The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-18 00:00:00

MORNING SUN. They all subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles, which not two in forty of them agree to receive in the same sense. Even the Bishops are not agreed about them. By some it is pretended that they bind themselves not to contradict them; others subscribe them in any sense agreeable to their Diocesan; some in any sense in which they can reconcile them with the Scriptures; but the go verning principle with all is, that by subscribing the A rticles they qualify themselves for Church preferment. When taking holy orders, they solemnly affirm that they are moved thereto by the HOLY GHOST, when it is as notorious as the sun at noonday that ninety-nine out of every hundred of them are moved by filthy lucre. The spirit which moves a candidate for the priest hood is very different from the Spirit of (301). Its operations are always regulated with scrupn lous regard to the whims of a patron, and always becomes troublesome when a rich presentation is to be bad. Ecclesiastical agencies for the pur chase and exchange of Church livings, are al most as plenty in London as pawnbrokers' shops ; and yet every priest swear,, on tak ing possession of a benefice, that he has made no simonical payment, contract, or pro mise, for it, either directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person, nor will he ever perform any contract entered into by any other person without his consent, in regard to such benefice. Does any person suppose that the priests in general ever trouble their heads about the observance of these oaths? And is it to be wondered at that men, familiar from their infancy with perjury,—who, in their pretensions to rank—in their titles and dignities—in their aspirations after wealth—in the examples ofcon duct which they set to others—burlesque the sacred injunctions of CHRIST;—is it, we repeat, a matter of surprise that such a body of men should excite the suspicion of every truly reli gious man? The priests are constantly crying out about the progress of infidelity. What they really more dread is the diffusion of the great truths of the Gospel. The infidels cost them less trouble than the humble believers, who, taking the New Testament for their guide, attempt to discover an apostolic fisherman and tent-maker in the princely Prelates of CANTERBURY and YORK. The priests may fight as hard as they like for the Tories, but the Tories, by any more bolstering up, will only accelerate the downfal of the crazy ecclesiastical State edifice. The vices of the priests have already made them too conspicuous in the eyes of the people. Their best policy at present is to keep as much out of sight as pos sibie. They are an eye-sore to honest men, and a stumbling-block and a rock of offence to all who inwardly profess the religion taught by the New Testament. As a corporation, they have scandalously and wickedly abused their trust, by perverting the tithes, and every other description of Church property, from the uses to which the mixed piety and superstition of former ages de voted them. This abuse of the trust amounts to a forfeiture; and the priests may depend upon it that as surely as the State at the period of the Reformation took it out of Catholic to put it into Protestant hands, so surely will the State again resume its disposal, if they continue to make it what it now is—a vast engine of oppres sion. Let them look to it in time. Instead of shouting in the van of the bread-taxing aris tocracy, it would be well for them to set about putting their house in order. The country is weary of their pride, their avarice, their litigiousness, and their constant intermed dling with the innocent enjoyments of the poor. As mere spiritual incubi the priests might be borne, but they become an intolerable nuisance when they are active, and only active for mischief. A knot of fanatics have taken it into their heads that our Colonies are sadly in want of Bishops. The people of England and Ireland can right well spare them as many as they re quire, without putting his Grace of CANTER BURY to the trouble of additional conse ora tions. We have here some Irish Prelates - who scarcely once in seven years think of Visiting their sees, and of course they would he delighted to obtain such fine fields as the Colo nies for the exercise of their spiritual zeal. As they would be just as useful to the Church of Ireland then as now, they could retain their present preferments, and thus the Colonies would be saved the expense of paying for Bishops. There are also several English Bishops, who manage to get through most of their episcopal functions in London, though their dioceses are some scores of miles distant from the metropolis, and these by an amicable arrangement with their Right Reverend brethren, we could very well afford to ship off, for six or eight months an nually, to Jamaica and the other West India islands. We have too many Bishops, and by far too much Church. Our surplus of both is more than adequate to supply all the wants of our Colonists. If we had fewer Bishops and less Church, we would have more true religion and Christian piety. _ In Mr. O'CONNELL'S long letter to the Hon. Ir.. SMYTHE, to which we alluded in The Sun of yesterday, an announcement is made which ought to be very gratifying to the Tories, and yet some of their organs are exceedingly an noyed by it. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, after recapitulating a long list of Irish grievances, for which he has no hopes of redress at the hands of a PEEL Cabinet, and which could not exist in England without provoking a rebellion, adds with some emphasis, that there shall be no re bellion in Ireland while he lives. This statement will be much more gratifying to Sir ROBERT PEEL than to the bulk of his supporters. There are plenty of Tories who would be quite delighted to see the standard of rebellion raised in Ireland —aye, and thousands of them Trish Tories too. This would afford them the only chance they can ever hope to have of repealing the Emancipation Act, and reducing the Catho lics to the condition of serfs. We do not mean to say that they would succeed —we know that to be now impossible—but their infa tuation would blind them to the guilt and folly of making the attempt. Fettered and oppressed as she is, it is Ireland that reins in and keeps in check rampant Toryism in England. We would have been Tory ridden for the last ten years, but for Ireland. But for Ireland, we would have had no Reform Bill, no Municipal Corporation Bill. No wonder that the old boroughmonger lug Tories hate her, and are constantly on the alert to assist in crushing her. But for Sir RO BERT PEEL and Lord STANLEY'S well known hos tility to Ireland, we almost doubt whether they would have a majority in the new Parliament. Dear bread is not of so much importance in the eyes of thousands of 'the Tory voters, and espe cially of the priests and their friends, as the passing of STANLEY'S Irish Disfranchisement Bill. And yet STANLEY and the Tories are doing some good to Ireland. Their hatred of the Irish people, and incessant efforts to oppress them, is evoking a national spirit which is fast pervading all classes, and which requires but full development to enable Ireland to laugh at any attempt to restrict her liberties. The debate upon STANLEY'S Irish Disfranchisement Bill has led to a more general knowledge of the miser ably restricted state of the franchise, and so pre pared the Liberal party in England to support a wide extension of the suffrage in the sister coun try. Every attempt at oppression which fails is of advantage to the nation which is the object of it, because it provokes a patriotic resistanc e by exhibiting the weakness - of the aggressor, and, regarded in this light, Lord STANLEY is a sort of benefactor of Ireland. But Mr. O'CoN NELL does well to be upon his guard. If the Tories begin by making concilia tory overtures to Ireland, it . is because they want to betray her. STANLEY'S hatred of Ireland is deadly and inveterate, nor has he thought of giving up his project for enslaving her. The triumph of the Tories in England is temporary ; Scotland has declared against them ; so both their instincts and their revenge point out Ire land as the only ground where there exists a Chance of re-erecting the Tory standard. And here we may be allowed to ask, how 16 it that Mr. O'CONNELL has thought proper to ad • - dress a long exposition of Ireland's wrongs to the Hon. Mr. SMYTHE? Does he hope to make a convert of the Hon. ITlember for the city of Can terbury to the cause of Ireland; or is this long letter an overture to the new PREIIIER? We ask these questions, because there seems to us some thing strange in the proceeding, and because we know