The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-17 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Will you allow me to address a single remark to
to the person calling himself e " Sheffield Churchman,"
whose letter you published on Tuesday last?
He says, the words used by the Church of England,
" Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of
our forefathers," contain a prayer for the dead. He
adds, " How this can be otherwise explained, I am at a
loss to discover."

Let me, Sir, ask that " Churchman" if he never read
the following words of Scripture :—" I, the Lord thy
God, am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers
UPON THE CHILDREN ?" If he has, what difficulty can be
find in explaining that prayer?
Query.—Of what Church is he really a " Church.
man ?"—I am, Sir, your's truly,
York, April 16.

ANTI-SOPHIST

THE LATE ELOPEMENT.

The following extract from the Paris correspondence cf
the Timis, dated Monday last, contains some cur:l)ns details,
for tne accuracy of which the correspondent of that journal
pledges himself:—
" It appears that immediately on landing at Ostend
Dr. Lardner and Mrs. Heaviside proceeded to Paris by
Calais and St. Omer, and took lodgings in the rue Tron-
chet, where they lived as husband and wife. Captain Hea-
viside had followed them as far as St. Omer, but there,
►osing all trace of the fugitives, gave up the chase. The
latter, nevertheless, took no measures to conceal them-
selves ; indeed, so much the contrary, that Mrs. Heaviside
opened a correspondence with her father, Colonel Spicer,
who resides at Boulogne.

" On Friday morning last Dr. Lardner and Mrs Heavi-
side were at breakfast, when they were alarmed by a
noise in the ante-room, and by a rush at the door of the
salle a-manger. The doctor went to the door to ascer-
tain the cause. The moment he opened it he was felled
by a blow of a heavy stick from Captain Heaviside, who
continued to flog him as vigorously as deservedly.
" While this was proceeding, the desk of Dr. Lardner
was opened by the invading party. All the papers it con-
tained were seized by them and carried off, as well as Mrs.
Heaviside, who endeavoured to induce a rescue by scream-
ing loudly, and continued to do so until they reached the
Hotel de l'Europe. There some sensation was created by
the screams of the lady, but when the circumstances were
stated to the persons about to interfere, they desisted. The
whole party left fur Boulogne in the evening, with the ex-
ception of the Captain, who remained in order to give Dr.
Lardner an opportunity of calling him out, if he should so
think proper. The Captain left next day for Boulogne.
" Dr. Lardner is not yet declared entirely out of danger.
His just punishment will, probably, make him turn his
attention in future from adultery to mechanics.
" The lady, it seems, is 35 years of age. She is the
mother of three children, and bad, until this affair, lived
happily with her husband, and after an acquaintance of
three weeks only she had suffered herself to be seduced by
Dr. Lardner. lam assured that this matter will not come
before the French tribunals."

HOPELESS STATE OF MR. UNDER SECRE-
TARY DKUMMONI).—DUBLIN, APRIL 15.—Mr. Drinnmond,
the Under-Secretary, is still alive. Mortification set in this
morning, and his death is expected hourly ; all hopes of his re-
covery are abandoned. When the last accounts left the Park the
pulse had left the extremities, and life was supported merely by
stimulants.

DEATH OF THE DOWAGER LADY RODNEY.-
It is with regret we announce the demise of the above estimable
lady, which took place on Wednesday last, after a short illness,
at her residence in Harley-street. Her Ladyship, who was the
second (laugh er of the late Right Hon. Thomas Harley, son
of Edward third Earl of Oxford, and Alderman of the city of
London, was born the 13th of May, 1769, and had cows-
quently attained the great age of 81 years. In April 1781, her
Ladyship married the late Lord Rodney, by whom her Lady-
ship had a family of fourteen children, five of whom survive
her Ladyship, namely, the present. Lord Rodney, Hon. and
Rev. Spencer Rodney, Hon. and Rev. Henry Rodney, Pre-
bendary of Hereford ; Hon. Mortimer, and Hon. William.
Her Ladyship was sister of the late Countess of Kinnoull,
the mother of the present Earl.
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER LADY LYTTEL-
TON.---it is a with a sincere feeling of sorrow that we have to
announce the death of Apphia Baroness Lyttelton, in her 97th
year. She was the widow of Thomas second Lord Lyttelton,
who died in 1779, and whom she has survived 61 years. The
deceased Lady died universally respected and regretted by the
inhabitants of Great Malvern and the neighbourhood, amongst
whom she has so long resided. With means comparatively
slender, she was eminently charitable. The charity schools
founded by her, the public walks laid out and improved, and
the House of Ind-stry, are standing monuments of her benefi-
cent disposition. In all acts of charity, in all plans for the
amelioration of the condition of the poor, her Ladyship led the
way. In her the workin,!; classes of Malvern have sustained
the loss of a bounteous and justly liberal benefactress. Her
love to God was amply evidenced by the goodness she did to
man. The power of words is too poor to speak her praise._
Worcester Journal.

