The Sun.
London, England, 1827-05-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Mr. Canning gave notice last night of his inten-
tion-to move for a Finance Committee, next Ses-
sion, of the same kind as that which had been
formed by preceding Ministers. We shall only say
upon this subject at present, that the notice of such
a motion indicates a strong sentiment of perma-
nence in him who gives it : he feels stationary. We
hope the Committee, whenever appointed, will pre-
serve the duration of the means and faculties of the
country. Lords Althorp and Milton last night, with
Lord Nugent and some others, acceded to the Mi-
nistry. Lord Althorp said that he had hesitated
for a short time ; but it was certainly better to sup-
port those with whom he agreed on many, or on
most points, than to adopt a mode of conduct which
might prolong the rule of men with whom he disa-
greed on all. Of the future conduct of the present
Ministry, we can, of course, say nothing—we only
hope the best ; but of the relief which the country is sen-
sible by the removal of the old one, we can speak in very
decisive terms. It is, perhaps, unpleasant to notice the
expression of personal feelings ; but yet it is most certain,
that every one rejoices on observing men, who had been
used to consider the finances of the country as their own,
walking about without employment. Now is the time,
when genius of all sorts, or dulness of all parties, may make
a start. The present Ministry may fall—we certainly chi
not think it will, and would rather advise the selfish to
unite themselves to it for their own sakes; but even should
it fall, the old system has received so thorough a disloca-
tion, that it can never re-unite.—Times.

In the House of Commons the game of faction
was again played last night, by those who are sud-
denly seized with so violent an affection for the in-
terests of the Catholics, that they cannot allow
themselves to restrain their ardour within the limits
which the Catholics have prescribed to themselves ;
and are determined, therefore, to assist the poor
Catholics; who are betrayed both by their friends
and by themselves, whether they will or no. But
all this Tom-foolery will not take. A 'number of
Members of high character in the House, and in
the country, repelled the charge of inconsistency, in
the support they gave the Administration. Nothing
could be more sensible than what fell from Lord
Althorp on this subject. " He, and those who
thought with him, had no alternative, but to sup-
port those who, upon the wholeovere liberal and
enlightened Statesmen, or by his opposing them to
make way for the introduction into the Administra-
tion of the country of Toryism in its most hideous
form. He had differed from the Right I-lon. Gen-
tleman at the head of the Administration on the
questions of Parliamentary Reform, and the Repeal
of the Test and Corporation Acts; and he differed
from him on these questions still. But he should
be mad.if he were to wish to throw the Right Hon.
Gentleman and his Administration out of office 'on
account of that difference, when he could only have
in their stead persons from whom he differed not
only on these questions, but on every other." The
debate on the Shipping Interest ended in an al-
most universal conviction that the Skip-owners were
without a case. The masterly statements of Mr.
Huskisson were unanswerable. It is easy to charge
able men with a love of innovation and of projects,
and to bawl about the delusion of Free Trade ; but
it is not so easy to grapple with facts, and to refute
the most legitimate conclusions from them. In every
encounter which the particular classes, with whose
real or supposed interests Mr. Huskisson has had to
sustain, he has regularly confounded the advocates
in the House, and left them not a word to say. Yet,
in a week or two, these modest Gentlemen will be
at their work again, full of their own idea, and of
their couple of facts, which some interested indivi-
dual has crammed them with, and rail at Mr. Hug-
kisson as a projector. To mend the matter, another
individual in the House of Lords, who has the happy
faculty of retaining in great age as high an idea of
his infallibility as if every one of the thousand and
one theories, sported from time to time,had not been
proved to be arrant nonsense, will be as loud against
theorists and projectors as any young coxcomb in
either House, who is astonished how loud he can
speak in Parliament, and how happy he is in calling
names. Mr. Huskisson gave the Venerable Per-
son hard hits, which, however the Noble Baron
has too hard a hide to feel himself.—We are unable,
to-day, to enter into any detailed-consideration of
Mr. Huskisson's luminous and triumphant speech.
The Marquis of-Londonderry is determined, bon gre
mal gre, to make the world -ring with him.—
The fury of the Noble Marquess, and the cool indif-
ference with which it is received, remind us very
much of a noisy cur flying open-mouthed at a mas-
tiff; or some other noble specimen of the canine race,
which proceeds on its course unmoved; or at most
lifts its leg, and salutes the object of its contempt
agreeably to the well-known canine etiquette iw such
eases. " It becomes," said his Lordship, " a man
of spirit (' still harping on my daughter l') to de-
clare his opinions;" and accordingly he declares it,
as the opinion of the Noble Marquess of London-
deity, " that the present Administration is the most
contemptible in the whole range of history." I de-
clare, added his Lordship, that if I do not get what
I want, " day after day, and time after time, I will
show up the drivelling, the contemptible position,
in which the public men of our time are placed."
Having taking a moment to breathe—for his Lord-
ship puts himself on his.full speed at setting out,
and requires a little respite to put his lungs in pro-
per condition—he naturally imagined that his next
movement would convert the fear with which he
must have inspired their Lordships into downright
terror, and raised his voice to a still more formi-
dable pitch—" My Lords, I will go a little further."
But this awful threat, unfortunately for his Lord-
ship, even in a House in which decorum is sel-
dom violated by a mirthful explosion, occasioned
a general laugh. When Lord Goderich—who is
naturally bland and obliging, and seems, besides,
from old connection, to have a sort of kindly feeling to-
wards the Noble Marquis, observed that the Noble
Marquis, who had not been much accustomed: to motions
of this sort, had a day or two back ahewn them to him,
he then told the Noble Marquis that they would require
some alteration in form, as it would be little less than im-
possible to execute them in the form in which they were
then drawn up, and suggested the expediency of allowing
a delay of a day or two, to make such alterations in the

