The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-17 00:00:00

a sum for a servant of Him who taught that the rich
man cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven. A lump of
money, to the amount of 40,0001. is to be given to the
Bishop.
Mr. W. 0. STANLEY complained to the House of a
breach of privilege, contained in a petition reflecting on
him, who, with others, were appointed to report con-
cerning the Holyhead Rail-oad, and signed by the Hon.
Member for Carnarvon. The Hon. Member made
nothing by his complaint, though the officers accused
in the petition of partiality were completely vindicated.
The Clergy Reserves (Canada) Bill, and the Ecclesi-
astical Duties and Revenues Bills, were both commit-
ted pro farina, to allow of amendments being introduced,
and were ordered to be further considered on Monday
n"'xt.

The County Constabulary Bill was read a third time
and passed, after two divisions on clauses proposed by
Sir A DALRYMPLE and Captain PECHLLL, both of
wh!c were lost.
The House went into Committee on the Metropoli-
tan Pellet! Courts Bid. A discussion took place on a
eause of the Bill in Committee, slowing policemen to
lay in!orniations, and deprivin.t individuals of the
of laying them, or abolishing that old and well-known
functionary, the common informer. Few Honour-
able Members seemed to have any liking for him,
but they objected to the police having the
odium cast on them of being informers. We think
that a cot rect view, and we should prefer the appoint-
ment of regular informers, as it will be most objection-
able to unite their functions with those of a policeman.
All the clauses were passed, and the Report is to he
brought up on Monday. The CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER obtained leave to bring in a B:il relating to
the Bank of Ireland. The House after transacting some
other business adjourned at Half-past One o'Ciock.

N.% e are glad to learn by letters just received
from the United States, that the most satisfactory
arrangements have been made by the State of Illi-
nois for carrying out the Canals and Railways con-
necting the Canadian lakes with the broad waters of
the Mississippi. This gigantic enterprize will be
equally beneficial to our own Colonial Possessions
as to the United States, and must tend eventually to
bind more closely our amicable relations, by ex-
tending our mutual interests.
When these works are completed, and which are
confidently expected to be finished in two years, a
new world will be opened to the curiosity of the
traveller arid the enterprise of the mercantile
adventurer; for, singular as it may appear,
it will be possible, by going to New York
or Boston, in one of the steamers, to visit
the Canadian lakes, and see whatever is most
interesting or romantic in America ; then, pass-
ing in one of the splendid steamers of the Nlis-
sissipi, be landed on the isthinus of Darien, and
thence passing over to the Pacific side, go either
to New Zealand, China, or other parts of Asia, on
..he Western side of South America ! Indeed the
steam-vessels of the Pacific Steam-Navigation
Company have actually left England in order to
take up their intended destinations on this point.
Wonderful as all this change may appear, it will
re produced far more quickly than can be now
imagined , and will enable travellers to visit the
Eastern regions by this agreeable and interesting
route far more rapidly than by any other et dis-
covered. A voyage round the world will lience•
''orth be much shorter, and far more common than
a journey frog. London to York used to be in the
" good old times." Steam navigation will thus
ioon realize the vision of the poet, and

Let observation, pith extensive view.
Survey mankind from China to Pcru

Our readers cannot fail to remember the long
and bitter opposition which the High Church party
made last year to the appointment of a Beard of
Privy Council to superintend public education.
Petitions and remonstrances were got up against it
all over the country. The Tories moved addressest
in Parliament, and public meetings, headed by
Bishops, remonstrated against it. The National
School Society took the lead in the opposition, and
was backed by all the Tory Journals. The limes
took an active part in opposing the Ministers, and
partly pursued the same game as the National So-
ciety. The worthies then hunted together, and the
Secretary of the Society, Mr. SINCLAIR found
ready admission for his denunciations in the Times.
The scene is now completely changed. What has led
the Journal to alter its course while the Society has
continued steady to its principles, we are not in-
formed ; but a" Layman" who writes to the Times
on the subject, complains of the Society fur not
taking the half of 30,0001. for the National Schools,
whence we infer that deep grief for the loss of the
money has converted some of the former opponents
of Ministers. Of the National Society, the great
means for dispensing education, the schools of
which are so excellent that a Government inspector
could not possibly improve them, the Cotre-
spondent of the Times says—
Verily, the National School Society has played the fool
finely. The arrogance of its claims to the confidence
of
the public, the extent of the Society's usurpations upon
the regal and episcopal authorities, and its presumption in
acting, as Mr. Sinclair phrases it, " in the name of the
Church," provoke me to inquire not merely as to the va-
iidity of these pietensiona, for these I have already dis.
do.:ed of, but also as to the execution of the trust
com-
mitted to the Society by the Royal Charter of incorpora.
!ion " for promoting the education of the poor." That
Charter was granted in 1817, and I shall prohaby be
within the mark if, from the Society's reports I calculate
that from that time to the present the Nitional Society
and its schools in union have received a million of money,
exclusive of the annual subscriptions for the support of
local schools.

