The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-20 00:00:00

warm and cordial advocates for the relief of the
dissenters ; but it is not quite three months
since we told them, that if they provoke, not
the cry, but the feeling that " the church
is in danger," it will operate against them
with ten times the violence that it ever
raged with against Catholics. It is not yet for-
gotten by whom the church of England was once
overturned before, and by what sort of religious
intolerance, persecution, and barbarity, that
subversion of the episcopalian church was f0115,.,,J.
ls,.,,J. We recommend to general attention
Lord Durham's discreet, manly, and upright
speech, addressed to the meeting of last Satur-
day. His Lordship was placed in a delicate
position, but he maintained it wisely as well as
resolutely, and his words, we hope, will not be
lost either upon the dissenters or upon the Go-
vernment of Lord Grey. The wildness and
fury of the dissenters have, in truth, been
hatched by the feebleness of Ministers, in
withholding the redress of their real grievances,
and leaving the turbulent among the dissenting
body a pretext for asserting that they have no
chance of justice except from the total ruin of
the church of England. We trust that Lord
Durham's counsels will not be overlooked.—
Times.

A great press of parliamentary and other
matter has hitherto prevented us from taking
any notice of the courtmartial on Captain Pi-
gott of the Navy. We would not; in the pre-
sent stage of the proceeding, drop a word that
could have the effect of prejudging the question
—a question of the greatest importance, not
only to the two individuals concerned as prose-
cutor and defendant, but to the profession itself,
and, through the profession, to the public.
The honourable men who compose the court-
martial, will, no doubt, feel as sensibly as
others the extreme delicacy. of deciding between
a superior officer of their own rank—probably
the personal friend of some of them, certainly
the acquaintance of many if not of all—and an
inferior officer with whom they have little ac-
quaintance, and less sympathy ; for assuredly
the position in which he stands as the accuser
of one of their order is calculated, prima
facie, to create any thing but a prepos-
session in his favour. We repeat that the
honourable men who compose the- courtmartial
must be aware of this, and, being so, must feel
anxious to prove their impartiality, even to
t hesatisfaction of those who may be inclined

to doubt it. Our object, however, in calling
attention to the subject at present is to notice
that peculiarity in the naval courtsmartial which
precludes an officer under the rank of captain
from having any officers of his own rank among
the judges, or, rather, the jury, who are to pro-
nounce upon his case. Why should not the
naval officer have the' same advantages as the
military officer ? Why should the naval court
consist exclusively of officers of high rank,
while the military court admits officers of all
ranks, and thus secures to one service what is
denied the other—the benefit of that principle
which says that Englishmen shall be tried by
their peers ? And let no one underrate the
importance of such a concession. We have
every confidence, as we have already stated,
in the justice of the particular court to
which our observations have been directed,
but it is only from a conviction that they
are aware of the imperfection of the law
as it stands, and of human nature as it is
affected by selfishness and partiality, and deter-
mined to do justice in defiance of both. How
much better would it be for those who judge as
well as those who are judged, if the law, cast-
ing no suspicion or prejudice on either party,
had smoothed the way to a fair trial, instead of
obstructing it, as it must be acknowledged to
do, by its own partiality and injustice. But
again and again we repeat that our confidence
in the present court is unshaken. At the same
time it is incumbent on the legislature to look
to the state of the law as it affects both ser-
vices ; and, if there be no good reason for
keeping it in its present state of inequality, to
have the same rule for both-with as little delay
as possible.—Morning Herald.

The conduct of Lord Brougham, in introdu-
cing the Church Bill without the promised
communication, not only with the .heads of the
Church, but with some of the Cabinet them-
selves, has given rise to reports of the resigna-
tion of some of the noble lord's colleagues
who are not disposed to be treated thus unce-
remoniously. Whatever foundation the latter
part of this report may have, the conduct of
Lord Brougham in introducing those bills after
the Bishops had left the House, and after a
previously written promise from Lord Grey to
them that they should be made acquainted with
the provisions of the bills prior to the irintroduc-
tion—this conduct, we say, of Lord Brougham
cannot be justified upon any plea whatever,
either of policy or of propriety.—Morn. Post.

GERMAN EMIGRATION.-A new party of
300 emigrants from Rhenish Bavaria, carrying with
them about 150,000 f., lately passed through Forbach
on their way to some seaport, where they intend to
embark for America, as so many have done before them.

OL DH A M.—Though a majority of the work-
men are again employed, there is a turn-out at Messrs.
Seville and Wright's mill, and outrages have been
committed by the unionists on their men and those of
Mr. Thompson, at Bankside mill. The military are
still in the town.—Leeds Mercury.

The greatest expectations are excited that the
ensuing commemoration will be extremely grand and
attractive. Many lodgings are already engaged on
very reasonable terms, and owing to the gre4t addi-
tion made within the last few years to the number of
respectable houses in Oxford, there are still plenty of
lodgings to let at moderate prices. Preparations are
making on a large scale by the University to accom-
modate suitably the influx of visiters, which it is ex-
pected will be of the highest distinction, and our
citizens, we are happy to see, are determined not to
be behind hand in complimenting the great captain of
the age on his first official visit to Oxford. We un-
derstand the stewards of the music-room, with a laud-
able anxiety to provide the utmost possible entertain-
ment, applied to that prince of fiddlers, Monsieur Pa-
ganini, who modestly demanded, for scraping his single
string, the moderate sum of 1,000 guineas !—Oxford
Journal.

" We think it one of the curiosities of lite-
rature," says the United Service Journal, " that there
should be extant so few narratives of life afloat. The
subject is unquestionably one of the most engrossing
interest. It is connected with nature in its grandest
and most terrible aspects, with art in its subtlest in-
genuity, and with human enterprise and courage in
their noblest achievements, and it involves the most
surprising changes of scene, and the most rapid alter-
natives of enjoyment and dismay. The human beings
who, to use the words of the Psalmist, go down to
the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great
waters,' present characters more peculiarly distin-
guished from the mass of their fellow-creatures than
are to be found in any other class of men." Hence
the avidity with which accounts of nautical adventure
are perused by the public. To recent works of this
class Captain Chamier has contributed his " Life of a
Sailor," and Lieutenant Bowers has given us the
details of his services during a period of 35 years in
all parts of the globe in his " Naval Adventures"—
both full of stirring adventure, and presenting striking
pictures of the lives and perilous pursuits of seamen.,