The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-26 00:00:00

THE PUSEIITES.

The baneful effects of the immense mischief which
you and your co-Tractarians are doing to the Church,
become every day more painfully visible in strife and
bitterness. Can we be surprised that Dissent should in-
crease, that new chapels and conventicles should rise up
in all directions, when the Church.. has within her pale
such a Dissenter as yourself ? I have been in all the
Catholic countries in Europe ; I have heard controver-
sial sermons preached, in many of them, and- with the ex-
ception of Spain, where I was disgusted with a frantic
effusion bellowed out by a merciless monk, I solemnly
declare that I have never heard from any pulpit one-
tenth part of the wrath poured forth against one of the
authors of the Reformation,. that you have, poured forth
against one of the authors of the Emancipation Act—
the founder and patron of the Tamworth news-room. In
the Protestant countries of the Continent I found the
clergy, whether of the Lutheran or Calvinistic confes-
sions,' influenced by a very different spirit from that
which rages in your rhapsodies: I found them learned.,
pious, mild, and tolerant. But, perhaps, you would call
them Socinians, Sceptics, Latitudinarians. Why ? Be-
cause they preach the Gospel in peace, and • revile
not those whom they cannot convert. How truly pure
and apostolical is their spirit, as contrasted with yours.
In dealing with your adversaries, 3 ou make a merit of dis-
claiming Christian charity. In all their discourses, their
highest aim and most earnest desire is to proinulgate and
enforce it. Yet are they, as Lutherans, or as CalvinistS,
more true to their tenets than you are to the tenets of
the Church of England. They are not men, who, from
interested motives, would make an outward profession
of acquiescence in articles of faith, to which, in their
conscience they could not subscribe.—Letter to the Editor
of the British Critic, 4 Verus, in defence of Sir Robert
Peel.

THE TRUTH TOLD BY 4:,PA RSON..—.The ar.

tisan is exhausted with toil, chained to his post by the
pressure of poverty, dispirited by the all but impossibility
of rising, with pauperism ever gaping beneath his feet ;
the strength of his days. is broken by labour, his mo-
ments of leisure spoilt by anxiety ; he sees above hint a
class whose prosperity he little shares, whose reverses he
must often feel ; his .position is the focus of grievances,
which may, perhaps, bear equally upon all, yet press
palpably on him, for'. he: is- at the very paying point of
taxation, and his scanty income is the very gauge of fiscal
pressure and mercantile vicissitude. Meanwhile he is
one of the multitude, and it is in the mid sea of human
affairs that he is tossed to and fro. He is surrounded by

distress which he cannot remedy, systems which he can--
mot comprehend, anomalies which he cannot explain,
projects and projectors whose prudence and justice he
cannot weigh ; yet still everything.about him is human
abstraction, seclusion, speculation, are the luxuries of
pampered ease'and cultivated mind, not of incessant ma-
nual toil.—British Critic. • .

The Tories are busily engaged in circulating
rumours to the effect that the present Government will
either not meet the new Parliament, or that they will

