The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONnoN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, IS-37

terrible destruction prepared for it by the authors of
the Gunpowder Plot. Yesterday we doubted the
accuracy of the information which represented Lords
Mulrave and Morpeth as resolved to make th;s di: ect
and daring attack upon the established religion of the
country, in defience of the law, and in contempt of the
Queen's ordinance, as head of the Church, ordaining

Show, we politicians may indulo:e in the most favour-
able anticipations of the future. There is sarnething-
equally delicate and agreeable in the compliment paid
by our Contemporary to the z,2alowly Protestant party
in these kingdoms, by his allusion to Queen Eliza-
beth as thee" great prototype of our Queen Victoria."
May our amiable young Sovereign ever follow the
example of her illustrious predecessor, in solemnly
maintaining the national Protestant faith, and proudly
repelling every covert attempt or open attack
upon our national glory. May she ever be as tho-
roughly English, in all her sentiments regarding
' public affairs, as was the great Queen Elizabeth
Our Contemporary says, that provided Thursday be
a fine day, " he shall almost regret that compa-
ratively modern refinement and invention have afforded
facilities of conveyance unknown to the great proto-
type of our Queen." " Elizabeth," continues our
Contemporary, " made her visits to her faithful citi-
zens on horseback. Her Great Chamberlain and

