The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-19 00:00:00

310NDAY, JUNE 1.

PRICES 07' Trocxs THIS
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons .... 4.... ••••• NIA%
3.4 per Cent 9B3t
Ditto Red 98X14 Ws
'Jew 334 per Cent.
4 per Cent. 1 itsteseennt:ld
... -
, ... -
Bank Long Annuitiestoexpire
Jan. 5, MO 16A 15-16
Oct 10, 1859 lB 1-16
Jan. 5, 1860 l7 %
Jan. 5, 1880
April 5, 1880
Jan. 5. 1870

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds
Belgian Bonds 101%%
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds ... 87%
Ditto. Account V% M
Buenos Ayres Bonds '
-. .

Ditto Account
Chillian Bonds

Ditto Account
—1
Columbian Bonds.
Ditto Account
Columbian 80nd5,1824 463; 54
Ditto Account 47 64
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account —
Greek Bonds —
Ditto Bonds, 1825 —
Ditto Account —
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent —
Ditto Account —
Ditto, 6 per cent.
Ditti Account 461
Neapolitan—

To conclude with, DER FREISCHUTZ

Mr. Cayley,—A Motion (based on the Parliamentary Decla-
ration of Agricultural Distress) to inquire if there be not effec-
tual means within the reach of Parliament to afford substantial
relief to the Agriculture of the United Kingdom.
THURSDAY, JUNE 11.

Sir Samuel Whalley,—Resolution respecting the Repeal of the
Window Tax.

at 12 niiizates past 3 o'clock.

THURSDAY, JUNE 18.

Mr. Wilke—Bill for the establishment of a National Civil Regis-
tration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, in England and
Wales. _ _

' TUESDAY, JULY 21.
Colonel Evans,—Respecting Rewards and Punishments in the
Army.

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THURSDAY, :JULY 30.

Colonel Evans.—To draw the attention of the House to the in-
convenience and dangers of the late assumption of the different
offices and powers of the State by tie Duke of Wellington,
being liable to be drawn into a precedent.

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1835.

LEGAL OPPRESSION.

(From the Liverpcol Journal of Saturday, May 16. )

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share
London and Greenwich Railway Company l3 154
National Provineial Bank of England 25 25

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW.
Morning .27 minutes after 8. I Evening...... 59 minutes after 8

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING will be performed Auber's Opera of
LESTOCQ ; OR, THE FETE OF THE HERMITAGE.

HAMBURG, MAY 1835.
HEINE BROTHERS, CONTRACTORS for
the STATE of HAMBURG'S GREAT LOTTERIES.
being requested to publish the Scheme of the approaching Sixty-
sixth Lottery in the English Papers, and to have Tickets on Sale,
with Agents in England, beg to state that neither can be done,
because it is illegal for the English Newspapers to publish Foreign
Lottery Schemes, and for any Agents in England to sell Foreign
Lottery Tickets. On the other hand, they beg to state, as it is
NOT illegal for any person in England to PURCHASE Foreign
Lottery Tickets, that any person desirous to purchase, on addressing
them by mail, will receive a full Scheme, and any desirable infor-
mation on the subject (Gratis), by return of post.

HAMBURG, MAY, 1835.
lIEINE BROTHERS beg to inform all those
who have to remit to them Eight Pounds, that upon receipt
of a Ten Pound note, Two Pounds will be returned in gold by re-
turn of mail.

HAMBURG, MAY, IB3Z.
ITEI NE BROTHERS beg to state that the first
cost of a Ticket of the Sixty-sixth Hamburg Great Lottery
will be Eight Pounds.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this dat.