immediately resign upon the • first majority being de-
clared
against them. Such, we can take upon us to state,
is not the fact, and will not be the result. Her Majesty's
Ministers are perfectly aware that they will be in a con-
siderable minority upon the first party division that
takes place ; but; with the example of Sir Robert Peel
before them, who clung to office until he had. been four
times soundly beaten, they would be not only the veriest
donkeys in existence, but the vilest traitors to the cause .
of the people, if they were to desert the charge entrusted
to them, until they had laid their measures for the
im-
provement of the finances, and general condition of the
country, fully and fairly before it. We learn, therefore,
from a most authentic source, that it is the determina-
tion of her Majesty's present advisers to persist in re-
taining office, until they have afforded the public a
fair opportunity of judging of their measures, and coin-.
paring them with those of their successors in office.—
British Queen.
NORTH CIIESHIRE ELECTION.—It appears
that the cases of persons voting at the North Cheshire electien,
who had lost their qualification from various causes, have been
so numerous that the Liberal Committees have thought it
proper that some of the offenders ought to be brought to a
Court of Ju,tice to answer for their misconduct. It had
come to the knowledge of the Hyde Committee that several
persons from their own neighbourhood bad voted at Mot-
tram, _ after having lost their qualification ; and they deter-
mined that one of the most glaring cases should be brought
before the Hyde Bench of Magistrates on Thursday ; conse-
quently a warrant was obtained against a rran named
Charles Oldham, who some time ago was the owner and occu-
pier of a public house on the side of the Sheffield Railway, at
Newton. He was taken into custody, arid brought up lief.re
John Turner, Esq., charged
Mottram, falsely answered the third question put to him by the
sheriff's deputy, by saying that he was still in possession of the
property for which he was originally placed on the register of
voters for the Northern Division of the county of Chester. The
prisoner was ordered to find two sureties in 401. each, to
answer the charge at the Knutsford sessions. Not choosing
to put in bail, be was committed for trial.—Manchester
Guardian.
The Duke of Devonshire arrived at Devonshire-
house on Saturday evening, from Kemp Town. and to-day
goes to Woburn Abbey; to meet the Queen and Prince Albert.

INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM.
On Saturday afternoon, an interesting ceremony took
place near the Eagle Tavern, Snaresbrook, Essex, on the
_ _

iceasion of layini. the first stone of the Infant Orphan
Asylum by his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The
Infant Orphan Asylum, was instituted in the parish of
Hackney, Middlesex, on the 3d day of July, 1827. Its
lesign is to clothe, nurse, and educate, m accordance
with the principles of the Church of England, infant or-
ohans who are under seven years of age, till they shall
Je eligible to enjoy the aid of those institutions which
:cceive the orphan at a more advanced period of life.
Its members are cOnztituted of subscribers ; the sub-

;cribus appoint a Committee yearly to manage its con-
,erns, and they are responsible to its constituents.
The building at Dalston being inadequate and insuffi-
ient for the accommodation of the objects of the cha-
rity, the Committee have for some time past deter-
nined to erect a new and appropriate building in some
!ligible situation, and they, with that object in view,
Jurchased a piece of ground on the property of Mr.
".,ong Wellesley, a short distance on the London side of
he Eagle at Snaresbrook, and a more beautiful spot it
vould be difficult to select within several miles of

he metropolis. Until Tuesday last nothing what-
wer was done to the ground ; but, notwith-
itanding the short space of time which inter-
vened between that period and Saturdy, the most ample
ireparatinns were made for the interesting occasion, and
he exertions of Messrs. Piper and Sons, the builders, of
Bishops ate-street, who have taken the contract for the
_trection, was the subject of the highest commendation.
Cho fact of the intended ceremony having obtained pub-
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n the metropolitan as well as the provincial four-

ials, preparations were made by most fa-milies within a
ircuit of twelve or fourteen miles to be present, and the
lesire for a fine day, as may well be imagined, was gene-
rally wished for. Fortunately these wishes were more
lan realised, for, though there was not much sunshine,
the day in every other respect was most propitious and
i'avourable to the occasion. At as early an hour as ten

o'clock (though the hour appointed for the ceremony was
,tiro) the country reople began to assemble in great num-
bers, and in about two hours afterwards the carriages
from different parts of the country, as well as from the
west end of the town, began to arrive in quick succes-
iion, so that at half-past one o'clock the seats; which
were provided for the accommodation of 1,200 ladies,
And nearly the same number of gentlemen, were com-
pletely filled, and the scene was one of a most interesting
description. The committee having completed their
regulations on the ground, returned to the Eagle Tavern
or the purpose of receiving his Royal Highness Prince
ilbert, and arranging the form of procession to accom-
2a4y the Prince from that place back to the ground.
At kalr-past one o'clock the Bishop of London ar-
dyed, and in a few minutes afterwards the Right Hon.
:he Lord Mayor, in a carriage-and-four, accompanied by
the sword bearer and other civic officers, and escorted by

