The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-17 00:00:00

ADDRESS tTO ENGLISH •
MECHANICS.
The evil days of Castlereagh and Sidmouth are at
hand.. Our sufferings are already frightful. We cry for
bread;—they give us stone for churches.
France, Prussia, even Spain have freed themselves
from the crushing load of an' enormous Church Estab-
lishment. We alone are Church crushed. Other nations
have found in the useless wealth of the Church means
for lightening the public burdens. All the children of
the working classes of England might have an education
equal to that of Prussia placed within their reach with
that wealth which now maintains in splendour the ene-
mies of the people. The Bishops and Deans have been
fighting for this wealth, and the Deans had the worst of
it. Why cannot the clergymen be governed as the army
is by one commander-in-chief, with an office in London ?
The sum thus gained for the real improvement of the
people is incalculable from its great amount.
Let us look at these prelates. See them in the court
of George the Fourth, wearing their mitres where John
the Baptist could not wear his head. Look at them in
the senate, arranged against the rights and liberties of
the people. The length of their lives averages three
times that of a Sheffield grinder. Theßishop has nothing
to trouble him. He has secure enjoyment of his palace,
and his park, plate and paintings, tilt title of a Peer, and
the income of a Prince. One dies at last—he has cleared
two hundred and forty thousand pounds. Another lives,
brother to' the Marquis of Ely,—seldom to be found in
his diocese, but enjoying his sinecure of ten thousand
a-year in Ireland, where the peasant digs from sunrise to
sunset for sixpence a-day. Compute the value of
'Church property belonging to Lord Stanley's family,
hod you will not wonder at his zeal for the Church.
The Church of England is the richest prize for
which the worshippers of Mammon could strive. For it
they raise their riots, such as that of Lord George
Gordon in London, and such as that in which the house
of Priestly was burned in Birmingham, when that emi-
nent philosopher had to fly for his life, and found an
asylum in America. For .this Church they plunged us
into costly and bloody wars. For this Church they pass
the laws which hold us in degradation. It was the re-
sistance to this Church that made Scotland what she is.
It was the cruelty of this Church that sent the finest of
our ancestors to people the wilds of America. From this
Church come all the woes of Ireland.
''And do we confound this incubus with Christianity, the
last and best of the gifts of God to man. Look at Jesus.
The carpenter'sson talks to his poor countrymen and tells
them the blessedness of poverty. He tells them he brings
tidings to cheer and raise the poor. He tells them truly that
he himself is poorer than the birds, poorer than the
beasts; that he has neithr nestzior4en, holes not where
to lay his head. He" Wants a shilling to explain what
he is teaching-=he has to borrow one from a hearer. He
and Peter cannot raise half-a-crown to pay their taxes—.
he is obliged to send Pf ter to fish. lie cannot bear to
see the many hungry—hegives them bread. He is hated
by his countrymen for not being rigid—they consider
him a man of no religion. He did not make the Sabbath
a time for death-like inaction and mere ritual obser-
vance, but an opportunity for acts of kindness, a rest
and a blessing. In every innocent . pleasure of man
he cheerfully joined. His first miracle gave additional
wine to a feast, and one of his last speeches vindicated the
use made of perfume by a grateful poor woman. He sees
merit in a poor widow, in afflicted Lazarus, and even in
the nation and sect most hated by his countrymen, in a
Samaritan. He paints the future woes of the selfish and
:heartless rich, he satirises the priests, and denounces as
doomed the religious party, the oppressors.of the poor.
•Dying, he leaves his mother a burden to his friend John,
a poor fisherman. He. taught us to call no man " Mas-
ter," no man "Father in God." The Lords and clergy-
men joined and had this reformer crucified for sedition.
Listen to Paul the tent-maker, when speaking—" For
my own wants, and the wants of those who were with
me, have worked these hands." Stretching out—not de-
licate hands from lawn sleeVes—but the hard hands of
' honest industry.
Such hands have we. Let us unite, and with hand,
head, and heart show ourselves to be men. Christianity
was given by God to man ; poor men were sent by him
to give it to poor men. It was not to make us tremble
before man, to hate, nor to crouch. It was to enlighten
and to cheer us poor men. Let no man deceive us, nor
make us believe that it is our duty to be submissive,
starving slaves.
It has pleased the monopolists to place the Church in
the front of their battle with us. They deafen us with
their shouts of triumph. Is the battle really over ?
AN ENGLISH MECHANIC.
Liverpool, Aug. 14, 1841.

