The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, IMNDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1840

(From the Standard.)
We published in yesterday's Standard a correspon-
dence between the Duke of Sussex and General Espar-
tero, which is not unworthy of attention at the present
moment. The letter of his Royal Highness professed,
it will have been seen, to transmit to General Espartero,
" as a mark of the high esteem of her Majesty for his
person," and as a pledge of her approbation
"of his loyal conduct to his Sovereign," and his
" absolute devotion to his country," the " very
honourable military order of the Bath ;" and the
Royal Duke further took upon himself to " express
the esteem and admiration with which her Majesty's
Government views his (Espartero's) military and poli-
tical career." " Your name," says his Royal Highness,
" is always spoken of with praise in England ; and
all your public actions (and they are numerous) are
distinguished as being the wo►k of a faithful sub-
ject, of a true patriot, of a man of honour, r nil
of a General as skilful as he is distinguished." We
shall not follow the Royal Duke through the rest of
his epistle, but it may not be amiss to remind our
readers that this " honourable man" was the chief sub-
orner of the treachery of Maroto—that his military
skill is best explained by a reference to his operations
against the youthful Cabrera and his followers—th it
his " estimable character" may be briefly defined by
ascertaining the number of Carlist victims (witness the
220 officers, men, women, and children, shot in cold
blood for their heroic defence of Collado), sacrificed
by his orders or under his countenance ; whilst of his
loyalty the arrivals from Spain, which we have lately
given, will, we presume, afford abundant evidence.
If not, the telegraphic dispatch from Madrid,
contained in the ,Vloniteur Parisien of Saturday
evening, will, we suppose, be considered sufficient.
This " loyal" and " estimable" General has already ap-
peared in open rebellion against his Queen, and is
beyond all doubt at the bottom of the late insur-
rection. He has moreover published a manifesto, for
the purpose of making known the conditions on which
alone he consents to obey his Royal mistress's orders.
He exacts from her, as the price of that " loyalty "
so much eulogised by the Duke of Sussex, the re-
vocation of the municipal law, the dissolution of the
Cortes, and the dismissal of her Ministers ! This
bears some sort of analogy to the " loyalty" of Mr.
O'Connell to her Majesty the Queen of England,
which depends, it would seem, on her consent to the
dismemberment of her empire, and the prostration of
the national religion. The Queen Regent of Spain
quitted Barcelona for Valencia, to avoid the exuberant
loyalty of " this esteemed favourite of her Britannic
Majesty and her Ministers." The " patriotic Gene-
ral" and " loyal subject" rewarded for the emi-
nent possession of these high qualities by the Grand
Cross of the Bath is thus virtually the dictator of
Spain, as O'Connell is that of England. We find
the former of this brace of charlatans prating in his
letter to his Grace of Sussex of " his cordial senti-
ments for his Queen," at the very moment that he
is organizing a rebellion against her, which may de-
prive her of her throne. In like manner we
have the astute mendicant, O'Connell, preaching
his affectionate loyalty to her Majesty, at the very
moment that he is engaged in the most treasonable
efforts to dismember her empire. Nay, the coin-
cidence does not stop here. Both heroes are
the objects of the undisguised reverence and
affectionate" respect of their Queen's Ministers,
and both are equally deserving of their good opi-
nion. If the Queen Regent of Spain attempts a contest
with the armies of her " loyal" subject Espartero, and
the National Guards who have been revolutionised by
his emissaries, she will have to deal with considerable
odds. If the former succeeds in his dictation, Queen
Isabella will either be dethroned bylthe amiable protege of
her Britannic Majesty, or will be the mere Queen of a
nominal sceptre.

DEFECTS OF THE LITANY.

