The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1P39.

disclaimer before his eyes, does the Bishop of
EXETER quote another man's opinion as mine."

If ever there was a " disclaimer," we think this is
one, but it seems the Marquis of LANSDOWNE
is not, even after this, to be allowed to say that
Mr. SYNfONS disclaimed the opinions imputed to
him by the pious and ingenuous Bishop I
The shuffling and unprincipled conduct of this
devout High Priest is disgusting every body. Even
the Morning Post, whose stomach, God knows,
is none of the most squeamish, when the faults of
a Bishop are to he bolted, can stand it no longer.
On Saturday last our Contemporary deals out the
following tribute of respect to the Right Reverend
Father in God :

" There are many persons of serious habits," it
says, " and of sound principle, who regard with no
slight measure of distastefulness and regret, the h ot,
hasty zeal of the Bishop of EXETER, which seems
to them to be often marred by his Lordship's incau-
tion, and often disfigured, on the other hand, by an
ultra cleverness which makes calm simplicity
ashamed."
Here is a bit of a tickler for old Toby.

We noticed in our Journal of Monday the great
similarity of the conduct of the Priests, whatever
Church they belong to, all over the world. Every-
where they are, as BERENGER says of them,
stifling knowledge and kindling strife." Of the
identity of their proceedings we shall now lay another
proof before our readers. The Rev. Mr. GREGG
and his followers have lately ascribed the increase
of vice and crime to the countenance given by the
State to Roman Catholicism. Now, see how
exactly his doctrine is echoed by a Roman Catholic
Bishop
" The Bishop of Modena," says the Commerce, " has
published a pastoral letter upon the recent inundations of
the Po, which, it appears, had erroneously been ascribed
to the melting of the snow in the Alps, for the Prelate
unhesitatingly asserts that they are a scourge sent by
heaven to punish Italy for having suffered the intro-
duction into the country of iniquitous doctrines, and of
an innumerable quantity of pernicious writings of all
sorts, and the propagation of the principles of the
Satanic school of the Seine, the rationalism of the aorta
and the ravings of phrenology."

At the Bishop's ravings every Protestan I will
laugh, and every Roman Catholic will laugh at the
denunciations of Mr. GREGG. We agree ',with
both in laughing each at the other ; and hope our
readers will agree with us in finding in the mutual
denunciations of these Rev. Gentlemen evidence of
the same kind of priestcraft in both. Both from
precisely the same motive use the same kind of
language. Priestcraft is unaltered, and has been
the same in all ages, attempting, by threats of the
Unseen and the Unknown, to subdue the aspiring
but timid spirit of man to its own purposes. The
Bishop of MODENA and Mr. GREGG equally
seek to terrify their followers from examining or
adopting any other doctrines than theirs, by threats
of great and alarming evils. Fortunately, they
neutralize each other, which seems their only use.

We have received a file of the Bombay Gazette
to the Bth of October inclusive. The news brought
by these Journals is of local rather than of Euro-
pean interest. We learn from them, with great
regret, that heavy charges have been preferred
against General Sir J. KEANE for the cool-blooded
slaughter of a number of prisoners taken in action
during the siege of Ghuznee. It is not stated that
Sir JOHN directly ordered the unfortunate prisoners
to he shot, but that he permitted SHAH SOOJAH-
00L-MOOLK to put them to death for fighting,
against their Sovereign I Were this statement cor-
rect, which we trust it is not, we should hold Sir
JOHN KEANE as morally guilty of the death of
these men as if he personally superintended their
execution. To charge the SHAH with the crime,
in the presence of a British Commander in
whose hands he was a mere
,puppet, would
be preposterous. But whether this story be
true or false, and it is impossible that it
should long continue doubtful, it appears that
the restored SHAH is distinguishing the com-
mencement of his new reign by the most atrocious
acts of cruelty against the adherents of KAM RAM•
Putting out eyes, cutting off noses, and slitting of
lips, are the daily occupations of his Ministers of
Justice.

The new Rajah of SATTARAH is stated to have
been so " gloriously drunk " on the morning of his
installation, that he was carried from his camp to
his Palace on a board on the shoulders of four of
his loyal subjects, hiccuping all the way his grati-
tude to the British Government for making him a
Sovereign.
We find no news in these Journals from China
of a later date than the accounts received eight
days ago in London.

There was a rumour that Sir JOHN KEANE
had resigned the command of the army of the
Indus.

We regret to announce the following melancholy
event, which we give in the following extract from the
Ceylon Herald :
"We have this day the painful duty of announcing
the death of Mr. Justice Stoddart, which melancholy
event took place last night at his residence at Marandhan."

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CHOLERA.—(From a Correspondent travelling.)—At
Mobullab, near Sbolapore, we regret to hear that the
cholera rages to that extent that the nurnber,of deaths
have of late averaged frorn4oo to 500 daily.—lbid.

JOUDPORE LEGION —We have letters from Nusseer-
abad announcing that the town of Pallee in Marwar
was taken possession of on the morning of the 27th ult.
by the.Joudpore Legion, consisting of a regiment of
infantry, one of cavalry, and two guns, under the com-
mand of Captain Mailing, and the Beawr corps, under
the command of Captain Dixon. No resistance was
offered, although the enemy had ten guns and six or
seven hundred men in the town. Mertal also fell on
the same day to the 72d and 22d Regiments of N. 1.,
with two squadrons of the 9th Cavalry and Light Field
Battery, and Pindwarrah was about to be taken by
Major Forster's Brigade. The Light Detachment from
Nusseerabad, the Joudpore Legion, Beawr corps, and
Major Forster's Brigade, were to push on immediately
in advance to Joudpore. Lutchmun Sing is reported to
have tied from Joudpore.—Cakutta Englishman,
Sept. 17._.

ferent brewers, are heavy, the importations having been
unprecedentedly large. Prices we need hardly observe
are without improvement, and range from Rs. 30 to
Rs. 47 per hhd., which latter price is only obtainable
for Allsop's.
BRANDY AND GlN.—The supplies of both having
been moderate, prices have been maintained at from
Rs. 2 6 to Rs. 2 S for the former, and Rs. 2 1 to
Rs. 2 for the latter per old gallon.
WlNES.—Stocks of Madeira, Sherry, &c. are large,
and the market for them heavy, while consumption
seems to be rather falling off than extending. Fine
Port is scarce but the consumption of it is very small.