The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-02 00:00:00

IRISH EPIS(;OPAL RICHES,

TO THE RIGHT 110 N. E. G. STANLE Y.
SlR,—The reports of last night's debate represent you to
Int.ve said thdt Par:iament have no right to divert any part
of the revenues of the See of Derry into any channels other
than those to which those revenues were ihstined. Des
tined, Sir, by whom'.' Whether by the Parliament that
gave them to a Protestant Bishop, or by the original donors
to a Church, who destined them fur a Roman Catholic
Bishop, for the support of the poor, and for the repairs,
8:x. of pl tors of religious worship ? As it is cle,:r that the
Tatter w .s not your meaning, the former remains as th,
real amount of your assertion, Let your statement, then,
be more pt'operly put, v is, that'' Parliament. now have
no right to divert any part of the revenues of the See of
Derry into any channel other than that into which a former
Parliament diverted those revenues Iron their original des
tithrtioti." I leave the 3tatetnertt to refute itself.

But; Sir; let me Ask ytitt, as an honest Statesman antiot:s
for the tranytillity and ielfare,of Ireland, with which you
are in a particular Manner officiall; connected, and as
Sincer tirofesi',or of the ChriSti in religion, is it not to be
gre'stly desired, that the incomes of Bishops in the Irish
Church estahlishinent should not be so great its to excite
those hostile feelings to which they no!oriou',l3 contribute,
and to make the Bishops servants of this world rather than
of Him who said, " it is easier for a camel to go through
the eve of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the
Kingdom of Heaven I" La the ask yort; can the Church
Establishment in Ireland spread—can it even maintain
efr,ctually that Religion of which it is to he the instru-
ment? Has nut the ratio of the number of professors of
the Religion of the Establishment to the population of Ire-
land been very touch diminished, while the ratio of the
number of Roman Catholics, and the number of the whole
population, has been very much increased ? Nay, even out
of the total remaining number of Protestants, has there not
been a great increase in the ratio of Protestant Dissenters
to the Protestants of the Established Church ? You must
answer these questions in the affirmative. It cannot, there-
fore, be for the spreading or maintenance of the pure and
enlightened Established Religion that you can desire to
support the present state of the Irish Church Establish-
ment. It is then for the civil benefits which it confers':
You might smile at such a question, but that you must be
too much interested in the peace and prospetity of Ireland
not to be grieved by the conviction of the civil evils which
it increases, and which it occasions.
Sir, front the circumstances of Ireland and her people,

it is manifest that our Church there, in order to answer its
great and good purposes, ought to he an humble Mission.iry
Church. It is not by the worldly riches of her numerous
Hierarchy and many of her Priesthood, amidst the priva-
tions and sufferings of an impoverished people, that she
will gain on their affections. As long as the doctrine
shall prevail, that Parliament must not touch what is called
Church property in Ireland, for the benefit of the country
and for the interest of our religion, that country cannot
be rendered tranquil, contented, and prosperous ; neither
can the Church Establishment there he made t ffectual'y

instrumental. to the promotion of religion. Choose then
your alternative : On the one side riches and worldliness
for Bishops and for a portion of the Established Priest-
hood, attended by the dissatisfaction and regret even of
their own flocks, and the violent hatred of the great majo-
rity of the people, and a continued state of agitation and
of impediment to national happiness and prosperity. On
the other side, the Bishops and Established Clergy in ge-
neral provided for in a manner far more c-nsistent with
their callin!, and more calculated to render them faithful
executors of their sacred tru,t, more esteemed by their
own flocks, and gaining the respect of others ; and a state
of progressive national contentment (at least comparative
contentment,) with its various happy consequences. Which
side of the alternative will your prefer?
Do not even the present disputes about the amounts of
Episcopal incomes present to your mind an argument for
a speedy change of the system ? The income of the See of
Derry, said Mr. O'Connell, is 20,0001. a year ; and the
late Bishop admitted, at one time, that it was 22,100/. a
year, said Mr. O'Connell. Its amount, said Mr. Hume,
is about 20,0001. a year, and 25,0001. are at this moment
payable as a renewal fine ! The amount of the inconi.,
said Dr. Elrington, the Bishop of Ferns, in a theological
batttle with Lord Mountcashel, is 15,0001. a year. The
amount, said the late Bishop himself, in his solemn act of
making a return to the order of the Legislature, is 10,0001.
a year and upwards—i. e. according to the fair interpre-
tation of the return, 10,0001. odd hundreds or so, a ye ir.
" But," said you, " its amount is 12,0001. a year, and I
can prove it at the bar." 13,ha! what signifies, as relates
to the great question, whether the amount be 20.000/. or
12,0001. ? The latter stun would be a lamentable abuse,

