The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1839.

ants of the different Circuits in the country; to pre-
pare anti-education petitions, to be signed by the
laity at the chapels on Sunday. This peremptory
mode of proceeding has been resisted at Bristol, and
we should hope elsewhere also. In that city,
however, the Wesleyan Methodists very justly con-
sidered this dictation of their religious teachers as
an usurpation of authority which was not to be sub-
mitted to---an interference with their civil and re-

ligious rights which was altogether unjustifiable.
They took their measures accordingly. A requisi-
tion was got up, signed by almost all the resident
leaders, and local preachers to the Superintendant,
desiring him to withdraw the obnoxious petition,
which he did instanter.

In other Circuits the same spirited conduct was
not adopted by the laity, and in consequence a
bolder spirit was manifested by the preachers, one
of whom, it would appear, dealt out his anathema
without stint or reservation aga;nst the " mis-
creants" who dared to refuse compliance with the
orders sent down from head-quarters I
We quite agree with our Correspondent in the
reflections which he makes on these proceedings of
the Methodist ministers. The Wesleyans are too
intelligent and too liberal to be held in leading-
strings by their religious instructors at this time of
day, much less will they submit to be made the tools
of a few factious men, who, it is but too evident,
would not scruple to sacrifice' the best interests of
the country, the mental and moral culture of the
rising generation, on the unholy altar of party spirit.
Let the Wesleyan ministers beware how they at-
tempt to exercise an arbitrary, and, in reference to
to their own system, unconstitutional dominion over
thelmind and will of the lay members of their com-
munion. There are symptoms abroad which indi-
cate that such attempts, if carried much farther than
they have lately been, may soon end in shivering to
pieces the skilfully contrived, but delicate machi-
nery, by which the Society is held together.

We insert two accounts of what is called by the
Tory journals " another outrageous insult to the Bri-
tish flag." Perhaps it may turn out to be so, and
not an .accident; but those who know anything of
the hurry and confusion on board an ill-disciplined
ship at night, on the people being all suddenly
summoned to the guns, will be disposed not to de-
cide too hastily, or at once run away with the no-
tion that a premeditated insult and injury were in-
tended. Lamentable as any wounds or loss of life
must be when so caused, the circumstance we have
just alluded to, together with the Medea turning
back after having passed the Griffon, .will make the
apology of the French Captain, and his assertion
that he took the Medea for a pirate at first, ap-
pear as if founded in truth.

The Ward of Cripplegate, yesterday, agreed by
a majority of 82 to 38, after the Tories had used
their best endeavours to get up an amendment, to
present an address to her MAJESTY, thanking her
for exerting her Constitutional power against Sir R.
PEEL. We hope that this result is symptomatic
of what may be expected at the Common Hall on
Thursday. It is high time that the other boroughs
and great parishes of the Metropolis took up the
matter. Why does Finsbury sleep ? A Corres-
pondent, who resides in Islington, has addressed a
communication to us, pointing out that the
authorities of that parish, which is larger than
half the boroughs in the empire, have declined to
call any public meeting on the subject of the QUEEN,
while they and their friends are getting up a
petition to the House of Commons in private against
the Ministerial plan for educating the people. If
we can find room for the letter of our Corre-
spondent we shall perhaps give it to-morrow.
In the meantime, we do not know why
the Liberal inhabitants of that opulent parish
should suffer their voices to be extinguished,
as if they had no political existence, because they
happen to have a body of bigoted Tory function-
aries. Nor do we know why the borough of Fins-
bury should have no public voice on the important
questions that now agitate the empire.

Wars and rumours of wars occupy the leading
columns of the French Journals of Monday, the whole
of which we have duly received. War between the
SULTAN and the Viceroy of EGYPT—war between
Louis PHILIPPE and ABD-EL-KADER, in Africa—war
between the Christinos and Carlists in Spain—and war
in expectancy between England and Persia on the
Indus, are the exciting topics of remark in the leading
French Journals. But though they surfeit us with sur-
mises they supply no facts, but such as appeared in our
columns of yesterday, except that France is making vast
preparations for playing an important part at sea. Her
dock-yards are all busy, and orders have been given to
fit out as many ships as possible to increase the French
squadron in the Mediterranean.
A letter from Oran of the 13th instant, published by
the Constitutionnel, states that a war in Africa is immi-
nent. ABD-EL•KADER, among other barbarities, was
destroying all the mural and other monuments of Afri-
can splendour—thus depriving the civilized world of
the only means of filling up the chasms in her history.
The following extracts include the whole of the mis-
cellaneous news in the French Journals :

The trial of the individuals implicated in the publication
of the Moniteur Republicain is fixed for Friday, the 7th of
June. They are seven in number.
Letters from Florence, dated the 19th instant., announce
the death of Caroline Murat, ex-Queen of Naples, after a
painful illness of sixty days. She had the consolation of
dying in the arms of her brother, Jerome Bonaparte, ber
daughter, and son-in-law.

