The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-02 00:00:00

THE THAMES TUNNEL.

One great misfortune of the Thames Tunnel is that
the fashionable classes take no interest in it; arid in a
country where the public mind is so perverted, as that
every thing goes by fashion ; where, from the Duke to the
dustman, every one apes, as far as in him lies, the man-
ners and customs of his superiors—this is a greater evil
than might at first be supposed.
How differently foreigners think of it, may be imagined
from the fact that while it is neither talked about, nor
cared about, by the bulk of society in this country, every
other nation in Europe takes a most lively interest in the
success of the work, and there is not a foreigner that
comes to London, but hastens to be an eye-witness to what
he considers as the wonder of the day.
A rather humourous example of the contrast of opinion
abroad and at home on this. subject occurred to us in the
shape of two conversations, to both of which wc-, were
witnesses.

The first was at a court fete, given last year at Vienna,
when Princess --, addressing herself to a young
Englishman, who was then on his travels, said " Quel
progres a-t-on fait dans le ehemin souterrain qui se
fait en ce moment sous la Tamise ; n'est it pas presque
fini ?"
" Vraiment, madame," answered the Englishman, "je
ne saurais vows informer la dessus—puisque je ne l'ai ja-
mais vu."

" Comment, monsieur !" retorted she " demeurar a
Londres et tie pas avoir eu la curiosite de l'aller voir ?
Mon Dieu, c'est incroyable, ['twig vows Plaisalltea !"
The other was at the Horticultural Society's breakfast,
last week, whe►e we overheard two ladies conversing, as
nearly as we recollect, as follows :
" Julia, my love, is'nt the Thames Tunnel somewhere
near this? If so, we might as well go told see it, since
we are here, at any rate." _

" Really, I can't inform your Ladyship," replied Julia,
" butt perhaps Mr. -- can."
Thus appealed to, a youth of highly " correct" appear-
ance and deportment, with a pale, placid, passionless
physiognomy, carefully divested of all appearance of inte-
rest or sympathy in external affairs, turned towards the
lady who addressed him, and lisped out, " What did your
Ladyship wish to know ?"
" I wish to know," replied she, " what sort of a place
the Tunnel is, and whether it is near this? Can you en-
lighten us upon the subject ?"
" Why, as to what so►t of place it is," said the gentle-
man, " I can't positively say, never having seen it; but
I am told that it is very much like gulag under a bridge,
instead of going over it."
" And is it near lucre?" inquired Julia.
" Oh, dear no—its a long way from this—quite at the
other end of the town, at a place they call Rother—Ro-
therford—Rotherhithe—somewhere about the city I be-
lieve ; but whether Rotherhithe's in the city, or the city
iu Rotkerhithe, is past my power to determine."--Lite-
rary Chronicle.

DROPPED ORDERS OF THE DAY.

1. Sheriffs (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration of
Report.
2. Game Bill—Committee.
S. Charing Cross Improvement Bill—Report.
4. Night Poaching Prevention Bill—Further considera-
tion of Report.
5. Militia Bill—Report.
G. Constabulary (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
7. Regent's Park Bill—Third reading.

NOTICES GIVEN ON MONDAY AND YESTERDAY.
Thursday, July 3.

Mr. Spring Rice—Return Of names of the Batter Tastcrs
in the several Parts of Ireland, and their emQlumente.
Friday, July 4.
_ _

1. Mr. Sugden—Bill to after and amend the Law relating
to illusory appointments.
2. Sir Henry Hardinge—Ordnance Estimates. (In Com-
mittee of Supply.)

Next Session.

Sir John Newpo►t—Bill to secure to the Curates of the
Established Church in Ireland the regular payment
of the full salaries allotted to them by Law out of the
first proceeds of the tithes and emoluments of the
parish in which they officiate, and with which they
are connected :—Also, Bill to provide against the
continuance of unions of parishes after the death or
resignation of the present Incumbents, where any of
• the parishes shall have been ascertained by tithe com-
position, or otherwise, to exceed in value four hun-
dred pounds sterling.

S ‘CRAMENTAL TEST.

