The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-15 00:00:00

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LONDON',
FRIDAY EVENING. JULY 13, 1836.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has fixed
the Ist of September for the reduction of the Stamp
Duty on Newspapers to come into operation.

It is evident from the division which took place last
night in the House of Commons, on bringing up the
Report of the Established Church Bill, that the mea-
sure is by no means popular with the Reformers, and
would have been thrown out, had it not been for the
apt interposition of Sir R. PEEL and his party. We
do not wonder at• the unpopularity of the Bill, for it
is far more Tory than Liberal in its character; pro-
fessing mach, performing little, and providing for the
pecuniary wants of the Bishops—under the pretence
of reducing their incomes—with a lavish munificence
that must throw his Grace of CANTERBURY, and his
Lordship of LONDON into fits of grateful extacy. But
the great—the Radical defect of the Bill is, that it
commences its Reforms at the wrong end. Instead of
first consulting the wants of the working clergy, it con-
sults those of the Episcopal Bench. It repairs the
tinsel ornaments, while it takes little or no heed
of the foundation of the ecclesiastical edifice.
Now we contend that the measure should have
proceeded on just the reverse principle. It should
have looked first to the working clergy, for it
is this industrious, devout, ill-rewarded class of
men who keep religion alive in the hearts of the
community. It is not the loridly Bishop " clothed
in purple and fine linen, and faring sumptuously every
day," like Dives in the parable, who lives on equal
terms with his flock ; mixing himself up with all their
little interests ; enlightening them by his knowledge ;
influencing them by his example ; and making them
better men, better Christians, and consequently better
citizens ;—it is not the Bishop who ever acts in this
manner ; he is never seen praying by the death-bed of
the poor man, and braving pestilence in his anxiety to
save the souls and bodies of the flock committed to his
charge. No, it is the poor, hard-working clergyman,
who is the very corner-stone of the Church establish-
ment, its proudest ornament, its firmest support ; and
with this class of men, therefore, the Reform measure
should have set out. It should have first raised their
incomes, and then in the same proportion have reduced
those of the Episcopacy. Unfortunately, however, it
has commenced with what its supporters call
an abridgement of the revenues of the
Bishops, but which in reality leaves these
apostolical martyrs pretty nearly as rich and quite
as politically influential, as it found them. Now this,
we say, is a crying sin in a measure which professes
to be one of sound Reform. No wonder, therefore,
that the Tories are enraptured with it. It has a strong
taint of Peel-ism about it ; and accordingly the Right
Hon. Baronet pets, and cherishes, and hugs it in his
arms, just as if it were the lawfully begotten of his
own loins. " He apprehended," he observed, " that
the Bill proceeded on the principle that the Bishops
were to continue to sit in the House of Lords ;" and
upon this he grounded his assumption that their reve-
nues were not a whit too much reduced. Surely there
can be no greater sarcasm on the Bill than praise like
this Why should the Episcopal Bench be left in
the enjoyment of a most preposterous salary, expressly

in order that they may have in their power to play
over again, in the House of Lords, the same slippery
tricks they played during the discussion of the Reform
Bill ? Is this Whig, or is it Tory, Reform ?
Really we are more than half inclined to suspect
that the Bill is an emanation of Conservative sagacity.
Again, Sir R. PEEL observed, " four thousand five
hundred a year might be an abundant income in one
bishopric, while in another it would hardly be more
than sufficient to provide for the ordinary claims on the
benevolence of the Diocesan." Now, if we are to
pay for episcopal benevolence—a very ambiguous
phrase—it is but right that we should have value
received for our money—that is to say, that
we should have certificates that the sums which we
consign to a Bishop for a specific purpose,
have really and bona fide been applied to that
purpose. We urge this the more strongly, because we
have heard of Rev. Prelates who, though paid for
years upwards of ten thousand per annum, for pur-
poses of " benevolence"—we have Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S authority for saying that a great portion of an
Episcopal revenue should be applied in such a manner
—have given away as little in charity, as the poorest
curate on their see. Now this should be guarded
against, if only on the Scriptural principle that " from
him to whom much is given; much will be required ;"
and accordingly, though we may be rather heterodox
in our suggestion, we propose that as we cram the
episcopal pockets with the Mammon of unrighteous-
ness, so we should have bona fide evidence that
the wealth thus lavished on our Prelates has not been
wholly devoted to their own personal interests. Sir R.
PEEL went on to scout the idea that Bishops would de-
sire translation from a mere love of filthy lucre, "he could
not (he said) join in such extravagant notions of the
corruption of human nature." Amiable enthusiast !
What a sweet, simple, confiding soul it is ! Altoge-
ther we look on this Church Reform Bill as the very
worst article of home manufacture that has yet been
turned out of a Whig workshop :

