The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-01 00:00:00

NE W SPAPE li. STAMPS.

L daining such a prayer, they can hardly have the
' face to maintain a law which deprives the people
of food, and has actually compelled men to de,
stroy wheat, by throwing it into the Thames,
because thatlaw woulcl. not allow them to give it
either to man or beast. If we may believe the
reports from the United States, there is at this
moment food going to decay there which the
owners would gladly send for the use of our
people ; but those very men who now ordain a
thanksgiving for a plentiful increase of food, will
not allow that abundance which the ALMIGHTY
has sent to be used by his suffering creatures.
Men in authority may fleece us by an Income-
tax—they may even starve us by a Corn-law—
but they go too far when they interfere with
our prayers, and ordain that our lips shall utter
a solemn mockery of our own hearts, and of our
belief in the goodness of GOD.

i.xtract from a Return of the Number of Newspaper
Stamps, at One Penny and On: Halfpenny, issued
to the several Newspapers in England, Scotland,
and Wales, from the Ist of April to 30th June,
1842, inclusive :

Nuaber Amount of
of Advertisement
Stamps. Duty.
Courier
Globe
Standard
SUN... 313,000 323 3 6

0, ATER Al LONDoNLOGI,. THIS DAY.
Morning.... 1 t minutes after II I Evening 42 minutes after U.

LONDON :
SATURD MORNING. OCTOBER 1, 1842.

We are not mach inclined to criticise the lan-
guage of prayer, but the public has a right to
demand that the prayers ordained by authority,
and to be repeated in all the churches and
chapels in England and Wales to-morrow, shall
express sentiments that are very generally felt.
•To ordain prayers at all, seems to us a usurpa-
tion of the right of conscience at the same
time it takes away all spontaniety from prayer,
and destroys its merit. Nevertheless, if autho-
rity will interfere in such matters, it ought to
take especial care to commit no mistake either
in sentiment or language. .

The first part of the prayer seems to us to sin
against good sense and good language. It says,
" 0 GOD, through whose good Providence the
earth yieldeth food for the sustenance of man,"
&c. To pass over the degradation of Providence,
usually-employed substantively to signifyGoD, into
the denomination of one of his attributes, why is
the idea suggested of the possibility of a bad
Providence by using the epithet good ? Can
-there be a bad Providence ? Is it possible for a
Providence, particularly the Providence of GOD,
to be other than good ? Is not the use of the
word good, then, intended—we presume, to en-
hance the idea of GOD-a violation of good sense
and good taste?

Again, the prayer says, " Give us grace, we
humbly beseech Thee, that, whilst we receive
thy bounty with thankfulness, we may regard
the blessing bestowed on us as a call to repent-

/lace, and turn from the evil of our ways." This
prayer, it must be recollected, is to be used by
all the people, and especially by the poor, for
whose benefit the Church is said to exist; and
what must the poor think of being enjoined to
pray that they may regard a bountiful harvest—
which makes it probable that they may, perhaps,
for the first. time these four years, be able to get
a sufficiency of food—as a call to repentance?
What have they to repent of in relation to food,
that this idea of punishment and sin should be
intruded on them by the priests, and by men in
authority, in conjunction with the blessing of a
good harvest, with which GOD has gladdened
the earth ?
The connection of a blessing' with repentance
iE of itself a contradiction, and is contrary to the
whole tenor and scope of the Christian religion,
which connects punishments, not blessings, with
sin, and sends the former, not the latter, as mo-
tives for repentance. It may be, indeed, that
those who drew up the prayer have many and
urgent reasons for repentance in relation to the
article of food repentance for having in-
(bilged in it too largely, and repentance for
having withheld it from the people ; but
what right have they to make their feel-
ings the guide to the prayers of the true-
hearted, patient, and suffering people ? If
one thing be calculated inure than another to
bring the public worship of the ALMIGHTY
into discredit, it is this meddling with it,
by authority, and decreeing, prayers which
do not correspond to the feelings of the
people. Their hearts, we believe and hope,
overflow with gratitude to the Great Giver of
all ~00d, and it i totally at variance with such
feelings to regard them in conjunction with a
good harvest as calls to repentance.
The prayer further says, " Remove from
amongst us all caus,l of strife and contention,
put an end td our unhappy divisions." We pre-
sume those words are used with a direct refer-
ence to the political disputes which exist, the
consequence of misgovernment, and to the
strife and contention which are generated by
Corn-laws ; but the men who command the use
of that prayer, obstinately persevere in this
cause of strife and contention. They enjoin the
people to pray for the removal of that which
they might remove to-morrow, and will not. To
us, speaking it very humbly, but very earnestly'',
the command to use such a prayer seems a
mockery of the people and of the Great Being
whom they are instructed thus to address.
It is, however, satisfactory to find that our
rulers are of opinion that a plentiful increase of
food is worthy of being grateful for. After or-

