The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOU"—

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isitoM Tllll DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.)
( From the Globe. )
The third reading of the Ecclesiastical Duties and
Revenues Bill was moved by Lord J Russell. Sir R.
Inglis presented a petition from the Chancellor br
Exeter against the Bill,- and took occasion to express his
decided hostility to the measure, becaase " it preferred
suppression to suspension, and in some cases confis-
cation to better distribution." The Hon. Baronet is a
strenuous advocate for " things as they are," so far as
relates to preserving untouched the temporalities of the
Church, however partial their distribution, and useless or
injurious to religion the system on which that distribu-
tion is made. The " Church Extension," for which Sir
R. Inglis is the advocate, is by indiscriminate taxation
of the people for the buildil g and endowment of more
Churches. " The ruin of the Cathedral system," which
the Hon. Baronet affects to sec in the operation of the
Ecclesiastical Revenues Bill, and which be deprecates
as fraught with " ruin" to religion in this country,
would be c:iesply purchased were the immenso
funds now r onopolised by down Doctors, reposing
in the lap of luxury, to be applied to the building of the
waste places, and providing a supply of labourers, and ade-
quately supporting them in their work. We admit with
Sir R. Inglis that " the harvest is great." We also agree
with him, though not exactly in the sense in which he
uses the expression, that the labourers are few. Lord
John Russell's bill will tend to diminish the evil ; if it
went further than it does, its efficiency would be propor-
tionately increased. Mr. Gladstone's politico-theolsgical
speech was, as such speeches gen wally are, more ab-
strusu than instructive.

(From the Standard.)
In the House of Lords last night Lord Duncanaon pro-
posed to postpone the third reading of the Irish Municipal
Bill until Monday next, in order to await the introduction
of certain auxiliary Bills upcn the subject of boun-
daries and compensation ; and, as was subsequently ex-
plained, of a Bill for limiting the power of taxation.
When we said, about a fortnight or three weeks
ago, that these auxiliary measures were in course of
preparation, we were taunted by the Ministerial Journals
as stating a falsehood. The amendments of the House of
Lords, we were told, had already ensured the rejection of
the original measure by the House of Commons, and
Ministers would take no further trouble in the matter. It
is now certain that we spoke the truth, and that we knew
Ministers better than their organs of the Press. The
truth is, that they will, upon any terms, take any measure
which shall preserve to their masters chartered schools
of normal agitation in the principal towns of Ireland,
to serve as the nucleus of the great Romanist treason c,m-
templated—the dismemberment of the empire. This ob-
ject is too precious to bo lightly abandoned. Let their
Romanist municipalities have neither funds nor legitimate
occupation,—and as they are like ti be constituted they
will apparently have neither—still they have a name and
a legal sanction for their seditious meetings, and the
Romish sect knows well how, from even humbler begin-
nings than these, to work out the most extensive and
mischievous effects.