The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-07 00:00:00

BRIGHTON.

The weather has been so intensely cold during the whole
of the past week, as totally to interfere with the gaity of the
place. The promenaders in our streets and walks have been
few and far between ; the theatre, in despite of the attraction
of Templeton and Miss P. Horton, has been nearly deserted,
and the aspect of the town is cheerless and dismal. The gale
on Saturday morning amounted to a hurricane, and occa-
sioned some considerable amount of damage in the shape of
broken windows, tiles and chimney pots, &c. &c.
Sir Loftus and Lady Otway ..re among our departures of
distinction.

Viscount and Viscountess Sydney are guests at the Albion.
The lion. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley have quitted Regency.
square for the metropolis. •
Lady Monson is at No. 6, Regency-square.
- - - -

Sir Frederick Lawley is staying at Renlich House, Marine
Parade.

Lord Wicklow is on the list of departures.
We regret to say tliat Mr. Charles Kean is seriously indis-
posed. He remains at Bath, unable to prosecute his journey
to Edinburgh to fulfil an engagement.

SPORTIi\ G INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL' S-YESTRRDi r.
THE DERBY.

The favourites, it will be p.rceived, maintain their relative posi-
tions, without any increase in the number or eagerness of their-
backers. Mango was talked up a couple of points, but not backed,
and 18 to 1 taken to fifty pounds about Mahometan, now at Lea-
therhead. Caravan was backed for a small sum, and Norgrove for
a hundi2ed pounds, at five pounds less than were betted last week.
The betting on the whole was flat, and the alterations of very little
importance :-
7• to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Jerced—cffered
Si to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Bro. to Bay Middleton—offered
13 to 1 agst Captain Gardner's Benedict—Phantasima colt—
take 14 to 1
15 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Mango—take 17 to 1
18 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mahometan—taken
20 to I agst Lord Suffield's Caravan—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Troilus—take 25 to 1
25 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Dardanelles—offered
34 to 1 agst Mr. Bowers's Lord Stafford—tazen
35 to 1 asst Lord Exeter's Hybiscus—offered
35 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Clifton—offered
35 to 1 agst Mr. Cookes's Norgrove—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Brother to Mouelie—offered
500 to 50 agst Clifton, Brother to Mouche, Critic, Hybiscus, and
May- Day—taken

THE PORTLAND HANDICAP, P.P.
12 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Felix—taken

WARWICK RACES.
The following is a list of the entries for the Trial Stakes :
Lord Warwick's ch. f. by the Colonel, dam Niobe, 2 yrs
Colonel Peel's b. c. Fantastic, 2 yrs
Captain Lamb's ch. c. Chit Chat, 2 yrs
Mr. Rawlinson's h. c. by Fenissus, dam by Whalebone, 2 yrs
Mr. West's b. g. by Shaver, darn Rachel Ruysch, 2 yrs
Mr. Sadler's b. f. Guess, 2 yrs
Mr. Lacey's b. c. Subaltern, by Filho, 2
.7rs
Mr. Lucas's b. f. Talebearer, by Incubus—Tell-Tale's dam, 2 yrs
Mr. Cooke's Salterella, 2 yrs

BATH STEEPLE CHASE.-SATURDA r.

A Sweepstakes of 15 soya. each, 10 ft., for horses of all ages,
12st. each, gentlemen riders, with 50 sovs. added by Bath and
its vicinity. Four miles in the vale of Dryham, over a splendid
line, with about 50 fences and many walls.
Deceiver and Foreigner Were first and second favourites ; b to 1
against Laura ; 15 to l against Fieschi ; and 100 to 3 against Billy
and Brush.
Mr. Munro's Fieschi Captain Beecher 1
Mr. Heythorn's b. g. Sailor Owner 2
Captain Richardson's b. g. Deceiver
Mr. Marshall's b. g. Foreigner Mr. Patrick 4
Mr. Sadlet's ch. vn. Laura
Mr. Pierrepont's b. g. Benedict ... Mr. Chandler 0
Sir L. Glyn's Paganini
Mr: Jenkins's Brush
Mr. Goldstone's Billy the Rover Mr. Rose 0
_ _

