The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1845.

their lives to no purpose, and to remov everything
that could cover the advance of an enemy. It is im-
possible, however, that these arrange ments can always
be made without exciting dissatisfaction ; son a men
will attach importance to positions held by thers
to be untenable or useless, for all were never
agreed upon any plan ; st me will even sus-
tain material injury from the necesssity of
surrounding the position with an open field. Still, if
the common defence is to be made, such sacrifices of opi-
nion, and own of interest, must be made. It is in civil
polemlcs as in " the trade of war," untenable or useless
opinions, how fondly soever cherished, must be surren-
dered. Meaner interests must be sacrificed in order to
protect vital principles and paramount institutions. This
will always produce a great deal of murmuring on the part
of those whose particular opinions or interests my be in-
fringed upon ; but the honest and firm statesman will
disregard this murmuring, and even the obloquy into
which, after a little time, the scattered reproaches of the
multitude may consolidate themselves. He is contented
to know that he has defended all that ought to be de-
fended, and all that can be defended. Our reflections
have been turned into this channel by the following
conclusion of a well-written but reproachful article of
this day's Morning Chronicle :—" Mr. D'lsraeli' how-
ever, is of opinion that Sir Robert Peel is needlessly
letting the agriculturists down, that he is actu-
ally and c ssentially sacrificing them, and that fri m
pure love of him they accept him as the most agreeable
executioner. Like condemned and despairing wretches,
they consent to inevitable death, and are consoled by
having it of their own direction and choosing,
" Like maudlin Clarence in his Malmsey butt."

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Aud such, no doubt, is the opinion of a great portion of
the agriculturists themselves. But men of common
sense amongst them must see that Sir R. Peel has ma-
naged their estate better than any other steward they
could have appointed. See at how small a real sacrifice
of agricultural interests be has contrived to purchase, not
only the acquiescence, but the support and applause of
our amiable Opposition. Nor does he set m at all likely to
sacrifice one iota more than the exigencies of the time
may imperatively tequite. We deny altogether the jus-
tice of considering the Protectionists as lictims either
innocent or asleep, or about to be slaughtered. Let
not the Liberals go to sleep themselves with such an
idea. Their antagonists, they may depend upon it,
are wile awake, well aware of what they do
and what they suffer, and how much the;
will suffer. Peel is their instrument, not they his
dupes. They may sneer at him and damage him, in
order to humble and master him—besides the advantage
of giving themselves the air of injured men—but depend
upon it, on the whole they are satisfied, if not with
Peel, at least with Peel's weak, and they regard him
as a very useful anti-Liberal factor. Farmers murmur,
and landlords affect to murmur, but the West
Indians are contended—at least for the present."
What a person like Mr. D'lsraeli may Oink or
say is of very little moment ; but there is a class whom
the Morning Chronicle insults, by assuming the author of
" Coningsby " to be its type, who foolishly adopt the
opinions ascribed by our Contemporary to the
individual in questien. The reply of the Morn-
ing Chronicle to this class is perfectly just—
who could have more effectually defended all
the great interests of the country than they
have been defended by Sir Robert Peel's Govern-
ment ? The Right Bon. Baronet, it is true, has cut off
some impossible duties from the sliding-scale, that only
rendertd odious that protecting law ; true, he has re-
pealed an invidious and perfectly unnecessary pro.
hibition upon the importation of foreign cattle. Man:
more things of the same kind has he done

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mark on the oti•er side what he has prevented—
he budget of 1841—prevented it not merely for th(
time, but permanently. By the corn-law and tariff of
1842, and by the sugar Bill of the present year,
the principle of protection is incorporated es-
sentially in the commercial constitution of the
country ; for whatever is bound up pith the
majority of great interests may be said to be
so essentially incorporated ; while the restoration of the
public finances to a state of prosperity without example,
must take away motive and excuse for a recurrence to
such desperate experiments as those attempted by the
Whigs in 1841. Some time or other the Whigs will
come again into office. We hope and believe the date
of the visitation to be very diitant, but the revolution of
years must be expected to bring round Whig Ministries,
as well as pestilence and scarcity, and other calamities,
such as accompanied the last W hig decade of adminis-
tration. When, however, the Whig Administration shall
come, the measures t f the present :Administration
will have neutralised its power of evil, extensive
t:s that power must be confessed to be. The
principles of protection, once as it were wedded to the
strict rule-of-reason, can never be divorced from that
rule. So much protection as is justly due will be always
freely conceded, because no m ire will be asked. A
useful factor" indeed has Sir Robert Peel been to the
great interests of the country, and to the country itself,
useful to the future as well as to the pre sent.

