The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-24 00:00:00

taken together. Such is the day-work of the little trap-
per in the barrow-way. At last the joyful sound of " Loose,
loose," reaches his ears. The news of its being four o'clock,
and of the order " Loose, loose," having been shouted down
the shaft, is, by systematic arrangement, sent for many miles
in all directions, round the farthest extremities of the pit. The
trapper waits till the last putter passes with his tram, and then
he follows, and pursues his journey to the foot of the shaft, and
takes an opportunity of getting into the cage and going up
when he can.

The General Assembly met at Edinburgh, on Thurs-
day, when the Marquis of BuTE sat for the first time as
Lord High Commissioner, and Dr. WELSH, Professor of
Ecclesiastical History in the University, was appointed
Moderator. The proceedings were not of much impor-
tance, but they sufficiently displayed the spirit which
prevails among the majority of the Members on the long
agitated question of Church Patronage. Two re-
turns were given in from the Presbytery of Strath-
bogie, one containing the names of three members
chosen by the deposed ministers who form the majority,
and the other the same number chosen by the minority.
Some discussion took place, anti a division followed,
when the members elected by the former were rejected by
a majority of 130. The speeches made by the leaders of
the Non-Intrusionists must give the public a very un-
favourable idea of the solemnity with which affairs are
conducted in that reverend Assembly. One speaker
said the dignity of that House would have been less in-
sulted by a commission from seven scavengers or tinkers,
than from the seven men who had been deposed. This
excited great laughter. Dr. CHALMERS made a warlike
speech on the occasion, in which he maintained to the
utmost the high prerogatives of the Church, and
talked loudly against the enemies of the Church.
" The proposition," said he, " discovers to what a
fearful extent of anarchy and disorder the enemy within
(meaning, of course, Dr. Coot( and his party)—
whether, by the instigation and encouragement of
the enemy without (meaning Lord ABERDEEN and
Sir JAMES GRAHAM), he could not say—are
resolved to plunge the Church of Scotland."
This, he asserted, was making " a farce" of the As-
sembly, and presented a strange contrast with the
mighty notes of preparation, and the " pealing
of clarionets" with which the Reverend Fathers
bad been ushered into the House. There can
be no doubt, therefore. as to the result of the
' debate on patronage, which was fixed for yesterday; and
t Sir JAMES GRAHAM will therefore be saved the trouble

of introducing a Bill to heal the divisions in the Scotch
Church. The Non-Intrusionists are determined
to maintain their privileges, and, as hitherto, set the law
of the land at defiance. It is melancholy to witness pro-
ceedings like these, which must end either in the seces-
sion from the Church of a large number of her members,
or in the destruction of the most useful ecclesiastical
establishment that ever existed.

M. Guazow is a man of high moral courage. The
French Chamber of Peers and Chamber of Depu-
ties have both been for months trying to hunt
him down upon the Right of Search Question, but
all the wounds received during the conflict are
exhibited by his noble and honourable assailants.
Amid shouts of disapprobation he told the Chamber of
Deputies on Friday that France was morally bound to sign
the treaty, although he would not be the instrument for
compelling her to do so. He would not ratify the
treaty inasmuch as public opinion was against it, but
that did not diminish the moral obligation of France to
erform a duty which she was the first to propose to
herself and others. M. DE LAMARTINE was the only
supporter of the Minister for Foreign Affidrs. M.
THIERS made a curious speech. He admitted that he was
not opposed to the exercise of a Right of Search by any
power but England. He hated slavery much, but he
hated England more. The ex-Minister put forward a
pretended excuse for this hatred, and kept back the real
one. He said, that England had insulted France, when
a regard for strict truth would have compelled him to
substitute for that assertion, the admission that Lord
PALMERSTON'S superior statesmanship, and Commodore
Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S headlong valour had driven him
out of the Cabinet. We quote an extract from the ex-
President of the Council, and ex-Minister for Foreign
Affair's speech :
He had, he said, been reproached with not being favourable
to the suppression of the slave-trade, but this was a calumny.
When he joined the Cabinet of the 11th of October, the treaty
of 1831 was made. When he came to the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, he found the treaties of 1831 and 1833 signed ; he exe-
cuted them faithfully, and he defied any one, however hostile
he might be to the principle of the right of search, on arriving
to power in presence of treaties already signed, not to execute
them. As long as certain parties had not acceded to the treaty
it was comparatively of no avail, for the traffic might be carried
or under the flag of those non-acceding countries—under
those of Spain and Portugal for instance ; he had procured
the accession of Spain, and the Mole Ministry had after-
wards obtained that of Tuscany and Sweden. England pro-
fited by the difficulty of these accessions to propose a ni-w
treaty, in which those concessions were inserted which it was
now regretted had been granted to her. „,He had no part
whatever in the position which France had assumed with re-
gard to the treaty of 1841. In 1839, M. Guizot, then Ambas-
I sador to the Court of London, wrote to inform him that a meeting
I had taken place at the Foreign-office, at which was introduced
on the tapir, the protocol of IR:AA, the frosty
1841. His (M. Thiers's) reply to this information was, that
he was repugnant in the then situation of Lffairs to sign a treaty
with a Power which had just acted towards France as Great
Britain had done. This, he said, was the part he took in the
treaty of 1841, and he would repeat, that after the treaty of
July 15, he could not comprehend the enormous concession
which had been made to England.
Hatred of England, then, is really what prevents M.
THIERS from supporting M. GuizoT. Jealousy of
England actuates the Chambers in opposing the treaty.
We cannot remove this jealousy of our country.
Let us seek to prove that it is unmerited. As
a partial exercise of a Right of Search can-
not but give zest to the slave trade, the best thing
we can do, is to recal our cruisers froM the coast o
Africa, where they can now do nothing, save putting the
country to an enormous expense. The pirates of every
nation—and there are abundance of such pirates in
moral England—will, under the protection of the
flags of the United States and France, carry on
the slave trade more briskly and openly than
they did during the last quarter of a century. To insult
the political and outrage the moral feelings of this
country all who have a spite at us will be sure to lend a
helping hand to the slave trade. Instead, therefore, of
bettering we will only increase the sufferings of the kid-
napped AfriCaus by our expensive but futile attempts to
accomplish what we now know to be impossible.

