The Sun.
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LONDON:
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1840.

The public was not much surprised, we presume,
to find the ex-Grand Master of the Orange Lodges,
Prince ERNEST, Duke Of CUMBERLAND, and
King of HANOVER, represented in the House of
Commons, on Monday evening, by Colonel PER-
CEVAL. That at once distinctly points out who
are the King of HAN3VER'S friends in England,
and what is his policy. Ultra alike at home and
abroad, there he crushes the newly acquired liber-
ties of his people, and here he would put them
down by the bayonet, and cause the black banner
of bloody bigotry to take the place of the lively
union-flag of Great Britain. A more appropriate
organ of his policy the Grand Master could not
have found in the House of Commons than Colonel
rERCEVAL. It seems to reveal at once to the
people to what uses the money they bestow on him
is applied.
The Duke of CUMBERLAND keeps up no esta-
blishment in England ; the old servants he left here,
and whom he pays trifling pensions and wanes, do
not exceed, we understand, a dozen ; and yet Colonel

PERCEVAL "took it on himself to say, that not
one farthing of the 21,0001. a-vear," which the
people annually pay the Dike of cumtEAx,
"goes out of the country." What ihk6n becomes
of it ? It goes, Colonel PER(OCA-AL says, to pay
just debts, both principal o.nd interest. What k'nd
of debts? 'What debts can Colonel PEttvEVA
know of ? Should it turn out that a great part of
this 21,0001. a-year is employed to aliment the
political party here of the King of HANovEn,
what will the people say of such an approriation
of 21,0001. a-year of their annual earnings e We
romembet that it was stated in criklence before the
Committee of the House of Commons which sat
on Orange Lodges, that an armed body of Orange
yeomanry declared that they knew no other chief,
anti would obey none other, than their Grand
Master the Duke Of CUMBERLAND. Does part
of the 21,000/. a-year go to nourish the peculiar
loyalty of that and similar bodies of armed men ?
We confess that the person who appeared in the
House of Commons as the organ of the Duke of
CUMBERLAND has awakened in us the worst
suspicions as to the application of the money which
is annually wrung from the people to give to the
King of HANOVER, not one farthing of which is
cent abroad.

After Colonel PERCEVAL'S explanation on Fri-
day evening concerning the apartments in St.
James's Palace, which the Duke of CUMBERLAND
has been accused of refusing to give up at the re-
quest of the QUEEN, and which Col. PERCEVAL
said was not true, it would be rude in us to assert
that it was true. But we may say, without justly
giving offence to Colonel PERCEVAL, that we have
heard from a gentleman, who we think has the
means of knowing, and whose authority we place
much higher than that of Colonel PERCEVAL, that
an application, in the name of her MAJESTY, was
made to the King of HANOVER for those apart-
ments, and that his MAJESTY returned a rude and
blunt refusal. 'Which story is most likely to be
true, the public must decide by the known habits
and character of the Prince whom it concerns.

On Saturday the Corn-law Delegates pursued
with great success their investigation into the con-
dition of the peasantry of England. A full report
of the examination of another agricultural labourer
will be found in another part of The Sun. What
the Squires and Parsons will say of this exposure
of the condition of the classes they have taken un-
der their special protection we are not aware, but
the public will read it with mingled feelings of bitter
regret and burning indignation. We are well as-
sured that JAMES VICKERY'S evidence is sub-

stantiallv true, for we remember in the Report of
the Commissioners to inquire into the operation of
the Poor-laws, several descriptions which amply
confirm it. We trust that it will be read, for its

utility arises from the publicity given to it by our

We, in common with many other persons, have
frequently adverted to the miserable condition of
the Irish peasantry, and our kind-hearted people
have several times raised large sums to relieve their
distresses, and pay their landlords exorbitant rents.
•

Indeed, the cha.rily of our Englishmen is bound-

less. They seek out distress in the remote parts
. ...

of the earth, and form societies to carry civilization
and comfort into the heart of Africa, or spread

them over the many islands of the South Sea.
But while they have been wandering abroad in search

of fit objects of charity, or have eagerly run to the
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aid of the Irish in seasons of distress, here, at home,

they live surrounded with persons in a condition of

existence physically worse, considering the climate,
than the Irish, the Africans, or the natives of the