Paganini went off at a great paee, but about half way stumbled
at a wall, threw his rider, and bolted. Deceiver, hitherto a great
way behind, took the lead at about five fields from home, which lie
continued till the last brook, when the horse made a short leap,
stumbled, and threw his rider. Fieschi then came up, cleared the
brook, and won easily ; Sailor being second, Deceiver third, and
Foreigner fourth ; but only three placed. Laura made an awkward
blunder about two miles from home and put out Mr. Sadler's
shoulder. All had falls except Benedict and Sailor.

THE NEW "WORK ON EGYPT AND CANDIA, BY
CAPTAIN SCOTT. —These are exceedingly interesting volumes.
We can assure our readers that on every subject which falls
under the notice of Captain Scott, the capabilities of a mind of
great strength and acuteness are most profitably expended
The object of the writer is to make his countrymen acquainted
with the actual state of Egypt under the vigorous government
of Mohammed Ali—to point out her resources—the character
of the policy pursued by her present ruler, and the nature of
that commercial system which he has adopted ; and we have
only to add that we know of no work where the same quantity
of useful information on these important points is to be ob-
tained. We return the gallant Captain our best thanks for
the pleasure and information we have derived from his bootc.—
Glasgow Courier.
THE POET CAMPBELL.--S 0 many are the per-
sons who take a warm and hearty interest in all the effusions
proceeding from the pen of the" Bard of Hope," that no small
gratification must be felt on the appearance of his " Letters
from the South," the result of his late sojourn in Algiers.
These letters are amongst the most charming of his productions.
As a literary bonne bouche they will be read with delight, and,
as describing a country almost unknown, with peculiar interest.
Until Lord Exmouth's bombardment of Algiers and its subse-
quent surrender to the French; this portion of Moorish terri.
tory was a " sealed book." Mr. Campbell has unfolded its
leaves, and opened its pages to our perusal, enriched by the
touch of his magic pen.
The signature of a mechanic to the sentiments and
expression of a man of education is a prouder signature than
the signature of a Peer. There cannot be a more glorious
title than that of mechanic in connection with enlightenment.
—Examiner.

LONDON,
TUESDAY- EVENING, MARCH 7, 1837.

In the House of Lords yesterday the proceedings possessed
but little interest, being chiefly flaked to the presentation of
petitions, and to the forwarding some Bills a stage.
_ _

In the House of Commons the affairs of Canada formed the
principal subject of debate. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, with ex-
treme-reluctance, proposed a series of resolutions relative to
that Colony, which will be found in our report.
Mr. LEADER - designated the resolutions arbitrary and coer-
cive, expressed his astonishment that such a series should have
emanated from a liberal government, and moved as an amend-
ment " that the Legislative Council be made elective." Mr.
ROEBUCK seconded the amendment. The amendment was
supported also by Sir W. MOLESWORTH, Colonel THOMPSON,
and Mr. O'CONNELL.

Mr. RoHrNsoN and Sir G. GREY spoke in support of the Mi-
nisterial resolutions, after which the debate was adjourned to
Wednesday.
Several private Bills were advanced a stage.
A petition was announced complaining of the undue return
of Mr. Vinoas for Carlow.

•
Mr. WALTER'S motion for adding certain persons to the
Committee on the Poor Law Act was negatived by 28.
On the occasion of an " Enclosure Bill" Mr. HOME gave
notice that in all such Bills provision should be made to reserve
portions of the land for the benefit of the Poor.
The Imprisonment for Debt Bill was ordered to be recom-
mitted on Monday next. Mr. RICIIARDS iterated his hostility
to the measure. Mr. PATTISON said that almost every per-
son in the City of London approved of its principle.
After Mr. SIIIEL had answered questions relating to Church-
rates, and to the Irish Poor Law Bill, the House adjourned at a
Quarter to One o'clock this morning.

