The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-04 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

• (LLOYD'S.)
DEAL, JUNE 1. —Wind N. E. ; fresh. —2. Wind E. N. E.
Came down from the River and sailed, the Creole, Don-
nan, for Gibraltar ; Margaretta, Preston, ditto ; Tagus (a),
Leod, Lisbon, &c. ; Castries, Mondele, St. Lucca ;
Sarah, Bussel, Malta; Wave, Goldsmith, Hobart Town;
Mountaineer, M'Caskill, Demerara ; Neptune, Furis,
Sydney, New South Wales; Catherine Boland, Dell,
Mogadore.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE I.—Wind E.N.E. 2. Wind E.,-
Sailed the Toronto, Griswold, for New York;`
Oakley, Alexandria.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 1. Wind E. S. E. Arrived the
Nerva, from Hamburg.
FALMOUTH, MAY 31. Wind variable. JUNE I.
Wind S. E. Arrived the Royal Tar (s), • Brooks, from
Gibraltar, left 24th, Cadiz 25th,-Lisbon 27th, Oporto
28th, and Vigo 29th. Off port, St. James, Sebor, from
New York. Sailed, the George, Bennett, for St. Peters-
burg ; St. Petersburgh, Sannow, Stettin.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 1 AND 2.—Wind, S. E.— Arrived the
Charles Humberstone, Tilley, from New Orleans ; Livor-_
pool (steamer), Sayer, New York, left on the 18th ult.
Augusta Maria, Zante. Sailed the Mannelita, Roma-
quera, Havannah ; Lapwing, Osborn, Laquayrer • Isabel,
Jones, Antigua ; Virginian, Havies, New York% Mary
Howland, Mar, ditto ; Papa Sista, Alexandria ; Ronaldo,
Nieolicb, Malta; Deflino, Genoa; London, Patten, Balti-
more ; Harbinger, Candlish, New South Wales ; Lima
(packet), Singleton, Trinidad ; Carrol of Carrolton,
Bird, New York; William Rathbone, Roberts, Africa;
Ida, Alexandretta. Off port—the Birkley, New Oilcans;
Ida Maria, Dantzic.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Morning Chronicle of this day observes, that the cry
of no Popery is being raised against the education scheme
of Ministers, just as it formerly was against the cause of
civil liberty ; and adds, " Many of the Methodists, and
some of the other classes of Dissenters, are led away by the
clamour, and it musters all those members of the Church
who are so bigotted to form as to think it a righteous work
to prevent the instruction of Catholic children in the Word
of God, anless the Word of God be enforced upon them in
a Protestant version. As this enforcement is impracticable,
the outcry becomes simply one against the religious in-
struction of the children of Catholics altogether. And as
it is further the fact that the union of religious and secular
instruction is regarded by all as indispensable, the hostility
becomes an entire and unmitigated opposition to all Na-
tional Education. There can be no such thing as National.
Education in conjunction with that exclusiveness which
certain of the Established Clergy demand; and in their
demand of which they are backed by the power and viru--
knee of Tory faction. The two ideas are mutually. de-
structive. Both Protestant and Papist dissent have a
legalised existence.
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The Times speaks as follows of Lord John Russell's
proposition respecting the Canada, which he brought for-.
ward in the House of Commons last night:—" V it had
been possible for any plan proposed by, or on behalf of,
the present Ministry, to disappoint the expectations of
those who know them, the statement made last night by
Lord John Russell to the House of Commons of the Mi-
nisterial scheme for the arrangement of the Canadian
constitution would have been a disappointment at once
grievous and ridiculous—grievous, from the greatness of
the existing evil—and ridiculous, frosts the nothingness of
the propounded remedy."
