The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8. B4l.

as they come into use, augment the wages of the
labourerand raise the standard of his reward. Such
are the results of invention and the use of ma-
chinery, when traced through long periods ; and
to such results chiefly, not to its temporary and
local results, must the lawgiver look who aspires
to make permanent laws.

In another part of The Sun will be found a
letter from Mr. ALLEN, Messrs. GRISSELL and
PETO'S foreman, which we insert in a spirit of
fairness. In placing Mr. ALLEN'S defence be-
fore the public, we leave it to judge of the points
in dispute. We cannot pretend to decide which
of the parties states the case most correctly, but
if Mr. ALLEN'S statement be true the masons
have little to complain of. At the same time we
admit their right to withdraw from Messrs,
GRISSELL and PETO'S service, if they like, with-
out any other cause than their own good
pleasure. If it had pleased them to say, We will
not serve Messrs. GRISSELL and PETO, and we
will give no reason for not serving them, their
conduct might have been foolish, but to compel
them to serve would have been to reduce them
to slavery. _ _ _

Mr. ALLEN states that he is indebted to his I
withdrawal from the union for all the attempts
which have been made to ruin him with his em-
ployers. That is an accusation, too, of the truth
of which we cannot judge; but we desire to say
that union is not a bad nor an improper thing.
All society is a union for a common purpose, and
a union of the masons for a laudable purpose—
such, for example, as providing for their infirm
and sick members, or protecting individuals
amongst them from oppression—would be most
praiseworthy. It is not the union, therefore,
which is to be condemned, but the purpose
to which it is applied. At the same
time it is not to be concealed that a union of any
large body of men is apt to inspire them with
arrogance, and excite in othersjust apprehension.
For such a union to be respected, it is indispen-
sable that its conduct be moderate as well as just.
We are not acquainted with the fact stated by
Mr. ALLEN ; but if, as he states, the union con-
stitutes a system which levels the good man with
the idle and the bad, such a purpose is improper,
and neither Mr. ALLEN, nor any other mason,
ought to support such a union. If the union of
the masons have, in fact, that for its object, we
cannot conceive anything more fatal to honest
industry, and the sooner the masons abandon
such a project the better. We advocate free
trade in all cases, and should wish to see its prin-
ciples acted on by the masons as well as the
landlords.

The additional news from China, published in
our columns of this day, will be read with lively
interest. The EMPEROR, it will be seen, takes

credit to his troops for having twice defeated
the English barbarians, and in utter disregard of
the Treaty entered into with ELLIOT for the re.
moval of the army sixty miles from Canton, his

Celestial MAJESTY commands his officers to re-

sume the possession ofthe forts on the river, which
he directs them to put in the best possible
state of defence. " The English," says the Em-
PEROR, " after engaging, have twice retreated
before my troops; whenever put forth in battle
their strength has been sorely pressed upon—
the said barbarians are like dogs and sheep in
their disposition." We predicted that such
would be the result of ELLIOT'S cowardly aban-
donment of the attack on Canton, so chival-
rously undertaken by the gallant General
Sir Huatt Gouon. But the Emperor has by
this time discovered that all British diplomatists
are neither ELLIOTS nor GORDON BREMER& Sir
H. POTTINGER and Admiral PARKER only
reached Macao on the oth of August, and on the
21st of the same month nine ships of war,
four steamers, one surveying vessel, and
twenty-two transports, sailed from Hong with
a view of occupying the island of Amoy,
deeply embayed in the mainland, and op+
posite the rice granary of China, the
fine and fertile Island of Formosa—where it is
proposed that the expedition shall winter.
As no vessel can keep the sea in the Gulf of
Pechelee in the winter months, the expedition
will not proceed to the mouth of the Peiho
before spring next. There the Plenipotentiary
proposes to meet the EMPEROR in person, or other-
wise he will proceed to Pekin, to explain
matters after the British Tar fashion, to
the EMPEROR and the members of the six Im.
perial Boards. In the interim large reinforce-
ments were expected to be sent from India and
England to the Chinese waters, including a nutn-
ber of war steamers. So late as the 28th of Sep-
tember two fine iron-steamers, the Ariadne
and the Medusa, left Bombay to join the
China expedition. These vessels will be
of immense service in towing the ships
of war into action, assisting them if dis-
abled, and carrying on war in waters not acces-
sible to ships of the line. The war is expected to
continue for two years, and extensive prepara-
tions for hostilities for so long a period have been
made both by the Admiral and the Plenipo-

