The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-11 00:00:00

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
STANDARD.—We confess ourselves wholly at a loss
to account for the vote of the House of Lords last night
upon the Dissenters' Trusts Bill. The purpose of this
Bill is to confirm the usurpation by Socinians of chapels
and other trust property designed for the use of
Christian Dissenters ; and it was carried in a House of
Lords containing twenty-six Lords Spiritual, by a Ma-
jority of forty-four to nine ; the only Bishop,' in fact,
present, was the Bishop of Exeter, who is always at his
post when the interests of religion and humanity are
concerned; and who last night proved that they who
charge him with being a too- High Churchman,
and too lenient towards the TraetarianS, offer him
a great injustice when they insinuate that he
is indifferent to the rights of Christian Dissenters, or
slow to protect even those who decline the administra-
tions of the particular Church to which he belongs,'when
they appeal to him as brother Christians, and members
of the one great Catholic Church, to which all who sin-1
cerely accept the Gospel without mutilation or addition
,equally belong. The other Bishops were at " a charitable
festival." Charity is a good thing,'but we cannot help
thinking that the affair might, be postponed when the
Bishops were wanted to resist a wholesale scheme of
Socinian usurpation. The only imaginable effect of
the Bill upon the material interests of Dissenters is, as
we ' have 'said; to confirm • the present usurpation. of
Christian church property dishonestly occupied by Soci
niani ; but we see in it a prospect of future litigation, that
will fill the four inns of court with gladness. Every
tenet of every preacher will be watched with a more
than theological jealousy, to guard against the estab-
lishment of a prescription in favour of an erroneous
doctrine. And as the only effectual security against
such prescription, legal proceedings will be taken as soon
as the teacher deviates a hair's breadth, or seems to de-
viate from the creed of the founder. Ejectments upon
the text will be substituted for ejectments upon the
title, and erroneous doctrines will take the place of non-
payment of rent, and non-performance of covenants. We
all know what a Socinian is: he is a person with just as
much Christianity as a Turk, but much less reli-
gion. But we must not suppose that the change from
real Christianity to this sad heresy is ever made ho-
nestly, and at once. No, like other departures from
truth, it is made slowly and furtively—hence the neces-
sity that will arise of closely watching teachers and trus-
tees, and bringing them to their duty by lawsuit after
lawsuit. And this notable Bill is to quiet possessions
and to prevent litigation. If ever it pass we shall see how
that will be. Meanwhile, we exhort the _Christian Dis-
senters to be up and doing;:. they have more than once
shown their power to influence the Legislatfire, and haie
influenced it upon occasions (as we must think) much
less worthy than the present. They need not feel jea-
lous of the cordial support that they will receive from
Churchmen, for the most ingenious discoverer of bad
motives will be at a loss to find any motive for Church-
men.moving in the matter, except a regard for our com-
mon Christianity, and a respectful sense of the value of
a Christian ministry which, though dissenting from our
Establishment, acts as its faithful auXiliary in the cause
of religion.
GLOBE.—The Timespursues its argumentum ad homi-
nem to the country gentlemen, on the question of this eve-
ning.—" Country gentlemen are dreading more and more
the growth of the manufacturing population. They see at
their very doors, and within the limits of their old domi-
nions, the rapid increase of an empire beyond the reach
of all direct influences, and daily more and more es-
tranged in feeling. Their attempts to control are de-
feated ' • their advances are rejected ; their teaching de-
spised.Do they wish to widen the gulf, and augment into
inveteracy the indifference or hostility of this rebellious
mass ? They will most assuredly do so, beyond all re-
medy, if they now refuse to protect the labour of the
weak and dependent, and that for the most despicable_
of all possible reasons, viz., because they would
thereby endanger the existing protection of their
own wealth. How long do they suppose protected
wealth will co-exist with unprotected labour ? How
long will the landowner get his twenty shillings'
premium on his quarter of wheat, while the factory
woman is working from half-past five in the morn-
ing to seven in the evening every day of her life ?
