The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-10 00:00:00

Positively, that at one time the Bible was not
used as a class-book in many parish schools, es-
pecially those in towns with a population of 1500
and upwards. He himself received his early
education in a parish school in which Barry's
Collection, a book which has gone through thirty
or forty editions, was taught. Another book of
the same description (Mason's Collection) was
also very extensively used. In country parishes,
especially in secluded districts, he admitted that
the Bible was the class-book. This was the
practice ; what the rule of the Church on the
subject may be, he does not know.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Accounts were stated to have been received
from Maranham to the 19th of March, on Satur-
day, according to which serious disturbances had
taken place in the Government of Brazil, and the
province was on the very brink of a serious con-
vulsion. The Military Commandant, it was said,
apprehensive of the Imperial Government be-
ing overturned, and a Republic substituted for
the treacherous rule of Don Pedro, had seized
on the persons of the President and Secretaries
of the Provincial Junta, and alarming tumults
had in consequence taken place. The troops, con-
sisting almost wholly of natives of Brazil, it was
added, had refused to obey the orders of the
Military Commandant, and, according to this
statement, the latter himself was seized on and
divested of all authority, and sent to Rio Janeiro.
Now this commotion is mentioned as having oc-
curred at the close of February, and we have at
this moment before us letters to the 16th of
March, which are wholly silent upon it. The
whole account, therefore, must be considered a
mere fabrication, intended for the Stock Ex-
change. Maranham is one of the most northern
provinces of the extensive country of Brazil,
comprehending a populous island of the same
name, 112 miles in circuit, lying at the mouth
of three great rivers. The French settled there
in 1612, but were soon after expelled by the
Portuguese. Quantities of rice and cotton are
produced in this province, the chief town of which
is St. Louis. Scarce a day has passed for some
mouths that the tale of some new commotion or
some 04r:fling 'Tumour has not been brought to
these
,heres from Brazil. The fact is, its pre-
sent Government is 'not stable ; it is hemmed
round with treachery 'and distrust ; Don Pedro
is vacillating and faithless. Brazil is now the
only empire in the New World, and it will pro.
bably very soon change its government, and, fol.
lowing the examples of Colombia and Mexico
become a vast and energetic Republic.

[MORNING POST.]
We have already noticed the coarse opposition
which the grant for repairing Windsor Castle has
received from one qwarter, and should hare to offer
many apologies for insulting the feelings and Judg-
ment of a loyal people, by again enforcing the
propriety of this vote, were we 'not' compelled
to expose the brutal attack to whiCh it. has sub-
jected oar beloved Sovereign. The :fact that,
constitutionally speaking, all the Royal Palaces
of England belong to the State, and as such
should, on mere grounds of pru!leutial economy,
be preserved Qr improved for the sake of the na-
tion itself, ought to satisfy the most querulous
and captious caviller of the necessity of uphold-
ing in a habitable condition the only regal- resi-
dence in the country deserving the name. Is an
Empire, wallowing in riches, and blessed with the
best of Monarchs, to have a King, and yet.no suit-
able Palace in which he may dwell ? The only
point we imagine to be ascertained is, whether
Windsor Castle needs repair or not. If it does, the
object is national, and should on no account be
argued with reference to other consideration's---
for the comfort of his Majesty is constitutionally
merged in the dignity of the King of England,
and the one is studied, because it involves the
other. All these matters, however; are kept out
of view, while, with the strangest and most
childish inconsistency, the proposed grant is ob-
jected to on grounds purely personal to our gra-
cious Sovereign, at the same time that Windsor
Castle, by implication, is allowed to be not the
property or abode of any particular Monarch,
but the palace of whoever rules the State. In
this spirit a savage advantage has beets taken of
the recent indispositon of his Majesty to suggest,
that from his age and health he will neither be
able to attend to the alterations in contemplation,
nor to enjoy them when concluded for any con-
siderable period ; on both of which accounts
Windsor Palace ought to be allowed to be-
come a ruin ! This disgusting plea derives
all its consequence from its atrocity. In the
first place, it has from the beginning been
stated, that the sum proposed to be expended
under the authority and inspection of a public
Commission, and not by the King only—a condi-
tion which shows at once the nature of the grant
and the impossibility of a national object being
converted into a temporary gratification. But let us
suppose it otherwise, and that, instead of merely
consulting his , Majesty's taste in the repairs
and improvements to be made, the whole had
been left to the entire disposal and will of the
King—who, even on this supposition, would say
that George IV., the most accomplished Prince
that has ever graced the throne of England—the
early admirer and zealous patron of the Floe
Arts—was not of himself perfectly competent
to judge and decide, bOth generally and minute-
ly, as to what the interest of the nation required,
and its taste would sanction ? We need not, how-
ever, argue on such an assumption. His Ma-
jesty is relieved from every responsibility of this
sort—the repairs of Windsor Castle are under-
taken for the country, and with the labours of
the Commission we are convinced the public will
be as well pleased, as we know they are unani-
mous in approving the application of the. vote in
question. Our revered Monarch himself never
thought of having this Palace altered or improved
for his own exclusive enjoyment; but he evi-
dently aimed at rendering it worthy of the Em-
pire, over whose destinies he presides—of the
taste of a great and loyal people.

We have heard that one of the Grim. Con. ac-
tions, commenced by a person in a prominent class
of society; will be withdrawn for very good rea-
sons.—(Morning Paper.)