The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-26 00:00:00

WORSHIP- STREET.

Thomas Henry Martin, a cab proprietor, living at
Clanton, who had been more than once in custody on
charges of outrage, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Grove upon a charge of having attempted to strangle his
wife, a young woman of very prepossessing appearance.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner returned
home drunk at a late hour of the preceding night, and be-
gan as usual to ab use the poor woman, and finding that
she resigned herself to his brutality in silence, he worked
himself up to such a state of ungovernable rage that he
tore the sheet of the bed where she was lying, and after
coiling it round, he passed it over her neck and endea-
voured to strangle her. She sprang out of bed, but before
she could escape from the room he knocked her down and
beat her most unmercifully. She managed at length to
extricate herself from his grasp, and (with nothing on but
her night clothes) she ran into the street, and put herself
under the protection of a policeman. The prisoner, on the
entrance of the constable (N 8) to apprehend him, swore
that if he advanced a step further he would stab him to the
heart ; he was content, however, to " speak daggers, but
use none," for on being resolutely seized by the officer he
quietly submitted.
Upon being called upon for his defence the prisoner de•
ploretl the death of his first wife ; the bad temper of the
present one having driven peace from his house during the
three years they had been married.
Mr. GROVZ-Your drunkenness has no doubt effected
that. You will find good bail for three months, yourself
in 401. and two sureties in 201, each.

The prisoner was then locked up.
ABUSIVE LANGUAGE. —Peter Kelly, the beadle of Fins-
bury-circus, and who also held the office of beadle at the
Catholic Chapel, Moorfields, was charged conjointly with
his wife with having used abusive language to Mr. Jeremiah
Kelly, a coal-merchant.
The complainant stated that about two years ago he sup-
plied the defendant, who was no relation to him, with a
ton of coals, for the payment of which he had made repeated
applications and received nothing but abuse. He was ac-
cordingly compelled a few days ago to summon him before
the Court of Requests, and an order was made upon him
for the amount, but whilst the claim was being investigated
the defendant repeatedly called him " a swindling thief,"
1 with other epithets equally complimentary, and conducted
himself in such a violent manner that he was severely re-
buked by the Commissioners. Outside of the Court he
renewed his scurrilous attack, in which be was so ably
supported by his wife that witness narrowly escaped being
mobbed through the streets.
The complainant's clerk gave corroborative evidence.
The defendants, who in general terms denied the charge,
were fined twenty shillings each, or 21 days' imprisonment.

