The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1842

AMERICAN NEWS

By the ,New York Packet Roscoe, which
arrived at Liverpool on Saturday in 19 days
from New York, we have received papers from
that city to the Bth inclusive, four days litter
than the former arrivals. The principal intelli-

gence they bring is interesting to our mercantile
classes. On the 3d instant, that portion of the
PRESIDENT'S Message, which relates to the
Tariff was referred to the Committee of manu-
factures in the House of Representatives, after a
tie division by the Speaker's casting vote. The
manufacturing interests are well represented in
in the Committee, of which Mr. SALTONSTALL Of
Massachusets, is Chairman.
An important meeting of Iron manufacturers

of New Jersey had been held, at which instances
were brought forward of the treatment of the
United States, when they were English Colonies,
to show that England had always endeavoured
to prevent them from becoming a manufacturing
people. The conclusion, however, was, all we
ask, is a reciprocity—if England will close her.
ports against our produce, let us retaliate by
levying duties on her manufactured articles.
NICHOLAS BIDDLE, Jos. COWPERTHWAIT, SA-
MUEL JAUDON,' JOHN ANDREWS, and THOMAS
DUNLOP, had been charged with a conspiracy to
defraud the stockholders of the Bank of the
United States; and, except ANDREWS and Cow-
PERTHWAIT, who did not appear, were held to
bail in $lO,OOO each to.appear before the Re-
corder. The Attorney-General of New York as-
sumes the direction of the prosecution.
A Treasury Note Bill had been introduced,
and proposes an issue, or re-issue of 5,000,000
dollars. The Bill, it is said, is certain to pass,
as the majority on the fi►:st stage was 133 to 33,
but the House of Representatives seemed in no
disposition to hurry it to a conclusion. The pe-
cuniary e mbarrassmen ts of the treasury continued.
The Bill for establishing a Fiscal Agent, or, as
it is now called, the Board of Exchequer Bill,
had been strongly opposed by Mr. Woonnunv,
the ex-Secretary of the Treasury, and seems by
no means popular.

Attempts which have been made to promote
repudiation in Pennsylvania have signally failed,
not one repudiator was to be found in the House
of Representatives.

In Maryland a Bill has been reported, which
provides for the resumption of payment of all
notes and liabilities of the banks in twenty days
after the passing of the Bill. A refusul to re-
deem, or the issue of post notes, forfeits the
Charter of the Bank.

Governor SEWARD, of New York, had opened
the Legislature of that State by a long Message,
which is said to have agreeably surprised the
people by the statement that the indebtedness
of New York is only 17,000,000 dollars. It re-
commends some alterations in the banking sys-
tem. He disapproves of rechartering banks;
when the term of the charter expires, if the
business of community requires the aid of another,
a new one ought to be established.
These Journals contain nothing additional of
the Creole, or the right of search.

The Illustrious left the Hudson on the 4th for
Bermuda.

The following are extracts:—

The whole amount of banking capital in the State of
New York is 23,559,374 dol., of which 18,409,374 dol.
is subject to tax on dividends, and banks holding
10,836,145 dol. of this did not accept the Revenue Act
of last May, authorising a loan of three millions. The
whole amount of the loan taken by the accepting banks
is 1,756,650 dol., leaving 1,343,349 dol. 32c., which has
not been received.

PASSENGERS TO NEW YORK.—The Health Commis-
sioner makes the following statement of the number of
passengers arrived at the Port of New York for these
two last years :-
1840.—Foreign—Cabin 4,324
Steerage 56,779-61,103 Total.
1841.—Foreign--Cabin 4,041
Steerage 53,293-57,334 Total.

