The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-13 00:00:00

±IVFNING EDITION. THE LATE ATTEMPT AT BOU- LOGNE, FURTHEP. - PARTICULARS. (From Galignani's Messenger.) Although_ no fresh intelligence of any essential im !Penance has re - Ached us relative to this affair, we have e°l4 'eted sme particulars which are of interest, and *Celt eee proceed to lay before our readers. The Prefect of the Pas de Calais has addressed a . !ePort to the Minister of the Interior, the most interest ing Part of which is the following account of the landing of the insurpants About 12 o'clock in the night of the sth instant, ate Seth-Brigadier of the Customs, Audinet, being on mute with two men, perceived off It's pest, at a quarter 10 a league out at sea, a steamboat at anchor. The 'situation of the vessel did not excite his particu'ar ob servation, because Le had for several days been accus tomed to see packets tither at anchor or lying-to between Boulogne and the Pointe aux Oics, waiting or despatches. Seeing, however, about two in the morning, a boat apparently full of people leave the " e ssel, Audinet advanced quickly before his men to the water's edge. The boat touched the shore at t wenty-five paces from him, and he bailed her. The people replied,' We are men of the 4th of the line going fr om Dunkirk to Cherbourg, but one of our paddles being broken, we have come on shore: The Brigadier 'upon this saw that there were about 15 soldiers of dif ferent grades in the boat, all of whom jumped ashore. At the moment he did not suspect that they were de ceiving him, nor did he entertain any doubts until seve ell of those who landed levelled their bayonets at him, 4 " said, Make no opposition to the landing, or you shall be treated like the Bedouins.' An officer inter fered, and said,' They are Custom-house men, don't do th em any harm.' The Sub-Brigadier of the Customs and his t wo men , Caroux and Lguay, who had come e l) to him, were surrounded by armed men. The boat 'return e d to the vessel, and, after making three trips. b rought the rest of the troop to land. In the interval five other men belonging to the Customs, in making their / bonds, were arrested by the rebels. None of the Cus toms offi cers were ill-t rea t ed or di sarme d. D ur i ng t h e Landing, four persons fr o m Boulogne arrived, and embraced several of the se,ldiers who had landed, and two of these . . R ho thus " ined them received officers' uniforms, which the y wo • e mediately put on. About half-past three, le O.'ienant Bally, of the Customs, was informed of the 4 ` 4 ellearance of the packet. He went to Wimereux, kersuaded that it was nothing more than an infraction ' l3f the quarantine regulations. On his arriving in the In arket-place of the village, fix or six offieers went. up 4 h im, r. and on his teliing them that he was the chief of t he Custom-house station at that place, they desired him 'conduct the detachment to Boulogne. This detach illent was composed of about thirty men in uniform. p ith th e num b er o f th e 40th reg iment of the line, and a bout thirty others, invested with the insignia, and c lothed in the uniform of officers of different ranks. i` l , a t the moment of marching there was some discussion " the group of officers as to the road it would be best t 0 tak e . I t was at first proposed to go along the shore, tat the persons who came from Boulogne recommended t hat to th e C o l umn . This advice prevailed. The r "P then formed, and commenced its march. The r ebels placed separately, and at a distance from each na „ er, the men whom they had taken for guides, .! t t order to leave no chance of annoyance 14 their rear. M. Bally vainly entreated them ~t ° lea se hi m at Wi mereux , b ut h e was f orce d r march with the rest. They made several halts ty t he way, and it appears certain that during one them there were copious libations of cliampague and bra ndy among the insurgents. ()a arriving at the Column, which they passed on the right, after saluting b With their flag, a General Officer observing M. speaking to one of his men, came up to him, " n u desir e d him not to converse, adding, You tai to know that it is Prince Louis Napoleon who is tt our head. Boulogne is for us, and in a few days the princ e will be proclaimed Emperor of the French by the _ n ation which call s u p on hi m , an d by th e French Ministry 7ho are expecting him.' M. Bally replied that this ren dered the position of himselt and his men still more dis trUtts- He earnestly requested that he and they might Permitted to return to their post, since they were in 4 lght of Boulogne, and the road was direct. The officer ' re fused, insisting that they should go on still further. A 'quarter of an hour afterwards, when within 200 yards of the office for the entrance duties, M. Bally renewed his request to the Prince himself, who said I have no objection to your returning to Wimereux, but it must be on condition that you proceed there direct, and do not mention a word of what has passed.' The Custom Rouse men united and set off with their lieutenant ob served by four armed men, who followed them to the fo o t of the column, and saw them take the direction of ,the height of Wimille. When they were about to seParate a superior officer went up to M. Bally, and offered him a handful of silver, which, however, - he ab tuptly refused. The same attempts at seduction were m ade to the subordinates, and in like manner rejected, ZrsPt by one man ~lone, on whom the directors of the tems have already d o n e justi c e. The captain of the pac ket has stat e d t h at th e re b e l s d ran k sixteen dozen of while on the passage from London to Wimereux, h.randy and liqueurs. The soldiers of the 42d were present at the action, and have been interro °tea, declare that nearly all the rebels were drunk." :. ‘ &_correspolident writes— .ln proceeding to the column the insurgents leit in t o wn Count Montholon and Colonel Parquet, who lere alm ost i mme di ate l y arres ted by the Commissary of ° nee. M. Bergeret, assisted by M. Chauveau Souhi - . ez : on officer of the National Guard. Not onl y arms an d money have been found on board the Edinburgh IC: stle, but papers compromising several great ps.rson 41ges have been discovered. Search is being made for Zen Persons who as yet have not been captured. On _ evening of Thursday a captain on the retired list, isho landed at Celais d on the 2lst ult., was arrested at I oMarquise while in the act of changing his military uni tinfor the clothes of a peasant. Our police was evi fentlY prepared for the attempt. That of Calais has btwo months been aware that Louis Bonaparte was p ith th e uniforms made in London, and, in concert t Tth th e p ol i ce o f B ou l ogne , has been watching the mo ens of Lieutenant Aladenize. Great military precau -I°4 continu e to be taken at Calais. The posts are 'till doubled, and the port remains under the strictest uurveillance.'' Prcgres du Pas de Calais asserts that when teas surrounded Louis arrived at the Column from Boulogne he i' t es surrounded by 200 to 300 persons, who showed o mast lively sympathy for him, and that it was some °Ple, not belonging to his own suite, who forced him ' r ° ll l the Column down to the shore, in the hopes of Procuring his escape. When the Prince's boat upset, Sod he was in the water up to his neck, he took off his uniform and began to swim. The Echo du Nord publishes the following as the correct list of the names of the persons arrested or itilled.in the attempt : " Prince Louis Bonaparte, General Montholon, 1 13 ouff e t Montauban, assuming the rank of General, but wearing the epaulets of a Colonel ; Colonel "ibio, of the Lancers, on the retired list (he re ceived three gun-shot wounds, not very dangerous, bode is in the hospital) ; Lieutenant-Colonel La re, on the retired list, late Commandant of Cambrai ; Charles Parquin, a retired Chef d'Es eadron ; Maisonnet, a retired Chef d'Escadron of the staff ; Galvany, a military sub-intendant ; Faure, 'military sub-intendant, dead ; Alexandre, alias Des jardins, born at Paris, a captain on the retired list , " h aying a passport delivered at Paris on the Bth of' July, arrested at Marquise ; Lieutenant Lambert, one of the Prince's officers ; Lieutenant Aldenize, of the Volti % .Reur s of the 42d of the Line ; Lieutenant Corsy, of the cavalry of the National Guards ; Oman°, an ex-officer ' l3 f the 13th Dragoons ; Bataille, calling himself an en thleee ; Dr. Conneau, the Prince's physician , De y attached to the Prince ; Delembert, the Prince's secretary ; Bellicr, the Prince's valet ; Meu tiase, his cook ; Duhom, his footman ; Hippenmeger, 'another footman ; Brunet, his servant ; Lictot, sergeant, acting as servant ; Piaony, an Italian, his Courier ; Lambert, a Swiss, in his service ; A neel, ex-sergeant-major in the old Imperial Guard; Bure, a merchant's clerk, appointed a ser geant ; Masselin, a servant, sergeant ; Telange, four- Pi er ; Ballelet, a servant, sergeant ; Craitigny, a ser - --t aut.. corporal ; Desfraneds, a servant, corporal ; G. c at:er; corporal ; Bernard, a servant, corporal ; Gnille maitre-d'armes ; Vervoord ; Orvinoski, a Pole vlngue, a Pole, in the hospital ; Peffer, servant of Colonel Estauban ; Prudhomme, s ervant of M. Faure Egger, valet of Colonel Wasme ; Sellier, a shoemaker