The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-24 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1844

lattempted to be lowered, by clothing Government
employes, with the garb of reporters ; and a Home
Secretary of State, has sent his own personal attaches,
to gain materials for prosecution. Sir JAMES GRAHAM
must in future be the English FOUCHE, the director
of spies, and the selector of implements, such as his
acquaintance with the Carlisle Patriot supplied. And
then the jury—a jury not intended to try guilt or
innocence, but to convict—it may happen, that the
prosecutors have been mistaken; but they believe they
are safe in their packed jury list, as Sir C. O'LoGHLIN,
indignantly termed it.
No Englishman who watches the progress of this
trial can avoid pitying the Government which is obliged
to use such an Attorney-General as Mr. SMITH, and
despising an Attorney-General who can show such want
of judgment, as he exhibited on this trial on Monday.
Dreading the sympathy which the appearance of Mr.
O'CONNELL would create at the Conciliation Hall,
and finding that he had gone thither, Mr. Attorney-
General SMITH insisted upon Mr. O'CoNNELL's remaining
within the precincts of the Court during the trials, and
threatened to call him upon his recognizances, if he did not
immediately appear. Is there any English Attorney-
General who would thus have acted ? None, in our
memory. But such a trial for such an offence, never
took place in our times, supported by such evidence,
and before a jury selected in such a manner. It only
wanted Mr. Attorney-General SMITH to make the farce
of " Law without Justice" complete in all its parts.
And mark the effect of such proceedings. Mr. SMITH
O'BRIEN, at the Conciliation Hall, stated openly as
follows :

" It is true that your leaders are taken from you at the pre-
sent moment. It is true that means have been taken to pro-
cure a verdict, of what kind I will not pretend to say, but
which will deprive it of all moral worth. But I cannot believe
that any jury, however composed, will surrender the rights and
liberties of our country. I still feel exultation and hope, when
I know that the people are determined to maintain the privi-
leges which are our birthright. I camehere to tell the Attor-
ney-General that, though not ambitious of martyrdom, if. he
wants another victim I present myself to him."—(Tremendous
cheering.)
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN is no visionary, no wild enthu-
siast—he is a man of large property, and the Member
in Parliament for an Irish county ; the conduct of Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S Government drove him into the ranks
of Repeal—the conduct of that Government will do more
injury than years of conciliation can repair, and will
drive into opposition to English connection in legis-
lation, thousands who see in the conduct of that Govern-
ment, only trickery and injustice.
Such a Secretary as Sir J. GRAHAM—such a pro-
secution as this of O'CoNNELL—conducted by such an
Attorney-General, in such a spirit and in such a
manner, would sink a stronger vessel than that which
Sir R. PEEL commands, even though manned by a better
crew, and officered by men of principle, not by renegades

The seventh annual dinner of the Buckingham Con-
servative Association took place in that town on Mon-
day last. The Duke of BucKINGuAm was in the chair,
and among the !guests were Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE
and Mr. PIGOTT, the former of whom, notwithstanding
that he was urgently solicited to speak out, took care to
maintain a discreet reserve respecting the intentions of
Ministers as regards the corn-laws. Though the meet-
ing professed to be friendly to Government, yet it was
by no means unanimous on the subject, and Mr. DAY-
BELL but spoke the sentiments of many of those who
were present, when he observed, " it was not necessary
to go into a history of the proceedings of the Ad-
ministration, or examine their acts one by
one ; let them look generally at their spirit, and ask
themselves whether those acts were of a nature to com-
mand their confidence. When he stated, at the last an-
niversary, that they would not then receive the health
of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Govern-
ment with the same enthusiasm as before, some gentle-
man objected to the observation ; but he must say
subsequent events had tended to confirm his views, that
their sentiments of regard towards Ministers had under-
gone some alteration." Considering that the Bucks
Association professes to have confidence in Sir ROBERT
PEEL, as one who will take special care not to
seriously damage the interests of the monopolists, we
do not think the above frank and truthful
observation—which was received with loud cries of
" Hear, hear"—wears a very encouraging aspect for the
Premier. A gentleman named PIGOTT " gave tongue"
with surprising volubility on the subject of the Anti-
Corn-law League, which he described as an audacious
attempt at fraud and humbug, compared with which all
former attempts at knavery were merely so many out-
bursts of excessive modesty ! He then alluded to what
he called the "blasphemous pamphlets" of the League—
blasphemous, we presume, because they dare to rail
against the omnipotence of monopoly—and added
with uncommon unction, "he believed in his con-
science that a more barefaced attempt to palm
off a conspiracy for private purposes as an associ-
ation for the public good—a more barefaced attempt to
render the vital interests of the whole nation subservient
to the avarice and ambition of a comparatively small
number of the people—was never in our whole history
witnessed before." This, it must be confessed, is sound,
hearty abuse, not unadorned with such pearls as fall
from the lips of Billingsgate fishwomen ; and we must
own to having been exceedingly amused with the evident
sincerity that pervades it. Strange to say, however, im-
mediately after having disburthened himself of this load
of vituperation, the speaker stated it as his decided con-
viction that " the League were now powerless, because
they were unmasked ; they had not a single class in
the country with them." Why then launch the
fierce thunders of your indigation against them, Mr.
PIGOTT ? Why take such pains to raise them into im-
portance by pouring forth the full vials of your wrath
upon their heads ? If the League be really so insigni-
ficant as you would have us believe, surely it is lost time
and most egregious impolicy to visit them with such
truculent abuse ! No man ever dreams of "breaking a
butterfly upon a wheel," or condescends to visit with his
stormiest indignation those whom he holds in utter
contempt, and feels to be utterly powerless.
He wisely leaves them to their insignificance,
and reserves his denunciation for those whose hostility
may be dangerous to him. Whatever he may choose to
allege to the contrary, the plain fact is, that Mr. PIGOTT,
like the rest of the corn-law advocates, entertains a deep-
rooted fear of the League. The earnestness and sin-
cerity of his abuse place this beyond a doubt. And well
may he dread this great popular Confederacy, for it is
destined ere long to seal the fate of Monopoly!

