The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-31 00:00:00

their resolution to oppose Church-rates, and to'
oppose the law, if the law intend to i-flict C!lll,ch-
rates on those who do not use the Church. The

reside separately in Marenbad, Carlsbad, &c., but the
Amb.3saa,l,--s of Enr017;11, 1.1n75;1. and Pr❑=sin Lard
Be4uvale, Baron fatis,lit if, and Count Maitzalin, and
the French Amoassador Count St. Aulaire, and the
Prince's guests at Konigsworth itself. There can be no
doubt that discussions take place, especially on the
question which is naw of the highest importance. They
cannot, however, be called Ministerial conferences, the
result of which is embodied in protocols. Some sensa-
tion has been excited by the arrival of Baron Von
Langsdorff (late French Charge d'Affaires at Vienna).
who has just come to Koningsworth, whence he returns
to Paris. There are various conjectures afloat respecting
his sudden departure from Vienna. Some say that he is
the bearer of important despatches, which relate to the
enterprise of Louis Bonaparte. Others believe that M.
de Langsdorff leaves his post because he is dissatified
at having served so long without promotion : others
tliiak, and that is probably the case, that Thit•rs is dis-
pleased with Baron Langsdorff, because he had not so
tar gained the confidence of the Austrian Government
as to have learned anything of the negotiations which
preceded the treaty of the 15th of July, and that he
has recalled him on that account. Count St. Aulaire
is said to give on every occasion explicit assurance that
the peace of Europe is in no danger, whatever the
French journals may say.

Vicar of Rochdale takes an opposite view ; and
the Church•rate contest, therefore, so far from
being over, is exciting, and will excite, discussions
on the conscientious duty of men to defeat a bad
law, or become its victims.

Dr. MoLEswoßTH's letter, or rather letters,
for we have another of his effusions before us, place
the duties of the pastoral office in a new light. In-
stead of inculcating charity and love, instead of
promoting harmony and peace, Dr. iVIoLEswoRTH
has deliberately promoted strife, and acted, hke the
meanest and lowest partisan, to attain a disreput-
able end. In his address after the poll, far from
supposing a single virtuous or honest motive in the
opponents of the rate, he stigmatized them as
" mistaken Dissenters, Socialists, Chartists, Jaco-
bins, Infidels, and Atheists, urged on by sectarian
jealousy, political rancour, inflammatory appeals to
avarice, and to the worst passions of our nature." At
the same time he admits that the Wardens, " act-
ing under his advice," after having been once de-
feated, " determined again to appeal to the parish."
The centest, therefore, with all its consequences,
was provoked or rather ordained by him, and he
abuses, in the manner we have quoted, those who
were not of his side. That he took most ur.war-
rantable means of obtaining success in the contest
lie ordered, is evident by his own letter to the
Times. He says—

HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Avo. 2S,
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents. -
Bank Shares 1728
Anw lo- Russian Loan .. 10' HIS%
Russian 5 per Cent. !st series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Se ic,: lO4
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 97%
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe. Cent 5l 50%
Ditto 5 per Cent 9B
Polish Bond.
New licket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cen'
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cant. lOl
Spanish, New 3 per Cerits. --•

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, AUG. 29.-13. 414 —Two months, 13 N.
PCTERSBURGH, .1 on. 21.—Two months, 3,:3 pence.
CHRISTIANIA, Atm. 19.—Three months, 4 74.
STOCKHOLM, Auti.2l.—Seyenty-five days, 11. 40.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Am 23.
Monty. Bins.
Actual Debt, 244 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Atuert Syndic,4s.l, per cent 89% 91'
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent 74 75%,
Commercial Company, 4;;, per cent l6B 169
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. l6 96%
Exchange on London, One month ll 95
Two months
Dutch Papers, Aug. 29.
KELGIAN I. UNDS—BauSsELI, AUG. 28.
Actual Deist, 23.4 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Ccrit 14)%
Lcan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 92
----- 3 per Cent.
--- Thirty.seven---- .., 69N,
Loan of City, 1532, 4 per Cent —
Society of Commerce, 41 per Cent lO9
sank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 85%
National Society.
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Aug. 28.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, AUG. 20
Five per:Cents. Metalliques . lOBl4
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1729
--Allgemeine Zeitung, Aug. 25

Seeing their (his opponents') tactics to terrify and
obstruct the voters, I reserved (on the granting the poll)
the power of extending and adjourning the poll, it such
obstruction should take place. I told them that I would
fearlessly exert it, and that every man, be his opinibns
what they might, should exercise his undoubted right of
recording his vote. I acted up to this declaration.
Arid these defeated tyrants are now striving by every
means, however foul and vindictive to crush me.

