The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-24 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, APRIL 21 —The Fr andismontair of the 19th
of April has the following passage :—The police officers
have been engaged all tke morning in pulling down inflam-
matory placards in different parts of the town. Some
were posted on the columns of the Theatre ; some persons
hal time to take copies. This placard is not inflamma-
tory, but sanguinary—it is directed against the adherents
of M. Van Bommell. The subjects of this appeal, which
is addressed to the working classes, are the mi,appiication
of funds, which are interved for encouragi:ig industry, to
the purpose of te-introducing the abuses of mortmaur, ef
refunding councils, of spreading the pestilence of monks
and jcsuits,

A- copy was thrown during the night into the editor's box.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 31. Lille charge in the
Ministry has caused a great sensation in this city, and is
almost exclusively the object of general attention. We
have only to add to what has already been stated, ti at
Arif Bey, uncle of Rifaat Pacha, the new Minister fur
Foreig❑ Affairs, is appointed t,.) succeed him as Musteschar
to the Grand Vizier.

The latest accounts from Beyrout, which come down to
the 18th of this month, mention the arrival at that port on
the )2th of Emir Haider, and of several officers, ErnirF,
and Sheiks of the Druses and Mann. Les, brought from
Alexandria on board an Egyptian corvet'e, and accom-
panied by Major Napier, an adopted son of the Commo-
dore. Thousands of the moun.ainecrs, with several of
their Chiefs, came to the shore to welcome them, and ex-
pressed their joy by acclamations and firing their muskets.
The Turkish army, which I ad been increased to 30,000
men, was divided between G,z3, Jerusalem, Ramie, St.
Jean d'Acre, Saide, and Damascus. The Sera-kier J.-
kcria Pacha, Gcn( ral J,,chniug, the Hsrek Reschid
and the Mirilicras (i. e. Br:galier- General) Egcita Omer
and Abdi Pacha, are all at B yrout.

SABBATH FLOGGING.
" GENERAL ORDER.

" House Guards, 2tld April, IE4I.
" The attention of the General Commanding-in-Chief has
been called to the punishment of a soldier of the 11,h Hus-
sars, in the Riding House, at Hounslow, on Sunday, the 11th
of April.
It is well known that it is not the practice of this country
to carry the penal sentences of the law into execution on the
Lord's Day; neither is it the practice of the army, whether
emptoyed abroad or at home.
The G,rieral Commanding-in-Chief is, therefore, sur-
prised that an officer, in the sit nation of Lieutenant-Colonel
commanding a regiment; should have carried such a sentence
into execution on sued y.
" I he General Commanding in-Chief desires that it tray be
c'early understood that the :eatences of Military Courts arc
not to be carried into execution on the Lord's Day, excepting
in cases of evident necessity, the nature of which it cannot be
requisite for him to define.

"By comm:lnd of the Right Hen. the General
Commanding-io-Chief,
( Signed) "JOHN MA CD ON AL D, Adjutant- General."

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Frit:ea Albert honoure-I the Exhibi-
tion of the Society cf Painters in Water Colout-a, v•i!ti a
visit yesterday afternoon. Her Maje,ty and his Royal
Highness, attended by the Duc'aess of Bedford, Lady C.
Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl cf Uxbridge, Lord
Lilford, Mr. Rich, Lord Alfred Pagtt, and Colonel
Bouverie, arrived at the Gallery of the Society, in Pall-
mall East, soot] after three o'clock, and were conducted
through the Exicii.iAon.

His Royal H,gbi.ess the Duke of Cambri Igo vi,ited the
Queen yesterday.
Viscount Melbourne had tin audience of !rm. Majesty,
3e:terday.

The Royal dinner pa-ay at Buckingkham Palace, last
evening, include 1 her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Keat, Lady Anne Maria Dawson, the Duchess of Bed-
ford, Lady C. Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Baroness
Lchzen, the Earl and Countess of ErroP, Lady Da
lily, Lord George Lennox, Sir George Anson, Hon.
Henrietta Anson, Sir Edward Bowater, Lord Lilford,
1-1,11. C. A. Murray, Mr. Rich, Lord Alfred Paget,
Colonel Bouvetie and Dr. Prue onus.
The Band of the 21 Regiment of Life Guards was in
attendance w the Palace during dinner.
His Royal Highness the Duke cf Cambridge honoured
the 'lmager Lady De Clifford with his company at dinner
last evening, at her residence in Carlton-terrace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took a car-
rrir.ge drive yesterday.

