The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-28 00:00:00

from 1110, smAliness of the stock of gold and silver
thee metals were of an undue value, and other colt!•
modifies unduly depreciated. Bta gold and silver
would littake tbealNetves to America as the best mar-
ket, And in time other commodities and the precious
metals would be of the t3r.TTW relative value as else-
where. Wh" denies that the consequences are meet
calamitous, not merely io the country turtling tinder
the derangement of lt.l cirettlatiotii but to °dier
tries also ? The Americans ceased to pretlnce and to
consume, and the English itanufacturer found his
market suddenly narrowed. But the chief oureg of
the evil IN the vicious monetary system a America.
There were signs and leernings in abundance of what
would hap_ nett lung before the crash came. At ne. the
Beek of England, we repeats eve prOliounce no opi-
nion on its determination. All we say is, that we
6hould he sorry to think that the Directors hatened to
Captain Stockton's project because they shared his
economical piinciplese—Morning Chronicle.
The Ministers who disgrace the Queen's service,
and disgust the pride of all constitutional Englishmen,
in answer to our reprOach that they have long been
abandoned by the wealth, the birth, the intelligence,
the moral influence, and whatever constitutes the soul
of a civilised community, boast that they have never-
theless a " sine and certain majority" of Members of
the House of Commons returned for Ireland, who will
enable them to carry their measures, or, if not, to re-
tain their places in spite of the Conservative power.
We bow to the dignity of such self-congratulation.
When, however, certain of our Conservative allies make
this same boast of an Irish Papist majority in default
of an English one a reproach to Ministers, who,
' having avowedly forfeited the confidence of Great
Britain, are not ashamed to fell back upon so unwor-
thy and so vile a substitute, they, (the Ministers),
throe ;h their partisans of the Press, contrive to shift
their mode of extenuation—refer the country to the
lists of Members returned at the last election ; and, in
a tone of snappish insolence, cry out—" What slan-
derers you are—what infamous liars—to call such an
assemblage of brilliant names as these by the oppro-
bi epithet of Papists, when there are no less than
17 Protestants, out of a list of one-and-twenty I
Men of fortune too, of high connexion—Whigs—
nay, Courtiers. Who in the world ever heard of so
foul a calumny ?" Now, this deserves a word of
notice. If we charge the Melbourne Cabinet with
keeping office in spite of the political, moral, and re-
ligious feeling of Great Britain, may we not safely
appeal to the tremendous preponderance of county
Members, not less than 135 out of 189, in support of
such an accusation ? If, again, we charge them with
having no set-off whatsoever against the declared hos-
tility of Great Britain but an Irish Papist majority,
returned on the sole condition of voting " black
white" for the overthrow of the Protestant Church
and State in Ireland—is it a fair answer, or a down-
right and despicable quibble, to tell us, that of the
Members constituting that Irish Papist majority, the
greater number do not go to mass at all, but pass in
their own persons for Protestants ? We say it is no
answer, but a paltry shuffle. The grand, nay the
only question is—on what interest, on what political
professions, and pledged to what course of political
and party measures, have the Ministerial partisans
in Ireland offered themselves as candidates at the
hustings, and by what interest and by what de-
scription of voters have they been returned ? If the
parties returned to Parliament (we say nothing of the
sort of tenure by which many of them hold their seats,
or for how long or brief a period), but if they have
pledged themselves to vote when opportunity offers for
one and all of the O'Connell measures, which go under
his nick-name of " Justice to Ireland," or if—waving
kr a time the vote for such measures—they make
common cause with Mr. Daniel O'Connell in trucking
and bartering " Justice to Ireland"—that is to say
making a sale of the country for an understood price,
which price is the transfer to O'Connell, or his nomi-
nees and representatives, of the Government patronage,
civil, military, political, and judicial, throughout Ire-
land ; and if, in consequence of such pledges, Mr.
Daniel O'Connell has by his agents, the Popish priests,
prevailed upon the electors, in spite of their landlords,
to give their suffrages for the above parties, stipulating,