Now, who before ever heard of a partizan being
the person to grant a poll, and to defeat all its
conditions ? Who, too, ever heard of such a
partisan claiming a power, and fearlessly exerting
it, to extend the poll at his pleasure ? But this
Rev. Dr. MOLESWORTH boasts of having done it
—and he did it, as we know from an excellent ad-
dress written by Mr. BRIGHT—in a most unwar-
rantable manner. After he had closed the doors
against the public at six o'clock, he admitted his
own friends and supporters, and continued the poll
till twenty minutes past six. " All protest, all
reasoning," says Mr. BRIGHT, " was useless ; the
triumph of the Church was in jeopardy, and trifles
were not to be regarded." Such was the conduct
of this pastor, who holds his office to enforce
Christian charity and love. He began the Church•
rate brawl, he continued and closed it in defiance
of justice, and then he most impudently—his con-
duct deserves no other epithet—denounces those as
violators of GOD'S laws who do not peacefully sub- 1
mit to his overbearing unrighteousness. The rug-
stealing party will not recommend Church-rates
nor the Church to the community by the priests
becoming partizans and displaying all the virulence
of the Orange tyrants of Ireland.
Not long ago the Tories, particularly the
ultra part of them, expressed much virtuous indig-
nation at the creation of a few fictitious votes in
Ireland ; and the enormity was thought to be
morally so great, that the Tories were willing to
run the risk of convulsing the empire in order to
correct it. In addition to its many other evils,
this Church-rate contest, ordained by the Rev. Dr.
IVIOLEswoRTH, and carried on by him by most
unjust means, gave rise to as much fictitious voting
as all the elections of Ireland.

The diplomatic note addressed by Lord PAL-
MERSTON to the French Ambassador on the 15th
of July relative to the Treaty of London, is pub.
lished in all the Paris Journals of Saturday, from
the columns, not of the English Papers of the
previous day, but from the Augsburg Gazette of
the 24th of August. It appears to. hare created a
profound sensation in Paris. The Ministerial
organs plead its inaccuracy, and contend that most
of the allegations made by Lord PALMERSTON
will be shown to be unfounded by the publication
of the correspondence of the French Cabinet. The
Opposition Journals are incensed against M.
THIERS, whom they accuse of having acted with
duplicity, and contend that if the statements of
Lord PALMERSTON be borne out the President of
the Council ought to be declared incapable of serv-
ing his country in a Ministerial capacity.
First in the list of Ministerial champions stands
the Constitutionnel, which a ncent " untoward
event" prevents us, as it was intended to do, from
designating the individual organ of M. THIERS.
That Journal, speaking of Lord PALMERSTON'S
note, says :
" We are not assured of the authenticity of this docu-
ment, and we have some reasons for thinking. that more
than one inaccuracy has crept in. Whatever may be
the case, and on the very face of the document, the
French public will observe that the greater part of
Lord Palmerston's allegations have been the object of
official disavowals. Those allegations furnished for a
month the polemics of the English newspapers, and the
arguments from which they drew their inference are
now exhausted. No ; the facts have not occurred as
the memorandum represents; the discussion disposed
of every pretext, and if a controversy were again to
arise on that point, in order to explain their conduct,
the Ministry need only publish the energetic protesta-
tions with which this diplomatic communication was re-
ceived."

In one of the townships 1,167 individuals appear
to have voted, whilst the highest number entered in
the rate-book is 1,060, so that 107 persons must
have voted with fraudulent certificates. That is one
specimen of the enormous vice amongst the Church
party to which this contest gave rise. The charac-
teristics are so grave that we feel assured that it is
but the beginning of a very serious struggle, which
will be for ever memorable in the annals of England .

We entertain no doubts as to the existence of the
" energetic protestations" here alluded to. M.
THIERS was too clever to deprive himself of the
aid which might be derived from such documents.
But their existence will not disprove a single state-
ment in Lord PALMERSTON'S note, unless they
are made to refer to others of a much earlier date.
And it is those of an earlier date than the month
of July that we call upon the French Press to in-
voke the publication.
The Courrier Francais, in general a moderate
Ministerial print, is absolutely scurrilous. We
quote only the following passage from this Journal :
" We do not think that Lord Palmerston in his memo-
randum can have made allusion to a proposal which
France put forward under the Ministry of the 12. th of
May, nor that any proposal addressed by that Ministry
to the Four Powers has ever obtained their concur-
rence. Lord Palmerston seeks to avail himself of a
sort of tacit consent which France had given beforehand
to the views of the Powers ; but that falsity, for it is
one, is, it is said, expressed met more general terms. It
is, nevertheless, true that Lord Palmerston, though de-
nying to the representative of France in London the
inFult t'vhich he had just committed upon us, dared to
invite our Government to interpose its moral influence
with Mehemet Ali in ordt'r to induce him to give in a
cowardly submission ; but it is not true that that au-
dacious request assumed the form of. a summons, nor
that we were required to do that which it was well
known we should refuse."
Now there is not the least reason for concealing
—or affecting to conceal—the fact that Lord
PALMERSTON'S note does allude to the proposal
made to the Four Powers by France during the
Administration of the SOULT Cabinet (the 12th of
May) ; and furthermore, that the said Powers
having accepted that proposal, subsequently felt
that they could not with honour abandon it, at the
mere suggestion of the Cabinet of which M
TRIERS is chief.

