The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-17 00:00:00

THE NON-INTRUSIONITS.

The following accounts, taken from the Edinburgh
Papers, will show what are the objects of Dr. Chalmers
and the hypocritical party in the Scotch Church, in
making such 'a noise about the Veto question. No-
thing could prove more clearly that the voice of the
people is the last thing they think of ; and that the first
is their own professional aggrandisement, or that of
their friends. Would any man who has only 150/. a
year, refuse 8001. a year, without giving any reason,
unless he were afraid of the vengeance of the holy men
for taking this valuable living from one of their favourite
protegees ? As regards the living of North Leith, the
best in Scotland next to Greenock, the parishioners
may rest assured, that now, for the first time, they will
have a pastor forced cn them by the vilest intrigues,
and through the most hypocritical pretences of the very
men who profess that no minister should be appointed
in opposition to the will of the people.
" If any one," says an Edinburgh paper, " wishes to
know what would be the result of the pretended reforms
of the Non-Intrusion men, let him now attend to what
is passing, as regards the vacancies in North Leith and
the Old Church in Edinburgh. North Leith is the best
living in Scotland, and, strange to say, the stipend of
8001. is going a-begging, and can find nobody willing to
accept it ! So far as we can judge, the Highflyers have
taken the lead from the first in the congregation, and
the consequence is, that they can name nobody who is
not completely under the paw of the central club of
agitators. The latter had set their hearts upon Mr.
Tweedie of Aberdeen, and they have contrived to frus-
trate all attempts of the congregation to get any other
minister. Mr. Main of Kilmarnock was proposed,
and declined, for a reason plausible enough, but
which might never perhaps have been heard of if
his mind had net been influenced by private advice
from the conclave. Mr. Fairbairn of Newhaven,
who was also named, refused to stand ; and those
may believe who choose, that he was not moved
by private hints, but merely by an impulse of
magnanimity, to prefer 150/. to 8001. A portion of the
congregation then turned their eyes to Mr. Glover of
the mushroom parish at the Calton Hill—we forget
what Saint's name it bears—but he, too, though sub-
sisting on a small salary, was deaf as an adder to the
charms of 800/. per annum It somehow fell out, that
in whatever quarter, except one, application was made,
it was unsuccessful. The committee, thus held in the
toils of some invisible power, and baulked in their ef-
forts to have a free choice, decided in favour of Mr.
'fweedie. After the step was taken, the congrega-
tion, suspecting probably that the committee bad been
jockeyed, became restive, and the following document,
signed by 400 of the patrons, was sent off to Mr. Twee-
die, who has now refused the presentation, but, it is
thought, may yet be ieduced to accept it by the private
solicitations of the clique :
' REV. SIR,—We, the undersigned, heritors, elders,
and inhabitants of the parish of North Leith, consider-
ing,—That the declared feeling of the congregation is
decidedly against you as being fixed among us as our
pastor : That undue means were used by your friends
in causing Mr. Glover to withdraw his name, at the
very n:oment when the people were eagerly signing his
presentation, and to which above one hundred names
were added in the course of an hour : And also the un-
warrantable means which have since been taken, under
false representations, to induce ignorant persons to at-
tach their names to your presentation ; and that still,
with all these means combined, you have but a tithe of
the voters inviting you—Beg humbly, but firmly, to
state, that we cannot believe such a presentation can
ever be accepted, or that you, as a minister of the Gos-
pel, and a declared Non-Intrus'onist, will ever be in-
duced to think that such a settlement, under such cir-
cumstances, can either conduce to the glory of God—
the welfare of the Church—the good of this people—or
your own comfort."
The previous proceedings are thus described in the
Edinburgh Observer of Friday :
" When the meeting of the patrons of the parish of
North Leith took place, on the 4th instant, to con-
sider of Mr. 'l'weedic's acceptability, he being, in
fact, the nominee, not of the parish, but of the Non-
Intrusion clique in this city, a leading Non-Intrusion
agitator of the Presbytery of Edinburgh was in the im-
mediate neighbourhood of the church during the whole
day, and progress was reported to him every ten or
fifteen minutes, and his advice taken as to the means
that were there and then adopted, for the purpose of
carrying Mr. Tweedie. He left the parish that day,
much chagrined and disappointed at the resolution to
present Mr. Glover. In consequence of this, a lead-
ing Non-Intrusion Elder of North Leith waited upon
Mr. Glover the day of the meeting, and, after
being closeted with him for a considerable time, prevailed
'on him to refuse the presentation. The Rev. Gen-
tleman had previously been importuned to the seine
effect, by a gentleman who has taken great interest in
fore arding the election of Mr. Tweedie. Mr. Glover
having consented to refuse, the Non•lntrusionists then
agreed to present Mr. Tweedie, at a meeting held for
a totally different purpose—that of presenting Mr.
Glover—and that without the knowledge of the patrons
and people generally. The illegality of this p:oceeding
is too apparent to require any comment."
The same clique arc straining every nerve to get Mr.
M‘ Naughton of Paisley appointed to the vacancy in the
Old Church. It appears that all the acting elders, and
a majority of the members of the present congregation,
are in favour of Mr. Hamilton Buchanan. minister of
Strathblane. The congregation, no doubt, is small ;
but if the Council is to listen to any external influence,
most certainly it should either be the voice of the
congregation, or, what is still better, the voice
of the parish, as exhibited by an actual poll of
the adult inhabitants. We kcow that certain busy-
bodies, anxious to make up a case for Mr. M'Naughtan,
are going about inducing persons, whose votes they can
depend on, to take seats. In truth, a fair or honest
decision would rarely be come to, if the election were
to rest either with the communicants or the pa-
rishioners generally. The living would be considered
ajob, which would be intrigued for and voted away,
under the influence of private friendship, party feel-
ing, or momentary caprice, because the elector has
not interest enough in the result to make him resist mo-
tives of this description. To get considerate and con-
scientious votes from persons in such a case, they must
pay their clergyman as well as elect him. Men are al-
ways serious when they put their bands intheir pockets.

