The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-25 00:00:00

COWES-ISLE OF WIGHT.

Captain the Hon. Dudley IV. A. Pelham, R.N., second
son of the Earl of Yarborough, is appointed to the com-
mand of her Majesty's sloop Wasp, at Portsmouth, and
commissioned her this day.
'F. P. Halsey, Esq. will start in his yacht Fanny, for
Plymo4th Arid Madeira. to=morrow, if the wind will allow.
i. N. Harvey, Esq. is here altering the rig of his yacht
Menai from a schooner to a brigantine, and will sail early
in the spring
for a ,';',!ise to Madeira, Ireland, Scotland,
Norway;taia:tg and
dry Russia,bare,
T built by Mr. Michael I3atsey, at this
port, for the Duke of Treviso, was this day shipped in a
steamerfor France, being intended fur his seat at Sceaux,
near Paris.

It is calculated that after the opening of the Southampton
Railway a person may make a trip to the Isle of Wight
and back again for twenty shillings, and, in one day, that
full one thousand persons will land at Cowes on a Saturday
during the summer months from the great metropolis. The
passage from Southampton to Cowes is expected to be
made for sixpence on account of the groat numbers that
will go into the island by that route.
Cowes, Oct. 24, 1837.

(Fusther Extracts from the New York and Quebec papers,
received to the 3d inst., inclusive.)
WAR IN FLORIDA.
(From the Se. Auyusting Herald, Sept. 15.)
IMPORTANT CAPTURE--PHILIP Af VFIIEE BILLY TAKEN--
DEATH OF LIEUTENANT WS :ILL
We hate the gratification of announcing to our rendera
the capture of the nOted Indian Chiefs, Philip and Uchec
Billy, together with several warriors, squaws, and children,
by the forces under General Hernandez, on Saturday and
Sunday last. The Ithele number captured amounts to 35,
who were brOght into town yesterday, accompanied by the
whole battalion.
INDIAN TREATY.—On Friday last the treaty entered
into between the Secretary of War for the United States
and the deputation of Sioux Indians ts-as signed at Wash-
ington by the contracting parties. While the Indians were
standing around the Secretary, before signing the treaty,
several of them addressed him with great earnestness,
begging that they might be paid in dollars and half-dollars,
and no other kind of money ; that their white missionary
might be permitted to remain among them, and that their
father the President, to whom they have given the signi-
ficant cognomen of the " Little Fox," would be pleased
to send among them a fair dealer to trade with them.
They complained of the impositions which the traders
had previously practised upon them, and hoped to be
freed from their exactions. They hoped that the great
father and his people would hold fast the bonds of peace ;
and, after each of the Chiefs had taken hold of the pen
as directed, they concluded the treaty, shook hands with
the Secretary and every one upon the platform, and then
left the church.
COUNTERFEITS.—WC learn that counterfeit notes on
the Bank of Virginia arc in circulation in this city. They
consist of 10 dols. of the Petersburg Branch, dated July,
1832, payable to John F. May, and signed by J. Brock-
enbrough, president, and W. Dandridge, cashier. It will
be remembered that Mr. Dandridge has not been cashier
for many years. Also 5 dols. of the Lynchburgh Branch,
payable to Norvell, and signed by J. Brockenbrough,
president, and W. Dandridge, cashier, dated in 1819 ; and
S dols. of the Charleston Branch, signed by J. Brockeii-
brough, president, and A. Robinson, cashier—the latter
without numbers or letters, and well executed.—Richmond
Whig.
COUNTERFEIT BILLS.—John Mitchell Livingston was
last Saturday evening arrested for having uttered two
counterfeit 10 dol. bills on the Bank of Pensylvania. The
counterfeits in question are payable to the order of H.
Clay, dated April 16, 1833, signed by J. Trotter, cashier,
and Joseph Norris, president. On the evening mentioned,
Livingston called at the store of Mr. Michael Madigan,
No. 83, West-street, and tendered one of the two bills in
payment for a hat which he there purchased. Livingston
exhibited a third bill on a Baltimore bank (believed to be
also a forgery), which he threw away while on his road to
the watchhouse.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.—It is stated that
Mr. May Humphreys has been appointed agent to reside
at Liverpool. It is in contemplation to send an agent to
France. No selection, however, has yet been made for
this appointment. These arrangements must prove very
advantageous to the banks, in every point of view, and will
save them a large amount of money which they now ex-
pend in the shape of commissions to the Barings, of Lon-
don, and Hottinguer and Co., of Paris.—Philadelphia
Commercial Herald.
GOLD IN VIRGINIA.—The Fredericksburg Arena of
the 26th says—" We were shown last week twelve bars
of gold, weighing 1,800 dwts., and of the value of about
1,900 dollars, the result of the last month's work at the
