The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESTMY EVENING, JANUARY'

, Alderman GlABS—who will forgive us for alluding to
J um again,—might indeed have answered to any other
I ,ody, as he does to rate-payers, " Wait till you can
e nforce your right to make me answer. If you can't
d 0 that, I think I might establish a bad precedent by
vi dunteering information on such frivolous questions as,
w hat has become:of your money ?" But the Alderman
is a phoenix. There is but one to be found, and but
on e, wiz() will thus publicly sacrifice himself, in a
NO Tole century. We are very sure that there is
Ito t cane description of financial agents who would
I Ile I.it Mr. ROBINSON'S three plain demands with such
or it;ive Gibb-erish (we cannot get out of Wel-
ha'' a 3k) as this : " Sir,—We have received your letter
oft he 28th inst., and are unable to reply to the ques-
t Tun s therein contained—until we receive further in•
f brr nation from Mexico ; especially as regards the
Mist ribution of the funds in hand," &c. &c. How very
sink ;ular. They have received 11,3301. among other
mo! neys remitted to them for payment of divi-
der ids some months ago. They withheld
it at tbio time, from the parties justly
erg Titled to it, namely, the Mexican Bondholders,
oz the rigetence—(an intelligible pretence at least, on
tic .e same principle that to appropriate any money,
as 6. ansitu, to one's own purposes, instead of the pur-
Post .s of him to whom it is specially remitted, may be
dish onest, but is still " a great fact")—on the pre-
( tenc e that they had taken it in order to pay them-
sell,' as a like amount due to them from—whom ?
The English Spanish-American Bondholders ? Not
ahl tof it. From the Mexican Government who had
for' warded it, not to satisfy their claims, but the
Cl 2 ims of the English holders of their stock. Messrs.
li7 .ZARDI have continued ever since in the same mind.
T hey still withhold the money. Nay, by their own
a towing, it is gone—paid—absorbed by their own
di mand. And now, forsooth, they gravely tell Mr.
B dOBINSON, that to all his three questions, including
t' ha first, relative to their own determination as to
,'_res Loring or not the abstracted 11,330/. to the divi-
den ‘ll account, they must defer their answers till they
hay -e been further instructed from Mexico! The
anc lent Governments of the Toltzeck and Azteck
Princes of that fine country may have been
as arbitrary and cruel as historians have represented
the in to be ; but we greatly doubt whether they ever
ass erted so tyrannous,: so monstrous a pretension as
thi s which Messrs. DE LIZARDS and Co. would in-
tin lati2 is exercised by their successors in the govern-
me .n't of the modern Republic. For, according to
th( ise agents, they are actually compelled to appeal to
Mn xico for further instructions as to whether or not
Or e.y have made up their own minds to an act already
c( Nntmitted and avowed in October last, and never since
r &called !

The business part of the matter remains. The
Ciommittee of Bondholders must memorialise the
Briti`sh Government—and if their efforts fail with the
Minister; then renew them, forthwith, with the Parlia-

In_Qnt—to insist upon the Mexican authorities making
instant satisfaction for conduct which, whether the
fault be with them or their employes, has every ap-
pearance of impudent fraud. English credulity has
paid a penalty sufficiently severe in the loss of scores
of millions of money by foreign debtors within the
last 25 years. England's own honour would be corn-
, promised by further acquiescence in such barefaced
trickery, attempted to be excused on such flimsy
grounds.

