The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TEE EVENING PAPERS OF YP.STERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Dissenters' Chapels Bill is within sight of
port, uninjured by the stormy opposition by which it has been
assailed on its passage. The debate which last night arose on
the second reading will go far to remove the misapprehensions
of the sincere, and the misrepresentations of the interested,
opponents of the measure. The very large majority of 190 in
favour of the measure may well be appealed to by the Ministry
as an. answer to the accusations brought against their pru-
dence, for damaging their position with the country by in-
troducing the Bill, and persisting in pressing it against the
formidable opposition which its object had provoked
from the confederation •of Churchmen and Dis-
senters, who had entered into a kind of holy alliance against it.
We have reason to believe that so late as Wednesday the Go-
vernment was undetermined as, to proceeding with the Bill
during the present session. It was only upon an assurance
that the opposition would give a cordial support to the mea-
sure, that Sir Robert Peel consented to brave the opposition
with which he was threatened from *the Inglis and Plumptre
section of his own friends. To allow the Government to stand
committed, to the Bill, malgre the expostulations and up-
braidings of the "once' pious" portion of the community,
was in Sir Robert Peel both courageous and politic. Had the
Premier succumbed to the party on his own benches which
sought in this instance to force upon him, as principles of legis-
lation, the dogmas of their school, he would have resigned him-
self to the most intolerant of guides, and would inevitably have
found himself committed to the policy he affected to countenance,
when in opposition, for the purpose of obtaining their aid to obtain
the Government. Sir R. Peel having obtained his object, he now
gently loosens the bonds by which the bigots of his party sup-
posed he was bound to them for ever. He shows them, in
every possible way, that though they were valuable in their
place for the purpose of keeping up a delusion in the
country, he has too much prudence to attempt to carry on
the •Government upon the principles they would force upon
his adoption. Sir R. Peel knows that he can depend for aid
upon the men he once treated after another fashion. When any
measure in accordance with the principles upon which they, as
a Government, sought to legislate, is endangered by the im-
practicable adherents to obsolete principles, Sir Robert Peel
knows that he may depend on his opponents for the necessary
aid to carry such measures. The Liberals are ready to
rescue him from the hands of his dangerous allies, who are only
held in subjection by the certainty that their defection on
such occasions would be more than made up from the oppo-
site benches. We think that such conduct on the part
of the Liberals is marked by consistency of piinciple and
lenerosity of spririt. They see their own principles of
egislation adopted by those who successfully resisted them,
when made the basis of measures brought forward by them-
selves. Instead of reproaching the Government with incon-
sistency, and imitating the example so frequently set them by
their political opponents, the Liberals show their fixed attach-
ment to principles by aiding the Government in carrying mea-
sures in accordance with them. Thus the cause of truth and
justice is advanced. Those who have become converts
to the principles they formelly denounced, are open
to the accusations of those who once acted with them in check-
ing and counteracting their progress. The Liberals are, how-
ever, worthy of commendation for thus showing themselves
free from the factious spirit which was formerly embodied and
arrayed against them. By imitating such an example, they
might, it is true, avenge their own cause. But the paltry
party advantage would be more than counterbalanced by
the loss of reputation they would incur, as a party ; and,
with the loss of character, of the moral force which is
derived from it, in the estimation of the country. The de-
bate and division of last night will afford a new illustration of
the general truths we have here stated. But for the aid
which the Liberals generously afforded to the measure of the
Government, it would have been abandoned, or defeated.
Mr. Macaulay's admirable exposition and defence of the
principle of the Bill aided and enforced Sir William
Follett's vindication of the legal points which are
involved in the change it proposes to effect. That
part of Mr. Macaulay's speech, in which he demonstrated the
inconsistency of the Dissenting portion of the opponents, was
rnost effective. By arraying themselves against themselves—
their conduct, when seeking relief from laws which affect their
own privileges, with their conduct in resisting similar change,
of the law when those changes are necessay to afford relief to
others—left nothing to be dsired. It must close the mouths of
the most clamorous, and convince them of the mischiefs they
or, likely to inlet upon themselves, when they thus stultify
their cause by striving to injure others.
STA ND a RD.—" The Socinians' Frauds Protection Bill"
was last night read in the House of Commons by a large
majority, 307 to 117. The second reading wis moved
by the Attorney-General, whose appearance in the House,
after his late serious imEsposition, occasioned a degree
of satisfaction which was warmly and generally ackr.ow-
hedged. Undoubtedly, the adoption o the measure, otlimi4
and mischie: 0113 as it is, by a man so universally
respected and beloved as Sir W. Follett, greatly softened th,
