The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-04 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

Amazing attraction.—Fourth appearance these Two Years of
Mr. T. P. Cooke—Re-engagement of Mr. Collins. Two
New Dramas and " Paul Clifford," which has been attract-
ing crowded houses.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 4.
Will be acted an entirely New Drama, entitled
THE KING OF SPAIN AND HIS BARBER.
After rhich a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, called
POOR JACK ; OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR.
Jn which Mr. J. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the

Company, will perform.
To conclud2 with the Operatic Drama of
PAUL CLIFFORD.
Paul Clifford Oath all the Original Songs), Mr. Collins.

CORitEBPONDENTS.
We are much obliged to a " Railway Broker" at Bristol.
J. S."—The second son of Edward I. was created Prince
f Wales in 125 t, when the Principality was fully annexed
to the English Crown. It gave from that period a title
to the eldest stns of the Kings of England ; and if our
Correspondent is materially interested in ascertaining the
number, he could n'tt do better than study the hieury of his
country for the last SCO years.

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LONDON:
THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1841.

The PEER'S did not meet yesterday.
in the Commons the Chelsea Poor Bill was
read a second time, after a division called for by
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE.

Amongst the numerous petitions presented
was one from Tring, in Hertfordshire, praying
that the J urors of that place might be summoned
to Aylesbury, six miles off, instead of their own
county town. 'Our present county divisions, con-
secrated as they are by a high antiquity, will
scarcely answer modern purposes. Our parishes
are already ascertained to be very unsuitable.
Even fixed boundaries of space, which politi-
cians might suppose would for ever answer the
iatended purposes, become, by the progress of
~opuhti.nl, that al:-powerful instrument Gf
change, uns _I table to our circumstances; and even
such a Conservative cs Sir 11. PEEL presents a
pt.titicn to break up the ancient divisions of

counties. •
Lord Jonil Itu.:sELL's-Bill fur making further
provision for cecuring the rights of voting for
Members of Parli moot was read a first time.
Mr. WALLACE save notice of a motion, in
substance to limit the right of the Crown in
bestowing Peerages except on men of fortune,
which, we apprehend, the House of Lords will
scarcely entertain.

Sir C. -DOUGLAS announced his intention to
move in Committee on Mr. KELLY'S Bill, should
it be read a second time, that capital assaults on
females under twelve years of age should be
exempted from its provisions.
On Mr. E. TEN NENT moving the second read-
ing of the Copyright of Designs Bill,
Mr. WILLIAMS denied that pirating patterns
was extensively practised. He asserted that the
Bill would give rise to endless litigation ; he exa-
mined at some lenrsth 'the evidence given in
favour of the Bill, and concluded by moving
that it be read a second time in twelve months.
Mr. GI3BORNE seconded the amendment.

Mr. SHIEL, the Vice-President of the Board
of Trade,. gave his support to the Bill. He re-
ferred to the contradictory views entertained by
the reprentatives of the manufacturing districts
and by manufacturers themselves, reprehending,
the introduction into the Bill of the word " imi-
tations," and announced himself a friend to ex-
tending the copyright for six months. He also re-
commended that the five Acts which already
exist on the subject. should be consolidated into

which, though attended with some expense, had
corresponding advantages.
After a short conversation the Committee was
put off for six months, on a division of 58 to 36.
The Abolition of the Punishment of Death Bill
was read a second time, with an understanding
that the principle should be debated on the mo-
tion for going into a Committee, which was fixed
for next Wednesday week.
The County Courts Bill went through a Com-
mittee, Mr. MAimn having stated in Committee
that the salary of no Judge would exceed 1,5001.
a-year. The House then adjourned.

By the arrival of the George Washington at
Liverpool yesterday we have received New York
Papers, of the 9th ult., bringing the painfully

Interesting intelligence of the stoppage of the
United States Bank, as also of several other
banks throughout the Union. We have given in
another part of The Sun the details of these sus-
pensions as reported in the New York journals.
Mr. M'LEon was still in custody, and his trial
was to come on in a few days. United States
Bank Shares had varied so much for some days
previous to the sailing of the packet, that it is
difficult to ascertain tLeir real price. At Phila-
delphia, for instance, on the 9th Feb., they sold
at 30, on the 11th at 28.1 291, and on the 12th at
New York they brought only 26.

