The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE ,PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We believe we may confidently assure our
readers, that not only have steps been taken to-
wards promoting that union in his Majesty's
Cabinet, which the great mass of the thinking
pUblic at this moment so anxiously desire, viz.
the accession of the 'Marquis of Lanadown to
the Ministry which •Mr. Canning is authorised
to form, but we may add further, that those
steps have been taken in a spirit of frankness and
candour worthy of the characters of both the
distinguished individuals concerned. The issue
is up to this moment uncertain. Without pre-
tending to a knowledge of the details of such a
negociation while it is yet pending, we have
heard enough to justify us in saying, that the
rumours so industriously propagated in certain
quarters, of preliminary stipulations as to the
discussion of the Catholic Question having been
insisted upon by the Noble Marquis, arc altoge-
ther unfounded. That noble person appreciates
too highly the importance of the great gain to
the public interests of the country, with which
that 'question is wound' up, in the recent seces-
sions from his Majesty's Government, _to urge
any such preliminary impediment to the gratifi-
cation of the country's wishes. Neither, we
will venture to affirm, will it be found that any
difficulties arising out of personal objects and
arrangements are suffered to stand in the way.
Never, we believe, was more disinterested pa.
triotism carried into any negociation. Under
these circumstances, are we not warranted in
hoping that a happy result may be, ere long,
communicated to the public ? We can, how-
ever, imagine grave considerations that may cause
the progress of the negociation to be more pro-
tracted, and we fear we must add, more arduous,
than the public impatience can easily reconcile
itself to.---We believe, however, that we shall
have something important to communicate to-
morrow.-- Times.

The Whigs would unquestionably support
Mr. Canning in all those measures which the
changes of opinion in this country and the in-
creased intelligence of the age demand from the
Legislature. This is a point on which there
could never be a doubt. They have all along,
supported the late Administration in their at-
tempts to remove the restrictions which oppres-
sed the industry of the country, and to remedy
the imperfections of the law ; and without de-
viating from their own principles, they could not
have acted otherwise. But the question assumes
another aspect, when negociations for forming a
part of the Administration are opened with the
Whigs. In the first place, men who have pled-
ged themselves not to take office, except the
Emancipation of the Catholics be made a Cabi-
net measure, may feel a reluctance to form part
of a Cabinet which should not be at liberty to
approach this subject, even though conscious
that by their acceptance of office they might even
smooth the way to the ultimate success of the
question. This, as we already observed, is a
delicate point, and the feelings of the parties
must best enable them to decide it satisfactorily
to themselves. But, supposing this difficulty
got over, there is obviously another of no light
nature. The men who have quitted office deri-
ved nearly all their importance from office, and
are of little weight in the country in themselveS.
--The Old Tories would, in a month after the
Administration of Mr. Canning was fairly in
motion, dwindle down to some dozen Peers at
most, and perhaps double the number of Com-
moners. The influence of the Governmerit
would draw towards itself the great body of the
Tories, as a matter of course. In losing
them, therefore, Ministers may be said to have
lost little, and, on the other hand, to have got
rid of associates, of whose unpopularity they
were obliged to share the odium. But the 'Whigs
form a powerful party of themselves throughout
the country. They may be said to constitute
alone at least one-third of the House of Peer 4,
and to possess a still greater share of the property
of that House, being strongest in the highest titles.
They can always divide in both Houses, in
questions which they make party ones, a larg+
proportion of the Legislature ; and when aided
by events, they have often balanced the Minile
sterial votes. Under such circumstances, an arL
rangement between Mr Canning and them b 4
comes, as we have observed, a matter of consi-
derable difficulty. Mr. Canning and his asso-
ciates would naturally wish to strengthen them-
selves by the accession of the Whigs, between
whom' and the moderate Tories there is really
no difference in principle ; but then he would
merely take a detachment from them to con.
plete his number. Now, though the influence of
Mr. Canning is at present confessedly high in the
country and throughout Europe, yet it is difficult fol•
the Whigs to forget that, setting apart the influence
of Government; their own independent influence 4
infinitely greater than that of Minister's. It cat'
only be from the hopes of the clifficalties to whirl
we have alluded being of a very stubborn naturcy
that the Old Tories can hold up their heads at all
Their day is gone by. They have no support it
the nation; and substantively are next to nothing,
Mr. Canning truly desiribed them, in the speech
in which he so happily alluded to Turgot and Ga=
lilei, as a faction inconsiderable in point of numbers
and influence. They will also have no successors;
for the lamentation poured out some time ago in
Blackwood's Magazine, an organ of the party, that
they could get no young men to range themselves
under their colours, was perfectly true. Young
men would as soon think of appearing with the bag
wigs and queues of a former generation, as of damn-
ing themselves to perpetual ridicule by espousing
the absurdities of theold stagers, of whom the nation
has got rid. There is, therefore, in the very nature
of things, an insurmountable obstacle to the re-ac-
quisition of power by the caballers. Mr. Peel was
even obliged to disavow them, from a feeling of the
damage which he would have done to himself by
allowing the public to confound him with the Anti-
Galileans. But still we should be sorry to think
that they should derive even a temporary advantage
from the want of proper management on the part of
Cuthing.--Morning Chronicle.
After the surprise which has seized everybody
shall have a little subsided with respect to the
late earthquake in the Cabinet, the people Rill
begin to consider whether they will get any
thing by the explosion—whether their situation
will be bettered—whether there is likely to be
any relief from taxation, tithes, poor-rates, &c.
From the nauseous, sickening, disgusting flat-
tery which has been poured forth by the Press
on the new idol of the day—Mr. Canning, most
people would. suppose that he is the man who is
to relieve us from the several burdens of taxes;
poor-rates, &c.—that he is to be the grand ame-
liorator. Now, we do not believe that he will
be any thing of the kind ; it will be found that
when the new Ministry are appointed, every
thing will go on in the old way, and that there
will not be the least alteration made in the taxes,
tithes, poor-rates, or any other burdens undo
e
which•Ns country labours. It is a questiori
whether even the change of Ministry will make I
difference in favour of the gatholics. There is
Sir John Copley—he succeeds Lord .Eldoni
Every body must recollect Sir John's famoui

