The Sun. — London, England, 1858-04-29 00:00:00

FUTTIBB POLICY TOTVA.RDS THE INDIAN REBELS. Yesterday morning was issued a. return to an order of the Rouse of Lords, requiring a copy of a letter from the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to the Go vernor-General of India in Council, dated the 24th March, 1858, relative to the policy to be pinned towards the natives of provinces lately in a state of hostility. The letter is as follows : " The Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to the Governor- General of India in Council, March 14, 1858. " The telegram from Calcutta, dated the 23d ult., which arrived this morning, conveys intelli gence of the concentration of the force under the Commander-in-Chief, and of that under Jung Ba badoor, upon Lucknow ; and we trust we may in dulge the expectation that ere this that city has been evacuated by the rebels, and that no consider able corps remains united against us in the field. " 2. If this happy result should have been at tained it will be very satisfactory to us to l e arn that you have deemed yourself sufficiently strong to be enabled to act towards the people with the genero sity as well as the justice which are congenial to the British character. "3. Crimes have been committed against us which it would be a crime to forgive, and s s orn h e large exceptions there mus t be, of t he per o s guilty of such crimes, from any act of am nesty which could be gr anted ; but it mu st be as impos sible as it would be abhorrent from our feelings to inflict the extreme penalty which the law might Strictly award upon all who have swerved from their allegiance. " 4. To us it appears that, whenever open resist ance shall have ceased, it would be prudent', in awar ding punishment, rather to follow the practice which prevails after the conquest of a country which bas defended itself to the last by desperate war, than that which may perhaps be lawfully adopted after the suppression of mutiny and rebellion—such acts always being exempted from forgiveness or mi tigation of punishment as have exceeded the licence of legitimate hostilities. " 5: While we may be unable to forget the in sanity which during the last 10 months has per vaded the army and a large portion of the people, we should at the same time remember the previous fidelity of a hundred years, and so conduct our selves towards those who have erred as to remove their delusions and their fears, and re-establish, if we can, that confidence which was so long the foundation of our power. " 6. It would be desirable that in every case the disarming of a district, either by the seizure of arms or by their surrender, should precede the ap plication to it of any amnesty ; but there may be circumstances which would render expedient a dif ferent course of proceeding. Upon these excep tional cases you and the officers acting under your orders must decide. " 7. The disarming of a district having been effected, with exceptions under your licence in fa vour of native gentlemen whose feelings of honour would be affected by being deprived of the privi lege of wearing arms, and of any other persons in whom you may confide, we think the possession of arms should be punished in every case by a severe penalty ; but unless the possession of arms should be combined with other acts, leading to the conclu sion that they retained them for the perpetration of crimes VIM penalty should not be death. 01 course the possession of arms by Englishmen mint always t main lawful. "8, Death has of lAtebeentoo common a punish ment. It loses whatever terror it might otherwise have when so indiscriminately applied ; but, in fact, in India there is commonly no fear of death, although there ever must be a fear of pain. "9. In every amnestied district the ordinary ad ministration of the law should, as soon as possible, be restored. " 10. In carrying these views into execution you may meet with obstructions from those who, mad dened by the scenes they have witnessed, may de sire to substitute their own policy for that of the GoVernment ; but persevere firmly in doing what you may think right, make those who would coun tz,ract you feel that you are resolved to rule, and that you will be served by none that will not obey. "11. Acting in this spirit you may rely upon our unqualified support. ATLANTIC TELE9RAPH. levers, which act upon the brake. Thus the officer in charge of the apparatus stands by this wheel, and, watching the register of strain or pitch of the vessel, opens the brakes by the slightest movement of his hand, and lets the cable run freely as the stern rises. The same officer, however, cannot by any possible method increase the actual strain on the cable, which must remain always according to the friction at which the brake is first adjusted by the engineer. During the last two or three days that this machine has been at work the value and simplicity of the whole apparatus have been made out so manifest that it is evi dent, as far as the paying-out machine is concerned, all that mechanical skill can effect in aid of the has been accomplished. Too greatmuch praise undertaking cannot be given to Mr. Appold for the manner in which he has thus overcome the difficul ties he had to contend against. Both the Niagara and the Agamemnon will each be fitted with one of these paying-out machines, which, of course, when n ected with and turned by steam, can be used cou for the purpose of under-running or drawing back the cable in case of any hitch rendering such a rather dangerous operation necessary. As we intimated some time since, a preliminary expedition—if we may so term it—will start from this country about the middle of next month, when bath the Agamemnon and Niagara will steam away into deep water, and then try a variety of experi ments connected with submerging the cable, with a view of ascertaining practically the value of this new apparatus, and also how far some suggestions which have been made with regard to buoying it at intervals can be carried out. During this brief ex perimental cruise every known test which can be attempted to prove the efficiency of the paying-out machines, and those for under-running, dra., will be resorted ta, and the result of the experience thus obtained applied to improving any little de fects which may exist in the apparatus before the final starting of the expedition in June next. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOUSE OF LORDS-APRIL 27. OATHS BILL-(IN COMYHTTEE.) Moved, to omit clause V.—(The Lord Chancellor) :—On question, " Whe.,her the said clans. shall stand part of tho bill I—Contents, 80 ; Not-Contents, 119. CONTENTS. DUKES.I Munster De Tabley Cleveland St. Gormains Ebury Devonshire Spencer Foley (teller) Newcastle Zetland Glenelg Norfolk VISCOUNTS. Hathorton Somerset Eversley Hamden Wellington Hutchinson Lyndhurst MARQUISES. S Tatford deßedcliffeMacaulay Anglesey Sydney Monteagle Breadalbane BISHOPS. Monteagle of Brand. Lansdowne Carlisle Mostyn Towshend Hereford Oriel Westminster St. David's Overstone EARLS. LORDS. Petra Abingdon Ashburton Ponsonby (teller) Airlie Audley Portman Albemarle Belper Rivers Carlisle Boyle Saye and Sale Clarendon Camoys Sefton Cowper Campbell Skene Ducie Chaworth Somerhill Durham Chesham Stanley of Alderley Essex Clandeboye Stewart of Stewart's Fitzwilliam Congleton Court Fortescue Cranworth Smieley Granville Dec re Sundridge Grey Dartrey Truro Huntingdon De Manley Wensleydale Minto Denman Wrottesley NOT-CONTENTS. Canterbury, Arch. Lanesborough . '" LORDS. Chelmsford (Lord Lonsdale Abinger Chancellor) Lucan Bagot DUKES. Malmesbury Bateman Beaufort Mayo Berners Buckingham and Nelson Braybrooke Chandos Orkney Brodrick Manchester Pomfret calthorpe Marlborough Romney Castlemaine Northumberland Sandwich Churchill Rutland Seafield Clanbrassill Manquiszs. Selkirk Clements Abercorn Shaftesbury Clifton Bath (teller) Stamford and War- Clinton Cholmondeley riugton Colchester Exeter Strathmore Colville of Culcross Salisbury Talbot Crewe EARLS. Verulam Crofton Amherst Wilton De Ros Bantry VISCOUNTS. Digby Beauchamp Bolingbroke and St. Dinevor Belmore John Downes Bradford Combermere Feversham Brooke & Warwick Do Vesci Forester Cadogan Donerailo Grantley Cardigan Dungannon Grinstead Carnarvon Falmouth Kenyon Cawdor Hardinge Lovel and Holland Chesterfield Hill Polwarth Dartmouth Lifford Rayleigh De La Warr Melville Redesdale Denbigh St. Vincent Sandys Derby Bisuors. Scarsdale Desert Bangor Sheffield Doncaster Cashel, &c. Sondes Effingham Chichester So athampton Ellenborough Exeter Templemore Ferrers Llandaff Tentorden Graham Oxford Teynbam Hardwicko Ripon Walsingham Harriugton Rochester Willoughby do Hillsborough St. Asaph Broke Howe Winchester Wynford HOUSE OF COMMONS—Aram 28. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS BILL. Order for second reading read ; motion made, and ques tion proposed, " That the bill be now read a second time :"—amendment proposed, to leave out - the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words "upon this day six months." Question put, "That the word ' now' stand part of the question." The house divided ; Ayes, 135 ; Noes, 211. AYES-135. Ewing, Crum Fagan, W. Few. ck, H. Finlay, A. Fitzgerald, J. Foley, J. H. Foljambe, Francis Forster, Charles Foster, W. 0. Fortescue, Hon. F. Freestun, Colonel Garnett, William Glyn, G. Grace, 0. Greenall, Gilbert Greer, Samuel Gregson, Samuel Gray, Captain Hadfield, George Hamilton, Capt. Hardcastle, Joseph Barris, J. D. Hay, Lord John Headlam. T. Henchy, D. Holland, E. Hutt, W. Jackson, W. Kershaw, J. Kirk, W. Langston, J. 11. Langton, H. G. Lewis, Sir G. C. Lincoln, Earl of lecke, Jot. Mt:worthy, Alex. M`Cann, J. Mac Evoy, E. Mackie, J. Mackinnon, W. Maguire, J. F. Mainwaring, T. Marsh, Si. Marshall, William Matneson,Sir J. 31etior, John NOES-251. Adderley, C. B. Ferguson, Colonel Newdegate, C. Adeane, H. Vole e, H. W. Newport, Viscount Alexander, J. Forester, Col. Noel, G. Arbuthnott, Gen. H. Forster, Sir Gee. Norris, J. T. Archdall, Capt. M. Frozer, Sir W. North, Col. J. Ashley, Lord Gallwey, Sir W. Paget, Lord A. Baillie, H. Galway, Viscount Pakenham, Colonel Ball, E Gard, R. Pakington, Sir J. Baring, A. Gaskell, J. Palk, L. Bernard, T. Gavin, Major Palmer, R. Bathurst. A.:A. Glyn, G. Palmer. It. W. Beach, W. Goddard, A. Paull, Henry Beaumont, W. Gederich, Viscount Pechell, Sir G. Beecrott, G. Graham, Sir J. Peel, Gen. Bennet, Capt. P. Greaves, E. Pennant, Col. E. Bentinck, G. Greenwood, John Percy, J. Beresford, Rt. lin. W. Gl:ffith, C. Philipps, J. Berkeley, F. Grogan. Edward Portman, W. Blackburn, Peter Gurdon, Brampton Powell, Francis Botfleld, B. Gurney, J. H. Power, N. Bouverle, Hon. E. P. Gurney, Samuel Pugh, D. Bovill, W. Hall, General John Puller, Christopher Brady, J. Hamilton, Lord Claud Rebow, J. Bramley- Moore ,J. Hamilton, G. A. Rust, James Bridges, Sir B. Hamilton, J. Sandon, Viscount Briscoe, John Banbury, Robert Slater, George Bruce, alajor Handley, H. Scott, Major Bulkeley, Sir R. Barmier, Sir John Seyrner, li. Hurler, J. W. El ardy, G. Shelley, Sir J. Bunbury, NV. B. II irtin4ton, Marquis Shirley, It. Burghley, Lori II Issard, Michael Smith, U. Burr ell, Sir C Ileatheote, G. Smith, A. Buxton, Sir E. N. Henley, J. Smith, Sir T. Byng, G. 11. C. Henniker, Lord Smyth, Col. Cairns, 11. Hodgson, K. Somerset, Colonel Calcraft, J. Hopwood, John Spooner, R. garden, Sir R. IV. Hornby, W. Stanhope, J. Cardwell, E Hotham, Lord Stapleton, John Cartwright, 11. Hudson, G. Steel, John Ca 3 ley, E. S. Hunt, G. W. Stirling, W. Charlesworth, J. C. D. Ing I ii, John Steuart, A.. Cheetham, John Johnstone, li. B. sturt, H. Child, Smith Johnstone, Sir J. Strut, C. Cholmeley, Sir M. Jolliffe, Sir W. Sullivan. Michael Churchill, Lord A. Jolliffa, 11. Talbot, C. Clark. J. Kendall, N. Taylor , Colonel Clinton, Lord R. King, J. Taylor, S. Close, M. Ring, Edward Thornhill, W. Cole, 11. A. Kinglake, J. Tolemache J. Colebrooke, Sir E. Kln,gscote, Capt. R. Trefusis, C. Corry, H. T. L. Knatchbull, W. Vance, John Cross, R. A. Knatchbull-Humeseen Vaasittart, G. Curzon, Viscount Kught, F. * Vansittart, W. Dalkeith, Earl Kiiightley, R. Verner, Sir W. Davie, Sir H. R. F. Langton, W. G. Waddington, 11. Davison, R. Laslett, W. Walcott, AdruiraL Denison, W. 11. Lefroy, Anthony Walpole. S. De Vere, S. E. Lennox, Lord H. G. Walsh, Sir J. Disraeli, B. Liddell, H. G. Warre, John Dod, J. Lis'iurne, Earl Wegaelin, T. Drummond, 11. Leong, W. We:by, W. Duncombe, Thomas Lovaine, Lord Westhead, Joshua. Duncombe, A. Lowther, Col. H. C. Whiteside, J. Duncombe, ilon.W E. Luce, T. Whitmore. H. Hondas, G. Lygon, lion. F. Willcox, B. Du Pre, C. Lytton, Sir E. Williams, B. Dutton, Hon. R. 11. Mac.irtney, George IVilliams, W. East, Sir J. Macaulay, Kenneth Willoughby, Sir U. Edwards, Henry M'Clintock, John Willson, A. Egerton, Sir P. Manners, Lord J. Wingfield, R. Egerton, W. Martin, C. - Wooed, B. Egerton, Edw. C Maxwell, J. Wyndham, General Ellice, E. Melgund. Lord Wynn, Col. Ellice, E. Miler, Taverner Wynne, J. A. Elliott, J. E. Miller, stearne Wynn:, W. Elm ey, Viscount M Fontgomery, Sir G. Yorke, r. Emlyu, Viscount Moody, C. Young, A. Estcourt, T. Morgan, 0. Farnham, E. Mowbray, J. R. Fariuhar, Sir M. Naas, Lord Fellowes, E. Neeld, John Pack°, C. Fergus, Join Newark, Viscount Du Cane, C. Agnew, Sir A. Akroyd, E. Anderson, Sir J. Bagshaw. Robert Bagwell, John Bailey, C. Baines, Rt. Hon. M. Barnard, Thomas Bass, M. Baxter, W. Beale, S. Biddulph, Col. R. M. Biggs, John Black, Adam B ake, J. Bouverie, Hon. P. Brown, W. Buchanan, Walter Buckley, Gen. Butler, C. S. Campbell, R. Cavendish, W. Clay, James Clive, George Codrington, Corbally, M. E. Cowan, C. Cox, W. Crawford, R. W. Crossley, F. Dalglish, R. Davey, R. Deasy, R. Dent. John lleverosua, J. Duff, M. puff, L. Duke, Sir J. Dunbar, Sir W. Dunne. M. ElCho, Lard Elton, Sir A. IL Esinonde, J. Evans, T. W. Swart, W. E wart, J. Miles, W. Milnes, R. Moncreiff, J. Morris, D. Napier, Sir C. Nicoll, D. Paget, C. Paget, Lord C. Patten, Col. Pease, Henryl Philips, R. Pllkington, J. Pinney, Col. Potter, Sir J. Price, W. Pritchard, J. Ramsden, Sir J. Ridley, George Robartes, T. Rushout, Capt. G. Russell, H. Russell, A. Smith, J. 11. Stewart, Sir M. Stuart, Lord J.' Thompson, General Thornely, T. Trelawny, Sir J. Truman, C. Turner, J. A. Villiers, C. Vivian, H. H. Waldron, Laurence Wattpona. Col. Our readers will recollect that a few weeks since we mentioned that the plan of the new paying-out machine to be used in the next attempt to submerge this gigantic cable was in course of construction at the works of Messrs. Easton and Amos, and likely to be brought to a successful completion. We are glad to say that it has now been perfectly finished, and during the last day or two has been in full ope ration, and fitted with a ahor6 length of tbo con to illustrate practically its mode of working, the facilities which it affords for paying-out the rope, and the simple but efficient manner in which the jerk on the wire, caused by the sudden rise of the vessel to a heavy sea, is almost entirely obviated. During the short time that it has been at work in the yard of Messrs. Easton and Amos it has been daily inspected by the chief engineers and me chanists in the kingdc m, whose criticisms and sug gestions for improvement were freely invited by the board of directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Com pany ; but, up to the present time, no suggestion affecting either the principle or working of the machine has been made, and it is generally con sidered that, as far as the rather limited experience on the subject of laying down deep sea cables ex tends, the whole apparatus may at present be re garded as perfect. Ordinarily in matters of this kind it is useless attempting to convey to the general reader by mere verbal description an accurate impression of the principle of a machine by describing in technicalities its many and complex fittings. In this instance, however, the main feature, and upon which all else in a paying out machine entirely depends—the 46 brake"—is pretty generally known, and the otht r portions of the apparatus are of so simple acharacter as scarcely to need more than mentioning. The whole of the important part of the machine, then, may be said to consist of Appold's self-regulating brake, which is so adjusted and so constructed as always to exert a certain amount of resist ince (which Can be regulated) by the revolution of 'the wheels to which it is applied. More then this fixed amount of resistance, whatever it may be, it cannot pro duce, no matter whether the machine is hot or dry, or covered with sand, and neither can it he worked at less than this amount, no matter to what extent all the friction surfaces of the wooden brake itself may be oiled. This well-known brake was first ex hibited in the Great Exhibition of 1851 in the new labour machine constructed for prisons, in order to insure a certain amount of work from each convict. For this hard-labour purpose the brake is still extensively employed. It is made of bars of wood laid lengthways across the edge of the wheel, over which it laps down firmly, and on to which it is held with massive weights fixed to the ends of levers. It is the number and size of these weights which regulate precisely the degree of r, sistance to the revolutions of the wheel, and which, of course, enable those in charge