The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-25 00:00:00

THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
TILE LOYAL AND DUTIFUL ADDRESS OF TILE BISHOP OF NOR.

\VICII, THE ARCHDEACON OF NORWICH, AND THE UNDER-
SIGNED CLERGY OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCh, IN THE DIO-

CESE OF NORWICH,

We, the undersigned, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal
subjects, the Bishop of Norwich, the Archdeacon of Norwich,
and others, being Clergymen of the Established Church
in the Diocese of Norwich, beg leave in common with our
professional brethren in various quarters, though in terms
somewhat different, yet with good intent the same, to approach
your Majesty with an expression of our sentiments as to the
interests and duties of the Established Church during the
present crisis of affairs.
In the expressions of thankful confidence reposed in your
Majesty's kind feelings towards our Church Establishment,
we fully concur, but as it appears to us that in some quarters
language containing reflections at least indirectly upon re-
cent councils of your Majesty, and symptomatic of alarm
thence arising has been conveyed to your Majesty, we feel
it our duty to declare that whatever differences of opinion
may exist among the undersigned as to particular measures,
their probable operation, -their details, and their extent, as
more or less sweeping, or confined, we are under no alarm
whatever at these councils, being confident that when fully
matured by the wisdom of the Legislature, they will assume
a bearing entirely consistent with your Majesty's assured
attachment to our sacred institutions, and will increase the
stability and efficiency thereof.
We live in times when men should speak plainly—we claim
the protection of the State for our Church, but we claim it
not as the creature of the State and the prop of a party, or a
sect, civil or religious, selfishly and exclusively, but as the
best means of extending sound religious instruction and com-
fort to that community, for the benefit of which our forefathers
bequeathed their property to the Church, of which kings have
proved " the nursing fathers, and queens the nursing mothers,"
and the honours and emoluments of which we share by ex-
press authority of the State—and we deem it inconsistent
therefore to acknowledge this, and to claim the protection of
the State, and yet to deny the right of the State to interfere
afresh in the amplest manner in the regulation of the tempo-
ralities and externals of our Church, keeping in view the great
purposes for which they were designed, doing no injustice to
individuals, and no violence to the general rights of property.
We know, too, that in the external arrangements of the
Church, depending upon human wisdom, correction and im-
provement are continually required—and while we gratefully
acknowledge your Majesty's assured attachment to the sub-
stantial integrity of our sacred institutions, we feel the greater
gratitude, because from your Majesty's most recent councils
we are convinced that those councils will, year succeeding
year, tend more and more to perpetuate those institutions by
every charitable and consistently-to-be-expected accommoda-
tion of a Christian temper to the extended body of the univer-
sal Church, of all who profess and call themselves Christians,
and by your endeavours to give them additional encourage-
ments to live in unity of spirit and that bond of peace which
are so inseparable from that true righteousness of life, all the
objects of our supplication to the throne of Almighty God !
We lament the hostile language held by some enemies of
our Church Establishment, and we would remind them that
bigotry and prejudice may be the faults of those who blindly
hate as well as those who are blindly attached to things esta-
blished ! But deterred neither by the fear of enemies on one
side, nor warped by what' appear to us unreasonable apprehen-
sions of well washers on the other, we will go hand in hand
with your Majesty in all those judicious and well-considered
accommodations to the temper and fair demands of the times,
which shall be guarded and secured by justice to individuals,
by a due regard to the laws of property, and above all by
attachment to the real interests of that faith and form of wor-
ship which we have derived from our fathers, and would leave
in improved value and safety to our children, remembering
always that justice, charity, and peace, are the surest 'tests of
Christian character and of Christian institutions.

The Bishop, who subscribes his name to this address to your
Majesty, at the close of the ninetieth year of his age, feels it
his duty to leave thus his testimony to your Majesty and to
posterity as to what he deems the true policy of the Church
and Government through all time, and the Archdeacon and
Clergy undersigned feel it their duty in like manner y) declare
boldly their concurrence in the sentiments above expressed.
Both Bishop and undersigned Clergy assuring your Majesty
that they will ever pray, &c.

DEATH OF THE MARCHIONESS OF HEADFORT.
—We regret to state that-the Marchioness (not the Dowager)
of Headfort died in Cumberland-terrace, Regent's Park, on
Monday last. The disorder which hurried this beautiful and
accomplished Lady to the grave in the prime of life was
cholera. She had been in high health and spirits on a water
excursion to Greenwich on Thursday, was apparently well on
Friday, but feeling indisposed on Saturday evening about
seven o'clock, Sir H. Halford was immediately sent for, and
subsequently Dr. Johnson and Mr. Coyne were called in, but
in vain. The frightful malady had taken too deep hold on
her frame, and its progress was so fatally rapid that on Sunday
morning the case was hopeless. Yet her naturally fine con-
stitution bore her up, and she lingered on till about midday on
Monday. This lamented death has caused the greatest afflic-
tion. Lady Headfort was, the daughter of the late Sir J.
Stevenson, whom she only survived eleven months, and has
left a husband and nine children to deplore her 'sudden and
premature loss.
MR. BECKFORD'S " ITALY, WITH SKETCHES
OF SPAINIAND PORTUGAL.". —These volumes are truly charac-
teristic of the author of " Vathek," full of genius and eccen-
tricity—half hermit, halepicure—divided in his tastes between
orientalism, classical antiquity, and the fine arts ; alternately
an idler, and of restless activity—in short, possessing the finest
talents and taste;—such is Mr. Beckford, and such every
chapter of these volumes bespeaks him. Mr. Beckford has
succeeded in being a wonder to his age."—Leeds Mercury.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)—Yesterday, the
family of Don Carlos, attended by several foreigners of rank,
inspected the New Palace, in St. James's Park. In the af-
ternoon they entertained a select party to dinner at Gloucester
Lodge.