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LONDON :
TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1838.

Dr. CHALMERS asserted on Friday, as the main principle
on which he, giving his full assent to the doctrine of free
trade in all that concerns feeding, lodging, and clothing the
people, founds the necessity of a national religious Establish-
ment, that there is no sustained natural desire for reli-
gious instruction as there is for food. Man will not go
forth in quest of Quristianity, said the Rev. Lecturer, and
Christianity Tuust go in quest of man. On this assertion it
is inferred that there is no natural disposition in mankind to
buy the services of parsons as they buy the services of far-
mers, and, therefore, the State must:tax them for this
purpose. It is certainly under a dispensation of
the latter kind that our Church exists, and we can
Justly infer nothing of the natural disposition in
question from the riches of the Establishment. At the same
time, it is a fact that great multitudes of poorly fed and
poorly clothed people look with no envy, but rather with
approbation, on the possessions of our aristocratic Bishops
and Rectors, while they declaim against the opulence of
landlords and farmers. As a specimen of the wealth of
the Bishops, we may observe that the Examiner of Sunday
stated that the average personal property left behind by
twenty-four Bishops who have died within twenty years was
70,0001. each. We doubt whether Dr. CHALMERS can
find twenty-four farmers who in that time have left behind
them as much as 70,0001. amongst them all. This is
conclusive evidence of greater fortunes being now made
by the occupation of dispensing religious instruction
than by the occupation of feeding the people. We should
not, however, be entitled to conclude much from this par-
ticular circumstance, could not a similar disproportion be-
tween the manner in which society has paid those who
have dispensed religious instruction from those who have
supplied it with foed, be traced in all ages. Though the
first inventors .)f the useful art were honoured as demi-
gods, those who practised them were within a very short
period found in a degraded or a servile condition. H us-
bandmen were slaves, while priests were kings. The first
lawgivers were religious teachers ; and in the early ages a
prophet and a King, or a chief, were synonymous. The
leaders of the chosen people—the masters of their war-
rior kings, belonged to the order of priests, and the promise
of a glorious futurity, which has subsequently been held
to be typical of universal salvation, as well as the prospect of
a land overflowing with milk and honey, tempted them from
the flesli-pots of Egypt. The Pharoabs were probably
high priests as well as Sovereigns. "In the writings of
HOMER," says President GootrET, in his admirable work
on the Origin of Arts,

"The Kings always did the office of sacrificators. . The Greeks were
so thoroughly convinced that the high priesthood could not be exercised
but by their Kings, that even in the cities that changed their monar-
chical government to republican, he who presided over the mysteries
and affairs of religion had the title of King, and his wife that of Queen.
It:was the same thing in Rome; in spite of the aversion and contempt
which these haughty Republicans kept up for whatever bore the nature
of King; yet they had at Itume a King of the Sacrifices."
" The office of Supreme Pontiff," says Gibbon, " which, from the
time of Numa to that of Augustus, had always been exei-cised by one of
the most eminent of the Senators, was at length united to the Imperial
dignity."

It would be id!e, with the tirades ringing in our ears
which t7,-.; Protestants continually pour out against the
POPE, to quote one word of evidence of the vast power
:::rich the priesthood continued to possess, subsequent to
the destruction of that empire in which the office of Su-
preme Pontiff was merged in that of Emperor. In fact,
the Christian priesthood of the dark and middle ages were
the true heirs of all the civil power of the Roman Magis-.
trates ; and with a short interregnum, the dominion of the
Roman Emperors, increased and extended, was revived in
the City of the Seven Hills, in the person of the successor
of the Apostles. Thus, from the very beginning of history
to the last Sunday's Examiner, to the present existence of
Lambeth Palace, there is abundant evidence of the craving
of the heart of man for religious instruction, and of his
being willing to honour and reward, and almost to worship,
those beyond any other class of men who undertook to
supply it. Dr. CHALMERS'S assertion, that there is no
natural desire for religious instruction, and no willing-
ness to pay a suitable price for it, is positively
false ; and if it were true as to Christianity, and
if that have, as Dr. CHALMERS asserts, no affinity with
the wants and dispositions of man, what can man infer but
that Christianity itself is contrary to the order of nature ;
that it is some unfounded superstition, which the ambition
of the priesthood wishes to palm on mankind? We must,
therefore, defend Christianity against the selfish priests who
for the mere sake or getting pelf from the State deny its
adaptation to the physical and moral constitution of man,
From the beginning of time, to the very moment that we
write, there has been in every condition of society, amongst
the most benighted savages, as amongst the more enlight-
ened people, a yearning after a knowledge of things un-
seen ; and Dr. CHALMERS calumniates Christianity, out of
greediness for lucre, when he affirms that it is not as well
calculated to gratify those yearnings, as the pagan mytho-
logy of the Greeks and of the Romans, which elevated
those who taught it to the highest rank in society.

The French Minister of War, General BERNARD,
has presented a Report to the Chamber of Deputies,
setting forth the extent and commercial advantages of
the territory acquired by France in Africa, since the
capture of Algiers in 1830. There is much in this
document to attract the serious attention of the peo-
ple of this country—deeply interested, as they are, in

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