The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-24 00:00:00

SPECIMENS OF EMENDATIONS.

Authorized Version and Douay B ible, Deuteronomy, c. 28,
v. 68, " And there yo shall be sold to your enemies, and no
man shall buy you."
Hebrew New Translation, Part the 3d,' 1821—" And ye
will prize yourselves there to thy 'enemies for servants and
maidens, but none will purchase."
Note.—See Anti-Deist, Part 2d, p. 26, 1819.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, Judges, chap. 15th,
v. 4—" And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes,
and took firebrands, and turned tail.to tail, and put a firebrand
in the midst between two tails."

1-lebrew, Patt the 4th, 1825, New Translation—" So Sam-
son went, and he took three hundred sheaves, also he took brands,
and he turned end to end, and he put one brand between two
of the ends."

Note.—See Anti-Deist, Part the 2d, page 48, 1819.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, 1 Samuel, chap. 22,
v. 6—" Now Saul abode in Gibeah, under a tree in Ramah," &e.
Hebrew, Part the 4th, 1825, New Translation—" Now Saul
abode by Gibeah, under the Grove toward Ramah," &c.
Note.—See Classical Journal, No. 5, for April, 1811.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, 1 King s, chap. 17,
v. 4, "And it shall be, that thou (Elijah) shalt drink of the
brook ; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there."
Hebrew New Translation, Part the 5,h, 1831.—" Thus it
shall be, thou shalt drink of the brook, and I have commanded
the Arabians to supply thee there."
V. 6.—" There the Arabians brought for him bread, &c.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, Psalms, chap. 51, v. 5,
" Behold ! I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me."

