The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-26 00:00:00

roft! he PUBLIC JOURNALS. :party of Mr. Settor, a shopkeeper residing in Duke-
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owl THE El TENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. tarr
'street, Alolborn and a marine storesdealer named Moore
,
GLOBE.—As Easter term approaches, the public vvi.t,h re ceiving hie property. The prisoners were corn-
attention in Irelan dis almost wholly engrossed by the "muted for trial.
liIiSCUSSIOII of the r stional question, " What will the Go-
WORSHIP- STREET.
vernment do with O'Connell ?" Nor is this question, in A t all military-looking man, named William Spurrell alias
its absorbing inter est, confined to the Irish people. In `"? 'am, waas charged before Mr. Broughton on suspicion of
England the same 'inquiry is heard on every hand. The law ag C.teen concerned with two other persons, le win t
ody named James Martin and Mary Spurrell, in stealing a
ens-
interest excited ey this strongly-debated question is i„
second to noneJ of the numerous pending ques- earg e quantity of valuable shawls and silks, the property of
e person at present unknown.
tions involved in the uncertainty of the future. sot;
evidence was now given as to the prisoner's movements,
Speculations as. to the most prudent course for Go- aii+ tses, and apprehension.
vernment to Adopt, under the peculiar circumstances. In his defence he saidhethatnhisthreealnamesewn Wigram,
natural was
a gentle-
in which it is placed by the prosecution and. conlivicutaaorn. vt.c
taanicliinwp.:shexis mother's, be
named Spurrell.l being the
had assumed the firm of
of O'Connell and his co-defendants, are rife luta e q I
I Arigram and Co. for the sake of appearances not dreaming of
Ursa In Ireland the question is debated by h party
aany wrong. Having a bill coming due on S'aturday, he said
oresans with the fervid heat which charactenfzetshep art
:be had ordered his family to pledge goods to raise the money,
discussions in that country. As a specimen o
this
tonsye.. a_a
.and all would turn out correct in the end, &c.
r. Baoucarrost said the case was involved in deep suspi-
tion,and manner in which the Irish press treats que
.clot, and he should remand the prisoner for further. examina-
an extract or two from_ the. journals of the two
-tiorton 1. Vedne_sday, but would
.take bail for his appearance,
antagonist parties--the one braving the vengeance of
the law, and the other invoking the severest punish-. whir 'self in 2001. and two sureties in 1001. each.
ment of the convicted parties—will afford some faint ''The prisoner declared his inability to find the bail, and was
idea of the excitement which prevails. The Freeman's ITer noved.
Journal thus raves. :—" The testing time is coming. LAMBETH-STREET.
It will soon be swan whether a British Government,
A middle-aged female, named Mary Furley, was placed
boasting of its moderation, will
"within the felons' bar, before Mr. Norton, on a charge of
century, venture on an act of political vengeance murder, having caused the death of George Furley, her
which will produce nothing in the nineteenth
but exasperation at -infant son, aged eighteen months, and also with having
They looked anx- -attempted the additional crime of suicide by endangering
home and infamy abroad. The wretched woman, who appeared to be la-
iously for a compromise—for any pretext of consis I :/,'(;)loerurci limifed.er the deepest mental anguish as well as bodily
tency to set up against the vindictive clamours of I suffering, was accommodated with a chair in the dock, and
that Orange rancour which would lead the miserable in addition to this it was found necessary to support her
Irishmen whom it possessed to demand even the life during the investigation.
the great patriot, and to exclaim, like a similar facti.on. The first witness called was Mr. Thomas Gardener, of the
of old--' His blood be upon us and upon our
children !' Commercial Coal-wharf, adjoining the Regent's Canal, in
But cc.mpromise there can be none. The chief traverser the Mile-end-road, who deposed that on the preceding
has defied their worst. They admit that he has cut off all night, about nine o'clock, he was alarmed by the violent
barking of a dog in the yard, and in consequence went into
retreat by destroying the bridge behind him.' There
the wharf adjoining the Regent's Canal. On reaching the
eau be no surrender, except on the part of the Go- f
I edge of the water he saw something floating, and he in-
sesrnment. The men whom they would victimise have scantly laid hold of a boat-hook and drew it towards the
iao guilt to confess—no apology to make. Were they bank. He then discovered it to be the prisoner, and as soon
to bind themselves no to refrain from the deeds for as he had got her to the shallow water she exclaimed-
-. 'which they are prosecuted, they would be false to their • " Oh, my child ! my
' child!" Supposing from this excla-
•• .o principles and pledges, traitors to their country, illation that her child was also in the water, he (Mr. Gar-
• and they would lay suicidal hands on their public cha- ' dener) released the boat-hook from her clothes and drew it
. ratter. On such terms, the pardon of the Government
alongside of her in the water, and in doing so he brought
would wither in a moment the laurels of half a century?' on shore
iie the
tooktiobwoedvyofritihn hildi,a awhos, andcarried appeared lifeless at the
it as quick
The Tory prints are not a whit less violent in their time.