South Sea Islands

Ail the advantages of our

civilization seem denied to them. When there

is a great failure of the potatoe crop in Ire-
land, many poor wretches are wont to perish
of actual hunger ; nature kindly puts an end to
their sufferings ; but here Poor-laws keep men
alive, in such a contigency, to consign them,
it is to be feared, to many years of privation and
pain. With this exception, if it be an excep-
tion—that many of the Irish die in unfruitful
years, while the English appear to be saved from
actual starvation—we begin to think with Mr.

O'CONNELL and Mr. SMITH, that the condition

of the Irish, who are light-hearted and light-worked,
is better than the condition of the over-toiled Eng-
lish peasantry. Here is part of the evidence of
JAMES VICKERY—one of OUT bold peasantry

" The things he had on were his best.• The jacket he
now wore he had had for five or six years. He only wore
it on Sundays. Had not bought any garments, except
the jacket, for seven or eight years. Had bought only

one pair of breeches since he had been married (nearly
thirty years), but he had a pair of sail canvass trousers
which he purchased about three years ago. That was all
he had had since he was married. Had a little abort
smock frock, which he bought about a couple of years ago.
The linen for his shirt was bought from the packman,
for which he paid by small sums. He had now two
linen shirts which he had for years."
So much for his clothing. Here is a description
of his lodging and furniture':--
" The condition of the people in his neighbourhood was
in a much lower state now than it was in 1835. They
hardly knew how to get bread to eat. He had two beds
and two bed-rooms in his cottage. He and his wire slept
in one room, and his four children slept together in the
other. At one time five of them slept in one bed ; some
of them lay at the head of the bed, and others at the
bottom, foot to foot. Had only two chairs, but some of
them sat on three-legged stools which he made himself.
Had a grate which he made himself out of old bars of iron.
Had no fender or fie irons. Got three candle sticks, two
pots, and a tea kettle."
Now for his food : as to quantity :
" By the CHAIRMAN—Do you always get as much as
you can cat ?-ob, no ; I am often forced to turn off be-
fore I gat a bellyful, and so is my wife and the children. I
often go without myself, bccathe I don't like to see the
poor children want it.
This is a description of the quality :
Mr. RAWSON here produced two loaves for the in-
spection of the Delegates, one of which he observed wai a
specimen of the bread given to the convicts and felons in
the Penitentiary, and the other that urm which the bold

peasantry of England, who had been so emphatically
termed the " country's pride," were obliged to subsist.
The bread given to the prisoners in the Penitentiary,
though brown, was sweet, light, and wholesome, whilst
that upon which the honest agricultural labourer was oblig-
ed to subsist, and which he could alone procure by toiling
under a scorching sun, or subjecting himself to the piercing
cold of winter, was as black as irk, heavy as lead, and more
calculated to produce disease than to sustain life.

So are the industrious labourers of England, the
creators of all the wealth of the landowners and the
priests, whose fare was once wheaten bread and
roast beef, now nourished under the operation
of the Corn-laws ! Yet Lord MELBOURNE, we
regret to say, is not prepared to aid the
Delegates to repeal them. His Lordship evidently
knows nothing of the question, or he would not
have talked to the Manchester and Bolton Dele-
gates of years of scarcity and plenty. We repeat
that the harvests of our cotton-spinners never fail.
It is only the cursed Corn-laws, which will not
allow;them to buy bread with their produce, which
reduces them to distress.

