The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-05 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.]

The House of Cornmons was delayed to'a late
hour lasuniglit by the question of referring the
claims of the Calcutta Bankers to, a Committee,
Which qaeStiOn. was} carried,. and a Committee,
comprising the chief of the active Members on
both sides, was appointed.. This occupied so much
time, that on Mr. Goulburn moving the order.of
the day for the second reading of the Bill for
the renewal of the Insurrection Net in Ireland,
Sir Robert Wilson said,.that he hoped Ministers
Would consent to postpone the debate to the
next stage—that of the ' Speaker quitting the
Chair forthe House to-go into a Committee. This
was conceded, and the was finally read a
second time,. the debate being.fixed for Monday.
'This is but •a brief respite to be Sure—happy
would it be 'if the interval could furnish some
more consoling measure ot policy for a country
distracted with indescribable calamities, than
one which only goes to add to their burdens,.

and aggravate a system or coercion already in-1
sufferable. It is well known that in some parts
of Ireland the Magistrates have prayed that
their districts might not be cursed with Mr.
Peel's Peace Preservation Bill. This was before
the desolation of famine was so conspicuous as it is
at present,and when no account had been received
of whole parishes receiving Extreme. Unction
in expectation of inevitable death by starva-
tion. What is the Insurrection Act but an ex-
tension of the Peace Preservation Act, the tran-
quillizing spirit of which was so much dreaded
by some of the more considerate Magistrates ? Is
this a remedy for the sufferings of a people who
are described to be perishing in scores—black in
the face, and suffocated with the agonies of un-
appeasable hunger ? Is this the only example Ire-
land is to have to distinguish the wisdom and
vigour of the present Government from its pre-
decessors ? Which of you," says the Apostle,
" if your children should ask you for bread,
would give them a stone ? or if for a fish, would
give them a serpent ?" Little was it ever thought
that the literal sense of metaphor could ever be
brought so near to a dread reality.

NEW TIMES.]
The Morning Chronicle is unwilling entirely
to give up its protege, the Author of the Church
robbery scheme. " The writer," says that erudite
Journal, " has the merit allaying brought legreat
deal of most useful matter within a very narrow
compass, by means of excellently constructed
tables."—" The enemies of truth may attach
mighty importance to the real or pretended dis-
covery of inaccuracies in such a-work."—Oho!
then, there are inaccuracies, are there, in
this work of " prodigious knowledge and re-
search ?" Rather strange, this! And a man must
be a great enemy of truth, not to suffer-inaccu-
racies to pass current for sound information !--;
But let us take another look at the " excellently
constructed tables ;" and observe, the question
between our cotemporary and us is now somewhat
narrowed. He admits that the man of research
is not quite infallible ; aliquando dormitat orne-
rus. are inaccuracies ;, but they are
trifling ! Well, we are willing to meet our brother
Journalist on this ground ; and we hope that in
return he will have no objection to favour us
with plain answers to a few simple questions.
1. Does nc' the man of " prodigious knowledge" assert, in
page .50 of his invaluable production, that " according to the
last Diocesan returns to Parliament, there were 2533 Churches
and Chapels of the Church of England ?"
2. Was there ever a Diocesan returned to Parliament, since
Dioceses and Parliaments have existed, that said any such thing,
or any thing in the least degree like it?
3. Were not the last Diocesan returns on this subject, those
which were laid before Parliament in 1818 ?

4. Is there not at the cnd of those Returns (p.,215) an Ab-
stract of the Benefices in each Diocese, and also of the number
of Churches and Chapels ; and does not that Abstract state the
number of Churches of the Establishment in the 26 Dioceses of
England and Wales to be 10,192 ; and the number of Chapels
of the Establishment to be 1,551; making for the " tottle
the hoole" 11,743 ?

5. Does our worthy Cotemporary call the difference between
2,533 and 11,743 a trifling inaccuracy ?
6. What is the worth of that " prodigious knowledge" which
leads men into such trifling inaccuracies as this ?