Hebrew, Part, 7th, 1834, New Translation.—" If I were
shapen in iniquity, or in sin, my mother had conceived me."
Note.—Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my
mother conceive me. This verse, as it stands in the common
version, is not consistent with the Scripture. The Divine com-
munication stands recorded in Gen. i. 28. and God said unto
them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Now
it must strike every reader with conviction, that as God created
Man to multiply and replenish the earth, he did not ordain man
to be shapen in iniquity, nor to be conceived in sin. The
Divine order for the multiplication of the human race is as holy
now as at the beginning : it is pronounced to be superlatively
good, Gen. i. 31., and this Divine order is sanctioned through-
out the Scripture, in all its purity, as at the beginning; con-
firmed by the Messiah, who said, Suffer little children, end
forbid them not, to come unto me, far of such is the kingdom
of heaven, Matt. xviii. 14. ; it therefore follows, that if .man
were shapen in iniquity, and conceived in sin, the Divine insti-
tution of marriage could not have been approved of by him.
Mr. O'Connell is a powerful speaker, a skilful politician, an
able advocate for civil and religious liberty, but he should not
attempt theology.—The Sun, No. 14,672.
Swift seems to have entertained some gloomy forebodings
of the melancholy fate that awaited him. On seeing a tree,
the top of which was withered, he shook his head, and ex-
claimed, I shall be like that tree, I shalt die at top."
Mr. O'Connell, though having received the friendly admo-
nition of this paper, in ceir matter:of " dying at top," must
still Wear his feathers "in his cap of vanity.'
" In London," observes Batista Angeloni, in Letters on the
English Nation, 1750—"'religion seems to be periodical, like
an ng,ue, which returns only once in seven days, and then at-
tacks the inhabitants with the cold fit only, which physicians
reckon the most fatal; the burning never succeeds in this
country."
" Even on their days of worship in their. Churches,
there is ten thousand times more inattention to their
duty, than to the price of stocks in Change-alley all
the rest of the week ; and the fervour of their devo-
tion, .to obtain a seat in Paradise is infinitely short to
that of procuring one in Parliament, purchasing a good bar-
gain on the . Exchange, or trying to obtain a good place at
Court ; they are as cool and inanimated in their acts of devo-
tion, as they are warm and active in those of getting riches,
and their temples and exchanges are accordingly constructed
within for these different dispositions, every family having in
their churches a snug pew, a kind of closet, where they can sit
and sleep, or employ themselves in anything but their duty to
the Highest ; whereas in their places of commercial rendez-
vous there are no seats, they would be useless there, the zeal of
gain keeping them standing to their duty."
With this accurate delineation of the " Corporation of the
City. of London," where " the fervour of their devotion for a
seat in Paradise is infinitely short to that of procuring one in
Parliament ;" and this being the municipal body which gives
tone to the institutions of the country, what promoter, we
may expect on behalf of a matter " of the utmost importance
to the interest of mankind," and " a life beyond life.'
It is a melancholy reflection that the " two Estates" distin-
guished amongst us as " collective wisdom" throughout the
realm should have had no deeper feeling towards a linguist of a
country than the frequenters of " 'Change-alley."
It is now more than 30 years since the eminent linguist Bel-
lamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a periodical of
the highest literary character in the country, the " Classical
Journal ;" it is 22 years since we became adherents to his pro-
mulgations, and with an intent watchfulness, The Sun, the
Examiner, and the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers
amongst the range, who have promoted the matter held to be
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
life beyond life."
This enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental
Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or ":the cruel
and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of vi-
tuperations against them, when one whose purport was and is
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and "a
life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled injus-
tice from the press of England.
It is pleasing to us to observe a consnieuous personage in our
triple state, who was equally unmindful in his day, and of the
posthumous fame of a Prince. Sir Robert Peel has his proper
estimation with a portion of the Press. " The Tories quarrel
with the Hon. Baronet because of the feeble, shifting, cowardly
policy which he has pursued during several Sessions of Parlia-
ment. We now find this once trumpeted statesman,
everywhere inveighed against by those of his own faction, as a
sluggish and irresolute, if not a feeble-minded, statesman."—
Sunday Times.
When malignancy, the characteristic of olden time—for
Shakespeare wrote " Mens' evil manners live in brass ; their
virtues we write in water"—is so rife amongst us, we consider
it our bounden duty to break a lance with the assailants of the
memory of the Prince and Patron of the Work, " of the ut-
most importance to the interest of mankind," and a ' life be-
yond life'.'—who
Distort the truth—accumulate the lie,
And pile the pyramid of calumny !"
—English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.—Byron.
Digest of the, proceeding, publishing, and publicity of the
Work :—The Classical Journal, from 1810 to 1818-1818 the
appearance of the First Part. The Sun, Nos. 8,181-8,192.
Review of, and Rejoinder of the Quarterly Review. Reply to,
and Rejoinder from the Author to Quarterly Review.-1819,
First and Second Part of Anti-Deist. Second Part.-1820, Cri-
tical Examination of the Objections of Mr. Whitaker, A.M.,
Cambridge. Reasons in favour of a New Translation of the
Holy Scriptures. A Reply to the Reverend Mr. Todd's Vin-
dication of our Authorized Translation and Translators of the
Bible.-1821. The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821.—Mr. Bella..
my's Reply to S. Lee, A.M., Professor of Arabic in the Uni-
versity of Cambridge. Third Part.-1822. Compilations in
the Examiner, No. 771.—Aug., Oct., Nov.-1823. Nos, 785,
786, 793. 801, 803.-1824. Nos. 834, 840, 845. In 1825.
Fourth Part. The Times, Saturday, Oct. 16.-1825. The
Durham Chronicle, Saturday, July 16. Tho Liverpool Sa-
turday Advertiser, July 23 ; and the Norwich Mercury, Satter_
day, August 13, 1825. In 1827.—N05. 1,021, 1,022. The
Examiner, Vol. 111., No. 34 and No. 69. Galway Indepen-
dent, 1828, Nos. 1,049, 1,050, 1,057.—The Examiner. In
1831, Part sth ;in 1834, Part 6th ;in 1835, Part the 7th. In
1837—The Sun, Nos. 14,056, 14,062, and 14,080. In 1838—
The Guide, Nos: 48,4.9. The Sun; No. 14,447. In 1839_
Nos. 14,465, 14,468, 14,475, 14,482, 14,606. Nos. 14,628,
July 25th, 14,652, 14,653, 14,662, the latter we lay no
pre-
tension, the insertions each, issuing 3,500. per day—are from
souls of kindred fire—who in this glorious field fight together
with us in our chivalry—who have allied themselves with tts
in this arduous strife to " do that deed which shall gild our
humble names."—Nos. 11,684, Sept. _Bth: 14,7 W, Oct. 21st:
14,706, Oct. 24th 14,732, Nov. 23d, 1839.
By Appointment : Build and Calkin, Booksellers to her Ma-
jesty, Pail-mall; Longman, Rees, n
and Brown, St,
Paul's, London.

Letter to ......... on the Bev. W. L.
Bowles's " Strictures on the Life and Writings of Pope," by
the Right ion. Lord Byron, and that Noble Lord's Works,
complete in one volume.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Amsterdam : J.
Muller and Co. Leyden : W. H. Hazenberg. Paris : Ar-
thur Bertrand. Venice J. B. Missiaglia. Petersburg :
Schwetschke. 1826.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

EFFECT OF MONOPOLY.

Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugar
in Mincing-lane, and comparing the same against that of
foreign sugars:—

London, Jan. 24, 1840.
The Gazette of this evening will quote the
average price of British Plantation Muscovado Per Cwt.
Sugar, exclusive of duty, at 37s. 113-d.
The actual quantity of Sugar sold on account of the
importers, in the week ending the 21st instant, according
to the returns made upon oath by the West India sugar
brokers, in conformity with the Act of Parliament, and
on which quantity the above price is computed, consisted of
2,418 hbds. 135 trs. and 217 barrels, estimated to contain
together, 36,240 cwt.
Manilla Sugar, raised by free labour, may be quoted
this week about 16s. per cwt., quality for quality, cheaper
than West India Sugar. Refined Sugar, manufactured
from foreign Muscovadoes, by the sugar houses in
London, which work for exportation only, deducting ship-
ping charges, has been at about 325. per cwt., being
6s. per cwt. cheaper than the dirty raw sugar imported
irom the West Indies, and the trite price the poor man
is compelled to pay for duty-free treacle.
We renew our remarks upon the glaring abuses ac-
cruing from the wicked monopoly conferred upon West
India Sugar by the Act of Parliament, which imposes
a duty of 635. per cwt. upon all foreign Muscovado sugars,
while the West India is admitted to home use at 245. per
cwt., protecting, consequently, the latter description by a
prohibitory difference of duty of 395. per cwt.
The nation (see The Sun of the 17th inst.) consumed
in 1839, 3,521,706 cwt. of Sugar, for which the immense
sum of nearly twelve millions sterling 'was paid. This
amount would have purchased in Foreign free labour
Sugar, one third more than the quantity actually bought,
and would, without any additional tax upon the public,
have fortified the Treasury with 1,531,540/ , besides the
4,226,0481. already collected as Sugar duties ; so that, in-
stead of deploring a heavy diminution in the annual returns
of the nation, the CF.ancellor of the Exchequer would
have been in condition to congratulate the House of Com-
mons upon the favourable aspect which the revenue of
1839 presented.
A great deal has been said concerning the defalcation in
the West India crops of Sugar last year, and when we
compare the importation of all kinds of sugar admis-
sible to home consumption in 1839 against 1838, we
confess the weight deficient is alarmingly large; but it
ought to be borne in recollection that the Sugar harvest of
18,38 was unusually productive, while, on the other hand, the
disagreement in 1839 between the planters and negroes in
Jamaica, on the score of wages, (see The Sun of the
276 of March lnst,) tended to reduce very considerably,
the' quantities exported from the Colonies in general, and
from Jamaica in particular. The fair mode, therefore, of
drawing a comparison would be to set the importations of
Sugar in 1839 against those of 1837.

it appears difficult to reconcile with common sense how
it is, tuat the Manilla Sugar-planters, the distance they
are from England increasing the costs of freight, &c.,
should be flourishing in their circumstances and extending
their plantations throughout the Phillippine Islands,
while our own West Indian planters are, according to
their own account, overwhelmed with distress. A few
figures will suffice to display what the price of Sugar is
to each party prior to its shipment for Europe. The ave.
rag-e ex-duty pi ice of Manilla Sugar is 21s. per cut.,
deduct from that 9s. per cwt. for freight, commission, and
management of sales, &c., leaves only 12s. per cwt. to
the Manilla planter, for the costs of cultivation, manufac-
turing, and packing.
The Gazette average es-duty price of West India Sugar
is 385., deducting 93. per cwt. for freight, commission,
and management of sales, &c„ leaves the West India
Planter 295. per cwt., being 140 per cent. more than his
Manilla" competitor obtains ; in other words, the Manilla
planter will deliver to a buyer, at any port of the United
Kingdom, two hundred weight and a half of good Sugar
for the same money which the West Indian gets for his
one hundred weight, and yet, forsooth, the West Indian
complains of distress !