THE WORKING CLASSES.--NOW that the
Chartist movement appears to be finished, it is time the
Government were thinking of making some announce-
ment of what they mean to effect for the country. Let
them not imagine for a moment that because there is a
momentary calm in the political atmosphere, all is there-
fore contentment and satisfaction. It rests with our rulers
to avert future convulsion. They must be busy, and that
soon, with measures for the amelioration of the people ,
and especially of the working classes. They must exert
themselves to procure a repeal of the Corn-laws, for
though the Chartists momentarily set their faces against
that repeal, we. believe they now look upon their conduct
in that particular as having been anything but discreet.
They must increase the Parliamentary franchise, by consi-
derably reducing its rate ' • they must come forward with a
measure for a full and effectual trial of election by ballot ;
they must give us much shorter Parliaments ; they must
greatly augment the fund for the promotion of national
education. Tyne Mercury.
NOVEL WEATHER-GLASS.-When at Rose-
ball the other day, we were shown a very beautiful goat,
the dam of which came from the East Indies, and were
told by the owner, Mr. M'llarg, that he attached more
importance to its motions, as regards the weather, than to
the best barometer our venerable townsman, Mr. Stott,
ever manufactured. Billie, with his long beard, betoken-
ing wisdom, is quite invaluable in eels respect, and pos-
sesses instincts alike delicate and remarkable. When the
weather is fine, he loves to frolic in the sunniest snots ;
but when rain is at hand, seek and derns under the closest
cover until the storm is over. When to others all ap.
pears fair and promising, his goatship knows better, and
betakes himself to the house or bush hours before the rain
patters or the wind raves. On Thursday week, when the
sky looked black, and the mercury fell nearly half an inch,
' he was observed basking on an outer stair; and when his
master noticed this, he instantly said, " There will be no
rain to-day at any rate." And the fact was even so, while
on the following day his tactics were reversed, in con-
sequence, no doubt, of the heavy showers that fell at mid-
day. In repeated instances, since harvest work commenced,
Mr. M'Harg has been much indebted to the prescience.
of his four-footed friend, and would not, we suppose,
part with him for the best Ayrshire in his bowen of cows.
The Rev. Mr. White, in his Natural History of Selbourne,
gives a graphic account of the singular instincts of a land
tortoise ; nor does Billie, in weather wisdom, fall a whit
short of the record left of that animal. On this account,
it is t.) be regretted that he can neither read, write, nor
speak ; for were these accomplishments superadded , who
canlm a
Tdi
aocuabmt a thatker.
Whether would baematix Mr.tur eof n
Murphyd o
owithhollowgo atiGsntada hls,
:
a
loway goat blood has riven him any advantage over the
Aborigines of the deponent
staoltthlienlot but
rkl
shepherds are always prepared for a breeze whenthey see
the goats scampering from the roc
where they take good care to remain,. until thoewangry ele-
ments have expended their fury. The Al.:rquis of Water
ford, in the course of next summer or autumn, intends, it
i 3 stated, to hold a tournament on his lands in Northuin-
berl,nd, within half a mile of Flodden-field, which, t.,
hope, will be the appropriate spot selected; and before,
he fixes the exact day, we would strongly recommend hi in
to secure, for a fortnight or so, the invaluable services. of
the Rosehall goat. In everything relating to the eki
influences, Billie will exemplify the favourite saying of 0.-;;
great Duke—" and no mistake ;" nor will be be at all
shy of tipping a bit of the Mendoza into the bargain, when
hie Lordship tiappens to be in a boxing humour.—Dumfries
Courier.

A Contemporary of yours, a friend to the Corn-
laws, lately asserted that there arc still 20,000 lasts of
wheat in store at Dantzic. This is an error—there are
only 4,000 lasts left of the 50,000 which were at Dantzic
last yeqr. and those 4,000, moreover, are in firm hands.
The present stcres at Stettin are equally inconsiderable.
Correspondent of the Chronicle.

(From the Brighton Guardian.)
We are now, thanks to the greediness of the cormo-
rant Church, in the midst of a powerful excitement on
the question of Church-rates. Since our last, an ad-
dress
has been largely distributed, of which the following
is a copy :—" To the Parishioners of Lindfield.—Re-
spected Friends,—lt is always painful to my feelings to
be obliged to be engaged in differences with my friends
and neighbours ; but when matters of principle are in
question, and especially those connected with civil and
religious liberty, I dare not shrink from avowing my sen-
timents and supporting those principles to the utmost of
my power. The subject of the Church-rate, which is
now agitating this parish, is with me one of those mat-
ters of principle. 1 consider that the end and object of
every good Government is the protection of our dearest
rights,—that is, person and property, and the worship of
God in the manner which we conscientiously believe is
most acceptable to Him. Now, if we honestly pay the
taxes levied by Government for the support of civil so-
ciety, we have a right to its protection. While a man does
this and fulfils the social and relative duties of life rupee-
tab'y, while he is a good husband, a good father, and
good neighbour, conscientiously refraining from doing
an injury to any one, the State has nothing to do with
the manner in which he conceives it to be his duty to
worship his Maker. This is a matter entirely between
his God and himself, with which no earthly power has
a right to interfere—and for this plain reason, that no
man can answer for him before the tribunal of Divine
justice ; and therefore, since mutual protection is the
sole object for which we submit to a form of government
and pay taxes, all laws made to compel subjects to sup-
port any particular form of religion are unjust in their
principle and ought to be resisted. The Saviour of
men, when he sent out his apostles (who, by the way,
were of the poor of this world, though rich in
faith), laid this solemn injunction upon them : " Freely
ye have received, freely give." I heard that in the vestry
room one in easy circumstances declared that what
was the law of the land, even in the matter of religion,
ought to be complied with, merely because it is law ;
and that, in whatever country he might live, he should
think it right to conform to the law in respect to reli-
gion. If, then, he had lived under that form of Go-
vernment in this very country, in which Bishops Cran-
mer, Ridley. and Latimer were burned by law, he, by
his own reasoning, must be a participator in their mur-
der, if he thought it his duty to support the laws with-
out exception. And be it ever remembered, that it
was because they could not conform to the State Reli-
gion, that the early Christians suffered martyrdom, that
the Protestants on St. Bartholomew's Day were
butchered, and that a great number of the members of
the religious society to which I belong, in the reign of
Charles the Second, laid down. their lives in prison.
Under these circumstances I appeal to the liberal por-
tion of the Church of England resident in this parish,
whether they think it right to compel their brethren to
support forms of worship to which they conscientiously
object, and, whether it is fair or consistent with common
honesty to put their hands into the pockets of their dis-
senting brethren for the support of their own particular
forms and ceremonies of religion. I remain with best
wishes for all my neighbours,their sincere friend William
Allen. Gravely Cottage, Lindfield, 20th of 9th Month,
(Sept.) 1839." The circulation of this address has so
excited the ire and kindled the eloquence of the Lind-
field clergyman (who is, according to the notion of some
of the high church party at Brighton, " A Self-styled
Evangelical ") that he carried the subject with him into
the pulpit on Sunday afternoon. Whether it was for
want of better matter, or because the preacher thinks
with a certain Gathercole, that " Dissent is from the
Devil," is uncertain ; but it is certain that the church-
going people of Lindfield were never before entertained
with such a phillippic against the rights of conscience.
The Rev. Gentleman reiterated the assertion a thousand
times repeated, that while Church-rates are the law of
the land they must be paid, and that "if Catholicism
were the established religion he would still pay them."
Who can doubt the truth of his assertion? Who will
not give full credence to it when it is recollected that
certain Doctors of Oxford boast of the near alliance
between the Anglican and Romish Churches ? Who
can doubt it when at the Reformation out of 9,411
priests of the Church of Rome, 9,211 allured by the
fleshpots came over at once to the Church of England.

