The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-16 00:00:00

'THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1841.

lintended to enlist in its support the great bulk of
the honest English Dissenters. The present
version of the New Testament and the Bishops
cannot command co-ordinate reverence from the
same believer. To be guided by the Bible is to
give up the law-constituted Bishop, and much of
what is adhered to most tenaciously by the law-
established Church. We, of course, allude par-
ticularly to those secular advantages which the
State confers upon the Bishops and the Church,
and which the Bishops claims to be part and
parcel of religion.
We are every day hearing of the want of new
churches, and of new Bishops, but never of the
want of Dissenting Ministers and places of wor-
ship. This shows that it is within the Established
Church the least true religion is to be found.
When the Dissenter wants a church or a teacher,
he provides both in silence ; but the Protestant
of the law-established sect looks to Parliament
and the pockets of his neighbours for the regal-
site supply of spiritual consolation. Of the two,
who is the more combined with the Gospel
spirit—the believer who builds his own church
and pays his own teacher; or he who compels
his unbelieving neighbours to do these things
for him? Of the teachers who is the more
apostolical—he who leaves his hire to be
regulated by the recipients of his labour,
by the voluntary attendants upon his
ministry ; or he who never opens his mouth
till he has stipulated for a fixed compulsory re-
ward, to which the absent objects of his bitter-
est contumely must contribute equally with his
hearers ? As those Journals which call them-
selves the friends of the Church, have taken
the field against Dissenters, under the auspices
of PEEL and the Tories, it becomes imperative
upon us, as friends of the people, to unmask
their hypocrisy, and place the object of their
championship in a proper light before the
country. We have said that there is no want
of religion in England. Before we have done
with this question we hope to be able to demon-
strate that there is too much of it: and too deeply
rooted in the hearts of the people, for the Tories
to hope to enlist them under the banners of
Church and State Episcopacy, with its countless
abuses.

The manifesto of the Spanish Government,
in answer to the Papal allocution, is a most
impressive document. If it find a ready re-
sponse in the hearts of the Spanish people,
the mind-enslaving sceptre of Rome is fbr ever
broken in the Peninsula. It strips the Papacy
of the hypocritical mask under the guise of
which rebellion was fostered in Spain,;---it makes
known the pains taken by the POPE to conceal
from the people the crimes of the Spanish
clergy, by invoking restrictions upon the freedom
of the press—and it defines those limits between
the temporal and the spiritual power which, if
rigidly adhered to by the Spanish Government,
will effectually check future irregularities from
preposterous pretensions on the part of the Holy
See. In fact, it completely turns the tables
upon the POPE, whom it proves to have
aided and encouraged all the attempts
)f Dun CARLOS upon the crown of Queen IsA-
BELLA and the liberties of the Spanish people.
While ESPARTERO describes the allocution as a
" new brand" cast by the Father of the Faithful
upon the half-extinguished flame of civil strife,
he reminds his Holiness, with caustic severity,
that the " times of odious memory" are no more,
Alien a menace from the Vatican could " shake
the earth." If the Consistory at Rome was not
composed of bigots, whose fanatical zeal denied
diem the exercise of common sense, they would
nave long since discovered, and have impressed
.tpon the POPE, the still more disagreeable but sa-
lutary fact, that the times have gone by when
Rome could with impunity menace any Govern-.
went. The power of the POPE rests upon associa_
dons and. recollections, which difttirpcur iii
the attempt to test their potency. When
challenged, the wrath of Rome becomes
either a phantom or a grotesque absurdity. An
old pedagogue threatening full-grown men with
the chastisements which he inflicted upon them
when children under his tuition, would cut as for-
midable a figure as the Bishop of ROME, threaten-
ing the nations of Europe in the nineteenth cen-
tury with those thunders of the Vatican which sJ
terrified them in the fourteenth and fifteenth.

