The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-26 00:00:00

ag,aingt the Corn LawS are anxious to bring about are
to diminish the' quantity of corn grown in Vargland,
and to cock 2t. ItUititti4.6 'of Our artfians with corn

011 Tor, PtTBLTC SOTITINAT,S4.

We yasterday reinariced on the extravagance
feeling and the heathen jargon of admiration, vented
441 the grave of Talina, by the three orators, who, like
a, file of soldiers at the funeral of one of their COin
rade% tired their hist flatteries over his body. ThiS
practice of making speeches at the interment of rth
tingiiished individuals, we are aware, is very eonimon
in France ; but we are equally aware, that it is liable
to:great abuses, and ought to be used with prkelent
reserve.' As the -cereinOny is not intenkled to be
religious, and the inaimer of performing it has been
left to the discretion orfriends, We do not alwal.s
expect that the lessons taught, Or the maxims tittered,.
should have either much religious unction or
much 7 moral propriety ; but all ~occasion of scandal
ought to be avoided, and in a country which pro-
fesses' the Christian religion, under a Most
tiati.:ls:ing, the jargon of infidelity shoitild not be
allowed to be publicly pronounced 'within conse-
crated walls. The Abbe de. La IVlennais, from a
predilection for burying, after the old fashion, in
churches, has declared, the cemetery of Pere La
chaise to be an 46 Atheistical burying-ground,"—
an absurd expression, which has justly given offence
to tolerant and reasonable Christians of all sects. Vint
certainly it would he difficult to prove,froni this oration
of Lafon, that the party who attended the funeral of
Telma, had any religion but that of the Roman stage--
any divinities but those of Pagan mythology. He
talks of his debuts—of the muse of tragedy—of the
,shades of dramatic poets offering him welcome—of
theirbinding his brow with their laurels, and of 'catch,
ing inspiration, front his tomb, just as a fidlow-player
might have spoken of the ancient Roscius but nothing
indicates his belief that the Christian revelation has
been made, or that any immortality beyond that of the
Green-room io: expected for his deceased friend. The
oration of M. Jetty, the tragic writer,, is a little more
satisfactory thai: that of Lafon, the tragic actor,
inasmuch as the former lets drop an obscure hint that
be has beard of a future state. Igor would this hosti.
lity to every sentiment of religion, and this Pagan
babble about mythological beings, be so ,offensive to us,
if it did not invade the monuments of the dead, as well
as profane the homage offered at their closing graves.
but in two of the great cemeteries of Paris, we find
tomb-stone-inscriptions which testify that French ar-
tists are as classic. in their religion .as in their tastes.—
Take, for instance, the following epitaph on the cele-
brated actress Mademoiselle Chameroy, and we could
,multiply the number, were it either necessary, or bad
we room for their imertion
Tray que regrettent taut des emirs,
1! Des pl'airs de taus lea arts vois to tombe arrow;
" Au 'emitin de tea sus la inert t'a cenversee:
" Tout murmure de sea rigeurs.
" Maisie,' Graces t'aininicut : encar dans Elyree
" Riles aintent ton ombre et lei jettent des fieurs."
mekingAhese remarks, we are far from intending
to ascribe-much importance either to epitaphs or to
funeral orations. If the partywho attended the remains
-of- Taint to the'tomb, 'and the persons who drew up
these monumental notices, have no religion, they would
only add hypocrisy to impiety, by wearing its mask,
or speaking its language ; for among so volatile a
'maple, we should scarcely expect a lasting conversion
from a marble inscription or a grave harangue.' But
we draw attention to the fact, as an evidence that
our lively neighbours, with abundant professions of
feeling, allow their minds to have no commerce with
religion in some of the most soletun moments of life.
-,that though the cross is profusely scattered over the
surface of the cemeteries, they have no faith. of the
-sacred symbol in their fiearts,—snd that the mission-
'sties, who are so much abused for perambulating
France, as if it were a heathen land, are not, altogether
guilty of misrepresentation or calumny when they de-
scribe as heathens a considerable portion of its culti-
.vated society,— Times.
The Greek loan has had the luck which the parable
describes as attending the man who travelled from
jerusidem to Jericho—" It has fallen among thieves.-
We fear we cannot be like the good Samaritan : we
cannot bind up its wounds, poinlng in oil and wine::
but we do hope to lay open the gashes, and in part to
expose the cruel authors of them. Poor Greece ! How
little was such treatment to have been expected from
England! hi the first place, we think it incumbent
on Air.' Robertson—a gentleman whose name even we
did not know how to spell in the first instance, and for
whom, therefore, we can have no partiality, but who
appears hitherto to have indicated peculiar penetration,
and to have shown proper spirit—to explain at large
what he knows of the transaction. With respect to
M. Luriottis, the Greek Deputy, lie also appears not
to have been deficient in either talents or zeal for the
service of his countrymen; neither has he partaken, so
fat as we can perceive, of any of the illicit gains : on
the contrary, wherever bribes have been distributed, lie
haft clearly not 'participated. Thd representations
which have sprung from him against the conduct pur-•
sued, have been incessant and powertid ; but what
could one do among so many—particularly, speaking,
as we understand he .speaks, imperfectly our language ?
In 'one matter only he has erred. He conceals, on a
false principle of honour, the name of the man who
has robbed the Greek nation to the amount of one
hundred per:cent., by forcing them to accept stock at
double its price, because " he was their friend," " and
had done a great deal in their service." The friends
of M. Luriottis will explain to him—and we hope
even this our article will explain to him—that the man
who has done this is what we call in English " a
swindler ;" that M. Luriottis must disclose the name
Of the man ; and that when he has done that, the
Lord Mayor of London will One a warrant for his
• appiehenSion. The next thing that we conceive to be
requisite is -a committee of stock.brokers,—.We really
know not of what description,' but of some that bear
a better character than the lest,—to investigate the
principle of the sixty or sixty-four thousand pounds
commission upon this Greek loan ; and to require an
eipianation, why seven thousand five hundred pounds
were distributed out of that commission among the
members of the Greek Committee persvnnity, always
excepting Luriottis, who appears to tlfi at present to
stand very clear
of every fraudulent trattransaction. ' In
an affair of this kind, we are really obliged,with doubt
and 'hesitation, to look around for defenders of their
country's honour. Colonel Jones appears to -have
condliked himself with peculiar apiri!, and judgment
upon bUgn—;
and we call upon him—hie country. ct:ita
tesi_res. Ihe (ace
for the fbrther exercise of those q I
cause has been betrayed. It has been betrayed in
England. It would have triumphed ere now, but fur
England, and the English Stneltsli
• —o
It is stated that tin. Russian xchange
vertime
nt has been
lops to rhibit
induced-, by the partial failure of t c ,
the exportation of some species of cum from fmanur
This circumstance,' thoug,h of little moment, in ou
present situation is an illustration of what we might
1 •
t of our population were to
apprehend if a large pat
become habitually dependent on foreign countries for
a supply of food. The objecti'Whieh' the clainourers

