The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-30 00:00:00

(ADVERTISEMENT.)
NEW TRANSLATION of the BIBLE.

" Queen Elizabeth dying March 24, 1602, was succeeded
by James the 6th, King of Scotland, as next heir to
the Crown, and of the Queen's nomination. Accordingly
no sooner was the new King come up to London to take
possession of the Crown, but an humble petition of the
Ministers of the Church of England, as they styled them-
selves, was presented to his Majesty, desiring reforthation
of certain ceremonies and abuses of the Church. In the
preamble to the petition, they told his Majesty that they,
to the number of more than 1,000 of his Majesty's sub-
jects and ministers, all groaning as under a common bur-
den of rites and ceremonies, did with joint consent humble
themselves at his Majesty's feet to be eased and relieved in
this behalf, and that their humble suit to his Majesty was,
that of the offences following., some might ba removed, some
amended, and some qualified. These offences were, Ist,
in the Church Service ; end, Church Ministers ; 3rd,
Church Livings and Maintenance ; 4th, Church Disci-
pline : in all which they complained of many abuses and
corruptions.' "
The King who was resolved to follow the example of other
Christian Princes, who, in the commencement of their
reigns, usually took the first course for the establishing of
the Church both for doctrine and polity, issued out his
proclamations, whereby he appointed several Bishops and
Deans, together with the Principals of those who had pre-
sented this petition to the King, to attend on him at
his palace of Hampton-court, on January 12,1603, there to
confer with his Majesty about these abuses and corruptions
of which he had received such complaints."
" On the second day of this conference, Dr. Reynolds,
who was the foreman and speaker of the Puritans, moved
his Majesty that there might be a new translation of the
Bible, because, as he said, those which were allowed in
the reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward the VI., were cor-
rupt, and not answerable to the truth of the originall,"
page 310.
A Complete History cf the !zeveral Translations of the
Holy Bible and Testament, into English, both in MS. and
in Print, and of the most remarkable editions of them since
the invention of printing, by John Lew is, A.M., Chaplain
to the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Malten, and Minister
of Margate, in Kent, 17;19.
" He, who by a diligent and faithful el: ruination of the
original records, dismisses from the system one article which
contradicts the apprehension, the experience, or the rea-
soning of mankind, does more towards recommending the
behef, and with the belief, the influence of ChriAianit3-
ro the understandings and consciences of serious inquirers,
and through them to universal reception and authority,
than can be effected by a thousand contenders for creeds
and ordinances of human establishment."—Dedicated to
Dr. Law.
Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, by Arch-
deacon Paley.
" By the sun alone of the Church,' as Jerome observes,
all the streams or rivulets of error can be dried up.' To
ascertain the existence of this Church, for the inn lel, signs

and tongues may be necessary ; for a Christian, the grac
of his baptism, and the creed witic!l he has learned at his
mother's breast, is quite sufficient."
The Pastoral Letter of the late Dr. Doyle to the Ca-
tholic clergy of Carlow, 1825.
" With respect to the authority of great names, it should
be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight
or influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior
to the particular and predominant error of his ou'o time 3,
who, like the peak of Tenerife, has hailed the intellectual
sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common
minds ; who, standing like Socrates on the apex of wisdom,
has removed from his eyes all flm of earthly dross, and has
foresen a purer law, a nobler system, a brighter order of
thiegs ; in short, a promised land."—Lacon.
Published in 1818 and 1819, Parts I. and I 1., price 245.
0- ch, dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the
iiiee of Wales, as Regent—" The New Translation of
the Holy Bible, containing the "Three Books of the Penta-
teuch, Genesis, Exodus, Le‘iticu:, and reoonciling the
aserepaneics in Jerome's and the European Versions."
Part rir , 1821, containieg from Numhers to Dente-

ronomy.
1.),,rt iv., in 18'25, cont,tioin2.: from Joshua, c. I, to I
c. XIII. v. 5.
.1.),1rt v., in 18'31, containinz fr )U I S unuel P. mu. V. 6,
to I L Kings, c. xvn. v. I I.

Partvr., in 183-1, containing from 11. Kings, c. xvii. v.

12, to Job xviii. v. 21.
Part vit., in 1835, conta:ning from Job, c. xvtit. v. 2'2,
to I:.salms,
Anti-Deist, in aniwer to the publication caked the
" I.):!ist,4 eontlining also a refutation of the erroneous opi-
nioa3 held forth in " '['he Age or Reasoa," and in a recent
plUcation, entitled" Researches on Ancient Kingdoms,"
1819.

