The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-16 00:00:00

`ICE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1840.

25,000 emigrants have land xl in this city from tho follotr- !
ing ports in Europe :
Whence. Cabin. Steerage. Total. 1
Liverpool, 249 15,462 15,711
London, 243 1,080 1,326
Bristol, 192 47 239
Havre, 103 5,171 5,274
Bremen, 21 944 965
Cork, 2 286 288
Glasgow, 2 374 376
Hull, 44 44
Falmouth, 1 194 195
Londonderry, 210 210
Wexford, 53 58
Hamburg, 86 86
Belfast, 2 164 16

Aggregate, 818 24,120 24,938
Each of these has brought something into the country,
and the annexed is probably a fair approximation to the
total increase of wealth by their arrival. Few of the
Irishmen have brought any money in their pockets, and
scarcely any clothes on their backs; but otherwise they
are a valuable acquisition, and worth $7OO a-piece. With
the Germans it is different : they are generally well
dressed and clean, and have a small sum of money—and
also the Swiss. Of the 25,000, there are—
Each worth. Total value.
Irishmen
Irish women
Irish children
Germans
Swiss 3,000 „ 800 1,200,006
1 Pella, Dutch, &c 3,500 „ 400 1,400,000

Total 25,000 $9,550,000
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, JUNE 30.
This has been bill day for the steamship Great Wes-
tern, which sails to-morrow. The demand has not been
sufficient to cause any improvement in the rate of bills on
London, Sales have bee►► made at 61 to 71 per cent.
premium. The best bills only command the latter rates.
The principal transactions have been made at 7 a 71 per
cent., or $4 75 a $4 76 the £ sterling. There is very
little demand for bills on mercantile account. The prin-
cipal remittances are for the payment of interests on State
and Corporation debts.
A convention of ceuntry banks, consisting of both the
free banks of the safety fund, is now in Session in Albany
on the subject of the new law for the redemption of bills
in the city. This law was passed by the influence of the
Bank of Commerce clique, backed by the strong safety
fund banks, with the design of driving the bills of the
weaker free banks from circulation. There is now a great
deal of difficulty on the subject of the law. The file
banking interest, feeling aggrieved at the law, will use
their political influence against the present Administration
with whom the law originated.
The general sales of stocks that are now made, are not
of the slightest importance in themselves ; but are the
cause, by their violent fluctuation, of much uneasiness, and
have contributed greatly in the past few months, to pro-
mote a want of confidence. The Board of Brokers have
recently prohibited, by a fine, the sales of stocks in the
street. 'I hey would be benefited in the end, if they would
pass a resolution excluding all gambling stocks from the
Board, even although they might at present lose some few
commissions.. They should then admit only solid stocks,
and State stacks, which will represent actual values, and
be beyond the influence of monopolising cliques and cor-
nercrs. At present the actual sale of State stocks arc
rarely repOrted, and ever) diSpOsition is maniTested to Con-
ceal the trueitate Orthe mitiket, lest it Should effect indi-
vidual interests in Europe. The fact is, that the demand
for the stocks by no means equals the supply, and the rate
at which they are sold evinces rather the condition of the
money market than the value of the stocks.
SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
100 shares U. S. Bank .. opg 73}
130 do Union Bank ... 110
25 do Phoenix Bank

307 do Delaware and Hudson 7B
50 do ditto qt w 78
75 do North American Trust
50 do ditto
30 do Mechanics' Banking Association 76
35 do Farmers Trust B2
30 do N Orleans Commercial
5 do Mohawk ... ..
25 do ditto
19 do Harlem Railroad
85 do Stonington Railroad
$5,000 Exchange on Philadelphia

SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD
5 shares North American Trust
100 do ditto 791
Philadelphia, June 30, e. U.
Sales of about 450 shares United States Bank took
place at the Session of the first Board Brokers, at 751
op'g flat, principally to supply orders from your city ;
$5,000 in drafts on New York at sight,lo3l ; 1 share Pen-
sylvania Bank at 415 and 15 ; Girard at 401 ; embrace
the entire sales at the Board.
At second Board no sales were made—After the Boar&
100 shares of Girard, 40i; 200 New Orleans Gas at 91,

