The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-10 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Cluch.

By the Bland, which left the Cape of Good
Hope on the 30th of June, and arrived at
Liverpool yesterday, the following intelligence
has reached us :

"On Saturday evening, the 27th of June, an
anonymous dispatch was received in Cape Town
from Port Natal, via Graham's Town, stating
that Captain SMITH'S party had been cut off to
a man, and that the Boers had taken possession
of the two schooners then lying in the Bay with
stores, &c., viz.—the Mazeppa and Louisa, and
some fears were apprehended for the Couch,
then on her way with a small number of troops
from Port Elizabeth.

"Her MAJESTY'S ship Isis sailed from Simon's
Bay the 28th June for Port Natal, and report
said that the Fly and Bramble were to follow
immediately.
" A person who was supercargo of a Dutch
schooner in Natal, some time ago, supposed to
have been instigating the Boers to rebellion, is
now in prison in Cape Town."

It will be seen that this unpleasant intelligence
rests on no official or even sufficient authority.
At the same time the circumstances in which
Captain SMITH'S party was placed render it, we
regret to say, only too probable.

We learn from the Derby Reporter, that a
deputation frem six hundred of the municipal
electors had an interview with the Mayor and
Magistrates of that borough on Wednesday, rela
tive to the suppression of Mr. VINCENT'S lecture
in the theatre, and are happy to state that the
proceedings which took place at the meeting are
highly creditable to both parties. The electors,who,
from som: cause or another, were prevented from
assemblinz in the theatre, naturally supposed
that the police would not have pulled down the
hand-bills, expelled them from the theatre,
and committed some other acts of rather a
strong character, without the sanction of
the civic authorities ; and with becoming
spirit, therefore, resolved to ascertain from the
Magistrates themselves the real merits of the
case. The interview was willingly granted, and
an ample explanation given by Mr. D. Fox, for
the rest of the body. This explanation a reve-
rend gentleman, who spoke for the dePtitation,
considered satisfactory, and, before taking leave,
said (addressing the Mayor), " I have now, there-
fore, only to thank you, and the
.Magistrates ge-
nerally, for your cordial acquiescence in our
wish for this interview, and for the.liberal and
courteous manner in which we have been re-
ceived." Now, without any Wish to blame
any party, we think the • misunderstanding
might have been avoided altogether, had not the
individual Magistrate alluded to in the address
at the very outset refused to_hear any explana-
tion whatever. He could have stated then what
was fully brought out at the interview, that the
handbills had been pulled down without their
knowledge, that they had no wish to interfere
with the lawful and legitimate exercise of the
privilege of free discussion;'attd. that they had
merely informed the lessee of the theatre that
by letting it for any other purposes than those
specified in the license, he would render himself
liable to a penalty of 1001. This communication
certainly was not imperaove on the part.of the
authorities, as meetings are often held in
theatres for other purposes/ than dramatic or
musical performances, without the infliction of
penalties; but it is only justice to say that their
interference was an act of kindness towards the
'proprietor. An information. would probably
have been laid against him by some parties who
cannot see " the necessity and safety of extend-
ing political power to all classes," and the
full penalty would have been enforced. This
interview has also been of use in another
respect, as it will not a little mortify
those Tory journalists who justified, the Magis-
trates of Derby for conduct which they disown,
and who would re-establish a system of coercion
and tyranny fatal to the most valuable rights
and privileges of the people. They disown
all such doctrines, as may be learned from the
following liberal sentiments expressed by Mr.
Fox:—

" As far as the law directed them, he was sure the
Magistrates for this borough would discharge their
duty ; and he could also say on behalf of himself and
brother Magistrates, that the constitutional privileges
of the people would not be improperly interfered with
by them. They had no desire to stretch the law ;
and while on the one hand they would never shrink
from their duty as Magistrates in vindicating the
law, they would, on the other hand, consider it
beyond their duty to interfere with the legitimate
exercise of free discussion. He repeated, that in what
had taken place the Magistrates did not intend to
stop the meeting, and that they had been actuated by
no unkindly feeling."

The progress of Puseyisni, which has alarmed
so many of the Bishops, brings spiritual comfort
and heavenly joy to the Bishop of SALISBURY.
That Right Reverend Father in GOD rejoices at
the Catholic appearance which his diocese is as-
suming, owing to the avidity with which his
clergy have adopted the doctrines of Dr. PUSEY
and Mr. NEWMAN. In a Charge just delivered
by him to the Clergy of the Eastern Division of
his diocese, at Marlborough, his Lordship said:—
Three years ago he expressed a hope that, whatever
contrariety of opinion might exist as to this great
theological movement, it would nevertheless tend, in
its result, to illustrate the truth; and confirm the prin-
ciples of the Church ; nor had he yet seen sufficient
reason to change his sentiments. Believing this, and
that the holy and learned men with whom this movement
originated had no object in view but to bring forward
truths that had fallen into comparative neglect, he could
not but regret the harsh treatment they had met
with from their opponents. He could not refuse to ac-
knowledge that they had raised a higher standard of
ministerial character, through the Apostles, to our
Lord himself; they had pointed out the obligations of
a more orderly observance of the laws and regulations
of the Church—had successfully taught the nature
and constitution of the Church, where lax notions were
before far too prevalent—had restored to the sacra-
ments their due measure of spiritual influence as the
channels of grace, where, in many cases, they were
considered mere signs and symbols—and they had
warned men not to rest contented with any measure
of zeal, but to go on, encouraged by the blessing of
their Master, in a constant course of devotion and
self-denial.

This is as flattering to Dr. PUSEY as that very
learned Divine could desire. The Bishop had
previously borne the following testimony to the
influence of Puseyite principles upon the reli-
gious practices of the clergy and people of his
dioCese

In many of the churches the more important
holy days, appointed by the Rubric, were reveren-
tially observed ; and in others, the services for the
saints' days carefully solemnised; a practice 'bat he
trusted would, ere long, be universal. On some of
these points he had abstained from giving any opi-
nion, wishing rather that attention to them should be
the spontaneous act of the clergy than the effect of
any suggestion of his. He rejoiced that the Church
was calling out an increased amount of religious ser-
vices, and was learning to value ,more highly her
privileges. True, these were forms, and they might
lie separated from the spirit which was necessary to
animate them, in which case the " Sabbath lost its
savour ; " but where they were observed with a be-
coming dependence upon the Divine guidance, they
became the savour of life unto-life. •

The plain English of all this is, that the clergy
of Salisbury, with their Bishbp at their head, are