The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-09 00:00:00

THU SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1840.

ever before their eyes. Now I have lately heard that
since the enactments agzinst opium have been out in
force with such severity these villains, being gime reck-
less of life, congregate together, and going on board
their fast-crabs, proceed to the high seas where they rob
and plunder the merchants and, taking on board rice• and
bread, supply therewith the vagabond foreigners. If tine
du not then utterly exterminate this ca72aille they will t!o
the bidding of the foreigners and lend themselves to thc ir se:-
vice, which might gradually bring about a very great cala-
mity,

I have therefore to beg of your sacred Majesty that y u
will be pleased to issue orders to the viceroys and fooyucns,
:he generals, and commanders of the forces of Kwantang,
Fajen, Chekeang, Keangsoo, Shantung, and Leoutung,
that they despatch their war cruizers with the most stern
commands to seize or exterm.r,ate every one of those pirat-
ical plunderers. At the same time all the commandants of
our different military stations, and the taoutacs, must tee
caused to examine with the utmost strictness all the boats
and craft that ply upon the livers, and which may not be
interdicted ; but beyond these, all vessels belonging to the
people, whether large or small, should not he. permitted to
proceed to the high seas. And regarding those who catch
&h as a means of hveihood, they must be required to take
their fish in the immediate neighbourhood ; and if we di-
cover any who, under a false pretence, carry on clandestine
dealings, or afford assistance to the foreign ships, let such
he immediately seized and put to death. And any manda-
rins or soldiers convicted of receiving bribes, or conniving j

attheLe illegalities, let such pay the same penalty fur their

crime.
I tind again that in the different little islets adjoining our
coasts, there are places where fresh water may be pro-
cured ; t• ought, therefore, to despatch officers and
soldiers to such parts, that being so guarded, foreigners
may no longer be able to land and draw water. Further,
the common people who inhabit the villages by the sea-
side ought all to be drilled and formed into a sort of
militia, in order. that they may be able to defend their
different parts of the country, and should any foreigners
attempt to land, let the people sally forth to beat them
back, and if any one (of ours) is discover6d to hold clan-
destine communication with the enemy, let his crime
straightway be punished with the utmost rigour. Not
only in the single province of Kwangtung ought such
measures to be taken, but the same precautions should be
secretly enforced in all those provinces which border on
the sea. The supplies bring thus cut oft' entirely front the
foreigners, and they, finding it impossible to obtain wood
or water any longer, will most undoubtedly repent of their
crimes, and drooping their heads submissively await our
sentence.
But supposing that these foreigners do not yet submit,
that they still keep looking about them, and dare contu-
maciously to offer resistance ; as these people rely on their
ships being large and strong, as they handle their great
guns both quick and well, and as they are aecustoined to
the vast ocean, I fear, under these circumstances, that
were our cruisers to proceed to catch and slaughter them
on the high seas, such were an undertaking beyond our
strength. But who is ignorant of the fact ? • These fo-
reigners being crafty and fraudulent, fierce and oveibear-
hive despising the law of the land, and not brooking limit
or restraint, the soldiery and people of Kwantung have
for a long time cherished towards them a violent animo-
sity, and every man burns with impatience to give vent to
it. It is only because the successive viceroys and fuoy-
uens, being unwilling to do anything that might light
the torch of war, have for a long time rigorously held in
our people and nut allowed them to give it a trial, that
the Kwantung men have kept their patience till the pre-
sent day.
My humble idea of the matter then is this : as we have
hitherto appeared as hosts and they as guests; as we are
on shore and they are afloat, it does not seem necessary to
me, under these circumstances, to send our cruisers a long
away out to sea to give battle to them ; but as the inter-
course of the said foreigners is cut off, and they being but
scantily supplied with necessaries, the pressure of their suf-
terings will not allow them to remain a long time anchored
in the outer ocean, they must of necessity again enter our
inner waters, and ramble and spy about as before. Now
I would still furtl.er entice theta to come in by means of
our cruisers, and in the mean time I would call out
and get ready several hundreds of the people living
on the sea coast ; of those who are the stoutest
and the bravest, and the best swimmers and divers,
I would cause them a: night to divide into groups,
to ge diving straight on board the foreign ships,
and taking the said foreigners uaawares, massacre every
individual among them. Or I would fit up several hun-
dreds of fireships beforehand, and cause the most skilful

