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London, England, 1842-03-05 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Three o' Clock.

We adverted some months ago to a report that the
CZUEEN DOWAGER was about to grant 2,000 L, in addition
to the large sum she had already paid for building a
church at Malta, and treated it as a wicked calumny ;
for we could not believe it possible that her Majesty
would send money out of the country for such a purpose,
when English women were committing murder and
,oiicide from insufferable want and hopeless despair.
No more was heard of the report ; but looking at all
the circumstances, we fear it is not without founda-
tion. Queen ADELAIDE, it is ivell known, is much
uader the influence of the clergy ; and when we find
tiese men Combining to raise money for Colonial
I:ishops, we may infer that they will consider it a meri-
torious act to build a Colonial Cathedral. The Bishop
of London is one of the most active of his " order" in
Lusiness of this kind, and though we should not com-
plain if he gave 10,000/. a•year out of his enormous
income to promote true religion in this country, or even
abroad, we must protest against the atrocious scheme he
las devised for abstracting, during this period of
awful want and distress, money from the pockets
or' Englishmen for the erection of either colonial
3llshoprics or
.coronial churches. A scheme of
this description, hoWever, is 'prepared, for he has ad-
ilressoda. circular to the clergy of his diocese, the object
-t which is to exhort them to make collections in their
espective churches, in aid of the fund for the " endow-
inentof the Bishoprics in the colonies." Thus while the
clergy receive from seven millions to nine millions ster-
I ng yearly (for they take care that the full amount shall
not be known), they are called upon by this pious and
wealthy Bishop to use their spiritual influence to
raise money, not to feed the hungry, or save the
dying, but to add to the wealth of their own order in
tureign lauds. Of all the egregious instances of priestly
assumption and impudence that have distinguished
Churchmen above all other classes, this is the most as-
tonishing. What while the poor people of Paisley are '
forced to keep body and soul together on three halfpence j
a-day each ; -while thousands of famished children in
Engla.nd are crying for bread, and their broken-hearted
mothers starving themselves to relieve their offspring ;
while high-spirited Englishmen are brought so low
by want, as to solicit the crumbs that fall even from
the common soldier's table ; and tens of thou-
aands are debarred from entering a church for want cif
decent clothing, the cries of our starving poor are to be
drowned by holy shootings for more Church ! The spirit
that dictates this outrageous attempt is the spirit of infi-
delity, and not Christianity, for in the words of the sa•
crud writer,. "He that provideth not for his own, and
especially for. those of his own hOusehOld, has denied the
faith, and is worse than an infidel." Bat the monstrous
tinderta,king cannot succeed. The voice of the charitable
people of this country will be raised against it, and
hould that not deter this arrogant priest, we trust her 1
MAJESTY will show herself the head of the Church in
reality, and , issue an injunction against such wicked ;
rnockery.

The answers of the Earl of ABERDEEN in the House
of Lords, and of Sir ROBERT PEEL, in the House of
Commons, to the questions put to them last night by
lord CLARENDON and lord PALMERSTON, relative to
the view taken by the British Government of the con-
spiracy recently entered into by certain well-known per-
sonages in France, to effect a revolution in Spain, are
most creditable to the Government of this country. But
-what a hubbub will they not raise in France ! What
consternation will they not excite in Monday's Cabinet
Council at the Tuileries ! How the coterie of traitors
which throng the hotel of Madame MUNOZ, will stare
with dread and astonishment, when they learn from the
reports of the proceedings in the British Parliament that
-their treasons against ESPARTERO are known not only
-hy the Members of the English Cabinet, but by the
whole of the ex-Ministers ! And, above all, with
-what face will M. GLIzoT present himself in
the Chamber of Deputies, after declaring from
The tribune on Teesday last, that no conspiracy
/existed- in France for disturbing the Government es-
lablished in Spain ? This declaration was read on
:Friday- morning by the Noble Foreign Secretary, Lord
.ABERDEEN, and the Premier, Sir R. PEEL, and they
35oth seized the earliest opportunity to assure Parlia-
went and the country that they knew it to be the re-
verse of true—that such a conspiracy did exist, and that
the vigilance of the British Government would be em-
yloyed to defeat it.

