The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-30 00:00:00

suspension of Mr. CHAPMAN, with a view to his
ultimate removal from the office which he so vilely
desecrated. Whether his fienzied conduct iesulted
from brutish ignorance, from coarse cruelty, or from any
other assignable motive, he is manifestly unfit to be
permitted the further exercise of any influence or
authority. By way of bringing the wretched

woman to a fitting sense of her awful situation,
he enters her cell with a lighted candle, and
seizing her hand, deliberately holds it over
the scorching flame, despite her agonized
struggles to get free, not, we are willing to believe,
in order to gloat over her writhings, but, forsooth,
to give her a foretaste of the torments of hell-fire. An
act of more astounding fatuity and fanaticism could
hardly have been committed in the darkest days of
monastic superstition and intolerance. It is truly
grievous to have to record in the middle of the nine-
teenth century a piece of conduct, on the part of a
pastor of the Established Church of England, which
would, have entitled him to rank as a zealous
and approved familiar of the Holy Inquisi-
tion. Perhaps the Reverend Gentleman conceived
that as St. DUNSTAN most effectually routed
the Devil by griping his nose with a
pair of red-hot tongs, so he might exorcise the
Spirit of Evil from the condemned creature by the
application of the fiery torture. The question in
proportion which he propounded to her was truly
edifying : if such was the pain endured by the burn-
ing of a single member at a taper's flame, for the
space of two minutes, what must be the torments of
hell, where her whole frame would be in combustion
for hundreds of years. It may be that in speaking
thus he meant to convey a lively sense of the
pleasures of purgatory, and, indeed, the mind of
the sacerdotal tyrant strikes us as being one likely to
be obscured by the pitchy clouds of Puseyism and
defiled by the impure monstrosities of that mongrel
heresy. Fortunately, however, the days of the faggot
and the pile are passed away. Auto-dafes are obso-
lete in England, and even the cry of the victim of a
minor torture is not suffered to sound unheeded in
the dungeon walls. Of all species of tyranny, the
priestly is the most abhorrent to the British mind,
and any attempt at its revival serves but to provoke
the unanimous and unqualified indignation of honest
and independent men, and to call down crushing con-
demnation on the head of him who is wicked or weak
enough to introduce its hideous form anew upon the

scene.
In the present case the civil authorities have acted
promptly and efficiently, and we trust that the ec-
clesiastical powers will record their approval of the
wholesome example set by the visiting justices of
Warwickshire, and, by a marked admonition and re-
buke, prevent any recurrence of such a violation of
public decency. We need scarcely say that we are
far from being influenced by the slightest feeeling
of personal towards the Reverend RICHARD
CHAPMAN ; our observations are elicited solely by
considerations of the public good, and we sincerely
trust that in the discharge of our duties as impartial
journalists, we shall never again be called upon to
animadvert on a case of similar notoriety.
With regard to the Reverend Mr. JONES, the
curate of the parish of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, to
which we have previously alluded, we feel equally
shocked, surprised, and disgusted. What were the
grounds upon which he dared to deny the decent
ceremonials of sepulture—rites which are for the
edification of the living, and not for the benefit of the
insensible corpse ? The Rubric of his Church
enjoins that those rites shall not be extended to " any
that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have laid
violent hands upon themselves," but there is no
other exception. Nevertheless, it seemed meet to the
diseased conscience of this strait-laced curate to
extend the penalty. He first sought to drag his
Bishop into the mire, but his endeavours were in-
effectual, his Lordship being out of town. He
then took upon
_himself the detestable responsibility
of refusing to read tlie ordinary service over the
body. The expostulations of the churchwarden
were set at nought. That functionary, in
order, if possible, to obviate the unpleasant
consequences which appeared imminent for the
family of the deceased were very properly deter-
mined to bury their unfortunate relative in their own
Plivate grave—proceeded to a congregation of
divines, who held their sittings somewhere in
I Southampton-street, and one of their body had
the good sense to bring the proceedings to a
close, and performed the funeral service, feeling
convinced that no minister, when duly called
upon, had a right to refuse executing the duties of his
office in this respect. Can it be a matter of wonder
that the ranks of Dissent are copiously recruited when
such fantastic tricks are played by the parsons of the
Church of England ? If the heads of that Establish-
ment are bent upon accomplishing its ruin, they can
adopt no more efficacious course than to countenance
the freaks of the Rev. Messrs. CuersEs N and JONES, and
they will, ere long, have the satisfaction of finding the
edifice tumble about their ears. There is, they may
depend upon it, a strength of public opinion which
will sternly repel the encroachments of fanatic domi-
nation, and whose warning voice should put a sum-
mary end to the exhibition of such lugubrious far-
cicalities.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes the following :
" Several Italian journals paint u.ader the most false
colours the attitude assumed by the :French Government,
in the negotiations which have led to the peace between
Austria and Piedmont. In reply to these calumnious
accusations the Government confine& itself to publishing
the following document; it is the only reply which it
becomes it to give:—

