The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-29 00:00:00

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THE " TRUE SUN " IS NOW
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LONDON :
SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1838

We have just been informed that writs of Habeas
Corpus have been issued this morning to bring up the
Canadian prisoners before Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE.
The writs were obtained upo❑ the application of Mr.
ROEBUCK and Mr. THEOBALD as Counsel. Many
of the prisoners are said to have bad no trial, and it is
believed that others have been tried before incom-
petent tribunals. The former class of cases is obviously
of great importance as involving the question, whether
a person can be transported as a felon from this coun-
try, and by the British Government, without having
ever had a trial.

ith reference to a statement which we made on
the 18th inst., on the authority of a Correspondent,
that " there is a regular Sunday delivery of let-
ters at all the public offices, and also to a
levy favoured speculative individuals," we are
authorised to say that it is not correct. Letters
from some of the great towns are received at
the public offices, but no individuals receive letters,
4441 those delivered at the public offices are
not always read. It is clear that the country might
be exposed to considerable inconvenience if the Go-
vernment, in these times of rapid communication,
were left a whole day officially unacquainted with
events which might transpire on Saturday at Manches-
ter, or on Friday at Glasgow, after a rumour of
those events might have reached London by some of the
common conveyances. A Sunday transmission of letters,
therefore, is essential. to the Government, but they
Come in such a way, we are assured, that no improper
11Se, with the sanction of the Government, ever is or
ever can be made of any information thus conveyed.

, It will be seen by reference to an article headed
-` Coal trade," in another part of The Sun, that the
11°nopolists are struggling hard to get rid of the regu-
lations lately established by the Navigation Committee
t
4or the better supply of the market with coals, as well
as for the general accommodation of the ship-
Ping in the River. A society of shipowners
111 Sunderland have, it appears, taken a pro-
Thtnent part in opposing the new laws. They
tags sent up to the LORD MAYOR a memorial con-
taining a long list of grievances to which they pretend
they are subjected by the said laws. They complain,
among other things, that the interests of the ship-
owners of Sunderland have been sacrificed to those of
the proprietors of steam vessels and dock companies
0° the River. Now only look at the absurdity of this
c°4lplaint, and the bad faith in which it is brought
forward will be at once perceived. The object of the
t:gulations which have given so much umbrage to the
'Linderland people is to expedite the discharge of coal-
laden
ships,and thus to afford a larger supply of the
article at a lower price to the citizens of London.
This object has already, to a certain extent, been
attained. Ships are not now allowed to lie fifteen days
lit the Pool, waiting their turn and feeding the market,
80 as to keep it little above the starvation point. Not
°I)IY has this time been abridged one half, but other
measures have been adopted to facilitate the process
of unloading, while all vessels with purchased cargoes
a direct
allowed, on arriving in the River, to proceed
;rect. to the place of discharge. Now, how can
the
operating in this way militate against
e interests of the shipowners ? The clear and
_.a
vious interest of a Sunderland shipowner is, that
.118 ship should make as many voyages as possible
41 the year ; and for him to complain of regulations
that enable him to run his vessel a trip or two more
than he formerly did, is truly ludicrous. The truth,
1..t,e apprehend, is that the Sunderland shipowners are
80 coalowners, and that they are more interested in
171
eeping up the high price of coals, than in getting an
Increase of freight. Could they accomplish both ob-
jects, they would no doubt be glad, but as they cannot
d 0
that, they sacrifice the less to the greater interest.
Our readers will perceive by the report alluded to
that the LORD MAYOR went yesterday, accompanied
by the Chairman and various Men-ebers of the Naviga-
tion Committee, down the river es far as Gravesend, to
t 0
investigate
his own eves the working of the new laws, and
° investigate the matters complained of by the Sunder-
land shipowners. These complaints were found to be
entirely destitute of all foundation.
AGreat praise is (Inc to the -LORD I\LSYOR for his
,h,vours to put down this monopoly, which is so
`l've.t.rirriental to the manufactures of the metropolis, and
ieh trenches so deeply on the comfort of the middle
if d. lower classes of the community. His Lordship,
he succeed—and from what has already been done
We
Mhave no doubt he will succeed—will render his
ayoralty more popular and more memorable than
ati r on
°st any within the recollection of the present gene-
NNT,

