The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-20 00:00:00

INI! e Vn-1

WITH WHICH
THE " TRUE SUN " IS NOW

INCORPORATED.

LONDON:
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1.638,

,
We see by a Nottingham paper, that Corn sold in
that market last week, at 88s. per quarter. We see,
also, by the accounts from the Wakefield Corn Mar-
ket, that Corn there rose Bs. per quarter, last week.
At Derby, though it has fallen 55., it was still 85s. on
Friday evening. Although it has fallen 4s. to-day in
Mark-lane, it is still 84s. per, quarter. As during the
last six weeks, Corn has been rising, and as the average
of the six weeks publishe,:t last Friday, was 695. 2d.,
while the weekly average was 715.8 d., sheaving that the
next average of six weeks will be above 695., and the ave-
rage after that still higher, it seems very probable that
the price of the last six weeks has been such, that al-
though it now begins to decline, the next average in the
next but one will be 735., and the whole of the Wheat iri
bond will be introduced at ls. duty. At any rate, every
grain of it will ire introduced at a very low rate of duty,
and every grain which can be brought over in time from
the Cceatinent, where large purchases have of late
beeP, made on account of England, will also be intro-
driced. Our Devonshire friends, who, according to
our Exeter Correspondent, are deeply interested in
this single point, a well as our agricultural friends
in every part of argland who have farms on lease, will
now have an opportunity of seeing how ruinously the
Corn-law worU for them, and how advantageously it
works for the speculator in corn.
.Nearly six hundred
thousand quarters of Wheat are in bond, and that
quantity, ,sith still more, will be brought in for con-
sumption at the present prices, and present low duties,
and will most certainly deprive the farmers who are just
beginning, by sending in their new corn, to beat down
pri-zes, of that enhancement of price which is neces-
sary to compensate them for their short crop. They
will be much injured, if not ruined, by the Corn-laws.

The Church of England is usually called by its
friends, the Poor Man's Church, on the same principle
as the law is sometimes called the poor man's friend,
because it does not protect or serve him. Such an as-
sertion 1-,as been amply rebutted by the single fact that
the Wshop of LONDON has 14,0001. a-year, and
that upwards of a million of his congregation have
DO spiritual pastors or advisers. The late un-
happy events at Canterbury have thrown a great
?Additional light on this important subject, and the
public owe much gratitude to the Central Society of
Education for instituting an inquiry on the spot into
the condition of the peasantry (which the Parliament,
to its disgrace, neglected), and to Mr. LIARDET, for
the report he made to the Society. From his pages
to-day we shall illustrate the character of the Poor
Man's Church, giving, at the seine time, a warning to
Sir E. KNATCHBULL and other Corn-law making
landlords, that those pages supply some excellent il-
lustrations of their assu,:ded character of the poor man's
guardians and protectors, which we shall borrow on
another occasion. In the Ville of Dunkirk he says___
" 'Mere was not a church where they (the people) could at-
tend the ordinr,nces of religion, nor a clergyman to guide and
instruct them, nor even a Dissenting minister to supply his
place. The place did not even possess a day school in
which tee lowest degree of instruction could be imparted.
Not to speak of a gentry, there was not a medical man, a
farmer, or even a shopkeeper of any description in the place."
—" Of late years, however, there has been a considerable im-
provement in the district."—" But it is still without church nr
chapel, and would be utterly destitute of religious super in-
tendance or instruction of any kind but for the gratuitous ser-
vices of the present Vicar of Herne Hill, This gentleman,
besides endeavouring to persuade the people to attend his
church, has established, at his own expense, a school, kept by
a mistress, for the instruction of children."--" The Vim's in-
come does not exceed 3001. a year."
Here, then, is a district totally destitute of any kind
of instruction, except what is supplied by a benevolent
man who has the small stipend we have mentioned, and
who has great demands on his income from his own
parishioners. This Ville, or extra-parochial place,
Dunkirk, "contains at present about 700 inhabitants."
Our readers would suppose that a place so destitute of
instruction, of schools, of churches, of gentry, and
even of shop-keepers, must be some far-off island
in the stormy seas of the Northern Ocean, where it
is a sad specin of banishment to live, did they not
know that it is " within view of the spires of Can-
terhurv." Well, then, they will say it must be some
rude, barren, unsie,htly mass of rocks or sand,
offensive to the eve and injuriocts to health. Mr.
LIA.RDET says, and we have before said something
sirailar—

" The scenery of the district is peculiarly English. Gently
rising hills and picturesque vales covered with a rich herbage
or bearing the show of minute snd skilful husbandry, succeed
to each other. Fields of waving corn are interspersed with
g :rdens, hop-grounds, and orchards."

