The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-25 00:00:00

THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

A recent writer says:—" The present Church of
England was self-styled the Poor Man's Church. It is
not difficult to understand how it has been so called.
Church revenues were originally divided into three parts
—the first part for the maintenance of the priesthood;
the second for the maintenance and repair of the fabric
of the church; and the third for the relief of the pow..
But now the people have to keep the, church in
repair in the form of church rates; and the poor they
have to support in the form of poor-rates; whilst the
bishops and clergy swallow up all. Read on, and reflect
at the same time. Think if our present State Church
does in any respect represent the spirit of Christianity,
as handed down to the disciples—the poor fishermen of
Galilee; or rather, does it not represent the spirit of
Mammon not of Jesus. Its God is Money, Rich Bene-
fices, Hard Cash

" Sea the revenues of the Church of England, which
amount yearly to the enormous sum of 10,483,699/. Re-
peat it,—cry it aloud. The sum of ten millions, four hun-
dred and eighty-three thousand, six hundred and ninety-
nine pounds, which enormous amount, if divided as was
originally intended, to support the priesthood, to keep the
church in repair and to relieve the poor, would indeed
greatly relieve our vast community; but now, not one
penny comes to the poor, but rather the poor man's pots
and kettles and the bed he lies on are frequently sold by
auction to make up this amount."
What will Churchmen say to this?

EXHIBITION OF 1851.
RECEIPT OF GOODS-FINAL NOTICE.

1. On Wednesday evening, the 2d of April, the tem-
porary entrance into the building for carts, waggons, and
carriages of every description will be closed, to enable
the flooring of the building to be completed; and no
articles will be admitted into the building which cannot
be brought in by hand, and without the aid of machinery
for lifting, &c. Even such articles cannot be admitted
if they should exceed the width of the entrances—viz.,
6 feet 6 inches.

2. After the 3d of April, no packing cases will be
admitted within the building. Any articles brought to
the Exhibition between the 3d of April and the 10th
of April must be delivered unpacked, and in such a way
as to cause no litter in the building; in fact, they must
be delivered as they would be brought into a private re-
sidence.

3. O❑ and after the 3d day. of April any articles sent
through carriers, which require to be unpacked, will be
deposited outside the building, and remain there until the
owners or their agents attend to unpack them.
4. All foreign articles must be sent to the east end of
the building; all colonial articles to the south entrance;
and all British articles to the west end of the building.
5. Although the reception of articles after the 10th of
April will obviously occasion great inconvenience, in-
creased expenses, and somewhat jeopardize the punctual
opening of the Exhibition, the Executive Committee
will not absolutely refuse to admit them, but they feel it
necessary to discourage as much as possible such late
arrivals. Accordingly, they give notice that articles
can only be received after the 10th of April and until
the 20th subject to the payment of the following fees to
the general fund :

d.
Every article weighing under 281 b 0 10 0
Every article weighing above 281 b
and under 561 b 1 0 0
Every article weighing above 561 b 2 0 0
And at the rate of 1/. additional for every 281 b., or
fraction of 281 b., above 561 b.

6. These rules apply to all articles except those spe-
cially exempted by the Executive Committee.
7. The Executive Committee particularly request that
all goods may be finally arranged on Monday, the 21st of
April, in the way it is proposed they sh >uld be exhi-
bited, in order that the Executive Committee may then
proceeding to having the building put in order for the
admission of the public.
March 20. M. DIGBY WYATT, Secretary.

OXFORD AND THE UNIVERSITY

COMMISSION.

