The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-28 00:00:00

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tegislaWfpr'.4:4atiada titan f. )1- Japan. The leas'',
posaleins'ille way of law-t raking for that trans-
atlantic possessim which can._ he brought forward
will be the most commendable. We hope- accord-
ingly that when Parliament meets., not Canada, but
the extraordinary condition of our own population
Will occupy the foreground of her MAJESTY'S
Speech. To revive in the. people confidence in
the Government, and to make them itiok to it for
die quiet redress of their manifold grievances, is
essential, not merely to the national 'safety, but to
tile national existence.

In another place will be found a letter addressed
by Mr. GEACII, Mr. FRosT's attorney, to the
Marquis of NORMANBY, soliciting a postponement
of the trials for treason, and asking for a sum of.
money to enable the prisoners, many of whom are
very poor, to procure the means of defence. There
is also the Marquis of NORMANBY'S answer, stating
that the first of the applications must be made.
to the Judges, and that it was beyond his province
to interfere ; and that he could not comply with the;
second. We also publish a memorial to the QUEEN,
praying her MAJESTY to order a grant of money,
and the Marquis of NORNtANBY's answer, stating
that he could not advise her MAJESTY to corn-
ply -with the prayer of the memorial. These will
hereafter be important historical documents.
The letter to the Marquis of NORMANBY places
the matter in a clear point of view, and strange as
the application seems for a sum of money from the
State, which is the prosecutor, to enable the pri-
soners to defeat it, the application is not without
reason. The law is such a complicated machine, that
it can be only worked by great strength and power.
To set it in ,operation against the prisoners the
State commands the highest forensic abilities; while,
as they are to be tried under a Special Commis-
sion, and as there is to be no circuit bar, they must
be wholly undefended by Counsel, unless the State,
or the charity of individuals, supply the means of
hiring them. If the State be bound to defend its
_subjects when unjustly assailed by other States,
it must also be bound to defend them against in
justice at home, and hence the application to it for
assistance, to enable the prisoners assailed by it,
with such overwhelming power, to obtain justice.
We do not object to the refusal, which is accord-
ing to the strict practices of England. At the
same time the lax practices of Ireland, enabling
the Viceroy there to do what the QUEEN here can-
not do, may have encouraged the applicants to hope,
from Lord NORNIA N BY'S conduct there, what,
as Secretary of State here, it must be painful to
hirri to refuse.

The poor Tories know ngt whether to make war
on the Ministers or not; and the Eta/A(l*d re-
tracts yesterday the advice to be quiet it gave a Ly
9r before, It now calls on the agriculturists
to turn out the Ministers, or agriculture will be
ruined ;an another Journal calla on the Pro-
testants to turn them out for appointing Messrs.
RHALL, or Protestantism
WYSE, SUM, and O'FE
will be ruined, Prof,eatantisth and agriculture,
therefore, go together, and it the increase of our
town population which has enciaogefej ,the faith of
the people.

Another Tory Journal sought yesterday morning
to justify Sir ROBERT PEEL for not interfering to
stop the No Popery cry ; but it put the question,
as usual, on a false foundation. Sir IL. PFEIL
knew and was warned that his party were doing a
great public mischief, by which, however, he, per-
personally, and his party, were expected . and
intended to profit. He allowed them to commit
the mischief when he might have stopped tildrn.
He wag )ike a man witnessing a felony by which
he was to ha anfiaed, who, when it is foundout,
exclaims, " I am perfeetiy irmocent ; why should
you expect me to prevent another man irtiarii thipviog
for my Adva.ntage ?" The- No-Popery cry and ' the
• demand to re-conquer 'lreland, have turned out
injurious to the Right Hon. Baronet, and now the
Ines blames the Whigs for having braid he ought
to t►ave ioterfered and atopped the mischief. He
has, as I36.T.lNGttapicE once said of the Whigs,
made a fire to roast the Catholics, that he might
get into office, and burnt himself. He ghola have
put out the fire when he had an opportunity. Mt.
O'CONNELL'S speech, which wo yesterday quoted,
proves that it is now too late,