Madrid papers of the 16th have been received. The
new Finance Minister is busily engaged in schemes to
raise money had for paying the priests and the army. On
that day he a long conference with certain ecclesiastical
dignitaries, the object of which was to advise on the
best means to secure the service of religion, and the
maintenance of the clergy. The Minister of War had
demanded 2,000,000 reals for certain corps d'arrnee. The
Finance Minister promised compliance, but where is
the money to come from ? Reports of an intended in-
surrection in the Biscayan provinces prevailed at Ma-
drid, the object of Aich was to effect a marriage be-
tween the eldest son of Don CARLOS and the QUEEN.
The Three per Cents. were done on the 16th at 26k, at
60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 191, at 60 days.

On Monday, M. TIMERS delivered another speech in
the Chamber of Deputies, against the policy pursued by
the GUIZOT Cabinet, but it was of a very mild character.
The ex-Minister evidently has no wish to quarrel with
the KING or his Cabinet, and merely;makes an opposition
speech to please his friends. In reviewing the state of
affairs since 1837, he said—" The Whigs were an enter-
prising race, but their chiefs were not men of a very con-
ciliatory disposition. in 1837 they urged France to join
them in an armed intervention in Spain, but Austria,
having been consulted, was of a contrary opinion, and
her advice was unfortunately attended to. Hence the
origin of the dissolution of the alliance, and the result
was, that in Belgium France was deserted by England ;
in Italy England openly declared against her, and France
was obliged to evacuate Ancona. In Spain the hostility
of England was also manifested; and in the East she was
found in league with the continental Powers of Europe."
M. TRIERS then proceeded to justify the line of policy
he had adopted when thus abandoned by England, and
contended, that had France "maintained an independent
and dignified attitude, and trusted to her immense re-
sources, the Powers of Europe would never have
dared to attack France, and she would not
have suffered any humiliation." No Power
in Europe dreamt of attacking France. She
isolated herself from all, raised a war-cry which alarmed
neighbouring States, but did no injury to any nation but
France. That war-cry laid the foundation of the new
bastiles, which will render the short administration of
M. THIERS immortal. M. GUIZOT briefly replied, and
contended successfully that France had made no conces-
sions to England, and that the relations between the
two countries were benevolent and loyal, not only in
words but deeds. The report about a change of Ministry
turns out to be mere gossip. The Funds continued firm

on Monday.
11OURSE—PABIs, MONDAY, JAN. 22.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 124 85... 124 85... 124 75... 124 85
Threes. B2 65... 82 65... 82 55.. 82 60
Bank of France 3272 40...3272 50...3270 ...3270
Lafritte Bank I,ooof 1112 50 ..1112 50...1112 50...1112 50
Belgian Bank 697 50... 697 50... 695 ... 695
1841 1080 mlOBO mlOBO ...1000

Belgian Fives ........... 107 ... 107 ... 107 ... 107
1840.... 109 ... 109 ... 108/ ... 109
1842.... 110 k ... 110 k ... 110 k ... 110 k
Dutch 2k per Cents... 554 ... 554 ••• 551 55
Spanish Active .. 30k ... 30k •
... 30k ... 301
Passive ...... 5* 51 ... 51 51
Portuguese Fives 46k 46k ... 46i
Neapolitan
Roman ......... 105 k ... 1050 .. 105 k ... 1051

