The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-09 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.

(From the Parliamentary Returns.)
Return of the Number of NEWSPAPER ST AMPS at
°tie Penny and One Halfpenny issued to the several News-
Papers in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist De-
cember 1837 to the 31st of March 1838 inclusive ; specifying
each Newspaper by Name, and the Number of Stamps issued
each Month during that period to each Newspaper.

EXTRACT.

LONDON EVENING NEWSPAPERS.
The S:://...Dec. 1837... 102,000
Jan. 1838 lll,OOO

Feb. 183'6 96,000
M ar. 1838 lll,OOO

420,000

Standard... Dec. 1837 78,000
Jan. 1838 105,000
Feb. 1838... lOO,OOO
Mar. 1838 lOO,OOO
---- 383,000

G/ose ...... Dec. 1837 72,000
Jan. 1838 90,000

Feb. 183 S 72,000
Mar. 1838 72,000
2'06,000

.oti►'ier.Dec. 18:37.
Jan. 1838 39,000
Feb. 1838 33,000
Mar. 1838 33,000
--- 136,000

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LONDON :
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, IS3B.

We are glad to see that the events at Canterbury are
`liscussed throughout the country in relation to the instruc-
tiem which is dispensed by the Clergy. The Tinter takes
UP the matter this morninj, and appears to think that it
'slakes out a case for the Established Church, because some
men believe in Mesmerism, in the Unknown Tongues, and
in the ridiculous stories of Popish saints. But before
such an argument can be available in defence of the
Church, it must be proved that the State pays the
pro-
fessors of Mesmerism, of the CPl:flown Tongues, and of
the propagators of a belief in Popish miracles. The State
PaYs,the Church very largely; and not only pays it, but
Ittodifiies many of our institutions, greatly to the damage
of several classes of the people, for its advantage
and now it has been made suddenly manifested
to the public by an extraordinary series of events,
though philosophers and inquirers have known it long
lige, that the Church is the nursing-mother of ignorance
%lid fanaticism. What should we think of our Army, of
the services of which the nation is proud, or our Navy,
which is ever to be held in honour, if, on bringing either
to the proof, it was found that the national defence, the
professed object for which they are instituted, was in fact
t°tally unprovided for both by sea and land ; and that if
Re wished to have our shores protected from a foreign in-
tadn, we must immediately take measures to form other
fleets ond other armies. Now this is the case with the
Church. It professes to instruct the people ; it is
said to be valuable as a preventive of fanaticism and
tise are now ratid, aware that where there is most Church,
there ignorance 's most dense, and fanaticism most dark,
gloomy, and dange.rous. The Scotsman, a journal distin-
guished by its enlightened views, expresses in the following
extract a far sounder opinion than that of the Times :
We suspect there are fe.v of the rural parishes of England, in which
members capable of being misled by such delusions may not be found.
l'ut England has a mighty " moral police," :Is Dr. Chalmers calls it, for
the removal of ignorance and the prevention of,CriMe—a Church costing
tour or five millions per annum. She has (exclusive of Dissenters) fifteen
17 usaild clergymen paid by the State far a population of fourteen mil.
,)o
n 6, or one clergyman for every nine hundred souls, which is
'store than even our cburch.extenacrs demand. Could a more
complete„ in'oof be given of the utter uselessness of an Esta-
wishment, as a means of diffusing among the people just ideas
of their own condition, or the humblest elements of teligious
And
Moral instruction ? If half the money waste
'feedingon the Church in
drones arid supporting peagantry had been bestowed on schools,
't Possible that disgraceful scenes like this could lOve
,o,u;c.urred
tloW does it happen that the Clergy have lived in the midst nt . Its dense
14rorance, and made no effort to dispel it ? Did they not see it 2 Or
tt they saw it, were they content to leave it unmolested in all
d, its rantaken
k.
tress The truth should be told the Clergy of Englan
to the masss, have long been in the enemies of the know.
;ge. They 'dread education, because the growth of intelli.
fence would destroy the abuses on which they fatten, while
-it would be fatal to their power, by nourishing independence of thought,
grid increasing dissent. Their hostility to Bible and Missionary Socie.
;2", to Lanca'sterian schools, and to the London University, is notthey yet
ii°t‘"tten. They have not simply neglected popular education :
,vositively obstructed it. The ignorance of which we witness the
nit'si.t their work; for if the Church had not existed, there is no rea-
son to doubt that the spontaneous activity of the public mind, which has
treated t,m thousand schools for a population of two millions in the
S tate of New York, would have brought education to the door of every
h
veasatit in th,,t more wealthy and far more densely peopled England.
There is, however, a higher inquiry which grows out of
this subject. Ti:e Times reproaches the Catholics with a
belief in the foolish stories of the Saints, but similar
foolish stories are taught by the Church of England.
It ridicules the belief in Mesmerism, but - is pro
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.ahly a devout admirer of the doctrines of Apes-
'lied succession as taught at Oxford, according to
which eve must believe that the Clergy of the Church
of England have received, by the unbroken sue-
Cession of laying on of hands, through all the long
list of wicked Popes, and warlike Bishops, and cun-
ning Priests of the middle ages, the power to
iheal and to save ; and that they alone are the
ministers of the true Church of Christ. Those
who believe this have not the smallest right to ridicule
the belief in the Unknown Tongues, much less the visible
Phenomena of Me,:rnerism. We hope that this opportunity
will not be thrown away for instituting an inquiry into the
general effect on the p,,blic mind, particularly as causing a
predisposition to eredulit,v, of the weekly doctrines of the
State paid Clergy. Wl),' should ignorant men be
Condemned, and be treated as 6. -iminals for believing in the
Possibility of a repetition of such marvels as the Clergy
weekly
insist it is necessary for all :.ken to believe ?
till the
experiment wai made, could the Clergy expect that

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