The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-21 00:00:00

Gouari declared, " I shall ever cherish the re-
membrance of the glorious achievements of the army,
which fought and conquered in China, at Gwalior, on
the banks of the Sutlej, and on the plains of the Pun-
jaub." The enumeration of those historic victories
must have been a proud satisfaction to the man who
had himself led forward that army in the capacities of
Commander of the Chinese Expedition, and subse-
quently of Commander-in-Chief of the British Indian
Army. It was an appropriate circumstance,
moreover, a circumstance fraught with subject
for sincere self-gratulation, that Lord GOUGH
should bid adieu to Hindostan at Madras, seeing that
prior to his undertaking those memorable and
glorious campaigns, he had originally occupied
the post of Commander of the forces in that
Presidency. Alluding to this fact, the Sheriff
of Madras, speaking in the name of the
deputation, thus addressed the noble soldier :
" Your Lordship was last at Madras in a public
capacity, as commander of the forces of this Presi-
dency. Called by her MAJEATT to more dis-
tinguished service, your Lordship left us to take
command of the expedition to China. The war
in that country having been brought to an
honourable termination, your Lordship was next
selected to occupy the responsible appointment
of Commander-in-Chief in India. In the ex-
ercise of the high functions pertaining to that
office, it devolved upon your Lordship to undertake
the important campaign of Gwalior; which having
in like manner with that of China been brought to a
successful issue, it became your Lordship's duty to
conduct the still more difficult and momentous ope-
rations in the several campaigns on the Sutlej and in
the Punjaub." The veteran General who was thus
enabled to cover the flag of his country with addi-
tional glory in the Celestial Empire, and in
the country of the five rivers, is assuredly
one of those citizens whom England should
welcome home again from their heroic labours
with peculiar pride and satisfaction. The autumn of
a life so spent should be gladdened by the light of
popularity. That such will be the case on the arrival
of Viscount GOUGH in England we are confident,
and the event of his return will be awaited
with only increased interest from the circumstance
that it will be accompanied or immediately followed
by the return homewards, on a temporary leave of
absence, of the rising star of our Indian Empire, the
young and heroic Major EDWANDES.

