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THE SUN, LONDON SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1844.

The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that it be recom
mitted. A division took place, when there were fur
the third reading, 4; and against it, 28. The Bill
was then referred to a Select Committee, in com-
pany with Lord BROUGHAM'S, and the House Ad-
journed at Half-past Nine.
After the presentation of petitions and some other
business of little importance in the Commons, i'dr.
CHRISTIE asked the SOLICITOR-GENERAL whether the
current report WES true, that, at the election for
Abingdon, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had

distributed 50/. among the crowd from a bag of money
in his lap. The speech of the Hon. Member on this
subject is very amusing and instructive. The SOLI-
CITOR-GENERAL did not deny the charge, hut he found
fault with tha mode of putting questions to Members.
He could not deny, however, that he had
received due notice ; for he candidly ad-
mitted that Mr. CHRISTIE had informed —him
a week ago that he would put the question, but
at the same time he must state that he could not
give his sanction to such a practice, and that he must
decline answering the question. Is everything going
to wreck in this Conservative Government ? The
second law-officer of the Crown is charged with a
heinous offence, and he tosses up his head and says,
" I will not plead." We hope Mr. CHRISTIE will
not lose sight of the question. Of what use is it for
the Commons to order the law-officers of the Crown
to indict Sudbury for bribery and corruption, if
the SOLICITOR-GENERAL is charged with the same
offence, and cannot deny the charge ? Sir FREDERICK
THE3IGER is much mistaken if he thinks that any
class of the community will suffer such insolence.
In answer to a question from Mr. SHELL relative
to national education in Ireland, of which he had
given notice, Sir R. PEEL cautioned Hon. Members
not to place implicit confidence in newspaper report.,
and asserted that the instructions to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland were to give the patronage of
the Government to those who had the best claims on
the ground of professional merit and character.

On the report of the Sugar Duties Bill being
brought up, Mr. EWART moved that slave and free-
labour sugar be admi:ted on the payment of equal
duties. A division took place, when there were fur
the motion 65, and against it 183. The Bill was or-
dered to be read a third time on Monday, with the
understanding that the Bank Charter Bill should
have the precedence.
The House went into Committee on the Dissen-
ters' Chapels Bill, when the principal clauses were
agreed to, the amendments being rejected. The House
then resumed, and the report was brought up and or-
dered to be received on Monday.
The County Coroners Bill was read a third time,
after an amendment, propoFed by Mr. FlumE, had
been rejected by a majority of 18.
The other orders of the day were then disposed
of, and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve
o'clock.

