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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1838.

inasmuch at it has been the means of eliciting strong
testimonies in its favour from many men of all
ranks and parties who have had the best possible opportuni-
ties of judging of its actual working. As an example of this
we need only quote the following passage from the speech of
Lord HARDWICK, on Tuesday night :—" As to the general
1 effect of the Poor-law Amendment Act in the county

(Cambridgeshire), in which he lived, it had worked much
to the benefit of the lower classes ; so much so, that the
efforts of Mr. MABERLY and other persons in the neigh-
bourhood of his residence to induce the poor to resist the

law had totally failed. He was satisfied that the more the
working of the law was examined, the more it would be
found to tend to the benefit of the community at large,
especially of the working classes."

The high Church party will discover, when too late, the
great error they committed in not settling the Irish tithe
question in the first session it came before Parliament.
Every year since worse terms have been offered to the
Clergy, and during the course of that period the hostility
of the people to this tribute has been so excited by vexa-
tious tithe processes and bloody affrays at tithe collections,
and, finally, by the utter rejection of the only principle on
which it could be settled amicably, that they will not now
compound with any Government, either Whig or Tory, for
even one half of the amount that would have been willingly
paid ten years age. The cottiers and even the tenants
generally believe that the tithe comes out of their pockets,
the landlords will not have it thrown upon them, because
they know the difficulty of screwing up rents already exor-
bitant ; and what with self-interest, bad feeling towards
the Church, the example of Scotland, and the conscious-
ness of power which the Irish people acquired by the result
of the Clare election, we have a complication of difficulties
which the present Ministry, and still more a Tory Ministry,
should it ever be formed, must regard with anxiety and
fear. All the advantage is on the side of the kids people.
Their leaders in Parliament offered to come to reasonable
terms with the British Legislature, and these terms have
been repeatedly rejected by the House of Peers. A mak).
rity of the Commons—the guardians of the public purse—
.believed the people right and the Peers wrong ; and will
they lend their assistance to coerce a whole nation who
may have been driven to improper extremities by treatment
to which, whether as regards municipal rights, or the in-
sults offered to their religion, neither England nor Scotland
would for even one year submit? Suppose a change of
Ministry and a new Parliament, with a small majority on
their side, would Sir ROBERT PEEL or the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON attempt to force the payment of tithes, and advise
her MAJESTY to adopt measures which, in the present
excitement on the subject, would inevitably lead to a civil
war ? And suppose they should advise her MAJESTY to
take such a step, would the hlouse of Commons vote
money to carry fire and sword into Ireland, because the
people of that country claim equa rights with Englishmen
and Scotehmen? We are as incredulous on both these points,
as we are on one whirls most people will consider of all
things in the world the most improbabi.e, that a young and
virtuous QueEts, whose ruling desire is to be beloved by
all her subjects, would signalize the commencement of her
reign by making war on seven millions of her people ; and
even admitting all these three supposed events possible,
the next inquiry what is the chance of success ? Ire-
land is very dintent now from what she was in
1797. There is a unity of purpose in all her pro-
ceedings which she never before exhibited, and if Scot-
I. tnd just emerged from barbarism could, with loss thin
ene-half of her population engaged in the cause, as-
sert her inlependf nee, and take the tithes from the
rsinseopal clergy, is it improbable that Ireland with her vast
population, urged on hya priesthood possessed of poever little
leis than that welded by the leaders of the Cameronians and

Covenanterp, will be able in these days of reform to follow her
cs.avnple end awn if she should fail, over what could
lictr.rs rrk)ico ? A brave people vanquished—vast
treav,urcs needlessly expended, and endless 10-s of life—all
because a certain portion -of the British people thought
that Protetantizm would be insecure if our Catholic bre-
thren in Ireland received for the purposes of education a
sai:.ll portion cf those funds which Catholics originally
possessed. We have vver contended for the appropriation
claust., and for the payment cf the Irish priests, because
• thtlac _c.,-.r..at:tons were just, zni essential to the peace and
security cf The' House of Lards, and the 111-
adt ised friends df the Protestant Church, have thought
otherwise, and on their heads be the consequences.

