The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-29 00:00:00

Excellency was too deep for the memorialists—
he knew their. minds better than they did—he
flatly rejected their prayer-Ist. Because they
had presumed to form themselves into a society
" without any previous reference to his Excel-
" lency," which he was pleased to designate a
" wilful" disregardto the existing authorities at
the Cape ; 9.d, Because he could not think of
permitting the establishment of an association
which might' have a tendency to " produce" poli-
tical discussion. Thevery inconvenience which the
gentlemen who memorialized had shown their vo-
luntary determination toavoid. So much for colonia I
freedom under a Tory of the blood of Somerset.
Now, the facts being as represented, we feel
anxious to ascertain for the British public whether
the man is really to be recalled or not. A mi-
nisterial newspaper, not many days ago, gave in
the name of the Hottentot Grandee among those
of other functionaries about to be forthwith
superseded. Can the country, we ask, depend
upon the promise ?—or is the intelligence too
good to be true ? May it not be thrown out
to deaden our indignation, until tl►e storm
shall blow over, and some fresh nuisance appro.
priate the public attention ? The interest which
supports some people is very fearful to behold. We
have heard the Beaufort, Rutland, Stafford,
Harrowby, and their dependent lawmakers,
counted up at the scarcely credible sum of
sixty noses in Parliament ! But will Lord Ilar-
rowhy lend his countenance to men with whom
he would not associate for so much as half an hour
in a century ? Will Mr. Canning suffer the ex-
istence of such gross abuses as are felt to prevail
in our colonies, particularly where family interest
and alliance might lead to the suspicion that
his motives are not free from taint ? If these
two 'Ministers, the President of the Council
and the Foreign Secretary, should be compelled
into such mortifying personal humiliation, we
can understand the rumour that Lord Liverpool
prays for a speedy and effectual reform in Par-
liament, as for the only chance on earth which
would release him, as Minister, from the galling
yoke of a spendthrift and rapacious Aristocracy.

[MORNING POST.]
The accounts received yesterday from Paris
were chiefly of a private nature, and contained
more speculations than intelligence. The early
expression of party feeling by the Peers, mo-
derate as it had been, was generally consi-
dered as likely to produce new political com-
binations on the part of the Government.—
Charles X., it was thought, had delayed
making any :alterations in his Ministry until
he should have felt the pulse of the Chambers,
and the strength displayed by the Opposi-
tion in the Upper Branch of the Legisla-
ture, was supposed to ,have revived his ancient
prepossession in favour of Viscount Chateau-
briand. This, however, is little more than
matter of opinion, and as long as the Opposition,
though respectable and even strong in numbers,
can neither outvote nor even balance the adhe-
rents of the Ministry, whatever secret partialities
the Friend may feel, the Monarch must and
will resist them. A dvices had arrived from
Madrid; to the 17th of December. Ferdinand's
return to that; capital, though it had been the
cause of much splendid display in honour of Prince
Maximilian of suxony, the Queen's father, had
not quieted the fears nor removed the dissatisfac-
tion of the inhabitants. It was reported that
the senseless King, who cannot even make a
serious attempt to reduce his emancipated and
unassisted colonies to subjection, had determined
to embroil himself in a quarrel with the United
States, by withdrawing his recognition of the
cession of the Floridas to the American Union,
as having been given under the influence of the
Cortes ! The intelligence both from France and
Portugal states that the negotiations carried on
actively, though secretly, to induce the latter
Power to recognise the independence of Brazils,
were drawing to a close, and seemed likely to
be attended with complete success.

We received yesterday accounts from Canton,
to the Bth of May. They inform us that cotton
was in good demand there, at 13 or 14 tales, ac-
cording to the quality. Opium was quoted at
1080 to 1100 dollars per chest for old Patna, and
1030 to 1050 for new. Bombay Malina was
800 to 820, and Bengal ditto 820 to 880.
Old Benares was good sale at 960 to
980, and Turkey was 1000 per picul. Pepper
was exceedingly dull, and the stock remained
undindnished. The Com Patty's Treasury was
open at 207 on Calcutta. We also had Papers
from Bombay to the 30th of August, and from
Modras to the 15th. It will be seen by our ex-
tracts in another i.olutnn, that Lieut. Fen wick,
who was tried for the murder of a native on the
Guicomar territory, had been discharged from
custody by order of the Supreme Court, on the
ground that the evidence did not bear out the
indictment in certain formal points. From Ma-
dras we learn, that although the distress of the
native population continued, yet that Govern-
ment were giving employment to many in making
a road between the Presidency and Poonamalee.
The weather had undergone a considerable change
for the better. There is no fresh intelligence in
these Papers from the seat of war.—(lbid.)

