The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-30 00:00:00

Don't misunderstand me; we are, I allow, a tbin-skinned.

—a very thin-skinned people. Raison de plus that our
friends—those who desire our welfare—who prefer, through
interest or affection, our love to our hate—should, in setting
forth our faults, do it with as much regard to our weakness
as possible. And who, let me ask, should those be who
should be our friends and well-wishers if not the English, the
ancestors of nine-tenths of us, but who, I am sorry to say,
have in instances neither few nor far between, as if in the
mere wantonness of sport, rode roughshod over our most
tender susceptibilities?
lam not, however, going to appeal to your compassion. I
would rather address the interests than the passions, the
reason than the feelings, in demanding, if it can be believed,
that, unless provoked by insulting words (and after all it is
words oftener than deeds which are the cause of bloodshed),
we would prefer.
.to meet in deadly strife those of our omit
kith and kin, or others who in language, blood, and reli-
gion, are aliens to us and ours? Then, why should you
try to irritate us by your sneers, and be never weary of
drawing conclusions to our disadvantage from facts not well
established, but assumed on the authority of a newspap. r
notorious even in Europe for being the most infamous in
America? We have sins enough to answer for; why seek
for more than belong to us in the New York Herald?
The Herald is, I admit, conducted with great industry and
some talent, but it is not a source to which you should look
for facts, much less public opinion, unless supported by good
concurrent testimony. It is a journal, although the London.
papers are so fond of quoting from it, that, like son's
scurrilous and unprincipled prints with you, is refused ad-
mittance into many respectable families, and left unread by
many persons who refuse to gratify curiosity at the expense
of truth and honesty. Its editor, moreover, is not an Ame-
rican, but a Scot—a radical, grasping, foulmouthed Scot--
, the same that O'Connell, on a public occasion, turned his
back towards, abused, and almost spit upon, to the thorough
and well-merited mortification of the thick -skinned slanderer
and reckless betrayer of a country's interests where he earns
his bread in so loathsome and disreputable a manner.
Then in dealing forth your wholesome denunciations, it
should be borne in mind that the press with us is not a fair
criterion whereby to judge of the sentiments of the better
part of the community, not even of the mass, as it is in. Eng-
land and France, where editors are, for the most mat, men
of education and some degree of refinement, instead of being,
as they are too often in America, broken down lawyeia,
physicians,' and politicians; in some instances beggarly self-
seeking foreigners, who would cater to the father of lies hint.
self so that by so doing they could fill their pockets or a
place.
Should you not rather seek for good than for evil in those
of your own blood, and have you not much more to lose than
to gain by exciting our evil passions, and by keeping us jut
at that point of irritation where you yourselves ought to be
answerable for any mad act on our part which should even.
tuate in war? lam a man of peace, as is becoming in one
whose hair is long since gray, and I cannot but think th
the responsibility of those who strive to set brethren at strife
is awful in the extreme.
Besides, do you not see that by unmeasured censure yon
defeat your own object, whether that object be the benevolent
one of correcting our errors—the errors of a young and san-
guine people of Saxon blood—or, whether it be to mortify
and lower us in our own esteem ? Even a boy, if he have any
spirit, revolts at excess of punishment, and goes on sinning,
and instead of bowing beneath the rebuke administered in
charity, will harden himself into the conviction that wrong
is right.
"Do not think I flatter" when I saw, what you well know,,
that a oingle vrord from an Englisli journal carries more
weight with us than a thousand directed by—l was going to
say—a foreign hand, so habituated are we to regard you as
of the same family with ourselves. But Ido say, if per-
chance my poor persuasion can induce you or others to pat
less gall into your anathemas against my country, if not for
our sakes and our children's sake, then for the sake of human
happiness and civilisation, endeavour to preserve that peace
which God loves and man should not despise. Tell us, if
you will, all our faults, though their name be legion, but do
not paint them so that in their disguise our wounded vanity
deny their reality, and the perverseness of human nature re-
fuse to rectify them.—Yours, very respectfully,
Paris, Oct. 24. A « STATES"-BIAN.

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The Duchess of Sutherland, and the Ladies Leve-
son Gower, after making a brief stay at Trentham, will join the
Noble Dake and the Marquis of Stafford at Dunrobin Castle, frost
whence they proceed, in company with the latter, to Bosencath, 011
a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Lern.

His Grace the Duke of Cleveland has given
101. for the forthcoming dinner in aid of the funds of the Metropo-
litan Benefit Societies' Asylum, and his Grace has consented to hem
come vice-patron.
AN HOTEL OUT OF JOINT.--A gentleman who
had been stopping at an hotel within a hundred miles of Birkenhead,
where, during the ten days of his sojourn, the invariable reply to
" John, what can I have for dinner ?" was "very nice chops and
steaks, sir," at length sent for his landlord, and quietly told him that
" his was the stiffest hotel he had ever stopped at." " Indeed, sir 1 the
stiffest, sir—how so,:sir ?" " Why, I have been here for ten days, aid
can bear witness that there's never a joint in it." The landlord vs-
nished.—Liverpool Courier.

