The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-11 00:00:00

THEE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1840

of what they will then do, for which pro- I obstructed all improvement. They are well aware
nhetie undertakings we refer to our report. I that the Peerage and the Chutch have yet, and
iong had, an overwhAning lAUCFICC on so-
ciety ; and, according to the Times, the bitter re-
sults are as follow :

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ie d,d that an intention existed of
making alterations in the present regulations as to
R ichmc nd Park.

There is one characteristic of the present state of
society in England which is peculiarly alarming, and
peculiarly characteristic of the artificial state—it is
the separation of the d`•fferent classes from one another.
The connexion, such as it is, is all mechanical. There is
a want of that close and intimate union through which
alone can operate and exist the principle and energy of

A new writ was issued for Clonmel, in the room
of Mr. PIGOT, appointed Attorney-General for
Ireland.

The Lords' amendments to the Loan Societies
Bill, and to the Joint Stock Banking Companies
Bill, were considered and disagreed to, a decision
to which their Lordships, after a conference, con-
formed.

life.
The characte:istic feature of society at present is
disunion. The upper classes are separated from the
middle and lower ; the richer from the poorer ; the
customer maintains little or no fellowship or com-
munication with the tradesman, the journeyman me,
chunic with the master worktnao or manufacturer,
the labourer with his employer. Even family ties and
affections are broken up among the labouring classes
themselves. Every one looks abroad, and is proud to
boast himself rather to be a citizen of the world than a
member of a family ; and the only link and bond between
man and man, between beings endowed by nature %.ith
social passions, and feelings, and interests. and affec-
tions, is " cash payment." Attraction outwards, say the
philosophers, is the same as repulsion from the centre,
and tends in equal degree to destroy the prin-
ciple of cohesion. The attraction to public life
and public interests, the devotion to politics which
men are taught is a duty, draws people away
from their families, frum domestic tics and du-
ties, from their private affairs also, and business,
and loosens all the more intimate and finer links wherein
resides vital action. The present prevailing principle,
and greatly growing principle, is—self. It is self in
morals, and self-interest, and util ty. It is self in
political economy ; and the best thing in the world is
said to be our own interest, and every one for himself.
It is self in religion ; and personal experience and holi-
ness are set up as if instead of all our duties to one an-
other. Thus self is rife and operative in all the parts
of the system, and though little societies are formed
here and there and everywhere for the fulfilment of dif-
ferent and opposing selfish purposes, yet the social
principle is extinct as regards the whole community ;
the country has lost its public spirit, its patriotism, its
unity, its identity, and has, as it were, forgotten itself.
To that condition have the selfishness of the
aristocracy, who have trampled on right and justice
to fill their own pockets, and the selfishness of tlie
priesthood, who have prostituted religion to the
same end, brought society. We are pleased to be
able to strengthen our opinion by the authority of the
Times. In another point our Contemporary agrees

The House sat till Seven o'Clock. So ends,
except the formality of a dismission, the Session
of 1840.

The Bishop of LONDON, who is an eloquent
man, pointed out last night, in very forcible lan-
guage, the extreme hardship of making Christian
soldiers in India attend the ceremonies of an idola-
trous worship. He even spoke for the Nlahomedan
and Hindoo soldiers, and pleaded most eloquently
in their behalf the cause of perfect toleration. He
would on no account have the Government exert
its authority to constrain either or any party ; he it.-
sisted that it was the duty of Government merely to
maintain the peace between different sects, and to
force the conscience of no man, whether he be
Christian or idolater.

