The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-28 00:00:00

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY.

(From the Globe.)
We yesterday gave a further correspondence be-
tween the Marquis of Lansdowne and the Bishop of
Exeter. The late hour at which we received the
Noble Marquis's letter to the Right Reverend Pre-
late precluded the possibility of accompanying the
publication with such comments as certain parts
of it seem to claim. This we the less regret, as we are
enabled by the interval thus imposed to bestow on these
documents a more cool and careful examination, and to
pronounce upon the subject matter of the controversy
a more deliberate judgment. The letter of the Right
Rev. Prelate is by no means calculated to raise the
character of the writer in public esteem. On the con-
trary, we fear that the absence of candour and disregard.
of truth and justice manifested in the attack upon.
the Noble Lord by the Right Rev. Prelate will tend to
degrade not merely the writer, but (so far as his indivi-
dual character can affect it) his office, the authority
of which is desecrated by being thus pressed into the,,;
unhallowed conflict of patty strife. By referring to the
eorrespondence it will be seen that the Noble Marqu is
triumphantly disposes of the grossly unfair interpreta-
tions which the Bishop of Exeter has been pleased to
give to passages of his Lordship's Speech—first in the
Right Rev. Prelate's charge to his clergy, and next in
the letter addressed to Lord Lansdowne on the 20th of il
November. The inaccuracies into which the Right
Rev. Prelate has fallen respecting the debate in the I
House of Lords on the Education question, are such
as should at least have inculcated caution when 1
prompted to condemn another for the same trans- '
gression, even were the evidence of its commission be-
yond dispute. " First plussk the beam out of thine own.
eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to take the mote-
out of thy brother's eye," is nn t unworthy of even a.
Bishop's consideration. It is, boss-ever, but too evident
that his Lordship of Exeter has but ve.7 indistinct appre-
hensions of his own fallibility ; and ;:ence the tone-
adopted in his letter corresponds more closely with that I
which prevailed in the Spiritual Courts of Philip the
Second, than with the habits of thought and modes of
expression which belong to a free and Protestant country.
(From the Courier.)
The omission of any reference in the late Royal cum-
munication, to the Protestant Establishment, and of t be
assurance of it's maintenance unimpaired, if not wit b 1'
additional guarantees, to be found in the Royal Union, I
according to approved precedent on occasions of such t
solemnity, although calculated to awaken uneasiness in
the public mind, might yet have been charitably con- I
strucl as an unpremeditated casualty on the part of a
Ministry whose graver faults have long accustomed us to
overlook their numberless lighter levities and indiscre-
tions of every-day occurrence. But we are no longer per-
mated to count it as a venial trespass, if what the Times
states be true, as true we fear it is, that, on the repress's-
tation by a Ministerial adherent of his " astonishment
and regret at their omission from the Queen's declara-
tion of marriage of that reference to and recognition of
Protestantism which not only propriety but even prece-
dent has prescribed," Lord Melbourne should answer
—" Well, there is nothing to complain of in that. If
we have said nothing about the Protestants, we have
said nothing about the Roman Catholics!" According I
i
to this hasty ebullition of the Premier, it would appear
that the Protestant Reformed religion is not the only
religion of the State, that the Church as by law estab-
lished is not the one only Church Establishment re-
cognised by the Constitution, that is, in the accepter
tion of her Majesty's Ministers. Here, indeed, we ,
have the key, not only to the omission so much depre-
cated in that Royal address, which was the work of
the Ministers, but to the Education scheme so insidi-
diously contrived in it's details to undermine the secu- rl
Tit), of the national faith in the rising generation. It 1
may have been to prepare the people for the more formal
recognition and adoption of Popery as the co-equal, if
not supreme Church of these realms, that Roman
priests have been officially corresponded with hereto-
fore and addressed by those usurped and prelatic
distinctions conferred by a foreign power, and as \
such, reprobated by the Laws and the Constitution. \
In the saute sense, also, we may now understand the
recent selections of the more conspicuous or fiery Pa-
pists for high offices in the State, for offices command-
ing the means and the power of moulding public edu-
tion
to their own will and designs. Combined with the
new demonstration of levelling doctrines in religion
into which Royalty has been treacherously betrayed by
its confidential advisers, there would seem to be no
longer a question that the Church is really in danger.
(From the Standard.)
We have ever cautiously avoided disputes with the
friends engaged with us in the same cause ; inde-
pendently of other objections to such disputes, they-
cause a waste of time, labour, and opportunities, that. I
may be better employed against the common enemy. !
Under this conviction we yesterday copied, without
commentary, the censure of out excellent Contempo-
rary the Morning Herald upon some opinions pro- 1
fessed in the Standard of Monday. The Minis-
terial
Journals have, however, thought it not un-
wise to refer to those opinions, and therefore a i
just occasion is opened to us to vindicate ourselves. 1
We have said, that " the law of 1829 destroyed
the Protestant character of the Constitution through l,
all its branches. Let us not, then, blame the Crown, 1
or the Ministers of the Crown, for an omission rendered
inevitable by our own act.'' We stand by these words— 1
the law of 1829 did destroy the Protestant character of
the Constitution, and render inevitablethe omission by the 1
Queen of any allusion to the high claims to Protestant I
confidence that might be put forward by the family of her I
intended consort. Why should the Queen allude to 1
their claims ? The House of Commons boasts nothing of
its Protestant zeal—it is the last thing of which the
present House of Commons could boast. The House
of Lords, though still essentially Protestant, does not
use the Protestant language of the old aristocracy. What i
right have we, then, to expect such language from the
Crown ? It would be hypocrisy in the Crown to use
that language ; and hypocrisy tending to create a dange-
rous delusion. The Crown cannot defend the Protes-
tant religion in this country—that is now in the keeping
of the people—and the more frequently the people arc
reminded that the sacred charge rests with them alone,
whether the remembrance is express or tacit (as is the
case in band), the more safe will that sacred charge
remain.

