The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-27 00:00:00

King—a contrivance for depredation and oppression.
It violates their feelings, it is contrary to their na-
ture, and can only be preserved in safety and peace if
they can be permanently subdued, or their nature
completely changed, by the united exertions of the
police and the parsons. _

Mr. HuME'e motion to obtain returns of the
number of registered electors in the different coun-
ties and boroughs of the empire in the years 1839-
1840, was successful the night before last, in spite
of the Tories. They made all kinds of futile ob-
jections. The returns would be costly, they would
give the Clerks of the counties great trouble, they
would put sundry small officials, who hold office
for its emoluments only, not to perform its duties,
to inconvenience, and, therefore, the Tories opposed
them. On a division they were defeated. Their
real object was to conceal the truth. Lord STAN-
LEY, on the same evening, mentioned, with no little
exultation, the various classes of electors
whom the Reform Bill had disfranchised, and he was
anxious to apply his amputating knife to Ireland.
It is not enough, however, for the Tories to curtail
the franchise, and to resist every motion to extend
it, unless they can also suppress the evidence of the
limitation. This they aimed at, and in this they
were defeated. In due time the returns will be
made, and every year the public will be seriously
reminded of the impossibility—(as was proved by the
inevitability of Catholic emancipation)—of main-
taining a system of government which excludes
from its benefits, and marks as a slave-class, four-
fifths of the people.

The marriage of her MAJESTY has furnished a
theme for the pulpit as well as for the press. To
the great bulk of the endowed clergy the QUEEN is
an object of hatred, because she is liberal in poli-
tics and tolerant in religion, while they are the very
reverse—ultra-Tories in the one, persecutors in the
other. They, therefore, gladly embrace any
opportunity of railing at " JEZEBEL"—as one of
them, in the exuberance of clerical loyalty, lately
called her—and of throwing doubts upon the Pro-
testantism of her Royal Consort. They find their
reward in the disgust of all decent and tight-thinking
persons, and in the public odium which they draw
towards the Church which fosters them.

There are, however, we are happy to find,
a few honourable exceptions among the ministers
of the hierarchy. There are some in the
corps of twenty thousand priests of all arms—
constituting the staff of the Church-militant in
England and Ireland—who have not bowed the
knee to BAAL, but are animated with the mild
and holy spirit of the Christian religion. Such
men consider it no point of duty to revile their
Sovereign, because she is young and inno-
cent. They regard her with affectionate loyalty,
admire the fine traits of character which she has
already exhibited, and while they earnestly pray
that her union with a " scion of a noble stock"
may be attended with all the personal happiness
which such a union is calculated to produce, they
joyfully take advantage of it to inculcate a general
spirit of harmony and good will among all classes
of men, and sects of Christians.

We have been led into these remarks by a
Sermon entitled " the Royal Marriage," which has
just been published by RIDGWAY. It is from the pen
of the Rev. Dr. GREGORY, Chaplain to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland—a gentleman already fa-
vourably known to the public as an author. It
breathes a spirit of charity which we cannot too
highly commend, nor too publicly hold up as an
example to others, whether clergymen or laymen.
How must the bigots on each side of St. George's
Channel be shocked at the following confession which
Dr. GREGORY does not hesitate to commit to the
Press I have felt happiness, and derived instruc-
tion from men of all creeds, and confess that, while
I endeavour from my pulpit to expound and up-
hold the doctrines of my own faith, I am, in pri-
vate life, ever ready to stretch out the right hand
of fellowship to Churchman and Catholic, Pres-
byterian or Methodist, to Trinitarian and Unita-
rian, allowing to each the liberty which I claim
for myself, and feeling bound to attribute convic-
tion as the ground of every man's belief."
The Sermon is accompanied by " an Address
to the Deluded and Disaffected," which may be
read with advantage in these turbulent times.