THE KIRK. OF SCOTLAND.
The Commission of the Assembly met last week and
adopted a resolution which must inevitably lead to a
schism in the Church. We cannot better describe the
actual state of matters, or give expression to our opinion,
than by the following extract from the Edinburgh Ob-
server of Friday :
" The Assembly deposed the Strathbogie ministers. as
all the world knows, for having carried into effect the
statutory appointments with regard to the settlement of
ministers ; and against that deposition a minority—large
and influential—protested, and declared that they con-
sidered it null and void—illegal even on ecclesiastical
grounds—and that they would not cease to regard their
deposed brethren as still ministers of the Church. In
addition to this, it was unequivocally declared by many
members of Assembly, and by several hundred ministers
and elders, that they would hold communion with them:
as lawful and'undeposed ministers ; and following out
this protestation and resolution, many ministers and
elders have done so in the fullest manner—the flocks of
those gentlemen still adhering steadfastly to their
pastors. And, over and above all this, the Supreme Civil
Court has, by solemn clecrtz.ss,'declard that the sentence
of deposition is utterly illegal, and interdicted any effect
whatever being given to it.
In this state of matters, the minority, commonly called
the rump of the Presbytery of Strathbogie, made a re-
port that Mr. Grant, of Leith, Mr. Robertson, of Elton,
and several other highly respectable clergymen, have
not only preached in the pulpits of the nominally-deposed
gentlemen, but have interchanged the sacred symbols of
our faith at the communion table—and for this ima-
ginary sin, desecration, and so forth, have ordered their
several Presbyteries to proceed against them with the
discipline of the Church ; in other words, this Commis-
sion of the General Assembly—a thing utterly unknown
in law as a Court of the Etablished Church—has direct-
ed proceedings tending to deposition or excommunica-
tion, against their brethren, because they have disre-
garded an illegal sentence, and have conducted them-
selves as office-bearers in the Church, just as if no such
illegal sentence had ever been heard of. Thus circum-
stanced, the majority have, by their rash and reckless
-proceedings, forced on, and created a schism in the
Church ; and the minority declare, that this being so
precipitated and perpetrated, a necessity has arisen for
an appeal to that power, by which the 'Church is esta-
blished as one of the institutions of the land—namely, the
supreme executive and legislative authorities of the em-
pire. This is the present position of the Church.
It were an easy matter to enlarge on the principles of
high import involved in this new phasis of the contro-
versy—but we forbear. But of one thing we are quite
confident, that neither the Government nor the people of
this country will longer tolerate or endure the open and
undisguised spiritual tyranny which these hot-brained
fanatics aspire to fasten upon the necks of the pastors
and the people of the Church of Scotland ; and we are
greatly deceived if, in a very short apace of time, these
arrogant priests and pettifoggers be not most effectually
put down, and sent back to their native obscurity, and
deprived of all power to do mischief in the capacity of
ministers in our Established Church. They must ere
long be left to the full enjoyment of their vaunted inde-
pendence beyond its pale, or brought to submit them-
selves quietly, like other folks, to the supremacy of the
law, by which that Church alone has its existence as an
Establishment.
We learn that, in the course of Thursday, a requisi-
tion, signed by thirty or forty of the party who are at
present in seeming ascendancy, has been got up for call-
ing another and extraordinary meeting of the Commis-
sion, in order further to take into consideration, and to
decide on the course to be pursued in consequence of the
schism which has now openly, and on all sides, been
proclaimed to have taken place in the Courts and Coun-
cils of our National Establishment.: The proposed meet-
ing is sought for the 25th of the present month of Au-
gust—and we presume public notification of it will appear
within a day or two hence.

On Monday last Sir Windham Carmichael An-
struther entertained the numerous tenantry on his exten-
sive estates of Carmichael at dinner,. in the Clydesdale
Arms, Lanark. A similar mark of attention had been
shown by the tenantry to their landlord a short time ago,
and this dinner was given in return for the compliment
then shown to Sir Windham. Corers were laid for one
hundred, and the Honourable Baronet was favoured with*
the company of a number of the neighbouring gentry;
and friends from a distance. Amongst the strangers wer9..
Wm. Lockhart, Esq., the Member for the County, Col:
Hall, Mr. Godfrey Sinclair, Capt. Caulfield, the Rev..
Mr. Lamb, the Rev. Mr. Vary, M. A.ll'Neil, advocate;
Mr. Henry Gordon Dickson, W.S., Mr. James Spence,
W.S., Mr. Scott, of Douglas, Mr. Walker, Mr.
Richard,. Mr. Gray, Mr. Annand,Dr. Gibson, and several
others. The evening was spent with the utmost har-
mony, evincing the best possible feeling betwixt landlord
and tenant. The Member for the county assured the
meeting that it gave him, an Upper Ward man himself,
the greatest satisfactton to witness the. very friendly
terms on which the Representative of the noble house of-
Hyndford and the tenantry on the estates of that ancient
family maintained their respective relations. Mr. Dick-
son was happy to acknowledge that the same good feel-
ing prevailed on the estates of Anstruther, in Fife, where
the removal of a tenant for any cause whatever, except
with his own express consent, had never been known.
The meeting was kept up till a late hour ; and all sepa-
rated in the hope of witnessing a similar happy assem-
blage at no distant day.
THE ARTS.—Sir F. Chantrey, the celebrated
sculptor, is now in this city, directing the fixing in the
Cathedral a splendid monument, executed by him, to
the memory of the talented artist Northcote. The spot
selected is the chapel of St. Gabriel, on the south side
of the " Ladye Chapel," in which stands the
sumptuous monument of Bishop Branscombe ; the
monument of }layman to the memory of Lieu-
tenant-General Sin:woe ; the mausoleum of Chancellor
Fnrsman ; and other monuments. Several members of
the Northcote family have been interred there. A
drawing has been made of a most elaborate and splendid
monument to the memory of Bishop Coverdale, who was
promoted to this see by icing Edward VI., and assisted
Tyndal in his translation of the Bible into the English
language which, when executed, will be erected in the
CathedraVin this eitYr!' Western 4reter Times.
The General Steam Navigation Company's
packet, the Giraffe, R. Stranack, from Rotterdam, ar-
. rived off the Custom-house, on Sunday, with the Dutch