The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-23 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOI? OF THE SUN.

Sra,—Some time since the Board of Customs were
memorialised on the subject of delay in the trans-
mission of duty warrants froni the Long-room to the
docks. Although the term " transmission of duty
warrants to the docks" was used, the fact was, the
delay took place in the Long-room before the
warrants were dispatched to the docks. The memo-
rial was transmitted to the proper authorities for in-
quiry, but the result has never appeared to the
public, for the evil remains unabated ; so that, in
order to insure the saving of your servant's time, and
that of your horse, should you cart your own goods
from the docks, you are necessitated to pay your
duty at least one day, that is to say, twenty-four
hours, before you send for your goods. But this is
not the only evil. As most of us act by example,
in many instances the Dock Companies, and officers
stationed there, require a day's notice, in conformity
with the example set them at the Long-room, and so
the evil spreads itself through every department.
I remain, Sir, yours, obediently,
A MERCHANT'S CLERK.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.—It is stated that
her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by some portion of tho infant Royal
Family, will visit Claremont for a day or two previously
to proceeding to London, for the purpose of opening
the New Royal Exchange. Saturday next is the day
spoken of for the departure of the Court from Windsor
for Claremont-house. Should the arrangements which
are at present in contemplation be carried into effect, her
Majesty and suite will leave Claremont on Monday
morning for Buckingham Palace, proceeding thence to
the City in the royal dress carriages, and returning to
Windsor Castle in the evening to dinner. Since the de-
parture of the King of the French, a great number of
persons of distinction, who had been favoured with
tickets from the Lord Chamberlain, have inspected the
suite of state rooms at the Castle, which had been left
in precisely to same stae, with all their manificen
embellishmenths, in which t
they were during theirg
occupa-
t
tion by the Queen's illustrious guest,. his Majesty Louis
Philippe. Workmen have been employed since yester-
day morning in removing some portions of the gorgeous
furniture, and making the necessary arrangements for
their being re-2ened to the public at the earliest period.
THE IRON HOOP AND OTHER STREET NUISANCES.

—The following clause of the New Metropolitan Police
Act, passed under the auspices of the Melbourne
Ministry in the summer of the year 1839, has been re-
ferred to lately by several of our correspondents ; so
that wo are induced to give it at length, for the informa-
tion of those who may be disposed to seek a legal remedy
for the dangerous nuisance of iron hoops in the roads
and on the foot-pavements of the metropolis. By the
54th section, " every person who shall roll or carry any
cask, tub,' hoop, or wheel, or any plank, ladder, pole,
show-board, or placard, upon any footway, except for
the purpose of loading or unloading any cart or carriage,
or of crossing the footway," is liable to a penalty of 405.,
and any police-constable is empowered and authorised to
take into custody, without warrant, any person who shall
commit the above offences within view of any such con-
stable. And now, by the way, that winter is drawing
near, and pedestrians are likely to be constantly
annoyed by having to wade through filth and slush,
which ought to be cleared away, it may be well to re-
mind householders, shopkeepers, and others, that by the
60th section of the same Act (2d and 3d Victoria, cap.
47) " every occupier of a house or other tenement in any
town within the limits of the metropolitan police dis-
trict, who shall not keep sufficiently swept and cleansed
all footways and watercourses adjoining to the premises
occupied by him," is liable to the same penalty of 40s.
for every such offence. The present worthy Chief
Magistrate, on entering upon his mayoralty a year ago,
expressed his determination to see the above provision
carried into effect, as well as several others enacted by
the Police Act for the prevention of public nuisances
generally. It is naturally impossible to conjecture what
course may be adopted by his successor at the Mansion-
house, but nobody, whose business or avocations daily
and hourly compel him to tramp the streets of our
terms of the Act, by keeping the pavement fronting
crowded
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we
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their premises in a tolerably clean and decent condition.
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haustible in providing sustenance, not
but our constant customer, John Bull. Salmon
natives, areankso
for some time been an article of. profitable export to
A NEW EXPORT FROM IRELANADm.
has --nieTkh°
that cheaper and more abundant dainty—eels?---There
the English market ; but what will the public think of
are ten tons of this prolific fish now in tanks at Killaloe,
awaiting a conveyance to London; and a vessel adapted
for the trade will take on board from this port in the m-
ailing week 40 tons of eels for the London market.

