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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENE.NO, irtANITAIRY 13 1846,

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A HISTOEY OF
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SOUTH WALE S;
FROM ITS SETTLEMENT TO THE CLOSE OF

THE YEAR 1844.
By THOMAS HENRY BRADS, Esq.,
Of St. John's College, Cambridge, Principal of Sydney College.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street,
Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JAN. 13.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 30; Highest, 38; Noon, 41.
BAROMETER, 29.71.—W1ND S., fine.

RiGll WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 30 minutes after 2 I Evening .. 49 minutes after 2.

plaint at exclusion from Trinity College. So it has
teen said that, since the establishment of the Uni-
versity of London, the English Dissenters have no
reason to complain of exclusion from Oxford and
Cambridge. But new colleges do not enter the race
on equal terms with others of ancient name, hallowed
by innumerable associations, and fortified by wealth
and privileges accumulated through centuries ; and
if the Roman Catholics of Ireland wish for a proof of
this, they have only to look at the University of Lon-
don, still struggling against prejudices, and having re-
ceived to this day no aid which is worthy to be men-
tioned from the Government, in its arduous competi-
tion with the time-honoured and richly-endowed
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. But,
after all, this is not a question of whether
Roman Catholics and Dissenters complain or not, but
whether unsectarian colleges are benefits, and ex-
clusive colleges, evils or not. That unsectarian col-
leges are benefits, and exclusive colleges evils, was
the principle of last year's Irish Colleges Bill. This
is an intelligible principle.. To continue to coddle and
nurse an exclusive college in Dublin, is to tamper
with this principle. If colleges should be unsecta-
rian, Trinity College, Dublin, should be made un-
sectarian also. This is not a case in which compro-
mise or compensation is admissible. We presume
that Ireland is not to be legislated for on the principle
that she must have some of both—some religious
liberty, and some Protestant ascendancy—that she
likes, and does not like, Protestant ascendancy,—

" Non tecum nec sine to vivere possum."

Queen ELIZABETH, who founded Trinity College,
founded and endowed it, we are told, to be a nurser
for the Protestant Church in Ireland ; but Queen
ELIZABETH'S intention is no bar to the Legislature.
We need not here enter into the question whether a
gift to the State from a private individual hinds, or
should bind, the State to perpetual observance
of his will ; here the founder is the head cf
the nation, acting in a public capacity.
It was for the national benefit that Queen
ELIZABETH consecrated Trinity College to the ad-
vancement of the Protestant religion ; and succeeding
Sovereigns have followed her in tying up its honours
and emoluments to the believers in that one form of
Christianity which they have sought to thrust upon
Iretid—how vainly, is known to all the world. It
ha w come to be generally admitted that the Pro-
testant religion has suffered in Ireland by all the
forcing which has been used, and that the interests of
true religion dG not require exclusive seminaries of
education. Is Queen ELIZABETH'S intention then to
prevent us from applying the wisdom, bought by the
experience of two centuries and a half, to legislation
for Ireland ?

While the genius of Protestanism in Dublin for.
mally excludes a Roman Catholic from a scholarship
Protestant Oxford is at its wits-end to prevent a
Roman Catholic in everything but name from scan-
dalizing her Protestant pulpit. Dr. PUSEY'S
period of suspension from preaching before the
University of Oxford has expired ; and on the Ist of
Febuary he is to preach the University sermon.
Dr. PUSHY has not gone over to the Roman Catholic
Church, as Mr. NEWMAN, Mr. WARD, Mr. FABER,
and Mr. OAKELEY have done ; but can Protestant
Oxford, can the Church of England, in which Dr.
PUSEY holds the dignity of a canon, do nothing to
prevent him from continuing to preach from her pul-
pits doctrines whose tendency is proved (if it requires
proof) by the many conversions among his followers.
" That the doctrines I taught at Elton," writes one
of these converts, Mr. FABER, on the 9th of last
month, to Mr. GEORGE ROBINSON, Rector of Cran-
ford, " which were what is vulgarly called Puseyism,
were Roman, I entertain no doubt, but I was not aware
of it myself. Other parties who condemned Puseyism
es Roman were more clear-sighted." And again—
" I do most fully confess, that in my judgment sub-
mission to the Roman Church is the legitimate and only
consistent end of Puseyism." Dr. PUSEY is now
engaged in editing a series of Jesuit writers, in the
pr&-face to the first of which (Sunni) he expresses
" his sense of the great value of the practica
hints, and temperate and thoughtful cautions'
—in hat book does the reader think ?
Mr. WARD'S recent book on our existing
practical corruptions"—the book for which Oxford
degraded Mr. WARD from his degree, and which out-
raged all English Protestant feeling by its abuse of
the Reformation. And this Dr. PUSEY is Canon of
Christ Church, and a Professor of the University of
Oxford, and is to mount the University pulpit on the
Ist of next month ! Where is the Bishop of OXFORD ?
Or is there is a Bishop of Oxford ?

