The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-19 00:00:00

that Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated, in reply to a
question put by an Hon. Member, that no Chinch-
rate Bill would be brought into Parliament by her
MAJESTY'S Ministers this session. This declara-
tion will cause no surprise in any quarter. After
the delay, so full of meaning, .which has taken
place in drawing up the Report of the Committee on
Church Leases, no one could reasonably expect
any other result.
It is quite clear that the Government cannot at
present propose to legislate satisfactorily on this
important subject. It is not strong enough in it-
self to grapple with a question like this, on which
it finds arrayed against it all the rank and file of
a wealthy, selfish, and intolerant Church, leagued
with a powerful but unprincipled political party in
Parliament, while it has derived no. countervailing
support from that numerous portion of the commu-
nity who profess to regard Church-rates as a griev-
• ante of the first. magnitude. The fate .of
any measure, such as would satisfy the Dis-
senters, introduced into the House of Commons
under these circumstances, may easily be antici-
pated.
Had Sir ROBERT PEEL succeeded in forcing
himself on his insulted SOVEREIGN, and had he
been able also to get a majority—were it of only
one vote—in the House of 'Commons, we should
have had the Church-rate question settled at once
and for ever. The conscience tax would have been
saddled upon the Consolidated Fund, and there
would have been an end of it in its present shape.
But would the grievance of which the Dis-
senters complain have been redressed by this piece of
hocus pocus ? Would the injustice and the into-
lerance of compelling people to pay their money in
support of a religious system from which they de-
rive no benefit, and of which they conscientiously
disapprove, be any way lessened by mixing that
money up with the finances of the State before it
passed into the hands of the Churchwardens?
So far from this, we apprehend such trickery as-
this would add to the pressure of the existing evil
the hopelessness of ever getting rid of it. It
would be to clinch the ecclesiastical chain more
firmly round the necks of the people than it is now,
when it is almost strangling them, soul and body.
What then is to be done to bring the question
to a favourable issue ? The answer, we think is
.obvious. •Agitate. Keep up, increase the excite-
ment against the • " nefarious exaction," by every
possible means •not inconsistent with the law. Every
locality must look to its own. affairs. It is time to
get rid of the fatal delusion which the Dissenters
have so long indulged, that their affairs can be better
managed by others than by themselves. Self-ex-
ertion, they ought by this time to know, is their
only hope—their sheet anchor, in which they must
put their sole trust. We have over and over again
told them that unless they act, their words will go
for nothing with the public.. Their loud profes-
sions, without correspondirg actions, will inevitably
produce a suspicion of their sincerity, and their op-
ponents will consequently feel the more emboldened
to treat their claims with indifference, if not with
contempt.

• Upon the course which they pursue between this
time and the re-assembling of Parliament. next S'es-
sion, will mainly depend the reception with which
any measure, to be then introduced for their relief,
may meet. A strenuous and systematic opposition
to the laying of Church-rates, and to their payment
when laid in spite of them, by a tyrant majority, is no
more than the simple duty of all who feel, or profess
to feel,- the compulsory payment of this iniquitous
impost as a violation of their conscientous scruples.
Let, then, this general resistance be manifested as an
evidence of the faith that is in them, as well as an
an instrument for attaining their object. Let it be
backed, too, by petitions to the Legislature frc.m
every town, and, if possible, from every parish, in
England and Wales, and we will answer for the
immediate and entire abolition of Church-rates.

The political aspect of affairs in the East is the only
interesting subject of discussion in the Paris Journals.
There are some judicious remarks in the Commerce, on
the Report of the Conimittee of the Chamber of Peers
on the late entnete in the csitAal ; and the Constitution-
eel has an able article on the present position of the
French . Cabinet ; but these matters are at present of
secondary consideration. No person in France or out
of it pays much regard to the constitution of a Cabinet.
which is a negation of all political consistency; and
which requires only to be left to itself to tumid, to pieces.
Great distress prevails among the working classes
in France. The intrigues of the Court are legibly
written in the starved countenances of thousands of
humble artizans and their families. Even the shopo-
cracy of Paris begin to complain loud:y of the stagna-
tion of trade consequent upon the Ministerial interreg-
nums:and revolutionary emueles which now so regularly
succeed each other to the great diversification of Royal
.amusements in France. ' -
The heat was 'so ''great in Paris"--On Monday that '
several horses felt dead in the streets.
On Sunday List the first number of a new Journal.,
edited by M. I)URAND, for several years editor of the
Journal de Fran/fort, appeared in Paris. It will be;
the organ of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. in France, 1
as M.' Duaasp's admiration of Russia is unbounded.
It is supposed that. the Imperial Treasury will supply
the funds for carrying on this Journal, and the Imperial
Cabinet many of the articles which will appear in its
columns. M. Mittman, however, claims for his . Paper
strict impartiality, and for himself the high personal
honour and pure patriotism of a Frenchman.
The Itioniteur I?epublicain has re-apPeared since the
publication of the Report of the Chamber of Peers, and
is more violent than ever against Royalty. The Siecle
juetly observes that it is not by prosecutions, but by
neglect, that such publications can be suppressed ; and
that to denounce them in official Reports, is to ensure
them a dangerous notoriety and an extensive circulation.
The following extracts from the Paris Journals of
Monday, contain the substance of the latest news from
the East :

