The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-04 00:00:00

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gerous illness. Lord MAHON made the applica-
tion, and Mr. FREEMAN, a surgeon and apothe-
earv, gave evidence of the fact that Mr. EVANS
was in a very bad state of health ; and further
stated that he had a liver complaint--that he was
Growing worse under confinement—that no other
medical man, notwithstanding, had been called in—
that he had been put on a dietary prescribed for
liver complaints, and took only a glass or two
of sherry a day—that he could walk only
for an hour or so, every day in the cloisters, on
account of the Easterly wind, and that owing to
that dire enemy of man and beast, if he were set
at large next day, he could not take more exercise.
This summing up, with certain other causes for
misgivings on the part of the House, decided the
question, but Lord MAHON thought proper t 9
adjourn the further consideration of the evidence
till this day. Since that discussion took place, a docu-
ment has been sent to us, which shows that Mr.
Sheriff EVANS is anxious to enjoy the fresh air
in the neighbourhood of Brighton. One of the
Members for the borough of Lewes, Sir CHARLES
BLOUNT, died a few days ago—a motion for a
new writ was made last night—the elec-
tion will take place next week—and Mr.
Sheriff EVANS who, according to Mr. FREE-
MAN, is in a my bad state of health, is most
anxious to take upon himself the important and la-
borious duty of representing the electors in Parlia-
ment. He has actually published an Address dated
" House of Commons, March 2," in which he
makes this mournful lamentation :—" Visited with
imprisonment, and deprived of that personal li-
berty which has ever been the birthright of En-
glishmen, for no crime but that of having, in obe-
dience to the laws, and obedience to my oath, dis-
charged the duties of the high office of Sheriff of
Middlesex, I feel that no apology will be necessary
for not paying my respects to you in person upon
this occasion." It was certainly cruel conduct on
the part of the House of Commons to refuse him
the privilege of Englishmen, and prevent him from
visiting the men of Lewes in person.

We rejoice to see the question of the union be-
tween Church and State brought into public dis-
cussion. The arrogant, the almost unbounded
claims made by the priesthood in every part of the
empire, are provoking a searching spirit of inquiry
from which they will only escape triumphant if
theit elaims be founded on justice. We propose to
look at the question as one wholly and exclusively
of politics.
At the conclusion of an article yesterday we in-
dicated the principles on which statesmen and
public writers should consider it. What does the
State want ? For what does it exist, and what
should it aim at ? No man will now presume to
affirm that the State, whatever political form it may
take, whether that of a republic, a limited
monarchy, or a despotism, is of divine erection any
more than the art of a shoemaker, or has any
authority ether than that which it derives from the
consent of the people. All political contrivances are
human institutions to attain ahuman end, the earthly
welfare of the people. Such being the principle
on which the State itself exists, that bounds and
defines its duties in uniting itself with any Church,
the single object statesmen can contemplate and
avow by the union is to promote the welfare of the
people. We must consider the union, then, solely
with reference to its earthly utility, and leave the
truth of the religious doctrines of the Church to be
ascertained by every man for himself. Statesmen
have no peculiar faculty for discovering religious
truth, and have no right to select or prescribe or
patronise any particular religious doctrines, except i
that by so doing they promote the general hap-
piness.
Public writers, therefore, must confine them-
selves to the single subject of the utility of the
union, and leave the truth or falsehood of the
doctrines taught by the clergy to be expounded
exclusively by them, and believed or not by the
people according to the evidence brought forward.
In what way does the union promote those ob-
jects the State is bound to promote ? How, to
descend to particulars, and take one at a time, does
it make men useful, obedient subjects ?
Now the first and most palpable effect
of the union is, in a country where religious
freedom is allowed—and the effect ever will be as
long as there are differences of religious opinion
amongst mankind--to snake all those who do not
profess the doctrines of the Church discontented
with the State. The State, they assert, brands
their faith as inferior, and by selecting another for
favour does a political injustice to them. Generally
the State carries the principle of selection out by
force, and bestows considerable political advantages
on the selected Church. The penal laws against
the Catholics, and the Test Acts, were the modes
in which the Legislature of England for many
years evinced its unjust partiality. The consequence
was, that the Catholics and the Dissenters were
very generally discontented. Turbulence, then, on
the part of those who do not profess the favoured
faith--diseontent, riot, and even rebellion, are and
must be the consequences of the union which the
State adopts to promote order and peace.
The favour excites as much arrogance in the
selected religionists as discontent in the rejected,
and it is not necessary to go to Ireland to hear
Dissenters and Catholics spoken of as an inferior
race of men, to be trodden on by the arrogant
Churchmen. For the last century England and
Ireland have been continually a prey to religious
quarrels ; and we can unhesitatingly assert, that
the union of Church and State, intended to pro-
mote peace and obedience, has been the parent of
more broils and turbulence than the eloquence and
ambition of demagogues.
Such must always be the case where the union
exists in conjunction with toleration. In Germany,
where there have been few or no such dissensions
and broils as have occurred in Ireland and Eng-
land, toleration was for a long time practically
little known. There were Catholic and Protestant
States, Catholic and Protestant communities,
living under the same Sovereign, who took both
Churches equally under his protection ; but
before practical toleration came, even pattially,
to prevail, great indifference to religion on
the part of the Sovereigns was common. There
was a union not of the State with one Church as
here, but with all the Churches that were allowed
to exist, to one or other of which all men were
obliged to conform, and sects separate from them
were not tolerated. Either the union must cause
turbulence, or the State must go further, and admit
of no separation from the• Church or Churches it
takes under its protection• It must unite the in-
fahibility of the Pope with the domination of the

