The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-05 00:00:00

EVENING EDITIO_

set able to say, from sly present knowledge, what I
atheeld recommend were I in Mr. Freeman's position ;
hn,t I can say, that if Mr. Evans came to me for ad-
vice, I would say what I have said now, that his con-
stitution was of a kind that would materially suffer from
goatisomeit.
The. ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Do you under-
stand that Mr. Evans is allowe 1 to take exercise on the
terrace on the bank of the Thane's ?—I did not ask
him particulars, but I think he mentioned the terrace.
lam not uainted with the locality.
Mr. JONES—Are you acquainted with the banks
•f the Dames ?—(oh, oh, and lauzhter.)
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL---4Do you consi-
der him in immediate danger ?—I do not.

Mr. NUN TZ—Are you aware what quantity of
exercise he had been in the habit of taking before his
confinement ?—I never keew him until this day.
Tha witness was then permitted to withdraw.
Lord MAHON thought the evidence recommended
his motion that the Sheriff be immediately discharged,
and be suggested that the Noble Lord (Howick) would
net raove the amendment, which had been suggested,
but would make it the subject of a separate motion.
Lord HO WICK would not move any amendment,
as the evidence he had just heard quite altered his view
of the question.—(Cheers.) He doubted whether he
should awake the amendment at all.—(Cheers, and a
laugh).—and he thought at all events he should postpone
it until there was a greater necessity.—( Cheers.)
The House then divided on Lord MAHON'S me-
tie,'" that the Sheriff be discharged.
The numbers were—

For the motion
Against it
Majotity ---41
Sir J. GRAHAM thought that as the evidence of
Dr. Chambers made it apparent that strict confinement
wag ioierious to Mr. Evans, it shsuld carefully be con-
sidered whether it might not be enlarged. He would
*move therefore that the evidence of Dr. Chambers be
printed with the Votes, and he suggested that his
Noble Friend (Lord Howick) would consider whether
he alight not move to-morrow for the enlargement which
trod tress suggested.
herd HOWICIE did net see anything pressing in
0* own, and he would abstain at present from any
motion. Probably, after a consideration, he might be
iselinad Ito act an the Right Hort. Baronet's suggestion
tet,neerreW if no one else did so.

Lord INGESTRIE suggested that the Sher"
titaaki lee set at liberty on parole.—(Laughter.)
The evidence was ordered to Le printed with tL.
Tot as.

Mr, EMERSON TENNENT, who was very
inclistiectif hoard from the noise of Members leaving
the Roue, put a question to the Secretary of State for
Pereiga Affairs, relative to the present position of the
apciation which has so long been in progress, regard-
iag the compensation due from the Brazilian Govern-
meat to British subjects, for injuries sustained during
Ole insurrection at Para, in 1835.
Lard PALMERSTON said that the claims had
heel referred to the Queen's Athol:rates whose decision
had sit 70 been received.
I■ aaswer to Mr. BARNEBY,
Mr. PRYME !raid that he would bring his motion
respecting the Corn-laws as an amendment on the
esotioit of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton on the
26th inst.

In answer to Mr. HOWARD,
Lord PALMERSTON said that Dr. Bowring'e Re-
port would be ready in a few days.
The steond reading of the Administration of Justice
(Ireland) Bill, and of the Ejectment and Replevin Bill
(Ireland) were postponed till Wednesday March 18 ; the
Committee* of Supply and Way. and Means were post-
posed be Friday.
Mr. BROTHERTON withdrew th• motion of
srlaick Le had given fleece for an:Address to the Crown
Mo eonfer some mark of distinction on Captain Clegg of
the Huddersfield, for his service and humane conduct
toward the passengers and crew of the steam-ship Wil-
liam Huskiseon. He withdrew the motion because he
anderstosd it would be against the usage of the House,
and that tke matter might be left is the hands of her
Majesty's Ministers. He then moved for a return of
the annual exports of British manufactures to the dif-
ferent West India Colonies, both in quantity and value,
seek article being separately stated, from the years
1.35 to 1839, both inclusive. Also, the annual im-
ports of different kinds of provisions into Jamaica, from
183 ii to 1889, both inclusive.
The motion was agreed to, and the House adjourned
it Seven o'Clock.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEED.

INGS.

ea itexclay, the2d inst., the Ecclesiastical Court of I
Norwich held a sitting, and several cases were advanced a
stage.
O the ewe of the Churchwardens of Bungay St.
Mary v. Charles Childs, being called, the Judge (Charles
ibvsas, Esq)., informed the defendant that he was now at
lilbErty to state any legal objection which he might have to
tie forma of the libel, without going at present to the
wukkace of it.

