The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-20 00:00:00

PRIVATE TUTOR.

AVACANCY is Nov Open in the Fenny
of a Married Clergyman, the Number of whose
PUPILS is limited to SIX ; his residence twelve miles
from London. He can offer the most satisfactory references
to Noblemen and Gentlemen, whose sons have been under
his care. Letters to be directed for the Rev. J. C. C.,
Mr. Rodwell's, bookseller, 46, New Bend-street, London.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Trinity House, Jan. 19, 1929.
Information being
,rceeived that the undermentioned
buoys have been driven off from their stations, notice is
hereby given, that they will be replaced as soon as pos-
sible, viz. :

e N.E. buoy ol the Whiting.
The Aline' Knape's buoy.

Also that the buoy uff the Rough is water-logged.
Information being received also that a vessel is sunk in
the track of navigation in about six fathoms at low water;
The upper buoy of the Whiting, bearing S.E., distmt
about t.co-thirds of a mile ; _ _

Notice is hereby given, thet a green buoy, marked with
the word " Wreck," will be placed there as soon as pos-
sible. (I3y order) J. HERBERT, Sec. •

URAN AND LORMA.

(From the Inverness Courier.)

The original of the following sweet and tender verses
for which we are indebted to a lady of distinguished literary
attainments, may be found in a .volume of Gaelic poetry,
ascribed to Ossian and his contemporaries, collected by the
late Dr. Smith, of Cainpbeltown, Argyllshire. The his-
tm..eithe poem, or which this forum a part, is pathetic,
and shows the spirit of tragedy and tenderness that pervades
Gaelic poetry. Finan and Lorna are the only children of
Aluirne, an aged warrior. Finan goes hunting to Dunalvai •
an island the residence of Muirne. On his return at night

he is overtaken by a storm, and his lio:at upset. His sister
Lo•ina anxiously hastens to the beach, and beholds her
brothel's hounds swimming to the shore, and a wave suc-
ceeding throws her brother at her feet. She imagines he
cannot be dead, and carries him to a cliff, where the soli-
loquy over the corpse is paasing beautiful. While thus oc-
cupied the storm increases, and the rock she sits on is in-
sulated. The rise of the tide prevents her escape, and
clasping her brother's corpse, she is swept off by a wave.
The lover of Lonna is Uran. He goes to Dunalva, hoping,
as usual, to meet his love. He finds it deserted, the aged
Muirne in distractio❑ having become a forlorn wanlerer.
Uran arrives at Dunalva during night ; he knows some-
thing fatal has happened, sad in anxious suspense breaks
forth into this apostrophe to Lorna
! Lorrna, whets is thy retreat ?
Allele does my slumbering love repose?
Has night o'etta'en thy wandering feet
Far in the lonely haunt of raes?

Or on the mountain of the Chace,
Fair huntress of the slender bow?
In vain thy devious paths I trace,
Where, 0 my beet belov'd, art thou ?
Sad is my heart, while here forlorn,
Alone, I vainly muse on the,
Aud see in thought thy graceful form,
Shrinking beneath some ehelering tree.
Beneath some hollow rock art thou,
Stretcli'cl.out beside the rushing stream ;
Cold ;cops shall chill thy lovely brow,
The blasts of night disturb thy dream.
Vain are those fears; within my soul
Thou dwellest like a beam of light;
Sweet peaceful dreams my lave console ;
Spirits that moan on clouds of night.
Deal gently With my sleeping maid,
Sweetly she smiles in peaceful rest ;
Let no rude blasts of night invade
• The cabin that slumbers on her breast.
Gentle and tranquil, my delight
Slumbers beneath the stormy skies,
Let not the mountain eagle's flight
Rush through the glen where soft she-lies.,
While limn fills thy secret soul,
Sleep on, my love, in rest serene,.
Awake her not, ye streams that roll,
Ye roes, avoid the peaceful scene.
Beside the music of that stream,
Beneath yon trees of clustering shade,
Where bees beneath the earliest beam,
Shall murmur round my sleeping maid.
Where blushing roses half conceard, -
o'erhang the stream, all fresh with dew,
Faithful and fond, in dreams reveard,
Let thy own Uran meet thy view.
Rest on, my lave. Should slumbers fall
epOn these weary eyes of mine ;
• Come to my dreams, my own,—my all,
0, softly on my slumbers shine.
Tranquil and gentle be thy look,
Such as it ever was to me ;
Sweet as the music of the brook,
Calm as the stillness of the sea.

