The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-31 00:00:00

LATE DUEL

(From the Durham Advertiser.)
The following address has been forwarded, by the
clergymen whose names are affixed to it, to the Marquis
of Londonderry. No true Christian can dissent from
the sentiments it expresses, and we feel assured that
the Noble Lord will respond to the eloquent yet simple
appeal in a strain which cannot fail to give satisfaction
to those who have deemed it their duty to expostulate
with the Noble Lord on the subject referred to :
" To the Most Hon. the Marquis of Londonderry, &c.
" We, the undersigned clergy ot Ripon, Thirsk, and
the neighbourhood, as we woad address your Lordship
with every feeling and expression of respect befitting
your exalted rank and station, so would we entreat you
to receive this our representation with that deference
which is due to the God and Saviour whose word
we minister, and whose authority we assert.
" We cannot forbear thus to state our sincere and
deep regret, that by the part which your Lordship, in
compliance with the unchristian usages of the upper
classes of society, took in a duel with Mr. H. Grattan,
you should have given the sanction of your high rauk
and station to a practice which so grievously violates
the law of God and the spirit of Christianity, no less
than the interests of the community.
" We are fully sensible that, even in this Christian
land, however anomalous it be,.-'-any one shall insist
upon the word of God as paramount to the sanctions
of public opinion, or upon the spirit of Christianity
as more worthy of our regard and deference than the
spirit of the age, he must expose himself both
to obloquy and to treatment which nothing
less than the highest degree of Christian courage,
and a sincere attachment to the Divine word,
can enable:him alike with meekness and with constancy
to bear ; and we readily, though with much sorrow, ad.
mit that upon one in your Lordship's high station that
obloquy and treatment would bear with its utmost
power ; but we would, at the same time, beg your
Lordship to consider how, in the same degree, the
example would have been influential for good instead
of evil, and the benefit great to society at large, and
how it would have contributed to the ascendancy of
Christian principles, if your Lordship, instead of bow-
ing to the evil requirements of a worldly code, had silt:
ply, but courageously, asserted, from
,the high vantage
ground which your exalted station gives you, those
Christian principles which ought to regulate the con-
duct of every rank ; and if your Lordship had availed
yourself of the late occasion, both as a Christian sena-
tor and nobleman, of applying those principles to social
and public life, and of substituting' them for that perni-
cious rule by which society, and especially its upper
classes, hath hitherto been governed.
" We should humbly submit that we are compelled to
view this transaction in connexion with that Church for
whose excellencies and privileges_ Jour Lordship is a
strenuous advocate, and to exhibit it as detrimental to
the spread of spiritual influence, without which religion
is but an empty name, a thing.unsanctioned and un-
blessed by God, and as calculated to draw down the
wrath of God no less upon an acquiescing Church and
people than the actual offenders.

"We cannot but express our hope that this our
humble representation, which a regard for society, your
Lordship, and our holy calling forbids us to withhold,
may be received with your wonted candour ; and
we it lay before your Lordship with the earnest
prayer that you may be endued with the grace, wisdom,
and understanding which shall enable you to see
and to repair your error, and that it may be so blessed
by God, that it may be subservient to your Lordship's
good, and through your instrumentality to that of so-
ciety, and to the ascendancy of those holy and blessed
principles which your Lordship has been counselled so
fearfully to violate, and by which alone as a Christian
people we ought t 3 be guided and governed.
" We have the honour to subscribe ourselves,
" Your Lordship's most humble and faithful
servants,
" H. J. DUNCOMBE, Rector of Kirby Sigston.
" W. C. BURGESS, Vicar of Osmotherly.
" J. W. STEELE, Incumbent of Harlsey.
" H. B. CARR, Curate of Northallerton.
" J. IBBETSON, Incumbent of Great Ayton.
" J. WILKINSON, Incumbent of Redcar.
" J. BOWSTEAD, Curate of Danby Wiske.
" J. WEBBER, Dean of Ripon.
" R. POOLE, jun., Vicar of Ripon Cathedral.
" J. CHARGE, Rector of Copgrove.
" H. STOC KEN, Incumbent of Arkendale.
" J.W. WurrEslDE, Incumbent of Trinity Church,
Ripon.
" J. ABBOT, Curate of Trinity Church, Ripon.
" W. PLUES, Curate of Aldfiald.
" A. CHEAP, Vicar of Knaresborough.
C. HART, Curate of Knaresborough.
" R. HARTLEY, Rector of Staveley.
" T..KENNION, Incnmbent of High Harrogate.
" T. SHANN, Vicar of Hampsthwaite.
" W. KING, Curate of High Harrogate.
" G. DIG BY, Incumbent of Low Harrowgate.
" H. ARMSTRONG, Curate of Boroughbridge.
" J. ROBERTSON, Curate of Burton Leonard.
" J. B. WRITES, Curate of Thornton.
" S. COATES, Incumbent of Thirsk.
" E. JOWETT, Curate of Feliskirk.
" D. A. BEAUFORT, Curate of Sandhutton.
" R. MEEK, Rector of Richmond.
" J. B. BIRTWIIISTLE, Incumbent of Holy Trinity,
Richmond.
" G. ATKINSON', Curate of Grinton,
" T. Rosso's, Curate of Hudswell."

