The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-01 00:00:00

gennine son of the Church—charity. Any other sin,
venial or mortal, may be forgiven, but if a clergyman
more especially if he be a Bishop—be found guilty of
holding communion with any man who is not within
the pale of the Church, as by law established, he is
regarded as one that " is worse than an infidel, and
that has denied the faith." The beauty of it is, that
in the same page in which the most virulent abuse is
poured forth against all Clergymen who pollute their
eyes by looking upon a Dissenter, we are sure to find,
a fulsome encomium on the meek, humble, and
tolerant spirit of the Anglican system of religion. For
our own part, we think that much good results to the
cause of true religion from those tirades against its
professors—not merely professors of its theory, which
any hypocrite may be, but evidencers of its practical in-
fluence on the heart and life—because the real spirit of
Church of Englandism is thus set forth in a strong
light, and placed, even to the most unreflecting, in
glaring contrast with the spirit of Christianity.
How pregnant with instruction, in this view, is the
persecution which the Tory Press has lately set on
foot against two of the most distinguished Prelates on
the Episcopal Bench, the Bishops of DURHAM and
NORWICH. Day after day are these learned, pious,
and excellent men subjected to the grossest abuse
in the columns of the Tory Journals. And why ?
What is the cause of all this envenomed hostility ?
These Right Reverend Prelates have shown that they
can rise above those narrow and sectarian views which
it is the tendency of an Establishment to foster in the
minds of its Ministers, and can appreciate, even in a
Dissenting Minister, those qualities which in every
other man are held in the highest estimation. The
Rev. Mr. TURNER, who has presided over the Unitarian
congregation at Newcastle for upwards of fifty years,
a man of high attainments and exemplary character, is
about to publish a volume of practical sermons. To this
publication the Bishops of DURHAM and NORWICH
are said have subscribed. This is the " head and front
of their offending," and for this they deserve, in the opi-
nion of all thorough-going Church of Englaudists, to
be thrust not only without the pale of the Establish-
ment, but of Christianity itself. No sound son of
the Church can think of such a profanation without a
shudder. That a Bishop should so far forget himself
as to give the go-by, even for a moment, to the princi-
ples of Mother Church, and adopt those of the New
Testament, is not to be endured. Had the Prelates re-
ferred to subscribed to hundreds of volumes of sermons
by Unitarian, Arminian, Calvinistic, or Popish Minis-
ters within the Church—of all which sorts there is no
lack—all would have been as it ought ; but to give
the sanction of their names to the publication of the
effusions of the Dissenting pulpit, is a crime of too
deep a dye to be expiated by any punishment short
of deprivation. How different a thing is heresy with-
in and without the pale

