The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-13 00:00:00

JUSTICE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—ln looking over your Journal of last evening,
I saw an account of the proceedings at the Hall of
Science, on Monday night, wherein it is stated that a
Chairman was proposed by some well-known persons
who were receiving Tory pay. As this allusion refers
to myself, I must beg of this nameless Correspondent
to come forward and state in a fair and manly way when
and where this " well-known person" took his pay.
The reason for my proposing a Chairman was, that rve
might have a discussion, as we have been for some time
promised ; it being the general opinion that the Corn-
law Repeaters are sent out by the Government to cause
a division among the working classes, and divert their
attention from the Charter.

As I am not ashamed of my name, allow me to sign
myself your's, &c.,
March 12, 1840.

J. DUNN.

CHURCH ESTABLISHMENTS.

The Rev. H. NVNEALE delivered the second of his
Lectures on this subject on Tuesday, at the Hanover-square
Rooms. The Rev. Gentleman said he doubted not there
was a natural impatience of a detailed Scriptural exami-
nation, and a longing for more practical, pleasing, and per-
haps political, excitement. But to yield to this feeling
would be to hazard a superstructure on an unsafe founda-
tion. The claims of rival religions for State patronage
could not be adjusted at the bar of the State, but at the
bar of Scripture. If there was no visible Church, in
conformity with the authority of the Bible, the civil rulers
had no part in the matter. He, however, held that the
Bible did point to such a Church, and that being so, this
Church could not be said to be equally right with others
but must be right exclusively, and above all others. The
Rev. Gentleman then proceeded to argue that the Scrip-
ture showed that the original appointment of the Apostles
had been followed by an unbroken line of succession in the
Christian Ministry, the mode of appointing pastors having
been always that followed by the Apostles themselves,
" prayer, and the laying on of hands," that the Church of
England pursued the same course ; that in conformity
with the Apostolic practice, the ministers, though se-
lected by the people as worthy of the office generallx, were
not selected by them to any particular locality, and
that they were appointed, ordained, by the superior autho-
rities of the Church ; that the commission originally
directed to the Apostles had descended to their successors,
so far as to the declaration of the Gospel; but not with
any of that authoritative power of refusing or grantinr,
pardon for sin which the Church of Rome claimed. The
Rev. Gentleman said, the only expression is the Liturgy
of the Church of England which bore an appearance of
any pretension to this power was the passage in the Com-
munion Service, in which the Clergymaq, after having (as
he was bound to do) inquired and satisfied himself as to
the penitence of the sick person, was directed to say, " I ab-
solve thee ;" and though the previous portions showed
that the meaning of the word 6, absolve " was only dccla
ratory, yet as there was some doubt, he regretted that by
some oversight the phrase had crept in.—( Cheers ) He went
on to allude to the errors which had entered the Church
in the earlier ages—all through the Bible having been shut
up in convents—but the Reformation had spread abroad
the Scriptures—the infallible guide of truth.—( Cheers. )

Lady Mary Fielding has issued cards for a grand
ball on the :27th inst., being her Ladyship's first fete this season.
EMBEZZLEMENT AND ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE
IN FRANCE.—The administration of the Finance Department
having reason to suspect that M. Ducauroy, caissier of the re-
ceiver and paymaster of the Ardennes, residing at Charleville,
had converted a considerable portion of the public money to his
own account, sent orders to the procureur-general and examin-
ing magistrate of the department to make an
i investigation.
They arrived at his office early in the morning of the 2(.1 ntst.:
and as he had not come down from his residence, they slert_ h
commissary of the police for him. In coming along,
seizingl
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ca.uroy got leave to step aside for a few minute
the opportunity, sprang over the parapet of the bridge a
bridge across
the Meuse into the river. A soldier who was near at hand and
saw what had happened, jumped down to the bankof the river,
and thence into the stream, where, after swimming and
bottom,disipg
for some time, he brought up M. Ducauroy
from
state. He was
and carried him to the shore in a senseless
afterwards conveyed to the andhospitaltrei•tored to life, but
has not been sufficiently recovered
ie prison at Char:eville. This o
undergo an examina-
tion, although transported t 5)
event has made a great sensation in the country, as M. Ducauroy,
who is of a respectable family in a different department, was
greatly esteemed. It is said that a considerable deficit has
been discovered, but the full amount has not been ascertained.
—French Paper.