The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The ultra-Tories, by speeches in Parliament and by
petitions prepared out of doors to famish occasion for
those spteches—by pamphlets, by leading articles in
their journals, and by al the means at their disposal,
seem bent on interrupting the tranquillity which good go-
vi.rnment has produced in Ireland, No sooner is the
Bill of Lord Stanley, which threatened the extinction
of their political rights, postponed to another year by
the affirmation of the House of Commons of the prin-
ciple of Lord Mnrpeth's measure, than a new provoca-
tive is administered in the shape of nearly simultaneous
attacks in both Houses of Parliament on the relgion of
the Irish peop:e. Mr. Colquhoun's speech, and the
Bill he introduced, in the House of Commons on Wed-
nesday, and Bishop Philpotts' speech in the House
of Lords last night, have the same tendency—that of
feeding the flame of discord, and perpetua-ing the feuds
from which faction, under diffe.ent names and forms, de-
rives its pleasure, if not its profi.. These a tempts
to deprive the Catholics of any portion of the public
money in aid of their educational institutions, although
pledged to them by solemn engagements, and
ratified by suceus've Acts of the Legislw ure—
even the Act of Union itself—arts not less impolitic
than dishonest. They are impolite, when the period and
circusnstarces under which they are made is considered ;
and also because of tht it tendency t prov )ke a comparison
between the princely revenues of the Protestant Church,
and the paltry vote which is annually passed in aid of thefunds
of Maynooth College, and the small e ido \I merit recognised
and secured to St. Sulpice by Government Ordinances in
Canada. Mr. 0' Conre'l hsilel Colquhoun as
a coadjutor in the " Repeal" caus-, and showed his
estimate of the assistance he expected to de ive from such
ce-operation, by vAing for the i itroductim tf his HP.
But the injurious effects of such discussions as those to
which we have eluded take a wider range. They not
only aid popular agitation in a country, the inhabitants of
which have been rendered painfully sensitive, by a series of
persecutions, to any new interference with what they con
cider their rights by those from whom they hay.: su t ined
frequent wrongs—they lead to inv,stigstion into the amount
of the reve.ues of the Protestant Estalolishmei t i i Grcat
Br:tain—th., sources whence they are derived, and the te-
nure by which they are held; also into tto sums which
have been applied by Parliament to the support of a Pre-
testant clergy in the Colonies, as contrasted wi:h the in-
significant sums which have ben voted to the priests of
the Roman Catholic communion.

(From the Standard.)
Thy anomahus system o: the N nth American confede-
ration—we can hardly continue to call it a common-
wzalth—coutinuci to manife.t ite'f in aggravated ab-
surdity day by day. The State of Maine has actuAly corn-
n eace f, if it has not deel.rert, a deli, crate war upon tie
aitish empire, the follovi g resoluti,ns havitz Leer re-
cent'y passed by that Sta.c—

" That the G,,vernor be authorised to take immediate mea •
sures to remove the troops of the Queen of Great. Britain,
now quartered on the territory called disputed by the British
Government, but by the treaty of 1783, by the resolutions of
both houses of Congress passed in 18:38, and by repeated re-
solves of the legi,lature of Maine, dearly and unequivocally a
part of the rightful soil of this State.

" Resolved,—That ihe resources of this State be, and they
hereby are, placed at the disposal of the Governor, and the
specific sum of 400,000 dollars be, and the same is hereby ap-
priated out of any money in the Treasury, for the purpose of
carrying the said resolutions into effect."
If tie State of Maine, which has commenced the war
upon its own single authority, is to be I, fc to prosecute it
by its own unaided resources, little need be said in the case.
howes—r, is not to be exported. The war, wantonly, and
in defiance of the federal government, commcnced by Maine,
will be embraced by the whole confederation, and thus
the new spectacle Gf a confederation bound to take
part in the quarrels of each or any of its members,
Without inquiring into the justice or injustice of these
quarrels, will be presented to the world. How the affair
sball be settled no man can predict; but it is quite plain
that the United Stites men are just now solviug the pro-
fleas of the darkness of the middle ages, which has puz-
zled so many of the wise and le srned, by showing that it
is an easy thing to retrograde from cirilisati As into bar-
barism, under the guidance of grcediaess, hatred, and
self-idolatry.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

ROLLS' COURT, MARclz 5.
SPUMY JUSTICE IN CHANCERY.

THE MASTEk of the ROLLS heard causes to-day, the
circumstances of which were devoid of interest. A ne-
velt), however, presented itself in one of them, Da%it's v.
Davies, which shows that whatever the arrears may be in
the Court of Chancery generally, there is no very great
arrrar of causes set down for hearing befare the Master of
the Rolls, for it appebred that the subpoena to hear judg-
ment in this case was only returnab'e in January last, so
that the cause was actually heard within two mouths of i►s
being set down. . .