I lawgiver, prescribe the faith of the people, and keep
them in the presumed right course by punishment,
as well as by reward.
But ►f that he the necessary consequence of the
union, the Roman Catholic Church, which pro-
hibits private judg.nent in matters of religion, is
better for the State to form a union with than any
Protestant Church, which calls on individuals to
teAd the Bible and judge for themselves. Under
the guidance of the Romish priesthood, the
whole people move as one man, and there can
be none of that turbulence which necessarily
arises from peering une sect of Protestants to
another. Ireland, at this moment, presents us a
remarkable illustratio►► of this important fact. For
many years it was the most unruly and turbulent
country in Europe. The Romish priesthood were
then in hostility to the Government, and neces-
sarily exci'ed their flocks against their enemy.
Since 1835 that opposition has ceased ; the priest-
hood have become the allies of the Government,
and we doubt if there be at present a more quiet
and orderly people in Europe than the Catholic
Irish. The priesthood have the hulk of the people
under their control, arid, were their enem►e.s to
return to power again, the whole country would be

convulsed. If, then, the union of the Church with

the State to be defended on account of its pro
moting obedience, unquestionably, as most states-
men have said, the Romish Church is to be pre-
ferred to any Protestant Church.
We call on the statesmen who advocate the
union boldly to carry out their principle, and form
their union with the Rornish Church, as the only
One capable of producing that obedience after which
they strive. Let them have no half measures.
Adopt the infallible Church, and so they will be
theirvillhig
bl purposes, spared the trouble and the cruelty of coercing un•
spirits into obedience. The Roinish priest-
hood will form the plastic mind of infancy to
disgraced the niaorii,dotsatvie,
Statetl‘it:m
Wfir.tohina
u enee, and its consequences, which have lona
which sanctions the •
exercise of private judg-
ment, and gei.erates sects. Such as
rulers .
CoodOn-STANLEY theC h Church
would find the Romish

gion a most useful one, and he would have obedient
slaves without the necessity of practising oppressi•:n
or exhibiting inhumanity. We are against the
union, because, so far as obedience is concerned,
we see that a necessary consequence of it is to put
an end to toleration, and substitute an infallible
priesthood. The Church of England; indeed, and
the Kirk of Scotland, seem of late anxious to de-
serve the support of the State by claiming the in-
fallibility of the Romish Church.

