The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-19 00:00:00

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their feelings, habit*, and connexions, and neither of
them probably spends a month of the year in the sister

country.

A Government, we believe, more wanting in popular
strength; could not be put together than that of Sir R.
PEEL. Every new accession is an accession not of talent,
or of the representative of a popular constituency, but
of aristocratic or monied interest, and respectable, but
certainly not sublime, mediocrity. Never was there a
Government, among whose younger members was thcre
less talent, or less future promise : and yet, when Sir
ROBERT PEEL has an opportunity of adding three re-
cruits, whom does he take but Lord ManoN, Sir C.
DOUGLAS, and Mr. CRIPPS, not one of whom—not even
Lord MAnoN, with all his admitted literary accomplish.
ments--has given any sign that the public know of, of
Parliamentary ability. There are young men of talent
among Sir ROBERT PEP.L'S party : but the genius of
sublime mediocrity repels talent, and talent will not tie
itself down to an undeviating allegiance to Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S caput mottuum of Conservatism. And so such
men as Lord JOHN MANNERS, Mr. MONKTON MILNES,
and Mr. SMYTHE, are passed over for Sir CHARLES
DOUGLAS, LORD ARTHUR LENNOX, and Mr. CRIPPS.

A lett3r from Athens, of the 30th, says :—" The
Government has just discovered the existence of a plot
in the garrison of Nauplia. Several superior and in-
ferior officers have been provisionally placed under
arrest, and a jadicial investigation is now going oa. It
appears that the projects of the conspirators are con •
nected with the general plans of the Opposition. The
gravest suspicions weigh on certain persons, and the
public waits with impatience the issue of the measures
taken by the Government."
It would appear that the position of the COLETTI
Administration is very precarious. Accounts have been
received of the resignation of M. B•LBI, the Minister of
Justice, and of Rear-Admiral CINARIS, the Minister of
Marine.

A Constantinople journal of the 26th ult. has the fol-
lowing :—" M. BOTTA, the French Consul at Mossoul,
has just arrived at Constantinople, on his way to France,
on leave of absence. M. A. BARROT, Agent and Consul-
General of France in Egypt, who came here a few days
ago with his family, takes his departure to-morrow in
the Eurotas for Smyrna, whence the war• steamer envier
will convey him to Alexandria. By order of the Porte
a commission has been appointed to inquire into the
conduct of Captains Lambert and Dublin, of the
steamers Medzerai Tidjaret and Iscudar, on the occa-
sion of the unfortunate accident which happened on
the 11 th instant. in the Black Sea. As both the
captains are Englishmen, the Government has thought
it proper that the commission should be mixed,
and therefore it is composed of Mehemet Ali Pacha
President ; Tahyz Bey, Hussein Bey, Moustafa Effendi,
&del Effendi, four captains of the Ottoman fleet, the
commanders of the foreign ships stationed at Constan-
tinople, and four captains of English, Austrian, iitir-
dinian, and Greek trading vessels. An official com-
munication will be made to-day to all the embassies
interested, in order that they may co-operate in forming
the commission of inquiry." It would appear that the
negotiations at Erzeroum for a settlement of the points
in dispute between Persia and Turkey are not likely to
be brought to a speedy termination.

Accounts from Circassia state that Count WORONZOFF
had left Tiflis at the head of 20,000 men, for the pur-
pose of attacking the mountaineers.
The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE was expected at Con-
stantinople, on his return from the Archipelago.

Swiss papers to the 12th have been received. On the
11th the Diet at Zurich had resolved by a majority of
14 that the Federal staff officers who took part in the
expedition of the free corps against Lucerne should be
struck offthe roll of the army. The motion was ineffec-
tually opposed by Berne, Argau, and Bale country. On
the 12th it was moved that a Federal recommenda-
tion be made to Lucerne to pardon the prisoners and
the condemned by default, and to recal all others to the
canton. This proposition, however, Ras rejected.

The new Constitution of the canton of Vaud was
adopted on the 10th by the people assembled for that
purpose in the different districts. At Lausanne, the
majority in favour of the new Constitution was 1,391
to 732, and for the maintenance of the Grand Council
1,246 to 662.

