The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-06 00:00:00

FfiiE S"TiVI LONDON. MONJIA y, APRIL 6, 1840.

for Meekran being limited at 120 rupees to 125 rupees NAVAL AND MILITABY COMMISSION.
per candy. UNITED SERVICE GAZETTE •
'sumo (Scinde).-ladigo continues in fair inquiry, , EXTRAORDINARY.
and the advance lately established has been maintained. The The ENTIRP REPORT ef the 1./A-VAL 'arid
W
CHINA AND STRAITS' PROM
" farNMiSSION preaented on FRIDAY NIGHT to the
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SUGAR.- No China sugar, excepting a small 'quantity -
qautooellea ofat the3B
of PiagfA, has vet come into market. Two cargoes have
arrived from Manilla, which are reported to have teen sold
at 4 6 and 4 rupees per maund, Several considerable ina-
portations of Siam have also taken place within the month,
the market having opened at 6 4 rupeetiaer maund, and
afterwards declined to 5 151 rerrees, which was rather
down the 'present currency. erigal is held at 22 to 26
rupasza per bag, with a Vabderate stock.
EUROPEAN GOCiDS.-PIECE GooDS.--StOcks the
place are considerable, and there is every appearance of
a large accumulation before the monsoon.
),PETALS Stocks of the various kinds arc by no means
heavy, and the imports have been on a moderate sciale;
yet, owing to the scarcity of money, prices in general Atete
given way.
THE MONEY MARKNT.--EXCHANGE..-- tillE On London
to some amount have been sold at to per rupee.
FREIGHTS.-Very little is ta been done in freights lately,
Rates seemed stationary:at Si. We., till within the Int two
days, when engae'ments to London have be:l.:a entered
into at 4/, 10a,1 traing principally to flee Lircession of ton-
nage and u 0 great quantity of else hew crop of cotton yet
having tone to market.
The following shiom -sere loading : -Atalanta, a ttentYter,
BuckinghamstdoC, ornwall, Lady East, Geteral Palmer,
Reliance, ti.rania, Rothchild, Lancaster, Progress, Han-
nah, Sir W. Willem Pearl, Cersais, Puthool Vuhab, Sir
H. Compton, Fort Wittiarn.
The following were the arrivals since February 12 :-
Hannah, John William Dare. Ganges, Het!. Company's
suraeying- brig Palinurus, Kate, Colsetel Newell, Agnes
packet, Singapore packet.
The fallowing were the `tSpartures :-lion. Company's
cutter Margaret, Futenh Salem, Hon. Company's cselter
Nsrbuddah, HOO, 'Company's steamer Vienslits,
Company's iteala steamer Comet.
The rKeeunts from Madras to the 19th of February.
The Cotton market wee 'still bare, and the transactions in
avl.igo had been re) a small extent. For European articles
there was a great wa:t. of dernand. Bills on London were
in request, and freight had advanced in consequence of
the dsinarel for tonnage on the part of Government to
transport troops to England. For the 13th Dragoons
passage had been engaged at 26/. per head.
From Calcutta the date is the 17th of February.
Freight had also risen there from the same cause, In
cotton little was doing, but some business had ta.h place
in raw silk, which was previously very Inactive. Much
speculaticti was going on in opium, owing to the favour-
able account cf the sales on the e
'niece had risen 150 rupees 9:,t coast of China, and
per chest. Ot exchange
optratiena it is stated. `;,tat as soon as it t•ras understood
the Company ‘.,iere• about to 4t out an expedition
against China, it was feareal they would stop advanc-
ing
.rAt goods, consevartilly every person sent whatever
produce they had to the warehouse, to profit by the
Company's kw rate before such au event took place.
Prtvetu exchange during this paniC was as high as 2. 2/
for undoubted hills, with and without security, but, contrary
to expectation, 3
peco rata;,ctatinn,(t.hz,ooo,)
Companyi did not discontinue, and even
a
to the original sum, which would
he sufficient till the end of the " commercial year," there-
fare the exchange had again declined, and the quotation
for ;Igency bibs at ten months was 2. 1 to 2. 14.
The following vessels had arrived at Calcutta from the 10th
of Januery to the 15th of February :-January 14, the Lady
l's; January, 18, the Atrevida, the Edinburgh, and the
croon ; January 20, the Mountstuart Elphinstone and the
Marius ; January 21, the John Calvin ; January 22, the
Bouthsook, the Eugenia, and the John Hayes; Jan. 23, the
Seymour; January 25, the St. George, the Sir Robert
Peel, the Indus, and Le Gauge; January 27, the Earl
Grey ; January 29, the Cambria, the Frederick Warren,
the Viscount Melbourne, and the Richmond ; January 30,
the Repulse ; January 31, the Exmouth and the Walmer
Castle; February 1, the Zenobia, the Bland, and the
Telegraph ; February 3, the Elvira ; February 5, the Shep-
herdess and the Sabine ; February 7, the Defiance;
Februara 8, the Thomas Granville, the Marian,- the Ma-
tilda, and the Mass; February 9, the Lady of the Lake;
February 10, the Windermere ; Febru-sy 11, the Pondi-
Cherry, the Robert Surccuf, the Theseus, and the Glen-
swilly ; February 12, the Superbe.
The following were the departures within the same pe-
riod :•-January 10, the Sumatra; January 11, the Endora
and the Samuel Baker; January 13, the Duke of Bedford
and the Petite Nancy ; January 15, the Pilote, the Co-
lombo, and Mobile: January 16, the Jessie Logan; Ja-
ntury 19, the Madagascar, the William Jardine, and the
Dauntless ; January 24, the Maidstone and the Eari of
Hardwicke; January 25, the Cato ; January 26, the Lord
Hungerford ; January 29, the Imogcn and the Intrepid ;
January 31. the Duke of Lancaster; Februrry 2, the Lord
Lowther; February 3, the Edward Robinson and the Ro-
salind ; February 5, the London and the Robert Small ;
February 7, the Scotia ; February 8, the Balguerie ;
February 9, the Mo,gol ; February 10, the Diane and the
Ceres.

