The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-01 00:00:00

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,to face for a fight. Each is for being the Church,
the whole Church, and nothirg but the Church.
One half of the apostolical drseendants bastard'z ;is the
other. This goes for dogmas, and that for priests. It
is wonderful that people do not laugh in their pews when
the Psalm is read, " Behold how good and how pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in unity." The
world has never seen such a spiritual scandal as the
Anglican Church, and its vaunted uniformity. The
commands of its rubric are hooted as innovations, cus-
tom is set up aganst canons, and in its law and order
" nothing is but what is not." Folks are astounded at
finding out what it is which they believe, sod of which
they were utterly and orthodoxically unconscious. Can
this schism be patched up? Unless it be, is there a possi-
bility that such an institution should retain any particle
of respect in the public mind. or any power of useful.
ness? The Archbishop of Canterbury thinks that this
is no time for a revision. If not, then it is a time for
contempt and dissolution. Something must be done.
Root out Popery, and please the Evangelicals: or restore
Convocation, andplease the Fuse) ites. Either way will
satisfy a facton; neither way will satisfy the people.
It is left for 1851 to smoothe this tangled skein?
We shall inevitably have a theological session. This
is the old year's worst be quest. Questions of solid prac-
tical utility, and of great urgency for the oountry's well
being, will be pushed aside by these candlestick contro•
versie. Parliamentary and ficancill reform are in
danger of going into abeyance. Retrenchment, law
reform, education, knowleige, taxes, every thing, is in
peril of being pushed aside by Protestantism and Popery.
'The whale is off, full drive afler the tub. Whiggery
will be delighted at such a diversion. The cassock de-
bate will cut short the colonial. The suffrage must be
postponed to the surplice, and Vigra to the rubric. we
shall be stunned with the clamour of jackdaws. " The
wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me," and it is
covered with the thorns and thistles of theological con-
troversy. The growth of all useful grain is likely to be
choked. It would relieve Parliament and facilitate
public business could we have a convention of delegates,
fairly chosen from all classes of the community, to
decide upon our religion, for the coming year at least, or
to ascertain whether it may not be quietly left to our-
selves to settle.

There is one chance for the young year of being bet-
ter than his father. The public mind is ascertained, by
long experience, to be only capable of entertaining one
idea at a time. Now the May Exhibition is an idea
which may do some service. Let us hope it Rill save
1851 from being another Church year. A year of in-
dustry will be moat welcome, to all but the parsons,
after a year of theology. The Crystal Palace will be
mere crowded than any metropolitan Cathedral. In-
ventions for the handicraftsman will happily replace the
jargon ~of the schoolmen. The sight of cheap fabrics
will refresh the mind after church-rate discussions and
distrainte. Cardinal Wiseman will be cut out by the
new eat of a cardinal. Albs and mitres will not be ad-
missible in Hyde-park. People will look at tickets in-
stead of texts. We shall come down from the clouds to
see how the soil may be better cultivated. " White
black, and grey, with all their trumpery," may go again
to limbo. The Pope will be less interesting than Paxton.
The expositors in request will be those who expound the
miracles of manufacturing machinery. Our Chinese
visitors may repeat the exclamation of the Mandarin on
hearing the Atbanasian Creed. "It is astonishing that
people should talk such nonsense who make such good
watches!" There will be more human brotherhood in
one day's intermingling of the denizens of all regions to
gaze with common feelings of wonder and delight on the
diversified scene, than in all the Christmas preaching& of
the bigot combatants. Divines may despise the Exhibi-
tion as a collection of " base matter," but there will be
a good spirit in it; aye, a spirit more divine than Harry
of Exeter ever bestowed upon kneeling priest, by the
imposition of his pugnacious fingers. Let 1851, then, go
to the Exhibition for a character. It will give him more
than a Europea❑ reputation, a world-wide fame, and one
which may last for ages. It is his golden opportunity.
So, farewell to the old Ecclesiastic; let him totter out,
mumbling his Protestant Litany, or counting his Catho-
lic beads; and welcome young Industry, with his arts
and inventions, and without either creed or crozier;
welcome to the transparent Palace which Genius has
reared for his reception.

PuzucoLl.

