The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, SEPT. 21.—The Lord Bishop of Exeter
has pi esented the Rev. William Mallock, of Balliol
College, to the rectory of Cheriton Bishop, in the
county of Devon ; value 3211. per annum.
The Rev. John Adams, student of Christ Church,
has been appointed to the curacy of Saltash, Cornwall.
The first honorary canonry, founded in Bristol Ca-
thedral by the recent order in council, has been con-
ferred on the Rev. G. N. Barrow.

.E. B. N. Dickenson, Esq., and lady, have presented
the Rev. W. P. Borrett to the rectory of Siston in the
county or Gloucester; value 323/. per annum.
The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. John•
Lister to the vicarage of Thorpe, in the county of
Surrey ; value 1411. per annum.
J. E. Pattenson, Esq., has presented the Rev. R. C.
Patterson to the rectory of Melmerbey, Cumberland;
value 1721. per annum.

The Rev. H. Tull has been appointed to the in-
cumbency of St. John's Church, Cowhill, Oldham,
Lancashire.

The Head Mastership of the Monmouth Grammar
School has been conferred on the Rev. J. D. Wather-
stone.

C. B. P. Foley, Esq., has presented the Rev. L. E.
Brown to the vicarage of Dormington, with the per-
petual curacy of Bartestree annexed, in the county of
Hereford ; value 2841. per annum.
R. B. Price and V. Pocock, Esqrs., have presented
the Rev. R. H. Harrison to the p?rpetual curacy of
Builth, Brecknockshire; value 1061. per annum.
The valuable vicarage of Milverton, in the gift of
the Archdeacon of Taunton, has become vacant by
the death of the Rev. J. T. Trevelyan, at Madeira.

WILL OF SIR WILLIAM HEYGATE, BART.—The
will of Sir William Heygate, Bart., late Chamberlain of
the City of London, formerly alderman of Coleman-
. street ward, has just been proved in Dactors'-commons,
by Dame Isabella Heygate, widow, and Sir William Hey •
gate, the son, two of the executors, a power of proving
being reserved for a son under' age, and a sister of the
testator. The property is sworn under 45,0001. He
gives to his wife, Dame Heygate, 1001. a year, and the
use of Roecliffe Hall, Leicester, with the plate, pictures,
&c., belonging thereto, for her life, and at her death to
his oldest son, if not purchased as stated below. Ile
directs his property to be divided into five parts, to be
distributed as follows:--Two parts to his eldest son, and
the remaining three parts to three other sons, on the
death of his wife, but till that event they are to be suit-
ably provided for. To his brother, sister, and other
relatives mourning rings. To his servants 201., to be
divided among them. Roecliffe Hall and his other pro-
perty to be offered to his sons (if they wish to become
purchasers), at a fair valuation. The will is short, and
in the deceased's handwriting.
THE BASTARDY Law.—lt is material for the
mother of a bastard child to know (and we take oppor-
tunity of noticing it in time) that, when they have
obtained an order against the father, she must not allow
the weekly pay to run over thirteen weeks, as, if she
does, no more than thirteen weeks pay can be recovered
for her. Though the Act of Parliament authorises a
woman to swear her child before birth, it is of no use
doing so, as nothing can be done with the father until
after birth, when she would have to apply again. This
is a serious defect in the new enactment, as the mother
may die in child-bed, and, in that case the father of the
offspring could not be reached. It is also a pity but this
law had extesnded to childre» born a year (instead of six
months) before the Act was passel—From a Corre-
spondent.
REDUCTION OF FARES ON THE BIRMINGHAM RAIL-
WAY.—The passenger fares and charges for goods on
the London and Birmingham Railway are to be consi-
derably reduced on and after the Ist of next month ;
and at the same time, or shortly afterwards, other alte-
rations, tending to the increased accommodation of the
public, will be introduced.—Thilivoy Record.
SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY AFTERNOON.—The ex-
cursion train to London for Bs. second class thence and
back any time before Wednesday afternoon next, and
15s. the first class, left at half past three o'clock this
afternoon, the time specified, to a minute. It comprised
fifteen second-class and two first-class carriages, taking
together about 400 passengers. It was joined at Bishop-
stoke station by another train from Gosport,.whieh also
had a great many passengers. No less than 240 came
over from Guernsey and Jersey this morning, in the
Calpe, be-ides which number there were about 100 on
ordinary pleasure excursions and business.
REDUCTION OF RAILWAY FARES.—OH the first of
next month a very considerable reduction will be made
in the fares on the London and Birmingham railway.—
Leicestershire Mercwy.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Sir Andrew Agnew's address to Lord
Aberdeen; to see the manner in which her Majesty
keeps her
,Sundays, while she continues in Scotland,
is a graceful display of the mantle of John Knox
fallen on lay shoulders. In the sixteenth century,
clerical monitions to Majesty_ at church and at Court
were more frequent, and much more violent, than
attack; on crowned heads now are in the " leading
artieles " of the most Republican shade of the
Fourth Estate. The Church reformers were a
real Fourth Estate, representing (like the press at ex-
cited epochs) the movement of the public mind in
antagonism to, or independence of, the other three.
The last Queen who was admonished about her reli-
gious observances in Scotland, was thrown by educa-
tion, and by most natural repugnance to rude schooling,
into that attitude of antagonism to popular feeling which
happily has no parallel now. The impulse of Mary,
and the elaborate impolicy of her son, in opposition to
that feeling, have been judged by history ; but the dar-
ing novelty of style (presuming on a divine commission)
has not been taken quite sufficiently into account as
necessarily revolting those " born in the purple"—at a
time when royalty had a much more unapproachable
sense of itself than it has now. It was, in fact, the
old sacred majesty of the throne and the new sacred
assumption of the pulpit confronting each other, with-
out any Softening medium—things which would asto-
nish us, signed " Publicola" or " Brutus" in Sunday
papers, were said att.-btu-eh to hearers humming as-
sent, or even at court, in the ears of royalty. Some-
times, indeed, couched in a Latin epigram—as that
most slashing one which poor King Jamie, seeing the
listener smile, made Andrew Melville repeat to him,
and the occasion of which was the monarch's broad
and undignified mirth, while in deep mourning for his
mother—