the reading on the sth of November of the prayers
and thanksgivings especially drawn up for that day,
according to the provisions of a statute of Parliament.
The royal ordinance which enjoins the use of the ser-
vice applicable to the anniversary of the Gunpowder
Plot is solemnly republished on every new accession to
the throne, and is, we believe, the first act of state
the Sovereign performs. On the accession of William
IV., which took place upon the 26th June, the
royal ordinance enjoining the printing and publishing,
with the Book of Common Prayer, and the use in
our places of divine worship, of the service in question,
as well as the several services appointed for the 30th
of Jannaiy, the 29th of May, and the day of the King's
accession, was dated the 28th of June, two days after
the accession, and bore the signature of " R. Peel,"
then Secretary of State for the Home Department. The
ordinance to the same effect issued by her most gracious
Majesty Victoria, bears date June 21, the next (lay
after the accession, and is signed " by her Majesty's
command, John Russell." This is the royal ordi-
nance which has been contemptuously violated by her
Majesty's Government in Ireland, supposing that Go-
vernment adhered to its previously published resolu-
tion, to prevent the reading on Sunday last of the
service appointed to be used upon that day. We
supposing the Government adhered to its prevems
resolution, because, up to the moment we write this,
sufficient time has not elapsed for any Dublin cor-
respondent to inform us of the fact. When the ar icle
of the Dublin Mail was written there was still a temps
penitentite, of which the Irish Government, for aught we
yet know, may have availed itself. We hope it did.
If not, and Ministers do not forthwith recall Lords
Mulgrave and Morpeth from the Government of
Ireland, the Whig Cabinet must be taken to have com-
manded what, in that case, they will have approved, so
that we must look upon the ordinance of the Viceroy of
Ireland repealing the ordinance of the Queen of England
as signed " John Russell," in like manner as the one
it repeals. Thus " Lord John" will be in the situa-
tion of a man or a Minister in conflict with himself.
In England, a Protestant Minister, signing a Protestant
ordinance, to celebrate a day of Protestant thanksgiv-
ing for a great national deliverance—in Ireland, a Popish
Minister, signing or approving a Popish ordinance
prohibiting a Protestant thanksgiving for a signal act
of Divine mercy, extended to the Throne, the Church,
and the people of this Protestant empire I This is a
double identity, which Sir Boyle Roche himself might
envy. But Lord John has a " knack that way,"
which he has displayed on several occasions, more
especially in his two-fold capacity of Whig panegyrist
ai.d Whig denouncer of the rotten-borough system.
In the extract which we have copied from the Dublin
paper, the resignation of Dr. Elrington, one of the
Lord-Lieutenant's Chaplains, in consequence of the
illegal order, is also mentioned. It appears Dr.
Elrington, who is a Senior Fellow of Trinity College,
and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of
Dublin, was to have preached in the Castle Chapel
on Sunday, and feeling himself bound, as a notes-
tent minister, to advert to the day and the service ap-
propriate to it, informed the Dean of the Chapel
thereof, rightly suspecting that his intended allu-
sions to the great conspiracy of Garnet and his fellow
Jesuits for the extinction of the Protestant faith within
these realms, would not be very palatable to a govern-
ment of which a Manale is a spiritual patron, and an
O'Connell an imperious adviser. The character and
attainments of Dr. Elrington entitle him to great re-
spect, and his resignation proves, at least, his since-
rity ; but we cannot help thinking there was an excess
of candour in his apprising the Irish Government be-
forehind of his intention to do that which he felt it his
duty to do, as a minister of the Established Chinch,
upon so important and solemn an occasion. The first
statement of what took place in this matter led us to
believe that the Irish Government, previously to any
announcement of his intention by Dr. Elrington, had
issued an ordinance prohibiting the reading of that
part of the service the statute of James I. and the
Queen's mandate ordered to be read. And even then
we thought him wrong in resigning without putting
the promulgators of the illegal edict to the awkward
alternative of either enforcing it by compulsory pro-
cess or abandoning it altogether. But the great
question is—Did Lord iVlulgrave and his Secretary
practicing abolish the Queen's ordinance, and the
Act of the Legislature upon whiCh it was founded,
enjoining the solemn observance of the anniversary
of the Gunpowder Plot, according to the form of
prayer and thanksgiving published in the " Book of
Common Prayer ?" If that question must be an-
swered in the affirmative, it will be the duty of Par-
liament to take care that Lord Mulgrave's exercise of
the dispensing power over statutes of the realm and
legal ordinances be not drawn into a precedent in the
reign of her gracious Majesty Victoria, who owes
her title to the throne to the two great acts of national
deliverance by which Providence" in its mercy saved
this kingdom from the dark machinations and blood-
thirsty designs of Romish tyranny. The exercise of
the dispensing power was the chief offence which cost
James 11. the Crown. It was against the exercise
of that arbitrary and unconstitutional power—the
foundation of his whole scheme of tyranny—that the
sainted champions of England's religion and liberties
—the immortal Seven Bishops—so manfully struggled
until that national spirit was aroused which restored
the altars of the faith and the ark of the Constitution
amid the rejoicings of a bloodless victory ! One of the
great pillars of the Constitution is the Bill of Rights.
Upon it is engraven the canon which forbids the exer-
cise of the tyrant's dispensing power to all future
times. Shall that canon be violated now with impu-
nity ?—Morning Herald.
Unlike the Sunday roisterer, whose silly party viru-
lence we noticed yesterday, our Contemporary, the
Morning Chronicle, is quite amiable on the subject
of the civic festival of next Thursday. Our Contem-
porary hopes that political discord will be allowed to
slumber on the occasion, and breathes a benevolent
aspiration that " the example may operate beneficially
for the future, and the rancour of faction be banished
from the temperate deliberations of the councils of the
nation." It would, indeed, be a delightful thing if the
amenities of Guildhall should extend themselves to the
deliberations of the two Houses of Parliament, and
Noble Lords and Honourable Gentlement should carry
on their political disputes as pleasantly as they hob-
nob over their wine. We fear, however, that such a
result as this is rather too much to hope for from the
gala of Thursday next, however glorious it may be.
There is sometinog in good cheer which softens po-
litical asperities ; and, independently of this, it is
hardly to be expected that the cordial sympathy of the
Tories with Ministerial efforts, when their object is to
please the Queen, will continue to exist when the ob-
ject is to please Mr. O'Connell. But we must do the
Chronicle the justice to say, that but for a slip into
its old habits towards the end of its peace-inviting ar-
ticle of yesterday, the spirit in which it dilates upon
the approaching display is much to be commended.
As it is possible that all our readers have not the ad-
vantage of reading the Chronicle also, we propose to
give them the pleasure of knowing what that Minis-
terial journal has said upon the all-absorbing topic,
and how it has been said. Our Contemporary makes
his bow in the geutcelest manner, and hopes
however,s Thurs-
dayis next will be a very fine day.
(hale with the gravity suitable to a leading journal,
the language used is more elevated' than that of
ordinary discourse. The Chronicle " earnestly trusts
that the weather will be propitious."
So do we, .
with all our hearts, and thus, for once, upon a sub-
ject of very deep interest, we quite agree with our
political adversary. We do hope that Thursday
will be a very nice sunshiny day—nay
throughoutexpec t it, for, o r
all, as
its t
ph ou
lusgelst, the
responsiveatm osp atmosphere emore, we
the itself
earnest beat
wishes of the Loyal British people in general,
and the Loyal Morning Chronicle in particular, we
find the barometer steadily rising. Millions of co-
lumns of quicksilver are ascending in harmony with
the hopes of her Majesty's. subjects, and so
are
as the national glory and prosperity of Euglaud
dependent upon the success of the Lord Mayor's