Every person conversant with the facts, now
admits that there is great difficulty in governing the
country. It is also remarked that a similar diffi-
culty makes itself generally felt. The explanation
is, we think, obvious. Institutions are stationary,
and society is in a state of rapid transition and
progress. The institutions, moreover, are not of
the time ; they were adtpted to an age gone bye,
and men with modern knowledge and modern ideas
are continually striving in vain to administer a sys-
tem which they do not even comprehend, because it
does not belong to this period. The difficulty shows
itself practically in the balance of parties in the
state, in the growth of a democracy while old
aristocratic forms are strugglingly adhered to, and in
a general spirit of disobedience to ancient institutions,
which there is no power to control.

It is the business of faction to misrepresent or per-
vert every fact; and Tory writers accordingly say that
this peculiar conflict between institutions and society
is caused by the weakness or incapacity of Ministers +;
but if Sir R. PEEL or Lord STANLEY were in
office, how would he alter it ! He could by no
means command a large majority in a House of
Commons which represents a much divided com.
munity. He could not do, as Sir R. WALPOLE
or the Duke of NEWCASTLE did, negotiate with
the owners of a dozen or two of boroughs for the
votes of their representatives, and by seducing one
man, bribing another, and buying a third, com-
mand a majority. The representatives of the re-
formed constituencies have characters to lose. When
any great national sentiment shall become general
or universal, be it what is called a hatted of intru-
sion, a lore of Church extension, a hunger for
cheap corn, or a revived feeling of hostility towards
France, the representative Government, whoever
may be at its head, will be strong to attain that
object, and strong while the general fervour lasts.
Without some general moving impulse of this kind,
we cannot have a strong Government, let who will
be its chiefs.

What hope is there that any such general feeling
can now arise. Is it possible to get up a general
love for the Corn-laws ? If an almost unanimous
feeling in favour of the abolition should be excited,
as that will be opposed by the aristocracy and the
priesthood, the Government will not onlybe weakened,
for it will be in a manner overthrown. Can there
be a general enthusiasm excited in favour of the
Church ! Impossible, while one-third of the com-
munity are Dissenters, and a large number, increas-
ing every day, deride the Church. Can a passion
for war be re-excited ? We believe not. Our people
have suffered too much, and the injuries to which
our commerce is now exposed, which would in the
olden times have excited great indignation, are
heard of with great indifference. For our parts, we
do not see any possibility of so exciting a general feel-
ing of any kind ; and we look, therefore, on the Tory
daily rhodomontade about a weak Government, and
about Ministerial vacillation, and so forth, as aris-
ing from a complete ignorance of facts, and a most
unphilosophical view of society.

We were not at first disposed to set any great
store by the boon which Lord JOHN RUSSELL
offered to the Dissenters, when he proposed to do
away with the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical
Courts in civil cases. The proceedings in the
case of flAwEs and VICAT v. PELLAT, now
before the Ecclesiastical Court, are calculated to
raise considerably the value of the proposed altera-
tion. It is quite clear that Sir HERBERT JENNER
has taken a leaf out of Dr. LUSHINGTON'S book,
and with a degree of slipperiness which we thought
the peculiar attribute of that Learned Double-
tongue, is endeavouring to insinuate into the law
of Church-rates principles which, if adopted,
would re nder that mill-stone round the necks of
Dissenters ten times heavier than it is.

