The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-04 00:00:00

that it is trot a gond thing to be able to help themtelves to
the property of their neighbours, when their own pockets
are empty. We care not what extension be given to the
euirrage peovideeteinty an efficient controul be given to the
mast of owners of property over dime who have the ex-
penditure of the public Money.—Atorning chronicle.
Ia our Mailborough-street Police Report will be found
a long list of persons, brought up to that ()Meerut account
of dietsirliances on Tuesday night. The antipathy ofseve-
riff of thena.to the New Police is natural enough, for they
are pickpockets. Others are chiefly of that description of
persona abounding in every metropolis, to whom a row fs
seldom unwelcome., The New Police is an innovation,
and we need not remark that no extensive change ever
took place in any country or city without opposition. All
different Parish Beards of the Metropolis lost, by the
New Police, an extensive source of patronage—they ere
naturally dissatisfied. Ali those citizens who indulge
somewhat freely of an evening in wines or strong liquors,
are displeased that any check should be put on the ens..
cise of their lungs.. They do not find the police so acces-
sible to pecuniary compensation for outrages as the old
'watchmen, and am indignant at passing a night in con-
finement. The rate-payers in the metropolis are often
exceedingly poor, and it is a matter of indifference to them
whether the Nice be good or bad, but not of indifference
that their rates are increased. The only tangible °limier'
that we have heard against the New Police be that they
are more costly than the old watchmen. The outcry
against tham, in interested quarters has been loud.; but
it is correctly appreciated by all reflecting persons. It it
tot, horeever, to be wondered at, after 'the numerous
meetings which heve been held, and the inflammatory pla-
cards which have been exhibited train time to time, that
an impression should have been made among the least ra-
tional of the community. The assemblages, after all,
however, were really, in themselves, quite contemptible.
It as,' hots, ever, the duty of all *who wish that em handle,
should tie given to the enemies of improvement, to set
theme elves against this senseless exhibition, which tends to
bring all popular opinion into discredit.--Morn, Citconicie,
As nothing can. be more injurious to the welfare discs.
cloy than a popular contempt for religion, en them are no
public evils which more urgently call for reform thtii those
which tend to diminish the veneration of the people for re-
ligietet institutions. It is the peculiar and distinguishing.
etraracteristic of Chtiatianity, in its pureand unadulterated
.Xtate, that it makes itself intelligible to the simplest under-
standing, while it caunnaude the admiration of the most
enlightened ; but it has also been the fate of this divine
system of revealed truth, under various forms of erclesias•
tint geyernutent„ to be mixed- up with corruptions and
abuses, which have a, greet effect in disfiguring its moral
beauty, and impairing the living energy of its influence on
the heart mid actions of man.. We. respect the Church of
England as one of the purest end most rational forms of
Christianity; but, while we admire its principles, we-can.
not entertain unqualified respect for its practice. There
is much in the government of the Church which compro.
mists the purity and impairs the usefulness of its agency in
the moral world, We will confine ourselves at present to
one of those abuses, of which a recent and most remarkable
instance hal occurred, which has given cause of just
complaint among persons.. mast devoted to the doc-
trines nf the Church, and has even been made the
subject of remonstrance to the Throne. We allude
to pluralities, or the holding, by one Clergyman, of more
than one living to which the " cure of souls" is attached.
These pluralities are frequently held under circumstances
which preclude the physical possibility of the monopolis-
ing Clergyman being able to attend to the duties of inure
than one clerical appointment. It is true there are sunny
rectories in England, the emoluments attached to which,
if enjoyed separately, would not afford a decent maiute-
mince to a Clergyman. This proves the necessity, not of
having pluralists in the Church, but making a more equal
distribution of the Wealth with which it is so amply en-
dowel If there are many living., the emoluments of
which are too small, so there are many others, the ciao-
laments of which are ton large. If the former do not afford
a sufficient remuneration to the labourer in the vineyard,
the latter over pay the exertions of a Christian Priest, anti
serve to substitute indolence, vanity, and worldly ambi-
tion-, for the meek and beneficent virtues of the pastoral
character. But it is not so much of the practice of putting
livings of small value together, to aftbrd a respectable main.
tomes to a Clergymen, of Which we complain. We do,
indeed, coitaider it a vital defect in the -government of the
Church to allow of oi:entities at all ; but our remarka at
present are more especially directed against that species of
plurality which deriver no e*csmsa palliation from the
small value of each preferment, taken separately, but con.
sista, malhe contrary,_ In heaping one rich bete:flee upon
another, to serve some political or private purport*, or to
gratify the cupidity and ambition of the object of sod,
mischievous and disgraceful patronage. The resent in-
stance of an abuse of this nature, to which we have alluded
and which, though in legal anti political accordance with
the practice of the Church of England, is a scandal to our
religion, is that which relates to the holding plat opulent
living of Stanhope, in the county of Durham, in conjunc.
