The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-20 00:00:00

THE KIRK AND THE VETO.

It appears frame statement made by Mr. Black, in
the Edinburgh Town Council, on Tuesday, that in the
Old Church, which is now vacant, up to the end of De-
ember, there were only 38 seats taken. This church
is situate in the heart of the Old Town, and consequently
in the midst of a large population, yet Chalmers and
his party call out for more churches, while they cannot
fill those already built. Tho Old Church has now been
vacant nearly six months ; a further delay was agreed
to at the last meeting, and it is not at all impossible,
therefore, that the right of presenting may fall into the
hands of the Presbytery. The valuable living of North
Leith has also been vacant about six months. Some
three or four candidates have withdrawn, one after the
other : four more are again in the field, and tne veto-
ists and non-vetoists seem as unlikely as ever to come
to an agreement. According to an Edinburgh paper,
long and warm discussions took place on Monday, at a
motley meeting held in the parish church, each party
squabbling for his favourite candidate, amidst- cheery,
laughter, and hisses, and one speaker (Mr. Couper)
seemed as determined to fight and conquer as if he had
been with Napier on the Syrian coast. "We have got
a vested right," said he, "in the presentation. We
wilt stand by that right, and nail our colours to the
mast.—(Laughter, cheers, and hisses.") And all this
takes place under the blessed system of the men, who,
while they talk of peace, and harmonious calls, and Gos-
pel ordination, not only set the law at defiance, but
stir up the worst passions among the people committed
to their charge. This veto, as we have often said,
will be the death of the Kirk.

