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TILE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3. H'l.

the 16th, in relation to the Danish Claims. As
they have been twice before admitted by the
House, and as only one class of these claims is
disputed, while the two others are acknow-
ledged, it does not seem possible that the House
will stultify itself' by refusing to accede to Mr.
CRESSWELL'S motion, or that the Government
should willingly take on itself the ungracious
task of opposing ?it.
Mr. HonGseal to propose an amend-
ment to the Standing Order requiring a deposit of
10 per cent. on. railway shares, and to substitute
5 per cent. ; HAWES, having already made
such a nice mess of the police, is to try his hand
at healing the medical profession—he would do
better to allow the doctors to cure themselves;
and Mr. HUME is, in the first week of March, to
move to give votes for representatives to lodgers.
Lord. JOHN -RUSSELL'S motion for a Bill for the
better Regis ration of Voters, which stood for
Monday, was,appointed for next Monday.
Captain Poutim. renewed his question to
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, touching the gentlemanly
letter of Prince ALBERT'S Secretary to the Re-
peal A.sociation, when Lord JOHN RUSSELL said
he had. ween the letter, but thought it unneces-
sary tt) make any inquiry on the subject. The
House: laughed at the Captain.
In to Mr. HUME, Lord JOHN RUSSELL
said flat the agreement between Sir R. STOP-
FORD and MEHEMET ALI had been accepted by
the Sultan, alai that he had deputed Commis-
sioner 5 to inform 31EHEAIET Au that he bestowed
the 11,!reditary Pachalic of Egypt on him. Ar-
range ments were making for evacuating Syria,
and NIEHEMET ALI had shown a disposition
to curry his agreement into effect. The ar-
rangement was made in consequence of the ad-
vice rz.f the Four Powers.
In reply to Sir ROBERT PEEL, Lord JOHN
RUSS3UL said it was the intention of the Go-
vernw-General of Canada to proclaim the
Union about the end of January, but if the Le-
gisla;are of Upper Canada should assemble be-
fore the Union was declared, the GOVERNOR-
GEN ERAL meant to ask the advice of the Special
Com Ica as to the period. of issuing the procla-

town shall be handed with infamy down to pos-
terity. Base as Walsall ! will be a never-for-
gotten comparison in our language.
We notice in the report of the proceedings on
the day of nomination, that Mr. FOSTER
complained of the interference of the Corn-law
League. He wished, we presume, to make a
pocket borough of Walsall ; but his success has
probably cost him more than it would have cost,
had the Anti-Corn-law League not visited Wal-
sall. He has known the character of his towns-
men. We gave them credit for possessing com-
mon sense and common honesty. They have
preferred being the dependents of a banker and
a landlord or two, to being free and independent
men. There is no disputing about tastes, and we
must leave the 365 Walsallers, who voted for
Mr. GLADSTONE, to the enjoyment of their gro-
velling, unmanly disposition.
Our cause, however, is too good for us to de-
spair because some 365 base Walsallers have
gone against us. It is not in their power, nor in the
power of the whole body of the Tories, to lessen
the truth of the principles of Free Trade, or to
make the demand for the Repeal of the Corn-
law otherwise than just. Our cause will not
retrograde by the vote, but it will not be im-
pelled forward as it would have been by elect-
ing Mr. SMITH. The election at Walsall has
decided that the non-electors have nothing to
hope from the electors, nothing to hope
from the representatives of those electors,
and that they must help themselves.
We regret this, because when the non-electors
have lost all hope in the electors and in the re-
presentatives, they will begin to discuss the
question of obedience. The decision of the ma-
jority of Walsall makes the duration of the Corn-
law a mere question of how long it is expedient
to obey the law, and when does resistance be-
come a duty?
The Canterbury election has also been de-
cided in favour of the Tory. We care little,
comparatively, for that. Many of the Canter-
bury constituency are known to be venal, and
there was no motive in the present election to
prevail over the influence of money. The Tories
have won.

