The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TILL" PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The agitation occasioned in Paris by the trial of
the .gx.:stnia ter* is now happily terminated, but
has been followed by a display of those angry dis-
antidotal In political parties, and a development of
those! plans ,of opposing faction, which probably
created the whole of the danger in the lute di.-
turbancee, though they did not appear on the sur-
face of the tumult. The arena of contest and alarm
has been transferred from the streets and public
places to the Legielative Chambers and the Council
of the King; And the parties are not the National
Guard and the rabble, but the Ministers and the
Deputies of France,—the supporters of the system
intended to check the progress of the revolution;
and the partisans of that which desires to see it
proceed with its present momentum, till it has
realized all the consequences of its principle,'--
the sovereignty of the people. These parties
during the late troubles were pressed into one
mass by the fear of a common danger, for
they all felt that anarchy was a common enemy,
that order was as necessary as liberty, mid
that an infuriated mob, yelling for blood, watt a
disgraceful and perilous instrument of reform in any
hands. But the formidable character of the late
tumults, and the means taken to quell them, have
widened their previous differences, and rendered a
aisle in the Cabinet or the Chamber almost inevitable.
The National Guard had not laid aside their uni•
forM, and the mobs had not dispersed, when the
party oppoeed to Ministers demanded explanations
on the conduct of Government during, the riots.
Insinuations were thrown out that the disturbances
on the 18th and 19th of October had not been pro-
perly inquired into, and complaints were made that
no striking example had been made of the agitators.
It was likewise insinuated that secret societies bud

been at work, avid that the Prefect of Police was too
friendly to institutions of which he bad been a
Member: In answer to these charges, M. Lath.,
the President of the Council, and some of
the other Ministers, declared that they had
done their utmost for the preservation and res-
toration of order,—that numerous arrests bad
taken place, and that the disturbers would
be handed over to the proper tribunals. But there
was one tact on which they did not satisfy the party
in the Chamber who instituted the inquiry, and that
fact was of extreme importance in the present state
of the capital end of France. While General La-
fayette was issuing his orders of the day, the stu-
dents of the different schools, to the amount of se-
veral thousand', thought of trying their hand at an
flames to their fellow-citizens as well as the Ge-
neral. They therefore issued two, one with the leave
and by the authority of the Prefect of the Seine, M.
Odillon Barrot, and another which was placarded on
their own responsibility alone. The latter declared
to the mob, as a motive for their dispersion, that the
King, General Lafayette, M. Odillon parrot, and
Dupont de ligure, had engaged to make important
concessions to liberty, if the pence of the capita)
were protected, and the apprehended crisis averted.
M. Letitia: denied the authenticity of this proclama-
tion, and promised that its authors should be prose-
cuted for sticking it on the walls without permission
from the police. This explanation was not satisfue-
tory at the time, nor did it appear correct in the
sequel. Whether the ardent yoeths of the schools
had received the solemn pledge alluded to, or whe-
ther they, in their sanguine temperament, had mis-
construed general expressions into positive promises,
may admit of doubt, but- it ie certain that they had
sent a deputation to the palace; it is certain that
that deputation saw the King, in the presence of his
Ministers; and it is equally certain that after this
interview they proceeded with renewed real and
fidelity to suppress the tumult, or resist the rioters
along with the National Guard. It must likewise
'be admitted that before the interview the students
were believed, however erroneously, by the leaders
of the insurgeni gangs to be friendly to their cause,
for the)ntter bad proceeded to their different
*cboois, expecting to fraternize with them. The
ditturbers, however, were repulsed, and the
young men remained faithful to the cause of
order, " ieterposing," as they called it, " be-
tween the King and the people, to protect
the former against the violence of the latter."—
Notwithstanding these appearances the convelition
itaid'te have been made between the students mal-
t!). Government, foe purchesing their neutrality or
sillitabeti by political enticeseion, may be a fiction;
bait the striking and .tiliploreble act of weakness
'cannot be denied,—that on the motion of the Peirce
Missistervthose turbulent and factiotis youths spe-
cially received the thanks of the Chamber of Dere.
tieetiong with the National Guard and the troops
the line,--a flattering vote which they indig-
nantly rejected, because ins their opinion the Cham-
ber did not represent the feelings or speak the voice
of France ! Thus the King, whom they call Mar
elected Chief, has exulted by his peculiar notice, and
the Chamber las flattered by its highest honours,
en unrecognized body of young men, too much die-
-.posed before to engage in factious tumults, but now
almost authorized to deliberate on public affairs, and
to throw their weight into the political scale on any
balanced contest. Suppose that in tine electoral
Isw which was to have been presented on Monday
to the Chamber, they did not find those " large con-
- anions" which they insist had been promised them,

