The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-06 00:00:00

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shocked to find that by equality the Dissenter
meant equality—equality in the eye of the law and
Constitution of the c;)untry, not toleration. The
new light was the immediate parent of counter
societies. " Church Defence" societies were com-
menced to protect the Church from " libera-
tion" liberation from control, which many
of them long to be free from undoubtedly.
Doctors and proctors, bishops and arch-
deacons, sigh for it annually in Convocation ;
and when Government steps in and will have a
Divorce Bill, or anything of that kind,
they loudly protest but liberation from State
patronage—that is quite another thing ; liberation
from privilege, preference, pay !—at that even the
most stiff-necked of them, the Oxfords, and the
Exeters, and the Archd4eacon Denisons, shake their
heads.

We have given our readers in this very brief
sketch a faithful accounl t, we believe, of the position
of the Liberation Society which held its meeting
last week, and of the Clturch in relation to it. The
diminished majorites ;for measures of religious
liberty, in the house are:, we have no doubt, entirely
due to the zeal aroused. by the general knowledge
among the clergy of ti is society, and its influence
with constituencies. I:t may be observed that the
defalcations from the r auks of supporters of mea-
sures for religious liberty in the Commons, are
hardly to be perceived, but the clergy have whipped
up the perfunctory of the Tory ranks, and com-
pelled them to go up and vote, at the penalty of
losing their votes at thie next election. How far
their policy is a wise (ane, remains to be seen. It
,is nothing less throe/ defending all abuses of
Church power as outposts of the Establishment.
If they be so, the clerical reaction may be right ;
the clergy, however, 'will do well to ask whether
each of the abuses they have this year defended so
pertinaciously, is not rather a position from which
the enemies of the Establishment assail it most
successfully.

LATEST NEWS.

THORN, MAY 6.

Increased precautionary measures of a military
character have been taken at Warsaw on account
of the Russian Easter holydays.

Cannon have been planted in front of the Cathe.
dral.

Arrests and judicial inquiries by the civil autho
rities continue to be made.

MADRID, APRIL 5.

The sitting of the Cortes will soon be closed.
The Government have not yet taken any defini-
tive resolution respecting the proposed annex-
ation of St. Domingo to Spain ; but it is believed
their reply will be in the affirmative.

BRESLAU, MAY 4.
Communication with Warsaw is difficult, as the
Government is said to intercept letters.
Count Zamoisky was at Warsaw on the Ist of
May, and, notwithstanding reports to the contrary,
was not to leave that city.
The rewards accorded to the generals, and the
thanks which the Emperor has addressed to General
Chruleff, have spread indignation among the people.

AGRAM, MA 5.

The Ban of Croatia has left for Vienna, accom-
panied by a numerous deputation, in order to make
representations to the Emperor respecting the re-
presentation of the military frontier in the Croa-
tian Diet, and the administrative incorporation of
Danikatt. ciroatin.

PESTH, MAY 5,

Large bodies of troops have been despatched to
several places in various comitats, to enforce pay.
ment of the taxes.

The congregations of the coraitats have remon
strated against these proceedingv.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAY 5.

The ffoniteur of to-day announces that the in-
terest on Treasury Bills has been reduced per
cent. The rates arc fixed at 31, 4, and 44 per cent.,
according to the length of time the bills have to
run.

BOURSE, May 4.—The market has been buoyant
to-day, and a rather large amount of business done
at improved quotations. Threes, for the Account,
which opened at 69f 10e, are now at 69f 30c.
Railway shares have been also in demand, and
quotations generally higher.
The following were tho.last quotations:-
41 per per Cents ... 96 .25 , Credit Fonder 915
Do end month.... 96 251 Belgian 41
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 45 Boman
Bank Shares 2880 Austrian
Credit Mollifier.... 715 Spani:h Threes 49
Do. Account 717 50 , Home Debt .. 4B 50
RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1360 .. 1362 50
Northern
New ditto 9OO ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 975 .. 978 75
Geneva............
Southern 577 50 .. 577 50
Western ..
Eastern
Sardinian 385 .. 385
Austrian
Lombard

SPAIN.

MADRID, MAY 3.

The Carresponclencia Autografa of to-day says:
All the towns of San Domingo have issued a
pronuncianzento in favour of annexation to Spain."
The Correspondencia Autografa also asserts that
Spain has announced to the powers that she would
accept this annexation.

SPAIN AND SAN DOMINGO.

General Geffrard, President of Hayti, as has been
already announced, has published a protest against
the occupation of San Domingo by Spain. In this
document, which was published at Port-au-Prince
on April 6, the President says :—" By what right
do General Santana and his faction deliver up the
Dominican territory to Spain ? It is the will o
the population,' say they. Lying assertion ! That
population, trembling under the reign of terror
organised by General Santana, cannot manifest
any free will. A number of honest, enlightened,
and devoted patriots of the Dominican republic,
driven out of their country by General Santana,
protest with all their might against this alienation
of their country, and declare it to be a base act of
treason. No one will deny that Hayti has a great
interest that no foreign power should Establish
itself in the eastern part of the island.
The moment that two peoples inhabit the same
island their destinies, with regard to any foreign
attempts on them, are necessarily connected together.
The political existence of the one is intimately
bound up with that of the other, and they are
bound to guarantee each other's safety. Suppose it
were po:sible that Scotland should pass all at once
under Russian or French rule, would it not be said
that the existence of England was profoundly
compromised ? Such are the necessary bones
between the eastern and western parts of Hayti."
The protest concludes as follows :—" The Govern-
ment of Hayti, then, protests solemnly, in the face
of Europe and America, against all occupation of
the Dominican territory by Spain. It declares
that the Santana faction has no right to alienate, in
any respect whatever, that territory ; that it will
never recognise such accession ; that it publicly
makes all reserves on that point, as well as reserves
to itself the employment of all means that, under
the circumstances, may be adapted to preserve and
secure its moat precious interests,"