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

PORTSOKEN WARD.

A wardmote was held at twe:vo o'clock to-day, before
Francis Graham Moon, Esq., Alderman of the ward, at
the Three Nuns Inn, Aldgate lligh-street, for the elec-
tion of Common Councilmen.

After the transaction of some preliminary business,
the former members were proposed for re-election, and
in addition to them, William Scoones and George-Vile
were proposed.
The non-freemen having been ordered to retire, a show
of hands was called for, aid

•
Alderman Moot.' declared the following gentletzen
elected to the office of Common Councilmen of that
ward:—Messrs. Wright, Christie, M'Kenzie, Parker,
Judsutn, Hayward, Daidurd, and Killby..
A poll wa, t.ht,n demanded on the part of the tuisuc•
cessful e.indidittea.

The else! ion will not terminate for three days.

MARRIED.—On Saturday, at St. John's Church,
Richmond,by the Rev. Charles Proby, Canon of Windsor
John Berney Petre, Esq., only son of Colonel and the
Hon. Mrs. Petre, of Westwick !1011, in the county of
Norfolk, to. Caroline Susan, second daughter of the late
Right Hon. James Alexander Stewart Mackenzie.
Immediately after the ceremony, a large party of nobi-
lity and gentry, relations and friends of both parties,
assembled at the house of the bride's mother, the Hon.
Mrs. Stewart Mackenzie, and partook of an elegant
breakfast ; after which the happy pair set out for Stody
Lodge, the seat of Caroline Dowager Lady Suffield.

RESIGNATION OF THE VICAR OF BRADFORD.—
The Rev. Dr. Scoresby, much to the astonishment of
the public, has resigned the vicarage of Bradford. Dr.
Scoresby is a High Church Evangelical. He has for
years been on uncomfortable terms with several of his
leading parishioners, in consequence of which one or'two
new churches, built by individuals, have never been
opened. As a man of science, Dr. Scoresby occupies a
very respectable rank. He had formed a scheme for the
division of the extensive parish of Bradford, and notice
had been given of an application to Parliament next
session for a Bill to authorise it. The Ecclesiastical
Commissioners are said not to approve of Dr. Scoresby's
scheme, and hence it is supposed he has resigned the
living.—Leeds Mercury.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RlVER.—Yesterday
afternoon, one of the coal porters in the employ of Mr.
Stephen Davies, of Somerset Wharf, Bankside, slipped
off the barge Mary Anne, and was drowned. It seems
that, from the great pressure of business now consequent
on the inclement weather, it has been found necessary to
rig up the lights along shore, commonly known as "devils,"
circular grates filled with burning coal. It was in shift-
ing one of these that the unfortunate man lost his life.
Mr. Guildersleave, the wharf clerk, made every effort to
save the unhappy man, but unavailingly. Mr. Davies has
handsomely expressed his determination of providing for
the bereave d widow and children.
THE IMPROVEMENTS IN WESTMINSTER.-"--YeS-
terday the long-talked of improvements which
are to be effected from Westminster Abbey to
Buckingham Palace, were in reality commenced,
several mon being employed to pull down the
houses on one side of Little Tothill-street. It is
contemplated to remove those sinks of infamy—the
Almonry, Orchard-Greet, Duck-lane—and to form one
wide and spacious street from the west door of West-
minster Abbey to the Buckingham Palace end of Pim-
lico. Orchard-street contains the remains of some of the
oldest houses in Westminster, and a part of one of
Oliver Cromwell s palaces still stands there.
INCENDIARY FIRE REWARDS.—Yesterday a pro-
clamation was issued by her Majesty's Government,
offering TOOL reward, in addition to a like sum of 1001.
from Mr. Richard Eldridge, a timber-merchant, of
Canal-walk, Southampton, for the apprehension and con-
viction of the parties who set fire to some timber-sheds
belonging to Mr. Eldridge. on Wednesday night last.
A strong suspicion is entertained, but unfortunately not
sufficient to justify apprehending the suspected person.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FAMILY Olf THE LATE
MISS ,CLA RA WEB,TER.
THIA,EYENING, DECEMBEK 23, -
Will be repeated a Grand Opera, Soria, called THE DAUGHTER
OP ST. MARE.. Lesienano, Mr. Burdini ; AndroaCernaro, !Mr.
Borrani ; Moncenigo, Mr. Weill • Adolphe de Courcy, Sr. W.
Morrisonatarina Camaro, Miss itainforth '
To conclude with thocelebrated Ballet of THE PERI. Aehmet,
M. Deoplaces Tie Peri, Mdlle. Plunkett; Nounnahal, ,Mdlie.,
O'Bryan ; Aysia, Mrs. Payne.
The Box.othce is open daily, from Ten ht the Morning until Six
in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places,
awl Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. •