The calm solemnity of the Upper House of Parlia-
ment was on Monday night enlivened by the intro-
duction of a subject of more than ordinary excite-
ment. The battle of Dolly's Brae was fought over
again in presence of the Barons of England. The
HoTsrum of his party, smarting under the discom-
fiture of a Protectionist defeat, entered the lists as
the defender of the Ulster Orangemen against the
Irish Viceroy. It was peculiarly gratifying to us
to find that his Excellency was in his place, bearing
out in the fullest and most satisfactory manner our
frequently expressed anticipations, that on a fitting
occasion, should it be necessary, he would be able to
defend his Irish policy, and annihilate all the paltry
slanders which faction for months had been accumu-
lating upon him. Our expectations have been fully
realised. His Excellency's triumph was signal and
complete ; he demolished the three hours' charge of
his wily and dexterous accuser by a plain statement
of facts. Every act of the Irish Executive in refer-
ence to party processions was fully and satisfactorily
explained, not only on the unfortunate occasion of
the last 12th of July, but on all former anniversaries
since the Government of Ireland was entrusted to the
present accomplished statesman.
Lord CLARENDON has every reason to rejoice that the
indiscretion of his political adversaries gave him the
opportunity of laying for ever in the dust the piled
pyramid of falsehood and misrepresentation which
faction had so shamelessly and recklessly heaped upon
him. The veil was removed from every point upon
which the shadow of a doubt could rest, and the
conduct of ford CLARENDON has passed through this
fiery ordeal stamped with the approval of every
right thinking man in the British empire. The
contrast between the speeches of the declamatory
partizan who discharged the duty of prosecutor on
the occasion and the calm, simple language of the
accused statesman was most striking. The one
bold, wily, and plausible ; the other totally devoid of
all artificiality, and breathing the unimpassioned
simplicity of conscious rectitude.
.The charges of
the noble accuser were met at every point, not by
flourishes of rhetorical ingenuity, but by simple
stubborn facts, till not a trace was left of the airy
fabric which the spirit of faction had raised.
While we cannot but feel some degree of conscious
pride that the views which we put forward, and the argu-
ments by which, on so many occasions, we sustained
those views, have been so fully borne out by the un-
deniable facts and evidence adduced by Lord CLA-
RENDON, and while we confess our satisfaction that an
able and honest statesman was enabled to vindicate
his high name from the foulest charges, we cannot too
strongly condemn the spirit which dictated the re-
newal of a discussion calculated to keep alive animo-
sities which every good man should wish to see buried
and forgotten ; nay, we question not only the pro-
priety, but even the right, upon public grounds, of
Lord STANLEY to introduce so mischievous and aim-
less a proposition into the House of Peers. He says,
"I never had greater need of your kindness and in-
dulgence than now, when I am about to bring before
you matters of great importance in themselves, as
affecting not only the character but also the
private conduct of two individuals of high
and responsible station, both members of your
Lordships' House," &c. Now we would be
glad to know upon what constitutional grounds
his Lordship was warranted in bringing the
private conduct of any of his peers under the conside-
ration of Parliament ? Upon what principle was he
warranted in asking their Lordships to sit in judg•
ment on the private conduct of any individual, even
though a member of their Lordships' House ? We
would strongly deprecate such a bad precedent, we
would solemnly protest against the public time being
wasted on subjects so unsuited to the deliberations of
the higher branch of the Legislature.
His Lordship does justice to the motives of the il-
lustrious Viceroy in the same breath that he impugns
his private conduct. "I do not wish," he says, "to
cast any imputation on his motives ; lam fully satis-
fied that on this occasion, as on every other in the
period during which he has been in his high office,
his main desire has been to act in a manner consistent
with his duty to himself, and conducive to
the welfare and tranquillity of Ireland."
Yet he drags the nobleman to whose
honesty he pays this high tribute from the distant
sphere of his high and arduous duties to answer foul
and baseless charges. Nobody ought to know better
than my Lord STANLEY the embarrassing difficulties
which beset the Governorship of Ireland, and we
cannot help thinking that he shows but little regard
for either the Governor or the governed who would
add to those difficulties. And after all, what whole-
some principle was to be sustained, what useful end
was to be gained by this factious and mischievous
proposition? Was his object to remove Lord
CLARENDON from the Viceroyalty ? Was it for the
purpose of injuring the fame of the ablest statesman
that ever ruled the destinies of Ireland—the man
who was able to crush rebellion without the bayonet
or the gibbet, and who proved his ability to guard the
laws by the sword of Justice alone ? To go into a
detail of the misrepresentations contained in the
STANLEY indictment, and now set at rest for ever,
would be but to reiterate what we so fully and so
frequently laid before our readers during this painful
discussion ; and we will conclude by congratulating
the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland on the issue of the
challenge which he so chivalrously accepted.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH IN AN OMNIBUS.—Last
evening an instance of the awful uncertainty of lift) oc-
curred in an omnibus which was travelling through
Moorgate-street. It appears that Mr. Joseph Phelps,
bookseller, of Paternoster-row, was in the habit of leav-
ing his place of business about six o'clock, P.m., and
taking an omnibus at the Bank, to be driven to his
family residence near Holloway. When he left the
" Row," he was apparently in his usual health, and
walked down to the Bank, where he hailed the omnibus
which was going in his direction. Ho got in, and the
conveyance beginning to fill, it set off at a slow pace
down Moorgate-street. He in the meantime had been
chatting familiarly with his fellow-passengers, when all
in a moment he was suddenly observed to turn pale, and
then to fall back. The omnibus was immediately stop-
ped and the unfortunate gentleman lifted out and con-
veyed to a neighbouring surgeon's in Moorgate-street.
Before, however, he reached the medical man's house he
had koreathed his last,

