The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-28 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1835.

the King of the FRENCH say' to this ? Will he have
the courage to force Russia to an explanation re-
specting an insult so derogatory to the Royal dignity of
a Sovereign of France ? Will he dare to tell PAH LEN
that the language used by the CZAR at Warsaw ought
to be reprobated by every lover of liberty through-
out the world, and that to demand apologies for a
reprobation of such, sentiments is to insult: the dignity
of a free people ? No ; the KING will do none of
these things ; because at heart he approves of every,
expression used by the blood-stained CZAR. He
would himself use the same language on the banks of
the Seine, had he as much confidence in the guns of
the Barricades as NICHOLAS has in the cannon of
the ALEXANDER Citadel which. commands Warsaw.
As yet we are without any intimation of the course
which the British Cabinet proposes to adopt with re-
spect to this speech. It is certainly the duty of our
Government to take some steps respecting it ; unless
the world is to understand that the days are for ever
gone, when England prided herself upon the fulfilment
of her treaties in favour of the oppressed. We have
not yet recognised the right of Russia to conquer
Poland. Parliament has repeatedly declared the prin-
ciple of such a conquest a barbarous and inhuman ag-
gression. Why then not seize this opportunity to ap-
prise the CZAR that England and France are pledged
to maintain the independence of Poland, and will
maintain it ? The occasion is most opportune. Poland
is again menaced, not only with slaughter but with
annihilation. Wretched and imbrued as she is in her.
own blood, we are still in a condition to burst her,
prison bars, strike off her manacles, and to raise her
to more than a pristine state of power, freedom, and
independence. Had we interfered earlier, we would
have prevented the effusion of seas of innocent blood
—we would have spared the brave but unhappy Poles
a weight of misery, which would have crushed the
spirit of any people in Europe. Nevertheless, we can
yet redeem our greatest error. We can still save Po-
land. This will remove every stain from the national
honour of Great Britain. And though it will not re-
pair the immense injury which our past, disregard of
the cries and entreaties of Poland has occasioned, yet
will it prevent the infliction of calamities still more
disastrous, which threaten to overwhelm that country.
It is scarcely worth notice to remark upon the trifling
differences between the Frankfort and the Paris ver-
sions of the, Imperial speech ; although the German
Editor points them out as strikingly important. He
sums them up thus :
" This speech was delivered by the Emperor on the 4th
(16th) Oct., in the Lagiunski Palace. The version first
published by the Journal des Debats, and which has given
occasion to many comments and diatribes, differs from the
preceding in three places chiefly The Emperor blam-
ing the Poles for destroying their own happiness, added,
by renouncing your own institutions and trampling them
under foot.' The Debats omits this declaration. 2. At
the passage where the Emperor says his only desire was to
return the Poles good for evil, he added so I have sworn
before God, and my oaths are sacred to me.' These
words do not appear in the. version , of the Debats.
3. The passage which says Russia remains strong and
untouched amidst the disorders which agitate Europe,' is
given differently by the Debats, which makes the Emperor
say exclusively only Russia remains strong and un-
touched.' "
The first error with -which the Debats is here
charged is one of omission. . This, we think, the
Frankfort scribe is rather unlucky in noticing. By the
omission in the Debats, the C7A R is saved the expres-
sion of what all the world knows to be an infamous
falsehood. It was ,the CZAR himself and his mad
brother, not the municipality of Warsaw, who trampled
under foot the free institutions of Poland. The second
correction is equally unhappy. It adds blasphemy to the
charges of cruelty, and murderous oppression, preferred
by the Press of France and England against the CZAR.
Thus both the omissions in the Debats were calculated
to make the EMPEROR less an object of universal de-
testation. According to the Debats, he is only r,
monster of tyranny ; but the Journal de Frankfort
provc,s him to be as impious as he is cruel—as sacri-
legious as he is despotical.

The French journals of Thursday bring advices
from Madrid to the 18th inst. There are fuur can-
didates for the Presidency of the Proctiradores:--Se-
nors GONZALES, ISTURIZ, FERRER, and SOME-
RUELOS. The choice will fall on one or other of
the two first. Both are ultra-liberal in their prin-

ciples.
The Moniteur brings the following intelligence
from the north of Spain :
" A company coming from Malaga landed on the
20th at Barcelona. The vessel that brought it formed
part of a convoy, the remainder of which had been
prevented arriving by bad weather. There have ar-
rived at Valentia 3,000 men of infantry, and 300
horsemen. On the 14th, SAN CELINI repelled the
attack of 1,500 insurgents. Colonel ASPRIOS sur-
prised, on the 13th, near Agramout, a company of in-
surgents, of whom he killed 52 men. General CARA-
TALA.has returned to Valentia. General PALAREA,
Commander-in-second of the provinces, has set out for
The Ebro, where he is going to replace him. ORAA has
retreated spontaneously to Lerin with his convoys,
without experiencing any attack ; but the Carlists, in
reference to this retreat, spread the most absurd an 4
false reports of victory, as they did on the retreat of COR-
DOYA to Vittoria. Don CARLOS is at Onate, and his
artillery at Toloso. Gen. EGUIA islaid up with the gout
in the Amescoas. EL PASTOR has made prisoners the
Junta of Alava. On the 17th the Chamber of Pro-
curadores elected as candidates for the Presidency
Messrs. IsTußiz, ANTONIO GONZALES, SOME-
RUELOS, and FERRER. On the 18th the National
Guards of Upper Arragon captured 120 Navarrese
deserters, of the division of GUERGUE, whom the latter
report to have sustained two defeats in Catalonia.
Six Carlist battalions are assembed near St. Se-
bastian."

