The Sun. — London, England, 1833-01-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The French _ . .Rapers of Sunday, which we received yeiVid`a . yrmorning, and to the contents of which we alluded in our second impression, int:rition•,under the head of a Madrid article of the 8d instant, that a kind of insurrection, in favour of Don Carlos, had broken out at Toledo on the 31st ult., or the last day of the year. The affair would appear to have been of small importance in itself', though calculated, no doubt, to excite alarm in Madrid, from the vicinity of that ancient city to the capital, from the great influence of the priest party in such a strong hold of superstition, from the generally fanatical temper of the Carlists, and the unsettled state of the Regent's Government. It would seem that about 1,500 insurgents had collected in the neighbourhood of Toledo,—that they attempted to force its gates in the interest of their Royal isation,—that they were repulsed,—and that, after having in vain summoned the commander of the place to surrender, they dispersed into the mountains at the rumour of the arrival of succours from Madrid. This rising was proba bly concerted with some traitors in the capital, who testified their sympathy with their brethren, and happily evinced the weakness of their re sources by a seditious tumult two days after wards in two of the public places of the city. The movement-was marked by a similar preci pitation of attack, and a similar facility of dis comfiture. In the mean time, it is evident that a considerable degree of uneasiness and anxiety prevails among the friends of order and of the existing, Government in Spain. Several arrests had taken place, and the troops were kept in readiness to act against the disturbers, should they attempt to renew their criminal proceedings. As apprehensions were entertained of the impres sion which might be produced in the provinces by exaggerated reports of what had occurred in the capital, despatches had been sent off to all the Captains-General, to assure them that the insur gents had been put down, and that perfect tran quillity had been restored. Most of these Cap tains-General have been changed since the esta blishment of the Regency in the person of the Queen, and consequently their zealous co-ope• ration may be expected in soothing irritation or overwhelming revolt. In almost all cases the change has been hailed with gratitude or satis• faction, the new Captains-General being more popular than the old. In one instance—that of the Count d'Espagne, in Catalonia—the people would have avenged their wrongs by rrisassinat• ing their oppressor, had he not been conducted to his place of exile under a strong guard. That there might be no mistake on the cause of the sudden risings at Toledo and Madrid, it requires only to be recollected, that they occurred simul taneously with the formal revocation of Fer dinand's decree in favour of his brother. While these things are going on in Madrid, and these little official revolutions are taking place in the provinces, we are informed by the French papers that our Ambassador, Sir S. Canning, is stopped on the quarantine ground on the Spanish fron tiers, and much speculation is hazarded by Paris politicians on the subject of his mission. Some of them assure us that he goes to induce the Court of Spain to join France and England in nettling the affairs of the Braganza family, and others that he has instructions to support the liberal party in Spain, as a means of ultimately establishing Don Pedro and English influence in Portugal. NA ithout adopting either hypothesis or considering them in any other light than as mere speculations, we may observe that the whole of the Peninsula is at present in so ex traordinary and critical a condition with respect to administrations, factions, and dynasties, that the presence of an able English Minister is more than ever necessary to observe the course of events, and to keep .his Government informed of their nature and bearing, even though he ma; not be able to direct their course or to control their result. In the western division of it, with which we have been more directly connected for the last two centuries, two brothers are contend ing for a crown, which, by the resignation of the elder, belongs to his daughter ; and in the more important kingdom which occupies the east and north, we likewise find the partisans of two brothers at war about a succession which, ac cording to the strength of their respective num bers, property, or influence, must be decided in favour of a female infant, or be transferred to a fanatical Prince, in advanced life, who, till within the last three years, would have been its lawful heir on the demise of Ferdinand, and who, therefore, can never forget the dangers to which the law has exposed his title. In both countries, on the apprehended death of Ferdinand, we must find for rulers hardened usurpers or infant Queens ; while in both, from the want of an organ for expressing public opinion, either by the press or by popular assemblies, a whole poli tical system may be personified in a particular member of a dynasty, a national alliance may depend upon a Court intrigue, and the birth or overthrow of constitutional freedom may be occasioned by a Royal confessor or a Court physician. It is not, therefore, presuming, too much to suppose that a British Mi nister at Madrid may be instructed to attend to the state of affairs in both divisions of the Peninsula, as we can have no Ambassador at Lisbon or Oporto, and as the fate of the Por tuguese throne must in a considerable degree depend on the temper, principles, or active in terference of the dominant party in Spain. On the affairs of Spain itself, our influence, though resisted by Ferdinand in 1822, in 1823, and up to tle French revolution of July, 1830, while his Catholic Majesty was supported by absolutism on both sides of the Pyrenees—while Bourbon fanaticism occupied the Tuileries and commanded the armies of France, as well as the palace of Madrid, and the monks of the Peninsula, may now be sensibly felt when as sisted by liberal