We are not inclined to magnify the existing dan-
gers of the country, nor to look on the dark side of a
scene, which is resplendent with many beauties. In
the ensuing session of Parliament many subjects of
the most vital importance to the British nation must
he brought forward, and not only brought forward
and discussed, but settled, and in a way, too, satis ••
factory to the nation. Not a few of these are sur-
rounded with many difficulties ;—we need only men-
tion the state of Ireland ; the all-engrossing question
of the corn-laws ; the principles of free trade which
are gaining ground every day ; the education of the
people, perhaps the most ignorant in any civilized
state ; and we wish we could add the improvement
of the clergy, and a reform of the national Church.
The two last, however, must be sometime de-
layed. The violent antipathy between Churchmen
and Dissenters showed itself so strongly last year,
that the case appears utterly hopeless : and the
Church—that is to say, those interested in Church
livings, ecclesiastical perquisites, ecclesiastical
abuses, and in the division ( f property belonging to
this enormous national establishment—is too powerful
for any Minister. But without these, there is enough
of wcrk for the forthcoming session, and if the Minis-
ter has only the spirit to undertake reforms in a vigorous
and judicious manner, all the difficulties maybe easily
surmounted. Several measures introduced by Sir
llonEwr PEEL show that the landlords and tenants
are not so obstinate and bigoted as they have been
described. They murmured for a few weeks at the
new tariff, they now see that it has done them no
harm ; and we may therefore generously suppose that
other-classes, whose supposed interests are at stake,
would yield with the same composure, if the Minister
would only muster courage to take a bold,
a straightforward, and just course. Ireland,
and especially the Irish Church, cannot remain
as it is with safety for another year. Many
parts of that country are not habitable for civilised
beings. The law is set at defiance, murders are com-
mitted in open day, witnesses will not come forward
to give evidence at a trial or an inquest, and the very
magistrates themselves are afraid to perform their
duty. Scenes have lately taken place in that un-
fortunate land, which, with a numerous priesthood
paid by the people, and the most wealthy Established
Church in the world, are unparalleled among the
most barbarous nations of the earth. This does not
happen without a cause. In every country laws which
are found just and merciful are willingly obeyed.
The Irish, when properly treated, are generally an
obedient and grateful people. Convince them that
they have fair play, and no class of men are more
easily governed. History confirms the fact. Under
two administrations, short unfortunately they were,
the whole of Ireland, even including the wilds of Tip-
perary, was more peaceable than any part of Great
Britain; one-half of the usual number of troops was
withdrawn, and the remainder were as little wanted
as the few scattered depots in Scotland to preserve
order. This might partly be produced by hope, and by a
conviction that the existing Government was willing and
anxious to redress their grievances, and, with the
usual generosity of the people, they waited the result
—they waited to see the Church reduced to its
proper limits—to see Catholics promoted to offices of
trust as well 5...3 Protestants, and to see magistrates
appointed in whom they could place confidence. But
when all these bright pictures were swept from the
view, and the Home Minister, in one of his many
unguarded speeches, declared that concession had
reached its utmost limit, can any man be surprised
that the disappointed hopes of the people broke
through all bounds, and that, like madmen, they re-
solved to carry a measure which would destroy
them and their oppressors ? This is the whole secret
of the present agitation, and we trust Sir ROBERT
PEEL will be wise in time. England cannot part
with Ireland. She must be attached to this country,
by fair or other means ; and what Christian can hesitate
for one moment about the alternative ? Place her
Church, her laws, her magistrates, and her govern-
ment, on the same footing with those of England, and
Scotland ; and Ireland, in place of being a constant
source of anxiety and alarm, would become the
strongest bulwark of the United Kingdom. She is
not to be put down by dismissing magistrates, by
Arms Bills, or even by fifty thousand troops.
but she is to be put down by justice, and woe to the
Minister who rebels against it. All the other dif-
ficulties of Sir ROBERT PEEL are nothing as com-
pared with Ireland ; and he will find that unless he
put down his bigoted colleagues, and bring forward
a great, a generous, and comprehensive scheme for
the regeneration of that country, he and his Con-
servative Cabinet must give way to other men. On.
this subject, as well as others adverted to, we quote
the following frOm an able pamphlet by a Whig
writer, just published by RIDGWAY, entitled
" What is to be Done ? or, Past, Present, and
Future :"—" There must be no longer delay or
double dealing. The way of free trade is
open before the Government—so is the way of ge-
neral education—so is the way of frank and friendly
recognition of Ireland's rights and Ireland's religion.
The Government has not, as a Government, abso-
lutely compromised itself against any of these active
principles—it has stood between them and their op.

ponents, leaning perhaps a little too much the wrong
way ; but this was natural—was the effect of old
habits, and may be retrieved. Let it lean now
a little in the other way, and gradually
move on in the direction to which it points, and it
may find, if all its paths be not pleasantness, that at
least its ways are peace. It is morally impossible
to go back to old Toryism—it is not practicable to
stand still. The ground will slide, is sliding, away
from those who fancy they are reposing firmly on
it. No men, nor party of men, can stand still in the
times and circumstances in which we are living.
Let the Government, then, go on—go forward gently,
firmly, charitably, justly. And in that case good
luck go with it ; for in that case we, for our part,
will not then disturb it." With regard to
England, he adds, "we have less fears. It is clear
enough what must and what will be done. The great
Free-trade League is confessedly increasing yearly in
numbers, funds, discretion, ability, and success. It
has all the characteristics of a winner,--of what we
are accustomed to call the persevering, straight-for-
ward, business-like, resolute, but not violent, Anglo-
Saxon blood. And we firmly and conscientiously
believe that it has justice and good intentions
on its side. If this be so, and it is difficult
to deny it, where will Sir ROBERT PEEL find either
the ability or the means for permanent resistance.
Finally, then, and summarily, it appears that a
Government of repression and exclusion is ill fitted
for times of progression and expansion ; and that these
now require for the peace and well-being of the coun-
try—For Ireland, the support of her tenantry, and
the endowment and recognition of her Roman Catholic
Church ; for England, national education ; and for
the empire at large, free trade, which includes the
relief of her pauperism, by finding increased employ-
ment for her increasing hands. Let who will do
these, but done they must be—sooner or later ; and
the sooner the better, and the safer."

