The Sun. — London, England, 1837-04-04 00:00:00

----- Pr All` OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We can assure the Standard we arc as little averse la inquiry into the fons et ori go of secret societies in Deland as our contempoiary can possibly be. What -we apprehend is, that a Parliamentary inquiry would riot be the best means of arriving at the clue to the labyrinth. The probability is, that the artful contri vers of the plot have proceeded in their atrocious career -ivith a caution and prudence which would render it 4lifficult to trace the guilt legally to their door, although -various incidents connected - with the conspiracy might leave on the public mind a deep impression as to the political sentiments of those with whom the artifice criginated. For instance, a " Paddy M'Kew," who a few years since inoculated the peasantry of Clare, limerick, and Galway with insurrectionary principles, turned out to be an Orange policeman, who thus con trived to promote the Men united objects of the consta 'wlary and Orangemen. We have also a dim remembrance -of another case of this sort, which occurred, as we recol 3ect, in the county of Cork not very long ago. In :neither instance was it possible to get, through the detected culprits, at their more guilty suborners, ' but the general feeling at the time was, that Orangeism was at the bottom of both affairs. We are not at this moment prepared to say that Me "PaddyM'Kew" was a Protestant or a Roman Catholic ; but it cer tainly did appear that he was zealously doing the work id the Orange faction, who have always had a direct in ftrest in the propagation of illegal confederacies in that . :p3rt of the United Kingdom. It was through the instru mentality of these secret combinations of the ignorant -and unwary peasantry that the Orangemen were enabled so long to monopolise the government of the country and the patronage of the state. The oppressed pea santry were rendered, by the cruelty and injustice .of the law and of the Executive, prone to insurrectionary association, and their wily enemies spared no pains to :fan into flame the smouldering embers of sedition. When the convenient moment arrived the victims were seized, hanged, or transported, and the authors of tine crime reaped a rich harvest of official praise, legisla tive approbation, and public reward. If an Orange man desired a place under the Government, he had Lut to foment an insurrectionary feeling in his dis trict, get up a secret society of tortured peasants, be tray them, and seize upon his prize. Did a gentle man who lived too fast find it convenient to let his demesne, he had only to get up a mock conspiracy against his own life, and his object was forthwith ac complished. We allude now to things that have actu ally occurred in Ireland, and which are well known in that country. But yet, though the circumstances left no doubt upon the mind, to establish the guilt of those who did the mischief for their own personal and political ends wotdd be a difficult, perhaps an impos sible, task. And so with regard to the secret societies lately denounced by Mr. O'Connell. It would be no easy matter, perhaps, to get at the suborners of those who two years ago went through the county of Meath instilling insurrectionary sentiments into the peasantry. and stirring up the agricultural labourers to a servile war ; but it is certain that these Ribbonmen were among the gutter agents of Mr. Ran- dal Phinkeic an Orangeman, and now the Corn y-lit:cc Member for this' Parliament of the borough of Drogheda. If a Committee of the House of Commons were appointed to investigate this tran saction, we question if the consciences of the Ho pourable Randal's satellites would be found so tender as to endanger their Patron's safety ; nor are we pre pared to say that that gentleman was at all cognisant of the delinquencies of his eupportere. All we mean to assert is, that the stanch supporters—the bludgeoneers of a notorious Orangeman—were the getters-up of secret and illegal societies among the Catholic pea santry of Meath. Let a Committee be named with all our heart, and we are grievously mistaken if these and other as unpalatable facts be not easily established to the great dismay of those who now so lustily " call for lights." As we have already remarked, the de nunciation of secret societies has been a perpetual tapie with Mr. O'Connell and the Catholic Clergy. What these reprobate is very naturally what tht Orange faction would, most of all other things, chetish. The Standard, with wonderful simplicity. ask , ,—is it likely that Protestants (Oraw'emcn), would eiTentler societies to cut their own throats ? Tln.re is nothing more unlikely than that the Orange men would do any such thing. That faction have always evinced as Conservative a feeling in favour of their own throats, as they have displejed a destructivt. propeesitv in regard to the throats of the Papists. It wa s not fur the purpose of rising one fine inornin,e— as S'r Boyle Roadie said—and finding their throa:s cut, that the Orangemen ever planned the construe tin of a Ilibbou or Whiteboy Society. Their o!i -ject have iicen personal aggrandisement, persecution of the Catholic peasantry, and perpetuation of Pro testealt ascendancy, or Orange monopoly of all places gust, power, and emolument under the Crown. Hence, too, that other Orange contrivanee—the . spreading out the Assize celentlar to an extent that s-rikes the British eye with horror. The majority of the Irish Magistracy arc violent Tories—thanks ti) 20 yeers of the bigotted 'tile of Lord Manners, a creature imbecile in al thins save his intolerance, and to the fetuity of Lord Plunkett, who slninks from the firm discharge of his duty lest, we suppose, his avowed enemies should charge him p ith acting through p'qty2, in case he superseded corrupt partisans, and ap pointed proper, liberal men to the Commission of the peace. These Tory, or rather Orange Magistrates, seeing the use that is made in Parliament by such men as Mr. Emerson Tcunent, and by such journals as the Times, of the state of the calendars, have taken care to supply their friends with' abundant materials for ca luininoes speeches and slanderous articles. When not snore than three cases ought to have been sent for trial before the Jude of Assize, fevrtece have appeared on the calendar, and this outrageous array has been still further magnified by the charge of the Tory Chief Baron into twenty-one. On another circuit the calen dar exhibited nearly two hundred cases, while, accord ing t) the Judge, the number should not have exceeded two scores. The same remark applies, in a degree, to every calendar that has been laid before the Judges of assize on the late Spring circuits in Ireland. Every contemptible charge of petty larceny, which ought to have been brought before the petty sessions, or at all events the quarter sessions, has been reserred for the general assizes, for the obvious purpose of affording the unscrupulous enemies of the Government a handle for attacking its policy, and a pretext for flagitiodsly misrepresenting the state of the country.