The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-27 00:00:00

A VISITOR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,-,Permit me, through the medium of your valui
able Journal, to (lifer my grateful acknowledgements to
those Ladies and Gentlemen who have so' liberally
sisted me with their subscriptions, and for the kind sup-
port I received at my benefit on the 22d inst., by
reason of my sudden and unaccountable dismissal from
the Theatre Royal Covent-garden in February last, and
to return my best thanks to the Press generally, for
the handsome manner in which they were pleased to
notice me.—l am, Sir,
Your obliged and obedient servant,
W. C. S. N OTTER.
Boy-office, Tiieatre Royal English Opera-house,
June 26, 1840.

THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL
GEORGE.

The great explosion which had been announced tarok
place on Motiday. The t fleet was beautiful, and the in-
tention of firing it having been generally known, it was
witnessed by a vast number of spectators, notwithstanding
it blew a stiff breeze, which deterred many fromegeing
out to Spitheacl. In the course of the morning Libut.
Symonds, the executive cugineer, according to a plan par_
concerted between t stn and Colonel Pasley, sent down
Mr. George Hall, the diver, who placed first a charge
of 471b5., and afterwards another charge of 2601ba. of
powder on the spot ciiginally occupied by the male
hatchway, on the orlop deck, which were fired sun-
cessively by Professor Daniell's voltaic battery, as soon
as he came up, the second charge being placed in the bole
made by the first. Col. Pasley came out about one
o'clock, and about half-past one the great cylinder, loaded
with 25i barrels, or nearly 2,3001b5. of gunpowder, with
the voltaic conducting apparatus attached to it, was raised
out of a launch alongside by the derrick of No. 5, lump,
and lowered into the water so as to rest a little above the
surface, where it remained suspended by the bull-rope of
the derrick. Hall was then sent dean. At about a quar-
ter past two o'clock he came up and reported that the cy-
linder was properly placed. All being ready, Col. Pasley
ordered his bugler first to sound the " preparative," arid
a minute afterwards " the fire." At that moment Lieu-
tenant Symonds completed the circuit with the vol-
taic battery and an immediate explosion took place, the
shock being felt and the report heard at the same in-
stant. In a few seconds afterwards the surface roka
three or four feet in a circle of moderate size, from
the centre of which, almost immediately efterwatls,
a column cf water at least 50 feet high, and of a
conical form was thrown up, beautifully sparkling in the
sun, which was hailed by the hearty cheers of all the
workmen employed, as well as of the numerous spec-
tators, and soon after several large fragments of wreck
came floating up, which proved to be the lower mart of
the mainmast. The form of the column of water was
not so regular as on former occasions, owing to the
strong wind which acted upon it. When it fell down
again, clear circular waves spread outwards from the
same centre, making a great commotion s,t the stir-
face, and causing No. 4 lump, which was nearest
to the explosion, to pitch a good deal. Soon after
this the mud from the bottom came up, blackening
the same circle of water, which spread outwards, disco-
louring the surface as it extended, and, at the same
time €4lling the swell of the sea• for a space of w-
imps 200 yards in diameter. A great nuufber of stßills I
fish came up dead, as on former occasions, which were
picked up by the boatmen. There were more than- fifty
yachts er large sailing boats present, whose decks were
covered with spectators, among whom were a great muns~
her of ladies. The two Admirals and the General corn-
mending the garrison, with a great number of naval and
military officers, and most of the officers of the dock-yard,
with their families, were present, many of whom west ou
board the two lumps to have a better view of the opera-
tions. The deck of the Success frigate was also crowded
with spectators. The Bishop of Norwich, the Astronomer
Royal, and the Russian Consul-General were preunt.
The cylinder used on the 22d wag of wood with iron
boors, like a mooring buoy. The massive reale limbers
upon which the foremast and mizenmast were stepped, the
after part of the kee!, the whole sterupost and dead wood
over it, and an immense mass of the starboard,how, which
rested on the keel, weighing more than 30 taus, and which
%fly:is knocked down about eight moeths ago by the last
great explosion of 1839, having been got fils this season,
ag
together with the heel of the mainmast having been nis-
eng ed from its step by the great explosion which we
have just described. These circumstanceshow that the
and removal of the wrc
to the bottom of the vessel, and ck have extended nearly
also prove that the mud
hail no tendency to accumulate, but is cleared away by
the action of the tides, in propertied as the upper. parts
of the wreck arc demolished and removed.
effect of the last explosion could not be ascertained,
as the tide ran too strong for the direr, who went
down again after it, to quit his ladder, but it is pre-
sumed that it will have blown out the larboard side o,
the wreck, and that it will have broken up timbers in all
directions, probably fracturing not only the step of the main
side opposite was shattered and thrown down by the Ern
mast, but the kelson and keel below it. The starboard
great explosion ofi 1839. Upon the whole there seems
every reason to hope, that before the end of to season the
whale of the wreck of the Royal George will' have been
sufficiently removed to enable vessels to anchor ever ;.he
spot without incurring the risk of losing their anchors and
cables. If so, probably the Government may be induced
to remove the wreck of the Edgar alto, from which Liewf,
Symonds recovered five iron guns during Cul. Pesky's last
official visit to Chatham, the surface of which, after an ix-
meriion of 129 years, proved to be converted into very soft
carburet of iron or plurebage to a considerable depth, on
removing the mass of oysters, &c., with which they
were incrusted. These guns are remarkable fur being
much thicker at the breech, and thinner et the muzzle.
than guns of the same calibre of more modern construc-
tion, from which the iron guns reeevered from the Royal
George differ very little.

