The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.

7NDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON.
Fifteenth week of " Susan Hopley !" Great and continued
success of " The Black Domino," and first week of "Merry
Jerry."

THIS EVENING, OCT. 22.
The highly interesting and pathetic Domestic Drama, called
SUSAN HOPLF.V; OR THE TRIALS AND VICISSI-
TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL. William Dean, Mr. E.
F. Saville ; Susan Hu ley, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged
Heroine of Domestic Drama.

After which, THE BLACK DOMINO ; OR, THE MYS-
TERY.—Don Sylvio, Mr. Osba'cliston ; Juliano, Mr. Seaman;
Gil Perez, Mr. Gardner; Le Compte Voisey, Mr. Howard;;
the BlaeltDocino, Miss Vinftnt.
To conclude with MERRY JERRY; or, A REEFER'S
WRON 3S. —Jerry, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Rattlin,_ Mr. Dale ;
Camplin, Mr. Seaman; Darby, Mr. Gardner; Ellen, Miss Lee
Boxes, 2s.—Pit, taller}, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes
en/y, at Hair-past Eight.
To morrow, Sasan Hopley, with The Black Domino, and
Merry Jerry.

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LONDON:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1841.

The subjoined communication from Manchesi
on the subject of the heartless indifference of t
clergy -of the Established Church to the suffe,
ings of the starving poor, addressed to a Contem.
porary, is so entirely in accordance with the
opinions repeatedWexpressed in The Sun, that we
make no apology to our-readers fbr living ita
place in our leading columns :
There is -nothing amongst modern circumstances
more striking, or more to be regretted, than the utter
want of sympathy on the flan of the clergy towards the
great mites of the people. The former appear to have
made up their minds to one positive line of action—
namely, that however great the distresses Of the people
may be, from the want of employment and the want of
food, in all differences between the aristocracy and_
the people, even on these feeling points of human suffer-
ing, the Clergy, as a body, take
the art of the azisto-
eracy against the people.
Hence it arises that the Church of England becomes
snore and more remotebe
tfbroem apopular Church.
The clergy cease to
ply the rich
sonal smolumem
got, and stri
alliance with
higher and
the Church a,
people ; zud th
erel
them as they would do. ozereg
If the clergy were not notoriously blind to the sins
the times, they would see these things, and also%ee
the causes of them. But they content thenaaelves with
the protection of the law, and do not awaken *414
people the lore of the Gospel. This is nowhere more
striking than in the conflicts between the Church and
the Chartists in Norwich.---!It may be very convenient
to call all starving workmen Chartists.) The Wesley-
ans, the Baptists, and the Independents, hold their
missionary meetings unmolested. But the Church Of
England meeting is interrupted by the outcries of men in
?
misery. 13 there no truth in those cries One working
man exclaims, " We ask for bread, and you offer
Bibles !" Another cries, "We want meat, and you give
lig parsons !" And whet is the answer to this 2. Do
the clergy appeal to their exertions for good -laws to
help the people to employment ? To their enar2avours to
procure for the great mass of the people pleb", and useful
education ? To their attempts to break dovr.n monopoly,
which taxes the people's bread ? No, thciy have mitt su
striven to help the starving poor ; and the r;nly reply
that appears to have been made to the ee)peals of the
wish a cler
multitude was, When you are going t' die, don't yen
clergyman to come and visit 70-,,u ?"
There are some noble exceptions, to this selfish conduct
arrif
theorigst the clergy. One of the most cons p icuous is that
reverend author of the " Plea for the Poore'?
And what has been the reward of his labour of lore that
the Poor , ,
mont ea, th their daily bread untaxed ? The
poor have thankeu the good hare prayed for him,
whilst his reverend -orethren have hated and contemned
him.
It is most earn
properly consid:Aly to be desired that the clergy would
these things, and so alter their con-
duct towards the
reoyle as not to increase the growing
dislike of the lettl)e .or the Church. It is in vain to tind
fault with a hungr
gain their daily hrY,lP:orik. You must assist them to
They will then he o-
, and soothe them by kind action.
-
rionment of errors. pen to good advice, and to an aban
Whatever be the consequences to themselves
of neglecting the poor,
expect any reformation. lve fear it is hopeless to
ciesiastical body. The in the conduct of the ec-
have so entirely
made themselves the akePotnriests
Popular
of the aristo-
cracy, in every act of
Plunder, that it
would be an easier matter toorwin the Peerage
than the Prelacy to the side
le' So
Peo
manyth eany violations of the most
gag=es p
p
rigBelnentik,
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and the iTui,
very reischie
mind in both t
`sally admitted
come the more

in the same pro
to take offence, a
enlightened citize
are to appeardu .63 t
theymrnish
Spais not so enlig,
ev.rjr Pretender who
envie partizans wiliin6
than the law, and the.
France is not so. cull;
the question of in.;oin
hence the. iilotslind cc.w.
such constant vetploymer,
AMrney7(iittaeral, and the
land is an old country bo.a,
civilization in the world, and
the impression cat' the America
from the Columns of our Mini.
we almost court a pretext for a
great nation in the world that
gn age, copies our manners, borr
tune, and admires the bulk of out
What becomes in their eyes of the
tion of which we boast ? And if the.
of a comparatively new country, in
compressive action of Governrneni,
felt, ih-dulg'e in langtlqg'e-
sive to our ears, can that ever justi
with thpil epithet.ourselves in bandying
rude and abusive ? We._.ds-, got. think
treat such abuse with *lent contempt,
oppose it with the language of mild and char
reprehension, would Geyer the authors of it
confusion. The soft itiiswer that..ttirneth
wrath is the answer efiCially of the
virtue, twist a 1
rtue, and the highAt stag of ;ocial and c:,;
in
vidual civilization,
Nor is th 9 ivar of tongue* to- be avoided

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, k.,pular unurch. ! hopes (
e. co be the people's friends. They ap- i boo
revenues of the Church to They
of per- any' ,
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1 the State, and ,their itifluei4.o, •., The ma
middle classes. ' But,thij do not estienell temporarie
and they within the likings' of' the
an arrage]
the people, therefore, do not respect or,regarti
otherwise would dam_