The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-02 00:00:00

THE SUN,

ing her MAJESTY, with reference to the spiritual desti.
tution existing in England and Wales, to adopt measures
for affording more efficient relief to the spiritual wants
of the people, and for extending the parochial system
by help drawn from the resources of the Established
Church.
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR seconded the motion.
Mr. HUME moved that there should be added to the
address a prayer for a return of all the property be-
longing to the Church of England.
Sir B. HALL supported the motion, the effect of which
would be to remedy existing abuses in the Church,
though he should oppose the grant of any sum of money
by Parliament for its object, or the sale of the LORD
CHANCELLOR'S livings; the object could be arrived at by
a better management of Church property. The people
could not ho put forward in this matter until the Church
was put upon a more satisfactory basis. The enormous
amount of Church property appeared by a recent return,
which showed that the net aggregate income of the sees
was 1,344,1701., including 636,3871. for fines and leases.
It further appeared that six bishops, during the seven
years, had received 28,2671. more than was allotted to
the sees, and that there are due to the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners from three bishops 14,2254 ; making together
42,492/, which ought to be now applied to the augmenta-
tion of small livings.
After a few words from Mr. MORRIS,
Mr. A. B. HOPE said that what was wanted was not
more churches, but more clergy, and suggested the con-
vocation of an ecclesiastical parliament, in which bishops,
clergy, and laity should be represented.
Sir G. GREY said, before the House agreed to this
address it was necessary to consider to what specific
measures it was to lead. Admitting the existence of
spiritual destitution, was it in the power of Parliament
to provide a remedy ? If the object of the address was
to pledge the House to adopt the recommendation of the
Commissioners to sell theiChancellor's livings—to which
he saw objections—this object should be distinctly stated.
Agreeing with the ultimate object of the motion, but
believing that to adopt this address would lead to errone-
ous views of the feelings of the House, he proposed to
move the previous question.
Mr. SIDNEY HEEBERT advocated the sale of the
Chancellor's livings. _ _

Sir R. INGLIS defended the conduct of the bishops
and clergy, and questioned the right cf Parliament to
interfere with the distribution of Church property.
After a few observations by Mr. ALcocx, upon the
subject of Cherie Aloes livings,
Mr. GOULBURN recommended that the motion should
not be pressed to a division.
Mr. lIoRSMAN said it could not be denied that, with
the most richly endowed Church in the world, possessing
a revenue of nearly 5,000,0001. a year, we had a spiritual
destitution most deplorable. As there were sufficient
resources in the Church to remedy this evil, why was
it not remedied? Sir B. HALL had stated the reason—•
the mal-administration and bad distribution of the Church
funds.

After a few observations from Mr. IVlGnesx and Mr.
BOOKER,

Mr. linatE having withdrawn his amendment,
Sir G. GREY said, upon the distinct understanding that
the motion did not pledge the House to favour the
scheme of selling the Chancellor's livings—that it merely
expressed an opinion that it was desirable to adopt all
practicable means to remedy spiritual destitution—he
should not press the previous question.
The original motion was therefore agreed to.
The other business on the paper was then disposed
of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter before Ono
o'clock.

