The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1836.

PRICES OF STOCKS E
Bank Stock.
3 per Cent. Red. 881,4 8
3 per Cent. Cons
3% per Cent.
Ditto Ree 96,00 1

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1 lia Stock —
Ditto Bonds
South Sea Stock
;Old Annuities
New Ditto —
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 --
Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 2O 18 pin.
Ditto ..500. 2O 18 pm.
Ditto Small
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Ditto Advertised pm
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India Stock for Account. .... .... --
1 Consols for Acconnt B9 3b

of the present ingenious age. But now for the
mistake itself. At the close of the first leading article
of this day's Times comes the following :
" Again we take leave to assure Mr. SH EIL, that the
Whigs will make no such attempt, save in the full and
confident expectation that their proposal will be laughed
at by the proper authority, just object to a scheme of an-
nexation, which, leaving a few prizes to the scholar and
the divine, shall impose upon the remaining prebends
individually the care of poor and populous parishes."
At the close of the letter from " A Correspondent"
on the Church Commission, comes the following :

New 3,/, per Cent .

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New sper Cent
Bank Long Annuitiestoexpire
Jan 5, .IA;(1 14%
Oct 10, 16:9
Jan. 5. IS6O
Jan. 5,
A pri 1 5, IWO
Jan. 5, 1870...... .......... ...,„
Omnium pm.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds —l
Belgian Bonds ............ ....„

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Peruvian Bonds —
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Portuguese Bonds 67%
Ditto Account —
Ditto New Bonds 44
Ditto Account -
Ditto, 3 per cent 29
Prussian Bonds —
Russian Bonds, 1822 —
Ditto Account --
Ditto Metallic —
Spanish Bonds —
Ditto Account —
Ditto Bonds, 1534 191,4
Ditto Account l9 i
French, 5 per cent.— ..... —I. —c.
i--- 4 per cent. —f. —c.
, -- 2 per cent. -f. —c.
1 --- Exchange f —c.
Dutch, 24 per cent.
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Ditto, 5 per cent. ........
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Brazilian Bonds

Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds

" Neither do we as their trumpery Irish Bills, when
sent up to the House of Lords, will there, by the
proper authority, be at once rejected. The ' concern'
is in a hopeful state."
Now any person at all conversant with the in-
ternal management of a Newspaper-office, will see
that the Times Devil for once has made a mistake—
delivered the wrong slip to the wrong printer—the
slip being written, of course, in the same hand ; and
as the articles are nearly of the same length, the
number was probably the same ; and the unfortu-
nate reader (it was boxing-day, remember), had not
wit enough left to see the blunder. The thing speaks
for itself, and we will only repeat—
Oh, excellent device ! was there ever heard a better,
That—being the scribe, to himself should write a letter.

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Chillian Bonds

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Columbian 80nd5......

Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1824 9.214

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Danish Bonds

Ditto Account
Greek Bonds
Ditto Bonds,
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per cent.
Ditto Acc0unt.........
Neapolitan

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Brighton ( Rennie'sl 3 1%
Manchester and Leeds Railway Company
Australasia Bank 443 57

Arrived. Due.
0 America 0
0 Brazil 0
0 Buenos Ayres 0
t7arthagena 0
0 Dublin
0 Flanders

MAILS.
Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due
0 France 3 0 Lisbon 1
0 Gum. &Jersey 0 0 Malta
0 Hamburg 1 0 Mexico 0
II Holland ...... ... 1 0 Ostend 0
0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0
1 0 Leeward Islands 1 0 Waterford 0

His Celestial Majesty the Emperor of CHINA has
issued an imperial decree for the suppression of Chris-
tianity, the seizure of foreign books, and the correction
of the human heart throughout his vast dominions.
The Tories of China have become alarmed for the

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning f 6 minutes after 5. I Evening...... 34 minutes after 5.

stability of the altar and the throne ; and after the true
Tory fashion, they consult their ancestors about the
best means of protecting them from the dangers of re-
ligious innovation. The sacred books recommend
persecution, and accordingly persecution is resolved
upon by a devout Conservative posterity. Old
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Lord ELDON never gave utterance to a proposition
more purely and beautifully Tory than the following,
which we find in the decree of his Celestial MA-
JESTY :—" According to the instructions that our
ancestors have transmitted to us, the past is the rule

.f the future." Is there no Conservative Association
in this country to adopt these words of the Emperor
of CHINA as a motto ? Are there no old Tory Cor•

porations to present the freedoms of their respective
boroughs to his Celestial MAJESTY, for having thus
employed the principles of Ultra Toryism in the sup-
pression of those Radical innovations, which would
strip him of the sacred prerogatives handed down to
him by his ancestors ? That their Worships the
Conservative Aldermen, and their friends and sup-
porters among the freemen of all Tory boroughs in
Great Britain and Ireland, may themselves have an
opportunity of judging of the loyal and religious zeal
of their Celestial Ally, we here quote the solemn man-
date of the EMPEROR :--
" DECREE. _ .