The Morning Herald, after describing the character of
'Lord John Russell's Canadian proposition, goes on to ob-
serve :—" Such was the substance of Lord John-Russell's
statement last night. To some of the principles laid down,
we arc not opposed. But it is impossible to look at the
whole scheme--to its vagueness, and to the remoteness of
theperiod at which its value is proposed to be tested,r-
without feeling that a trick is intended--that Ministers tdre
seeking to evade the difficulties of their position, without
risking their places; and that if, between the present mo-
ment and 1842, the Canadas shall not be utterly lost to
England, their preservation, at all events, will not be as-
cribable to the wisdom and energy of the Melbourne
Cabinet."

The Morning Post thus speaks of Lord Jelin Russell's
proposed resolutions respecting Canada :—" The pledge
of prospective legislation is so utterly puerile, worthless,
and abortive in its very nature, that it is impossible tis be.
lic:ve it has been proposed to the House of Commons with
any other view than that of throwing a veil, and a veil so,
transparent was scarcely worth the trouble of throwing,
over the project of arbitrary government for an indefinite
period. Why may not the Ministers of 1842 shrink froth-
the duty of devising a rational scheme of Government as
the present Ministers now shrink ? Why may they not,
like the present men, find it convenient to extend a little
further the despotism which, in pursuance of Lord John
Russell's resolution, they will have found in existence ?
Is there the least reason to expect that in the interval the
difficulties will have been diminished ?"
The Morning Advertiser observes, in the course of a
leading article commenting on the Government Canadian
measure,--" Lord John Russell developed the plan and the
principles on which it proceeded, in a calm, dignified, and
temperate speech, appealing at its close to the general
good sense and good temper of the House, to consider it
as it had last year considered the same difficult affairs.
He was listened to with great attention; and his speech
appeared to produce a strong impression upon the House."
The Courier of last evening, alluding to the postpone-
ment of the Ministerial Education scheme, says :—" One
advantage that must result from the postponement of John
Russell's motion on education is, that it will give the
ccuntry an opportunity of testffying its apinians on the sub-
ject by pouring in petitions from all quarters in favour of
the measure. The interval will be actively employed by the
enemies of national education—witness their petitions pre-
sented last night. They are endeavouring to get up an agi-
tation in the name of religion, prostituting the influence and
the sanctity of the Church to the base uses of a deliberate and
profligate fraud. ' Hole and corner meetings,' we shall
have in profusion, and no conceivable trick or device will
be spared to procure signatures. The Deus' forgery will
be re-acted with audacious impudence."
The Globe thus alludes to the Wesleyan oppositki to
the education scheme of Government :—" The preachers
and office-bearers of the 'Wesleyan societies in Manchester
have issued an anti-educational manifesto, being the first—
and we believe will prove the only—Dissenters who join the
Tories in their agitation for the preservation of ignoran
An intolerant sectarian is by no means a dignifiEd
character. Having no establishment to defend; and
claiming that toleration for himself which ho is not dis-
posed to extend to others, he is in a false position; and is
obliged to exhibit his intolerance in a modified state. The
Wesleyan memorial is tame, being necessarily shorn of
expressions in praise of the Church ; and, compared with
that eloquence which the Times and the Post have in-
dulged on the same subject, is as quiet and insipid as a
glass of still soda-water."
The Standard thus artfully endeavours to entrap the
Dissenters into opposition into the Ministerial education
measure :—" It is admitted on all sides that the education
to be imparted by the State must be founded on a re,
ligious basis—must be a religious education—in other
words, a teaching of religion inter alit Now, in the
opinion of Dissenters, who reject (conscientiously we
arc bound to presume) the necessity for a priesthood
episcopally ordained, or otherwise appointed by le al
form, all teaching of religion must be the same as regsMs
the resources
. from which the instructor is to be supported
or accommodated—the same whether he teach adults or
children, whether he deliver his instructions in a chapel or
a school ; and if the State provide support or accommoda-
tion for him at the public charge, there is an end of the
voluntary principle, for principles will not bear to be frit-
tered away in minute distinctions. We are wholly at a loss
to see how any honest Dissenter can get out of this diffi-
culty."