The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-13 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three .'Clock.

Every great discovery marks an era in the language
and the thought of the human family. Thus in travel-
ling we formerly measured distance by space ; but
since the application of steam to the purposes of loco-
motion, we have learned to reckon distance only by time.
We no longer hear people ask how many miles separate
Liverpool from London, but in how many hours a rail-
way train communication can be effected between these
great emporiums of commerce. The annihilation of space,
and the extension of time have, in all ages, and in all
countries, exercised the ingenuity of civilized mar.
j In proportion as men have triumphed over distance by
speedy and permanent means of locomotion, have they
extended their power, diffused a knowledge of the arts,
and given stability to the operation of an uniform sys-
tem of social organization. The force of arms did not
do so much to cement the union between England and
Scotland as good roads and mail-coach intercourse
It is the same with Ireland ; and though a faction in
that country repeat the parrot-note of a Repeal of the
Union, we have Only to render more perfect the
communication between London and Dublin to
make it of as little significance as the revival
of the war-cries of the Irish septs in the 16th
century. We are therefore glad to find Mr. OWEN
STANLEY reviving in the House of Commons the ques-
tion of abridging the time communication between
London and Dublin, by means of a railway from Chester
to Holyhead, by far the best Irish steam-packet station.
It now takes twenty-four hours to perform the journey
between London and Dublin, which by the proposed
route could be made in fifteen, or at the very
utmost eighteen hours, a saving of one-fourth the
time of performing a journey from the English to the
Irish capital. This is of immense importance, both
in a commercial and a political point of view, but
chiefly in the latter. By proper management Ire-
land can be made the right arm of England.
With a fertile soil, fine harbours, a coast admirably
adapted for extensive fisheries, unopened mines of coal,
rind rich ore in abundance, there is in Ireland, properly
governed, a field of enterprise for the capitalists far finer
than any yet discovered in the New World. Bad govern-
ment and religious persecution have made the mass of the
people reckless, suspicious, and turbulent; but the causes
of these vices in their character once removed, they will be
found industrious, frugal, and cordially attached, and
faithful to their employers. Did the British capitalists
but know what a harvest of wealth might be reaped from
one half the outlay and enterprise in Ireland, which
they devote to the achieving of fortunes in the Colo-
nies, Ireland, instead of being one of the poorest.
would be one of the wealthiest countries in Europe. It
is the duty of the Government to take the initiative in
developing the vast resources of wealth now hidden in
Ireland. For this purpose the first step is to facilitate
as much as possible the communication between the two
This is due to the people of England, who
are annually saddled with an enormous weight of
taxes, because Ireland is too poor to bear a fair
proportion of the public burdens. What said Sir
ROBERT PEEL on proposing the imposition of an income
tax upon England and Scotland ? He could not extend
the tax to Ireland, as the machinery of taxation
was wanting in that country—or, in other words, the
bulk of the population being without breeches, the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Could not contrive
to thrust his hand into their pockets. Now it
will be for the benefit of England and Scotland that
as little time be lost as possible in enabling Ireland to
provide herself with this very necessary machinery of
taxation. The question as regards the Government is
one of great political importance. Ireland, prosperous,
would be a source of strength, of wealth, and of national
pride to us ; whereas, Ireland poor, is a sort of drag-
chain upon English industry. As Irish absentees are to
be subjected to the income tax, Sir ROBERT PEEL'S State
nostrum may have the effect of driving some of the m
home, which, notwithstanding Mr. M'CuLLoca's ab-
santee theory, will greatly benefit Ireland. In the
meantime, however, we trust the communication between
London and Dublin will be abridged as much as pos-
sible, without regard to the minor consideration of a
considerable amount of immediate outlay.

countries.

