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TIIE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 13, 1841. THE WEATTIER.Noirft4, DECEMBER H. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE', ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 47 Highest 5O i Lowest 35 Barometer `29.79.—Wind W.—Freezing Point '22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mortfing--.slmlnutes atter I. I Evening__ 15 minutes :JR, '2. in -,',,lltit. LONDON: 31 ON DAY, DECEMBER 13, 1841. One of the errors, perhaps the great error, of the Whigs was, that. they always justified their conduct by that of the Tories. They did not, as the rule, say that such a course of policy is right —such an act just—such a proceeding disin terested and noble—or such a reform precisely what the circumstances of the community re quire ; but they said the Tories did so and so, or would do so and so, or, they entertain such and such opinions, and we shall deserve the public approbation and support if we do or pro. pose something better than the Tories would do or propose. So, continually squaring their con duct by no higher standard than the opinions and actions of the Tories, the public came to form a mean opinion of them. They were said to be little or no better than the Tories. The nation was ripe, when they first took office, to embrace large and just views. Its moral enthusiasm was kindled ; and, had they acted on the principles of right and justice, they would have been followed, and for ever honoured by the people. They could have carried forward the national enthusiasm to the establishment of a higher standard of political morality,. and both rulers and subjects would have been ennobled. They preferred shaping their policy on that of the Tories, and the result is that they have sunk in public esteem to the level of their rivals. The Tories, in addition to their other and more 131efollies, are aping the Whigs • reprehensible in jus tifying their present conduct by what their rivals did while in office. It is, for example, held to he an all-sufficient justification, by the Tory organs, of the refusal to amend the Sugar or Corn-laws by the Tories, that the Whigs for ten years took no object. Not only di d they take no suc h ste p , step to accomp lish that . it is said, but in 1840 they voted agains t a reduction of the sugar duties, and their chief dec lared, more than once,. be madness in emphatic language, tha t it would 44: ..; If such, therefore, tO repeal the Corn-laws. argue the Tories, were the conduct of the Whigs , we are quite justified in refusing to grant the de mands of the free-traders. So t he Tories are con tent.to justify their conduct by the malpractices or or previons. errors of the Whigs, a nd so the nation is never to have a higher standard, for its Valley and its laws than the faults o r crimes of these rival factions. If there were no reasons in the continued com parative prosperity of the country to 1837, and in its subsequent declensionif there were no deficiency in the revenue and no increase of ex penditure to ..justify the Whigs in proposing in 1841 what they had neglected to propose, or had opposed, in 1840—if there were no circumstances whatever to make the repeal of the restrictions on trade now more urgent than fbrmerly, we should still have to tell the Tories that the peo ple have gained *ollie political knowledge and political wktnin since 1840, and that it is neither sate norwis e to seek for the rule of their conduct in the conduct of their opponents. The public de mand a different justification. that it is of no - consequence to us what the Whigs did ; is what you propose right ? Is it just ? Is it honest? is it consistent with the precepts of that religion, which you insist that the .nation " shall =pay , a large army of priests to teach? If the Tory measures not • 9 ht---not just—not honest—no t ' consistent *4h - religion, to tell the public that the Whigs could have done the same or so me similar things will only make the Tory policy be received with the sante contempt and t, scorn as was the quasi Tory policy of the Whigs. We must inform the leaders andwritersof both parties, that the public will no longer endure the practice of defending or justifying the follies or crimes of one party by the supposed greater follies or crimes of the other. If politicians cannot justify their conduct by the principles of honesty and justice, they will not be able to justify it to the public by proving, from the pages of HAN SARD, that their rivals have, at some time or other, been as dishonest or as unjust as they are. As the people have gained political knowledge, the standard of political morality has risen higher and higher ; and it would be as absurd to expect their judgment to be guided by the con duct of factious politicians, a few years ago, as to expect that the people of Manchester should de stroy their self-acting mules, and take to spin ning cotton-thread by the hand-wheel. Sir ROBERT PEEL seems absolutely afraid to meet Parliament. Adopting the practice of great criminals in the sister island, certain of their fate, he has asked for a long day, and obtained it. The Representatives of the people will not assemble for the dispatch of public business till Thursday, the 3d of February, the very latest period to which, without outraging public feeling, the meeting could have been postponed; and even a late day in the week is chosen, as if to carry the dis cussion on the distresses of the country into the following week, and thereby protract business for ten days. It is certainly a remarkable feature in the doings of the present Government, that when the people expect some thing decisive—some intelligible communication from them, they are treated, as it were, with studied contempt and mockery. On the first day of the last Session, Sir ROBERT PEEL, in place of discussing or even noticing the great [ questions that then agitated, and still continue to agitate, the country, moved for an additional grant of money, not less than 80,0001., perhaps 00,0001., to make the Members warm and com fortable. The proceedings of the Privy Coun cil on Friday were not calculated to alter the unfavourable impression made by such con temptuous treatment. We learn from the re port that many vain ceremonies were performed, that the Lon]) CHANCELLOr delivered the pa tent for the creation of the Prince of WALES; that the impression of the Prince's seal was in closed in a silver case and placed in a box lined with white satin, and covered with crimson velvet; that the name of his Royal Highness was ordered to be inserted in the Liturgy ; that " the arms of his Royal Highness were taken into consideration- at the Council ;" and, last of all, that Parliament was further prorogued unto the 3d of February, to meet for 'the dispatch of public business. The word " urgent," or important, which we have seen in these announcements, was, no doubt, purposely omit ted. Are we, therefore, to conclude from this, that even in February nothing is to be done for the relief of a starving and distracted population, or that the Prime Minister, chosen by the aristocracy, - is afraid to publish a word that can give them a moment's uneasiness, or endeavours to conceal, even from himself, the awful position in which the country is placed? We do not regret these strange proceedings. They show our merchants, manufacturers, and broken-down operatives what they are to expect from a Tory Government ; and these classes will therefore be urged more and more to help them selves, if they expect help from the Giver of all good. The Rev. W. G.