The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-05 00:00:00

NDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1841.

increase of taxation operates upon the loyalty of
the subject the affair of the census is at this
moment manifesting not only to France, but to
all Europe. Besides, trade must suffer from war
preparations, on however:defensive a scale. They
shake public confidence, and whatever does that
operates ruinously upon commerce.
Nor can war preparations be ever strictly de-
fensive. The anticipating an attack is frequently
but a preparation to make one. Those most ex-
posed will necessarily regard all preparations
for a state of war as covertly hostile, and
so arm in their turn. Two nations armed in pre-
sence of each other must fight. It is an abso-
lute necessity of their position. War is a posi-
tive relief to the harassing suspense of an armed
defiant peace. If France desire peace she must
disarm. No Power can believe that her views are
not aggressive, if she continue to maintain a fleet
so entirely disproportioned to the protection of her
commerce and the defence of her colonies. With
her immense military force, no nation in the
world, geographically situated as she is, could
require for pacific purposes one-half the war ves-
sels which she has now in commission

A letter from Macon says, " The porters of Macon,
whom a criminal infatuation had led into the collision of
the 9th of September, furiously to attack the soldiers of
the garrison, and those of their fellow citizens who endea-
voured to maintain order, have taken upon themselves
the refutation of the diatribes of the Conseur. They do
not cease to repeat that the municipal authorities mani-
fested towards them a kindness and generosity which
unhappily they have not justified by their conduct.
They have even stated these declarations, in two letters
full of expressions of grief and repentance ; one is ad-
dressed to M. de Lamartine, the other to M. Gardon,
Colonel of the National Guard.—Le Moniteur.

Letters from Vienna, of the 22d, give no reason to
expect the evacuation of St. Jean d'Acre and Beyrout
by -the English, unless we are to understaad in this cause
the recal of Lord Ponsonby from Constantinople, and
that of Sir Edmond Lyons from Athens, which is said to
be certain. The mercantile accounts from Munich,
Trieste, Athens, and Smyrna, were deplorable.
A Frankfort Paper says, that the arrests which have
taken place at Limburg, in Galicia, and even at Vienna,
are founded on political motives. The intrigues in which
the persons arrested engaged were purely national, and
have not the slightest connection with the views of the
secret societies which exist, or have existed, in the west
of Europe.—Le Commerce.

We have Madrid Journals of the 26th ult.
The correspondent of a contemporary in that
capital writes as follows under that date :—" The
British bondholders will learn with peculiar
satisfaction, because it is a positive proof of the
good faith that influences M. SURRA Y Runes
proceedings in everything connected with the
foreign creditors of Spain, that the 7,000,000
sterling of Active, Deferred, and Passive
Stock, lying in the hands of ARDOIN
and Co., are to be cancelled almost im-
mediately, because the Minister of Finance
has issued the necessary orders for the payment of
the 27,0001. claimed by that house; and the
numbers, dates, and respective amounts of the
bonds will be advertised in the public journals.
Your readers may place every reliance upon this
important fact, because it is only mentioned by
me after due inquiry." We also find the inhabi-
tants ofValencia petitioning the REGENT to prevail
upon the British Government to lower the duty on
raisins, and ()tiler dried fruit. The petition is
just and reasonable, provided the petitioners are
willing to make a corresponding reduction of
duty in favour of English cottons and hardware.
On the '26th the Five per Cents. were done on
the Madrid Bourse at from 271 to 28 fo: cash,
and 281 at 60 days.

