The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-11 00:00:00

THE MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 9.—The Oriental Company's
steam-ship the Tagus, Capt. Brookes, arrived in the
docks at 3 o'clock P.M. this day, and landed the Gibral-
tar and Peninsular mails, which will be forwarded to
London by the night mail train, liar dates are—Gib-
raltar, Nov. Ist ; Cadiz, 2d ; Lisbon, sth ; Vigo, Rh.
From the state of the weather the Tabus was unable to
communicate with Oporto. The Dutch squadron was
still at Gibraltar, as also her Majesty's sloop Scout and
Savage brig ; Danish brig of war and one steamer ;
one Swedish corvette and one schooner ; one Norwegian
and one Austrian corvette. At Cadiz, a Spanish line-of-
' battle ship, 74 guns, and one French vessel, 12 guns ;
at Lisbon, one French brig of war, Volage, 10 guns.
Nov. 8, at noon, in lat. 48 15, long. 6 37, the Tagus saw
a line-of-battle ship steering to the eastward. The Tagus
has ten passengers, and a full cargo of fruit.
The Eleanor, Captain Wickham, arrived in the decks
at noon this day from Fayal, with a large fruit cargo, a
great portion of which was forwarded by railway this
day, thus arriving in London on an average of four days
sooner than vessels going round by sea. The Eleanor
left St. Michael's on the 27th ultimo, where the Quiver
and the William were loading, and expected to sail in a
few days for this port. The fruit crops at Fayal are
very abundant, and ready nearly three weeks earlier this
season than for many years past. The railway company -
are about building waggons, in which fruit can be loaded
and conveyed to the London station, and then, by a crane,
be lifted oil the railway trucks, and put upon carriage
wheels, and transmitted to the fruit warehouses in the
City without unloading and reloading into barges or
waggons, thus preserving the fruit from damage.
SUNDAY, 10TH, NOON.—The Oriental Company's ship
the Oriental, Captain Soys, has arrived at the Mother-
bank. The East India and China mails are landed, and
will be forwarded by this night's mail train. She has
102 passengers, and a full cargo of silk. The Oriental is
expected to be released from quarantine on Tuesday
next.

SPIRIT or the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—The English must be univer-
sally regared as a most unamiable people, if the lan-
guage of the chief organs of public opinion in all the
countries around us, or in contact with us, can at all
be taken as an expression of general feeling. Hated
in France, execrated in Spain, vilipended even in little
Greece , denounced by Dr. List as the commercial
prophet of the Germans, treated with every incivility
by brother Jonathan, and repudiated by sister Ire-
land with the scowl of Nemesis—what has England
done to deserve nineteen-twentieths of such hate ?
We saved France from partition and spoliation, and
made her a present of constitutional freedom ; we
emptied our pockets of heaps of gold and our hearts
of our best sympathies and life's-blood for the
Peninsula ; Greece Canning created, from the love
he bore to Thucydides and Plutarch. Our Tories
certainly have done their best to hurt the American
and crush the Irishman ; but of late years
the Tories have begun to show fear, cover-
ing their hate both to Ireland and to America,
and even their effort is to be amiable, whilst our
Liberals have not ceased to be rationally so. The
phenomenon of our universal execration is, therefore,
a fact worth inquiring into, in order that, if it pro-
ceed from manner, we should learn to improve our
urbanity, if from matter, that we might seriously
set about removing the cause of the world's ill-
humour. When with this view we seriously set to
examine the causes of complaint against us, and to
analyse the motives and the arguments of those who
chiefly, who almost solely, raise this cry, we univer-
sally find that it-is not t. people's interests that the
English damage or threaten ; it is their sentiments
that we offend. The Spaniard, questioned respecting
his grievances, tells us we ruled the country under
the name of Espartero. The Greek has some com-
plaint as trivial. Dr. List reproaches us with the
dreadful crime of manufacturing cheaper than Ger-
many, and daring to send and sell such produce ; one
should think, to prohibit ought to satisfy his spleen,
without abusing us. Jonathan says, that in addition
to all the money scandalously sunk in his State bonds,
we have sent more to bribe both ways the electors
for the Presidential chair. The Irishman no longer
complains of the penal laws, or the wealth of the
Church Establishment, but says we have robbed him
of his nationalty. It seems to him as if there was no
such thing as collective glory, as if the Irish had no
part in the triumphs and the might of the united em-
pire, and as if it would have been a far more collossal
achievement to have kept in that glorious state of in-
dependent isolation which prevailed when Brian
Boroihme repelled the Danes, than to have gone on in
the same historical career with England ; that is,
admitting strange races to superpose or interpose their
vigour and variety, in order for all to blend one day
into a race and an empire dominating the circum-
ference of the globe. There is no accounting for tastes,
and this is certainly a mere matter of taste and senti-
ment. And yet the anti-Anglican school in Ireland is
little more than this. Its politics are those not of interest
but of sentiment ; and sentiment is a thing that un-
fortunately you cannot argue with. If we once more
go the round of our abhorrers, we shall find that
their Anglo-phobia is an antagonism purely of senti-
ment. The French thunderers use precisely the same
language as the sentimental politicians of Ireland.
