The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-21 00:00:00

THE CORN-LAWS.

IMPORTATION OF CANADIAN FLOUR AND WHEAT.
We are informed by gentlemen connected with the
trade of Canada, that there is likely this year to be a
very great increase in the imp°, tation of wheat and
flour from the united province of Canada, and that
there is reason to expect that this increase will be
rapid and progressive in succeeding years, and ulti-
mately be carried to such an extent as materially to
affect the price of bread in this country. Last year
the importation of flour and wheat from Canada
amounted to 298,761 barrels, and 141,931 minots of
whet, each winot being equal to three bushels, and this
year it is expected that there will be an importatio❑ of
about 700,000 barrels of flour, and of wheat in the
same proportion. Had it not been for the disastrous
effects produced on agriculture and industry gene-
rad), by the two recent rebellions, a much larger
quantity of wheat would have been produced in Ca-
nada, and sent to this country during the last three
years tha❑ has been received, but now that confidence
is thoroughly restored, aril that the constitution of
the province has been placed on a firm and lasting
basis, agriculture has again begun to flourish, and fresh
supplies of labourers to pour into the province. Ef-
forts such as never were made before, are now making
to increase the amount of emigration from this country
to Canada, partly from political and partly from eco-
nomied motives, and every increase of this kind will
add to the productive powers of the province. When
it is considered that there are more than sixty
millions of acres of land capable of cultivation in
Canada, and that the population is increasing at
such a rate as to more than doubte itself every
twenty years, it is not improbable that this colony
may, in the course of years, become the gra-
nary of the British empire. 'Ms, however, is no-
the only source of supply, for wheat grown either on
the American or Canadian side of the St. Lawrence
may be imported into this country provided it has been
ground into flour in the province of Canada. The ef-
fect of this permission has already been to produce a
very large importation of American wheat into Canada,
so much so that not less than Curly thousand tons
were received in the single port of Kingston, the new
capital of Ctimada, during the last year.

•
The duty on whcat imported into this country from
Canada and other British possessions in North Ame•
rica, is five shillings a quarter when the avera4e price of
wheat in this country is less than sixty-si vun shi;lings
a quarter, and 6if. a quarter when it is above that
price. The duty on flour is in the same proportion.
These duties present no obstacle to the importation of
any quantity which the Canadians can spare for export.
—Liverpool Times.

THOMAS HOBI3ES, OF MALMES-

BURY, ON THE UNIVERSITIES.

It is manifest that the instruction of the people de-
pendoth wholly on the right of teaching of the youth in
the Universities. But are not (may some men say)
the Universities of England learned enough already to
do that ? or is it you will undertake to teach the
Universities ? Hard que,,tions. Yet to the first, I
doubt not, to answer ; that till towards the end of
Henry VIII. the power of the Pope was always uphelo
against the power of the Commonwealth, principally
by the Universities ; and that the doctrines maintained
by so many preachers against the Sovereign power
of the King, and by so many lawyers and others that
had their education there, is a sufficient argument that
though the Universities were not the authors of those
false doctrines, yet they know not how to plant the
true. For in much contradiction of opinion it is most
certain that they have not been sufficiently instructed ;
and it is no wonder if they yet retain a relish of the
subtle liquor, wherewith they were first seasoned,
against the civil authority. But to the latter question
it is not fit nor needful for me to say aye or no ; for any
man that sees what I am doing may easily perceive
what I think.—P. I€o ; 16.51.