The truth is, that the Ecclesiastical Judges
seem to . have usurped a large discre-
tionary power in deciding on the cases that
come before them. They go neither by any
fixed rules of law, nor by any dictates of equity or
common sense, but are led by their prejudices, if
not by less creditable motives, at one time to stretch,
at another to contract, their principles of judgment,
so that it is utterly impossible for any one embark-
ing in an ecclesiastical suit, let his case be ever so
clear, to tell how it may be decided.
In the case to which we have alluded, Sir HER-
BERT JENNER has already decided that the rating
of landlords, instead of occupiers, in the parish of
Christ Church, is illegal. Property in that parish,
to the amount of 9,0001., is rated to landlords at
one half of its estimated value, which ought to
have been rated to occupiers at five-sixths of that
value. Is not this fact, which has been proved be-
fore the Court, amply sufficient of itself to have
invalidated the rate ? Would it not have done so
in any other Court of the kingdom—not being Ec-
clesiastical ? Yet Sir HERBERT JENNER de-
cides that this g:ossly unequal rating does not
render the rate invalid ; but that Mr. PELLA TT
must show that he has suffered from the unequal
rating I What miserable trifling is this I Is it
not as clear as any thing can be, that Mr. PEL-
LA TT'S prodortion of the rate is greater than it
would have been had the occupiers been rated as
the law directed, instead of the landlords ?
Another point in which this Judge has departed
from what has been i!eiietally held to be law, is
that a rate is not rendered invalid by being retro-
spective, pi ovided the majority of the Vestry give
their consent to it. How, ,we should like to know,
can a retrospective rate ever be challenged but when
the majority have consented? The rate must be made
before the question can possibly arise, and it can
only be made by the majority. To say, therefore,
that a retrospective rate, when sanctioned by the
majority of a Vestry, is not invalid, is to say that it
is not invalid under any circumstances. If Dr.
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LUSI-lINGTON retains ally of the opinions which
he held and subscribed to before he was placed in a
situation in which it is his interest to curry favour
with the Tories for the enormous salary of 4,0001.
per annum, which they have already refused him,
we should like, for the curiosity of the thing, to
know what he says to a decision so directly i❑ the
teeth of his own often-goofed axiom.

Madrid Journals of the 24th ult., inclusive, have
reached us, but the little news they contain has been
anticipated by the telegraphic despatches rec,ived
the French Governrotent. The squabbles in the Cortes
on the tad were sufficiently disgraceful to the Mem-
bers, but by no means such as justified the Government
in declaring the capital in a state of siege. The public
galleries hissed and reviled the Ministers, and the ma-
jority, with abusive epithets, but no blows were strucls ;
nor wv‘s it found necessary to call for the assistance of
the Municipal Guards, in order to dear them of strati-
gers. But to a Government panting for an opportunity of
resorting to violent measures, no provocation seemed
too trifling for invoking
the terrors of military des-
potism.

The following telegraphic despatches, with additional
news horn Spain, appear in the official columns of the
411anitcur of Monday. l'he fall of Segura, though ex-
pected, is an auspicious commencement of the Spring
campaign in Aragon :
" Bayonne, Feb. 29, Two o'Clock r M.
" THE BkENCH AMBASSADOR TO THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN

AFFAIRS.
" MADRID, FRB. 25.—The sitting of the Cortcs on the
23d was disturbed by agitators placed in the public
tribunes; that of yesterday, towards three o'clock, was also
troubled by manifestations outside, which began to dSiUDIC
the character of en emeute. As they had no cause a seri-
ous blow was feared. The Government, to prevent their
return, believed it to be prudent to place Madrid in a state
of siege. Tranquillity was instantly re-established."
" Bayonne, March 1.
" GENERAL COMMANDING THE 20TH MILITARY DIVISION
Ti) THE MINISTER OP WAR, AND TO THE [RESIDENT OP
THE COUNCIL.
" Espartero, who arrived before Segura on the 231,
summoned the place to surrender, and on the recus .1 of the
garrison established the batteries, which fired on the 25th,
and silenced the fire of the enemy. A speedy reduction
was expected."