speech against the Catholics, which stung Mr.
Canning to the quick, and made him angry, even
in the House of Commons. Then there is the
Marquis of Anglesea ; he is to take the place,
of one of the seceders. We all remember the Mar-
quis's furious tirade on the Catholic Question
last year. Here, in two instances, the Catholics
will gain nothing, except Sir John Copley and
the Marquis of Anglesea veer round, and join
Mr. Canning on the Emancipation Question.
As for the people, or the tax-payers, we cannot
see that, let Mr. Canning be possessed of the
greatest skill, their situation can be altered. The
Debt is held sacred-30 millions a year is want-
ed for that. As to the expences of the Army,
Navy, &c.—nothing less than 20 millions will
suffice. Here are 50 millions required. On
the other side of the question, from the state-
ments lately shown, it is ascertained that includ-
ing the one million and a half which will be de-
rived from Lord Bexley's hocus pocus, the Re-
venue will not exceed 50 millions. So that, as
far as the finances are concerned, the present
taxation will only just meet the expenditure, net
leaving one farthing for a Sinking Fund. There
can, therefore, be no paying off the debt ; that
will remain just a: it is. But if the Portuguese
affair proceed, and we send more troops to
that country, which we must do if we mean

to preserve Mr. Canning and Sir Chas. Stuart's
Constitution, it is very likely there will be, by
and by, to be added to the expenditure of the coun-
try three, four, or five millions a year on Mr.
Canning's Portuguese Constitution account. If
the Revenue, therefore, should not increase in

the same proportion, but should remain as it is,
where, financially speaking, shall we be ? Shall
re not be, every year, as many millions minus
as the Portuguese Constitution will cost ? And
how must that be made good but by the old ini-
quitous Pitt system—of borrowing and invent-

