The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, .I.ANUAgN 18, 1841

raised the blockade, and signed a treaty of peace.
This treaty was much more favourable to the Re-
public than was anticipated, and consequently dif
fused general joy among the Buenos Ayreans. As
soon as it.vvas known at Monte Video that the
blockade was raised, a great number of British
vessels proceeded up the Rio Plata in con-
fident expectation of finding a profitable
market for their various freights. The pa-
tience of the mercantile world has certainly
been severely tested by the tardiness of the French
blockades of two of the principal emporiums of
commerce in South America. Had the blockading
squadron been manned with Dutchmen, commanded
by a Chinese Mandarin, it could not have displayed
a more edifying amount of patience in the exercise
of a system of observant passive hostility.

'he Paris Journals of Thursday have all been
received. They are principally occupied with M.
TRIERS' Report on the fortification of Paris, a
complete summary of which will be found in
another part of The Sun. The Journal des De-
bats praises the Report as able and impartial. The
Debats is the organ of the Court, and not of the
Government, and on this occasion expresses not
the sentiments of the Ministers, who want no forti-
fications, but of the KING, who does. The Siecle,
which advocates the views of M. ()DILLON BAR-
ROT, insists that pledges should be exacted from
the Government, to erect the works in a given time.
The Presse, the organ of Ministers, says the Ca-
binet has triumphed in obtaining a complet
control, not over the erection of the works, but in
the means and manner of their erection, and of
the time most expedient for such a purpose. It
likewise remarks, justly and sensibly, that military
science is no longer what it was in the days of
VAUBAN, and that it was soothing to the vanity
of NAPOLEON, when an ex►le in St. Helena, to
suppose that, had Paris been fortified, he would
then be on the throne of France. The Commerce
which, from the outset, steadily, unflinchingly, and
patriotically opposed the fortification of the capital,
knowing the real design to be the repression of
any liberal movement on the part of the Parisians,
describes the report in the following terms :

Knowing the paradoxical nature of M. Thiers, and
his undeniable facility in disguising the reality of facts
by the seduction of eloquence, we did expect, in a work
which has occupied so much time, and which must
have so decided an influence upon the present and
future reputation of M. Thiers, some new ideas of im-
portance, and, at the least, a display of political energy.
We are disappointed. Nothing more poor in sophistry,
more trivial in mind, more empty and declamatory, can
be conceived than this work, which gives us a true esti-
mate of the capacity of the ex-Minister.

The Quotidienne a Royalist paper, says of the
Report that it was received by the Deputies coldly,
and with a silence which appeared to be condemna-
tory of it even by his friends. M. THIERS' repu-
diation of circumstances arising when the Govern-
ment might turn the guns of the forts upon Paris
absolutely frightened the extreme left. We pie-
sume a glimpse of the real object of the works for
the first time burst upon their minds.
The following remarks on the armaments in
France are from the private correspondence of a
Contemporaiy. We trust for the sake of France
and of Europe, they are 'well founded :

I have every reason to believe that M. Guizot has
just made to the representatives of the greatrowers the
subjoined calculations, which are certainly of a nature to
remove much uneasiness as to the belligerent attitude
of France.