i at Bo u l ogne ; M arte l, a li as L amarr e, a mason of Beu ',egne ; Ri c h ar d, a news p..p e r-carrier of Boulogne ; 13 acho n , a riding-master, established at Paris ; Jardin, a servant ; Brigeot, a servant ; Sieraskeroski, a Polish reefugee servant ; Theven, a coachman in the service of 4- de rEspee ; Gieepard, a servant ; Hawang, a cook ; and on e man, name unknown, brought dead and naked to the hospital.' A local Paper states that the police have seized as many as possible of the Proclamations distributed by the Prince and his partisans. They are, consequently, become very scarce. On the evening of the echatifi Aurree, they were bought up eagerly at five francs each. Boulogne, Tuesday Night, Aug. 11. It is false to state that the surgeon was shot in the act of levelling his pistol at the National Guard. I was within twenty yards of the unfortunate man at the time, and I most solemnly declare to you that he made, and could make, no resistance. Besides, the nature and position of the wound will prove that I am correct. I was by his side a second after he fell, and I pledge my honour that the wound was in the back of the head. The ball took a slanting direction, exposing his brain. He had not fallen half a second, Whcn a young urchin, about 12 years old, pulled his geld watch out of his fob, and extracted his purse from his pocket. One of the Na!innal Guards then came up - - (perhaps. the mart who fired the fatal shot), and these two objects were delivered to him by the boy, to whom he presented a five franc piece. I have not heard .ther,the watch and purse were surrendered to the c°4ll446 ttrY of police; if ico ) . this_ liatiorial_ guard will doubtless be able to produce a receipt for them. It is not true, as reported, that when he was dead a man ran his sword through his body ; but it is true that the most brutal and ribald jokes, accompanied by horse-laughter, _rang the last knell of this de parted spirit.. These people have not the least care or Concern for human life, nor have they even the most remote idea of the proprieties of civilized society. The corpse of SS hich I speak was allowed to remain un covered in the broiling sun of that fatal morning, the eyes glaring in their sockets with the glass hue of death. There was no kind hand to close the lids, nor to veil even with a tattered napkin from the curiosity of the pry ing, the distorted features of a fellow-creature tent un bidden into the presence of his Maker I. A great deal of unreasonable trash is uttered here against the skipper of the Edinburgh Castle. No reflect ing man will join in this. It is vain to expect such con duct as one would look for from a naval officer in an individual btit a degree removed from a common era man, but I repeat Crow was guilty of no unworthy col,duct. I have had several conversations with the in telligent surgeon who has attended the wounded in the hospital of the town. He states that it would be im possible to find men displayi..g greater fortitude and resignation. Colonel Voisin was wounded in five places, and suffered in consequence much bodily pain ; yet so still and quiet was he, that the patient in the next ward was not aware that his arm was amputated till he was informed by the bystanders. K. THE EDINBURGH CASTLE STEAMER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Commercial Steam Packet Company. Chief Office, Fish-street-hill, Aug. 13, 1840. I beg to forward a translation of a letter just re ceived from the Mayor of Boulogne. Yours, very obediently, J. BLEADEN. Sett —I received the letter which you did me the honour of writing on the Sth inst., concerning the un happy event which has put your steam-packet, the Edinburgh castle, under the sequestration of the French authority. Before your communication was made known to me, I fel convinced, Sir, that the honourable Directors of the Commercial Steam-Packet Ccmpauy were com pletely strangers to anything concerning the mad at tempt of Louis Napoleon. The assurance you give me on that subject is quite unnecessary, and I hope that your Captain will succeed in justifying himself in the most satisfactory manner. I have sent your letter to the Procureur-Gencral of the Royal Court of Douay, who is charged with tie instruction of that affair, and it will remain amongst the pieces of the criminal proceedings. Receive, Sir, the assurance of my perfc t consi- dcraiion. (Signed) AL. ADAM, Mayor of Boulogne. To Mr. John Bkaden, Secretary, Btc ,Stc. GREEK BONDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-1 am an unfortunate holder of Greek Bonds, which I have held for 11 or 12 years, and during all that time I have but once observed any effort made by the contractors, Messrs. Ricardo, to force our claims on the Greek Government. 1 observe you always advocate the interests of the holders of Colombian, Chilian, Por tuguese, and Spanish Bonds, but not a solitary voice among the London Press is ever held up in favour of the Greek Bondholders, who have received no interest since July, 1836. Let me supplicate you to notice our claims, and to assist us with your powerful arm to ob tain that justice for which we have so long and so pa tiently, though in vain, waited. I am Sir, vour's respectfully, A CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER. Chester, Aug. 11. CORONER'S INQUEST. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR LONDON BRIDGE. —On Wednesday Mr. Bal.er, the Coroner, and a Jury, assembled at the Queen's Head public-house, in High istreet, Poplae, to investigate the circumstances attend ing the death of Charles Seaward, aged six years. the on of Charles Seaward, Esq., of Chatham-place, Black friers, who was drowned on Saturday last near London Bridge, with two other children, his sisters, as they were about to embark from a boat on board the Gem, a Gravesend steam-packet. On the arrival of the CORONER, he inquired of Thompson, the beadle, where th,:. body was lying. Thompson repied that it was lying at the dead-house, near Poplar workhouse. The Jury then proceeded to view the body of the little boy. It was somewhat decomposed, and there were several bruises visible on the body. When the Jury returned to the inquest•room, the brothers and brothers-in-law of Mr. Seaward represented to the Coroner that it was unnecessary to inflict an ad ditional pang on the feelings of the afflicted parents by holding an inquest in the present instance, especially after what Mr. Payne, the Coroner for the City of London, had expressed when holding an inquest on the sister of the deceased on Tuesday evening. Mr. BAKER said that he should be extremely sorry to add additional pain to the feelings of the bereaved parents, but he must inform the gentlemen that if he had been aware of the circumstances of the case, be should have ordered the removal of the body to London bridge on Tuesday night. The beadle, however, had not stated the particulars relating to this unfortunate transaction. The children were immersed in the water close to London-bridge, and they night have floated down the stream into his district, which commenced at the Tower, before they were suffocated. The probabi lity was, however, that the children met with their deaths near the bridge, in the city of London. Mr. Seaward, the uncle of the deceased children, then asked the worthy Coroner whether it was his in tention to bold the inquest. The body of the third child, a little girl, was picked up by a waterman named W ebbe, on Tuesday night, and had been conveyed to London-bridge. The CORONER said that he should certainly not press the inquiry, as nothing could possibly result from it, for the history of the death of one child was that of all three. It would be useless to hear the evidence again, for it would be exactly similar to that heard on Tuesday evening before the City Coroner. The Foreman begged leave to state that he perfectly agreed with the decided opinion expressed by the first jury, that the boats at present used by the Thames watermen were unsafe. The CORONER said he had no doubt of that, but he did not see how the evil could be remedied ; the boats of the wetermen generally were improving, but great numbers of them still used were very defective boats, and many of them wanted repair. Mr. Seaward then inquired of the Coroner whether they would be safe in burying the body. Mr. BAKER said he had no doubt the City Coroner would at once grant certificates for the interment of both children. he should discharge the jury impannelled in this case without hearing any evidence. The gentleman who so courageously jumped into the river on Saturday last when the accident hap• pened, and succeeded in spying the nurse and an infant from a watery grave, is named Heathcote. He has not at all come forward in the matter, and is indeed reluctant that his humane and intrep.d act should be spoken of. HORSEWHIPPING A TOLL COLLECTOR On W( dnesday Captain Philip Clark, of the 9th Roya Lancers, stationed at Hounslow Barracks, appeared be. fore Mr. Pilkington the Magistrate, on a summons charg ing lt:m with having horsewhipped Benjamin Howell one of the collectors at Hammersmith turnpike. Howe] deposed, that on the night of Sunday, the 2d instant about four minutes after the clock had struck twelve at which hour it is usual to shut the gate, the defendant came up with a " four-in-hand," which he was driving rod pulled up on the Kensington side of the gate. Corn plainaut went up to him, and asked him for the toll. De, lendant said he had paid it at the Kenssngton gate Complainant asked him to show the ticket, or to state the number, but he could not. He, how. er, ultimately showed a ticket, but that was several days' old. While witness was examining that ticket bi tic lamp of defendant's carriage, and telling him that it was not the proper ticket, defendant said, youi eyes, open the gate." Complainant said he would no: until he had the ticket or the toll, when defendant instanth raised his whip, and with the thong, which was doubled. struck him violently on the head, which cut him under the eye, at the same time repeating " _ your eyes, open the gate." Complainant then looked for a policeman, ta l could not find one at the moment. One, however, ulti mately came up, and saw where defendant Lad cut biro The defendant then, after much contention, wrote his name and address on the back of one of the tickets, paid the toll, and was let through. Captain Clark, in an'wer to the charge, said his servant had paid the toll at the Kensington-gate, it having struck 12 before tie passed through. The comphunant stopped him, and was very insolent, on which he struck him. Complainant was full a quarter of an hour before be would take the toll or let the carriage through. He bad no witness to prove that the toll had been paid at Kensington.—The defendant was fined 51. A LADY AND HER DAUGHTER DROWNED, —A dreadful accident took place at St. Malo lately, A lady, the directrice of the Monsburge post, was walking on the quay, acco mpan;ed by her two children, a boy, aged nine years, arid a girl aged about eleven, when, en fortunately, approaching too near the ed g e of the quay, the little girl fell into the water, drawing with her the dis tracted mother, who, holding her son, dragged him also into the water. Seve ral p ersons seeing the accident dashed at once into the s ea to save the lady and her chil dren, but unfortunately they succeeded in saving only the boy ; the lady and her daughter were brought on shore corpvs.—Jersey Paper, Aug. 7. We are happy to announce that our excellent and popular townsman, Wm. Brown, Esq., of the firm of Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and Co , will contest the Ever. ton ward in the Reform interest this year. The high character of Mr. Brown, and his popularity , cannot fail to lace Lis return beyond doubts.LiverpOol Chronicle. THE NON-INTRUSION QUESTION• The proceedings d the 'Commission of the General Assembly, which holds its first meeting to-day, cannot fail to have an important bearing on the interests of the Church of Scotland. To the Commission was referred, by the Assembly, the case of the Strathbogie ministers, with instructions to depose them from their offices unless they re traced their steps, humbled themselves before the representatives of an offended Kirk, and promised implicit obedience to their ecclesiastical superiors for the future. None of these things have the seven brethren of Strathbogie done, and none of them will they do. The Commission will, therefore, as a matter of course, proceed to the ultima ratio, the deprivation of their benefices, and the extinction of their clerical character. Then comes the question, has the Commission power to depose men from the office of the minis try ? The ablest opponents of Ecclesiastical Law assert that it neither has, nor can hare, any such power. What is this boasted Commission about which the public hear so much ? Is it a Church Court known to, and recognised by, the law of the land ? Nothing of the kind. The only Courts in which the business of the Church can be so transacted as to possess legal validity, are the Kirk Session, the Presbytery, the Synod, and, last of all, the General Assembly. No sentence, we apprehend, that does not proceed from one or other of these regularly constituted and acknow ledged Courts, is worth the paper on which it is recorded. This boasted Commission does not seem to pos sess even the authority of a Committee of the Assembly. It is not appointed by the Assembly, it consists of no definite number of persons, it may comprehend persons who were not members of the last Assembly. In short, it seen's altogether an anomalous body, originating, probably, in that tendency towards usurpation which is an inherent principle in all ecclesiastical corprations, and in tended to answer the purpose of a permanently sitting General Assembly. Dr. HILL, in his " Constitution of the Kirk," states that it may be constituted and proceed to business whenever and wherever thirty ; three members of the last Assem bly—twenty-one of whom are ministers—shall chance to find themselves congregated together I Dr. BRYCE, a high authority in the Church of Scotland, holds that the Commission is at best no more than a Committee of the Assembly, and that the latter body, being itself delegated, could not delegate its authority. . ployed by my learned friend, Mr. Monteith, to prove the getvlei'nen at the bar to be eonturhaeiOu, and justly subject to the censures of the Church. It is founded on the discipline of the Church, and it goes to establish th'st the Church Courts must have the sole power and authority, in saying who are to be the dispensers of the ordinances of religion, as she possesses that of deter mining who are to be their receivers; and hence, as my respected friends of Strathbogie have admitted the Civil Courts into the former protess, they trust be held in violation of the law and practice of the Church. Sir, I am aware that what I am going to say, in answer to this argument, wilt startle some of the gentlemen on the other side, whose views on the matter of the Church's power in discipline have been Lid before the public ; and I must crave a patient hearing. I think, Sir, that there prevail very great mistakes as to the ex• tent of the Church's powers in the matter of discipline. I am ready to maintain, and also to prove, that every man in a parish, professing himself to be a member of the Church of Scotland, has a right to be taken on trial by his Minister and Session, to see whether lie is qualified or not to be admitted to sealing ordinances.— ( Hear, hear.) And this right I further maintain is a civil right.—(Cries of " Oh, oh !" from the left side.) I am not to be deterred by these cries from doing my duty in this place ; and I repeat, that the right of being taken on trials as to qualifications for sealing ordinances, is a civil right ; and I assert that if any minister of this Church should refuse to take on trials or to examine an applicant, who is not under public censure or Church process, this minister would subject himself to an ac tion of damages before a Civil Court, for refusing a civil right.—(Renewed cries of" Oh, oh !") I hope no man mistakes me in what I now say. Let the minister in the discharge of his duty say, •. You are not quali fied," and the Civil Court is utterly and entirely shut out. It has no right to interfere in the question of qualification to partake ; but it has right to enforce the obligation of the minister to discharge the duty of try ing and examining. For what purpose, I would ask, were an Establishment supported and endowed, if it were optional with the clergy to do or not to do the du , ties for which they are paid by the State ? Gentlemen on the other side may call this an invasion of the spiri tual independence of the Church ; but I can see no difficulty in distinguishing where this independence com mences, and is, and has been hitherto, respected and guarded by the civil law. It rests with the minister and session of every perish—subject to appeal to the Pres bytery and other Church Courts—to pronounce on the qualifications of applicants for admission to sealing ordi nances ; and from their judgments the Civil Courts are shut out ! These judgments ate final under the statu torythe lawol4f.er of la nd, t/iehu .. affirming what I hold to be an in trinsic This doctrine is then applied to the ease of the Strathbogie ministers in the following terms : There is now lying before us a small pamphlet entitled " The Non-Intrusion Question," consist ing of three speeches delivered by Dr. BRYCE in the last Assembly, from which we shall make a few extracts for the satisfaction of those of our readers who may be desirous of knowing the opinions of a man of eminent talents, and thoroughly versed in the constitution of the Church to which he belongs, on this interesting subject. On the points to which we have keen adverting—the power and proceed ings of the Commission—Dr. BRYCE makes the following just and conclusive remarks : But, Sir, I am prepared to contend, that taking the remit as it appears from the last Assembly to its Com mission, my reverend friends at the bar have imple mented the orders of the General Assembly. They were directed to report any change of circumstances that might occur to the Commission. A change did occur on their receiving the decree of the Court of . Session to take Mr. Edwards on trial, in the month of And how, Sir, does this view of the dis cipline argument bear upon the case before us? It is easy to see this, by applying it to the case of those who are to administer ordinances when they come before