Mrs. Colonel Sutherland, of Grove-tetrace, Lis-
son-grove, has transmitted, in aid of the funds of the Royal
Frye Hospidal, Greville-street, Hatton-garden, .50/.
The Eulp-ror of linsqia has presrinted Mee.
Ts7,l;e,, :~~
'1 here Nvere 400 silver balls on the harness.

LONDON:
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1840.

It must be admitted by every person that the tone
of the correspondence between the British and
United States Governments on the Boundary ques-
tion is waxing so warlike as greatly to weaken the
conviction, at first entertained, that the good sense
of two countries, whose interest it is to live in peace
and in the reciprocation of friendly offices, would
render an appeal to the sword for such a common-
sense affair as the adjustment of a boundary line,
impossible. We regret this the more as we do not
see, in the proposal of the PRESIDENT to refer the
whole question once more to arbitration, any cer-
tainty of arriving at a definitely satisfactory con-
clusion, inasmucb as the PRESIDENT himself ad-
mits that he has no po,Ner to enforce the sentence
of arbitration if opposed, as it assuredly will be if
impartial, by the State of Maine. In the very last
note of Mr. FORSYTH to Mr. Fox, presented to
the Senate, and dated the 25th ult., this is distinctly
avowed. We refer our readers for proof hereof to
the document itself.

But to make the whole question at once intelligi-
ble to the British public, we will tell them in a few
words how the affair stands at present. The
English Minister points out a certain district, in-
cluding the valley of St. John and the valley of the
Aroostook, and he emphatically declares that unless
the former be evacuated, and the latter be occupied
only temporarily for the purpose of preventing depre-
dations, troops will be sent to dispossess the
settlers, and the American Government will be held
responsible for the consequences. The United
States Government replies that the said district or
valleys shall not, and ought not, to be evacuated,
and that should force be employed by Great Bri-
tain the Federal Government will not shrink from
asserting, by a similar demonstration, rights claimed
by the State of Maine, and of which, after all, she
is, except the question be submitted to arbitration,
the sole judge. The following is the pith and
marrow of the Note of the British Minister :
Her Majesty's Government claim and expect from the
good faith of the Government of the United States, that
the people of Maine shall replace themselves in the situa-
tion in which they stood before the agreements of lA.:,
year were signed. That they shall, therefore, retire from
the valley of St. John an.l confine themselves to the valley
of the Aroostook—that they shall occupy that valley in a
temporary manner only, for the purpose, as agreed upon,
of preventing depredations—and that they shall not con-
struct fortifications, nor make roads or permanent settle-
ments.

Until this be done by the people of the State of Maine,
and so long as that people shall persist in the present
system of aggression, her Majesty's Government will feel
it their duty to make such military arrangements as may
be required for the protection of her Majesty's rights. And
her Majesty's Government deem it right to declare that it
the result of the unjustifiable proceedins of the State of
Maine should be—collision between her Majesty's troops
and the people of that State, the responsibility of all the
consequences that may ensue therefrom, be they what they
may, will rest with the people and Government of the
United States.

Mr. Secretary FoRsYTH is more elaborately
wordy, but he is not less explicit when he comes to
deal with the threat of the British Minister :
Unless her Majesty's Government shall forthwith arrest
all military interference in the question—unless it shall
apply to the subject more determined efforts than have
hitherto been made to bring the dispute to a certain pacific
adjustment, the misfortunes predicted by Mr. Fox in the
name of his Government, may most unfortunately happen.
But no apprehension of the consequences alluded to by
Mr. Fox car, be permitted to divert the Government and
people of the United States from the performance of their
duty to the State of Maine. That duty is as simple as it
is imperative. The construction which is given by her to
the treaty of 1783 has been, again and again, and in the
most solemn manner, asserted also by the Federal Govern-
ment, and must be maintained, unless Maine freely con-
sents to a new boundary, or unless that construction of the
treaty is found to be erroneous by the decision of a disin-
terested and independent tribunal selected by the parties
for its final adjustment.

Thus stands the Boundary question at the pre-
ser.t juncture, and it will require great sagacity,
good temper, and mutual forbearance, to prevent
it from plunging Great Britiiin and the United
States into all the horrors of a fratricidal war.
For our own part, we hesitate not to avow ourselves
decidedly and strongly opposed to any collision with
the United States. NITe cannot regard the
settlement of a Boundary line so long al-
lowed to remain without adjustment, in a
country where land is of so little intrinsic value, as
a sufficient ground for a war between two nations
speaking the same language, connected together by
the ties of a common origin, a common literature,
a common faith, and the advantages of an extensive
reciprocal commerce. For the sake of peace we
think that our Government would not at all co.
Unitedng
m-
promise the national dignity by calmly
S
to the bovernor of 1 Maine, the importance to us of