The effective of the army, as carried up by the war-
like ex-Thiers Ministry, amounted to 480,000 men, by
resorting to the reserves anterior to 1840. Now, those
480,000 men have been reduced up to the 3lst of Dec.
last to 430,000 men, by the disbanding of the class
of 1833, in conformity with the recruiting law. By the
half-yearly tlisbandings, under the operation of the same
law, up to March 1, the effective will be still further de-
creased to the extent of 143,000 men, and at that period
no more than 290,000 men will comprise the French army
But if you take from this latter amount 70,000 men
absorbed by the war in French Africa, the garrisons
composing Corsica and the French colonies, only
220,000 men will, in point of fact, be found to con-
stitute the military force of France. From this amount
you must also deduct at least 6,000 veterans and 13,000
gendarmes performing civil and criminal functions, so
that the real army of the country amounts after all to
but 200,00) men ; the army's ordinary force, it must
be remarked, in a time of profound peace. Indeed,
the statistics may be justly and legally estimated at a
lower rate, for there is always at least a fifth to be deducted
for the actual difference subsisting between the paper re-
turns and the positive e/cctive. It the tables are pro-
perly dissected, and the balance fairly struck, an army
of 160,000 men is nearer the mark when the Ist of March
returns will be made up. It is useless to enter into fur-
ther calculations as to the number of men soliciting leaves
of absence or definitive retirements from service. I have
confined this statement to round numbers, which are
susceptible of confirmations by reference to the returns,
It can only be in the year 1843, when the accounts of
1841 are discussed in the Chamber, that the lino of
conduct pursued by the present Ministry can be pro-
perly ascertained, for it has had to meet the excit-
able exigencies of public opinion, with the very natural
suspicions of the great Powers. It is to be hoped that
the incalculable advantages of the prolongation of the
state of peace will then be thoroughly appreciated.
The French people, if they recover from the dreamy
aspirations caused by the fantastic and exaggerated elo-
quence of M. Thiers, may then hereafter have good
cause to rejoice at having escaped from the emotions of
1840, and perhaps some reserve in the treasury by the
operation of the reductions may compensate for the
hollow language of mistaken and misguided nationality.
The Conslitutionnel states it is the intention of
M. GUIZOT to appoint M. CARNE to an Em-
bassy, and that France will henceforth be repre-
sented at the Court of Madrid by a simple Charge
d'Affaires, who will take no part in the political
squabbles of the Regency :
The Piedniontere Gazette says that letters from Con-
stantinople, dated the 22d. state that the Sultan had
decided to grant to the Viceroy only the Government
for his life.

The Moniteur publishes an extract from al report
of Marshal Vallee to the Minister of War. This re-
port is only the development of the telegraphic des-
patch which we published yesterday. The state of Al-
geria, says the Marshal, appears to be satisfactory in
every respect.
In the extract of a report addressed to Marshal Val-
lee by Lieutenant-General Galbois, dated Constantine,
Dee. 30, similar results are announced.
The Pletse says—" We have reason to believe that
the baptism of the Count de Paris is fixed for the Ist of
May next, and that it has been notified to the diplomatic
body."—Le Conslitutiounel.

BO UR S PARIS, THURSDAY, JAN. 14.

1, irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy Price
French 5 per Cents ll2 65 ... 112 70 ... 112 35 ... 112 35
454 per Cents
4 per Cents 99 ... 99 ... 99 ... DO
3 per Cents 77 75 _. 77 75 ... 77 45 ... 77 45
dank of r ranee
Laffitte Bank 1,0001. SO 1057 50 ...1057 50 ...1057 50 ...1657 50
SOCOf. Shares 5132 50 ...5132 50 —.5122 1,0 —.5132 50
lelgian Bank
5 per Cents 90% ... 99% ... 09 ... 1,9
New Loan
Spanish ACLIVe !..4 ... 2154 ... 24% ... 24%
Passive 6 ... 6 ... 6 ... 6
Sloapolitan
Itosian lOO ... 100 ... 14)74 ... DO%

Vittoriano, which you hare touched with your ri4hi
hand, that, in your capacity of Procurador-General of
this city and its jurisdiction, you shall defend, eflicienry
and faithfully, all the rights, privilc.ges, immunities;
and liberties appertaining to this city. Should you
nrllect to do so, may God bring you to an account.
for your conduct, and your head be cut off with the
iron and steel sword el Machete Villor•iano." The oath
was successively taken by each of the municipal
councillors.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—The business
done since our last report is very large, there having been
a very active demand daily, the sales ranging from 6,000
to 10,000 bales per day. Speculators have purchased
very freely, and it is their operations which have been
mainly instrumental in causing prices to advance; which
is this week id. per lb. on American, id. to id. on Surat,
and id. to id. on Brazils ; Egyptian and Sea Islands
have been more looked after, and some parcels of the
latter, we suspect, taken on speculation. The causes
which have induced so large an extent of business are the
improved state of trade and the assumption that the crop
of the United States will be much less than that of 1839.
The latter cause appears to be the most speculative,
although opinion as to the extent of the deficiency is vari-
ous, being from 250,000 to 550,000 bales. S_cculators,
under this influence, have taken 13,000 bales of American,
6,500. bales of Surat, and 600 Bahias ; and exporters
4,000 bales of American. The sales to-day were about
6,000 bags.

