The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-08 00:00:00

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UNITED

GLEANINGS FROM THE
STATES PAPERS.

DAILY NEWSPAPER PRESS IN BALTIMORE.

A Peep into the EditOritil Department—American, Pa-
triot, Republican, Sun, Clipper, and Argus, 6^c.
There are six daily papers published here, three of
which are sixpennies, the remainder, pennies ; two of
the former, the American and Republican, are issued in
the morning, and the other, the Patriot, in the after-
noon ; two of the latter, the Clipper and Sun, are morn-
ing papers • the Argus, the third penny paper, is pub-
lished in the afternoon.
All the large papers are political. The American and
Patriot are Whig, and the Republican is opposition. Of
the pennies, the Clipper and Sun pass for neutral, and

the Argus advocates the opposition Party.
Of all the sixpennies, the Americau is the oldest, most
quiet, respectable, best edited, and best supported ; and,
unlike the other political papers here and elsewhere, it
treats politics and its opponents with a calmness and mo-
deration that is quite praiseworthy ; it is free from all the
brawling, bragging, and lying style of political papers ge-
nerally. It was established before theilastwar, and though
it has often changed its proprietors, yet it has lost none
of that popularity and confidence which was bestowed
upon it when it first started. It was strictly neutral,
until about an hour since, it " defined its position," by
declaring itself Whig, and though a large' number
of its subscribers were opposed to the principles it began
to advocate, yet they did not relinquish their support on
that account ; for they were doubtless well aware that
if they did, they could not find a substitute on their own
side that was as available. The mercantile community find
it to be just such ajournal as they require, and by them
it is generally supported. Its editors are Messrs. Mur-
phy, Dobbin, and Bose, who are talented and, gentle-
manly individuals. Mr. Bose is the gentleman who re-
cently enlightened our citizens on the public works and
resources of Pennsylvania, for which task he is as com-
petent as any ether person that the Committee could
have selected. I should suppose that the American cir-
culated four thousand copies.
The Patriot is a paper that is popular with the Whigs,
and it goes more into.politics than the American. The
Opposition have named it the "Pipelayer's Organ,"
but it does not deserve that cognomen as well as does
another paper that is published here ; it is an old paper
also. In the time of the last war, it was edited by its

