The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-02 00:00:00

who ought not to give an honest and a sincere a
vote in their favour. We have always supported
their government in Ireland, though they have not
gone so far as we could have wished, and we should
be as dishonest as the Times, and as imprudent as
the Chronicle, did we not on that point support
them.

bets, he procrastinates in the hope that
something may. oecur to break up and
dissolve the •Coalition. The. sagacity of dis-
honest politicians is always bounded. LOUIS
PHILIPPE fancies that he is only opposed by
TRIERS and BARROT and their personal friends,
forgetful of the fact that TRIERS is only formi-
dable as representing the convictions of a clear
majority of the people of France. Up to two o'clock
on Sunday no progress had been made in effect-
ing a reconciliation between SOULT and TRIERS,
and the Journals of that day publish the
most contradictory reports respecting the ultimate
designs of these Statesmen and their friends. Ac-
cording to the Debats, the Marshal, supported by
the Duke DE BROGLIE, and MM. DUCHATEL
and HUMANN, was resolved, if nothing better
could be done, to meet the Chambers as 'Premier,
setting the pretensions of the Left and Left Centre
at defiance. The Siecle tells quite another
story. If we may credit the latter Journal,
SOULT has withdrawn, disgusted and defeated,
after declaring to the KING that lie would hence-
forth abstain from all interference with the Minis--
terial arrangements. On Saturday, the Deputies
of the Left met at the residence of M. ODILLON
BARROT, to the number of 97, when resolutions
were passed of adherence to the programme of the
Coalition.
The only other news in the Paris Papers of Sun-
day is subjoined :
The Director (gerant) of the Echo Francais received
a summons yesterday evening, with those of the National
and the Europe, to appear on the 10th of next n,onth be-
fore the Court of Assizes of the Seine, to answer to an ac-
cusation of endeavouring to excite hatred and contemp-
of the King's Government, of instigating rEsobedience to
the laws without producing any effect, and also attempting
to excite mutiny in the army. The accusation is founded
on an article upon the army, published by the National,
and copied into the two other journals. The Pilote, a
journal of Cten, in its yesterday's number, has the follow-
ing article :—.‘ We are assured that several soldiers of our
arondissement, who had returned to their families with un-
limited furloughs, have just received ord,rs to re-
join their regiments in garrison at Paris in the
environs of the capital. It may well be supposed that this
unexpected measure under the present circumstances
gives rise to many conj:ctures, and we cannot help con-
necting it with the imprudent boastings ascribed to the
members of the Committee."
We have received the following letter from a person who
is always well informed :
" BAYONNE, NIAECII 27.—Cabrera has written that be
cannot consider as legal the decree of the 24th Feb„ by
which Don Carlos approves the conduct of Maroto. This
letter has made a deep impression at the head-quarters of
the Pfetender, who is at a loss what course to take.
" The determinations of Cabrera are not yet positively
known in the provinces, but the friends of Tejeiro have set
to work, and have just sent letters to their confidants to
give publicity to this new incident, which cannot fail to
render the situation of Maroto and his partizans more diffi-
cult. You may expect shortly to receive information of
some-serious event.—Le Cunqitutionnel." .

