The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-13 00:00:00

this agent of wrath is GOD'S Church. The Church
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according to the priests, is also of GOD. Eccle-
siastical Courts are the instruments it uses to in-
struct men in the ALMIGHTY'S attributes, and
they are also of GOD. Tithes are notoriously said
to be of divine origin, though time and experience.
the popular voice and the decrees of the Legisla-
ture, have all denounced them as ruinous to the
land. A Bishop receives five thousand or ten
thousand pounds a-year. Deans, Prebends, and other
members of the higher clergy, revel in opulence,
Rectors favoured of fortune, hold two or three liv-
ings, and very frequently reside at neither ; they, too,
have large incomes, while the Curates and working
clergy have very often no larger incomes than journey-
men. Nevertheless, the Church which cheats the
deserving labourer of his just hire, and bestows it on
the idler, is GOD'S Church, and ordained by him.
It is in possession of large revenues, given, to in-
struct the people, and the clergy affirm that it is
according to GOD'S ordinances that they divert
these funds from the service of the poor, to enrich
themselves. Even now is the Church lifting up
its mitred front to oppose the education of the
people ; nevertheless the people, are taught that it
comes directly from Him, and exists by His ap-
pointment. Such assertions, continually acted on,
while the conduct of the clergy is directly opposed
to the precepts of Christianity, are well calculated
to make our people lose all reverence for their
CREATOR. Fortunately for the future morals of so-
. ciey, they are raising themselves above their pre-
tended teacher:, and no longer believe thaL the
miseries they suffer come from GoD. They call out
against men, and demand—not charity, but justice.
Should the voice of the Bath people find an echo
in the land, it will confer a signal benefit on pos-
terity.

We have of late more than once stated that it
was not improbable that some alteration wouM be
proposed in the Corn-laws this next session. A
similar opinion is embraced by a writer in the 146th
Number of the Edinburgh Review just published.
An article on the effects of the protective system based
on the excellent evidence and report of the Import
Duties Committee, contains the following passage:—
" So long as the Corn laws exist in their present
shape, the same event [the derangement of the ,currency]
will recur every bad harvest that takes place; because
the graduated scale of duty will prevent that early
importation of corn which enterprising merchants
would have recourse to, the moment any prospect
of a deficient harvest showed itself. Such is the condi-
tion in which all the great interests of the country—com-
merce, manufactures, revenue, profits of capital, employ-
ment of labour, is placed by these laws ; and as the
true state of the case is now fully understood, it cannot
be a matter of doubt, that a proper remedy will be ap-
plied to the evil. On a question of this kind, adverse di-
visions in Parliament are of very little consequence with
regard to ultimate success; for when a case is so unjust,
and has no solid basis to rest upon, any defection amongst
its supporters will lead to complete defeat. Symptoms
of such a defection have appeared. In conversation, no.
thing is now so common as to hear landlords who are in-
telligent and impartial, and above seeking to add a few
hundreds a-year to their rent rolls by a too-high price
of bread, admitting that the prevent plan of the Corn-
laws is wrong, and that a fixed duty ought to be esta-
blished in place of it. The opinion of a considerable
body of them was expressed by those who admitted
in the debate of last S,ssion, that a change was
necessary. It may safely be anticipated, that the preva-
lence of this disposition will soon lead several of the prin-
cipal landed Members, in both Houses of Parliament, to
declare in favour of a fixed duty; and when this happens,
the defeat end surrender of the exclusionists of foreign corn
will be instantaneous, and a new law will pass. In point
of fact, the state of the question has come to be, not so
much whether the laws shall be altered, as what shall be
the fixed duty. The exclusionists will, no doubt, do what
they can to have it made so high as to be prohibitory ; but
the liberal landlords, after they have carried the repeal of
the graduated scale, will not act with such unfairness.
They will inform themselves accurately about the price of
corn in foreign countries, and the charges for transporting
it to the kingdom ; and when they find that the average
price abroad is 40s. a quarter, they will be convinced that
a moderate duty, added to the 10s. a quarter for charges,
will afford the British landlord an ample protection. They
will be the more disposed to come to this conclusion when
they reflect that for tins six years ending in 1837, the
average price in England was no more than 50s. ; and that
with this price, cultivation was never more extended, or
carried on with more spirit and greater success.