PARIS; Nov. 26.-To-day again the English Journals have
not arrived. There has been much conversation on 'Change
of a numerous levy of seamen, and some persons said that
letters from Havre stated the number at 20,000, announcing
that ordes's had already been received at Havre to levy the
contingent assigned to that district.-Journal du Commerce.
It was reported to-day on 'Change that dispatches from
c money,
0ieti1::514:2;43'1
50, .
Italy announced the immediate dissolution of the Neapolitan
Ministry, and it was inferred that the plan of a loan in favour
of Don Carlos, mentioned in the Allgemeine Zeitung, would
probably be given up by the new Ministry.- Constitutionnel.
The letters received this morning from Upper Italy do not
speak of a formal insurrection in Sardinia ; but of an alarming
spirit of discontent, excited by the imposition of new taxes
which the Government had ordered to defray the expenses of
the civil administration and of the garrison of the island. It
is said that the Spanish and Portuguese Governments, to
which the Court of Turin has hitherto shown itself directly
hostile, have some concern in the fermentation, which really
gives much uneasiness to the Sardinian Government.-Temps.
A letter from Toulon says :-" Letters from Genoa and
Nice speak as of a vague report of the news of an insurrec-
tion at Cagliari, which the Government seems desirous of
concealing. It is said that the peasants, wearied of the op-
pression of their feudal Lords, had thrown off the yoke, and
ravaged the estates of these petty tyrants. It is an act of
despair, and it is feared these poor people will be the victims
of their attempts, as they are not supported by the neighbour-
ing towns."-Courrier Francaise.
Accounts from Genoa state, that above 600 sailors had just
arrived ; three several brigs of war had also entered the port,
and it was thought that in a few days ten vessels would be
ready to put to sea. The troops not belonging to the garrison
are, 150 infantry and 300 artillery. None arc yet embarked,
but more are expected.-Massager, Nov. 26. - ,
FRENCH FUNDS.-PAItIS, NovEsossit 26.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 55c. 70c. 63c.
Four per Cents., 99f. 65c. 6Oc. s'lc.
Thule per Cents. 81f. 25c. 30c. 25c.
Bank Actions, 2,160 f.
Rente de Naples, 99f. 60c. 65c. 70c. 60c.
Roman Five per Cents.. 10. 1011 A %y.
Royal Spanish I.oan, 3N.
FBoerlgtoia4liels.ooaLno,aFni,v
0
Haytian Loan. 35f.
ThreeeperCents,l)er
11XCiiiiNglt ON I.ONPON.
ThreeOn e month,nionthpx.rp,e?,3f..2ssfs.C3... ;
money,
251'.
35c.
-fours Authentiaue.
BOURSE THREE O'CLOCK.--The Rentes were very flat at
the opening of the Bourse at 81f. 20c. sellers, but the price
afterwards got up to 81f. 31c.
QUARTER TO Fora.-Five per Cents., 108 f. 80c.; Three
per Cents., 81f. 25c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 371-:; Three
per Cents. Spanish, -; Cortes, -; Coupons, 21, ; Gueb-

bards, 371 ; Differes, 17i; New Loan, —; Actives, 484 ;
Passives, 14+; Ducats, 99 65 ; Romans, 101-3,1-; Pcdros, —;
Belgians, 1.014; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, 3851. —c. ;
Miguels, 191 ; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 13 ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 244.

