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

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LONDON
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1838

We have great satisfaction in announcing that Sir
HERBERT JENNER has this day dismissed the citation
of MARY WOOLFREY before the Court of Arches, with
costs. A full report of his elaborate judgment will
be found in another part of The Sun. We congratu-
late the country on clerical intolerance having received
one blow, and we hope it is but the commencement of
a succession of blows which will finally annihilate it
entirely.

Yesterday the consolidation of the General and
Twopenny Post receiving houses took place. This is
a vast improvement on the old system, and a saving to
the public both of time and expense. Formerly, per-
sons wishing to post a letter for the General Post-
office had often to walk a quarter of a mile, or put it
into the Twopenny Post-office, increasing the charge
twopence, or pay the postman one penny for each
letter after five o'clock. At present all the receivinry
houses are placed on the same footing except three,
one in Oxford-street, another in Cornhill, and a third
at Charing-cross, where post-paid letters cannot be
received,

Every day furnishes new illustrations of the urgent
oecessity of that Reform in the Corporation of the
C:tv of London which the Association established for
that i,,urpose is so zealously labouring to obtain. The
comm, n Council and the Subordinate Committees act
exactly to if they were exempt from all controul of a
constituent body, and the petitions of the citizens, if
not treated with open contempt, are shuffled off on
some plausible pretext, receiving just so much attention
as it suits the interests of parties to whom the petitions

are prutented, to bestow.
A glaring instance of this neglect of the inte-
rests of the City by the Corporation people occur-
red a few weeks ago, in the case of a petition pre-
sented to the Common Council, by Mr. CHARLES
PEARSON, signed by no fewer than 4,012 citizens,
in which the petitioners pointed out the grievances
which they suffered from the present monopoly of gas
in the City, and prayed that competition might be per-
mitted. The petition was handed over to the Commit-
tee of Sewers, and what did these gentlemen do, but
'bar their doors against their constituents, as well as
against the press, and after a mock deliberation, de-
clare that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant
eoMpliance with the prayer of the petition ?
Wi,•at this Committee of Sewers may consider
-" sufficient evidence" in such a case, it is not for us to
%Itemise, as men often measure the quantum of evi-
dence required, by a standard which varies with iti
bearing on themselves or their friends but this we
know, that the two gas Companies which <upply the
City have combined to raise the price of the comipodity
to the consumer, each Company confining itself ei2-
tirely to its own district, and never interfering where
Ole pipes of the other have been laid down. This,
though not an ostensible, is an actual, and at the
same time a disgraceful monopoly. The result of
this state of things is, that the gas supplied by these
Companies j.s charged 30 per cent. dearer to the citizens
than to their other customers. It has also been agreed
oetween the Companies, that they shall not supply an
incoming tenant with gas, until he has paid up the
arrears that may be due by the outgoing one. If these
tyrannical and oppressive proceedings on the part of
the monopolists of this now necessary article of con-
sumption, do not warrant the Common Council to
permit competition, the only means of redress, we
should like to know what would. Had such things
taken place anywhere else, how soon we should have
seen a Company start up to keep these grasping
gas-makers in order !
We are happT to find that the citizens are determined
not to submit to the tyranny either of the monopolists,
or of their so-called revesentatives of the Sewer Com-
mittee. A preliminary wetting was held on Satur-
day, to take into consideration the mode of proceed-
ing best calculated to attain the object they hare
in view ; and it was determined to hold simul-
taneous meetings in all the wards, and thus to bring
whatever power the constituent bcjv may possess to
bear upon their refractory representatives. The peti-
tioners—will it be believed—actually const3tute a ma-
jority ;
of the gas consumers in the City yet, iinw little
'attention have they been able to command I We trust
that City Reform will gain a few converts by this
-
signal proof of the working of things as they are.

We copy from the Times of this morning a short
-
worthy of
leading article on the subject of Russian sympathyorthy
the Rebels in the Canadas, which we think for
attention,
tion, inasmuch as it confirms several reports to
the same effect, communicated to us during the last
week, but of which we took no notice, as they were
not sufficiently authenticated to warrant us in giving
currency to them: _According to one report, the agents
of Russia in Paris are authorised to spare no expense
in sending as many P.olish officers as possible to the
United States, where arrangements are already made
to secure them a high notn;nal rank in the Rebel army.