3,769 Decrease.
Passengers from domestic ports, by sea:-1840, 7,490;
1841, 8,920; increase, 1,438.
The following is a comparative statement of the num-
ber of arrivals and passengers for the last seven years:—
Ships. Passengers.
1835 2,094 35,303
1836 2,293 60,541
1837 2,071 57,975
1838 1,790 25,581
1839 2,159 48,152
1840 1,953 62,797
1841 2,118 57,337
The diminution in the number of passengers from
foreign ports the past year was experienced in the early
portion of the season, and is attributable to the apprehen-
sions which then existed in Europe of a war between
Great Britain and the United States, in consequence of
the affair of M'Leod.
Fanny Elssler has taken the whole cabin of the barque
Louisa, which is to sail from Philadelphia for Havannah
about the 12th inst.

Sir Chas. Bagot, accompanied by a large suite, arrived
in Albany on Wednesday evening, and took lodgings in
the Eagle Tavern.
In the United States District Court at Portland, it has
bees decided that the tackle, apparel, and furniture of a
foreign vessel wrecked upon our shore, and landed and
sold separate from the hull, are not goods, wares, and
merchandise imported into the United- States within the
meaning of the revenue laws. Also, that goods taken and
landed from a foreign vessel wrecked upon the coast,
are not subject to forfeiture under the 50th section of the
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 122, by being landed without
a permit from the collector.
The news from Venezuela was to the 14th September.
The most profound tranquillity prevailed throughout
the Republic. The question of defining the boundary
line between the territory of Guiana and Venezuela,.
had alone occasioned some little excitement, but nothing
serious. •

In the Republic of New Granada, Colonel Barriga ob-
tained a -complete victory 'over Band°, one of the
Southern Factionists, who was at the head of 1,800 men.
,A large number of prisoners were taken, among them
General Borrero and Colonel Cakedo.
TRADE AND COMMERCE.
SALEB AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 7.
,1,000 Illinois Bonds
9,000
1,000 Indiana Sterling Bonds
4,000 Indiana Bonds
500 New York s's 1858
2,650 Ditto Water Loan 1870
750 CorporatiOn 6 per Cents 97
75 Shares Delaware and Hudson b 3 96i
100 Ditto ditto ditto b3O 96-i
50 Ditto Farmer's Loan ...
750 Ditto Long Island
25 Ditto ditto
tit
100 Ditto New Jersey R. It s3O 71
75 Ditto ditto ditto
60 ditto Stonington Railroad - l4
12 Ditto Union Bank
10 Ditto American Exchange Lank 6O
40 Ditto Boston and Providence Railroad BB
27 Ditto ditto ditto B9
_ _ _

161
16d
18
18

s 30 511

35 Ditto Mechanics' Bank
25 Ditto Bank of Commerce Scrip s6Q 88-21
25 Ditto , ditto ditto B9
25 Ditto ditto ditto s6o 88
MONEY MARKET.—CITY NEWS.

NEW YORK, FRIDAY, P. in.—A report was generally
circulated in Wall-street to-day, that an injunction and
other legal proceedings had been instituted against the
United States Bank in this city. We find, on inquiry,
that a holder of a small amount of Mississippi Bonds, en-

dorsed by Richard Alsop, a non-resident, has attached
the rents, &c. -belonging to Mr. Alsop, in the building.
This was all that a legal process could reach.
Exchanges on the South are a little improved to-day.
Boston

Philadelphia. 5l a —(Nashville l5 al6
Baltimore ... ...... ...... 4 a 44 Louisville ...._ lO a 104
Virginia 64 a 64 St. Louis l7 a
North Carolina...
Charleston l4 a ll'lnterior of Ohio 15 a
Savannah .....
A ugust a
Columbus —.l2 a Michigan —a
Macon .... 13 a —Treasur Notes, 6 1 1
y 7-, # a

_
Union, Florida 45 a—l " " 5 2-5 Ia 1*
South L. & Trust do 60 a ~ " 5 1 a
Mobile 16i a—, " "2 I*a
Montgomery 17i a 18 U. S. Bank Notes 50 a
Tuscaloosa 18 a—l

MARKETS, JAN. 7.—FLOUR—Six thousand barrels
have been sold for export at 5,94 to 6 dol. This is the
largest sale made for a long time. No change in any
other article.
PHILADELPHIA. SALES OF STOCK, JAN. 7.
1,280 dol. State 6's, 1864
SOO dol. do 5O
2,600 dol. Wilmington R.E. Loan, 6's, 1842
800 dol. Draft on New York lO5l
350 dol. Draft on Newark lO5
85 shares Girard Bank ll
5 do. Penn. Township Bank .. 20
10 do. do. do.
118 do. Philada. Wilmington, and Balt lB.