A public Meeting was held on Thursday last, at
Exeter, to discuss, first, the distress of the Irish
Clergy—secondly, the subject of the Ministerial plan
of Education in Ireland. Bishop PHLLLPOTTS took
the chair on this occasion, and in adverting to the last
theme, did not think it beneath him to repeat the, a
thousand-times-refuted, falsehood, that the Bible was
excluded from the national Irish Schools. " The
scheme," observed this ghostly man, " introduced by
his Majesty's Government, involved in one of its rules
exclusion of the Holy Scriptures from the Schools dur-
ing the time of instruction." This is a bold, sweep-
ing, unqualified assertion ; yet when the pious Prelate
comes to give his authority for making it, we find he
has no other data to go on, than that " one of the direc-
tions given to inspectors was that no book which con-
tained controversial views of religion .should be used
during the hours of general instruction !" And so, be-
cause Government have wisely ordered that religion shall
not be made a mere matter of controversy, during the
time allotted for education on general matters, this
sagacious' Bishop jumps to the conclusion, that the
Bible is excluded from the national schools of Ire-
land ! Was ever effrontery equal to this ? Yet it
dpes not take us by surprise. After- the Catholic
Question affair, we are prepared for all sorts of incon.
sistencies on the part of the Bishop of EXETER.
Nevertheless, it is strange that he should have trusted
himself with the utterance of an absurdity so often
refuted. The Bible is not excluded—we are really quite
tired of repeating this hacknied truism—from the Irish
schools. So far from it,-its study is diligently recom-
mended and enforced ; but controversial matters of
religion are very properly kept in the back-ground, for
a reason which will suggest itself to every one who is not
thoroughly blinded by party prejudices—namely, that
they are ill-adapted to the immature capacity of youth.
What should a boy know or care about the subtle theo-
logical controversies that have agitated schoolmen and
divines for so many centuries ? A knowledge of them—
even supposing he could be brought to comprehend
them—could have no interest for him ; would not settle
his faith, but would most assuredly bewilder his under-
standing. Rightly, then, have Ministers acted in
discouraging all these divinity pedantries, and en-
couraging the diligent perusal of the Bible in the
only way in which it can be read with advantage by
young, unformed minds. In the course of his speech
our apostolic Prelate makes a curious admission, for
which, as in duty bound, we are deeply grateful. "It
was said," he remarks, " that it was the duty of the
Clergy to teach the children. He was quite sure they
all knew that the clergyman could not be an efficient
schoolmaster, for he would be liable to be called away
by his other important duties." How, then, can the
mitred Bishop, with a seat in the House of Lords,
and in consequence a world of political duties to at-
tend to, be expected to- make a useful religious in-
structor ? If the objections to the two folduties of
a Protestant Clergyman is strong in the one instance,
it is at least twenty times as cogent in the other ; for
who can compare the serious responsibility which
attaches to the unbcncficial Irish parson, with that
which attaches to the Episcopal character ? Yet
Dr. Dr. PHI LLPOTTS admits the impossibility of a parson
making an efficient schoolmaster, by reason of his being
constantly liable to be called away " by his other im-
portant duties ;" yet can sec no absurdity—nothing
irreconcileable with common sensc-,—in a Protestant
Prelate exercising, at one and the same time, the two
discordant offices of Priest and Politician ! If this is
not swallowing the camel and straining at the gnat,
we know not what is. When the question of the pro-
priety of the Bishops being allowed longer, to continue
to speak and vote in a political capacity in the House
of Lords, next engages public attention, we shall take
as the ground. work of our objection to the measure,
Dr. pHILLPOTT'S candid and express declaration,
that no Protestant Clergyman can act efficiently in two
• distinct capacities.

In the Times of this morning there is an article en-
titled " Tory and Whig Patronage of Science and
Literature," which is extracted from the forth-
coming number of Frazer's Magazine, evidently for
the purpose of throwing a slur on the Whig Govern-
ment, for their refusal to grant a pension to Mr. FA-
RADAY, the chemist, who, it seems, had been half
promised one by Sir R. PEEL. This article, though full
of circumstantial detail*, intended to hoodwink the judg-
ment of the unthinking, bears throughout every mark
of wilful misrepresentation. • Language, for instance,
is put into the mouth of Lord MELBOURNE, which
none but an imbecile or a maniac could have uttered ;
and on this is founded a charge against his Lord-
ship, to the effect that he considers eminent sci-
entific and literary men wholly unworthy of the
slightest Ministerial patronage. It is impossible
that a liberal, well-educated man, like the Noble
Premier, himself one of the most accomplished
scholars of the day, could ever have talked such non-
sense. As for his declining to bestow a pension on
Mr. FARADAY, the truth of the matter, we under-
stand, is this—that the Gentleman in question was
offered the pension, but from some caprice or other
chose to reject it, on which it was very properly be-
stowed on Mr. MOORE, who, it may be remembered,
exhibited a lively sense of the Ministerial bounty, in a
speech which he lately delivered at Lord JOHN
RUSSELL'S Bristol dinner.

We call the attention of his Majesty's Govern-
ment to the report of a Coroner's Inquest held yes-
terday at the Marine Barracks at Woolwich, by which
it would appear that THOMAS RAMSAY, a private in
the Royal Marines, came by his death in con-
sequence of receiving a flogging to which he was
sentenced by a Court-martial. The country will
no longer endure these brutal exhibitions ; and
unless the system of flogging is abolished altoge-
ther, it will lead to the commission of popular out-
rages, and to the engendering of feelings of aver-
sion towards the officers of the British army, which
cannot fail to be productive of the worst consequences.
We will wait to see whether an order shall be issued
from the Horse Guards, before entering more fully in;;)
the details of this horrid affair.