CHILL 4 said he felt that he was entitled to
ttrga maw objections against this libel, as it was an ema-
;onion /roan a type of this Coart, for which, in the person
of the Jade', he desired to profess unbounded and moat
toilteignod respect, but fcr which, in its pretensions, con-
Atiassaien, laws, and practise, he felt only detestation and
shltorrettne. With these sentiments, which be wished to
taproot with all the force and distinctness admatted by the
wraace of society, or of the Court, he should have de.
*haul to wine hither; for the Judge was aware that had he
atlases to submit to legalized robbery, by quietly suffering
tiohrstiatra to distrain, he would not have been cited here;
bkit ticy one consideration he had bees induced to appear in
the Caere, ask that was the reliance he placed on the gni.
veneal testimony to the personal integrity and legal preci.
„sive of the gentleman who honoured the Court by presid.
tug in it, but whet he feared, was perpetuating a nuisance,
Is, mitt/stain its intensity.
The defendant proceeded to say, that having unier this
tole inducement became a party to an Ecclesiastical suit,
although competently advised that a valid objection would
lie is the admission of the libel, he should waive such objec-
tions, isnd promote its admksion, in order that the facts of
flee nays might come before the Court, and afford an illustra-
tins et the practices and principles on which these pro-
ceedings had been conducted.
The defendant then applied for an order to inspect the
rats is the liegistry, to extract from it, and to copy it, which
was immediately granted, and he was assigned to put in
nut personal answer at the next court, March 20, or the
subsesiseet Court.

LAbY GREY. BY THE AUTHOR. OF
"RovswoN glows s," " FAIR. ROSAMOND," eca.—This ro-
mance aperes well with some striking scenes in the death cham-
ber of the young King, whose decease was the signal for the
ambitious Srorthurnberland to thrust forward the gentle pupil of
'Roger Ascham, towards the Crown, the Tower, and the scaf-
! The poisoned nosegay, which is said to have been the
immediate cause of the enfeebled boy's death, is placed by Mr.
the hands of ofteitEluskeea, who is made the mother of
the Holy Maid of Kent, and to owe her desire for revenge, not
merely to that cruel sacr fice of her daughter—tut to the cir-
earessance, of herself having been at an earlier period ruined
and deserted by Henry the Eighth. On such a scale of inven-

tien, and with such a moving principle of mischief, it is not
aliftletklt to imagine how fearlessly the author dashes through
the well-knows historical events of Lady Jan• Grey's brief and
melancholy career, the ootlino of whose character is sweetly
ckrawn. 't,"he work as a whole is interesting, and perhaps even
more re.mr.rkable than the historical novels front the same pen
which have proceded it.—Atheneum.

