The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-28 00:00:00

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and similar to 'that which has been displayed by a
superstitious or ignorant populace, in almost every
country where it has made its appearance. In Russia
their fury was directed against the physicians. The
same was partially the case at Edinburgh ; and at
Paris the Carlists were accused, as at Madrid, of
poisoning the fountains, and the wines used by the
lower classes, in the hope of profiting •by a general
commotion. The Government at Madrid have viewed
the subject in this light, and have by proclamations and
other measures endeavoured to disabuse the minds of
the people. According to the latest accounts
quillity had been very generally restored.

On Friday last General MINA left this Country
for Spain.

The blue ribbon, vacant by the death of Earl BATH..
URST, will most probably be given to the Duke of
GRAFTON. His Grace is the only one of his fa-
mily who has not had that honour confirred upon
him. He has very recently lost one of his sons, who
was member for Thetford.

There is a rumour that six. Commoners (in Parlia-
ment) are to. be raised to the Peerage. We have
heard the names of four, but to prevent mistake we
abstain from mentioning them at present. They will
give satisfaction to the public, and tend so far to libe-
ralize the House of Lords.

Brussels Papers of the 26th instant have been re-
ceived. They announce the. recognition of the king-
dom of Belgium by the Queen Regent of Spain, who
has appointed M. Chevalier P. d'ALLEMPERA AR-
GAiz, Charge d'Affaires at Brussels.

The cities of Louvain, Tournay, and Namur are going to be
lighted with gas.
The Senate, in its Sitting of the 23d, adopted the law on the
import duties upon foreign linen by a majority of twenty-four to
eight. In its Sitting of the 24th it heard the Report of its Com-
mittee on the Corn Law. The reporter proposed the adoption of
the law as sent up from the Chamber of Representatives. The
Chamber of Representatives continues the debate and the projeet
of law for the municipal organization of the Commons.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, JULY 25.
Actual Debt,. 234 per Cent. 513%
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 97
Loan of the City, 1832,-4 per Cent 96
•
—Brussels Papers, July 23.

Among the most reflecting portion of the Members
of the Established Church, it is universally admitted,
that unless some decisive step be taken by the Legis-
lature to reform our ecclesiastical institutions, England
will soon present to the world the prodigy of a reli-
gion whose every member has been consecrated by
the " laying on of hands"—shepherds without flocks,
and sheepfolds without even a lamb to bleat for en-
trance. The abuses which at first were sighed over
by the religious, and which it was hoped that time,
and a sense of the danger to which they exposed the
Church would effectually eradicate, have gone on ac-
cumulating, till their magnitude and enormity can
neither be concealed nor palliated. Those wolves in
sheep's clothing by whom these evils were engen-
dered for " filthy lucre's sake," succeeded for
ages in deterring the sincere lovers of aposto-
heal Christianity from urging their complaints
publicly, by branding with the name of Atheists, all
those who dared to expose their pride, their immorality,
their avarice, and their ambition ; but the emptiness
of this clamour has been so clearly manifested in the
lives of some of the most strenuous opponents of the
Church Establishment ; and especially by the diffusion
of scriptural knowledge among the people, that the
most rancorous stickler for " things as they are" dreads
to apply an epithet which the multitude are beginning
to regard as an ecclesiastical designation of a person of
unusual cleverness, firmness, and honesty.
The notices given by Mr. CUTHBERT RIPPON,
in the House of Commons, on Wednesday evening, of
the Honourable Gentleman's intention, during the
next session of Parliament, to bring in a Bill to
relieve the Bishops from their attendance in the
House of Lords ; and to move a resolution " that
Deans and Chapters not having cures of souls are
useless," will, if carried into full effect, go a great way
towards restoring the Church to its primitive purity ;
and will wipe away much of the just grounds for that
hostility with which the. Establited Hierarchy of this
country is now regarded. It is impossible that any
Prelate—however vast his acquirements, and strong his
constitution—can discharge his spiritual duties as a
Christian Priest, who is obliged to give his attend-
ance to, and aid by his counsels, the deliberations of
an assembly having to legislate for this kingdom. The
very duties of a Senator and a Priest are incompatible
with each other. From the constitution of the House
of Peers it is morally impossible that any body of men
could breathe its atmosphere—could -Mold intimate
communion with its hereditary Members—could
stand in the relations of guardians of its mo-
rality, and still continue to tread in the humble
footsteps of the Apostles, preaching the gospel to the
poor, without money and without price—pouring the
balm of a saving faith into the bruised and broken
heart—seeking the stray sheep on the mountains, and
bearing it back with blessings and rejoicings to the
fold. The Apostles were not legislators—the Primi-
tive Bishops attended no state councils—and though
their flocks were not numerous, they found more
cause to lament their inability to perform their spiri-
tual duties, than to boast 'of a time which they might
devote to the perusal of Acts of Parliament, or the
framing of Bills for the recovery of tenths, tithes,
first-fruits, and Easter-offerings. Neither did they,
in appointing their assistants and successors, intimate
that any time was to be devoted to affairs other than
those enjoined by the gospel. ST. PAUL, in appoint-
ing a Bishop, used these remarkable words, which
ought to be engraven on the hearts of all ecclesiastics,
" I charge thee before GOD, and the LORD JESUS
CHRIST, who shall judge the quick and the dead,
prea.ch the word ; be instant (ready) in season and out
of season, &c. ; be thou partaker of the afflictions of
the gospel ; watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,
do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy
ministry ; in all things show thyself a pattern of good
works, &c., give attendance to reading, to exhortation,
to doctrine, &c. ;" and in his charge to the clergy of
the church at Miletus, he says, " take heed therefore
to yourselves, and to all the flock over whigh the
HOLY GHOST has appointed you Overseers (Epis-
copos) to rule the church of Gon." How strangely
must these words of the Apostle, sound in the ears of
divines who were brought up for the church; not
because they evinced any youthful predilection for
sacred things; but because their family possessed rich
living's', and had sufficient interest to have the
ecclesiastical scions of their houses elevated to the
episcopal bench. _

The appearance of Bishops in the House of Lords
is a disgraceful remnant of the worship paid by' the
patrons of the Church to the spirit of feudalism and
the love of personal aggrandisement. Bishops were
first admitted into the British Parliament, not as Bi-
shops, but as barons holding large manors under

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1834.