that in consideration of the bargain alluded to, made
for his own selfish benefit and profit, the said
parties, being returned, shall vote as the Ministers
require of them, it is clear that members so returned,
and forming a majority of the Irish representation,
are neither more nor less than a " Papist majority,"
whether individually they go to church or not, because
they are sent into Parliament on the Popish interests,
pledged as mercenaries to carry out the scheme of
Popish warfare against our Church and State, the
sworn tools and slaves" of a Popish master, not daring
to move but as he bids them. None will deny that if
Mr. Daniel O'Connell wants only tools to execute his
purposes, the best possible tools that he can employ
are by no means Papists, upon whom he might reckon
as a thing of course ; but Protestants, whose name
and reputed creed will help to throw dust in the eyes
of credulous Englishmen, and to persuade them that
" things cannot be so bad, nor the measures projected
against our Protestant institutions so destructive, for
see there are Protestants who support them." O'Con-
nell was cunning enough to comprehend the use that
he might make of Protestant names for the accom-
plishtnent of anti-Protestant objects, and we find that
he has used them pretty freely. He has discovered
men who call themselves Protestants (that is, men who
may he anything, not being regular Papists)—men
who want nothing of religious Popery save the creed,
but who, in respect of political Popery, are of the
faith of whoever pays them, and these gentlemen " do
the Agitator yeoman service." They take his wages,
fight under his colours, bolster up his influence, and vote
for his lieutenant in Downing-street through thick and
thin. This, then, is the degradation into which Lard
Melbourne and Lord John Russell have plunged them-
selves—this is the abyss of lowliness into which they
have fallen. They are as much automata as so many
clockwork fig,ures wound up and directed at the maker's
pleasure. They will bring in any Bills, or cushion
any, as Mr. Daniel O'Connell, the Papist lawyer, Re-
pealer, Agitator, Whig vilifier, Whig bridle-holder,
may whisper them. Ballot, sham suffrage, elective
Peers, Priest-ridden Corporations, abolition of all sub-
sistence for Protestant Clergy, but a yearly allowance
dependent on the vote of a House of Commons
wherein the majority takes its cue from him !
each and all of these—the Melbourne Cals'set must
bring forward if he commands them, At the present
moment he thinks the snugger game is to wait for the
further ripening of the mar. He therefore tells Lord
M.ethourne openly—" Here, my old boy, you may
take breath for one other Session. Let me have a
few thousand more policemen, of the right sort—a
bench of Magistrates of the right sort—some Clerks of
adil,edPjeuadegeeosf the right sort—Assistant Barristers, ay,
(e/1 of the right sort, d'ye see) ; and
then, my honest Loch-it, I, your Peach'em, won't say
et word about your pickings for the next twelvemonth."
Such is the true picture of. that so-called Statesman and
his Colleagues,
whom Newsman from day to clay,, e hear of through the Court
as fulfilling his portion of
Ithe Irish rebel's bargain, under the bright eye of his
and our honoured Sovereign,—Times.
The doom of those odious and iniquitous impost,
known by the name of Church-rates, is sealed. Their
extinction is as certain as if it had already taken place.
What is more, that extinction will be speedily accom-
plished. We shall be much surprised if, before the
close of the approaching Session, Church-rates be not
a matter of history. Every day adds to the triumphs
of the Dissenters in their warfare with these obnoxious
and unjust taxes on men s pockets, and burdens
on men's consciences. We alluded on Satur-
day, with feelings of no ordinary gratification,
to the fact, that in the papers of the previous day there
were accounts of no fewer than four such victories,
which had been achieved by the Dissenters over the
Church party in the course of the week. The very
day on which we wrote was destined to witness another
signal conquest of a similar kind. That triumph was
gained by the Dissenters of Hackney. It only requires
union and energy on the part of the friends of civil and
religious liberty to achieve in all populous towns victories
which shall equally redound to the glory of those who
shall gain them. The friends of the Church are not en-
cumbered with common sense ; if they had a particle of
that commodity in their composition, they would at once
exemplify the old adage of making a virtue of ne-