the Church Courts. Tney bring with them, limier certain specific conditions, a civil right to be taken on trials ; and no Church Court can with safety refuse them this right ; no Church Court can withhold it from them, without violating the la v, and violating their own oaths of allegiance. This is the view of their duty taken by the gentlemen at the bar ; and I am sure they are willing to illustrate and defend it by the case of admitting the participator, as well as the dispenser of holy ordinances, when that case is rightly understood, and fairly applied. Ir had been happy for the Kirk had the Assem bly been actuated by the spirit, the truly Christian spirit, which breathes in the concluding portion of this eloquent speech ; still happier had they adopted the excellent advice which it contains : Before I sit down, I would most earnestly entreat the Assembly to consider the position in which the Church is now placed as regards her relation to the State and its tribunals ; I would beseech the House to look forward to the consequences of maintaining the unhappy contest that now exists between the Civil and Ecclesiastical Judicatories. I know well that the dif ference of opinion on the great question of the Church's spiritual independence which exists within these walls is both wide and conscientiously entertained. The language that has been employed on the other side, both in vindication of the position assumed by it, and in reprobation of the doctrines held upon this, leaves no room to doubt upon this point. But, great as this dif ference unhappily is, can the gentlemen opposite refuse to allow that doubts, at least, surround the position in which we are? Can you hesitate to extend to us the same conscientious regard to what we hold to be the duty of the Church which you claim for yourselves ? —and have you no misgivings that in this contest you may have taken up the side of error and misapprehen sion? I feel assured that such doub:s and misgivings you must entertain ; and 1 ask of you this day to int olate them on the altar of Christian charity. Even under a tear and feeling that the brethren of the bar may be guilty, give them the benefit of these doubts. Surely the sacrifice will not be retused by him who •• quenched not the smoking flax, nor broke the bruised reed." Manifest that charity towards our brethren at the bar, which " thinketh no evil," which •' auffereth i long, and is kind." June, and they reported accordingly ; intimating at the same time their resolution to proceed in obeying the C:vil Courts. It was for this resolution that they were suspended I The Commission, when they came before it on the 11th December, did not tell them they were right on reporting the change, but wrong in resolving to proceed. They did not warn them against taking any further steps under certification that they should be punished I And on what ground do the gentlemen opposite now justify this severity ? They say that the seven ministers, when asked at the bar of the Commis sion, had declared that they did not mean to desist from obeying the Civil Courts ; and therefore the severe measure, which indeed was pronounced most lenient, was resorted to• But how stands the fact ? Toe seven ministers' were not present personally at the Commis sicn ; and when their Counsel was asked if they would desist, be said lie had no instructions. Was it fair, Sir, to infer from this that the brethren would proceed to the induction of Mr. Edwards, if not deprived of the power, as it was held they might be? They have not even yet proceeded to that step. In deference to the Civil Courts, they have taken Mr. Edwards on trial ; out of respect for this Assembly, they have not pro ceeded to induct him until your deliverance should be given. Yet these are the men whom your Commission ims suspended from their pastoral and judicial function ! Let me add my earnest solicitations to those of my reverend friend near me, Dr. COO 4, that the Assembly would take heed how it find ministers of the Church to be censurable, who have acted in such a manner—how it affirmed a sentence suspending thtm from their pasto ral and judicial functions for no other crime (!) than obedience to the law as that law had been declared by its highest judicatory. Let gentlemen opposite concur in such a sentence, and then let them go home, and from their pulpits inculcate upon the people to "submit themselves to the powers that be because they are or dained of God !" and let them expect, if they can, the response of a Christian flock to this command. lam aware that I sin speaking more to the merits of the general question, than to the powers of the Commission to pass the sentence of suspension—the point more im mediately before the House. But I am remembering —I cannot forget—how severely my reverend friends at the bar have been punished ;—and for what? For obedience to the law of the land ! This is their offence —no more. Nor have they been alone the sufferers. Their parishioners have also been punished—(Laugh ter, and cries of " Oh, oh !")—Sir, I repeat it—the parishioners of the seven brethren have been punished — aye, deeply punished by the sentence which has over taken their ministers.—(Hear, hear.) Is it no punish• tnent to have had a doubt—a harassing and distressing doubt—thrown around the pastoral services of men, to whom these parishioners are warmly and affectionately attached ?—(Oh, oh.) Do the gentlemen opposite mean to deny that such is the place which my reverend triends at the bar hold in the esteem of their parishoners If they venture on such an assertion, it will be crushed under the facts that establish all that I have said, and „Odell sustain the ground I era now taking, that the Commission of December not only proceeded ultra vires, but in its eagerness to reach the supposed cul prits, it fl'eted its pains and penalties on their trooffend ng parishioners. On the subject of co-ordinate jurisdiction between the civil and ecclesiastical powers—that stumbling block to the fanatical party in the Kirk—the Rev. Gentleman thus expresses himself : . My learned friend has dwelt not a little on the 4round of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts htitiaa in the matter of settlement a co - ordina te knisdiction. Now,' Sir, how does this affect the gentlemen at the bit - ? A jurisdiction on the part of the Civil Courts is admitted, and has been exercised and obeyed :—a jurisdiction on Ihe part of the Ecclesiastical has been claimed, and has Lint been obeyed—obedience to the decrees of both being impossible. And what now awaits my friends at the bar? The highest ecclesiastical censures of the Church ? Had they imitated the example of the Presby- Try of Auchterarder, what was the danger, on the other nand, to which they exposed themselves ? The pains and penalties of the civil law ! But how does my !earned friend, Mr. Monteith, make out his co-ordinate iurisdiction ? If it exists at all, I apprehend it must be the creature of the statute ; and who is to interpret the 4atute but the tribunals of the legislature ? I have inown, in a former debate, that the point of co-ordinate jurisdiction is a res judicata. It was carried by the Church herself to the only competent tribunal ; and that tribunal has decided that no such co-ordinate jurisdiction as is claimed by,the Church is known to the law. Now, Sir, what is the bearing of this decision on the position of the Rev. Gentlemen at your bar ? Does it not prove beyond a doubt, that while acknowledging, like good and loyal subjects, the jurisdiction of the Civil Courts, they are, as sons of the Churca,guilty of no disrespect to any jurisdiction legally vested in the Ecclesiastical ? And yet, Sir, what is proposed this day to do with these gen tlemen? To punish them most severely—to punish their parishes and their flocks—because they will not recog nise and submit to a jurisdiction which the House of Lords, on your own appeal to it, has declined that von do not possess ! We can readily believe that the following defence of the privileges of the people, in opposition to the claims of the clergy, notvuthstanding the clamour made by the latter about the rights of their darling people"—cannot be very palatable to the pro moters of the Non-Intrusion humbug I would now, sir; advert to =other arguraeat JOHN THOROGOOD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—It is with much pleasure I have read your first remarks on the inconsistent conduct of the Bishop of London ; I hope you wiil again call the attention of your readers to this subject, and also favour us by giving a list of the names of those worthies of Chelmsford who evinced their Church-A-Eaglandlike feelings by send ing a petition to the Huuse of Lords against the libera tion of the persecuted but highly to be respected Mr. John Thorogood, and at the same time give us the names of the dunderhead s in the Lords that spoke and voted against his being liberated from the truly unjust and u n-Christianlike imprisonment he is suffering. I doubt not but Mr. Thorogood will remain firm to his principles, and I do trust the nation will now demand his being set free.—l remain, Sir, your's respectfully, A CONSTANT READER. Wednesday, Aug. 12. 11-1141 SUN, LONiioN. TITNISDAVt AticitTsT 13, 1846.. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIK,-It may be presumed the Duke of Welling, ton did not without many misgivings deal to the Church that heavy blow inflicted by his recent declaration, that it was idle to ask for Parliamentary grants while she had so many unimproved resources. His Grace needed an early and a worthy occasion of testifying that he had not forsaken the championship o f the Church, and with the occasion be has found a fitting opponent. The shoemaker of Chelmsford had to 'bide the onslaught by which the Duke was to prove his faithfulness to the cause of intolerance. Tile unequivocal feeling o f the House of Comm ons , and of all parties in the House , an d especially the dis tinct analysis of that feeling by Sir It. Peel, had ren• dered it impossible for the Chelmsford Churchwardens any longer to hold the Church -rate recusant, an d this was the very mo ment chosen by t h e Duke for t he Ect off, to signalize his zeal b y taking up grou n d l ong abandoned by his whole pa rt y , and givenup as wh o ll y indefensible by the " ju di c ious and candid" Peel. The Duke knows very little of the motives which have actuated the prisoner of Chelmsford gaol, and as hmallette cannot letter, w d h e i n e y h shows myself how little of that moral courage w hich will supp ort the man, if the Church will it , and his bodily power suffice for other nineteen months, in the endurance of wrong; for conscience sake. I have e regards just receivedtliematter, from ! and the pleasure of furnishing an extract for your read ers . " I am in Chelmsford gaol still , but in the b es t of spirits, and here let m e die rather t h a n submit to the % arrogant authority of Mammon -loving priests, or their Inquisition. I hope you will exhort all the friends of religious liberty not to pay one farthing-, if that would obtain my release. I am persuaded it would be the greatest evil that could be done against the truth, for 1 believe the Alm i gh t y ha s some g reat etd to am mu. 'Ash, and that he will do it if his people are faithful. Sir, your obedient servant, Aug. 12. JOHN CHILDS. Bun To wElt HAMLETS. A. meeting was House, Osborn- at the Cou.t street, on Tuesday morning last, the 11th Au g ust, with a view of adopting inenS of the ev ent of t securiog the election of Joseph Hume, Esq., m a .p., in he retirement of Dr. Lushington, the present Member, G. Offor, Esq , in the chair. The following resolutions were p asse d : " Ist. Resolved, that a deputation wait on Dr. Lush ' iiogton to ascertain his inttntions relativo t o hi s confirm in t., i to represent the 'fewer Hamlets." "2 , 1. Resolved, that certain gentlemen constitute the deputation,• nd that Mr. Offer do write to Dr. L -1 4 when hewill • ll,l ington, to ascertain receive them ; and that Mr. Smith, the Honorary Secretary, give notice of the time appointed." The letter was forwarded to Mr. Limey, and the fol 1 lowing is the reply of Dr. Lusbington addressed to G j Offor, Esq. : " Watford, August 11, 1840. never think of "My dear Sir—Mr.. Ivitney has i n f orme d me o f t h e ma tt e r to which yo ur letter refers : I have told him that I have l especially thationo f re I ssliiganllin gmy seat in doing so without g iving the electors am p le notice—l now repeat this to 3o u in writing, " I am a bout to set o ff for th e north to-morrow morn ing ; I would s to p to receive the de p utation did I con ceive they would, after this declaration, desire it—hut believing t h e y would not wish it, I shall not postpone my journey. " I shall be back in a few weeks, but in the mean time if you have occasion to write, direct to me at Great Gcovvc-street, an d it will follow me. o “ I am, always, dear Sir, yours, ".‘ B. LUBHINGTON."_ POLL FOR. cHURCII-RATE AT ROCHDALE. We beg to direct the attention ot otir readers to the de tails, even in another column, of the extraoril;:i:::.y pro.: ceedings at Rochdale, during the poll for a Clitirch rate, which terminated on Saturday last. It will be seen, that the rate has been apparently carried, partly by the most barefaced bribery and fraud, and pertly by a manceavre on the part • bf the Reterend Chairman, which we shall not trust ourseltes to characterise by the terms which alone seem apPlibahle to it. Our readers *ill see, that, at five o'clock on Saturday, being the time previously flied for ' concluding the poll, the Vicar, probably finding that there was then a majority against the rate, suddenly announced that he should prolong the poll for anot her hour, just as he did on the previous. Wednesday evening, when he found that a large majority of the voters present were in favour of the rate. The following is the report alluded to : Saturday was the last day of the poll ; and the interest and excitement surpassed anything that ever took place at either a borough or a county election. Both parties began to bring up their voters in cars, gigs, chaise', coaches, omnibuses, waggons, and carts. The Tories had their open houses, as at a borough election, and votes were on sale to the highest bidder. Bargains were regularly going on, both in the street and the National School, without the least attempt at concealment ; and many who bad bad their rates paid by the Tories, amounting to 20s. or 305., voted for the anti-rate party for the trifling sum of 2s. or 3s. It is a fact that many, by asking too much for a vote, lost the opportunity of realis.ing anything for it. By three or four o'clock in the afternoon the numbers as sembled in front of the National School were immense, and continued to increase till the close of the poll. What gave the greatest irritation to the crowd was the par tiality shown in admitting voters and other persons into the National School by a door at the end of the building. According to an arrangement come to by the Vicar, none were to go in 'at this entrance but females, old in• firm men, and those who had a ticket signed by the Vicar. Each party were to have had 20 of these privileged tickets. And the chief of the rows, during the afternoon, arose from the Tory party being admitted without ticket, while the anti-rate men were debarred from that privilege. This entrance was guarded by about a dozen of the county constabulary and two of the town beadles. Whenever a person was attempting to go in without this ticket, be was seized by the crowd on one side and the police on the other; sometimes both contending parties were pushed by the surrounding mass of living beings to the distance of thirty or forty yards from the door; at other times the man was dragged into the door, while the tails of his coat remained behind in the hands of the people. Mr. Woods (clerk to Mr. Clement Royds) had his coat torn up to the collar by a struggle of this kind. One carriage bringing some " blues" to poll at this door was seized by the crowd, who took hold of the wheels and carried it away with the voters it contained. Upon one or two occasions several heavy blows passed between the police and the people. This was occasioned by two or three of the former losing their temper, and striking with their fists, or seizing their assail ants by the throat. But the people were in g-.od humour, and no other injury was received or given than a few broken heads. At the close of the poll, at five o'clock, according to the statement of the anti-rate persons, the numbers were —for the rate, 6,457; against it, 6,464; making a majority against the rate of seven. At five o'clock Mr. Clement Royds brought all the soldiers in the barracks, with bayonets fixed, into the midst of the crowd before the National School. They had or ders to charge their muskets ; and, it is said, the Riot Act was read by this gentleman. However, the military did not stop long. Mr. Chadwick, the Magistrate, was speedily sent for ; and, the moment he came, he ordered the military off the ground, amidst the cheers of the mul titude. It is said some sharp words passed between Mr. Royds and Mr. Chadwick ; and the latter gentleman said he could preserve the peace of the town without the tary. The soldiers had been under arms all the week ; but they had not received any instructions from the liberal Magistrates, neither were the county constabulary brought by their order. All was peaceable during the evening, and the crowd left the National School at nearly eight o'clock. Mr. Royds and the police conducted the Vicar through the streets home; and they were repeatedly hissed and hooted at by the crowd as they went along. The Anti-Church-rate party have, since the close of the poll, made a cat eful examination of the books; from which they find, that the actual majority against the rate, at the legal close of the poll, at five o'clock on Saturday after noon, was not 7 but 15. The numbers as so ascertained, and which there is every reason to believe will prove cor rect, are-- Against the rate For the rate 6,436 Majority against the rate l5 The numbers po ll e d after five o'chick are clearly illegal, and we may state that the numkers polled from five to six o'clock were—For the rate, 126; Against it, 68; being a majority of 58 for the rate in that hour—a circumstance which seems to indicate that some parties were previously aware of the Vicar's intention to keep the poll open for that hour extra. The numbers thus gained would make an apparent majority in favour of the rate—but of course a fictitious one—of 