The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-18 00:00:00

PROVISION MARKET.

Owing tr. fresh arrivals of Bacon from Ireland lower prices
have been : tccepted. Irish Butter also rather lower, the best
100,. to IC 4s. ; Lard in great request at 615.,. to 655. per cwt.
TALLOW MARKET.
P.Y.C. quiet at 51s. 6d.
COLONIAL MARKET.

We itaive no public sale, and very little doing by private con-
tract. firntiah Plantation Sugar flat but firm. Imports of all
kinds con tit .ue light.
TEA SALE, THIRD DAY.
Not a 116th of what was put up sold. The great holders did
not seen to have any inclination to sell, except in small quanti-
ties, and the buyers were not disposed to buy largely. The
rile is ov, sr, and it is calculated that about a tenth of the
original a anouncement of about three million pounds has
been sold during the three clays. Never was there a more dull
affair ; p does seemed rather firm, and no Congous went under
`'s. 4d. per lb. ; Twankays, 2s. 4d. to 2s. tid. ; Orange Pekoe,
3s. 6d. to4s ; Gunpowder, 3s. to 3s. 6d. and 4s. per lb. Some
low Hysons sold at 2s. Bd. per lb. These were the closing prices.

Comm odore Isaac Chauncey, of the American
navy, well . known for his intrepidity in the war of 1813, on the
Canadian l ..akes, against Sir James Yeo, Sir George Prevost,
and the I iri tish naval and military forces, died lately at Wash-
ington. He; was President of the Board of Navy Commissioners.
A Memorial to the Postmaster-General for a
delivery of ;letters on Sundays, has been signed by all the
Bankers 4of

LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1841.

There was again in the House of Lords last night
some ebnversation as to the intentions of the Ministers
touching a measure for healing the schism betwixt the
Kirk and the State, but it was not in its results different
from the conversation of the night before. The Go-
vernment has not yet decided that it. will bring forward
any measure. The Earl of GALLOWAY who begun the
conversation, and who has a sort of saintly reputation,
expressed his regret at seeing that the Clergy of the
Scotch Kirk resorted to the same unworthy means of
agitation, by which the Roman Catholic Clergy had
acquired so much notoriety and importance. What
the Noble Earl regrets is common to all the priesthood,
only the M‘GHEEs and the M'NEILES are not quite
so successful as the CliaLmEasEs and the MactiALEs.
The ground about the metropolis is not so favourable
for priestly operations as the remote hills of Scotland,
or the remote bogs of Ireland.
Lord MONTEAGLE explained that the Exchequer
Records which bad been late;y destroyed were only
duplicates, and were formerly sold as waste paper.
Lord REDESDALE thought it would have been
better to sell than burn them. They would have been
of use to cheesernongers.
Several petitions were presented, but the Lords did
not sit an hour.
In the Commons, also, a considerable number of pe-
titions were presented concerning the Corn-laws,
Church Exteasion, Non-intrusion, &c. &c. A petition
for the repeal of the Corn-laws, presented by Mr. M.
PHILLIPS, signed by 5,144 hand-loom weavers, is equal
to about 500 petitions to retain them, which are, on an
average, not signed by above ten persons each.
A new writ was issued for Inverness.
Mr. THORNELY, for Mr. VILLIERS, gave notice that
he would, on the 31st instant, move that the House re.

The 'Whigs, if they do not take care, will see
themselves for Ced by the Tories to make a good
libel law, or something equivalent to it. Last night
Sir R. INGLIs presented a petition from the pro-
prietors of two Tory journals, praying that those
persons who re-publish
:Parliamentary papers may
receive the same protection as the printers of the
House of Commons. This is a reasonable prayer,
and, as the Bill was originally drawn, it was doubt-
ful whether that protection were not extended to
all persons who might print and publish papers
authorised to be printed and published by Parlia-
ment. In the Committee the clause was, we be-
lieve, so altered as to exclude those who republish
the reports from the same protection as those who
publish them by order of the House. A more
effectual scheme to make the privilege offensive
could not have been devised. What is fit and
proper for the House of Commons to publish
is fit and proper for the Newspapers to re-publish.
The only reason, in fact, on which the House
of Commons claims the privilege of publishing is
to inform the people ; but its blue books, as Mr.
LEADER formerly observed, and as Sir R. INGLIS
last night repeated, scarcely or never reach the
public, who get all their information from the
transcripts of the Parliamentary reports published
in the Newspapers. Why, then, as the Hon. Ba-
ronet asked, should not the re-publication of Par-
liamentary reports in Newspapers be protected,
when they are, in fact, the means of conveying to
the public the information which Parliament wishes
to communicate ? To protect the printers of the
House of Commons, and not to protect the News-
papers for re-publishing Parliamentary reports, will
justify the accusation of the opponentsot the Reformed
House that it insists on the privilege for purposes of
tyranny, not to promote the public welfare. If the
latter be the object, the House must protect the pub-
lication of all Parliamentary documents by the daily
and weekly journals. This is indispensable; the
Whigs Dave now an opportunity of COO feirina a great
benefit on the public press ; and we hope they have

