The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1837.

tate of common sense, to wait until this vacant
space is filled up, before we increase it at the
expense of those who cannot conscientiously give
their money for this purpose, thus multiplying places
of worship which are evidently not wanted ?

The clause which was introduced the other evening
into the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, preventing
travelling by that conveyance on Sundays, was last
night struck out by a majority of 115 to 83. 'We are
delighted with this result. It is the triumph of com-
mon sense over fanaticism. Had the clause been per-
mitted to remain, the mischiefs it would have
occasioned would have bet,::,e incalculable. It would
have led to numerous other vexatious interferences of
the same sort ; and made the Sabbath a day of gloom
and sorrow, instead of what it is, and ever should be,
a day of repose and harmless enjoyment. The great
fault we find with all these Sunday strait-waistcoating
measures of the Saints is, that they begin at the wrong
end, and are altogether of an exclusive, pharisaic
character. They are so drawn up as to bring only
the poorer classes within the sphere of legislation,
while they offer not the slightest obstruction to the
enjoyments of the rich. They shut up the barber's
shop and the baker's oven, while they keep open the
aristocratic club and hotel. They excommunicate the
poor man's steam-coach, while they tolerate the rich
man's carriage. They see nothing improper in
Dives's canter on horse-back through the Parks,
but all that is mischievous in Lazarus's walk
through the green fields to a tea-garden. The pa-
trician's bottle of Burgundy at the Clarendon is sacred
in their eyes ; but the plebeian's glass of home-brewed
at the village ale-house, is an abomination to be depre-
cated in the most indignant terms. They do not say
that " because they arc virtuous" there shall be no
more hock and venison ; but simply and exclusively
that there shall be "no more cakes and ale." They
have a pious horror of the old women who stand at the
corners of the small streets, or at the opening of the
suburban fields, selling ginger-beer to the humbler pe-
destrians ; but infinite reverence for the dapper, smirk-
ing valet who holds the great man's horses at the door
of LONG'S or CRGCKFORD'S. They divide society
into two classes, the privileged and unprivileged ; de-
nounce the one, and hold out the right-hand of fellow-
ship to the other. In a word, they set themselves up
as Grand Inquisitors, whose first great duty it is to
torture on the rack of Sunday-restriction Acts, all who
are poor and defenceless. Now against this paltry,
ungenerous, one-sided system of legislation, we have
always protested, and shall always continue to protest
without stint or reservation. Why is forbearance
to be shown only to the rich? Are they more
moral—more enlightened—more religious—than the
poo:? Have they a more refined sense of social
propriety—a more innate veneration for the de-
cencies of the Sabbath ? Alas, the annals of the
West-end tell a far different story ! Mr. ROE-
BUCK spoke out on this subject last night in a way
that does him infinite credit, and impresses us with a
high respect for his manly, unaffected, and zealous
piety. He exposed the humbug of the Saints by ar-
guments drawn from that very volume, by whose in-
spired doctrines they profess to be regulated. He con-
victed Sir ANDREW AGNEW on the express authority
of St. PAUL ; and the orthodox Member for Oxford,
on that of two Archbishops of the Established Church !
The Saints 4cprdingly were stung to the quick ;
and as is usual with men so situated, resorted to
the foulest abuse. Mr. DUNLOP, in particular,
pretty plainly intimated that the Member for Bath was
devoid of all " sense of religion"—a favourite mode
of attack with the Tories, who discovered but the
other day that Mr. LEADER was an " Atheist," be-
cause he dared to put himself forward in opposition to
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT ! When men have the worst
of an argument they always resort to abuse ; and the
grossness of Mr. DUNLOP'S calumny points out the
exact degree to which he is in the wrong.

We direct the attention of our readers to the rcport
of the debate on the Criminal Laws Amendment Bill,
by which it will be seen that Mr. EWART'S motion
for the total abolition of the punishment of death, was
lost by a majority of only one ! This is an earnest
that the time is not far distant when a more merciful and
enlightened spirit shall prevail in our Criminal Code.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

