The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-15 00:00:00

port; a hundred other ships at anchor in the port have
sustained immense damag,e laitli, a part of the Mole,
and all the establi,hMentS upon it, are destroyed.".—Lc
Commerce.

The Tartare, which has the mail from Africa on board,
and many convalescent soldiers, was obliged to put into
Port Mahon, on the -21 of January;- having suffered great
damage. Aboth fifty of the passengers were conveyed to
the French hospital. The Tartarc, not being in a con=
dition to continue her voyage, the mail was put on board
the Gregois steamer, which had just touched at Mahon, and
was able immediately to proceed to Toulon.—Le Consti.
tutionncl.

130 CTRSE.—PARts, TUESDAY, JAN. 12.

first Highest Lowest I.ait
Price Price. Pricy. . Price
Ficnch 5 per Cents 112 20 ... 112 30 ... 112 20, ... 112 25
4 per Cents 99 .. 99 ... 99 '.. g 9
- 3 Per Cents 77 ,5 - 77 60 ••• 745 ''' 7-7.11 6°
0 4,. of mince
....3260 ...32.-
I.st/itte Bank I,llooi. So._ 1050 ...1,50 —lO5O -.165')
5000 f. Shires 5132 50 .4132 50 -.5132 50 .4132 fq
'elgian Bank
5 per Cents....
...
3 per Cents
New Loan ... 9969 .
... : 1,9 ...... 92
559 ......
6010
9114 ... wig ... 95% ... 9814
~,...irrsh Active . 24,/, • ... 24% ... ‘24% ... 24%
l'a,sive ' 6 ... 6 ... 6 ..• 6 •
s:cal4,lil4o .
PAIL
190j1144.)
:::
'90911461
,ion,all
St .i.errnain
69.5 ... 095 ... C 95 ... 695
Versz.:lle:!ll. It
L. 13
()means
S risburg to Bale
quihaus.en to Thann .. ...... 244542'47'77524 :'sso'o'
......•:..: :.2143442.9'1 75
i•........... 43444281155287 52575005
..........11!)..4:82288505 77:2

ADMIRAL STorFortp, we arc informed, has accepted
the office of Governor of Greenwich Hospital, and may
be expected in England about March.
CONTEST AT REIGATE.—Lord Eastaior has been
started at Reigate by his Conservative friends, in oppe-
sition to Mr. D'Arcy. This split amongst the Tories
may perhaps open the door for some Liberal to walk
into the scat.

TILE CHURCH AND THE ARISTOCRACY THE ENE-
MIES OF TRUTH.----" No, no ; we cannot help our con-
vietion—our knowledge—that the principle of free trade
is true. We cannot resist—i,nd we will not suppress—
the conviction that its judicious app:ication would be an
incalculable boon to the empire, and to every human
being in it.. But we will not be di.iven by misdirected—
sometimes intemperate—zeal in defence of a legislative
blunder, to abandon our allegiance to the Chu-ch. So
says the .Manchester Chronicle, a thorough-paced Tory
print, which at the same time bitterly abuses the League
for speakio,*.itl of the-Aristocracy and the Church. The
Chronicle pays a divided allegiance. It cannot help
being a commercial print, believing free trade to
be true and good,--Ht cannot help being also a
Tory print, believing that the Uhutch and the
Aristocracy are
.also true and good. But the latter
are opposed to free trade, and opposed, therefore to what
the Chronicle regards as true and good. The divided al-
legiance of the Chronicle is another example to be added
to those of the Post, Standard, and Dublin Evening
Mail, of the homage which the Tories are reluctantly
compelled to pay to the noble principles of free trade.
Like the unfortunate Scott, they seem about to hang
themselves, and certainly we shall not interpose to pre-
vent them.

CONTEST FOR THE OFFICE OF

13RIDGE-MASTER.