The observations of the Right Rev. Prelate did
him great honour, and were heard with great plea-
sure. But we want to know why the same prin-
ciples should not be applied to Christians at home ?
If it be, as the Right Rev. Prelate stated, highly
improper to force a Mahomedan or a Christian sol-
dier to attend the ceremonies of the idolatrous Hin-
doos, what makes it otherwise than highly im-
proper to compel JOHN THOROGOOD not
merely to attend ceremonies which he ab-
hors, but to pay for their performance ? If
the warm-hearted religious people of this empire
deem it a sacred duty to petition Parliament to
keep all soldiers away from religious ceremonies in
which they have no faith, surely it must be their
duty not to farce their own countrymen at home
to pay for a religion they disapprove of, or shut
them up in gaol if they act on the principle which
is considered honourable in Mahomedans and Hin-
does ? Such, however, are the contradictions of
human nature that the very same persons who
petition Parliament to remove all constraint from
soldiers in India, and from the Hindoos and Maho-
medans, fiercely contend for the propriety of keep-
ing THOROGOOD in gaol because he will not throw
golden incense on their own altars. By the instru-
mentality of the very Prelate who last night spoke
so eloquently in favour of complete toleration, and
by his Court, is THOROGOOD kept in prison be-
cause he would not pay for the religious ceremonies
of the Church, which he regards, probably, with
as much dislike as any Christian regards the
worship of JUGGERNAUT. The Bishop who ob-
jects to allowing soldiers to attend the religious
ceremonies of the Hindoos, incarcerates a fellow-
Christian for not paying for the ceremonies of the
Church of England.
Whence arises this extraordinary difference—
this deference to the religious prejudices of idolaters,
and this intolerance of the prejudices of Christians
—this tenderness for the rights of men in India,
and this disregard of the same rights at Chelmsford ?
It springs, we apprehend, from two causes.
First, the affair between the Christian soldiers and
between the Hindoos and the Mahomedans is no
personal concern of the Bishop's. His own piide
is not assailed. There is no opposition to his dog-
mas. He decides the question like a calm Judge ;
or rather his followers are the suffering and injured
party, and he pleads his own cause. Christian sol-
diers are forced to attend Hindoo ceremonies—his
soul sees at once the injustice of the compulsion.
Secondly, brother Christians at home dispute
the validity of the Bishop's faith, and both
offend his pride and frighten him with doubts
of the saving efficacy of his own creed. They
assert that something in which the Bishop
believes is not true, and they must be punished as
a homage to his pride, and be compelled by
penalties to acknowledge the superiority of his
faith, in order to still his own fearful doubts.
The personal apprehensions and the personal arro-
gance of Churchmen, induce them, with the Bishop'
of LONDON at their head, to inflict penalties on
THOROGOOD, and impose constraint on Dissent-
ers, which they severely condemn in cases where
their feelings are not concerned.
The Bishop of LONDON has charity for the
idolaters, but the Dissenters lie esteems to be wilfully
blind. The idolatry of the Hindoos and the creed
of the Mussulmans are false, and, therefore, men
may be praised who refuse to follow them ; but
Church-of-Englandism, say the Bishops, is the one
sole truth, and therefore men must be compelled to
do homage to it. The Bishops with eight or
ten million followers are exclusively right, and hun-
dreds of millions of Hindoos and Mahomedans,
with all the rest of mankind, are, and ever
have been, wrong. Those only are to be saved
who believe as the Anglican Bishops believe.
They are, therefore, the elect, and the many
millions of GoD's creatures who have never
known, or never believed, Church-of-Englandism,
are to be eterna:ly damned. What uncharitable.
ness, what an unworthy representation of the all-
wise, all-knowing, all-embracing GOD 1. If there
were no other reason for doubting the goodness and
the truth of Church-of-Englandism than this
hypocritical pleading for foreigners, and this con-
demnation of brethren—the narrowing of the AL-
MIGHTY'S paternal goodness to such a s.nall section
of His great creation would be sufficient to make
us discard Church-of Englandism as wholly un-
worthy of the ALMIGHTY ; but when we know
that the Bishop of LONDON and the rest of the
Bishops, are bribed by large incomes—incomes of
20,0001. 15,0001., 10,0001., or 6,0001. a year— to
maintain that it is the sole truth, we not only re-
fuse to a,cknowledge it, but feel unbounded astonish..
ment that any person should put faith in such in-
congruous and interested assertions.
We listened last night with great pleasure to the
Bishop of LONDON, but we must apprise him and
the petitioners against forcing English soldiers to
attend, as guards of the Rajahs, at idolatrous festi-
vals, that there is not one word of their arguments
and their petitions which does not apply to the case
of JOHN THOROGOOD, and to compelling the Dis-
sentients to pay Church-rates. The only differ-
ence is, that the Bishop and the Churchmen arro-
gantly assert of their creed, that it is the one truth,
while they believe that the idolatry they object to is
one of many false faiths.

with us. He says, " Whatever the general course
of society may he at present, one thing is certain—
that the current is most rapid." We have
over and over again used this argument
against those who insist on holding on
ancient institutions which are no longer suitable to
the circumstances of society, while, between the
two, the discrepancy is every day becoming more
frightfully great. In that passage the Times re-
cognizes the great truth that society ultimately
gives the law to the pretended law-givers, and com-
pels them, :,hough they may make it traverse a de-
vious and painful course, in the end to follow it. If
such, however, be the case, why does not the Times
counsel its Conservative patrons to study the course
and tendency of society, and to adapt their laws to
it, instead of perpetually striving to thwart it, and
make it conform to their unfounded theories ? Why
does it not expose the folly of the Tories, setting
up in their own minds a model of what society
ought to 's,e, a sort of normal idea of a perfect
community, to which they endeavour, by all
kinds of tortures, to make society conform ?
Why does it not disabuse its patrons of
that petty FENELmi-like notion which they yet
entertain, that they can chalk out the rights and
duties of men, and make them virtuous and happy
by numerous enactments, while, at the same time,
they declare that,' in their state of probation, happi-
ness and virtue cannot be the lot of mankind ?
The Times does this in some cases. Yesterday,
following out its plan of warning the public "
against " the insolent contempt of justice " dis-
played by the aristocracy, in their eternal meddling
with the rest of the community, as if they, for-
sooth, were the guardian angels of mankind,
afflicted with none of the weaknesses or vices of
ordinary men, it dealt the philanthropic-mongers,
who exercise legislation to gratify their yearnings
after a sensation, some heavy blows. It said, con-
demning both the old system and the new—