present editor, Colonel Isaac Munroe, who was among
this city's gallant defenders at the bombardment of Fort
M`Henry. He has been -its editor ever since, and has
battled long and ardently for the cause he advocates,
and I am glad to learn that he has profited by his ardu-
ous occupations, and has now become wealthy. He de-
serves some further remuneration from his party, for
his indefatigable and successful'exertions in their cause
for a long period, and more particularly last year, when,
in additiou to the Patriot, he published the famous Log
Cabin Advocate. I_ should suppose the Patriot circu-
lates three thousand copies.
The Republican is the next and last of the six-
pennies. It is a red-hot, rabid, rough shod " Loco
Foco " print, and has been established some years. It
was the leading Van Buren organ in the State. It has
changed hands some four or five times in the last five
years, but the whole Democratic party own it ; it is open
to them all, now that the patronage of the Government
has been taken from it. It is probable it will go down
altogether. Messrs. Harker and Busk are the ostensible
editors. I expect the Republican circulates about 2,000
copies.
So much for the " respectable sixpennies."
Of the penny papers, the Sun was the first established,
in 1837, by the proprietors of the Philadelphia Ledger,
who were already niaking money in Philadelphia, and,
as the penny system was a new thing here, the Sun,
aided by the Ledger, rapidly increased its circulation.
The Clipper was established in September, 1839, by J.
H. Hewitt, under whose auspices it flourished until he
withdrew, which was about three months since. He was
witty, as well as otherwise talented. The proprietors
are Messrs. Bull and Tuttle. The present editors are
James Barnes and John W. Wills, Esquires, who are
competent, and are makingexertions to render the Clipper
the best penny paper in the country.
The Argus is a small, but well conducted and spirited
paper. It was established last year ; its editor is a young
gentleman, who is talented, and is a sterling advocate
of temperance. The Argus circulates about two thousand
copies.—New York Herald.
BORROWING.—We have received a letter, says the
Boston (American) Post, from a correspondent, in which
he speaks in strong term of reprobation of borrowing in
general, and book borrowing in particular. He talks
like a man who has suffered some. He says he lived at
one time on the banks of the Mississippi, and gives the
following as a specimen of the extent to which the
practice is carried :—" Will you lend me your axe ? you
won't want to use it I reckon."—" Why, yes I'll let you
take it, seein' you want it." In about two months the
owner does want to use his age, and he applies to the
borrower of it, but he has not got it ; " the last he seed
on't, Mr. Fletcher had it to cut some roots with." The
poor owner then goes to Mr. Fletcher—" Stranger base
you seen my axe I lent to Mr. Bent t'other day ?"
" Why, yes, I reckon Mr. Bower's got it ; he said he
wanted to chop some firewood, so I lent it him. You'd
best ask him for it."—He goes—" Mornin', Mr. Bower
—how's your wife ?"—"Lively I reckon—how's yours ?"
About right, I reckon—have you a hold of my
axe ?"--" I reckon I have. I have smashed the handle
—it wits a powerful weak one—but you can mend it ;
and when you have done it I'd like to borrow it agin,
'cause I have a smart chance of wood to cut and want to
use it 'specially."
VIRTUE OF COLD WATER.—Mr. John J. Van Vorst,
of the city of Schenectady, was one hundred years old
on the nth of January last. He served his country in
the "French" and "Revolutionary" wars, but "never
wet his lips with alcoholic drinks." Very many of his
companions not only drank their rations of liquor, but
spent all their pay for the poison. Nearly all of these
have long since died drunkards. Mr. V. V. has never
squandered his property. He has lived in cheerful com-
petence, and has seen his children's children to the
fourth generation.
The police of New Orleans is formed of a curious set
of fellows. One named Pinchem is now held to bail for
killing a man, and three others have been hauled up for
an attempt at bur_glary.
A TERRIBLE FELLOW.—The Mr. Brown, who took a
cow-hiding a short time since for exposing some boobies,
that make it their business to insult ladies, now carries
a dirk-cane. It is hung on his left arm, both by night
and by day. So you gentlemen-loafers look out how
you insult his dignity.—.Aznerican Paper.
FANNY ELSSLER.—The divine danseuse appears on
Monday, at the Park. She has not made an engage-
ment at Philadelphia. She asked $5OO per night, but
Pratt said " No, I'll give you half the house and a place
in heaven." " I can't take him," said Fanny, " I can-
not take less dan five hundred dollars, and a seat in de
oder place."—New York Herald.
OIL TRADE.—There have arrived during the month of
May, at various ports of the United States, thirty-four
whalers, comprising twenty-one ships, eight barks, four
brigs, and one schooner. By these arrivals the country
has been enriched,. within the short space of a single
month, to at least the amount of one and a half million
of dollars. Our report presents one feature somewhat
the reverse of former statements, in the fact that, of the
two sorts of oil imported, the greater quantity has been
spermaceti. There have been brought in, • mostly from
beyond Cape Horn, no less than 1,041,862 gallons of
sperm oil, and in the same period, from elsewhere,
880,740 gallons of right whale oil. Upwards of one-
third of the quantity of sperm oil, imported into the
country in the month of May, was brought by vessels
belonging to this port.—Nantucket Inquirer.
Those who are in the habit of expressing their wonder
at what the British aristocracy "do with their own,"
will, perhaps, learn how the nobility of this country ex-
pend their incomes. To prove this we extract the fol-
lowing particulars of the
Consumption of wine and ale, wax-lights, &c., at• Be-
voir Castle, the seat of the Noble Duke Rutland, of
from December, 1839, to April, 1840, or about eight
weeks.
Wine 200 dozen, ale 70 hhds. ; wax-lights, 2,330 ;
sperm oil, 630 gallons.
Dined at his Grace's table, 1,997
persons • at the
steward's room, 2,421 ; in the servants' hall: nursery,
including
and kitchen department, comers and goers,
bread there were consumed 8,333 ; of
110,3f1 2
loaves persons.
Of
of
meTath,e2m2,o9n6e3ylvbals.u;e eoxfctlhuesimveeoaft,
provision except stores, consumed during this
game: p.
epgg32s!.and every
kind of
period, amounted to 1,3291. 7s. lltd.
The quantity of game killed by his Grace and friends,
and consumed at Belvoir Castle alone, was 2,589 head.
Supposed value, 1931. 13s. 6d.
The total quantity of game killed during the season.
over all his Grace's manors, is thus stated :-
1,733 hares, 987 pheasants, 2,101 partridges, 23 wild
ducks, 108 woodcocks, 135 snipes, 947 rabbits, 776
grouse, 23 black game, and 6 teal.
The particulars are given in a History of Belvoir
Castle, recently published.

