The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-09 00:00:00

BOROUGH, to Lord AUCKLAND. His remarks about
the " old friends" of Sir HENRY POTTINGER, and the
manner in which Sir HENRY treated his friends when
he was among them, formed a strong contrast to the
lamentations of Lord ASHLEY. Mr. EMERSON TEN-
NENT followed, and demolished all the castles built in
the air by Lord ASHLEY. He treated the letter said
to have been written by Sir H. POTTINGER as a for-
gery, and could prove it from Sir H. POTTINGER'S
own words, who had described his " old friends" as
a vicious and wicked race, and predicted their pre-
sent destiny.
After speeches from Sir C. NAPIER, Sir R. PEEL,
and Lord J. RUSSELL, the House divided, when the
motion was negatived by a majority of 134.

Mr. DIVETT then made his motion for an address
to her Majesty to dismiss Mr. BONHAM from his
situation in the Ordnance-office, but not being se-
conded, it fell to the ground.
The House adjourned at Five Minutes to Two.

The last charge in the warfare has commenced,
and the Solicitor-General for Ireland has begun his
reply to the speeches for the defendants, and his ge-
neral summary of the whole case. It will require all
the talent which he possesses—and that is well-known
to be not a little—to bring the minds of the jury back
to anything like a favourable state for the prosecu-
tors. Conviction, or acquittal, or no verdict at all,
fortunately signifies not one single iota, for the public
has decided upon the case long ago, and no finding of
the jury will alter the decision of the country. But
the opinion to be entertained of Irish juries, of their
subserviency to official purposes, or freedom from
party bias, will be greatly influenced by the result of
this trial. And if the Solicitor-General succeeds in
averting a verdict of direct acquittal, or in compass-
ing the finding of no verdict at all, he will do great
things for his employers. Should he succeed so far as to
give any plausible pretext for a verdict of guilty,
and, should the jury avail themselves of such a pre-
ttxt to carry out the purpose for Which they were
put into the box, great will be the laudation be-
stowed upon the Solicitor-General. He will not, in
his attempts, use the weapon of offence, nor follow
the example of his Learned Leader by producing his
fire-arms in Court; but he will aim, by slow, in-
sidious poison, to gain his ends, and to compass the
destruction of O'CONNELL and his fellow-defendants.
Thus the pliability of an Irish jury, and the talent
or jesuitry of an Irish Solicitor-General, are, in
truth, the only issues about to be decided by the
State prosecution of the Government of Sir R. PEEL.
Did any Government, in times past—did any Ad-
ministration upon record, ever put itself into the
position that the present Government has as-
sumed on this occasion ? Legal preparation un-
equalled, in more senses than one—unequalled
in extent, unequalled in absurdity : - trickery
and artifice unknown in legal annals ; employed in
the suppression of jury lists, and in the fraudulent
packing of a jury : intolerance and bigotry, in
making a religious test the ground, for exclusion from
the panel chosen out of the mutilated list. And yet
after all this preparation, this trickery, this intoler-
ance, all that the Government has been able to do, is
to put themselves on their trial, and to place their
own conduct, their own misdoings for adjudication,
whilst those of whom they sought to make criminals,
are comparatively free from all care as to what the
final ending of thew trials may be.

So will it always be, when Governments suffer
themselves to be dragged from the beaten road of
justice into the tortuous paths which petty malignity
and private malice prefer to tread. To gratify the
dogged pertinacity of a WELLINGTON, the demoniac
hatred of a STANLEY, and the paltry pettifogging
acerbity of a GnAtaiaxt, the Government of Sir R.
PEEL has been led into this maze of persecution, and
has perilled its very existence upon the putting down
of O'CoNNELL. The cause of Repeal has been ad-
vanced more by tb e proceedings of the Government
than by any thing: that years of agitation could have
effected. Sir R. P pn. has nobody but himself to thank
if he should find, ino matter what the verdict of this
fraudulently-sele dted, unfairly packed, and infamously
concocted jury may be (a selection, a packing, and a
concoction, in Which the jury are no sharers, and
from which, perch ance, they may yet gloriously yin-
dicate themselves};, that the cause of Repeal has gained
a strength, and acquired a force, which, but for these
prosecutions, it c,,ti ld never hale attained.

