The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-18 00:00:00

(From the Morning .Her&L)
We have authority to inform our readers that the basis
of the negotiations between the Privy C')uncil Committee
of Education and the National Society has been effected on
grounds which must prove highly satistlctory to a'l who
desire to insure and strengthen the union between the
Church and the State. The schcol inspectors are to be
appointed by the Archbishops and Bishops, in conjunction
with the Privy Council Committee; and their instructions
will be agreed upon by both parties. The Privy Council
has beer, led to make these concessions, partly because
they saw that they could not crrry on national education
in opposition to the clergy, and partly because they disco-
vered that both the clergy and the National Society were
desirous to advance the intellectual improvement of the
people equally with themselves. We do not wish to recur
to the past, or to express any sentiments of undue
triumph ; but if this fair and equitable basis had been pro-
posed when the Committee of Council was first esta-
blished, it might have saved much angry dispute and alter-
cation. As it is, the public and the Church will estimate,
at its proper value, the manly and consistent conduct of
the National Society, which has led to this beneficial and
honourable arrangement between the ecclesiastical and
civil authorities.

BRUSSELS and Or ERMA.N PAPErnS,

BRUSSELS, JULY 13.--The King, if we are rightlz in-
formed, was to leave Ardenne a few days ego for Wies-
baden. His Majesty travels •incognito. If we may bea•
lieve a report which appears to be generally credited, the
King, while he is in Germany, will have an in,terviely with
the nex King of Prussia. The lion. Lieutenaat•Colonel
Kent Murray, who has resided for several years at Paris,
discharged a gun at his wife, who was returning. from a
ridetoyaloi
a ht Brussels.orsebaek A
, in broadsno
report
daylight,w
andas heard
d it
ela
rthe Plaots
iwas
doubtless an air-gun, and as no gun was seen it was
doubtless a cane; and as a good aim cannot be taken
with a cane, Colonel Kent Murray, instead of hitting his
wife, is said to have only touched the rump of the horse et
the 'servant who followed her.
Such awkwardness in a soldier cannot go unpunished;
ttahoe:t
hocredo accordingly s
has
Royaleah
se Cu sot,iwotiin,srivleahlysi
come
nixolhltmee3idaint s to prove that ho took a
very good aim considering the distance at which he wag
from the object. The distance from the Place Vendome
twt post
plead st
atlek taeog placeurtehjr ccci:ndua:streteinYb dais.e.h
ra himselfest
rMrru-on(e;Iriat:llel sthLeedtrruial
the tribunal at Brussels. A great number of witnesses
will come from Paris to clear the Colonel from the impu-
tation cast on him by the friends of his wife.
The Prince of Orange has caused a letter of condolence
to be. addressed to Mrs. Cocketill, on the death of her
husband. Before she left Warsaw she received flans his
Royal Highness the Prince Marshal Viceroy of Poland,
marks offihe sincere regret which he felt, and the assu-
rance thanis protection would everywhere accompany her.
ST. PETERSBURG'', JULY 4.—A decision of the Con;.
mitteo of Ministers, confirmed by the Emperor, orders that
the gipsies who wander about in numerous troops without
any fixed abode, and frequently commit robberies and ether
offences, shall be settled in the villages belonging to the
Crown, within the jurisdiction of which they shall be taken.
Special instructions have been given on the subject to the
Minister of the domains. The completion of this settlement
is fixed for the Ist of Jan. 1841. Those gipsics who by
that time shall have caused themselves to be received in
the towns, and there carry on a trade, and have acquired
property, are to remain unmolested.

An Imperial decree of the 28th of April this year, ordcrs
that all the inhabitants in the towns and country of tho
kingdom of Poland, whose re::l property was destroyed by
fire in the years 1807 to 1816, shall be immediately indem-
nified. • The Polish Insurance Company existing at that
time was unable to indemnify the persons whose property
it had insured, because, when it was dissolved in /816, it
had not the means., Orders are row given to the preTer
authorities to make out the total amount of the insurance,
yet unpaid; and to lay it before the Council of Administra-
tion of the kingdom, which is to raise it by a tax on all the
owners of real property in the kingdom.
HANOVER, JULY 9.—Except the Crown Prince, who
will go as usual to Norderney, no part of the Court will
leave the capital this summer.—Hamburgh Papers,
July 14.