Tile True Age of Christ at the Crucifixion, not 33,
but 52:i years.
Biblical Criticisms in each quarterly part, in the years
1810-1.1,-12,-13,-14,-15,-16, and 17, of the Classical
journals, containing a variety of Classical, Biblical and
Oriental Literature—By John Bellamy.
Subsidiary Authorities in support of " The example of
ether Christian Princes.",
Specimen of emendations to be introduced in part VIII.
Received version, chap. 6,. v. 5," I am black, but comely,
0 ye Daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedan, as
the hangings of the curtains of Solomon."
Neither in this verse, nor Isiah, chap. 42, v. 11, is the
word " Kedar"—" mourning"—translated.
New translation—" I am the dawning light, as the corn-
- panum of peace, when the habitation of the daughters of
Jerusalem is as the tabernacles of Mourning."—See Clas-
sical Journal, Number 39, for June 1817.
Essay for a new Translation of the Bible, 1727.
" Surely the elevated patronage which this new transla-
tion has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general
example and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many
acknowledged errors, descend to posterity polluted with all
those errors ; or shall it be transmitted to the latest gene-
rations of mankind, with as much of its original purity as
it is possible for human sagacity, knowledge, and diligence
to elucidate and confirm ?"—The Sun, Monday, November
1818.
‘‘ Mr. Bellamy, therefore, disdains to baptise errors, con-
tradictions, and absurdities, by the name of sacred. His
study is to remove them, and make the Old Testament in
Hebrew speak as it was written, neither to add to, nor di-
minish from, a vowel point in it. It ought to be known for
what it truly is, to show the power and grace of the Al-
mighty in his theocracy, to the end of that final redemp-
tion and salvation which Christianity promises."—The Sun,
Saturday, Dec. 5, 1818.
Reasons in favour of a New Translation of the Holy
Scriptures, by the late Sir James Bland Burgess, Bart.,
1819.
" Mr. Bellamy's endeavours have had for their object
the manifestation of the unimpeachable character and at-
tributes of the great Jehovah, and the inviolable purity of
the Hebrew text. Every Christian will wish success to
such labours, and every Hebrew scholar will examine if
they deserve it." * * 4 " Mr. Bellamy has met with
patronage in the very highest quarter—a patronage liberal
in every sense of the word, and as honourable to the patron
as the author. His alterations, I admit, are extremely nu-
merous, important, and consequential, but they are sup-
ported by a mass of erudition, authority, and argument,
that does indeed demand our most serious attention, and
many, in common with myself, will lament that they have
drank at the stream more freely than at the fountain."—
Lacon, C. C. Colton.
" I content myself with submitting the grand point on
which any difference of opinion on Joshua x. 12, 13, can
exist to the generality of your readers, and leave them to
determine for themselves whether it be easier to understand
a verse which states, that when Joshua commanded, in
the sight of Israel, the sun was setting on Gibeon, whilst
the moon was rising on the valley of Ajalon,' or a transla-
tion which asserts, that the same chieftain said, in the
sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou
Moon in the valley of Ajalon.' "—Yarchi.
No. 200, 930, and No. 12, New Series of " The Monthly
Repository and Review of Theology and General Litera-
ture," December, 1827.
Joshua x. 12, 13, was previously given in No. 60 of the
" Classical Journal," and promulgated in the " Liverpool
Advertiser," " Durham Chronicle," and " Norwich Mer-
cury, in 1825.
To the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Your Lordship,
In a paragraph you penned, having promulgated an ar-
dent hope that our country should be
the halcyon ground
On which holy peace be found,"

prompts us to become your auxiliaries, to give it effect and
perpetuity.
If, on the slight premises set forth, one Sovereign should
deem it expedient, for a people's welfare, here and here-
after, to act to that extent, it may now be maintained,
without fear of contradiction, that a similar proceeding is
imperative. In this our day, " our translation" is not im-
pugned (taking the various denominations from Sir Robert
Peel's eulogy of his friends) by " Unitarians," " Indepen-
dents," the " Wesleyan Methoditts," or " the Roman
Catholics"—to which might be added the

