The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-03 00:00:00

LON DON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, In4l.

No, 15, 28.

EXCHEQUER BILL OFFICE.
2, WHITEHALL-YARD, FEB. 18, 1841.
THE EXCHEQUER BILLS, dated in the
Months of FEBRUARY and MARCH, 1840, viz.,
Per 2 Victoria, cap. 8, £13,( 00,000, 1839 ;
2 and 3 Victoria, cap. 90, £12,026,050, 1839.
Also, the EXCHEQUER 'DULLS, dated in the Months
from JULY, 1839, to MARCH, 1840 (both inclusive), viz.,
Per 2 and 3 William IV., c. 125, for Relief of West India
Islands ;
1 and 2 Victoria, c. 88, for carrying on Public Works, &c.,
with the interest due thereon, will be paid off on the 15th day
of March, 1841, when the interest will cease. Such bills will
be received daily from Half-past Ten o'Clock till Two, until
and including the Bth day of March, at this Office, where
lists are to be obtained, containing instructions for arranging
the bills. The bearers must endorse each bill with their usual
signatures, and write their names and residences at the bottom
of each list ; and where the names of holders are inserted in
hills, the bearers, not being such holders, must previously ob-
tain their endorsements. The bearers must attend to give re-
ceipts for the payment.
Payment may be obtained, if required, previous to the said
15th day of March, upon leaving the bills for examination:one
'lay prior to that on which such payment is desired.
New hills, bearing an interest of twopence farthing by the
day upon every one hundred pounds, and dated the said 15th
day of March, may be obtained in whole or in part payment
of principal of the Exchequer Bills issued under the above-
mentioned Acts of 2 Victoria, cap. & and 2 and 3 Victoria,
cap. 90, upon stating the required amount on the lists' de-
livered on or before the said Bth day of March, which new
bills, with the interest on the bills exchanged, will be issued
on the 16th day of March.
The bills to be classed in separate lists, according to the
Acts under which they have been issued.
The bills issued for carrying on public works and fisheries,
and for relief of West India Islands, will be paid off in money.
N.B. All Exchequer Bills dated prior to July, 18.39, have
been advertised.to he paid off. 1

TO COFFEE-HOUSE AND READING-ROOM
KEEPERS.

r 0 THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
By the Fifth Resolution of the Gcneral Meeting of Pro-
prietors, held at Birmingham, on -tie 12th inst., any Share-
holder who objects to the grant of 1,000/, towards building a
church at Wolverton, may have his quota returned on applying
for it within one month from that time.
Many Shareholders may probably feel disposed to appro-
priate the amount thus placed at their disposal for the beneiit
of the servants of the Railway Ct.mpany, particularly of those
residing at Wulverton ; and. it has been suggested to expend
the same in the purchase of colties of the 'Holy
Set iptures
for di-tribution amongst them, as an unAjectionable way of
evinein an interest in their moral and religious welfare.
The undersigned would willingly attend to the due applica-
tion of any money placed in their hands for this purpose, anti
Proprietors who wish to contribute their quotas thereto, are
requested to direct the Secretary to pay the amount to Han-
burys, Taylor, and - Lloyds, Bankers, London, to be placed to
the account of the undersigned, with Taylor and Lloyds,
Bankers, Birmingham; or any contributions towards the ob-
ject may be readily remitted to them by a Pest-office order.
JOHN CADBURY.
THOMAS SOUTHALL.
Birmingham, 3d Mo. 1, 1841.
Proprietors are reminded that the period for application for
the return of their quota expires on the 12th instant.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE

WANTED a SNUG BUSINESS.—Any
party answering this must state full particulars as to
the amount required, Fixtures, Situation ; also the Weekly
Returns.
Address to S. 8., 9, Lower-street, Islington (post paid).

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 25, 1311.
The Queen has been pleased to.appoint Robert K eate, Esq.,
to be Sergeant-Surgeon in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room
of Sir Astley Pa;ton Cooper, Bart., deceased.

CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 2.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

KING'S COUNTY.—Andrew Arrnviong, of Gallen Priory,in
the said County, Eq., in the ruJin of Nicholas Fitzsitnon,
Esq., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEE. 26.

Royal Regiment of Arillery—First Lieutenant M'Coy
to be Second Captain, vice J. A. Wilson, seconded, as holding
a civil einpL)yment ; Second Lieutenant J. J. Brandling, to
be First Lieutenant, vice M'Coy, Feb. 19.
Corps of Rojal Engineers— Captain and Brevet Major A.
Marshall to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir F. Smith, se-
conded, having been appointed Inspector-General of Rail-
ways ; Second Captain H. Sandham to be Captain, vice
Marshall ; First Lieutenant C. C. Wilkinson to be Second
Captain, vice Sandham; Second Lieutenant G. C. Baillie
to be First Lieutenant, vice Wilkinson, Feb. 19.