Deputation frorii the Council of the borough of Man-
ch,stor, to oppose the introductijn into the Criminal Jui-
iLie Bill of the claine; proposed by Mr. Wilson P,,i!, ,
eomi,ting of the Mayor of Manchester, Sir Thomas Putter,
Alderman, Mr. Ainsworth, Boreughrt eve of Manchesw,
Aldermen Brooks, Shuttleworth, Spencer, Kay, and K-
shaw, Messrs. Sattertbwaite, John Edward Taylor, P. F.
Wiilcrt, and the Town Clerk of Manchester, had an in-
terview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-
office.

His Excellency Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister,
bad an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday at
his official residence in Downing-street
The Earl of Zetland had an interview with the Marquis
of Normanby yesterday at the Horne-office.
Mr. Smi'.ti O'Brien, M.P., accompanied by a deputa-
tion from the Cape of Good Hope Trade Society, con-
sisting of Messrs. Abraham Wirradaile, Chairman ;
S. B. Venning, Henry Maynard, J. R. Thomson, Wil-
liam Dickson, Thomas Tennant, Edward Philipps, S.
Bannister, and James Sutherland, Secretary, had an in-
terview with Lord Sohn Russell yesterday at the Colonial-
otEee, in order to support a memorial presented to his
Lordship on the subj?et of ernigrat on of labourers from
Great Britain to the Cape of Good Hope.
The Chairman of the Customs had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer or, Thursday, at his offi-
cial residence in Downing-street
Mr. Greg, M. P., Mr. Mark Philip., M. P., Mr. Bro-
theiton, the %layor of Manchester, Mr. Ainsworth,
Boroughreeve of Manchester, Aldermen Sir T. Potter,
Brooks, Kay, Shutiewortli, Kershaw, and Spencer ;
Messrs. T. Hopkins, Saiterttiwaite, J. E. Ta}lor, P. F.
Willert, and the Town Clerk of Manchester, had an in-
terview with the Marquis of Norrnanby yesterday, at the
Home-office, on the subject of the introduction int.) the
Criminal Justice Bill of the clauses proposed by Mr. Wil-
son Patten.

Viscount Melville and Mr. 1-11WCS, M.P., had it;terviews
with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