T. Worsley, bosier, Stockport—a final dir. of ls.
in the pound, April 1, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the
office of Mr. Hobson, Manchesti r.
J. P. Davis, innkeeper, Bromley, Kent—a first and
final div. of I d. in the pound, March 26, or any subse-
quent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-
court, Basinghali-street.
D. Hart, perfumer, Cambridge—a first div. of Bd. in
the pound, March 26, or any subsequent Wednesday, at
the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-

street.
T. Robinson, tallow merchant, Leadenhall-street—a
third div. of seven-eighths of a penny in the pound, March
26, or any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr.
Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street.
J. Montefiore, merchant, Nicholas-lane—a first div. of
ss. in the pound, March 26, or any subsequent Wednes-
day, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court,
Basingb all-street.

70 puns have Ibeen sold at 3s 5d to 3s 6d
for fair quality 28 to 31 per cent. over proof.
Calcutta Rum is 9d proof strength. The market is
dull for Brandy, and farther reduced rates taken.
Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds
4s Bd, puns 4s 6d • ditto, 18.39, hhds 4s sd, puns
4S 3d ; ditto, 1840, Ads 4s 4d, puns 4s 2d ; ditto, 1841,
hhds 4s 4d, puns 4s 2d ; ditto 1842, hhds 4s ld, puns
3s lld ; ditto 1843, hhds 3s I Id, puns 3s 9d ; ditto,
1844, bhds 3s Bd, puns 3s 6d ; mid and good mid of the
various vintages 2s 7d to 3s 7d, low 2s 6d to 2s 7d, and
Bordeaux 2s 6d to 2s 7d per gallon.
INDlGo.—Holders still manifest firmness, and pur-
chases to a fair extent have been made, showing an ad-
vance of 2d to 4d per lb : this afternoon at public sale
8 serons of Guatemala Indigo were partly sold at 2s 10d to
3s 2d, and better quality 3s 4d to 3s 9d per lb.
COCHINEAL.—This afternoon a fair desire was mani-
fested to purchase Cochineal, and 110 bags at public sale
were mostly sold at firm rates; Honduras silvers, common,
4s 9d to 4s 10d, mid 4s 1 Id to ss, and good 5s Id to 5,2 d.
Mexican black middling 3s 3d to 5s sd, good to fine 5s
6d to 5s 9d ; silvers, low to middling 4s 8d to 4i 11d.
Five bags ef Grenella 2s 3d, and 5 bags of Garbhngs is
2d to Is lid per lb.
OILS.---The common descriptions of Fish Oil have
been purchased with caution since this day week. Cod
in small parcels fetched 291 lOs to 30/ by private treaty ;
l'ale Seal 301 to 31/, 3 ellow 281 to 29/, straw 291 10s to
30/, brown 261 10* to 271 10s, and
.Southern common to
fine 261 lOs to 29/per tun. The demand is on the increase
for Sperm Oil, and an advance in prices has taken place.
fine British fi-tebing 861 to 88/, and American of first
quality 83/ to 851 per tun. Palm, by private treaty, at
aGs 6d to 27s per cwt for fine quality in bond. In Cocoa
Nut the purchases made have been on a more extended
scale. Ceylon 278 to 28s by private treaty, anal from
Sydney 24s 6d to 25s 6d per cwt. Olive Oil at 41/ 10$
to 42/ for Gallipoli in bond, 401 to 411 for Spanish, and
391 to :i9l 103 for other descriptions. Linseed Oil at
24s 9d to 255, and for delivery at 235 to 25s 6d p-r cwt.
Rape Oil pale at 37s and brown 36s per cwt.
TALLOW.—The market has a dull appearance for
Russian, and prices are drooping, on the spot the de-
mand has been limited from soap-makers and chandlers,
although 38s 6d to 30$ have been accepted for first sort,
and P Y C, and 37s to 38s per cwt for other kinds of
Russian ; the business transacted has been extremely
limited for delivery, 38s to 38s 3d taken for P Y C of
first sort for next month, and 39s to 39s 3 for October,
November, and December next. Town Tallow is 39s to
403 per cwt, nett cash.

NEW PROJECTED RAILWAYS.

(From the Gazette of last Evening.) -
RAILWAY DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF TRAM
WHITEHALL, MAIICit 25,1845.