By the arrival of the Tagus steamer at Fal-
mouth on Saturday, we have received advices from
Lisbon, of the 24th of August. No further at-
tempt had been made to disturb public tranquillity ;
nevertheless, it was feared that the Revolutionists
were only waiting for an opportunity to try the
effect of another armed demonstration. The Judges
of the Supreme Tribunal of Lisbon, appointed to
try the conspirators according to the forms of a
law just enacted by the Cortes, have decided that the
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upon the ears
of the Ministry. The disaffected
on the contrary,
were overjoyed at it. With a view to prevent the
ends of justice being defeated, a new Bill was imme-
diately submitted to the Deputies, suspending the
20th article of the Constitution. It was passed
in one day, by a majority of 50 votes to 30.
It was then carried to the Senate, and a committee
appointed, which, to the annoyance of the Ministry,
reported that the insurgents ought to be tried by a
council of war, and not by the proposed newly
created tribunal. Here the matter rested at the
date of these advices from the Portuguese calm
tal. To make the affair worse, the fidelity of the
army was not above suspicion, and reports were
rife of disturbances at Braga and Portalegre. The
QUEEN was expected to remain at Cintra till after
her confinement, which is now at hand. The pub.
lie treasury did not supply money enough to pay
the troops and the expenses of the Royal House-
hold. In the civil department, tie employes like
the fabled wild asses of Arabia, might
be supposed
to subsist by snuffing the wind.
A Lisbon letter of the 24th -1 instant supplies the
following additional news :
A splendid amateur bull-fight took place at the large
Circus at Campo Santa Anna on Friday. The public
were only admitted by tickets, obtained gratuitously
from the associate amateurs. Upwards of five thousand
tickets were given allay, and. not Less than that number
of persons were present. The boxes were filled by ladies,
the rest of the seats by men. The young Marquis of
Valenta and the brother of the Marquis of Loule totigto
the bulls on horseback ; the former performed his part
with particular grace, the latter was unhorsed in one men.
contre ; and, according to usage, subsequently dis-
mounted and fought the bull on foot. The other combat-
ants who fought on foot belonged to the rising aristo-
cracy for the most part ; and the elegance of their varied
costume, together with the address and sangfroid with
which they speared the bulls, on coming forward, en masse,
seized them by the horns, and led them off, were. highly
applauded by the spectators. Upwards of a dozen
bulls were successively brought on, and the whole went
off without any serious accident. The national taste
for this somewhat cruel and dangerous amusement
seems quite as strong as ever. A bull-fight takes place
every Sunday at Campo Santa Anna, tha proceeds of
which go to the Casa Pia, an institution for the main-
tenance and education of orphans.
Rear-Admiral Sir John Ommaney, ,will
leave in the Donegal, Captain Drake, to-morrow.
Tile present destination of the Gallant Admiral is un-
known. His time of service here had expired ; but it
is supposed at Lisbon that he is going to the Levant.
W herever he goes he carries with him the good wishes
and respect of all who had the honour of Ins acquain-
tance. The Espoir brig will then be our only ship of
war here, but another ship of the line is, I believe,
shortly expected from England. The French corvette
Coquette continues here.

But we have not space to-day for further com-
ment upon this question. We are, however, grati-
fied to state that the conviction that peace will be
preserved, acquires daily fresh converts among the
French journals and the French people. 'What
news there is in the papers of Friday and Saturday
will be found in our extracts trom them scattered
over our columns.
The National publishes a letter from Warsaw,
dated the 21st instant, detailing the "plan of campaign
of the four Powers for the execution of the treaty of
London." The writer states that " warlike prepara-
tions were making with considerable activity in that
city, and that extensive magazines were being esta-
blished in the southern provinces of the empire. The
Russian troops collected between Kiew and the Black
Sea amounted to 80,000 men. This corps was to
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are to be invaded by Eaglish and Austrian troops,
through Asia Minor and seize on St. Jean d'Acre. In
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supposed to have arrived at Kiew, where General
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following extract from a letter from Bohemia,
we
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turned frim Dresden to Konigsworth ; the foreiga with great activity.
mbassador, who followed him to Bohemia, do not now i "the Jew of the line, bearing the flag of Rear-Ad-