The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-12 00:00:00

EXCHEQUER, which drew from that gentleman some obser-
vations on the financial resources of the country. The Hon.
Member for Kilkenny asked how the Right Hon. Gentle.
man meant to provide the 33,0001. required for the payment
of pensions, seeing that there was a deficiency in the
revenue, the income being 665,000/. less than the
actual expenditure. In answering the question, the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER remarked, that the
deficiency alluded to was not a fair criterion by which to
judge of the actual state of the revenue, as it related only
to a quarter that was now past, and arose, besides, from a
comparison with a corresponding quarter of a former year,
which had been swelled by various causes beyond its na-
tural amount. As an instance of this he mentioned the an-
ticipation of the tea duties, which alone added nearly
a million and a half to the yearly account. The fair way
to estimate the two periods was to make a proportionate
deduction from the amount of the former. In this we
think there can be no difference of opinion. We concur in
the observations made by Mr. SPRING RICE on the unpre-
cedented difficulties which the manufacturing and commercial
interests of the country have lately encountered, and,
therefore, as we have said before, we feel no surprise at the
deficient state of a revenue, which must be drawn princi-
pally from commercial sources. So far, however, from af-
fording any ground for despondency, the late crisis, even
with all its severe pressure upon individuals, and its
effects upon the revenue must, by every reflecting person,
be viewed as one of the strongest possible proofs of the
fundamental stability of the national resources. It was
well observed, too, by the Right Honourable Gentle-
man, that the exertions made by the Americans, to
fulfil their engagements with our merchants, redound
greatly to their honour, and cannot fail to produce a most
important and beneficial influence on the future mercantile
intercourse between the two countries.

The Times is sadly at a loss for a subject of censure 1
and so it attacks the Ministers for having fixed the Coro-
' nation in the month of June. If all its assertions concern-
ing the Coronations of those Princes of the House of
Brunswick, who did not live in uur time, be as correct as
what it asserts of " WILLIAM the just and true," whose
Coronation we remember, certainly a more complete web of
misrepresentations was never woven even by tae Times.
Having no inclination to open the little Chronology lying be-
fore us, to disprove or verify the assertions that GEORGE 11.,
GEORGE 111., and GEORGE IV., were crowned when
Parliament was not assembled, we are content to state
that as to the Coronation of WIA,LIAM IV. the Times
is wrong. The Parliament was sitting, and the House
of Commons actually met on the very day that WIL-
LIAM IV. was crowned, the Bth of September, 1831.
We copy the following from the votes of the House of
Commons of that day :
" Tne House met at eight o'clock, A.m.—Coronation Corn.
mittee.—Report, let September, read :—" And the names of
the counties were drawn from a glass, that the members of each
county might sit together, to the end that they might go in
the better order, according to the directions of the House, to
the solemnity of their MAJESTY'S Coronation, and the Mem-
bers went forth accordingly.—Adjourned at nine o'clock."

Thus, the " most important rule of all" " that,
of not interfering with the time and action of the
two Houses of Parliament," was violated in the case
of " WILLIAM the just and true," ,and, was violated, in two
cases out of five, in the coronations of the Princes of the
House of Brunswick. So much for the extreme accuracy
and the " important rule" of the Times.
To say one word of the time chosen for the Coronation.
It is plain that in the present balanced state of parties, no
important measure can he carried through the two Houses ;
to keep them assembled, therefore, for any long period,
would only augment the mass of party debates, without
improving our legislation. The country seems at present
almost to cry " halt" in law-making, and the Ministers pro-
bably, therefore, think it is wise to follow the public senti-
ment. We, at least, will not blame them for dismissing
the Houses sooner than usual, and completing the cere-
mony of the Coronation at an early period of the year, if
a Coronation there must be. Had Ministers not fixed the
ceremony early, there being no rule for fixing it, that
would have been censured. In June, the Nobility and
Gentry will all be in town, and will not have to return ex-
pressly for the ceremony. Their ease, therefore, and their
economy will be consulted by the ceremony taking place
immediately after, or just before the Parliament is pro-
rogued. The days are then long, and probably will be
fine, and the spew will not be wholly obscured by October
rains or November fogs. A Coronation ought to be held,
if possible, during the fine season. Moreover, it is said,
inilver.ll°F.'„t ibcfs.MA cdiTcsnUßVe-ani to confine
the advantages of regal splendour exclusively to London
and Brighton. Whatever they may he, she means to di
fuse them over all her dominions, and let all the people share
the pomp and smiles of Royalty. It seems suitable that
she should be crowned before visiting Ireland and Scotland ;

