The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-13 00:00:00

JOURNALS.

FF.OM TEE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE,—While Sir Robert Peel is collecting
statistics from abroad to justify his disregard of
the public distress, facts are transpiring every day
at home which plainly indicate the necessity that
• something should be done to alleviate the people's
SUlferiligl. If the emissaries of the Premier, who
• are said be now exploring every beggarly bole
on the Contineneto find out where the lowest wages
are paid, should discover that there are places in
Europe where the working classes have even less
to live upon than our own, we shall not accept the
fact as a reason for making food dear in Eng-
land. If we are to abdicate the rank we have
always held among nations as the first in wealth
and in industry, we may begin to calculate how
low.in poverty our people may fall without ab-
solutely perishing front Want, and how fitr we can
restrict our commerce for the. benefit of the land-
owners at the sacrifice of themanufacturing pre-
eminence which we have enjoyed hitherto. We
should not be astonished if Sir R. Peel were to
conic forward in Parliament with something like
" million of facts," intended to show that the
poorer classes in England enjoy luxuries which.
are elsewhere wholly unknown ; and he will per-
haps be prepared with " statistics" to prove that
a labourer with six shillings a week has no right
Pa ceniplain, inasmuch as there are certain per-
setas'at Naples, called Lazzaroni, who lie in the
sun, and live upon maccaroni—their earn-
ings being not more than a shilling or two in
the week--a sum, as we may be plausibly
Anformed, much below the very lowest wages
of any English workman. The fault of the Pre-
mier's statistics collected from abroad will be
their inapplicability to facts existing at home ; for
though the population of some European States
limy from ciscumstances be in a position to live
at little expense, it is not the case with the inba-
-tants of this country, where climate and habit
render it necessary that the strength should be
sustained by a diet more generous than that
which in other places would suffice for nourish-
ment. Besides, sunshine and maccaroni might
be well enough if it were possible to get them ;
but in a country " on whose empire the sun
never sets," and in whose capital, at least, the
sun scarcely ever shows itself, the opportunity.,
for basking in its rays is not very often to be
ibund, while maccaroni at half-a-crown per lb.
tenders it impossible that our poor should imi-
tate the Lazzaroni of Naples by making it the
food on which chiefly to support themselves.
STASTDARD.—We, and all others who op-
pose the Tractarian party, are, by a respectable
Contemporary, stigmatised as "Low Church,"
and as the allies of infidels. It is impossible to
offer defence against a nickname, because a nick-
name means anything or nothing, at the caprice
•f him who employs it. Our defence against
the charge of an alliance with infidels is, how-
ever, easy, and we will make it short. We
will walk in what we conscientiously believe
the straight path, whoever may walk the same
path with us. This is a matter in which we are
commanded to have no reserve—be it that others
serve the cause of truth, "of envy and strife"—if
we participate not in their ill-nature, " we do re-
joice, "yea, and will rejoice, in their activity."
But what are High and Low Church at the pre-
sent day ? We do not agree with our accuser in the
grave charge which it brings against the clergy :
We have repeatedly granted, when taking
retrospective views of the more recent history of
the Church of England, that at no very distant
time the fervent, earnest, zealous piety of the
Church was almost entirely with the ultra-
Protestant or evangelical' party. We have
shown the vices and extravagances—the vanity,
and ostentation, and love of popular display into
which this party gradually advanced, not, indeed,
through their piety, but through the un-Catholic
presumptio which accompanied it—through the
pride in their own judgment as to spiritual
slings in which they were accustomed to indulge."
• This is unjust to the Church. • We are old enough
to remember the clergy of the last generation,
land although among the clergy, as among the
laity, 'diversity of character was more strongly
marked 40 years ago than at present, we can
- truly say that we remember almost as great a
proportion of zealous and pious ministers as the
Church can boast even in this, its happiest and
proudest day, notwithstanding the errors of some
of its sbis. If the clergy of 7 the last generation
'tare left fbov distinct monuments of their zeal
and piefr, it is because they were not challenged
from the discharge of duties strictly pastoral.
COURIER.—We have been greatly amused
at some of the " fantastic tricks" lately played
off by the burly mountebank now filling the
civic chair in Dublin, as well as at the eagerness
vinced by the whole pack, of which he is the
worthy leader, in pursuit of what they pre-
. tended to consider a real, lusty, bona fide
rievance. It was not of the assertions of our
isle Wliig-Radical Contemporaries, backed by
the sympathetic whining of the Whig Press at
this side of the Channel, a mere shadow of a
grievance, the coinage of a . factious brain, that
they were then complaining of—it was neither
the wrong done Ireland at norsince the Union,
it was neither the injustice of the tithe-rent
charge perpetrated by the Whigs, nor the in-
.sufficiency of the measure of Corporate reform,
nor the blundering betrayed by the framers of
the Irish Poor-law Bill, nor the insult offered to
Ireland in the accession to power by a Con-
servative Administration, nor all these to-
gether, that constituted the terrible griev-
ance under which the whole of Ireland
was then groaning. What then could it be?
Was it that the returns of the "tribute Sunday"
were " growing fine by degrees and beautifully
less," that the repeal exchequer showed no dispo-
sition to expand, or that the remittances from Yan-
kee-land, so much vaunted of, were mere " pro-
mises to pay," or that a large and respect-
able portion of the Roman -Catholic clergy
were determined to discountenance in future
all attempts at wringing from the horny hands of -
the worst paid and worst conditioned peasanty
in Europe, a portion of their miserably inade-
quate earnings under the pretence of patriotism,
and in order to enable a bloated demagogue and
his pampered fiimily to revel in ease and luxury
Or was it that any attempt to abridge the elec-
toral rights acquired under the Relief 13411 or Re-
form Act had been made or threatened? Any one
of these would doubtlessly be sufficient to try
the temper of the most self-denying anchorite,
and afford to grietance-mongers or manuflic-
tnrers ample materials upon which to work ; but
yet the last great grievance, the last act of anti-
national despotism—which has excited so mach
indignation and alarm in the sister country, and
so much sympathy in this—is no way connected
with any of these things.