The fixed duty proposed will not, however, sa-
tisfy the justice of the case, nor enable our manu-
facturers to recover their lost ground and keep on a
line with their rivals. " The last news at Not-
tingham," says Col. THOMPSON in a letter to the
Leicestershire Mercury, "is, that German goods
of the same quality are offered in America fifty per
cent. under the price of Nottingham." If that be
an approximation to the truth, and if new and vi-
gorous rivals are starting up in every part of Eu-
rope, to load our struggling manufacturers with a
fixed duty on their bread will cripple them for the
race, and will speedily make them break down. Now
that we see this proposition of a fixed duty put
Forth, accompanied by the assertion that the state
of the questio►► is not whether the law shall be al-
tered, hut what shall lie the amount of fixed duty,
we shall make it our business to re-examine the
proposition with 'attention, and shall hereafter state
the result.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have just reached
us. The Chamber of Deputies was occupied with
the Report of the Committee on Petitions, and a
project for the extension of Departmental Roads.
h e overflowing of the river Tet has laid Perpigian
under water. Several houses have fallen, and
much property destroyed. The question of
the fortification of Paris is, however, the
o►►ly one that seems to interest the capital. The
following paragraph, from the Debats of Sunday,
contains the latest news relative to this all-engross-
il►g, subject :
" Marshal Soult, in the Commission of Fortifications,
consented in the name of the Ministry to the simultaneous
execution of the detached forts and wall of circumvaliation.
During five consecutive sittings the Commission examined
different inhabitants of the suburbs, and then proposed
amendments to the ministerial plan. Oa the 6th Marshal
Souk gave his answer, which adopted some of the amend-

'Dents of the Commission; but ha rejected two amend-
silents, one being a change in the place fixed on for de-
tached forts, the other an augmentation of the sums to be
allotted. Government proposed spending fifty-five mil-
lions of francs in 1841 and 1842. The Commission pro-
posed to spend eighty-seven millions, which would have
upset ail he plans of the Finance Minister. The Minis-
try having persisted in its views, the Commission decided•
on acceding to the views of th- Ministry."
There was a fall of snot Saturday night in Paris,
which, although a thaw ILA come on en Sunday, had
blocked up the roads. No mails from Germany, Spain,
Italy, or England had come in by one o'clock on Sunday.
Great activity is displayed in tracing the Coburg rail-
road, which is to connect Coburg, Hildburgbausen,
Meiningen, Gotha, Weimar, Erfurt, and Eisenart, and
is to join the Prussian railroad further north. The
work %Nil' begin in spring. What an advantage when
this is finished traveller can go in two days to Nurem-
be-g. the centre a South German commerce, or from
Bannb,rg, the junction of the Main and the navigation of
the Ludwig Canal to Berlin, or B:cmen, or Ham!turgli.
Franconian Mercury.
130 URSE.—PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 9.

f irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price, Price
i-r.-!.. 0 ::,, per 1. Hits
4 per Cents 99 ... 99 ... ki .. 99
3 per Cents 77 25 , 77 45 .., 77 95 ... 77 40
6,1,:, of trance
Liitfitte &ink I.ooot. Sli lOlO ...11145 ...11410 ...1615
5000 f. Shares 5130 ...5135 —.5130 —.5135
.?.4,igiari /lank
i,;inish Active 24% ... '34% ... 1!4;( ... 24%
Passive 5% ... 6 ~. 544 •.. 5%
Nea:,olitan
''onion..
RAILWAY SHARE.%
St Liermain
Versaillcs,lt. 13 4OO ... 405 .. 4CO ... 405
LB 305 ... 307 50 ... 305 ~. 305
Orleans .
Stragtiorg to Bale 245 ... 245 •... .41 75 .. 245
Aulhausen to fhann
CAFE LIE PARIS.—.SUNDAY, JAN. 10.
HALF-PA.,T Two.—Last night, Saturday, the Three
per Cents for the Account were done at 77f. 30c. No-
thing has I)_,co done to day, unless it be one bargain re-
ported to have been fat 77f. 321 c.

The Dutch P..pers, which arrived last night,
of the 9th, mention the death at the Hague of his
Excellency J. E. Baron de IMEY VAN SHEEF-
KERK, Minister of State. The following wai the
price of the Dutch Funds Bth January :
DUTCH FUNDS.—ANSTSILDAM, JAN. 8
Money. Bills.
tctual Debt, '234 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amon Syndic,4% per cent B6 86Z
Ditto, ditto, 33{, per cent 70% 71
Commercial Company, 43{, per cent 157% 159%
Ditto (1815 and 1H37) 5 per cent.
Loan 11.137, 5 per cent. i 9114 954
Exchange on London, One month l9 0
Two months ......
Dutch Papers, Jai,. 9.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BcsuN, JAN. 5,
Bills. ltfonsy.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4% per cent. lO3 /01‘
Prussian Engnsh Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 100 90;
Lxchange on London, three months.,, 43 16%
—.Prussian State (iezette, Jan, 6,