of the machine to fi x t h e pressure of the brake at what they please, and when once so fixed nothing can alter it. In the present paying-out machine this brake is attached over two drums connected with the two main grooved wheels round which the actual cable passes in running out. These latter are simply broad, solid iron wheels, each cut with four very deep grooves, in which the cable rests, to prevent it fly ing up or " overriding." It passes over these two main wheels, not in a double figure of eight, as in the old ponderous machine of four wheels, but simply round over one, on to and round the ther, and so on four times, till it is finally paid down into the water. Tons, then, the wire will be wound up from the hold of the vessel, pass four times over the double main wheels, which, as we have said, are each connected with the brake or friction drums, past the register which indicates its rate of paying out and strain upon the cable, and then at once into the deep. The strain at which the cable brakes is 62cwt., and to euerd against any chanc e of mishap not more than half' this strain will ever be put upon it. The brakes, as a rule, wPI be fixed t(? give a strain of about 16cwt., and the force re quired to keep the machine going, or about Bcwt. more, is the utmost that will be allowed to come upon the wire. Thus the force required to sever the cable can never be exerted even by accident or mishap, no matter who may be in charge of the machine nor how the vessel may pitch and roll. The brake of the paying-out machine used on the occasion of the last attempt was capable, by a movement of the hand, of ex.... 1 ting the most pro digious resistancerto the: turning of the wheel, and invent this formidable r was used with so little care that not until he the danger seen. The chief was irreparable was w e i f il beauty, however, of the new machine is that, can add to I the fixed strain of the brakes t e h rl e i t y l a ote g , no ma' ter who, can in a moment ease much as he is th no re thinks necessary, and until, in fact, s tl sistance at all, beyond the Bcwt. straineroen e wits's% which, as we have said, is requi re d to keep machine turning. So simple is the operatio too, by which this important relief can be effected that a child could even remove the whole resistance of the brake and put it on again as often as 20 or 30 times in the course of a single minute. For this purpose, at a few feet from the paying-out ma chine, the cable passes over a wheel which registers precisely the strain in pounds at which the coil is running out. Facing this register is a. steering wheel, precisely similar to that of an ordinary ves• eel, and connected in the game way with compound -- Whatman, J. Whitbread, S. White, James Wickham, H. Wilson, J. Millington, Sir T. Woods, Henry Wyvill, 31. TELLERS. Caird, J. Lindsay, W. TELLERS. rADVEITTEEMENT. ]— SIGHT AND HEARING -- SPECTACLES— Powsltrui. TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PRRSPECTIVR Grasses.—S. and B. Solomon, optic'ans, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W. By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for va'uable and ex traordina •yr improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes posses 4 such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moon., Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles distant and an object from L 6 to 20 miles. For the waist coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. —A valu able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every pur pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They aro invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera. Camp, Perspe c ti ve , an d P aco-course Glasses, w ith won d er ful powers. - Invaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. Tue great adva 'tags derived from this invention is, that vision impaired teoomes pre served and strengthened and very aged perEoas are enabled ta employ their sight at th e mos t m i nute occupat i on—can see with those lenses of a much less magnifying power—and they do not require the frequ en t changes to the dal:. geroas 'effects of furtt'er powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the mo 0 remote part of the world by send ing one of the glasses out ,at their spectac'es in a letter, and stating the dist ince from the eye they can read small rrint with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Deafness.— Ne w Disco very.--The Oiganie Vibrator, an extraordicariiy powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all others, surpassing anything of the kind that has bean, or probably can be, produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinct lyal church and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of sinoing . noisesin the ears is entirev removed, and it aßards all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39, A Ike marle•street, Piccadilly—Opposite the York Hotel, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, lB5B. anything of provincial life can testify, of decora ting the fabric of their churches. Church-revival is a great fact—architecturally, at all events, if not spiritually. Rational people will be well disposed to agree with Mr. Walpole, that the time has come when the jealousy of the law should no longer be allowed to interfere with this particular develop ment of pious munificence. There can be no well grounded objection to repeal so much of the Mort main Acts as may now operate to preclude parties from making voluntary provision for the repair of the church fabric. If compulsory rating were abolished, andtheartificial restrictions upon private munificence removed, does any one seriously believe that the least difficulty would be experienced in maintaining our churches in efficient repair ? The more probable result would be, that if the matter were left to individual exertion, thousands would be readily contributed where hundreds are now with_diffieulty raised. A compulsory rate is prac tically incompatible with free-will offerings. Where men must pay, they won't give. Let it once be understood that the maintenance of church fabrics was left to the voluntary liberality of churchmen, with no legal impediment to its free exercise, and no candid person can for a moment doubt as to the result. _ _ _ _ There are those who profess their inability to un derstand "how we can have a National Church establishment without some provision (i. e., com pulsory provision) for the repair of places of wor &ship." The difficulty hardly deserves a serious solution. We must have such a Church Establish ment as is practically possible, not such as is logically and theoretically complete. In numbers of parishes at the present day no rate can, or ever again will, be levied for the repair of places of wor ship. In every point, except being repaired by rate, those places of worship belong to the National Church Establishment. Does the circumstance that they are not repaired by rate prevent them from being national? Surely the great end of a National Church is to promote in the nation that spirit of peace and goodwill which is the essence of the gospel teaching. If the compulsory levy of a rate for the repair of those fabrics, which could be otherwise maintained, is hostile, nay, is fatal, to this spirit, does not the argument derived from the notion of a National Church wholly fail ? • Which is it most desirable to keep up, the logical consistency of ideas, or the practical harmony of facts ; to be con sequential and quarrelsome, or inconsequential and free from strife ; to set our Christianity above our metaphysics, or our metaphysics above our Chris tianity ? Church-rates may, or may not, be es len tial to the logical notion of a National Establish ment ; but we all know that the attempt to enforce them on conscientious objectors is grossly inconsis tent with the spiritual notion of a Christian Church. It has also been represented as unreasonable to uphold a provision for the payment of the clergy, and to have none for the maintenance of the churches. This argument is, of course, not in tended for those who, as advocates of the volun tary principle, object to all compulsory payments either for clergy maintenance or church repair. It is meant for those who, acquiescing in Tithes, ob ject to Church-rates. Even with this class it can have uo weight. The mere fact that Tithes, as now settled, are not made the subjects of general pro test, and that Church-rates are, creates a suffi ciently wide practical difference between the two cases. But it does not rest there. Much may be said in favour of Tithes regarded only as a.national provision for a national clergy, which