language as would assist bins-in attaining the object he
desired—the Noble Marquis, like a big boy spoiled by an
over-indulgent Mamma, took pet, and exclaimed, "He
did not require the assistance which thelNoble Lord seemed
to insinuate." This, of course, produced another laugh
at his expence. Piqued beyond measure, the gallant
Marquis added, "all he desired was to get what he asked.
He wished the Noble Lords opposite to give the returns as
he bad moved them." The Noble Marquis not having
been able to understand, that in order to get what we ask,
it is necessary that people should know what it is we really
ask, his relative, Lord Ellenborough, endeavoured to pa-
cify him by the assurance, that it was no extraordinary
thing for great men, like his Lordship, who reached the
heights of eloquence, without the drudgery of a previous
attention to grammar and spelling, to receive, without
any derogation from their, dignity, such aid as had been
proffered his Lordship ; and this seemed to appease him.
He then put off the sheaving up of the Administration to
Thursday next, by which time, by the aid of a little
clerkship, his motions will be licked into an intelligible
shape. We learn from his Lordship's eloquent speech, that
he has some way of obtaining knowledge possessed exclu-
sively by himself. He told, with the most circumstantial
minuteness, the particulars of the negociation between Mr.
Canning and the Whigs, and the proceedings between
Mr. Canning and his seceding Colleagues, end he called
upon the Marquis of Lansdown and the First Lord of the
Treasury to contradict him—kindly adding, however,
" I declare I have no information." After such a delft;
has been laid, it will be impossible for the First Lord of
the Treasury to avoid at once owning or denying the truth
of what Lord Londonderry knows without information.
His Lordship, though he sloes not very clearly explain how
he learned these particulars, requiring to be at once owned
or denied, is more fortunate with regard to other particu-
lars. " I see a change (he says) in all the offices of the
country, such as the wisdom of our ancestors had settled
them ; I see a change in those established systems which
the greatest Statesmen and wisest men have approved of."
What a pity that the country and the venal Press will not
iee all these things through the spectacles of his Lordship
and his two relatives, Lord Winchelaea, Sir Thos. Leth-
bridge, and Mr. Peel's brother-ia-law and brother. Is it
nvt odd now that Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Win. Peel
should see, what the country and the venal Press cannot
ee made to see? The country blinded by a venal Press,
has been led into the delusion, that Mr. Canniag
Fluskisson, Lord Goderich, and Mr. Bobert Pea; the late
Lord Liverpool, Lord Harrowby, and one or two others,
really acted as wisely as under all eircumstaOies They
could have acted, and that their practical me,:taare
were evidently calculated to benefit the country ; but
Mr. William Peel and Lord Castlereagh tbat -
Ministers have bees, and are, in the hands of prZtfee-
tors, who will destroy all that the wisdom of our anees,
tors has left to us. Lord Londonderry is afraid that "he
may be written down by a vile and a venal Press." If
that were all, we could guarantee his Lordship just as
could almost guarantee some persons that they will never be
drowned. But we will not undertake to guarantee his
Lordship from a much more formidable enemy ; namely,
his own tongue. Many a man has found his own tongue
what the thief did the tongue of the bell, by the rope of
vhich he desciuled. Vile and venal as the Press are, they
are still often wise in their generation. They cannot afford
to he laughed at like his Lordship. They do ndt, br their
choice of objects, wish to remind the public of the fable of
the viper and the file. It is all very well for his Lordship,
who, through the discernment of his late lamented brothar,
could be allowed to serve his country for twenty years, and
figure away as a first rate diplomatist ; but who, had he
been as 'poor as his paternal ancestor was when he first
quitted the inhospitable soil of Scotland, would probably
have found some difficulty in obtaining, by dint of talent
the preferment of a Portership to a Newspaper, to froli.ij it
away in knocking down Administrations and showing up
First Lords of the Treasury ; but people of the Press are
by their circumstances confined to the humble character of
aiding Noble Lords desirous of showing themselves up,
whose exhibitions might otherwise be exclusively the gra-
tification of those, who, from delicacy towards their own
order, might occasionally be disposed to-draw a veil over
them.—Morning Chronicle.