two days flat.
Closing rates.—United States Bank, 75 a 75k; Phila.
delphia, 100; Girard, 401 a 40k; Vicksburg, 10f a 11 ;
Wilmington R. R. 45; a 46 ; Exchange on New Orleans,
4i a 4 ; Baltimore, * a 1 ; Charleston, par.
Baltimore, June 30, 1840.
There were no southern -.papers from beyond Savannah
received by the mail last evening.
The Cincinnatti Gazette, of Friday, notices that the
wife of General Harrison was dangerously ill, but was then
considered past the crisis of her disease.
The flour market is firm, and Howard-street is held
firmly and sells at ,04 56 a 4 52i. French ground City
Mills, which is wanting for the South American market,
was sold at $5. Susquehanna is rather heavy at $4 50 a
4 621.
Maryland white wheat, 100 a 1004 c ; do. ked, 95 a 100.
Pennsylvania, white and red mixed, 102 ; red, 98 a 102.
Pennsylvania rye, 49c. ; Maryland, 43 a 47c. ; Maryland
oats, 25c.
No change in provisions, either in demand or price.
COTTuN TRADE.

The most remarkable cotton year in the history of the
country is now dray.ing to its close, after the delivery of
a crop 20 per cent. larger than was ever before produced.
The following is a table of the receipts, stock, exports,
and home consumption, for the last three years :
Receipts. Expor a Consumption. Stock.
1840... 2,039,654 ... 1,550,803 ... 151,743 ... 337,108
1839... 1,318,158 ... 909,3±1 ... 197,834 ... 210,988
1838... 1,682.038 .. 1,342,797 ... 130,825 ... 208,316
The system of monopoly on which' the cotton trade was
conducted for the last two years Gab been entirely broken
up, and the prices of cotton must henceforth depend en-
tirely upon the demand. The present supply of Cotton
is so large that, in the probable course of things, it must
exceed the demand for the coming year, even should the
crop prove short. Had the crop of last year been let'
to its natural action, it would, in a great measure have cor-
rected the evils which then existed in the market. There
was, however, a class of mad speculators, at the head of
which was Vincent Nolte, who, led away by the single
idea of a short crop, wilfully blinded themselves to the
threatening aspect of the money market of the world, the
over supply of the previous ye,r, and the glut of manufac-
tured goods in all the markets of the world, boldly dashed
into the minket without capital, inflated prices, drove out
prudent dealers, and ultimately failed, amidst the most dis.
astrous losses, and involved many of the banks in their
ruin. The eff.:ct of the artificial high prices, caused by
their operAtions is apparent in the present enormous crops
on the one hand and the diminished consumption on the
other. The market is nlw in the midst of a reaction.
Prices have reached most extraordinary low points.

demolition of Brook's monument, and, more recently,
by the attempt to blow up the Great Britain, at
Oswego, was permitted to make his escape last night,
while on his way to the state prison here. For his
villaneus attempt upon the steamer he had been
tried and sentenced at Oswego to seven years' im-
prisonment in the state prison, and was on his way
thither, in custody of the Sheriff, in one of the railroad
cars. When within four miles of the village, and while
the train was proceeding at the rate of twenty miles an
hour, he sprung from the car, and was suddenly out of
sight—it being about ten o'clock. After the lapse of a few
minutes, the train was backed, lights were procured, and
the passengers made a simultaneous search, but the culpirt
could nowhere be found
It is supposed that he must have been injured by the
fall, as some blood was discovered near the spot where he
alighted ; his shoes and cap were also found a short dis-
tance apart, so that he went off bare-headed, and en his
stocking soles.
(From the .New York Commercial Inquirer.)
The state of our Foreign Exchanges is highly satisfac-
tory. They are now
at about that pitch that will neither
lead to the exportation or importation of specie. The
steamer and packets to-morrow, as far as we can learn, will
not take out $30,000 in specie. Thera was •.ri abundant
supply of bills to-day, and the demand has fallen short of
general expectation. The closing rates are—London,
1063 a 107; Paris, 5 30 a 5 281 ; Amsterdam, 393 a 39i ;
Hamburgh, 353 a 353 ; Bremen, 77 a 773. These all
opened higher yesterday, but purchasers not appearing to
the extent anticipated, drawers became anxious to realize,
and submitted to a reduction.
The amount of business done at the Stock Exchange
to-day was moderate. US. Bank closed at 733—no
change. North American Trust advanced materially, say
five per cent. from the lowest rate of yesterday. A large
amount of their bonds fall due tomorrow, and some appre-
hensions have been entertained that they would not be
promptly met. We are happy to learn, however, that no
difficulty will exist and no disappointment be experienced.
The stock at the Second Board sold at 313.
The following are the rates of Inland Exchange. It
l 3 proper we should add that there are plenty of bills and
certificates of deposits offering and but few purchasers :
Philadelphia, 3 a 33 ; Baltimore, 33 a 33 ; Richmond,
43 a 43; Charleston, 33 a 33 ; Savannah, 73 a 73 ;
Augusta, 9 a 91 ; Mobile, 103 a 11 ; New Orleans, 73 a 8;
Louisville, 8; Cincinnatti, 7 a 73;
St. Louis, 10 ;
Floride, 50 a 55.
Specie continues abundant. The quotations are:--
American Half Dollars par
Mexican Dollars 3 per ct. prem.
Spanish do 2a 3 per ct. prem.
Sovereigns $4 84
Spanish Doubloons 15 80
Patriot 15 56

