The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-21 00:00:00

CIVIL CONTINGENCIES.

The following are some of the items in the amount of
the sum expended under the head of " Civil Contingen-
cies," in the year 1840 (omitting pence and shillings):—
Extraordinary disbursements of Ministers at
Foreign Courts £16,579
On account of special missions
Rewards for the apprehension of J. Frost, Z.
Williams, W. Jones, and others 650
Expenses is consequences -of the riots at Newport 436
To the Marshal of the Queen's Bench, to mako
good deficiency of fees
Rewards offered by Government for plans to
carry into effect the penny postage
Salaries and expenses of the office for carrying
into effect the regulations
Expenses incurred in the maintenance and edu-
cation, &c., of the nephew of the King of the
Ashantees
Letters patent for appointing the Right Hon
C. P. Thomson, Governor, &c., of her Ma-
jesty's Provinces in North America
To the bell-ringers of Christ Church, Dublin,
for ringing on the day of her Majesty's
marriage
Fer hoisting the Royal Standard on the Castle
Tower, Dublin
To the Earl of Malmesbury, as Governor of the
Isle of Wight
On account of maintenance and proceedings in
the case of the Cana/ian prisoners
The total expenditure for the United Kingdom
for the year 1840 115,010
130,000
Estimated expenditure for 1841

2,702

THE CO RN-LA WS.

400

343

312

TUFORTATION OF CANADIAN FLOUR AND WHEAT.

We are informed by gentlemen connected with the
trade of Canada, that there is likely this year to be a
very great increase in the importation of wheat and
flour from the united province of Canada, and that
there is reason to expect that this inereese will be
rapid and progressive in succeeding years, and ulti-
mately be carried to such an extent as materially to
affect the price of bread in this country. Last year
the importation of flour and wheat -from Canada
amounted to 298,701 barrels, and 141,9:31 minots of
wheat, each minot being cquai to three bushels, and this
year it is expected that there will be an importation of
about 700,000 barrels of floor, and of wheat in the
same proportion. Had it not been for the disastrous
effects produced on agriculture and industry gene-
ra:ly by the two recent rebellions, a much larger
quantity of wheat would have been produced in Ca-
nada, rind sent to this country during the last threa
years than has been received, but now that confidence
is thoroughi.y restored, and that the constitution of
the province has bee❑ placed on a firm and lasting
basis, agaieuiture has again begun to flourish, and fresh
suppli•as of labourers to pour into the province. Ef-
forts such as never were made before, are now making
to increase the amount of emigration from this country
to Canada, partly from political and partly from eco-
nomical motives, aad every increase of this kind will
add to the productive powers of the province. When
it is considered that there are more than sixty
milliens of acres of land capable of cultivation in
Canada, and that the population is increasing at
such a rate as to more than double itself every
twenty years, it is not improbable that this colony
may, in the course of years, become the gra-
nary of the British empire. Thi:e however, is not
the only source of supply, for wheat grown either on
the American or Canadian side of the St. Lawrence
may be imported into this country provided it has been
ground into flour in the province of Canada. The ef-
fect of this permission has already been to produce a
very large importation of American wheat into Canada,
so much re that not less thou thirty thousand tons
were received in the single pert of Kingston, the new
capital of Canada, during ti:e last year.
The duty on wheat imported into this country from
Canada and other British possessions in North Ame-
rica, is five shillings a quarter when the avera.;e price of
wheat in this country is less then sixty-seven shillings
a quarter, and GI. a quarter when it is abo;c that
price. The duty on flour is in the same proportion.
These duties pretent no obstacle to the importation of
any quantity which the Canadians can spare for export.
--Liverpool Times.

Dit. HOOK AND MOTIIELt
CHURCH.

We chanced the other day to take up the speech
which, our Thlverend Bishop having prevented the
Rev. Dr. from talking, he has now printed. And
from it we can learn that both Dr. Hook and his
poor " old Mother," ara at present in a very bad way.
If a man, says the worthy Dr., thinks for himself, he
runs a great risk of embracing the soul-destroying,
heresy of Socianism ; but if, instead, he let others
think for him, ha runs equal danger of worshipping tho
scarlet —! The only chance, he tells us, of and
one's salvation, is, for Idea first to march straight away
from Rome along the road of individual judgment to-
wards Socinianism, till he conies to the turning to the
implicit authority of the Church of England. There
he is to diverge, and twisting nearly quite round, pro-
ceed in the opposite direction (i.e., towards Rome again),
till he comes to the top of the cul de sac (Anglice, blind
lane), and there—squat.
Dwindled, as, the Dr. says, Socinianism is now-a-
days, we fear that, if his account be correct, his poor
" old Mother" will soon be quite childless. Blest us
we had forgotten the worthy Dr. would still be left.
How she will doat on her only remaining child, born,
too, in her old age !
The Apostolic Dr. says that the Church is now so
divided into parties, that every one must necessarily be-
come a party man. If our memory does not fail us,
one
the e
the n
earliestca ir
contrary of
igh predecessors, in a similar case,
held
doctrine, exclaiming, " Is Christ
divided ?"

ilittle
,nt
Perhaps,tetr o,hteon, the Dr. may be wrong in the other
and Christianily nt least, whatever
Dr.'s poor old mother, may be the fate of the .(God
bless her soul!) is not, just at present at least, going
to the dogs.
We may observe, by the bye, that though the Ro-
monists and Socinians will doubtless forthwith send
the worthy Dr. votes or thanks for his candid admis-
sion, that to embrace their respective doctrines is the
legitimate result of following one or other of the two
alternative principles of theological dogmatics ; and
that his own views can only be reached by so tortuous
a a urse, that few are to be found with spines of sufil-
cien flexibility to be able to thread it ; yet, we suspect ,
that his own tribe will not very readily forgive him the
indiscretion, even on the doubtless veracious plea, that
he was led into it, through the (though weak yet) zeal-
ous and truly amiable hope to frighten into the fold a
few of the more timid sheep.—Leeds Times.

THOMAS HOBBES, OF MALMES.

UNIVERSITIES.
It is manifest people de-
-
tOhNat theTEl EUNi‘E
instructionr of
eadeth wholly on the right of teaching of the youth e you in
the Universities. But arc not (may
the Universities of England Learnedsonic mensay
BRIr
enough already to
do that ? or is it you win undertake
to teach the
Universities ? Hard questions. Yet to the first, I
doubt not to answer ; that till towards the cad of
Henry VIII. the power of the Pope was always upheld
against the power of the Commonwealth, principally
by the Universities ; mid that the doctrines maintained
hi so many preachers against the Sovereign power
of the l K
—ng, and by so Many lawyers and others that
Lath their education there, is a sufficient argument that
though the Universities were not the authors of those
false dectrincr, yet they know not how to plant the
true. For in much contradiction of opinion it is most
certain th„t they have not been sufficiently instructed ;
and it is no wonder if they yet retain a relish of the
subtle liquor, wherewith they were first seasoned,
against the
civil authority. But to the latter questicn
it is not fit nor needful for n:e to say aye or no ; for any
urn that sees what I am doing may easily perceive
trlat I think.—P. IEO ; 1651.

A Commission, of which 'Mr. Moncrieff, advo-
cate, is one of the principal memLers, has been sitting in
Glasgow for a few days back to inquire into the manner
i which justice is administercd it bus ice of Peace Courts.
A number of gentlemen, NT ho are presumed to be informed
as to these matters, have been ehrAmiacd as witnesses.—
Glasgow Herald.