The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1835.

the renewal of the leases of its property in the parish,
does not feel itself called upon to interfere any further.
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL joined in the con-
demnation of the present system, and declared that
it was impossible to go on without an alteration
in the law ; and Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that it
would not be expedient just at this moment to
press forward the question, but that Ministers would
be prepared to bring in a measure on the subject next
session. The Noble Lord appeared to think that the
question should be submitted to a Select Committee,
who would consider it in all its bearings, and with re-
ference to all parts of the country.
A petition of a similar kind was presented by Cap-
tain PECHELL. The petitioners in this case com-
plained of the hardship of paying tithe on turnips fed
on by sheep. The claim of the parson had been lately
contested in a Court of law, and the Church had
been victorious.

We wish the Church may be victorious in every such
case. It is only by such victories over common sense
and common justice that the sluggishness which has so
long submitted to the insatiable demands of ecclesiasti-
cal cupidity, will ever be roused to exertion. The Eng-
glish tithe system is a disgrace to the national cha-
racter. 'We boast of our intelligence, of our advance-
ment in civilization, and we look down with contempt
upon priest-ridden nations ; yet we never once reflect,
that we have been unable to alter a law—or rather
custom—originating in times of the darkest ignorance,
bearing on its face the stamp of the grossest barbarism,
and pressing with a most destructive weight on our
agricultural industry.

We have just glanced our eye over a small pam-
phlet, published -within the last few days, entitled
"Thoughts on the Ladies of the Aristocracy, by LYDIA
TONIKINS," who assures us that she is the daughter
of that ISAAC, whose recent attack on the manners,
conversation, &c. of the west-end Exclusives, has
created so much excitement in the public mind. From
the intellectual qualities displayed in LYDIA'S pro-
duction, we should never have guessed at her pater-
nity. She is a Reformer, indeed, like her sire ; but
here all resemblance ceases. She has none of his
caustic humour, his unerring sagacity, or his stern
plain-speaking, but plods through her task—which is
the very unenviable one of abusing wholesale her own
sex—in the most approved style of tea-table twaddling.
The gravamen of her charge appears to be, that Eng-
lish ladies are neither patriots nor politicians—a charge
the justice of which we admit with no slight satisfac-
tion ; for of all nuisances, a petticoat patriot is, and
must of necessity ever be, the greatest. Conceive a
be-flounced and be-furbelowed O'CONNELL agitating
the drawing-room with the thunder of her Phillippics
against the tithe system ; a HumE, in a boa and
bustle, discussing the unconstitutional extravagance of
the Horse-Guards' mess-table ; or—more awful still—
a Malthus, in a mob cap and stomacher, putting forth
a series of practical arguments on the Population sys-
tem ! Thank GOD I such phenomena are rare among
us ; though, were LYDIA'S influence to find favour with
the community, they would abound in every town and
village in the kingdom.
Another of Miss TWIN: INS'S charges against our
English ladies is, that their acquirements are all of
an elegant, superficial character. What, in the name
of common sense, would she have them be ?
Surely, she would not have a graceful, sprightly
young girl, formed only to love and to be loved,
lay aside her drawing and her music, and take in-
stead to Hydrostatics and the Greek Lexicon ; and when
her:suitor (most likely an Irishman) begged for a smile or
a kiss, put him off with a dissertation on the Digamma, or
the Differential Calcults ! If such be LYDIA'S notions

of female education, we can assure her they will never
gain ground in England. We admire accomplished,
but we hate pedantic, women. The sex was formed
to charm and refine, not to mystify and astound, us.