sagacity ~cough not to leave such a prac-L:ann-
pelling work to the Tories.

A public meeting of the friends of religious freedom
is to be held to-morrow at Freemasons' Hall, to peti-
tion Parliament against any more grants out of the
public purse to prop up that decaying fabric, falsely
called the national Church. We are extremely glad
of this, for never was there a time when active
measures on the part of those who are be-
yond the pale of the Church of England, were
more imperatively called for. The apathy of the Dis-
senters has encouraged and emboldened the hierarchy
and its supporters, until their arrogance knows no
bounds. The education of the whole nation must, for-
sooth, be committed to the individual charge of the
priests of one sect—that sect, too, constituting a minority
of the people. On the back of this impudent
demand comes another, if possible, more extrava-
gant still. The richest and least efficient Church
in Christendom cannot get on without more money.
Like the hungry daughter of the horselcech, it is con-
tinually crying " Give, give," as if increase of appetite
grew by what it fed on. It unblushingly calls upon all
other sects to minister to its pomps and vanities, and to
pour their money without stint into its insatiable maw.
In money is its whole trust. Money is the god of its
idolatry.
To oppose this avaricious desire to clutch the na-
tional funds, the Dissenters have as yet done nothing,
or next to nothing. While the Church, with a recruit-
ing officer in every parish, has been getting up meetings
and petitions without end, and keeping up an imposing
clamour both in and out of Parliament,to attain its object,
Dissent has been, if not asleep, looking on with apparent
indifference. Scarcely a counter-petition has found its
way to the House of Commons ; not a public meeting is
on record. Is it wonderful that under these circum-
stances, the partizans of the law church talk so confi-
dently of obtaining from Parliament additional endow-
ments. What other construction than that of acquies-
cence can they put upon the silence and indifference of
the Dissenters, on questions so important as those which
are now at issue between the two parties ?
A "reaction"Lwe would hope is now commencing. The
Dissenters are awaking from the lethargy which has,
for some time past, steeped their senses ia forgetful-
ness. It augurs well for the success of the cause, when
even the Religious Freedom Society has found itself
compelled to step forward and originate a public
meeting, though we could have wished that the Tory
practice of issuing tickets of admission had not been re-
sorted to. We trust the meeting will be numerously at-
tended, and that it will be followed by many others for
the same purpose throughout the kingdom.

The Madrid Papers received are of the 9th instant.
In the Chamber of Deputies, on the Bth, a violent
debate arose on the verification of the return of Count
TOREN°, of stock jobbing, state-plundering notoriety.
General SAN MIGUEL branded the Count to his face
as an impure character, and known as such not only in
Spain but throughout Europe. Senor LABORDA
stated that the Count was under a sentence of impeach-
ment for peculation by a vote of a former Chamber ;
and he called upon him, if he had a spark of honour
left, to defend himself. Senor OLozaGA was equally
energetic, but to verb little effect. ToRENo hardly
condescended to deny in general terms the allegations
made against him ; but the Ministers, sure of his
support, verified his election by 96 votes against 23.
The accession of M. TmEas to office produced a rise
in Spanish Steck. The Five per Cents were in active
demand at 28 for cash, and 291 for sixty days.

