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

4.,
State affairs has done much for our private benefit."
Et is the " private benefit" that is at the bottom of
tale present opposition to the abolition of Church-rates,
told to the settlement of the Ecclesiastical Establishment
an a more Christian foundation. It is this that prompts
the zeal of the Bishops, and stimulates the servility of the
Litignitaries—it is the " private benefit" which produces
the cry of the " Church in danger," as it did of old
that of " Great is Diana of the Ephesians." It i
the craft that is in danger, and therefore the craftsr „n
squeak.

We understand the County of Middlesex is. .about to
znea to petition Parliament in favour of t',,, Ministe-
rial plan for the total abolition of Chu fell-rates. In
fact meetings are now being held, or 'aught to be held,
:111 over the country, for the same e-...cellent purpose.

We insert in another part e:f The Sun an Address
to the Yeomanry of EnglP:nd, by Mr. HAMLYN, on
the subject of Church-ittes, which will be found well
worthy the. attention. of our readers.

IThere is no political intelligence of any moment in
the Paris papers of Sunday. During the sitting of
the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, MM. LA-
CROSSE, ODILLON BARROT, and MAUGUIN, took
advantage of the presence of the Minister of Public
Instruction, to state severally, that it was well known
there was no longer a responsible Government, and
that before the Cabinet was constructed on a firm basis
it would be inexpedient to proceed with the examination
of the African question. M. GUIZOT admitted that
there existed difficulties, to which it could not be ex-
pected that he would allude more particularly, but that
the Royal wisdom would soon remove them ; his col-
leagues, however, were prepared to assume the respon-
sibility of Ministers of the Crown, as far as regarded
the Report on the Supplementary Credit, if the debate
upon it were continued. Several Members opposed
this, and maintained that the interests involved therein
were of too grave a nature to be presided over by a pro
tenzpore administration. Finally the Chamber decided
that the further consideration of the Report stood ad-
journed sine die, so that in point of fact the real business
of the Chamber is suspended till the KING decide
upon who are to be his Ministers. The Liberal Journals
contain curious accounts of the many conditions which
the KING'S friends attach to their acceptance of office.
Each has his hobby, and unless he be allowed to
mount him in the Royal presence—nay, unless his
colleagues are compelled to assist him in getting on at
a brisk pace—he will have nothing to do with official
responsibility. Of these political hearsays we shall
only give insertion to the following, from the Nouvelle
Minervc :
" The following have been the conditions insisted upon by
the different persons who have been solicited to form a part of
the new Cabinet :—M. Humann has declared that he must
have the conversion of the Five per Cents., his constant sine
qua non, and the reduction of the apanage of the Duke of
Nemours to 300,000 francs a year, as a simple dotation granted
by the State. Marshal Soult has demanded to be President
of the Council, and to have the absolute direction of the army.
He consents that the elements of the doctrinaire policy should
still exist in the Cabinet, but absolutely refuses to allow them
to dominate. The Duke de Broglie is for an immediate in-
tervention in Spain. Upon this point there is a fixed agree-
ment between him and M. Thiers, whose mania this project is.
M. Barthe refuses, unless his post as first President of the
Cour des Comptes be reserved for him, and he receive an in-
demnification in honours to make up for his personal discom-
forts on the occasion. M. D'Argout makes the same specula-
tion upon his place as Governor of the Bank of France. He
is, however, tolerably indifferent as to what portfolio he re-
ceives : his talent lies in every direction ; though, perhaps, he
would prefer to be Minister of Finance ; and he would insist
upon the repeal of the law passed relative to the savings' banks."
The trial of MEUNIER by the Chainber of Peers
will commence on Wednesday. Three tailors, seized
last week by the police, and reported to be co-conspica-
tors with the suicide champioh, are to be tried at the
same time. It is reported that the evidence against
them would not suffice for their conviction by a Jury.
Whether INIEuNt Ert will lose his head, or obtain a
pardon on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke
of Orleans, is very uncertain. The Queen of the
FRENCH was preparing to leave Brussels, to congratu-
late the Duke of ORLEANS OH the happy termination
of the marriage treaty. As a marter of course, the
French Church and King organs are scandalized at the
idea of an union with a Protestant Princess. The
Cler.-,,y and the old Legitimatists are exceedingly,
uneasy, and the good old Tory war-cry of " the
Church in danger" re-echoes through the central
departments. Our fanatics at home might learn a
lesson from this curious exhibition of intolerance.
A letter from Bologna of the 24th March says—" The
Cession of the Legauons to Austria. is again spoken of.
That power, it is desires to fortify in the provinces of
IZomagna a part called the Austrian Line. Austria has long
courted these provinces, but it is not at all probable that it will
succeed in obtaining possession of them. Rome daily excites
snore and more the discontent of the inhabitsnts, both by its
vexatious measures and by its incessant demands of money.
The di,tress in the capital is dreaCul, and the Treasury is 'en-
tirely empty. It is :.aid that Cardinal Bernetti is going again
to take p:trt in the Government as Secretary of State, and
that M. Tosti, the present Treasurer, who is not liked toy
Austria, will have a successor appointed."
The a, counts from the ports of Italy announce that consign-
ments of arms and ammunition are preparing there. In certain
letters it appears to be believed that there is an intention of
favouring projects against France, but we believe that nothing
further is contemplated than some assistance to the Carlist
cause in Spain.
The Envoys of Madagascar, immediately on their arrival at
Paris, acquainted the Minister of Foreign Affairs with their
mission, the object of which seems to be to establish an amica-
ble intercourse with France : but we believe that the Minister
has given them no answer. He has probably thought it his
duty to imitate the conduct of one of his predecessors to the
last Envoy from Haiti, who, after a stay of three months at
Paris, was obliged to depart without having obtained an au-
dience. Undoubtedly, before serious negociations are entered
upon with these Envoys, it is proper to be well convinced
respecting their mission ; but for that it is necessary to have
some intercourse with them, and for that also their communica-
tion should not be left unanswered. Such has not been the
conduct of the English Cabinet ; and even at Paris the kind
attention of the British Government is continued to the En-
voys from Madagascar, for they received an invitation to an
evening party at the Hotel of the English Legation, and we
believe that they went to it.—. Journal du Commerce, April 2.

