The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Although it is, of course, much more agreeable to
have to deal with a fair and honest antagonist, how-
ever determined, still it is of some advantage to be
sure that an adversary is of an opposite character, and
that nothing like straight-forwardness and candour are
to be expected at his hands. At least we know how
to treat the latter, and of this description is the Times.
It gave a new proof of its character yesterday in an
article it put forth against the Bishop of Norwich,
founded upon two addresses by his Lordship, one de-
livered at a meeting of the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, at Walsingham, six weeks ago,
and the other before the Norfolk and Norwich Auxi-
liary Bible Society, to which no date is assigned.
Where these documents have been since treasured up,
and through what precise channel they originally found
their way to the public we are not informed t why they
have now been reproduced from the file of some country
newspaper (its name and political complexion are not
stated) is sufficiently obvious. It seems, according to the
Times, that they were sent to it by a correspondent who
this time subscribes himself '° A Layman," but ho has
peviously figured in its columns under different signa-
ures, though always with " intellectual power" and
" zeal for the dignity and character of the Church."
The Times has a remarkable facility in finding " corres-
pondents" when it has occesion to introduce anything
which it may not find it convenient to bring forward
in its editorial capacity. In this instance the Times
compliments the " Layman," and the " Layman"
compliments the Times, and there is a very natural
reciprocity in their admiration. The article of our
Contemporary is as flippant and conceited as need be,
and it is, moreover, not only most unfair and tricky,
but it asserts what is positively untrue. The two-fold
accusation is that the Bishop of Norwich in one speech
called himself " a geologist," and in both made an
allusion to, and drew an illustration from, the cele-
brated well of St. Winifred. The Times and
its correspondent, in their mutual " zeal for the
dignity and character of the Church," may have a
reasonable horror of all mention of the virtuous
Winifred, because she was a Popish saint ; bUt why
they should so strenuouedv object to a bishop because
he couples divinity and geology (the one, as Pro-
f..esor Buckland has shown, so materially aiding and
elucidating the other) we cannot comprehend. But
let us advert to the terms in which this charge is
made in the Times. " lie (tile Bishop of Norwich)
told the meeting," says our Contemporary, " nothing
else about himself than in one short sentence that he
had devoted his time and labours to a particular branch

of study. Aprors to. Bibles,' (pod: the Right Rev.
Pr:late, my department is geolcvy.' Now, would
net any person, not atquainted with Dr. Stanley,
suppose that the Tiines was here voting his very
words ? Would they not ima...aine, from the above
sentence, that the Bishop of Norwich, by some strange
accident, had actually been guilty of the indecorum
of speaking, of the Bible so:newhat lightly and irre-
verently in co:tncetion with the science of -eology

