The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

POLITICAL PARSONS.

The Guardian has attacked Dr. Joynes, the rector of
Gravesend, for attending a corn-law lecture, and inter
alia giving the sanction of his countenance to a political
manauvre. Before we dispose of this attack in the man-
ner it merits, we must congratulate our contemporary on
his new born zeal against political clergymen ; like other
sudden and modern conversions, it is worthy of particular
remark. " The Duke" and Sir Robert were suddenly con-
verted to the necessity of Catholic Emancipation, and
opened the doors of Parliament to statesmen of that per-
suasion ; our beloved brother of the Guardian is as
suddenly shocked at the clergy interfering with po-
litical 24 matters. Does he also desire to open the
doors of Parliament and request the bishops to
walk out ? Perhaps he is not prepared to stretch
his principles quite to this extent. Well, we will not be
too hard upon him ; let him just whisper into the ears of
half his readers—rather more, we fancy—who belong to
the cloth, that it is highly unseemly for clergymen to
mix with party politics, and that if any of the many in
this clerically-blessed county interfere at the next gene-
ral election, he will incontinently gibbet them in his
columns, and hold them up to the contempt and execra-
tion of the " many thousands " who weekly listen to his
patriotic denunciations. _ _

- But while we perfectly agree with the principle of our
contemporary's remarks, we are afraid that he has not
such a good case to illustrate them as we could wish.
We much regret the same truths did not strike him a
short time ago, when a reverend gentleman—we beg
pardon clergyman, for clergymen are not always
gentlemen—denounced the Queen, the head of his Ohurch,
as a " Jezebel," and her Ministers as something worse ;
or when another rev. clergyman took occasion, at Ash-
ton, to attack the Government as " democrats, infidels,
and atheists," and called upon his hearers to oppose them
to the last extremity. These would have been capital
cases in point, but, unfortunately, our contemporary was
not then converted to his present opinions.
A lecture on the repeal of the Corn-laws is not a party
matter ; at least our contemporary's friends say not.
They claim, as the great leader of the free trade move-
ment, the late Mr. Huskisson ; nay, the present Lord
Ashburton, one of their chief speakers, has done more to
advocate it than any other man ; and their especial
" Thunderer," of Printing-house Yard, has over and
over again enforced its necessity, policy, and expediency.
But though a lecture on the evil effects of the Corn-
laws may not be a matter of party politics, and though
Dr. Joynes and the lecturer may have held and uttered
the same opinions long before Government adopted them,
still we think there are several matters in which the
Rev. Doctor lays himself open to the lash of our contem-
porary. He is in truth a very strange man, and in most
of his actions and opinions seems to do things differently
from his brethren. During the good old times when
the pulpit was perseveringly and most profitably used as
a tool of the Government, Dr. Joynes refused to do any
thing of the sort, and was for many years professing
principles which shut him out from all profit and all ad-
vancement. Conduct like this was a censure by implica-
tion upon his reverend brethren, for which the Guardian
should severely trounce him.
__. _ _

Moreover, -when it was the fashion, as it is the
fashion, to support the Church by "forced contribu-
tions," warrants for Church-rates, &e., Dr. Joynes
positively declared that he did not approve of such pro-
ceedings, and wished the Church to be supported by
pillars of faith and love, piety and charity, rather than
by pillars of gold and the strong arm of the law. This
was extremely heterodox, but as it was so very unusual
in a clergyman, and Dr. Joynes could not do much mis-
chief by himself, it was passed over by his ecclesiastical
Diocesan ; no reason, however, that it should be passed
over by the Guardian.

Again, the conduct of Dr. Joynes and his family may
be greatly complained of by the other clergy. What a
depraved taste, what a shocking example, it must be to
see a Rector of a great parish, and his female relatives,
instead of paying court to hierarchs, noblemen, Diem -
hers of Parliament, or even the gentlefolks of the
county, going day by day into poor and miserable
cottages, inhabited by low-bred people, who may
happen to be dying, and without medicine, or famish-
ing, and without food. Really such perverted habits
and extraordinary conduct should draw down the ful-
minations of our contemporary, as being at total vari-
ance with the common practice, though they may pos-
sibly have led to the Doctor's opposition to prohibitory
laws.

