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London, England, 1841-08-18 00:00:00

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THE WILD HORSE; OR, MAZEPPA, THE CHILD

They all subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles,
which not two in forty of them agree to receive in
the same sense. Even the Bishops are not agreed
about them. By some it is pretended that they
bind themselves not to contradict them; others
subscribe them in any sense agreeable to their
Diocesan; some in any sense in which they can
reconcile them with the Scriptures ; but the go-
verning principle with all is, that by subscribing
the Articles they qualify themselves for Church

preferment. When taking holy orders, they
solemnly affirm that they are moved thereto by
the HOLY GHOST, when it is as notorious as the
sun at noonday that ninety-nine out of every
hundred of them are moved by filthy lucre. The
spirit which moves a candidate for the priest-
hood is very different from the Spirit of GOD.
Its operations are always regulated with scrupu-
lous regard to the whims of a patron, and always
becomes troublesome when a rich presentation is
to be had. Ecclesiastical agencies for the pur-
chase and exchange of Church livings, are al-
most as plenty in London as pawnbrokers'
shops ; and yet every priest swears, on tak-
ing possession of a benefice, that he has
made no simonical payment, contract, or pro-
mise, for it, either directly or indirectly; by
himself or through any other person, nor will
he ever perform any contract entered into by
any other person without his consent, in regard
to such benefice. Does any person suppose that
the priests in general ever trouble their heads
about the observance of these oaths? And is it
to be wondered at that men, familiar from their
infancy with perjury,—who, in their pretensions
to rank—in their titles and dignities—in their
aspirations after wealth—in the examples of con-
duet which they set to others—burlesque the
sacred injunctions of CHRIST;—is it, we repeat,
a matter of surprise that such a body of men
should excite the suspicion of every truly reli-
gious man? The priests are constantly crying
out about the progress of infidelity. What they
really more dread is the diffusion of the great
truths of the Gospel. The infidels cost them less
trouble than the humble believers, who, taking
the New Testament fbr their guide, attempt to
discover an apostolic fisherman and tent-maker
in the princely Prelates of CANTERBURY and
YORK.

The priests may fight as hard as they like for
the Tories, but the Tories, by any more bolstering
up, will only accelerate the downfal of the crazy
ecclesiastical State edifice. The vices of the
priests have already made them too conspicuous
in the eyes of the people. Their best policy at
present is to keep as much out of sight as pos-
sibie. They are an eye-sore to honest men, and
a stumbling-block and a rock of offence to all
who inwardly profess the religion taught by the
New Testament. As a corporation, they have
scandalously and wickedly abused their trust, by
perverting the tithes, and every other description
of Church property, from the uses to which the
mixed piety and superstition of former ages de-
voted them. This abuse of the trust amounts to
a forfeiture and the priests may depend upon
it that as surely as the State at the period of the
Reformation took it out of Catholic to put it
into Protestant hands, so surely will the State
again resume its disposal, if they continue to
make it what it now is—a vast engine of oppres-
sion. Let them look to it in time. Instead of
shouting in the van of the bread-taxing aris-
tocracy, it would be well for them to set
about putting their house in order. The
country is weary of their pride, their avarice,
their litigiousness, and their constant intermed-
dling with the innocent enjoyments of the poor.
As mere spiritual incubi the priests might be
borne, but they become an intolerable nuisance
when they are active, and only active for mischief.

A knot of fanatics have taken it into their
heads that our Colonies are sadly in want of
Bishops. The people of England and Ireland
can right well spare them as many as they re-
quire, without putting his Grace of CANTER-
BURY to the trouble of additional consecra-
tions. We have here some Irish Prelates
who scarcely once in seven years think of
visiting their sees, and of course they would be
delighted to obtain such fine fields as the Colo-
nies for the exercise of their spiritual zeal. As
they would be just as useful to the Church of
Ireland then as now, they could retain their
present preferments, and thus the Colonies would
be saved the expense of paying for Bishops.
There are also several English Bishops, who
manage to get through most of their episcopal
functions in London, though their dioceses are
some scores of miles distant from the metropolis,
and these by an amicable arrangement with their
Right Reverend brethren, we could very well

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afford to ship off, for six or eight months an•

nually, to Jamaica and the other West India
islands. We have too many Bishops, and by
far too much Church. Our surplus of both is
more than adequate to supply all the wants of
our Colonists. If we had fewer Bishops and less
Church, we would have more true religion and
Christian piety.

In Mr. O'CONNELL'S long letter to the Hon.
Mr. SMYTUE, to which we alluded in The Sun
of yesterday, an announcement is made which
ought to be very gratifying to the Tories,
and yet some of their organs are exceedingly an-
noyed by it. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman,
after recapitulating a long list of Irish grievances,
for which he has no hopes of redress at the hands
of a PEEL Cabinet, and which could not exist in
England without provoking a rebellion, adds
with some emphasis, that there shall be no re-
bellion in Ireland while he lives. This statement
will be much more gratifying to Sir ROBERT
PEEL than to the bulk of his supporters. There
are plenty of Tories who would be quite delighted
to see the standard of rebellion raised in Ireland
—aye, and thousands of them Irish Tories too.
This would afford them the only chance they
can ever hope to have of repealing the
Emancipation Act, and reducing the Catho-
lics to .the condition of serfs. We do not
mean to say that they would succeed—we
know that to be now impossible—but their infa.-
tuationwould blind them to the guilt and fblly
of making the attempt. Fettered and oppressed
as she is, it is Ireland that reins in and keeps in
cheek-F4Tirst.,l.4'ot•yisni in England. We would
have been Tory. ri(faen for the last ten years, but
for Ireland. But for Ireland, we would have
hßad no Reform Bill, no Municipal Corporation
ill. No wonder that the old boroughnionger-
Mg Tories hate her, and are constantly on the
alert to assist in crushing her. But for Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL and Lord STANLEY'S well known hos-
tility to Ireland, we almost doubt whether they
would have a majority in the new Parliament.
Dear bread is not of so much importance in the
STANLEYrich
and doingpassingyet
some good to Ireland. Their liatred of the
Irish people, and incessant efforts to oppress
them, is evoking a national spirit which is fast
•0. classes, and which r • pervading all requires but full
development to enable Ireland to laugh at any
attempt to restrict
- • her liberties. The debate
t
Irish Disfranchisement upon STANLEY'S 1 1 11311
has
led to a more general knowledge of the miser-
, ably restricted state of the franchise, and so pre-
pared the Liberal party- in England to support a
wide extension of the suffi•age in the sister coun-
try. Every attempt at oppression which }ails is
.of advantage to the nation which is the object
of it, because it provokes a patriotic resistance
by exhibiting the weakness of the aggressor,
and, regarded in this light, Lard STANLEY is a sort
of benefactor of Ireland. But Mr. O'Cox-
NELL does well to be upon his guard.
If the Tories begin by making concilia-
tory overtures to Ireland, it is because they want
to betray her. STANLEY'S hatred of Ireland is
deadly and inveterate, nor has he thought of
giving up his project for enslaving her. The
triumph of the Tories in England is temporary ;
Scotland has declared against them; so both
their instincts and their revenge point out Ire-
land as the only around where there exists a
chance of re-ercctitig the Tory standard.
And here we may 1)e allowed to ask, how is it