Madrid papers to the 9th have been received. They
speak of plots, real or imaginary, having been discovered
at Seville and other places.
The fler aid() has an article on the subject of the
QUEEN'S marriage, strongly advocating the cause of
Don HENRY.

The Gaceta has the following official contradiction of
the statement which had appeared in the Heraldo relative
to the financial operations of M. Mort :
The Heraldo of yesterday, adverting to the operations of
the Minister of Finances, affirms that he has recourse to secret
loans in order to supply his wants. The assertion of that
journal is most false."

Several waggon-loads of plate and furniture had been
Forwarded from Madrid to Pampeluna.

General PRIM had written from Marseilles to con-
tradict the report that he was about to proceed to Spain
His destination is Italy.
The Bourse on the previous day (Saturday) closed as
follows :—Three per Cents., for cash, 30i ; for account
31. Five per Cents., for account, 22 9.16.

We have received the whole of the Paris papers of
Friday, and such of them as were published on Satur-
day, but Friday having been kept as a close holiday,
many of the papers were not published the following
morning.
The National of Friday has the following on the
subject of the health of the KING:—
" The report has spread at Paris of the King's health having
been within the last few days less satisfactory than usual. It
was affirmed that he had experienced, five or six days ago, a
certain giddiness and sortie symptoms of somewhat more
gravity. It, however, appears that this accident has not been
very serious, and that it has only rendered a little more exercise
on foot necessary. A person who saw Louis Philippe two
days ago, states that no alteration was observable either in his
gait or features, with the except►on, perhaps of some sanguine
injection in his eyes. We find this evening in the Messager
accounts of the 13th, stating that the King has walked out,
and that he has been and visited a large establishment.
Nothing, therefore, hitherto confirms the rumours that had
reached us."
The new electoral lists for Paris have been published.
The operation of the new law of patentes has had the
effect of reducing the constituency from 21,000 to 16,000.
A similar reduction, and from the same cause, has, it is

affirmed, taken place in several commercial towns.
The Prince DE BERGHES was on Friday convicted of
having forged the cheques of the Jockey Club of Parts,
and sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and 100 f.
fine.

Marshal BIJCEAUD is expected to arrive in France on
the 18th, on leave of absence. It was generally imagined
that he would be recalled ; certain it is, that his return
will lead either to the retirement of Marshal Souvr or
of himself. The general wish seems to be not only that
Marshal BUGEAUD should be recalled, but that the
whole system of government in Algeria should be re-
formed. We extract the following observations on this
subject from the Commerce :
" In our opinion it would be rendering a great service to
Algeria not to send Marshal Bugeaud back to the colony.
We will even add that he ought not be replaced by a military
governor. If we are still obliged to defend our possessions,
and have still struggles to sustain, war is no longer our grand
and sole occupation. We have an immense territory which
now needs only labour—a territory which we must cultivre,
plant, and colonise. What is the hand which should effect
this magnificent change ? Is it that of the warrior ? Cer-
tainly not. What is now wanted at the head of Algeria is a
statesman. It is statesmen whom England appoints to govern
India, notwithstanding the wars of which it is the theatre.
The persons whom she selects are the most eminent and dis-
tinguished of those acquainted with the principles of adminis-
tration. In colonization we ought not to disdain the example
of England, and why should we not follow it ?"
The Phare of Bayonne states that the meeting between
the Queen of Se.ux and the Duke and Duchess DE
NEMOURS at Pampeluna, is to take place on the 4th of
next month, and that General BARNETCREA has been
sent to the frontier town of Irun to receive their Royal
Highnesses. Preparations are being made at Tolosa to
accommodate the Prince and Princess, should they wish
to pass the night there.