43 votes. . _ Thus has ended, for the present, one of the most extra ordinary contests for Church rate probably ever heard of. The second, within a few weeks, in the same parish, the former attempt having been signally defeated—it has far transcended the former struggle in the reckless efforts and unprincipled means resorted to by the Tories to gain a victory (if it really be one), it is supposed, must have • cost them several thousand pounds. As it is, they will have pa d very large amounts in rates, for those who were willing to vote for them on such terms, without deriving' any advantage, not even the paltry satisfaction of gaining a party triumph, at the cost of so much money, the sacrifice of so much time, and the engendering of so much party feeling ' throughout all the townships in the parish. Treating, briberj, intimidation, manufacturing of votes, and drun kenness, were the great and very tit agents employed by the party who clAinn for themselves the exclusive regard for the welfare of the Church Establ•shment. We lit ed not ad duce any facts to prove what is so notorious throughout the parish of Rochdale; but one or two circumstances may be mentioned in corroboration of the general practice. As to the manufacture of votes, we have been assured that, for one hovel of sods, in which wheelbarrows arc kept on the line of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, I twenty-two labourers were constituted rate-payers, and placed on the books ; and all of these men, it is need less to add, voted for the rate. It, is stated that up wards of a hundred such votes were created for sod huts, &c., for the benefit of the Church-rate party. Another circurnslance worthy of observation is, that the Vicar—who, as chairman, was of course appealed to, in any disputed matter—rarely decided any such question, till he had ascertained which way the party tendering his vote was desirous to vote. We may be excused for remind ing our readers, that the poll was illegally prolonged on Wednesday evening, as well as on Saturday evening, from five to six o'clock ; and, though it cannot be precisely ascertained, there is strong reason to believe that, by this stolen march of one hour, the Church-rate party gained about 150 votes—the opponents of the rate not coming up after five o'clock, as they supposed that the poll had closed for the day at that hour. The feeling in seine of the townships was almost entirely against the rate. In Todmorden 1,340 voted against it, and only 144 for the rate ; and this small number includes some of the railway labourers, already noticed. Of those opposed to the rate, 720 came ten miles in carts and wag gons, during the first day, to give their votes against it. MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR BOLTON. On Sunday morning last, about nine o'clock, an acci dent of a most melancholy nature occurred at Darcey Lever, near Bolton; by which two women lost their lives, and three others, together with two children, were very seriously injured. It appears that a party of six females, three young men, and three children, arrived at the Farm ers' Arms, in Darcey Lever, about nine o'clock in the morning, from Horwich, on their way to Lever Banks, in Little Lever. They were in a one-horse common cart, and were intending to go to see some relations and friends. They got out of the cart whilst the horse kad some meal and water and hay given to it ; and in the course of a few minutes five out of the six women had got into the cart again, and the sixth was on the chair, ready to get in when the , accident occurred. The young man that was feeding the horse bad, foolishly enough, taken off the horse's bridle, in order that the animal might get its head into the can to drink ; and as the re maining woman was attempting to step into the cart, she made two or three failures, and this caused the other women to laugh. The noise attracted the attention of the horse, who lifted his head from the can, and, in conse quence of being without bridle, was able to distinguish the parties in the cart. As might naturally be expected, he became alarmed, and bolted off at full gallop across the road ; but, on arriving at the point of the brow, the animal discovered there was no road, and therefore turned quickly round to gallop towards Bolton ; bin, the inclination of the road, and the speedy turn of the horse, upset the cart, and all were thrown over. Two persons were found under the cart, and two or three had been thrown over some flags into a cellar area. One poor woman, Jane Makinsoo, aged thirty-four years, was thrown against the flags with great violence, and her skull was so frac tured, that when picked up she was dead ; she was Lot even observed to breathe. She was the wife of Noah Ma kinson, of Horwich, an engine tenter, and organist at Hor wich Church. She has left six children to regret her loss. She bad an infant child of eight months old in her arms when the horse started off; and, perceiving danger, she threw the child from the cart, and it was caught by a woman who stood near, and escaped without injury. Mary Ann Sharples, aged 33, the wife of John Sharpies, a crofter at Horwich, was taken up in a dreadful state, and conveyed to a neighbouring house. Mr. Hampson, surgeon, of Bol ton, was immediately on the spot, end rendered every possible assistance ; but she died on Monday morning about two o'clock, having breathed with great diffi culty from the time of the accident, and bad never spoken. She has left three children, one of whom, an infant of eight months old that she had in her arms, was thrown with her to the ground. One of its eyes was knocked in, and its skull injured ; but it is probable that it may recover, although lying in a dange rous state. The other persons injured were Mrs. Terrier, a widow with a large family; one of whose shoulders was dislocated, and she was otherwise injured. The other persons were Ellen Roper, a single woman, and Mrs. Caldwell.b The dtwon latter were injured about the head a nd body, e t not inu a c _ gerously so. The other, a little g ill, was not so h hurt as the rest. The circumstance created the greatest consternation in the neighbourhood, as it is the . second\ac cident of the sort that has happened there of of such enor r. Hulme, the publican, of Radcliffe, who was - mous weight, having been killed at the bottom of the bill. —Manchester Guardian. A fleet of Dutch men-of-war, consisting of two frigates, two brigs, and a corvott.e, passed d - own the channel on Wednesday week. One of the frigates had art Admiral's fig ;,t her mizen.head. Desttuation uuknow o—Dover Chronicle. THE A RuHIMEDEi, PAT,ENT SCRE N PROPELLER SHIP. lln The Sun of Tuesday an account ap peared of this vessel having made the voyage from Plymouth to Oporto in 70 hours ; and yesterda3 morning intelligence was received of her return from Oporto to Plymouth in 88 hours—total out and bottle 167 hours, the most part of which was per formed against strong head winds and a heavy sea. This is unquestionably the most successful voyage ever made by a steam-vessel, the effizient working power of which hots been ascertained not to exceed 65 horses, and we imagine there can no longer be any question as to the superiority of Patent Screw Propellers as compared with paddle-wheels. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM Tilt MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. (From the Morning Chronicle.) It ill becomes Lord Hadenngtofi, the weakest and most anilc representative of majesty that ever held the sword in Ireland, to rebuke the present Lord Lieute nant as an encourager of agitation. Surely his cheek must have forgotten to blush, since it was fanned by the Orange flag waved in triumph over him by an officer of the Dublin Corporation, arid his memory most hate acquired a happy unconsciousness of the caresses tic still lavished upon that body, whose chosen " ruffian" (we quote a classical authority) had been thus put for ward to flout and insult the people of Ireland, or he never would have stepped out of the shade where his merits now repose, to taunt any man for having given countenance to political agitation. We are at the same time ready to admit, that if Lord Ebrington's conduct had no better vindication than such as might be imparted by the sanction of Lord Haddington's example, hr might be very culpable. But he stands on much higher ground, and needs not to appeal to so dubious a prece dent for his defence. It is altogether untrue that he countenances the "patrons of agitation in Ireland." Ni word or action of his or of any person connected with his government, will admit of such a construction. That some degree of political irritation prevails it Ireland, and that Mr. O'Connell is endeavour ing to make it available as a means of spreading his monomania about Repeal, is certain. Nor is it doubt ful who have been the real exciters of the state of popu lar feeling which may be favourable to such a purpose. Look at the hostile bearing of the Tory party towards Ireland ; consider the calumnies they pour out, inccs santly and through a hundred different mouths, against the character of the people and all that is dearest and most sacred to their judgment and affections. The wilful blindness to their virtues ; the fiendish an exulting exaggeration of