ESPARTERO can render no service to Spain
more important than that of subjectiig the eccle-
siastical to the civil power. The Spanish Church
stands in need of a complete reform, and the
present is an excellent occasion for beginning
this good work. Four-fifths of the clergy
are men either ofimmoral lives or so scandalously
ignorant as to be scarcely qualified to perform
their priestly functions. Many who daily read
their breviaries could as easily fly as they could
translate their diurnal recitations. Instances of
such ignorance are indeed quite common in
Spain. These men are, naturally enough, the
sworn foes of a free press, and of every plan of
popular education. They have sense enough to
know that even the inviolable sanctity with
which, in the opinion of all orthodox Roman
Catholics, ordination has invested their persons,
would not save them from contempt and
ridicule were the simplest elements of literary
knowledge accessible to the vliole of the people
of Spain. Heresy in the mouths of these persons
means a knowledge of the arts of reading and
writing, and this, like the "No Pop'ery" cry in
England, is sure to be raised by the fanatics
against the REGENT for having entered the lists
of controversy with the POPE. If then the
public voice of Spain support ESPARTERO in
issuing the manifesto, of which a portion is given
in another column, there is an en,i, as we before
observed, of the Papal power in the _Peninsula.

The whole of the French Journals o'f Friday

and Saturday have been received. The Debats
returns to the subject of ESPARTERO'S reply to
the manisfesto of the ex-Regent, which it s vg-
matizes as a feeble and inconclusive production,
and contends that Queen CHRISTINA was drivel

from Spain by an act of rebellion in which the

present Regent was'' an actor. From abuse of
ESPARTERO the Debats proceeds to abuse Eng-
land, whose merchants are represented as little I
better than a gang of smugglers. The Debats
denies that a conspiracy exists at the Tuileries
for restoring Queen CHRISTINA, but clearly in- I
timates that such an event would give great
pleasure in that quarter. The Constituti:onnel
soundly taxes the Government with a want of
patriotism in not turning the presence of
CHRISTINA in Paris to more profitable as-
count in the Peninsula. This Journal avol vs
with shameless unscrupulosity, that by play-
ing her cards well now France may becoms:
all powerful in Spain. In replacing CHRISTINA
on the Throne of Spain as Regent, France would
have a creature of Louis PHILIPPE at the head
of Spanish affairs. The National would support
ESPARTERO if he could but be brought to quarrel
with England or establish a National Conven-
tion. The National's grand panacea for every
distemper of the body politic, is an equality
effected by the action of the guilotine. The
only popular digestible pills in the opinion of
that organ of Democracy, are the heads of the
Aristocracy. _ _

The Minister of Finance has addressed a long
and temperately written circular to the Prefects
of the different departments of the kingdom, on
the subject of the census. He sets out by telling
them that the general census now ordered of
buildings, doors, and windows, is not only re-
quired by the law of 1838, but is necessary to
enable the tax-collectors to levy upon each
domicile the fair proportion of rates. That the
information too is wanted by the Chambers, in
order that the Legislature may know what addi-
tion taxes to impose, or what taxes to modify or
abolish, if found to press too heavily upon
the people. Without such details the new
assessment would be neither just nor equitable.
The Circular concludes by an assurance from
the Minister that no new taxes would be levied,
nor any change made in the collection of those

now raised, without the consent of the Cham-
bers first constitutionally had and obtained.
It is a pity that a document so well calculated

