The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-11 00:00:00

Colonel Stanhope, who has coquetted with
the " Destructives ;" Captain Marryat, the
Conservative, being at the tail of all,—viz.,
more than 600 below Colonel Stanhope.
Finally, Messrs. Tennyson and Hawes have
decidedly beaten Mr. Wakefield in Lambeth.
Thus it appears that everywhere, almost
without exception, the friends of real Re-
form and of constitutional freedom have, hitherto
lat least, shown themselves to be the decided
majority of the enlarged and improved elective
body of the metropolis and its neighbourhood.
Of all the 16 candidates at the head of yester-
day's polls there are but two who have not de-
clared themselves to be friends of the existing
Government. This is a good beginning. It is
honourable to Ministers that they acquire their
hold over the nation through such meritorious
means, and most honourable to the people is
the virtuous discrimination which they are evinc-
ing between their friends and enemies. As for
the Bill itself, had it no other value than that
which constitutes one of its minutest praises,—
the curtailment of the period of elections to two
days instead of 15, and the dispersion of mere
mobs by the multiplication of polling
it would be still among the most precious gifts
that ever were offered to Great Britain. The
comparison between yesterday's peaceful aspect
and former commencements of Westminster and
other tumultuous polls, must have struck every-
body with mixed gratification and wonder.—
Times.

We stated yesterday that Mr. Lubbock had
retired from the contest for the University of
Cambridge, leaving therefore the coast clear for
the two Tory candidates, who will of course be
elected. From the intimations which we had
recieved of the probability of this gentleman's
failure, we are not surprised at such an event.
Should the friends of the other candidates, how-
ever, be disposed to rejoice, we would advise
them to do it with caution and trembling. Let
them take their casual and temporary good luck
in silent thankfulness. The influence which

their two Anti-reforming Members will have in
the new House of Commons may probably in-
duce the constituency to think that they have
hazarded a dangerous experiment in sending
them thither. Some conformity to the course
of events is necessary in order to influence its
direction, though but slightly. Direct opposi-
tion in absolute weakness is only irritating, and
will, in the event, prove dangerous to those who
set it up. We do not know, in a general and
public point of view, that a mere man of science
is the best representative possible ; and it will be
recollected that a Member chosen for the Uni-
versity becomes, when he ,pas taken his seat, a
repiesentative of the whole. British nation. We
will not pronounce, therefore, that Mr. Lubbock,
though an excellent man, was the best man
that could have been selected ; but it certainly
is disgraceful to a place of which the sole
merit is that of being a scientific corporation,
to cast a slight upon one of the most
guished sons of science. Cambridge, with all
its political faults, has generally had some
regard to its reputation as a school of en-
lightened education : latterly it seems to have
been struck with a sudden blindness.— Times.