THE IRON DUKE.—The arrival of an iron
sea-posing vessel in our river, is an incident of so much in-
terest from its novelty, that a e have been tempted to pay
it a vi it, and to gat'ner such particulars as might be de-
sirable to possess. The Gautier had previously given us
as article on the subject, but it iv too meagre and unsa'is-
factory to be of much use to our merchants. The Iron
Duke was built at Glasgow, foe the employ of Messrs.
George Het ick and Co., of Waterford ; and left that
port aith a general cargo on the 6th July. Her outward
passage was not marked with any peculiar difference front
that of others which left at or about the same time. Alto-
gether the success of the first iron ship to this port must
be highly gratifying to those concerned in her, but we un-
derstand it is doubtful if even the Duke, with his iron
sides, will at any period equal the well tried wooden walls
of old England.—Friend of
ROME.—The Constitutionnel publishes a letter
from Rome, which states that the feast of languages w as cele-
brated on the Itith ult, at the College of the Propaganda.
Cardinal Mezzofcuitt presided at this solemnity, unique in
its way. All the strangers of distinction in Rome were
invited and assistml. The festival commenced by a pro-
logue in Latin, delivered by an Illyrian. A young man
from New York then recited a poem in Hebrew. Two
Chaldcals a dialogue in the idiom of the RabLis. Abd-
Al!ahs Assemani, a native of Lebanon, declaimed in Sy-
rian ;erne; and a young man from Bethlehem delivered
a discourse in Samaritan. A Persian spoke in Chaldean.
Two Turks, ore from Aleppo, another from Constant.-
noplc, deelaimed in Turkish poetry. Two young Indians
Pegu spoke is Dineen ; the younger of the two, only
to elve years. of age, &elide ea with so much skill that he
res&ved unbounded applause. Some Armenians read a
La in elegy, a discourse in ancient Greek, and verses in
modern Greek AKurd read verses in that language, remark-
able for the hardness of the sound. An American of New
Sc thud an in Celtic. Afterwards fsllowed Illyrian,
13ulgariar, Peenzir, German, Dutch, Eng:ish, and French.
A negro from Godsciand spoke in Ammarien. An inha-
bitant of Calif reia sung a song in the barbarian dialect of
his nation, accompae3ing himself with caotagnetteo He
was applauded, but the greatest applause arts reserve for
the Chise4e, Joachim Ku-o, from Cie province of He-man,
si caking tee langeage of his c orritry composed entirely of
monosyllables. A second speakieg the Chinese of Can-
ton. In flee, two other Chinese of Sci-an presented
themselves in their rational costume, and read verses in toe
ioione of their previece, termioatieg those acale.nic exer-
ci es by a most harmonious Chise e song. The greater
part of t',e audit ra understood but one word " alleluia,"
which occurred frequently. The loud applause bestowed
by the vi•iters, Catholic and Prete.itant, preyed to those
young men how much their per formance was admired.
NOVEL MODE OF THIEF CATCHING.—A
few days since an inhabitant of the ancient burgh of Prest-
wick having observed that a potato-pit in his kail-yard
had beer, broken into, and a quantity of potatoes carried
away ; and supposing that another visit might be paid
to it, bethought himself of a plan which would effectu-
ally lead to the detection of the offender. Accord-
ingly, next day, he dug a pit, to the depth of about
nine feet, adjoining the pote.toe pit, and covered it wish
smell sticks, straw, and earth—thus rendering the sur-
face level with the ground. All things thus being
prepared, the thief again, during the night, proceeded
to the potato pit, expecting to rifle it of a portion of its
contents as formerly unmolested;. but having unwittingly
planted a foot on the covered pit, in the twinkling of
an eye she descended, along with the sticks, straw,
and earth, to the bottom with a vengeance ;
and, after wearying herself in endeavouring to make her
escape, she sunk down, and quietly submitted to her
fete. Next morning, the Prestwiekian went into his yard
to examine how matters stood ; and upon approaching
the mouth of the pit, lie looked down, and, to his
amazement, saw, not au urchin or brawny chid, but an
old and hagard woman cowering at the bottom, and al.
moat overcome with cold. Having thus found cut who the
person was who had been helping away with his potatoes,
he was moved with ccmpassion towards .her, and, there-
fore, instead of handing her over to the ministers of jus-
tice, to be " prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law,"
he kindly liberated her from durancit vile, believing that
she had already suffered a sufficiently lengthened period of
imprisonment. —Ayr Observer.
In noticing any matter at this moment connected
either with the East or West Indict, it is material that
tin re should he tro leaning towards either of those great
interests, and that no facts should be kept cut of eight cal-
eulatsd to assist a correct judgment on the questione at
issue. The argument lately used to show why a prefer-
ence has beers given in the West Indies to the production
of rum rather than sugar, is impugned by a correspondent.
He contends that rum is only made from the molasses, or
"skimming of sut.Tar," and that therefore the production of
sugar is necessarily involved in its manufacture. To a prs-
ference for masking rum, rather than sending over sugar,
he would not therefore attribute the decrease in the impor-
tation, but would rather find the cause in the scarcity
of labour, and its uncertainty even when procured.
Valuable estates, be asserts, with canes actually
ready for cutting,—canes equal to 250 hogsheads of
sugar, and the culture of which has already cost the ex-
pense of twelve and fourteen moutlis,—have been offeeed
fir a merely nominal price to any body who can find
the requisite labour, that the canes may be prese•ved from
rotting in the ground. It should be observed thtt these
statements are not so much made in reference to the
Western possessions generally, as to Guiana in particular,
where, it is said, the negroes not only receive high wage;,
but look upon the act of working at any price as a matter of
'great favour. There is, of course, no doubt that a scarcity
of labour must bring with it a scarcity of produce;
sat in accounting fsr a diminution cf import, this
should be taken into account. As for the argument
against tl.e probability of a preference for rum over
sugar, it might be conclusive could it be proved
that molasses was the only ingredient used in the manufac-
ture of rum ; and further, that the material called molastei

really contained only a certain quantity of saccharine
matter, and was not surcharged with it for the purpo3ei of
distilling. The evidence taken by the Committee of "-
House of Lords on East Livia produce show-
" skimmings of sugar," as well as moles,—
which are two
so that the question •
,that the
article 3, are employed "
•- tmc manufacture of rum ;
rial that m;e •-• cull left whether some of the mate_
mat have come into the market in the shape of
sugar does not form part of these "skimmings" from which
rum is distilled.._ Times.

The Directors of the Royal Polytechnic Insti-
tuthn beg to say that t.e Statement which appearod in
ih.l Post and Herald relative to the withdraw it)g of the
new po:ta,fc stlmps was nct in any degree authorised by
th qu.—Robt. J. Longbottom, Secretary.
WANDswouTtr.—On Thursday a new Police
'cow t was opened at Wandsworth. It is rota new buildirg
cr, ct:.d far the purnose, but a room, in the house of Mr.
Bucknell,the superintendent of the V divi,ion, in Litre-lane,
Wandsworth, has been fitted up for the purpose.

