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doubt have been extremely beneficial to the whole cotton I
trade, and had it been carried into effect would most
probably have saved Stockport from the accession of
calamity which fell on it in August last. The proposed
alteration of the Corn-laws would have had similar
effects to the alteration in the sugar duties, and thus the
success of Sir ROBERT PEEL, in preventing those alte-
rations, is the real cause of the aggravation of the public
distress which has taken place during the last eight
months. That distress, which his success aggravated,
he has yet done nothing to relieve; and, in spite of his
brilliant promises, his Administration will probably be
known to posterity as the inefficient and deplorgble
Ministry.

A lengthened debate took place in the General Assem-
bly last Monday on a motion for the total abolition of
Church patronage in Scotland. The Non-Intrusionists
despairing of any aid from the present Government, and
convinced, by experience, that their Veto Act is little
better than a nullity when it comes in collision with the
law, resolved to carry matters with a high hand, and rest
satisfied with nothing less than the total abolition of tl e
patron's rights. This scheme, however, was very coldlyra-
ceived, It was proposed by one of the leading fathers of the
Kirk, and supported, in very strong figurative language,
by the Professor of Divinity, Dr. CHALMERS, but unfor-
tunately was opposed by the Procurator, the law officer
of the Church, and if we mistake not, a Non-Intru-
sionist himself, when, on a division, the motion was car-
ried by a majority 0f.69. This is a sad falling off from
the majority which the same party had on the previous
Thursday, when a division took place on the Strathbogie
affair, and the Non-Intrusionists mustered 215 votes,
their opponents, the men resolved to obey the law, only
85 votes, giving a majority of not less than 130 votes.
There is evidently a division in the camp. The threat
held out by one of the chiefs that they would secede in a
body and leave one-half of the churches empty, has
alarmed those who prefer a comfortable manse and a
good stipend to wooden houses and casual contributions,
and the alarm was not at all assuaged by the speeches
made on the occasion. The Procurator laid down the law
on the question, and hinted that if the object
of the motion were obtained, something like anarchy and
confusion might follow. What, said he, would be thought
of any Reformer of the Radical party moving in the
House of Commons that the present system of repre-
sentation should be abolished without substituting some
other in its place ?—" Would t any man, except one as
wild as himself, listen for a moment to a scheme that
would throw the country into anarchy and confusion ? "
This roused the fears of the less staunch Vetoists.
They shuddered at the very idea of losing their
livings in the general scramble, and Dr. CHALMERS,
in place of holding out any consolation, confounded them
still more. He absolutely denounced the popular voice,
and described the people as utterly unfit to choose their
own pastors. Who, then, are to choose them ? The
Church. This we have all alobg seen was the great ob-
ject of the dominant party. Under pretence of giving
the right of election to the Christian people at large
they would confine it only to a select few, whom
they could mould and control according to
their own wishes. " I have no faith," said he, "in
the entire infallibility of the popular voice, and believe
a system of household or resident election, is as bad as
high-handed patronage. To the Church Courts belong
the highest and most important part of this
matter." This, to say the least of it, is
plain language, easy to be understood by the
People as well as the Parliament, and, we trust,
will not be forgotten when the subject again comes on
for discussion. But we advise Mr. CAMPBELL to give up
his Bill. Has he the vanity to suppose that the men whom
Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR described as totally unmanage-
able, will be ruled by him, or that he can carry through
Parliament a measure opposed by great majorities in
both Houses, by all the patrons of livings in England,
and by the whole Episcopal Church ?

We learn from the Manchester Guardian that the
statements respecting the distress of the Operatives in
the manufacturing districts, are so far from being ex-
aggerated, that they scarcely reveal the whole appalling
truth ; and that, at Stockport in particular, nothing can
surpass the extent and intensity of the sufferings under
which the industrious Operatives are labouring, except the
patience with which they bear their privations. Under
these circumstances, permit us to ask what has become
of the proposal—broached the other day with so much
parade and emphasis by Mother Church—of preaching
simultaneous charity sermons on behalf of the famish-
ing artizans? If the thing is to be done, 'tis absolutely
necessary that it should oe done at once. While the
Church deliberates, the Operatives starve. We were
never impressed with any very favourable ideas
of the project, thinking that the richest Church
in the world would be better employed in subscribing
itself, than in exhorting others to subscribe, for its des-
titute flocks ; still, as seine little good was likely to arise
from it, we gave it our humble but ready support ; and
now repeat our question—when are the charity
sermons to be preached ? Are we to wait till
the parsons are in a favourable mood for pa-
thetic composition? If so, the scheme had better he
at once abandoned, and the poor be left, as usual, to the
chapter of accidents. If churchmen would but show as
much zeal in the cause of their famishing flocks, as lay-
men have shown in the cause of the burnt-out Ham-
burghers, we should soon cease to be horrified with
details of the sufferings of the Operatives in the manu-
facturing districts.

