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

THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1839

We publish a letter from a Correspondent recom-
mending small adhesive stamps for letters, and to
show how they might be applied, our Correspondent
ingeniously affixed one. His suggestion, however,
is not new, and if he have not borrowed it from the
evidence given before the Postage Committee, it is
a proof that several minds have arrived at the same
conclusion.

We copy an article from the Examiner, which
gives an amusing description of the manner in
which the irresponsible Justices of Middlesex dis-
pose of the rate-payers' money. Our readers are well
aware that the county-rates for Middlesex have
doubled within a few years ; they are also well
aware that the rate-pavers have no voice in elect-
ing those who vote away their money, and no
control whatever over its disbursement. The Magis-
trates are altogether irresponsible and despotic over
our purses ; and the way in which they use their
power, is admirably exemplified by the Examiner.
Four thousand pounds for warming a building,
being two thousand pounds more than the esti- '
mate is one item ! Contract prices stated
at 7s. 9d. when they were actually only 6s. 9d., is
another. There is no means, unfortunately, of
punishing such conduct; but breaches of trust like
these, combined with peculation, are more dan-
gerous and injurious to society, more sweeping
in their mischief, than any common larcenies ;
and, as long as any punishment is inflicted for some
one or two species of theft, while whole genera es-
cape, they ought to be more severely punished than
housebreaking or highway robbery. Such acts,
however, approach those national robberies which
are committed by legislators, and by armies, and
share their impunity, or even receive part of the
honour which is bestowed on such enactments as
the Corn-laws, or such exploits as burning a vil-
lage, and plundering every house in it.

Our readers will, we are sure, be much amused
with the correspondence between sundry Tories of
Shrewsbury and Sir ROBERT PEEL, which ap-
pears in another part of The Sun. The aforesaid
' Tories have, it seems, been so mortified at the
loyalty expressed by the Liberal inhabitants of
Shrewsbury in their late Address to the QUEEN,
and so galled by the Right Hon. Baronet's conduct
on a recent occasion having been in the same Ad-
dress charactaized—in our opinion most justly—
as " disloyal insolence," that they deemed it expe-
dient, in order to give some vent to their overwhelm-
ing sensations, to send a sort of counter-address, not
to the QUEEN, but to the great " Statesman" (!)
who stands charged with the very unstatesmanlikeof-
fences of disloyalty and insolence towards his So-
vereign. The Shrewsbury Addressers compliment
Sir ROBERT in words which his own feelings, if
he have any feelings, must tell him convey the bit-
terest of all reproaches, by imputing to him qualities
the very opposite of those by which he is distin-
guished. They ascribe, for example, " Constitu,
• PI

onal principle

to a man who htis done more-

zhough he has done it, according to his nature,
meanly and sneakingly—to sap what they and their
party consider the foundations of the Constitution

than any man now alive ; "disinterested honesty"
to one who is wholly made up of selfishness and
duplicity ; and " genuine loyalty" to the Gallant
Cavalier who is still smarting under a rebuff re-
ceived from his Lady Sovereign for the most un-
constitutional, and, withal, the grossest, the
coarsest, the most unmanly attack ever made upon
the Royal prerogative,
It is in vain, utterly in vain, for Sir ROBERT
to attempt to justify his conduct. He has com-
mitted a faux pas, and it will stick to him as long
as he lives. What does he mean by referring to the
conduct of Lords GREY and GRENVILLE as a
screen behind which to hide his own misdeeds ?
This is perfectly in character--a complete
JOSEPH SURFACE trick, and serves only to expose
ii► a more striking manner the iniquity which lurks
behind. This slippery gentleman—
Dolls instructus et arte Pelasga,
would fain have the world believe that he, modest
and moderate man that he is, did nothing more in
demanding the sole, undivided, despotic, controul
of her MA3EsTY's Household, down to the very
kitchen, than did Lords GREY and GRENVILLE,
when they required merely " that the connexion of
the Great (Ocers of the Court with the poli-
tical Administration should be clearly established
in its first arrangement !" Where is there the least
similarity in the two cases ? Yet these are the
cases that Sir JOSEPH would, if possible, twist
into parallelism ! and that too in the face of his
own admission in the House of Commons, that

there was no precedent for his conduct in this
" untoward" affair. To what meagre shifts your
'eery crafty people are sometimes obliged to
resort Sir ROBERT delivers the following mag-
nanimous determination in his reply to the Shrews-
buryAddressers, f I shall never accept office upon any
condition or understanding which may appear to me
incompatible with the constitutional authority of a
Minister of the Crown." We are very glad to find
that this resolution has been adopted. We now
know exactly the terms upon which Sir RO-
BERT can " accept office." As long, therefore, as
VICTORIA sways the sceptre, he must be excluded
—that is to say, if he stick to his principles. Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S principles I ! I

