The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-16 00:00:00

TO ADVERTISERS.

Ti will be seen by the following extract front the Stamp
Office Returns, that THE SUN is now the Leading
Evening Paper, in point of circulation, as the Lists
for Me Months of March and April last will
show :
Sun

Globe and Traveller 132,000
Courier .. 70,500

True Sun, and Weekly True Sun 58,500
Shipping Gazette

than an eighteenth part of the Archbishop of CANTER-
BURY'S reformed stipend. Still more absurd, if pos-
sible, is it to attempt to say that an equalization of
some of the Bishoprics will prevent the desire of
translation, while others are retained on such a scale of
splendour as cannot fail to operate even upon the
humility and sobriety of an episcopal imagination.
But to return to the subject of -the Deans and
Chapters, with which we set out. In the Fourth Re-
port of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, it is recom-
mended that the patronage now belonging to these
bodies should be taken from them instanter—not even
shriving time allowed—and given to the Bishops. The
petition to which we have alluded sets the shocking in-
justice of this proposal in its true light, and we have
added a note by way of comment on that part of the
petition where allusion is • made to the mode in which
the Right Reverend Fathers in God have used the
immense patronage which they already possess. The
public will there see with what disinterestedness, with
what a single eye to the glory of God and the good of
his Church, they have dispensed the things of which
they have been constituted the stewards by no less than
a jure divine title I I The Mannerses, the Sparkes,
the Pretymans, and the Luxmores, make a splendid, if
not a Christian figure—do they not ?

Mr. CLAY brought forward the case of the Danish
Claimants last night in a clear and forcible manner, in
which he was ably supported by Dr. LUSHINGTON,
Mr. HUME, Mr. O'CONNELL, Mr. HUTT, and Mr.
G. F. YOUNG, notwithstanding the indecent noise
which some of the understrappers endeavoured to keep
up below the bar. We must confess that we never
heard weaker arguments than those upon which the
opposition has been grounded, and sorry are we to find
a Liberal Minister of the Crown resorting to the ex-
pedient of sheltering himself under an opinion of a
Solicitor-General, founded upon technical vague ob-
jections which would not do credit to a country
attorney, and in support of which we defy him to bring
forward any respectable authority. Mr. GOULBURN
Was the only Member on the Tory side who spoke
against the sufferers, and who evidently did not under-
stand the real merits of the case, or else he endea-
voured purposely to mislead the House, by stating that
the ships and cargoes for which compensation is sought
were taken on the high seas ; whereas the property
was either seized in Danish ports or in the Baltic,
which close sea was declared to be neutral, and there-
fore the seizure was contrary to every principle of
international law ; but the ex-Chancellor knows as
much about the law of nations as a tom-tit. It
is truly lamentable to see a man, who would not
hesitate to vote hundreds of thousands for any
corrupt Tory job, deny common justice to those
sufferers, while the Government makes a profit by the
act which occasioned the plunder of the claimants'
property.
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With the trifling majority of eight, it was decided
last night in the House, that the original motion on
the Church of Ireland Bill be left unaltered, by which
division the case of the Danish claimants remains still
unredressed. If the seventy Members of the House
who had previously expressed themselves convinced of
the justice of the case, and had promised to vote ac-
cordingly, had been present at the division, there is no
doubt that the claimants would have had a very de-
cided majority. hi fact the case must ultimately suc-
ceed—there is too strong a sense of justice inherent in
the -British nation, for it to be otherwise.

The pith of the CHANCELLOR'S principle, as he
calls it, is that the British nation is bound to pay the
debts of a Foreign nation, although that Foreign
nation had by a solemn treaty undertaken to pay those
debts. This principle that the nation is bound to
compensate the wrongs committed by a Foreign nation,
may lead to endless reclamatiOns, as we shall show on
a future occasion. His other principle is, that the
Government is not bound to compensate the wrongs
which it has occasioned to its subjects itself, and that
the nation is to profit by the losses of individuals.
We publish a list of the division, that the country
may see who are the friends and who the enemies of
the cause. Many who ought to have supported it, we
regret to say either neglected to be present, or left the
House previous to the division.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought
in the Post-office Bill last night to enable his MA-
JESTY to appoint Commissioners for executing the
duties of his Majesty's Postmaster-General, which
was read a first time and ordered to be read a second
time on Thursday next.

We have hitherto abstained from entering into pro-
blematicaldiscuss:ons with our Contemporaries—Morn-
ing or Evening—on the subject of the dismissal of the
REIS EFFENDI by the Porte, as we have had no
means of ascertaining to what length Lord PON-
SONBY had gone, in insisting upon the nature of the
satisfaction due to the BritiXGovernment, for the in-
sult offered to it in the person of Mr. CHURCHILL.
'We had seen, it is true, private letters in which it was
stated that the British Ambassador declared that he
would demand his passports, if the REIS EFFENDI
were not dismissed ; and we likewise had seen other
letters in which his Lordship was stated to have
threatened the dismemberment of Turkey, unless the
Porte pacified England by disgracing the Minister by
whom the violation of a sacred Treaty was allowed to
pass unpunished. But then again there were
more letters, and in these it was affirmed that Lord PoN-
SoNBY had not mooted the question of the dismissal
of the REIS EFFENDI—that he simply observed that
he would await instructions from London—and that the
SULTAN, presuming that Lord PALMERSTON would
make the dismissal of the REIS EFFENDI the condition
of a reconciliation between Great Britain and the
Ottoman empire, very prudently saved himself from
the humiliation that awaited him, by dismissing the
offending Minister, on a pretext of ill health. Such
were the rumours in circulation ; and upon these it
appeared to us absurd to base arguments affecting so
grave a question as our relations with the Porte. Nor
shall we now give an opinion upon the subject. It is
possible that Lord PALMERSTON may be called upon
for explanations by the House of Commons ; or that
through some other authentic channel we. may become
acquainted with the contents of Lord PONSONBY'S
despatches ; and then it will be time enough to give an
opinion respecting the firmness of our Government,
and the respect paid to it by the Porte. In the mean
time we ought to be satisfied. The REIS EFFENDI
has been disgraced.