The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-19 00:00:00

ST. MARY'S, ISLINGTON.

The contest for the situation f Vestry Clerk in this
parish has terminated, as, we foresaw, in the election of
Mr. R. Oldershaw, by a considerable majority—Older-
shaw, 1,700 votes ; Cork, 571 ; and May, 152. Not only
was the popular party divided, but it is supposed that it
was betrayed, if not actually sold. This is, for the pub-
lic good, deeply to be lamented ; for in the success of Mr.
R. Oldershaw both morality and freedom are much out-
raged. The circumstances of the case are these :—His
father, the late Vestry Clerk, had filled that situation, with
a certain salary, latterly, of 6001. per year, and probably it
was at no time worth to him less than 8001. a year, for
thirty-two years. Enjoying for so long a period the confi-
dence of the parish, which was annually requited, on his
part, by many public professions, however hypocritical, of
rectitude, he obtained also s great deal of confidence from
individuals, and received many commissions, as trustee and
guardian of widows and orphans. Yesterday three
weeks, when his family were at church, this gentle-
man hanged himself ; and then it came out that
he had defrauded those who had confided in him, utterly
ruining several persons of the middle classes, and had put
an end to himself, in order to escape, it is supposed, the
disgrace of detection, if not the punishment, due to delin-
quencies. No sooner was the breath out of his body, on
the very day that he hanged himself, than some of the
members of the Tory clique in the parish, who have always
supported him, and whose especial agent and associate in
parish matters he has been met and resolved to elect
the son of the defaulter in his room. On the day following
a considerable number of names were procured to a requi-
sition to this effect, which, within less than 36 hours after
the old man was dead, was printed and put into circulation.
The parties who took this step must have been aware of
the cause of the Vestry Clerk's death, for the son knew of
his father's circumstances a week before. Without making
any other inquiry into the matter than a private one, for the
mere purpose of exonerating the son from any share in the
father's delinquency, without officially making the parish
acquainted with the vacancy, the Churchwarden, being one
of the Tory clique, and acting in conjunction with them,
proceeded to call a Vestry to elect a Vestry Clerk. On
Thursday the Vestry assembled for the purpose, when it
was first officially stated that the late Vestry Clerk was a
defaulter to the parish to the extent of several hundred
pounds. Such a fact, combined with the other lamentable
circumstances, warranted an amendment to postpone
the election tillan inquiry was made ; such an amendment was
accordingly moved, and the Churchwarden, who had de-
c'ded that there should,ba an election before a vacancy was
declared, overruled it by his own authority, and proceeded
to the election. It is the opinion of well-informed persons
that his decision was illegal, and that consequently the
election is void, and that all the acts done by the new Ves-
try Clerk will be illegal. On the numbers being declared
on Saturday evening, Mr. Hodgskin, who had moved the
amendment on Thursday, rose to deliver in a formal pro-
test against the election, and explain to the Vestry what
course it would be incumbent on it to adopt to ascertain
the legality of the election, and if illegal, set it aside. But
the Tory clique immediately set up a yell such as is seldom
heard, and persisted in making all sorts of discordant noises
till one of their own party moved the adjournment of the Ves-
try, and their own Churchwarden declared the adjournment
carried. The meeting then broke up, and nothing further
was said, though several persons, indignant at the conduct
of the Tories, loudly demanded that another gentleman
should take the chair, and pass a censure on their proceed-
ings. Thus for the present the son of the late
defaulter, both to the parish and to individuals, is
placed in his father's situation, and, like him, by
being invested with the confidence of the parish
may appear to deserve the confidence of individuals.
No public investigation has been instituted, either into the
parish accounts or the private defalcations of the deceased.;
his family, who are well provided for, have not publicly
offered to make good any part of the father's defal-
cations ; and with all these accounts unsettled, • with
public justice unsatisfied, the High Church Tories
of Islington have placed the son of the defaulter
in his father's situation. The indecent eagerness
with which they have carried their plan into execution,
gives rise to a strong suspicion that they are conscious of
having done something which requires concealment. They
and the late defaulter ware all members of the same paro-
chial party ; and by placing his son in his place they secure
oblivion, they think, for all his past deeds. The moral and
religious people of England, however, will learn with some

LONDON :
MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1838.