e were enabled yesterday to lay before our readers,
; a Second Edition, the information that Mr. STE-
-O,IIENs had been arrested. Some further particulars
the p
04 roceedings with regard to him will be found in
ur communication from Manchester. We can say
ar°thing of the propriety of arresting him, because we
b: perfectly ignorant of the language which is said to
7e been seditious ; but we believe that the public,
though well pleased that he is now arrested, would

arms, though supported by both law and Gospel,
will certainly not recommend him to the class of
persons amongst whom he will find his judges. It will
be seen by our report, that no further progress, at the
hour of the post leaving Manchester, had been made

in investigating the affair. The precautions taken by
the Magistrates, and the report that a number of other
persons are to be arrested, imply that considnable
alarm exists in the neighbourhood, and that other mat-
ters have attracted the attention of the authorities, be-
sides the intemperate language of Mr. STEPHENS.
Amongst our Manchester intelligence will be found a
paragraph descriptive of the exhibition at the Nfecha-

nics' Institute there. Can the landlords, for whose pre-
sumed advantage the manufacturers are to be exiled or
starved, exhibit any similar proof of the improvement
of themselves, their tenants, or their serfs ? Where are
the agricultural labourers' institutions ? In the beer
shops. Where are the fertuers' institutions ? In the

taverns, when they are rich enough to frequent them.
Where are the landlords' institutions ? At the club-
houses, where they shake their elbows. The agricul-
tural societies have for their object to improve
cattle, and the landlords can boast of no society to
improve the people. If we get rid of our manufactures,
if we extinguish our town population for behoof of
the boors, if we even check its growth to preserve
them in their stationary condition, we shall put an end
to all social improvement. What discovery have the

boors ever made ; what advantage have the landlords

ever conferred on society ; what arts have they in-
vented or improved that we should coolly be asked to

allow our manufacturing town population to go to

other countries, that the lazy landlords may not be

put to shame by their industry, ingenuity, and spirit o,

.mprovement ?

The poor terrified Anglican priesthood and their
friends got up a meeting yesterday at Exeter Hall, to
hear Mr. NANGLE give an account of the persecutions
to which the members of the Achill mission have been
subjected. After hearing a very eloquent description from
Mr. NANGLE of the great sufferings he has undergone
by hearing the doctrines taught by the Romish priest-
hood in Ireland, and by his not being allowed to convert
the people to his own, the meeting agreed to a resolu-
tion expressing their " obligations to Mr. NANGLE for

laying before the public the facts illustrative of the awful
machinations by which the Popish apostasy is now
endeavouring to support its power in Ireland." Who
can read of the violent tirades which the Anglican and
the Romish priesthoods mutually hurl against each
other, because both are anxious to have an exclusive
monopoly, without seeing at once that it is a breat
quarrel, or rather a squabble which of the two shal
securely and exclusively drill and Plunder the people
There is no apprehension of the Catholic priests fe.
in

Scotland ; we hear no complaints of them in the
United States; nobody ever dreads the proselytism of
the Roman Catholic priesthood in Germany ; and
whv, then, should there be this apprehension in England
and Ireland ? Were the question resolutely examined
and answered, Mr. NANGLE would direct his cen-
sure against his own order, not against the Papal priest-
hood. The source of the difference is that the An-
glican priesthood have preserved all the powers and
doctrines of the Romish Church, but have appro-
priated its revenues to themselves. The Reformation
stopped short here with a mere change of property,
leaving the doctrines little altered. It is the revenue
then which is the source of all the difference, and to
put an end at once to the attempts of the Romish, and
the tirades of the Anglican priests, politicians have
only to unite with the Dissenters, and establish the
voluntary system. The appropriation of the revenues,
now misused by the Anglican priesthood, to some useful
public purpose, would immediately and for ever extin-
guish the disgusting squabbles of the rival priesthoods.

