The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-18 00:00:00

THE REFORM 'MOVEMENT.

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While the members of the Aberdeen Synod—men
who have enjoyed the advantages of a liberal educa-
tion, and who hold, or ought to hold, a high position
in society—were indulging in stormy discussions and
violent altercation=—the minority consigning the
majority, without much apparent compunction, to
eternal perdition, and both sides exhibiting, to some
extent, a want of Christian forbearance and courteous
feeling—Henry Vincent, a youth of 28 years of age
—originally a printer's devil, and more recently re-
ported to he a vulgar, violent, and wicked Chartist
—was expounding the principles of liberty, enforcing
the excellence of morality, and illustrating the
truth and beauty of Christianity in a series of dis-
courses, which, for sound ability, powerful eloquence,
polished diction, tolerant spirit, and happy manner,
have, we verily believe, never been equalled in this
city. Any one who, like us, went from the West
Church to the Temperance Hall, or the Dissentin
Chapel, where the Complete-Suffrage meetings we re
g
held, must have been forcibly struck with the con-
trast betwean the reverend wranglers—the paid advo-
cates of religion—and the lay lecturer on the rights
and duties of the people—a contrast so honourable to
the latter and disgraceful to the former.
The pains which Mr. Vincent took to recommend
to his audiences peace, moderation, and, above all, true
tolerance for the opinions of others ought for ever to
put down the calumnies that have been heaped on the
cause of thorough Parliamentary Reform.—Aberdeen
Herald.

STATE OF -- - --
PAISLEY.—We can note no particular change on
this subject since our last publication. The finer de-
scriptions of goods connected with the Paisley trade
TRADE.
continue as dull as ever; but
great numbers of the
workmen are turning their hand to lighter, and plain
work, so far as it can be obtained—and, we are sorry
to state, weavers are so abundant, that webs of even
this description can only be occasionally obtained as a
personal favour. From the limited supply at the com-
mand of the Relief Committee, and the equally limited
and indequate allowances given out by them to those
in want,du b
st r
ions pe bornerivationsby
and sufferings have at pre-
sent to hundreds and hundreds
o
families, which it is most appal-
ling to think of, and which it is a shame to the.
country should be permitted in it. To be deprived of
food for one or two days at a time, is quite a common
occurrence; and then, at the termination of that
period, the pawning of the last shirt from the back,
the last rag of blankets from the bed, or some other
equally necessary article, in the means usually resorted
to for satisfying the irresistible call of hunger. Many
families, during the last ten days, have scraped up a
meal or two from the gleanings of the potatoe fields ;
and on Sabbath last, an eye witness informed us that
he observed a respectable looking old woman engaged
searching a field, near Meikleriggs, for such scraps of
potatoes as the farmer had left behind,_G
laygozo Sa-
turday Post.

ehli'ete,eb`alr'rlier Stages
OF MADAME DIARBLA.Y.—
illjnE'odTleTurEnslltteasnd, an entirely new field to
(the fifth)
i'workhDelAoßpYensA, forthcomingN.e Of this delightful
with almost all those the Diarist. It extends over the whole of those years
—from 1789 to 1792 inclusive—during which France
was struggling through the terrors and calamities of
reader into per-
sonalh
person-
agese r
w who
contact,
Revolutionfig figured
of that greatest
of modern political events ; given us, in their own
words, taken from their own lips, their most private
raes;dirinn\'‘l;
opinions and feelings of what had Passed and was
passing, and the motives and interests on which they
were in most cases founded. This is, we understand,
especially the case with regard to Talleyrand, Madame
de Steel, the Count de Narbonne, and other distin-
guished emigres of the haute noblesse with whom Miss
Burney formed an intimacy at the house of her friends
the Locks, of Norbury Park, near which place the
greater part of them were domesticated at the date of
the forthcoming portion of the Diary. This volume
is also, we believe, singularly rich in the correspond-
ence portion of it, including several letters from Ma-
dame de Steel.

THE REVENUE.VEI,.iUE.-11USTI STA.Atrs.—A fact is stated
by the Dublin Evening Post calculated to excite still
more astonishment at the fall in the last quarter's re-
venue, which has occurred in the face of the large I
amounts derived; from the Income-tax and a duty
upon foreign grain. It appears that a sum of 80,000 i.
over and above the ordinary revenue from- Irish
stamps, has been included in the last quarter's returns.
This amount has been paid during the last five or six
weeks, upon the registry of bonds, deeds, and various
..NCOME•TAX
other transactions, in order to escape the higher duties Rdent of
—in many cases mere than double the former rates— pon
apphi"
extended to Ireland by the Stamp Assimilation Act, •
whiCh came into operation on Monday last.— Sunday
Pwer.
'bir Chades Sculamore, MD, has .
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pok-street, from Burton. Wim

corre-
Esr IRELAND —A
Freeman's Journal comphins that, on
6 at the office of the Paymaster of the Civil
..I,ICeS in the Castle for the interest of three per cent.
on Exchequer bills, issued for the promot'on of public
works in Ireland, the Income-tax for' last half
year vas deducted, although the holier constantly
resides in this country.