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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME
VEST RI&
THIS EVENING, APHID 6.
Will be repeated Colley Cibber's Comedy of
THE DOUBLE GALLANT; OR, THE SICK LADY'S
CURE.
Sir Solomon Sadlife, Mr. W. Farren ; Atall, Mr. Chas.
Mathews ; Careless, Mr. G. Vandenhoff; Clerimont, Mr. J.
Vining ; Lady Dainty, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Lady Sadlife, Mrs.
Nisbett ; Clarinda, Madame Vestris; Wishwell, Mrs. Orger.
After which, the New Divertisement, entitled
LEE CHAMPS ELYSEES.
The Characters by Master W. Smith (pupil of Mr. Oscar
Byrne), Miss Fairbrother, Miss Ryalls, Mrs. Gibson, Miss
S Kendal, NE' E. Kendal, Messrs. C. J. Smyth, Ridgway, Gib-
son, &e. &e.

To conclude with
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.
Captain Macheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W.
Farren ; Lockit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs.
Peachum, Mrs C. Jones ; Polly Peachum, Miss Rainforth;
Lucy Lockit, Madame Vestris.
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Open every night at half-past 7. and close proceedings at 9.
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7o be followed by
THE TWO GREENS.

J. Green, Esq., 11r. F. Vining; J. Grecn,lEsq., Mr. Wild,
After which, (fifth time), the New and Original Drama (b:
the author of the Ladies' Club), called
GW YNNETH VA UGH AN.
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LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY

DEAL, APRIL 4.—Wind N • R.—Sailed the Chieftain,
Clark, for Swan River ; Asia, Patterson, Calcutta ; King
William, Thomas, Sydney ; St. George, Heaton, ditto ;
Ti acle, Plewes, Quebec Coriolanus, Smith, ditto ; V olusia,
Finlayson, ditto ; and Beaufort, Brown, ditto.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL b.—Wind N. to W.N.W.--Arrived
the Ceres, Scudder; from New York ; and Ace of Trumps,
Lidstone, St. Michael's. Sailed the Wellington, Chadwick,
for New York; and Equivalent, Miller, Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL s.—Wind N.N. E.—Sailed the Town-
ley. for Quebec; and Nestor, Smith, ditto.
WEYMOUTH, APRIL s.—Sailed the George Welsford, Fow-
ler, for Quebec.
DARTMOUTH, APRIL 4.—Arrived the Harriet Nash, Stokes,
from St. Michael's. Sailed the Emerald, Irons, for Miramichi ;
Amethyst, ditto, Buckingham, Quebec; and Active, Wilcox,
Newfoundland.
FALMOUH, APRIL 4.—Wind N.N.E., fresh breezPs.—
Arrived the Ann, Murray, from Bombay ; Royal Tar steamer,
Brooks, Gibraltar, left the 26th ult., Cadiz the 27th, Lisbon
the 30th, Oporto the 31st, and Vigo the Ist inst. Sailed the
Crane packet, for the West Indies; and Skylark packet, Hali-
fax. Off port the Childe Harold, Willis, from Bombay.
• BRISTOL, APRIL s.—Arived the Union, Jenkinson, from
Odessa. Sailed the Albion, Hick, Robert Watson, Elliot, and
Bolivar, Taylor, for Quebec.
BRISTOL CHATTEL—Arrived the Terrific, from New York.
GLOUCESTER, APRIL s.—Sailed the Speculation, Pope
fer Quebec.
CARDIFF, APRIL 4.—Sailed the Cora, Griffiths, for New
York ; Harmony, Robins, Palermo.
DUBLIN, APRIL 4.—Sailed the Cousi„s, Bengal, Quebec.
KINGSTOWN, APRIL 4.—Arrived the] Lady Gordon, Tur-
ner, for Sierra Leone.
Cosa, APRIL 3.—Off port the Java,'Pickering, from Ma-
nilla. Sailed the Cleofred, Robertson, for St. John's, New
Brunswick ; Clifton, Besson, for Now York.
SUNDERLAND, Aram 3.—Sailed the Mazeppa, Middleton,
for Miramiclai ; Veracity, Quebec.
SHIELDS, APRIL 4.—Sailed the Scio, Donaldson, Don,
Thomson, Ajax, --, Caves, Venus, Symmetry, Dale, Fair
Isle, Mills, Ann, Sharp, Britannia, Dale, Marjorey,
Brothers, Davidson, Woolsington, Pearson, and Xenophon,
Tate, all fer Quebec.
Hutt, APRIL 4.—Sailed the William and Ann, Pearson
for Quebec; Harmony, Willis, ew York; Sir E. Hamilton
Sundy, ditto ; Zephyr, May, liramichi.

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LONDON:
MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1849.