The carnage at Antwerp proceeds vigorously,
o the great satisfaction, no doubt, of Lord Pal-
merston and his colleagues, whose policy has
occasioned this horrible waste of human life.
The greatest destruction and misery have hither-
to been the lot of the French troops and the
Belgian population, both of whom, particularly
the latter, have reason enough to lament the
circumstances which converted the British Go-
vernment into the slave of France, and thereby
encouraged the French Government to become
once more an invader of the peace and security
of the Netherlands. This bloodshed and
ruin must be deeply deplored, nevertheless,
by all the friends of humanity, for its vic-
tims are no sharers in the crimes that pro-
duced it. It is probable, at least, that few of
the Frenchmen who have been consigned to
death, or of the citizens of Antwerp who have
been driven from their habitations, to perish in
misery and by thousands on the highways, have
participated in the crimes which have led to
these appalling calamities, in the ambition of the
French Government, or the baseness of the
English. It is still, however, some consolation
that the subjects of the Citizen-King and of his
son-in-law should hitherto have been the prin-
cipal victims of this atrocious proceeding, inno-
cent as they may be of any participation in its
guilt, rather than the faithful and loyal subjects
of the brave and magnanimous Sovereign of
Holland, who carry on a war purely defensive,
and are engaged in the meritorious duty of re li
-
pelling a most perfidious and unprincipled ag-
gression upon the independence and welfare of
their country. We shall hear, we suppose, no
more of the disgusting jargon by means of
which the denial was once attempted that France
and England were going to war with Holland ;
or, if we should, we must beg to be informed
by the callous and blood-thirsty metaphysicians
of Downing-street what amount of human
slaughter is in their estimation necessary to
constitute a state of war. It were well, however,
if the murders chargeable upon the base
and coward policy of the British Ministry
were confined to the thousands of French-
men and of Belgians who have perished, or
are destined to perish by arms, by pestilence,
and by famine, at or near the chief seat of the
military operations in Flanders. We should in
this case have found a mitigation to our grief
and indignation in the exemption of our own
countrymen from the fatal effects of Ministerial
guilt. But this alleviation to the feelings of the
British people is unfortunately denied. The
melancholy task is imposed upon us this day of re-
cording the loss of his Majesty's ship Snake,
one of Lord Palmerston's blockading fleet in the
North Sea, with the appilli.ig addition that every
soul on board perished. Thus about 200 of our
brave sailors have been consigned to death by
the criminal subserviency of the English Minis-
ters to the domineering and ambitious policy of
revolutionary France, and by the folly and inca-
pacity of our naval administration. What do
Lord Palmerston and Sir James Graham now
think, what do they expect the country to think,
of their Dutch war and their manner of con-
ducting it ? Was it not enough to abet the
French Government in its iniquitous attack upon
Holland, without sending, as an added proof of
our zeal in the cause of wrong, our brave and
valuable seamen to wage an useless war against
the elements at this season of the year in
the North Sea ? Did our Ministers think
it indispensable to ther a
eethatetability
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lives
suiotyf
of their alliance with France
Englishmen as well as Frenchmen should be sa-
crificed to its unhallowed commencement ? Or
what other inducement could they possibly have
to send our ships of war at this season of the
year to battle against the winds and waves in the
North Sea ? We trust the maritime inhabitants

of Hampshire and of Cumberland will on the
hustings, where they arc soon to meet Lord
Palmerston and Sir James Graham, demand of
those Ministers a severe reckoning for the lives
of the gallant crew of the Snake, thrown away
as they have been in an anti-national cause, and
in an experiment so dangerous that nothing
could have justified it, short of national inte-
rests of the highest and most urgent importance.
—Morning Post.
A few days ago we adverted to a subject of a
very unpleasant nature connected with the
foreign correspondence of this Journal--we
mean a charge of an odious and calumnious
character made by a rival newspaper, the Times,
upon our private correspondent at Antwerp.
Why a charge which endangered his liberty, and
was calculated to put even his life in peril, was
made and circulated as widely as the columns of
our contemporary could circulate it, we can only
surmise. It will be recollected that the inculpa-
tory statement was published in the Belgic cor-
respondence of the Tinzes at a period when every
particle of political information from Belgium
was looked for with intense anxiety. Whether
the freedom of our correspondent's communica-
tions displeased those whom the Times finds it
useful, at present, to flatter, and, therefore, he
was held up to public odium and discredit, or
whether there was some other motive for de-
nouncing him to the authorities at Antwerp, as
being in the " pay of the Orangeists," we know
not. Certain it is, however, that if the denun-
ciation had been followed by the result which
it might have been expected to have in a
town in a state of siege, and if by an
act of arbitrary power he had been shut up
in a dungeon, or banished from the country,
the Times would have had the stage of Belgic