.
ing new taxes, to pay interest on loans raised
from the Stock Exchange people—those who
never part with a farthing but on the principle of
good interest, and a bonus on every 1001.—the
same men who, in the days of Mr. Pitt lauded
themselves and him to the skies, and had the assur-
ance to call themselves the Saviours of their
country, while, for every 601. drawn from their
pocket, they took care to take a bond from the
nation of the amount of 1001.—thus clearing
40 per cent. as a bonus, besides obtaining an in-
terest of five per cent. on the money advanced ?
These are the men who cried up themselves and
Mr. Pitt, and they would cry up themselves and
Mr. Canning in like manner, if they could only
get him into a Continental war, and into an
extra expenditure of 50 or 100 millions a-year.
That the late dispersion of the Ministry has been
brought about by fair means, we cannot bring
our minds to believe. If the influence that we
have alluded to had not been had recourse

to, we should think that the explosion has been
brought about something in this way. On the ill-
ness of Lord Liverpool a vacancy occurred, and
we should think that the Cabinet Council met to
deliberate as to who should be Lord Liverpool's
successor in that department. After many deli-
berations, we think it was settled that Lord
Bathurst should succeed, and it is very likely that
the Cabinet dispersed with such an understand-
ing—probably out-voting Mr. Canning and his
party ; ~..
place him at the head of the Ministry, so that
they might carry their plans the easier into execu.-
tion,both with respect to Corn—Catholics—Chan-
cery—Constitutions for the Portuguese, and pro-
bably Spaniards—FreeTrade,Greece,&c. After the
probably out-voting Mr. Canning and his party,
it is likely that Mr. Canning afterwards had an
interview with the King. Then, we think,
came the explosion—then the commands of the
King to Mr. Canning, to make a Ministry, of
which himself, Air. Canning, should be the head.
And it is not improbable that Lord Mountcharles
was to have had a snug place in the new Ministry. The
Kingwas also pleasedat the proposition probably on
the part of Mr. Canning, that the Duke of Clarence
should be at the head of the Navy ; and in case of
the Duke of 'Wellington not agreeing to this new
arrangement, which probably Mr. Canning contem-
plated, that the Duke of Cumberland or Cambridge
should be Commander-in-Chief of the Army. When
the Cabinet found, as it is probable they soon did
find, that their conferences and resolutions had ended
in nothing, and that their friend Canning had bolted
through their formal proceedings, and had turned
every thing topsy-turvy—findingthemselves to have
been probably so out-generalled, it is easy to sup-
pose that, in dudgeon and disgust, they all threw
up their situations. This, we are inclined to think,
was about the working of the thing. On any other
principle we cannot account for so many in every
department, both high and low, all together, and at
the same time, throwing up good places of from one

to 20,0001. a year, besides-the patronage, or the
power of putting their own families, relatives, and
friends into good births in Church and State. There
must have been some bold manoeuvring to have
caused such an universal secession. It ought always
to be bonie in mind that Mr. Canning and Lord
Castlereagh pulled together after the duel ; and we
should recollect Mr. Canning's getting out of the
way fn the Queen's business. But where is Sir
John Leach that he should not be the Chancellor ?
He who has been accustomed to the Equity busi-
ness, which Sir John Copley has not. By the by,
we would recommend the latter to be wary in his
forthcoming decisions, because, if an appeal be
brought to the Lords in any instance, there will be
the subtle, searching, laborious, and, probably, mor-
tified Lord Eldon to scrutinise Sir John's decisions.
There would be also Lord Redesdale to assist Lord
Eldon ; and Lord Redesdale, it is well known, is a
great admirer of Lord Eldon ; and if two or three
only of Sir John's decisions should be upset in the
House of Lords, the suitors would be for sending
their causes there. Hitherto an appeal from Lord
Eldon in the Court of Chancery, to the House of
Lords, has been to Lord Eldon himself; but now
an appeal would be from Sir John Copley to Lord
Eldon, Lord Redesdale, &c., from an inexperienced
Equity Judge, to one of the most subtle and soundest
Equity lawyers that this country ever produced.—
Morning
Herald.
Ths new Ministerial arrangements are now in
such a state of forwardness, that we confidently
hope to be enabled very shortly to announce an
official confirmation of all the appointments, ne-
cessary to the full completion of the Administra-
tion, which we have already stated to have taken
place. The unavoidable delay in the official
promulgation of these arrangements has given
rise to the thoughtless insinuation that difficulties
have been experienced, or that embarrassments
have arisen. To this insinuation we are fully
warranted in giving the most explicit and une-
quivocal contradiction. It is indeed an idea which
could only have sprung up in minds ignorant or
forgetful of the complicated nature of the ar-
rangements to be made, and of the forms which,
under the circumstances of the case, must neces-
sarily precede their final completion. Fairly
considered, it would surely be a more rational
ground of wonder that so much has already been
accomplished, than that something yet remains
to be done. All the energy and promptitude
which the stimulating circumstances of his situa-
tion were calculated to excite in the vigorous and
lofty mind of Mr: Canning, were naturally to be
expected from him at such a crisis ; nor has he,