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee Mr. B. WEBSTER. •
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 23. .
WIN be performed a New and Original Comedy, in FIT. Acts,
gilled OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HE A RTS. Colonel Rocket
Mr.:Prickland; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathen a • Toin Coke
Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buskstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. ?W. barren;
rlse Countess of Ftimpion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lndy Alice Nowthort,
Madame Yeetris; Min Rocket. Miss Julia Bennett.
-After which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled
SOMEBODY ELSE. Haus Moritz, W. Charles Mathews; Minnie,
Madame Yestris...

To rell,,wed by a New and Original Farce, called YOUNG
4/4GLAND 'Major Martinet. Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James
tmley, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Pooley' Mn.s Iluraby.
' Pnyate Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half each.
rickets and Placed to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office,
fr'sm Fen till Five o'Clock.

. . .
When Mx: Husizo deploring , the wasteful impro-
vidence of the Tory Adniinistrations, of .whiell the
Duke of WELLINGTON and Sit.b Ropmer PrEr. were
successively at the' head (we speak of that Govern-,
ment which terminated. in A 83p). and; of that which,
being established in DeceMber; 1834, on Sir Ro-
BERT'S return froth Italy, clOsed. its brief career. in
.April, 183:5)—when Mr. HUME '1113#cl• to avow his
regret that there was a surplus of pnblic income over
public exPenditure—his avowal was.listened. to in the
House 'of Commons, • with surprise, and_ incredulity.
'lt was to little use that he explained his .meaning
to, be, that a deficient revenue would, to a .cer-
tain extent, compel a greater thriftiness' on
the part of the Ministers of the day. This
last was a mere hypothesis. In the condition
of Circumstances 'assumed by it, the result he Con-
templatei . might or might not • occur.. It would
be "time enough to think, of that," whenever the
facts fell out. But to'. regret 'that be -Govermient
should have a surplus of iricome—to deprecate so
pOsitive, palpable, power-giving, an adiantage, as that
of an annual balance of supplies over disbursements, to
consider it 'possible that " money; in both pockets"
might be an evil ; this. was a political heresy so novel
-andstartling, , that the merest tyro in vulgar arith •
metic—green .as transplanted from the halls of Ox-
ford into St. Stephen's Chapel—turned Up his, eyes
with astoniihment et.iti enunciation ; looked grave,
or affected to' sib .dver, the waning powers, of. the
Veteran calculator. , Nevertheless we have lived to
see the hypothesis of the, Hon. Member for Montrose
verified by facts. The theory has , found, if ive do.
not greatly mistake, an exponents in no Other. than
the Premier hinbielf. , Thanks to.,. his wholesale
drafts on national credulity. or .timidity, he has re•
established, in_ the six-and-twentieth.year of profound'.
peace,. the . most especially constituted war-tax ; and
in the third year of its levy, his; " metallic tractors"
have conjured so vast an 'amount of `money out of the
pockets: John Bull that he Ibia a very large surplus
on the, aggregate of income over that .-. of , expen-•
diture. Now so long as the ,former . was only
the equation of the latter—so. long
_as the Charges...,
of the State absorbed its Receipti, 'Sir Ropiam.must
have been comparatively happy... No "--:-- good-
natured friend; in the shape of ,some influential land-
owner, could, look; in..upon him at that inopportnne
moment when he was just chuckling over the re-
dundant receipts of his Exchequer, and hint to him
significantly that he might find it very expedient to
remit a portion of the heavy malt duty. No hawk-
eyed 'Maneheater Conservative, could then ruffle his
equanimity, and. ruin his breakfast, by a morning call
before office hours in Whitehall-gardens,. with the
view of drawing the. Minister's attention to the eligible
opportunity which had at length arrived, enabling him
to remit theimport duty on raw cotton. ; There. were,
then,
,no outcries .from the poorer and the poorest
classes . for the. remission of the tea -duties.
~.
The . • Excise was not assailed' by ,a ' run' of
popular demands Upon the 'extinction of 'this
-duty, nor the Customs invaded by the -concentrated
appeal of thousands fOr the removal of that. Coffee
and sugar, less loaded with fiscal liabilitiei, continued
to be accessible to the rich, but. to decline the con-
. sumption of• the. poor, whilst they netted a handsome
yearly return into the coffers of ' the Treasury. But
now all this state of things is clanged. There Is a
surplus. A great fact, this, ,and the cause of a great
sensation., ,How shall it be -appropriated ? A great
difficulty, and the subject of the most:conflicting re-
eonimenaations. Friends supplicate; enemies threaten;
the Minister is utterly perpleied. "Tillie * off the
Malt Duty," cry., the farmers, "'in the very
first place, or we,, who . placed you where
you; are, :will .help to,: remove you . to • the
position from whence you came." - " Repeal the duty
on raw cotton;! say his vounty-kihdred and policies)
supporters, )" or else—" • - " Held !" exclaim the. in-
dustrial classes, WlosebOntributions represent as much
as two:thirds, at least,l of the ,whole indirect taxation

