The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-20 00:00:00

POSTAGE TO INDIA.

It will be gratifying to those who have correspondents
in India to know, that a great inconvenience will be
soon done away with—viz., the obligation of paying the
postage on this side, and That in a short time postage
may be paid both here and in India, and both on the
transmission • and receipt of the letters. The London,
East India, and China Association having renewed their
memorial to the Lords of the Treasury on the 'subject of
the optional payment of letters between this country
and India, their Lordships have directed the Postmaster-
General to carry the arrangements proposed by the East
India Company, in the following letter to Mr. Clay, M.P.,
Secretary to the India Board (to whom the subject had
been referred) into effect : _ _ _

" East India-house, March 11, 1841.

" Sir,—l have laid before the Court of Directors of
the East India Company your letter of the 3d inst., And
the enclosed correspondence relative to the optional pre-
payment of letters paSsing between the United Kingdom
and India- via Gibraltar and Falmouth, respecting which
the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India are
desirous of ascertaining the Court's opinion.
" The Court direct me to state in reply, that consider-
ing the proposed arrangement as one calculated to promote
the convenience of the public in both countries, they
are willing to facilitate its introduction, and accordingly
to give orders for thecollection in India on behalf of her
Majesty's Government of the postage due both on unpaid
letters posted in the'United Kingdom and on letters for
this country prepaid in India, and for the remittance to
England of the amount collected by bills in favour of her
Majesty's Postmaster-General, in the manner -already
adopted with respect to the postage levied on letters
passing. between India and places in the Red Sea or
Persian Gulf, &c. The scale of rates authorized by the
Lords of the Treasury for the collection of the postage
on the last mentioned description of letters may, it is
presumed, be applied to all letters on which postage may
hereafter be levied in India on behalf of her Ma)esty's
Government.
" The Court will also take care to transmit to India
any communication which may be considered necessary
for the information of the Indian post-masters:kin the
collection of the postage, and they would suggest,- with
the view of insuring the well-working of the new sys-
tem, that detailed directions on the subject should be
drawn up at the General Post-office here, and that the
proposed arrangement should not be carried into effect
without giNing due notice to the authorities in India,
and allowing time for the requisite preparations there.
" I have the honour -to be, &c.,
" JAMES C. MELVILL.
- To Wm. Clay, Esq., M.P., India Board."—Times.

WHAT HAS THE CHURCH DONE?
TO THE ED17401? OF THE SfJM

Sfit,—ln case the piesent plan OrMinisters • for
. ,
in-
creasing the revenue should ndrbe clan red,' there a plan
toTropo.sa founded on the foPwing reasons, with which
I believe three-fourths of the inhabitants of England,
Scotland, and Ireland will agree.:
. _ -

The Church as by law established, was established for
increasing Christianity, producing uniformity, the de-
struction of Popery, the expelling of ifOoranee; and that
in..every village in the kingdom•there should he one from
his knowledge, wealth, and office eepable,of assisting the
poor and.oppresSed against the • oppressor„ a man looked
up to as the father of his flock.,
That in the Legislature of the country there should
be a body of learned.. men to defend the infettlfS of reli-
gion, of peace, and of the poor. x,l
Ilas it increased Christianity ?
Who ' visits the 'miners oflCOrnwall, tbi)Colliers of
Kingswood, and the ignorant village population of Eng-
land generally. ? Certainly not the clergy, but the Dis-
senters ; the clergy in many villages preaching only once
in three weeks.

---,Has it produced uniformity of religious opiniOn ?
It found England with only ,tWo sects, Papists and
Lollards, at the time it was established ; now there are
nearly two hundred.
Has it destroyed Popery ?
The Catholics have considerably increased :in Ireland,
and the Protestants decreased.

Has it expelled ignorance ?
It is notorious that in thoSefew villages which Dissent
has nut reached, the ignorance of the people is greater
than anywhere else. Could Tom, alias Sir William
Courtenay, preach with such success anywhere but in the
neighbourhood of the principal cathedral in England?
The clergy have adopted Sunday schools only to defend
themselves from • the Dissenters, who haVe used them
successfully for years.
Are the clergy looked up to as •friends ?
The most unpopnlar..man: iu.a_country village is the
parson, who is generally overbearing to the poor, and
subservient to the great-
Are the interests of religion defended by the Bishops ?
They never speak of religion in the house, but fre-
quently of their temporalities.
Did the Bishops ever attempt to prevent war ?
Never ! ! !
Did they ever attempt to prevent want ?
No ! Look at their votes and speeches on the Corn-
laws.