Repeal of the at lion is the child of Tory parents—
it has been fostered by them, and nursed until it has
gained its present stature, by their care and superin-
tendence ;—and if ;ever a repeal of the union, which
we sincerely depree ate, should he found unavoidable,
to Tory misgovern ment, obstinapy, and imbecility
alone will such an le, vent be attributed.

Though the dis ct fission raised by Lord ASHLEY in
the House of Com- co ons on the affairs of Sinde has led
to no immediate lees ult favourable to the Ameers, it
has been of great service to the cause of truth and
justice. It has di spulled the calumnies heaped on Sir
CHARLES NAPIER , it has placed before the public
the real position in which he stood; and it has
elicited from all : parties the highest tribute to his
foresight, skill, an d bravery. It has done more ; for
the statements i nay le by authorities competent to
judge leave no doubt that if a General of less
penetrating mind: .and less decision had been ap-
pointed to CODID aai id the Sinde army, we should
have had a re] )etition of the Affghanistan
tragedy, the wh' ilo of the British troops and their
auxiliaries would:
...have been surprised, and every
officer, soldier an a follower, put to an ignominious
death. No praise s, 'therefore, is too great for conduct
which saved, the 'nation from such a calamity, and
prevented a gen 'mai rising of all the discontented
States adjoining the British possessions in India.
Lord ASHLEY'S r )tion, to parts of which there can
be no objection, Was lost by a great majority, and a
mixed majority , too, consisting of Whigs, and
Radicals, and T aeries. Three of the leading members
of the late C government voted in the majority,
namely, Lord I ).LLarnasrox, Lord JoHN RUSSELL,
and Sir J. C. H :x)EarousE, the late President of the
Board of Contro' 1... This is fair and honourable, and
removes all susp 'owns that Lord PALMERSTON or any
of his colleagues Twould join in the wild cry of execrat-
ing a line of poli ey which was forced on Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH and Sir NAPIER, and which could not
be condemned wi- tb out involving that of Lord AUCK-
LAND and Sir Jon ti KEANE in the same condemnation.
Lord ASHLEY 1 i9.s the character of being a
very humane an impartial man in all his con-
duct, both publi. and private, but it is singular
that a Noblc aaan with such a character
should waste all k.is commiseration and tears only on
one party, the In !Elting and tyrannical Ameers, and
would again subjc x A to their iron dominion thousands
of emancipated sl yes, and tens of thousands of in-
dustrious Hindoos h brought down to the lowest mi-
sery by their e xactions and oppressions. Every
author, almost wi Ithout exception, who has written
on Sinde, has (14 scribed the sufferings of the people
under the late Ai peers as intolerable, and their go-
vernment as tl IV very worst to be found in
all the East. Inas his Lordship no sympathy
for oppressed s ftbjects and slaves, and is it
consistent with his professed humanity to call
upon the Indian I government to direct the " imme-
diate restoration cd the Ameers to liberty and the
enjoyment of the; z estates ?" While he laments the
fate of a few chiefs I, allowed 20,0001. a year, and, with
one exception, co iparatively at liberty, he forgets
the sufferings, the war, and the murders which
their restoration, even for six months, would entail
on their unhappy victims. Let the Ameers be treated
with due humat itv, let everything consistent with
prudence and sec isrity be done for their comfort ; but
keep them at a itstance from Sinde, and leave the
inhabitants to the r blessings of a civilized acid paternal
Government.

Madrid papers io,f the st inst. have been received,
and bring intelli{ mnce of vast importance. Another
revolution in Spai ;to has commenced which, in all pro-
bability, will lead .tto a bloody civil war. On the 28th
of last month ar( iv olt of a formidable character broke
out in the seaport , town of Alicante. The provincial
regiment, station( col at that place, joined in the incur
rection, and the g 7i.,neral cries were—'l Long live the
Constitutional Qv ZEN !" " Down with the Ministers !"
The military auti ht )rities were completely taken by
surprise ; the Ger ler: al Commandant, and the Political
Chief were arrt'ate d by the Custom-house Car-
biniers, and a au nta formed. On the intelli-
gencewas immediately immoned, the troops were all
reaching adrid, a Council of Ministers
placed under arms, nd orders issued for the arrest of