LordJoHN RUSSELL'S Bill for the re-distribution
of the Church Revenues and Duties, seem; to give
general satisfaction to all the reasonable admirers
of the union between State and Church. The un-
reasonable admirers of it—those who are blindly in
love with the Church and see no faults in it—do
not like the Bill, because it hints at the possibility
of imperfections in their adored object. The
bulk of the manufacturing population and
of the enlightened townspeople, will care very
little, we apprehend, how the Whigs and the Tories
settle the Church. She is, notwithstanding all the
boasts of her admirers, fast sliding out of the
affections of the people, and will no more stand
the test of advancing knowledge, than the rotten
boroughs which were long her main bulwarks, or the
still more rotten corporations in Ireland, also her bul-
warks, but which have also passed into contempt.
The Church will follow their career. We care
little to inquire into the exact mode in which Lord
JOHN RUSSELL and Sir ROBERT PEEL agree in
bolstering up the Church, because we have long
been aware that what men do in Parliament is very
generally undone by the country. To us the Church
which our statesmen are so eager to patch up, seems
very like an old coat, which might once have been
a most fashionable garment, even adorned with
jewels and pearls of price, fit for a nobleman—but
coats will become old, and so will Churches. De-
spoiled of its pearl buttons and golden lace, docked
of its former fair proportions, and become too
small for the wearer, an old coat has a most 4.>, ro -
tesque appearance—and so has the Church.
The nation has entirely outgrown it, and it seems
like a suit of armour fit for a dwarf, cramp- •
ing some of the limbs of a giant, im-
peding his movements, but giving him no pro-
tection. Its antique cut makes it a mockery, and
the Church-like an old-fashioned garment only ex •
cites laughter ; or if the persons who behold it are
extremely polite, like our hypocrites, suppressed
risibility is concealed by flattering smiles. If the old
coat, shorn of all its pristine glories, greasy and dirty
about the collar, the accumulated filth of ages, very
like the cathedral parts of the Church--rubbed out
at the cuffs, which arc short and scanty, like
poor curates, patched at the elbows, seedy through-
out, and no longer cffording the wearer the least
protection from the wind and rain—threadbare
everywhere, and incapable of holding together the
many coloured pieces patched on it—if the old
coat were sent to an honest tailor to repair, he would
return it as irreparable, and fit only for the rag bag.
In such a condition does the Church come into
the hands of our Statesmen ; but, unlike the honest
tailor, they say, " Oh, it is yet a good Church ;"
and they set about repairing it with all the busy
zeal of that workman who, eager for a job on any
terms, stops up one hole, and makes two instead.
The gentlemen at St. Stephen's, except as the matter
may give them some amusement and employment,
might spare their labour, for like the worn-out gar-
ment it will no longer bear the stitches, and every
piece they put on will only sooner rend the whole in
tatters. It is for us very amusing, however, to see
Nl7higs and Tories equally zealous and equally
laborious in a work, which is like pouring water'
into sieves. Experience has tested the Church, and
demonstrated its inutility. It has a vast revenue, while
the people imbibe no useful instruction from it.
On the contrary the Press teaches one thing and
the Church another. It is to preserve the truth in
unity, and the land is overrun with discord, grow-
ing out of its exactions. A flourishing and opu-
lent priesthood, and a contending, quarrelling
people ; the manufacturers and agriculturists,
though they much contribute to each other's
welfare, being almost at daggers drawn ; an arro-
gant clergy and a starving, miserable populace ;
the teachers of the flock thoroughly grasp-
ing and rapacious, and the flock worrying
each other ; a demand for more Churches
while charity is banished from the pulpit and the
land, are the glaring proofs which stare us in the
face of the worse than uselessness of the Church.
We take no interest in the petty alterations, which
the Whigs, with the consent of the Tories, make
in such an institution.

At the Easter entertainment given by the LORD
MAYOR yesterday at the Mansion House, his
Lordship with great adroitness endeavoured to draw
from Sir R. PEEL a declaration of his opinions re-
specting the Ministerial City Police Bill, by prais-
ing to the skies his acknowledged respect for, and
admiration of, the municipal institutions of the first
metropolis in the world. But the Right Hon.
Bart. was too wary an old trout to allow himself to
be tickled and caught by a Lord Mayor. He
uttered not one single sentence in reply, but what
had for its object to mystify and delude. We are
not all surprised at this equivocal sort of conduct on
the part of Sir R. PEEL. It is not in his nature
to give a plain answer to a plain question ; and as
for manly frankness or sincerity, he is about as
much a stranger to these qualities, as a blush is to
the countenance of Mr. CROKER. And yet this
is the man whose obsequious flatterers are just now
so eagerly assuring him that he is to be the new
Premier of England ! who is to show white
by the side of Whig black ; who is to exhibit
in his own conduct a noble contrast to the crafty,
intriguing spirit, the abject timidity, and blustering
character of the present Government I Truly, he
gives us a pretty
specimen of his capabilities for sway-
ing the helm of State, when he cannot even be pre-
vailed upon to say "Yes" or "No," on (comparatively
speaking) so trifling a subject as a City Police
Bill. Why, we shall expect next to see him equi-
vocate on a Turnpike Act I We are no very ar-
dent admirers—it is well known—of the policy pur-
sued of late by the Whigs, but better—a thousand
times better—maintain them in office, than take up
with such a tame, pluckless trickster as Sir RORT.
PEEL, who can never make up his mind until it is
too late, and never concedes a boon, until con-
cession has lost all its salutary influence. Ministers
may not be what we could wish them to be ; they
may be tardy when they shopld be prompt ; irre-
solute when they should be decided ; but they are
at least a hundred times better than that jesuitical
section of the Tories who acknowledge a PEEL as
their leader. From the former we may reasonably
hope something ; from the latter, to hope anything,
is to indulge in the wildest absurdity. Good Goo,
have we any thing to expect from a Prime Minister
who cannot even look a Lord Mayor in the face ; or
give a straight-forward answer to a question evidently
(though indirectly) put with a view to draw forth
such a reply ? Who at the very best is but a
retail sort of a statesman, without firmness of cha-
racter, fixedness of purpose, or comprehensiveness
of intellect ? Better, we repeat, let well alone.
Better continue Ministers in office. Better bear
the ills we have, " than fly to others that we know
not of."

TTIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1839.