BLO WING UP OF THE WRECK
OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, AT SPITHEAD.

We learn with great satisfaction that Colonel Pas-
ley, with the usual success which attends well-directed
perseverance, has at length succeeded in firing off one
of his enormous sub-marine mines of gunpowder against
the wreck of the Royal George, at Spithead. At two
o'clock on Monday afternoon, as we learn from our
Portsmouth Correspondent, a cylinder, containing
2,320 lbs. of powder, was carefully lowered to the bot-
tom, where it was placed alongside the most compact
portion of the wreck which has yet been discovered by
the divers. This operation was effected by means of
hauling lines drove through blocks attached to the bot-
tom of the ship by the divers. When every thing was
ready, the vessel in which the voltaic battery was
placed was drawn off to the distance of .500 feet, which
is the length of the connecting wires, and instantane-
ously on the circuit being completed the explosion took,
place, and the effects were very remarkable. At first
the surface of the sea, which had before been perfectly
smooth and calm, was violently agitated by a sort of
tremulous motion, which threw it into small irregular
waves, a few inches only in height. This lasted for
three or four seconds, when a large dome of water made
its appearance, of a conical or rather beehive shape.
At first it appeared to rise slowly, but rapidly increased
in height and size till it reached the altitude of twenty-
eight
or thirty feet, in a tolerably compact mass. It
then fell down and produced a series of rings, which
spread in all directions. The first, or outer one of these,
having the aspect of a wave several feet in height, curled.
and broke, as if it had been driven towards the shore.
Neither the shock nor the sound was so great as had
been expected by those who had witnessed the former
explosions by Colonel Pasley, where the quantity of
powder was only 451 b. ; but the effect produced on
the water at the surface, considering that the depth I
was ninety feet, was truly astonishing. What the effect.
has been upon the wreck will not be fully ascertained
by the divers till the present spring tides are over, an( the
long periods of slack water at the neaps enable the divers
to remain for upwards of an hour under water. In the
meantime it is highly satisfactory to know that Colonel
Pasley has completely established his command over the
application of the voltaic battery to sub-marine pur-
poses, and that he can now with certainty explode his.
charges at any depth of water. This will give him the
power of placing his cylinders against the most refrac-
tory parts of the wreck, and by blowing these to pieces,
and dislocating the knees, timbers, and beams, enable
him to draw the whole up, bit by bit, to the surface.
Any person who has seen the operation of breaking up
a ship on land, knows that this is the only way of going
to work with a mass so firmly bound toe ether as a line-
d- battle ship, that even the action of fifty-seven years
of decay under water, goes but a small way to disin-
tegrate the parts. The manly perseverance of Colonel
Pasley, therefore, we are well convinced, will, in the
end, effectually clear the noble anchorage of Spithead of
this extremely troublesome obstruction.—Times.