REPORT OF THE GREAT WESTERN, Lieut.
J. HOSKIN, Commander, sailed from New York on the
Ist of July, arrived off Bristol on the 14th July, 1840.
July 1.-Packet-ships Oxford and Philadelphia, from
New York. Passed them outside Sandy Hook, between
five and six o'clock.
July 3, 30 min. past 1, a.m.-Ship Deonis, bound west-
ward, lat. 39. 48. N., long. 65. 40. W.-American.
3 p.m.-Brig John Marshal, lat. 39. 50. N., long.
65. 35. W.-American.
July 4. 1 p.m.-A Bremens brig, lat. 48. 20. N., long.
61. W.-British signals, M. or H. at gaff end.
July 5, 7 p.m.-Ship Corsair, 10 days from Savannah,
Cheltenham,- lat. 41: N., long( 56. 20. ...English.
July 7, 'Thos. -S. • Coke, :bound ,west-,
ward, lat. 42. 12. N., late 46. 30. -W.-American, ex-,
changed colours.
40 min. past 10, a.m.-Brig Hamilton, lat. 42. 13. N.,
long. 46. 20.-American, exchanged colours.
30 min. past 4 p.m.-Ship Robert Kerr, or Tyrone,
let. 42. 30. N., long. 45. 10. W.-British, exchanged
colours.
July 8, 4 p.m.-A barque, lat. 44. 30. N. long. 40.
36. W.-Apparently British, N. 2 in fore topsail; did not
exchange colours.
6 p.m.-A brig, lat. 44. 20. N., long. 40 W.--Under
ensign, full of passengers, blue streaks, painted ports ;
private signal white, with red cross pennant or barque.
6 p.m.-Ship John and Robert, bound eastward.-
English.
July 11, 50 min. past 9 a.m.-Brigantine, Champion,
from Newfoundland, bound eastward, let. 49..8. N., long.
26. W.
30 min. past 11 a.m.-Brig Smyrna, of Duxburg, let.
49. 10. N., long. 25. 56. W.-American.
July 13, 30 min. past 5.-A Bremens brig.-Private
signal, white flag, 83 in centre.

REMARKS.
July I.—Fresh breezes and fine, moderate ; westerly.
.. 2.—Light breezes and hazy ; north easterly.
• . 3. —Light breezes and hazy; cloudy and showers;
north easterly.
... 4.—Moderate breezes and fine ; north easterly.
... s.—Ditto ditto ditto ; southerly.
▪•. 6.—Light wind, flying showers at times, calm ;
westerly. _

... 7.—Moderate and fine ; north westerly.
... B.—Light breezes and cloudy, at times calm, no
swell ; westerly.
.. 9.—Moderate and hazy at times, rain no swell;
south westerly.
.. 10.—Fresh breezes, and squally, with heavy rain ;
moderate and hazy, small rain at times ; westerly.
11.—Light breezes and foggy, rain at times, short
swelling seas ; easterly.
.. 12.—Smart breezes, and thick hazy rain, short
swelling seas,. south easterly.
... 13.—Moderate, and fine clear weather ; south
easterly.
... 14.—Moderate and hazy. At 2. 20. saw Dorsey
Inland ; southerly.
.. 15.-At 45 min. past 12 a.m. passed Lundy. and
received a pilot. At 30 min. past six a.m. came to at
Putney /toads.

LIST OF PASSENGERS BY THE ,I GREAT
WESTERN."