-W ARD, of Balliol College, Ox ford, one of the writers of the " Tracts for the Times," has addressed a letter to the Rev. Dr. POSEY, correcting some statements relative to the Oxford controversy, made by Mr. GOLIGHTLY, which throws some additional light on the proceedings at the University.' Though we did not give insertion to Mr. GOLIGIITLY'S letter, as there was nothing in it which we considered would interest our readers, we readily insert Mr. WARD'S correction of what he complains of as a misstatement in it. We pray our readers to mark it well. It is as good a specimen of lo gical hair-splitting as we are acquainted with : Mr. Golightly's statement is, that I " told a friend of his in the course of the present month, that a certain party in this place might now be considered to be divided into disciples of Mr. Newman and Dr. Pusey ; the latter opposed, the former no longer opposed, to Roole. As I did not wish to trust. my own memory on the subject, I called upon Mr. Golightly's informant, a gentleman who is wholly incapable of the least approach to intentional misstatement. His account of this conversation was as nearly as possible what follows :—Mr. Golightly was expressing his suspicions that yourself and Mr. Newman differed in your manner of regarding the Church of Rome, and his friend answered, 1 ‘ Ward recognizes a distinction between them in that respect, and says that some follow the one, some the other ; he says, that Pusey has a strong feeling against Rome, but Newman has no such feeling at all. _ _ I think the difference between this statement and Mr. Golightly's is not altogther unimportant. We differ altogether from Mr. WARD, and think that there is not the slightest substantial difference between these statements. In both it is affirmed that Dr. PUSEY has yet some scruples of conscience about embracing the Roman Catholic religion, and in both it is affirmed, that Mr. NEWMAN has no such scruples. This is the substance of what is said on both sides. What is to come is more important, and, coupled with what goes before, presents a picture which sober-minded Protestants cannot contemplate without great alarm. We quote from Mr. WARD'S letter:— I have spoken in print of " the harsh and unkind manner in which our sister Churches are spoken of, even by Catholic minded and most highly respected persons." (Few More Words, &c., p. 32.) And I may refer to the same pamphlet for an answer by anticipation to the charge, that such acknowledgment involves disaffection in the case of any one to our branch of the Church. "To remain in our own Church," I have said, " and by God's help endeavour to elevate its tone, cannot be looked upon by the Catholic Christian as only the cold performance of a duty, but as a labour of love." (Few Words, &c., p. 44 ; Few More Words, p. 41.) In another place I have protested against the notion of its being " inconsistent with the position of a member of our Church to think other Churches more pure and apostolical" (Few Words More, p. 81); and have maintained that if ours be a branch of the Church, it is " a plain sin for any one of us to leave it." (P. 30 ) It may be as well to state in this place my strong and deliberate conviction that Mr. Newman is exercising at present an influence incomparably greater than any other person, in retainin g within the pale of our own communion those who migyt be tempted to quit it—a convictiou founded not only on abstract reasonings, but on my knowledge of individual facts. Here we have the startling announcement that the conversion of many members of the University to the Church of Rome is owing to latoillineisnh t c of non-profession of that creed by Mr. NEW -I;‘,"_, W h o is stat e d to be at heart reconciled to the Roman Catholic religion. Mr. WARD affects no co uee f li t h l o ief i act, that public grati tude i s d ue to Alr• NEWMAN sm , fo s r ee n ing otopthenely.npurmo fessing - hers in the University his example ; and stty who are ready to follow he even quotes his own jus-. tification of himself, NEWMAN, and others, fur the consistency of thinking p u rer and more apostoh_t other Churches England, and yet continuing to abide within her communion! His own words ' quoted above, are—" I have protested against the notion of its being inconsistent with the position of a membe r of our Church to think o ther oh p u re and apostolical." Now, no honest Chris tian, whose countenance is not seared by the hot iron of Church p referment, can admit the validity of this protest. It is the sacr ed duty of every Christian to j o i n , without a moment's hesitation, that Church which he believes to h e. , purest and most apostolical. Mr. WARD i s so well qualified for the office of Vicar-General o f the Order of Jesuits, that we are suprised h e does not enter himself a member of that erudite, but crafty, worldly-minded Society. - But be sides the enjoyment of the rich preferments of the English Church, Mr. WARD and his friends have another reason for not aban doning her communion. His war& are, "to—tiiil - 444 _in our Church, and by GOD'S help endeavour to elevate its tone, cannot be looked upon by the Catholic Christian . as • only the cold performance of a'duty, but as a labour of love." The plain meaning of - this - is that Mr. . NgwmAres followers think they can do more fo Romanism, as professing members of the Church of England than as open converts to the See of Rome; and, therefore, they prefer remaining where they are, till the country is`prepared to go to Rome with them.. By elevating , the tone of the Church, they simply mean the impregnation of the national mind with Romish doctrines. This fact is implied in the words •which we have quoted from Mr. WARD'S letter, and so obviously, too, that we think no candid person can accuse us of other than a fair inference from their ob vious meaning. . . _ Mr. WARD gives an account of a visit paid by him to Oscott Roman Catholic College, which he thinks it necessary to defend. In such a visit we can see nothing at all reprehen sible. We would not be understood here as at all wishing to diminish a kindly and hospitable intercourse between the laity or clergy of the Churches of England and Rome. Nothing can be more commendable than an interchange be tween priests of every communion of all the amenities and charities of life. With Mr.WARD's visits, or friendships, the public , has no right to have any thing to do, and for' our part we dis claim any right to object to his dining with the POPE himself, provided he is himself satisfied with his Holiness's fare. But his doctrines can not be included in the exceptional list with his dinner companions. When he addresses the Church of England from Balliol College, Ox ford, as a defender of his own Tracts, we have then to deal with him as a remover of the " an cient land-marks" set by the Fathers of the Re formation in England. Madrid Journals of the Ist inst. have reached us. On the previous day the Council of War heard the accusation against Don SANCHEZ TORRES, charged with complicity in the attack on the Palace. As he was in ale QUEEN'S ser vice at the time as one - of the gentlemen in waiting, his guilt was considered greater than that of the Christino officers, who had betrayed no personal trust. He has not, however, yet been taken, and may probably escape the sen tence of ten years' confinement passed upon him by the Council. General VAN HALEN has raised the siege of Barcelona, dissolved the Military Commission, and restored the regular tribunals to the exer uise of their functions. The Town Council is, however, still dissatisfied, and demands the demolition of the citadel. They denounce it as a monument of shame and provocation, and in sist that no vestige of it ought to be suffered to exist. Unless the Town Council changes its tone, ESPARTERO may be tempted to send them after their predecessors—a no very pleasant jour ney in the prerenthumour of the French Govern ment, and with a knowledge that England wholly approves of the conduct of the REGENT. On the morning of the sth inst. the Infanta LOUISA CARLOTA, wife of Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, left Bayonne for Irun, travelling incog nita, and with only an escort of six horsemen. The political chief of Guipuscoa published at San Sebastian, on the 25th ult., a decree of the Minister of Finance, granting a delay, not ex ceeding fifteen days, from the 18th of Novem ber, for the disposal of all merchandise in the North of Spain, without being subjected to the operation of the new commercial tariff. On the Madrid Bourse the Five per Cents. were done on the Ist at 321 32, for cash, and at 32 33j 1 32 331- 34 33 32 7-16 33 32k, at diffe rent dates. The transactions, 28 in number, amounted to 17,640,000 reals. The Three per Cents. sold for 221, cash ; the Foreign Converted Debt for 25, at 60 days; and the Debt bearing no interest for 6, at 60 days. RENT OF ENGLAND AND WALES.