tentiary.
Commodore Sir J. GORDON BREMER returns
to England because having been Joint-Pleni-
potentiary with ELLIOT at the time of the
attack on Canton, he concurred with that
ill-starred functionary in suspending opera-
tions, and thereby lost credit with Admiral Sir
W. PARKER. This was delicately intimated to
him at his first interview with Sir H. POTTINGER,
when he suddenly discovered that he was indis-
posed, and that the climate of Great Britain was
better suited to his constitution than that of the
" central flowery land."
From India we have abundant complaints of
the injury inflicted upon the inhabitants, in con-
sequence of the immense expense to which that
country is put by the wars carried on in Central
Asia. One Correspondent writing from Bombay
states, that the campaign under Lord KEANE
closed in January, 1840, and that during the
fourteen months of its continuance we were only
twice in action, when our casualties altogether did
not exceed 400 men, killed, wounded, murdered,
and missing:; yet the expense wholly supplied by
the Anglo-Indian! Government amounted to the
enormous sum of nine millions sterling ! " Since
Lord KEANE quitted the command of the com-
bined armies," continues this writer, " we have
been twenty-nine times in action, or under the
fire of the enemy, and thirteen times checked
or defeated : we have had 1,600 men killed or
wounded on the field ; seventeen officers have
fallen in action; seventeen more have died of the
effects ofclimate ; four have been murdered; and a
number not much under this melancholy total of
thirty-eight deaths are now for a time lost to
the service, suffering from sickness or from their
wounds. The annual expenditure, since the
grand army quitted Cabool, of maintaining
SHAH SooJAH on his throne amounts to 3,000,0001.
tinnually. The salaries of the politicais in Aff-
ghanistan and Schinde, and pay of the British
officers in the SHAH SOOJAH'S service—all of
which comes from the coffers of the East India
Company—is 120,000/. a year. We lent the
Khan of KIIIVA a million sterling, as an
accommodation for slaves restored to Rus-
sia; we gave in free subsidy 300,0001., in
the course of twenty months, to KA MRAN,
Shah of Herat. India has at length become
exhausted with such repeated and fear-
ful defalcations, and yet she continues to bleed
at every pore. The Five per Cent. loan comes
slowly in, and the whole resources of the Trea-
sury scarce meet the current expenses of Go-
N:ivre11111870.0017blic improvement is everywhere
put a stop to. It was but a paltry allowance to
sterling;tiirough
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thee even roads and bridges out of a revenue of 7,000,000/.
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prosperity. The safest course is to carry out
vigorously tile policy of the late Cabinet. Two

or three decisive movements will secure tran-
quillity on the side of Per- a, and among
the Afghan tribes; while the prosecuti,n of de-
cided measures in china. will L2,,p the Burmese
from displaying any dangerous sympathy for the
Celestials. If the new Government relax its
measures of Indian policy, a host of enemies will'
spring up both in the cast and west, -who
will place us in the most imminent .peril.
In Persia, Herat, Candahar, Lahore, on
the one side, and in Burmah on the other,
we have hosts of concealed enemies, who
only await the slightest reverse of fortune, or
indication of weakness, to attack us. What-
ever, therefore, may. be the expenses of the
Government of India, they are indispensable to
the maintenance of our Indian empire. Perse-
verance in the plans of the late Administration
can alone lead to the ultimate and lasting di-
minution of the load of taxes under which the
inhabitants of British India are now groaning.

