The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-12 00:00:00

Is this race of begging friars extinct here in
Protestant England ? 'There are certainly none
who go about bare-footed, and who carry a sack to
gather bread and meat, but we have priests who
equal them in begging. Take, for example, the
Bishop of LONDON. The Times yesterday pub-
lished a letter of that Right Rev. Prelate, in which
he implored subscriptions for a colonial episcopacy
with all the zeal of a Capuchin. The object of
the letter is to obtain funds to saddle the colonies
with Bishops, and the begging is carried on after
the following fashion. First, the Government is
admonished, as the begging friar would be sure to
admonish a woman, that " it is a sacred duty in-
cumbent upon the Government of a Christian
State to make due provision for the mainter
nance and extension of Christianity." Sacred
duty : What Government can resist such an ad-
juration to fill the beggar's wallet ? Then, if the
Government will not give, " all the community," it
is said, " are bound to take the work in hand," and
give. " Every member of our Church, whom Pro-
vidence has blessed with the means," is admo-
nished that a great responsibility rests on him
should he not give towards endowing sees for the
colonies. In what these appeals, supplications,
and threats differ from the arts and tricks of the
begging friars, we cannot discern, except that they
are made through the Press, while the friars make
their begging applications in person. The difference,
however, is only of one stage ; for as soon as the beg-
ging scheme is fairly launched, collectors will be
appointed, who will go round from door to door
begging pounds from the rich, crowns or half-
ci owns from the middle classes, and pennies and
even half-pennies from the poor.
The worthy Bishop has a merchant's or a usurer's
eye to the future. Though what he may now
collect will not give each colonial Bishop revenues
equal to those of the sees of London or Canterbury,
the Bishop of LONDON means that such shall
hereafter be the case. "It is probable," he says,
"that in the course of time, the improved value of
the land, purchased as an endowment in the first
instance, swill add to their (the Bishops')
means of doing good." How softly phrased !
What good does the Bishop of LONDON, or the
Archbishop of CANTERBURY, or the Bishop of
WINCIIESTER,do with their princely revenues aris-
ing cut of the improved value of the land ? How
does the improved value come ? Why, by the
labours of man ; and this careful Bishop, who en-
joys a royal revenue from the improved value of
land in the City of London, is laying plans for fu-
ture Bishops to reap where neither they nor their
predecessors have sowed. How virtuous! And all
this forethought-appropriation of other men's la-
bour and property is to enable the Bishops to do
good. The children of MAMMON are wise in

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LONDON:
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1840.

In the House of Peers last night a considerable
number of petitions was presented. The Bishop
of EXETER, unfortunate man, who has got him-
self into a scrape, and wants to eat his way out of
it, took the opportunity of presenting a petition to
explain that he had been misreported in some papers
to have said that there was no Church in Scotland ;
what he did say was that the Scotch Church was a
Clturch in Scotland, according to Act of Parliament,
but was not a Church, and the clergy, as the Earl
of HADDINGTON stated for the Bishop, and the
Bishop acquiesced in it, were not clergy in any
other part of the empire. We cannot think that
this explanation makes the matter any better for the
Bishop. He, asserts that the Scotch Church and
clergy arc only a Church and clergy in Scotland,
because Acts of Parliament there recognise them,
while he implies that the Church and clergy of.
England are a clergy and Church every where
whether recognized by Act of Parliament or not.
The Right Rev. Prelate is resolved to insult the
Ki4k of Scotland.

their generation.
Now let us look at the difference between the
begging clergy wad other classes. When a mer-
chant desires to make money, he cysts about to see
where, from the state of prices, goods are wanted.
Having found that out, he buys them where
they are cheap, and sells them where they are
dear. He has agents all over the world, he
searches all markets, and never expects to make a
farthing but by finding persons who want what he
has got to sell, and who are willing freely to give
him the price he asks. So it is with every other
tradesman. The manufacturer tasks "his ingenuity
to produce some article of general convenience at
a cheap rate, and he never exp Lets to make
a shilling but by ministering to the wants of the
public. The newspapar proprietor act son the same
principle. In short, there is not a. single busy
layman, desirous, like the priests, to make money,
who looks to any other source than to win it in
exchange for some article of value which he is
able to supply. The priesthood have no such
articles, and act on no such principles. They pretene,
indeed, to be the monopolists of the universal
message which Heaven has sent to man. They

The Tithe Commutation Bill was read a second

time.