" Apropos to 8ib:,..5," qu)th t'ic Ri4ht ILv. Prelate,
"my (depart:nela is gcolo:y." Let us see, then, what
It: did say, taking the ieport supplied from a nameless
source by our Contemporary :
" 1 might mention numerous highly beneficial effects de-
rived from the Bible Society, but I will satisfy myself with
the relation cf one more peculiarly within my own depart-
ment, for lam a geole.ist: In reading one of those perio-
dical geological works I met with as satisfactory an anec-
dote, I think, for the distribution of the Bible as we can
Iva desire. In one of the cod-mines in Newcastle an ac-
cident occurred brain the breaking in of the waters, by
which thirty-five mon and forty-one boys were buried beneath
the soil. Escape was impossible ; there they died from
suffocation, or otherwise of starvation. fine of these boys
was afterwards found with a Bible placed by his side. Yes,
a Wh!e was found by the side of that dead child ; and upon
the tin plate of a can which the people in the mine were
accustomed to use, it was found be had written with the
point of a rusty nail A fa .v words to hiA mother, telling her
that he still posses:,cd Ins Bible ; that it was his consolation
there ; that they were singing hymns with death before
frem, and beseeching her and his brother never to forget
that blessed both;. S;reiv, when you ratl of such an in-
stance as this, you will not lament or repine one moment
over five hundred Bibles which may be lost, if only one
shall remain to produce such fruits as this, seeing how great
a fire a little spark will kindle."
We appeal to any man but the editor of the Times
(who is "a la) man," probably, in more than one
sense), whether anything lunch more appropriate to
the business of an Auxiliary Bible Society could have
been said, or anything much less warranting the un-
fair and unfounded attack we have noticed ? It is po-
sitively untrue that the Bishop of Norwich said any-
thing like the words attributed to him in the leading,
article of the Times " Apropos to Bibles, my depart-
ment is geology." As to the connection between di-
vinity and geology, we can only say that the clergy-
man who does not study the last, as confirmatory and
illustrative of the first, is at all events, the worse qua-
lified for the higher duties of his sacred calling. As
to the accusation, if such it can be called, founded
upon the twice-told tale of the double fountain of St.
Winifred, it does not deserve to be treated seriously :
it is almost too contemptible to merit any answer ; but
we may just remark that the allusion was in both
instances extremely happy, and in the last al-
most inevitable. Dr. Stanley was speaking of the dis-
tinct Societies for the distribution of Bibles, and for
the promotion of Christian knowledge, and these two
fountains of religious instruction were felicitously com-
pared to the double well-spring of St. Winifred.
" Let these two springs (said his Lordship) be per-
sonified and typified by the Bible Society and the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, let them
work in harmony together, and the rippling waters of
life which flow from their several sources mix in their
course for the edification and good of all, like the
waters of these springs, uniting and imparting life to
the vegetable world, and like them still remain peace-
ful and independent of each other."—lnstead of war-
ranting the peevish hypercriticism of the Times, in its
morbid eagerness to find fault with the Bishop of
Norwich, because he was appointed by the Whigs,
and is a near relative of the Secretary for the Trea-
sury, the passage we have just quoted seems to us
positively good in itself, independently of its direct
and close application to the important subject under
consideration at the meeting. Our Contemporary,
perhaps, did not understand the metaphor, though
he often gives proofs of being well acquainted with one
figure of speech, which the late Chief Justice Ellen-
borough once designated on a trial for libel by a homely
monosyllable, adding " Really such people ought not
to meddle with metaphors."—lllorning Chronicle.
The Courier of last night, in quoting an article
from the Glasgow Chronicle, and in inserting a com-
munication from a private correspondent, to the effect
that the general impression in Scotland is, that Minis-
ters are about to grant additional endowments to the
Church of Scotland—expresses its conviction that, as
the subject has not been brought before any Cabinet
Council which has been held since the dissolution of
last Parliament, the impression must. be erroneous.
Whether it be so or not we are not at present in a
condition to say ; but we sincerely trust that the Courier
is wrong, and that the Glasgow Chronicle and the
people of Scotland are correct in their impression.
The Government never committed a greater error
than when they appointed a Commission to in-
quire into the state of Church accommodation in Scot-
land. It is really surprising that Mr. Fox '_Mule,,
-Mr. Bannerman, Sir Andrew Leith Hay, and other
Members acquainted with the state of the Church
accommodation in Scotland, (lid not afford such infor-
mation to Ministers on the subject as would have pre-
vented their appointing such a Commission. Time great
body of the people are most devotedly attached to their
national establishment, which is, unquestionably, the
purest, and best, and most effective religious establish-
ment which has ever existed since the days of Con-
stantine. A more egregious error was never commit-
ted than to suppose that the great body of those who
are called Dissenters. from the Church of Scotland are
so in reality. Practiceily, to be sure, it must be ad-
mitted they are ; hut that is from necessity, not choice.
lii feeling and principle timev are most ardently attached
to the Church. They become nominal Dissenters, either
because they are—wilich does sonnetnnes happen—dis-
sati God with some pa: ticu clergyman, or heausc they
cannot get accommodation in the Estahlis!med Church.
-
The moment a new chap( I is bu.'t n. ,n c )no ctien with
the Church, whether that chapel he what is called re-
lief, or a chapel of ease, that moment the dissenting