Culpepper Mine, with a very moderate force.
NEWSPAPERS.—There are about 1,200 newspapers
established in the United States, from which arc issued, at
a moderate calculation, 100,000,000 printed sheets annu-
ally, which, if in one continuous sheet, would reach four
times from pole to pole, and, if embodied in a book form,
would be equal to issuing six volumes as large as the Bible
every minute in the year.
The yellow fever is really in Natchez. By passengers
on board the steamer Atalanta, arrived this morning, we
learn the deaths from the disease are from 10 to 14 daily—
no great mortality for a place like Natchez.—Picayune,
Sept. 21.
The fever, we arc told by physicians, is declining ra-
pidly. The new cases have decreased very much in num-
ber; the disease does not appear to assume the malignant
type which is usual as the season advances ; most of the
attacks are of a mild character, and yield to gentle reme-
dies.—New Orleans Paper, Sept. 24.
STEAMER NEW ENGLAND SUNK.—The steamer, New
England, when four miles below Gardiner, Maine, on Fri-
day afternoon last, on her passage to Boston, struck a rock
on Bailey's Point, and filled. Passengers, crew, freight,
and baggage saved.
TEXAS.—The Texas Telegraph of the 22d ult. states,
that a young man, named Jackson M. Parker, had been
killed by the Indians near the Neuces, and that a large party
of the Camanches were laying waste the whole country for
many miles west of Rio Grande. Nearly all the wealthy
Mexicans were removing with their families to Zacatecas,
fearing the approach of the Texian army. Mr. Buchanan,
of the firm of Hensley and Buchanan, had also been killed
by the Indians, near the Sevilla. It appears that this gen-
tleman and Mr. Hensley went out to catch their horses,
and, while thus occupied, were assailed by 15 or 21 In-
dians. Mr. Buchanan was instantly shot down. Mr.
Hensley fortunately made his escape, after revenging the
death of his partner by shooting down at his side one of the
foremost of the murderers.
Two men, supposed to be Messrs. Ross and Stevens,
have been found murdered and scalped near Goliad. They
had fallen probably under the hands of the Tipans, as a
party of those Indians had long infested that neighbourhood.
Governor Houston has issued a proclamation, calling to-
gether on Monday, the 25th ult., the senators and repre-
sentatives at Houston, for purposes connected with the
boundary question.
PERNAMBUCO, AUG 15.—Since the accounts have been
received here of the bad state of things in England, little
has been done in the shipping of produce, and the remit-
tances have been chiefly made in specie ; the late packets
from Rio to England, which at this time of the year call
here, also the vessels to Liverpool, have taken a great deal
of silver and gold. Notwithstanding the great demand.
there has been for silver, the premium has risen but little
above what it has been at for a long time ; say 1 400 for
dollars, the price is 1 529 for Mexican dollars, and 1 580
for Spanish ones ; and still there continues to be a great
demand, but when the sugar crop conies in there will be a
demand for it in the European markets.
QUEBEC, SEPT. 2G.—Various rumours were yesterday
afloat in this city, after the arrival of the mail from the
Lower Provinces, respecting the movements of the militia
of Maine on the disputed territory, to enforce a settlement
of the boundary question, and effect the release of Greely,
who, having returned to Madawaska, has been arrested,
and at the latest dates from Fredericton was a prisoner in
the gaol of that city. Some reports went so far as to as-
sert that the Maine militia had actually entered the Mada-
waska settlement, and that a collision having actually fakes)
place between them and the troops of her Majesty, the
Lieutenant-Governor had proceeded to the scat of war to
repel the invasion. Such arc the various reports which
have been in circulation. We believe, and on good
! grounds, that at the latest dates matters stood thus :
Greely had been arrested, and was in limbo at Fredericton ;
the Governor of the State of Maine had threatened to send
another agent, supported by a military force, to complete
the census, in the making of which Greely had been inter-
rupted ; that two companies of the 43d Light Infantry had
been sent from Fredericton, the one to Woodstock, the
other to the Grand Falls, to be in readiness to act if re-
quired ; and that a company of the same regiment had, con-
sequently, been sent from St. John's to the seat of Govern-
ment ; and his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with
the Hon. Lady Harvey and their daughter, Miss Harvey,
were about to proceed to the Grand Falls on a visit to Sir
John Caldwell. These movements arc mentioned in letters
from wellsinformed persons in Fredericton, dated the 16th
of September, also in a letter dated the Grand Falls, and
we give them to our readers as the most correct informa-
tion which has reached our city.