TIIE NON-INTRUSIONISTS.—WC have only
room to call attention to the proceedings of a public meet-
ing held here last week. The exposure and defeat of the
Non-Intrusionists ryas complete. But for their agitation
there is no likelihood that the Dissenters would have
moved; and we have only to look to the respective num-
bers who attended the two meetings, and the different
complexion of the proceedings, to see on which side public
sympathy and sentiment preponderate. After nearly a
week's notice by placards, and intimation from the pulpit,
only about 300 muttered to hear Mr. Crichton, the knight-
errant of Non-Intrusion, and these consisted chiefly of
females and children, with not a few Dissenters. The
other meeting, called on the spur of the moment, after
public notice of only a few hours, was attended by upwards
of a thousand people, the great majority of whom were
male adults, and the sense of the meeting was appealed to,
and triumphantly obtained, at every step of the proceed-
ings. We recommend the perusal of ,the speeches to our
readers, and especially to Mr. Macgill Crichton and the
Non- I ntrusionists. —Kelso Chronicle.

WILFUL MunnEn..—A Coroner's inquest has
just been held az. East Hagbourne, near Wallingford, on
the body of a labouring man named
Cornelius Rymes,
who died under most suspicious circumstances. It ap-
peared that frequent quarrds took place between the de-
ceased and his wife, in consequence of the letter having
carried on an illicit intercourse with a man residing in the
same parish named Grace ; and that on the day only
before his death he WB3 taken exceedingly ill, having been
previously in good health. He called in Mr. Breech,
a mefiical man, who, presuming. he was labouring under
the effects of dysentery, prescr.bedfor him accordingly.
The next day, however, the man died, and a Jury Was
immediately summoned to inquire into the cause of his
death, suspicions having been entertained
.that the de-
ceased had been murdered, in consequence of his wife having
i'etused to suffer any of her neighbours to see him during
his illness, and it having been ascertained that shortly be-
fore she had purchased some poison. —Mr. Breech de-
posed, that, assisted by another medical gentleman, he had
opened the body of the deceased, and that. upon analysing
the contents of the stomach, large quantities of poison were
'discovered, which had clearly caused death. The Jury,
after a lengthened inquiry, returned a verdict of " Wilful
anurthr against [fennel Rymes, the wife, as principal, and
against Julin Grace, as an accessory before the fact."
The Coroner immediately issued his warrant for their com-
mittal to Reading gaol, to take their trials at the next as-
SIZe3 for the county of Burks, which will commence on the
2.lth inst.