Lord Steward led her gorgeously-caparisoned palfrey
Her Master of the Horse held her golden stirrup,"
&c. &c. &c. This almost " regret" for the substitute
of " modern facilities" for the feudal manners of our
ancestors, is another compliment to our party from
the Morning chronicle, which is the more ac-
ceptable, as the less expected. We had half
feared, from the organs of a Whig Radical Minis-
try, some proposition for whisking the Queen's
carriage along a temporary railroad from Pall-
mall to Cheapside, or the substitution of a loco-
motive steam-engine, for the eight cream-coloured
horses. We were afraid that this plan would have
been hit upon as a proper tribute to the " enlighten-
ment" of the coal districts, whereof we remember
that the Chronicle said or sung some very extraordinary
heroics in the course of last summer. We beg leave
to say that we sensibly feel the kind consideration of
our Contemporary in preferring, for the approaching
festival, the slow grandeur of the olden time to the
whiz-whiz-puff-puff-hurry-away mode of procedure
which finds such favour in the sight of modern Radical-
ism. The following intelligence regarding the proceed-
ings of Thursday we give in our Contemporary's
words, without comment, being unwilling by any
addition of ours to mar the effect of the exceedingly
simple, natural, beautiful, and not at all exaggerated
illustration by which her Majesty is brought—as it
were in advance—before the eyes of all readers:—
" Our Queen will necessarily be in a close carriage, but,
like the enchanted lady in the chrystal cabinet of the fairy
tale, she will be visible on every side."
Our readers must not suppose that the Mornina
Chronicle condescended to put forth a leading article
merely to discuss the Lord Mayor's show and the
Queen's procession through the streets. They are
already aware that some political allusions were in-
dulged in, and there are more before the article comes
to an end. Indeed, our Contemporary's effusion may
be characterised by reversing the terms of the old-
fashioned description of the month of March. It
comes in like a lamb, and goes out like a lion. It
marches off with an ungracious roar about Tory fac-
tion. Let us not, however, think of this, but rather
communicate the important information contained in
the following extract :
" The present advisers of the Crown are desirous of
doing nothing hastily, nothing rashly, but something effec-
tually, and there can be no folly, no fatuity, no absurdity
so great as to imagine that they are more disposed to de-
stroy, or even to endanger the ancient institutions of the
country, than those who honestly, but mistakenly, call them-
selves Conservatives. In the best sense of the word Minis-
ters are Conservatives ; they would be idiots were they
otherwise, and the gOod sense of this enlightened nation
revolts at the assertion that those who are now put in trust
and guard over public affairs, and the security of whose
families and property depends upon the secure and success-
ful conduct of those affairs, are engaged in a deliberate
conspiracy to produce that very condition which is to over-
whelm all in general and undisguishing ruin."
All this is very plausible, and we are glad that the
morning journal of the Administration finds it politic
to take this tone. But there is nothing better than
plausibility in the above extract. We freely acquit the
Whigs of any deliberate intention to produce that
which would be attended with loss and harm to
themselves. They are not the kind of men to har-
bour any such intention. They rely upon the Con-
servatives for preventing the ruin which would indeed
fall upon them from the success of the policy they
advocate, and while they thus rely, they snake com-
mon cause in public with the Revolutionists, be-
cause they require the aid of revolutionists to retain
their places. Ministers would indeed be idiots if they
were not Conservatives in their hearts. We believe
they are so, and that they rejoice in the success of the
Conservative party against the revolutionary schemes
which they themselves from " the necessities of their
position" have supported. It is very well to say that
Ministers are not disposed to destroy or to injure the
ancient institutions of the country. We dare say
they are not so disposed, if they could keep their
places without doing anything of the kind. We
know, hoWever, (from his own declaration) that Mr.
O'Connell is disposed utterly to uproot and destroy
the Protestant Church Establishment in Ireland. We
know also that the chief ally of the Ministers—the
man necessary to their official existence—is this very
Mr. O'Connell. Knowing these things, can we be-
lieve—whatever our respect may be for the statements
of the Morning Chronicle—that there is no danger to
the ancient institutions of the country from the policy
of the present Ministers ?—ilforning Post.