EXTENDING THE THOROUGHFARES IN LON-
DoN.--A Bill of much importance, with regard to the im-
provement of the metropolis, has just been printed for the
House of Lords, having been introduced under the sanction
of Government. Its object is to promote further improve-
ments in the cities of London and Westminster, particu-
larly in two parts of it :—first, to open a convenient
thoroughfare from the end of Coventry-street, Piccadilly,
to Newport-street and Long-acre. A schedule is attached
of the property that will be required to effect this very im-
portant change. From that it appears that it will be
nooessary to pull down three houses in Leicester-
square, namely? Nos. 50, 51, and 52; and also houses
in Princes-street, Cranbourne-street, Bear-street, and
Caste-street, in Little-court, at the back of old Slaugh-
ter's Coffee-house, in St. .Martin's-court and lane, &c.,
which ate built on ground the fee of which is in the
Marquis Of Salisbury, so that Cm: plan is not likely to be
red. The second opposed if his Lofdthip's assent is sect:.
im-
provement proposed by the Dill is to continue the line of
street from kVatcrloo-bridge, now cGrttpleted to Bow-street,
northword into Broad-street, Holborn, to t'x...:nd to Ox-
fordzstreet, in a direct line through St. 143 as to
comMunicate With Holborn at or near Southampton-strefi.
The Dill further proposes to open a spacious thoroughfare
tetiveen 'l'Vhitetiliapd and Spitalflelds and the docks,
wharfs, &c. of the river Thames, by widening the northern
and southern ends of Leman-street, and by creating a new
stte.2otdrn the northern side of NV hittchapel to the front
of Sotal,9eld4 .Ititt.reh. A schedule is attached of property
that it will be net titsail to pull down from East Smithfield
to Rosemary-lane. Thtl bill ',meets that the Commis-
aioners of Woods and Forests are to have the power to
make and plan the improved thoroughfares, to charge their
funds with 214,0001. for such purpose ; to obtain Ex-
ch. qut r bills from the Tiea:u.y, &r. It further provides
that the streets are to be made ace rding to maps or plans
to be deposited in the offie, of the COMMISSI Alas, and that
no alteration in lines of streets arc to be made without the
consent of the Lords (1 the Treasury.
SUPERANNUATIONS.—An account has been
laid before Parli,ment of all allowances or superannua.
1840; the annual amount
lions in public offi,..es or departments which re liai6ed
parable on the lit of Jaouary,
which was granted in 1840 ; the annual amount which
ceased within the year, and the total amount remaining
,1084f0o,ur
departry,
pas able on th, 31st of December, 1840. Ti,e total corn-
pensati ut and suprranou,tion allowat.ccs remaining pay-
able was 657,0281 , about
two
Ordnance. 41 6971 : Admiralty and subordinate N val
ents, v z •
(11'nirdthseo3f1:1,:fehDi:rsceempbaiedr'
Department,,, 112.749/ ; Excise, 125,547/. ; and Cue.
t 01125, 154,335/. -

MORNING EDITION.

I ODE ON THE BUIiIAL OF SO
MOORg.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN,
Sax.,—Your correspondent, 11. A. is a wag. The Ion?, de3
about " The Midshipman and his Log," is evidently iot,e'sio.
to be a quiz on the spurious eirettmstantiality and affecte''•o;
desty of the unhappy Scotehman who gave rise to the Prec
discus ion. In order, therefore, doubtless, that his joke 51 0
not be mistaken in the present matter-of-fact Age,b,:
judiciously- represented his Gallic Socrates (who, of C"%i.ts
the counterpart of poor " old Mrs. Henry," requit-cr-co
pace, reciting to his nil.; tical Alumnus, about the time %tii
battle of Corunna, "as much as he could remember," f"rs.
of a parody which was composed in French two or three 7%.
azo by the witty Dr. M. as I believe, and published,i,n
First. Volume of Bentley's Miscellany with Jo iy
ane other " Reliques of Father Prout." And as it thibsr;vii,
not sufficient to insure credence to his jocularity, he tbF
forward his young hero, like a second Daniel,
dream," as well as giving the interpretation thereof ; fel. • cm-
" Old Veteran" recited only as much as he could rceon'or,e,
ber," the young gentleman's inspiration suppled, ef
what was wanting of the original.
Dr. M-----'s (?) parody, or rather translation of
,„ 6.4
lines, is really so good, and so slyly introduced in
ro be
Reliques," as to have actually imposed on some people sstbat
original ; and IL A.'s irony also is so gravetairost
without this explanation it might spread the delost,en
coextensive with the circulation of your journal. ri°`." de.
should I have misconceived your correspondent's-0. of
sign, by mistaking lightness of judgment for graci:oe
humour, I heartily beg his pardon ; hut at the, to
tell
time advise him, if he really did intend to start for r,,rl;-ob.
withdraw his " beast" as fast as possible. As it Most
vious to the meanest capacity that the statement of his 4,rr%5 thee
cations, &c., &c., &c., will not bear a scrutiny, I dare sa) • l.'s
might have been as much likeness between ‘• The Iva
Burial" and " The Lines on the Burial of Sir John 31°°r6; of
we may conceive to have existed between the spouting:o,
Mons. " D'Almand," which inspired the former, and the 'sir,
position ofDr. M. (?), which travesties the latter.—l all,
your very obedient servant,
Monday, April 19.