Lord BROUGHAM'S remark at a meeting of the
Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty, which
was held on Saturday, and of which we gave a report
in yesterday's Sun, that "it was to the interest of
Churchmen, as well as of Dissenters, to take away all
intolerant principles from our code of laws, and all per-
secuting practices in the administration of those laws,"
though trite, is yet one that cannot be too often, or too
earnestly, impressed on the public attention. Notwith-
standing the various reforms that have taken place since
the year 1829, a host of grievances still exist, espe-
cially as regards the Dissenters, and these can only be
got rid of, by the incessant broaching of the subject by
such men as Lord BROUGHAM. Rightly did his
Lordship insist, first on the expediency of abolishing
Church-rates ; secondly, of opening the two Univer-
sities of Oxford and Cambridge ; and thirdly, of dealing
with marriage as a civil contract. These are among
the foremost grievances of which the Dissenters com-
plain, and which Government is bound to take into
consideration, with a view to their effectual removal, at
the very first opportunity. There is another observa-
tion that Lord BROUGHAM threw out in the course of
his speech, to which the Dissenters would also do well
to pay attention. He would advise them, he said, by
no means to lose sight of the great question of regis-
tration. He hoped they would persevere with the sub-
ject, for he thought there could be no great difficult;
in the way of establishing a certain and economical
parochial registration.
In reply to the calumnies which the Tories have
been industriously spreading abroad for the last six ow
eight months, respecting his differences with the Earl
of DURHAM, Lord BROUGHAM said, " I have
already mentioned the names of two or three individuals
who have preceded me in this chair ; but I ought to
have added the name of my immediate predecessor,—
one of my ablest and most valued friends, a fellow la-
bourer in the cause of all good reform, an advocate of
all liberal principles, and a supporter of all the rights
of civil and religious freedom—l mean Lord DURHAM.
I say this, not merely to gratify my own feelings of
friendship, or to do an act of justice towards him, but
also for the sake of removing the foolish gossip that
has gone about, of our ever having had above one
single moment's dissension, and that too upon a matter,
arising, I believe, altogether from misrepresentation,
and which has long since been forgotten." This
" single moment's disssension," it may be remembered,
was cried up by the Tory Press as a proof that there
was a decided split in the Reformers' camp ; but it now
appears that they were just as near the truth in this,
as in every other instance, in which they have
indulged in speculation. Even as liars, these men
ate sad bunglers at their trade. There is a want of
keeping and consistency in their falsehoods. No sooner
are the materials collected and put together, than the
whole structure falls to the ground, from lack of the
proper cement. We would advise them henceforth to
study lying as a science, rather than as an accom-
plishment, for thus only can they expect to excel in it.
Ambition without study will do them but little service.
Lord BROUGHAM disposes of the Tory cry, " No
Popery," with just as much effect, as he disposes of
the Tory slanders about himself and Lord DURHAM
" I do not like the no Popery cry, because I think, in
the mouths of those who use it, it is not a religious or
a Christian expression, but an expression of intolerance
and persecution—a covering of an irreligious, a merely
sordid, worldly, and rancorous heart." This is a nut
for the Bishop of EXETER to crack and digest at his
leisure. His Lordship goes on to observe, " I re-
joice in being released from the trammels in
which I have been for many years held in
my professional and ministerial capacity ; but that
I hold these opinions to-day, or that I would
attend a meeting of my intelligent countrymen
to-day, being out of office, one whit more than I should
have done, being in office, I must really take leave to
deny. I have expressed no one sentiment to-day, that
I did not express when I was Chancellor of this
United Kingdom. A great fuss has been made about
my attending public meetings. Had I remained in
office, I would in consequence of that fuss, have
attended meetings of my countrymen more than ever."
This is worthy of Lord BROUGHAM in his noblest
days. He here identifies himself with the people,
spurning all vulgar ideas of caste, exclusiveness, and
so forth, and bearing in mind, not so much that he is
a Peer, as that he is a British citizen. Mr. O'CON-
NELL made a happy allusion to this circumstance.
" I should be glad to know," enquired the Honour-
able and Learned Gentleman, " whether any man
here thinks that Lord' before the name of
BROUGHAM,' raises him in the estimation of his

sooner

country." To this question there can be but one
reply. It is not BROUGHAM the Peer, but BROUGHAM
the Patriot, that we respect. His coronet has no
glitter for us. We can look at it perfectly unawed ;
but not so can we regard his intellect. When we think
of his eloquence, not tawdry and full of verbiage, but
prompted by thought, and informed with the loftiest
philo'sophy ; of his searching sarcasm applied only to
befriend the oppressed, and heap shame on the op-
pressor ;a—when we bear in mind these rare qualities
which distinguish his Lordship beyond all other states-
men of his age and country—then, indeed, we are
struck with admiration, and bless God that they are
still left us, to elevate and enlighten humanity.

Hardly a day passes without something occurring to
show the necessity of a fundamental change in our
Ecclesiastical Establishment. The alteration made at
the time of the Reformation was infinitely less than is
generally imagined, consisting principally of the exclu-
sion from the religious service •of a few extravagances
which had crept into it in the dark ages, and to
which the votaries of the Romish Church pertinaciously
and foolishly adhered, after the light of knowledge had
begun to dawn on England. But the machinery of
the system remained as it was, without repair, and full
of defects—not ill constructed, perhaps, as an engine
of mental tyranny, but for that very reason useless, or
worse than useless, as an instrument of moral and re-
ligious instruction. This we think has been incontes-
tibly proved by the working of the system—by the
actual state to which that which is called- " the
Establishment" is [reduced. _Whether it is capa-
ble of such improvements as shall render it popu-
lar, is the problem which is about to be solved, and
to the solution of which both its friends and its ene-
mies are looking with the deepest interest. Both
parties agree that the experiment must be tried—that
something must be done in the way of change, or all
is lost.

