The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, Itt44.

The Earl of CLARENDON, in the House of Lords,
last evening, put some questions to the Earl of Am-
DIEN, relative to the collision which had taken place
between the French troops on the frontiers of Mo-
rocco, and the troops of a chief, under the authority
of the Eiurinton. He asked whether hostilities had
actually commenced, and whether her MAJESTY'S
Consul had not taken means to prevent a result which
must be injurious to British interests. The Earl of
ABERDEEN said he did not believe that war was in-
tended either by the French or the Emperor of Mo-
Rocco. A collision certainly had taken place;
but he believed it was ;Ifithout the wish
of either party. He had received 110 intimation
prom the British Consul that vat had
been proclaimed against infidels--lie dida notN
believe
that any such proclamation'
had taken place, and that
there was no probability that a war would take place
between France and Aas h. e had every reason
to believe that the collisionuee°'
which had taken place
.a few
was accidental, and that, 1 days previous, the
Emperor of MOROCCO had d'iwithdrawn one-half of his
form from the frontier,

Lord MONTEAGLE moved for a Committee cJ
Inquiry, relative to the effect of the present import
duties.

The Earl of DALHOUSIE opposed the motion, and,
after a lengthened discusion, the house divided, and
the motion was rejected by a majority or 109. The
House then adjourned.
In the Commons, several petitions were presented
against the Bank Charter Bill.
Mr. C. BERKELEY wished to know from Sir J.
GRAHAM, the cause of the delay in introducing the
Charitable Trusts Bill. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said the
LORD CHANCELLOR was entrusted with the Bill, and
he had every reason to believe it would be introduced
forthwith. A number of other Members tried to
elicit from the Home Secretary when the Bill would
be introduced, but no satisfactory answer could be
obtained.

On the order of the day being read for the second
reading of the Bank Charter Bill, Mr. HAWES moved
that no sufficient evidence had been laid before the
House to justify the proposed interference with banks
of issue in the management of their circulation. He
then entered into lengthened details on the currency,
and contended that no good reason had been shown
by Sir R. PEEL for altering the system of currency
which he had adopted in 1819.
Mr. HASTIE seconded the motion, and said he felt
bound to declare that the present Bill introduced by
Sir ROBERT PEEL, contained more elements of panic
than any preceding one.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the
resolution, and thought it would have been more
manly to have moved that the Bill be rejected altoge-
ther, than to assail it on mere points of detail.
Several other Members spoke, and ultimately the
resolutions were carried by a majority of 155, there
being 185 for it, and 30 against it. The Bill was
then read a second time, and ordered to be committed
on Monday.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Two o'clock.

