The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, 'MARCH 10, 1845.

The condition of her MAJESTY'S GoVernment, be-
tween its malcontent followers, and the formidable op-
position who hover about all its evolutions, with a de-
gree of generosity not often equalled, perhaps, in Par-
liamentary skirmishing, is not a little peculiar. The
destination of the two forces is now pretty well ad-
mitted, by both, to he the acquisition of a given point
which, among its other designations, nay well enough
be identified as free trade. The army which first
proposed to achieve this point—that of the ex-Govern-
ment—was beaten the very moment they attempted
to leave the lines they had previously occupied. The
battle-cry of their victorious enemies, was, " Down
with the champi-ms of free trade;" and when the excite-
ment lan4uished, for however short a period, the ral-
lying cry was " Down with the open-corn-trade
Ministry"—" Down with the liberal, Roman-Catholic-
disabilities-alleviating Ministry—Down with the
Ministry who would maintain the assessed taxes at
an increased rate of 10 per cent." The course of
events has run itself out. The attacking force now,
in their turn, occupy the entrenched camp of power,
from whence they this time four years ago expelled
their predecessors; and, strange to say, they carry
banners so closely resembling these which were borne
by the men over whom they triumphed, that the ejected
forces can scarcely distinguish them from their own.
In truth, the essential and prominent difference
between the,,,late Whig garrison and the present Con-
servative ont is, that whether as a feint only, or with
settled and serious purpose, the Conservative govern-
ment are pushing their advances towards the point
common to both sides, with far more of vigour,
Animation and success than the Whigs, whose interest
and earnestness in the same design could never he
doubted, but whose operations were not directed, it
should seem, with quite so much of tact and prudence
as those of their adversaries. It is mainly to this sin-
gular identification of the great objects—secret or
avowed, matured or in contemplation—of these party,
combinations that we must attribute the other-
wise inexplicable results of the most important
divisions which have thus far signalised the pre-
sent session of Parliament. It cannot be imagined
that an intelligent and still formidable, though
it be not a sufficiently compact Opposition, would
forego such pitiable advantages es the run
of fi,cal and commercial questions has for some
time past presented to them, were they really disposed
to turn such advantages to the account of a factious op-
position. It would be obviously on that assumption
their tactits to avail themselves of every reinforce-
ment which aggrieved recruits from the West
India interest, the Baltie trade, the landed or
agricultural interest, the monopoly protectionists,
and sa many other class proprietaries that have
sustained, more or less, of temporary disturb-
ance, by reason of the preFent::,Premier's measures
6a , ,
in respect of the duties Ott Su •r, coffee timber
Canada flour, &c., &c. They could have set up a
still more certain and popular appeal for ensuring
the defec,tiron of a vast contingent of their antagonists,
y.itialeiaitnitig their readiness to embark in any,
oirimon movement to resist and put down the pro,
perty and income-tdx,-which so accurately resembles,
in most of its features and its effects, the forced levy
of a heavy war-tax in a time of profound peace. We
sincerely regret, for our. ',parts, that it has not con-
sisted -with the views or. l'holiey of the Opposition to
giVe the most determined resistance to that most
cruel and inquisitorial impost. But, on the other
hand, it is to b 3 recorded, to the perpetual honour of
"her Majesty's Opposition," that, be the principle of

Our Dublin correspondence is sufficiently uninterest-
ing, so far as regards the general interest of its general
contents. Nevertheless, it suggests some considerations
to us, which do not appear to have produced, hitherto,
much impression on the other side of the water. Mr.
O'CONNELL and his friends would seem to have hit
upon the oddest expedient imaginable for obtaining a
redress of grievances—by retiring from the field on
which alone those grievances can be € ffectually resisted,
or their reacoval permanently accomplished. Because
they want the legislative union repealed, they remove
their pleadings out of the only court in which they
can ever—if at all—Atain a decree to that effect.
Because they protest against the tendencies of the Im-
perial Parliament to overlook the peculiar wants, and to
neglect the specific interests and rights of Ire-
land, they retire from that assembly altogether,
and leave it, with impunity, to indulge that
anti-Irish bias which they are so forward to attri-
bute to it. Because they have succeeded in
arousing the attention of the whole empire to the dis-
organisation and oppression experienced throughout all
ranks of domestic society in Ireland by reason of
absentee landlords, they are resolved to persist in the
analogous experiment of absentee representation on the
political welfare of their country. That larger section
of the Irish Members whom Mr. O'CONNELL influences,
concur with the Hon. and Learned Gentleman in bitter
complaints that the English and Scotch Members so
frequently outvote them on essentially Irish questions;
and therefore—they withdraw from voting at all, in the
House of Commons, or exercising any other duties
of the legislative trust. Their just complaint
has long been, that the voice of Ireland has not
been sufficiently heard in deliberations and acts of the
Imperial Parliament, and yt t their uadoubted devotion
to her cause impels them to retire to Dublin, instead of
giving their personal presence and supervision when
questions so important as those which have already
signalised the present session were to be discussed, in
connexion with public expenditure, taxation, and the
foreign policy of the Government. This may be a
very emphatic, very picturesque demonstration, as it is
certainly a very original one. But if it be considered
in Ireland an eligible or effective mode of accomplishing
the objects of the repeal movement—(a point on which,
we suppose, we must allow the parties most active in
promoting that movement to be the best judges)—we
cannot help submitting that, on a common sense view of
the matter, in England, it is at once an unprofitable
course for the Repeal party, and an invidious one to-
wards the people of England and Scotland. They might