swimmers and divers to go on board of them ; these should
take advantage of the wind and let the fircAips go, and
close in the wake of these should come our armed crui-

sers. But before going into action, I would proclaim to
all the soldiers and people that he or they who should be
able to take a foreign ship, the entire ship and cargo should
bo given them for encouragement; and this being made
known, every one would be more eager than the other in
pressing forward to the copture ; and what stay, I ask,
would these rascally foreigners have to cling to any lon-
ger ? Would not their hearts, on the contrary, die within
theta for fear?

Wilether or not my simple view of matters may be cor-
rect may I beg your Gracious Majesty to send down or-
ders to the Commissioner, and Viceroy, and Fooyuen of
Wangtung, that as an opportunity offers the expel invent
may be made ? Only let a plan be laid for a general mas-
sacre, and these said foreigners cannot but fear and trem-
ble, and come to implore us. Afterwards, if we find that
they can with a sincere and contrite heart repent them of
their crimes, then a memorial may be addressed to )our
Sacred Majesty, praying that, out of the abundance of

your Heavenly goodness, you will again permit them
to renew their commercial intercourse. But even then

a limit must be put to the export of tea, rhubarb,
and such commodities, and they must on no ac-
count be permitted to exceed the prescribed b:iunds.
This is what I call keeping a strong hold upon them ;
literally the plan of the nippers. lf, however, they dare
afterwards clandestinely to convey opium into the inner
land, then at one and the same time I would punish the
offending parties with death, according to the new statute,
and again cut (Alibr ever their admission to our markets ;
this then would most certainly cut off their greed y vi. ws
and cleanse the fountain in secula secutorum.

Whether my stanid foolish notions may be put in force or
not, I humbly pr.sy that my august sovereign
,will bestow
on this paper a single holy glance.—A most respectful
memorial.

ADDITIONAL DOCUMENT.
I further find that the Portuguese foreigners who dwell
in Macao, a place subject to the jurisdiction of the
Heangshan M tgistrate, have received the support and fos-
tering tenderness of the heavenly dynasty now upwards of
200 years. These said people depend entirely on com-
merce for subsistence, they follow after no other calling
whatever, and were we, in cutting off the intercourse of
tho English and other nations, at the same tame to inter-
dict their admission to our markets, I really fear that these
said Macao foreigners would not have wherewithal to exist ;
and this would not be manifesting celestial compassion.
And yet, if we do net put a limit to their inter-
course, it will be difficult to secure that the Portuguese
won't convey clandestinely (tea and rhubarb) and sell these
to the English and other depraved foreigners ; I have,
therefore, to beg that a fixed limit be put to the Portu-
guese commerce from this time henceforward, and that on
no account they be permitted to exceed the quantum of
cargo which they shall be so restricted to buy and sell, If
we find that these Portuguese foreigners do convey gcoda
or merchandize, or supplies of food, for the foreigners out.
side, we shall then order our native people dwelling at
Macao immediately to leave the place, and interdict all
intercourse between them and us. It is my humble opi-
nion of matters that, after having adopted these sagacious
plans and reduced things to a proper footing, and when
the English and other foreigners shall have truly repented
of their crimes and tendered the submission, we should
compel the Portuguese to become security for all the
other foreigners. And, should in time to come any,
opium be brought to China, besides taking the of-
fending foreign criminal or criminals, and putting him or
them to death, in conformity with the new statute, and
stopping the trade, we shall take the commercial relations
existing between us and the Portuguese, and cut them off
for ever, and drive them back to their own country. If we
only make a severe statute to this effect, as the wives and
families of the said Portuguese have now resided in the
inner land for a long time, there is nut one of them who
won't lament such a calamity, and act with the greatest
circumspection ; and is it to be supposed that any of them
will dare to show the slighest symptom of opposition ?
Whether or not I may beg the imperial decree of com-
manding the high officers of Kwangtung province to deli-
berate upon certain regulations to the foregoing effect,
which shall afterwards pass into laws, I am now humbly
waiting the decision of my holy master. With the deepest
respect I annex this to my memorial.