Did. they ever raise their voices for the abolition of
slavery ?

Neer ! !
As the Church has failed in all the things expected of
her, and as she is the cause of much disturbance and
unchristian feeling throughout the country, and of much
obstruction in the Legislature, since not a public Act,
and scarce a Railway Bill can be passed which, does not
meet with obstruction from her, I'propose
.that she be
abolished, and all her property, as soon as the present
life holders die, be paid into the funds for the-purpose of
reducing the National Debt, which it would half accom-
I think plish.
Bull may
have no further need of yolluorwinsstyrutql4l47an'Afdatalasm,
you
I
have totally failed in your agreement wifli"ine, and as
you cannot rule your own family at avitbra,li shall not
pay your salary any longer for instructing' 140 e: _
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DIST4NT R.
Frome, May 16, 1841.

:Finsbury,
" Tories"
iaiiidsisdivided
At the
monf
_ltil;sis
rbatev°:;:olhrfg:Avahl;;h6fnotOettne,
1 '
et the.
Mr. Richard Taylor objected to the Use
by mear s
in one of the resolutions.
'bed. These terms have words
now
into two great classes— 07
Richard Taylor has hit the nail 00
,esly the classes who,
Tories and Conservatives be prow"
, same the, people, and the enemies
of monopoly, wish ..o
h
no meaning. There are now
to allow free scope
of monoputy, who :wisons
c ervative or T
in.
dust ry. Ihe term Tory is obsolete.
le have how the peop now to con bat says
The monster w ~ I have you in in •
to the working-msn y power—if I
fruits ofyour industry
choose to purchase to _
terms ; but whether or not, you must take my corn
on my own
from me at the price it, I choose to ask for t, or starve." The
Monopolist has superseded the Conservative. Origin is now
of „century consegnen. Deserters from the Whig camp, as
well
banded together as old Tories, are to oppress the people
bi, monopolies; and many who were Tories have, on the other
hi'erl, joined the people. Let " Down with the monopolists!"
be, then, everywhere the watchword of the people.— Chronicle.
THE WILTSHIRE FLOODS SUBSCRIPTION.--
The Committee appointed to superintend this subscrip-
tion have published their report of the receipts
and expenditure. The total amount subscribed was
4,1451. 13s. 2d. ; and the grants to cottagers, tradesmen,
and small farmers—all of whom have been fully indem-
nified—amount, with expenses, to 3,0701. 15s. 7d. It
must be borne in.. mind, however, that this is very far
from the aetualnmount of damage sustained ; the indi-
vidual munificence of Lord ..kshburnharn and others
having made good much of the damage, and many per-
sons being extensive sufferers whose position in life ren-
dered them ineligible to participate in the subscription.
The surplus in hand—namely, 1,0741. 17s. 7d., is to be
appropriated to the erection of substantial Cottages, in
Shrewton and each of the favaged viliages, under the di-
rection of trustees, who are to apply the rents thereof to
the purchase of coals and blankets, to be annually dis-
tributed to the poor .on the anniversay of the dreadful
flood.
THE RECENT ROYAL ELOPEMENT.—BRUS..
SELS,
may 15.—The Pole who carried off the Infanta arrived
here yesterday, accompanied by an officer of gendarmes, and
was conductea to the office of the Chief of Police.—We learn
that Count Gerofski, and Princess Isabella,,bave declared avat
they were ' married by a priest before dmr.left ''iris.—PrW,
.06 paper.

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ICI OR:

ING EDITION

REPRESENTATION OF LtVER.
POOL.
(From the-Liverpool Times.)
The conspicuous part which the Noble Lord who re-
presents this great commercial port has volunteered to
take in resisting the measures now before Parliament,
for liberating the commerce of this country from the
shackles which restrain it, renders it absolutely necessary
that those whose interests and fortunes are involved
in the opening_ of the trade of the country, should
take decided means at the approaching election, to show
,to Parliament and the country that their opinions
and those of Lord Sandon do not agree. The Noble
Lord has thought proper, at the present crisis, to sacri-
fice the interests of the manufactures and commerce of
the country, and those of the majority of his constituents,
to gain the favour and promote the interest of a small body
of monopolists. Whether, in so doing, he has been actuated
by gratitude for past, or the hope of future favours, by a
disinterested love for monopoly and exclusion, or a
practical calculation as to the effects which the
breaking down of the system of monopoly will have
on his own personal interests as a landowner, or whether
his Lordship has acted without regard to his own inte-
rests and those of his friends, and from a desire to pro-
mote what he believes to be the interests of the country,
we leave to the decision of those who have had better
opportunities than we have of judging of his Lordship's
character and motives. One thing, however, is perfectly
clear, that his Lordship, for some reason or other, has
volunteered to take the position of Advocate-Gene-
ral of monopoly and exclusion, and we, therefore, call
upon all those who have any regard for their own inte-
rests, any wish to mitigate the sufferings of the working
classes, any desire to put an end to the present unparalleled
embarrassment of trade, and any wish to place their own
interests and the interests of the country upon a solid and
lasting foundation, to come forward and show that they
am'determined to have those interests and opinions
fairly represented in the Commons House of Parliament,
and not sacrificed either to the selfish interests of a landed
representative, to his complacency for his West India
friends, or even to his Lordship's want of comprehension of
the necessities of the country. Let not those who are opposed
to the recent proceedings of the Noble Lord imagine,
however, that they will gain what they and the country
have a right to ask, without considerable exertion on their
part. Sacrifices must be made if any good is to be done,
. and they certainly will be made, unless present resolutions
and professions are allowed to evaporate in empty threats.
We, therefore, call upon those of our Brazilian mer-
chants, who know and feel that their interests have
been shamefully assailed by the Noble Lord, to
come forward and vindicate their rights, on those
of the merchants who feel that the Noble Lord is
jeopardising the commerce of the country, to come for-
ward likewise, and on all those who have considered
it an honour to have the name and principles of Liver-
pool associated with the name and commercial principles
of William Huskisson, to make a determined effort to
place the representation of this town on such a footing
as will save it from being used as the strongest argu-
ment for monopoly and exclusion.
In a case like this, there is not the least need of
mere ad captandum arguments or appeals. All that
is necessary is, that the electors should calmly con-
sider what is their interest and the interest of their
families. With regard to the sugar duties, for in-
stance, where is the man, not having a sinister in-
terest, who can doubt that it is for the interest of
.every family in Liverpool to have sugar at reason-
able rates, and no longer to be subject to prices
which press most cruelly on the comforts of the
poor, and are also felt to have been a very heavy burden
on the incomes of the middle classess ? Is it not
enough, and more than enough, that every family
in this town and throughout the country, besides
paying a tax of at least 100 per cent. on sugar for
the benefit of the general Government, should pay an
additional tax of 50 per cent. for the benefit of
a few West India proprietors ? Most persons would
suppose that this was sufficient, but not so Lord
Sandon. He is not satisfied with compelling every
one of his constituents to pay this amount of
protecti?n to his West Indian supporters. What
he requires is, that they should have the total control
of the market, and the right of extracting every shilling
which can be screwed from the public by an abso-
lute- monopoly. We are told, indeed, by the advocates
of the West India interest, that the amount of re-
lief given by the Government measure, will be in-
significantly small. This may be a very sufficient
reason why the proposed reductions should be car-
ried further, but it is a miserable one why 'they
should not be carried so far. Indeed, the view taken by
the grocers -of this town in the petition which they for-
warded to Parliament last week, and which Lord San-
don bad the pleasure of presenting, is evidently a sound
one. They ask that the duty should be reduced to 30s.
instead of 365., and if it is their interest, as sellers, that
the duty should be no higher, it is certainly the interest
of the consumers likewise.

The great object, we suspect, of Lord Sandon, and
of the other landowners to whom the town constituencies
have had the folly to commit the guardianship of their
interests, is the defence of their own monopoly at the
expense of the community. Even if Lord Sandon
was under no obligation to the West India interest, yet
his interest in keeping up the price of corn would, we fear,
be quite sufficient to induce him to make common cause
with them. It is his own battle that is fought, and
though we have not the slightest wish to insinuate that
Lord Sandon is more selfish than men in general,
yet we' must say, we have never seen any thing
in his character or conduct which would in-
duce us to think him capable of sacrificing his
own peculiar interests to the interests of the
country. So far as those interests are fair and legiti-
mate; no one would ask him to make any such sacri-
fice, or would think any the worse of him if he re-
fused to make it ; but the shipowners of this great
port have reason to complain that the Noble Lord
should render it impossible for them to obtain
freights in ordinary times in the corn-growing
countries of Europe and America ; the merchants have a
right to complain that he should destroy everything like
regularity in the trade in foreign corn, and the public ge-
neially (that great unprotected and much injured interest),
has a Tight to complain that the Noble Lord should be a
party to inflict upon them all the evils of embarrassed
trade and extravagant prices. At the present moment
there is not a single merchant or shopkeeper in Liverpool
who is not suffering from the dreadful depression in trade
which the Corn-la"-s have produced in the monetary affairs
and the bnsiness of the country ; and unless party spirit has
destroyed every thing like reason or regard to their own
interest in the mercantile and trading classes, the Noble
Lord will be taught that the inhabitants of this large town
Will no longer allow their business to be thrown into con-
fusion, and their fortunes to be destroyed, to gratify either
his party objects or his personal interests. The Noble
Lord, by volunteering to take the position of defender-ge-
neral of the monopolies which press upon the country, has
rendered it unavoidable that the next contest for the repre-
sentation ofLiverpool should be a contest between liberal
principles of trade and commercial monopoly. He has taken
his ground ; on that he must be met, and on that ground we
hope and believe he will be defeated. Our hope rests
not on any fancied change of opinion as regards general
politics, but upon the present position of the country,
upon the lessons of wisdom which painful experience is
pressing upon all men, and npon the odious and ruinous
grounds which the Noble Lord himself has thought fit to
take.