THE ROYAL STABLES.—The Sixteenth Re-
port of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and
Forests, &c., presented by command to both Houses of
Parliament, on the 30th of July last, is printed. The
Report contains an abstract of the proceedings of their
Lordships for the past year, from which we extract the
following memorandum in reference to the grant made
by Parliament for building her Majesty's new stables at.
Windsor :—" Ay an Act of the present Session of Par—
liament there to be a new charge, not exceeding
70,0001., upon this fund or capital,' for the purpose of
providing stable offices for her Majesty and the Royal.
establishment at Windsor ;' but as that expenditure
will probably extend over a period of four or five yiurs,
we have reason to believe it may be provided for by
sales of small property not yielding, nor likely to yield,
much revenue to the Crown, but advantageous to indi-
viduals to possess, and which may be sold without greatly
diminishing the present capital or future yearly reveamo
of the Crown's estate."

ALLEGED DEATH FROM STARVATION.-
On Monday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr.
Higgs, the King's Arms, Tothill-street, Westminster,
tlli aamt tihleY adne,c eaagseeddsixty.
lodged olnt Ta hppuersadr ae yd
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night last at a common lodging-house in Orchard-street,
Westminster, for which he paid threepence. On Sa-
turday night, about half-past twelve, be was found by a
police constable lying on the pavement in King-street,
Westminster, who picked him up, and told him to go
home, when he said he had none, and begged of the police-
man to take him to the station-house, which was done ;
and after being there a short time be was placed. on a
stretcher and taken to the workhouse of St. Margaret's.
On reaching the door of it his under jaw fell, and he
died immediately. Mr. Wright, a surgeon, was called,
who said that, from the thin and emaciated appearance
of the deceased, he had no doubt he had died of ex-
haustion, nature having failed him. On searching him
31d. was found, some sulphur ointment, and a card
Died by be-
longing to the Middlesex Hospital. Verdict,
the visitation of God.
the large red deer belong-
ingOn Monday evening,
Highlanders, at the new barracks, Li-
merick, rushed at. a sergeant
w
him down, and injured him so severely, that he was im-
mediately removed to the hospital. Fortunately for
the citizens • it bas been confined to barracks for some
time past.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM R.
The gross amount for conveyance of pa.sie
eels, carriages, horses, and mails for the
Nov. 16, 1839, was 9,7051. Lis. 7d., foi
for the same time, 1,7331. Is. Id. ; ca.
total, 11,4411.165. Bd.—Railway Times