The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-14 00:00:00

labour shall still flow from the rural districts. With
great landlords, and large farmers, and the whole
economy of monopolist corn manufacture, that is in-
evitable. If farmers had cheap and plentiful bread to
feed extra mouths withalif the old system of domes-
ticating labourers in farm-houses prevailed, many more
labourers might be kept on the land than the present
culture admits of. The true " sacrifice of agricultural
labouiera" has been made by the present system. The
restoration of steady abundance by aid of unchained
eommerce, and the removal of the high pressure of the
present system of landed monopoly, would be as great a
boon to the race of agricultural labourers as to any other
portion of the people whatever. Not for them are
monopoly profits. Theirs is the hovel, the Union-
, workhouse, or the necessity to migrate to the towns.
The alternative then is not between rural labour and
town labour—but between town labour aided by
capital, or town-labour unpaid and starved. The alter-
native is between the pauperism of Irish towns, or the
employment of Leeds and Manchester. To contem-
plate coolly " the decline which seems to threaten the
manufacturing system," is to contemplate coolly the
failure of the sole prop which still supports vast masses
of labour above the condition of band-loom weaving, or
Irish indigence.
STANDARD.—If clergymen are permitted, with-
out rebuke, to desert the doctrine of the Church, lay
Churchmen will ask no permission to exercise an equal
liberty to desert the Church which makes so little ac-
count of its doctrine. Let the Tractarians and their
supporters, Romanists, candid:, or indifferent:, look to
the inevitable consequences of their conduct at the
ensuing Oxford election. They cannot make the people
of England Romanists ; as well hope to bring them
back to the grotesque and scarcely decent cos-
tume of the first century, as to the superstitions
of the 15th. They cannot make the people of England
Romanist ; but they can make Dissenters of all whom
they shall convince that the Protestant Church of
England is on the road to Rome, or even but
trafficking with Romanism. As we have employed
the epithet Protestant, let us here notice a pamphlet,
by Mr. William Palmer, of Magdalen College, is
defence of his former denunciation of the unhappy
term. In one thing we are heartily agreed with
Mr. Palmer ; he no doubt wishes his pamphlet to be,
read, and we from the bottom of our huarts
that the perusal of it should be universal. .I.‘:iesire
o words
of an adversary could paint the utter 'frivolity, the
ignorance, and pretensions of the writer who is one of
the leading champions of the Tr.,ctarian School, so
strikingly as he exhibits them hktself. We will take an
example or two at random. We must premise to our
first extract an explanation that some sage, to
whom Mr. Palmer addresses his letter, had submitted
the following test, as decisive against the use of the
word " Protestant :"—" I ask, whether he (an ultra
Protestant) is prepared to alter the Apostles'
Creed, and to rca 1, I believe in the holy Protestant
Church ?' " This is a plain plagiary from the columns
of the Standard. Some months ago we told of the
argument of an Irish priest, who boasted, in proof that
his was the true Church, of St. Paul's never having
written an epistle to the Protestants, though Protes-
tents themselves were obliged to confess that he had
written to the Romans (Romanists are frequently
called Romans in Ireland). So says Mr. Palmer's
wise correspondent—the Apostles left no profession of
faith in the Protestant Church, which was to exist as
a protesting Church fourteen centui les after them.
COURIER.—The noble and " juvenile" Whig, ao
lately relieved from the charge official of foreign rela-
tions, and happily consigned to the otiunt cum dignitate
of the shades of Broadlands, still loves to wander, it
appears, like an evil genius, about his former haunts
in Downing-street, or in the Strand is to be found
outpouring his maledictory imprecations against the
master spirit by which he was expelled from the abode
where he had long worked so much mischief to the
people and reflected so much diecredit oa the Sovereign.
Concerning the piece, now growing into fame, of Spa-
nish punctilio and ambassadorial etiquitte, enacting at
Madrid betwixt a French civilian learned in the law on
the one side, and a rough frank soldier of fortune,
cognisant of little but the learning of camps, on the
other, the unlaid ghost of Downing-street's former
tenant thus delivers some strange revel oleos from a
world and through a morning organ of its own :—" As
a proof," says the sprite, " of what confidence the Spa-
nish Government placed in the British, we may men-
tion that the former applied to the latter to obtain,
through the medium of tho English embassy in Paris,
some delay in M. Salvandy's departure, a delay that
might allow time for compromise. Lord Cowley,
however, scouted the idea of giving support, or ob-
taining any time for the Spanish Government. It
must submit to the pretensions of France, which were
just, and which the British Government supported."
Here it may be seed there is no halting hesita-
tion of manner which might lead to suspicion of facts
forged or fancied for an occasion ; but on the reverse,
the assertions are sported for truth with all the ease
and all the impudence of an official roue, so habituated
by half a century's persevering practice in public as to
mistake his own fictions for facts, and his own crooked
chicane for diplomatic dexterity. The want of real
data on which to build a speculation, or the apprehen-
sion of dates destructive of his workmanship, no move
incline him to pause in his operations than does subse-
quent detection and exposure disturb his equanimity.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

