The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-18 00:00:00

- •akcn place in the weather;
•+ auction,

rottrable etange %limn uaa
holders hak,o refaced to submit to loiver rates
Eowc.er, 7Lib bags,fient. tatliet Chedp,er, ifkid white sold At
Mi to 133 6d. The demand for Javd hat also abated
and the operations have been confined chiefly to the public
sale of 1,740 bags, at which prices gave way 3d per cwt;
clod white went at lls to 12s, low to middling Ss 6d to
lOs per cwt. Carolina has secured a fair sale for home
use, at 34s to 36s per cwt.
This afternoon the demand was good for Bengal, and
1,363 bags at public eale sold 6d higher ; middling white
fetched 13s Gd to 149 per CM.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(7110 M THE DAILY PAPER! OF YESTEItDAY.)

From the Globe.)
The Times invariably shoWS itself alike unprincipled,
whether as a friend or an adversary-.,equally hollow
whether in its oppMitlon or advocacy. Within the last
few days the " thunder" of PrititingAmismquare wag
dircettd against the National Society, and the " weaker=
headed portion of the clergy" who joined with it in op-
,
posing the introduction of Government inspectors, by
whose reports to the Committee of Council the public
would be informed of the due application of the Parlia-
mentary funds appropriated to Education. The inter.;
vention of the Times, and the fury with which it as..
sailed the Society and its " weak-headed " auxiliaries,
afforded ground to suspect that the native good sense
of the British people had prevailed over the sense-
less clamour excited against the Government by a
comparatively few interested partisans, who had pre-
vailed on a multitude of empty-headed, long-tongued
dupes to produce a senseless din against a plan of which
they manifestly knew nothing. This proved to be
the fact. The heads of the Church had interposed
to prevent its real interest from being sacrificed to
clamour ; and by giving their consent to the reasonable
requisition of the Committe of the Privy Council, effec-
tually silenced those who vainly fancied they had the
undoubted sanction of the whole Bench of Bishops to
their proceedings. This accounted for the sudden con-
version of the Times from an assailant into an auxiliary ;
and transformed Lord Ashley and his adherents, lay and
clerical, who were previously the wisest and best friends
of the Church, into as many " weak dupes," whose zeal
in opposing the government plan of national education
had " wrought nothing but mischief to the Church !"
(From the Standard.)
In the House of Ccmmons, Mr. Duncombe and Mr.
Wakley both opposed with great earnestness the second
reading of the Bishup of Carlisle's (Prebendary of Fins-
bury) Estate Bill. The object of the Bill is to dispose of
Church property with the consent ()fall the parties con-
cerned, and apply it to the endowment anew churches ;
the Whole artionnt of each endowment not exceeding, in
fact,3ooi. One cif the reasons assigned in the advertised
series 7f resolutions entered into bk certain Dissenters,
Mr. John Wilki Art-hong others, for rejoicing in
the defeat of Sir Robert Ingli4's Church 'Extension
Bill. was as follows :—" Because, lotirthly4 the funds of
the 'Established Church, duly managed and applied,
would Meet any necessity which could be proved id
exist." No sooner, however, is a " due application
and management" attempted, for the purpose of effect.
ing the good here referred to, than it IS opposed
with the utmost vehemence by these anti-Church
patriots and theit representatives in Parliament. Nor
is this determination to embarrass and obstruct the
promoters Ot every measure calculated to produce the
result recommended in the above resolution Of recent
origin. Tne warmest friends of the Chtirch, the most
dignified of its members have cheerfully adinitiA from
time to time that advantageous changes (with a view td
equalise the distribution of certain temporalities the
Church) may safely be made, and the Royal Commis-
sion, issued with the concurrence of the Archbishop of
Canterbury and the Bishop of London, proved beyond
dispute the anxiety of the Church itself to make such
changes and equalisation of endowments as circum-
stances might from time to time admit.
(From the Courier.)

Hitherto we have not said anything on the subject
of Mr. Kelly's Bill for the abolition of capital punish-
ment. In fact, we have been restrained by the serious
and even awful considerations which are involved in the
question. Crimes against property only should not be
visited with death, unless we are prepared to say that
money, houses, or ships are of greater value than
human life. But yet as arson, and wilful destruc-
tion of vessels, endanger life, we ought must assuredly
to pause before we relax the safeguards of society. Mr.
Kelly would abolish the punishment of death in all
cases short of actual murder. By the burning of a
house or the sinking of a ship lives may be lost, and the
party so causing death is amenable for murder. This
was the particular case of Smithers a few years ago ;
he set fire to his house ; in the upper apartments there
were several lodgers of whom some were burnt to
death, and the incendiary was indicted, convicted, and
suffered for the murder. We are quite aware that this
is special pleading ; but it does appear to us that some
species of arson, or rather some degrees of that horrid
crime require restraints of more severity than Mr.
Kelly apparently contemplates.