The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

sacrificed their interest to their feelings, at least so they
find. Notwithstanding the care they took in the con-
ventions, which preceded the last presidential election,
to stipulate for the interests of the north, still they con-
sented to elect a personal friend of Jackson, and one of
nis school, however moderate and obscure. Mr. Polk
promised at first to act impartially and fairly to the two
democratic sections which united in elevating him. He
even leaned at first towards the northern democrats, got
rid of Calhoun, and appointed Buchanan. But success
has rendered him arrogant; for he now boldly avows his
determination to follow the pure Jacksonian policy, to run
the risk, in his defiance of Great Britain, even of annexing
regions from which slave states may be made, to lower the
tariff, and deny the New England states their present rate
of protection. The Van Burenites are furious, and cry
treason, whilst the Whigs point at the dupes and mock
them. This would be a serious matter for Polk, were
he to be re-elected. But he has three years of rule be-
fore him, and he seems resolved to pursue his policy,
and signalize his reign by triumphs in his own sphere
of views. In these he may persist, in these succeed; but
the result inevitably must be a falling off of the northern
democrats from the men of Tennessee, and a better un-
derstanding with the Whigs. This will unite the north
against the south, and thus resuscitate that serious strife,
within the bowels of the Union, from which the Ameri-
cans have more to fear, and to which they had much
better look, than to English hostility, or European in-
terference. It is a startling fact, and not a welcome one,
to find that as the United States advance in power and
population, the Government, and political influence in
general, seem more and more to desert its intellectual re-
gions, and to centre in States where the energy of uncivi-
lised passions reigns uncontrolled. The ruling partyof the
Union is no longer to be found in New York or Philadel-
phia, but in Tennessee. The qualities of an orator or a
statesman at once and forever exclude an American from
becoming-the president of his republic. In these days, to
be a successful candidate, one must be a rude planter of
the west, a slave dealer, a wielder of the bowie-knife, a
denizen of the back woods. Some Americans proposed
to stipulate that the President of Texas should become
President of the United States, provided he would carry
annexation. The choice was not unnatural. The wilder
the candidate, the nearer to the extreme verge of civi-
lisation, in character as well as in abode, the fitter does
a man seem to win the admiration and respect and at-
tachment of parties in the United States. They seem
unwittingly to adopt the old paradox of Rosseau, that
a man in the savage state only is virtuous and wise.
It will be a deplorable and singular effect of this
ascendancy of the backwoodsmen over the men of
knowledge and the men of wealth, if the former
should provoke a war with England, of which the
latter must necessarily bear all the blows. The
men of the west are invulnerable end untaxable.
They may go forth to join in, and enjoy, the sport
of war which they have set on foot. But they can en-
dure neither the disasters nor expenses of it. Having
worked a most groundless jealousy and fear of British
power and ambition, through the thick-headed stupidity
I of the northern democratic party, who swallowed such
nonsense and re-bellowed it forth, the cunning south-
westers have made use of it to annex Texas, and lay
thereon the foundation of an electoral majority which it
is beyond the power of the northerns ever effectually to
resist. Having made use of the northern cat's-paw to
get the nut out of the fire, they would now thrust the
same paw to grope in hot cinders for the Oregon,
that blindest of nuts even if acquired. To hear er
read New York journalists spurring and befooling
their ignorant townspeople, by dinning into their ears
that England wants California, and is about to pur-
chase it ; that she was in the market for Texas the
other day; and that her whole efforts are strained, in
order to do some little spite to the United States of
America—that, therefore, it is just and wise to defy
England, and that America can with impunity
defy England, because Liverpool and Manchester could
not exist without American cotton—to near people, pre-
tending to reason and knowledge, uttering such non-
sense as this, which would not impose upon an ape, and
getting men even worse than apes, to believe them, does
really present such an example of self-complacent yet
malignant idiotism, that we are led to doubt altogether
the once proverbial keenness of the Yankee, and to be-
lieve, that in seeing high political influence transferred
from New York to Tennessee, and from the Northern to
Southern races, and purely to serve Southern purposes
—that this is merely the natural transfer of power from
the stupid to the crafty, and from ignorant and self-
sacrificing spite to sharp-witted and calculating cunning.
As to the Whigs—the John Adamses, the Henry
Clays, the Daniel Websters they seem des-
tined to disappear like the other lost species of Ame-
rican life, to have their skeletons turned up at some
future day by some historic antiquary. In the provincial
elections, even of the north, the Whig influence has
dwindled to nothing. At a Whig meeting the other day,
more than one-half were for marching to the Oregon,
which does not surprise us. If they could discover a
new hemisphere they should emigrate to it, for the poli-
tical deluge has overwhelmed them in America. But
those who remain—by divesting themselves of the name
of Whig, by disavowing talent, concealing wealth, ab-
juring oratory and statesmanship, and thus permitting
themselves to be absorbed by the more vulgar Demo-
crats—may survive as a part of them, and may in this
manner resuscitate that struggle of North against South,
of intellect against barbarism, and of freedom against
slavery, in which once lived and reposed the hopes and
prospects of the New World.

THE NEW BISHOP OF OXFORD.—Dr. Wilberforce,
the Dent of Westminster, and recently elected Bishop of
Oxford, in the room of Dr. Bagot, translated to the see of
Bath and Wells, will be formally confirmed in his election on
Wednesday next, at Bow Church, Cheapside, with the usual
forties. His Lordship will be consecrated on the follow-
!n ft-day, in the private chapel of Lambeth Palace.