As the Duke DE NEMOURS was suffering from slight
indisposition, the departure of the royal party from
Bordeaux has been postponed to the 19th or 20th inst.
They visit Pau and Tarbes on leaving Bordeaux, and
on their return from the Pyrenees to Bayonne they pro-
ceed by Irun, Oyarzuu, Astigarraga, and Tolosa to
Pampeluna.
The weather in the southern departments is very bad,
and the harvest in many instances totally lost. In
Poitou, for example, all hope being at an end, the pro-
duce of large districts is abandoned, and will rot of
course. In the neighbourhood of Paris things are better•
A slight reaction took place on the Paris Bourse on
Saturday.

The Three per Cents. closed on that day at 84f. 40c. ; the
New Loan at 84f. 65c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 95c. ;
Orleans Railroad shares, 1,827 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,067 f. 50e. ;
Vierzon, 7901. ; Havre, 9031. 75c.; Avignon, 1,070 f. ; Basle,282 f. 50c.

The following are the quotations of the new lines:—
Orleans and Bordeaux, 2221. 50e. pm.; Boulogne, 127 f
50e. pin.; Troyes and Montereau, 571. 50e.; Paris and Lyons
(Lattitte), 37f. 50e.; ditto (Calon), 7f. 50c.; ditto (Ganne•
ron), 12t: 50c.. ; Northern Line (Laflitte), 52f. 50e.; ditto
(Rosamel), 26f. 50c.; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 15f. ; ditto
(Deem)), 101. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 15f. ; ditto
(Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill) sf. ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 201. ; ditto 1
(.lo'radlitebaUx and
t)'4ot:loul;'doiuttso (Compagnie Metidionale), 101. ;
B
e (Mackenzie), lf: ; ditto and Cette
(Espeleta), 15f. ; Creil and St. Quentin (Carette), 6f. ;

LONDON,

Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 15f. ; DiJon and Idulhous,
par; Dieppe, 25f.
MARSEILLES, AUG. 12.—Marseilles and Avignon, 1,070 f. ;
Boulogne, 640 f. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 685 f. ; Vierzon,
790 f.

LYONS, AUG. 13.—Avignon and Marseilies, 1,067 f., end
of August; Parie and Orleans, 1,285 E, ditto; Paris and
Rouen, 1,063 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 785 f., ditto;
Orleans and Bordeaux, 707 f., ditto; Boulogne, 640 f., ditto;
Montereau, 557 f. ditto.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 16.

Boulogne and Amiens.. Orleans and Bordeaux 11%
Bordeaux &Mediterran OverYasel ...
Bordeaux and Toulouse Paris & Lyons (Lafitte) 31,4
Do. and Cette 2LA 1 Ditto (Ganneron's). 2 ii.'2
Dutch Rhenish
Dendre Valley .. Paris, and 0r1ean5......
.._

Dieppe & Pails Junct. ,Paris and Rouen
Dijon and Mulhouse Paris and Strasburg
East Indian
. „..

Grt Northern of France Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2%
(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Great Paris and Lyons 2 Royal North of Spain. 21/3
Jamaica Junction 514 Sambre and Meuse .... 8
Do. North Midland 2172 Strasbourg and Basle .
Louvain and Jemeppe 4l/4, Tours and Nantes
Lyons and Avignon 23 i (M'Kenzie's)
Luxembourgh.. 2% Do. (Lefebvre's)
Namur and Liege 4% Verona and Ancona.... 2%
Orleans and Vierzon

SOUTHWARK ELECTION.—Another candidate has
made his appearance to contest this borough, in the per•
son of Mr. Edward Miall, who announces himself upon
complete suffrage and anti-state church principles.
There does not, however, appear the remotest chance of
his election, or his even sensibly affecting the chances of
Sir William Molesworth. The latter gentleman arrived
in town from the west of England yesterday-, in orJer
to be present at the meeting of his friends, held last
night at the Bridge-house Hotel.

FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL

BRUSSELS, Aug. 14.—M. Nothombe, who was erro-
neously stated to have set out for Berlin, took his oath
to the King on Tuesday, in the quality of Envoy Extraor-
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty at
Berlin.