not unreasonably have looked, from the Members for
that integral portion of the United Kingdom which
is exempted from the burden of the property and
income-tax, for some sympathy and active assistance in
averting from the people of England and Scotland the
three years' renewal of that most arbitrary and inquisi-
torial impost. It has not been denied by the most zealous
champions of repeal that Ireland has found in the House
of Commons, more especially since the uassing of the Re-
form Bill, a large party of steady, able, and unflinching
Scotch and EngliA friends, who have manfully asserted
and upheld her just rights, and insisted on a full and fair
hearing for her just complaints. Commercial treaties and
party alliances, of late years, have had one common, dis-
tinguishing feature. They profess, in their turns, to be
founde 1 on a basis; of reciprocity; in their working, the
condition of reciprocity is always carefully evaded by one
of V.O two contracting parties.

Our opinions on the repeal question, we have so
often and emphatically avowed, that it cannot now be
necessary to restate them. But we are not biassed in
the doubts we must express of the wisdom,.. or the
propriety of the tactics adopted by Mr. O'CONNELL
and his friends, in not being " present in their places"
in Parliament, by our recorded and entire dissent
from them in the objects of their agitation, for a
repeal of the union. We perceive that seven-e ighths
of the business of the " Conciliation Half' sittings arc
occupied by its assumption of the functions of
a Court of Review, sitting in judgment on all
the contemporary legislation of the House of Lords
and Commons in Westminster. Would not the atten •
tions and labours of Mr. O'CONNELL d his friends be
occupied to much better purpose, and in a manner much
less obnoxious to any exception, if, on the one hand,
. they were at their posts of duty, in person, within the
" halls"—not of their Dublin Convention, but—of the
Imperial Legislature? Do they detect nothing in the
signs of the times" to warn them, on the one hand,
that what they have hitherto failed to achieve for their
compatriots, others, who have the power, may accom-
plish in their absence? Or, on the other hand, that
whilst they are fighting for a shadow, opportunities
of obt.:ining substantial justice and permanent
advantages for their compatriots may arise, pass
away, and be irretrievably lost during their tem-
porary abandonment of their positions in the
House of Ce,mmons ? We recommend to their serious
deliberation the repeated pledge of SIR RODI7,RT PEEL
to adopt a large course of liberal government towards
Ireland; the announced intentions of the Ministers to sub-
mit a much extended Government grant to the College of
Maynooth ; and the- rumoured return of Mr. GLAD-
STONE to office, on the explicit understanding that he
acquiesces in those -liberalised measures of Irish ad-
ministration said to be in contemplation by her Ma-
jesty's Government.

It will be a remarkable episode, indeed, in the Minis-
terial history of the Premier, if ever, on this question of
Ireland, it shall prove to be his fortune to step in, as he
has done in so many other instances, and reap is
harvest which has been sown by other hands.
As regards the mere interests of party it will
be well for the Repealers to consider the risks they run
of losing all the popularity they have acquired in Ireland
by their agitation of a hopeless proposition of dismeui-
b. errnent, whenever it shall happen to others (especially
If these latter be the possessors of office at the time)
to confer upon the Irish people some measures of such
Erratical and universal utility and benefit to them, so
gran it) ng to their dearest prepossessions, so soothing to
their national senstiveness, that they shall secure to
tho:;e who dispense them a popularity as lasting as the
real conciliation they shall stablish will be widely dif-
fusive.