MORNING EDITION.

EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA JAN. 27.—M. C, Consul'
General of France, will return thither in about a fet'
night, and a new diplomatist is cxlected here. Cehet
tainly, his position is changed very much of late, end h
cannot avoid feeling it. his perceptible to all, that Raga
influence is now no longer paramount in the Divo' 131
to render it still more striking, an English engineer of
been called in to pronounce sentence on the ehl°
a dry dock which tl:e French have been promisiq t°
ief
construct in the mud of a western harbour.
hat e already sunk an immense caisson filled wit
i
masonry, and nobody can find it. The niche bed Pr;
viously several hone t English opinions give° hint lid
speeting the impossibility' of building anything !o 5
1
there without a foundation, and of keeping out sr
jUbh
&c. ; but he hated to hear of the impossibility et .
proj -cts, and found French engineers ready to takeie;
money, and humour him in oVertyi.l4ng. Now, beorl
no more money to spare, no; nore occasion for io
armaments and dry docks fOr three-deckers, ap '
fine, no further confidence in French engineering. 0
The Pacha has pensioned off his. Turkish officers
follows :—To Fezzi Ahmed, the Kapoudan POOOO
who brought the Sultan's fleet here, he has give"
bilaks
feddans of land, nearly es many acres, on the "40
of the Mahmoudieh Canal, to cultivate, and 75'000
dollars per annum. (This man had
scillielYriffj'll;
dollars a year salary at Constantinople.)
his Kiaya, has been given .1,000 feddans on the 5: of
canal, and 5,750 dollars a year. Lastl3', the sT%-esc
Sheriff Aga, who also receives proportionate PaY• ttli
three traitors are all that remain to Mehengi sica
of tha Turkish fleet, after all his labour:), make
and disappointmeats ; and he seems to do,
make much of them accordingly. Their sole the
to celebrity and consideration consists ;atop!
base betrayal of their trust. Au , the
aruhitiou is extinguished in Egypt. Hassan BPO,
for
Egyptian Vice-Admiral, who had hoisted bis,ll4llo
la'n' four months in a line-of-battle ship' to
'quietly hauled it dowr, and returned 3cterud„ao'' rt•
shore, where he may resume his previous -I;:od-
ment of Administrator• of the Marine, with 1%0 bY
ante or leisure, aid little chance of interruPd'a slyo
ribtiler blast of war blown in his ears. Yecr 11/ the
tire-Arab sailors who ha-.l beea employed cis to
batteries ashore were sent back to their vfiel:enrof
assist in the reparations making for the of the
three object;:-Ist, to despatch a division, three
Egyptian fleet, consisting of four frigates otle lath
corvettes, to the Isle of Candia to bring how° t" there
Regiment of Infantry from their garrison dettivkiih
(according to a recent arrangement with ti ,e leapt
commissioner, Mazloutn Be)) ; 2d, to prePaiwOber
ports, to bring the Syrian troops from Gaze, if tbe •nder of
should permit ; and 3d, to dismantle the real, spa
the vessels, and lay them up in the wet dole Ths,
safely store their equipage in the arstnap obs,l
return of the Nile steamer, with Ibrahim
anxiously looked for. It left this on the Inertthe -
the 22d instant, bearing Kosrouff Effendi t.distelf
dragoman of Mehemet Ali) on that mission, inlocout the
after having assisted the Stromboli to toWnliirott
Turkish fleet. - To-dav the French corvette witositer
was to have sailed for 'Smyrna, • but her sailiegc/otbei
died yesterday, it was said of the plague, and b.
h°
were thrown overboard, the ship fumigated,
now it is declared to be some other disease' obairjh
Leans from Cairo announce that SoloanaPSaca