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S M'oN WU E IT.-IV.e
understand it has at length been resolved that the fmndation-
stone of the Scott mo.-.umeat is to be laid will ma,o:tieliont,urs
on the 15th Augu,l, The site, we may remind cur naderg. is
in the East PrineJs.-creet Gardens, La ttic f't
of St. Davi:l-
-street.—Scuisman.

TO THE SPORTING WORLD.
THE SPORTING DEPARTMENT OF
H E E R A,
9 is now under the entire Management of
V RTES.
Who will, in future, write EXCLUSIVELY for this
Newspaper.
THE ERA, of SUNDAY' NZXr,will contain Vates's opening
Address to the Sporting World, with all the News of the
Week, up to the' latest moment of going to Press.
Office, 20, Catherine-street, Strand, to be bad of all News-
men.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
locreasing Success " The Factory Boy." Overwhelming rr a-
jority for " The Ladies' Matrimonial Club." And another
New Piece.
THIS EVENING, JUNE 27.
Will be acted Haines' New Drama, entitled
THE FACTORY BOY; OR, THE LOVE SACRIFICE,
Supported by the entire strength of the Company.
After which, a Comedietta, called
THE LADIES' MATRIMONIAL CLUB.

The Address, Orders of the Day, Debating, and General Busi-
ness, Conducted Entirely by Ladies.
To conclude with a New Alelo Drama, entitled
CARTOUCHE,
THE RENOWNED ROBBER OF FRANCE.

Cartouche, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Pierre, Mr. Smith ; Pa-
silo, Mr. Buckingham Madelon, Miss Martin ; Canaille, Mrs.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
BLETHOVEN'S BATTLE SINFONIA ! !

Unequivocal success ! The revival of this celebrated compo-
sition has created an excitement almost without a parallel ; the
unbounded admiration with which its wonderfully descriptive
and spirit-stirring passages have been hailed, is the most grati-
fying proof that the beauties of this elaborate work are fully
sul warmly appreciated.
GRAND .PROMENADES MUSICALES ET

CHAMPETRES.
Every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
Programe for June 29th and 30th, and July 1 :
Overtures—Jessondft, Massaniello. Quadrilles—Luerezia
rghix, Krakoviak. Pas 'Redouble—Pas des Amazone'.
Waltzes—D:o Petersburgher, Tower of Len'lon (first time).
Trios—" Solt Altro" (Guillaume Tell), " This magic-wove
Scarf " (Mountain Sylph). Grand March—Die Templar and
(1,41 Judea. Selection from " Robert le Diable," arranged by
Goa ey, and embracing all the favourite Airs from that popu—
lar Opera.
THE GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA, written by Beeth-
oven to commemorate the battle of Vittoria, and originally per-
formed, in Ibl6, at the I heatre Royal Drury lane, arranged
by Godfrey, expressly for this establishment, from the only
s;:ore extant, in the possession of Sir George Smart, and vividly
describing the various incidents o ;the contest—The Assembly
—.I he Mart-h—Forminz the Lincs—The Challenge—The De-
fanee—The Storm March:—C2nnonadin&—Total Rout of the
Enemy—The Re' real—Pursuit—Grand Intrada—Shouts of the
Concuerors—Triurnphal March—Songs of Victory—and Na-
tional Anthem !