THE COMING CONFERENCE ON TILE CORN-
LAws.—The meeting on Tuesday, at the Long Rooms,
promises to be one of the most numerous and influential
ever assembled in Southampton. The Earl of Radnor
has consented to take the chair, and deputations from
almost every town in the counties of Hants and Wilts,
and the greater part of Sussex and Dorset, v<ill attend.
In addition to the gentlemen we noticed last week as
ected. The
hanadvinsegyperroalmoisther edtoinlffetniedntthiaelirpaesrssiosntasnce, Lord Kinnaird
are
exp
meeting promises to be a most respectable and influ-
ential
in bearingsoineltandwilld on theoubtless greatprodu produce important
results al
question
which has caused it,—Hampshire Independent,

THE TORIES and the " WILD MEN.'

While the meddling, arrogant, and rebellious
sect among:the Scotch clergy, who have acquired
the epithet of " wild men," considered them-
selves secure under the protection of Lord
Advocate Rutherford, and -under-Secretary
Maule, they coquetted with Peel and Aberdeen,
hoping that the Tories would outbid their oppo-
nents and purchase their support and prayers at
a higher price than the Whigs. To do Sir
.R. Peel
justice, however, he never
gave them any encou-
ragement; he knew the character of the men too
well to trust them. He kept aloof from them
while out of office, • notwithstanding the fawning
praises bestowed by Chalmers on himself, and on
the Sister Church—then, as well as now, all but
Roman Catholic, and his still more exuberant
commendation of the church-extending Sir
Robert Harry Inglis.
_When restored to office he
takes care that there shall be no mistake on the
subject, and through the agency of Sir James
Graham, or rather that of the Under-Secretary,
the grandson of an Archbishop with boundless
Church patronage, he tells them in no very courte-
ous terms that he can dispense with their advice
and assistance in appointing ntinistJrs to Crown
livings. This was an unkind cut, after the old
Whig Chalmers—the Pope of the Non-Intru-
sionists—had compromised his politcal and reli-
gious fltith, by making approaches to a party
that he had often denounced, and by holding
up to the , admiration: of his countrymen a
Church which rejects his fellowship, and which

the Covenawers resisted to the death as worse
than Popery. This treatment, of course, has
created a terrible commotion in the camp of the
Non-Intrusionists. They know not to what hand

to turn themselves. The law of the land is
against them; the people begin to suspect their
motives. The Town Council of Glasgow, located
in the very heart of the district that -once gave