TO THE COUNCILLORS OF THE
NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION OF
TROWBRIDGE,
GENTLEMKN,—As a portion of your Address, which ap-
peared in The Sun of yesterday, is directed immediately
to myself, I deem it necessary to offer you a brief explana.
lion why I am not a member of your Association, and why
the National Association fur Promoting the Political and
Social Improvement of the People is formed.
In the first place the plan of the National Asscciation was
written during the first few months of our incarceration in
Warwick Gaol, long before your Association was formed,
arid would have been published had we been allow el free
communication with our friends.
On our liberation from prison our plan was published in
the pamphlet entitled " Churtiam," and at different public
ins ezings Mr. Collins arid myself avowed our intention of
end( avoaring to form ae Association upon that plan as soon
as our health and crcurnstancts pernitted.
Diff.Tent plans and projects were promulgated at that.
period, for carrying forward the cause of Cnartism, one
was for establishing a morning paper, another a national
press, others for exclusive dealing, others for joint-stock
stores, and others bad projected and taken some steps tc-
wards forming the Natbnal Charter Association to which
you belong.
Our plan for obtaining the People's Charter by peaceful
and moral means, by tae erecting of halls, the establishing
of schools, the formation of libraries, and by every means
seeking to raise the intellectual and moral character of
our brethren ; white approved of by the press in general,
as well as by the thisiking and reflecting portion of
Chartists, instead of being made a legitimate subject fur
discussion, was only made the subject of contempt and ridi-
cule by the people's organ, the .Northern Star, the
editor of which designated National Education as a " Na-
tional Jackass," and without condescending to review or
rebut the arguments we had adduced, hiritsd that our plan
was altogether worthless, as The Sun, the Chronicle, and
other pot Cons of the press bad spoken favourably of it.
On my return from Cornwall I received a letter in-
viting me to join your Association, which I refused to do
on the grounds of illegality, at the sane time referring
them to Acts of Parliament by which they were shown
that all who belonged to them were subject to transporta-
tion ; a risk I did nut choose to run. About the same time
Mr. Collins called the attention of the Editor of the Star
to the subject of the illegality of the Charter Association,
and the necessity of cautioning the working-classes on
the subject. The persons engaged on that Paper subse-
quently wrote to Mr. Place of London to ascertain the
state of the law on the subject, which that gentleman
readily furnished them with, but several weeks were suf-
fered to elapse before any notice was taken or warning
given, when Mr. Place's article appeared without the
least acknowledgment of the author.
An alteration was subsequently made in the plan of your
Association, to make it more conformable to law. How
far that has been effected I shall not hazard an opinion ;
suffice it to say i have not seen sufficient inducements in
your objects, nor thit line of conduct pursued by those
who rule its destinies to warrant me in joining them.
Lielievitig that the principles of Chartism are purely
deatiocratical, calculated to benefit ail classes, and not the
working-classes exclusively, I csnnoi. agree with the gene-
ral denunciations against alt kiaus of union with the
middle-classes, nor do I approve of the abuse, calumny,
and despotic conduct which have recently been put forth
against all those who think a union of all classes desirable.
It has bt en stated by the editor of the Star, (doubtless
with the v ew of exciting the prejudice of the working
classes,) that the plan of our Association was concocted by
Messrs. Hume, Roebuck, and O'Connell, when he knows
to the contrary, that it is word for word such as ap-
peared in our pamphlet, which was written under circum-
stances of depriaaoons and sufferings in the cause of the
peopls. But even if it etas the production of the greatest
enemy of the people, its origin is of little moment, tile
great question for consideration is, would it benefit the
people politically and socially if the people themselves re-
steved to carry it into practice ?
Our plan has been said to be put forth "as a secret
move. ' In answer to which, I embrace this oppor unity
of stating that srn.ilar means were taken to ascertain the
opinion or all the known and active Chartists of the king.
dorn respecting it, as were taken to obtain the signaturva
to the Irish Address which was put forth previous to the
meeting of the Convention. C oapaidescoht
Charter
er wereA Associations
at n
t oaisl
the Radical, Working bleu';, .
yourt rA s cpeL s
,imo
throughout the kingdem—the addresses of which we
could obtain—as also to the Members of the late Conven_
tion, embracing the originators f
;or
eo Association.
that not only was the widest publicity given to it, but ample
opportunities effort c for la)ing it te
v clisr t;o,y of 1,1,2C,.ru
y:7„, „ av, ' • 7ne
plan
of the iNdt,0,4,1 Association are desirous of a UlllOll

MORNING EDIT' C'S:.

•
embracing persons of all creeds, classes, ;rid cp 1111.61E'
are desirous of promoting the polit:cal so( i I inIT
rc
ment of the people ; and if the Membere or t %01fiecito
your itseciwion approve of our objtcts, and the ircea,to
hale put forth for the attainment at the Peqole'i etrl
we shall be glad to enrol them as gembers; as a' to 376,i
Peel, Lord J. Russell, or the Duke of We;litigt'
choose to join us. At all event, ae chum the s tar4.llol
'
01
to put forth our views, and to form a unOn upon our':Tid
as you have on yours, the Scotch on the:rs. I:ny tY.
body of Reformers ; cud I,ti le can be said (‘f the •ievo:o
tic feelings, the int,llect or moral principle ri th?'6.ast-
denounce as thieves, traitors, and liars" wh d'irjc"—
them in opinion or mode of cc ion.
I remlin, your obedient servant,
183, Tottenham-court-road. W. LO Vgll7'.