It will be seen by a re eren e to our Parliamentary Re-
port, that Mr. WALTER, not satisfied with having wasted
the time of the House for two whole nights, with his fac-
tious motion on the Poor Law Amendment Act, again
made a large draught on its patience last night. The Hon.
Member has, it seems, discovered that the Committee ap-
pointed to investigate the administration of the new law
is not constituted exactly as he could have wished—that is,
has not a majority of its members pledged to the repeal of
that law. We think this is carrying the joke too far. If
Mr. WALTER had any objection to the Committee,
or wished any members to be added to it, the proper time
for effecting his object was when the Committee was named.
But did he do this ? No ;ho acquiesced in the original
appointment, and now when the Committee has entered upon
its duties, he comes down and proposes to increase its
number by a full third"!
The purpose for which this is done is evident. The
junior Member for Berkshire was quite aware that his
motion would not be granted indeed, could not be
granted without departing from the acknowledged
usages of the House ; but the refusal of the mo-
tion might possibly be distorted into a ground of sus-
picion that foul play was intended, and a handle might
thus be given to the opponents of the Act out of doors
to raise a clamour among the ignorant and the interested.
The plan will not succeed. The Committee consists of
men of all parties, and of all views'on this particular ques-
tion, against none of whom can a charge of partiality in dis-
charging a public duty be maintained, though an insinuation
(sub rosa) was pointed at the Hon. Member for Middle,.
sex. Mr. HUME'S honesty and straightforwardness are too
well kdown, and too highly appreciated by the public, to
require any vindication from such an imputation, more par-
ticularly when it comes from such a quarter.

Whatever the Tories may have been in the days of PITT
and DUNDAS, when men of irreproachable character were
banished or hanged for demanding Reform, they certainly
have become within the last ten years the most unfortunate
of politicians. All their skill and foresight and worldly pru-
dence appear to have left them, and in no instance is this
more observable than in their policy towards the Esta-
blished Church, and in the little attempts they have made
to acquire popularity, either with the members of that
Church, or the Dissenters. While they are proclaiming
without intermission, and till the ear is tired with the
sound, that the object of the Whigs is to destroy the
Church, and that come what may, they will resist every at-
tempt to interfere with her rights—that they will stand by
the cause of religion, and protect with their shield those
that minister at the altar—what, in the meantime, has
been the result of their policy ? The Irish Clergy, trust-
ing to their promises of support, refused to accept a rea-
sonable offer for the settlement of Tithes—the Tories en-
couraged them to persevere till they were robbed of these
Tithes,. and many of them reduced to beggary ; and things
are nog• brought to such a pass, that resistance to reasonable
demands for only a few years more will bring the Irish Church
to the verge of ruin. What in the meantime have the Whigs
been doing in England ? Have their acts shown that they
are the enemies of the Church, or have the Tories any
reason to boast of their line of defence when they find by
fatal experience that they have been the greatest enemies of
he Irish Clergy, and that they have allowed the present