A Pamphlet entitled " The Java Question ; a Few
Plain Words addressed to the Justice and Good
Sense of Great Britain—by a Dutchman," has just
been published by M ACRONE. It is a laboured de-
fence of the conduct of the Dutch Government, in
imposing a duty of 25 per cent. on British woollens
imported into Java—conduct which has been de-
nounced in the House of Commons by the Noble Fo-
reign Secretary as a violation of the treaty of
the 17th of March, 1824. The writer manifests
an intimate acquaintance with that section of the Inter-
national code which regulates the interpretation of ob-
ligatory treaties ; and though exceedingly hurt that
any imputation should be cast upon the proverbial
good faith of his country, he argues the question with
moderation, rarely permitting himself to recriminate
upon the accusers of his Government. But much as
we respect his ability, we believe that a perusal
of the two first Articles of the Treaty of 1824,
which he correctly quotes in his Pamphlet, can leave
no doubt on the mind of any impartial person as to
the soundness of Lord PALMERSTON'S opinion of
the Dutch observance, or rather violation, of it. They
are as follows :
" Art. 1. The high contracting parties engage to admit the
subjects of each other to trade with their respective posses-
sions in the Eastern Archipelago and on the continent of India
and in Ceylon, upon the footing of the most favoured nations ;
their respective subjects conforming themselves to the local
regulations and settlements.
" Art. 11. The subjects and vessels of one nation shall
not pay, upon importation or exportation, at the ports of the
other, in the Eastern Seas, any duty at a rate beyond the
double of that at which the subjects and vessels of the nation to
which the port belongs are charged.
" 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 ex-
ceed six per cent."
The second section of Article 11. is thus observed
by the King of HOLLAND ;--His MAJESTY, in