The Duke of Cambridge left Cambridge House
this morning for Hampshire. His Royal Highness
proceeds first to Paultons, on a visit to Mr. and Lady Ger-
trude Sloane Stanley, and subsequently to Cadlands, the seat
of Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond. The Duke of Rut-
land accompanies his Royal Highness through the tour.
Tun COURT.—Arrangements have been made for
the departure of the Court from Windsor for Osborne
House to-day. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert. who, it is expected, will be accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-
C,,bourg, will leave the Castle in the morning, proceeding
to the Farnborough station on the line of the Southampton
Railway, where the state:carriage of the Company will be
in waiting, and thence to Gosport. Only a portion of the
infant royal family will accompany her Majesty and the
Prince Consort to the Isle of Wight, where the Court is ex-
pected to remain about ten days or a fortnight. Several- of
the royal domestics left Windsor for Osborne House
early this morning for the purpose of making the necessary.
arrangements for the reception of her Majesty. It is stated
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Augustus
of Saxe-Cobourg will embark off the island in the course of
this week on their return to the continent.
The funeral of the late Earl of Verulam is fixed
or to-day. The remains of the lamented Nobleman will
be interred in the family vault at Gorhambury. The mem-
bers of the family circle will alone attend the mournful
ceremony.
The will of the late Earl Grey was proved in the
Consistory Court of Durham on the 18th instant, b 7 the
present Earl, the sole executor. The personal effects in the
diocese of Durham were sworn under 30,0001.—Newcastle
Chronicle.
We understand that the late Lady Holland has left
an annuity of 2,000/. to Lord John Russell, as an expression
of the high respect which her Ladyship entertained for the
Noble Lord. On his Lordship's death, the annuity will be
equally divided among the children of her late Ladyship's
daughter.— Observer.
THE LATE EARL SPENCER.--A meeting was held
on Saturday last, at the George Hotel, Northampton, to
initiate proceedings for the erection of some testimonial to
the memory of the late lamented Earl Spencer. The meet-
ing confined itself to the simple affirmation of the desirable-
ness of a memorial of some sort, and left the determining what
the memorial should be to the body of subscribers hereafter.
After the business had closed, however, two or three sugges-
tions were thrown out. One gentleman was for an obelisk
on the spot were the Farming and Grazing Society used to
hold its show, at Chapel Brampton; another was for a *due
in the centre of the fine market-place of the county town; a
third suggested an asylum for decayed farmers as most con-
sonant with tha benevolent nature of the late Lord, and took
the opportunity of stating that since his death he had heard
of instances of his unostentatious generosity for which every-
body must love and revere him. The meeting was suggested
and attended by farmers only. No county gentleman was
present. A subscription was entered into upon the spot.
Lord and Lady Brougham are passing the season
at his Lordship's chateau, in the south of France. Mr. and
Mrs. William Brougham are at present on a visit to the Noble
Lozd and her Ladyship. Lord Brougham is expected in
town ~;!iortly before the opening of Parliament, but Lady
Brougham is nut expected to return to this country until
May next.
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that her Ladyship was going on favourably, for such was the
written statement handed to those of the nobility inquiring
at the Earl of Jersey's. The Duke of Cambridge, the
Duchess of Gloucester, and most of the nobility in town,
called yesterday to make inquiries after her Ladyship's health.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.--The second per-
formance of " Israel in Egypt" will take place at Exeter Hall,
on Wednesday. The number of subscribers to the Society
has this year greatly increased.
The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton intend to re-
tain their splendid mansion in Lansdowne-crescent, Bath,
formerly belonging to the late Mr. Beckford, and to dispose
only of the Lansdowne Tower and its curiosities.
Mohan Lal has returned to tbis country from his
continental trip. At Berlin, the King and Queen of Prussia
treated him with marked distinction and kindness, and
during his sojourn in that capital be was invited to dinner
by his Majesty.
The Austrian Ambassador and Countess Dietrich •
stein and suite, who have been staying some weeks in Upper
Harley-street, remove in a few days to ChandosHouse, winch
is nearly complete in its embellishments.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are ISTlT-
rounded by a select party at Bretby Park, Derbysabtire.w.oe:
Thursday next the lox hounds are to meet at thlp_.l4
the Noble Earl will display the customary horlmtahtY
comers. t fortnight a large
DEVON.—During the las to all
rain and hail,
ab nit eleven A.M., a violent stort_nli
lightning
and loud peals of
quantity of rain has fallen in this coenumntye.ncOend,Thursday last,
accompanied by vivid flasth f
L thunder. On Saturday .
the woindgveered to N.W. and a
sharp frost set in , • • the lulls on the mountainous regions of
FRENCH POTATOES.— A cargo of potatoes, eon.. the forest of Dartmoor are covered with snow.
signed to Messrs. Treeby and Co., arrived here on Monday
last, from Pont l'Abbe, in France. It is rather a novelty
' in the commercial world, to see potatoes imported frdm
) abroad. A duty of 3s. 4d. is payable on potatoes, the
• produce of a foreign country, under the plausdale
_pretence
of affording " protection to the Agriculturist,"—.P4traoutt
Journal.