The venerable Alma Mater of the Isis has just dis-
covered a mare's nest of the first magnitude, and is pro-
claiming her discovery to the public with a degree of
twaddling solemnity which is perfectly ludicrous. As
all our readers know, a Royal Commission to inquire
into the state of our two ancient Universities was ap-
pointed at the end of last session. It was announced at
the time that the Commission was directed in no hostile
spirit, but in friendly co-operation with the efforts at
self-improvement which were being madein the Univer-
sities themselves. No one supposed that attendance
before it was compulsory,, or that it bad any power to
enforce the production of documents or the answering
of interrogaties. Of course no such power can be con-
ferred on Commissioners by the Crown singly, or by either
House of Parliament singly. Similar Royal Commis-
sions had issued before; and it was known by actual
practice, as well as from constitutional theory, that at-
tendance before them was perfectly optional. This had
been proved in the case of the Municipal Corporations
Commission; and an analogous case bad occurred about
thirty years ago, before the Education Committee of
Lord (then Mr.) Brougham. On that occasion, the
Warden of Winchester refused to produce the College
Statutes, or to answer any questions about them, and
nobody attempted to compel him.
Well, the Oxford University Commission was duly
appointed; it had held several meetings; it had collected
much information, when suddenly the Oxford Dons
publish a long legal opinion to prove, what nobody ever
thought of d sputing—naraely, that they and everybody,
else might refuse to give information to the Commis-
sioners, and that nobody could punish them for such a
refusal.

If the meaning of all this is, that the Oxford Dons
mean to obstruct the Commission as much they can,
we must say that they have taken a ♦ery stupid way
of announcing a very stupid resolntion. They will get
no good by concealment. Every abuse that exists
among them will be believed to be ten times as bad as
it really is, on account of their efforts to cloak it over;
and a thousand charges against ;them will find credit
with the public, which a free and fair investigation
would prove to be unfounded.

The'argument is decisive; they must have something
to be ashamed of, or they woufd not shrink from being
inspected.— Weekly News.

A CHILD BURIED ALIVE by its MOTHER.
On Tuesday last, one of the most atrocious cases of
child murder ever recorded was committed at Wingfield,
in this county, by the mother, a young unmarried woman,
named Maria Clarke. Clarke, it appears, had been dis-
charged, ,at her own request, from the Fulham Union
House that morning, and with her child, a male, six
weeks old, she proceeded to Wingfield, where her
friends reside. Before going to her mother's cottage,
she called upon several of the neighbours, and in the af-
ternoon was seen proceeding in the direction of Mr.
Hill's meadow, carrying the child on one arm and a
scuppet in her other hand. In the evening the child was
missed, and suspicions being excited by what had trans-
pired in the afternoon, the mother was questioned, when
she said she had sent the child to Norwich to be
brought up by an aunt. Not satisfied with this
representation, she was directly accused of having
made away with the child. She at first denied it, but
at length made the astounding confession that she had
not murdered the child, but had buried it alive in Mr.
Hill's meadow. Information of the circumstance was
immediately given to policeman William Clarke, and the
woman was shortly afterwards apprehended. The next
morning the meadow was searched, and in a ditch about
four foot deep, filled with water, the scuppet was found,
which it appeared had been missed from the cottage
garden of a labourer named Dassey on the Tuesday
afternoon. The mother then accompanied the policeman
to acorner of the meadow, and pointed out the spot where
she had buried the child. The turf was removed, and at
the depth of six inches from the surface the body was
discovered. The woman,wo understand, has since made
a full confession of her guilt. She stated that she left
the Pulham Union House because a young man in
the neighbourhood of Wingfield had promised her
_a
ad
mar-
riage. She was apprehensive if he knew she h
child that he would not fulfil his promise, but she had no
leaving
the of committing the murder until she was
the cottage of Dassey, when the sight of the scuppet
standing outside the door, suggested the thought to her.
She dug a hole, she said, laid her infant in it, and then
sat down and cried. She afterwards covered the child
with turf, " without hurting it at all," and then hearing
it shriek in the ground she stamped upon the sod and
stifled its cries ! She was taken before the county ma.
gistrates of the district, the Rev. A. Cooper, the Rev.
Colbeck, and the Rev. J. Hodgson, and remanded for
further examination on Monday next. Yesterday Mr.
Charles Gross, coroner, went to Wingfield, to hold an
inquest upon the body. The prisoner is about twenty
years of age.—Suffolk Chronicle of /anvil 22.