as WiSsible
.to the house of his uncle, the New Globe Tavern,
appeals to the Government for vindictive punishment
near the bridge, and placed it without delay in a warm bath.
on the convicted Repeaters. They had the indecencY
ft medical gentleman who had been sent for had promptly
before trial to predict, with unwavering certainty, tki-e
attended, and declared that no better means could be adopted
verdict which an exclusively Protestant jury w(3111.,a for its resuscitation than that resorted to, but it proved inef-
return, and to fix the period and the place of initr-49,0n- fectual.
meat which the Court would award as Puni.sl:ment. Police-constable Henry Cottin, said that he had been
And now the Packet (the most moderate of Vat Dublin called in to Mr. Gardener's premises on the evening before,
anti-O'Connell press-) boasts that the "'Mendicant to take the prisoner into custody, and on her way to the sta-
tyrant " must certainly "go to gaol Qic Mail taunts tion- house she said she had something very heavy othn
herher
the Ministry with infirmity of purpe,se, and intimates and that she threw herself Tetro
arms,
canal
and with
she
that the measure of its infidelity t!a the Protestant in- regrettedw exceneagneglwyasthe George,gentminan had rescued her, as her
stitutions of the country will, th
,ere is reason to fear, sufferings must be greater than ever.
be completed by some mean
.eonapromise with the con- The prisoner entered into a long statement. She said
victed conspirators. That Ministers are placed in a that she had been in Bethnal-green workhouse for about
perplexing dilemma, there can be no question. That twelve months, and made complaints that her children had
they would gladly scape 'from the perils which beset been taken from her, and not well treated ; that she left the
them—the Scylla of compromise on the one hand, and workhouse, suffered much, and rather than return was ready
the Charybdis of inoarcP.rating O'Connell on the other— to endure any extremity ; that she was bewildered by her
no one can doubt, "who, has watched the course of events. sufferings, having been much better off in her time, &c. Her
The demonstration% (of public feeling, provoked by the aevidentlmplimenting Mr. Gardener upon his
mind affected.
co
'opinion which pervAtdes the public mind, in both coun- .e;n'ro
promptness andN after
humanity, remanded the prisoner for a future
tries, that a co aviction, rather than a fair adminis- day, and desired that a note should be appended to the cons-
tration of justice., was the determined purpose of the mittal that she should be taken particular care of.
law-officers of the Crown, have been almost unpre-
cedented. The law is supposed to have been stretched,
to comprehend those whose proceedings were not fairly
within. sts prohibitions. The punishment which, in the
ordinary course, follows conviction has therefore been,
by waticipation, rendered powerless. The Government
may punish O'Connell ; but they cannot degrade him.
The Court may sentence him to confinement in
Kilanainham or Carrickfergus ; but as one of the jour-
na'as writing in anticipation of such a course, remarks,
" Whatever be the prison of the Liberator, it will be the
'Thermopylae of Ireland It will be the holy ground of
patriotism to which many a pilgrim will resort in coming
ages." The reception which O'Connell has met with in
the English metropolis, and also in several of the largest
towns of England, has tended to increase the embar-
rassments of Ministers, when contemplating the course to
be pursued in following up his conviction to judgment.
The cordial cheers with which his entrance in the
House of Commons was hailed on his first appearance
after his trial—the immense multitudes which assem-
bled at Covent-garden Theatre, both at the meeting
of the Anti-Corn-law League and at the dinner
which was given to him in the same immense bnilding,
which was crowded in every part ; and especially the
enthusiasm with which the announcement of his
name was received, and the speeches he delivered on
these occasions were applauded—the meetings at Bir-
mingham, at Coventry, and other places, where the
same demonstrations of feeling were exhibited—the de-
bates in the House of Commons on the prosecution, and
the unequivocal declarations of some of the best consti-
tutional lawyers in that assembly, that the law had been
perverted, and thus justice violated, in the State prose-
cutions—the complaints of the Catholics that, by ex-
punging- the jurymen of their creed from the panel,
insult and injury were inflcted on their body—last, not
least, the petition, to which Mr. Wyse will call the at-
tention of the House of 'ominous this evening, signed
by nearly one million of persons in Ireland, of all
grades, praying for inquiry into the complaints, in con-
nection with these trials, with which it abounds—these
are sufficient to i-duce Ministers to pause in their pro-
ceeding,, and to desire to prevent consequences which,
whatever course they adopt, may involve them in yet
greater dangers than any they have yet encountered.
