The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-01 00:00:00

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LONDON:
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1840.

The Bolton Free Press informs us that a public I
procession and meeting, have been got up at Bolton
in honour of Mr. M.DouALL. On Wednesday
he arrived from Manchester at that place, and was
conducted in triumph to the theatre, which was
crowded with persons to welcome him. A resolution
was first adopted to " form the Association, to be
called the "British Charter Association," and then
Mr. NPDOUALL was introduced to the meeting.
We have no intention of following him through
his speech ; we shall only quote two specimens
of his present influence. A Delegate from Sheffield
was present, and invited lkfr. M'DOUALL to visit
that town. He declined, because he " was engaged
for every evening to the 14th of September, and he
might then go to Scotland. When he might be at
liberty he did not know." He has been made al-
most an idol by persecution. Ihe Government has
struck him, and the people worship him, an indica-
tion not to be misunderstood of the feelings of the
people towards the Government—not the Whigs,
not the present Ministers merely, but the system by
which the industrious are doomed to starvation, and
the idle acquire or preserve wealth. One HUNT
or one COBBETT was sufficient to frighten and
annoy the Tories ; now there is a HUNT or a
COBBETT in almost every town—their number has
been increased by prosecution, and yet there is no
alarm.

It is with great re'uctance we advert so often to
a subject which would be more fitly treated in a
sermon, or in a religious Magazine, than in a News-
paper, but it is absolutely forced upon us by the
absurd, mischievous, and pharisaical cotiduct of a
set of meddlers Who seem to delight only in harass-
ing their neighbours. We have always argued,
that to enforce the observance of the Sunday, ac-
cording to the doctrines of Sir ANDREW AGNEW,
is not only injurious to pure religion, but naturally
leads the public mind to ascertain th,. authority on
which he founds his law, thereby tending to impair
the decent observance of a day which is more reli-
giously kept in this country than any other spot in
the world. Colonel THOMPSON has applied his
vigorous mind to the subject, and thotigh the man-
ner in which he expresses himself may not suit all
tastes, it cannot be denied that he gives chapter and
verse for his authority, and follows that up with
arguments which neither Sir ANDREW, nor any of
his disciples, can gainsay. There are some re-
markable facts connected with the history of these
Sabbath observers, which we recommend to their
careful consideration. Against no class of sinners
are such denunciations of divine vengeance poured
forth, both in the Old and the New Testament.
In the beautiful language of the chief of the pro-
phets, we find them thus apostrophised—" Your
new moons and Sabbaths, your calling of assem-
blies, I cannot away with. They are a trouble
unto me, lam weary to hear them. I will hide
mine eyes from you ; yea, when ye make many
prayers, I will not hear." What are they com-
manded to do ? " Cease to do evil ; learn to do
well." The Divine Founder of the Christian re-
ligion had the same antipathy to the race. He
lost no opportunity of denouncing the Rulers of
the Synagogue and the Pharisees, for their hypo-
critical adherence to one command, neglecting the
more weighty matters of the law—judgment, mercy,
and faith. Against none of the sects of that day
did he express such just indignation, as against
those who " sought to kill him, because he had
broken the Sabbath." " Hypocrites," " whited
sepulchres," and the like, were the only epithets
which he deigned to apply to them ; and when they
endeavoured to entrap him by asking which was the
great commandment, he did not even allude to that
on which, according to the modern Pharisees, hang
all the law and the prophets. It is worthy of re-
mark also, that in none of his sermons, and on no
occasion, did he give any injunctions about the ob-
servance of the Sabbath, and much less of the day
that is now kept. He taught in the synagogues
on the Sabbath ; so did PAUL and BARN BAS
long after his crucifixion ; and the only grounds for
observing the first day of the week are given from
Scripture by Colonel THOMPSON, in which not
even the slightest allusion is made to those pains
and penalties that the modern Pharisees would in-
flict upon us—nay, the very contrary is enjoined
to all Christians. " Let no man judge you in
meat, oriant drink,. or in respect of holidays, or of
Yet they would and do
judge us in all these. We cannot eat, or drink, or
even
dictate.passalong tThehosutgrehets
theyon a
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themselves
they
up as the great patterns of righteousness,
Amongst the officers of the Lancets lately I they are the most egregious offenders
brought before the Magistrates of Middlesex, for against the Divine Law, 0 and would cut
riotous behaviour, damaging the property, and in. down the wisest and the best of the land,
a ieting injuries on theofthe classes, and perhaps the only true persons
ala WATERFORD or according to the ancient own miserable dimensions. They despise the New
Mohawk fashion, was one of the name of ARK- ,dispensation. They adhere only in form to the
WRIGHT. Can this.be the grandson of that ARK- Jewish law. They do not even observe the day of
WRIGHT who juvented ;he spinning jennies ? We the week commanded by 3103 W to be kept holy,