It was neither candid nor statesmanlike in the
Premier to warn Parliament against a generous amount
of protection, because it was impossible to say where
protection was to stop. Not to protect so large a class
must be as dangerous as to protect it. The alienation of
the multitude cannot but be costly. Scarcely any price, in
reason, is too great for their affections. If some difficulties
attend a social remedy, more must follow its omission. A
people will perhaps make troublesome demands on the
kindness of rulers; but what people can be more trouble.
some, more formidable than that which feels its government
to be cold, indifferent, and worthless ?" There would be
some consistency in this line of argument on the part of a
corn-protectionist ; and the Times, we suppose, thinks
itself at liberty to be all things to all men. On the part,
however, of the professed advocate of an open corn trade,
there is something curiously hollow and worthless in this
appeal to the agricolous apprehensions. " How long,"
says the Times, " will the landowner get his twenty shil-
lings premium on his quarter of wheat, while the factory
woman is working from half-past five in the morning
to seven in the evening every day of her life ? " Of
course this argument is not at all addressed to the
selfish feelings, like those of the cold-blooded cham-
pions of the Ogre Millocrats. There is something
eminently generous in erecting a new "protection,"
to prop up an old one, and in courting the alliance
of the Spinner Interest (12 or 13,000, we believe, or
thereabouts), as a new prop to the Landlord Interest,
and outwork against the Anti-Corn-law League. And
those who think the landowner ought to get his 20s.
premium on his quarter of wheat, maw consistently
think the spinners should get whatever Time Bill their
delegates ask for. Because the maintenance of such a
premium on home-grown wheat is equivalent to a decree
that the spinner shall work for the landowner's benefit.
It is equivalent to a decree that the money the spinner
earns abroad he shall lay out on dear wheat at home.
Well—if the landowner finds the intensity of com-
petition for his high-priced
_wheat too painful for his
feelings to witness, he may be consistent in seeking to
moderate it. He may be consistent in saying to his
factory slaves—" Don't work so hard—don't be so eager
in earning your half-rations. You won't get any the
more for it; I can tell you that—l keep the key of the
corn-chest." This may be consistent, if not remarkably
sane, in restrictionists. It may also—for what we care
to dispute—be "gracious," as the Times says, and all
the rest of it. It may infinitely strengthen her Ma-
jesty's throne, that her faithful. Commons should dis.
pense such "favours" to the working people. It may
be (and we confess that it would be) carrying out
the principle of protection to its due consequences. For
the assumed virtue of protection is to raise all classes to
a privileged elevation. Any class, therefore, which com-
plains protection has not raised it, has a right to its Act
of Parliament. •If the landed interest is to be
believed, it is the grand disposer of the fate of
the labouring people—its immense preponderance,
as a purchaser of their products, renders its patron-
age almost exclusively worth looking to. It follows
legitimately enough that this' omnipotent patron,
this exclusive customer, may, whenever he chooses,'
lighten the toils of his workers, as the Pharaohs might
have lessened the piece of pyramid to be turned out of
hand for the day's pittance of pulse ; or Mehemet
Ali the piece-work he expects from his toilers in
Egyptian bondage. If the landlords hold the
position they pretend to—then the terms of labour are
doubtless a proper object for their yegulation. But the
Times, which would strip them of tbeir sham omnipo-
tence—with what sense does it call on them to exert it?
Turn we to the Standard and Herald. The former says,
citing the memorial of the millowners, that the average
of factory wages "is but 10s. 30. the week for indefi-
nite hours of labour as regards adults, and for four-
teen hours of labour from infants. In mere pecu-
niary receipts, then, the spinners are not in so -much
better condition than the agricultural labourer."
Now the returns procured by the respectable heads of
firms whom we mentioned yesterday, were returns
from the Lancashire cotton mills ; and no writer, who
was not as ignorant, or ill-intentioned, as this one,
would have_dared to make any such statement as the
shove respecting their hours of work. The Standard
had already stated, in the very same leading article, that
of the factory workers 53 per cent. are under the age of
21. All but the ignorant know, and none but the ill-in-
tentioned would knowingly falsify such a circumstance--
that the maximum of work allowed in cotton mills to
hands under twenty-one is twelve hours during five days
of the week, and nine hours on'Saturdays. Fifty-three
per cent. of the workpeople being, it appears, under
twenty-one, it is impossible that mills should be kept open
longer than the hours we have last mentioned. Under
thirteen years of age the Act of 1833 restricted the hours
of work still farther to eight; and the present Government
measure propose farther restriction. We are not now
discussing the policy of such legislation—it proceeds on
the idea of protecting infants—hich is the sole prin-
ciple the Standard lays down, and then, as we have
seen, proceeds to falsify the present state of facts.
