The Sun. — 1834-06-03 (London, England)

VIENNA, MAY 24.—A ship which has arrived at Zara. in forty-three days from Alexandria, has brought intelligence that Mehemet Ali had made peace with the inhabitants of Mocha, after their leader bad been taken prisoner. Five per Cent. Metalliques, 99 7-16 : Four per Cent. 901 ; Bank Stock 1,283.  The cause of rational and constitutional freedom has just achieved a glorious triumph in the return of Sir JOHN CAMPBELL for Edinburgh, by a majority of not less than 530 ! The Tory candidate cut but a sorry figure, and the Radical one still worse. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL may now congratulate himself that he was the rejected of Dudley, seeing that he has exchanged the representation of a fourth-rate provincial English town, for that of the metropolis of his native country.  The House Tax Repeal Bill was last night read a third time, and passed in the House of Commons. It is to take effect from the sth of April last, and Government have issued instructions to the assessors of taxes throughout the country, not to charge any houses with the inhabited house duty from that period.  We refer to the debate of last night for a confirmation of what we stated yesterday afternoon respecting Mr. WARD'S resolutions. A Royal Commission has issued, and Ministers were supported in their policy by a majority of 396 against 120. This speaks 'volumes.  The explanation of Mr. STANLEY places the cause of his secession in its true light, and says more for Earl G R EY'S administration; than all the speeches of the Cabinet Ministers last night. His principles with regard to the Protestant church in Ireland, are of so uncompromising, so selfish, and so exclusive a description, that, with all his readiness in debate, all his decision, and all his family influence, he must necessarily be a clog and a drawback on any administration, but one of a purely ultra-Tory character. His principles are, that no matter how the Protestant population fall off, no matter how Catholics increase, anti no matter how injurious to the Protestant religion may be the existing establishment, still it must be preserved at all hazards—no inroads must be made on the church—a clergyman must be paid for in every parish, whether he resides there or not— whether there are five hundred Protestants or not one, and all the staff of archbishops, bishops, deans, and prebends must be maintained in Catholic Ireland precisely as it is now maintained in England. There is no mincing of the matter here, and neither Lord ELDON, nor any bishop in the most flourishing state of high church ascendancy, could advance doctrines of a more bigotted or more illiberal description. There might be some excuse for such principles if they were found to bent, in the smallest degree, the church, orefi if the example of the Protestant clergy in Ireland had the effect of reconciling the people either to them or their doctrines ; but when it is admitted on all hands that the Catholics are on the increase in that country, and that Protestantism. is on the decline, or, in the Right Hon. Gentleman's words, that " even in the present state of things the tide of Protestant emigration is flowing out from many parts of Ireland in a deep, a full, and a rapid current," is it not something worse than folly to keep up a system which not only does not answer the end, but on the contrary has been the fruitful source for the last 200 years of rapine, murder, and almost every crime ? We are as sincerely attached to the Protestant church, and approve of her doctrines and service as cordially as her warmest supporters ; but knowing that no establishment, however pure and excellent of itself, can be maintained by perpetrating injustice, and by exciting, in opposition to it, the strongest feelings of human nature, we have all along contended for a thorough, a vigorous, and an impartial revision of the whole of the church establishment in Ireland. It is absurd to mix up the rights of two churches, the English and Irish churches, together, and those who have recourse to such a mode of argument are not so excusable as the followers of Lord GEORGE GORDON and those bigots who did in bygone times raise the cries of " No Popery I" and " The Church in danger !" England is essentially a Protestant country, and her established religion is Protestant ; for the same reason the established religion of Scotland