THE SUN, LON,bON, THURSDAY EVENING,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CI7'Y. QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very
dull, and prices of all descriptions were id. per lb. lower.
The sales were 2,500 bales all to the trade. The trans-
actions comprised 2,000 American, at 6d. to 100
Pernam and Maranham, at 6.:41d. to 7d.; 100 Egyptian, at
64d. to 7d.; and 200 Surat, at 41d. to 4,i/d. per lb.—The
market for Railway Shares closed heavily, and prices
were again lower.
In the markets in the United Kingdom which regulate
the duties, the sales of wheat last week were 91,307
quarters. The six weeks' average price is 395. Bd. per
quarter.
The Amsterdam market was in a favourable position
on the 19th instant ; the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. being 55. Spanish Three per Cents. were 29k.
There was a good business doing in foreign securities.
There are ♦ery encouraging advices from Berlin un-
der date of the 16th instant, as to the progress of the
negotiations upon the Danish question. They are said
now to be more active than ever, and consequently we
are entitled to assume that there is a better chance of
their being brought to a successful issue.
The letters received by the Overland mail from India,
describe business as being dull at Bombay, though tole-
rably good at Calcutta; but they communicate more
favourable intelligence as to the progress of affairs gene-
rally towards a sounder, and, we trust, a permanent
condition, and in that sense are far more important than
if they simply advised a " spirit " in trade.
For years past, as we have frequently ex-
plained under this head, the Indian houses
pursued a course which could not but ensue in
ruin, buying on one side at high prices, and selling on the
other at lower, almost for the express purpose of keeping
a mass of paper in circulation. The miserable dividend
list of the failed houses will illustrate this, for, with one
or two exceptions, those of greatest magnitude and re-
pute have paid least. The accounts from Ceylon and
the Mauritius are encouraging.
There is a curious statement in a New York journal,
among the number of those last to hand, and whether
correct or the reverse, it serves to show that the feeling
upon the Hungarian question has run very high, and is
more enthusiastic than in England. The editor re-
marks:—
" Our correspondents at Washington have informed us
that Mr. Bodisco, formerly Russian Minister at Washing-
ton, has been positively recalled, or rather (as he is not
hero) been stopped. We also hear from other quarters, that
possibly the Emperor of Russia may recal all his En-
voys hero or elsewhere on missions to the United States.
Similar rumours are current in relation to the Austrian
Embassy; and it is not improbable but that Prussia,
were she not prevented by considerations of commer-
cial advantage, would take a leaf out of the same book of
diplomacy.
" The exhibition of public opinion in the United
States, by the independent journals, and the debates now
in Congress, can find bat little favour with the despotic
Governments of Europe; and we are not at all astonished
to see some extreme step taken by Russia and Austria in
reference to their embassies in this country. If these
two Emperors should, in fact, withdraw their ambas-
sadors and ministers from Washington, we do not ex-
pect that the end of the world will be at hand, nor
the last day of the American Republic determined upon.
The America❑ people, we opine, will live a little while
longer as a nation and as a Republic, and as a great
united community, without even Ministers from Russia,
Austria, Spain, or any other despotic country in the
world."
In the English Stock Market business is quiescent,
Consols being 95i for Transfer and 22i for Account.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 98
to 98f, and the Three per Cent. Reduced 95i Ex-
chequer-bills have been quoted 545. to 575., and India
Bonds 853. premium.
The transactions in Foreign Stocks have been unim-
portant. Peruvian Bonds have been comparatively
neglected at 77 to 781 fur the Active, and at 32 to 33
for the Deferred. Mexican have been done at 29i and
30i. Equador are worth 4, and Brazillian 89. Danish
Five per Cents. have realised 991, and Dutch Two-and-
a-half per Cents. 55 toy}.
Railway Shares are extremely passive, and there is
scarcely any alteration in their value. South-Eastern
are flatter, Great Western a trifle firmer, South-Western
heavy, and the lines with smaller amounts paid up about
the same. French Shares are very quiet. United
Mexican Mine Shares have risen again, being 6 to 61.
The Week's Railway Receipts, as far as yet com
pleted, are as under :

1849.

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