The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-14 00:00:00

Tql!ot! SUM. LONDON, "WEDNESDAY EV_ENING, MAY 14, 18sa

the intolerance of their neighbours ? While hold-
ing a feast of fools, German rationalism was surely
a topic that might be allowed to sleep. It would
be better, perhaps, for the interests of liberty and
religion if Sabbatism were a trifle less rampant,
and tyranny abroad were assailed by other than
tyrants at home. Better (if we may be allowed
to suggest) if the progress of Garman rationalism
were not facilitated by a scrupulosity obviously
idolatrous, absolutely unfeeling, and far entered into
the legions of burlesque. Complaints are made
of the lack of able preachers in the ranks of Dis-
sent as well as within the pale of the Establish-
ment. How can able preachers reasonably be
looked for, types as such men are of active men-
tal vigour in the community to which they be-
long, when such glaring inconsistency is almost
everywhere apparent ? Eloquent declaimers on
the subject of toleration, and impatient of re-
straint, you find, perhaps, the majority of Dis-
senters in relation to the Sunday question
unsatisfied with toleration for themselves,
striving with vindictive energy to with-
hold toleration from others. Hundreds of
thousands—millions, we believe, of the popula-
tion, see no harm in Sunday recreation ; the Dis-
senter, however, steps in and says " If you don't,
I do—and believing that the Sabbath (Sunday !)
should be kept holy, the law, if I can control it,
shall prevent you from profaning the Sabbath by
what you call innocent recreation.' Englishmen
owed a good deal to Puritanism for the aid it in
former times lent to the cause of civil and religious
liberty ; that debt, we regret to say, is now fast
being cancelled, and the masses are likely to look
for friends elsewhere. Dissent may yet need aid
from the people. Will it have the courage to ask
aid ? The time seems almost to, have arrived
when in what is called, but is not Evangelicism,
the labouring population will recognise their worst
foe. That cannot be a Gospel for them which
involves cruelty to the poor, and violence to the

rights of man.
The victory of Exeter Hall we make bold to
say will be found worse than barren. It is not
the feelings of the helpless masses alone
that are outraged by it—though that may turn
out a matter of more importance than is supposed.
Christianity is scandalised by it, and mode-
rate men are prompted to exchange endurance for
active antagonism. The grounds on which Sab-
batism is defended are so wretched and palp-
ably shifting that the number of those who won-
der however they came to be so imposed upon
as to the nature of the institution is daily increas
ing. Exeter Hall has lost more in this way than
a dozen successes in Parliament would compen-
sate for. Another result of its victory is—the evi
deuce thus afforded of the impotence of the mil-
lion against the few. The great body of the
population will not be satisfied now with a trivial
extension of the franchise. How should they when
as matters go a few fanatics can overawe a Prime
Minister and deprive the working population of
recreation on the Sunday ?

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, MAY 12.

The India mail has arrived.

Five generals of the army of the East, among
whom are generals Vinoy, Puy busqv e, and
Wimpfen, have landed here.

The Tourville, Duquesne, and Jean Bart, line-
of-battle ships, are at anchor at Endouine.

The landing of the 6th, 7t1,, and 31st reg

ments of the line has commenced from them in
large barges towed by a steamer.
The roadstead presents a most animated ap-

declaration made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
A•hich was clear, distinct, and categorical, and which
las been perfectly understood by the Chamber and by
the country.

"The Minister of Foreign Affairs said the Cabinet
:o Ivbich he belonged would never propose a change
;n the constitution.

"He was not questioned, nor did he give any ex-
,,)lanations, on the intentions of the Ministry relative
to the law and the press. If such a question had
been put the Government would have but one answer
to make—namely, that it intended to reserve to itself
within constitutional limits its full freedom of ac-
tion to submit to the Chambers when it might deem
It advisable such modifications as it might seem to it
necessary to introduce into the laws on the press.
" We must congratulate (continues the Paris
llonitenr) the Belgian Government upon the care
it has taken not to allow its language to he mis-
stated, or its intentions misunderstood. As regards
the French Government, all that it had to do was to
point out the evil and its consequences • it is the
duty of the Brussels Cabinet alone to seek, find, and
apply a remedy ; what the Government of the
Emperor is concerned about is the efficiency, and
not the nature, of that remedy."
BOURSE, May 13.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. iT. e.
t. per Cents 94

End of Month.
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75 25

rper Cents 75
New Loan 75 10
Bank Shares ...... _4,000 Rothan
credit Mobilier 1,850 Austrian'
Belgian Fives. ..... .. 95 Spanish Threes
Piedmontese(s) — Home Debt

RAILWAYS-POE CASE.

fr. c. n.. 0.
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Northern .1,132 50 Strasburg
Lyons. ...... 1,460 New Ditto
liediterranean 1,700 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva Bl7 50 Teste -
Cette Bl5 Austrian C0rn....... 942 50