EVENING EDIII
.

the disputed territory, as a necessary i.';nk in the
chain of the connection of our possessions i 2-1 Nort h
Arnei.i.:a, and offering to cede some tract of ter Titol Y
always in our ;:‘,l4se..ssion for the quiet possession of
all places claimed by us L, requisite to the establisl •-•
merit of a safe and commodious boundary. Shoul,
such a measure fail, its failure would manifest to •
the world that it was not our fault that a necessity
arose for settling the question by the sword.
It may be objected that our seetni.ug alarm upon
this question is altogether needless. We trust that
this objection has more weight than we .are at this
moment disposed to attach to it ; nor are' we indeed
without some hope, that the (food sens,t; of the
people of both countries will be exercised calm-
ing any irritation that may arise, and in av,
whatever has a tendency to render an appeal to b tote
force inevitable. At the same time, when we see,
in addition to the belligerent tone of the America '3O
Journals, such announcements as the following 't
which we copy from a New York Paper of the Ist
inst., we deem it high time to make the country
aware of the extent of the danger by which it ap-
pears to us to be threatened. This is no laughing
:natter.; and the whole dispute is one of those Tory
heir-looms which that faction bequeathed more than
half a century ago to the people of England
IMPORrANT NAVAL MOVEMENTS.—Orders have recently
been despatched to all the naval stations to, have every
thing put in readiness for immediate service . The late
movements of the British Authorities Lespectit g the Maine
boundary line is the probable cause.
Commodore Renshaw, of thin station, has r(lea lived in-
structions to complete the steam frigate now on ti le stocks
with all possible despatch, and Captain M. C. Perry, late
of the Fulton, is to take command of her. Aeditional
workmen have been employed, and she is now
lily all
planked. The Independence and Fairfield, just arrived
from Rio, and the Relief, are to be kept in council salon. The Columbia and John Adams, shortly expected I.wm,e
from the East Indies, are also to be prepared for sea at 1:81r1
immediately. The ships of war now on the stocks Art. 'to
be got ready for launching, and the two seventy-t
moored off the Navy Yard, to be prepared at short nos ice.
The crews of those vessels just arrived are to be paid oti
immediately so that they can spend their money and ''seship again. None of the officers cm have leave of al')-
sence, but are to hold themselves in readiness for service.
Such is the nature of the ingtru4ons lately received from
Weshington, and such has been sent to every Navy Yard.
What do they indicate?

We have poked through the reports of the pro-
ceedings of the gentlemen who assembled at Guild-
hall, on Wednesday, to pass resolutions, and pre-
pare a petition on the subject of New Zealand, for
some justification of the violent abus,t they and their
organs have heaped on the Government, but we
have looked in vain. The colonial Gazette led
the van in the attack, and it was echoed by the
Spectator. Yesterday the Post took hold of the
Spectator's yarn, and spun it out after iW.ovin
flimsy fashion. An evening print, which woOld
be a great Tory journal if it could, paraphased the
Post in its usual weak style. All the opponents
of the Government, and some of its friends, took
hold of the New Zealand Land Company's han-
dle to inflict an undeserved blow on the Ministry.

We regretted to see Mr. WARD in such .
bad company. Led away by his own at-
tachment to the WAKEFIELD emigration crot-
chats, the Hon. Member was induced to give
utterance at the meeting to some language wfAch
might serve to countenance the calumnies of ti.re
Colonial Gazette and the abuse of the rory
journals. The question before the meeting related
to New Zealand ; and the gist of the complaint"
against the Government made by the gentlemen
who are extremely solicitous to employ their capital
in that direction was, that Government would not
colonize that place, nor sanction these gentlemen
in colonizing it, and would not,
as the petition
said, " establish a proper authority in New Zea-
land." Such being the question and such the
charge, Mr. WA RD sought to excite a prejudice
against the Ministers by declaring—
He was delighted to see in the present meting the
proof that a feeling was now prevalent that the Govern-
ment, in the manner in which it bad disposed of its waste
lands in its Colonies, had betrayed its trust—( Hear, bear)
—that hitherto they had been made the source of petty
jobbing in the Colonial-office, and had been distributed
in favour of the aristocracy, for he saw no use in mincing
the word.—( Hear.) Those who had influence at head-
quarters, obtained grants of these lands, in former times.
to the exclusion of all others ; but he regarded the present
meeting as a proof that the system was broken up ; 63'1,
all emigrants and speculators, under the protection °
Government, should have fair play, and that those nlys"
teries of Downing-street which had marred the grestent
blessings that any country ever had placed within Its
reach, were for ever at an end.—( Cheers.)
Mr. WARD knows that these accusations do not
apply to the present Ministers, who have do.' e
much—though not, perhaps, all that they ouglre
to have done—to dispose of colonial waste lands by-
sale and competition, and it was unjust in him to
make :Bucli a statement, without a qualification, or
place such a cannon in the hands of the Tories,
without first spiking it. It is true that the state
tent is directly in the teeth of the petition, for if
the Government were grasping after land to give to
the aristocracy, they would surely have eager)
taken advantage " of the frequent and urgent appli-
cations made to them," by settlers and bodies of Bra'
tish merchants, to establish a proper authority in th'
fertile island of New Zealand, and parcel it out
amongst the aristocracy. We have long looked
with suspicion and distrust at the Government sr
propriating, parcelling out, or selling the waste or
partially occupied lands in North America And the
Pacific Ocean, and if, with our almost
innumerable colonies, with the military and
naval resources of the empire frittered away
amongst sixty or seventy settlements scattered over
the globe, the Government have declined or re'
fused to sanction the colonization of New Zealeigi'
if it have withheld all countenance from those who
have chosen to establish themselves there, we should
feel inclined to give it the meed of our approbation'
Now, though it may not have yielded to the solici-
tations of the New Zealand Land Compaq, and •