lion with the Bishopric of Exeter. It appears that living
is in itself worth 4,000/. per annum, so that, in a pecu-
niary point of view, it is of more value. than some
Bishoprics ; and it is this opulent benefice, which is 80
remote from the See of Exeter, that Dr. Phillpotts is to
hold conjointly with that See, though it is clear that if he
attends, as lie ought to do, to the spiritual demands of the
one appointment, he cannot, by any possibility, perform
the duties of the other. We my, that such a fact as this
Se a crying instance of the necessity of a reforni in
the Church ; and with equal: confidence we affirm that
the time is fast approaching when to deny the reform of
this and other abuse* trill endanger the existence of the
Church itself.' We' are glad Om then inhabitants of the
parish Of Ictanhopii.have come' forward to reroonstrete w ith
the Crown on the grievous abuse of ecclesiastical patronage.
A community who pay so largely for a religious instructor
are surely entitled to the services of a resident pastor !
With great reason do they submit to his Majesty, as head
of the Church, the utter impossibility of a Bishop in De-
vonshire having ability to discharge bis duties in Durham;
tightly do they declare the cure of souls to he. a duty of
eternal moment, which satinet be delegated without awful
responsibility, which cannot be sacrificed to present tumid-
derationa without fearful daring of future account. His
Illejesty will do well to look iota thin matter.. As supreme
head of the Church of England, its purity and efficiency
ought intimately to concern him ; anti both its purity and
efficiency must suffer from such an ekercise of patronage
as disposes of Church preferment in 'compliance with the
grasping avidity of worldls-minded Clergymen, and not
with soy reference to the interests of religion, Can we
wencher that, among the ignorant classes, wire judge more
by example than doctrine, scepticism and irreligion in-
crease, when they observe that the guardians and Restore
of the Church itself too often disclaims, by their practice,
the morality of the Gospel ?-21foraing Herold.

The opinions whieb we "estpreeset yesterday of. Ant
Speech put into his Majesty's mouth by his Majesty's
Ministers, turns nut to be that of more than three-fourths
of those tvho have perused and 'considered it. The "tate-
men* respecting'the intentions of the Government towerdi
the usurper of the throne of Portugal, is eentidered, as in
juitice it ought, ra very pitiful-piece' of "policY. While the
very ambiguous announcement respecting the Netherlands,
has led to .anticipations 'Of an ultimate *or in the settle-
ment of its affairs. The hinds fell Imitre that one per
ornt,,---a tolerable tett of the piddle feeling—awl the ex-
+dentition. *era loud its all iteartertragainet the ambiguote,
Linguae itnployeil by the Noble Premier ern the sub-
ject. 'Nothing, indeed, eould have' been :Inoue im-
politic, or more uncoiled; toe," than the laugliate'rtio.
played in the King's Speech 'Oespectind, the 'foreign relit.
tinny of the country. The recognition of the Xing of
. • •
France was fart which, it was only accessary to an;
flounce, without erepleying the langute either of 'appro-
bation mi oe di
pprobation ; hut' why • language
it trim,
the Belgic revolittion,''hy designating tile antliors of the
latter as " revolted sulijectSr' fled net 'the "peoPle of
Belgium as much right to rise 'against- their 'rule,* 45i
the people of I/ranee, and have they hot eqUally suc-
ceeded oVerthroyeing their+ ? Was out the supte.
rnaey of the` House of °lenge 'imposed upon the Pet.;
glens, not only tenant their Consent, but contrary to
their will ? And did not the *aid Itraeut of Or ;Inge,
by its' attempts An' shaeltle the pregs, it persecution.
of its coriductors, arid general tyrannical conduct,
deservi to• be treated as it bait hon.? But above
all, what ' benefit en. the country derive from
denouncing the Belgians Ito " revolted subjects," and
.tri•
terferitie,.by negotiation or Otherwise, in tlw oettlement 'or
their oftdre? The separation of the two comitriea" is 'no
doubt ngtlevancerto those Who thought they could parcel
out the people and 'territories of Etlrope, at they could
disjoin and rejoin a 'p-oiteboard map, and Wile now find
that, for the lake of a
„fete, the *fungi/ not bend
tsmely to inch-cavalier ' conduct hut we have already
ellftgaMtlUred tit drove, ail we are still of the sittne opinion,
that the said miOtraitino would benefit, not injure, this
country, in a commercial point of view -'
aril, further, that
thtre is TK, treaty 14C11.14tettl.m by 'which wc are IttlUnd to
interfesence. ifow thei 44004, to rush hem:Hong
into a line of 'Wiley' neither 411,,4 roe by tie- 'good
faith or intereote of the ciounty, and the intiodtte restsith
of Which it is intposs.ildl its forete,,?. Equally so'be blamed.
it the rash deouneiatiott by tfie Dtthe of Wellington at
every stbetrie habitats:any lleform. MO' conetry
oinlYificed that the Ptriod fiat arrived whet). but only such