The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TILE EVENING OF YESTERDAY.
LOI3E. --The e ridenee 5 of a systematic organsa-
Lion oi' the Uflarti:sts, kept up for the purpose of aid-
ing and a',...!,ting the ,Torie in their attempts to dis-
turt) pnblie meetings, and to aonoy Liberal candidates
and voters at eleetion=•: h ivi! been too abundant and
conclusive to admit of successful resistance, or even
of reasonable doubt. We have frequently taken oc-
casion to re,fer to the subject, as a striking illus-
tration of the destitution of principle on the
part Of the 'Tories, and of the besotted igno,
ranee • and desperate infatuation of the Chartists,
in allowing themselves to be made the tools of those
who engaged. them to perform the " briekbat-aad-
bludgeon" part of their opposition to the Whigs, in
Parliamentary election contests, and for raising the in-
ce33ant noises uproar, and other species of annoyance,
by which they have interrupted, and, m many
plans, dispersed meetings of the Liberal
party called to petition Parliament against the
Corn-laws, or any other grievance affecting. the
general interests of the community. Those who
recollect the detachments of Chartists from Carlisle,
who were notoriously billettA at public houses-on-
gaged by the Tory Comrdtte? at the Cockermo:ith
Election; the services rend ro:1 by those worthies at
the hustings, in the way of hurling stones and wield-
ing
bludgeons, to the perso:ral injury of rainy of the
eleetors in Mr. Horny' La's intereA; and the same
`tilt of active support givea to the Tory yartv at
Sunderlan 1, Leicester, orvich,
aul nuny other strongly
vein-
tu3te:d, clue as -- these, with the occasioaal. -
fliselosares' the delicate- business transactions
liiFfweeil the aritwratic Tories and those whom they
al7e t‘• e ,atemptuously designate the "swinish
linatitntle" and the " unwashed artizans," have left
to: room tOr ,14.4)t as to the employment of the Char-
ttsts by the Tories in such services. Awkward alter-
-betivt.eit the blinded dupes'and the more
crAfcv agents, respecting' the distribaion of the funds
entrusted to their lands as the wages of violence,
have terminated in open rupture : thus the public
has been'made acquainted with matters which were
never meant to be known beyond the walls of the corn-
mittee-rooms. It remained,
.howeVer, for the Chartist
worthies of Lelcester to supply the most ample and
almost astounding evidence against their Tory subor-
ners and accomplices. The Leicester Chartists have
split among•thernselves. A dispute has ariSetrrespect-
ing the iiioi:el3 received by certain of their leaders
from the Leicester and NO ttin,hamTories, for the
various services they were ceapioyed to render to the
Tory party in the 1;-:rott,411 and county elections ; and
a meeting of the fraternitY hs been iteld'fbr the pur-
pose of hearing the crini‘n.ttiocus and recriminations
of the accasers and accus'2l.

STAN DAIt ~.-1110 principle of Sir Robert Peel's
proposition flu- a modilicatioa of, the Corn-laws has
been approval of in. the 1 Latise of Commons by a
triumphant tii.ijoritv—by a iiiaj,irity greater than has
for nine, years divided. on any disputed ques,
tion. This is, well .kii•wa-11 to every being in
the United 'Kingdom. Nevertheless a second de-
bate had. b-ca b•-it •up on the' same disputed
question; it his already c mined , four days, was,
again adjouraed laSt 4nißht, and may last one
cannot guess how m sny day's morci. for as the debate
ISM wholly useless at its commencement for any prae,
'ties! purpose the customary elements of calculation,
an estimate of the sense of decency, and of what is due
to the public service, here must wholly fail one. An
unmeaning, and necessarily unprofitable discussion,
may, be continaq indefinitely, as it must have begun
ia,defianee Of all considerations of decency, or of
care for the public interests ; such a debate tareatens
folk, w4hout end in.every sense of the phrase. The
Isfence of such directly unprofitable discussions,
sometimes advanced, namely, that though hopeless of
cot-wincing' the Parliament, they may assist in in-
atructinc,i the public, Cannot be employed by those
wit; originate and protract, in such a wearisome
nianni4, the debate over which the House of Com-
mons is now dnink Th., -Corn-laws have been
thirty years„under discussion. For the last year
the quiet of the country has been disturbed by hired
lecturers, sent to howl in every direction; and with
the effect, we tow remark by the :way, of reducing
the. number of Anti-Corn-law petitioners, from
1,300,000, to less than a third of the number, a
fact noted by Mr. &nett last night. What more,
then, can the. public learn upon the subject from
Mr. Villiers,' Messrs. O'Connell, . Mr. Patrick
Stewart, Dr. Bowring, and Mr. Milner. Gibson?
Why, there is no one accustomed to attend to such
matters—and none others will read the reported
debates—who could not Ny..ite off-hand the speech
of each or. these permuts, faithfully presenting all its
p;ure,s,• and all Its arguments, and all else—except-
ing. only the filsoTtiglish Iml bad grammar. Or will
tlte people are made` '‘viser'hy lord Dtmean's•lavish
ANafts.upon' " ,-t-atchel, of s•,hool -books ?',' If it is
4i c csfeilt'h*it the Cult cr~at`it, ;, .NYtio squander truth
and good seise in repi to the worn out common-
lace fallacies of time League:.,; are equally culpable as
respects the prolo;r4..ttion of tYs tediouS waste of th,
titne, the an:-.Yer to 5u,.11 complaint
,is, first,
that theY not ben Llw nnlsanee ; secondly, that
tPy are by -no irrans as numerous or prolix'-as the
parties to whoet they are compelled to reply; for,
thirdly, fakehood must be niet by truth as often as
faisAfaid,iS put thrward, lest falsehoOd, as unanSwer-
it.hle, pass upon the thoughtks' for truth. .