" Seilicet hic matrem plorat ut illa patrem."
It would he difficult to kill two royal birds with
one stone more succinctly; and such an epigram, re-
peated to a King in his own court, " bangs Ba-
sagher." The comparison of the son's hypocrisy in
pretending to mourn his mother, with that mother's
hypocrisy in pretending to mourn his (James's)
father (whom the epigrammatist, of course, takes it
for granted she murdered), is certainly the coolest on
dit ever Latinised impromptu in royalty's ears.
Honest Andrew stipulated he should take no
harm for it before he repeated it to his Majesty;
and, we have no doubt, thought it by much too
good a joke to be lost. He had afterwards
leisure to compose more such epigrams—in the
Tower. The modern Andrew accosts the milder
Aberdeen with more courtly circumbendibus. He
does not state, or even insinuate, any. Old Testament
parallels. He does not accost the royal conscience
with quite the same plainness as Knox. "Con-
science requires knowledge; but you have no more
anal knowledge than the Jews who crucified Christ."
Indeed, as the modern Andrew avows, he has no sort
of occasion or plea to do so. He expresses his
" thankfulness to Almighty God, who at another
time put it into the heart of our Prot?stant Queen
to hallow the holy day of the Lord of the Sab-
bath, in a foreign land." Sir Andrew does not allege
that her Majesty has since shown any lapse from
Protestantism, or any the slightest disposition to
swerve from exemplary religious observance. He
considers, however, and he undertakes to speak
in the name (though without having had time to
" gather" the signatures), of " the friends of the
observance of the Lord s:day in Scotland—that
her Majesty's good habits cannot be trusted
to continue—without his intervention ! We have
hesitated to notice this absurd impertinence; and
we have now done with it. But it gives us a
peg on which to hang perhaps an impertinence of
our own. We have sometimes thought (and pro-
vincial communications have confirmed our impres-
sion) that the Royal Family of late divest themselves
a little too entirely of what the French call " repre-
sentation," throughout their provincial progresses.
It is not of course to be expected that her Ma-
jesty should submit to pompous and triumphal
doings immediately after the fatigues of sea voy-
ages; or allow the atra cura of Court ceremonial
to _ pursue her to Blair Athol. 'However,
in our humble, but very loyal view, the dis-
appointment expressed so often, that the Queen ap-
pears to all her remoter subjects "just like any other
lady"—is not altogether without some ground, and
without some claim on attention. 'We have had long
letters on former occasions, in grievous complaint of
her Majesty's fast trains—and of her plain straw
bonnet. We were witnesses to decided disappointment
last year on the part of "Young Bristol," when Prince
Albert came to launch the Great Britain in a plain
black coat, and white waistcoat—just like any other
gentleman ! Provincial spectators understand this taste-
ful and unassuming style just as little as those habi-
tuated to splendours understand the provincial appetite
for them. But, after all, is it not natural enough that
her. Majesty's loyal subjects, who are not gratified, as
Londoners are, with the sight of royal personages,
and processions on the grand state occasions, should
desire, once in their lives, to see something corres-
ponding with all they have been accustomed to hear
and imagine of those occasions ? It must, however,
be admitted that those who recollect " George the
Magnificent," and his ideas of all that graced royalty,
may well rejoice in the present contrast.