We admit that the present system of committing
young prisoners (aye, and old prisoners too) to our
common gaols before trial, is a system of gross injustice,
directly opposed to the principle of law, which pre-
sumes a man to be innocent, for all penal purposes, till
his guilt is proved—a system of gross and degrading
moral contamination, especially to the young. We
will go further than Sir Eardley 'Wilmot, and say that
great. evils have been found by experience to arise from
committing young offenders, even after conviction, to
those receptacles of iniquity. The whole subject is
well deserving of a much more extended inquiry, a
much more serious consideration from the Legislature,
than Sir Eardley Wilmot has succeeded in obtaining
from it.

Sir E. WILMOT has proposed as a remedy for
the moral contamination caused by the lawmaker,—
treating the peccadilloes of children as if they were
grave moral offences, and so prohibiting a youth
from ever retrieving any of the errors to which all
youth are liable,—a system of summary punish-
ment, which the Times shows to be as full of vice as
the present system. It adds—

Summary conviction is too apt to be conviction with-
out law or justice, without legal evidence or dispassion-
ate inquiry. Our children of tender age are as much
entitled to law and justice as ourselves, and we have no
right, under pretence of saving them from moral con-
tamination, to leave their characters, their limbs, and
their liberty, upon any accusation, however frivolous or
however false, to the tender mercies of two Justices of
the Peace. The motel contamination is of our own
creating ; we must remove it at our own expen_e, and
not by curtailing their rights, or the rights (in them) of
their parents.

We will quote one short passage more, as a con-
firmation of a remark we yesterday made, that the
aristocracy, even in their benevolence, show an
" insolent contempt for justice":—

" We believe," said the Times, " that Sir Eardley
Wilmot is an honourable and benevolent man, and that
this Bill was introduced with benevolent intentions.
We sympathise with his intentions, while wti protest
against his legislation."

The Times properly regards the legislation, like
almost all the Acts passed at the instance of the aris-
tocracy in relation to the humbler classes, to be
based on injustice. So do we, and we rejoice to
find the Times knocking down with its club the
supports of its own party. It promises further
investigation ; let it be warned in time. It cannot
carry on such investigations without becoming anti-
Tory. Toryism and philosophy, Toryism arid in-
quiry, are the enemies of each other ; and the Times
must either cease to be Tory, or it must give up
the glorious privilege of thinking, inquiring, and in-
vestigating social phenomena.

We regret exceedingly that Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL should have assented to the amendments
made by the Lords in the Ecclesiastical Courts
Bill. The Bill was introduced for the express pur-
pose of liberating a man who, for non-payment of
a religious tax of five and sixpence, which he could
not conscientiously pay, has been imprisoned during
a period of twenty months. It is perfectly clear to
every person gifted with the smallest modicum of
understanding, that a man who prefers the loss of
liberty to the payment of five and sixpence, will
never compound for freedom by paying seventy-five
pounds. Yet this is what that sapient legislator
the Earl of DEVON, and the dunderheaded Lords
who voted for his amendment, expect. " You,
JOHN THOROGOOD," they say in effect, " will
not,
to
we
obtain
know,
y
pay the few shillings of Church-
rate our liberty, but we have no doubt,
when the amount is swelled by the costs in the
Ecclesiastical Court to seventy or eighty pounds,
you will readily consent to the payment I"
Then look to the paltry, as well as clumsy, trick,
which this ci-devant Chancery Clerk has had re-

The world says that the Times is ready to turn
Chartist, but unhappily the Chartists cannot come
clown with a sufficient consideration. Its remarks
on the case of PUNTER v. GRANTLEY, which we
yesterday quoted, were followed up on Saturday by
a general view of society, in which nothing
flattering for Conservative principles can be
traced. We like to borrow arms from our
opponents, and therefore we quote, to direct
against the party which the Times supports,
the following remarks. Our readers will remember
that it is the boast of that Journal, and its fellow_
labourers in the Tory cause, that Conservative
principles are obtaining the ascendancy in society.
Our readers know that these principles have long

course to in order to give the amendment of the
Tory Lords a false show of liberality. By the
;1. to ii c Upr.

