The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-07 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSD A Y EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1850.

the innocent child has never been at Sattara at all !
How truly lawful he and you feel at heart your
" possession" of Sattara to be, let his and your con-
duct proclaim, let your own countrymen pronounce ;
but after permitting such conduct by you in India, let
not your countrymen venture to talk of the French in
Algeria, the Russians in Poland, the Turks in Syria,
or Abbas Pacha in Egypt.
A NATIVE OF INDIA.
November, 1850.

* Sir J. R. Carnac, Gov. of Bombay to Lieut.-Col.
Ovans, Resident at Sattara, 30th Aug. 1839. Par.

Pe. No. 569-1843--par. 8, page 469.
" You will inform him (the Raja) that an annual
allowance will be assigned from the Sattara revenues
for the support of himself and his family—further,
that all property belonging to him born tide private,
and not appertaining to the state will, on his peace-
able submission, not be interfered with."
Col. Ovans to Secretary of the Governor of Bombay,
sth September, 1839. Par. Pa. p. 471, par. 6.
" I communicated to his Highness the substance of
the Bth par. of my instructions (as abave), and after
giving him every assurance that his cumPrt, 6-c.,
would be scrupulously attended to."
Captain T. D. Carpenter, Superintendent of the ex-
Wija of Sattara, to T. H. Maddock, Secretary to
the Government of India, Benares, 15th Nov.

Par Pd. Aug., 1834; p. 47, No. 622, par. 8.
" The ex-Raja of Saltara has in his possession
three letters signed by Colonel Ovans, the Resident ut
Sattara, and dated sth, Glh, and 13th Sept., 1839,
respectively, to the effect that his private property
would be surrendered to him."
The Times, August 13, 1850:
" HOUSE OF COMMONS.

" Sir John Cam Hobhouse, President of the Board
of Control, in answer to a question put to him by
Joseph Hume, E+q•, M.P., relative to the detention of
the Raja's private property, stated—' No guarantee
had been given with regard to the private property of
the ex-Raja.'"

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE PAPAL
AGGRESSION.
TO THE RIGHT REV. THE BISHOP OF DURHAM.
My dear Lord,—l agree with you in considering
" the late aggression of the Pope upon our Protes-
tanism " as " insolent and insidious," and I there-
fore feel as indignant as you can do upon the subject.
I not only promoted to the utmost of my power
the claims of the Roman Catholics to all civil rights,
but I thought it right, and even desirable, that the
ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholics should
be the means of giving instruction to the numerous
Irish immigrants in London and elsewhere, who
without such help would have been left in heathen

Ignorance.
This might have been done, however, without any
such innovation as that which we have now seen.
It is impossible to confound the recent measures of
the Pope with the division of Scotland into dioceses
by the Episcopal Church, or the arrangement of dis-
tricts in England by the Wesleyan Conference.
There is an assumption of power in all the docu-
ments which have come from Rome—a pretension to
supremacy over the realm of England, and a claim to
sole and undivided sway, which is inconsistent with
the Queen's supremacy, with the rights of our bishops
and clergy, and with the spiritual independence
of the nation, as asserted even in Roman Catholic
times.
I confess, however, that my alarm is not equal to
my indignation.
Even if it shall appear that the ministers and ser
vents of the Pope in this country have not trans-
gressed the law, I feel persuaded that we are strong
enough to repel any outward attacks. The liberty of
Protestantism
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f anyhas
successfulbee n
atenjoyedtem attempt
too liompose a foreign
yoke upon our minds and consciences. No foreign
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prince or potentate will be permitted to fasten his
fetters upon a nation which has so long and so nobly
vindicated its right to freedom of opinion, civil, poli-
tical, and religious.
Upon this subject, then, I will only say that the
present state of the law shall be carefully examined,
and the propriety of adopting any proceedings with
reference to the recent assumptions of power delibe-
rately considered.
There is a danger, however, which alarms me
much more than any aggression of a foreign Sove-
reign.
Clergymen of our own Church, who have subscribed
the Thirty-nine Articles, and acknowledged in ex-
plicit terms the Queen's supremacy, have been the
most forward in leading their flocks, " step by step,
to the very verge of the precipice." "Toe honour paid
to saints, the claim of infallibility for the Church,
the superstitious use of the sign of the cross, the
muttering of the Liturgy so as to disguise the lan-
guage in which it is written, the recommendation of
auricular confession, and the administration of
penance and absolution—all these things are pointed
out by clergymen of the Church of England as worthy
of adoption, and are now openly reprehended by the
Bishop of London in his charge to the clergy of his
diocese.
What, then, is the danger to be apprehended from
a foreign Prince of no great power, compared to the
danger within the gates from the unworthy sons of
the Church of England herself ?
I have little hope that the propounders and framers
of these innovations will desist from their insidious
course. But I rely with confidence on the people of
England, and I will not bate a jot of heart or hope so
long as the glorious principles and the immortal mar-
tyrs of the Reformation shall be held in reverence by
the great mass of a nation which looks with contempt
on the mummeries of superstition, and with scorn on
the laborious endeavours which are now making to
confine the intellect and enslave the soul.
I remain, with great respect, &c.,
Downing-street, Nov. 4.

