The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-14 00:00:00

right to be surprised or to complain that an irrevocable
verdict of Guilty has gone forth against them.

We insert, in another column, a letter signed " A
Clergyman," in which the abusive language applied to
the Bishop of NORWICH by the Times newspaper is
anitnadverted upon with just severity. The paper
from which we extract the letter is an organ of Toryism,
and the writer is a Tory ; yet, to the praise of both be
it spoken, they have too much respect for the cause
and the principles which they advocate, to suppose
that these can be benefited by applying to a political
opponent epithets which outrage all the decencies of
life. It might indeed have been supposed that the
Times, professing, as it does, the most ardent attach-
ment to the Church of England, would have
been the last journal in the kingdom to vilify
its dignitaries, even when it did not approve of their
political conduct ; because the dignity itself is thereby
brought into contempt, and*the Church at the present
moment has not much popular favour to spate. Such
treatment of a Bishop as that which the so-called
" Conservative" Times bestows upon Dr. STANLEY,
had it come from a Liberal journal, would have
been denounced from Printing-house Square as a
nefarious attempt to sap the foundations of the Esta-
blishment, and to prepare the way for the adoption of
the voluntary principle.
But that which deprives the Times of all excuse in

this case, while it sets in the strongest possible light
the-savage and undistinguishing ferocity by which it is
actuated in its attacks upon those who happen to differ
from it for the time being, is the character of the Bishop
of NORWICH. Had this amiable man and genuine
Christian been a furious partizan—had he wriggled him-
self up to his present high station by a time-serving line
of conduct—at one time blustering and threatening to
stir up the elements of religious strife as a matter of
life and death—at another accepting the wages of a
quiescent and accommodating conscience—then indeed
there might have been some allowance made for the
language in which the disgust excited in every breast
by such an object naturally expresses itself. But Dr.
STANLEY has done none of these things. He has
never bcen a violent politician—indeed he can hardly
be said to be a politician at all. For upwards of twenty

years he has been engaged in the active and conscien-
tious discharge of his duties as a parochial clergyman,
inculcating upon his flock, both by precept and example,
the practice of that enlarged and enlightened charity which
views all men as brethren—the children of one father,
and the heirs of one inheritance—without regard to the

narrow distinctions of sect or creed. He has, moreover,
borne his faculties so meekly, both before and since his
elevation to his present dignity, that he is beloved and
esteemed by all who know him, whatever be their sen-
timents in religion or politics. Such a man can suffer
nothing from the opprobrious language of any Jour-
nalist, much less from that of one who has so long and
so greatly a;►used his privilege, that no weight is at-
tached to his authority, and whose only distinction is
that he is the most foul-mouthed of his party.

The following commcntary upon Mr. O'CoNN EL CS
letter to the Clergy of the Established Protestant Church
in Ireland-L-which letter appeared in our columns of
yesterday—is copied from an article which the Post of
thii morning devotes to a refutation of the arguments,
and a condemnation of the plan of the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman for the settlement of the Irish
Tithe question :

" The scheme set forth in the letter of Mr. O'Connell
involves a fraud upon the Church. This fraud wears, how-
ever, a disguise, although it bee thin one. There is another
fraud included in the scheme, which disdains a mask. It is an
open, avowed, unblushing transfer, by Act of Parliament, of
a large amount of property from the general body of
the community of the three kingdoms to the landowners
of Ireland. Mr. O'Connell would have the Consolidated
Fund charged with the pay ment to the Irish clergy of the
sums, after deduction of 30 per cent., which they now
receive as tithe, without calling upon the landlords of Ire-
land for any contribution whatever, and would thus put into
the pockets of this favoured class, at the expense of the
nation at large, property of immense value ; augmenting in
effect the estates of each individual of the class in ratios
varying from 10 to 23 per cent."

We yesterday approved of Mr. O'CONNELL'S
plan for paying the Irish Clergy out of the Treasury.
The reduction of 30 per cent. of their nominal
income we estimated as a fair charge for the cost of
collection. But as we knew that the plan would
be opposed—and even stated our conviction of the
fact—we deemed it a waste of time to treat of that
part of it which related to the supplying a fund from
whence to draw the sums necessary for the support of
the Church Establishment. As the Post, however,
has entered more fully into the question, we deem it
of importance to state, that the Reformers are as
strongly opposed as the Tories can he to the trans-
fer of the Tithes from the pockets of the parsons to
those of the landlords,—and we believe no such
transfer will ever he made by a British House of
Commons. The robbery, in the event of such a
transfer, would not be a robbery of the Church, but of
the nation—to which, in reality, all Church property
belongs. Tithes are neither the property of priests or
landlords—they belong to the nation ; and it is the busi-
ness of Parliament to prevent their appropriation by
either the one party or the other. In recommending,
therefore, the payment of the Irish clergy out
of the Consolidated Fund, we would be under-
stood to advocate the payment into tuch Fund
of the amount so advanced out of the Tithe Reve-
nues of the Irish branch of the Established Church.
But the discussion of the details of the Tithe Ques-
tion is at present premature. The Irish clergy will
neither be taught wisdom by friend or enemy. It will
be time enough to point out the errors in Mr. O'CON-
NELL'S plan when Irish Churchmen manifest an in-
clination to prefer peace to rapine, anarchy, and
bloodshed.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have all been re-
ceived. The Moniteur contains lists of the promo-
tions in the army engaged in the taking of Constan-
tine. General VALLEE has been promoted to the
dignity of a Marshal of France, and the Duke DE
NEMOURS to the rank of Lieutenant-General. Major-
Generals TREZEL and It ULIIIERES have also been
raised to an equal militaryirank with his Royal High-
ness. The other names in these lists are not known in
this country.

All the elections have closed, with the exception
of two, which are fixed for the Ist of December. The
Siecle gives the following, as its analysis of the losses
and gains of the several parties into which the French
Chambers are divided :

" The Radical opposition has lost 15 votes, and gained 16.
" The Dynastic opposition has lost 20 votes, and gained 30.
" The Legitimists have lost 12, and gained 14.
" The Thiers party have lost 13, and gained 19.
" The Ministerial centre have lost 53, and gained 60.