The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-19 00:00:00

rtirtt Ebittott

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FRO3I THE VVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOD'
E.—The " organised hypocrisy" has a way of
prdttetrng amongst its organisers, which is not devoid of
a %engin sort of poetical justice. Gentlemen, it seems to
alyto thorn, you helped us to pull down our predecessors
on grounds more or less hollow—so far as addressed tee
our rabble of supporters. We proceeded, in common, on
the great truth seated by Lord Bacon, and quoted by
Lord Mahon, that it does not signify whether opinions
are true or false, so far as regards their immediate
effects on action ; and that any cry, which is but be-
lieved, will .s(rve its political turn. Abundance of sti*
cries were raised with your assistance, and our (at least)
connivance; and, buoyed up within reach of power by
these instruments of inflation, Sir R. Peel grandly de-
clared he would sooner be the leader of the gentlemen of
Digleend, than possess the confidence of Sovereigns.
We (bin% }lsar much—it is sadly recalled to mind—
of the gentlemen of England now. They have made
a ininistry ; and their part in the hive is henceforth—
: to be got rid of, like the drores. At a certain epoch
the services of these letter are indispensable ; but
afterwards the operative partners treat them as Peel
does his eountry gentlemen, or as Jonathan Wild
the .Great treated his constituency, when they waxed
troublesome on his hands. If the gentlemen at the
back of the gentlemen now at the helm of affairs had
wished to make their terms about county rates, cart-
grease, or other interesting items, they should have
re zed that stage of negotiation, which Brass did in bar-
gaining with Dick Amlet. It is too late for the be-
trayed, when the traitor has secured his rich wife, and
his stolen rank. Accusations of faithlessness to principles,
which were pretexts, have no effect on a Minister who has
glee got a firm seat in the saddle. The repetition of those
pretexts only exposes their utterers to hear truths from
the lips. of the very statesmen who have risen by ac-
crediting class-delusions. At every attempt above-
ground, they give unequivocal indications of springing
some mine below; at every reminiscence of their old
Opposition watchwords, they open one finger of the
whole handful of truths, which they have borrowed
from their opponents in terroreng of their supporters.
Thus Sir James Graham replied to Mr. Miles, and
his pauPers' plea for relief from burthens, that the
agriculturists really had no excessive burthens, from
which to be relieved. Well might the unfortunate Mr.
Newdegate " whine" firth, " One might think that the
Member for Stockport (Mr. Cobdt n) was the high-
priest of free trade, and that the occupants of the
Treasury bstich
.were chanting responses to the service."
By the way, we are here reminded of an ancestral
honour of the Newdegate family. If we remember
right, it was Sir R. Newdegate, that some time pillar
of landed pre eminence, and perennial patron of Oxford
rite poetry, who, under the last unintelligible Ministry
of Lord Chatham, surprised the House of Commons
into t*king one shilling off the land-tax. That shilling
off the land-tax was' the proximate cause of the quarrel
with America. The ministerial leaders had not virtue
oreourage to call on the House to retract its landed
vote. The then Chancellor of the Exchequer was forced
on expedients to bring up the revenue ; and, under this
duaderkead-duress, he recurred to the project of taxing
the Americans, which had been wisely abandoned in its
first resisted shape of the Grenville Stamp Act.
STANDARD.—Lone- and earnest as were the de-
bases the House of Commons last night, they can
scare* he expected to have any very lively interest
save foe the few, tough highly respectable, persons
connected with the New Zealand Colony ; the very fact
crf the-alleged too great favour shown to the rights of
the natives, by lisr Majesty's Ministers, takes away
.
. the wither interest by which patriots and philan-
thropists might otherwise be affected in such
a ease. As respects the charge of duplicity
insinuated, if not directly made, against the Colonial
Secretary, we imagine that it does not give much con-
cern grille Noble Lord or his friends. Were there any
possible lain of profit or honour to be obtained by
tLnble dealing, Lord Stanley's noble character would
eelie a sufficient defer= against the charge of du
p!ieitv ; but in a case where the most rapacious,
or the most ambitious and least scrupulous man
that ever lived, could find no conceivable mo-
tive- for devial•ing from the straight path, it is
surely the most absurd thing in the world to charge
such. a man as Lord Stanley with resorting to crooked
ways. We are persuaded that the very men who make
Checfparge c,IN nut believe one word of it, though they,
Mg' v'ry fairly, make the pretence in order to furnish
matter for a &bate to get up a grievance, or to carry a
rb by else help of Parliament. As far a-s we tin-
, derstand the charge it amounts to this, that Lord
-Stanley hayieg come to some agreement with the
New Zealand Contipanys he wrote a letter, marked con-
iidentied, to the Governer of the colony, iu which letter
Are contain«l, as the advocates of the Company say,
sums instructio-s militating against either the terms or
the spirit -of the agreement. As much weight has
_ bsen attaehed to the circumstance that the instruc-
tions to Captain Fitzroy were marked "Confidential,"
it mug be worth while to say a word upon
the point. We believe that all communica-
tions of the kind, not intended to be published,
instanter as state papers, are usually so marked ; at
least looking through the Parliamentary reports of cor-
respondence, :from all the colonies from which the
correspondence of governors, &c., has been published, we
find confidential communications similar to that of Cap-
tain Fitzroy; and from this it is plain, that the term con-
fidential impeses no obligation of perpetual seerecy, for
eeeryptiblic functionary knows that all his correspond-
ence is Subject to the inspection of Parliament,
but simply a present reserve from publication. e We our-
selves, in our own small way, frequently receive commu.
. nications marked confidential, which, nevertheless, the
writers would be very sorry not to see printed in a few
hours, should the condition that renders their
puldicetion desirable arise. The letter that was
confidential yesterday may be properly placarded
On the walls to day or to-morrow. There
is, therefore, no ground whatever for supposing that a
Minister meditates deceit, or even protracted secrecy, in
every case in which he marks as confidential his com-
runnication to a subordinate Minister. The inconsis-
tency of Lord Stanley's instructions to Captain Fitzroy
with his Lordship's agreement with the Company, is
a matter upon which no rational man will pronounce
a judgment until he shall have, in specie, before
him the instructions and agreement referred to in
the ehairge ; and something more besides, namely,
the representations upon which the agreement was
°btsititd. The necessity of seeing the documents
said to conflict bethre admitting their inconsistency
must he apparent to all, but we must farther re-
wegnber that ministers, as well as kings, may be
misled by too .uine and confident representa-
tion even of earn ho meditate no imposture. These
errors have been -to common, as to introduce a title
" inconNtok rev" into our old law books. Before con-
demning- Lord Stanley, therefore, of so serious a crime
as wilful duplicity, we must ascertain—First, That his
Loedishie's instructions to Capt. Fitzroy are really incon-
, aisitent with his agreement with the New Z eland Com-
pa.ny. Secondly, That the inconsistency is so unequivocal
and apparent, as to render it certain that the Colonial
Stererary must Le aware of it. Thirdly, That the
agreement was obtained upon a strictly fair and un•
cobatred representation of all the circumstances of
the case. Here are three questions, at least,
to be all affirmatively established, before the
sliglitaet - shadow of blame can attach to Levi
Stanley's centluct in the transaction ; and, granting the
first,- namely, that there is an inconsistency between the
:instructions mud the agreement, a concession which we
merely for the argument, the company will, we
suspcc,t, find some difficulty in establishing either of the
thlevs. The agreement appears to have been drawn up by
the oompany, i*id if they drew it up without intending to
take metre by it than they wished the Government to see,
at once they area we firmly believe, the vary first san-
guine adventurer, who eeer manifested so much virtue,
self-denial, and skill. Not less singular must. they be
in vitue, self-denial, and skill, if their represents ons
of the state and prospects of the colonies were rigidly
exact, and they must be not only more virtuous, de-
nying-, and skilful than all who ever went half' re them,
but much wiser also. The horn stest man may
cheat others by expectations by which lie has first
cheated himself, and here we believe we arrive at the
secret of this dispute, and at the secret of all colonial
failures, as many as there have been. More than
two emturies ago. Bacon, who saw and foresaw
everytkiing, told That colonies and plantations are
not for present gain ; and that, therefore, such
iterolutl, works are rather for hi-mortal states than for
mortal individuals. We do not pretend to give the exact
words of the great philosopher, but the truth of his oh-
servaticit is inanitest. Commercial men, and indeed
men generally, look to quick returns of profit, however
small, rather than distant returns, though never so rich.
Miller's the gardener, proves very clearly that
an acre planted with dhesnuts would be worth
one way or another more than 1,000/ at a century's
end ; but though Miller wrote a century ago, and his
bock has been a popular book ever since, how few acres
of chesnuts have been planted in the interval. It is just
the some with colonisation ; adventurers seek the quick
return, end deceive themseves into the belief that such
quiet; return is possible without ruining the colony,
which it certainly is not.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The house resumed at Five o'clock.

