The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the

PUBLIC JOU:3.ti A.LS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS or THIS DAV'.
(From the Morning Chrvnicle.)
Sir Robert Inglis's motion for sinking a good round .vim
of public money in church walls and clerical stipen ieee
comes on to-night. We know not for what amount b'
means to move, for his address is silent on this important:,
subject; but many millions of pounds sterling as an ou'e
lay, and some millions per annum, will be required to com-
plete the plans of the Extensionists, and provide church
room for a population, a large proportion of which will
never use it. The object of these gentry is to make a
place at church for every person in the country; and this
et a time when nearly, if not quite, half the religious
people of the country have built and paid for their ow
places of worship already. It is proposed to tax them all,
nevertheless. These new churches, to be erected
by means of a public impost, are contemplated also at a
time when to levy rates for keeping the existing churekes
in 'repair has become a matter of increasing difficulty.
Only- last week, there were sundry instances of the seivnee
of Dissenters' goods for Church-rates; and by two lair
metropolitan parishes a rate was refused. Sir RobOrt
Inglis must read the signs of the times with a curious OA
to judge this a fitting season for his prpposition.
( From the Times.,
Lord John Russell, although nut without considerable
pretensions to probity, has shown on various occasions that
he is by no means above having recourse to poli ilciti
stratagems at a pinch. Of this it has been our pa
nn"
task of late years to adduce many conclusive proofs. His
Lordship's asseveration that there could be no satisfactory
adjustment of the Irish Tithe question without the me:
morable Appropriation Clause, which, when it had gain's
his party purpose, was, after all, unscrupulously *ban-
doned--his connivance in the bedchamber plot, as sa
accessory after the fact—his personal implication in the
indecent despatch of the Perthshire writ, as well as his
intrigue to prevent Ludlow and Cambridge from contri-•
bating two Conservative votes for the committal of Lord.
Stanley's Irish Registration Bill—all this has incontestably -
proved, that if the Noble prude have only a steffieiOt
temptation, there is scarcely an equivocal line of policy
which his fastidiousness will not allow him to persue. To
the same purpose is the illustration of his staieiess st,Atc
manship which the Noble Lord has stooped to g:ve us, in
regard to the two Bills about to be introduced fer pee
petuating and perfecting the Poor-law Commission.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The two Bills of L )rd John Russell. fur reforming thei
registration and giving efficacy to the suffrage, which have,
just been laid on the table of the House, we have already'
analysed. A few words of expatiation may be expedient.
The Bill for amending the registration substitutes for ther
lee revising barristers now employed yearly to revise the
registers, fifteen revising barristers, who are to make cir-
cuits through the country, and to be employed throuebout
the year, in this duty. The elect of so greatly reducing
the number of the revising barristers. and making the antic.
of t e6eion their stile duty, s'ssili be to introduce more cer-
tainty and uniformity into the decisions ; end wilt
be still farther advanced by the Court of Appeal, over,
which three of the fifteen revising barristers ire to be ape
pointed judges, and which is to decide dispuesd points of
law, but nut metters of fact. Every prccautio n
is takes
to secure the fair appointment an the in,:epend Ince of the
revising barristers and judges. The eff ct of the new Bilis
if passed into law, will be to change the time of boldingh
the revision in most places ; but abundant untie e of te
holding of the Courts—namely, four months—le to he
given. The great object of the new arrangements 10
remove every obstruction that now exists to the obteloi°,.g
an ultdisturbee holding of the franchise, by thone wu°
really possess the qualification.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The te!egraphic despatch from the Ambassadca'
France at London to the President of the French CouisSus
a copy of which appeared in our columns of yesterday, i‘e"
lative to the recent attempt at regicide, favours the suppo'
sition that the act was one of insanity. and so far beats
the explanation given of it in the Morning Herald.
would indeed be a great satisfaction to the public to WO/
that no sane human being in England could have medi7
tilted, much less have coolly endeavoured to perpetrate, 50
foul, savage, and diabolical a crime ao that of murdering
the youthful Sovereign of England—the lovely bride of :
Prince, young and amiable as herself; .and likely to ad
to the titles of Queen and wife, that BO.' more endearl#
one, which twines the best and holiest affections
wir
which nature endows the female heart with a husband's
pride, and a nation's hope in the successietr Pf Englau
dl.
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Monarchs.

(From the ;Warning Post.)
in association has recently been established
under the title of the " Society for the Protections of Agri'
culture," the excellent prospectus of which apiteared is
the advertising columns of our paper some time agsg. Thf
object of this institution is to produce among men.ol rani'
and influence, who are the friends of agriculturm, unioa
'th-
and co-operation
in support of this great interest, n ot'Ylcat
standing any differences of opinion in respect to Pe
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questions of minor or more transient importance.
institution, to describe it in the fewest possible loords..ll
be a u.ent-
London,
an attempt, and we have little doubt that it will
maul one, to apply to the agricultural quraticn awlnazi d
of universal wisd3rn, tbat When bail men conspire goo
men should combine." We shall he much disapPointed if
the " Society for, the Protection of Ara iculture" do not
prove itself more than an equal antagonist to " The Anti-
Corn-law League "