We advise the Herald to pause, before it has next
the effrontery to provoke exposures of such treatment of
facts by its evening partner or by, itself—by indulging
iinngs:Lch„
Wesilly
must ,
andgratuitous insolence as the follow-
ureservedly declare, that we have
scarcely seen an article in the London press, on the
side of cruelty, which has not borne upon it the most
evident signs of the kindred vice of falsehood." As the
Herald has the cool assurance to name the Globe in con-
junction with such such language, it would have done
well to adduce, if it could, an instance of the " kindred
vice" in our columns. Really parties, whose lights (or
firebrands) are the Oastlers and Ferrands, should hold
their pens, if possessed of common prudence, respeoting
that vice at least.

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HAMBTJRGH MAIL.
DRESDEN, APRIL 29.—Queen Victoria will not come to
Germany this summer, but the King of Saxeny will.go to
England on the 29th of May, to pay a visit to the English
Court.. His. Majesty will also visit Scotland. The whole
joarney is to be accomplished in six weeks.
BERLIN, APRIL 29.—We hear that a Cabinet order has
been issued by the King, directing that the draft of the
penal code shall be again laid before the Provincial Assem-
blies. It is affirmed that it declares that corporeal punish-
ment; shall be abolished. With respect to the Rhenish Pro-
vince, Commissioners are to be appointed, who are to give
opinion on the compatibility of the draft of the penal code
with the trial by jury.
BERLIN, APRIL 30.—Senor Oliveira, attached to the Por-
tuguese Legation at Berlin, is daily expected here with the
ratification of the treaty of navigation concluded some weeks
ago between Prussia and Portugal. Baron Kenduffe the
Portuguese Ambassador, is, if not engaged in negotiation
yet, on the point of opening them for a commercial treaty
with the Customs' Union.
ST. PETERSBURGrt, APRIL 27.—1 t was not till the night
before last that the Neva at this city was freed from its icy
covering, though it was cleared a week ago at its issue from
Lake Ladoga and further down. The breaking up of the ice
here took us quite by surprise, so that no preparations were
made fbr taking up the greet floating;bridge between Waseitr
Ostrow and this city. The bridge was therefore carried down
the river by the pressure of the ice to the island Kutusoff.
The communication between the city and the islands is at
this moment-interrupted- by the ice coming down from Lake
Ladoga. The breaking up of the ice in the Neva always has
an unfavourable influence on the temperature. On this occa-
sion it is accompanied with cold, disagreeable weather and a
fall of snow.
STOCKIIOI*.APRIL funeral of the late King
took place on the 26th with great pomp ; the weather
being extremely fine, the streets were crowded with people
from an early hour to see the procession pass, and all the
windows and roofi pf the houses were filled with company.
The manufacturers of the town of Norrkoping have re-
solved to erect an equestrian statue in honour of the late
King. Above 20,000 dollars were subscribed in the first few
days.
It is reported in Stockholm that the King, to save ex-
penses, doees not intend to be crowned in either of the two
kingdoms, since three other European Sovereigns, the Kings
of France, Prussia, and Belgium, have not been crowned.
BRUSSELS, MAY 7.—The average price of Wheat last week
was 17f. 32c., and that of Rye 10f. 61c. The duties of cus-
toms remain unchanged.
The Chamber of Representatives continued to-day the de-
bate on the opinion of the Committee of Commercial Inquiry.
Only four Members spoke—Messrs. Verhaegen and Hoff-
Schmidt advocated the system of differential duties, which
was warmly opposed by Messrs. Vandensteen and Delfosse.
To-morrow the debate will be opened by M. Ch. de Brorie-
kere, who will speak in favour of the measure.

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• ROYAL ACADEMICIANS' BOAT RACE.
The gentlemen of the Royal Academy Boat Club on Thurs-
day opened their season with a very spirited four-oared cutter
race, the crews, as usual, being drawn by lot. The match had
been originally fixed for Tuesday, but as the tide would not
serve after four in tho afternoon, and as that early hour was
inconvenient to boaters in general, it was postponed until
Thursday, when the gentlemen met at their rooms, at the
Messrs. Searle's, and their names having been drawn, took
their seats in the following order :
Yellow-1. Dearmer. 2. Emery. 3. H. M. Cooper. 4.
Atkinson. Cameron, steerer.
Green-1. Rainback. 2. C. Carpenter. 3. D. Cooper. 4
Harpole. C. D. Smith, steerer.
Blue—l. Howard. 2. Moorhead. 3. Knox. 4. Revel.