" Bayonne, March 1.
" THE SL.B.PREFECT of ISAToNNE TO THE MINISTER OF THE

INTERIOR.
" A letter from Saragossa of the 28th announces that on
the 27th, at seven A M.,6the Coristinos occupied Segura.
" Madrid was tranquil on thc morning of the 26th."

The Moniteur of Monday publishes a series of Royal
Ordinances appointing the Tut Ens Cabinet. The first,
Which nominates M. TMERS President of the Council
and Minister for Forei;zn Affairs, is countersigned by
M. TESTE the late keeper of the Seals, hut all the rest
are countersigned by 1 taw himself. Some of our

readers may require to informed that French Cabinets
take their name from the day of their appointment, and
not from that of their chiefs, as with us. 'Thus, in
speaking of different Cabinets in England, we distin-
guish them by the name ►►f the Premier of each, as the
" WELLINGTON Cabinet," the " GREY Cabinet," the
" MELBOURNE Cabinet ;" in France, they say the
" Cabinet of the 14th of April," the " Cabinet of the
12th of May," and the " Cabinet of the Ist of March,"
the cognomen of the Ministry just appointed. The
oE9al nominations are precisely the same as appeared
in The Sun of Saturday, with the exception of one ap-
pointment corrected in our impression of yesterday ;
but that the respective influence of the new and retiring
administrations may be more easily examined, wo
subjoin a list of both :

Ist of March. ex-I‘2th of IV
Minister for Foreign Affairs and
President of the Council M. Thiers.
Keeper of the Seals, and Minis-
M. Tate
of Justico and Religion •
Minister of War Gen. Cubieres. Gen. Schneider
Minister of Marine and Colonies Adm. Roussin. Adm. Duperre.
Minister of the Interior
Minister of Commerce Gouin. M. C. Gridane.
Minister of Public Works
Minister of Public Instruction M. Cousin. M. Villemain.
Minister of Finance
There is no domestic news of any interest in the Paris
Journals. On Sunday M. THIERS took possession of
the Foreign office, which SOULT quitted on Saturday.
Several of the subalterns of the late Cabinet resigned,
or were removed on Saturday, to make way for the de-
pendents of M. 'I'HIERS and his colleagues. The
latest intelligence from Africa will be found below. The
gallantry with which a handful of French soldiers de-
fended the forts of Mastaganeur and Mazagran against
more than 2,000 Arabs for four successive days, is de-
serving of the highest praise :
NE WS FROM AFRICA.
We have the following letter from Oran, of the ISth
February :

Marshal Soul

" Thi Lieutenant-General has been informed by spies,
that the Emir was assembling a considerable body of ca-
valry and infantry with the intention of taking Oran. We
learn, at the same time, that Abd-el. Kader has not been
satisfied with the conduct of his General, Brumedy, who,
in his opinion, did not act with sufficient vigour on the 7th
of this month. Every preparation is making to repulse the
enemy. The garrison of Fort Mers-cl-Kebir has just been
reinforced by a company of the 15th regiment of light in-
fantry, and two small pieces of cannon. In case of need
a small column would march out of the place, under the
command of the Lieutenant-Colonel of the 15th light in-
fantry."_

La
Vegre de Morbihan announces that the Jemmapes,
of the line, will be launched at L'Orient on the 2d of April.
A letter from L'Orient says " The Minister of Marine
has just given orders for building at L'Orient a steam-
boat, of 450 horse power, to be called the Curier. Our
navy has no vessel of this size. It will be larger than a
three.decker, and may serve to convey 1,200 troops. The
greatest difficulty for a vessel of this size will be to man-
oeuvre, entering, and leaving certaiu ports. —Le Con-
stitutionnel.