They say that we have impaired their nationality,
which they, with more reason than Pat, require to be
unbounded. To establish this very quality of un-
boundedness, they have founded a barren empire in
the Pacific, almost on the only spot where we had an
interest, though merely a co-religionist one ; and
they are quite mad that we should question the right
of unbounded nationality to tread down our mission-
aries. In the same way, the abuses of the right of
search are a mere matter of sentiment. Every French
statesman who talks of the matter, out of public
view, laughs at the sentiment of the mob on the sub-
ject. Thiers' cock-and-bull story of French consi-
deration being antoindri by the bombardment of
Acre, was sentiment, mere sentiment, and sentiment,
too, that no one more contemned or saw through than
M. Thiers himself. But he was carried away by the
current, and the French Liberal party lost power on
a question of sentiment. If M. Guizot has kept it
since, it is that he has paid attention to realities, and
left sentiment to take care of itself.
TlMES.—There is a melancholy sort of justice in
the fate which appears to await Colonel Prim, unless
some accident should intervene to rescue him from
the vengeance of his judges, and prevent them from
making him the victim of that power which he con-
tributed to place in their hands. The part he took
in the revolution of last year was sufficiently con-
spicuous to have earned for him the very first honorary
distinctions bestowed by the Moderados on their re-
turn to Madrid. his present conduct, in opposition
to that Government, may have proceeded either from
disappointed ambition, or from the tardy discovery
that he had sacrificed the liberties of Spain to the
triumph of an arbitrary and sanguinary faction ; but
whatever may have been his intentions or motives,
they will, in all probability, earn for him the further
distinction of being shot as a traitor ; and, if the
statement which has been published as to his demea-
nour under examination be correct, we may perhaps
add that " nothing in his life became him like the
leaving it." That he was engaged in a conspiracy
against the present Spanish Administration is not
denied; and in a country where every political party
plots and conspires in turn, the present state of affairs
is sufficiently momentous to set on foot an army of
conspirators. But the specific charge of his having
taken a part in the plot for the assassination of Nar-
vaez appears to rest on very insufficient evidence ; and
it is at least equally probable that Narvaez has allowed
this accusation to be preferred, awl will proceed to
extremities against Prim, on the strength of a prede-
termined conviction, in order to rid himself of a rival
whom he thinks dangerous, and to strike terror into
the hearts of the Opposition at this crisis. If General
Narvaez is not grievously belied, his character is
stained by the most atrocious crimes of
public and private life. The perilous sup-
port which he is giving at the present time
to what are termed the prerogatives of the
Crown rests upon no higher basis than the defence of
his own person and faction, and aims at no other end
than the destruction of his opponents. The work of
bloodshed has already commenced at Barcelona,
where four men have been executed with a horrible
mixture of religious pomp and political excitement ;
and if the dormant energies of the Spanish people are
again roused to resist these acts of oppression, des-
tined to divert public attention from the inroads made
upon the Constitution, the modes of attack and of
defence will, we have no doubt, be equally ferocious
on both sides, and equally fatal to the re-establish-
ment of public order and freedom. Every day and
every event renders the progress of a re-action more
certain ; yet, however we may deprecate the policy of
the present Administration, and abhor the unscrupu-
lous revolutionary character of some of these pre-
tended loyalists, it cannot be denied that such a re-
action is likely to prove more formidable to the tran-
quillity of Spain, and the existence of the Queen's
Government, than any of the changes which have
preceded it. Whatever may have been the part as-
sumed by the Court of France in these transactions, of
this much we entertain not the slightest doubt—that the
apparent and temporary prevalence or ascendancy of
the men and the measures supported by that Power,
lead not to the establishment of a serious and perma-
nent alliance and connexion between the two States,
but to a catastrophe from which France herself will
be the principal foreign sufferer. In reality, the
whole course of the French policy in Spain since the
fall of Espartero has been a series of miserable fai-
lures ; for having, as was supposed, acquired a pre-
ponderating influence at Madrid by the return of the
Moderados, that influence has been found totally in-
adequate even to protect its own chosen instruments
from destruction. The true question between the re-
spective influences of France and England in Spain,
is not which may have the largest share in the coun-
sels and the crimes of the faction of the hour ; but
SINGULAR ROBBERY AND RESTITUTION.-011 Fri-
which may be able most effectually to contribute to I day the home of Mrs. Pepperell, a widow, residing in
uphold the independence and dignity of that nation Exmouth, was broken into, and 60 sovereigns and six
in time of danger. We have strenuously, guin ,as stolen. By this robbery she has been stripped
generously, perhaps imprudently, wished to see of all the money
.she possessed excepting half-a-crown.