The long agitated question of Church Patronage in
Scotland is to be brought forward a third time this Ses-
sion in the House of Commons to-morrow evening, by
Mr. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, on a motion for leave to
bring in a Bill on that subject. Being well aware from
what quarter this Bill proceeds, and acquainted by expe-
rience with the extravagant demands of one party in the
Kirk, and the determined opposition to them by another,
we have a perfect conviction that this new attempt to
settle the question will be productive of no good,
and that it would be infinitely better to kayo mat-
ters to right themselves, the Government in the
meantime exercising with moderation and impartiality
that authority which the law confers upon them. The
Earl of ABERDEEN endeavoured to mediate between the
contending parties—had various and lengthened corres-
pondence with each—and when he imagined that he had
made arrangements which would give general satisfac-
tion, he brought in a Bill to alter and amend the law of
Patronage in the Church of Scotland. The reception
which this " healing measure" met with from the
men whom the Duke of ARGYLL, Mr. Fox MAULE, and
Mr. CAMPBELL patronise, is well known. The
Non-Intrusionists in the General Assembly were
furious, they denounced his Lordship as a bitter
enemy of the Church, and one of them had the impious
audacity to accuse him of a design " to dethrone the
Lord JESUS CHRIST." Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR tried his
hand at the same benevolent work. He too corresponded
with the leaders of the Non-Intrusionists, and vainly
hoped that he could settle all differences, till he found
them totally unmanageable, and gave up the attempt in
despair. After a severe but well merited exposure of
their conduct, which he has published in the shape of a
pamphlet, the worthy Baronet has washed his hands of
the business, and left the "wild men " to make the
best of their perverse and impracticable designs. If,
therefore, two men of undoubted ability, men, too, of the

most amiable dispositions, and anxious to put an end to
the unseemly dissensions which have so long distracted
Scotland, haVe lamentably failed in their purpose, if the
Duke of ARGYLL allowed his Bill to die a natural
death, because his own party, all-powerful in the House
of Lords, could not support him, what chance has his
nominee in the Commons, without support from the Go-
vernment, or any one quality to fit him for such a:task,"ox-
cept blind devotion to the Non-Intrusionists—what chance
has he of carrying any measure which will receive the
approbation of Parliament, and at the same time satisfy
men who will accept nothing less than their demands in
full? When we look, too, at the way in which
they have exercised their usurped power, at the
cold-blooded manner (using the words of Sir J. G.
CRAIG, a long-tried Liberal) in which they deposed
the seven excellent ministers of Strathbogie, arid at a
posterior decision, by which they put seventy more of
their brethren under the ban, are we not, in the name of
mercy and peace, called upon to resist every Bill which
would in any way increase the authority of ecclesiastics
so little scrupulous, and so forgetful of Christian charity?
The subject has been so often discussed in this Journal,
that it would be only a waste of words to dilate on it
farther. In the present temper of the contending
parties, no rational plan can be adopted ; and it
would, therefore, be infinitely better to refrain
from exciting discussions in Parliament which can
only add fuel to the flame. A Morning Contemporary,
who has changed his opinions twice on the subject, who
first advocated the claims of the Non-IntrusionistF,
who then deserted them, and who is now halting be-
tween two opinions, strongly recommends the Govern-
ment to take upon itself the settlement of the unseemly
differences. But the very wavering conduct of our Con-
temporary gives little weight to his advice, and when it
is known, too, that he recommends the Bill of Lord
AnEßDEEN—ejected with such scorn and disdain—we
may safely infer that Sir ROBERT PEEL and Sir JAMES
GRAHAM will not pay much regard to the admonitions
of such a versatile and inconsistent counsellor.

The Madrid Journals received are of the 4th inst.
Their contents are of little interest. On the previous
day there was a grand review of the troops before the
REGENT, who was loudly cheered by all the civilians and
militarypresent. In the Chamber of Deputies on the 4th.
M. SANCHEZ SILVA, Deputy for Jeres, gave notice of an
" interpellation" upon the delay of the Minister in bring-
ing in the Supplementary Bill to the Tariff on the in-
troduction of manufactured cotton goods ; and the re-
ports in circulation about a treaty of commerce being
negotiated with Great Britain. The Minister ofFinance re-
plied that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. GONZALES,
to whom it in part belonged to reply to this interpel-
lation, was ill ; and that so far as it related to him, the
Minister of Finance, he would be ready to give an
answer as soon as he had made the necessary inquiries
on the subject.