A DDRI SS7C6IIIIEPIitSIDEIV:e0'
THE UNITED STATES.
(From the Anti-slavery Reporter.) , ant.
The Committee of the British and Foreil reeete
slavery Society have requested Mr. Sturge to p iesee.lll.6
• the President of the United States an address, eiw,P,le,
the following is a copy :
Sir,—As the head of a great confederacy of $11:
jointly valuing their free constitution and 05',.
• organization, and tenacious of their rlghte andel%
character, the Committee of the British and Fihir,C?e,,
Aetislavery Society, through their esteemed toastln;
and representative, Joseph Sturge, would rest eessli
approach you in behalf of millions of their fell Oti
held in bondage in the United States. Those elirie
are not only denied the political immunities enj ies;.(B
the citizens of your great republic generally, p
equal privileges and the impartial protection of 111° s
law, but are deprived of their personal rights : irtPr„
they cease to be regarded and treated, under yoi ,?Wipe
wise noble institutions, as men, except in the con itlPtes
of crime, when the utmost rigour of your penal
is invoked and enforced against them ; and are le4l', fe
to the degraded condition of " chattels porscoit'
"the hands of ti.e;r owners and possessors, to est 7
tents, construction-, and purpose:, whatsoever." a
This is the language and the law of slavery ete
upon this law, guarded with jealousy by their pel;''',o,
institutions, the slave-holders of the South relst:
claims to prorrty in men. But, Sir, there aria 414
anterior to all human laws, and superit r to all, to
ins utions, which are immutable in their eiat
cltirus which are the birthright of ever v husnao 41.:1
of r. v -ry clime and of ecry cclour—c!aitos twifialLY'at
has conferred, and worth man cannot elettroY
8;lef ilege, or infringe without sin. Persensi libe rsidos
among these the greatest and the best, for it is thrill -01
of all other rights, the conservative principle otsVetefiel
associetioes, :he spring of puldie virtues, and rvsOrF,
ees
to national stren,th and greatness. le If
The monstrous and tricked assumption of utile- e
man over his fellow-men, which slavery implies, 'tee-0
abhorrent to the moral sense of manxind, to 4Ye-14
mutable principles of justic to the righteous n.-1,
God, and to the benevolent principles of the
It is, therefore, indignantly repudiated by the ,41°
mental laws of all truly col ghtened and civilised co lelist
pities ; and by none more emphatically than bY
over which, Sir, it is your honour to preside. •heet
The great doctrine that " God bath created all Le,
equal, and endowed teem with certain inalienable lit Toig
and that amongst these are life, libe:ty, and the per she,
of happiness," is affirmed in your Declaration of
pendence, and- justified in the theory of your con
tutional laws. But there is a stain upon your el° "el
Slavery, in its most abject and revolting form, P°llU
your sod ; the wailings of slaves mingle with Yci.a
songs of liberty, and the clank of their chains is he'
in horrid discord with the chorus of your triumphs. r
The records of your States are not less dist,
guished by their wise provisions for securing tte order
and maintaining the institutions of your country, th
by their ingenious devices for riveting the ,chains 03
perpetuating the degradation of your coloured bretbr,6l3.
0.
Their education is branded as a crime against the Sta:b;
their freedom is dreaded as a blasting pestilence ;10
bare suggestion of their emancipation is proscribed
treason to the cause of American independence. e,
These things are uttered in sorrow : for the 07.
mittee deeply deplore the flagrant inconsistency 50 Pe";
ringly displayed between the lofty principles enibodi
in the great charter of your liberties, and the evil prs_c*
tices which have been permitted to grow up under it,
mar its beauty and impair its strength.
But it is not on these grounds alone, or ehieflY, that
they deplore the existence of slavery in the Veit"!
States. Manifold as are the evils which flow from'c'
dehumanizing as are its tendencies, fearful as itsi,ls
action confessedly is on its supporters, the reproae,e.,
its existence does not terminate in the institutme
which gave it birth. The • sublime principles and bre
nign spirit of Christianity are dishonoured by it.
1' the light of Divine truth it stands revealed in all it°
hideous deformity, a crime against God, a daring nr;
pation of the prerogative and authority of the Alc"t,
High. It is a violation of his righteous laws, au nu
rage on his glorious attributes, a renunciation of t,b
claims of his blessed Gospel, that they especially de-
plore the continuance and support it receives ameli
you ; and, in the spirit of Christian love and .fratern
solicitude, they would counsel its immediate' and call"
plete overthrow, as a solemn. and irriperative duty, the
performance of which no sordid reasons should he per•
mitted to retard, and no political considerations to -pre'
vet t. Slavery is a sin against God, and ought, dicer'
fore, to be abolished.
The utter extinction of slavery, and its sister Ai;
nation, the internal-slave-trade—secand only in herico
and extent in the United States to the African, twee
some of its features even more revolting---can
argued by the philanthropists of this country only
the abstract principles of moral and religious duty; an,
to those principles the people of your great lepubli6 Irof
pledged on the side of freedom beyond every nets°
the world.
The negro, by nature our equal, made like oueselV
in the image of his Creator, gifted with the same inte'ele
gence, impeilsd by the same passions, and rodeo:Dew;
the same Saviour, is reduced by cupidity and 0111'1e"..
sion below the leel of the brute ; spoiled of. his bn',s
nity, plundered of his rights, and often hurried °I -a
premature grave, the miserable victim of avarice Os
heedless tyranny! Men have presumptuously tillr:h.
to wrest from their fellows the most precious of toed
rights, to intercept, as far as they may, the bounty 4el
grace of the Almighty—to close the door to their InSeai
lectual progress—to shut every avenue to their In9r
and religious improvement—to stand between them issi
their Maker ! It is against this crime the committee
protest, as men and as Christians ; and they esrnestiiii
and respectfully call upon you, Sir, to use the big
powers with which you are invested to bring it I°-
&
peaceful and speedy close.
May you, in closing your public career, and in t,bie,
latest hours of your existence on earth, be consoled ts'se
the reflsetion that you have not despised the afflielign!„
of the afflicted ; but that, faithful to the trusts of vote
high stewardship, yon have been " just, ruling ititemee
leer of God"—that you have executed judgment for
oppressed, and have aided in the deliverance of Petit
country from its greatest crime and its chief reproans"
Signed on behalf of the Committee,
London, March 8,1841. THOMAS CLARKSON'

