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LONDON:
THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1838.

By the Packet-ship Cambridge, which arrived at
Liverpool yesterday, in eighteen days, from New
York, we have received the Journals of that city to
the 2d instant, from which extracts will be found in
another part of The Sun. The steam-ship Liverpool,
was to sail from New York on the 6th, with the
PRESIDENT'S Message, so that her arrival may
be hourly expected. The news from the Canadas,
is very satisfactory. Though the winter has
set in with unusual severity, the rebels have
not judged it prudent to raise again the standard
of revolt in either of the provinces. What is perhaps
more extraordinary still, M. PAPINEAU has seceded
from the rebel refugees, and is employing all his in-
terest in the States to obtain a free pardon, with per-
mission to return to Montreal. The Journals attribute
his penitence to the emptiness of his purse and the utter
exhaustion of his credit. Patriotism can ill subsist
without food even in the heart of the first Republic in
the world. As M. PAPINEAU has publicly disap-
proved of the late outbreak, we should be well satisfied
to see a pardon granted to him, subject to the condi-
tion of his never returning to the Canadas. There his
presence can never be permitted without hazarding the
recurrence of those dreadful calamities and crimes
of which he was the chief instigator.
The New York Morning Herald of the 28th of
November has a long article, gravely charging the
President of the United States with being privy to
the late insurrection, and with withholding his procla-
mation till there was not a chance of success for the
rebels in any quarter. It adds, that on the trial of the
prisoners taken at Prescott disclosures will be made
which will astound every honest citizen in the States.
The intelligence from South America consists of ru-
mours which require authentication.

We direct the attention of our commercial readers
to the details published in another column, of the sud-
den stoppage of the Bank of Belgium. Our Corre-
spondent attributes this event to over-trading in Rail-
way Stock. We are happy, however, to learn the
Bank is really solvent, so that the public is in little
danger of sustaining any loss.

There can be no reason, now that wheat may be im-
ported at a nominal duty, why prices should rise for
the purposes of the importing speculators. The returns
published to-day, however, mark the average of the
six weeks 745. 6d.-Is. 6d. higher than last Thursday.
At the same time, the average of the week ending last
Friday, and published to-day, is 78s. 4d., or 2s. 10d.
higher than last week. Since Friday prices have
again risen, and we shall probably find the average next
week will be 80s., or upwards. Such a price, with a
gold currency and contracted paper, is equivalent,
probably, to 110 s. of the war prices, and really
marks a close approximation to famine. We shall
speedily see this breaking out in the manners and
morals of the people, and the coercion of a rural
police, recommended by the Chronicle a few days ago,
if it could be suddenly called into existence, would be
insufficient to put a stop to the theft and incendiarism
which already prevail in the agricultural districts.
Then the utmost severity of the law will be called for,
and the community will be required by the law-making
landlords to transport and hang the half-starved victims
of their rascally cupidity. We hear a great deal about
the utility of an established Clergy in preserving and
promoting morality, but we are wofully ignorant of the
labours of the Clergy if they have ever yet denounced
the atrocious crime committed by that Legislature of
which the Bishops form'a part, and committed by it to
give wealth to the Clergy—the crime of first dooming
men to incipient starvation, and then of decreeing them
to suffer death if they endeavour to help themselves.
It is not a new discovery that the law, with its sangui-
nary provisions, its contaminating gaols, its monstrous
system of transportation, its fictions, sham pleas, and
favour to the rich, is the great parent of the crimes it
pretends to repress, but it may be doubted whether any
example exists which brings such an accusation so
completely home to the law as this, which clearly
creates a partial famine, and then decrees imprisonment,
transportation, and death, against the inevitable con-
sequences of poverty and hunger.

We are glad to see the Sabbath Saints busily at
work pushing their un-Christian, their Jewish and
Pagan doctrines, for the cultivation and increase of
priestcraft and priestly power, to their proper conclu-
sions. It will not be long till the pleasure-loving citi-
zens will repent them sorely of the aid they have given
to those who prefer MOSES to CHRIST. A memorial,
we see, has been prepared at Edinburgh by Sir A.
AGNEW, and numerously signed, of which thefdoiln-.
fol-
lowing passages contain some useful information :
" The generality of their fellow-citizens (they say) in E
burgh, do not call for, nor send for their letters to the general
Post-office on the Lord's Day. They are also assured that
the letters put into the Edinburgh Post-offices on that day.
are comparatively few. • * •
Seeing that in the interior of the Edinburgh Post-office
alone they understand there are upwards of seventy of their
fellow men who, in point of fact, are authoritatively required
to follow their ordinary labour on that day ; lamenting as they
do this national breach of the Fourth Commandment, they
cannot under present circumstances do less than humbly, yet
earnestly implore, that no new measures, at least, may be
adopted tending in the slightest degree to violate further the
sanctity of the Sabbath."
We learn from these quotations that the Scotch
merchants and bankers, though keenly alive to their
pecuniary interests, are not driven, by having a de-
livery of letters on Sunday, into secular occupations ;
and the inference is, that the people of London might
have the same advantage, without being more guilty,
according to Sir ANDREW, than the inhabitants of

Edinburgh. It would then be, as now, wholly volun-
`''' "." N • tatirciti their part whether they worked on Sunday or
,--7,.r_:-,r zilit-.::%ye learn also from these quotations the horrible
'...iy4,4,;k444, ifi,/tt, upwards of seventy men are actually con-
+--- TVP.:itti4aitied; by the Post-office, to " violate the Divine
4..)' - i---I‘i."-, It is quite clear, therefore, that ours, notwith-
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