Protection has found a rather unfortunate advocate
in M. TRIERS, the orator whose very appearance in
the Parliamentary tribune in support of any measure
has come to be regarded as a sufficient guarantee of
its unworthiness. During the sitting of Friday.in the
Legislative Assembly of the French Republic, the
political Firebrand, who vainly endeavoured eleven
years ago to influence the evil passions of Christen-
dom, and who succeeded only three years since in
plunging his country back into the abysses of revolu-
tion, rose for the purpose of opposing the proposition
of M. ST. BEIWE to the effect that the beneficent
doctrines of free-trade should replace the injurious
principles of monopoly. After speaking with his
customary prolixity, M. TRIERS concluded his
harangue with one of those flashy perorations which
he has ever found calculated to awaken the dormant
enthusiasm of his auditors. Consequently, we per-
ceive at the close of his oration the stereotyped an-
nouncement of the.reporter, that "the Honourable
Gentleman in descending from the tribune was
warmly congratulated by his friends." As the pro-
moter of a system already obsolete by anticipation,
and virtually decaying before its actual
dissolution, he had assuredly, it must be
acknowledged, earned for himself the
plaudits of those servile imitators of the past who look
for their own wisdom in the traditional follies of a
bygone generation. It were idle to enumerate the
glaring contradictions comprised within the com-
pass of this single speech, contradictions too
apparent to require any explicit indication.
Enough for us to remark that with, a view to demon-
strate the necessity of protection to native agricultural
and to national manufactures, the orator main-
tains that France need fear no competition,
seeing that she surpasses all other nations
in her spontaneous and industrial products ; but
competition would be moat unadvisable, seeing that it
would greatly jeopardise her predominance ! Equal
in contrariety of opinion is that other division of his
harangue in which M. TRIERS proves greatly to his
own satisfaction that the amount of internal con-
sumption is the correct indication of mercantile pros-
perity, and yet rejoices with an extraordinary air of
exultation because he imagines he can testify by
figures that of late the exports of France have in-
creased more rapidly than those of England—a sin-
gular deduction this latter, seeing that among
ourselves, with a population of 30,000,000,
our exports, with an open system of commerce,
amount to 70,000,0001., while those among our
neighbours, with a population of 40,000,000, amount,
with a protected commerce, to 46,000,0001.! So
much for the candour of N. TRIERS' calculations.
So much for the logical acumen and lucidity of his
arguments.

Acknowledging that our institutions are of an
essentially liberal character, the French orator main-
tains at the same time that we are groan-
ing under the weight of a predominating
aristocracy. He insists that our lands are
parcelled out solely among our nobles, that peers are
the monopolists of every remunerative office under
the Crown, that the scions of nobility constitute the
entire mass of the beneficed clergy, of the officers in
the military and maritime professions, consuming, in
fact, the proceeds of every lucrative or influential
post in the country, from a suberdinate agency in the
colonies to a seat in the lower House of the Imperial
Legislature. Satisfied upon this head, T,l. THIERS
nevertheless asserts that the abolition of the
corn-laws in 1846 was attributable solely
and entirely to the liberality of the views
entertained by this supreme and tyrannous aristocracy.
Against such a folly as this it were frivolous to enter
any serious objection, the absurdity of the argument
counterpoising altogether the influence imparted to it
by the circumstance of its coming from the lips of a
statesman so peculiarly celebrated. Another instance of
insincerity on the part of the French declaimer against
free trade is afforded where he observes that there
must be woe to England in the event of a war, be-
cause then the price of corn must be doubled, and
immediately after insisting that the dear
system is the only one beneficial to the country, see-
ing that it benefits the agriculturist at the expense of
the workman, through the grinding generosity of
protection. It is surprising, indeed, beyond all ex-
pression, how any man can possess sufficient effron-
tery to contradict his own statements almost in the
same breath, in presence of an intelligent auditory
like the Legislative Assembly of the French Re-
public. Yet M. TRIERS not only displays a consum-
mate audacity of this kind, but, what is yet more
remarkable, extorts from those who hear him re-
peated and vociferous acclamations. One deduction
from these facts is inevitable, to the effect that in M.
THIERS the gallant hearts of his countrymen recog-
nise, as far as mere words are concerned, that valour
which amounts even to temerity, the valour characte-
ristic in a peculiar manner of the whole great race of
Frenchmen. Pity it is that in M. TRIERS the phy-
sicalerner.gency.—euch
any way discoverable. Pity that one who can talk
as well as verhel tokens of courage are not in
thunders like BouADtr, can in moments of perilous
up, in 1830, the three d y oe June, and, in
rity, not to say the ins3i, 1848, the
three days moreente as those s, hich made
of Februar ds down' to the obscu-
beit, when they listeng
with the enthusiasm it
aeniititaebsshteb e
citizens of the French Republic the voice of ilutErt.9, the
ntiwfictcce o. f Pa_rolles. How -
are apt to confound
his quondam friend
obeyed the waive ofoes his of freedom, the associate, when the sol-
diersardour in .pined by
marched to victory under the dauntless conduct
and
the barri-
cades,c.onauct
of CARREL. Thrice already has thee" f
that illustrious patriot belied the loyalty to Liberty
ofy
implied by their cordial ranee, once when iniblBr3t
he sold the popular rights for an interest in stock!
jobbing to a sham WASIIIIGTON; once Agikin) when