that Mr. O'CONNELL can have no wish to leave his real views at all doubtful. It will be seen from our report of the proceed ings at the Croydon Assizes yesterday that a poor man, after an arduous and protracted con test, has at last defeated a Lord. The poor man, whose name is PUNTER, was turned out of his cottage by Lord GRANTLEY. lie considered he had as Much right to the freehold as his Lord ship, and, with the assistance of some neighbours, who took an interest in the case, and the ex cellent advocacy of Sergeant SnEA, he has tri umphed. What will the renegade Tory Judge who once tried the case, say to this ? On that occasion he summed up in favour of the Noble Lord, and treated the claims of the plaintiff with contempt. The Jury yesterday were of a diffe rent opinion ; they were guided, too, by a Judge who has always been consistent, and who is an honour to the Bench, and they returned a ver dict in favour of the plaintiff, for the amount claimed. If the tenure by which certain Noble Lords and Ladies hold their vast estates were to be tried by the same rule which the CHIEF BARON laid down for the decision of PUN• TER'S claim, one half of them would be dispos sessed of their property. Many of them have no title deeds to show; they claim, like PUN TER, right from continued possession!, and a discreet Judge, therefore, would not have mooted a question which involves such fearful consequences. But upstart Peers and renegade politicians are dangerous counsellors, and so the Jury thought when they returned a verdict directly opposed to the decision of Lord ABINGER• An express from Paris, bringing news of Mon day's date, has likewise brought a letter from Macao, dated the 27th of April, containing very important intelligence from China. This letter was put on board the steamer at Bombay, on the 10th of June, after the snail and other despatches had been embarked, and from some cause or other, which we are left to conjecture, was not forwarded on landing the mail at Suez. The latest previous intelligence was to the 27th of March, so that the news now brought is a month in advance. This communication states that the Chinese authorities had violated the engagement entered into with Captain Elliot for the renewal of the trade. No intercourse with British sub jects was permitted, and such was the extraor dinary vigilance of the- Mandarins and soldiers guarding the coast, that during the month pre ceding the date of this letter, the smugglers had not been able to obtain one thou i sand chests of tea. On the 17th of March, an imperial man date, signed by the Emperor, was received at Canton, filled with the most violent invectives against the English red-bristled barbarians, and commanding all the authorities, civil and mili tary, to destroy every ounce of tea, rhubarb, and other commodities usually purchased by the English throughout the province of Canton. In this, mandate compensation is guaranteed to the owners of the destroyed goods, and rewards offered to such as manifest the greatest readiness promptly to execute the Imperial will. Conceal ment of the interdicted article is threatened with the severest punishments, and every encourage ment held out to informers. The opium smugglers were not more successful than the smugglerS of tea. The vigilance of the Chinese authorities along the coast south of For mosa nearly pre ventedull dealings in that quarter. Though the Chinese had not commenced ac tive hostilities, they had made several attempts, by means of fire ships and rafts laden with in flamable combustibles, to destroy the foreign shipping in the river. These rafts had run foul of several vessels, and had seriously damaged the cargoes of some of them. The British Commander was therefore deliberating on the expediency of moving the ships below the second bar, where the river is wider, and where conse quently, more facility would exist for avoiding the destructive contrivances of the Chinese: A report likewise prevailed that some British sub jects were kidnapped on the night of the :25th of April by the Celestials, but it was not credited. Such is the intelligence brought by this letter from China. The violence of the Emperor— the extreme measures to which he has recourse to destroy the trade—and the alacrity with which he is obeyed by the authorities and people, im part a deeper interest than has yet been felt to the Chinese question. The Imperial despot can not be charged with being influenced by any love of money. It was supposed by the writer of the letter cited above, that half of the tea and rhu barb found in the province of Canton was de stroyed in the course of a few days after the re ceipt of the chop from Pekin, and for this immense sacrifice of property, payment is to be made out of the Imperial Treasury. Our war then with the Chinese is likely to be a war in earnest. [Since the above was written, we learn that the authenticity of the letter from Macao is doubted in the City, chiefly because the delay in its delivery cannot be accounted for. This is no sufficient ground for rejecting it.] The Paris Journals of Sunday have been duly received. The Municipal Council of Bourdeaux has published a declaration, stating that they will not oppose the census, as an equalization of duties will lower the taxes now collected in the department of the Gironde. The average personal and moveable contribution for each in dividual throughout France is one franc, thirty centimes; but in Bourdeaux the tax individually is three francs, four centimes. The house and window tax is likewise more than five times higher in Bourdeaux than the average rate for the rest of France. But this declaration did not quell the popular excitement, which was very great. Disturbances were apprehended, and measures for quelling them were adopted by the Prefect and the other local authorities. The following intelligence from the East, which is significant from the quarter whence it comes, appears in the columns of the Presse :- -We have received important intelligence from the Le vant. The Porte has officially charged Mehemet Ali to reconquer the Holy Cities, which have fallen into the hands of the Arabs since their evacuation by the Egyp tian troops. Th e S u l tan had furnished him witlis plies to defray th e expenses of the expedition, and has, moreover, consented to reduce considerably the amount of the tribute at first required of him. When Mehemet evacuated Syria he left Ibn-al-Ain, Sherif of Mecca, governor. He had long been prisoner at Cairo. Though of the family of the Sherifs, he is not lineally descended from the last. The Sultan named Osman Pacha, a native of Medina, to govern the liedjaz. But Osman could not fill the post. The Porte sent him no troops, and he merely hired some Arnauts, allied with the Anti-Egyptian party, and remained at Yambo, negotiating with the Sherit; who kept at Mecca. In consequence the Porte has asked Mehemet to reduce the Sherif. and take charge of the Holy Cities. It appears even that his Highness intends to intrust to the Pacha a similar mission in Syria, which province has been a prey to the most complete anarchy ever since the Anglo-Turkish campaign. The Porte now perceives the impossibility of enforcing obedience to its authority in those two distant provinces, and regards the Pasha of Egypt as the only man capable of maintaining any thin.. like order and tranquillity in those countries." This result is of the highest importance. It completely defeats the ambitious plans of England, and shows in • the most forcible manner the truth of what we always said—namely " th..t the interests of France in the East would not be served by war, but by the influence of skilful diplomacy. Had we adopted the noisy policy of M. Thiers, we should have compromised the pros perity and perhaps the independence or our country, without preserving Turkey, and Still less Egypt. B y following the course so much calumniated by the inte• rested organs of M. Thiers, we have saved E gypt, and strengthened th e P or te, which will no longer have to bear the burdens of an exclusive protectorate, without exposing the independence and prosperity of France to any risk." A letter from Bona, dated the 28th July, addressed to the Tou/onnais, say s : _44 Votwithstanding the false reports spread at Bona by some speculators, who wished to have it believed that the King would not sign the ordinance relative to the colony to be founded by M. Stockniar, the agreements between private indi viduals continue to be made for important leases ; and many promises of sale have been given. Let us hope that the arrival of tin Swiss will stimulate our monied men, and that they will send with confidence to Africa funds which they sent withott success to,Texa.s, and other distant counties." Thus we see that the in= habitants of Bona had taken the premises of the Govern ment in earnest. We may easily imagine the effect produced by the failure of Mr. t: tockmar on his plan, which is now but too certain. , —We have received this morning the Toulouse journals of the 12th. The Journal de Toulouse says that almost all the arms of the National Guard have been given up. The 3d battalion of the 10th regiment of the line, stationed at Castelnan and St. Jory, has received orders to proceed to Agan. The 2d battalion of the 2d regi ment of the line, stationed at Grisolles, set out yesterday for Agan. Mons. Albert Julian, who was arrested after the deli very of the arms of the quarter of St. Michael, was re leased after having been detained 24 hours. This morning M. Debarralle, the Central Commis sary, and two Commissioners of Police, accompanied by some gen-d'armes and inspectors, arrested at their re spective residences several individuals implicated in the troubles at Toulouse.