Lord MELBOURNE spoke, too, of the policy
of other States—what has that to do with
our Corn-laws ? They are a question, as Mr.
O'CONNELL properly said, of plunder on one
side, and submission to plunder on the other—
a question between our landowners and the rest of
the community, and with which the policy of
Prussia has no more to do than it has with bur-
glary and larceny, and the punishments ordained
for them by the law. But every excuse, every sub-
terfuge is sought out, to avoid doing what is right,
and to throw the blame of those tremendous evils
under which society is suffering on Prussia, or
Russia, or any other power or thing, rather than
confess that it is wholly due to the rascality of the
Legislature of 1828.
At the meeting of the Delegates with Lord
MELBOURNE on Friday, his Lordship was empha-
tically warned of the consequence of the present sys-
tem, and emphatically told that on the Government
and the landowning law-makers be the awful res-
ponsibility of not reforming the law. The tendency
of the Corn-laws to provoke constitutional changes,
may be inferred from Mr. O'CONNELL'S speech at
the meeting of the Delegates on Saturday. The
Hon. Member, because there is no hope of procur-
ing a repeal of the Corn-laws, recommends an ex-
tension of the Suffrage. He has become a Chartist
in all but the use of physical force. We believe
several of the Delegates have been converted to the
same creed, and another refusal to repeal
the Corn-laws will make two-thirds of the manu-
facturers unite with the Chartists. They say and
feel that it is better to overthrow the Government
than live as they do live, surrounded with a popu-
lation continually goaded to excess by incipient
starvation.

The Times is distinguished from all the other
organs of public opinion by a brutal ferocity, which
has in it this peculiarity, that it is, as it were, in-
stinctivelv directed against all men who evince Iv
their conduct thai, they arc actuated by pure and

1.0 ourab't motiVe. A political profligate is 'ure of
itstraise. To such a character it gives
fraternal hug, besmearing him frohi Weaki. to foot
with the nauseous slayer '6f Its eulogy. But let
any one exbiblt 'nigh moral or political courage,
es elicate sense of honour, and this unprinci-
pled mouth-piece of an unprincipled faction pours
out upon him, from its exhaustless stores of abuse,
a daily torrent of the most malignant vituperation.
A little while ago the Duke of SUTHERLAND
was assailed by this scurrilous print, for unhand-
some and unconstitutional conduct towards Mr.
HOWARD, the member for the county of Su-
therland. It stated confidently that the Honour-
able member was retiring from the represen-
tation of that county in consequence of
the Duke's interference, and animadverted upon
the heinousness of such an infringement
of electoral rights and privileges, with all that zeal
for the free exerci,,e of the franchise which it is
known to possess. Upon this Mr. HOWARD
publishes a letter, in which he denies in the most
peremptory manner the truth of the Times' asser-
tion, and affirms that his retirement was " his own
spontaneous deed," no human being having at-
tempted to influence him in the matter.
Now hod the Times possessed a particle of de-
cency, the moment that it saw this exculpation of
the Duke of SUTHERLAND from the charge
which it had brought against him, it would have
made an apology as ample as the offence it had
committed was gross. Any other Journal in the
kingdom would have acted thus. But what does
the Times do ? The impudent calumniator
turns on his heel, and coolly observes, " The Duke
of SUTHERLAND, it seems, didn't interfere !"
He then sets upon Mr. HOWARD with more than
his usual fury, tossing and goring him through the
best part of a column, because he has deserted his
party, and that in the very nick of time when they
most stood in need of his assistance—when

is " the united and vigorous determina-

tion of the Conservative party not merely
to abandon that shy indifference to power (what a
power of face this fellow must possess, if he could
refrain from laughter while putting those words on
papet !) in which, as long as it lasted, Mr.
HOWARD cordially supported them, but to avail
themselves of every fair opportunity for upsetting
the present Government."

The folly of this writer is equal to his malignity,
and neutralizes it. If Mr. HOWARD had really
deserted his party and his principles, as the Times
alleges, where was the necessity for his resignation
of his seat ? It is much more consistent with that
supposition that he should have retained it. A
renegade, the Times well knows, would not have
had any scruples about the matter. It is simply
because Mr. HOWARD is an honest and
an honourable man that he has withdrawn.
The county of Sutherland (why conceal the
truth) is much in the same situation as
the nomination boroughs before the Reform
Act. The electors are few, and the great majority
of them either so dependent upon, or attached to,
the House of SUTHERLAND, that they follow its
politics without reluctance or hesitation. We are
sorry for this. We wish the Sutherlandshire
voters were imbued with that holy abhorrence of
undue influence which animates the bosom of the
Times, but we cannot disguise facts—they vote
with their landlord. Mr. HOWARD knows this,
and feeling that he stood in a very different rela-
tion to the returning power, from that which
existed at the time of his election, he, with a deli-
cacy which every honourable mind will appreciate,
voluntarily put an end to a connexion the under-
stood terms of which he found he could no longer
comply with.