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 1, 1842.

have forfeited al right to the sovereignty of
Servia, in a general assembly of the chiefs of the
Servian nation, and that ALEXANDER PETRO-
wrrscH, aged 1S (the son of CZERNY GEORGE),
a protege of Russia, had been elected by accla-
_

mationin his stead. KIAMIL PACHA, Governor
of Belgrade, and CHEKIB EFFENDI, the Otto-
mon Commissioner, had given their sanction to
this resolution ; and Tatars had been immedi-
ately despatched to Constantinople for the fetra,
or act of deposition of Prince MICHAEL, and the
hatti-scheriff appointing the new sovereign of
Servia.

A number of arrests had been made at Bel-
grade, particularly among the officers; who, not
considering themselves- 'relieved from their alle-
giance to Prince MICHAEL, refused to take the
oath to the Provisional Government.

The Frankfort- lournal of the 26th ult. states,

that during the visit paid by the Archduke Jour
of AUSTRIA on the 22d to the exhibition of the

products of industry at Mentz, one of the manu-
facturers reminded the Prince of a toast he had

proposed on a recent occasion, viz., " o Austria,
no Prussia, but one Germany only !" and sug-
gested the expediency of encouraging the union
of Germany in a manufacturing, as well as poli-
tical, point of view, in order that all Germans
engaged in industrial pursuits might contribute

in common to an end so noble as that of promot-
ing the prosperity of Germany. The Archduke
replied, " The project is only just coming into
operation ; the transition will be difficult; but
once effected, it will render the bond of the Ger-
man union indissoluble."

Our accounts from Madrid of the 21st ult.
state that the greatest activity prevailed in all the
naval arsenals, and, notwithstanding the deplo
rable cOndition of the military navy, three ex--
peditions were shortly to sail from the ports of
Spain.

The Five per Cents. sold on the 2lst for 261,
at GO days; and 271, with premium, and 271
with 1, at 60 days; and the floating debt for 41,
at GO days, with the coupons due.

We have received the Paris Papers of
Wednesday and ThnrSday. The Commerce
has another article on the 'right of search,
in which it states that a co►niuuuication has
been made by .the A►nerican Government to
the French Legation at Washington, declaring
that at no time, and under no circumstances,
shall a foreign nation be permitted to share the
right of sovereignty en board American vessels.
this supposed communication rests solely on the
letter of a Correspondent at Washington. The
intelligence in the papers generally is of little
interest.