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lin 1840 he perilled what little independence was still
left to France by driving her monarchical Government
Ito the brink of European warfare ; and yet once
more, when in 1848 he forced his compatriots
to rush again into the streets to wrest from
a villanous and lawless administration a power
first betrayed and afterwards desecrated. Ap-
parently the author of these calamitous events
has the crowning ambition to destroy the
financial vigour of the Republic, which was founded
in spite of himself, and which can only flourish by
despising his sinister recommendations. He shrank
from supporting the monarchy he had helped to
build up by springing sword in hand to the barri-
cades. He endeavours to degrade the democracy it
has evoked by appearing in the tribune of the
Assembly as the advocate of a system of protection.
It remains with France herself, however, to decide
whether the free-trade arguments of M. ST. BEUVE
are sounder, or whether the contrary argumenti ad-
vanced by M. TEIIERS are preferable arguments, con-
trived solely in furtherance of the narrow and retro-
grade principles of monopoly.

The Protectionists are making a last despairing
effort to revive the infamous monopoly that so long
hung like an incubus over the industrious population
of the country, impairing their energies and paraly-
sing their exertions. They have seen that their
recognised leader was too conscious of the weakness
of his party to attempt even to grasp the reins of
power, when tendered to his acceptance. The
joyous pceans that were indulged in for a brief pe-
riod, when it was announced that her MAJESTY had
entrusted to the hands of Lord STANLEY the import-
ant duty of forming a Government were speedily
changed to bitter lamentations when they found that
even the " Rureug of debate," the modern HOTSPUR,
shrunk from the formidable undertaking. No im-
putation had ever rested on the chivalric daring of the
Noble Lord. His most strenuous opponents had ever
acknowledged his courage, aye more, his almost
reckless temerity. The cause must truly have been
hopeless where he would have paused. The reaction
was, indeed, terrible, when the fact of his failure was
promulgated. The sturdy bucolics could scarcely
believe their ears when they received the unwelcome
intelligence. They, however, endeavoured to com-
fort themselves with the notion that the ac-
cess of their friends to power was only post-
postponed ; that they would again speedily
participate in the loaves and fishes, tasting the varied
sweets of office, so soon as the formal business of the
session had been disposed of, and the closing of the
Crystal Palace and termination of the Great Exhibition
afforded the fitting opportunity for the " appeal to
the country," from which so much was expected.
" It is merely a question of time," said the more san-
guine—" sooner or later the Whigs must go out; Sir
CHARLES WOOD is disgusting the country, and will
in his inevitable fall drag with him his colleagues; and
then who can succeed but the friends of monopoly,
whose first act will be the re-imposition of a corn -law ?"
These pleasing anticipations were, however, in some
degree damped by the declaration of their leader
limiting the time within which the victory could be
achieved. Lord STANLEY announced that if the
country did not, at the next general election, declare
itself adverse to free trade, and in favour of protec-
tion, he should consider the legislation of 1845 as
final and conclusive, and make no further effort to
reverse it. Everything, therefore, is to be done forth-
with—every nerve is now to be strained for the
contest, and anything that can by a possibility be
strained to a point in their favour is eagerly sought
after and brought forward ; amongst others, we are
repeatedly told, of eminent Free-traders who have
changed their opinions, and at length acknowledge
the deteriorating effects of the principles which they
had been instrumental in introducing. Occasionally,
however, the worthy monopolists catch a tartar, and
they find that what they have put forward as an ar-
gument in their favour is turned by the supposed con-
vert into a very formidable instrument against them.
Such a case has just occurred. We yesterday ex-
tracted an article, from our esteemed contempo-
rary the Norwich Mercury, to which we would
earnestly entreat the public sttention. Mr. BALL,
of Cambridgeshire, a gentleman well known as one of
the most strenuous and indefatigable advocates of a
bread-tax, made some statements at a meeting of the
Eau Brink Commissioners, from which it might be
inferred that the Hon. Gentleman the Member for
Norwich had changed his opinions on the all-impor-
tant subject of cheap and untaxed food for the people.
This would, indeed, be a.subject for congratulation in
the Protectionist camp. The judgment, intelli-
gence, and integrity of the Honourable Gentlemen
are so well known and thoroughly appreciated, that
his accession to any views must be a matter of no
ordinary importance. His great experience would
enable him to obtain the necessary data on which to
frame his decision. He is a large and liberal em-
ployer of the industrious population of the county,
of artisans as well as of agriculturists. He is a large
capitalist, and an extensive landed proprietor. The
head of a great commercial establishment, as well as
the owner of princely domains and broad acres, he
has the ability and the will to improve his property
to the very uttermost, and to bring it to the highest
degree of cultivation and fertility. His unblemished
character and untainted reputation afford the highest
guarantee that he would not be influenced
by any selfish motives,
or seek for his
private advantage at the expense of the
industrious classes of the country. The re-
spected editor of the Mercury saw the mischief that
would arise from any misapprehension on the subject,
and he adopted the manly and straightforward course
of calling the attention of his representative to the
matter, and requesting the explanation which he felt
satisfied could be given. He was not disappointed.
The admirable letter which yesterday appeared in
our columns was the result, and no doubt can now
at least be entertained as to Mr. Pezo's sentiments
respecting free trade. Indeed none who had the
honour of knowing the Honourable Gentleman could
have had the slightest difficulty on the subject.

