The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-11 00:00:00

;TURKEY.

Constantinople, May 20.
Lord Ponsonby has sent his private secretary to Lon-
don, in order to prevail upon Lord Palmerston to perse-
vere in the system {pursued up to the present time, and to
drive Mehemet AR from Syria. The British Ambassador
had declared that if the policy of England was to be
changed her position at Constantinople could no more
stand. Lord Ponsonby is always of opinion that it would
be sufficient to send some vessels upon the coast of Syria,
to cause the people to revolt, which would cause Me-
hemet Ali to submit to the conditions that would be im-
posed upon him.
A report is in circulation, and to which some probability
is attached, that Chosrew Pacha will be compelled to give
in his resignation, and his successor is already spoken of
in the person of Rasuf Pacha.
The council of public utility has adopted the following
regulations. His Highness having felt the necessity of
allowing the subjects under bis dominion to enjoy the bene-
fits of a wise and progressive civilization, has ordered that
a council of consultation be established at Constantinople,
under the auspices of the Minister of Commerce and Agri-
culture, in. order to prepare laws and regulations capable
of ameliorating the finances and agriculture of the empire ;
such is the object of the organisation of public utility.
Chap. 1. The council is composed of the Minister of
COMmerce, as President ; of a Vice-President, chosen by
him anaimgat the members of the council ; and of the mem-
bers nominated by the Porte. The President will also
name two Secretaries, who will be charged with drawing
up the minutes and keeping registers, one in French and
the other in the Turkish language.
Chap. 2. The council will meet three times a week at
noon, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays.
Chap. 3. All the members of the council have a right
to present projects to modify the system of the Administra-
tion, educational plans, or reforms applicable to industry,
agriculture, and commerce. They will be bound to pre-
sent their projects iu writing, and to lay them on the
table in order that every member may take cognizance.
of them. The President will fix the day for the debate.
Chap. 4. All those who wish to speak on the project
must incribe their names at the President's, end each will
take his turn in rotation. After the Members who are
inscribed have spoken, the President will grant the like
favour to all those that ask it. When the Council con-
siders itself sufficiently enlightened, the President will
close the discussion, proceed to the scrutiny, and the adop-
tion or rejection of the project will take place, according
to the majority of votes. In case opinions are divided, the
President will have the casting vote.'
Chap. 5. If the project is adopted, it will be signed by
every Member of the Council, and the President will pre-
sent it to the Porte, and use all his influence to have it
taken into consideration. The Members of the Council
will be bound to observe the utmost secrecy upon every
thing that passes in the Council ; they must consider it
their duty to carry on the debate with an independent and
proper spirit, and those who failed in these injunctions
would be liable to the penalties prescribed by the regu-
lations and the Hatte Scherriff which organised the
Council of Justice. The Members of the Council of
public utility must never lose sight that they owe to his
Highness's Government candour and loyalty, wise and sa-
lutary counsels, without favours, prejudices, pre-occupa-
tions of personal interests, and respect to anybody. Their
object must be the welfare of the country. It is thus that
they will respond to the generous views of his Highness,
and to the enlightened and patriotic spirit of the Govern.
ment. This project will be debated in full Council, and,
if adopted, will be published by the official journal.--Post.

BEAUTIES of tile IRISH CHURCH.

On visiting the Protestants of a parish once com-
mitted to his care, Mr. Hoare learned that it had been
" no unusual circumstance for the poor people to find,
at the end of a long walk to the village, that there was
no service in the church, owing to the squire of the
parish not having attended, and the clergyman having
taken advantage of his non-attendance to keep within
doors, if the weather was bad."

One of the Protestants thus neglected by their cler-
gyman, assured him that had it not been " for the
fear or giving the Papists a triumph," the Protestants
would have gone to the Romish chapel, thinking it
" better to go to mass, than to be like the heathens,
going nowhere on a Sunday ;" " such instances were by
means rare."

Being solicited to take the duty of a neighbouring
clergyman, Mr. Hoare, on approaching the church,
was surprised at not he-aring the church going bell, and
supposed. that he was late, and that the bell had ceased
ringing,

Oh not at all, please your reverence,' wa the reply
of the sexton, but it's now 'twill begin.' Accord-
ugly the tolling did commence. We always begin
the ringing of the bell,' pursued the sexton, just when
the parson comes to the spot where your rever.snce is
standing on this minute' (within five hundred yal ds of
the church-yard gate). ' And at what hour is that, in
general ?' I inquired. At different hours, please your
honour ; some days it's at twelve, and at other times
at one, or nigh two o'clock, and sometimes his reve-
rence does'nt come at all And then what do the
people do ?'--' Please your reverence, they go home,
them that come, and that's not many, most Sundays.'
The wonder is that any come, thought I. Arrived at
the church, the sexton's wife inquired if I intended to
give them a sermon?' Having received an answer in
the affirmative, she replied that she was proud of it,'
as there was a fine congregation.' I found an atten-
tive congregation of sixteen► persons, including four po-
licemen, the sexton, and his wife ; and this was a
fine congregation,' in a parish containing about 200
Protestants!
" In another parish I was the first incumbent who
had resided for nearly thirty years, and I had some
difficulty in proving my right to the vicarage pew in the
church, the undisturbed possession of it, for a quarter of
a century, having been set up as a ground on which to
rest a claim to a vested right by a gentleman from a
neighbouring parish. There I found that the tithes of
a demesne of considerable extent had been lost, during
his incumbency, by ono of my predeces:-ors, at a game
of billiards with the Roman Catholic squire of the
parish

" In another parish with which 1 am acquainted,
during the last twenty-three years the joint residence of
four successive incumbents amounted to no more than
seven years, and previous to the period referred to, no
incumbent had resided within the memory of man.
For the space of nearly forty years, the sole charge of
the parish and union, comprising 70,000 acres, and
containing now one thousand two hundred, and for-
merly probably nearer two thousand Protestants, and
in which there was then only one church (a second was
erected about nine years ago), was left to one curate,
who lived in a cabin, and of whom it is enough to
state, that, after having lived with a Roman Catholic

EVENING

woman (who could scarcely speak a word of. English)
for twenty years, the marriage ceremony was performed
with the aid aan interpreter ; this act, tog-ether with
his resignation of the curacy, havieg been stipulated
for by the incumbent and paiishioners as the tern"
on which he should receive a retired allowance of 40/.
per annum. In the registry of the parish, eleven years
after this event, is recorded his death, at the age of
eighty-six years !
" Such was the state in which a palish, yielding'
during the greater part of the period referred to, nearly
1,400/. a-Year to successive non-resident incumbents,
was left ! Such was the temporal provison made by
the State, and such the spiritual provision made by
the rulers of the Church for the instruction of a PnPu-
lation of 15,000 souls, of whom about 2,000 were Pro-
testants! Such was the state of a parish constituting
the head of a diocese—the benefice attached to a dean-
ery ! The Bishop's throne, and the stalls .of six dig-
nitaries, were there in the Cathedral Church, but all
were empty ; and the sole officiating minister was tho
curate, with whose manner of life a whole generation
to whom he ministered was well acquainted ! Such
was the state of a parish ; the fist in rank, in enA0111"
lument, of the twenty-six benefices of two united die'
ceses, for the Episcopal oversight of which a generous
State had, in its zeal for religion, assigned an income
of about 5,000/. a-year to the Bishop, whose residence
was then only twenty-five miles distant."—Rev.
lloare's Letters on Ireland.