In the debate on Mr. COLQUIMUN'S motion,
_ _ _

the Catholic priests were censured by that gen-
tleman and others of his party, for using their
influence to attain political objects. " They de-
_ _

nounced men from the altar," he said, " in con-
sequence of the votes they had given. That was
a system which the House and the people of this
country could not allow to continue." Why not ?
is a question we beg leave to put to Mr. COL-
QUHOUN and his friends. Why are the priests
not to use their influente, and the influence of
religion, to subserve a political purpose? We
cannot, in the spirit of party or faction, confine
the question to Catholic priestA, but to priests of
every denoraination, and they are all equally in-
terested in the answer. If the Catholic priests
may nr,t bring spiritual terrors to bear on the
Catholic voter to promote a political purpose,
TIC ither may the priest of the Establishment nor
the Dissenting minister; and the same rule
which would exclude politics from the Mass-
house, would also exclude them from the Parish
Church, the Presbyterian Kirk, and the Dissent-
ing Chapel. We apprehend that no priesthood
will support Mr. COLQUHOUN and hi; friends in
this sweeping exclusion, and we shall state why
we think the doctrine quite untenable.
It cannot be denied that politics, though a man
may have to vote but once in five or six years,
is an important branch of moral duty. The more
seldom the vote has to be given the more circum-
spection is required in giving it. If it have to be
given but once in a man's life it becomes ofas much
consequence as a marriage, and needs the best
counsel of the best friends. To others than the
voter or the contracting party it is of more im-
portance than a marriage, for the good or evil of
that is confined to a man's own family, but his
vote may have a powerful influence on the public
welfare. In general, a man's public duties, the
performance of which affects others far more
than his domestic duties, are considered the
proper object of praise, admonition, or reproach.
To summon youth to arms to defend their
country, has ever been held to be the
duty of the aged, and those who advise or guide
society. At present the priesthood of different
denominations are the moral guides of the com-
munity, and what reason can be assigned for
withdrawing from their influence the public du-
ties which affect the welfare of all ? Shall they
be called on to reprove a man for drunkenness,
and be told they are to be silent when he accepts
a bribe or gives a dishonest vote ? Are they to
admonish him against stealing a penny or a loaf
of bread, and acquiesce in his forming one of a
band determined to rob the nation of its freedom ?
But it is easy to conceive that the votes of an
elector may have a powerful influence on the
priest and on religion 7 • and is his priest not then
to admonish him? Suppose Mr. HUME, or any
other honest and upright patriot, looking back at
the past, and over every part of the land at present,
coming to the natural and just conclusion that the
Church of England, as a political engine, is I
an utter and complete failure, and therefore
moving in Parliament that it should be abo-
lished, would not the clergy of the Church
use their spiritual influence, and their friends
would think them justified in using it, to make
the electors vote against Mr. HumE's project ?
When the Dissenters were struggling for the
repeal of the Test Acts, or in their present
struggles for the abolition of Church-rates,
why should not their ministers use all the
spiritual influence at their command to secure
success? Lord STANLEY'S Bill is avowedly in-
tended to remove the electors from under the
influence of the Catholic priests, and reduce them
to dependence on the landlords. It is idle nonsense
to say, under such circumstances, that the Catho-
lic priests are not to use all their spiritual influ-
ence to defeat the hostile project. It is palpa-
bly ridiculous and absurd to constitute an order
of men the guides and mentors of the nation, to
submit to them as the ministers of the DEITY,
and then to tell them, when their own interest is
deeply concerned, that they are not to use their
spiritual power for their own protection.
Mr. COLQUHOUN may be assured that he
cannot withdraw political duties from the
cognizance and control of the priesthood
without at once degrading them to be mere po-
litical tools. Neither can he deny the Roman
Catholic priesthood the use of their power in
politics without forbidding the priests of the
Establishment and Dissenting ministers from
performing some of their most sacred and im-
portant functions.