The Tories are continually talking of their at-
tachment to the Throne, but it is certain that if they
have any such affection, not the smallest portion of it is
extended to the illustrious person by whom the throne
is at present occupied. Open insults and dastardly inu-
endos are being continually resorted to by the Conser-
vative press, of which the Post of this morning gives,
in a pretended notice to a correspondent, a most loath-
some specimen. "We hope," runs the language of the
notice, " our correspondent is in error, when he inti-
mates that the intelligence of the death of the Queen of
Hanover had arrived at Buckingham Palace on Saturday
before her Majesty went to the Opera." Now, the edi-
tor of the Post can have no "hope" upon the subject,
he must know, for it was so stated in all the papers of
Monday, that the intelligence alluded to did not reach
Buckingham palace until Sunday. The Post's " wish
is the father to the thought ; " but it will wish in vain,
before it can get hold of a real and substantial handle
for-the numerous air-blown calumnies against the Queen,
that have been engendered by the foul breath of Tory
malignity.
It is rumoured in the fashionable circles that
the Marchioness of Londonderry is about to publish a
descriptive account of her late trip to the Court of the
Sultan.—Courier.

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EVENING SUN.

THE KIRK OF SCOTLAND.
(From the Scottish Guardian.)
We have authority to state that, in a written reply to the.
queries submitted by the Mends of the Church of Scot-
land in London to Lord John Russell, in common wit&
the other candidates, Welig and Conservative, for the re-
presentation of the metropolis, Lord John Russell hes
avowed, in their broadest and most unmitigated form,,
the views of the Scottish Church question which have.
been attributed to Sir Robert Peel. He says he cannot.
assent to the Duke of Argyll's Bill " without modifica-
tion ;" and one Modification which he expressly re-
quires is, "that those who have acted on their ow-
victions of duty, in obedience to the law as laid down in
the civil tribunals," shall be "preserved to the Church
of Scotland." This is sufficiently unequivocal.
There is no mistaking Lord John's import and in-
tentions ; and all the hopes we may have enter-
tained from that quarter are now broken down. It
only convinces us the more of the soundness of the policy
we have ventured to recommend to the members and
friends of the Church, namely, to keep its great interests
clear of partizanship, and shape out an independent-, un-
biassed, and inoffensive course for itself. Give us Otis,
and, trusting to the_Divine favour, we fear neither ;:iir
Robert Peel nor Lord John Russell. The two Parlia-
mentary leaders are now on a footing of equality before
the Scottish electors on the Church question. Whether
Sir Robert spoke his own sentiments on a recent wee-
sion, or only predicated what would be the sentiments
of the Legislature, there can be no doubt about what
his real opinions are. They are identical, doubtless,
with those of the Whig leader in the House of
Commons. It is for the electors to make a dead
set upon both, and endeavour to convince them
that the condition they •are disposed to attach to
the passing of the Duke of Argyll's Bill is alto-
gether incompatible with the duty which the
Church owes to her Divine Head, and would, if carriei
into effect, prove destructive of her existence. We have
only farther to say, that this declaration of Lord John
Russell's discharges those obligations which electors
have felt themselves under in consequence of the state-.
ment attributed to Sir Robert Peel, although in many
cases it may tend to increase rather than diminish their
difficulty of action. We may also mention that the other
Whig candidates for the city of London declined to give
any opinion whatever on the subject of the Scottish
Church question, and pointedly refused, through their
Chairman, to favour a deputation of our Scottish friends
in London with a joint interview. It is extremely
pleasing to have to add that all the four Conservative
candidates, viz., our countryman Alderman Pink, and
Messrs. Lyall, Masterman, and Attwood, agreed to the
principle of the Duke of Argyll's Bill.
The following is Lord John Russell's letter above re-
ferred to :