eGnutiefroe(flAEkgayb•patht)ry; the eastern horn of the Ildu at SS'.
They were 't d
gate estitut a and the Governor .'t coui
demand pravisions of Abbas Pacha, theGovereft Abel%
and had arrived with his at°,l,i sent!
Ibraham Pacha had not yet arrived at a"'
tMehn itkhlei
vcilsitonhaodf. P
Ibrahim pacha, nam,", 411'
guaruee
poilitifit he
horse, as a state prisoner—not, as the):
dare, for any treason committed, but st°,l"; tit°
should take it into his head to turn his roil
back to his harem at Damascus red herr
Yesterday two fresh cases of plague cceti,r io
one on board the frigate Damietta ; the elr'lreioteee6t'
3d Regiment. This, among other subjects of COD'
formed a topic of serious conversation heti7e; it I(ss},
modore Napier and the Pacha, and h' of the
mainly owing to the earnest r presentatice:, owelf
former, that the latter has decided on sweeps
the the masses ol filth to he seen in all the O ,
en ehr
the city, in the shape of thousands of tots,' doge-u 1;
human beings pig together in dirt ar„„
tion indiscribable, but sufficient to itites jresadra'3.
perennial plague in the heal t nt. °,arte
Dr. Grasso, the plague -physician, had -ne
a similar remonstrance, and the order is gone
that the Arab sties be shovelled awn,' by a-le011'.1;
culean labour. The numerous garrison in tit,"
must, however, first be disposed 01, and se: 9 b(;1011
villages in the country ; for the 041", "fliti;tal tb
to their wires and familiee, who tieen-' sirra)a
soldiers wherever they go, and. squat beside tnto sninto
in these extemporaneous huts, built ton levi, only
in, two short to lie straight in, and with &fast n`i-s,
he crept through. When it is considerci° t frost
soldier has one, two, or three wives, 01,0ireaglp,
many
clusterste,ielirilcalrei.n; following him, may c**....nrig
whater Tofregdimenesn-Ctsna'ir;eclletiniecvpilel:;gte:vg'e'trbberif,utb6
whGrt at changes are contemplated by the 1'
rialtos,
employment both of soldiers and fellalio, i° tbe
in commerce, and in his own administration njiarihl3st
rious depatturente of State. is intent Oboe
ing the lands among his grands es, with bej
they will elicit mole produce (to be taxed)tb° retchje,
yet been aid,: *to accomplish,thoueb tit the
ee;
fellabs' hacks have not he
say. The chief douanier ise tosPise 134:(1°9
All the present mudire (ada'.inistrators) -oto be '1
(inspectors) of provinces :and "districts are pd
carded, and to be reaaeiaced by the Paeloll-idcd, asp
among whom the 'land of Egypt is to be 'l:4de
for themselves,
are to he allowed to make as much a-pachs're
ekta,mirmietsiieinril:e'acdsEnte,iiosnapiafi'artdeiyr
s
imuch r
et: t tehsll,
oi 0 00:
..6bri
Mecmillitike to obtain it.
or Said Ile haansdcorniticobune cvo's.
lout any, - having mor
after tb thee,
suited his father, has sety ;out again fnr the
to
try. The produce of late commercial ealestiodzt`;;•3.
collected, amounting to 800,000 dodo"' froin the
arel appropriated to pay the army returnieg „0 hr; :of
The Pacha consoles himself in a great tiq",iare'enria,'
loss of Syria, Caadia, and Arabia by eolailu: Idea 'L6
economy. The first mentioned li:rehab° !..e,t060,„
2,200,000 dollars, while the ex erase viesiZ
dollars. So, here is a saving at onePe of tat:011 00700
In Candia the saving is reckoned ate- ore Orr e-'oo°,lr„r
dollars. In Arab a the Pacha eXiactiticclar-o'.
for
dollars, and did not receive a farttaing in ret."noontnotl,
is a saving of rem ly 6,000,000 dollars Pcritefol,r
if-124,p'Pt T. The Pacha ought, to be most gra bury h'
he please:,, may put his house in order, an
self its gold.