LIVERI7OOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 15.—Eastern Counties
81 ; Debentures si-; Edinburgh and Glasgow 291 ; Grand
Junction, Half Shares, 941 ; Quarter Shares 535; Great
Western 94 ; Fifths 10,i- ; Lancaster and Preston Three-
quarter Shares 155 ; Liverpool and Manchester 186 ;
London and Birmingham 321. Shares 58; Brighton
United Company 43k.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 15.
We have little business doing today; Manchester and
Leeds New Shares have been sold at `294; Liverpool and
Manchester, 186 ; Eastern Counties are 9 to 9:lt:Great
Western, 94 to 95 ; South Eastern and Dover, 13 to 14;
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 104 ; Manche►-
ter and Salford Do., 105.
No communication with the Telegraph owing to the fog.

We have received Mauritius papers to Oct. 17, they
are entirely void of interest.

This being pay-day in the British Market for the settlu-
ment of the Account yester day, the brokers and jobber
are chiefly tmployed in receiving and paying their various
balances,

Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of
yesterday, 90i for the Account, and 89:i for Money ; to
the present time there is not a feature in the market worth
observation. Exchequer Bills, 911 prem. ; Bank Stock,
167 168; India Stock, 250 252.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Activcs same as they
left off, 2.1 - ; Deferred, 12.; ; Portuguese, 31 321 ;
Three per Cents., 191 ; Colombian, as they closed,
231 4 ; :Mexican 281 ; Brazilian, 701 711; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 50k i; Five per Cents.,
981 99.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties

Ditto Debentures
Great Western
Ditto Fifths .. 4 .... 10i
London and Brighten
London and Birmingham
South Eastern and Dover 2t
A report prevails that the dividends on the Spanish In-
demnity Bonds will be paid. The said bonds were issued
by the Spanish Government for a convention entered into
with the English Government fur the losses sustained by
the British merchants during the War of Independence in
South America. Dividends have not been paid, in con-
sequence of the impoverished state of the Spanish Treasury,
caused by the late civil war. The above report got. up
Spanish Activa this in)rninz 1 per cont.
Consols have improved since the early part of the morn-
ing, and may be quoted at 904 for the 25th Feb. ;
Money 894 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 9 11 prem. ; Bank
Stock nothing done ; India Stock ditto.
In the Foreign Market some business has been doing,
particularly in Spanish Active, which has fluctuated,
24k I at present ; Deferred 12f ; Portuguese 32k ;
Three per Cents. 201 ; Colombian 23k 4 ; Mex'can 284 ;
Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Cents., 501; Five per Cents
981
In the Share Market scarce any thing doing. They
are lower. Great Western 93 94f ; London and Br'ghton
44 43f 1 1 ; London and Birmingham, 171.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red 9oi Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 90 Ditto Old Annuities
3, per Cent Red........ 98,t Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent .. ... 98i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 11 pm
New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ 9pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l2 pin
Jan. 1860. l3 1-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...
Oct 1859 ... — India Stock for Acct ... -
Jan. 1860 ... l2-,3 Consols for Opg 9OA
FOREIGN FUNDS.
A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — • Ditto, New Dittty....
13razilian Bonds ... ..
BuenosAyres, 6 per cent I9i Russian, 5 per cent. ...
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent ... Spanish, 5 per cent 24,
Ditto, Deferred ... 12, Ditto, 1824
Danish, 3 per cent — French,s per cent... —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 percent — Exchange —f. —c,
Mexican, 5 per cent.... tltq Freneh,3 per cent —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent 50,:
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 93,
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ...... ..
Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid)
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 94i
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) .... .. ... 6-q
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid)... ... 10
London and Brighton Railway (50 paid) ... 44
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 172
London and Greenwich Railway (20 paid)
Ditto Scrip. ( 2 paid).., 4l
London and South Western Railway
South Eastern and Dover (28 paid )... ~ „ 1:.3i