During the Evening the-new animated illustration of Perils
an:l Adventures in:the Frozen Seas ! Carter's " Koniaphostic,"
Erupton of Hecht,&c. &c.

ADMISSION ONE SHILLING.

Carnivora are fed at Five o'Clock. Concert commences
at Six.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The repetitions to which A. N. X., of Manchester, adverts
must occasionally occur when the Houses of Parliament do
tot sit. He will observe that the House of Commons did
not meet on Wedne!clay, the 24th, and there being conse-
(inertly little fresh matter; the paper went earlier to press.
in that case, had the paragraphs been taken out many of the
re-nitr9 of The gun would not have seen them at all, a.; they
were inserted only in the latest Editi3n of the 234.

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LONDON:
SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1840.

Lord BROUGHAM, last night, presented a petition
from the Rational Religionists (Socialists, qy.), praying
their Lordships to inquire into their doctrines, and the
Bishop of EXETER was not present to impugn them or
propose that the petition be kicked out of the House.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH gave notice that he
will move, on July 2, for the name of the persons to
whom priest O'REILLY paid 501. for compromising an
offence.

The Estates Improv ent Bill was read a second
time, after a few obj ons had been made by Lord
or
PORTMAN ; several of er Bills were forwarded a stage,
at.d before Six o'Gloolntheir Lordships adjourned.
In the House of Commons a considerable debate took
place on the Report of the Weavers' Churches Bill
being brought.up with amendments. Mr. E. J. STANLEY
moved that they be read a second time in six months,
which was lost on a division by 227 to 157. Another
debate ensued on the question that they be read a se-
cocd time, which was adjourned to Monday, and notices
v( ere given of several amendments to the motion then
to I” repeated.
Lord STANLEY having moved the Committee on the
Ir'sh R-gistration Bill, on the motion for the SPEAKER
to leave the chair, Mr. SLANEY characterised Lord
STANLEY'S Bill as giving every facility t) objectors,
and the SOLICITOR-GENERAL'S as giving every facility
to claimants. Before proceeding with either of the Bills
he recemmended that the Legislature should Mne the
franchise, and he warned the Tories of the consequences
of coming into power with Ireland riotous and disaff4cted,
anti England distressed and discontented.
. Mr. O'CONNELL made a few observations, in which
he justly complimented t dispassionate and rational
obervations of the .Memille for Shrewsbury, and as-
signed them as a reason why he did not propose that
the franchise be defined before any other measure on
the subject can be proceeded with.
In Committee on the third clause, which introduced,
as Lord MORPETH said, the innovation of an annual
registration, a long debate ensued, in the first instance
an amendment was made to substitute six months'
occupation for twelve months. Lord MORPETH moved
an amendment to the clause, and the whole question
was again discussed. Lord HowxcK sided with Lott]
STANLEY. Lord STANLEY admitted that if he were de-
feated on the clause he should give up the 13:11 ; finally,
the Committee decided, and the amendment was lost by
a majority of 4,-275 voting for Lord STANLEY, and
271 against him. Oa the question that the clause
stand part of the Bill, Mr. O'CONNELL moved that
the Chairman report progress. Lord STANLEY, who
had before shown himself petulant, and been rebuked
by Lord NiORPETH, again showed his temper. Colonel
Sm.:noise, in like manner, showed his wisdom ; hut the
House resumed, the Committee to sit again on Tuesday.
After transacting some unimportant bu incss, the
House adjourned at a Quarter before One o'Clock.

Lord STANLEY last rrght declared that if he
vas defeated on a division, he would carry the Re-
gistration Bill no further ; and why, then, did Lord
flowicK, Mr. AINSWORTH, and Mr. BAS-
SETT support the Noble Lord ? Is it that
they can count noes as welt as Mr. STAN-
LEY and Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE, and
knes;/, therefore, that it depended on them to turn
the scale and make themselves of importance ?
The question turned on disfranchising the pre-
sent voters or not, and Lord Howtcx ar:d Mr.
AINSWORTH voted for the disfranchisement. As
to Lord Howicx, he .is independent. Probably
the Northumbtrland freeholders care nothing about
his vote on this question, but the electors of
Bolton pride themselves on supporting their Irish
brethren against the Tories. We must -consider
Mr. AINSWORTH, therefore, after his vote of last
night, to be perfectly incorr;gible, and we I. quest
the electors of Bolton to tell h:m so. Mr.
CHARLES WOOD, we are happy to say, de'lined
to be dragged through the dirt any further by Lord
Howicx, and voted correctly.
The narrow majority which supported Lord
STANLEY was, even with the aid of Lord
HOWICK, the result of accident. Mr. R. GORDON
was shut out; so was Mr. G. LANGTON and
others, and sickness and other chance _eircum-
.--..-• stances, prevented other Liberals from tiinhg pre
sent. If they had attended, Lord •
1/4sTANLE
would have been defeated, and the Bill put o
and it will hardly Le expected that the I
should the Bill pass, will obey a mischievous la ,
which is the result not of wisdom, but of accident.
The Catholic priests, and the Catholic voters,
at whose influence the Bill strikes, will find means,
no doubt, to set aside an enactment to which the
sleepiness and the indolence of one or two gentle
men will give the authority of a law.

