The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-04 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Rev. Baptist Noel, as quoted by the Morning
Chronicle, says, speaking of the effect of certain bene-
volent intentions, it would be very similar to that men-
tioned by Mr. Carlyle, "as made in grim earnes
in a pamphlet bought by him in a Chartist
shop, " that all the children of working people after
the third be disposed of by painless extinction."
Of course every body will be taught by tha
single phrase that the work is a Chartist production.
Who is the author we know not ; but, looking at
the efforts now made by the Tories to extermi-
nate the people, it ought to have been bought in
a Tory shop. The doctrines are entirely Tory, ex-
cept the painless part, for the Tories do not spare
the pain when they extinguish life. To imply that
the work of 3.l.tactrs, noticed many months ago in The
Sun, is a Chartist production, is a specimen of the pri-
vilege so often used by the virtuous of calling " mad
dog" when they happen to dislike any doctrines or their
professors. It implies a gross and scandalous calumny
on the Chartists.

On Monday the Midsummer election of the Printers
Pension Society took place at the London Tavern. Mr.
Smith, of the firm of Marchant, Singer, and Smith, was
in the chair, and at four o'clock announced John Harris
and Thomas Byford as the successful candidates.
The present number of pensioners on the funds of the
institution is eighteen males and twenty-seven females,
who receive twelve guineas and eight guineas per annum
respectively. The funded capital of the charity is now
nearly 1,8001., and the annual subscriptions are much
increasing.

As the Rand western window of St. George's
Chapel, Windsor,,is considered in a- very dangerous state,
the Dean and Canons have resolved that the massive
stone-work shall be taken down, mid the window entirely
rebuilt, the valuable stained-glass of course being carefully
preserved.'

The vacation at Maynooth College this sum er
extends to two months, for want of sufficient fundrio
support the students.

RUMOURS OP THE DAY.
The Marquis of Londonderry will be the Tory
Ambassador at Paris, where he 'may teach the Parisians
the art of boxing, and other elegant accomplish-
ments, as he had the reputation of having heretofore
taught the Viennise. Of course Lord Lyndhurst
cannot have the same appointment, and the rumour that
the Learned Lord is to be sent into exile to please Lord
Stanley is contradicted. On the contrary, whatever may
be thought of the Learned Lord by his very pure friends,
he will be Lord Chancellor. Peel, therefore, overrides
and overules Stanley and the Ultras. His man is to be
Lord Chancellor.
It is now said that there is to be no contest for the
Speakership. We do not believe it. The Tories would be
disgraced in the eyes of the world, and in their own
eyes, if they consented to re-elect Mr. Shaw Lefevre.
Such a plan might appear gracious when they supposed
their majority would not be above 20, and the issue doubt-
ful; but with a majority of 80, it would be scandalous in
them as a party to re-elect Mr. Shaw Lefevre. Is there
no Tory equal to him ?

A decided check has been given to progressive in-
crease in the population of Ireland, and the average in-
crease throughout the country between 1831 and 1841,
will turn out to be only about 5 per cent. This is attri-
buted to the new system of throwing many small farms
into one, and turning out the poor people, many of whom
die from want and disease.

If we are to believe two correspondents of the
Irish Ecclesiastical Journal, the members of the Presby-
terian Church. of Scotland are little better than Turks
and Pagans, and the Presbyterian body cannot
be acknowledged as a Church till the High Churchmen are
prepared to admit the same of the Mabometans and the
worshippers of the Lama. Dr. Chalmers, on learning
that he was thus treated as a heathen and a barbarian,
after what had been said, too, by a proud Bishop in the
House of Lords, resolved to disown the " sister
Church," as he sees she is fast verging towards Popery.
It is said that a Sheriff of a certain Irish county
carried Orangeism to such an extent in the discharge of
his office at the late election, that he wrapped the return
round with orange and blue ribbons, and duly sealed it
with a seal bearing the inscription, " The Pope in Hell,
and the Devil pelting priests at him."
It is said that Lord and Lady Howick have ar-
ranged to spend the long period of two years on the con-
tinent. His Lordship's health, it is understood, is un-
satisfactory.
Six Manchester men were fined last week Is. each
and costs, before the Magistrates, for mowing hay on
Sunday.