principle
—it wants reform—a reform that would be
more beneficial to the people of England than
any other. Mr. Rice is not the person from
whom the country is to expect such 'a reform.
He is an industrious and plodding official of
what is very expressively called the red-tape
school—he is a mere man of detail—he has no
comprehensiveness of intellect—no idea of prin-
ciples. He may tinker the system for a time,
but his is not the master-hand that can pre-
serve it from tumbling about our heads—men
of nobler stature both in intellect and public
virtue alone can save the State, if it be saved at
all.—Morning Herald. •

The most intense anxiety pervades the public
mind on the subject of the recent and pending
ministerial changes. Circumstances have placed
in the hands of Lord Grey the full power of
giving effect to the amendment of the represen-
tation, and of-securing the support of the great
majority of the middle classes and constituency
of the country. But it cannot be concealed
that the public confidence can only be recovered
by a decisive and consistently liberal policy—
that the recent measures of the fractured cabinet
have been a grievous disappointment to the
nation—that much has been left undone which
the Reformers had a right to expect would have
been willingly effected by a Whig
.ministry—
and that the administration about to be re-
formed is the last trial of the Whigs as a politi-
cal party. We conscientiously, though often
reluctantly, gave our support to the late cabinet
of Lord Grey. His lordship was called upon
lin November, 1830, to fonn a cabinet under cir-
cumstances demanding the most generous con-
sideration. The Whigs as a party formed a
minority of scarcely one-fourth of the unreformed
House of Commons. The House of Lords for
half a century had been packed by the Tories ;
and doubled in its numbers and constituted
with a view to the perpetuation of the oligar-
chical domination, the British Peerage pre-
sented an almost insuperable obstacle to good
government. The church had been filled with
Tory clergy—the provincial municipal patron-
age of the counties had been almost exclusively
in the possession of Tory Lord-Lieutenants--
the corporations of the cities and boroughs were
filled with " Conservatives," with power of self-
election, and devoted to official corruption—the
profession of Toryism was the only ladder to
legal preferment—the opulent classes of the 1
kingdom were naturally imbued with the poli-,
Itical spirit of the aristocracy—and the limited I

