The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-29 00:00:00

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

WILLIAM M'EWEN and ANDREW CHRISTIE, iron-
mongers, Crieff, July 1 and 27, at one, at the Drummond
Arms Inn, Crieff.
JOHN MUNRO, distiller, Dingwall, Ross-shire, July 1,
and Aug. 5, at two, at the Sheriff's-chambers, in the Castle of
Inverness.
JAMES ANDERSON, earthenware manufacturer, Porto-
bello, July 2 and 24, at two, at the Old Signet Hall, Edin-
burgh.
WILLIAM WALKER, GEORGE DUNCAN, and
HENRY WILLIAMSON, engineers, Edinburgh, July 5 and
30, at two, at the chambers of Mr. Bell, Edinburgh.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending June 25, 1844, is 345. 40. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE
SUGAR DUTIES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—l was lately reading the " Life of Lord Syden-
ham," by G. Poulett Scrope, Esq., and was much struck
with his Lordship's remark in 1839, where he alludes
to his own inability to be of any service in England.
He says:—
" There is no chance of carrying the House with one
for any great commercial reforms—timber, corn, sugar,
&c.—party and private interest will prevent it. If Peel
were in, he might do this, as he could muzzle or keep
away his Tory allies, and we should support him. If he
got in, and had courage, what a field for him ! But he
has not."—Page 102.
Let us hope, this may not prove entirely true, and
that the Hon. Baronet may have the moral courage to
do what he knows to be his duty. Nothing has yet been
done for unhappy, ill-used Ireland, and he, and he alone,
is answerable for the bad feeling existing in that country
towards the Government, and answerable for any ill
consequences that may arise from his worse than do-
nothing policy. But if he will consult the feelings of the
blind and narrow-minded bigots of his party, he must
take the consequences, and share in the inevitable con-
tempt which must be the fate of those who sacrifice jus-
tice at the shrine of intolerance.
Your most obedient servant,
JUSTITIA.

June 26, 1844.