" ToriTn, 21st August.
" Monsieur le Ministre—The friendly interest which
the Government of the Republic !aa.s testified for us
.during negotiations of Peace with. Austria, makes
it a duty for us at the mew ent when these
negotiations have happily been concluded, to ex-
pre*s to the French Cabinet our sincere gratitude
forits rood offices in our favour, which we are pleased
to admit 'lave so powerfully contributed to obtain for us
conditions to which our honour will allow us to sub-
scribe. I, in consequence, fulfil a pleasing duty in
making myself to you, Monsieur le tlinistre, the inter-
preter of the sentiments of my colleagues, the other
Ministers of his Majesty, who, e,ll like myself, have
warmly appreciated the support which has been given to
cs by France in this difficult circumstance, and which
has so well justified the confidence which we have placed
in the efficacy of her word. [ hope that you will
accept these expressions of our sin cere gratitude, and at
the same time the assurances of t he high consideration
with which I have the honour to bi
" MASS. D'AZEGLIO."
The Assemblee Nationale pubitishes the following
account of the reception of General LAMORIIIIERE by
the Emperor of RUSSIA.—
" Accounts have been received in. "Paris by the friends
of General Lamoriciere, of the rec eption of the Ambas-
sador of France by the Emperor Nicholas, and of his
residence in Warsaw. The foll,awins is the correct
version:—' The General, and what is more, we will
even say the Ambassador, was very well received; all
that has been said of the whisperings which were excited
by the rough soldier-like manner of General Laraoriciere
is completely incorrect; the General is a man of too much
sense and too well bred not to have corrected, in the
midst of a military and polished covet, all revolutionary
habits. The Ambassador was everywhere feted; the
Emperor invited him to his table, but every time that
the General wished to open a political conversation as
to the future prospects of Russia, and the object of her
immense armaments, the Emperor abstained from reply,
without, however, departing from his usual courtesy. It
appears, however, that one evening, being very much
pressed for an answer by a certain def;ree of persistence
on the part of General Lamoriciere, the Emperor said—
' My project, General, with the kelp of God, is to
i
suppress revolution wherever t may show itself.
We think that this was meant laierely as a menace
against the spirit of revolution,. and not agai▪
nst nation-
alities ; for, with the esteem with which the person of
the Emperor inspires us, we will remark
is not a good means of inspiring no, to him that it
ole ideas i▪ n a nation
like ours to proceed by threats. The revolutionary
spirit, however, extends itself by that deplorable agita •
lion in the public mind,
that sanguinary fever, which
has precipitated Europe into all kinds of excesses since
the 24th of February, and it is to that which the Em-
peror alluded in his remark.'
The Legitimatist pilgrims have returned from their
visit to the Due DE BORDEAUX, at Ems. The
Opinion Publique publishes a long account of the
sayings and doings of the various parties concerned,
from which it appears, that M. VERON, the proprietor
of the Constitutionnel, had the most narked attention
paid to him by both the Count and the Countess of
CHAMBORD.
Itis said that M. GUIZOT is a candidate for the re-
presentation of the Department of the Lower Seine,
vacant by the death of M. VICTOR GRANDIN.
The Grand Duke of BADEN has written to the
PRESIDENT of the Republic to thank him for the kind
reception he met in France during the insurrection
which drove him from his dominions.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic intends to visit in