cessity, by declining_ any longer to enact Was Which
nbt only otitrag-e tare ci.instiOces of a large iiidrtidti
the Comilititiity, but the enr(jreteht or 11111 St in
the iiitUre of things be impossible before many months
have elapsed. His must, indeed, be an imperfect
mental vision that does not clearly :'3O that the Church
must by that time trust entirely tb the free=will
offieriti,gs hef Oirt itietlibcf9 fbf dlatei.;er sumseh tll be necessary to keep her fabrics in repair.
Why not do it now,, while it could be done with
somewhat of ft goad grade ? The only drawback
lb the pleasure with which We have witnessed the re=
cent noble efforts of Dissenters to rid thetbstilYes of
the grievanee bf Church-rates, arises from a circum-
stance which occurred in the town of Plyinou.h.. It
appears from a statement in titiO or the iolletlAls ot
that plata, that immediately on defeating the Church,
party in their attempts to iiiipdso. girt',, :teVetai of
the Dislentett came forward, and contributed li-
berally towards a voluntary rate. None can more
admire than we do the generosity of spirit which
dictated this step ; but its justice, to say nothing of its
prudence, is, to our minds, a very questionable matter.
Need we remind our Dissenting friends of the
well-
known maxim, that charity ought to begin at home ?
We know we shall be met with the hackneyed answer
that though charity ought to begin at home, it ought
not to end there. We at once admit the justice of
the observation as a general principle, but in this
i
case it does not apply. Christian charity, which s the
charity spoken of, requires no man to bring his bene-
volence to bear on objects abroad, white anything re-
mains to be done at home. It is only when every
legitimate claimant on our sympathies and assistance
within our own immediate circle has had all the
aid afforded him which it is in our power to im-
part, that we are to direct our attention to persons
with whom we are not specially connected. Let
the Dissenters of Plymouth who have been volun-
tarily contributing to a Church-rate there, test their
conduct by the principle we have laid down. Are there
no pastors in their own communion, whether they be-
long to the Independent or Baptist persuasion, whose
salaries are barely sufficient to keep soul and body to-
gether? Are there not many of these Dissenting pas-
tors, of great moral worth, and whose whole lives are
devoted to the work of the ministry, who are at this
moment actually suffering the privation of some of the
necessaries of life ? If the Dissenters of Plymouth
know of no such instances, we, we are grieved to
say, could mention many such. Are there not, again,
many Dissenting chapels in all parts of the country,
in a very uncomfortable and dilapidated state, merely
because the congregations have not the means where-
with to make the necessary alterations and repairs ? Is
it, then, we put it to the Dissenters of Plymouth, an
enlightened charity, to contribute to the embellish-
ment of the splendid edifices of a pampered hierarchy,
while the chapels of their own brethren in many parts
of the land are in so uncomfortable a condition ; but
above all, while numbers, both of Independent and
Baptist pastors, alike distinguished for their piety and
their devotion to their ministerial labours, have not
wherewith to administer to their own families' wants ?
We are sure the misdirected generosity of the Ply-
mouth Dissenters was purely the result of a want of
consideration, and that no intelligent Dissenter in any
other part of the country will follow their example.—
Morning Advertiser.