- .
may have looked shy on a body of gentlemen un-
dertaking to sell land at the Antipodes, it has, 311
spite of its better resolution, been driven into making
an attempt to establish the authority of the English
Government in New Zealand.
In fact, according to the petitioners them"
eseslvt:ebsi,ishthesomGeovkeirnndmeonft
authoritybegan, inthelrBol4u,ndte:
the directions of the Captain-General and
attempt
tern Governorpt
Iss ofnoNt seuwccesSsful South.
Io fa
h Valcs
h the
Resident was appointed by the Governor of New
South Wales in 1832, and, in 1838, Lord
Net: too, though
o a ug
GLENELG recommended that his place should be
supplied by a Consul. In August, 1839, a Con-
sul was appointed to the New Zealand Chiefs, who
is also endowed with the authority of Lieutenant'
Governor of certain parts of the islands of New Zea-
land, as a dependency of the Government of New
British
South Wales. It may be true that the Govern-
ment has not complied with the imperious mandate
of STANDISH MOTTE, rSq., of March 4, 1839,
not to delay " for one moment to „confirm the sove-
reignty of these islands in the Crown of Great Bri-
tain, by granting a Charter of Incorporation, 54e"
to the New Zealand Colonization Company; but
it has for some rears taken steps to protect the per-
sons and property of English residents in New
Zealand, and has established there, with the consent
and under the protection of the Chiefs, one autho-
rity after another. It appears from the Blue Book,
so unjustly aspersed by Mr. WA RD at the meeting,
that her Majesty's Government have for some
years past sent a man-of-war occasionally to New
Zealand to look after the English settlers ; and
since Lord J. RUSSELL has been Colonial ;Minis-
ter, a force of 100 men has been ordered from New
11"7:te ` '*l Ca;1! gin
shall have assumed the title of Lieutenant-Go'

EVEN; ENG EMTION.

'vernor of Nev., Zealand. The charge made
against the Government by the "buyers and re-
sellers of land" belonping to the New Zealanders,
that it has taken no steps to establish a proper
authority in Ncw Zealand, is contradicted by the
facts stated in their own petition, and is false and
unfounded.

) T. It apperas by the correspondence laid before the
House of
that the State has, on seve-
ral oceak.lol,4 formally repudiated the sovereignty
and d'alini‘on over New Zealand. The Act of
Grrlott GE 111., cap. 53, mentions New Zealand
as within his MAJESTY'S dominions. The
A".:t 4 GEO. IV., cap. 96, sec. 3, describes New
'Zealand as not subject to his MAJESTY. Vi.ing
' WaLLIAM IV. recognised New Zealand as a sub-
stantive and independent State. On Now::mber 16,
1831, a letter to him from thirteen New Zealand
Chiefs, praying protecC.on against British subject:,:,
‘vas transmitted to Viscount GOD ERICH. In
1832 Lord GoDENrcH sent Mr. BUSBY to repre-
sent our Governr,Lent to the Chiefs, and gave him
a letter to them., in which the KING was made to
address them ris an independent people. In 1834,
the New irZerhland Chiefs, with the assistance of
the Gove rrLor of New South Wales, chose a na-
tional fit tg, which was saluted by an English man-
of-Gran' and has since been recognised as the flag
Newof Zealand. in conformity with this stream
of c,ttr legislation, the Marquis, of NORMA NBY,
in 'ais instructions to Captain HOBSON, uses this
Jguage

On the other band, the Ministers of the Crown have
been restrained by etill higher motives from engaging in
such an enterprise. They have deferred to the advice of
the Committee appointed by the House of Commons in
the year 1836, to inquire into the state of the Aborigines
residing in the vicinity of our colonial settlements; and
have concurred with that Committee in thinking that the
increase of national wealth and power, promised by the
acquisition of New Zealand, would be a most inadequate
pmpensation fur the injury which must be inflicted on this
kttidom itself, by embarking in a measure essentially un-
4hr, and but too certainly fraught with calamity to a
rinznerous and inclrensive people, whose title to the soil and
to the sovereign ty of New ''lnland is indisputable, and
sq been recognizsd by the British Government.
tv . • e retain these opinions in unimpaired force; and though
eireumsta:ces entirely beyond our control have at length
.TmPel:ed us to alter our course, I do not scruple to avow
"IV we depart from it with extreme reluctance.