C. Smith, steerer.
At a quarter past ten they took their stations at Westmin-
ster-bridge to race to Putney, blue being on the Middlesex
side, green on the Surrey, and yellow in the middle. On the
signal being given, blue took the lead, followed by yellow,
green being close up. A very splendid pull followed between
yellow and blue, who drew a length or more in advance of
the third boat, which ultimately ended in yellow taking th -
lead off the Penitentiary, and showing the party the nearest
route to Putney-green ; then came up to blue, and challenged
them to a fresh struggle, and after a very lengthened sport,
on their arrival at Vauxhall-bridge, green overhauled their
opponents and went into the second place. Yellow had by
this time drawn so far ahead as to make their victor);
barring accident, certain, and they continued to lead well
the
entire way, and won by nearly twenty lengths; green wan
second, and blue close behind them. The Guys, the -Aca-
demy eight, the St., George's, and a good sprinkle of lesser
boats were out.

MORE DISCONTENT.—The collectors of taxes are
now making (for just cause) additional complaint respecting
their per centage. The Government officers have orders not
to allow them per centage below 18s. ; thus, if a collector pays
10/. 18s., nothing is allowed upon the shillings. Now, col-
lectors have very often more trouble in collecting 18s. than
18/. ; for instance, two dogs at Bs. 9d. each of two labourers,
and those trivial sums, have to be collected (just the same
as large amounts) at two half years. But, mark, the Go-
vernment charge duty down to 10d. I Well may public dis-
contenPeel t
pa graduallyrty increase, and even, as it does, amongst
the .
THE NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL.--The just tribute
due to Mr. Rowland Hill seems to progress favourably
throughout the country, and will do more so when the plans
of committees get into working. Poor people appear anxious
to give their penny.each, and other individuals according to
their relative situations in life.
FANCY FAIR.—On 'Thursday a sale of useful and
ornamental work took place at Willis's Rooms, in aid of the
objects of the Church Missionary Society in China, the Lon-
don Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews in
Jerusalem, and the Protestant Association in England. A
large number of ladies had stalls, and the articles exposed
for sale were rapidly disposed of to great advantage.
DEATH Or LADY LECALE.--By the demise of
this lady the Leinster &Tully are placed in mourning. Her
Ladyship died at her seat in Devon, on Monday last, in
her 66th Year. In 1808, her Ladyship married Lord Charles
Fitzgerald, third son of James, Ist Duke of Leinster, created
in the following year Baron Lecale, a title which he only
enjoyed for a year after his creation, for he died in 1810.
The late Lady Lecale was widow of M;.. T. Carton, previous to
marrying Lord Charles Fitzgerald.
ROBBERY or A PUBLICAN.—On Tuesday the now
old scheme of plundering was successfully applied at the
house of Mr. Woodrough,
.the Peacock, Newington-butbs.
Two well-dressed persons having entered the house aed.2
call-
ing for refreshment, particularly requested to be 1
conse-
quence to transact, a private room. They
had
d scruple int
with pen, ink, and paper, and, as they had busaiiiiiesthsefoualipcponse--
ance of respectable tradesmen, so were without
exthaectlfy what
tdhuecyeddteosairerolomlutp
asdtajoiris,newdhitelhie wbae.sci-rooofcnolusrsoe,f
to lock
whom
operations,s he hadnont oown
only
sup_
plied d • -
plied with what they called for. She had scarcely descended
which, however, the servant took the precaution
rnesthheeyretmireusdtfrohmaytehecosmtrmanegneersed,
:ehfoe
theycould not pick, it was a patent one ; but having
which
with another, they entered the bed-roo
the refreshments, but on the locks of the bed-rooms ;.one of
easily succeeded
,bed-rooms,
and speedily removed a writing-desk which contained coma,
jewellery, and other articles, amounting to nearly twenty
ds. They succeeded in escaping.
Thursday
Pln'inl FEMALE SERVANTS' HOME.---0/1
the ninth annual general meeting of the
e,bib awl
in the chair. The
friends to the London Female Servants' Hom took place at
Exeter Hall, John Labouchere, Esq.,
insC Chairman it rhms
that
observedtnhe difficulties that
thhee
itnhteemntitoontsakofe
tohnee
isneteptanfuittiohner_
swoaseiegrt ahtdedhatod itnofoenrineottelmteaat-
y. a been overcome, and the increase in the funds had enabled
twenty' homes in various part f morieTnejta:raleof
were no less than from ten to fifteen thousand female ser-
vants
when annually out of employment in this metropolis, and
they considered the temptations' and impositions to
which they were sullied, institutions
which the establishment - of
which not only afforded them religious instruction, but all the
comfottS of a well-conducted home, was of The greatest pos-
sible advantage.—(Hear, hear.) The Rev. Mr. Rowe, the
secretary, read the report, which set forth that. prudential
motives had dictated to the Committee the propriety of not
extending the operations of the Society until the present
year; and an additional home to the one in Nutford-placa,
Edgware-road, had recently been' established in Hatton-
garden, in consequence of the means of the Society, through
recent bequests and donations, having been sufficient to liqui-
date-the debt existing during the previous year. During the
past year, up to the 25th of hlaroh last, there had been 2311
admissions to the home at Nutford-place, and the sum re-
ceived from servants"was 44/. 13s. The total number admit-
ted since the formation of the Society was 1,623. The re.
