The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-01 00:00:00

7_,oras4 does not mean to recommend or approve
!the c wtinuance of benefices so small as to reqmre
drat the incumbent should he pinched for food, if be
-Ines not obtain a second benefice, or that the con=
crept:ions of two parishes should be perished fn
food spiritual by his holding both, and hut half-
serving both. We do not presume that Lord
Harrowby requires inequality of subsistence to be
carried to extremes in the Church of England, any
more than our worthy correspondent wishes ":pittrali:.
ties" to be carried to extremes. We see, therefOre, no
reason in this reference to his Lordship's expressions.
When we are told that in some cases clergymen
would starve upon one living, and therefore tle.;
there must be a dispensing power m the !11-Shops,
will any lover of dispensation consent that Parlia-
ment shall confine the exercise or that power to in-
stances of rely poor and insntlicient livings? Will
they do that ? Will the Archbishop of Canterbto
vote for the it roduction of a clause into his I3ill,
for withholding the prerogative of dispensation, stve
only where the livings to be held simultaneously
fall jointly within a certain and moderate income.?
We shall then he able to give credit to the profes-
sions cf a wish to reform the real abuses of di,.
Church. We have read the quotations from Arch-
bishop Whitgift's Nine Reasons against the Anti-
plurality Bill of his days, with which our rnrres-
pondent has favoured us. It was a fine time that,
for men with power and patronage. in their hand,
and a fine nuthority,—Archbishop Whitgift, albeit
a celebrated prelate, we acknowledge,—from whom
to take a decision in cur own days on matters of
Church grievance and gross abuse! We print our
correspondent's letter and the Archbishop's dicta
upon the question ; so if the cause of plurality de-
rives no strength from either, the fault does trot rest
at our door.—Times.