Well, then, the land must be entailed on some pro-
fligate, rapacious family, which spends all its income
abroad, careless alike of the spiritual and worldly wel-
fare of the tenants who supply its wealth. The pos-
essions, it will be supposed, with which the piety
f our ancestors endowed the Church in this dis-
rid, have been appropriated and applied to secular i

uses by some Bar.ou, or Baronet of the neigh-
bourhood, who has left nothing for the service
of Gon. eoh, no, none of them This plate
WITHOIIT A CHURCH• or A SCHOOL BE- 1
LONGS to the CLERGY OP THAT CATHEDRAL
within sight of the spites of which the Churchless
people dwelt. 1' THE WHOLE Of THE PROPERTY
(5,700 acres), with the e-xception of about twelve
hundred acres belonging to a lay individual,
rotors PART O THE POSSESSIONS OP THE DEAN
AND CHAPTER OF CANTMIBURY." The Clergy
are th landlords—that class of men who are so ex-
tremely anxious for the instruction of the ';',z,or nut
they draw all the rent from the pl,t,ce, and leave the
people without either a Church or a school. The light,
however, which has been let into this district of the
Church, by the affair of Thom, has excited the fear,
if not the shame, of the goodly pious landlords
of Dunkirk, and they have set about erecting a
a Church, and the public is already called on to
contribute to the expense, while it is told to ad-
mire the surpassing goodness and generosity of the
Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. Such then is
the Poor Man's Church. It takes the produce of
the poor man's labour, and leaves him without
the least particle of instruction which can either adorn
his mind, prilmote his worldly welfare, or make him
acquPj.nted with the relations in which he stands to the
:treat Creator of the Universe.
Some of our Canterbury readers, acquainted with
the antiquities of the spot, may, perhaps, enable us to
state to the public how the Dean and Chapter became
possessed of the land—by what tenure they hold it—
and what services they are expected to perform for its
possession ?—and may so enable us to make known,
with advantage to the public, during the cessation of
More interesting intelligence, the extraordinary merits
of the Poor Man's Church.
T.

'he London and Westminster Review has taken
the opportunity of a demand for a Second Edition, to
putforth its own opinions on " Lord DIJRHANI and his
assailants." In the main they concur with our own,
the writer insisting on the propriety of considering,
above all things, the substantial merits of the ordi-
nances. We must quote what it says of one part of
the ordinance, and of Mr. LEADER, as marking a dif-
ference, not to say quarrel, between that Gentleman
and his Radical friends :

" It was called an ordinance for putting men to death with-
out trial. But without trial Was it not, on the contrary,
distinctly stated in the ordinance, that there should be a trial ?
Not, indeed, for rebellion ; the ordinance is one of amnesty
for reb...ilion ; amnesty to the men whom it banishes, as much
as to those whom it sets free altogether. Not being to be
punished for rebellion, it is rather unnecessary that they should
be tried for it. The punishment denounced by the ordinance,
is punishment for the violation of the ordinance ; it is the
sanction with which every prohibitive enactment must be ac-
companied. The ordinance is not a judicial act, it is a legis-
lative act; it is not to punish men for their past conduct; it
is to restrain their future conduct ; it imputes to them no
guilt ; it has nothing to do with their guilt, it has to do only
with the consequences of their being at large in the colony."
" If indeed there were the slightest colour for the suppo-
sition that even one of these twenty-three men were banished
for ever; if it were not obvious from the whole tenor of the
ordinance, as well as from all which is known of Lord Dur-
ham, his advisers, and his purposes, that the sole object of it
is, as the ordinance itself declares, to provide for the present
security of this province ;' if the door were not studiously and
widely opened to let in even Mr. Papineau himself to-morrow,
if he should be able to satisfy Lord Durham that his influence
would be used to restore peace to the public mind instead of
disturbing it ; we could then understand the passionate in-
vectives of Mr. Leader, which are at present as unintelligible
to us as they are, for his own sake, lamentable."