We have heard, in gem rally well-informed circles.
that it is by no means improbable that something like
the following: course well be adopted by the Government,
• with, possibly, ft tacit unlet-standing wi:h the defend-
ants. On. calling the convicted parties up fur judgment,
certain objections will be taken in arrest of judg-
ment. Instead of arguing the objections forthwith,
the Court till postpone the case, and allow the de-
tentlauts to stand out upon their recognisances till
the next term. Thus delay will be obtained,
will the evil (lay postponed ; rusting to the chapter of
accidents, or anticipating a more sobered state of public
feeling when a final and conciliatory termination of the
controeersy may be effected. Others assert that a writ
of error will be consented to by the Irish Attorney-
'General ; and the judgment, instead of being passed,
od interim, will be hung up until the House of Lords has
pronounced its final decision on the points raised for
argument before it.
STANDARD.—We will not pay to our readers the
ill c ,rnpliment of supposing that they can be indifferent
to the question which at this moment engrosses the
attention of Parliament and of the public. We therefore
otter no apology for returning to the factory question—
really the question of questions, for it extends generally
to the remuneration of labour in every department of in-
dustry; as we trust to be able to show before we conclude
this article. The position of the question in the House
o7' Commons is now singular, if not unprecedented. The
House decided on Monday last that women and children
shall not work in factories between six in the afternoon
an I six in the morning, and again decided on Friday that
they Shall not work twelve hours ; the inference that
they shall work ten hours, and ten hours only, would
be necessary (for all allow the necessity of two
pauses or an hour each) if the House had not, by a
small majority, negatived'. an express declaration to this
eifect—a decision whia:h it is impossible to explain upon
any rational growals. The decision against twelve hours
on Monday mi•gba, be, and was regarded as the effect of
a surprise ; but the affirmation of that decision on
Friday ~Annot possibly be so considered : there
are, therefore, two decisions of the House of
oramons—the one of them at least solemn and deli-
berate, against the labour of women and children in fac-
tories for twelve hours. Sir James Graham has declared
his purpose of explaining to night what course he will
pursue in dealing with these two decisions. Three courses
. are open to him ; he may propose some period between
ten and twelve hours ; but this period must be
nearer to ten than to twelve hours, for of the two
decisions by which Parliament has bound itself, one
Forbids that women and children shall be in the
rill for more than twelve hours, and a stronger law
than the law of Parliament or than any muni-
cipallaw, interdicts twelve boars of consecutive toil.
Ten hours and a half, or thereabout, is as much as
can possibly be taken oust of any twelve hours ; is it
worth the while to make a stated for the half hour ?
Secondly, Sir 3Amesma.y
hint this abandon the Bill altogether ;
-not act the question at rest. Lord Ash-
ley wonlwelild
a, of course, introduce tt- substantive measure,
'with a p-rfect eertawinit
of
thecarrying the ten honrs
re",triction, thoughunfortunate accompa-
niment of a formidable agitation in the rnaannuf,ae-
Wring districts, and a continued and
creasing division in the Conservative
a4•ltny-
p
Lastly, the Home Secretary may gracefully yield to.
• the; twice-declared will of Parliament, satisfied that no
- one can charge him with having deserted his own con-
victions, or having violated any engagements which he
may have formed in conformity with these convictions.
But whatever course may be adopted by the advocates of
long time, the event of the contest is certain, because the
more the question is discussed, the more manifestly fal-
lacious are all the pretexts for resisting a return to
the usual and natural periods of labour proved to be.

SPAIN.

Colonel Napier, in one of those bold but felicitous passages
which distinguish his History of the Peninsular War, has
compared the Spanish revolution to a leafy shrub in a vio-
lent gale of wind, greatly agitated, but disclosing only slight
unconnected stems, which afford no sure hold for the ambi-
tion of a master spirit, if such there were. The comparison
holds good from the first outbreak of the war of independence
in 1808 to the last absurdities or barbarities of 1844. The
master spirit has not appeared; and if he had, it is not easy
to conjecture in what form he could have taken a firm hold
on the people of Spain. No new shoots of the old plant have
borne either blossoms or fruit ; the ivy of tradition, which
still clung to the dead boughs, has been torn down ; and if
there be any vitality left in the body politic, it must lie at
the root. So detestable, indeed, were the etkcts of the igno-
rant and profligate Administrations of the last Spanish Sove-
reigns, that even forty years of war and confusion have been
less unfavourable to the progress of the country in popula-
tion and in wealth, than the policy of the preceding reigns.
