The Sun. — 1841-05-17 (London, England)

THE PRESENT RACE OF HUMANITY-MONcEns.—Many persons, who owe all they possess to slavery and the slave trade, have dared to make, and to persist in this monstrous experiment on the gullibility of the people of England. Take our own Gladstones as an example. Mr. Gladstone the elder was in his time the staunch champion of slavery. He maintained that there was nothing in it contrary to Christianity—that its existence was authorised and acknowledged by the Holy Scriptures—that the slaves in the West India colonies were kindly treated ; and in one of his letters on the subject, if we mistake not, he even went so far as to palliate, if not to defend, the custom of branding the names or initials of the owners in the flesh of human beings ! This he did on the ground that the operation was performed with great care, and with a silver tool—not with a redhot branding instrument of any base metal. Mr. Gladstone, too, was the prime mover in the Hill Cooly traffic. the proved atrocities of which were not a whit less appalling than the horrors of the middle passage ; and he now, we believe, engaged in the cultivation of sugar in the East Indies, the labour of which is performed by men in a condition but one degree removed from absolute slavery. From such sources Mr. Gladstone the elder has, derived the greater part of his enormous wealth, and vet we have Mr. Gladstone the younger standing up in -his place in the House of Commons, and declaring befor( Parliament and the world, that he has the utmost horror of slavery, and that on the ground of humanity alone ht refuses his assent to the proposition of her Majesty's Government. The same ground has been taken by all the speakers on the same side. Its shallow hypocris:: was admirably exposed by Sir George Grey on Tuesda:,night, and that in a manner which drew forth some candid and not less curious admissions from Mr. Irving, one of the new sect of humanity-mongers. Mr. Irving, i• will be seen, more than hints that some of the active members of the Anti-Slavery Society-, are themselve, working negro slaves in tho mines of Brazil, and perhaps, this revelation, coupled with other facts of the like na• ture, will have the effect of opening the eyes of the honest, consistent, and conscientious members of that body to the gross fraud and delusion, towards the perpetration of which some of them seem disposed to lend their aid.—Liverpool Mercury. MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN —A desperate assault was committed within this week at Epsom. A constable of the V division has been so maltreated by a most respectable tradesman's son, and a number of other persons, that, his life is despaired of. An examination tool, place on Thursday before Baron do Teissier and Mr. Goss. Magistrate's for the county of Surrey. The Mag'stratos proseeded with the further examination of George Gardom, upholsterer, High-street, Epsom ; George Edes, tile maker: James Phipps and John Ratcliffe, recruits in the 89th FoiA, and Charles Fincher labourer. The prisoner Edes being charged with assaulting and wounding Joseph Russell, police constable 269 V, l'hipps and Ratcliffe with attempting to rescue a prisoner from the said Joseph Bus,,ell ; Csardom with assaulting and resisting the police in the execution of their duty, and Fincher with beinff drunk and as,aulting the police. The prisoners Gardom and Ides had been bailed, themselves in 100/. and two sureties for each in 501. ; they surrendered. The complainant having been sworn, detailed the particulars of the outrage, which was of a very savage character. After some further evidence, Baron Teissivr said, in the nuttertatn state this constable is now in, I cannot send you for trial, but must remand you until something decisive has taken place. You, Gardom and Edes, will not be again admitted to bait, but be committed with the rest at once to Kingston Gant, there to await your re-examination After the prisoners werc removed, the father 4.f Gardom offered bail to the extent of many thousands for security for his sen's appearance. He was dread fully affected. He said the prisoner was his only son, and his being sent to prison would break both his own and his mother's heart. The Bench lamented they could not alter their decision.