The Copyright Bill has been rejected by the
House of Commons by a small mojority on the second read.
ing. This augurs badly for all attempts to atain in-
ereased protection for inventors ; the same principle
being involved in both cases. A measure for extending the
copyright of patterns on printed calicoes and muslins has
been since introduced into the Commons, and, judging
from the opptiiition it met with on the first reading,
it appears to have little chime. of success. The Cu.
rious oinjection urged by Mr. Mark Philips, forms the
strongest argument that could be adduced in favour of
increased protection. lle admits that the extension
of copyright in designs would be the moans of im-
proving- the manufacture ; his singular objection is, that '
they would be improved too much. The French manu-
facturers, lie says, would then be induced to copy our pat-
terns, and would send t%eir imitation goods, at a cheaper
price, to the English market ! We could not wish to see
a more complete illustration of the advantage of increasing
the protection to inventors than such a state of things as
Mr. Philips deprecates.—lnventors' Advocate.
INFLUENCE OF CHEAP POSTAGE ON EDU-
CATION.—The evening school is attended by apprentices and
young persons of bath sexes—amongst them is a mother of
four children, some of whom are grown up, and reside at a
considerable distance from her. Allured by the cheap postage,
and the laudable desire of being able to reply to the letters of
her children, she resolved, at the age of forty-five to learn to
write. She has attended most regularly, along with a daugh-
ter, since the school opened in September, and very few of the
scholars have made greater progress than has this energetic
Roman. —Annual Reports f the Edinburgh Education Society
fir 1640.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

(I rum the Pohl and Preceedings of the Rouse of Commons.)
TUESDAY, FEI3. 16.
DANISH CLAIMS.

Motion made, and Question put, " That this House will,
upon Tuesday, the 23d day of this instant February, resolve
itself into a Committee of the whole House, to consider of the
following Address to her Majesty, that is to say, that an humble
Address be presented to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty
will be graciously pleased to take into cotsideration the Report,
bearing date the 12th day of May, 1840, made by the Commis-
sioners to whom it was referred to examine and adjudicate upon.
the claims of certain British subjects, for losses sustained by
the seizure and confiscation of their ships and cargoes by the
Government of Denmark in the year 1807, and that her Ma-
jesty will be graciously p'eased to advance to such claimants
the amount of their respective losses as ascertained by the said
Commissioners, arid to assure her Majesty, that this House
will make good the same :—(Mr. Cresswell : )—The House
divided :
MAJORITY—AYES,
Hawes, B.
Hepburn, Sir T. B.
Hindlcy, Charles
Hodgson, Richard
Hogg, J. W.
Holmes,_ W.
Hope, Hon. C.
Hope, G. W.
Hotham, Lord
Houston, George
Hume, J.
Humphery, J.
Ingham, Robert
Inglis, Sir R. H.
Irton, S.
Jackson, Scrjeant
James, Sir W. C.
Jones, John
Jones, Theobald
Kelburne, Lord
Kelly, Fitzroy
Kemble, Henry
Kirk; ?e;er
Knatchbull, Sir L.
Knight, IL G.
Langdale, Hon. C.
Lascellest W. S.
Leader, J. T.
Liddell, H. 'F.
LitiMi, Reward
Lockhart, A. M.
Lowther, .1 H.
Mackenzie, Thomas
MacKenzie, W. F.
Maclean, D
Martin, J.
Mvthew, G. R.
Molesworth, Sit W,
Morgan, C. M.
Muntz, O. F.
NeeldJoseph
O'Connell, D.
O'Connell, J.

