The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-09 00:00:00

the victorious cavalry of France, could make the
least impression on the immovable British in-
fantry. One might have been almost tempt-
ed to fancythat it had rooted itself in the ground,
but for the majestic movement which its battlions
commenced some minutes after sun-set, at the
moment when the approach of the Prussian
Army apprised Wellington that—thanks to
numbers, thanks to the force of inert resistance,
and as a reward for having contrived to draw up
brave fellows in battle—he had just achieved the
most decisive victory of our age.”—General
Foy would seem to limit the merit of the Duke
of Wellington to strength of purpose and te-
nacity, virtues which the qualities of English
troops enabled him to turn to account. It would
be presumption in us to offer an opinion on a
subject so foreign to our pursuits ; but there are
individuals in this country entitled to pronounce
between General Foy and the subject of his
criticism. It certainly has always appeared una-
countable to us, how a man, who, out of the
military profession, appears almost destitute of
penetration, should, in that profession, have dis-
played talents of the highest order. But we
leave it for competent judges to pronounce whe-
ther General Foy has solved the enigma.—
Morning Chronicle.
Lord William Bentinek, it is now confidently
affirmed, is to be the new Governor-General of
India ; and a less exceptionable appointment, we
believe, could not be made. It is said that the
Marquis of Anglesea refused both this and the
Vice-royalty of Ireland ; a circumstance, if true,
which no one can wonder at, for who is there,
situated as the Noble Marquis is (as to loss of
limb in particular), who would not rather enjoy
the income, the honour, and patronage of the
Board of Ordnance, than any appointment, how-
ever splendid, which would remove him from the
seat of Government, his family, his estates, and
connections ? Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, it is also
said, is to proceed on a Foreign Embassy, some
say to Vienna ; and his place of Paymaster of
the Forces to be supplied by another Whig—Mr.
Calcraft. These same Whigs, by the bye, are
rapidly realising all that we have said of them,
especially as regards their attachment to the sweets
of office. They are not the kind of people, it is
clear, who feel any inclination to work for no-
thing ; or who are, in other words, followers
of virtue merely for virtue's sake. We should
be obliged to any Correspondent who would
be at the trouble to furnish us with a list,
in number and amount, of the good things
which have already fallen to their share ;
that the public might have a bird's-eye view
of the difference between economy and reform
in theory and in practice. At any rate, we trust
soon to see an end to this struggling for places.
Since the first dawn of Mr. Canning's Adminis-
tration we have heard every thing of men, but
nothing of measures ; as if the whole skill of
Government consisted of arranging, oiling, and
feeding the machinery. We are far from saying
that public men should not be rewarded for their
services ; but unfortunately, the standard in such
matters seems too often to be, not how a man
may be tit for a place, but how far the place may
suit the hungry applicant for it. We can ima-
gine nothing more revolting or degrading to an
honourable mind than to be constantly beset, as
men high in office are, by applicants out of num-
ber, for every species of public employment and
sinecure, from the highest to the lowest. To
such .a pitch is this carried, that we have to
doubt that, were a Prime Minister to give way
to it, his whole time might be occupied in recei-
ving and answering such applications.; the whole
or greater part of which, after all, he has little
or no freedom of controul over, but is obliged
to dovetail them so as to fall in with party sup-
port in or out of Parliament. This is an evil
which will probably never be wholly cured. But
a Minister who wished to become truly popular
could not take a more effectual step towards that
end than by showing his contempt of such means
of support—at all events, as far as appointing
persons to offices who possess no other fitness or
recommendation than their connections. Judg-
ing by too many of the appointments of the
second grade, at least, lately made, and others
with which the country is threatened, we cannot
say that Mr. Canning has shown the courage
necessary to carry into effect the principle we are
contending for. But again we would say, let
this unseemly haggling for profit and place have
an end ; let the country see in high places some
symptoms of that self-devotion and self-denial
which alone constitutes the ground-work of real
; patriotism ; but while the ravenousness of the
Stock Exchange and the Western Hells charac-
terizes those who profess to serve their country,
it is in vain for the country to expect long to
maintain its hitherto high and enviable rank
among nations ; for if the source be impure and
selfish, the stream will be corrupt and muddy,
and, in their outlet, poisonous to the ocean.—
Morning Herald.
On the 14th May last, a paragraph appeared
in the Morning Chronicle, of which the fol-
lowing is a copy: "
According to the usual custom, consequent on a new
Administration, there is to be a new creation of Peers. The
following wealthy individuals are among the persons named
for this honour :—Mr. Alexander Baring, Mr. Watts
Russell, Lord Sefton, Sir Thomas Acland, Mr. Portman,
Sir George Warreniler, Colonel Hughes, and that steady
and inflexible patriot, Mr. Coke, of Norfolk."
In the evening of the same day, Mr. Hume
made ..some remarks in the Commons on the
propriety of no persons being created Peers who
had not fortunes to support their dignity, and
also regretted that there was no law for depriving
those of their titles who were no longer capable
of maintaining them. Mr. Canning, in noticing
that Mr. Hume 's speech bore all the characters
of irregularity—no uncommon thing with the
Hon. Ex-Rector—insomuch as it was neither a
question, a motion, nor a notice of motion, al-
luded to certain rumours in which it might be
supposed to originate. This, however, Mr. Hume
pointedly denied, and assured the House that he
spoke without the slightest allusion to any report
that had gone abroad, and on general principles
only. Mr. Canning's observation on this expla-
nation of Mr. Hume, we find thus given in the
New Times of the 15th May :
" Mr. Canning said, he was glad of the Hon. Member's
explanation, as he had conceived he had alluded to some
most ridiculous but mischievous reports of what were his
intentions in that respect. They were circulated by cer-
tain individuals for the purposes of delusion ; but they
were, he could assure the House, without one syllable of
truth."