' or will he, disappoint: so
_just an expectation.
:But it must-be recollected,- that he -has to' work
with natural means, and by. human instruments;
and that it is his bounden duty to be studiona
of utility rather than of effect If an Adminis-
tration perfect in all its parts had sprung up in-
stantaneously at his bidding, the vulgar would
have been struck by the wonder-working power
of the magician ; the 'judicious,' inferring the
train from the explosion, would perhaps have
admired, but would certainly have lamented the
success of the dextrous intriguer. Mr. Canning
is not ambitious of either of these distinctions ;
—he may well be satisfied with the title, to which
his conduct on this important occasion will be
found to have given him new claims, of a bold,
vigorous, and sagacious Statesman. Some offi-
cial announcement upon this subject may pro-
bably be made this day ; but still further delay
must necessarily occur before the whole of the
Ministerial appointments can be published. In
the mean time, however, we have the satisfaction
to state, that if any necessity existed for such a
measure, a perfect Administration, altogether
agreeable to the wishes of his Majesty, and fully
entitled to the respect and confidence of the
country, might be immediately announced ; and
that the present delay is solely to be ascribed to
the desire of leaving an opportunity for any mo-
difications of the existing arrangements which
may be thought expedient, when the views and
wishes of certain distinguished individuals dis-
tant from the seat of Government shall have
been duly communicated.—Morning Post.

