The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-03 00:00:00

ANTI-NON-IN TRUSION.

DUNDEE DISSENTERS. —The Non-intrusion agitation
works admirably; what could Voluntaries effect compared
with this? The whole country is in commotion, and the
Morning Chronicle and other sage counsellors of the Mi-
nistry will speedily feel that their Correspondent
" Scotus" is a blind leader of the blind. Ministerialists will
find that the Dissenters of Scotland have more than the
concern of on.loolerrs in the Kirk veto. They had better
not go too fast or too far in the mire under such guides as
have recently had the lead. Sir Henry Parnell, as well as
Mr. Macaulay, should watch the signs of the times. Last
Wednesday the Dundee Dissenters had invited the Rev.
David King, from Glasgow, to lecture on the Non-Intru-
sion theme ; and they have resolved to hold a public meet-
ing next week, to which they have requested the attend-
ance of several other coadjutors in the work cf Anti-Non-
intrusion.—Scottish Pilot.
PETITION AGAINST CHURCII EST.ABLISIIMENTS.—This
petition, up to last night, had received no less than fourteen
thousand signatures, which deafly shows how the prin-
ciples of real Non-intrusion have wrought their way into
the public mind. The petition remains but a few days
longer, and all who hate intolerance and ecclesiastical ty-
ranny should come forward without delay and sign the pc-
titiou. —lbid.

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—NON-INTRUSION.--.lt is Cur-
rently rumoured that communications have been received
from high quarters in London, intimating that it is not the
intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce any mea-
sure with reference to the questions which now agitate the
Church of Scotland. For the sake of the Government,
we trust that they will persevere in abstaining florn anv
attempt to legislate on this subject. Interference on their
part would not only fail in satisfying the clerical law-
breakers, but would inevitably disgust the great mass of
their firmest supporters in Scotland. —Edinburgh Mehly
Chronicle.

POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE

MORNING JOINNALS.

The Morning Chronicle of this day, alledini, to some
remarks made by Lord Ashburton last night in the House
of Lords, with respect to his change of opinion on the
Corn-laws, observes It must be said in favour of
Lord Ashburton, that he seldom if ever made a a`peech in
which one half Of it did not contain an answer to the other
half, so that we do not wonder that he should be unwilling
to be answerable for particular opinions attributed to him
in the reports of his speeches. He has always, indeed,
held opinions very cheap, and unfortunately for him the
plain Saxon character of his language left no doubt es to
his meaning ; so that he had not the advantage of speakers
like the late Lord Londonderry, for instance, who strung
words together which no two men could agree in inter-
preting. Last night he gave something like an
Tt-
dication of his return to his old slipperiness."—Thy:
Morning Herald, referring to the speechesl
of
re-
the
Corn-law Advocates in the Commons aisit,
night,ndred mote
marks as follows :—" Their task
atswaddle in which
than usually difficult by theso
indulged. Mr. Pry me's
their opponents so unmercifully_
redolent of the juice of pop
speech, more especially, rorifiev
gas
profuse than usual in the
pies. Mr. Clay. was even
d affectation of ease—and 1110.
display of his underbred
ntial and feebic in his attempts at
argument."—
than usually inconsequential
ioicense_e _ouiening
Post tires refers to the pend-
in question of an Inquiry into the operation of the Corn
g.
laws :—" But it is pretended
that an inquiry should be
who, by a di-rind tt
din order that those t. and honour-
able intellectual process, up minds against
change should afford to the. public the grounds of their con-
viction. For that no inquiry is necessary. They who put
forward this pretence say, that the grounds of those who
oppose change should made known, no; by speeches,
but by evidence. We should be glad to know how a
man is, by the evidence of other men, to give an account
of the intellectual process' through which he has arrived
at a certain conclusion ? There is absurditv upon the
face of such a pretence."—The Times renen ks, with cc-
fnenee to Mr. Ilume's speech in the Commons on Mon-
day, on the sulject of Sir John Colborne's pencion:—
" Sir John Colborne, this Joseph Hume had the effrontery
to say, produced the rebellion' by his seizure of some of
those who were known to be its chiefs. S:r John Col-
borne produce the rel.ellion ! Why, the rebellion had
been prepared, and was ripening, for seven or eight pre-
ceding months, as is acknowledged in the official corre-
spondence. It had been arranged lung before with the
M Menzies of Upper Canada, as we read in Nelson's in-
tercepted letter, and because Sir John Colborne. h.ld
bravely and skilfully crushed the insurrection, and hamshe
yr.
or hanged a few of its most flagitious perpetrators,
trs,
Joseph Hume has the matchless impudence to atr
from his
l.e
h
ought not to have been rewarded, but dismissed
command and punished."

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WooLwicH.-1-ler Majcsty's armed steame-,
Hermes, commanded by Lieut. Blount, employed on packet
service, has arrived here from the Mediterranean station. It
is understood she will be immediately paid off, having been
hauled into the basin to undergo examination and extensive
repairs. The Hermes has been employed since May 1838, on
packet service.