There is not much to engage attention in the French
Journals received this morning. On Monday Court
BOISSY and the Prince DE MOSKOWA attacked Xi. Gui-
ZOT in the Chamber of Peers upon the slave question 1
but as the discussion was not concluded at post hour, we

shall reserve the particulars till the conclusion shall have
reached us. M. GUIZOT spoke in friendly terms of this
country, said that he had not ratified, nor fixed a time
for ratifying, the slavery suppression treaty, and that
the British Government gave him no trouble upon the
subject. The following extract from a Havre journal
appears to us exceedingly apocryphal, albeit it may pos-
sibly be true enough :
It appears that Lord Cowley has sent in to M. Guizot a
note en certain diplomatic difficulties. It refers to one written
a week before, in which there was a question of the French
naval force in the Mediterranean. Lord Aberdeen com-
plained of the magnitude of the fleet at Smyrna, and
threatened, if it was not reduced, England would reinforce
its stations in the Levant. On this threat, M. Guizot
caused immediately four of Admiral La Susse's ships to be
recalled. But this concession of M. Guizot has not satisfied
England. He is now requested to unite with Lord Aber-
deen in pleading before the Divan the cause of Bishop Alex-
ander. AI. Guizot has been the more readily solicited to do
this, on account of his being a Protestant, and thus, under
the specious pretence of toleration, he may contribute •to
weaken the influent of Catholicism in Syria. The same
note treats cursorily of Algiers and Tunis, and betrays the
idea that the Sovereignty of the Porte over all the Barbary
Regencies is one of those points which the two last treaties
with the Powers of Europe are intended to maintain. This
species of manifesto, remitted into Monsieur Guizot's own
hands by Lord Cowley, was backed by a verbal request for
an answer in a short time. This has caused a certain degree
of emotion among► all those who have had knowledge of the
note. The first care was to keep it secret until some answer had
been decided upon. On his side Lord Cowley promised that
secrecy should be kept. by him, both in Paris and in London.
Nevertheless, in spite of all these precautions, M. Thiers seems
to have had some intimation on the subject ; and it is in conse-
quence of it that he brought up the question of Algiers in a late
sitting of the Chamber, by an apparent futile discussion about
the Porte ; but he withheld a great deal of what he knows, and
as yet he has not•had his say.

We subjoin the only other extracts worth quoting in

.hese Journals :

M. Dufaure has, it is said, completed his report on the
railroads, but the changes that will probably be deemed neces-
sary by the Committee will, scarcely allow its being presented
to the Chamber of Deputies before the end of this week.
General Baraguay d Hilliers, immediately previous to leaving
Algiers, addressed an order of the day to the troops of the
first division, in which, after expressing his acknowledgments
for their good conduct, he adds that, under the able direction
of the Governer-General, he would have been happy to con-
tinue to contribute with them towards the subjection of
Algeria, and give new arid daily proofs of his devotion to
France, if superior orders had net otherwise disposed.
The Moniteur of the 11th publishes,-in its official part, a re-
port of the Minister of Public Instruction to the King, fol.
lowed by an ordinance relative to the Preparatory Schools of
Medicine and Pharmacy.
A letter from Madrid of the 3d of April, in the Memorial
Bordelais, of the 9th says :—" A proposal has just been made
to abolish, and to put an end to, on the Ist January, 1842,
all duties of customs in the interior of the kingdom, which
only throw obstacles in the way of commerce, and are
incompatible with the establishment of Custom-houses
on the Northern frontier. It is said that Queen Isabella
and the Court will leave Madrid on the 15th of April for Aran-
guez, where they will reside till June. Many fatuities are pre-
paring to go to the same place.
The King of Sardinia, on the occasion of the marriage of
his eldest son, has granted entire ' pardon to all his Sardinian
subjects, condemned for political affairs. The ordinance, which
is dated the 26th of March, announces that they will be re-
stored to the enjoy ment of their civil rights, and that their con-
fiscated property shall be restored to them, with the arrears,
which are in the hands of the Administration.
130 UIiSE—PA rum, MONDAY, Anus. 11.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prics. Pik,.
'tenth 5 per ('snir llB 40 ... 116 50 ... 118 40 ... 118 50
ii.,, t,er cents lO7 50 .. 1 7 50 .. 107 50 .. 107 50
3 per Cent, /31! V) ... 81 ... 80 90 ..., 81
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1.00,,f Snares 5042 50 ...5042 50 ...5042 50 ...50411 50
attlgian Bank
1811 1453 75 ...1033 75 ...1t 51 75 —.1053 15
Celgian 5 per Cents.
5 per Cent,., 1840 lO4 ... 104% ... 104% ... 101%
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L.J3 220 ... 220 ... 21s 76 ... 213 75
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Stretburg to Bair 233 75 ... 233 75 232 50 233 75
DUTCH FUNDS.—ANSTERDAM, APRIL 11.
Money. Bil 4.
Actim! Debt, 2% per Cent
Jilt°, ditto 5 per cod.