• .
THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL •
- '• • Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 23,
Will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, ; Esq.)
a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Griblin Story •ef Some
Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck,
Mr. 0. ; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. VVllkin.
*On ; Sir Joseph Bowley, Bart Mr. Paul ftedfora ; Will Fern,-Mr.
Hudpon ; Richard, Mr. Selby ; Meggy Vcck, Miss Fortcscue ;. Mrs.
Chickenstalkz.r, Mrs. Frank Matthews.
After which a . New Drains entitled THE MYSTERIOUS
STRANGER. Court Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson Count
Venal,. Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste;
Croquet, Mr. Wright; Chechore. Mr. 0 Smith. .
To conclude with THE UNFINISHED_ GENTLEMAN, in
which Messrs. Wright. Selby, and Miss Woolgar will perform.
Prompter, Mr. Gaunt ; Principal Painter, or Pitt ; Leader of the
Bane, Mr. Mellon.-13sx-octice open from Eleven till Four. Private
Scam to be bad at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries.

tHr:ATItE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
HOUSE.

the Manarcevoeni of Mrs. KEELEY
ON THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, •
Will be produced THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal
Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, E. Matthews,
Col ier, Emery, Turner. and Keeley; Miss Walcott, Mrs, IVoollidge,
Miss Grove, and tit's. Keeley.
Alter which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO
MARRA'. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker;
Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. IA
To conclude with a NeuriGrand—Operatic, Historical, Romantic,
Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE
AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F.. Matthews,
Meadow's, Wigan, Coll-er, Turner, K•nloch. -Yareold, and Keeley;
_Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden,' Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Irs
Woollidge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. neeley.
PRICE OF Ai lit..-..,luN.—aialcouy ',faxed 4i., Upper
!taxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, (id. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s.
Upper Boxes, Is. fl.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the ie t.c.my Tier
,holding eight persons), Tot • Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
Fier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private
taxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guir•es.
Pre Bruoffice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direct.
lea of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent garden Theatre.

ellyst attraction *my Evening —Bquiro Batty's Hounds meet This

Bening, at
ASTLEY'S ROYAL A mrMI'IIiEATRE OF ARTS,
Trietor and Manager, Mr. W BATTY.
HIS EVENING, DECEMBER 23,
Will be repeated a New Speztacle, entitled Tf.E ROYAL FOX
HUNT; or, The Race-Herne and Life's Course of Man and Steed ;
introducing unequalled Natimal Fete.. Real Fox-chase on the Stage
and In the Circle by living Fos aid real Pack of Hounds, purchased
by Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production.
kom Races and other Sporting Features.
Ilew Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse.
slanship.
To conclude with THE WEAVER OF LYONS; or, The Throe
Conscripts _