[Mr. Pemberton, shortly after entering the Court this
morning, received by post the painful intelligence of the
death of his mother. The Learned Gentleman immedi-
ately left the Court, and will not, of course, attend to bu-
siness for some days.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam C F. 12 6 Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 0 U. 19 6i Genoa 25 85
Antwerp l2 5i Milan
Hambur,th... ....A1.13. 13 11 Venice ... 47
Altona l3 111,- Naples ... 40i
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 50 Palermo, per oz 119
D:tto, 3 months 25 75 'Lisbon..... ... 52
Marseilles-- ......
Bourdeaux... ...... . .... 25 85 Rio Janeiro 25
Frankfort on Maine.... 150 lßahia 27
Petersburgh, 3 U 5..... 37i Buenos Ayres —
Berlin
Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M lO 3 Philadelphia ...... ...... 46
Trieste, ditto

Madrid

Cadiz 3si Foreign Gold, bars.. 317 9

Billsoa 3s' New 'Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona
Seville

DETENTION OF A LARGE NUMBER OF LET-
TERS BY A POST-OFFICE CARRIER.~OB Saturday, Joseph
Holloway, a letter-carrier in the Liverpool Post-office,
was placed at the bar of the police-court, charged with
having detained a number of letters entrusted to him
for delivery. From the evidence cf Mr. Joseph
Banning, chief clerk in the Post-office, it appeared
that there had been many complaints of non-de-
livery in the prisoner's district, Burlington - street
and the neighbourhood. On the 22d of February
the prisoner being questioned by the Postmaster, said, he
had about 20 letters undelivelei, and these he produced
as all that he bad. On the evening r f Wednesday
se'noight, Mr. H. a Ci.liord, inspector of letter carriers,
went with Hassell, the constable, to the lodgings of the
prisoner, in Bond•stree', and got from him 187 letters
and two newspapers, all of which, with the exception of
one or two, were in the prisoner's del:v ry. On the fi
lowing day 307 letters and seven newspapers, all cf which
had been delayed, were found is the prisoner's drawer at
the Post-office. Proof of detention, in the case of 13 of
the letters, was then produced. On being asked what he
had to say, Holloway replied, " I have nothing further
to state than that the district is too large for any man to
do, and I have said so to Mr. Banning and Mr. Collard.
One day that I was sick, a person was put on in my
place, and it took 11,m until night to deliver the morning
delivery, and I have three deliver'ea each day." Mr.
Collard admitted, at the preliminary examination on
Thursday, that the prisoner had complained of the too
great extent of his district. Me. Rushton committed the
prisoner to take his trial at tile assizes, but intimated that
he might he liber,ted on finding tail, himself in 40/. and
two sureties in 201. each.—Liverpool Mercury.
CURIOUS FACT.-011 Monday last, a Cheviot
ewe at Easter Mori ck produced a single lamb ; and on
the following Fri 'ay two more, finer and larger than the
first. Both mother and progeny are doing well. It is no
uncommon thing for a ewe to have twins, but to have
them at such an interval between the births, seems a very
singular fact.
SINGULAR CASE.—On Thursday Mr. Baker,
the Coroner, held an inquest at the King's Arms public-
house, Back-road, Et. George's East, on the body of a man
named William Franks, age 1 63. The deceased had been
employed to watch the corpse of an old lady who had died
in the neighbourhood, and who had lived alone. The de-
ceased went there for that purpose, and his meals used to
be taken to him by his daughter. On Tuesday, early in
the morning, the latter went to the house with her father's
breakfast, but could not obtain almis:ion, although sic
knocked repeate 'ly. At Ito g h a policeman who was
passing undertook to get in at the window, when he found
the deceased lying on the floor of the saute room in which
the corpse was, in the last throes of death. The assist-
ance of a medical gentleman was obtained, but I e coLid
do nothing of any avail fix the deceased. It was the phy-
sician's opinion that he had fallen down in a fit. Verdict,
" Died by the visitation of God." _ _

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—A meeting of the
above Society for general business was held on Thursday,
Captain Bowles in the chair. From the report of the Coun-
cil it appeared that the receipts in February last amounted to
6411 la., which, with a balance of 1,373/ 6s. 6d. from
January last, made a tot 11 of 2,1041. 7s. 6d. The disburse-
ments left a balance of 1,258/. 3d. The number of
visitors to tie gardens durirg Fehrurry was 1,734, from
whom 361. 7s. had been rece'ved. Tlo menage, ie had
been increased by a bahydrusss bog, two Chinese bonnet
monkeys, an Abyssinian sheep, and by several rare and
vhluable birds. Several presents had also been made to
the library. _ _

NEWCASTLE, MARCH 4.--A public meeting
was held on Weir e -day evening in this town, to consider
the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the eel !ase of
Mr. Henry Ilether:rgto.r, now imprisoned for selling
" Haslam's Letters to the Clergy." The meeting was
nurnemusly al-nded, Mr. Richard Ayre in the Chair.
The first rcsoluii.m was proposed by Mr. Lowrey, se-
conded by Mr. Binns. A petition to both fkuscs of Par-
liament was rgrce.-1 to, only one hand being tell up
against it. The petition strongly repudiates the punish-
ment, by law, of any one for merely expressing their
o[inions on matters of religious belief, and has already re-
ceive-1 upwards of five hundred signatures.
V`LUE OF LAND IN AIANCILESTER.—JUdg,-
ing fr.= the enormous sums which are frequently paid for
sites far warehouses in Manchester, few would be disposed to
conclude that the trade of the town is any other than most
prosperous. A plot of landin George-street, near the Infir-
mary, has been sold -in two lots—ore of which fetched
10,0001., and the other 15,000/. ; making together 25.000/
The land comprised only about. 2,200 sucerfic'al square
yards. The property or iginal:y was a builder and joiner's
establishment. The original chief rent is only (it is said)
Is. per yard per annum.—Stockport Chronicle.
Mr. Joseph Pease, jun., M.P., has been called
from his Parliamentary duties in London, in consequence
of the dtath of his mother-ia law, Mrs. Gurney, of Nor-