One of the arguments now used for continuing
the discriminating tax on foreign sugar is, that
the land of Cuba, Porto Rico, the Brazils, and
other places, is more fertile than that of Jamaica
and some other of our colonies. If, therefore,
the sugar from these foreign countries be im-
ported for consumption, it is said, the pro-
duce of our colonies will be undersold, and they
will go out of cultivation. To this we reply—if
it be so, that such a tax is an attempt to counter-
vail the bounties of Providence, and prevent man
from profiting by the fertility bestowed on the
earth. We, however, believe that the assertion is
destitute of truth, and that this is a miserable
pretext for continuing to plunder the people of
England. Will they believe that on the asser-
tion of some half-informed travellers and inter-
ested planters, who never have compared
accurately the two countries, who do not
know in what fertility consists—will the peo-
ple of England believe that on a vague
statement of the fertility of Cuba and
Jamaica, they are to be taxed by discriminating
duties on sugar and coffee to the extent of
3,000,0001. a year ? The persons who allege that
as a ground for taxing the consumers of sugar to
maintain in splendour the West India planters,
might as well allege that it rains less at Jamaica
than at Cuba, and that the people of England
must pay heavily for Jamaica being a dry cli-
mate. All such assertions are palpable attempts
at humbug, and they are only invented for the
purpose of beguiling the people of England into
continued submission to a vile system of plunder
by means of law.

The Earl of ABERDEEN, last Session, tried to
settle the Kirk, and failed. In conjunction with
the Duke of RICHMOND, it is said, he will make
a second attempt this Session; while Mr. RO-
BERT STEUART is to try his hand at the same
hopeless task in the Commons. What sort of a
thing the joint-stock concern may be, we have
no means of judging ; but if it is either so incon-
sistent, so unjust to the people, or so partial to
the clergy, as that proposed by a Non-In-
trusionist, the Kirk, as far as these parties are
concerned, will remain as unsettled as ever.
The Hon. Member for Haddington, in order to
clear the way for his machinery, proposes to re-
peal the 10th of Queen ANNE, which he describes
as " a gross violation of the Treaty of Union."
Having removed this obstacle, he will introduce
in place ofit, a new Bill, which is equally a gross
violation of the Union, taking the presentation
from the present patron, conferring it on the
Ten-Pound Heritors and the Kirk-Session, and
allowing only those persons to moderate in the
call whom the clergy shall consider fit
and holy men. Independent of the inconsistency
of introducing a new Bill to supersede the Acts
of 1649 and 1690, which Mr. STEUART considers
utterly defective, though sealed by the Union, on
what principle of common sense or justice can he
transfer the right of presentation from patrons to
heritors only of a certain class ? This is robbing
the patron, and conferring a boon on Parliamen-
tary electors, while the non-electors are treated
as the common herd, and only such of them as
are agreeable to the clergy will be allowed to
hold up their hands for their favourite candidate.
Nay, more, their " sweet voices" are not to set-
tle the election ; for according to clause five,
if only a minority of the whole subscribe the call,
" the sufficiency of the call is to be judged of by
the Church Courts," and the General Assembly,
that is the Church, (the great majority of the
Assembly consisting of clergymen,) is to make
up the roll of persons entitled to sealing ordi-
nances, the test of the electoral franchise. In
the present temper of the Scotch clergy, such a
power would lead to the most intolerable tyranny,
for the Assembly may, and in all probability
would, enact that the following persons shall be
excluded :—all Chartists and Voluntaries ; all who
neglect family worship, or who walk or travel
by railroad, steam-boat, or stage-coach, on a
Sunday ; all :who obey the law of the land in pre-
ference to the spurious law of the General As-
sembly ; and all other sinners of a similar de-
scription. So that, as in the case of DA VIOT
where there are only five persons entitled to
sealing ordinances, the great boon for which Mr.
STEUART and the arrogant Non-Intrusionists are
contending would be confined to a few select
righteous men, mixed up with not a few
these we will specify,
as
hypo-
crites and time-servers. There are other great
defects and incongruities in this new plan for set-
tling
it
shows the Kirk,
on
what onet
dangerous
o fwhi ch only
ground
Non-
Intrusionists will venture to secure their darling
object. For the purpose possibly of conciliating the
Lords, the Bishops, and the other patrons of
valuable English livings, Mr. STEUART asserts
that the right of patronage in Scotland is no
original inheritance as in England, descending
with the property of the Church, but at the
same time admits that the Crown bestowed a
portion of the patronage sometimes as caprice or
pleasure dictated, but generally " to the chief
heritors of the respective parishes." These
gifts he would annul by an Act of Par-
liament, without seeming at all aware that
on the same principle the houses of Bedford and
Abercorn, and many other houses too, might be
stripped of vast estates conferred on them at the
caprice or pleasure of an unmitigated tyrant.
Looking, therefore, at the difficulty of settling
the Kirk to the satisfaction of the unreasonable
party who now dominate in the Scotch Church,
we would advise Mr. STEUART to leave them to
themselves, and follow the prudent conduct of
Lord MELBOURNE, who knows that he could not
introduce any Bill without increasing to a vast
extent the hostility that already_exists between
the clergy of the Established Church and all
eta of 'rite f tlutiritig is tilt. ova-
hue of the Bill: _ _ _