It seems that the apprehensions that were entertained
for the crops of potatoes begin to be allayed. Yesterday
in the market of Brussels, while the price of corn experi-
enced a further rise, the price of potatoes, which last week
was a few francs per sack of 100 kilogrammes, fell to 4f.
50 centimes, and at the close of the market to 4 francs.
But it seems by accounts from Roulers, that the sickly
appearance of the potato plants continue to cause much
uneasiness. There will be good crops they say of rye,
wheat, oats, and beans, if the rain should cease within a
few days.
_ _

All the steamers of the royal English navy have left
the roads of Antwerp, except the Victoria and Albert,
which will wait till her Majesty's return.
The Moniteur publishes a royal decree, of the 30th of
July, at the instance of M. Dechamps, Minister of Pub-
lic Works, which completes the organisation of the Post-
office. It consists of eighteen articles, the most curious,
but the least gallant, of which is as follows :—" Women
are not admissible to employment in the administration
of the Post-office."

HA3IBLIRGH BORSENHALLE, Aug. 14,
Bills. limey.
kustrian 5 per Cents ••••••••• • • • • • . 1143
Bank Shares • • •••• •
Anglo-liussian Loan • ••• • • • • 114
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 10532
Ditto Ist series Inscription..
Ditto, flop and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 91% 91%
Ditto, in Certificate.... •• • • ...... 99% 91%
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. 99%
Ditto Stieglitz ............ ••• . • ..... 92 91%
Spanish New 5 per Cent.. •• •• •••• • . • • 20% 20%
Ditto 3 per Cent 40
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent•. 65
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.. •. • • 63
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Polish New 4 per Cent. 3,oan, 1844.... 86%
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .•• • • • 8732
National Bank Shares .• ..

CLERICAL INTOLERANCE IN

THE ISLE OF WIGHT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sra,—ln the midst of a season of affliction, which has
been added to by the circumstances I am about to relate,
I feel much reluctance in at all obtruding on public no-
tice, and should be content to submit quietly to th con-
duct which has been shown towards me and my tamliy.
if it were not for a sense of public duty.
About four years ago I lost a sister by consumption
at Carisbrook, in the Lie of Wight. Owing to the state
of her health she had resided there several years, and
according to her wish, she was buried in the church, and
of the neighbouring parish of Gatcombe. The then
rector of that parish, Dr. Worsley, made no objection
to her interment, though I afterwards understood that
he was annoyed by my dispensing with the body lacing
taken into the church, and only having the service read
at the grave. The undertaker, however, informed me
that the Doctor seemed very well satisfied when he re.
ceived his fee ; and as the objection was not made offen-
sively, but simply on the gri:und that the deceased had
been, and I was, a Dissenter ; and, as it is an every day
occurrence in London and other large towns for similar
interments to take place, the circumstance had almost
faded from my memory, though it was but too well te-
mernbered by those who treasure up every offence
against the exclusive authority of the Church.
Little more than a week ago I was called to the '.sl:-nd
by the death of another sister. She del in early wo-
manhood of the same fatal disease, and it was but na-
tural that we should wish the sisters not to be separated
in death.
Within the time I have mentioned the former rector,

Dr. Worsley, had died, and on Tuesday, July 29th, _I
went over to Gatcombe to see his successor, Dr. Thomp-
son, accompanied by my brother. The Doctor's recep-
tion of us was most courteous. I asked him if he had
any objection to my sister being laid by the &de of the
other oue ? His answer was, "Of course I can have no
objection." He was told that we were not natives of the
island, but that my mother and sister had been residing
some years at Carisbrook. He asked why the farmer
burial had taken place at Gatcombe instead of Cans •
brook, and was informed that it was by the wish of the
deceased, with which reason he expressed himself satis-
fied, and then at his suggestion the three of us went to
Gatcombe Church to point out the spot. At the church-
yard the sexton received directions from the Doctor
about digging the grave, and, with his concurrence, the
day and hour of the funeral was fixed. Nothing could
be more definite and better understood; but on the even-
ing of the ensuing day I was surprised by receiving the
following note:—