We regret that Lord STANLEY was again suc-
eessful in the House of Commons last night,
though it is now so plain that his Bill cannot be
carried through Parliament, that to detain the
House by discussing it is a mere waste of time.
Lord STANLEY'S single object is, by whatever
means, to damage the Ministry ; and to effect that
he cares not what mischief he may inflict on the
country. He is an excellent partizan, but a bad
patriot.

Mr. T. Durrco*B
attention has a motion on
book to call the the order
of the House to the
treatment of persons at present confined forpolitical
snces. It was to on last night, but
VW House of Commons delightingme much more in
harrassing and worrying the people than in redress-
ing th%ir grievances, agreed to forwcao7lllßLt,s
ord STA N-
LEY' ,!ill, and so Mr. T. Dux humane
and , "ul motion was postponed to next Friday.
To help our readers to a conviction of the necessity
necessity
part of
of some interference, we print in another

The Sun the petition of Wm. PROWTING ROBERTS,
confined in Fisherton gaol, for two years, for the '
offence of (political) conspiracy, and having at-
tended public meetings.
We say not one word of the legality or illegality
of the sentence, but we must repeat what we have
before said, and which cannot be too often re-
peated, that the influence of such men as
Mr. ROBERTS, and, consequently, every particle
of danger to which their language, however
vehement or energetic, exposes the public, arises ,
altogether from the condition and the feelings of
those they address. Mr.ROBERTS or Mr. FEAR-
GUS O'CONNOR might harangue the whole body
of the nobility and the priesthood for an eternity
without the most remote probability of exciting
them to mutiny. The same observation may
he extended to the bulk of the middle classes.
It is consequently the ignorance, the wretched-
ness, the prepared hearts and feelings of the
lower classes which give life to the dema-
gogue's words, and make them dangerous to
society. For the discontent and inflammable
disposition of the multitude the Legislature
and not the demagogue is responsible. With our
opinions on the Corn-laws, and sundry other acts
and omissions of the Legislature, we are bound to
conclude and assert that it is far more guilty than
the demagogue whom it punishes. He only casts •
the seed into the ground ; the law-maker prepares
the soil for its reception.
We have before published Mrs. ROBERTS'
petition, and by that her husband's case is known
to our readers. His own petition, however, is
drawn up with so much moderation, and with such
an air of truth, and it sets before the public so
complete a picture of what he suffers, that in spite
of the rebukes we have received for expressing pity
for him, we must solicit attention to his own
statement. He is an attorney, and must therefore
be presumed to have the feelings and habits of a
gentleman. On entering prison, however, he was
' compelled to give up his money and his knife, was
clothed in the prison garb, and had his hair
cropped after the manner of felons. This was
done, he believes, to degrade him. He was li-
mited to the prison allowance of bread and
skilly, and could eat only the former. Sub-
sequently, by the surgeon's order, lest he
should die frcm the diet, he was better fed,
and now gets a dinner from the Governor's table.
With a refinement of cruelty—such as that which
watches over the man tied up to the halberts, and
warns the Commandant when another lash might
occasion death—the surgeon feels Mr. ROBERT'S
pulse, looks at his tongue, and examines his glassy
eye, to note the period when life is endangered by
the bread and skilly, and when something more
nourishing must be supplied to enable him to sup-
port the tortures of Fisherton gaol.
Mr. ROBERTS says he is not allowed a knife, and
must eat his meals in the most primitive fashion. He
sees no newspaper, and is condemned to the silent
system. He is allowed to know nothing which
passes beyond the prison walls, and he will not
hear of the fate of his petition till his release in
March, 1842. In the same gaol is Mr. POTTS,
convicted with him, but they are never suffered to
see each other. Even the temple of the AL-
MIGHTY is made a gaol and a separate cell for
each of them. He is allowed no books but such as
the Chaplain approves of, and will only be suf-
fered to see his friends at such intervals and in such
a humiliating position, that he will not avail himself
of the miscalled indulgence. Unless his life should
be in danger, he will see neither relation nor friend,
and will hear nothing of the world for the next
twenty-one months.
He is rung to his cell at sunset, and rung up in
the morning, passing through the twenty-four
hours without the interchange of a single thought.
However cold the weather, he is never to have
either fire or candle. He dreads insanit3—as well
he may—or idiotcy, and is almost ready to pray for
death.
If such a picture of suffering inflicted on a de-
cently educated mulatto or black in Jamaica by the
planters, for haranguing the slaves on the miseries
of their condition, were to be published in the
Anti-Slavery Gazette, the whole broad land of
England would ring with cries of shame, and the
laws of Jamaica and the planters would be held up
to universal! execration ; Exeter-hall would be
crowded, deputations would come from all parts of
the country, and our humane people would not
rest till the victim of the planter's tyranny was re-
leased. Mr. ROBERTS has transgressed the laws
which they look to for protection, and they visit him
with more ruthless vengeance than the planters
dared to inflict on their slaves.