cannot lie urged with any truth in favour of Church-r,tes. It is well that the teacher should not depend too entirely upon those whom he teaches for the means of subsistence. Subserviency, oratorical display, the unceasing necessity of finding new sources of excitem-nt, are among the objectionable results of a system which makes the pay of the preacher depend on his popularity. The system of a State provision for the clergy, has many faults of its own, but it avoids these. There is much to ba said on both sides. If the thing were to do again from the beginning it would, no . doubt, be differently done ; as it is there is no serious desire in any quarter to alter or re-adjust the last settlement of the Tithe vestion. But no one con tends that the compulsory system of supporting Church fabrics has any inherent fitness in it in corn parison'to the voluntary system. And besides itis, at the; present moment, it long has been, and, as it lasts, will manifestly continue to be, a fertile source of disquietude, vexation, and strife. Is it wise, is it Christian, is it tPe part of a prudent Churchman or an enlightened statesman to per petuate this bitterness and ilt-feeling for the sake of some 300,000/ a-year, which the voluntary exec ti,m of Churchmen is abundaatly coinpAent to supply ? L 9.1 V INTELLIGENCE.-April 28. COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before the L'ml Chancellor and the Lords Justices of Appeal.) VINEY V. CHAPLIN% This part-heard appeal from a decision of Vice- Chancellor Kindereley was this morning resumed. The facts of the case were that the defendant, John Chaplin, was the mortgagee in fee, with power of sale, of four messuages—viz., No. 2,3, 4, and 5, Darnley-road, Gravesend, as sole acting executor of the will of the late Alderman Harmer. By a contract in writing, dated the 15th of Oct., 1857, and duly signed by the defendant and endorsed on certain printed particulars and conditions of sale, the defendant agreed to .sell the messuages in ques tion in fee to the plaintiff, James Viney, for 9001., subject to the conditions of sale. By the third con dition the purchase money was to be paid to the vendor, at the office of Mr. Steele, No. 1, Lincoln's inn-fields, on or before the 11th of November, 1857. The abstract of title was delivered in due c iurse, certain arrangements were made relative to an outstanding judgment, the plaintiff accepted the title, and on the 24th of December, 1857, the conveyance was sent to Adam R. Steele, the • defendant's solicitor, for approval. The convey ance was approved and returned, and after some little delay, in consequence of the closing of the stocks iu which the purchase money was invested, the eneronments were sent to the defendant's soli citor. 23th of Dec., 1857, Messrs, Temple and Winds - q . , the plaintiff's solicitors, by letter to the defendant's solicitor, intimated that they would be obliged by his preemeng the attendance of the defendant at the completion of the purchase. The - Oa the dpreefe:udeaen,t'asn.saola.ictittoiriedsecunheledtutLailnlotiwmahtienad(ttilLetdheo fondant) to execute the conveyance in the plaintiff's a letter - intended bringing an action for the purchase money, such intimation being accompanied by s t a ti n g that he had obtained Chaplin' s execu ti on of the deeds. T his p rodu c e d a remonstrance, re quiring not only that the def,nclant should e x ecu t e tl rhopresence of th e pl a i n tiff and his solicitor,i the purchase m oney s h ou l d be h personally. In ans wer t to ee t n this letter in actually t b te ll r s that Steele paid to him stated that they were riot en titled to what they asked, and the plaintiff's solici tors offered to refer the points to arliitratioa ; but the threatened action was brought in the Exche quer for the purchase money, and the plaintiff served with process in the usual way. On the 4th of January, at the plaintiff and his sol ic it or at -1 te Bs, office of Mr. Steele, and an account of the t iiarsy t clase money, interest, bled costs, amount inge li to , was handed to them ; but the a e t 6i r L l il 8 de fendant not being in attendance, they left. . They then proceeded to the residence of the defendant, but not being able to see him, left a me sage in writing, stating that they had come to tender him the 965/. 5e., which they had brought with them. They again called on the following day with the same object ; but the defendant, although at home as alleged, refused to see them, stating by a message that his solicitor had the conveyances executed, and would deliver them upon payment of the purchase money, or to that effect. On Ja n . 8 , 1858 , th e plaintiff Viney wrote to the defendant requesting that he would meet him, as he preferred paying the purchase money to him personally, but this letter was returned unopened. A correspondence then ttapdretsoentthseuitacfotirosni;ecairfirdc performance,stibeueiitly took piece between the solicitors, and plaiutiff was I °. n b :t7t e u ci te t cl o and for an injunction to restrain the action, mak ing Mr. Steele, the defendant's solicitor, a defea dant. The Vice-Chancellor gramted au injunction and the matter was then brought, before this Court by appeal . during the sitti ngs a ft er l as t t er m. On that oulast , ..m, by arrangement, the purchase was completed, and the purchase money paid to Mr. Steele, and the appeal motion converted into the hearing of the cause, with a view of finally deciding which of the parties was in the right, or, in other words, which of them is to pay the costs, now amounting to a considerable sum. Mr. Gra3se and Mr. Druce, for the plaintiff, con tended as a general rule that a purchaser had a right to see his vendor sign the conveyance, and also to pay the purchase money to him peraonally. In the present case, a fortiori, Pear. Viuey was enti tled to ask Mr. Chaplin to receive the money him self, as he had sold the property in s character of trustee unde r M r . H armer ' s w ill. Sir R. B o th e ll, M r . B e il y , an d Mr. G. L. Rus sell, for the d e f en d ant appea li n g, urged that the practice of p ay i ng th e purc h ase m oney to the soli citor of the vendor was a very common • and most convenient one. There might be several vendors residing in different parts of the woilil, and to compel them all to be present at the time the pur chase motley was paid would be attended with the greatest inco n v e nience. The same observations applied to the execution of the conveyance. In the present case Mr. Chapliu had, to the knowledge of the purchaser, authorised the payment of the pur chase money to Mr. S eel-. Mr. Glasse having replied, The Lord Chancellor said, the Court would look into the authorities and the evidence, and give judgment on Saturday week. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Orders were yesterday received at Chatham Gar rison, directing the volunteers from the three bat talions of Infantry for the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment to be forwarded, with their families, to Chester, where the whole of the non-commissioned officers and men who have volunteered for that corps will be formed, previously to their embarka tion for Canada. As soon as the volunteers from the several districts have arrived at Chester they will embark at Liverpool for their destination. Each man who has volunteered from a British regi ment will, on the completion of his term of ser vice, be granted two acres of land by the Govern ment of Canada. His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief has given directions for a certain number of officers selected from each of the regiments serving at home, to proceed to Chatham, where they are to be at tached to the ledian depot battalions, for the pur pose of undergoing a course of instruction at that ' garrison in all the branches of their profession. The Goliath, 80, having been lengthened for a screw steamer, and completed her repairs at Chat ham dockyard, will be put out of dock this day. She is intended for the steam reserve. The Growler, steam gunboat, has been towed from Chatham to Portsmouth by the Adder steam vessel, to be placed on the steam reserve at that port. The Rochester, freight-ship, Heather, master, has commenced shipping war stores at Cha'.hana for atvozport dockyard. By intelligence from her Majesty's ship Cumber land, 70, Capt. Dickson, flag of Vice-Admiral Wallis, Commander-in-Chief of the South-East Coast of America station, dated the 7th ult., we learn all were well on board at that date, although the yellow fever was committing sad ravages in other ships on the station. The Admiral had not then heard of the appointment of Rear-Admiral Sir