he City Marshal on horseback, drove up to the tavern,
and was received by the committee. Mr. Sheriff Gibbs
also arrived in his state carriage, and was followed by
Alderman Sir P. Carroll and a number of gentlemen of
influence in the City. At two o'clock precisely the near
Lpproach of the Prince was announced by the firing of
some small pieces of artillery and the hoisting of the
anion jack in front of the Eagle Tavern. His Royal
highness, with his attendants, it appeared, had travelled
Uv a special and express train from Slough by the Great
Western Railway to the terminus at Paddington, where
ilk was met by a carriage-and-four, and proceeded with
outriders to Lea Bridge, which divides the county of Es-
;ex from that of Middlesex, where he was met by a com-.
pithy of the Essex Yeomanry Cavalry, under the com-
nand of Captain Palmer, who escorted his Royal High-

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aess the remainder of his journey.
His Royal Highness' who was accompanied by Lord
Robert Grosvenor, Colonel Bouverie, and G. E. Anson,
Esq., on approaching the town was loudly cheered by
the immense multitude that had by this time assembled,
ind on alighting from his carriage was received by the
Bishop of London, Dr. Read, and other members of the
Committee, as well as several gentlemen, amongst whom
we noticed thevenerable G. Byng, Esq., M.P. for Middle-
sex, J. Masterman, Esq., M.P. for London, Col. Wood,
M.P. for Middlesex, and G. Palmer, Esq., M.P. for South
Essex, who conducted his Royal Highness to a marquee
in the pleasure grounds belonging to the garden, where
a handsome dejeuner was laid out for his use and that of
his attendants. His Royal Highness expressed great
pleasure that the day was so favourable to the occasion,
and said he hoped it would continue fine until its com-
pletion. In the course of this conversation, Mr. Byng
made his appearance a short distance from the Prince,
and his Royal Highness having then seen him for the
first time, shook him by the hand, and asked him in the
kindest manner how he did.
The procession being by this time formed, the above
named gentlemen proceeded with his Royal Highness to
the site of the building, and during his progress he was
loudly cheered by the populace. Several. cheers were
given for Lord John Russell an,d her Majesty's present
Ministers, which were cordially responded to. On
arriving on the ground the Prince was loudly greeted,
and was conducted to a chair in front of the stone by
the members of the committee.
The ceremony commenced by his Royal Highness
putting various coins of the present reign, with the
scrolls recording the nature of the charity, in a bottle,
and depositing it, with a book, also descriptive of the
charity, in an apertdre of a large piece of Yorkshire
stone. These he covered with a brass plate, containing
the following superscription
"Tills FIRST STONE WAS LAID BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

YRINCE ALBERT, ON SATURDAY, THE TWENTY-FOURT

OF JULY, THE TEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-OHL-SCOTT AND MOF.

FATT, ARCHITECTS." •
The stone, which bore within a handsome shield the
arms of her Majesty and Prince Albert, and which is
the same as that used in the Houses of Parliament, was
then lowered. The trowel used by his Royal Highness
was of silver, and the mallet, square, and plumb were of
polished oak, made from part of the ruins of the late
Royal Exchange, and excited much admiration. These
acts of his Royal Highness, which were performed with
much care and solemnity, were followed by the loud
cheers of the assemblage.
The Bishop of London then offered up a prayer, in
which he invoked the blessings of the Deity upon the
work of charity Which they had this day so propitiously
begun, and ended with the Lord's Prayer.
Upwards of 200 ladies favourable to the charity had
undertaken, some time ago, to collect purses of not less
than 31. each, and it was arranged that they should, on '
the occasion; place each of their purses on the top of the
stone. This ceremony occupied some time, and each
lady, after depositing the purse, passed hi's-Royal High-
ness, the Prince, who remained standing, bowing in the
most courteous manner to each, the military band playing
all the time, " Here's a health to all good lasses," and
by this means nearly 3,0001. was collected.
Mr. GELID, a zealous supporter of the charity, called
'for three hearty cheers for the Queen, and three also for
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, both of which were
warmly responded to, the ladies waving their hand-
kerchiefs.
The children, 100 in number, here sung a hymn of
five verses.
A procession of the stewards was reformed, and his
'Royal Highness returned to the pleasure grounds of the
Eagle Tavern; where lie sat down to a sumptuous lun-
cheon. On his right sat the Bishop of London, and on
his left the Lord Mayor, and Mr. Byng facing him at the
bottom of' the table.
The Bishop of LONDON begged on his own part, and
in behalf of the Presidents of the Charity and the Com-
mittee of gentlemen present, to express his and their
deep gratitude for his Royal Highness's condescension
and kindness in attending that day to assist them in the
work of charity, and he hoped his Royal Highness would
allow the gentlemen present to drink his health with the
usual honours.
The gentlemen present drank the toast, and his ROYAL
HiciiNEss instantly rose and said, " My Lord Bishop
and gentlemen, I assure you it affords me great pleasure
to assist in the work of charity on the present occaSion."
His Royal Highness, with his attendants, took his
departure at half-past three o'clock, amidst the loudest
cheers.

