The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-13 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

To " A Constant Reader, J. G. C." we answer, No. Epsom
is 17 miles from the Strand; but upwards of 9 miles were
done in twenty-two minutes by one horse.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 25 minutes past Three o' Clock.

LONDON:
FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1837.

New York papers, to the 2.5tb ult. inclusive ; Mon-
treal papers, to the 22d ; and Quebec papers, to the
20th, have been received by the packet-ship Shef-
field, which arrived on Wednesday night at Liver-
pool. The Shcffield has brought about 10,0001.
in gold and dollars on freight. The mercan-
tile atmosphere of the United States was gradually
brightening, though none of the measures recommended
by the President had passed the House of Assembly
on the 23d. In fact, business was proceeding very
slowly, in consequence of the eagerness of Members
to indulge in long-winded speeches, rather intended for
the gratification of their own vanity and the subse-
quent perusal of their constituents, than for the infor-
mation of their fellow-legislators. Nevertheless in
confident anticipation of the adoption of its measures,
the Executive had sanetianed the issuing of the follow-
ipg Treasury Circular which was addressed to the se-
veral banking establishments throughout the union :
" Treasury Department, Sept. 19, 1887.

Sir—A Bill is now before Congress to authorize the
President of the United States to cause the issue of
Treasury notes for such sum or sums as he may think
expedient, but not exceeding, in the whole amount of
notes issued, the sum of 12,000,000 dollars, and of de-
nominations of not less than 100 &liars for one note,
to be reimbursed at the Treasury of the United States
after the expiration of one year from the dates of the said
notes respectively.
" I will thank you to state whether, in the event of the
passage of this bill, you will agree to take the said notes
from the Government, and give the Treasurer of the
United States a credit for the amount, to be drawn for as
may be necessary, and payable in specie if required ; and,
if so, to state what amount you will receive, and the lowest
rate of interest to be borne by said notes.
" I are, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
" LEVI WOODBURY,
" Secretary of the Treasury."
This is a most nonsensical appeal to any mercantile
body. What interest can the Banks hare in paper
i-sued by the Treasury ? Why not get rid of the
difficulties of a credit. by adopting the straightforTard
and rational plan of making the Treasury paper a
legal tender without interest ? The crooked and
selfish policy of the Executive will eventually recoil
upon itself.

The :31ornihg Chronicle of Wednesday claim:, with
much justice, great merit to her MAJESTY'S Ministers
for being the first Administration that has ever governed
I reland on Protestant Principles. We wish, however, that
the Chronicle would not use phrases which may be em-
ployed by the Orange faction and by the Whig party
with equal justice. What Christianity teaches Govern-
ments to do is one thing, and what Christian Govern-
ments, under the name and title of Protestants, have done,
is another. There is not an atrocity complained of by
Ireland, during the last 300 years of cruel oppression,
which has not been committed under the plea of Chris-
tian principles. Every sacrifice in Smithfield in former
days, as well as in Ireland in more recent times, have
been made under the name, title, and pretence of
Christianity—the latter to support Christianity by
Popish blood and Popish plunder. In short, we
cannot look back to the long and horrible list of
cruelties and acts of oppression for the period we have
mentioned, without finding the perpetrators calling
themselves Christians, members of the true Church,
and acting against their own feelings for the good of
the Christian Church. As regards Lord MULGRA VE
we therefore repudiate the allegation of the Chronicle,
that he is governing Ireland on Protestant principles,
as they are now understood by the Orange and Tory
factions of England and Ireland. Protestantism, the
religion of the New Testament, the guide for sincere
Christians, teaches that each Parson, and every pro-
fessing Christian ought, by acts and language, to imitate
our SAVIOUR, and strive to promote peace and good
will amongst men. Will any man look to the past
and present conduct of the Churchmen—the Protes-
tants— in Ireland, and with a safe conscience say
that the character or conduct of them, as a body,
have been directed to promote those objects, according
to the precepts of the sacred founder of the Christian
religion ? Will the massacre at Rathcormac, and
other places, of very recent date, where the land was
moistened with human blood by the very hands,
in the presence of, or by direction of the teachers of
Christianity—the ministers of our SAVIOUR—be cited
in proof of the triumph of the principles of Protestan-
tistn ? The Chronicle ought not therefore to adopt
the cant and verbiage of the Tory faction, but speak of
Ireland, and of the acts of the Irish Government,

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