The Sun.
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this assumed authority, or treat with you in any other Ca-
pacity than as the publisher of that paper. You know you
have no property in it, no right or title to interfere wi th or
controul me ; that you cannot legally acquire any pr jperty
in the paper without my consent ; and, moreover, t .fiat no
one can otherwise convey to you any right or share i.'1 it with-
out violating engagements and committing a fraud upon me.
" For these reasons I shall pay no attention whatever to
the contents of your letter.

"R. ALEXAP.DER."

The conduct pursued by the Tories yesterlay shows the
intense anxiety and alarm which the very fear of the fore-
going disclosures has occasioned to them. Personal appli-
cations and persuasions have failed in their effect. We re-
ceived, after the whole was in type, the follow;ng document,
which we add as a further corroboration of the truth of
the previous correspondence. To the appeal made to us on
the ground of the letters being strictly private and con-
fidential we should have at once listened, but that it is alto-
gether a fallacy, copies being in the hands of many i„divi_
duals, and even having been sent to some of our London
contemporaries. We presume Mr. Robertson Gladstone
being in Scotland, must have telegraphed Mr. Carson to
act as his solicitor.

" Liverpool, Aug. 19, 1836.
" To Messrs. Ross and Nightingale, publishers of the Li-

verpool Chronicle.
" Gentlemen—We, the undersigned, on behalf of our
respective clients, do hereby request that you will not pub-
lish in the above newspaper, or otherwise, certain copies of
letters or correspondence which passed between Mr. Ro-
bert Alexander, the late editor of the Liverpool Standard,
and Mr. John Gladstone, of Fasque, in the month of July
last, relative to the last-mentioned newspaper, and Which
correspondence, we are informed, has come into your pos-
session ; our reason (amongst other things) for such request
being, that the said letters are strictly private and con-
fidential, and so expressed to be, as we are ilfri-ned,
the copy which has come into your possession, Ana which,
therefore, could not be parted with by any person to
whom it was sent without a breach of gaud faith. And
we expressly give you notice, that in ease you shall so pub-
lish the said correspondence, or any part thereof, you will
be held liable by our clients for the consequences of your
so doing.
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" We are, gentlemen, your obedient servants,
"JOHN NORTH, Solicitor to Mr. Alexander,
" THOMAS CARSON,
Solicitor for Mr, Robertson Gladstone, Mr. Thomas Berry
Horsfall, and for Mr. Richard Pattisson."

* In explanation of this part of Mr. Alexander's letter, we
subjoin an extract from the evidence given by Mr. Pattison, at
the Borough Sessions in April, 1835, on the trial of a person
who was indicted for "having fraudulently embezzled 25.,
the property of Mr. Pattisson." Mr. Alexander would seem
to doubt the fact of Mr. Pattisson's being the " sole proprietor "
of the Standard, but it appears from Mr. Pattisson's evidence
that he was the sole proprietor.--Ed. Liverpool Chronicle.
Mr. Richard Pattisson sworn, said—l am the publisher of
the Standard. I succeeded Mr. Franceys, and collect debts
due in his time. The prisoner was in my employ as advcr_
tising clerk; ho never accounted to me for the 11. 2s. I dia.
charged him on the 12th Feb. last.
Cross-examined by Mr. Hall.—l never applied to the pri-
soner for the money. He was in the Standard office before
me. At first I received wages, but am now the sole proprie-
tor of the &endard newspaper. I pay all expenses. I pai
the rent to Mr. Wason for the offices in Wason's-buildings.
Mr. Hall—Pray, Sir, how long have you, been sole pro-
prietor? _

