The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-07 00:00:00

TY NEWS

(SATURDAY EVENING.)
POST.—We understand that another effort is about
to be made by the holders of Foreign Bonds, the di-
sidends of which are suspended, to obtain their due ;
and we are of opinion, assuming that what we hear as to
the coarse proposed to bo adopted is correct, that
much may be expected from it. It is said to be in the
contemplation of some of the more iorlucriti 1 of the
number, as no substantial good has been effected by
either of the separate Committees foran-,l for the pro-
tc-ction of specific classes, to take measures for
uniting them, and to see what can be accomplished
by a combination of the whole. A general Committee
of Foreign Bondholders, if properly supported, as we
should conceive it would be, so many persons being
interested in the loans contracted in England for the
ueof different States abroad, might exercise an im-
mense influence by its own immediate proceedings in
co nneetion with such States alone ; but there is an in
fluence of a local and passive kind that it would possess
from which infinitely more important results might be
anticipated. The foreign bondholders have considered
themselves ill-treated by the English Government.
They have considered, and with a great appearance of
justice, that as, in the cases of Spain and Portugal more
particularly, they were encouraged to lend their pro-
perty ter the promotion of certain political objects of
the Administration, it was base in the latter to allow
the Governments of the two nations to act so dishonestly
by then as they have done. In ordinary cases it is no doubt
desirable that Ministers should steer clear of all partici-
patios in foreign loan affairs, but when they come to
see their countrymen made the dupes and victims of
borrowing States, it appears to us to be their bounden
duty to interpose. There is the civil law to prevent
one British subject from cheating another, but where
nations a criminals, it is the Government alone that
can obtaffi redress for the injured party. It is, we be-
lieve, the purpose of the individuals who propose to form
the general Committee of foreign bondholders to bring
the Parliamentary influence it may have into operation.
Toe sufferers are spread over the whole face of the
errantry, and the idea is drat Government may be
coerced into action, candidates being required to pledge
themselves on the hustings to withhold their support
fr.un it in the event of further refusal. The sum of
money at stake is so enormous as to render the honest
discharge of foreign dividends a matter of national im-
porter:toe. Directly and indirectly, it is of importance
to all classes of society, and we arc satisfied that a
move must be una-de sooner or later.

CHRONICLE.—We have more than once alluded
to the subject of the acknowledgment of the indepen-
dence of Texas by Great Britain—a step which was
adopted some t•mc since by Prance, and followed up by
an international treaty between that republic and France.
The other day, in noticing some remarks of the Ame-
rican press, we mentioned we had reason to believe that
they originated in the circumstance of Mr. Pakenham
having offered his friendly offices to bring about an
arrangement between the two Republics, which had
been favourably received by the Mexican authorities. It
has always been understood that Texas was willing to
take upon itself a proportion of the Mexican foreign
debt, as the prise of its recognition as an independent
state by this country , and that the sum of one million
sterling had actually been as good as offered by a
Texian envoy. WQ have received a communication on
this subject from a correspondent, in which he justly
observes, that as " Ow territory of Texas is pledged by
deed to the bondhoers," Lord Palmerston has good
grounds for stipulating that the English creditors should
participate in the benefit of the recognition of Texian
independence, should that measure be deemed expedient
by her Majesty's Government ; and we hope that his
suggestions may meet with attention in the proper
.quar:er.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNA

PROM THE MOKNING PAPERS OP THIS DAT.
( Fronk the Morning Chronicle.)
If we thought that the Priests were at the bottom of
the Repeal agitation, as the Standard alleges, we should
deem the matter very serious indeed. But what evi-
dence is there of the priests mixing themselves up with
Repeal ? Till we have some evidence of this, we shall
hesitate to believe that the priests generally counte-
nance Repeal. We do not, of course, suppose that
the insults oontraually heaped by Protestant clergymen
oe the Roman Catholic religion and its ministers are
peculiarly calculated to reconcile the priests to the
anomaly of the Establishment in Ireland of a Church
from which the great body of the people derive no be-
nefit. Wore the Union dissolved, the Establishment,
which even the Union will sot be always able to main-
tain, would no doubt receive at once its death-blow.
But the Priests are not, we trust, such fools as to suppose
that the separation of Ireland and Britain can be as
easily eifeeted as was the separation of the Union be-
tween Belgium and Holland. Belgium was twice as
popttlaus as Holland, Britain is twice as populous as
Irehead—these ore slight differences, to say not:king of
the still more striking disproportion in point of wealth.
Brig will; never consent to repeal, and repeal cannot
be wrtis. from Britain at the sword's point. The very
attempt, however, would entail on both islands this most
fearfel calamities. Blood would be shed in torrents
but the retire of peace would not be tke return of pros-
perity. Who can think, without horror, of the long
years of misery which would necessarily flow in the train
of suppressed rebellion l No, the priests cannot en-
• tertain the thought of a separation to be effected by
ioice—the only mode by which it could possibly be ob-
tained. It has been said that " priests of all religions
are the SIU10." It is ce;tain that priests, like all other
men, wish to obtain ag much money for as little
labour as possible. On the other hand, a religion is
most advanced by a poor clergy. The Church of
Rene, at the period of the Reformation, was rich ;
and its clergy were notoriously lazy. The Reforma-
tion spread with rapidity, and in a comparatively
short period threatened to become universal in Europe.
Siemondi tells us that in France the great majority of
the nobility and the middle classes of towns belonged to
the Reformation, and that the lower orders chiefly re-
mained Catholics. It was all but secure in Poland, and
GeAntway might be said to have embraced the Reforms.
tion. Even in Spain and Italy, as Dr. M'Crio has
shown, the Reformation at one time had made great
progrees. Stript of her po3sessiens, and her authority
renounced throughout the greater part of Europe, the
Church of Rome reformed herself and made the most
stupendous exertions. The Jesuits were one of the main
instruments by which Rome recovered her influence.
They shrunk from no labour ; they established excellent
schools and taught gratuitously. Church after church
was won back, Prince after Prince renounced Protestant-
ism, till, at the period when Gustavus Adolphus entered'
Germany, it became doubtful whether it could maintain
its ;mind in any part of the Continent. But the
Jesuits who performed these miracles were poor ;
they became in time rich, and lost their zeal and energy.
We wish the Bishop of London, who states that the
.Protestant clergy of England may he managed with
case, could inform us in what manner they can be cured
of their propensity to abuse the Catholic priests. It is
suite clear that abusing the priests does not advance
the eause of Protestantism. Instead of grudging the
Catholics the establishment of Maynooth, sound policy
would dictate a still more liberal treatment. The Ca-
tholic laity are strongly opposed to any connection
between the- Government and their priesthood ; but we
question very much whether, if the priests were at
liberty, they would feel ane strong indisposition to sa-
laries from the State.
(From the Morning Aduertiser.)
It must be evident to all who consider the subject,
that ere are on the egg of a great change with regard
to out trade in the Eagt. By this time there is little
doubt edr naval armaments have carried terror, and with
terror tromrs--ternis favourable to the increase and the
security of our trade—to the Government of the Celes- I
*dal Empire. Tae success of our expedition to China
will met be confined to that country—the moral and the
mereamile effect rill be felt in Java, Borneo, Celebs, the
?hill:pine Nandi, Cochin china, Sham, &c.—all which
piaceet steel be made %Tit markets for our produce, and
slonbtleen will he, if wisdom sit at our Colonial Board,
tad ostorpriso animate ciur capitalists. The Chinese
Asa fs# of our cottons, though generally not so good as
*heir even, issecause they can buy them much cheaper.
They ore eesentially a money-loving and a money-ak-
sag pee!.. rheir Governments may be, and doubtless
they are, jaalots of foreigners ; but the Chinese them-
selves are ant. They will willingly trade with us, if they are permitted, for anything we have to offer,
vided they can get it cheaper from us than fromcthperros-
Nor is this all. A very great traffic might exist be-.
tween las and Chinstbaotly to the benefit of the for-
mer,
asgreatly to Vile advantage of the British oapi-
taiist. In fact, whatever turn affairs take, it seems
certain that good must arise to India. If our cannons
produce a treaty of commerce upon more favourable
principles than before (certainly, we shall not take
less), Indian productions may be sent direct in ex-
change for the teas of China. If otherwise, we mutt
cultivate, in the Assam oountry and towards the feet of
the Himalaya mountains, the tea plant, which is inch.
genous to those localities, and sugar, it well known,
can be grown and manufactured in India quito equal to
any ever produced in Jamaica or the West Indies, A
small Company have been for some time very quietly
growing and manufacturing sugar JD India, di?, under the
same of the Dhobah Company, and their sugars, it
is Allowed, are the most beautiful in the mariee:, It is
now discovered that the East India sugar generally
imported did not contain so much saccharine matter as
that of the ',Vest Indies, solely from the ignorance and
carelessness of tile native makers, who allowed acetous
fermentation to take ielece, which European West India
planters know how to prevent.
(From the Morning rier'll44)
The quantity of
It is stated that Mr. Brunel has wagered 1,0001.
Turkish and 'Egyuptian corre,spotl:
e completion of the Great. Western Railway he
dunce which we have received, all turns upon on r' fact
—namely, the rejection of the termsproposed by Rift thi-a•t on
from Bristol to Leaden in two hours!
Be), and the determination of p Mehemet Ali to resist. wattlisseioP.—it is said that Dr. Shu
The British merchants at Alexandria have taken the • vew College, Oxford, is to be
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alarm, and a correspondence between them and the tlewortb, the Warden of ,•
Consul-General has been published, We are still, how- appointed to the See of Chichester.