—We stated in The Sun, on Monday last, that the rental of England and Wales is now estimated, by Mr. M'Culloch, at the sum of 30,000,0001., which, we added, we believed to be an under-estimate. We had neither time nor inclination to enter into an examination of Mr.M'Culloch's data, nor motives for making a long explanation on the subject. We must now, however, copy from the Man chester Guardian the following remarks : " Now, as rents have been more than doubled since they were estimated by Arthur Young at 22,000,000/., and as that estimate included neither Scotland and Wales, nor the (prcrbably) 6,000,000 acres of waste land which have been brought under cultivation since 1770, we shall not be far wrong if we estimate the present annual rental of Great Britain at 50,000,000/. to 60,000,000/., being an increase of four or five hundred per cent. within a century and - a 'half." Supposing we deduct one-sixth of that, or, as rents are higher in Scotland than in England, one-fifth, as the amount of the rental in Scotland, from the smaller sum, we shall - have at least 40,000,0001. as the present rental of England and Wales. That supposition would materially strengthen the case we brought before the reader, and make it apparent that the rental of England had in-' I creased in a much greater ratio than the population since the beginning of the eighteenth century. We must take this opportunity of observing that neither Mr. G. King's estimate of the rent of England in 1696, nor that of Mr. M'Culloch, includes the rent of mines, collieries, quarries, &c. &c. and if we include the rent of them, in which, probably, a far greater.increase than in the rent of arable land has taken place since the beginning of the eighteenth century, we shall at once pronounce that the rental of England has probably in creased two-fold more than 'the population,, largely as that has increased since that period. DISTRESS IN SPITALFIELDS,-..a11e Committee for relieving the distress in the populous but poverty-stricken locality of Spitalfields, are daily receiving contributions from the charitable, and large donations from the wealthy and humane. In addition to the already highly respectable members on the Committee, we are glad to learn that Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart has cheerfully allowed his name to be added to the list, as have also those influential gentlemen Mr. Hanbury, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart., and Mr. Jo nathan Hopkinson, the great West India mer chant. Lord Dudley Stuart, who has always proved himself the warm friend of the distressed, has written a very kind letter to the Committee, and forwarded at the same time a handsome do nation. We trust that those who can afford it will speedily follow so praiseworthy an example. The Sixth Number of the Journal of the Work ing Classes keeps up the hypocritical and lying character which the former numbers of that publication established for it. One of the par ties in the State, it says, or factions, " tell us that the sole cause of the present extra distress is the existence of a duty on foreign corn." No party in the State, we are sure—no individual, we believe—says that. A large and, we are happy to say, an increasing party, asserts that the Corn laws, as now existing, inflict great evils on the people, and that they are one of the most promi nent and most wicked specimens of that great system of class and corrupt legislation which causes all the evils of the community. He niust be a madman who asserts that the Corn and Provision-laws, which are one bad cluster of laws out of a whole Statute Book of wicked laws too voluminous to be read or compre hended, are the sole cause of the extra distress now suffered by the people. A journal which states the question in this form is a false journal, and its arguments are unworthy of any further notice. ISLINGTON MEETING.—A Correspondent in forms us that the amended address to the Queen, which was carried on Thursday, was ordered to be presented to her Majesty by the two Mem bers for the borough. The meeting was then dispersed by the beadle putting out the lights. e. tqr t 0 4e ) 4 / r ,t nut 44 •, /a 0 0 9 ak, bASSII6?, itA 1 I THE SUN, - LONDON, - MONDAY, DECEMBER l3, 1841- THE QUEEN DOWAGER. SUDBURY-HAIL, DEC. 10.—We have the ut most gratification in being enabled to state, that since her Majesty the Queen Dowager's health first began to amend, the improvement, although gradual, has been constant, and that her perfect recovery, should' no' unexkeptgd relapse take place, may be confidently expected. The dis tressing cough by which she was so constantly disquieted has in great measure been abated, and she is able in consequence to enjoy every night several hours of regu l ar an d un b ro k en repose. The salut ar y e ff ect s of this refreshing. sleep have alread y b ecome apparent. Bar Majesty now sits up from eight to ten hours every day with out fatigue, and has attained sufficient strength' to walk about her room unassisted. Sir D. Davies still remains in attendance, and, with the exception of Lady Gore and. her daughter, con stitutes the only addition to the ordinary party at Sudbury-hall. THE OLDEST FRENCH SHIP.--The oldest of our ships of war, says the Temps, is the Ocean, of 120 guns. She is 51 years old, having been launched at Brest in 1790. She is still i n a fit state for service, as she underwent it thorough rep a i r ottlrest in 1836. SUMMARY OF NEWS 1 ` AND ioqPittittr eptuton, " Who runs may read." FOILEXGN. The Madrid correspondent of the Herald, writing from that capital on the Ist inst., says :—The London holders of Spanish Bonds should immediately convene meetings for the purpoie . of passing a resolution calling on the Spanish Government to issue a decree cancelling Gam boa's, wherein so many difficulties were purposely concocted to prevent the conversion of bonds of the foreign debt into those of the internal. Indeed, they should withditiwtheir confidence in these Ministers until the same be done, becnuse Gatnboa's law was, or seemed, intended for the purpose of favouring a parcel of Stock Exchange adventurers. Little dout need be enter tained that neither the Prime Minister Gonzales nor M: Surra y hull are oppOsed to the reasonable demand, Ind there are other influences which thwart their upright intentions. The Regent, I need hardly add, is a stran ger to the stock-jobbing game that is now carried on by SafOnt and others, in connection with influential persons to the prejudice of the bona fide foreign creditors. The Madrid Gazette of the Ist has an official article in answer to the charges of cruelty made against Espar tero by the French press, and repeated by Mr. O'Con nell. Few men in Espartero's position would have shown half the clemency which he has done towards the Chris lino rebels. PUBLIC OPINION. The following is from the Morning Herald:—" The Globe joins the Chronicle in its hearty crusade against the Christian instruction of the people by the only means it is possible that Christianity can be taught to the po pulation of England and Wales. Four millions of that population are now practically without the pale of Chris tianity, and the proposition that the State should aid the voluntary- exertions of the wealthier members of the Es tablished Church to teach them moral and religious truth, is denounced by thematutinal organ of Whiggery as.' bi gotry,' and is chirped at at vespers by the Globe as a Quixotic scheme.' Is no attempt, then, to be made by the State to remove the practical heathenism of that por tion of the people, for whom there is literally no religi ous instruction ? Did the State connect itself with the Church, for the attempted salvation of a section of the population only ? Have the means of the Church not to be augmented, as the people increase in numbers ? Has every other temporal institution to be expanded to meet the growing necessities of the times, and the Church alone to remain stationary and restricted ?" If the Church remain stationary and restricted, it is its own fault, for it has abundant means for increasing its influence, and making itself more generally useful. If new Churches are wanted, the Establishment has the funds at hand ; a liberal subscription among its Bishops, Deans, Prebends, and Pluralists, would at once procure all that was needed ; and who can be so deeply inter ested in the welfare of the Church, as those who are its ministers, and who, are paid—the higher classes of them, at least—so handsomely, for promoting its efficiency ? It is disgraceful that the Church should sue in forma puuperie, for pecuniary assistance from the State, to enable it to extend the sphere of its operations. Despite all the retrenchments lately made in the Establishment, it is still the richest—would we c'uld add, the most dis interested and conscientious—Church in the world. The Advertiser thus expresses itself on the subject of the encroachments of Puseyism :—" Puseyism goes to the fountain head, and reverts back to Rome herself as the source and origin of her authority. The Cardinal's cap, and not the Archbishop's mitre, should, in their opinion, lead them on in their attacks upon independence and liberty of thought. The authority of the Church of Rome, which they would impose, venerable and ancient as it is, and hoary with the frost of years, is to them an object of more bigoted attachment and reve rence