The Levant Mail brings the startling intelligence that
Egyptian troops have been ordered to Syria to quell thy•
insurrection of the Druses. We can hardly bring our-
selves to credit a statement which, if true, proves the
members of the Divan to be little better than lunatics.
What, entrust the quelling of an insurrection in Syria to
the deadly enemies of the Syrian people, whether
Maronites or Druses ? If said of any other Government
but that of the Porte, we should regard it as incredible.
A letter from Constantinople of the sth instant,
states that the SULTAN has sent a sword with a nishai,
of high rank to Commodore Sir CHARLES NAPIER. We
are glad to have to announce this long-delayed recogni-
tion by the Porte of the Gallant Commodore's invaluabh
services in Syria.

There is very little news of any interest in the Frene:
Journals. The public is weary of the Right of Sear&
question, which is employed by the Opposition entirel,
with a view to drive M. GITIZOT out of the Cabinet.

The French are manifosting a generous sympathy for
the distress of the people of Hamburgh, for which we
cannot too much respect t hem.
The Moniteur of the 24th. of May
.publishes, in its official
part, the law which gives to the Minister of Public Work% a
credit of four millions of fran cs, to be employed in repairing the
damage done to the dikes on. the banks of the Rhine, between
Lyons and the sea, and also tc. the canal from Arles to Bone,
by the rise and overflowing of the waters. This law is dated
the 22d of May.
BO I,J E.SE---PAnt S, TUESDAY, MAY 24.
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THE ARTISTS' BENEVOLEN'T INSTITUTION.—The An-
niversary Dinner of this Institvtion will take place at
the Freemasons' Tavern, on Ss turday, when Sir M.
Archer Shee, President of the Royal Academy, will
take the chair. Several eminent`. artists and literary
men have offered their services as Stewards, and the
entertainment, altogether, is empectt 'd to be one of much
interest.

~.g ,11MM,

ADELAIDE GALLERY.
The skilful management of this Haiti of Science and Amuse-
ment under the new proprietor (Mr. Jones), seems to be re-
warded by a corresponding increase of public patronage. It is
certainly to he admired in the arras ,gements of Mr. Jones.
that whilst the entertainment of the 1 iopular admirers of phi-
for the more serious and
losophical experiments p
sincere lovers 4roceeds withot t interruption, lectures
4 science in every de-
partment, are delivered from hour to . hour. Mr. Jones lee-
, tares every evening upon subjects corm ected with physiology,
natural philosophy, or chemistry.
British Museum, lectures upon geology, .Mi Richardson, of the
j, 1 so popular and -.
in-
telligible a manner, that one is conipelli 'd to grieve that he
did not bestow more pains upon bin section of the catalogue to
the British Museum. The arrangenk nt that during
the time of lecture, entertainm ant of
ah, ome other kind
should be provided for thi )se w.,si'tors, who prefer
the enjoyment of the senses to inteilleextal .;tuprovement,
was last evening brought into operation with the ;nod happy
results. It is not safe to say ( without a qualificat.'on) thar
tkose who neglected the lectures, and li stetted to the ,singer 4,
see ty captivated by the gratification of st nse only, in its vulgar
acceptation ; for Science, standing at the half-opened 'door,
whilst the Rhenish singers performed th eir vocal wonders, ex-
pressed her ,surprise that Art could do so much. This choir
is composed of four brothers from the I Lutz Mountains, who
sang their national, serious, and comic a .irs, arranged for four
voices, with brilliant and ”tonishir4 effet t. The music, under
the direction of Mr. Emanuel, Was cputi nued from the opening
of the rooms to their close, and at for—
do i to the public a pro-
menade, the most delightful that co uld be enjoyed in our uncer-
tain climate and precarious spring.

GREAT NORTH OF EN GLAIC)?
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Darlington, May 25.

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