It would he a thousand pities to deprive the Rev.
Forgery M•GHEE" and his Exeter Hall admirers, of
the pleasure which they must derive from the most ex-
tensive circulation of the following characteristic address
to the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin. To our
Christian readers we recommend an attentive perusal of
this beautiful embodiment of the pious and peaceful
spirit of an Irish Orange Parson. They cannot fail to
observe that it is conceived in the Apostolical spirit of
the Epistles of the Founders of Christianity. What
fraternal love breathes in every line! How exhaustless
is the charity of this Reverend disciple of Him who
teaches that the smitten on the one cheek shall
meekly and silently expose the other to the smiter.
The Reverend FORGERY M'GHEE's address to Mr.
O'CONNELL, exhibits a specimen of an Irish
Orange Parson's commentary upon St. Paul's injunction
to the early Christians, " when they revile you revile
not again," which cannot fail to edify British Protestants.
How the Catholics of Ireland can continue to resist the
heavenly appeals of a man who appears before them
clothed with such attributes of an humble confessor of
the meek and lowly REDEEMER, as are displayed in the
following letter, we leave to wiser heads than ours to
determine. The Rev. Mr. I\FGLIEE is no stirrer up of
religious strife—no reviver of forgotten slanders----no
fomenter of sectarian divisions—no brawling reci-
procator of coarse personalities. With the Bible in
his hand, love in his heart, and the words of
peace dropping like honey from his lips, he ap-
proaches the sanctuary of the laws to infuse into all
therein assembled, like the departing ELIJAH, a treble
proportion of his beautifully peaceful spirit. The ap-
pearance of the Apostle PAUL before FESTUS, the
Roman Governor, was nothing to Forgery M'GrrEE's
appearance before the House of Commons, if the
SPEAKER will be only polite enough to call him to the
bar of that Assembly. He even defies Mr. O'CONNELL
in the name of—who does the reader suppose ?—why,
the Roman Catholics of Ireland 1" to move that ho be
called to the bar of the House. And what does the
reader suppose he means to do when he gets there ?
Something more than we find recommended as a
Christian duty in the Sermon on the Mount ; but
nothing more than is undertaken to be done,
every Sunday throughout the year, from the
Orange pulpits of the sister kingdom. Parson M'Giia
will " exhibit the guilt," the " villainy," the " tem-
poral tyranny and sedition," the " iniquity," the
" system o f anti-social guilt, of persecution, and
sedition," and the " cruel tyranny" of the Roman Ca-
tholics, to the execration of the Legislature ; and this
for the charitable purpose, not of converting, or seeking
to convert, the Roman Catholics from their errors, but
in order to vex, and mortify, and insult the Papists, by
throwing out the Irish Corporation Bill I This Bill,
parson M'GHEE has discovered, is wanted only to
" facilitate the crimes of the Papacy"—to give effect to
the" mandates of that foreign tyrant, the Pope," of whom
the Rev. Gentleman's horror seems to have increased
since the discovery of the forgery of the Papal Bull.
As the Times has joined the " Holy League" of which
Parson M‘GriER is so worthy an ornament, we expect
to experience
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temporary. Our venerable neighbour, Old Granny, of
Shoe-lane, has been before hand with us in proclaiming
the merits of the subjoined meek effusion of godly zeal,
a copy of which we dare say might be found pasted
between the leaves of her family Bible. Nothing so
beautifully consistent in all its parts as the following
address, ever appeared from the pen of a writer
who modestly pretends not to inspiration.
With what
force the truth of the closing paragraph is established
by the Christian-like statements that precede it
Who that has remarked his previous challenge to
O'CoNNELL, in the name of the Roman Catholics of
Ireland can doubt that parson Al' Gillis: is a " friend to
truth ?" Who that has noticed his charitable sneer at
the " morality of Father MATHEW," who has devoted
his life to the inculcation, by precept and example, of
habits of universal temperance, can question his being
a " friend to the Bible" and its morality ? And
who will dare to dispute FORGERY M`GHEE'S being a
friend to " liberty of conscience," and to " temporal
freedom," that has attended to his vituperation of the
most blameless hierarchy in the world, and the shameless
object of such vituperation, the depriving the Catholics
of Ireland of the benefits of a Corporation Reform
Bill ! But our disgust will not allow us to say more.
Here is the letter of the Orange Apostle of Ireland

"TO DANIEL O'CONN EEL, ESQ. , M. P.
" What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother
Jezebel, and her witchcrafts, are so many ?"-2 Kings,
ix. 22. _ _

Sir,_l told you that the resolutions, of which I sent
you a copy, should meet you on the floor of the House of
ornmons. It was honest in you (and lam glad to have
it in sny power to apply the terra to any act of yours)
to confess you could not meet them, either before
the constituency of the University or the Irish bar.
I shall now try whether, in your anxiety for jus.
tice for Ireland, you will venture to meet them at the
bar of the House of Commons. I am about to send
over a petition to the members of our University
at present, requesting to be allowed to lay the
facts bc(ore the House of Commons in any way that
honourable assembly may be pleased to direct; and I write
this before to give you timely notice. Now, I bid yeu, in