The conspiracy at Brussels--the news brought
by the Overland Mail—the general aspect of
affairs in Spain—the burning of the Tower of
London—and the disarmament of the French
navy occupies all the French Journals. Upon
these stirring topics we, however, find nothing so
new in them as to call for any remark. We have
only space for the following extracts
M. Van Praet, Secretary of the King of the Belgians,
has, since his arrival in Paris, been received by the King
at St. Cloud, and at the Foreign Office by M. Guizot.
Thu Courrier Francais says :—" It is announced that
Count Pahlen, the Russian Ambassador, is about to quit
Paris for St. Petersburgh.
The Courrier Francais gives the following from Tou-
lon, dated October 29 :
" The discharge of seamen continues ; about 6,000
are being sent to their homes, viz„ the quarter of the
effective force. The same operation will take place in
the ships of the division of Admiral Casy on their arrival
at Brest. 'We may therefore regard the disarmament of
the fleet as pretty certain, for there is no armament when
the crews are not complete, and the recruits of this year
would be rather an embarrassment on board than other-
wise. Tho Neptune and Jena, ships of the line, are
getting ready for Brest,where they are to join the division
of Adm.Casy.The Marengo, Trident, Genercux,andVille-
de-Marseille, ships of the line, are to leave about the 15th
of November for Algiers and Mostaganem or Oran, to
take on board the two regiments which are to return to
France after the autumnal campaign. Two of these
ships will then go to Philippeville to fetch a regiment.
When these three regiments shall have left, and the
discharge of the soldiers of the class of 1834 have been
effected, the army in Africa will have experienced a
diminution of about 12,000 men besides the sick who
are sent to France after each expedition. The Arabs
will regard this reduction as the beginning of aban-
donment."
The squadron under Captain Lc ray has arrived at
Toulon from Tunis. It consists of the Neptune, Her-
cule, Trident, and Diadem°, of the line, with the An-
dromede frigate. The brig d'Assas, has arrived at
Brest from Newfoundland. The Brandon steamer has
sailed from Rochfort for Lisbon.
We find in tne Phare des Pyrennes, of the 31st of Oc-

tober, the following paragraph :
" It does not appear that the Regent has yet quitted
Vittoria. No important decision has yet been come to
on the question of the fueros. Nothing has been •pub-
lished since the proclamation, which we gave in our last
number. It may, however, be already affirmed that the
privilege of the province will be shortly withdrawn, and
that the only favour the Biscayans will enjoy, will be
that they shall continue to be exempt from tht con-
scription."
The Moniteur Parisien says—" The demolition of the
island of Barcelona is suspended ; but it was believed
that the operation would be resumed."
The Moniteur of November 4, has no official part.
Dr. Bowring arrived at Havre on the 3d, on his way
to Paris. The Bth and 9th regiments of Artillery, in
garrison at Toulouse, have received orders to send two
batteties to Bayonne, and two to Perpignan.
The Emancipation of Toulouse of the Ist of November,
announces that M. L. Dupin, printer of the Journal
'Aspir, against whom a warrant has long been issued,
was obliged yesterday to go to prison, to join the Editor
of the Journal, M. P. Dupin.—ConstitutionneL
There was again a Council of Ministers to-day, at
which the King presided ; it was held at St. Cloud, to
which the King returned yesterday.
A temporary entrance is now arranging under the
Puyslils of the Chamber of Deputies • opposite to the
bridge, by which the King will be able to go to the
Chamber to open the Session without passing through
the streets.—Commerce.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, NOV. 4.
first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Prier.
french 5 per Cents ll5 85 ... 116 115 85 115 90
3 per Contr... ...... SO 25 ..„ 30 ... SO 25 ... 80 *I
Loan
lank of prance
Lattitte Bank 1,0001. St area 1037 50 ...1040 ..,037 50 ...1040
5.0001. Skares 5010 ...5070 ...5070 ...5070
Selgian !Sant, 1841 '76o ... 730 ... '760 ... 780
Belgian 5 per Cents.
per cent,. 1840 10.:3 102,4 ... ... 1i:214
ipanisis Active... 52 ... V. 2%
Passive 5 ... 5 ... 5 5
,4eapolitan 166 ... leo ... 1•215
Roman • 104% ... 104% ... 104% ... 104%
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, LB 2..0 200 ... 200 ... 200
R.ll 3ll 25 211 25 ... 310 310
(Means .. 478 75 47$ 75 ... 477 50 ... 477 50
itrasburg to Balr.shares red. 2..51 25 .32. 50 ... 231 25 ... 231 25