Notice is hereby given, that the Board constituted by the
Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for
Trade, for the transaction of railway business, having had
under consideration the under-mentioned railway schemes,
have determined on reporting to Parliament in favour of
The Eastern Counties—Brandon and Peterborough De-

viation,
West London—Thames Extension,
Newcastle and Darlington—and Brandling Junction Ex

tensions,
Ashton, Stalybridge, and Liverpool Junction—Ardwick
Extension,
Manchester South Junction and Altrincham,
Manchester and Birmingham-3lacclesfield Extension and
Junction Line with the Sheffield and Manchester,
Midland Railway—Darfield to Warsborough,
Midland Railway—Darfield to Elscar,
Midland Railway—Cherit to Horbury,
Midland Railway—Oakenshaw to Wakefield,
Midland Railway—Ambergate to Crich,
London and Brighton—Horsham Branch,
Harwich Railway and Pier,
Richmond (Yorkshire) Railway,
Hull and Bridlington Branch,
Middlesborough and Redcar ;
and against the
Dartford and Rumford,
Eastern Csaties—Cambridge and Bury Saint Edmunds
Extension,
West London—Knightsbridge Extension, .
Ashton, Stalybridge, and Liverpool Junction—Gnide-
bridge Extension.
Kentish Coast Railway,
Huddersfield and Manchester.
Harwich Railway,
Harwich and Colchester,
Ipswich and Harwich;
and recommending the postponement until a future period
of the
Colchester Junction,
Harrogate and Ripon Junction,
Leeds and Thirek,
York and North Midland and Harrogate.
DALHOUSIE.
C. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER.
D. O'BRIEN.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CI liCUlT.—Kingsson' March 25.
The Commission fot the county of Surrey was opened
on Montlay, and this morning both Courts sat for the
dispatch of business, Lord Chief Justice Penman pre-
siding on the civil side, and Mr. Baron Althrson in the
Crown court. Altho gh there was a good delivery at
the sessions last week, there are thirty-five prisoners for
trial at these a-sizes. On the civil side fifty-nine
causes are entered, and six of them are to be tried by
special juries.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
Dory Tanner, alias William Stenip, 26, James Haines,
23, Thomas Longley, 22, Matthew Hill, 43, and Thomas
Adams, 28, were indicted for a misdemeanor, in being
unlawfully upon certain lands in the occupation of John
Sparkes, at Wonersh, in the night time, armed with guns,
and other offensive weapons, in pursuit of came.
Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Robinson with Mr.
Charnock, defended all the prisoners, except Tanner,
who had no counsel.

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It appeared from the evidence of a man named Hoar,
who Is in the service of Mr. Sparkes, the prosecutor,
that on the night of the 17th December he heard the
sound of fire-arms in a wood at Wonersh, called Jay's
Copse, and while he was going in the direction from
whence the firing appeared to proceed, he heard the re-
ports of two guns, and at the same moment there was a
ru-h made in the wood, and he saw five men come out
into a field, two of them being armed with guns. He
followed them for some distance, and at length went
close to the men, and he then discovered that they were
the prisoners, all of whom were inhabitants of the
neighbourhood, and with whose persons he was well ac-
quainted. Upon the Copse being examined on the fol-
lowing morning►, a quantity of pheasant's feathers and
some fresh blood were found upon the ground.
The jury found the prisoners guilty, but recommended
them to mercy on the ground that they had not used
any violence towards the keeper.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON said that this was always a
circumstance favourable to the accused in cases of this
description ; but such offences were of so dangerous a
character, and so frequently led to the shedding of
blood, that it was impossible to pass them over without
such punishment being inflicted as would be likely to
deter others from their commission. He then sentenced
Langley, Tanner, Haines, and Hill, who have already
been in gaol for three months, to be kept to hard labour
for a further peri-d of six months; and Adams, who had
been out on bail, was sentenced to nine mouths' hard
labour.

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.

The following letter appears in the Standard :
" Clumber, March 12, 1845.
" SlR,—When so few are to be found who will ven-
ture to speak favourably of me, I ought to be, and am,
particularly obliged to you for the chivalrous audacity
with which you dared to print the favourable view which
you are go'd enough to entertain of me and my doings.
I very sincerely thank you fur your prompt interposition
and ready self-sacrifice.
" It has always been my strange fatality to have my
motives and actions misunderstood, and probably few
men living, not being public men, have been more vilified
and injured than I hive been. I have endured this per-
versity with patience and resolution, but at last I became
disheartened and disgusted ; I found myself standing
alone in the maintenance of opinions which I believed to
be right ; everything fell away from me; one event after
another tended to depress my spirits and my. energy,
and to remove those inducements which stimulated
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me to exertion. My health, my peace of mind, my
circumstances (as I am not aohamed to avow,
arising from no discreditable cause), required my
retirement for a season. Unseen and forgotten,

