The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-16 00:00:00

enjoyed. It has been reported, as we informed
olir readers yesterday, that this costly piece of
quasi-sinecure preferment is intended for Dr.
Maltby, the Bishop of Chichester. Every one
recollects the noise that was made, before the
present Ministers came into office, respecting
the Government job which was to allow the
Bishop of Exeter to hold the rich living of Stan-
hope in commend= with the revenues of his see.
We believe the bishopric of Chichester is not
equal in income to that of Exeter ; and as to Dr.
Maltby himself, we know of no member of the
Episcopal Bench who, in point of qualification
for his sacred office, and of personal character,
is more deserving. He is a distinguished
scholar, an able preacher, a clergyman of steady
piety and unspotted integrity of life. If, as re-
formers of abuses, we could allow a practical re-
laxation of the strict rule which we would have
applied to the sinecures of the Church as well
as to all other sinecures, it would he in favour
of such a man ; but we trust he will himself re-
fuse any preferment which could only add to his
income by the compromise of a public principle
—a principle which, as a friend to reform in the
abuses of the State, he cannot, in consistency,
but wish to see applied to the removal of the
notorious blemishes of the Church establishment.
If Dr. Maltby's diocese be among the poorer
bishoprics of England, as we believe it is, and,
if it be insufficient to the adequate support of
the decent dignity of his office and station, let
its temporalities be increased not by plurality of
office, but by adding to it some of the super-
fluous revenue of one of the overpaid bishop-
rics. It is said, indeed, and the Government
Papers have thrown out more than mere hints of
the matter, that the bishoprics are to be all
equalized, and the pernicious system of trans-
lations done away with—a " consummation de-
voutly to be wished." If this has been deter-
mined on, Ministers, having a House of Com-
mons of their own,and all the power in their hands,
need not long delay about it. During the short
time that must intervene, supposing Ministers
to be sincerely resolved on such reform, why
should not every ecclesiastical sinecure and quasi-
sinecure, that falls vacant, remain in abeyance,
until the expected arrangement takes place, the
arrears to be then appropriated as Parliament
may think fit. Why should new " vested
rights" be created to stand in the way of an ec-
clesiastical reform, which has already been stated
to have been the subject of discussion at more
than one Cabinet Council, and the plan of which
is said to be prepared for the earliest possible
consideration of the new Parliament ?—Morning
Herald.

We are glad to find that the parish authori-
ties of St. James's are at length beginning to
arouse themselves to a sense olf their duty, and
are endeavouring to put down the shameful
nuisance of the gambling-houses which abound
within their district. From the police account,
in another column, it will be seen that, by a well-
arranged plan, concerted between Goddard and
Ballard, and a party of the new police, the no-
torious No. 60, in the Quadrant, has again be-
come the subject of legal proceedings. This
looks well. It looks as if the parish was begin-
ning to take fright at its own distinction as the
resort of gamblers and desperadoes, and was
about to make some amends for past neglect, by
directing its efforts against those infamous nur-
series of crime, the hells, and their infamous

owners and supporters. It is also satisfactory to
find that the prosecutors, in the present instance,
are not embarrassed by the contradiction of two
such ill-assorted motives as oppressed the mora-
lity of poor Mr. Geazeley. When that worthy
undertook to prosecute, he was so puzzled be-
tween the public good and the gratification of
his own private malice, that he could not per-
suade people to think it was the public motive
that was uppermost with him. The consequence
was, that i❑ spite of every thing he could either
say or swear, he found himself the proprietor of
as dirty a pair of hands, a 8 ever were exhi-
bited in a Court of Justice. In the present
case, however, the parish authorities are the
prosecutors. Their motives cannot be sus-
pected ; and they have commenced in a
manner which must he effectual to the suppres-
sion of that and similar establishments, if they
have the firmness to persevere in the course
upon which they have so creditably entered.
There is only one line of conduct which could
render their motives liable to suspicion, anti that
is their declining to follow up the blow. It
would then be suspected, nay concluded, that
they had only done so much to save appearances.
But appearances are never much saved by such
expedients. Men may be short-sighted, but
they are not so short-sighted as to mistake a
little affected bustle for a settled purpose and de-
termination, when either policy stands before
them revealed in its results. We feel great sa-
tisfaction in acknowledging that the Magistrates
and the police have acted, in this instance, with
a promptitude and decision which became them.
We make this acknowledgment the more readily,
as we were not slow to accuse them when we

thought they were remiss. It is to be hoped that
we may now look forward, if not to the total.
suppression of hells and gambling-houses, to
the extinction of that flaming public display, the
very prominence of which was an insult, as well
as a curse, to the community. Let the autho-
rities persevere—let them take their rounds night
after night amongst the hells ; by following up
this course they will find that the law is strong
enough to enable them to abate the nuisance.
Hell-keepers should be worried like other ver-
min ; and if care be taken to disturb the security
of those haunts, which are becoming so attrac-
tive to the dissolute and the unreflecting, we
shall soon experience the good effects of such
perseverence in the diminution of misery and
crime.--Morning Herald.
We
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this day present to our readers further
evidence of the existence in England of a sys-
e,nwhich, for the atrocious brutality which it
calls into action, and the physical suffering and
moral degradation it produces, has, we sincerely
believe, never had a parallel in the most revolt-
ing practices of the most barbarous and savage
nations. We willingly encounter the risk of
being thought tedious and importunate upon
this subject. The whole thing is so monstrous
that nothing, we are persuaded, short of a con-
stant recurrence to the incontestible evidence
by which the facts of the case are established
will be sufficient to convince those who have
never witnessed the operation of the factory
system that in England—in the country of
sincere and unaffected benevolence—in a coun-
try where the principles of' genuine religion
are supposed, and we believe truly, to exer-
cise a very extensive influence—in a country
which possesses thousands of philanthropists so
eager to search for and to relieve human suffer-
ing and degradation that they cross the Atlantic
in order to find them, and assume their existence
where they are not—hundreds of thousands of
children are condemned from their birth to a