A discovery has just been made by some of the
ingenious admirers of Mr. Canning, which is very
'musing. It seems that the Right Hon. Gentle-
man was at a loss to know why his late colleagues
entertained a personal dislike to him. The doubt
was no sooner started than it was removed. The
most sharp-witted of those panegyrists, who serve
him up daily as much of the incense of pure flattery
as would have satisfied the greediest heathen idol
that ever inhaled the fumes of a morning sacrifice,
have solved the problem much to the Right Hon.
Gentleman's satisfaction. They say that he was
disliked by his late colleagues on account of the na-
tural aversion which dunces always bear to clever
:nen. This very novel application of the old maxim
jf Dean Swift is peculiarly appropriate, because it is
well known that Lord Eldon, Mr. Peel, and the
Duke of Wellington, are dunces. We presume, on
the other hand, that those sweet-voiced flatterers to
whom we allude make common cause with Mi.
Sturges Bourne, Lord Bexley, Lord Seaford, ,Mr.
Wynn, &c. in admiring Mr. Canning above any
thing the world has yet produced, on account of the
sympathy which men of genius always have for per-
sons of kindred intellect. This discovery, however,
which makes it as plain as noon-day that to enter-
tain a personal dislike to Mr. Canning is equivalent
to a man's confessing himself to be a noodle and a
lance—or, as Shakspeare expresses it, to " writing
,ne's self down an ass"—is very unfortunate as it regards
'le past achievements of the Whigs. Several of those
Gentlemen had been so distinguished for their hatred of
\lr. Canning, that they laboured many years to bring bhn
into public odium and contempt in every possible way, and
iome of them get very roughly handled in personal conflict
with him—among whom Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Hob-
:louse, Sir Robert Wilson, and others, were pierced with
more than a common share of arrows from the quiver of
'lis satire—but what better treatment did they deserve, as
:t is now clear that their dislike to Mr. Canning arose out
if " the natural aversion which dunces always have towards
,:lever men?" It is, to be sure, rather unfriendly in the
Whig part of the Press to hand over the past labours of its
patrons in the old Opposition to such sweeping censure ;
Mit as the Whig Press itself was as loud in its reprobation
if Mr. Canning, until a very short time -'nce, as its pa-
-1-on& were, we presume it is content to cs'l Itself the ap-
,wopriate organ of dunces and noodles up to that period
when some mysterious revelation of Mr. Canning's merits
_aused it to admire and love him.—Morning Herald.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.

There was a great timidity observable in the betting of
y-esterday, every one seemed afraid to open his mouth ;
;his is easily accounted for—never was the betting world
none in the dark as to the merits of the favourites, their
running in the two recent meetings at Newmarket having
peen in the highest degree contradictory. One thing,
however, is very clear, viz. that the Derby horses whi,h
:lave come out are of a very inferior description ; and that
it' there is one good one in the back ground, he will have
in excellent chance. We cannot say the same of the Oaks,
Yor it is admitted oy all that there never was a better field,
uiu .:,at the only difficulty will he to say which is the best
if a lot of good ones. The only material chang, in the
adds is in Glenartney, who is at 3 to 1, and plenty of
iriends

MATCH ♦T NRWIIARIZT WRIT MONDAY•
500 to 400 on Pastime agst Lamplighte. (taken).