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In accordance with that death movement among
the agriculturists, to which we particularly alluded
in our last, a rather important demonstration was
made yesterday in the public :assembly-rooms in St.
James's-street. Animated with a sense of recklessness,
and spurred on by a knowledge of their critical and
precarious position, these earth-property orators, or,
to use still more appropriate language, these mouth-
pieces of a despairing land-proprietorship, are
becoming each successive day more violent in their
vituperations upon the League, more virulent
in their sarcasm, more resolute in their assumptions,
more lavish of their rhetorical and statistical so
phistry. No statement is too palpably insufficient
for their utterance ; no allusion is too hackneyed for
their application of it to themselves; no facts are
too meagre and flimsy as a foundation to their num-
berless and monstrous theories. With particular
reference to the Chairman of this meeting in the
metropolis, namely, his Grace the Duke of RICH-
MOND, we shall content ourselves with remarking
that his reasonings appear to be as sincere as
they are decidedly unstable—that his earnestness
is only surpassed by the paucity and inefficacy of his
propositions. Lord BEAUMONT, however, demands a
most remarkable scrutiny : his metaphors are of such
enormous compass, his deductions are so extrava-
gantly irrational, and his whole view of the question
at issue is so distorted and be-patched. Surely no
imagination but his Lordship's could embrace the
possibility of our representative (on some remote oc-
casion subsequent to the abolition of the corn-laws)
" bending in lowly guise at the foot of the American
President, and begging of him in mercy to spare
the English a little bread, because (forsooth !) of
a scarcity in England coincident with a scarcity
throughout Europe." A imirable sagacity of de-
duction ! Most incontrovertible of positions! Thus,
according to the insinuations of his Lordship; the he-
mispheres are occupied simply by the American and
European continents. Lord BEAUMONT would, by
the movement of his lips, tacitly annihilate all Asiatic
and African territories, besides submerging by a ne •
gative the whole of Australia and the bulk of our
colonial possessions. A more vague figure of speech
can scarcely be conceived, or one more audaciously
beyond the swallowing powers of common
sense ; and yet, so greatly did the wishes of
the auditors preponderate over their reasoning facul-
ties, that the supposition was greeted with the most
hearty and vehement applause. In the declaration,
however, which followed immediately afterwards
the noble speaker surpassed even himself.
" He understood protection to mean such a system
of legislation as would secure an abundant supply to
the consumer; in fact, give the consumer as much
as possible, consistently with a fair price to the pro-
ducer." There is an infinite amount of plausibility
in this definition of " protection"—admirably accurate
as a summary of what protection ought to be—but most
wonderfully visionary as a portraiture of what if is.
The " protection " which in reality arouses the ad-
miration of Lord BEAUMONT, is protection to the pro-
ducer exclusively, while the consumer, with exquisite
impartiality, is left to shift for himself, under tkincl
of impotent se/Tprotection. Such are a few of
the fragmentary monstrosities which float in
myriads along the gurgite vasto of such
speeches as the one uttered by my Lora Th3AtimotsT.
As indications of the political hurricane which is
about to extinguish for ever these agricultural mo-
nopolists, they are interesting enough ; but, as sen-
s'ble and manly arguments agqiPst their c‘ppoilents,
they are worse than untenable—they are prepos-
terous. They at once afford to the members of the
League a subject for the smile of self-asslirance "4
the laughter of derision-
.