ERRORS OF THE CHURCH, REFORMATION
OF THE LITURGY, &c.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin —May I beg the favour of you to insert in The
Sun the following extract from a work printed and pub-
lished nearly seventy years ago.
The learned Bishop Bull confesses, " In the first and
best ages the Churches of' Christ directed all their
prayers, according to Scripture, to God only, through
the alone mediation of Jesus Christ."—Bishop Bull's
Answer to the Bishop of Meaux.
And, in another place, " It is to be observed, that in
the Clementine Liturgy (so called), which is by the
learned, on all hands, confessed to be very ancient, and
to contain the order of worship observed in the
Churches before the times of the Emperor Constantine,
all the prayers are directed to God, in the name of his
son Jesus Christ."—Bishop Bull's Discoursc,c.
It was a great unhappiness and oversight, that when
our forefathers shook off the yoke of the Bishop of
Rome they retained so much of the Roman ritual, its
creeds, and forms of worship ; and that, as the compilers
of the liturgy, in the office for ordaining priests, exhort
continually to pray to God the Father, by the media-
tion of our only Saviour Jesus Christ, fur the heavenly
assistance of the Holy Ghost, that this sound and
scriptural directory for worship was not, as it ought to
have been, universally adhered to by themselves.
The litany, more than any other of the offices of de-
votion in our Church, seems to deviate most widely
from this rule of Christian worship, and to require a
total reformation. For in this-
1. God the Father of Heaven is invoked.
2. Then follow three several invocations of God the
Son, Gad the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Trinity. All
three directly contrary to what Bishop Bull above de-
clares to have been the practice of the Church in the
first and best ages, and the rule of the Holy Scriptures.
3. Next follow several addresses to Christ by him-
self: And after that,
4. " We sinners do beseech thee to hear u', 0 Lord
God," would seem to be directed to God the Father.
5. Then, after a certain space, follow many invocations
of the Son, as Lamb of God, Christ, Lord, (S-c.
6. Then we turn off all at once, and address ourselves
to the Father.
7. Then we return again to the Son, and renew our
address to him in several invocations.
8. Presently after we go back, and say, We humbly
beseech thee, 0 Father. And,
9. In the very next address, as placed in this office,
we resume our devotions once more to, Christ, in the
prayer of St. Chrysostom.*
Is there anything in Holy Scripture to countenance
this variety of address, and shifting and changing from
one object of worship to another ? Can this in any
shape be construed into a right worship of the One In-
finite, Eternal Mind, the wise and good Parent of the
Universe ? I remain, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
A FRIEND TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.
Bath, Sept. 11.
' See " Candid Disquisitions," pp. 324, 325.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The ordinary
meeting was held on Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Henderson,
V. P., in the chair. The show of flowers and fruits was
not very extensive, but there were some good specimens.
Mr. B. Fielder, gardener to W. Linwood, Esq., exhi-
bited a Moscow queen pine-apple, weighing 4ib. Boz. ;
and Mr. Buck, of Blackheath, some fruited plants in pots
of Deccan grapes. There was a good collection of fruits
from the gardens of :he Society, the most prominent of
which was a new Bigurrean cherry, which was considered
the latest of the firm fleshed of this fruit ; a new plum,
named Downton's Imperatrice, one of the last raised by the
late President of the Society ; and the original plum which
produces the German prunes, with six new varieties of
pears and eight of apples. There was a good show of
flowers, among which was an ipomcea from Mr. Lee, of
Hammersmith; and a new stylidium and bororica from
Mr. Low, of Clapton. From Mr. Christie, of the Clap-
ham-road, was a large specimen of a flower of cereus
triangularis, which, although white, a great deal resem-
bled the night-blowing cereus, from coming into bloom
in the morning. From Mr. Henderson, of Pineapple-
place, was a fine plant of asschynanthus ranaocisaimus, and
Mr. Browning exhibited a very pretty drawing of flowers
on Chinese rice paper, which is, however, but the layer of
a tree of the genus Hibiscus. From the gardens of the
Society were some fine blooms of dahlias, roses, lupines,
a zebra mallow, a dendrobium, an alpine epiphyte, a na-
tive of the highest part of the Himalayan mountains, with
varieties of orchidacecus plants. 'I he prizes awarded
wore silver Knightian medals to Mr. Henderson, for his
new plant ; and Mr. Fielder, fur his Moscow queen pine
apple. Lord Prudhoe was proposed a member, and elected
immediately. The extract from the Metercological Re-
gistor kept at the Gardens, from Ist to 15th September,
gave—barometer, highest, Sept 6, 30.196 ; lowest, Sept.
14, 29'137. Thermometer, highest, Sept. I, 80 deg., and
lowest, Sept. 13, 34 deg. ; and quantity of rain 0.82 in.
The meeting adjourned to October 6th.
RUSSIAN FRONTIER, AUG. 29.—M. Tiloff,
the Russian Consul-General for Moldavia and Walla-
chia, having been sent on a missian to Constantinople,
M. Daschkuf is ordered to perform the duties of Consul
in the mean time, and is on the point of setting out for
Bucharest for that purpose.—AligenieineZeiturl, Sept.lo.
A full rehearsal of Sheridan Knowles 's new
play took place on Tuesday afternoon at Covent-garden.
The principal characters are to be sustained by Miss Ellen
Tree, Messrs. Moore, Anderson. acidear, B-indal, Hem-
ming, &e. It is to be called The Bride of Messina, and
is to be brought out on Saturday next.
Yesterday the London and Gravesend Sons of
the Thames Steam Packet Company gave their friends a
treat be an excursion in their fine new bo at, " Father
Thames," which left Old Swat) Pier, Londe n-bridge, at
half-past nine, and after calling at Greenwic'l, Black all,
and Gravesend, arrived at Roe hester-b:id ge at three
o'clock, the estimated distance be'ing' seventy to eighty
males. After viewing the Medway. Chathrim Dock-yard,
and Sheerness, they returned to Blackwull, having en-
joyed a most pleasant day. The Company did not forget
a subscription to the Dreadnought hosrital-s hip, of some.
thing more than 101. Father Thames., is 6 tted with two
thirty-five horse-power engines, mark by Mr. Penn of
Greenwich, on the same principle as those in the iron-
boats which run from London-br'idge Chelsea ; the
compactness of the engines, and the fine el, -ar open space
on the deck thereby afforded, is
saw the vessel, and the speed is superior to that of the
Ruby and Star ; the cleanli.,)4ss,
the admirati on of all who
by burning coke in-
stead of coal, is also a most
by Father Thames,
4mPortant advantap .possessed