A Return has been printed by order of the Mouse
of Commons of the territorial revenues and disbar tsementa

of the East India Company for the years 1835. 74,836, and
1837, with an estimate of both for 1838. The reettLe.
which are all the public can care about, are or, a very G.
vourable kind. In the year 1835, which wrAs l.hat succeed-

ing.the abrogation of their charter as a ',rae,ing company,
and in which the greater part of their cor amereial assets
were realised, there existed a surplus of income over cx-

. _ ___......... _
penditure of 8,000,0001., after dedeuting a., sum of 1
2,000,0001., set apart for the fo•ernationi of a guarantee
fund for the proprietors of East India Stock. In 1886
the surplus was 2,000,000/. • in 1837, 2,470,0001. ; and
for 1838 the estimate of surplus is 1,3600,0001. The pub-
lie debt of the East Intl:m Company, at the several Presi-
dencies, o•-., the Ist of April, 1837, is stated at 30,400,0007.,
and the interest on it at 1,440,000/. The rate of interest
freaot
paid for the various loans varies from 4 to 10 p but per cent.,
the av erage is about 41- per cent.
F:RICE of BREAD.—The full-priced bakers
e c _
Er'ii nburgh have this day raised the price of the four pound
leaf, best bread, to ninepence, for reah4.o7lf.rnp onneyy r if
(or i
te d
n
paid within a month); and ninepence
, Flour is 33. 4d. per stone; bran, 9d,
pct. stone. Cale.
1 clornian Mercury.

THE COAL TRADE.-- A. stranger upon passing
Ct irlisle-bridge may suppose that Dublin was considerably
an lazem.ent
in the river ;
be nefited by an r.s.s.tensive trade, from the number of ships
but let him read on their sterns, and to his
.'ne will perceive that not one of the ships em-
It equir
pßeoyysed In the coal trade belong to Dublin. The Railway '
.;,, hitt states that ;349,230 tons of coal are annually
;,4TrtE i into Dublin, which we believe to be ur,dsr, and
, `.4 .ke 400,000 as the supposed quantity, which would ,
c for the transit 250 ships of 200 tons bt.irden each,
ora akc eight voyages in the year. Mark the loss of t
this single branch of trade to the city of roublin. Tlie
ver
t c,' cost of building 250 ships is 'low; at 421. per
91 ; 580,000/., the annual deterioration say I 0 per cent.,
ter ' 'which may be added the constant ship-btailding eonse-
gn, 'nt on such a trade—what a source of employment for
shi n.builders would this be. Had we it, there would be
ba' ; little of that combination which is caused by not hay-
IN ; sufficient employment. The advantages we,ulsl, not
''. 11 rest here, as it would require at least 2,0t.,0 men to
/la vigate the ships ; their pay, at the rate of tl. a month,
in, lepondent of provisions, would amount to t 60,0001. a
ve ar, all of which would be spent in the. city by the
m ariners and their families.—Dublin Pilot.
THE BUTLERS AND FITZGERAL ,DS OF IRE-
"- AND. During the wars of the Rose'', i ~he Butlers sup-
t orted the House of Lancaster, the, Fil czgeralds that of
/orb ; but they cared more about, their own rivalry than
1.4 e disputed succession. In one of their contests, the old
..Ei irl of Desmond, desperately wounded, was made psi-
mai ter, and borne on a litter from the field.. When taunt-
in/ riy asked by the conquerors, " Where :now is the great
.E 1 irl of Desmond?" he spiritedly replica, ~ Where ho.
es ght to be—on the necks of the Btit!kers. °'—M. de Beau.
mi )nt s " Ireland."