--,....--
Internal divisions and dissensions threaten to
upset the French Cabinet. No sooner are the new
Ministers abandoned to the contempt of the coun-
try by the Opposition than they begin to quarrel
among themselves ; the apostates among them, in
a fit of remorse, being anxious to have it thought
that the Cabinet represents the Left Centre, while
their colleagues as strenuously claim for it the re-
presentation of the JACQUEMINOT and MOLE
pally. To mark the latter tendency of the Cabi-
net, M. DuFALTßEobtained the dismissal of M. LE-

Is the number that will side with the priests against
the education of the poor.
The parishioners of St. Mary's, Newington,
have done themselves honour by the stand which
they have made for popular education and the
rights of conscience. A meeting of the rate-
payers of this parish was held last week for
the purpose of considering what steps should be
taken in reference to the Government plan. Re-
solutions highly approving of the plan were passed,
and petitions to both Houses of Parliamen' , v:ay-
ing that it might be sanctioned by the Legi lature,
were adopted.
The first resolution was moved by Mr. STCRGE,
and was to the following effect :—" That this meet-
ing hails, with peculiar satisfaction, the intention
of her Majesty's Government to propose a system
of national education in accordance with the sacred
rights of conscience." Mr. STURGE stated that
an attempt was making to get up a hole-and-
corner petition against the measure, and that
that petition had been stuck up in various parts of
the parish, headed with the words " Mutilated
Bibles and Socinian Teachers." This is an excel-
lent sample of the spirit of falsehood and misrepre-
sentation, which animates the exertions of the Clergy
in their unholy cause. Who can doubt that this
petition and its heading are of priestly origin, when
one of the speakers at this meeting declared that on
Sunday last he had heard a certain Clergyman of
the Established Church denounce all who favoured
the Government plan of education as " traitors to
GOD, to the Church, and to the country." Here
is fine language to proceed from the sacred seat of
everlasting truth and universal charity I Had
any Dissenting Minister desecrated his pulpit by
language even half as bad as this, how the impiety
of Dissent would have formed a pretext for the out-
pouring of clerical bile ! With what fervid zeal we
should have been reminded of the prostitution of the
pulpit to political and factious purposes by men
calling themselves Ministers of the Gospel of
CHRIST I

Another of the resolutions passed at this meet-
ing was expressed in these words :—" That the
claim of the Clergy of the National Church to have
the education of the people placed under their
exclusive controul, is a violation of the principles
of religious liberty, opposed to the spirit
of the British Constitution, and subversive of the
very design of universal education." We cannot tell
how the Rector, or Vicar, or whatever else he may
be who presides over the Church-and-State con-
cerns of St. Mary's, Newington, may relish this
plain speaking, but we are delighted with it. This
resolution says a great deal in few words, and says
it well. We trust it will be adopted as a model by
all who are opposed to the insolent pretensions of a
pampered, worldly-minded Priesthood, who would,
if they could, trample under foot the dearest rights
of their fellow-men. Let but the spirit of this reso-
lution become general, and we shall soon see an
end of sacerdotal domination, with all its mind-
blighting influences.

GRAND, a partisan of the Left, from the office of
Woods and Forests, and appointed as his succes-
sor, M. BRESSAU, a staunch Doctrinaire. Hardly,
however, was the change effected before M. PASSY
saw the drift of it, and insisted that B
BAU should be dismissed and LEGRAND restored to
his former office. The KING'S friends opposed this
as subjecting the Cabinet to ridicule, but PASSY
threatened to resign, and penitently seek again an
alliance with TIIIERS, and by this means carried
his point. In truth PAssy is ill at ee and bit-
terly regrets the sacrifices which he .nade for a seat
in the Councils of LOUIS P.,ILLIPE. He ex-
pected to be opposed, and only finds himself de-
....;.:ed and I,y those whose confidence was
a solace, and whose friendship was an honour to
him.

The Gazette des Tribunaux of Tuesday has the
following account of the judicial proceedings in the
Chamber of Peers :