PEACEABLE STATE OF IRELAND.—The charge
for printing proclamations offering rewards for
the arrest of offenders, &c., issued by the Lord
Lieutenant, fur the last quarter, was only 201. Iu
the reign of Toryism when the Catholics were kept
down by the sword, and treated by the Orangemen
as helots, the average charge was 3001. per quarter,
and occasionally it rose to 1,0001. The mild con-
ciliatory and impartial government of Lord Nor-
manby and Lord Ebrington, produced a marked
change in the habits of the Irish people. They
were for the first time, during the last three
hundred years treated like rational beings, and
true to their national character for gratitude,
made the best return they could, and which
they knew would be most acceptable to their
benefactors, by rendering obedience to the laws.
THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—In former times,
when this body was in the vigour of youth, we were in
the habit of exposing its absurdities. At present, when
it is falling into the grave, we should disdain to give the
wretched, tottering, decaying thing, a single blow. It
finds numerous assailants, however, amongst the Tories ;
and even the Standard, like the ass, can now kick the
dying lion. They flattered and used the Association
for a political purpose ; but now it suits them to hunt
their old ally and friend to death. We leave it with
pleasure to their vengeance. Generous men are satis-
fied with defeating their enemies—to butcher decaying
friends, is a sort of ruffianism which can only be prac-
tised by the Times and the Standard.
THE ROMISH STATE CLERGY.—A brother of the re-
nowned Colonel Sibthorp has left the ministry of the
Church of England, and reconciled himself to the Bishop
of Rome. According to the Standard he is only one of
several clergymen who might be expected to leave the
Church if their honesty and their convictions went
together. They repudiate the doctrines of Protestant-
ism, but hold fast to its good livings. They adopt the
faith of Rome, and the wealth of England. What a cha-
racter does the Standard give the State priesthood ? Can
it be supposed that those whom it thus denounces are
safe guides for a Protestant people ? It is, however, for
such double-tongued instructors that the Standard and
its party calls on the nation to erect and endow more
churches.

WYLD'S MAP OF ROUTES TO

INDIA, &c.

Mr. Wyld, of Charing-cross, has published a finely
executed map of all the routes at present travelled from
London to India and China, by sea and land, with a scale
of distances, and other valuable particulars, not to be
found in other maps. There is also indicated on this
map a new route, chiefly overland, avoiding the terri-
tories of France and Russia, as well as the inconvenience
and uncertainty of a long sea passage. This route is re-
commended by Mr. Wyld, after (we believe) a personal
examination of the whole line, and it is interrupted only
by a passage of 130 miles across the Black Sea, from
Kostingi to Sansoom. The roads the whole way are
good, and the countries peaceable, and most likely to
continue so.
We have likewise seen a very ingenious and most use-
ful " Corn-law and Currency Chart," compiled by the
same gentleman, which shows the fluctuations of corn,
currency, and Consols, and of our exports and imports,
revenue and expenditure, from 1790 to 1840. So much
valuable information upon so many important subjects,
was never before compressed into se small a space, or
presented so clearly and strikingly to the observation. It
will be an effectual aid to the Anti-Corn-law advocates,
in the illustration of the manner in which the " Devil's-
law" has operated.