tenth of the opium at Lintin
whole principle of the law. Had the number fiSecl
upon amounted :only to
the whole-tramaction would have OSSOtte%l the appear-
abc'e' of a Conifiranthie tas litlPfietie4 to be exceggivg,
placing it out of the power set the iieritn6
cure such a quantity of opium, without pledging thii
credit of a foreign Government, it can only be viewed
ih the light nt an attempt upon the lives of the unfortu-
nate persons then in the poWer or thf= Clovernor, For
suppose that instead of the twenty thousand and tfil'e
wards chests of opium demanded not half that number
could be obtained, is it to be doubted that the whole of
the foreigners at Canton would have suffered the hor-
rors of a lingering death ? Most assuredly every man
of them would have perished.
The very circumstance of lAN having fixed upon
ti,c delivery of a certain quantity of opium, is clearly
fatal to all that is assumed here about the right of en-
forcing custom-house regulations. From the instant
the number of chests was named the whole affair was
one of piracy. If he was entitled to seize a single catty
be was equally entitled, and it was his duty, to have seized
every ounce of opium within the entire extent of his juris-
diction. The hostages Wbuld hare been held only to gna-
rantee to his officers the safe right of search, and seizure
of the contraband commodity. But Lig did not so
miteh as insist upon any search. He merely fixed the
fillantity or Optiiti to be delivered up, and appointed a
place at a distance from the smuggling craft for its de-
fiver), to Chinese dicers: He even consented to give
?eceipis for it, and o!ercd to compound the seizure by
giving a few pounds of tea in exchange for every chest
ci opiumNost'i With these facts staring him in the
theie a that in the noise of Commons who has
the hardihood to assert that this is a question of simple
de/ claim the right of doing ?
CetittiPand, and that the Chinese Government only did
rance, for example, seizing upon the
what
Only umr
i7pienaen nFa
persons of all foreigners in Paris, with the Earl of
GitAaithlt, British Ambassador, at their head,
and confining thorn Vilibutit settrinte, food, or water till
the Government would have &Mitred up to it so many
elialitrons of British stntiggled coals=--ittittgine Lord
GRANVILLE purchasing the teittifed torantity of coals to
obtain the personal liberty of the foreigners and himself--
and imagine, in conclusion, a Member of the House of
Commons defending the conduct of France as eri,irelY
justifiable, and a perfect idea will be formed of the con-
duct of China and the patriotism of Sir Lute Grua-
HAM and his friends. In the case we have supposed
the analogy is perfect, both as regards China and as re=
lates to the Tories.
I But, as a last resource, the Tories invoke what they
I have ever been the foremost to trample upon, the claims
of humanity. The Chinese, they assert, are not a war-
like people, and to make war upon them is only to but-
cher the defenceless. If the Chinese be not a warlike
people, it is not for want of abundance of fighting.
Tracy who know not this have yet to open their history.
Perhaps in no empire in the world has there been more
blond shed. But if they be not now a warlike people.
it will be all the better both for themselves and for us.
Our squadrons have not been sent to their waters to
shed blood, but to enforce regard to the rights of other
nations, and to obtain redress for wrongs wantonly in.
flitted upon British subjects. No blood will be de-
manded, and we are confident that not a drop will be
stied if due reparation be promptly offered to the offended
dignity of Great Britain. Not content with slandering
Ministers, the Tories assail with envenomed calumMes
the characters of our soldiery, naval and military. Be-
fore a shot is fired, their organs try to rob our breve
troops of the prospective glory of conquest, by repre-
s.,nting the enemy as weak and defenceless. We defy
the greatest enemy of England to have recourse to a
calumny more injurious to the public service, or more
calculated to destroy the spirit of our troops than to
anticipate the consequences of a war at the eve of its
commencement, by representing victory as inglorious
and defeat as infamous. When the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON so confidently prophesied the failure of the
Cabool expedition from the combined effects of Seikh
valour, and the difficulties of an unexplored route in a
hostile country, the prophecy of so great a warrior,
added, by its failure, to the glory of the gallant army
commanded by Sir JOHN KEANE. But so gencro es an
opposition as this, which gives men prepared to shed
their blood at the command of their country, a chance
at least of cove-ing themselves with wkat the soldier
calls glory, and which is ever his most agreeable reward,
is not congenial to the base nature of Toryism. To get
up a paltry opposition to the Government, they scruple
riot, by implication, to represent our army as at once
cowardly and cruel—for only the cowardly and the
cruel could be supposed capable of butchering a naked
and defenceless people. The people of England will
know how to appreciate at its proper worth a line of
conduct so infarneus.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER.
THIS EVENING the Entertainments will commence with
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK.
Peter Punctilio, Mr. Jones ; Mr. Frank Forage, Mr. Wild.
Sixth Week of THE LADIES' CLUB, established at this

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Last Week of the Season.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 6,
Will be presented Row•e's Tragedy of
JANE SHORE.
Lord Hastings, Mr. Saville ; Dumont, Mr. H. Hughes;
loster, Mr. Neville; Jane Shore, Miss Grant ; Alicia, Mrs.
Vining.

• To conclude with,
ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE.
The Charaoters by Messrs. Saville, .Smith, Suter, Ileslop,
Johnson, Mrs. Vining, Miss Martin, &c.

The Revenue Account's for the quarter and the
year will be found in another place. Notwith-
standing the Corn-laws, the nation has happily not
yet commenced a downward career. The whole
. increase, of the: year, however, is only 243,9091.,
sbowing,'when the rapid increase in previous years
1 is remembered, which enabled• successive Chancel-
lors of the Exchequer to reduce taxation, a de-
creasing power, we are afraid, in the spring of ma-

NRW STRAND THEATRE.
SHOOT the WIZARD of the NORTH, Impossible ! !
Public patronage is the great proof of merit, and if this be
admitted, then the patronage received by the Wizard of the
North stamps his exertions with an identity that proclaims to
the world his wonderful Necromantic powers—he is the
ONLY INVULNERABLE WIZARD.
On MONDAY, and every evening during the week, he
will exhibit his Cabalistic Wonders of seeming-supernature,
concluding with his original and indefinable
DELUSION,
which will prove his apparent Invulnerability, without danger
to himself or his audience.
Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Hall-past Seven ;
and terminate at Eleven.
Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Second Price, Is. 6d. Pit, is. 6d. ; Se.
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ional prosperity.
The principal source of increase in the year is
n the Customs—the Excise, the test of the welfare

ne people, having only increased 40,9651.