We quote the following from a Morning Contem-
porary :--" Yesterday evening, the large arched
window in the side of the tower of St. Stephen's,
Walbrook—a church celebrated for its architectural
beauty, as being the chef crceuvre of Sir CHRISTOPHER
WREN—fell with a tremendous crash upon the pave-
ment below. The whole of the wooden frames, with
the cross iron bars, bolts, and glass embedded in the
lead, lay for some time smashed to atoms on the
pavement, and were at length removed into the
church portico; while the beadle and others ascended
the tower to inspect the state of the other windows,
which were found to be in a very unsafe state."
This accident, which by the bye, might have
been attended with very dangerous consequences,
inasmuch as a woman and two children, who
chanced to be turning down Walbrook at the time,
" narrowly escaped destruction by the intervention
only of a few inches"—this accident, we say, could
not have been unexpected by the parochial authorities,
for Dr. CEOLT, several weeks ago, publicly called
their attention to the dilapidated condition of the
church, warning them that not only were the win-
dows unsafe, but that the very pulpit was tottering;
and, moreover, that there was not a pew door but
what gave indications of an intention ere long to part
company with its hinges, and grievously endamage
the toes of whoever happened to be passing up or
down the aisles at the moment. But, as has been
well observed, " that which is every body's busi-
ness is nobody's business," and not until some
man of note in the parish has had his " re-
spectable " sconce cracked by the fall of another
window into the street, or the amiable • rector has
tumbled through his pulpit, and suffocated the clerk
beneath the weighty avalanche of his descent,—not
until some accident or other of this sort has happened,
will the parochial authorities of Walbrook think it
their duty to set in right earnest about the necessary
repairs of their Church. But our object in alluding
to this matter is not so much to recommend the im-
mediate restoration of the long-neglected St. Ste-
phen's to its pristine state of beauty and safety, as to
point out the absurdity of the Bishop of LompoN's
favourite scheme for increasing the spread of reli-
gion by the erection of new churches in the City and
its suburbs. Of what earthly use is it to build
additional churches, when those which we already have
are only half filled, and what is worse, are regarded with
so little respect, as to be permitted—as in the case of
St. Stephen's—to fall into a state of dilapidation ?
Those of our citizens who decline attending Divine
service at the old churches, will certainly feel no very
ardent desire to attend the new ones. The apostolic
Bishop's first object should be to increase, by his in-
fluence and the zeal and frequency of his ghostly ex-
hortations, the number of the church-goers in his
diocese; and when it has been satisfactorily demon-
strated that this number has so greatly multiplied
that there is not sufficient accommodation for them
in the churches alreading existing, then it will be full
time enough to solicit subscriptions for the erection
of new ones. But to build additional religious struc-
tures while some of the old ones are tumbling
to pieces for want of the necessary repairs, and the
majority are rarely, if ever, more than half filed,
seems to us to be about as absurd a crotchet as could
ever enter into the head of an episcopal dignitary. It
is not a useless multiplying of chdrches that will make
the Bishop of LONDON'S flock more religious than they
now are, but the increased zeal and efficiency of his
clergy, shown by their exhibiting a kindlier sympathy
with the feelings and interests of the poorer classes in
their respective parishes. It is to this, and this only,
that we look for that improved religious spirit among
his vast flock which the ghostly Prelate hopes to
excite merely by the erection of new churches, just
as though it were the church, and not the minister,
which possessed the power of reformation. But we
are at no great loss to account for the good Bishop's
urgency in enforcing this architectural crotchet of
his. As a matter of course, his power and patronage
will be wondrously strengthened by the building of
new religious edifices, and this is a consideration of
nu slight weight with an active and ambitious Prelate,
who possibly imagines that a day may come—and at
no distant period—when he may enjoy the enviable
distinction of signing himself " CANTUAR."

Madrid journals of the 6th have been received, but
they contain nothing remarkable. Even the butcheries
committed in Catalon;a seem to be regarded as no
novelty, and are announced as mere matters of course.
In Valencia the same scenes are enacted. The
Madrid Gazette publishes several bulletins dated
from that place, stating that more Carlists had been
taken prisoners and shot. In one of these bulletins
we find the following horrible announcement :—" It
is calculated that within the last fortnight General
VILLALONGA, whose exertions are extremely merito-
rious, has caused one hundred and thirty-six to be
put to death. The most important capture and exe-
cution was that of MARSAL, one of the chiefs, who
assumed the title of Colonel. He was taken on the
coast just as the small squadron on board of which
their MAJESTIES were repairing to Barcelona was
passing by."
The Madrid Bourse was closed on the 6th, it being
the Feast of Corpus Christi.

Most of the Paris papers of Wednesday contain
the dispatches from General LAMORICIERE, relative to
the collision between the French and Moorish troops,
which appeared in The Sun of yesterday. It seems
to be regarded at Paris as a matter of very little im-
portance, and the journals in general give them with-
out any comment. It had little or no effect on the
funds. According to the Reforme, matters of some
importance are in agitation in that part of Africa.
"The coast of Morocco," it says, "is about to become
the rendezvous of all the naval flags of Europe. A
Dutch squadron is about to quit Flushing under the
orders of Prince Ilzany of the Netherlands, and will
not fail to remain some time before Tangiers, where
it will find French, British, Spanish, and, probably,
American, ships of war. At the same time we learn
from Chiistiana, of the 28th of May, that a Norwe-
gian frigate and corvette, and a Swedish frigate,
would sail for Tangiers, where negotiations
were being conducted with the Emperor of
Morocco." Most of the journals gave short biographi-
cal notices of the Duke of ANGOULEME, and bear
testimony to the excellence of his: private character,
but, gas one of them, the Globe, " there never was
a man born fo the inheritance of a throne, who pos-
sessed fewer of thou quglities which are required to
render one worthy of fiSC6ilt.iiil,l it, lie could
scarcely have been a King at the Tuileries, acti it
was more than ridiculous to call hiin King in his