The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-15 00:00:00

BANDS IN THE PARKS ON SUNDAYS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN.
SlR,—The author of the coup d'etat of the 2d Decem-
ber, on the other side of the " herring-pond," has found
a worthy coadjutor on this side, in the person of the
Premier. By a stroke of the pen the autocrat of Eng
land has, as despotically as his "friend " the Emperor,
set at nought the wishes and wants of 258,000 of the
loyal subjects of her Majesty the Queen—at the sugges-
tion of a mitred prelate, who is paid 15,0001. per annum
for thus efficiently- teaehing the. value of the Christian
religion. At the conduct of the priest no one is sur-
prised, it is part and parcel of their calling to place
heavy burthens on the shoulders of the poor ; but all are
astonished at the conduct of the man—who forgets the
debt of gratitude due to that popular voice which placed
him where he is, despite the opposition of the Court and
Aristocracy. With such a vacillating man at the head
of affairs we cannot go to bed in safety. To-morrow,
upon opening our eyes, we may find a coup d'etat against
the Liberty of the Press. Why not What right had
Lord Pa'inerston to order the discontinuance of the
Bands playing en the Sunday without first taking the
sense of Parliament upon the subject ? Who reigns in
England—the Queen, or Exeter Hall ? This question
must be solved speedily. We have been warned that
our Constitution was on its trial, and some day the
poor old creature may disappear, upon the plea that a
new one was required. Let us watch narrowly the
'workings of State and priestcraft, or we are in danger
of being handed over, bound hand and foot, to the ten-
der mercies of a modern Protestant inquisition. Eng-
lishmen, your rights and privileges are in danger of
being wrested from you unless you give a "long pull, a
strong pull, and a pull altogether " at the rope which is
being craftily twined round your bodies and souls by
Exeter Mall and its braying trumpets of Zion. "Arise,
awake, or be for ever fallen "—said the glorious Milton
—and show these despots that the ancient fire of a
Briton is not quenched within you, but merely smoul-
ders, ready to burst into flame when fanned by the
breath of bigotry and intolerance.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
W. E. A. HARPER.
17, Liverpool-terrace, Liverpool-road, Islington,
May 14, 1856..

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sir,—Lord Palmerston having betrayed the interests
of the people by shamefully succumbing to the Sabha
tarian sect of Exeter•hall and its clique, it becomes the
duty of the middle classes not only to resist oppressions
but to help themselves, and that right vigorously and
at once.

It is self-evident that a meeting of the masses on Sun-
day next is looked upon by the Ministry as the inevit-
able result of their insane measure—one and all appear-
ing bent upon the measure. And meet they most as-
suredly will in every public park of the metropo-
lis, for they feel that their amusements and recreations
will ere long be further jeopardised, unless a stand, and
that a very strong one, be made against the fanatical
Mawworrns of E. et and Bulgaria.
Up, then, and be doing. Let it be a strong pull,
a long pull, and a pull altogether—but peaceably and
legally.

Withhold the Fabbatarian supplies—closeyour pockets
—give not. Let not a penny of your earnings or a
farthing of your families' money go to fatten these
wolves in sheep's clothing. Henceforth there will be a
war of hatred between the two classes. Let every
religious beggar (collector, if you will) be scouted from
our doors and homesteads. Give not. Let one and
all re-echo the cry throughout the country. Give neat

—give not—untie our atnuemeuts are again concede
;0 us.—l remain, sir, yours, JOHN BULL.
May 14, 1856.

VISITATION OF THE A HCBDEACONEY
OF MIDDLESEX.

Yesterday morning the Archdeacon of Middlesex (the
Ven. John Sinclair, M.A.) held a visitation of the clergy
at St. Paul's Church, Covent-garden.
In addressing the clergy, the Archdeacon lamented the
great loss the district had suffered through the illness of
the Bishop of London, of whom he spoke in terms of high
eulogy and warm affeetion. A great portion of his charge
turned on the duty of the parochial clergy to visit the
sick, not only when sent for, but by seeking them out. He
said the case of persons belonging to another communion
or cotorious unbelievers might presentsome difficulty, but
the general rule of the clergy should be to make a tender
of their services. Their parochial system, the greatest
boon ever granted to a nation, made the clergy espe-
cially accountable for all within certain territorial
limits who could be prevailed upon to accept their
ministrations, and therefore their policy should be
aggressive. Ttie archdeacon deprecated controversy
aid over technical phraseology in the sick man's cham-
ber, for not only was the language of theology perplexing
to the poor and illiterate, but to many also of higher rank
who were far from destitute of general knowledge. Much
of it had its origin among the schoolmen of the middle
ages. Consisting to some extent of Latin words, it was
not familiar to Saxon ears, and could not, however fre-
quently reiterated, be comprehended without careful
definition. There was no technical term in divinity for
which an equivalent word or phrase might not be found.
They sometimes were condemned to hear, to their no
small discomfort, public addresses to the poor so redo-
lent of the university that; as regarded general intelli-
gibility or any practical result, they might quite as
well have been delivered in Syriac or Sansorit. In
all their ministrations, public or private, to the sick
or to the healthy, it was their bounden duty to
avoid not only the reality but the appearance
of Antinomian laxity, to declare unflinchingly
that in order to be saved there was an indispensable
necessity of acquiring meekness for the inheritance of
the saints in light. For his own part, he had often been
struck with the justice of an observation made by the
most eminent moral philosophers, that the easy terms
upon which the happiness of eternity was offered by
Christian teachers to doubtful claimants was the groat
inciting cause of infidelity, and that the doctrine of retri-
bution in a future life, powerfully recommended as it was
by natural reason and the moral faculty, as well as by
the Word of God, would never have been called in ques-
tion by any individual in respectable society, if it had
not been for the preposterous misappropriation of re-
wards and punishments by which superstition and en-
thusiasm had outraged the common sense and best feel-
ings of mankind.
The Archdeacon baying concluded his charge with
some sound practical advice to the clergy, dismissed them
with the benediction.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentle-
men having undergone the necessary examinations for
the diploma, were admitted members of the College at the
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 12th inst. :
F. Owen, Clapton, Hungerford, Berkshire ; J. Spode,
Van Diemen's Land ; W. F. Johnson, Colchester ; J.
Greenwood, Queen's-road, I alston ; W. F. Davis, Hon.
East India Company's Service ; C. Wraga, Manchester ;
R. M. Theobald, Kentish Town ; G. F. A. Knapp,
Northwick, Worcestershire ; S. H. Green, New Garrat,
Manchester ; P. Lyell, Gardyne, Forfarshire ; W. Clare, -
Higher Hurst, Ashton-under-Lyne ; R. Fryer, Liver-
pool ; and C. Pigg, Wokingham, Berkshire. The follow-
ing gentlemen having undergone the necessary examina-
tions, were admitted licentiates in midwifery at the
meeting of the Board on the 13th inst. ; Messrs. W. H.
Hayden, High Wycombe ; A. Taylor, Kingsclere, Hamp-
shire ; P. Williams, Carmarthen, South Walas ; E. W.
Witten, Islington'; J: Waters, Manchester ; O. Davis,
Cardigan ; E. H. May, Great Trinity-lane • C. R. Suf-
field, Droitwitch, Worcestershire ; F. Trinity-lane;
Bridge.
water • R. Fryer, Liverpool ; E. earsonage, vh
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nathWale§; sad H. S, Liodgoo clevap.