3I

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 14.—Our readers will. recol-
lect that in the month of April last, a band of for-
gers, whose head-quarters were at London, spread
themselves all over Europe, travelling in post-
chaises, lodging at the first hotels, I,:ith servants in
rich liveries, &c., and who, by forged letters of
credit from the house of Glynn, Halifax, Mills,
and Co., succeeded in obtaining enormous sums
from many banks in almost all the great cities of
the Continent ; among the rest in Belgium from the
houses of Nagelmaekers, and Cerfonlaine, at Liege,
and Engler, at Brussels. This band, which the
police of Paris described as European forgers, in-
cluded persons whom nobody would have expected
to find in it, such as the Marquis de Bourbel and
Baron d'Argusson, belonging to ancient noble
families in France, Messrs. Graham, father and
son, arid Mr. Boyle, two rich bankers at Florence.
By a decision of the Court of Appeal at Brus-
sels, dated the 13th January, Messrs. Perry Gra-
ham, jun., and Baron d'Argusson, are to be tried
before the Court of Assize of Brabant for having
made use of forged letters of credit at Liege and
Brussels, and attempting to do the same at Ant-
werp and Ghent, whei.e their schemes were de-
feated. A female, Angelina Lamont, who was in
company with these persons, is also to be tried as
an accomplice, but only on the ground of having
knowingly received part of the funds obtained by
means of these forgeries. The other persons, such
as Bourbel, Graham, sen., &c., not having committed
any act of the kind in Belgium, could not be pro-
secuted.

We shall acquaint our readers of the progress of
this affair, which promises to be extremely curious,
on account of the rank in life of the accused, their
plans, their manoeuvres, and their ramifications.
M. Van de Weyer and his lady have arrived at
Brussels from London.

A letter from Maestricht, of the 9th of January, to
the Journal of Belgian Limburg, says, " I have to tell
you that the line of demarcation is irrevocably fixed as
to Canne. The Belgian Cimmissioners have ceded to
Holland the two heights which it was so important to
retain for the safety of their country. The bad weather
alone prevents the continuation of the works of making
out the line."
BRUSSELS, JAN. 15.—What we foresaw when the
thaw set in so suddenly, has unfortunately taken place.
The Senne, much swollen by the melting of the snow
and by the rain, which has fallen without interruption
for several days, has again overflowed its banks, and
covered an immense extent of country. Since yester-
day, the environs of Brussels again have the appearance
of lakes. The water is nearly as high as in February
1839, and it continued to rise to day at noon. From
Brussels to Vilvorde is only one vast sheet of water ; the
meadows are covered to the depth of several feet, and
the iron railway is almost wholly under water. The
same is the case from Brussels to Halle.

At Brussels there are few cellars in the lower part of
the city which are not full of water.
The causeway at some distance from Anderlicht
gate is almost under water, and the communication is
interrupted. The damage is incalculable.
The river has still much floating ice. We hear that
the environs of Mahnes and Louvain are also inundated.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JAN. 12
Money. Hills.
actual Dabt, `2!..;, per Cent
.)itto, ditto 5 per coat.
A mot t Syndic,4}i per cent 3h tir
Ditto, ditto, 3!4 per cent._ 70% 7114
Commercial Company, 41.2 per cent 1533(, 594
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per sent. .. 1001,4 100sj
Loan 1t37, 5 per cunt. 95%
Exchange on London, One month l2 0
Two months
Dutch Papers, Jan. 13.
IS ELM Al 4 U NDS—Bnussitui, JAN. 13.
Actual Dckt, 2N, per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant Ufi
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. S9
(1.411) 9634,
3 per Cent.
Thirty•seven---- ...... ft)
Loan of City, 1832, -1 per Cent 9ll
Society at ConunAree, 45.4 per Cent l(4
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent...... ........
National Society.
Exchange on London (short)
--Brussels Papers, Jan. 13.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE

RIVER-TEN LIVES LOST.