G. Schmidt, M. King, A. R. D:.ite, J. A. Hamilton,
.11. Abelle, L. W. Labach, J. F. Blacklock, M. Porte,
Xirs. Rolph, two children, and Servant, G. A. Provast,‘
J. F. Smith, G. W. Taylor, J. J. Currie, J. 211‘Farline,
Mrs. M'Farline, Master M'Farline, child and servants,
Jackson and Todd, child and servants, L. Brimworft,
Dr. Patterson, J. Patterson, A. Cramer, P. Retchings,
Rev. Riehy, Mr. Graham, A. Rodrignes, A. Battra,
A. Zellenger and servants, B. Holtenhoff, Mr. Haggart,
C. Delvis, C. Turner, J. W. De Wolf, F. Chevremonts,
G. Bergenet, W. Milligan, Edward Wolf, Mr. Harman,
Mr. Langridge, Mr. St. George, Mr. Higgin, Col. Turn-
bull, F. C. Matthison, J. Hagerty, J. More, Mr. Burke,
C. Mish, Major Erving, H. J. Maxwell, Edward Oliver,
J. Durrant, Lieutenant Crape, Mr. Dow, G. Benjamin,
Cordon Aine, J. Ducannon, B. Meslicr, Mr. Plushes,
Mrs. Plushes, H. Otto, S. C. 13d1, Judge Porter,
Mr. Metcalfe and servants, J. P. Benjamin, J. Bibit,
R. Bell, Captain St. Quintin, Mr. Bewis, Mr. Murdock,
C. Sourck, S. Morcean, F. Vuizin, R. Alleyne, L. L. Wolf,
P. Sellaliner, Mr. Power, N. W. Irgon, A. Sehrasnam,
Professor Bartlett, H. A. Vandemeur, Mr. Douglass,
Mr. Higgin, R. Rornpean, S. Smith, Charles Meyer,
M. flenandern, M. Biads, M. SJimes, Capt. Crawford,
C. G
T. Hill, Mr. Dalrymple, Mr. Menthe,
i r. Mr. Bidet, Mr. Young,
F. Griswold, G. P. Nelms, D. Eslaras, Mr. Utnplcbark,
P. Tulane, R,2v. Stinson, James Bake, Mrs. Krause,
raf, J.
Samuel, Shipley,
Mr. Boris,
Miss Johnson, Miss Waring, Dr. Waring, B. Levi,
F. Garalt, B. M. Giexas, A. M•Farline, Mr. Crowder,
R. Robles, J. Laurie, W. H. Sutham, W. Waller, Mrs.
\Vernier, two children, and servants, S. Hunt, Mrs. Harman,
two children, and two servants, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Baker,
Mr. Hayman, Thomas Bell, G. L. Lowden, Chas. Colson,
Mr. Trapman, Mr. B irkley, I'. Y. Hall, T. Marshall,
A. W. Mercer, A. l‘Pkuy, E. Long, Y. W. Andrews.—
Total, 152.

The Lords did not meet yesterday.
In the Commons, Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that
the CHANCELLOR, of the ExcuEQuErt would submit,
to-day, a motion on the subject of the Bank of Ireland.
Papers relative to national education were ordered
to be laid before the Ilouse.
Mr. HEATHCOTE has found out the Corn-laws are
evaded, by the commercial marme being victualled by
bonded corn. As long as those laws are kept up, they
will be evaded in a hundred ways ; and we see by a
New York paper, which arrived last night, that
great quantities of flour and wheat arc going from
the United States to Canada and New Bruns-
wick, to be imported into England as the pro-
duce of our North American Colonies. No doubt
the law will be so evaded, and so it ought to be.
We are glad to hear that it is. The landed gentry
have no right to expect that a law which goes to starve
the people for their benefit, will be obeyed.
Mr. LABOUCHERE, in reply to Mr. HEATIICOTE,
stated that he did not know what alteration would be
made in the French duties on wool till the treaty was
concluded.

