The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-15 00:00:00

►iimity. ft is stated, and stated with a pre-
cision worthy of the Woolsack, that the Irish
Church Reform Bill will be rejected by a ma-
jority of fifty in the House of Lords. It is
announced, and the warlike tone of the an-
nouncement well beseems the Secretary at War,
that the consequence of this rejection will be
change, and convulsion, and civil war. We
too foretel that the House of Lords will reject
the Irish Chuch Reform Bill ; but we prophesy,
relying upon other auguries than those which
inspire the vaticinations of our enemies. We
know of no plot in the coffee-room of the
Club; we are conscious of no cabal in the
anticharnbers of the Court ; we arc not so
industrious as our contemporaries, in constru-
ing the whispers of Royal Dukes; nor so
ingenious in detecting a treasonable inuendo
in the visiting cards of Noble Ladies. We
anticipate the failure of the Bill, because its prin-
ciples are opposed to our ideas of right and of
religion ; and because in the House of Lords
we believe there is yet some veneration for jus-
tice, and some attachment to the Protestant faith,
We too foretel that the consequence of this re-
jection will be a strug.i,le in which the nation
will have need of the prudence and the integrity
of her wisest and most virtuous sons. But again
we prophesy, regarding events with a very dif-
ferent view from that in which our enemies con-
template them. We do not see that the Irish
Church Reform Bill is, for its own sake, held in
any great esteem by any class of the community.
If it is condemned at Oxford, it is not in
great favour at Maynooth ; if it is attacked by
Sir R. Inglis, it can scarcely be said to
be defended by Mr. O'Connell. There are
not ten men throughout the empire who would
say that the independence of one Peer of the
realm ought to be forfeited for any one benefit
contingent upon the enactment of aay one clause
in the Irish Church Reform Bill. We anticipate
a conflict, because we know that there are some
miserable enthusiasts, and so:ne unprincipled
traitors, who desire to accomplish, at the short-
est period, and by the most desperate means, the
abolition of our hereditary Peerage ; and because
we can readily imagine that any occasion upon
which his Grace the Duke of Wellington shall
differ with Colon€l Evans, or Lord Lyndhurst
presume to think Mr. Roebuck wrong, will at
once awaken against the House of Lords all the
frenzy of fanaticism, and all the malice of rebel-
lion. " Cabals and intrigues," we are told,
" are going on in all quarters." Cabals and in-
trigues are necessary to men who conspire
against our institutions ; they are most super.
fluous to men who combine for their defence.
Cabals and intrigues are serviceable to those
by whom the conscientious opinion of
the House of Lords is to be stifled; they are
contemptible to those by whom that opinion is
sought and respected. Cabals and intrigues
are the weapons of the King's Ministers, who
would extort from their Royal Master unconsti-
tutional pledges; they are hateful engines to
those loyal subjects who would leave him the
free exercise of his sound judgment. " The❑
comes," we are warned, " the opposition of a
majority of Peers to the King, represented by
his official servants—to the House of Commons,
representing the people of England—and to the
nation itself; taken parish by parish and house
by house." This is the insane drivel of about

nable falsehood. When the question shall be,
" Are we to preserve the powers and preroga-
tives of the House of Lords ?" is it not calumny
of the most atrocious dye to say that the King,
to say that the House of Commons, to say that
the people of England, are prepared to decree
their extinction ?—Morning Post.

CREDITORS of MACKINTOSH and Co,

CALCUTTA.

It appears from the report that the total amount of
claims on the firm of Messrs. Mackintosh and Co., en the
4rh of January last (the day on which the house sus-
pended payment), amounted to 2,37,06,100 sicca rupees,
and the estimated value of assets by the Committee are
98,78,310 sicca rupees. In addition to which, there are
certain suspense accounts, which the Committee have
deemed it snore advisable to place as prospective assets
than to fix a valuat'on that coul,l only be conjectural.
The amount of these is 31,08,000 sicca rupees.
The report, after detail's respecting the diffe,ent kinds
of assets, and the probability of rendering them available,
into welch we c innot enter, concludes thus ;
" The Committee trust, in the eventual closing of the accounts
of this firm, from the reduction which they have deemed it re-
quisite to make in the gross amounts of claim, that by a well
concerted and impartial justice in pressing the liquidation of the
demands, a much earlier mode of adjustment may be adopted in
reference to this firm than has appeared practicable in similar
cases; and it is only with that view they can hold out to the
creditors the prospect of any division of assets at so early a period
as the ist of May, 1831, at which period five per cent. on the
gross amount of claims on the firm of Messrs. Mackintosh and
Co. may be available, a corresponding sum in each of the sub-
sequent three years, and an additional sum of five per cent. on
the Ist of May, 1833, making four dividends of five per cent. dur-
ing the years 1831, 1835, 1836, 1837, and ten per cent. in 1838.
The committee, however, do not consider that this calculation is
wholly to be relied upon as a positive result, but as depending
entirely upon the realization of the debts due from the civil and
military services and other individuals. Should the claim on the
Philippine Company be adjusted, and any more favourable cir-
cumstance arise in the suspense account mentioned in the gene-
ral statement, a further division may take place.
THE FIRM OF MESSRS. MA.CKINTOSH AND CO.,
4TH OF JANUARY, 1833.

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