The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-15 00:00:00

eudeavours in the exercise of their high functions—to
the House of Parliament who were bound by oath to
each other as Christian men to maintain the Protestant
succession—and, lastly, Religion and the State were
united in the act of every day, when they commenced
their procedings by prayer to the Almighty God,
through the intercession of our Blessed Saviour, to
enable them wisely to legislate and rightly to govern.
It might seem strange, he continued, that by the corrup-
tion of their own hearts the French forsook God, and God
gave them into the bands of the Devil. The Atheism and
infidelity which were so extensively spread was, in his
mind, a manifest, and at the same time the most awful
judgment of God ; and if not averted, we should infallibly
come down in one great ruin. In favour of the general
fast, he put forth the dilemma, that it was a time to
humble ourselves and implore mercy, because the distress
of the people was either real or affected. If real, we
should humble ourselves for the calamity ; if affected, for
the state of society which admit of such a thing, bur-
reviews, touching the faking off of the present generation
from the wisdom, piety, and loyalty of our ancestors ; and,
in reference to the state of the country, proceeded to say :
" Look to your burning, and remember the hint given the
other night of a crime which no efforts of State policy
could prevent—the setting fire to the standing corn.
I call this House to God. I implore them to
cry aloud to him with a voice of confession, contri-
tion, and supplication." He next contended that infi-
delity was the very essence of the liberalism which walks
abroad, and was then shaking the kingdoms of Europe.
It was most extensively infused into the French Revolu-
tion, as was obvious from an overt act of the French people,
who bad struck out from the coin of the realm "by the
Grace of God," and blasphemously substituted "by the
Sovereignty of the People." He also reprobated their
having taken into their pay a person of the Jewish religion.
Religion and the State were constitutionally united in all
things, from the crowning of the King by the Bishops of
Chi i-t, in the Cathedral, when he took his oath to his
people—to the Judges, who, on entering a town, always
went (whether by law or ancient custom he knew not)
first into the church, and called upon God to bless tbeir
thened with all the frightful consequences of real distress
and desperation. He thought the lower classes were cor-
rupted, and th, corruption had commenced with the higher.
Re believed the support and safety of the State was bound
up in that of the Established Church. Let us once desert
that church, and our glory and prosperity were gone. He
thanked the Ministry for the prayer they had ordered to
be read in churches during the late recess of Parliament ;
and to this proceeding on their part he attributed all the
vigour and firmness they had displayed in Ireland, which
arose from the blessing of Almighty God, for did not the
Loud say, " He that honoureth me, him will I honour,"
" Ask and you shall receive," " Knock, and it shall be
opened unto you." In conclusion, he trusted, that if any
Member in supporting his motion, should make use of any-
thing awkward in expression or odd in tone, no Hon.
Members, he implored and besought them, for the sake of
England, would indulge in a disposition to unseemly mirth.
He then moved, " That an bumble address should be pre-
sented to his Majesty, praying that he would be graciously
pleased to order, by proclamation, that a day be set apart
to be observed as a day of fast and national humiliation
throughout this kingdom ; and also to appoint a prayer
to be addressed to Almighty God, to turn from us, in his
mercy, those evils which we had deserved ; and also to
Wes.; the consultations of this House for the good of the
Established Church and the country ; and also that his
Majesty would be pleased to order a contribution far the
poor to be made in all the churches that day."
Mr. HUGHES HUGHES, after the arguments so ably
and in such a ttuly christian manner advanced by the
Hon. Mover, did not feel himself called on to do more
than express his cordial concurrence in the objects of the
tam' ion. He seconded the motion.
Lord ALTHORP said no one entertained a greater ad-
miration of the abi.ity with which the Hen. Gentleman
had introduced the subject, or felt higher respect for the
feelings whieb prompted him to take that course than he
did.—(Hear.)—He respected the feelings be had displayed
in the course of his speech, and gave full credit to the be-
nevolence of mind which had induced the Hon. Member
to come forward under circumstances so unusual ; but be
submitted to the Hon. Gentleman's most earnest consi-
deration that reeonamendation which had fallen from him-
self towards the conclusion of his speech, how very
unfit it was to &cuss such subjects in a popu-
lar assembly. The Constitution had wisely placed
the consideration of these matters in the power
of the Crown, aided by the advice of the
heads of the church, and be was satisfied that, with them,
cusuch subjects were tnneh more fully and properlHon.