These reflections have been suggested by the pre-
sentation of a petition from the inhabitants of the
parish of Kirkham in Lancashire by Lord STAN-
LEY to the House of Commons last night.
This petition details grievances which even
Lord STANLEY acknowledged " afforded incon-
testible reasons why that real and substantial re-
form in the Church, which all its friends so ardently
desired, should be no longer delayed." The parish of
Kirkham, it appears, contains 12,000 inhabitants, and
extends over a surface of 130 square miles, rather a
serious sphere of duty for a conscientious Minister of
the Gospel. As long ago as 1650 the state of this
parish had attracted the notice of the ruling powers,
and after an inquisition into its circumstances had taken
place, it was recommended that it should be divided
into several parishes—a recommendation which at the
end of nearly 200 years still remains to be carried into
effect. The spiritual superintendent of Kirkham, the
vicar of this large and populous district, is a Dr. WEB-
BER, formerly chaplain to the House of Commons,
who having been blessed with two other nice little
slices of preferment—to wit, a prebendal stall in
Westminster Abbey, and the Deanery of Ripon, has
very unceremoniously transferred his Kirkham flock to
the pastoral care of another divine, a 11r. MATHEWS,
who in addition to the trifling dlities of his spiritual
office is the master of the Grammar-School, one of the
rules of which school is that the master of it shall have
no other business or occupation whatever ! For some
ipteresting partiCulars respecting the sense which this
Dr. WEBBER seems to entertain of the obligations of
morality, we must refer our readers to the debate,
where they will see how this Dignitary of the Church
has kept faith with his parishioners. We cannot how-
eVer conclude without congratulating Lord STANLEY
on the boldness of the tone which he has at last as-
sumed, in advocating the immediate necessity of Church.
Reform. What a pity he was not converted a little

The Earl of WINCHELSEA has addressed a letter
" To the Protestants of Great Britain," which---owe
.gay it with regret—is as full of absurdities as it of bad
grammar. It is a thousand pities that his Lordship
was not prevailed on, by some kind friend, to take
lessons from the " School-master," before he ventured
to address so enlightened a body as the English Protes-
tants. It would have saved him much ridicule, and his
readers much trouble. Will it be credited, that a
British Peer—an hereditary legislator for the people,
has, in these days of general education, penned a brief
epistle, in which—brief as it is—there occur, at least,
half-a-dozen grammatical solecisms ? Yet such is the
fact, as any one may see, who will take the trouble to
wade through his Lordship's epistle. Beginning with
the days of St. A ngustine, in the sixth century, his
Lordship travels by a short cut to those of Bishop
JEWELL ; and thence makes another nimble leap to
Catholic Emancipation, which he describes as a most
unfortunate measure, granted for the benefit of those
" who obtained admission by oaths which they are daily
and openly violating." A random assertion like this
needs no reply from us ; its suggests its own refuta-
tion ; as does, indeed, the major part of his Lordship's
letter, especially that passage where he observes " the
powers of Popery and infidelity are now openly united
in our land, for the avowed destruction of every-
thing which is dear and sacred in the eyes
of our sincere Protestant." His Lordship will
hardly appal his countrymen by this parade of
panic. They know, far better than he can
tell them, what is, and what is not, threatened with
destruction—that the Church, as a national establish-
ment, is safer than ever, from the very circumstance
which his Lordship so warmly deprecates,—namely,
that its abuses are to undergo a wholesome, searching
reform. It is such men as the Earl of WINCHILSEA
that do the greatest injury to the Church—men who
cannot see the path of safety, and will not walk in it,
when it is pointed out to them. His Lordship, we see,
threatens his " countrymen" with another epistle ; to
which, as one of them, we reply, in the words of the
Litany, " Spare us, good Lord !"

In another part of our paper our readers will see a
report of an action for libel which was lately brought
against the Liverpool Journal, in which, although
the plaintiff obtained only forty shillings damages, the
proprietors will have to pay costs to the amount of
nearly 1,0001. We request our readers' particular at-
tention to this fact. It may be consonant to law, but
assuredly it is abhorrent to justice.

We have received German Papers to the 13th inst.
The Emperor of AUSTRIA has signified to his Cabinet
that he is prepared to sanction a change in the tariff,
as soon as the necessary arrangements can be effected.
The greatest tranquility prevails in the Austrian Empire.
In the political circles at Vienna no fears are enter-
tained respecting any disturbance in France, conse-
quent upon the trial of the prisoners of April. " On the
contrary," says a writer in the Allgemeine Zeitung, it is
thought that vigorous measures are the best, since
otherwise the National Guard would refuse to sup-
port the Government, if the Republicans, emboldened
by impunity, should again have recourse to arms. The
opinion here is, therefore, that it was a duty to take
up the affair seriously. It is said that Louis PHIL-
LIPPE sees it in this light, and has repeatedly declared
that an amnesty would betray weakness, which, in the
eyes of the French, is the most fatal of faults. We
therefore look forward with anxiety for the result of

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1835.