cting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoet.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five. lessons in the Art el Riding
by Mr. R. Smith daily.
Mr. BATTY begs to a-quaint the Nobility, Gentry, and his
Patrons, that, in compli ince with numerous requests from the
country, and by special desire, he has formextar aneentents to pre.
lent, during the Christmas Hotidays, a S rice of EQUESTRIAN
MORNING FECES and FASHIONABLE DAY PERFORM.
A NCE. to commence at Half-past One, and terminate at Half-past
Three : consisting of Batty's Splendid Scenes of Equitation in the
Circle. The first Three Morning Performances will take place on
Monday, Dec.3l, Wednesday, Jai,. 2, and Fr dry, Jan. 4.
A G'and Comic Christmas Pantomime on Boxing Night.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE
ON THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26,
Will he produced Two New Dramas, supported by:Messn. Osbal-
diston, H. Howard, J. T. Johnson, T. H. Higgie. Sekman.,Herb r;,
Searle, E. Jones, and Watkins; Mos Vincent, Miss E. Terrey, and
Mrs. Rignold.
To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ; or. The Little Old Wonsan and
the Desaon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapino ; Clown,
Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Mdlle.
Le Vite.

THE WEATHER.—SUN Ornck, Dkc. 21.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33 ; Highest, 38 ; Noon, 35.
BAROMETER, 30.38.—WRiD;.Eatit. tr. •
Nom—The figures which follow the werde" Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest .'and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes 'at
32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on
Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and
"Rain" at 29;: but. there is no certainty of dry weather
when the mercury falls below 30.

.
HIGH WATER AT LONDOLBRIDGE THIS DAY.
64 minutes after 01 Evening... IS minutes after 1.

raised in, this country, " you have lowered prices
by your legislation .to a point Which disables our

-
employers from giving us remunerating wages. We

get less money but' have. More taxation to pay; the
charge of which is no longer 'covered in our scanty
wages. We work.longer hours to earn diminished
_ _

pay.. Make cheaper, therefore, to us, by the remission
of the duties you take upon them, those articles of
which we are the largest consumers." And then

come trooping in a regiment of, demands for

repeal of duty on tobacco, and beer, and tea, on
coffee, and sugar, soap, and raw cotton, and even on

paper.

What is Sir 'ROBERT (poor roan) to' do ?-' The
" suggestions'"of one body of his friendi are eipressed
so emphatically, that they are like the petitions to
Gu. BLAB for charity—enforced by the -accidental
eloquence of a ,disbanded soldier's. carbine. The
"its" of another, somehow or other, have, all of