It is stated in the Cambridge Advertiser that at
the Isle of Ely Sessions, held at Wishech, on the Ist inst.,
there were 22 prisoners for trial, of whom only 13 can read,
and only five are able to write, although much the larger portion
of these were under 25 years of age—and this in a University
County ! Jacob Thornton (aged 20. and unable to read and
write) and John Whaley, aged 56 (unable to write), were sen-
tenced to ten years' transportation for sheep-stealing at Elm.
SIR E. L. BULwER'S WORKS.—" Sir Lytton
Bulwer has in preparation a new edition of his works in a col-
lected series. The first volume, which is to appear on the first
of February, is to contain his popular work Rienzi, or the
Last of the Roman Tribunes,' beautifully illustrated from draw-
ings by M`Clise and Creswick. Each volume is to be similarly
illustrated, and a volume published on the first of every month,
price six shillings. We are glad to have it in our power to
make this announcement, which will doubtless be welcome to
the numerous admirers of the distinguished author. Besides
the very great demand for each of his works on publication,
and the multipled editions abroad, there yet remains a large
class who will look forward to the possession of this new and
compressed edition with the most agreeable anticipations. Each
volume will nresent some new feature of interest, besides the
graphic embehishinents, which will be of the highest order."--
Metropolitan.
PRINCESS DASCHKA.W.—This extraor-
dinarywho was for many years chief lady of honour
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carryingbi into execution,
tqinugesatiOna y did, the great Revo-
lution which placed Catherine the Second on the throne of
Russia, she may be regarded as having exercised a wider in
flaence on the destinies of mankind than any other uncrowned
female ever did; and, when it is recollected that she after-
wards for ninny years held, and practically filled, too, the
(lice of President of the First Academy of Science and Lite-
rature that Russia ever boasted, and that she was altogether
one of the must extraordinary persons that ever lived, the
desire to read her own account of her own life and actions
becomes increased to a pitch of more intense cu,iosity then
I has been excaed by any modern biography.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Wednesday in-
formation was received at the various Police Courts andstation-
honses that, about eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, as a la-
bouring man, named Samuel Deacon, in the employ of Dr.
Morgan, of Colton, near Rugeley, was on his return from Ruge-
lev, he was attacked by two men, who beat him most violently
about the head with instruments called life-preservers, until
life appeared quite extinct, when they decamped and succeeded
in effecting their escape, carrying off with them threesovereigus
and a silver watch, of which they robbed him. The unfortu-
nate man was subsequently found in a state of insensibility, and
conveyed to his master's house, where he remains in a very pre-
carious state.
THE UNITED BOROUGH OF
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FALOITTII.—From a Correspondent we learn that
Hutchins Will be returned on Friday without opposition. In
case of a general election, he will be returned a second time
with John Charles Ord, Esq. This borough, which was half
Tory, is now wholly Liberal.