principles beyond his northern frontier, and by a change of party in the very heart of his kingdom. That most extraordinary document which he and the Queen Regent commanded to be published on the last day of the year, and which by this time has reached every convent and cottage of his dominions, has broken off all confidence or commerce be tween the present Government and the old ab solutist, anti-liberal, end fanatical faction by whom the State was formerly ruled. The Queen Regent has committed a sin that is never to be forgiven. She has called together the great officers of State, the heads of the great Councils, the grandees of the kingdom, and the commanders of the different Orders of Knighthood, to announce that the faction of the King's brother, are conspirators and rebels ;—that they " perfidiously sur rounded " the King's bed in the moments which were believed to be his last, to make him sign a deed disinheriting his daughter ; that " perfidy accomplished the plot which began in seduc tion," and that, had he not survived to recall the instrument, an " atrocious" treason would r.have triumphed. The declaration of his Ma jesty, annulling publicly this deed, speaks of the advantage taken of the King's " anguish," and we have no doubt, though it is not mentioned in the document, that religion was brought to aid the plot of the conspirators, and that the flames of Purgatory were reflected on the bed curtains of the dying Monarch from the phan tasmagoria of the confessor, to wring from his superstitious fears, or to steal from his weak ened intellect, a renunciation of his natural af fections and of his solemn decrees in favour of his own child. The " gulf, therefore, fixed " between the parties cannot be passed, and what ever may be the Queen's inclinations, she must of necessity break from the Absolutist or " Con servative " faction, and rely upon the more li beral or moderate portion of the nobility, the landed proprietors, the merchants, the univer sities, the army, and the different classes of the citizens. Her Government has hitherto shown great oscillation and uncertainty, occasioned by the state of the King's health, and doubts about the King's firmness. She was desirous of keeping some terms with the Carlists, in case of ultimate defeat, and she could not rely upon the Constitutionalists whose party was weak ; she therefore stood between them like an isthmus, beaten upon by both. At one time the Cortes were to be convoked,—at another she declared against all great changes in Church and State ; at one time favour was to be shown to Don Pedro in Por tugal, his ships were ordered to be received in Spanish harbours, and his troops to be supplied with Spanish provisions,—at another instruc tions were sent to exclude his ships, and to re fuse him aid ; at one time the line of troops on the Portuguese frontiers were to be broken up, at another they were to be reinforced. In short, neither on questions of internal policy nor ex ternal relations could the Government of the Queen take any decided attitude. Two im portant measures, however, had received her sanction, which could not be annulled or re called—the amnesty had been passed, and the central as well as provincial administration had been partially purified, or supplied with men of moderate principles and good character. This last act of courage, to which we have alluded in the formal publication of the infamy of the Carlist faction, has given us additional security in her separation from them, and additional hopes that she will be induced to court the support of liberal men at home and liberal allies abroad. Want of room prevents us from adding some observations which we intended on the new re lations which may be established with Portugal in consequence of the recent changes in Spain. We may recur to the subject.—Times. Notwithstanding the authoritative statement of the Courier of last night, we cannot persuade ourselves that Ministers will be guilty of the lacheee of proposing an inveterate Tory, in the person of Mr. Sutton, for the chair of the first Reformed House of Commons, more especially after his having taken leave of the House in a formal speech recorded on the Journals, and se cured his retired allowance upon the old extra vagant scale from an Unreformed Parliament. The transaction has very much the air of an in trigue, displaying, in its success, no little cunning on the part of the Tories ; and casting upon the Whigs the imputation of great gulli bility and imbecility—they sacrificing two old and faithful associates, Mr. Abercromby and Mr. Littleton, to whom they were bound by every tie of party honour, and the elevation of either of whom must have been agreeable to a majority of the new House. Mr. Manners Sutton himself labours under no such misap prehension of the probable dispositions towards a person like him of a body of representatives, chosen, as the Members of the new Parliament have been, by the free suffrages of the people ; for if we are not much misinformed, he has not hesitated to assign his mistrust of a Reformed Parliament, as the reason why he sought to have the matter of his pension arranged by an unre formed one ; the avowal being, by-the-by, an extraordinary slip of discretion in one of his generation. And he was quite right ; for would any Assembly, actuated by a true economical spirit, award to the possessor of those Lord of the Bed-chamber qualities, which constitute `the utmost amount of his merits, so exorbitant a recompence as 4,0001. a year for two lives ? Assuredly the men who Row hold the purse-strings of the nation,will form a very different estimate of public servants, and their proper remuneration. Some advantage may be taken by surprise, upon the new House of Commons commencing its func tions ; but Ministers would do well to pause, ere they commit themselves, by proposing to the acceptance of such an Assembly such a Presi dent. It may be that he will be indignantly rejected by the sober, practical, earnest-minded men, who will justly require in the individual to whom they shall commit the guidance of their deliberations, and control of