The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-01 00:00:00

TIIE SUy, LONDON, SATURDAY E V ENING, MAY 1, 1858,

also, very properly reminded Mr. SnortErt that
no distinction could be made in point of principle
between the grant to Maynooth and the grants
by the Committee of Privy Council to Roman
Catholics and all denominations, on behalf of edu-
• ation, and that he was not prepared to enter on
uch an extensive agitation. The Premier and
Mr. WALPOLE are unquestionably right. How
often have the Voluntaries attacked Irish Church
endowments in connection with Anti-Maynooth
motions t It is not, indeed, to their credit, as a
party, that they were asleep this time ; their posi-
tion requires that they should have had an amend-
ment proposing to withdra w all Government support
from Episcopalians and Presbyterians in Ireland,
whenever the Maynooth endowment is abolished.
Perhaps, however, they mean to give Mr.
SPOONER a ROLAND for an OLIVER, when the Re-
gum Don urn grant to Presbyterians is voted.
It is useless to protest against wasting the time
of the House by this annual motion. While
more than 150 Members can be induced to gra-
tify their constituencies, and some of them their
own bigotry at the same time, by a vote against
Popery—for that is its meaning—the SPOONER
motion will have its right in the House of Com-
mons ; and, when the Hon. Member quits the
stage of public life, the useful mantle, or
livery, will descend to some successor
of the prophet. We must, therefore, be
content to get what good we can from the evil.
And there is some good in it. We believe it is
this—that it will expedite the downfall, not of
Maynooth, but of Tom Mooßit's " Irish Church
Establishment "—the huge costly establishment
for the heretical stomachs that won't eat the meat
of Protestautis m. That no doubt would be a
splendid good, and Mr. SPOONIR is a large con-
tributor towards it. He is, we are sure, a devout
believer in a special Providence, and in its mak-
ing all agents, whatever their intentions, subserve
its purposes. And we can hardly doubt that the
anti-Maynooth member is one of its blind instru-
ments working hard to overthrow that which he
desires to strengthen, but which will one day be
overthrown, the Maynooth buttress having been
first knocked away.

I, &TEST NEWS.

loss was about 25 killed and wounded ; among the
latter two officers, Lieu+. Cameron, her Majesty's
72d Highlanders, and Lieut. Hancock, Bombay
Engineers.

pacify Italy, strengthen Belgium, purge Switzer-
land, and obtain the attachment of Germany and
the Hanse Towns, by offering them a share in the
dominion of the seas. Holland and Prussia al-
though Protestant, ought to be comprised in this
European confederation against Russia and Eng-
land which have become Asiatic powers. Who
would prevent France from advancing to the
Rhine, or Prussia from obtaining maritime stations
and colonial establishments ? There would be a
German navy and an Italian navy ; the Adriatic
would bless Austria, who would restore it to life,
and the flags of Sicily and Sardinia, mingled with
those of Rome, Venice, and Trieste, would frater-
nise in the free waters of the canal of Suez ; a canal
which must be constructed, if necesiary, with rocks
torn from the reef of Perim. All Asia wou!d then
belong to all Europe."
Our contemporary, having thus satisfactorily dis-
posed of thefate of the world, divides the minor spoils
in an honourable manner. Spain, having, with the
help of France, delivered herself from the " revolu-
tion," will be presented with the territory now held
on an expiring lease byth e Emperor of Morocco, and
" will construct cathedrals at Fez, Ouassen, and
Morocco, instead of raising a statue to the Jewish
financier Mendizabal." Portugal will receive glo-
rious kingdoms in India and Africa. The Spanish-
American Republics and Mexico will be raised to
the dignity of Empires, which will be distributed
amongst European Princes of sound ultramontane
idea.. As for England, her downfall is at hand,
and her alliance must be repudiated without cere-
mony :—" Let us renounce this alliance with per-
fidious, insolent England—this alliance, which has
never been cordial, and which can never be relied
on. An isolated position would be even more satis-
factory. A rupture would be preferable. No war
with England, however disastrous, could ever
destroy dynasties in France ; the alliance on Eng-
lish conditions is more menacing to them. The
tomb of St. Helena is empty, and from it issued
not only the Emperor but the Empire. The
cordial' alliance did not prevent Louie Philippe
from expiring at Claremont, and that tomb will
remain closed.

BOURSE, April 30.—The following were the
closing quotations :

4i per Cents 93
Do. end month —

Credit Foncier
Belgian 4.
Piedmontese (5) —
Roman s9
Austrian -
Spanish Threes
home Debt —
—Fox CASH.

3 per Cent. ..... 69 45
Do. end month 69 30
Bank Shares

Credit Mobilier 677150
A.ocount CBO

RAILWAYS.

Orleans ... —
Northern
New Ditto 775
Lyon and Mediteran. 8 L7i
New Ditto 7t,2t
Geneva

Midi
Western 612.E
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian --
Austrian

THE MARIQUITA COMPANY.

TO THE EDITOR ON THE SUN.

Srn,—l learn from your valuable paper that a
Mr. Elias Mocatta is about to be sent on a mission
to the Venezuela Government by the Committee
of Spanish American Bondholders ; and if he be
the Mr. E. Mocatta who, as the nominee of Mr.
John D. Powles, the de facto chairman of the
Mariquita and New Grenada Mining Company,
obtained a seat at the Mariquita Board about two
years ago, and just prior to a previous mission of
his to South America, I for one, as a Mariquita
shareholder, would suggest to Mr. Mocatta the
propriety of his resigning his seat at the Mariquita
Board, in order that the shareholders may replace
him by a successor who will act with independence
and vigour, and for the interests of the shareholders
dons.
The recent fate of the Mexican and South Ame-
rican Company, and the Magdalena Steam Naviga-
tion Company, ought to open the eyes of my
fellow-shareholders to the imminent danger of
intrusting the destiny of a company to the uncon-
trolled doings and misdoings of the Powles clique.
I enclose my card, with my London address, and
I have the honour to remain, sir, your obedient
servant,

CHRIS. RICHARDSON.
Field House, Whitby, April 28, 1858.

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