" To forbid Christianity—;ith rigour, to seize foreign
books, and to correct the human heart, and maintain
good order.
" The Treasurer Goo,
of the province of Canton.
" The Superior Judge Vam,
" By Imperial Commission we make known to the public
that at different times Europeans having penetrated into the
interior of the empire to preach Christianity, secretly to
print books, to call together meetings, and to deceive a num-
ber of persons. Several Chinese then became Christians,
and afterwards preached ; but, the fact once known, those
who were the principals were immediately executed, and
their adherents received afterwards their sentence in prison,
and those who would not retract were sent into banishment

to the city of the Mahometans, and condemned to serve
as slaves. Thus, in the 50th year of Kien-Lung, the
three Europeans Lo•Matani, Gal-Kien-San, Po-Bin-Luon,
secretly penetrated into the interior of the kingdom to
preach ; and, in the 20th year of Kea-king, the two Euro-
peans, Lam-yuo-van and Nicolam, also secretly entered into
the empire for the same purpose ; but they were all taken
at :different periods and condemned to death or driven
away. Thus, then, as the Christians have always been per-
secuted and condemned, the religion has, since these execu-
tions, been happily abolished. Bnt in the spring of the last
year some English ships in disguise have passed along the
coasts of China, and have distributed some European
books ; and as these books exhort to believe and to venerate
the Chief of that religion, named Jesus, it appears that this
religion is the same as the Christian religion which has
been persecuted at different times, and banished with all

rigour.
" The ignorant people are easy to allow themselves to be
deceived, and difficult to instruct. It is necessary to con-
tend against the superstition with force. If any one de-
parts from his duty to embrace the superstition, whether
by interest or credulity, and enters into this sect, prints
books and distributes them, at the moment in which he will
not expect it he will be discovered, and will not be able to
escape punishment. To sin by ignorance is a fault worthy
of compassion. We have not any intention to punish with-
out firstly inquiring ; it is on that account that we
exhort every one to amend. Not contented with having
instructed the officers, we publish this edict in order that
all the officers of justice may be informed by it. Every
one of you has talents ; every one has his family. You
ought to read useful books ; you ought to employ yourself
in proper business. Why will you believe fables void of
foundation, which only destroy the human heart ? Why do
you seek vile gain, and thus procure your destruction ?
" The Europeans for the most part dwell at Macao ;
already a Deputy has gone thither and has seized a certain
person, named Rine a Eli, who was employed to engrave
books. The Deputy has also seized eight European books,
which he has laid before this tribunal. Already we have
made a report to the Emperor, and we have warned all the
Government officers of the second order, that if there is
any one who has any Christian books, if he does not wish
to be seized, he ought, in the space of six months, to de-
liver them up to the officers of the respective districts ; but
if he continues to retain he will be severely punished.
" To spread the Christian religion of Europe is to deceive
the people, That religion is, in fact, the ruin of morals and
of Hie human heart, and it is on that account that at all times
it has bean prohibited, and according to the instructions that
our ancestors have transmitted to us, the past is the rule of
thefuture.
" We appoint the term of six months, to commence from
the present, to give up the books and thus to avoid punish-
ment. You have not yet advanced far on the road of
error. He who shall of his own accord present himself
shall be well received. Instantly, then, recollect yourselves,
repent and amend, for fear lest the hour may come in which
there will not be any remedy. If, on the contrary, after
the time is expired, you continue to preach and to profess
that religion, you will be prosecuted and judged with
rigour. Should we allow error to spread itself in these
times of felicity ?
" You who enjoy peace, you ought to publish truth and
destroy error—to avoid sects and to follow the religion of
the Kings our ancestors, so that peace and virtue shall
flourish ; and that you may be good subjects in these happy
times, is what we much wish.
" Taou-Kwang, 16th Year, 29th Day, 4th Moon."
The cant of morality, and religion, and the conserva-
tion of public morals, is not confined to meetings in
Exeter Hall, and Conservative guzzles in Bath,
Bristol, and Nottingham. In the mouth of a Chinese
Mandarin it sounds as sonorously and as zealously as
from the lips of a RODEN, a WINCHELSEA, or a
PIIILPOTTS. The Christians in China, and the
Radicals in England, are denounced for one and the
same reason—both refuse to bow down before the
golden calves set up by primitive ignorance and folly.
But seriously speaking, the perusal of the document
which we have inserted above ought to cover the
stupid dolts who arc for ever twaddling about " Church
and King" morality, with confusion. Here is an in-
stance of the practical operation of Toryism, worth a
thousand arguments. The undiluted Conservatism of the
Chinese Government, has for more than 200 years
prevented the conversion to Christianity of 360
millions of souls. This fact is undeniable. The in-
habitants of China are as docile as any people in the
world, and the successes of the Missionaries, Catholic
and Protestant, were amazing, when the interference
of the Government undid by an Edict all that they had
accomplished by years of incessant labour. The Tories
in all countries are in the habit of reading history, as
the Irish Divine asserted the Devil said his prayers—
viz.—backwards. Instead of referring to the conduct
of their ancestors, with a view to avoid their errors,
and to be guided by their example, as shown in the