On Saturday evening an appalling calamity happened
at Brentford in consequence of the bursting of the lock-
gates, and the consequent rushing out of the waters,
which sunk a number of barges and boats, and caused
the loss of no less than ten lives. It appears that owing
to the late thaw and the heavy rains of Friday night and
Saturday a great accumulation of the land water had
taken place, the town of Brentford was in many places
overflowed, the principal streets under water, and Brent-
ford-common completely inundated, effecting the de-
struction of property to an enormous amount. The
landwaters from the hills caused the Thames to rise se-
veral feet above the usual level, and to fill the canals and
creeks leading to the river. At the entrance of Brent-
ford-lock on Saturday evening a number of craft, boats
and barges, were waiting to go in, when suddenly the
gates of the lock, unable to resist the pressure of the
water, were burst open, and the stream came down in a
torrent and overwhelmed the barges and boats, sinking
some and destroying others. A most fearful scene en-
sued. Nearly every barge had one or more persons on
board, and the " Monkey-boats" (long narrow-barges,
with a small cabin at one end, which navigate the ca-
nals) had a family in each. The cries and shouts of the
men, and the screams of the women and children were
heard amidst the roaring of the waters, which swept
everything before them. The craft were thrown upon
each other by the force of the water, and a great
quantity of timber, which was lying afloat in rafts, set
adrift by the violence of the current. A man and a boy
in making an effort to escape from one of the barges
and get ashore, perished ; and a family of seven chil-
dren, who were in the cabin of one of the monkey-
boats, went down with it, and met a watery grave. A
woman in another barge was also drowned. Many
swain ashore, which they reached in a most exhausted
state, and others were picked up by the persons who
put out in boats to their assistance. After the confusion
created by this sudden and terrible calamity had in
some degree subsided, it was ascertained that two
monkey boats, a barge laden with corn, and another
with coals, were sun, and three other barges empty
had also gone down. Not less than 20 stacks of tim-
ber were set adrift, and were floating about the stream
yesteiday morning, some of which had floated several
miles down the river. The body of the bargeman already
mentioned as drowned wrapped in a sail,was found yester-
day, when the tide receded. Theothors have not yet been
recovered. Great injury has been done to the banks
of the canal by this sudden irruption of the waters,
which exceeded, in violence and impetuosity, anything of
the kind for many years past. It is reported that
other persons are missing ; but we have reason to be-
lieve that we have not under-rated the extent of this
serious accident. The ebb tide was remarkably strong
on Saturday night and yesterday, and the craft going
down the river were carried along with the greatest
velocity, which was caused by the immense quantity of
land-water rushing down, and a good deal of damage
was done. The boats going up the river had the ut-
most difficulty in making headway, and in shooting
the bridges, and were often carried back by the force
of the current. The ice has almost totally disappeared
from the river, and the rain has sunk the vast fields
and icebergs below bridge, which, for a fortnight be-
fore, had caused so great an obstruction to navigation.

THE USHER.—The career of this humble and
unhappy son of learning is thus most feelingly drawn by
Crolly :—" In his turn, our hero himself becomes less
amiable : he is fretted and wearied for ever. Day by day,
and all day long, the same dull din goes on—the same
endless, hopeless toil ; no prospect of good, no respite, no
sympathy, no reward,—
' Pain, pain, ever, for ever I'
Then he is without a friend. For the usher stands
always apart—the master is above him, the scholars
beneath. He is alone tossed and swung about in
the dark and turbid region of his thoughts,—the light
of hope, that once threw a trivial ray upon him,
being now diminished to the smallest point. Once,
be had a poor refuge in his father's house; he was
at least endured there ; it was there he passed his brief
holidays. But his father is now dead, and his house is
the home of a stranger. During the tedious school-hours
he is at the oar; a slave chained to his galley. In the in-
tervals, he cowers over the winter fire, or watches games
which he can partake no longer; or he is sent out, at the
end of a long file of boys, to keep anxious watch over
all, and to check every turn and threat of mischief. His
position is such that be is certain to attract dislike, and
can never hope to excite affection. Should you
enter the school play-ground on some sunny day, you
will perhaps see a man with a small book in his hand,
pacing up and down, under the southern wall. He is
young, but his face is thin and colourless; his cheek
bellow, his lips compressed, his eye hard and watch-
ful. He stops occasionally, and casts a fierce inquisitive
look around ; or he calls out in a harsh voice, or quells a
dispute about marbles, or stops the progress of an incipient
fight. If you wait, you will perhaps see him followed by
a boy on tip-toe, making faces behind his back, " squaring"
as though he would hit him in the spine. If the urchin
be more than usually lively, he chalks softly the poor
man's back ; or puts dust in his pocket; or thrusts a pen
under his collar,' baying a string and tassel annexed,
producing a tail indeed of some pretensions, to the
inexpressible delight of all beholders. On the walls
there is the same man's likeness, scrawled in chalk
or charcoal, exaggerated and ridiculous, but still with suffi-
cient resemblance to enforce your laughter. Do you ask
nho is at once this tyrant and victim? Alas ! it is still—
the Usher 1" Is it not strange that in these matters we
should have to use the melancholy words in which Dryden
addressed the public of his dab. "It will continue to be
the ingratitude of mankind, that they who teach wisdom
by the surest means, shall generally live poor and unre-
garded : as if they were born only for the public, and had
no interest in their own well-being ; but were to be lighted
up like tapers, and wastcth themselves for the benefit of
others."