Our Tory Contemporaries, as will be seen by our
extracts from the Journals, have opened their fire on
what they call a desecration of the Christian Sabbath,
by the opening the Post-office on Sunday, while one
.of them places in a strong light the anomalies of the
present system. Their attack on the " Godless Go-
vernment," and on " the Post-office authorities," is
a• shining example of the scandalous profanation of re-
ion to the most despicable party purposes of which
hyp writes are not ashamed. Will the Herald tell
US the' use of our State Church, with its vast re-
scourec if :it have not preserved us fro* God

less Government ? Will the pious old lady
explain what she means by the phrase " Christian
Sabbath," seeing that all the Roman Catholics who
are Christians, in all times have kept and keep the
Sabbath differently from the Protestant puritans. If
CHRIST had never done anything but pray and
preach on the Sabbath, and had never prayed and
preached on any other day, there might be some
warrant for our puritans asserting that nothing else
but praying and preaching shall take place on
that day ; but his example warrants all men in
doing all kinds of good works on the Sabbath,
instead of devoting it to teach the law in the syna-
gogue, as was done by the Jews, and they have no
warrant for their practices and demands but their own
devices and interests. A more delectable specimen of
untrue cant we never read, cut from a sermon, than
that which we borrow from the Herald. The ga d
returns show that in Europe there is no people who
are so criminal as the English ; the Clergy and tin!
Legislature continually reiterate a similar assertion,
and continually demand, or continually place restri;_!-
tions on the people to prevent or check their cri-
minality, and yet we are told by the Herald that
England has been hallowed by being the resting place
of the ark of pure Christianity. Let the Herald and
its friends beware of cant, lest they suggest the conclu-
sion that crimes are the result of their " pure Chris-
tianity."

The readers of The Sun are aware, from the ar-
ticle which appears on Saturdays, entitled " Price of
Sugar," intended to show the effects of the duty now
levied on that article, to give a bounty to rise 'West
India planters, that the bounty given to the same gen-
tlemen on their coffee is also ►ery considerable. At
present the general duty on coffee is ls. 3d. On the
produce of, and imported from, a British possession in
America or the East Indies, it is 6d. ; on the produce of
other places imported from a British possession within
the limits of the Company's Charter, 9d. ; if imported
from places within the same limits, and not a British
possession, Is. Our readers must also be aware that an
application has lately been made by the coffee merchants
and dealers to the Board of Trade, to reduce the duty
on West India coffee from 6d. to and on coffee
imported from the East Indies from 9d. and ls. to 6,1.
The ground on which they chiefly rested their appli-
cation was the insufficiency of the supply of coffee pay-
ing the lowest duty, and the consequent tax which thiit
insufficiency enables the favoured grower of this
coffee to levy on all the coffee-drinkers. The
application to the Board of Trade could not he
backed by the latter, who are accustomed rather
to address the masters of the Board, and who, when
they learn, as they will by an article which appears in
The Sun (Money and City News), that the Board has
refused to recommend any such reduction, will perhaps
petition Parliament against being annually taxed to
the extent of 600,0001. per annum for the advantage
of the West India planters. The average price of
West India coffee is 115 s. per cwt., of St. Do-
mingo 425. ; the difference is 735., which makes a
difference of 7d. per lb. in the price of coffee,
caused by the discriminating duty. We believe
that it is really more, and that were there no
discriminating duty on coffee, the price of the whole
would fall more than 7d.; but taking the fall at 6d., as
there are upwards of twenty-four million pounds of
coffee annually consumed, the tax levied on coffee-
drinkers for the advantage of the West India planters
is at least 600,0001. per annum. We hare not, indeed,
the smallest reason to expect that the coffee-drinkers,
any more than the coal and corn consumers, will bestir
themselves to protect their own interests. The people
are so accustomed to taxation, that they could not live
were the burden removed. They are like a butcher's
hack, which cannot go without a boy and his basket.
Taxation is as necessary, apparently, to their comfort,
as an ill-tempered wife is to that of a husband, whose
life would be vapid unless it were spiced by a daily
quarrel. The Parliament too, and statesmen of all
parties, have so long indulged their penchant for ex-
tracting money from .he pockets of the people, that they
can no more forego the indulgence than the spoiled lady
can give up the customary employment of her tongue.
To take it from us, for the public service, ample as
are its dimensions, including all the trappings of
royalty, pensions, &c., does not satisfy them ; they
must also tax us for the behoof of the West Indians,
the landlords, the Bank proprietors, the coal owners,
the city jobbers, &c. &c.; and the people, camel-like,
kneel contentedly down, and appear to feel their hap-
piness increase in proportion as they are able to bear
all the loads their masters lay on them. We have no
hopes, therefore, that they will bestir themselves
to obtain a reduction of the duties on coffee—thow*
that would cherish temperance, check drunkenness,
and prevent crime—any more than they hare bestirred
themselves to get rid of the duties on coals—though
that would make the home of the poor comfortable—
or to get rid of the Corn-laws, though that would fill
their bellies, encourage industry, and make them con-
tented and glad ; and as we have no hope of our tax,
and cold, and starvation-loving people bestirring them-
selves on such vulgar matters, we make up our minds
to submit, and pay a large tribute to the otherwise
wealthy landlords, the planters, and money-jobbers.
Imagination has more charms for our poetical people
than sober reality, and they eagerly pursue the dazzling,
but distant and evanescent, beauties of the Charter,
and disregard relief from taxation.