The large apartment over Temple-bar has long been
occupied by the house of Child and Co., the bankers, as a
depository for their old books. Many of those will, of
course, be removed to enable their friends to see the pro-
session on the day of the Royal festival. The Earl of
Jersey, the Countess (who is a partner in the banking-house)
and their family arc expected on that occasion from Mid-
dleton-park.

Friday last, Mr. Gillon, met the Board by
appointment, when a long and deeply-interesting conver-
sation took place on the various important subjects which
at. present agitate the public mind as bearing on the rights
and liberties of Scottish Dissenters. Of these, the endow-
ment question necessarily occupied the most prominent
place. The national grants for educational purposes—the
bids for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages—
the Bible monopoly—and the University Bill, were also
considered. The meeting was adjourned for a few days,
previous to coming to any resolutions ; but it seemed to
be the general feeling that a memorial or memorials should
be presented to the Government on certain of these sul;-
jects ; and that it would he inexpedient to call upon the
pubic at present to come forward by petitions to the Le-
gislature. That it would soon be accessary to make a
% igorous and united stand for the,yights of Dissenters was
not doubted, and that in every locality the means should be
'organised for operation, whenever the proper time arrived ;
but it was considered that the movement should be deferred
until the intentions of Ministers were better known. The
thanks of the Board were voted by acclammation to Mr.
Gillon for his readiness in meeting the Board, as well as for
his past services in the cause of Dissenters, which is the
cause of civil and religious liberty to all men.—Glasgow
A gus. . . _

.•
FORTUNATE BEGGARS.—There arc various in-
s'ances on record of London street beggars having amassed
fortunes, varying from 1,5001. to 1,000/. In one or two
very rare instances they have been still more fortunate.
Some years ago a woman, who had stood with a broom in
her band for about a quarter of a century, in the neighbour-
hood of Charing-cross, died worth 2,000/. She got the
name of " the banker" among the fraternity, because she
was in the habit of lending small sums to others at an enor-
mous rate of interest. She sometimes also lent consider-
able sums to tradesmen, but never unless she received an
exorbitant rate of interest. It was proved by a bill found
in her possmion, after her death, that she had lent one
tradesman in Westminster 50/. for three months, but at the
monstrous interest of 50 pr cent, per annum. But the
mo3t extraordinary instance of good fortune in this way
was exhibited in the case of a man, a black, who for nearly
thirty years swept another crossing at Charing-cross. He
actually saved in that time by his profession 8,000/., that
sum being found at his death in the wretched hovel in
which he vegetated, so that none of it could have been the
proceeds of interest on stock. Another woman, who for
many years swept a crossing in the Kent-road, left at her
death 1,500/. to a clerk in the Bank of England, simply be-
cause he was in the habit of giving her a penny more fre-
quently than any other passer-by she knew.—Sketches in
London. _ _

HIGH CHURCHMEN AND THE WESLEYAN ME-
THODISTS.—The following is an extract from the will of
the Rev. James Holmes, rector of Coleborne, and perpetual
curate of Compton Abdale, Gloucestershire :—" I exclude
my nephew, Hugh Hamilton, and his two sisters, they being
infected with the worst species of that impious and dc-
testable heresy, Methodism." The will has just been proved
in Doctors' Commons,—illanchester Paper•