A dispute has arisen between the Greenwich
and Croydon Railway Companies, which does not
redound much to the credit of the latter. The par-

titulars of the dispute are few and simple. In 1835,
an agreement was entered into between the two
Companies, that the Croydon Company should be
allowed to pass passengers, no matter whence they
came, over a mile and three-quarters of the existing
Railway, for the toll of threepence per passenger.
The Croydon Company afterwards entered into to
agreement with the Brighton and Dover Companies,
and engaged to allow them to run carriages
from London-bridge to Croydon, for a toll of
fifteen-pence per passenger ; but in consequence of
a Report of a Railway Committee of the House
of Commons, this agreement could not be carried
into effect, unless the line was widened. The
Greenwich Company, therefore, apply to Parlia-
ment for power to raise 150,0001. to widen their
Railway, being possessed of the lend requisite for

the purpose, and to make the Croydon Company
pay a fair proportion of the fifteen-pence toll. The
latter object to this, and are endeavouring to get a
Bill passed to take the land belonging to the Green-
wich Company, and force the change of sta-
tions, paying for the land a toll which
the owners consider utterly inadequate. Even
the encroaching Company admit that they in-
fringe upo❑ private rights, that they will injure the
Greenwich Company, and justify their proceedings
solely on the ground of public convenience. Public
convenience ought never to be admitted as a plea
in a dispute between Companies, who, every one
knows, engage in these undertakings for private pro-
fit, and the very introduction of the term ought to
be regarded with suspicion when pounds, shillings,
and pence are in question. The land belongs to
the Greenwich Company ; they make an offer
which no impartial judge can disregard.
They offer to give up all their land for nothing, to
expend 150,0001. in widening the line, and require
only a temporary toll to last till they are remune-
rated for the increased outlay. On what grounds,
therefore, can Parliament interfere, and take their

property from them ? We are inclined to make
more remarks on these suspicious proceedings than

we have room for at present, hut we shall watch the
contest, and take care to publish the movements of
the aggtessive party. In the meantime, we refer our
readers to a strong article on the subject in the
Railway Magazine, and also to a succinct account
of the whole transaction in a pamphlet published
by a Greenwich Shareholder. The postscript is
more expressive than the whole pamphlet—" N.B.
The Greenwich shares, in consequence of these
Parliamentary proceedings, have declined 50 per,
cent."

With the history and object of the Canadia,
Clergy Reserves Bill, which his Grace the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY has given notice that he
will move the immolation of on the altar of High
Church ascendancy, on the 10th of April, it may
be presumed that some of our readers may not be
fully acquainted. The thick and thin admirers of
" our most beautiful, most perfect, and most glo-
rious Church Establishment," the " truest test of
a religious people and a moral Government," have
all, doubtless, learned with as much wonder as did
old GEORGE 111., that the early British emigrants
to the Canadas did not carry out with them that
pastorly passion for greater and lesser tithes, for
first fruits, and for Easter offerings, which in
England constitutes the pith and marrow of State
Christianity. On the contrary, these early settlers
had the audacity to make religion and piety quite a
family, instead of a State business, and actually to
promulgate the doctrine that if any man, or any
body of men, wanted extraneous help to save his
or their souls, the cost of obtaining such assist-
ance, if any, should be defrayed by the individual
or individuals requiring it, as privately agreed
upon. Many of these persons appeared to be ac-
tuated by the purest motives. They could not see,
they argued, how the salvation of souls, or the
regulation of a salvationable belief, could be
delegated, like a power to impose a tax,
or ,project a highway. They feigned not
to be able to comprehend how any man could
divest himself of the responsibility which he ()weti
to the Great Author of his being ; and they con-
tended that such responsibility, if admitted at al:,
must necessarily include whatever appertains to a
belief in, and worship of the Creator, of the uni-
verse. But neither old GEORGE 111. nor his
Ministers could be prevailed upon to relish these
notions. Binding that the Canadians could not
be brought to save their souls after the English
fashion, the Ministers of the Tory King passed an
Act in 1791, by which a seventh of the lands of
Canada were reserved for the maintenance of the
clergy alone. This was certainly a pretty fair
proportion for the support of a Church establish-
ment ; but, to the scandal and horror of the old
King and his Ministers, the majority of the Cana-
dians took it into their heads to understand by the
word " clergy" in the Bill, the authorised teachers
of ali religious secs ; and even to declar., in ex_
press terms, that they would not tolerate in tli,
Canadas the performance of the Irish Church