Government to snatch from them the two great measures,
the Tithe Bill and the Abolition of Church-rates, alike cal-
culated to create popularity and provide for the security of
the Protestant Establishment in England. While the one
party have been only boasting of the great services
they would perform, the other have been at work,
and have proved by their deeds that those whom the
hired organs of the opposition call Church destroyers,
and Atheists, Infidel-Whig-Radicals, are the best and
the only real friends of the Church. The question of
Tithes and Church-rates being once satisfactorily settled,
the clergy of England, not only as regards their pecuniary
interests but their connection with the State, may be said
to be placed beyond the reach of danger. Had Sir ROBERT
PEEL in place of absurdly making the appropriation cl'use
a matter of life and death for his Administration, and be-
fore he dissolved Parliament, introduced a Church-rate
Bill and a Tithe Bill similar to these introduced by the
present Government, he would have carried them trium-
phantly—he would have been supported by a vast
majority of the Commons, he would have acquired
popularity not only with Churchmen but Dissenters,
and might in a case of emergency have appealed with
confidence to the voice of public opinion. The time
however is gone by, and many years may elapse before such
an opportunity for retrieving his political position may oc-
cur. The Tithe Bill gives the utmost satisfaction to men
of all parties ; it removes many causes of dissension be-
tween the pastor and his flock, and the Church Bill alone
was wanting to the formation of a complete measure for
allaying discord and placing the Church of England
in a state of the utmost security. Whoever contrived
the plan for the abolition of Church-rates deserves the
greatest credit. No measure, so likely to be popular and
useful, has been proposed since the famous occasion, when
Lord JOHN RUSSELL introduced schedules A and B, and
it has this advantage over that great measure, that it robs
no one of what, in the slightest sense of the word, can be
called vested rights—it protects the best interest of the
Church, and relieves both Churchman and Dissenter of
an unequal—harassing, and grievous burden. If we are
not mistaken, this measure will be viewed in a short time
with unmingled satisfaction.

We cannot congratulate the Noble Secretary for the
Home Department on the Canadian policy of the Govern-
ment, of which he is a member. Were it the wish of Mi-
nisters to drive the people of Lower Canada into an open
and, if necessary, hostile assertion of their independence.
they could not adopt a mode more likely to be successful
than that of calling upon the House of Commons to
sanction the Resolutions submitted to it last night by
Lord JOHN RUSSELL. How the Noble Lord could
have been prqvailed upon to propose such Resolu-
tions to Parliament—Resolutions which, if adopted,
would be tantamount to an abolition of the Constitution of
Lower Canada—which would deprive the Canadians of the
controul of their own finances, and reduce the House of
Assembly to the limits of a petty Corporation, liable to
be cited to answer for its conduct at the bar of the House
of Commons—appears to us exceedingly mysterious. It
was well observed by Mr. O'CONNELL, "that the very
spirit of resistance was involved in the Noble Lord's Reso-
lutions "—a fact of which the first part of his Lordship's
very inconclusive speech would incline us to think be himself
was rather apprehensive. The Noble Lord stated that it
was a consolation to his Majesty's Government to know
that the pretensions put forth by the House of Assem-
bly of Lower Canada were not shared by our other
colonial possessions in North America. Now before re-
garding- this as a subject of congratulation, let us briefly
inquire what are the pretensions put forth by the Legisla-
tive Assembly of Lower Canada ? They are by no means
numerous. In the first place, they demand an Elective
Legislative Council responsible for its acts, instead of an
irresponsible conclave of placemcn, pensioners, and mere
creatures of the Crown, presuming to exercise the func-
tions of a British House of Peers. Such a demand,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL affirms, has not been made by Upper
Canada, New Brunswick, or Nova Scotia. This may be
very true, but we do not see how that affects the claim of
the Lower Canadians. The proper inference to be drawn
from it is that the principles of Representative Govern-
ment are better understood in Lower Canada than they are
in any of our other North American Colonies. The next
claim set up by the House of Assembly is that it may be
allowed the controul of the public revenue of the
Colony. Now, no claim can be more reasonable than
this. To deprive it of this power is to wrest
from it the only authority by which it can put a check upon
the profligacy of the Executive. The third and last im-
portant reform demanded by the House of Assembly, is
the Repeal of the North American Land Company's
Act, under which a Corporation presumes to set aside the
acts and jurisdiction of the local Legislature, and to mono-
polize the revenues of the Crown. Here, then, is the full
extent of the pretensions of the House of Assembly ; and
with the example of the United States of America before
his eyes, it is difficult to conceive on what grounds a
British Minister declines to admit their justice and mode-
ration. Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that the Government
had nothing wherewith to reproach itself in this affair—that
its conduct had not given occasion to the demands of the
Canadians, which arose out of a lorlg course of unfortunate
dissensions, which Parliament was now called upon to put an
end to. With strange inconsistency, his Lordship added—