LONDON
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 133 L

We observed yesterday, at the close of our first
leader, that if the working classes decline or refuse
to aid the agitation for the abolition of the Corn-
laws, then they, and not the landlords, will be the
authors of their destitution and distress. We re-
peat that, and proceed to illustrate it as one of the
most important practical truths we can now impress
on the working classes.
Last Session the landlords in Parliament, and
1, the landlords' journals, continually taunted the ad-
.: vocates of the repeal with the opposition or the
indifference of the working classes. They were
proud because the people were not against
them. They were sure of victory, because
their allies had seduced the people into
neutrality. They felt, and the whole kingdom felt,
that if the working classes had united with the Re.
peelers, that the landlords would have been defeated-
It was by the Sault of the working classes that they
wire due to resist, and resist with insult, all the
attempts of the advocates of repeal. Since then
we have had another bad harvest ; the reasons for
the repeal are made by the cold rainy summer more
powerful than ever ; and that which the working
cla.sscs could have accomplished last Session, by unit.
n. 2. with the middle classes, they may accomplish
in the next Session. It depends on them, there-
fa e, whether the Corn-laws shall be repealed or
not ; and if they continue the prey of poverty, eat-
ins; food at a monopoly price, the guilt will be
their own.

!, The part we have taken entitles us, we think,
I' to expect that the workmen should not look on us
with suspicion. We grant that from the manner
in which the middle c asses have of late treated
the agitating workmen, that they have no right to
, look for any aid from them in attaining any ex-
elusively middle class object by political agitation.
i But the repeal of the Corn-laws, though it would
/ benefit the middle classes, would also benefit the
working classes ; and why should not the working
classes and the middle classes unite to aclicve a
1 common advantage ?
The middle classes suspected—whether truly or
not is beside the mark—that the lower classes
wished to pull down a building which is the com-
mon shelter. Under the roof of the Constitution
/
they have grown into opulence and political power;
and if the working classes have not made equal
and similar advances they are distinguished amongst
the nations of the earth for ingenuity and skill.
Far be it from us to hint for a single moment that
they have their just share of the common advan-
tages; but they have participated in the glories, mi-
litary, literary, and inventive, which are the honour
of Britain, and it has been utterly impossible to exclude
• them loom ail share in thegeirral civilization. Under
the same shelter which has given to the middle
classes the wealth of Princes, and the power of
Kings, the workmen have gained knowledge,
are secure of a living, and are not destitute of corn-
'forts. The common dwelling has been for ages
highly prized ; the prejudices, the habits, the feel-
; ems of ail classes are closely connected with it, as
..: vitth a favourite fireside, and the middle classes
I'being very apprehensive that the working classes
mealt.,
,to pull it down by violence, used
1 roupl,'_
~
c° ' And harsh, though legal, customary,
land ' generally approved means, to prevent it.
We thou. '
gin they
were unnecessarily apprehen-
sive, but we
respect their prejudices, and can
comprehend the source of their alarm. Now they
propose to enlarge the building—to make their own
1 apartments more splendid :
hadmit, but also to
Imake the moms and abodes of the
convenient.
and_
working classes
I More comfortable and more
the working classes for assistance, f hey ask
it irs not ra-
tional in them to refuse to improve the buihjjng be-
cause they were not allowed to pull ittnt.ha,
t the
'We need not waste our space to p
repeal of the Corn-laws would be for the adwan-
, tage of the workmen. That is now generally ad-
mitted by the Chartists, and it would be unreaso,a-
able, it would be contemptible, and childish in them
to spite themselves, in order to spite the middle
classes. When Sir .TAMES GRAHAM says
that the value of land would be reduced one-
half by the abolition of the Corn-laws, by
what other means could the wealth and power
'of the landed aristocracy and their allies,

the tithe-lords, the great corruptors of the people,
the prime sources of misgovernment, be so effect-
naliy and peacefully reduced as by that abolition ?
The repeal of the Corn-laws offers a certain, an
immedlate, and an immense benefit to the working
classes. The advantages of the Charter are doubt-
ful and distant. Besides the immediate ad-
, vantages, the repeal of the Corn-laws would bring
with it, as a collateral goad, the humiliation
of the aristocracy. It would at once give the
people plenty, and would help them hereafter to
political power. They will commit a gross political