J. RUSSELL.

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF TILE ARCTIC STEAM-SHIP.
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MOUNING.
The above splendid ship, commanded by Captain
Luce (which forms the third of what is generally
termed the Collins line) has just arrived in our river,
after a passage of ten days.
The Arctic left New York on the 27th ult. Her
news is, therefore, four days later than that brought
by the Europa, and, both as regards commerce and
and unimportant. politics, is uninteresting

INCREASE OF BUSINESS AT THE STAMP"OFFICE.-
In consequence of the great increase of Lbusiness at the
Stamp-office since the new Stamp Act came iiato operation,
the Commissioners have been obliged to make an addition to
the number of employis
sible the complying with the numerous orders sent under
the new Act. Although the stain ers are eroPloYed daily,
from tight o'clock A.M. till nearly nineP o'clock r.m. (except
, so as to facilitate 0 Much a pos.
Sunday), they have great difficulty in satisfying only a
portion of the demands, as the orders from Liverpool, Bir-
mingham, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, York, Carlisle, Dum-
fries, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and 'other large cities in the
Indeed, it is United Kingdom, Kingdom, are so extensive and urgent that; they
ars sent off by the morning mails, and during the day to
the different localities. Michaelmas Term, which com-
eyriipnt
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sp,o
mortgages,r t an t es t a isb
menced on the 2d inst., had given a great deal of extra
ddeust
leases,menticte.for stamps of every
derful when the number of stamps required daily for the
newspapers in London and every large town of the empire,
besides Post-office stamps, is considered how they. can
get through the business they do ten satisfy the public
demand.
CHEAP GAS, AND WHY NOT CHEAP WATER ?
Now that we stand a tolerable chance of getting cheap gas,
we think a stir ought to be made to get us cheap water also.
The New City Gas Company, by mono its pipes into the
ground, has put out the pipes of the old polists, and we
do not see why the water companies should not be subjected
to the same sort of competition. Light and cleanliness be-
ing both necessary for the preservation of health, we would
ask why economy should not visit our cisterns as well as our
gas-meters? If we were consulted as to what would be a
fair price for the water at present laid on, we should say
that it ought, at all events, to be "as cheap as dirt," which
is the article it bears the closest resemblance to. The only
advantage to be gained by the present water supply is the
chance of a fish occasionally being included in our bargain
with the company; but as the fish cannot notify
his arrival
he often dies in the cistern before his visit is known, and we
see nothing of him till his bones, forcing their way through
the tap, come up to us unexpectedly in the toast-and-water,
or the tea-urn.—Punch.
Yesterday afternoon we had the pleasure to attend
at the fourth exhibition of the large Boston Organ, recently
constructed by Messrs. Gray and. Daviscn, of the New-road.
The talented organist, Mr. G. Cooper, more than sustained
the reputation which by former performances he had ac-
quired; loud and repeated plaudits were bestowed upon him
by the crowded and respectable audience. Amidst the
excellence it is quite unnecessary to mark any one part with
superior approbation. The following programme was se-
lected with great taste and judgment :—Part I. Largetto,
Second Symphony bf.Kalliwoda ; Offertorium " Quod in
Orbe," Hummell ; first and second movements of a Manu-
script Sonata, J. S. Bach • Songs, Schubert ; Chorus, Fixed
in his everlasting seat," 'Handel. Part 11. Movement from
Fantasia, A. Hesse; Adagio, Kalliwoda ; Grand Prelude and
Fuge, J. S. Bach; Recitative and Air, " 0, ruddier than. the
cherry," Handel ; Chorus, " He rebuked the Red Sea," Han-
del. The above were performed by Mr. Cooper at his former
performance.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Lieutenant-General Sir John Grey,
K.C. 8., was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Coni.:
pany's forces cis the•nombay establishment.