The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-11 00:00:00

[MORNING CIIR..ONICLE.3

Rumours of all sorts are still afloat respecting
the pending appointment to India and other
Cabinet arrangements. If Ministers wished to do
a popular act,every body might foresee the result
of their deliberations ; but as the man who is
notoriously exactly fitted for the post, has not a
'single advocate in the Cabinet, and the good
of the governed is but a secondary consideration
with them, we may expect that as usual all the

doubts and mystery will end in the exposure o(
a job, with 41 its contingent arrangements,

It was oberved in former ages, that Bishops
could never meet to consider spiritual matters, 1
and debate high doctrinal points, without soon
sliding into the seducing subject of tithes
" Sermonem ad decimas vertere," became, indeed,
a vulgar proverb for digression—tithes were, in
,short, the Red Lions of the Clergy, and filled
every niche in their synods, to the great detri-
ment of Religion, and scandal of the order.—
This ancient practice is now about to be revived,
for the dignitaries of the Church seem never
to open their mouths but tithes are the Alpha
and the Omega of their discourse. In the three
Episcopal Charges to the Clergy that have lately
been submitted to the public eye, the subject of
tithes has certainly, to say the least, formed a
very prominent feature. There is something most
discreditable in this miserly anxiety and trepida-
tion for the coffers of the Church. At the very first

whisper touching tithes, the Clergy cry out thieves,
robbery-and sacrilege. TheG overnmenfwhich they
have so steadily supported appears to inspire them
with no sense of security, and like misers over
their treasure, though encompassed by the most
jealous guards and barriers, they yet quake, and
mutter of their gold, and dream of coming to
want. We cannot but think that it would better
become these men not to display such sordid ap--
prehensions, and to rely with the silence of con-
fidence in this instance, as they have done in all
others, on the wisdom of the Legislature.—
(Bid.)

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Paris Papers of Monday last contain a
detailed report—(see THE SUN --of yesterday)—
of the military operations in Greece, which con-
firms the long-disputed accounts of the victories
obtained over the Turks. This report bears all
the marks of authenticity, and is of a character
quite opposite to the vague and general rumour
of the Greek defeats. Accounts from Semlin,
after mentioning the total destruction of the
Turkish army at the 'Thermopylae and in the
Morea, state that the Porte had ordered all the
troops that were encamped on the Banks of the
Danube to repair to Thessaly, in order to form
a new army to act against the Greeks. The late
accounts from the Spanish frontiers—(See THE
SUN of yesterday)—contradicted the report of
the successes gained by the Baron D'Eroles over
the constitutional troops commanded by Colonel
Tabuenca. The Paris Papers, on the contrary,
contend for the accuracy of the original report.
They state that the constitutional column was
cut off in a defile; and that a general massacre
was made by the Royalists. The Colonel, on
being taken prisoner, was immediately shot. It
is added, in further contradiction of the Spanish
Papers, that Mina and Torrijos were afterwards
driven under the walls of Lerida.