than the modern and spurious claims of English episcopacy. They turn with congenial feelings to the times of darkness and evil for the sanctions that are requisite to give authority to their aggressions"— Phough the Church, as a matter of course, exposes its distrust of, and even hostility to, Puseyism, yet its oppo sition is singularly lukewarm, compared with what it would be, were pounds, shillings, and pence, involved in the issue of the dispute. But as it is a question of ritual not of revenue—of creed not of cash—the high Church authorities content themselves with a mitigated opposi tion. Meanwhile Puseyism advances, and while our full-fledged Bishops are still slumbering as grave as owls on their perches, threatens, one of these days, to give them such a rude shock, as shall set them hooting in solemn' chorus to the tune of the " Church in Danger." The Times, speaking of the Marquis of Lansdowne's speech at the Wilts meeting, makes the following obser vations :—" When we bear in mind that Lord Lans downe's political party always betray an anxious desire to miss no opportunity, fair or unfair, of conveying to the throne their own representations about existing dis tress—a desire which, both from delicacy as an ex- Minister and from a due regard to good faith, his Lord ship was specially bound to have refrained from gratify ing at the Wiltshire meeting—we must honestly own that if any prudent or discreet purpose can have dictated Lord Lansdowne's concluding hints. it has entirely eluded our best endeavours to discover it."—To assert that the Marquis, and the other speakers at the Wilts meeting, Here bound to refrain from alluding to " the existing distress of the country"—in order, oecourse, to spare the delicate sensibilities of the Tories—is as cool a piece of effrontery as ever was exhibited, even by the Times. Why should the Liberal party spare the Ministers, who never spared them ? Above all, why should they neglect their duty as citizens, in order to make such a sacrifice of truth? Had they done so, they would have disgraced themselves irrecoverably, for they are bound by every strong tie that can bind honest men, to expose the state of the country without reserve, and even insist on the distresses of their fellow-countrymen with the more urgency, the more the scheme for their determined yesterday, at a alleviation.Th e Minister s Post says e s l a d y i s s disi" It nclined was to a u Privy Council held at Windsor, that the commencement of the next Session of Parliament shall be on Thursday, the third day of February, 1842. The country will look forward to the meeting of Parliament for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs,' in the present in stance, for the second,time during eleven years, with just confidence that the measures to be proposed by Govern ment will have been dictated by an honest and exclusive regard to its solid and permanent interests; and that no thing will have been concocted for the purpose of keep ing an Administration in place by creating an artificial and abortive agitation during one Session, and giving Ministers a fraudulent pretext for carrying themselves and their defeated measures over to another. The era of fraud in the higher, and of delusion in the lower, region of British society is fortunately at an end. That the country looks eagerly forward to the next ses sion of Parliament is true ; but it certainly does not do so with any thing like " just confidence." Why should it? What reasons have the Tories ever given for the confidence of the country ? The utmost that can be ex pected from them is, that in all their proceedings they will have regard to the shadow rather than the substance of reform. The Chronicle remarks as follows on the great Derby meeting, which took place on Thursday last :—" The manufacturers of this great division of England all tell the same melancholy tale. Their staple trade, hosiery, has of late years experienced a great decline. Ger many, which used to import hosiery largely from England, now not only supplies itself, but has alto gether superseded us in the market of the United States, and is fast superseding us in South Ame rica. Nay, what is more startling, after paying an import duty of twenty per cent., German hosiery, and more particularly gloves, are sold extensively at a profit in this country. We have lost the fo reign market, and we are fast losing the home market. Mr. William Biggs, of Leicester, went minutely into the condition of the principal manufacturing towns of Leicestershire. In all these towns, and their neigh bourhoods, the distress is indescribable. It appears that from 1815 to the present time there has been a constant and regular downward progress. The population of Hinckley, in 1831, was 6,491 ; in 1841, it is 6,459 ; but the reduced population is not half employed ; and wages, which in 1815 were 12s. a week, are not now 75., while the men are not half employed. The poor-rates, in 1815, were 2,9291. ; for 1841, they are 4,2401. The next town, Loughborough, had a population of 11,000 tin 1831, and, in. 1841, the population has fallen to 10,000. The workman receives now Bs. for what brought him 14s. in 1815. Leicester contains 50,000 inhabitants, and the number of unoccupied houses, which in 1831 was 550, is now 1,400. Wages are little more than half of what they were in 1815. hi all Leicestershire there were 16,000 frames in 1815 •, there are now not more than 14,000. While things have been taking this downward course in Leicestershire, in Saxony the increase has been rapid in the extreme. In 1815 there were not more than 4,500 frames in that State ; in 1835 they had increased to 13,481; and now, in 1841, they are 25,000." The Dundee Chronicle says, in reference to the present distressed state of the country:-" Who can be patiei.t, temperate, or indifferent to the cause of the poor, whilst reading the details of wretchedness and woe so fearfully depicted in our metropolitan and provincial journals ? Who can keep his temper, whilst contrasting the extra vagance of royalty and its satellites, the aristocracy, their palaces and dog-kennels, with the misery of the weaver's wretched cabin? Who can be calm, whilst Tory impudence mendaciously asserts, that there is but little cause for the clamours of the operatives of Bolton, Stockport, and Paisley?" The Leicester Mercury remarks as follows:— ,, Why is emigration necessary at the present period? Is it be- . cause the population h ave re ally out-grown the means' of subsistence which the country affords, and to the use of which they are legitimately entitled? Could this be proved, we should cordially approve the remedy pro pounded. But wo deny that this is the case. We main taut that the L eg i s l ature , by l a ws, the most unjust in principle, and stupid in policy, lave prOduCed, for the most part, the misery which prevails around us." The Western Times observes of the Government emi gration scheme :—" The Government are on the alert to get their emigration schemes well received, but We doubt whether they will be successful—we are certain that'they ought not, until they shall have done all in their power to relieve the distress by removing the causes which prodiv.T that distress. We see many cases in our beautiful coast towns of patients sent down from distant places to try change of air—which often means that the Doctor having nearly ex h a usted the fees, and not cazing to see the end of hi s skill, gets the friends of the patient to remove him to a distance, where he dies off quietly, and the Doctor can say with a safe conscience, 'He did not die under my hands.' The following i s f rom the Dublin' Evening 'Post:— " Our precious Government has two organs, one of which is constantly occupied in contradicting the other, whilst both are fighting like fi s hwives The Mail promulgates what the Oran ge managers o f the Castle require to be . • performed. The Packet being instructed to play uppn 4 lower key, deprecates the impatience of the rival organ, and describes him as ti madman, in order-to throw dis credit upon his information. A pretty set they are—the Government, their organs, and all." The Durham Gimmick comments in the following terms on Lord J. Russell's answer to the Plymouth Ad dress :—" His Lordship's recent answer to the Plymouth Address has provoked not a little vituperation. And the more to be wondered at is this explosion of party feeling, inasmuch as we are assured, by the same critics, that Lord John is about the most contemptible person in the three kingdoms ; and that his answer is even more contemptible than himself. This answer we believe to be exactly what