-----
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R.B 340 ... 342 50.. 340 ... 342 50
L. 8...
Rouen
Rouen to Havre 665 ... 665 ... 660 ... 662 50
Orleans.
Strasburg to Bale. . .
Avignon to Marseilles 685 ... 690 • • 685 ... 690
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, R.B 342 50... 342 50... 340 ... 340
L. 8...
Rouen
Rouen to Havre... .. . , 665 ... 665 ... 662 50 .. 662 50
Orleans . 862 50... 867 50... 860 ... 867 50
Strasburg to Bale 2?.5 ... 235 ... 230 ... 232 50
Avignon to Marseilles 682 50... 690 ... 682 50 .. 690

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, and several other
Cabinet Ministers, had a meeting this morning at Sir
Robert Peel's private residence in Whitechall-gardens.
The meeting broke up at half-past one o'clock.

SIR H. POTTINGER AND THE
AMEERS OF SINDE.
We find the following in the Chronicle of this morn-
ing :—" A most diligent Correspondent of The Sun has
induced that journal to fill three of its columns with
extracts from Sir Henry Pottinger's correspondence,
which prove Sir Henry's extreme distrust of, and se-
rious complaints of, Noor Mahomed Khan, the chief of
the rulers of Sinde, at the date of that correspondence,
viz., 1838 and 1839. These extracts are adduced by
the writer in order to place Sir Henry in contradiction
with his more recent letters, in which he laments the
treatment of the present Ameers. Now, the fact is, that
Noor Mahomed died in 1841. The present, or late,
Ameers were another generation, and had as much
to do with the Ameers whom Sir Henry Pottinger
spoke of in 1838, as the state and policy and fears of
Sinde, at the time when we were preparing an expe-
dition to Caubul, has to do with the Sinde of
1843, after the English Governor-General had solemnly
declared that the Indus was the irrevocable frontier of
the empire."
We know not what to make of this article. The ob-
ject of our " diligent:Correspondent" was to show that the
whole tenor of Sir Henry Pottinger's correspondence
relative to Sinde was at variance with the letter published
in the Chronicle ; but, convincing as the extracts are,
that the letter is a forgery, they are still surpassed by
the remarks of our Contemporary. " Now the fact is,"
says the writer, " Noor Mahomed died in 1841. The
present, or late, Ameers were another generation," &c.
How, then, can Sir Henry Pottinger call them his " old
friends ?" In 1841 these were all dead men, the new
generation had begun to reign, and he, therefore, could
have no personal knowledge of them, or of the affairs of
Sinde; for in August of that year he was on the opposite
coast of Asia, at the distance of five thousand miles,
and was actively engaged in drawing up counter-procla-
mations to those of Lin, or Keshen, or Elepoo. His
opinion respecting events which occurred after his de-
parture, and when his old friends, the Ameers, were
dead, is no authority whatever. But, taking it for
granted that all but one of these friends survived
what becomes of this deliberate opinion recorded in his
dispatches—" It would be better at once to take posses.
sion of Sinde by force, than to leave it nominally with
the Ameers, and yet deal with it as though it were our
own 2" This act of taking possession by force is de-
scribed in the letter as " the most unprincipled and
disgraceful that has ever stamped the annals of our em-
pire in India," while the same authority, in published
dispatches, declares it " explicit and dignified," as com-
pared with the policy pursued under the government of
Lord AUCKLAND. The Chronicle may choose either of
the horns.

LAW INTELLIGENCE

QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court took the Crown paper to-day, and was occupied
the whole morning in listening to arguments in cases of disputed
settlements of paupers.

EXCHEQUER-(THIS DAY).
( Sittings in Banco. )
The Court took the special paper to-day, and was occupied
the whole morning in listening to arguments relative to techni-
cal points of pleading.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two strong, hearty-looking men, who gave their names
John Scott and John King, the one dressed like a boatman, and
the other like an agricultural labourer, were charged, before
Mr. Twyford, with begging in Holborn.
One of the Meudicity Society's officers stated, that he was
passing along Holborn, yesterday, when he saw the defendants
standing there. One had a spade in his hand, and upon it was
written " We are in great distress, we can get no work, and
we want bread." The same prisoners were taken before Mr.
Long, about three weeks ago, when they were discharged,
and sent to the MendicitY Society, and there they were given
five days work. When
Scott the officer took them into custody yes-
terday, the prisoner, , was holding up the spade, and the
other prisoner was leaning upon him, as though overcome by
exhaustion.
The prisoners said they were utterly destitute, and could get
no work. They had lately been engaged on the Paris and
Rouen Railway, but the works 'had been stopped there, and
they had come ever to England.
Mr. T w Foto said that a case of systematic begging had
been prover . and he
.should punish it accordingly. The pri-
soners must te imprisoned in the House of Correction for a
month.

MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.)
Joseph Itetts, a sailor, who said that he was engaged as cook
and baker on board the
.Token, East India merchantman, was
charged with having twice attempted to commit suicide.
John Fletcher, 7, Salisbury-street, said that the prisoner
slept in his house on Monday night, and on the succeeding
morning he got intoxicated. at a very early hour, and then pulled
but some time after was advised by
first a knife out of his pocket and threatened to do some injury
ttthhoteiosgs the
aPivesesCet:hsalemcm attempt,rip
to himself. The w.eapon was taken from him, and he then
opened a razor, with which ltioe
tha:tepmripsotendertaogcauint,hwishtohrtohaetn.
Fortunately they were enabli:opdntpouwbiriecs.th.oitusferomnexhtimd.eer7
xi,thneerses
halkeeefpptrotaeltrniledeieeammwteaedintn,
The second attempt was fully proved by witnesses.
Mr. RAWLINSON—Who was the constable who gave such
the man was recovered from his
such foolish advice?--Sergeant Hawker came forward and said
that he was the person.
The MAGlsTßATzw:shed to learn why he gave such advice ?
owntheTtaredi svncee
prisonerr was quite rational, and made a laugh of the at-
dSreurngkeaenntstHataew, ker—lYhY,
tempt.
Mr. 11.AwLINsorr--.Yo.ur are sinking part of the story, Sir.
Give me the whole of it, if you please.—Sergeant Hawker tried
to explain.
as it appears, by
Mr. IlawLiNsotz—lt is very evident to me that you are
omitting part of the statement for. the purpose. of justifying your
bhsisegrnueantttecro-4ouoclti.sh advice,
isnsutexpressed his sorrow for his conduct, and said
that, if permitted to depart, he would make all baste join his
first instance, acted unwisely, to see him
ship, but
Docks, and if the ship had dropped
Mr. RAWLINSON said that he would order Sergeant Haw-
k,
to Gravesend, he would see him
downer
haue fewre:nwot
boffhyobt
thyhad,
Ee ioasnrst
net tai Indiahnmege
rt.

SU PAMAny P,P I; •
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AND

tittiatt Optitiott.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on
the Address has hitherto been considered favourable to
the Ministry, and there is no reason to doubt that the
vote will be in their favour. The Funds and Shares on
Monday closed as follows :—The Three per Cents. at
82f. 65c. ; the Fives at 124 f. 90c. ; Orleans Railroad
Shares, 867 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 850 f. ; Havre, 662 f. 50c. ;
Avignon, 690 f. ; Spanish Actives, 30i.
It was stated on the Bourse that Government would
execute all the railroad lines, even to the supply of the
rails.

The Commerce states that Count Mole and M. Hippo-
lyte Passy had a long private audience of the King yes-
terday at the Tuileries.
The Augsburg Gazette mentions a report that Count
d'Appony, the Austrian Ambassador in Paris, is about
to be appointed to an eminent post in Vienna, and to
be replaced in Paris by the Prince de Schwartzenberg.
A letter from home of the 4th states that several

slight shocks of earthquake had just been experienced
there, but they had not caused any injury.
Heritte, the sailor who was condemned to death lately
for the murder of an officer on board the Fleche brig at
Toulon, was executed on the 16th. He displayed much
fortitude and contrition.
A letter from Stuttgard states that the King of Wur-
temberg had just escaped a great danger. His .111a;esty

had gone out to drivein his carriage and pair as usual,
when the horses having run away, and the coachman
being unable to pull them in, the whole equipage would
have been precipitated into the Neckar, had not a but-
cher's man, who was near, rushed forward, and, cling-

ing to the head of one of the horses, forced them to stop.
The King made the man a present of one hundred ducats
(451.)
The Government of Baden, says a Frankfort paper,
has suppressed all the pamphlets which have been pub-
lished relative to the late duels of MM. de Goeler, de
Haber, Werefkin, and Sarachaga, and has also pro-
hibited the journals from again alluding to the subject.
A Saint Petersburgh letter of the Bth, in a German
journal, mentions a report that the Russian Government
has addressed remonstrances to the Porte, relative to the
treaty of the Dardanelles. The Russian Government
complains that foreign vessels, laden with arms and
ammunition, are allowed to pass, contrary to the stipula-
tions of the treaty.
We read in the Journid des Chemins de Ter :—" The
Company for carrying on the Lyons Railroad has been
definitively constituted. The capital, which is completed,
has been raised, one-third in London, a third in Paris,
and a third in the localities traversed by the railroad."
LAW AND POLICE.