VIE POOR MAN'S CHURCH'
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.*
Sra,—l am not, generally in the habit of reading
rowels or romances, but I have lately been induced to
road one of cach clam ; the first a novel by Mrs.
Trollope, entitled " The Vicar of Wrexhill ;" the
second a romance by the Rev. W. G. Ward, Fellow
of' College, Oxford, rightly named, " An
Ideal Church." I have made several extracts from
pages 420, 421, 422, and 42€1, which are at your ser-
vice for publication, should you deem them worthy of
notice, on the principle that no reasonable man
would hesitate to stoop to pick a sovereign out of a
gutter.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.
Ilfracombe, Oct. 21. A PROTESTANT.

It has been so generally professed of late years,
that a Christian society is bound to be a Poor Man's
Church,' and that it Is the high and peculiar preroga-
tive of the Church to alleviate the misery of the
humble acid oppressed, that the task seem, incurnt,'fqit
on me—however ungrAtioug---of estimating the praises
heaped on the English system by this standard. Let
me ask, then, while all the frightful and accumulated
mass of misery which now oppresses our land was
gradually, during the last sixty years, growing to
head, where was the voice of the National Church

heard drawing attention to its growth ? That the
civil Government, who are obliged to cope, day by
day, with present and passing emergencies, should
not have had the leisure or the thought to take a de-
liberate and far-seeing view of our social condition,
this is hardly a matter of blame : but where was the
Poor Man's Church ?' How is it conceivable that
she can, at that time, have really thought or eared
for the poor, without becoming cognisant of the fatal
disease in progress, and loudly proclaiming its exist-
ence to the country and to the world ? What other
appellation than that of grossly and migerably corrupt
can we give to a system under which such monstrous
neglect was so much as possible ? Well—at length,
through no agency of hers, the attention of the whole
nation has been called, in some insufficient measure to
the perils under which we lie; all honour to Lord
Ashley, and his precursors and coadjutors in the noble
task ! Has the English Church at least exhibited the
grace of humiliation and repentance ? Has the blush
of shame been visible on our cheek ? Have her
ministers sorrowfully and contritely confessed their
sinful and unpardonable dereliction of duty, and taken
on themselves bitter shame, as fact after fact was
brought to light ?—facts which it was their bounden
duty long since to have dragged into the face of day,
and which place in still stronger colours the godless-
ness and depravity of vast portions of her flock. In-
credible as it might have appeared, the very con-
ception would seem never to have occurred to them :
with unruffled brow and complacent voice they have still
repeated their insane watchwords, ' pure and aposto-
heal," holy and venerable' Church, and have dared to
speak of the corruptions of other Christian bodies, when
they should rather have been in lowly and penitential
abasement, mourning those of their own. By what
process of effrontery can we bring ourselves so much
as to breathe the name of the 'Poor Man's Church' in
connexion with our system, if we are compelled to
acknowledge that nothing like this has been the case ?
For more than ten years the great principle has been
echoed from mouth to mouth, that our Church is no
creature of the State, that she derives her duties and

Ler privileges from a far Higher and more August
Authority. Has the zeal displayed for this principle
been only caused by our desire of having something
to say which shall close the mouth of Roman Catholic
and Dissenter? Or, if not so, how is it that we have
failed to see, that the more triumphantly we vindi-
cate this great truth, the more plainly we publish our
own shame ? For if it be directly by God, and not
by the State, that the poor are committed to our
charge, no supineness or neglect of our civil gover-
nors can do ought but even aggravate our own guilt,
in that we did not compensate for their slackness and
insensibility, by a double measure of zeal and watch-
fulness. When members of a Church, which has thus
basely betrayed her trust, find it difficult to conceive
that some among their brethren can, without the
most serious moral delinquency, abhor and denounce
the system under which such betrayal was possible ;
when they accuse us of violence, eccentricity, and
paradox, because we cannot consider a Church pure
which neither bears witness against wealth, nor pro-
tects poverty, I can only say, that our hatred of the
existing system cannot more offend them than their
toleration, nay, admiration of it, perplexes and asto-
nishes Ns.

"To be lukewarm, to be insensible of her own cor-
ruptions, to be loud in her own praise, are the notes
Liven in Scripture of that Church, which our blessed
ord will spue out of his mouth.'--(Rev. iii., 16,
17.) What is His judgment of our Church's practical
system ?—a system under which she tolerates almost
every variety of condemned and branded heresy ; and
under which her authorities seem really offended and
disgusted at only one class of opinions, those which
speak of her present condition as corrupt and almost
apostate. The closest approximation to denial of our
Lord is permitted without protest, much more, with-
out condemnation ; but an imputation on HERSELF she
cannot forgive."