- The Earl of CLARENDON, whose attachment to the
constitutional Government of Spain, has been of such
t;igna.l service to that country, expressed, in a masterly
, aanner, the duplicity and treachery of the French Go-
'4 eminent. He showed that the existence of a conspiracy
in France, countenanced and supported by the Soma-
( trzz.yr Cabinet, to revolutionise Spain, was notorious.
ale especially directed attention to the congregation of
the. most dangerous Carlist and Christino refugees
aipon the frontier—to their being allowed to
travel as missionaries of religion, although under I
taw nominal surveillance of the French Government—to
sho•remission of large sums of money by them for the •
wse of rebels on the Spanish side of the frontier—to the
concentration of a largo military force by France in the
same quarter—and to the presence of an Aide-de-Camp
of the French Premier, Marshal SOULT, at the little court
of Don CARLOS. His Lordship further proved, by a re-
ference to the conduct of France in 1839, that she could,
•,%thenever she chose, put dor..n these treasonable
movements, anl contended that her not doing so removed
:411 doubt or the complicity of her Government. The
Npe,4,ch of the Earl of ABERDEEN implied an entire belief
in alLthat fell from Lord CLARENDON, respecting the
treachery of the French Cabinet. He stated that the
Trench Goerrirricnt had officially admitted the existence
4,1 a conspiracy, but premised to do all in its power to
suppress it. The Noble • Earl, however; . abstained from
invoking, their Lordships to 'pay any regard to that
priamise7--anumission_ of N3l,.ich assuredly he would not
Lave been guilty, had he Aced-the shadow Of re
liance
upon iel. tance
upon it. In the event or-an outbreak, the Noble Earl
pledged the. 'British -.Government not ' only to afford
JEsPAuTEtto all the moral support of England, but like-
wise .to render him that naval- assistance which, under
lord Jons HAY, contributed's° effectually to the last over-
t brow of Don CARLOS. Nor did the Noble Earl stop here.
In addition, to promising the present constitutional Go-
Ternment of Spain the entire support of England, the
Noble Foreign Secretary_took care to impress upon their
Lordships that such support was well deserved. " The
present Government of Spain,"
observed his Lordship,
" deserve 3 particularly the support of her Majesty's Go-
vernment, for it hats, clone more t? advance the interests
of that country than any otheivstikd the death of FER-
InNAND." .Tile language 2 of —Sir ROBERT PEEL
in the House. .of Commons- was:, Utore reserved, but
the snbstanCe of it-was the Same. i. 'e have no longer
Any apprehension as to the lailurf! r the conspiracy
against ESPARTERO. Louis PHILIP will not risk a
•
war with this country to restore -Maaame MUNOZ, and
.. -
Lis Majesty must now See.. {fiat' Without risking a war
Imr restoration is impossible. With the Whigs ready to
support them, the Tories are not the Ministers to shrink

from the fulfilment of pledges made to Spain, out of an
apprehension of French hostility. War has ever proved
to them too rich a harvest to justify the expectation of
is forfeiture of honour to avoid it.
And in the same proportion that the speeches of. the
British Ministers will disconcert the plots of the French
and Spanish conspirators, will they consolidate the real
power of the REGENT and his Cabinet. Nor will the
domestic factions of Spain, which, notwithstanding their
petty bickerings, are ready to spill their blood for
the Constitution, bear with indifference the admonitions
to union addressed to them by the friendly Government
of England. When they see the Tories pursuing the
same course towards their country that the Whigs did,
they cannot but feel convinced that all parties in Eng-
land have nothing more generally at heart than the
triumph and the consolidation of constitutional freedom
in the Peninsula.

The Fives were clone on the Madrid Bourse on the
24th ult. at 25:1f0r cash. _

j There is no political news of interest in the French
' Journals, nor is their dulness relieved by any thing con-
tained in the Madrid papers of the 24th ult., likewise re-
ceived. The Spanish Government was displaying great
'.firmness, and keeping down the factions with a high hand.
A duel had been fought between two Spanish deputies,
M. LAcosTE and Colonel PRIME,. when both were
slightly wounded.

