The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-07 00:00:00

i others, Churchmen as well as Dissenters, the
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Ou;.y of fe6161.111g LiW unrigiiieous claim, by every law-
ful means within their reach. Our exertions, we
flatter ourselves, have not been altogether without
effect. We are willing to believe that our humble
' labours in this great cause have contributed, in some
small measure, to rouse and keep up that spirit of op-
position to the most nefarious of exactions, which is
now so generally, and, we rejoice to say, so success-
fully, displayed throughout the country.
To the Resolutions of the Committee we give our
cordial assent. They are drawn up with great ability, and
while they evince the most uncompromising hostility to
Church-rates, they are entirely free from all sectarian
feeling, breathing, in an eminent degree, that spirit
which is so becoming in those who are struggling, not
for any of the paltry objects of worldly ambition, but
for freedom of conscience, for the triumph of that
principle on which the very foundation of all true re-
ligion rests, and which4consequently, involves interests
compared to which the things of this world are less
than nothing.
The evidence taken before the Committee of the
House of Commons, appointed last Session to inquire
into the subject of Church leases, is of great import-
ance, coming, as it does, with only two exceptions,
either from Church lessees and their agents, or from
the agents of Bishops, and persons connected in some
way or other with Church property. The result of
this evidence is very concisely summed up in the third
resolution.
The Committee there justly state that it "incontestably
demonstrates that the present system of leasing such
(Church) property is injurious to all parties, to the
owner for the time being and to his successor, each of
whom receives, through the system of fines, but a pro-
portion of the fair value, is without a certain income,
and whose means are regulated by the frequency of
death ; to the tenants, whose tenure restrains them
from improving the property ; and to the nation, which
suffers by the absence of the wealth which an improved
system of managing Church property would produce."
With such evidence as to the baneful effects of the
present management of Church property, and the ge-
neral testimony of the witnesses—such witnesses, too
—in favour of the enfranchisement of this species of
property, it would not be too much to expect that the
Clergy and their Parliamentary supporters would give
up further opposition to the excellent plan proposed by
Ministers, for giving an increased value to Church
property by enfranchising it, and paying the Church-
rate out of the improved value, did we not know the
malignity, party spirit, and bigotry of the Churc
faction.

The public will observe that certain of the Bishops
have neglected, and certain others of them absolutely
refused, to give the information required of them by
the Select Committee. We trust the House of Com-
mons will next Session take measures to vindicate its
authority, and bring these refractory Fathers in God to
their senses. We should like to see a collision be-
tween the Mace and the Mitre.

The Paris Journals of Monday are occupied with
discussing the present state of affairs in Spain.
They could hardly select a more gloomy subject. Every
post from the Peninsula brings but fresh accounts of
the state of social disorganisation, to which the con-
tinuance of the civil war is reducing the whole country.
It is not in the nature of things that it should
be otherwise, and some of our readers may
remember that four years ago we predicted these cala-
mities, unless France and England adopted decisive
measures for extinguishing the hopes of Don CA R Los.
Nor is it by any means probable that matters are yet
at the worst in Spain. New horrors will shock the
moral sense of Europe, if we persist in leaving Spain
to exhaust all her resources in this fratricidal struggle.
Of domestic news the little contained in these Pa-
pers will be found under the head " Foreign Intelli-
gence," in another part of The Sun.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, NOVEMBER 5.
Five per Cents.. 110 f. sc. 10c. 15c.
Four and a Half ner Cents. 106 f.
Four per Cents., 102 f. 50c. 75c
Three per Cents., 81E 51,c. 60c. 70c. 80c.
Bank Actions, 2,680 E 2,685 f.
itente de Naples, 101 f. 70c,
Roman Five per Cents., 104 103%.
Spanish Actives 18 17%N. •
Belgian Bank, 1,450 f. 1,455 f.
Haytian Loan, 400 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —f. —C. money, 25f. 40c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 27%c. ; money, 251. 27X c.
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 110 f. 20c.
Three per Cents., Slf. 75c.
Bank Actions, 2,685 f,
Romans, 103%,
Belgian Bank, 1,455 f.
Spanish Actives, 17%,
Harlan Loan, 400 f,
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, 0CT.27.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1465
—Allgemeine Zeitung, Nov. .1.

Interesting news from Constantinople and Smyrna
will be found in another column. Russia, by all ac-
counts, is preparing for a real trial of strength with
England. The sooner the better.