If we desire to talk politics, chop logic; or bandy rneta
physics, it is not with ladies. Their great fascination

n our eyes, is, that in their habits of study and reflec

tion they are so completely our opposites. Lord
BYRON used to hate to see women cat. We hate

to Lear them discuss politics. We would as soon
see them flourish a shillelagh above our heads.
From the general tendency of her remarks—more
especially from the disparaging way in which she
speaks of female beauty—it is evident that LYDIA
TONIKINS is a spinster, aiid what is worse, well
stricken in years. 'We can imagine her penning her
present pamphlet, with a grave, learned wrinkle on her
_ _ _ _ .

forehead, black horn spectacles on her nose, a snuff-
box by her side, a tabby cat at her elbow, and (possibly)
a drop of co:nfort in the cupboard at her right hand.
We can imagine her too, not a little soured by the
thoughts of her compulsory singleness. But let her
take heart. There is balm in Gilead. If she will
only do us the honour to entrust us with her name and
address, and promise to lay aside her pedantic crotchets
respecting female education, we will do our best to
provide her with a Congenial husband, in the person of
our contemporary, the Editor of the Morning Herald,
a most respectable and punctilious old_ Gentleman,
whose diurnal persuasives to slumber we are in the
habit of reading with the happiest effect ; and who
will, no doubt, make LYDIA " comfortable," by taking
her twice to church on Sundays, and entertaining
her in the evenings with frolicsome and airy Lec-
tures on the Criminal Law. To be sure, a malig-
nant Morning contemporary, from motives which
none but a fiend could cherish, has hinted suspi-
cions as to the sex of the old
,Gentleman in ques-
tion ; but let not Miss TOMKINS be disquieted
thereby ; for we can assure her that he is just of an
age and sex to do her all the justice that a lady of her
years and habits can reasonably expect.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Thursday have
been received. The following bulletin appeared in a
second edition of the Journal de Paris, published iii
Wednesday night :

" A telegraphic dispatch, dated 21st inst., announces that
Don Carlos retired on the 17th to Arbeiza, whera he was
joined by Eraso, and the rest of the Carlist army. Among a
great number of their wounded, brought by them to Estella
and Irache, were several officers, including Villa Real and
Sagastibelza. To sum up, their loss has been considerable.
The prisoners taken from them have been brought to Pampe-
luna_, where the greater part of the army of the Queen arrived
on the 19th."

We have no other intelligence from the north of
Spain. The French Journals state that—
Two battalions of 500 men each, for the service of the
Queen of Spain, are now organizing in Paris. An agree-
ment to that effect was signed on the 17th, between the Duke
de Frias and Colonel Schwartz, and funds have been fur-
nished the latter by the house of Ardouin. The soldiers are to
bo dressed and armed on reaching the frontier. Pau is the
rendezvous appointed. Baron Schwartz has received the
brevet of Colonel in the Spanish army, and names the officers
of his regiment, with the approbation, however, of the Spanish
Ambassador. The corps will be in a great degree composed
of officers and soldiers who served in Portugal, and formed
part of the expedition of the Algarves, under the Duke of
Terceira. The project of organising a Polish corps, com-
manded by General Dembinski, seems to be abandoned. The
regiment is to be presented with colours in Spain, and to be
totally distinct from the foreign legion.

The Moniteur publishes an authentic account of
the recent defeat of the French army in Africa. There
were two engagements between the French troops and
the Arabs. In that of the 26th of June, the number
of the French killed was fifty-two, with eighty-nine
wounded : in the engagement of the 30th of the same
month, the killed amounted to two hundred and sixty-
two ; and three hundred and eight wounded.

The Court of Peers did not sit on Thursday owing

to the sudden indisposition of the President, Baron
PASQUIER.

The Minister of the Interior, M. THIERS, is nearly
recovered from his recent indisposition. His complaint
was brain fever, arising from exposure to the heat of
the sun, during an aquatic excursion on the Seine.

