The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—A curious case of mistaken indentity
is
reported under the head of Police in this day's Globe.
A young, man, most respectably connected,.
was
brought up on a charge of robbery, and his identity
confidently spoken to by three witnesses ; so that, had
he not fortunately been in a position to clearly prove
an alibi, he would probably have been eventually con-
victedof a crime of which he is undoubtedly innocent.
We notice thi case, chiefly for the purpose of point-
ing out a piece of additional hardship, which we think
might have been spared. The Magistrate, though
giving his opinion that the accusation originated in
mistake, discharged the subject of it only on his
entering into his own recognizance to appear at the
next session of the Central Criminal Court to answer
any proceedings the complaining parties might think
proper to institute. The individual alluded to, having
taken his passage, and made all his arrangements for
immediate emigration to New Zealand, must either
postpone his going, or lay himself open to suspicion by
leaving the country with a liability to answer a
criminal charge still hanging over him. We think
the Magistrate might have avoided this alternative ;
for if there is no doubt of the party's innocence—
and no doubt could possibly exist after the evidence
had been heard—what reason can there be for
holding him under any further liability ? The case is
strongly illustrative of the superiority of the Scotch
over the English law, as applicable to charges of
this kind. According to the former, the depositions
would be placed in the hands of a public prosecu-
tor ; who, if he saw no sufficient ground, would re-
fuse to proceed, and the party improperly accused
would be discharged, leaving it to the complainant to
proceed afresh on his own responsibility. There is no
doubt that had the same rule existed in England, the
individual unjustly implicated in the case which has
led to these remarks would have been unconditionally
set at liberty.
STANDARD.—Nothing can be more wise, and,
indeed, nothing can be more just, than to en-
courage, by the most liberal dispensation of the public
patronage, the loyalty of loyal Roman Catholics. It
is wise, because, while it adds to the strength of the
party supporting the laws, it takes from the incen-
diaries the pretext of suffering from sectarian
persecution, and exhibits them in their true
character of persecutors themselves ; for all this
insolence and triumph is persecution, the only
persecution, indeed, for which any present
opportunity exists, but a sufficiently plain proof that
they who use it would not, if they had power, stop
short of the rack and the stake. No sincere Protes-
tant, therefore—no man who cares for a cause more
than for personal gain, can grudge the most pro-
digal accumulation of favours upon such men as
Mr. Coppinger (the " Orange Papist" of the
O'Connell journals), or upon such men as Mr. Eneas
Macdonnell, whose inestimable services will not,
we trust, continue unrewarded. In this way the
country will be best prepared for the O'Connell crisis
whenever they who treat the British connection, the
British law, the Queen's title, and the title of the
Church, as merely " titular," shall muster courage to
bring it on. Let Ireland be governed upon exactly the
reverse of those principles upon which Ireland has been
governed for half a century, the crisis will be a trifling
matter. When we speak of reverse principles to those
which have dictated the Irish Government for half
a century, we mean to recommend simply the ad-
ministration of the Government without favour and
without fear—namely, to give everything to justice,
nothing to menace ; far better allow to be taken from
you by force that which you cannot defend, than sur-
render it to threats ; for weakness may be but tem-
porary, and it may be repaired by any of a th:aisand
aids, but the opinion of cowardice is permanent and
ineffaceable. Hence it is that, as Mirabeau says,
" what is conceded to menace never satisfies."

2110NEY MARKET and CIT Y NEWS.

TIMES.---It appears by the New York papers that
a meeting of ship-builders was in contemplation at
Boston, to take into consideration the depression that
has occurred in their business. Complaints of the
sort, and of the decline of commerce, are said to be
very common in the New England States, and this
decline is attributed to a variety of circumstances.
Many of the great fortunes at Boston having been
made during the war, in consequence of the immense
carrying trade of the United States, a great portion
of that trade was continued even after the proclama-
tion of peace. But as there has now been a peace for
nearly 30 years, other countries have gradually ex-
tended their merchant-marine, and the Americans find
themselves no longer possessed of a monopoly. This
is a state of things which some cf the journalists say
cannot raise any just cause of complaint, however it
may be lamented. If the United States hold com-
mercial intercourse with any other nation, it is natu-
ral to suppose that nation will do half the business ;
and the complaints which are made by the American
shipowners would seem to have in view the absurd
theory, that the: United States will hold no intercourse
with foreign nations unless allowed the whole business
of fetching and carrying.

BACKING OUT of a DIFFICULTY.