The Reformers of Glasgow have become peculiar
objects of solicitude to our apostate Contemporary of
Printing-house-square. The fate of the Monarchy is
made to depend upon their choice of a Representa-
tive ; and the Times, with a gravity which must con-
vulse ail Glasgow with laughter, lectures them this
morning upon their duty to GOD, their country, and
themselves. It would be worth something to see the
countenances of the " guid folks" of Glasgow while in
the act of perusing the 'limes "voluntary" and unsought
strictures on political purity, probity, consistency, and
stern patriotism ; and it would be worth still more to
hear them comment upon such shameless effrontery on
the part of a journal wallowing in the mire of political
tergiversation. And what, after all, does the Times
recommend the Glasgow constituency to do ?
Choose a Tory ? 0, no ! With all its impu-
dence it durst not venture upon such a recom-
mendation. Choose a Whig ? No ; that would
not do either; for no honest Whig would unite with
the Tory faction against the present Government.
Choose a Radical ? The Times would recommend
the Father of Lies as soon to a seat in Parliament as
any independent Member of that body. The Repre-
sentative whom the Times recommends is a man of no
principles ; or rather, a man whose pretensions to
principle embody the ingredients of Whiggery, Tory.
ism, and Radicalism in nearly equal parts. " Viewing
the Glasgow constituency as a circle," observes our Con-
temporary, " whose range comprises every degree of
liberal opinion, from the most negative to the most extra-
vagant, it is plain that the central point between these ex-
tremes is that alone in which, with justice to all par-
ties, the political sentiments of the voters ought to be
converged—in other words, the compromise of indi-
vidual bias, which is inevitable on such occasions as
the present, ought clearly to he in favour of a candi-
date whose political principles being midway between
extremes, will demand from the bulk of electors the
least possible sacrifice in giving him their support."
A candidate answering to this description would be;very
easily found ; but we are confident such a man would
not obtain the suffrages often voters in all the West of
Scotland. Glasgow is too intelligent—too deeply in-
terested in the result of the struggle now carried on
between despotism and liberty—to send to Parliament
a knave or a ninny ; for such must:be the representative
who can occupy the political position pointed out by
the Times.

It would be presumptuous in us impress upon the
intelligent constituency of Glasgow the sacred impor-
tance of the duty which they are now about to per-
form. We will not flatter the vanity of the least
worthy among them, by stating that the fate of the
empire, or even the stability of the Ministry, depends
upon their choice—for we are confident that nothing
but the occasion is wanted to induce them to do their
duty ; but we do take leave to tell them that the Re-
formers of England and Ireland regard their proceed-
ings with intense interest. May their choice of a Re-
presentative be worthy of the liberal and enlightened
spirit which distinguishes the capital of the West of
Scotland !

Mr. Hawkes, M.P. for Dudley, had an interview
yesterday with the President of the Board of Trade.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, MAY 19.—Arrived the Kingston, Cargill, Savannah.
DOVER, MAY 19.---Off port, Amphitrite, Kriell, Surinam.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 19.—Off port, the Wolf hart, Maarep,
'rom New York.

OFF BROADSTAIRS.—The Ceres, Broderson, St. Thomas's.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 18.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Laid-
mans, from Jamaica ; Hesperus, from Demerara ; Glasgow,
from Mobile ; Clementina, from Porto Bello ; Edmond, from
St. John's, New Brunswick ; John Porter, from Halifax ;
Hero, from St. Michael's ; and Renegade, Jacobs, from Stral-
sund. Off port, the Theodosia, from Calcutta ; and John
Baring, from New Orleans.
CLYDE, MAY 17.—Arrived the Corinthian, Coleman, from
New Orleans.

CARDIFF, MAY 17.—Arrived the Rosehill, from Newport,
leaky, and must discharge, bound to Havannah.
PENTLAND FRITH, MAY 19.—Arrived the Favourite, Ro-
binson, from Canton.

JSE.EY, Mac! 18. —Arrired the Syren, Le Maitre, from
Rio Janeiro.

ABERDEEN, MAY 17.—Arrived Silvanus, Young, Dantzic.
HULL, MAY 18.—Arrived the Catherine Sophia, from Kiel.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 19.—Arrived the Erin. from Guernsey.
PLYMOUTH, MAT 18.—Wind N. N. W.—No arrivals.
FALMOUTH, MAY 18.—Wind N. to N. N. E.—No arrivals.
ROSCASTLE, MAY 17.—The Smack, Hope, of Clonelly,
went on the beach last night to load slates, and during a
heavy groundswell went to pieces.
PARIS, MAY 18.—The Pierre Anteines, from Nantes to
Ghent, is, it is feared, wrecked, some wines having been
picked up on the coast of Comoret, which correspond with
those shipped by her.
Coax, MAv 17.—The Kingston of Bristol for Quebec is
working in, said to be damaged, having struck a wreck.
KINGSCOTE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, DEC. 29.—A large vessel,
supposed to be his Majesty's ship Buffalo, was seen going up
the Gulf of St. Vincent's on the 27tk inst.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The only intelligence of importance we have this morning
are the telegraphic dispatches from Paris, announcing the cap-
ture of Irun by General Evans, after an obstinate resistance on
the part of the Carlist garrison, most of whom were unfortu-
nately put to the sword. Don Sebastian, with his 16 batta-
lions, has joined Don Carlos at Estella, and in all probability
we shall soon hear of an attempt of the Carlist army to force
the passage of the Ebro, and carry the war into Castile.
The accounts received yesterday from Glasgow were rather
of an unfavourable description in respect to commercial affairs.
In the Foreign Exchange yesterday afternoon there has
been no alteration of consequence, and it appears that the
public disposition is at present to dispose of capital in the
funds, and not discount without having first-rate security.
This was the cause of the buoyant state of the British Funds
during the course of yesterday.
Au arrangement has been entered into with the Dutch Go-
vernment, by which a portion of the Dividends in the Dutch
Five per Cent. Loan of 1837 can be paid in London, without
the necessity of remitting the Coupons to Amsterdam.