it ought to be. It descends to no petty grievance, and discusses the important topics to which it relates with that temperate yet firm and dignified reliance which nothing but a conscientious perforinance of duty can ever inspire." COMMERCIAL REFORM. At Hemel Hempstead resolutions have been passed for the immediate formation of an Anti-Corn-law Asso- ciation. At Bethnal-green, a Committee has been appointed to prepare petitions to Parliament for the repeal of the A Meeting of the Bishopsgate Without Anti-Corn-law Association took place on Friday, at the White Hart Ta vern, Bishopsgate-street, to hear an address from Mr. Sidney Smith, and to take measures to advance the cause of free•trade generally. ECCIiESLASTICAMi. On Sunday last, says the Nottingham Journal, the Rev. Mr. Sibthorp, and two other persons, who have lately apostatized from the Established Church, were ordained at the Roman Catholic Chapel at Gracedieu, Leicester shire, by the Vicar Apostolic, and the former afterwards preached two sermons. LAW AND POLICE. At the Surrey Sessions on Friday eight men were found guilty of committing a robbery, attended with violence, on the night of Friday, the 3d inst., on James Goss, in the town of Croydon. The prisoners, while in the act of robbing the prosecutor, were disturbed, and succeeded in taking from him only a silver medal and a gold ring. The Court sentenced the ringleaders Freeman, Green, and White, to ten years' transporta tion ; Gee, Payne, and Cresswell, to eighteen months' imprisonment ; and Nicholls and Butcher to 12 months' imprisonment in the House of Correction, at Brixton. On the previous day, Edward Page, aged 22 years, was convicted of robbing on the Queen's highway, near Croydon on the 29th ult., Samuel Cox and his wife, and stealing from them ss. 3(1. The convict was sen tenced to be transported for fifteen, years. It appears these were members of a gang of robbers who have for some time infested that neighbourhood. The Hatton-garden Police-court will be transferred on the 15th inst. to the new premises, in the Bagnigge Wells road, and for the future be styled " The Clerkenwell Police-court." At Bow-street, Williams, charged with stealing a quantity of plate from Dr. Giles, of Windlestane was fully committed to Newgate for trial. At the instance of Lord Frankfort, an Irish Peer, two Italians were charged at the Marylebone-office with play ing and singing opposite his Lordship's house, and re fusing to go away when desired. It appeared, however, that they were playing opposite the house of a Captain Kerr, at fifty yards distance, and could not poss►bly an noy Lord Frankfort, and the prisoners were therefore discharged. COURT-PASBIONAI . I.6*,_ The Duchess of St. Albans was safely delivered of a daughter on Friday in Piccadilly. The Earl and Countess of Orford have arrived at the family seat in Norfolk. The Earl of Charlemont has returned to Dublin froth Roxburgh Castle. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at Pan sanger from Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, on Tuesday last. Lord and Lady Walpole go in a few days on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Orford. The Marquis of Lansdowne will entertain Lord John Russell, Lord Duncannon, and other members of the late Administration, during the Christmas holidays,at Bowood. The Earl of Westmoreland remains in much the same state, and we understand but little hope is entertained of his recovery. IVIISCEIMANEOUS. The Freshwater Cliffs, Isle of Wight, are in a very had state from the rains, and the celebrated cavern at Fresh water-gate has fallen in. Headen Hill, so interesting to. geologists, is also a mass of ruins. The great lawyer, Francis Hargrave, amassed his ex tensive and valuable library merely by "picking up" at book-stalls. Parliament granted 8,0001. for the purchase of it for the British Museum. There is only one fur peculiar to England— that of the silver•tipped rabbit of Lincolnshire. It is little used in this country, but is readily purchased abroad, especially in Russia and China. On Saturday evening, in 1718, Charles XII., King of Sweden, was killed during the siege of Frederickshall, whilst inspecting the trenches exposed to the fire of a battery. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From' The Sun of Saturday Evening.) ' LIVERPOOL' COTTON MARKET, DEC. 10.—Although there has been a fair amount of business transacted in cotton this week, the market still continues dull, and the disposition to sell being fully as strong; buyers have ge nerally been enabled ,to purchase at a decline of id. per lb. in American descriptions, particularly in the better qualities ; in other kinds there is no chan'ie of conse quence. Speculators have taken 1,200, and exporters 200 bales American. The sales to-day are 300 bales. LIVERPOOL SHIRE MARKET, Dix. 10.—The transac tions reported at the Stock Exchange thisday; are inEastern Counties, 7 13-16 ; London and Birmingham, 36 ; Man chester and Leeds, 65 ; Half Shares, 27 ; Paris and Rouen, 10g. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 10.—The mar ket for Railway Shares continues firm and prices im proving :—Manchester and Leeds, 651 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 26 to 27 ; North Midland, 67 to 68 ; ditto, Halves, 321 to 33. The English Market opened steadily with very little doing. Consols for the Account are quoted 88i ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 881 a ; Bank Stock, 165 166 ; Three -and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 984 ; Exche quer Bills, 10 12 premium. The Foreign Market is quiet, and the only variation to notice is a decline in Spanish Active Stock, which are now quoted at 23-1 1; Portuguese Stock continues steady, the Five per Cents. being 33 331 ; and the Three per Cents. 191 20 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 518 52* ; ditto Five per Cents., 991. In the Share Market there is little doing • the im proved prices are, however, fully maintained. Great Western are firm at 18 a 20 premium ; ditto New Shares 9'a 91 ; London and Brighton 3614 per share. The quarterly averag e of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of Egland, from the 14th September to the 7th December, exhibits a decrease in the circula lation, 300,0001.; deposits, 16,0001.; securities, 359,0001.; and bullion, 5,0001. The business done in both the English and Foreign Stock Exchange has been limited this morning ; the markets have, however, generally improved. Consols for the Account are now 881 ; Three per Cents Reduced, 884 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 981 ; Ex chequer Bills, 10 12 premium. Spanish Active was last done at 23& ; Passive, 51 ; Deferred, 111 12 ; Mexican, 258. In Portuguese there has not been a bargain done The Share Market is steady, and but few transactions have taken place. London and Brighton have been done at 362, at which price they may be now quoted; London and South Western 564 ; York and North Midland, 88; London and Birmingham New Shares, 26. There has been rather an increase of ease in the dis count market since this day week, and were it not for the apprehension of failures, we might probably have to record the existence of greater facilities to commerce generally. The continued disposition of the Bank of England, however, to reduce its circula tion before the dividends fall due, as evidenced in the re turn of its assets and liabilities, must, of course, act as a restraining power over the brokers and monied houses in the City. Consuls, 1 ; Mexican, 25E 26* ; Spanish, 238 24. BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8. rim Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Price. French 5 per Cents . . ... lid 40 ... 116 60 ... 116 40 ... 116 50 , 41(, per Cents lO6 50 106 50 ... 106 50 ... 106 50 1 per Cents lOl 20 ... 101 20 101 20 ... 101 20 3 per Cents. ex div 76 40 -78 50 78 40 ... 78 50 If ink of France Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Shares 10t5 ...1C35 5,0001. Shares 5055 .4055 ...5055 ...5055 Belgian Bank, Old 790 ... 790 ... 788 75 ... 790 Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cenci., 1840 lO3 10314 ... 103 ... 103% ipanish Active 24 ... 24 ... Passive. 5% ... 5% ... 5% Portaigue.se per Cents. H-tapolitao, ex div . .. .05 25 Homan .... 103 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles. L.B 197 50 .. 197 50 ... 196 25 ... 191 25 Rouen 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 Btra•burgtoßaleashares red 217 50 . 217 50 ... 217 50 ... 217 50 CLOSING PRICES. BRITISHEFUNDS. Bank Stock ... 