THE CASE OF MR. SLOANE AND
JANE WILBRED.
Yesterday afternoon a special general meeting of this
Board of Guardians of the West London Union was
held at their house in West-street, for the purpose of
taking into consideration what steps should be adopted
by the guardians (of whose union, it will be recollected,
the unfortunate girl Jane Wilbred seas formerly an
inmate) to ensure the apprehension of Mrs. Sloane and
Miss Louisa Devaux. There was a very full attend-
ance of guardians; end Mr. Bothell, of Farringdon-
street, the chairman of the board, presided.
Mr. Hertel...errs, of Holborn-hill, said he rose to
bring before the board of guardians a matter of the
deepest importance to them and to the public at large.
It was relative to the case of that uoforianate creature
Jane Wilbred. They had achieved one point in the
committal of Mr. Sloane; but they must not rest there.
—(hear, hear.) Mrs. Sloane was at large, he was sorry
to say, through the supineness of Mr. Alderman Hum-
phery, as was also Miss Devaux. Since they List met,
Mr. Pontifex, the clerk of the union, had examined
Jane Wilbred, and from the answers she gave it ap-
peared that Miss Ds•vaux was not only presei.t and wit-
nessed the atrocious procettlirge of the two Sloanes, but
actually took part iu the crte hies perpetrated. If the
girl's statement were true, and he (\fr. lie rapath) hnd
little doubt of it, Miss Devaux was at least partireps
erimin is —(lle4r, hear.) Ie now bet area the duty of the
guardians, us guardian, o! the poor, and as it were fathers
of those unfortunate creatures who were placed under their
protection, to strain every nerve, and to leave et) steno
unturnr d, until they brought to justice all the individuals
who had teLen any part in the detestable cruelties which
had been recorded in the public print, and which had
excited such a gent ral feeling of disgust.—(Loud
cheers.) It was quite certain, that unless they adopted
some extraordinary means, Mrs. Sloane and Miss Devaux
would c:cspe. The plan which he was obese to suggest
was to offer a reward for their apprehension.—(Loud
cheers.) Some of the guardians night object to the
expense of such a course, but he (Mr. llerapatb) felt
quite assured, as ho was from the first moment when he
originally brought the casu be f.re the board
of guardians, that the Poor-law Commissioners would
allow every farthing of any expense it was necessary to
incur in the prosecution of this case.—(Hear, hear.) In
fact he felt so certain of it that, rather than the matter
should be further dela3ed, he would himself consent to
raise the money by a subscription, and he knew enough
of the public feeling to say ho could raise ten times the
sum in one day. But puthewd7dldthat even
themifatttehreyuhpaodn
toa
higher ground. lie cont.
pay the money individually, it was their duty to raise it
in order that persons might be punished who had so
grossly maltreated one of the unfortunate children com-
mitted to their charge, and to whom they stood in loco
parentis.—(lli ar, hear.) The resolution which he had to
propose was as follows:
" That this board do off at a reward of 201. for the ap-
prehension of Mrs. Sloane, and that application be made
to the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Secretary of
State for the Home Delartmeet, requesting the Govern-
ment to increase the sum to 501."
Mr. WEIGIITMAN rose to second the resolution. He
said he cordially agreed with the sentiments expressed
by Mr. Herapath, and was of opinion that the guardians
should lose no time in carrying them out.
The resolution was then put and unanimously
agreed to.
Mr. lIERIPATII said ho thanked the guardians for the
cordial manner in which they had seconded his endea-
vours to bring to justice all persons accused in this case.
He had but one object in view when he took upon him-
self the office of a guardian. It was not to save the
parishioners a few paltry pounds that he consented that
those duties should be imposed upon him, but that ho
might see that the poor, whose necessities compelled
them to throw themselves upon their fellow-creatures for
support, should be humenely treated and properly pro-
vided for. lie wished to let it be distinctly understood
by those who took into their service persons from that
union, that the guardians were resolved that they should
be protected, as tbey would protect the daughter of a
tradesman or a nobleman, and that no case of maltreat-
ment would be allowed to go unpunished.—(Cheers.)
motion of Mr. HERAPATH,
After some discussion it was resoclovnedsu,iatlawoi
with
hn
hie,
better apply o
ft omt
]Visa
" That the clerk be requested to
Huddlestone, the counsel for the prosecution, as to
Louisa Devaux."
magistrate whether
the f
oboard
warrantof guardianshad
apprehension
A vet© of thanks having. been awarded to the Chair-
' man, the proceedings terminated.

THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.
circular has just been issued :
011 T followingx,Ns
ioN OF TIME FOR RECEIVING CERTAIN

CLASSES OF GOODS.

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me rmo
tst
eSuggestions
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ini made to the x
would
be
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serious
detriment to certain classes of goods if they were to be
exposed to light, moisture of the atmosphere, tce.,
at an earlier period than is absolutely necessary,
and requesting permission to deposit such particular
goods in the building at a later period than the 28th of
February.
"The executive committee do not feel they would be
justified in submitting to her Majesty's Commissioners
the advisability of altering their decision as to the time
of receiving the goods; but they are prepared to under-
take the responsibility on themselves of considering a li-
mited extension of time according to circumstances.
Those exhibitors who shall have caused the space al-
lotted to them in the building to be completely fitted
up with the necessary shelves, cases, &c.. before Thurs-
day, the 20th of February, so that nothing remains to
ho done, but simply to bring in the goods and deposit
them in V.eir proper places and receptacles, will thereby
acquire a title to have requests for extension of time
exunined. Exhibitors who, having obtained a certificate
trom au appointed officer that their spaces and stails are
quite completed by the 20th of .February, will then bo
rt quired to give borne satisfactory guarantee to the ex-
ecutive committee that they are prepared to bring in
their goods at the erder of the executive committee, and
such requests for extension of time will then be duly
considered and dealt with on their merits.—By order of
the executive committee.
M DIGBY WYATT, Secretary.
The Building for the Exhibition of 1851,
Kensington-road, 1850."

BLACK DOLL AT OLD STORE SHOPS.—Is it not
probable that the black doll was an image of the Virgin,
sold at the Reformation with a lot of church ♦estments, and
other " rags of Popery," as the Puritans called the surplice,
and first hung up by some rill-item or fiebrew
and Queries.