The patent spectacles, manufactured by Mr. E.
Solomons, No. 36, Old Bond-street, and 10, Old Jewry, City,
rank in importance among the greatest of modern inventions,
which is of the greatest importance to the public, in conse-
quence of their improving and preserving the sight, and their
being of less specific gravity than any others, will be found
highly advantageous to all persons having a determination of
blood to the head or eyes. Their great efficacy is most satis-
factorily authenticated by the concurrent testimony of thousands
•f living witnesses of the first respectability in this and the
sister kin4do:n ; added to which, the documentary proofs sub-
mitted through the medium of the daily Journals, decidedly es-
tablish Mr. bolomons' reputation as an optician and scientific
Men. His voice conductors, recently invented, are the most
powerful instruments hitherto discovered for defective hearing.
Deaf persons are enable'', from their minute construction (being
only A of an inch in diameter), to wear them entirely unseen -
they are inserted and removed with the greatest facility. 13;
their nee musical sounds, and the lowest whisper breathed at 'a
public assembly, vibrate on the organs of hearing in such a
pleasant manner as to afford the greatest relief to those afflicted
wiyh the distressing ailment of deafness. Owing to parties of
the same name fraudulently advertising spectacles as " newly
inventel;" the public attention is particularly directed to the
% address of the above establishments.
THE UNITED SERVICZ JOURNAL, AND
NATAL Afn MMITA SY MAGAZINE POE Itaacn.—.The
. article of this useful and entertaining periodical, in ea-
painting en the great value of Magnetic Observations, gives a
lrGllelfrelof the instructions laid down for the guidance of the
Seth Antarctic expedition, under Captain Ross, which, if
seated 4p to, must be highly beneficial to the cause of science.
Undo the head of the " Afilitary and Naval Establishments
of Modern Egypt," we have an elaborate and complete account
ef all the Paeha's resources for carrying on war ; it is an inte-
resting and 'feel document. The next paper terminates the
aete.otnat of Colonel Parley's Operations at Spithead ; it is a very
satisfactory one. The continuation of the memoir of the
" Vietory" forms the subject of the prevent number of Eng-
laad's Wooden Walla," and is as attractive as ever. " Notes
trona Cana‘le," by Bugle, are clever, soldier-like sketches. In
*e " klempairs of Costello," the gallant Sergeant of the Rifle
ttris*e, .whose adventures have so often gratified us, we find
new teeters., of intermit. His story is as romantic as the best
narrative of fiction, and has truth written on every line of it.
Ti." Nights on the Fo'castle" contain a well-described dream,
is the ifedshipman's story, and we anticipate many pleasant
Tares from the sils source. A Spanish Carlisno' con
STRAW, his quota to the value of the Journal, by account of
the military catastrophe of the Cellist war, and several scien-
tific, and professional eommunieations corn'
ntualser.—.lPeraiv Herald.piety a very good
a *The agent of the Bank of Scotland has received
ex, bearing the London postmark, n 1 ng
tees.
.as intermit on it, stating that the eritce"ihadlseL;eanralayeaahros
ago, takes is the etce here oils pound r
should Lave received, agnorlodhaedx:n
Ycapropriated it to his
and
"etieTp.hrl.is iRs aieserves
credit
actin;goniteer;plztwanevez
unjustly one than the sum he
.--Inverafts Antrnal.
SKELEToNs..--Publie amazement and consider-
able iturierity were excited in this town during the last fe
days., by finding embedded in a part of the under story wall
(i:
ejtlyieh there was it one time a press or cupboard) of one of the
kcises pew being removed for the iraprovereent of the Shannon,
bile entire skeleton of an apparently large athletic man, and the
thigh; zue4 nos other bona of two others.

THE TOLERATION OF THE PRO
TESTANT KING OF PRUSSIA.

Our Chu:ch party cry up for their own purposes of
bigotry the truly Proteet tnt and Christian character of
the Kng of Prussia, and eorne of them lately pro-
posed an humble address of thanks to his Majesty for
the encouragement he has given to true religion.
How far he deserves these encomiums the following
extracts from the last Number of the British and
Foreign Review—article, " Political Opinions of the
Germans,"—will enable our readers to judge
His Psussian Majesty labours, in common with other
Continental rulers, under a mania for originating measures
for the goad of his people, without allowing them a voice
a; to the necessity or the due extent of the proposed inno-
vations. Of these the most extraordinary has, perhaps,
been the amalgamation of Lutheranism and Calvinism in the
new Prussian Protestant Liturgy. The wish to unite the
Lutheran and Calvinist Churches seems to have been en-
tertained by the King as far back as the year 1798, when
a Commission of three churchmen from each creed was
appointed to consult and make proposals for its accom-
plishment. As nothing was ever heard of the result of
their labour s, it is probable that these learned divines
could not agree upon any feasible plan. The misfortunes
which came over the Court of Frederick William and the
Prussian nation in 1807, and which drove that Monarch
to seek a temporary asylum at St. Petersburg, are said to
have had a singular influence upon the project which he
continued to entertain. Ho
.was delighted with the re-
sponses of the choir in the Greek ritual to the priest at the
altar, and is said to have borrowed from these rites the
plan of the new Church service, which was drawn up at
his command by some divines after the establishment of
pease in 1616.
The Prussian Protestant clergy were, in the year 1822, ,
formally surnraoned to relinquish all difference of religious
tenets, and to unite in the formation of a new evangelical
Church. A recent writer on the statistics of the kingdom
(Voigtel), gravely observes, that the two principal Pro-
testant creeds agreed to an anion respecting outward
forms, on the expression of the King's wish to that effect,
in an order from his Cabinet, dated leth February, 1822.
On the authority of this and of other writers who openly
support, or prudently evade canvassing, the present mea-
sures of the Government, we should be justified in assum-
ing, that all opposition to this wide stretch of Royal pre-
rogative had now ceased; and that nothing but a cheerful
apitit of obedience animated the Prussians, who were thus
favoured with a dictation from the throne in matters of
faith. How surprising soever such a consummation must
appear to all versed in the history of religious controversy,
let to those who know that, in the first instance, all the
eading ?missies divines, with the eloquent and philoso-
phical Schleiermacher at their head, formally protested
against ouch a mode of legislation, it must appear still
more extraordinary that the aduiescence in the royal will
should be so general and unconditional. The Lutherans
were, is this new Agendum, called upon to sacrifice to the
Calvinist form of worship no less than the words used in
offering the sacrament of the Lord's Supper : "this is the
body and blood of Christ;" the Calvinist form, " this re-
presents the body," &c., being that adopted in the new
ritual. Among a number of articles which candidates for
the priesthood arc required to swear te, the duties of a ci-
tizen towards the state, including the denunciation of trai-
torous designs against the Sovereign, are inserted ; an ad-
dition of undoubted northern origin, These articles are
also, by a singular misnomer, trmed in the oath, "funda-
mental dogmas of Christianity.e"
In vain did Schleiermacher and other popular writers
raise their voices against these innovations, and show by
the most forcible arguments, that such proceedings must
lot only prove the greatest encouragement of that indiffer-
ence in religious matters with which the age has been
taxed ; but that the conscientious of the two creeds would
infallibly be confirmed is their adherence to their distin-
guishing tenets by these measures ; and thus the union,
which by natural means was fast approaching, would be
prevented.
A lapse of twelve years seems to have been considered a
sufficient respite for refractory consciences; for, in 1834,
we find penal statutes, in the true course of religious zeal,
enacted against Aon-Conformists. The history of the
early persecutions against such pastors and their flocks as
ventured to manifest a desire to evade or to resist the Royal
will, is touchingly told in a work published by hl. icheibel.
We confine ourselves to the proceedings of the last two years,
which would, under the present restraint on the press in
Prussia, have probably not been made public, if the dis-
pute respecting the arrest of the Archbishop of Cologne
had not allowed the barriers which surround it is other
states to be a little extended.