COLT " Moderate and Constitutional"
party in the: Church :of Scotland have submitted a
memorial to' her Majesty's Government," of which
a copy has readied us. We. are peculiarly struck—
as we have 02 doubt her -Aijesty's Ministers
will be—with the contrast which this most im-
portant 'document- displays with the 44 statement"
and " memorials" presentA -by the Non-Intrusion
ptrey in the Kirk, AO far as ptain simplicity of
pLtriaoe and ,traightibrWard marching towards that
iairpose are ecoeezned., 'There is no Mystification in
this •` memorial." It. avowedly lays.down,the 1 rinci-
pie, that when c.question of arisdietion arises between
tWeivil and Ecclesiastical Court:: of Scotland, it be-
to the ta'iner tb.decirle it. 'The line of deimir:-
atioh between the ,two panties now dividing the
is most clearly marked out, and "no
viistake-can, exist." " While the majority," says this
memorial," "gave to both the Civil and Ecclesiasti-
cal Courts, each fOr themselves, the power of fixing what
I,i Civil and what is Ecclesiastical, the minority, ascribe
to the SupreitL. Civil Courts alone_ power to determine
11 questions of competing jurisdiction." This con-
cession, according to the dominant faction in the
'Kirk,' is a surrender of the " spiritual independence"
of the Church—" high treason," according to some of
the more fiery.spirits, " against her great and Divine
head !" It now remains with Sir Robert Peel .to
adopt or reject the principle, as laid down by the ma,
Jlority of the Assembly calling itself " The Church." '

THAmE6 HAVEN DOCK AND
RAI L WAY COMPANY.
The half.yearly General MeAing of the Proprietors
in this Company was !Ad yesterday, at their offices, St.
Mildred's Court, Poultry, for the purpose of receiving
the Report of the ]):rector::, autl a statement of the
accounts from the Secretary. The meeting was called
at twelve for one o'clock, but owing to zto small a number
a.Shareholders being present, the business of the meet-
Sing did not commence till half-past one o'cloCk.
JAMI ESDAILE, Esq. took the Chair, and in doiaz so
said they were aware that that was the half-yearly Meet-
ing of the Proprietors, and the. Directors had drawn up
ititeport, in which they endeavoured to show the exact
fosition of the Company at the present moment, toge-
ther with a statement of the financial affairs, which he
;rusted would be found satisfisetory to the body of the
Proprietors.. Ile would only further
_observe that the
-Court of Directors were desirous of giving the fullest
information respeetine- the Computyin their power, and
they would be most happy to /311:1Wer ; any questions to
lho'best of their ability. in the usual course of business
he would call on the Secretary to read the Report.
The SEC itETA RV then read the 11,_•port of the Directors,
lvhiat was very long, and which commenced by regret-
jar„. thai; I,t the last general meeting, a suffici t number
or Pfoprietorl had not assembled to constitute ting.
It then went on tt; state that the Dircttors were, lus
;of preventing tly, Sh.,;•reholders from transferring their
;shan't, to inecenvetent pet:.'coas, awl they had therefore
issued an immediate call up'.; the shares so that the
burden might fall on all alike ; they regretted to
state, however, that `jtiO shares had ;,,2en transferred
_before it wa-; in their power to -resent it.
A Ith respest to the estimated revenue. . to,.
be
derived from the anticipated traffic' the Ihrector-. w '" e
itWare that the ag,ri.tate formed a ,sum equal in amount
to the entire co.:. of constructing the railway, or in-other
rwsr,d_s_,_t,he,oaan. annual gross reeeiptA•to be derived from the
11777t4,Ya
silltoinld
erl the capital; to be expended in form
itself so startling and so unusual,
that the Direetorb
t nowied;2;e
of
tiv! f Were aware it required seine
of its accuracy, facts and details to be assured
entirely which, when inquired into,
-would be borne out, and the Directors
Iltiletelifei rfeLlutith;tali,fth
,m,,e.nireuction of a tide-cock, giving
Onto"' would bring to it a traffic
eq,:ial to the ahlity of
'fold they grounded this tieliertilwaY to accommodate ;
the metropolis and its enviroZ tiotiet Itatriegelapiltettizititii;:vn.utigtf
population on the river, on the
nits] also,
advantages their
Dook and Railway would
wt4ildso, and very much
II.) consequence of the low fare,,
they hod named for the entivitec3b' it
"bid
b"
"-
ser,Vl,
Ism-ign; and goods, the whole distanc-eaonfee:f 6- ith p;ts
2, miles, from
Thames Haven to Lothlon ; and they would draw at-
tention to the fact, that in Belgium in ten mendhs
of 1838, from the • very low fares, upwards of
.2„000,000 persons travelled on the railways, the who!,
mutation of the kingdthu not excetxling 4,000,00„:
The. Ueport concluded by stating that Messrs. Ernest
Vaux, datnea Esduakt, and ].;chard Baker Wiligiield
mere to, go out of the direction by rotation 4 but, being
'elieble, offered thoulielves for—re-election.
-.e-' he SECRETARY thew read a statement of the accounts,
tfrontlAlichlt appeared and the cash in hand amounted
44; VS46/. 10s. rid.
:' ite Report 1 I d
was received, ant 11: (pte .
ittit,is,4o
~.r. of • the lototeru Counties Railway
.f.,, 14.!:-Oree PiOetors were theft re-elected.
,- ,:`-r=te-- SfifeerNs wished th ask the Secretary
sit *nee . had been ,ate • t the Me .ting
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