places of worship are comparatively deserted, and those
who crowded them before rush into the arms of the
Church with an eagerness and joy which cannot be
described. An attempt has been made to show that
no necessity exists for further church accommodation
in Scotland. Those who make such an assertion either
know that it is nnfoundod, or they are deplorably igno-
rant of the religious condition of Scotland. A great
' and urgent necessity for more places of worship, in
connection with the establishment, does exist in any
part of the empire. This necessity obtains to a great
extent in large and populous-towns ; but it is still
more urgent in many remote districts of the coun-
try. There are parishes in the highlands and islands
of Scotland, from eighteen to twenty miles in'
length, and where, from the nature of the roads,
or, rather, the entire absence of roads, the peo-
ple, however piously disposed, have not an oppor-
tunity of being in a place of worship. above once or
twice a year. Are we, then, to be told that this is a
state of things which ought to be suffered to exist ? '
Would it be creditable to a Government or Legisla-
ture, calling themselves Christian, to deny so many
' persons that spiritual instruction for which they arc
' hungering and th:r.;ting, and which the system of
dissentis so small, that no one can object to it on mere finan-
cial grounds. We trust, therefore, that Ministers will
not hesitate a moment in granting the required sum.
of Scotland to bestow it ; and it, will, moreover, be
attended with the happiest, social, and religious results.
does
them with
for out
many any prospectyears to of
come beiri
?g . aßbee.
Be-
sides, the sum, in the shape of additional endowments,
which is solicited on behalf of the Church of Scotland,
able
to supply hm not
hold
It will be no mare than an act of justice to the people
—Morning Adveltiser.

ELOPEMENT.—Y:tsterday morning, between six and
seven o'clock, a post chaise and four was observed waiting
near St. Pancras Church, New-read, while a gentleman,
who appeared to be in the greatest state of agitation, paced
to and fro, frequently looking with great anxiety at his
watch, as if the moments appeared hours to him. At
length the bell of the church clock proclaimed the hour of
seven. Suspense, hope, and fear were now alternately de-
picted en his countenance ; another quarter of an hour had
nearly elapsed when a young lady, accompanied by a female
attendant with a small parcel, approached at a hurried pace.
He. instantly gave directions to the post-boys to mount, the
next moment they were seated in the carriage, which drove
off at railroad speed towards the Edgware-road. While
the few who had risen at that early hour were surmising
who the fair one could he, an elderly gentleman in a cal:-
attended by a groom, who immediately alighted, ar-
rived, and anxiously listening to the various opinions, hastily
inquired which direction the carriage took, then instantly
returning to his master, after a moment's conversation they
followed at a rapid rate the track of the fugitives. If re-
port can be credited, the gentle fair one is an only daughter
and an orphan, and will be entitled on her attaining her
majority to a considerable fortune, it is said 3,000/. per
annum. The gallant Lothario is an officer in her Majesty's
navy, who is connected with one of the first and oldest
families in the kingdom, and the eldeily gentleman the
guardian of the fair.
MR. Bur vim's New WORK, " ERNEST MAL-
TRAvERs."—The outpouring of Mr. Bulwer's own feelings
in this work are so yip
ihle that they cannot be mistaken ;
the only diffienity is is determining the limits of the real
and fictitious. It is true he disclaims the existence of any
resemblance between himself and his hero ; but his dis-
claimer is nothing more than the natural desire to acquit
himself of the charge of egotism. He forgets, however,
that egotism of this kind is frequently unconscious, and that,
when it is unconscious, its results are highly valuable, and
often profoundly philosophical. By what other means can
a novelist draw human nature so accurately as by referring
to his own emotions and his own knowledge ; the more
deeply he analyses himself the more likely is he to he
truthful in his portraits of men and his development of their
motives and springs of character. The excellence of this
work is most seen in those isolated passages in which we
find Nil.. Bulwer speaking out of the depths of his own per-
sonal observation. His work will delight those who take
an interest in such portraits of the inward nature of the
poetical character. It contains many splendid passages,
which will excite feelings of a higher kind than those which
result from the perusal of mere fiction.—dilas.

GRETNA.—There was lately married at this cele-
brated temple of Hymce, Lorenzo Duca Sforza Ccsarine,
of Rome, to Miss Caroline Shirley, of Chartley, in Staf-
fordshire ; and so much were the Italian and his fair bride
pleased with the excellent accommodation, great polite-
❑ess, and unceasing attention of our friend Linton, " mine
host of the ball," and eke the " bishop of his oss n diocese,"
that they sojourned with him for many days. Linton is,
indeed, a capital fellow, and ties the gordian knot with as
much dexterity as if he had received his diploma from Ox-
ford or Cambridge. It seems, however, that " envy d ;th
ever merit like its shadow follow," for we find that some
villainous rogues upon the road, jealous of his growing
fame, are at times in the habit of directing fugitive par-
ties in the search of the true temple to another part of the
village, or even to another district altogether. Now it
should be known to all men, and especially to all fair maids,
that the real altar for the votaries of Hymen is at Gretna
Hail, and that John Linton, the worthy host of that most
hospitable hotel, is the true high priest—the man who every
year marries more true lovers than all the bishops in the
land.—Carlisle Journal.