PHRENOTYP [CS OF BENI° WS KI.
On Saturday evening
we had the great pleasure of
attending Major Beniowski's class (his last lecture) for
artificial memory, his improved system of which he calls
by the appropriate name of Phrenotypics. It is to us
the more gratifying to be able to testify to the ease
and certainty with which this system has been mastered
by two classes of adults, each in six lessons, at the
Adelaide Gallery, as we have repeatedly and strongly
expressed our prejudice against the art of Mnemonics,
and have been very slow to recognise the merits of this
gentleman's adaptation. If We have been cautious in
our approbation, we shall not, on that account,
be the less frank in the avowal of our con-
viction that the learned and ingenious Pole
has really contrived a simple and easily acquired series of
plirenotypies, by which every kind of knowledge, in the
acquisition of
.which merely technical memory is useful,
can be rapidly and permanently imprinted 9n the mind.
One gentleman,'Who had received but four lessons, corn-
milted to . memory froth our dictation, and repeated
'thirty-six . words in six strange languages—llindu,
Hebrew, Arabic, _Gerinan, Polish, and Celtic, in less
than five minutes. It is not too mush to say, deliberately
and earnestly, thatMjor's system is well worthy
the attention of all Who areaconcerned in the education
of others, or who desire to improve themselves.

Several of the Cabinet Ministers visited Sir
Robert Peel on Saturday morning, in Whitehall-gardens.

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AND
tiblic Optutott.

" Who runs may read."

1101ZISIGN.
,The accounts received on Saturday morning from
Brussels inform us that the police are indefatigable in
their endeavours to discover all the authors of the late
plot. The number of six-pounder ball_ seized was 300.
All the persons arrested have been placed in solitary con-

fitiettent.
The following incidefit in the youthful history of
the Spanish Ambasssdor M. Olozaga, related by the
Courrier Francais, proves him to be a man of courage
and great presence of mind. " The young Ambassador of
Spain, M. Alozaga," says that Journal, " who has just
given proof of so much tact and frankness in his corre-
spondence with Queen Christina on the subject of the
O'Donnell movement, was, under the absolute govern-
ment of Ferdinand VIL, .thrown into a dungeon in Ma-
drid. He was there, expecting to be executed, when,
aided by his brother, he made his escape. He wrapped
himself in a cloak, and, presenting himself before
the jailer with his purse in one hand and a pistol in the
other, profited by the stupefaction of the man to seize
his cap, and putting it on reached the last sentinel, who
took him for the jailer. What o'clock is it, sentinel?'
said he, with great calmness of manner. A quarter
past twelve,' replied the sentinel. Five minutes after-
wards, M. Olozago was, with the aid of his brother, who
was waiting for him in the street, safe from the pursuit
of the police, and looking forward to happier days."
_ A letter from Madrid of the 27th ult. states that the
917,000 National Guards of Spain are divided into 975
battalions, 72 squadrons of cavalry, and 96 artillery com-
panies, with their corresponding field-pieces and other
ordnance ; and it-is proposed that, out of the number,
there should be 250,000 moveable National Guard, and
11,000 cavalry, who, upon cases of war, &c., are to gar-
rison second-rate fortresses, large cities and towns, as
well as form themselves into three corps, to be stationed
in the neighbourhood of Madrid, Zaragossa, Valladolid,

and Burgos.
The news from Constantinople, Alexandria, Beyrout,
Smyrna, and Athens, is interesting, but so diffuse that
the substance of it cannot be given in a summary. We
refer, therefore, to the details in another part of The Sim.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Times ridicules with great justice the proceed