A Madrid letter, in the Memorial of Pau, states" that one
of the Generals, Diarvaez, has arrived at Tangiers, and that
his presence there causes uneasiness to the authorities of An-
dalusia, who are apprehensive of his meditating a descent upon
Spain.
The Catolico of Mahon, mentioning the arrival of the
Bishops of Siguenza and Calahorra, who have been exiled to
that place, says that these Prelates have been_ condemned, the
first to four years and the second to six years' exile, and all the
expenses of the persecution against them. To meet these
expenses, which they were totally unable to pay, all their
books, robes, and moveable objects of every kind had been
seized ant' sold.

A Correspondent of the Semaphore, at Beyrout, asserts that
the condition of the Maronites and other Christians in Syria
is much worse since the termination of the troubles than before;
that the Druses tyrannise over and insult them, and that the
Turkish au:horities incline in all judicial decisions to the party
4 the Mussulmans. This account is not in accordance with
what we learn from Malta and Constantinople, and should be
received with caution, since the protection of the Christians is
sometimes set up as an excuse for claiming the interference of
a European Power.
A letter from Toulon of the 244th of February states, that
orders from the Minister r.f Marine have been received in the
several ports of the kingdom directing that all diligence shall
be used to complete the steam-boats now building. It is ex-
pected that one will be launched in our port on occasion of the
fete of the lst of May.

Orders have been received to hasten the repairs of the Belle
Poule.— Constitutionnel.

BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3.

First Higher Lowest

Price Price. Pilo. Price.
rrench ner Cents ll9 60 ... 119 70 ... I'9 63 ... 119 70
4per Ccnte. ...... 103 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103

3 per Conte SO 80 30 -. Bi. 25 So 30
sank of franee
Lattnte Eank I,ooof. Snares 1025 ...)125
5,0001. Shares 5040 -.5040 ...5040 ...5040
Belgian 33nK
18'1
Belgian 5 per Centi., 18411 105% ... 106 ... 1057 i(15%
v 5 k 5 .

536
5% ••• ..•
Old Deferred 53i ... 5.4 ...
Neapolitan lO5 BO ... 8) ... 11'5 80 ... IPS tO
Roman
RAILWAY SHAKEN.
St. Germain 835 ... 535 ... 835 ... 835
Versailles, R. kJ 350 ... 850 ... 350
21e ... 212 50 .. 210 212 5p
Rouen 525 ... 52i ... 522 50 222
orlean.
S.rasburg .o Bale 2ll 25 ... 24.1 50 .. 241 25 ... 24e 50

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE ll'S_
CITY, TWELVE o'cLocw.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 4.—We began
with a good demand, the sales on Monday being nearly 7,000
bales. This large business and demand was not fully sup-
ported on the two following days, but the market retained
much of the same temper and spirit. Yesterday and to- day
the large quantity of ordinary and middling, and middling fair
American pressed on the market for sale has been sensibly
felt, and we ..:Asse the week in a dull manner for those lower
qualities ; at the same time the better sorts steadily maintain
their ground. In prices there is no change, for if at the beginning
of the week there was rot a.moment an upward tendency, it has
been all lost again on the operations yesterday and this morning ,and
wa-tberefore see no necessity to vary our quotations. Possibly the
effects of a cheaper and easier Money Market may not yet have
been fully felt on cotton. Judging from the past there can
hardly be any doubt that the present low rates will by and by
draw attention to an article which keeps without injury for
any length of time, and from its convertibility comes so nearly
to the public Stocks: 2,000 American, and 1,600 Surat have
been taken on speculation, and 1,000 American and 100
Surat for export. The sales to-day amount to 4,000 bales for
the lower qualities, the market is heavy, but the better main-
tain full prices.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 4.—A good business
has been done in this market to-day, with a firm market. The
sales are—Eastern Counties Debentures, 37a. 6d. premium ;
Grand Junction, 182 per share; Great Western, 90; Ditto
Fifths, 10 5-16ths ; Liverpool and Manchester Quarter Shares,
45; Ditto Half Shares 87i ; London and Birmingham Quarter
Shares, 36*; London and South Western, 58i ; North Mid-
land Thirds, 15*
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 4.—We have
had a firm Market to-day, but in consequence of there being
few sellers little business has been done. Eastern Counties,
9* to 9%; do. Debentures, 103% to 10% ; Manchester and
Leeds, 75 to 76 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 2111 to 29 ;
London and Birmingham (32) Old, 571 to 58.