The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1836.

support. We do not of course want long speeches
on a subject which every reflecting person must
know as much about as four-fifths of the Members of
the House of Commons. The question of cheap
knowledge is not like a question of Foreign policy—
incomprehensible without the production of diplomatic
state documents in the keeping of a Minister of the
Crown. Parliament has learned the importance and
the necessity of a free and unshackled press from the
country, and therefore the taught may save themselves
the trouble of assuming the character of the teachers.
All we desire is that those Members who are pledged
to the support of this question will for once condescend
to imitate the honest elector of Bristol, and lustily cry
" ditto " to the speech of the Right Hon. the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, on moving the reduc-
tion of the Newspaper Stamp Duty.

We have heard that Sir CHARLES KNIGHTLEY
will persevere in moving his promised amendment for
the substitution of cheap soap for cheap newspapers.
Let him. We care not, provided a certain high Tory,
whose taste for saffron-coloured linen is allowed to
equal that of the late Recorder for Bristol, do not se-

cond it. We have heard that Sir CHARLES WE-
THERALL addressed a note to the Hon. Member for
Northamptonshire, lamenting that he could not be

present during the debate, and kindly offering him the
use of an under garment to be worn on the occasion,

after the fashion of the Tory CX-ATTORNEY-GE-
NERAL. This offer was, we understand, declined; Sir
CHARLES KNIGHTLEY alleging that he could not
reconcile it to his conscience to take such an unfair
advantage of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.
Be this as it may, the Hon. Baronet is only to be
driven from his position by the vote of a majority of
the House of Commons.

The zeal of the Parliamentary Reformers will be
tested this evening. The champions of cheap know-
ledge, who filled the country with their denunciations
of a taxed press, only because they expected to be
opposed by Ministers, will find themselves caught
in a snare from which they will not be able to
extricate themselves, without throwing aside the mask
by which they hitherto concealed their political de-
formity from the people. All that hitherto passed
current for gold must now pass the fiery ordeal which
will separate the dross from the pure metal. We have
already observed that we shall not be found inattentive
to the proceedings of this evening. The country
may depend upon us for a faithful account of the con-
duct of its representatives on this momentous occasion.

Letters and papers from Madrid to the 13th inst.
have been received. They bring no news of the slight.
est political importance. CORDOVA was still in the
capital, but a report was circulated of his intended de-
parture to join the Army on the 14th, or on the day fol-
lowing, at the latest. The country was generally free
from any political excitement, though the new Minis-
try were very active in their efforts to procure a ma-
jority in the Cortes.

The whole of the Paris papers of Friday and Sa-
turday have been received. They bring accounts from
San Sebastian to the 14th instant. The Carlists,
finding that they could make no impression on the
Legion in open warfare, had betaken themselves to the
manufacture of Royal proclamations, inviting them to
desert over to the Pretender. Money and promotion
are liberally promised to all who will enrol themselves
in a new British Legion, which Don CARLOS is pre-

paring to organise.
In the Chamber of Deputies the only business done
wrs the passing of some chapters of the Budget for

SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

(FROM LLOYD'S. )
DEAL, JUNE 18.—Wind W. S.W. ; 19, ditto.—Arrived the
Columbia, Ware, from Ceylon ; Aexander, Perring, from
Rio Janeiro ; George, Zoppenheim, from the Brazils ; Abeona,
—, from New Orleans ; Royal Tar, (steamer), from Lis-
bon ; Hero, Gibson, from Belfast ; and Tamar, Angel, from
Cork. The homeward bound have sailed for the river. Ar-
rived from the river and proceeded, the Lord Nelson, Taist,
for Lisbon ; Vivid, Butcher, for Malta ; Susannah, Ridley,
for Bordeaux ; Swallow, Phelps, for Gibraltar ; Annabella,
Anstruthur, for the Mauritius ; Yore, Fawcett, for Rio Ja-
neiro ; Emerald Isle, Rowle, for Cork ; and several coasters.
MARGATE, JUNE 19.—Arrived off port the Mary, Jack, from
Van Diemen's Land.
DOVER, JUNE 19.—Arrived off port the O'Conulge, Lea-
, vatt, from New York.
COWES, JUNE 19.—Arrived the Suffolk, Smith, from Ma-
nilla; Washington, Rogers, Regalia, Cobb, from Rio Janeiro;
Emma, Ferguson,from Laguna.
ISLE OF WIGHT, JUNE 19.—Arrived off port the Colonist,
Smith, from Barbadoes ; Pauline, Cramp, from St. Jago do
Cuba; and Clarissa, Marson, from New Bedford.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 18.—Wind W. S. W.-19, W. to
N. W.—Sailed, the Roxburgh Castle, Cumberland, for Ma-
dras ; Mayflower, Headley, for Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 18.—Wind, S. S. W.—Sailed, his Ma-
jesty's ship Bonetta, —, for Africa.
DARTMOUTH, JUNE 17 and 18.—Wind S. moderate breezes.
—Arrived his Majesty's ship Espoir, —, from Lisbon,
sailed 12th ins. Off port the Republic, Coffin, for Havanah ;
sailed the Lyra packet, for the West Indies, and the Eclipse
packet for Havana, Belize, and Mexico.
_ PORTLAND, JUNE 18.—Arrived the Taunton, Putman, from

Bahia.
BRISTOL,Minerva,
JUNE 19.—Arrived the Furlong, and
Carolina, Smith, from Jamaica ; Letitia, Brumley, from
Bordeaux.
LIVEPOOL, JUNE 19.—Arrived the Birmingham, Green,
from Berbice ; Silesia, Rowland, from New Orleans ; and
Majestic, --, from New York ; Lady Campbell, --, from
St. Johns, N. B. ; Ostend, —, from \Vyborg.
The Hercules, Wood, from -Canton, has arrived at New
York, after being on shore.