We have accounts from Zurich to the 6th inst.
The debate on the Jer,uits still continued. On the 4th

Men who once shone in public affitirs, because they had a
firm support in the Conservative party, would become power-
less if they had not, in the same degree, its confidence and
its support. What was the influence which was to weigh
on the Cabinet on going towards the electoral body?
Apparently that of the political party which had supported
it in the Chambers, and which recognised it as the
guardian of its interests. Of what elements would
the majority of a future Ministry be composed? It
had been openly declared—of the most heterogeneous
and the most ill-matched materials. Security was now
universal ; the sentiment of peace was in every mind, and it
was at such a moment that the majority of the two Cham-
bers would choose to change the general policy of the Go-
vernment, to make it subservient to the caprices of a party !
No, it was impossible. The majority better comprehended
its interests; the Conservative party had more wisdom than
its adversaries appeared to give it credit for. The Conserva-
tive policy would be maintained, it would obtain the sanc-
tion of the Chamber of Peers.—(Hear, hear.)
" Count Mole was exceedingly surprised to find the Hon.
Minister coming to seek and attack him in his place in the
Chamber. He knew that difficult situations were usually
defended by violence, and that the necessity to apologise
often betrayed itself by hostility towards those who were
dreaded. But he could declare that, after the conduct which
he had seen the Hon. Minister observe for the last two years,
he was more tempted to pity him than to reply to his asser-
tions.—(Loud exclamations; confusion.)
" The President must call on the Noble Peers to confine
themselves within the strict limits of Palian.entary debate,
and lay aside all personal questions.—(Hear, hear.)
" Count Mole could assert, in excuse for his language, that
the speech of the Hon Minister was nothing but a long tissue
of personalities.—(Marks of denial and confusion.
The Minister of Public Instruction said that he rose to
submit with deference to the suggestion of the Noble Presi-
dent. Ile would only add one word—that the idea of per-
sonalities had never entered his mind, fur the simple reason
that his polietkal conduct had always, for the last live years,
been consistent, and in strict confOnnity with the opinions
which he ;had professed when forming part of the Ministry
of April 15 with the Noble Count.
"The Marquis de Boissy, who ascended the tribune amidst
general marks of impatience from the Chamber, observed
that the matter under discussion was a vote of confidence.
But out of 270 Peers then present, not less than 151 received

the money of the State.—(Laughter ) Yes, the number
was certainly as great us he had stated.-(General Colbert,
a member of' the Bureau, here interrupted M. de Boissy with
some remark, on which the latter, addressing him, asked)—
Does the Gallant General speak for any matter personal to
himself?
"General Colbert—No.
" The Marquis De I3oissy—Then hold your tongue. You
have no right to speak.
" General Colbert (rising up)—You are an ill-bred fellow.
—(Great agitation.)
" The Marquis de Boissy—l am delighted at this interrup-
tion, for it will prevent others being made hereafter.
"General Gourgaud (from his place)—ls it a threat you
utter?

" The Marquis De Boissy—Take it as you think
(Confusion.)
" Several voices—Order, order.
" A loud indignant voice—Leave the place !—(Great confu-
sion prevailed for some time.)
" The President—There is certainly a great difference be-
tween a call to order pronounced by the Chamber and one
from the !'resident. lines the Chamber desire itself to call

the Noble Peer to order?—(Cries of Yes, yes.')
" The Chamber being then formally consulted, decided by
a great majority that M. De Buissy was thereby called to
order.

" The Marquis De Boissy—l can only bow to the decision
of the Chamber, and I do so with respect. But I must
declare thA too frequently in this Chamber attempts are
made to prevent speakers from freely uttering their senti-
ments. He entreated the Chamber and the President to
protect him against the attacks which prooceeded from
certain benches. He had been interrupted from the bureau
in a manner which he could not but think most improper.—
(Cries of True, true.') Ile said that without prejudice to
what might hereafter take place out of that assembly.
" The President said he would never permit any speaker to
remain unprotected when he was in order."

The Marquis DE Boissr made a few more remarks,
and the Chamber rose at half-past five in great
excitement (an milieu d'une vine agitation). Fears
were entertains I that these personalities might lead
to duels, and precautions, accordingly, were taken to
make certain Niembers give their words of honour to
prosecute the affair no further. The result, with the
lecture of the President to the Chamber is thus
given :—On the Chamber meeting next day, Duke
PASQUIEIL Said—