" The Commissioners appointed by the Court of Peers
to conduct the examinations in the prosecutions for the late
riots have ordered the discharge of a great number of
persons arrested on suspicion, and nearly fifty were re-
leased yesterday. There are about 200 remaining in
custody, the greater part of whom will be sent to the
orison of La Force, and will be brought before the Court
of Assizes. M. Merilhou will lay a Report before the
Peers in the course of the present week on the cases of
eight or ten of the culprits, and the Court will then decide
whether there be sufficient grounds for bringing them to
trial. If this decision be in the affimative, the hearing will
commence as soon as the requisite notices have been given,
and other formalities fulfilled, so that the fate of the first
class may be fixed before the end of the month."
The Madrid Journals received are of the 28th
ult., but their contents are of no importance. The
only news from the frontier is given in the subjoined
extracts from the French Journals :
that Espartero is fortifying Orduna,
.‘ BAYONNE, MAY 31.—We learn by letters from Du.
to place a garrison, Alaroto, who
rinanwghoi,cioi fhetheint2eBntdhs,
guards the line from Amurrio to Llodio, has ordered
Arciniego to be abandoned. That place has been deserted
as Orduna had been. Before he resolved to retire from
Balmaseda Moroto sent Colonel Alvarez de Toledo to the
head quarters of Don Carlos, to lay before the Supreme
Council of War the question whether Balmaseda should
be retained ? The answer was, that Balmaseda should be
held as long as possible, leaving, however, Moroto liberty
to order the retreat of the troops as occasion may require."
The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the Ist of June has the
following paragraphs :
" Moroto, haring recovered from his indisposition, has
been to the head quarters at Durango, to have an inter-
view with Don Carlos end the Ministers, relative to the
military operations.
" In consequence of the resolution adopted in a council
by all the Generals of the Carlist army, in which Moroto
presided, Balmaseda has been evacuated.
" Llodio is on the confines of Biscay, and is part of the
Province of Maya; it is eight leagues from Vittoria, five
from Orduna and Bilbao, and the meeting of three roads,
the principal of which leads to Bilbao."--Le Commerce.
BOURSE.—PARIS, TUESDAY, .JUNL 4.
HALF-PAST TEMZE.—The market has been very brisk.
For the Account the Three per Cents, opened at elf.
30c., declined to elf., and closed at elf. 10c., being a
fall of 26c. The Five per Cents , first price, Illf. 35c. ;
they closed at Illf, loc., a fall of also 25c. For Money
the Three per Cents. are 30c. lower, and the Five per
Cents. 20c. The Bank of France Shares are 10f. higher.
The Laffitte Bank 5,000 f., are unaltered, and those of
I,ooof. not quoted The Belgian Five per Cents. have
not varied. The Bank Shares 2f. 60c. better. The Spa.
nish Active has declined i per cent., having had but the
price of 191. The Portuguese Three per Cents, are :12-
per cent. lower. The St. Germain Railway Shares and
the Versailles Right Bank have declined st. each. The
Versailles Left Bank have fallen 12f. 50c., notwithstand.
ing the intention of Government to propose to the Cham-
ber to grant a loan to the Company, and that this resolu-
tion has been taken after an inspection of the line by the
Minister himself, who considers it extremely injurious to
the surrounding country to continue in its present cut-up
state, independently of the exertions made by the owners
of land and houses in the Faubourg St. Germain, who
wish to see the Railway completed, in the hope that it
may give life to that part of the metropolis, which is com-
paratively dead.

first Highest Lowest
Price. ('rice. Price
French 5 per Cents
4% per Cents loti 106' 1“(3

Last
Price
1095
106

4}lei- Cents /01 60 ... 161 CO ... 101 60 ... 101 69
3 per Cents SI 5 ... 81 5 ... 8, 90 ... 30 90
Bank of trance
Laffitte Bark 5,004. :Ai 525'1 ...52A —.525 , —.5250
Belgian 5 per Cents 10134 ... 1013 ... 101% ... i 01.%
Bank 767 50 ... 800 ... 795 ... 1101
Coupons
Spanish Aeive 19% ... 19% ... 195 ... 19%
Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4%
Portuguese 3 per Cents
... 21 ... 21 ... 21
Nea:.olitan
Roman
RAILWAY SHAREa.
St. Germain
Versailles, R. B 7,5 ... 70 , ... 700 ... 760
L.B. •• 90 ... 292 50 ... 282 50 ... 2.12 SO
Havre
Orleans .
Strasburg to Bale ... 335 ... 335 ... 365 ... 335
Bordeaux to La '1 este

MAGISTERIAL ADVICE.—Mr. White, the Police Ma-
gistrate of Queen's-square, is reported to have said
yesterday to a policeman, " If I were at the Opera, and
you ordered my carriage away, and got a good beating
for it, I think you would richly deserve it." If this is
not a gross libel on the Magistrate, we knew not what
to make of it. It is a rule at the Queen's Levees, and
we believe at all places of public meetings, that no car-
riage is allowed to stop longer than merely to take up
the party, yet here a Magistrate is made to say, that if
a policeman were to enforce such a rule against him,
he would deserve chastisement. This is very like hold-
ing
out an encouragement to a breach of the peace ;
and possibly some of those portly coachmen, that are
in the habit of treating the police with great disregard,
may take advantage of it. If they were taken to
Queen's-square, of course Mr. White must commend
them for committing the assault.

THE HON.GRANTLEY BERKELEY

AND THE COUNT DE SALIS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sts—lt having appeared in some of the papers that " a
correspondence, having a hostile object," was going on be-
tween myself and the Count De Salis, when the warrant
for my apprehension was issued, I beg through your paper
to correct that statement, and to declare, that neither mes
sage or correspondence passed between us, and that the
first intimation I had of any hostile proceeding was the
execution of the warrant so late as six o'clock OR Tuesday
afternoon. .

Your most obedient,
GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY.
St. James's Club, June 5, 1839.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY

Their Lordships met this morning in a Committee of
Privileges. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Rosslyn, the Earl of
Craven, the Earl of Cork, the Earl of Carrington, Lord
Vaux, and the Bishop of 'Hereford.

EARL OF SEFTON'S CLAIM.

Their Lordships after hearing Counsel, and examining
witnesses, resolved that the Earl of Sefton had made out
his claim to vote at the election of Representative Peers
for Ireland.