The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-29 00:00:00

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—As Ireland seems resolved not to rebel, nor
Mr. O'Connell to accept the crown of that country at
present, Sir James Graham, like Alexander, naturally
feels somewhat at a loss for new worlds to conquer.
Government, and the grand Moguls of Leadenhall, not
having, as it was once rumoured they intended, given
him the opportunity of outshining in the East the glories
of Sinde and Gwalior—Roley roley being deposed at
Epsom, sans coup ferir, by the whiff and wind of the
fall sword wherewith the Home Secretary menaced that
time-honoured dynasty—to what field could the all-
victorious Graham look for further fruition of
That stern joy which warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel?
Sir James Graham has looked—he fondly deemed not
in vain—to the Channel Islands. Our readers have
probably. been not a little puzzled by the repeated
announcements of embarkations of troops for Guern-
sey. The late precautionary armaments to Ireland
have been repeated to the smaller island on a smaller
scale. First of all the Government steamer the Dee
appeared in its roads, and landed a Queen's messenger
with missives in hot haste for the Governor—Major-
General Napier, the historian. What these nays-
torious dispatches might contain, the harmless natives
were left to conjecture—but evidently something too
momentous to be trusted to come by the penny post.
Presently appears another war steamer, the Blazer ;
and it is now clear the affair is no joke. "Soon," says
Le Pil,te, " a military chief is seen to disembark from
the steamer—a man of colossal stature, a la figure
hslaffe, and girt with a sword full four feet long. 11
si'avait pas lair d'un phisant, celui-la." This redoubt-
able chief, and near four hundred troops; land in boats,
from the Blazer. Further arrivals of troops follow.
lfer Majesty's transport brig Nautilus arrived from
Cowes on Tuesday, the 21st. having on board about 170
men of the depots of the 23d and 97th Regiments, and
of the 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade ; and the
Lax t morning the Atalanta steamer, from South-
ampton, brought three officers and ninety men
of the Rifles. It was understood at Southampton
that a company of artillery had also been ordered ;
and that taree or four hundred more soldiers
had been embarked in the Lightning steamer. These
however did not make their appearance. The peaceful
inhabitants of Guernsey:have been asking each other ever
since, what these armaments mean—against what spec-
tral enemy Sir James Graham has lauched them ? On
the arrival of the Blazer in our roads, says Le Pilote,
the commanding officer of this protecting army, asked!
the pilot, as he came on board, with a more than ordi-
nary degree of interest, "How are you?" " Much obliged
to you, M. le Commandant," answered the brave pilot,
" pretty well,"—Et vous ?—" That is not it," said the
ralicer, " I wanted to know if there are not troubles in
ti•te island ?" " I have not heard of any," said the
pilot: "but it is possible these are, and if you like, I will
go and inquire for you." The broad farce of all this
is beyond Bumbastes Furioso, or Major Sturgeon. It is
evident that some one has been a Great Alarmist,
and that Sir James Graham has been a Great
Alarmed. One would think we were under the ad-
-ministration of some junta of Physical Force Chart-
--ists —some fire-and-sword Committee of Public
;Safety, who had heard from the Channel pro-con-
isul that the trio of liberty had been cut down
in Guernsey, or that patriotic warriors could
get drunk there for next to nothing. Lord Ellenbo-
rough's swaggerings have been compared by the Edin-
-I,:ygli Review to Barere's Carmagnoles—but here is
ord Lilenborough, or Barere, in little—here are
s'rmies of invasion—colonnes infernales—for the con-
(west, or chastisement, of—Guernsey ! This last Home-
office escapaile may seem too ridiculous for comment.
But is it a saran matter that the Government of
this empire should make itself ridiculous? Is it
a small matter that troops should be poured into
, a perfectly tranquil islet, where there were no bar-
r, cks ready for them—and no possibility of force being
resauired Suppose drunken quarrels should take place
bets seen these uncalled-for protectors and the inhabi-
tants. Who will answer for the blood that may be shed
in consequence of crowding troops, where troops could
not possibly be wanted ? The only approach to a probable
solution of this extraordinary false alarm at the Home-
officeis afforded by some supposed grave motive for disarm -
;ing the local militia. In what degree the Guernsey militia
anay be supposed formidable to theßritish empire,we cannot
aretend to say, as we cannot pretend to penetrate the
,;qty mind, and preternatural powers of apprehension,
of ifse Home Secretary. But sure we are of this : that
it the Guernsey militia gave all this umbrage to her
majesty's Ministers, there was nothing required but to
nigairy orders from the Queen in Council that this ter-
rible flirt v--should disband.
" In ta ,e Queen's name I charge you all to drop
Your it% •ords and daggers!"
The present aa, wernor, it seems, is at loggerheads with
the civil authoi ities of the island, and had already
threateried railitu v force on a small scale, to cut the
knot, and effect iminealiate release of a pardoned
eonvict—a ithout tha order of the local court. But it
seems that General vier disclaims all previous know-
ledge of this military ,;e, -!upation of Guernsey. He has
;'Tightened Government ,-aore than he meant fur the