‘• Before the Chamber proceeded to the business of the
day, he thought it would wish to hear how the incident that
had occurred towards the close of the preceding day's sitting
had terminated. lie had thought it his duty to invite the
noble Peers more immediately concerned to repair to his pri-
vate room, and there, in the presence of certain other noble
Peers, who certainly merited entire confidence—(as would
be evident to the Chambers when lie mentioned the names
of Marshal Valie, Count de Tascher, M. Frank Carre, the
Marquis de 'Argot, and Count de Montalembert)—in the
presence of these gentlemen, explanatiens were mutually
given, from iv hich it resulted that nothing had occurred
which could seriously wound the delicacy and susceptibility
of any one, and consequently that there was no reason why
the noble Peers, whom the warmth of discussion had
involved in the incident alluded to, should not remain
good friends, as ought to be the case with all the Members of
the Chamber. The noble Peers, principally concerned, ac-
quiesced in the views of their noble friends, and so the mat-
ter terminated. ' For my part,' continued the President, I
think I ought to take advantage of this occasion to point out
to the Chamber that good may sometimes emanate from evil.
(Hear, hear.) The incident which occurred yesterday
proves most strongly how absolutely necessary it is, that all
the Members of the Chamber of Peers should observe most
strictly all our regulations, as well as the laws of propriety.
The former most positively declare that no Member ought
ever to be interrupted. I have frequently impresied thelnt-

"A place ordinarily so tranquil has witnessed a deplorable
scene, which had nearly produced disagreeable consequences.
We shudder when we think what might have occurred if the
high vuthority of the Chancellor, aided by the well-known
prudence ofll. Franc Carre. had not interposed to prevent a
collision between two or three respectable Peers.. The fol-
lowing are the particulars:—«'e must be excused if there
be some irregularity in our recital, and it should be attri-
buted to the natural emotion experienced by us when we
found the Luxembourg about to become the the.itre of an
affair of honour. Marshal Soult engaged with General
Cubieres, and Count Mole threw the glove in the most pro-
voking manner at M. de Salvandy, and, in fine, the Mar-
quis de Boissy was ready to engage in mortal conflict with
Generals Colbert and Gourgaud. We may observe, however,
before we proceed further, that although there were Generals
of Artillery engaged in the question, the great fire was ex-
tinguished in smoked Let sensible and constitutional souls
be re-assured, therefore, there shall be no blood shed, nor
will the Peers violate the jurisprudence established by MM.
Dupiri and Franc Carr& The latter declared that the honour
of both parties was unstained, and the most warlike Peers
must have returned perfectly satisfied."
A Toulon letter of the 3d inst. states, that for se-
veral days a great degree of agitation had prevailed
among the workmen of the arsenal, inconsequence of
an intimation that they were to be subjected to a
reduction of their wages. On the 2d they resolved
upon a petition to the authorities, accompanied by
a declaration that they would cease from work-
ing until their just claims were complied with.
All the troops of the garrison are kept in their
quarters ready to be called out in case of need,
and on the morning of the 3d a battalion of in-
fantry was drawn up under arms in the arsenal.. But
no actual riot had taken place. All the different
workshops and even the baking establishment were
deserted. At twelve o'clock, on the 3d, numerous
bodies of the workmen were assembled before the
gate of the arsenal and on the Place d'Armes. Ad-
miral BAUDIN, the Maritime Prefect, has addressed a
very mild and conciliatory proclamation to these re-
fractory men, assuring them of his unwillingness to
proceed to coercive measures, and wanting them
against listening to the evil counsel of agitators. On
the 4th the refractory men still held out, and had
ill-treated some of their comrades who had shown a
disposition to give in.
THE BOURSE—Sam/may, MARCH 8.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price
Trench rive per Cents•• •• •• 117 50 .. 117 60 .. 117 45' .. 117 GO.
Three per Cents.•••• 85 15 .. 85.20 .. 85 10 .. e 5 20
New Loan •• •• •• ••
3200 ••32-0 3200 86 5..865..86 5 .. 86 5
Bank of France
Gonin Rank, I,ooof.Shares..loBo 1080 _lOBO —3200
Beg= Bank .....• 652 50 .• 652 50 652 50 .. 652 50
Belgian Fives, 1842 ••• 1083 i 10" loc.x 106%
Two-and-a-Half.• •• 62 ••1080
•• 62 65 .. 62 65 .. 62 65
Spanish Active •• •• •• •• •••• 39 39
-.39 .. 39
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 66% 66% 66% 661,
Neapolitan•••••••••••• ••• 101 75 .• 101 75 101 75 -. 101'75
Rolnan •• • ••••••
RAILW • -

