The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-20 00:00:00

LONDON;
THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1834.

If Ministers cannot reckon on their stanchest
supporters in the Commons, what possible chance
can they have in a second attack on the Pension
List ? In the minority are found the names of
three brothers of a Cabinet Minister—the
mover and seconder of the address—and the
Member for Hull. Such conduct is honour-
able to the parties, and shows that they
prefer the interest and wishes of their constituents
to the favour of the Government. It also shows
the badness of the cause, and Ministers must
see how hopeless and unpopular it is to perse-
vere in a course, where they are deserted by
their friends and backed by their enemies. Let
them muster what forces they please, they cannot
be triumphant. It is now a popular question—
s question between Members and their con-
stituents—and when it comes again before a full
House, a virtual, if not a nominal defeat is
certain. That, after all, will be the best way of
settling the question. There is no advice so
effective in some quarters as a deliberate vote of
the House of Commons.

It was stated some time ago that an under.
standing had been come to between Earl GREY
and the Bishops on Church Reform. If it
should turn out correct, then adieu to Church
Reform for this session. The higher clergy and
bishops are all pulling and straining in a con-
trary direction ; addresses are got up, meetings are
held, circulars are sent round, and petitions framed
evidently under their guidance, and at the insti-
gation of the High Church parry, whose object
seems to be rather to praise and perpetuate
abuses than sanction redress of grievances. The
Bishop of LONDON, the other night, presented
one of these petitions, which was preceded
by another for the better observance of
the Sabbath, in order, no doubt, to show
that religious motives alone actuated the
petitioners. It in substance prayed, that the
Church Establishment might Opt be affected by
any new measures, and that tE4)se who wanted
redress might be fairly dealt tivith. As far as
words go, this is all well. All they want is to be
fairly dealt with ; but, unluckily, they and the
high Church party attach very different meanings
to the words. The former say they will not be
fairly dealt with till tithes are commuted,
Church rates abolished, pluralities abolished, re-
sidence of Clergy enforced, the Church service
reformed, all monopolies in university honours
put an end to, and fifty other reforms, which we
have not time to enumerate, are granted. The
Clergy bf the Archdeaconry of Ely, and the
Bishop of LONDON, entirely concur with them,
and say they yid] deal fairly, a::d not object to a
national registration of births! Was there ever
such absurd trifling w:th a solemn subject ?
The outcry about pulling down the Church, and
banishing sound and rational religion from the
country, is only a weak device of the enemies
of all reform. The GREY Administration
are not the men to pull down the Church—
they have too strong an interest in its
stability even to risk any measure which might
threaten it with danger, and if they were mad
enough to attempt it, they would not remain in
office for a week. The true friends of the
Church are too strong for any party, and we have
too much confidence in their good sense, (we
mean the good sense of the vast majority of the
intelligent and influential portion of the com-
munity,) to believe fur a moment that they will
be deterred, either by the indiscreet violence of
the one class or the selfish and jealous bigotry
of another, front meagnes which are now essen-
tial to its security. The parties who get up these

petitions, and who circulate these addresses, will
gain nothing by them, but, in fact, add new
impulse to the reformers.

A very numerous meeting was held at Chel-
tenham on Monday last to petition Parliament
for the abolition of the House and Window
Taxes. The Hon. C. F. BERKELEY, M. P.
for the borough, presided. It was left to the
discretion of the Hon. Member to vote for the
remission of one or both taxes, for it was
considered possible by the meeting that if
they pressed for too much they might lose
all 1 For our own parts we are decidedly
of opinioa that the window duty ought to be
first repealed, as being a most odious and un-
just tax, pressing with peculiar severity on the
poorer and industrious classes of the community.
The house tax, properly modified, is a legiti-
mate source of revenue, being in the nature of a
property tax. Perhaps Lord ALTHo RP may yet
Fee fit cause to alter his determination, and
substitute the repeal of the window for house
tax. By this alteration he would be conferring
a great boon on the glass manufacturers, and
give employment to a large number of people
along the western and other coasts who are
interested in the manufacture of kelp. Besides
the benefit conferred on these people, the health
of the public generally would be promoted, by
the free circulation of air in places which are at
present, and have long continued, in a state of
gross impurity, from the very oppressive nature
of the window tax.

Yesterday Mr. Baron BAYLEY resigned his
judicial function•, and is to be created a
Baronet. We are sincerely glad of this, for
no man ever better deserved such honour.

By the French papers of Tuesday we learn
that Marshal BOURMONT and his officers had
arrived at Naples. The news from Spain would
lead us to suppose that Don CARLOS has at
length mustered up courage to take the field
and make a bold dash on Madrid. He has
taken this resolution too late. The QUEEN'S
Government has now had ample time to conso-
lidate its strength, and any attack of Don CAR-
LOS can only tend to his own utter discomfiture.

