The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-21 00:00:00

wish it repeated. Suffice it to say, that these
Clergy Reserves, which have been a subject of
dispute ever since Upper Canada began to be
peopled, which had a sad share in the rebellion of
1837, which Lord SYDENHAM and the Canadians
had settled amicably by a Bill sent home for con-
firmation, but which Bill the Bishop of ETETER
turned into the present cause of strife, these
Reserves—partly lands, and partly money, the
proceeds of lands—the Canadians desire to do
with as they please, subject to life interests of
parties concerned. This the Government proposes
to grant. Lord GLENELG and Lord GREY did the
same ; indeed Sir JOHN PAKINGTON is the only
Colonial Secretary who has resisted their demand.
His only objection was that it would divide the
colony into Upper and Lower Canada again, and
both ultimately and quickly, perhaps, from the
mother country. He wishes to treat as null the
votes of Catholic members from Lower Canada,
hopes that Upper Canada might furnish a majority
in time against intrusting the funds to colonial
management (a most unlikely thing), and then, by
pitting Catholics against Protestants, to keep things
as they are. And for what amount of money, gentle
reader, do you suppose that the united Canadas
are to be embroiled with each other and made
disaffected towards England why to secure
merely some 12,000 a-year to the English Episco-
pal Church in Canada 1 Sir JOHN PAKINOTON,
Sir HARRY INGLIS, and the Bishop of EXETER are
ready for this miserable pittance, which the
Bishop of LONDON, and a few others, would hardly
miss, to keep up a constant irritation abroad and
at home, and there is little doubt to endanger the
loyalty of Canada. We perfectly agree with the
Times, that it was nothing less than bad faith in
Sir JOHN PAKINGTON not to carry out the pro-
mises made by Earl GREY, and to bring in the
Bill now proposed while he was in office. He had
better be quiet now. He must yield at last, or
prepare to occupy, not to govern Canada, unless he
would see it completely independent.
We think it the bitterest sarcasm which can be
flung at the Episcopal Church in Canada, that it
will be endangered by the possibility of losing
12,000 a-year. The sums awarded annually to
all the sects which will take State pay, the Church
included, is little above 20,0001. A sum easily
enough raised, if needed, by their co-religionists
here in England. We believe with Mr. F. PEEL
that the Church of England must rely on its own
merits and the character of its clergy for success
in Canada, and that nothing could be more fatal
to its interest than to be loaded with the burden
of undue partiality and favour on the part of the
Government.

The case of the MADIAIS has been argued once
more ; it has been brought before the highest
earthly court in which it can be heard, and it has
not been heard in vain. True, that court de-
clined to take action, or rather left its highest
members--the advisers of their Sovereign—to act
for it ; but it distinctly pronounced its judgment. ,
It did so by' ratifying the proceedings of the suc-
cessive Foreign Secretaries, who had in the
strongest terms allowable appealed to the Popish
Duke, through the British Representative at
the Court of Tuscany. Sir ROBERT PEEL de-
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vindicated their humble hostuillmuhslteri butous
righteous cause—to tell them that but one man,
and he an apostate from the gentle creed of the
Society of Friends to the exclusive one of Rome, had
a word to say for their persecutors man who,
on Tuscan and Papal principles, would now be in
a common gaol, or indeed under the knife of the
guillotine ; but who on Protestant principles takes
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ADIAIS, in the worst light in
which a bitterly Popish Editor and Irish Member
of Parliament can place it, is as good a one as any
Protestant
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for
which they now linger
in bonds, they might say with an
to h
n apostolic victim
of religious malice—" They neither found us dis-
puting with any man, neither raising up the peo-
ple, neither in the synagogues nor in the city •
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and urged others to read the Bible. Now,
this
last clause expresses, according to Mr.
L UCAS the
gaol-deserving crime. It might be • just permis-
sible to read a Bible, but to teach a servant to
read it is unendurable. Mr. L
UCAS deserves
no other answer than astonishment at his
impudence. Had he been brought up from
infancy, like a kind of Papal SAMUEL,
in the precincts of the Vatican itself, had
he never heard of nor enjoyed the blessing
of reli-
gious freedom, were he now forbidden to hear
mass, to confess, to say his paternosters and ave-
marias, and to convert to Popery all the Perotest-
ants he can, we might, perhaps, bear with him ;
but wantoning in full liberty himself—liberty even
to defend the remorseless Popery of Tuscany—we
deem the being self-disgraced who advocates bonds
and imprisonment for teaching the Word of GOD—
as Mr. DRUMMOND happily observed, for teaching
the laity to read that New Testament which, as
soon as they opened it they found to be addressed,
almost exclusively, to them
Mr. LUCAS is, indeed, a little come down since
he penned his fierce reply to Sir CULLING EARDLEY.
He does not now advocate death to "those who
(by means of the Bible) make people devils, or
worse"—he would only " exterminate" them—we
suppose he means drive them beyond the termini
of the country, a mercy which has been asked in
vain for the MADIAIS, and a punishment which,
if retorted upon Mr. LUCAS, would, perhaps,
make him happy in the Court of the GRAND
Dux& It is impossible, however, to find an argu-
ment for the DUKE in Mr. LUCAS'S speech which
needs an answer. The most like one is that
" Tuscany would not allow foreigners to tamper
with its religion." Granting, howeveA that the
MADIAIS might havefirst learned from fttreigners to
prefer the teachings of the Word of GOD to the dicta of
Priests and Popes, yet the MADIAIS were natives,
the foreigners were gone, and the whole is a ques-
tion not of deporting foreign missionaries, but of
persecuting native Christians. For a believer in
the POPE'S supremacy, too, to exclaim against
foreign intermeddling with a nation's religion !
if that may properly be a subject of punishment,
why, of course, the Ecclesiastical Titles Bis
superabundantly justified. The truth is, that to
persecute any one for teaching the religious views
,which he believes to be truth, is, as Lord JOHN
remarks, "a great moral crime."
Mr. LUCAS twitted Lord PALMERSTON with the
expulsion of the Jesuits from Switzerland. He
was doubly answered, that the POPE himself had
declared the institution of the Jesuits to be incom-
patible with the cause of good order ; that Spain,
the most Catholic country in Europe, expelled
and that, in
them also, and on political grounds ,
•
(this case, it was with the concurrence of Catholic
'France, and because both Governments recognised
in them the sole cause of Swiss disturbances.
Tahiti was also dragged in by Mr. LUCAS, but in
vain, We never justified the law of Tahiti which
forbids "foreign intermeddling" with the religion
d—but as
which the Missionaries had introduce ,
Lord PALMERSTON remarked, these Missionaries
were not cast into dungeons, they were merely
calls it. Mr.
quietly " exterminated," as Mr. L.
LUCAS seems to exult in the enforcement .of Papal
Missionaries and French protection on the island
d the
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by French cannon. Would he recommen
introduction of a 11/Lesion to Tayany from