We have great pleasure in directing public atten-
tion to an article headed " CURRENCY," with the sig-
nature of " BEIRNIARD." The reasoning is at once co-
gent and philosophical. One pound of practical com-
mon-sense is worth a million of illusive theories, which
only dazzle to bewilder and confound. Sir ROBERT
PEEL and the Directors of the Bank of England would
do well to read and duly consider this matter before
they strike a bargain in the dark respecting the re-
newal of that precious monopoly—the Bank Charter.

The Paris papers of Sunday, from which we gave
brief extracts yesterday, contain some articles which
are not without interest. The few broken sentences
uttered by M. LAFITTE, have given great offence to
the Ministerial party, and roused not a little the hopes
of the Republicans. Not one half of it, h&wever,
was heard, the interruption was so great. The scene,
says the National, did not last long, but had a marked
character of excitement and rage. M. LAFITTE had
the honour of raising the storm, and the of
the country is due to the man who told the Ministers
and others some severe truths. It became his tried
probity and patriotism to express feelings of sorrow
and serious alarm which the situation of affairs pre-
sents to all those attached to the principles of the
Revolution. The same journal, after adverting to the
seizure of so many Legitimist papers, turns to the
levees of the Duke of BORDEAUX, in Belgrave-square,
and thus attacks M. GUIZOT and his friends :

The Ministers intended to have made some allusion, in the
speech from the Throne, to the pilgrimage of the Noble Legi-
timists to Belgrave-square. But they did not dare to do so.
They knew full well that the Deputies who advocate the cause
of the Duc de Bordeaux would throw some harsh truths in
their teeth if they had made the King accuse them (the Legi-
timists) of joining the ranks of a Pretender. What could M.
Guizot have said if M. Berryer and his friends on being
taunted from the Throne, had replied :—" We went to London
to pay our respects to the Duc de Bordeaux, and in so doing we
followed the example which was set by the principal member
of the Cabinet in 1815. He did not think that the Government
of that day could be consolidated, and therefore (he told us so
himself from the tribune) he repaired to Ghent to do homage
at the feet of him whom the whole of Europe was preparing
to restore to France. In this we have scrupulously followed
M. Guizot's example. If, btherefore, you condemn us, con-
e emn him also, and out of your own meuLhs speak your own
condemnation." Such a defence as this, supported by the
transcendent talent of M. Berryer, would place the Ministry
in an awkwat d position. They have, therefore, adopted a less
perilous and more certain method of wreaking their petty
vengeance, and have determined to pour out the vials of their
ill-humour upon the newspapers. The day before yesterday
the Nation was seized. Yesterday the Quotidienne, and now
they patinae upon La France, ani so on. Thus it appears that
a jury, and not the Chambers, will have to settle the quarrel
between the elder and the younger branches of the Bourbons.
But the combat will not be the less interesting on that
account _ There isnot a single noble family of any

eminence in France which has not sent its representitive to
Belgrave-square—or which hes not at least in its circle some
adherents of legitimacy—they are even to be found on the
steps of the throne, and if the old King can pierce into futurity
and look beyond the tomb, he may fancy a General Monk in
the foreground of his vision. His is a sad situation, but we
foresaw and foretold it, long since, to those who now govern
the country.

The Journal des Debuts has a good article on the
long-winded message of the American Preident, and
makes some hard hits both at TYLER and the bank-
rupt States. "To repudiation," says that journal,
the President does not even refer. The boasting
preamble by which the message opens would even
forbid the suspicion that this document emanates
from the bead of a nation reduced to the humiliating
condition of a bankrupt. Under such circumstances
the language of a WasitINGToN or a MADDISON would
have been quite different. With that authority which
they possessed they would have solemnly recalled their
fellow-citizens to the path of duty and
honour. The message in fact has nothing to
recom tend it, neither elevated views, generous sen-
timents, nor even a vulgar knowledge of business.
It is even devoid of that spirit of candour and inde-
pendence which one would naturally expect. Presi-
dent TYLER in writing it had evidently but one view,
which was to captivate the favour of the multitude, by
flattering their vanity, by humouring their prejudices,
and by abstaining from addressing, even with the
utmost reserve, some advice relative to the dishonour-
able conduct of some of the States, in which they ob-
stinately persevere. This is not the language of a
supreme magistrate, hut that of a hunter after popula-
rity. A power which speaks such language abdicates
of itself ; and never, perhaps, had North America such
need of a strong and independent Government."
A new Legitimist paper is announced, to be called
the Christian France, and the Government, it is said,
are ready to pounce upon it the moment it appears.
The next number of the Mode is doomed to the same
fate.

