The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-04 00:00:00

!:V_ENING ED IT! ON.

Philpotts a Clerical Copley. Arcecs anebo , it nt it
well be added, "et cantare parati." the Bishoo
of Exeter cannot boast, Idte Lord Lyndhurst, of
barking public measures, he indemnifies hithselfby black-
ening principles—public and private characters. Forcer-.
tnirilv it nrnounts to a slur on personal character to throw
out imputations in a Christian country, on the " abiding
sense," of religion—the regard for the Church, &c. o;
his opponents. These imputations have been so unfor-
tunately levelled by the Bishop of Exeter that they hay,•
instantly called forth the most crushing replies from the
ionoured head struck by them. We absolutely begin to
think that nothing but sheerascetic devotion, the peniten-
tial courting of mortification—the zealous candidata:-
ship for disgrace--could have led the Right Rae.
Prelate, in sheer excess of his Christian humility, ta
expose himself to such answers as the Marquis of
Lansdowne's and Sirßichard Bourke's. Certain!), nu ;I.SII/
rant for martyrdom could succeed better than tatia
Bishop, in sacrificing every earthly rag of repute in t
eye of the world, so far as that repute is attaelted to
fairness in controversy. In sober sadness, the Bishop of
Exeter's treatment of public documents, and animadver-
sions on individuals, thereupon grounded, are utt-r1)
inconceivable, except on the supposition of some such
purpose as we have assigned to him of self-mortification,
through the purposely provoked answers of the rot n
of honour whom he has attacked so wantonly. Tato;,
in the earlier ages of Christianity, enthusiasts, like to
this pious Philpotts, ran about extorting the crown of
martyrdom from whomsoever they met with. Sir
Richard Bourke has given the coup de grace to his
Grace of Exeter, and sickened him, we should think, for
one while, of his assumed functions of Head of the
Church, and Grand Metropolitan over the whole of the
British colonies and dependencies.
(From the Standard.) ingly
It is sometimes necessary, in order to determine
the animates of a party, or of an individual, to pass
from the consideration of particular acts to the re-
neral
andte no ur o
unequivocalconduct—because,
fi n t
hcases
party where
or
i i
in-
dividual purpose would defeat that purpose, we nry
be quite sure that no such disclosure will be made by
any act. There are two classes of the community whom
it may be necessary to remind of this truth. We
allude to the members of the Church, and the per-
sons, whether landlords, farmers, or labourers, whnsc
interests are embarked in the national agri vulture.
We speak of them as two classes, though they
areey
ar e ,
attacked fo r th e
imni
esoarhsedstx
vsuopepeeflhaclarttml root,
eoAt
nhtdi,
ei
tnf
different
Church,
trt samehieriune.rtdefence
ehnr;teemeanrnece pacs ,
pledged
same
met
ea,eahuoasesfge2irt.ai
agricul-
tural c,rieht
witne
ocr
rlsudadsifiene
agc
nt
the
pledget o ih-
as
tura! interest. But does the conduct of the party
which they are supposed to command correspond it i ii
these professions ? We are surely entitled to ask this
question of a party which would impute to Sir R. Peel,
because of his silence, all the opinions expressed hastil:-/
by those by whom he is supported, and which p-„ffs
at the possibility of the formaticn and
P,
gratuitous rP:'
auc
° c e
of a Conservative Administration upon thP
hypothesis, that we Conservatives o.:e divided by
irreconcileable differences. We 4,-e entitled to
ark
this question, when we find
Lord Lansdowne pro-
fessing an entire zeal for the Church, Lord Melbourne pledging himself to a devoted defence
of the agricultural interest, and the journals N
l
,vlrt the
eno
gull servicerati%hr:eeg voenwre:i,tf
Inotathutoeet
snigioyarbdal
ceeetxoLc
aeoriniri Lords d
tnt
ao
ao
c:st,ttthr,,zenn:
attempt
tcei
night,iot
col l coeatxg uei
to
ly
n
ctlliaessjeoaflotuisiey
caonndnruensietny_tmtel7e t ole
fvad great, valuable
an connection—at
against the Church, and shall (probably to-worror
have to return to the saute service. The
are happy to believe, must be vain in an:, bdsee ",
nevertheless it is the duty of Churchmen Cr ; but
.

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TWO EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.—_ A day
two ago a bill for 240,000/., tw;ilye months' date, ui
discounted in Liverpool at, we relieve, 8+ per cent. per.
annum. The amount of thc discount was 20,000/.
this city a gentleman
upon a bank of issue wit:a
a one-pound note, and was requested to call again! NVe
pledge ourselves to the authenticity of these two ext,-.4-
orclioary facts.—Dublin Evening post.
PUNISHMENT OF A POOR MAN.—At the
rey Sessions On Monday, an old agricultural labou-er good character, who had helped himself to ia bit of
wood, value twopence, from a pile of faggots belongi 41D,
to M. Cooper, the late High Sheriff of tl-ie county, ta„s
sentenced to one month's imprisonment for the okenem.
Ha had already been in prison for a month. P'erhaps
if the handle of wood had been valued at ti.,reepcncil.
he would have had three instead of two, mc.nths' impri-
,
sonment.