Aglionby, H. A.
Antrobus, Edward
krehdall, General
}Salley, Joseph
Haithe, Colonel H.
Bainbridge, E. I'.
Barnard, E. G.
Bell, Matthew

Bentinck, Lord G.
Bold, ro, H. G.
Bolling, W.
Braniston, T. W.
Broadley, H.
Bruges, W. H. L.
Buller, Sir J. Y.
Burr, Iligford
Canning, Sir S.
Chapman, A.
Chute, W. L. W.
Cochrane, Sir 'l'.
COl,ll'l3E-inn, J. C.
Coote, Sir C.
Craig, W. G.
D'lsraeli, Benjamin
Douglas, Sir C.
Dunoar, George
Duncombe, 'l' S.
Duncombe, NV.
Easthope, John
Egerton, Lord F.
Eliot, Lord
Ellice, E.
Ewart, W.
Feilden, W.
Ferguson, Colonel
Fielden, J.
',limey, Sir Edward
Fox, S L,
Frestgleld, J. W.
Gladstone, J. N.
Grey, Sir C.

iiriM;ditch, Thomas
Hamilton, Lord C.
Harland, W. C.

Ainsworth,'Peter
&lston, Rowland
Baillie, H. J.
Baines, E.
Baring, F. T.
Bellew, R. n.
Benett, John
Bernal, H.
Hewes, T.
Bodkin, John James
Bridgman, Hewitt
Brotherton, J.
Busfeild, William
Chalmers, P.
Chetwynd, Major
Chichester' J. P. E.
Clements, Lord
Clive, E. B.
Corbally, M. 8..
Cowper, Hon. W. F.
Currie, Raikes
Dennistoun, J.
Divett, E.
Egerton, W. T.
Ellice, Rt. Hon. E.
Ferguson, Sir Robert
Fitralan, ..ord
Vitzroy, Lord Charles
Fremantle, Sir T.
Gladstone, W E.
Gordon, Robert
Gonlburn, Henry
Graham, Sir James

:NORITY-NOES,
Grant, Sir A. C.
Grey, Sir G.
Hardinge, Sir H.
Hastie, A.
Hawkins, J. H.
Hobhonse, Sir J. C.
Hobhouse, 'l'. B.
Horsman, Edward
Hoskins, K.
Howard, C. W. G.
ow ick, Lord 1
Labouchere, H.
Lister, F.C.
Listowcl, Earl of
Macau ley, T. B. i
Macnamara,
M`Taggart, J.
Marsland, H.
Maule, Hon. Fox
Morpeth, Viscount
Muskett, George A
Nichol), J.
O'Ferrall, It. M.
Paget, F.
Palmerston, Visct.
Parker, Montague
Parker, It. T.
Parnell, Sir H.
Pattison, J.
Peel, Hon. S'ir R.
Redington, T. N.
Rich, Henry
Russell, Lout John

127.
O'Connor Don
Ord, W.
Ossulston, ord
Pakington' J. S.
Philips, Al.
Vigor, R.
Plumptre, J. P.
Praed, W. T.
Prymc, G.
Reid, Sir John R.
Richards, IL
Itushbrook, Colonel
Rushout, George
Salwey,. Colonel
Sanden, Lord
Scarlett, J. Y.
Scholefield, J.
Scrope, G. P.
Shaw, Frederick
Sheppard, T.
Sibthorp, Colonel
Stanley, E.
Strickland, Sir G.
Stuart, Lord James
Stuart, Villiers
Style, Sir Charles
'Ferment, J. It.
Thesiger, F.
7 hompson, Ald.
Trench, Sir
Verner, Colonel
Vivian, J. E.
Waddington, H. S.
Wallace, R
Warburton, H.
White, A.
Williams, NV,.
Wilshere, W.
Wodehouse,
Wood,

TELLERS.
Cresswell, Cresswell
Hutt, W.

Rutherfurd, A.
Ecymour, Lord
Shed, R. L.

Smith, G. IL

Smith, R. Vernon
Somers, J. P.