But let us see if we cannot find a precedent for this li-
beral and truly Christian conduct on the part of the Right
Reverend Prelates, for precedents, we know, are of
infinitely greater force with your thick-and-thin Church-
men than any arguments. Dr. NATHANIELLARDNER
is a well-known Unitarian author—the ablest and
most celebrated of the modern professors of that doc-
trine. To the first edition of his collected works
published in 1788, a list of subscribers was prefixed,
in which list will be found, besides a host of minor
dignitaries, the names of the following Bishops—CAR-
LISLE, CHESTER, EXETER, GLOUCESTER, LIN-
COLN, LLANDAFF, LONDON, SALISBURY, ST•
ASAPII, and WINCHESTER! To this, it may be
added, that even at Oxford, some portions of the
works of this arch-heretic used to be recommended
to the students of theology, for their perusal, by the
Professors. We are not sure, indeed, that the " Cre-
dibility of the Gospel History" was not made a sort of
text-book at that University.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Tuesday have
been received. The St. Petersburgh Correspondent of
the Courrier Francais writes as follows to that re-
spectable Journal, in a letter dated the 15th ult.:—
" Two aides-de-camp of the Emperor, charged by his Ma-
jesty with Cabinet missions, left to-day for Odessa, whence
one of those Generals is to proceed immediately to Constan-
tinople. Three couriers have been despatched from the Bri-
tish Embassy in the course of the last 48 hours. The affairs
of Turkey have assumed a turn totally unexpected by Russia,
and it is even rumoured that an English squadron is about to
enter the Dardanelles. The Emperor is determined on ob-
taining a categorical explanation from the Sultan, and has
accordingly prescribed the greatest activity in the organization
of the southern army and of that of Bessarabia, and of the corps
of embarkation and of the fleet of the Black Sea. It is highly
probable that if England be bold enough to order her fleet
into the Bosphorus, the Egyptian army will immediately in-
vade Anatolia, where the Turks cannot oppose any serious re-
sistance. Be these statements correct, or the contrary, this
conflict will be only deferred ; things cannot go en as they do
much longer in peace, and although Russia is not desirous at
present of a rupture, yet sooner than lose her position she
would prefer engaging in a war.
The intelligence from the Caucasus has complicated affairs,
not so much on account of any defeat sustained by the Russian
troops, as because it has been ascertained that succours are
regularly forwarded to the insurgents from Constantinople,
Sinope, and Trebizond, by the English and their agents, which
may indefinitely prolong the resistance of the Circassians, and
even kindle the flame of insurrection in Georgia. The
Tcherkeses have among them a number of European officers.
who have been of the greatest service to them ; and the
Priuces who might have been induced to treat with the Cabi-
net would now be afraid to enter into any negotiation of the
kind, for they would, in so doing, expose themselves to cer-
tain death. On the other band, the blockade, which is more
injurious to the trade of the Russian merchants than to the
insurgents, and is attended with enormous expense, cannot be
continued during the inclement season, which will interrupt
the coasting trade, or the forwarding of British succours.
The army of the Kuban and the Cossacks have been thrice
re-organized, and as yet Russia has not been able to muster a
competent force in that important quarter. The Generals
will again be changed without any result. This war is a real
cancer for the empire.
The Envoy of the United States, appointed before the last
j ►urney of the Emperor, will set out in a few days. The
Cabinet is most anxious to obtain a new treaty, and attaches
the greatest importance to bring over to its side the Ameri-
cans, and to form a solid alliance with those masters of the
new world, to enable Russia to domineer over the old hemi-
sphere. It wishes besides to injure England, and involve her
in difficulties on that side, and the measures adopted since the
issuing of the ukase respecting the Northern Ocean afford
sufficient evidence of its intention.

The belief in a war between England and Russia
is general in Paris. The only question is as to the
moment of its commencement. That it would give
new life to Lord MELBOURNE'S Cabinet, is the pre-
vailing Opinion everywhere. The Tories, it is said,
wish to delay the coinDiencement of hostilities till after
the meeting of Parliament, that they may have an
opportunity of regaining the reins of Government as a
War Ministry. Passing over these rumours, and an
hundred others equally vague, . we extract from the
leading columns of the Courrier Francais the best
article in the Journals before us, on the important
question of the hostile manifestations of England and
Russia in the East :
The London journals accuse the Parisian Press with
having designedly envenomed the character of the differences
which have lately sprung up between Great Britain and Rus-
sia. According to them France has an interest in this war,
and it only waits a favourable moment to pass the Rhine and
the
Alps. It is with that object we wish to push matters to a
rupture.
Frenchmen werePossesaed with
this warlike ardour, it must be owned that we would have
If, indeed, we
found the two rival Cabinets very ready_ to answer the appeal.
well-judged what has
Even before the commentaries of the French Pre-,34 could have
reached the Indian presidencies we learn that military move-
ments have commenced. Must we be found fault with for
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quarrel, we applaud the energy and the decision which the
has demonstrated in the East. A
tliatthwe-eseheavveenwtse.
At the risk of passing
English Government ,i.t the
first new 7, of the siege of Herat it recalled its Minister from
the Court of Persia, and renewing the same coup de main by
which France obtained possession of Ancona, it occupied
Bushire, where the British flag offers a rallying pc,i4t to the
discontented. Soon after learning that 10,000 Russians or
Georgians are united on the southern coast of the Caspian sea
and recognising the concealed hand tl-:kt bad :14 the Persian
army into motion, it ha a decided on taking the offensive, arid
of meeting its adversaries half way.
" Letters from Bombay announce that 5,000 Russians