The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-12 00:00:00

EMOEtNING CHRONICLE.]

A great sensation has, it seems, been produced
at Oxford by the preaching of a Mr. Mulock,
who is described as the friend of no less a person-
, age than Mr. Canning, with whom he travelled on
the Continent, and whose interests he advocated
on electioneering occasions. It is about a year
since he commenced preaching; at that seat of
learning, and having gained some followers—
some of them of note in the place, the wrath of
the people has been excited to acts of violence
against him. Oxford has always been particu-
larly jealous of teachers of scriptural doctrine,
and as the lower orders in such a place, in point
of dependence, bear pretty much the same rela-
tion to the University which menials do to the
nobleman or gentleman who feeds them, we can
hardly be accused of want of charity if w e infer
that the authors of this violence had a tolerable
assurance that it would be acceptable to their
oily patron's. In another column our Readers
Nvill find some accounts of this individual, his
followers, and their treatment from the mob.
and the quotation from Blackstone's Commen-
taries, with which the article front the Oxford
Herald closes, and in which Mr. Alulock is
pointed out as a fit subject for the temporal
Courts, as a religious impostor, confirms us in our
suspicion that the High Churchmen are at the
bottom of this Het. In order to ascertain what
sort of doctrine was taught by this friend of Mr.
Canning, thus held up as a fit subject for prose-
cution, we have looked into a work of his pub-
lished by Messrs. Rivington in 1821, under the
title of " Divine Truth, the Rebuker of Literary
Scepticism, and the Detector of spurious Christia-
nity." In this work, which is most forcibly written,
and which, we presume, contains the doctrines
which he has been preaching at Oxford, we see
nothing to justify the animosity which has been
manifested against him. We should suspect that
he is no great admirer of the system which allots
so very disproportionate a. share of the good
things of this world to those whose business is to
assist us in preparing for the next,—that he has
some scruples as to the
propriety of quickening the
passage through this earthly vale of two or three
hundred thousand miserable Irish peasants, to en-
able a Bishop to kill himself in a few years with
goodcheer, and
yet leave half a million behind him
—that he does not in the truly orthodox mariner,
take a hint of the Lawyers, and view all these
Scriptural doctrines, the observance of which
might be attended with some inconvenience, espe-
cially to men in the enjoyment of rich livings, as
so many fictions. But we do not exactly see why
he should be crucified on this account. He may
be wrong in his theology—lie may be too sincere
—he may disapprove of making religion a stalk-
ing horse for knavery, but that is no
_good reason
for setting the mob on him. We are willing to
admit that a man who preaches on the subject of
" distressing vicissitudes and invidious inequali-
ties of property," and of the " responsibility at»
tacked to riches," will never make a good church-
man or a good politician (for the practice of the
churchman and the theory of the politician are
quite in accordance), and we can very well un-
derstand how a churchman with 5,0091- °-year
should dislike being told that he holds this
Wealth in trust for the necessitous; but surely
this is no good reason for smoking out the holder
01 the heresy..

SPORTING INTELLIG ENCg.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING.
MONDAY.

Third and last Year—One third of a subscription of 26 soy.
each ; for three yr old colts, Bst 91b ; fillies, Bst 61b.
To be bona fide the property of the'subscriberi.
Subscribers—His Royal Highness the Duke of York, 31r.
G. L. Fcx, Lord Egremont, Lord Lowther, Colonel Wilson,
Duke of Grafton, Duke of Portland, Lord Exeter, and Lord
Verularn.

The Garden Stakes of 100 soy each. T. 111.111.
Lord G. Cay.„,idish's Bizarre, 5 yrs old, 9st 51b
Mr. Pettit's Bravura, 4 yrs old, Bst 121 b
Duke of Rutland's El Dorado. 4 yrs old, Bst 31b
Duke of Verulam's Vitellina, 4 yrs old, 7st lllb
Duke of Rutland's Adeliza, 3 yrs old, 7st 61b
General Grosvenor's Crockery, 3 yrs old 7st 41b

Matches;

Mr. Greville's Don Carlos, Bst 91b, agst Mr. Thornhill's Sur-
prise, Bst. D.l. 100.
Lord Exeter's Valais Royale, Bst tilb agst Mr. Thornhill's
Reformer, Bst tilb. Ab. M. 200.

Capt. lions's Rigmarole, Bst 71b agst Mr. Howell's c by
Aladdin, 7st T.Y.C. 100, h It.
Lord Exeter's Athenian, Bst 71b agst Lord Orford's Orion,
Bst 11Ib T.Y.C. 200, h ft.
_Mr Pettit's Retreat, 9st agst Mr Greville's Elizabeth, 7st
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Sir J. Shelley's b fby Waterloo, out of Scheherazade, Bst 41b
each. T. Y. C. 200.

Capt. lteus's Conviction, 4 yrs, Bst lllb agst Lord Bunting-
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TUESDAY.

One-third of a subscription of 25 sovs. each for four year olds.
D.I. 501. for two year olds. T.Y.C.
Lord Tavistock's Shadow, Bst. 61b, agst Lord Anson's Ina, list
2!b. T.Y.C. 100 h ft.

Lord Iluatingfield's Verbina, Bst 71b, agst Duke of Grafton's
Paul Jones, by Partisan, ist. T.Y.U. 200 h. ft.

Lord G. i.:avendish's 6anymede, 9st 31b,?.gstLord Jersey's
Middleton, Bst 21b. 200 h ft. D.M.

WEDNESDAY.
The October Oatlands Stakes of 30 EAWS. each, 8.M., for three

year olds and upwards.
Subscribers.—Duke of Grafton, Lord Verulam, Mr. IVilson,
Lord Jersey, Lord U. Cavendish, Mr. Greville (two subscrip-
tions), Mr. Batson, Lord Exeter, and Mr. IV. Edwards.