" He begged it to be understood that he did not mean to cast
any censure on the Assembly of Lower Canada for the course
which they had considered it proper to take. It was a course
so closely resembling those which other popular assemblies
bad been accustomed in similar circumstances to adopt, that so
far from imputing their conduct to the results of self-will and
caprice, he was disposed to say that they seemed rather to
obey a general law of all popular assemblies, when opposing
their strength to that of an Executive power. Popular assem-
blies so circumstanced were hardly ever in the wrong at the
beginning of the contest, and hardly ever in the right as they
approached its conclusion. Making at the commencement an
assertion of, and demanding a remedy for, well-founded griev-
ances, they generally ended in suspicion and distrust of all
constituted authorities then existing, determining at the same
time to set up a new and unknown form of government as the
remedy for all imperfections in their social system, and which,
if they should succeed in introducing, hardly ever realized the
expectations of its authors and advocates."
It would appear from this extract that the Noble Lord
is aware of the precipice over which he is driving the Co-
lonists. If popular Assemblies are " hardly ever wrong
in the beginning of a contest," wby are not the just claims
of the Canadians conceded ? The House of Assembly has
not multiplied its demands, and therefore, according to the
Noble Lord's theory—and a right sound one it is—they
are still reasonable.

The curse of all past legislation in this country—the
preferring the interests of the minority to the majority—
the making justice subservient to the wishes of a favoured
faction—is at the bottom of the Government scheme.
This was indirectly admitted by Lord JOHN RUSSELL
when he opposed an Elective Legislative Council on the
score that it would lessen the influence of the " British-
descent faction "in the Canadas. His Lordship conceded
the principle, but as it would throw the whole power of
the colony into the hands of officers having the con-
fidence of the majority, he opposed its operation.
We hesitate not to say that we consider such conduct most
injurious to the reputation of the Noble Lord, as well as
opposed to the general policy of the Government of which
he is a leading Member. The able speeches of Sir WM.
MOLESWORTH, Mr. O'CONNELL, Mr. LEADER, and Mr.
Roseucx place this question in its true light before the
country. Should the resolutibns proposed by Lord JOHN
RUSSELL be carried, we may either prepare for resistance
on the part of the Canadians, or we may make up our minds
to the loss of the Colony.

'On Mr. WAKLEY moving the second reading of the
West London and Westminster Cemetery Bill last night
in the House of Commons, Mr. C. LUSHINGTON observed
that " he found that this Cemetery was to be divided into
two compartments, one being intended for Churchmen, and
the other for the Dissenters, thus carrying religious dissen-
sion beyond the grave. He considered that this was a
national disgrace, and he would do all in his power to get
rid of it. He was informed that the Bishop of EXETER
the other day, following the example of the Bishop of
LONDON, insisted on a wall being built between the
two parts. A sort of fence was suggested to his
Lordship, but he insisted on a wall being built three
feet high." We have here as rare a sample of Epis-
copal intolerance as it is possible to conceive—and
of intolerance, be it observed, that is not confined to the
living, but carries its malign spirit beyond the grave. What,
are not even the dead to be safe from the persecutions of
the Church ? Are their very memories to be attainted ;
and the green mounds beneath which they sleep, to be
marked out for the avoidance of all true believers ? Are