ORDER IN
COUNCIL.
The "wing IP i
)etiamation has been issued
by order of heiiVlaj
" At the Court at 's
N't?ii,s Privy
""w"
:
lsor, the 10th of De-
eeniber, 1811, present, ti
lent Majesty in COUTIen; 1 ' Queele.4 Most Excel-
. " Whereas by the late Actof Uniformity,
o
trhicli es(ablisheth the
of Lit,
1('.(4) and enacts, that
Ito Form or Order
Prayer be
openly used other than wh?,7l"
Or appointed to be used in and b is prescribed
w'itii(i.it all those
It is notwithstanding provided , tLthe s.tid book,
Prayers, Litanies, and Coikets
xt:se relate 'to the Kintg, qm,en 'Il do any-
*wren dee Names be altered 'or ROyal
r 1 ' and el . i
hi (201.111(''llitY:
*OM 411110 ter that', and fitted to the p„.,",",ige"
eakioc, according W direction of lawful ttit'stii.,li" °e"
Ttettellajesty was pleased this day
deflare Iree 'Royal will and pleasure, that in
atri
the Prayers, Litanies, and Collects tin. the -Royal
Family the words ' The Prince of Wales' he j„..
sorted intinethately after the words 'The Prince
Albert.'

" And her Maiesty doth strictly charge and
command, that no edition of the Common Prayer
be from henceforth printed but with this amend-
ment ; and that in the meantinw, till copies
•f such edition may be had, all parsons,
vicars, and curates within this realm do (for
the preventing of mistakes), with the pen,
correct and amend all such prayers in the Church
books, according to the tbregoing directions :
and fi* the better notice hereof, that this order
be tbrthwith printed and published, and sent to
the several parishes ; and that the Right Rev.
the Bishops do take care that obedience be paid
to the same accordingly.

STA

" W.M. L. BATHURST."