We have received Madrid journals of the sth, with
the report of the discussion on the Address in tiia
Chamber of Deputies, the result of which we gave
yesterday, as communicated by a telegraphic dispatch
to Paris, The only part in the debate of the slightest

interest is the speech of General NARVAEZ. In reply
to charges made by Senhors SEIJAS and Hoz, he said
it was no fault of the Government that the negotia-
tions with Rome had not been brought to a favourable
conclusion. The Government had, throughout the
whole business, neglected neither the interests of the
nation nor the privileges of the Crown. "It has been
asserted," continued he, " that the QUEEN was not re-
cognised by the POPE, but I declare that the relations
between the two Sovereigns are most friendly, and
that the Spanish Envoy in Rome is highly re-
spected, and treated as the Minister Plenipo-
tentiary of the Queen of SPAIN. Her MAJESTY
has even in her possession letters from his HOLINESS
who calls her his most beloved daughter.' The
settlement of the dotation of the clergy alone prevents
her formal recognition by the Holy See. With re-
gard to the marriage question, the QUEEN had not yet
expressed any desire o►► the subject, and that when
her MAJESTY should think proper to make a choice,
the Ministers would hasten to inform the Cortes of
her resolution." The amendment was rejected by a
majority of 117 to 33, which shows that NARVAEZ
has the complete control of the Chamber.
The Three per Cents. closed at 35-1 at 60 days, and
the Five per Cents. at 23i for the 23d inst.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the busi-
ness before the two Chambers. At the close of the
debate in the Peers, on Saturday, M. GUIZOT was ex-
pected to reply to the speeches of Baron Darin and
the Count MONTALEMBERT, but, owing to the lateness
of the hour, be deferred his remarks till Monday. On
Saturday the Chamber of Deputies, in Committee, ex-
amined the extraordinary and supplementary credits
for 1845 and 1846, which, after certain reductions,
amount to 29,000,000 f. for the two years. The
chief increase has been caused by additional rein-
forcements for Algiers. For the expenses of the
fleet on the River Plata, the operations against the
slave trade and Madagascar, the Minister of Marine
demands 8,000,000 f., and for the losses by the
fire at Toulon, 3,165,000 f. The credits re-
quired by the other departments are not
large. In the Committee on the Address
M. VITET read the draft to be laid before the Cham-
ber on Monday, when M. ST. MARC-GIRARDIN pro-
posed an amendment, to the effect that the Govern-
ment had shown an absence of foresight in the late
events in Algeria, but the whole of the other members
of the Committee were opposed to it, and the amend-
ment consequently was rejected. Several public
documents of great importance had been laid before
the Chamber by the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Among others, two letters from M. GUIZOT to the
French Ministers at London and Washington, rela-
tive to the annexation of Texas. Fro:n these, which
we subjoin, it will be seen that the French Govern-
ment was extremely averse to the annexation, and
also views with strong jealousy the encroachments of
the United States on the side of Mexico. No Mini-
ster who regarded the interests of France, and the
proper balance of power in the new world, could take
any other view of the deceitful and outrageous ma-
chinations at work in that quarter. The following
communications from M. GUIZOT on the subject will
be read with interest :
" TEXAS.—No. 7.
"M. GUIZOT TO COUNT DE SAINTE AULAIRE.

" Paris, Jan. 20, 1844.

" Monsieur le Comte,—Lord Cowley has read to me a
dispatch, written to him by Lord Aberdeen, on the pro-
ject. formed at Washington, of preparing the annexation
or Texas to the United States' Confederacy. The prin-
cipal Secretary for Foreign Affairs expresses in that dis-
patch the wish to know if the King's Government be
disposed to providing its Envoy to the United States
with instructions similar to those which the Britattnic
Envoy will receive to manifest the opposition of his
Government to such a preject. You may announce to
Lord Aberdeen that I shall write to the same effect to
M. Pageot. Texaz, having been acknowledged as inde-
pendent by several of the great Powers, and particularly
by that which now seems to absorb it, it is evident that
we have a right to appreciate the act which would
annihilate that independence, and to urge the objections
to which it may give rise, as respects either right or
interests. Those objections are numerous. It is known
that even in the United States the wish for the annexa-
tion in question is far from being unanimous. If the slave
states are very anxious for it, in order to subject to a
system of customs' duties by which they are bound a coun-
try whose commercial competition they dread, and, above
all, to secure to themselves, by the acquisition of an
ally, a preponderance in the confederacy, the other states
would, by a natural consequence, view it with extreme
repugnance, and though it behoves us not to meddle with
that internal contention, the consideration on which it
rests is certainly not of a nature to make us lean to the
side of the partisans of the annexation. Our direct in-
formation from Texas seems, besides, to prove that the
majority of the Texian people are contrary to it, and
that the th•aught of it is energetically rejected by the
existing Government. It is, therefore, only by the aid
of violence, more or less avowed, or more or less dis-
guised, that it could be accomplished; and, I repeat it,
it would in no respect suit us to accept such a change
without opposition."

