The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUiiLIC J URNA L S

r:1074 EVENING PAPERS OF THIS
GLOBE.—The only efficient mode of Church Ex-
tension has been at length put in operation ; and, judg-
ing of the harvest by the first fruits, bids fair to tffect
incalculable advactiges. By an Act passed in the
1 tst Parliament, in pursuance of the Fourth It-port
of the Eac'esiaatical Commissioners, certain canon-
ries and prebends in several cathedral and core-
elate churches were suspended, and their revenues
devoted to the purpose of augmenting the amount
of stipend derived from poor benefices, especially
in populous parishes—thus obviating the necessity
imposed ou the clergy for hotting more than one
cure, in order to obtain a sufficient amount of
income. An Order in Council, bearing date the 6th
inst., is now before us. By this it appears that, under
the prt.v;sions of the above Act of Parliament, warty
100 poor benefices, which combine the largest amount
of population with the smallest amount of eedownient,
have been augmented by grants from the funds tour
derived, in sums varying from 1'261. to 61 A gross sum
of 123,8001. in Three per Cent. Stock Lao been thu,
distributed. When it is remembered that the Act has
been in operation but little more than a year, it cannot
fail to gratify the friends of religion generally, and the
members of the Establishment rspecinln, when the)
find the absohately useless tied unssghtly appendages
to the Church separated from the structure wh:ch the)
so long disfigured and wetkened, and their revenues
applied to a purpose which every honest lica,t will ap-
prove—that of affording to the working clergy sti-
pends somewhat commensurate with the labour tney
take, and thus diminishing their ana'eties respecting
worldly things, which corrode an,: distract, and enabLeg
them to give undivided and devoted attention to the
duties of their spiritual calling. We are not of the
number of " levellers, who wish to see the in:omes of
the clergy equalized." On the contrary, we think it
absolutely necessary that the heads of the Church
should be supplied from the revenues of the Church
with funds adequate to the stations which they occupy,
and to the exercise of the 'virtues that should adorn
them, among which enlightened beneficence and unos.
tentations hospitality are not the least.
STANDARD.—'‘ The League" has at length corn
mitteds itsel to the "total and immediate abolition" of
the Corn-laws. Qualification or delay is not now to
be entertained—nothing less than total and immediate
abolition will satisfy, or at least will silence, the con-
federacy. For this unequivocal declaration of tla
designs of the miilowners t':e country is indented to
cur old friend Mr. Joseph Sturge, who has ern
ployed to that end the means which are proverbially said
to" make the mare to go.' Mr. Sturge, it appear!, mails
a promise of an annual payment of money (we beliese
2001.)
to aid the oierations of the Leave—a promis,
which eaurcd the eyes of the Sidney Smiths and the Ac-
lands to seaskle with peculiar lustre,
and the faith of
which " they raved, recited, maddened through t:..e
groans land," unahashe,l by the and hisses of the min.
lion, and unseated by eventhbroadest hints of proxi-
mate horse.ponds. AU the while Joseph Sturge was
.s
on his trayels in the United States, very properly exert-
ing himself to promote the abolition of negro slavery ;
but, as it is not uncharitable to now and then
resting his jaded philanthropy suppose,
calculation
as to the probable returns of thaAwimiatilsetryican harvest,
view to a
and their effect upon the market,less certaia merit , different abolition of
known, Jotoph Storge is an extensive corn dealer
it
of Birmingham and Mark-lane. Returned to England
with his stock of philanthropy prttty well exnagi:ad
Lu, with as m le stole of knowledge, useful in Maerl:'
lane, our meek. friend seems to have ree • a
ehe a gentle
hint that the performance of his promise would be
agreeable. " Nay," replied Joseph, emy promise w
s
conditional, and thee hest violated the conditioc. 'net„
1-.ast united thyseif to an Administration that talks of a
duty of Ss. a quarter, whereas I contemplated total and
immediate abolition." As to the scheme for extending
the :lave trade, Joseph said nothing of it ; for, its wt
have remarked, he had squandered all his
thropy in the New World. For a time the League
seemed to demur to the pl:a of a condition, and possi-
bly law: e-s were consulted ; but• in the ead they
struck, as 8.1 such men will strike, when money is Init.
by obstinacy, or [money gained by submission. Mira
owner Cobden and Lecturer Smith declared themselves—
" for better for worse,
Still ruled by the man who carried the purse ;"
and committed themselves to t ttal and immediate abo.
1.1606, regretting, no doubt, that they could not, to
gratify their monied friend, go furtatr tnaa the total, or
begin sooner than the immediate.
COURIER.—We-have attentivela watched the re-
peal movement, if that which is confined to a steal
knot of needy agitators congregating in the Corn Ex-
change can be jus:ly ca led a movement, from its first
promulgation in 1831, to spite Earl Grey and his col-
leaaues for the ind:ffer-nce and
contempt they had
evinced towards Mr. O'Connell,- its ation list
year for the
a..
Thtoex iern
rnii,ntriten_ :4wsu purpose of embarras.! • s ng the Ad-
.nn 'hose accession to power was then
seen to be inevitable 'hose
in eleena.te,i ; and we have no hesitation
icon, nettlitr" it
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a hollow, heartless move-
the numbers loermideble from tha sincerity or
look upon it therel those embarked in it. We
fessed aim, as su_,:re with rega-d to :ts uhimattly pro-
rendent tor ti.c re
...matilY c.?ntemptible, bring solely de-
nifened on the energyek"r"
of
Lie it
h" ever me-
bad man' with whol; i and influence of the *4 bold,
and advocates only
originated, and finding sup-
porterscreature', and the me amongst the mercst of his
spectable and ittten„refat of his " "wers. The re-
snit distinction of elan 40 the people of Ireland, with-
sprung from a spirit of h r creed, knowing it to have
studiously kept Admiral heartless serfid selfishness, have
the
letting it to be monopolised by Corn Exchange sedition,
and character. Even they, it _bankut in purse
who dream about the of
fere repsy of that class,
And, independent nation, h„C sillreland, as a separate
Of an association with the ref ruisk from the infamy
that flock to the Cora Exchaosre of Irish Radicalism
themselvee to a scheme for obtaining wishing t° lend
eine m,
e Ailey under false