We understand that misapprehensions have existed
in the minds of many regarding the declaration sub-
scribed against travelling by the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway, so long as the Railway Company
persisted in running their trains on the Lord's Day.
The terms of the declaration were, that " the sub-
scribers would give a preference to other modes of
conveyance"—not that in no case, however pressing
and urgent, would they travel by the railway. This
was the interpretation unanimously put upon the
clause by the Committee who framed it : and the di-
fficulties arising out of the misapprehension of the de-
claration having lately been represented to them, we
understand that they have again explicitly stated this
to have been their meaning. Since the date of the
declaration, several other modes of conveyance have
been withdrawn ; and in many instances the warmest
friends of the Sabbath are left no alternative but tra-
velling by the railway. We are satisfied, however,
that the scriptural opposition to the desecration of the
Sabbath in the way referred to, will not be with-
drawn, but that by all competent means it will be
zealously prosecuted. Earnestly do we hope that the
Directors and Shareholders will soon see it to be their
duty, as well as their interest, to remedy the evil com-
plained of.—Scottish Guardian.
It required no gift of prophecy to foretell from the
outset that this would be the upshot of the agitation
against the Edinburgh Railway. The Non-Intrusion
coaches, which were kept for months on the road,
although scarcely any passengers travelled by them,
must have cost a tolerably comfortable sum to certain
of the parties engaged in the struggle ; and, now that
these vehicles have been abandoned, it would be not
a little instructive could the public procure informa-
tion regarding the expense of the frolic. We suspect
that this will be kept concealed ; but it must prove
satisfactory to those who signed the declaration against
railway travelling to learn, that they have now ob-
tained a dispensation from their spiritual superiors,
and may henceforth make use of this sinful means of
communication. It is well that a loop-hole of escape
has been provided for tender consciences, and it is
rumoured that, in consequence of the ban of the
Kirk having been thus removed, the Directors of the
Railway, by way of showing their gratitude to the
clergy, propose to start a special train for the ap-
proaching Convocation, the sale of the tickets to be
confined to the Kirk Sessions and the members of the
Church Building Society. Further particulars man
be learned on application to Mr. W—m C—ns, or
Mr. ; and travellers by the
Greenock or Ayrshire Railways will obtain every
information from the Rev. J—s G—n of K—y.
—Glasgow Argus.

THE LATE GENERAL SIR GEORGE TOWNSHEND
WALKER, BART., G.C.8., LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR
or CHELSE.A. HOSPITAL.—This distinguished and
gallant officer, who died at the Royal Hospital, Chel-
sea, on Tuesday, in his 78th year, was lineally de-
scended from Sir Walter Walker, of Bushey Hall,
Herts, advocate to Katharine, Queen Consort of
Charles the First, whose eldest son, Sir Georg
Walker, was in 1679 created a baronet, a dignity
• which expired at the decease of his successor. Sir
George entered the army as Ensign 95th Foot in
1782 ; served in India, Ireland, Holland, and Spain;
was highly distinguished throughout the Peninsular
war; participated in the triumph of Orthes, and com-
manded the 50th regiment in the memorable battle
fought on the plains of Vimiera, and was wounded at
Vittoria ; attained the rank of General 1838, Colonel
of the 50th Foot 2311 December, 1839, in May, 1837,
was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hos-
-o,al, created a baronet 1835 and G.C.8.; was several
years Commander of the forces at Madras. Married,
frst, daughter of R. Allen, Esq., of Bury, Lancashire,
ho died 1814, and secondly, 1820, the youngest
daughter of A. Calddeugh, Esq., of Croydon, by
whom he has left George Ferdinand Radzevil (now
Sir George) 'Walker, born 1825, and several
daughters.
An American, while smoking in the streets of
Havanna at midnight, was stopped by anther cigar-
smoker, and asked for a light. The Habanero was
long in igniting his principe, and inhaled his breath
till the two cigars' ends gleamed fiercely, while by
the ruddy light each surveyed the other's Pace. " Pass
on," said the Habanero, " your cigar has saved your
life—you're not the man I took you for."
QUEEN ELIZABETH.—Bishop Jewel, in a private
letter'. to his friend Bullinger, 1559, observes that
-ii.cerreen Elizabeth refuses to be called head of the
Church, as it was a title that could not be justly given
txjany mortal."
A. MILLEEISM.—A newsboy, of New York, who
had sold a large number of President Tyler's 'Veto
Message, remarked, that Miller's prediction as to the
world's coming to an end next year would never be
fulfilled, because Mr. Tyler would veto it.