HAM WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TIP-MORROW.
31erning 27, minutes atter 51 Evening 55 minutes after 5.

The Publication of the Evening Edition of Tnz Sul( com-
menced at 20 minutes after Three.

74..4 ?
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The Jesuits are not the only description of persons
obnoxious to the charge of inculcating the detestable
maxim that " the end justifies the means." The op-
ponents of the Government upon the Chinese question,
and particularly the Tories, not only inculcate it with
respect to themselves, but impudently assume it as a de-
fensible maxim of Chinese policy. Thus, when it is
urged against the Chinese authorities that they violated by
forcible arrest the sacred person of an Ambassador—
for Superintendent ELLIOT appeared at Canton in that
capacity—that they had recourse, in enforcing Custom.
house regulations, to the barbarous and inhuman expe-
dient of seizing and threatening to starve a community
of foreigners of all nations without respect to actual
guilt or innocence ; that they fixed the exact amount of
property which must be delivered up to save the lives of
the persons seized—thus, in one case dooming them to
inevitable death in the event of an equal quantity not
being to be found, and in the other falling short of the
actual execution of their own interpretation of the laws,
had an hundred times the quamity of opium demanded
been on board the receiving-ships at Lintin—when these
grave charges, we repeat, are urged against the Chinese,
the Tories in the true spirit of the Jesuitical maxim, cry
nut, "Shall not the Chinese be allowed to enforce :he
law against smuggling ? Is it for us to presume to dic-
tate to an independent nation what branches of coin-
t merce it must encourage, and what only it must pro-
hibit ? The Chinese Government has a right to pro-
hibit the importation of any commodity it chooses.
It has thought fit to prohibit the traffic in opium ;
of that prohibition our merchants have had due
notice ; and shall we go to war with China for en-
forcing a law which we must admit her clear
right to enact and which was . known to all the
world ?" Now the British Government does not quarrel
with China for prohibiting the opium traffic. Lord
PALMERSTON stated in the House of Commons—Super-
intendent ELLIOT proclaimed at Canton, the perfect
right of the Emperor of CHINA to declare the imports.
tion of any article of foreign growth or manufacture
contraband, and of course to enforce under the usual
penalties any law regularly promulgated to that effect.
But to establish such a right it would be incumbent on
the Emperor to be in a condition legally and regularly to
enforce it. No nation would suffer him to take hostages
to supply the want of a coast guard. No nation having
the least respect for its own dignity would submit to
have the Representative of its Sovereign forcibly made
one of such hostages. Neither would any nation having
the slightest regard to the principles of international
justice tolerate the monstrous assumption that such
hostages might be legally starved to death in the event
of a breach of custom-house laws which his Celestial
MAJESTY had no other means of enforcing. These
grando pt 0
to
otbs
esairbijeAtmo Eca GompirteArnmd, and
and ytehe tthToe
they
yrias af r
ea.-
thousand times more obvious, a thousand times more
important in a mercantile and international point of
view, than any which induced that crzy l
ag bigot
GEORGE 111. to carry on a thirty years'a ar ainst

France.
Let us examine more nearly the monstrosities of the
single enormity of the opium seizure. When Governor
LIN had the whole European community in his power
did he threaten to starve them to death unless the whole
of the opium was delivered up? By no means. The
Governor settled the precise number of chests of opium
upon the delivery of which they would be restored to
liberty. His duty clearly was, in having recourse to
such a babarous means of enforcing the law against
smuggling, to insist upon every chest being given up,
whether they amounted to one hundred and one hundred
1 millions. By fixing a number he at once abandoned the