Mr. O'Connell's constituents in Clare intend,
we have reason to believe, to request that he shall not pre-
sent himself before the Speaker of the House of Commons
before the IStbof February. We believe the learned gen-
tleman himself has not yet been apprised of this intention.
—Dublin Freeman's journal.

CALCULATION BY A BLIND BOY.—The
following calculation was wrought by a blind boy, only
ten years of age, on a board adapted for the use of the
blind, within an hour ; and the answer is his own dic-
tion. If table beer, for a year, cost 461. 4s. 9d., and if
the family consist of 47 persons, what does the beer cost
for the whole per day, and for each person per day ?
Answer.—The whole family consumes, in one day, value
2s. 6d. 147-365, and one person, in one day consumes in
value 11097-17155 parts of a penny.—Scotsman.

His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant will em-
bark on board the Pearl sloop of war, Captain Blake. He
will proceed to Holyhead, accompanied by Lord Wm.
Paget and the Hon. Admiral Sir Charles Paget. On
Lord Anglesea's arrival in Anglesea, his Excellency will
proceed to his seat, Beaudesart, Staffordshire, where he
will remain until the opening of Parliament.—Dublin
Morning Register.
Lord Erskine, when at the bar, and at the
time when his professional talents were most eminent and
popular, having been applied to by his friend Dr. Parr for
his opinion upon a subject likely to be litigated by him,
after recommending the Doctor to " accommodate the dif-
ference amicably," concluded his letter. by observing, " I
can scarcely figure to myself a situation in which a law-suit
is not, if possible, to be avoided."
THE MILLER AND THE FOOL.—A miller,
who attempted to be witty at the expence of a youth of
weak intellects, accosted him with, " John, people say
that you are fool." To this, .T.lan replies, " I don't know
that I am, sir ; I know seine things, sir, and some things
I don't know, sir ;" " Well, John, what do you know ?"
" I know that millers always have fat hogs, sir."—" And
what don't you know ?" " I don't know whose oorn they
eat, sir."
Jack Johnstone's will was proved in Doctors'-
Commons last Wednesday, and probate granted under
11,000/. personal property. Rumour gave Johnstone the
credit of being:worth 1,0,0001. or 50,000/. He has left a
gold snuff-box and a ring to each of his executors, Mr.
George Robins and Mr. O'Rielly ; a ring to his friend Mr.
Jobling, of the Adelphi ; and a ring to Mr. Dune, the
treasuter of Drury-lane ; and as the latter gentleman is one
of the angle—a stanch disciple of Isaac Walton—John-
stone has left him all his fishing-tackle. To a female ser-
vant who nursed him during the last eight or ten years of
his life, he has bequeathed an annuity of 50/. a-year. The
remainder, with the exception of a legacy of 5001. to Mrs.
Vining, is left to the children of his daughter, Mrs. %I-
lack, closely tied up, :so that the interest only during her
life can be touched even by his daughter.

Business, generally, is at present rather flat at
the Broomielaw ; but this is not unusual at this dead season
of the year. A considerable bustle, however, is observable
among the vessels engaged in the coal trade; and it is evi-
dent that some extensive exprta of eliri article are taking
place. It is gratifying. to observe el many improvemetiN
going forward at the Brootnielaw. A large portion of the
breast-work, at the eastern extremity of the quay, beg been
renewed; and about a dozen of men are daily busily em-
ployed ro-causewaying, and otherwise improving the street.
The repairs which were -rendered necessary on the south
side of the quay, by the wooden breast-work giving way,
were completed some time ago ; and a few vessels, em-
ployed in the coal trade, receive their cargoes on that side
of the river,— Glasgow Chronicle.

CHURCH PATRONAGE SOCIETY.

(From the Soots;;;an of Wednesday.)

We bring before our readers the Anutial Re-
port partly read, on Monday, at the ,public
meeting of the S,,ciety for improving the system
of Church Patronage in Scotland; because we
regard the subject as generally interesting to
the country, and are of opinion that the public
interest will increase as the knowledge of its na-
ture extends. The Report is given here at full