Sir George Hill, who has been appointed to the
Government of St. Vincent's, was handled in such
a manner last night for a defalcetien of above 2,0001.,
that we should suppose it would-be utierly irnpos-
sible for him to show his face in his situation after
the arrival of the English newspapers containing en
account of the debate into the colony. The teverity
with which Sir George was treated, however harsh
it may appear towards the individual, will be of be-
nefit in improving the national morality. It is indi-
cative of more correct views with regard to injuring
the public. However, it is to he hoped that some-
thing like the system pursued in France, of which
Dr. Bowring has furnished an account in a report
lately circulated by Parliament, will prevent in fee
ture all defalcations of this nature. In France, it
appears, it is not in the power of any functionary to
keep back any money a single day, the Govern-
ment having constantly their eye on all his ope-
rations.--Morning Chronicle.
The Irish Members are determined to allow Mi-
nisters no rest till the yeomanry are put down.
Night after night the subject is agitated in the
House, and it is impossible not to see that the good
cause gains by every fresh ngitation. Last night, a
petition was presented by Mr. Biekeney, praying
that the Irish yeomanry should be disbanded. This
brought up the affair of Newtown-harry, when Mr.
Lambert read an extract of a letter he had received
from the Rev. Mr. Walsh, confirming the statement
he had made regarding the proceedings of the yeo-
manry, and respecting the outrage committed upon
a poor woman, named Mary Maloney. He read to
the House the following letter, which he had re--
(-civet! from a highly-respectable person :—" I have
just seen a person who saw the body of the poor
woman, Mary Maloney, the mother of six children !
Horrid sight ! The ball passed through her, ripped
open her belly—she was within six weeks of her'
confinement, and the child's head and body pro-
tuded through the wound. This was seen by
numbers, who can testify to the fee upon oath if ne-
ces,ary." Welt might Mr. Hume exclaim, "
his Majesty's Ministers suppose that the people
of Ireland would rest satisfied that seventeen per-
sons shall be put to death, and no justice executed
upon the perpetrators of the offence ?" However,
it is not, we believe, in the power of Ministers to
obtain justice for any atrocities in Ireland, because
the tribunals are in the hands of the oppressors.
Neither Grand nor Petty July will do their duty in
matters between Orangemen and Catholics. But
what Government can do is to take the arms from
the yeomanry, and thus to guard in some sort against
future outrage. It really strikes us to be a great
mistake on the part of Government, to avow that it
is under the necessity of relying on the services of
the yeomanry. We doubt if the facts warrant this.
In the article in the New Ilfonthly Magazine for
-September, from the pen of a distinguished Irish
Member, a very contemptible idea is given of this
force, which Ministers have made their sheet anchor.
It is difficult (says the writer) to conceive the
motives of the Government. There is in them
something that appears little short of infatuation.
The Irish yeomanry have long been a nuisance,
without one redeeming advantage. They have nei-
ther past services nor present need, nor respectable
condition, nor numerical force, to plead for their
preservation, or allow for the mischief which they
have caused. Altogether their existing force does
not exceed 12,000 or 15,000 men. This probably is
a great over-statement. They are for the most part of
the mere populace; they are disowned by the great
mass of respectable Irish Protestants, and abhorred of
course by seven millions of Irish Gttholics. But it
is said they put down the rebellion of 1798, and
preserved the connexion. This is their common
cry, and that of their partisans. It is one of the
grossest and rankest misrepresentations ever made.
The yeomanry provoked the Wexford insurrection by
their atrocities, practised upon the unprotected and
unarmed peasantry; and with the cowardice so com-
monly allied to cruelty, they fled from the armed or
rather half-armed rebels, and from the wretched
handful of French desperadoes which landed in the
west." There does, indeed, seem an infatuation on
the subject of the yeomanry. Mr. Hume well ob-
served, " that a body of armed men had committed
a gross outrage—had taken away the lives of several
of their unoffending fellow-countrymen. They (the
House) had that fact before them ; they had also
another fact, namely, thet bills had been sent up to
a Grand Jury arid ignored, and, therefore, no public
trial took place. Was it not, then, fitting that the
Government should see that persons thus entrusted
with arms had not made an evil use of them ?
any man in his senses doubt that the persons to whom
he alluded ought to have these arms taken out of
their hands, and was it not in the power of the Irish
. Government to do so ?"—Morning, Chronicle.

SINGULAR FACT.—A gentleman has a
Pigeon-house in the vicinity of Dunbar, and in order to
prevent the troublesome and profitless visits of the cats,
he set traps at the only places by which they could pos-
sibly gain admittance. About ten months since, a cat be-
longing to Mr. JOHN AITCHISON, innkeeper, entered the
pigeon. house, when one of the traps instantly snapt off
her tail and tight fore leg. About ten days ago, this cat
had three kittens, and strange to sly, they had all tails
exactly resembling the stump which the trap had left their
unfortunate mother. The halt and maimed baudron, and
her tail-less progeny, are considered great curiosit'es at
Dunbar.

Cumous DELUSIoN —There is a woman
residing at Waltvorth,isthle ;He of a tradesman in humble
circumstances, Who
nt:houring under an opinion that
she is enciente of a
been resorted to in vain fitestnr:ttuiletBeuwitmo4lrfplo's'e of convincing her
Every means has
of her delusion. yeiars of age. She
considers that her appetite has increased
the last few months, which she attributes to within
to the raven-
ous qualities of her unruly tenant. Latterly, v0w,,,„,
she has had recourse to the " starving system," in the
hope of destroying the monster, until she has nearly
starved herself. Since she has adopted this plan, so fixed
is her conviclion, that she asserts she frequently hears the
wolf cry, and feels it kick for the want of nourishment.
A medical gentleman, who has examined her, considers
that she is afflicted with ovarian dropsy, or an abdominal
tumour of some other kind, which is gradually increasing
in size, and the presence of which she feels, and which at
times causes considerable pain. The delusion appears to
become stronger in proportion to the increase in the size of
the tumour.—Lancet.