COURSE OF EXC/1,1
A asterdani C.F. 12 7
Ditto, at sight ............... 12 4
Rotterdam " U. 12 71,,
Antwerp...
1-I.imlaurg.
A1t0na.....
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 49
Ditt0........ .... ...3 Ms '2s 70
Marseilles
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Blaine, I:x.111.151%,
Petersbuigh, ruble... 3 Us 39
Berlin
Vienna, effective t1...3 M lO 8
Trieste ditto lO 11
Ifadrid 36N
Cadiz.... • 36:
Bilboa .....
R acelona 164
geville 36,,

NGE, YESITRDAY.
litbraitar 4B
Leghorn '3o 20
Genoa..
Milan
31
Venice ...
Naples
Palermo per oz. 11204
Lisbon 544
Oporto
Rio Janeir0........ .......
Bahia
Buenos Ayres 27
New York, 11 days' sight 464
Philadelphia .... . .. .
PRICE OF BULLION,.. per OZ.
Portugal Gold, e0in....40 0 0
Foreign Gold, in bars... 3 17 9
New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0
New Dollars
Silver in Bars

„
THE A. BITER BITTEN.— piscatorial lawyer,
a short time ago, in the course of a,predatory excursion
against the finny tribe, seas throwing his lino in the river
Welland at a village three or four miles to the west of
Stamford, when he hooked a very fine pike : it required
some litle exercise of skill to get him to land, and his
exertions were eagerly regarded by a gaping native : he
was at length successful, and the gaping fish was laid upon
the bank. Hodge expressed his wonderment at the
open jaws and sharp teeth of Mr. Pike, and was advised
by the lewyer (w ho was thinking, perhaps, of the many
clients he had himself bitten) to put his finger in the fish's
m'Aith, by way of an experiment : ” Nue, boa," said
Hodge, " but he may jist tak' a grip o' my dog's tail, if he
loike." Suiting the action to the word, he inserted
the tip of the dog's tail between the jaws of the pike,
which were instantly closed. Away went the dog, and
away went the fish dangling at his tail, to the gratification
of the countryman, and to the dismay of the cunning law-
yer. The latter raised a shout to stop the thief, and en-
treated Hedge to call back his dog ; but calling WAS of no
use, they were soon out of sight, and the fish was irretrievably
lost to Quill-driver, but :vas soon deposited beneath the
humble roof of the villager, who left the lawyer endea-
vouring to catch another fish, but not very well pleased at
being outwitted by a rustic, who had thus proved himself
glebe the cleverer conveyancer of the two,
-_Stamford
—Starnford
rcury.
Mr. T. Cooke, who is making a tour on the
Continent in search of some musical novelty, has succeeded
in obtaining an opera, which he intends adapting to the
English stage. We trust he may be as successful in this
as he was in adapting " Gustavus, "La France,"
" Noma," &c.

Moreover, we regard Lord JOHN
RUSSELL as
a man of greater abilities than his colleague, and
we cannot for one moment fancy that the post of
Home Secretary will not be of much more import-
ance in the next, and every succeeding Session of
Parliament, than the offiCc of Secretary of the
Colonies. On this account, also, we think the
change is not an advantageous one.
Its advantages seem to be these :—Lord JOHN