Mr. PETO at once declared that he had made the
reduction alluded to by Mr. BALL. He found that
an estate which he had purchased at a high price was
let at an extravagant valuation, and with a liberal
and kindly feeling, on the just principle of " live and
let live," he reduced the rent to the fair valuation.
He might have extracted more from the pockets of
his tenantry, but he took the true price, as between
man and man, desirous of obtaining that to which he
was justly entitled only. If others of the " terri-
torial aristocracy" would act in a similar manner the
farmers at least would have no cause of complaint,
even were the effects of free trade much more un-
favourable to the occupier of the soil than it has
been asserted to be. Mr. PETO, however,
while acting fairly towards his tenantry, de-
sires to act fairly towards the bread con-
sumers throughout the country. With true nobility
he declare that such a reduction "in no way leads to
the conclusion that he was justified in taxing the
bread of the community to keep up his
rental." We, therefore, would desire to give
every publicity to Mr. PETO'S act, that it
might be fully considered by other proprietors, in
order that they might follow the excellent example
afforded, giving their lands to the farmers at such
Prices that the latter may receive fair profits on the
capital employed and the industry and skill exhibited,
they themselves thinking, with Mr. PETO, that
" they have no right to tax the bread of the people to
keep up their own rentals."

PRESENTATION OF PLATE.—Robert Summers,
Esq., head master of the Free Grammar School, Wigton,
Cumberland, was on Monday, the 30th ult , presented by
his pupils with a handsome service of plate, in testimony of
the able and upright manner in which he had, for twenty-
six years, discharged the duties of the school. The presen-
tation took place at the Crown and Sceptre Hotel, Green-
wich, where several of the scholars, accompanied by their
friends, met to entertain and do honour to their old master.
Amongst the company were John P. Foster, Esq. ; John
Rigg, Esq., M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge; Rev. Thomas llutton, M.A.; D. M'Alpin, Esq. ;
George More, Esq. ; Francis I3ennoch, Esq. ; S. Rigg, Esq.;
Dr. Sibson, F.R.6. ; A. S. Petrie, Esq. ; A. Twentyman,
Esq.; and many others distinguished in professional or
commercial pursuits. R. iiigg, Esq., and T. W. Elstob,
occupied the chair and vice-chair.