The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second
reading of the Bill for improving the administration
of justifx. It is so long since the Bill was read
a first time, that the public must have forgot-
ten by this time that it is intended to trans-
fer the Equity practice of the Court of Ex-
chequer to the Court of Chancery, and appoint
more Judges to this Court.
Lord LYNDHURST seconded the motion, but
made some objection to the details of the B:11. In
Commit/Jae he would submit to their Lordships
whether the Equity of the Court of Exchequer
should be abolished. He also disapproves of
aking' thre MASTER of the ROLLS from
his. Court to preside over the Privy Council.
The Noble Lord is for appointing additiona
Judges. The other pans of the Bill he considers
subsidiary"; and wilt go into the Committee un-
fettered as to all of them.
Afteea few observations from Lcrds ABINGER,
WYNFORD, and LA.NGDA LE, approving generally
of the principles of the Bill, it was read a second
time, art] feir Lordships adjourned.

make money by doling out part of the message to
the people. " Our Church is not," says the
Bishop, " seen in her full and fair proportions by

the strangers a►nongst whom she dwells." " The
defects of those ordinances which can be received
only at the hands of the highest o►der o.f the ministry,
the absence of due regulations for the exercise of
spiritual authority," &c. Only Pialmops,therefore,

can supply some parts of the Divine message ; and
man can only get the full measure of GOD'S bless-
ings by paying an episcopal salary foe it. So the

priests coin the message of salvation into curren,

pelf for their own use.

Though the priests have nothing to offer in ex-
change, they continually clutch wealth, and can
only get it by begging or extortion. They grasp
after power, which they only reach by degrading
and terrifying the people. Their aim is, as Mr.
11'I`NEILE has informed the world, to obtain do-
minion by employing supernatural to rror. They
are like no other class or race of men, and if the
pursuits of all other men offering their wares for
sale, or their services for hire, be noxious, those of
the priests may be praiseworthy. Not otherwise.

In the Commons the Eastern Counties Railway
Amendment Bill was throw„ out on the second
reading by 195 to 58.
In reply to Sir R. PEEL the ATTORNEY-GE-
N=IAL said that he should recommend a Bill to
be introduced to settle the question concerning
stock in trade being rated to the Poor, and to en-
act that no stock in trade be rated.
It is the boast of the Tories that:. they neve
On the Earl of DARLINGTON being called on by
, court popularity. They despise it. They bring
they Speaker, Mr. E. J. STANLEY requested the
Noble Earl to postpone his motion for issuing a forward Registration Bills or promote .some petty
writ for Ludlow till Thursday. To this request reform in the Church, not to please the people, but
the Noble Earl refused to
accede, and made h• s
ill obedience to some great rule of right, or to satisfy
•
e
motion. It gave rise to a short debate, the Tories their own consciences. Let us subject this Tory
generally objecting to the delay,t because
principle to analysis, and find out its elements.
writ
it was unconstitutional to withhold a
Present popularity is nothing but the approba-
froru a borough ; the other party contending tion---the heartfelt, joyous, free approbation--ofthat the great corruption of Ludlow w s
arranted • ° ' otirie living
men. It is their testimony to your utility or
measure, and Lord JOHN RussEtr, wished to
his views on the subject. Mr. WARBURTON' Pleases
rs
them, worth,e or
l.his is what the Torie despise.
your having done something which
moved that tin,. consideration of the question be
adjourned till Thursday. On this question tlit
selves
They contemn, they scorn mankind, and he ,ld them-
House divided, and it was lost by 226 to 21.. equally above their approbation find their
On the question being again put, Mr. WA KLEY : censure, crave Tories. It must be admitted that

In the Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday
last, we find the following remarks on the claims of
Sir AUGUSTUS D'EsTE, and on the part which
The Sun has taken in regard to that interesting
question :

We have inserted elsewhere a petition to the
House of Commons, against the humbug Regis
tration Bilt of Lord STANLEY, from the Council
of the borough of Richmond, in the county of
York. The petitioners very justly state that this
Bill, while it professes to amend the laws relating
to the registration of voters in Ireland, will diminish
to a great extent the number of voters. There is
not the least doubt that it would do so. That is
the very purpose which it is intended by its framer to
answer. Lord STANLEY has observed ho-.v well
a complicated system of registration has worked in
England in that way, and he is anxious that the
Irish people should have the full benefit of every
abuse that exists on this side the Channel. Ht
would not only willingly concede to them an equa-
lity of privileges of this kind, but a great sur-
plusage ; witness this very Bill, which far exceeds
the English Reform Act in the complexity of the
registration process.

