The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-08 00:00:00

SPRIIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—We are glad that Lord John Russell
means to perform what we deem the duty of again
taking the sense of the House of Commons on the
principle of the Peel Corn Bill. We do deem it the
duty of the party of Trade and Industry to place on
reeerd.their solemn protest against this poor palliative
of their evils. We give Sir R. Peel all due credit for
the degree of discipline he has contrived to introduce-
amongst his three hundred and fifty myrmidons. The
bulk of them may indeed be regarded as schiavi ogni
frementi beneath his yoke. Rage, however, as they
may, they are compelled to devour their wrath in
silence, or to give it vent in other channels than arti-
culate speech. The Yahoo-like utterances, and in-
human noises, which have lately been heard in the
House, may be ascribed to the stifled spirit of the
Tory malcontents ; and here and there one of this
Yahoo section of Ministerialists has been suffered
to get up, and state " the thing that is not"—
provided he 4evelled his statements, not at the Corn
Bill, but at the Anti-Corn-law League. Neither
Yahoo, nor Yorkshire Hussar, has been allowed any
fArther liberty. " The Premier's threat," says the
'Weekly Chronicle, " that he would leave them to
fight their own battles, unless they not merely
pledged themselves to give a consistent support to
is plans in Parliament, but give up the practice of
talking against them at their Clubs, has had its
effect A Tory of the old
school told us the other day that he was perfectly
disgusted with the tergiversations of the Carlton
Club, where one stripling after another came
in to say, 4 I'm satisfied—and rm satisfied—and the
average price of wheat will be so and so, under Sir
Robert Peel's Bill'—when I'll be hanged if there's one
of them (said our informant) who knows what an ave-
rage is !" Sir R. Peel may be satisfied with this very
intelligent unanimity; and we are satisfied that the whole
responsibility of the measure should rest on his Govern-
ment ; and that he should have full force to carry
exactly what he proposes. It rests, however, with
those who regard his proposals as founded on a false
principle—as calculated to evade, not answer, the
urgent demands of the most momentous commercial
crisis that ever arrived to a nation—it rests with
every assertor of regular commerce in the first neces::
saries of life—by his voice or by his vote to attest his con-
victions of true policy. The time may not be distant
when the importance of firmly planting the standard of
sound principles will be seen more clearly than it is now.
STANDARD.—The high reputation of British
Honesty it is well known has done more to promote
our commercial greatness than any other cause. It
is not necsssary to assume, and we are sure it would
be unjust to assume, that all our manufacturers, or
even a majority of them, are guilty of the dishOnest
practices exposed by Mr. Ferrand ; but it is
obvious that some of them must be guilty,
even without Mr. Ferrand's evidence ; and Messrs.
Cobden and Brotherton acknowledge as mall.
If, however, some, and even but a few, are guilty of
such practices, that is quite enough to soil the British
character in foreign markets—quite enough to suggest
foreign rivalship--quite enough to explain the
anxiety of the members of the League for
opening new markets, seeing that British goods
have lost all character in the old ones. A
cry is raised against Mr. Ferrand, because
he has told the truth in this particular, and he
is charged with wishing to injure the export
trade. This is, however, most unjust. The trade
can be injured only by itself—by the employment
of worse paid and therefore less skilful workmen,
and of inferior materials, thus producing a bad
article, which, however disguised by fraud, will
soon be detected by the purchaser. We did not
understand Mr. Ferrand to charge all manufac-
turers—indeed, he cautiously guarded himself from
being thought to do so. We did not understand
him as charging even all the members of the League ;
though, by associating with those guilty of the
frauds, they show that they do not think very
hardly of them. What we understood Mr. Ferrand
to say was, that the foreign market for British
Bcoda had been injured by such frauds. Messrs.
rotherton and Cobden, however, confess that such
frauds have been committed; and every one can judge
whether great disgrace to British goods must not have
arisen from them. We feel, as every one must
feel, great difficulty in dealing with the ques-
tion generally, because we know that many ex-
cellent men are engaged in manufactures, and that
some of them are even compelled, by the tyranny of
Competition, to do otherwise what they would not do ;
but the interests of hundreds of thousands are at
stake, and we may not be silent. The character of
British trade, too, through all its departments, is se-
riously menaced, for the character of the British mer-
chant will not long survive the character of the goods
which he exports. The time, indeed, seems to have
arrived when the state of manufactures ought to un-
dergo a strict investigation by the Legislature.
COURlER.—Certain printed documents have
just been laid before Parliament in the form
of " Papers relating to the moneys received
from the Chinese authorities in the city of Canton,
under agrvitleA, emoted into with her
ar
command of her"Vajesty, 1842." From this singular
batch of papers we learn officially that , for the arbi-
trary levy of the six millions of dollars the Superin-
tendent had no warrant from home, or what could,
from any forced construction of general instruc-
tions, be even interpreted into a warrant, excepting
ander the special circumstances of the definitive
conclusion of a treaty of peace for the settlement of
all differences with China. That the levy was grounded
on the condition of the conclusion of a definitive treaty
is now denied by Captain Elliot himself, although
by the Chinese negotiators it was clearly regarded in
that light, as we learn upon the indisputable authority
of Captain Senhouse, Naval Commander-in-Chief of
fhe operations against Canton, who fell a sacrifice to the
chagrin and irritation caused by Captain Elliot's in-
capacity and unaccountable blunders acting upon a
- • frame already perhaps enfeebled by the hardships of
service and the rigours of an unhealthy season. Nor
in the copy of the Convention arranged with the Can-
ton functionaries does the money payment stipulated
appear to be at all.expressed as, or limited to the sense
of. a ransom for the city. Upon the copy transmitted
1 Ft to Superintendent to him the Gallant Senhouse
thus observes—" In perusing very attentively the
document your Excellency has been pleased to
transmit, I cannot avoid considering that the terms
-of the arrangement must appear to an unpre-
judiced person, ignorant of local circumstances,
more as a settlement for a general peace,
rather than conditions proposed, discussed, and
agreed to, for the sole purpose of delivering the city of
Canton from the penalties of actual occupation." In
the authority given to the Kwang-Choo-Foo by the
Commissioners, they clearly state that the English
g g bein willing to
Plenipotentiary, observe a truce and
make arrangements for peace, they, therefore, appoint
the K wang-C'hoo-Foo to conduct the details of the
pacific arrangement and settlement