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REPRESENTATION OF BIRMINGHAM-
A Mr. ALLEN has taken the field on the Con.
servative-Reform interest. So the gentleman's
creed is enlarged to catch as many votes as pos-
sible. He is not to recommend the breaking
down the Constitution, but he will not hear of
finality. The law of nature, he says, histtuels
us, and that law says, that men shall get their
bread by the sweat of their brow, but he makes an
exception for Lords. He preaebee.absolute and
positive resistance to those laws which say, like thy:
Corn-law, though he does not include that law
amongst those which ought to be resisted, " Starve,
die, the law demands it of you." Mr. ALT,F;rI does
not like the New Poor-law, and he thinks, with Mr.
OASTLER, that it tilq he resisted ; but he likes
the Corn•law, and is therefore' for upholding it.
1-fr preaches resistance or submission as imt?
fancies die joy is for his interest. The Poor-
law may not provldc. wilisf for all in distress, it
kills none—the Corn-law kitij it thousands
and its • tens of thousands ; and this -(3on:
serve tigg Reformer, • being a barrister to
1111 boot, pretiehae resistance to the Poor-law,
and patient submission t& the Corn-law. The
gen of Birmingham will, we are fiura, have none of
him ; old se b,t! tie not fee'd by the Carlton Club to
provoke» at4!„.7;..,.e a. little ill blood in 13ir-
ii a splitgiam,heis wasting his G4,144i,c1.bis eloquence
pursuit.

Great excitement irs-2 been created in Holland by
the unusual opposition of di, Members of the Se-
cola; Chamber of the Statcs•General to the gnaw.
cis! Drojeeta of the Government. King WILLIAM,
whose horror •and hatred of revolutions is well
known throughout Europe, must fancy himself in
the midst of one, as he contemplates the sudden
change which has PtkPr) place in the opinions of
the " High and Mighty Lox4§" who compose the
majority in the Second Chamber 4)( tbt2 States-
General. On the 19th instant they rejected by AT,
large majority a Bill for a loan of fifty-six millions
of florins, though the Pittance Minister declared
beforehand that the Bill was essseritiili to the main-
tenance of the national credit, and that it§ lusa
would dissolve the Cabinet. When the Bill wag
thrown out Ministers adjourned the further meet-
ing of the Second Chamber till the 21st, in order
to afford time for cool reflection upon the COP§e-
quences of the condemnatory vote, and to prepare
the Members for the orderly discussion of the
Budget. When the Chamber met on the 21st, the
Budget was brought forward, and along with it
another loan Bill for the comparatively small sum
of fifteen mil:ions seven hundred and forty two
thousand florins. Immediately the Chamber be-
came a scene of uproar, such as was never witne,,,eed
before at the Sittings of the grave and taciturn' Le-
gislators of Holland. Not only the Bill but. the
Budget also, were thrown out by the unanimous
vote of the whole Chamber, the Finance Minister
only excepted. So extraordinary a circumstance
could not fail to make a deep impression upon the
public mind of a people so unaccustomed to witness
anything like regular Parliamentary opposition to
the Government as the Dutch. Every person
asked what would the Government do, and every
real lover of his country dreaded mischief from the
inveterate.obstinacy of the KING. Some attributed
the double vote of the Second Chamber to dislike

of the rumoured marriage of the ICING with the
COUIItcSSIYOULTRENIONT, raid to have been cele-
bratecity proxy at Rome ; but, we believe, the main.
reasntr can be traced to the financial difficulties under
which Holland is labouring, and to disapproba-
tion of the KING'S conduct with respect to the
Settlement of the Belgian question. King WIL-
L.t.A.,-Nes mulish stubbornness has already cost Hol-
land upwards of four hundred millions of florins—
for that country. would
.not: now have been in debt
to' the amount of a single stiver had her SOVE-
REIGN permeably acquiesced nine year ago in the.
decision ,of the Cabinets of London and Paris,
resFreetint The independence- of Belgium. But to
whatever cause the throwing out of the Budget is
attributable,, the fact proves that the KING is nei-
ther so.p.opular, out of doors, nor so influential in
the. Lower,. Chamber, as he was :at 'any pre-
vious period during his reign. Though the odium
id preparing the two rejected Bills is verbally cast
uptin the Finance Minister by Dutch politicians,
they all know right well that the KING himself
.was the Teal author and prompter of them: It was
at,the KING too that the blow of their rejection was
aimed. What its consequences may be we pretend
not exactly to foresee, but it has, created a great
ferment at the Hague.