Among Other official documents recently received
from China, and which were regularly published in our
columns, was a protest from the American merchants
and traders at Canton, denying the right of England
to blockade that coast, and threatening to hold Great
Britain responsible for all losses and damages sustained
by them in consequence of such blockade. Now as the
blockade then declared by Superintendent ELLIOT Was
raised in five days—as it was declared under an impres-
sion which proved to be eroneous, namely, the murder
of a British boat's crew by the Chinese—and as it was
declared without a sufficient naval strength to
enforce it, we allowed the protest of the American
merchants to appear without a syllable of comment.
We might indeed have very fairly adopted a less cour-
teous course. In the protest not a syllable was men-
tioned of the objections—the legal objections we admit
—to the blockade, which we have offered. The Ame-
rican merchants did not state that the grounds then
alleged for so extreme a proceeding were insufficient—
or that a blockade without the power stringently to
enforce it, was a violation of the law of nations. They
simply denied our right to have recourse to such a
measure at all, and they threatened us, in the
event of seeking to establish such a right,
with consequences which must be productive
of war between Great Britain and the United States.
Nonsensical as this course m,est appear to all acquainted
with the rights of independent states, and inconsistent'
as it really is with the passiveness of the Americans re- i
specting the French blockades of Mexico and Buenos
Ayres, the following resolutions adopted by Congress on
the motion of Mr. PlCKENS—copied from the New
York Papers received this morning—indicate a dispo-
sition on the part of sonic members of that as-
sembly to adopt both the logic and the style of
the Canton protest. The resolutions themselves
are very proper, so far as they go; but if we
are correctly informed they are to be followed
by others of a very different character. No such jea-
lousy was manifested respecting the rights of American
traders to Mexico during the French blockade of that
coast ; but then France had no frontier open to inva-
sion, and therefore did not court Republican aggression.
The blockade of Buenos Ayres still continues, but
there is no American Legislator patriotic enough to
inquire into the losses which the Republic sustains by
it, or so much as by a whisper to question its legality.
The following are the Resolutions ; they were agreed
to unanimously :
‘. Resolved,—That the President of the United States
be requested (if in his opinion it be not incompatible with
the public interest to do so) to communicate to this house
any information in his possession res?ecting the condition
of the citizens of the United States doing business during
the past year in China; the state of the American trade
with that country, and the interests of the people and cora,
merce of the United States, as affected by the recent mea-
sures of the Chinese Goveinment for the suppression of the
contraband or forcible introduction of opium into China ;
also, whether the British Government has given notice to
that of the United States of a purpose to blockade the port
of China, or of other hostile intentions towards that Govern-
ment ; and any other information passed by the Executive
in relation to the above matters.

" Resolved,—That the Secretary to the Treasury be
directed to transmit to this House a statement of the com-
merce and navigation between the United States and China
from 1824 to 1839 inclusive, exhibiting for each year the
amount of specie, the value and description of manufactured
articles, the value and description of other merchandize,
and the total amount exported; the quantity and value of
teas, the value of silk goods, the value of other merchan-
dize, and the total amount imported ; the number of ships,
the amount of tonnage, and the number of seamen em-
ployed."

There is not a syllable of news of any interest in the
Paris Journals of Monday, with the exception of the
annexed extracts, and some intelligence from the East,
which will be found in another part of The Sun :
_ _

VIENNA, MA Reit 7.—Mr. Von Hoste, the Brazilian Am-
bassador, is still here, his application for leave to engage 500
men in the Austrian States, from the Brazilian service, has
been refused, end he will consequently go to Switzerland. His
Majesty, the Emperor, has authorized Baron Von Daiser Syl-
bach, his Charge d'Affaires at Rio, to act in his name as god-
father in the confirmation of the Emperor of Brazils.
Prince Wendeschgrate, General in Chief in Bohemia, has
lost his action for the restitution of the estates of the family of
Waldstein ( Wallinstein). The question has been decided by
arbitrators chosen in equal numbers by both parties. The par-
ties are said to have agreed before to abide by the decision of
the umpires, so that the Prince cannot appeal. He has reason
to repent the prosecution of this suit, as the late Emperor offered
him 200,000 florins, and the present Emperor 600,000 florins.
We learn by the jaurnils of Texas, of the month of January
that the treaty with France has been ratified.
SPA IN.

The Eco del Aragon of the lOtii of March, gives news from
Muniesa of the Bth. It was believed that the general head-
quarters would set out on the following day for Arragon.
"It is believed," says the Memorial des Pgrennees," that
Espartero has formed the following plan for the next campaign,
—His army will in the first place lay siege to Castellote and
Aliaga, the capture of which has been falsely announced ; then
the troops will proceed to attack Cantavieja. When that
place shall be taken, the whole army will proceed in two co-
lumns to invest Morella, and when this impro;nable Alcazar of
Cabrera has fallen into the hands of the Queen's troops, the
General-in-chief will put himself at the head of his 40 batta-
lions to go and destroy the last rampart of the Carlists, in the
mountains of Catalonia."