The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

the Scriptures, and judge for themselves.
We trust this scene will not be without
use in Parliament when the Non•intrusionists
claim protection for the members of the Scottish
Church. Should Sir ROBERT PEEL, or the Earl
of ABERDEEN, or any Minister of the Crown, in
any way, by favouring the dominant party, con-
tribute to their success, and consequently the de-
struction of public liberty in the north, he would
richly deserve iMpeachment.

At the public meeting held in Southwark
yesterday, Mr. A. PELLATT, a Liberal Dis-
senter, but remarkable for his moderation,
was constrained, by his sense of what is due
to the suffering people, to consent to a me-
morial to her MAJESTY, a part of which
prays that the People's Charter may be-
, come the law of the land. But, far as this went,
it scarcely satisfied the numerous meeting. The
memorial was indeed unanimously assented
to ; but after that, the National Petition
was offered for acceptance, and, having
been supported by more than one speaker, who
urged the division of the land, was almost una-
nimously adopted. Will such facts not awaken
the aristocracy ? Govern this nation by force, in
opposition to justice, they cannot ; and if they will
not allow the people to have bread, the people will
insist on sharing their estates. Between an at-
tempt to establish despotism, an agrarian revolu-
tion, or granting free trade, they have to choose.
Reason, Justice, Nature, and Gon command the
last, and if they decide for the first, no power on
earth can ward off unspeakable calamities from
England.

The French Journals of Sunday have duly
reached us. The Court of Peers sat till six
o'clock on Saturday, again occupied with the
trial of QUENISSET and his accomplices, but no
important fact was elicited. From Avignon the
Government had received a telegraphic despatch,
dated the 4th instant, stating that the Rhone
had overflowed its banks, and inundated
a large portion of that ancient city. The suffer-
ings of the inhabitants were in consequence very
great. The Journal des Debats ridicules the pre-
tensions of M. THIERS to effect a change in
the Ministry. From several articles in the
Court organs it is clear that the Court is doing all
in its power to produce a coldness between the
people of Great Britain and Spain. As a means
to effect this they are endeavouring to alarm the
Spaniards for the safety of their Colonies.
(From the !french Papers of Sunday.)
The bulletein of the laws contains a royal ordinance,
which fixes the revenue of the Legion of Honour for the
year 1842 at 7,856,998 francs. •
It is announced that General Rumigny is going to set
out for Africa, where he has already :had the command,
and that he is to act as Governor-General, ad interim, in
the room of General Borgeaud, who has permission to
come to France to remain there during the session. Ge-
neral de Rumigny, it is added, will be accompanied by
M. August Martineau Deschenez, Auditor in the Council
of State.—Temps.
A journal announces that M. Thiers had a long con-
ference with the Duke of Orleans, yesterday.
The Journal of Angers and of Rennes announces that
the rivers have overflowed their banks. At Rennes the
Velaine had risen to a greater height than in the most
considerable inundations of the last forty years.
The proceedings against M. Dupotz may be consi-
dered as an important fact. The sitting of the Court of
Peers yesterday disclosed the really political part of the
affair of Quenisset. People did not comprehend why M.
Dupotz was accused, though there was nothing in that
report which materially implicated him.
Yesterday, when after the declaration of that writer,
that he did not know any of the accused, the Attorney-
General instead of abandoning the accusation, took files
of the Journal du People, and read extracts from them,
in order to find some connection between the facts of the
process and the theories of the writer, people under-
stand that the real object was to attack the political
press, and that the frequenters of public houses and con-
trivers of plots were brought before the Peers only to
lead tO an attack on the most vital of our liberties.
We must only be astonished that M. Hebert did not
manage more dexterously the transition from an assassi-
nation to a misdemeanour of the press.
M. Dupotz nobly represented the press. His exami-
nation lasted throe hours and a half.— Gazette de France,

DR. BIRKBECK.—The funeral of Dr. Birkbeck
will take place, we are informed, at Kensall-
green, on Monday next. A meeting of the
Mechanics' Institute will be held on Thursday,
to settle in what manner the respect of the In-
stitute shall be shown to the venerable Gentle-
man's memory. Similar meetings are in con-
templation at the other Metropolitan Institutions.
The warrant creating the infant prince Prince
of Wales and Earl of Chester, received the
Royal sign manual yesterday, and the creation,
we have every reason to believe, will be an-
nounced in this evening's Gazette. Besides
being Prince of Wales, the infant Prince is the
Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, and Duke of
Saxony.
We have authority to contradict a paragraph
which has appeared in several of the public jour-
nals, that his Royal Highness the Duke of Sus-
sex is about to resign the Grand Mastership of
the ancient order of Freemasons. That his Royal
Highness has no such intention is evident when
we state that he was unanimously proposed at a
meeting of the Grand Lodge on Wednesday last
to fill the distinguished office for the ensuing
year.