Wilton Crescent, June 26, 1841,
Sir.—ln answer to the circular you have sent to me, I
beg to state, in the first place, that lam not ready to.
plege myself to any particular course of conduct, by
which I might be precluded from agreeing to some plan
calculated to establish harmony in the Church of Scot-
land. I informed Lord Aberdeen last year, that if his
Bill came into the House of Commons, I should op-
pose it. I must still do so, unless it is greatly altered.
I am not prepared to assent to the Duke of Argyll's Bill,
without modification. I am anxious to preserve to the
Church of Scotland those members who have con-
ceived themselves bound to enforce the Veto Act by the
deposition of those who did not obey it, and also those
Ministers who have acted on their conviction of duty,
in obedience to the law as laid down in the civil tribu-
nals. I conceive this object is still attainable, and it will
not be till all hope of conciliation is at an end, that I
shall determine upon the ultimate course to be pur-
sued. To such a Bill as you mention in your first and
second iresolutions, properly guarded, and which shall
secure on the one hand the opinion of a deliberate
majority of male communicants, and which shall on the
other provide not for the mere assent, but the conscien-
tious examination of the rejection by the Church Courts,
I shall willingly give my concurrence.
Allow me to say, farther, that a spirit of conciliation
and charity can alone give efficacy to any law or written
agreement us .n the subject. I have the honour to be,
your most o sent servant,
J. Boyle, Esq. (Signed) J. RUSSELL.
[Lord John ilussell's letter contains some infor-
mation regarding the course he would pursue ; but the
letter of Sir Robert Peel, on the sane subject, to the
Duke of Argyll, none. The statement in the Scottish
Guardian, that all the four Conservatives agreed to the
principles of the Duke's Bill, we have great reason to
doubt ; and if any such pledge were given by three of
the candidates, it amounted to this—. I know nothing
about the Kirk, but if you will vote for us, we will assent
to the preamble of the bill, and 'leave the rest to Sir
Robert Peel," who they, knew was more hostile to it
than Lord John Russell.]