STANDARD.—An article of this morning's
Times recall us to a subject upon which we have
more than once claimed the attention of our readers—
emigration. The remarks of the Times are crude
and ill. natured enough, but they suggest by these
very faults considerations which it may be well for
the public to weigh with care. The Times sneers at
plans of emigration as schemes of cheap and hypo-
critical benevolence, and asks, with an air of
insulting triumph, why the English aristocracy,
imitating the early Greek, and, we suppose,
earlier Phoenician, founders of States, do not
hiemselves embark as emigrants. All this is
very foolish, if no worse. An extensive drain
by emigration is a necessity to a great and an
advancing country, whether that country is or
is not peopled up to its capacity, or even
within a tenth of its capacity. The solution of
this paradox, if it deserves the name, is obvious.
The country may not be overstocked, but the
classes into which its 'social circumstances have
cast the population easily may run to excess ;
and it is the surplus of classes for which there
is no recipient at home, which claims relief
by emigration. It is easy to say, reform your
social system, so as to provide at home far all.
But, besides that this has never been done, and that
it is obviously opposed to the great scheme of Divine
wisdom in the government of the world, to what
would it amount but to a plan to imprison nations and
to starve them after arriving at the point at which
population might pass production ? No ; emigration
is necessary for the happiness of all in a progres-
sive country—for the happiness of those who
emigrate, as well as of those who remain, espe-
cially necessary to protect the social state from a
constant tendency to deterioration. One of two
things you must have, a check to the increase of
population, which can be obtained only by the
agency of misery or vice, or room for the additions
made to the people in their several classes. With
whatever motives, therefore, emigration may be
recommended, the proposition is nevertheless one de-
serving of all favour. We believe that generally of
late years emigration has been recommended in a sin-
cere and benevolent spirit, and we will not admit the
sneering suggestion of the Times, as to the emigra-
tion of the aristocracy, as any argument to the
contrary. The aristocracy, generally so called,
are the landholders of the country. They are
the adseripti glebce, exactly the one class to whom
locomotion is by circumstances forbidden. What
rational motive can he supposed, to influence :the
possessor of acres in Kent or Devon to sell his
estates, and " seek new seats beyond the western
main," or the southern main, or any other sea?
And not only to seek new seats, but new society and
on
new social duties, for in selling his estates he separates
himself from the tenantry and
anxiety
as for whom, as a Christian anandil e
English
of gentleman,
insincerity
he is bound to provide with almost
theas f otheir aristocracy, r hs
partown whenthe re family.for e is
, they he
proof
recommend emigration.
Ha who suggests to a young friend to try his fortune
abroad is not less sincere or friendly in offering the
sug6stion, because his own business, by which he
is to support his wife and children and maintain
his and their position in society, keeps himself at borne.
Still every one must see that emigration is not
yet placed upon a satisfactory footing, and must
admit that our colonial system would be infinitely
improved by a more just and natural proportioji in
the classes of emigrants going out; or by sending
forth, as it were, our colonial societies "in frame,`'
instead of sending nothing but the raw material,
and that of the plainest quality and in the rudest state.