S. Lushington, K.C.8., to succeed and relieve him, but would do so by the mail expected at Monte Vidco, where Admiral Wallis then was, about the 20th of that month. The promotions consequent on the death of Commander Haggard had been conferred by Admiral Wallis on most de serving and meritorious officers :—Lieutenant B. S. Pickard (1843), first of the Cumberland, to he commander, and appointed to the Virago steam sloop ; and Mr. B. W. Bax, mate of the Cuinber land, to be lieutenant, . vice Pickard. Admiral Wallis is not expected to arrive in England, before the middle of May or the beginning of June. Her Majesty's steamers Banshee and Vivid were yesterday ordered alongside the coaling barge off Woolwich dockyard to prepare for sea, so as to be ready to sail at the shortest possible notice for Ostend, in she service of the Pi incess Hohenzellern, about to visit her Majesty at Osborne. In conse quence of the Vivid having flooded and. exhibited other awkward se , soing propensitioo on her last special voyage from Ostend, the B inshee had on this occasion been ordered to embark the Princess, and the Vivid to follow with the baggage and suite. The Hannibal, 91, screw, Captain the Hon. George Fowler Hastings, will pick up the guard ship's moorings off Gosport as soon as the Arrogant leaves for Southampton. The Orion, 90, screw, in the steam reserve at lXvonport, will proceed to the Eddystone on Wed nesday next, for a trial trip to test her machinery. This vessel is rigged, and supposed to be ready fur sea in 48 hours' notice, being in the first-class steam reserve. The Procris and Shamrock, steam gunboats, hav ing had defects made good, were taken out of No. 1 dock, at Devonport, on Tuesday, and the Charon and Jackdaw taken in the same tide. The Renown, 91, screw, at Devonport, was practising at target firing on Tuesday, when some excellent practice was performed. ; the flag being several times shot away. The Rinaldo, 17, screw corvette, Ind her first futtock timbers placed yesterday morning - in No. 6 dock at Portsmouth, and derricks are rigged along side to put this ship in frame within a few months. The vessel will be built by convicts, under the superintendence of a foreman cf shipwrights and a few leading hands. Her timbers, as before de scribe!, are already bolted together in masses, and only require to be slung into their place and dowelled. The Victory, fia; ship, Captain George Henry Seymour, C. 8., will have completed rattling down to-morrow. She will haul out of the fitting basin alongside her berthing hulk, Bellerophon, in Ports mouth Harbour, and on Monday, the 3 , 1 of May, she will be placed at her old moorings, off the Hard Portsea. MALTA, APRIL 20. The squadron under the command of Admiral Lord Lyons took its departure from Malta harbour en Wednesday morning last. The steam corvette Swallow, under sail, was the first of the ships to leave the port. At about half-past 9, that noble ship the Royal Albert set all plain sail, including royals, and as she cast off from her moorings re ceived a parting salute from the Dutch frigate Ad miral Wassaner, which the gallant Admiral Lord Lyons returned from the flag ship on passing Fort St. Angelo. The screw liners Princess Royal, Cen turion, and Conqueror followed i n her wake, under all sail, the wind being light from t he southward. The squadron was shortly after joined by the Me dina, which in the evening parted company, and steamed to the eastward, to follow up her hyclrogra phic operat ions in the Grecian Archipelago. The steam tug Hearty was in attendance on the squadron, to renter any assistance that might be necessary, in case of the ships getting any flaw of wind under the battlement s a t th e entrance of the harbour, and she returned to her moorings in the afternoon. The steamers Coquette and Harpy left port with the wit hadmiral,despatches. an Afterwards returned the Coquette in the course of ftl d a followedy the admiral, the Harpy remaining on the arrival of the in harbour to take letters to the squadron next mail. The Upper and Lower Batraccas, and the walls of the fortifications affording a view of e with t . people _ a o sight fall the Great Harbour, were previoussphsctato spectators. classes, who had a.semble some witness the departure of the squadron. which always attracts large numbers c o r f on During the night the ships must an offing, as nothing was seea of them a o v n e reports her the t following morning.* In the conflicting as to their destination, wo are inclined fo a cruise for a few weeks extending as far as Tunis lnve and Bona to the w est wat d and Corfu to the eastward, is the most probable, which will keep m thertiwithin telegraphic comurlication, in case th e rumoured junction with the F r enc h and Russi an squadrons in the Adriatic to interfere in the Montenegrin question, should require their attendance. Among the rumours afloat is one that by a telegram from the Admral y, received on the evening previous to their departure, Lerd Lyons has orders to lcok in at Naples, which, however, may have been given prior to the knowled.2e of the fact that Park, the English engineer of the Gtgliari, had been set at liberty, and had been put ftwri causs, through the energetic remonstrances of the new Mieist_r of Foreign Affairs, Lord Malme6bury, a',ily supported by the presence, during the progress of the trial, of Mr. Lyons, son of Lord Lyons, and aided by the activity and ability displaye I from beginning to end in this m att er by Mr. Lewis Barbar, our acting consul at Naples. ci7.oeamkp a T y haet f tro o h l e le A w d in in g ,r a a p l p ty oitments were made yester ii d \ Br* wtaeiiisuis, to G. Golds m ith C B to the Wellesley, r e inne t a he we ; Lieut. lei : ley D.:Re . id and Lieut. S. J. * A day or two after the departure of Lord Lyons, the squadron was seen to the westward of Gozo. We under stand that despatches left for Lord Lyons on Saturday by a French steamer to Marseilles. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice Williams and a Common Jury.) CONQUEST V. LINDFIELD. Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Brandt were counsel for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Serjeant Shee and Mr. Mere wether appaared for the defendant. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a builder, in Islington, to recover damages from the defendant, who is the landlord of the " Royal Mail," in Upper-street, Islington, for slanderous words spoken by him on the 4th of November last. The nature of the case will appear by the evidence of the plaintiff. Cornelius Conquest, examined by Mr. Brandt— I am a builder in Islingto n , and the plaintiff in this action. On th e 4 t h of November last I went, after my day's work was over, to play at bagatelle at the Royal Mail, with a friend, Matthew Head. We had soma grog. Head chalked up the glasses we had. They were four in number. When we wished to pay the boy said we had drunk six. We refused to pay. The defendant then came up, and used very violent and disgusting language. I said, "Good God, Lindfield, one would think you came from a b-- house, instead of being a Christian." He threatened to pitch me out of the winclos. We then got cool, and gradually went downstairs. I then put down half-a-crown, and said, " What you conscientiously charge take out of that." The defendant then used more gross language, and gave utterance to the following words " D-- y our eyes, you era a thief—a b— thief ; you have been a thief for 14 years ; you keep not only one b-- house, but two. (This was the slander complainel of, but the remainder of the expressions used by the defendant are unfit for 'publication.) Cross-examined by Sergeant Shoe--We had a supper since this occurred. Perhaps it was a re conciliation supper, but on conditions. Mr. Hawkin - s - -A supper without prejudice. (Laughter.) Witness—l was in the chair. I was put into it. Johnson was vice-president. It was not moved and carried that there was a better way of settling the case than the Court of Common Pleas." We did not drink " Confusion to the Common Pleas." There was no confusion to the Common Pleas. We had tripe and trimmings for supper. Cow's belly, you know. iNly health was drunk. That was after the tripe. Linfield proposed it, and said he was glad we were friencl , z, and hoped we should remain friends, that I was a good fellow, and that he was very s ntry he had hurt my feelings. I returned thanks in the usual way, and said what people do on such occasions. I said, however, "It is all very well giving me tripe, but I must have a written apology." By the Judge—l wanted an apology in the papers —the Times, the Advertiser, and the Dispatch. It he had said he was mad or drunk I should have been satisfied. I think I deserved an apology. (Laughter.) Matthew Head, examined by Mr. Hawkins—l am a nurseryman, and. was present at the Royal Mail on this occasion. The defendant used very harsh language, and came at th plaintiff to throw him out of the window. He was big enough to knock him into the next world. This witness then proved the uttering of a portion of the slander, and added, " I think it is a pity that this case should go on ; they are blth of them too respectable to be brought into the Common Pleas." (Laughter.) . _ OrC;ss-examined—Wh Lt the defendant said was not " if I keep one, I don't keep two brothels." Mr. Serjeant Shoe having addressed the jury for the defendant in an eloquent and humorous speech, and The learned Judge having carefully summed up The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 28. MANSION-HOUSE.