As we wish to " help a lame dog over a stile," we
throw out these few hints, which we think contain suffi-
cient matter to enable our contemporary to give the hete-
rodox Doctor a thrust under the left ribs, which, should
he succeed in doing, and Gravesend be deprived of her
present pastor (our contemporary not choosing to take
the office himself), we could recommend as his successor
the present Dean of York, or, should he not be procura-
ble, the Rev. Dr. Molesworth, either of whom will be
more to our contemporary's mind, and much less deviate
from established practices and principles than Dr:Joynes.
—Kentish Mercury.

THE THREE PARTIES,
"GLORIOUS CONSTITUTION!"

In the course of Mr. Villiers' admirable speech in the
House of Commons, on Tuesday evening, he observed
that " there were now three parties in the State—one of
which thought that no justice should be done to the
people ; another which admitted that justice was not
done to them, but that it ought to be done, and that it
could be done under the present Constitution ; the third
party consisted of those who were hourly increasing in
numbers and strength, and who thought that justice
was not done and would not be done without a change in
the Constitution." The three parties alluded to, we need
scarcely add, are the Tories, Whigs, and Radicals.
There never was a definition which fitted the case so well
as this of Mr. Villiers; nor does he exaggerate when he
says, that the third,
.or Radical' party, are " hourly in-
creasing in numbers andstiengtli."
We beliave that the great proportion of the thinking
people of this country are rapidly losing faith in what is
called " our glorious Coustitution in Church and State."
That glorious Constitution is neither more nor less than
a huge and overgrown lie ; and, as Carlyle says, " no
lie can live." What is the Constitution to those who
have not bread to eat ? What signifies to a bankrupt
and impoverished people, that they have a glorious Con-
stitution, if under that very Constitution they have been
reduced to want and beggary ? Of what consolation is
the " Church and State " to starving hand-loom weavers,
to half-fed agricultural labourers, to ruined merchants,
to decaying tradesmen, to whole towns and cities of
paupers ? Is not the Constitution which produces such
results, rather a public nuisance and imposture than a li
thing which should be praised and honoured of mankind?
"It works well 1" says some one. Yes ! For bread-
taxers, for established clergy, for sinecurists, and for all
the hungry hangers-on of the monied and landed aristo-
cracy. But does it work well for the people ? A system
of imposture ; an organized scheme of depredation, cor-
ruption, and oppression of the industrious classes ; a col-
lection of the pretences under which the aristocracy have
been in the habit of carrying on an incessant war for the
sacrifice of the universal to their own particular interest.
The people want a real Constitution, not a sham : they
will recognize a true Government, but they refuse any
longer to bow down before an established lie. It is to
obtain a genuine Constitution which is the object of tke
" third party "of which Mr. Villiers speaks—the Rr„di..
cal Reformers of the United Kingdom.—Leeds Times

KILSYTII.—On Saturday, a very respectable
meeting of the inhabitants of Kilsyth was held, vilen it
was
resolved to come forward in support of Ministers in their at.
tempt to carry an alteration of the Corn-laws, and a modifi
tion of the duties on sugar and timber.
The town of Cowes never was more healthy
not a case of sickness prevails, though it i; so general in other
parts of the kingdom; with a population of 5,000 souls there
was not one death in the month of March, only three in April,
and not one in May.—Hants Advertiser.
E. Solomons and Co., Opticians to the Royal
Family, have invented Voice. Conductors, by the use of which_
deaf persons will experience the most incalculable benefits. Al..
though they are formed on so small a scale as to measure only one
quarter of an inch in diameter, yet no instruments hitherto ern-
ployed have proved so powerful and efficacious. When placed ire
the ears, the wearer is enabled to hear, with distinctness, the voice
of a distant speaker in church, theatre, or public assembly. Great
praise is due to E. Solomons and Co., for their invention of tl.ie
Patent Spectacles, which possess many decided and superior :ad_
vantages over all others in present use, being lighter in construe_
tion, and convey a refreshing coolness to the sight when engaged at
any minute employment, either by day or candle light ; in fact,
they seem, from their exquisite finish, to complete the triumph of
this department of the science of optics. They are patronised by
the Royal Family, her Majesty the Queen of Hanover, his Royal,
Highness the Duke of Sussex, the Duchess of Richmond the Duke
of Newcastle, the late Duke of Buckingham, the Marquis of Wei.
leaky, &c. The patentees, being totally unconnected with parties
advertisineunder a similar name, their address should be parti-
culai ly noted as a guard against all imitations—namely, 1, Old
Jewry, .City; and 36, Old Bond.areet, opposite the Western Ex.
change.,