Tided, that at the end of twelve months' ►mpr►son-
ment, the captive might be released, if the original
rate was under 51., without payment or rate o
costs, on the principle that so long a period of im-
prisonment should be considered as a set off
against the pecuniary demand. But No, exclaims
the wise man of the west—we will rather have
the money and shorten the term of imprison-
ment by one-half. But what absurdity is this ?
If this noodle of a Lord could have seen half an
inch before his nose, he would have been aware
that he might just as readily have done away
with the six months as the twelve, and then the
Bill would enact simply that persons in the situa-
tion of JOHN TIIOROGOOD shall be exempted
from promising obedience to the Bishop of the
diocese. As the Bill now stands, this is really all
the relief which it grants, for all that a " contu-
macious " person has to do under the law as it
stands at present, in order to obtain his release,
is to pay the rate and costs, and make a declara-
tion of future compliance with the Bishop's orders.
This Bill is, therefore, to all practical pur-
poses, a mere nonentity--or, what is worse, a pre-
tence of granting relief where no relief was intended
to be granted. JOHN THOROGOOD, and men of
his sturdy principle—we wish there were more of
them among the Dissenters—will not stultify them-
selves by any base compromise. If they make up
their minds to go to gaol rather than violate their
consciences by paying a Church-rate of trifling
amount, they are not very likely to incur this vio-
lation, by paying it when augmented to an amount
which, in all cases, would be a considerable sum of
money, and, in many, would probably be beyond the
means of the sufferer for conscience sake. Poor
THOROGOOD, then, muat still be the victim of
Church persecution. Nothing, it is clear, but his
life will satisfy his enemies, and we have no doubt
whatever, from what we know of the man, that he
will cheerfully sacrifice his life rather than depart
in the smallest degree from what he considers the
line of religious principle, and the path of Chris-
tian duty. As long as he lives, he has the happi-
ness to reflect that he is affording to the world, in
his own person, a. proof of the inhumanity and un-
godliness of a State-created system of religion, and
that thus his sufferings will, sooner or later, be of
signal utility in battering to pieces the anti-Chris-
tian fabric.

France. It presents a grAtn).nb ono,rist to LI
articles which during the previous ten days ap-
peared in the same Journal :

" Interrogated by Mr. Hume on the important question
which so deeply agitates the political world, Lord Palmer-
ston expressed himself respecting the French alliance in
terms which created universal as well as the most lively
satisfaction in the tiJuse of Commons.
" Lord Palmerston has declared that the British Govern-
ment never had the intention of renouncing the French
alliance, which he continued to regard as of the highest
value, not only for the two countries hut for the prospt,. ity
of Etvope, a:A that he had the limiest hope that 0, pr•
sent difference would only be temp.,rary, and would le•:d
to no hostilities between two nations having such common
interests.

These fresh assurances of Lord Palmerston will cer-
tainly be as sincerely received by us as by the English Par-
liament. If Lord Palmerston had always held the same
language we should never have been under tLe painful He
cessity of throwing upon his personal responsibility the
weight of proceedings and measures in which he passed
to have had the greatest share.
" However happy we may be again to find in Lord Pal-
merst-n's language the expression of sentiments which we
should have wished had remained always the same, we
cannot refrain from saying that we find the sudden change
which has manifested itself in his disposition towards
another Power very little justified. Lord Palmerston an-
nounces that Russia abandons the treaty of Uokiar Ske-
lessi. We say that this treaty has always been a dead
letter—this, its bone fide annulation, was the union of the
two maritime Powers, France and England; that a year since
when Constantinople, without army, without fleet, without
Sultan, was menaced by Ibrahim, it was certainly then the
time to execute the treaty ; and that Russia shrunk in the
presence and under the surveillance of the two united fleets.
" It is Lord Palmerston—it is the Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Great Britain—who says in Parliament —' The
Russian Government has declared spontaneously that we
were in error as to the views attributed to her.' Thus for
so many years past you have been mistaken, and we have
been mistaken I We have misconceived and calumniated
together this innocent Russia ! for so many years past
that your Parliament, more even than ours, resounded with
multiplied protests. Russia suffered patiently, evangelically,
these unjust suspicions, that she could have dispelled with
one word.

However, we do not believe that we have the right to
dictate, as the condition of our alliance, enmity towards
other Powers. England is free, if she thinks it prudent,
to give up her lung and permanent watchfulness of her new
ally; we are much less interested therein than she is. As
to what regards us, we are entirely disposed to find in the
words of Lord Palmerston a certain pledge for the main-
tenance of peace. It is after numerous and recent com-
munications between the two Governments—it is in the
midst of the universal excitement caused by inevitably
bitter discussions—that Lord Palmerston solemnly pro-
claims his firm conviction that the union of the two oc-
tions will not be br.ltee. The language of the Minister
and the attitude of the Parliament inspire us with an equal
conviction.