Spain restored to her former power and pros- On Saturday night a parcel contaiaing twenty-four
perity by a system of government purged from the sovereigns, and on Monday night a parcel of 12 sove-
vices of her absolute monarchy. But, bad the expe- reigns and guineas, were thrown over the wall at the
riment been entirely successful, we have no guarantee
fbarekthpeatrhtioevf
Sher
thous)e, with a request for her to pray
that this renovated power would not have been Iprl of sovereigns they lost, but
expresse a ope to be able to pay it in time with in-
turned
against ourselves ; and we have laboured
enough for Spain to have learned the full amount of
THE MAYO England Conservative.,
R IN A " Fix —A requisition to the
her gratitude. Such, nevertheless, was the policy
mayor was numerously signed' in the early part of the
suggested by a liberal interest in the freedom and
week, calling npon his worship to convene a public
welfare of a people which is endeared to us chiefly by meeting of the inhabitants of Southampton in the course
the sacrifices we have at various times made for it. of this week, to take their opinion as to supporting the
But every succeeding year has shown that Spain is proposed Southampton and Dorsetshire Railway. The
less able to maintain free institutions and less mayor, however, has managed to postpone calling the
able to understand the first principles on which meeting until after his mayoralty had expired, as his
her material prosperity depends. Some of our san- I recent attendance at Weymouth as the supporter of a
guine Contemporaries go on to talk about a great rival scheme had placed him in an unpleasant position.
liberal party in the Peninsula. It is a delusion. That The matter is likely to be made the topic of some smart
party has died out, and therefore we conclude that it discussion at the council board to-day.—Hampshire
independent.

THE 'ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE.
This influential body is about to resume its meet-
ings at Covent-garden Theatre, and with tenfold
vigour. During its temporary repose from active
agitation, monopolist writers have been loud in their
gratulations on its presumed discomfiture. A different
prospect is now opening up to them. The recent
proceedings at Manchester have roused their bile, and
some of the Pro-Corn-law organs have indulged in
language of the grossest character when discussing
this subject. No mind that is not thoroughly debased
by ignorance and bigotry can do otherwise than reject
with disgust the food thus offered by those who seek
to pander to the worst passions and prejudices of their
readers. We will not do the Conservative party the
injustice to suppose that either such language, or the
vile spirit that prompts it, can be in any degree
acceptable to them. These remarks apply more
especially to the provincial press, the London journals,
with one exception (the Morning Herald) appearing
to be alive to the vast influence the League is exert-
ing. That journal, and its joint•stock companion the
Standard, has for some time past been loudly proclaim-
ing the death of the League. This has at length
brought forth the following reply from that courtly
organ of the monopolists, the Morning Post :
" Our Contemporary has, within the last six months,
repeatedly proclaimed that the League had died a natu-
ral death. Not only, however, has its spirit been with-
out interruption active in the economical policy of our
Conservative Ministers, but the League itself—the ex-
tinguished League—the League which, according to the
Herald, all men despised and had abandoned, is once
more in the field of agitation. The leaders of the con-
spiracy have made their influence felt in more than one
half of the borough registration courts in the kingdom ;
and they are now preparing to wrest from landowners
that preponderating power which they have hitherto
exercised in counties. Does the Herald deny that the
League possesses the power of multiplying, almost
without limit, forty-shilling freeholders in a majority of
English counties ? No. Our Contemporary will not
venture to deny that the dead League is more full of
vitality than ever."