length.
From the reformation of religion in Scotland
down to the middle of the last century, parishes
and congregations had a substantial controul in
the appointment of their ministers.. Lay pa-
tronage, which was an invention of Popery, did
not, indeed, cease with Popery ; but it became
an object of jealousy and dislike, and was at
different periods either modified by the right of
call, or altogether for a time in abeyance. Even
after its restoration, in the reigu of Queen Anne,
the church courts for long gave it only a doubt-
ful support, never admitting a presentation with-
out a diStinct call from the people ; and every
year recording in the instructions given by the
General Assembly to its commission, the sense
entertained by the church, of the evil and bond-
age of patronage.
But the leaven of another influence by degrees
manifested itself in decided symptoms. Ob-
noxious nominations, and violent settlements,
became the precursors of a growing disregard in
church courts of the voice of congregations,
which at length settled down into an almost es-
tablished principle of judgment in the disposal
of a presentation.
The evils of this system soon became appa-
rent, numbers everywhere having seceded from
the church, or become indifferent to its interests ;
and thus, while dissent flourished, the establish-
ment languished ; and though many, no doubt,
were earnest in prayer for its restoration, hoping,
as it were, against hope, and believing in the
midst of every human discouragement, yet even
its steadiest friends filed to perceive any pro-
rising means of its revival.
Thirty or forty years ago, an effort for the
church by means of publication, was made by a
society in Glasgow, which has left behind it va-
rious proofs of its piety and spirit. But its at-
tempt was directed into a channel too difflisive
and slow in its operation, to take sure effect :
the zeal of its friends abated, and its efforts
ceased. - .

, In 1824, this society was instituted, having,
with a view to the cure of this great evil, two
distinct objecti; one the acquisition by purchase
of rights of patronage offered for sale;._ and the
other, the diffusion of right sentiments regarding
the exercise of patronage, and their practical
establishment by means of public discussion
among both patrons and people. At this pe-
riod, the expectations of immediate success could
not be strong,, even among those who regarded
with the most perfect confidence, the final
triumph of their• principles. While they saw
these to be founded in Scripture, and reason,
and in the practice of the church during many
centuries of its best days, while they knew the
zealous testimony lifted up in their favour by the
church of Scotland, and remembered, that even
within a very few years, the people of Scotland
had proceeded almost to rebellion in their de-
fence,—still it was observed, that the deteriorat-
ing law had worked powerfully in deadening the
ancient zeal and rooting out the ancient know-
ledge which prevailed among the people ; and it
was perceived that the church had become so
much an object of indifference, as to impose the
necessity a not merely of pointing out the means,
but of implanting anew the desire, of recovering
a once cherished right.
The- friends of the society, to be-sure, did not
fear that in Scotland, a country so highly fa-
voured, it would be possible to revive the former
feeling, once so strong, and they were not dis-
appointed. The favour which the society has
experienced is a gratifying proof that there yet
lives much of that affection for the Church in its
purity, which makes us desire and be ready to
give of our substance, to secure its restoration.
The patronage of one parish has been ac-
quired by the Society for the benefit of the
parish ; that of another haS been so placed,
that the Society, if duly countenanced, will be
enabled to restore it also to the Christian people.
Twenty auxiliaries have, in various quarters of
the country, added their weight to the institu-
tion ; two of these in the cities of Aberdeen
and Inverness, capitalstof the northern lowlands
and highlands, and all of them, as their corres-
pondence testifies, full
,of genuine ardour for
their Christian cause ; intimations are received,
from various quarters, of the purpose to estab-
lish new auxiliaries ; public interest regarding an
important question has been revived, over which
all classes had long slumbered ; and by the ge-
neral discussion of the principle which has been
excited, and the elucidation of its truth which
ensued, men of influence have been led to weigh
the importance, and consider the responsibility
attaching to their ecclesiastical property, and an
impetus on this great matter of Christian prin-
ciple has been generally given, which will not
fail to yield excellent fruits; if not instantly,
me long—if not in the spring time and dawning
of our efforts, at least in the harvest and noon,
which a. patient continuance in the cause will not
fail to bring about.
Objections, no doubt, and difficulties have
been made. But it may safely be stated, that
while the objections arc small enough to be
easily removed, the difficulties are not so great
but that with a vigorous effort they may he
overcome. It is not intended here to discuss these
in detail, but one may be adverted to, because,
unlike the generality of the cavils of our oppo•
Dents (resting as they do on no higher ground
than imagined expediency), it is founded.on a
principle, viz. that it is not scriptural to purchase
with money the right of presenting a spiritual
charge. The Directors respect this difficulty,
because it originates in a conscientious scruple.
But it rests altogether on a fallacy. In all
diuretics, the labourer is worthy of his hire ; he
that lives at the altar must live by the altar.
Accordingly, when a body of dissenting Chris-
tians constitute themselves into a society for
worship, they build a church, and buy a house
and ground, and invest money for a stipend ;
and having done so, they call their minister, and
bestow them upon him. Should they abandon
their purpose, they sell their property to another