Nearly all the articles' in the Paris Journals received
this morning are upon the debates in th Chambers upon
the Right of Search Question. This question is now
brought forward by the Opposition to embarrass the Go-
vernment at the ensuing election. It is a clap-trap, and
promises to answer the purposes of one exceedingly well.
The late frightful railway accident in France has
turned the attention of scientific men to the discovery of
the means of preventing such awful occurrences.
Various plans are, therefore, daily suggested, which
from time to time we shall publish, for the benefit of
British engineers, and the probable safety of English
railway travellers.
BOURSE--PAnis, SA.TURpt.Y, MAY 21.

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A NIGHTINGALE IN LINCOLN'S INN-FIELDS.—On Fri-
day morning last, a gentleman, on passing Lincoln's nn-
fields, heard, to his great astonishment, a nightingale
singing lustily among the trees and shrubs in the square!
It is seldom that this bird is heard singing by day, at
least in England ; and never before, we believe, did it
venture to select such a locality for its musical perform-
ances. It is fortunate that no attorney happened to hear
it, for his keen professional instinct would instantly have
induced him to enter an action of trespass against it, with
a view of obtaining heavy damages !
Count Mensdorff and his sons arrived r.,t Buckingham
Palate yesterday from the Continent, on a visit to her
Majesty.

rish of Wisborough-green,
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of a labouring man residing at New Pound-common, in the pa-
BELLINGSHURST.—A woman na.tned Buns, the wife
being unable to account for her indisposition, supposed, as did
woman of about forty ears of age,
having been ill for a long time, and
her neighbours also, that she was bewitched, and looking
said to be a very about them for the cause of the evil, their suspicions fell on a
de-
cent, inoffensive creaturey ; this idea had been entertained for a
long time, and many schemes were put into operation to destroy
her influence, but ail had failed up to the latter end of last April;
when by some moans they
became possessed with tke notion that
if they got some pigeons and burned t hem alive, keeping every part
of the room stopped up close, and not .speaking while the ope-
ration was going on. they would effectually destroy the wiicb's
power. In order to reduce this scheme to practice, they pro-
cured pigeons and tied them in pairs back to back by their
wings and lighted a large fire,
and stopped up the room as close
as possible ; soma of the poor pigeons they opened at the breast
in order that the fire might burn their hearts while alive.
How
neighbour state that he himself burned four, and he thought
many were burned the writer cannot say, but he heard a
they should have destroyed the witch if the house had'been
closer. It is supposed by the neighbours that from a dozen to
sixteen pigeons were destroyed in this cruel manner.—Sussex
Express, •
ROBBERY AT THE ExECUTlON.—Amongst other
robberies eornmitted at the execution was that of a young
female who had been standing in the crowd in Giltspur-street,
who had her pocket cut, and the money she had in it stolen.
On getting out of the crowd she felt the blood trickling down
her side, and, on examination, it was found that the first at-
tempt had failed, her clothes having been cut through and a
wound inflicted in her side. She had several friends with her
at the time.