CLERICAL ANTI-CORN-LAW
AGITATION.
(From the Spectator.)

Notwithstanding the lecture read to us by an Evening
Paper, distinguished by the zeal and often by the talent
of its advocacy of Corn-law Reform, we remain of opi-
nion that the projected conference of " ministers of all
denominations" on the Corn-laws is inexpedient. We
did not volunteer that opinion—it was asked of us by
the projectors of the conference. To be sure, it .was
asked much after the fashion of a gentleman who,
having been privately married in the morning, consults
a friend in the afternoon as to the propriety of entering
the matrimonial state. Had none been concerned but
they who were likely to perform a part in the confer-
ence, we should not have taken the trouble to comply
with the request of those who had issued summonses to
it, to express our opinion of the expediency of the step.
But the progress of sound views of commercial policy—
the peace of society, threatened by an augmentation of
the sectarian discord already too loud and grating
among us—were perilled ; and therefore we candidly
stated our opinion, quite aware of the vituperation that
might be showered upon us, by or on behalf of those
who sought not a candid but a favourable opinion.
We are told that "we live under a Protestantu_
Go-
vernment "—that " priests hold seats in Parliai
that " our clergy are authorised by law to takeit aisr hence
inferred prominent part in secular politics ;" and
inferred that the Dissenting clergy ought
secular politics, in order- to counterbalance
of the Established clergy,
of 'Parliament, are
toth emeddlmeddle
influencei
The cases are not parallel. The clercry
blished Church, both in and out
when they take
diluted with an admixture of laymen of the Esta-
e projected conference is or
part in secular politics.
aiein ad
men. The counterpart to sucu_d
be
was to be composed of an lu'llndhO
the Convocation
its fiat fiat on the Corn-laws, wo I . s gathering Ibi el r ing
eotf
tdo eirsgsyu'e-
The Convocation has
sembled for a similar pureT
soenly to adjourn ; and even
for a long series of y
on the secular domain, has
its tendency to encroach
questions in which the Church
the General Assemble;rosf:ithe Kirk of Scotland, with all
hitherto confined itself to
conference, on the other
is concerned. The p
hand, was meant
bled to pronounce judgment in a
of clergymen, to projected
meeting composed exclusively
question exclusively•hold seats in parliament." True ;
" Several priests
understood that this was an anomaly
and we have alwa
• Yesd ot by Reformers. We understoo ,
assembled to
seriously complain
too,was relied, not because these Bishoi
nst Bishops having seats in the
Ch'irch of England, but because
were members of the
theLo ordustcry against
the function of
with the function of a secular legislator.
a minister of the gospel was conceived to
be.inco
to a political Esta-
blishedclergy
add a political Dissenting
To
is to double, not to remove the
evil com-
plained clergy, . .
no'ustehaomtfpatible
par-
sons, even though they should be of different sects ; and
of. Two political parsons are two political
two nuisances are worse than one,