I and corrupt electoral body of the mock system
of representation was the subservient instru-
, ment of the boroughmongers—the people alone
offered any real support to Loid Grey. In
the formation of his Cabinet, under these
adverse and almost hopeless circumstances,
Lord Grey was necessarily driven to the forma-
tion of a coalition ministry ; that is to say,
a political union of public men who had
previously professed various conflicting princi-
ples. but who modified or suspended their re-
spective opinions under the critical circum-
stances of the time, and for the great and para-
mount object of their confederation. Parlia-
mentary reform was imperatively demanded by
the nation. The cabinet had the wisdom to
devise and propose a most extensive and popu-
lar measure. An entirely new distribution of
political power was the necessary consequence
of the successful issue of the Reform Bills.
No reflecting person anticipated any revolu-
tionary or immediate results. The power of
the instrument could not be at once demon-
strated ; an enlightened constituency had to be
created—to be educated, as it were, for the
discharge of their important trust—a new for-
mation of public character was essential, be-
fore the full force of the reform could be ex-
perienced. A House of Commons was elected,
whose only pledge was the sincere support of
the " reform administration." The cabinet
thus formed, thus supported—some of the mi-
nisters fearing the movement—presumed too
much on the apparent quiescence of the public
mind. The absurd fear of ultra-democratic princi-
ples, a dread of the ordeal of the House of Lords,
probably the want of unanimity hi the Cabinet,
or the apprehension of collision from irrecon-
cileable differences among its members—appear
to have induced a negative policy which has at
last terminated a connection palpably formed
for a temporary purpose, and which could not
long subsist after the accomplishment of its pri-
mary object of an organic change in the Con-
stitution. Ministers were partly betrayed into
their misinterpretation of public opinion by
the extraordinary support which they still con-
tinued to obtain in the House of Commons. A
large majority upheld them through good and
evil report, from the fear of the Tories regain-
ing office in a split of the Administration ; and
the Tories frequently rescued the Ministry from
danger, perceiving, in the impossibility of their
own return to power, the expediency of support-
ing a moderate government, and, perhaps, occa-
sionally discerning the injury suffered by the
Whigs from Tory countenance and votes.
But a new era has arrived. The Mi-
nistry has been winnowed ; the Cabinet
has been nearly disencumbered of its dead
weight. We do not even except Mr.
Stanley : we do not under-rate the advantage
derived from his acknowledged ability in the
House of Commons, and his business habits in
office : but his honest prejudices on the ques-
tions of church reform, and his apparent want
of comprehension of the effect of the great
measure of Parliamentary reform, subsequently
disqualified him as a member of a liberal ca-
binet. When Mr. Stanley shall have atten-
tively considered the working of the machinery
of the constitution, we do not despair of his
more correct-estimate of the force of the bodies
now possessed of 'political power, and we are
assured that he will not factiously oppose a
more liberal administration than that from
which he has seceded. The backsliding of
Sir James Graham we do not profess to un-
derstand, and are not very anxious to be able
to account for it. But Lord Grey is now left
to the intrinsic support of his own original
principles, and exclusive political supporters
On that foundation alone can he establish or
long maintain a new cabinet. We cannot
conceal from the country the hostile power
against' which a really liberal administra-
tion will have to contend. The House of Com-
mons yet contains a small but an organized
phalanx of Tory Members, and it will doubtless
have the occasional aid of a little band of trim-
ming members or alarmists, who, watching the
political weathercock, will waver in their votes.
A large majority, however, backed by an over-
whelming public opinion and a powerful press,
will successfully support Lord Grey, if his new
ministry commands the public confidence. The
state of parties, and the peculiar political cir-
cumstances of the country, require no extreme
measures. If- the people discern a sincere and
courageous design progressively to purify and
improve all our social institutions—if all dis-
abilities on account of religious opinions are
boldly swept away, and equal civil rights ex-
tended to all classes—if the municipal system is
next session honestly reformed—if the abuses of
the established church are fully remedied—if
Ireland, instead of being coerced to maintain an
alien hierarchy, has justice rendered to her—if
every practical economy is enforced—if the be-
nefits of a system of national education are next
year secured to the people—the forthcoming
Administration of Lord Grey will obtain an
emblazoned page in the history of Great Bri-
tain' But such a great and magnificent result
can only be effected by a competent Cabinet.
The patchwork of party must not disfigure it ;
personal jealousies and absurd fears must not
exclude from the public service any noblemen
or commoners eminently possessing the confi-
dence of the reformers. The patronage of such
an administration must also be honestly be-
stowed. If unhappily a want of wisdom, of dis-
interestedness, and a lack of moral courage,
should be displayed, the certain consequences
will be the early and disgraceful fall of a rickety,
crippled, and impotent Ministry—the utter ex-
tinction of the Whig party—the possible tem-
porary succession of an insane Tory Govern-
ment—a desperate conflict between the people
and the aristocracy, and the probable dissolu-
tion, at no distant period, of the whole social
system of Great Britain and IrelamL Such is
the responsibility of Lord Grey, and such the
precipice on which he now stands accountable
to a great and excited people anxiously watch-
ing the determination of him who now is vested
with the powers of dictator. His Cabinet must
now be established and conducted on principle ;
it must be comprehensive—a Reform Admmi-
stration.—Morning Chronicle.
Various rumours continue to be afloat upon
the subject of the reconstruction of the Cabi-
net ; and we are able to state nothing with con-
fidence except that the difficulties in which the
Ministers are involved become daily more and
more formidable. The question of Lord Dur-
ham's accession to or exclusion from the Cabi-
net is the first subject upon which a decided
difference is supposed to exist ;—Lord Brougham,
Lord. Palmerston, Lord Lansdowne, Mr, Spring
Rice, all objecting in the strongest manner to
Lord Durham's appearance in the Cabinet ;
Lord Grey, Lord Altliorp, Lord Holland, Mr,
Charles Grant, all insisting upon his immediate
admission. It is supposed that if Lord Durhain

becomes a Cabinet Minister the former indi-
viduals will resign their offices,—that if he does
not become a Cabinet Minister the latter indi-
viduals will resign their offices. We learn that
there is no immediate prospect of overcoming
this obstacle. Since writing the above we have
learned from a quarter on which we place much
reliance, that the difficulty to which it alludes
is for the present avoided, and that the arrange-
ments which for a time it prevented are now
made. Our informant speaks of Lord Auck-
land for the Admiralty, Lord Mulgrave for the
Post-office, Mr. Spring Rice for the Colonies.
We have said that we place much confidence
in our correspondent ; but on this occasion we
suspect he has been misinformed.—Morn. Post.

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 29.