A mot t Syndic,o4 per cent q3

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77% .;,N

Commercial k:oniitiny, 4!4 per cent L) 154%

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Ditto (1835 and 1;337j 5 per cent.
ltiOyi louN
Loan 1F.37, 5 per cont. f.9 02%
Exchange on London, One month l2 12%
Two months
Hansburgh, One month 35 43%
Two months 35 134
Dutch Papers, April 11.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS,—VIENNA, Aran. 2.

rive per Cysts. Metalliques
Fox r per Cent'. MIA,
Three pk r Cent..
Hank Shares w ............ 1614

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SI a—ln your Parliamentary report of yesternight's proceed-
ings, you have not given a correct report of what occurred in
the House as far as I am concerned, and I request permission
to correct your statement.
I did not second Mr. Brotherton in moving the adjourn-
ment of the House.

The facts the these. Lord F. Egerton and Mr. Brotherton
rose together ; the latter intending, as I had no doubt, to
move' the adjournment of the House, it being then considerably
past 12 o'clock. Neither of the Honourable Members giving
way, I moved " That Mr. Brotherton be first heard." The
Speaker said, " Who seconds the motion ?" upon which several
Honourable Members said, "I do so, Sir." The motion
I being regularly proposed and seconded, the Speaker called again,
as he had done before, upon Lord F. Egerton to speak. I
urged that my motion being proposed and seconded, ought to
be put, but the Speaker declined to do so. lof course sub-
mitted to his authority, but on a subsequent occasion I ex-
plained to the House that I had frequently read in the Par-
liamentary proceedings of such a motion being made in the
House, and that I had no reason, therefore, for believing I
could be out of order. If I bad been so, I was quite ready to
apologise to the House.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
REGINALD BLEWITT.

London, April 12, 1842.
[The error must have arisen from the great confusion in
the House, and the consequent difficulty of hearing.—En. Sun.J

SADLER'S WELLS.-13RNEF1T OF Mn. WILLIAMS.
—This well Inown and appreciated actor, who for many
years past, has made the Nestors of the stage his peculiar
province, and whom, in the line of old men, at the Haymar-
ket and Surrey Theatres, we have often witnessed with extra-
ordinary pleasure, takes his benefit to-morrow evening (Thurs-
day) at the above theatre, it being his last appearance, previous
to temporary departure for Scotland, whither, we are sorry to
sal, ill-health drives him to seek recovery. Tobin's comedy of
the Honeymoon; or, How to Rule a Wife, commences the
entertainment, in which Mr. Williams enacts our old favourite
of Lampedo ; and in the popular farce of the Cork Leg; or,
The Lady of Munster, which follows, he appears in the part of
his unrivalled Sir Lawrence Paragon. He will, no doubt, have
a brimful house, and we heartily wish him all the success on the
occasion which his awn most sanguine desires could anticipate.
To give some idea of the prevalent taste in eccle-
siastical music at Naples it may he mentioned that, at a recent
religious solemnity, on the occasion of a lady taking the veil, the
ceremony began with a military march, and eneed with a gal-
lopade.—Foreign Review, April 1842.