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you may well imagine that I was astounded at steing
• The Hafod Estate' heading a division in the columns
of the Stzndard appropriated to the report of the de
bates in Parliament. I, of course. read oil' with deep
interest, aid soon perceived the old leaven and the un-
generous motive for introducing ,my name upon. the
scene, finally observing that the malignants profess,d to
bar perfecily.satisfied with Lord Lincoln's statement, as
well they might, for its pla;n truth deprived malignity
of its power to cavil on.
"Pray observe that I by no means object to the
watchfulness and untiring scrutiny of Messrs. Hume,
Williams, and Co. I applaud their searching inquiries,
but I disapprove of a malign anal prejudiced influence
which urges to suppose that every transaction connected
with me and my family must of necessity be suspicious,

corrupt, and improper.
" When fairly exercised, I shculd be exceedingly
sorry to zee that the vigilance of the gentlernen_was in

the slightest degree rehixed; it gives health and life to
them, and is constitutionally wholesome for us. Such
refining and scouring is a national benefit, and although
I do not desire to follow the newest fashion and to over-
whelm these gentlemen with fulsome compliments and
eloquent laudations, yet I must confess that it would be
really a public misfortue if the nation were deprived of
the now very necessary services of such lynx-eyed and
indefatigable detectors of abuses—such unwearied
cleansers of Augean stables ; only may I caution them
not to fall foul of me too hastily or so readily, for I can
assure them that their efforts to prove me a scoundrel
will only serve to make them appear spiteful and
ridiculous.

“43ut, more than enough of this. Sir, my principal
cause for addressing you is not to censure or applaud
Mr. Hume, but to supply a deficiency ; because -Lord
Lincoln, in his natural earnestness to acquit himself
of all blame or dishonesty in the transaction, appears
to me to have omitted to state that I also am justly