(From the Titnes.)
During the whole administration of Lord Normanby,
even from the first drawing up of his theatrical Excel-
lency's curtain, the great object of his management was to
create the illusion, that under the I'Vhig dynasty the
public peace bad been re-established throughout the
sister kingdom. What outrages were now committed,
belonged, said the Whigs, to the agrarian, not to the
political class ; and, whatever their nature, there was,
at all events, a vast diminution in their number. The
Lords' Committee, which inquired last year into the
general state of Ireland struck a death-blow to the agra-
rian theory. The evidence taken before it, from all
sorts of witnesses, established beyond the pos-
sibility of doubt, that in a large majority of all the
Irish counties there were organised lodges of Rileand-
men, constituted for purposes not only political but
revolutionary, with secret oaths, secret signs, and
secret passwords, exercising a fearful iuiluence
over the minds of the lower classes, and affiliated with
the discontented associations of the manufacturing dis-
tricts in England. In 1839 the Ministers assured us
that the whole story of Ribandisin was a mere party in-
vention to alarm the country, the raw-head and bloody_
bones of a drunken Tory imagination. In 1840 they
are taking credit with Parliament for having instituted
Rband prosecutions all over the country. So much
for the real character of the disturbances, proved against
the Ministers by their own indictments, as well as by
the examinations of the Lords' Committee ; to which
proofs we will cow add but one little pithy line,
taken from the testimony of one of the witnesses
on the !ate inquiry—" I never knew the country,"
said he, "to be in so disturbed a state as dur-
ing the year previous ;" " and," says he, " the out-
rages arc not agrarian." This evidence brings
down the refutation of the Government theory to the
end of the last winter ; and it is entitled to a special
weight, because the witness who gives it, Thomas E.
Davenport, Esq., is one of those who were called on the
side of Mr, Jackson, that is of Mr. Jackson's employers,
the Ministers for Ireland. It certainly appeared from
Lord Normanby's citation of the official returns of
crime in Ireland, that the number of "serious offences"
committed there in the earlier months of the present
year, though large in comparison with the criminal
calendar of any other equally populous country calling
itself civilized, was somewhat smaller than the number
committed during the corresponding period of former
years in Ireland. And here has been the grand point
of refuge for the Irish Government. Whenever they
have been convicted of misconduct in other particu-
lars, they have pleaded the diminution in the number
of " serious offences" as evidence of their prudent and
Popular sway. There are still, they have said, some
outrages ; some there will always be ; but compare
tlie returns with those which were filed in the days of
Tory Governments, and then you will2see what pecifi-
caters we have been.' So lately as the 3d of last month,
on Lord Charleville's° motion for the papers connected
with the Pallaskenry disturbances, Lord Normanby
assured the House of Lords that the number of outrages
committed within that district in the first five months
of 1840 was but 31, being less by one than the num-
ber committed there in the same period of 1839. In
the county of Limerick, where the district situate,
this statement seemed wholly inexplicable •isbecause
at the moment when the Noble Marquis w' as deliver-
ing
himself to this effect, it was matter of notoriety
to every inhabitant of that county that the numbery
of such offences, so far from being diminished,
was increased to an amount which had
spread insect!:
curity and consternation through all the country round.

ASSIZE IN TELLIGENCE.