LONDON TRADES' HALL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—.I had the pleasure, about a fortnight since, of
addressing a small article on this important undertaking
" To the Editor of The Sun ;" since that time I have
looked in vain for its appearance ; not even an acknow-
ledgment in the list of correspondents has, as far as I
am &ware, been vouchsafed to the to convince me of its
arrival into the hands of that functionary of your esta-
blishment, although I took the precaution of leaving it
myself to ensure its certain delivery.
I took the liberty of addressing your Journal, from
an opinion, founded on past experience, that you, as the
proprietor of it, was well known to be friendly to the
welfare of the working class, in whose behalf I hail with
delight the frequent appeals addressed in their behalf in
its columns.
Presuming on this liberality, 1 flattered myself you
would, at this dull season, as it is often called, of news-
paper existence, indulge the object of a Trades' Hall
(whose humble advocate I am), with a little corner in
your bright luminary, that the thousands who bask in
its beams might be illuminated on its objects and at-
tempts to create a solid benefit to the trades of London,
by building for them and by their own pecuniary »leans,
an ample Hall, where, on common ground, they could
meet each other at all limes, without reference to their
sect or politics, in the bonds of common fellowship.
Perhaps I have miscalculated its claims to your sup-
port ; but still, when I read the lucubrations of tem-
perance, even to its extreme pints, which sometimes
appear in The Sun, I was not without a hope that the
Trades' Hall, which seeks to entice men away by hun-
dreds from the practice and temptations to intemper-
ance, would have been deemed worthy of being embla-
zoned to the public eye by the all powerful aid of the
Liberal press. It is not now a mere project ;it has gone
on for some months ; it has received the support of
three or four trades and other bodies, and amidst the
drawback of the want of publicity and other obstacles,
the shares are being taken up by working men to the
extent of nearly 2,000. It has much to contend against
certainly—prejudice, lukewarmness, and ignorance, yet.
it progresses ; and if the press of the day, who are loud
in the vindication of the rights of ►abour, would but be•
stow occasionally a word upon its capabilities to meet
the wants of the trades of London, it would go on with
giant strides, and soon rear its noble fi ont in the centre
of the metropolis, to exemplify the spirit of its design as
laid down in iis laws, which are enrolled according to
Act of Parliament.
A capital of 15,000/. cannot require much difficulty
to raise amongst the thousands of London mechanics, it
they can but look upon the proje:t in its moral and po-
litical bearing in their behalf. Surely there is scarcely
any man to whom,a 11. share can be so much an object
when only 2s. 6d. is at present demanded, as_to acknow-
ledge its value whilst he coolly buttons up his pocket
and his will.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
WM. FARREN, Jun.
Trades' Hall Office, 16, Old Bailey, Sept. 15, 1810.
[We have no recollection of the small article re.
ferred to.]

IRELAN V.