- Witness—Since the 17th of December, 1834.
Mr. Hall—Do you mean to say, Sir, that you have tha
absolute control of the establishment ?
Witness—l do. I have the absolute control. I dismiss or
engage all persons connected with tha paper. There is to
other proprietor. The receipt given by the prisoner is drawn
out in the name of Franeeys.
Mr, Hall—Pray, Mr. Pattisson, as you were no atlirst 1":o-
-prietor, from whom did you purchase the paper ? - Witness—l purchased the paper, December ;7th, from Mr.
Franceys ; I succeeded Mr. Franceys.
Mr. Hall—You say you have ft
Witness—l do, .-e sole control ?
.
Mr.
Hall—Nu one interferes with you?
Witness—_No one ;no one can interfere.
Mr,\Vhofinds the money to carry on the concern.
Witness—l do.
Mr. Hall—Out of your own pocket ?
Witness—Out of :ay own pocket.
Mr. Hall—Every shilling of it ?
Witness—Every shilling of it.
Mr. Henderson interposed—He did not think Mr. Hall was
justified in this line of cross-examination.
The Recorder thought, that as the witness answered unhe-
sitatingly, there could be no objection.
Mr. Hall (to witness)—Do you mean to tell the Court and
Jury that you are the real proprietor ; that there are no indi-
viduals whose funds you are appointed--
Mr. Henderson—This is going too far.
The Recorder was of the same opinion, but, after a long
conversation on the point, Mr. Hall resumed.
Mr. Hall—l ask, in point of fact, who supplies the funds?
Witness—l supply my own funds. I have sworn that lam
tho sole proprietor; and, with submission, I don't think I
am called on to disclose the sources from whence my funds arc
derived.

Mr. Hall—Arc you prepared to swear that individuals have
not told you to say that you are proprietor ?
NVitness—l am.
Mr. Hall—Are you to enjoy the profit and bear the loss ?
Witness—Certainly. I said that no person either directly
or indirectly interfered with me. I have to account to no
one. I have not to account to any other person for any pro-
fits that may arise. The prisoner was engaged to look after
advertisements, and not to collect cash. I took the office from
Mr. Wagon, and pay rent for it. Mr. Sharp had formerly
something to do with the Standard. He left last June, and
has had nothing to do with the concern since.
Re-examined—l rent two offices from Mr. Holme and Mr.
Mulyneaux. I hold the office under them. They hold from
Mr. Wason. The prisoner was not:authorised to receive the
money from Mr. Claypole.
The prisoner was acquitted.

[FROM THE LIVERPOOL ALBION.]
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE ALBION.
" Sir—l observe that a correspondence between Mr. Gla-
dstone and Mr. Alexander, late editor of the Liverpool
Standard, printed by the latter, for private circulation, has
found its way into the pages of a Liverpool paper.
" I do Mr. Alexander the justice to believe that it has been
published without his consent ; and, assuming such to be
the case, I do not feel that I should be warranted in so far
deviating from the terms of an arbitration to which all
parties have assented, as to publish at present any reply to
the statements contained in that correspondence.
" Begging the favour of your inserting this in your paper
on Monday, I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"loth August, 1836. THOMAS B. HORSFALL."
4',# As the correspondence to which Mr. Horsfall refers
relates to the proprietors and the conductors of a public
journal, which, during the time it has been. printed, has
spared neither public nor private character, it was our in-
tention to snake some observations on the subject. These
observations we shall .postpone till our next, in the hope
that some of the parties implicated in the affair will, mean-
while, offer explanations respecting transactions which seem
very discreditable to certain persons.