The Paris Papers of Monday have since been re-
ceived, with intelligence from Madrid to the 26th, but
they possess little interest. New Year's Day is ob-
served in Paris as a general day of rejoicing and
amusement, and little or no business is done even on
the preceding evening. About twelve o'clock the
principal members of the two Chambers, the Judges,
Ambassadors, and the different State functionaries,
began to arrive at the Tuileries, to pay their respects
to his MAJESTY. The receptions were very nume-
rous, and the levee lasted till five o'clock. The
Journal des Debuts announces that Queen CHRISTINA
would leave Paris for Madrid sooner than was at first
intended—probably about the beginning of next
month.

Several of the Paris papers state, some of them
with strong remarks on the encroaching spirit of our
country, that " the English had taken possession of
the harbour of Diego Suarez, on the- coast of Mada•
gascar, one of the finest in the world."
Little business was done in the French Funds on
New Year's Day; the Three per Cents. were quoted
at 82f. 2c.
Accounts from Madrid state that a reconciliation
had taken place between the QUEEN and Don FRAN
CESCO DE PAULO . The question of the marriage of
her MAJESTY was to be postponed till the arrival of
her mother. Accounts from Figueras state that
Baron de MEER arrived there on the morning of the
23d ult.

The attempt made to induce AMETTLER to sur-
render has failed. Further re-inforcements had
arrived. On the morning of the 24th, the firing from
the fort had recommenced. It would appear to be
the intention of the Baron de MEER to prosecute the
siege with vigour.

THE ROYAL STAGHOUNDS.—In consequence of the
extremely unfavourable nature of the weather (a pretty thick
fog prevailing with a snow accompaniment) but a very small
field (not more than between twenty and thirty) were present
at the meet of her Majesty's staghounds, in the town of Bea-
consfield, on Monday last. Indeed it was for some time ques-
tionable if it would be judicious, under these circumstances, to
uneart the deer. The weather, however, partially clearing up
shortly before twelve o'clock, an untried deer was turned out
close to Dorney Bottom, which went away towards Hall Barn,
the seat of Sir Gore Ouseley, crossing the park to Woburn
Common, where it doubled to the right down the hill into the
village, on to the church, whence it circled round on the side
of the hill to Holtspur-gate, and was taken at Mr. Brooks's
farm, at Holtspur-bottom, after a very good run of an hour at
a hunting pace throughout. The Aeld were well up at the take.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice EasarwE.)
George hat alias Jeremiah Regan, aged 21, smith, was
placed at the bar, charged with feloniously uttering counterfeit
coin, well kn )wing it to have been counterfeit.
Mr. Ellis, Counsel to the Mint, and Mr. Bodkin, conducted
the prosecution.
It appeared from the evidence that the defendant, on the
21st of December, went to Covent-garden Market and pur-
chased some holly from a person named James Moore, for which
he gave a shilling. The prisoner said he would come to Moore
next day to buy more, and went away. Moore, in the mean-
time, found the .billing to be bad, and when the prisoner called
next day, he gave him a crown-piece, which he found was bad,
and which he narked with his teeth. The defendant was then
taken to the station-house and was committed for trial.

Mr. Field, an officer from the Mint, proved that the crown
and shilling were counterfeit. It appeared that the defendant
was sonvicted on a former occasion for a similar offence corn-
m itted in April, 1e342.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty, who was sentenced to
ten years' transportation.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT. )

The Court was occupied during the greater part of the morn-
ing, in disposing of charges ef uttering counterfeit coin, of a
trivial nature. Stephen Soper, Emma Stone, J. Straughan,
and G. Holier, were convicted of the offence. The first three
were sentenced to six, and the last te nine months' im-
prisonment.
Ctarhe was indicted for 'stealing from the person of
Sarah Ellingham, on the 19th of December, a cloak, the pro-
perty ef William Allen.
The robbery was alleged to have taken place near Rickmans-
worth, in Hertfbrdshire. The prisoner, whilst driving a cart
in open day, asked the prosecutrix to ride. She did so, and the
prisoner first attempted te take improper liberties with her, and
upon her resisting took from her the bundle.
This being the evidence for the prosecution witnesses were
called for the prisoner, who gave him an excellent character,
and Counsel in his defence, contended that he must have been
drunk at the time of committing the offence, otherwise he
could never have done what was charged against him.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Thmnas Cunningham was found guilty of stealing a number
of fowls, and sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Cor-
rection for three months.