.hem the warmest support, last week declared

iff, and elected an Intrusionist in preference to
a Non-Intrusionist clergyman. Rutherford and
Manic, the Castor and Pollux . of the Non-Intru-
sionists, arc gone; and Peel, Aberdeen, and
Graham are determined to humble to the dust
the vain and .ambitious men who said in their
liearts " We will ascend into heaven ; we will
exalt our throne above the stars ; we will sit
also upon the mount of the congregation in the
sides of the
,North." At a meeting of the Pres-
bytery of Edinburgh, held on Wednesday, the
whole truth was disclosed, and consternation
seized. every Non-Intrusionist countenance as
Dr. Chalmers described the " Slough of
Despond," into which they had fallen. After
painting in glowing colours the splendid pros-
pects opened up by this precious Veto Act, and
the admirable working of the system by
" making daily advances among the population
against that infidelity and vice which alike
destroy the souls of - men, and the peace and
good order of the commonwealth," he thus
proceeds to paint the back ground of the view,
not forgetting to bedaub it well with the trea-
cherous doings of the Conservatives :
As far back as the year 1833, and a few days
before the veto was first moved in the General
Assembly, 1. mentioned in a company of friends,
who were assembled for the purpose of consulta-
tion and deliberation, that as we had the power
—which I conceived we were entitled to from the
Act of William 111., which I conceived was not
affected by the subsequent Act of Queen Anne
—that as this poWer was in the Church to exer-
cise her free judgment in each particular case, in
giving effect to the Wishes of the people, so my
suggestion was, that we should resolve on a vi-
gorous and faithful exercise of that power ; and
if a new law was necessary, so that the people
should have a share in the initiative along with
the patron, it would be better to make :direct
application to Parliament—not that the Church.
needed the authority of the State—and this is a
misconstruction which is always put on thiS pro-
posed application of mine on the ground of a subtle
misapprehension, which is not possible to be dis-
lodged from the minds of our opponents. I say,
not that the Church needed the authority of the
State to invest her with full power over her
ministers and members in things spiritual,
but to provide against being disturbed by
the State in things temporal. The apprehension
of being so disturbed was felt by me then, and
it has been justified since by what has taken
place in the case of Auchterarder. If others,
men of great authority, had shared these appre-
hensions with me, the privileges of the people
would have been secured, and the troubles of the
Church would have been saved.--(Hear, hear.)
1 confess I had at that time—and I must explain
how I have not the same fitith after the experi-
ence of the last few years—l had then great faith
in the efficiency of the liberum arbitrium and I
shall briefly state the circumstances whichl then
inspired it. Besides the Evangelical majority
which we still possess, there was a growing res-
pect for Evangelical doctrines among the upper
classes, and a greater demand for it. The convic-
tion was increasing that popular education, and
that the education of principle, was
the grand
specific for the moral and political disorders of
our land, and that the lessons of the Gospel
of Christ, which in all their depth and pecu-
liarity, were heard gladly by the common
people, .were no longer denounced and nau-
seated as Methodistical, but
.were held in favour
by the high as well as by the low—by the single
dispenser of patronage as well as by the great
body of listeners in. our large and flourishing con-
gregations. That I; do not over-fate the disposi.;
tion to foster and encourage these principles, is
obvious from the experience of the first two years
after the passing of the Veto. In that time 200
churches were called into existence, which could
not fail, from the popular constitution of most .of
them, to be filled with popular and acceptable
clergymen. I did hope, when I saw that enter-
prise pushed forward -by the aristocracy, and
(with a peculiar emphasis) which was as good
as taken in hand by. the Conservatives them-
selves.—(Hear, hear.) I did hope, when I saw
all this, that a purer and better initiative of the
Ministry would bring back the godliness of other
days, and that order, peace, contentment, loyalty
—a general well-conditioned people, both moral
and economical—in short, that all the blessings
included in that godliness which lath the pro-
mise both of the life that now is, and of that
which is to .come,—that these, resting on the
solid basis of religious instruction, communicated
in ourparish schools andwell-fi l led churches,would
return and reign, and flourish in our borders. I need
not say how all these goodly anticipations have
been scattered to the winds. Even before the evils
assumed their present menacing fl'ont, 'I saw
that a re-action had taken place.- rifirst,saw it
in that monstrous measure by which ,the,•contri-
butions at our new churches were seized, and
thus, for the saving of a paltry penny by the
heritors, all our hopes were nipped in the bud.
But these were only premonitory symptoms.
By this time the Veto-law was declared illegal,
which, I Itveerie either at great pains to
the Veto-law
and the prophecies. of our deadly enemies,
befulfil, were lieve,
eds_omtiela'
must be rescinded, or the Church Establishment
must be rooted from its foundations. I have
heard that great pains were taken in some quar-
ters to fulfil these predictions—that it cost con-
siderable trouble ere a prosecution could be got
up; and this at least is evident, that while
the first summons in the Auchterarder case
•re-
spected only temporalities, the amended sum-
mons placed the Church
entirely at the mercy of
the Court of Session in things ecclesiastical.
This amended summons was so extraordi-
nary when it was first put
forth, that it met with
the reprobation of a unanimous Commission.
That unanimity is now so far broken that pro-
bably one-third of the Church is on the side of
the most unqualified erastianism. And, to
thicken our difficulties, another case—how got up
or by whom, I shall not venture to atfirm_the
Strathbogie case, not only develops a plan of un-
disguised rebellion, but the actors in that scene
are countenanced by wally of their brethren;
and, to close this enumeration of the dangers
which have gathered around us—fur 1 need not
mto our mention the oppositionquoad sacra
churches, which, as th 6 opposition to the collec-
tions was the most deadly thrust to our Church
extension scheme, so this opposition to the quoad
sacra churches is the most deadly thrust to the
mechanism which alone would make Church
extension efficient fur all classes. But to close
this melancholy enumeration, it is now attempted
by the most influential patrons to flood the
Church with Moderates, and so bring back that
withering regime under which the national vir-
tues of Scotland had well nigh expired.