The Lords' amendments to the_Canada Government
Bill were agreed to,
and it was explained that the
amendment made by the Duke of WELLINGTON
postponing the commencement of the Bill for
fifteen months' was only by permission. It does not
prevent - the Bill coming into operation before
the end of that period as was stated, it only
permits the Ministers to postpone it for so long if
they see fit. Tn „mendment was made in such a way
in the Lords' that this point was not before understood.
The Affirmations Bill was read a second time, after
a division by 49 to 43. Plr. Goui.nunN objected to
P the motion, princi ally because he had supposed, from
something said by
Mr.
ILtwEs, that the Bill would not
The Marriage Act Amendment Bill was recommit-
ted, and passed throw Tit the Committee.
be brought on.
On the motion tolBcommit the Punishment of Death
Abolition Bill, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL expressed a
hope that the Bill would not be pressed this Session.
It would place him in an embarrassing position, as he
was zealous in the cause, but the Act of 1837 only came
into operation last year, and its effect could not
known. He recommended caution as well as zeal, and
as no Bill had been introduced to extend the altera-
tions to Ireland and Scotland, he thought the measure
ought not to be introduced.
Mr. KELLY persevered with the Bill, and the
House went into Committee.
In Committee a proposition to exclude from the
operation of the Bill the crime of setting fire to her
Majesty's ships was lost by 40 to 30.
eo
to be taken, which
relating
a loan
that
The crime of rape was also retained in the Bill, after
a division of 50 to 4)5.
Finally, the Bill passed through Committee unal-
tered, and the Report is to be brought up on Wednes-
day next. Prom what was stated in the House it
Bill
t pasper
thiscen t S.
interestssin.
Some routine business was done, though one Bill,
seems
probableto losocieties,
allowing
was passed through a Committee,

seems not to deserve the name, and at Half-past
Twelve the House adjourned.

It was to be expected that the mercy extended to
[kin ROBERTS by her MAJE.sTY s Ministers

would excite the anger of these . who love cruelty

and bloodshed. \`'e have already made our readers
acquainted with his offence and his punishment.
For expressing an opinion hostile, perhaps, to the
interests, certainly grating to the arrogance, of the
ruling classes, in somewhat strong language, he was
sentenced to two years' ignominious imprisonment.
His health was seriously injured, and his•life en-
dangered. His case was brought, by his wife, and
by his own petition, before the public and before
Parliament, and the result was that Lord NOR-
MANBY remitted his sentence.

For this act of common consideration it is quite
natural that the Noble Marquis should be attacked