—The Rev. George Rad cliffe, aged 55, Rector of St. Edmund's, Salisbury, was brought up on remand, charged with having feloniously made a transfer of certain stock and annuities on the 30th of July last, to wit, 1,0281. 6s. 31. Three per Cent. Consols, with intent to defraud the governor and company of the Bank cf England, he not being the true owner of the said stock and annuities. • Mr. Freshaeld appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Won.ttler for theprismer. The prisoner was first brought up on Saturday last, when it appeared from the opening statement of Mr. Froshfi,ld that he had been for some years joint trustee under a marriag3 settlement between Mr. Isaac Flower, cf Salisbury, and Miss Mar guerita Cooper, with Mr. Robert Raxworthy, and that he had by the aid of f , rgal certificates of the death of that gent:Limn succeeded in selling out a sum of 1,028?. 6s. 3,1. Three per Cents., which stood in their joint names at the bank, and had applied the proceeds to his own use. In support of the prosecution on that occasion some evidence was given to prove the sale of a transfer of the stock by the prisoner, and also to prove that there were no such persons as those who purported to certify the death and identity of Mr. Raxworthy, living at the place where the " deceased" was alleged to have been buried. Mr. FreshfiAd, sen., said Mr. Raxworthy was in court, and quite prepared to prove that he was not dead, and that the transfer had not been authorised by him. Mr. R. Raxworthy—l am a farmer, living near Blandford, Dorset. I was a trustee wider the ma rriage settlement of Mr. and Mrs. Flower, and am so to this day. I was joint transfer with Mr. Radcliffe for a sum of 1,028/. 6:i. 3d. stock standing in our joint names. The dividends on that stock were received by power of attorney, and accounted for to Mr. Flower, through Everard's Bank, at Loth bury. I never authorised the prisoner to sell that stock, and was not personally acquainted with him, and had never seen him till the 17th April, when came to me. He said ha c tme about the stock that h-rd been sold out by mistake for a poison named Richards, who was deceased ; that the bankers had made a mistake, and thought I was the person deceased. He also said I need take no trouble about it, or go to town, as the dividends would he all right ou the next dividend-day. I have not seen him since tilt to-day. Cross.-examined by Mr. Wow ner—l knew the prisoner's family were very respectable. He d,d not say the stock should be replaced immediately, but he said it should be made all right. I have ascertained that since that interval the stock has been replaced in the same names. He always re ceived the dividends, I never interfered with them. Ido not know that the deed constituting him a trustee has not been properly executed. The prisoner, who reserved his defence, was then committed for trial, and the witnesses were bound over to appear against him at the Old Bailey. GUILDHALL. —George Barrow, the senior part ner in the firm of Barrow and Hamond, wholesale stationers, of 72, Basinghall-street, was charged with forging and uttering two bills of exchange for 451. and 381. 10s. 4d., with intent to defraud the Union Bank of London. It wi►l be remembered that the prisoner's part ner was charged with the same offence at this couri on Tue:day last. Sergeant Spittle, a detective officer, said about half-past seven o'clock on Tuesday evening he ap prehended the prisoner Fit the Chalk-farm railway station. He_told him be was charged with forging and uttering two bills of exchange with intent to defraud the Union Bank of London. The prisoner asked upon whose authority he was apprehended, and upon being told that it was upon the authority of the Union Bank he made no further remark. At the police station he asked if he could be allowed to make any statement, and when informed that whatever he said would be used in evidence against him he declined saying anything. Sergeant Brett said, when he showed the pri soner the two bills in question , he merely asked to see the backs of the bills, but he did not say any thing. Alderman Phillips said there was sufficient to justify him in remanding the prisoner until Mon day next, so that the two partners might be brought up together. Remanded accordingly. Jaines - Palrner, alias Torn Lane, was brought up, charge,' with stealing a horse and chaise aid suit of livery, value 701., the property of Mr. William Blew June of Kilburn Priory. The prosecutor said that on the 16th of April last he was proceeding through Fleet-street, when he saw a gentleman whom he supposed to have been abroad, and being desirous of ascertaining where he lived,. he called the prisoner and desired him to trace the gentleman home, and then go to him at a place named in Regent-street. The prisoner did so, and the prosecutor put him into a cab, and having his own chaise re tdy he drove down, f d lowed by the prisoner, to Hunter-street, Bruns wick-square, where he discharged the cab, and loft his own horse and chaise in the prisoner's care while he went into the house which the prisoner had traced the gent!ernan to. He had not been there long when, happening to look out at the window, he found his horse and chaise and the prisoner had vanished. On making inquiries in the neighbour hood he found his horse and chaise in a 'nee s iu Henrietta -street, but the prisoner bad decamps d with a new suit of livery which was in the chaise. On the following morning he was riding outside an omnibus When he saw the prisoner emerging from Field-laue, and gave him into custody. The coat was found in the possession of a woman who lived with the prisoner, and the rest of the suit of livery was traced to a pawnbroker's shop. The prisoner was remanded, in order that the woman might be brought up with him. Alderman Phillips, at the conclusion of the night charges, said—l have received a letter which I think of so much importance to the public , that, without any comments, I will at once hand it over to the reporters of the press. It is written to a gentleman of the highest respectability, but as there are ladies in court I will not read it aloud, but let it speak fcr itself through the medium of the public press. The following is a copy of the letter, with the exception of the names and addresses, which, for obvious reasons, we withhold for the present : " beg permission to inform you that I am in the occasional habit of makingpecuniary advances to ladies, and that at the present time I have some eligible investments to offer, which, besides yiel•.- iug a most remunerative rate of interest, will, in all probability, place other advantages at your dis posal. Further particulars may be obtained on application to me, between the hours of eleven and. four or by appointment.—l have the honour to he, sir, your most obedient servant, Sic." WORSHIP-STREET.