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LONDON :
SATURDAY EVENING JANUARY 5, 1839.

to the administration of the Poor-law." We appre-
hend that no country Magistrates, of their own ac-
cord, would order such a prosecution, and therefore
we are most unwillingly constrained to believe, that
the Government has sanctioned and ordered this pro-
secution. We are and have been unwilling to believe
this for two reasons.

The first reason is, that the Ministers owe their
places to a conspiracy to defeat and resist the law.
They were carried into office by a conspiracy to put
down the tithes, and a major part of the Esta•
blished priesthood of Ireland, and their most strentnus
supporters, Messrs. O'CONNELL, SHELL, and the
bulk of the Catholic Irish, were all engaged in that
conspiracy. It was open and avowed, and, in our
opinion, most just. That conspiracy was favoured
and supported by the Chronicle, the Globe, and the
whole of the Whig Papers. To that conspiracy Mr.
O'CONNELL is, we believe, mainly indebted for his
influence and power in Ireland, and as that conspiracy
placed her MAJESTY'S Ministers in office, so they
owe to it their continuance in place. We always
gloried in aiding that conspiracy, because we think
the State priesthood of Ireland a " gigantic nuis-
sance ;" and though we take a different view
of the Poor-law, we cannot approve of the
Ministers prosecuting Mr. STEPIIENS for doing
that of which they tacitly and even openly approved,
and of which they are enjoying the fruits. He and
his friends think that law a nuisance ; they de-
clare it to be a violation of the law of
GOD ; we do not agree with them, but we
can no more think it a crime to oppose such
a law by a conspiracy than it was a crime in the
Catholic Irish and the English Whigs to conspire
against the Tithe-law in Ireland. We are for even-
handed justice, and either the Ministers and Messrs.
O'CONNELL and SHELL ought to be prosecuted, or it
is folly and injustice to prosecute Mr. STEPHENS.
The other reason is that Mr. STEPHENS is a religious
enthusiast ; and if he be prosecuted for doing mischief
by his speeches, the strife-stirring Anglican priesthood
cught, every one of them, to be punished. Some of
our Contemporaries, who have been exciting the Go-
vernment to this work, seem at length to have found
out that Mr. STEPHENS owes his power to his appeals
to Scripture. After reading that portion of his sermon
at Ashton, which appeared in our Journal of yesterday,
including his recommendation, on the authority of Scrip-
ture in two places, of something like murder, and the terri-
ble curse he denounced, in the name of the AL-
MIGHTY, on those who should not obey his commands,
we are almost ready to credit the assertion of the Liver-
pool Mercury, that his " friends have been for some
time back decidedly of opinion that he is de-
ranged." His case, then, is a proper one for the
soothing arts of the physician, for the kind treatment
of friends, for the lenitives of reason and time, and
not for a criminal prosecution which, singling him out
as a leader of the people, groups the griefs and resent-
ments of millions around a dangerous enthusiast, and
at once makes his exaggerated and extravagant senti-
ments their bosom creed. We strongly condemn
the prosecution which adds to the importance
of such a man, and in these distempered times, ele-
vates a violent religious enthusiast, if he be not a
madman, to be the chief leader of the millions.
We are not sure indeed, as times go, that Mr.
STEPHENS is much worse that Dr. PHILLPOTS, Dr.
CHALMERS, DR. PUSEY, and the rest of the seraphic
Doctors who are labouring, most industriously one way
or another, to fanaticise the people. We have nothing
to reproach ourselves with on this score, but the whole
tribe of State Church fanatics, including Sir JAMES
GRAHAM, Mr. GLADSTONE, and the Times, may
see in the conduct of Mr. STEPHENS, as they might
have seen it in the case of Thom, some of the logical
results of their own favourite doctrines. Mr.STEPHENs,
like Mr. THOM, draws his authority from the Bible,
not one word of which, not even the denun-
ciation of NEHEMIAH, will the Anglican pries t-
hoood forego. His influence is born of the encourage-
ment given by the State to the Anglican priest-
hood, and to their stickling for the Bible. If they
cannot, however, keep in their own hands the mono-
poly of the power of fanaticising the people, of what
earthly use are they ? They ought to correct the
disorders induced by Mr. STEPHENS ; and a wise Go-
vernment, instead of arresting such a man, would
have ordered the Archbishops and Bishops of the land
to have undertaken his conversion and cure, and the
conversion of his followers.

We are glad to learn from the Glasgow Argus,
that the people of Glasgow are on foot against
the Corn-laws. Hull, too, is following in the
same path ; and Leeds is going on before. The
farmers also are moving, but in opposition ; and the
Herald to-day presents us with a proposed petition
from the farmers and landowners of Worcestershire and
Gloucester, which, amongst other things, proposes to
tax manufacturing capital, and prevent the extension of
manufactures. Not content, then, with starving persons
slowly out of existence, the authors of that petition
would probably despatch them at once, and wait for no
slow process to extinguish England's greatness. A
great part of this petition consists of complaints
of injustice suffered by the landed interest, but
that injustice, if it exist, inflicted as it is by the
landowning law-makers themselves, does not warrant
them in also inflicting a grievous injustice on all who
eat bread. One robbery, supposing it to have been
committed,' does not justify another. We shall per-
haps some spare day publish the petition, and till then
we waive further comments.

