The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-14 00:00:00

This day is published, price Twopence,
THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS, AND HOW TO
GET THEM.
By the Rev. THOMAS SPENCER, A.M.,
Perpetual Curate of Hinton Charterhouse, near Bath, and late
Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Sold by John- Green, 121, Newgate-street, London.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The Letter of our Correspondent at Poole on " Teetotalism'.
has been received. We agree in many of the views of the
writer, but the personal remarks, and occasionally strong lan-
guage prevent us from publishing it.

THE WEATHER.—NOON, JUNE 14.
ROY AL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET
Thermometer .... 75 ) Highest 75 1 Lowest 53
Barometer 30.28.—Wind E.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
4 rning 35 minutes after 5 I Evening ...... 2 minutes after P.

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SUN OFFICE Three o' Clock.

LIMERICAN NEWS

(EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.)
Alt RI'VAL OF THE ACADIA.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY MORNING,
The British and North American steamer, Acadia
arrived here last night, at midnight, after a quick voy•
age of only ten days from Halifax. She left Boston or
the Ist, Halifax on the 3d inst. She has thirty-serer
pa4sengers. Her dates from New York are to the_3ls
ult. inclusive.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, May 31.
The most important occurrence since our last is the resump
riot, of specie payments by all the Banks in New Orleans. A
first, three of file banks held back, the Consolidated, the Citi
sens', and the State Bank ; but .he depreciation to which thei
notes were immediately exposed. combined, we may presume
with tho very strong indications s.f public opinion adverse to
their course, and the evidence, as regarded the other banks
that resumption did not lead to any run for specie, induced
them to come in ; and New Orleans is now, with all its ten
banks, a specie pay'ng city.
The effect of restoring the character of Bank paper was ne-
cessarily to depreciate all irredeemable paper, and of that cha
meter were notes, amotinting, it is supposed, to nearly oils
milli ur of dollars, issued in sum; under five dollars, by two
of the three municipalities into which the city is di-
viee.i, and which has been the favourite currency during
the suspension, because the credit acid property of the cit,s
were pledged for their redemption. But as they were not re-
dremable in specie, they ceased to circulate the moment specie
payments were resumed ; and the holders, mostly among the
labouring classes, became clamorous, and committed some out-
rages. These, however, were speedily checked by the police ;
and arrangements being immediately entered into to kind or
to redeem this floating paper, order was restored, and all wi I
work smoothly.
In pubic affairs there is little change to note.
The States of Massachusetts and Maine have appointed
C immissioners, with full powers to arrange with the General
Government, the qnesition of the North-Eastern boundary ;
so that, it is to be presumed, this point in difference between
the United States and Great Britain will be satisfactorily ad-
justed.
A menacing insurrection in one of the States (Rhode Island)
has quietly evaporated without bloodshed, and the respect for
law and autlvirity, instead of receiving attaint, has rather de-
rived strength from this attempt to overthrow both.
In money matters we are pretty much in stain quo.
The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States visited
this city, a week o: two ago, and succiteled in raising about two
ofdallori, of the three and a half million; advertised for.
Tie teini; have.nOt been made public, but it is known the stock
Arai Sold teeter Par, and probably with some stipulation that the
Treasury Shillltidsust.appear again in the market before July, or
possibly- eSertessilsec rand perhaps with an opt ion to those who
took I his'iortion i f flieloan, to take a large portion within a spe-
cified time, at a small advance. The stock is offered, and finds
purchasers in moderate investment at par. $50,000
were sold in cn-.• Retie ve.ffeidaitaLtkat ra.c.
Corgrrs . his not'ititicif&ttffiiiitt".di 'either of the Ex-
chequer plans for MOritliftgAer?" Ll=lnth June the Cempro-
mise Act has ' its cortiplke Hatisin, and a horizontal
line of eat es of 20 per -CAA' vrtirdi4nt is to be the rule.
But legislation will be neecisatf :to . adapt that rule to
existing laws and Usages ; and as it now out of the. ques-
tion that Ccitiress befOre thkt time, agree ulna a
Bill that will be so full of ilefaitsi• 'and a largely discussed,
as any Tariff Bill intist be, re.ccur!se'Ti4st,bc, had, as the lost
re,oui:Ce., to souse comprehensive fessAtiytl;- ttiat for- .or
ninety diti•ittie'present ra'e of duties shall continue to be ,
As to the Exchequer or any other-plan of providing a uni•
form currency Tor -the 'Unifier-IX_ tlitis,,P.por opinion remains. as
it war expressed Months ago. None such will be adopted by
this Corgrests.- '
Another issue of 7 'per Cent, Stock, t 6 the amount sot
1,700;000 doll. it about to be made to the banks in this city,
which hive made- teniporar-y loans to that amount to the
State Governtheet ; which it ii more corral-tient to .it ,to re-
pay in this way, and ing-riq' &abundant, more advantageous.
to the Banks so to receive., The ILnks have aCeordingly as-
sented to the arrangement, and the• stock is, to, be issued in
July next, and be ritleitthable in 1,349-..
The Money• Market i 5 quite easy; or rather se should say
stagnant., -Money abounds. because no ore knows where or
he* to (1.61)1(.4 it. until the Tariff is settled, merchants
cannot enter into operations or omen suay be ess-
terially -varied, by the more er.less of duties that may be
imposed upon their return cargoes manufaciurers, for the
like cause, can neithei venture to revive old,.nor give ex-
tension to existing factories, nor undertake new lines of busi-
ness;vrhile uncertainty continues abOut the Tariff; and the con
sum/rs, the great miss, are, both ..hy the low prices of agricul-
tural produce, and the want °fa general circulating medium,
prevented fr,.m any purchases beyond those of instant necessity.
Foreign Exchange is plenty and dull ; London at 71 a 8; and
some good bilis not endorsed here, are offered at lower rates,
and wish difficulty find buyers. Domestic exchange in most
points are slowly but steadily improving, as the resumption of
specie payments ere long becomes imperative in all parts of the
Uaion.
RATE OF SALES AT TIIE STOCK EXCHANGE.
$5OO Corporation 6's lOO
$l,OOO Ohio 6's 1860 ... 77
$4,000 Kentaicl:y Bonds
$5,000 Indiana Sterling Bond'
$2,000 Indiana Dollar Bonds
61 shares Bank of America
70 shares Mechanics' Bak
5 shares Bank of Commerce (full)
shares Delaware and Hudson ...
75 shares Farmers' Loan
13 shares Equitable Insurance Company
5 shares Auburn and Rochester
50 shares Mohawk RR ....
-150 shares Harlem Railroad •••••• .. . 15
200 shares Long Island Railroad ...... 50i
10 shares N. J. Railroad
-30 shares Stonington Railroad .... ......
The transactions to-day at the Board were but moderate,
without much variation in prices. Kentucky Bonds improved
1 per cent ; Indiana declined ; Delaware and liudson,i ;
Mohawk improved 1i ; Stonington ; Harlem 3/4.