As a Churchman, then, I am entitled to ask what equi-
valent the Society has given to the Church or to the State
for the enormous contributi,ins which have been levied
under the Royal C tarter? From 1817 to 1840 this in-
corporated Socitty has not established a single training
-,chool from which the parochial clergy ec.uld obtain sehoo.-
masters tolerably qualified not a single mod'•l school of
et en decent pretenstons, the central school at Wes•minster
having been, until Mr. Moody's appointment last summer,
an exemplification of everything to be avoided rather than
of anything to be ithitated. The Society's publicqions
have been not only meagre but ridiculous ; uttil very
lately, the Bible was the general class-b,ok. the only
exceptions being Mrs. Trimmer's w. rks and a few small
tracts on religious subjects. Even the books of the Society
for Promoting Christian Knowledge were very recently
under the ban of the National Society; and all this while
the Scotch schools have been richly supplied with books
of great technical merit, and unquestionable orthodoxy.
The Society's only map for many years was a small end
meagre map of Palestine.

Ili short; since the days of Dr. Bell, the Society has
introduced no improvements into its schools.

The Times:speaking editorially, says—
A new era now arises. The matter is we believe ar-
ranged between Lord J. Russell and the Nia,qu.s of Low-
down on one side, and two of the head% of the Church on the
other; and in this arrangement we recommend the ,eira,
fractory National School Society and their weak dupes
in the Church to acquiesce peaceably : although. 0 i,.-
lamentabl.! conclusion, there is no acknowle(igment of
diocesan Boards of Education or their powers, the National
School Society or its predominance. The A-chbishop, we
believe, is the only person who may object to the inspectors, a
duty which he never has been, never would have been, nor
ever willbe, called upon to perform. 'The other Prelates will
simply be informed who they are. The two principles on
which grants are to be made are, the number of scholars,
and, as before, the sums raised by voluntary subscriptions.
We again caution those who are now called proverbially
by all parties " the weaker-headed clergy.' to keep quiet.
They have done mischief enough already in losing to the
Church its duo share of the grant of last year.
It is now, then, the weaker-headed clergy wh® keep
up the opposition to the Ministers. The Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY has come to an under-
standing with the Marquis of LANSDOWNE and
Lord JOHN RUSSELL. He cannot, and those
tinder hint cannot, afford to throw away the half of
30,0001. per year ; and the " weaker-headed clergy,"
which means the honest conscientious clergy, who
were from the first sincere in their opposition to
the Privy Council scheme, who claim as a matter
of right to have the whole education of the people
placed in their hands, and who do not understand
the ministers of
their pudding, anGd°hDOldsut'l7ei
biy
profi,gat,
to dismount from •
;rattionnefzutoesi.nan—are told
their High C hutch horse, to eat
These proceedings, inde-
scriba efileisr4toanldasti.oarriee
t
up a furious opposition to the -litlisterial scheis c're'
ri ;ritokrir
was
st
prestitmedri tlteir
uu
t to orth°affit TileTh failed.nl e lo
The WhiGs continue in office, have the dis-
, posed of the money for education on the terms they
I prescribe. Now the political knaves, including, it
lappears, many of the clergy, are anxious to come
' into the Ministerial terms, in order that they rosy
clutch the money. That is had enough in
men
who pretend to fight for a great and solemn prin-
ciple, but they add to their basenesshyoa,
jl:ucstint:
ty,
the poor dupes who believed in their honest, wine
joined them in their opposition but who object
join them in their apostacy. The Time: and its
£rienc6 how call their hoast fol;owers the 4‘ weaker-

headed clergy." The quarrel is a very pretty quar-
rel, as it stands ; and it is not the only one, the
public may be. assured, which will take place
amongst the clerical and lay political rogues.