A Conservative dinner took place on Tuesday last
at Middleton, at which, among other topics of con-
gratulation, one of the speakers—a parson, answering
to the nameof WlLKlNSON—felicitated his audienceon
the fact that though " this was the third week of
O'CoNNELL's captivity, he had not hanged himself; and
the Irish Channel was not yet on fire, Ireland was
not yet in rebellion, the DUKE was not beheaded, nor
PEEL in the Tower." Truly these are excellent
themes for Conservative congratulation ! The
party anticipated, no doubt—and most reasonably
so—that the consequences of their Irish policy would
have been a general convulsion throughout the length
and breadth of the sister-country ; and because this
has not taken place to the extent they apprehended—
because, instead of being in open, desperate rebellion,
Ireland is only in a state of ferment and discontent,
and becoming more and more the weakness rather
than the strength of England, therefore the Con-
servatives—who, to do them justice, are singularly
moderate in their expectations—conceive that their
policy has been most successful, and that the late trial
and imprisonment of O'CONNELL has been a master-
stroke of generalship ! Not to have precipitated Ire-
land into rebellion, this purblind party imagine
to have been the most convincing proof possible
of their dexterity and wisdom as statesmen,
which shows, notwithstanding their boasting,
that at heart they entertained sore misgivings re-
specting the probable issue of their Irish policy.
The Chairman of the Middleton dinner, fired with the
glorious ambition of equalling, if not of surpassing,
the Rev. Mr. WILKINSON in the faculty of talking
nonsense, expressed his conscientious belief that "in
this cause of Conservatism, as well as every other in
which they were engaged, Providence guided them."
Here, then, we have at length a clue to the twistings,
and wrigglings, and tergiversations, of the Conserva
tive party ! We were long at a loss to account for
the unhesitating, bare-faced inconsistency of this
eccentric party ; but the Middleton Chairman has
now kindly come forward and explained the
reasons of their conduct. Their late decisions
in the House of Commons were, it seems,
given, not at the instigation of Sir ROBERT PEE]
but under the direct " guidance of Providence." It
was " Providence" who prompted them to abandon
the sacred claims of humanity, and fling the unpro-
tected factory women and children overboard ; and it
was the same " Providence" who suggested the expe-
diency of their stultifying themselves on the question
of the sugar duties ! " Providence"—to parody the
language of the Times on a certain memorable occa-
sion—" Providence did it Call !" He was the
arch-tempter! But for his direct suggestions the
Conservatives would never have dreamed of vio-
lating principle, and disgracing themselves in the
eyes of every thinking and. upright man in the
community; but would have maintained at all
hazards an inflexible, high-minded consistency. In
the good o!d days of Toryism, it was the Devil who
used to have the credit—or rather discredit—of tieing
the great tempter; but the Conservatives, among
other bright discoveries, have now found out that it
is " Providence" whe is entitled to this equivocld
distinction ; and to his express interference the qUick-
witted MinDLEToN Chairman attributes the tergi-
versations of des party. Surely there is gross blas-
phemy as well as egregious nonsense here, and
the Society for the Suppression of Irreligion will
do well to take this gentleman's irreverent cant about
" Providence" into their attentive consideration ! At
the same dinner, Mr. SOWLER, a barrister of Man-
chester, thus gave vent to the party enthusiasm which
overpowered his delicate sensibiiities It is a proud
satisfaction to me to find so many honest and respect-
able men as I now see before me, united in carrying
out the greatest cause on which English glory ever
dawned—the cause which has made England what
it is—the cause which has made you and me
at this moment free to express our sentiments
without fear, and to do that which our hearts dictate,
to plead for the common freedom of our common
country." Mercy on us, what a farrago of words is
he:

ments on fiscal regulations which those Ministers, "

an English Statesman, we remember to have read o

spoiled with the success of his dictation in some recen

supporters within its walls, but which Mr. D'ISRAELI

with equal spirit and emphasis, indignantly repudiated
for himself and the friends who usually vote with him.

The last and most commonplace artifice to which
he Premier resorted, whilst still under the influent(

of his fears, and before the result of the incredible

division of Monday had re-assured him—was, the
threat of abandoning office if the House should ne-

gative the Government scale, and affirm that proposed
by Mr. MILES. We will not weaken the effect of the

manly and indignant castigation which this threa.

received from Lord JOIN RUSSELL, who remarked
that such a process of attempted intimidation con-

sisted neither with the constitutional demeanour of a

Member of Parliament, nor the responsible position of a
Minister of the Crown—its obvious design being to deter
Members from the free and frank expression of their
opinions, by considerations extraneous to the merits
of the question really before them. But we would

remind Sir ROBERT PEEL himself, that he adopts the

surest means of losing his personal influence with

House at large, of enfeebling his own party, and com-
promising his own control over it, by these ill-timed

ebullitions of an unbecoming vexation, and these
vexatious airs of an unbecoming authority.

The Madrid journals of the 14th inst. contain no
fresh intelligence. According to letters from Bar-
celona negotiations for modifying the tariff were still
going on with every probability of success; and it
was generally believed that foreign cotton goods
would be admitted on payment of a duty of 30 per
cent.

The Three per Cents. were done at 27k fur cash
the Five per Cents. at 20k at 60 days, and the Float
ng Debt at 50.