The principal object of the King of the BEL-
GIANS' present visit to the Court of London is
generally supposed to be political. It is not often
that King LEOPOLD charges himself with the
functions of diplomacy ; but in the abundance of
his admiration of two great nations—in the pleni-
tude of his friendship for the Sovereigns who sway
their destinies, so nearly connected with him by the
tenderest ties of relationship, he has, it is under-
stood, undertaken to employ his mediation in re-
storing the harmony which existed between France
and England previous to the signing of the
.new
Quadruple Treaty for the settlement of the Turco-
Egyptian Question. A worthier accomplisher of
so truly laudable and exalted an object of Royal
ambition, than King LEOPOLD, could not be found
in Europe ; and, whether successful or otherwise,
his Majesty will not the less merit the gratitude of
the friends of peace. Did the matter in dispute rest
entirely with the French and English Sovereigns,
no shadow of doubt could be entertained as to the
result. The mediation of the King of the BEI,
GIANS would not even be necessary to restore a con-
fidence in the long continuance of a friendly alliance
between the two countries. But rumour represents
the King of the FRENCH as powerless in the hands
of a Minister who stands irrevocably pledged to
support MEHEMET ALI'S claim for the possession
of Syria. It is now, in fact, whispered,
that when out of office M. THIERS was
rash enough to make promises to the VICEROY
which he can now only perform by provoking a
war with the Great Powers of Europe. To these
pledges of support neither the French King nor
the French people are parties, and were M. TIIIERS
out of office, the next Government would find it-
self in a condition to adopt freely the policy of the
Four Powers. But this is a consummation, how-
ever " devoutly to be wished," to which it would
be in vain to look forward with any degree of con-
fidence. M. THIERS is now fairly in the saddle,
and, we believe, may
def
out of it. His voluntary retirement from office for
a few months is ay the
sacrifice
which
h Courtch toF France
at throw wwould
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Europe
right
from t oh
se ex
l:
even he pants for the glory of directing a great
military movement which shall hereafter associate
his memory with the laurels of national conquestE
He has it now m his power to adopt a nobler
course, and to arrive at a more glorious pre-emi-
nence. The day is not distant when the triumphs
of the sword will be darkly recorded in the annals
of civilized nations ; and when to have spared the
effusion of one drop of blood, will confer more real
glory upon statesmen, than to have waded chin-
deep in the gore of prostrate nations.

Public opinion in France was already considerably al-
layed in its anxiety. Several Ministerial journals have an-
nounced the receipt of pacific despatches from the British
Government. We hope that these happy signs will be
further confirmed, and we believe that Lord Palnaerston's
declaration cannot but contribute to calm definitively the
public mind."

Amongst the most important rumours afloat in

Paris on Sunday, was one to the effect that M.
TIIIERS will be forced to resign office to make way
for the pacific adjustment of the Eastern Question.
It is curious that we should have suggested such a
course as the only means of overcoming a difficulty
seemingly otherwise insurmountable. The KING,
it is said, is greatly displeased with the hostile tone
assu►:-med by the President of the Council towards
England.
Of general news the Paris Papers of Sunday are
quite barren.
Orders have just been given at Cherbourg, to arm im-
mediately the new ship of the line, the Friedland, of 120
guns, and the frigates La Refine Blanche and Calypso,
each of 60 guns.
A Icvy of 2,000 seamen has just been ordered in the
first maritime arrondissement.—Journal du Havre.

It appears that the idea of convoking the Court of
Peers for the trial of M. Louis Bonaparte has been given
up, and that a jury will have to decide on the fate of the
persons accused.
A letter from Douay, dated the 7th of August. to

the Gazette des Tribunaux, states that the news of the
landing of Louis Bonaparte was sent that morning to
Douay (Boulogne is subject to the jurisdiction of the Tri-

bunalat Douay). The letter gives some details of the
proceedings of the Triounal, which met on the occasion,
and decided that, by An. 235 of the Code d'lnstruction
Criminelle, the cognizance of the affair belonged to it.
" It is, then," says the letter before the Court of Assize
of the Pas de Calais, " that Louis Bonaparte and his ac-
complices will have to appear if the ordinary course of jus-
tice is followed."
The number of persons arrested at Paris was eight ;
three, against whom no charge appeared, were set at li.
berty yesterday. Among those who remained in custody
are Macrame Salvage de Faderolles, formerly Lady of Ho
nour to Queen Hortensia, who arrived lately from London,
and Mr. Bacchiocci, Chamberlain to the King of Wurtem-
berg.—Gazette des Tribunaux,
The Capitole announces that Madame Salvage has been
set at liberty.