to soothe the national irritation was not pub-
lished sooner.
The following extracts from the Paris journals
include all the miscellaneous news they contain
of any general interest.
The Journal de Liege states that on M. Thiers ar-
riving at Cologne, some young men of that town deter-
mined to sing under his window the spirited patriotic
song of " No, the French shall never have the Rhine !"
by Bekker, composed by him last autumn, when M.
Thiers was meditating a war with Europe. The police,
however, without positively forbidding it, remonstrated
with the parties in question, and prevailed on them,
though with difficulty, to lay aside their project.
A letter from Blidah mentions that on the 27th ult.
a party of 100 Arab horsemen came over the ditch and
boundary raised by the French for preventing their in-
cursions, and caused the troops of the garrison to make
an immediate sortie. The Arabs shot a French soldier,
and retired without loss.
The following letter from Crete, of July 16, is pub-
lished in the Constitutionnel :—" The Christians not
wishing to accept terms from Tahir or Mustapha, have
shut themselves up in the gorges of Mont Ida ; and
up to the 19th all the attempts of the Albanians to force
them in their fastnesses, 'failed. But the Christians
have met with just as bad success in the plain. As late
as the 10th, Vassyli, in endeavouring to take a maga-
zine of arms at Provaxma, was beaten. The President
Choretis writes to Nauplia that Verty had sent 2,500
muskets, but kept a certain number, with the intention of
taking an island, or landing in Cyprus. Tahir Pacha is
able, and defeats every attempt of the Greeks to fire his
ships."
A few days since a lunatic of Saint Rymer, in Cal-
vados, in one of his paroxysms, opened his body with a_
scythe blade, and with every demonstration of self-sa-
tisfaction continued to tear out and cut up his entrails,
until he was seized and prevented. Notwithstanding the
serious injuries he has received, hopes are entertained of
saving his life.
The Commission of Prisons of • Rouen has an-
nounced to the prisoners the pardons and commutations
granted by the King on the occasion of the anniversary
of his accession to the throne. Five men, a woman, and
a young girl have obtained the remission of the whole of
their sentences, and another female tW remission of six
months of her term of imprisonment.
A letter from Rome supplies the following details
of the lamentable consequences of the scene which took
place after the 20th ult. A woman and two children
were found dead on the ground, eight were mortally
wounded, eighty-nine had severe wounds, which have
not proved mortal, ten had limbs broken, and 587 received
bruises and other injuries. When the people were cleared
away from the spot, there were found upon it 479 men's
hats, 99 of which belonged to abbes and other ecclesias-
tics ; 89 short cloaks belonging to abbes, and two monk's
frocks; 180 women's caps and bonnets, and ten reticules
and purses.
The Journal de Toulouse states that a few days
since a waggon, with ten horses, set out from the Fau-
bourg St. Michael, of that town, for the Hotel de Ville.
It was ornamented with branches of poplar and weeping-
willow, and contained the muskets of the National Guard
of that faubourg. Each horse was ridden by a man of
the faubourg, and on the fore-part of the waggon stood a
man holding a musket, muzzle downwards, and a long
piece of black crape suspended from the stock. The
waggon went to its destination, where the muskets
were given up with much order, but the bearer of the
musket with the crape was taken up on a charge of
having been actively engaged in the recent disturbances.
The Prince de Montfort, Jerome Bonaparte, arrived
on the Bth inst. at Frankfort, from Stuttgardt.
The marriage of the Princess Marie of Arenberg to
the Prince Marco Aldobrandini took place in the church
of Heverle, in Belgium, on Monday morning, with great
ceremony.
The Augsburg Gazette states that all the Polish pro-
perty of Prince Constantine Czartoryski has been re-
cently put up to sale at Warsaw.
The Constitationnel states that a lamentable suicide
has just been committed at Fontainbleau, where a
widow, named Pierchon, aged 80, her son 64, and her
daughter 62, to relieve themselves from the state of dis-
tress and misery to which they had been reduced, shut
themselves up in a room, and produced death by suffoca-
tion from charcoal.
-- For some time past workmen have been engaged in
boring an Artesian well at Haguenau (13as -Rhin). A
few days ago, after having gone to a depth of 290 metres
(nearly 900 feet), the boring instrument entered a bed
of salt clay, and, immediately on withdrawing it, the
water rose to the surface. Although mixed with the
springs of fresh water met with in the course of the
boring, the water at the surface was as salt as that of
the sea. On being analysed it was found to contain 27
grammes (nearly an English ounce) of salt per litre or
quart, with some traces of iron and bromium. The
Municipal Council, on whose account the work has been I
_ _

performsed, intend to line the well with a copper tube,
so as to isolate the salt spring : when this shall have
been done, the water will be much more saline than it is
now. Even in its present state it is said to be superior
to that of the baths of Carlsruhe and Wiesbaden.