—Morning Chronicle. Among the endless topics which engage the labours of public journalists, there are many so inherently grave and stubborn, that to treat them with anything like vivacity were alike impracticable and inappropiate, just as you sometimes see a visage so incorrigibly sour and solemn, that any effort to provoke a smile from it is manifestly profane and fruitless. On the other hand, as one encounters occasionally an eccentric phiz, pre senting in all circumstances an expression of comic or lugubrious humour, which nothing can divest it of —so, amidst these wearisome toils of ours, we are now and then so happy as to stumble upon certain specimens of the ludicrous, that might almost convulse a Trappist —instances of such consummate and overpowering burlesque, that every decent endeavour to look at them in a serious mood is felt to be hopeless and absurd. Of this latter description, unquestionably, is the pub lished " address," signed and circulated by one " Henry Waymouth," purporting the emanate from a United Committee appointed to consider the griev ances under which Dissenters now labour, with a view to their redress." The Dissenters, viewed as a portions of our fellow-subjects divided into small sections, such as Arians, Independents, Socinians, General Baptists, Swedenhorgians, Southcottitcs, Antinomians, Arminians, Sabellians, Bereans, Ranters, Quakers, Jews, Freethinkers, Particular Baptists, Muggleto nians, Bible Christians, Kilhamites, and Irvingtons— all strenuously dissenting from each other on points of faith and discipline—are persons, nevertheless, whose undoubted right to profess what religion they please must command universal respect. Such respect we have always cheerfully awarded them ; and knowing, as we do, that Mr. Henry Wayrnouth's select cabal, holding its appointment only from certain Socinian, Independent and Baptist congregations in the City and suburbs of London, does neither represent the opinions nor possess the confidence, nor act on the authority of those excellent Dissenters through out England whose genuine piety is unalloyed with Sectarian ambition, it will not be supposed that the innocent raillery we are about to indulge in is meant to apply, by a single inch, beyond the parties who immediately invite it. Who are these parties, the public will be glad to know ? With the exception of a " Henry Waymouth,"- who, we understand, is known to our reporting establish ment as the spouting associate of Messrs. Savage and Murphy at the Radical soirees of Mary'bone, there is no other person, we believe, that can possibly be identified as the signer of this address. Co-operating on the " united Committee," of which that same Mr. Weymouth is the chairman, we have such paragons of peace as Mr. Yockney, of Covent-garden, Mr. Thomas Wilson, of Highbury, Mr. John Wilks, M.P., and a Dr. Baldwin Browne, a Dissenting bar rister of distinguised legal leisure. That these quiet respectable persons are wholly disinterested in what they are doing for Dissent, is beyond all doubt ; inas much as the first of them has a brother, an Independent preacher at Islington ; the second has, or had, two sons-in-law, preachers of the same sect ; the third is the son of one Dissenting minister and cousin to another ; while the brother-in-law of the fourth is pastor of a congregational meeting-house in Liverpool. Assuming, then, that their " united" efforts to bringdown the Esta blished Church to a level with voluntary conventicles are generated by the purest motives, irrespective of any natural jealousies for the inferior position of their kinsmen, and intimating our conviction that their " address" owes its paternity either to the busy and learned solicitor for Boston (it being a mere antici pation of his usual anniversary speech at the Society for Promoting Civil and Religious Liberty), or to the more leisurely and learned Pangloss whose advertised devotion to Dissenting causes ought certainly to be recompensed by Dissenting briefs mad fees—we must now unfold to our readers the rare and racy novelties which this London junto of united Socinians and Independents have addressed to their benighted brethren in the country. The united to the benighted, greeting : • PROTESTANT DISSENTERS,—Petitions to Parliament have been obtained, chiefly from rural parishes, hostile to ' the relief of Dissenters from the payment of Church-rates, but to these a very disproportionate importance has been attached. Up to ,the 2d inst. the number of these was 153, with 9,595 signatures ; while those for the extinction of the impost amounted to 474, bearing the names of 190,981 petitioners. But the former, far from expressing the spontaneous feelings and well-informed judgments of the petitioner:, have originated in the preconcerted and zealous efforts of interested ecclesiastics, operating on the ignorance and credulity of certain classes of the population." Here we have an amusing instance of the short weight system, although we had always understood that a " just balance" was regarded among Dissenters as an important part of practical religion. A true and honest declaration respecting the comparative number of petitions for and against Church-rates woulir have been found very inconvenient for the purpose of the addressers. Everybody acquainted with Pe.rliamentary business knows, that it was not till after the 3d of March, when Mr. Rice introduced his abolition Bill, that the friends of the Church began seriously to bestir themselves in her defence. Since that date the Church petitioners, as compared with those in favour of the measure have been about 20 to 1. No wonder that Mr. \Yarmouth and his allies find it expedient not to extend their calculation beyond the 2d of that month. But is this honest dealing, To the tender and de licate consciences of these men it would appear that truth and Church-rates are alike insupportable. Equally characteristic is their charitable and veracious state ment that the petitioners against the Ministerial Bill have been " operated on by the preconcerted and zealous efforts of interested ecclesiastics." Consider ing that this is coolly put forth by the very persons who are themselves operating on " the spontaneous feelings and well-informed judgments" of such Dis senting clay-labourers, journeymen, dock-people, miners, carders, spinners, wool-dyers, cloth-workers, pitmen, • and out-pensioners, as, being duly taught that this ad dress of the united Committee is in favour qf the pu rity and stability r3f thc Church, may he cajoled I thereby to put their mark to prceoncerted petitions for her destruction : considering, moreover, that these " milted" addresstriongers have, for the last six months, been getting up delegate meetings, dispatching horta tory circulars, and transmitting printed forms of peti tions all over the kingdom : considering. in fine, not only that Dissenting preachers have, in almost every instance, worried or implored their followers to give them a IKt by supporting these petitions, but that your Rev. Burnats and Bennetts, your Timothy masts and Adam Thomsons, together with their bro ther evangelists, by who it the anti-church agitation has been p u bli c ly an d p er tina c iously advo ca t e d, must on no account be regarded as parties having any inte rest in the matter : considering all this, Ave do say that the unifeds' taunt about " spontaneous feelings,' " interested ecclesiastics," and so forth, is, upo n the whole, the most intrepid sally of resolute and ueflinch ing generalship we have met with in the course of the war. As for the railing accusation brought against the clergy for having deceptively entrapped their pa rishioners to sign petitions under