The Paris journals of Tuesday, the whole of which we
have received, contain no intelligence of more than ordi-
nary interest. On Monday the Chamber of Peers adopted
the Bill granting 200,000 francs for celebrating the eighth
anniversary of the revolution of July. Eleven votes were
given against the Bill, and eighty-nine for it—a no qucs-
tionabla proof of the weakness of the Royalists in the
Chamber of Peers. It was well observed by M. Du-
BOUCHAGE on this occasion that the noblest celebration of
such an anniversary would consist less in shows, fireworks,
and military reviews on the part of the Government, than in
liberating the objects of it from the surveillance of the po-
lice, and granting an amnesty to all persons sentenced to
imprisonment or exile for political offences. Another Bill,
granting 10,460,000 francs for the completion of certain
public works, was voted almost unanimously. When its adop-
tion was proposed, M. de TASCHER rose and complained of the
conduct of the Government in perniitting such works to be car-
ried on on Sundays, to the disgrace of France, and the ruin of
the moral feelings of the people. The Minister of Justice
contended that there was a law to compel the observance
of the Sabbath ; but that it rested, and ought to rest with
the Government to decide upon the right and expediency
of enforcing it. M. DE DREUX BREZE, a Royalist and a
rigid Catholic, protested against the desecration of the
Sabbath by the Government. On Sundays, public works
were carried on with even more show of haste than on
week days ; and it was notorious, that reviews of the Na-
tional Guards and troops of the line were, in nine eases
out of ten, fixed for the very hours on Sundays during
which Divine Service was celebrating in the churches. We
quite agree with the Noble Peer, that the Sabbath is not
sufficiently observed in France. We would not com-
pel men to attend churches —we would not force
them to look gloomy and discontented, by prevent-
ing them from obtaining the accommodation of an
omnibus, or a cheerful glass of liquor—we would not
exclude them from the pleasures of a care-relaxing stroll
in the green fields ; but we would protest against any in-
ducement being held out to them to pursue their ordinary
avocations on that day, and we would do so, simply for the
sake of the poor themselves. All unnecessary toil should
be carefully suspended in order that the poor may enjoy the
Sabbath, and glorify GOD, who oidained them a necessary
period for recreation and rest. Protect the poor in the en-
joyment of the Sabbath by all means—it is the toil-worn
labourer's inheritance ; but presume not to dictate the
manner in which he is to observe it. There begins the
evil of modern Sabbath legislation.

The Journal des Debals has a long article on the present
political aspect of affairs in the East, the tendency of which
is to show that France and England ought to resolve forth-
with upon the steps necessary to be taken in the event
of a rupture between the PORTE and the Paella of EGYPT,
in order to counteract the designs of Russia. The writer
is strongly of opinion that it ought to be the policy of
Western Europe to maintain the status quo at all hazards,
and to declare against thFeorPothwiesr
pwohripcohsefirst
the
most effica-
cious and
commences hostilities.
measure is to keep a powerful fleet in the Mediter-
ranean, in order that Turkey may not again be driven to
the invocation of aid from Russia.
The following are extracts from the Journals :--

LocanNo, JUNE 28.—The artillery of Pennacerrada, the
16 battalions
fortifications of which will be razed, has been removed to' Vit.
y. The
toria ; that town is ti:e centre of operation.. From tile move-
ments of Espartero, who has
.left Vittoria with
and some cavalry, it may be believed that he is going to attack
Tolosa. The inhabitants of La Rioja.have acknowledged the
authority of the Queen. Alain, who is master of Lower Na-
varre, is to attack the valley of Ulzama.
he who
Further arrests have taken place in the Carlist arm
who is at Elor-
present confidant of Don Carlos is a young man of 13a,,nere
de Bijorre, who has great energy of character; it is
has the conduct of the secret correspondence, and the draw-
ing up of the bulletins. Marouo is at Tolosa with the re-
mains of the corps of Guergue. Dun Carlos,
rio, has with bin, the Catalonians and the Castillians.

A I;tzer from Toulon, of the 26th, says—" The— English
Admiral landed yesterday afternoon at five o'clock, to pay a
visit to Admiral J. Loguville, the Maritime Prefect, who was
prevented by sudden indisposition from seeing the English
ConstitutionneL"

A journal says, " It is not true that Prince Louis Napoleon
is in France, but the strictest precautions are adopted to hinder
from executing the project which he is supposed to enter-

tain. A telegraphic dispatch, forwarded from the Department
of the Minister of War, immediately after the communication
of the Ordinance, which submitted the pamphlets to the
Chamber of Peers, and which wax transmitted to the Eastern
Department, with a description of the person of Prince Louis,
orders that Prince Louis Bonaparte shall be arrested if he pre-
sent himself at any point of the frontiers, under any pretext
and whatever, that he shall be detained till further orders.—
Le Commerce. _

FRENCH FUNDS. —PARA. JULY 3.
Five per Cents., 110 E 50c. POc. 70c. He.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 50c.
Three per Cents., 80f. 5c 10c. 13c.
Bank Actions, '2,530f. 9,600 f.
Rente de Naples, .9Sf. (.oc. f 3c1'1.5c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101M4%.
Spanish Actives, 22!4 .
Spanish Passives, 4N.
Belgian Bank, 1,140 f.
Haytian Loan, 35J.

ExcnaNcp. ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 424,ie.; money, 25f. 42gc.
Three months, paper, 25f. 174 X. ; money, 231. 6.,11,4c.