—Le Constifutionnel. • THE REGISTRATION..—It should not be for gotten that Wednest4ay, August 25, will be the last day for leaving with the overseers objections to county electors. The Tories bestow much attention on those matters ; and the friends of Reform should not suffer themselves to be surpassed by their political adversaries. MAMMOTH NEWSPAPER.-Mr. Clayton, the newspaper agent, in the Strand, has sent us a Boston newspaper, which may be safely pronounced the largest ev er ma d e . It is entitled the Boston Quadruple Notion, and measures eight feet by five, consisting therefore of nearly 80 square feet, or 11,520 square inches of letter-press. It is nearly five times as large as The Sun (no pigmy), contains 96 columns about finir feet long each, 34,560 words, and 1,460,000 letters, all soM in America for 25 cents (one shilling). The Boston people, therefore, have some rea son to boast of their Notion. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. FRANCE. PARIS, MoNDAY.—At Bordeaux serious disturbances have taken place in consequence of M. Humann's census; but have been put down. The excitement still continues more or less throughout the south. The French, it is said, are compelled to evacuate the Isla del Rey at Port Mahon. PARIS BOURSE, HALF-PAST ONE.—Five per Cents., 116 f. 50c..; Three per Cents. 77f. 70c. SPAIN. MAnnw, AUG. 9.—A1l quilt. Five per Cents., 24+ at 60 days. TURKE Y. LEVANT MAIL. CONSTANTINOPLE, ALEXANDRIA, AND SMYRNA, JULY 27. The Sultan's lealth is better, and his energies are reviving. The Candian insurrection is nearly at an end. French agents are said to be sowing discontent in Syria. A dreadful fire broke out at Smyrna on the 25th, which consumed several houses, mosques, and syna gogues. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The feature to-day is the receipt of news from China, and which has given rise to all sorts of conjectures, as to its authenticity. The Tea market is, of course, agitated by it, and other China produce will probably advance to some extent, if the Celestials are proved to have so in jured themselves as to destroy their property with the view of annoying the Barbarians. Stocks at one period of the day had a downward ten dency, but rallied subsequently to nearly the full ex tent of what they had lost. Consols for immediate transfer were quoted 89 to for the opening, but after wards receded to 89+ to and closed at 89+ to 1. For Account the value was 894 to Exchequer Bills were marked 14s. to 16s. prem., and India. Bonds 4s. to 7s. prem. Bank Stock was higher, viz., 168 to 1691 it being stated in some quarters that the Directors will be enabled ; now the prospects of the harvest have improved, to extend their discount business. The New Three and-a-Half per Cents. were 98i to 981, and the Three per Cents. 90 to 891, being nearly the previous rates. The whole amount of business in the Foreign Market scarcely calls for a remark. Spanish Active Bonds were at 19+ to Belgian at 1021, Prussian Four per Cents. at 106, and Dutch Five per Cents. at 1011. There was a good deal of business doing in Shares, but generally at about the previous rates. Great Western Railway were 17, the New 61, the London and Birmingham Quarter 17+, the Thirds 21k, the New 21f, the York and North Midland New 12, and the South Western 13+ to 13+ premium. Brighton were Git to 7, Blackwall 11, Manchester and Birmingham 301, Midland Counties 18, North Midland 354, and Birmingham and Derby 56 discount. London and Westminster Bank Shares were 2+, and Provincial of Ireland 151 premium. There was some improvement in the Foreign Ex changes this afternoon. Three month's Bills were nego tiated at 25f. 574 c. to 621 c. on Paris ; at 12 31 to 4 on Am sterdam ;at1231 to on Antwerp, at 149+ to on Frankfort ; at 13 9 to h on Ilamburgh ; and at 9 48 to 50 on Trieste. The following are the official returns of the exports of bullion from the Port of London for the week ending Thursday last : Silver Coin to Hamburgh lOB,OOO oz. Do. do. to Rotterdam 13,000 Do. Bars to Hamburgh Gold Coin to Sydney , 2,500 (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 16.—Rather better business has been done in the Cotton Market to • day the sales amounting to 5,000 bales, of which 600 bales have been taken on export, and 300 American and 200 Surat are on speculation at Friday's prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 16.—The follow ing are the transactions at the close of the Stock Ex change :—Grand Junction, 201 ; Great 'Western, Fifth Shares, 81 ; London and South Western, 511. In prices there has been no alteration—market fiat. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 16.—The market is somewhat firmer, and prices a shado higher:— Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 55-.} ; London and South Western, Tenths, 29 ; North llfidland, Thirds, 9fr ; London and Birmingham, 160 ; Bank of Manchester, 5. The new London line of packet ship, Hendrick Hud son, Captain Morgan, arrived at Portsmouth, yesterday, from New York, but she does not bring any later advices than those previously received. The English Stock Market continues firm, Consols opened at 89i for Money, 90and 89! for the Accou n t ; , three per Cents, Reduced,• T ree-and- a-Half per Cents., 99 ; India Bonds, 5 i prem. ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16. Spanish Active Stock, 19 20 ; Passive, 4 . 1 ; De ferred, 9 10 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 291 304- ; Ditto Three per Cents., 11 181. An extraordinary express has arrived from Paris, stating that a letter had been received there from China, dated Macao, April 27, being a month later ; but little credit is attached to it in the City, on account of the cu rious manner in which it has been received. It is stated that the letter was put on board the steamer on the 19th June, at Bombay, after the mail and despatches had been embarked. The letters and papers from Bombay, dated June 19, brought by the same steamer, were received in London on the 2d of this month, and this important letter has been 16 days find ing its way from Marseilles to Paris. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock l6Bl India Stock .........2471 3 per Cent Red. B9l Ditto Bonds 7p m 3 per Cent Cons 8 94 Ditto Old Annuities ... 871 gi per Cent Red., 99 Ditto New Annuities... 871 Ncw 31 per Cent 961 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 14 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 lpm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small.— Jan. 1860 .. 12 15-16 Bank Stock for Acct... 1681 Oct 1859 — India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. — !Consols for Acct B9l FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lO2l Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent l9l Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Gieek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. Dutch, 21 per cent. ... 511 Peruvian.lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent 1011 SHARES Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 44 Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 60 Great Western Railway (65 paid) B2 Ditto New Shares (50 paid 563. Hull and Selby (50 paid) 351 London and Brighton (50 paid) 43* London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 14 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) -.- Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) Ditto Thirds (32 paid) , 531 Ditto New Shares ('2 paid) London and South Western Ditto Tenths (li paid) Manchester a n d Bi rm i ng h am (40 paid) ... •• 191 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) .. . 82 Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) ...... ... 19 Northern and Eastern (30 paid) North Midland Railway (100 paid) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) .. 