TO THE REV. RICHARD ASPLAND,

PROTESTANT DISSENTING MINISTER AT HACKNEY.

Dear Sir,—l have often corresponded with you,
but never had the pleasure of seeing you till yester-
day, at the dinner to celebrate the repeal of the
Sacramental Test.

This dinner I shall never forget. The speeches
pronounced at it on civil and religious liberty,—the
power of argument,—the impressive appeals to the
heart,—the noble sentiments of true Christianity,—
and above all, the generous feelings towards the
Roman Catholics, with which they abounded, will
never escape my memory or my gratitude.
You were pre-eminently great. I hung on every
word you spoke. When you mentioned with so
much sympathy the poor Roman Catholics who
have suffered for conscientious principles, I was
lost in admiration of your real liberality, your noble-
ness of mind, and fearless disdain of prejudice. May
my country abound with such as you! This, as-
suredly, is wishing her a great good.
I have advocated the Catholic cause since 1778,
the year in which the first Bill for the relief of the
Catholics was brought into Parliament. I had great
pleasure yesterday in thinking that I had uniformly
advocated it on principles applicable to the case of
all religious dissidents from the church of their state.
Early in life I met with Mr. Locke's first letter on
toleration, which, you know, comprises all that is to
be found in his subsequent letters. His doctrine of
religious liberty became mine, and I have unde-
viatinglv adhered to it. The sanguinary code of
Queen Elizabeth—the Court of High Commission—
the episcopalian persecutions in Scotland—the ejec-
tion of the Presbyterian minister by the Act of
Uniformity—the proceedings in Oates's plot—and
the scanty measure of religious liberty doled out in
the Act of Toleration, I have frequently and loudly
lamented and reprobated. As frequently and loudly
I have lamented and reprobated the Inquisition—.
the Marian persecution—the massacre on St. Bar-
tholomew's Day—the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes—the expatriation of the Jews and Moriscoes
from Spain—aud the niggard toleration yet shown
to promote in some Catholic countries on the Con-
tinent. I perfectly agree with Father Persons (in
his Judgment of a Catholic Englishman), that
" neither breathing, nor the use of common ayre, is
more due unto man, or common to all, than ought to
be the liberty of conscience to Christian men ;
whereby one liveth to God and to himselfe ; and
without which he struggleth with the torment of a
continued living death."
In my " History of the English Catholics," I
have recorded Mr. Fox's having said to me, that
" I should not meet with as many real friends to
civil and religious liberty as I seemed to expect."
What a stride has the glorious cause taken since his
death ! What a spring did it take yesterday ! But
never, never should our obligations to Mr. Fox be
forgotten. He took up our cause while it lay shiver•
ing on the ground, and, to use the words of Gray,

" Opcti its young eye to bear the blaze of greatness."
bi fact, religious liberty was his favourite theme;
and when he dwelt upon it, his periods rolled with
more than his ordinary magnificence. How greatly
did the nephew yesterday bring the uncle before all
of us who remembered him ! I have great pleasure
to say that when the Catholic Relief Bill as pend-
ing in 1791, Mr. Pitt exerted all his pOwers in our
cause. You know what favourites we were with
Mr. Burke : how Mr. Wyndham spoke of us : that
a wish for our emancipation was breathed in the last
word uttered by Mr. Grattan. What men were
these! How great is their authority !
I am sure that yesterday, whenever the Duke of
Wellington's great and glorious victory at Waterloo,
and our hopes of him, were mentioned, it brought
to your mind the oration for Marcellus, iu which
Cicero shows so admirably how greatly a General
shares his triumphs with his officers and his soldiers,
but that a deed of clemency is all his own. Should
not his Grace—should not his Grace's friends—
sometimes think of this ?

I had the plecsure to sit next to our common
fc lend, Dr. Thomas Rees. May Girl bless you
both ! Though we now pray in different churches,
may we—may all that joined us yesterday—meet in
the tabernacles of Heaven, and sing the praises of
the Almighty, and bless his name through all eternity!
Excuse my taking this liberty, and believe me,
with the most heartfelt thanks to you and your
friends, for your celestial deeds of yesterday, your
and their most obliged and most obedient servant,
Liaeoheb-Inn, Jane 19. CHAS. BUTLER.