The Bolton weavers, poor as they are—and we
have reported in The Sun the evidence of their
great distress—could still find something to give
their idol. A Marseilles quilt of exquisite work-
manship, was presented to him for his advocacy of
the cause of the hand-loom weavers. Strong, indeed,
must be the feeling of gratitude, and still stronger
the feeling of hope in the bosoms of these poor men
when they could add to their own toils, or increase
their own privation, to confer this present on Mr.
M‘DouALL. We look on that as a sign in them
of a deep and strong-souled enthusiasm for liberty ;
and such feelings cannot be trifled with, nor
forcibly suppressed, without danger. Chartism,
far from being dead, does not even sleep. It is
awake and watchful, ready to take any advantage
whielfwill enable it to attain its end. The middle
classes are afraid, we believe, of rousing the roli-
tical enthusiasm of the lower classes. They saw
something of its might in the Reform time, and they
were terrified. If by standing aloof, or by coercive
-measures, they could put down this enthusiasm, or
prevent its existence and growth, we might esteem
their conduct prudent. But the enthusiasm exists,
it pervades the masses, it cannot be put down by
force, and it now becomes the duty of the middle
classes to guide it, if possible, to good and peace-
ful ends.

We may add that we have received from a Cor-
respondent, an account of a tea party and ball, at
Northampton, on Friday, for the benefit of
HENRY VINCENT, who is not forgotten by his
friends.
friends. Till he was sent to gaol he was scarcely
known beyond the metropolis and Wales ; this im-
prisonment has made him known all over England.
He is a reedy orator, a fast friend to democracy,
and, like Mr. M'DouALL, will be elevated into an
idol by persecution. Vetily the enthusiasm of the
piople will not want leaders, and they will not be
found in the rank of landlords.
We cannot conclude without thanking our Cur-
respondent for his communication, and expressing
our regret that it is impossible for us to make any
further use of it.

and have actually pilfered from the Hebrews the
very name of the day on whichthey would punish
all whodonot join with them in their anti-Christian
observances. The great points of the Christian
religion have been summed up by its wise Founder
in these words—" Love GOD, and love thy neigh-
bour as thyself ;" and been further illustrated
thus by one of his Apostles—" Pure religion and
undefiled before GOD and the FATHER is this, to
visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to keep himself unspotted from the world."
What communion have these Divine truths with
ths. wild irreligious doctrines of the Agnewites ?

pay the expenses of what may now be regartitti as
a mere farce."

We copied a few days ago a paragraph from a
Brighton paper, stating that the hop planters were
in a bad condition, and adding that they must
tnemoralize the Treasury to postpone the paymentt
of the second instalment of the hop duty for
1839, which is payable in November neat. Now,
this is too bad. No other class is so favoured
by legislation, or rather, for no other class is
the rest of the community so seriously injured
as for the agriculturists ; and now it is expected
that their taxes are to he remitted, or the pay-
ment rostponed, while every other class must
be racked and tortured to squeeze out of
them the expense of the Government. It is not
now for the first time that this impoverished and
yet boasting class have made similar claims. Ver)
frequently have the hop growers supplicated to
have the duty postponed, and out of their fair con-
tributions to the public—when it has been post-
poned—have they paid their rents. It will be
scandalous now if the Government postpone for one
day, or for one hour, the payment due from the hop
planters. The landlords levy an enormous tax on
the people,—iet them pay what will be due from the
hop growers to the State.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM EGPPT

AND SPAIN.

The Moniteur Parisien of Sunday night has
been received by express, together with other Paris
Journals of the same date. The news it contains
is highly important. By the arrival of the Tartare
steamer at Toulon on the 29th ult. from Alexan-
dria, which she loft on the 18th, the French Go-
vernment was put in possession of the following in-

telligence :
" Intelligence from Alexandria received by Govern.
ment states that the Viceroy of Egypt has replied by a
refusal to the notifications which Rdaat Bey was charged
to convey to him. He declared that he would repel
force by force, but that he would commit no act of ag-
gression."

