The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-20 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Her Majesty's staghounds meet on Monday, at Littleton ;
Thurs., Woking Station ; Sat., Bear Hotel, Maidenhead-113/4.
Holderness hds., Mon., Catwick Mill; Tues., Kennels;
Thurs , Bessingby Hall ; Sat., Arras— 14 to 11.
Worcestershire lids., Mon., Monk Wood; Thurs., Crowle ;
Sat., Chadbury, near Evesham-104.
Lord Redesdale's hds., Mon., Great Tew ; Toes., Tar Wood ;
Thurs., Sturdy Castle; Fri., Eyford-10%,
Ledbury hds., Mon., Clencher's Mill; Fri., Acton Green.
Herefordshire lids., Mon., Canon Froom Wharf ; 'Thurs.,
Holme Lacy-101/.
Ludlow hds., Mon., Staunton Lacy; sat., Bucknall Wood.
Shropshire hds. Mon., Acton Reynard ; Wed., Petton ; Fri.,
Pitchford Village-. 4 to 11.
Wheatland lids., Tues., Billingsley Fri., Tickwood.
Brighton hrrs., Mon., Patcham ; ed., Racecourse; Fri.,
Dyke-14 to 11.
Brookside hrra, Mon., Newmarket Hill ; Thurs., Tele-
combe-tye--1031.
Findon lids., Tues., Roundabout; Thurs., Washington
Common.
Eastbourne hrrs., Mon., Lighthouse, Eastdean ; Thurs.,
Snap Hill; Sat., Willingdon Old Mill-14 to 11.
Crawley and Horsham hds., Mon., West Grinsted ; Thurs.,
Plaw Hatch ; Fri., The Fox, Three Bridges-14 to 11.
Suffolk hds., Mon., Apley Head ; Tues., treetly Bar;
Thurs., Wadworth Woodhouse; Fri., Finningley Park.
Rufford lids., Mon., Park Hall; Thurs., Blidworth Dale;
Sat., North Budby Forest—lOt,2•
Lord Yarborough's lids., Mon., Usselby House ; Tues.,
Hendale Lodge; Fri.. Cadney Bridge-11.
Lord H. Bentinck's lids., Mon., Skellingthorpe ; Tues.,
Linwood, by Rasen ; Thurs. Scopwick ; Sat. Stapleford Moor.
Sir Tattoo Sykes's hds., Mon., Settrington House; Tues.,
Thornton in the Clay; Fri., Se,ampston Bridge.
Cheshire lids.. Mon., Durham Massey ; Tues., Withering-
ton ; Thurs., Stamford Bridge; Sat., Tilston-11.
Sir W. W. Wynn's lids., Mon., Nescliff; Tues., Wynnstay;
Fri., Llangedwin • Sat., Sellattyn-10%.
North Staffordshire hds., Mon., Darlaston Bridge; Tues.,
Draycot ; Fri., Walgherton Lodge, Doddington —lO3/4.
Cottesmore hds., Mon., Cottesmore ; Tees., Aston ; Thurs.,
Grimsthorpe Castle; Sat., Knossington-14 to 11.
Earl Fitzwilliam's lids., Mon., Sawtry Gorse ; Tues.,
Long Orton ; Thurs., Oundle Wold-10.
Cambridgeshire lids., Mon., Sandy Warren; Fri., Agden
Green-1041.
Quorn hds., Mon.. Beeby ; Tues., Brooksby.Hall-1,4 to 11.
Mr. M. Ingram's lids., Mon., Cubley Toll-bar ; Thurs.,
Brettry Park ; Sat., Blithefield-14 to 11.
Dorrington lads., Mon., Kegworth Station ; Fri., Belton
Village; Sat., Staunton Daly-4 to 11.
Mr. Hellier's lids., Mon., Muckton ; Tues., Turnby Wood ;
Thurs., Hainton ; Sat., Welton Wood-103/4.
Mr. Farquharson's lids., Mon., Giant's Head ; Tues., King-
ston Russell.
Crewkerne hrrs., Mon., Kennel (a deer)-11.
Devon lids., Mon., Peamore-11.
Mr. A. Smith's lids., Mon., Wilston Wood; Tues., Over-
ton, near Marlborough ; Thurs., Vernham Gate ; Fri., For-
ton Firs ; Sat., Speery
Duke of Beaufort's lids., Mon., Siston • Thurs., The Plough,
Kinston St. Michael; Sat., Rowdaford.
Mr. Locke's lids., Tues., Elston; Thurs., New Coppice.
Burton Vale lids., Tues., Hammoon Bridge; Thum,
Chesilbourne Down-113/4.

RELIGIOUS TOLERATION IN
RUSSIA.
(From the Church and State Gazette.)
We have lately published a sketch of the new regulla-
tions by which the autocrat of Russia proposes not only
to preserve the Church of which he is the singular a.nd
in
crease
the head, but to extend its boundaries and
the number of its votaries.