their faults ; the rancorous abuse o their religion ; the mean attempt, reiterated session after session, to rob their spiritual teachers of the miserable pittance allowed for their education ; the atrocious conspiracy to swindle the whole people out o• their due and rightful power of sending representative: to the Imperial Parliament : these are provocations enough to unsettle men's minds, and drive them to will speculations for redress. (From the Times.) The memorials just published of the most important of which an analysis was furnished in our City article on Monday, addressed to her Majesty's Government by British merchants interested in the trade witl China, and presented to both Hou , es of Parliament by command of her Majesty, contain matter worthy of grave consideration. Sonic of them, particularly the Blaster memorial, and that to which special reference has already been made, proceeding, from the London, East India, and China Association, are written with temper and moderation, and with a just discrimination on mos. points between opposing principles and interests. But they are all essentially and necessarily ex parte, present. ing only the British side of the question as opposed to the Chinese, and even the former only in its mercantile aspect, certainly one of the most interesting aspects ir, which it can be regarded, without adequately noticing it either as a question of public morality or of interns. tional policy. We cannot consent to take this one sided view of the case. No sound principle is in real conflict with any other sound principle ; and, however difficult it may be to steer among the c ontending ele ments of public opinion, the whole case must b fully put before the people of England. On the commercial aspect of the question there can be but one opinion. British commerce, the property and persons of British merchants, must be protected by negotiation, if pos sible—by force, if necessary. On the other hand, ar , illegal trade forced upon a foreign people cannot be countenanced and supported by a Government that respects itself and desires to enjoy the respect of the world. Let not this distinction be forgotten or over. looked. (From the Morning Advertiser.) I Well, another Session is past away, and the Tories are still excluded from office I. How is this, Sir Robert Peel ? You opened the Session by declaring that the sixth week of it would see you in office—more than six months of it has passed, and you are farther from place than . ever! How is this to be accounted for ? Let 11) see. The Tories have not lost place for want of trying for it, that is certain ! Neither, we fear, have thei, efforts been frustrated by the resolute conduct of till Government, or the earnest support afforded them 1.) the Liberal representatives of the people. The Tories have tried every mode of attack, and have put in practice every species of man muvre. Their friends have uniformly mustered well ; while the Liberals, on the contrary, have been culpably negligent in the performance of their duty. Yet, with all these disadvantages, the Government have been victorious throughout the struggle, and by the ex cellence of their Parliamentary policy, have seated them selves more firmly in office than ever. Whenever the reins of Government shall drop from the Liberal hands that now grasp them in spite of every misadventure, the blame of that calamity will light, not alone on tht heads of the Tory faction, who will profit by it, but on the heads of many of the Reformers, who must deplore it. Whatever the defects of the existing Government may be, the present age Las witnessed no such approach to what all Reformers agree_ in recognizing as the true principles of liberal and enlightened policy—safe and progressive improvement. Ten years ago, no man living could have_hoped to witness such an Adminis tration. (From the Morning Post.) The Ministerialists cannot suppress their manifesto• Lions of joy that the Session is over, and that Leta' Melbourne and his colleagues are, still in place. Ic this circumstance alone they find, and exultingly cc knowledge, a sufficient, compensation for all the dis graces of the Session. This is what might naturalll have been expected of a party who have long made i evident that with them the sordid and ignoble love o place far outweighs every consideration of patriotism, duty, and honour. The party in place, but not in power, has been unable to carry through Parliament during the Session a single measure without submit ting to such alterations as their political opponent: thought fit to dictate. But what is it to them that Parliament has received their measures with contempt. indifference, or aversion ? Are they not still in place ': And at what higher object have they ever aimed ': In every Session of Parliament but the last zinc( Mr. O'Connell and the tail hoisted them into place thi present Ministers of the Crown have had a majority though a small one, in the House of Commons, upot which they could in some degree depend ; and in thi: circumstance they affected to discover an apology foi retaining place in defiance of the distrust and aversioi of an overwhelming majority of the Upper House o Parliament. But it is recently only, and in the utter desperation of their affairs, that the present Ministers of the Crown have avowed the determination to cling to place, independently of the confidence or respect of either House of Parliament. Progressive degradation, increasing contempt for the principles and spirit of the constitution of their country, an ap, , ctite for the emolu meats of office, gradually becoming more sordid, intense, and exclusive, have been displayed by Ministers with an ostentation as audacious as it is unprincipled, (From the Morning Herald.) The state of the crops throughout England is, at this moment, an object of the deepest interest. Ac counts differ widely as to the probable results of the harvest—some calculators anticipating superabundant c rops, others proclaiming that th lle fields, h o wever rich w they may appear to be, i yield us les; than an average supply. The corn j o bbers are, o course, busy. They talk loudl y about blight anti mildew ; and occupy themselves incessantly in arranging ficti tious sales of wheat, in order to raise the averages, and liberate all the bonded wheat without payment o f mo re than a shilling duty. In proof r industry be stated, that in the recent re itnurtnhsisfrroem9;lesitsrkit-ltlay e, fifteen thousand quarters of wh ea t we re " set down" a s havin g been sold at 80s. a quarter —the price secured by the farmer for his very best wheat being notoriously not higher than 725. The truth is, that amongst the manifold hardships to which the English corn - g rower is subjected, not the least vexa tious is the mode in which the averages are taken. The returns arc supplied by corn-jobbers, not by core• growers—are supplied by men who have a perpetna interest in exaggerating the apparent price of Britisl wheat, and who—by means of a system of fictitious sales—have it in their power, to a great extent, to exhibit, at critical periods, the results that best suit. their interests. The sonic parcel of wheat is, not unfrequently, sold a doz:n times in one day, without ever changing hands. The price of bread gets, conse quently, higher and higher—while the duty on foreign wheat lessens in the same proportion. The magical average of seventy-three shinings is at length attained. The speculator in foreign corn realizes imm ense sums —while the consumer o bread is cheated in the price of his loaf, and the English farmer is robbed of his honest profits. The returns of corn sold, and of the prices at which it is sold, ou ght, undoubtedly , to be suy plied by the farmers who grow the wheat , and not by jobbers, whose interests are, i n variably, oppose d to tlic interests both of the English consumer and of the Eng lish prviwer of 490 EVENING ED ITION. (From the CFSOM THS DAILY PAPERS OF YESTRhDAT.) th S e es G sio lo n be n . a ) turally suggests to The termlnation of F us, whose business it has been to discuss its measures and record its acts, another duty, no less imperative. The results of the Session, and the prospects of the Government and of the country, as indicated by the position of parties at its close, are no less interesting to the public than they are to the politician. On the lst of January last we wrote as follows, in an article in which were largely discussed the position and prospects of the Government and its opponents at that time : "The retrogression of the Tories from the false position they took up for the purpose of imposing on :he untbink ;lig part of the people, and the bold and undisguised avowal tf the principles which constitute their system, has placed between them and office a distance far greater than that which seemed to exist at the commencement of 1839. The intermediate space between two points may be in leased by the retrogression of the one as well as b) the advance of the other. The Tories have furnished proof of what we have invariably asserted, that Toryism is nu changed and unchangeable. We need n ot Insist upon the utter impossibility of a Government formed on Tory principles, even if permitted to assume office, being able to retain it. In the unmistakable exhibitions of unmiti gated Toryism