false representations, we have already defied Lord Brougham and a certain ambushed " Yorkshire Magistrate" to condescend on a single instance of the kind. We now repeat that de fiance. Only name the place and date at which such knavery is said to have been practised ; and on ascer taining the truth of the imputation, we shall expose time delinquents as boldly as we now challenge their ;ac cusers. But, alas ! the information is " private I" The Government scheme for releasing Dissenters from their due share of the national obligation to uphold the national Church, is pleaded for by these united addressers on the assumption that it is a plan " for the relief of the conscientious." Now, with a per fect recollection that a plea of conscience, when tho roughly made out, is as much entitled to respect as when detected to be a mere pretence it is deserving of ineffable scorn, we have repeatedly shown, from the most irrefraaable evidence, not only that conscience has been made a hypocritical pretext of in this important question, but that, even on the contrary supposition, no valid ground is established to warrant the concessions that are claimed. But, for argument's sake, let us admit that the consciences of Dissenters are really ' aggrieved by the Church-rate impost. Again and again they have told us .- that their objections apply, not to the amount of the exaction, but to the principle • it involves : and we have been ostentatiously reminded that the smaller the sum in dispute the more dignified is their opposition to it. Since we know, then, what no party has attempted to deny, that Dissenters, in consideration of being bound to pay Church -rates, ' have acquired their tributable property at a proportional rent or price beneath its actual value, we are met with the obvious question—into whose pocket shall the money pop arising from the remission of these rates ? To the landlords, whether Dissenters or not, it cannot possibly belong ; becauseawhcn they bought their lands or houses, they got them on the expressed condition that these rates should be paid as part of their purchase price. With as little justice can it be appropriated to tenants or occupants, inasmuch as they hold their tene ments on precisely the same condition with regard to rent. On the charitable assumption, therefore, that no conscientious Dissenter will be disposed to pocket money which he has no right to, there can be no doubt that if Church-rates are really to be abolished eo no mine, the amount heretofore raised under that designa tion ought still to be exacted for some other public pur poses (such as the remission of the duty on soap or window lights), thereby relieving the consciences and purses of Dissenters in the way most agreeable to their honest minds—the former being released from the op pression of contributing to the Church, and the latter exempted from the painful burden of carrying off what they have not the shadow of a right to. Having thus shown that a supposed relief to Dissenting consciences as regards the Church does not necessarily involve an unjust remission of money belonging to the State, we may now mention, that though our former reasonings illustrative of the fact that conscience has nothing what ever to do with this controversy have failed to elicit an honest conf e ssi on f rom th e con victed parties, who still cry up their rotten consciences as before, we have had the satisfaction to see that the effect of these reasonings of ours on some of the supporters of Dissent has been nearly all that we could have wished. In reference to the Regium Donum, which Dissenting consciences make no scruple in receiving out of the pockets of Church people, a Whig-Radical paper says : " The whole amount given by the State, and distri buted in small sums amongst 1,070 (Dissenting) Minis ters, in three years,' does not exceed 1,6951. per year—a sum—which the opulent Dissenters, now that attention has been directed to the subject, will, perhaps, feel them selves called on to give up, rather than suffer under the reproach of imitating the conduct they condemn in others. When we recollect, indeed, the vast sums for building churches, augmenting stipends, &c., which have been con tinually voted by the State to the Establishment, we must admit that we should be less surprised than grieved should the Dissenters continue to follow the grab-all example they arc, in the case of the rates, engaged in resisting. At the same time we agree with more than one Contemporary, that the Dissenters would have a better case to bring be fore the public if they give up, with much contempt, the poor pittance of 1,6951., which is no compensation for Church-rates. As long as the Dissenting Ministers receive that sum from the National Funds, which their opponents, perhaps, regard as a bribe for acquiescence, they have so much less reason to complain of the sums they are called en to pay for the support of the Church." The salt is here rubbed into the raw with more fide lity than tenderness. A sad wipe this to the bleeding consciences of the united. We almost begin to sus pect that the real orthography of their Chairman s name is Wry-mouth.-7 int es. We cannot but congratulate his Majesty's ministers upon the variety of expedients which they have in store for solacing themselves in case of defeat. The time has been, ere whiggery's reign began, When resignation was the simple plan. But the progress of philosophy in these days has dis closed new lights to placemen. In a moment of acci dental obliviscense which befel Lord John Russell on the 7th of February, he indeed connected failure in office with flight from office, according to the old rule ; but since that time he has come to himself, and no longer entertains any such old-fashioned notions. Lord Pahnerston and Mr. P. Thompson, we are informed, were in so horror-stricken a state for two days after the 7th February, that they did not utter a word, and Lord Glenelg was unable to sleep more than 40 hours in the 48 which immediately succeeded the delivery of Lord John Russell's rash oration. Sir John Cam Hob house was indeed the only man in the ministry who seemed not a whit the less lively in consequence of the unlucky allusion to resignation. He snapped his fingers, took off his glass, and insisted that it was much less troublesome, and more amusing, to be in opposition than to endure " a thankless servitude" on the treasury bench. But his careless mood was of little consequence when all the rest were steeped in grief, and even Lord J. himself rather unwell, and very unhappy on account of what he had said. It vas, therefore, agreed that if possible the unlucky pledge about resigning should be allowed to drop into oblivion ; and it was hoped that it had done so, when, to the consternation of all heads of departments, the Morning Herald was found, on the 28th of March, reminding the public that such a pledge had been given. The wise man of Birmingham was sent for, while he was yet flushed with the glory of Warwick oratory, and he ventured to assure his eracious patrons that he would set all right by a plump denial. He tried that plan and it failed—it more than failed, for it brought down fresh exposure. Some thing else became necessary, and it was boldly re solved to publish a list of expedients which joule de pis—that is to say, rather than resign, might he re sorted to. " Say we may make Peers," said one ; " Say we