" We gave in our last two articles,—one from the
Argus, the other from the Britnnia—in reference to his
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and the children of
his first marriage. Subjoined, we give an article, to which
we attach great importance, corning, as it does, from a
most influential and ably-conducted Whig journal, one
possessing the highest circulation of any evening paper in
London, advocating that line of politics—we mean The Sun.
There are few occurrences, God knows, in these days,
that make one connected with the public press—conducted
as it is—proud of his association or connexion with that
engine. The present occasion forms a gratifying and an
honourable exception ; for, when we find a journalist sepa-
rating himself from his party in the assertion of truth and
justice, we cannot but regard the man, while we are
constrained to respect the motive. In such a position
stands the able and the honest Editor of the The Sun, and
he has reflected credit upon himself and the paper over
which he presides—for that he has, regardless of all asso-
ciations and consequences, bad the moral courage to ad-
vocate the cause of the injured and. oppressed, in the per-
sons of Augustus of Este and his sister. . It is a gratifying,
it is delightful thing to find that, in the dreary waste of
politic#, over which we editors are doomed to traverse, we
may sometimes light upon g spot. where, like the smoking
grounds of the North American Indians, all d:Erenccs are
forgotten, and all bitterness is eschewed--no matter what
may have been the occasion, or how long may have been
the continuance of farmer feud. Upon such a spot The
Sun and the irfail now find themselves placed in harmony
and peace labouring in the same cAuse, that of truth—ad-
vocating the same measure, that of justice.
" The 'case' of the children of the Duke's first mar-
riage,—which it was our good fortune and privilege to
bring fully and fairly before the public for the first time—
has, we know, produced an immense sensation in England
—not only amongst the nobility, who are more immediately
concerned in all questions relating to the status and posi.
tion of every member of the Royal family, but amongst
the middle and lower orders of society, who are constitu-
tionally haters of tyranny, and by habit lovers of fair play.
Indeed we should say that the time was come for Sir Au-
gustus of Estc to reassume his distinctions and honours as
a Prince of the Blood Royal."
However complimentary to The Sun these re-
marks tray be, we beg to assure our Contemporary
that it has done us no more than justice in the
construction which it has put upon our motives. We
have pursued our own course on this question, as we
do on all others ; and, although it has cost us some
pain to bring before the public circumstances which
cost a shade upon an illustrious personage who has
been honourably distinguished for his advocacy of
liberal principles, and may cost us still more to pro-
ceed with the disclosures necessary to complete the
case which we are pledged to the public to put it in
possession cf, we have not shrunk, and we shall not
shrink, from the " assertion of truth and justice."
Other journals may be silent on this topic if they
please. They may allow party spirit to influence
their conduct on a question of moral justice, and
which, in its real merits, has no connection what-
ever with party ; but the support which any cause
can derive from a suppression of the truth, even
could that be accomplished, is, in our judgment, of
a very questionable nature. Li this case, however,
such a suppression is impracticable. It is impos-
sible to prevent the public from learning the
truth, and equally impossible to prevent them
from justly appreciating it. In spite of all the
caution which certain party journals have usecf—in
spite of all the reluctance which they have exhi-
bited to make their readers acquainted with the
claims of Sir AUGUSTUS D'EsTE, and his sister,
and with the treatment -they have received, those
claims and that treatment are known and talked of
from one end of the kingdom to the other. We
may add—let those whom it concerns lay it to
heart—that there is but one opinion upon. the sub- REPRESENTATION OF PERTH COUNTY.—
ft has been jest. All men, of all parties, agree in this, that from the representation of
Home Drummond eu
deep injustice has been done to the children of the nriti•eTlayb
the county, mto make way for Mr. Stirtliting.e _oolfy ILCaenir,i,
or who
some has
Duke of SUSSEX, as well as to the character of I,TefaerntilLurtiettiniren,e,dt,n we
orderb e"teov e,
take frmnchar II
charge of the polit cal here for some days that Mr.
in-
their deceased patent ; that his Royal Highness is rumouredout to retire
terests of Perthshire. The Tories imagine
it to w
they have.hom nowth ey
got
the county in their pocket, and may give
hound, by the most solemn and sacred ties, to do please. They will, perhaps, rid themselves in a mistake so Le
• • morni
-Advertiser.
morning.—Perihshire
every thing in his power to procure their restoration
on either side, has as
LUDLUM .-No candidate,- —No
to their birthright ; and that it is the imperative •the leading 'Tories
yet addressed the electors. It is state-1 that .
/. ; it is evident no
duty of those who advised her MAJESTY to confer have lost, since 1837, not less than 50.000
the highest honours of the peerage on Lady per San ma stand this game.
The funeral
HIGH WYCOMBE SATURDAY.—'
CECILIA UNDERWOOD, to co-operate with him of Lord Carrie' " . this Clinreli to-day.
ton'sg daughter took lace in • - `ended
we
this righteous
in accomplishing this righteous purpose. His Lordship was present, and among those who at
and
noticed Lord Forester, the Hons. Cecil, Charles, Orlando,,_ e
It requires no elaborate process of reasoning to Henry Forester ; Lord Gardnar, Colonel Crewe, &e. 'the
arriveand one general
Windows_ of the houses and shops were closed,.
arrive at these conclusions. They are so obvious
decease of this
feeling of regret seems to prevail fit the untimely
that they cannot escape the grasp of the plainest most amiable and beloved young lady.
A few days ago a
understanding. What man having any pretensions LOVETT AND COLLINS.--
V.-.t
letter was received from the Marquis of -Nermanby by the bi -
lc) common sense, to say nothing of moral principle, ing Magistrates of our county cmol to the effect that his Lcrd-
-9
discharge
can look at the evidence which has been published ship Would recommend to her Majesty the immediate,,
,nizances to
of those ' prisoners, on their giving their own I e,or, ••• ,•,
respecting the first marriage of the Duke of Sus- the amount of 501. each, for heir-good behaviour during the
next twelve monCas They have, however, refused to comply
SEX, and at the position in which the children of
the end of the term for whichpr they were sentenced, and wilieli
that marriage have so long been laced,without p.
will expire on the 25th of July next. Of course, therefore, no
at once seeing that they have suffered and are still ! further offer will be made by the Secretary of State.— If ar-
sufferina the • wick ridvertiser most grievous wrong. And is it ,
less clear—is it a proposition
coming less home to i Mr. Robert Steuart has resigned his office of a
f Lord of the Treasury. The cause is not publicly known, or
the minds and heartS '
of a moral and religious v. hether he will have any other position in the Government.
people, that the Duke of SUSSEX is His five years' service in the Treasury, and his election conflicts
the person of .
permanent
all others who oughtthe Liberal
cause, entitle ~Ir. Steuart to some
to stand foremost in the . in time privately
IF intended • .
, office. is retirement has been some . struggle to obtain justice fo •
r his offspring ? i known.—Scotsman.