of an obnoxious 'cork. There is an example
still more strictly analogous in France, A few
years since, the Metropolitan Chapter, we be-
lieve it is called, of Paris, denounced with all
the thunders of its ecclesiastical authority, the
philosophy of the 18th century—especially in the
writings of Rousseau antLAVoltaire. What was
the consequence ? For one edition which was
announced, four or five were actually pub-
lished and sold by rival publishers, who were
induced to speculate by the very prohibitory
letter of the Clergy. Such, at present, is the case
in Ireland with respect to the Bible. We
have heard, that for one instance in which a
Bible was read before, there are at present at
least ten. We say read—for of the distributed
Bibles, under the old system, but few were ever
read or opened. They were like Goldsmith's
bacon—" kept for a show." There is but one
way in which the interdict against the Bible
could be effectual—that adopted in Spain. It
should not be allowed among the people at all.—
It should be seized as contraband at the Custom-
house. This was the way in which the Re-
verend Fathers of the Inquisition acted, and they
understand these things ; and until the Catholic
Clergy in Ireland can do the same thing, their
interdict is idle wind, or, worse for them, defeats
its own purpose. This, probably, will not con-
tent the Bible distributors, who, like Lord Some-
body, in a recent popular Novel, wish to see peo-
ple happy but then the happiness must be of
their choosing, and administered by their hands.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

( From the Dublin Correspondent, Dec. 24.)

We cannot readily agree with a London Paper,
he Public Ledger, which contains the following passage,

sameacc time
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in a misconceived paragraph, concerning Ireland : " At the
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this presumption, and to have no authentic authority whatever
for what he has hazarded. We believe the Marquis 'Wellesley
to have been personally selected by our Gracious Sovereign,
and his confidential advisers, on tectiunt of the .universal opi-
nion entertained of him, as a consummate Statesman, as a
Nobleman of great experience in public affairs—of enlightened
views, great foresight, and circumspect policy—renowned from
his early days for masterly talents, to the natural power of
which, constant practice in public affairs had given a valuable
maturity, with augmented strength—and of whose profound
conception, as a Statesman, this Noble person's Government of
India, as well as his scheme for liberating the Spanish Penin-
sula of Buonaparte's hordes, had afforded the most splendid and
the most irrefragable testimonies. Added to these pre-emi-
nent reasons for his being chosen for the arduous and ungrate-
ful task of governing a country so divided, in consequence
of the menacing ambition of the Roman Catholic party, which
acts upon the system of destroying popular content and na-
tional ; it was thought that some grace would be
shewn the Alarquis Wellesley-, on account of,his.being an Iksh-
man by birth ; and on account of the noble disinteretifedness
of spirit for which his life has been distinguisheda—a quality,
which, It is imagined, attracts among the Irish people no small
share of their applause anti attachment—as, to say die truth,
it generally does ; all those united qualifications and endow.
meats pointed out the Noble Marquis as one of the fittest
public men in the Empire, to have conferred upon him the
trust of governing Ireland, after his Majesty, was pleased of
his own grace to visit this, his Kingdom—anti to leave injunc-
tions of moderation and public forbearance from party
among his Irish subjects. When this Illustrious Nobleman
entered upon the Royal task appointed for WM, as the King's
Representative, some such notions as those hazarded by the
Public Ledger were rumoured in this city; and what we affirm
we know upon the best authority, that some of the most im-
portant of the Nobility of this country—men devoted to the
Protestant Church and State, which con .jointly form our. Civil
Constitution, did converse with his Lordship
upon that subject;
and that they left his presence quite satisfied, that he came to Ire-
land to rule this land according to its laws, and by means of
its laws, with resolved impartiality, from which no party re-
clannations—no party alurements, should draw him, that hia
administration never would recognize party influence of any
kind, however powerful, important, or even intimidating, it
may seem—that he was resolved to see every thing with
his own eyes, and to hear eyery thing with his own ears—
and to execute his trust without any bias whatsoever—
leaving no person the slightest pretext for the notion, that any
man could exceed himself in a devoted fidelity to the welfare,
prosperity, and honour of the Established Church—in which
especial matter, we do affirm, that he has put it out of the
power of the meanest and basest of his slanderers to raise a
shadow of doubt. What we now state was at the time com-
Munlcuted to ourselves—and the authority is not to be excel-
led ; and upon that account it is, that we have, under circum-
stances far from making us debtors for any graces or favours
to Lord Wellesley's Government, endeavoured to render his
pure and faithful policy every support, and every justice, in
our power.—We are convinced that the Church of England
has not in the world a more faithful and determined advocate;
and while we see no reason to yield up this opinion, we cannot
have a reason fbr changing our conduct, which is our duty
in fact. Lord Wellesley's sentiments, as an individual, con-
cerning what is called, in our days of cant, the Catholic Claims,
ran have nothing to do with his Government. This latter is a
thing paramount; all its duties are pointed out—all its prin-
ciples are sacred and untangible ; and an abstract opinion upon
a very secondary, though a troublesome subject, cannot inter-
weave a wrong influence with its operations. There is a wide
difference between a notion of the feasibility of the Emancipa-
tion vision, and the permitting of Anti-Protestant speculations
to taint the practical conduct of the Administration. It is one
thing to err upon this chimera, but clearly, another to counte-
nance the inroads making against the Church Establishment
for its overthrow—which we assert to be the mainstay of our
real, and genuine, and durable union with England, let the
Orators rave as they will, or presume with ever so much ob-
trusive absurdity, to take the Sovereign under their patronage.
Lord Wellesley never came here to carry, a speculation job—leis
spirit and character soar proudly above little schemes and cun-
ning policy ; he came here for open, obvious, and great ends—
and tremendous as the obstacles have been which have disputed
his course, he is walking them, down one by one, majestically
and calmly, and with the patience and perseverance of a States-
man. Ile may be weary of his task—and no wonder; but
whenever he withdraws from it, he will leave the Established
Church strengthened in its noblest defence—the characters, abi.
lities, and zeal of those whom he shall have appointed to its
sacred offices.