32 York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) Ditto New Shares (10 paid) COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF.I2 61 Gibraltar . . Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 7 'Genoa Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 12/, Venice ... 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 45 Palermo, per oz 1181 Ditto, 3 months 25 70 'Lis.bon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 75 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 150* Bahia I'etersburgh, 3Us ... 371 Buenos Ayres Berlin-- ... ............ 7 N ew York, 21 days sight 461 Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 950 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto 9 54 PRICES OF B ULLION, PER OZ. Madrid ... . 36i . Portugal Gold Coln £0 17 5 Cadiz Bilboa 36 New Doubloons OO 0 Barcelona Seville If" 36 Silver in Bars 05 Ok There are some orators whose speeches are read to the greatest advantage in sheets; and for the best possible reason, which is, that one is pretty sure to go to sleep o,rer them. • ' TH Ei SEX, LONDON, DN ESDA Y, AUGUST 18, 1841. sump ARY OF NEWS AND atifitt Optiltoit. " Who runs Way read." FOREIGN. We have news from China to the 27th of April. An entire stop was put to the trade with the " outside Barbarians." The Emperor had ordered all teas, rhubarb, and other articles usually purchasea,by the English, to be destroyed. This order the natives were cheerfully obeying, as the Imperial decree grants them ample compensation. Attempts were made by rafts to destroy the British shipping in the Canton river. The opium traffic was making no progress south o: Formosa. Letters from Constantinople, of the 27th ult., state that the health of the Sultan is improving. On the 25th ult. a fire broke out at Smyrna, which destroyed several mosques, houses, and shops. The de tails have not reached us. An express from Paris, of Monday's date, states that disturbances broke out at Bourdeaux, in consequence of the census. They were, however, put down by the authorities. The Bill for the relief of the Spanish clergy was adopted by the Committee of the Senate on the 7th inst. The state of destitution to which the unfortunate friars, monks, and nuns, whose property was seized by the State, arc reduced, is truly pitiable. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Post observes that the first French revolution, set the fashion of sneering at all Church Establishments, and goes on to say :—" Even at this day there are many persons of hardened hearts and contracted mental visions, who look upon the clergy as rather to be tolerated for the sake of the prejudicies of society, than to be upheld as the most useful body of edu cated men in this country." ir the clergy are so regarded it is only because as a corporate body, they have too often shown themselves inimical to the best interest of society; because they have always been slow to admit the necessity of sound reforms in their own establishment ; have gene rally sided with the oppressors against the oppressed ; and have opposed every system of national education but that over which they themselves could have the supreme controul. These are some, among numerous other reasons, why the Clergy are not so respected as they should be. Religion has nothing to do with a question of this sort, for people may be sincerely religious, thul yet entertain but an indifferent opinion of its salaried professors. The Times, still harping on the Church question, says :—" We see no reason to qualify our assertion that the State does not now give, and has never given to the Church of England any considerable advantage in respect of property over any tolerated Dissenting sect." One " considerable advantage " at least the State has given the Church—and that is, the privilege of putting her pious fingers into the pockets of all Dissenters who from conscientious motives may demur to her discipline. Our Contemporary adds, " The State has frequently interfered to restrain the acquisition of property by the Church, but never yet, on any considerable scale, to promote it. If Sir R. Inglis would introduce a Bill to remove some of these restraints, and to give more scope to the beneficence of private Churchmen, it might be a boon worth accepting." No doubt the parsons would think so ; but does the Times really consider Mother Church so poor, that it is necessary to bring in a Bill removing all restraints on her acquisition of fresh property ? The late Church Commission did not discover that the old lady was so singularly lean in point of purse. The Chronicle, resuming the question of free-trade, and the presumed policy of the Tories, remarks as fol lows:—" Either the free-trade principles espoused by the Liberal party are good, or they are bad. If they are bad, the more solemn and distinct pledges they can get from the Whigs of their adhesion to free-trade, the better for the Tories. But if they are good, and if the very men who turn out the Ministry for proposing them know that they arc good, then we say, the Queen and the nation have a right to know, explicitly and without dis guise, why they oppose them, and what they mean to do themselves." The Herald bewails the exceeding poverty of Mother Church in these terms :—"The utter inadequacy of the staff and the revenues of the Church on their present footing to supply the demands for spiritual instruction of a po pulation whose rapid and gigantic increase has so far outgrown the fixed limits assigned to the Clergy and their endowments—these evils have been powerfully de monstrated. They are, among candid, well-informed, and reasonable men, universally acknowledged." This lament for the poverty - of the richest Church Establishment in the world—which boasts an Archbishop, whose income was reformed the other day to the tune of fifteen thousand a year ; and who, in some shape or other, affects the pockets of every class in the com munity, is infinitely ridiculous. But the Church and her organs arc constantly crying out about their poverty. It was but a few months since that an appeal to public sympathy was attempted to be got up on behalf .of the Bishop of London, who was said to be all but in a state of insolvency, notwithstanding his income is full twenty thousand per annum ! We suppose we shall shortly see. the Church suing for _public charity in forma pauperis. The Advertiser says—" The anticipated character of th. 3 Queen's Speech is beginning to excite the fears of the Tories. This is a circumstance of happy augury. Most heartily do we hope that these Tory fears will be proved by the event to be well grounded. It will be a heavy blow, indeed, to a nation's fondest hopes if the Royal oration of this day week do not more than justify the most serious apprehensions of the factious monopo lists." MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. Late accounts from Paisley represent trade there as being in a dreadful state of depression. " We understand," says the Bolton Free Press, " that a firm in Manchester which employs some hun dreds of hands, have it in contemplation to shorten their time of work ; and are even doubtful whether they will not close their mills altogether." AGRICULTURAL. A letter received at Lloyd's, from their agent at the Cove of Cork, dated the 13th „instant, states, " We hare had a tremendous fall of rain all night, and which still continues to post hour. The damage to the crops will be very considerable." —• A Glasgow Correspondent, writing on Saturday last, says, The state of the weather is becoming most alarming. The week, on the whole, has been most un favourable for the growing crops ; but yesterday and to• day have been among the worst this season. Last night it rained incessantly, and since four o'clock this after noon it has been a continued pour. This unfavourable state of weather is much the same all over the West of Scotland. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The Fourth Dragoon Guards marched on Wednes day and Thursday last for Glasgow, where they are to embark for Belfast. A beautiful ten-gun brig, christened " The Heroine," and built in Woolwich dockyard, was launched there on Monday. She ig the last that will be launched there this season. The laying of the keel of a large war-steamer, of upwards 1,000 tons burden, to be named the Infernal, has begun at Woolwich. LAW AND POLICE. At the Croydon Sessions on Monday the libel case of Bogle v. Lawson, the publisher of the Tithes news paper, occupied the Court for thirteen hours, and did not close till ten o'clock at night. It arose out of certain publications which appeared in the Times, respecting the extensive forgeries committed on the Continent by a gang of English and French swindlers, and in which it was insinuated the plaintiff was implicated. Verdict for the plaintiff—damages one farthing, The Judicial Privy Council gave judgment on Mon day in the long-contested suit respecting the will of James Wood. Lord Lyndhurst read the decision which reversed the judgment of Sir Herbert Jenner in the Ecclesiastical Court, and admitted the validity of the will. Sir Matthew Wood's share of the property will be between 300,000/. and 400,0001. At the Mansion-house, on Monday, a tailor of the name of Diggles was committed to take his trial for " cabbag ing" from his master, Abraham Moses. Mr. Duff, now a prisoner in the Queen's Bench, with Lord Waldegrave, for assaulting a policeman, has transmitted a petition to the Queen, in which he asserts, and proves, by the affidavit of one of the party, that ho is entirely innocent of the charge. The brother of the prisoner gives, in a letter to the newspapers, the names of the really guilty parties. THEATRICAL. Mr. Pncrow is at .Norwood under the care of Dr. Sutherland, and is now much better. SPORTING. The long-expected match between the Earl of Uxbridge's eleven against the Foresters of Ascot, was played on Friday last on Ascot Heath. His Lordship's party won by two runs. _ The grouse on the Brecon and Cardigan hills arc represented as being very numerous. Partridges, too, are said to be particularly strong on the wing. The Herefordshire bowmen pitched their six tar gets on t h 4WD of Stoke Edith Ark, the gi4of Mr, and Lady Emily Foley, on Thursday last. Lady Kyrle Money gained the first prize. COURT-r.asHIONABLES. The Prince de Montfort, Jerome Bonaparte, ar rived on the Bth inst., at Frankfort, from Stuttgardt. The Queen Dowager arrived at Marlborough House yesterday, from Bushy Park. A Morning Paper states that when the last ac counts were received in town from Fleurs Castle, the Duchess of Roxburgh and her infant daughter " were going on charmingly." Lord Stanley will leave Knowsley to-day for London. Sir R. Peel leaves Drayton Manor to-day for Whitehall Gardens. MISCELLANEOUS. Sir. O'Connell has addressed a long letter to Mr. Smythe, M.P. for Canterbury, wherein he recapitulates the wrongs that Ireland has sustained at the hands of England, and sums up by saying—" The idle wind that listeth not where it blows, is not half so idle as the ex pectation that Peel can easily govern Ireland without altering his policy, which it is impossible for him to do, and giving Ireland that justice which he prevented the Whigs from approaching to." A Tory morning paper, after stating that " the favourable change in the weather has been hailed with joy by the farmers round London," adds, in the very next paragraph, that " prayers for fine weather are being read in most of the churches in the Metropolis and suburbs," thus making one statement completely neutra lize the effect of the other! At a Tory dinner which took place on Monday last at West Bromwich, the Chairman congratulated the com pany on the excessive loyalty which "was known to ac tuate the bosom of every true Conservative." Tory loy alty is regulated solely by the barometer of self-interest. When they are in office, then they discover that the Queen is all that a constitutional Queen ought to be ; when they are out, then they discover that they have been somewhat precipitate in their estimate of her ! A Belfast paper states that the near approach of the Tories to power has been marked by a return of those annual displays of Orange insult and outrage which were so common throughout Ulster till Government par tially put them down. The line of telegraph from London to Dover is to be re-established, and the preparations for opening it are in rapid progress. It was a miserable piece of economy to interrupt it at all. It is the most important line in the country, and owing to the want of it the newspapers had generally more early intelligence from the Continent than the Government. On Thursday last a trial took place at the Cork Assizes for a breach of promise of marriage, in which Miss Campion was the plaintiff, and a Mr. Barry Drew, a gentleman of independent fortune, the defendant. After a lengthened trial the Jury returned a verdict fur the plaintiff, and 1,5001. damages. The gardens at Windsor, which have been heretofore small and wide detached plots, for the supply of the Queen's table and household, are to be entirely aban doned, and one large garden made instead, on fitting soil, in the neighbourhood of Windsor. The garden at Kensington, containing nearly thirty acres, is to be entirely relinquished, and the ground let out as sites for villas. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual walk in the forenoon, and the Prin cess Royal was taken an airing twice to-day. In the afternoon her Majesty and the Prince rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving. The Duchess of Bedford, Lady Caroline Somers Cocks, the Earl of Fingal, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Wylde, following either in a carriage or on horseback. The Earl of Fingal has succeeded the Marquis of Headfort as the Lord in Waiting on the Qneen. The Hon. Mr. Howard has arrived to succeed Major the Hon. George Keppel. Mr. Partridge had the honour to-day of submitting to the Queen and Prince Albert the portraits of her Majesty and his Royal Highness, painted by command, and in tended as birth-day presents to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. To-day, at twelve o'clock, the 72d Highlanders fired a feu dejoie in the Little Park, in honour of the Duchess of Kent's birth-day, and afterwards went through many field movements in beautiful order. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, the Ladies Elea nora and Constance Paget, Lord Paget, Lady Caroline Barrington, and Mr. George Edward Anson, will have the honour of dining with her Majesty at the Castle this evening. Yesterday was the birthday of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The bells were rung at Kensington at an early hour, and also at intervals during the day, in honour of the event. The tradesmen of her Royal Highness dined together to celebrate the day, at the King's Arms Tavern, Mr. Brameld in the chair. In the evening the tradesmen of the Royal Duchess, both in town and Kensington, illuminated their houses. The Duke of Cambridge has returned to Kew, from a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloutlester, at Bagshot Park. His Royal Highness came to town yesterday, and returned in the afternoon to Kew. Prince George of Cambridge also came to town yesterday, from Kew. 6 His Excellency Andrew Stevenson, the American Minister, transacted business at the Foreign-office yes terday, and on Monday. Major-General Sir John Harvey, K.C.8., had an in terview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colo nial•office, to take leave, on his departure to the Govern ment of Newfoundland. Mr. Rumbold had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby, yesterday, at the Home-office. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yesterday afternoon from Dover. _ _ _ Captain Huntly, Sir John Seale, and Mr. Pritchard, had interviews with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Lord Morpeth has arrived in town from Dublin. Mr. J. Shaw Lefevre has arrived in town from Ripon. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. FIRST DAY FOR THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON CUP, VALUE 1001. The day was remarkably fine, and at eleven, A.M. the following splendid yachts :—Nymph, 31 tons, John Bailey, Esq. ; Midge, 35 tons, John Petre, Esq. ; Will- Captam Williams, R.N.; Gem, 125 tons, Marquis Ormond ; Naiad, 70 tons, W. Delafield, Esq. ; Talisman, 87 tons, R. Meiklam, Esq. ; Brilliant, 393 tons, G. A. Ackers, Esq. ; Aurora, 40 tons, W. Beach, Esq. ; Cynthia, 40 tons, R. Frankland ; Hebe, 68 tons, A. W. Corbett, Esq. ; Thcebe, 33 tons, Captain Corry, R.N., were started from off Cowes Castle. They made to the Westward, with a fine breeze from the S.W. After rounding the vessel off Yarmouth, they proceeded to the Eastward, passing the starting vessel as follows : h. m. h. m. Talisman ....... 