we see an accession of strength to the ex sting Administration, steing it farms the only barrier be `ween the Tories and office." The well-feigned ridicule and indignant scorn with which our predictions and anticipations were receivtd by the Tory journals will be remembered by many, and nay 1e seen by ail who feel sufficient interest in the natter to induce them to refer to the files of those Jour ials. Whether the event has not justified the prcdic (ion is, happily, now no doubtful question ; it is seen in the distracted, disjointed condition of the Tory party is read in the reproaches and upbraidings of the or gans of that party, which vie with each other in heap ng contumelies on the Tory leaders, whom they were vont to hold up as infallible by their wisdom, unim 9eachable in their patriotism, and immaculate for their purity 1 (From the Courier.) the American Presidents be too diffuse in their sessional speeches, they do certainly communicate some nfortration to their temporary subjects. But who :an peruse the Speech of a Sovereign of France or England and say that he has learned anything which he has not previously known ? We iztave )ur neighbours to the care of their own mock lisplays of wisdom, and confine oursehes to the ridi ulous Whig compositions which are annually deli vered from the throne, and which, notoriously the com position of some self-conceited politician or dabbler in iteraturr, disgrace the country if they are to be consi lered in any other respect than matters of courtly 'arm. The Royal Speeches under the present ad ninistrations reflect no credit—no great c-edit Jpon the authors, unless, as we have intimated at opinion, they may have intended to conc,al what they formally profess to explain or dc :lore. Inasmuch as nothing of public value re sults from these things—to give them the best name they leserve—and inasmuch as both French and English appreciate them, why should such tom-foolery oe practised ? The Herald, whose natural and ac quired talents are well worthy of better objects, has Jan at the pains to dissect the last piece of trash of , he class that we notice. If Ministers cannot write 'getter things than for a great number of years we tave received from the Throne, let Parliaments meet and dissolve without the trumpery. There might be some occasion for official speeches when the iron•clad warrior, whose whole attention was directed to the ,mithy and the stable, was a legislator ; but sow that ,he common people are competent to judge for them ielves they need no instructions from Lords Russell, Melbourne, and Normanhy. (From the Standard.) We have bead of a plan calculated to promote cx ledition in the art of printing, by which it is proposed o cast whole sentences in single types ; so that, on .his principle, all the hackneyed portions of a minis ei ial address in Parliament may come before the public, f necessary, at a few minutes' notice. There is certainly no class of composition whatever, which would ifford a more favourable opportunity for testing the prac icability of such a device than a Royal Speech ; or cer tainly that would occasion, under such circumstances, so little trouble to the printer, as the parliamentary pro logues and epilogues which are usually put into her Majesty's mouth by her present Ministers. A " c ase " with some four or five partitions would suffice to hold materials for a dozen such speeches ; their " common places" differing only in the order of their arrangetwlnt as occasion might require. Be the condition of the country what it may, whether we have rebellion at home, the immediate prospect of war with the nearest and most powerful of our neighbours, or are over whelmed with pacific assurances from all parts of the world—a superabundant revenue or an impe rative demand for new taxes—a closely-balanced House of Commons, which leaves Ministers in a bare minority on several of the most vital questions of the Session, and affords their opponents a moral triumph upon all ; or a large majority in their favour, whenever they condescend to require it—whether our foreign Ito. licy is the admiration or contempt of Europe—what ever be the circumstances under which Whig proroga tion speeches are concocted, they differ in no material respect from each other. The same stolid indifference to danger from without or reproaches from nithin, in %ariably characterises them the amount and warmth ~f the congratulatory period; with which they abound being carefully proportioned to the number of diflicui ties by which the country may happen to be surrounded at the moment. THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL. It may be interesting to devote a few words to the de scription of the young Queen of this country as she now appears ; and curiosity must be wore active regarding her as she was for some time in England. By her first husband, the Prince of Leucbtenburg, the Queen had no children ; by the second, Prince Ferdinand of Coburg, she has two Princes born, and this gives the husband the right of being styled King of Portugal. H e is extremely youthful, being not more than 21, the Queen is 20. This Coburg Prince is stated to be a 'Well meaning young man, without vices, and disposed to meddle very little in public affairs of any kind. He is much influenced by a clever German, a M. Daily, who came to Portugal. with him p and another important personage of his suite is a Monsieur St. Leger, a French man, who married a Poituguese. 1: is quite natural that. this young and inexperienced King and Queen should be in the hands of, and directed by, able and competent advisers ; and it is only to be lamented, from all one sees and hears, that mischievous foreign influence should surround their persons ; and that the revolutionary Septemhrists of the Ministry are framing ail their measures, not for a liberal, but a revo lutionary form of Government, instead of the absolutism by which Portugal was so long governed. " But to return to Donna Maria. The small, inter esting little person, who was so much caressed by George IV. and William IV., is now grown into a very large woman. I believe it is rare to sce a person of her age of such an extraordinary size. Her features are or a heavy cast ; her hair is light, and dressed in ringlets ? but without ornament, and is tied in a knot behind : she was dressed in black. She is reported to be of a harmless, inoffensive character ; and, when hanging on the arm of the King, who is a slender youth, the ccn trast is singular. The misery to which the Royal household is re duced can best be appreciated by stating the fact, that the Government find it more convenient to take charge of and keep the Royal establishment than to pay a stated sum for the purpose to their Sovereigns. The salaries of all are greatly in arrear ; and the Royal personages arc in such distress for money, that they are obliged to procure it, on their own promissory notes, from Jews and private persons, at an immense discount. The Palace expenses arc at; tinged and regulated under a Board of Direction. The Queen and King dine b il r t e n a o k s f t as a t l s w a a n } d a d t c o i g c e u t i l l i c e i r s , a ti l i t o t j u i g i l l i irc t i h ie e former ttelosre takes her i ;arate. There are no tables for others—no bangers•on,no Coast people kept. What remains from the Royal board is homes& ately given to the poor. The servants and all the attendants are on board wages. Few receptions are given at the Palace, and even when there is an audience of the Queen she hardly opens her lips or has commu nication with say one. The priests have considerably nfluence with ber Majesty. But, no longer to diverge from the Church of San Vincente ; high mass being ended, the Court in pro cession, headed by the Royal pair, went into the re ceptacle of kings and queens, a great vault, in which all the sovereigns of Portugal are interred, in - order to pay their homage to the coffin and corpse of Don Pedro, on whose bier were placed two superb crowns, those of Portugal and the Brazils. The last might now have been dispensed with. When all had paid their duties the church ceremony ended ;tae cortege returned to the Palace of the Necessidales, and the meeting dispersed. " The great convent of the Necessidades has been recently fitted up, and added as accommodation to thi Pas modern residence of th e Kings of Portustil. The lace of Ajudas is now only used upon state occasions.".-. New Monthly. -------- Monday las s t e , n a.,nw was tlfortu travellingtt at e in accident .. he sp ye e e ml e U eeth r r at e ihs l ee to Mrs Crush Augur, of Burnham, who, in company with drawnb 0 I. with r t : n hswhi belonging e e sl a t oe i " n g i nr pons, . when ft oor i n J airing ; . near T a t R h a a ti 'Tatham, the c o r opt pony g n la ; began kicking, Esq., which were out which so alarmed Mrs. Augur, that She jumped out, and in her fall broke /ter arm above the elbdw. We are happy to learn she received no other injury, and is doing - well—. Essex Herald. It is a disgrace to a free country, that men, whose only fault has been their speakit g the truth t3o freely, should be put on a level with felors and crimitillt \ of the worst cast, and punished with a severity which hta hitherto been reserved for the authors of continued aV. • aggravated criato.-2hejlie/d 'ay