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RUSSIAN QUA RANTINE.—The Abram .Gazette
has a letter from a correspondent at Gallatz, who gives an ac-
count of a voyage which he made in a steam-ship to the Sulina
mouth of the Danube, and into the Black Sea. lie says—" At
Sulina we were questioned by the Russian coast guard respect-
ing the name of the vessel, its destination, and quality of the
persons on board. No other formalities took place. I saw no
quarantine building on either side of the river, nor any prepa-
rations for erecting it. We were told that this work was to
be commenced in two months (this was at the end of June.)
The announced establishment of this quarantine at Sulina, and
the regulations respecting it, which are published, have caused
a degree of consternation here (at Gallatz) and Ibrailow ;
people giving way to the apprehension, which is probably pre-
mature and unfounded, that the Russian Government, alleg-
ing the Treaty of Adrianople in the same manner as it last
year included the great island of Lety in the quarantine line,
on the pretext of more effectually securing Bessarabia from
contagion, will now, with the same view, extend the cordond thus
to
the left bank of the St. George's arm of the river, n
put the Sulina mouth of the river and the branch of the Danube
which forms it under pratique ; the effect of
that as the St. George's mouth (which alone would then be
miich would be
for small and
out of the quarantine line) is navigable only
light vessels the large merchantmen would i
mediately sailing up the river, Sulina checkedbecoming
a kind of
in im-
mediately
staple, and a severe blow inflicted on the
export trade of the
articles as are
Principalities, which consists chiefly
in the same
exported from the Russian ports of the Black Sea. The
persons who entertain this fear quoteexample,
the as an
the once flourishing trade of which is said to have greatly de
(dined since the Russian Government. hy estzabffli shing a qua-
rantine at Kertsch, has put the whole Sea of A o in pratique."
portions of land for spade
The allowance of small
itivhhetiilcevemrositt liz's been liberally
labour to poor oottager9e)d,as,
wrote d upon, been atteld wbeneficial results.
At Overbury, a popu ous village, about five miles from
Tewkesbury, J. Martin, Esq., late Member for that Borough,
has apportioned a piece of t‘_vent),• acres, in upwards of four-
P
score lots. Poor men, with families, are allowed a uarter of
an aero each ;
others, a less quantity, at a yearly( rental of
40s. per acre, free of tithes, rates, &c. The lots are all
Laken, and from a partial trial on a small portion of land this
year, there is no doubt that next year the whole twenty acres
will exhibit a luxuriant, productive garden, and ;Lai, too,
from labour at different periods of time, whii4 aOuld, without
such employment, be spent in idteriai,;., --Hereford Times.
Our ReforakerA seem headstrong cha-
racters, rr'ci Lave not the fear of the Tories before their eyes.
We hear that they absolutely dispensed with the services of
the Town Scavenger a short time since, on the ground that
lie attended more to his own business than to the duties of his
office I! I We understand that the Tories arc so much and
justly incensed at this fresh instance of Whig knaver that
t t
they have commenced a subscription to resent discharged
servant with a handsome Silver Broom, as a mark of their
disapprobation of this sweepingmeasure of Reform.—Aberdeen
Herald,