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SPIRIT. of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
( From the Morning Chronicle )
The Tamworlh address still continues to furnish Sir Robert
Peel's enemies among the Tories, with food for animadver-
sion. The doughty " Catholicus" has been indulged in the
Times with space for seven long epistles against the Right
Honourable Baronet. His patronage of a mechanics' insti-
tute in Tamworth has given mortal offence to the Puseyites
or High Church Tories. He is roundly charged with encou-
raging Atheism, in encouraging the study of physical science.
If Sir Robert Peel has been, unawares, encouraging Atheism,
there are persons who will not scruple to say the doughty car-
respondent of the Times is led, by his hatred of education
to do that with which he charges his opponent !
"It is nut easy," be observes, "to decide at this
day whether science creates faith or only confirms it ;
but we havn this remarkable fact in the his ory of
heathen Greece - against the former supposition, that
her most eminent experimentalists were Atheists, and that
it was Atheisnt which was the cause of their eminence."
Again::—" Physical philosophers arc ever inquiring whence
things are, not why; referring them to nature, not to mind;
and thus they tend to make a system a substitute for a god.
Each pursuit or calling has its own dangers, and each num-
bers among its professors men who risesuperior to them. As
the soldier is tempted to dissipation, and the lawyer to the un-
real, and the statesman to the expedient, and the clergyman to
ease ; yet there are good clergymen, statesmen, lawyers, mer-
chants, and soldiers notwithstanding. So there are religious ex.
perimenta'its ; yet physics tend to infidelity ; and to
have recourse to physics to make men religious, is
like recommending a canonry as a cure for the gout,
or giving a youngster a commission as a penance
for irregularities." The writer does not interdict the study of
physics, but he gives it a bad name, and certainly endeavours
to show that the great body of the people had much better re-
main in ignorance. He tells us that " knowledge does but oc-
cupy, instead of forming the mind; that faith is the only
known-principle capable of subduing moral evil, educating the
muititudeoand organizing society; and that whereas man is
born for action, action flows not front inferences, but front
impressions; not front reasonings, but from faith." " Ca-
tholicus" is an acute man, and displays much knowledge in en-
forcing the blessings of ignorance. We have no doubt that his
doctrine is generally acceptable to the Tories, who, being con-
scious that their policy is irreconeileable with the interests of
the masses, naturally conceive that the more ignorant the
masses are, the easier they may be deceived. But in vain do
the Tories revile knowledge, and even, as in the instance of
" Catholicus," place it in opposition to faith ; the people will
not consent to be hoodwinked.
(From the Morning Post.)
It is pretended in some quarters that the treaty relative to
the affairs of the East—an intended treaty of the Five
Powers, including France—is chiefly opposed by Russia. It
should be mentioned, however, that this information comes
originally from the quarter of the Urquhartites, a set of people
who are utterly insane about the mischievous propensities and
designs of Russia. If the late cold weather had been unwhole-
some or injurious, which happily it was not, they would have
laid the whole blame on Russia. We should have bad circum-
stantial details of the number of tons, hundred-weights,
pounds, and ounces of contaminated ice which-the Cabinet of
St. Petersburgh had caused to be piled up just in the course
of the north-east wind on its route to England. The extia-
vagance of these people, like the genius of Thomson the
poet, as described by Johnson the critic, "at once em-
braces the vast, and attends to the minute." We are aware
of a.,,French-Russian party, very hostile to M. Guizot,
which would gladly throw any obstacle in the way of a settle-
ment, however honourable for France and satisfactory to
Europe, of which that Minister should happen to be the pro-
moter. We are aware that a certain party in France, which
pretends to a love of liberty, would be happy to make an alli-
a-ice with Russia against that nation in Europe which enjoys
the • greatest degree of political freedom--namely, cur own ;
but we believe Russia understands that party too well to
have any confidence in it. There may be intrigues to which a
factitious importance is given by the promoters of them ; but
we feel no inconsiderable confidence that Ru-sia is not the
quarter in which the greatest difficulties are likely to be found in
the way of an amicable and general adjustment of the Eastern
question. It is mere ignorance to pretend that Russia will na-
turally shrink from a general Treaty, the object of which will be
to guarantee the integrity and independence of the Ottoman
empire. Russia has done that already by joining in the note
of the 27th of July, 1839, and by signing the Treaty of the 15th
of July, 1840. The ambition of Russia may be great ; her
policy may be pecalisrly deep as well as dexterous ; but the
supposition that she is eager to grasp everything, without con-
sidering how it is to be held—that she indulges the view of
adding Turkey to her dominions, instead of aiding Turkey to
maintain her independence—is a vulgar supposition,
fit for the Urquhartites, and the vehement talk of the
streets; but not for men who have observed and reflected upon
foreign politics. We avow that we consider the signing of a
treaty which should include France among the protectors of
the Turkish empire as most desireable. Every one who has
anything to lose would be the better of such an assurance for
the continued peace of Europe. Such an assonance would re-
animate industry, and give a great impulse to the arts of peace.
We hope that the most formidable impediments to so desirable
an arrangement may not be found in our own Cabinet. The
omissions in the Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament
have given us some reason to fear that Lord Palmerston is
wanting in that magnanimity which should attend upon suc-
cess. He has shown himself a clever man in managing the
Eastern question, but he has yet to show himself a great man.
Toat opportunity is, perhaps, now before him. If he miss it,
it may perhaps not occur again. One great point should not
be forgotten, namely, that the present Government of France
in promoting a general treaty, shows a disposition to abandon
the policy of armed isolation. This is a position exceedingly
dangerous, if not altogether insufferable, and we should hail
with great satisfaction any arrangement which would include
the abandonment of such a policy.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The agitators against the British Plough. who speculated
upon commencing a biilhant and profitable campaign at the
" Crown and Anchor," richly earned the unmerciful 4. thrash-
ing" which they got. Alderman Cobden and his " tail "of
Anti-Corn-law delegates did not receive a more signal rout
and discomfiture at Manchester on their return, about two
years ago, from their London excursion, than Warburton,
Hawes, Bowring and Co., experienced on Monday night, in the
very theatre of many a Whig-Radical triumph. These Anti-
Corn-l.sw "Leaguers," as they call themselves, are traders in
gross speculation on public credulity. They have not even
the excuse that an ignorant fanaticism on any public question
carries along with it—that of sincerity ; they endeavour to
practise deception on the " masses " by the cry of
4' cheap bread," when their real object is " reduced
wages." But the working classes, whom they hoped to make
the dupes of this elaborate deception, are not quite such sim-
pletons as they took them to be—they see through the thin
disguise in which their real designs are wrapped. The mask
of assumed sympathy and kindness has hard, hungry, woolfish
features beneath it. The stony heart of an intense cupidity
animates their "liberalism" and prompts all its actions.
What a working-man, named Wall, said at the " Crown ant'
Anchor" meeting, comprises the whole question respecting
the Corn-laws as between the agitators and the working. classes;
"the only object was to lower wages." The whole of the
agitation, decl a m at' on, lecturing, and electioneering
of the anti-Corn-law " leaguers" is reducible to that. point of
cheapening bread that wages may be diminished. '1 here is one
other way of looking at the question in a national point of
view. In that point of view the American President put the
question in the clearest and, at the same time, in the most
concise manner that it ever was put, when he said, " unhappy
is the condition of a country wnich is dependent upon an-
other for the bread it eats." When we read this sentence in
the President's speech, it reminded us of what Gibbon the his-
torian says of the evils that. befell Rome in the declining days
of her once mighty empire, from being under the necessity of
deriving a precarious subsistence from the granaries of Africa.
( From the Times.)
Ministers are at last beginning to open thir eyes to the
necessity of maintaining the credit of the British navy in the
face of the world. The intrepidity of our seamen, the gal-
lantry, skill, and science of our officers, the admirable disci-
pline and perfect mastery of nautical manoeuvres which pre-
vail on board our ships of war, their foresight did not create,
and their negligence could not take away. But what negli-
gence could do, they did; they crippled the real strength,
and destroyed the imposing attitude, of this most important
branch of the public service. By their stupid apathy, and
worse than stupid retrenchments, they encouraged a neighbour-
ing nation, whose navies had been swept from the sea by
Nelson and his gallant companions, to dream once more
of maritime supremacy, till at length a foreign fleet was
collected in the Mediterranean, more numerous, better manned,
and, as far as timber, guns, and equipments constitute power,
everyvray more powerful than our own. What might have
hapre..ed—to what hard shifts the herons of Acre and Beyroat
might have been driven in order to preserve untarnished the
laurels so dear to every British heart—what losses we might
have had to deplore as the price of victory, if war had broken
out last autumn, cannot now be told. But then, thanks to
Providence, the dark cloud passed over, and a rupture did
not take place ; and now, thanks to France, our unwor-
thy Ministers are forced to shake off a little of their tor-
por, and come down to Parliament with an increase of
729,623/ in the navy estimates, and propose to strengthen
the service with an accession of 5,835 additional seamen.
The country would cheerlully submit to greater sacrifices than
these for tl.e sake of what has always been the peculiar pride
and glory, as it is the truest strength and onlyseturity,uf Eng-
lishmen. The readiness with which the House of Commons
has already responded, and with which the British people at
laitge will respond, to this new and considerable demand groan
the public purse, will undeceive our neighbours in France, if
they have ever attributed the niggardly parsimony of our Mi-
nisters to a doubt as to the manner in which a more vigorous
Administration would be seconded by the country. They will
see that the few contemptible individuals, like Mr. Hume, who
might be willing to stand by tamely, and see foreign power
encroach upon our maritime superiority, are uttridy desti-
tute of influence, except with the Queen's Government, and
that even in that tottering quarter their influence is breaking
down. We look, therefore, to the vote of Tuesday night as
a fresh guarantee for the continuance of peace, infinitelyr
ore
important than any indiscreet language in the Champ emit.
Deputies, such as that of M. Dufaure, on Satusred
I sa3Of the
though echoed for the moment by
Chamber. We look upon it as especiat
'John Russell,
coupled with the emphatic declaration 111;oiaiioartuant, when
aiis MIDI was
that he saw nothing in the present staotefofafr
likely to interrupt the friendly relations. existing between the
wo countries.