A few days ago, as a servant in a family at Mons,
was entering with a lighted candle a cellar,,. in which a
quantity of ecrals had been recently placed, which
had been kept shut, an explosion took place, and she
was severely burnt in the face, The windows of the
shop over the cellar were broken. It appears that, in
this instance, the coals had. given out a quantity of gas
in their unignited state, a circumstance which is of rare
occurrence.
The Senate of Frankfort has forbidden the papers
of that city from publishing the prices of the funds on
Sundays.
The manufactures of the city of Lyons consume
annually 1,000,000 kilogrammes (2,000,0001 b.) of silk
spun in different ways. It requires four cocoons, to pro-
duce one gramme of silk, and consequently, the con-
sumption at Lyons alone amounts to 4,400,200,000 co-
coons, each of which upon an average measures 500 me-
tres or yards. Thus the silk-thread used in Lyons in
one year, if joined in a continued line, would be equal
to 14 times the distance of the earth from the sun, and
.and 5,494 times that of the earth from the moon, and
52,505 times the circumference of the earth at the equa-
tor, and 1,000 times the circumference of the moon.
There are now in the roadstead of Toulon, the
Friedland, 120, Jupiter, 84, Triton, 80, and Marengo, 80,
besides other smaller vessels of war.
A Toulon paper mentions that an officer, lately
returned from Africa to that town, and lodging on the
4th floor of an hotel in the Place de Foin, became at-
tacked with mental alienation, and fancied himself con-
stantly pursued by Arabs. A few mornings since he
went to the window, and by his agitation and noise ex-
cited the attention of the people of the house, but before
any one could get into the room, he had thrown himself
out, and fallen upon the balcony of the first floor, front,
ing the street. He was carried to the hospital, with both
his thighs broken, and otherwise so sevely injured that'
no hopes of his life are entertained.
A Vienna Correspondent writes, on the 3d inst.,
that two houses of that capital, of the first order, whoso
names, however, are not given, are threatened with a
flute similar to that of Messrs. Steiner, Geymuller, and
others. It is added that the main cause of the financial
crisis in Austria is, that the bankers, hoping for a totally
pacific termination of the Eastern question, had specu-
lated largely for a rise, 'but the continuance of troubles
in Bulgaria, and the still unsettled condition of Syria,
have kept prices down, and occasioned enormous deficits.
Various rumours were afloat in the Austrian capital as
to the occurrence of troubles in several portions of the
Turkish dominions, and the merchants of Trieste and
Venice had applied to Government for some more light
vessels to be despatched into the Archipelago and the
Levant, to aid Admiral Bandiera in putting down the
Greek pirates.
Out of the 1,629 young men last drawn and ac-
cepted, for the army, from Paris and the Banlieue, 1,389
are able to read and write, 36 can read but not write,
and 204 cannot do either. In addition to the above,
1,050 were drawn, but of these 261 were rejected as not
being of sufficient height, and 789 on account of in-
firmities.