165 India Steck 3 per Cent Red. BBi Ditto Bonds lpm 3 per Cent Cons — Ditto 011 Annuities 3i per Cent Red.. 9Bl Ditte New Annuities... , New 31 per Cent Ex. Bills, 1,0004 12 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001.... lO pra Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small. 13 pm Jan 1860 .. 121 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... ,Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 'Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.......... 641 Prussian, 5 per cent. ~ - Buenos Ayres, 6 per cell. Russian, 5 per cent. ll3l Chilian, 6 per cent... Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent„ Spanish, 5 per cent 23& Ditto, 1824. ........ . ..... 201 ' Ditto, Defe q ed ...11 Danish, 3 per cent....... iFrench, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange -f. —e. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 25i French, 3 per cent. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 21 per 'cent Peruvian.lB2s, 6 p er ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 Pai)• -- Ditto Debentures ( 7 paid) 91 19s 2d Great Western Railway( 65 paid) ...., Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ......... 591 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 36S London and Blackwell Railway (25 paid)... Ditto New Shares ( paid) London and Birmingham (90) •..•• .. Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) 23 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) London and South Western Ditto Tenths (31 paid)........« South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)... ....' • 1 , 7 1 i York and N or th Midl an d R a il wa y (50 p a id) 89 Ditto New Shares (15 paid) ......... 30i Two under-graduates of St. John's College, Cambridge, having quarrelled at a party, resolved to settle the dispute by a ,duel. Fortunately the affair ter minated without bloodshed, the seconds having talon the precaution to l9acl the pistols with ourrantjelly. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY. —This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and the Royal Suite and Visitors, attended Divine Ser- Vice in the priv a t e Ch a p e l w ithi n the Castle. The lion. and Rev. Edward Southwell Keppell officiated. The Earl Delawarr, the Earl of Warwick, Lady Caro line Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, and the Hon. C. A. Murray, attended Divine Service this evening in the Chapel Royal, St. George's. - Yesterday morning her Majesty and the Prince walked for some time on the Terrace. His Royal Highness afterwards enjoyed the sport of pheasant shooting at Cranbourne Lodge, attended by the Earl of Warwick, Sir Edward Bowater, and Mr. G. E. Anson. In the afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert took an airing in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, attended by the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady C. Cocks, the lion. Miss Cavendish, and the Earl of War wick, in a carriage ; and by Colonel Arbuthnot, Sir E. Bowater, and the Hon. Sir W. Lumley, on horseback. The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Jersey, and Sir R. Peel, took their departure. The Earl of Lincoln arrived at the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent walked fur some time, attended by Lady Fanny Howard. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the Royal Agricultural Society with his presence at the meeting held on Saturday. His Royal Highness visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House, and in the afternoon returned to his residence at Kew, attended by Baron KneSebeck. Their Serene Highnesses, Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, visited their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge on Saturday evening at Kew.. The Lord Chancellor and Sir Robert Peel arrived in town early on Saturday morning from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Turkish Charge d'Affaires transacted business at the Foreign-office on Saturday. Lord Wharncliffe returned to town on Friday after noon, from attending the Privy Council held at Windsor Castle. • Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from Sir G. Gipps, Governor of New South Wales. The Lords of the Judicial Committeit of the Privy Council held a meeting on Saturday , in the Council Chamber. There were present the Lord President, Lord Brougham, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Sir A. Johnston and Sir E. East sat as Privy Councillors. _ _ _ After disposing of a motion in an appeal from Canada, " Hutchinson v. Gillespie," the remainder of the sitting was occupied with an appeal from Bengal, " Maharajah Mitterjeet Singh v. Heirs of Jeserunt Singh." Mr. Jack son concluded his address for the appellant, and Mr. Sergeant Spaakie was heard for the respondent. The Court then rose. ORDER IN COUNCIL. The following Proclamation has been issued by order of her Majesty's Privy Council : " At the Court ai Windsor, the 10th of De cember, 1841, present, the Queen's Most Excel lent Majesty in Council; " Whereas by the late Act of Uniformity, which establisheth the Liturgy and enacts, that no Form or Order of Common Prayer be openly used other than what is prescribed or appointed to be used in and by the said book, it is notwithstanding provided, that in all those Prayers, Litanies, and Collects which do any wise relate to the King, Queen, or Royal Progeny, the Names be altered and changed from time to time, and fitted to the present oc casion, according to direction of lawful authority : her Majesty was pleased this day in Council to declare her Royal will and pleasure, that in all the Prayers, Litanies, and Collects for the Royal Family the words ' The Prince of Wales' be in serted immediately after the words 'The Prince Albert.' " And her Majesty doth strictly charge and command, that no edition of the Common Prayer be from henceforth printed but with this amend ment ; and that in the meantime, till copies of such edition may be had, all parsons, vicars, and curates' within this realm do (for the preventing of mistakes), with the pen, correct and amend all such prayers in the. Church books, according to the foregoing directions : and for the better notice' hereof, that this order be forthwith printed and published, and sent to the several parishes ; and that the Right Rev. the Bishops do take care taat obedience be paid to the same accordingly. "WM. L. BATHURST." Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Saturday night, as one of the Clapham omnibuses was passing the Orphan Asylum, Westminster-road, the passengers felt a sudden jerk, as if one of the wheels had gone over a large substance, and immediately after was heard a low stifled groan. The driver immediately stopped, and upon the conductor , getting down, to his horror he discovered that the wheel had passed over the body of a man, who had been killed upon the spot. It is supposed that the deceased was a ballad-singer, for in his pockets were found several songs, a sixpence, and fourpence in copper. ABOLITION OF THE EXCHEQUER BILL OFFICE.-WC understand that the forgeries committed by Beaumont Smith and his more guilty accomplices will, possibly, lead to a transfer of the business connected with the issue and payinent of Exchequer bills to the Bank of England. Ministers are already in possession of the terms upon which the Governors of that establishment will undertake the management and risk of this import ant security. No arrangement can be definitively entered into until the meeting of Parliament, , when it' is expected, that one of the first measures of the session:will be the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the management of the department of the Comptroller General and Paymasters of Exchequer Bills ; upon the issue of which will depend the abolition of the depart ment itself, and the transfer of its affairs to the Bank of England.—Circular. _ _ KIMMEL PARK.—The splendid mansion of Lord Dinorben, at Kimmel Park, in North Wales, lately destroyed by fire, will not be rebuilt. In consequence of the great expense (estimated at 50,0000, and his Lordship; having no direct heir to inherit the property, the undertaking has been relinquished. DEATH OF Mu. JOHN SYDNEY TAYLOR, THE BARRISTER.