Member, than they could be in that House. The
Member, it was true, had several precedents for an inter-
ference of this description; but they were drawn from
time long past, and as he objected to their revival be
thought he should not fulfil his duty, entertaining such
sentiment, if he did not express a hope that the discus-
sion might not be further extended.—(Hear.)—He was
unwilling to give a direct negative to the motion ; and he
should content himself, therefore, by moving the pre-
vious question.
The motion was then negatived.
Mr. HUNT, with the view of redeeming the pledge he
had given on a former evening, now moved the adjourn-
ment of the House; but at the same time informed the
Speaker that he had not asked any one to second his motion.
The SPEAKER could not entertain any motion unless
it was seconded ; and no Member rising for that purpose,
the motion waa not put.
Mr. HUNT bad kept his word, and he had done.
Mr. LABOUCHERE presented a petition from Taunton,
in favour of Reform.
Mr. SHAW presented a petition from Sir Harcourt
Lees, against the repeal of the Union.
Sir E. SUGDEN brought in a Bill to amend the Statute
of Frauds. Read a first time, and ordered to be read a
second time on Thursday se'nnight.
Sir E. SUGDEN breught in a Bill to improve the
Administration of Instruments by which Powers are exe-
cuted. Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second
time on Friday se'nnight.
O'GORMAN MAHON gave notice of his intention to
bring the question of the proceedings of the Corporation
of Dublin before the House on Thursday next.
Adjourned at Half-past One.

The small-pox and scarlet fever prevail in
this town and the neighbouring townships of Heaton Norris
and Brinnington to an alarming extent. In Heaton Norris
seven of one family are suffering from scarlet fever, and
this family has been lately brought there under a removal
order by the overseer of a distant township, who well
knew that they were under the influence of this dreadful
disease. Part of the family has this week been placed in
the fever wards of the Dispensary, where a check will thus,
providentially for the neighbourhood, be given to the con-
tagion.— Stockport Advertiser.
SIAM AND COCHIN CHINA.—A Second
Edition, in the octavo form, has just been published of Mr.
CRAUFURD'S account of his residence in Siam and Cochin
China, which forms a very valuable addition respecting a
part of the world in which the commercial interests of the
country may in all probability be concerned to a very im-
portant extent. The countries of which Mr. CRAUFUILD
gives us a description, although they attracted considerable
attention from the earliest adventurers to India, and were
even regularly resorted to by ourselves for some years after
our first establishment in the East, had for a long period
been aim( at excluded from the range of our commercial
speculation ; and in regard indeed to their recent and ac-
tual condition might be said to be nearly unknown to us.
YEOVIL—On Thursday last an inquest
wee held at the Mermaid, in this town, on the body of
PHILIP WILMINGTON. The deceased, who was about 19
years of age, was much • respected, and had for some time
acted as cashier to his father, but from his unfortunate
propensity to gaming it is believed he was deficient in his
accounts. Although no direct acts of insanity were proved
before the Jury, yet from the evidence it appeared that the
deceased had recently acted very differently to what he had
used to do, which had been noticed by different persons. On
the preceding Friday he attended the Crswkerne ball, and
played cards, stating at the time that he had only lost 6d.
On Sunday he went to church, and appeared very dejected,
and although fond of liquor, he took but one glass of wine in
the course of the day. On Monday be entered the coach-
room at the Mermaid, where he drank two half-pints of
scalded wine, and gave the waiter six sixpences for himself;
he was then observed to tear out two leaves from his pocket-
book, and on his leaving he acted differently to what be
bad been accustomed. At about one o'clock he returned
horrie, and his mariner was so terrific as to frighten his
sister into a fit; he immediately rushed up stairs, and
almost instantly the report
.of a pistol was heard by his
afflicted father, who found him prostrate on the floor, with
a discharged pistol by his side, and a loaded one between
his legs. Dr. PENI.IVEI. and Mr. S11011LA!‘D, surgeon,
were called in, and they discovered that a pistol-ball had
penetrated the right side of the head, and forced itself
through the left. The poor young. man languished about
four hours, but was totally insensible. After an
investi-
gation of nearly six hours the Jury returned their verdict,
" That the deceased committed the act when e was notn
i
sound mind, memory, and understanding, buth distracted."
Dorset Chronicle.