The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-23 00:00:00

APPROVAL.

"We give our sanction to the above prayer ; and, for
every day on which it shall be devoutly repeated, we
hereby grant a hundred days' indulgence (from the pains
of purgatory). We accord the same favour to those who
shall receive the holy communion, as well as to the
priests who may celebrate mass with the like views (of
bringing about the conversion of England).
" We earnestly engage all who are of our diocese,
and especially the priesthood, and the members of reli-
gious societies, to be frequent in prayer for an object so
important, and to especially dedicate the Thursdays to
this work.

(Signed)

"ENGLEBERT,
"Cardinal Archbishop of Malines.

" Malines, 1844."
-Church and State Gazette.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 22.—The Thames, royal mail
steam-ship, Lieutenant P. Hast, RN., Commander,
arrived this day, at ten o'clock, A.M., bringing the usual
mails. Her dates of departure are :—Demerara, 18th
Nor. ; Carthagena, 18th ; Trinidad, 20th ; Jamaica,
23d ; Barbadoes, 25th ; Grenada, 26th ; St. Thomas's
Ist Dec. ; and Fayal, the 14th.
The Thamas brings home on merchants' account 72,788
dollars, 3,052 07.. of gold dust, 478 oz. of silver, 8501.
British coin, 400 dollars' worth of pearls, and passengers.
Her Majesty's ships Pique, Eurydice, and Rose were
at Barbadoes at the time of the departure of the Thames.
The Imaum and Scylla were at Jamaica, the Inconstant
had gone to Vera Cruz, and her Majesty's steam-ship
Styx was at Fayal.
The royal mail steam-ship Tay, and City of Glasgow,
were left lying at St. Thomas's. The Dee left Grenada
on the 26th with the mails for Jamaica and Mexico.
The Medway took the outward mails to Demerara.
The whole of the West India Islands were generally
in a very healthy state. The Governors of Trinidad
and the Windward Islands were about to proceed
to Jamaica to consult with Lord Elgin, on the
expediency of forming a final settlement for the
West India colonies. There is every prospect of
good crops throughout the islands generally. The
weather has not been so propitious for many years.
The House of Assembly was sitting at Jamaica, but no
particular business was being transacted.
The same Company's steam-packet the Clyde, Captain
Symmonds, will take out the Mexican and West India
mails on the 2d of January. The Iberia steam-ship
will leave the Docks on the 28th inst. for Malta and
Alexandria, with the view of rendering complete the
new arrangements for a twice a month communication
with Egypt. The Pacha will take out the Peninsula
mails on the 26th. The Oriental Company's steam-
ship Braganza, Captain Evans, will sail on the Ist of
January for Constantinople, &c. ; she will take out the
East India and China mails as far as Malta, whence
they will be forwarded to Alexandria by the Iberia.
The schooner Hervine, Wells master, from St. Michael's,
bound for London, was forced by the strong easterly
gales to put into Stoke's-bay on Friday. Orders were
sent from London yesterday for the vessel to proceed to
this port and discharge her cargo. The Heroine conse-
quently arrived in the Docks this day, and the fruit
will all be sent by railway to London to-morrow, and be
sold in time for the Christmas demand ; thus decidedly
proving the great advantage which this port offers to the
fruit trade, and in all cases when dispatch is important.
The Hervine will sail again for St. Michael's on Friday;;
and in all probability, as the wind now is, will arrive
there before she could have reached London with her pre-
sent cargo.

DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CAMPBELL.—
This well-known and much respected officer died at his
residence at Creech, in Sutherland, on Friday week.
Colonel Campbell was a native of the parish of Halkirk,
Caithness, which he left at an early age to fight the
battles of his country on foreign shores. He entered the
army as ensign, in Sir John Sinclair's Fencibles, some
time previous to the Irish rebellion, during which event-
ful period he accompanied and continued with his regi-
ment in that country. Some time afterwards he ob-
tained a commission in the 79th, in which regiment he
served in Egypt. He was present at the siege of Copen-
hagen in 1807, accompanied Sir John Moore in the
Peninsula, and fought with marked courage in the battle
of Corunna, where his brave General fell. In 1809 he
accompanied Lord Chatham into Holland, returned to
and served in the Peninsula, until the battle of Toulouse
in 1814. He returned to his native country in 1817,
where he has ever since remained. About eight years
ago he was raised from the rank of Major to that of
Lieutenant-Colonel. His character as a soldier placed
him in the highest position as brave and undaunted; and
as an officer he was looked up by those under him with
respect and esteem. Cool, dignified, skilful, and brave,
Colonel Campbell won for himself golden honours. It
is, however, a most remarkable fact, that, although
engaged during service iu about thirty battles, he never
received a single scar. Once a ball penetrated his
saddle, and on another occasion a ball went through h.s
cap, and in neither instance did the least injury occur
to him. He was about seventy years of age.—Edinburgh
Observer.

REMOVAL OF THE LIGHTHOUSE AT SUNDERLAND.

—This extraordinary work was undertaken in conse-
quence of the necessity that arose for lengthening the
pier. A wooden cradle was fixed underneath the build-
ing, which weighs three hundred and thirty tons, and it
was then moved on a temporary wooden railway a dis-
tance of seven hundred and seventy feet. The work was
the more difficult in consequence of an angle round
which the lighthouse had to be moved, and it had to be
elevated nearly two feet above the level it previously oc-
cupied. The far greater part of the distance was ac-
complished in thirteen hours, after all the preparations
had been completed. The lighthouse did not deviate in
the least from the perpendicular during the removal,
and the gas lights were kept burning all the time.—The
Builder.

PRIZE MONEY.—Notice is given to the officers and
company of her Majesty's brig Waterwitch, Lieutenant
Matson, that they will be paid their respective propor-
tions of prize money for the undermentioned slave-
vessels, on the Tuesday after Christmas-day : —Tonnage
bounty for Cabaco, seized March 14, 1840. Slave
bounty for Andorinha, seized May 23, 1840. Tonnage
bounty for Doze d'Autobro, or name unknown, seized
November 13, 1840. Slave and tonnage bounties for
brigantine, name unknown, seized April 3, 1843. Hull,
stores, and tonnage bounty for Almeida, seized April 27,
1843. _

The Queen-Dowager has caused the liberal sum of
201. to be transmitted to Truro, in aid of the fund for the
completion of St. Paul's Church, St. Clement's. Her
Majesty has also handsomely subscribed towards the
restoration of the ancient charch of St. Mary de Crypt,
in Gloucester.

ENGLISII TIINATRICALS IN PARIS. —The English
company in Paris continues to attract crowded audiences.
On Friday the 4ecoria representation of Othello was
vory crowded. Amongst those present was the PuUe of
Montpensier, accompanied by the Count de la Tour du
Pin, besides a great number of the first peoplo in Paris.
The French portion of the audience becomes daily more
numerous.
The Earl of Chesterfield has accepted the stew4l,4_
ship of the forthcoming Lichfield races, whic.h are ap-
pointed to take place on the gm TAcscla/ ikfter D,(nAcas,tier
rIKC4t

LITERATURE.
LUGOL ON SC! °FULA. Chu' 411, L don, 1844.
This is a translation from the le
~thekint-
leman to whom we are inde -; .iissiit i0n...1N
Dr. Ranking, physician to th . • ukGen 11-4- 1
at
pital. The work contains amg ii,..;'::' itil'ae:iiiiii 1
stantial account of the origin at 4 prcifeo:64WT ' 1
of its hereditary transmission Nor tlie..lgr.trlClAikil
chiefly instrumental in producingiti:iiiiiiiAtty
mode of treatment for the prevOtizlo•f4p7l -
of this distressing malady. The iiithor tiaeitifelti-
gated his subject with uncommon care, and given
several curious cases of ••hospital patients in illustra-
tion of some of the leading positions which he has
laid down. According to him, scrofula is a far more
general complaint than it is usually supposed to be,
and is almost always found connected more or less
with tubercular consumption. Those afflicted with
it may, and sometimes do, live the average term of
years, but by far the great majority of them die ere
vet they have entered on the autumn of their life.
The work is prefaced with an introduction and an
Essay on the treatment of the principal varieties of
scrofula, both of which are from the pen of the
translator.

KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME. Part 26.
C. Knight, London, 1844.

The present Part Of this cheap weekly Miscellany
contains the third and closing volume of " Craik's
History of British Commerce," from the earliest
times down to the present day, when the spirit of
English commercial enterprise pervades the whole
world. The author is of opinion that our modern
system, both of manufactures and trade, in most of
its leading branches, may be regarded as taking its
rise from the cornmenceing portion of the reign of
George the Third, and then proceeds to discuss th©
question, which he does N% ith learning and acuteness.
The work—as we observed when speaking of the two
former volumes—is reprinted, with corrections and
additions, from the "Pictorial Ilistory of England."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stn,—l think the following paragraph, from the
Liverpool Standard, so significant as to deserve a pro-
minent place in the columns of The Sun, and, more-
over, the most serious attention of the friends of the
Established Church in this country. When we hear,
as we do continually, of the munificent gifts of Roman
Catholics, Unitarians, and Dissenters, for the support
of the public worship of Almighty God, in the manner
they severally deem the most proper; when we ob-
serve that they can find money to erect large, costly,
and beautiful temples of religion, how truly con-
temptible, paltry, and disgraceful does the infliction
on the people of the halfpenny and farthing Offer-
tory, appear ! When the Pope and Socinus are
prowling about the fold, it is madness on the_ part of
the Shepherd of Canterbury to worry and scatter
his sheep. A CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN.

" The Unitarians of Hyde are now contemplating
the erection of a chapel of more than uncommon
magnificence, and, judging from present appearances,
in the way of donations, the plan will undoubtedly be
fully realised. The Messrs. Ashton, of Hyde, four
brothers, have, it is understood, given 1,0001. each ;
Mr. Thornley, of Godley, 500/. • and Mr. Handle, of
Hibbert, 300/. ; to say nothing of smaller sums. It is
intended to raise, bry voluntary subscriptions, the
large sum of 10,0001.'