may reform the 'House of Lcrds," said ano ther; ' Say we may dissolve the House of Commons, and appeal to the people," said a third. Each of these recommendations was accompanied by a groan of despondency, which being perceived, the whole com pany burst out in chorus, " Say what you please, b ut let it be to the effect that we won't resign." The expe dients have been announced, which are doubtless very good, as far as they go, but there should have hs e i l another. The ministerial paper should have stated that if its patrons were hard pressed, they might have set the Thames on fire, and carry what they pleased in the House of Lords, while tbe Conservative majority-- that is, five-sixths of the whole—were out looking at the strange phenomenon. In our humble opinioh this =vould be a very practicable expedient, compared with the others which have been suggested. Mal.:e Peers, indeed ! Do they think of ennoblinv, by one sweep ing, patent, all the Members of Mr. d'Connell's Assoctation ? Reform the Peers ? Who is to pass the Reform ? Appeal to the people ! Is it hr increasing the number of Conservative Members in the I louse of Commons that they expect to conquer ? No, no ; all this is very hopeless. To set the Thames on file would be much easier, and much more "in the line (to use a business phrase) of the wise person ages who condunt the . Whig-RadiCal Government. But we confess that any expedient is less frightful to contemplate than that of resignation. To be beaten session after session, and in question after question, is indeed unpleasant, but to resign would be vet more so. There is reason in this, for " Even though vanquished they may argue still;" and what is of more importance to themselves, and not less to the country, they may receive their pay and ea - mluincnts. Fortunately, there is no condition esta blished at the treasury, that a beaten Minister is to receive no pay. No such rule exists, and we may be quite sure that no such rule will be suffered to exist, so long as the present Ministry can prevent it. They have a great talent for receiving salary. They may forget pledges but their ►nemory is quick as to quarter day. We think it is Lucian who alludes to persons whose wort it was to " lie and cheat, and count the obeli." In one of these particulars, at all events, we would match the present Ministers against any tribe, ancient or modern, from the Hellespont to Holywell street.—Morning Herald.' We now call on every independent Member of Par liament to whom the honour of his country is dear to take seriously into consideration the state of the civil war in the North of Spain; and the position that a certain portion of his fellow-subjects, and the King's troops, now occupy in that contest. We will place totally out of consideration the rights of Don Carlos or Donna Isabel, or the interests of the two parties of Royalist and Liberal who desolate their native land ; and we simply call the attention of those who are willing to listen to reason, and to be led by com mon sense, to the awkward situation Great Britain has been placed in by late events, and to the em barrassments that must arise hereafter. Isabel may or may not be the Queen of Spain, in virtue of the altered law of 1789—the will of Ferdinand— or the Jura in 1831 ; Carlos may be heir to the throne, according to a strict entail, and by the common right which governs all property, being born two years before the first alteration of the law was made. But it is not to the young Queen or to her uncle that we now direct our attention ; it is to the unprecedented nature of British intervention, and the possibility that further disasters may place the honour of Great Britain in a predicament that nothing l ess than a declaration of war can extricate her from. If, the other day, when 600 British Marines were doing duty as land soldiers, three miles from the ships to which they are attached, the Carlist army had fallen on that body, and annihilated it, as a victorious army well might, what would have bee❑ the consequences at home ? Would not every Englishman, no matter what his political inclinations were, feel that the na tional pride was touched ; and that nothing less than a declaration of war and a determined victory could wash out the stain ? We are happily relieved from such a consequence, for the Carlist Generals were so apprehensive of further compromising their cause by . direct hostilities with the troops of the King of England, that they drew off a victorious army, in hot pursuit of a flying enemy, from that part of the field where the Marines were in reserve. - Let it not be said th at the Carlists were beaten, or that they turned from the Marines by cowardice. There is reason in everything, and however proud we may be of the British Marines, (perhaps the finest body of men in any service) or sa tisfied of their gallantry and discipline, we are not such idiots as to suppose that 4,000 Carlists, as there were on that wing, or 15,000, as the Christinos repre sent, on the whole field of battle, not half a mile in breadth, would have fled from a body of 600 men, were they even Goliahs in stature, and Napoleons in reputation. No, the fact is that the Carlists avoided contact with the Marines lest the destruction of them should further complicate their question ; just as they allowed the British vessels to remain in the Bilboa river previously to the seige being raised, though they could have planted batteries on the heights to sink them any hour they pleased. If, however, the same circum stances should arise, and the same moderation not prevail, in the movements which are again said to be in contemplation, and that the troops of his Majesty King William the Fourth should have to lay down their arms to the wild mountaineers of Navarre, con. gregated for mutual defence, or that they should have to yield up their lives to the fury of a victorious crowd of peasants, are the people of England pre pared to take all the consequences of making the matter the ground of a national quarrel, and to say, " De clare war, because we have been unjust, and because we sent our marines to support a band of mercena ries ?" If we are not prepared to go that length we have but one alternative, and that is to with draw from a place where they can neither win honour • to our arms, nor render any service to the State. We do not approve of the Quadruple Treaty ; we did think it the greatest piece of diplomatic vanity that ever was embodied when it was drawn up—and we think so still ; but we are bound, as British sub jects, to receive it as long as it be on the books, and we say, with the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, respect it, because it is the law of the law. But we say likewise, limit your co-operation to the exact letter of that treaty—give naval assistance and no more, according to the legitimate construction of the phrase; and do not send men with the King's cockade to act as lacqueys to the refuse of the London kennels. The other day we read an account of the Phenix steamer having sunk a Spanish boat, because it be lieved the crew were Carlists, and because they did not answer the signal that was made. But what right had the officer o f th e Phoenix to fire on that boat, supposing it were Carlist, as Great Britain has abandoned the block ade of the Cantabrian coast ? Speak of a Durango decree, indeed Which is the more savage—to shoot a man