Than this silent exclusion from all society, from
all knowledge of passing events, from all books,
from all converse, with a stinted allowance of food,
without occupation and without sufficient exercise,
we can conceive nothing more horrible and more
degrading. It is well calculated to make man
worse than a beast. It is truly killing_ the soul.
By slow tortures it stifles the mind. To see him
who went in a robust man, glad in the emotions of
his own heart, and proud of his own intellect, come
forth a withered and a staring idiot, is a horrible
reproach to our laws. For the very worst of cri-
minals, fora COURVOISIER or a GOULD, such a
punishment would be too much, and would
make them objects of pity, and • the laW
an object of censure. But to doom an indi-
vidual to such a calamity for a mere political of-
fence—a warm heart, unrestrained by a prudent heal,
is to make men execrate the law as a monstrous
system of cruelty and injustice.
It is remarkable that the sufferings of Mr. 110-
13 ears and other political prisoners are not the
offspring of mad passion. They ale inflicted by
cool calculating reason. They are means to attain
an end. They are deliberately planned, and de-
liberately executed. They are amongst the latest
devices of our most philosophical regulators of
prisons. The silent and the separate system, on
which they rely for the regeneration of criminals, are
united in Fisherton gaol, and the certain result is a
wish for death, which the gaoler admits by re-
moving every possible means of self-destruction,
till reason is lost in mental imbecility. When we
recollect that the counterpart of the individual
picture which makes such an impression may be
found in every cell of all the gaols of the empire, we
begin to doubt whether the passions in their wildest
and maddest form ever inflicted so much misery as
the calm reason of the legislator planning ingenious
devices for torturing man into virtue. It must,
however; be easier, if the clergy speak truth, to
wash the blackamoor white, than to make man other
than a sinner.

We rejoice to see that sound principles of bank-
,ng begin to prevail. Theorists now discriminate
between banking and bank-notes, and at once con-
clude that banking being only one branch of busi-
ness—like making hats, or cultivating land, which
grows up in the progress of society, and is a neces-
sary part of the great system of division of labour
—Legislators can know nothing about it, and
ought not to interfere with it. Banking, like gas-
fitting, is a comparatively modem branch of
business, with all the niceties and adaptations
of which bankers are not themselves yet ac-
-quainted. Improvements are every day made in it.
,It is not forty years since the clearing-house was
• established, and that was but one of many inven-
tions which have enabled bankers to facilitate pay-
ments, to economise the use of money, and to keep
their clients' accounts. Against the Legislature
interfering, therefore, with the business of the
banker, any more than with the business of the
butcher or the shipowner, there is now, we are
-happy to say, a general remonstrance.
Of course it can make no difference, so far as the
State is concerned, whether the business of a banker
be
is
true on bglitteny
(saysintividual or by a company.
Mr. Bailey) in regard to What
an
individual carrying on a trade, is true policy when indivi-
duals combine in partnership. When they unitearia
there can be no more ground for interference in
with
traders than when they wi:re separate. Tae union ma)
s create
m at
s.
t p
a neccessity for additional regulation to secure the
perform_
aece of engagements between the partners themselves,
pand.
between them and the public, or otherwise to
revent
wrong, but it can occasion no call for interference in the
management of their trade. The proper and profitable
management of it will be secured in as high a degree as
is practeable by the same. play of interests which we see
so efftctual in the case of individual traders.
The number of partners can obviously make no cllfference
in the matter, whether two or two thousand. h, the
latter case, a few still further laws might be necessary than
in the former, for the sake of convenience in adjusting any
points of right and wrong which might arise between the
partners them elves, and between the partnership and
other persona ; but a multiplicity of partners would still
form no ground for interfering in the management of the
business. Nor could there be any just or adequate.
reason fcr limiting the number of partners by law. Pn.
vate interest would determine the beneficial number with a
precision unattainable by legislative regulations. Two