CHURCH-RATES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ,
SlR—We have statute law authorising the Po°. g
rate being made on a pound-rate, and the same ford,
highway rate ; but there is no law compflling a Punha
rate for the repairs of the Church. Now, Sir, ti,-
Church party have taken such cruel and unwarrantaul
measures in enforcing the paynaent•of Church-rates, „
think any legal mode by which the Church party 033/
be forced to join in the cry for the abolition of such ob-
noxious charge perfectly fair. I contend that when°
veitry is determined on the amount of what the rate
shall be in the pound (gay, for instance, 6d.) that tll6
vestry has only determined on the expediency of teslo4
such a rate, that such resolution will not justify the
churchwardens in making the assessment on which, t"'
found a rate ; that the parishioners have themselves the
right to make the rate itself. I propose, then, that the
vestry resolves, " That a rate be now made," upon which
some party should produce a list of the inhabitant bousr
holders, beginning (say with A. B.) if be be a Church.
man le; him be rated at one pound--let no refereoet
be made to the aloe of property occupied ; then pro-
ceed to C. D., (a Dissenter) let him be rated at one
Fenny, and so o‘i throughout the list ; let it be the°
signed by the majority of the inhabitants present,
:and
handed to the Chairman ; let all the Dissenters pay the
rate when called upon, leaving an' appeal to the Eccie'
siastical Court to that Court's supporters, and if fb.
rate be quashed and another
vestry called, as Ilia
doctors say, "repeat the dose. W Sir,
would
yours,be -„
as &-
e well, &c.
April 21,
._.Perhaps
Be4r
h s it 1
OR
poll upon
Churchwardens' propositions, and 'lc'
according to circumstances (at a future vestry if Igh"e"
firstG
t o Dd
elrat T
the at,
teated) to all those who should vote for the Chure
wardens propositions. • Some pat ties will say this is
hl
; never mind, the war will we
double. edged weapon
the sooner over.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN- rts
Si it—This morning, Frida at eleven o'clock, the rgo":
remains of the la :e Fredericky, Reynolds were removed f,OO
ter,
his late residence, Warren-street, Fitzroy-square, for ildest
ment in a vault of the Cemetery, Keosall-green; his e e,
son, Frede,ick Mansell Reynolds, was the only 11.1°ln
4.
which in my opinion showed a very indifferent fee
To think such a talented man, who has wrote seventeenoirec,
cessful Comedies, bes.des many p.eees I cannot give Icc last
lion to, should have but one mourner to fu low him to his ired
hone I Surely there are some authors alive who have fin' his
his writings, at.d I am sure ought to feel much ashamed at
cold feeling. Your's respectfully,
LEN°ES. April 22.

NEW BARRISTERS.—The following gentler Abe
were admitted BarriAL!rs nf the Middle Teml,lo on tP,
17th inst. :—Ge,.irgo James Williamscn Nicholas Gust,
tavus Bestell, Henry Andrews Simor, 'Jostph Williad.
Wyld, William Charles Belt, and William Copland gc
mend A
Peer Judd. al
of France enrols himself by
title the franchise • .v"
,
t•, “4,5t"r at 6PtLii ,as
Rovigo, Due, Pery sti pet, Limerick, freeman of Said Or