The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-04 00:00:00

the pleni-Aide of his power, decrees that no im-
port duty whatever shall be imposed upon Dutch
woollem manufactures imported to Java ; but that
EnglishsEnglishwoon
ens,whether freighted in Dutch or English
bot`iums,.
shall be subject to the enormous duty of
2.5, 'per cent. The writer of the Pamphlet to which
we are referring, defends this policy on two grounds :
—First, the inherent right of nations to foster their
own industry ; and, second, on the express words
of the Treaty, in which articles to be imported
by either duty free are not enumerated. Now,
this is mere Jesuitical casuistry. The time for .na-
tions to reflect upon the injury which treaties may
inflict upon their industry is before they sign them—
not after. If nations might abrogate treaties with-
out mutual consent, on finding them opposed to
the interests of a few commercial subjects, it
would be a farce to enter into them. The second
objection is equally unfounded ; for the Treaty ex-
pressly says that, " In regard to any article upon which
no duty is imposed, when imported or exported by the
subjects, or on the vessels of the nation to which the
port belongs, the duty charged upon the subjects or
vessels of the other, shall, in no case, exceed 6 per
cent."

German Papers of the latest dates have been re-
ceived. Their contents are unimportant, with the
exception of the announcement of the gradual reco-
very of his Majesty the King of DENMARK.
STocxnoLM, MARCH 24.—We learn that orders were sent
on the 21st to the commanding Admiral in Carlscrona, to fit
out the newly built frigate Josephina, and the corvette, Jurun-
ma, both for a voyage in the Mediterranean, both to exercise
the crews and for a diplomatic riegociation, as, it is said, with
the Government of Morocco. The expedition is calculated
to take ten months, and the estimated expense is 150,0.00
Banco rix dollars. It is said that Commodore Gyllongranct
is appointed to command the expedition, which will be joined
by a Norwegian corvette.
COPENHAGEN, MARCH 28.—His Majesty has had some re-
freshing sleep during the last night, and his strength is in.
creasing. —Hamburg Papers, March 31.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MAsem 31.
bills. Money.
- Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent lO3 10•::%
Ditto ditto 4 per cent. —
Ditto ditto 3 per cent 7ll/4 7374,
Ditto Bank Shares ...... .. ................. .......„ 1338 1335
Anglo-Russian Loan 104% 1041/4
Paper Inscripticn, 6 per cent —
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent 46;i
Ditto, 3 per cent. 29%
Dutch 9), per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents — _
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
New Tickets 1541/4% 153%
71 -- • -

Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 713
Norwegian Loan of 1&34, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents -34 --
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent 2tIN xtqi
Greek 4 per cents. 1933, guaranteed by France 93 92Nt
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MARCH 31 —l3 P%; two months. 1371.
CIIRISTIANIA. MARCH 22.-4 wee months. 5 $
BERLIN, MARCH 29.—Three mvnt hg, 6. 244.
—Hamburg Papers, March 31.

On Sunday evening, the 26th ult., a young woman
who had come to Ticehurst, with the intention of proceeding
to London by the Hastings van, complained of indisposition
and pain in her side. Medical assistance was immediately
procured, but it Froved unavailing, and she shortly after ex-