ings of the Exeter Hall fanati-cs, observing :—" Any man
who will look down a page of the reports of the Protest-
ant Association, and stop his eye fin- a moment when
he observes the word Cheers,' Hear, hear,' will find
them always called forth by some broad denunciation or
coarse anecdote against the unrepresented Papist. We
are no partisans of what is called concession ; we are
not silly enough, or inexperienced enough, to fancy that
feelings of long-standlng, widely spread, and deeplyseated,
.will be bribed into quiet by sops. For Ireland, firmness
is as necessary as beneficence. But the 'fcrociter in mode,
nihil in re" of the Protestant Association, and such like
exhibitions, would seem expressly devised for impeding
to the extent of its power, both firm and gentle treatment."
The Protestant Association, though expressly founded to
further the interests of the Church, is, in reality, one of
the worst enemies the Church possesses. It represents
her as bigotted, intolerant, inimical to religious freedom,
and anxious only to secure an unquestioned supremacy
for herself. The sooner the Church comes boldly for-
ward, and, in language not to be mistaken, repudiates
and fixes the seal of reprobration on, the sayings and
doings of the Protestant Association, the better it will be
for her, and the cause of Christianity which she professes

to have so much at heart.
The Chronicle says:—" The new Ministry is formed
amongst other reasons, for the express purpose of in•
vading property by taxation. The Whigs went out
because they had determined to lay on no new taxes; the
Tories are in for-'their imposition. As a temporary expe-
dient, the public debt is increased. But the Cabinet is
preparing to show Parliament how. to equalise the
revenue with the expenditure—not by economising, nor
by remissions of vexatious imposts, unburdening the
springs of industry, but by taxes. It is for new taxes
that we are waiting this interval of consideration.'
The money power must be yet more a paying power: and
meanwhile the great tax of all, the impost that destroys
forty millions per annum, wasting alike the capital of
the wealthy and the bread and wages property
of the operative, is, if possible, to be perpetuated."—
We should not be at all surprised if the Chronicle were
right in its hypothesis, and that the remedy intended to
be proposed by Ministers next Session, were the imposi-
tion of a fresh load of taxes, heavy enough to break the
back of Atlas. The Tories have always been remarkable
for their powers in this respect, and have thrown more
invention and ingenuity in the way of taxation than
even Sir Walter Scott shows in the composition of his
Waverley novels. If they must needs increase the taxes,
and are at a loss for a taxable article, let them clap a tax
on nonsense, for then the impost will fall heavily on their
own Parliamentary speakers, and it is to be hoped be
attended with the beneficial effect of putting an end to
Sir James Graham's fancy for writing pamphlets.
Speaking of the dilatory policy of the late Ministers
as regards the Corn-laws, the Post says :—" How hap-
pens it that they have waited until their party had lost
its preponderating influence, and then, but not until
then, have informed the public of the countless blessings,
the certain national felicity, which the mere repeal of
an Act of Parliament would occasion ? In 1831 and 2
they had great power—the people was with them—the
Parliament was not against them—they could and they
did alter the legislative constitution of the country, but
they did not repeal the Corn-laws. They never even at-
tempted any such thing. And yet now they tell us that if
the law were repealed every thing good which a
nation .could desire would be the consequence I If
they say what they think now, what must they think of
what tjAylaaid when they .really had power ? Then
they promised everything as the result of Parliamentary
R4urtn,.but,the great " Reform " has, according to their
own account, turned out a great failure, but they said
nothing of Corn-law repeal."—There is, unfortunately,
but too much justice in these sarcasms of the Post, and
we will not attempt to defend the Whigs from them.
When these men could have repealed—or at any rate
greatly modified—the Corn-laws, they did nothing; and
it was not till pOwer had all but passed away from their
hands that they deemed the subject worth consideration.
For this apathy they are now paying the penalty. They
are ousted, not by the Tories, but by themselves. Their
case is one of suicide, not of destruction by an enemy.
We quote the following from the Herald :—" The
Political Economy Club,' we may incidentally inform
the public, is a small association of amiable and wealthy,
but somewhat conceited, gentlemen, who dine- together