SI P,

lyterir.n sour,

Or sharp free-thinker, all things in an hour."
Either who sink the honour of God amidst the offal or
their hue•and-cry of " Church Service," " Church Minis-
ters." " Church Maintenance," " Church Rates," &c., or
y 1.1 ose " whose objf.'ct is no longer confined to insidious
nci di;guised attacks on the Church of Christ, hut has
manifested itself in that cpcn and determined hostty to it
h ch, in the paroxysms of their enthusiasm, they have

promised themselves will terminate in its total destruction:
* # " I feel myself justified in &uar •
ding against what appears to me to be the conse-
quences, naturally, and evidently resulting from
that heterogeneous association of religious professors, for
the advancement of an object of at least questionable ex-
pediency, in the Bible being regarded as the general test-
book of authority for all opinions, as containing, if we may
so say, a sort of raw material, which every professor, in the
liberal spirit of the day, is left to work up and fashion to
his own peculiar taste ; as if by a strange transposition of
the sacred language, diversity of opinion, not " unity of
spirit," was to become "the bond of peace (a).
‘‘ Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good
book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed
and treasured up on purposes of a life beyond life. It is
true no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps there is no
great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the
loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations
fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what perse-
cution we raise against the labours of men stored up in
books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus coin•
mitted—sometimes a martyrdom—and if it extend to the
whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execu-
tion ends not in the slaying of elemental life, but strikes at
the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself,
slays an immortality rather than a life." (b)
The " translation" is impugned by an erudite linguist,
who,

" Diving out of sight,
Has brought many a precious pearl of truth to light."
r. * 7 * * w 5
" The sacred book no longer suffers wrong,
Bound in the fetters of an unknown tongue."
Vide the Examiner, Sunday, Nov. 3, 18, and 22;
Aug. 2G, and Sept. 2, 1827.
The priest and prince were contemporaneous. The
priest well knew that " the fiat of the Almighty" had gone
forth, that "the knowledge of Him should cover the earth
as the waters the sea ;" and yet impiously promulgated his
nipping blast ; and without the recording angel as it was
to it, down dropt a tear upon the deed, in his verbiage upon
poor Protestants' opacity—" in hell he lifts his eyes."
The prince magliiinimously gave " his countenance" and
his purse--he " hailed the intellectual sun before its beams
had reached the horizon of common minds ;" neither on his
head, heart, or hands lay the damning. sin of " a kind of
massacre, where in the execution ends not in the slaying of
an elemental Efe, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence,
the breath of reason itself ; slays an immortality rather.
than a life."

The aspirations of her people are—that the dawning
(jubilee) and claw of tae reign of our youthful Queen may
be like the illustrious Elizabeth, and that she may be the
polar-star and beacon by which the " pride of our isles"
may glide safely amidst the shoals and quicksands of
Government.

" Not ocly do we owe to the happy Reformltion all the
domestic advantag-s by wl:ich we are distinguished above
other States, but it is also to the Reformation we are in-
debted for our present political consequence and territorial
grundeur." cf * * " Then sprung up the mighty
Eiir doeth, and mingling her existence as a Sovereign with
the preservation of the true
.filith, lishing herself to
maimna,t of Refnrmation ; on th:_t vessel she securely
rode the storm, and established the indep:.ndence of her
kingdom."

There were several reviews on the new Translators' pro-
duction of the Pentateuch. Here again the munificence of
our Sov,:yreign's truly august uncle was so conspicuous—his
graci6;:s ccu:nn,lnd fur 50 copies ! and so stifled .dl further
opposition, that the subsequent parts published in 1825,
1831, 1834, and 1835—t0 these there has been that tacit
concurrence, we are justified in saying " the silence of the
Clergy has given consent."
Into )our hands we corn:Lit the " talents," Matt. xxv. 20,
conjointly with his Grace the Duke of Wellington (who
has oft, and with bosom beating for his country, is still ready)
" To plant his furm on the line that justice draws,
And prevail or ocrish in her cause '•"
Aryl the Must Noble the Marquis Camden—no " cut
purse of our cmpire"—it will add repute to the honourable
name you bear ; it may ensure your salvation hereafter, for
it is writt,u), " No man having put his hind to the plough,
and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of heaven." Luke
ix.

Two disput,lnts against your administration have seve-
ralty advoeat,d the cause we have so cogently urged, and
so respectfully submitted to you. Tae Inn, in its bril-
liant panegylic of th...! renowned Rizabeth, in her " preser-
vation of the true faith"---again " we call upon our consti-
tutional countrymen * * to bestir themselves.
a!sure them that an empire is at stake :"(c) stimu-
lating your Lordship to the glorious reform of" reformation
itself." The Herald—" There are indeed among different
classes of Conservatives various shades of opinions as to
particular measures of legislation, but all agree that " or-
ganic changes" ought to he resisted, and every measure of
improvement and reform framed, with a careful view
to the preservation of the essential principles of cur ancient
and unrivalled ConstitutionV)—our object is the strictest
adherence, 111 letter and line, to its landmarks.