POST.—The Government broker resumed his ope-
rations in Consols in the course of the day. He again
made sales, expressly for bank notes, to the extent of
200,0001., more or less, the effect of which would have
been somewhat sensibly felt, had it not been for the
counter operations entered into for time ; the bargain-
ing for the ❑ew Account (February 24th), being pretty
considerable.
The sales, however, cannot be said any longer to at-
tract the same attention of capitalists and others that
they did in the first instance. The present healthy ap-
pearance of the Continental exchanges renders the pos-
sibility of the sales referred to being for account of the
Bank of England quite out of the question ; so it is
considered at least in the best-informed monetary cir-
cles. Were they, it is argued, on behalf of that esta-
blishment, the effect would have been a palpable strin-
gency in the money market out of doors, notwithstand-
ing the payment of the dividends now in progress.
There seems to be no longer the least doubt that the
daily sales making by the Government broker are strictly
on Government account, whether it be in connection
with the Savings' Banks (for this is still deemed likely)
or otherwise, the effect of which on the circulation will
be of no importance, and hence the growing indifference
that is felt upon the subject. _

Considerable hate' est- has been excited in this part
of the metropolis, as may be presumed to have been
the case in others, and, in fact, throughout the king-
dom, by the information received during the.last two
days from Paris, relative to a nest of forgers found to
be carrying on their depredations on the Continent,
and which appeared, in the first instance, exclusively in
the Morning Post. Opinion is generally in favour of
the supposition that the individuals who have been
arrested by the French police are not the principal
actors, but the mere subordinate agents in this new
and extraordinary drama. It is, of course, considered
highly desirable that the delinquents in chief should be
bunted out, inasmuch as the crime of forgery is, in a
commercial nation, the most formidable, perhaps, that
could be named ; but, on the other hand, h is hoped
that, if this cannot be accomplished, a sufficient know-
ledge of their proceedings has been obtained to put -aa
effectual stop to the mischief.
TIMES.—The Madrid letters dated on the 3d inst.
are much occupied with the affair of the non-aceept-
ance of certain hills taken by the Government, and
transmitted to London for the payment of the British
Legion and other claims in the course of the last month
and which became due on the 3d of March. It is stated
that there were in all nine bills, amounting to about
20,000/., which were given by a mercantile house in Ma-
drid to the Spanish Government, and which they appro-
priated at once to various claimants -as 'so ,much money
certain to be paid when due. It is probable,lowever, as
time, enough yet remains to make some other arrange-
ments, that the bills will still be honoured when at matu-
rity: The refusal to accept by the house of Gower and Co.,
upon whom they were drawn,: is said to have arisen
merely from the party in Madrid having exceeded his
credit with them, without previously announcing his in-
tention to do so ; and further, it is stated, that had a
smaller sum been drawn for, this difficulty would not
have arisen. Hence noimportance is a financial point of
view is to be attached to the subject, and it does not in any
way affect the credit of the Spanish Government though
it is said that the Finance Minister, Surra y Rull, has
expressed much annoyance at it. Every precaution
seems to have been taken by the London house to pre-
vent this awkward occurrence, as they had an agent in
Madrid who expressly gave warning to the merchant
who drew the bills not to exceed his credit upon them,
which he nevertheless disregarded. The sensitiveness
of the Spanish Minister on the subject is not a bad
omen for the British creditors generally, fox very little
concern was manifested in former times -about such
matters. It must be still a long time before Spanish
credit is quite restored, but the present Government
are at least much more punctilious about the fulfilment
of engagements than any of their predecessors.

ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ICE•

—Wednesday afternoon an inquest was held at the Car-
penters' Arms, Anne's-place, Hackney-road, before Mr.
Baker, on the body of Henry Wooliams, aged 21, a shoe-
maker, of No. 4, Pearson-street, Kingsland-road. Frede-
rick Athen said that, in the afternoon of Sunday last, he
went with the deceased to see some boys sliding upon a
frozen pond by the side of the Regent's-canal, near
Hackney-road. They went together on the ice at the
margin of the pond, but seeing two boys playing several
yards farther out, witness and deceased also ventured
there. Some persons at the side told them that the ice
was not strong enough to bear them, but deceased laughed
and as he stamped with his foot, said he was not in dan..
ger. At that instant the ice gave wa/, and they were
both immersed. Witness was recovered y the drags, but
deceased, who was not found for five minutes afterwards
was dead. Verdict, " Accidental death."