The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-20 00:00:00

°CPO:BEA 20, 1836.
11. HE SUN% LONDeIiNS IPHITISI3AI4

shall cause to be made to you, will show you that I continue
to devote to that subject all the attention which its close,
connection with the prosperity of the Netheliands demands.
" I am happy to inform you that orders hi.`` e been given
to disband the Militia of 1827 ; and to prolo,ig the indefi-
nite furloughs to the ordinary and extraordinary levies of
1831.
" The revenue is equal to the expenditure ; and I am'
able, notwithstanding the circumstances in which we still
are, in consequence of the Belgian insurrection, gradually
to alleviate the burdens of my beloved subjects.
" The financial laws to be proposed to you will show- that
it is not necessary to ask for new taxes, but that, on the
contrary, the additional cents on several taxes may be
diminished. I entertain a hope that the time is approach-
ing when the ordinary taxes will suffice for the wants of the
State."

Brussels and German Papers of the latest dates have
been received. The latter bring deplorable accounts
of the discontent and misery of the inhabitants of
Poland. In Cracow liberty is trodden under the hoofs
of the Austrian cavalry. Russia is exerting all Ler
influence to prevent the cries of the Poles from reaching
the cars of Great Britain. We rcgret to state that Austria
seems inclined to second her in her schems of oppres-
sion. We have no news of any moment from Belgium.

The French Ministerial Journals speak of the ami-
cable adjustment of the differences between France a 'd
Switzerland as no longer doubtful. • The extraordin
meeting of the Swiss Diet was opened on the 1
instant, but some days must elapse before we can
favoured with a report of its proceedings. Accordi
to La Paix the Deputies for the cantons of Ber
Neufchatel, Uri, Schwitz, Valais, SchofFhausen,
Argou, Appenzell, Tesino, Unterwald, Zug, and
Basle-Town, will vote for making concessions to
France the Deputies for St. Gell, Thurgou, Vaud,
Zurich, and Basle county, will vote against it ; and
all the other Deputies will vote for British arbitration.
The Journal Du Commerce takes notice of the lau-
dable exertions of Mr. WILMOT, the English Secre-
tary of Legation, to give to the aspect of affairs a
pacific turn. Before the meeting of the Extraordinary
Diet he visited several cantons, for the purpose of
counteracting the hostile recommendations of the Swiss
Journals. We are happy to be able to add, that the
Editors generally expressed themselves most willing to
leave the question to British arbitration.

The advices from Madrid, received this morning to
the 10th inst., bring a list of upwards of twenty Depu-
ties already elected to serve in the ensuing Cortes.
The majority are warm supporters of the Constitution,
and favourably disposed towards the present Govern-
ment. We regret to state that owing either to the
treachery or inefficiency of the QUEEN'S Generals,
GOMEZ is likely to escape with his plunder back
again into the Basques. There must be foul play
going .on some where. We more than suspect
the fidelity of several of the QUEEN'S commanders.
They are always sure to be ill whenever the Carlists
appear in their vicinity. In fact, by their own re-
ports, two-thirds of them ought to have been in the
hospital for the last three years.
The QUEEN daily walks or drives for upwards of
an hour on the Prado. Her health was never better,
nor her appearance more cheerful.

The following extract from a letter from Bayonne,
dated the 12th inst., contains the only intelligence
from the north of Spain received this morning :
" A cannonade heard yesterday was intended to celebrate
the birth-day of Isabella 11., and the public rejoicings occa-
sioned by Maroto's arrest. Colonel Wilde, the English
Commissary, sets out to-day for Pampeluna, and will after-
wards 'proceed to Espartero's head-quarters at Pancorbo.
The English Legion has received 375,000 reals from Madrid
in drafts upon different houses of Santander. The Legion
of Algiers is still in the same state of destitution as before,
and it is said that General Lebeau has applied to Prance
to be re-called. Don Carlos will make some stay at Du-
rango, to which place all the Carlist officers are to be re-
moved. The Carlists are busily fortifying their posi-
tions in Navarre and the three provinces, for the pur-
pose of being able to undertake as many expeditions as
possible. The following are the principal fortified points:
—French frontier : Elisondo, where General Silvestro is at
present stationed with Captain Strauss, a distinguished
officer, belonging to the army of the Duke of Baden, Urdax,
Verar and Yrini. Line of Guipuseoa : Oyarzun, Hernani,
Tolosa, and Mondragon. In the last-mentioned town three
pieces of cannon have been already placed on three eminences
commanding the high road. Line of Arlaban : Guevara,
where 32 pieces of cannon are already placed ; the Venta
of Arlaban and the entrenchments cut from Saltierra to
Salina. Line of the Ribera : Estella, Oteiza, GrTlqui,
Manieru, and different poiats of the Arago. Line of Biscay
Ochondiano, a convent situate between that town and Du-
rango, Gualdarano. Line On the coast : Lequeitia, Plencia,
and the town of Guetaria."