Whatever may be said on one side or the other of
particular acts of the present Ministry, it should never
be forgotton by the people of England that the inscrip-
tion on their banner, under which they go forth to
battle against the glorious Constitution of 1688 is " a
heavy blow and great discouragement to Protestant-
ism." This cannot be said to be the invention of an
enemy, for the words of this anti-national—this alien
motto of the so-called Whig Cabinet, are the vety
words spoken by Lord Melbourne in the House of
Peers, as characteristic of a line of policy which he
was pressing, with solicitations and menaces, the House
of Lords to adopt. The " heavy blow" to Protestant-
ism was to be part and parcel of the consideration for
O'Connell's support, arising out of the compact of
Lichfield House. The apostate Whigs, apostate from
the principles and faith of the Whigs who assisted in
framing the Protestant settlement, by virtue of which
the family of Brunswick is seated on the Throne of
these realms—the apostate Whigs, we say, having
ratified for the most selfish purposes that disgraceful
compact with the enemy of our nation and reli-
gion, would have made the Peers of England
accomplices in the great crime of inflicting a
mortal wound upon Protestantism, and sub-
verting the principles which constitute the very
foundation of the throne itself. Need we say that, if
Protestantism be severed from the throne, there are
nearer heirs in Europe to the Crown of England, not
being Protestants, than the descendants of the Elec-
tress Sophia of Hanover, to whom it was limited
(and may that limitation be perpetual I) by the Pro-
testant Act of Settlement. But who arc they who
have admitted their intention of inflicting, if they can,
a heavy blow and great discouragement upon that Pro-
testantism on which the throne is settled ? The Pro-
testant advisers—the constitutional Ministers—the
sworn Privy Councillors of the Protestant Crown.
These men have their own Popish advisers in Ireland,
who wonderfully well assist in the great object of in-
flicting " the heavy blow and great discouragement on
Protestantism." The recent elections exhibited their
system working in all its viaour. There were seen
the meek and pious priests (Lard Plunket's much-
calumniated body of men) marching at the head of the
" columns of the faith" to hustings, or launching the
thunderbolts of temporal ruin and eternal damnation
from the desecrated altars at the heads of any of their
flock who dated to evorcise the freedom of election and
vote against the O'Connell-Mulgrave nominee. There
were seen the ragged, drunken, fanatic bed,v-atiauls or
the holy church militant, earning absolution 'for all their
other sins by mutilating, maiming, and, in some in-
stances, murdering the Protestant electors, and so
" carrying out" the Ministerial polity in its most literal
sense by the infliction of" heavy" blows upon " Pro-
testantism," denounced as it has been, no: only from
the Popish altars, but from the Treasuryßenches. Need
we wonder at the alarm which has been spread among
the ranks of the Ministerialists on both sides of the
Irish Channel, at the prospect of effectual assistance
being afforded by the English Protestants to their Irish
bred,ren, by means of the subscription now going on
to enable them to recover those seats in Parliament
which, through the working of an organised system of
intimidation, fraud, and violence, have been most
foully usurped ? The priestly and lay agitators who
have instigated an ignorant and excitable populae,
and the populace who have carried their doctrines into
practical effect, call themselves " the Queen's friends I"
Yes, the conspirators. against the Protestant religion, and
British connection, call themselves the friends of the
Queen, who is by the Constitution at the head of the
Protestant Church, of which they would represent her
Majesty as the secret enemy. Can the youthful Queen
of England—the descendant of an illustrious line of
Protestant Princes--who has sworn to preserve the
Protestant Church inviolate—be more cruelly defamed
than by the praises of such persons ? We are sure
she never deserved such praises, and trust she never
will.—Morning Herald.