farce. the Milioiitt of " ti•qe belle4Arg" pr,o-
tested aild ilirbatened in vain. In vain dui
they refer to what must have been the intentions-
of the crazed Royal bigot in providing
for the support of the " clergy." The majority
were resolved not to suffer the establishment of the
Irish Church nuisance. For nearly forty years was
this question the source of constant bickerings and
strife in the Canadas, and at last was mainly in-
strumental in producing the late lamentable rebel.
lion, which nearly cost us our possessions in North
America. Well, the lesson which the Government
ought to have learned thirty years ago, was at last
forced on it. On the arrival of the present Go-
vernor-General,
Mr. POULETT THomsoN, in
Canada, he recommended the Legislature of Upper
Canada to remove this apple of discord by passing
a Bill for the regular appropriation of these reserves.
This Bill, which was passed by the Canadian
Legislature, and copies of which have been pre-
sented to the two Houses of Parliament, grants to
the clergy of the Established Church of England
in Canada, a fourth of the Clergy Reserves Fund ;
another fourth it allows to be divided in fair pro-
portions between the Catholics and Presbyterians ;
and the remaining two-fourths to be divided among
the teachers of all other religious sects. Now,
when it is borne in mind that in the Upper Pro-
vince the Presbyterians are the most numerous re-
ligious sect, that the numerical majority in the
Lower belongs to the Roman Catholics, and that
in the two provinces combined these sects are the
most numerous, the sum allotted to the support of
the clergy of the Church of England is most
munificent.

jus-
tice though the Bill is more favourable to the
priests of the English Church than in strict
it ought to be, and though it promises religious
repose to the Canadas, the Right Reverend Bench
are resolved to give it no quarter. It must be immo-
lated to soothe the angry manes. of Protestant as-
cendancy. Every Peer in whose nostrils the savoury
smell of roasted tithe pig is grateful, has received an
invitation to be in attendance on the 10th proximo to
assist at the solemn ceremony. What care the Bishops
about the peace of provinces in which the flames of
civil war are hardly extinguished ? What is it to
those lordly personages whether the Canadians be
loyal or disloyal, provided there is to be no rampant
Church Establishment to confound, by a display of
bloated wealth, the Heathen who scoff at the poverty
and humility recommended by the Founder of Chris-
tianity? The only points about which the Bishops are
anxious, are :—What provision is there for Arch.
bishops and Bishops in the Canadas ? How many
stalls for idle Canons ? Is Pluralism much in vogue,
and are prosecutions for Simony discouraged ?
Has due care been taken to establish Ecclesias-
tical Courts, and to exalt them above the jurisdic-
tion of civil tribunals ? If great tithes ca nnot be
levied, because the Church has a seventh of the
lands already, is there no contrivance by which a
tithe on chickens, eggs, plump sucking pigs, and
March lamb, might not be imposed ? Is there no
way by which a mouthful of these teeth-watering
delicacies might not be secured, without price, to
the Ecclesiastical Staff of the Church Militant ?
These are the questions to the solutions of which
the whole regard of the Episcopal Bench is now
directed.