At the present moment the affairs of Spain, as they are
termed in France or in this country, mean little more than
the plots and intrigues of half a-dozen adventurers who are
playing at tyrants ; but beneath them still lies a people of
twelve millions of men, who are living on for the most part
unconscious of, or indifferent to, the incessant fluctuations
of the surface, and who are following a course of improve.
ment, slow indeed when compared with that of other nations,
' but marvellously rapid when contrasted with their former
stationary or retrograde condition. It is vain, we fear, to
look amongst such a people for that efficient support which a
Government derives from the public spirit of an enlightened
community. The representative system in Spain has pro-
duced the weakest of all Governments ; and in every serious
emergency the Constitution has been either violated, altered,
or suspended. With such results before us as the events now
going on at Madrid, it is not, therefore, unnatural that some
attention should be excited by the position of that party
which so long disputed the rights of Queen Isabella to the
crown. Those rights we take to be now as well ascertained
as those of any sovereign in Europe, nor are we prepared to
argue that they would gain anything in strength or validity,
if they wee recognised without a dissentient voice by their
most stubborn adversaries. But though the right to, and
the possession of, the crown has been established, much re-
mains to be done for the security of Isabella and for the
tranquillity of her dominions. The division of the Royal
family is one source of weakness—the non-recognition of the
Queen by several of the Powers of Europe is another; and it
cannot be doubted that much would be gained if these
breaches could be healed without sacrificing any portion of
the just rights of the Queen, or abandoning the constitu-
tional pledges of the monarchy. The Queen and the Consti-
tution can scarcely be exposed to greater dangers than those
which actually threaten them from the alternate abuse and
suspension of the institutions which profess to defend them.
The time is said to have arrived when Don Carlos has been
induced by his advisers to contemplate a formal renunciation
of his pretensions to the crown. As far as lie is personally
concerned, the interests of his branch of the Spanish family,
and the party passions associated with his name, are sup-
posed to require that he should abandon a contest so fatal to
the great interests of the monarchy ; but this determination
may be carried into effect in two ways—either by transferring
his claims, such as they are, to the person of his son, or by re-
nouncing them altogether by virtue of a compromise to be
effected with the female line. The former course would only
reserve to Spain the chances of another civil war, whenever the
opportunities which a revolution too surely brings with it
might invite the young Pretender to try his fortune in the
mountains of Biscay ; the latter suggests the possibility of ter-
minating many of the existing difficulties by a marriage be-
tween Queen Isabella and her cousin, the Prince of the
Asturias, who would then accept, in lieu of all his claims,
the rank of King Consort of Spain.
It were well if the final withdrawal from the scene of the
principal actors in the late war—of Christina on the one
hand, and Carlos on the other—could obliterate the vestiges
of those parties which were always deplorable and are now
effete. A younger generation might succeed in quenching
old animosities; and the only parties then known in the`
kingdom would he that of the friends of the monarchy, and
that of its less amidable opponents. The less of foreign in-
fluence there might be in such an arrangement, the more
likely it would be to succeed. It ought to have the full
character of a national transaction, and to be based on
the assent of the nation, with a due regard to
those institutions which are less likely to subsist in
their present condition than under the legitimate protec-
tion of a temperate monarchy. The abrupt termina- •
tion of the Regency, and the interval of military,
power which has succeeded it, have naturally strength-
ened those Conservative principles in Spain which are based
on the evident truth, that freedom is never in greater peril
than when it has been carried to excess for factious pur-
poses. Sooner or later some such reaction will be openly
felt, either in the sinister movements of violence and war, or
in the happier adjustment to which we refer. The former
alternative is fraught with the utmost danger to the Queen,
the Constitution, and all their adherents; the latter at once
recognises the established order of things, and increases the
chances of its duration. If the fate of the Queen is bound
up with the ascendancy of a party, with that party the
monarchy may perish ; it may stand on the broader basis
which such a marriage would give to the government of the
nation.

No doubt the factions and the factious ambitions which it is
so essential to subdue would offer the main obstacle to such a
conclusion. Such arrangements are not often effected by ac-
cident or by party intrigues, but by strong resolution and strong
patriotism ; and we know not to whom the partisans of this
settlement can look for such qualities. But such an expe-
dient, judiciously handled, might command the support of no
inconsiderable portion of the people ; and it has at least little
to fear from the political energy of its opponents.