The Arniorican of Brest of the 6th says—The Ministry
has just given orders here immediately to re-arm the large
fr;gates, Didon, Minerve, Nereide, and Cleopatre, and to
ascertain the condition of the other fiigates, Venes, An-
drornede, Asie, and Africaine, that the latter may be like.
wise made lit for sea.

The Ministry orders these operations with the greatest
activity to purchase the articles wanted, and to increase the
number of the workmen. —Le Constitutionnel.

NAVAL PREPARATIONS OF RUSSIA.—" The energy,"
says the German Frankfort Journal of the 7th, " with
which the Cz r has declared that he would pacify the East,
in conformity with the treaty of the 15th of July, is spoken
of with enthusiasm in the Berlin political salons. It is
worthy of remark, that Russia has already made all the
necessary preparations to execute the plan of pacification,
whilst England has as yet taken no active measure in this
respect. Every means of transport for the grand southern
army is ready; it will be commanded by Prince Paske-
witsch, with whom will be associated, it is said, a Prince
of the Imperial Family. Seventy-two vessels of war, in-
cluding thirty ships of the line, and about fcrty frigates,
corvettes, and schooners, are cruising in the Baltic."
ALEXANDRIA, JULY 17.—M. Perier, who is sent on an
extraordinary mission to Mehemet Ali, arrived on the
15th, and, with M. Cochelet, hada conference with the
Pacha, which lasted three hours. The utmost secrecy was
observed on both sides, but it is thought that another
attempt will be made at Constantinople, in order to
prevail upon the Sultan to come to a direct under-
standing of peace with the Viceroy. The departure of
a steamer from Toulon for Constantinople, at the same
time as the Papin for Alexandria, renders that supposition
more than probable. The Pacha appears pretty well
satisfied, which is a presumption that he has certain expec •
tations. M. Perier also appears to base some hcpas upon
the pacification of Syria, for he expressed a desire for the
news to be immediately transmitted to Constantinople.
By the next packet I shall have, no doubt, some interest-
ing news to communicate to you. The Pacha's packets
the Nile and the Haggi Baba will then have returned
from Constantinople.
On the other hand, all is quiet at Alexandria and at
Cairo but the Arabs still display a great animosity against
the Europeans,

But while we deprecate war as the most dreadful
calamity that could now happen to Europe, we are
by means prepared to make the concessions de-
manded by France to avoid it. England cannot,
and will not, consent to the' dismemberment of the
Turkish empire by conceding Syria to MEHEMET
ALI. The Four Powers can and will enforce the
fulfilment of the Treaty ; and as the provi-
sions of that Treaty were approved of by the
SOULT Cabinet, we still indulge the hope that the
President of the Council will see not only the
justice, but the expediency, of recommending
iVIEHEmET Am to make a virtue of necessity,
and anticipate by his concessions the demands of
the Great Powers, and the consequent employ-
ment of force on their part. Were a hostile
struggle to take place, whatever might be the fate
of France, MEHEMET ALI would be sure to
perish. England, at all events, would break the
sceptre of his power not only in Syria but in
Egypt. Whoever would be the gainer in the long
run, the VICEROY would lose all. Not a city in
Africa would own him Lord at the close of the
conflict. This is a fact which the Parisian friends
of the PACHA ought to
weigh well before madly
goading him into a war which, left to himself, he
would have the good sense to avert by timely sub-
mission.

ECCLESIASTICAL DUTIES AND REVENUES BILL.—
A return has been made to the House of Commons by
the. Treasurer of the Governors of the Bounty of
Queen Anne for the augmentation of the maintenance
of the Poor Clergy, made in pursuance of a resolution
of the House of Commons, dated 20► h July, 1840, and
of an address to her Majesty " of the several canon-
rit s, prebends, dignities, and other offices now vacant
in the several Cathedral and Collegiate Churches in
England and Wales, and of any other preferment which
under the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill it is
proposed to suppress ; specifying the day and year when
the same severally became vacant, together with the
amount received on account of each such preferment by
the Treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty." The total
number vacant, and to be suppressed, is as follows :
Canonries and Prebends residentiary 18 Stalls, four of
which are still occupied, but to be suppressed ; Chan-
cellorships 2 ; Precentorships 4 ; Prebends not residen-
tiary 66 ; Sinecure Rectories 4. This return includes
all the vacancies which have come to the knowledge of
the Treasurer, and the total amount of money received
is 30,0381. 15s. 9id._

TRICKS OF THE TORIES.—A Correspondent of the
Morning Chronicle states that the Tories have been
extremely busy in endeavouring to stir up the agitation
against Lord Palmerston. There is some truth in this,
and a Tory gentleman who has been a candidate to re-
present a populous and thriving manufacturing town, is
known to take the lead in it. Another person, who is
forward in the work, is a disappointed diplomatist, who
is distrusted for his treachery, and is not distinguished
for his modesty. But, besides the Tories, the agents
of France aro said to have laboured in the same work.
It is not creditable to the Tories that they have com-
bined with foreigners to injure their country. But what
politicians will do under feelings of disappointment,
is very difficult to say. They are subject to monomania,
like Oxford, or any other vanity-inflated fool, and, un-
der its influence, will play pranks of which they will be
heartily ashamed should they ever recover their senses.