The Government, then, has been driven by cir—
eutnstances, of which one is the considerable num -
bet of our countrymen who have gone to Nem,
ZGealand, to depart from its ordained course ; bu t
it has done so, and has established, though with
• reluctance, an authority of its own in a part of New
Zealand, not the authority of the Company.
When we object to the Government extending
its authority over so many lands, we no more object
to individuals carrying their capital and enter-
prise to New Zealand, than carrying them to the
United States, or to France. How far, indeed,
Rime individuals of any community should have the
Power, in their pursuit of private gain, to drag the
whole of that community, in its corporate capa-
city, after them, and compel it to give them the pro-
-1 tection of its fleets and its armies, is a question of
some importance, which, in the absence of a due
discussion, we will not attempt to decide. We will
only make one remark. If the power of the whole
community must extend wherever individuals be-
IClging to it choose to go, and the community must
be responsible for the safety of their persons and
Property, then the community, or the Government
which represents it, must have the corresponding
right of deciding beforehand, whether any enterprise
ao involving the whole community, shall be under-
taken or riot. Such a principle is recognised in Prussia
and in France, but we cannot conceive any one more
'fatal tr, that successful enterprise for which our
"'inv. omen have been for many years eminent.
If
.the Government think it incompatible with its
dutyu •
to countenance Mr. GEORGE ROBINSON,
"0 has acquired some notoriety as a Director of the
Canada Land Company, and the rest of the capi-
talists of the city of London, in attempts to " buy
and re-sell" the land of the New Zealanders, we do
not sec why those gentlemen, casing aside the pro-
tection of the rest of the community, may not pro-
ceed, if they please, in their plan. At the same
time we see no valid reason why the rest of the com-
munity, such as the weavers and the farmers, should
be called on to bear any part of the expense, or pro-
tect them in their perhaps visionary or unjust pur-
suit.

With respect to the French getting posses-
sion of New Zealand, which has so suddenly
alarmed the London capitalists, we have to
observe that if they continue at peace with
"s they will aid us in spreading civilization
through that part of the world : if they go to war
with us, our power in those seas is so much superior
to theirs that their colony will but enrich our peo-
ple with its spoils. We deprecate as much as any
person at the meeting a penal colony being esta-
blished there by any nation ; but only cause the
records of our own penal colony to be distinctly laid
before the French Government, and it will shrink
with horror from any such attempt. We deprecate,
also, as most unwise, the claiming the whole of
the southern continent and islands for England.
On the whole, it gives us much satisfaction to say,
after looking at the subject with as much care as the
deinands on us to look every day at some different
subject will allow, that the Government in no de-
g ree merits the contumely which has been heaped
°ll it by Mr. G. F. YOUNG and his fellow-labour-
ers
of the Cynic and the Tory press.

Oar readers doubtless remember the SPorrrs-
VooDE gang, a vile combination of Tories, who
subscribed their money to corrupt and enslave the
Irish. They are also aware that. the present party
have formed a league to extend the Church, that
they subscribe large sums, hold frequent meetings,
and send round petitions by means of their brethren,
who are planted in every parish, to be signed by the
ignorant people. Our readers recollect, too, very well
how strenuously the Priest and Tory party exerted
themselves last year, to get up petitions against the
instruction of the people. In fact, the strength of
this party consists in its organisation, not in the
rectitude of its principles. It has equally used the
Pulpit and the press to govern its dupes, and in-
duce them to place large funds at its disposal, for
the attainment of its end.
It is well known also to our readers, that this
party has perpetually used the Bible for political
Purposes. On it the State religion is said to be
sounded, and the cry of keeping the Bible from the
People has been one of the most effective weapons
by which the Priest and Tory party has attacked
the Ministers. The Church, or tithes, is never as-
sailed, but the Bible is immediately hurled by some
Priest, or some Priests' scribe, at the head of the
assailant, and as long as that patty was allowed the
exclusive
use of it, to quote it too touch was im-
possible.

these two arms, however, have lately been taken
UP by the Anti-Corn-law men. They have sub-
scribed their money, like the Priests and their
friends, to attain an end ; they haveformed an Anti-
Corn-law League, they have, knowing the
righteousness of their cause, appealed to the
ministers of religion for help, and they
find sundry passages in the Bible to quote
against the Corn-laws, as the Priest party quotes
ether passages to maintain its influence over the
minds and purses of the community. The seizure,
4Y the Anti-Corn-law men, of the arms which have
been so long
almost exclusively, and always skil-
'thy, used by their opponents. has quite terrified
the Morning Yost, and it rails at the practises of
its own friends as if they were criminal. It calls

them " iniquitous," " impudent nonsense," " awful
audacity," " almost blasphemy." So monstrous,
in fact, are the habitual proceedings of the Priest
and Tory party, that no sooner are they seen
in the mirror of the Anti-Corn-law League than
they frighten the poor, docile dupes of the party
out of their senses.

