The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-17 00:00:00

THE PEERS AND THE KIRK.

The sensible view taken of the Veto Question by
their Lordships generally in two brief conversations in
the House of Lords, forms a striking contrast to the false
light in which it is regarded by most of our London
contemporaries. The Spectator and the Sun have had
a few able articles on the subject, but the other
London journals seem to be groping completely in the
dark ; and we are sorry to confess that the Ministerial
Chronicle and Globe are by far the most ignorant. It
is truly pitiable to see these latter journals, day after
day, publishing the grossest mis-statements regarding
the state of feeling in Scotland, and retailing, at second
hand, the tritest fallacies of the Non-Intru,ionists. Is
there no kind friend near to whisper to them that the
people of Scotland do not approve of every project that
is taken up by the Lord Advocate and the Whiggliug
clique of Edinburgh ; and that the Caledonian Mer-
cury, whatever favour it may have among Govern-
ment officials in London, has a smaller circulation than
at least a dozen of Scottish newspapers that take the
other side on the Church question ? It may be all fair,
for aught we know, to turn the anticipated failure of
Lord Aberdeen's Bill to party purposes, but we can
assure the Chronicle and the Globe that the Liberal
Churchmen of this district, although they laugh hear-
tily at his Lordship's attempt to please the bigots, are
quite disposed to give him credit for a sincere desire to
heal the breaches in the Establishment, and think him
a much wiser man than the Lord Advocate. Before
alleging that the opponents of the Non-intrusion hum-
bug are confined to the slumberous cloisters of St. An-
drew's and Old Aberdeen, the Globe would have done
well to recollect that a large majority even of the Edin-
burgh Town Council scouted the Non-Intrusion Pro-
vost's claim to represent them at, the Assembly, and
that most of the other burghs in Scotland displayed the
same feeling.—Aberdeen Herald. •

CURIOUS FACT.—About three weeks ago,
when the drought was at its height, and had continued nearly
three calendar months, the barn or stream at Glenluce fell
so low, that the salmon, after spawning, lacked a sufficiency
of water to float them over a gravel bank adjoining the
bridge, on their way to sea. In this dilemma, their range
of pool room was exceedingly limited, and there they were
forced to remain for days, thicker by far than " three in a
bed," prisoners in a piscatory tolbooth. Although all of them
might have been liberated on a bill of health, there was no
physician to grant the necessary certificates ; and matte's
at length assumed so alarming an appearance, that the tacks-
man, and others, from humanity, as well as interest, swept
the pool gradually by nets, and in that way conveyed
the imprisoned fish to a mill-race hard by, where they
again remained until rain fell. The first onzinffs out of
the sky convulsed the mill-lade with delight. It was
curious to note the regularity with which one fish escaped after
another, each ir.stinetiwly waiting its opportunity, and offering
no obstruction, in the shape of mobbing or over-troweling, to
the ultimate deploying of the whole body. One onlooker says
the emancipatory movement went forward as gradually as the
ticking of a clock ; and perhaps it would be no exaggeration to
of
say that a whole colony finny people'experienced as much der;
Light on reaching the sea, as the inmates of the ark did on laud-
ing on Mount Ararat.—Dumfries Courier.
A great improvement has taken place at BhA
heath and Greenwich on Sundays, from the suppression of
donkey riding ; the former, instead of being frequented by
noisy and turbulent assemblages, was last Sunday a scene of
quiet decorum, and the new restriction of the Magistrates is
much approved of through the neighbourhood.
Captain Hardy's company of the 45th has left
Monmouth for Newport. All trace of the late C:.artist conspi-
' racy is obliterated, and things restored as if the fatal occurrences
of last year had never happened.