For a monopolist print this is pretty well. At all
events, it shows that the Post possesses some of the
honesty which the Morning Herald has long ago dis-
carded. For the comfort of both, it may be stated
that active exertions will be made by the League
during the present season ; and it will be fortunate
for the bread-taxers, if they do not find their fate
sealed much sooner than they anticipate. So much
• for the defunct League.—Lancaster Guardian.

CONVICTION OF A MILLOWNER-
ACCIDENT BY MACHINERY.
MANCHESTER, SATURDAY.—The first conviction of a
millowner in a penalty for injuries received by a party
in a mill, owing to the machinery being left in an inse-
cure state, took place this day at the Borough Court,
before Messrs. D. 'Maude and S. Walker, two of the
magistrates for this division, and considerable interest
attached to the case, in consequence of the question
raised being whether a person not a worker in a cotton-
mill could not receive compensation for injuries received

from unprotected machinery.
Mr. David Waddington, cotton-manufacturer, of Com-
mercial-street Mill, was summoned by Mr. Armstrong,
Superintendent of Factories, to show cause why he
should not be convicted in a penalty of not more than
1001., nor less than IOL, for not having securely boxed
off and guarded a certain upright shaft in his weaving
establishment, in consequence of which a girl, named
Emma Hurst, had received serious bodily injuries.
The prosecution was brought by order of the Secre-
tary of State, and Mr. Leonard Horner, the Factory In-
spector, was on the bench.
The facts of the case were as follows :—The mother
of Emma Hurst Land her brother were power-loom
weavers, employed in No. o room of Mr. Waddington's
mill, and the girl, who is twelve years old, was in the
habit of coming to the mill every afternoon with her
juother's and brother's tea. On the afternoon of the Bth
Of October the girl came as usual with her mother's tea,
and shortly afterwards was heard to utter a piercing
scream, and was observed to be fast bound by her clothes
to an upright shaft, and turning round at a frightful
rate. Some time elapsed before she was released, and
not before she had received severe injuries about her
head and face.
Mr. Bagshaw, of the firm of Bagshaw and Stevenson,
solicitors, who appeared for Mr. Waddington, took a
preliminary objection to the proceeding, his client not
having had four clear days' notice, according to the Act
of Parliament. He next drew the attention of the Court
to the Act of Parliament. He contended that no penalty
could be recovered in this instance, the intention of the
Act of Parliament being to protect mill-workers, and
not persons who might intrude themselves into a cotton-
mill. He suggested that the only clause to which he
ought to be called upon to address himself was that
which referred to the not fencing off the machinery, and
for which the penalty was not less than 51. nor more
than 20/. The 60th section used the words " any per-
son;" but he apprehended that the clause must be con-
strued strictly, and be taken to mean " any persons em-
ployed in a mill."
Mr. MAUDE said, that looking at the clauses prior to
the 60th, it would appear that the Legislature did not
contemplate that any person not being a worker would
be present in a mill ; but, looking at the 60th section,
lie could not suppose that the words " any person " were
mere surplusage. It appeared to him that the 59th
section was for the purpose of protecting the factory
workers, and the 60th for the purpose of protecting
" other" persons.
Emma Hurst was then called, and she stated, that on
the day in question she had taken her mother's tea into
the mill, and on passing the upright shaft she was caught
by the clothes and twisted round in the manner des-
cribed, and received various injuries. On her cross-
examination she stated, that there was a tin easing round
the shaft, but it was split open at the side, the opening
being about the breadth of her hand, and it was through
this opening that her clothes were caught by the shaft.
She denied that she had been playing with the shaft.
Mr. B. Fothergill, one of the managers at the exten-
sive works of Messrs. Sharp, Brothers, machine-makers
of this town, stated that on the sth instant he went with
Mr. Horner to Mr. Waddington's mill, and inspected
the shaft in question. It was then performing 68 revo-
lutions per minute. He considered a tin casing for such
a shaft as that to be very insecure, as it was constantly
liable to damage. The tin casing had since been re-
placed by a wooden casing.
Some other witnesses were called, who spoke to the in-
security of the casing.
The COURT having intimated an opinion that they
thought that the defendant was liable to the penalty
under the 60th section,
Mr. Bagshaw urged that this was the first case, and
the Act of Parliament was not generally known.
Mr. MAUDB said that the opinion of the Bench was,
that there ought to be a conviction, with a penalty of
20/., and it was to be understood that such was the de-
cision of Cie Court; but he would consider the law a
little more narrowly, and Mr. Bagshaw would know the
result in the course of a few days.