The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-31 00:00:00

Sir ROBERT I'EEL said, Sir, whatever may be the_
inconvenience to the public business which may arise
from the adjournment, I feel it would be inconsistent
with my duty if I should remain here ; that
would not be consistent with the position which I
hold. It would be most satisfactory if I could remain
here ; but still there are considerations—(The Right
Honourable Gentleman was here interrupted by loud
cries of Hear, hear, and Adjourn.) 1 would wish to state
the circumstances to the House, but, at the s&me time,
my own information is so imperfect, that I cannot make
any statement without great mistrust of its accuracy.
(Hear. hear.) Since I came into the House I have
received information that an attempt has been math: on
her Majesty's life, and I have reason to believe—thanks
to the- usual interference of Providence—that her Ma-
jesty has escaped.—(Loud cheers.) I have reason to
believe that the assassin is. in custody, and the
earliest opportunity will be taken to subject him
to examination, and under the circumstances the House
will deem my attendance requisite.z-L(Hear, hear.) "
Mr. CHARLES WOOD—Is her Majesty safe ?
Sir It. PEEL—Entirely safe, and the assassin has
been apprehended; and under these circumstances,
I leave it to the House to determine.—(L(tut
cries of " Adjourn, adjourn.") I am under
an engagement to my Noble Friend the Member for
Dorset that he should bring forward his motion to-
morrow. Then if the House thinks it desirable
that this question should be discussed, I propose that
we should take the discussion immediately after my
Noble Friend's motion is disposed of. I do not think
that while the House is in such a state of excite-
ment they could follow up the discussion of tins
question, and not only from respect to her
.Ma 7
jesty, but from the excited state of their feelings,
that a public question like this could be satisfactorily dis-
cussed, and I therefore beg leave to move that the
House do now adjourn until to-morrow. The
Right Hon. Baronet appeared throughout to speak
under strong excitement.
• Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose to second the mo-
tion.—(Cheers.) The natural state of excitement.
into which the House must have bsen thrown by
the intelligence they had just received, coupled
as it was with the information that their
Sovereign was safe—(Cheers)would render it quite
impossible that the House should attend to the business
under it 3 consideration. He considered, therefore, that
the Right Hon.-Baronet had taken the best course in
moving the adjournment of the debate. It was his duty to
see that the assassin should be placed in safe custody.
Under these circumstances he repeated that he entirely
concurred in the course which the Right Hon. Gentie-
man had pursued.—(Hear, hear.)
The debate was then adjourned, and the adjournment
of the House was next zbreed to, at a few minutes be-
fore Seven o'Clock.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPER 9 OF
.YEST:.:RDAY.
GLOBE.—A very . instructive commentary on the
conduct of those (Tories to a man) who voted against
the inquiry into the conduct of the,Tory party at the
last election for Ipswich is furnished by the fact, that
Messrs. Herries and Kelly are not the candidates in
the Tory interest at the approaching contest. Will
any friend of theirs inform the public the reason of
this ? The Chancellor of the Exchequer on Thursday
night told the House that Mr. Ilerries had nothing to do
with the.petition against Messrs. Wason and Rennie.
Will he extend that information, and take the earliest
opportunity of stating how. it is that neither Mr. :Her-
ries nor: Mr. Kelly are now the candidates on the
Tory interest? A story half told engenders strange,
misgivings; and as Mr. Goulburn has thought it. ne-
cessary to volunteer a portion of the interesting tale, we
would suggest that he should be asked in the House to
favour the public with the conclusion. In truth, the
Cory 'party in Ipswich have a strange fatality with
'their candidates. Since the year 1831, only eleven
years since, they have had-no less than twelve different
candidates., . Impossible I, say our country readers ;
and, indeed, it appears, so incredible, that we feel
obliged to remove all doubts by giving the, names, in
the order in which they appeared :-Mackinnon,
Fitzroy, Goulburn, Kelly, Dundas, Brooke, Hohnes,
Gibson, Cochrane, Ilerries, Lord Desart, Glad-
stone—a good array, and unmatched, we yen-
tu_re to think, in any borough in the kingdom.
V; hat is the reason of this ? Is it that the Tories in
that borough have felt dissatisfied with their candi-
dates ? or' have the candidates declined a second
plucking ? The public have been informed by one
gentleman—a gallant officer, Sir T. Cochrane—why
he declined standing upon a second occasion ; and if
all the others would be equally communicative, some
valuable discoveries would, doubtless, be elicited.
We hope that the present will be a fair stand-up
fight ; but we cannot congratulate the Tories on the
nominate
a of one of their present victims. To
cz Gladstone, son and partner of the Gladstone, as a
candidate for the representation of a town near the
abode of the venerable Clarkson, and in which the
Alexanders and the Ransomes reside—men who have
always stood in the fOremOst rank against the horrors
and atrocities of slavery--Idoes seem, to say the least of
't, a very bold step, A4ich looks more like a nomina-
tion of the Carlton Club, than the free choice of even
the Tory part of the Ipswich constituency. Be this,
however, as it may, the Liberals are in good heart,
and, with fair play, ought to win the election ; as, in
addition to their majority of fifty-seven at the last
election, they have an .inerease at the registration
which has since taken place, of above forty.
STANDARD.—It may be 'rernembererl that, six
years ago, when Dr. Hampden was appointed Jo the
Chair of Regius Professor of Divinity in the Univer-
sity of Oxford, the appointment was received with
considerab'e alarm, from a doubt of the soundness
of the Rev. Gentleman's theological opinions, founded
upon somegeuitevqcuailroteiale/ passages in his published ser-
theology, has seen hou
mops; passages were, and no more;
and whoever • has had occasion to read much
easy it is for an incline
tious writer, or even a writer not practised in the
technical style of theology, to fall into equivo-
cal forms of expression. The alarm conse-
quent upon Dr. Hampden's appointment extended
to the Heads of the University, who, without im-
peaching the Rev. Gentleman's opinions, felt that he,
who held the high andresponsible office of instructor