We have the pleasure of bringing under your perusal a
paragraph which might mingle with the most splendid ora-
tions of antiquity, and which we hope will be recognii.cd
with satisfaction :—" May the diffusion of knowledge, the
increase of religion and morality, and the augmented hap-
piness of the people, make the present reign more glorious
than triumphs in the field have rendered those that preceded
it, and peace have her victories no less renowned than
war. "*

We have the honour to remain,
Your Lordships'
Alost obedient humble servants,
CONSTITUTIONALISTS.

(n) The late Archdeacon Ihubeny's Discourses.
(b) Areopajetica ; Milton.
(c) The Times, October, 1825, and Weduesday, Sep-
tember 27, 1837.
(d) The Morning Herald, Monday, Sept. IS, 1837.
* Lord John Russell's Address to the Electors of the Bo-
rough of Stroud.
Longman, Sherwood, Neely, and Co., London.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday Susan Atkins, a young woman with an infant
in her arms, attended at this office, to complain against the
parish authorities of St. Pancras, for having discharged her
from the workhouse, and refusing to grant her any relief.
Keys, the overseer, attended on the part of the parish.
The complainant was formerly a servant at the Cobham
Arms Inn, Buckingham, where she became acquainted with
a man named Atkins, who paid his addresses to her, repre-
senting himself. as a single man and a farmer. They were
ultimately married, and lived together ; and she had three
children by him, when he deserted her and came to London,
where she traced him and followed him. On her arrival,
being in great distress, she applied to the parish, and she
was subsequently admitted into St. Pancras workhouse.
Atkins was sought after, and traced to have married a
young woman named Grafton, residing at Islington, and
that his first wife was then living. He was apprehended
and underwent several examinations at this office, when he
was fully committed for trial, and was convicted at the late
Sessions at the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to
seven years' transportation.

Since his conviction she had received an intimation
from the parish officers that she could no longer be re-
tained in the workhouse, and she was discharged with her
children, and, having no friends in London, she sought
refuge in the house of Mrs. Richmond, of 32, Brewers-
street, Somers-town, who is sister to Atkins, and who ren-
dered her and her children every assistance ; but not being
so circumstanced as to continue her services, she was com-
pelled to apply to the magistrates of this office, to whom
she explained her case, and they caused the present pro-
ceeding. The parish officers held that she ought to be
passed to her settlement at Leamington, preparatory to
which they wanted her to sign a written document, stating
that she was an unmarried woman, with three children,
which she refused to accede to.
Mr. LAING thought she was perfectly right in refusing
to sign such a document ; and he is a magistrate could not
think of compelling her to such an act, as it would be
equal to proclaiming herself as a prostitute, and her chil-
dren bastards. He asked the complainant if she was not
encumbered with the children could she do anything for
herself? He believed she was a cook.

She replied in the affirmative, and id that she had been
offered a situation at eighteen guineas a year, besides per-
quisites.
Mr. LAING said that Edwards, the officer, had been sent
to Buckingham to collect particulars of the examination of
her husband, and that she bore an unexceptionable cha
meter.
Mr. LAING and Mr. BENNETT strongly reprobated the
conduct of the parish authorities, and suggeste;l that Keys
should return and remonstrate with them for their conduct
on this particular occasion, and to go immediately, and the
woman could remain in the office till he returned.
Keys could not go immediately, for he had to go to Mid-
dleton-street, and she should go on to the workhouse.
Mr. BENNETT-Why not go to the workhouse first, and
Middleton-street afterwards `?
Keys—l thought it would
save me the trouble of walking back.
Mr. BENNETT—Oh!

The complainant said that the child in her arms was
very sick, and had taken two powders that morning, and it
was dangerous to have it cut in the cold air.
Mr. LAING—The sooner the- matter is arranged the
better ; for if anything happens to that infant who would
be to blame ? I think the verdict of a Coroner's Jury
would not be very creditable to the parish authorities of
St. Pancras.

The complainant then left the office to proceed to the

orkbouse, wl,ere Keys promised to meet her, to put into
effect the Magistrate's humane intentions, and every body
present seemed to sympathise with the unfortunate woman,
whose appearance was respectable, but who appeared to be
in ayery distressed state of mind. _

Yesterday two respectable housekeepers offered them-
selves as bail for Mrs. Daly, who was charged with bigamy,
and were accepted in the sum of 100/. each, for her appear-
ance on Wednesday next, to answer the charge, and she
was liberated.