their proceetlingp, a love of country, a wisdom, a dignity, a libera lity and elevation of mind not to be found in a retainer of an old boroughmongering connexion. If it be that the injudicious praises lavished upon Mr. Sutton by Lord Althorp plaCe the Govern ment under any difficulty in resisting his preten sions, it would be our counsel that the matter should be left to the discretion of the House ; nor do we think that so to act would be in any degree to cede the proper functions of an Ad ministration, for we apprehend that in this, and in many other particulars, the old plan of ma naging the House is at an end. We expect to see it frequently controlling the measures of Mi nisters, spurning altogether that species of dicta tion to which it has been hitherto subjected, and assuming a great visitorial jurisdiction over all the operations of the executive. It has been one of the great misfortunes of our past frame of Government, that the House of Commons was obliged to take measures and Ministers in the lump ; implicitly acquiescing in every act of the men in office for the time being, or discard ing them altogether, and taking to its confidence a set of people diametrically opposite. This is now over. We shall have no more threats of resignation on the least check or resistance on the part of the House ; and that false party pride which prompted the resignation of a Mi nister under such circumstances, will no longer deprive the country of the services of men in the main useful and well meaning, although standing in need, as all human agents must, of occasioal control and correction.—Morning Chronicle. In France there is now complete freedom of worship, with this distinction, that the clergy of some Sects are paid by the State, while theclergy ofother Sects are paid by their adherents. A dis pute has lately taken place in the parish of Clichy, which will probably lead to some regu lation to meet the contingency of a change in the belief of a parish. It is understood that the churches belong to the commune, that the pro fessors of a particular religion are but usufirue- tuaries, holding from the co•nmune. The coin-' munes build the churches, keep them in repair, and vote the money for these purposes. The in habitants of the commune of Clichy, in the month of February, 1832, elected a Cure of their own particular views, which gave rise to com plaints on the part of the Archbishop of Paris, and it would seem that for nearly a year the Archbishop was unsuccessful in his application ; but at length the Government has pronounced in his favour. The Temps observes, that the decision of the Ministry amounts to an inter ference with the rights of the commune : " If (says that Journal) the Ministry maintain that•the sect which is pos-easion of a Church ought to possess it for ever, this would be transferring tit the clergy the pro perty of the e lifices, and burdening the c,trnmones with all the burdens of that property, without affording to them the benefi:s of it. The consequences of the Minis terial act of the llth January are of the highest imret ance. The Catholic religion would then become much more than the religion of the Stec—much more than the dominant religion; it would be the religion to which all France would be astricted (religion obligele). If the edi fices, of which the Catholic religion has the usufruct, cannot rec Ave another destination, the country is placed in a state of vassalage to Catholicism. Catholicism might decrease, and lose its influence, while the Church of the Commune, the Vestry of the commune, and consequently the salary attached to the functions of the parish-clerk, would still belong- to it; it might be dead in the convic tions of the people, while it would preserve its altars, its wealth, its privilege. Yet if the Church is the property of the commune, it is in order that it may dispose of it as it may suit the majority of the inhabitants. The coin inane of Clichy had interpreted the law in that sense ; it believed itself protected by the Charta. The Ministry thought otherwise. The proceedings of the diocesan au thority have had more influence than the tights conse crated by the Constitution of 1830. Let not the inhabi tants of Clichy fear to denounce this invasion of their rights to the Charta; it has sworn to defend the Charta, ind not to violate it." It is curious that the consequence which is put by way of supposition as the height of absurdity, is the state of :things which actually exists in Ireland, and which it is intended to perpetuate. The French revolt against the first attempt to continue a Church to a particular religion, after the people have gone over to another. But in Ireland, the Catholic people build and repair churches for a pastor without a flock ! In France, we have no doubt some law will be enacted for determining when a Church shall pass from one religion to another—whether this shall take place on a mere majority of the inhabitants changing their belief, or some greater proportion. In Ireland, however, we shall no doubt continue to have Catholic flocks and Protestant Clergy. It does not, however, require the gift of prophecy to foretell that this state of things must have an end. Reason points out the simple expedient of giving the Church to the ministers of the religion of the majority of the people, leaving the minority to provide instruction for themselves. Where the Protestants form the majority, let them have the church, and the State allowance for a clergy man ; and where the Catholics, or Presbyterians, or Methodists form the majority, let them in like manner have the church, and the Sta , e allowance for a minister. Every other plan of settling this matter will be productive of heart burnings and discontent. Ascendancy and reli gious freedom are irreconcilable with each other. An Episcopalian may be a very good man, but it is not good that his belief should entitle him to any advantage over others, equally conscien tious adherents of their religion.