An interesting discussion took place in the House of
Lords last night, on a motion made by Lord CAMPBELL
for a return of the records of the trial of a JAMES
HENDRY, for an assault, at the late assizes at Stirling, in
Scotland. According to the statement made by Lord
CAMPBEIik, a constable named SI3IPSON was assaulted in
the discharge of his duty, for which he brought an ac-
tion against the person who assaulted him. No one but
himself had witnessed the assault, and he was put in the
witness-box to prove it. The defendant's Counsel
jected that he was an infidel, and therefore not to be be-
lieved on his oath. The Lord Chief-Justice Clerk and
Lord 3.lEnwrix, without addressing a word to the wit-
ness, allowed four persons to be examined, to prove the
infidelity of his opinions, and that he was a reader of the
works of VOLTAIRE and VOLNEY. The Judges exa-
mined him at great length upon his opinions respecting
different points of Christian doctrine, and although ho
repeatedly asserted that lie believed in a Divine Bing,
the Redemption, and was ready, it' allowed, to receive the
Sacr..ment, his testimony was rejected.

Such was the statement of Lord CAMPBELL. The
LoaS CHANCELLOR, however, on behalf of the Scottish
Judges, asseyted that the witness SIMPSON was not exa-
mined touching his religious opinions by the Judges,
but by the defendant's advocate, and that by the law of
Scotland the man's religious opinions being called in
que,fon. the Judges could not prevent stud) an investi-
gation 1 ef.).-e admitting his testimony. The result was
the rove. se of what was stated by Lord CAMPBELL, for
the man was sworn, the accused found guilty upon his
evid 'tree, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
• '-I%iow we care v. ry little which version of this story
ba true ; if the presiding Judges administered the law
correctly, as we have no doubt they did, that law
is a disgrace to Scot'and. Is every man who accuses
another of committing a v:olent assault upon him, to be
subjected, before g:ving evidence, to an ecclesiastical in-
quisition as to w hat maw be his opinions upon this or
that point of practical and speculative theology ? Is a
man to have his teeth dashed out with impunity in
moral, justice-loving Scotland, because it can be proved
th t he read " Candide," "The Man with Forty Crowns,"
" The Travels of Scarmantado," and the " Ruins of Em-
'pires ?" Where is the scholar or the man of taste to be
found who has not feastedupon the inimitable wit—aye and.
profound genius too, of VOLTAIRE ? We are persuaded'
a man might swear the truth as to his having his head
broken, and yet think the author of " Mahomet,"
" Semiramis," " Merope," and " Zaire," a better poet,
than those twin constellations of Divine song, Messrs:
. ST-EitNiioLD and HOPKINS. They manage these things
-differently on the south of the Tweed. Lord DENMAN
and the other Judges in the House of Lords, stated that
in this country the only-questions put to a witness were,
did he believe in the sanctity of an oath, and • the
figsy9 ,of ,a future state of rewards and punish-
que,tions were put by the Judge,
a.lo,o:_sett, in the affirmative, set at rest all
1,4ec1i9113::4U-Iti • score of infidelity. In England
whog-1014141% oen must be guilty
ofperjury be-
; •allow the whole:of the Thirty-nine
, •, • the Martyrdom of King CHARLES,
ely orthodox every syllable contained
in thfirlitoore':Common Prayer. A witness •may think
the beiith-oPßishops an assemblage. of useless old wO-
mo, *bre:tan-English Judge will not scruple to tran-
sport.a:piolt-pocket on ,his .eYidexicfs:s;ny: More than he
Would, did he believe that C. J. LONDON. was a Bonometi
ha Charity, and H.
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