Several petitions were presented in favour of Rail-
way Bills and other private Bills.
The report of the Committee on the Aberdeen
Railway Bill was brought up, the Committee re-
porting that the standing orders had been complied
with.

TUE Manor OF ELY.—We are sorry we cannot
n-day report favourably of his Lordship's health, the
affection of the chest having, yesterday, became worse.
—Catnip. idge AA!, tiger.
STATE ft* TRADE.—Owing to the
continuance
of
severe frosts, and the consequent closing of the canals
lad navigabta rivers, at home and abroad, the market
Has been very quiet during the last week. Spinners and
manufacturers, however, are generally uer contract
fur some time to come, and consequently not at all
inclined to press sales. Prices, therefore,l‘itß continue steady.
—THE ROCLIDALv FLANNEL 5 MONDAY,
17.—The flannel market is much the
has been for the last tsvo or three weeks; et6earndeemaLidt
very limited, and prices extremely low. The
wool mar •
ket has been very quiet ; few purchases have been made
at lakt week's prices.— anchtste r Guardian.
„ILLNESS ioir T. RIDER, Esq.—We sincerely regret
to have to sate that Mr. Rider experienced on Wednes-
day last a similar but unfortunately more severe attack
than that which he suffered a year ago. We lament to
say that vervilight hopes indeed are entertained of his
r4eceiy.—maid.,./0„, G„,,
THE REPORTED DREADFUL FIRE AND Loss OF
LIFE AT BERNONDW.—The account, more or less am-
Oiled, which appeared in all the Morning Papers, as
tar as the mere destruction of property, is perfectly
correct; but the dire conjecture of the broker and his
wile and five little innocents having been reduced to
ashes f happily without foundation, the family having,
as is believed, leftthe premises, for reasons best known
to themselves, before the fire broke out.

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MARCH
THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EATENIN 19, 1845.

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