DR. HOOK AND MOTHER

CHURCH. „teh
We chanced the other day to take up the sP—he
which, our Reverend Bishop having prevented hod
Rev. Dr. from talking, he has now printed, fi,•
from it we can learn that both Dr. -Hook anu,,,)
poor " old Mother," are at present in a very hi,e.lif's
If a man, says the worthy Dr., thinks for him fag
runs a great risk of embracing the soul•destrOh'
heresy of Socianism ; but if, instead, he let, l'jt,..tebr‘o
think for him, he runs equal danger of worshiPP°('
scarlet ! The only chance, he tells us, (/' sal
one's salvation, is, for him first to march straight slO.
from Rome along the road of individual juilgmel:ihg
wards Socinianism, till he comes to the turning 4,i'erg
implicit authority of the Church of England. l'"pr
he is to diverge, and twisting nearly quite roul"„,;is),
coed in the opposite direction (i.e., towards Rome Wb 'titt
till he comes to the top of the col de sac (Anglicsll4
lane),there—squat. OPP°
Dwindled, as, the Dr. says, Socinianism ig ,s'„ of
days, we fear that, if his account be correct, 11150 s!
" old Mother" will soon be quite childless. Bles'ieft,
we had forgotten the worthy Dr. would still be 0
remaining How she will doat on her only b°
too, in her old age ! „ so
The Apostolic Dr. says that the Church is nilbe
divided into parties, that every one must necessardylu,,
come a party man. If our memory does not fa'ase,
one of the earliest of' his predecessors, in a similar
held just the contrary doctrine, exclaiming, Is ,ci;
divided ?"
,v,
Perhaps, then, the Dr. may be wrong in tbe t)thet
little matter too, and Ckristianity, at le tat, whatG:e
d
may he the fate. of the Dr.'s poor old mother, .log
bless her soul !) is not, just atat least, ge
to the dogs.
We • may observe, by the bye, that though the seol
present
manists and Socinians will doubtless forthwith
the worthy Dr. votes of thanks tor his candid Otlitbe
that to embrace their respective doctrine; isto.o
legitimate result of following one or other of the
alternative principles of theological dogmatics anus
that his own views can only be reached by ,0 tortuu°f'fi,
a curse, that few arc to be found with spines of s p.t,
cien flexibility to be able to thread it ; yet, we susr-ille
that his own tribe will not very readily forgive hic°that
indiscretion, even on the doubtless veracious plea• eat,
he was led into it, through the (though weak Yet)ezld
ous and truly amiable hope to frighten into the
few of the more timid sheep.—Leeds Times.