after gain to the injury of men, we did according to the
imperial pleasure cut off their trade, and early drove them
out of Maca,. Now or, account of the English still hav-
ing two or three house;. here, the great mandarines have
isued orders to close the customs, not allowing one article
of goods to go out of Macao,
in order to put a stop to this
vicious affair. Besides, things are not brought in, so that
wood and fuel are dear, and we have perceived for several
days_ that the people's feelings were embarrassed ; there_
f.ire on the 29:h day of the present month, in their behalf,
we petitioned that the customs might be reopened, and we
are waiting in expectation of another order allJwing the

same.

Now we think the store and shop men of Macao may
Lope for a return to business. We fear, however, that
there are some who will listen to and believe vlptbonds.
suffering themselves to be deceived as to the difficulties of
the tinws.

That all may know, 1, Lion, with reference to those
?mandarins who are able to discover the authors of those
vicious deceptions, command that they be seized and
b:ought to trial, not one shall escape being most severely
ex 4mined and dealt with.
At every place to which I have gone in the exercise of
guy official duties I have sworn, and made public my deter.
urination by suspending the same over the door, saying
should I desire money turning topsy turvy right and wrong-,
may my posterity be cut off ; should I yield my assent
that perverse affairs Vale right, may heaven and earth
forbid! -

Morcovvr at Macao, where tta^ natives and foreigners
are iatermixed there should be caution.
A special edict.
Taouktvang, 10th year, Ist month, and 30th day.
(March 3d, 1840.)
Translated by I. J. R.--Ibid.

CHINESE TROOPS.
Nine Government junks and boats, some cf them of
large s!z:±, filled with Chinese troops, have been lying in
the inner harbour fot the last eight or ten days. Five are
anchored near the Leen-fung temple on the race-course,
and four near the house occupied by the -establishment of
Messrs. Turner aud Co.
Notwithstanding the Taoutae's proclamation, cargo has
not been sent from Canton for the ship laid on for Lisbon,
which has been detained for more than two months for her
teas, S:c.

'ri►e Provincial Gnvernment, it is said, aro building 30
boats in Canton, under the direction of five Chinese boat.
builders hired in Macao. They arc to be double-banked,
.28 oars on each side; are to be well armed and equipped
for the service of capturing opium ships, brigs, and
schooners. The Chinese suspect the Taoutae is meditating
s)me foul play, because he is building and putting the
Pertugese off their guard by fair promises.—Canton Re
gisler, March 10,

INDIA.
( From the Calcutta Cannier, A Aril 16. )