35 6 Phoebe Cynthia' 36 40 Gem Aurora Hebe Naiad 4l Midge Will-o'-the-Wisp met with an accident and gave in. They passed the starting vessel on their coming in from the Nab as follow : h. m. s. h. m. s Talisman Naiad 5 30 30 Phoebe Ifebe Aurora Being a handicap the Phoebe wins. BRAZIL—In some of the papers allusion i s made to an aggression said to have been committed by the Brazilian authorities upon English subjects, the par ticulars of which are stated on the authority of the Rio papers received by the ordinary packet. The private letters thence, however, give quite a different version of the story. They state that a man-of-war's boat arrived on May 20 at the town of Campos (an inland town some 30 miles up the river Paraiba), with a lieutenant, a mid shipman, and 13 sailors on board. It was the first in stance of any British sailors having passed up the river, and their arrival naturally created a great sensation. The Justice of the Peace was obliged by his standing or ders to detain any party, and particularly foreigners, if armed, who were not provided with p ass p orts. He (lid so, but with politeness, referring to his regulations, gave them decent lodgings, provided for them in every re spect, and allowed them liberty on parole, while the an swer from Rio Janeiro , a distance of about 160 miles, was received. It arrived in due time by estglette, with an order to release them immediately, as it was evident no offence was meant by the boat's crew. Shortly after their release Commodore Fremantle, of the brig Clio, returned to the bar of St. Joao, some 30 miles below, in quired the particulars, and received a full explanation. The officers and men are said to have stated that they were not in any manner ill-treated, but, on tha contrary, were treated with every possible respect. INSENSIBILITY OF WORLDLINESS. —.-The. thoughts of worldly men are for ever regulated by a moral law of gravitation, which, like the physical one, holds them down to earth. The bright glory of the day, and the silent wonders of a starlit night, appeal to their minds in vain. There are no signs in the sun, or in the moon, or in the stars for their reading. They are like some wise men, who,slearning to know each planet by its Latin name, have quite forgotten such small heavenly constellations as Charity, Forbearance, Universal Love, and Mercy, although they shine by night and (lay so brightly that the blind may see them; and who, looking upward at the spangled sky, see nothing there but the re flection of their own great wisdom and book 1( timing. It is curious to imagine these people of the world, busy in thought, turning their eyes toward the countless spheres that shine above us, and making them reflect the only images their minds contain. The man who lives but in the breath of princes, has nothing in his sight but stars for courtiers' breasts. Th e envious man beholds his neighbours' honours even in the sky; to the money boarders, and the mass of worldly folk, the whole great universe above glitters with sterling coin—fresh from the mint—stamped with the sovereign's head—coming always between them and heaven, turn where they may. So do the shadowsof our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is vclivsQd: THE SPEAKERSH IP. After the determination of Sir Robert Peel to re-elect Mr. Shaw Lefevre to the Speakership, we feel far from easy as to other appointments. Who can say what the Tory leader may not do next? If, upon reviewing his host of three hundred and seventy Members, he cannot find a man fit to be Speaker amongst them, what the deuce can they be fit for? It is rather hard that they should begin by borrowing's man from - the Liberal side, and if qualifications, and not party considerations, are to regulate appointments, where is the rule to stop? Sir Robert Peel, upon a candid examination, may find Lord Melbourne better fitted than himself to be first Lord of the Treasury, and Lord John Russell incomparably better qualified than any of his followers for the Colo nial Department. Really, after beginning with Mr. Shaw Lefevre, we tremble lest they should steal the whole Liberal Administration. Certainly . there is as much reason for continuing Lord Melbourne in the Trea sury as Mr. Shaw Lefevre in the Chair. the Liberal party have obviously no right to the re election of Mr. Shaw Lefevre, as, in the election of Mr. Abercromby, it proceeded on the principle that the Speaker should represent the majority of the House. The Tories, 'then ' should find their ow n man f or th e Chair, and it i s hard to suppose that they have not amongst them the very mediocre abilities and common place qualities that suffice to make a tolerable Speaker. It is quite a grievance that with their large majority they should begin by taking a Speaker from the ranks of their opponents. This is as if a fishmonger were to cry out stinking fish before he opened shop, and to borrow a salmon from his rival over the way. And how is it that Mr. Goulburn has got stale so soon? Could be not keep sweet for two years? So lately ago as in '39 he was started for the Speakership, on the score of his pre-eminent qualifications, against Mr. Shaw Lefevre, and is he not as fit for the office now as he was then? There is Mr. Wynn, too, who has this rare qualification for the Speakership, that the fear of hearing him speak would repress the disposition to anything out of order. . _ _ Sir Robert Peel surely thinks too meanly of his party in supposing that it Cannot even furnish a Speaker. We Would comfort them as Brummell consoled his friend It., who complained that Brummell had been of a party in which it was said that he, the said R., was not fit to carry garbage to the Devil, adding, " How unkind it, was of you, a friend, to sit by and hear me so underrated with out taking my part."—" I did take your Part," replied Brummell, warmly.—" Why, what did you say?" in quired IL, eagerly.—" Say," answered Brummell, " why, I said the very reverse of what they said against you ; I said you were quite fit to carry garbage to the Devil." We spare the modesties of Mr. Goulburn or Mr. Wynn the application, As the good old proverb has it, "Let every herring hang by its own head, and every tub stand on its own bottom." So let it be with parties. Let us have no picking and choosing, no borrowing, no saying here is a very handy article, which I should like to keep, &c. In two years, or less, the Liberals will have their own Speaker again in an honest way, and meanwhile, why , should they help the Tories with a man ? But undoubt edly, if the Tories, for want of a plausible, decent person, will insist on electing Mr. Lefcvre, it is a sort of raid which cannot be resisted. We are sorry that their po verty in very ordinary qualifications drives them to such shifts, because, amongst other considerations, we should have regarded the election of Mr. Goulburn with satis faction, for this reason, that it would have kept him out of the Chancellorship of the Exchequer. Better for the economy of the nation. to bestow on such a man a wilder ness of speakerships than the power of mal-administer ing the finances of the country ; and if for no other rea son than that he should not be Chancellor of the Exche quer, Mr. Goulburn should be elected Speaker. But Sir Robert Peel has no compassion for the country, and in stead of putting Mr. Goulburn where he may exercise the highest faculties that are in him in crying " Order," he will place him where he will disorder all things.— Examiner. MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS D'ARENBERG. The Independent of Brussels furnishes us with the fol lowing details of the marriage of the Princess d'Aren berg with Prince Borghese Aldobrandini : "Before ten o'clock every place in the church of Heverle was filled, except those reserved for the bridal party. All the principal inhabitants of Louvain and the neighbouring towns and villages were assembled in it. On each side of the choir were raised seats covered with crimson velvet, and other seats in the middle. The high altar, and those on the sides, were deco rated with flowers ; four carpets of the greatest beauty, from the Gobelins, adorned the walls ; they are the property of the Duke d'Arenberg. At ten, the departure of the procession from the chateau was announced by a salvo of artillery, and it marched in the following order : The Company of Bowmen of the communes which an ciently formed part of the Duchy of Arschot, with the Harmonic Society of Arschot. Two grooms on horse back. An open car, lined with crimson velvet, drawn by four white horses, and carrying several children repre senting cupids. Another carriage drawn by six bay horses, and a third by four white horses. Twelve horse chasseurs in the uniform of the 27th regiment of French chasseurs, of which the Duke d'Arenberg was Colonel during the war in Spain ; the Harmonic Society of Lou vain ; a guard of honour, composed of 250 cavaliers dressed in black, with white pantaloons ; thirteen more carriages, some with six, some with four, horses; a picquet guard of gendarmerie, closing the cortege. The whole of the road, which was decorated on each side with branches and foliage, flags, and draperies, ornamented with crowns and garlands of flowers, was completely crowded. On en tering the church, the Duke d'Arenberg led his daughter to the altar. Her hair glittered with diamonds, her dress was of the richest white satin, and her bridal veil was of the most superb lace. The Princess Borghese, a member of the noble family of Larochefoucault, the mother of the bridegroom, was conducted by the Duke d'Estissac, and the Duchess d'Arenberg by Prince Borghese Aldobrandini. Then followed the young Prince and the other Princesses d'Arenberg, the Duchess cf Beaufort, the Countesses de Lannoy and de Mcrode, the Pope's Nuncio, Prince Paul, Canon of Na mur, and numerous other persons of high distinction, in cluding the Duke of Beaufort, the Count d'Ursel, and the Count de Lannoy. The return from the church was delayed by a heavy fall of rain, but when the whole party had returned to the chateau, the bride' and bride groom, with their illustrious relations, appeared on the balcony, and were saluted with the cordial acclamations of an immense assemblage of people. There was a grand dejeune in the chateau to numerous invited guests. At four o'clock there was a grand tournament on the lawn in front, enlivened by an orchestra, for which a building was erected. - Next day there was a grand meeting of bowmen to shoot for prizes." KENT HOP INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE.—The weather of the past week has still continued very unfavourable to the bines, most of which are still reluctant to shoot out their burrs into hop. There appears to be much inequality, not only in diffe rent grounds, but even amongst the bines in the same grounds. We have seen a branch of hops, some of which were two'inches long, from the ground of Mr. Matthews, of Farleigh, and other grounds may be seen where in several acres it is difficult to find a hop. The mould is rather on the increase. Yesterday was a fine day, con siderably warmer than the previous ones. The night also appeared more genial, and as the moon changed last night at half-past nine o'clock, a " run" of better weather is anticipated. BRENCLILEY.—Our hops are looking very unkindly. The incessant rains combined with cold nights have so much retarded their progress, that it is feared in many grounds they will not grow out to perfection. HORSMONDEN.—The hops, in the middle of the past week, fared very bad, standing quite still from Tuesday till Friday evening. Since that, the weather being warmer, they have grown out in most grounds middling well. Unless we have more sun, and less wind and rain, a fair crap cannot be obtained. MEREWORTII AND WATERINGBURY.—The hops are generally spoken of as growing very slowly, in conse quence of. the cold nights and damp weather, and most persons express themselves against a full crop. The wet has done some damage to the burr, in the strong grounds, by rotting the strig of the hop asunder. At the annual hop dinner at the King's Head, Water ingbury, on 'Wednesday, the 11th instant, there were between forty g r individual a c n l s d : e rs fi f a t n y f odr p itah e e r et s o o srw n s s,e sweepstakes a e ok s neensnt naming In v B n g4 s o i: f t consisting dutylibyof eachl iop average of the . Statements was between 143,000L ' and 144,000L —Maidstone Gazette. LAUNCH OF THE TRAFALGAR.—CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—It is worthy of notice, that amongst the persons on board the Tr a f a l gar when that vessel was recently launched at Woolwich, was a gentleman named Chasteneuf, who has for a long time resided in Wool wich as a professor of the French language. This gentleman, at an early period of life, entered into the French naval service, and was at the battle of Trafalgar, being then a midshipman on board a seventy-four, named Le Duketroim. This vessel escaped after the ac tion, but was captured a few weeks afterwards, off Cape Finisterre, by (we believe) Sir George Strong. Mon sieur Chasteneuf was taken prisoner, and subsequently becoming naturalized, settled in England, where he has since resided. WELLINGTON FESTIVAL.—S 0 it seems the tradesmen to whom large balances have been due for the last two years for food and trappings for this mighty affair, are being paid up their arrears. The publicans who supplied the dinner were last week squared off ; and as tar as Dover is concerned, 300/. more, or thereabouts, will settle the whole concern. The cash so far has been raised by the Committees in the respective ports after a good deal of delay, and the disbursement of some thing " pretty considerable" in law expenses; but had it not been for these forcible measures, the tradesmen might have gone whistle for their accounts. The arrears that have lain - over for this length of time, in cluding costs, amounted to 1,000/., 6301. of which fell to the share of the Dover Committee. During the last week a begging circular has been sent from door to - door i n Dover, calling on the inhabitants and visitors to come forward with their mite, " to aid in liquidating the seri ous sum of 6301." What a compliment is this to the Noble .Duke ! How high in his estimation must the Tories of those parts stand, seeing that after inviting him to a ban quet they must go a begging to pay the piper. Had the Dover Tories wanted 6,000/. to expend in bribery, it could easily have been raised without an appeal to the inhabitants; could they not have managed to have scraped together GOO/. to pay this shabby score without making a public exposure of themselves ! This transac tion altogether is a disgrace to the Cinque Ports, and we sincerely regret that a man like the Duke of Wellington should have been so insulted by these sycophants. lie would have paid' the expenses ten times over rather than have seen such exhibitions in Tory newspapers. MORMONISAL—This new-(angled swindle will we hope now receive its death-blow in this neighbour hood. We have just seen the wife of a small farmer who MORNING SUN sailed with her husband and six children last February from Liverpool: They, and about 100 others, landed at New Orleans, went several hundred miles up the country, past St. Louis, and arrived safe at the " promised land," —the New Jerusalem—on the Ist of May last ;r. three; week's residence was sufficient to let them into the and they arrived safe back in the old country al Lit a fortnight ago. They had frequent communicatiom_ while on the banks of the Mississippi with the renowned prophet, Joe Smith, and his brother impostors, who took every means in their power to get hold of our informants' money, by offering to sell them large plots of land, take them into partnership, &c. &c., but the Gloucestershire yeoman was proof against their wiles, and used his little capital in bringing his family back again. What most staggered the faith of the party was, that this great pro phet, Mr. Joseph Smith, could not show them the " plates of gold" on which it was pretended the Book of Mormon was written ; Jocy evaded the tjuestion by say ing the angel merely showed them to him, and after he had taken a fair copy, took them back again !—Cheitea ham Journal. TORY GOVERNMENT:—In the Annual Rc gister for 1830, we have the following picture of the state of things which prevailed over more th an one -thi r d of Englan when the Tories went out of office, and handed over the government of the empire to the Whig::, after have been in power well nigh fifty years Night after night new conflagrations were lighted up by bands of incendiaries ; corn-stacks, barns, farm-buildings, and live stock were indiscriminately consumed. Bolder bands attacked mills and demolished machinery. All protection for property seemed to be at an end. Bands of rioters pillaged and destroyed during the day, and as soon as night fell in, simultaneous conflagrations, start ing up in different quarters, spread over the country con sternation and dismay. The military force in the dis turbed districts was daily increased ; and prcelamations were issued, offering rewards of 500/. for the apprehen sion and conviction of my person engaged in wilful fire4aisings ; and a Special Commission was ordered to proceed into the counties where the outrages were com mitted." An editor of a newspaper in a rural district a some importance, ventured to write an article on the Corn-laws, and to suggest the propriety of snaking some alteration in them, inasmuch as the present laws had been tried and found wanting. lie had also the temerity to say, that he thought a small fixed duty would have the probable advantage of preventing the great fluctuations in the prices, so ruinous to the farming tenantry, &.c. This heretical article produced a most extraordinary sen sation. The landed proprietors met in consultation, and determined on summary punishment ; and after many abortive arguments it was at length decided that the editor should be informed that unless he wrote an article praising the present Corn-laws, and deprecating the doc trines advocated in his " alarming and wicited article" of the past week, they would not only cease to take his paper, but use their interest to deter their neighbours, and induce them to follow - their advice and example. This was conclusive ; the poor scribe wrote another ar ticle, praising the starvation laws as the most profound monuments of human legislation • and thus he sat i s fi e d his many masters, who declared that if he had not given an antidote to neutralise the poison he had so iniudi cionsly spurted out, hewould have lost five hundred sub scribers Such is the conduct of the Corn-law mono polist:. TAGLIONI AND THE DOG-STEALER.