1.--To roped the Act of the 10th of Queen Arum

called the Patronage Act; and so much of the Act of the
3d of William and Mary as is inconsistent with this Act.
lI.—To ab dish patronage, as at present exercised in
Scotland, whether by her Majesty or by lay patrons.
Ill.—To vest the right of presentations in the Heritors
and Kirk-sessions (the Heritors to have a 101. qualifica-
tion ; the Kirk-sessions to be elected by the congregation)
I V.—The presentee to preach before the congregation,
and a call to be moderated in by .he Presbytery ; the call
to be subscribed by male communicants, or male persons
entitled to sealing ordinances.
V.—lf the call be subscribed by an absolute majority of
those entitled, the Presbytery to proceed to the trials ; if
only a minority of the whole subscribe the call, time to
be afforded for objections being lodged, and the suffi-
ciency of the call to be judged of by the Church Courts.
Vl.—The General Assembly to snake the necessary
regulations for moderating in calls, and for making up
the roll of communicants or persons entitled to sealing
ordinances. Copy thereof to be transmitted to Secretary
of State.
VII.— Act not to commence or take effect until it has
been certified to the Queen in Council that the General
Assembly has passed an Act for vesting the election of
elders in male communicants, and persons entitled to seal-
ing ordinances. Thereafter the commencement of the
Act to be proclaimed.
Vlll.—Provision to suspend all pending suits for twelve-
months after the passing of this Act ; if any new summons
is raised, Act to be pleaded, and proceedings to be barred
for twelve months.

IX —AI! suits to terminate upon the Act coming into
operation, and presentations to be made anew under the
authority of this Act.

X.—Clauses to provide compensation to Patrons may,
if necessary, be here alded.
Xl.—Act to remain in force so long as the Act of As-
sembly for reforming Kirk Sessions remains unrepealee.

The Mamma's of the 27th announces that Marshal
Valee has caused apartments to be taken for him at an
hotrl at Aycros, whore he intends to pass the winter with
his family, on account of his granddaughter, who is in ill
health.

The ssme piper speaks of a letter of General Bugeaud,
in which the new Governor of Algeria announces that an
expedition will take place in the spring.
The Sentinelle ties Pit rennees of Jan. 2Sth says that
letter from Toulouse states that the Prefect had been in_
formed that Don Nliguel had passed, or would pass, through
that city; it is b,lievcd that the Magistrates of Bayonne
have received similar notice, and that this is the cause of
the extraordinary movement of the pollee officers for some
days past.