The ef/adagasear steamer leaves us to-morrow morning
early—for the Straits and China. We hear her armament
i. of the most complete and beautiful description, her large
guns over her stern and bow in particular. She is to be
followed in a week or two by the Queen, 68 pounders will
no doubi soon thunder in the ears of the Celestial Empire
the true sense in which the power and gallantry of the
Briti di ought. to ba vien4d: the Enterprise follows her—
also fur the China expedition.
a.CalZu.fa. G. Bremmer ern: the Staff
The Mermaid and the Ilead;qesutaerrtdearsy
ionf
plricersecAil,adintyo.'sf
in the rir.t erigifatascar steamers this day, and her Ma-
4lhec9ar'vhev to
jes;tv's ship Conway, with a division of the Volunteers,
sails from Calcutta in about a week or ten days. The
whole force shall then have left, and We shall look with
great interest for an account of its proceedings.—Calcutta
Englishman, April 17.
A letter, ander date the 20. h of March, from Jellala_
bad, says—" With regard to the Russians we have had
various reports: one that comes from Herat, and given
out by the Envoy, is, that the Russian advanced division
of 16,000 men was attacked at flight by a horde of
ctens
out in their camp, and they
horsemen and severely handliw,de,raendhalethinoll:r
from Khive. Sometime ago a report of this sort
'florit'yadmbar;
reached us from Bukhara, another. and the latest, is
from Barnes, who says, that the Russians are again
moving. The general opinion is, that their object is to
get to Bokhara—and if they succeed ia reaching Khiva
after marching over so great an extent of country, it will
be an easy journey from Khiva to Bokhara, and at the
latter place they will procure cattle and suppli,s in abuu
dance, in fact, everything they require; and frol,:i Bokhara
to Khoolum is about 30 marches ; their route would he
through a country particularly fertile, so that they
would hav no necessity for a Commissariat. But from
Khoolum to Caubul, a distance of 250 miles, the road
leads over passes 12,000 feet in height, in other places
through harrow gorges, and for many miles is so nar-
row, that two horsemen cannot ride abreast, and several
officers, who have been that road say, that it is impossible
for any army to force those pastes if they are occupied by
our troops—therefore we ought to have a few strong regi-
ments ;,,f infantry always quartered at Caubal, or Chojar.
As for cavalry, they are perfectly useless, and only in the
way in this mountainous country, end require infantry to
protect them. In fact between Ghuz:ice and Peshawur
there is not a single piece of ground that cavalry could act
on to any advantage."—Beitgal Ilarkara,..April 16.
HEtte r. —A letter from Herat, dated the 14th of .J -
mury, mentions .that the last report that had reached
them regarding the movement of the Russians on Khiva,
is, that the advancing force, not more than 6,000 5tr011...,
teas still 45 or 50 marches Pram Khiva, and that the
cholera had broken out with violence in the Russian Camp.
It is believed there that the Russians will not reach' Kfiiva
this year. There is an envoy from Khiva at present in
Herat, and he seems to be confident of the truth of the
above.—Bengal Harkaru.
(Front the Bombard Times.)

Letters from' Candahar to the 9th of March state, that
the road between that city and Cabool had been shut
for come weeks. Everything as far as is known is said to he
quiet. Shah Soojah proposes to visit Candahar in July
Dort Mahomed is reported as in very bad odour at 13okhara.
Grain at Candahar was still kigh, but the prospects were
favourable, and a magnificent harvest expected all over
the country. The seapoys are in better plight, but all cry
out " this is not Hindostan." \Vales and all shop goods are
much wanted ; nothing we believe but the risk of being
plundered on the road deters the shopkeepers from send-
ing us supplies from Bombay to Candahar. - We would
therefore recommend the political agent there and the
officers to arrange some plan for the safe conduct of pri-
vate stores from the Indus, when we doubt not every.
thing wanted would soon find its way to the place.

THE CI-lINA EX EDITION.
The transports I?ustonyee :Cowasjee and John Adanz
sailed at day-light on Tuesday morning-, srith the Madras
portion of the expedition to the eastward, consisting of, as
follows : —1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 9 Captains, 6 Lieutenants,
1 Surgeon, 1 Assistant-Surgeon, 2 Warrant-Officers, and
212 European Artillery, 9 of the Ordnance and Commis-
sariat Departments, 8 Native Commissioned Officers and
64 Native Artillery, 1 Captain, 6 Lieutenants, 1 Assistant-
Surgeon, 1 Warrant Officer, 4 Native Commissioned, 10
European Non-Commissioned, 1 Assistant Apothecary,
and 266 Nttive Non-Commissioned and Rank and File
Sippers and Miners, with 132 public followers. —Bombay
Times.

Russia, ever sleepless, appears to have her eyes open to
the probable results of the projected British expedition to
C'aina. Letters from St. Petersburgh, of the 81t ultimo,
state that, in a few weeks, a mission was about. to bt. vent
by the Emperor to the Court of Peking.—Bumbay Times,
April 11.

CHINA EXPEDITION.—It appears from general or-
ders, that spirits wili not Le issued as rations to the Euro-
pean troops, but in lieu thereof each man will receive a
compensation of 3 rupees 2 annas per mensein—the Can-
teen system will be established on board, but no man will
be allowed to purchase a greater quantity of spirits than
two drams a day.
The European commissioned offi2ers are to have four
ninths' advance of pay and allowances, and tho troops two
mouths.'—Bengal Hurharu, April 16.
(F.-om the Madras Herald, April 4.)
We are happy to learn, on the authority of a contem-
porary, that the left wing of the 15th Hussars, under the
command of Sir Walter Scott, arrived safely at Bangalore
on the 31st ultimo.