The conduct of the Rev. DAVID DANIEL, in
remonstrating, against an tct of mercy, as an illus-
tration of what the suffering people have to expect
from the clergy of the Church ot England, is worthy
of some further remarks. The petitions both ot
Mrs. ROBERTS and Mr. ROBERTS stated that
his health was not good when he was sent to prison,
and his own petition set forth that confinement was
so fast deteriorating his health that the two years'
imprisonment seemed likely to end in his death, or
be a capit I punishment. Their statements were
confir ed by the report of the surgeon of the gaol,
who ordered him more nourishing (het and greater
comforts than the prison allowance. Sub-
sequently the surgeon granted a certificate, which
was . forwarded by the visiting Justices,
stating that any further confinement would
endanger his life. On that ground he
was discharged, and this is the act of mercy to
complain of which a minister ot the Church of .Eng.
land has rushed into print, has expected to find,
and has found, the approbation of his fellows.
At present the ministers of the Anglican Church,
in conjunction with the Tories, ate getting up
what they call Operative Protestant Associations
throughout the country. Like Mr. O'CONNoIt,
or Mr. VINCENT, they appeal to the people to
help them against the Whigs. What the peo-
ple may expect should they support the priesthood
may be learned by the conduct of the Rev. Mr.DA-
NIEL. If they meet and remonstrate against any
grievance, the law will put them in prison, and
their pretended friends, the ministers of the
Church, when the Tories are in power, will take care
that the rates of Mercy shall be shut against them.
Let the working classes reniatk that this is not
an isolated act of the Rev. DAVID DANIEL. It
corresponds with a multitude of acts of the parson
Magistrates throughout the country. It is quite-
consistent with the principles of the To-
ries. The Reverend Gentl. man's letter is much
praised by the Tory Journals, who join him in con-
demning the act of mercy to ROBERTS. It is an
index to the secret heart of the party, and it will
enable the operatives to understand the object for
which they are coaxed by the priests and the
Tories to replace themselves under the dominion
of their former tyrants.