"M. GUIZOT TO M. PAGEOT.

"10,h February, 1844.
" Sir,—l have received the dispatches you have ad,
dressed me unto No. 36, and the date of the 28th of De.
cember last.

What President Tyler's Message has disclosed, re-
specting the projects of the Federal Government, re-
garding the annexation of Texas to the United States,
and what you have written to me about, it could not fail
to attract my serious attention. That of the London
Cabinet is not less excited as to this question, as you
will find by the accompanying copy of a dispatch I ad-
dressed on the 29th of January to Count de St. Aulaire,
in consequence of a communication made to me by Lord
Aberdeen, through the medium of Lord Cowley. This
communication referred to the opposition which the
English Government proposed offering to any project of
incorporating Texas with the Confederacy's territory, as
well as to the instructions to be forwarded to Mr. Paken-
ham, Lord Aberdeen having wished to know whether he
had the same intentions, I have desired Count de Sainte
Aulaire to inform him that you would receive similar
instructions.

" The last reports from the French Legation in
Texas, whilst telling me of the efforts of the Wash
ington Government and its representatives at Anastie,
to prepare the annexation, represented President Hous-
ton as energetically opposed to any arrangement of that
description, and protesting that nothing of the kind
should take place so long as he should direct affairs.
The language held here by M. Ashol Smith is not less
explicit. Nevertheless, it behoves us to know whether
both faithfully express the opinion and wishes of Texas,
and whether the question of the annexation to the
States of the confederacy, if agitated in the Texian
Cangress, would not be affirmatively resolved on there.
That annexation would be lawfully justifiable, but in
the event of its being voluntary, and not the result of
violence on the part of the United States—and with us,
as well as with England, it is, above all, on the resist-
ance of the majority of the Texian people to the accom-
plishment of such a project, that the opposition we
should manifest would be founded. But, I shall add,
that even should the annexation be voluntary and freely
assented to on the part of Texas, considerations, both
political and commercial, would not permit us to view
it with indifference ; and that, under all circumstances,
we must wish that that country remain independent.
" In a political point of view a real interest of equi-
librium is connected with the preservation of that inde.
pendence. The annexation of Texas, by extending the
United States' territory to the Rio Grande, would yield
the immediate consequence of bringing them in contact
with Mexico, .bat is to say, afford them the means of
invading and encroaching upon that country whenever
they pleased. Now, it cannot suit us to see that barrier
fall ; everything leads us to desire that a confederacy as
powerful as that of the United States remain at a dis-
tance from the Mexican frontier, by the interposition of
a state, also formed, it is true, of an Anglo-Saxon race,
but still, and for a long time to come, feeble enough not
to justify the same fears, whilst it would still sufficiently
fulfil its destination of opposing the invasions of that
confederacy.

"In a commercial point of view we have also reasons
for desiring the maintenance of the independence of
Texas. Futurity has chances which we must not lose
sight of ; and, from this moment, we might find in the
Texas colonists a progressive element of exportation,
and, above all, a real aliment for our direct navigation,
an advantage which we have not, and can scarcely expect
from the United States,