Most of the Paris journals contain articles on the
quarrel between France and Morocco, but with the
exception of a few remarks in the Conqitutionnel,
they possess little interest. That journal infers that
the affair cannot be filially settled without a contest,
and at the same time states that a much larger
force is to be sent under the command of the Prince
DE JOINVILLE than was originally intended. As it
speaks the sentiments of M. TniEus, and also those of
the Prince, the amount of satist'action to be demanded
on the part of France and the scheme proposed by the
young Admiral, are entitled to some credit. "We
are assured," says that journal, " that the satisfac-
tion consists of these three points—the repulsion of
AI;D-EL•KADER from the territory of Morocco, the
dismissal of the chiefs who commanded the Moorish
army in the engagement with our troops, and the
retreat of that army into the interior to a distance
of several leagues from our frontier. Now,
the EMPEROR has not, perhaps, even power
enough to execute those conditions. England
has offered her mediation ; but has she herself the
means of rendering it efficient ? It is not enough to
persuade ABDERRAIIMAN, but we must get the better
of ABD.EL•KADER ; for oar serious object is not the
humiliation of the EMPEROR, but the expulsion of the
warlike Marabout. Despite, therefore, of all the
conferences between Lord COWLEY and M. GUIZOT,
and of the entente cordiale, war will, perhaps be in-
evitable. The Prince DE JOINVILLE has proposed a
plan of campaign, the result of which would have
been the bombardment or temporary occupation of
the ports of Tetuan, Tangiers, and Mogador. This
vigorous plan, as is affirmed, has not been accepted,
and vague and less energetic instructions will be
given to the young Admiral. Nevertheless, an in-
crease of force has been conceded to him. The squa-
dron will consist of three line-of-battle ships, six
steamers, and some for landing troops. .We know
not how far the force of circumstances will lead the
French Government. It is, however, probable enough
that, in presence of these threatening preparatisns,
and under the influence of Great Britain, the EM-
PEROR will promise France every satisfaction, and do
his best to expel ARD-EL-KADER. But it is rather

re ! Is it Conservatism that the speaker is talking
about, when he alludes to " the greatest cause on
which English glory ever dawned ?" Surely not, for
no cause can be great that is not based on principle,
and not even the most bigoted of the squad will have
the intrepid effrontery to assert that the Conserva-
tives have a single shred of principle adhering to
them. Principle, in fact, is the very thing in
which they are mostg laringly deficient—the qualifica-
tion which of all others they most strenuously repudiate,
and which they treat with the most contumelious
indifference. Talk to a Conservative about principle,
and if he be a frank, sincere man, who really speaks
as he thinks, he will laugh outright in your
face, and ask you in what benighted quar-
ter of Christendom you have received your
political education. Principle and Conservatism !
Was there ever a gi eater contrast than is represented
by these tvvo terns? Oil and vinegar have not a
more marked antipathy to each other. sight and day
are not more distinct from each other. Conservatism, let
its advocates say what they will, is neither more nor less
than a downright negation of all principle, and is
fitliest defined by that jesuitical phrase—Expediency. I