would not unite unless they found it their interest to do
so; and if a thousand found it their interest to unite, ncr.
reason can be shown why they should be prevented.
We may, hereafter, say something further of
that particular portion of a banker's business, ex-
changing his ow❑ promises to pay on demand for
the promises to pay of other dealers at some cer-
tain but distant period ; but we shall now observe
that we cannot comprehend the science which as-
serts that the state can never advantageously under-
take to direct the trade of its subject=, which ad-
mits that bankers are traders, and yet obstinately
persists in limiting and directing, or prohibiting,
that part of their business which consists in issuing
their own small credit notes fchr the larger credit
notes of the merchant and manufacturer. The public
cannot too soon form correct opinions on the
question. There will be, we are much aft-aid, a
demand for all the firmness which sound principles
inspire, and for all the knowledge which much
study can supply, in order to resist the attempts
which will be made, and are now making, to decry
local, private, and joint-stock banks.
We mentioned yesterday a report that two such
banks had stopped payment. Our City Corres-
pondent alludes to a report that the bills of a
Manchester bank had been dishonoured. We are
not surprised at it. The manufacturing districts
are in great distress. There has been no spring
trade of any consequence ; and the deficiency of
trade must fall with great effect on those banks
which have, by their accommodation, in hopes of
improvement, contributed to keep the factories in
work. Against them the monster Corporation of
the metropolis has for some time past directed its
energies to bring gold into our coffers ; it has
avowedly struggled to keep prices low. At present
its issues, though its notes are a legal tender, are
not much above the half of what they were fifteen
years ago. While the country and-joint-stock
banks have done what they could to relieve our
suffering trade, the Bank of England has done
what it could to injure it ; and, as its power is
great, we are not surprised that some:country joint-
stock banks have been stifled by it. We have,
however, the satisfaction of believing that its con-
duct will be the means of giving correct knowledge
to the public, and make them refuse any longer to
tolerate a monopoly granted when the theory of
banking was utterly unknown, and when the prac-
tice was most narrowly and imperfectly developed.

To those who have looked with any degree of
attention at the proceedings of the Non-Intrusion
party in the Kirk of Scotland, it has been pretty
clear from the outset that the leaders of the insur-
rectionary movement have been playing a double
and deceitful game. Their conduct has been cha-
racterised, pre-eminently by insincerity—not to use
a harsher term—and even their dupes, those whom
their sanctimonious professions had blinded to their
real designs, have now discovered that the zeal
which blazes so fiercely, to all appearance, for the
rights of the people, is not altogether unmixed with
carnal self-interest. It is now more than suspected
by many of the "unto gude" themselves that the
" rights of the people," so lustily clamoured for by
the Nem-Intrusion Ministers, mean, in reelity, no-
thing else than the rights of the Clergy, and that
the sole object of the originators and supporters of
the Veto Act is to increase the power of the Church
under the pretence of extending the liberty of the
people.
The Veto Act itself leads directly to this con-
clusion. Had Dr. CHALMERS and his high-fly-
ing friends been sincere in their desire to give the
people the rights to which they say they are en-
titled, they would not have satisfied themselves with
such
a meagre half measure as the Veto Act.
t They must, on that supposition, have gone a con-
siderable way farther in the same direction, instead
of stopping, as they have done, at the first stage of
their journey. The principle of that Act is that
the people have a right to reject a minister pre-
sented by a patron, without assigning any reasons.
It is sufficient that he does not edify them—that
he is unacceptable to them—in short, that they
do not like him: This is the broad principle from
which Dr. CHALMERS has over and over again
declared that he and those who act with him, that
is, the majority of the ministers of the Kirk, will
never depart a hair's-breadth.
Nov!, it must strike every person with astonish-
mentvery person who casts a cursory glance at the
condtict of this party—that these would-be stick-
lers for popular liberty, do not see the stultifying
inconsistency into which they have fallen by the
very narrow and arbitrary limits within which they
have confined their boasted principle. If the peo-
ple have a right to reject a minister on the groued
that he does not edify them, they have, beyond all
question, a right to eject a minister already settled,
on the same ground. The principle contended for
is, to all intents and purposes, as much an ejec-
tion principle as a Non-Intrusion principle. It is
surely not unreasonable to suppose that a popular
minister may become unpopular—an edifying mi-
nister 'unedifying. This may occur either from a
change taking place in the minister or in his flock,
who, in fact, are perpetually changing as the old die
off and the young grow up. What, in such a
case, becomes of the " rights of the people ?"
Why, the people, in all such cases, are saddled
with an unedifying, unacceptable minister, for the
term of his naturallife, and thus the Non-Intrusion
principle—held so indispensable to the existence of
a Christain Church—is violated and set at nought
on those very occasions when, were it anything but
a pretext, it ought to be most strictly enforced.
Can any reason be assigned by the concoctors of
the Non-Intrusion principle for not carrying it out
to its full, legitimate, and efficient extent ? Per-
haps they thought they had no chance of success
in their endeavours to establish it ? That con-
sideration, it is clear, could have no weight with
men of principle. The law, peradventure, stood
in their way, and they could not, as ministers of the
Gospel of Peace, bring themselves to set the
people against the law of the land, which they
themselves had sworn to obey ? Their own prompt
and submissive obedience to the decision of the
highest tribunals of the country, and the unwearied
exertions which they have used to inculcate a si-
milar submission on others, render this supposition
extremely probable. At all events, we trust no-
body will imagine that the temporal interests of
the " order" had anything to do with the mutilation
of the Non-Intrusion principle.