We have seen it stated by several of our Contem-
poraries that the English prisoners lately captured
at the Church of Andoam have been shot under the
Durango decree. We will in the first place candidly
say that we are without positive information on the
subject ; but we are, at the same time, inclined, from
several circumstances, to believe, that an event so
much to be deplored has not taken place. We know
that some weeks since, the French Legion having
become extinct, the English reduced to a skeleton, and
the Portuguese on the point of marching back to its
own country—in short, the Spanish soil being freed
from the hated presence of the stranger in arms
—Don Carlos resolved on suspending the Durango
decree, and our only alarm on the present occasion
is, that, owing to the difficulty of communicating
through an enemy's country, that determination has
not been wade known to the commanders of
the
unfortunate provinces in time to save the heof our
unfortunate countrymen. The Duray,-
published with the hope of pr,- decree was
went commenced in
_ -venting the recruit-
Belgium ; and it ha ..toand, in France, and in
cause the Ba peen partially acted upon, be-
seeing P '"
lue people were roused to desperation on
- nand of strangers wresting from them the tilt-
..

ditional liberties of their country, and because wher-
ever; the roreigh IteiNiciri was Fteen; mordeti devr.station,
and fire-raising were the consequences. t:;ow; that inOe
excesses have ceased, with the destruction of the bands
that practised them, the temper of the Basques is sub-
dued; and the Spanish Monarch is at liberty to listen
W the feelings of humanity Which those who know
Well are aware ace ilifiefeili nature: We hope
that the desperate conduct of the troops under dericial
O'Donnell in his late advance on Andoain, by which
so many houses were burned and ruin entailed on so
many families, will not excite the people again, and that
the Carlist General will not be compelled to yield to the
clamour for revenge. It is to be lamented that the Le-
Rion has born stained, either by direct perpetration of
these exeeses, df by a=dpertititisr with the Spaniards
Who comniitted them, and it will be still more to be
deplufed if the ling General O'Donnell to shoot
all the prisoners taken at Irun be carried liaid e:1601-
tion, Some of our Contemporaries have contrasted
the lenity of the Christinos to dime prisoners with the
barbarity said now to be executed against the dap
hared at Andoain ; but surely our friends must have
overlooked a memorial which we published the other
day from those very prisoners, representing that they
are treated in the most infamous manner—immured in
dungeons twelve feet under ground, with a limited
supply of air and light, and with barely as much
t•irse food as is necessary to sustain nature. Really
we must be just, and the Christinos are not to be
suffered to exercise all sorts of cruelty on the poor
creatures who fall into their power, while the Carlists
are assailed for anything in the shape of reprisal.—
Mur ning Post.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

SHERIFP S CO URT-W RIONERDAr.
WILKSON V. FISHER.

This was an action to recover the sum of 101. lent, and
the sum of 51. 17s. for three casks of pickled ship beef, and
a flat of tongues.
Mr. PAYNE was for the plaintiff, and Mr. C. JONES for
the defendant. The transaction was rather odd, by Mr.
Payne's account. The beef and tongues were sent to the
defendants, who keep an oil and Italian warehouse in
January, 18:36, with a regular bill of parcels, under which
was a letter by the plaintiff to this effect. " I have sent
you as above, and hope they will realize the price. I have
sent you some tongues as a sample, if you could sell them,
they arc Russia tongues, and some people like them. They
are rather old, or they would be worth 2s. a piece. Yours,
J. Wilkson. P. S. The low parts of Wapping are the
places for the sale of such fine meat. They must be soaked
in water 24 hours before boiling." The defendant kept
the goods till July, 1837, and then sent them, with all the
advantages of antiquity about them, to the house of the
plaintiff, whose wife refused to receive them. The conse-
quence was they had the benefit of the open air until they
were conveyed by the police to the station-house, where
they were to be seen and smelt at that moment. As for
the 101. which was lent, it was lent in June, 1836, and
an I 0 U was received by the plaintiff with promise of pay-
ment in a week. The document was forthcoming.
It was objected on the part of the defendant that the
0 U, being a promissory note, required a stamp.
Mr. PAYNE could prove the debt without the help of a
stamp, or the honest acknowledgment of the defendant.
He then called the plaintiff's son, who proved that the
amount of the borrowed money, and of the price of the
goods, had been repeatedly demanded by the plaintiff, and
promised by the defendant.
Mr. JONES, for the defendant, contended that the goods
were merely sent to the defendant to be sold on commis-
sion ; that Jew and Gentile had been tried as customers,
but, after an ineffectual struggle, during the long interval
described, they would not "go down." As a matter of
course they were returned to the plaintiff, and the defend-
ant claimed of that gentleman, as a set-off, a sum of four
pounds for a year and a half's rent for the three cases of
beef, at three halfpence a week, and for the flat of tongues
at a penny a week.
The defendant examined the goods about a month after
they came in, and found them in such a " regular pickle"
that nobody would bid for, them. He also swore that the
plaintiff was in the habit of sending goods to the defendant
to be sold on commission.

Mr. PAYNE—What goods were sent on commission be-
fore the goods in question f Witness—None that I know
of.—(Laughter.)
Mr. PAYNE—What good after ? Witness—None that
I know of.--(Laughter.)
Another witness said, that soon after the goods arrived
at the defendant's shop a captain of a ship came to pur-
chase, but when the case was opened he said, upon getting
hold of the scent, that even his crew would not be able to
touch the contents ; that chloride of lime was stowed away
in the cask to sweeten it ; and that now, after that and
another year's keep, the most laudable exertions were made
to dispose of the wittles, but nobody would " stand it" at
any price. . . .

The policeman said that the goods were so very bad that
he was most anxious to be deprived of them in some way or
other. He had examined them at the station-house.

