The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-21 00:00:00

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LONDON EVENING NEWSPAPERS.
The Sun—Dec. 1837 102,000
Jan. 1838 I 111,000
Feb. 1838 96,000
Mar. 1838 lll,OOO

Standard, ,;Dee. 18n7 - 78,000
Jan. 1838 105,000
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Globe Dec. 1837 72,000
Jan. 1838 90,000
Feb. 1838 72,000
Mar. 1838 72,000

Courier Dec. 1837 31,000
Jan. 1838 39,000
Feb. 1838 33,000
Mar. 1838 33,000

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383,000

306,000

136,000

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This day was published, in 2 vols. Bvo., price I/. 16s, cloth lettered,
TOOKE'S HISTORY of PRICES ; with re-
ference to the Causes of their principal Variations, from
1792 to the present time. Preceded by a Brief Sketch of the
History of the Corn Trade in the last Two Centuries.
" In a book lately published, written by a gentleman of the
highest possible authority, Mr. Tooke, there appeared so perfect
and accurate a description, not only of the existing state of the
revenue, and of the expenditure of the country, but also of the
causes which led to that state, that with the permission, &c. &c."
—Extract from Mr. Spring Rice's Speech en the Budget, May 18.
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Princ;pal Contributors—.
E. L. BULIVER, Esq., M.P., Dr. LARDNER, &c.
Contents—
Animal Magnetism. Letters of an M.P.
Present State of English Poetry. Annual Exhibition at the Royal
Present State of the British Army. Academy.
Ocean Steamers. Zicci—(continued), &c. &c.
This Number will complete the First Volume, 10s. cloth lettered.
London : Longman, Orme, and Co.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 30 minutes past Three o' Clock.

LONDON :
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1838.

The Irish Tithe Question seems to us in a position that
should be delightful for the tithe-payers, and most sorrowful
for the tithe-receivers. Each branch of the Legislature has in
turn denounced the existing system ; so that it has completely
lost the support of the moral sanction. It ought to be for
ever extinguished, is the recorded declaration of both Houses
of Parliament ; it is a blood-stained impost, say the people
throughout the whole Empire. If opinion, which, before now,
has laid empires prostrate, have not become powerless, it impos-
sisible that such a decried system can be continued. The levy
of tithes has been successfully resisted ; and the inability of
the Government to compel the people to pay tithes caused
the unwilling Legislature to propose some score of measures to
get rid of the system, and induced it to tax the whole Empire
to support the Irish parsons. The fire-breathing
Standard, and the trumpet-sounding Times, with the
rest of the civil-war exciting Tory journals, pretend that the
votes of Irish Catholic Members arc not valid on the question,
and they indirectly call on the Members who represent Pro-
testant England to disregard the Catholic and Irish Members,
and make of their own power a new coercive law to levy
tithes in Ireland. If this be not what they aim at, we
should like to be informed what they mean by stating
that the late majority was formed of Irish Papists,
and is, therefore, to be treated with contempt? But admitting
that the majority of English Protestant Members—since, to give
a correct idea of this religious quarrel we must use an epithet
to designate one sect—are favourable to rescinding the appro-
priation resolution, another question must be answered in the
affirmative before such a coercive law as would please the war-
like Tories, should it ever be carried, could be successful.
Will the people of England and Scotland—will our Protestant
Dissenters—will our merchants, manufacturers, and farmers,
whatever may be their creed, now that the revenue is falling
off, trade is stagnant, and agriculture not particularly flourish-
ing—allow even the Tory leaders to compel by force the Irish
Catholics to pay tithe to the Protestant priesthood ? We be-
lieve they will not ; and we further believe, that the Irish
Catholics will again organize an extensive resistance to the
payment of tithes, and again compel the Protestant parsons to
have recourse to the Consolidated Fund. The English are
unwilling to enforce the levy of tithes, in Ireland, at the point
of the bayonet, and the majority of the people there
being adverse to the payment, while the two parties in the
legislature are so balanced, that neither can successfully
carry any measure to settle the tithe question. The
Tories will not allow the Whigs, and the Whigs will
not allow the Tories, to pass a measure in the sense that either
approves of. After attempting for six years to bring this
question to a satisfactory end, it appears to us to be further
from a legislative conclusion than ever. The people have
demonstrated through those six years, that against their union
the law is powerless, and as the parties in the Legislature
will not allow the question to be settled, they plainly
though tacitly refer it back to the people. The people
know their strength ; and this reference makes us
say that the question is in a delightful position for the
tithe-payers. They must settle it, and if the Irish do not
settle it after their own fashion, and to their own advantage,
they will be much to blame. No reasonable being will say
that they are to be perpetually the victims of a system which
is universally condemned, because the factious Tories, inca-
pable themselves of passing a law to adjust the dispute, are re-
solved that their opponents shall not pass any such law. The
Irish tithe-payers should rejoice at the factious obstinacy of
the Tories, and should settle the matter as will best please
themselves.

The Tory journals are notorious for being unscrupulous in
their assertions. One of them yesterday accounted for the
deficiency of the revenue by saying that two millions sterling
had been in the course of last year appropriated to the service
of the Queen of SPAIN. What a pity this sagacious scribe
did not supply his information to Lord .I{anoN two months
ago, and then the Noble Lord would not, in the face of
the House of Commons, have asserted that the expense of
stores, &c.--all which we have supplied to Spain—through
the whole contest, amounted only to 537,0001. The war has
now been raging four yrars, and in that time we have ad-
vanced less than 200,0001. a year for the service of the Queen
of SPAIN, or not one-tenth of the sum which the Tory
journalist says has been expended during the last year.
An account has just been published of all the naval
slops and provisions supplied to the squadron under Lord
JOHN HAY since 1834, and to the Spanish Govern-
ment and British Auxiliary Legion ; and the amount is—
the Tories will say half a million-27,6001. for the whole four
years. We are not the advocates of any unnecessary expendi-
ture ; but the may as well drop at once the favourite Tory slang
of being a great and a mighty nation, if we cannot lend half a
million to assist an ally. The aid is given to support liberty.
How many millions, we should like to know, did the Tories
squander
aernd h
to place
CossacksaceEuro pe?under the hoof of the Emperor of

By the arrival of the steamer Sirius at Falmouth on Friday,
at eight o'clock P. M., from New York, we have received a file
of New York Journals to the evening of the Ist instant in-
clusive. The Sirius arrived safely at New York on the 23d
ult.—just twelve hours before the Great Western, which we
are happy to state sustained no injury during the voyage.
So happy a solution of the grand problem of the power of
steam filled the citizens of New York with inexpressible
delight. They assembled in thousands to hail with joy-
ous greetings the mighty precursors of a new and better
era in the world's history. By an impulse at once sudden,
undefinable, and universal, the day was converted into a gene-
ral festival ; the cares of the present and the recollections of
the past were lost in glorious dreams and prophecies of the fu-
ture. Captains ROBERTS and HOSKIN, of the Sirius and
Great Western, were waited on by the Mayor and Corpora-
tion of New York, by whom they were sumptuously feasted,
after receiving the most distinguished marks of Republican
honour and esteem. When the health of Captain Ro-
BE,RTs was drunk, that Gentleman, in a burst of ho-