PARIS, JULY 22.—The bulletin of the cholera at Toulon
shows a considerable diminution in the number of new cases,
but the number of deaths remained nearly the same. From
the 14th to the 15th there were 55 new cases and 66 deaths ;
and from the 15th to the 16th, 44 new cases and 66 deaths.
Among the victims are mentioned Captain Leblanch, com-
manding the Scipio in the roads of Toulon; M. Beville, Cap-
tain of a frigate not in service, and member of the Municipal
Council ' - M. Banan, second principal Apothecary to the
Navy; M. Imbert, Physician to the civil hospitals, and a
young medical student, son of the Mayor of Castellet. This
young man was one of the medical students who nobly
offered their services to attend the cholera patients. His
mother had urged him to return to her, but he wrote
to her five days ago an affecting letter, sayinr, that
" his heart bled at not being enabled to comply with
her wishes, but that he could not abandon the unfortunate
persons confided to his care." On the 16th the Municipal
Council was convoked, but only five members were present.
"We hope," says the Eclaireur, "that the high authority will
apply to the absent members the only remedy provided by the
law, which declares that a member who does not appear to
these convocations shall be considered as having resigned.
" Three of the members have already died in consequence
of the fatigues they have undergone. If their colleagues had
taken their share of the burden, we perhaps should not have
to regret the loss of these honourable gentlemen."
We are informed that the cholera is in most of the vil-
lages of the department of the Var, and has become very
severe at Frejus and Grasse. It has also broken out at Nice,
from which a great part of the inhabitants have fled.
The Eclaireur gives letters from Algiers of the 10th and
11th, which state, that the cholera had broken out on board
the Triton, a ship of the line,`which, with two other fine ships
of war, arrived on the 7th, either to take on board the foreign
legion, or to form part of the squadron which is to cruize on
the coast of Spain.
JULY 23.—Marshal Clauzel left Paris last night, probably
to go to Portvendres to embark.—Messager, July 23.

FRENCH FUN Ds Jun' 23.
Five per Cents., 169 E Isc. 20c.
Four per Cents., 991. 25c.
Three per Cents., 79f 10c. 15c. 10c.
Bank Actions, 2,05(f
Rente de Naples, 07f. 25c. 85c. floc.
Roman Five per Cents., 101 t/i 101.
Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 41.
Rente d'Espagne, Three. per Cents., 2711 27.
Royal Spanish Loan, 44 43% 44.
Bente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 42 42 41%
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 10114 102.
Portuguese Loan, hive per Cents ' lA4.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 6114.
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 56f. 50c.
Haytian Loan, 3801.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
o.le month, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 251. 47!.4c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 35c. ; money, 251. 323,i c

BOURSE, THREE o'Cliocx.—Very little business was done
at the Bourse to-day.' A trifling purchase suffices to raise
prices 10 centimes, while the least sale lowers them to an
equal extent. The 3 per Cents. got up to 79f. 25c., and then
receded to 79f. 15c., sellers, which was the opening price.
The Spanish Securities are rather better, notwithstanding a
report set up that communications between Bilboa and Por-
tugalette are again interrupted.
QUARTER TO FOUR. Five per Cents., 10-9 f. 20c. ;
Three per Cents., 79f. 25c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 411 ;
Three per Cents., Spanish, 27 ; Cortes, 41 ; Coupons, 231-;
Guebhards, 43 ; Differ6s, 178 ; New Loan, 528; Definitive=,
—; Certificates, —; Actives, 51 ; Passives, 144,-; Ducats,
97 30 ; Romans, 101 ; Belgians, 1011-; Pedros, 911 ; Miguels,
—; Dutch,--; Haytian, 380 f. ; Brabant Bank, 13i.

The German papers received this day, bring ad-
vices from Rome to the 9th of July. DON MIGUEL
is again at Porto de Orazio, and intends to remain
there as long as the Aria Cattiva will allow. On
the recent appearance of a Portuguese man-of-war,
the country people, under the direction of their Lord,
took up arms, in order to defend DON MIGUEL in
case a landing should be attempted, for which conduct
DON MIGUEL has conferred on the owner of the es-
tate, whose name is MENGACII, the post of his
Chamberlain. The man-of-war here alluded to, has
not yet left the Coast.

Accounts from Kalisch to the 7th of June, state that
large divisions of troops were then encamping in the
neighbourhood of that town. The preparations for
the great Review were being carried forward on the
most extensive scale of imperial magnificence.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, JULY 22.
Actual Debt, 216 per Cent,
Rethschild's Loan, Five per Cent. loo3's
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent
Socie•y of CiAnmerce, Four and a Half per Cent ll7
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cen' ll3l
—Brussels Papers, July 23.
- PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JULY IS.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 41 per cent. lOll4 lON
Prussian English Loan, 1530, 4 per cent 99),i 98%
Exc!•ange on London, Two mouths 6 26%
Prussian Slate Gazelle, July 12.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JULY 14.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
11-mk Shares 1,327
Zeitung, July It).