it seems suitable, too, that she should not be hurried back
to her capital to go through that ceremony ; and thus her
MAJESTY'S intended journey, the propriety of selecting
the fine season for a grand ceremony, and the uselessness of
keeping assembled the wrangling representatives of wrang-
ling and pretty nearly equally factions, all conspire to ap-
prove of selecting the early month of June for the Corona-
tion. It must be a consolation for the Ministers, if they
read the Times, to reflect that railing is the business of that
Journal, and whatever course they may adopt, it will rail
;vith equal eloquence.

The ericlence-fabricating-Standard being plainly resolved,
since its lying has been detected and exposed, to make up
for the present deficiency, by abuse, had last night the fol-

lowing passage :
" The Globe of last night charges us with having instituted
a comparison between the Romish priests of Ireland and the
British clergy. Such an offence against decency and truth is
the very last that we are capable of committing. We would
not compare any class of British men, not even the inmates of
our prisons and penitentiaries, with the homebred priests of
Ireland, whom we believe to be, in their private lives and con-
versation, as well as in their public character, the most de-
praved body of men at this day existing in Europe. Could
we then think of placing this odious body in comparison
with the British clergy—their extreme opposites in the
moral scale ?"

The Standard implies that it is an insult to the inha-
bitants of our prisons to compare them with the chosen and
honoured priests of seven millions of our fellow-subjects.
The Times, of yesterday, more just than the Standard,
exonerated Mr. BURKE from the charge of having com-
mitted the offence for which he is to be punished for his
personal gratification, and admitted that it was done for
the ascendancy of a party--the same motive as makes the
Clergy of the Church of England guilty every day of
numerous oppressions, and the Members of the House of
Commons guilty of gross injustice, while they still retain the
character of honest and upright men. We will not follow
the bad example of the Standard, in vehemently condemn-
ing the whole Clergy of the Church of England, as an im-
moral body, though we have a strong conviction of the
immorality of the general practice of pluralists taking
income for duties which they do not perform,--of
the Clergy persisting in levying rates and taxes on
those who disown their Ministry—of their continually
prostituting the name of religion to their worldly advantage;
and though we vividly remember that remarkable exposure
in the case of Mr. DAVENPORT, when a body of clergy got
round a weak-beaded man, and like a parcel of vampires,
sucked the blood of his inheritance out of him ; but we will
assert that the assiduous manner in which the Catholic
Priests of Ireland perform their duties to their flocks,
,consolieg them in affliction, visiting them in sickness,
helping them in trouble, and sparing neither time nor pains
promote their welfare, according to the approved rules of
the Priesthood, is an example which the Absentee and
Tithe-levying Clergy of the Church of Ireland would do
well to follow. We cannot forget, whatever the Standard
may, that the whole crime of Father BURKE and the
CREANS grew out of a legal crime—committed on
behalf of the Clergy that of taking away by law
the substance of the Catholic peasantry, to preserve
the ascendancy of an order of priests who are the rivals of
Father BURKE and his colleagues. In committing crimes
to preserve the ascendancy of an order of Clergy, the
Catholic priests of Ireland will bear a favourable compari-
son with the Protestant clergy—the only difference being
that the criminality of the one set:is practised according to
the law made by themselves and their friends, and the crimi-
nality of the other is against law. But though there
is little to choose between the priests of either Church, and
the advantages are all on the side of the Catholic priest-
hood in Ireland, we should be ashamed to follow the ex-
ample of the Standard, and speak of an order of men who

are generally beloved and respected as greater criminals
that the inmates of our prisons and penitentiaries. More
outrageous abuse of a large and honoured class of men we
never read ; and it must be satisfactory to the Catholic
priests, and a warning to the Tory Clergy not to believe this
virulent abuse, that it appears in the Journal which falsified
Mr. O'CONNELL'S evidence, to gratify its malignity, and
is now deservedly mistrusted by all sincere and honest
Protestants.