NEW WORK ON INDIA. course he is pursuing, the Right Rev. Prelate pleads
Now ready, in !role., small aro., with Illustrations, 21s. bound,
ADVENTURES OF AN OFFICER, dm' necessity of restoring peace and harmony to the
IN THE
L. SEJORRVICE OF RITNJEET SINGH. ' Church. We acknowledge the necessity, but BY MA H. M. LAWRANCE,
, arum itesteein• ths•Court of Netiont, and Late deny the wisdom of the means taken for bringing
Assistant to Iho Political Agent its charge of, British Relations about the restoration of good order among the clergy.
WU-Lahore.
Eterteolbarit, Publieher, 12, Great Marlberongt -street. "It is among my first duties," says the Bishop, "to
seek to place on the firmest footing—peace in the
Church, which cannot be secured without uniformity
in the worship of AIXIGRTY GOD." What flimsy
Sophistry is this i How does the substitution
of the white surplice for the black Town contribute:
to secure uniformity of worship ? 'The question ii
not one of doctrine, but simply one-of form, and
therefore is in noway connected with worship. But
then, lays the Right Reverend Prelate, I enforce the
wearing of the surplice as a means of restoring poste
in the Church. The answer to this argument shall,
be given in the words of the Exeter Pod :—" In the
churches of St. Davidi SC Sidwell, and many otheri
that we could mention, several of , the congregation
took their, departure the moment they saw the
clergyman enter the pulpit in his surplice.. The,
feeling of all Church-goers appears unanimously to,
be that, this alleged rubrical. observance is an innova-
tion that calls for an immediate manifestation of
public opinion 1" A change, whose very first effect
is to produce such results. 'as this, is
certainly one most happily calculated to restore peace
and harmony It is as, if a man should fling a big
stone into a lake, by way of- keeping its waters in a
state of undisturbed calmness. The Bilhop professei
to be quite astonished at the uproar excited against
his changes in the Church service. . They are -'so
triflingso innocent—that it is an act positive
absurdity to-, priteit against them. " They will be:
found so trifling," he tells his correspondents, " that I
venture to think you. will be ..almost ashamed to re-
collect .that you have suffered the arrogant dictation
of London newspapers, or the baseleis suggestions
of persons nearer honie, to terrify , you with
so' mere `a bugbear." If the, changes in question
be reallj so trifling and unimportant, why does Dr•.
PuiL4OTTS insist on them with such pertinacity ?
Why does he disturb the minds of his laity by enforc-
ing innovations which he himself directly Acknow-
ledges to be of no earthly iinportance? Is it worth
while to throw a whole 'diocese... into an uproar for a
• ••
1110'6:trifle ?, Btit the .Right. Rev. 'Prelate. knows.
well—Thatever he may choose to maintain: to the
contrary—that the surplice question- is ..no such
frivolous one. True, on the first blUsli of *the things
it seems to.be of no great moment whether a cleigp
man Preaches in a-brick gown Or a white one—for it is
his doctrine, and not his dress that is to be regarded;
but then, it should be borne in mind that the surplice
is a virtual encroachment on- old principles and asso-
ciations—is, in fact, a revival of one •of the principal
symbols of Catholicism,und was ahandoned.as;stchat
the period of the Reformation. It tis ,14 this light_
that the .laity of Exeter seem to. regard it ; and
whether they be right or wrong in their view of the,
question„ we do think that the 13ishOp 'is bound
justice to -make a concession to their 'conscientious
prejudidismore especially as he himself admits that
the surplice is U chinge of so purely a trifling chat
racter as to be hardly. worth • a moment's serious,
consiclerstion. We say nothing • of. his charge of ar-
rogance launched so unceremoniously ,against the
" London journals." He should be a good judge ot
what is, and what is not, arrogant, for .no man has
dealt more largely in. this commodity. than, hiluself ;
and we suppose he, is. jealous at seeing--or fancying
that he sees—his favourite monopoly invaded by the'
Metropolitan Press; We have not yet done with the
Bishop of &Bras, for we clearly foresee that for,
some time to come he will be constantly. before. the
pnblic, in consequence of, popular turmoil which
he is exciting AO officiously throughout thi length and
breadth of his diocese.

them, an alternative : "Do this for us, or something
else must be done by us." The Prime Minister
must, ere this, have discovered in his surplus a greaten
0 bore" than the Thames Tunnel itself; but one much
more likely to be broken in upon. How can he give
up less than his surplus, if he give up any -part of it ?.
The claim of B is as good as A's, but tbat ofC is no less
so. To concede to A, and not to. C and' B, ia to
Make two enemies where he confirms one friend.
How can he give up more :than his surplus ? To
repeats,ooo,ooo/. per annum of malt' duties viould
be-siireit. &kin to the poor consninet, a great en-
couragement to agricultural enterprise; a -great
mind for unemployed labour. To remit some twol,
millions df tea duties, a million and a half of sugar
duties,: two hundred ' and fifty thousand of -duties on-.
cotton and other raw material, six hundred thousand
'pounds oti paper, and a million on tobacco, would be
admirable relief, no doubt, to existing distreise. But
• what, meantime, is to beconie of the serAce of the
State, and ttt piSrment of pie interest on the deb 4
Which absorb all the revenue short of the surplus pre-
diked by the iiieOnie4ax ? We will tell the-Premien
how -to emancipate himself from this dilemma, and
satisfy all parties, by tingle act: -Let him restore the
currency to the basis from which he so 'rashly moved
it in. tBl9. • These effects Would imniediately
By means of an expansible ciiculationiand the principle
(if you will retain it) of the convertibility of sYmbolic,
money or paper issuesbeing restored to gold at its market
value, instead. of its' Mint price, out manufacturers
and producers would be enabled to include the taxation
cost; in -the: general'prices of their commodities; the
induitrial 'classes throughout the country would. re-_
ceive wages also. covering their contributions to spy
'indirect taxation ; property of all kinds would
tiPly its power of representation, and be developed, to
an indefinite extent With that pOweri domestic *aide
and foreign-conitherce would revive to full Vigour and
activity; pauperism wOuld rapidly decrease, owing
to the 'enlarged Markets opened for labour; . Tbe
process' of "reducing the NationallDebt, which was
.carried on. on 'so vast and successful a scale
between 1815, when peace was established, and 1819,
whim its natural results were !frit 'paralyzed 'b'y
rzies ' Currency Bill; would be' resumed. .Had
that reduction of 20,000,00.01, of debt :'per annum
been confined till this time (as it well might :have
been, 'but for-the 'disorganiiation" and 'Mischief pro-
duced by that measure), the whole -Debi WObidliiie
been ',now= • of
29,000;0001.-of interest Which is' the .charge` -upon
'it, to be 'min-Wry :Met, there would have -been buts;
Comparatively, trifling amount to be provided for, out
of taxes and duties, the burden of which would have
declined. in a natural 'and:corresponding: ratio. , Doe
-Sir ROBERT PEEL calculate on 'paying off twenty:
'million-1 bf debt,.under his gold currency system, in
as many YeArilf.ho.ai..iM one year to wipe.off that
arnoun t under, our More ancient and legitimate system.-1
To restorethe latter .would be better for.the country;
than any amount of surplus revenue he can ever com-
mand whilst the Bill of 1819 is nurepealedl,. ,
We.havetrectited Madritijoirnals of the 13th, MA'
they eentain'ilb riesFsi- The Chambers had not met
-for several days, and'for onot we are 'wed the pain
Of announcing more
,execntione.,
:MAintrn -893343'4 Discaunast 13.7-Three per
Cents.: 321 at sixty ,days.: -Five per Cents. (same
period) 22 ;- and Floating Debt,lBl.at fOrty-fiVe day,e