We may notice that the Buckingham Conservatives
—alias 'the landlords and priests—held their anniver-
sary dinner at Buckingham yesterday, but we cannot
possibly find space for the magnificent common-places
with which the lay and clerical members of the same
holy brotherhood complimented each other. A good
deal was said about the growth of Popery in the land,
to which the Times yesterday, as we elsewhere notice,
gave the clue. It prevails at Oxford, and is patronised
by some Bishops and dignitaries of the Church.

We beg the attention of our readers to a report
in another part of The Sun, headed " The Coal'
Trade." It is not many days since we had to notice an
attempt made by the coal confederacy to defeat the ob-
ject of the new regulations made by the Navigation Com-
mittee. The coal people, under the disguise of Sunderland
shipowners, got up a memorial to the LORD MAYOR,
in which they stated sundry grievances and hardships
entailed upon them by the regulations. The LORD
MAYOR, they fancied, had other matters to think of,
and might easily be imposed upon by false representa-
tions ; but they found, to their great discomfiture, that
his Lordship was not to be hoodwinked. He
wisely determined to see with his own eyes,
not with theirs. He personally inspected the
state of the River from London-bridge to Graves-
end, examined the officers intrusted with the
execution of the by-laws, and found that the complaints
of the self-styled shipowners, were a mere ruse on the
part of the coalowners and their coadjutors, to get rid
of those laws which they foresee must, if perseveringly
maintained, put an end to their monopoly.
The master of a collier was also instructed to play
off a trick upon the LORD MAYOR, by applying for an
order on the Harbour-master at Gravesend, to allow
him to break through the regulations, on the pretence
that his ship was so leaky that she could hardly be kept

When we called public attention, in the beginning
of the month of November to the case of JOHN WIL-
LIAMS, of Newtown, committed to gaol by a clerical
Magistrate, who demanded excessive bail, we found an
able auxiliary in the Chronicle, who reminded us and
the public that a fine of 30,0001., imposed on the Earl
of DEVONSHIRE 150 years ago, and the excessive bail
demanded of individuals, led to the famous Bill of Rights.
To-day, however, our Contemporary has not a word to
say against the excessive bail demanded in the case of
STEPHENS. On the contrary, our Contemporary
approves of the commitment, and says that " it can-
not be said that the Magistrates of the neighbourhood
or the Government have not borne with him as long
as the safety of the country would permit." The
language of our Contemporary, joined to a tirade in
the Globe of last night against the bulk of the
Newspaper Press, of which " factitious excitement"
is said to be " the [vital element," leave no doubt
that the Government countenances and recom-
mends the prosecution of Mr. STEPHENS. But
if any doubt were left, and we have been willing
to cherish it as long as possible, it would be entirely
dissipated, we think, by the statement of Mr. BRA NDT,
that Mr. STEPHENS is to be " charged with a con-
spiracy by intimidation and threats to prevent the
execution of the law, more especially of that relating

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1839

above water. On the cross-examination of this man I
by the LORI MA 70R, he stated that Sir JAMES
DUKE was the consignee of his cargo, a strAtement
proved the next day to be a downright falsehood, as in-
deed was the whole of his story.
Yesterday a deception somewhat similar was at-
tempted to be practised at the Mansion-house, and
met with a similar fate. The LORD MAYOR is
fo well acquainted with the coal gentry,
that he sees through their pranks in an instant.
We would therefore advise them to desist from
such unworthy, we should rather say disgraceful,
because dishonest, practices, for by continuing them,
they are only exposing more and more the real
nature and injurious effects of the scandalous
monopoly in which they are concerned. 'What a
pitiful figure did the coalowner make, who ap-
peared at the Mansion-House yesterday. He evidently
came with an intention to brow-beat the LORD
MAYOR; but how soon was he compelled, by his Lord-
. ship's acute and able cross-examination, actually to give
evidence, and most important evidence too, against
himself and his brethren ! Among other things he
let out—as we hinted the other day—that the
shipowners and coalowners in the North are one
and the same parties ; that the peseta price of
345. per ton is, in their opinion, but a fair re-
munerating price, though the coals stand the
factor but 19s. in the River, even after three or four •
shillings more than ought to be charged are paid •at
the pit's mouth, in consequence of the combination ;
and that business cannot be done in any other man-
ner. No, certainly, if the price is to he kept up
artificially, this is the only manner in which the mo-
nopolists can do business ; but the LORD MAYOR
informed this gentleman that he should cause it to be
done in quite a different manner, and we have no
doubt he will keep his word. So ashamed was our
soi-disant shipowner of the whole proceeding, that he
would not let his Lordship into the secret of his name
or residence !