The attack, so bravely repulsed by the little garrison of
Mazagran, is a new addition to our military glory ; but
does it not imply cruel accusations against Marshal Vallee,
when we have 60,000 men in Algeria, 122 men are left
in a position which has just sustained a violent attack from
the Arabs? It is in vain that complaints daily arrive from
Oran, soliciting reinforcements ; regiments on regiments
are accumulated in the plains of Algiers, where they are
kept employed, while a hundred brave men are exposed to
be massacred. Such conduct implies either folly or
treachery. Let Marshal Vallee choose. But in defiance of
such facts, so often repeated, the Marshal retains the Go-
vernment of Algeria. Is not this a confession that the
loss of the colony is desired ?—Le Commerce.
BO URSE....PAItIS, MONDAY, MARCH 2.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
rcnch 5 per Cents ll3 80 ... 113 80 ... 113 70 ... 1.3 70
4 per Cents lO4 ... ,C 4 ... 104 ... 104
3 per Cents B2 35 . 82 50 ... 82 35 ... 82 45
Bank of r'rance 3150 ...3150 ...3150 ...3150
Laffitte Bank I,ooof. 8h lO6O ...1060 ...1(`6) ...1 60
Belgian Bank 932 50 ... 932 511 ... 932 50 ... 932 50
3 per Cents 73 40 ... 71 40 ... 73 40 ... 73 40
Dutch 2% per Cents 51% ... 53% ... 53% ... 53%
,parish Ac, ive . 281,, ... 293 ... 28% 29k
Passive 7 4 ... 7% ... 74 ... 7%
Old Deferred 7%
... 8 ... 7% ... 8%
Portuguese 3 per Cents 24% ... 24% ... 24% ... 2430
Neapolitan
totnan 103% 103 ...103%

RAILWAYS HARES.
A. Germain 612 50 ... 642 50 ... 640 ... 640
Versailles, IL B 542 50 545 ... 5..2 50 545
L.B 370 ... 372 50 370 ... 372 50
Strasburg to Bale 342 50 ... 245 ... 542 50 ... 345

MARRIAGE OP HER MAJESTY.—The splendid pre-
cessions and magnificent scenes connected with this
happy and auspicious event, could necessarily have been
beheld only by a comparatively small portion of her
Majesty's subjects. Pictorial representation, aided by
panoramic exhibition, is not a bad substitute for actlal
vision, however. And this is carried out in an admir-
able manner by the panoramic view of the Queen's
Marriage Procession (Spooner, 377, Strand), which
displqys, in a fine connected series of coloured drawings,
the whole procession from the Palace to the very altar,
exhibited with a correctness as to costume, &c., for
which we can answer (the gentleman who attended the
Chapel Royal for The Sun having been consulted) ;
we, moreover, understand that some of the heraldic
authorities kindly volunteered their information, so that
it may be taken somewhat as official. It is a most in-
teresting affair, and forms a pretty, pleasing, present for
the younger portions of society, whose curiosity about
the matter is, of course, considerable.
Toav CONSISTENCY.--When Mr. Fox Mettle moved
for a new writ for Perthshire, Sir James Graham looked
at him with feigned astonishment, and said, "the Earl
of Mansfield died on Tuesday—he is yet unburied."—.
( Tory cheers.) Lord Stanley said his friends had been
taken by surprise, not one of them supposing for a mo-
ment that within three days of the death of Lord Mans-
field the Government would more a new writ for his son.
It was in fact denounced by the party as a vile trick,.
and an act of indecent hate, yet what did the same
man do last evening—move for a new writ for Lewes,
while Sir Charles Blount lies unburied, and within pre-
cisely the same short space, three days of his death?
Sir Charles died on Saturday, and the new writ was
moved on Tuesday. So much for the consistency of
Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The ordinary
meeting was held on Tuesday afternoon, the Duke of Devon-
shire, President, in the Chair. The show of plants and flowers
was superior. Several prices were awarded. The extract from
the Meteorological Register kept at the gardens, from 18th
Feb. to 3d March, gave barometer, highest, Feb. 25, 30.661
in. ; lowest, Feb. 23, 30.265 in.—thermometer, highest, Feb.
29, 45 deg. F. ; lowest,,Feb. 22, 24 deg. F.--and quantity of
rain, 6.00 in.
FIRE.---Last night a fire broke out in Shore-
ditch at a Lucifer-makers, named Braham. The premises
were soon gutted.
PAISLEY GAOL BROKEN.—In the course of
Friday night the Paisley prison was broken in the Bridewell
end, and five prisoners escaped, the means which they used to
accomplish their object being of the most daring description.
Two of the prisoners were seen next morning near Barhead.
Search was afterwards made for them without effect.
iiORoUGH OF IVIARYLERONE.—Last evening,
the second annual general meeting of the electors of the bo-
rough of Marylebone, members of the Reform and Registra-
tion Association, took place in their rooms, Warren-street,
New-road, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Ma-
naging Committee for the past year, and on other business re-
lative to the advancement of the Reform interest in the borough.
LORD LORTON AND THE WIDOW MURPHY.
.—The poor old widow Murphy, whose litigation with Lord
Viscount and Viscountess Lorton liar excited attention upon
the Conticent as well as in Great Britain, has one more de-
!eated her powerful assailants; and she still retains possession of
the hovel where her cabin once stood, when Lord Lorton
adopted the " clearing system" in Ballinansuck. His Lordship
has been nonsuited at the Assizes of the county of Longford, in
which county, at last Spring Assizes, the poor widow obtained
a verdict.