by the party who were offended by the truth spoken
by Mr. ROBERTS. It is also quite natural, at least
we think so, that amongst the foremost of the Noble
Marquis's assailants, and amongst the foremost to
condemn this act of mercy, should be a priest of the
Church of England. He kelongs to a body of
men who having, by a continued prostitution of reli-
gion to the vilest purposes of self-interest,--making
themselves chiefly conspicuous in the land by their
exertions to plague, torture, and fleece their fellow-
citizens,particularly the lower classes—who having by
continually neglecting theirduties towards the people,
preferring, very generally, to exercise the magis-
terial to the pastoral office, forfeited the respect
and attachment of the people, now seek to preserve
their power by coercive, partial, and unwholesome
laws. It is quite suitable to the general character
of this body, that one of them, falsely called a
minister of a religion of peace and charity, should
condemn the exercise of mercy in the name of the
QUEEN, and should be the advocate of the punish-
ment which was slowly killing Mr. ROBERTS.
We therefore are not at all surprised to find, what-
ever the public may be, that the Rev. DAVID
DANIEL, A. 8., Minister of Bradford, Wilts, has
addressed the' ollowing letter to the Marquis of
NORMANBY, which, somehow or other, as if the
Rev. Gentleman was not inclined to allow his good
works to be overlooked by his Tory friends, has
found its way into the Tory papers :
My Lord Marquis,—lt grieves me Sou should so injudi-
ciously have exercised the power placed in your hands to
liberate criminals incarcerated for some of the deepest crimes
of which a subject could be guilty, as to set at liberty the late
prisoner Roberts from Fishertou Gaol, to which he had
been committed for two years, having been convicted, with
others, at the last assizes for Wiltshire, of conspiracy and
sedition. Such gaol delivery will not, my Lord, do, I
think, in England. I say, nay Lord, I lament your ill-
judged clemency in the case of Roberts, who was most
justly sentenced to but a very slight punishment when com-
pared. with his effeacp,. An,d pray, observe, .ths man's
conduct..o-ri the 7th inst. when your discharge of himiwas
sent down by your Secretary., My. 'S:111:"Fliillips; he
left 'the- gaol, travelled to Warminster, and instead
of proceeding to see his dear disconsolate wife,
he must needs come out of his way very considerably
into Troubridge, there congregate a mass of Chartists,
and thence come to this place, which was beginning
to get pacified from the ill effects of last year's Chartism
(about three miles distant from Troubridge), with be-
tween 600 and 700 men, about eleven o'clock at night, to
the great and just alarm of many of her Majesty's most
loyal subjects in this town ; and, by way of bravado, he
and his respectable attendants must needs stop and give
three triumphant cheers opposite the house of one of the
most respectable Magistrates in this county, who had
created their displeasure by his successful and manly oppo-
sition to their inroads. The mob likewise halted before
the house of the chief constab'e, who had been a princi-
pal witness against Roberts on his trial.
These remarks are made, my Lord, by one who laments
deeply your ill-advised and ill judged clemency, and de-
precates the evils likely to arise in this part of the country
from its effects.
That there may be no chance of subterfuge, mistake,
or humbug, I give you, my Lord, my name, address, and
profession ; and have the honour to be, my Lord, your
very obedient servant,
DAVID DANIEL, A. 8., Minister of Bradford,Wilts.
The public will admire the good taste as well as
the discrimination and loving-kindness of this Mr.
DANIEL. To avoid humbug, as he says, he gives
his name and address. To show his discrimination
he styles Mr. ROBERTS'S offence some of the
deepest crimes of which a subject can be guilty,
as if being a rich Bishop he had robbed the poor.
To illustrate his discrimination it is sufficient to add
that the man who was executed on Monday week
was a subject, and guilty of a deep crime, and this
mercy-hating minister places Mr. ROBERTS and
COURVOISIER in the same category. It is, how-
ever, with clemency that Mr. DANIEL is most
wrath, and by denouncing it he shows his loving-
kindness to a frail brother.
He is offended too, at Mr. ROBERTS, on account
of his subsequent proceedings. He did not slink
away as if he were a thief. The people have
neither forgotten nor learned to despise him. The
Chartists met him and showed their respect for him
They, are not daunted by those ill-judged prosecu-
tions which have given leaders to the people, have
added to their power, and embittered their temper.
The people cheered, too, opposite the house cf a
respectable Magistrate; and Mr. DANIEL and his
friends, who have lost all hold of the people's
affections, are naturally alarmed, because the peo-
ple are not terrified.
We are not disposed to plead in favour of any
kind of crimes, but we must make our readers
aware that it is no more criminal to be a democrat,
and a friend to the voluntary system of religion,
than to admire a law Church and a Corn-law-
making Aristocracy. What constitutes Mt. Ro-
BERTS'S language criminal in the eyes of those
who admire our present form of Government is its
influence over multitude. As we have fre-
quently said, that arises from the peculiar state of
their minds ; and if the people are in a condition
of deplorable poverty, and filled with discontent,
Mr. ROBERTS is far less criminal than the ruling
classes. His offence consisted wholly in some,
perhaps, ill-timed and strong language, which did,
at worst, but apply the match to the train which
the Rev. Mr. DANIEL and his like have long and
carefully laid.
Sir ROBERT PEEL, in his speech on Mr. DUN-
CONIBE'S late motion, lent some countenance to the
notion that an orator is criminal who speaks words
which please the multitude and may not please the
Tories. In that debate lie made a distinction be-
tween those who committed overt acts of mischief
and those who merely used the press or their
tongues to make what the Right Hon. Baronet
called exaggerated statements to the people, and he
held the latter to be more guilty than the former.
But who is to judge of the exaggeration ? The
language to which the Tories may apply that epithet
the suffering people may think falls short of the truth.
We should like to have some criterion, other than
party feeling and personal interests, by which to
decide, what is proper or improper political lan-
guage, before we assent to the doctrine that to in-
form, instruct, or excite the people is more guilty
than to commit an outrage. We apprehend that
reason and philosophy will require a somewhat
deeper investigation into the subject than has been
vouchsafed to it by Sir It. PEEL, before they adopt
his conclusion, that those who inform the multitude
of their wrongs are more guilty than those who
wildly and stupidly endeavour by violence to gratify
their vengeance.
In conclusion, we must say that since the Mar-
quis of NORMANBY has filled his present situation
he has not often given us reason to praise his cle-
mency. We beg, therefore, to express our gratitude t o
him for the present act of mercy. We have no personal
interest in it ; we know nothing whatever of Mr.
ROBERTS ; but we are convinced that in the pre-
' sent state of men's minds, when prescription has
been laid aside, and reason has not yet supplied its
place, when the whole of political science may be
said to have been cast adrift, while the affections
of the people are unfortunately, but not without
good cause, severed from the institutions of the
• country—cruel punishments for political opinions
must produce great exasperation, anti will be preg-
nant with the most frightful evils to society.
What can those who punish the lower classes for
their Chartism expect, should the multitude, by
union, get the upper hand ?
be 4.