(From the -Scotsman.)
A public meeting of electors, called together by Mr.
M..caulay, was held on Tuesday, in the Oeorge-street As
scmbly-rooms, to hear him declare his sentiments as ,a can-
didate for the representaion of the city. Exactly #t two
o'clock the Lord Provost entered the room, followed by
Mr. Macaulay. Among:those present we observed Sir T.
Dick Lauder and Sir J. G. Craig, Baits. ; SirtJames
Spittal, Sir J. G. Dalyell, Sir John Robison, general
Mayne, C. 8., Deputy Commissary-General Wemyss,
the Hon. Erskine Murray ; Bailies Ramsay, Grieve,
Richardson, and Thomson; Treasurer ,Stodart, thq Mes-
tar of the Merchant Company, William Mackenzie,) Esq.,
of Muirton, &c. &c. The room was crowded to' over-
flowing. Elea
On the motion of Sir JAMES SPITTAL, the Lord Provost
ahreend plaudits.
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vernment.—( Loud cheers.) I now come before }du as a
Member of that Government. —( Renewed cheers.) There
is one subject on which I wish to detain yew a short time,
and I do so because, though in some degree personal to
myself, yet it is not purely personal, but has a bearing on
a great and important qneation On which yonreopinions
may be divided, but respecting which you have a right to
know in what manner your representative eon . ucted him-
self. I mean the question of the ballot. There has ap-
peared
lately in some Newspaper in this town a letter of
considerable length. written with the object of showinV
that I, in a speech delivered :in the House of Commons,
had been the advocate of falsehood, that I had-attempted
to palliate the moral guilt of untruth. What I said was
this—l affirmed that the argument against- the ballot is,
that it affords facilities to falsehood, and that therefore
it must impair the national morality. My answer
to this was twofold.- I said, first, that the
argument was unsound; and, secondly, that it was
an argument which the persons who use it do not use in,
good faith. On the first of these, I argued in the House)
of Commons, and I will recapitulate the argument to Tau,
that the argument was unsoued. I admit -that untrreth is
immoral ; but I hold that the corrupt abuse of a public
trust for gaining a private advantage, tvoidinge private
injury, is also immoral. The Ballot, it is said, gives facili-
ties to untruth ; but it must also be admitted that the want
of the Ballot affords a strong temptation to the corrupt
abuse of a public trust. If a man whoeunder this protec-
wtion, would,-from the weakness of principle, utter an un-
truth, the same men, from the weakness of principle,
would corruptly betray a public trust. Therefore, Gen-
tlemen, it appears to nie that morality would not suffer by
the introduction of the Ballot. That is one part of• my
argument. The other is, that the very persons who use
the argument which I refer to, do not use it in good faith.
Are they, I ask, consistent with themselves? Are they,
who profess their exceeding horror of untruth, sin-
cere ? To • this I answer, that when untruth, no less
excusable, is uttered by a person in their own rank of
life, by the rich, the powerful, the educated, no such
horror is shown : it is not considered discreditable, for
instance, to a man distinguished in -letters to deny
the works he has written.—( Cheers. )• I assert it as a I
fact, that it excludes no man from society ; that it is not 1
' considered by the very class who use this argument, that
when falsehood is uttered by one of themselves his moral.
character is totally vitiated. Is this not a lax morality ?
Is not this palliating falsehood, when we see individuals
thus straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel? As
there are degrees in theft, homicide, and treason, so also
are there degrees in untruth. Let us take the best known
case in history. After the battle of Worcester, Charles
11. owed his life to his being represented to the followers
of Cromwell as poor Will Coventry. He had hid himself
in a roam, and when'shis enemies were searching for him
they asked him, " Who's there ?" " Nobody but poor
Will Coventry, lying sick of the ague," was the answer.
Now this was a falsehood—this was en untruth—but will
illy human being tell me that this was an untruth of the
same malignity as the falsehoods uttered by Titus Oates,
and which brought many excellent wen to the scaffold one
after /another ?—( Cheers.) This is my lax morality—
this is the extent to which I have palliated falsehood.
People cry, " Why don't you give us more legislafion—
why don't you abolish the Corn-laws—why don't yon
establish the Ballot—what is the use of a Ministry if they
do not give us these ?" I might as well turn round upon
my friend the Lord Provost or Sir James Spinal, and say,
" Monsters, why don't you repeal the Corn-laws ?" for
there is not a single person in this room who cannot as
readily repeal the Core-laws, or establish the Ballot, as
the present Administration. What i ask for the Ministry
is—and I think it is moderate anti reasonable—that you
should judge them by the way in which they have done
that which the Constitution has given them the power to
do. Let them be judged by the way in which they act
where they are freely entitled to choose, because for ti,at
alone they are answerable. If they have left life
and property unprotected—if they have forborne to
employ all the force at their disposal for the prt's-
tection of the industrious, the loyal, peaceable, and
well-disposed, against outrage—if they have eon.
nived at the conduct of those who have been the cause of
such violence or encouraged these deluded men—for these
acts they alone are answerable.—(Cheers.) If they have
suffered themselves to be deterred by clamour, by calumny,