The Times always instructs us by its conduct as
much as by its language. In the accounts received
from abroad on Saturday, .it is stated that Admiral
STOPFORD, with a part of his squadron, after sepa-
rating from the Capitan Pasha on the most friendly
terms, is about to return to Malta. Constantinople
then is for the present safe. The Russians, we may
be sure, have given .such guarantees to our Ambassa-
dor at Constantinople of their peaceable intentions that
he has authorised the Admiral to withdraw. By the
diplomatic skill of Lord PALMERSTON and Lord PoN-
SONBY, the decision of the question that did threaten
the peace of Europe appears for the present postponed
or settled. Now comes down the Times with a
thundering article appealing to all that is manly and
patriotic in Lord PALMERSTON to send forth
the warlike might of Britain, and convince the
CzA R that Constantinople is safe under our protection.
Cunning, careful, watchful Times. By-and-by, when
dates and circumstances have passed a little into
oblivion, when Russia is crouching in peace and
Turkey growing strong and wealthy under the united
protection and commerce of England and Austria, the
Times will point to its article of to-day, and to another
or two of its recent articles conceived in the
same spirit, which have all been written, however,
after the good work has been achieved by others,
and ask what the world thinks of its power ? Neither
Lord PONSONBY, nor Lord PALMERSTON, nor Ad-
miral STOPFORD, nor the spirited language of any
other English Journal has kept in check the Russian
Bear, "it has been entirely done," the Times will
say, " by its thunder."

We have the greatest pleasure in informing our
readers that already have the beneficial consequences
of the decision of the Judges, in quashing the Mid-
dlesex County-rate, began to appear. That decision
has communicated such a degree of warmth to the
Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, that Col. CLITHEROE
now thinks it will be unnecessary for him to press his
notice of motion at the next General Quarter Sessions
of the Peace, for an additional two thousand pounds to
warm that pauper (?) establishment. This novel mode
of diffusing heat throughout a large public building is
far more economical than even Dr. ARNOTT'S admi-
rable invention, and infinitely superior to Mr. Serjeant
ADAMS'S recent attempt, because it conveys heat
without " smoke."

A letter to the President of the Board of Controul
on the all engrossing subject of our Indian policy, has
just been published by SMITH and ELDER, the en-
terprising booksellers of Cornhill. It is from the pen
of Colonel CAULFIELD, an officer in the Indian army,
and its object is to sketch an outline of the course
which we ought to pursue in order to preserve and
consolidate the vast empire which we have acquired in
the East, threatened as that empire is. by the all but
hostile attitude lately assumed by Russia. The writer
is of opinion that the period has now arrived when we
must either assume " a paramount controlling sove-
reignty, or act in concert with confederated States for
the preservation of the country, from the ambitious
designs of Russia," there being no other alternative
left us. In discussing the relative merits of these two
systems of action, Colonel CAULFIELD scouts the
idea of placing any reliance upon a confederation with
our independent and subsidiary allies. This he for-
cibly observes " is a delusion that nothing short of
besotted ignorance of the character and history of our
rule, or extreme infatuation, could seriously contem-
plate. Can it be supposed that any confederation
within the compass of our power to organise, would
be bending under the magical effects of a call upon
the" Kings and Chiefs to the eastward of the Indus,
to rouse themselves and throw off the shackles by
which they have long been galled, and achieve,
in concert with the united powers of Russia, Per-
sia, and Affghanistan, an independence for which
they have long secretly pined ? No, not for a mo-
ment. The talismanic thrill of such an invitation
would act with 'the force and rapidity of a galvanic
shock, to the most remote corners of our possessions."-
The author then goes on to corroborate this startling
view of the precariousness of our hold on the affection
and fidelity of the native Indian Princes, by prods
drawn from history, from the time of HYDER ALY
and his son, down to the Burmese war in 1824, to
which war he asserts all the native powers of India
looked with delight, as the sure and certain means of
our annihilation.

