The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1839.

TURKEY.
SHIPS OF THE LINE, FIRST CLASS.—
In commission
In ordinary

Total of Ist class 3
SECOND CLASS.--In commission
In ordinary
Total of 2d class
THIRD CLASS,—In commission
In ordinary
Total of 3d class
Grand total of the line —ls
Of which 10 arc in commission.
FRIGATES, FIRST CLASS.—In Commission
In ordinary
Building
Total of Ist class 6
SECOND CLASS.—In Commission ....
In ordinary
Total of 2d class
THIRD CLASS.—In commission
In ordinary
Total of 3d class
Grand total frigates
Of which 10 are in commission.
WAR STRANIERS.—In commission
Building
Grand total
HOLLAND.
SHIN OF THE LINE, SECOND CLASS.—
In ordinary
THIRD CLASS.—In ordinary
Building
Total of the line
FRIGATES, FIRST CLASS.—In ordinary
Building
Total of Ist class
SECOND CLASS.—None.
Luau CLASS.—In commission -
In ordinary
Building
Grand total frigates
Gun Boats lO4
Of which 40 are in commission.

WAR STEAMERS.—In commission .
Building ...... ..
Total
DENMARK.

5

4

SHIN OF THE LINE, SECOND CLASS.—In ordinary 4
Building
THIRD CLASS.—In ordinary
Total of the line
Gun boats 67
SWEDEN.
SLUE,: OF THE LINE, SECOND CLASS.—In ordinary 5
THIRD CLASS.—Iii ordinary
Total of the line
FRIGATES, FIRST CLASS. —ln ordinary
THIRD CLASS.—In ordinary
Building
Total frigates
Gun boats
Bombs
WAR STEAMERS..—In ordinary
NORWAY.
Gun boats B5
Building ..
Bombs
Total of all classes ll7

- 8
242

SPAIN.
SHIPS OF THE LINE, SECCND CLASS.—
In ordinary
THIRD CLASS.—In ordinary
Total of the line
FRIGATES, FIRST CLASS.—In ordinary
SECOND CLASS.—In ordinary 2
Total frigates
_• 4
NAPLES.
FRIGATES, FIRST CLASS.—In commission ... 1
SECOND CLASS —IR commission I
Total ships
War Steamers
SARDINIA.
FEIGATES, FIRST CLASS.—III ordinary 2
Building
SECOND CLAss.—ln commission
THIRD CLASS.—In ordinary
Total — 6
WAR STEAMERS.—I❑ commission

We are not acquainted with a class of persons more
pleasure-seeking than attorneys and their clerks. If you
see on a Sunday a peculiarly gay phreton, the horses
prancing over Blackheath, or dashing along the western
road, carrying some well-clad, smiling, handsome women
chatting with the elegant whip, who equally divides
his attention between the horses and the ladies, the
chances are about two to one that it belongs to some
great attorney, who is driving his family out to dine
with some professional brother. Steam-boats and
steam-carriages, taverns, tea-gardens, and ale-houses
more
are crowded every fine Sabbath with lawyers' clerks,
who imitate
tt at esits their
aomtfiaasi
solicitors,
ci too, are
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and
forthn
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toe alive
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and
yo sneferiect
Saturdayeufrequently
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own .ihold ntNer interests el
ss
consultations
which set lawyers' clerks and law stationers hard at
work all day on Sunday. The solicitors also write an
abundance of letters to their correspondents in the
country, which the correspondents are compelled to
read and compelled to answer on the Sabbath. They
take their own enjoyment, therefore, largely on Sun-
days, and they impose on the same day no inconsider-
able quantity of labour on classes of persons more nu-
merous, we apprehend, than themselves. It is quite in
character, however, with the dastardly hypocrisy which
distinguishes this miscalled age of mental freedom, that
the great body of pleasure-loving, money-seeking
solicitors of the metropolis, should memorialize the
Treasury against even transmitting letters through the
London Post-office on Sunday, because any such
innovation, " by throwing professional responsibility
on them on that day, would be a means of render-
ing the due observance of that day to them, their
draw
clerks, and dependents, most difficult, and of depriving
them of the rest to which they are entitled on that
day." This means that they then could not feast and
ride about on Sundays without a small pecuniary loss,
and they clothe their real meaning in the garb of
religious language. It is quite naturalt hat the very
Christian, or better very Jewish, Morning Herald,
as will be sz2en by an article which we copy
from it, should congratulate itself on having
" taken an early and uncompromising part in
opposing Sabbath desecration in every form," while
the fact is, that that Journal desecrates every Sabbath
by setting printers, &c., to work long before the Sab-
bath evening has begun. It and the solicitors are wor-
thy of each other, and both talk admirably of the due
obsovance while they take care neither religiously to ob-
serve the Sabbath,:nor allow their dependents, servants,
and correspondents so to observe it. The Government,
contrary to the wishes of the
Tories, now depends in
fact on popular support, and as the nation is hypocri-
tical, the Government will continue to defer to the hypo-
crisy, and will impose immense privations on the whole
empire, that the pleasure-loving guzzlers of the metro-
polis may not be disturbed in their due observance of
the old custom of taking pleasure on Sundays.

Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK has, in reply to a case
submitted to him, given the following opinions con-
cerning the power of the parsons over tombstones :
"
Ist. I am of opinion that "the soil and freehold of the
church and churchyard belong to the parson." 2 Cro. 387 ;
Cm'
parson
vicar, or perpetual curate, according as
the cure of souls belongs to one or other of these ecclesiastical
o
persons.
2d. Whether in some places there may be a custom, or, as
Diis gt. 1,1: title
rector, ~ Eglise (George I.) ; and I think the
to some families or persons, a prescription, to erect a head-
stone, monument, or memorial, I cannot undertake to say ;
but generally, I am of opinion that any person has not a right
to erect such memorial as he may think proper (or I think
any memorial) without the consent of the parson, whether
rector, vicar, or perpetual curate, and for this purpose I think
there is no difference between the case of a rector and a vicar
(the great tithes, or part of them, being in a lay impropriator),
or a perpetual curate. FREDERICK POLLOCK.
Temple, Jan. 16, 1839.
We apprehend that the Bishop of LONDON, and
other Prelates who have consecrated ceinetries, will
look with horror on this opinion. They have clearly
thrown the parsons overboard, for no person who can
ill
possibly avoid it, whereafter, we presume, suffer the
parsons to dictate the inscriptions on their family tomb-
stones, when they can lay their friends in a well-
ordered cemetery, and place over them inscriptions
to suit their affections. To the proprietors of ce-
meteries the case of MARY WOOLFREY and the
opinions which that has elicited concerning the latent
power of the parsons, must have been Godsends.
They ought to advertize Sir FREDERICK'S .opinion
all through the country, and . recommend cemeteries.