THE PLANET VENus.—The beautiful planet Venus,
which for a long time has been so conspicuous in the
west, will be visible in an evening for only a short time
longer. So little of its illuminated disc is now turned
towards the earth, that it has the appearance of the
moon when only about four days old, and may easily be
seen with an ordinary spying glass, but is an object of
much interest; when viewed through a telescope of con-
siderable magnifying power. As the planet is ap-
proaching its inferior conjunction with the sun, it will
be very interesting to those persons who have good
telescopes to observe how rapidly the illuminated por-
tion of its disc will disappear during the ensuing fort-
night, after which the planet will scarcely be visible, on
account of its apparent proximity to the sun.
NEWLY-INVENTED SPECTACLES, TELESCOPES,
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provement in Spectacle and Telescope Lenses, &c., of
the greatest transparent power. The extraordinary
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sons are enabled to employ their sight either by day or
candle light at the most ininde occupation, and can see
iv All those Lenses of a much less magnifying power, nor
will they require the frequent changes to further helps
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Aurists, are not in any way connected with a person
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cautious, and observe.—Only to be had at 39, Albe-
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FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTHRDAYWi%
GLOBE.—The organs of monopoly are immoderitEei*.ta t
elated by' what we cannot help considering an uncertain
triumph. If these oracles of an " insane and cruel policy"—
as Sir ,)~sines Graham designated the corn-laws in his
" Corn and Currency"—be correct in their predictions, the
corn-law controversy is settled. The majority of Wednesday
night, which negatived Mr. Villiers' motion for inquiry, has
given perpetuity to the sliding-scale; extinguished the agi-
tation for corn-law repeal ; and reduced the Anti-Corn-law
League to a mere name, an empty delusion, which is fast
passing away. We, on the contrary, regard the decision as
fraught with encouragement to the practical portion of the
community: A numerous and daily increasing class are
sensible of the mischiefs which the existing system of
duties on the importation of corn inflicts upon the coun-
try ; but they are not disposes to rush upon Charyb-
dis in order to escape from the perils of Scylla.
The tenacity with which the League has clung to the
" immediate and total abolition" principle, although it has
effected much good by the discussion it has raised on the
general question, has provoked the resistance of the landed
interests ; and led to that formidable confederacy and
co-operation of the protected classes, by which they
have sustained the proverbially vacillating Premier in
his expressed adhesion to his sliding-scale of duties.
This is the immediate and necessary consequence of
the extreme demand put forth by the Antl-Corn-
law League, for immediate and final extinction of
the import 'duties on corn. But this consequence being now
manifested, and the impossibility of obtaining entire aboli-
tion being shown by the vote of Wednesday, the effect upon
practical men will be a disposition to moderate their expecta-
tions. By co-operating with the firm and consistent advocate
of a low fixed duty, the question will be narrowed ; the points of
difference diminished ; and an early and advantageous settle-
ment of the controversy, on a basis at once solid and-satis-
factory, be expedited. The majority of Wednesday" night
was against the League, and its sweeping demands. '-To the
League, then, the result of the division may be discouraging.
But to the practical portion of the community, to those who,
within and without the walls of Parliament, have opposed a
fluctuating systern, as alike prejudicial to the consumer and the
grower; and have advocated, as immensely superior in all its
results to both, a low fixed duty, for the purposes of revenue;
the division will operate as an encouragement to perseverance
in pressing their views upon the public mind. In pursuing this
mode of action they would be strengthened by constant ac-
cessions from the ranks of both the extreme parties. The
agriculturists, as distinct from the less intelligent section of
the landowners, are anything but satisfied with the working
of the slidiog-scale: They are the prey of anxiety which fluc-
tuation necessarilyoccasions.The severe loss—in manyinstances
absolute ruin—which have fallen upon them at intervals,
neither few 'nor far between, have exposed the fallacy of de-
pending upon a sliding-scale for protection. The tenant-far-
mers Wen to he. awake to Pie deception successfully prac-
tised-Upon them m the days of ignorance. The influence cf
.delusion is fast passing away. These men, who formerly
hugged their yoke, embraced their fetters, and called the ratt-
4iig of their chains music, are beginning to examine for them-
selVes, instead of pinningtheir faith upon the sleeve of their
landlords. The result is a revolution in the views of' many
farmers on the subject of " protection ;" and a shaking of
that implicit confidence which they once placed in the
deceptive promises of the sliding-scale, in many more. From
the ranks of the tenant farmers the advocates of a small
fixed duty, as giving stability of prices, in the place of un-
certainty, may confidently expect an accession of effective
support. From the manufacturers and traders a large and
powerful body of supporters of a moderate fixed duty woul I
be obtained. We are satisfied that if the great bulk of those
classes could be polled upon this question, a majority of their
members would regard the substitution of a small fixed duty
for the sliding-scale, as the only safe mode of settling the
controversy.
• STANDARD.—The 'lrish poor-laws came under the con-
sideration of the House of Lords last night, upon a motion of
the Marquis of Clanricarde for some papers. The progress
of this great social reform in Ireland has hitherto been
far from satisfactory, and sanguine as we have ever
been in the hope of . its success, we own that our expec-
tations have lately been ranch clouded, though as yet we
do not altogether despair. We were the first of the
present generation to urge the necessity of a provision for
the Iris'h poor, analogous to the provision made by the
statutes of Elizabeth for the poor of England—those statutes
that fixed. the Reformation in this country, and laid the firm
foundation of civil government amongst us. Our proposition
was, however, first made a quarter of a century ago, when
the forms, at least, of Irish Government were still Protestant,
and when the poor-law to be imported into Ireland was very
different from what the Whigs have since made it. N"lfe
might, therefore, with consistency retract our support
of an Irish poor-law at present ; but we do not—the
reform is too important to be abandoned, however imperfect
its shape, or difficult the circumstances of its adoption. An
extract from a Cork paper, which will be found elsewhere,
points out one of the chief difficulties—the spirit of faction
which is-permitted; no matter how stupidly, to mix
itself in everything to which the political Romanists
have access. This, however, though a serious difficulty, is
only one of a numerous family, all to be traced to the same
parent. If we were asked to name the most striking -cha-
_racteristic of the political Romanists of Ireland, we should
say that they are eminently, above all mankind, a dis-
honourable people. They have lied themselves, and
sought to lie others, into the opinion that they
are slaves, for the purpose of being able to indulge with the
less restraint in the vices of slaves—which vices are the op-
posite of honourable. They have no confidence, no can-
dour, no truth, no moral courage. What can be
thought 'of a people with whom pettyfogging fraud is
an object of idolatrous worship ? hat of a peo-
ple who hail Mr. O'Connell as the hero and the
representative of all their qualities—that Mr. O'Connell
whose latest exploit it has been to compose libels to be
spoken by his own son at the Repeal Association, and to be
reported in the repeal newspapers ; taking good care, how-
ever, that they shall be known for his (Daniel O'Connell's)
own work, though he evades the responsibility for
the work by withholding his name, and by the
circuitous mode in which lie publishes it? Can
anything meaner or more dishonourable than this
trick be imagined? Yet it only establishes for its author
a new claim upon the admiration of the millions as disho •
nourable as himself. It is to this dishonourable character,
to which the middle and lower class Protestants and the
loyal Roman Catholics are in Ireland the only excep-
tions, that must be abscribed the difficulty, if not
impossibility, of introducing useful reforms into • that
country. 'Whatever power you place in the hands
of men without truth, honesty, shame, or pride, will rather
be wasted in the indulgence of the idlest fancies when not
employed against you, more especially because, having de-
nied to you the right to give or to withhold, these dis-
honourable persons affect to receive your most valuable
' gifts as insults. What hope, then, is therefor the success-
' rut institution of a system of poor-laws in Ireland ?
None, certainly, while power to thwart it shall rest with
' the dishonourable and perverse class. But peace and firm-
ness will, we trust, •go .far to diminish the numbers and de-
stroy the influence of this class. And, meanwhile, it is
better that the beneficial working of the poor-law should{
remain in some degree in abeyance, than that the Legle..
lature should finally condemn the principle of a poor-law by
repealing the Act now in existence.

MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN UNINOVII.
—Considerable sensation was created throughout Thursday,
in the neighbourhood of the terminuus of the London and
Birmingham Railway, Euston-square, by the discovery of
the following mysterious and determined act of suicide on the
part of a person unknown, who from his attire and general
behaviour, is supposed to he of most respectable connexion,.
Shortly after nine o'clock on Wednesday evening, the de-
ceased came Po the bar of the Globe beer-shop, kept by a
Mr. •Tones, at the corner of Seymour-street and Drummond-
street, and inquired if he could be provided with a bed; being
answered in the affirmative, he went into the parlour, and
having partaken of some ale, paid for it, together with the
price of his bed, and retired to rest about ten o'clock. About
half-past eight o'clock on Thursday morning, as deceased did.
not make his appearance, Mr. Jones went up and knocked
at his bed-room door, and receiving no answer he entered the
apartment. He then observed the deceased completely
doubled up in bed, and quite dead ; and on the dressing-
t able a tumbler and a phial. Mr. Culham, surgeon, of Drum-
mond-street, was instantly sent for, and gave it as his °pit...ion
that the deceased had been dead some hours, and proncutnced
the phial and tumbler to have contained essential oil of
almonds (prussic acid). On searching him, a pair of black
kid gloves, figured silk pocket handkerchief, with blue
border, three half-pence in money, and a cigar, were found
in his pockets. The name had been cut by the decease,!,
out of his shirt, and also the maker's name out of the cre;yrn
of his hat. On the shirt collar, however, is marked 'in in-
delible ink, the name " Rowe.'

METROPOLIS IMPROVEMENTS.—The new line of
street from Coventry-street to Long-acre is now in a very for-
ward state, and so soon as the opening from Coventry-street
into Leicester-square shall be sufficiently advanced to be seen
by the public (which may be expected in a very few days, as
the buildings are now in the hands of Messrs. Reddin and
Suns, the large contractors under the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Woods and Forests for pulling down the old houses),
the ground will be advertised to be let by public tender, im-
mediately after which the new buildings will be commenced.
Arrangements have been concluded with the parish authori-
ties for the footway and carriage paving, both of which will
be immediately commenced. The street will be 54 feet wide
in clear of the houses, which will be of a handsome character,
and may probably be expected to be completed in the course te
about 1S months. The line of street from Oxford street into
Holborn is now rapidly advancing, the well-known rookery
in St. Giles's having nearly disappeared, and the houses re-
quired for this improvement being all down, with a very few
exceptions; these also are in the hands of Messrs. Reddin,
and will be very shortly cleared. Contracts for the sewers
and vaults have been entered into with Messrs. Bennett, and
Messrs. Halyard and Nixon respectively, and are already
commenced. Ground for a French Protestant Church has
been sell and staked out, for which a handsome design has,
been made by Mr. Ambrose Poynter, the secretary to the
Royal Institute of British Architects, and will be commenced
inunediately. The design only awaits the approval of the
Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests. It is also
intended by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to
erect three handsome houses (as a standard for the houses
generally, to be built on this line) immediately adjoining the
new church ; which said houses will be erected from the de-
sign and under the superintendence of Mr. J. Pennethorne,
the architect to the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods,
Sze.; under whom, also, it may be proper to add, the whole
of these very important and extensive alterations and im-
provements are now being carried into effect. The line from
Long-acre to Broad-street will shortly be in a state to be
thrown open to the public, it only awaiting the removal of•
the houses forming the block between Long-acre and Castle-
street, which belong to the Mercers' Company, and are to he
removed by them. A church is in the course of erection in
this line, and from the rapid manner in which the woiki prat•
gress, under the direction of Mr. B. Terry, promises a speedy
completion. The design is of early English, and of a pic-
turesque character. The portion of the improvement at the
corner of King-street, in continuation of Great St. Andrew's-
street, is nearly completed, the buildings being, with only
one exception, erected, those built by Mrs. Buckingham, the
extensive rope-manufacturer, being of a very extensive, hand-
some, and substantial character. The line from Spitaltields
Church to the London Docks is now nearly cleared, and con
tracts will very shortly be entered into for the formation of
the requisite vaults, sewers, &c. ; immediately after which
the ground will be. advertised for tender, as in the other
cases. This line is nearly a mile and a quarter long, and is
being carried out with a view to ulterior and very extensive
continuation.

MONTROSE.—We have the satisfaction to state, that
Lord Panmure, with his characteristic benevolence, has
been pleased to transmit the munificent donation of 1004
for the benefit of the Montrose Lunatic Asylum, &c,
inelwed in the following letter to the Secretary :
" Brechin Castle, June 19, 1844.
" Dear Sir,—The state of my health at present pre-
vents me attending the meeting of the Managers of Vat,
Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum, &c., to-morrow ; 'but
I beg leave to inclose a small donation, for the beriifit of
that useful and valuable institution.—l am, ,",,ear Sir,
yours faithfully, P.W.dUR E.
" To James Leighton, Esq."