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

An appalling instance of the murder of a child by
its own mother, who afterwards attempted to destroy
herself, occurred yesterday in Newington. The fol-
lowing are the particulars of the circumstances at-
' tending the tragical event,,as correctly as we could
ascertain from our inquiries on the spot, after • the
perpetration of the murder :—lt appeared, that be-
tween the hours of seven and eight on the morning
in question, the neighbourhood of East-lane was
thrown into a state of the greatest possible agita-
tion, in consequence of a rumour that a woman
named Mary Brooks, residing in Dean's-buildings,
had murdered her female infant, aged about seven
months, and subsequently attempted to destroy her-
self. The report of the shocking affair having been
conveyed to Messrs. Swift and Howett,the surgeons,
resident near the place, they immediately proceeded
to the house, and on entering the back room on the
second floor, they were shocked on beholding an in-
fant lying on a table in the centre of the room, with
its throat cut in a frightful manner, and the blood
gushing from the recently-inflicted wound. Observ-
ing that the little innocent was completely lifeless,
their attention was drawn to a female, the mother of
the murdered child; she was lying on the floor Nivith
her :throat cut, and two females were holding her
down by force in order to prevent her finally putting
a period to her existence, which she then seemed
bent upon. The unhappy woman appeared to be in
a high state of mental excitement, and frequently
ejaculated, " Oh, my child, my poor child. The
medical gentlemen having examined the wound in
the mother's throat, discovered, although it was of
a most dangerous description, yet the windpipe
escaped injury. The hemorrhage that had taken
place was suppressed by the application of liga-
tures, and the wound was subsequently sewed up.
She was then placed in an easy position, and two
females, attracted to the house by the event, watched
-alver_her_to urearentrthe_nossibility kkfamy_farth...
tempt on her own life. There was found in the room
a razor covered with blood, with which it appeared
she had murdered the child, and afterwards at-
tempted to destroy herself. There has been no
cause yet assigned as to what to attribute the dread-
ful crime, as it seemed the unfortunate woman did
not exhibit any symptons of insanity prior to the cir-
cumstances above detailed. She was married to
her present husband about seven years ago, during
which period they quarrelled and separated several
times—he having accused her of infidelity. About
a month ago, however, a reconciliation took
place between them,.and they were living compara-
tively happy. On the night preceding the catas-
trophe they both retired to rest together, and in the
morning about six o'clock, the hu.sband awoke in
consequence of hearing his wife exelaim several times,
" shall cut my throat." He did not pay much re-
gard to the threat, having heard her frequently use
the same expression on former occasions in a joke.
He, therefore, began to doze again, but was aroused
a second time on hearing her foot about the room,
when, on looking towards the window, he observed
her standing before the glass, with a razor in her
hand, exclaiming, " I shall cut it," and drawing the
instrument across her throat as if in the act. He
instantly jumped out of bed, and seizing the razor,
took it away from her, without her having inflicted
any injury at that time upon herself. During this
period the infant was in the same bed with its pa-
rents. The husband having remonstrated with her
on the folly of her conduct, induced her to return
into bed, after having placed the razor which he took
from her hands under his pillow. He then fell asleep,
neyer suspecting that she would attempt her own life,
much more that of her child. In about half an hour
afterwards, he was again awakened on hearing his
wife exclaim, " I shall murder myself now, for I
have murdered my child," and on rising up in the
bed his feelings received a shock that cannot be de-
scribed, on beholding the little infant at a short dis-
tance from him, in the bed, with its throat cut from
ear to ear, and the unfortunate mother standing in
the middle of the room with the razor in her hand,
in the act of cutting her own throat. He sprang
out of bed, and seizing the fatal instrument from
her hands, called out " murder," and held her in
his arms, the wound in her throat bleeding profusely
until fhe arrival of some of the neighbours, who as-
sisted in preventing her from destroying herself, sub-
sequent to the razor having been taken out of her
grasp, and the arrival of the two medical gentlemen
above-named. Soon after the perpetration of the
murder, Snow, the beadle of Newington, was sent
for, and the wounds in the unfortunate woman's
throat having been dressed, she was given into his
custody, and he conveyed her to Horsemonger-lane
gaol. In the course of the day the prisoner was taken
from thence to Union-hall Police-office in a coach,
and underwent a short examination before the sitting
Magistrate, M. Swabey, Esq., on the charge of
murder. She is rather a well-looking woman, appa-
rently about 30 years of age; the whole front of her
dress exhibited spots ofblood. During the investigation
she appeared to belabouring under pain, particularly
when she coughed, owing to the nature of the in-
juries which she inflicted upon herself. Her husband,
who, we understand, holds a respectable situation in
a mercantile house in the city, was also present; he
seemed to be struggling with the most agonised
feelings, while describing the circumstances, and
frequently burst out into tears during his statement.
The constable who conveyed her from Dean's
buildings to the gaol, stated that on the road thither
she frequently expressed her determination to destroy
herself before the close of the day, exclaiming.
" This shall be a fatal day to me."
Mr. Swift, the surgeon, described the nature of
the wound in the throat," of which the child died.
The trachea, he observed, was divided, and the left
external jugular vein completely severed ; life must
have been extinct almost immediately after the
wound was inflicted.

The Magistrate remanded the prisoner, and gave
strict orders that she should be _placed in the infir-
mary of the gaol and every care taken of her. At
the conclusion of the examination, she stretched out
her hand to her husband, saying, emphathudly, "Oh!
Brooks, it was you provoked me to this."

Miss Love is going to charm the good folk'
of Plymouth, Taunton, and Bridgewater with her hiatrioni
and vocal talents.