DIABY.

30 to 1 agst Trumpeter
3/ to 1 net GamelLA
S 3 to 1 agst Marestleld
33 to 1 agst Gaberlunzie
40 to 1 agst Chrysalis
40 to 1 agst Pontiff
40 to 1 agst Cressida
50 to 1 agst Catherine
15 to 1 agst 31r. Yate.i's to o
OAKS.

3 to 1 agst Glenartney
9 to 1 agst Defence
12 to 1 agst Eliza Teazle
15 to 1 agst Roderick
17 tel apt Espagnolle(notak.)
!8 to 1 agst Turcoman
18 to 1 apt Mameluke
20 to 1 apt Spondee
LI to 1 apt Tatter

fl to 9 agst Donna Clara
9 to 1 agst Brocard
10 to 1 agst Scheherazade
11 to 1 agst Togo (Duchess)
15 to 1 agst Morel

16 to I agst Souvenir
18 to 1 agst Gulnare
18 to 1 agst Translation
18 to I agst Tippityw•ichet
25 to 1 agst Maria
CEA..

IT. L:

14 to 1 agst Nivalis
le to 1 agst Reviewer
No others

20 to 1 agit Pedlar
23 to 1 apt Medoro
nentioned.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

COUNTRY DIA/M.—THURSDAY, MAY 11. '
Anthony, C. and J., Devonport—Royal hotel, Devonport 12
Bartlett, C., Plymouth—London inn, Devonport ll
Bates, J., South Crossland, Almondbury—Packhorse, Hud-
dersfield ll
Blundell, R.. Liverpool—George, Liverpool
Butterfield, R., Scriven with Tentergate—Elephant and
Castle, Kr' lareiborotigh l2
Cottrell, J., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham 5
Curwen, J., Liverpool—George, Liverpool ?
Ellis, G., Clifton—Bay-horse, York
Foxton, T., Kingston—Dog and Duck, Kingston ll
Gibbins and Co., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham
Hansford, R., Weymouth—King's Arms, Dorchester... II
Holwhede, J., Liverpool—Office of Messrs. Ramsbottom and
Co., Liverpool :4
.James, 1., Merthrr-Tidvil—White Lion, Bribto, 4
:.awton, J., Saddleworth—Palace inn, Manchester
sloore, W,, South TAwtou—Globe, Exeter ' ll

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
NOTICU OF MOTIONS FOR TIIIS DAT..

I. Air. Williams Wynn—Thanks to the Officers and Men
engaged in the late glorious successes in India.
2.. Mr. Stanley—Select Committee, to inquire into the
state of the Church in Upper and Lower Canada, and
the expediency of explaining and revising so much of
the Act [3l Gee. 3, c. 31] as relates to the main-
tenance of a Protestaat Clergy in those Provinces.
3. Lord Viscount Althorp—Bill to prevent persons em-
ployed by Candidatea at Elections from voting at such
Elections.
r. Mr. Legh Keck—Motion founded on the Minutes of
the Penryn Election Committee.
5. Mr. Wilmot Horton—Correspondence between Sir Ru-
fane Donkin and the Colonial Department, and other
Papers on the subject of the Government of the Cape
of Good Elepe.
6. Mr. William Lamb—Bill to amend the Laws relating
to the Duties on Auctions in Ireland.
7. Mr. William Smith—Bill to give relief to Dissenters
respecting their Marriages.
ORDIIRS OF Tilt DAT FOR THIS DAY.
1. Stockbridge Election Petition—Ballot for Committee a
half after three.
Y. Names of Members absent to be set aside.
3. Defaulters at the Ballot 13d May] to attend.
4. Canada Clergy Reserves Bill—Second reading.
5. Petty Sessions (Ireland) Bill—Secoad reading.
6. Corporate Funds Bill—Committee.
7. Lianwnda (Caroarvon) Inclosure B

reading.

MAILS.
Arrived. Due. Arrtved. Due.
I America 0 1 Hambirrgh
0 Brazil 0 0 Holland 0
0 Buenos Ayrcs
1 Dublin
Flanders 0 0 Lisbon 0
1 France
0 Gottenburgh 1 0 Mexico 0
0 Guernsey& Jersey. 1 1 Waterford 0