PENANG.-AFFRAY ON THE WEST COAST

OF SUMATRA.

In our last number we made mention of an affray which
the French sloop-of- war Laneier had with one of the ports on
the west coast of Sumatra. It appears that Monsieur Luco,
the chief officer of the French barque Comte de Paris, was
devatched by her comn:ander, Capt. Darico, in a Malaya',
sampan on shcre at a place called Senaghun, where she
was then trading, with a sum or money amounting to
1,045 dollars, Cut in consequence of no tidings being
subsequently heard of him,
it was strongly suspected that
he had been murdered, and his body thrown overboard,
notwithstanding the report of the Malays that his death
was occasioned by the sampan upsetting in the surf. it
also seems that on Captain Darlue going On shore in corn.
party with Captain Sylver of the American ship Lacula,
which was likewise then trading at Senaghun, for the
purpose of ascertaining more satisfactory pat ticulars of the
death of Monsieur Luco, and endeavouring to obtain restitu-
tion of the money, they were detained two days as prisoners
by the Raj,th, but on threatening him that he would be
visited with severe chastisement hereafter by some French
or Antcrican vessel-of-war thatwould be despatched express.
ly to demand satisfaction for these atrocities, boat the cap.
tains were liberated and the money restored. Oa conipLting
his business at Senaghun, Capt. Darlue sailed for France,
previously leaving with a jaratalis, or writer, who was in
his confidence, a letter to be delivered to the first' French
vessel that might touch at that port. When the; Lawler
arrived at Senaghun, the letter in question was handed to
Captain La Roque de Chaufray, who having received from
Captain Sylver a confirmation of Captain Darlue's state-
mept, hp landed with a suitable force c'n
LT fith Ult., but
not being able to obtain the surrender of the murderers of
M.tLuco, he burnt the village of Senaghun, filled with
merchandise of various descriptions, after an obstinate re-
sistance from the Malaya, many of whom were iligd. The
bar of the river qn the Few!) of the french
party to th
sloop of war being found suddenly cbs:ructed and e
ren-
dered impassable, the sailors destroyed their boats to p
vent them falling into the hands of the Aidlays, and
marched along shore to Annalaboo, F,:ven miles to the
nertbward ender the protection of the:Lapcier, whi
undev xZu '6,-f5 "aailihg Orisf, 6'tlC. Elsi the ee mWn
who were drowned off the bar of the river. Thus, as tel,
account states, has most ample vengeance been obtained 'e
fo:- the murder of Monsieur Luco.—Gazette, 111,
Ircli 7,

About
midnight cm Monday s,,,uniight a thunder
storm of great violence passed oVir 11114 lle!;44l4llrhwid, The
tiatitniag pdeulti;elY vivid and d°1111"M". and for a short
time the rain fell very heavily. We do not hear that any da mate was eaus.ed by the electric Anil—Ha/if-it, kvpress.
The colliers at some of the works at Merthyr
s: em determined not to work at reduced prices.
Meetings hays been held on the occasion ; and it is feared that
the reduction (10 per cent., generally, ) will be severely felt in
he place.— Wel Amin,