who has landed to violate the law of the land, and murder your father, mother, or son—or set fire to your cottage—or insult your wife or daughter : or to fire a broadside into an unarmed boat, in which the natives of the coast were engaged in their own lawful affairs—perhaps, by fishing, providing for the wants of their families? We have not called public attention to circumstances of this cruel act before, because we were desirous of ascertaining that it was an English sailor, and not a Christino adventurer, who is account able for it. Of its truth there can be no doubt ; and we ask the people of England if they will tolerate the employment of the British flag on a service of such cold-blooded barbarity ? We also find that Evans has at length obtained permission to send a bat tery of guns to Behobie, to play on Fuentarabia or Irun, though he is aware that the French Government will not permit its fire to be returned, because some of the balls must fall into their territory. Oh, shame, shame ! Can it be an Englishman who takes such an unfair advantage ? We always thought our motto was, " A. clear stage, and no favour ; and is it now, for the first time, that we stab a man in the back, or attack him when his hands are tied up ? It may be said that Evans has all the disgrace of this unworthy resource, as well as of the late defeat, a thousand times more bitter from his vain anticipations of success ; but we tell the British nation that the dishonour is upon it, and that when the name of Evans is forgotten history will record our shame. The House of Commons has again met, and we have an excellent opportunity of becoming extricated from a most embarrassing situation. It is impossible to serve the Queen's cause by our present co-ope ration. We only expose ourselves to ridicule in continuing it. Not ten times the force that we now supply can exterminate Don Carlos, or the love of liberty which beats in every Carlist's veins. Do what we may, the struggle will still be preserved in the mountains, and the farther we enter into the country, tempted by occasional success, the more se riously shall we be compromised, and the more disho nourable must he our retreat.. We, therefore, say, as the Quadruple Treaty is still on the books, let us have the honesty to give it a true interpretat:on. With draw the Marines to their ships, and execute the ar ticles according to their strict letter. We have before cautioned the Government as to the consequences of its weakness. We appeal to the course of events for the proof of our knowledge of the state of Spain ; and, ju4ified by thc..ir results, we again raise a warn ing voice, which, we hope, may find an echo, if not among those in power or in the House of Commons at least among the people at large, to whose good sense the subject may fairly be submitted.—Mornino. Post. The Committee of the Central Association of Dis senters—to whose establishment in London in Octo ber, and to whose proceedings since we have taken several occasions to alvert—have published a circular address on the subject of Church -rates, calculated to produce great effect by its brief energy, by its season ableness, and by that quiet temperance of tone which naturally results from the conscious strength of a good cause. It expresses full concurrence with the wisdom of the Ministerial measure lately brought into the House of Commons for the abolition of Church -rates, on the ground th it it satisfies the claims of the Dissenters, without making any encroach ment on the pockets of the nation—and without taking one farthing from the established incomes of any of the functionaries of the Church. It, in fact, creates a - new fund for the express purpose. The circular may be con sidered as the adhesion of the three deOminations of Dissenters to the Chancellor of the Ex - Chequer's Bill, and thus proves it to be, in every sense of the word, a healing measure. There is only one party dissatis fied—and that is the Episcopal Bench, and the army of High Church partizans, which the intem perance of its invectives, or the influence of its wealth, has imbued with a spirit of agitation which, in every other case of injustice, their spiritual Lordships are the first to denounce and decry. In lately adverting to the mode in which the trumpery petitions in favour of Church-rates have been got up by the holy agitators of the Church militants, we contributed our mite to the demolition of the ridiculous argument employed by some of the Right Reverend Bishops, to show that the paucity of the petitioners arose from the circumstance of their petitions amounting to an entreaty to be taxed in favour of the Church. According to this episcopal logic, if there had been no petitions at all, the Right Reverend episcopal pleaders would have appealed to the circumstance as the silent de termination of the country to spend its money in con tributing to the surperfiuities of the Church. The cir cular of the association of Dissenters analyses the other arguments of the Right Reverend Bench, and de molishes them in an equally effectual manner. The Bi shops say that millions of souls are at the present mo ment starving for the want of religious instruction. The circular justly replies, that the Bishops, in making this allegation, leave entirely out of their consideration the religious instruction supplied on the voluntary principle, by the zeal of the Dissenters, in all parts of the country ; and entirely omit the schools, the.asylums, and charitable and educational institutions, with which I Dissenting body have filled up the void occasioned by Lie 0 the omission or commission of the State Church ? Why was not this objection thought of before ? is the just ar gument of the circular. Why was it not thought of in the report of the Ecclesiastical Commission—and the Church Bill founded upon it—which settles enormous incomes of 10,0001. and 15,000/. a-year upon the mock descendants of those primitive Bishops or overseers who boasted of earning their income by -the honest toil of their hands ? Surely out of the scandalous profusion of the funds awarded to them by that measure, something might have been contributed to feed the myriads who are said to be famishing for the bread of religious instruction. The Bishops seem to have the most extraordinary views of the distinctions of meum team. In order to invest themselves with the above extravagant incomes they made no scruple to rob the Church itself with the right hand, rapaciously seizing the Church property of the Deans and Chapters, and with the left the Church property of two suppressed bishoprics in Wales. Are not these things notorious ? Is not Wales at this moment in a state of fermentation on account of this episcopal plunder, and is not the ground of that fermentation distinctly stated in the pe tions to be that the episcopal plunder robs the principality of the religious instruction which the Church is bound to supply ? The rapacity of these descendants of the poor and self-denying fishermen who constituted the• first bishops is be coming perfectly outrageous. Where will it stop ? Quem ad finem sese sfrcenata jactabit auda cia ? The horse-leech which said nothing but " give, give," is a feeble type of a State-church Bishop. The ' fund by which a national source of unchristian dis union, ill blood, persecution, and disturbance will be dried up in a manner consonant to the " religion of peace," is (as we have said) a new creation which deducts from the pecuniary interests of no class what ever. Yet this is the gorged and plethoric greediness of the state Church now clamorously attempts to ap propriate—careless of public discord—careless of Christian peace—careless of anything but wallowing in the sensual mire of the pomps and vanities of the kingdom of this world, which it is solemnly sworn and sacredly pledged to renounce. Their inordinate profligate greediness reminds us of at was o nce said of a former Tory Prime Minister— wh give hi m all England, and he will not be satisfied unless he had the Isle of Man superadded to the gift as a cabbage garden. Their gluttonous selfishness would s'tt fire to London, in order to boil the chocolate for. their break . fast.