grown abroad-. Now. tin principles can be more evi;,
dent than these two : first, that the roduction of cbrn
is a branch of industry superior in tinvortance to any
:other, and that therefore; the diminution of that pro-
duction is in itself a great evil : secondly, that,tbc sub-
sisteece of a country becomes precarious; whin ano
n'y
'considerable portion of dui- ftd required liabitually
for her consumption must be imported from abroad.
Suppose that two millions of our people were to be
frtl with corn imported from the Baltic ; is there any.
man so wedded to wild hypethesis as to LAM: that.
such a state of things wCtild bring with it no danger?'
The revision a 'our Corn LawS is desirable ; but the
argnetents, which are generally employed on this sub-
ject, go to their total abolition, and not to any modifi-
cation of their regulations. At none of the late meet;
ings do we find any Statement Of a sstein Which ought
to be aubstituted for the present. Those who take the
pact in calling for changes Ought always to Specify the
changes which they wish for. When they abstain from
doing so, it is because they have no clear notion of the
matter with which they .are timnering.—Aleto Times.
Circumstances comic ted with the last moments of
the great tragedian Talina, show clearly of what nature
arc the "tender mercies" of the Romish faith &en at
the present day, and in the most enlightened of the
countries, that yet adhere to the rule of the " Sove-
reign Pontiff." No doubt the frequent and fruitless
attempts terato by the Archbidmop of Paris to obtain
adirtiasionto the death-bed of the expiring actor on
,ititiated in a spirit of charity) but it was charity as
gist term is understood in the Church that invented
excommunication and establiShed the inqusitorial office
from a pure spirit of Christian benevolence I The
Church of Rome with that, curious inconsistency which
has always distinguished its ethics, sanctifies the gross
licentiousness of carnivals, but has pronounced a ma-
lediction on the intellectual art by which such a genius
as Talnia 'could realise the noblest conceptions of
poetry, and illustrate the moral history of mankind.—
It is true, by the sale of indulgences, the Church of
Home has produced more immorality in a single year,
than theatrical representations could occasion in a century
—but it matters not. Time infallible Pontiff has de-
clared that the legitimate drama and its professors are
as clearly to be denotukced and excommunicated as
Bible Societies t 'and so ~the mimic world of Shaks-
pear, and Racine, and Schiller, and Alferi, is only to
be trodden by the obdurate beings who are prepared to
he stigmatised in this world, and damned in that to
come ! It is a remarkable fact, that when the Arch-
bishop of Paris, after several visits found that he could
not gain admittance to the bed-side of Talma, he at
last assured his nephew, a .physician, that his object in
coining was a noble and elevated one. He had long, he
said, been endeavouring to induce the Court of Rome to
rescind the " ridiculous eXcommunication" pronounced
against actors, and that Talma " dying in peace with the
Church," would furnish him with a powerful argu-
ment. Even this appeal was in vain, for Telma and
his friends knew very well that a crafty excuse was
never wanting by an agent of Rome to carry any pur7
poise that the Church had at heart. It seems Talma
cared very little for the excommunication, and he did
his brother actors the credit to presume that their un-
derstandings were in that respect on a level with his
own: Therefore, the Church having excluded hint,
he acted on the example'of its ,ccharity," and
eluded the Church. he Prelate, irritated by the in.
dignity of being so often refused admittance, forgot
his usual prudence, and gave expression on a sudden
to the intolerant spirit by which he was actuated.
What could be more unlike the conduct of a Chris-
tian Pastor, than that he should exclaim to the physi-
cian—", Great as is my indignation, I cannot punish
you here---but on the day of indgment, when all the
souls of my floCk shall appear in time presence of God,
mine shall. pursue yours, and call upon it to answer
for the loss of an immortal soul ' This singular
apostrophe contains several points worth being noticed.
One is, that the eternal perdition of Telma was cer-
tain. Another is, that the Archbishop is not on the
day of doom to appear as a trembling sinner himself
before the throne of the all-judging Creator, to await
the sentence of his justice, but is still to exercise autho-
rity, and to persecute other souls ? A third is, that
it is only
necessary to become one of " his flock" to
be saved, and that it rouses his indignation when any
person *does not see that comfortable doctrine in as
clear a light as himself. But supposing he had been
able tit make his way to the bedside of Talma, and
the latter had obstinately refused to receive him as his
spiritual guide, would not his indignation have been
still more excited, and his anathema been more ter-
rible ? It is well, therefore, that if Telma could not
4, die in peace with the Church," he died in peace
with the world, and gave no opportunity for artful
Priests to draw up a proses-verbal, of falsified or co-
oured circumstances relative to his death (as in the
'sae of many other great men), to discredit his last
moments with superstitious weakness, and palm a
pious fraud" upon the
.world.7--Morning Herald.