clear of all blame. I may be too sensitive, but
fancy that I perceive what may be construed by the
public into a supposition that I bad bean requiring
something which it would be improper to grant. Such
was not the fact. I resisted the claims of the Crown
over my property, which I conscientiously believed not
to exist, and still think were unfounded—but that was
all. I neither expected nor sought that favour should be
shown to me. I would not, for any consideration of
paltry advantage to myself, tamper with any official
man, and least of all when that man was my son, whose
honour, virtue, and reputation would be dearer to me
than my own. Still, however, my own honour, and re-
puta:ion and unquestionable integrity, are most dear to
me ; and I cannot endure that, even by implication, I
should be suspected by my countrymen ; and as my vin-
dication, save by yourself, has not been attempted in
terms, I must undertake to be my own herald, and once
more proclaim my innocence, my negation of dishonesty
in any shape, and call upon those who would rob me of
my best possession, to remember that I am the same man
yesterday and to-day, and that whilst reason maintains
her sway, lam not likely to change my nature. Who
steals my purse steals trash; but he who filches my good
name, steals from me that which not enriches him, yet
leaves me poor indeed.'
" I distinctly declare, then, that Lord Lincoln has
spoken the truth, the whole truth; and that, pure and
clear as he is of a shadow of imputation in this transac-
tion, I am equally so;* and in fact I only most unwill-
ingly submitted to wt at, by the conditions of the origi-
nal purchase-contract, I was compelled to do—to effect
a good and perfectly valid title to the estate, although I
believed that the vendors to me had, for expediency, en-
gaged to yield to the Crown a right to which it was not
entitled. This is my case; and if I were to write vo-
lumes, I could add nothing to its simple strength.
" My statement, I perceive, has already run to a
greater length than I intended; but whilst I am on the
subject, having undertaken to be my own herald, and
most anxious as I am—more anxious, possibly, than I
may be given credit for—to stand well with my coun-
trymen, whose good opinion I value beyond all price, I
trust beg to detain your attention for a few moments
whilst I allude to the past, and bring you to the pre-
vent, that you and they may be perfectly aware of what
have hitherto been my dishonest gains.
"When 1 began lifo I had the fairest prospects before
me. In a political point of view I possessed great
power. Though in the eyes of Itef,riners I was re-
garded as an obnoxious boroughmonger, still my power
and influence were indubitable. I ask, did I avail my-
self of my position to do wrong? Did I sell the seats
for gain, or dishonestly traffic with them, either
privately or politically? Did I ever act un
constitutionally as regarded them, or as con-
cerned the State? I aver that, to my knowledge, I
never did, nor do I conceive it to be possible that I
could, as such proceedings would have been utterly re-
pugnant to my feelings and prisciples. My boroughs,
then, on the one band, were not productive of profit,
whilst on the other they entailed prodigious losses and
sacrifices, by feeding the interest, by contests, petitions,
and, finally, by their Parliamentary confiscation, when I
was robbed, without compensation, of a valuable consi-
deration, probably not short of 200,0001.
" It is true, honorary and honourable distinctions had
been conferred upon me when a very young man. Front
the excellent and revered George EL I received the
Lieutenancy of the county and the Rangership of Sher-
word Forest, neither of these offices yielding one six-
pence of emolument. These appointments I solicited of
the King himself, and they were bestowed without hesi-
tation, and with that paternal benignity which, from my
earliest youth, I invariably experienced from his Majesty.
I entered upon the lieutenancy in times of considerable
difficulty and much anxiety. I exerted myself to the ut-
most, and I hope not unsuccessfully, through many anxious
years, when at length tranquillity was restored. I
spared neither my person nor my purse: it was my duty
so to do, and I rendered it with alacrity and diligence;
perhaps I may have fairly earned an expression of
thanks from the proper quarter; it would have amply
rewarded me, but it was forgotten. Having had the
honour of serving four sovereigns, I may be permitted to
remark that the per contra in pounds, shillings, and
pence, was the payment fur the patents on every occa-
sion. No great profit here.
" The garter I never would ask for, though frequently
invited to solicit the honour; when offered to me I de-
clined, it and suggested that it should be given to the
Duke of Wellington, as I had no claim to distinction. I
was commanded to accept it, and was invested. The
honour is great, and I hope that I sin nut insensible of
its value ; but as my present object is to show that I
cannot be charged with dishonest gain, I may be per-
mitted to mention that the fees are on a scale commen-
surate with the honour.
" As none of these distinctions confer emolument or
patronage, it will be seen, that with the single exception
of pay when on duty with the Yeomanry corps which I
commanded, I have never drawn to the amount of one
penny from the public purse, nor have I as yet obtained
for my family any situation or emolument, though I ho-
nestly avow that I would not preclude myself from the
right of fair and legitimate solicitation, if in favour of a
proper and competent member of it.
" It will be seen, then, that the public has no great
cause to complain of my grasping, or dishonest gains.
It may not have approved of my acts, or of my opinions;
the Ministers of the day may have been of the same
mind ; but at least it will be admitted that I have acted
from a pure and conscientious conviction, and with an
utter disregard of selfish consequences.
"So in all measures of which I highly disapproved,
whether Roman Catholic emancipation, reform, eccle-
siastical commissions, old corporate ,ns, Irish policy,
corn-laws, free-trade, wiih many others, and more re-
cently the income-tax and tariff, Canada corn, and na-
tional education, &c., in which I may not have had the
good fortune to concur with the Minister of the day—on
all occasions I have not scrupled to disagree and oppose,
whether as a candid friend or a candid enemy--nor can
I do my duty and abstain from dissent, when I see such
Bills as the Jews' Disabilities Bill introduced into a
Christian Parliament, and look forward to the promised
measures which arc to give a heavy blow and great dis-
couragement to the Protestant Church, whilst Popery
is to be elevated and encouraged, and enemies to our
faith, heretics, sceptics, or infidels, are to legislate for
that Church which they abhor: such measures demand
the stern opposition of every Christian, and every con-
scientious Protestant, who must too plainly and fear-
fully perceive how small is the consideration or care for
the Establishment, but how great for her deadliest foes.
Thus, when I have differed I have never done so from
waywardness or faction, but as a painful performance of
a duty—from an inward persuasion that though interest
and ease forbade it, principle and conviction dictated and
required it. These hare been, and I trust will ever con-
tinue to he, my motives, my incentives, and my guides ;
and although I will net pretend to assert that I have
been right, I can safely declare that I believed myself
not to have been wrong.
" Many, perhaps, may remark—More fool he 'for his
rains ; why does he not, follow the ways of the world ?
I can only reply, that such ways are not my ways, and
that I could derive no satisfaction from exchanging
principle for expediency. So, like a wounded deer, I
am discountenanced by the whole herd.
"My present position seems to be this. Though a
determined upholder of the Church of England and of
the State—of l'rotestantism and of Protestant ascendancy
—an undisguised Conservative of the ancient and once
admired British Constitution and the institutions of our
country—l am disclaimed by those who lam compelled
to think should be what I am. The post which I held
for many years as the Sovereign's lieutenant in this
county, my sovereign was advised to deprive me of, and
I was unceremoniously discarded, merely because I dis-
dainfully resented the molestations of one of her Ma-
jesty's high officers—and this after having served
four sovereigns loyally, faithfully, zealously, and, I hope,
efficiently;
" You and others may think that I have written bit-

* " It should be borne in mind that Lord Lincoln, though
the chief, is not the only- commissioner. He and two other
gentlemen form the Boaid of Woods," &c.