..1179
St4Germain ..... 811A..11t‘•
.4179
Versailles. R.B. ••• • • •
L. ..... •••• •••• 'BO •• 395 .. 380 .. 395
1192 40 ..1205 ..1192 50 ..1205
Rouen to Havre.. ..... ••.•• 990 .. 993 .. 985 .. 985
Orleans ..2400 ••1330 ..1400
Strasburg to Bale:•••
Avignon to If arseilles•• • 1135 1170 ..1135 —ll7O
Montpellier to Cette
Bordeaux to Teste • • • • • • •• 240 240 .. 230 .. 240
Paris to Seeaux .• •• • • • • • • • • 725 725 .. 725 .. 725
RAILWAYS FOR TUE ACCOUNT, MARCO 16.-
St. Germain .•
Versailles. R. 8.• • ••••" • • • • 810 .. 605 .. 570 .. GOO
L.B••• •• •• •••• •• 80 .• 400 .. 380 .. 403
Rouen ........ ...... 13192 50 —1225 ..1192 50 ..1225
Rouen to llavro•• ••••• • •• • • 987 30 . 992 50 985 .. 992 50
Orleans •• •• •• ••••••• •• •• "1350 —l4OO ..1350 .. 1390
Strasburg to Bale• • •••• •• •• 3.35 ~ 240 .. 335 . 337 50
Mignon to Marseilles• •• • ••11.15 _ll7O .1135 . 1170
Bordeaux to Teste ••.•• • • •• 230 230 .. 257 50 .. 227 50

Died this morning, about five o'clock, at his residence,
No. 2, Malvern-terrace, Islington, William Frederick
Deacon, Esq., in the 47th year of his age. For
some years he had been in a declining state
of health, but no serious danger was appre-
hended till within the last six iveeks, when
but little
,hopes of recovery were entertained even
by his most sanguine friends. His death will be a great
loss to the literature of the day. He was a dis-
tinguished writer in some of our best periodicals, well
known to the first literary charac:ers of the age,
and admired as a chaste and elegant scholar ;
well acquainted with the writings of the ancients, and
not surpassed- by any in his intimate knowledge of the
remarkable works which have issued from the press
during the present century. His judgment and taste as
a critic were nover surpassed ; he was just but
rarely severe ; he felt the difficulties of vtrit•
ing well, made allowance for the faults and defects
of others; was always happy when he could praise, and
more distressed perhaps than the author himself, when
he was compelled to blame. He was employed for
nearly twenty years on The Sun newspaper. Wu have,
therefore, reason to know him well, and wo willingly pay
this tribute to his memory.

SLAVERY AND ERJE TRADE IN
LEATHER.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Nearly all the foreign sole leather imported into
Liverpool is the produce of slave labour. It is from
the Brazils, the quality is inferior, but it takes the
place of a better article. It yields a small profit to
the Brazilian tanner and merchant ; therefore, if the
duty be taken off, large imports may be expected.
The repeal of the duty should he opposed by the
Anti-slavery Society, and by all Members of Parlia-
ment opposed to slavery, as it would to a certainty
increase the demand for slave labour. Instead of re-
peAling the duty on Brazilian leather, the Ministry,
to be consistent, should make it prohibitory, as their
arguments against the admission of sugar, the pro-
duce of slave labour, apply to slave manufactured
leather. I agree with the sentiment, in a letter in
The Sun of the 27th ult., signed " A Tanner," that it
would be invidious, cruel, and unjust, to withdraw
protection from a single trade, exposing it to foreign
competition, when every other trade remains pro-
tected. To make only one trade free would be either
to destroy it or to reduce the price of labour in it to
about the lowest foreign price, without giving to the
labourer a single advantage pose( ssed by the forvigner.
No cheap bread, tea, sugar, coffee, or tobaccos -for the
English tanning labouier. Free trade, to •be just,
should be general.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—It:
C. 13., is appointed Commander-
_
ar- Admiral Inglefield,
a n board the
i , _ c;' t te. f,
uatth tlAciaefd,rßit.
arlavnhzits,
i station.
sitloi
iwp
detached from the command of the b. *
'Ellzleß,esoarck,dlimitiarianl hGo.is3teldarthiins,7s3t.l,tiastms‘p'irtn..4ng
will convey him to the Brazils, and continue to es rry his flag
until another ship is sent out from England for ti at purpose,
to be commanded by Captain Fitzgerald. Mr. I egan is ap-
pointed secretary to the admiral. The Canopus, 44, has been
commissioned this week, at Plymouth, by Caput 'n Moresby,
C.B —Hampshire 7elegraoli.
inst the
DUTY ON CABLE X ARNS.—A public nte, Iting was
the propriety of memorialising the
called for Saturday last, at the Hall of Conr-00.0, t, consider
free importation of cable yarns. .The hour a•-4.,?1nl ed was
too o'clock, at which time bet' had
weep 15 and 901 ‘er--'on
assembled. A slight conve.- eitiou took place, P ' b - and the cons,
deration of the question - - '
was postponed. 1,,0 day, however, 1
for the adjourned me;eting --',.overnulent agl.
Wtia fixed.