The following is the plan which Colonel CAUL-
FIELD chalks out for our Government to pursue under
existing circumstances. It is a bold one, but we are
thoroughly convinced of its soundness. The only way
to deal with the Scythian Bull is to take him by the
horns at once:—

" England must insist upon the free passage of the Darda-
nelles and the uncontrolled navigation of the Euxine; any
opposition to this, should be considered as a declaration of
war. Acting upon which it would be our policy to re orga-
nize and guarantee the independence of Poland; to stimulato
and aid the Porte in the recovery of her provinces in Asia
Minor and Armenia ; and whilst this was going on in Europe,
we should in this country, restore the old King of Ave, con-
fine him to the eastward of the Irrawaddie, parcel out the in-
termediate country between our present frontier and that river
into petty subsidiary States, and have a military road from
Munnypore to that river, and impose a subsidiary force on
Nepaul and Bootan.
" To the west and northwest the Indus, from its source to
the sea, must be our boundary. The Afghan kingdom must
be regenerated, and an intimate connection established be-
tween us. This course would be the work of time, but no
"delay in' commencing the European part of it should take
place. If we permit the second move of the Russian game
to take place; if we allow a Russian-Persian army to invest
Candahar ; if we allow, by our supinencs., a confederacy to
be organized between Nicholas, Muhumud Shah and Dost
Muhumud, our folly may be d;sastrous."

Among the most important communications recently
received from he Turkish capital was a letter which

appeared in The Sun of Saturday, dated the 28th ult.,
which stated that the Russian Ambassador at the
Porte had addressed a remonstrance to the SULTAN, ill
which his Excellency emphatically observed, that un-
less his Highness disannulled the Commercial Treaty
between Great Britain and Turkey, the Emperor his
master would regard it as a violation of the Treaty of.
Unkiar 'Skelessi, and consequently as a declara-
tion of war against Russia. This is probable, and
we trust true ; though as yet we have received
no additional information upon the subject. That
the main provisions of the treaty just concluded be-
tween Great Britain and the Porte amount to a po-
sitive revocation of the treaty of Unkiar 'Skelessi, the
purchase of a secret fraudulent negociation on the part
of the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, is a fact not to be
disputed, and one which of all others redounds most to -
the credit of the Government of her Britannic MAJESTY'
By the s:h article of the Commercial Treaty, the
Porte throws open the Dardanelles to British shipping'
without any restriction whatever ; consequently,
there
is not only an end put to the treaty of Unkiar 'Ske-
lessi, but Russia is deprived, by a single stroke of pa-
cific policy, of the cherished object of the intrigues of her
Cabinet for upwards of a century. We trust, that having
thus succeeded in honourably regaining all 'the ground
which we lost through the imbecility of our Govern-
ments, one and all, since the death of Mr. CANNING,
our Ministry will not attempt to explain away, by
supplementary articles, any part of the treaty specifi-
cally objected to by the Russian Cabinet. The threat
of Russia is evidently designed to try the pulse of
England ; for should it fail to frighten the SULTAN
into a compliance with the orders of the CZAR—which
it will do if England offer manfully to support
him—a negociation will be set on foot for the
purpose of so altering, explaining, and limiting the
treaty, as to render,it valueless to this country. New'
therefore, is the time for the English Cabinet to take
the initiative in the settlement of the Oriental ques-
tion. Leave Russia, if she will, to act as if the corn'
mercial treaty between_ England and Turkey was a de-
claration, not of war, but of independence on the pa':
of the Porte. England is too generous, even were it ne
her interest, which in this case it undoubtedly is, t°
allow the Porte to suffer for having dared to prefer
her alliance to that of the withering, all-graspiugt do-
mination of the Court of St. Petersburgh. Between
England and Russia a war is, sooner or later, inevitable'
and no occasion of one could occur, better calculated
d
to unite in one resistless force the whole moral ,
physical power of this country, than that now offer°
by Russia, by the presentation of a Remonstrance fer
the ruin of our commercial and political influence in
Turkey.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and S.ad-
turday have been received. They are mostly occur
with comments upon the Royal Speeches addressed t°
the Belgian and Spanish Chambers. The circumstance,
of no mention being made of France in either of these
documents has hurt the self-love of the French Press' •
Extracts from them will be found else Where.

We direct attention to a every remarkable address, °r
rather remonstrance, from General EspARTEB° t°
the Regent of SPAIN, which will be found in our CO;
lums of this day. We have not space at this moment
for any comment upon it.

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