ral amelioration, and the political progress of the , late to succeed, and if the Emir has in Morocco all
people. But we would willingly see his Government, the influence he is supposed to possess, the difficulties
so long as it is destined to last, available to these great will be but adjourned."
objects, whether he himself feel a personal interest in In a letter dated Toulon, the 16th inst., we find
thek achievement or not. Neither the Right Hon. the following intelligence :
Baronet (were his public services or merits double what "The last letters from the IN est of Algeria do not commu-
mniecaattehasanyrenceeixvvefdacsto;mbeuitntietllrgroeunlcde
appear
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they really have been), nor his party (were its preten-
retsh4atfothaGstonviegrhiFt-
sions to the advancement of a generous and enlighienecl orders were received here to form a battalion of 700 men from
statesmanship tenfold all that can be predicated of its the 3d regiment
i of marine infantry, now in garrison, and to
embark them immediately. The preparations for the de-
actual career), will weigh with us for one moment parture of the squadron, Sunder the orders of the Prince de
against w hat we consider to be the true interests of Joinville, are proceeding with all possible rapidity. It is an-
the people. In the name of these interests we must
nounced that the Triton, the Jemmapes, and the Belle Poule
frigate will form part of the expedition."
In the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, the
line of railway from Paris to Lyons gave rase to an
animated debate, one party contending that it should
run through the valley of the Seine, and the other
through that of the Yonne. The question, however,
was left open for discut•sion, and a vote was taken for
a grant of 71,000,000 f. to form the line.
On Wednesday morning, at eight o'clock, a
general acsembly of the Cour Royale took place,
to deliberate on the rupture between the First Presi-
dent, Baron SEGUIER, and the members of the bar.
After a discussion, which lasted six hours, it was de-
cided that the twenty-one members of the Council of
Discipline, who all signed the letter addressed to M
SEGUIItR, shall be cited before the Court on the Ist of
July, to explain their conduct.
According to the National the Government are re-
solved to cancel the resolution of M. CREMIEUX, by
which Members of the Chambers are excluded from
all participation in the management of railroads, and
have for that purpose summoned all the absent Mem-
bers to Paris.
TIIE BOURSE—THURSDAY, JUNE 20.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five perC:nts 122 15 .. 122 15 .. 122 10 .. 122 10
Four-and-a-Half 113 25 .. 113 25 .. 113 25 .. 113 25
our per Cents.
Three per Cents B2 60 .. 82 60 .. 82 50 .. 82 GO
Bank of France...• ..... ..• 3070 ••3090 . 3065 .. 3080
Laititte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll3s ..1135 ..1132 50 ..1132 50
5,000 f. 81iares5090 -5090 ••5090 ••5090
Belgian Bank •-• • . 660 .. 660 .. 660 .. 660
Belgian Fives, 1840 •••• • • • • 1052 • • 105 f • • 1051 .. 104
Spanish Active •••••• ••• • • • 34 •• 31/ .. 30,1 .. 31f
Threes
Neapolitan• ••• •• •••••• • 99 60 99 60 .. 99 60 .. 99 60
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, L. 8.•• •• •• •• 246 25 247 50 .• 246 25 .. 247 50
Rouen.• •• •• •• •• • • •• •• •• •• 982 50 .. 982 50 .. 980 980
Rouen to Havre— •••• •• 765 •• 765 760 .. 760
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale.. • ....... 235 •• 235 .. 232 50 .. 232 50
Avignon to Marseilles.... 758 75 758 75 .. 758 75 . 758 75
RAILIVAY SHARES FOR 30ru JUNE.
St. Germain •• • • • • • • •• • • • • 892 50 .. 892 50 .. 892 50 • • 892 50
Versailles, MB.. •• •• •• •• •• 376 25 .. 376 25 .. 376 25 .. 376 25
L. 1- ...... 247 50 .. 247 50 .. 247 50 .. 247 50
Rouen •• • • ••••
Rouen to 760 •• 761 25 .. 757 50 .. 757 50
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale
Avignon to Marseilles-- 762 50 .. 762 50 • • 760 .. 760