" Its faults are a thousand, its virtues are one."

And that one is—effrontery ! If it had no other
defect, still its leaving an Archbishop in the full, un-
controlled possession of fifteen thousand per annum,
would be quite enough to cover it with ignominy. But
it has other faults. It is a compromise with Toryism
—a sop to Cerberus. These are harsh words to use,
but our duty to the people leaves us no alternative.
We respect Ministers for what they have already done
—we respect them for what they are still willing to do
—we believe them to be sincere, and we know them
to be the best set of men we ever had to rule over us ;
still we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that in this
particular measure, Toryism and Episcopacy united
have fairly cowed their spirits ; made them vacillate
where they should have been decided ; and halt where
they should have boldly marched forward.

The annual Punch-and-Judy-exhibition of fana-
ticism, bigotry, and impiety, took place at Exeter-Hall
yesterday. • The Judy of last year played Punch on
this occasion ; for, unfortunately, poor Punch is suf-
fering so severely from repletion of " the good things
of this world," that he could not cross a crupper to
save the souls of all the Papists in the universe. In
the absence of the great " O'MULLIGAN," M'GUEF,
Cut but a sorry figure, though the ladies—kind, consi-
derate, melting souls !—waved their white cambrics,
and all but drowned the poor parson with showers of
eau de cologne, and other sweet smelling waters. The
only amusing part of the rant was the exordium.
IVI'G HEE stood. up, and with the coolest ef-
frontery in the world, assured the Meeting thaz
his former statements had been denounced by
Priests—abjured by Bishops—disclaimed by Se-
nators—ridiculed and confuted by the Press—and
made the theme of general censure by poets and
prose writers ; yet there he stood to re-assert all that
he had ever asserted—to give the lie direct to priests,
bishops, senators, editors, poets, anti essayists I And
what said the fanatics to this declaration ? Were they
indignant at being made the dupes of an itinerant Irish
buffoon, who dared to treat them as if they were a
parcel of bedlamites ? Did their Chairman call the
audacious calumniator to order? Oh, no ! The
ruffianly declaration was received with shouts of ap-
plause, and the ladies screamed—actually screamed
with delight--at the idea of having a parson amon,
them ill-mannered enough to give the lie to the whole
Catholic Hierarchy of Ireland.
An occurrence took place during the meeting which
need only to be noticed to convince English Men that
the spirit of " fair play" the boast of this country, is
a stranger to fanatical bosons. During the delivery
of M‘GITEE'S tirade against Catholics and Catholi-
cism, a Catholic Gentleman. who was present appealed
to the Chair for permission to refute the calumnies
heaped upon himself and luls creed, when there Was a
shout raised of " Turn him. eta! Turn him out and
the Chairman told him that if he dared to address the
Nlceting, he would order Lim into the custody of the
police ! The fanatics refeise to allow Roman Catho-
lics to defend themselves 'by a single word, and yet
they can reconcile it to theiir consciences to rail against
them by the hour. Does not this look very like the
consciousness of having to support a bad cause ?
"We will allow the Romanists to defend them-
selves," say the fanatics, " provided they come
armed with the authority of their bishops, other-
wise we will not hear them." Who authorized
them to exact such credentials ? Have they them-
selves any to show to prove that they represent the
Protestant Hierarchy, or the ministers of any Chris-
tian communion ? They demand as a qualification
from Catholics what they know that no Catholic ever
obtained; and yet they dare to become the assailants—
to diffuse the spirit of bigotry—to disseminate lies—
to calumniate and slander individuals without being
able to produce the shadow of an authority in support
of their pretensions to a communion with the English
Hierarchy. Did they not fear that the Catholic gen-
tleman who offered himself to the Meeting would be an
over-match for the Milesian Punch of the day, and
so spoiled the sport, they would have heard him
without questioning the episcopal divinity of his
mission.