body of Christians, cvlio make it suhenient to
their purpose of dissent, and neither case do
founder, or buyer, or seller, hold themselves
chargeable with unseriptura] acting. But our
society does no more. It finds church, manse.
glebe, and stipend ready provided by the religi-
'
ous charity of ;I.r forefathers, fbr the benefit of
the people ; but finding these now, by an unwar-
rantable innovation, otherwise disposed of; it
restores them to their proper unsters, purchasin;-
them with money, that they may all be transferred
to faithfhl shepherds, who may be received by
their flock with the open anus of Christian
love, instead of being forced ( A their accept-
ance by the Sheriff's baton or the soldier's
iu all this (loin!, as it is con-
ceived, bayonet
a;
g and
and regaining a
Vat
great spiritual privilege.
But it is said the people are unqualified for
making a good appointment, and fall into dis-
union in attempting it ; and instances are brought
forward of their failure in both respects. The
directors have no hesitation, however, to peril
their cause on the fact, which they know to be
in accordance with their principle. Popular
nominations ale, in general, go ; popular no-
minations are, in general, harmonious—and in
the few cases where the reverse is the case, it is
generally imputable to a faulty constitution. For
instance, churches are placed in some instances
at the disposal of proprietors and seat-holders ;
or perhaps a select body presents, and the con-
gregation only assent or dissent. But these are
not parallel to our principles. We do not make
property-holding or seat-holding, or any thing
but Christian character, the qualification for an
elector. 'We give the right to communicants
admitted to ordinances on discipline ; and front
such persons we look confidently, on the whole,
for Christian conduct. Moreover, we do not
interpose any privileged class over communi-
cants, who, by their place of priority and power,
may stir up jealousies in the breasts of the people;
and, in both respects, we are exempted from those
grounds of dissension which occasionally manifest
themselves elsewhere.

But the fact, even in these imperfect institu-
tions, is not as the adversary r'ould have it to.be.
Their appointments are generally good and
peaceable: and their experienc:. thus becomes a
practical argument for our eaus-s..
It is unnecessary, however, to prosecute this
branch of the subject farther. Experience has
done much to teach our opponents. The alarms
of expediency which led some to fear that we
were to displease government and irritate patrons,
stifle evangelical appointments, and multiply he-
terodoxy, puff up the people and sow dissen-
sion and insubordination—have happily proved
chimerical ; the period of the Society's existence
having been distinguished in a peculiar manner
for the reverse of all thes:e things ; a theme of .
thanksgiving to the Giver of all Good, on which
it would be pleasant to expatiate, and for which
-praise and glory be to his name !
This Society then deserves encouragement,
because it is in truth the great Home
Establishment. It does not indeed find the

land heathen and make it Christian. ^ Its object
and its task are not quite so onerous. It rather
finds provision for a preached gospel everywhere,
and it diverts this from an evil influence into the
maintenance and diffusion of evangelical truth.
It does this cheaply, because where it operates
favourably by its discussions on the mind and
conscience of patrons, it accomplishes its end
wholly without expence ; and where it buys, it
pays a sum which must ever be short of the cost,
(price and maintenance together) of those things
which it turns to the people's use. Further, its
means will be sifffcient for its ends if the country
duly aid ; for every individual parish has the
capabilities of raising the means 9f purchas-
ing its own patronage,—a fact, which is the
secret of the Society's efficacy. For let the true
principle be but sufficiently diffused, the means
of its efficacy instantly arise. Let each parish
have its Patronage Society, and its patronage
sooner or later will become its own. If the pro-
perty of a private individual, it will sooner or
later be gifted or come to the hammer : if the
property of Government, it will sooner or later,
through the liberality, of the Crown, become the
people's, without price, or again be subjected to
that right of purchase by Act of Parliament,
which already by Act of Parliament it formerly
was ; and even if it be restrained by the fetters
of an entail, it will be exempted from these,
when the power of public opinion shall come to
bear upon the !subject, and to shew, that it is
not decent or reasonable, or Christian like, to
make the cure of souls an appanage of a
monied family, which, being held without re-
sponsibility, may legally be gifted without regard
to principle.
The Directors rejoice, accordingly, to observe
that the :erection of parochial auxiliaries goes
on prosperously. They are earnest to remind
the Christian people of Scotland, that these
should every where he founded, however narrow
their support. Were tiro or three persons in
every parish to unite together as an auxiliary,
the contribution from each parish, were it but of
a pound a-year, would secure by degrees, the
spiritual liberty of the whole country : for as
there are nearly 1,000 pari:hes in Scotland,
nearly 1,0001. would be raised in each year;
and, judging by past experience, that sum would
secure every patronage offered for sale ; while
the moral power of such a union, would bring
the rest within the people's influence, through
the gradual concession of the Government, who
would respect a league to solemn, and through
the just feelings of the patrons on whom it would
reflect a beneficent influence. But all depends
on the purity and spiritual character of the
effort : the object is great and trying, almost to
despondency, when measured by mere human
powers of influence : but regarded in its spiritual
character, it is strong and full of hope : here as
everywhere the effectual fervent prayer of the
righteous will avail much ; and the people of
Scotland will assuredly succeed, if they strive
" not by might nor by power, but by the Spirit
of the Lord of Hosts."
The Directors have not hesitated to confide.
in these views. Eleven of them have given their
persOnal bond to the amount of 1,0001. to meet
the purchase of the patronage of Collington. The
patron of Dairsie generously ii.;reed to make over
the patronage to the people, if redeemed within
two years, free of interest ; thus, in addition to
his other aids, becoming a virtual contributor
to the extent of 110/. And the Auxiliary in
that parish is earnestly devoted to the promotion
of the object. The Directors look confidently
to Scotland, for relief from the engagement which
they have undertaken for the good of the people
of Collington, and they intreat, in behalf of the
people of Dairsie, that the generosity of its patron
may be met by a correaponding liberality among
their Christian brethren. But they cannot con-
tent themselves with this appeal to the public
beneficence; they have good cause to
mingle thanksgivings with their requests, and to
acknowledge, as they do with gratitude, the con-

