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

iron-clad barons and saleable serfs are no more—that men
of ermined mantles have been growl 'g weaker, and men of
leather aprons growing stronger, for several centuries. The
idea of concession to democracy is very maw al to men
upward?., of fifty years of age, whose boyhood and youth
beheld its triumphs in Napoleon, its ellild and champion,
the gleam of whose sword was a terror to Kings.
(From the Standard.)
7.'he attempt to evade Mr. Colquhoun's motion, by not
nicking a House, was last night defeated bins fair attend
arice of Protestant members. That the attempt was made
is proved by the fact, that at four o'clock no more than ten
Members could be counted on the Ministerial benches ;
scarcely less satisfactorily demonstrated by the querulous
tone of Lord Murpeth's speech. "If the motion," said the
Irish Secretary, " had been for leave to bring in the speech
of t'ze Hon. Member for Kilmarnock, he would have no
scruple to call upon the House not to receive any such
speech." This is, we have no doubt, true, even though Lord
Morpe,h said it. The speech was just such an one as Ro-
manists, and the tools of Romacists, least like to hear, or
lowa heard by others. The misfortune of those who wished to
walk in darkness, and to lead the public with them,
WaSt however, that liberty of speech still exits ia the
1-lorJe of Commons; and it is only by shutting the door
of an empty house that the voice of truth can be silenced ;
'out from this stratagem the Ministers were precluded by
the Protestant attendance. The ground upon which Lord ,
Morpeth built his hope of eyed iilg lest night's discussion
may be seen in the conclusion cf hia silly a iciress :

Seeing that they were told every day, both in speeches in
that Hou-e and in publications out of it, that the leaders of
the party opposed to the Government professed themselves
ready to assume the reins of power, and that those reins were
likely to fall into their grasp in a very short time, he certainly
did think it desirable, both for the country and for the people
of Ireland, that they should have before the House, fully ex-
plained and developed, the measures and policy which they pro-
teased to adopt with respect to the government of Lreland."__
( Hear.)
Th : ground of hope wan, that the fear of embarrassing a
future Conservative Gov rument would lead the Conserta-
tive body to cu-operate wi h Miciaters in shuffling out of
the discussion of the Maynooth question; that ground
proved fallacious. Knowing, and pretending to know,
noth ng rnore of the views cf the Con creative leader;
than is comprised in the conviction that they are men of
sense and honest met, we can tell Lord Morm.h that they
will not take office upon the terms of leaving Ireland to
the wove nmeat of Mr. O'Connell and the Romani3t
priests who 'tow rule that count-) ; they will, we doubt
not, impart:ally consult t'te i.iterests of Romanists
aid Protestants—they may be even a li.tle indulgent
to the erroneous prejudices of the former; but they will.
and they !TAUS', depose tho pti istbood from its throne of
depotisvp, or they cannot lung count upon the support of
toe Protestant people a Great Britt ,to, and of the Proles.
tints of Ireland. It must be, we see plainly enough, a
task of difficulty to overthrow the exiting tyranny, but it
is not a task beyond the power of gentleness, wisdom,
and firmness, such as we trust to find in Sir Robert Peel
and his friends.