The Tonlonnais of the 25th ult. contains ac-
counts from Algiers of the 20th, stating that the
Kabyles of the East were making preparations
to oppose a vigorous resistance to the French
column about to march from Algiers into the
mountains. They were, it appears, fully aware
of the intentions of the latter, and amply pro-
vided with arms and ammunition. General
BUGEAUD was to set out on that expedition
abut the 30th, with a corps of five thou-
sand men, and to proceed across the ter-
ritory of the Issers. The tribe of the
Flittas having revolted against the French,
General D'ARBouvieeE marched from Mostaga-
nem for the purpose of chastising them, but
meeting with an unexpected resistance lie was
obliged to retrace his steps, and returned to Mos-
taganem with a loss of 50 men. In the East the
camp of Setit' bad been attacked by several of
the neighbouring tribes, who were repulsed, after
a smart engagement, in which the besieged bad
one officer and five men killed, and four officers
and 50 sub-officers and soldiers wounded.
The German papers corroborate the news of
the deposition of Prince MICHAEL of Servia in
an assembly called by notables and senators at
Belgrade, and numbering 12,000 Servians.
The King of PRUSSIA has promised an exten-
sion of municipal liberty to the Rhenish towns.
There is but one article in the Paris journals of
Thursday morning of public interest—it is from
the Presse, on the official tables just published
by the Government. This journal says:—
The Government report of the merchandise brought
into France during the month of August is worthy
of observation in more than one point. We first re-
mark the following interesting fact. The ordonnance
of June 26, concerning linen cloths and threads, ap-
pears to have had a serious effect. The imports from
England may be said to have been entirely suppressed
during the month ; for it is probable that all, or very
nearly all, the thread entered came from Belgium,
which is so much favoured by the tariff. The differ-
ence in the imports between the two last months is
enormous. In July, the entries amounted to 1,319,600
kilogrammes of thread, while in August they were no
more than 413,949 kilos.—a diminution of nearly two-
thirds. During three years, the monthly importa-
tion was only twice below this sum, viz., in December,
1840, and June, 1841. "With these two exceptions,
it was much above, and, during the present year, has
uniformly exceeded 1,000,000 kilos. This result
proves that the ordonnance of June 26 has produced
a very great relief to our linen manufactories. On
the other hand, it is not true that the restriction on
the importation of English thread has been injurious
to our weavers. The returns now published furnish
an unanswerable argument on this point. Although
the quantity of thread brought in during the last
month was comparatively very small, even that has
not been brought into use ; for about one-half of it
still remains in the bonding warehouses. This is an
evident proof that our weavers have no great need of
English thread, and that the ordonnance of
June 26, has done little more than rejected
an overplus. The import of cloths increased
during August, but Belgium probably has
had the bnefit of the difference ; showing how
advantageous this exception in her favour has been to
her, and that it ought to have made her grateful to us,
instead of being so eager to court Germany, which as
yet ihas never made her any concession by way of
compensation. The importations of coal and east
iron having sensibly diminished. We have received
from abroad during the last month only 83,037 tons
of this fuel; whereas in July there were brought in
nearly 210,000 tons. Nevertheless, taking things in
the mass, it cannot be denied that neighbouring coun-
tries have had a large share in our supplies of coal.
During the first eight months of the current year,
they sent into France more than 1,200,000 tons, and
there is every reason to conclude that by the end of
the year, this quantity will amount to 2,000,000 tons.
Thus the mass of foreign coal thrown into our markets
will be equal to two-thirds of that drawn from our
native mines. Hence it will be seen that our tariffs
cannot with any justice be called too rigorous. The
amount of our importation of cast-iron since the com-
mencement of the year is 22,614 tons. On a compa-
rison between those of July and August, there appears
to have been a reduction of two-thirds ; still there is
no doubt that the gross quantity for the year will be
at least 30,000 tons. Belgium again has the largest
share in this important article of consumption ; in
this, as well as in linen cloths and thread, she has an
allowance in her favour, paying a duty of only 4f.,
when England is made to pay 7f. The receipts of the
treasury during the last month were 8,835,650 k.
This gives a presumptive amount for the year of
106,000,000 f. The total for the eight months which
have elapsed is 70,525,628 f. The probable receipt
under the head of Customs was put down in the
budget for 1842 at 123,629,000 f. The table published
by the Government includes only the principal ar-
ticles of merchandise, and therefore there is every
reason to expect that there will be a considerable sur-
plus over the estimates."
The following are the only other extracts from
the papers of Thursday of the slightest im-
portance :
A letter from 'Vienna,
Sept. 18, in the Journal de
Franefort, says :--" The negotiations for a treaty of
commerce between Austria and England are nearly
terminated. Prince Metternich is said to have
adopted the bases on which they have been conducted.
Deufa has quitted France. The police, wearied
out by I).:_s solicitations and his untoward presence,
have passed him on to Rochefort, where he has been
placed on board a vessel, to be taken to America at
the expense of the State. This wretch has dissipated
the price of his crime in luxurious expenses, and at
the gaming houses of Germany. The necessity he felt
of stifling the voice.ef conscience had plunged him in
drunkenness, and brandy not being powerful enough,
he was obliged to have recourse to spirits of wine.
Not long since he was so steeped in want that he sold
his silver Spectacles—his last resource, and was glad
to accept the same fate as was offered to Meunier, who
had attempted to assassinate Louis Philippe.—La
France.
'A letter from Calais, dated yesterday, has reached
us, which states that a dreadful storm had raged in
the Channel for 24 hours, and that the Swedish ship
the Delphine, Captain Wigberck, of Stockholm, last
from Hull, with a cargo of coals, bound for Pernam •
buco, has been wrecked on the coast about three league,
from Calais. The vessel was totally lost, and the

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