The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-07 00:00:00

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Minerva, Furlong, from the Clyde to New South
Wales, lat. 49. 23. N., long. 14. W. ; Elizabeth, Cundy,
from Bristol to the Mauritius, Sept. 1, lat. 14 N., long. 24.
W. ; Adelaide, Guthrie, from London to Bengal, June 22,
4t. 16. S., long. 19. E. Portland, Coalso, from the Clyde
to South Wales, Aug. 17, lat. 17. N., long. 26. W.

The Countess Cadogan and the Ladies Augusta
and Honoria Cadogan are expected in Piccadilly the week
after next, for the-season, from Baden.

MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY.—On Thursday
last, a marriage of rather a ludicrous kind took place here,
between Mr. William Carrick, Denny, late of the Excise,
and Miss Jean Rae, sister of Mr. Rae, of the Excise,
Dolls. The bridegroom is an old veteran, bordering on four
score and ten, but bale and hearty, and to all appearance
bidding fair to enjoy the honymoon with as much glee as a
stripling of eighteen. The bride is a hearty buxom lass,
from the village of Johnshaven, near Montrose, and although
winding; up her sixty-seventh year, is still fresh and vigorous.
One singular circumstance connected with this affair is that
this fond and amorous couple have not so much as seen each
other for the last twenty-seven years ; but the " faire ladye"
having been in this quarter, paid an accidental visit to her
old friend, when, strange to tell, the latent embers that had
so long slumbered were mutually fanned into a flame, and
in a few days the above auspicious event was the result!
Immediately after the mystic knot was tied, the youthful
pair, accompanied by their friends, drove off in high spirits.
Stirling Obsert er

GRAND REVIEW AT WOOLWICH YESTERDAY.
—Preparations have been making for some time past in con-
sequence of a notice having been sent that the Russian Am-
bassador would visit the military works, and review the
troops. His Excellency, however, did not arrive with his
large party as expected ; but as the Secretary to the Turkish
Embassy was present, three troops of Horse Artillery, com-
manded by Col. Cator, and three brigades of the field bat-
teries, under the command of Lieut.-ColoOel Cleveland,
were drawn out on Woolwich Common, and, after a display
of mortar and howitzer practice at 500 yards distance from
a flag. Major-General Sir Joseph M‘Lean, with a
numerous and brilliant Staff, took their station at the camp
colour, when a detail of evolutions and manceuvres were exe-
cuted with that celerity and precision which has obtained
for these troops so high a reputation throughout Europe by
the report of the numerous and distinguished foreigners who
}„ive witnessed their proficiency and discipline. Three
Turkish officers, who have been here a considerable time,
undergoing us artillerists initiation in our system of tactics,
under the superintendence of Lieut.-Col. Dundas, R.A.,
were on duty in the field batteries with the British officers.
When this grand military spectacle had terminated, Gene-
ral Sir Joseph M‘Leau advanced, accompanied by the Se-
cretary, and complimented the respective Commanding
Officers upon the high state of efficiency of their several
corps. 'We noticed upon the ground Lord Fitzroy Somerset,
Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief of her Ma-
jesty's Forces, the Duke of Beaufort, &c &e.

- ,
On the arrival of the Queen the Brighton Society
of Change-ringers assembled in the tower of St. Nicholas,
and rang a true and complete peal of -5,040 grandsire
triples, in three hours and three minutes, in order as fol-
lows L. Lewis, treble ; H. Harris, 2d ; J. Potter,
3d ; I. Tester, 4th ; G. Manwaring, sth ; J. N. Parsons,
6th ; W. Wells, 7th ; E. Markwick, tenor. The peal
was composed an (I conducted by W, Wells,

'EW TitzkiSSLA.TlOl4 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 reformation
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 be removed, some
amended, and some qualified. These offences were, Ist,
in the Church Service ; 2nd, 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 original."—
Page 310.

-A
Complete History of the several 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 Lewis, A.M., Chaplain
to the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Milken, and Minister
of Margate, in Kent, 1739.
" He, who by a diligent and faithful examination 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
belief, and with the belief, the influence of Christianity
to 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 infidel, signs
and tongues may be necessary ; for a Christian, the grace
of his baptism, and the creed which 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 own times,
who, like the peak of Teneriffe, 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 film of earthly dross, and has
foreseen a purer law, a nobler system, a brighter ‘rder of
things ; in short, a promised la►:d."—Lacon.
Published in 1818 and 1819, Parts I. and 11., price 245.
each, dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, as Regent—" The New Translation of
the Holy Bible, containing the Three Books of the Penta-
teuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and reconciling the
Discrepancies in Jerome's and the European Versions.'
Part fu., in 1821, containing from Numbers to Deute-
ronomy.

