The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-09 00:00:00

REVIVALS IN SCOTLAND.

(From the Aberdeen Herald.)

An anonytnous friend of revivals has sent us the fol-
lowing letter, which we hesitate not to insert :

" you are to treat largely on revivals in
your Monthly Sheet, might I beg you to include an an-
swer to the following queries in it :
" Whether a man may not, on being suddenly awak-
ened to a sense of his sin and danger of damnation, be
led to cry out audibly for mercy, without being deemed
extravagant or weak-minded ?

" Whether there is not sufficient cause for every man,
not reconcled to God, to cry out " men and brethren,
what shall we do to be saved ?'

" And let me implore you, Sir, to pause and not throw
obloquy and ridicule on a work of so serious a na-
ture, and which may be productive of incalculable
benefit to many. You are rot called upon—it does
not come within your province as a journalist, to
judge of God's means in bringing a singer to himself.
You cannot, you dare not, say that a man may not feel
his sins so intolerable as to cry out, and that with a
loud voice—" Lord, have mercy upon me a sinner."
Was the publican weak-minded or an enthusiast, when
he not only cried out, but smote upon his breast, and
dared not once lift up his eyes towards heaven ?—and
pray, Sir, what change has taken place in our world
of refinement, that we should feel pained and annoyed
at the outpourings of a distressed soul ; should we not
rather rejoice, and, by mingling our prayers with his,
seek the glory of God in the salvation of sinners ?"
Our Correspondent's queries, which he, doubt-
less, thinks a poser, might, with great propriety,
be answered in Scottish fashion, by asking him
whether a nervous girl may not be found making
a noise, without having any very definite notions
either of salvation or damnation, or being impressed
with any feeling, beyond that which can be fully ac-
counted for by natural causes? The Friend to Revivals
wilt not contend that the ministrations of our dozen or
fourteen Evangelical clergymen, for the last four or five
years, hate been altogether inefficacious. Surely they
must have awakened some of their hearers to a sense
of sin and danger ; and yet, so far as we are aware,
the thousands of sermons that have been preached
during that period have not produced a single scene
like those exhibited in Mr. Parker's church. It
is not denied that women, and men too, may cry out
under a sermon ; but it is contended that there is
no reason to believe that the instances, consequent
on Mr. Burns' preaching, are the effect of anything be-
yond mere animal excitement, such is 'Ran ters, Jumpers,
and fanatical preachers, in all ages and all places, have
been able to produce. Moreover, it is conceived to be
little short of blasphemy to call the unearthly and un-
pleasant bowling of the revival meetings a work of the
Spirit. At all events the subject is one that is fairly
open to inquiry ; for, there can be no doubt, as the his-
tory of Stephen and other reviving scoundrels prove,
that many of the pretended religious awakenings were,
both in their progress and results, more nearly allied to
the works of the devil than the works of the Spirit.
We have never said that a revival of religion is not
required ; but it must be a real revival—a revival that
will make our clergy more honest—their hearers less
hypocritical—and men in general more virtuous. A
revival that throws a few silly girls into hysterics, and
causes otkers to communicate their experience to as
many Holy Willies as they can get to listen to them, is
of very little consequence to the world, and bears no
mark of divine trigin.
We can easily understand how a clique of "godly
gossips," male and female, should rejoice in a move-
ment that supplies them, from day to day, with fresh
food for scandal. It must be highly edifying to the
half dozen of male teachers of female classes to hear the
particulars of one factory girl's sinning—how another
walked in Broad-street for " chances," and got them
—how a third kept .company with such a young
man—how a fourth frequented a brothel—and
so on. The excitement produced by this exposure
of the back parts of real society may afford a very good
substitute for the excitement of balls, cards, and play-
going, from which the rigidly righteous are excluded by
their puritanic pretensions ; but we question much
whether the world be on the whole benefited by this
revelation of experiences, however grateful it may be
to the pious confessor.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S-.YESTERDAY.

Tux D ERBY. —Coronation was very steady at Monday's
quotation, nor did the odds vary with regard to Van Am-
burgh, but they were betted a considerable amount with-
out exhausting the layers. The Rosalie colt was again in
favour with many parties, 18, 15, and finally 14 to 1 baying
been taken. The Knight of the Whistle was also in re-
quest and three or four fifties were got on at 20 to 1 ; two
points less were also taken, and at the close no one would
lay more than 17 to 1: Prince Caradoc, Paltemon, and
Galaor were in quite as much force as on Monday, nor
were the.Wahabites at all backed, the 28 to 1 having been
taken three or four times, and, in one instance, something
less. The feeling towards Eringo was not very favourable,
and in a trifling bet aghinst Cameleon an advance of fif-
teen points was conceded.
In the 2,000 Guineas Stakes we have only to point out
an improvement in Wahab, about whom as little as 4 to 1
was taken. The betting finished a little before seven
o'clock, as under:

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
4 to 1 agtt Mr. Wreford's Wahab
5 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Ralph
5 to 1 apt Mr. Thornhill's Eringo
DERBY.
3 to 1 agst Scott's lot
35 to 1 agat Forth's lot—taken
7 to 1 agat Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation—taken and
afterwards offered
10 to 1 egg Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh—
' taken and afterwards offered
14 to 1 agat Lord Bruce's Rosalie c—taken
17 to 1 agat Lord Chesterfield's Knight of the Whistle.
20 to 1 agat Mr. Greville's Pala3mon
20 to 1 agat Mr. Mostyn's Prince Caradoc
22 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Ralph—taken
22 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Eringo
25 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Galaor—taken
26 to 1 aget Mr. Wreford's Wahab
30 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's—taken
30 to 1 eget Duke of Rutland's Sir Hans—taken
45 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's Brother to Phosphorus
—taken
50 to 1 agst Colonel Anstm's Duke of Wellington—t
50 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Camelcon—taken
1000 to 15 agst Colonel Craufurd's Ermengardis—taken
1000 to 10 agrt Lord Westminster's Morning Star—t
1000 to 7 ag-t Lord George Bentinck'sMustapha—taken
1000 to 50 agat Mongolian and Brother to Phosphorus
—taken
3000 to 90 eget Young Qao Minus and Metternich—t
500 even between Prince Caradoc and Ralph—taken
600 to 500 and 500 to 400 on Rosalie c. agst Pea-
mon—taken
1100 to WOO on Galaor agst Wahab—taken.

BANBURY STEEPLE CHASES.—TUESDAY.
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, h. ft. ; with 50 added b) the
Town; the second to save his stakes; 12st. each. Four
miles. (6 subs. )
Mr. Browns Challenger... (Mr. Goddard) 1
Mr. Root's Protestant
Capt. Burt's Greyling.
Mr. Cromwelling's Vivian
Mr. Powell's Perfection
• -- • •- -- •

The Second Race, 3 sous. each, 20 added, list 71b. each,
was won by Mr. Raner's Pilot, beating four or five others ;
and the Third Race by Mr. Page's Would-if-she•could.

CHELMSFORD STEEPLE CHASES.—TeIsDAY.
A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, and 100 added ; 12st. each.
Mr. Davy's Gaylad (Owner) 1
Capt. Price's Selim
,
Mr. Lamplugh's Aggravator 3
Mr. Tilbury's f. Goblin
Mr Barkers Sir William
Lottery and three others also started.
A Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, with a purse added. For
Hunters.
Mr. Bishop's The General (Owner) 1
Mr. Rose's Quilp
Mr. Feake's Common Hall
Mr. Barker's Harkaway
- Match, 501. each.
Mr. Williams's Ph3sician ...(Mr. W. Barker) 1
Mr. Baldwin's The Doctor 2

ANCIENT TENURES IN BUCKS.—The Manor of
Water Eaton was held by the service of keeping a falcon,
for flight, for the King's use ; and for the charges of keep-
ing it, the Lord was entitled, on the day that he carried it
to Court, to a horse with its equipage, the King's table,
with the tressels and table-cloth, all the vessels with which
the King was served on that day, and a cask of wine, as
soon as the King had tasted it. The manor of Water Hall
was held by the service of finding a man on a horse without
a saddle, a bow without a string, and an arrow without a
head. The descendants of Lord Grey, of Wilton, con
tinued to posess these manors, and that of Church Blotch-
ley. above 400 years, until the attainder of Thomas Lord
Grey, in 1603. King James granted them, in 1606, to
George Villitrs, afterwards Dike of Buckingham. In
Oliver Cromwell's time they were sold, as confiscated
lands, to Sir Philip Skippoa. George Villiers, the younger
Duke of Buckingham, recovered them at the Restorati.m,
and, in 1674, sold them to Dr. Thomas Willis, a very
eminent physician, grandfather of Mr. Browne Willis, the
areiquary. The other manor (West Bletchley) was pur-
chased by Henry Grey, Ea.l of Kent, by Catherine,
Duchess Dowager of Buckingham, whose son, the second
Duke, having sold it to Dr. Willi, all the manors became
again united.
Father Pardies wrote against the experiments,
and what he was pleased to call the hypotheses of Newton,
--the very words of uninformed anti-phrenologists. Such
great astronomers and mathematicinna as Casini and Ma-
raldi were calculating the paths of comets on the most
imaginary and unfounded hypotheses, long after Halley
had constructed tables on the principles of Newton, in
which the motions of all comets that ever bad appeared, or
could appear, might be easily deduced ; and Voltaire re-
marks that, though Newton lived nearly forty years after
the publicwion of his Principie," he bad not twenty fol-
lowers out of England at the time of his death. Some
great philosophers died in perfect ignorance of them. The
introduction of Greek was originally opposed with violence
at Oxford, though now it is taught there as one of the most
important things that a well educated man can know. The
music of G all's countryman, Handel, though it has enraptured
the English for a century, is now only beginning to be ap-
preciated in Germany.—Elliotson's Human Physiology.
It is said that a dividend of 10s. in the pound
will shorbly be paid from the estate of the late firm of
Hunmsraley and Co.