The Univers, it: its number of yesterday and to-day,
pretends that at the last reception of the diplomatic body
at St. Cloud, after his Majesty's return from Re, the
King spoke in very energetic terms to the Ambassadors or
Prussia and Austria on the subject of the Treaty of Lon-
don. Notwithstanding the tonaderite with which the
Univers relates these facts, which we would willingly be-
lieve to be correct, we are obliged to douLt their truth.
The Univers cannot be ignorant that the Prussian Ambas-
sador, as we stated at the time, left Paris for Berlin
nearly two months ago, and will tit return to Paris till
October. It is, therefore, impossible that Louis Philippe
can have addressed him with so much warmth. We fur-
ther invite the Univers to point out the day on which
there was a reception of the diplomatic body at St.
Cloud, for persons who on account of their situation,
must have been present, have no knowledge of it,
any further than that some Ambassadors went there
successively to pay their respects to the King, as they are
used to do, once or twice in a month. Now, on these et-
casions the King always avoids talking of politics, for
when he wishes to speak Oh business with an Ambassador,
he invites him to come to his Cabinet, as he did on his re-
turn from Eu, to Count Appony, who was seen, a few
days ago, corning out of the Tuilleries with an air of sa-
tisfaction; thus giving the lie to the warlike speeches
which some
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Actual Dein, 2}si per Cent.
Itothschtkl` Loan, 5 per C,nt

RIFAAT BEY was the bearer of the Ultimatum
which the Four Powers instructed the SULTAN to
present in his own name to the VICEROY.
He left Constantinople on the. 7th ult., ac-
companied by a numerous suite. A Morning
Contemporary supposes that hostilities will com-
mence immediately. This we regard as a mistake.
The ratification of the Treaty of London will first
take place, and the Four Powers, in conjunction
with the Porte, will make a joint overture to the
PACITA, allowing him ten days for either accept-
ing or rejecting it. If he per.ist in his refusal,
then—but not till then—will coercive measures LE
adopted. Had the mission of RIFAAT BEY proved
successful, we do not suppose that the ratification
of the Powers would have been exchanged, and
thus every pretext for displeasure on the part of
France would have been avoided. But the PACHA
cares nothing for France, so he but succeed in
embroiling her in a quarrel with the other Powers.
He cannot appreciate either the difficulties nor the
delicacy of her position. All he seeks is to make
her subservient to the promotion of his own schemes
of wad ambition.
A second official article in the same Journal an-
`nounces the resignation of the new Spanish Minis-
try. The following is a translation of the article

in question :---
" On Aug. 23 some disorders occurred at Valencia.
A portion of the population desired to give a serenadt.
to the Queen. Groups were immediately formed to
prevent it. The Council of Ministers assembled, and
decided that the serenade should not take place.
" The Ministers afterwards demanded of the Queen
authority to announce by circulars that the law on
the Ayuntamientos (or municipal lay?) should not be
enforced until it should have been taken into conside-
ration by a new Cortes. The Queen refused. MM.
Onis and Cabello (Ministers for Foreign Affairs and
for the Interior respectively) have given in their resig-
nations."

The Queen-Regent of SPAIN is doing all in
her power that monarchy in the Peninsular mat
not outlive her time. Her MAJESTY wishes to
figure in history as the last Queen of SPAIN.
The power which the Constitution has placed in
her hands she employs in assailing the basis upon
which rests the tottering throne of her august
daughter. Her MAJESTY is aware that the New
Municipal Law was passed by a Cortes which did
not represent the Spanish people—that it infringes
the rights secured to the people by the Constitution
of 1837—that it cannot be carried into operation
without provoking a civil war in all the provinces ;
and yet she madly persists in opposition to the will
of General ESPARTERO, her Ministers, the army,
and the bulk of the Spanish people, in adhering to
it. If another revolution be the consequence, and
if the REGENT be sent to keep company with Don
CARLOS and the Princess of BEIRA, the blame—
if blame there be—ought to be attributed to the
infatuation of a Princess who knows not how to
govern a free people.

On the subject of the memorandum relative to
the Treaty of London, addressed by Lord PAL-
MERSTON to M. GUIZOT, we find the following
official paragraph in the Moniteur,of Sunday :
.• The journals publish this day, from the Angsburgh
Gazette, the memorandum addressed to France last
July the 17th. This document, which has been trans-
lated from French into German, from German into
French, is not exactly given in all its expressions. We
shall not publish in reply the memorandum of France.
Nevertheless, that which has just seen the light con-
tains two assertions which oar Ambassador his rteti-
fied, at the very moment when the memorandum was
communicated to him.

The first consists in saying that the arrangement
adopted by the Four Powers; and which only gives to
the Viceroy Egypt and the Pachalik of Acre, was
based on ideas enounced by the French Embassy.
Neither M. Guizot nor the Cabinet of the Ist of' March
bag ever enounced such ideas. Existing documents
prove that at anterior periods the French Cabinet
neither suggested nor accepted anything of the kind.
The second assertion consists in saying that France,
by her reiterated declarations, had given reason to be-
lieve that in no case she would oppose the measures
taken by the Powers. This assertion is not correct ;
it was diputed at the very moment. Never at any pe-
riod has France alienated her liberty of action."
The French Government takes extraordinary
pains to prove to the world that it wants but a pre-
text for a warlike brush in some quarter of the
globe. As a pendant to the .Monitettr's denial of
the correctness of the statements in the memoran-
dum, two Royal ordonnances are published in the
Bulletin des Lois, opening new supplementary
credits to the Minister of War—the first, of
8,336,381 francs, on account of the rise in the
pi ice of commodities ; and the second, of 18,986,000
francs, on account of the increase of the army,
which is thus divided :

