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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1840.

and of educating the people in the principles of the Church of ,
England. If this had been done thirty years ago, and educa-
tion extended to teaching the children obedience to and re-
spect for the law, and the frugal husbanding of their means, it
would have been impossible to have raised infuriated bands of
malcontents like the Chartists of the present day, and Englund
would have a very different aspect. He did not cast a general
condemnation on the clergy of that period, for many of them
had fully done their duty ; but he regretted that so golden an
opportunity had passed—an opportunity that would take the
greatest labour and energy of those anxious to impose on the
rising generation to reclaim."
The Sun, No. 14,657, August the Bth, 1839.
" We cannot on this occasion lay down our pen without en-
deavouring to impress on the religious and. Protestant part of
the community, the unspeakable importance of speedily taking
measures to purify and purge the Church."
" If there be truth or consistency in man, sincere Protes-
tants must turn against those who have given such prodigious
advantages to the Popish superstition."—The Morning Sun,
Tuesday, September, 10, 1839.
" I may therefore conclude, that upon this revision—
Bellamy's—of the Hebrew Scriptures, great stress ought
to be laid, as anticipating a closer approximation in sentiment
among all denominations of Christians now at variance with
each other, upon certain disputed points of doctrine—under this
impression, I think all must subscribe to its importance."—
Chester Chronicle, Feb. 20, 1824.
" The Catholic authorized version was first published at
Douay in the year 1609. It was the result of forty ears' toil
and labour, and can fairly stand a comparison with any other
version of the Sacred Scriptures, published in any country,
either Popish or Protestant."
To the Ministers and Office-bearers of the Wesleyan Me-
thodist Societies in Manchester, Mr. O'Connell's Letter.
To COKRESPONDENTS.—" The Bible.—We have been so
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the utmo t importance to the interests of mankind, that we feel
it to be our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore,
shall be attended to in turn, as we have reason to believe that
the Heads of the Church have already directed their attention
to the controversy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5,
1818.
" Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translation
has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example
and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged
errors, descend to posterity polluted with all those errors; or
shall it be transmitted to the latest generations of mankind,
with as much of its original purity as it is po.Aible for human
sagacity, knowledge, and diligence to elucidate and confirm."—.
The Sun, Monday, November 23d, 1818. The Sun, Septem-
ber 30th, October 7th, and 28th, 1837. The Guide, March
18th, and 25th, 1838. The Sun, December 27, 1838, Feb. 5,
1839.
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Psalms, c. 50.
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" I now proceed to examine the passage which the Reviewer
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the word gnaaroumin, prudent, instead of naked ; which is in
Job, c. 22. v. 6. And stripped the naked of their clothing.
This is, perhaps, one of the passages which he deems elegant,'
' simple,' and 'dignified.' It is ' simple' enough, surely ; and
such simple passages abounding in the common version have in
all ages excited the wonder of intelligent men. ' Stripped the
naked of their clothing !' In the name of common sense, if
they were naked, how could they be stripped ?"—Extracts. See
Classical Journal, No. 38.
A Refutation of the Erroneous Opinions, promulgated by a
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Authorized Version and Douay Bible, Deuteronomy, c. 28,
v. 68, " Anti there ye shall be sold to your enemies, und no
man shall buy you."
Hebrew New Translation, Part the 3d, 1821—" And ye
will prize yourselves there to thy enemies for servants and
maidens, but none will purchase."

Note.—See Anti-Deist, Part 2d, p. 26, 1819.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, Judges, chap. 15th,
v. 4—" And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes,
and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand
in the midst between two tails."

Hebrew, Part the 4th, 18'25, New Translation—" So Sam

son went, and he took three hundred sheaves, also he took brands,
and he turned end to end, and he put one brand between two
of the ends."