" Dr. Thompson presents his compliments to Mr. Vid-
ler, and begs to inform him, that upon inquiry he finds
he cannot with propriety bury the corpse of the late
Miss Vidler in the churchyard of Gatcomb9, and there-
fore must reluctantly decline.
" Gatcomhe, July 30."
It was too late on the evening of the day on which I
received this note to go to Gatcombe, but on the follow-
ing morning I went there. I felt that I had a right to
some explanation ; that it ought to be no light thin.; to
induce a clergyman and a gentleman to retract a pro-
mise. I obtained a second interview with Dr. Thomp-
son. He was cool and distant, but studiously polite; he
had all the manner of a man determined not to commit
himself. He said, " That as the death had not taken
place in his parish, he had a right to refuse without
;riving any reason ; that he thought when he gave his
consent the family were in some way connected with the
parish-(tas was not true, for on the first interview he
had been told most distinctly to the contrary); that Dr.
Worsley had always regretted allowing the former in-
terment; that he was acting under advice, and should
decline giving any other reasons."

I admitted his legal right to refuse (my request had
been made as a courtesy), but that and all the circum-
stances he had stated, with the exception of the feelings
of the late rector, he had known when he gave his con-
sent. Nor could I help adding, that I thought his
conduct most unkind, and quite contrary to the teaching
of our Great Master, who taught us to do as we would
be done by. To this he answered " That he did not
wonder I felt so, but he must do his duty by his parish.'
And thus the conference closed without one word from
him about what I believe to be the real reason of his
refusal, viz., that we were Dissenters. This is no doubt
what he learnt by the inquiry he speaks of; and for this
reason he refused to allow the ashes of two sisters to
mingle together who had loved each other in life, had
been supported by one common faith in long and
lingering disease, and had met the same early death.
If I am mistaken in my opinion I shall be glad to be
corrected by the reverend gentleman. It is my present
conviction that he refused to bury my sister because he
had received information (perhaps clerical) that we were
lini•Arian Christians.

By some strange omission the Dissenters of the Isle
of Wight, though a numerous and a wealthy body, have
not obtained for themselves any cemetery of their own;
and have is consequence borne most patiently several
petty insults from the establi,hed clergy. Had there
been such a cemetery, Dr. Worsley would have been
spared the regret of which his successor spoke,
and I and my family would have been spared
b:Ah pain and expense. After my interview with
Dr. Thompson, I determined not to expose myself to
another refusal, which at such a time seemed almost like
an affront to the departed, nor to give another clergy-
man of the same church an opportunity of showing his
zr-al against heresy. So I left the island and crossed to
Portsmouth, where, at the High street Chapel, there. is
a small grave-yard attached. By the kindness of the
Rev. H. Hawkes, the minister of that chapel, and the
trustees, I obtained permission for the interment to take
place there last Saturday. Till then I hardly knew
whether it might not be necessary to take the rem ins
of my sister to London for a resting place. I refrain
from making any comment on the circumstances I have
narrated; I merely wish to put you in possession of the
facts, and if their publication in any form appears to you
likely to tend to correct intolerance, and promote the
cause of religious freedom, you are at full liberty to use
the according to your discretion. Though writing from
Carisbrook, I have given my London address, in order
to authenticate my statement.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.,
WILLIAM VIDLEIt, Minister of the
D.mestic Mission Chapel, Cripplegate.
21, Brunswick-place, City-road, Aug. 7, 1845.

POSITIVE " HOT," COMPARATIVE "HOTTER."—The
Cincinnati Gazette, with a laudable emulation in the matter
of hot weather, and desirous, doubtless, of standing upon
equal terms with its contemporaries, makes considerable
fuss about the heat experienced a few days since in that
city, but it is evident from all we see in its paragraph, that
the Gazette knows very little about the meaning of hot
weather. It is quite clear that with all his Ei mrishing attempts
to put forth a hot article, the editor's knowledge of caloric is
deplorably deficient, and it is a suspicious circumstance that he
does not (we presume dare not) say a word about the thermo-
meter. If it was really warm in Cincinnati, why doesn't he
tell us how high the thermometer rose ?—New York Paper.