Stanley, Lo,d
Stanley, Hon. W.
Statisticld, W. R. C,
Steuart, R.
Stock, 1)r.

Strutt, Edward
Surrey, Earl of
Tancred, H. W.
Thornely, Thomas
Townley, R. G. ,
Trotter, I.

Troubridge, Sir T.
Turner, Edmund
Vivian, Major C.
Vivian, Sir ft

Wall, C. B.

Wilbraham, G.
Wood, C.

Wortley, Ltrd
Wrightson, NV. IL
Wyse, Thomas
Yates, J A.
Young, Sir L. W.

TELLERS.
! Stanley. J.
I 'rufflell, H.

AUSTRALIA.

From Sydney the dates are to the 26th of September. Ac-
cording to accounts received there from South Australia to the
beginning of that month the colony was so inundated with su-
perabundant labour that the local Government had been forced
to find them work by way of keeping them from starvation. By
way, however, of getting rid of the burden and, as may be sup-
posed, of forcing down wages, public notice had been given
that any one wanting labourers should apply to the Government
office, and if the emigrant labourers would not agree to work at
such wages as might be offered, it was notified that they would
be left to sink or swim, that is to pine or starve, as the case
might be. Such is the result of the fine tiles published and
circulated here with such assiduity, on the strength of which
poor people have been induced to sell their very beds from
under them to pay their passage out and sink their little all
for a start to the land of promise, where wages were said to be
at ten shillings a day (beef being more or less about 2s. Gd.
per pound), and nothing but prosperity to be seen according to
land-sharking Gazettes. The following statement in the
Sydney Herald will suffice to give an idea of the grand
land speculations on foot of one company which Loot John
Russell honoured with his company a day or two ago, and
whose sordid money aspirations and speculations no one ought
to be better acquainted with than himself. The New Zealand
Company is, it appears, already doubling itself, and with the
Chatham Islands, now surreptitiously secured, it may safely be
predicted that there will be one or more additional land specu-
lations for each island, each being vaunted (as that of to-day)
infinitely more fertile, rich, and magnificently remunerating
than the preceding. As the secret and silent mover in these
New Zealand anti other land speculations is said to br a person
of the name of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, it would be as well
if the public, or intending emigrants, were informed if the
report be tiuc that, besides his very large interest in town sec-
tions and country sections, which somehow are made to-bear
a profit of some hundreds per cent., he has an allowance of
60 0/. per annum, as stated, for the use of his colonisation
principle. The said principle being of very old date in the
United States if good for anything, and having been brought
before the public here first in many very heavy articles in the
Spectator by ono Mr. Gouger. Here is the version of the
newest New Zealand Scheme.

" THE CHATHAM ISLA sns.----The New Zealand Company's
barque Cuba has returned to Port .Nicholson from the Chatham
Islands. Mr. Hanson, the Company's agent, has succeeded in
purchasing the whole of that group of islands for the Com-
pany. He describes Chatham Island, the largest of the group,
and the only one that he visited, as containing abemt 500,000
acres. The land is generally fertile, and the appearance of the
country partakes more of the character of an English landscape
than any part of New Zealand which he visited. The hills are
of moderate elevation and gentle slope, about two-thirds of the
country consist of open country covered with fern, in some parts
intermingled with flax, and would afford abundant pasturage
for both cattle and sheep. Dr. Diefenbach, naturalist to the
Company, discovered a bed of brown coal, in a small beach
on the northern coast, and the strata of the shelly marl,
when burnt, would make excellent lime. There are two safe
harbours on the western coast for vessels of any burden, one
named Port Wakefield in the southern, and another named
Port Butt in the northern part of a deep bay. There are se-
veral beat harbours round the coast, and one for small ves-
sels, where the bed of coal was found. When the Cuba ar-
rived at the island the two branches of the Nate Awa tribe,
by whom the place was inhabited, were at war. From the
statement of the natives and of the masters of some American
whalers lying in Port Wakefield, it appears that the war had
been incited by a Captain Richards, who had promised to pur-
chase the southern part of the island from E. Malrri, the
chief of the Nate Matunga, if he would drive out its rightful
possessors. Although Mr. Hanson could not reconcile the
conflicting parties, he succeeded in putting an end to the war
by removing the weaker party to a strongly fortified pah,
which they possessed in a remote part of the island, whither
there was no prospect that their enemies would follow. Mr.
Paddy, the surgeon of the Cuba, was left at Port Wakefield to
keep possession for the Company. These islands are rapidly
rising in importance. In the course of the last year nearly
thirty American whalers have touched there for supplies. Two
shore parties for whaling have been established there, one from
Sydney, and one by Mr. Hanson, and it appears that of late
years whales have been unusually abundant on their coasts, pro-
bably in consequence of their having been driven from Cook's
Straits. We should be disposed to fear that when the news
of the rurchase reaches England, there will be some danger
of the English Government being forced to follow another
band of adventurers.' "—Morning Herald.