calling aloud fur correction. It would be at leant 9,000/
a year too much ; and so will every disinterested and sin-
cere friend of the Established Religion admit. But ought

not the uncertainty and mystification about Bishops' in-
comes to be removed? Would it not be far better to pay
them as Judges are paid, by salaries ? Then the public

would know what each Bishop had, and more would not
be expected from the Bishop's income than in justice
ought. At present Bishops are strongly tempted to con-
ceal the amounts of their incomes. What could the Bishop
of Cloyne (Dr. Brinkly) mean by returning to Parliament
the income of the See of Cloyne as 2,0001. a year and up-
wards? Surely he knew that the income of his See, all its
sources of income included, is more than 5,000/. a year.
But, Sir, let me bring to your knowledge and that of
the public a dreadful case of the evil resulting from the
present mode of Episcopal payment. Some years since, a
case occurred of a certain Bishop, named Jocelyn (horresco
reftrens,) who from his hiding place, whither the * • *
monstrunz horrendem had fled, actually sent powers of at-
torney for the renewal of leases, and thus was enabled by
the present injurious state of episcopal incomes, to tee, ive
large sums of the sacred property of the Church in the
shape of renewal fines ! (0 what a dreadful misfortune it
would have been, if Parliament had PO interfered in the
direction of episcopal incomes, that such an appropriation
of large sums out of the sacred fund should have been pre-
vented.) We are not to apprehend such a case again;
but might there not be cases of minor delinquency ? And
does not an income paid as a salary tend to keep up the
idea of those duties for which the salary is given'.'
I am, Sir, your humble s.rvant,
Sept. 1, 1831. PRO BONO PUBLICO.

The Tories of Essex, defeated in their at-
tempts to keep even one member of their caste in fur that
county, have adopted a system of rrcrinaination ur revenge
against the organs of the liberal party ; we are intirrued
that some actions have been brought against the Colchester
Gazette by parties connected with the Anti-Reformers ;
thus exhibiting, iu their petty scale, all the hatred of free
discussion which has ever characterized the Tories.
We have the extreme gratification to an-
nounce, from afield' information, that their MAJESTIES,
accompanied by the Duke of SAXE-51RININGEN and the
Duchess of SAXE-WEIMAR, will dine at the Pavilion on
Friday.—Brighton Guardian.

No ladies, it is said, will be admitted, under
the new management, into the pit of the Opera-hunse
wearing bonnets, or any species of bead-dress, calculated
to obstruct the view of those who sit behind them.

The Independent Potter was on the morning
of 'Tuesday last upset near Gawsworth, partly through
the misconduct of the passengers, several of whom, as
we'l as the coachman, were severely injured.—Maceles-
field Paper.

In many parts of the county, particularly at
Tittle hall and the neighbourhood, inflammatory epistles
are becoming very general, and lead us to regard, with
more than a little alarm, the present excited state of the
populace.—Bost Anglian.
TAUNTON.—The harvest is now almost over
in our immediate neighbourhood, and it is considered that
notwithstanding the great expectations the crop is but an
average one. The hop grounds at Orchard Portntan are
attracting considerable attention, as they present a most
beautiful picture to the eve. There is a little blight, and
thheyanti may now be considered " out of danger."—Bath
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The workmen employed in repairing the north-
east tower of Lincoln Castle, lately discovered a door,
opening from the upper dungeon to the outside of the
great eastern wall of the Castle. The recess within which
it was placed was blocked up on the inside with rough
stones, many of which appear to have been rudely hewn
into rounded forms, for the purpose of being thrown cut
by mortars, or some other military engines. The door is
so narrow as only to admit one person at a time, arid is
formed of massive planks of oak. Another door is un-
doubtedly placed on the opposite side of this, but the re-
cess remains at present blocked up with stones. These
doors were undoubtedly contrived for use in case of a
siege, being placed so as not to be easily approached from
the outside, nor exposed to any direct attack. The ad-
mirers of this magnificent monument of old military archi-
tecture will be glad to find an Act of Parliament has
recently passed, enabling the magistrates of the county to
purchase the Castle, with all its moats and bulwarks ;
since the encroachments of private proprietors have made
sad havoc in the mounds and ditches which encircle its
lofty walls, sacrificing the grandeUr of a public structure
for the erection of contemptible and wretched hovels.