That Mr. Canning did not, and could not,
allude to any Report, but that which the Morn-
ing Chronicle had lent its columns to circulate,
is abundantly obvious, from the circumstance
both of the publication being made that day, and
from its being the first time that the rumours of
a new creation of Peers had been distinctly em-
bodied in the shape of an annonce. Among
other pieces of intelligence communicated by the
Gazette, of Friday last, our readers were in-
formed of the elevation of Lord Binning to the
Peerage of Great Britain. We do not mean to
dwell on his Lordship's claims, from the high

respectability of his family, and from the num-
ber of years that he devoted his talents to the
support of his Majesty's Government,. to a dis-
tinction which he certainly shares with many
meaner men ; all that we should wish our
readers to remark is, that Lord Binning's name
does not figure in the paragraph YThich we have
quoted above. That it must have been prophe-
tically understood by the House as included in
Mr. Canning's disclaimer, is obvious, however,
from the following remarks of another morning
contemporary :
" When allusion to this and some other intended crea-
tions (which will, doubtlessly, soon follow) was made by
Mr. }Mine in the House of Commons, Mr. Canning de-
clared the report to be ' not only wild and idle, but, at the
same time, most mischievous—circulated, as he well knew,
to create that very mischief ; a report in which there was
not one syllable of truth.' Let the veracity of this solemn
assertion be judged of by the official statement in a pre-
ceding part of our Paper of this day, of Lord Binning
being raised to the Peerage, under the very title we some
days ago announced ! ! When, in the first instance, we
ventured to express a doubt in regard to the assertion of
Mr. Canning, that ' there was not a syllable of truth in
the report of the day,' we were most vigorously assailed
by some of our contemporaries, who, in terms the most
unceremonious, repeated, from authority, the positive con-
tradiction of the Prime Minister ! For the present, we
deem it unnecessary to offer ' a single syllable' of comment
upon this candid and most honourable species of conduct on
the part of the Prime Minister of England and his obedient
supporters."

is remarked by nosologists that there are
certain states of the human body in which, what-
ever enters it, is converted into poison. The
state of the political stomach of the opponents
of Ministry seems at present in this very lament-
able 'condition. It matters not what be the sim-
plicity or truth of the aliment received, as it is
sure, in the process of digestion, to become tor-
tuous and false. The above is a fair specimen
of the disease. First of all, poor Mr. Hume
is charged with making allusions, which he
most directly and pointedly denied the slightest
intention of making. Secondly, he is charged
with making allusions to Lord Binning, to
whom, without the second sight, with which
we have never heard the Honourable Mem-
ber for Aberdeen charged, he could not al-
lude, for the plainest of all reasons, that not
even the Chronicle had once hinted a syl-
lable about him. Thirdly, Mr. Canning,
and—" this is the unkindest cut of all"—we
ourselves, one of " his obedient supporters," as
our contemporary terms us, are charged with
want of candour and want of honour, and we
don't know what, because Mr. Canning said,
and we. repeated, that " Mr. A. Baring, Mr.
Watts Itlissell, Lord Sefton, Mr. Portman, Sir
T. Acland, Sir G. Warrender, Colonel Hughes,
and that steady anU inflexible Patriot, Mr. Coke,
of Norfolk," were not to be made Peers, although
rumour had said they were. Now, since not
only have not these gentlemen been sent up en
masse to the House of Lords, which was the
rumour to which Mr. Canning was replying,
but not one of .them has, up to this mo-
ment, travelled that way, we do humbly sub-
mit that the charges of want of candour,
&c., are not fairly made out. Had they
come from any other quarter, we should
hardly have noticed these charges ; but we have
a kindness for our contemporary which we can-
not shake off; notwithstanding all his late vagaries.
Like Pope, we would not wish even an old post
to be pulled up that we had long known. We
do, therefore, sincerely wish and hope that our
contemporary will yet be brought to see the error
of his ways, and to resume the settled habits that
so long distinguished him ; in short, that he will
relinquish the office of a flying post, for which he
is nowise fitted, and content himself, as of old,
with standing by the way side and pointing the
right road to those who are not too old and too
feeble to travel in it.----New Times.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT TILDESLEY
BANKS.