—JuIes Evions, a short thick-set person of gentlemanly exterior, and de scribed as a native of France, was charged before Mr. • D'Eyncourt with violently assaulting Wil liam Hughes, a cab driver, badge 3,715. From the evidence of complainant it appeared that he was in the employ of Mr. Grove, landlord of the Spread Eagle tavern, in Kingsland-road, and an extensive cab proprietor. On the previous evening defendant entered the house and took re freshment, but immediately became very excited, and insulted every one near him. Mr. Grove de sired Hughes to interfere, but the latter had scarcely done so when defendant seized the thumb of the cabman's left hand between his teeth, and bit it completely through the thick fleshy part, nor would he lose his hold for several minutes. "In fact," said complainant, "he was like a bull dog. I could not induce him to release my thumb which is now extremely painful. After a policeman was called in, and I got away, I went to a sur geon, and he burnt out the injured part, but I have net had any sleep the whole night." Mr. D'Eyncourt—l see the defendant has a severe black eye. Did you inflict that blow as a chastisement ? Complainant—No, sir ; his eye was in that state when he entered the house ; but I should like to have blackened both his eyes, and would if the con stable had allowed me. 1 would sooner have "lynch law" on him now than any other. A tradesman, named May, described the French man's conduct as more resembling that of a wild bear than a human being, and proved that no insult or interference was offered to him previous to his becoming disorderly. Mr. D'Eyncourt fined the offender 20s. for the assault and 30s. costs, the latter to be given to the cabman. The fine was paid together with costs. CHURCH RATES. (Prom tlae Times.) It is the favourite pastime of some self-constituted champions of the Church of England to insult the common sense of the country with unreasonable propositions. If a scheme or a demand, however square, symmetrical, and convenient to the friends of the author, is quite certain to be rejected, either because it is wholly unwarranted, or because it, or the like of it, has been rejected a hundred times before, it is unreasonable. There can be no good reason for making such an appeal, so the real reasons must be bad ones. It was quite clear to every reasonable being before Tuesday evening that neither the country nor the House of Commons would agree to Mr. Puller's neat preposition of a compulsory and universal rent-charge on all pro perty now liable to be assessed to a Church-rate iu lieu of that liability. Nobody in his senses could have imagined for an instant that in the towns and parishes, containing altogether > everal million in habitants, in which either Church-rates have either never been collected at all or after a severe struggle have been abandoned, the owners would quietly submit to the same impost in a harder and more permanent form. We need not form any judgment whatever on the feelings or motives that would induce the opposition. It is sufficient to know that an opposition there would be, and that it would be effectual. This, then, would only be to renew the mischief in an aggravated form, for the resistance this time would be against the State, and the authority of the State would be that com promised in the inevitable result. The House of Commons, though just now not in its wisest mood, is wise enough to see this, and to act on this know ledge. It accordingly made an example of Mr. Puller, or a martyr, as his friends will probably "Noes ad his select" against the n t s h 4 in " k A h y im es , " b t y o ahismmapotriiotyn.ofThe mover 317 body of supporters appear to have been anxious to disguise the poverty of their numbers by with drawing the motion. In this attempt, however, they were defeated by the member for Abingdon, who has thus let the country know how the House of Commons views this sort of proposition. We repeat that the real reasons for making a re quest which is certain to be rejected must be bad ones. It is true that on very trivial occasions and in very indifferent matters there are people who say "There's no harm in asking," but there can only be no harm where no feelings are hurt by a refusal, and where no results follow one way or another. In such cases as that before us the greatest harm is done. Mr. Puller's motion, clad as it is in legal phraseology, being apparently sufficient for the purpose, and hitting upon an equivalent for Church rates in just a penny in the pound upon all rate able property, is eminently calculated to impose on the minds of country clergymen and those gentle men and ladies who give much attention to the system of the Church. These persons are not much in the habit of considering those necessities, which far more than any supposed expediencies, limit ra ther than regulate the course of a nation. Tne fact that a thing must be, which a statesman may per ceive as clear as th e black rock with its white fringe of breakers right ahead of the ship's course, weighs little with those who are sore usually employed in the contemplation of proprieties, dec Aicies, graces, elegances, and duties of the more optional and traci able class. Invest a propos•il with a sacred c louring and they will embrace it and commit them selves to it, as they would to a canon of architecture or even an article of faith. Defeat makes no mate rial difference in their self-esteem, for it matters not much to people who fight great religious warfares in their studies and drawing-rooms whether they are conquerors—br martyrs. But an im practicable policy does not seriously affect the relation of those committed to it towards the rest of the wo r ld. E v ery step drives them further into that class which our forefathers were wont to describe by th e name of '`malign an ts. " Of course, if objects are impossible, if demands are . certain to be refused, it everything done to elicit denial and provoke contradiction, the inevitable consequence is increased bitterness of feeling towards those whom we compel toresist us. If a man were fool enough to knock at the first house in Belgrave-square, and ask the footman to take in a request for the loan of a sovereign, his feelings towards the aristocracy would certainly be intensified by the result. Mr. Pullet's proposition wai that the Church of England should be em powered to knock at every door in this kingdom, and demand a sovereign from this house, 10s. from that, and 2a. from that, towards a Church Fund, and in lieu of an impost upon which for thirty years there has been a grievous social warfare. The House of Commons, with a view to the certain re sult, will not give this power. It will not repro duce the social warfare in a more aggravated from. The consequence of its Tefax,e.l is that most proba bly in some hundred Fitilpits and 501115 thousand drawing-rooms it will be denounced as an ungodly, Anti-Christian Legislature, the base slave of Mam mon, the worshipper of expediency, a traitor to truth, a despiser of righteousness, and a great deal more of that sort. Of course, the people whe use this language and entertain these sentiments to wards tue House of Commons, and prudent politi cians in general, will, in a corresponding degree, rise in their opinion of themselves. As for the question itself, all that can be reason ably alleged for Church-rates is the principle of a national Church said to be involved and attempted to be preserved by the various substitutes going the round of Church circles. The principle of the the power of th e ma j or it y vestry being oraleerveyl existing rate ha s b ee n reduud to a ver y s h a d owy a small rat e f or a li m i te d ina form, numbsr of Church purposes. There is not a parish in the kingdom in which it is not necessary, and generally easy, to appeal to volun tary piety for the more substantial, more im poltaut, and more decorative works, and for the expenses of conducting the service in a batter style. In every parish any ratepayer may refuse to pay a Church-rate, with almost the certainty of success in the first instance. It will devolve on the. churchwardens to prove that the rate was made ex actly according to form of law, and for certain strictly legal purposes. If the refractory rate-payer is a rich man, he can keep the parish in hot water for years, and nourish a feeling which will proba bly give him at last a m 3,1 rity of the vestry, and so extinguish the rate. If he is a poor man he has only to suffer a distress or go to prison, and he will become a martyr. The Church-rate, however, not with,tauding its boasted principle, as the sign of a national Church, is seldom, if ever, levied from the poor. The real insignificance of the so-called principle is nowhere so apparent as in the inconsistencies of its upholders, who never know whether to regard it as a personal or property tax. Mr. Puller, tin champion of Tuesday night, assumed it to be a tax on persons in respect of the occupation of property ; but, instead of leaning to what really is the highest quality of the rats—its personal bearing --h e was ready to commute it fora good hold on h ouse and lard. There is no principle in the matter of su ffi c i ent importance to be worth saving at the exp ense o f another fierce relis i ous war. The living practi ce o f t he vo l untary sys' em, which is carried out in th e p r i nc i pa l as we ll as the largest parishe s in the metropolis, and in some of our most populous citie s , is infinitely better than There any decaying principl e o f compu l sory taxa ti o n. is no doubt of i . s sufficiency, and