—Morn. Chron. The King of Holland is, it seems, encouraged by Russia to hold out against France and Eng land, thereby sacrificing the interests of the Dutch to a vain hope of family aggrandise ment. In like manner, the Turkish Sultan is encouraged by Russia to refuse all terms with the Pacha of Egypt, who, according to advices which we have received from Alexandria, has again defeated him at Kronia, and has made the way to Constantinople open to him. Russia wishes to take Turkey under her protection, as she took Poland ; and, in the meantime, she wishes to keep open the Dutch and Belgian question, that site may have scope in the East for her intrigues. But it is to be hoped that France and England, and even Austria, are Suf ficiently alive to the designs of Russia to render it improbable for her to succeed in them. If the King of Prussia were even inclined to yield somewhat to his relation the Emperor of Rus sia, the policy of Prussia enjoins a strict adherence to the rules of prudence. We fear nothing from Prussia. France and England ought at once to bring that obstinate old fool, the King of Hol land, to his senses, and to act without reference to Russia, holding that power at its true value We trust that the appointment of Marshal Maison to the Coma of St. Petersburg!), may be taken as an indication of the low estimate in which France holds the empire of the Czar ; and that the continuance of a good understand ing between France and Eugland,will effectually baffle the schemes of a barbarous power, formi dable only from the feebleness or misconduct of the enemies with which it has had hitherto to contend. Among our extracts from French papers will he found some sensible observations of the Journal des Debats on the wretched policy of the King of Holland. There is as much danger from treating such a Prince with too much respect, as from precipitancy in more serious matters. He has already experienced too much conside ration ; and it would be rashness to allow the affairs of Europe to remain embroiled longer, because it is the will of his Dutch Majesty that they should be so. Why should this Ruler be allowed to close the Scheldt against the ships of all nations ? We trust the Governments of France and England will resent this encroach ment. If he has taken this step at the instiga tion of Russia, in the hope of a general war being the result, Russia will be disappointed. There will be no general war. Russia can be of no service to Holland ; and the Dutch will one day waken to a sense of the folly of having placed their hopes in a Power which has been so uraccountably over-rated, and which is utterly without the means of producing any impression on the west of Europe.—Morning Chronicle. Notwithstanding the professions of retrench ment, we never hear, even in the present era of Reform, of a sinecure becoming vacant, that we do not, eo instanti, hear of some persons being named as qualified to fill it. Scarcely has the sinecure dignity of constable of the Round Tower of Windsor, which costs the nation about 1,2001. a year, been disposed of to a new in cumbent, who will have his vested rights to plead in defence of the expensive incumbrance, than a new opportunity for carrying into effect the re trenching principle occurs, and is, as far as we can learn, about to be evaded. The canon-re sidentiaryship of the Cathedral of St. Paul, just become vacant by the death of Dr. Hughes, has been truly described to be as near as possible a sinecure office, having a salary of between 74',000/. and 3,0001. per annum—an income that, if properly distributed, would decently sup port a group of working clergymen in number equal to the Apostles, and afford them more of the comforts of this life than the Apostles ever enjoyed. It has been reported, as we informed olir readers yesterday, that this costly piece of quasi-sinecure preferment is intended for Dr. Maltby, the Bishop of Chichester. Every one recollects the noise that was made, before the present Ministers came into office, respecting the Government job which was to allow the Bishop of Exeter to hold the rich living of Stan hope in commend= with the revenues of his see. We believe the bishopric of Chichester is not equal in income to that of Exeter ; and as to Dr. Maltby himself, we know of no member of the Episcopal Bench who, in point of qualification for his sacred office, and of personal character, is more deserving. He is a distinguished scholar, an able preacher, a clergyman of steady piety and unspotted integrity of life. If, as re formers of abuses, we could allow a practical re laxation of the strict rule which we would have applied to the sinecures of the Church as well as to all other sinecures, it would he in favour of such a man ; but we trust he will himself re fuse any preferment which could only add to his income by the compromise of a public principle —a principle which, as a friend to reform in the abuses of the State, he cannot, in consistency, but wish to see applied to the removal of the notorious blemishes of the Church establishment. If Dr. Maltby's diocese be among the poorer bishoprics of England, as we believe it is, and, if it be insufficient to the adequate support of the decent dignity of his office and station, let its temporalities be increased not by plurality of office, but by adding to it some of the super fluous revenue of one of the overpaid bishop rics. It is said, indeed, and the Government Papers have thrown out more than mere hints of the matter, that the bishoprics are to be all equalized, and the pernicious system of trans lations done away with—a " consummation de voutly to be wished." If this has been deter mined on, Ministers, having a House of Com mons of their own,and all the power in their hands, need not long delay about it. During the short time that must intervene, supposing Ministers to be sincerely resolved on such reform, why should not every ecclesiastical sinecure and quasi sinecure, that falls vacant, remain in abeyance, until the expected arrangement takes place, the arrears to be then appropriated as Parliament may think fit. Why should new " vested rights" be created to stand in the way of an ec clesiastical reform, which has already been stated to have been the subject of discussion at more than one Cabinet Council, and the plan of which is said to be prepared for the earliest possible consideration of the new Parliament ?