ass /
tlisSl'll':•,pLittjalK:a:Sh ellaid°stl'ti:tleAGLCeooruFgrOet 011ancl:;;N:1:-Atit::ced'i'll°:fra:°;
Thursday Lilo Annual General f the `-'° Car";
hil.:, when a statement of the number of P3V-n D'e; j
setirtacbtrlee:tdMitictlpeldwa,:::dditshcahtar:heedrefwroemr:lnja'n,:t. t...:dfr°:;:rilbui
t
r;rtlrl),st:;oB:e.sillpfet)o,liily,:s,rae,detiae,3ife'rsectitlilair2ms,glBieee:st;,edidwe'tos:oo,u,'uoalsritsi4eoaccid.,inoletrmisifdetilit,rmildiyllaea:itil,efioatstr,bl:o2,lvl;l2dha::::odiCntsa::idoLignt:li-ii.etovet)elLsarlirrg.et:il'teie:
. 18, J ; remaininngg
106;
.unfit,
the
„do ,b P
oot , ,
ft would further a r ea
able, 64 • deaths,
trial, 13.
incurable
there here •-the lip • 1 Jan. 1, .•
mules, so,
in riospita , er
admitted d •wri
ntl th ihal
ot
5012p:Iitp:i la
ibi:in:teis'4;oo.l::::iif::o44;
during the year 6, of whom 47 a' b desire
5 9 females. There NS Rt: o r one discharged 4A'in Of
friends, 1 out on trial, 6 dead,y and 96 reolat-`e— Misr.
hospital. The following is a )r, psis of tho ttir.oo, JP
alluded to above :—On the books, Jan' " 15 0,
2°1)4
7,cuuarryaitsbb:laces:ailinbodoo,6,ciintsietcatu‘lrrcaadbble2e7;2tatc,dtEin,itt,4tiesed2; dpurlsirr_itartahouS ritoecv:sl,-
:nglosniltuheLboAokis,E, Dcc.SVII i „f,
---The result of this election, write. a G°ll°. °f lb°
should not be taken as thir fedi: 0110-
t, of the division, i
ocount.3, as there net little
-v roore'trhan 4,000 cOrierroboote,,
:i
ELECTIONirI34 curable,FO 6llirfesiunitrelsb9ii!e* i_t eogorrigub:le,;,,
,_uat 1 a constituency amounting to 6,500, or tlis;„ OA'
". vulg irealll 2 noó unolled. There era Magid-rsci
against the Ulu 1 ,the • f tho tioof'
era parti, operations n _ oec _,,
aa,nndd
who
„Celiecriggy:, both very active
oitligr
litthcot to se
L a pthier which they
r ecOrdifig far',
the opportunity 'of doing. Mr. Alcock deserves al big
for going eery erector an opportunity or r ard rig- t
vote, and it is to be hoped that he will come forwbil ecru, it
and by being early in the field there is no doubt
voters b. t°
is qei:e secure. In the late election Iraq t any g
•1/
given th, it promi,e; I dote they were aa are raba
leman on th , Li• crsl side was coming for"' hat a,
,/ 0'
The letters from Manchester sta:bio"sel..:7::::si:
usual demand has sprung up there for a new t: „illstiti%
‘, mousseline Ce laiae" specie:, which
itaL,epromvearrinucfralfc;uirlicrs to great exertions,
tending their rawer of ioduction, and ir Airing., the
f
faciliti . ,
, , s
.he
mottih,ey ppat„lsetPrangs;
gOivethorusea, ',.,:hrilopufg:c.ifract,oll
ale trnsitritted in the letters, and th .1 puLO:eallf
el. g.
have:v seen them, wilt hardly ere di' , '1141141(1. .
Or.. .a,,r,es arc protlnced, at the rir 0 of Bas 0
„Y,1,71„ fur a cot: 07 inches wise,. 1t he II
"'wt.:mat proof, if any were wanted, of the 111'0"-tbell"
whir h our manufat turerr, if fair plaY/ be gi"Pirett in toll
contrive t) of tiin the command of 'every mark for for a.
world. Some of the irranufactefers have n'aerrven'''
that they are able to produce wirinin the next threfio kg'
Money seems to cor.t'nue in Cl ,nsiecraye &man! impedi:
cheste-, but not no as to create any yery orion,on in tbo
meat to the general activitl,, which, is springiq op
t°
trade of the district. ti
A .•
CURIOUS CONSANGUINXTY.--t1 shortd moon
since, at James's Church, Poole, a father marrie, , sisterj
• wnc 5 a
wife's aunt. The son marrir d his father-5 father, 5 4
Consequently one Sets is broil ,er_in_law .t0_44., ion •
other a-ifo
the father brother-in-law tr, his son. Toe,,', j his - ,
nephew and son-in-law to his father's wile; 7,,ei., nice",
is niece and thughter-io-law to her husband'
or
,":,,go an.!
and sister-in-law to her husband's brother, a rscvuld Du
sister-in-law to her bm.bann's brother's wife. .1_1;!,.,,i, re
difficult to frail a parallel instance of such low'
tionship.— Selisbiery Her a.d.

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