The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-02 00:00:00

We have received t, e moat gratifying accounts of the
excellence of the winter and the present se ison ; weather
most delightful for all agricultural operations : the
Spring seeds advantaceously put into the soil, and great
breadths of plant above ground throughout the country.
In course there must exist some adverse exceptions, the
result of peculiar circumstances, which we shall note in
their place. We must also acknowledge that we do oat
entirely agree with our correspondents as to the benefits
of a mild, moist, and focgy winter season, with perpetu-
ally chopping and chancing of the wind, which has had a
morbid effect on the human constitution in many parts,
and which has encouraged a premature and rank vegeta-
tion of the wheat crop, detracting, it is to be ap-
prehended, too much from the seminal virtues of the root.
A crop superabundant in straw, is seldom equally so in
corn. If the greatest breadths of wheat, both autumnal
and in the north, and some parts of the north-west, of
spring wheat, ever sown in Britain, can command pinty,
it is probable the next harvest will produce it. To say a
word or two on that convenient professional humbug,
cholera morbus, our ancient acquaintance, we have not
had a single case from the country, though plenty of other
atmospheric diseases from different counties—sore throats.
coughs, intermittents. Indigenous cholera has been im-
memorially periodical in this country, never contagious,
but, as the doctors style it, sporadic, or locally infec-
tious ; generally of atmospheric origin, but too often pro-
duced by starvation and neglect.
'rlie wheats, clovers, and grasses, natural and artificial,
are all universally forwatd, promising very early spring
food for all kinds of stock. It is said, however, that the
mild white fro-ts, which have prevailed through part of
the last and present month, have in .oine decree check
la• tiefieially, an over luxuriance.—Monthly Magazine for
April.

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DIAMOND CU t' DIAMOND.—WIieii Baron
Dupuytren and Sir Astley Cooper met in Guy's Hospital, the
Baron, in a very cordial manner, embraced the Baronet, and
kissed him. Sir Astley, who disliked such a method of saluta-
tion between men, at first blushed, hut after a momentary
pause, he pointedly exclaimed, " Well, never mind, I am even
with you, for when I was in Paris I kissed your daughter !"
SUICIDE OF CAPTAIN GLENGALL AIOSE-
LEY.—On Saturday night, at ten o'clock, an inquest was held
before Mr. Higgs, the coroner, and a respectable jury, at the
residence of Cope, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square,
on the body of Captain Glengall Moseley, who terminated his
existence by cutting his throat. George Frederick Lockley, of
Hain-noon-street, surgeon, sworn.—l have been in the habit of
attending the deceased for many years ; I first saw him under
the present indisposition about a fortnight since, and the de.
ceased has been confined to his house about six days ; the
symptoms were those of a bilious fever, and his pulse was never
above ninety during any part of the disease; he never laboured
under delirium ; I saw him yesterday about one o'clock, and
sat with him a considerable time, he inducing me to do so by
stating that he expected Sir H. Halford every minute ; he was
perfectly tranquil at that time, and entered into trifling mi_
nutia', such as the making of barley-water, &c. I left him
without any apprehension of the slightest danger, and was
much surprised and shocked, on being called upon at five
o'clock the same day, to find that he was dead by wounds in his
throat which the jury have witnessed. He had always an im-
petuous and impatient manner, which led me to expect that it
might some day end in insanity. His body was reduced very
much, in consequence of fever. The other evidence was only
corroborative of the above, and the jury returned a verdict of--
" Temporary insanity."

Lord Grey, in reply, spoke with his usual ability
—if rhetoric were all•sufficient, he would leave us
nothing to desire—and repeated his protestations
that the principles and efficiency of the measure
should not he im mired. He explained that to alte-
rations that might be improvements he would not
be opposed. Any such alterations will, howevet, be
regarded with great suspicion and dissatisfaction by
• he country, who will set down Lot d Grey's assent
to them, not to conv.ction, but to compulsitaa.
Knowing that the Mitiker is really in a minority—
that the majority is lent to him by his enemies, and
the enemies of the measure—the people will sup-
pose that his compliances are neees-tries of the
helple-s, poweiless state in which he has chosen to
leave himself. His concessions will be imputed to
weakness, and the Bill will lose much of its value
in public opinion, as it will be conceived to be un-
paired or vitiated by them.
Lord Grey, as a statesman, must need, know that
half the benefit of a good law is lost, if tne repute
of its goodness tall short of the truth. This is a measure
to remove causes of discontent ; it is therefore pecu-
liarly desirable that the manner of settling it stool'
be such as not to give birth to any suspicions that
it is less beneficial than it pot ports to be; but if an
assembly, a majority of which is notoriously disin-
clined to the obk,ct in view, have the final arrange-
ment, doubt and distrust of the soundness and effi-
cacy of the measure cannot but be generated in
men's minds For the opinion of the virtue of the
8,11, it is necessary that it should be passed by a
majority of Lords really favourable to the end pro
posed, and not made bp of men who avow that they
carry it on the condition of lightening it of its more
popular provisions.
We confess that we should much have preferred
Lords Wharncliffe and Harrow by's declaration of
uncompromising hostility to the B 11, to their qua-
lified promises of support; which, like the oracles
of old, will serve for the most opposite issues. How-
ever they may act, their conduct is to he interpreted
by their own judgments, and, at las , a, large is
their liberty of disliking the Bill as was the epi-
grammatist's of hating Docti,r Fell. Otte ground
of hope alone we see in these declarations, and that
is, from the schism which they would seem to open
between the Ulra Tories and the Trimmers. Wne"
the self-love of men 1)i-comes warmed in such dif-
ferences, it is apt to make them fly off from the
middle ground to the extreme, and to rank thew
with allies they love riot, in staunch opposition to
the dissenters they most hate. Wellington remains
obstinate ; and if the Ultra Tories fall out with the
Trimmers, the Trimmers are very likely to IA in
with Lord Grey in all the earnestness of party