affairs clearer to itself for making its own repre-
sentations of the blessings of " peaceful war"—
the popularity of French domination over Belgic
independence—the kind offices of amicable ag-
gression, and the refreshing spectacles of friendly
slaughter, which will make the Palmerston paci-
fication of Holland and Belgium memorable to
the end of time. That the charge was false has
been admitted by the most competent authority,
even the author of the calumny himself. That
it was an odious charge the Times will not deny
—nay, it will not deny that it was quite as odious
as if we had made our columns the medium of
asserting without proof that the Times or its
correspondent was in the pay of Louis Philip,
though neither the life nor the liberty of its
correspondent would thereby be exposed to dan-
ger. That the insertion of this calumny in the
Times was as malevolent as the charge itself was
false can hardly be doubted, when it is considered
that if our contemporary had allowed himself to
be deceived by his correspondent in the first in-
stance, he has since had as convincing proof as
we ourselves of the groundlessness of the accu-
sation—for the author of that libellous state-
ment, having been discovered and called to
account by our correspondent, made a public
retraction—acknowledged that he had been
led into error—expressed his sorrow for
what he had stated, and promised to write
home an apology to be published in the
Times, which has never yet appeared in that
journal, though some subsequent attacks upon
our correspondent have, which we pass by at
present. One would have thought that if our'
contemporary of the Times only acted as he did
because he had been imposed upon, or led
inadvertently into an error, which might have
been productive of serious or even fatal conse-
quences to another, he would have taken the
earliest opportunity of making those honourable
amends which bespeak au honest and manly
contrition for an act of unintentional injustice.
Not so. The Times published the calumny,
and suppressed the contradiction of it furnished
by its own correspondent. We are therefore
compelled, in justice to ourselves, as well as to
our correspondent, to publish the following
extract of a letter which we have received from
him , leaving all details for another opportunity:—
" I think the London journal that thought
proper to insert the calumny against me, made
by one of its own private correspondents,
should, in justice, have inserted the apology
publicly made to me by the libeller. I have it
from his own lips that the apology was given
in his correspondence of last week, and that
he felt surprised at finding it omitted." The
malicious arrest of our correspondent, which
followed, and his liberation, without being able
to ascertain the name or charge of his secret ac-
cuser, are connected with circumstances of which
the detail may, possibly, hereafter come before
the public. Since that arrest he was described
in the private correspondence of the Times as a
" foreign Jew," not entitled to British protection
—though he was prepared to prove, if neces-
sary, that he is a native of England. The ob-
ject of this new representation was obvious. It
did not suceed. They were disappointed, who-
ever they were, who would have made him the
victim, without proof or open accusation, of a
political inquisition or a military tribunal. It is
only justice to the regular correspondent of the
Times to say that he denies any knowledge of
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apology can afford no reparation of a public
wrong—especially one of so serious a nature, and
attended with circumstances of such malignant
aggravation.—Morning Herald.

The actions brought by the CHAMBERLAIN
against Mr. DAVENPORT, the stage-manager of the Strand
Theatre, have been withdrawn.

DREADFUL SUICIDE.—On Sunday even-
ing, about half-past five o'clock, a most determined suicide
was committed in Ball's Pond-road, near the Terrace, by
a respectable-looking man, apparently about fifty years of
age, whose name or address has not yet transpired. Two
gentlemen, named FITZGEORGE and FAIKCLOTH, were
coming across the fields from Highbury, when their at-
tention was excited by the loud report of fire-arms, and
shortly after the cry of "Police," made by a lady and
gentleman, who happened to be passing at the time. They
proceeded to the spot, when they were horror-struck at
beholding the unfortunate gentleman lying in the road,
with his head nearly blown to atoms, he having placed a
b'underbuss between his legs, and discharged the contents
into his mouth. Assistance was procured, and the ill-
fated man was removed to Islington Church ; but, before
reaching there, he expired. On searching his pockets,
a pair of razors were found, ten shillings, and no copper,
but no letters or card to lead to a discovery who he was.
The body now lies for a Coroner's Inquest. The deceased
was a man about the middle stature, and wore a drab coat
with a cape.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 8.-
The import this week is 15,252 bags, and the sales are
10,760 bags at last week's prices, viz., 190 Sea Islands, at
I Id. to 1:34d. ; 4,400 Boweds, 61d. to 78d. ; 2,750
New Orleans, bid. to Bid. ; 1,000 Alabaman, 64d. to
7A-d. ; 450 Pernanas, Bid. to 94d. ; 460 Bahia», 74d. to
Sid. ; 600 Maranhams, 71d. to 9d. ; 100 Demeraras,
Bd. to 90. ; 310 Egyptians, 81(1. to 9d. ; and 500
Surats at qd. to 6d. per lb. To-day the sales of cotton
are estimated at about 2,000 bales, viz , 500 Brazils, in
Babias at 71d. to '7id., Sawginned arid Maranbams at
71d., and Aracatis at Sit ; about 1,500 in American
descriptions from 6id. to lird.