The Austrian Observer of the 25th of January contains
the news from the East published yesterday evening by
the Messager. The Austrian Journal adds the following
lines, which the Messager has omitted to copy :
" The Sultan resolved to grant to Mehemet Ali the he.
reditary• investiture of the Pschalick of Egypt, on condition
that the submision of the Viceroy shall be sincere and
complete.

' This resolution of the Sultan is expressed in the form
of a Hatti Schcriff, dispatched on the 12th to the Imperial
Commissioner Maslounabey, at Alexandria."--Le Com-
merce, Feb. 1.

The rejection of General SCHNEIDER'S amend-
ment on the Fortifications of Paris Bill by a ma-
jority of sixty-one votes, disposes us to believe
that the Bill, as prepared by the Committee,
will be adopted. General SCHNEIDER'S amend-
ment embodied the proposal of Marshal
SOULT for erecting detached forts without any
wall of circumvallation. When put to the vote
on Saturday it was rejected, 175 voting for it, and
236 voting against it. On Monday the debate
was resumed, when the following three articles
of the Bill were adopted by large majorities:—
Art. I. of the Government project of law, as approved
of by the Committee, was put to the vote, and carried by
a large majority was as follows :—.' A sum of
140,000,000 f. is specially allotted fo the works of the for.
tifications of Paris."

Art. 2. These works comprise-1. A continuous line
of enclosure, embracing the two barks of the Seine, bas-
tioned and terraced with ten metres of escarpment fronted
with masonry. 2. And exterior casemated works.
Art. 3. The funds allotted to these works are to be
employed simultaneously towards the execution of the en-
closed and exterior works, and divided between different
estimate?, and in proportions determined in the subsequent
articles

These articles embrace the whole substance of
the Bill which, if passed and carried into full
effect, will reduce the capital of European re-
finement to a level with Strasburgh, or any other
fortified town on the frontier. But it is useless
to remonstrate with a people bent upon the de-
struction of their own independence.

The commerce states that the ball at the Tui-
leries, on Wednesday, presented a greater show
of English than of French uniforms, and that one
English officer had the bad taste to wear a
Waterloo medal. We can scarcely believe that
any officer in the British army could be guilty
of such a piece of braggart insolence as this. No
brave man, with a spark of generous and manly
feeling, could thus abuse the distinguished hos-
pitality of the KING of the FRENCH, and thus
offer a studied and cowardly insult to a nation,
where it was impossible it could be resented.
This man, whoever he was, should be known.
The chances are fifty to one that he never fought
at Waterloo, and that he is not more a braggart
than a coward.

The Journal des Debats of Monday devotes
five columns to an account of the relations be-
tween France and Buenos Ayres.
The Chamber of Peers sat on Monday to de-
bate upon a number of Bills of local interest.
" It was reported," says the Courrier Francais, " in the
diplomatic salons of Paris on Saturday evening, that Lord
Granvillo had been recalled by his Government, and re-
placed by Lerd Clarendon in the post of Ambassador of
Great Britain in France.

Most of the editors of the journals who published the
letters attributed to King Louis Philippe had been inter-
rogated by the Judge of Instruction. The Marquis de
Larochejaquelin, who was supposed to be the possessor of
the originals, and M. Auguste Johanet, had been likewise
summoned to appear before that Magistrate.
The Messager states that the editor of the Gazette de
France bad served a citation on the editor of the Messayer
to appear on the 12th of March to answer for having
stated that the letters published by the Gazette, parport-
ing to have been written by his Majesty Louis Philippe,
when Duke of Orleans, were false.
M. Esquiros, the author, and M. Legallois, the printer
of the Evangde du Peuple, were tried fur libel on Satur-
day at the Assize Court. M. Legallois was acquitted,
and M. Esquiros, having been found guilty by the Jury,
was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment, and to pay
a fine of 500 francs.

