The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-03 00:00:00

and some of the patriotic people of this
country
:
BRUSSELS, MAY 31.—The purchasers of the ground
for the section of the road between Brussels and
Malines have not hitherto met with any difficulties.
They are generally arranged by the parties interested,
and without having recourse to surveyors or arbitra-
tors, and on terms not above the estimates. Every
body, from the greatest landowner to the meanest
peasant, is desirous of facilitating this national enter-
prise.

The French papers of Sunday have been re-
ed, but they contain no news of interest.
The late changes in the English Cabinet seem
to have excited great anxiety in Paris, which
the division and explanation of last night will
set at rest.

The following extracts from Frankfort papers
may serve as useful information to the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER :

" HANOVER, MAY 24.—1 n the sitting of the Second
Chamber on the 21st, the order of the day was the
debate on the stamp duties. M. Lunzel, in reference
to the stamp duty to which foreign journals are subject
in Hanover, wished that the newspapers might not
be taxed as hitherto, and that the tax might be
laid on playing cards, which are in every respect
an article of luxury. It was his opinion that nothing
contributed so much to diffuse information and to en-
lighten the people as a newspaper ; if they had lat-
terly subjected themselves to odium, because some were
written in too licentious a manner, such abuses might
be prevented by judicious laws. He thought that
newspapers, both foreign and national, should be allowed
to come into the hands of the people at as cheap a rate
as possible. He therefore proposed that all taxes im-
posed on newspapers should be transferred to playing
cards.

In the first Chamber a member in the debate on the
same subject expressed a wish that a very light stamp
duty might be laid on the journals of fashion.—Frank-
fort Papers, May 28.

The following is from the German papers :
" VIENNA, MAY 24.—A ship which has arrived at
Zara. in forty-three days from Alexandria, has brought
intelligence that Mehemet Ali had made peace with
the inhabitants of Mocha, after their leader bad been
taken prisoner.
Five per Cent. Metalliques, 99 7-16 : Four per
Cent. 901 ; Bank Stock 1,283.

The cause of rational and constitutional
freedom has just achieved a glorious triumph
in the return of Sir JOHN CAMPBELL for
Edinburgh, by a majority of not less than 530 !
The Tory candidate cut but a sorry figure, and
the Radical one still worse. Sir JOHN CAMP-
BELL may now congratulate himself that he was
the rejected of Dudley, seeing that he has ex-
changed the representation of a fourth-rate pro-
vincial English town, for that of the metropolis
of his native country.

The House Tax Repeal Bill was last night
read a third time, and passed in the House of
Commons. It is to take effect from the sth of
April last, and Government have issued in-
structions to the assessors of taxes throughout
the country, not to charge any houses with the
inhabited house duty from that period.

We refer to the debate of last night for a
confirmation of what we stated yesterday
afternoon respecting Mr. WARD'S resolutions.
A Royal Commission has issued, and Ministers
were supported in their policy by a majority of
396 against 120. This speaks 'volumes.

The explanation of Mr. STANLEY places
the cause of his secession in its true light, and
says more for Earl G R EY'S administration;
than all the speeches of the Cabinet Ministers
last night. His principles with regard to the
Protestant church in Ireland, are of so uncom-
promising, so selfish, and so exclusive a de-
scription, that, with all his readiness in de-
bate, all his decision, and all his family influ-
ence, he must necessarily be a clog and
a drawback on any administration, but one
of a purely ultra-Tory character. His prin-
ciples are, that no matter how the Pro-
testant population fall off, no matter how
Catholics increase, anti no matter how injurious
to the Protestant religion may be the existing
establishment, still it must be preserved at all
hazards—no inroads must be made on the
church—a clergyman must be paid for in every
parish, whether he resides there or not—
whether there are five hundred Protestants
or not one, and all the staff of archbishops,
bishops, deans, and prebends must be maintained
in Catholic Ireland precisely as it is now
maintained in England. There is no mincing
of the matter here, and neither Lord ELDON,
nor any bishop in the most flourishing state of
high church ascendancy, could advance doc-
trines of a more bigotted or more illiberal
description. There might be some excuse for
such principles if they were found to bent,
in the smallest degree, the church, orefi if
the example of the Protestant clergy in
Ireland had the effect of reconciling the
people either to them or their doctrines ;
but when it is admitted on all hands that the
Catholics are on the increase in that country,
and that Protestantism. is on the decline, or, in
the Right Hon. Gentleman's words, that
" even in the present state of things the tide of
Protestant emigration is flowing out from many
parts of Ireland in a deep, a full, and a rapid
current," is it not something worse than folly
to keep up a system which not only does
not answer the end, but on the contrary
has been the fruitful source for the last 200
years of rapine, murder, and almost every
crime ? We are as sincerely attached to the
Protestant church, and approve of her doctrines
and service as cordially as her warmest sup-
porters ; but knowing that no establishment,
however pure and excellent of itself, can be
maintained by perpetrating injustice, and by
exciting, in opposition to it, the strongest
feelings of human nature, we have all along
contended for a thorough, a vigorous, and
an impartial revision of the whole of the
church establishment in Ireland. It is
absurd to mix up the rights of two churches,
the English and Irish churches, together, and
those who have recourse to such a mode of
argument are not so excusable as the followers
of Lord GEORGE GORDON and those bigots
who did in bygone times raise the cries of
" No Popery I" and " The Church in danger !"
England is essentially a Protestant country, and
her established religion is Protestant ; for the
same reason the established religion of Scotland