The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-15 00:00:00

authorising the issue of Treasury notes to the
amount of 6,000,000 dollars, in lieu of that
amount of the loan authorised at the present
session, had been passed. A law has been
passed, too, giving to the Supreme Court of
the United States full jurisdiction in all ques-
tions in which the United States, or any one of
them, is involved with foreign Powers. The
MgLEon case, then, has compelled them to
settle this important point in the Constitution of
the United States. That the matter was
left without a provision was a reproach
to the Americans, and now that it is
provided for, it will be a means of avoid-
ing disputes with other countries. Congress
was to adjourn immediately after the departure
of the packet.

Some of the papers contain reports that
Mexico was immediately to invade Texas, and
perhaps attack Galveston, and that the Texans
were to invade Mexico; but nothing very definite
appears in the Journals.
We see with great pleasure that the British
Government has presented six gold medals,
bearing the portrait of the QUEEN, to six Captains
of American ships, for their exertions in saving
the lives of British seamen. We cordially echo
the words in which the receipt of one of these
was acknowledged on the behalf of Captain
CROPPER, formerly of the packet ship, Columbus:

Such rewards of such deeds most truly tend to " peace
on earth," and to bind nations in one common bond of
brotherhood, and are hearty auxiliaries of glorious trea-
ties like that, full of " glad tidings" to two happy people,
which you, Sir, and a noble British Minister, have lately
had the eternal of concluding between two of the
mightiest nations on the globe, mother and daughter,
whose seamen, I pray, will for ever hereafter meet to
save, and not to destroy, each other upon the high seas,
,_:-All this news is extremely favourable, and we
have great hopes, from seeing such a disposition
on both sides of the Atlantic, that other disputes
ands other questions may also be honourably
adjiuned.;

Publimngetings seen, to have had their day
in Eng!awl, and are probably now to be num-
bered with the things that are passed. There
has been an insurrection, all classes have been
excited or alarmed,,. the state of' the country has
been and is deplwable, and yet, beside the
attempts at K ennitittan-common, at Clerkenwell,
and the meeting At White Conduit House, the
public have not assembled in parishes, boroughs,
or counties, in the old Constitutional form, to
take these peculiar and _striking circumstances
into consideration. The City- has not lifted up
its voice, Westminster has been dumb, Bir-
mingham was constrained to-be silent, and the
counties
11-irn-out than if it had happened at Japan.
9evertheless it has made knoWii-to the co-
w that the manufacturing pottlation is in
a eAtadition which is at once linaMii:.ting and
alarming; that sometl:ing must be4OFte, or it
611 remain full of terror; but even that has not
roused community to any manifesliHtion 01
opinion.' 'The wish of the Chartists wolf „seem
to be fullyAcratified, and public meetir.4s,9o_ce
denounced-45., a • farce by the Duke of -Wit.'
LINGTON, are, it seems, not to be held, since.4l
Charter is nbVtalie law of the land. .;

The f•ar of increasing the excitement 11.3.1
bahly contribtifectW. the result, but it has. been,
partly caused by :tl:ie confidence generally .miter-
tallied in the autimtities, and partly by a -coovic-
tion that those whnlifte paid to govern the coun-
try must perform thleii- duty, without any ;addi-
tional help from the paj'ing people.. There' is a
growing- disposition amongst us to trust every-
thing to Magistrates, -Mihisters, and the Legis-
lature. Probably this is expedient for the! mo-
meat ; but the disposition is the reverse of
patriotism, and begets a conduct totally oppiised
to that by which our forefathers preserved and
obtained those rights, which they handed down
to !us.

• When such unbounded
.confidence is reposed,
it is not surprising that it should, Sometimes be
seriously trespassed on ; but the confiding people
have scarcely any right to complain that the .per-
sons on whom they so implicitly rely Come to deem
their own convenience of paramount importance.
ft is for the ease of the authorities that their power
should be unchecked, and nothing should be
done of which they have not the cogniiance and
control. Hence Sir J. GRAHAM found it right.
to place ail public meetings under the control of
a police constable; and hence the Rev.T. S. MiLts,
a Magistrate fbr the West Riding of Yorkshire,
has informed the branch association at Delph,•
Saddleworth, of the British Association for tire
encouragement of Temperance, that temperance
meetings are illegal, and must not be held. The
Magistrates will willingly fall in with the public I
alarm at an assemblage of the people; they have
already, in several cases, taken means to prevent
them ; and they will readily combine with the
Chartists to make public meetings be spoken of
as things passed away. •
In reply to the Branch Association at Delph,
Mr. BRIGHT, of Rochdale, the President. of the
British Association, has asserted that it is
Com-
petent fbr the Branch to hold its meetings; and
he recommends them .to be held. If they are
interrupted, Mr. BRIGHT tells the Branch it has
its remedy by action.. It is, however, a very
hazardous thing to rely on an action against Ma-
gistrates, and the propriety may be doubted of
first investing the Magistrates with unbounded
confidence, and then appealing from their deci-
sions. It will be something like what is now oc-
curring in the United States, where a large party
complains bitterly that the PRESIDENT has exer-
cised the Veto which the Constitution has intrusted
him with on purpose to be exercised when he sees
fit. To call in question the acts of the authori-
ties when the public asks so much at their hands,
and is resolved to place such great power at their
command, is scarcely consistent. We are afraid
Mr. BRIGHT will not find general support.
From all that we can learn, there is at present a
disposition to acquiesce in whatever the authori-
ties think right—to regard the public security as
dependent on their will being implicitly obeyed;
and if- the authorities say that Temperance So-
cieties are illegal, the public will support them,
we are afraid, in saying that temperance meet-
ings shall not be held. We regret that any
Magistrate should form such an opinion, and
should impede the meetings ofsuch useful societies.
We regret, too, that the public should feel so
much alarm at assemblages of the people; but
while it is felt, any measures to prevent them are
likely to be tolerated.