The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-28 00:00:00

it might have better become Dr. Howley, considering
his peculiar functions as Primate of England, to speak
with tenderness of such irregularities as were attri-
butable to the humblest and' least protected class of
ministers under his rule, than eagerly, as it appears,
to blazon a disadvantageous contrast between them and
others who are more independent both of patronage
and public opinion than that hard-worked and ill-
remunerated order of English clergymen. We can
well understand how little sympathy it might be
natural for some prelates enjoying more than
20,0001. a-year to cultivate in favour of an un-
fortunate description of their brethren, of whom
the best provided can seldom reckon do more than
1,200 th of that large income. But the present
Archbishop of Canterbury ought not to be of the
number of such lofty prelates. His Grace was once
himself in humble life, and he ought to preserve and
cherish, were it but for a memento to Christian lowli-
ness, some charitable recollections of, and feelings to-
wards, that state of existence in which he passed his
own youth and early manhood. The archbishop af-
firms that " the greatest number of complaints made
to him referred to the absence of curates, and not to
the higher orders of clergymen." We little doubt it,
A rector or dignitary has naught to fear from forward
ing an accusation of a curate's absence to an arabi-
shop. But rare, we apprehend, arc the instances a.
curates who will venture to bring a complaint of
that or any other kind against tile rector who pays
him, or any other superior of the cliterch, fat fear
of incurring the same sort of odiudi at head::
quarters as is said to betide a junior office'l in the
army or navy for preferring a charge against lids
senior. Again, a working curate is one supposed cal,'
be always at his post. There are no holidays for him.
Sunday and weekday he must be somewhere within
the circumference of the same small circle ; and if the
calls of necessity, or of affection—if the strongest in-
terests of his children, or the sickness and danger of
his and their dearest relatives at a distance, call him
even for eight days from his parochial duties, let him
have provided ever so unexceptionable a substitute to
act for him, a complaint of absence may be made by a
crusty rector, or some perverse and unfeeling parish-
ioner, and serves to furnish matter whereon a sophisti-
cal bishop may found a sweeping comparative censure
on the whole body of curates. But how long may a
rector, or a dignitary of a cathedral, or the chaplain
to any pious archbishop or other member of the
House of Lords, be absent from his living, be-
fore a charge of non-residence can be esta-
blished against him on any legal grounds !
most valuable interests, and personal and domestin
objects, nay, social and luxurious indulgences of life;
intercourse with the capital, foreign travel, are ote
and all within the grasp and at the discretionary
enjoyment of this favoured corps, these pretorian guards
of the establishment. At a rough guess, there may be
between two thousand and three thousand chaplain.;
among the English clergy ; of dignitaries having soint;
nest or other in or about cathedrals, God knows how
many. How few of these can be touched for non-re-
sidence !—and, of course, complaints on that score, and
against that aristocratic description of appendages to
the church, would seldom reach an Archbishop's ears,
and even more rarely, we apprehend, be echoed in his
speeches. Now, it is the part of a friend and well-
wisher to the Church Establishment, to warn (with all
submissive deference) our Lords the Bishops, that if
they mutilate and deform the Non-residence Bill, or poi-
son its spirit by any foul partiality to the higher caste of
clergy, at the expense of the poorer, and to the fur-
ther grinding down of the curate body, the right
reverend bishops will bring " an old house upon their
heads." The nation will not hear of such tyrannical
and corrupt proceedings ; a thousand times better have
no bill at all, than one which pressed upon the curate,
and left the rich dignitary scatheless. Of the poorer
and humbler clergy, the public make no complaints.
They are a meritorious and diligent race of men, more
sinned against than sinning. The inequality of con-
dition and treatment between them and the aristo-
cracy of the church has powerfully reinforced and
accredited, as well the savage outcries of some of
those who hate and would overturn it, as the wild
projects of these among the Dissenters who avow
their impatience for the separation of church and
state. Another circumstance which has encouraged, be-
cause it has positively strengthened the latter class of
enemies to the Church of England, is the withholding
from them those privileges and accommodations which
they have in justice a right to. Give the Dissenters
all that they ought to have, short of doing injury to
the established church, and the nation will take espe-
cial care that they go not an inch beyond it. But
there is a principle of frightful reaction in obstinate
wrong which seldom fails to redress one injury by
another. We publish a letter which shows the spirit
of one of those who call themselves staid and sober,
and rational Dissenters : we publish it as a specimen,
not at all to be admired, but to be turned to account.
There is literally nothing in it but commonplace—
commonplace on stilts. The writer talks of an estab-
lished church being " unscriptural," a phrase of which
we have long since exposed the folly. He might as well
say that a limited monarchy was unscriptural : neither
an established religion, nor any other great social or
moral institution, is formally enjoined or pointed at in
the New Testament. Legislators all over the earth
have, notwithstanding, considered an established
church of the essence of "political" society—that is,
of society in the only shape under which the author of
Christianity has fitted his creatures to exist distinct
from the brute creation. A temporal church is the
best recognized instrument for maintaining and perpe-
tuating among men the spiritual essence of religion.
The Dissenter, Mr. Elliott, tells us--" Dissolve the
connection between church and state, and dissent will
be no more." Yes, and Christianity also. No man,
of course, would dissent from a church which had no
recognized existence ' • but every man would erect his
own standard, and dissent from everybody else.
False and pernicious, however, as is this frenzy, it is
nourished by the church herself, and by her advocates.
She will not concede the rights-of others, and by and
by she will be unable to defend her own.— Times.
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The Frankibrt Gazette of the 21st has the
following of the 9th :—" Captain Ross, who is still
at Stockholm, received a mission from his Sovereign,
to present to King Charles John a map of the naviga-
tion the Captain made to the arctic pole. Twenty
years ago Captain Ross resided some time in Sweden,
and was even employed in the Swedish navy during a
maritime expedition, in which he received the decora-
tion of the Order of the Sword. He still speaks
Swedish as a native. It is said that he is about to
undertake a voyage to the antartic pole, and that he
is anxious to have two vessels constructed, for this ex-
pedition, in Sweden. Captain Ross has purchased
Chevalier Fleming's well-known tight-built yacht, in
which he proposes in a few days to sail to St. Peters-
burgh.
MR. BECKFORD'S a VATITEK.”—" The
tale of Vathelt, which was originally written in French,
and published before the author had closed his twen-
tieth year," observes the last number of the Quarterly
Review, "has for more than half a century continued
in possession of all the celebrity which it at once
commanded. Vathek is, indeed, without reference to
the time of life when the author penned it, a very
remarkable performance." " For correctness of cos-
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power of imagination, Vathek far surpasses all Euro-
pean imitations. As an eastern tale, even Rasselas'
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together with Monk Lewis's ' Bravo of Venice,' and
The Castle of Otranto,' by Horace Walpole, will all
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of the volume, it will contain a portrait and memoir of
Horace Walpole, and two illustrations to • Vathek ;
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LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JUNE 26.
—We have experienced a fair demand for cotton to-
day. The sales amount to nearly 3,000 bales, princi-
pally American, from 7,3 d. to 90., a few hundred of
which have been on speculation, 500 for export, and
the remainder to the trade.