Richard Staiey was charged with stealing one handkerchief,
value 25., the property of George Franklin Collins, from his
person. The prisoner was found guilty. There had been a
previous conviction, and an attempt was made to rescue him
when taken into custody for the last offence, by a gang of no-
torious thieves. He was sentenced to be transported for ten
years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)

Two young women, the daughters of labouring men, were
charged with robbing their parents. Both charges were of a
very aggravated description.
It appeared that the first girl took an opportunity of break-
ing open her father's box, and taking therefrom two sovereigns.
The moment she took the money she absconded, and joining
some loose characters went to one of the " penny theatres,"
as they are denominated, and staying out all night spent the
whole of the money. She was found in the morning in one
of those dens of infamy in Vine-yard. The other prisoner had
robbed her parents on several occasions, and having spent
the money in the lowest company, was in the habit of return-
ing home with scarcely sufficient clothes to cover her.
The latter prisoner endeavoured to exculpate herself by say-
ing- that she was cruelly treated by her step-mother, and that
she could lot remain in the house with her.

Mr. COTTINGILAM remanded the prisoners with a view of
saving them from utter destruction, and endeavouring to
obtain their admission into an asylum for the reformation of
female offenders.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, JAN. 3.—Light, N. Westerly breeze and hazy.
YARMOUTH' JAN. 2.—The Sir J. Gordon, from Rouen to
Shields is sunk oh Haisborough ; crew saved.
DEAL, JAN. 2, 6 A.M.—Wind, E. S.E., blowing strong,
with heavy rain and thick weather. 8, A.M., it veered to
E.N.E., with very heavy snow-squalls, and at 11, A.M. it
moderated and veered to N.W. r. M., moderate, N.W., clear
weather. Early this morning the Achilles, for Bordeaux, lost
anchor and chain, and proceeded for Westward. The Promise,
from Saguenay to London, lost anchor and chain, and remains
in the Downs. Arrd. James, Ross, New Zealand; George-
town, Demerara ; Premier, West Indies ; Fortune, St. John's,
New Brunswick.

MARGATE: J. 2.—The Ocean, Watson, from Sierra
Leone to London, got ashore on the Main, near Kingsgate,
this morning, and is discharging.
DARTMOLJTS, Jaw. 2.—The Pomona, Tomkins, from Lon-
don t• St. Helena, put in here yesterday, with loss of bulwarks,
stanchions, sails, rigging, &c., having been struck by a sea,
31st ult., and had one man washed overboard.

PORTSMOUTH, Jaw. 2.—Wind N. to N.W., squally.—
Arrd. Toronto, Griswold, New York. Off, M'Leed, Batavia.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 2.—lt blew a very heavy gale all last
night from W.S. W. to N.W. ; it is now N.N.W., squally.
Dec. 31.—Pmt back her Majesty's ship Nereus, South America.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2.—Wind, N., moderate.—Arrd. Bri-
tannia, Galiatly, Valparaiso, Sept. 14; Glasgow, Meredith,
Demerara, Jamaica, Martin, Quebec. Off, Fairfield, Kath-
leen. A barque is aground on the Dutchman's Bank, near
B eauinaris. The John, hence to Newfoundland, is aground
near the Bootle Sand Mark.

NIILFOILD, JAN. I.—The John Cumming, from Liverpool
to New York, has put in here leaky, with loss of sails, bulwarks,
&c., and cargo shifted, having been struck by a sea on 22d ult.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS I)AY.)
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.

DERBY.-7 to 1 agst Rattan (taken to 251. )-7 to 1 agst
Ugly Buck-17 to 1 agst Loadstone-25 to 1 agst Cockamaroo
—27 to l against lonian-30 to 1 agst Leander (taken to
1001. )-30 to 1 agst Campunero-30 to 1 agst Running Rein
—35 to 1 agst T'Auld Squire (offered)-33 to 1 agst Voltri
(offers to take)-40 to 1 agst Lancet (offered)-50 to 1 agst
Marinella colt-50 to 1 agst Saddlebow-5 to 1 agst Scott's lot.