renew our protest of Wednesday against the principle
and the tone of Sir ROBERT'S proceeding on the sugar
duties question on Monday evening last.
We will assume, for the purposes of this protest,
that owing to the delay which must be interposed, at
the present critical conjuncture of' affairs, to the trans-
action of the public business from any change of ad-
ministration, by reason of difficulty in finding parti-
cular individuals in the ranks of Opposition sufficiently
qualified for particular offices, or, being so qualified,
sufficiently willing to accept them, such a change of
administration would be politically inexpedient for the
nation. This is an hypothesis surely not unfavourable
or unfriendly to the case of Sir ROBERT.; and yet we
contend that, in reference even to this, the whole
speech and deportment of the Right Hon. Baronet, on
the occasion in question, were not only calculated to
prejudice, but must have inevitably damaged his cause,
and the duration of his tenure of office.
Sir ROBERT PEEL complained, on Monday night,
that " there was a combination of parties against
him ;" and he showed himself at once irritable and
unwise in denouncing the attempt which had been
made by the West India interest to enlist the agricul-
tural or landed interest under their banner, on that
occasion, by proclaiming the common danger that
would accrue to both, these great bodies in the event
of Ministers being enabled to carry a certain scheme
of duties, which in practical operation must be fatal
to the one immediately—and, in the application of its
principle, must ultimately prove just as fatal to the
other. Why, the West India body, in that appeal,
were only paying the compliment to the Premier of
accurately copying his own tactics ! By what other
arts did the Right Hon. Baronet carry his Currency
Bill in 1819, or his Tariff two years ago, or the
Catholic Emancipation Bill in 1829, or the No-
Confidence votes against former Governments to which
he was in opposition, or his most unconstitutional In-
come and Property-tax in 1842, or his Bank Charter
Renewal Bill of the present session—but by enlisting
the apprehensions of one class in aid of the desires of
another; or by operating on the alarms of separate
sections of' political opponents, through the argument
that the interests of each must be sacrificed to those of
another, unless the whole would consult their common
advantage by concurring in the propositions submitted
by him for their adoption ? In these puerile re-
proaches Sir ROBERT did injustice to himself, as the
Great Original Artificer of these successful amalga-
mations of heterogeneous materials of hostile action
into one mass of flexible supporters. He had already
worked Protestants and Dissenters, Calvinists and
Roman Catholics, manufacturers and farmers, opera-
tive labourers, and master millowners, Radicals and
Tories, bankers and bullionists, debtors and creditors,
mortgagees and mortgagors, into a concordia discors
on the above-named occasions, and as often on others
as occasion required. Why should he quarrel with
Mr; PHILIP MILES for doing a little kneading of the
same kind, on his own account ; and flavouring with
the sugar of our West Indian 'colonists the corn pro-
duced here by British growers ?
Sir ROBERT PEEL, moreover, talked on Monday
night as if it were in the nature of mere factious ob

struction to Ministers of the Crown, to propose amend

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

We understand that Mr. Thomas Duneombe pre-
sented, this morning, to the High Bailiff of West-
minster a requisition, signed by several hundred in-
habitant householders and electors of that city, in-
cluding twenty Members of Parliament, requesting
him to convene a public meeting of the inhabitants,
for the purpose of taking the present state of Ireland
into consideration, and of petitioning Parliament for
the immediate release of Daniel O'Connell, Esq.,
M.P., and the other State prisoners. The High
Bailiff acceded to the requisition, and appointed
Monday, July 1, for the meeting, which will be held
in Covent-garden, at one o'clock.

the exercise of their highest duty," and with the ad-
vantage of all the official information in existence on
the subject before them—had, after mature and an-
xious deliberation, recommended to Parliament for
adoption. But this notion is grounded on a mere
childish absurdity of assumption ; namely, that the
Ministers of the Crown must necessarily have mas-
tered the whole bearings of such official information ;
and, by a species of patent infallibility, have arrived
at the soundest possible conclusions upon it. But this
impatience on the part of the Premier of the exercise,
on the part of representatives of the' people of that
which is—constitutionally -and positively, not- Con-
ventionally, only—their first duty to their con-
stituents —is the most unreasonable, the most unlike

QUEEN'S BENCH..-(THIS DAY.)
THE BARON DE BODE V. THE QUEEN ON A PETITION OF

The fact seems to be that Sir ROBERT PEEL is so

RIGHT.
The examination of witnesses in support of the Baron de
Bode's claim was resumed this morning. The case of the
claimant was not concluded when we went to press.

and memorable cases, that he anticipates, from the
House of Commons at large, the same blind, unrea-
soning deference which he habitually extracts from his