tore of tho&o who e duty it was to oppose it ; but of course
nothing could materially affect the numbers un'bo'lt sides.
Mir Mini,terial party was reiairced by th,. Roman Catholics,
iri4.e-cnteil by Mr. Sheil, with the semi- Romanist ;tarty repre-
.4pts#i 'by Mr. Monckton Alilucs, and that party to 5.; II iell We
do do Lot like to give its proper name, but which it may he re-
Marnbered a few /cats ago, under the guidance cf Mr. Jos -ph
same, divided tn.rtcen against the acknowledgment of a
Providence in an Act of Parliament. Supported by
{-stria ,expectable allies, or rather supporting them—for the
go:Tlenists, semi-Humanists, and the others are really the prin-
ssitii): in the case, and the Ministers merely auxiliaries—the
ernierninent divided in the great majority that we have men-
tiossea, There is something remarkable in the number
essembied upon this occasion (which, if the matter discussed
i*erely respects a few suits more or less in the courts of
s,ipatiZy? as is pretended, can be regarded as of but very inferior
interest) ; a House of 431)—pretty nearly the fullest House of
the
,sessiou.s.was somehow collected—nobody will say to give
effect to the feeling of the country ; but how collected,
sad with what ends we can only partially explain.
'I he Roman Catholics were there to damage the
Protestant religion and the Protestant Church to the
utmost of their power, as (but for a certain oath) it is their
duty to do—the Tractarians were there, to provide facilities
for the nursing of every heresy—we hardly need say with what
purpose the enemies of religious truth mustered in their full
force. There were, however, persons voting in the m‘jority,
whose motives our sagacity cannot fathom. They null, how-
ever, no doubt, be able to explain these motives to the r con-
stituents upon the hustings, as it is very certain they will be
called upon to explain them, and in a somewhat peremptory
awe, too. Last night's vote is not an event to be forgotten in
hurry by a people Ike the people of England ; and
'thau,,..ll it was said that there was a signal prepon-
d6nt7c, of argument in favour of the Bill last
piatt, we can find none of these arguments in its
favour that will bear the cool free air of the hustings. This
boait of the preionderanee of argument, indeed, affords to
us a remarkable ilurtration of the opposite conclusions at
-
which men arrive. according to the side on which
they contemplate a subject ; for if we were called
upon to say on which side the preponderance of argument
lay, we should not hesitate a moment to decide in favour of
Sir Robert Inglis and his friends ; and if stalled upon to recon-
cile this decision with our respect for the men of indisputable
wisdom and integrity, to some of whom we are unfortunately
opposed, who have come to an adverse decision, we should say
that the whole difference lies in our respective views of—
what is an argument? They to whom we are opposed may
think a consideration of expediency, and of very low ex-
pediency too, an argument in such a case. We think diffe-
rently; we think that in all measures respecting the adminis-
tration of justice, and still more in all measures affecting the
truth of religion, considerations of right and considerations of
right only, are the arguments to be admitted. It seems to
us no less absurd to admit arguments of expediency
in questions of justice and of religious truth, than to
dritg in abstract moral principles into an argument upon a
corn-tax or a bank regulation. Right has its department, and
expediency has a different department ; and questions affecting
justice and religion are not to be argued upon maxims
drawn from the " expediency" category. Now, what
are the arguments advanced in favour of the Bill ?
First, there is precedent, the statutable prescriptions.
We have answered that argument by showing that
the ground upon which statutable prescriptions rest is,
the assumed acquiescence of the party out of possession.
and the consequent inference that the possessor has had a title,
or. proof of a title lost by lapse of time; but cessanteratione ces-
sat et lex, and therefore no prescription has hitherto been per-
mitted to protect an abuse of a trust, because in that case
the tsentinel himself has turned traitor. We might answer
the argument from precedent by the minutia tempos laws in
favour of the Crown and the Church. It has never been pre-
tended that these laws were not just and wise at the time of
their introduction; bat surely at no time were Crown and
Church property more exposed to invasion, than religious trust
property is proved to be at present, by the very reasons as-
signed for passing the Bill now in the House of Commons.
Mr. Macaulay talked of the statutes of Merton and West-
niinster in the thirteenth century, as establishing the doctrine
of prescription. Does Mr. Macaulay know what was the
tenure of property in the thirteenth century, or rather does
he not know that whatever formal titles men might claim,
all depended upon the uncertain breath of a tyrant,
ce.- the equally precarious award of the role du fait ?
Why not -revive the trial by combat, among the
oilier legal institutions of the thirteenth century ? But this is
all idle babble. We have now means for perpetuating proofs
of title and of ascertaining title, if lawyers would only let us
use them, such as our ancestors never dreamed of, and there.
foOe there is now tenfold less excuse for smothering justice under
prescription than there was even a century ago. Prescription
is the slovenly resource of barbarism, or of a barbarous neglect
in'the administration of justice. It is not as we advance in
civilization that we ought to multiply prescriptive laws.