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The:leading articles -in., the Paris journals are not
of much interest to the English -reader, if wii except
`a`-short and a 'very Well-drawn Cherieter "or_ the
Jesuits, which-lippeits in the -.7:onrnal dei Debbie:
The Writer seises the opportiiiiityof the latemelati
'choly ;
•disturbance at ; Lucerne for the, purpose:. of
pointing out to the French people, the daniermis
tenets 414'01e:sect; and Warning-them- against.theWli
croachniente-which the Jesuits in the Gallic' Church are
meditating- both against' liberty and the present systeris
ofeduc*tion in Franc*. The article is themore iniportant.
as it applies with equal foree to; other churches; ancC
to, none more than. the. Puseyite Church of -England.
Were the- tenets-of Punt, Newstsis, Wian; and Co.
and. we, may- add, the: tenets of a majorittof our'
Bishops, to become' dominant in this country, the' glo-
-rims system' of liberty which' England enjoys, and
'which she owes to the Aeforiners—especially the cry,
lUmniated kuritims-7--wouldin a few short years be
scattered .to .oe, Tina. It is a • melancholy trutbi
.which cannot be controverted, that with a :very' few
exception., those ohnrehes, to whom the education of the
people have -been entrusted, have been mere anxious
to increase by that means their despotic power than
the moral and pure.' religiotts,education of the peOple..
It appears•frorn the, article to Which we'refer;that the
.Government of Lucerne; ,in:a-fit of- blindness,' had ,
invited-the. Jesuits into -the country, ind for this the
unhappy people now suffer. f‘ There is'a fatality,"
says the Journal des Debate, "-attached to this Order
since
.its origin,-, that whereyer it appears, discord
arises in the _ State and, in the Church. Were the
Jesuits even as inoffensive Se they pretend to. be, their
aid would be too dearly. purchased at the price of the
blood of the citiaena 1-, prieits, influenced by a verit-
able spirit of .Cherity; would have stopped short
before ..this ,blood whiCh Was ready. to flow;' they
would hive:said, We will not' enter' 'amongst you
over, the-. dead-bodies of. your • brothers 'We pa ril-
•cularly disapproveof the Grand Council of Lucerne's
having invited the Jesuits to assume the, direction
of the
_Episcopal , School. , ThiS was intimating
wish . to ..have' all .the clergy Jesuits; and to favour
the pretensi-ons -Of, this Order; which. aspires; to
absorbing:. 'the" . Church- itself. 'Deep 'politicians
as they- are, the -Jesuits willingly- yield to 'Others the
external klot and apparent rights attached to ecele-
'siastical dignities. . They :care little about not being
enr6; or.bishops, provided there 1;e•no cure or bishop
who :14,1 not passed through their bands.. What they
want is the- direction of , the- 'ecclesiastical schools,
'great or small, .They 'mow well that he' world iS
governed by education, and -that -the master of the
child remains in. geperal . the master of the man.
.When once placed in possession of the ..ecclesiestical
schools, they wouM form- a ,'clairgy-, which would-only
recognise -their maxima. By-this clergy they would
lord it. over the Whole orthp Catholic world, andmbve
kingdoms It would'nn longer be permitted to any
one who is not a Jesuit
.to call himself a Christian.
And God 'only, knows, what would then becomd of
this liberty, to .which they. make. an arm of
to arrive at domination! Simple indeed are' they
sehi imagine that liberty is the last word the Jesuits.
will Pronounce I. • When Fe demand liberty ,of con-
science we demand it as,, the. right of man ; for the
.
Jesuits a means.. ;.Their empire. 'once re-esta-'
blished, you shall seehoW:they will respect liberty,"
The National -has' 'a 'ioi*-'artiale• on the decay' of
French commerce, wnich, it says, 'is Menaced with
speedy destruCtion, unless men engaged in trade wil
struggle coursgeqUalY with their .competitors in ton
sop, -Berlin,. and Beaton.

