The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1844.

Little business was done in the Hou:e of Lords
last evening. In answer to a question from Lord
MINro, relative to parochial schools in Scotland, the
Earl of HADDINGTON said the att?ntion of the
Government had been turned to the subject, and next
session some mea:eare would be introduced to grant
better remuneration to schoolmasters in Scotland.
The Bill introduced by the Bishop of EXETER, kr
the supprestion of immoral homes, was read a second
time. The brief conversation which took place on
the occasion will be found very edifying, though not
quite to the liking of the Deau and Chapter of West-
minster. The Howie adjourned at Ilalf-past &veil,
In the Commons, leave was given to bring in a
Bill -to make a railway between Dublin anl Cashel.
:after the presentation of several petition', Air, T.
DiTNCOMBE presented petitions from W. J. LiNrox,
Wu :Liam LovETT, JOSEPH MAZZINI, and ( tilers,complaining of the detention .::nilopting of their
letters at the Post-office, and prayiag for redress.
The' conduct of Mr. DUNCOMBE, on this occasion,
deserves every praise. We have adverted to the
subject in a separate arlicle. . .
The House went into Committee on the Sugar
Duties Bill, when Mr. MILES, the Member for Bristol,
moved the following amendment, on the first clause
being proposed :—" That from and after the 10th
day,of November, 1844, the duty. upon sugar, the
produce of British possessions, be reduced to 205..,
the hundred weight ; and that the dutiei 6n sugar,
certified to be the growth of China, Java, or Manilla,
or of any foreign country, the sugar of which her
ra
ILlA,;ieyrin qoppcil shall have declared to be admissi-
45re'llnftc.bil,b1_1ig the produce of slave labour, shall '
, .., namely, brown, Muscovado, or clayed
(ic4t,the cwt. 303.; white clayed, or sugar otherwise par:
4 oared, and equivalent to white clayed sugar,
I ,t4s!, with five per centthereon,"
the cwt.,
Mr. BAILEY seconded the amendment.
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The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIVOiIIt oppoied the

amendment, and contended that, taking every cir-
cumstance into account, the measure proposed by the
Government was not adverse to the interest of the
Co!onies.

Mr. idittOUCIIERE condemned, in several respects,
the Government. It was ostensibly foundei on the
principle of excluding slave-grown sugar, which was
impos3ible, while they offended their best customers
merely to keep up a hypocritical pretence.
Other Members addressed the Committee, when the
House divided, and Mr. P. MILES' amendment was
carried by a majority of 20; the numbers being 241
for it, and 221 against it.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'clock.

In the Commons last night Yr. T. DUNCOMBE
brought forward a subject of vast importance to the
community. In some foreign States it has been the
practice to open letters at the Post-office, to pry into
the secrets of private life, and to obtain information
by stealth, which may for some State purpose, or
some selfish private purpose, be used against indi-
viduals; but in this country, till under the rule of Sir
JAMES GRAHAM as Home Secretary, such a breach of
confidence, except in the worst times, never was
contemplated. When a man puts a letter into the
post-office here, he confidently bellevea be puts it
into a secure place ; he believes the communi-
cations he maks to his family and friends will not be
read either by Postmaster-General, or ponny pog-
man, or Secretary of State, and that no human being
will venture to break a seal which has hitherto, in
this free country, been regarded as sacred as the
door of his private residence—denominated by the law
of the land, his eagle. But it appears Englishmen
are subject to as tyrannical proceedings as the most
barbarous serfs of Russia. No letter put into
the Post-office is t-afe. It is opened and read by
the authorities ; if they think proper, it is detained,
and perhaps destroyed, ut the will and pleasure of
an informer, or to gratify the malignant and jealous
spirit of some man in office. The fact was
'net night openly admitted by the Secretary of
State for the Home Department. He admitted that he
had issued a warrant for opening and detaining a letter,
but that warrant had since been withdrawn—in other
words, he had opened a letter without just grounds,
and had been compelled to withdraw the warrant,
because he had acted improperly. On being further
questiored, he refased to give any explanation. He
called the SPEAKER to his aid, who possibly acted in
accordance with the rules cf the House, and would
have quashed the discussion but for the ready vigour
and free spirit displayed by the Member for Finsbury,
Mr. DUSCOMBE, who on a subject so interesting to free
men, was not to be-put down by the decision of the
SPEAK ER,er the stern, dry rules of the House. When
the SPEAK nit had decided against any further discussion,
as the motion was not a matter of urgent necessity,
Mr. T. llneecostnc claimed his right to address the
House, and made a motion which entitled him to
speak, and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Mr. F. SHAW, and
Mr. SPEAKER, too, Were all obliged to listen to him
in solemn silence, while he was vociferously cheered
by those Members who stood up for the liberty of
the subject. Never did any Minister of the Crown
come out of a serape with so little credit. The
Home Secretary is the greatest enemy of Sir ROBERT
PEEL. He has dispersed, by main force, public
meetings peaceably assembled to discuss the griev
ances of the people, and he now imitates the policy
of foreign despots, by opening private letters confided
to the Post-office. These are the acts of a Conserva-
tive Government. Tbis outrage upon public l'berty,
however, cannot rest here. Sir JAMES GRAHAM musz,
undergo some further interrogations, and if we mis-
take not, Mr. T. DuNcomßE will compel him to make
a full confession.

'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 4.4 architectural
beauty, as being the chef dceuvre of Sir CHRISTOPHER
WRuN—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

114.10 'I S. &La •ss - --,l—,..cai,erncyce& 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
charmed to be turning down Walbrock 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. CKOLY, 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
pint tut the absurdity of the Bishop of LONDON'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 far want of the necessary repairs, and the
majority are rarely, if ever, more than half fi 1-. d,
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 churches 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 kindrer 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 churchee, just
as though it were the church, and not the minister,'
which possessed the csower 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
no slight weight with an active and ambitious Prelate,
who possibly imagines that a day may come—and at
enjoy the enviable
no distant period—when he may n
distinction of signing himself " CANTUIU,"

Madrid journals of the 6th have been received, but
they contain nothing remarkable. Even the butch • ertes
committed'in Catalonia seem to be regarded as no
novelty, and arc 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
iseattulated 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-
oUtion was that of ISLizsa, one of the chiefs, who

ssurned the title of Colonel. He was taken on the
coast just as the small squadron on board of which
their MAJESTIES were repairing b 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 Refornte, 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 HENRY 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 Christiana, 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, adds one of them, the Globe, " there never was
a man born to the inheritance of a throne, who pos•
seised fewer of those qualities which are required to
render one worthy of ascending it. He could
scarcely have been a King at the Tuileries, and it
was more than ridiculous to call him King in his
exile." He was born at Versailles on the 6th of
August, 1775, and was consequently in the 69th year
of his age.
The Presse thus announces a change in the Greek
Ministry :

"The President 6f the Greek Ministry, M. Mavrocordate,
hss just given. in his resignation, and all his colleagues were
on the point of following his example. This Cabinet, formed
under English influence, hal, from the moment of its acces-
sion to power, met with an opposition to which it was at
last obliged to yield. General Collett, who is not hostile to
French influence, will, without doubt, be charged with the
formation of the new 'Ministry."
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