Mr. COLQUHOUN and his friends have, in fact,
no objection that spiritual thunder should be
used to slay their political enemies. They only
only object to its being directed against
themselves. Messrs. M'NEILE and M‘GEE, and
that batch of Church Missionaries, have
been dealing " their damnation " out pretty
handsomely against the Catholics. To what but
the use of the spiritual thunders of the Anglican
priesthood are the Tories indebted for being so
powerful in Parliament? They use the weapon,
but they will not allow others to use it. Their
conduct in this respect is consistent with their
usual hypocrisy. They desecrate the altars of
GOD for their own factious purposes, and de-
nounce those who use them for the defence of
liberty.

Belgian and German Journals of the latest
dates have reached us this morning. The fol-
lowing extracts from them contain all the news
they bring of any interest :

innssEts, FEB. 28.—The clerks in one of the offices of
the Minister of Finance are busily employed in drawing
the general Budget of the receipt and expenditure for theuP
year 1842, to be laid before the Chambers during the present
Ses., ion.
It appears from a statistical table laid before the Chamber
by the Minister of Public Works, that the number of
com-
munes which have no school houses is 1,040. There are
about 2,500 communes in Belgium ; so that it appears that
two-fifths of them have no school-houses.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 2.—On the Ist of this month Senor
Quadrado was received by the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
and delivered his credentials as Charge d'Affaire of her *Ma-
jesty the Queen of Spain to the King's Government.
Poszsr, FEB. 18.—We received from a quarter worthy of
credit, that within these few weeks the march of troops in
the kingdom of Poland to the frontiers of Prussia has recom-
menced, and that a considerable number of fresh regiments has
arrived very recently in Kalisch and the neighbourhood, so
that it is difficult to find quarters for the troops. Accordingly
to a rough estimate 50,000 men have already arrived,
and it is said that more divisions will follow, so
that the whole number may be seventy-five thousand men,
so that unless the aspect of political affairs should change, of
which there is little probability, while France continues its
military preparations, those troops will form, in the spring a
camp rear Kalisch, where they will remain till the continu-
ance of peace in Europe shall be fully secured. At least an
equally considerable number of troops is said to be already
assembled in Warsaw and the eastern provinces of the king-
000
position mofent.helttsois
king-
dom, , so that the Russian army at this moment amounts to
p sevident,,
tha t
suh
aespeciallyfuwreheeniswue
otmansssiedmerbtlhede
merely on account of the facility of subsisting them, as was at
first asserted. —Allg • Z • Feb.
emezne ettung, eb. 26.
CRACOw, Fmn. 22 .—The A • •
e Austrian garrison evacuated this
city on the 20th inst.--
Mle Commander, Colonel Walter, had
intimated to the authorities
that his Government expected that
a farewell entertainment,
the officers previous to their ball or banquet would be given to
willing to gratify eir departure, but the former, how-
evercould not succeed in thosegetting
from whom they held their offices,
of regret on the up even the appearance of a de-
monstration Austrian troops marched gut of
of the Cracovians, and the
the place amidst ex-
pressions of joy from the entire
military occupation of this `°frjoiop,ulation. Although the
oppressors continue to be as effectually'ci city
is
masters in t an end, itss
ever. The direction of affairs isnowinthe
sit a
Ca-
tholic clergyman, named Spindler, the

of the Senate, a man justly detested and despised by the in-
habitants. He was formerly attached as chaplain to an Aus-
trian regiment, was imported and imposed on the people by
the Austrians, and has not only been elevated to the highest
post in the republic, but to the best benefice in the city—the
Cathedral of St. Stanislaus. All the patriotic public fenction-
arias have been superseded in their functions, which are now in-
trusted to creatures and tools of the soi-disant protecting
Powers. The Senate is filled with the dregs of the nobility, and
seats in that once-respected body have at present fallen into such
oisrepute, that several were offered to wealthy merchants, who
r.fused them, not wishing to be c at Iminated by the association

Madrid Papers of the 23d ult. have been re-
ceived. Spain is at present tranquil, and it is
hoped that if the next year prove abundant the
peasantry will recover from the effects of the
ravages committed during the civil war. It was
reported that the QUEEN and Court would visit
Aranjuez before the opening of the COrtes.
Little business was doing at the Bourse. On the
23d the Fives were done at 28 for cash, and 29/
for sixty days.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached
us. They publish a proclamation of the SuL-