NORTIIERN CIRCUIT.-I,ri-E2tpoor., Snrr, 4

HAWLEY V. WAGG.
This was an action for libel.
The plaintiff is an excavator and the keeper of a
beers Lop at Greenhedge, near Winchester, and the de-
fendant is a police-officer at Stavelef. In the month
of February last the latter published the libel com-
plained of in the Manchester Courier and the Derby-
shire Chronicle. The libel was headed " Dispersion of
a Gang of Thieves—Capture of one of their Leaders ;"'
and stated that the neighbourhood of Chesterfield for
some time had been the theatre of considerable depre-
dations ; and so systematically had the delinquents con-
ducted their practices, as to elude the vigilance of the
police ; that in January the house of a Mr. Britt and
and another gentleman in the neighbourhood were
robbed, in consequence of which, Wagg, the police-
officer of Staveley, instituted a vigilant inquiry, and at
length obtained such a clue of the robbers, that he
went to the house of John Hawley, a hear-house keeper
at Greenhedge, where he found property which justified
him in placing Hawley in custody.
Evidence was called to show that this statement had
materially injured the reputation of the plaintiff.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages 20/.

SATUJIDAY.
JOULE V. JACKSON.
This action was brought against the defendant to
recover damages for an illegal distress.
The plaintiff is a brewer, and the goods seized were
his casks, by which he carried on his business. The
question in the case was, whether casks so employed
were liable to seizure. On the part of the plaintiff,
several witnesses were called to prove the custom of
trade, and they stated that it would be impossible to
carry on a brewery unless casks were protected.
Oa the part of the defendant it was urged, however
inconvenient it might be to brewers to have casks seized,
the law, as it was now constituted, gave the right of
seizure. It had bee❑ decided that a loom lent to a
weaver to finish his work could be seized for rent, and
this was analogous to that case.
A verdict was finally taken for the plaintiff, subject
to a motion to enter a nonsuit.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A Frenchman, named Albert, who was stated to be a
commission agent, was summoned before the Lord
Mayor by his countryman, Monsieur Henri Lavine,
eatinghouse-keeper in St. Mary Axe.
The complainant said, in very indifferent English,
that the defendant had some time ago incurred a debt
of fourteen shillings for cooked victuals and drink, and
that he treated all application for the amount with the
most annoying contempt.
The LOAD MAYOR—I am sorry to Lear it, but I
can't interfere. It is a mere debt, and you must sum-
mon him to the Court of Requests.
Defendant—Ah ha, sare ; it is a debt, care, and dat
viii pay de all of it (throwing a printed piper on the
table, and looking about exultingly).
Mr. Hobler—This paper, my Lord, is Mr. Albert's
discharge under the Insolvent's Act.—(A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR—Oh, this is your answer to the
demand, is it ? Defendant (putting his arms a-kimbo)
—Ah ha, yes, care, dat is my ansare. Dat is all de
mony I give him.
The LORD MAYOR-4f is very dishonest in you not
to pay, for you seem to be well able to do so, and he is
a very poor man.

Defendant (grinning)—Ah, ha, put your eye dere
(pushing the paper towards his Lordship) ; read, :read.
You rill see de mony vas paid by dat paper.
The LORD MAYOR—I see you have passed through
the Insolvent Court since you ran in the poor fellow's
debt.

Defendant (laughing heartily)—Oui, oui ; ah, I did
eat and drink before dat paper come to me ; but, my
my Lor, dat paper pay all my debts. I don't owe no-
ting, noting at all.
The LORD MAYOR (to the complainant)—Well, my
poor man, I am sorry I cannot prevail upon him to pay
you ; he is a very bad fellow indeed.
Defendant—Ah, ah, my Lor ; your Lordship act
veil—you can't make a me pay my debt no more. No,
no, I no pay noting more, sare.
The LORD MAYOR—I wish I could compel you.
Defendant—Ah, sare, you are de just man ; you
know de law (taking his discharge and clapping it into
his pocket); it is good law, sare, vera good good law.
The complainant, in language scarcely intelligible, re-
gretted his loss to the Lord °Mayor, especially as the
defendant had struck him a violent blow when he
pressed his demand.
The LORD MAYOR—IAsat! did he blacken your
left eye in that manner with his fist ? Complainant—
Oui, mi Lor, he did strike vera much ; he push his eye
in my left fist, and it knock de fire out, and de black in.
Defendant— Ah, because he talk big words. He
come in my house, and he say, " kb, all! you pay me
fourteen shillean vat you owe.
The LORD Nl...You—And then you struck him ?
Defendant (closing his fist and striking the tablo)—
Den I push him in the left eye.—(Laughter.)
The LORD Mal-mt.—Then you shall have the full
measure of justice. Come if you don't immediately pay
this poor man his fourteen shillings, and the expenses in-
curred, I shall fine you three times the amount for the
blow.--(A general burst of laughter.) Defendant-I%ot
you say, tare ?—(Pulling out his (lischarge)—l vont
pay no fourteen shilleen. Look dere, dat is de law.
The LORD MAYOR—I don't care a pin about that
now. If you refuse to discharge this old bill of fourteen
shillings, I shall positively fine you forty shillings and
expenses, and if you won't pay the fine you shall warm
your shins on the treadmill for a fortnight. Come, which
will you have?

