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THE SUN, LONDON,

yet more emphatic in its completeness. " Sequestration
cf property," says Lord TORRINGTON, " there was
none ; the fact, on the contrary, being that whenever
any property was deserted it was immediately taken
possession of by the proper authorities, and if it were
of a perishable nature it was sold, and the produce
iu that case, and in the other case the property itself,
was delivered again to the parties to whom it origi-
nally belonged." So that a punctilious caution was
always evinced by the Government in preserving the
right of proprietorship to individuals during a period
of very considerable excitement, instead of a lust of
robbery and a passion for lawless spoliation.
Such were the more prominent features of the
elaborate statement submitted last evening to the
House of Lords by Viscount TORRINGTON-a state-
ment in which he has gone far to demonstrate the
shallowness of many of the most heinous charges di-
rected against himself individually as the leader of the
Ceylon Government. Whether upon all points he will
prove in the end to be equally blameless, it would be
difficult to say, until the investigation he is demand-
ing from the Legislature shall have been more fully
developed. Upon one subject, and upon one subject
alone, he fairly confesses his culpability : regarding
the letter which he had written under the seal of
secresy, and which had nevertheless been published,
he acknowledged that he could only express his
contrition for having penned that document ! That
"unfortunate act," as he termed it last evening,
had happily proved in no way injurious to the public
interests; but the consequences of it, he con-
fessed, to be his own. " Nothing," said he,
with a manly candour for which his very
enemies must respect him, " could be more
improper than my conduct in writing that letter. I
did so, however, under circumstances of great irrita-
tion, and lost myself on the occasion, being led to
commit an act of impropriety and indiscretion which
I shall always regret." With that expression of his
contrition and the utterance of a hope that a single
error might not be regarded as an adequate counter-
poise to an otherwise blameless administration,
Viscount TORRINGTON closed his very able defence.
We shall look with considerable anxiety for the re-
vival of the discussion.

It would afford no small amount of sterling satis-
faction to that portion, at least, of the Protestant
community of the United Kingdom who are adhe-
rents of the Church by law established, were its
hierarchy to take proper advantage of the re-awakened
spirit 4:)f Protestantism, which has been called into
activity throughout the empire by the recent wanton
and audacious aggression on the constitutional supre-
macy of the SOVEREIGN by the Court of Rome. Unless
its members determine on putting such measures of
amelioration into execution as shall tend to purge
their Church of the leaven of Puseyism, and
check that propensity to superstitious observances
which excites such unhappy scandal in what ought to
be the sound and impregnable bulwark against Ro-
manism, they may rely on it that they are but en-

gaged in digging their own sepulchres. It is for
them, as they value the respect of those committed to
their superintendence, to remove with care and deci-
sion legitimate causes of offence, or the awkward ques-
tion will rapidly grow popular, "Of what use are
the Bishops ?" At all events, it will become a general
theme of serious inquiry, not, perhaps, un-
mixed entirely with indignation, to what be-
neficial purport it is that they should be in
the enjoyment of revenues in most cases

far exceeding those of the learned judges of the land,
in comparison with whose assiduous labours their own
toiling in the vineyard may nearly be pronounced
sinecures. Why, moreover, should the assumption
of ecclesiastical functions in the law Church in
England afford immediate entrance to the Upper
"Luse of the Legislature, and constitute the Right
Reverend Prelates Peers for life, whilst a rotatory
selection is deemed sufficient for their Irish brethren ?
The advice of "throwing a tub to a whale" may ap-
pear a somewhat irreverent suggestion, besides which
we would fain admit the existence among so distin-
guished a body of motives to do good, superior to any
selfish considerations, which never should be harboured
by sacred characters. We are willing to entertain an
expectation, that without any personal promptings of
mundane interest, they will look to the stability and
dues repair of their Church, to the removal of un-
seemly differences amongst its ministers and mem-
bers, and of the unhappy progress of errors, which

would be ludicrous were they not lamentable, as
giving the weak a justification for wavering, and
favouring the encroachment of a tyrannical power
fundamentally opposed to intellectual advancement.

As to those whom Protestantism has sloughed
off into the.Romish receptacle„ they may be regarded
as no great loss. Weak-headed men, with whom,
to use the words of an eminent and pious divine,
the Rev. Dr. TIGRE: GREGORY, " architectural
symbolism, quaintness of even ordinary clerical cos-
tume, ceremonies and technicalities long disused or
never observed by Protestants, are more regarded
than the unpretending simplicity:of evangelical reli-
gion ; who would clog religion with obsolete forms,
and place as much value on monograms and symbols,
on personal genuflections and ecclesiological positions,
as the Jews did on the traditions of the elders," may
feel their feet slipping down the Avernian descent
with fatal facility. But the progress of such backslid-

ing, which, after all, may be regarded as fairly coun-
terbalanced by the fresh power which is being daily
acquired by the Protestant party in Italy—for the
proselytes in the cradle and stronghold of the Papacy
are far more than equal in number, as well as men of
more earnest mind and clear-sighted determination of
purpose, than the secessions which have taken place
hitherto, or are likely to occur within our own shores—
should be checked by the only practicable means,
namely, by internal improvement in the edifice of
which the Bishops are the stewards. They, indeed,
assert, and it would of course be impious to doubt the
substantiality and validity of their claim, that they
exercise those high trusts by virtue of uninterrupted
Apostolical descent. Be that, however, as it may,
they are literally the " Overseers" of the Church, and
are justly responsible both in the eyes of Gon and
man for sins of neglect as well as of com-
mission. Might we venture to suggest, for
instance, as a step in the right direction, a
revision of the Prayer Book? The ritual
of the American Protestant Episcopal Church has
been most happily► improved by expunging tautolo-
gies. There are canons and rubrics inapplicable to
the increased and increasing intelligence of the sons
of the Reformation, which might be auspiciously.
effaced. What feelings of sanctity can possibly re-
commend the retention of the Athanasian Creed, a
scholastic commination absolutely revolting to the
feelings ? The difference of opinion, too, which pre-
vails as to the absolution in the morning, evening, and

ck services, as to being a "declaration of the condi.

tions," or an "actual conveyance of pardon," leads to
so serious a misunderstanding that most clergy-
men disuse it in the latter office ; and how
simply mig
•ht this rock of offence be dis-
pacfolnuacgheifdiao ! Many specious pretences might be taken
away from the Tractarians by such likeare
emendationsmatters
of the "devotional directory." There
cencerning temporalities into which we shall not
ewnitdeer
scope at t the
for prtehseendtismplaoymeonft,Chwrihsiteiahn weohualrdityaffaoed
afford
parental benevolence on the part of the prelacy.
Suffice it now to warn the spiritual Barons that they
cannot with either credit or comfort to themselves
occupy themselves continually in "doing nothing."
it may be said with perfect truth, that the expulsion
of EaAsaius from Oxford for the dangerous innova
lion ofs
andnl l
embellishing than
nof invaluable
m then venerable teaching
contempt,
tbyatnthe i
taking
pit,gt Greek,
discoveries,amoiu,ipdtla
display
the h
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hmitoyminogreobuirgroitdriy-
oppositiond efac
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and the repairha re h andsupplying
of
England,
fresh materials, cementing and strengthening the
whole.

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A BOUNTIFUL INCREASE.—Mr. Treble, of St. Sid-
wells, has had twenty ewes yeaned at his farm in Cheriton
Fitzpaine. The produce has been fort✓ lambs, thirty-six of
which ale now living and well.— Wester 71 Times.

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