El AMBURGH MAIL.
ST. PETERSBUIiGIip MAY B.—On the day of the mar-
riage of the Grand Duke Alexander, the Emperor issued
a special manifesto, granting full pardon, or a diminution
of punishment, for 35 different kinds of crimes. We
give the preamble of the Imperial manifesto, and the first
five classes of crimes pardoned which are the most im-
portant,,:—.

" Following the impulse of our hearts, we have taken
the resolution, on the day of the marriage of our beloved
son and successor the Cesarewitsch Grand Duke Alex-
ander Nicolasewitsch, an occasion of so much joy to us,
and to all our faithful subjects, to distinguish it by marks
of our favour. Immediately after our accession to the
Throne we declared our firm resolution to exercise the
right to pardon given us by God for the general good,
without thereby impairing the force of the laws. When
we now pardon many not very serious crimes, and miti-
gate the penalty of others, we hope that the clemency
manifested to the criminals will awaken in them the feel-
ing of repentance, and that by their future conduct they
will justify our indulgence to their former transgressions
The dispensations from payment of various claims hereby
granted, are chiefly in favour of those whom poverty or
temporary distress have rendered incapable of discharging
the same, and we do not doubt that the indulgence will
induce others to double their efforts to fulfil these obli-
gations. With these well meant intentions we graciously
order—

" I. To exempt from trial and inquiry all those who
up to this day have been brought before the Courts of
Justice for offences which are not connected with sacri-
lege, murder, robbery with violence to the person, usury,
robbery, stealing the property of the Crown by persons
to whom it is entrusted, coining, and forgery of the pa-
per currency. Those cases are not included with which
private claims are connected.
" 11. Criminals condemned to public corporal punish-
ment exempt from such punishment, and are only to be
subject to hard labour.
" 111. Criminals condemned to corporeal punishment
and banishment to Siberia as colonists are not to suffer
corporeal punishment, but only to be sent as colonists to
Siberia.

" IV. The exemption from trial and inquiry granted
in the first article, is extended to all persons serving in
civil offices and in the army and navy.
" V. To military persons of every class, pea-
sants, and others who, up to this day have re-
tired into foreign countries, or deserted from their habi-
tations and regiments, we grant our most gracious par-
don,:if those living in the empire return to their habita-
tions in half a year, and those in foreign countries
within a year, and the military return to their regi-
ments. This pardon does not extend to those who have
fled to foreign countries to escape trial or punishment
for rebellion and conspiracy, and endangering the inter-
nal tranquillity of the State. The ordinances respecting
such persons remain in full force."

STOCKHOLM, MAY 14.—Count V. Wrangel, his
Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at liamburgh has concluded
treaties of commerce between the kingdoms.of Sweden,
and Norway, and the free cities of Hamburgh and Bre-
men, founded on perfect reciprocity. They have been
approved and ratified by his Majesty, and will come
into operation on the Ist of July next.
The important question respecting a change in the re-
presentation is to be decided in the next diet.—Hamburgh
Papers, May 21.