or misrepresentation, from extending to the public the full
relief with regard to the rates of postage which Parlia-
ment enabled them to extend, then they alone are answer_
able.—(Great applause.) If the military opersatiovis
which were conducted under their directions in India, have
sullied the ancient honour of the British arms, then they
alone are answerable. If they have misgoverned Ireland,
brought it to the verge of rebellion, and rendered new troops
ecessary, then they alone are answerable. But for the
difficulty of carrying:legisletive measures through a nicely
balanced House of Commons, and the impossibility of car-
rying such measures through a hostile House of Lords,
they are not answerable.—(Cheers.) With regard to
those legislative measures about which you are most inte-
rested, I formerly expressed my opinion to you. I have
no change of opinion to avow. : Loud cheers. At
the same time, Gentlemen, I cannot but feel that,
since I last addressed you from this place, there is
some change in the position of those public questions. I
do not mean that those great questions• which I then
discussed have lost either their interest or importance.
Par from it. One amongst them, the Corn-laws, appears
to me more interesting and more important than ever. I
(Immense applause.) But, Gentlemen, a new quesilim
has since that time risen into most serious magnitude—into
such magnitude that, for the moment, it appears to me of
more importance than any other which is at issue between
the Ministry and the Tory party. It is the question whe-
ther the great principle of religious liberty shall be main-
tained in its full integrity—(Tremendous applaus.e)—
whether any class of our fellow-subjects—guilty only of
worshipping God according to their consciences—shall be
excluded from participation in the honours and advantages
of the State, to which they contribute of their substance,
and which they defend to the jeopardy of their lives.--
( Loud cheers.) The spirit of factious animosity, despair-
ing of success through other means, has at length invoked
a spirit, darker, fouler, and fiercer than itself—a spirieernore
easily raised than laid—the spirit of religious fanatieiim.—
( Applause.) Even now, in the name of Protestantism,
you are called upon by reprobate and apostate journalists,
and by mountebank preachers—(Loud cheers)—yes, in the
name of the Protestant religion, such men call upon you
to trample upon one-third part of the population of the
British islands.—( Renewed cheering.) In the name of the
Protestant religion do I too call -upon you, not as a poli-
tician alone, but much more as a Protestant, to stand up
manfully against those who encumber the religion of
truth and charity with helps, which charity repudiates, and
which truth does not need.—(Great applause.) After ten
generations of Protestant Government, has Protestantism
advanced? Or, rather, is it not stationary, if it has not
retrograded ? Has the Catholic religion lost its hold on
the affections of the people, or is it not stronger than on any
part of the Continent ?—( Hear, hear.) These are the
fruits of the policy under which the Government, the
education, and the whole social system of Ireland has
been fashioned, with rte other view but that of forwarding
Protestant ascendancy. If 1 were a Catholic, I should be
at no loss for an explanation of all this. If I were a Ca-
tholic I should say that herein
• I saw a signal fulfil.
ment of the prophecy which I have seen written on
the door of St. Peter's—" I have established my kingdom
on a rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
How is it that our religion, which a few centuries ago
triumphed over interest and might, and every kind of op-
position, should now droop and languish when we find her
receiving the largest portion of secular aid.—(Great
cheering.) There are, indeed, gentlemen, a sort of pet).
festors of moral pharmacy, whose only remedy is to repeat
the dose which aggravated the disease.—( Laughter.)
Disabilities have been tried, and insults, and confiscation,
and the sword, and the fire, and the axe, and the gibbet—
all have been tried in vain, and what shall we try now ?
Can it be that by constantly presenting Protestantism and
misgovernment side by side to the Irish people, we have
taught them to abhor that which they would otherwise have
looked upon with reverence and love ?--(Cheers.) 1 be-
lieve that it is even so ; and I believe farther, that if it be
your wish that even at this late period Ireland should be
added to the goodly fellowship of the reformed nations,
Toe! first duty is to dissolve the connection which the mis-
, rule of centuries has established in the midst of Ireland
between Protestantism and oppression.—(Immense ewer-
, lug.) Therefore, I say, maintain the Emancipation Bill,
, as you would maintain the Bill of Rights, as you would
maintain the Reform Bill—(lmmense applause)—anclexe-
: cute it according to its integrity and spirit. Treat the
Catholics in all things temporal as your brethren.
Spare not to defend that which you believe to be
truth ; hut remember that no mar. was ever insulted
into orthodoxy.—(Renewed and prolonged applause.)
' Gentlemen, 1 well know that I have said some things
r •
v. hie will expose me to obloquy; but I also know that
there is an obloquy which is the truest glory. Let those
who arc constantly deaf to the just demands of the nation
pay court to its lowest prejudices. lat least will contend
against the errors of the people, with the same spirit with
which I have contended for their rights.--( Applause.)
As to the final result, I entertain no doubt. Passions will
subs do; delusions will pass away; truth alone is humortal. Mr. Macaulay concluded amidst loud and continued
cheers.