PERTHSHIRE ELECTION.--It affords us plea-
sure to state, that there is scarcely a doubt that the Reform
candidate will be successful, and that with a triumphant majo.
rity. The non-intrusion principles of Mr. Home Drummond,
even as amended by Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, would not go
down with the Vetoists ; and the consequence has been, that
at a numerous meeting of Ministers and other friends of the
Church (who support non-intrusion), held at Perth on Thurs-
day, the address of Mr. Stewart has been declared satisfactory,
and that. of Mr. Drummond has been declared the reverse. At
the last contest for this important county, the Church, on the
question of additional endowments, was nearly unanimous with
the Tories. Now, however, when so many of her clergy have
thrown themselves publicly into the electioneering contest in
favour of the Liberals, we have the satisfaction of seeing the
Church not only divided between the Tories and Reformers,
but the further satisfaction that the merits of the contest will
be made to rest on the propriety of further progression in re-
form principles, with regard to civil government, as proposed
by Mr. Stewart, or the propriety of opposing further reform, as
is the policy of Mr. Drummond, and those whome he would sup-
port.— Glasgow Chronicle.
WEAVER CHURCHES.—THE MORALITY OF
CH VACIIMEN.—We havebeen considerably amused at the perusal
of some articles in the Stockport Chronicle respecting a curious
project, which shows what strange schemes the High Church
party will occasionally take for their own advancement. It
seems that about 1721, the river Weaver, which flows through
the principal salt districts of Cheshire, was made navigable by a
company. In that year they got their Act. In 1759 they ob-
tained another Act which gave them many additional powers.
It is needless to go into all the particulars, as our readers in this
district will take no great interest in them ; but we shall
briefly notice the general question. It appears the river
has been kept up by rates, which were also to be employed
in repaying money advanced ; and that a considerable
accumulation of profit has taken place. It appears also
that the Trustees have prevented the watermen from work
ing on the Sabbath, which does not all operate to the hin-
drance of the trade, but that the parish churches in the neigh-
bourhood are at inconvenient distance, and unequal to the
wants of the population ; and the men thus turned from their
work are left to wander about on the Sunday without religious
instruction. On this account the trustees have applied to Par-
liament for leave to build three new churches ; thus compelling
the rate-payers, who are doubtless of many different religious
pro.essions, to expend so much money on the Church of Eng-
land ! The defenders of the measure seem to say the churches
will cost 7,0001. • but the Stockport Chronicle is of opinion
that building and endowing them altogether will amount
to 80,000/. ! Had the scheme been in contempla-
tion before the men were prevented from working on the
Sunday ? It really has very much the appearance of a plan to
throw the men off work first, a ,d then to say, " Good heavens !
here are all these men going about doing nothing, and yet there
is not Church accommodation for them !" But why, above all
things, build them Churches of the Establishment ? Are they
all Church of England hearers ? If not, why not build them
Churches to suit their several creeds ? That is the point which
puzzles us, and makes the matter appear in so very question,
able a light. The Stockport paper calls it the River Weaver rob.
bery. Truly it is very like another of the strange misconstruc-
tions of Scripture which Tories and Churchmen have too fre-
quently made nn the text—" Compel them to come in that
my house may lie lined."—Tyne Mercury.