In the Court of Bankruptcy, G. D. Clark appeared on
Lis adjourned last examination, having been in business

as an agent for patents, and connected with a paper
called the Inventor's Advocate. It appeared his debts
and liabilities amount to nearly 20,000 L, while the assets
at present received are scarcely sufficient to pay 3d. or
4d. in the pound. He had been adjourned sine die, in
consequence of the unsatisfactory state of his balance-
sheet, particularly as connected with his affairs in

Brussels. The same objection was made ; and, after a
long discussion, he was once more remanded sine die, his
accounts being as barren as ever of the explanations
which the assignees require relative to that business.
In the Insolvent Court Charles Neall, alias Hall,
formerly of Southampton, and who had been a bankrupt
at Epping, and took the benefit of the Act in 1837, was
remanded from the vesting order for twelve months, for
contracting debts without reasonable expectations of
payment, with some of the opposing creditors, and with
others in a fraudulent manner.
William Horsford was brought up at Marylebone, in
custody, charged with having committed a most brutal
assault upon Alfred, his son, by striking him upon the
head with a shovel. The particulars, which transpired
on the 15th instant, have already appeared, and it will
be remembered that the sufferer was, after the infliction
of the wounds, conveyed to the University College Hos-
pital. Evidence was given that he could not yet be con-
sidered out of danger,_ and the prisoner was further re-
manded until the 30th inst.
A powerful Irishman, named Michael Meaney, alias
Linkey Meaney, who has been in frequent broils, was
charged at the Thames-office, before Mr. Broderip, with
committing a brutal assault on a young woman, servant
to Mr. Lawson, of the Hoop and Grapes, High-street,
Shadwell. The Magistrate, after severely commenting
on the cowardly and brutal conduct of the prisoner,
fined him 51., and in default of payment, committed him
to the House of Correction for two months.
COURT-FASHIONABLE.

The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Brighton on Mon-
day evening, where a special train was in readiness to
convey his Royal Highness to Shoreham. On alighting
from the train at Shoreham his Royal Highness pro-
ceeded at once in a carriage and four to Arundel, on a
visit to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk.
General Sir Edward and Lady Harriet Paget and
family, at the Marquis of Anglesey's, Cowes. Castle, and
Rear-Admiral Sir William and Lady Montagu, at Earl
De Grey's villa, are among the few f'amilies of rank still
at the Isle of Wight. Captain Brabazon Ponsonby, Mr.
Pigot, and Mr. Burr, are cruising in the Mediterranean
in their respective yachts.
On Tuesday evening a sumptuous banquet was given
to the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, the Recorder, and other
gentlemen connected with the City of London, by the
Stationers' Company, at their hall in Ludgate-street, C.
Baldwin, Esq., the master of the Company, presiding.
Among the guests were the Rev. Dr. Croly, Mr.
Lockhart, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Alderman Hum-
phery, UP., and Mr. Benjamin Hawes, M.P.
RILSCELL.A.Nzous.

The Duke of Brunswick, now residing in London,
has issued a proclamation, beginning with these words :
" We, Charles, by the grace of God, Sovereign Duke of
Brunswick and Luneburg, &c., do hereby declare," &c.
It sets forth that he has not abdicated, and never will
abdicate, his legitimate rights to the sovereignty of
Brunswick.
The number of sudden deaths that have recently oc-
curred at the east end of the metropolis, is truly
appalling. Scarcely a day passes without an occurrence
of this kind. Within the space of fifteen days, no less
than seventeen cases have been brought under the notice
of the authorities.
From a return made to the visiting justices of the
House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, it appears that out
of 1,094 prisoners confined in that prison, on the 13th
instant, viz., 834 males and 260 females, it was ascer-
tained that nine males could read and write well, with a
knowledge of other languages and arithmetic ; 92 males
and 25 females could read and write well, with arith-
metic ; 258 males and 60 females could read and write a
little ; 274 males and 105 females could only read a
little ; and 209 males and 70 females could neither read
nor write at all.
Mr. Lumley, manager of her Majesty's Theatre, is
expected in town from Paris, this week, in order to
commence his preparations for the ensuing season.
We understand that the obsequies of Lady Burdett
have been deferred ; in all probability until those of Sir
Francis are performed.