The late " visitation " of the Bishop of EXETER,
if it has done nothing else, has afforded a theme for a
good deal of nonsensical declamation to some of the
Tory Journalists. It has come as a sort of god-send,
not to relieve their dullness, for that is impossible, but
to vary a little the subject of their idle and empty chat-
tering. Every thing that issues out of the mouth of a
thick-and-thick Churchman, like Dr. PHILPOTTS, is
sure to find trumpeters among this parasitical class of
writers. Be it ever so alien from taste, sense, decency
and truth—ever so repugnant to the principles of hu-
manity and the precepts of the Christian religion—it
finds ready acceptance with the hired defenders of the
mystical union of Church and State.
In the exercise of this, their vocation, it is curious
Ito remark the contradictions and absurdities into which
these,petty worshippers at the shrine of humbug are
led by the zeal -which they are obliged to feign. -That
which one lauds to the skies for its " elaborate ele-
gance " another is pleased to describe as an " energetic
off-hand composition." " Full of impassioned elo-
quence," cries one ; " calm, dispassionate retrospect,"
exclaims another long-winded twaddler.
A weekly scribe, in the :pay of the High Church
party, strings together a number of eulogistic phrases,
which be seems to have copied from some dictionary
of synonyms, and applies them to the " Charge " of the
Bishop of EXETER, concluding what ha no doubt
considered a high-wi ought panegyric with a bit of
bathos, setting forth that this addreas was every way
worthy of the Bishop—an assertion which it is by no
means our intention to controvert, provided that "'Dr,
PHILPOTTS " be substituted for " Bishop."
The " Charge " is, in truth, ever way worthy of the
Charger. As men do not gather grapes from thorns,
nor figs from thistles, so neither do they expect from
this episcopal firebrand the outward manifestation of
any of those qualities which ought to characterise a
Christian Prelate. Of meekness, humility, or charity,
there is not a trace from beginning to end _of
his common-place composition, These graces, so
becoming, but so seldom found, in a Churchman,
have no charms for Dr. PHILPOTTS, and no plate
in his estimate of the episcopal character. • The
pamphleteering rector of Stanhope speaks to the life
in the Bishop of EXETER. There runs through the
" Charge," the same furious partizanship, the same
fierce polemical spirit, the same arrogant and egotistical
tone, and the same unscrupulous disregard of truth
when a favourite object is to be gained, which dis-
tinguished the pamphlets.
The Bishop sets out with a piece of pleasantry that
must have tickled his auditors in Ho small degree,
„a m happy," says the Right Rev. Father in God,
there was a morbidfeesi'
.ward§ the Establishedtl 'i"1:471
" to congratulate you
eaet.ling
sensation
ne the'otsf
towards the Church, which I
public to.
ago," continues he,
dying away, and
distrust and jealousy
may with propriety gsfiert is now
the body of the people are ;rimmed to wait with pa-
tience for the rectificatiQn of such Matters as may be

decreed necessary by l'aose in -authority." A blind
deference to " those in authority" is a fundamental
principle in the thor.ough-goingehurchman's creed, and
the Right Rev., Charger, doubtless, calculated upon
this bouncing 'assertion's receiving unhesitating belief
from his clergy. The public, however, have long ago
discarded the doctrine of implicit faith. They look
beyond a Bishop's ipse dixit for what they are to be-
lieve or disbelieve. They call for evidence, and in
this case they find facts directly in the teeth of the
above-mentioned congratulatory statement.

Where, may we ask his Lordship of EXETER, are
the proofs of this altered state of the public feeling
towards the Established Church ? Arc they to be
found in the almost universal refusal to vote Church-
rates, which has sprung up within the last three years ?
Have the exactions of the clergy became less oppres-
sive in themselves, or less odious to the people, by the
mildness with which they have been levied ? Let the
proceedings at Bungay and elsewhere answer the ques-
tion. But perhaps the clergy have ingratiated them-
selves with the public by exhibiting their sympathy
with popular feeling. The last general election speaks
trumpet-tongued on this point. Then saw the peo-
ple their so-called spiritual pastors and friends mar-
shalled in hostile array against their rights and liber-
ties. Then saw they the whole influence of the clergy
brown into the scale against them, and the zeal
,which sleeps so soundly and habitually that nothing,
can wake it in favour of the people, roused into al-
most frantic energy, when their interests were to be op-
posed. The " Order" to which Dr. PHILPOTTS
belongs, it must also be remembered, have contributed
their full quota to the general load of unpopularity
under which the Church of England labours. The
Bishops—and none -of them so much as the Right
Rev. Charger himself—by their conduct in the House
of Lords—by siding almost to a man with the party
opposed to reform and improvement of every kind—by
abetting the sworn enemies of popular liberty in that
assembly in their insane crusade against the national
wishes—have incurred a greater degree of odium than
ever fell to the share of any class of men in this coun-

try. All this tells against the Church naturally
enough, and as naturally too does Bishop PHILPOTTS,
who has had so great a hand in bringing it about, en-
deavour to show as small an amount as possible of
evil result, and to mislead the public mind by stating
ex cathedra that the feelings of the people are coming
round to the Church—a statement as absurd as it is at
variance with truth, since the causes which alienated
the people's affections have been, and at this moment
are, in more energetic operation than they were at the
time when the Bishop acknowledges the Church was
in a bad odour with the people.
There are some other points in this " Charge" which
it was our intention to notice had our space permitted.
They are too important to be lost sight of at the pre-
sent moment, and we shall therefore return to the sub-
ject to-morrow.