r er farw (nn obl dumb on the
subject), This is the man who,
with Sir James
ic;fuornec
subject), brought forward the veto ordinance in
the General Assembly, which has Created such
confusion in that useful, venerable, and well-
constis uted ecclesiastical establishment, the Kirk

of Scotland. The party, seeing they have DO
hope of relief from the present Government—
but, on the contrary, afraid that measures are in
preparation for protecting those whom they have
excommunicated and alqo preventing the repeti-
tion of such cold-blooded cruelties as they have
inflicted on the ministers of Strathbogie—have
resolved to overture the General Assembly
against any legislative measure which does
not recognise the fundathental principle of
Non-Intrusion. The present Moderator of
tke General Assembly, Dr. Gordon, therefore
was put forward on the occasion, and though a
man of a mild and amiable disposition, was made
the instrument of the Non-Intrusionists in pro-
posing the following insolent memorial :

" The Presbytery having considered the present cri-
tical position of the Church's affairs, as explained in the
minutes which the General Assembly's Committee have
published, resolve as follows :
" 1. That the Church, during all her recent contend-
ings, has uniformly adhered to her fundamental prin-
ciple, that no pastor be intruded into any congregation
contrary to the will of the people.
"2. That while a proposal was recently made, as it
was believed, on the part of her Majesty's Government,
which was understood to be intended to leave the
Church at liberty to act upon the principle of non-in-
trusion, in a form to which, although strongly disapprov-
ing of it, it was thought the Church might submit, it
now appears that the proposal was not understood by
the Government in a sense coming up to what was de-
clared to be indispensable, and that the only settlement
contemplated has been on a footing which the Church
bas all along repudiated as inconsistent with the prin-
ciple of non-intrusion.
" In accordance with these resolutions, and inasmuch
as there is ground for apprehending the introduction of
a legislative measure for the settlement of the affairs of
the Church, which will not recognise the fundamental
principle of non-intrusion in any form to which the
Church could submit, it is humbly overtured by the Pres-
bytery of Edinburgh, that the General Assembly do op-
pose and resist any measure which does not unequivo-
cally allow the Church in every instance to reject a pre-
sentee, not merely in respect of the reasons or objections
stated by the parishioners against his settlement, nor in
respect of their adherence to these reasons or objections,
but solely in respect of the continued opposition of the
members of the congregation, founded on a declared
conscientious regard to the spiritual interests of them-
selves or the congregation.