we de not intend to dissect all Sir ROBERT'S
fallacies, we shall at once offer some remarks on his
speech.
11, attemnted to refute the assertion that the
'7' i 4 the derangement of the
ffr,fnzirt‘,mt 'IRO caner
Money yirnt.k6ii tt showing tn...., at other times,
f
and according to the OPinOti 4. other ge,:_.lemen,
other causes had produced a similaf effect; No-
-1;;;Ily before him, surely, ever supposed, beaddte
the Bank of England had, in 1837 and 1838,
caused derangement by its bad management, that
the positive fact of a large exportation of gold
in 1838 and 1839 to buy corn could be
doubted, or was not injurious ? That fact is cer-
tain ; and if a bad season in 1825 and 1826 had
then made a similar exportation necessary, it would
have aggravated all the evils the Bank then ex-
, perienced, and brought about that stoppage the
Bank then only dreaded. A more miserable
attempt to disguise the truth, so far as the in-
fluence of the Corn-laws on the Currency goes, we
I
never witnessed.
On two points we think, and so does the
Morning Herald (which is consistent in its errors)
on one, that Sir ROBERT completely threw the
landlords overboard. Ile expatiated on the advan-
tage of trade and manufactures, and declared that
this country owed her rank amongst the nations to
li r commerce and manufactures. Against that doc-
trine the Herald protests, and declares that the
country would be greater without foreign trade
than with it. Sir ROBERT PEEL said that the
best friend the landowner had was the manufac-
turer, Such language is gall and wormwood to
I those who have defended the extortion of the land-
lords on the ground of the superior utility and
pre-eminent importance of the landed interest.
Those who have mustered long columns of figures,
to demonstrate that agriculture was alone deserving.
of national protection, were outraged by Sir Ito-
BERT PEEL embracing the philosophical doctrine
that the empire is maintained in its high station,
a„:1 great Value given to its land, by commerce and

Ma,;).llaCi Ureg.
MA it eta: still More unkind in'him to expatiate
on the vaitie and u::.!its,' of free trade. 'rile prin-
Ciple of A total repeal be he perfectly under-
stood. 4, it vas a magnificent
b:heme for intro-
countries
ducing into otlf itAefebuirst with foreip:
that principle which otiglh ttel inguenee us in wir
dealings with our neighbours, and With private fa-
mines, and which ought to direct the itileicoutse.of a
Feat country within he own dominions." 50 aid the
Right Hon: Baronet speak of free trade, wilier; is
the aversion and teircrr of the great bulk of his
Corn-law friends. But thtti he went on, with a
most infirm judgment, to question the wisdom of
applying that principle to this country in its, ar.
tificial relations. The principle would he tin,,
deserving the name were it not established by
the universal testimon) of men through a long
period. He acknowledged that principle, and
then he set up against it his own petty fears and
doubts. What, if he were to say, "1 am eon-
vinced of the great criminality of theft ; I admire
the magnificent scheme of allowing every man to
enjoy his own ; t aclinit the duty of the Legisla-
ture to protect him in its enjoythent 's but we have
been so long accustomed to plunder- tse another,
our artificial relations are in eonsequened Fyteome
so peculiar and so numerous, the interest of the
thieves is so great, that I doubt the wisdom of en-
forcing the principle of honesty." In truth, that is
what the Right Hon. Baronet did express,
He
did homage to th' magnificent principle of eiith
man having his own, and doing what he likes with
his own—the principle of free trade amongst indivi-
duals, but he refused to enforce it on the landlords,
of whom he is one.
Now, when we find Sir R. PEEL so divided
against himself, and divided from his Corn-law
friends and supporters, and when they acknowledge,
and we know, that without his aid they afc power-
less, that he alone can muster any show of argu-
ments in the House of Commons to make their
cause look respectable--for the peevish non-
sense and angry vituperation of Messrs. GALLY
KNIGHT, ORMSBY GORE, HARCOURT, VER-
NON, and Co. would degrade a good cause, and
ruin a bad one—when Sir R. PEEL is proved to be
both morally and statistically in error, we quite
agree with the Delegates, that their cause has
gained much by the debate, and must triumph at
o distant' day.

A pamphlet, entitled ‘-‘ Christian Reasons Qf a
Member of the Church of England for being a
.liVormer, has been lately published by LONG-
MAN and Co. It is from the pert of Mr. Ross
D. MANGLES, Esq., a gentleman of whotti
know nothing but this, that he has done some ser-
vice to the Church of which he is a member, as
well as to the cause of Reform, by the liberal prin-
ciples which he sets forth and inculcates on his
fellow-Churchmen in this brochure. One of the
main causes of the great and increasing unpopu-
larity of the Church of England is the rooted
hostility to improvement, of every description anti
degree, which she uniformly manifests. She acts as if
she were under the conviction that her safety depends
upon an unprogressive state of society, as if she felt
that every advance in knowledge—every step in
civilization, and every consequent amelioration in
the national institutions, rendered her position more
and more dangerous. She is therefore hated by the
bulk of the people exactly in proportion to the
spread of intelligence, and the desire of improve-
ment among them. They find her standing in
their way wherever they turn. If the Government
of the country, in the faithful discharge of its duty,
proposes a plan for the education of the people,
the Church interferes and defeats it. If the people
of Ireland demand equal rights and privileges with
those of England and Scotland, it is the Church
atone that refuses them justice; and if money is to
be abstracted from the pockets of a half-starved and
miserable population, the Church is sure to have
her fingers in before all others.
The opprobrium which is thus brought upon
the State religion, the author of the pamphlet before
us feels, and strives to convince those who " sup-
port the Church" in her present course of action,
that they are neither her friends, nor the friends of
that Gospel which she professes to teach. The views
which he holds are sound, and he unfolds them with
a moderation of language, and in a chastened tone
of remonstrance, which add greatly to the effect on
the mind of the reader.