as little doubt that it will receive a new impulse from the surrender of an impost which, besides its other ill consequences, creates a very fictitious and exagge rated opinion of nati on al ' suppor t . At the risk of ten thousand anathemas, we beg to retain our con viction, which a few years will amply test, that the best thing for the Church of England is to throw herself for the maintenance of her fabrics on the free offerings of her congregations. It won't do. (Prom the Daily New.) on the poi n t, an d the House of Commons , w hich in Tne country has made up its min d this respect at least adequately represents the feel ing of the country, is equally decided. Church rates are doomed. It is not a case for compromise ; it does n o t a d mit of subterfuge. Th e time has come when no thi ng short of a tota l a b o lition of this odious and iu d bfensible impost will sat i s fy the deter- Initiation of th e const i tuenc i es . Miserable enough it is to see th e chiefs of arties—Lord Joh n Russell among the numlyr—eafferly catching at any substi tute, however absurd for that m easure of full and c )mplete ju s ti ce p which alone wilt, which alone ou g ht to satisfy th e country. I t i s rea lly difficult to say whether M r . P u ll er ' s proposa l f u r making Church rates a permanent rent-cha.rge, or Mr. Buxton's for increasing tithe in order to create a fund for maintaining church fabrics, bu the more absurd. It is not necessary to say more of either than that they bo'h tend to fix and perpetuate a lax of which the country demands the abolition, and which in the course of a very fow years would in all probability abolish itself. The cry of the constituencies is— " Remove this impost, which we feel to be odious and vexatious." The answer of Mr. Puller is— " We c in't do thr.tt, but we can change its n - :me, and, under that altered style, make it certain instead of being contingcn.t—perpetual instead of being transitory." Was there ever SllOll an answer to such an appeal—such a palliative for such a dis order ? The louse of Commons pronounced the fitting judgment ou the absurd proposal. The nunal:ers of the division list—ayes' 54 ; noes, 317 are the appropriate epitaph on the defunct solecism. It is really lamentable that the wiser friends of the Establishment do not contrive in some way to put a stop to th ese ver y pitiable exhibitions. The Church of England i s r i c h ; the members of the Church of & g l an d are just now very much in ear nest. They are especially fond, as anyone who knows Country Markets. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET Ara L 27. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 9s Od to 12s Od per kemple of 16 sten eft Iron ; wheat do., 7s Od to lls Cd ; barley do., 8s 01 to 9s Od. Hay from 10d to 12d. EDINBURGH MEAL—APRIL 27. There were in tho market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 280113 imperial, which sold at 40s Od and —s. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—Anti, 26. There were in the market to-day 19 bags of oatmeal, 0 of barloymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales ready. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. Third. imperial Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od I—sOd -x (Al Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto —s Od —s Od —s Od Pot-barley, new, per ditto —3 Od a Od —8 Od DUBLIN-APRIL 27. Whits wheat, 27s Od to 29s Od ; red ditto, 24s Od to 26s 91; ditto new, s Od ; barley, malting, 11s to 13s Od; grind ing, —s to —s ; oa„m, old, 13s Gd to 15e; ditto, new, —a to —s 0d; oatmeal, 13s Gd to 15s 6d; bare, new, —s to Od ; rapese, d, —s Od to s Oil per brl ; bakers' flour, 14a Gd to 19a Od per cwt; Indian corn, 15s Od to 37s Od ler 430 lbs. .-APRIL 28. the close of the market Wallsend, d. Barton aosforth . 14 6 Itieorn Close l5 6 L'den l5 6 Riddell l4 6 3raddyll l5 6 'south Rotten 16 9 Flettou l7 0 Hilda 14 0 Keiper Grains l6 0 WharnelifTe 14 6 Bell l4 0 Benson 15 0 Eden Main l5 3 Fratuwellgato l5 6 Russell's Rotten 15 6 Tees l7 0 COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton al s. d. Tanfiold Moor l2 3 Tanfleld Moor Butes 12 (' Wylam Bell's Primrose l2 € Howard's West Hartley Netherton 16 0 Walker Primrose l2 0 Htl'pool West Hartley 16 0 Benton West Hartley 15 0 North Percy Hartley l4 0 Davison's West Hartley 16 C Haswell Gas 13 0 Wallsend, &c. Helve) Hall. .15 6 Weyne'sMerthyr 20 0 Stew Art's Powell's Duffryn Steam 20 Haswell l7 0 Ships at market, 112 ; sold 92. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-APRIL 23. STOCK EXCHANGE—The market has been good to-daY, and closed about the best. Great Western of Canada, 19 9-1 G e. London and North Western, 94z s—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 90 911 —Midlands, 941 a ¢ i—Eastern Counties, 12 —Caledoniani., 43 421 South Eastern, 21 21i c.--Grand Trunk of Canada, 12 6-16. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 2R. STOCK EXCHANGE.—This market was steady to-day, and f.‘ moderate business doing, chiefly in local stock. Mid lands were done at 94i —Birmingham Canals, 92i—London and North Westerns closed at 95 Birmingham and Stour Valleys, B—South Staffords, 1.0. f . NANCEIESTER, Arrar, 28. STOCK Ex.cHANGE.--The market opened with a firmer busin2.ss, sales very few, and prices improved from the quotations of yesterday. Midlands, 934 1 4s—Sheffields, 374 BA—Grand Trunks, 121—Birkenh ea d St oc k, 70i North Eastern, Leeds, 47. SIR COLIN CAMPBELL'S REWARD.—A correspondent of the Dublin Freeman's Journal writes :—" I believe I am right in telling you that an intimation has been sent to Sir Colin Campbell that a peerage is at his ser vice but he does not care to accept it. Sir Colin is a soldier from head to foot, and his desire would be ad vancement to the highest grade in his profession, that of fidd-inarsha , . That advancement he will shortly obtain, but the difficulty for the moment is a money one with the East India Company. The pay and allowances of a fifld-marshal on the staff in India would not be much less than 30,0001. a-year, and there is a delay until it be ascertained if Sir Colin would continue to serve on a general's pay. He would undoubtedly do so, for Lord Harding° only took general's pay, though he continued to be Commander-in-Chief for some months after be was a fish-marshal. Lord Seaton, your Com mander of the Forces in Ireland, though a general in the army, only receives the pay of a lieutenant-general ; and Sir Colin himself, when Inspector-General of In fantry, only got the_ pay of a major -general, although his rank entitled him to more." BIRTHS. BATEMAN—On the 28th inst., at 37, Brook-street, Grosvenor square, the Lady Bateman, of a daughter. HOMFRAY—On the 27th inst., at the Woodlands, Newport, Monmouthshire, the wife of L. Augustus Homfray, Esq of a daughter. NALDER—On the 27th inst., at Kensington square, the wife of Howard Nalder, Esq., of Croydon, o' a son. WthnitenAm—On the 27th inst., at - Cheltentiam, the wife of Major Wilbraham, of a son. MARRIAGES. CASTLEROSSII—TUYNNE-- On the 28th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Chelsea, by his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, Vis count CAstlerosse, M P., son of the Earl of Kenmare, to Gertrude Harriet, o n l y d aughter of Lord and Lady Chas. Thynno. Noanis—LustrixoToN—On'the 28th inst., at Ockham parish church, Surrey, the Rev. John Pilkington Norris, M.A., Fellow of Trin.-Col.-Cam , and one of her Majest%'s In. spectors of Schoo:s, to Edith Grace, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington. DEATHS. AMES—OR the 27th inst., at his residence, .24, Camden. street, Islington, Mr. Samuel Ames, deeply regretted, aged 72. ASIIBY-011 the 27th inst., at 7, Aldgate, Miss Margaret A:1117, aged 73. BUCK— On the 25th inst., in Norfolk-street, Lewis William Buck, Esq late M.P. for th e N orth Division of the County of &von. HATBOX— On the 21st inst., at Guildford, Miss Jane Hayden, aged 73. WALTER— On the 28th inst., at Brighton, Emily Frances, the beloved wife of John Walter, Esq., M.P., aged 34. WthtremsoN—Believed to have fallen at Cawnpore, on or a' ou the 27th June last, Captain W.Williamson, Deputy- Assistant Commissary-General, youngest son of the late Major-General David Williamson, Bengal Army. Believei also to have j . erishecl; about the same time, at Cawnpore, Jessie, wife of the a Joy,: Capt. W.Williamson, and: Eleanor Mary, their infant daught:r. LONDON : Printed and Published by MIIRDO YOUNGry of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 2'he Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the couniY of Midd!esex, Thursday ) Apill 29, 1858. Z 4 111 RTI Ca Tr, I ph 10,