The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-04 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4. 1834.

Very favourable accounts have been received from
Jamaica this morning, and nearly a month later than
those obtained yesterday.
His Excellency the Marquis of SLIGO had on the
7th of October opened the Colonial Legislature by a
Speech from the Throne. The following is a sum.-
mary of the most important points in this State docu-
ment, which is rather long :
His Excellency the GOVERNOR commences by
observing, that though many valuable Acts were
passed during the last Session, still the members had
been called early together to adopt other important
Acts. His Excellency called the attention of the
Assembly to the necessity of establishing additional
Courts of Assize and of Law in the island, and to con-
sider the propriety of vesting power in the Executive, to
issue special commissions to try offences immediately
after their occurrence. The late change in the state of
society in the island, his Excellency observed, made
some alteration in the militia laws absolutely necessary,
and he recommended the subject to the most serious
consideration of the Assembly, in order that they might
be adapted to the present and approaching condition of
the mass of population in the island. The want of
tread mills had been severely felt since the Ist August,
and his Excellency desired power to be given to order
the erection of them. The police, the speech stated,
consisted of 600 efficient men, and all the parishes,
except three, had established their police on an efficient

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" The reports (continued his Excellency) I have received
from all parts of the island confirms me in the idea I had formed
on my first arrival, that it will be impossible successfully to
carry on the new system of labour with the present insufficient
number of the special magistrates. I have sent home the
strongest representation on the subject, and I have reason to
know that the British Government, feeling the claims upon
them, which you have established by providing such an effi-
cient measure of police, has been induced to take the matte

This speech has given much satisfaction in the c

The Paris papers of Tuesday have all been received.
The Ministry already begin to be sensible of the ap-
proach of a stormy Session, and are marshalling their
whole strength to meet it with decisive energy. The
Members of the Cabinet on ascending the tribunal,
after the opening of the Chamber of Deputies on Mon-
day, severally challenged their opponents to propose
their objections to the policy recommended by the Go-
vernment, declaring that they were ready to defend it.
This challenge was not accepted during the sitting of
the Ist inst., and the President closed the debate by
stating, with an expression of marked irony, that
the result was that every Deputy had a right
to speak when he thought proper. On Tuesday
the Ministers resumed their taunts, which roused
the ire of MM. DUPIN and ETIENNE, who accepted
the Ministerial challenge. Both parties agreed to fix
Friday (to-morrow), the day for tlib great discussion
of the principal differences between M. TIIIERS and
his colleagues, and the Opposition. The debate, if
not carried on in too violent a spirit, will be a most
interesting, as well as a most important one.

M. TIIIERS has made one declaration which is
exciting considerable interest among all ranks of
people in France. The Minister unequivocally de-
clares that there must be no Act of general amnesty
now, because it would indicate weakness and indecision
on the part of the Government. Did we not say as much
three months ago ? Did we not repeat it on the
secession of Marshal GERARD from the presidency of
the Council ? We stated on that occasion that it was
much easier to forgive an injury than to forgive those
we have deeply injured ; and that the citizen King
would never consent to release men whose presence
would be a continual reproach to him----who are at this
moment living witnesses of his political apostacy. But
may not the bow be too much bent ? Ought private
feelings of rancorous animosity to be thus allowed to
direct the counsels of a great nation ? Because the
Chief Magistrate has done a little wrong, are his Mi-
nisters to do a great one, merely to justify his act ? We
think the Ministry would do well to pause ere they
proceed farther in this iniquitous business. The indi-
viduals confined for political offences have already
thrice expiated their crimes, if crimes they were, by
their long and painful imprisonment. This was the
opinion of Marshal GERARD—this is the full convic-
tion of the majority of the French people. How many
times then are the victims to suffer the punishment due
to their offences ?

The Allgenzeine Zeitung, of November 28, contains
the following, dated Rome, November 18 :—" Sir
ROBERT PEEL has been here for some days. He
intends, some time hence, to go to Naples."

Arrivals from Madrid, dated the 25th ult., have
been received, which state that on the preceding day
the contract for the new loan was finally settled. The
purchasers are Messrs. RICARDO and ARDOUIN;
the price 60 per cent., the commission 3 per cent.,
with a stipulated agreement that one half of the loan is
to be carried to 66 per cent., should the funds
rise to a certain price, fixed upon by the con-
tracting parties. From this it would appear that
Spain has suffered no diminution of her credit, by her
recent declarations with respect to the validity of her
contracts with the holdtrs of Guebhard Stock. Cer-
tain we are, that few Governments would obtain as
good terms, were they under the necessity of seeking
to replenish their coffers at the expense of their credit.
The accounts from Navarre are very satisfactory.
General MINA is every day prosecuting the war with
increased vigour.

Every day throws more light on the policy which
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the High Tory party expect the Duke of WELLING-
TON to pursue, and which he must pursue, unless he
prefer forfeiting their support—a supposition that
cannot be entertained without supposing also that the
Noble Duke has been placed at the head of affairs for
no other purpose than to alienate the affections of the
people.

Lord KENYON, one of that nu:nerous class of per-
sons whose zeal outruns their discretion, has published
an address to the " Protestants of Great Britain," the

,endency of which is to inflame the worst passions o

human nature. As if political strife were not already
excited to a sufficient degree by political motives,

it must be embittered by the addition of religious
rancour, and sectarian intolerance. " The time is
now come," says the Noble Lord, " to declare for real
vital Christianity, or to let infidelity sweep away all
moral restraints, every social tie, every domestic com-
fort. The battle is to be fought in and for Ireland."
Now, we would ask what must be the feelings of the
Irish people, when they hear themselves denounced
as infidels, by a man who is said to represent a
powerful party in the Church of England ? To
have the brand of infidelity stamped upon a na-
tion's forehead, because it wishes to have the greatest
grievance that ever oppressed a people redressed ! Is
there a Catholic heart that does not swell with indig-
nation at so foul a charge ? And this is the party
whose policy is to give peace to Ireland ! Yes, when
the raging conflagration is extinguished by pouring
oil upon the flames !

The late Church and State meeting at Ipswich may
also suggest some reflections to the mind of a Re-
former, especially of a Church Reformer. We there
find a Reverend Divine thus expressing himself :
" I cannot withhold from you the frightful truth that

there is in this country a large body of persons
who are opposed to us, whose wishes and aims
are to separate those whom God intended to unite."
This is the way that Church Reform is to be dis-
posed of. When the people with one voice call
for the reform of those abuses which are shaking the
very foundations of the Church, they are accused of
wishing to separate those whom " God intended to
unite" ! We think the worthy Doctor singularly un-
happy in his quotations from Scripture. To prove the
Divine authority of the connexion between Church
and State, he quotes a passage from the 49th
Chapter of Isaiah, where it is said, " Kings
shall be thy nursing fathers, and their Queens
thy nursing mothers"--forgetting the rest of the verse,
or perhaps not deeming it exactly to his purpose,
" they shall bow down to thee with their face toward
the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet." And in
the same breath it tells us, that "the Church does not
want the protection of the State" I I !

We resume our notice of Mr. BuLwEß's pamphlet,
which want of room compelled us to cut short on

Tuesday.

The author animadverts with just severity on the

into its most serious consideration, with an anxious view of
being able to meet our wishes : as soon as this determination
shall have been notified to me, I will lose no time in commu-
nicating it to you."