THE WEATHER.

ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-

STREET.

NooN, FEB. 17.
Barometer 99.37 In.
Thermometer
highest 5l
Lowest
Wind W. S. W,—Freezing Point 3'4 Deg.

WEST HAM ANTI-CORN-TA.A IV ASSOCIA-
TION —A meeting of this Society rsas held at their Hall,
in Stratford, on Monday evening.. The place was cram.
med, and the audience the most Tempretahle that has yet
assembled here. After excell-,.nt addresses from Nlessrs.
Clarke, Ashdowne, Palmer, and other gentlemen, and a
lecture by Mr. Sydney Sm'o,'n, a petition for repeat of the
Corn.laws was adopted rtritidst unanimous cheers, and re-
ceived four hundred sip-natures on the spot. The Society
are in course of procuring petifons from all the surround•
lag districts.

HEAD OF 'THE LAOCOON.—The following
statement has appeared in the French papers, and is profes-
sedly container', in a letter from M. Valmore, an artist zt
Brussels—" In the Gallery of the Duke d'Aremberg there
are many things which are not known to any but the ini-
tiated. Among them is the original head of the Laocoon.
This fin' group, when first discovered in Italy, was," as is
genera ily known, " without the head of the lather, and an
arm ;A one of the sons. The head was supplied by a cele-
brated artist, who copied it from an antique bas-relief.
F,ome time afterwards, the original was found by some
Venetian c innoisseurs, and was ultimately sold to the grand-
the Prince for about 160,000 francs, and
bfartohuegrhtelo Brussels, When Napoleon, during the Con-
sulate, had the group transported into France, he knew
that the real head was in possession of the Duke, and of-
fered him its weight in gold for it. This was refused ;
and as it was known that Napoleon was not scrupulous in
gratifying his desires, the Duke d'Aremberg sent this
chef- dauv e to Dresden, where it remained concealed for
ten years, but was brought back again into Brussels, when
Belgium became tranquil. A cast from the head now on
the statute is placed by the side of the original, and the
vast difference between the two is at once evident."
TIIE LATE RICHARD PAGE, ESQ.—Died
on Tuesday last. Richard Page, Esq , the well-known
author of the " Letters on the Currency, by Daniel Hard-
castle." Mr. Page had latterly been very ill with an in-
ternal complaint, but, for a few days before his death, it
was hoped that be would gradually recover ; and, indeed,
he had never been thought in immediate danger. Ile ap-
pears to have died from complete exhaustion of the system,
brought on by laborious exertions and intense study. Ills
labours dtuiag the sitting of the Bank Committee last Ses
sion were excessive. Mr. Page was greatly esteemed by
his numerous friends, and though opinions may vary witls
respect to his views regarding the currency, there can be
but one opinion with respect to his private worth.
Viscountess (Selina) Milton intends shortly to
take u
p a separate establishment, and not reside at Earl Fitz-
william's, as her Ladyship has done since the death of Viscount
Milton. Her Ladyship has taken Aldwarke Hall, Yorkshire,
as her future residence. It is said the amiable Viscountess pur-
pesos coming to town ter the season, and will stay during her
sojourn in town with the Earl of Liverpool, at Fite House.