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Mr. G. A. Macfarren's new opera cannot' 0,
brought out at the Lyceum, although it has bepeel'illips
derlined in the bills, in consequence of Mr. IL
having left the theatre, for whom a principal part had
expressly composed.
WISSS
REDUCTION OF DUTIES ON FRENCH •
.05
AND SPIRITS. is reported that the proposed rech,lrcal
nce,
to be trade under the new commercial treaty with j. per
will be to 10s. per gallon on brandy, and to 15. 6 caty
gallon on wine. The conclusion of the commercial teL,it
y,
is dependent on the ratification of the political !0rn.....
which will withdraw France from her present isolett
London Journal of Commerce.
DES CA
p
Rene C. f France, perils?,
rte (horn F 96) a native o
the most original thinkera country has predueed. Dev
that
; dAP
Cartes
the contemporary of Bacon, and exercised
equally powerfullosophical system Of
influence,- though in a manner widel/
different, on the progress of philosophy in Eur'
Both equally undertook the task of demolishinc;
old scholastic system, and of substituting in its fpirit
a more comprehensive method and a more livie6,),
of philosophising. But %%het Bacon strove to
plish by calling men's attention to experiment se .0 hi
eervation of nature, Des Cartes proposed to attvi oil
the search for a first and self-evident ground °of'
knowledge. This he finds in the art of coasciod•
ncss, involving necessarily the idea of self or '-ucht,
((,ogito ergo suns.) Consciousness is the act of the that
constitutes the essence of the soul, and i 5, Or
which distinguishes it from matter. The iee-ired,
objects of conscicusness are of three kinds---aclea, of
compounded, and innate. Of the last sort is the ' dof
God, or the absolute being, which, as being the grehti: Be-
all reality, is itself its own demonstration. God, t"erPP
time of the universe, upholds it in its source by his Poo.
tual co-operation, or, in Cirtesian language, assigt
All physical phenomena Des Cartes endeavoured Oci
count for by his celebrated vortices—motions Wit:, eof
God, the source of all motion. This singular m'st", pr:'
philosophical depth and extravagant hypothesis ths" drip,
vails in the writings of this philosepher obtained form ad'
as might have been expected, a large number of tva the
hereeLs, and of equally violent opponents. Afil°l3slale;
former may be enumerated the celebrated Pascal,
,deed
branche, and Spinoza. The two latter devi itcdclartes;
in many important points from the views of Des d alike
but the main features of his philosophy are preserve oiette
in the religious mysticism of the one and the sYS7/Sci'
ence, Literature, awl Art—an cxceltint
pantlitim of the other.—Lonyznan's Dictionary 0r
pearing periodically.
nna t lile
CHURCH-HATE FRUITS. nch°l
Church-rare defaulters lately summoned before a P`a
Magistrat's at Hickney, was George Offor, Escl•A'
gi3trate in the Tower Hamlets, who, thout'h he "ec,,eartd,
to deny the legality of the rate, refused to pa v the 'tile did
made upon him and his tenants, on the grour;.d that (1 were
not attend the parish church, and that those who did t/
weelthy enough to pay for themselves. This oersl„gieg•
their claims the clergy have not been slow in avef tbe
publican°,
Mr. Offor has for many years been a Coninaissioner:; end
Tower Hamlets' Court of Requests—the most se,tl
useful member, it is beli ved, ever found in the L'a nets.
sion. These Commissioners represent the various Patjp to
rigro fmortm this
sd parish
ri lg ;reZri fs
in the Tower Hamlets. Hackney elects e;ghteen• to. h,ttell'
yin t.I'S
presentstehe
rectionof
time,suitr6 party
persons faceelain
interest has usually been taken in the matter, th't t the
have hal-a-dozen inhabitants attended to Ave° dii.g,;
eighteen commissioners:. This Easter, the procedefee
took a new turn. The clergymen and chutchvver, by4
the district iu which Mr. Offer resides, atteode'ectieg,
troop of fiends and supporters, came down to the el 0, st%
and not only turned out Mr. Offor, but also five the
other gentlemen, lacking no other qualificationi
° from
office than that of an exclusive and intolerant spirit.,
ere
the disgust which this proceeding has excited, "Lode;
little doubt that the next year retaliation will be il'oorni•
and thus it is that the church and the clergy, whilsete
nally existing for the promotion of peace, become, 'f•-°,3il-
matters which no way concern them, the fomenters. 0,
rerences and hostility among neighbours.—Chrome
At Queen-square police-office, yesterclaProoght
Tracey, the Governor of Westminster Bridewellt
of
the girl who had been committed, under the n,o:eis'
" George White," before Mr. Burrell, the sitting rercl
td
trate, and stated that since the disclosures had apPea icirg
the papers she had threatened to destroy herself o°_, ob-
liberated. He had repeatedly questioned her on te:roet
iect, and that morning, she had declared that the Tvricer.
she could get out she would throw herself into theLeoelf;
The Magistrate asked if she intended to destroy a er-oca
afterme hesitation, she said she did. She r, 61,0'
and, so
hCr relii • r,
to gibe her name or any information cahoot bedsooli
could not give sureties for her good
and, as she .
she was ordert:cl back to prison. I °
Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., Master-Gener,foth
the ,rent
the Ordnance,hispected that fine regimen
Hassary, on Mondaj, in Clarendon-squarc, L ovs.
The regiment is quartered at Coventry, and cam,. o
purposely to be inspected by the gallant Gerlera_hlege
novel a spectacle naturally attracted a brilliant ass
el"
of rank and fashion to witness it. 14 • 17;
PENRYN ELECTION.—Mr. HUte,iinS:
or
E. for this borough, has written to his agents, ref a
t
them to announce that he shall not, in the event jofor
ral election, offer himself again as a candidate
of
borough.—Cornwall Royal Gazette. ast
The bo f the
ENGLAND AND IRELAND.—
coder °
English pride is ridiculous to the dsily
r.c. butthe
-to le' l ohu Times. It may be very galling to English 1) 16
fact nevetthelese, we Irish arc beginntruigre
~
and
.tied
::elves the superior people. We have end
an(? _
is something ; we have enforced our rights
.1 :Tr 0 d
rib!
classic
them. Marathon and Leonidas are
ure for the ter
Catholic Associatiln will be a bold_epichtave
done lf,ther
temptation of the future historian. V
\weakness on the -erfel
Oppression on the one hand and
with a 13°1 seso
engeoe, grading vice-- the Nation,onemar, ;
our laeien el
will, hay shaken it off as would
hut, if a V.Cif• do'
disgraced by contention and violence ;üble _
d waters °alio,.
• had been spoken over the tro
d tranclu it!
poaer
calmed into profoun
ciety, the country has
h emditien of btuue ice
In a population of nine millions, t ea Lnd offanee9-1; huit
is, that there shall be man crintes
fere," ate deposited by its
and cum throvvit off and
dels and eve,rr.,sd
up-
they miscalculate their power ofe
too cannot reaa 11.
ignorance, who imagine that w
Souther) lief
derstand, reflect and compare.

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