" Only last year the provincial authorities at Erfurt
caused Pastor Graben of Heiligenstadt to be committed to
the House of Correction. The tipper Tribunal of Hal-
berstadt, however, no sooner learned the transaction than

it ordered him to be set at liberty; and when the Magis-
trates at Erfurt appealed to their superiors, the Tribunal
drew up a remonstrance to the King, stating that he ought
not to allow his subjects to be imprisoned without a legal
trial, which they were with difficulty prevented from send.
ing to Berlin."
" A• order of the Cabinet of the year 1534 imposes fines
of front one to fifty dollars, besides other penalties, punish-
ment in the schools, &c., on Lutherans assembling to re.
ceive the sacrament of the Lord's supper. Their preachers
have been arrested and committed to prison, as it would
seem, for an indefinite term, without even the form •f a
trial. This occurred in the case of the Silesian clergymen,
who were committed to close confinement i■ Marienwerder
but three months back, because they would not promise to
abstain from performing their clerical functions."
When we read the inevitable results of this singular per-
secution, we can scarcely believe that such scenes could
occur in our own days, in the enlightened kingdom of
Prussia, and under a Sovereign whom some of our blunder-
ing zealots here represent as the head of Protestantism in
Europe. Protestantism, indeed lit is fortunate for them-
selves that they are not in Prussia. The writer continues—
" It is a matter of notoriety that, to keep regularity in
the registers of births, it is only necessary to know whether
children have been christened or not ; the person by whom
they are baptized being of no importance ; for, according
to the principles of the universal Church of Christ (from
which the consistory of Breslaw has unhappily deviated, by
ordering, in some cases, a repetition of the baptism), the
validity of baptism is in no way dependent on the person
performing the ceremony. Now the Lutherans never re-
fused to deolare that their children had been baptized.
Inquiries were, however, made after the persons who bap-
tized theme, in order that they might be punished under the
new penal laws ; but this information was withheld from
conscientious scruples. A reseript was consequently issued
by the ministers of the clerical arid police departments,
dated 12th February, 1835, declaring all who refused to
give evidence when required, respecting the person per-
forming a clerical function, whether it be the father or a
mere witness of the ceremony, liable to three menths' im-
prisonment." _ _