We find in the Morning Advertiser of yester-
day, a complaint that that paper had been greatly
taken to task by The Sun for the course which it
has pursued on the Non-Intrusion question. Our
Contemporary, who is so ready to charge others
with misrepresentation, should be especially care-
ful to avoid that fault himself. When did we ever
take him to task for the course which he has pur-
sued on the Non-Intrusion question ? Let him
point out, if he can, a single allusion to
his course, or to a line that he had written on the
above question, up to the moment when this charge
proceeded from his pen. He cannotamt know that
there is not a shadow of truth in his statement,
and that it was he who assailed us, not we him, on
that question—witness his abusive and unprovoked

attacks of Friday and Saturday last. Let him re-
tract his assertion, and be more guarded in future.
Our Contemporary proceeds to justify a charge
of inconsistency which he !las brought against the
Scottish Dissenters, because, forsooth, they have

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stood aloof from the .Non-Intrusion party in their
squabbles about the Veto. Anything more lame
in argument, or more mawkish in sentiment, than
this justification, it has not been our fortune to
meet with for a long, time. The Scottish
Dis-
senters could not, with any consistency, have acted

otherwise than they have done. They would have
been traitors to religious liberty—they would have

betrayed the great cause of pure, unendowed, un-
protected Christianity, had they tendered assistance
to the Non-Intrusionists.

In the first place, the advocates of the voluntary
system in Scotlar:d, as every one is aware who

knows anything about the matter, hpe no bitterer
nor more determined opponents than Dr.
CHALMERS and his Non•lntrusion clique. What,

in fact, was the object of the clamour for public
money to build churches, raised by this
party some time ago, but to crush Dissent ?
That there might be no doubt of their good in-
tentions towards their Dissenting brethren, they
took especial care to plant the Churches built with
the funds raised by public contribution directly op-
posite, or as near as possible, to Dissenting Chapels.
The Dissenters,therefore, have good reason to look
with suspicion upon the projects of these men, in-
stead of recklessly embarking in the same bottom
with them.

Secondly, it is notorious that one of the main
and avowed objects of this party is to strengthen
the Law-Established Church by their Non-Intru-
sion schemes. Why, then, should the Dissenters
be blamed for not aiding them in upholding•that
corrupt system of religion which they consider it a
duty to do all in their power to pull down and
abolish ? It is surely a little unreasonable to find
fault with a man either for not committing
suicide, or for not undoing with one hand what he
is doing with the other.
It is nothing to the purpose to say, as our Con-
temporary does, that he cannot see how the union
between Church and State would be strengthened
by the success of the Non-Intrusion project, which
he says is almost the same thing as the abolition
of patronage. The Scottish Dissenters see it, or
think they see it ; and it is peculiarly unfortunate
for his argument, that his friends the projectors,
who muit..be supposed to know the object and
effect of their ossn measures as well as he can do,
see it too-r-at least so they say. Both par-
ties being thus agreed on this important point,
what more is :Wanted to vindicate the course pur-
sued by the, Dissenters ?
The' Veto 'Au,- arguels'.our Contemp_orary, al.
most thoArprie, thingt,as. wptitfeirfage,
and, consequently, the Dissenter's, who profess to
regard patronage as a great evil, are, in consistency,
bound to help the Church to get rid of it by sup-
porting the Veto Act. This is the sum and sub-
stance of his arguments. A more inane piece of
sophistry can hardly be conceived. The Veto Act,
so far from being synonymous with the abo-
lition of patronage, is neither more nor less, as
we have repeatedly shown, than a cunningly
devised scheme for transferring patronage from the
laity to the clergy ; but if it were not only almost
but altogether synonymous with the abolition of
patronage, it, would be the duty of the Dissenters
to give it the most strenuous opposition ; and after
the admissions which our Contemporary has made,
it would he his duty to support them in their op-
position.
He says that were the question at issue, " esta-
blishments, or no establishments," he " would be
found, as heretofore, among the foremost of those
who contend for the latter principle." Now
that, and that alone, is the question at issue. Dis-
sent is now a very different thing from what it was
a hundred years ago, when the ARESKINES and
their followers, those conscientious and noble-
minded men, seceded from the Church. Then
patronage was the great and only question between
the Church and the Dissenters. Now it holds a
very subordinate rank. The Establishment itself
is now the master-grievance. The connection of
the Church with the State is regarded, and justly
regarded, as the great source of all the corruption
and all the evils which contaminate and lay waste
the Church of CHRIST. Against it, therefore, all
the efforts of the advocates of the voluntary princi-
ple should be directed, for while the source is pol-
luted the stream cannot be pure.
To abolish patronage, the Dissenters contend,
would be to retard the downfall of the Establish-
ment, for patronage is a canker eating into its
heart ; and although it be an evil, it would be poor
morality, and still poorer policy, to get rid of a
minor evil, if by so doing you strengthen and per-
petuate an enormously greater evil. No sensible
man sets about to patch up an old house if he
wishes it to tumble down. The very argument
which our Contemporary urges upon the Dissenters
as a reason for their assisting in the abolition of
patronage—namely, regard for the souls of men—
is that which should most strongly induce them to
resist it. When our Contemporary asserts that the
Dissenters ought to aid in doing away with patron-
age without looking to the consequences, he ad-
vances a monstrous absurdity. All men are bound
to look to the consequences of their actions, and
that man is no Christian, but a fool, who does not
weigh well the probable results of any line of action
before he determines on its adoption.