Complainant_Mi lor, he can pay the fourteen
shilleen, and he can warm his shin too.—(Laughter.)
Defendant (with an altered countenance)—Vot is
warm de shin on the treadmill ?
Complainant—lt is yen you come up de step de step
come down to you.
The Lotto MAYOR—I shall decide immediately.
What do you say ? Defendant—Vell, I sail talk vid
my good friend Monsieur Levine.
The LORD MAYOR—No, no ; which will you pay
fourteen or forty shillings ? Defendant (with a very bog
face)—Four shilleen'. veil, I viii pay it.
The LORD MAYOR—If you do not pay fourteen this
instant, you shall be fined forty. Defendant (pulling
out his discharge)—Von't you let de law pay it ?
The LORD MAYOR—No ; there is no law in that
now. Defendant (throwing down a sovereign)—Vell,
yell, sare, dere is de money. Give me de change.
The LORD MAYOR—Let the poor man be paid his
fourteen shillings, and four shillings for his expenses.
Monsieur Albert, have you blacked the eyes of any
more of your creditors? Defendant—No sare. I
pay them yid de law. I pay no more vid black eyes.

GUILD-HA L L.
A boy, of the name of Perrin, eleven years of age,
was charged with stealing from the premises of his
mother a coat and waistcoat, of the value of 10s., the
property of a man of the name of Nelson.
The mother gave a lamentable history of the ex•
ploits of the young transgressor, who had robbed her
and other relations several times, and sometimes by
breaking locks and using other violence. He had al-
ready been tried at the Old Bailey, but acquitted on
account of the imbecile testimony of his aged grand-
father, who was prosecutor. He had been fostered
by the Children's Friend Society, but he ran away,
and his general conduct was so bad they would have
no more to do with him, and she had made ineffectual
attempts to get him into the Philanthropic.
Another person said, young as the boy was, be
herded with a set of juvenile thieves and prostitutes of
tender age. He was at Union-hall only last week,
charged with stealing a peck of apples.
The owner of the coat s,rid that the coat and waist-
coat, worth 10s., had been sold to a marine-store shop.
keeper, in Cow-cross-street, for twopence. He had
seen the woman, who admitted that she bought the
coat only, and sold it to a Jew for fourpence.
The mother entreated the Alderman to send her son
to Newgate for trial, as it would have the Effect of
placing him in some place where he would be under re-
straint. He was committed accordingly,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
BURGLARY FRUSTRATED.—Thonzas Peake, alias
" Flash Tons," Robert Brown, and John James, were
charged by the police with having been found in an
empty house in Oxendon-street, for a felonious purpose.
Police Constable Deane found the door of the house
No. 8, Oxendon-street, open, and upon ascertaining
that some persons were inside, he procured assistance,
and an entry was made through the window. Police
Sergeant Gray went up stairs, and took Peake into cus-
tody, Police Sergeant WWI took James, and a police
constable succeeded in capturing Brown, who had es-
caped into the area of an adjacent house. On searching
the house, the police found dark lantern and other
matters ; and from what they discovered, they were of
opinion that a burglary had been contemplated in the
neighbourhood. The house No. 8, Oxendon-street,
street had been indicted as a house of ill-fame, and a con-
viction having ensued, the owner, Mrs. Davis, had left
it unoccupied, without, however, taking away the fur-
ni
articles
ture.‘h
werec foundnthepro to property
was examined, a good
many have been stolen.
The police said they well knew Peake and James,
but not Brown.
The explanation given by the prisoners was, that they
were all drunk ; and finding the door of the house open,
they went in, but without any bad intention.
The police said they were sober when brought to the
station-house.

Mr. LONG remanded all three till Thursday next.

LAMBETH-STREET.
EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGATION.—.0n Saturday,
George Beer, alias Wilson, alias Thompson, alias Cum-
ming, alias Shephcard, who had been examined at this
office on Thursday last, on a charge of making a false
accusation of robbery against Mrs. Harriet Reid, the
wife of respectable master mariner, was brought up