Yesterday a Common Hall was held, for the election
of a Bridge-master, in the room of Mr. 'Watson, de-
ceased. The City has been in a bustle for some
weeks in consequence of the exertions of the friends of
the two gentlemen who have actively sought the suf-
frages of their fellow-citizens, and who seem to be ex-
pending a great deal of money in tho struggle. They
arc both most highly esteemed.
At one o'clock the Livery assembled in no very great
number, for upon such an occasion, when a contest of
seven days is known to be about to take place, the show
of hands is considered as no test of future victory.
Alderman LAINSON proposed Mt% George Ledger
as a gentleman qualified in every -respect to fill the
office of Bridge-master.
Mr. LAWRENCE seconded the nomination.
S:r PETER LAURIE proposed Mr. David Gibbs, who
had contested the election for Bridge-master ten years
ago, and expressed a hope that that candidate would
prove successful upon the present occasion.
Mr. STEVENS seconded the nomination.
There were two other candidates. Mr. Richards,
who was proposed by Mr. Price, seconded by' r. Deal ;
and M. Hoard, who came forward for the purpose of
withdrawing from the contest.
The show of hands was declared by the Sheriffs to be
in favour of Mr. Gibbs, and a poll was immediately
demanded upon the part of Mr. Ledger.
The polling commenced at three o'clock for the day,
and ended at four, when the following numbers were
exhibited

Gibbs
Ledger • . ...... . . 191

The Hall adjourned to this morning. It is expected
that the struggle will be tremendous.

THE WALSALL ELECTION AND

PUSEYISM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Str,,—lt oppeark-.to.,ine worth ~chyle to take notice
of a remark in Mr. Gladstone's last leiter to the eke-
tors of Walsall, which is to the effect, " that the Anti-
Corn-'nw League were making unwarrantable quotations
from the Bible in support of their views."
Mr. Gladstone, in speaking thus, seems to forget
that the doctrines of the Oxford Tract and Puseyite
party are not, as yet, so universally received and acted
upoP, that this opinion of his con have much
weight. Things are not already come to such a pass
that people must inquire of Mr. Gladstone what quota-
tions from the Bible are warrantable or otherwise. Ac-
cording to his notions, they arc, I presume, expected to
wait for the approbation of Church authority,-. before
they can even venture to quote from the Bible such pas-
sages as shall appear to suittheir purpose ; in the same way
vs they are also required by him to accept all
interpretation of its meaning solely from the same
'hands. But until that despotic power is acknowledged,
and the right of private judgment given up, it will,
perhaps, be deemed proper by the Anti-Corn-law
League to apply the precepts and commands of the
Bible in aid of the great cause of humanity, and for-the
purpose of convicting those who profess such extreme
veneration -for it, of their iniquitous disregard of its
contents.

1 cannot help thinking that. the public are placed in
a most embarrassing position in respect to the sacred
volume. There ate many who would make it the only
vehicle of knowledge and the sole basis of education ;
and when minds have been thus narrowly restricted,
and proceed to turn this, their only knowledge, to a
practical account., by quoting it in support of the princi-
ples they may profess, then Mr. -Gladstone, or some
other High Church authority exclaims, Oh I you see
making most unwarrantable quotations. Of course,
this observation does not apply to the enlightened
members of the Anti-Corn-law League, but is meant to
show the natural tendency of the views of certain or-
thodox people in reference to the use of the Bible.
Tile electors of Walsall will, doubtless, consider that
the Anti-Corn-law agitators hare as much right to
make use of those texts of the Bible which lend support
to their views, as M. Gladstone can have in employing
other passages to support the claims of apostolical
succession, and Church authority, of which he is such a
zealous and notorious champion.
I trust that it will spur the electors of Walsall on
to en increased opposition to this gentleman, by recol-
lecting that. he is not only an enemy to the free trade
of provision for the body, but is equally so to tha'
freedom of conscience, and Protestant principle, right o).
private judgment, which desires the same kind of ali-
ment for tic soul. _

That he may be defeated on both these grounds, and
that the advocates of a free trade in corn, and the
friends of 'civil and religious liberty, may obtain a
triumph for these principles by the return r f Mr.
Smith, is a t)rayer in which all true Reformers will cor-
dially unite.
Hoping this letter may be thought worthy of inicr-
tion in your columns,
I remain, Sir, your obedient Servant,
Jan. 7, QUOTE AD LIBITUM."