O'CONNELL'S CLAIMS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR-A long residence in Ireland, during which I had
opportunities of beholding the inhabitants under very
striking circumstances, brought me to a confident belief
that their position is the heaviest grievance in the civilized
world, and the prejudice against O'Connell the greatest fal-
lacy of modern times. If a jury of Englishmen had re-
sided there during the same period, they would have found
no difficulty in considering their verdict. Things assume a
very different character when you see them with your own
eyes. " A word on the spot is worth a thousand after-
thoughts."
The prejudice against O'Connell arose from the associ-
ation of his name with Whitefeet, and other midnight le-
gislators. The effect remains, though the cause is forgot-
ten ; this association of ideas arose in great measure from
his extraordinary talent in cross-examining witnesses, whichh,
induced the attorneys constantly to employ him ; the casese
according to the Report of a Committee of the House ea'
Lords, were conducted in the most slovenly manner : the
whole weight of proof used to be thrown on the prisoner
to show that he was not the individual, and scarcely any
proof was expected to slim that he was. It was therefore
easy for a barrister of talent to break up such cases depen-
ding entirely on thief-takers and King's evidence, especially
When the barrister thought them, or at least their families.
not less unfortunate for being guilty.
It was also impossible not to see that the country
might
be worse without the Whitefeet. I firmly believe that the
Irish, when looked after, always pay ae much rent as They
can. The agrarian outrages have never appeared txcept
when a great fall of prices v
between landlord and t :rtually nullified the contract
profits of the Irishman,
nant. Thelrishman,
on is not the be_.,t• farmer in the world, deper.ding entirely
`l.epend consequently on the arP.trary values we
on grain.
to money and to grain. Without presuming to touch
on a subject at once so difficult, and, unfortunately, so dis-
tasteful, it is enough to say that there have been- great fluctuations ; that prices are sometimes hoisted by the
Lords, and sometimes hauled down by the Bank Directors.
This humour of ours, like other humours, falls on the
weakest part of the empire : all these fluctuations are fatal
to the Irishman. He has no capital ; his share of his own.
earnings is the smallest assignable : the prices tali, and her
has nothing ; yet, out of this nothing he must pay! He is
racked already above a rack-rent, every demand becomes
a tax on existence, the potatoes are literally taken off his
children's plates, and he is sent to the road-side. Self
preservation, the first law, the supremo lex, is turned against
this humani alienum. Meantime Captain Rock becomes
the Theseus or Hercules of an outraged nation, and the
bitterest thing O'Connell coe.ld say against him was, that
he exasperated the persecutors of his country, and made.
more effectual remedies impracticable. We cannot suppose
that O'Connell had not eyes to see the handle all this gave
to his enemies ; his success in England depended on putting
them down. It was a guilty impatience—all impatience is
guilty z but the extremes of disgust and despair cannot be
coatraed—it was a subtle anguish which no politics could
aeach, unless either prices were kept steady, or unless
some plan was publicly recommended enabling rents to vary
with prices.
It may seem superfluous to be now denying that O'Cem-
nell is a promoter of Whiiefeet ; but we must not forget
,that in the session of 1833, when the Coercion Bill eeassed,
a reformed House of Commons voted him, in erect, the
chief of those worthies, and the opening speech, e, the
Ministerial expeae, confounded the whole principle of reform,
including himself, the whole struggle of law against might,
of right iyeainst wrong, with the wretched broils of the Sha-
navestse "se the horrid pleadings beforea tribunal of ass-assins.
lief-are 'the next Session, the country was much too well
informed to be easily driven ; 'but even then, a strong Mi-
e.stry was exploded and sunk, before O'Connell could be
purged of his Whitefootisme
There is a second subject which has given a pretext
against him—that of tithes. If we are content with re-
moving great evils, certainly theological quarrels have been
the greatest that the world ever saw. It has even beers
doubted whether we have gained so much by any exterior
form of religion, as we have lost by the bitter zeal of dis-
putants e or, whether the reality of truth has ever visibly
done so much good, as the appearances of truth have visi-
bly done harm.
By holding up a specimen of justice to mankind,
O'Connell will make an immense step towards a religious
concordat—his views on such subjects I take to be sin-
gularly wise. Each of his generous sentiments has an.
expansive power, multiplying itself by a vast co-efficient ;
or, like the hydraulic pressure, which is extended in
au eeual degree to every point of a much larger area. If
we wish that the position of the clergy should be less
painful than it most undoubtedly is now—if we wish them
to possess the confidence of the nation, they must declare
the trusts, or cease to receive the income. The appropria-
tion clause can never be considered a measure of spoliation.
The income was formerly collected voluntarily ; not re-