The sketch we gave was only an abridgment from a more
detailed account which we found in a Paris paper; but
brief as it was, it was full of very significant meaning.
It served most substantially to prove that, in Russia tole-
ration has no safeguard either in public opinion or in the
constitution of the Government. It is nothing more nor
less than what the Marquis de Custine long since desig-
nated it—a favour conceded by one man (" wee grace
octroyee par un homme")—by one man who may, of his
own free will or caprice, withdraw to-morrow what he
allows to-day.
It is the object of the military synod which, under the
Czar Patriarch, rules the Church of Russia, to confine
the influence of the national priesthood over the people
(that is, over the nobility as well as over the lower
orders), to obtaining from them signs of the cross and
genuflections. All other matters connected with the
itself.
Russian the imperial Government takes upon
Russian policy has constituted obedience as its first great
dogma. It orders the Russo-Greek religion to be pro-
fessed, but not taught. Russian prayers are as brief as,
it is said, wit ought to be ; and a Russian sermon never
echoed beneath the roof of a Russo-Greek church.
Thereis no preaching in Russia . the Spirit of the
Gospel would reveal liberty to the;Slaves•
paradise is constructed of very small The latter
are taught to win heaven by obeying the Czar. Their
which cost nothing, but which may be supposed to
constructed as that of a Persian, ~ properties; "
tempt a people who are sedulously taught tha easily
want for nothing. Their Eden, in abort,
is. asy
to consist of little, if anything else, beside " black eyes
and lemonade."
In the new regulations, as indeed in the old--of
.
which the former are but the ratification—the Rusii!an
subject is duly instructed to fix his thouthisttrewatoern.
praying, more upon his Emperor than upon b
a French
This fact was pleasantly commented uP
onby
sleepy
with who felt himself growing irresistiblyhich A
with the monotony of the which is poetically 'aid
imperial Liturgy at w
was—in foreign phrase—assisting.
" I willtrouble
you (said he to his neighbour), I will trouble you to
wake me as soon as you begin to think of praying to
the Almighty.'
But it is not on account of anything we have yet s aid
.that we have thought it worth while to trouble ourreaders with cominent! upon the method by which
political Christianity is taught f'r(nn Kolgouney to
Taganrog. Our reason for reverting to the snbjecb of
theGreco- Russian religion is that, in the decree lately
issued by the Emperor, and the chief object of
vvbac!h
was declared to be the prevention of proselytism in
favour of any other religion than that of the State,
there exists a clause which we had overlooked, and which
may be made to affect all English chaplains, and Engitish
clergymen generally, who may be visiting or residing in
Russia.
nation, residing
The clause to which we allude. runs as follows,-:
" Any ecAesiustic of another religion (than that of the
Obi, the lenisee
Czar), teaching that religion to persons under age, oven
etpevaesn.s talk t
talkh
ies t o teach— w Et b -
Aith 0 u t intention to
e of cause us
second
et hdeeinffeteoe
offence,
jooufbr ehe
itshoewGn imprisonedrecioi..-
Russ i a n faith, is to be suspended for one or serera
years; and, in ca
from one to two years.".
.By . this clause, which
he onee
in
Russia, directs i itself
al f
zealousto any Eecncgl
passes Cronstadt, is placed, unless he be discreet, in great
, be said that
first offence,
elissihasctileergo;maanuy, when
any ecclesie tion
jngeri oo
tpriha
etrodLy: onßfne.bses
also.iinago compelled
subject—forlie
cannot to
out incurring the penalty of. visiting V arposkey. Let
him, however innocently, interpret if he can the
" Thirty-nine Articles " to Russian curiosity, and be
it has given, to
runs the risk of being sent to fish on the inhospitable
nsheoitrhensroftbthee
suspension
ofns ißnnaiknafl.
office
nmea.yl.o,
rin.dteheed
nor the heavier penalty of imprisonment (which
involves banishment) threatened for a reiteration
of
who is a subject of England. This, assertion is probable4
and possible ; but that the Russian Government would
hot. avi et, thei
right,ever ikaefltyer
inflict the penalties named in the decree against all of-
fenders is unquestionable. The power may never .
be
exercised ; nevertheless, there it is : and its very exist-
ence is a singularity worthy of record—the mere
worthy, perhaps, that we have in Russia some er-
rant ecclesiastical geologists, we believe, exploring
the
barren fields, fertile to them in rocks of variegate,fi
and of 1 rimary, secondary, and tertiary orders. These
gentl'anen must confine themselves to the exercise
t
of their profession, but of their relaxation ; for, sll' Du7l(l)c
they indulge too repeatedly in the former, their friends
awaiting them by happy English hearths may hear of
them as breaking stones on the Government account,
and not their own, in some of the agreeable localities
between Petropavlosk and the Gulf of Juiginski.

EXTENSIVE FORGERIES AT LEEDS.—No new facts
have transpired in reference to the
forgeries of the three
Glovers. The greatest possible vigilance is being used. to
discover their retreat, and not without some hopes of 811MeSS.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—We have
a good arrival of wheat. for which the tradeis slow at a re-
duction of Is. to 2s. per quarter. .Barley is in retail demand
at rather less money. Beans are in moderate request atilast
week's prices. Oats are the turn dear.