WORSHIP-STREET-(`I'MS DAY.)

THE BITLINAL-GREEN CflAt.TlSTS.—Henry Harris, who
was remanded from Friday la-it to this day, on the charge
of having unlawfwly obtained certain legal documents under
false and frauittlent pretences, was this imrning brought
up for is examination:
H B. Rob.ms, the solicitor for the prosecution,
stated that he had not beets able to obtain any turther evi-
dence but he trusted that the Bench would consider that
what had already been produced would be sufficient to war-
rant them in committing the:prisoner, who, however, he still
believed was a tool in the hands of some evil disposed per-
sons who were desirous of depriving his clients of their
means of defence, and thus defeat the ends of justice.
Th-c prisoner who, it was stated, is an ex-policeman,
made a rambling defence, and was fully committed for trial.

EVENING EDITION

CRIML_ AL COL' e. DAT

OLD COURT.
(B, ore Mr Sergeant AkAnIN.)
James Carroll, aged 24. 14 ho had pleaded guilty to a
charge of bur4rarionily breking and entering the Shaks"
peare Inn, at Woolwich, 4nd straling a. variety of property
helm,ing Io Mr. Lee, !i,. !hi:LINA, was L-ought up for
judgment.

Mr. Sergeant A RABIN said that the offence of which the
priso; er had been convicted was of a very daring and
serious character. It appeared that the landlady, upon
going into to herbed-room at night, saw something under
the bed, which she at first thought was a large bundle, and
l?ing alarmed she called for assistance, and the prisoner
was then found concealed under the bed. It also appeared
that the drawers in the room had all been rifled, and
variety of valuable propert7 removed. Under these cir-
cumstances the Court felt itself called upon to inflict upon
the prisoner a sentence of transportation for ten years.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON. )
Winifred Dwyer, 42, Mary Langley, 34. and Anne
Styles, 19, were indicted for counterfeiting the current cola
of the realm, called e sixpence.
The Mr. SCA ELETT and Mr. &MEIN conducted
the prosecution. and Mr. PAINE the defence.
It appeared from the evidence that in consequence of
information received by the Mint, three officers went to a
house in Shoreditch, and one of them forced open the
door f one of the rooms, and they there saw the three
prisoners. In the room there was a large fire, plaster-of-
Paris moulds, and seven counterfeit sixpences, quite hot,
and which had evidently just come from the mould.
When the officer was about to seize Langley, she lifted
up the window and threw a plaster-of. Paris mould into
the street. The room was stated to belong to the pri-
soner Dwyer.

The prisoners' defence was that they were in the room
by accident at the time the officers went in, and that they
knew nothing of the c .ining of the sixpences. Styles
said she had been induced to go to the room by a girl
named Shannon.

Baron ALDERSON summed up the evidence, and the
Jury returned a vordict of Guilty.
James Blinhford was convicted of uttering counterfeit
coin, having been previou-ly convicted of a similar offence.
The prisoners were called up for judgment, and the
Court, after remarking on the monstrous nature of the of-
fence of which they had been convicted, sentenced the
prisoners Dwyer, Blinhford, and Langley, to be trans-
ported for ten years, and Styles to be transported for seven
years.