The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

PROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS DF SATURDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Standard is well aware—nobody better—that
pat Wesleyans arc becoming extensively awake to the
hecsequences which would follow were the High Church
onrty, whose efforts they greatly aided in getting
up the formidable opposition to the Government
plan of education, to gain the ascendancy. Our Con-
temporary is therefore only serving the political party ot
which he is an organ in endeavouring to represent the
attacks recently made on the Wesleyan body as con-
fined to a few Clergymen, and to publications not
recognised by any considerable portion of Churchmen.
He is well aware of the imprudence of telling the
Wesleyans just now what the High Churchmen
think of them—in what light they regard
them, as respects their relation to the Church of
Christ on earth, and, of consequence, their future con-
dition. We agree with our Contemporary, that the
course taken by these zealous Churchmen is not well-
timed for the political objects they are desirous of pro-
moting, and in furthering which they have no objection to
have the aid of the Wesleyan societies. He cannot, how-
ever, blame us for exhibiting to the Wesleyans the light
in which they are regarded by those who stoop to ask
their aid, and the manner in which they will, and must,
be rewarded for their labours, if ever that party ob-
tains the ascendancy it incessantly strives to acquire.
Instead of attempting to depreciate the character of the
Church Magazine, or the character of the late Lord
Mayor's Chaplain for preaching and publishing the
sermon from which we have given extracts, it
would have been more satisfactory had the Standard
shown that the opinions advanced by both respecting
the Wesleyans and other separatists from the Church,
are at variance with the exclusive claims to apostolical
succession which the High Church clergy contend
for, and which the Standard dares not contravene
or deny. Has the Church Magazine published
anything against the Wesleyans which. has not been
asserted of that body by eminent Prelates of the
Church, living and dead? The most effectual way
to convince the Wesleyans th..t the articles in the
Church May azine do not express the opinions of Tory
Churchmen respecting them, when such choose to speak
out, will he to show that the Bishops and dignitaries of
that party have employed a different language when
they have had occasion to allude to them and to their
societies.

(From the Courier.)
It is impossible not to feel at once the force of the
position taken by the Times this morning in reference
to an Established Church, which, in this country, is and
must be, as elsewhere, a necessity arising out of our
social institutions, and coexistent with the Monarchy.
It is well observed that," anything appproaching to per-
fect equality among the religious communities of this
country never can be attained, or if attained, never could
continue, any more than a perfect equality among indi-
viduals. A dominant and powerful Church there always
will be, and always ought to be. Dissent is too
divided ever to occupy such a position. Abolish
the Protestant ascendancy, and very shortly a
Popish one will reign in it's stead." The last sen-
tence, which we have placed in italics, is well
worthy the serious reflection of all conscientious
Dissenters. The overthrow of the Church, even were
that practicable, against the will of a vast majority of
the people of Great Britain, could not serve the cause
of Protestant Dissent in the religious acceptation, nor
could it advance the selfish views of those turbulent
leaders of sectarianism, whose bile is embittered not so
much by Episcopalian ascendancy as by those secular
temporalities with which an Establishment must neces-
sarily be endowed. Those temporalities, grossly as they
have been magnified, and enviously coveted as they arc,
form but a moderate item in the account of that
monstrous aggregate clutched and in the holding of
the Romish Church before the Reformation. Nor,
on the return of that Popish supremacy which Dis-
senting demagogues labour so zealously, in conjunc-
tion with Popish allies, to invest with the authority and
the forms of Constitutional law ; as if it were not now
in less pretentious guise sufficiently rampant in high
places, would the thirst of aggrandisement and the en-
croaching spirit of usurpation inherent in the see of
Rome, and ever directing the course as inculcated in
the education of the subordinate officials, from the
Archbishop downwards to the monk and parish priest,
whose holdings and station direct and indirectly derive
from it, be stayed and quenched on it's advent to power
with the succession and possession of temporalities as
they are.

(From the Standard.)