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ADMISSION or INDIAN CORN—The Chairman of
the American Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool, has received a latter
from Lord Sandon, expressing his Lordship's approval of the Vakano-
rial to the Privy Council in favour of admitting Indian cons. Mls
Lordship thinks that such a course on the part of our Govisznment
would greatly strengthen in America the bands of those wlio &Ivo-
cate the relaxation of the tariff.

A SCHOOL FOR MAG;STRATES.—Mr. Hardwick, of
Marlborough-street, has been the first magistrate with sufficient jki-
tice and moral courage on his side to commit " a gentleman" to tbo
House of Correction, for a brutal assault on a policeman and others,—
very much, as it appeared, to the astonishment of the aforesaid gen-
tleman, whom we can now fancy seated on the same ground with
vulgar, penniless misdemeanour, manipulating his oakum, hardly ot
reconciled to the fact that the force of money has, for once, tailed
him. We understand that Sir James Graham intends to institute an
evening school for magistrates, that they may be the better in-
structed. Mr. Hardwick will be appointed schoolmaster. It is to
be hoped that Twyford, Greenwood, and other old boys we could
name, will attend regularly, and profit by the lessons of their mu tier.
—Punch.

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DEATH ACCELERATED BY FOUL AlR.—Last niEbt
Mr. lledferd held an adjourned inquest at the King's Head, Crown-
street, Soho, on the body of Daniel Harrington, aged fifty-four,
mason's labourer, who inhabited one of the miserable cellars in :Fel-
conbridge-court, Crown-street. It appeared front the evidence that
about a week since the deceased fell down a flight of stairs in a state
of intoxication, and was confined to his bed. He never rallied, and
died rather suddenly on Sunday morning last, Dr. Henry said, from
disease of the lungs, no doubt consequent upon the mephitic tames.
phere. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical
testimony.

EXTRAORDINARY CAB ACClDENT.—Yesterday, be•
tween one and two o'clock, James Forbes, six years of age, residing
in Great Wild-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, was playing with another
boy in High HOlborn, fronting the cab-stand. Forbes, to get away
from his companion, attempted to run ander the stomach of a cab-
horse on the stand, in doing which his foot slipped, and he fell against
the legs of the horse. The animal became alarmed, and kicked and
plunged violently, and trampled in a dreadful manner on the chest
and stomach of the unfortunate lad. Several cabmen and others ran
to his assistance, and dragged him from under the horse. He was
immediately conveyed to Mr. l'owell, a surgeon, in High Holborn.
who found the breast bone and several ribs fracture& The boy was
removed to King's College Hospital, where he lies in a precarious
state.

BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF BLUES.—Yesterday the
bah-yearly general meeting of the above society took place at the
London Tavern, for the purpose of balloting for pensioners, to re-
ceive the report of the directors, and for the dispatch of general
business. Joseph Beioley, Esq., one of the Vice-Presidents, was
unanimously called to the chair. From a list of candidates, consist-
ing of four males and four females, the eldest of whom was seventy-
seven, and the youngest sixty-seven years of age, one was selected.
The report, which was unanimously approved and adopted, showed
that the affairs of the society had considerably improved during the
past year, and the general business having been gone through, thanks
were awarded to the chairman and other officers, and the meeting
broke up.
PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES.—The large number of
Parliamentary notices requiring to be.posted up on the church doors
throughout the county, is giving profitable employment to several
gentlemen. Such an array of documents and preparation in attach-
ing them to the doors of the village church on the Sabbath is creating
quite a sensation among sonic of our rural population, whose retired
localities have seldom been invaded by those professionals.—Apr
Observer.
SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE ELECTION.—We are now
enabled to announce that the writ for the election of a repre-
sentative, as successor of the late lamented Sir John Nor-
' daunt, arrived at the office of the Sheriff yesterday after-
noon. Of course, therefore, the usual proclamation will be
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made, and the nomination of a candidate or candidates will
follow in a few days. Up to the present hour there is not a
whisper of any other candidate than Lord Brooke, and we
confidently expect that not the slightest attempt will be
made to oppose that justly respected young nobleman, who
will consequently be returned without the least symptom of
public excitement. Ilis'Lordsbip has not yet returned.from his
foreign excursion.— if Advertiser of Saturday.
ACCIDENT IN A COAL-PIT.—On Thursday last, a
young lady, who with a party of friends had been down the
shaft, visiting the coal mmes of the Duke of Buccleuch, was
caught by one of the chains, while in the act of ascending
the pit, by which several bones of one of her arms were
broken, she narrowly escaping with her life. Dr. Jefferi&s,
having reduced the fractured bones, the lady was enabled to
proceed to Edinburgh that night.—Caledonian Mercury,
The plan of attaching a " lady's carriage " to
every train bas been adopted on the London and Brighton
Railway, as it is, we believe, on most others. We would
suggest that a " smokers' carriage" should likewise be pro-
vided, for it is impossible to prevent the practice, and it.
would be better to give way a little to it, than to have the
majority of passengers, as at present, subjected to annoyanck
and danger by those who choose to indulge their love 0,!,
smoking, in spite of all risks: and that the number is Lot
few, anybody who travels by the railway must kucor
Brighton Bird&