The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-24 00:00:00

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FRENCH VIE WS OF THINGS IN
s ENGLAND. of Sunday.)
(From the JCiurnal des Debats o just now ;it is
1 English fanaticism has plenty to d,
and places i be-
: besieged on all sides simultaneously, ,
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tween several fires. Yesterday it was t
'ho
to
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-1 the abst 'rd
Lansdowne who made a bold attack ci, . ,-, t
s the tiou. "-
" interdict " under which England still lay
of Rome ; to-day it is Lord John Russell N% t
in a Bill for opening the doors of Parliamen
Jews.
The party of English " exclusiveness , are
defending themselves with an energy befitting & o
B.
Des-
perate cause. They have already represented
.k tEe
Pius IX. casting batches of human victims to
Minotaur of the Inquisition ; at present they Ex re
menacing England with the fate of Sodom and Go " .
morrah if she renounces what these ignorant
fanatics are pleased to call her " Christian " charac-
I ter. Hitherto the causes of the cholera were not
very ezactly ascertained. But, lo ! a " new light" has
dawned, and the leading organ of the party has dis-
covered that the Asiatic cholera descended in a direct
line from the Roman Catholic Relief Bill of 1829 !
It was when the Papists were liberated from their
secular quarantine, and admitted to free pratique in
the British Imperial Parliament, that Divine justice
let loose the scourge of that dreadful pestilence upon
guilty England to punish her for her impious tolera-
tion ! And if Parliament take the Jews into its
bosom, you may rest assured, old women and gos-•
sips of
Great Britain, that the cholera will enter
through the same door—so beware !

Let not our intelligent readers opine that we are
dreaming—we merely quote the words of the,
Standard. " Those who have eyes to see" (remarks-.
ds
coaru.go,
.ityteanfttehre
tshceougrrgeeatwalpliocs
of
e dluBs29a,l ma onsdt immthrni
ce h-
this delectable disciple of orthodoxy) " cannot have
1 It
ac inyv
now dt eatens to submerge in an abyss of ruin an
empire 1%. filch was so, powerful, so rich, and so pros-
perous 25 wers ago. '
In sobere s.'riousness, when we see the way in which
these.questiom are sometimes treated in England, we
are astonished x.` the very little progress which the
most elementary principles of liberty and equality
have made in that coti...ltrY• Nothing is more amusing
than the dismay with which the English Tory or
obstructive party ask-6...8ut we have already ad-
mitted the Papists; you wi).1•1 us now to admit the
Jews ; why then should we not be asked to admit
the Mahomedans and the Hinthos ? We have pos-
sessiona in China—we have Ceylon—we have the
Cape of Good Hope ; shall we, then, have in our
Parliament disciples of Confucius, followers of Buddha,
and worshippers of the Great Serpent ?" To these
irrational and childish queries it might easily be an-
swered, " Why not ?" but the primary error of these
questions is that they are incorrectly laid down. The
question is not to know if such or such an individual
professes such or such a religion, but simply this,
whether he is a citizen of the country, and fulfils the
duties appertaining to that character ? It matters
not, so far, whether he worships God or bows down
to Baal—that is an affair of conscience.
England has herself long since renounced the
maintenance of the absolute principle of religion in
her legislative enactments. Her constitution ceased
to he Protestant the day on which she restored to the
Dissenters, of whom the Papists formed a section,
their share in the making of laws.
Mr. Macaulay, the ex-Member for Edinburg!), and
a member of the Cabinet, acutely remarks, in. one of
his admirable articles, that " a Government esse ,ntially
Protestant, essentially Christian, is nonsense .; it is
just as absurd as if one were to talk of an essentially
Protestant cook, or an essentially Christian n lethod
of riding on horseback. 'The differences be tween
Christianity and Judaism are of some moment when
a bishop or a rabbi is to be appointed ; but they have
no more to do with the capacity of an individual to
make a magistrate or a legislator than with his ca-
pacity to make a cobbler. Religion has just as much
to do with the mending of shoes as with the budget
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer !" This is rather
a bold sally, we aciOit) especially for England. But
Mr. Macaulay is duly rewarded for his learning, for
his philosophical opinions have cost him his seat in
Parliament.
At all events, if the Church of England were to
die or to fall away, it would certa:ely not be of in-
anition, as may be seen from a recen: debsatfie iend,thae
House of Commons. An Act of 1836 thu._ -'''''nelishs
it appears, the revenues of the principal ~._ --' ~,k
bishoprics ; viz., Canterbury, 1.5,000/. ; /.._ '
10,000/. ; London, 10,0001.; Durham, 8,000/. ; Win-
chester, 7,0001.; Ely, 5,500/. ; St. Asaph, 5,200/. ;
Worcester, 5,0001.; and Bath, 5,000/. The excess.
of the revenue of each see was to serve to complete
the revenue of the rest, which were to be of a maxi-
mum of 5,0001., or a minimum of 4,0001. We say-
" revenues," because in England there are ecclesi—
astical " properties" and no clerical " salaries."
The figures above quoted will doubtless appear •
sufficient, especially if we compare them with the
25,000 f. (1,0000 of our own archbishops, and the
15,000 f. (6001.) of our own bishops ; but it must not
be imagined that they represent the whole revenue of •
the English prelates. The Act of 1836 was only to
take effect as the episcopal sees became vacant ; the
existing bishops remained in plenary possession of all. .
their revenues. But a preliminary inquiry showed.
that the Archbishop of Canterbury enjoyed an annual
revenue of 32,000/. ; the Archbishop of York, 14,5501.;
the Bishop of London, 14,5521. But even this is not
all ; and the Bishop of London—how short soever the
remaining period of his mortal career—will soon be
_one of the richest private individuals in the weed.
We find that in London alone, an entire district
abutting on Hyde-park is built on ground which it
the property of his Reverence. This is a new district
—one of the finest in the capital ; and the probable
revenue is estimated at 100,000/.
These figures were cited the other day by Air..
Horsman, M.P., in the House of Commons. The
Hon. Member complained that the Ecclesiastical.
Commissioners had deviated from the Act of Parlia-
ment. ' For example, when the see of Durham had
become vacant the revenue of the new bishop ought
to have been fixed at 8,000/, This bishopric yielded,
it appearF, an income of 19,000/. The bishop was
offered the alternative of taking 8,000/., and leaving
the property of the diocese to the management of the
Commission, or to manage it himself and to pay the
Commissioners 8,000/. The cunning bishop preferred
the latter, and has pocketed a vast sum by the ar-
rangement.
Hence, it will be seen that the situation of the,
English clergy is not so very bad! We know not
how real religion flourishes in England, but the Est* .
blished Church is in very good case indeed.