—Morning Advertiser. DEATH-BED OF SIR JOHN SINCLAIR.—My last conversation with him was on the morning of the 21st, when, after topics of a more serious nature, I accidentally men tioned that I was going to attend a meeting on the Religious Education of the Highlanders. This led him to express his warm attachment to the people of the highlands, and his deep regret that their moral and religious welfare had been hitherto so imperfectly provided for. These were the last words I heard him utter. In the afternoon of that day, a week from the commencement of his illness, symptom of immediate dissolution suddenly alarmed us. Medical aid was resorted to, but without effect. As he felt his end approaching, he or dered every one to withdraw. " All is now over," said he; "retire, that I may pray." lie closed the curtains, and his voice was heard in audible supplication to Almighty God. Soon after he had ceased ; it was ascertained that he had fainted. From this state he did not recover; and such was the serenity of his departure, that though several of us were watching anxiously around him, it was impossible to tell at what mo ment he expired.—Memoirs of Sir J. Sinclair. EDITORS AT FAULT.—The Belfast News Letter in its comments on the recent rejection by the House of the Bill for providing a farther supply of water for that town, charges the Morning Chronicle with ignorance and indiscre tion," because that Journal justified the rejection of the Bill, " on the absurd pretext that it was intended to augment the local influence of Mr. Emerson Tennent, and thus to turn the balance in his favour in the event of an electiOn." This, it is asserted, " is too ridiculous to need confutation, and is in itself a pregnant proof of the absolute necessity for local information on the part of those who attempt to write upon local subjects." The Times has not permitted the Chronicle to " outrun it in the race of absurdity," and the "ignorance or recklessness" of the writer in that Journal, according to the News Letter, is gross and manifest. A report was current in Hammersmith that a youth of tender age, residing at an academy for the education of young gentlemen, committed suicide by strangulation a few days ago, in consequence of being punished by seven hours' solitary con ment in a dark place. It seems that the lad cut a stick out of the garden hedge, and being informed against by one of his companions, was sentenced by the master to the above imprison ment. On entering his cell, he said to several of his school mates that he " could not brook such treatment, and that he would put an end to his life." This announcement was, how ever, treated merely as a bravado; but, on opening the door, at the expiration of his sentence, the master and his assistants were horror-struck at finding him lifeless mad cold. It seems that be had managed to hang himsel by means of a hook in the ceiling, to which he had fastened his handkerchief and braces. Attempts were made to hush the matter up, in order to save the reputation of the school ; but the medical gentleman to whom the matter was referred, very properly insisted on the Coroner being informed of the affair. An inquest was held on Saturday evening, and the Jury returned a verdict of " Tem porary mental derangement," expressing their high opinion of Mr. Cohen's treatment of, and humanity towards his pupils.— Morning Paper. A coroner's inquest was taken on Saturday at the Blockmakers' Arms, Shepherd an& Shepherdess-fields, City . road, on view of the body of a young gentleman, of the name of Charles Peake, aged twelve years, one of the scholars of the Blue Coat School, Newgate-street, who met his death by drowning, at the Metropolitan Tepid Baths, Shepherd and Shepherdess-fields. It appeared that the deceased, with some other boys belonging to the Blue Coat School, about his own age, went to the baths for the purpose of bathing. The de ceased, with his schoolfellows, were in the water when the de ceased was observed suddenly to sink. A youth who was near him remarked that he had gone down to dive; but finding that he did not rise to the surface, another boy looked at the bottom (the water being so pellucid that the pavement at the bottom could be seen), when he was perceived to be motion less. He was instantly taken out, carried into a parlour, and placed in a bl'anket before a fire. Messengers were sent in different directions for medical attendance, which promptly arrived Mr. Salisbury, surgeon, in the City-road, first came, who opened the jugular vein, and the vein in the arm, but no blood followed. By this time Dr. Kinnear entered the room, after which for two hours the usual means" in cases of sag- Fended animation from drowning were resorted to, as friction by salt and bsandy, &c., but without effect. On being taken out, one of the arms was contracted, from which circumstance it was the opinion of the surgeons that he had been seized with a spasmodic attack. No blame was attributable to the pro prietor of the baths by the Jury, as the depth of water in the baths was described by figures, these being from four to five feet.—Verdict, Accidental Death. UNITED STATES.-11C Norfolk Beacon contains the particulars of the loss of the brig Carroll, Mitchell, of Bangor, when 14 days out from New Orleans, for Baltimore : " The brig struck very heavy on the outer shoals off Cape Loo kout, at 10 o'clock, P.m., on the 18th ult., carrying away her rudder, &c., the wind blowing fresh from S.E. and foggy. About half-past 11 the wind change] suddenly to the N. W., blowing a gale. From the perilous situation in which the brig was, without a rudder, the Captain concluded it would be better to get the vessel ashore somewhere, if possible, by which means the lives of those on board might be saved, and afford a chance to save the cargo. Soon after the vessel struck, the light of Cape Look-out was seen about one mile distance. Captain M. endeavoured to gain the light, but could not succeed, and finally struck the shore, one mile to the south of the Cape ; remained beating on the beach all night, with a tremendous sea breaking over every minute, looking forward for daybreak. The looked for hour arrived ; orders were given to clear the boat, and all hands to get in. The boat, however, no sooner touched the water than it was tilled, capsized, and dashed to pieces in the surf. It was fortunate for those on board, for it was impossible a boat of the kind could live in such a sea, much less gain the shore with the wind ahead and tide making out ; the weather was extremely cold. Efforts were made for many hours to get a line ashore, but could not succeed, though