Though we have often heard the charge made,
we weie not aware of the fact, that the Con-
ductors of certain infamous publications, called Two-
penny Newspapers, extort money from timid, nervous
people, by threatening to accuse them of the most
abominable crimes unless hush-money is paid. The
The proceedings at Hatton-garden Police-office, yes-
terday, however, leave no doubt on the subject. The
practice appears to be to send a threatening letter, or
put an announcement in the Paper, that in a succeed-
ing :number, certain 5‘ indisputable truths" respecting
Mr. So and So will appear, Q.OO. unless a bribe is for-
warded, a tissue of falsehoods, mixed up occasionally
with some truth, is forthwith published fur the gratifica-
ion of the malignant public. From twenty to thirty
thousand of some of these Papers, it is said, are sold
weekly, and what with bribes, large sale, and no stamp
duty, the profits from this illegal and disgraceful traffic
:oust be very considerable. If the readers were the
lower classes, and the publications respectable, there
might be some excuse for the Stamp-office winking at
the evasion of the law, but when they are bought,
chiefly by persons in tolerable or good circumstances,
and the articles are of an immoral tendency, and often
destructive of domestic peace, there is not one good
reason for showing them mercy.
The late Newspaper
cie ctust indeed'be flefective if it cannot reach either
I disreputable author, or the printer, publisher, or
seller.

The
:Madrid o
morni Journals -------.4------
of the 3d inst., received this
of fang, are filledcts, relative to with dreamy specu:iVions, instead
and the progress of thethe state of factions in the capital,
civil war in the Peninsula.
yet
The Cabinet is as wholly composed of General
AL AIX, who in vain seeks colleagues
to
colleagues among the few
public men who belong
the tag-rag and bob-
il of the Court circle that
composeth the Camarilla,
In the Chamber of Deputies the address was still
under consideration, with hardly a hope,
ofS elce mihdst for
of
i:e.st a rbye i Igo
So
rnuc
more than voted before Christmas I
the promptitude of Spanish patriotism in 0
civil war. Lord WILLIAM HERVE
the English Legation at Madrid, had left
that eny
or London, on leave of absence,

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DA Y•)

DEAL, DEC. 11.—Wind N. W., hazy, with light airs.—
Sailed this morning the Charles Brooke, Bell, for St. Vin-
cent's: Red Post, Gibbons, for Oporto. Her Majesty's store-
ship Buffalo remains.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 11.—Wind N. W. to N. N. E., light
airs and fine.—Arrived the Agenoria, Dy.r, from Bristol ;
Grace, Grant, from Sunderland; Isabella, Doutt), from
ditto. Sailed the Buckinghamshire, Moore, for South Aus-
tralia; Jane, Darley, for Rotterdam; Orus, Bell, for 'Sun-
derland.

PLYMOUTH, Dic. 10.—Wind N. N. W., very moderate.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 9 and 10.—Wind N. E. to N., light
breezes and fine.—Arrived the John, Seoleur, from Jersey;
Fortitude, Nichols, from Limerick ; Providence, Harokey,
from Waterford ; Elve packet, Cross, from Cork ; Samuel
Davey , Mary, Quick, from Cork. Sailed the Royal Tar,
;steamer), Lewis, for Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon, Sz.c.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 11. Wind N. N. W., rnodera te.—Ar.
rived the Boyne, from St. Petersburgh. Arrived off port the
Sarah Birkitt, from Nassau, sailed Nov. 3 ; and Dec. 2, in
lat. 46 long. 27 to 22, experienced a severe gale, lost jolly.
boat, foreyard, bullwarks, &c. Sailed the Schyryd, for
Trieste ; James Cooke, Follins, for Bordeaux ; Lynx
Sharp, Mc Fee, for ditto ; Trenaitha, Tontin, for Genoa ;
Gardner, Jackson,: for Africa; Anna Jophia, Butcher, for
Alexandretta ; Hopeton, Morris, for Jamaica.
DUBLIN, Dsc. 10.--Arrived the Adelaide, Godfred, from
London.

