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London, England, 1840-01-27 00:00:00

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Lion of the people of
the Clergy of the Established Church—to a
body of persons having the deepest interest ill
keeping them in a state of deplorable igno-
rance, such principles as the Bishop of EYE-
TER says ire taught by the Socialkt.s
wou4l not hr.. listened to ;‘,
much loss in ao 0;

beings. That the Cler, v sha,n,klH:
abused their trust was admitted by the Bishop of
LONDON, when he stated that such was the igno-
rance of a great portion of the people, that it was
absolutely necessary that their Lordships shou!d
protect them against the influence of the Owenites.
And yet these are the men who cry out against the
taking the education of the people out of their
hands ! There is unquestionably a good deal of
general intelligence among the wotking.classes—
ten times more than is dreamed of by the House of
Lords ; but that intelligence having been ac-
quired, for the most part, in spite of ob-
stacles thrown in their way by the Clergy
of the Established Church, it only serves
to embitter the animosity between them. The
more they feel the benefits of education, the
more they resent the conduct of those guardians of
the national morals who would have deprived them
of it. This feeling they communicate to their chil-
dren, and thus it unfortunately happens that. in
proportion as education spreads among the working
classes, the leaitimate and natural influence of the
Clergy diminishes.
It is too late in the day to attempt to dragoon
the people into orthodoxy. The friends of the
Established Church mast seek some other mode of
maintaining its ascendency than by the sword of the
Civil Magistrate. The most effectual way to do
this will be by compelling the Clergy to do their
duty as Christian pastors. When a body of men
whose character and office are sacred ; whose
declared functions consist in the performance of
works of benevolence and mercy ; whose time
ought to be devoted to the inculcation, by precept
and example, of the duty of glorifying GOD and
diffusing habits of peace, charity, mutual forbear-
ance, and Christian piety among men ; who have
stately edifices, in which they only are permitted to
address the people, and who are irresponsible for the
subject-matter of such addresses ; who, from our
entrance into life to ow exit, take cognizance of all
we do, say, and think—when such a body of men
are not in a manner idolised by the people, it must
be apparent to the whole world that the fault is
their own. They must have abused the trust
reposed in them, and instead of feeding,
first fleeced, and afterwards devoured their
flocks. Now, such a reform in the ecclesi-
astical co: mration as shall restore the confi-
dence of the people in the Clergy, can never take
place so long as the sphere of Prelatical duties is
confined, as for the most part at present, to the
,Aristocratic atmosphere of the House of Lords.
The Bishops must give up politics, and betake
hemselvet to their respective dioceses to study the
Scriptures among the poor and the humble, and to
set their Clergy an example of how they ought to
labour in the LORD'S vineyard. This is the true
and the only way to strike at all that is pernicious
in the system of the Socialists.

We regret the loss of the Beverley election,
though from the corrupt state of that borough we
thought the case hopeless from the first. No man
could have fought a more gallant battle than Mr.
LAMIE MURRAY, and, from his eloquent vindica-
tion of the measures of the present Administration,
and his manly and masterly expose of the obstruc-
tive policy of the Tories in working on the preju-
dices of the people, has struck a death blow to Tory
popularity in that part of Yorkshire. The
excitement in his favour, which has extended
itself to Hull, is said to be unprecedented,
by the oldest observers of election contests
in those places. The state of the poll must
not be looked upon as any indication of Tory
success, as it was obtained by the most unscrupu-
lous and lavish bribery ; and many a voter who was
thus compelled to vote for Mr. Fox, openly stated
immediately after he had polled, that he wished
success to the other candidate. Mr. LAMIE
MURRAY iS a man of comprehensive mind, pos-
sessed of both brilliant talents and eloquence, and
thoroughly instructed in all questions, both foreign
and domestic, having a practical influence on the
state of the country. He would do honour to any
constituency, and to any Government who could
obtain his support in Parliament.

We shall give a full account of the proceedings
to-morrow.

Advices from Lisbon of the 20th instant repre-
sent the people of Portugal as quite furious against
this country, in consequence of the vigour which
her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government are dis-
playing in the suppression of the slave trade. In
the Chamber of Deputies on the 18th, Senhor
CELESTINO SOARES read letters from Angola
stating that four more Portuguese vessels were cap-
tured near Angola by the British cruisers. The
Chamber was instantly in a ferment, and nothing
short of a declaration of war against England ap-
peared likely to satisfy a majority of the Mem-
hers. The Diario, the official journal, of
the 20th, contains the following details of
the captures of Portuguese vessels alluded to by
Senhor CELESTINO SOARES in the Chamber :
By the Oriense brig, which arrived here in forty-
two days from Angola, having left there on the 4th
of December, accounts of new hostilities by British
cruisers have been received, which had filled the in-
habitants with alarm and indignation. Two Por-
,uguese ships which left Loanda with regular papers
ind lawful cargoes, were seized." The Mario
,2;oes on to relate that the barque Vcloz having left
Loanda for Monte Video on the 12th November.
calling at Zaire to discharge various goods mani-
fested at the Custom-house, and take in ballast,
the English brig Wolverine, Captain TUCKER,
anchored beside her, and searched her without find-
ing any marks of being employed in slave trading ;
but the day following she was boarded again by the
brig and captured—the captain and nine black
sailors being put on board the brig, and the rest
being forced to embark in canoes of the Mussorongi
tribes. A few days afterwards the brig Dous
lrmaos, which left Loanda for Rio on the 26th
November with a cargo of wax, oil,. &c., was met
on the following day by the English brig of war
Columbine, Captain ELLIOT, the same who had
already sunk two other ships at Zaire, and captured
by him, putting the crew and passengers, and
among them the French Doctor LAPLACE, on
board the schooner Despique da Inveja, from Ca-
binda to Loanda, sending the ship, captain, and
one sailor, to Sierra Leone, giving as the reason of
such an extraordinary proceeding, that the hull of
the vessel was of Spanish construction.
The Nacional adds that the Tagus itself is
blockaded. One Portuguese vessel was boarded
and searched in the harbour of Lisbon, and another
having cleared out with regular papers was chased
for three days by an English cruiser, from which
she only escaped by her superior sailing. In fact,
nothing is more obvious than that our Government
is determined to put down the slave trade at all
hazards. As to the statements of the Portuguese
Journals about the seizure of vessels unconnected
with that monstrous traffic, they are wholly incredible.

We have received Singapore Papers to the 10th
~f October. Letters received of the 9th September
from Hong-Kong state that a further Edict of Lin,
and just translated, calls upon all the natives to
pur,:base arms and assemble in strong forces to
prevent the Br►tish landing, and if they try to ob-
tain prlvisions, to exterminate or make them
prisoners.

Letters from Constantinople, of the 31st ult.,
bring rather alarming accounts from central Asia.
They state, on the authority of advices received there
from Erzeroum, that the Shah of Herat, KAM
RAM, the old enemv of the Shah SooJAH 00L-
MooLK, disgusted' at our restoration of that mo.
nareh to the throne of Cahool, to which KAM RAN
pretends to be the rightful heir, has invited the shah
of Persia to march an army to Herat, to unite
with him in driving the Shah SOOJATI from, the
throne. To this invitation the shat of Persia
is reported to have lent delighted ear, the more
• specially as the agents of Russia, had assured him
tittit the qpeditiou• undertalim against KHIVA
would so co-operate him as to enable him to
hid defiatwe in England, and even to drive the
I,2iikh out of the Persian Gulf. If this veekvs, he
confirmed, we may shortly exri-I to find ourselves
involvesi in a real in Central Asia, nominally
;Igaiast the Sovereigns of Persia and Herat, but in