The Colonial-office has received despatches from
Halifax, by her MAJESTY'S ship Hercules, arrived
at Plymouth, dated the 12th inst. At that time the
Governor of Nova Scotia, Sir COLIN CAMPBELL,
had just received despatches from Sir J. COLBORNE,
which said not one word about disturbances at Quebec,
as mentioned in a second edition of the Times, and
which report, therefore, may be confidently affirmed to
be incorrect.

We cannot speak so positively of the report con-
tained in our City Article of a riot at Prescott, but we
believe that it is totally without foundation. The last
advices from Sir GEORGE ARTHUR are of Decem-
ber 2d, which make no mention of any such
occurrence ; and it is not likely that this diligent
officer would have allowed the Government to remain
in ignorance of such an event bad it occurred, and had
there been a possibility of sending the news to Eng-
land. It is, most probably, one of those many fabri-
cations for which the American journals have made
of late themselves notorious.

The Paris Papers of Thursday bring no additional
intelligence relative to the prospects of the Cabinet.
The silence of the Ministerial Journals at such a time
indicates the hopelessness of the efforts making to dis-
member the Opposition. On Wednesday there was a
meeting of the Committee of the Deputies upon the
Address, when M. DUPIN showed sytnptoms of a de-
termination not to mix himself up with the fate of
Count MOLE and his colleagues. The subjects
under discussion, however, were merely of domestic
interest, relating entirely to those paragraphs in the
Speech which have reference to the internal condition
and prospects of France. No resolution was adopted,
so that the meeting was unproductive of any result.
It was, however, agreed that Count MOLE should be
requested to attend the Committee on Thursday to
offer explanations relative to the foreign policy of
France. As it is upon this policy that thewhole question
of the dissolution of the Cabinet mainly hinges, the Mini-
sterial explanations were looked forward to with lively in-
terest. Here the grand collision will take place between
Count MOLE and M. Tin ERS, and upon the result
depends the pacification of the Peninsula, and proxi-
mately the probable tranquillity of Europe.
M. MERLIN DE DOUAI, a Member of the Na-
tional Convention, died in Paris on Wednesday at the
age of 84. I-Ic was a Member of ~he Institute, and
one of the framers of the Civil Code. He is said
to have left valuable memoirs of his times, which, if

have been more satisfied had the arrest taken place
while the words censured were still fresh in the
recollection of the speaker, the audience, and the re-
porters. Seine, too, of the public will be influenced by
Mr. STEPHENS' having already, thoughlate, expressed a
determination to attend no more public meetings. It ap-
pears, from the language lately held by Mr. F. O'C cN-
NOR and Mr. STEPHENS, that both these gentlemen
were beginning to be convinced that they had gone
somewhat too far, and were anxious to remain within
the limits of moderation. On the 13th inst. Mr.
STEPHENs addressed that vindication of himself,
inserted in another part of The Sun, to the people
of Northumberland, in which he announces his
intention—because he was censured and opposed by
the leaders of the people at Birmingham and Edin-
burgh, not to attend any more public meetings. He,
therefore, had given up the agitation before he was
arrested, and had his vindication not contained one or
two strong passages, his retirement from the stage
would have been considered, by an indulgent public,
as a sign of repentance, which would have made him
more the object of compassion than of anger. His
avowal, however, of having advised the recourse to

published, will throw much light on many recent poli-
tical events in France.
The snow was so deep in Paris on Thursday morning
as to impede the travelling of the mails. About noon
it thavied, with indications of the setting in of a hard
frost. Complaints of the dearness of broad were very
general.