The Madrid journals which have arrived are of
the 2d inst. They contain no news of any inte-
rest. Some riots took place at Murcia as soon as
the events at Barcelona became known there, but
they were quickly suppressed.
On the Ist inst., at Madrid, 33 bargains in e New
Fives, to the amount of 13 600 000 reels, were done at
27 t-16 for cash, and 271 fur 60 days. Exchange upon
London, 90 days, 384•

The Paris Papers of Sunday devote the whole
of their columns to details of the insane attempt of
Prince Louis NAPOLEON to revolutionize France.
At an early hour that morning, the KING, M.
THIERS, and M. DE REMUSAT returned to Paris,
and at 12 o'clock a Cabinet Council was held to
deliberate upon the course to be taken with regard
to
ithaoerdoNdipspAOLSaNliEOßf theT Piince.
,s Speech on the Oriental
Question has given great satisfaction to the French
press. Peace, we have pleasure in stating, is again
the order of the day in Paris. In the Journal des
s

FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE —Last night, be-
tween 11 and 12 o'clock, vehement cries of " Fire " were
heard in Milton-crescent, Euston--qua.e, which proceeded
from the house occupied by a Mr. Mead, lodginghouse-
keeper, in that place. The engines belonging to the
Well-street, Crown-street, Holborn, and Farringdon-street
fire-stations were promptly in attendance; but their se',
vices were not required, as the damage sustained was con-
fined' to the back-kitchen, whence the alarm proceeded.
A most appalling sight, however, presented itself to their
view, being that of the body of a flue young woman, 23
years of age, and daughter of Mr. Mead, not quite dead,
but burned almost to a cinder. A blanket was wrapped
round her, and she was conveyed to the University Col-
lege Hospital, but life was found to be quite extinct on her
arrival there.

Debats, the organ of the Court, we find the fol. I p
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PARLIAMENT.

HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

" MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" The state of public business enables me to
close this Scssion of Parliament ; and in releasing
you from your attendance I have to think you fur
the care and attemion with which you have dis-
charged your important duties.
" I continue to receive from Foreign Powers as-
surances of their friendly disposition, and of their ,
anxious desire for the maintenance of peace.
" I congratulate you upon the termination
of the civil war in Spain. The objects for
which the quadruple engagements of 1834 were
contracted, having now been accomplished, I
am in communication with the Queen of Spain,
with a view to withdraw the Naval force,
which, in pursuance of those engagements, I have
hitherto stationed on the northern coast of Spain.
" I am happy to inform you that the differences
with the Government of Naples, the grounds and
causes of which have been laid before you, have
been put into a train of adjustment by the friendly
mediation of the King of the French.
" I rejoice also to acquaint you that the Govern-
ment of Portugal has made arrangements for satis-
fying certain just claims of some of my subjects,
and for the payment of a sum due to this country,
under the stipulations of the Convention of 1827.
" I am engaged, in concert with the Emperor of
Austria, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Rus-
sia, and the Sultan, in measures intended to effect
the permanent pacification of the Levant, to main-
tain the integrity and independence of the Ottoman
empire, and thereby to afford additional security for
the peace of Europe.
" The violent injuries inflicted upon some of my
subjects by the cfficers of the Empefor of China,
and the indignities offered to an Agent of my
Crown, have compelled me to send to the coast ot,
China a naval and military force, for the purpose of
demanding reparation and redress.
" I have gladly given my assent to the Act for
the regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland.
" I trust that the law which you have framed for
further carrying into effect the Reports of the Ec-
clesiastical Commssioncrs will have the beneficial
effect of increasing the efficiency of the Established
Church, and of better providing for the religious
instruction of my people.

" I have observed with much saticfaction the re-
sult of your deliberations on the subject of Canada.
It will be my duty to execute the measures which
you have adopted in such a manner, as without im-
pairing the Executive authority, may satisfy the
best wishes of my subjects, and provide for the per-
manent welfare and security of my North American
provinces.

" The Legislative Bodies of Jamaica have ap-
plied themselves to the preparation of laws rendered
necessary or expedient by the altered state of society.
Some of these laws require revision and amendments,
bud have every reason to expect cordial assistance from
the Assembly of Jamaica, in the salutary work of
improving the condition and elevating the character
of the inhabitants of that colony. The conduct of
the emancipated negroes throughout the West In-
dies has been remarkable for tranquil obedience to
the law, and a peaceable demeanour in all the rela-
tions of social life.

" GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
" I thank you for the Supplies which you have
granted for the service of the year.
" I lament that it should have been necessary to
impose additional burthens upon my people, but I
trust that the means which you have adopted for
the purpose of meeting the exigencies of the public
service are calculated to press with as little severity
as possible upon all classes of the community.

" MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" In returning to your respective counties, you
will resume those duties which you perform so much
to the public benefit and advantage. It is my
anxious desire to maintain tranquillity at home and
peace abroad. To these objects so essentil to the
interests of this country, and to the general
welfare of mankind, my efforts will be sincerely and
unremittingly directed, and feeling assured of your
co-operation and support, I humbly rely upon the
superintending care and continued protection of
Divine Providence."

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
RIVER.—The bodies of the three children of Mr. Sea-
ward, the Secretary of the Promoter Assurance Office.
have not been found, although the river has been dragged
in all directions. Placards have been issued giving a de-
scription of the children, and offering handsome rewards
for the recovery of the bodies. We regret to state that
Mrs. Seaward is in a very precarious condition, and that
the shock occasioned by her immersion in the water and
the loss of her children is not unlikely to prove fatal.
LEECH LETTERS.— Amongst other strange
packages received from London last week in Stamfoid,
was a small paper box, consigned to a druggist of the town,
which had contained upwards of two hundred leeches. On
emptying the letter-bag the postmaster found, to his dis-
may, that two score of the reptiles had escaped from the
box ; some had crept into the letters, and others, aroused
from their torpidity by the warmth of the room, were
crawling about in all directions. It was only by a rigour-
ous search, that he escaped a gratuitous bleeding..—Lin-
cola Mercury.

TEETOTAL TRICK.—On Monday, the 3d inst.
Archibale Farquharson, Esq., of Fiuzean, was summarily
tried before the Sheriff at Stonchaven, near Aberdeen,
for having wickedly and feloniously administered, or caused
to be administered, to the members of the total abstinence
soiree, held at Banchory Ternan, on the 16th June last,
a certain quantity of jalap mixed with a pound of tea, and
an ounce and a half of calomel mixed with four pounds of
sugar, and which was accompanied with the following
note:—" From a well-wisher to the health and prospe-
rity of the society." The panel pleaded guilty, and was
fined 101.

On Wednesday, as the morning Midland
Counties Railway train from Leicester to Nottingham,
was passing near Kegworth, a full-grown partridge rose in
the air, when, coming in contact with the chimney of the
steam-engine, it Gil dead into the tender.
GORAN HAVEN.—On Thursday night last,
the drift boats took some fine fish, and a shoal was seen a
little outside one of the turns. The wind is now easterly,
which will, if it continue to blow fresh, prevent the scans
going to sea.— West Briton.

CAUTION.—It is important to masters of ves-
sels, trading to New Orleans, to know the provisions of a
recent Act passed by the Legislature of Lousiana, in
reference to fugitive slaves. It provides thrt if any slaves
are found on board a ship, or any other vessel, without the
consent of the owner, it will be presumed that such slaves
were received with the intent to transport them out of the
State. This presumption will be sustained by the
law, whether the slaves were actually transported or not,
and the question of concealment will not be entertained.
Two witnesses, not employed in the ship, will be necessary
to convict the master, who is made responsible to the owner
in the sum of five hundred dollars for every slave taken
away, or lost, in addition to the value of such slave. Be-
sides the fine impoied, and the value of the slave, the
owners may recover from the proprietors and captains of
ships, or other vessels, all damages that may have been
sustained. The parties are responsible in person, and the
veEs,l is liable to a lien. —New York Paper.
GAME.-..The accounts from the Highlands re-
present the grouse as rather plentiful; but in some instan-
ces small, arising from second broods having beers hatched.
The partridges have had a good breeding season ; but they
are yet far from numerous. We would recommend a
farther jubilee this year, and, should the next breeding sea-
son be favourable, they will, in a great measure, have
secured a footing till the next overwhelming snow storm.
Hares are in great abundance. We hear that ail the
great shootings in this quarter have found tenants ; and,
during the last week, there has been a large importation
into our town of dogs and guns and everything needful for
the eventful 12th.—Aberdeen Herald.
POWER OF LOYALTY.-Perhaps the greatest
instance of the power of excitement which occurred during
the passing of the " hundred-thousand-pounds-a-year"
lady through the town, was witnessed in the window of our
opposite neighbour Ayrey, where the bonnets, hitt erto
headless and unheeding, suddenly became filled with
heads, to which were attached pretty faces, and other ap.
pendages, in the full glow and vigour of life. When the
lioness was gone, the bona( ts again resumed their headless
and listless apathy. What a charm must there be in the
presence of a Dowager Queen I—Leeds Tunes.