The work people of Lyons engaged in silk
weaving, struck on the 14th, and serious appre-
hensions are entertained that a riot will be the
consequence. Troops were moving from all
quarters to suppress any disturbance that might
take place.
Mr. RICARDO, of London, (lied at Paris on
Monday last. The French QUEEN and her
daughters have gone to Brussels.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Fas. 18
Five per Cents., 105 f. 75e. 90c.
Three per Cents., 76f. sc.
National Loan, 1051. SOc.
Bank Actions, 1,8001
Rente de Naples, tilt. SOc.
Roman Five per Cents., 92%.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 9.74 i.
Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 38%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 75
it en te Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 61.
Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 98%.
Haytian Loan, 270 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 27%c. ; money, 25f. 97%e.
'1 hree months, paper, 25f. 12Yie. ; money, 20f. 12%c.
—('ours Authentique.

German papers state that an army of 18,000
men, which MEHEMET ALI had despatched to
the borders of the lied Sea to put down an
insurrection in the Hedscha, had been put to

the rout : two thousand Turkish Candiots had
gone over to the rebels. MEHEMET ALI was
preparing another army for the renewal of the
attack :

TarEsTE, FEB. B.—A Hydriot vessel ran into our port yes.
terday, bringing news from Greece, up to the 12th ult., giving
an account of the sad disasters occasioned by the tremendous
storms that have raged in that sea. The vessels of foreign
countries, as well as those of Greece have suffered. Of the Hyd riots
180 fathers of families have perished. The largest merchant
vessel that Greece possessed has been lost, with several smaller
ones. This is the last and heaviest blow that could fall upon
this unhappy island. There is no news of importance from
Napoli. Public tranquillity has been nowhere disturbed.

Brussels papers, dated the 19th inst., have
been received. They state that General GOBLET
will set out on his mission to Berlin to-day.

It appears that steam-carriages are to ply, in
the course of the summer, between Antwerp and
Brussels, drawing diligences after them contain-
ing 100 persons.

Some sensation has been excited in Brussels
by the arrest of M. HANNO, a Commissioner
of the Belgian district, by Prussian soldiers,
who sallied from the fortress of Luxemburg to
the number of one thousand.

ARLOV, FEB. 16, 6 P.M.—I hasten to inform you, that last
night, about eleven o'clock, the Prussians, to the number of
about 1,000 men, sallied from the fortress, proceeded to the village
of Bettenbourg, forced with hatchets the doors and windows of
your colleague, M. Hanno, and carried him off to Luxemburg,
where he has been thrown into prison, to come out God knows
when.

You will agree with me, that if our Government does not
put an end to these acts of brigandage, we shall soon see them
repeated even in the chief town of the province. Poor inhabi-
tants of Luxemburg! so your patriotism is rewarded.
The arrest of M. Hanno is a formal act of aggression against
Belgium on the part of what the Orangeist journals call the
Grand Ducal Government, for King William has assented to
he treaty of 21st May as Grand Duke of Luxemburg, and that
treaty expressly prohibits him from committing any act of hos-
tility on the part of Luxemburg in which Bettenbourg is situa-
ted.—Brussels Papers, Feb. 19.

THE NEW BARON.—By some strange work-
ings, that which was considered by all parties
(we believe) as virtually settled yesterday after -
noon, with respect to Sir W. Horne's accept-
ance of the office of one of the Barons of the
Court of Exchequer, has been all upset. Just
before the Lord Chancellor rose yesterday, Sir
W. Horne was called into his private room,
where he had a long conference with Lord
Althorp and Sir John Campbell, and the result
(so far) of the whole is that Sir W. Horne's
clerk received directions last night to continue
to take in briefs as usual. The general state-
ment at the bar this morning was, that the
Learned Counsel was out of office altogether ;
and when he !limb& entered within the bar, he
withdrew his bag from the place where his clerk
had placed it, and had been in the habit of
putting it, and took his seat lower down, leav-
ing the Attorney-General's situation entirely
vacant.

In Mr. Hook's new work of " Love and
Pride" the two stories have each secured a host of advo-
cates. Many prefer the first, the " Widow," with its
domestic interest, and all the tantalizing difficulties of the
faithful love of the hero, to the more vivid descriptions
and ineidors of the second tale " Snowdon ;" the truth
we believe to he, that ulthough no individual sat for the
picture of the Matquig, it cuts to deeply in some places
to he quite agreeable. We confess for ourselves we think
ii by far the better story of the two.