The accomits from Madrid, received in Paris on
Thurs.;:lay, were of the 16th inst. The mails for four
(lays later were due, but the Government had received
no intelligence respecting the cause of their delay.
The prevailing opinion was that they were intercepted
by Carlist bands who ravage the country from New
Castile to the Pyrenees, while ESPARTEn.o is slutnber •
ing in his camp, heedless of every thing but the gratifi-
cation of his avarice, his ambition, and his hatred. Thc..
petty Chiefs on both sides gratify the brutal instincts
of their adherents by reprisals disgraceful to huma-
nity. It is no longer civil war, but an atrociou,i
system of indiscriminate murder that prevails in Spain.
The martial ardour of the soldier is succeeded by the
desperate villany of the assassin ; and unless England
and France speedily interfere to restore order, Spain
will so exhaust her moral virtue, that a century will be
inadequate to replace her at the point of civilization—
low as that was—from which she retrograded since the
commencement of Don CA ItLos' rebellion.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, thiciointtet nye per Cents., 1091 60c. 65c. 45c. 50c Latest Prices-109f. 65c.
Four per Cents., 101 E 80c.
Three por cents. 78E 50c. lea
Bank Actions, 2:625f
!tone de Napes, 98f: 55c. 6 Ditto 2,65.ir.
sc. 60c.
Boman Five per Cents., 101 91 .
% Spanish Actives, 16y;
Spanish Passives, 3%. Ditto 16y:
Belgian Five per Cents~ 99%
Belgian Bank, o.'ol 585 f. 590 f.
1-Paytian Lo'an, 350 f.
Es.clismon on LosaioN.—One month, paper, 25E 15c; money, 25f P252e.
Nree months, paper, 25f. —c. ; monsy, —E

MANCHESTER

THE REV. J. R. SiEPHENS.

MANCHESTER, TEN O'CLOCK, FRlDAY.—Goddard and
Shackell were the officers who arrested Stephens. This
was accomplished yesterday (Thursday), just on his leaving
Ashton on his way to -Manchester, perhaps on a visit to his
friend Oastler, who by this, it is probable, begins to think
that he has not much time left to roam at large. On the
arrival of the prisoner at Worsley, the nearest Petty Ses-
sions to Leigh, it was discovered that Lord Francis Eger-
ton, could not act as a Magistrate, his Lordship not hav-
ing qualified under her Majesty Victoria. In this dilemma
Goddard and a Magistrate's clerk were dispatched in a
chaise, about half-past five, in search of some one in the
Commission of the Peace, but they returned at a
little past eleven, without being able to meet with
one ! (surely they could not have been afraid ?) In the
meantime Lord Egerton and Col. Wemyss were closeted,
consulting no doubt as to the most prudent steps to be
taken. A messenger, therefore, was early dispatched to
Manchester for the military, and soon two troops of Dra-
' goons were on the spot. Picquets were stationed at con-
venient distances all the way to Manchester. About twelve
o'clock the prisoner was sent in a postehaise to the New
Bailey, Manchester, accompanied by Goddard and Shackeil,
and guarded by a troop of Dragoons ; another chaise con-
taining three reporters went at the same time in company
guarded by half a dozen troopers. Stephens is in exceed-
ing good spirits, and seems to make very light of his
situation. Lord Egerton's numerous workmen were then
summoned, and they soon were stationed in different parts
where any danger was apprehended from destruction to
property or othrwise.

HALT-PAST ELEVEN.--A placard is now posting, signed
E. R. Richardson, calling on the Radicals of Nlanchester
to assemble this evening in Carpenter's Hall, at eight
o'clock, when an account of all that may transpire will be
laid before them.

Two o'cLoci.—From an interview with one of the
London officers, it appears that there are many other war-
rants to execute in this town and neighbourhood. The
names of course were withheld, There will be not less
than half a dozen arrests in the vicinity of Todmorden.
These vigorous though late proceedings give unmixed satis-
faction to all the well-disposed part of the community. I
shall attend at the Carpenter's Hall this evening, and re-
port anything of consequence that may transpire, and which
will he forwarded by parcels, to leave this at 3 a.m. Satur-
day.

The Court will be an open one, so that I shall forward a
full account by the mail, which will reach Euston-square
about two p.m., on Saturday.
THREF. 11'CLOCY.- —The Court, after hearing the ordi-
nary routine cases, called fur the case of Mr. Stephens, and
then placed him in the dock. The Bench consulted a short
time, and then adjourned the examination till half-past three.
It will therefore be impossible to forward anything more by
first mail.
WE SHALL GIVE THE EXAMINATION IN A
SECOND EDITION.