The habit of constantly iying is said by moral-
ists to beget an inability to speak the truth. The
moral sense becomes so perverted that falsehood is
tittered without a motive, as complacently and as
gravely as with one. This habit is more the
distinguishing characteristic of the Times than of
any other journal in the British Empire. It is
the misleading journal of Europe. When con-
victed in the Queen's Bench for a libel the cruel-
lest punishment the Judge could inflict would be
to oblige it, even for one day, to tell the truth. In
the shamelessness of its effrontery it happily has
no competitor. Of Tory journals it only is dead
to all sense of shame. In the dissemination
of a falsehood it resorts to no subterfuge.
When the 7'imes wants to calumniate a Minis-
ter, it puts a speech into his mouth which lie
never uttered, and astonishes even those whom
the falsehood is meant to serve by insisting,
in the gravest tone in the world, that they all
heard it, and are so many incontioveitible
witnesses of its accuracy. To no purpose does the
accused expose the falsehood, and appeal to oppo-
nents incapable of telling a lie in confirmation of
his statement. The Times is incredulous, and
parades the mistaken generosity of gentlemen at-
tempting to screen their political adversaries from
merited obloquy. An article in the Times of
yesterday, on the labours of the late Session of the
French Chambers, in which the question of Cra-
covian independence is introduced in connection
with the policy of M. THIERS and Lord PALMER-
STON, must have suggested the foregoing remarks
to every reader to whom the merits of that question
and the language of the two Ministers are familiar.
One unacquainted with the disgraceful habit of the
Times would suppose that no Journal would have
the effrontery to misrepresent the language of Ca-
binet Ministers delivered so recently as on Friday
last in the Chamber of Peers in Paris, arid on
Monday evening in the British House of Com-
mons, and, therefore, of easy reference to every
person within reach of a newspaper. Mark, how-
ever, the lying assurance with which the Times
pretends to contrast the language of the two Mi-
nisters, and to give M. THIERS credit for an ho-
nesty of purpose denied to Lord PALMEItSTON :
At the very time when the concurrcnce of France may
fairly be presumed to be most frank and secure, our Fo-
reign Secretary has 'no eyes or ears for aught but Russian
lures and' Russian lies ; and when it is most important for
us to seek all fitting opportunities of combining with those
statesmen who have struggled through good and evil re-
port to have England on their side, those very opportu-
nities are deliberately sacrificed to the baneful influence of
Russia herself.

Such an opportunity presented itself in relation to
Cracow. Within the last week M. Thiers has de-
clared in the Chamber of Peers his determination to
avail himself of every suitable oceasion to renew,
in conjunction with England, the protestations and
the measures which are so much needed to tight
thethe
caus,
eof that oppres_ed city. Lord Palmerston, on
not content with having tolerated the enor-
mous jai-actions of all the provisions of the treaty of
Vienna, which made Cracow independent—not content
with having retracted his official declaration that a British
Consul should
the
should be sent out four years ago, now actually
palliates
alaarnip4ble interference of the three Powers,
411 d, without once adverting to the recent declaration of the
French Minister, literally concludes his speech with a sar..
casm on the reiterated protests of the French Chamber is
favour of Poland. It is difficult to say whether that speech
of Monday night was most remarkable fir its insolent in-
difference to the ready co•operation 91 France, or for its
disgraceful subserviencyto the suligostionsof that Rwskuuu