Sir J. G. DALYELL then se, ard, after a few observe-
tions. prorosed that Mr. Macaulay was a fit and proper
person to represent the city of Edinburgh ; which was se-
conded by W. Oliphant, jun., Master of the Merchant
Conipany, and unanimouely agreed to.
Mr. THOMAS Russell then put several question; to Mr.
Macaulay respecting the opium trade with China, Church-
rotes in England, &c., which having been answered, the
meeting, after thanks to the Chairmen, and three cheers
for the Queen, and the same fcr Mr. Horsman, quietly
separated.

The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, and Lord
and Lady William Russell, the Countess of Blessington and
Count Alfred D'Orsay, Sir Ilene). Webb, 13ait.,
Sir
Leighton, and many other fashionahles, were present at the
first representation of Air. I. faynes'shiitorical tragedY of Mary
Stuart, the evening before last, at Drury-lane Theatre.
J ames

DEVON PORT ELECTION.

(Abridged from the Plymouth Journal.)
THE NOMINATION.

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EVENING EDITION.

Early on Wednesday morning, the borough of Devon- ,
port presented a scene of great excitement, W. Hancock,
Est, the Returning Officer, having appointed that the
election of a gentleman to serve in Parliament for the bo-
rough of Devonport and township of East Stonehouse, in
the place of Sir Edward Codringt n. G. C. 8., should take
place outside the Town-hall, in ',Kerr-street, at eleven
o'clock. Many of the houses in the borough and town-
ship were decorated with the colours and emblems of the
candidatesp. Tufnell, Egg., and the Hon. G. Dawson.
A few minutes before eleven o'clock the Returning Offi-
cer, J. Woollcome, Esq., and A. Bone, Esq., who were
accompanied by their clerks, took their places on the hust-
isp , and the preliminary forms having been read,
Mr. C. TRIPE then rose and was greeted with tremen-
dous cheering. Gentlemen, I call your attention to the
fact that Sir J. Y. Buller, one of the, Members for the
southern division of the county, will submit a motion on
the 30th of this month, the effect of which is to attempt to
break up the Miaistry.—( Cheers, groans, and hisses.)
Gentlemen, I can speak of it lightly, as I know they will
be beaten, and your adversaries will be daunted. Gentle-
men, will you send to Parliament a man to aid and assist
Sir J. Buller inlhis motion ?—(Cries of .4 No," and
" Yes.") By your decision on this question you will not
only send a vote there to oppose him, but will prove to
the kingdom that Sir J. Buller does not represent the feel-
ings of the county. With these observations 1 shall con-
clude; by giving your votes this day you will demonstrate
the opinions you entertain for a young, virtuous, and liberal
Queen.—( Cheers from both parties.) Mr. Tripe con-
cluded by proposing H. Tufnell, Esq„ as a proper person
to represent the borough.
Mr. Muacu, of Stonehouse, seconded the nomination.
Mr. RAMSEY then rose and said that Mr. Dawson
stood before them that day as an old and valued friend—
( Oh, oh)—he became a candidate for their suffrages
at the Linvitation of a large body of the constituency ;
be was well known as a statesman of Conservative princi-
ples, attached to the liberties of the country, and gifted
with talents of the highest order; with all these sterling
virtues he was endowed with one still more high and
holy...that of charity. It was the hope and desire of the
nation that they would triumphantly return the Right
Hon. Mr. Dawson, whom he had the honour now to pro-
pose as the representative of this bornugh in Parliament.
Mr. Anson BAYLY seconded the Right Hon. G. R.
Dawson.
HENuT TUFENELL, Esq., then rose and was received
with unbounded applause and cheers. He said he re-
joiced that day to appear before the assembled constituency
of that borough. He was glad they would now have se
before them the antagonist principles of Toryism and Li
beralism.—(Cheers.) There was one most important
question which deserved their most anxious consideration.
For same years they had, unfortunately, deficient harvests,
and the poor of the country had suffered extreme misery
in consequence ; not only had the poor:suffered, but the mc-
,
netary system of the country had been deranged by that
cause ; they had no free trade in corn, and they were obliged
to send their gold into foreign countries. If they had ha:'.. a
free and permanent corn trade they would have sent their
manufactures instead, which would have given employment
to thousands of industrious artisans ; whilst our popu-
lation was increasing by hundreds and thousands, was
uc 1 a state of things to be end ,red ? Not enly was
the present system in itself bad, but the means by which it
was carried into &till were still worse.:lt was put in the
hands of a few speculators in corn, who raised up the
average to the highest pitch, in oreer that they might
make not a fair and honest gain, but 50 and 100 per cent.
on the distresses of the country. The present system
neither ensured steadiness of price to the farmer nor a
market for the manufacturer, and both were ruined by it ;
but he would tell them that the voice of the country was
[ now raising, and he would appeal to them to attest their
attachment to free trade, and, above all, the abolition of
the present system. They had seen what Toryism had
been, and he would ask if it was now changed ? The
Right Honourable Gentleman talked of rescuing the
Queen, but he should like to know in whose hands he
would place her; would he place her in the power of the
Bradshaws, the Robys, and the Thompsous (not Brad-
shaw the ,egicide)? would he put her conscience in the
lc epiag of the Bishop of Exeter? lie had a great reve-
-1 mice for the Established Church, and be was a member
of that Church, and would support its Protestant principh a
' to the utmost, but when oi:a Protestant Church took a
political character—when it attempted under the garb of
religion to side with the rar.ks of Toryism—when those
ministers mixed in the bitter waters of political strife—
under these circumstances it reflected no credit on the
Church ; they were not true followers of our Saviour, nor
true disciples of that Gospel winch breathes glad tidings to
ail men. The principles of Tories were founded on sand
and would fail. It was for them now to decide. The
Hon. Ca..didate then sat down amidst great cheering.
! The Ri4lit Hon. G. R. DawsoN then rose and was
Igreeted with the ai.?lause of of the Tories. He refused to
I.l,dgeliimself either in favour for or agair.st the Corn-laws;
but he was favourable to a modification. Ile would never
consent to any modification which produced a low rate of
wages with cheap bread ; he called on the electors to be
l at their posts on the morning,:aud rally round the institu-
' tions which l,ad proved so great a blessing to the country.
The Returning Officer then called far a sl ow of handF,
which was declared to be in favour of Mr. Dawson. Mr.
Tripe then demanded a poll on behalf of Mr. Tufnell, and
the returning officer postponed the proceedings till this
I im.rning at eight o'clock. Three cheers were then given for
1 the Mayor, and nine for the Queen.