But the vagaries of the Protestant Association at
Exeter-hall are as nothing when compared with the
" fantastic tricks" of its co-labourers the " friends of
the Established Church" in Liverpool. M'GHEE is
a mere jack-pudding, a sort of puppet-show merry-
Andrew, when placed in juxta-position with such.
REEVE-and-LisToN-like performers as JONATHAN
BROOKS, A. CAMPBELL, and HUGH M'NEIL.
Where is there a sentence in all the nonsense ever
spouted by Parson M'GHEE containing a tithe of the
fiery ardour of the following, from a speech of Parson
CAMPBELL, delivered in Liverpool on Wednesday
last, and which we extract from the orthodox columns
of Old Granny :—" I view the Church as the candle
which lighted the fires of LATIMER and RIDLEY,
and GoD forbid that that candle should ever be extin-
guished 1" There is religion for you in its orthodox
form There is a Parson's commentary upo❑ the
meek precepts of the gospel of peace, charity, and
brotherly love ! Parson INVNEIL was not behind his
reverend compeer in making his auditory acquainted
with what the Church regarded as the quintessence
of Christianity. " I am grieved to say," patheti-
cally observed the reverend gentleman, " that the
tone in favour of Protestantism which was heard some

years ago is greatly relaxed, and that thereis not that
glorious burst of feeling in favour of the Protestant
religion which led to the fires of Smithfield !"
Cheers followed this audible groan of the ecclesiastical
spirit, which in their turn gave way to a flood of
tears at the dismal prospect of uninterrupted harmony
between Catholics and Protestants. In fact, without
a re-kindling of the fires for the consuming of he-
retics
and unbelievers, the pillars of the Church in
Liverpool are becoming seriously apprehensive that
the sacred fabric will shortly tumble about their ears.
This alarm has increased, owing to the liberal and truly
enlightened spirit which has pervaded all the measures
adopted by the New Town Council. One of these
has been the establishment of schools on the plan
adopted by the Irish Board of Education, with a view
to extend the blessings of early instruction to the chil-
dren of every creed. As soon as this liberal proposal
was made, the Church bigots caught the alarm, and
the Meeting of Wednesday was called to protest
against the conduct of the Town Council, and to raise
funds for establishing schools on the old exclusive
system. Unless the Parsons have their own way, they
threaten to leave the schools unattended, and to induce the
old schoolmasters to resign their situations. Let them carry
their threat into effect, and it will be seen in the end
who will be the sufferers. There is no want of parsons
or schoolmasters to remedy the threatened turn-out in
Liverpool—a precedent for " striking "of which the
mechanics ought not to be unmindful on a future occa-

SIM).

An interesting debate took place last night in the
House of Lords, on the bringing up of the Report
of the Prisoners' Counsel Bill. This measure was
opposed by Lord WHARNCLIFFE, for reasons the
most futile that can well be imagined, while it was
defended by Lord LYNDHURST with great eloquence,
and with a momentary appearance of feeling, which led
the House to believe that the Learned ex-Chancellor
was really in earnest. This very unsteady person has been
till now the bitterest opponent of the just and humane
change which the Government have endeavoured to effect
in the law. He has on this as on almost every other
question, proved how well he can speak on both sides.
But though we cannot give him credit for any very
pure or lofty motive in espousing the right side on
this occasion, we are glad that he has done so, because
his advocacy will be a passport to the Bill through the
Upper House, where alone there was any difficulty with
regard to it.