i„ axe of this warlike and aairbulent dapendency.
3TANDARD.—The Soot,'. Lanea, hire election ha:
ter urinated by the return of the Conset Native candidate
wit a a majority of nearly 600 ; wh, ale number of
..ieNtors polled being 14,453. The result esf the South
Laaeashire contest is, on many accounts, reserving of
~.aservation.. An election at which betwee n 14,000 and
L_-.000 electoral polled must be, of course, free from euspi-
Eats I of anyexte.nial influence, whether of the % -slovernmeat
or the Aristocracy'; and an election in a distri 'et almost as
(lamely peopled as .a great city, must be t squally free
from the suspicion of any local territorial ! influence.
Tae population of the not very extensive d istrict now
represented by the Conses-vative Mr. Entwi. the and the
Conservative Lord Francis' Egerton, must amount to
nonsiderably more than half a million, and it includes
tiae important towns of Manehestes* and Live spool 4towns
la, ger and immeasurably richer than n any capital
citing), Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Busy, &c. Whatever
infitiance, then, it is possible to imagine to ; exercised
in a South Lancashire election, must be a , mercantile
aind inaeufacturing influence, and indeed of this in-
h tense the party of the League have bee n very pro-
fds -!y boastit, g for the last year or two. W e know not
wheat er all our 7eaders will recollect; some eel Mainly must,
that t,.‘e journals of the League have recent ly set down
huuth Lancashire' .as a sure conquest, assigning,
among ,`he other graunds of their con fidence, the
reduction, by no less than 2,800 votes, of the Conser-.
votive force, which they se id had been effect, 3d by a dili-
asent attentien to the rent, :try. These ri duced votes
would Kn raise Mr. twisle's maa'ority to 3,4a1' As it is
not
said that the Coaservatives anifested c vesponding
retivity in the registration courts, it appes but fair to
allow far some considerable increassa of .7 tfe., Zntwisle's
najority on this head. Let however,
b. 'acute(' to
.ho the majority us,3 o -
as it actually stands—a, • 550. Is not
sty a majority in favour of
f a Conservativ. camlidate—
in district which is constituted, as it we of a federa-
tion of mercantile and manufacturing tows as--a district
w hich may in truth be
called
zlietropolis—:s nut such a victoryeienesgurehat a
n lanufacturing
conclu-
sive testimony t,.• the real feeling of thee ercplaee
ie
man ufaz-tturing in tt. rests in the country ?e t
tha,ndti°cis
on
be treats(' Ludy ,a test of opinion--as a test of the
popularity of free traLTe on ot:e side, or pro tectiun on the
other ; and it will ht,' admitted, we think, that the
friends of free trade could t; of in „,:!,ngland • 'street to End
inure favourable judges ; ana
.yet___}.‘rotect: on carries oh'
the great majority of votes. We ha- tot as yet
7beard any reason assigned by the flee . tittle asivooates
for the deft-at of their candidate, i bough defeat
1.28 tolerably certain even at no on on Mon-
day, and we own we are at a loss to c anjecture what
apology they will offer. As we have sale' Government
influence, ,aristocratic influence, local to rritoriai
.11 influ-
4ce, are wholly out of the question in a district like
South Lancashire, all cut up into snit
A possessions,
with a population of more than half A million, and
beta een fourteen and fifteen thor sand electors
actually brought to the poll. Neglec tof the regis-
tration, the next common excuse to ma nence and inti-
midation, is negatived by the boast to Soh
ich we have re-
ferred, the boast namely,.
struckthat by
1-
en
dill en oe at the regis-
tries, the free traders had $
off near! ly 3,000 Conser-
vative votes. And as to corruption, if it
to talk of the possible influeuce of oma were not absurd
electors, the Ming any 15,000
f ee-traders oitre cerar
the most traders
.nly the party
bribes. Th??ln the suspicion c ,f administering
mense
Brown, and his iiberia, of their candidate, Mr.
peted even to nausea,—aaw,"t•thbeoustteWa dinr
in the journals of the Leage, from tl g it, were
election.trum-
rlf the iy's intermission,
eancy to the day of the
,ao day of the va-
t irs base enough to look for
apprised by advertisement ribes'the re were any
whereelee-
to lo;
are not, however, desirous of im 7 were sufficiently
P
At for them. We
Brown or his friends ; the election full g bribery to Mr.
7 ap titsfie s us upon

the hypothesis that it has been a fair election. As such
it must impose silence upon the unfounded, dishearten-
Log, and most mischievous predictions of those who, like
the Times and Morning Post, have been bewailing the
near downfal of thQ Conservative party ; and as a fair
trial of strength it prostrates the League into a posi-
tion from which that vile and hateful conspiracy can
never recover.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.
FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL.
NEWTON, TUESDAY NIGHT.
Districts. Brown. Entwisle.
Newton
Ashton
Bolton
Bury
Manchester
Oldham
Rochdale
Liverpool
Ormskirk
Wigan

6,934 7,524
Majority for Entwisle, 590.
STATEMENT BY MR. BROWN'S COMMITTEE.

For Mr. Brown ... 6,974
For Mr. Entwisle

Majority for Mr. Entwisle.. . 573

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MAY 27.—Not so
many buyers attended to-day as usual, and the county
election almost put a stop to business. Considering the
bustle necessarily occasioned by such an event, there
has been a good demand for goods at former prices.—
Manchester Guardian.
STATE OF TRADE.—At Manchester, owing to the
county election, and the holidays, there was little busi-
ness done yesterday, and there was no change in prices.
—Manchester Guardian.