SPIRIT of the PUBLMJOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
It seemed to bo a great annoyance to the Earl of Fal-
mouth that what he described as " a very mischievous
publication called the Anti-Corn-law Circular, had termed
the landlords bloodsuckers, robbers of the poor, and ene-
mies of the poor." Why should his lordship be annoyed
at mere words? If these epithets have no response in
puLlic feeling, they are perfectly harmless. Nay, if all the
world knows them to be as outrageouely misapplied, as his
Lordship and the Duke of Richmond seem to think they
are, the result of employing them must needs be a recoil
in favour of the landlords, an ebullition of gratitude for
their generosity, and of indignation et the noto-
rious misrepresentation of their Legislative impar-
tiality and self-denial. But the supporters of the
bread-tax anticipate no such re-action. They cannot, and
do not, flatter themselves with the hope of a sense of in-
justice being excited by these opprobrious appellations.
They know, or, if they do not, others know, that even
these harsh terms represent a real feeling—an extended
and extending feeling. in the public mind. They begin to
apprehend that such a feeling is making way amongst their
own dependants. , And this is the source of their anger
sod apprehension ; • not the unimportant fact, as it would
be, that a periodical had employed words that were no sign
or symbol of any formidable reality. True or untrue, just
or injurious, warrantable or indecorous, the terms in gees_
lion assuredly represent the thoughts of thousand, and
millions of our countrymen. Those thoughts will not be
changed by the predestined negative upon Earl Fitz wil.
liam's proposition.
( From the Morning Advertiser.)
If we are to maintain our hitherto unquestioned supre-
macy at sea, we must not only have good sailors, but good
shipwrights ; for, without the aid of the one, without a
thoroughly educated, and able, and scientific body of ship-
wrights, all the skill and gallantry, and hardiness of our
brave tars would be of no avail. The two are as neces-
sary to one another, as body and sent ; and the true way is
to offer and secure to both such inducements as to command
the best services of the best men. They must be Ifttter
paid, and better provided for in every respect. Their work
must be rendered a labour of love, instead of a labour of un-
remunerated compulsion.—all restraints, unnecessary for
the good of the service, withdrawn; and as much per-
sonal freedom, and means of enjoyment imparted, as can
be consistently given. These are the true, and we will
add, the only means, not only of retaining the navy in its
pristine state of efficiency, but of rendering it 'superior to
all the navies in the world. Our shipwrights would not
be bribed to enter the dockyards of Russia, nor our sailors
to prefer the service of the United States to
,that of Old
England, with the glory of a thousand heroic victories
pointing the way with triumphant mien to thousands
of others to be yet achieved. There would be no need to
impress the gallant tar to do or die in the service of his
country, nor to enter inefficient and uneducated ap-
prentices in naval establishments, because the skilful and
scientific preferred the private dockyard.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The Palmerston print and the Chronicle have lately been
vieing with each other in exhibiting absurd comparisons,
or rather contrasts, of the General Assembly of the Scot.
tish Church with the National School Society in England.
It required no ordinary ingenuity, we think, to bring together
such very dissimilar subjects ; but it is the ingenuity which
is often met with in " Bedlam and the Mint," which defies
all the rules of common sense, and which is so extravagant
as to set at nought all serious refutations. The General As-
sembly, as every one knows, answers to the convocation of
the English Church, but has no more resemblance to the Na-
tional School Society than it has to the Universities of Ox-
ford or Cambridge. But even this absurdity is lost in the
rant anti nonsense of the Globe against the National So-
ciety. "Itis a creation of the Crown." So is the Privy
Council and the Education. Committee of the Privy Coun-
cil. "It withstands the prerogative:' Strange, indeed
Is it any part of the royal prerogative to interfere with the
charter of a society which has heels created by the Crown ?
When the National Society was incorporated, was it ever
contemplated that its schools should be visited by in-
spectors appointed by the Privy Council ? We con-
tend that this Charter must be revoked, or altered,
before any such visitation can be imposed on its
schools, and that, by the regulations of this charter, it
is not at liberty to br;ng itself into bondage to any_ such
external and alien domination. It is " uncanonical and
opposed to episcopal authority." Still stranger—when
all the bishops arc ex officio members of its standing com-
mittee, and when all the Bishops, except the few who arc
the creatures of Lord Melbourne and his Cabinet, are una-
nimous in its support, and adverse to the inspection pro-
poed by the Privy Council. We think that all this rant
and nonsense is undeserving of any serious notice, and
that it betokens a total derangement of all regular thought
and argument.

