The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-14 00:00:00

with all convenient speed. The EMPEROR maybe irri-
tated at the folly of his servants in too clearly
acting on his designs, but that " irritatio f. cannot
affect the general question, or furnish !egitimate
cause of complaint against Portugal for refusing to
sanction a revival of the slave trade, c lbeit under
another name.

We lately had. an Iron Duke, and the day mutt

draw near when we shall have to erect a monu-
ment to the memory of an Iron Bishop also. Brave
HARRY EXETER, now, we believe, in the eightieth
year of his age, yet vieing in Bishoplike vigour
with the memories of the aged warrior, and with
the present feats of our LYNDHURSTS and our
BROUGHAMS. What degenerate younkers, alas, are
we by the side of these patriarchs of almost the
third generation backwards ! We fighting our
peddling battles over the remanets of old contro-
versies—we must seem to them but a set of eccle-
siastical and political pigmies. We heard
but the other day that marvellous exhibition of
intellectual vigour from Lord BROUGHAM, the ora-
tion at the inauguration of NEWTON'S statue,
ranging with the might of middle-age vigour over
the whole field of the higher mathematics, and
yesterday almost as interesting and long a paper
from him on Popular Literature ; and we all re-
member Lord LYNDHURST'S speeches of last session,
and the lucid power with which he exposed the
littleness and mischiefs of sanctimonious bigotry.
And HARRY EXETER, too, he, on one of those
occasions, was not wanting in his way. If
there were aged veterans in the battle
against bigotry, he showed himself as
potent a veteran in the battle for it. We re-
member seeing him dash the wicked bill—" the
accursed bill"—on the floor of the House of Lords
—the bill which rpresumed to legalise marriages
which, though GOD allowed them, HARRY of
EXETER'S Church did not; and, boiling with the
prelatical wrath of eighty summers, he anathema-
tised for ever all the heretics who should dare to
enact such a measure, or to act upon it ; and the-
Peers saw and trembled, and they threw out the
accursed bill, and the sinners against the canons of
HARRY'S Church still sit in their houses, married
only in name, and their offspring, like those of Mede
and Persian criminals, suffer with them,
and are branded with the mark of their
parents of concubinage—for concubinage it shall re-
main in the Court of HARRY of EXETER, and in the
new Matrimonial Court, although it be registered
as marriage in the Court of Heaven.
And now again we read of the mighty HARRY,
whose bigotry remains as " fresh and green" as
ever, in the burial ground of Tiverton, exulting in
efficient lines of demarcation between the dead in
the Church of England and the dead in macovenanted
mercy. Hard, indeed, did the Bishop fight for a
wall and fence between them which human eyes
could not look over, and which should secure the
graves of those christened, and confirmed,
and buried by the Anglican ritual, from
being even seen by the Giaours who came to com-
mit their unhallowed dead to unhallowed earth on
the other side of the wall. But in worldly Tiver-
ton common—that is, unclean or profane—sense
was too strong for him, and Tiverton was the
favoured town of a not very orthodox Premier,
and the graceless Tivertonians got an act passed
declaring for all England and for all time that
Bishops in cemeteries must be satisfied with a suf-
ficient line of distinction between the dust and
ashes of Churchmen and the dust and ashes of Dis-
senters ; and the Bishop, never to be vanquished,
declares the very act which upsets him a vic-
tory, and thankfully accepting a line where he
had demanded a wall, plants his foot on the line,
as the ancients were wont to set their feet on the
neck of the conquered, and says, Hitherto shall the
infidel and the atheist come, but no further !
Possibly some of our readers may not have
noticed the speech of the veteran prelate, and will

hardly credit our assertion of his performing a:,

eighty such feats of hardihood. Fourscore years, and
a graveyard for a tribune, would soften most mor-
tals—most heroes even—into something like
tenderness and sympathy with the lot of all.
Here, then, are our Bishop's words :—" By the
Deed of Consecration just executed, a certain
portion of land has been set apart—set apart
for ever—in which the Church's dead will be de-
cently interred, in which none but Christians can

be buried, and that by the Church's ministers using

the: solemn words of the Church's service ; while
on the other part of this cemetery none can say
what may be done, what idolatrous rites may not
be performed. There is no law to prevent the
idolater, the infidel, from entering there : they who
blasphemed the name of Christ, and openly tri-
, upaph in their horrible impiety—they who make a
boast of their rebellion against the God who made
them—they who trample on the cross of Christ
—one and all claim their right to put their dead
into that ground, and to enact such scenes as are
revolting to man—Christian man—to contemplate.
There is no law, he repeated, to prevent the most
revolting practices—the most disgusting deeds—
from being there carried out. He trusted that
there was no occasion to apprehend that such
things would be attempted in that parish, still the
possibility of the occurrence of such scenes existed
there, while the Church may serenely take her stand
upon her own ground, and, feeling confident in the
impossibility of her consecrated soil being thus de-
seerated, she may place her foot upon her bond-
stones,'and say to blasphemy as it advances raging
over the other ground, So far mayest thou come
but no further.' "

Thrice happy, then, the faithful, in the repose
provided for their bones by their gentle shepherd !
He will die happier himself, of course, contemplat-
ing the storms of blasphemy which may rage
around the consecrated enclosure, but which can no
more pass the bond-stone than TAM O'SHANTER'S
witches could pass the key-stone of the bridge.
Meantime we must confess that we shall be content
to be laid in any quiet grave convenient to our
survivors, little caring which side the bond-stone
they may place us, and little fearing that our coun-
trymen's sense of decency will permit the graves
of the dead to be desecrated by unseemly
deeds. As to " blasphemy"—we have our
own notions respecting who are most guilty of that
—whether those who put themselves in the place
of GOD, or those who profane his name. As to
" idolatry" we have also certain mental comparisons
between those who worship wood and stone images
and those who worship consecrated earth and bond-
stones. And as to " trampling on the Cross of
CHRIST,"- we have again our own opinion as to
whether the infidel, or the Priest who puts himself,
practically, in the place of Christianity, is its worst
enemy. And, lastly, as to Cemeteries, we are glad
that even HARRY of EXETER can find nothing bet-
ter for dividing his countrymen in death, than such
bigoted rhetoric as will, probably, next week be
noticed in the columns or engravings of Punch.

The Earl and Countess of Darnley have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel, from Cobham Hall, near Gravesend.

The Count Stadnicky has arrived at Fenton's
Hotel from Paris.

The Lord Chancellor, Lady Chelmsford, and
the Hon. Miss Thesiger are the distinguished guests of
Henry Whitmore, Esq., M. P., at Slinniside, near Bridg-
north.