The Siren, Commander Smith, arrived at Madras
from Moulmein on the 16th of July.

IRELAND.
A NEW TORY MOVEMENT.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 21.—A special meeting of the
Corporation of Dublin has been convened by the
Lord Mayor for Wednesday next, to. consider a pro-
position from a Tory member of the Town Council,
that the British Parliament should assemble in Dublin
every third year.
This is one of the many curious signs of the times.
Mr. O'Connell finds Tory rivals in the field of agi-
tation. Mr. Grey Porter, the high sheriff of the
Orange county of Fermanagh, has opened the way
for another movement, which may be called Tory
federalism. Meantime, the repeal movement is
daily obtaining new auxiliaries; in fact, the Ministry
have no party in Ireland, and there is no section of
the population, high or low, bound to the present
Government by the ties of sympathy or interest. In
Ireland, certainly, the Administration of Sir Robert
Peel has been a total failure, and the fate of his
monster persecution has rendered that failure still
more manifest to all.
TORY POLICY IN IRELAND.
It was rumoured in this city yesterday and to-day
that the Ministry are determined, by extreme mea-
sures of coercion, to grapple _with the repeal agita-
tion. Such a course, under existing circumstances,
would be rank insanity. The following are remarks
on the subject from the Dublin Evening Post of this
afternoon :
" We hear of some obscure mutterings of compul-.
sion—of vigour beyond .the law, in Ireland. Troops
are again accumulating in the country, and at that
we rejoice, because it will cause an expenditure in the
country towns. But we learn, also, that it has been
gravely mooted whether it would not be expedient to
suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, and proclaim martial-
law, trusting to Parliament for a Bill of indemnity.
The reader may laugh, but let him not be too-sure;
a mortified and disappointed Administration may have
recourse to the direst, the most ridiculous extremities.
"We confess, we are ourselves hard of belief. We
cannot think it possible that, in a season of profound
and unbroken tranquillity, like the present, men
would be mad enough to recur to a system of coercion,
that must inevitably terminate in their own destruc-
tion. But circumstances have come to our knowledge
which induce us to lend some attention to the story.
What they are, or how they have been obtained, it is
not necessary for us, at least for the present, to state.
One thing is, however, plain. We must render these
wicked councils abortive. We must maintain tran-
quillity in word and deed.

" Mr. O'Connell, we will venture to affirm, should
these rumours have reached him, will know how to
act. But, indeed, since his delivery from the lion's
den, his conduct has been signalised by an energy—a
prudence and an earnestness of purpose which appears
to have completely bewildered the enemies of Ireland,
whether in the Cabinet or in the purlieus of the
Castle. We may assert, with confidence, that he will
not be taken at a disadvantage, and if he be not, the
country is safe. Yes, the tone must be that of
conciliation, of liberality—yea, to a certain extent, of
concession to the honest prejudices or convictions of
honest Irishmen. All parties are now persuaded that
the present crisis must eventuate in a change of
some kind. It will be our duty to take care to give
the public enemy no advantage. To Mr. O'Connell
a great task is given—a heavy responsibility. He
may sway the- repealers by a word; but if we might
venture to address him in the name of the Whigs and
Reformers of Ireland, and of England too, we should
say that they rely upon his judgment, his patriotism,
an 1 his moderation, in the difficulties which they
already perceive gathering round the country. We
shall say no more for the present."
CHARITABLE BEQUESTS ACT—PROTEST
OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY.
This protest, which was referred to a few days
since, has been published. It is as follows :
" We, the undersigned archbishops, bishops, and
priests of the Ro nan Catholic Church in Ireland,
having studied with attention the provisions of the
Act of Charitable Bequests, take the earliest opportu-
nity which the unavoidable delay of consultation
allowed us, to declare our conviction, that the mea-
sure is fraught with the worst consequences to re-
ligion, and, if carried into operation, will finally lead
to the subjection of the Roman Catholic Church in
Ireland to the temporal power.
"Instead of a concession, it is a new penal law of
the old leaven, forbidding the dying sinner, in his
most sincere moments—the time of his last sickness—
to lee deem his sins by the bequest of a single acre of
laed property, for any religious or charitable pur-
pose in our communion.

