The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-28 00:00:00

1 the Commissioners that their Counsel would command
far more of the respect and attention of the people of
England in their regular and proper place at the bar of
the Court of King's Bench. We venture to tell them
that their Counsel, supporting an indictment or informa-
tion for libel, would be much better heard at the har of
the Court of King's Bench than at that of the House of
Lords, notwithstanding our unbounded respect for the
latter, and notwithstanding all that we know and feel
respecting the actual constitution of the former. We
venture to tell the Corporations of England that,
according to the law of England as it stands at this
moment, the Report of the Corporation Commissioners
is not a privileged publication. We venture to tell
them, that for any part of it which is really libellous its
authors may be prosecuted for libel, and the Court of
King's Bench will so far at least do its duty as to
entertain the plea. What, then, have the Counsel of
the libelled corporations to do at the bar of the House
of Lords, unless it be to entreat their Lordships not
to legislate in the absence of such information as regu-
lar judicial proceedings, already determined on, will
speedily bring before them ? It is, we are persuaded,
by this spirited and constitutional course, which we
earnestly recommend to the Corporations of England,
and only by this, that the small quibbles of Lord
Brougham upon the legality of the Corporation Com-
mission can be reduced to their proper value.--
Morning Post.
The Corporation Bill will, we understand, be ad-
mitted to a second reading in the Lords, with some
talk, but without opposition. Some amendments will,
however, be proposed in Committee, by the Duke of
Wellington and others, which, even if carried, will not
vitally affect the great principles of the Bill. So far,
therefore, this measure, so detergent of municipal pol-
lutions, may be looked upon as secured to the people.
Would that we could say the same of the Irish Church
Bill ! But of the fate of the latter we can entertain
no hope from the bigotries, prejudices, and insatiable
thirst of patronage with which our hereditary sages
are so thoroughly saturated. What course, then, are
Ministers to pursue if this Bill, so essential to the tran-
quillity of Ireland, be crippled in its healthy action by
being returned in a maimed or mutilated state ? Are
we to have a collision between the two Houses ?
Will his Majesty take means of infusing into the
Lords a spirit less hostile to the national interests,
--less obnoxious to the popular will ? These are
questions which deeply involve the safety and tran-
quillity of the empire. Honour and justice, too, sternly
forbid any compromise, on the part of the Ministers, of
the principle which carried them into office, or any
supposition that they will make any concession which
would destroy their political existence, or—a result
which is equivalent—lose them the confidence of the
people. Under such contingencies they will have no
alternative but to resign to his Majesty the trust which
he graciously reposed in them. Will the Dukes of Wel-
lington or Newcastle, or Sir Robert Peel accept office,
and again drive the people to the verge of revolution ?
Dare they do it ? Ireland already feels the " sickness
of the heart from hope deferred ;" she looks to the
present Church Bill as a balm for her wounds—a
remedy for a portion of her manifold wrongs, and
the omen of future justice. Let those who oppose it
gravely reflect on the consequences of its rejection.
There are seven millions of Roman Catholics in Ire-
land.
A Coercion Bill may not again be sufficient to '
restrain them—it was a dangerous experiment with a
Reform Ministry ; but the attempt of a similar mea-
sure by an Anti-reform Ministry would at once unfurl
the banners of a civil war. We say to the Lords, in
the words of a Rev. Gentleman who lately most elo-
quently addressed a public meeting in Leicester,
" Look to yourselves in time. We have petitioned
them (the Lords)," said he, " respectfully ; if that
fail, we must knock louder at their door ; if they
are still obstinate, we must remind them of times
past, when the Bishops were confined to their dio-
ceses, and the door of the House of Lords was
locked, and the people legislated for themselves,
perhaps as wisely and as well." But, with the
Rev. Gentleman we forbear further dissertation on this
painful subject—we will not anticipate evils, though
we must fear them —we will continue to cherish the
hope, even against hope, that the Peers, even if they
dislike the Irish Church Bill, will see the policy—the
actual mercy—of passing it—in compassion, if from
no other cause, for the Protestant Clergy of Ireland,
who, if it were not passed, would be reduced to a state
of beggary and starvation—exposed to the midnight at-
tacks of a population infuriated by distress, and falsely
imagining that that distress is attributable to them, and
to them only. Will the Lords expose the pastors of
their Church to these dangers ? Will they risk the
chance of a civil commotion for the gratification of a
mere party purpose ? Are they aware that it is not the
intention of the present Government to call for a renewal
of the Coercion Act of last Session—that no Govern-
ment, Tory, Whig, or Radical, could carry such a Bill
through the House of Commons—and, finally, that
the effect of the absence, on the one hand, of the con-
trouling power of the Coercion Act, and of the non-
passing of the Irish Church Bill on the other, would
be to leave Ireland without a Government, and to ex-
pose the property of those who have a direct interest
in its tranquillity, to the most imminent hazards ? We
beg the Lords, therefore, to ponder these things se-
riously before they determine either upon mutilating
the Corporation Bill, or rejecting that which is in-
tended for the more effectual pacification of Ireland,
through an improvement of the state of her Esta-
blished Church. We are neither anarchists or alarm-
ists—republicans or levellers—but verily there is more
than one dark spot on the horizon betiding a storm of
no ordinary magnitude ; and as friends to the Peers we
honestly bid them take heed of them in time—for, to
use the language of the scriptures, " the day is already
far spent, and the night cometh, in which no one can
work."—Morning Advertiser.

SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JULY 27.—Wind E. N. E.—Arrived from the river
and sailed, the William and Henry Angus, Whittle, for Hon-
duras; and City of Londonderry, (S.) —, for Dublin.
Arrived and sailed for the river, the Thames (S.), Dawson,
for Dublin. Arrived and sailed, the David Laurie, --,
from Poole to Leith.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 27.—Wind S. S. E., fine.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 26--Wind E.—Arrived off port, the
Lusitania, Gibbons, from Oporto.
FALMOUTH, JULY 26.—Wind E.—Fresh gales and squally.
—Arrived the African packet, from Malta—sailed Bth inst.,
from Gibraltar 18th, and from Cadiz 19th. Off port, His
Majesty's ship Pantaloon, from Lisbon, (mail not up).
RYE, JULY 26.—Arrived the St. Johannis, Rickie, from
Memel.

GLOUCESTER, JULY 27.—Arrived the Alert, Humble, from
Wyburg.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 26.—Arrived off port, the Trinidad
packet, —, from Barbadoes ; Adam Lodge, —, from
Charleston; Francis, —, from Newfoundland; Sophia, —,
from Sicily ; and Ruby, —, from Lisbon.
CLYDE, JULY 26.—Arrived the Thalestris, Hill, from Tri-
nidad ; and Christina, Vass, from Oporto.
BELFAST, JULY 26.—Arrived the Cyprus, Neall, from Mon-
treal ; and Rastbaut, Montgomery, from Quebec.
HULL, JULY 26.—Arrived the Loyalist, Harrison, and
Ajax, Storey, from Miramichi ; Hughton, Hunter, and Har-
man, Johnstadt, from Petersburg ; Thomas Baring, Payne,
from Narva ; and Ocean, Dodds, from Wyburg.
LYNN, JULY 26.—Arrived the Ocean, Trigg, from Memel.
LOWESTOFFE, JULY 26.—Arrived off, the Winsbeck, Gates,
from Wyburg.
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—A vessel will be provided for the
Mail of this day, the 28th. Letters in time to-morrow even-
ing, the 29th.

THE SIDE-ARMS NUISANCE.—On Tuesday last,
George Hewson, a private of the 12th regiment of foot, now
in the Regent Road barracks, Salford, was brought up at the
New Bailey, charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
It appeared that he had created a disturbance at the Red Lion
public-house, Deansgate ; attempted to force his way into the
bar and bar parlour, and when this was resisted by the land-
lord, Mr. Woolley, he drew his bayonet on him. Further
violence was prevented by the landlord taking flight, and the
arrival of police-officers, who apprehended the prisoner. He
was required to find sureties to keep the peace for three months,
and in default of bail he was committed.— Wheeler's 11:ranches-
ter Chronicle.

NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " PETER
SIMPLE."—" The Pasha of many Tales" promises to become
one of the most popular of Captain M. arryat's amusing novels.
He has displayed infinite art in making impossibilities so re-
dundant with the richest humour ; and while the redoubtable
Pasha is laughed at to his very beard, few readers find them-
selves unscathed by some of the author's sly strokes of satire.
For mere amusement these tales cannot be surpassed, and
those who are mad for a moral will only have the trouble to
gather as much as they please, for morals hang about these
stories as thick as clusters of grapes in Autumn.