The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-20 00:00:00

affair before the Houses of Parliament; and had the '
Government been swayed by these symptoms on the
surface of public opinion, one of the most important
events of the present day would have been vilely
frustrated. We never had but one opinion on the
subject. The Ameers stood not only in the way of
civilisation, but they claimed the right to interrupt
one of the great highways of nations. They were,
perhaps, the most selfish and barbarous tyrants in ex-
istence; they obstructed our commerce with the
northern regions of India, and what was more, they
prohibited us from defending ourselves. The only
remedy was to put them down with a high hand, and
a NAPIER was justly selected for the important and
noble duty. We call it noble. Was ever such an im-
portant result produced within the same period ?
Twenty thousand of these fierce and irreclaimable
Beloochees presented themselves to Sir CHARLES NA-
PIER a few months ago ; they came to pay their court
to a man who but two years before they believed was
determined to destroy them root and branch. They
came unarmed, and made obeisance to the representative
of the Queen of ENGLAND, and then retired to their,
country, struck with the honour, good faith, and magna-
nimity of the English, and anxious to spread the joyful
news among their tribes on both banks of the Indus.
The natives of Sinde have expressed, not by their
language only, but by their deeds, their gratitude to
the British General. For the first time in their lives
they see justice administered, find protection against
the oppressor, trade encouraged, robbery and plunder
and murder abolished, and regard with astonishment
the blessings of civilisation introduced by a race
whom their Ameers held up to general detestation.
Never did England obtain such a peaceful and holy
triumph. We are almost inclined to contrast the
English and French systems of colonisation—Sinde
with Algeria—but it would be only a work of supere-
rogation. Every reader can do it for himself.
We may here notice the attempt of a morning
Contemporary to prove that the letter imputed to Sir
HENRY POTTINGER, denouncing in the most un-
measured and outrageous manner the conduct of
Lord ELIANBOROUGH and Sir CHARLES NAPIER, had
no reference to these functionaries. It was written
before Sir HENRY had received the Blue Book, says a
Correspondent; and we are, therefore, to infer that
his indignation was directed against his own em-
ployers--a strange mode of getting out of a scrape.
But we shall have an opportunity in due time of re-
curring to this affair.

