The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-14 00:00:00

CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.

A LIST of all PENSIONS granted between the 20th day of
June 1839, and the 20th day of June 1840, and charged
upon the Civil. LIST (pursuant to the Act of Ist Viet.
c. 2).
November 20, 1839.—Sir John Newport, Bart., 1,0001.
In consideration of the zealous and efficient servieu
rendered by him to the public during a period of ready
half a century, within which time he filled the offices of
Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland, and Comptroller-
General of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom. The
latter office he resigned, in consequence of his great age
and infirmities.
December 31.—Hannah, Caroline, and William Ald-
ridge, 251.
The widow and children of William Aldridge, a meri-
torious police officer, who was murdered at Deptfeed,
whilst in the execution of his duty.
April 23, 1840.—Mary Lander, 75/.
In consideration of the science, zeal, and courage dis-
played by her husband, the late John Larder, in a hseard-
ous expedition into the interior of Africa'for the extension
of knowledge, in which expedition his lire fell a sactiltc,a
to his exertions.
April 23.—James Browns, L. L.D., 1001.
Member of the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh ; iia
consideration of his literary attainments.

R. GORDON.
Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, July 4, 1840.

NUN-INTRUSION HUMBUG.

(From the Scotsman.)
The state of public feeling in Scotland OR the ques-
tion of Non-Intrusion seems to be very little understood
south of tl-e T7ro of the ablest London Jott!-
rid!, the ,ili,,orty C./iroit'ele. and (i/d.c ate apparently
quit^ at sea mm the sit ,jest, cud ~tsz.un:c that in the telcie
of on-Intrusion, the sympathies of the great majority
of the people are enlisted The noisy agitations of the
high fling party, and the fact of their possessing a
majority in the General Assembly, may have given a
semblance of popularity to their proceedings ; but no
one acquainted with enlightened public opinion in Scot-
land, will deny that the exiduet of these men is gene-
rally repudiated and condemned. It is.to be observed,
that the publiC- opposition they have encountered affords
no criterion of the disgust with which their conduct is
regarded, as sensilile men of all parties arc satisfied
that they are only knocking their own heads against the
wail, and conceive that the law, as it at present exists,
is sudi6iently strong t:3 resist their monstrous preten-
sions. In every ease, however, h Which the public
mind hes been fairly tested, the result has been un-
favourable to the Non-Intrusionists.

On Monday, the Marquis o! llreadalhane, in pre-
senting several petitions in favour of Non-Intrusion,
took occasion to state that the number of signatures
attached to Non-Intrusion petitions was 166,7a4, while
those on the other side amounted only to 4,161.
Lori Aberdeen showed how fallacious in this in-
instance was the enumeration of signatures as a test of
public opinion.
" The petitions," said his Lordship, "to which the
Noble Marquis had referred, afforded a signal example
of the perfection to which the manufacture of petitions
had been brought. He could give their Lordships some
account of one of them, which had been most nume-
rously signed—he meant the Edinburgh petition.—
(Hear, hear.) Among the improvements in the art of
petitioning, one of the most novel, and at the same
time the most efll:ctual, was the employing ladies to
carry about petitions to solicit signatures. Of course,
the younger and handsomer those ladies were
the better. —(A laugh.) He had seen a letter
from a gentleman, who stated that this petition had been
brought to his house by two ladies, who had asked if he
or his wife were at home, and being informed the.y were
not, the ladies sent the petition up into the nursery,
with a message desiring all in the house belonging
to the Established Church to sign ft. One servant
and two children kad signed it, without knowing any-
thing further of it than they had learned from tht; mas-
sage. The eldest of these children was twelve years of
age, and the other ten. He was far from wishing to
undervalue the petitions of the people ; but he thought
the unsophisticated article was much better than the
manufactured one.—(Loud cheers, and laughter.)
In this statement there is not, we believe, one word
of exaggeration. At the time the petition .to which-
the Noble Lord refers was in course of signaturt., we
heard numerous complaints of the annoyace to which
families were exposed by these Non-IntruVon intruders.
With
fishit
iththetzicaalocuasmhe in theawkersof
net.the Children,
se petitions,
everything
w
vants, all who could scratch their names, or procure
others to do it for them, were alike acceptable, and the
array of signatures thus collected is set forth as indica-
tive of the state of public opinion in Scotland!
On Tuesday, the Marquis of Breadalbane presented
a petition from a Committee of the General Assembly,
praying to be heard by Counsel at the bar of the
House of Lords against Lord Aberdeen's Bill. Lerd
Aberdeen supported the prayer of the petition. "He
could not," he said, " desire a better recommendation
of the Bill than that these parties shoald be heard, for
he felt convinced that they could not allege anything
which would not tell against their own pretensions."
In this opinion Lord Brougham concurred.