We invite the attention of our readers to the Resolu-
tions of the Church-rate Abolition Society, passed at a
meeting held on Tuesday last. These Resolutions are, in
our opinion, exactly what the occasion calls for, temperate,
but firm. The Society, as genuine friends of liberty, do
not wish to embarrass Lord MELBouasE's Government
by recommending any " pressure from without" upon it at
the present moment, but it is easy to see that the Dis-
senters will not allow the question to be shelved or
even longer delayed, without visiting the Govern-
ment with their hostility. Of this, however, there
is now no fear, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as we have stated
elsewhere, having fixed the 3d of May for the appointment
of a Committee to inquire into Church Leases. In the
mean time, let the advice of the Abolition Society be fol-
lowed ; let Church-rate agitation be unremittingly kept up
throughout the country.

We have received some important documents, illustrative
of the working of the Apprenticeship System in Jamaica,
which we shall take an early opportuuity of laying before
the public.

Letters from Lisbon, of the 3d inst., have been received
this morning. Her Most Faithful Majesty the QUEEN, by
two Decrees, dated the 28th ult., commands the dismissal
of all functionaries who participated in the insurrectionary
movements of the 4th and 13th of that month ; and orders
the disbanding of the artillery of the National Guard for having
on these occasions taken part with the "insurgents." Passos
MANUEL brought the subject of these Decrees before. the
Cortes, and complained that the Government, in not keep-
ing good faith with the leaders of the disaffected, was ex-
posing itself to dangers greater than any it had yet escaped.
When the banner of revolt was first unfurled it was com-
petent to the Government to put it down by force, and to
punish the revolters with exemplary rigour; but hating en-
tered into a parley with them—having so far forgotten
its dignity as to enter into an express, written convention—
nothing ought to induce the Cabinet to depart one jot from
the religious observance of every article of such convention.
The Ministers defended their conduct in much the same
way as a special pleader might be supposed to do if placed
in a similarly discreditable position. They endeavoured by a
vary silly sophism to show that the negation of official rank,
or the dismissal from any post bestowed by the Crown during
pleasure, could not strictly be construed as a punishment. In
reply, it was pointed out to them that the Royal decrees
stated the movements of the 4th and 13th of March to be
the causes which induced her MAJESTY to dismiss MANTAS
and his associates, and therefore that the Royal act was
not only an implied, but a direct punishment to the full
extent of the Royal authority. To this reasoning the
Ministers only objected by their silence. It would have
been still better had they acknowledged their error, and
consented to the revocation of the damnatory edicts—for
while they remain in existence it is impossible for the
Liberal party to place implicit confidence in the truth of
an,- convention signed, or oath taken, by her MAJESTY or
her advisers. Those who can violate a convention would
certainly not hesitate, if they had power and opportunity,
to abrogate a Constitution.

Great preparations were making for the ceremony of
swearing the observance of the new Constitution, of which
the KING and QUEEN were to set the example on the 4th
inst. The Cortes had notified to her MAJESTY that they
would dissolve themselves at the conclusion of the ce-
remony.