If the Tories imagine that they can drown the
voice of the people in the noise of those festivities
which they have, as usual, commenced at the close of
the Parliamentary Session, they will find themselves
woefully mistaken. They have succeeded in stopping
the march of Reform for another season ; but whether
they shall have cause to consider that as a triumph, is
a problem which yet remains to be solved. We would
advise them to withdraw their thoughts for a moment
from the contemplation of the scenes which have
taken place in the Houses of Parliament, and to fix
their eyes upon the consequences which those scenes
are producing out of doors. They may hare it all
their own way in the Hereditary Chamber. They
may make that Chamber the instrument of their
party purposes, and the organ of that hatred
which they entertain towards the people, and
everything popular : but there are some appearances in
the political horizon which indicate that the people
will no longer tamely submit to their insolent domina-
tion, nor much longer endure those privations which
they have hitherto borne too patiently, and which all
result from the usurpation by the few, of the rights o
the many.
The great meeting .at Manchester, which we no-
ticed on Saturday, is only one of a series. At Bir-
mingham, Dublin, and other places, similar manifesta-
tions of the popular feeling have taken place, and be-
fore long the demonstration will be national. Al-
ready eighty-nine cities and towns, it appears, have
appointed delegates to represent them at a general
convention, to be held in the metropolis. What
have the Tories to oppose to this vast display of
the power of the working classes ? Will the
roar of midnight revelry stand them in stead
in a contest with millions ? We think not. We
tell them that the people are assuming an attitude
which must strike terror into-their hearts, and that the
day is not far distant when it will be proved, by ex-
perience, that all that a nation wants in order to be
free is to will its freedom.

We have learned with indignation, though certainly
after the affair of the Vixen without surprise, that
Russia has seized and sent to Sebastopol an English
schooner cruising in the Black Sea, under the pretext
that she was laden with gunpowder for the use of the
Circassians. This vessel, the name of which has not
reached us, left Constantinople on the 4th ult., sailed
to Trebisonde, where she discharged part of her cargo,
and thence sailed for Redout Kale, when she was
chased by a Russian brig of war, the Commander of
which made prisoners of the crew, and sent the
schooner to Sebastopol, as we have already stated.
We are not vet in possession of all the facts connected
with this affair, and therefore we shall for the present
content ourselves with directing attention to it.
In the mean time we would ask, is theßlack Sea, like
the Caspian, really a Russian lake ?
The P

aris Journals of Friday and Saturday have
all been received, in which,
among other things, refe-
rence is made to the debate in the House of Lords
on Tuesday last relative to the French blockade of
Mexico, in anything but a friendly spirit. To convey
an evidence of the bitter tone assumed by the French
Journals in commenting upon this debate we quote
the following extract from an article in the Courrier
Francais of Saturday :

" It is not a month since Marshal Soult traversed England
in triumph, and heard his name joined in the same cry with
that of Wellington. As a sign of the alliance between the
two nations, nobles and citizens, squires and manufacturers,
mingled their applause as the French Marshal passed. In
banquets and assemblies the union of France and England was
the eternal burden, and was held up as a sufficient gu4rantee
of the peace of the world. So explicit and solemn a demon,tra-
tion, in the face of the representatives of Europe, profoundly
touched us. We deemed that England had forsworn her old
prejudices; but it would seem otherwise. The English
press teems with insult, which individuals like to repeat. One
moment a banker, the patron of all that is narrow and igno-
rant in radicalism, condescends to flatter the passions of the
populace by preaching about Vittoria and Waterloo. Another
time some newly-dubbed patrician, like Lord Lyndhurst,
sacks, as usual with him, to raise the Lords in enteute against
the ambitious views of the' French Government, because the
latter shows some wish to avenge insults offered to the national
flag. Must France, then, in accepting the alliance of Eng-
land, submit to a kind tutela:e, or must she support from
friends insults which she would not tolerate from enemies ?
We are not astonished at Tory rancour. That old woman's
party must cling, as for existence, to the alliance of Euro-
pean aristocracies. But that the English Radicals should
adopt and re-echo all this antiquated and stupid hate is past
our comprehension." '
The Moniteur has an official paragraph upon the