TAN, relative to the settlement of the Eastern
question, which will be found in another column.
Several officers in active service having recently
published letters and pamphlets condemnatory
of the pacific policy of the Government and of
the discipline of the army, Marshal SOULT, as
Minister of War, has addressed the following
circular to the Lieutenant-Generals commanding
military divisions throughout France :

" Generals—lt is the duty of the army to give an example
to the country of their respect for the laws which govern it.
Nevertheless, some criticisms, more or less severe, against the
constitution of the laws which govern our military organiza-
tion, have been inserted in the public journa's, and published
in pamphlets signed by officers on active service. I have seen
with a profound feeling of dissatisfaction this violation of the
circulars issued on the 17th of July, 1835, and 13th of March,
1937, the strict observance of which circulars is so essential to
military d:scipline.
"_The officer who wishes conscientiously to perform:the du-
ties of his profession, may find sufficient food for the activity
of his disposition in the attention which the welfare of the
soldier, and the practical instruction of those under his com-
mand, incessantly demand; and if, after having faithfully
performed all his du' ies, he ihould still find some leisure time,
should he not employ it in adding to his acquirements in the
art of wai., and thus rendering himself worthy of filling a su-
perior command ?
" I trust that it will be sufficient for me to refer to the evil
in order to arrest its progress. Should, however, military
men persevere in new publications without the formal appro-
ba'ion and permission of superior authority, I shall not hesi•
tate to apply to them the provisions of the law of the 19th of
May, 1834, upon the officers of the army, by immediately re-
quiring the King to deprive them of their employments, inde-
pendcnt of the severe penalties which they may incur.
" I invite you, General, to pay attention that the orders
which I hereby transmit to you be strictly executed, and to
report to me on the instant the slightest infraction of them.
" You will likewise have the kindness to acknowledge the
receipt of the present communication, and to insert it in the
order of the day of your division.
" THE MARSHAL DUKE OF DALMATIA."

Marshal VICTOR, Duke of Belluno, died of
an attack of gout in Paris on Monday. During
his illness he was daily visited by Peers, Mar-
shals, and the most eminent men of all ranks in
France. He received all the rites of the Catholic
Church with much seeming devotion.
Private advices from Paris speak confidently
of the success of the negotiations now going for-
ward, with a view to restore amicable relations
between France and the Great Powers. Already
has some progress been made in the formation
of a-treaty for securing the independence of the
Ottoman Porte, which France is to sign in con-
junction with Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great
Britain :
The Committee on the Fortifications of the Chamber of
Peers yesterday appointed 111. Mother reporter by a majority
of 4 to 3.

The Committee decided by the same majority that an amend-
ment to the project of law voted by the Chamber of Deputies
should be proposed, the object of which amendment should be
the suppression of the continuous wall. It is probable that the
public discussion will not take place before the 25th of this
month.

The Univers says, " Numerous complaints have been re-
ceived at the War-office respecting the late purchases of horses
for our cavalry regiments.
" The Minister of War has just ordered an extraordinary
general inspection. Six Generals of Cavalry have received
orders to set out immediately to inspect all the horses lately
added to the regiments."
M. Lucien D.---, a literary man, was arrested the day be-
fore yesterday at his residence, in the Rue Nntre Dame des
Victories, accu,ed of belonging to a secret society, whose ob-
ject is the overthrow of the Government.

A young student was also arrested yosterday on suspicion of
being concerned in a plot.
'the National says The Chamber of Peera has sum-
moned us to appear at the bar on the Sth of this month.
Five days later we shall have to appear bt fore the Court of
Assize. It Kill be recollected that on account of the illness
tf M. Delaroche and the indisposition of M. Marie, tte
Court had adjourned our affair ti:l another Session. We have
now received summonses for the 13th of March."—Le Con-
stitutionnel.

The accounts of the inundation of the Rhone are more fa-
vourable. The letters from Avignon announce that the waters
had begun to subside.—Le Commerce.

BOURSE.—PAnix, TUESDAY, MARCEL 2

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