we to stigmatize the poor handful of dust and ashes that
once constituted a Dissenter, merely because that Dis-
senter, when alive, thought fit to enter his conscientious
protest against the unscriptural exactions of the most
avaricious Establishment on record ? If the Church
must 'indulge in strifes and jealousies and heart-burnings,
let it at least confine them to the living ; but for
mercy's sake—for the sake of charity, and all the
truest and noblest instincts of our common nature—let it
spare the dead ! Let it not extend its Pharisaic bigotry
to those who have gone to their last 'account ! Be the
grave sacred, whether it cover Churchman or Dissenter I
In that last resting-place all harsher thoughts should be
interred. It should be the mausoleum of peace, not
the monument of intolerance. Build up a wall, in-
deed, between the tombs of those who in life subs
scribed to the divinity of tithes, and those who
conscientiously disapproved of that exaction ! Proclaim
to the world that the one spot is sacred, and the other
prophane, when the flowers that spring up, the rain that
descends, and the sun that shines equally on both, give the
lie direct to such a calumny ! Oh, shame, where is
.thy
blush ! If the Church desires to reconcile itself to the
community, and regain that moral influence which is fast
departing from it, this is not the way to bring about such a
desirable consummation. Intolerance towards the living
is bad enough, but intolerance towards the dead, who no
longer have it in their power to defend themselves, is what
the heart of every good man must revolt against.

The Address, signed by 2.50,000 of the nobility, gentry,
and people of Ireland, praying for Corporation Reform,
and a just settlement of the Tithe question in Ireland, will
be presented to his MAJESTY at the Levee, on Wednes-
day next. The Liberal Irish Members, now in town, will
accompany the Address.

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of Mon
day. In the Moniteur of that day we find the following
official dispatch :

•" BAYONNE, MARCH 3, 1837.

" Espartero writes, on the 25th, that the inclemency. of the
weather prevented his attacking, on the 24th, the 11 Carlist
battalions left at Durango.
" The following are the respective positions of the belli-
gerent parties :—The Infanta Don Sebastian is in the valley
of Ulzama with 15 battalions, opposed to Saarsfield, who has
19 under his orders. Giubelalde is at Hernani, with 9 bat-
talions, opposed to Evans, who has 21 ; and Goni is at Zor-
zeno, with 11 battalions, in presence of Espartero, who has
28. The rest is stationed between Vittoria and the Ebro.
Saarsfield has withdrawn all the troops from the line of Zubiri,
in order to collect a force of 15,000 men about Pampeluna.
The communication between that city and our frontiers is
accordingly interrupted. Evans has received a reinforcement
of 1,100 Spanish marines."
We are fearful that the season will be very far advanced
before the state of the weathar will allow General ESPAR•
TERO to quit his present comfortable quarters. ESPAR-
TERO is one of those heroes that never like to fight without
all the advantages that wind, sun, and position can give
them. The whole army is prevented from taking the field
by the cowardije or treachery of this officer. Is not this
intolerable ?

There is no domestic news of any importance in the
Paris Journals. Annexed are the only extracts to be found
in them worth notice :

PARIS, Manen 5 —The telegraphic dispatch from Bayonne
received yesterday, anticipates the journals and letters received
this morning, which only confirm the inactivity of the Queen's
troops.
Further information which we have received relative to the
late affair at Bunos, in the Kingdom of Valencia, says that the
Constitutional troops were about 1,600 Infantry and 120 Ca-
valry, whereas the rebels had 4,000 Infantry and 300 Ca-
valry. Hitherto there is no confirmation of the statement. The
telegraphic dispatch states that the Commander of the Cavalry
had committed suicide.—Journal du Commerce, March 5.
The Moniteur of this morning has nothing official. A Morn-
ing Journal has the following paragraph :—" Thee uncertainties
respecting the majority have not ceased ; fears are still enter-
tained of the Ballot, and while the Ministers (on) were obliged
to sustain the shock of violent speeches, they were sadly puz-
zled to obtain votes; it is said that for this object great reli-
ance is placed on the Sunday. Out of the Chamber recourse
may be had to the enticements of great professions of friendship.
The day destined for receiving company is very favourable to
their manoeuvres."

The same paper announces that in the Chamber the parti-
zans of the Ministry were yesterday very eager to disclaim all
projects of new measures, which were supposed to be intimated
in the speech delivered yesterday by M. Persil. Constitutionnel,
March 5.