WHICH IS THE TRUE CHURCH.--A Puseyite
correspondent of the Post asserts that the Pu-
seyites are much more faithful followers of the
Rubrick than their opponents, whom he stigma.
tises as Calvinists, and contends that the Pusey-
ites follow the true orthodox Church of England.
He quotes as one proof that the Rubrick com-
mands fasting on the Sundays, and he avers that
the Calvinists, or low Church party, far from
fasting on that sacred day, make a point of feast-
ing. We are of opinion, after much contempla-
tion on this important subject, that he
makes out a case against himself. The
Church of England, or rather the Clergy
of that Church, have long repudiated and
set aside fasting as entirely heterodox and
uncanonical. If the Rubrick order the
clergy to fast, it must be wrong; they leave that
altogether to the starving laity. It is a mon-
strous contradiction to give them great masses of
wealth and then prescribe fasting to them. The
Puseyites must, by mistake, have adopted the
Gospel of the Essenes, which the feasting Church
of England has long ago rejected. It holds fast-
ing by the priesthood in abhorrence.

, LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. 7.—Wind this day at noon S. W.
OFF MARGATE, DEC. 6.—Mary Bannatyne, Pick-
' ering, Calcutta,- Australia, St. John's, New Brunswick.RAMSGATE, DEC. 6.—Arrd. British Queen, London,
for Cape Coast Castle ; Racer, ditto, for Terceira.
DEAL, DEC 6.—Wind SW.—Arrd. Marianna, South
Seas ; Thomas Rowell, Quebec. Arrd. from the River,
Dartmouth, for Bombay.
' LIVERPOOL, DEC. 6.—Arrd. Creamore, Shapley, Pa-
raiba, sailed 11th ult. ; Eliza Kellick, St. Domingo ;
Fanny, Crowell, New Orleans; Chicora, Rogers, Charles-
ton; Elizabeth Rowell, Wake, St. John's,New Brunswick
Eliza Keith, St. Andrew's,
.Newßrunswick ; Glengarry,
Prince Edwards' Island ; Sovereign, St. John's, New
Brunswick. Put back, Capricorn, for Barbadoes, with
damage, having been in contact with the Catharina, for
Rotterdam ; Washington, Mobile, leaky ; Harriet Scott,
for Bombay ; Thunderer, Rio ; Salima, Demerara ;
Princess Victoria, Mobile. The Catharine, bound to
Rotterdam, was towed into the Mersey last evening dis-
masted, having been in contact with the Capricorn for
Barbadoes, off Port Lymas, 3d instant. The Morning
Star, supposed from Richebucto, to this port, with loss
of rudder, 18 inches water in her hold, and abandoned,
was fallen in with, 16th ult., in lat. 45, lon. 51, by the
Sovereign, arrived here. The Broad Oak, hence to Bahia,
has put into Shedwell Reads, with boats stove and loss of
bulwarks, caboose, &c. The Sarah, from Odessa to
Cork, totally dismasted, was towed into Toulon, 21st
ult., by a French corvette. Arrd. off, Janet, Valparaiso;
William Shand.
DOVER, DEC. s.—Arrd. Picciola, Hamburgh, for
Barbadoes.
COWES, DEC. 6.—Arrd. Regalia, Quebec ; Louisa
Amelia, llamburgh, for Vera Cruz.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 6.—Wind W. to W.N.W., strong.
—Arrd. Wellington, London, for New York.
PLYMOUTH, DEC.:2.—Wind S.W.; 3, W.N.W.—Arrd.
Pere, Smyrna, for St. Petersburgh, with loss of bul-
warks ; Jacob, Shields, for Rio.
FALMOUTH, DEC. s.—Wind W. to S., fresh breezes.
—Arrd. Acastus, Hayes, Buenos Ayres, sailed 26th Sep-
tember; Racehorse, Punchard. Ancona, with the cargo
shifted; Charles, Jersey for Teneriffe. Sailed the Alert
packet, West Indies. The Orient, from Madras to Lon-
don, notwithstanding both pumps are kept at work, the
water has increased 18 inches during the last 24 hours; ,
she has conmenced unloading.
BRISTOL, DEC. 6.—Arrd. Emanuel, Pearson, Quebec.
SWANSEA, DEC. s.—Arrd. Portland, Moore ; and
Magnet, Watson, Cuba.
Maria
co taGrace,
DEC. Barbadoes.et._ rrd.
I3EAUMARIS, DEC. 6.—Arrd. Dykes, Harrison, Quebec.
CLYDE, DEC. 4.--Sld. Kirkman, Finlay, Bombay ;
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Sir Edward Borougha,mßueal Abbott,rtha Guard,
sbee been selected
eCuba i
ecte.d
from the Judges' list as High Sheriff of the City of Dub-
lin by his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant. This is the
first appointment under the new Municipal Corporation
lnominated s in
those
theose same manner,
heretoforeand under I similare iirers
Act. The Sheriffs for boroughs will henceforward be
of counties.—Dublin Evening regu-
lations,