" And furthur—th—at the General Assembly, while they
continue to give their earnest and favourable attention to
the obtaining of such a measure as shall fully, and by a
fixed rule, recognise the continued opposition of the ma-
jority of a congregation,. as a conclusive Freund for re-
jecting a presentee, do al take into their serious con-
sideration, with a view to the deliverance of the Church
from her present difficulties, the propriety of seeking
the abolition of the law of patronage, as especially in
the construction now attempted to be put upon it, in-
volving a violation of the constitution of the Church and
Kingdom secured at the Revolution, and unalterably ra-
tified by the Act of Security and Treaty of Union."
A lengthened discussion took place, the result
of which was, that Dr. Gordon's motion was
carried by 41 to 17. The General Assembly (for
the section at Edinburgh represent the Assem-
bly) will, therefore, not only resist any plan
which does not recognise their favourite specific,
but also call upon the Legislature to abrogate a
law which is found mightily inconvenient in the
way of their movements. Chalmers, Candlish,
Cunningham, and Co., therefore—names as re-
markable for the alliteration of the words, as
the Doctor's tripod of the Veto-law, patron,
presbytery, and people—are resolved still to
insist upon the consummation of their plans,
and give'the whole patronage of the Kirk to the
elite of the people. This is the term chosen by
Dr. Chalmers. Why does he not use the Eng-
lish word elect, and also tell us how the elect
are to 'be known? But that, would not suit his
purpose. The Church has concealed objects in
view, and we therefore warn the Government,
and the people of Scotland, against their design:
No one is to vote for a minister but one
of the elect, and these are to be appointed by
the liberum arbitrium of the Church. This
is the real meaning of the insidious phrase
now in the mouth of every Non-Intrusionist. The
election-roll is to be revised by the Church,
and a very select, expurgated list they will
produce, if we may judge even from what
they have already done, without taking into ac-
count the extravagant extent to which they will
carry their inquisitorial research. They have
debarred men from the table of the Lord for
burying their departed relatives on Sunday.
They debar men for not saying family prayers
night and morn, for dancing, for reading certain
books, for selling sweetmeats on Sunday, for
keeping their houses open for the refreshment
of travellers, for opposing the liberum arbitrium,
and for every act which they may be pleased to
consider a breach of the Divine commands. No in-
quisition so galling was ever established in any
country. The following extract of a letter by a
Non•lntrusionist clergyman will convince the in-
credulous that we do not take alarm without just
grounds. It was written by the Rev. Robert
APCheyne, minister of St. Peter's, Dundee, and
appeared on Saturday, the 22d instant, in the
Witness, the only organ of this tyrannical section
of the Scotch Church. " such of the Directors
of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway," says
this " wild man," " as are favourable to the mails
being carried on that line on Sunday are " infi-
dels, scoffers, men of unholy lives, the enemies
of all righteousness, moral suicides, sinners
against light, traitors to their country, robbers,
and murderers," What can the Government do
with such men but bind them with fetters, as
lunatics?

CLOSE of the DUBLIN ELECTION.
DUBLIN, SATURDAY NIGHT.-At five o'clock the
Assessor ordered the booths to be closed and the polling
books to be carried in. As the books were being com-
pared, Mr. Smith (agent for Lord Morpeth), addressing
the Assessor, announced that there were 400 voters
ready to be polled for Lord Morpeth.
Mr. KELLER (the Asslsor) reminded Mr. Smith that
after five o'clock no votes could be received.
Mr. SMITH—WeII, Sir, I tender thim,
• mr. KEATIsc, on the part of the .cdnservative can-
didate, having protested against the interruption, and
Mr. PIGOTT (late Attorney-General) having stated, with
some warmth, that this course had nut been pursued
at the last election, a conversation ensued, which was
ended by
'rhe ASSESSOR, who decided that, according to the
Act of Parliament, he could receive no votes after five
o'clock on the fifth day. At half-past six o'clock he
announced the day's poll to be as follows :
Mr. Gregory
302

Lord Morpeth
Majority - 43

The Mon SHERIFF then entered the Court-house,
and proclaimed the state of the gross poll to be—
Mr. Gregory
Lord Morpeth

Gross majority for Gregory
Mr. Gregory having been in the usual form declared
the successful candidate, the lion. Mr. Howard and Mr.
ex-Attorney-General Pigott addressed the assembly,
who shortly after quietly dispersed.