ItIJIIOURED PARDON of CONVICTS ON THE
Pviik OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—We are informed,
'Von authority o i which we can rely, that a para-
graph which has 1 itelv appeared in several journals, an--
convcts I°ll'l,6llg her Majesty's intention to grant a pardon to
en the single ground of the birth of tue Prince
°I• 41", is entirely erroneous. We are assured that
there is
tone.pre-2.etlent for the extension of the Royal
aierey lteinals in any similar instance, and that
.there is no intention of exercising the prerogative of the
crown on ht present occasion.—Shadard.
hsve
Mr. Joseph Sturge and Mr. Sharman Crawford
Anti-Corn-law been app,inuid by the members of the Manchester
to draw op a sort of political
manifesto, as the bares of a union of Reformers.
We again beg to remind our Liberal friends,
that to entitle a freeholder or copyholder to be next year
registered as a voter for any division, &c., he must be in
the actual p issession of his qualifying property on the
kst day of January next,
at the very latest !
The Lgri Chancellor and Sir Robert Peel ar-
rived in town on Saturday morning by the Great Wester
Railroad from Windsor Castle shortly after ten o'clock.

ON THE-OBSERVANCE OF THE

SABBATH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE• SUN.
FABRILIA FABRI." .

SlR—From one whose fair name for talent, ! iety, and
morals has long been bruited over the whol civilized
world, but which on. the present occasion I a n not at li-
berty t 9 enunciate—one whose choicest daily study for
the last sixty years has been the Word of God—one to
whorl/ during that time " the Sabbath bath been a de-
light; the holy of the Lord, and honourable,"—from such
an one I received the following note, in reply to a letter
referring to altered sentiments as to the supposed Divine
appointment of a Christian Sabbath :--
"I meant to have said sooner that my 01171 views of
what Scripture and reason concur in teaching as to a
Christian Sabbath and a permanent ministry, are oppo-
site to the conclusions at which you state yourself to have
arrived. But these are subjects far too wide to be en-
tered upon. I only wish to say that inspired Apostles
might have been directed to change the observance of
the seventh day into the first day of the week ; that an
adequate reason seems apparent ; that general and con-
temporaneous usage from so early a period appears good
evidence that the change so took place ;—and is sup-
ported by St. John's term, the Lord's Day ;' by St. Paul's
direction not to regard being censured about the Sabbath,
which .1 presume means the censures of the Judaizers
against those Christians who adopted the change."
Nosy, Mr. Editor, next to a deliberately chosen and
well wrought out argument upon such a subject by such
a hand, I most highly value this off-hand note, as showing
me, so far, upon what slender ground a great mind can
sometimes, though it may be but for a moment, rest a
great subject ; while, at the same time, I suspect that
Christians in general have not such ground as this, slen-
der though it be, on which to found their belief in a Di-
vine appointment of the Sabbath. What ground more
slender than that " inspired Apostles might have been
directed to change the observance," &c. ? They might;
but there is no scriptural evidence that they were so di-
rected. The "general usage" was very early, no doubt ;
but there is no scriptural evidence that it was so early as
the Apostles; not the slightest evidence whatever is given
thereof in Scripture. True, the first day of the week
is once called the Lord's Day ; but there is the
most obvious reason for it, because on that day of the
week the Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead. As to St.
Paul's direction not to regard the Judaizers' censures
about the Sabbath, the most probable reason is, that the
censures of the Judaizers were directed against the Chris-
tians for not observing the Jewish Sabbath as heretofore,
just as they censured them for not keeping other parts of
the Jewish laws and ceremonies. Of the like sort of
kindred reasoning is an oftentimes reiterated remark, that
the Christians were commanded to make contributions
for their more destitute brethren on the first day of the
week, and that it appears, upon one or two occasions, that
they were assembled together on the first day of the
week. This is all correctly true ; but not the slightest
evidence does it afford of that first day of the week hav-
ing been constituted a Christian Sabbath. From a hasty,
off-hand, slight note, though in my opinion of no trivial
consequence—from one great man now living, and whose
unspeakably valuable life may it please God long to pre-
serve—we will proceed to the most deliberately pro-
pounded argument of another great man now gone to his
great reward, the Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke. His position
is, that the Sabbath is a type ; and that 'a type is never
to be dropped till the arrival of what it was designed to
prefigure ; that what is prefigured by the Sabbath is eter-
nal rest in heaven, and that therefore the Sabbath, the
type of that eternal rest, must be observed so long as the
world remaineth. Such is Dr. Adam Clarke's position. But
it does not therefore follow that it is a position of SCripture.
It is the assumed position of a learned and good man, but
a position by no means well laid out. His position, for
instance, implies the original Sabbath ; and yet he takes
not the slightest notice of the fearful alteration of the
day. Whereas, the day of the Sabbath, the "seventh"
day, is as plainly laid down and enforced in the command
as is " the rest" upon it ; and the express reason for its
being the "seventh" day is as plainly laid down and en-
forced. But we shall find the good man, after all, fal-
tering in his position. At one time he deems eternal life
to be the anti-type—eternal life to be the " rest remain-
