The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-08 00:00:00

I:ciPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPEES OF YESTERDAY.
GL0113.E.-:—When Sir Robert Peel prescribed the
bitter pill of the income tax, he offered the tariff as
a lump of sugar to be taken with-or immediately after
it ; and it is therefore drasirable to know—first,
v:hether -we are to have the • tariff in its promised
shape ; and secondly, whether, when it is obtained,
it will prove a corrective to the nausea occasioned-by
the measure with which it is accompanied. The
question .was pertinently put to Sir Robert Peel,
whether cc it had crossed his mind" to postpone the
consideration of the tariff? And the Premier replied
that it had not ; though he_ added, that as many
important interests would be seriously affected by the
alterations propOied,. it was considered but just to give
the parties an opportunity to have the subject, duly
weigned before the measure was introduced, rn orikr
that the tariff might undergo such chan ;es as c :mann-
stances seemed to demand.'" The Premior is at presenL
the Tory oracle, and he keeps up the oracular charac-
ter extremely well, as far as ambiguity is concerned,
for the celebrated
to fEacide Romanos vincere pos7.,
was no-more calculated to puzzle the son of iEacus; as
to whether' the Romans should conquer 11:m or he the
Romans,: than is the answer of Sir Robert well adapted
to encourage thP.people-who ask for cheap food,' or to
sa,tain the hopes.of the monopolists. Allowing than
the taz.lff would be, a. boon to the masses, it is yet
very problematical,.from the Premier's declaration on
Monday night, whether the nation is to have, the full
benefit of it in the shape in which it vias at first pro-
pe;-1, or whether, in consideration to the " important
interests that are seriously affected by .it,"such
changes are to be made as will protect the agricul-
tnraCat the expense of the general interest. It is diffi-
cult to 'say whether the modifications he is willing
to make will be in a right or a wrong direction, with
regard to their effect on the public good ; his observa-
tions of Tucaday' night may be designed either to
cl-ijole the landed interest into a.belief that he intends
to maintain much of the monopoly that the tariff
would have partly broken down, or, in the event of
his eventually succumbing to the party that still
lie:Ts the sword suspended over his head, he may in-
tend to refer the country hereafter to.the declaration
made last night' as a proof of his consistency.
STAXDAED.--The House was for the, greater
part of the evening occdpied in Committee upon Lord
2,lahort's "•Copyrtght Bill." Upon the reading of the
third clause as follows :
" That the copyright in erN-y book which shall, after
the passing of this Act, be published 'in the lifetime ofits
author, shall endure -for the natural life of such author,
and for the further term of 25 years, Commeneing at the
time of his death, and shall be the property of such
author-and -his assigns Provided always, That in no
case shall the whole term be less than 28 years ; and
that the copyright in every book which shall be pubished
• alter the death of its author shall endure for the term of
30 years from the first publication thereof, and shall be
the property of the proprietor of the manuscript from
which such book shall be first published and his assigns."
Ldrd'Alahon addressed the House at considerable
. length, and' with great force. His Lordship replied
to moat of the arguments which had been ad-
vanced against a similar measure when proposed
by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, particularly to the pre-
tence that the suppression. of valuable boas might
be thee- effect of allowing a longer enjoyment
of copyright, showing that the danger supposed
to Ibe threatened to Richardson's works, for
example, amounted to no more than this—that a
pious clergyman, a descendant of the novelist,
had declared that he had never read the
works of his ancestor, or any other works of the
same class. This was conclusive as to the particular
objection ; but we think that Lord Mahon might
have gone a great deal further. If a man's
books are in any sense his property, the public
has no more right to inquire whether he shall
. use it, or squander it, or lock it up, than
it has to control his mode of disposing of
any other property —no more right than it
has to forbid a favourite actor, or a favourite
fiddler or sing to retire from his profession; such
tyrannical prohibitions, by the way, were, among
the earliest subjects of complaint against the tyrant
Roman Emperors. The case, is, however, really
worse as regards books. Men may for the best rea-
sons wish to extinguish for ever the memory of books
which, surviving them,. may cause them, as itrwere,
"to siu in their graves." Theodore Beza wrote licen-
tious verses in his youth : can there he a doubt that
that good man, as he afterwards became, would "in .
dying wish to blot" out these licentious verses ? But
this he could not do, without having over them the I
right of an absolute proprietor.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday. )
WIGAN.
Mr. Ilillyard replied to Slade, and.tho room was cleared.
The Committee haknot-decided when-itxwas announced that
the Speaker was at praiers.
The parties, thereforepstand as they did yesterday.
GREAT M A RLO W.
Mr. AusTEN called evidence on,the.part of the sitting Mem-
ber to rebut that which had been brought forward by the
Counsel for the petitioner.
Amongst others, Mr. Richard Gibbons, who was examined
on Tuesday last, was called by Mr. Austen to support Movie's
vote. Having stated in the course of his examina-
tion that he had solicited - PoTie's vote, who promised
him to give it in favour of Sir W. Clayton, the short-hand
writer's notes of Tuesday's proceedings were read, when there
appeared a material discrepancy between the eridence of the
witness on Tuesday and that which he now gave.
The witness said that he had committed a mistake in the evi-
deuce he had given on Tuesday.
Sir W.- HEATIICOTE sail that circumstances had occurred
which rendered it necessary that the room should be cleared.
The room was then cleared, and the following resolutions
were come to, which were ordered to be reported this evening
to the House :

" That in the opinion of this Committee Richard Gibbons
has been guilty of wilfully giving false evidence in the ela-
minat ion before them.