Pori iv., in 1825, containing from Joshua, c. I, to I.
Samuel, c. :111. v. 5.

Part v., in 1831, containing from 1 Samuel c. xm. v. 6,
to 11. Kings, c. xvir. v. 11.
Part vr., in 1834, containing from 11. Kings, c. xvii. v.
12, to Job xvm. v. 21.
Part vit., in 1833, containing from Job, c. xvm. v. 22,
to Psalms, cr..

The Anti-Deist, in answer to the publication called the
" Deist," containing also a refutation of the erroneous opi-
nions held forth in " The Age of Reason," and in a recent
publication, entitled" Researches on Ancient Kingdoms,"
1819.

The True Age of Christ at the Crucifixion, not 33,
but 52} years.
Biblical Criticisms in each quarterly part, in the years
1810-11,-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 is support of " The example of
other Christian Princes."
Specimen of emendations to be introduced in part VIII.
Received version, chap. 6,. v. 5, " I am black, but comely,
O ye Daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedan, as
the hangings of the curtains of Solomon."
Neither in this verse, nor Isaiah, chap. 42., v. 11, is the
word " Kedar"—" mourning"--translated.
New translation—" I am the dawning light, as the com-
panion of peace, when the habitation of the daughters of
Jerusalem is as the tabernacles of Mourning."—See Clas-
sical Journal, Number 39, for juned 817.

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
23,1818.

•' 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-
tributp of the great Jehovah, and the inviolable purity of
the Hebrew test. Every Christian will wish success to
such labours, and every Hebrew scholar will examine if
they deserve it." * * " 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."—
/Aeon, 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. 220, 230, 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
1. Classical Journ Al," and promulgated in the " Liverpool
Advertiser," " Durham Chronicle," and " Norwich Mer-
cury, in 1825.

."rhat the Sacred Scriptures form the sole basis on
which rests all oar happiness, temporal and eternal, is a
truth.long established and generally acknowledged.
_ _

" While thus the whole colt-ction of the Sacred Scrip-
tures commands our undivided veneration, there is one por-
tion, the most ancient and the most important, with which
especially it behoves the Israelite to be well acquainted,
because its precepts -regulate his every-day conduct—this
portion is the Pentateuch.

" The English authorised version, executed by a society
of Divines, for the use of Christians, is certainly a work of
considerable merit ; and it must be owned that the trans-
lators were by no means unequal to their task.

" Still many errors inadvertently crept in ; and many
others were permitted to find room in their translation. As
in iminy parts it is altogether at variance with the Maso-
retie readings, which so often determine the true sense of
the text, the spirit of the Hebrew language is frequently
lost sight of ; and though these censures more particularly
apply to the poetic books, they also in some considerable
degree-extend to the prosaic parts of the translation. That
such faults exist is admitted by Christians of all deno-
minations."

Prospectus, " now circulating," of a New Edition of the
Szxrcel Scriptures, translated into English, with Notes
Critical and, xelanatory, b' the Rev. 1,). 4. Sole, J. L.

: Alor-

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 halc:,on 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-
pu;ned (tzling the various denominations from Sir Robert
eeel's eulogy of his friends) by " Unitarians," " Indepen-
('.ents," the " Wesleyan Methodists," or " the Roman
Catholics"—to which might be added the

" Presbyterian sour,
Or sharp Free-thinker, all things in an hour;" •

Either who sink the honour of God amidst the cffal of
their hue•and-cry of " Church Service," " Church Minis-
ters," " Church Maintenance," " Church Rates," &c., or
by those " whose object is no longer confinAd to insidious
and disguised attacks on the Church of Christ, hut has
manifested itself in that open and determined hostility to it
which, in the paroxysms of their enthusiasm, they have
promised themselves will terminate in its total destruction.
* *

I feel myself justified is guar-
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 ef
spirit," was to become "Me band 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 com-
mitted—sometimes a martyrdom—and if it extend to the
whale impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execu-
tion ends not in the slaying of elemental life, but strikes at
the c thereal 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."
Xll M 41 M ik # * *
" 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. 26. 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 wrote
it, down dropt a tear upon the deed, in his verbiage upon
poor Protestants' opacity—" in hell he lifts his eyes."
The prince magnanimously 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 life, 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 close of the 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 only do we owe to the happy Reformation all the
domestic advantages by which we are distinguished above
other States, but it is also to the Reformation we are in-
debted for our present political consequence and territorial
grandeur." * * x " Then sprung up the mighty
Elizabeth, and mingling her existence as a Sovereign with
the preservation of the true faith, lashing herself to the
mainmast of Reformation ; on that vessel she securely
rode the storm, and established the independence of her
kingdom."