ceipts for .the past year, including subscriptions, was 200/.,
and there was now a balance in the hands of the treasurer of
100/. The Rev. Mr. Dibdin moved the adoption of the re-
port, which was carried unanimously; and a no.mber of gen-
tlemen having spoken on the advantages of the Society, sub.
scriptions were entered into, and thauks being given to the
Chairman, the meeting separstsd.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT,--3n Wednesday night last,
shortly before Aim otclOck, a most serious accident oceurred
to a little girl, named Seymour, residing with her parents its
p:;...rby-mews, Carson-street. It appears that the little
girl, who had strayed from her home, whilst Crossing
Piccadilly* opposite the Duke of Devonshire's mansion, was
knocked down by an omnibus going in
,the direction of
Kensington. Some passers-by, who saw the danger of
the child, helloed to the driver, who instantly stopped
the horses ; but not before the near horse had knocked her
down, and the fore wheel passed over both legs, besides
grazing her shoulder in a most frightful manner. She
was picked up, and about to be taken to the hospital, when,
the driver, jumping off the box, discovered her to be his
own child. He immediately took her home, where she no*
lies in a most precarious state, without the slightest hopes st
rearery.

The. General Steam Navigation Company's Mail
Packet Venezuela, Capt. .11:thn Fife, arrived at her moorings,
off the Tower at five yesterday morning, with the Hamburgh
Mail.
10011 The dosan, with the Liget Maigarrived on Thursday
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IRELAND.' -Ti It
THE SPY SYSTEAL, - -
Vim" MAT B.—Mr. Martley, Q.C., who presided -al the
investigation at Shinrone, has :presented his report to the
Government,- detailing the horrible system of: getting up
Ribbon prosecutions_ in thrt part, of the King's Contity, in
which policemen were implicatedri..V7Said that the Go-
vonnient have deterxnined uppn of three of the
pliee—one of
_t tientA nif _superi St,-tri on in the force
—and alio upon the removal to another station of a :civil
officer holding-an appointment in the district:----
The provincial papers, received this. -morning, contain
further revelations respecting this atrocious spy system.
The Tipperary Vindicator states that a policeman ha 4 been
detected in circulating a vile publication, entitled, " The
Straddler defeated," the object of which was to inflame the
Roman Catholic population. An inquiry was in progress by
tht local authorities.
The Linierkk Reporter of yesterday contains the fol-
lowing ...
:-- . ,
"MORN PADDY M'KEtv-iSm.—Two ruffians of this descrip-
tion, who trade upon the lives and liberties of the incautious
and unwary, have been prowling the country under the cha-
racter of tinkers, with an ass and car, and two children in it ;
and, strange to say, that although in every other respect
under the. character, of, and representing themselves as,
tinkers, they had no budget or tools belonging to the trade.
Having arrived in the district of O'Brien's-bridge, on Satur-
day last, instead of inquiring if there were any pots, bellows,
or kettles to mend,' their whole inquiries were about the state
of the country and the feelings of the people. The Repealers
of the district, Suspecting their character to be assumed, im-
mediately informed the police, who apprehended them. The
police, finding they could not give a satisfactory account of
themselves,. searched the car and their persons, when they
"found-With-them two blunderbusses, two cases of pistols, a
mould for making' balls, as.also the materials and mode of
making powder. This unique pair of tinkers were accord-
ingly marched off by the police to Killaloe,_ and having un •
dergone an examination before Captain Martin, J.P., were
fully' committed to the county gaol at Ennis. , There can be
i
no doubt but that the ruffians ntended, firkt•O'seduce some
unwary persons, then to supply them with-powder and- ball,
and afterwards inform against them."
mi.: O'Connell, accompanied by his son, Mr. John O'Con-
nell, ALP., leaves town this day or to-morrow for London, to
attend the discussion on the Irish Municipal Bill.
The Tipperary Vindicator states that six families wpm last
week evicted for non-title, from Kildangan, in that county,
the property of Lord Norbury. Three of the families were
subsequently allowed to re-enter their holdings.