One important conclusion, however, is apparent.
The energetic conduct of the Anti-Corn-law
League is carrying despair into the hearts of their
opponents. Let the men of the League but perse-
vere, and the day will be their own.

Monday and Tuesday next are the clays on
which the parochial officers are appointed by the
Vestrymen, or rate-payers throughout the kingdom.
These days are also, we believe, very generally se-
lected for laying rates on the parishioners. It is,
therefore, the duty of all who are qualified to take
part in such proceedings, to be at their posts, and
to watch with jealous eyes the conduct of that party
who, in every parish, are found backing the most
extravagant claims that the Church, in her arro-
gant assumption of dominion over the souls, bodies,
and property of the people, chooses to put forth.
At the head of this party, or clique, stands the
parson, most commonly a high Tory in politics,
and a high Churchman in religion, as far as that
can be called religion which regards, almost exclu-
sively, the temporal working of the Church as an
engine of State. His object is to get such Church-
wardens appointed as will be most subservient to
his own purposes—who will second him in all
his intolerant schemes, and even lend a
hand, if need he, to drag a recusant
Dissenter to prison. The churchwarden of his choice
—the man according to his own heart—must be a
man of his own kidney. He must have no bowels
of compassion for any man, woman, or child, beyond
the sacred pale of " the" Church ; and must be
ready to go to the utmost extent of the law—aye,
and a little further sometimes—in punishing all
who will not conform in the matter of Church-rates.

This enforcing of the payment of Church-rates
by Dissenters is the point, of all others, upon which
the Clergy are at present the most bent—probably
because it is that which is the most indefensible in
the whole ecclesiastical system—the most repugnant
to good feeling, to the dictates of justice, and to
the spirit of the Gospel. The successors of the
Apostles, however, care for none of these things.
Theirs is the far nobler and more congenial concern
of adding to their pelf—whether by fair means or
foul, matters but little. It is part of the tactics of
these holy men to raise a prejudice in the neigh-
bourhood against those who oppose their designs. If
a man refuse to acknowledge their right to put their
hands into his pockets when they please ; if he will not
do violence to his conscience, and submit to be taxed
for the support of their system of worship, which
he holds to be unscriptural, from which he derives
no benefit, and for the maintenance of which the
State has already given them ample funds, he is
held up to all true believers in the apostolical suc-
cession, as an infidel and blasphemer, with whom
there ought to be neither communion nor coin-

merce.

Now the more this unchristian spirit is displayed
by the Clergy and their thick-and-thin partisans,
the more are those moderate and sensible Church-
men, who consider it detrimental, to the in-
terests of the Establishment, and those who,
being Dissenters, are exposed to its imme-
diate effects, bound to come forward and ex-
ert themselves to put it down. To keep
aloof is to show fear. It is a sign that those
who do so are conscious either of the weakness or
the badness of their cause. Their enemies will
most probably consider it as a proof of both, and
will act with a corresponding degree of inso-
lence in their aggressions. Whereas, by showing
a bold front, and contesting the disputed ground
inch by inch, even the weaker party, though they
may be often defeated, are still gaining upon their
enemies. Their fearless assertion of their princi-
ples commands the respect of all men, even of their
opponents ; they keep up the sympathetic spirit of
resistance to oppression which is otherwise in dan-
ger of being trampled out ; they are continually
increasing the number of converts to their cause
among Churchmen themselves, not only by the fre-
quent discussion of a question which has reason,
justice, and the injunctions of the Christian law on
the one side, and brute force on the other, but also
by that beautiful consistency of conduct which is
exhibited in a steady perseverance in a course of
action naturally and necessarily arising out of con-
victions conscientiously entertained, and out of
none other.