—Morning Herald. We are glad to find that the parish authori ties of St. James's are at length beginning to arouse themselves to a sens e o l f their duty, and are endeavouring to put down the shameful nuisance of the gambling-houses which abound within their district. From the police account, in another column, it will be seen that, by a well arranged plan, concerted between Goddard and Ballard, and a party of the new police, the no torious No. 60, in the Quadrant, has again be come the subject of legal proceedings. This looks well. It looks as if the parish was begin ning to take fright at its own distinction as the resort of gamblers and desperadoes, and was about to make some amends for past neglect, by directing its efforts against those infamous nur series of crime, the hells, and their infamous owners and supporters. It is also satisfactory to find that the prosecutors, in the present instance, are not embarrassed by the contradiction of two such ill-assorted motives as oppressed the mora lity of poor Mr. Geazeley. When that worthy undertook to prosecute, he was so puzzled be tween the public good and the gratification of his own private malice, that he could not per suade people to think it was the public motive that was uppermost with him. The consequence was, that i❑ spite of every thing he could either say or swear, he found himself the proprietor of as dirty a pair of hands, a 8 ever were exhi bited in a Court of Justice. In the present case, however, the parish authorities are the prosecutors. Their motives cannot be sus pected ; and they have commenced in a manner which must he effectual to the suppres sion of that and similar establishments, if they have the firmness to persevere in the course upon which they have so creditably entered. There is only one line of conduct which could render their motives liable to suspicion, anti that is their declining to follow up the blow. It would then be suspected, nay concluded, that they had only done so much to save appearances. But appearances are never much saved by such expedients. Men may be short-sighted, but they are not so short-sighted as to mistake a little affected bustle for a settled purpose and de termination, when either policy stands before them revealed in its results. We feel great sa tisfaction in acknowledging that the Magistrates and the police have acted, in this instance, with a promptitude and decision which became them. We make this acknowledgment the more readily, as we were not slow to accuse them when we thought they were remiss. It is to be hoped that we may now look forward, if not to the total . suppression of hells and gambling-houses, to the extinction of that flaming public display, the very prominence of which was an insult, as well as a curse, to the community. Let the autho rities persevere—let them take their rounds night after night amongst the hells ; by following up this course they will find that the law is strong enough to enable them to abate the nuisance. Hell-keepers should be worried like other ver min ; and if care be taken to disturb the security of those haunts, which are becoming so attrac tive to the dissolut e an d t h e unre fl ect i ng , we shall soon experience the good effects of such perseverence in the diminution of misery and crime. - -Morning He ra ld. We t this day p resent to our rea d ers f urt h er evidence of the ex i s t ence i n E ng l an d o f a sys e,nwhich, for the atrocious brutality which it calls into action, and the physical suffering and moral degradation it produces, has, we sincerely believe, never had a parallel in the most revolt ing practices of the most barbarous and savage nations. We willingly encounter the risk of being thought tedious and importunate upon this subject. The whole thing is so monstrous that nothing, we are persuaded, short of a con stant recurrence to the incontestible evidence by which the facts of the case are established will be sufficient to convince those who have never witnessed the operation of the factory system that in England—in the country of sincere and unaffected benevolence—in a coun try where the principles of' genuine religion are supposed, and we believe truly, to exer cise a very extensive influence—in a country which possesses thousands of philanthropists so eager to search for and to relieve human suffer ing and degradation that they cross the Atlantic in order to find them, and assume their existence where they are not—hundreds of thousands of children are condemned from their birth t o a species of slavery which of necessity involves the extreme. of physical . and moral suffering—which produces infallibly bodily and mental decrepi tude—which drags, by a compulsion more co gent than the driver's lash, its helpless victims through a life of vice and torture to a prema ture and unhallowed tomb. We feel it to be our duty to compel our readers to dwell upon the details of this faithful picture, lest they should deem it no more than a hideous and frightful illusion. This is no wanton infliction of un necessary or useless pain. The humane and Christian people of England must be taught to realize to their own imaginations all the horrors to which this abominable system gives birth, as a means of inducing. them to exert the necessary efforts to insure its speedy and complete extinction. The children of the poor of England must be emancipated from the horrible slavery to which so many of them are now condemned from the cradle. This is an object for which it is worth while to incur the risk of being deemed tedious and importu nate ; and it is an object which the interests of individual cupidity, and the vanity of short sighted and callous political science, or of that concatenation of silly notions, which it is he fashion to flatter with the name of political science, will, it is now plain, labour strenuously and conjointly to impede. We have, however, no apprehension as to the result ; the final triumph of humanity and justice is secure; but