A NEW PROJECT OF THE PRIESTS.—Mr. Ewart is
extremely anxious to have a Minister of Education. He
probably looks forward to that post as appropriate to
his own merits. But before he and his friends are re-
stored to power, it is probable the Tories will seize on
his idea, justify their proposition by his example, and
appoint a Minister of Religion and Education. The
priests already entertain such a project, and, like Mr.
Ewart, they go abroad to a country where every portion
of trade is regulated by law—where the passport system
is in full rigour—for their model. The Churchman for
October says :—" We have often grieved over the fact,
that whilst in States on the Continent of Europe, where
the Romish religion is professed, a Minister of State is
specially charged (even as in France, where there is no
State religion) to watch over the interests of the Church,
and of public and even private education ; no one in Pro-
testant Britain is charged with this noble and glorious
mission. In the Cabinet, the Treasury has its First
Lord and Premier ; the Court of Chancery has its Chan-
cellor • the Privy Seal is confided to the illustrious
descendant of the Plantagenets ; the Admiralty
is represented by its First Lord ; the Army has
its Secretary of War ; Foreign Affairs are con-
fided to the superintendence of an accomplished,
a noble, and a travelled Thane ; the Colonies are
placed under the care of one of the ablest leaders in
the House of Commons; the Exchequer is watched over
by a man, than whom no one knows better that economy
without parsimony must be the rule of his official life ;
Home Affairs are entrusted to one who, we believe, reads
and loves his Bible ; and, in one word, all interests of
navy—every-
thing—are placed
merce agriculture, army and
under the special care and protection
of individual and competent Ministers, except the interests
of the National Church and National Education. We
should like to see confided to such a man as Sir R. Inglis
the seals of office of RELIGION and EDUCATION.' In
France the Minister is called Ministre des Cultes, and
sometimes to him is also entrusted the seals of the de-
partment of Public Instruction,' whilst at other times
the offices are kept distinct. The creation of such
an office in this country would be a vast good.
The daily corresnondence of the Minister with the
clergy, and with the ministers of Dissenting denomina-
tions, would enable him to comprehend _and feel the
wants, the sufferings, and the grievances" (where they ex-
isted) of all. The Universities and schools of public
learning would find in him a patron, a friend, a counsel-
lor, and a judge. The public charities of the country
might likewise be placed under his surveillance, and the
public religious societies, too, might be authorised to ap-
peal to him, when difficulties arose in their administra-
tion, or when an inadequacy in their revenues might re-
quire temporary, or even permanent aid. Such an ap-
pointment would facilitate the communications between
the Church and the State—would strengthen the bond of
union subsisting between them—and would put an end
to those false, but dangerous hopes which the enemies
of the Church are now indulging in themselves, and ex-
citing in others, that the day will arrive when the prin-
ciples of voluntaryism shall triumph, and when a Na-
tional Church shall cease to exist." Mr. Ewart may
learn from that how surely a bad example is fol-
lowed.
THE DILIGENCE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.—The Tories
are quite right. Sir Robert Peel is a most diligent
Minister. He sends couriers to her Majesty twice
a-day. He keeps one ready to mount at all times. He has
found time, notwithstanding his vast parliamentary
labours, to weigh and consider all the pros and cons
of appointing a Commission to inquire into the fine
arts, and one is to be appointed. To that most import-
ant measure the Right Hon. Baronet has made up his
mind. He has even resolved, after most mature delibe-
ration, that Prince Albert will be an ornament to the
Commission, and he has made up his mind to place his
Royal Highness on it. The Right Hon. Baronet has
also made up his mind to appoint a Committee of both
Houses to investigate Dr. Reid's plan for ventilating the
new Houses of Parliament. We do not know positively,
but we believe, that the 'Right Hon. Baronet has also
made up hilt-wind to interfere with the masons engaged
in building the Houses, and has, after mature consi-
deration, taken measures to bring them back to their
duty. He is a stupendous genius, we do not doubt, but
he might be as usefully employed in extinguishing the
flames of our Rome as in tuning his own ministerial
fiddle.

it is not true, is seems to be the guess of many
newspaper writers, that any scheme for the increase of
the existing rate of postage is at present under the con-
sideration of the Go'vernment.—Morning Post.

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THEIVIIR.—N 00N, OCTOBER 5.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE—STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer.., 63 1 Lowest ..
'E
Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.
The barometer has fallen in the course of the night not less
than five degrees, or half an inch. No marked effect of this
rapid and great fall, however, has yet taken place, as the wea-
ther to-day is tolerably good, with occasional sunshine and
showers.

THE WHEAT CROP.—The Bankers' Circular
contains an elaborate and careful calculation of the pro-
duce of the present harvest, in which the writer arrives
at the following results :—That, as compared with the
harvest for 1840, the present harvest will be deficient in
the average quantity of wheat, and its quality for yield-
ing good flour, equal to 2,400,000 quarters. To meet
this enormous falling off, a greatly increased quantity of
land has this year been brought into wheat cultivation in
England, Scotland, and Ireland, yielding an increase of
1,950,000 quarters more than 1840. Added to this
900,000 quarters of foreign corn have this year been li-
berated more than last year, leaving the ultimate de-
ficiency 800,000 quarters, and no more. Then, the pre-
sent harvest is fully a fortnight later than the harvest of
last year, so that the supply has not to extend over so
long a period of consumption, and the writer, therefore,
concludes that there is now in the kingdom a sufficient
supply until the Ist of October, 1842.
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bread was purchased in Paris on the previous Sunday at
1 id. per lb. (English), and is of excellent quality. Here
it would cost 21d.—Staffordshire Examiner.
The reimbursements exceeded the deposits, last
week, in the Savings' Bank of Clermont by 2,600 f.