The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-29 00:00:00

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
If we were called upon to designate the desire which
pervades all classes and sects in Ireland, we should un-
hesitatingly describe it as a desire for peace ; that the
benefits of good government may be realised to the
fullest possible extent ; that civil disabilities being re-
moved, the party jealousies and dissensions they occa-
sioned may subside ; and that the members of the same
commonwealth, inhabitants of the same town or dis-
tict, instead of regarding each other with cold suspi-
cion, or cherishing the elements of furious hate, may
bury beneath the tree which shelters their common pri-
v Eggs, the hatchet of intestine war, and imprecate
a curse upon the head of him, of whatever creed or
party, who would dig it from the grave to which a sense
of common interest in the general pacification of the
eJuntry, every real friend of that country would consign
it. We do not regard the intemperate speeches of
violent men, of whatever party, as tending to shake
the position we have assumed. The exception rather
estnblihes than weakens it. The conspiracy which the
Standard and other Orange organs recommended, as the
best rneaes:of rendering the Irish Municipal Bill a source
of perpetual bitterness and strife, instead of hailing it
as another step towards allaying the hostile feelings
which the exclusive corporate system had engendered
and kept alive—and the " Repeal agitation" belong to
the same class—originare in the same motives, and will
be doomed to the same result. Both will expire of in
enition ; the food on which factions feed has been cut
off by the common consent of the leaders of both par-
t ies in Parliament, which the concessions of both to ef-
fect the settlement of this long agitating co. stion fully
proved, will be productive of a correspondent disposition
out of doors. The march of real patriotism in his on-
ward course of pacification, will be rapid ; and the be-
nefits, social, civil and religious, which will spring up
and flourish in her path, will be as numerous as the fruit
they bear will prove beneficial to a long-divided and
therefore degraded and impoverished people.
(From the Standard.)

M. Thiers is the type of an order, the representative
of the pauper politician class, and as we suffer something
by this class ourselves, it is well to show the temptations
to which pauper politicians are exposed, the opportunities
which they enjoy, and the unscrupulous profligacy with
which, if not narrowly watched, they may employ these
opportunities. M. Thiers, moreover, has threatened
and insulted this country, and though, thanks to the
wisdom of the King of the French, the good feeling of
t French people, and—let us not forget it—the good
aduct of the British press, the menace and the insult
tssin;; away like a summer cloud ; still it is
a heavy offence to create an unfriendly feeling
between two great neighbouring nations, an unfriendly
ferling which the least accident might have kindled into
a desolating war. It is right, then, to expose the pro,
bahle motive of the firebrand, if for no other purpose
than to render difficult or impossible a repetition of his
crime. It is melancholy to reflect upon what slight
threads the peace of the world depends. We have it
upon record that a dispute between Louis XIV;
and his minister, about the proportions of a window-
in the palace of Trianon, led to the wars which
d, s Mated Europe at the end of the 17th and he-
!.inn ng of the 18th centuries. " I will give him," said
the minister, something else than criticising my taste
in architecture to think of;" and more than a million
of better men than either the King or the statesman
rai 1 the forfeit of their lives as the consequence.
This was bad enough ; but surely a viler and more dc-
g aling origin of war would be the enlargement of the
Aundity of the breeches pocket of a mean adventurer.
We believe that the security of the French Throne, the
well-being of France, and the preservation of the
pace of Europe, will be doubtful until M. Thiers and
his class arc repudiated from the councils of Sovereigns,
an I therefore we must regret to see the Morning
Chronicle, or any other respectable journal, apologising
for them.

(From the Courier.)
We beg the particular attention of our readers to
one of the charges to which the seven suspended minis-
ters of the Church of Scotland are now called upon to
Vead. It appears to us one of the most grave of all
the counts within the four corners of the libel. They
are charged with having profaned and desecrated the
Christian sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist, by
administering the same to their parishioners after they
had been suspended from their ministerial functions by
the Commission of the 11th of December and the Gene-
ral Assembly of 184.0. Th's charge, upon the face of
it, is a most grave and serious imputation, in so far as
it lays profanity and sacrilege at their door, is grounded
nn the assumption that the sentence of suspension took
from the seven ministers " the power of the keys," as
it is cllled in the Confession of Faith ; and that until
this power is restored, by the same authority that took
it away, all the acts of the Strathbogie ministers are acts
,of :Tress profanation of religious ordinances, these minie.
ters during this period being, as Mr. Candlish expressed
it—" no ministers of Christ at all !" Without at pre-
sent showing, as we could do, that the doctrine involved
in this assumption, and on which alone this count in the
libel is made torest, resolves substantially into the most
purely papal dogma that can be imagined, and proves
to a de:nonstration that the Kirk is but half-reformed,
we must ask our readers to look at it under another
:phasis. It holds, that Ministers deposed by the Church
Courts, which gave them " the power of the keys,"—
although these Courts arc themselves of " this world"—
cannot administer the word and ordinances as ministers
of Christ, whose kingdom is of another world, until the
same Courts shall restore them. Let this be granted to
the present guides and leaders of the Kirk ; and let us
,just remind them of an historical fact, in connexion with
their own recent proceedings. In 1736, or thereabouts,
the Church Courts in Scotland deposed a body of minis-
ters, who afterwards originated and formed the well-
known and most highly respected Secession. From these
:ministers so deposed " the power of the keys" was
taken ; yet in face of this deposition they exercised this
power. Amon', other things they exercised the highest
functions understood as coming under this power—the
ordaining of future office-bearers in the Church of
'Christ. But according to Mr. Candlish, these
Ministers so ordained were " no Ministers at all :"
every act they did was an act of gross profanation
and sacrilege! and the grossest of all was .‘ the laying
of their hands" on others, and assuming to authorise
them to dispense the word and sacraments. And who
do our readers think arc " the office-bearers in• the
house of Christ"--the General Assemblies and Com-
missions of the Church of Scotland—now aiding and
abetting in condemning the seven suspended ministers
.or Strathbogie, as profane and sacrilegious invaders of
Christ's crown and kingdom ? the ry men who re-
ceived ordination at the hands of the deposed seceders !
who, according to Mr. Candlish, we
at all!" We are told, that when the Rev. e'v'noGemni
Gentlemen
uttered this sentiment he was loudly cheered bt
the
spiritually-begotten children of the deposed seceders,
Surely
incom-
mon e
now sitting in the General Assembly,
r
ake
men were called upon more than others to.
cause with the ministers of Strathbogie in witb-
s anding the doctrines, under which it is now attempted
to crush them, they are the descendants of the Erskiues
and Gillespies.

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