Mr. STANLEY said it was always unpleasant to him,
upon the presentation of petitions, to rise to object to any
proposition to resort to measures recommended in the pe-
lion ; in particular to objecting to any measure recom-
mended, or rather insinuated by the Right Hon. Baronet
opposite as his opinion—(" No," from Sir H. Parnell)—
well, then, as the opinion of the Magistrates of his county.
He (Mr. Stanley) did not 'mean to deny the accuracy
of the statement of the Right Hon. Baronet, that conside-
rable disturbance had for some time past, and even now,
existed in the Queen's County. It was also true that the
Right Hon. Baronet, and some other gentlemen of that
county, some time ago did bins the honour of calling his
attention to the state of the county, and to ask what as-
sist ince his Majesty's Government was prepared to afford.
The iesult of that communication, he hoped, was perfectly
satisfactory. He first inquired of the gentlemen what steps
the magistrates, the resident land proprietors, and the
leading farmers had taken for the mutual protection of
lives and property—whether they bad volunteered their
services to assist the police in forming daily and nightly
p ttrols arid endeavour to apprehend the disturbers of the
public peace. To his questions one was put to him by
way of reply, sr hether if those persons consented
to assist the police, Government would furnish them
with arts. He answereo, that there would be no
disinclination nu the part of the G.wernment to furnish
~stns for such a purpose. He understood that that was
pet fectly satisfactory ; but would the House believe that
from that hour to the present not a single patrol had been
formed, or a single application made to the Government
for arms ?—(Hear, hear.) H.- might, perhap.,, be allowed
to allude to a statement that had been made (he did not
know precisely upon whose authori.y),, that at the
a-sizes which had been recently held at Maryborough,
a farmer was asked by the Judge, if' he had done any
thing, eiti er by himself or his !about era. to protect
the property of his neighbourhood, and be replied—
" How can we do so, untess the gentry put themselves
torward".— (Hear, heir.) The Right Hon. Bart. had not
denied that every application made by the Government
for assistance in the Queen's County had been complied
with nimt readily,—(hear, hear,); and, indeed, the re-
quisition to the Lord Lieutenant of that county (which
he held in his hand) to call the me, tings at which
the petition alluded .o by the Right Min. Baronet was
agreed to, stated that est, ry demand on the Government
for an incrta-e in the military or p dice had been COM •
plied with. He had this morning received a letter from
Sr Wthiam Gossett, who stateu, that whatever assist-
ance liad -ten applied for by the Magistrates had been
teadily granted, and also that an applie.ation ha:l just then
heel. made to enfOree the Preservation of the Peace Act.
That had n also granted ; but before it wig possible to
Put it Into effectual operation, they came forward, through
the Right lion Baronet, to ask Mr the Insurrection Act.
—(Hear, h ar.) Now he had been always averse
to apply any measures whatever, uril..ss they could
he effectual in meeting and reme•-ying the evil complained
ol• In order to show, therefore, that the Insurtec ion
Act would not remedy the evil complained of it, this
case, he would just mention that the offeneea spoken
of by the Right H. n. Btron..t were committed, most of
them, in t e road face of day., whereas the Insurtecti
Act
- only applied to ptrsons woo should be found
fruits their idmines between sunset and sunrise; anuthtr
fttht:
tin] g
thos, se i tt took
wo tweauyin• t.ltiae r n
ceirt he
eo trialwas
convinced
and
the House would see that the Insurrection Act would
ibieeenil•lio:ily inefficient to meet the evil.—( Raw, tear.)
This w .s happy to say, though he certainly must ad-
mit there was a considerable amount of crime in the
Queen's County, that he found by the return which had
0 intoAtnic tajl.i.e)Breawrwo:as:eata di
tdlissnrioitn:iuwkt since
~
whatnow for
he did wish. A die riot police hail been furnished and mili-
tary aid given ;
but as was well known to Hun. Members,
the army in Ireland was not at present more then ade-

