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London, England, 1840-07-03 00:00:00

the people but the assertions of the priests them- '
selves. Lay statesmen cannot possibly know of
themselves what extent of religious instruction is re-
quired for a people, or how many parsons ca►► ad-
m►n►ster it ; if they did, they would be the real
priests and the real ministers of salvation. If they
assume to know, they sct an Act of Parliament above
the Gospel. They must depend entirely for this
information on those who are to be paid, aid who fix
their own terms, for supplying religious instruction.
If the Church be of all that importance the priest
party represents, it would be cheaply purenased
though the whole revenue of the State were given
to the clergy, for what avails man the wealth of the
world if he lose his own soul ? Looking, indoed, at
what the principles of those who uphold Church Es-
tablishments lead to, and what the priesthood actu-
ally possess, we are bound to praise their modera-
tion. They are compelled to allow other mcn to
live that they themselves may be sustained ; but
beyond merely keeping the labourers in life, as the
Jesuits did in Paraguay, we see no reason, con-
sistly with the immense ►mportance assigned to the
doctrine of the Church, why the priests should not
be absolute masters of all the wealth of the world.
To be sure some suspicion arises as to their
motives, and no little suspicion overflow's from them
on to their doctrinex, when it is ascertained that the
beginning, the middle, and the end of the exertions
of the clergy center in themselves. The singular
and important question we have brought under
notice, with however much of falsehood, or how-
ever much of truth it may be connected, has this
very suspicious circumstance belonging to it—that
those are enriched and those are made powerful
who assume the office of providing for the intan-
gible, invisible, spiritual wants of mankind.

We beg the attention of our readers to an article
which we have copied from the Bath Herald. It
appears that the " saints are doing all that they
can to ruin the city of Bath, and that they are in a
fair way to have their pious labours crowned with
success. Mr. DA VIDGE, the enterprising lessee of
the theatre, has just closed a season rendered so
unprofitable by the ascetic influence of the evange-
lical 3 par excellence, as they arrogantly pr‘tend to
be, that there is little chance of the theatre being
opened at all next season. The distress which
such a suspension of employment must occasion
among the numerous class of persons who in one w ay
or other depend upon the theatre, as well as the
pernicious consequences which it must produce be-
yond the immediate locality of Bath, are well pointed
out by our Contemporai
His observations on the religious par of the
question are also well worthy of attention. The
truth is, that the intolerant austerity assumed by
the " godly of Bath is as sure a proof as can be
given that they are either hypocrites or fools. The
truly religious man is the most cheerful himself, and
the greatest promoter of cheerfulness in others.
Religion's ways, we are told, are ways of pleasant-
ness, but these gloomy fanatics scowl upon
the innocent recreations of the people, and
scare away from the paths of religion mul-
titudes of persons who would be attracted to them
were those "Ito frt quent them to display an invit-
ing deportment. It the object of the Bath Evan-
ge'heals were to render religion as repulsive and dis-
gusting as possible—were they anxious to bring to
bear against it the discontent, the disappointment,
the sufferings, the curses of a large portion of the
community, they could not have adopted a course
better calculated to attain that end. Instead of
being the friends, they ate the worst enemies of
religion.

We should hope, however, that there is virtue
and good sense enough among the bulk of the in-
habitants to resist this attempt to fanaticise—we
should rather sat, to unchristianise them—and
power enough to eompel yellow admirals, old dowa-
gers, and meddling priests (the greatest pests of so-
ciety), to say their prayers in their own way, with-
out molesting, their neighbours.

The result of Mr. CllEsswELL's motion on
Tuesday next will show whether the power and in-
fluence of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
supported by his colleagues, is to overt ule the de-
cision of the House of Commons, so that the rights
of individuals are to be sacrificed to the arbitrary
will of a few. But though places, pensions, and
titles are at the command of the Treasury, and may
have had their influence on some, still there is, for-
tunately for the oppressed, a majority of high-
minded, independent Members who scorn to have.
their sense of (pity and justice dictated to by any
set of Ministers. 11 Ministers quote the opinion
of the Law Officers of the Clown on an ab-
stract question in reference to the Law of Na-
tions, the claimants had, on the other hand, the
equally high opinioes in favour of their case of Sir
W. FOLLETT, Mr. D. PoLtmcK, Dr. LCSUING-
TON, and Mr. CRESSWELL ; bcsides, even on the •
abstract question, the celebrated BYNKERSHOEK,
the treaty of Brt da with Denmark, and the answer
of the Treasury itself, of the of July, 1809, to
the hook debt claimants, refute the adverse op;nion
given. In fact, the case %vas so clear that the
House of Commons decided twice in favour of the
claimants, notwith:,tanding all the power and tau-
ence of the Ministers.
It is melancholy for Ciose who support Ministers
in their general policy to see how the efficiency of
that Ministry is lessened by obstinate perseverance
in hostility, which seems to have no other motive
than that arising from the vexation of defeat. For
why, under pretence that the goods were landed,
pay last year a class who sent their cargoes to Hol-
ste:n, and why refuse it this year to those who were
bringing their cargoes home from the more distant
ports of the Baltic sea? Surely the one s‘as more
entitled to protection even titan the other, and fully •
as much to compensation out of the Daniz,h prize
money for lossLs occasioned by the acts of their own '
Government. •

The following extract from the German 1.34 p-rs just
received, contains the latest news relative to the new
c.unpaign undertak,n by Rus,la against the brave Cir-
casNiaus

JASSY, Jr 1.
E 13 —The latest accounts from South
Russia say that the Russian expedition had (ff.•cted its
Lanitieg near Tuabs (To..ps) without meeting %HI any
particuiar obstacles. The miirs force of tho Cire.ts,ians
seems to be concentrated about Nicolajewsky. In the
neighbourhood of Tuabs, on the first line of hills about
that fort, which lies on the river of that name, only some
scaiten.d posts could he seen with the telescope. The
scouts on the coast retired rapidly, and the Russians re-
gained possession of the fort without striking a blow.
The work of repairing it was immediately b.•gun. The
heavy artillery was still there, but the light cannon was
carried off by the Circassians. It is supposed that the
Russians lost about forty such cannons on the forts
stormed by the Circassians. This would certainly be an
important acquisition to the mountaineers.
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iiiterest in the Paris
There is very little new: Lit ;no
Jour' als of Wednesday. The rccal of Marshal VALLEE
e i:app official
hundred
o.c the colonists, includ•from Africa, and the appointment of Marshal Alotaron.
as his successor in the command of the army, was ex-
pe
columns of the Maniteur
of lt‘eul tr:d appear
. Three in
the
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lin.gml:laisro,npraN:linAgLtAhßeDi.,rleinacdhfiG)row:errdntms
•rnor capable of
us hir:oi IrdVi
I,i‘gt.LtEli
te„,llanit)irot
toeseptipooni.n t s(o)ifti e
theG o et
tion of the colonists some idea may be imill"1 from the
follow' , • . 111., I xtraet trona their address to t)ig VI, Jsident of
the Council:_

" It is no longer a few hnntlit cf briwatulsi en'"Piae:
through hushes, surprise us in the midst of our lab() urr ; the
enemy is now master in the fields of the Illitidjit ; he in.
vades the 111asit
anOr under the eyes Ma numerous a 'n1137,
paralyt,a4 -by the iraci.mtestitile abs,cric4' of a good systq, of