to 3s per cwt, but upon these terms several of the trade have
been induced to operate. This afternoon the demand was
brisker for Ceylon Coffee, and 1,350 bags bulked at
public sale were all sold at former rates, low good
ord pale fetched 45s 6d to 475, good ord 47s 6d
to 48s 6(1, fine ordinary rather coloury 49s 6d to 51s 6d, fine
fine ordinary Demerara sort 57s 6d; privately several par-
cels were disposed of. The quantity on the water is 60,000
bags. Of Mocha some parcels were sold privately at full
prices, but 17 bales at auction were taken in at 71s to 72s for
good middling greenish, and 70s for middling yellow. 614
bags of Manilla, sound, was all withdrawn, but the damaged
sold at 22s 6d to 245, and very low lOs to 12s per cwt.
Rum, BRANDY AND HOLLANDS.—Jamaica Rum upon
rather lower terms, 3s 3d for fair quality 30 to 31 per cent
overproof. In Demerara, strong quality 32 to 38 per cent
overproof at 3s 2d to 3s 4d. Leewards, proof at 2s 2id to
2s 3d, and 5 to 6 per cent overproof 2s 4id. Cal-
cutta Rum at is laid to Is lid for proof with cer-
tificate. Brandy at the following terms :—Cognac,
best brands of the vintage of 1838 hhds, at 5s sd,
puns 5s 3d ; ditto, 1839, hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s ld ; ditto, 1840,
hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto, 1841, hhds 5s ld, puns 4s lid ;
ditto, 1842, hhds 4s lid, puns 4s 9d, mid and good mid
qualities 3s to 4s 3d, and low 2s 8d to 2s lld per gallon. For
Geneva prices are firmer; sales for shipping made at Is 9d;
fine in small parcels for home consumption has fetched 2s 2d
to 3s. English Corn Spirits lOs 2d per gallon, cash.
SAGO.—At 16s 6d to 17s 6d for middling white small pearl.
Sago Flour 20s to 21s per cwt. Arrowroot, Bermuda taken
in at 10d to 104 d ; Nassau at 2d, St Vincents 4d ; but 10 brls
were sold at 8d to 9d per lb.
RlCE.—There has been a brisk demand for Bengal, and the
rates paid are rather above those of this day week. For Java
higher prices being required has checked business. Cleatted
Rice at 133 to 17s for Patna, and 21s to 26s per cwt for Ca-
rolina. This afternoon Siam Rice taken in at lOs for mid-
dling white.
SPICES.—For black Pepper former rates are sustained, and
a good demand has been experienced. This afternoon Cassia
Lignea met with little attention, and 228 chests at public sale
sold at 64s 6d for good mid, and 53s to 54s for good ord,
being for the former the previous value, but 2s to 3s per cwt
lower for the latter. Of Malabar Ginger 148 chests of su-
perior quality went at gBs to 110 s for bold clean. The market
was quiet for Pepper, and 403 bags common stalky and dusty
Sumatra at auction sold at 2id to 2/d, being id to id per lb
cheaper.
INDIGO.—The market has a dull appearance for East India
indigo, and few transactions have taken place in any descrip-
tions this week ; those parties that are inclined to sell are
compelled to take prices 2d or 3d per lb under those of the
last quarterly sale.
OILS,—Palm Oil at 27s 6d to 28s for fine quality. Cocoa
Nut Oil at 26s to 27s per cwt. Cod is 33/ to 331 10s, pale
Seal 33/, and to arrive 321; Southern here 261 lOs to 321 for
common to fine. The market is firm for Sperm Oil; fine
British 751 to 75/ lOs per tun. Rape Oil at 38s for pale and
37s for brown. In Olive Oil few sales made ; Gallipoli is 50/,
and other sorts 48t to 491 per tun. Linseed Oil at 25s 6d to
25s 9d per cwt.
TALLow.—For Russian Tallow on the spot little business
has been transacted, and 40s to 40s 6d per cwt is the nearest
value of Petersburgh yellow candle. For delivery few buyers
are to be met with, and there are ready sellers for the last
three months of the year at 41s 3d to 41s ad per cwt. Town
Tallow at 39s per cwt, nett cash.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 30, 1844.