SEWERS OF WESTMINSTER, AND
pmur OF MIDDLESEX.

A special meeting of the Court of Sewers for the
City and Liberty of Westminster and part of tlie
County of Middlesex, will be held at the Sewers' oiEce
in Greek-street, Soho-square, to-morrow, to sign a pre-
cept to the Sheriff of Middlesex to return a Tra-
verse Jury.

MORNTNG

MINISTER'S MONEY !I

TO THE EDITOR OF THE :.;OUTHERN REPORT"'
Sir—Not having the fear of the Conscience Co
ir
before me, in refusing, 1 think since August last,:
pay Minister's mon, y to the Rev. Mr. Neligan, of
Mary Shandon Parish, subjected me to the power par,
sesscd by the gentlemen of that misnamed cart:
which they exercised in my regard, by issuing a 'fal
rant to incarcerate my person for thirteen days,
did not submit to pay. This I still declined d°3l!l,
but Mrs. Murphy, in order to get rid of the annoynn;
of his man Love, and a bailiff, coming about
micile, sent on the 21st December, and paid the °t
in question, notwithstanding which, I was arreSttla o
next day by a common bailiff for this same money
Feeling naturally indignant at such treatment,
waited on the Reverend Gentleman and represeete,,
to him the conduct of his man Love, who, 3lrt;
forcing from me my money, would not take t"j"
trouble to get the warrant cancelled. He express' 11,,
much regret at the occurrence, which he termed '(
pleasant, and the morning following wrote me a noetu,
way of confirming that regret. I, however, not bel°i,
over satisfied with an empty expression of regret, vit°'l
him a letter, owning receipt of his note, in Wh'ch'cf
stated, candidly and plainly, my views on the subject',
Minister's Money, and as he did not reply to that lettl,
now ten days in his possession, I take for granted 1;
considers its consents to be true. If so, I should
the Rev. Gentleman and his Protestant parishionersOt
adopt the suggestion conveyed to him therein, and rill
lieve Catholics and Dissenters, in his parish, frstn t
impost.

Enclosed you have his note to me, and a cog
mine to him in reply, which, if not out of courso, be
kind as to give a place to in your invaluable paPI
through which, if a call was made to the Githohe
Dissenting parishioners generally of the city, to
and get up petitions to Parliament against this a
impost, it would have the best effect.—l am,
Editor, your ohoilient servant,
Sunday's-well, Jan. 4, 1841.