A. MAN CRUSHED TO DEATFL
Yesterday forenoon an inquiry of some duration
was gone into, before Mr. W. Carter, Goan( Jr for
Surrey, and a highly-respectable jury, at the Drum
public-house, Snow's. fields, Bermondsey, rely live to
the death of Martin Barry, aged fifty years, wiho was
killed by the falling of a wall connected with' the
workhouse of St. John, Horslydown, Southwark.
Thomas Barfitt, of No. 9, Albert-street, Bermood-
sey, stated that, on the morning of Tuesday last,
about half-past nine o'clock, the deceased and several
men were engaged in repairing the carriage-way in
Artillery-street, Horslydown. The deceased was
standing in front of a high wall connected with the
workhouse, when a loud crash was heard, and the next
moment witness saw that the said wall had given way,
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bricks and rubbish, and, after considerable difficulty,
succeected in finding the body of deceased, who was.
completely crushed, particularly about the head and
shoulders.
Other witnesses having been examined, showing
that the occurrence was purely accidental, the Coro-
ner summed up the evidence at considerable length;
when the jury, after a short consultation, unani-
mously returned a verdict of Accidental Death.
At the close of the proceedings, Mr. Corner, the
solicitor, informed the Coroner and jury that the con-
tractors intended to make some provision for the
widow of the unfortunate man who had lost his life.

EMIGRATION TO THE CANADAS.—Private letters
have been received in town within the last few days
from several parts of Canada, stating, that in consequence
of the colony being overrun by Irish emigrants, who are
unable to obtain employment, a memorial to her Majesty
was in course of signature, praying that either some.
means should be adopted by Government to direct the
tide of emigration Majesty'sfromgtrhanattspoanrtthoefirhaerival,
minions, or that some steps should be taken to provide
Dither
minions,
s or in anyother way which
Majesty's Government might think proper to adopt.
fortohfe
railways
t u ri a l
has already received the signatures of
employmentThoehereconstruction
me
many thousand persons, and it is
expected to reach this
country by the next arrivals from Canada. It is worded
in strong terms, and predicts
the worst consequences to
the colony, should
evils complained of something not be don© to remedy the
The leading towns in the colony—
New Brunswick is
be literall3
• swarming ..
mentioned in particular—are said to
with these Irish emigrants, who
move about in a mass of rags from place to place, asking
alms from every
one they meet. The writer of one of
the >
letters which have just been received from New
Brunswick mentions that no fewer than twenty-seven of
these, miserable creatures called at his house to solicit
charity in one day.
THE RIOT AT THE STOCKPORT ELECTION.—Late
on Wednesday night, the jury empannelled to consider
the cause of the death of the unfortunate man, killed
during the riots which followed the Stockport election,
returned the following verdict, after being locked up
three hours:—" Manslaughter against John Hurst, and
four other persons unknown." The jury, at the same
time, unanimously expressed their decided reprehension
of those practices which have led to this unhappy case,
and to hope that the origin, be it either by " bottling"
voters or ey the use of weapons, or any ether exhibition
of physical force, will cease hereafter to be employed in
the conducting of elections.