Mr. Kemp, of Kemptown, died suddenly at Paris
on Friday. He was in the 61st year of his age.
'1 he Duke of St. Albans, the Earl of Yarborough,
Lord Worsley, M.l'., Earl Brownlow, the Earl of liar-
rowby, the Earl of Dysart, Sir John Nelthorpe, Burt.,
Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart, Sir Montague John Cholme-
ley, Bart., Sir William Earl Welby, Bart., Sir J. C.
Thorold. Bart., Mr. C. Turner, M.P., Mr. G. J. Death-
cote, M.P., are among the members who are about to
establish an association for the general protection of
property against incendiarism in the county of Lincoln.
THE GAME PRESERVING.—Odious as the life of a
poacher may be, farmers have no cause to regret their
nightly visits • but, on the contrary, would, tie doubt,
be very glad if they were to carry off the entire
" surplus" game.
SAVINGS' BANES —Although the late Act of Par-
liament regarding savings' banks has but been in opera-
tion barely a month, much discontent is manifesting
itself in respect to the rates of interest now allowed to
depositors. Some banks allow 31. per cent., others
21. 18s. 4d., and others 24 Iss. 6d. The Government
only now allows to trustees 2/.155. per cent., to pay de-
positors' interest, and all demands upon them for neces-
sary salaries, for rents and taxes, and for all incidental
charges. With all this before us, the Government, from
the produce of savings' banks, has an immen e sum in
their hands called " surplus money." The reduction
which has been made in the interest (and especially
where only the lesser rates are allowed) will be a serious
loss to those classes of individuals fora hoso convenience
and advantage savings' banks were established.
THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA —LIVERPOOL,
SUNDAY.—The next steamer, which, we anticiFate, will
arrive here on Sunday next, will, should there be no
intermediate arrival with late dates, bring important
advises from the United States. The day appointed for
the meeting of Congress is Monday, the 2d of Decembrr,
but a quorum would not, it was thought, be assembled
before the middle of the week. We may conclude,
therefore, that the last annual message which President
Tyler's term of office will allow him to issue, and whitAsi
will, of course, strenuously advocate the annexation of
Texas, would be delivered about the 6th instant. The
Whigs had a majority of four in the Senate—a majority
considered sufficient to prevent the accomplishment or
annexation, or any other democratic measure, should
they be firm and steadfast in their opposition. Their
policy in that respect was, however, a doubtful question;
and, until it is decided, no opinion entitled to any weight
can be given as to the prospects of the future. Front
Canada we shall have the meeting of the new Provincial
Parliament, appointed for the 28th ult., and the opening
speech of Sir Charles Metcalf, which is looked forward
to with great interest. The packet-ship Hottinguer,
which arrived off Holyhead on Wednesday week, reached
the river on Thursday night last, having been upwards
of a week vainly endeavouring to enter. The easterly
winds which delayed her arria al continue, and the clotka
are extremely bare of shipping.
The Court of France is enchanted with (the
Duchesse d'Aumale, who has won the hen; s of all about
her. Though somewhat below the middle size, the
Princess is exceedingly elegant in her deportment,
affable and courteous in her manners, and is said to corn-
bi 'e great instruction with good natural talents. The
Due d'Aumale piques himself on being the father of his
own marriage, for the Princess is known to have been
his own unbiassed choice.—Court Journal.
THE WEATHER AND THE PARES.—ACCIDENTS pN
THE ICE —The frost within the last two days has tet in
with great severity, with a cutting wind from the south-
east. The rapid thaw which commenced on Sunday
week had not entirely destroyed the ice on the orna-
mental water in the Regent's Park, when the frost again
set in, and yesterday the frozen surface was of sufficient
strength to bear. The ice, however, was in a most dan-
gerous condition, and, despite the endeavours of the men
belonging to the Royal Humane Society, a great number
of skaters persisted in going ca. As already stated,
the ice was very dangerous, being full of cracks, and in
detached pieces, and it was not a little amusing to see a
dozen skaters on a piece of ice surrounded by water.
To get off, the skaters had to jump across the chasms
and owing to the inconvenience of skates, generally
jumped in amidst the shouts of thousands who lined the
banks. To prevent persons from going on, the ice had
been broken away all round the edges to a distance of
two yards. This was no preventative, for many waded
up to their knees in water to get in rather than be de-
barred from the pleasure of skating. About one o'clock,
a young man, named George Thornton, residing in
King-street, Somers-town, became immersed up to his
neck, but was speedily rescued by means of one of the
breaker ladders. He was carried to the marquee be-
longing to the Royal Humane Society, and having been
supplied with dry clothing, was enabled to proceed home.
Several other immersions took place during the day, but
of no importance, The number of skaters upon the ice
at any one time during the day did not exceed sixty ; but
the number of persons on the banks was far greater than
on any day this winter. The ornamental water in St.
James's Park was frozen over, but not of sufficient
strength, and no one had the temerity to venture; on it.
The Serpentine wes not at all frozen. In Kensington-gar-
dens the Round-pond:was frozen over, but not to bear. The
beauty of the day, however, caused a great number of
persons to visit the parks, &c. At the receiving house
last evening the mercury stood at 32. In the morning it
was as low as 30 ; the barometer at 30 denoting a conti-
nuance of fair weather, with the wind blowing strongly
from the E.S.E.

Mr. Donald Horne, from the office of her Ma.
jesty's. Works, has been inspecting the locality of the
ancient and Royal Palace of Linlithgow, between Glas-
gow and Edinburgh. This famed mansion has lately
undergone extensive repairs and embellishments under
the sanction and at the expense of Government. Air.
Horne has fully confirmed the ancient right of the public
to free access round the loch.

M`GBEGOR, ESQ., OF THE BOARD OE TEAM
—Among the guests at the dinner to Sir Henry Pot-
tinger, last evening, was Mr. M'Gregor, one of the joint
assistant secretaries of the Board of Trade. We believe
this gentleman will remain a day or two in Manchester.
He is staying at the Queen's Hotel. —ManchAster
Guardian.

EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF FELINE FECUN*
DITY AND LONGEVITY.—The baker at Burghley has
recently suffered a, bereavement in the death of 4 estr
which was kittened in 1827, and died on Friday the 13th
inst., in the eighteenth year of her age. She as given
birth to 360 kittens, the last of which is now living, end
one of the finest of the feline race, weighing upward; to£
two stone.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.

His-hxcellency Sir Eardly Wilmot hag appointed
Mr. Roderick O'Connor, a brother of Feargus, to a seat
in the legislative Council at Hobart 'town.—Southern
Reparter.
The Journal des Debuts announces that ota the 14th
inst. the regicide Tschech, who attempted to assassinate
the Jing of Prussia, was executed at Spandau, where he
had been conveyed under an escort of cavalry. The King
bad remitted that part of his sentence which stated that
he was to be broken on the wheel.
FALL CT &Now IN SPAIN.--A Madrid letter of the
says--41 The city is covered with snow a foot in.
depth. It is ten years since we had anything of tilt
kind. Vrom Barcelona, the 12th, we learn that thorn
has been a heavy fall of snow in that city, and that, tit*
etold was intensq.:'

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TTIE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—It is curious to observe how much the
most intelligent persons will believe, or affect to be-
lieve, when their credulity is urged by an appeal to
their ease or their interest. The wealthier classes
know how they deal with the poorer. They cannot
entirely shut their eyes to a matter of daily, hourly
axperience. Of late they have even written and
talked a great deal about it. No one now in-
dulges in the notion of any innate difference be-
tween the classes distinguished in the artificial order
of society. All are admitted to be equally endowed
with a natural sense of justice—a capacity to appre-
ciate kindness, and a tendency to r :Bent injury.
Yet wealth, holding the lion's share of political power,
uses it mainly in a scrupulous care of itself—seldom
thinks of poverty till its miseries show some upward
tendency—and withal believes that nothing more is
necessary to the permanence of such a system than
the occasional passing of a few Acts of Parliament,
recognising the existence of the labourer only in
order to make sweeping regulations as to how brig
he shall work, or how his wages shall be paid, or on
what conditions he shall enter a workhouse. Rick
burning and Chartism are dreadful things ; but
we treat them too much as our ancestors did thunder
and lightning :—we deeply deplore their effects,
and do not deeply investigate their causes. We have
already drawn attention to the spirit which seems
to have animated the Legislature in the reforms
of the last few years—to the remarkable facility with
which right principles have been adopted and forced
into practice in one direction, and the extreme difficulty
ss hich has attended their introduction in another. But
the doings of Parliament present to us the opinions and
feelings prevalent upon this subject among the wealthier
classes, upon so large a scale, and so modified, as to ex-
hibit but half their errors and inconsistencies. Let
them he examined as developed in the local legislation
of large towns, or in the local influence of wealthy in-
dividuals in rural districts, and their want of what has
been well termed " Christian principle" becomes still
more strikingly apparent. In all municipal arrange-
ments, the safety, the comfort, the health of the rich
are first cared for, and the poor are left to take cart of
themselves. Mansions replete with everyluxury and con-
venience that taste or ingenuity can suggest, are every-
where found the near neighbours of hovels less fitted
for human habitation than the huts or wigwams of the
least civilised savages on earth. No house pays so
. good a profit to its owner as that tenanted by the poor
man. None is constructed with so little regard to
the health or comfort of its tenant. The " gentry "
everywhere bend the municipal authority to the drain-
ing, ventilation, and cleansing of their own dwellings,
and have those inhabited by " artisans and labourers"
destitute of the benefit of these processes. Superior
intelligence, the fruit of a better education, places the
i-t-sour.'es of modern science within the reach of the
fotinee. These are freely used—for themselves.
They- are equally applicable to the condition of, and
her more needed by, those beneath them ; but how
seldom are they so applied ! These are no hasty or
id-considered assertions. They are based upon a
e ireful and painful review of evidence which is only