DUKE OF CLARENCE.-The origin of this
title is possibly
but little known. Clarentia or Clarence,
once a village in Suffolk, possessed formerly a castle of great
strength and considerable extent. There was a suspension
Of the title from GEORGE, EDWARD the FOURTO'S
who was drowned in the butt of Malmsey, until its revival
in the present posse.sor. The surname of CLARFNCIFLx,
adopted by the Second King at Arms, arises also front it-
having formerly appertained to the Dukes of CLARENCE.

Mr. Adolphus, who, with Mr. Ilubler, jun., attended
for the complainant, stated the defendants were charged
upon the 6th of his Majesty, with having put the com-
plainant out of employment, and subjected themselves
to an imprisonment for three months. Ellis was formerly
employed at The Times—an office which, among the
compositors, was considered unfair, and Mr. Speight, who
had engaged him at The World, was obliged to dismiss
him from that office. It had been said that the Printers'
Pension Society was aimed at. Of that institution he
had a high *pinion, and he denied that any thing in oppo-
sition to it was mixed up with this complaint.
G. B. Ellis was then-called, and stated that he had been
employed as a compositor nearly seven years on the Times.
About nine weeks ago he left that establishment, and got-
an engagement at flte Irorid, at which all she defendants
worked. He never had any dispute or quarrel with them.
Alter he had been there five weeks, he was informed by
Anderson that ap unpleasantness affseln the office on his
account; that there had been a consultation at the World
Office amongst the defendants ; and that they had resolved
to send him to " Coventry," in consequence of having
worked on the Time*. He could not, under such circum-
stances, continue to work there without unpleasantness and
a slight loss to himself, in consequence of the necessity of
being obliged to have recourse frequently to the printer,
who was not always on the spot. The printer (Mr.
Speight), a week after he received this notice, called hive
aside, and said he could not allow things to go on in that
way; that if he did not dismiss him (Ellis), the rest of
the men would leave their situations. The printer had no
complaint against him ; he was obliged, on this account, to
leave his employment, and had not been employed since.
Mr. Speight, printer of the World, said that the prin-
cipal reason why Ellis was dismissed was, that there was
no further occasion for his services. There appeared to be
an unpleasantness among the men, and he had it in con-
templation to get rid of Ellis, as lie had heard be had been
dismissed from the Times for drunkenness. The other
hands did not say they would leave if he did not. The
defendants were on very friendly terms with Ellis, and
shook hands with him.

Samuel Winyates, formerly a compositor at the World
office, mentioned at the World office what took place at
the meetings of the Trade Committee, relative to Ellis's
having been engaged on the Times.
Aldertnan-ATriNs asked witness, whether he meant to
say, that a man who worked fur the Times was an " un-
fair " man ?—No intelligible answer was given to this

question.
After some further conversation,
Mr. WOOLER, for the defendants, submitted that there
was no case against his clients.
Mr. Alderman ATKINS said, the words amounted to
threats and intimidation.

The Loan MAYOR said, that the words most closely ap-
proached conviction. He did not think they exactly reached
the meaning of intimidation, hut they were very like it.
There being one fur and one against conviction, the case
remains undecided.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

MONDAY, JUNE 30.—High water at 10 min. past one
o'clock. Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Mariner, Beek,
from Barbadoec; Lady Maxwell, from Wigton ; Eliza-
beth, Hanna, from Port William ; Deborah, Owen, from
Newport; Estace, Bayley, from Straagford ; City of
Londonderry, Keay, from Londonderry ; Etna, Emerson,
from Dublin.

CLEARED OUTWARDS.-The Intrepid, Harvey, for
Jamaica ; Henriette, Leitke, for Elmineur ; Earl Dalhou-
sie, Barton, for Havannah ; Duke of Lancaster, Hannay,
for Calcutta ; Harriett, Mitchinson, for Miramichi ; Olive
Branch, Hardinget fur New York; Julia, Vine, for
Antwerp.