. 'We. have' already noticed the late attack in the
nines upon our Right Reverend friend, Old
Tpsy.l 4Tory Bishop in the gripe of the Times
is, however, so rare and interesting a spectacle, that
we cannot paSs 'it. lightly over. We shall, there-
fore, cull, for the recreation of our readers at this
. a
merry season, few of the flowers which our Con-
temporary:scatters about him in dealing with the
eefebiated .• Charge,' and also with the conduct of
its no less celebrated' author. PHtLPOTTS is a
great stickler for discipline and due subordination
among the Clergy : bow does he like to find. himself
subjected to the lash which he lays' so 'vigorously
on the backs of those ,over whom he is placed
in authoriiy ? The following passage must, we
think, come, home to his conscience, if he keep.
such a. thing :—:..
It is a singular mode of producing discipline in the
Church now pursued by the Bishop of Exeter—namely,
. to rouse it's thembers against their head,.. and Co call upon
them for aid in the promotion of his views, and in
obtaining the'Paising of his own Bill, in preference to
that. of the Archbishop Of Canterbury, sanctioned
other Bishops also, senior to Pr. Phillpotts on the bench,
and of no small. distinction for learning and talents. And
this breach of good order is the more striking arid offen-
sive, because on the very day on which the Primate of
all England has announced his intention of presenting
his Bill to the House of Lords' for enfOrcing. church
discipline—yes, on that, very day has the Bishop of
Exeter announced his determination to Offer his own
bill to their Lordships. by which that of his superior is
to be -ousted.' and.' defeated. " I," says the Bishop of
Exeter, in his address to his Clergy, " at the same time
submit to you the. heads of a Bill which I wish to present.
• to.Parlionont pi! Me day on which the.other {the Arch-
bishop's) sbripl by piraiciila, after it §hall have received
such impi:ovament as may be smgestc-il cjiJter by you;
or by any others of the clergy, who shall think fit to
give me the benet of their judgMent on this very im-
portant subject."
Pqr PPI. this course," 'says the Bishop of Exeter,
" doubt cct 04 he paiip4 ap nuitetor Ibeit so
have lived long enough not to be much moved by bar
words: &c." It is .not the appellation, my Lord, but
the qualities which it designates, at which you ought to
.qh(l4cr.,

For what 014 TM 1Y 444 44 4 .ord of Parlia-
ment, he is, we apprehend, not responsible to any
ecclesiastical superior, but when he " agitates"
4iPon.g his Clergy, against .his Archbishop, when
he gpes 4490 the-§Ce(ls pf rebellion in the
Church, mid acinall7 calls qpim heaps? Arphdeq,
coils,* Rectors, Vicars, and Curates to furnish him
with weapons wherewith to fight the Primate of
all England, we really think it is " too bad," and
agree with the- e9tering op( golemn pro-
test aganfit:sitCh contemol:44ligtiities
defiance. of order.

- The next' reproof administered to Old TOBY is
,(fir Bl;aiij►ing. 0 right to open and shut the gates of
Heaven and Hell just as he pleases. This sup-
-posed right is called " the Power of the Keys,"
and, rests, as the writer in the Times shows, on the
mixunder'standing of a texthaving reference to a
custom among the Jews of delivering a key to the
doctors or teachers of the law as a symbol of their
office, which was,to open or interpret the Scrip-
tures.