Tile Paris Jaurnals of Thursday add nothing to the
intelligence from Spain, and very little of interest to the
news from Afric:t, published in Wednesday's Papers.
The Commerce publishes a proclamation, addressed by
CABRERA to the Spanish Carlists, dated Berga, the 13th
instant, in which that miscreant avows that it was his
intention to have shot Ge'era' SEGARA ; that on the
previous day be shot Don Louts CASTANOLA ; and
that all his butcheries were ordered and approved of
by Dan CARLOS. Why does not the Spanish Govern-
ment set a price on the bead of thin blood-thirsty
wretch ? He is not a soldier, but an assassin—a cold-
blooded demon-hearted murderer.

A curious scene took place in the French Chamber
of Peers on Wednesday. On the bringing up of some
Money Bills several Noble Peers, aware that the maj )-
rity of the Deputies had left Paris, considering the bu-
siness of the Session virtually at an end, took it into
their heads to assume a vast legislative importance by a
particular examination of the estimates, and the pro•
posal of sundry amendments. After several Peers had
spoken, M. THIERS rose and rebuked the spirit mani-
tested by the Chamber. The PRESIDENT of the
Council stated that the Peers were going beyond
their proper functions, which were to repress the
too rapid march of the Deputies, and to allow
the country time for deliberation ; not to inter-
fere with a vie.' to defeat Money Bills voted by
large majorities of the nation's representatives. This
administration of official correction called up the Ex-
President of the Council Count MoLE, who contended
lustily for the pri ilege of his " Order." The Cham-
ber of Peers was, be maintained, the second branch of
the Three Estates of the Realm, and was legally and
constitutionally competent to examine, modify, approve,
or reject, any bill coming before it. The Peers were in
high feathers, and plucked up fresh courage with every
cheer elicited by the oratory of their champion. At
last, in a fit ofdesperate courage, they proceeded to vote,
when, to the surprise of themselves, as much as to the
astonishment of the Government, M. THIERS obtained
only a majority of 18 votes out of 116. But such
spasmodic exhibitions of independence on the part of
the Chamber of Peers can only increase the national
contempt for that Assembly. The Peerage of France
can bear no comparison as regards wealth and popular
influence with the Peerage of Great Britain ;'and it is
the excess of folly on its part to ape the lofty beating of
an English House of Lords.

The French Government, we are delighted to learn,
is preparing instructions to all the Governors of slave-
bolding colonies relpecting the inquiries to be made
about the best mode of carrying out the great work
of slave emancipation.
The following from Constantinople, dated Bth inst., is
supplied by the Smyrna Journal:—" It appears that a
step in advance has been made in the. Eastern question,
tho representative of France at London having shown

some disposition to yield to the views of the other powers,
.stipulating at the same time for certain coneegpi,ns and new
arrangements which they are inciincd to accede to Chozrow
Pacha is definitelS, removed from the office of Grand Vt zir,
and is succeeded by Raouf Pads. Other changes have
been made in the Administration, but they are not yet
known."