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The packets at Fahnouth have within the last fort-.
night occasionally gone out of harbour for the purpose of
exercising the crews in naval gunnery, This is said to
have been ordered in consequence of the appearance of
formidable piratical vessels in the West Indian seas and the
Gulf of Mexico, preteading to sail under the flag of the
Texian Government, They have captured several vessels
and sent them into Matagorda and Galveston, where they
have been held for ransom or gutted of their contents. The
Eliza, a British vessel from Liverpool, bound to
Cam-
peachy, was captured under the pretence of having Mexi-
can property on board.—Devonport Telegraph.

At a late hour on Sunday night, a man whose
name has since been ascertainsd to be Richard Brown, a
journeyman baker, was discovered by the police lying ex
tended on the footway pavement in Holywell-lane, Shore-
ditch, in a complete state of insensibility. He was removed
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where it was discovered that
he had received two blows on the top of his head, which
must have been inflicted with tremendous force with some
blunt heavy instrument, such as an iron bar. He has
since continued in a state of stupor, and is not expected
to recover.

A RADICAL'S REASON FOR OBJECTING TO
A CONSERVATIVE'S VOTE.—On Saturday last, in the Re-
vising Barrister's Court at Sutton Coldfield, Mr. Solomon
Bray, when asked why he objected to the vote of a Con-
servative landlord, gave as his reason that the landlord
treated his tenant at the rent day to two bottiof; of port !