• This point being settled, we find the Right Rev.
Prelate rather irreverently charged with being as much
inclined to bambOozle his juniors as to bully his
4kilitir.S, It is plainly stated of him, that while he
rises into nlntemptuous practical insubordina-
tion against his superiors and seniors on the- bench,
he attempts to bailie a junior Bishop with wire-
woven, long drawn, hollow sophistry." The
Christian graces and dove-like innocence of the
epi4AOp4lO)4F4c;;PT Are finely shadowed forth in the
ithertion ti)4 lee (TquYi " 1Y994-1 4Pg.Ef4r And ruin,
and that in the hild‘it Af Simpers 41)4 smile's, while
others are content with the more dilatory process
of pdirippishing, reproving, perhaps reforming."
After soine sewere R.na jt.4t remarks on the un-
blushing.nepotism of the Bishops, in the course of
which allusion is made to. a Right Reverend
Father, on, a boy at Eton, has lately been
appointed Registrar of his father's diocese, the
writer proceeds to tickle Old TOBY on his dogma-
qt,lT.)? his infallibility, his presumption, his learning,
and his pamphlet:ill .after the following fashion :
To pass to another topic cf the flishopls Charge, Be-
sides the usual subjects of such publications, it contains
if strict dogmatical theology. Does the Bishop possess
;tisei Yirtao of that divine influence secretly instilled
into him when pot tipett the by the Minister who
now regrets the act, the power of deciding infallibly
upon matters of this nature—on primitive tradition, for
example. Surely the doctrine would have been better
consigned to a sei arute treatise, if his Lordship be com-
petent to I,vorks of that nature, than introduced into a
cyclical addkvs,, iNk4 at the past occupations
and engagements of Dr. Philpott's life, and PCIP'4I,4CfS the
studies really necessary for attaining a proper knowledge
the most obscure points of Church histor, must be
4wkwe that *ere are clergymen in his diocese more
competekt than himopft- geliyer a judgment upon the
of what are caii6d the Oxford tocts, Are such
men to be concluded by his decision, or to be silenced,
if they choose to speak, by his prohibition ? Absurd !
" Do they rmernhpr," he says, " or do they know,
that no. private cab, ii4Opyi preinimption,
pronounce any opinion to be heresy 6htil the ehlireli
shall have solemnly declared it such ?" flow many
minions of the Church of Rome, and even of Pro-
testant bizscntersi. IFirrow and Hooker pronounce
to be heretical, witiPil OtP ONO?. Ft' }2e7
longed had never solemnly tied:4%4obn spelt 1 Was it
" sinful presumption" in those great men in private sta-
!lops to come to such a conclusion in the way of argu-
ment? Besides, bow is the Church to speak but by its
members', And wit ingueppc corm ensrotttn With
the character of mil; 444 9t. his WQl* for learning and
prudence ? There is no COCIVOCatiMi; no wcumenic
council, nor ever likely to be.
/40 4n Op subject of "sinful presumption," is there
nothing Pf this h4ality in a private Bishop—one of
twenty-sig-,.-isbo 4ets h roof(' 4t w;r, and openly heats
up for recruits in the Church against his Archbishop ?
,kVho denounces a measure of the Primate of all Eng-•
Pd as calculated to produce the destruction of the
Chu-J.(41,4f he would in that case be the unworthy
head? Who gives that Primate notice that hp will fight
him on the boards of the House of Peers on the first
day of Session now at hand ? And if he dares to pre-
gent his Bill again, he will beard him on that very day,
and in that wppy Rlap.p with an " mtrow horum P" with
a Bill of his own; far preferable til that of the Arch-
bishop ? Is there no " sinful presumption'' in all this ?
Aye, that is just what we want to know ? But
we 'Jni44t.lia4to.l IQ the conclusion, and that, we
assure our readers, is neither 6' lame nor impotent."
Here it is I Old TOBY compared to 13oNNER
" The chpreh,". says this castigator of Bishops,
ff will hAye pen nothing like such disorder within
her ()alp as is iIQW mewed hffe, wince the time
that Bonner Worried Crannier to oleath.'!

Christmas-day being observed as a solemn Sat?
batical festival in all Catholic countries, very fell' of
the Paris journals were published on Tfiursday.
We have, however, received the Commerce, the
Nalional, and the'Constit4tionnel of that date, the
latter of which announces the receint of hiPhlv