Advices from Madrid of the 26th ult. have been
received this morning. They announce the arrival in
that capital of letters from Malaga of the 19th, with
an account of a Carlist revolution in Alhucemas, a
penal settlement of Spain on the coast of Africa.
This movement took place on the 15th of November,
under the direction of some Carlist prisoners that had
been banished there by the QUEEN'S Government.
These men succeeded by promises in inducing
a part of the garrison of the fort, consisting
of two companies of the 4th battalion of Gra-
nada to enter into a conspiracy for proclaiming
Don CARLOS, evacuating Africa, and by the timely
seizure of some vessels in the harbour to make the best
of their way to the Basque•, where they persuaded
themselves the boldness of their deeds would obtain
for them from the Pretender a most favourable recep-
tion. On the first intelligence of the danger which
threatened the fort, the Chief Military officer, Don
NICHOLAS AMAT, offered to remonstrate with the
insurgents when he was barbarously murdered. They
then proclaimed Don CARLOS, and after letting
loose all the prisoners, and being suffered by
the cowardly Governor, who had still a suf-
ficient force to restrain them, they seized two
vessels, which they freighted with military stores,
and compelled the Captains to stand for the coast of
Valencia, where they expected to fall in with a band of
Carlists. One of the vessels being separated from the
other in a gale, was driven on the coast of Oran,
where at their own desire sixty-two of the insurgents
were landed. They had intended to sink or burn the
vessel, but the Captain, after escaping a sharp fire of
musketry from the shore, escaped to Malaga, where
he apprised the authorities of what had taken place.
On the receipt of this intelligence the Captain-General,
PALAREA, demanded the assistance of the Captains
of a French corvette and an English frigate, to seize
the missing vessels with the rebels on board, and to re-
cover the fort of Alhucemas. To the no small sur-
prise of the Captain-General, the French officer
answered that the orders of his Government were, that
he should observe a strict neutrality. On the
other hand, the English Captain declared that he
would get under weigh with as little delay as
possible, that he might render all the assistance in his
power to the Government of her Most Catholic Ma-
jesty. It may be easily imagined, that the answers of
the two Captains has created no small stir in Madrid.
To add to the popular indignation against the treachery
of France, it was published in the capital simultane-
ously with the King of the FRENCH'S speech, at the
opening of the Chambers, in which the paragraph re-
lative to Spain has given great offence to the Ultra-
Liberal party. On the contrary, the conduct of Eng-
land is lauded by all parties in the capital as most ge-
nerous, and as entitling this country to the lasting
gratitude of the Spanish nation.
The Gazette announces the promotion of Major-
Generals ALAIX and VAN HALEN to the rank of
Lieutenant-Generals. When it is borne in mind that
ALAIX is War M►nister, the modesty of his promotion
cannot be too sufficiently admired ! There is nothing
in the annals of Hibernian impudence to match this
method of obtaining promotion.
We have no political news from Madrid.

The Paris journals of Thursday have all been re-
ceived. The trial of GISQUET v. the Messager,"
was not concluded, and little else was talked of in the
salons of the French metropolis. The following ex-
tracts from the French Journals include all the intel-
ligence they bring of the slightest political interest :
Captain Mounier, of the Reins Rose, which left Valparaiso
on the 25th September, and has arrived at Bordeaux, says
in his report :
" At this time of my departure, there was no positive news
respecting the issue of the war. On the day that I left the
port, I fell in with a brig coming from Lima, which gave me
the following intelligence :—The Chilian army had evacuated
Lima, and was encamped in the environs. President Orbegoso
had retreated into the Castle of Callao, which had not yet
been attacked, and it was supposed that no attack would be
made. The Commander-in-Chief of the Chilian army had
placed General Gamara, at the head of the Peruvian Govern.
ment, against whom, the Councils of the three powers, had, it
was said, protested, as being imposed by force. General Santa
Cruz, with the Bolivian army was 45 leagues from Lima."
Other letters from Valparaiso, of the same date, say that
the power of Santa Cruz appeared to be stronger than ever,
as well in consequence of the foolish attempt of Orbegoso, as
of the unfavourable issue of the Chilian expedition, the
success of which was erroneously announced by the English
Journals.

Nicto and Orbegoso have taken flight ; of the 15,000 or
16,000 men that they had under their command, 700 have gone
to reinforce the garrison of Callao, the remainder have joined
the corps of Moraus.—Le Commerce.
The Emancipator of Toulouse publishes the following pe-

_
tition :
" Petition of the Merchants of Lavelanet, for intervention
in the affairs of Spain.
__. — .

" To the Members of the Chaniber of Deputies,
" Gentlemen,—The Spanish revolution is consuming its
energy and its resources, without any result.
" France has a right to complain of a state of things which
is unfavourable to it at present, and may be injurious to it in
future.

We especially, inhabitants of the South, have immense
grievances to allege on this subject, since Spain is the cause
of results which directly and fatally affect these countries.

" The state of war has annihilated our commercial inter-
course with that country, and our current coin, rxported by
the Committees that are openly organized at different points
to aid the factious, daily goes to be swallowed up there.
" The manufactories of the South—especially that of
woollen cloth, formerly so flourishing—are threatened with
general ruin.
" It is for you, Gentlemen, to put an end to our fears by
adopting such measures, and police regulations, as the inte-
rests of our country imperiously calls for.
ee Rescue Spain from its dreadful struggles, and save cur
commerce."

Th! English Journals have not arrived.— Constitutionnel.

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