We trust that no time will be lost in inviting
the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Labou-
there, or some other man of good Parliamentary
stending, and thoroughly pledged to the reduction
of the duties on the prime necessaries of life, and
the emancipation of the trade of the country, to
come forward and contest the renresentation of Liverpool
on those grounds. Lord Sand'on has himself thrown
down the gauntlet, and no one entertains a hope
that our legal representative, Mr. Cresswell, will
show one whit more of sympathy for the. trade
of the country than his noble colleague. If either
of them is .returned again for Liverpool, the in-
fluence of this port goes against freedom of trade—against
the principles of Huskisson—and this we trust the
Liberal portion of the constituency will never allow
without a struggle.

TEETOTALLERS AT CROYDON.
A disturbance, which at one time it was feared would
have been attended with serious consequences, took place
on Friday at Croydon, arising out of the attempt of a
teetotaller to give a lecture to the inhabitants upon the
subject of the evils of dram-drinking, and the beauties of
teetotallism.
The lecturer arrived in the town i t
early part of the
day, and he employed the crie_.• . to p,„
round the town with his bell and give, noticeii The crier, of --a
meeT_
ing, to be held at the back of the own-hr,
notwithstanding the errand he W,TS UrA, had
very little
'regard for the teetotal princip.ie, for, before he had gone
half his round it was very ovid en . that he was no tee-
totaller, and the circumste-nce of his giving notice of a
teetotal meeting while i 'this Condition caused a good deal
of merriment, and th,s, together with the novel exhibition,
caused a great cro,,vd of the lower orders of the town
to assemble at t:ne appointed hour, and the lecturer, a
melancholy-I'Joking middle-aged man, dressed in a seedy
suit of blac.fc, soon afterwards made his appearance, and
mounted on chair and commenced an address. During
-this time some of the bystanders had obtained a quantity
of beer, with which they regaled themselves to the great
horror of the lecturer, who declared, upon his being
asked,to partake °Nome of the forbidden liquor, that he.
EeSerred water to the best beer that could be obtained.
was going on to expatiate upon the great virtues of
ater, when some of the crowd upset his stool,
'and he fell among
the mob, who pummelled him,
tore his coat off his back, " bonneted him, and used
him so roughly that he was very glad to
get away as well as he could from them, and take
shelter in the house of Mr. Bunce, the grocer; he was
-followed by the mob, who expressed their determination
to, give him a bellyful of his favorite liquor by drawing
him through the pond. it was at length considered prn-
'dent to send to the police-station for assistance, and
Sergeant Culpepper, accompanied by three or four con-
sta'bles soon arrived at Mr. Bunce's, and on forcing their
way through the crowd they found the unhappy: teeto-
taller in the kitchen in a miserable plight, covered with
dirt, and his clothes nearly torn off his back, but with the
exception of a few bruises he had, fortunately,
not received any bodily injury. The officers
then expressed their willingness to protect him to
the railway station, but it was not until he had
taken a drop of brandy, that he could muster up courage
to face his tormentors, and when he came into the High-
street, accompanied by the constables, he was'greeted
with a tremendous volley of groans and hisses, but by
the firmness of the officers, and their remonstrating with
the mob, he was prevented from sustaining any further
injury, and was placed in the train, which speedily
carried him out of the hearing of the hooting,s of the
crowd that had followed him
A H

.EAVY SENTENCE. A man has been sen-
tenced to ninety years' imprisonment. in Missouri, for the
*rime of robbar,y, with iartat to raurder.—ivetv Faris Paper.