The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT of thi

JOURNAL

(isosi THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.)
(From the Globe.)
Tile fallacy of insisting upon the satisfactory po-
sition of the Tory party, whilst its leaders awe openly
and avowedly at issue on every practical question o
government, is too ridiculous to be kept up, even by
the journals which first boldly broached and labori-
ously amplified the novel and amusing discovery.
A new tack is now to he tried, in the hope that
a more favourable gale may spring up from
another quarter. If the Tory party in ParliaMent
be divided—if a schism, fatal to the hopes of
both sections of the Conservatives, has occurred, de-
-1 monstrative of the heterogeneous elements. of which
that party is composed—still there is encouragement.
The Government, it is asserted, has not progressed in
public confidence : the measures it has carried during
the past Session have been so mutilated by their oppo-
nents, or were passed by majorities so small, as to mani-
fest the extreme difficulty through which, thus feebly
supported even in the House of Commons, they are
able to conduct the business of the country. This
somewhat evivocal mode of cheering the spirits of the
Opposition is to be tried. The faded prospect; and
defeated hopes of regaining 'office—which they Were
assured again and again was within their grasp, and,. in
fact, was to be absolutely forced upon them, ,nalgre the
coyness of Sir Robert Peel, and his modest associates
—all fade like the rainbow, while they were gazing with
impatient delight on the beauteous hues ! They are
now, it seems, to be consoled by the empty assurance,
that though the dissensions of their leaders render it im-
possible for them to assume the reins, they can yet, by
carrying out their threatened obstructive policy:, prevent
the mac ine of pvernment from ntaving onward
smoothly and satisfactorily to those whose business it is
to guide its progress ; and thus they may caOate disap-
pointment and dissatisfaction among those for whose be-
nefit it exists, although they cannot serve themselves.
(From the Standard.)

The new position in which thearrotestant inhabit-
ants of the principal towns of Ireland are' placed by
the Municipal Corporations Act calls for a course,pf
conduct the most circumspect and revolute. .:Men
may differ as to the line to be taken, but
all must agree in acknowledging 'the"; necessitT
that it be taken cautiously, so as to ..offOld
an opening for future improvement, and that, once
taken, it be not hastily abandonled.. The Protestants
of Ireland have been advised,•-:and• from a quatter
entitled to respect and confidence,' to cx't thotn.
selves to secure an influence in the new corporations.
With all respect for those -.who- have offered this.
advice, we must advise the clactly opposite course
—advise that the Protestant freemen of 'the' presont
Corporations, and the Protestant inhabitants of the In-
corporated towns generally; as well as all other Pro-
testants organise thenzselves by themselues, for all
political I.,gitimate purposes, but ghat the shun, ras
they would avoid contamination and rut all con-
nection with the new Corporations. " Tou.zh not,
taste not, handle not," is the admonition ‘Nedict, :we
offer, under the solemn sense of duty, and with- the
deepest conviction of the importance of th'a question
for consideration. What-can the Protestants expect
to gain by meddling with" the new Pe,pisla conven-
tions? This very Bill has rendered Yot ever impos-
' sible the co-operation of any class of. Protestants,
except the scoundrel pre-Papist class, with Rornaniots.
There was once a hopeand while i.t was a ratioiat
hope we adhered to hope thrit the well-disposed,
Ramanists might in time be brought to act with Pro-
teaants for the .common goOd : thiS Municipal Bill has
finally extinguished that hope, by placing well-disposed
Itomanists, as well as Protestants, under the hoofs: of
toe priest-led-rabble. • - -
(From the courier.)

Tnc Cironicic stul raves about Church-rates rued the
cobble:--tnartyr John Thorogood, whose case, riatur.illy
brings to its recollection the history r,f Jonathan
Wild, another martyr to a contunaccioils defiance of
the laws of England. With respect to the contests on
the subject of Church-rates at Roehdri.le, our Contempo-
rary intorms its readers that " the public disgust is still

fresh and strong at the gross immoralities occasioned by
the Rev. Dr. Molesworth, in the parish of Rochdalii,
for the sake of obtaining a Church-rate triumph." Ttleu,

" fr?sli add strong" as is the " public disgust," he pro.
cecds to distort the facts of the case, in the folle,wing
terms ---'• All the reports of the late contest 'agree in
ferniahir'r the particulars of a horrible seen, of strife,
brinery, fraud, violence, and (in the result) of most
questionable legality. The victory of whi',:h the Courch's

talse friends and Judas apostles bos:st is, that by the
rector's prolonging the poll an ho'.4r beyond the time
fixed fur its termination, a colourable majority has lien
obtained for the rate, instead the majority againg,
it which existed at the regular, and, it wilt
probably be found, the legal, close of the poll.'
The strife originated with the party whose vio:ent
hostility to the Established Church continually leads
them to resist the laws of their country : and tis to the
alleged fraud and bribery, it is quite evide,nt that it
either was committed during the contes', it can be
charged upon none but those who seek to deprive the
• Church of her legal dues. As to the. imputed illenAlity
the \ proceedings,we have no doubt that he un-
derstands the law of the case quite as well as his accusers,
not excluding even the writer of the foregoing asper-
sions on his character, and that of the uNglit majority.