Mr. SPRING RICE considered that those who ad-
vocated the introduction of the Insurrection Act as a
means of tranquilizing Ireland, were relying upon a broken
reed. When the Right Hon. G ntleman opposite recom-
mended rigorous interposition on the part of the Govern-
ment ; he (Mr. S. R.) felt it his duty to object to such
general terms, and must request to know what
his Right Honourable Friend meant by acts of ri-
gour ? It was notorious that the ordinary force
of the law had been put in full and extensive operation—
that at the last assizes at Meryborough no lees than forty
convictions had tiken place, and every demand that had
been made for military assistance had been complied with.
With respect to the Insurrection Act, a most melancholy
instance ot its effects had been given in the county of
Limerick, and in his (Mr. S. R ce's) opinion the remedy
weich had been propos-d by the Right Hen. Gentleman
would tend to increase rather than allay the diffi-
cuities under which Ireland laboured. He attributed the
tranquillity of Lim-rick and Cork to the vigorous and
almost unigelenting administration of the ordinary laws of
the land. The verdict of a jury, and the decision of a
Judge, did much inure to allay that irritation than any
decision conic to by a magistrate, and that jealousy was
put an end to which would otherwise exist. With respect
to what had been said regarding country gentlemen, he
admitted that it was in vain to administer any law except
through their medium. But it was said the country gen•
tletnen would not take any part in allaying the disturbances,
because they did not receive encouragement from Govern-
ment. He should wish to know what encouragement they
expected, or ought to receive, further than that which
resulted from a discharge of their duty, careless whether a
Whig or a Tory Government was in power. An analogy
had been drawn between their case and that of Ceptatii
Graham, and it had been said that they did not receive
encouragement from the Government, because Ciptain
Graham had not been made a magistrate ot the county,
and therefore it was a full justification for the Magistrates
of Queen's County not to interfere to quell the disturb-
ances. When once a Magistrate applied for the Insurrec-
tion Act, he neglected the ordinary operations of the law of
the land. With respect to the imputations that had
been thrown out by the Right Hun. Gentleman opposite
against Lord Anglesey, be should say nothing—they an-
steered themselves ; but if that Right Hon. Gentleman
thought that by the observations he had inede he would
withdraw Lord Anglesey from those kindly associa-
tions and feelings with which he was connected with
the people of Ireland, he would find himself as much mis-
taken on that subject, as he was with the character ot the
people of Ireland themselves.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—
Nothol,e that fell upon the occasion alluded to from the
Lois-Lieutenant o, e-and, could for a moment be distorted
into a !puma! (or believing that had Lord Aeglesea, who,
.y a sue adminis,ration of the law, had traliquilitea
Clare, was aisposed to encourage violence or to disregard
tie law of the land.--(Hear.) He would as-ure the
and especi dfly thasealembers who had not witnesses
the administration of the law under the Insurrection Act
in Ireland, that nothing could more effectually promote
ultimately the cause of insuleirdinetion and disturbaci e. If
it partiaily relieved the exigences, the inconveniences and
risk described by the Right Hon.:Member fur Queen's County
would ultimately be more than realised. It tee peace and
trunquillity of Ireland were at all to be promoted,
ii was not under insuriection Acts, but by the
firm, deo-I-mini d, rigotou-, con-taut and unre-
mitting administration of the ordinary law of the
land. And it an Assize had been ineffectual, he would
say le: Special Comuliesions issue, unit continue till peace
and tranquillity were restored—this, and this alone, would
tratiquiltiz, Ireland.
Mi. CHAPMAN highly approved of the principle of
governing Leland which had been adopted and pet severed
in by Government.
Mr. CAREW highly disapproved of the conduct of
Caption Graham on the occasion to which reference had
so tr quently been made. Undoubtedly he certainly had
aced with gi eat indiscretion, and he dio not blaiiie Go.
Ye, i•inent tor not having made him a magistrate of the
roue y. . . _

Sit:H. PARNELL explained. He complained that
the Right Hun. Secretary for Ireland had att .ckerl the
Alagi.orates ot the county, while oe con.aleted it impos.eble
t at any Magistrates c tuid discharge in e vigorously their
duties, hale they old, to check the pi etgrer4 of tiletuNiance.
fh, Right Hon. Secretary for Ileiaiid had made s we
sarcastic observations wive regard to what hr had •stated
on ituother occasion, to which he found it itecrosaiy,
however unwitting, tor a single moment to allude.
The Right Hon. Secretary tor Leland expressed his sue
at he (See 11 Pm heti) Anima have suggested the
tieces.ity of a largey military for e in the Queen's
County, this being apparently inconsisteut with his re -
comna,-ndAtion while in eteee to reduce the army. Now
a,l ne meant was, that by 4 proper distribution, there
might be found more troops at home tti send to the
Q 4- en's Cou ty, even abet a general redo thin.
Mr. LEADER said that there were 10,000 men in
the
,province ot Leinster, of which Quern's county forms
a part, to aid the gentry, and surely this was sufficient.—