Note.—See Anti-Deist, Part the 2d, page 48, 1819.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, 1 Samuel, chap. 22;
v. 6—" Now Saul abode in Gibeah, under a tree in Ramah, ' &e,
Hebrew, Part the 4th, 1825, New Translation—" Now Sau'
abode by Gibeali, milder she Grove toward Ramah," &e.
Note.—See Classical Journal, No. 5, for April, 1811.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, 1 King's, chap. 17,
v. 4, "And it shall be, that thou (Elijah) shalt drink of the
brook ; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there."
Hebrew New Translation, Part the sth, 1831,—" Thus it
shall be, thou shalt drink of the brook, and I have commanded
the Arabians to supply thee there "
V. 6.—" There the Arabians brought for him bread, &c.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, Psalms, chap. 51, v. 5,
" Behold ! I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me."
Hebrew, Part, 7th, 1834, New Translation.—" If I were
shapen in iniquity, or in sin, my mother had conceived me."
Note.—Behold, I was shaper' in iniquity, and in sin did my
mother conceive me. This verse, as it stands in the common
version, is not consistent with the Scripture. The Divine com-
munication stands recorded in Gen. i. 28. and God said unto
them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Now
it must strike every reader with conviction, that as God created
man to multiply and replenish the earth, he did not ordain man
to be shapen in iniquity, nor to be conceived in sin. The
Divine order for the multiplication of the human race is as holy
now as at the beginning: it is pronounced to be superlatively
good, Gen; i. 31., and this Divine order is sanctioned through-
out the Scripture, in all its purity, as at the beginning; con-
firmed by the Messiah, who said, Suffer little children, and
forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom
of heaven, Matt. xviii. 14. ; it therefore follows, that if man
were shapen in iniquity, and conceived in sin, the Divine insti-
tution of marriage could not have been approved of by him.
Mr. O'Connell is a powerful speaker, a skilful politician, an
able advocate for civil and religious liberty, but he should not
attempt theology.—The Sun, No. 14,672.
" Swift seems to have entertained some gloomy forebodings
of the melancholy fate that awaited him. On seeing a tree,
the top of which was withered, he shook his head, and ex-
claimed, I shall he like that tree, I shall die at top."
Mr. O'Connell, though having received the friendly admo-
nition of this paper, in our matter of "sling at top," must
still wear his feathers " in his cap of vanity."
" In London," observes Batista Angeloni, in Letters on the
English Nation, 1750—" religion seems to be periodical, like
an ague, which returns only once in seven days, and then at-
tacks the inhabitants with the cold fit only, which physicians
reckon the most fatal; the burning never succeeds in this
country."
" Even on their days of worship in their Churches,
there is ten thousand times more inattention to their
duty, than to the price of stocks in Change alley all
the rest of the Week ; and the fervour of their devo-
tion, to obtain a seat in Paradise is infinitely short to
that of procuring one in Parliament, purchasing a good bar-
gain on the Exchange, or trying to obtain a good place at
Court ; they are as cool and inanimated in their acts of devo-
tion, as they are warm and active in those of getting riches,
and their temples and exchanges are accordingly constructed
within for those different dispositions, every family having in
their churches a snug pew, a kind of closet, where they can sit
and sleep, or employ themselves in anything but their duty to
the Highest ; whereas in their places of commercial rendez-
vous there are no seats, they would be useless there, the zeal Of
gain keeping them standing to their duty."
With this accurate delineation of the " Corporation of the
City of London," where " the fervour of their devotion for a
seat in Paradise is infinitely short to that of procuring one in
Parliament ;" and this being the municipal body which gives
tone to the institutions of the country, what promoter, we
may expect on behalf of a matter " of the utmost importance
to the interest of trankind," and " a life beyond life."
It is a melancholy reflection that the " two Estates" distin-
guished amongst us as " collective wisdom" throughout the
calm should have had no deeper feeling towards a linguist of a
country than the frequenters of " 'Change-alley."
It is now more than 30 years since the eminent linguist Bel-
lamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a periodical of
the highest literary character in the country, the " Classical
Journal ;" it is 22 years since we became adherents to his pro-
mulgations, and with an intent watchfulness, The Sun, the
Examiner, and the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers
amongst the range, who have promoted the matter held to be
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
life beyond life."
This enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental
Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or " the cruel
and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of vi-
t aperations against them, when one whose purport was and is
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled injus-
tice from the press &England.
It is pleasing to us to observe a conspicuous personage in our
triple state, who was equally unmindful in his day, and of the
posthumous fame of a Prince. Sir Robert Peel has his proper
estimation with a portion of the Press. " The Tories quarrel
with the Hon. Baronet because of the feeble, shifting, cowardly
policy which. he has pursued during several Sessions of Parlia-
ment. We now find this once trumpeted statesman,
everywhere inveighed against by those of his own faction, as a
sluggish and irresolute, if not a feeble-minded, statesman."—
Sunday Times.
When malignancy, the; characteristic of olden time—for
Shakespeare wrote " 1 I ens' evil manners live in brass ; their
virtues we write in wr,ter"—is so rife amongst us, we consider
it our bounden duty to break a lance with the assailants of the
memory of the Pr'ince and Patron of the Work, " of the ut-
most importance to the interest of mankind," and a life be-
yond life"—who
Distort. the truth—accumulate the lie,
And pile the pyramid of calumny !"
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First and Seeond Part of Anti-Deist. Second Part —lB2O, Cri-
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versity of Cambridge. Third Part.-1822. Compilations in
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(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