and suppose the agitators could again collect the
workmen of the feuxhourgs to create riot and
anarchy, would not these enthusiastic radicals
think themselves .entitled to realize their demo-
cratic doctrines by joining the mob, instead of
again sending their deputation with offers of assist-
ante to the Palais Royal ? Nothing could be more
fatal to the cause of order and the steady action of
Government, than for power to form such an al,
lioness, Or traffic with suck, auxiliaries. The Cham-
ber Of Deputies is now their object of attack, and a
speedy dissolution is their clamorous demand.—
In endeavouring to bring about such a result, they
will be joined by the minority in the Chamber itself,
represented by the names which they employed in
their Proclamation as the friends of " large con-
cessions to our Republican Monarchy." The ma-
jority, which is disposed to hang a drag OH the
rapid movement of the republican party, is
scarcely supported by any part of the Press,
ek id is not likely long to withstand the ahoek,
The reeigrostion of the post of Commander-
in.Chief of the Nationel Guard by General
Lafayette will be ascribed to their jealousy
of his merits, and the immense addition which
he has just made to his popularity, by saving
the capital from pillage and massacre, will redound
to their greater odium. The Ministry belongs to
the left or extreme left, and are favourable to the
more extended basis of 'moult'r rights claimed by
the mass of the people. They. are, therefore, op-
posed by the majority, and would be out-voted but
for relit of a dissolution. The majority exists in the
centresond has hitherto resisted violent changes.—
Shoold they succeed in their motion for an inquiry
into the state of the country, and pass a censure ore
the Ministry, or should they resist the democratic
tendency of the law of election about to te
duced, the Cabinet will have no alternative but to
resign, or to order a dissolution without having ob-
'mined it budget or settled the necessary forms and
ionditions under which the new Chamber is to be

chogen. Serb is the present state of parties u
Fraore,—such in the yosteble tenure of power anti

popularity among public men after a revolution.-,--
About *ix months ego, the majority of the present
Chamber were considered the champion* of liberty,
and almost the idols of the people. They made a
citizen' King, ,whern General Lafayette called his
" hest are/robbers," and liberaFzed the Charter be.
lend *you
_the fondest hope* of the Liberals under
the newton. dynasty. Now they are so discredited
with the multitude, that the. lads of the Polytechnic
Scheel protest *pion ,the imputation of their thatikAt.
" he ruse they speak not die voice Of France."
Within the fast five menthe, the King has, bad tsco
Cabinets-4 first, very lam al, has been displaced
br sns still more liberal ;
411- complaints ate trietle,
quill" thy, sieund for not being liberal enough. The

tumult of October 18 terminated the existence of the
former, and the disturbances or Ihst week threaten
the stahility of the present. Let us hope that the
Ministers will slid* more firmness than they have
done of late ; that, secure now by glorious experience
of the faithful support of the National Guard, they
will reply in a firmer tone to the clamours of fac-
tion, and that the majority of the Chamber of
Deputies, seeing at once the necessity and the
dangers of an appeal to the country in its present
cxcited state, if they throw obstacles in the way of
reasonable measures, will cooperate with the Ad-
ministration, rather than encounter such an alterna-
tive by opposing it.—Times.

Our attention has been called to A Letter to the

King, by a Country Curate. The writer, after
some vague declamation respecting the benefits con-
ferred by the kstablished Church upon the country,
informs his. readers that it is nevertheless gradually
sinking; and assigns the inadequate remuneration of
the stipendiary curates as the principal cause of its
decline, In confirmation of this opinion, he states
the number of curates in the several dioceses to be
4,254, of whom 3,600 are licensed. lie further
states that' six receive under 201.; .59 under 301.;
173 under 401.; 441 under 501.; 892 under GUI.

per annum, anti so on; but he is guilty of two ma-
terial omissions—he does not state the value of the
benefices in which the stipends are so small; nor
does he state how many of the licensed curates hold

two curacies. For though he affirms that his own
case—that of a curate entrusted with the care of

1,400 souls, and receiving a stipend of 50L—is the
case of thousands (he had already stated the whole
number of curates to be 4,524), we believe it to be u
case of very rare occurrence. In the majority of in-
stances in which the curate's stipend is only 504, we
believe that the population falls short of 300, and that
he in consequence holds the curacy of another parish,
of which the population also falls short of 300, and fur
the duty of which he also receives 50/. Now,
though we sincerely wish that every parish could
have its resident minister, we do nut greatly object
to the union of two contiguous parishes, the joint
population of which does not exceed 600 souls,
under one curate. We are far from under-rating
the services of the stipendiary curates; we heartily
wish that their remuneration was greater than it is
but we cannot allow that they are that neglected
body of men which the " Country Curate" repre-
sents
them to be. Their condition' hten been greatly
improved since the passing of the Consolidated Act :
no one whe remembers what were the stipends of
curates forty, nay, thirty years ago, will venture to
affirm the contrary. Their si►uation is, in fact, pre-
ferable to that of the holders of small benefices. We
know a county in which the value of at least one-
fourth of the benefices falls below 1301. a-year.—
Now we confidently assert that a curate worth 1001.
a-year (there are 500 such curates, according to the
statement in the letter) would be a loser by ex-
changing his curacy for such a benefice. The
" Country Curate" states his own case to be