Sergeant ARABIN-It may well be called a post mortem
examination.—(A laugh.)
Mr. Payne—lt was more than that—it was a post mor-
tificationent examination—(Laughter)—for the meat was
kept till it was literally unfit fur use.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.
The policeman declared that the very dogs turned up
their noses at the tongues which the defendant had used
such praiseworthy industry to get rid of.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBORO UGH- STREET.

Biddy Wallis and Kitty Bryan, a brace of " Erin's fair
daughters," brawny and bony she porters, came before Mr.
CHAMBERS and Mr. Ilau, on an assault warrant. Black
eyes and scratched faces on both sides indicated the prow-
ess of the combatants, and the good will with which it had
been exercised was pretty equally balanced.
Your Wutchip, said the complainant Kitty Bryan, be-
fore Pm put to bed wid me thirteen childre I had a fallin
out wid Kitty, and bekasc I'd a heavy time 'ov it she ex-
posed me shamefully. Last wake I come home, lit me bit
of fire, biled me bit of bacon ; and after ating me bit of
dinner I wint out wid me husband and one child, two
ttitindis Ohl, in me arms, to buy mescif a new pair of shoes.
C
Ir. HAMBERS—Corne to the assault as soon as you can.
Kitty—Wait awhile, your Bonner, an' be at it. Well,
as me and me husband were goin down the street we met
Pat Welch, and stopped to have a drain, and a spathe about
Ireland. Biddy Wallis come up, and says she, Kitty says
says she, you're talking ov me. No Biddy, says I, divel a
word about the like ov ye ; go on Biddy Wallis to your
own friends, by which manes, as I'm on me oath, I allow
she was bastely drunk. Me soul to the divil, says Biddy, if
I go till I've had me satisfaction ; wid that she spit in my
face, and I spit in her's. Biddy then made a strike at me,
and I wint to pacify me childre, as they began to screech,
and Biddy followed me, clapping her hands, as if she was
the best woman. Sartinly when I seen that, I axed will
annybody hould me child, and after Pat Welch tuck it
Biddy legbailed from me.
Mr. CHAMBERS—What did she do ? Kitty—Legshailed
away into ould Bryan's shop, Plate yer bonnet-, she's al.
ways at me to take a fight ; and I can't go out of me how@
for a pail of water, or a ha'purth of milk, or a pint of beer,
or a drop of gin,:or any other thing, sich as a bit of fish or
a pound of pratees, or a—
Mr. CHAMBERS—Come to the assault.

Kitty-I'm at it, plate your wutchip. I wint wid me
hit of fruite to me stand, and Biddy came and exposed me.
I vvould'nt take a fight, so I made Off home, and then
Biddy jumped in me shallow, and danced on me frttit be;
kale she could'nt get meself and me childre to dance on.
Mr. CHAMBERS—What did your basket contain ?
Kitty—Eightecnpennorth of as fine Kerry pippins as ever
came out of the market.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Where did you get that black eve
from ? Kitty—l'll tell no lie about it. I tuk a fight
with Biddy in at Bryan's after she danced like a jackass on
me fruite.

Pat Welch, who was called on behalf of the complainant,
after giving his version of the affair, admitted that Biddy
and Kitty both gave their children away, tuk off their caps
and shawls, and wiut and took a comfortable fight together,
Kitty—llid'a you hear me blacggarding Billy Wallis ?
Pat Welch—No, be me oath, I did not.

Kitty—Then you're a false swearing perjured, tundering
ould thief.

Mr. CHAMBERS.—WeII, Mrs. Wallis, what have you to
say ? Biddy—She told tales that I'd got two husbands,
when I never had none but what belonged to me own
lawful husband, Bekase she did that same I sartainly
wint down on me knees and coursed a course on her, by
which manes she said she'd have me life ; and she came wid
her bounce to me, and brought her sister, and the pair of
them hate me.

CIIIIMBER, on inquiry, having found that this cha-
reteriitic Irish mode of fighting two upon one had take❑
place in the present instance, dismissed the complaint.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
A diminutive fishmonger, named Wedderburn, who had
been strangely inoculated by the green-eyed monster, yes-
terday preferred divers charges against his wife, a very gen-
teel and pretty-looking woman of eighteen.
The substance of the complaint was that the complainant
grew outrageously jealous some months since, and in the
first fit gave his wife a sound slap on the face, for which