(From the Courier.)
The Presbytery of S'. Andrew!, have rejected the pre.
sentee to Kemback, a parish within their bounds, in
terms of the vet,, and in compliacco with its enact-
ments, the Presbytery at the same time knowing it
to be contrary to the law of the laud, lout driven
in this manner to do despto to this law, that they
may not come under the spiritual censures of the
Church aad in the ehgant language of Dr, Chat-
me,-s, take their part in a second " Reel o' Bogie 1"
What a fearful state of demoralisation must await the
Church, whose Clergy are placed in this painful pre-
dicament ! The presentee in ihis case is the son of Dr.
Cook, one of the most distinguished men of whom the
Church of Scotland can at this day boast. He has been
for some years the most acceptable assistant to the
clergyman whose successor he has at length been ap-
pointed ; the pa ish church has continued well attended,
and although Dissentng meeting-houses surround the
parish, there is scarcely a Leader to be found in it.
Yet a majority of the " male heads of families being
communicant-," came forward, and veto Mr. Cook,
taking a solemn declaration that if ho were their
miatater they could not be edified by him ! and
h, is rejected acecraingly by the Presbytery, un-
e otected as they are themselves by the existing law
from suspension and depes:tion from the ministry should
they refute carrying the veto into effect. Is it possible
that our earnest and repeated entreaties that the Legis-
lature would interfere in this question, con any longer be
withstood ? Mr. Cook, the presentee, and all others
similarly situated, are thus intercepted in the enjoyment
of civil rights by a system of Church polity altogether
new to the constitution of the Kirk, and as demoralizing
as it is illegal. And in this situation they must remain
until Parliament interfere—compelled to seek the esta-
blishment of their rights by, a suit at law, tedious,
ruinously expensive, and every way irksome; and, be
it ever kept in view, the moment they go into a
Court of Law to make them good, stripped by the
Church of their spiritual character, and held up
to the Chris:ian people of the country as traitors
to the Divine Master whom they protess to serve,
by a dominant " majority " in the General Assembly,
who, forsooth, assume to be, par excellence, the "office.
bearers in His House," exercising thereits a jurisdiction
distinct from that of the Civil Magistrate. We again ark
if such a state of matters is ta be tolerated?

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

POST.—Messrs. Hullett. Brothers, and Co., the respected
agent for the Chidan loan, have drawn up a statement of the
financial position of Chili, which, accompanied ss it is by some
statistical details from the pen of Mr. R. C. Wyllie, will prove
useful to the bondholders, and no doubt, influence, to a great
extent, the decision to which they may come on the propos', ion
made toMr. Caldcleugh respecting the conversion of the arrears
of interest upon the foreign debt, the particulars of which we
have already laid before our readers. Mr. Wyllie's figures dis-
play a progressive improvement in the revenues of the Republic,
between 1833 and 1E139, from 1,770,760 dollars to 2,386,952
dollars, while they prove the expenditure, including charges,
ordinary and extraordinary, to have remained stationary from
the• year 1835. The Committee, as we have intimated, though
perhaps with hardly the requisite explicitness, leave the ques-
tion of making the interest on the coupons, when consolidated
into stock, payable in Chili, wholly to the sense of their consti-
tuents, as it may be declared to-morrow (Wednesday) at the
meeting.

Two letters, one addressed to the Vice-President of the
Board of Trade, the other to Sir Robert Peel, on the protec-
tion proposed to be given to "original designs and patterns
printed upon woven fabrics," have been published by AIL
James Thomson, as well as one to Mr. Labouchere, as Presi-
dent to the Board of Trade, on " the present state of calico
printing in Belgium." The first contains various drawings
explanatory of the piracy to which Mr. Lane, who had produced
an original and popular style, was subjected, during the three
months' existence of his copyright,. and the unrestricted com-
petition afterwards, when he was simultaneously met by the
whole trade with his own pattern.
In the letter to Sir Robert Peel, who is understood to take a
deep interest in the matter, Mr. Thomson expresses a confi-
dent hope that the facts elicited in Committee have been such
as to ensure a modification of the system„

These letters will assist Members of Parliament very mate-
rially in coming to a correct judgment upon the Pill brought
into Parliament by Air. Emerson Tennent, the chief purpose
of which is to extend the copyright of calico printers from
three to twelve months, and that of paper-hanging manufac-
turers to a still longer period, three years being named.

CHRONICLE.—Money has been easier to-day on the
Stock Exchange, and the increase in the navy estimates has
led to no depression in the Funds. On the contrary, the ease
in the Money Market has given an impulse to prices. Consols
for the Account opened at S9A buyers, from which quotation
they advanced to 89i to ill ; this improvement, however, was
not fully maintained.
The following are the official returns of the exports of the
precious metals from the port of London, for the week ending
the 25th ult.:—
Silver coin to Belgium
Silver coin to Calais 95,000
Silver coin to Havre 948
Silver bars to Calais 5,000

TIMES —The premium on gold at Paris is 4i per mile
which, at the English Allot price of 31. 17s. 101hd. per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 26, and the ex-
change at Paris on London at short being 25. 32k, it follows
that gold is 0.26 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advises from Hamburgh the price of gold is 425 per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 48, and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. si, it
follows that gold is 0.29 per cent. dearer in London than in
Ibanburgh.