It was reported that Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN was
about to return to England for a short time. The Hon.
Mr. JERNINGTIAM, who was to act as Charge d'Affaires dur-
ing his Lordship's absence, arrived in LL3bon on the 30th
on board the Tagus steamer.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Tuesday have been
received. They bring the report of a long and animated
debate in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday and Tues-
day, on the question of a supplentary war budget of
4,404,843 francs demanded by General BERNARD, for
placing the troops in the interior on such a footing as that
the Government might at any moment order 30,000 men
to any given point on the frontier. The Committee 1.,
plujtuu _r it, but
the Ministers, contrary to the usual course on such occa-
sons, persevered in submitting it :to the Chamber. The
President of the Council did not conceal from the
Chamber that the Government was actuated by an appre-
hension of the conduct of Holland, and the possible
interference of one of the Great Northern Powers. The
Opposition maintained that the sum required was unneces-
sary, as France was already sufficiently provided against an
emergency. The debate was not closed when the mails
left Paris.
The Commerce contains the following exposition of the
AGUADO Loan, the subject of so many discussions and
conjectures in Madrid, Paris, and London :
The nominal capital of the Aguado loan is to be
1,000,000,000 reals, in a stock bearing 5 per cent. interest,
and issued at 50 per cent., which will amount to 500,000,000
rea!s. Those 500,000,000 are to be reduced to 400,000,000,
i. e , to 100,000,000 francs, in virtue of a secret clause, by
which M. Aguado is to be authorized to negociate the new
stock at 4 per cent., without a commission. On that sum of
400,000,000 M. Aguado offers to advance 300,000,000, com-
posed of the following articles

Expenses of preparing the titles
Interests of the first half-yearly dividend, on the
capital of a billion
Commission of 5 per cent. on a billion 50,000,000
Payment of former accounts claimed by 31
Aguado
Reserved for the payment of the troops 60,000,000
To be employed in purchasing military effects,
81,000,000
stores, etc

Beals.
8,000,000

Total Reels 300,000,000
Finally, M. Aguado requires that the Spanish Government
should give him besides a discharge in full of all former ac-
counts, a confirmation of the concessions of mines, marshes,
and lands made to him in 1825 and 1826, the title of Grandee
of Spain of the first class, and the collar of the Golden Fleece.
The two last years' dividends of the Active Debt are not to
be paid, and the payment of those to come is to be suspended
until the Ist of January, 1841. Consequently, the holders of
the Active Stock shall not receive any interest during five years.
The following are extracts from the Journals :

JASSY, MARCH 18.—Russian agents are now going through
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they are endeavouring to establish the opinion that Mol-
davia and Wallachia will not be happy till they are in-
corporated with Russia. The insolence of these agents
indisposes the Boyards towards the Prince and the
protecting power. M. Bezak, Russian Consul in Mol-
davia, lately addressed a note to the Hospodar, announc-
ing- that the Emperor Nicholas had generously resolved on
allowing the sons of Moldavian Noblemen access to Rus-
sian Universities, and rendered them eligible to all civil
and military offices in Russia, with the same privileges as
those enjoyed by the native nobility ; but his Majesty required,
in return, that the Russian language should be taught in all
the establishments for public instruction throughout the prin-
cipality. The Hospodar havinc, submitted that note to the
General Assembly, the Boyards unanimously declared they
would not consent to have their children taught the Russian
language, as it was their own country, and not Russia, they
were called upon to serve. This answer may vet be the cause
of the dissolution of one General Assembly, as has already been
the case with that of Bucharest ; but public opinion will at
least have strengly manifested itself against the encroaching
system of the Autocrat. It is to be hoped that 'the Govern-
ments of EngloafndoapnpdosFinrganaeebawrriilelrattolasthtefeinelsattliiaebleinadmisbpietniosn-
oabfltehne
eCcersasri,tyif they seriously wish to secure the peace of the
world.--Le Commerce.

FRONTIERS OF SPAIN.—A letter from the frontier estimates
the number of killed and wounded, in the action of Lucena,
on the side of the Christinos, at 146, and on that of the Car-
lists at about 300.—Sentinelle des Pyrenees.
A letter from Oloron, of the sth April, which has been
communicated to us, states that the expedition to Upper Ara-
gon, commanded by Tarragona!, had been overtaken at Bosca,
three leagues north of Huesca, by the division of La Ribera.—
Ibid.

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insalubrity of the place where they were anchored. It did not
affect the ships of war, which were anchored at a distance
from the town.—Commerce.
BAYOVNE, APRIL 6.—The artillery which O'Donnell had
caused to enter France, has been conveyed to-day to Irun.
The Carlists have attempted an attack on Valcarlos, in which
they have failed, thanks to the bravery of the Comman-
dant. Our troops are placed at the extreme frontier, to
hinder the Carlists from entering the French territory. The