ILLEGAL DETENTION OF THE
BRITISH CUTTER HERON.

GIBRALTAR, OCT. 12.—Mr. Hay, her Majesty's
Consul-General at Tangiers, has officially intimated,
in a letter dated the Bth, from Ceuta, where he had
accompanied, in the Spanish steamer Andaluz, Mr.
Beramendi, the Spanish Charge d'Affaires and Consul-
General, that in the terms of the late treaty between
Spain and Morocco, the Spanish lines, which extend
to several miles beyond Ceuta, and which, previous
to 1837, had been occupied by Spain for such a
length of time, have again been established.
The Governor of Ceuta, Don Antonio Ordonez,
with the Sheick of the district of Augers, as well as
Mr. Hay and Mr. I3eramendi, wore present on the
occasion. The very marked attention and politeness
of the Governor are spoken of in high terms, and the
fine appearance and martial bearing of the Spanish
military, employed in the re-occupation of the lines
(which was effected without any untoward popular
demonstration) would have done credit to the best
drilled troops in Europe.
The case of the Heron, British cutter, formerly
possessed by the Hon. Captain Ponsonby, which came
here the day before yesterday, after her liberation
from Almeria, is the last among many instances of the
galling surveillance, illegal detention, and, to use no
harsher term, unjust confiscation of cargo practised
on our regular traders, and it can therefore be a
matter of little surprise if, in the protection of our
commerce, accidents occur similar to what befel the
Spanish war-schooner last week, more particularly
when, as in that instance, the aggression was com-
mitted with such barefaced audacity under the very
guns of the batteries.
The Heron sailed from this port on the sth of last
month, with a general cargo, and her papers regularly
made out for Algiers ; when on the 9th, about 30 to
40 miles south of Carthagena, she was chased and
searched by a vessel of the Spanish coast-guard, which,
after some hesitation and delay, ultimately conveyed
her to Almeria, where her cargo was landed, and
placed in the Government store.
On the circumstance being communicated to the
owners here, and formal application made by them in
the proper quarter, the Warspite, which was about to
proceed to Barcelona and Malta, received instructions
to call at Almeria to demand her liberation ; but the
authorities there anticipating, it is conjectured, the
unwelcome visit, released her the day before the War-
spite arrived, and she only reached this the day before
yesterday (the 10th), of course with the loss of her
cargo, which, before it is given up, will entail legal
and other expenses, equal, it may be, to the value of
the seizure.

A company of 68 men of the Royal Sappers and
Miners arrived here yesterday by the Royal Tar
steamer ; and Captain Gordon's company (the 6th),
which has been stationed in this garrison since 1837,
being now relieved, will embark for England by the
same vessel to-morrow.

The inspection of the different regiments in the
garrison by his Excellency the Governor, which had
lasted during the greater part of the week, terminated
to-day with that of the 79th Highlanders. Although
the hour was early a considerable assemblage of spec-
tators was on the ground, and among strangers of all
different nations, not a few of our fair countrywomen
appeared to grace with their presence the inspection of
this highly-disciplined crack corps. The general ap-
pearance of the regiment was picturesque in the ex-
treme, and the fine bearing of the men, who are all
young, as well as the faultless precision of their varied
evolutions, excited a general and almost enthusiastic
admiration. The military display of the day termi-
nated with artillery practice from the saluting bat-
tery, on the Almeida, when three rounds of shot and
two of shell were fired from 25 guns, at a buoy placed
at a considerable distance out in the bay. Although
the
the buoy was not actually destroyed, sod
voerceyu correctpied its
was the firing, that had any small vessel
place, almost every shot wouldhavetsosld with certain
effect.

The Gazette of last night contains a Treasury
Warrant, dated the 18th instant, directing that, on and
after the sth of next month, British and Colonial news-
papers'will be taken in packet-boat to Venezuela, in South
America, free of postage ; but if in private hip, they
will be subjected to a charge of hi. each. A similar
permission is granted to Venezuelan newspapers brought
to England or the British colonies.
MONDAY'S HOLIDAY.—THE BANKS. At a meet-
ing of the Committee of Bankers, held on Monday last,
A. W. Robarts, Esq. in the chair, it was resolved,—
" That from the unavoidable obstruction. to business
which must necessarily take place on Monday, Oct. 28,
the day appointed by the Queen f
for attending the open-
ing of the Royal Exchange, it will be desirable, in con-
currence with the Bank of England, to close the several
banking-houses at twelve that day. The Committee,
therefore, recommend tho adoption of-such regulation." -