. _
,s, however, satisfactory to observe that the increase
in the last quarter is 88,4851., there having been a
considerable decrease in the quarter ending sth
January. The decrease in the Post.office for the
year is 301,000/., of which 272,0001. is on the
last quarter, and 29,0001. on the three preceding
quarters. It will be seen, by referring to the
Tables, that there was, in each of those quarters, a
falling-off in the Postage revenue—so that it had
begun to decline before the late alteration. This
circumstance, as well as the general slackness of
business, and necessary want of enterprise caused
by our deranged currency and our hampered
trade, should be taken into consideration to form a
correct opinion of the success of the scheme.
Moreover, it ought not to be forgotten that the in-
complete manner in which it has, as yet, been
carried into effect, interferes much with its success.
There is yet a want of envelopes, the Post-office
is shut up an hour earlier than formerly, and
means to facilitate sorting and delivery are yet
much required. When these shall be established,
as no doubt they will be, the postage will not be a
declining part of the revenue, and we wish we
could augur as much for branches of it which are
much more important.
On the whole, we cannot say that we see any
indication in these Revenue returns of that rapidly
growing prosperity which ought to be the result of
the never-ending toils, and increasing skill and
knowledge, of the people. The Government, how-
ever, is not to blame for the slowness of the national
progress, and the smallness of the rewards received
by enterprise and toil. The fault lies with that re-
strictive legislation, mis-called protective, which,
like so many ligatures round the limbs and the
body of man, cause unsightly swellings in one
place, wastings in another, and general debility
and general disease in the system.

It appears by a letter inserted elsewhere in our
paper that persecution is doing its work on poor
JOHN THOROGOOD. He is sinking fast under
the effects of a rigid confinement in a pestilential
dungeon, and will in all probability soon cease to be
a living monument of the rapacity, the cruelty, the
more than Pagan spirit of intolerance which, it is
now impossible to deny, characterize the Anglican
Church. The sacrifice of the life of this martyr
for conscience sake is 'what his clerical tormentors
have all along been aiming at. They know that
he will not recant. They know that he will not
acknowledge their impious claim to interpose be-
tween man and his Maker in matters of religion,
They are well persuaded that as long as he lives he
will set them and all their attempts to overbear the
dictates of his conscience at utter defiance, and
therefore it is that they are, above all things, an
I xious to have him out of the way. For while life
remains to him he is a standing evidence of their
iniquity—a witness testifying to all the world
against the State-established corruption of Christi-
anity which calls itself the Church of England.
But what a picture does the writer of the letter
give of the moral feelings of the High Church party
in the locality where this scene of lingering torture,
worthy of the Inquisition in its palmiest days, is
going on I So venomous is the hostility, so deadly
the hatred entertained by the parson of Chelmsford
and the Tories of that town towards the man whom
they have injured, that were the money which has
been raised to make some sort of compensation to his
Wilily for the ruin of his business to he laid out in
stocking, a shoo with goods in his name, every
human being that went into that shup to purchase
Would be marked fur persecution in some shape or
other ! Such is Church-of-England Christianity in
the eighteen hundred and fortieth year of the
Christian era.

The derision given by Mr. GREGORIE, on
Thursday last, at Queen-square Police-office, as
reported in The Sun on Friday, appears to us a
very extraordinary one. To the consumers of
coals in the metropolis and its neighbourhood, the
consequences of this decision must be of consider-
able importance, and their immediate attention to
the subject may be expected. The merits of the
case lie in a nutshell. mi. TUCK, a coal tiler-
' chant, was summoned by Lord LISTOWEL for
having sent coals defic►ent in we►ght, and the fact