BIFMINGHANI, THURSDAY.

The addresses of Mr. Sturge and Mr. Muntz, the two
Reform Candidates for the suffrages of the electors of
Birmingham, are now before the public. They are both
sufficiently explicit, and equally satisfactory to Reformers
as regards the political opinions of these gentlemen, but the
circumstance of Mr. Sturge having come forward at a time
when Mr. Muntz himself refused to stand, and when no
other Liberal candidate offered himself, must give him a
strong claim to the support of his fellow-townsmen. As
a sincere and sound-thinking Reformer, and as a man
whose whole life, and no small portion of his income, have
been liberally devoted to the vindication and support of the
great principles of justice and rational retorm, Mr.
Sturge is pre-eminently entitled to the confidence and
the gratitude of his fellow-townsmen, and the country's
at large. In the present contest, an unnatural one, I re-
gret to say, Mr. Sturge takes no active part whatever.
He was absent from Birmingham when nominated by his
friends, who acted on the opinions which Mr. Sturge was
know n to entertain, namely, that under a representative
system every man was bound, when called upon by his fel-
low-citizens, to take his doe share in its administration,
unless prevented by paramount obligations; and that he
who refused to do so had no right to claim the protection
of Government. Mr. Muntz's plea for coming forward at
a time time when the field was occupied by one who en-
joyed, with very few exceptions, the confidence of the
Reformers of the borough at large, betrays a singular
want of consistency. His friends, he says, were of
opinion that Mr. Sturge would not be able to
keep out a Tory ; and, therefore, in order to keep out
a Tory he determines upon the notable expedient of
dividing the Radical interest of the borough I That it is
divided, and that it will continue to be divided so long as
Mr. Muntz continues in the field there is scarcely a doubt,
as Mr. Sturge's friends are determined to persevere in
their efforts to secure his election. What the result may
be it is not very difficult to forsee when it is known that
the Conservative party are united to a man, and ready to
come forward in favour of a Tory candidhto when the
proper time arrives. Mr. Muntz and his friends will thus,
in all probability, have the unenviable credit of throwing
the representation of the Radical borough of Birmingham
into the hands of the Tory party. A Mr. Allen, a bar-
rister, who has some practice at our Local Courts and
Quarter sessions, has taken great pains to convince some
of the electors that he is a very fit person to represent
them in the present divided state of the constituency ; he
appears by the address he delivers occasionally at some
taverns in the town, to be half Conservative half Whig,
and something of a Chartist; his net is manufactured with
great skill to catch all sorts of " fish, flesh, and good red
herring ;" but he is likely to be just as successful as was
Darby, the Irish marksman, whose shot "in the lough"
brought down just nothing at all. The Conservatives arc
keeping this gentleman in pay as a useful foil at the pre-
sent moment to cover their ulterior designs, and he is vain
enough to imagine that they will give him their support.
They will bring forward a candidate better known and
better understood than Mr. Robert Allen, of whom nine-
tenths of the electors make the very flattering inquiry,
"who or what is he?" As regards the respective amount
of support which the two bona fide candidates in the field
may receive from the Reformers, it would be premature,
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representation. two Reformers have entered the field in
to be hoped that the electors will have discrimination
character and object of those who have been the first to
create discord amongst a constituency who should never
have been disunited, and lay the odium of this discredit
able proceeding upon the shoulders of the guilty party.