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, March 7.
ROYAL BURGHS OF SCOTLAND V. CUNNINGHAME.

3lr. GoanoN addressed their Lord%hips for the appellant
Mr. STUART followed on the same side.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. MacorfocitiE appeared
for the respondents.
Their LoRDSHIFS postponed their judgment,
LAWRENCE V. BLAEE.—JUDOMENT.

Lord COTTENHA M gave judgment in this cue, affirming all
the ord.rs appealed from except one, which his Lordship
ordered to be reversed.

ALLAN Y. ➢RANDER.
Lord COTTENUAII also gave judgment in this case, affir,-.-.ing
the interlocuters appealed from, with costs.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

James Gissing and James Laidler acre indicted for break-
ing in o a warehouse. and stealing therefrom a quantity of
sacks, the property of Messrs. Richardson, hop merchants, in
the borough. On the 24th of February last the warehouse of
the prosecutors was left secure at five o'clock in the afternoon.
At about nine o'clock one of the men had occasion to go back
to the warehouse, and he then found the warehouse broken
open, and the prisoners with the sacks in their possession.
The prisoners were found guilty.
Mr. CLARKSON, who appeared for the prosecution, said
that the prisoner Gissing had twice been summarily convicted,
and, singular to relate, only a month previous to the present
transaction the prosecutor discovered the prisoner Gissing in
the act of picking his pocket.
The prisoners were then sentenced to be transported for the
term of ten years. •
Frederick Jones, a young man, who was said to be most re-
spectably connected !leaded Guilty to an. indictment charging
him with the manslaughter of Richard Simmons a fishmonger
in Ce.apel-street, Pentonville.
Mr. CLaascsoN, on behalf of the prisoner, said the unfortu-
nate occurrence which gave rise to the present inquiry, hap-
pened some months since, in a struggle which took place be-
tween the prisoner and the deceased, during which the latter,
who was a very heavy man, was thrown down and several of his
ribs were broken. Ile was at that time in a delicate stale of
heal' h. and there could be no doubt that the accident aecele-
rated his death. The prisoner's friends had given the deceased
25/. after the accident occurred, not supposing at the time that
it would terminate in his death.
The REcoanna, upon looking ever the depositions, saiA it
was a case which could not be passed over without some pu-
nishment, as great violence appeared to have been used by the
prisons, The sentence, therefore, was, that he be imprisoned,
but without hard labour, in the House of Correction, for three
months, and pay a fine of 25i. The Learned Judge, at the
same time, said he would give a certificate recommending the
fine to be given to the deceased's family.
John Oliviere Martin, a genteel youth, l 7 years f age, was
indicted for stealing 3001., the property of William Salmon,
his master.
It appear,ed from the evidence that the prisoner had been
an apprentice to the prosecutor for about three years, and on
the morning of the 10th ult. he abseonded with anaher ap-
prentice of the name of Jones ; and it was soon discovered that
ar iron-safe in the prosecutor's shop had been broken open,
and die sum of 3001. carried away : two days afterwards the
prisoner was apprehended at Portsmouth, n4ll a great portion
'of the moneyi nh is possession.
fn his cross-examination the prosecutor admitted that he
'kept a " tally-shop," and that the prisoner was in the habit
of collecting money, for which purpose he hadf requently occa-
sion. to go to brothels, the keepers of such places being very
good customers of his : the prisoner had been in the habit
of collecting from them before he was fifteen years of age :
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