GERMAN AND DUTCH PAPERS.

HANoVER, JAN. Lt.—Official notice has been given of
six weeks' mourning for his Majesty's sister, the Dowager
Landgravine of Hesse Homburg.
COPENHAGEN, JAN. 13.—His Majesty has suffered for
some time from St. Anthony's tire in one leg, but is now

! happily recovered.
His Royal Highness Prince Frederick arrived here ves-
' terday from Jatland. It appears that he passed the Belt
without much difficulty. His Majesty is indefatigable in
his attention to public business, so that we may hope that
i the preliminary arrangements for the Budget of 1840 will
be speedily terminated. It were to be wished that the
Budget could be published before the convocation of the
( Estates, for it would doubtless give much satisfaction to
the people, since it may be foreseen that considerable re-
trenchments will be made.—Hantburg Borsenhalle, Jan. 18.
T. PETIIRSBURGIit JAN. B.—On Monday last, 25th of
December (old style) a solemn Mas=, followed by Te
Deum, was performed in the chapel of the Winter Palace,
'1 in commemoration of the evacuation of the Russian ter-

ritory, by the armies of the enemy in that day in the year
1812. The Emperor, the Grand Duke Alexander, and
Prince Peter, of Oldenburg, were present at the ceremony,
which was also attended by the Members of the Council
of the Empire, the Senators, and general officers, &c.
ST. PETIRSSURGH, JAN. 10 —Exchange oa London,
34 prem. The cold is severe, the mercury in Reaumur's
thermometer being at 21 to 22 deg. below Zero, in 471 to
491 deg. below freezing point, or 15+ to 17i- deg. below
Zero of Fahrenbeit.—St. Petersburgh Journal, Jan. 11.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Jas. 17.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1383 1650
An,lo-Russian Loan
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, lst Series lOl% 104
103,,
Russian 5 per Cent. How, and Co. 3d and 4th "51
1°8?1'
Soles
i Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 51% 51A,
Ditto 5 per Cent 9BX
98
I Polish Bonds
1 New ticket
Anglo- Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 73i 73
Norwegian Loan, 1534, 4 per Cent.... lOl
Sdanish, New 3 per Cents. —
EXCHANGES 011/ LONDON.
HAMBURG, JAN. 17.-13. 7—Two months, 13 5.
BURLIN„ JAN. 10.—Three months, 8. 21%.
STOCKHOLM, Jas. I.—Seventy-five days, 11. VI.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VtaxNA,JAN. 11
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Year per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1634%
—4l/genuine &Jiang. Jaa 18
PItUSSIAN FUNDS.— BEaLIN, It st. 18.
Bois. Money.
) St. Schuld. Sch., 4.,, per cent. 1044
Prussian English Loan, 1530, 4 per cent. 1034 10
102%3%
liachange on London, three months 6 ‘211(
—Prussian State Gazette, Jan 1.9.
DUTCH FUNDS.—A3ISTERDAM, JAN. A.,
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 24 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A mort Sv3dic,4% per cent 91% 9214
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent.
Commercial Company, 44 per cent 10414 171%
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto mr, 5 per cent. 754 71
994 99%
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.................. .....
Ifachange on London, One month ll 9716
T w;anm. 2. soon
*****
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8"Y
—Dutch Papers,

MARSHALL, MAYOR.
ACOMMON COUNCIL, holden in the
Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on
Thursday, the 23(1 day of January, 1840,
Resolved unanimously, That the office of Sheriff of London
and Middlesex being vested in the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Commons of London, and its duties executed by two Freemen
of the City, elected by the Citizens, Liverymen in Common
Hall assembled, it becomes the duty of this Court to see that
none of its rights are anyway infringed.
Resolved, That as it appears the Sheriff of Middlesex, Wil-
liam Evans and John Wheelton, Esqrs„ have been committed
to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, by order of the House
of Commons, for exercising the imperative duties of their high
and distinguished office' a
as declared by her Majesty's Court of
Queen's Bench, in a
legaland constitutional manner, this
Court deeply sympathizes with them, and hereby offers its tri-
bute of respect to the Sheriffs for the firmness, discretion, and
dignity with which they have conducted themselves on this
important occasion.
Resolved, That a Ward Committee be now appointed, in-
cluding all the Aldermen now present, to co-operate with the
Committee appointed by the Court of Aldermen.
WOODTHORPE.

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Trousseau, Royal Presents and Festivities—The extraordinary
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