I■ consequence of this decree, it is further stated, many
fathers of families, especially in Silesia, were committed
to prison, and a most demoralizing system of informing
introduced, to put a stop to which, the tribunal of Ratibor
was obliged, like that of Halberstadt, as before stated, to
interfere, and the Minister was induced to rescind his de-
cree. But it seems that even the road of emigration is not
wholly open to those who desire to quit the &stricts which
they cannot inhabit in peace.
" It has been erroneously stated in some journals that
Silesian Lutherans had emigrated to Australia, for the sake
of freedom of conscience. The truth is, that about 430
Lutherans f:orn the Mark, in the neighbourhood of Tulli-
chau, passed through Berlin in Whitsunweek last, on their
way to Australia : and that not long afterwards about 160
others (we cannot be responsible for the numbers) followed
them, in company with a few from Silesian villages of the
vicinity. That Lutherans from one of the villages which
have been the most severely visited with fines for the illegal
performance of Church service, we mean the circle of
Trebnitz, applied for permission to emigrate, is true. But
the conditions imposed by the Government, that every fa-
ther of a family must prove the possessi,)n of two hundred
and fifteen dollars, and every other member that of one
hundred and ten dollars, prevented these poor people, who
had nothing left on which to raise money, from executing
their project. It is said, too, that the landed proprietors
opposed this step of theirs by remonstrance to the Govern-
ment, fearing to lose, with the Lutherans, their beat pea-
santry, from the neighbourhood which does not s and in the
best repute on the score of honesty."
This is, then, a picture of the domestic administration of
Prussia in the year 1835 I This is the manner in which
the liberty of the person and of conscience are treated !
This is tl.e bead of Protestantism in Europe

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, MAPtcu 3.—We
have nothing new to state in reference to this market ; at any
rate nothing more favourable. Every week seems to add to
the gloom and perplexity ; and, for the mast part, the goods
that find a market are sold at a ruinous loss. In some styles of
new fancy woollens a small profit may, with difficulty, be ob-
tained; but in plain cloths, and in all other fancy goods, the
trade is altogether unprofitable, and, without a speedy change,
the most disastrous results will be experienced among mer-
chants, manufacturers, and shopkeepers. The operatives also
suffer much. and we fear their severe trials are nut even near
an end.— ilartchester Guardian.
CONVICTION FOR MURDER.—At Oxford
Assizes en Monday, Charles Morley was convicted of the wil-
ul murder of Mary Phillips, at Woodcote Common, near Hen-
ey-on-Thames, last year. The deceased was upwards of SO,
tt o o
and resided in a lonely cottage. She lived alone, a female
i, retire
neighbour named Lamden being in the habit of assisting her
ti,rensttheanrndormnainkginogf
thefasther door on leaving her for
the eight. o
lath of May, Mrs. Lamden,
on
going
the cottage, found the door broken open, and the
old woman cruelly
saturated with blood.'
outside was found a small her skull fractured,
murdered,
Herb a
z,
containing wedding-ringa wasfile
e a withnd
p a someir o
vio-
lence torn from her finger,About a foot from the door on the
f
com-
passes, and some other
teats, together with a filryer's tools. The bag and its con-
house, were identifield b afterwards found in the prisoner's
y wasniritness who hail left them
secreted in a neighbouring
i
the prisoner was accordingly t ' dn the previous March, and
these tools at the last Midsummer Sessions convicted of stealing
sentenced to seven years' transportationss for this County, and
sentence he was shortly afterwards• In pursuance of that
Woolwich. Suspicion was at the tirrri:Thoved to the hulks at
been concerned in the murder, but there entertained that he had
b
evidence directly to implicate him, he wasnoeting no sufficient
on that charge. The evidence upon which it then arraigned
to prove his guilt was as follows:—It was shown that at on tnow sought
previous to the murder he said that he had no money,
day
the following day was seen in possession of some silver: a"
on
La
den, the husband of the woman who attended the ele'eeesrn-
swore to some conversation with the prisoner about a fortnight
ell'
previously, in which he had stated Isis belief that the old
man had a good many guineas in her cottage. He was w.
sentenced
to death (day not named) without hope of mercy.
STEALING A DINNER.—A girl at Brighton
was last week sent to the tread-mill for stealing a dinner'from a
baker's oven. It was said, and apparently with some truth, that
nothing was too hot for her.
The aspect of the trade at Leicester is repre-
sented to be very discouraging, the demand for home bu,iness
as well as for export having diminished during the last week.
The value of cattle imported into Liverpool from
Ireland, in the first eleven months of last year, amounted to
2,91)0,000/. ; and the value of the insignificant article of
feathers, imported into England from that oeuntry, is esti-
mated to amount annually to 500,0001.