Let the friends of civil and religious liberty,
then, be on the alert next week, to counteract the
plans and plottings of the Priests, and their hangers-
on and abettors. We must remind them that it is
necessary they should have their eyes about them
for they have to contend with men who are capable
of resorting to the grossest acts of injustice, as well
as to the greatest roguery to hide them. If any
simple-minded person should happen to entertain
a doubt upon this point, we refer him to the report
of the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court of Nor-
wich inserted in another column. There he will find it
declared on oath that a rate, for the non-payment
of which a Dissenter has been dragged into the
Ecclesiastical Court, and thereby subjected to great
expense, loss of time, and inconvenience, after it
had been signed by the chairman and other rate-
payers present at the vestry when it was laid, "was
altered, interpolated, and added to in many par-
ticulars !" Can any one doubt that if the eccle-
siastical authorities can be guilty of such immoral
as well as illegal practices as this, they will not
be very scrupulous in other matters unless their
proceedings be strictly watched, and their accounts
unceremoniously over-hauled by the rate-payers ?
We beg leave also to call the attention of our
readers to an address on the subject of Church-
rates, which the Dissenters of Darlington have
lately issued, and which will be found elsewhere in
our paper. Neither the advocates of Church-rates
nor the neutrals, for whom this address is intended;
can, we think, read it without profiting by the
perusal.

The latest advices from the Mediterranean state that
the 11.7dra steamer has returned from Naples to Malta,
,Aith letters from Mr. TEMPLE, the British Ambas-
sador, to Admiral Sir R. STOPFORD, informing him
that the KING had refused compliance with the demands
of the British Government. We understand that the
sealed instructions previously communicated to the Ad-
miral direct him, in the event of learning such a deci-
sion on the part of the KING, to proceed with some
vessels of war to the Sicilian and Neapolitan coasts
to make reprisals. The King of NAPLES is
making all the preparations in his power to
repel aggression. He has sent eleven thousand
men to Sicily, where it is reported he will proceed
himself. He has likewiseidespatched couriers to Vienna
and St. Petersburg, with autograph letters to the Em-
perors of Austria and Russia, imploring them to unite
with him against England. The influence of the Queen
of NAPLES with the uncle of the Emperor of Aus.
TRIA is said to be considerable, and on this occasion
recourse has been had to it, as well as to the fears of
Prince METTEaracx of the consequences of a revolu-
tion in Sicily. The latter event is far from improbable.
A correspondent of the Commerce, of Wednesday, dated
from Rome, emphatically observes, " It is almost certain
the arrival of a British fleet on the Sicilian coast will
be the signal for a general insurrection in that island.
The wrongs of the Sicilians are of long standing ; the
discontent among them is universal, and,
The
only wait
for a good opportunity to rise in a-ms. Ihe KING wil-
fully offers them this opportunity, by being the cause of
h ;king on their coast a B-q Erce to encourage their
rebellion." England before now, at an immense si.cri-
sought to make the Si-
fice of time, labour, and money,

eilians a free and happy people.. She gave them a
constitution of which their present KISG robbed thew,
subtituting for law the caprices of a c!trz..l and an ava-
ricious despot. This constitution, England, in the event
of a war, is bound to restore to the Sicilians, if they
desire it ; and we have no doubt whatever but that she
will do so. Prince CASTELCICALA, the Neapolitan
Envoy extraordinary, is expected to arrive in London
this day, so that a final decision will shortly be taken by
our Government.