THE CITY ELECTION..
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN:
SlR,—The result of the late City election, satisfa-Aory
as it is in so far as the leader of the free trade question
has a seat in Parliament, bestowed by a constituency'
which, though unworthy in some respects, is yet the
first constituency in the kingdom, nevertheless presents
some painful subjects for inquiry.
The narrow interests of the agriculturists, and of
those with.whom they sympathise, are well understood
by themselves, and as stoutly defended. The interests
of the inhabitants of the city of London, frori its mer-
chants down to its humblest shopkeepers (excepting
certain monopolists), are distinctly antagonistic to the
narrow views of the agriculturists ; a mitigation of the
coria duties, a reduction in the price of colonial and
other produce, will clearly-be beneficial to the inhabi-
tants of London, and they are too well instructed to be itt
any doubt about the matter. How then is it, that the
man whose name is identified with the free trade ques-
tionl was not highest on the poll by some 7,000 votes ?
1 How is it that three candidates are above him, and that
the most important candidate (I mean important so far
as his identification with such momentous questions)
should obtain a place at all with difficulty ? Clearly, me
it appears to me, because there is a powerful body in
the city of London, whose notions and interests are an-
tagonistic to the interests of the great body of the
inhabitants, I mean the Corporation of Louden. It
will be interesting to examine the votes, and I am
assured it will appear, that very few indeed of thogei
connected with the Corporation, voted for Lord John
Russell. Very few supported him, except some noisy
jobbing patriots, who pick up their subsistence by coh-
nection with the Liberal party in the City. The Corpo-
ration has its own purposes to serve, and, as it has the
expenditure every year of more than half a million of
money, it is very powerful in the means of securing its
own sinister interests. Lord John Russell was denounced
by that Corporation, because, as a means of most ra-
tional and economical improvement, he desired to conso-
lidate the Metropolitan Police ; and, if that had been
done, the inhabitants of the City would have been saved
17,0001. a-year, and person and property would have
been better protected. It was not done, but the Corpo-
. ration became, nevertheless, the implacable enemies of
Lord John Russell, who just scotched the snake which
he ought to have crushed, as he did, and when he did,
much to his honour, those nests of vermin, the corpora •
tions of the provincial towns. If this had babe done,
there is no doubt that Lord John would h en at
the head of the poll, and the City of London would have
returned not two with difficulty, but four members tri-
umphantly, to support and represent the opinions and
interests of the enlightened and high-minded people of
the City. It is so much the obvious and palpable interest
of London that commerce should flourish, that no other
cause can be assigned for the result of the late election,
than the hostility of the Corporation, who, as a body,
are far behind the inhabitants in intelligence and
public spirit, and who, as holding so heavy a purse,
are invincible among the needy and unprincipled
freemen, the retention of whom, in the town
constituencies, is very much to be regretted- If
the Whigs had insisted on disfranchising these freemen,
and had given in the ballot, all the best interests and
noblest aspirations of the human race would not be pe-
rilled as they are at this moment. I say of
tthe human
race, for not only England, but all Europe, trembles at
Tory ascendancy. I make these remarks that
ethelcon-f
o_
tresaunintsionos
duct of the corporators, through all their hne
influence, may be examined, and if my p
d demand the complete
polls ought to rise as one man a
co
pt body, which
extirpation of an aritiquated and
local
are well-founded, the inhabitants
f he whole mpetro-
taxes, and upholds
oppresses them with enormo
wlio are, or would
town in Cornwall
be, a disgrace to the hum
that the local taxa-
or Scotland. Let it be remembered.
municipal institutions anbdies
half times greater than
tion of the City is two-and-a-
districts of the
that of some of the bestn.a
hostmanaged of other evils, the metro-
polis,corpora-
and that, amon,,
lb
borough
Ings
her than they w ould otherwise be.
per ton rig ONE OF THE OPPRESSED.
tion coal tax causes coa sto e from eig.lit to ten shill'
SAINTLY SCRUPLES.
London, July 6, 1841.
All EPISTLE FROM LADY. ----- TO THE COUNTESs OE ----
Alv DEAR LADY ----,
You can't think how much these election affairs
Are disturbing good folks from their meetings and prayers,
And how charm 'd we shall be when the bustle is o'er,
And we're settled, all snug, in our boroughs once more.
If it were not, indeed, for the heart-cheering hope
Of defeating thus Dan and the Dev'l and the Pope,
I should wish the whole Parliament, Peer and 51. P.—
That's to say, the lVhig part of it,—sunk in the sea..
'Tis, indeed, for us Saints, who delight in high prices,
Yet quake for our souls, a most terrible crisis --
Like Hercules doubting, when.placed 'twixt the two,
Whether Pleasure or Virtue ins best to pursue.
For, alas, my dear friend, if one loses one's seat,
One may lose, too, for ever, dear sugar and wheat ;
And, if thus the free-traders should carry it hollow.
One knows not what other dear things then may follow ;
Till soon, by that swift-sliding scale which they call
" Bringing nobles to ninepence," our value may fall,
Till we're cheapen'd, God help us, to nothing at all !
Meanwhile, you can't think, dear, what numbers one meets
Who're neglecting their souls to look after their seats ;
And, until the new Parliament writs are return'd,
Holy Writ, must, I fear, be entirely adjourn'd.
Nor is't any wonder that laymen should stray,
When the 'whole Church Establishment goes the sae way,
And regards, at this moment, the state of men's somuls
Quite as nothing, compared with the state of the polls.
Not to heav'n, but the hustings, look vicars and rectors,
And Calvin himself, could he see how his sect errs,
Would swear that th' Elect are now worse than th' electors.
In short, my dear friend, these political cares
Have quite interrupted our nice " Tea and Prayers,"—
( Those soirees devout, where the Sixth Angel's trumpet
Was duly discuss'd over Congou and crumpet)—
Nor can we now hope to enjoy any more
canvase
d turns
neighbour out.
Of such Feasts of the Soul till this bustle is o'er.
Adieu, for the present,—my next will, no doubt,
TBeyl lolyoud how
Doctor
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notredxtS,houuffir ewt 0e11..e n'sHe's been lucky enough to be help'd through his labour,
well-endowed
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'Whose zeal, I suspect, by the fond hope is • drawn. '
That a hand good at canvas may reach, at last, kwon.
—Chronicle.