We quote the following extraordinary passage from
an Address which has been forwarded by Sir AN-
DREW AGNEW to the Earl of ABERDEEN, in the name
of the friends of the observance of the Lord's• day in
Scotland:--" It is a well-known fact that Scotland
has since the Reformation been distinguished among
the nations of Christendom as a strict Sabbath-ob-
serving country, in the true scriptural sense of that
word ; and it is this important fact which, with all
imaginable respect and deference, and dutifulness and
loyalty, it is humbly prayed may be brought under
the notice at this time of her Most Gracious Ma-
jesty the QUEEN, not doubting that in this, as in
all other respects, it is the gracious desire of the Royal
mind to recognise, to respect, and to gratify the
religious habits, the peculiar characteristics, and
the best principles of her MAJESTY'S most loyal and
devoted subjects in this her ancient kingdom. It
would be the highest presumption to suggest to your
Lordship's consideration the extent of the overwhelm-
ing moral influence which the example of the Court is
calculated to produce upon the religious habits of
Scotland on this most auspicious occasion." Most of
our readers must he familiar with the name and the
achievements of Sir ANDREW AGNEW—that doughty
religious Quixote who, had he lived in the days of
the Praise-God-Barebor es Parliament, would have
taken high rank among the Saints of that period.
This remarkable gentleman it was who, in the ardour
of his puritanical zeal, brought forward in the House
of Commons, not less than three times, a Bill, whose
avowed object was to put a stop to every species of
amusement and occupation on the Sabbath, no matter
how innocent, or indeed meritorious such amuse-
ment or such occupation might be. Not content
with endeavouring to put a veto on all Sunday riding
or driving in the parks or elsewhere, he actually pro-
posed to starve the poor into piety by shutting up the
baker's oven, and giving a twelve hours holiday to the
kitchen-spit; moreover, he headed a crusade against
the old women's fruit-stalls ; anathematised the
village ale-house; launched the thunderbolts of his
wrath against the heads of all tavern-keepers, as
though they were so many direct importations
from Tophet ; and solemnly conjured the
House, in such moving terms as caused a
general rush of Members to the door, to
visit with condign reprobation every Atheist who was
caught in the sacrilegious act of travelling by steam
or railway on the Lord's-day. It is supposed that
he would even have gone the extreme length of pre-
venting the sun from shining, and the wind from
blowing, on the Sabbath, could he but have been
assured of the feasibility of the scheme; but finding,
on mature consideration, that it was somewhat im-
practicable, he wisely abandoned it, and confined his
ghostly attention to more mundane matters. Well,
the same over-righteous gentleman, who exhibited his
ultra-devotional sensibilities in this strange fashion,
some five or six years since, not content with the
flattering and enviable notoriety which be then ac-
quired, has now come publicly forth again
to challenge the admiration of the world,
by forwarding an Address to one of the
QUEEN'S Ministers, whose object is, to acquaint her
MAJESTY with the impressive and novel fact, that
the Scotch are of an exceedingly pious turn, and will
tolerate nothing like laxity of conduct on the Lord's-
day. Of course her MAJESTY did not know this be-
fore, or Sir ANDREW AGNEW would not have been at
the pains to communicate it to her ; and we have no
doubt that she will receive the novel information with
becoming thankfulness. But, to speak seriously.
! Can anything be more ill-judged— we might
almost say, impertinent—than an Address, whose
chief and evident object, carefully as it is dis-
guised, is to convey a hint to her MAJESTY
that she must be particularly strict in her
observance of the Sabbath during the period that she
remains in Scotland ? Could not Sir ANDREW AG-
NEW, and those in whose name he writes, have left
the matter to the QUEEN'S own innate sense of reli-
gious propriety ? Was it necessary to remind her of
the duty which she owed to her Scottish subjects arid
herself? Has she ever, on any occasion, evinced a
disposition to treat the Sabbath with neglect ? On the
contrary, has she not always been exemplary in the
discharge of her duties on that holy day ? What ar-
rant presumption, then, in these officious zealots to
remind her—just as if she needed the hint!—that
" the example of the Court is calculated to produce
an overwhelming moral influence npon the religious
habits of Scotland !"

Accounts have been received from Madrid to the

12th inst. M. MARTINEZ DE 1.,► RosA. has refused to
accept the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ac-
cording to the Heraldo he had anticipated his journey
to Madrid (whither he would have been called as a
Deputy in a few days), " merely to explain by word
of mouth to her MAJESTY and the Ministers the

motives that induced him to refuse the department of
Foreign Affairs, and which he appeared to have re-
nounced definitively."

The armor Puhlico reiterates the statement that
seven thousand men are forthwith to be marched to
Navarre, where the partizans of Don Ci.m.os have
generally triumphed.
The Herald°, however, states that the Government

would not be obliged to march troops to Navarre, all
the counts from that province describing it as per-
fectly tranquil, although the Carlists had'. carried the
elections.

The same journal affirms that the rumours
current as to an impending change in the Cabinet are
unfounded, and that none will take pima before the
meeting of the Cortes.

The re-organisation of the National. Guard was
also talked of, and the partisans of the Ca binet
wise declared that it contemplated makil ig censider-
able reductions in the army.

'Spain, and F
id especially the of Arida-
lusi la(hsc:tyr-s reads of
thei I'ic://po) arc infested with 'brands of rob-
bcr:;, who freely- exercise their culpable it iitistry. In the
very environs of Madrid robberies are t ,s ..!asily perpe-
trated as in a forest. It would appear th Spain is not
yetntar losing the fame she has long obtained as the
classical land of smugglers, &e."

MADRID BOLZA, SEPT. 12.—Thr( ,e per Cents.
27 3-16 at 60 days; Five per Cents. 20 at 60 days;