The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-12 00:00:00

one that fills no mean position in Parisian society.
" Le Concierge " is indeed a personage who
possesses much power of annoyance, and
whose good offices it is essential to the
comfort of the " locataire" to secure. " Sporting
Life from London," by Lord William Lennox, shows
what can be seen and enjoyed by the London resident
at a moderate expense in any description of sport,
and the great facilities given by " the rail," which
permit the man about town to participate in all the
field sports. " Hunting in the Forest of St. Ger-
mains" exhibits a striking contrast to the modus ope-
randi in France and our own country ; and " The
Seasons of Forty-five and Forty-six" gives some good
hints for the amendment of the game-laws, although
we confess we should be disposed to go rather farther
than the writer. Altogether the number will afford
a rich treat to a very numerous body of our coun-
trymen.

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW'
" The Chapels Royal, being No. 3 of the Churches s
of London," exhibits the prevailing feelingofThhe
Oxford and Cambridge in the strong, ie,stlsig a
close
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writer, who signs himself " Ridley, elevates
stickler for forms and ceremonies,udue magni-
and
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matters of trivial import into
tude. He is evidently strongly intoche first water—for
inoculated with Tracta-
rian views—a Puseyite °
no less than twenty-three mortal pages he proses in
a strain of whining cant at the informalities and
at
omissions observedthe Chapels Royal, which he
traces back to the time of the Revolution of 1688,
asserting that William the Third was not a Church-
man at all, but a Presbyterian at heart, who had no
sympathy with Anglican Episcopacy, to which he only
conformed as
a matter of state policy. The two first
Georges he sets down as still more insensible to the merits
of the Ecclesiastical System. He lashes himself into
a state of virtuous indignation, because the prayers are
what he terms " talked or preached," in place of
being said (by which he means chanted) or sung.
The Bishop who preached, not having knelt down
when he entered the pulpit, but merely leant over
the cushion, excites his bile in the strongest degree,
although he states that he considers private prayer
in the pulpit as an innovation of a puritannical
period in the church's history and one of very doubt-
ful propriety, as it is out of all order to offer up
prayer at all in the pulpit. We could not have con-
ceived that any rational man in his sober senses could
possibly drivel out such ridiculous twaddle. A royal
duchess attending the St. James's Theatre on a
Friday, a double fast, as he expresses in
italics to mark the enormity, and the Opera
on Saturday should be debarred according to
this formalist from attending the mid-day service.
And he asks, " Why should the Church give way to,
and thereby countenance such profanity ?" It is hard
to tell whether it is the attendance of the Royal
Duchess, at the Chapel Royal, or the performance of
the morning service at mid-day that he designates in
these terms. Indeed he does not in his strictures, by
any means, spare the highest personage in the realm—
the admitted head of that Church, of which he appa-
rently prafesses himself to be a member—but unhesi-
tatingly states that our Sovereign Lady is grievously at
faultin those respects ; while even the Bishop of London
himself comes in for a share of his censure " for
conniving at, if not participating in, such irregu-
larities." But that at Whitehall is still worse.
There is no exhibition of a cross in any part of it !
Nay, horribile dictu, the entrance is not at the west
end, but the north ! !The altar is not at the east, but
at the south !! ! Can any good be hoped for in a
country that tolerates such awful profanity ?
We trust that the friends and relatives of this singu-
larly unhappy gentleman will pay close attention to
the state of his health, and not suffer him to remain
too long by himself. We entertain many serious
misgivings as to the state of his mind. There are
many other articles, to which we hare not space to
advert, but none are characterised by the out-
rageous absurdity of that to which we have
just alluded. " The Country Curate's Tale "
is told in simple and pleasing language ;
and there is a resume of the proceedings which took
took place during the recent election for the Chan-
cellorship of Cambridge, with which the general
reader is already acquainted, but which is properly in-
cluded in a periodical devoted to the interests of the
Universities.