The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

UNGRATEFUL TREATMENT.

The ladies, who unquestionably were the very best
props of the
.Non-Intrusion cause—who ran about with
the Sustentation lists, and chalked the very doors with
a cross if they did not succeed in getting the counten-
ance or aid of the inmates,—the Free Church ladies,
who, for so doing, were coaxed and flattered by Mr.
Maitland Macgill Crichton of Rankeilor, and others of
the lay and clerical leaders, including Monzie, Mr. Fox
Maule, and Mr. Begg, of Libberton, &c.,—and who were
solemnly assured that their right to vote in the
election of Free Church ministers and elders, or
other officers, would be duly considered and fa vour-
bly entertained, if not absolutely recognised in the
Free Assembly, which sat in Glasgow last autumn; but
which right to vote was then postponed till the next
meeting of the Free Assembly, now sitting in Edinburgh
—these ladies are doomed, we fear, to another disap-
pointment at the hands of the Free, because we look in
vain for any, the least notice, yet taken of them in this
Free Assembly. Can this be possible ? Can it be pos-
sible that the leaders are now turning their backs upon
the ladies, and leaving them where they found them,
minus the moneys ? It will be exceedingly ungrateful,
besides ungallant and treacherous, if this be so. We
are aware that the Free House is very mush divided on
the subject, but that is no reason why the promised vote
should not be taken one way or other.
We beg pardon of the ladies for attending to their
claims. We could not offend them,—we love them too
well for that,—and it is because we wish to see them
fairly and honourably treated, without any flirtation in
the case, from laymen or ecclesiastics, that we have
presumed to throw out these gentle observations.—
Scotch Reformers' Gazette.

Lord Morpeth arrived at Naworth Castle, from
Castle Howard, on Wednesday afternoon, to see the ravages
which the fire had made on the stronghold of his great
Pleestor.—Carlide Journal.

EARL GREY.—We grieve to state that the vener-
able Earl is again suffering under severe illness, and several
members of the family have, in consequence, arrived at
llowick.—Newcastle Chronicle.

Mr. Charles Dickens is about to leave England for
a twelvemonths' residence abroad. We believe he ;n-
-tends to remain principally at Genoa.

The Cheviots and other high grounds to the north
and west have been, drying the present week, well capped
with snow.—Nctecastle Journal.
THE REV. MR. WOLFF'S MISSION TO BOKIIARA.—
We have the gratification of announcing that intelligence
has reached us, by the way of Trebizond and Malta, of the
safe arrival of this intrepid traveller at Meshed, from which
place he was to have taken his departure on the 21st of
March, under the escort to be furnished him by the Gover-
nor. The most perilous part of the journey, extending over
a space of 300 miles, was vet before him ; but he appeared
fully confident that, under Divine Providence, he should suc-
ceed in accomplishing the same. No freSh intelligence had
been collected touching the objects of his search, whose fate
continued still a matter of mystery. The contradictions in
the accounts lead rather to a hope that they will be found
alive, though perhaps the captives of the despotic and tyran
nical Ameer.
LORD BROUGIIAM.—The malice of the Post never
was more apparent, perhaps, than in charging Lord
Brougham, on Saturday, with love of gain, because he
raised the retiring pension of all Chancellors a thousand
a year, in 1931. It is perfectly notorious that this was
the measure of the colleagues of Lord Brougham, in
which he never interfered in any way whatever ; and
principally, that it was a compensation for the loss of 12
large sinecure places abolished by Lord Brougham that
year, one of which was nearly 8,000/. a year, and all of
which had been treated as private property by the Lord
Chancellors, his predecessors, and made the subject of
family settlements on the marriage of their daughters.
But the grossest part of this misrepresentation of the
Post is, the total omission of the consideration that two
of these sinecures, worth 3,500/. a year, were actually
vacant at the time, and might, before Lord Brougham's
Bill, have been filled up with young lives in his family,
as they had been by Lord Eldon.—Aforning Herald.
SCOTT MONDIIENT.—The Earl of Weymss has li-
berally transmitted 20/., and Mr. Paterson the banker
has remitted 15/., collected on his schedule in Dalkeith.
Upwards of 2,0001. have been contributed by the public
since the meeting, three months ago, at the Music Hall ;
the deficit, therefore, does not now amount to 1,0001.,
and as subscription lists still lie at the banks, club-houses,
and at the Royal Institution, the admirers of the genius
of our illustrious countryman, now in Edinburgh, who
have not yet contributed, have still an opportunity af-
forded them of assisting in completing this national
monument to his memory.—Scotsman.