Yesterday (Friday) morning, about six o'clock, a
most appalling and fatal accident took place at Mr.
Thomas Kearsley's mill, at Tildesley Banks, about four
miles beyond Worsley, by the bursting of a steam-
engine boiler. It would appear that the engineer,
who has himself fallen a prey to his own forgetfulness,
in setting the engine to work, had omitted to turn
one of the two valves. which admit the steam from
the boiler to the engine; and finding that the engine
was not going at the proper speed, was continually
stirring up the fire in order to increase the power of
the steam, which, having only one valve to escape
by, was increased to such an extent as to blow the
boiler to pieces, and to throw down a great part of
the building, burying in- its ruins the engineer and
17 girls, who were employed as reelers in the upper-
most story of the building. Of these, the engineer
and seven of the girls were taken out dead, and se-
veral others so severely injured that two of them are
since dead, and another so much bruised as to be
despaired of. The following is a list of the sufferers :
William Guest, the engineer, dead; Sarah Cun-
liffe, dead; Mary Moscoff, dead; Helen Schofield,.
dead; Jane Seddon, dead; Betty Davies, dead;
Grace Hampson, dead ; Mary Kay, dead ; Ann
Marsh, since dead; Margaret Hilton, since dead;
Sarah Morris, severely injured—no hope of recovery ;
Mary Lee, dangerously hurt ; Mary Barker, dange-
rously hurt ; Judith Atkin, dangerously hurt; M try
Yates, slightly injured; Betty Fligginson, do.; Betty
Gerrard, do.; Helen Yates, do.
The building forms as it were two sides of a
triangle, the one side about 150 feet long, the other
about 90. The shorter side has only been recently
built, and was not finished in the inside, there being
neither floors nor machinery in it, with the excep-
tion of the room on the fifth. story, where the girls
were, and one in the second story, both of them
having communications with.the old building, and
being situated directly above the steam-boiler. The
angle where the buildings join and in which these
rooms were situated, to the width of each building,
by the dreadful explosion, is now a heap of rubbish,
the outer walls and the end wall of the new building
having been levelled with the ground. Within the
end wall, which is thrown down, there was an in-
ner wall, at the distance of three yards, between
which it was intended to erect another boiler ; the
greater part of this wall has been forced down also.
The windows of the new building have been all,
more or less, damaged, and several have been com-
pletely blown out, some of them even at the oppo-
site end of the building, although, from the want of
flooring, and the consequent roominess, it might
have been supposed the concussion would have been
but slightly felt. Although the mass of the build-
ing with which the girls were carried to the ground,
seems to have fallen almost perpendicularly, a few
single bricks and slates were impelled to the dis-
tance of thirty yards. The engineer had been on
his way to examine the boiler at the time the explo-
sion took place, and was found half within the door
of the engine-house, having been forced over back-
wards.—There were usually eighteen girls in the
reeling-room ; but one of them, the sister of one of
those killed, had fortunately just gone into the mill,
and thus escaped the fate which awaited her com-
panions. A like fortunate circumstance saved the
life of the man who is generally at work in the room
just over the engine. The noise occasioned by the
explosion is described by those who were neur, as
like the hissing noise made by
afterwardsas steam em first
escapingsomething
In elthou Ifrom gd
an aperture, and immediately
report like the discharge of a can-
non. It was distinctly heard at the distance of three
miles ; some say they heard it at Irlant—a distance
of six miles.—Manchester Gazette.