The mis-leading journal of Europe has this morn-
ing volunteered its services to mislead the Government.
After an appeal to the honour of Ministers, and a honied
address to the " really honourable men among their
supporters," the arch-renegade coaxingly implores the
members of the Cabinet to send in their resignations !
This is modest. The Times, the Carlton Club, the
Peers, a gang of petticoated courtiers, the Protestant
Association, and the collected fragments of the snowed-
up-Conservative majority in the Lower House, have
all been beaten in a contest with Ministers ; and now
the victors are prayed to confess themselves van-
quished, and to retire from a field which they have
made their own ! This is a new mode of ousting a
Cabinet. But were the Ministers to resign to-mor-
row, who is there to succeed them ? Sir ROBERT
PEEL could not retain office an hour after the re-as-
sembling of Parliament, and we believe that even the
Times will admit the Right Hon. Baronet to have
more influence than the whole Conservative Club and
Press put together. But we think we understand
the real object which the Times has in view, in
thus pressing the question of an early resignation
upon Ministers. Our Contemporary has been in-
structed to hint that the Tories would be content to
remain in place during the recess, while to the Whigs
might be left the management of the House of Com-
mons ; and thus, as in the days of yore, both parties
would continue, in alternate succession, to enjoy the
sweets of office. But the Liberals are not such fools
as to be duped after this fashion. The Tories are out,
and the country will take good care to keep them out.

We understand that the Carlton Club has issued its
mandates to all the Tories in the House of Commons,
char-rinc, them not to leave town before the 2d of,
August, when it is expected that the Irish Tithe Bil
will be returned in a mutilated state from the Lords.
Need we say that it is the duty of all Liberal Members
to remain at their posts for the same period at least ?
What are the inconveniences of a few weeks' longer
attendance, to the chances of the success of a plot for
ousting a Liberal Administration ? We are confident
that after this intimation no Liberal Member will leave
town before the rising of the two Houses.

In adverting to the Meeting of Claimants on the
French Indemnity Fund, which yesterday took place
at the British Coffee-house, we beg to refer to a very
clear and interesting account of the origin and pre-
sent state of the claims, which appeared in The Sun
of yesterday, and also to the proceedings of the Meet-
ing, which will be found in another part of our
paper of to-day. The various acts of injustice which
have for several years been exercised towards many of
these Claimants are truly dreadful. 'With all our
good wishes towards the present Government, we
should not be doing our duty to the public, if we did
not honestly express our strong reprobation of the ac-
cumulation, rather than the alleviation, of the grie-
vances of the Claimants, since they have been placed
under the new Board of Commissioners. The pre-
sent Ministers have many obstacles to encounter in
reforming abuses ; but we cannot absolve them in this
instance from the arbitrary proceedings of the Trea-
sury Board, and the countenance given by that Board
to acts of the Commissioners, which are in every re-
spect contrary to liberality, equity, and even of com-
mon justice. The invitation to the new Claimants -to
bring forward their cases on the assurance that " mere
lapse of time should not operate to their prejudice,"
and afterwards the disappointment of their hopes by
the most unfair, technical objections of negligence
in not presenting them earlier, is any thing but credit-
able to a Government professing to be liberal. We
believe that a great portion of the detail of these
matters is left to be worked by the old system
of machinery at the Treasury, which requires the
most thorough reform. The present mode of re-
ferring to precedents, some of which, GOD knows,
are bad enough, is most absurd ; as -is also the prac-
tice of referring any representation or complaint to the
very party or department against whom such represen-
tation or complaint is made. The accused, of course,
returns a partial and secret report, which too often con-
tains the greatest misstatement or colouring of the
real facts, and on which the Treasury as often ground
their decision, without the complainant having any fair
means afforded him of refuting any part of such mis-
statement. The consequence is that any thing like
justice or fair play is out of the question.

We have received the whole of the Paris papers of
Wednesday, together with letters and papers from Ma-
drid to the 6th inst. With the exception of the fol-
lowing telegraphic communication, their contents are
unimportant :—" A telegraphic dispatch from Ba-
yonne announces, that on the 11th instant de-
plorable riots took place at Figueiras. The ap-
proach of the bands of Brujo and Jorilla, and the
news of the murder of the courier from Barce-
lona near Girona, have served as a pretext for
an insurrection, which the troops of the line were un-

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