yet victory is not to be won without zealous and persevering exertions, and on our part they shall not be wanting. Let the factory system be once thoroughly understood and its working clearly perceived by the mass of the people of Enlaud, and the defensive excuses and palliations which cruel selfishness or cold- blooded theory may at tempt to throw around it, will be found a feeble and ineffectual protection to the gigantic and abominable enormity. In order to accelerate the speedy and complete extinction of this horrible system of oppression and barbarity, it is desirable that the nation should make its sentiments known to the Legislature by means of petitions from every part of the country. The system, abominable as it is, has its friends—friends among t h ose w h o b y i ts means have become rich, and who being rich arc powerful—friends scarcely less numerous, and perhaps still more influential, in those who know that the theoretic principles with respect to trade and public wealth, on the practical success of which they have staked whatever reputation they possess, will receive a fatal blow whenever this system of melting the bones and sinews of the poor, and destroying their health and their minds, in the production of cheap articles for ex portation, shall be finally abolished. The system, therefore, we may be sure will not fall without a desperate struggle in its defence, and for this struggle it is incumbent upon the friends of humanity to prepare themselves. We hope and expect that ere long Committees will be formed in all the principal towns in England, to act in unison with a Central Committee in the metro polis, for the purpose of diffusing information upon a subject so deeply important to the na tional character and welfare, and of bringing the national feelings and opinions fairly to bear upon the Legislature. There is one class of persons to whom we would more especially address ourselves upon this subject, and it is a class to whom we do not venture to offer a suggestion upon such an occasion without great and undissembled diffidence. We mean the parochial clergy of the Church of England. It has been the uniform practice of this excellent and discreet body to abstain from direct interference upon subjects of immediate public importance, preferring, most wisely and judiciously, that course of general admonition and instruction by which their hearers are gradually fitted and disposed to the discharge of their duties as citizens and men upon every occasion or emergency. In a country like Eng land, where every subject of discussion or of in terest assumes more or less a tinge of party politics, this general abstinence on the part of the ministers of religion from interference with practical or secular affairs in the discharge of their pastoral office is probably the only means by which they could invariably protect them selves from misconstructions injurious to the usefulness and efficacy of their labours. Such considerations do not appear to us, how ever, to apply to a case like that which we now humbly but earnestly recommend to the zealous attention of the clergy of the Church of England, and in which it is plain to every un biassed understanding that humanity and reli gion are arrayed on one side, and nothing but individual selfishness and the foolishness of theoretic conceit on the other. If there were no more to recommend the evil we have been describing to their most strenuous hostility, this alone would be sufficient, that it is proved be yond the possibility of contradiction or dispute that one of the infallible consequences of the system is to reduce all the children who are sub jected to its influence to an utter incapacity of receiving moral or religious instruction, or even of attending at all upon the stated ordinances of religion.—Morning Post. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the " London New Price Current" of yesterday.) SUGAR —The demand for Muscovades rather revived last week, particularly towards the close of the Market ; the estimated sales were 2,200 Wide. and trs., but there was not the slightest variation in the prices. The stock of West India Sugar is now 24,677 hhds. and trs., which is 4,658 less than last year. The stock of Mauritius is 66,313 bags, being 2,239 more than last year. The deli very of West India Sugar is 2,281 hhds. trs., being 1,515 less than last year, The delivery of Mauritius is 5 698 bags, being 26 more than the corresponding week of 1832. The Market to-day has been rather heavy; the sales reported are only 700 hhds. and trs. ; the prices are unvaried. In the Refined Market there wasrather more firmness last week, on account of the small stuck and the reported alteration in the bounty in France, but there was little business actually effected. Some parcels of lon• Lumps were reported sold about 61s. ; the Market after wards became heavy ; some sales also in - crashed entitled to the double bounty. The Market this afternoon was rather dull. EAST INDIA SUCIA IL—There have been no purchases of Bengal or other East India Sugars worth reporting. MAURITIUS SUGAR.--By public sale on Friday 3,190 bags Mauritius Sugars sold at previous prices, 495..t0 54.. FOREIGN SUGAR.—At the public sale of 1,129 boxes Havannab washed Sugars, the low and mid. white sold at a reduction of Is. per cwt., 245. 6d. a 275. 611.; the infe rior qualities went off higher in proportion ; 40 Wads. 25 barrels Para Muscovades all bought in, 20s. a 225. ; very low, in barrels, ISs. Average price of Sugar, 1/. S.. COFFEE. —The sales of Sumatra Coffee have been con siderable, above 2,000 bags in one time ; the ord. to good ord. sold 495. 6d. a 521. 6d. ; very ord. 465. 6d. a 475. ; ord. Havannah 525. In other East India or Foreign no other purchases were reported; the market was dull, but the prices cJuld not be stated at any marked reduction. The British Plantation descriptions were very heavy ; the ord. qualities were lower; but the good and fine main tained the former currently. There were no public or private sales of Coffee this day ; the market is still dull. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLAND& —The unexpected declaration of a Government contract for 75,000 gallons of Rum it is expected will have a favourable affect on t Market. It bas as- yet produced no advance in ti e prices, but the holders are not anxious to snake sales. R E rna ri _ AlBll,ll.dies ...... CONTRACTS Dpb CHE ESE; . — .Airrmi, i ' ' TV) ?Vl' SON V IE CC ATAA.CUTINC 1310T1',,, f 0 f th e on Ta"`" a nd • le t ei l lta nAY, tl Coat„TY t" treat ri V a i a l etti : 4 l alet : r S S t u o P ri l Y :—... litt i l kt, the n ", nth, puss --,die( westn essior ClSturirn:: , New Ert nee of I fittS t .... ...... ilisetyl .. . ........ 13E te. '.l' BAos.. so n ,„XrDNEy c,, clean, and tenZples of t h e at ti :_g: . The ( Cove, "" (1 Offic ( the °clo ck on ' The prices arc nominally the same as last week, al few sellers. In Brandy Al' Geneva there is little alters": TALLow.—=The 'fallow market continues 6ral, count of the small ttock and the steady and extensiv e sumption. • India iD l l l7l;s — e sTaeiil94u,3B73itchea-tisn,dtivgh°iedhecialaarelld wdl brought forward.' A few sales by private contract are", ported at former prices. . 4 1 FIL WT. —Tile demand for Fruit continues limi t "",' the prices are without variation. The public scul li j i week was all of damaged descriptions :—Patras sold 675., Zante 64.. and 65.., Red Soiyrni Raisins t damaged) sold 31s. and 345. ; the Turkey pulled Ind 364. d Carrox.—The public sales of Friday last consiste d 9,500 bales, of which nearly 7,000 bdes sold at full Pr;; which has given the market a very firm appearance• rd.; sites for the week consist of—l ,500 Surat, 4-1 ,1 . 3 5 ,4 5 ; 5,000 Surat, pub. sale, 4- 1 1 a 51d ; 100 Madras, sr . 8 2 • 60 Bowed, 6id. SA LTPETH.E. —Saltnetre sold 3s. lower last week--"I refraction, 335. a 335. 6d. ; 20 , 4 1 refraction 294. 6d. i :30s. ; since which there are no purchases to report. 1. 1 " 0 $: day's public sale, 643 bags Saltpetre, to be refracted, :30s. a 32s ~) that for e.. 00 ASHES are of dull sales, but the prices remain al j week. TURPENTINE.-1,500 bee. sold to arrive, 12 ' 1 Spitits remain heavy. COCHINEAL.—By public sale this day 68 bags CAC n , ..a1-49 bags dry Vera Cruz silver, 6s. 7d. a 6s• 19 h igs fair to mid. fair black, 7s. 4d. a 7s. 11d., h e ' ,bout the previous market rates. 66 bags Garblig 3s. 9 I. per lb. . _ t:erititireelony attends, tverv t ,; , I N he T ender eeeo mpani *47 the Admir o n tenderi i sib; r the due 114 ' t Rage, SPlCES. —Spices are heavy, but no further re'uctO the prices can be stated. SHE sui within--- A t lo public s.o s f al o e ulast highestw eelcfingeuoatnal quotations, South`. 114 l itle l lt n ' 4Ll o ill iyei s t l: 3 ) b j 3 l e aPn ß F r t , e re rc a t °l t i .n zieL l d i s v . e sales made in Seal Oil. Sperm Oil bas bee n ' Irlft ly ',,r bound great demand, awl an advance of 21. to Si. per tun P e e , 7 - 44 is CO m I been obtained. Linseed and Rape Oils are a shade low ' ti e ' for 183 i.A6 a; 3 " with very little business doing. TEA.—Bobeas are freely offered at Id. per lb. disoo° l . o , : lifthblile' Natural P without many buyers in the Market. Congous are , it ioh l tion on s snne request at sale's prices. WooL.—The public sales of last week were attell d t 7 ,. '' ph 4 -11 ,-lts ref : ' e a rn to 0 41 C ti '. Pi ltera„„, tl" ' I ke. • tl by the usual number of buyers from the north and tueli ' • ' 44 1 Lists of England, and the whole of the Wools sold at adV an t ot 'E h _ i n afe prices, varying from 15 to 25 per cent., according_ fi t 18.- 1 en oV — MPANI their quality and condition. The first day's sale cono i r of 310 bales Australian and Van Diemen's Land µr 81 . a 6 y d. n ' h n which went off with great N.iirit ;87 bales Cape of GufAr dad 4 --" : Chi Hope, of ordinary quality and condition, also at g7l. . • pi ices ; besides 157 bales Smyrna, Russian, German, s o - , CHURL Portugal Wool. The two sales on the following dal we , ! ADD' * of 127 bales Tuscany, 153 bales Australian, 10 Gerona": , S Alm ' PITJIRCH 8 Portugal, and 78 Spanish. The last day's sale, oo -$ 1 a ill ttie ° l - " 4 Hen] tueday, contained 298 bales Australian arid Van Dieo ll- _, 4 *t Numbe e- Land Wool, 35 bales of which were imported by the v; , Diemen's Land Company, and are much improved both -i. 1 . quality and condition ; these 35 bales sold from Is. 5-` l ::ti.. eit z o lth may Re ctor 2s. 10(1. per lb. The prices of the whole of the Austr° l "', 4 40 4 11y t ? and Van Diemen's Land Wools in these sales varied fi l l!. I '4ll l er tiri 4 P r ,lssing Is. Id. to 2s. llid. per lb. A good deal of business b r i t , ' ;loft ewelfg also been done in the market by private contract, at 10° 0 1 c A. 4,,,,.. J prices. The stock of Wools generally being very low, O w I . ,,. l4 ,Lltllt er. v r t RR to ] the importation having fallen off from that of last $l3 - itPr i - REFOI former years considerably. i 11 ti Elsi SON 41 4 4 4 'TOBACCO.—Tobacco continues to be inquired after. 0 1* .Ridgway Cocoa.— The market is heavy, the quotations "O r i ',- .'...."--......................._ nominal. The last prices paid were, fair quality Br SA, 21s. a 255. 6d., good Grenada, 68s. " u ttpi et , EXa , noi in 1 , Rica.—Rice is 61. to Is. per ci t. lower ; several r- ':. 1 *4 l vol. 1 t 4% 1 .. eels of Bengal white, I 4s. and 14s. 6d. : tit_ itneror US -- --••■•■•----. _ _ Ti/A - "l ' C iUNTNY CORN IHAIIKErS DURING THE WE j 4% Cop tc a " &le t . Let e t:s l D a ! Marriac, '"i^g7 4 ' 4 70 and s 4 hd k person tce, t% poetry Di'first publ Richard Ben jSucee! I N EW DR lit" u 't publish, 4SToirt Beal* Wheat. Barley. Oats. --t Per Quarter. s. to s, a. to s. a . t o s . s. tO a/ HOP. ton - 48 24 14 29 40 Gainsborough 57 34 18 --- 30 Grantham 53 (i 7 36 41 17 25 3 7 40 lirinasby 42 58 24 30 14 22 2 5 # tiorncastle . 44 52 25 33 12 18 40 40 Lincoln 46 60 30 39 10 21 36 38 Spilsby 4B 54 28 35 14 18 32 30 Stamford 47 59 30 36 21 23 3 3 $8 52 66 26 34 16 24 30 NORWICH. Jan. 12. Wheat (per qr.) 4rls, :ss. 595. Beans (per qr.) 275. . 5 , 11 :. Barley 18s. 28s. 325. Pease, Grey 271. Oats CANTERBURY, J Wheat, white---- 1".?65. to 6118.....,. in. 12 to —s. to •-•&_ Grinding.. 