It is too late in the day, at least beyond the
threshold of the House of Lords, to recommend to
the Bishops to pass an Act, declaring the word
" clergy" in all Acts of Parliament, when asso-
ciated with the ideas of worldly honour and secular
profit, to mean only the priests of the Church of
England. There is one weapon in the Episcopal
armoury, which on this occasion, we think, they
might use with advantage. We find it main-
tained, in some of the Canadian Journals, that
if the Protestants are a minority as regards
persons and souls, they constitute the majority in
point of the value of their goods and chattels. "If
they be not the most numerous Christian sect,"
says their organ, " they are at least the richest and
most influential." This statement has been made
an hundred times in Parliament with respect to
Ireland, and always with triumphant effect, and we
do not see why it should not have equal weight if
adroitly urged in the affair of the Canadas. The
Gospel having declared that the salvation of rich
men amounts almost to an impossibility, while the
gates of Heaven are thrown invitingly open to the
poor ; might not his Grace of C ANTERBURY, and
their Lordships of LONDON and EXETER, contend
in opposing the Reserves Bill, that the salvation of
the souls of so rich a community could not be un-

dettaken for the paltry sum sufficient for the spiri-
tual guidance of twice the number of poor Papists
and Presbyterians ? Here the case of Ireland,
where it costs as much to save the soul of one
true blue" Protestant as of those of ten
beggarly Papists, could b 3 urged with sur-
prising effect. A pious scribe, dating from
Toronto, writes in the Morning Herald, that
unless the Temporal Peers come to the re-
lief of the Prelates on this occasion, Inde-
pendents, Jumpers, and Ranters will come in for a
share of the Reserves Fund. We entreat die
Bishop of EXETER'S attention to this frightful,
blood-chilling announcement. Here are materials
for an archiepiscopal, mitre-earning pamphlet, of
which we trust his Lordship will not fail to make
the proper use. Only think of a State fund—a
GEORGE-111.-and-House-of-Lords-created fund—
devoted to the spiritual instruction of such scurvy
plebeian sectaries as Jumpers and Ranters ! Here
is indeed fine ground for the display of lordly zeal
and episcopal intolerance. No, no. If sectarian
teachers must be paid, it is little enough that they
be compelled to declare themselves to belong to
some genteel aristocratic sect. Popery is bad
enough, but then it is relieved by the imperial and
princely rank of many of its professors ; but where
is there in the world a Royal family of Ranters
and Jumpers ? Ranters and Jumpers may do
very well for tax-payers, but the House of
Lords must not tolerate their pretensions as tax-
eaters. Besides, it may be maintained very plau-
sibly that the State is only bound to do for indivi-
duals what, in an individual capacity, they cannot
do for themselves. Salvation is offered to the poor
without price, but to the rich at a price so exorbi-
tant that few individually can hope to obtain it.
By richly endowing, therefore, a priesthood for their
use, the Legislature only places them on a level
with their mendicant fellow-subjects.
Upon this very simple view of the question there
is but one drawback, and we confess it is rather an
ugly one. The majority of the Canadians say that
if the Bishops throw out the Reserves Bill, they
will appropriate the whole amount to secular pur-
poses, especially to the clearing of wastes, the
draining of morasses, the making of roads and
canals, and the building of towns and villages.
Were they to do this, our high-flying Members of
the House of Lords might discover too late that
they had put their feet into the wrong box. It
would then be altogether a very bad business for
the Anglican Prelates and Prelatists.

Brussols Papers, of Saturday's date, state that the
Chamber of Deputies is convoked for Thursday next.
No word yet about a Cabinet.
On the 13th instant, Prince MICHAEL, of Servia,
arrived at Belgrade. He was received with joyful
acclamations by the inhabitants.