(From the Morning Post.)
We observe that the Government scribes are beginning
to exercise their argumentative eloquence upon the edu-
cation question. Their performance is very vrof•thy !of
the patro►,s whom they serve. . The pith and marrow of
their diatribes amount to this, that the Church and Tory
party upon the education question are " narrow-minded
bigots," and that they are not quite agreed among them-
selves upon the subject. As to the first of these methods
of showing the public that the Church party is all in the
wrong upon the education question, it has at least the
advantage of being extremely easy. It does not re-
quire much learning, or even good manners, in order
to be able to assure one's opponents that they are nar-
row-minded bigots; and if the persons so described hap_ pin to be distinguished in society for all the milder
virtues which shed a lustre upon the most cultivated poi.-
don, of the human race, there is so much the more bo!d•-
ness in asserting the opposite. These Government writers,
who hope to be heard on the subject of education, remind
ul of, certain criminals in gaol, who demanded to vote in
political elections on the ground that no persons were
more interested in promoting the liberty of the people than
they were. If lack of education give men a superior
claim to be heard upon the subject, there can be little
doubt of the right of those persons who attack the principal
Bishops and other clergy of England, and the public men
who act in concert with them, as " narrow-minded bigots.'

PERSECUTION OF DISSENTERS.'

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It is not generally known, but the fact is undeniable,
that, by the Prisons Act of last Session, every Dis-
senter who holds, the office of chaplain in any prison in
Scotland must be turned out of office on the first day
of July ensuing, and that all D:ssenters are declared to
be incapable of holding the office of prison chaplain
after that date. This prevision occurs in the fifteenth
section of the Act. It authorises the new County
Boards to appoint chaplains and all other prison officers
from and after that date, " Provided always, that the
chaplains to be so appointed to the General Prison and
icons aforesaid shall be ministers or licentiates of the
Established Church qf Scotland." We have heard of one
case of great injustice which will flow from this provi-
sion. A highly respectable Dissenter, belonging to the In-
dependent body, after being employed for ten years as
teacher in a large prison, was unanimously appointed
to the office of chaplain in the same prison, by a Board
composed, we believe, exclusively of Churchmen and
Tories. This individual has filled the office of chaplain
for several years, devoting his whole time to the instruc-
tion of the prisoners, as teacher and chaplain, for
which he receives a salary of 901. a year. His assi-
duity and attention to the duties of his office have been
such as to merit the approbation of all his
superiors. There never was a single complaint
made against him for any cause whatever, and yet
after fifteen years' service this meritorious indivi-
dual must be dismissed from his office of chaplain,
on the Ist of July, for the crime of being a Dissenter!
The objectionaLle proviso, we understand, was added
to the Bill in the House of Lords, and was ap-
proved of by the House of Commons without oppo-
sition. It was altogether unnecessary in a religious
point of view, because, as Dr. Chalmers and other
divines of the Church of Scotland have often -stated,
there is no difference whatever between the theology
of the Church and that of the great body of Dissen-
ters ; and it has never been alleged that any evil effects
have arisen from the appointment of Dissenters to such
offices. It can only be regarded, therefore, as intended
to exalt the Church and to annoy and discourage
Dissenters.

It is a curious fact that there are only two oflicos in
Scotland which Dissenters are declared, in express
terms, to be incapable of holding, namely, chaplains of
prisons, and members of the Board for licensing printers
of the Bible, and that in both cases the brand of dis-
qualification was fixed on Dissenters so recently as 1839.
We observe that Mr. Fox Manic has obtained leave to
bring in a Bill to amend this Act, chiefly, we under-
stand, with a view to give additional powers to unions
of counties for the erection of prisons. We hope some
independent Member will get a clause inserted repealing
this obnoxious proviso.--7 Scotsman.

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ckiptc4 1-lentry Hope, R.N., has. g;'eb 0-00/. in
aid of the funds of the Royal Naval Female School; and Rea
Admiral F. W. Fane has also given 64/.. ihesedonationr; being in addition to former
contributions by the same
benevolero_,47o • „Ai

" A lady" has sent 50!. to assist in fitting
up the house for the intended school.

The Marquis of Salisbury, who came up to town
last week from Hatfield House, Herts, returned on Saturday.
His Lordship lays the foundation stone of the Hertford Na-
tional Schools this day, and to-morrow the yeomanry races
take place in the park, when the Noble Marquis as Colonel,
gives several elegant tuns to the successful Primnatitnre