MIDDLESEX COU RT OF RE-

QUESTS.

THE " POSITIVE CASE."--A little dogged-looking
old man, and a baker, " tall and magisterial," attended
at the green,haized table, in order to have the following
weizhty matter adjudicated upon.
The little old man said that he went into the baker's
shop for a twopenny loaf, in payrqpnt for witiph he gave
a shilling to the defendant, who returned him change
for sixpence only.
CommissioNEß—Are you positive that it was a Ail-
ling you gave him ?
Old Man—Quite positive.

COMMISSIONER—What makes you so posit,ive.
Old Man—Because before I got to the. baker's, I
felt in my pocket for sixpence, and coul,:frit fine one ;
so I took out a shilling, and carried it in my hand a
matter of twenty yards befbre I Went into the shop.
COMMISSIONER (to the defemlnnt)--And you deny
that he gave you a shilling ?

The Bake---I'll swear that what he gave me was a
sixpence;

The Old Malt—And I will swear that it was a

bhillin.g

The Baker (passionately)—What ! Do yogi think L
have been in trade for 15 years, and don't know a si.s-
pence from a shilling ?

The Old Man—And do you think you can persuade
me out of my own eye-sight. I tell you I had the shil-
ling in my hand, and looked at it, and saw it as plaia
as this shilling (piling out one, and throwing it on die
green liaised table).
COMMISSIONER (to the baker)—The plaintiff, you
see, is quite pesitive in this matter.

The Baker (warmly)—lt is quite impossible that I
can be mistaken, for I took particular notice of the

sixpence.

The Old Mon—The shilling, the shilling !
swear it was a shilling.

The COMMISSIONER (to the plaintiff)—Hae ':he
goodness to be quiet. You (to the defendant) say you
took particular notice of the piece of coin. Vl/471,1at in-
duced you to do so ?
The Baker—l did so, in consequence of two or
three cases, which occurred about a month since, of
persons coming into the shop and giving me sixpences
and shillings, and then declaring they gave me half-
crowns.

CommxssioN;n—But do you think this poor man
would lose his. time, and take a false oath, for sixpence ?
The Barer—l cannot say that he would—but he's a
very ':;ostinatc, rositive old man, as everybody in the
7.,i'ighbourhood knows ; and besides, I could take twenty
oaths, and most conscientiously too, that what he gave
me was a sixpence.

_
'' What !" exclaimed the plaintiff, gettigg red in the
facc--" What! the neighbourhood say that I'M a po-
sitive, obstinate old man. What! this from You, who
have often tried to persuade me that bread just from the
oven was a day old"
COMMISSIONER—We cannot allow any sqliabbl;.ng
here about old or new bread.
" :---And") continued the old man, turning towards
the jury, "wanted to Make me believe he had sold all
his rolls, when I saw him the moment before cover the
cloth over three that were smoking ! I, a positive, ob-
stinate old man !"
The COMMISSIONER here cut the matter short, by
summing up the case to the jury, who gave a nerditt
for the plaintiff. .
The Baker—You arc certainly wrong, gentlemen. I
am positive it was a sixpence.
The Old Man—And I'm positive it was a shilling.
" 1 think," said the COMMTAkONER, turning round to
the jury, "that we may call this 'the positive case:"

COURSE OF EXCEL!
Amsterdam CF. 12 44
Ditto," sight
Rotterdam 9 U 32 5
Antwerp .......
Hamburg... ...... M. B l3 11
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 35
Ditto, 3 months 25 60
Marseilles ... 25 60
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine —l49*
Petersburg, 3 Us 374
Berlin
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 4
Trieste, ditto lO 6
Madrid 364 ,
Cadiz 364
Bilboa
Barcelona 364
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.NGE, YESTERDAY.
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 20
Genoa
Milan
Venice 47

36i evil!e

Naples 4O)
Palermo, per oz 1221
Lisbon 54
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
Bahia
Buenos Ayres .....
New York, 21 dayslliglit 46i
Philadelphia
PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0,
Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9.
New Doubloont 00 13
New' Dollars 0 4. 103
Silver in Bars 0 5 Ili

The Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot returned to Apr-
ley House: on Monday, from a visit to his, 'von, Colonel
Arbuthnot, commanding the 7.2 d Mblenders, at Ports-
mouth.