The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-14 00:00:00

SAINTS AND MARTYRS,

" Our National Church is a church fruitful in Saints and
Martyrs !"—Vide Lord Ashley's Speech at the Meeting of
the Church Extension Society, reported in the Times.

Misguided Papists ! Did ye know
The Church you're always taunting so ;
How fruitful 'tis in Saints and Martyrs,
How free from those psrt, sneering Tartars,
Who, in un-apostolic
Abuse all churches but their own—.
Did ye know this, ye Papist crew,
(I speak here of Dissenters too,)
Ye'd leave your dogmas in the lurch,
And stick, bkc wax, to Mother Church !

Saints—aye and Martyrs too !—exist
In each long-suffering Pluralist,
In each Archdeacon—Dean—Sub- Dean—
And minor Canon too, I ween ; -
Who'd gladly all their tithes forsake,
And Cranmer-like, embrace the stake
At Smithfield-bars for conscience sake.
Our Bishops too On Christian ground
Sure, purer Saints were never found !
Think of Saint Phillpotts ! Humble—mild—.
A well of waters undefiled.,
Like Bunyan's arch angelic child;
Whose pious thoughts aye raised on high,
Abound in Christian Charity ;
Whose meekness e'en opponents prize,
And Devon's curates idolize
Think of Saint Blomfield He who stands
On Sundays with uplifted hands,
And counts the sinners who, so merry,
Row up to Putney in a wherry ;
Preaches against all Sunday hacks,
Arad the atheists on their backs ;
And, lest he should irrreverent speak
In English—yet brimful of pique—
Damns all their souls in classic Greek !
Think of Saint Howley ! Rather dear
Saint (to the tune of, it is clear,
Full fifteen thousand pounds a year),
Whose very eye with virtue glows,
Jlluisst
gaesnsouminee tilliaotruoruegaht tiph ispineors
es h!o w s

Think of these Saints and Martyrs too I
And learn, ye Non-Conformist crew,
To give Old Mother Church her due !

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—The inclosed MS. was picked up at the
meeting held the other day for the purpose of Burking
education, over which Lord Ashley presided. I was
at first inclined to consider it as a effusion of the
Right Hon. Member for Tainworth, but the allusion
in die last stanza demonstrates the incorrectness of that
supposition ; it being matter of public notoriety that
the Right Hon. Baronet never bad a grandfather.
Under these circumstances, I am doubtful as to the
authorship, although there is sonic reason to believe
that it is an after:dinner production either of Colonel
Sibthorp or of the Bishop of Exeter.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
ISHMAEL.

A CONSERVATIVE CANTICLE ON
EDUCATION.

Pm me it can ne'cr come to good,
This desire to learn through the land,
What they never before understood_
Pray why should folks now understand ?
Indeed I consider it treason
To teach the poor even their letters,
For it clearly is out of all reason
That they should know mere than their betters.
I constantly think of the devil
Whenever I pass by a college,*
For he was the earliest Professor,
And Eve the first seeker for knowledge.

Things are come to a horrible pass :
What an insolent wretch he must be,
Whose Grandfather was but an ass,
To presume to be wiser than he.
'0 No allusion to Oxford and Cambridge: inasmuch as every
thing taught there is orthodox and useless—they cannot with pro-
priety be considered as Institutions for Education, meaning by that
word the imparting of knowledge.