When threatened by the Ministerial journals with
retorts of our complaint of the improper persons who
have been thrust or who have thrust themselves upon the
Queen's household, and her Majesty's "private and social
circle," we marked the just distinction, first, between
those whose misconduct was proved and those who were
only the objects of suspicion, and who might be the vic-
tims of calumny ; secondly, a distinction that needed
not to be marked except in dealing with the shufifers
against whernwe have to contend—the distinction
between persons forced in the Queen's " House-
hold," and her Majesty's " private and social circle,"
and men merely employed in the official business of
Government. Every reasonable man must see the neces-
sity of carefully observing these distinctions. The man
who is only the object of suspicion, or of evil report,
has no opportunity of defence ; if condemned at all,
he is condemned unheard, and therefore no just
person will condemn him ; we do not think less un-
favourably of the imputed guilt, but we think, as in
such a case we are bound to think, that the party
sought to be inculpated is free from it. Next
the Crown has, practically, little choice in the
selection of its merely official servants. There is
no apparent necessity for any sympathy between
the Sovereign and the political Minister in anything
that regards private morals. The immorality of
a Minister, therefore, while he observes the distance
of a Minister, can never reflect injuriou,ly upon
the occupant of the throne, whether that occu-
pant is a man of mature age, or an innocent and
inexperienced, and therefore confiding, woman of
twenty. We think that every sensible and right-minded
man will understand these distinctions and agree with
us. Upon such terms we accepted the challenge
of the Glebe to produce from the Household " or
private and social circle," of Queen Charlotte or
Queen Adelaide persons as improper as some who
have forced themselves into the Household, and into
the private and social circle of our maiden Queen ;"
and how has the challenge been maintained ? First,
it was boldly asserted that one of the improper
persons who were the subjects of complaint was a
member of Queen Adelaide's Household. We proved
the assertion to be a gross falsehood, and the author
of the falsehood acknowledges that it is such, plead-
ing in excuse his ignorance of the Court Guide—
that is, ignorance of what ought to have been his
authority. Next, we hear of a lady most unjustly
and most cruelly dragged from her happy privacy,
who, we are told, having been excluded from all
previous drawing-rooms, was admitted to the
drawing-room .of Queen Adelaide in 1835 upon a
most disgraceful bargain. We showed that the
lady referred to had been received at the drawing-rooms
of George the Fourth, which rendered her subsequent
admissions a matter of right, and that from the moment
when, according to the routine rule of such things,
she could think it desirable to appear at Court, the
Court was opened to her. This exposure of a mean
and venomous falsehood has not been contradicted, be-
cause it could not be contradicted. We owe an apology
to the lady referred to for it ; but in order to show the
shuffling which we have to encounter, it is necessary to
remark, that the presentation of Ladies or Gentlemen
at Levees, or Drawing-rooms, was not the matter of the
Ministerial challenge, but the intrusion of improner
persons into the Queen's " Household," and into her
Majesty's " private and social circle."

The article headed " Romance in Real Life,'
which appeared in The Sun of Saturday, was taken from
the Wiltshire Independent.

HAPPINESS OP ANIMALS.—It is impossible
to view the cheerfulness and happiness of animals and
birds without pleasure, and it is astonishing how much
man might do to lessen the misery of those creatures
which are given to him for either food, use, or plea-
sure, if he were so inclined ; instead of which he often
exercises a degree of wanton tyranny and cruelty over
them which cannot be too much deprecated, and for
which, no doubt, he will one day be held accountable.
Animals are so capable of showing gratitude and affec-
tion to those who are kind to them, that I never see
them subjected to ill-treatment without feeling the
utmost abhorrence of those who are inflicting it. I
know many persons Ile myself who take a pleasure in
seeing all the animals about them appear happy and con-
tented ; my old nag, when he sees me coming, always
expects the accustomed piece of bread or apple, and
I seldom disappoint him. A poor horse continually
whipped, at first steps out quicker, but soon flags under
the constant impulse, and to make him stir requires
constant beating. How different from the horse who,
fed with wholesome food, is allowed to go his own steady
pace, and who, not driven beyond his nature,' performs
his journey well and freshly.
Loss OF LIFE.—The apprehensions which we
last week stated, hare been too palpably realized to
admit of any doubt as to the loss of the lives of Wilson
and son ; for on Saturday last his coble was taken up at
U (Tang a mile to the north of Whitby, quite perfect,
but having nothing in her but her seats. The probabi-
lity is, that after the ballast had washed out she had
then righted. Mr. William Wilson was for many years
master of the Lively, Greenland ship, which sailed out
of this port. He on those occasions would be exposed
to innumerable dangers, but his life has been taken
when those accustomed to the life of a pilot had nothing
to apprehend,—York Courant.
DISCOVERY OF COINS.—The workmen em-
ployed by Messrs. Tanner, brother, in excavating the
bed of the river, at their paper mills, Cheddar, So-
merset, have latey discovered a considerable numter
of ancilnt (Yins, (.li,fl) Roman, LO.II, of the Emperor
i Constantine.