SHIELDS, Dsc. 11.—Arrived the Ann Eliza and Jane, from
Dalhousie.

HULL, DEC. 13.—Arrived the Petrel Doratha, from Kiel
and Esther Felander, from Stockholm.
RAMSGATN, Duc. 11.—Arrived off Port, the Solid, Back_
land, for Maarseilles.
YARMOUTH, DEC. 10.—The Adventure, Sini, of South
Shields, got on the Cross Sand this morning, but is expected
to be got off.
WHITBY, DEC. 11.—Arrived the Satellite, llill, from St.
Petersburgh.
NEWRY, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Quintin Leitch, Robinson,
from Miramicbi.

CORK, DEC. 10.—Sailed the Thomas, Seably, for Algiers.
CLYDE, DEC. 11.—Arrived the Scipio, Campbell, from
Demerara. Sailed the Dalkeith, Smith, for Lisbon.
HARWICH, DEC. 10. —The Swift, Buxton, from London, to
Yarmouth, got on the Gunfleet Sand yesterday morning, but
was assisted off, after throwing past of her cargo overboard,
and proceeded.
ALISOROUGH, DEC. I —Arrived off port, the Victor, droller,
from Stettin.
LOWESTOFFE, DEC. 10.—Arrived the Radical, Anderson,
from St. Peteriburgh ' • Margaret, Gowan, from Gothenburgh ;
Shule, Fordyce, from Limerick.
GUERNSEY, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Rose, Avery, Seville.

JERSEY, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Venus, Hamon, from New-
foundland ; part of cargo thrown overboard.
BRISTOL, Dsc. 11.—Arrived the Abbotsford, Hicks, from
St. Petersburgh.
SwANsae, DEC. 9.—Arrived off the Dement, Harper,
from Antigua.
KINGSTON, DEC. 10.—The wreck of a schooner, with top-
mast above water, was passed on the 7th inst., Carlingford
light, bearing N.E. by N., by the Cato, Rowe, arrived at
this port.

The Louisa, for London, (coal laden), was on shore on the
Shipwash Sand, this morning, but came off without assistance,
and proceeded.
LOCHENDAHL, DEC. 7.—Arrived the William the Fourth,
Stirling, from Quebec.

HONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Arrival this morning—French mail. No ship letters.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET OF TUESDAT.--The de-
mand for Cotton to-day has been extremely limited, with-
out, however, any decline in prices. The sales are 2,000
bags ; particulars not worth reporting.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 934 94 for the Ac-
count, opened at the above price this morning, with little
business doing as yet ; Reduced, 923 93 ; Exchequer Bills,
65 63 ; Indian Bonds, 61 63 ; Bank Stock, 2024 2034 ;
India Stock for opening 2614 2624.
In the Foreign Market Brazil Stock continues steady at
764 to 774. No confirmation as yet of the revolution at
Bahia. Spanish Active, as they left off, 164 4 ; Portu-
guese, 294 304 ; Three per Cents., 194 20 ; Colombian,
264 ; Mexican, 23i ; Dutch as they closed, Two-and-a••
Half per Cents. 544 4 ; Five per Cents., 1004 4 ; Bel-
gian closed at 1001 1014, and continue the same.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Bank Stock 20234 3 India Stock
:1 per Cent. Red. ....... 9•2 A, 3 2% Ditto Bonds 64 62 pin.
3.per Cent. Cons.

4i per Cent loo%' Old Annuities 90%,
Ditto Red. IOOIA % I(( New Ditto -
New 3% per Cent - 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... -
New
- Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ...66 64 06 pm.

Bank L'ong A nnuities to expi re I Ditto... 'SOO
Jan. 5, 1660 14 15-16% Ditto Small 6l 66 pin
Oct. 10, 1859 — I Ditto Commercial — pm.

,
Jail. 5, 1860 . --I Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, 1880 — Flank Stock for Account ......
I April 5, 1880 — lndia Stock for Account
Jan. 5, 1870 — I Consols for Account 93% 4 33,4