ing for the people of God ;" at another time, as though
not quite satisfied with this being the entire anti-type,
the full meaning of Scripture, he adds, " the Gos*pel is
this rest." His words are, word for word, " theretbre
there is another rest, a state of blessedness for the people
of God, and this is the Gospel, the blessings it procures
and communicates." And such, perhaps, is the strict
meaning of the Apostle, on whose words he is comment-
ing. However, the Doctor, not thoroughly satisfied with
the above, adds immediately to it, "and the eternal glory
which it (the Gospel) prepares for and has promised to ge-
nuine believers." Thus he splits the half of his position
into two parts, acknowledging that we are already in pos-
session of one of them, and so far weakening, if not in
effect demolishing, his whole position.
But I understand that Dr. Clarke's reasonings are not
generally considered to be so sound as his principles are
good, and his intentions pure, transparent, and exalted.
Should any still deem the Doctor's position sound, let
them be reminded that such position has nothing what-
ever to do with the Christian Sabbath, except by begging
the whole question, without a shadow of an attempt to
prove the appointment of a new Sabbath, to be called the
Christian in opposition to the old Jewish Sabbath. Such
an attempt never seems to have entered the Doctor's
head ; he evidently takes it for granted that the change
had taken place as naturally as that of night for day !
Thus he leaves the whole subject involved in all the ori-
ginal difficulties in which modern Sabbatarians migin -
find it if they would, and from which they should clear it
if they can. In my opinion, Mr. Editor, if Sir Andrew
Agnew will have a Sabbath (through which, as through
an Indian tube, to blow out his sharp, irritating spiculm
amongst the poor of these realms), he must go to our
friends the Catholics for one. It does not appear to me
' that all the Protestant Bishops in the world can, upon
their principle of depending on the Bible alone, establish
what they affirm and teach, viz., that the Christian Sab-
bath is a Divine institution, truly and plainly appointed
of God. Perhaps Sir Andrew may join the Puseyites,.and
theymay all go off to Rome together, where they may get
a dispensation for Sunday travelling, to the quieting of their
conscience, and the removal of all scruple and doubtful-
ness, if any of them are railroad proprietors, of getting
money and affording vast accommodation anti comfort to
multitudes of their fellow-countrymen on the Sunday. I
am told that the Catholics at Rome are by no means such
strict Sabbatatians as some of our Protestant sects ; but
that they can sing, and dance, and play cards even in the
Vatican. We keepers at home, who never move five
hundred yards from our dear mother's apron-strings—no
unenviable position, by the bye, for safety and real
friendship—are told odd things of our friends the Catho-
lics at Rome ; and I verily believe it would be better for
the peace of this country if such men as S'..r Andrew
would go a little amongst them, so that he returned to
us again fully assured by his Holiness the Pope that our
old women might mend a hole in their stockings on the
Sabbath if they had not time before, and that our pent-
up, smoke-smothered, town-poisoned artisans might, if
they could, take a Sunday ramble in the country, enjoy-
ing the pure air and bright sunshine, and might thus
drink in gallons of health to recruit them for the toils of
the week, of which the first day would be their only day
of happy rest from labour. I again tell Sir Andrew that
he cannot establish the Sabbath as a divine appointment
without having recourse to the Catholics, and even join-
ing them. Vain would it be for him to tell them,
" I can read and investigate the truth of this said
conference at Rome between St. Peter and St. Paul,
in which they established the Christian Sabbath; and
if I believe the evidence I can upheld such Sab-
bath as well without as with you." " No, no," would
the Catholics trimly say," all this is out of your record as
a Protestant ; you must join us, or you can have no sa-
cred and holy ground on which to build a Christian Sab-
bath. You know, Sir Andrew, that there is no such
appointment as a Christian Sabbath, from one end
of the Bible to the other.. The nidy Sabbath of the
Bible is the old, original, seventh-day Sabbath, appointed
of God immediately after the creation of the world—
" the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God."
Not a particle of any other Sabbath can you put the tip
of a finger on in the Bible ; not a particle of any-other
Sabbath can the eye see there. You must come to us,
Sir Andrew. We will take you, on your undergoing
due penance, part of which shall consist in inflicting;
more severe penalties on yourself, and being more spar-
ing of them towards the least befriended of your fellow-
creatures." I think, Mr. Editor, the Catholics would
thus argue rightly with Sir Andrew. Ile cannot esta-
blish, as aProtestant, a new, divinely appointed, Christian,
first-day Sabbath. He must first become a Catholic.
As a Catholic lie would have bill belief' of the establish-
ment thereof by St.
,Peter and St. Paul in one of their
eonferences at Rome, not one jot of which can lie tied in.
the Bible.
What then will Sir Andrew do ? Will lie give up the
Sabbath ? Or will he believe in a new Sabbath—a first-
(l4y Sabbath —without one grain of Scriptural evidence ?
(*will he join the Catholics ?
T
most heartily wish you, Sir Andrew, to arrive at the
riltseueneetesioli ; and as no doubt the worthy. Editor of
hrfme,
}l and yourself have had at this time quite enough
eurr.,:le:ysehtuhmishiseulstjet:Tti:natn, and respectfully take my
leave of,._?t, both, by subscribing myself; gentlemen,
Needwood Parsonage, near Burton-on-Trent,INLoPv.ILICE