" Lastly, Sir, for the very reason that France has
beers the first of the European Powers to acknowledge the
independence of Texas, and to connect itself with that
Republic by a treaty of unity and commerce, does it
not, as it were, behove our dignity to see that what
we have so solemnly acknowledged be respected and
preserved t
" From all these considerations we must be naturally
contrary to any project tending to the absorption of
Texas by the United States. I know not what the
tenor may be of the instructions sent from London. to
Mr. Pakenharn, and consequently bow far the Engll4
Cabinet intends carrying the manifestation and conse.
quences of its opposition; but I say enough as concerns
us not to let you be mistaken as to the attitude you are
to assume, and the language you are to hold, We
rpgilifea our opposition to any violent and forced annexe.
tion of Texas to the United States, and even should that
Republic spontaneously pronounce itself, as the journals'
news announce, you would still have to express yourself
in such way as to make it known and well recorded by
the federal Government, that we cannot behold with in-
difference such an occurrence; and, in the event of its
taking place, we could not dispense with very expressly '
making every lawful rmod as to the alterations that
would result 41A the position and advantages our treaty
with the Texian Republic has yielded us in that country.
I, however, confide in your judgment and experience,
and you will, besides, be enabled to come to an under-
standing with Mr. I'akenham as to this object, which is
common to the two legations."

Little business was done in the Funds on Sunday.
The Three per Cents. were quoted at 83f. 16c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 12.

Anglo-Belgian
Barba does
Boulogne and Amiens ll%
Bordeaux &Mediterran
Bordeaux and Toulouse ---
Do. & Cette (Espeleta)
Do. (Mackenzie's)
' Pa-

Callao; Lima, and
chit Coast ......
Central of Spain
Ceylon .
Demerara
Dendre Valley ..
Dutch Rhenish ... ......
Dieppe & Paris Janet.
Dijon and Malhouse 21%
East Indian ........ lls
Fampoux & llazebrouk
Grt Northern of France
Constituted l4l/0
Great Indian Peninsular J/2
Great Paris aid Lyons. 2%
Great Western Bengal
Great Western 'Canada 3%
Jamaica S. Mid... Junction
Do. North Midland 3/4
Do. Extension
Jersey
Louvain and Jemappe 214
Lyons and Avignon— —
Luxemisowrg

Madrid and Valencia... 114
Mauritius
Namur and Liege 4
North Jamaica ...
Orleans and Viers=
Orleans and Bordeaux 11
Over Yasel ...

Paris& Lyons (Laffitte) 2%
Ditto (Ganneron's). 3th
Ditto (Won's)... —
Ditto (Sad Eat)
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasburg
(Ganneron's)
Do. (Compe de L'Est)
Do. (Ayznard's) —
Paris and St. Quentin —
Rouen and Havre— —
Royal North of Spain —
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale
Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt
Tours and Nantes
(Mackenzie's)
Do. ( Lefebvre's) —
Do. (O'Neill's)
Trinidad
Verona and Ancona —
West Flanders SIA

It is confidently rumoured that Lord Canning re-
tires from the office of Under-Secretary for the Fo-
reign Department, and is succeeded by Mr. Smythe,
Member for Canterbury.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

There was a very firm market for Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday. Sales 6,000 bales, including 2,000 on speculation.
Prices were very firmly maintained, and in some instances
higher. A large business was done in shares, but scrip was
generally lower.
The movement in the commercial markets is not very
decided, but for to- morrow a good many sales are declared,
and the dealers who have become low in stock, as usual
when the year is commencing, are now compelled, from the
increasing demand for consumption, to come into the market
as buyers. The deliveries, therefore, from the London ware-
houses are increasing considerably.
Custom-house management, or rather mis-management,
is pretty well understood, and it is astonishing that the
frequency of complaint had not long ere this more effect
upon the Board. Better late than never, however, is a con-
solitary saying, and it is hoped that the appointment
of additional superintendents just made will tend
to facilitate business at the docks, and serve as a
protection to the fair trader into the bargain ; for
what with delays and duties, the penchant for smuggling is
not very difficult to account for; in fact, smugglers might
teach a useful lesson on the quick delivery system.
The English Securities are to-day much the same
as they closed last night, Consols being 943/4
There is a want of buoyancy, although the Government
broker has been a taker of Three per Cent. Reduced, and the
sales have not been large. The premium on Exchequer-
bills has been rather lower, viz., 295. to 275. Bank Stock has
been less firm at 204% to 205%. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. are 97Y8 to 97%.
The Foreign Investments have been heavy, but are not
lower. Spanish Five per Cents. realise 28:h to 29, and the
Three per Cents. 89%. Portuguese Bonds continue nominal.
Brazil Stock has been quoted 831/, and Mexican 3014 to 3A.
Dutch Four per Cents. are 95%.
Shares are quieter to-day, and prices are not higher.

C LOSING
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