too simule.
STANDARD. The Bishop of Exeter has
writ •,-.1 and published a letter to the churchwardens
of Sr.feidwell's and St. James's parishes, in Exeter,
in reply to an address from those parishes. Every
one is prepared to expect eloquent and graceful
writing from the Bishop of Exeter ; but the
reply before us possesses merits beyond eloquence
a:id grace. It is kindly, affectionate, and even pa-
thetic ; a picture of the struggle of an able, honest,
and warm-hearted man, between the wish to con-
cdiete on one side, and a severe sense of duty on the
othtr. The Right Rev. Lord considers himself as
(if we may use the phrase) amagistrate in the Church,
not required perhaps to be over vigilant in detecting
evasions or transgressions of the Church's laws, but
under a peremptory obligation to see those laws exe-
cuted to the best of his judgment, and in their exact
spirit, without reference to the motives of those who
put their power in motion ; further, as a magis-
trate, strictly bound to make all the legal
provisions against any probable disturbance of the
Church's peace, even though at the cost of offering
violence to his own feelings, in seeming to take part
against those on whose side substantial right and
justice are manifestly arrayed ; lastly, as a magis-
trate who would betray his trust if he allowed
his authority to be treated lightly. This is plainly
the Bishop of Exeter's view of the nature
and duties of the episcopal office ; and we can
imagine no better conception of the nature
and duties of the office, were a bishop merely
" a civil magistrate -" but we have a higher esti•
• mate of the office of a bishop—we regard it as not
merely in name, but as, in fact, paternal, and we
think that as a father has power to restrain or to relax
the domestic rule, as his judgment shall direct, so
has a bishop considerable power to modify even the
Church's laws in the government of his diocese, not
indeed by a direct action, but by the exercise of a
mild influence. These remarks will, we trust, acquit
us of any want] of respect either for the Right Rev.
Lord personally or for his office, and we will now
proceed to state strictly but fairly what appears to
us to be the case made in the Bishop's reply.
Chaoges have, within the last few years, been made
in the forms of Divine worship. These changes
have been universally introduced by perverse men,
either frivolous coxcomb; or treacherous emissaries
of Romanism, and consequently they have given
great offence, and excited no small jealousy, in the
people. There is a passage in the reply to which we
refer with high gratification, because it proves that
in the course which he has thought himself bound to
adopt, the Right Rev. writer is not a volunteer—
peovel, that before he sought to provide for the peace
o' tli. Church by commanding a general uniformity
• with the change proposed, he tried to secure that
peace by dissuading all from any change, but that he
dissuaded many in vain :
" It I should order ray clery, as your letter seems to
lu4gest, to continue the services of the Church as they
T 1,11,7 are, without any change, any one of them might
.ty to me—' We cannot, conscientiously, do what you
!taus illegally order ; we are bound, by our ordination
vow, to minister the doctrine and sacraments, and
the discipline of Christ, as the Lord bath com-
manded. and as this Church and realm bath re-
ceived the same ;" we have, moreover, solemnly de-
hat " we will use the form in the Book of Cora-
l...on ,yer prescribed in public pra; er and administra-
tive of the sacraments, and no other ;" and the statute
which re quires this declaration from us, requires also
that. we "conform, in all points, to the things appointed
and prescribed in that book." We will be faithful to
these engagements, and will not serve as ministers in
this Church if this our faithfulness is not permitted.—
How could I answer this ?
" You may imagine that I am here proposing an ex-
treme case, which is utterly unlikely ever to present
itself in real practice. But your imagination would be
unfounded. Several such cases have actually occurred,
and similar ones are likely to occur every month. Al-
ready they have caused to me much perplexity, and
have produced practical effects seriously injurious
to that great object which you value, and which it is
among my first duties to seek to place on the firmest
footing—peace in the Church, which cannot be secured
without uniformity in the worship of Almighty God."
This, we confess, opens to us a wholly new view of
the question—a view of which the whole episcopal
bench ought to have the benefit, in company with the
Bishop of Exeter.