The French Journals of Friday and Saturday have
all been received. They bre interesting intelli-
gence from the East, whichin g wilrlunbe found in another
part of The Sun. The misunderstanding between
France and the Ottoman Porte is said to be entirely
removed.
The triumph of M TRIERS is admitted by his poli-
tical opponents, and by their organs of the press, to be
most complete. It has quite confounded the Court.
The King is now bound hand and loot at the feet of
the " legitimate son of the Revolution of July." Help
for him there is none. He dare not by a dissolution of
the Chambers appeal to the count.ry, for that would
the Minis; erial majority. But, corn•.
only increase
manding as is M. TRIERS'S position, he has the greatest
difficulties to encounter—difficulties which, while it
would be glorious to surmount, it would not
indicate more than the ordinary share of human weak-
ness in a Statesman even to sink under. The Northern
Powers, whatever aspect they may at first assume, fear
and hate the new Minister. Russia dreads his revival
of the question of Polish independence, and Austria
fears his intervention in the affairs of Italy. M.
TRIERS might laugh at the hostility of the Northern
Cabinets in whatever way manifested, did his fellow-
countrymen only share in his generous and patriotic
views on the question of the alliance with England.
But unfortunately upon this vital point the press and
the public mind is, in a great measure, arrayed against
him. Jealousy of England seems now to haunt the
nightly slumbers of the French. We can neither move
nor speak without exciting their suspicions. To be
prepared for a war with England, they are increasing a
fleet, the expenses of which are Arcady dra;iiing. the
natiou.l rek9urces ; and tich the ii4tpetuo. el
popular torrent, that Ne fear the AlHster riot b.:.

ab:e to item it. Our GoVernment, doubtlessj gie3
!dm an the; assistance in its power ; and it wouid be
well if the English PretA generally could be prevailed
~,on to assume a lucre motlefar.e toils vlith respect to
France.

The Chamber of Deputies met on Saturday, to re,
ceive petitions. Oio' from Rouen, praying for a reduc-
tion of the Import duty on Foreign cods, was well re-
ceived by the Chamber. It was supposed that the
prayer of the petitioners would he granted.
The Paris Tribunal of First Instance decided against
lwaring the trial brought on in the name of Lady Btit
WER, Sir EDWARD L YTT ON BULWER, her husband,
having refused authority to his wife to bring it on. Lady
BJLwEa. vas repres .t:1 by M. EirtaYEa, the eelc-
urated Royalist orator, and Sir E. L. BULWER by M.
()DILLON BARIOT. the no less celebrated Republican
Deputy. Lady BULWER, by the advice of her friends,
appealed from the sentence of the Court of First In-
stance, to the Court Royal, where the appeal will be
heard in the course of a few days.
In a letter from Leghorn, dated the 2lst inst., we
find the following statement, which we must observe is
greatly qualified by another account received of the
affair to which it refers

Lord Palmerston having in an official note claimed of

the Neapolitan Government a large sum for damages pre-
viously incurred, and 1,0001. sterling per day until the
suspension or dissolution of the sulphur monopoly granted
to France, which Great Britain considered as an attack
upon her right of trade, and a violation of existing treaties,"
the King of Naples is stated to have, in a moment of ex-
citement, pride, or ill-humour, torn into pieces the note of
the British Minister, and that the English Ambassador had
in consequence demanded his passports.
The following extract from the French Journals in-
cludes the latest news received from Spain, as well as
rumours from Egypt
The Consul-general of France in Egypt bas been for
some time empowered by his Government to establish
French Agents in Abyssinia and on the coasts of the Red
Sea. Notwithstanding the full powers with which he has
been invested for carrying this plan into effect. he has not
yet been able completely to succeed. The French Go-
vernment, probably considering these ports as of little im-
portance, would wish that they should be given to persons
engaged in commerce. But as the prospect of a profitable
trade is very precarious, and not likely to tempt Europeans
to settle in these countries, where fever is said to be very
prevalent, it would be necessary to make the office of agent
sufficiently lucrative to offer a positive encouragement. At
present there are only two French Agents at Mocha and
Yedda."

The Madrid Gazette of the 20:h, publishes the Decree
by which Count Clonarl is appointed Captain-General of
Grenada and Jaen, in the room of General Aldama.
A letter from Arragon, published in the Emancipation
of Toulon of the 25th, referring to the report that Ca-
brera had gone to Catalonia, in order to prepare for a
journey to France, adds the following reflections :-
4. What might seem to confirm this news is, that in
drawing near to the frontiers of the Pyrennees, as he has just
done, it is observed that he was accompanied by his
two sisters, and ten mules entirely laden with baggage.
At least, he is doubtless desirous of being prepared for
whatever may happen."
The same Correspondent adds—
" Forcadcl commands the Carlist army, during the ab-
sence of Cabrera. Don Petro Beltran, who is Governor
of Morella, has been appointed, ad interim, Commandant
of Maestrese-o.