The working classes generally will not need us
to remind them that the body to which the Rev. Me,
DANIEL belongs deny them all rational recreation
on Sundays ; that great numbers of the clergy
have petitioned to keep up the Corn-laws ; that to
pay Lietr rent-charge or their tithes is one of the
excuses or pretexts for maintaming those iniquitous
enactments; that the clergy are now, by their
Parliamentary supporters, demanding Church Ex-
tension, that the people may be fleeced by taxa-
tion still more than at present, to enrich and
strengthen the order of the miesthood ; that to pre-
a' rye power for them Canada is kept in servitude,
tuitions to the colony, and Ireland in a state of
misery and degradatioo ; thu working classes will
not require us to remind them that the clergy
have of late employed all their eloquence and skill,
to excite political and party suite; but we may
new sue/or:it to the working classes, from the ex-
ample orrthe Rev. Mr. DANIEL, that there is no
kind of seventy or cruelty which the EcelesiaStics
will not employ to keep their heavy yoke on the
neck of the people. Suffering, as they now are, in
order to keep the clergy snug and secure, if they
are any longer deceived, now that the ltev. Mr.
DANIEL has exposed the merciless character of
his oiler, they will have only themselves to -blame.
The letter teaches another important lesson.
There is a 13.,.v. Mr..DA NIEL in every parish of
the kingdom. The persons he associates with
flunk as he thinks. In every parish, therefore,
there a e leading men who cry aloud, as he has
cried, sgainst the exercise of mercy towards the
Chartists, antt.who insist on the law being .carried
rigidly into execution against them. At every
Sessions where there has been any question of
Chart;sm, the Magistrates have expressed senti-
ments worthy of the Rev. Mr. DANIEL, and have
demanded, or have inflicted, severe and cruel pun-
ishments. Now, the Government of the country,
let who will administer it, must be, in a great mea-
sure, a reflection of the opinions of this class, scat-
tered through every part of the empire. As Lord
BROUGHAM long ago said, the bulk of the
squires and parsons are Tories. Many of our laws
were made by the Tories, and for many years they
were administered by Tory Judges. A great many
of the middle classes, not much accustomed to think
deeply, while they take their political opinions
from others, or form them from the practices of
former times, are Tories. Thus the Government
must be in a great measure a reflection of Tory
principles ; and, when it is accused of harshness
and cruelty, it chiefly deserves the accusation by
being compelled to carry into execution the Toryism
of the middle classes. What the lower classes
suffer under that, mitigated as it is by Whig prin-
ciples, is but trifling to what they would have to
stiff. r, were the Tories in office, to cai ry out to its
just consequences the Totyism of the DANIELS,
who are scattered throughout the land.
The above consideratioiSs are chiefly for the
people ; we have now a word or two to sty to
statesmen. Great complaints are made of the na•
tional immorality,and Church Extension is looked to
by many statesmen as thepanacea. The parsons are
expected to be the instruments of popular regenera-
tion. By churches and prayer-books they are to
put down Chartism and theft. If our statesmen
do not exclusively rely on the priesthood to vEct
these important objects, they have not informed us'
of the other means by which they hope to ensure
the security of property and the safety of society.
In order to succeed, however, the priesthood must
render themselves popular. 1 heir doctrines will
never be listened to as long as the people con-
sider them their enemies. Such men as the Rev.
Mr. DANIEL will mar the hopes of our states-
men. He will add to the unpopularity of the
priesthood ; and to expect the regeneration of the
people fiom an unpopular priesthood is chimerical.
If religion be suth a powerful instrument -in pro-
moting and securing social order, as the statesmen
of both parties describe it—if the State Church
and the State priesthood be the best bows
and sheet anchoss of the national safety, the
sooner our civil rulers take means to chain up the pas-
sions of the Rev. Messrs. DANIELS. and make the
clergy acceptable to the people, time greater will be
their chance of success. That should precede
Church Extension. To build more churches in
order to multiply such opponents of kindliness,
charity, and Christian mercy as the Rev. Mr.
DANIEL, will only increase the friction which al•
ready threatens to consume the State.

Another step of some importance has been taken
in the celebrated Strathbogie case. The seven
clergymen whom the Commission of the General
Assembly, and afterwards the Assembly itself, sus-
pended from all their ministerial functions, com-
plained to the Court of Session against the Special
Commission appointed to take charge of their pa-
rishes, and craved its protection. As the harsh and
illegal sentence passed by the Assembly was a
punishment inflicted for disobedience to the order of
the Cour, it was not to he supposed that the com-
plaint would be disregarded, and the Non-Intrusion
brawlqrs be permitted to trample under foot both the
law and the lieges. On Saturday last the First
Division of the Court unanimously grantea the in.
terdict or injunction prayed for. The parties com-
plained against, not choosing, it is presumed, to ac-
knowledge the jurisdiction of the Civil Court in a
matter which it is their pious pleasure to designate
" spiritual," did not appear when called according
to for' s'.

The effect of the interdict, is to annihilate the
Time Non-Intrusion Coot.
Special Commission.
missioners are prohibited horn "intruding" into the
parishes of the complainers, and from '' moleitino"
them, either by themselves or others, in the exercise
of their ministerial.offlees, an) one contravening the
injunction being liable; to the consequences of a
contempt of Court.
Timis is as it should be. We shall see whe-
ther the Commissioners will obey the Law or the
Assembly. If the former, then will they be guilty
of the same offence for which the seven Ministers
were suspended, and they must, in all justice, be
dealt with in the
same manner by their ecclesiasti-
cal superiors. If the latter, they will have the be-
nefit a little serious reflection on tneir hot
headed fill.' in the coo! retreat of Bridewell. In
the meantime, the Presbytery will, in all probibility,
Pruc'ed to the ordiuuloa and ivttlfonolt, of