only 40 or 50 yards distance, so strong was the uncle' -tow. The crew had been exposed 14 hours to overwhelming seas, hail, and snow, and almost chilled to death, when they tossed overboard their faithful dog Pilow, with a line round its neck, who reached the shore, but with the greatest difficulty. They were then able to get a small cable fastened to the shore and vessel, by which means they all succeeded in gaining the shore with a part of their baggage. Had they remained on board six or eight hours longer, it is believed all would have perished with cold. Friday afternoon, the 10th, part of' her cargo was taken out by the wreckers, and on the 11th everything was taken out on the beach, and was to be sold, together with the vessel, rigging, sails, &c., on the 21st for the benefit of the underwriter." DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT THE MECHANICS' IN STITUTION, LIVERPOOL. —A destructive fire broke out on Thursday evening in this splendid building, which was to be opened on Thursday next, with an address by Thomas Wyse, Esq., M. P., on the advantages which must result to the town from the plan of education to be adopted in its schools. The fire was discovered about half-past twelve, and originated in the oval-shaped theatre or lecture-room, which occupied the centre of the building. The space between the theatre and the external walls is occupied by class-rooms and other apart ments, so that the fire was not perceived until it had burst through the roof. When this took place, the alarm was im mediately given, and Mr. Whitty was soon on the spot with several fire-engines. By half-past two, the fire had consider ably subsided , but it was not completely subdued till seven in the morning. The theatre and the whole of its roof are com pletely destroyed. The south entrance is also destroyed, but the houses of the keepers on each side are preserved uninjured. Part of the roof on the west of the building is also destroyed ; but the whole of the exterior of the building, including the beautiful portico, is quite uninjured, a circumstance which shows the care with which the operations of the firemen were directed. In the vestibule of the front were four statues ; one of these, representing the Goddess of War, is supposed to be about 2,000 years old, having been founds in the ruins of Pompeii. It was saved principally by the exertions of in spectors Kerr and Cochrane. The statute after the Medicean Venus and another statue were also saved, and the fourth escaped with the loss of its nose. The damage is estimated at 3,0001., and the building is insured in the Liverpool Fire office to the amount of 6,0001. The origin of the fire is as yet unknown. On Saturday as a notorious person named Walkcr, was pursuing his unlawful avocation in Badney woods, in com pany with a companion, in stooping down to arrange a snare he discharged the contents of his gun through his head. His companion left him on the ground, and gave notice of the acci dent, but would not tell the precise spot where the man lay. Search was immediately made, and the sufferer discovered, but his dog would not let any one approach his master. The ani mal was, however, secured, and the man removed, but he died before they arrived at his cottage. On Monday, at the in quest, a verdict of " Accidental Death" was returned..—Lin colnshire Chronicle. On Monday the overseer of Martin Hussington (Mr. Bedford) brought a man named Brown before the Wor cestershire county magistrates, in order to compel him to support six illeg►timate children of his wife, who had eloped from him 14 years ago, and had borne these children to a man with whom she had cohabited. The woman, who had not seen her husband for the above -named time, was brought forward and recognized him as her husband, but said that the real father of the children was well able to support them. The overseer prayed for a conviction of the husband, for refusing to support his wife's offspring, but the magistrates refused to do more than remand the prisoner until the opinion of a Barrister could be obtained as to the construction of the clause of the New Poor Law Act,_. Worcester Journal. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE, APRIL 3. The Earl of Clancarty, William, from Rotterdam ; Att wood, Major, ditto; Neptune, Haacks, Ostend ; Kent. Tune, Boulogne ; Fancy, Ticker, St. Michael's; Hero, Twikie, Gibraltar; Industry, Andrews, Guernsey; Tourist, Whit comb, Antwerp. ENTERED OUTWARDS. The Perseverance, Cordiere, o for Calais; Wellington, Chadwick, New York ; Columbine. Norwood, Rotterdam; John Wood, Woodruff, Havre ; Giraffe, Denys, Ostend, Bruges and Ghent ; Erasmus, Mark, Batavi . A. CLEARED OUTWARDS WlTti CARGO. The Isabella, Vollums, for Alexandria; Orlando, Blair' Montreal; Jeune Annotte, Mable. Nantes. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST. The Zephyr, Crow, for Memel ; Endymion, Fletcher, Que— bec ; Victoria, Languehart, Cherbourg ; Suffolk, Foggo, Riehebucto ; Norden, Salversen, Norway ; Sators, Bain, Riga; Salid, Jeosen, Norway; Ocean, Terry, Quebec; Margarite, Bully, Gravelines ; Brailow, Luban, Bremen; Sultana, Scott, Lisbon ; Dorothea, Osterman, Denmark ; New Harriett, Urquhart, Riga. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 2. Sailed the Don, Vantur, for Gibraltar; Robertson, Neil, Montreal ; Heroine, Bouch, Rio Janeiro; Glasgow, Burns, Montreal ; David Cannon, Br,adfoot, New Orleans; Eliza beth Bruce, Rogers, Boston; Elizabeth Radcliffe, Blackstone, Lima; Main, Vanderstein, Ostend; Cordelia, Reid, Trini dad ; Hindley, Turner, Vera Cruz ; Warwick, Little, Cey lon ; Echo, Mallet, New Orleans ; Rajah, Bliss, New York; Hibernia, Wilson, ditto; Alex. Grant, Brown, Savannah; Medora, Gregg, Barbadoes ; Pearl, Christmas, Havre. CINQUE PORT PILOTS. Office of the General Shipowners' Society, 72/ Cornhill, April 1, 1837. Sir—The Committee of the General Shipowners' Society having ascertained that Dover boatmen are in the practice of falsely representing to masters of vessels coming from the west ward that there are no Cinque Port pilots on shore at Dover the Committee request the favour that a notice may be exhi bited at Lloyd's, requiring all masters of vessels to display, ac cording to law, the usual signal for a pilot on arrival off Dun geness, and to keep it flying until a Cinque Port pilot comes on board, and on no account to permit it to be hauled down, by reason of any representation that may be made by boatmen. I am, Sir, &c., WAI. 0 VIATT, Sec. (Signed) W. Dobson, Esq. TONNAGE DUTY ON STEAM-VESSELS. Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, April 3, 1837. Sir—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you, for the information of the gentlemen concerned in the shipping interest, the accom pa:Lying translation of a Royal Order which has been trans mitted to his Majesty's Government by his Majesty's Minister at Lisbon, regulating the tonnage duty on steam-vessels in the ports of Portugal. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, DENIS LE MARCHANT. To the Chairman at Lloyd's. TRASLATION. " Her Majesty the Queen, having seen the representation of the Directors of the Lisbon Custom-house, under date of the 16th of February, requesting to be informed whether the favour granted by the 3d article of the Decree of the 16th of January last to steam-vessels is to come into effect with the new Custom-house tariffs, as might be inferred from the Order of the 3d of February, or with the other Decree of the 14th of November last, with the modification established by the ad article of the Decree of the 16th of January last, as the Order of the 3d of February only refers to this last Decree so far as it treats of the duties stated in the new tariff, and which are to be paid by goods imported in Portuguese vessels. ( Signed) "JOSE DA SILVA PASSOS. " Patree of Neeessidades, March 1, 1837.'' (Extract of the decree of the 16th of January, 1837, referred to in the preceding.) TRANSLATION. " Article 3d, taking into consideration the advantage result ing to commerce generally from the expedition with which steam-vessels perform their voyages, and that they for this very reason often perform eight or nine voyages in a year, and have to pay port charges each time, which fall the more heavily upon them as they are seldom entirely laden, I am pleased to declare in reference to the decree of the 14th of November last that steam-vessels shall only pay three-fifths of the ton nage duty established by that decree." An old shoemaker has just died here in great misery, who, during the first revolution, married a celebrated countess to save her from the scaffold. The lady afterwards hastened to quit her liberator and husband, after the reign of terror. This man, called Jean Royer, who went to market himself every morning, and who each evening was seen in toxicated in the streets, has just died, and very much surprised was the commissary of police when, being called to verify tho decease, he found hidden amongst the rags of the old man, 10,000 f. in notes, which this magistrate deposited at tho hank.—lndicateur of Bordeaux. AT T. COX SAVORY'S, 47, Cornhill, London. GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. A large assortment. of Watches, both new and second-hand, on the improved modern constructions. Some dozens of second-hand Silver Watches may be chosen from, price Two and Two and a Half Guineas each. A quantity of second-hand Gold Watches from SI to Eight Guineas each. THE SILVER MANUFACTURES comprise a most extensive variety of Silver Tea Services, price from 151. to 301. the set. Coffee Pots to match. Waiters of all sizes. Cake and Bread Baskets, either of plain or elaborate workmanship. The Plain Cruet Frames arc charged 71. the set—the more richly ornamented in proportion. The show-rooms contain a most exten sive stock of every article of silver manufacture. SILVER SPOONS AM) FORKS. The various ornamental, as well as the plainer, patterns are kept ready.—The one shell pattern is much sought after and admired. THE PLATED GOODS are arranged in show-rooms, and consist of an excellent stock of Corner dishes, price from Seven to Ten Guineas the set.—Dish Covers of various patterns 201. the set of five.—Soup and Sauce Tureens, Branch Candlesticks, and every requisite for the Dinner Table—as also a large assortment of every article usually manufac tured in Silver Edged Plated Goods. TIIE JEWELLERY is in the newest taste. The Ladies' Gold Neck Chains are charged by a regular scale according to the weight. The Gentlemen's Guard Chains are charged on the same plan. The second floor show-room contains a variety of suites of Necklaces, Earrings, and Brooches both in Pearls and other precious stones. DIAMONDS are offered at a price according to their weight and quality. THE CLOCKS may be selected from a separate department appropriated to that purpose. An Eight-Day Clock, to strike the hours and half- hours, is offered for Five Guineas, or, without striking, price Four Guineas• A PAMPHLET is published, and may be had gratis, with Drawings and prices of the various articles, or will be forwarded in answer to a post pa , application. T. COX SAVORY, Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, a"' Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill. London. BIRTHS. On the 31st ult., in Torrington-square, the lady of C. G. Jones' Esq., of a son. On the 2d inst., in Halftnoon-street, Piccadilly, the lady of D r ' C. J. B. Williams, of a son. On the Ist inst., at Clapham-rise, Mrs. G. Field, of a son. MARRIED. On the 21st of Februarila;,aTt Odessa, John Patrick Carruthers, Esq., to Carelini Lusitani de Wiederhold, youneest daughter of the late Baron de Wiederhold, General in the Portuguese service. On the 30th ult., at Kew Church, the Rev. Thomas Tunstall 11avcrfield, 8.D., Rector of Goddington, Oxfordshire, and Char lain to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, to Caroline Soph l3 l relict of the late Edward Bi yant, Esq., of Lansdowne House , Southampton. DIED. At St. Leonard's-on-Sea, on the 31st March, James Buric it ' Esq., in his 76th year. On the Ist inst., John Truman Villebois, Esq., of Harmsworthl Hants, aged 64, eldest son . of Wm. Villebois, Esq., of FekW!" place, Middlesex. ' On the sth of January, at Asseergliur, John Gordon Deeded , o f the Bengal Civil Service, eldest son of the Rev. J. Deedes, Rector of Willingale, Essex. On the 28th ult., at Westwood House, near Colchester, iler °l James Humphryi, Esq., of the Inner Temple, barrister-at -/AO, eldest son of A. Huinphrys, Esq., of Upper Wimpole-street. On the 29th ult., in the King's-road, Chelsea, Sarah Itlat"'' only daughter of the late Captain Keith, 23d Foot. On the 31st ult., in London, John Madox, Esq., the Orient s/ travelln. On the 29th ult., in Albion-place, Maidstone, aged 81, Mel. Crew, relict of R. Crew, Esq. ti On the 30th ult., at Southampton, aged 85, El;zabcth, re lict T. Croft, Esq., of Marwell Lodge, Hants. On the 31st ult., aged 87, Mrs. Freshfield, of Unicn.terracdt Peckham. On the 31st ult., Emily Charlotte, youn g e s t child of C. To' r ' Esq., solicitor of legacy duties. CC- On the Ist inst., at Lambeth-terrace, aged 75, Sarah Curt, lict of A. Whitehead, Esq. In Upper Woburn-place, Tavistock-square, George g ii3grd King, Esq. NAVAL OBITUARY. A & v iral Flag Officers—Admiral Sir Manley Dixon, K. C.B. ; prcs; Sir John Harvey, K. C.B. ; Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Da Rear-Admiral W. D'Urban. Sir Captains—John Edgcumbe, Joseph Spear, Charles W. H. Mulcaster, John Bailey. 1-1" 11 GO' Commanders—Henry Jellico, Edward Kelly, Thomas I,„ ear d, Fuller Stow, Rance brd Tookey, James Manderson, George r Richard Whitehead, Henry Waring. R• Lieutenants—Robert Lester P ar ki nson , L. G. Carringwlor T. Hodges, John Marshall, Ludovick Grant, Win , Barclay, Wm. Truss, Wm. Coyde, James Williams, John lg a jimis ley, John Pyne, John Levett, Henry Bond, Owen Owen , n Win' Newell, John Blythe, Francis Sparrow, George Pawsey, J° ll ls a yiest Green, E. J. Armstrong, W. J. Collins, John GregnrY Christopher Tuthill, Robert Turner Wm. Innes. til Masters--Nathaniel Harned, James Murray, Edward Ln t v ; f illiana Louthean, Joseph Barnes, James Franklyn, John Bourn, Grays Price, George Thomas patter' Surgeons— Kein, Richard Kent, J. Lig htbocil son, Charles Cameron, John Speer, M.D. Assistant- Surgeon—Win. Pattison. wa ger, Pursers—Gillies Ma bean, John Brenton, Smithson chalet. Samuel Crowley, Thos. Major, Thos. Shears, Richard D. es jek - Royal Marines—First Lieuts.—Edward Pengelly, Jam son. 2d Lieut.—Geo. W. Irving, ot London : Printed and Published by AI URDO Yl> UN o notl 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand , in TAO of Middlesex.—Tuesday, April 4, 1837. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1837.