AieftatAlAeplpettoaandwreide,k of the 27th ult ,
says a cor-
of thewlic
lsbu
d r e ;n den couriert
" has just arrived. with despatches from Ibrahim Facha.,
announcing that if the .armies arc drawn nearer to each
other a collision will be inevitable. The camps are within
sight of each other, but no conflict has yet taken place.
Each General appeared to be waiting for the attack.
Count Modem and 'A Laurin have bad an interview with
the Viceroy, the result of which has been the drawing up
of the following protocol, signed by the three parties :
Mehemet Ali engages—First, to withdraw his army from
Syria as soon as that of the Sultan has retired ; Secondly,
to pay the tribute due to Turkey: and, Thirdly, to rely
upon the good offices
of Russia and Austria
for a scare-
ment of all his differences with the Porte."
ODESSA, MAY 23.—The greater portion of the fleet in
the Black Sea, under the command of Admiral Lazard,
consisting of 18 ships of the line, 12 frigates, eight cm-
vettes, six brigs, and six steamers, is still at anchor at Sy-
nopia. A division of this squadron, commanded by Vice-
Admiral Oumanetz, is stationed nearly opposite Boujouk-
dere, and a ship of the line and two frigates have advanced
as far as the entrance into the Bosphorus. The prepa=
rations for war in the Russian army continue with great
activity: A corps of 40,000 men is already assembled
in the Crimea, quite ready to embark at the first sig-
nal, at two points, namely, Sebastopol and Keel*
where there are more than one hundred and sixty ves-
sels of transport, as well as the squadron of Prince
Gotchakof, destined to protect the disembarkation
of these troops. The division of Lieutenant-General
Rejewzki, which it was first intended should act against
the Circassians, has gone to Anapa and Soujoum Kale,
points from which it can be easily transported to Trebi-
zend. The army of the south encamped on the banks of
the Pruth and of the Danube, and which is composed of
120,000 men and three hundred and sixty pieces of artil
lery, is waiting every moment the orders to march. It is
affirmed that Field Marshal Paskewitsh has only departed
for Gelmany in order to make known the change in the
Russian plans, and that he must soon repair to Bessarabia,to
take the command of the numerous troops which are there.
The considerable forces whichßussia is collectingeand tbeim-
mense quantity of rations and munitionsof war now prepar-
ing, prove that it is not merely a -lernonstration which is in-
tended but a serious war. It is said that the Czar has
decided upon restoring Count de Worontzoff to the post
of Governor-General of Little Russia, and that an Impe-
rial Rescript has already given Worontzoff as the name ef
a steamer to navigate the Dnieper. If this news is true,
it is to cajole the southern population, in order to appease
the fermentation which is reigning, and which in the event
of a war, might easily be turned into a general insurrection.
The Trident and Genereux, both of the line, sailed on
Friday last from Toulon for the Levant. The following ac-
count of the different fleets and squadrons in the East is
given by the 7'oulonnais Turkish Fleet—Six ships of
the line, viz., one of 110 guns, three of 96, one of 94, and
one of 90 : eight frigates, viz., two of 64, one of 60, and one
of 59, one of 56, one of 50, two of 46 ; four brigs of 20
gees, two cutters and two steamers. Total 22. Egyptian
Fleet_Twelve ships of the Line, four frigates, four cor-
vettes, three brigs and one steamer. Total 24. French
Squadron—Four ships of the line, one corvette, one
brig —total six. isio steamer. English squadron—
Eight ships of the line, two frigates, one corvette, one
brig, two steamers. Total 14. Austrian Squadron— One
frigate, one corvette, one schooner. Total three. Russian
Fleet in the Black Saa—Two ships of the line of 120
guns eac!), one of 110, eight of 84, three of 78, eight
frigates of 44, five corvettes of 24, several brigs and
steamers—in all about 50 sail. Most of these vessels are
at Sebastopol, where there are 16,000 men assembled who
can proceed
to the Bosphorus, if require • d, in three dal s."
—Commerce.
BO URSE...-.PARIE, MONDAY, JUNE 17.
ITALF•PAST THREE.--Business has in general been
slack. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at
79f. 60c., declined to 79f. 33e., and closed at 79f. 400,,
being 20c. lower than. on Saturday." The Five per Cents.
from 111 f. 30c., declined to 111 f. 20c., and closed at
111 f. 25c., a fall of 10c. For Money the Three per Cents,