3per Cent.
(EN
Luan of City, 153•2,-i per Ce'•'

Society of Commerce cent, 4!,,iper Cent lO9
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .............
National Society.
...... ...
......
Exchange on Lonilna (shott) ............. 11 33i
—Brussels Papers, A ug.29. ....
AUSTRIA N FUNDS.--ViEtvws, Apo. 21. live per:Cents. Metalliques • ..... „ ....................... lost
Fear per Cents. ..........
Three per Cents,
Bank Shares ............................................. 17 iti
--Augernane Zeitung. Aug. ,A

It appears, from the Mansion-house report, that the
Times has obtained a most influential coadjutor in de-
nouncing the impiety and blasphemy of Mr. Harmer's
paper. " Adversity," says the proverb, "makes us
acquainted With strange bed fellows;'
and thi more aptly illustrated than in the present instance, when
Mr. Stockaale yokes himself with the Times in pm-
s was never
testing against the immoral publications attributed to
the worthy candidate for the Mayoralty. The Alder-
man's fate is now sealed. When Mr. Joseph Stocks
dale comes forward as a protector of public morals, all
the virtuous Liverymen of London must follow his ex-
ample, and prevent the intruder from desecrating the
Civic chair.

FOOTPATHS.—A Correspondent, who gives us his
name, has transmitted us a much longer account than
we can publish, of a renewed attempt by the Duke of
Portland and a tenant of his, to stop up the right of
way from Kilburn over Primrose-hill. About two years
ago a similar attempt was made and was defeated, but
;low, according to our Correspondent, the plan is likely
to be successfully carried out. Houses are being built
across the footpath, and the builder refers those who
wake applications to him to the lawyers, with whom, he
says, he has settled the matter. The law and law) ers
are well described in the reference. They are held up
to terrify men from claiming their rights. We cannot
enter into all the particulars, but we must insist strong:),
on its being the duty of the parochial and the Govern-
ment authorities (borough authorities there are none) to
protect the rights of pedestrians as well as all other
classes. The poor have a property, and as far as health
is concerned, an important and valuable property, in
every footpath. They have as much right to it as the
landowner has to the ground adjoining it, and the Go-
vernment and the Magistrates are as much bound to
protect them in the enjoyment as to protect the Duke
of Portland in the possession of his lawful estate.
What is wanted is an active executive power to
see the rights of the poor protected. Nominally the
Government answers to that description. It is active
enough in protecting the rights and property of the
rich—active enough in establishing police to curb the
poor, and in watching over the aristocracy; and if it
were to do its duty, it would equally watch over the
rights of the poor, and actively enforce them. The
right to footways about the metropolis and other towns,
is one which the Government ought to protect. It
pretendi to be very solicitous about the health of the
people, let it therefore secure to them the means of
exercising ther limbs in the fresh air, and in the green
fields, by guarding the footways from Kilburn to Prim-
rose-hill, amongst others, from the encroachments of
;elfish individuals. Within our recollection the public
have been excluded from at least a score cf footways in
the neighbourhood of Islington and Highgate, which
would not have been the case had the law afforded the
people a cheap remedy for injustice ; or had the Govern-
-1 ment the least claim to the title it sometimes assumes
of being the father of the people. -
Ma. COLLINS.—It will be seen from an advertise
meat in another part of the paper, that there is to be a
meeting in town, to-morrow evening, of the friendsot
Mr. Collins, who suffered severe imprisonment with
Mr. Lovett, in Warwick Gaol. We trust that in dis-
cussing the Corn-laws they will take a proper view of
this important subject, and not split with friends as
anxious us themselves to improve the institutions of
the country, and at the same time determined to put
an end at once to this grinding tax. If Reformers re
fuse to co-operate till they agree on all points, they may
rest assured their enemies will defeat them.

Staffs 45,000f.
Pay and keep of troops 1,322.000f.
Uniforms and camps.... 5,000f.
Military beds 2 314,000 f.
Materiel of the Artillery. 6,000.0001.
Powder and saltpetre 150,000f.
Engineering materiel
Incidental and secret expenses 150.000f.

18, 986,0001
" Adding," gays the Commerce, these nine-
teen millions to the Ely-six millions of extraordi-
nary credits already_alowed for the war, and the
twenty-one millions for fie navy, it is nearly one
1144141“1 million! of hairs' Coot to the country to