BELGIAN WUNDS—Baussixi, MAY 22.
Actual Debt, 23G per Cent.
Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent... .....
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent........... 93 '
3 per Cent —
1 --- .... 703
• 840) %
Loan of City, 1&32, 4 per ( Cent. ........
Society of Commerce, 43oper Cent. lOO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ......
NationalSeciety.. ....... . . ........... —
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels rapers, May 22.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vismwa, MAT 15
rive per Cents. Metalliques ........... .......... ...... 108%
Four per Cents. .... ........... ••••••••••••••••• ........... 100
Three per Cents. • ••••••••• ....... •••••••••••••••••••• ...... NI 79
bank Shams ••-•........ .... . ..... ••••••••••••••••• ...... 1639
...Allgemeine Zellung, Mayl9:
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Max 31.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares — 1643
Anglo-Russian Loan 10,% 108%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Se:ies. lO2
Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 9754 97U
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840)
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pc r Cent 511% 51
Ditto 5 per Cent...„-........... .
Polish Bondsl4ll ...-
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 75 7.534
MA %region Loan, 1834, 4 per Cont.... 11:7.3{ 1024
Spanish. New 5 per Cents. 153 38
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MAY 21.-13 B.—Two months, 13 6%.
PRTYKSBUROH, MAY IL—Two months, 33% pence.
STOCKHOLM, MAY 11.—Seyenty-five days, 11. 47,
VIENNA, MAY 13.—Three months. 9. 453(.
BERLIN, MAY 18. —Th ree months, 6, 19
HAMBURG MARKETS.
GRAIN.
Whom, Marts 288 to 330 Barley, Mecklenbargh 152 to 156
------ Magdeburg 2BB to 3;.13 -- Magdeburgh... 150 to 159
Anlialt, white 288 to sal ----- Holstein 132 to 116
-- red ... 2/5 to 3`+o -- Summer ll4 to 132
-- Brunswick 2S3 to 230 Oats, Eider B4 to 104
Mecklenburg.. 858 to 333 -- Mecklenburg
Polish 3OO to 336 Holstein 135 to 147
--- Holstein . 243 to 3001-- East Friesland lO2 to 111
Rye, Mecklenburg .... 195 to 213 Pease, Mecklenburg ~ '204 to 228
Dantzic
-- Elbing and Ko.. Buck Wheat ins to 191
Miashurg lBO to 219 Rapeseed, Hanover ... 5t.5 to 616
- upland
- Miga,

Thirty.seven

COTTON.
Carolina and Tennessee 7%t0 9% Maranham B4 toe%
Georgia. Ist suit 0 734 Marius 5% 5%
2d 7 7% Surr.ts
ticl and 4th ... 6 ( Do w..ngo .....
COFFEE.
Mocha 13 to 1334 Domingo 4% to 53
Batavia 5% 5% La Guayra. 4% 7,
Sumatra Porto Rico 6% 714
Rio 4 5% llavannah 4% "..%
Bahia 4 5%

SUGAR.—(With 8% Discount.)
Havannah, White 3to 4 Bahia, White „. 2% to 2%
Brown 2 2% Brown 05fi 2%
' Hi° White 2% 4 Pernambuco, White ...2% 2%
Brown
Manilla, Brow