" It enacts that Roman Catholics—perhaps bishops
—should they be found to consent, shall be the per-
sons to carry out the spirit, indeed the letter, of a
penal clause in the late Act of Catholic Emancipation,
which excluded the religious orders :throughout
Great Britain from the benefits of that Act, and
against which the secular clergy, in a petition to Par-
liament, solemnly protested.
" It provides for the nomination by the Crown of
five persons professing the Roman Catholic religion.
They may be laymen, who have neither practical reli-
gion nor faith to recommend them, and whose province
shall be to judge of matters vitally connected with our
doctrine and discipline. If bishops, they will be called
on, in the exercise of their functions as commissioners,
to interfere and pronounce in spiritual matters belong-
ing to the jurisdiction of other bishops, which is a
flagrant violation of the canons of our Church. In
cases within their own especial jurisdiction, they will
have to deciie, not in virtue of the inherent powers of
their holy order, but by the license and authority of
the Crown, which would be a virtual surrender of
their sacred office and jurisdiction to the authority of
the State.

"We beg leave, therefore, most firmly, but most
respectfully, to protest against a board so constructed,
whether lay or ecclesiastical. If it is to be composed
of laymen of State nomination, we must view it as a
step towards the introduction of faithless and in-
terested politicians to tamper with the independence
of our Church, for the purpose of forwarding,the anti-
Catholic views of men in power, and of promoting
their own personal interests. If the board is to be
composed of bishops, similarly appointed, we must re-
gard the novel project of selecting Ministerial favou-
rites from the hierarchy as most calculated, at once,
to create divisions in our body, to the well-being of
which union and harmony are so essential; and to
weaken, and finaally destroy, the confidence of our
faithful people, who, having expressed so much
feverish anxiety at the mention of their clew being
pensioned, cannot fail of being alarmed at seeing them
accept of places and patronage under the Crown.
" For these and other reasons, which could not be
crowded into a short form of declaration, we protest
against the Act of Charitable Bequests, and declare
our determination to oppose it by all legal and con-
stitutional means in our power.
_ _ . _

" JOHN MACHALE, Archbishop of Tuam.
P. APNICHOLAS, Bishop of Achonry.
k JAMES KEATING, Bishop of Ferns.
k PATRICK M'GETTIGAN, Bishop of Raphoe.
• CORNELIUS EGAN, Bishop of Kerry.
.1 EDMOND FFRENCH, Bishop of Kifmacduagh
and Kilfenora.
• WILLIAM HIGGINS, Bishop of Ardagh.
4 JOHN CANTWELL, Bishop of Meath.
k GEORGE J. P. BROW.N, Bishop of Elphin.
• THOMAS COEN, Bishop of Clonfert.
k NICHOLAS FORAN, Bishop of Waterford and
Lismore.
k THOMAS FERNY, Bishop of Killala.
k C. 11FNALLY, Bishop of Clogher.
LAURENCE OTONNEL, V.G. of the Diocese of
Galway."
_ _ _

In addition, there are, attached to this important
document the signatures of between five and six
hundred Catholic clergymen ; and it is stated that a
supplemental list is in course of signature.
OFFICIAL INQUIRY—SHINRONE POLICE.
On Monday next, J. R. Corballis, Esq., Q.C., is,
by orders of the Lord Lieutenant, to hold. an investi-
gation into the conduct of some of the police from the
Shinrone station. The court will be open to the
public, and is to be held in the Land Commission.
office, Dublin Castle.

The Evening Post says—"ln selecting Mr. Cor-
ballis for this duty, Lord Heytesbury has acted fairly
and wisely, as no more honourable or efficient man
could be found at the bar. Mr. Medley, v., had
held previous inquiries respecting the vile system of
concocting fraudulent prosecutions, in which several
of the police at Shinrone have been implicated. But
a further and still more searching investigation has
been rendered indispensable by facts placed beforo the
Government.