quired, but merely requested ; and all the mechanism of
tithes is voluntary. Now, that it is proposed to change
such an income into a legal provision levied by the exe-
cutive, an opportunity occurs to declare the trust some-
where : this responsibility was formerly secured by the vo-
luntary collection. From the dislocation of social ties in
Ireland, every species of property in that country involves
the strictest duties ; but, instead of this, Religion, the
hig:iest of duties, becomes a species of chattel, under the
name of church property, a gambling property not founded
on the law of the land, nest therefore conscientiously re-
sisted by the filins teerw.
These two subjects,--ll'hitefect as caused by a fatal
medium of prices, and tithes as arising from theological
odium and pride,—should always be kept foremost ; they
cannot be too touch insisted on. These have been the
pretences wider which the patriarch of rational liberty, the
natural leader of the Movement, who hates nobody, and
who slaves in the service of his enemies, has been sub-
jected to the most outrageous abuse. These are also the
means of his usefulness, and open a prospect of avoiding
much future mischief.
These distorted views of' the real cause of Whiteboyism,
and the real conditions of the tithe teuestions, are mere
echoes of exploded Irish prejudices—nutions of dignity and
interest prevailing among Orangemen, summary and san-
guinary judges in their owe, cause. The case is never de,.
cided on merits, but on the most unjust estimate of O'Con-
nell's ntotives,lol.lnded on a contemptuous ignorance of his
history.. Penove the traces of that absurd idea, that he is
a prO7aoter of Whitefootisin, and we gain the assistance of
b.'.6 long experience, singleness of mind, firmness of purpose,
patience, moderation, generosity, in the "sacred cause."
Remove all nicknames of Popish pretender, dealer in for-
feited estates, and so on—you enable him to make a great
progress in holding up to Europe what it has seldom seen—
a triumph of Christian unanimity.
The collection now making for him goes on a principle
of compensation—it is a call for fair play, as if we said, to
use a metaphor from boxing, " A ring, a ring !" fair play for
O'Connell !" He is persecuted, he is out of pocket, he is
oppressed by numbers ; till very lately every body was
against him—Stanley and others have struck him when
he was down. He has nothing with him but the magic
of being right ; clad in this armour of proof' he descends
into the arena, lie deals his blows around, and appears
to receive none ; his adversaries give up their minor
differences and join against him, but without effect ;
" Thrice is he armed who has his quarrel just,
And he bat naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted,"
It seems admitted on all bands that, without the O'Con-
nellists, the Reform Bill would not have been carried : he
has, therefore, a strong claim on England, and one gene-
rally understood. If we left him in the lurch, the effect
would be to palsy every thing like public virtue. It would
be as if General Evans had placed under arrest the leader
of the storming party at St. Sebastian ; or, as if' a sailor
were to rescue the perishing crew of a wreck, and the callous
spectators were to knock him on the head the instant he
gained the shore.
6' Justice to Ireland" is no slang, no question of bon ton,
manvais foe. See the fate of Sir Joseph Yorke, who ex-
pressed in the House of Commons a wish that she, her
woes and her wrongs, were drowned together Ir, the pitiless
brine ; accordingly, in the middle of Portsmouth harbour,
his boat being split by lightning, he and his two compa-
nions were drowned. See the fitte of Lord Waisingham,
who iu the House of Lords opined that fire was the best
punishment f'or Ireland. In a moment of inebriety he set
lire to his house, and was burnt to a coal ; his guiltless
wife, without any necessity, threw herself from a lofty wins,
row, and survived a day, with almost every bone broken—a
chapter equal to any in Lactantius De morte perseeutorum..
O'Connell has resigned his profession and injured his
property in the service of his country ; his sons haee given
up every view of' promotion except as his agents ; other in-
dividuals have staked their all on his integrity and his skill.
For myself, " I twine my hopes" of happiceess with a cots..
vietion that I may yet be present at a Settlement of this
questiim. I will never lose an opportmlity of showing .'re-
spect to my illustrious and truly honourable friend : my
efforts to servo him have been as much above my eimpe.
tence, as they are immeasurably inferior to my good will.
I have the honour. &C,
H. C.

We feel notch satisfaction in being able to aunov.nee,
that such confidence has the late change of Ministry in Madrid
excited in the City, that all eminent capitalist, 11/r. Richard
Thornton, has come,, forward to place the necessary means at
the di,posal of Colonel Carbonell, for sending to 'Siva Sebas-
tian the 200 men who had been recruited, ltiatt who had been
wordere of d toun bds.e disbanded by the Spanish Aare Affaires for
ant f This order Colonel Ou-bonal hesitated to
carry into execution, in considertAlon of the fata'i consequences
it would have occasioned, r,Ad t,he men, an 'exceedingly fine,
body, still remain ir, I;cakciiness at the depr,t, The cutter
General Eva will leave the day after to-ro orrow, with ghout
220 men, and several officers.