ii, 2y6 to 2%

ASSASSINATION IN IRELAND.
(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
Extract of a letter from a Correspondent :
Poor Mr. Hall was shot dead yesterday—he was au
excellent and worthy man. One of his principal tenants,
' who lives close to this, was persisting in burning s ome
' land against his wish, and yesterday the poor fellow drove
' over on his car to remonstrate against this proceeding.
He had just got off his car, and the servant had not taken
the horse from under it, when he heard a shot fired, and.
on looking into the field into which his master had gone,
he saw him lying dead. No person was to be sewn, and.
all the workmen had moved away, although L was to o
soon for dinner hour. The horrible transacti,on occurred
about eleven o'clock. He was shot with a pistol, and the
,miscreant must have been standing beside—perhaps
speaking to him, as his white hat and write hair were
both burned. The ball entered immed;_ately under the
left ear, and passed through the spin_al marrow, so that
death must have been instantaneous The ball lodged in
the velvet collar of his coat, afte:: having passed through
the neck.
There can be no reaP:on assigned for this mysterious
and horrifying atrocity, but that Mr. Hall presumed to
exercise the rigptP, of a landlord. He was, in politics, a
Liberal—in, plavate life, a gentleman, benevolent and
universally oeloved.
Now, " property has its rights as well as its duties ;"
and we fearlessly tell the Government from which that
fatal maxim (fatal to the Irish country gentleman) ema-
nated, that amongst those rights the most sacred is thrJ
right of protection ; which right, unless the Government
be willing to extend, it forfeits its right to the obedience
of the subject.
Something must be done. The blood'. of the innocent
is calling out for retribution against the misrulers of the
land.
An inquest was held on the remains of Mr. Hall, who
was murdered on Wednesday last at a place called
Uskane, near Borrisokane, before Mr. Carroll, tire
Coroner, who was assisted in the inquiry by Captain
Duff, the resident Magistrate, and Mr. Bracke,-a, the
Police Inspector of the district.
The first witness examined was John Connell, who
was coachman to Mr. Hall. lie deposed thrAt he drove
morning,his master on that at ten o'clock,",rom his resi-
dence at Merton Hall to Uskane, which they reached
about eleven. When they alighted at gate Mr. Hall
desired him to alight from the car,
awl put up the horse
in the stable. Mr. Hall then turn, from the avenue
gate towards where there was son/ e ,6 beating " burning
Witness
" means sods of grass, burning for manure.]itness waited with the car for. some minutes, thinking
that some one would come and open the gate, and when
he found no one, coming, he --proceeded to unyoke the
horse, and while so employed, he heard a shot in the
direction in which Mr. Hall. 'had gone. Witness pro-
ceeded :—lt was about 20P, •yards from where I was to
where he was shot ;
lorked in the direction in which I
heard the report, but sr.
wno person. I saw some smoke,
but I cannot say whop
pistol. I did not.' her it was the report of a gun or
6ink the shot was fired at any one. I
waited till I I.r4d settled the traces, and then went in the
direction ir. which I heard the report, where I found my
master *quite lifeless.
whr
To a Juror—There was a man ploughing in the field
we came first to the place, but after the shot was
..red there was no one with the plough. There were
several men at work in an adjoining field who must have
heard the shot, yet they did not stir. I found the de-
ceased lying on his right side with his face towards the
ditch, and quite dead. I found a wound under his left
ear, and having opened his cravat, I found the bullet at
the other side of his neck. I then returned to the house
and told a woman whom I met that Mr. Hall had been
lot. I think the woman is a servant to Mr. Kent, the
•tenant of the house. I then returned towards the de-
ceased, and ran along the ditch in hopes of seeing some
one to assist me, but I could not. There were two men
and two girls at work in an adjoining field about 200
yu .rds from where Mr. Hall was shot. I told Fitz-
gerald, one of the men, that my master was shot, to
, which he replied, " Oh, murder !" They then came
with me to where he lay.
To a Juror.—They must have heard the shot, but
they did not stir until I went for them. In about an
hour after Mr. Hall was shot he was brouglit into the
house, previous to which 15 or 20 persons 'mid collected
about the place.
The Coroner was of opinion that enough of evidence
had been given to warrant the Jury in re turning a ver-
dict of wilful murder ; and it might net be advisable
towards the furtherance of justice to exan sine others.
Captain Duff, and several gentleman present, coincided
in opinion with the Coroner.
Dr. Hobbs deposed that he examined the body of the
deceased, and found a wound under the left ear, which
he believed to have been inflicted by a bullet fired from
a pistol, which produced immediate death.
Dr. Finucane gave similar testimony.
Verdict—Wilful murder against somepersm unknown.
The Nenagh Guardian of this mornin4 says :—We
have learned that the ploughman, who wa.. at work in
the field, and alluded- to by Connell ilk his evidence;

EVENING EDITION.

has been arrested ; but it has been ascertained that 113
was not with the horses when Connell came to the spa:
nor did he return for an hour afterwards. The deceased
gentleman's pockets were turned inside out, and his
watch and pocket-book taken away.
Mr. Hall was about fifty-six years of age, and Wag
married to the sister of Edward Litton, Esq., the Mein;
ber for Coleraine, and he was principal in the firm °I
Hall and M'lntyre, merchants, in this city,