When the regiments, which are ordered to Algeria,
have arrived at their destination the army in Africa will
consist of fourteen regiments of the Line, of the Foreign
Legion, of five regiments of Light Infantry, of the regi-
ment of the Zouaves, of the battalion of the Tirailleurs of
Vincennes, of the Ist, 23, and 3d battal ons of Light In-
fantry of Africa, of five regiments of cavalry (viz., the
Ist, 2d, 3d, and 4th chasseurs of Africa, and the regi-
ments formed of the horse soldiers who came from France),
of some squadrons of Spahs of Oran, Bona, and Con-
stantine, and of the troops of all the spec;al corps.
The following is the augmentation of the army of Africa
since the renewal of hostilities in the month of November
last year. From the 12th of December to the 20th of
January there- arrived at Algiers, to reinforce the aroly,
20,500; from January 20 till now 10,500; troops on the
point of embarking, 41 ; total reinforcements, 35 000. The
effective, 66 000.
army amounted to 38,001. Total, 73,000. Dcouct the
soldiers whose time of service WQ3 expired, and the sick
sentT hteoreFrwaenrcee,o7n,loyo4oo.
,00Too‘tvahle,n w e
got possession of Con-
stantine, and of the whole proviace of Mascara, Flemeccn,
&c. It is announced besides that 5,000 men will shortly
arrive at Toulon and Marseilles, taken from the several
regiments in the garrison of the south ; each furnishes 300
men, who will be successively embarked in the men-of-war
and packet-boats. They are to fill up the vacancies of the
army of Africa, occasioned by wounds and sickness.
A letter from Toulon of the 20th of June says :
" Orders are come to organise immediately in the war
establishment five companies of the 31 Marine Regiment,
and embark them in the Agnate and Turn, to be conveyed
to La Plata. It has been necessary to take a great number
of conscripts, who scarcely know how to handle their arms.
There is such a scarcity of officers in the camps, because
the Minister persists in making no promotions, that it has
been necessary to take some from the companies that re-
main here."—Le Commerce.

13OU1tSE.--PARI94 THURSDAY, JUNK 25.
1. irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price Price
Fiend) 5 per Cents ll7 25 ... 117 25 ... 117 `-`0 ... li7 05
4 per Cents lO6 . ... ,r 6 5 ... 10(i ... 106 25
3 per Cents Bl 00 ~84 e 5 ... 84 75 ... 84 75
Bink of erance 3575 ...V.575 ...3575 ...3573
Littitte Dank t,i)nnt. On lll7 50 ...1117 50 ...1117 50 _!117 50
5,000 f. Sh 5250 -.5050 -.5245 ..5215
Helgian Bank
5 Iser Cents
3. er Cents •76 80 ... 75 00 ... 76 55 ... 76 05
New York ...
I)utclt 2% per Cents 55 ... 55 ... 55 ... 55
S,.ll:ih Ac.ive 27!si ... 27% ... 271,/e ... 27%
Passive 6% ... 6% ... 6,, ... it;:i
Portlignese 3 per Cents 23% ... 233 t ... 23R, ... 23%,
ea;•olitaii
!Inman 103% ... 1031 ... 1(3% ... IS3A,

RAILWAY SHARE~,
St. Germai.,
Versailles, LB ,t'32 50 327 to 532 LO
Orleans
trasburg to Bale

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Jugs in
Five per Cents. NlGtalluities
Feier per Cents.
Three pr Cents.
Rank Shares
—Allgemeine &Rung. June 21 IV

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

C;IT Y, TIVEL VE O'CLOCK
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET OF FRlDAY.—Altliough
we have had a la,ge import and a market possessing little
animation, a good extent of business has been done dur-
ing the week, at full and improving prices for American
descriptions, and steady rates for all long staple, whilst
India continues heavy of sale and rather cheaper. Specu-
lators have taken 8,500 bales of American, and exporters
800 American and 300 Surat. The sales to-day will reach
6,000 bales of all kinds, the market closing steadily.
LIVERPOOL STOCK EXCHANGE, JrNE 26 —Not much
Stock offering; the general feeling of the market is much
the same as yesterday, but higher prices are anticipated
after the 28:h instant.