-"Thee Journal de Lot et Garonne says, " Serious dis-
orders have just broken out at St. Livrade, on occasion
of ti: n Census being.taken,' It is stated that but for the
f the municipal authorities and the firmness of
courage 0
of Taxes, who was charged with the
the Comptro ler
pocid.ace would have committed deplorable
operation, the
excesses. On intell: once of this arriving at Agen, the
:
prefect took immediate I.
neasures for repressing the
atdis-
order." The Memorial of .gen sap that the Comptrol-
ler of Taxes was forced to qui.. St. Livrade and return to
the former town. The authorities had ordered the ropes
of the church bells to be cut, is order to prevent the peo-
ple from sounding the tocsin; buy they scaled the belfry,
rung the bells, and brought in the people from the neigh-
bourhood. The Bordeaux papers stele that a detach-
ment of troops was despatched from that city to St. Liv-
rade at a very early hour on Wednesday morning.
The Swiss journals give the following account of
the annual meeting of the Helvetic Society of Natural
Sciences, just held for the third time at Zurich :
" Messrs. Zollinger and Meiss have offered to undertake
to travel into Java and the Hispanic Peninsula, by sub-
! scription. The President recommended the Society to
,charge itself with the enterprise. M. Lardy, of Lausanne,
r ead a work on the means of remedying the disasters
ca used by avalanches, torrents, Scc., in the Alps : it was
rm'erred to the Committee for the Relief of Sufferers from
Inundation. On the subject of Cretinism, the Society
resolved to apply to the Swigs Diet for its intervention
and Assistance in rendering the dative means recom-
mended more extensively useful firso they can be by
the charity of individuals. lilto:C was named as the
Dr. Lusser
place for the next annual meeting, over C'idell
is to preside,"
In speaking with r .'
of Mr
egret of the retirement
~,,,;
Fauche from the British Consulship at Ostend, a-B. N."„-,
journal reminds its readers of the services which t. "'"
gentleman rendered to this country at the time of the
Revolution, when, by procuring the necessary means of
transport, he rescued from the fury of the populace the
Dutch garrison at Ostend. The same journal mentions
that Mr. Fauche has been a great traveller, and that to
an extensive knowledge of political affairs and very
agreeable manners, the late Consul unites so remarkable
an aptitude for learning languages, that he speaks with
Europe.
case all the idioms of -
The Government has made no answer to the ac-
counts from Toulon, which announced the speedy eva-
cuation of the hospital,
which the Spaniards had autho-
rised us to establish at Mahon. A letter from Toulon,
of the 9th, informs us, that is certain that the hospital
is going to be evacuated, if it had not already been done.
" An important personage,"
says this letter, " who was
lately speaking of this matter, gave some curious details.
it seems that England asked the Spanish Government
to give it a portion of territory in one of the Balearic
islands at Palma (or some other place) in Majorca, in
case it did not consent to send away the French. It is
added, that an Englislrship of the line, detachedfrom the '
Levant squadron, has come to Mahon, with orders tJ •
watch the movement of our fleet. The hospital at Mahon

has cost' us a considerable sum ; there is an immense
quantity of effects there which must be brought back to
France:'—Le Commerce.

BOURSg-PARIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price
French 5 per Cents ll6 45 ... 116 60 ... 116 40 ... 116 50
4% per Cents 105 50 ... 105 50 105 50 ... 105 50
4 per Cents 99 70 ... 99 70 99 70 99 70
3 per Cents, ex. div 77 50 77 60 ... 77 50 77 55
Bank of erance 5200 ..,3200
Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Shares 1040 ...le4o ...1040
5,000 f. Spares 5115 ...5115 ...5115 ...5115
,telaian Bank .....»....» 7ds 765 ... 765 ... 765
Belgian 5 per Cents 103% ... 103% ... 103% 103%
New Loan ll-3% ... 1' 4 ... 103 ••• IC4
Dutch 5 per Cents
vanish Active ..... ..... 20% ... SO% 20% ... 20
Passive ... 4% ... 4% ... 4
geapolitan" lO4 104 5 ... 194 ... 104
Roman .... 103 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles. ..... 210 ... 210 ... 208 75 208 75
Rouen
Strasburg to Bale 238 75 ...:;35 75 ... 238 75 238 75

THE REGISTRATION.-It should not be for-
gotten that Wednesday, August 25, will be :the. last
day for leaving with the overseers objections to county
electors. The Tories bestow much attention on those
matters ; and the friends of Reform should not suffer
themselves to be surpassed by their political adversaries.
An able communication, addressed to "English
Mechanics," will be found in another column. We have
received the name of the writer, and publish with much
pleasure an Address so creditable to a mechanical la-
bourer.