NEW CHURCHES . IN THE HIGHLANDS AND
vrotr ,
the CMORNIN In/a/pg.—We have sincere pleasure in again adverting to
0 11 En Al. D. 3 this subject, and informing our readers that measures are now
in progress for the accomplishment of the patriotic and pious
.. . purposes of the Legislature, in constfucting additional places
recent dispute between the advn. of worship in the Highlands of Scotland. Ithen we consider
cutes'fig the-distribution of the Bible in Ireland the great mass of people who are deprived of the means
n of religious instruction, front the local situation of the
and. the Colbo
Clergy, the latter are flushed churches in the different parishes, we think that the benefits
With victory, and the former evidently quailing
defeat. likely to flow from this important measure, cannot be too
We have reason to
highly appreciated. Some of the Highland parishes arc
under: a sense of
from twenty to fifty miles wide, and with all the obs tru c-
think) however, latter owever, that the have gained by dons of lakes, rivers, and mountains, the inhabitants in
their defeat, the former lost by their victory, divine
places while tterly debarred from an attendance on
Theare.itreeat
_i
tLineZeiliceiiisjltristonclertynot ofl the parish is prevented
ill a certain perverse spirit of opposition,
as to tbenistives.l These firsicoLenientaccitelis awsilflo,riTidagbrle t°
him
aTcheerrtea.in oucipsity to pry into what is forbidden,
because it :is forbidden,;tire, be obviated erect the plan in question. amb country,
au
i
man and beast. The bestl , :ay
ociftuwLeilicifiswtoilirb spinitietAliaireifinntxtearrts of this country, to
poke the
of deciding ,the line of direction which a pig salary of 1201. a year. ?I°his important ulletrtital Ictinmgmiirto bets
aonf'cotland, are t carried ironeoffeectabryctuhrel
,Itilempiissioners to whom the coun-
shall toke,icto pull in the contraryiiluicohd governs
diirtecitsi 0
snbaoihdt
yh
al-
the tail—and Mankind is diSpOSed to relay so deeplylr pinltebteadr. y
for their ability
head
,and PurStle knowledge in the very place pleting the grand schemes of the Caledoniyan Canaleucand ti.l?eci'iamr.."
Which is most strictly prohibited• So it has '
excise Terdiscaainl bsdges ; and
the clergymen are to ex_
Which
its respect to ferbidden books. Even by "tne Co
functions,rmcmissioners.ewlitinnscaernudsin bounds to be fixed
the, force of : law, and the ';fear 'of: • -punish. progress,, under the superintendence of Mr*.TroeleVitreillltTrielll
and Mr. James Smith of this town, and it is expected thni
merit iti this country, cannot 'prevent, but ra- operations will be commenced °
early in spring.—(itiverArri
titer ,and, plicorrooufily extend the circulation '
courler.)