during the Parliamentary season, and have generally
seduced the Chancellors of the Exchequer for the time
being to partake of their hospitality, after dinner one of
the number lulls the Right Honourable Gentleman and
his fellow members to sleep, for the benefit of their di-
gestion, by reading aloud a paper on one of those
.dog-
matic points of human economy which never practically
enters into the business circle of human affairs. The en-
thusiasm of the essayist in reading hii own transcendental
effusion, wholly prevents him from observing the som-
nolency of his supposed auditory ; his silence when
the Esssay—' big with the fate of Caesar and of
Roane'—is exhausted, recalls his friends to the charms
of the wine and dessert, and their subsequent gravity
and profound nods when he illustrates, or tediously re-
peats, the arguments they did not hear, convinces the
exhibitor of each succeeding dinner party, that the Fi-
nance Minister of the country will at once act on his
views, and be supported by
.pamphlets from the pens of
all his silently-approving' friends. Such is the circle of
self deceit in which the members of the Political Eco-
nomy Club move gently round, by means of the good
dinners and excellent wines of the Cockspur-street
hotel. Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Mill, Mr. Holland were, Mr.
Tooke, Col. Torrens, Mr. Jones Loyd, and Mr. Norman
are, all members of this harmless but self-deluding and
caw me, caw thee little dining club."
The North Devon Journal thus alludes to the present
distressed state of the country :—" The distress of the
working classes in the manufacturing districts is gradually
forcing itself upon public attention. The statements re-
cently made in the House of Commons, and the contradic-
tions subsequently given to some of them, have led to anxi-
ous inquiry on the part of many benevolent individuals;
andthe result notonly confirms the representations which
had been made, but proves that the half had not been
told. We have availed ourselves of means which we hap-
pen to possess of instituting private investigation, pri-
marily directing our attention to the district which Dr.
Bowring's statements have rendered so notorious ; and
we regret to find that dark as was the picture which he
drew, truth would have justified a yet deeper colouring."
Speaking of the rumour of the appointment of a Pro-
testant Bishop to the See of Jerusalem, the Brighton
Herald remarks—" What right the Archbishop of Can-
terbury can have to send a Bishop into a country of
.ilahomedans, governed by one of our Allies, we cannot
conceive. What would be said in England if the Grand
Signior were to open a mosque in London, with a view
of proselytizing the English? All the country would be
up in arms. Then, why should we force our Bishops
upon a city belonging to another Sovereign?"
The following remarks are from the Dublin Evening
Post :—" To the deep disgrace of Lord de Grey and
Lord Eliot—the ready' professors of conciliation and im-
partiality—we are forced to write the words 'Judge
Lefroy.' As to Sir Robert Peel, no one believes his
professions. Expediency has ever been his motto, and
he takes up a man or a measure just as he finds himself
forced by circumstances, without the slightest regard to
his past declarations. But with Lord Eliot, at least,
it was different—he had a character for straightforward-
nesss, and many people, therefore, believed him ; but
now he stands before the world as the stultified tool of
the crafty and unprincipled faction amongst whom his
ambition has brought him."
MONEY—TR.ADE—COMMETZCE.

A meeting of theriTas7l;scont-TeJecr with Tile strike
was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern on Friday
evening. There were at least 5,000 present. One reso-
lution proposed was " that the meeting condemned the
conduct of those men who had been so unmanly as to
accept employment from Messrs. arissell and Peto, and
it was hoped that no shelter would be given to them, and
that support should be denied to every lodging-house
and public-house that took them in. Mr. Wakley
strongly advocated the cause of the masons, observing
" that it was contrary to human nature that 200 men
should voluntarily throw themselves out of work, and
subject themselves to all the domestic privations conse-
quent thereon, unless they were actuated by some high
principle of duty." Another meeting will be held at
the Craven Head, Drury-lane, next Ilrednesday even-
ing, at eight o'clock.
COMNIERCX/11. REFORM.
The distress in Bethnal-green is increasing from week
to week ; the workhouse has in it above 800 paupers, and
about 1,200 receive out-door relief. The overseers have
endeavoured to farm out the paupers at Norwood and
Bromley. The Spitalfields workhouse is in the same
over-crowded state.