-Ma demoiselle Taglioni has a beautiful dog of King Charles's breed, to which she is ;greatly attached. This pet was stolen a few days after her late arrival in London. She did not, of course, fail to put immediately an advertise ment into the newspapers, offeringa rewardof five pounds to whomsoever should bring the dog back to her, at No. 10, Pall-mall. Next day a man called, and said that the dog was found ; that it was in the pos session of a man living in the City, and that it would be returned on payment of the afore7rlcl re ward. Taglioni gladly handed the five pounds to a servant of the house, who followed the man, and re turned with a dog which was not Taglioni's. As the animal had been delivered up to him in a distant street, the servant said that he should be unable to discorer the individual he had given the money to. Next day another fellow called on Taglioni and declared that her real dog was foimd. On this occasion Taglioni of course declined parting with her money before she saw the dog. It was produced, and proved to be her favourite. On her ask ing the reason why she had been made to pay for two dogs, the thief coolly replied, that having observed that on her way to the Opera House rehearsals she regularly gave a shilling to an old man who swept a cruising, he had concluded that so charitable and liberal a lady could easily afford to pay for two dogs instead of one. 2 —Paris Paper. The veracity of the following remarkable in stance of longevity may be readily observed by any per son who chooses to consult the parish register of St. Leonard, Shoreditch :—"Thomas C arn died the 28th of January, 1588, at the astonishing age of 207 years. He was born in the reign of Richard 11., 1381, and lived in the reigns of twelve Kings and Queens ; namely, Rich ard 11., Henry IV., V., and VI., Edward IV. and V., Richard 111., Henry VII. and V111., - Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth. SNUFFERS NOT EXTINGUISHERS.—in the parish of D—, a small party of rural friends were en joying themselves one afternoon over a bowl of reeking Glenlivet in the village inn. Daylight had failed to " toom the stoup to friendship's growth," and as the candle burned dimly with a gradually augmenting top, it was discovered that the usual appliances ?ur remedying the evil had been forgotten.: The bell was rung, and the little girl who acted as waiter, ordered, in a face tious tone, to " bring ben a pair o' the auldest snuffers she could find." "A pair o' the auldest snuffers," quoth the lassie to herself, as she closed the door of the apart ment, in considerable perplexity and astonishment at the demand. But .woman's wit is generally "fa' ready," and she did not hesitate long in doubt. Aft€r a few minutes passed in a hasty excursion through the village, the girl returned, accompanied by t wo well-known se'o tuagenarians, whom sbe ushered into the presence of tfie company as "the twa auldest snuffers that she kent of in the haill parish 1" The burst of laughter with which the announcement was received, in some measure discon certed the worthy pair of snuff-takers, who had been led to believe that they were wanted to speak on some press ing business in the inn. An explanation, however, and an invitation to join in the conviviality of the party, speedily e led to mutual feelings of merriment.—Corres pondent of the Ayr Observer. AN AFFLICTED FAMILY.—It has seldom fallen to our lot to record a more afflicting and melan choly case than we are about to present to our readers. About two months since a fine young man, only seven teen years of age, son of Mr. Thomas Cardinal], reliev ing officer at Halsted, in this county, was taken with malignant fever, and in three weeks died ; the father, who had been ill for a short time previous, died just a fortnight after the son was buried; another son, aged ten, died with the same disorder as his brother. A widow is now left totally unprovided for, with five children at home, one of whom, the eldest son, it is feared, is fast sinking, with that slow but fatal disease, consumption.— Essex Herald. Jupiter and a countryman were walking together conversing with great freedom end familiarity, upon the subject of heaven and earth. The countryman listened with attention and acquiescence, while Jupiter strove only to convince him ; but happening to hint a doubt, Jupiter turned hastily round, and threatened him with his thunder. " Ah, ha !" says the countryman, " 110 n•, Jupiter, I know that you arc wrong ; you're always wrong when you appeal to your thunder." DISTRESS IN PAISLEY.—PROPOSED EMIR ORATION.—On Tuesday a meeting of the unemployed operatives was held in the Philosophical Hall, Paisley, Mr. William Morrison in the chair, to consider the ex pediency of emigrating to Port Philip or Sydney, f ree passages having been offered to eligihle, .Clyde by c the bounty ships, to sail from the !)(1 in Sep tember and October, provided the parties can obtain Resolutions ofi adopted, to the clothing for the voyage. and throughout the country nufactures of Paisley, effect that in the embarrassed state tie trade and gene rally,=- without a prospect of employment, it wait better e h n e d re ent lab o o n ur la a b t ou h r o , me and of the above-mentioned colonic where tEer. is for the operatives .to transfer d their industry to one dependent iR better rewarded a great of others ;—and that the meeting use every to obtain free passages by the bounty ships on the exe tcwiltbetrrtif.tOrrne the Ist of September, the period beyond which demandl thibarn certificates cannot be received. It was farther resolved, that as the unfortunate operatives were not provided with the clothing necessary for the conditions of emigration, an a ppeal be made to her Majesty, to Lord Melbourne, and the other Members of the Cabinet, as well as the wealthy of the land in general, for pecuniary assistance, in the hope that they will regard their attempt to lift themselves from a state of poverty and dependence to one in which they can earn an honest subsistence, as praiseworthy and deserving of alp: port. The lowest computation of the sum necessary for the outfit of each person is 41. per head, and reckoning the uumberfor each ship 250, it will require 1,0001. for each vessel that sails. It is hoped that the cure of these distressed but industrious men will meet with sym pathy in the hearts of their wealthy countrymen, as well as in the high quarters to which they are about to appeal. _ _ _ -- The Address in the Commons on the Royal Speech will, it is reported, be moved, or seconded, by Mr. M. Phillips, one of the Members for Manchester. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OP THE GANGES.— Every thing is strange to him ; groves of palm-trees meet his eye on every hand ; he sees the foot-prints of the tiger upon the mud deposited. by the last high tide ; jackalls meet him on his walk, and hardly move out of his track ; and monkeys mimic the cries of dying inno cence iii the adjoining copse ; he sees the alligator bask ing upon the sand-bank like a log of wood; vultures and adjutants flapping each other with their wings, as they float by hun rafted on a ded&l-lindoo ; vampire bats skim silently through the evening air in search of prey ; fire-flies glimmer and gyrate among the blos som-laden forest trees ; his car is -assailed and stun ned by the noise, the buzz, and'hhm, and hiss, and clatter of ten thousand insects. Ihe native tomtom sounds from the bazaar of a neighbouring village. The houses are mere wigwams, shrouded, in most luxuriant vegetation. The people are almost naked, or clothed in muslin robes, with silver rings upon their ankles and their arms, their fingers and their toes, and golden orna ments in their ears and their noses. lie is agreeably surprised to find them so fair ; and more so to find them more handsome and with more regular and finer turned features than his own countrymen ; graceful in their gait, easy and polite in their' manners, and in their intercourse highly polished and civilized ; speaking- an unknown language, and yet making' themselves under stood ; kneeling in prayer along the highways, regard less of the turmoil around them, or pouring. out libations . into the sacred stream.—Dr. Anosh's 4redical Advice to the Indian Stranger. A , to reek ,