It is a foul and scandalous libel upon eight millions
of British citizens to assert that those laws and insti-
tutions which " uphold peace and order," and " con-
stitute social comfort among. men, and render existence
tolerable," are maintained in Ireland, any more than
in Eag,',snd, by armed force. The assertion is as false
as the source hr.rom which it proceeds is infamous. It
is absurdity and inius:ice alone that in any country in
the world require the bays:net to support them. We
said that the Established Churcia in Ireland " is sup-
ported by the bayonet," because, in its present condi-
tion, it wants the supports of reason and justice. t
is precisely because it is not, in its present form and
dimensions, an institution that " upholds order, con-
stitutes social comfort, and makes existence tolerable,"
but diametrically the opposite of such an institution—
it is precisely for this reason that we are forced to
keep on foot a special standing army of some
fifreeen thousand men to sustain it against the
universal sense and feeling of the country. The
English Church, surrounded by the affections of
a numerous body of the people, exists with-
out protection from the Horse-Guards. The
Scottish Church, entrenched behind ins popular
character and usefulness, would not be in the s;ightest
degree endangered were every soldier in the ?Me
cashiered to-morrow. The foundations of both of these
establishments are broad and national, and hence we
see their altars secure without artillery, and the reve-
nues of their Ministers collected without the sabre.
Suppose the high privileges and splendid endowments
of the Established Church in England violently trans-
ferred to one of the numerous sects of which the
great body of English Dissenters is made up, a sect
counting, we shall say, only a million of followers-
-we suspect the bayonet would be a convenience to
the new establishment; we suspec!. its Ministers would
have reason to bless Heaven for the fi:vention of gun-
powder ; we know very little of the Englisb charac-
ter and spirit if we are net the very last nation on the
face of the globe who would submit for one hour to
the system which we tax ourselves enormously to sup-
port in Ireland, for no other object—certainly with no
other effect—than to murder the repose of our fellow-
subjects, and place a permanent and impassable ob-
stacle before the march of the Protestant religion.
Imagine Saint Paul's gorgeous structure turned
upside-down—its vast foundations in mid air—
its sole basis the square foot of pavement on which
you may fancy the ball to rest—and you have a just
figure of the absurd and perilous situation of the
Church in Ireland, resting (if such a position can
rest be called) upon scarce a decimal of the people.
The conveniency, as a place of worship, of the in-
verted cathedral, is a perfect image of the national
utility of the establishment in question ; while in the
comfort and security which we may suppose to reign
amongst the inhabitants of St. Paul's Church-yard,
with that stupendous pile of masonry nodding and
swinging over their heads, you see, not inaptly illus-
trated, the easy condition of the Irish people under
the shadow of an institution in which they see nothing
but a glaring absurdity and a great oppression. The
bayonet alone can sustain such an institution ; the
bayonet alone can support an establishment so utterly
anti-national—a Church that exists neither " in the
people, or with the people, or for the people," but
without the people and against the people—a Church
from which, not the mere majority, but the vast bulk
of the population derive no more advantage, temporal
or spiritual, than they do from the muftis of Turkey,
or the Priests of Juggernaut. The Irish people are
not Protestants, but Catholics. The population of
Ireland is divided as follows:
Roman Catholics..
Members of the Established Church 852,064
Presbyterians, &c 664,164
Putting the Roman Catholic population altogether
out of the question, time Church in Ireland would have
no more than a bare majority of the Protestant popu-
lation within its pale, and could not with any propriety
be called a National Establishment. We hear a great
deal of Protestant Ulster, the Protestant North, and
so forth. We dare say many Englishmen labour
under the delusion that in that part of Ireland, at
least, the Established Church embraces an over-
whelming majority of the people. Now what are the
facts ? The population of the ecclesiastical province
of Armagh is thus classified in the last census :
Roman Catholics 1,9.55,123
Members of the Established Church 517,722
Presbyterians, &c
Thus, in the most Protestant part of Ireland, the
very head-quarters of Protestantism, the members of
the Establishmeut are little more than a fourth of the
Catholic population ; nay, -more, they are in a mino-
rity of nearly 150,000 as compared with the Presbyte•
rians and other Protestant Dissenters. The Presby-
terians alone amount to 638,073, exceeding the
members of the Established Church by more than
120,000. We find even in the province of Armagh
no fewer than 131 parishes, each containing lsss than
fifty members of the Establishment, and 29 parishes
without so much as a solitary old woman to mutter
the responses after the parson. Now, when we add
that to maintain the Church of this diminutive mino-
rity, its priesthood arc endowed with a revenue of
800,000/. per annum, and possess domains to the vast
extent of nearly 800,000 acres, is it marvellous that
we have to add to the naked burden of the institution
he expense of maintaining fifteen thousand bayonets
o perform the office which iu England and Scot-
' 's performed by public opinion and popular affec-
Who, then, are the friends of this Establish-
ncnt, and who are its enemies ? There is evidently
Jut one way of manifesting friendship towards it, by
reducing, by modifying, by reforming it. Reform it
liberally, substantially, and, above all, speedily. The
undertaking may be difficult, but it is worth a trial ;
for there is certainly no other way of preserving the
fabric from total do wnfal. Flagrantly disproportioned
as it is to the numbers of its members and the re-
sources of the country—utterly destitute as it is of all
support of a moral nature—answering no purpose, po-
litical or religious, on which a Church Establishment
has ever been advocated—commanding no general
respect, homage, or affection ; but, on the contrary,
challenging the utmost degree of popular hostility ;
:ievcr,•certainly, was an institution in a position of
so much danger; never, certainly, were the friends
of a,: institution so imperiously called upon to
bestir thesnselves in its cause, and by timely reform
avert total ruins We said some time since that
" there was no such thing in strict Constitutional
parlance as an Irish question." The Standard ac-
cuses us of a departure front this principle in a late
article upon the present subject, and asks " what
ground there is for separating Irelm:!1 from England
in this matter ?" We make no such separation ; on
the contrary, there is no question in which we hold
the interests of the two islands to be so closely arssl in-
dissolubly bound up together. We know no• question
more emphatically British than that of the Reform
of the Church in Ireland, and it is solely for its Re-
form that we contend. If the peace and welfare of a
third of the empire and the honour and advancement
of the Protestant religion are British questions, as-
suredly Irish Church Reform deserves the appellation.
However, as our Contemporary, considers the opinion*
of Mr. Hallam "nonsense," it is little surprising that
he should have misapprehended the object with which
we quoted them.—Morning chronicle.
Lord Durham's speech at the late meeting of his
toadeaters, if not an able exhibition, was at least a
curious one. It was a speech which did not confine
its disclosures to those points which the speaker was
ostensibly desirous to bring in a prominent manner
before the public eye. His Lordship did, it must be
admitted, state broadly enough, and with a view to a
certain purpose, his anxiety for some formidable
changes in the ancient law of the country, affecting
the relation between the upper and lower classes of
Englishmen. He declared himself for short Parlia-
ments, household suffrage, and the ballot ; and this
answered extremely well for the Radical gobemouches
of Durham, who had, it seems, relaxed in their alle-
giance to the Noble Lord, from suspecting him of
some slight tendency to incline towards moderate and
sound 4inions. But the Noble Earl, in his eager-
ness to display one object, left open to public detec-
tion others which he would gladly have concealed. He
forgot that, while stating principles, he was actually
recording pledges against himself and his own fu-
ture free agency. He forgot that, while strength-