'.l:he French Funds continued. firm on Thiusday.
The-Three per Cents. closed at 85f.; tho New Loin
at 86f. 70c.; the Five per Cents. at 120 f. 55c., Or
'leans Shares,l,l4of. ; Rouen, 1,00 f.; Havre, 815 f.;
Avignon, 9401.; Strasbourg, -313 f. 75c.; Versailles
(right bank), 517 f. 50c.; and Ditto (left batik),
3921. 50c. Spanish Actives, 331 ; Three 'per Cents.,
37t; Passive', 6; end Belgian Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., (2f. 60c.
:D

- . .
Right nonOurable
Robert Peel, Bart.; gave an entertainment' at the manor.
on. Uondey last, .to a party of aboie forty -of hii prinei
pal tenants, mostly in the occupation of large firms cis
his estate, Dr. iluckland, Dr. Pliyfair, and Mr.• Smith,
;issistetdo.tthhee .ctimghpt44.,, fli.onoDurr.shplle?,lßfaariroodietiivaefrteedr:
of Deaeston,-th well•known Scotch agriculturist, who-
dwi enrne r9iladad
an cliiquent discourse' on the' different descriptions 94.
manure, and the most appiOied Systems of manniin,
land, to which the' estembled' tomer!' seemed 'federate
the greatest attention. "It was after.- eleven when the
circle broke•bp,' the tenants retiring with eirpresiiions of
their high sense of their esteemed landlOrd's hospitality,. ,
. JOHN. HARDY,- ESQ.' M.P. 'Fon BazAbriinn.-.-Nre
regret to -bear that, this venere:le gentlenien bas 'beep
,suffering from sever* illness during: he -week---having
sustained, a fit of apoplexy ; but; according. to the latest
accounts, we :are glad tug ,say he is decide ly. better:7-
Brd4ford Observer. . • :
COLONEL MAXWELLS AD TENTHEES.—Atuolligst
the,nunierous distinguished porsonages introduced into
these amusing memoirs, are the following.:—The
peroi Napoleon—The icings and Queen of ,Spain.,-The
King of SiCilyct —lCing ..ToaChiin of -Naples. and his 44eeil
—The King :in -Queen- of Sardinitf-:-The king *rid
Queen, of EtruriaLOnis • .X17,11.1=:-Queen 'Caroline of
Englana-;.-Pope -Pitts VII-Prindeaie 'paulinePeince
Lucien' Bonaparte—Prince Leopold;-,Prince'Esterikaay
—The,DulaeoffmieCoburgls-The Duke and DUebess,
of 'Bodfortl,-!-Lord Aniherst—Lord
Colond „Nail Canwhell7-L..Lotxl..Elpbinstone”-Lord
month4-7JOrd Stewart--tord Duncan,--Lady.charlotte
Campbell-Sri ,
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.Gel,6-lifsidacga de Steel—Marshal
Bertrand--;-General 'Dr-met—The Prince of Dionagg-xo
Cardinal racel3oriptilzi, ace. •

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