COPENHAGEN, JULY 11.—Private letters from KiJ, say
that the Grand Duke Constantine immediately proceeded
to Eums. The Russian fleet of 20 sail, includiqt, nine
ships of the line and six frigates, is cruising for the exer-
cise of the crew in the vicinity of Keil.—lianiLurgle papers
July 14.

INVERNESS SHEEP AND WOOL FAIlt.--TiliS
great annual fair commenced on Thursday, t.e 9a' curt. ;
withtsl
eiet net olebn,ytdhhaeo
day,fwra
g•
ieevrnaei
detr hadithnugi
re
harb,:ehsaeiendnederfidgttohennieenefurelapinll
vet
woeLneateuti
Inverness
sti
hurried
asr
rtnhiodeefdwehe well
theel
tneNi
wasnogrothwf acquaintedr:t ti-e
r, Here we are again in the heart of the wool fair bustle. Mr.
Lamb, and several other dealers and agriculturists, are beside
me at the table you sat at last year with the same party. Up
to the present time (ten o'clock, p.m.), not one lot has been
sold to go south. A few pacels, however, are disped of to
north country dealers and farrmers. Cheviot weddersos will be
about last year's prices, perhaps a shade lower, from 235. to
30s. Ewes are now in demand, and will be higher. I
know of two lots on which there has been an advance of 2g.
a head. The prices will run from 145. to 20s. Lambs
are very plentiful, in consequence of the dry and genial spring
and they will be about Is. or Is. 6d. less than last year
say from as. to 10s. Nothing will be done in black-faced
stock till to-morrow. The trade in wool is very dull. There
has been only one lot sold, namely, a thousand stones of Lei-
cester wool, -which brought 265. per stone. The same
wool last yeas sold for 30s. per stone. The manufactu-
rers wish for a reduction of from 20 to 25 per cent., and the
farmers are determined not to fall so low, consequently there
be few sales, and large consigments will be made to the
commission agents. Itlauy of our farmers have triied the white
tar in smearing their flocks, and even on the highest firms in
Ross-shire it has been found to answer well. The wool of
sheep smeared with this material is said to be worth 2s. a stone
more than that prepared with the ordinary tar and butter. The
attendance at the market is fully equal to that of preyious years.
Veil wet weather, dreadful rains to-day. "--Durn.fries Courier.
THE CROPS.—Wheat has made great progress
ehseTtihayl l ye
olupoounr, ignhd.t af n
theds.
ilsa lastdying in
n orgtehnreereal days,
f s
pea crop, tares in many
Great be general by the end of the present month.
and complaints
ofy ictlhdethe seed sown.. Cite/pis/ord
wTwehitaelthlerrathweeontinues warm with sunshine, the harvest is likely to
palrseemesa,diet oisf
sathied,dewficililenicloyt
Chronicle.

STATE OF OUR GAOL.—There are, at this
moment, 312 prisoners in our gaol. There are 61 criminals
for
trial at our South Riding Assizes, and 54 for the Ndrth
. Riding —Tipperary Constitution,
At Can ick-on-Shannon there .are several per-
sons to be tried for Ribbon offences ; the thirteen &legates
who were arrested during their business hours are amongst the
number. There are also trials for the same offfince to be held
at Carrickfergus, Down, and Omagh, in the north of Ireland.
During the spring season of the Jersey oyster
fishery, which closed on the last day of- May, 94 English
smacks, and 51 Jersey smacks, of about twenty tons each,
and 24 open boats, about four tons each, have been em-
ployed taking oysters for the English markets. The above
vessels have given employment to nearly 1,000 sea-faring
people. There have been sent to England 70,000 tubs of
oysteri (two bushels to the tub), for each of which 4s. V.
sterling have been paid for freight to England, and culling and
loading the oysters.