The Obserrateur Suisse of the 28,h states positively
that the Pope's Nuncio in Berne entered a formal protest
on the 21st against the suppression cf the /1,-govian con-
vents. The cantons of Uri, Schweitz, and Unterwalden
had likewise reproved the measure, as contrary to the 12th
article of the Federal Compact, and called for an extraor-
dinary meeting of the Diet to ;nquire into the affair. Zug,
Zurich, Neufchatel, and Friburg would, it was expected,
address a similar application to the Vorort.
BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, FEB. 1,

fir st Highest Lowest fast
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Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
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Lozn of City, 0332, 4 per Cent PO
Society ot Commerce, -1!.; per Cent lO2
Bank nt Belgium, 5 per Cent 67
National Soci-My .
Exchange on Loniltn4 (short)
—Brussels Papers, Jan. 30.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIEnNa, J.kx,2l.
f tveper Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents
Three pr Cents.
Rank shares
—Aligemrine Zcitung, Jan. 26, IGc6

The Moniteur of Monday officially,announces
INIEHEmET ALi's unconditional surrender of the
Turkish fleet to Admiral WALKER OH the 14th
ult. On the 12th a steamer left Constantinople,
having a Turkish officer on board, bearing the
Imperial Illyrian conferring upon MEHEMETALI
the hereditary Paellalic of Egypt. A glance at
these dates shows that both the SULTAN and the
VICEROY acted with good faith, for on the 14th
the latter cpuld know nothing of the coming of
the Finnan, nor the former, when granting the
Firman that MEHEMET Au, without seeing it
would restore the fleet.

The Presse, t fter copying the note of the Messager,
announcing that the Sultan has granted to Mehemet Ali
the hereditary investiture of the Pachalic cf Egypt, adds,
" We believe that we may affirm that the conduct of the
Divan cn this important occasion, has been in consequence
especially of the urgent representation of Austria and
Prussia, which have need to contend, if not with the influ-
ence of England, yet at least with the prepossessions of
its Ambassador, Lord Ponsonby, who has preserved till
the very last moment his animosity to the Viceroy."

Madrid Jaw —ls ult. has c r.acliett
us. Ott the previous day the Duke DE LA VIC-
ToRIA reviewed eight battalions of the National

Guards of the capital, who received him with
loud and repeated cheers. All parties were pre-
paring, for the elections, which were expected to
go in favour of the Ultra-Liberal candidates.
Fives, Active, 29i for cash.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

(OLD COURT.)
Before Mr. Justice 'WILLIAMS and Mr. Justice COLTMAN,
The Court was cceupied during the mining with a
charge or counterfeiting coin, against James Taylor.
The Solicitor for the Mint had received inforn:a•ior.
against the prispner from a companion of his ; hut i! •,p-
-peared very questionable from the evidenc.,. given whttlicr
the informer had not himself prepared the facts stated
against the other party.
After the evidence bad been gone through, the Counsel
for the prosecution withdrew the charge.

(NEW COURT.)
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT. )
Abraham Moses, a Jew, was indicted for stealing a bas-
ket containing some linen, the property of Win. Troude.
Policeman 117 of the K division, saw the prisoner at
seven o'clock in the morning, following a car on the Mile-
end-road, from which he took something, and then ran
away. The policemen followed the car, and found that a
parcel was missing. lle afterwards apprehended the pri-
soner, and though he found none of the property in his
possession, it was proved that he had disposed of a por..
tion of it.

The Jury found the prisoner guilty.
It appeared from his previous character that he lived
by theft.
lie was sentenced to seven years' transportation.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).

CORN EXCHANGE.

The fresh suppiies consisted chiefly of Barley and Oats
in fair quantities. Wher.t firm at Monday's prices. Bar-
ley, Brans, and Peas, also supported their value. 0-its
met a moderate inquiry at last quotations. The Flour
trade as last reported.