The Prince de Joinville left Paris on Sunday night for
Toulon, where he would embark for Smyrna, to join the
squadron of Admiral Lalande, to whom he had been ap.
pointed Chef d'Etat Major.
The Moniteur announces that the Duke de Nemours had
left Paris for a pleasure cruise on the coasts of the Medi-
terranean and the ocean, and that his Ro)al Highness was
with that object to embark at Cette on board a steamer.
The Embassy deputed to France by the Bey of Tunis
arrived in Civitta Vecchia on board the last Levant packet,
Lyeurgus.

A letter from Tabriz, dated April 9th, quoted by the
Semaphore, states that 20,000 men were on the point of
marching from Teheran, hut their ultimate destination was
not known. It was said by some that under the command
of Melik Kassim Mirza, Seraskier, the Shah's brother, they
were to make a descent on Bagdad; by others, that they
were to renew the siege of Herat ; and by others again,
that they were to be sent towards Schiraz and Bender
Boukir to quell some revolted tribes.
Extract of a letter from Vienna, dated 18th inst.—
,' Prince Paul Esterhazy left this afternoon for London :
this hurried departure is attributed to the recent Mi-
nisterial crisis in London. Our Government has at
length come to a decision on the long suspended
question of the federal fortresse3, and pronounced, in
favour of Ulm, in Wurtemburg which is to be
formed into a fortress of the first order, and made
the Place d'Armes of Southern Germany. It is be-
lieved that the system of detached forts; after the
plans of the Archduke Maximilian, and which have
been adopted at Lintz, will be followed. The se-
cond fortress will be Rastadt, in the Grand Duchy of
Baden, nearly opposite Strasburg; the others will be
raised in the Black Forest. Attention has been turned to
the means of providing the necessary funds. The twenty
millions of war contributions furnished by France, and
which by the treaty of 1815 were appropriated to this
purpose, are not sufficient ; and it is said the German
Diet proposes to raise a fuderal loan at four per cent.,
with an adequate sinking fund." The Courrier Francais,
at the same time that it quotes this letter, points out to the
attention of its readers a rumour current at Brussels, that
Russia and Prussia are insisting upon the demolition of the
Belgian fortresses agreed upon by the original treaty of
1831.

BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, MAY 27.
HALF-PAST TIIREE.—A great deal of business done to-
day ; there have, however, been several oscillations in the
prices of the French Stocks. The market has been influ-
enced by the certainty that the Ministry will obtain the
grant of secret service money. For the Account the Three
per Cents. opened at 81f. sc. ; they declined to 801. 95c.,
rose to 81f. 20c„ and closed at 81f. 15e., being 20 cents.
higher than on Saturday. The Five per Cents opened at
1111., fell to 110 f. 95c., and closed at 1 llf. 15c., a rise of
25c. For Money, the Three per Cents. are 15c., and the
Five per Cents 20.. better. The Batik of France Shares
have improved 5f ; those of the Laffitte Bank are unal-
tered. The Belgian Three per Cents., for the Account,
721. The Spanish Active has continued at 20. The
transactions in Railway Shares become daily of less im-
portance, and the varia•ions but small. The Havre are
stationary at 960 f., as the Orleans are at from 465 f. to
470 f. The Versailles Right Bank are 121. 50e. higher.
and the Versailles Left Bank 2f. 50c.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. l'rice. Price Price,
French 5 per Cents
4 per Cents lOl 70 let 70 ... lot 50 ... 101 51
3 per Cents Bl ... SI 5 ... 81 51 5
Rank of erance
Latfitte Bark 1,0001. 1075 ...1880 ...1075
5,0001. .L h 5'45 ...5015 _5045 ...5245
Belgian Bank BOO bt,a 50 Si
.-.0
Coupons
Spanish Ac ive 2O ... 20• "
Passive
New Dt.t,rrei
Sea!
Roman
RAILWAY SUM-I.Es.

St. Germai .. c 65, „,. 6(15 ... CO5 ... 615
n . •
6!,5 ... 70i ... 6:45 „, 705
Versailles, ft. B
... 300
02. 50 ... 301 ••• `.!;:is
L.B.
96U ... 04 ... !):;11 , b.,
Hay!,
Orleans
467 5.) ... 467 50 ... 467 50 ... 467 CO
..
Strasburg to Bale 341 ... 340 ...:37 50 ... 337 SO
ASP fIA LTES AND BITU HENS.
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ESPARTERO is disappointing his friends and enemies.
When we expected to hear of his returning to his old
quarters at Logrono, there to slumber for another year
under the shade of the laurels gathered by him at G.uar-
damino and Ramales, we are agreeably surprised to learn
that he has followed up his recent successes by the cap-