tributians of their auxiliaries and private sup-
porters, among whom it is grateful to know that
the members of the Secession—a church which,
when it withdrew from the establishment, pro-
tested that it would return when the establish-
ment returned to its standards—have been not
a little efficient; and they would take this public
opportunity of expressing their acknowledgments
to those Ministers who have preached in behalf
of the institution—a mode of support respectfully
recommended to the attention of all who Jove the
true principle, as being peculiarly appropriate to
an institution whose object is the purity of ordi-
nances and the spread of divine truth. May
the God of Ordinances turn the hearts of his
people everywhere to the maintenance of his
truth, and to the restoration of that order in the
church, through which, to use the impressive.
words of our Second Book of Discipline, " God
shall be glorified, the Kirk edified, and the
bounds thereof enlarged'"

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de France, Jan. 18.)

BERLIN, JAN. 10.—A Russian courier has passed
through this city on his way to London. The ne-
gotiations for peace are carrying on with great ac-
tivity; and it is affirmed that the Emperor of
Russia, on the intervention of our Sovereign, has
given very satisfactory assurances which will revive
the almost extinguished hopes of the partisans of
the policy of England.
PARIS, JAN. 17.—The Duke de Mortemart, Am-
bassador from France to St. Petersburgh, has not
yet quitted Paris ; he will set out on Monday the
19th. Count de la Ferronnays will set out to-
morrow for Nice, whither he is going for the re-
covery of his health.

(From the Courier Francais of Sunday.)
P.►Rts, JAN. 17.--The news of the return of a
third of the expedition to the Mores, is one of the
most unexpected events that has happened fora long
time. It causes the more surprise, by arriving at
Toulon at a time when new contracts were entering
into for transports.
The fate of Greece, however, will not be de-
cided at Paris, but on the Danube ; hut, in the
mean -time, the filmy ought to remain in Greece
unless it is to f►ll into the possession of the Turks
in a fortnight, and our army return, not covered with
laurels, but with the cypress of Greece. The Powers
have done all in their• power at Constantinople to
preserve peace. They deserve 110 reproach, but
they are embarrassed. France and England wish
that the Turks may succeed on the Danube, though
this success will be directly i❑ opposition to that
diversion of the Turkish arms they have in fact
caused in the Mores. It may happen that those
whO are allies in the Morea may be enemies on the
Danube, for the English ►will not allow Conetanti
nople to be taken or destroyed. There is here,
then, a complicAon of interests, which embarrasses
the different Caiinets.
FRENCH FUNDE, J.N. 17.—Five per Cents., 108 f.
60c.; Three per Cents., rilf. 90c. ; Bank Actions,
1,780 f.
Pc:mewl.; FUNDS.—Neapolitan Rents, Cer. Fal. 78f.
65c.; Rnyal Spanish Loan, 75/f. ; Interminable Spanish
Annuities, 46if. ; Haytian Loan, 457 f. 50c.