L. E. L.'s NEW NOVEL.—" Ethel Churchill"

is not to be admired as a mere love story ; for Miss Lan-
don has given to it the additional charm of that class of
composition called "historical novels ;" she has brought to
life the great men of the past age, and by her means we are
enabled to pass a day with Pope in his villa at Twickenham,
to chat with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (whose quarrel
with Pope is admirably described), to sit to Kneiler, to
lounge with the Duke of Wharton, to chat with Congreve,
and to dine with Swift, Gay, and other celebrated persons
of the time. Miss Landon's pictures of such historical cha-
racters are lifelike. Nothing can be more happy than the
manner in which she hits off a character. For instance, she
says of Lord Marchmont that he is a disciplinarian in small
matters ; he has a genius for furniture, and piques himself
on screens and arm-chairs —3loining Chronicle.
MURDER.—On Monday evening, between eleven
and twelve o'clock, five of the cotton-spinners who were ap-
prehended consequent on the murder of Smith in Ander-
ston, and who are still confined in Bridewell, were served
with indictments to stand their trial at Edinburgh. There
were eighteen apprehended ; thirteen have been liberated
on bail and otherwise, and five, as already noticed, are to
stand trial. There are seventy-six Crown witnesses. No
witnesses for the defence have as yet been cited. From
the indictment it appears that the individuals charged are—
Thomas Hunter, Brigton ; Peter Hucket, Calton ;
Richard Neil, Hutchesontown ; James Gibb, Calton ; and
Wm. M'Lean, King-street, Glasgow. They are charged
generally with illegal conspiracy as workmen, forcibly and
illegally to keep up wages by means of sending threatening
letters to masters and managers, and of setting fire to the
dwelling-houses of masters, and of assaulting and murder-
ing. They are more pardeidarly charged with being ac-
cessory to the assassination of Smith. The objects and
committees of the association are referred to, including
circumstances relating to the strikes of the unionists—the
appointment of a guard committee, and all the illegal and
violent acts in which the prisoners arc said to be impli-
cated. The trial comes en on the 10th proximo.—Scotsman.
SIR R BURDETT':3 LETTER.—We observed with

regret that an accomplished foreign nobleman, whose good
taste has been in nothing more conspicuous than a total
abstinence from all meddling in the domestic polity of this
country, was cited by several newspapers as having fur-
nished to Sir Francis Burdett the materials for his late
vapid but malignant letter on the subject of the Royal
Stud. Finding no trace of wit or piquancy, we at first
concluded that the effete Baronet's heaviness had effectu-
ally kept down all such things supplied for his manipula-
tion ; but, reflecting that Sir Francis must have known
everything connected with the turf interests a good many
years before the Count in question was born, we made fur-
ther inquiries, and had the satisfaction to learn that there
was no foundation whatever for the story beyond the cir-
cumstance of the lively Frenchman having had the misfor-
tune to be present at a dinner where the Member for North
Wilts poured forth his ire like the
Slender thing of wood,
That up and down its slender arm cloth play,
And spouts, and spouts, and spouts away, •
In one I,vcalc, washy, everlasting flood. Examiner.

As a young wo.nan, named Kenyon, was a few
Clays ago joking 7.'ith some young fellows at Boarsliaw,
to say that
near Midcfleton, a girl who passed happened
she (Kenyon) wanted a sweetheart, on which Kenyon flew
at her and kicked her severely, and attempted to finish
her work by sawing her neck with a hand-saw. The girl
was seriously wounded. Several of the integuments were
lacerated or divided, and the carotid artery was laid bare.
—illanchcste.• Guardian.
A new life-boat has been sent down here li, the
Humane Society for the purpose of being used in cases of
shipwreck or accident. It is stationed at the bottom of
\Vest-street, opposite the blockade-Louse, and rows srx
oars on each s'dp. On it is inscribed, " For the Brighton
branch of the It yal Humane Society." 'lids is a very
valuable present to the town, and nhen manned by a crew
of brave fellows, will prove of the greatest service. Hap-
pily, shipwrecks are now-a.days not very common in these
parts.--Brighton IL dd.