JENNY LIND.—It is generally understood on the
other side of the Atlantic that the fair songstress is at last
likely to be bound in the soft bonds of Hymen. The gen-
tleman whom rumour points out as her tortunate husband
is Mr. Frederick George Wood, who has for several months
had the arrangement of her business matters in America.
He was, till very recently, engaged in commercial pursuits
in this country.—From a Correspondent.
Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P., and Mr. Hutt, M.P., had
an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial
Office.

Railways. I Paid. Nominal Prices. Business doze
to-day.
Aberdeen • • • • • • all 1 % die die.
Caledonian 101. • • • • 10 6% —6% %
Chester and Holyhead .. all 15% 15%
Dund. Per. & Aber. June, all % % dla•
East Anglian (31. 10s.)
6 per cent. • • all 2 —2%
Eastern Counties Eaten.,
per cent. No. 1 .• all 34 34 p pm
Do. No. :1 ......all % die —%P
Do. New 6p. cent. Stock 10 10% —lO % 10%
Eastern Union, Scrip
guaran. 6 per cent. • • all 14 14%
Do. 101. Deben. Shares. all ••
East Lancashire, 4 per
cent. quarter shares .. all • • ••
E. & W. York. Junc. sths all
Edln. Per. & Dun. 51 p. ct. all % dis. par
Glasgow & d.-W, Consol. 100 ..
Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. all 1334 13%
Great South. & Western
(Ireland) eighths 234 % p.
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 20/. .. •• 6 .
Do. 6 per et. Stock .. 100 ..
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per
cent., No. 1 11 •• p
Do. quarters, 1848 .. p
London, Brighton, and
Seuth Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Creyden thirds 100 •• ••
Do. pref., 5 p ct. Stock,
1851, from 501. share. E 100 —• •
Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 137 140
London &S.-W., new 5 234 —2% p.
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, half shares 10 "••• • •
Mulch., Sheffield, and
Line., guar. shrs., No. 1 all 11% —1234 12%
Do. new, 10/. all 11% —l2
Do., 6/. • • .. 3
.34 % P
Midland Con. 6p. c. stock 100 • • —• •
Do. Consel. Bristol &
Birming., 6 per cent... 100 132% 133%
Do. Bristol & Glouces. 48 .. ••
Norfolk Extension ..all 15 —l6
)0. guar. 534 per cent. all
Do. Waveney Valley .. 2 • •
North British _ 5 •4% b
Oaf. Wor. &We 1.15/. 6 p.e 4 X 1541)
Shrewsbury and Birm.
Now Guaranteed _all 10% 10%
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. MM.) 8 per cent. all 15 151,4
South Devon all 13 —l4
South-Eastern, 434 p. ct. 10 • • —• •
Waterford & Kilkenny, 51. 1 • • "
WestLondon,lstCl.(lol.) all • • —••
Do. 2d Class do. (par) all • • —••
York, Newe., and Berw.,
Gt. N.of E. Pur. all 16 1634
4 434
York and North Midland
H. and S. Parch. .. 10 134
FOISLEIGIMT.
Emit:into and Amiens •• all 97e 10% 1034 10 %
Central of Francs (Or-
leans and Yierzon) .. all 18% 18%
Demerara .. all • • —• •
Dutch Rhenieh 5% 5 die. 3
East Indian .. 16 2% p. 1034 %
Do. do. do. .. 20
Great Indian Peninsula.. all 34 % P.
Ditto ditto .. 334 374 4
Louvain a la samko 734 • •
Luxembourg .. 8 N I'4
Ditto • • • • • • • • 10 234 —2%
Madrid and Valenti* ..•Maria Antonia .. 171 f3Bd9 11
Ditto, New .. 7% 2 3
Namur and Liege all —6%
Northern of France .. 16 15% 15%
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 8 4 374 die. 4
Paris and Orleans • • .. all 33 —35 34%
Paris and Rouen • • all 25% 263( 25%
Paris and S:rasbourg .. 16 5Y 5 dis.
Rouen and Havre all 9% 10
Sambre and Meuse all
Tours and Nantes .. .• 16 9 uls. ad x.d
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan.
den, and Hanalt •• ail; •
west node; Pi; e% 2% —2% xd
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