•
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint George
Tradescant Lay, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Amoy,
in China.

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Rutherford Alcock, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Foo•
chow-foo, in China.
_ . .

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Charles Edward Keith Kortright, Esq., to be her Majesty's
Consul at Carthagena, in the republic of New Grenada.
The Queen has &so been graciously pleased to appoint John
William Perry Farren, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Consul in the
Philippine Islands.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 7.

The Queen has been pleated to' direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great S..al, granting the dignity of a Knight
of the United Kingdom of Great 13ri'ain and Ireland unto
William Curnwaliia Harris, Esq., Major in the Bombay Corps
of Engineers.

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 7.
Ist Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant G. W. C. Jackson to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Turnor, who retires; Cornet P. S.
Thompson to be Lieutenant, by purehas.4, vice Jackson, June 7.
Gth Dragoons—C. Tower, Gent., to be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice'Fitzwygram, promoted, June 7.
II th Light Dragoons—Captain I. Jones to be Major, by
purchase, vice Rotten. promoted ; Lieutenant 1.1. Harrison to
be Captan, by purchase, vice Jones; Cornet G. 'l. Dun-
combo to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Harrison. June 7.
14th Regiment of Foot—F. Fortescue, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Swiuburne, appointed to the 83d Foot,
June 7.

15th Font—Quartermaster R. Irr.ray, from 833 Foot, to be
Quartermaster, vice Cartmail, who exchanges, June 7.
36th Font—Captain W. T. R. Brady, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain, vice Brevet Major W. H. Adams, who
exchanges; Lieut. P. L. 111•Dougall to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Brady, who retires ; Ensign J. A. Brockman to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice M‘Dougal! ; D. Toni, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brockman, June 7.
41st Foot—A. E. Ilardinge, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice %%Tethered, promoted, June 7.
56th Foot—Capt.. Sir W. Maxwell, Bart., from half-pay
Unattached, to be Captain, vice John Charlewood, who ex-
eharges ; Lieut. L. C. Conran to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Sir W. Maxwell, who retires ; Ensign F. M. Ramsay to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Conran ; H. C. Lanauze, Gent.,
to be Ensigo, by purchase, vice Ramsay, June 7.
61st Foot—Lieut. F. Bustin, from the Ist West India Regi-
ment, to be Lieutenant, vice Dobson, who exchanges, June 7.
85th Foot—Lieut. D. W. P. Labalmondiere to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Emslie, who retires ; Ensign J. W. Walling-
ton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Labalmondiere ; Ensign
J. D. Swinbusne, from the 14th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Wal-
lington ; Ensign and Quartermaster J. Cartmail, from 15th
Foot, t., be Quartermaster, vice lmray, who exchanges, June 7.
87th Foot —Captain Henry Thcmas Earl of Chichester, from
half•pay Unattached, to be C ptain, vice C. T. Graves, who
each nges ; Lieutenant Radcliff to be Captain, by purchase,
vice the Earl eff Chichester, who retires; Second Lieutenant
W. H. Taylor to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Radcliff;
J. Fi;zGetald, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase,
rice Taylor, June 7.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieut. T. J. Dobson, from the
61st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Huson, who exchanges;
J. Rose, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Spratt,
who resigns, June 7.
UN ATTAC HElL—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. Rotton,
from the I Ith Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by
purchase ; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel J. Crosse, from Major
half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without pur-
chase ; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir F. Watson, from Cap-
tain half-pay Portuguese Service, to be Major, without pur-
chase, June 7.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Surgeon W. W. Bell, M.D. from the',
26th Foot, to be Staff• Surgeon of the First Class, vice J.
French, M.D., who retires upon half-pay, June 7.
BILEVUT. —Captain W. S. R. Brady, of the 36th Foot, to
be Major in the Army, June 28, 1838; Captain H. T. Earl of
Chichester, of the 87th Foot, to be Major in the Army,
Nov. 23.

AIEMORANDUM.—The date of the commission of Ensign
Richard Maclaine, in the 78th Foot, to be 31st May, 1843,
instead of Bth April, 1842.
Lieutenant-Colonel Manley Dixon, upon half-pay unattached,
has been allowed to retire from the army, with the sale of an
unattached lieutenant-colonelcy, he having become a settler in
Canada, June 7.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland.
Northumberland and Newcastle Yeomanry Cavalry—R. C,
Bec‘icke, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Cookson, promote -
May 24.