The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-05 00:00:00

be, and what would have been, bad there been
no Corn-law ; what these accounts will give
will be facts in subordination to that law without
any test or comparison of their value. So few
person's have any knowledge of the value of sta-
titical facts, that to throw them before the
public without any such test, is like pronouncing,
a sonorous passage of gibberish and calling it
Greek, in the presence of those who have never
learnt the language. It appears very fine,and very
conclusive, as to the beauty of the tongue, but
they do not understand one word of it.
The public must not, and we believe will not,
allow themselves to be mystified by any such
cunning and quackish contrivance. They have
elevated the question into the region of moraLt.,
and demand justice not calculations. The cir-
cumstances of the country, they say, are now
different from what they were at any former
period, and they assert that no conduct then
adopted, no facts then true, can now form a
proper guide for the Legislature. " The
CREATOR," as BLACKSTONE says in the Second
Section.of his Introduction, " has so intimately
connected, so inseparably interwoven the laws
of eternal justice with the happiness of each indi-
vidual, that the latter cannot be obtained but by
observing the former; and if the former be punc-
tually obeyed, it cannot but introduce the latter.'
The public have that conviction in their hearts, and
they demand that the Legislature, instead of
following its own fancies, under the expectation
which experience has demonstrated to be de-
lusive, shall follow the laws of eternal justice.

Nothing can be more satisfactory than the state of the
foreign relations of Great Britain, as set forth in the
Speech from the Throne. The hollow rumbling of dis-
tant war thunders, which so disturbed the Tories when
out of office, have all happily died away since they took
up their abode in Downing-street. Our little wars
have led to none of the great ones of which Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL was so painfully apprehensive when nightly
occupying the front bench on the Opposition side of the
House. Her MAJESTY, speaking the language of the
Premier, is made to say that she "receives from all
Princes and States the continued assurance of their
earnest desire to maintain the most friendly relations
with this country." This. is all that the most
war-abhorring Quaker, or the most Radical Reformer,
can desire. The only -exception is China, but so very
sanguine have our Ministers become, that they express
a conviction that our differences with the "Son of Hea-
ven" will be brought to an early termination, and our
commercial relations with that country placed• on a sa-
tisfactory basis—which is what they never were. Now
if the Tories believe that such will be the early result of
the war with the Celestial Empire, they ought to
raise a statue to Captain ELLIOT, whose blundering
was chiefly instrumental in provoking it. Respecting
the important questions at issue between Great Britain
and the United 'States, the Speech says nothing, not-
Withstanding the prominent place given to them in the
last Presidential message. Nor is a single allusion
made to the late events in Spain, or to the disturbed
state of Central Asia, in which Briti,ll interests are so
deeply involved.

The Royal Speech announces that measures will be
submitted to Parliament for the improvement of the ju-
risdiction exercised by Ecclesiastical Courts in England
and Wales. Why not extend the sphere of operation, and
carry the improvement farther north, to a country where
the violent proceedings in Ecclesiastical Courts have
thrown the whole frame of society into confusion ? In Eng-
land and Wales these Courts may bebad enough, but they
are as a drop of the bucket compared waft the usurpa-
tions, the violence, and the worse than Star-Chamber
cruelties which have for some years now gained the
Church Courts of Scotland such unenviable notoriety.
No clergyman, nor layman either, unless he can pro-
nounce the " Shibboleth " of a dominant party, is safe.
The one is excommunicated, the other is deposed as
well as excommunicated; and even those who
sympathise with them are threatened with the
same punishments. While these things are going
on, the arm of the law is paralysed, or makes
such tardy movements that the sufferers doubt
its efficacy
.in bringing them relief. Such a. state of
things is at utter-variance with good order and the prac-
tice of true religion—two of the main objects for which
the Kirk was established, and for which its ministers
are paid by express enactments of the Legislature.
These rebellious priests obey or disobey the law as suits
their purposes. They accept. the State money—they col-
lect their stipends to the uttermost farthing, not one of
which they could levy but for the law which they set at
defiance. A speedy and effectual remedy for these crying
abuses is imperatively demanded on the part of the nume-
ous ministers of the Scottish Church who have borne their
sufferings with such Christian patience, and who, con-
scious of their own rectitude, have, with unexampled
submission, left their case in the bands of the Govern-
ment anti the Legislature. They therefore have reason
to Complain, that while the small grievances of
the English Church have a conspicuous place allotted to
them in the QUEEN'S Speech, their cruel deprivations
and persecutions are passed over without notice. In
justice, then, to a respectable and useful class, Sir ROBERT
PEEL and Lord ABERDEEN are bound to state explicitly
and without delay, whether the Kirk or the Constitution
is to rule in Scotland.

Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have reached us.
We regret to learn from them that the Archbishop of
TOLEDO has resigned his pastoral functions rather than
support the project of law submitted to the Chambers,
forbidding appeals to Rome, and virtually vesting the
supremacy of the Spanish Church in the Government. This
Prelate was a Liberal in politics, and hitherto lent the
weight of his episcopal authority to the constitutional cause.
M. OLOZAGA defended the conduct of the Government on
the etiquette question, but manifested much tact and de
licaey in alluding to the conduct of the French Go-
vernment towards himself personally as the Represen-
tative of Spain. He assured the Chamber that all
difficulties would be soon overcome, and that there was
no reason to dread any further unfriendly act on the part
of France.
The Bourse at Madrid, on the 26th, was at 32 for cash,
and 321 a for account 60 days.

The Paris Journals devote their leading columns
to the question of the Budget, respecting which,
however, they write with an appearance of great
indifference. The Ministerial organs are pleased, as
they always are, with everything done by the Cabinet ;
and the Opposition papers treat the whole question with
an air of lofty indifference, as if they were above the
consideration of the mere details of taxation. Upon the
prosecution of the Press they are more earnest, and de-
nounce the conduct of the Government w,ith energy and

spirit.
There is no news in these papers of any political inte-
rest. We subjoin the only interesting eNtracts found in
them :

A letter from Toulon, quoted by the Tempt, says that the
Prince de Joinville is shortly expected in that port, to sail in
the Belle Poule on a voyage round the world. His Royal
Highness will visit the French East India settlements and the
China seas.

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The Journal de la Hage publishes an article on the respon-
sibility of printers, occasioned by a recent trial in Holland, It
shows that the Dutch law, as fixed by the High Court, esta-
blishes the maxim, that the author being known, the printer
cannot be considered responsible.
M. Gualtier, ex-banker at Anjers, whose trial we reported
the day before yesterday, has been condemned by the Correc-
tional Tribunal of Anjers to two years' imprisonment, a fine of
25,000 f., suspension of civil rights for ten years, and the costs.
The moment the sentence was pronounced, M. Gualtier in a
loud voice declared he should appeal.— Constitutionnel.
The Gazette de Tribucaux says, " It is stated that a for-
mal motion will be made in a few days in the Chamber of De-
puties to revise the 24th article of the law of the 27th May,
1840, relative to printers. This motion cannot fail to be taken
into serious consideration. _ . .

Leopold, youngest son of Du
ft i;; accokuenFtserfdroinmandVioefnnsaataheatcPorbiunrcge,
was one of the candidatesforthe hand
The Presse says on this subject , _of S ain, but
n p
:: of thei t Queen of Spain.
certain
that one of
tie first acts of the new Erulish Ministry was
en
propose a
Prince of Coburg as consort of the young Que
it is equally certain that the Continental Powers rejected this
plan, which tended to evinee the
disappointed love. preponderance
Spain, as it already exists in Portugal. COrn'er. "*
of England in
,
A Young soldier shot himself at Verdun a few nays since In
H
a fit of melancholy, brought on by e loaded
his musket so heavily, that his head was blown entirely to pieces,
The snow has been drifted this winter, as the Courrier (10
Lyeg, states, to a considerable depth among the mountains. in
the depaytosent of the Drome, and the cold has been very
.m.•
tense. A young man and ; woman, on different days during
the course of last month,
perished in the RAW 4m9ng the
alionrot;ina• The former, overcome by fatigue, was caught in
a storm and fro Fen to death ; the latter fell over a precipice into
a snow drift, and has not singe been seen. All efforts to find
her body have proved fruitless.
The Mayor of Rouen having refused sortie time since to
enregister the marriage of a Swiss with a Prussian feinales
because they did not present authorißtion from the enroPe"
tent persons in their own countries, an action was brought
against him by the parties ; and the Tribunal de Premiere
.instance gf that city has given a decision in favour of the
llaintiffs, ordering the 1114yer to make the registration forth-
with. The Mayor founded his refusal on a Ministerial pirt
cular issued in 1831.
A few days ago, says a letter from Most (in Belgium). a
ypyng pal! of one of the most respectable families in that
place shot an gl4 'dale servant of the family through the
head. He was taken into onstody end sent to prison, but it is
said that he is insane. The woman, who is not dead, hilt wlia
is not expected to survive, as the wound was very serious, is
tha widow of a man who was murdered a few years ago, and,
on the day when she was shot, her sister died suddenly at
Wetteren.
The Gazette des Tribtaytux says that the danumie done to