_TE Ov R T---------
are sorry to say that nito9-p
STOCKPORT.—We
ululprovement has taken placo in
the cotton trade of tetnl,eruglik since our last notice on
AT
has been from bad to worse may
this subject. Any
have taken place
and
Sons extensive establish-
works., and that of Niessrs.
merit of Messrs. Lane
ft'l'i'i'ils are working
months ago,
aeraerrstiallncaloCseo;l9. wNheicahrlyceanslletdhe rest
dalions:t hae
short time—from three to four -
theare tenantless,
pcy,eti removal of
ar,, Tit Places of
fourth of the dwellins in the Lro`tiv,e,,:tl,. About one-
and the number
paupersincreases etvoe rtyh
elvre erke,s3,ll
unwillingly-made
settlement. The board of guardians
sieged at their meetings by persons applying teurrallY he-
whose numbers increase every week. On Tiiiirsdarycliia tf
e'
applications for relief were made by and on behalf s'
o
no less than 1,700 persons. We believe the inhabitantr;
of Bomber's Brow, principally Irish,
rose en nutsse, and
applied for relief. It subsequently transpired, that they
were induced to adopt this course in consequence of a
false report, by which they were deluded, to the effect,
that her Majesty had sent 2,0001 to the authorities of
this town to be distributed amongst the poor. This rise
of the Hibernians, and the difficulty experienced in ap-
peasing their importunities, kept the relieving-officer
confined in his place of business until four o'clock on
Saturday morning; indeed, we understand he has not for
some time left it until very late at night, in consequence
of the extraordinary pressure of business created by the
increase of distress.—Manchester Paper.
THE PRINCE OF WALEs.—(From a Cor-
respondent.)—We believe that at present the Christian
names of the Infant Prince of Wales have not been
finally agreed upon by her Majesty and her Illustrious
Coustat.