—We deeply regret to have to announce the death of Mr. John Sydney Taylor, barrister-at-law, which took place on Friday morning at his house in Chancery-lane. Mr. Taylor had been ill for several months, and underwent repeated surgical operations of a very painful nature. He bore his sufferings with great fortitude, and with profound resignation to the Divine will. Mr. Taylor, who was a native of Donny brook, greatly distinguished himself at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the degree of M.A. Soon after completing his education he came to London, where he obtained an engagement as Parliamentary Reporter on the Morning Chronicle. After remaining some years on that establishment, he was employed by the late Mr. Thwaites, principal proprietor and editor of the Morning Herald, to write leading articles for the latter journal, which he continued to do until within a few months of his death. Nearly all the articles which have appeared in 'the Herald during the last fourteen years, in favour of an amelioration of our criminal code, and for the abolition of capital punishments, proceeded, we believe, from Mr. Taylor's pen. A collection of these was made six or seven years ago, and published in two volumes, at the expanse o f th e "Society for the Diffu sion of Information on the Subject of Capital Punish ments." Mr. Taylor was a man of highly-cultivated li terary taste. He was also exceedingly fond of poetry, and has written various small poetic pieces possessed of considerable merit, though he never put his name to any of them. Everything that proceeded from his pen was pervaded by a spirit of humanity and benevolence. His metropolitan practice in the Courts of Law was limited, but in the Norfolk Circuit, which he regularly travelled, he was rapidly rising into distinction, and was beginning to obtain a large and lucrative business. He possessed su perior talents as a forensic speaker; and often displayed great ingenuity 'in his cross-examination of witnesses. He was a man of very kindly and generous disposition, though somewhat reserved in his manner. Ho has left a widow, but no children. He was in the 45th year of his age.—Observer.—[Every one who knew Mr. Sydney Taylor must concur in this tribute of respect to his memory. He was an accomplished scholar, and a man of the most amiable disposition. In all his writings he proved that his great object was to improve the condition of mankind, and, above all, to mitigate the cruelties of slavery and the severity of the criminal law. Perhaps no man of the present day has been more influential in the abolition or mitigation of punishment ' • and though his philanthropy at times might carry him further than the ideas of the age or even sound discretion would justify, he must have been consoled at . the hour of death with the reflection, that his failings were always on the side of humanity and mercy to his fellow creatures. His exertions in this sacred cause are not generally known to the public ; but, among those who were engaged in the same penult, his death will be felt at the present time as an irreparable loss.—En. Sun.] DEATH OF MR. ALDERMAN BIRCH.—This gentleman expired on Friday at his house in Guildford street, Brunswick-square. The deceased Alderman was a writer of no mean importance ; his farce of the Adopted Child will hold its place on the stage while taste for nature is cherished by an audience.—British Queen. On Friday night week, the Perseverance, Evans, of Carnarvon, from Yarmouth Sound, to the north lin, was totally wrecked on Jack _ (Isle of Wight) for Dub ward of this harbour. Three Of t h ,e,d. cre l w ie fo s u p n e d nt a th w e at fi e r r s y t grave, the master only being a the rocks, missed his footing, and f e ll from night in a cave ; the next attem p tingd a y, s it v i ntothteo seaclimb up t anove rihnanrgeginaginirnogck the e f fcoarvtey, whereinfeeth h e eight. He o suc ceededtle spent another night, and on the fo llowin g morning got to the top of the cliff. He was found in the deer park of W. C. A. Philips, Esq.. of St. Bride's Hill, in a very weak stat e , from want o f food, and injuries received amon gs t t h e rocks, andan o taken to a neighbouring farm-house. A WIBSEY GOOSE —On the morning of Tues day week, t h e watchman at one of the mills in Bowling lane, Bradford, had his attention drawn to one of the outhouses, from whence proceeded some strange noises. He there found a man dressed in a most fantastic man ner h av ing on light shoes, black stockings, bri g ht yellow , breeches, a girl's slip, through the arm-holes of which his shirt sleeves protruded. He had also on a black oil skin hat, on which was painted, in white letters, "Born so." In this dress he had paraded the town, and when found was on his way home to Wibsey ; he is stated to be one of those who the day before had joined in the Chartist demonstration,—Leeds Mercury. MORNING SUN' ON THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. oq TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. • FABRILIA FABRI." A p , 1 1 . 1 " 1 ; 1 SlR—From one whose fair name for talent, piety , an " morals has long been bruited over the whole civilized ~„,(11 world, but which on the present occasion I am not a t li berty to enunciate—one whose choicest daily study for the last sixty years has been the Word of God—one to ,14 b 00 14 whom during that time " the Sabbath hath been a de- f light, the holy of the Lord, and honourable," —from such ;01(1 an one I received the following note, in reply to a le c ter iss II referring to altered sentiments as to the supposed Divinli appointment of a Christian Sabbath ;:.,, W 1 , 5( "I meant to have said sooner that my own views.iP what Scripture and reason concur in teaching as to a Christian Sabbath and a permanent ministry, are oppo- site to the conclusions at which you state yourself to have arrived. But these are subjects far too wide to be en" ~:r* tered upon. I only wish to say that inspired Apostles eioate might have been directed to change the observance of ifOr the seventh day into the first day of the week ; that an I aJEL!, adequate reason seems apparent ; that general and con; , temporaneous usage from so early a period appears good „, f , O l evidence that the change so took pl ace ; —and is sue- 141 ported by St. John's term, the Lord's Day ;' by St. Pau l's direction not to regard being censured about the Sabbath, which I presume means the censures of the Judaizers against those Christians who adopted the change. d Now, Mr. Editor, next to a deliberately chosen such iJse well wrought out argument upon such a subject by sucu a hand, I most highly value this off-hand note, as s howing me, so far, upon what slender ground a great mina c an . sometimes, though it may be but for a m oment, rest at great subject ; while, at the same time, I suspect re hat Christians in general have not such ground as tbis, slea i der though it be, on which to found their belief in a P' vine appointment of the Sabbath. What ground ran: • slender than that " inspired Apostles might have I t; directed to change the observance," &c. ? They tn i g d i but there is no scriptural evidence that they were s° ist ; • I . rected. The " general usage" was very early, no dou b t_, • but there is no scriptural evidence that it was so early e_ the Apostles; not the slightest evidence whatever is PI: thereof in Scripture. True, the first day of the 't he is once called the Lord's Day ; but there is , I the her p et s e r f t ° s r oe l „ most obvious reason for it, because on that day el s - t. week the Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead. As t° es o Paul's direction not to regard the Judaizers' ens about the Sabbath, the most probable reason is, that t, c ti e a n a s a u f r ( e )r s p of ot tl o te b J se u r d v a in i7r u s i N e V jereewdisirhecstaebdbaagthai as the Ch 1.1 '; just as they censured them for not keeping other Jl the Jewish laws and ceremonies. Of the like sort. that kindred reasoning is an oftentimes reiterated reniarli, .t tn ' s the Christians were commanded to make contributiotinie for their more destitute brethren on the first daY °f that week, and that it appears, upon one or two occasion% the they were assembled together on the first day test week. This is all correctly true ; but no t the slid bay , evidence does it afford of that first day 'of the week Sty, ing been constituted a Christian Sabbath. From a off-hand, slight note, though in my opinion of 11 1 'l, o se I donsequence—from one great man now living, a nd W re' 1 ' unspeakably valuable life may it please God long t° ,„P ro . serve—we will proceed to the most deliberatelY to ' his pounded argument of another great man now g ene t t iou great reward, the Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke. His r s eye r is, that the Sabbath is a type ; and that a type is ' l e d to to be dropped till the arrival of what it was designee!' prefigure ; that what is prefigured by the Sabbath 15 the nal rest in heaven, and that therefore the Sabbath the type of that eternal rest, must