pircd.
While a barge was lying in Chichester harbour on
Monday last a bird was seen fluttering towards the vessel from
the opposite side of the harbour, which fell beside the mast,
and was taken alive. It proved to be a woodcock, whose eyes
were completely closed by disease.
Mr. Hougharn, a surgeon, living at Brookland, ter-
minated his existence on Monday last, by taking poison. It
appears that on that morning his goods had been sold by auc-
tion, under an execution ; and this circumstance so affected his
mind, that in a fit of temporary insanity, he destroyed himself.
—Kentish Chronicle.
The Pope has been lately cured, and within a very
short time, of a dangerous cancer in the face, by a German
surgeon. The people of Rome were already beginning to cry
out a " miracle !" when it was discovered that the operator
was a Protestant, and the enthusiasm cooled at once.—Ger-
man Paper.
Since our last the weather bas been extremely cold,
and the frost as intense as during the depth of winter; arid
had it not been for the great length of the day, and the in-
creased strength of the sun's rays, we should have been suffer-
ing all the rigours of the severest winter. Occasional showers
of snow have fallen, and on Monday there was one of some
continuance, but on Tuesday morning snow began to fall in
earnest, between five and six in the morning, and ere two hours
had elapsed it was lying to the depth of four or five inches. So
severe a month of March we have not had for a long period.—
Stirling Observer.
There are upwards of 3,500 inhabitants of St. Ives,
in the county of Huntingdon, and one parish church. On
last Good Friday, the church was so ill attended, that the
small number there were compelled to wait in silence whilst
the Vicar changed his vestments for sermon. There was not
a soul in the gallery, nor one to set a tune or sing a psalm.
The sublime poetry of Tate, Sternhold, and Hopkins, was un-
heard, and was supplied by the bewailings of the Vicar over
he sad and continual deoreise of his congregation.
Motik Lewis was fonder of great people than he
ought to have been, either as a man of talent or a man
of -fashion. He had always Dukes and Duchesses in his
mouth, and was pathetically fond of any one that had a
title. You would have sworn ho had been a parvenu
of yesterday, yet he had lived all his life in good socii ty. •
* * Mat had queerish eyes—they projected like those
of some insect, and n ere flattish on the orbit. His person
was extremely small and boyish—he was indeel the least man
I ever saw, to be strictly well and neatly made. I remember
a picture of him by Saunders being handed roand at Dalkei:h
House. The artist had ingeniously flung a dark fold;ng mantle
around the form, under which was half hid a dagger, a dark
lantern, or some such cut- throat appurtenance ; with all this
the features were preserved and ennobled. It passed from
hand to hand, into that of Henry Duke of Bucelauch, who
hearing the general voice affirm that it was very like, said
aloud—" Like Mat Lewis Why, that picture's like a man."
He looked, and to I Mat. Lewis% head was at his elbow. This
bo) ishness went through life with him. He was a child, and
a spoiled child, but a child of high imagination; and so he
wasted himself in ghost stories and German romances. He
had the finest ear for rhythm I ever met with—finer than
Byron's.—Sir Waller Scott.
Some extraordinary evidence was given, it is said,
before one of the Parliamentary Committees, as to the means
used to obtain the amount of subscriptions required by the
Standing Orders of the House of Commons. A Jew, whose
name bore a resemblance to that of a great capitalist, signed
his name for 23,000/. This individual had neither house nor
lodging; he received 41. for signing the deed. Persons were
employed to procure signatures who received ss. for each,
giving four to the signer and keeping one for themselves. The
names of clerks were put down fur 500 shares each. One
man's name appears for 32,0001., and another for 20,0001. A
news.agont signed for 10,000/., and his son for 3,0001, and
one of the solicitors for 1,000 shares. One of the secretaries
to the Company procured signatures to the extent of 215,0001.,
another to the extent of 86,0001., and a third to the amount
of 260,000/. Several of the directors, whose names stood for
10,000/. each, caused the figures to be altered to 20,000/. on
the day before the deed was sent to be deposited in the proper
office.

THE PRO-CHURCH-RATE DECEPTION. —We
have received a vast number of communications exposing the
manner in which the Clergy of the different parishes have got
up the petitions in favour of Church-rates. All agree that
these prayers for a tax are obtained either by misrepresenta-
tion or by fear. In several parishes in which petitions had
been numerously signed against Church-rates, many of those
who signed them, signed also the petition in favour of Church-
rates, being, as they avow, afraid to offend the Parson, who
has some power over them as the tithe-owner, or their land
lord to whom they are still more subject. From the parishes
of Currey Rivet and Othery we hyve received information that
the signatures in favour of the tax were obtained by the
grossest misrepresentation. One man writes to us that he
signed it, because he was told that it was to prevent the
Church being pulled down—another, because the person who
brought the petition told him that it was to save the Church
from the Dissenters, wholly concealing the fact that it was to
support Church-rates, to which, he adds, he is most hostile.
In another parish the same sort of fraud was transacted, and
the farmers, having now discovered the true state of the case,
and that the Ministerial plan not only relieves them from a
heavy rate, but makes a better provision for the support of the
Churches, have requested us to prepare counter petitions.—
Somerset County Chronicle.
A PARAGRAPH OF PLAGUES.—+AII elderly lady,
residing near Stratford, wishing to visit a friend in the city,
placed herself in an omnibus, having a small wire basket in
her lap containing some new-laid eggs, a present for her
friend. The " buss" reached Bow. " Town, sir ?" cried
i
the conductor—" Hold hard I" and n came a bulky gentleman,
who with considerable difficulty navigated his way to a va-
cant seat ; but ere he reached his destination on went the
buss, and down went the stranger plump in the lap of the
unfortunate Mrs. T., squash. The eggs were perfectly
fresh. "Set me down at Aldgate-pump, conductor." The
buss stopped. Mrs. T. stepped out, but very incautiously
stood upon the last step while she received her change ; when
" What is the reason that the drivers don't ascertain whether
everything is settled before they start ?" Off went the ve-
hicle, and down went the lady. She might have been hurt,
but luckily was not ; so she gathered herself up and wended
her way to her friend, where she discovered that her pocket,
containing a sovereign, a bunch of keys, and other articles
of small value, had been cut from her side, and that she had
taken a bad half-crown among her change,
which she for-
tunately had placed in a small bag she carried in her hand.
This was bad enough; but on arriving at home she learned
that her husband, who is considerably younger than herself,
had packed up every portable commodity and decamped accom
parried by her maid of all-work.