There is very little news, domestic or foreign, in the
French Journals of Wednesday. The Chamber of
Peers was still engaged in the discussion of the Secret
Service Bill. The Peers have all on a sudden taken
a resolution to cut a figure in the State. It is too late.
The Chamber of Peers has lost all political influence in
France. Were it to presume to oppose the sovereign
will of the Deputies it would be swept away altoge-
ther. Nevertheless the debate on Tuesday and Wed •
nesday was very animated. The speech of M. THIERS
(Ministers in France, whether Peers or Deputies,
have a right of sitting in, and addressing both Chain
hers), in answer to the attack made upon his
policy by the Royalist Duke DE NOAILLES, has given
great satisfaction out of doors, As it is of the ut-
most importance that the foreign policy of the French
Government should be well understood in this country,
we make no apology for quoting here so much of the
President of the Council's speech as relates to that
branch of his subject. It has the advantage of being
more distinct and explicit than his previous expositions
in the Ch imber of Deputies :
" We have been told that there are in the East two
questions--that of Egypt and that of Constantinople, and
that we passed over in the Chamber the question of Egypt.
I think the memrry of the Noble Duke has erred.
He has also pointed out the tendency of England to
establish a road to India by Syria and Suez, which
he says would be contrary to the interests of France.
It is very true that we are not fully agreed with Eng-
land on the question of Egypt, but I do not see any immi-
nent danger on this point from the English any more
than for Constantinople from Russia. The occupation of
one or the other would be the signal for an European
war ; and I do not think that if even an adventurous spirit
like that of Frederick the Second were upon the throne
of Russia, or on that of England, be would venture at
once to put himself under the ban of Europe. If there be
more danger on one point than the other, however, it
is :Constantinople, for Sebastopol furnishes Russia with
the means of rapidly invaoing Turkey. We are, therefore,
bound to provide against the danger which is nearest at
hand, and in this view we should ally ourselves with Eng-
land against Russia. As to Egypt, I think the want of
that country by England has been greatly exaggerated.
In my opinion, the hostility of England towards the Pacha
of Egypt arises from his having persisted in betting the
Sultan. although it is true that he did not take the initia-
tive. I think that if the Pacha could be induced to remain
the faithful vassal of the Turkish earip;re it would be a
great service to the latter, for it is important for Turkey
to have a powerful vassal to preserve the provinces which
she is no longer capable of retaining. This is and has
been the opinion of the French Government, and no
mystery has been made, France would have regarded
as a fault the dismemberment of the Turkish empire, but,
once dismembered by itself, she has thought that the new
state of things should be maintained. She has always
thought it would be improper to despoil the Paella, and that
it would be practicable to dispossess him without the
armed intervention of Europe; that is to say, a sort of
forcible partition of the empire. It is under such convic-
ions that we are negotiating, and if we do no g succeed,
France is sufficiently powerful enough to isolate herself ;
and I do not hesitate to declare that, however useful
an alliance may be, France is powerful enough to se-
parate herself when her permanent interests may re
quire that she should do so.—( Applause) If on another
occasion, and in another place, my language was more
reserved, it was because English alliance was at
that time attacked on all sides, and I wished
to show England the interest attached by France
to that alliance, although she was resolved to
break it off if her honour and interests should require
her to do so. But you are aware that the English
alliance has had for its object the general peace and im-
portant advantages at a time when great questions were
being treated in Congresses; it was indeed a great advan-
tage to unite in one policy two powerful nations, whose
united influence frequently brought over a third. It was
thus that in the Belgian question England, although she
had powerfully contributed to found the kingdom of the
Netherlands, associated herself with France on all occasions
except towards the end of the negotiation?, on account of
the complicated state of affairs in the East. England con-
stantly acted with us on the Spanish question, and, far
from dreading our influence in the Peninsula, constantly
demanded our concurrence. On the question of the East
(I will not pronounce an opinion on the conduct of my pre-
decessors as to whether it might have been possible to have
bad a better understanding with Englaed,) we adopt the
policy which had been marked out. Permit me to oh-
serve, that in both countries attempts are made to
excite national prejudices. In France, it is said that
England extends her immense arms over the universe,
and that, in her insatiable ambition, she requires both
Egypt and China. In England, it is said that France
wants Mexico, and even threatens Buenos Ayres, that she
occupies Algiers, and threatens Tunis and Morocco, and
that she will soon be separated from Egypt only by the
miserable regency of Tripoli. These reproaches raise
a smile, and you who are enlightened as to the true state of
things in France, will have the same feelings as to the pro-
jects which are attributed to England by certain persons in
France. After all, Gentlemen, nothing is compromised in
the East. There is nothing compromised when one
country says to another, let us unite, leaving it free to each
other to withdraw at a later period if necessary, each in his
strength. The peace which we desire is a dignified peace.
If it were to become of a nature opposed to the dignity of
my country, we would not hesitate to appeal to the powerful
sentiment of nationality which may slumber for a period
during peace, but is never extinct.—(Great applause.)
The following extracts include all the gossip in the
shape of news in the Journals of Wednesday :

Madrid letters of the 7th confirm the last telegraphic
news—namely, the resignation of the Ministers of War,
Marine, and the Interior.

The Eco de Arragoss of the 9th inst., contains accounts
from Mas de las Matas of the sth, stating that the head-
quarters of the Queen's army would leave that town on the
6th for Acuaviva. The Carlists occupied Monrovo n ith
a large force.
Private letters from Bayonne of the 1 Ith inst. state that
the Government of Madrid had the intention of levying an
extraordinary contribution of 18,000 ,000 reals in the Basque
ovinces and Navarre, and had even addressed circular
lctters and instructions on that subject to the deputation of
the provinces. It appears, on the other hand, that several
of the Commissioners appointed for the purpose of recon
tiling the fueros with the constitution had declared against
all concession.

Count Pahlen, the Russian Ambassador, had arrived in
Paris.
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The marriage of his Royal Highness the Duke de
Nemours will take place at St. Cloud on Saturday, the
25th inst. _ .

A Toulon letter of the 9th instant announces the arrival
on that day of an estafette, with a packet of letters for
the Duke of Orleans, and adds, that a Ministerial des-
patch authorizes the Princes to remain in Africa as long as
they may desire to stay.
The Government has learnt that the French vessel the
Jcune Gabrielle, which was captured by the Carlists on
the ccast of Spain, has been restored ; all the crew have
been set at liberty by order of CThrera, who is still very
ill at Mora.—Le Constitutknnel.

We mentioned yesterday the sailing of four ships of the
line from Toulon on the 11th for Port Vendrcs. On the
12th the Genereux (also of the line) sailed to join them.
—Le Commerce.