There -were several reviews on the new Translators' pro-
duction of the Pentateuch. Here again the munificence of
our Sovereign's truly august uncle was so conspicuous—his
gracious command for 50 copies ! and so stifled all further
opposition, that the subsequent parts published in 1825,
1831, 1834, and 1835—t0 these there has been that tacit
concurrence, that we arc justified in saying " the silence of
the Clergy has given consent."

Into your hands we commit the " talents," Matt. xxr.oo,
conjointly with his Grace the Duke of Wellington (who
has oft, and with bosom beating for his country, is still ready)
" To plant his firm foot on the line that justice draws,
And prevail or perish in her cause ;"
and to the Most Noble the Marquis Camden—no " cut
purse of our empire." It will add repute to the honourable
name you bear ; it, may ensure your salvation hereafter, for
it is written, " No man having put his hand to the plough,
and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of heaven." Luke
ix. 62.

Two disputants against your administration have seve-
rally advocated the cause we have so cogently urged, and
so respectfully submitted to you. The Times, in its bril-
liant panegyric of the renowned Elizabeth, in her " preser-
vation of the true faith"—again " we call upon our consti-
tutional countrymen * * * * to bestir themselves.
We assure 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 be resisted, and every measure of
improvement and reform framed, with a careful view
to the preservation of the essential principles of our ancient
and unrivalled Constitution"(d). Our object is the strictest
adherence, in 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 recognised
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 then
war "t

We have the honour to remain,
Your Lordship's
Most obedient bumble servants,
CONSTITUTIONALISTS.

(a) The late Archdeacon Daubeny's Discourses.
(b) Areorgitiea ; Milton.
(c) The Times, October, 25, and Wednesday, Sep.
tember 27, 1837.

(d) The Morning Herald, Monday, Sept. 18, 1837.
• Or Seceders, Lollards, Lutherans, Mountainists, Cal-
vinists, Baptists, Re-Baptists, General Baptists, Particular
Baptists, Anabaptists, Re%ivalist Baptists, Methodists, Wes-
leyan Methodists, Calvinistic Methodists, Arminian Metho-
dists, Primitive Methodists, Pilgrim Methodists, Shouting
Methodists, Moderate Methodists, Revival Methodists, New
Connection Methodists." As their acute consciences kept
them Dissenters from our Church, either from " Church Ser-
vice," or " Church Maintenance," it was reasonably to be
expected from them that they would have gladly embraced
what tended to " remove from their eyes the film of earthly
dross," and not have given from their desks what was regu-
lated by the niceties of grammatical construction, and the-real
vernacular accent, to enlighten their bearers in Hebrew
verity, and not to be found among Southcotians, Ranters,
Seekers, Sliders, Swadlers, Tumblers, Jerkers, Jumpers,
Dunkers, Sunkers, Shouters, and Shakers. '
Lord John Russell's Address to the Electors of the 80.
rough of Stroud.

Longman, Sherwood, Neely, and Co., London.

THE BENCH AND THE BAR.—The reading public
will be gratified to learn that the amusing and graphic pen
of the author of " Random Recollections of the Lords and
Commons" is on the point of seeding forth a new sketch-
book, containing portraits of all the living members of the
" Bench and the Bar "—all, at least, whose position and
standing in the public eye have given them a claim to be
treated as public property. A. 'wire fertile subject could
scarcely have been chosen, or one in which anauseirent may
be more happily blended with that " utility " which is the
characterhitie of the literature of our day. And if the author
(iis we bear he is likely to do) treats the subjects of his no-
tice in that plaiu-spoken and fearless manner in which they
are accustomed to treat the unfortunates who happen tar
come beft3re them in the witness-box, they will have no right
at least (whatever cause they may feel)! to complain of
exhibition, and the public will be no less entertained Lhaa
instructed by it.

Between 10 and 11 o'clock on Wednesday night,
(Tie of the prisoners, a man who was detained at, the 'police
station-house in Bow-street, Covent:garden, committed
suicide by hanging himself in one of the evils with his
pocket-handkerchief. He was quite dead when discovered.
The Bristol Gazette contradicts the account pub-
lished in the London papers of a dreadkl, murder and sui•
cido at Clifton, near B.ristol, It appears, that the story is
a complete and unmitigated fabrication..