There is no domestic news of interest in the
Paris Journals of Sunday. We have anticipated
the comments in the French Papers upon the
Sugar question.
The Naples Gazette, of the 6th inst., announces
the cessation of all hostilities between England and
Naples. The captured vessels were all to be restored
on both sides.
M. CREMIEUX, the dis:inguished Advocate and
President of the Israelite Consistory of Paris, left
that capital on Sunday for London, to confer with
the Hebrews and the Government here about tht
persecution of the Jews in Syria.
FRENCH AFRICA.

ALGIERS, MAY 2.—" The Marshal, whose departure I
mentioned in my last letter, hardly stopped at Bouffirich
to pay his respects to the Prince; and proceeded on his
march to Blidah. It appears that there is a coo:nesz
botween them, since their conversation on the expeditio,
of Dell)s.
" On arriving at Blidah, the Marshal addresse'.! a pro-
clamation to the troops, which clearly proves that it is not
his intention to stop at Medeah and Miliana, but to follow
the course of the Chelif, and that the expedition will act
chiefly on the province of Oran.

" 'the Marshal has made—a- new organization of his
-Ermy ; he has formed three columns, that of the right com-
manded by Colonel de Lamoriciere, that of he left corn-
m,nded by the Prince R..)yal, and that of the centre
commanded by the Marshfl.

,‘ The army set out on the 27th. Colonel Lamoriciere,
with his brigade, canpoied of the Zowavcs, of two c7.rn-
panics of sharp-shooters, and of the 17th regiment of Light
Infantry, left Coleah, and proceeded along the hills o!
Sabel to the wood of the Hadjoutes, which it crossed, and
destroyei all the establishments of the fildjoutes.
The Duke of Orleans, with his divisic.n, composed of
four companies of sharp-ahooters, the 21 Light lofantry,
the 24th of the Line, and 4th Squad7on of Cavalry.
marched from Blidah along the foot of Mount Atlas to the
Tomb of the Christian woman.

" The Marshal also left Blidah with the remainder of
the troops, (25th, 48th, 58th of the Line, 3d Light In.
fantry and Cavalry), and proceeded through the middle of
the plain to the Tornb above-mentioned. The three Co-
lumns amount to about 20,000 men, of whom 18,000 are
fighting men. 3 000 or 4,000 of AA-el- Kader's horsemen
appear on the plain, to prevent them passing the road to
liana. The division of the left and the centre made a vigorous
attack on them, and in spite of their resistance obliged
them to fly beyond the mountains, which were occupied
by our troops as well as the enemy's camp, The Arab,
had W/0 men killed and 150 wounded. Among the
former ars General Rumigny, orderly officer, al.d Mr.
Rassloff, a young officer who served as a volunteer; he
was known to the Prince, and was killed before his eyes.
" Amorg the second is the Lieut.-Colonel of the 2d
African Chabseurs; Mr. Miltgen, commanding 'the 2d
Regiment, received a ball in the right shoulder—it i
hoped the wound will not prove mortal.
" On the 29:b, in the evening, there arrived from Ble-
flah a number of sick, and 20 men wounded in the afidir of
the preceding day. We know nothing of the esped;tion
since the 28th."—Le Commerce.
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