without remedy ; yet undoubtedly it is in his
diocesan's power to raise his stipend to 751.
a very inadequate remuneration, we admit, but
bearing a high ratio to the whole value of
the benefice, 130/. The letter writer proceeds—
" How very seldom do we hear of a pious
and hard-working Curate, even though his life has

been a pattern of exemplary conduct and rigid self-
denial, being rewarded by preferment, and how ad-
dom is it ever bestowed on these who do nor pos-
seas either political claims, interest, or purchase-
money." There is unhappily too 'ouch truth in
'this statement, yet it should be remembered that
more than one-half of the parochial benefices are
in the gift of laymen; and so long as advowsone
and next presentations are bought and sold, we fear
that the possessors of purchase•money will stand
the best chance of preferment. As, however, the
world does not expect in laymen any deep sense of ,
the obligations attaching to the possession of pa-
tronage, it does not scrutinize very severely the
manner in which they dispose of their preferment;
but with respect to the preferment in the gift of the
Crown, and still more of the Bishops and other cc-
clesiasticul patrons, the case is different. That
the world regards as peculiatly destined fur
the reward of professional merit, and when
it is bestowed on unworthy objects, from 'cor-
rupt, and selfish, and • interested motives, the
outcry against the base betrayers of their
sacred trust is as loud as it is just. If, as the
letter-writer affirms, the Established Church has
sunk in public estimation, how large a share of its
unpopularity dues it owe to the disgusting nepo-
tism of a Tomline or a Sparks;! The remedy sug-
gested in the letter for the evil of which the writer
complains, is the abolition of pluralities. This, in
the. present state of the revenues of the chureh, is
imposisible, but they may be regulated. Let no
clergyman hold more than two parochial beneficee ;
nor let two be held together, unless the value of one
of them is under two' hundred pounds per annum ;
aud let every such pluralist be required to divide his
residence equally between the two benefices. The
most effectual remedy of non-residence will be to
compel all impropriators, lay as well as ecclesias-
tical, to fulfil the condition on which the impro-
priution was originally granted-r-to make an
adequate provision for the maintenance of a resident
Vicar. We would nut, with Lord King, abolish
Deaneries and Prebends, but we would regulate and
apply them to their legitimate use—the encourage-
ment of professional learning. None buo., a fanatic
will uflirrn, that without learning the cause of re,
ligion can be successfully defended against the scep-
tic; or that of the Established Church against
the impugners of its doctrine and discipline. But
it rarely happens that the parochial clergy can col-
lect the requisite stores of theological knowledge ;
their time is too much engrossed by the active duties
of the Ministry, not to mention that the practice of
addressing mixed congregations is not favourable to
the acquisition of tho,e habits of close Rod accurate
reasoning which are necessary to the skilful manage-
ment of controversy. A preacher, for the most part,
is more solicitous respecting the effect likely to be
produced on his audience titan the correctness of his
argument. The Church, therefore, must command
the services of learned men, who may labour in the
closet, while the " working clergy," as is the fashion
to term them, are labouring in the parish. Of
Bishoprics we shall only at present say, that some
mode must be devised of eettitag rid of the *vandal
of translat►ons and commendams ; or, if translations
are allowed, it shot►ld only be in the case of Bishops
wino,•having toiled long in the more laborious dio-
ceses, may justly claim a removal to less arduous
situatioas, with it view, not to advancement, but re-
pose.—Times.

.Those honourable and moat considerate members
of the 44. collective wisdom" of the nation who wish
to engage the present Government in prosecu-
tions against the Press, by the way of putting
down the distuthances which are the inevitable and
not unforeseen result °film impoverished and debased
condition of the labouring classes, have not taken
any hostile notice of the most inflammatory produc-
tion
that has issued from the great and dreaded
engine of illumination in modern times ;-4 produc
tion, however, which Ministers are not likely to pro-
secute, inasmuch as they have themselves been ac-
cessories, before the fact, to its publication. Need
we Hanle the " Pension List," in which every poor
man " who rises early and lies down lute, and eats
the bread of carefuluess"—that is, if he can get any
laced to eat at all,-finds that a large.portion of the
taxation which keeps him in degrading indigence
goes to feed and pamper hordes of splendid paupers
—the relations, dependents, followers, and syeo.•
phants of the great and noble of the land, who hi.
boor not at all, and who receive, in glittering idle-
ness, the fruits of the poor mates industry? To
those mendicant partakers of the bounty which they
•do not contribute to earn no stigma of pauperism
attaches—ut least in their own eyes—if we may
judge by the aristocratic names in which many of

them rejoice, and the rank And opulence to Wide,'
they are allied. This arises, perhaps, from such
pauperism not being accompanied by any of
the " outward and visible sire Which mark