of from one to two thousand pounds
classes." The notion of "union"
between the recipient
per weak, and
the recipient of from eight to ten or twelve shillings per
week is a terrible mockery if it rest there. Both are
connected with the land; but to what does this cornmua
nity amount, while starvation is the lot of the one whom
toil helps to realise the immense wealth of the other ? We
might as reasonably talk fif the community of feeling be-
tween the landowner and the steait-engine that draioa his
grounds. Let the aeciety act up to Sir kolsert Peet's
professions on its behalf. Let it fairly treat the labourer
as a substantive portion of the agricultural interest.
(From,the Morning Advertiser.)
We ventured to give, in this Paper of Wednesday last,
a legal opinion that then is not any law now mating
for preventing Merchants having foreign corn in bond
from grinding it and converting it into flour tor ex-
portation, provided the place in which this should be
effected should be so secure that under the inspection of
the Customs officers the appropriation of the wheat
or flour for home consumption might be safely guarded
against. We have since looked diligently through ti:e
Act 9 Geo. IV., c. 60, intituled " An Act to amend
the laws relating to the importation of corn," and we
find nothing contained therein to induce us to alter cur
opinion. The words of the Act are, "Be it ereacted
that there shall be levied and paid to his Alci''sq
neon all corn, grain, meal, or flour, entered for home
consumption in the United Kingdom from ports be-
',end the seas, the several duties specified and act forth in
the table annexed to the Act." We cl!aller7cd the legal
world to show that we were wrong; but the chalicn4,,c has
not been accepted, and our expressed opinion remeins
nn-
contradicted. This will be a very important state of the
law in case a Bill be not laid before Parliament and passed
into a law this session, aq was contemplated ; for we ven-
ture to assert that a profit of about one million sterling has
been annually lost to the kingdom by the supposed state
of the law. Admitting that we were right, the capital of
our merchants, our shipping, sailors, millers, and labourers
will find a considerable employment ; for it rarely happens
that there is a year in which some other nation or our colo-
nies arc not in want of flour, which, from a mistaken con-
struction of the law, it was imagined we could not supply
by means of the bonded cern in this country.
(From the Morning Po t. )
The new numbqr of the Edinburgh Revitto (which is,
by the way, a particularly dull one) devotes somewhere
about fifty pages to an article upon the management of our
foreign policy. We, who have some remembrance akf
politics, literature, and stittibber, of Tories and Whigs full
a dozen years after the battle of Waterloo, cannot choese
but laugh to see the Edinburgh Review ernpla,ing sir
pages in an elaborate glorification of George canning and
the Viscount Palmerston. This is certainly not in any
sense " paying in kind." It is a pity that the Edinburgh,
when it determined upon so laudable a practice as that of
returning good for evil, did not try to do the thing in some-
what a smarter style than that of the lengthy laudation to
which we have alluded. It was not in this manner that Can.
ning and his sub. used to pay off the politicians of the Edin-
burgh in the good old times, when there was something
like wit and heartiness in the political and literary world.
The long article in the new number of the Edinburgh is
tedious and grovelling, like the labour of a tired clerk try-
ing to earn promotion, and to eke out the number of pages
for which he expected payment. It has no geniave no
energy, no spirit. The writer evidently has no more heart
for the appreciation of Canning sad his errors than Lord
Palmerston himself has, and evidently cares no more about
Lord Palmerston, whom he tries to praise, thaa we our-
selves do. It is impossible that he could care less. He
winds up with cautioning his readers that he does not pre-
tend to information on authority beyond what official docu-
ments; presented to Parliament, place at the command of
the whole public. This caution we consider rather super-
fluous. We can well believe that the reviewer had no
more than ordinary information. We wish he were capable
of making a better. use even of such information as is open
to the whole public. •