245. to 2P 2os. to os• 275. to 3 06 ' Grey---.. 325. to 30, red 46s. to 565. Barley, Malting 30s. to 355. Oats l7B. to •?4s. Beans 34s to 38s. Pease 375. to 40s. —(114 Perforrnelrsuc By WIL tf,'!nqr " Aletr 1.4zett....1s work open s nu .1111NiD,EFallliar to re 1,4 eel), stea3;saZdso°orifg heAe volutne.s fon n, tor they abounc errs ~e kee r , „. „,es. ginner—, 17h: anecdote: t also broUar beofo Richard Ben Cl l V,0,4111' DITION V,e4 In I Vol., I,4;ll,Priee 11. 4s. E L F tew°fthe 4re c ilib se stu thi.ot'l,rtlc„,,,l,l.leitt work, /4 41 known t fiUste~:a.wo:„,..co they o ha , %tw . '4 10 44 , for ;.'iter'lniabuc N ease., CAI —Bri Vl: t e in I vol., Price 11 . 4s. Co re rl ev of the A eP 4Ponde nee by h h attoff. " S (3 en, l a i c 'fteltMly el‘Toben t Richard Ben (Succest EN TERTA a I RICHA RD BE (Success J St l ' Wheat, per 701 b. 8 5 MANCHESTER . ild. to 9s. Od. , Redan. 12. Bs. O. to 8 6 . Barley, per 601 b 5 6 6 0 O ats 3 0 3 ~ 0 Beans, per Imperial quart e r Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 t) 5 Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 4l 0 46 _.....0 0 Flour, per Sack of 2801 b 45 0 50 EXETE It MA! Beef (5c0re).—.....85. Od. 9s. 6d. Mutton (Ib.)---0 51 0 6 Veal and amb-0 6 0 7 Pork' 0 4 0 6 Geese (each) .--4 0 5 6 Ducks icoup!e\.......t 0 5 0 I Fowls 0 4 0 KETS —Jan. 11. Wheat (bushel) 7s.Od. 11 ' 9 Barley 6 4 6 Oats 2 3 2 Beans ..—..— 65 6 3 Butter 0 1 Eggs (12) 0 0 1 Potatoes (peck) 6 0 IRISH MA' DUBLIN MARKET NO' RKETS. Jan. it. From To Aversir - 2 • 2,808 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 20 0 30 0 26 0 183 Bete l6 stone 11 6 12 3 12 673 16 stone 12 0 15 6 13 3,757 Oats 12 stone 8 0 12 6 8 1 5,694 Cwt. Flour 9 stone! 4 6 21 0 744 Oatmeal 8 stone' 8 0 14 0,10 10 Sold to Bakers only. 18,167 Cwt. Flour 21 0 16 I' Average price of Wheat and Flour 41 . 5. Bd. per sac's. , Firsts, ............... from 193. Od. to 215.: Receipts of Flour, 11,2571Secends, from 153. Od. to Ss. Sales of Do. 10,694 Thirds, from 4s. 6d, to 10s• ' Quartern Loaf. Is. d.a5. 1 5 0 15 0 0 1 5 , 10 0 11 13 0 00 1 2 E E AST It fill Or, Up a gap left 0 SIR A. B. nt mi-RMANY A ' lively and ento C RAMBERS' 1 Brought dc Complete 4,_ 4 4 4 * „ 11 calculated, by INi t p kud its portable etery body's hand TH ESPA] ~,171Y THOS. R( -4414TLAl be difficult "'lig winter's e TUE ENGL t IVERAL LE le 2 vws. Bvo , te,tz,etitire biograph te liultineuithe-d par 4" the ait rictioris o PRICE OF BREAD. .........84d. I Half Quarters , Wheat, Barley. Oats. per barrel per barrel per barrel, 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. ' Ist. s. il. a s.d, Cork ............ 160 256 Limerick 120 0 26 8 Waterfordj22 0 24 0 Cloninel .....;23 4 27 0 Carlow ...,....125 0 27 0 hour, 116 150 73 89 1120 134120 136 1100 130 70 80 100 146100 146 1120 130 80 90! 's. d. as. d.I 0 1 15 0 17 6 16 0 19 0 17 0 18 0 17 0 19 0 20 6 21 r. k pe P r or c k w , t. Ist. 2d. lit Z l id tt . 4th. 'd. a per e 6d lb 5 e s. d. as. d. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Cork 0 35 079075 0 65 055 0 rig Limerick. 31 41 31 4 340 35 0181 075069 0 63 0 !,'S Waterford 3 6 3 533 0 35 078076074 0 66 0 uul Clonmel „ 31. 451 61 32 0 33 078074 0 f, ( 511 per u a t t l o b td o .; 30 Carlow... 4 5,110 0 0 0 0085084 0 74 064 Ofi Kiumsiv.—Butter 82s to 84s. per c' per barrel ; Flour 20s: to 345. per bag; rel ; Barley 12s. to 13s. ; B eef 4d. to 5 , to f.d. ; Potatoes 2d. per stone; Coals 1 Pigs 355. to 365. per cwt. wt.; Wheat 225. to" Oats 7s. to Bs. per P 2 id. per lb. ; Mutton Is. 2d. per cwt.; Bs' MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazelle.) lq TO-MORROW, Jam. 17. M. D. 0. Blyth, merchant, Colchester, Essex I 10 DIVIDENDS. W. Smith, grocer, Welw3n, Hertfordshire .at R. Gascoigne, tailor, Richmond, Surrey / R. George, stage-coach-maker, Parker-st ree t , Drury-lane II A. Morten, wine -merchant, Richmond, Surrey W. J. Brown, silkman, Great Winch es t er -street B. Davenport, merchant, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane ..... T. Daniel, stone-merchant, Chester-st ree t , G ros venor-place D. Twort, miller, Horsmonden, Kent, miller A BIRTHS. 1 On the 15th inst. Mrs. Burder, of Parliament-street, of daughter. a l l On the 14th inst. at Herne-hill, Dulwich, Mrs. C urrey, daughter. On the 13th inst. i n Bryanston.street, the lady of Gedl Prinsep, Esq., of a son. illt ii - -...„ .„ eAy 41 . su ~ t, TEET H , ~ .,Ith, Wi ("24 81. h t to or E A 0,,,, other Liga ' l Sttp ) 7 111)R aa. , ." . Vri t 4 l l , , ~ J eriti st s , tte nt l v t . r, 1 1 1 - , 0 01%1: lei/. e pat r C'eADI retr o t , r essi t ,„ " ge w I DIED. air' i , 'tow -i liti ,: a, exerti On the 14th inst. at Southampton, Abel Ram, Esq., of ..-- tr. io i • eop fort Park, in the county of Wexford. ilvAya , ll e etfu 11 , me b.. .4.0 generm , On the Ilth inst. in Nassau street, Sarah, eldest daug oaue 1 , —, ta the late Josiah Pike, Esq. f OP, C tb A E ETH On the 13th inst. at Swinnerton Rectory, Jane, wife o f ~.-etllt,„ , AND„ , William Mackreth, Esq. ill'rerthl ° I 1.„ ..i M, a On the 13th inst. at Clifton, Penelop_e, fifth sister of theAti n It p eti . - talon an Sir Mountague Cholmeley, of Easton Hall, Bart. Her hrf i f , , lit„ Loitn,„, l gradually declined after the loss of her sister Jane with her i' ..S.ET„ -, , o r ut ; band in the wreck of the Rothsay Castle. 0 wl - 10C , ill 4 Pre estin On the 14th inst. at Brighton, Sir George Dallas, Bar. , e; o _ I llann er Henrietta. street, Cavendish-square. . dove ill e ' 11 AR T , ' On the 4th inst. near Herne hill, in the 81st year of hiSA,ances Ohn,., iA Pierre Valery Le Noir, Esq., Author of the Logographic 9k.ed to *4ll o 'u/51131 blematical French and English Spelling Books,. " Les FP . s a c,. tt % ut m, Britaniques," and several other approved publications. .01 . ,:g.....r%'5r ev ., ' On the lath inst., o f small-pox, William Charles Goligh • lite I, Ch ar every 1 Esq , of Little Poundes, near Tunbridge. "ill s'it tllt ses a ' in On the 14th inst. at ' Kentwell-hall, Suffolk, Mrs. Elir4 ~,, N u ,. y are r. _ Parker, widow of the late John Oxley Parker, jun.,. 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