The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1840.

PROM TEXAS.

NEW YORK MARKETS, Aug. 6.

SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, Am °. 6.
2000 Obio Sixes
5 Shares United States Bank s6o 60
150 do. do. do. b 3 64i
200 do. N. Am. Trust
190 do. Delaware and Hudson 751
60 do. do s3O 75A
20 do. Commercial Bank 79
14 do. Manhattan Bank
25 do. Harlem R. R.
60 do. do. do.
25 do. Canton Co. Bait
10 do. Mohawk R. R 72
125 do. Paterson R. It. 3B
25 do. do. do.
10 do. Syracuse R. R....
25 do. Stonnington R. R.
25 do. do. do

120,

SALES OF STOCKS AT BOSTON,—Auourr 4.
40 Shares Eastern Railroad, 964 a 98i.
10 ditto, Eastern Railroad (N. H.), 934.
150 ditto, Boston and Providence Railroad, 924 92k.
9 ditto, Boston snd Lowell Railroad, 10 adv.
10 ditto, Taunton Branch Railroad, 3 a 3i.
10 ditto, Washington Bank, 90 per cent.
7 ditto, New England Bank, 3k per cent. adv.
47 ditto, Shoe and Leather Dealers' Bank, 991 p. share,
28 ditto, Atlantic Bank, 90 per share.
20 ditto, State Bank, 57 for 60.

PHILADELPHIA SALE OF STOCKS.—AuousT 5.
10 Shares Northern Bank of Kentucky B7
SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD.—AuousT 4.
14 Shares United States Bank
54 Ditto ditto ditto

The Rochdale Church-rate contest, though the
poll is closed, is by no means over. Dr. MOLES-
WORTH, the Vicar, has much contributed, by a
letter, published in the Times on Friday, to keep
it alive, and to convince the public that it involves
principles of almost infinite importance. Religion
and liberty are, according to him, invaded by the
resistance to Church-rates. Those who refuse to
pay he stigmatises as tyrants, or would-be tyrants ;
and he concludes his letter by the following would-
be emphatic sentence :

It is against the law of God to conspire to defeat the
intention of the law of man ; and so long as he (the
mistaken Dissenter) is engaged (whether erroneously or
perversely) in that unlasetul object, I must and will op.
pose him ; and I hope many a zealous Churchman,
and many a religious Dissenter, will support me in such
opposition, and not suffer the law to be borne down by
conspiracy. My appeal to the country is—" Who is on
the Lord's side ? who ?"

This at once makes Church-rates a question of
conscience for every man, and he who refuses to pay
them is not, according to Dr. MOLESWORTH, on
the LORD'S side. The Rev. Doctor will have no
compromise, and no peace,--he will have submis-
sion, nothing but submission, to him and his fellow
priests. He makes Church-rates not only a question
of conscience but a question of law and order, and
agrees with the Standard in denouncing it as villany,
or « as against the law of God," to conspire to de-
feat the intention of the law of man. Not only the
Anti-Church-rate party, then, throughout the coun-
try, but all the Anti-Corn-law men, and notably
those wealthy merchants of Liverpool and London
who have undoubtedly agreed together, or conspired
—for which we, ungodly men according to Dr.
MoLEswoTif, give them much praise—to defeat
the intention of the Corn-law, are one and all
violators of the law of Gon.

There is nothing of earthly importance, so far
as law and religion are concerned, which is not in-
volved in this priest solemnly and deliberately pro
nouncing it in writing to be against the law of GOD
to conspire in order to defeat the intention of the
law of man. If his principles be true, all the Anti-
Corn-law men, all the Anti-Church-rate party, all
the Chartists, even all the ,Standard's democratic
Conservatives, must at once and for ever submit to
the law, however vile, detestable, and even dam-
nable.

Far from us be it to assent to such a doctrine.
We know that legislators do make and have made
vile, detestable, and devilish laws ; and we hold it
to be honest and virtuous and agreeable to the law
of GOD—to which we may appeal as well
as this priest for his own selfish purposes—for all
men to conspire and defeat the intention of all such
hlpraise of
tt he
laws. Nay, they are bound to do so, unless they
mean to share the responsibility
e i anled t e
the guilt
he
iniquitous law. On this
merchants who have worked up the averages to
enable them to introduce a considerable quantity of
corn at no duty. On this principle we have stimu-
lated and supported the Anti-Church-rate party in

By the arrival of the steam-boat Columbia, Galves-
ten papers have been received to the '2lst, and Houston
to the 18th instant.