E. MURPHY'

Sunday's Well, Cork, Dec. 1840;rt
Rev. received your note of yesterday 133°,,,..
ing, in which you say " I regret exceedingly the
cumstance which took place yesterday, and beg 01,11
sure you most solemnly that I was wholly uuconoec.o
with it, and that it was done without either my szacti
or knowledge." The circumstance to which you
was the arrest of my person by one of the Court 01'0
Conscience:Bailiffs, at your suit, for Bs. Ministers' lq,l
and 3s. 3d. costs, incurred in resisting so oppressil,
demand, and that arrest, recollect, after Mrs. Muriji
sent to and paid your man, Love. If, however,lof
" regret and solemn declaration," so expressed in Yo
note, had been accompanied by an assurance that
the future I should not be called upon for the Pf,
ment of what I, as a Roman Catholic, consider t°
unjust in principle and oppressive in exacti°„trir.
could then give you credit for that degree of oho
tiun charity which ought to make you do unto ut",,oi
as you wish others should do unto you. M
:Of
have not done so, I must withhold from you Dl,O,
credit, for I can well imagine your feelings as a 'f
testant Clergyman (who, if report be true, has takeo 4i,
much pains to vilify the religion to which I belolf
being forced to pay towards the support of a dery
man of that religion. Your outcry against such aoPotif
seeding would, I umsure, be loud and long, [Lodi of
so. You must be aware Roman Catholics have a ref,7l
nance to the payment of Minister's Money, and fecleo
hardship, and ought not 3 our Protestant parisb`°d
feel degraded in suffering you to harass their 11%4
Catholic neighbours for any portion of your income, til—ot I
it may be tolerated by an old Act of Parliameut`,ol
rather ought they not at once adopt the principle $l,lO
upon by Protestants in many parts of England, in r;01
Lion to Church-rate, when in VESTRY they refuse to Brio
one, but like honest men make up the amount mu°°,o4
themselves, thereby freeing English Catholics 'et
Dissenters from the rate ? In God's name, then'
your Protestant parishioners together, represell-,ol'
them honestly the difficulty your man Love has i°
hol-
lecting this money from Roman Catholics ; stilt° „"ft
much of your income is forced from the memberist
religion you so much decry, to whom you g!ye 01
value in return, and I cannot for a moment bring 01
mind to believe they are so lost to every seug,ebeio
shame as not to follow the good example thus set
vol
by their English Protestant brethren. By so dOl",:pel
will at once put an end to the heart-burnings
rally engendered by the exaction of this impost. 0,1
will, I dare say, say that you are entitled to it by
but I tell you plainly, that a law which gives Ytye
by your man Love, to whom you told me you 1e.'13001
parish), the power to force from me my money, wit of
a particle of value for it in return, and which 01°,00i
would be more usefully laid out in the purchase. of t1!,4
for my children, is an iniquitous law,
there would be more credit in the breach than they.
servance. In defending this claim before h three A t 1
men, I inquired whether their'. wag A. Court of
or Law ? One of them, I think Alderman 141`t7ii.
and one in nr7,„
said, " strictly a Court of Equity." Then I 05`"0,:21its
consider the equity of the case ; I have got ne
pe
from the Rev. Mr. Neligan, and ask you to put ybe'
hands on your consciences as honest men, and saYb. t
ther I ought not to be exempt from this' claim ; 1100
may as well have appealed to the winds ; they thee!'
equity overboard, and stuck to the law ; they, b,ultist
unanimously gave me the consolation of nuu)-tibet
the hardship of the case. I, however. have Ingot
consolation, namely, that the coining Corporate 'oll
will prevent a similar adjudication against me, an cep
men will be on the bench who can discriminate be•
equity and old oppressive law justice and wrougl',oll
Allow me, in conclusion, to assure you, that L.
-er',
give the further exaction from me of this Nitinis,',l),
Money every resistance in my power (short of PhYlli/ro'
and if every Roman Catholic did the same, your 01
testant parishioners would be shamed into colle.cceil
your income amongst themselves, and I am conv,ll,,P to
you will agree with me in saying, they ought to th"
as they, and they alone, get your spiritual services'
I remain, Rev. Sir,
Your outraged, but obedient servant' Ely,
E. M URr
Rev. Mr. W. C. Neligan, Sunday's Well. , s

Sir—l regret exceedingly the circumstance ;•
took place yesterday, and beg to assure you Wlt VI
lenanly that I was wholly unconnected with it-4111:
e'
it was done without either my sanction or knowle"
I am, Sir, yours very obedient, j 4,
Dcc. 23, 1840. WILLIAM NELIGP.