be observed so long out world remaineth. Such is Dr. Adam Clarke's posLti°ture, it does not therefore follow that it is a position of Sal. but It is the assumed position of a learned and good I °l, for a position by no means well laid out. His posi h tl e t o t eS instance, implies the original Sabbath ; and ”I - o f the, not the slightest notice of the fearful alteration_ lo th' day. Whereas, the day of the Sabbath, the "' e m end day, is as plainly laid down and enforced in th e en its as is " the rest" upon it ; and the express reason fordee. being the "seventh" day is as plainly laid doWn l l ' fads forced. But we shall find the good man, aft er rna l liP tering in his position. At one time he deems ete;mtlitl' to be the anti-type—eternal life to be the " re st t houg h ing for the people of God ;" at another time, as . t ype, not quite satisfied with this being t h e entire ant l ne 'l is the full meaning of Scripture, he adds, " the G °s r efora • this rest." llis words are, word for word , the _,„ae there is another rest, a state of blessedness f or the Pc7res of God, dnd this is the Gospel, the blessings it P t° str ict and communicates." And such, perhaps, is the treut meaning of the Apostle, on whose words eis c on ", o th w ith ing. However, the Doctor, not thoroughly satis e i giorf the above, adds immediately to it, "and the etern to ge" which it (the Gospel) prepares for and has promis e os i t iou nuine believers." Thus he splits the half of his into two parts, acknowledging that we are alread);lnot iu session of one of them, and so far weakeni n g , n t effect demolishing, his whole position. re n e '' But I understand that Dr. Clarke's reasonings. l es o re generally considered to be so sound as his prin,e l ,, t ated!. good, and his intentions pure, transparent, an n j t i Should any still deem the Doctor's position soui;htie% them be reminded that such position has no thing by be to • ever to do with the Christian Sabbath, except irpt the whole question, without a shadow of an 3 " e ileci th e . prove the appointment of a new Sabbath , to be C 3• Stle",io Christian in opposition to the old Jewish Sabbath.,'St;) an attempt never seems to have entered the hen head ; he evidently takes it for granted that the day had taken place as naturally as that of night for or iJ Thus he leaves the whole subject involved in all th ginal difficulties in which modern Sabbatarians Pl° o find it if they , .would, and from which they should cl,rri* if they can. In my opinion; fir. Editor, if Sir A n co g,h Agnew will have a Sabbath (throngh which, as thr.,0105,,1 an Indian tube, to blow out his sharp, irritating g ) :, cio amongst the poor of these realms), he must go ' O , oe. friends the Catholics for one. It does not afir tir two" that all the Protestant Bishops in the world cafist'olish their principle of depending' on the bible aloof , J en s se bi what they affirm and teach, viz. that the Chir'eupoint4 bath is a Divine institution, truly and plaintircyltes,.'"'et of God. Perhaps Sir Andrew may join the r t i he y n i . 9 t i ti g e ir they may all go off to Rome together, wher c u i e tiog ° htfol a dismsation for Sunday travelling, to th e , q u nd d°" tting conscience, and the removal of all serufi e rs of g e f r t to ness, if any of them are railroad proprie tc r ;a coo, I money and affording vast accommodation `ands multitudes of their fellow-countrymen en she l oan s but am told that the Catholics at Rome are by n o se cts ; th e strict Sabbatarians as some of our Protests even hi f i ve that they can sing, and dance, and play ca rev Inove Vatican. We keepers at home, who ne ws tring i s re al hundred yards from our dear mother's aloq. t y an," t be unenviable position, by the bye, for ss e d , the for' friendship—are told odd things of our frie nds be bett e L e vr lies at Rome ; and I verily believe it vvolim - ir . Am' t o the peace of this country if such men a s return ,our, would go . a little amongst them, so thane e r r e thi lt tbe us again fully assured by his lioliness t 4 1 , 6 co ot , old women might mend a hole in their stoci t i` et, our P, if Sabbath if they had not time before, and• t l ee!' ns „o) up, smoke -smothered, town- poisoned ti they could, take a Sunday ramble in t a h r ece i s uniptirgY' g h t ing the pure air and bright sunshine, an,? . . the Vin o) , drink in . g, altons of health to recruit thern ir o nlY o t the av4k l , , orirVhieli the first day would tell be.the Sir Ant, f e e t of happy rest from labour. I agai n ap poun 'ar a he cannot establish the Sabbath as a divine , eat , J o), te ll t n o iii without havin recourse to the Catholics, ttoa in them. Vain would it be for tin' r t his can read -and investigate the truth oi d st• oe ti conference es at Rome between St. Peter ,a,b ti tb; intablished the Christian "bsoh 0 if I believe the evidence I 'can u phold o,„ 07 bath as well without as with you." N ° ' ur rec cr er' the Catholics truly say, " all th is is out of y0,e0.;g,..6, a Protestant ; you must join us, or y ou ce! "taiga,, 71 cred and holy ground on which to build a 01'17'0 file bath. You know, Sir Andrew, that tiaere o ne;, appo i n t men t as a Christian Sabbath, frnwth.olo bba ., ` , • of the Bible to the other. The only Sa Bible is the old, original , seventh - day SabbatT2 ' y; or of God immediately after the crea tion of trthy " the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Le r" n a ut the ibg t y Not a particle of any other Sabbath can ou f r of a finger on in the Bible • not a_particl e on e 0 0 1,4 Sabbath can the eye see there. You In ns u edetg t ieg Sir Andrew. We will take you, on no r . 0 iefli c , due penance, part of which shall consist wore 4 4 , more severe penalties on yourself, and he o irlfi.., oe r fer,ol ing of them towards the least befriended__ r,_.Y ehes o: sty creatures." I think, Mr. Editor, the C tu cannot Lion, thus argue rightly with Sir Andrew. .0 ted, C hri te lc. Wish, rise Protestant, a new, divinely ap e po c l , _ e Co b first-day Sabbath. He must first b c f the estn til eir As a Catholic he would have full belief ? of it , io anent thereof by St. Peter and St. Paul in " A tio •fe or. "11 he g t. P" conferences theßible. at Rome, not one jot of which can What then will Sir Andrew do ? 1 -1,71 hhat h-- -0 Sabbath ? Or will he believe in a nevv Sa at f Scriptural 10 day Sabbath—without one grain o t t fi $ Or will he join the Catholics ? right conclusion ; and as no doubt the to e lo time (en p, The Sun and yourself have had at this I most heartily wish you, Sir Andrew,,vtaortialry--E:gdiritosorgb ( ~e e tlelq2 l ‘,Y. leave of you both, by subscribing myself, b 0 . Your very humble servant, Nov. 3 of me, I here close this subject, and reseetfullY 4 , 0/ ---------- FA e „ e st Needwood Parsonage, near Burton-on-Tren" FATAL ACCIDENT FROM , 10 0 LIGHTED CHARCOAL.—On Friday erenlnbrospit was held by Mr. Payne, at Bartholornet! 6 i t u ppe re ot view of the body of Jame Coe, aged 5 0 3 ., 0. 10, o ea from the evidence of William Shefford, t de of Ormond-yard, Qneen-square, Bloomsburylit,,joy gi rt 0 , was a fellow-servant with him i n the . , s e . u „ t en, Snowden, candle-manufacturer, Theobalsd. TILL s ha rr afternoon of the 27th of November last - % 'tPr_7 o ,lo o 4, 6re , to go into the room where deceased u s i u s al c V l i tet t 0 et ] found him lying on the floor with 11 . . 0 ac e. , „o There a was pan of lighted charcoal ctla:c_eedJaifirtetois,l,4,proif It had been upset, and some of scattered about the floor. Witness IT deeeu se vs . cured the attendance of a surgeon , an a bove _ s tar the surgeon's desire, was taken tc. the; e 1 pital. Deceased's clothes , before theh bern i u g t s e i . u,o o o . uised, were not in flames, but awaynecot; account i t k ehtei icier.sübsequently ed the wit 1, / o ° o he was drying some cottons to be us was suthi ell „leo ° ,41 candles, over the charcoal, when head fell sex': Ate, come by the fume of the charcoal, s urge"' an , t about 1' that deceased had been dreadfully burn uries on of the 1111 ,, teo men and legs, and that he died al death. the floor. Mr. Edward Blake, house t he nesday last. Verdict, " Accident he del 1/ 1 1 3 " 6 g g la v S e c o op THE CONVICT WARD.- - T- -- :s gon -1; 11- 0 for the execution of this wretched inan,__:lfessior,_eri 20th instant. He has not made, anY cet.., thr !es tr; of which lie has been found guilty. . s .„ , an been reported, nor does he allude in a g n e Y n w o 7 v oc e a tir ot be o r; same cell in which Blakesley, Courvoi hf . dS were confined. Great efforts are ,he wive yeroons, to obtain a mitigation o f ;4* i' . (4 ~V C, r,~ b tl 1 f