The measure, as we have already observed, depends in no
degree on foreign influence; but it might become the duty
of the Government of this country to take care that no
foreign influence interfered to thwart it. In France alone, we
may suspect that the zeal of the reigning Sovereign for the
house of Bourbon does not extend to all the branches of it ;
and that a compromise which should re-unite the Royal
Family of Spain might be viewed with at least secret dissa-
tisfaction. There is, however, no real analogy between the
respective positions of the Sovereigns and the Pretenders in
the two countries ; and the question will be considered, if ever
it be seriously raised, not with reference to the convenience
of contiguous States, but to the internal welfare and dignity
of Spain herself.—Times.

NEW LONDON:--"Where is London going to ?"
was an exclamation of a character in a drama fifty years
since? Where is it to stop? may now be fairly asked. Two
new cities are springing up at the west-end, and Hyde Park
and Kensington Gardens are almost large inclosures of a
square. Chelsea is no longer suburban, and Paddington a
rural village. The value V land is increasing with the most
extraordinary rapidity. Land at Kensal•green, which was,
not long since, to be purchased for 801. an acre, is not brought
into the market for less than 1,000/. A company that lately
purchased 100 acres at Willesden-green for a cemetery, have
been hesitating in their intentions, from the increasing value
atthe
re new
population ; and amongst notrs
of property, and the knowledge that when once the land is
consecrated, it cannot be applied to t
rbuucitlidng,
building
e
Churches, hospitals, are already
andconiswaitthhe
others
contemplated, upon a
otherscale
technic Review.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF MR. KEMP, ARCHITECT.
ideas commensurate
afloat
far distant from Tyburn, the scene of many a tragedy.—Poly-
-On Monday forenoon the body of Mr. Kemp, well known
as the architect of the Scott Monument, was found in the
canal., He had been missing for twelve days previously, and
was last seen at the house of Mr. Lind, contractor for the mo-
nument, on whom he had called to arrange about the pro-
gress of the works. It is supposed that, on his return home
to Morningside, he had taken the way by the banks of the
canal, and that the night being dark, he had stumbled into
the water at the place where he was found—an open and
dangerous point beside Lochrin Distillery.—Ediaburgh
Witness.

POLICE
INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
CLERKENWELL.
Moon Shelford, a hairdresser, residing in White
crols•street, Clerkenwell, was charged with attempting-
tu bribe a witness for enth urpose of clandestinelysup-
pressing a charge of feloy.
A man named Henry Burgess was yesterday charged
in this Court with breaking into a dwelling-house and
stealing therefrom money and wearing apparel, value
101., the property of David Rees, a shopkeeper, living in
Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell. It was proved by several
witnesses that Shelford had, in the passage of the
Court, and in the public-house opposite, offered a sum
of 21. 10s. to the prosecutor not to press the charge. He,
however, declined, and gave information of the offer to
thfl)olice.
Mr. GREENWOOD expressed his determination to send
the prisoner for trial, but would at present remand him.
He would, however, accept of security to the amount of
404, and himself in the same sum, for his appearance at
this Court on Thursday next.
A lad named Smith was charged with stealing two
coats from the house of Mr. Sanson, a clerk in the Cus-
tom-house, residing at No. 2, Cloudesly-street, Islington.
On Saturday evening, the prisoner was seen running
from Mr. Sanson's house by Police-constable N 21 with
the coats on his shoulder. He was taken into custody.
It appeared that the door having been left ajar for a
moment by the servant, the prisoner entered and re-
moved the coats, which were hanging in the hall. Com-
mitted for trial.
Two well known little thieves named Cooke and Sotty,
were charged with stealing twelve telescopes, the pro-

STRATFORD-LE-BONV.—• The Rev. G. Townshend
Driffield, M.A., Fellow of Brazenose College, has been pre-
sented to the Rectory of Stratford-le-Bow, Middlesex, va-
cated by the death cf the Rev. 11. Harrison, D.D. Patrons,
the Principal and Fellows of Brazenose College.
QUICKSILVER.—The different compounds of this
metal are decomposed by yeast, and by bodies which axe un-
dergoing fermentation. It would appear
i that during vege-
table decomposition a new attraction s exerted upon all
bodies in which quicksilver exists. Some very curious ex-
periments have been instituted by Riegel, which confirm the
144.--Tolytechnic Balm