The following is an extract of a letter from Por
au-Prince, dated early in. September. It is not witl
out interest :—" Our President is daily becoming
more and more unpopular as the difficulties of the Re-
public increase. He is supposed not to be very well
affected towards the English interest ; and we learn,
from London, that Mr. Canning has expressed some
displeasure at the manner in which the applications
for a recognition of the Independence of St. Domingo
were made to him. They went to Mr. Canning
through a Mr. 11., who has long corresponded with
Mr. Secretary Ingineac. Of Mr. H. little is known
here ; but some of the English Merchants say, that a
better mode of application might have been adopted.
The resources of St. Domingo are by no means con-
temptible ; but the extravagance of the Government 1
expenditure and the payments to France have crippled
us sadly for a time. The President and Ingmeac
thought to make a splendid fortune by letting the
Gold Mince to an English Company. Ths agents
came over here, and the President sent a few of his
black fellows with them to point out the gold, but
they digged and digged, and found nothing. The
President $ party then pretended that there were im-
mense masses of gold at Cibao ; but there also the
mountain has been delivered, and brought forth—s,
mouse. Many of the troops are in wear' and begin
to clamour. They curse the President and his com-
tpeedy and beneicialact with France and the Merchants all demand a
a ov HoNoun.
APPAI
Morning Chronicle. arrangement with England."----
Plac,u early in the rno • g f' ythe
Sands affair of honour tank
last, upon
satins near Trim 7"-- ° Fr*
i out 1, Northumberland, between
Lieut. whatele
Y' It, NI, and an Officer (whose name
has riot transpired), b 1 .
e ongtng to the 83d Regiment, at
present quartered in Tynemouth Castle. Each party,
we understand, fired three shall, bni luckily without
effect. The cause of the quarrels not mentioned,