" That the minutes of the evidence of the said R. Gibbons
he reported to the House without delay.
" That the Chairman do, by warrant under his hand, com-
mit the said R. Gibbons to the custody of the Sergeant-at-
Arms, to await the pleasure of the House."
111/. Gibbons was then taken into the custody of the Ser-
geant-at-Arms.

Other witnesses were then produced, who were under cx•
amination when it was announced that the Speaker was a
prayers. _ _

- The Sitting Mcmkr therefore still continues in a majori
cf one.

THE THREE-FOLD CEREMONY.—On Monday week,
the Rev. Mr. Faussett, of Cropthorne, in this county. was
called upon to marry a female of the Kite species to a Knight
of the village, which office he had no sooner performed, thin,
turning to another pago of the Prayer Book, her read the ser-
vice for the Churchin.,b of Women, and concluded his. duties by
Chr:st ening the fair bride's child ! Worcestershire Chronicle.
EXTRNORDINARY unfortunate man
was found dead with a copy of Punch in his hand. It was proved
that he had been reading a number of that publication, when
he was seized with a tit of laughter, followed by a splitting of
the sides, which soon terminated fatally. Medical aid was ire-
m: diately called in, and the sufferer was wrapped in
sheets 4:1 the 111ornihg Herald, which are generally recom-
mei,ded in stich cases as equal to wet blankets ; but
the unhappy subscriber gave his I,,St laugh, and expi-ea with a
Con7uisive grin upon every feature. A long investigation took
lace as to the treatment the patient hid been submitted to,
mid the Coroner thought that if the application of the Herald
hail been earlier, it might have saved the man's life. The lure,
after an hour's deliberation,- returned a verdict of Justifiable
Split-the-side, with a deodand of threenene3 on the number o
l'apc/i that occasioned thelecident.,-Pan.:
f se following deplocal)l.e .z:-:ciclent occurred a feu
days ago at the Lying in. Hospital in the rue de la Bourbe
A young woman u .ted with the care of the new-barn infant:
until they Were sent away t.t the wet-nurses, being obliged to
supply them night and day. with milk from biberons (bottles
mule on purpose) became so worn out by Ler constant watch,
that, in order to gain a few hou-s' sleep, she boiled a
puppy-head in the rni:k she was to give the babies in the early
part el the night. The seporitic.took effect, and, having no
dread of the consequences, the young nurse lay down in her
clothes, ready to get up again at the first err. She, however,
did not awake till the 'sue was up ; snrp.ised that she .
ha i
been kft quiet so long, she went to look at her numerous
charges, and found them still sound asleep. This long dart-
tion. of repose, knoivieg what she had administered, alarm„. :1
her, and she took eve means site eettlif to rouse them. All
these being in vain, she felt a conviction that she had killed
them. With a courage and self-devotion which was. saareely
to he ex-peeted from one in the position in which she hat
t,laced -herself, she hastened to the medical Offiecr3 in the,
establt3hment,• and candidly to'd them what she had d0n"..,.,.
Every remedy was immediately resorted to, and happily eight:
out of the nine infants vies were under the influeuce of the
nareu.ic %atm revived, but the hat, which was only . hours
al, was irrecoverable. An investigation took place, but the
poor girl seas so distressed at what had happened, and at the
tame time bore such an excellent character for the persever...
hag humanito with-which she had long exercised her delicate
and arduous duties, so that she wys held up as an example-to
others in Whom simiiaC trust was placed, that the magistrates
ecnaiiitcred it to be a simple act Of imprudence, and would not
rthtnit her to prosecution.
DARING ROBBERY. AT SHOOTER'S Htt,L.--On
Tuesday night, aboqt half-past eight o'clock, two swell cracks-
men drove up to the Bull Inn, and a!tghted from a one-liente
Chaise', and it is supposed's. third was with them, as three
Vitt° mtbsenuentl) seen together. The two first went
63 bar parlour and got' into aon.versation with same respect-
able gentlemen from Elthant and ordered some brandy and
had water. They
no.- left tl'e 1/ many minutes when Mrs.
Welborn° sent the ser,v:thltic.t4iirshluup-stirs for the key of
and
bar-dwr (a half one
which hall, no doubt, been foreeluttsobAth haesprlilins en their
departure), When she immediately re'neydrietd state of greattn
alarm, as she discovered thait,larittel
ant money
mranwers and a writ
ing
desk had been plundered of
t
of WV., and alto a number of articles ofVwYeltleoryt 'lejejenigNinnee to the landladies, Mrs. Francis atid Ales. Welbor-nC No tune
was to be lost, and upon an applic being made to the post-
master at the Red .Lon, who 11.-,s expreFs horses in continual
readiness fur the Morning journa!s, William Love, his
lineman,
was in a few seconds in ti.e saddle aunt
after the
seoundria!s towards London, whilst another mountel horseman
with them
direction. Love came up
was sent in the opposite
near the Green Man turnpike-gate in the Kent-road, where a
sharp encounter took place, but heiteg overpnwered, the thieves
effected their escape. However he succeeded in securing the
horse and chaise, which he brought bock to the Greenwich
police-station. These landladies are weep respected in the
neighbourhood, and have had a hard winter to struggle through,
at a high rent, which makes their lees of the more serious con-
sequence to them.
An hcchest farmer, who was at an agricultural show
_dinner, where the late Duke of Buccleuch was in .tl„e
the chair,
and a round of fighting men being toasted, one giv4-tg :v iii7g-
.ton, another Graham, a third Lord Hill, and CO on, said, w-,en
it came to his turn---'4 gie ve Saunders Pirgive n' Chrichton-
dean, fur he's haft a sair fecht wi' the world a' his lik—an
honest min wi' a big family,"—Scotch Paper.