Mr. Tidwell, a resident of Nashville, on the Tri-
nity, has been murdered by the Indians. The savages
are still cortruitting depredations and murders near Aus-
tin. Those who came into Bastrop and stole horses,
were pursued by Colonel Wallace awl overtaken ; one
Indian was killed—the others escaped.
A million of dollars of the promissory notes of the
Goverument have been funded previous to the Ist in-
stant, drawing 10 per cent, interest.

Crowds of enifrants were arriving in Texas from
Louisiana. Great sickness prevailed at Matagorda.—
N. 0. Bee, 27th ult.

ARRIVAL OF THE UNICORN.—The steam ship Uni-
corn, Captain Walter Douglas, arrived here at eleven
o'clock last night from Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his
Excellency the Governor-General and suite on board.
Shortly after the steamer had moored alongside the
Queen's Wharf his Excellency lauded and proceeded
to his residence, in the late House of Assembly. The
Unicorn: left Halifax at three o'clock P.M. on Tuesday
last, and has thus made the passage in eighty hours.
Hr passage to and from Halifax proves her to be a swift
steamer and an admirable sea-boat. Her first trip
to Quebec was made in eighty-four hours.—the
return voyage occupied, we believe, the same
length of time. On her voyage up with the July
mail, she was detained a day by fog, which ex-
tended the time of her voyage to four days and a
half, but on her return with the Governor-General she
performed her work in seventy-seven hours. In coming
up this time she has also made an excellent passage,
having, as we have already stated, performed it in eighty
hours. The Unicorn, we learn, is under orders to
leave this port for Montreal on Monday next. Captain
Douglas gave his pilot to H. M. S. Winchester, Vice-
Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey, whieh vessel it was ex-
pected would sail from Halifax on the 31st (yesterday)
for Quebec. A brig of war sailed, it is stated, from
Halifax for Quebec, on Monday last. The object of
the Admiral's visit to this port, it is generally under-
stood. is to preside at a Court Martial on Commander
Drew on charges preferred against him by Captain San-
dom for quitting his station without leave of absence.—
Quebec Gazette, Aug. 1.

Flour—Sales of 500 bbls. Ohio city at 491 ; Genes-
see will command $5.
Grain—Rye has declined a little ; sales at 59c. ;
Corn 60c.

Cotton—The market is quite calm, but very little
doing.

Ashes—No sales of Pearls ; sales of Pots at is 75c.
SPIRIT OF THE DOMESTIC MARKETS.

At Charleston for the week ending Saturday last,
the transactions in Upland Cottons amounted to 803
bales at from 61 to 10 cts per lb ; of long Cottons
63 bales at 25 to 31 cts, and stained 11 bales at 5 to
14 cts. Stock on hand 1,726 bales Upland and 293
bales Sea Island. Rice in moderate demand at pre-
vious prices ; sales of 784 tierces at 21 to 3i per cwt. ;
stock on hand 757 tierces. Sales of Corn at 58 to 64
cts. Oats scarce. Hay sold at $1 10c. per cwt. Ex-
change on England Si 4 9i per cent. prem. ; on France
sf. 15c. Bank of Charleston checks on New York 3 per
cent. prem, ; out door sight checks 2i a 3, and 60 days
1 a 1} per cent. prem. Freights to Liverpool t per
lb. for Cotton ; to Havre 18 for square bales, dull.
At Savannah, for the week ending Saturday last, the
market for Cotton closed heavily. The sales of the week
amounted to 3,794 bales at prices ranging from 6 to
101 c., and Sea Island 17i a $2B 3c. Stock on hand
3,230 bales Uplands and 26 ditto Sea Island. Sales of
Race at 83i. Howard-street Flour sold at $6 a6l ;
Canal, $7; Corn by cargo, 65c. ; retail, 70 a 75. Sales
of Hay at 87c. Exchange on England 11 per cent.
prem. ;on New York 8 per cent. prem. Freights to
Liverpool, id. ; to New York $ll per bale.