The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-27 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS AT MADRAS.—The Swallow, from Masulipatam,
Aug. 17 ; the Isadore, from Coringa, the 18th : the Fame,
from Calcutta, the 18th ; the Triumph, from Bombay, the
19th ; the Mermaid, from Bombay, Sept. 1, and sailed the
14th for Penang ; the Camilla, from Liverpool, Oct. 5.
DEFARTUREs.—The Broxbornebury ands Juliana, Sept. 17 ,
the Orontes, the Africa, the Coromaudel, and Edmond, the
20th, for Bengal.
ARRIVALS AT BATAVIA.—The Malcolm, from Liverpool,
Sept. 19 ; the Napoleon, from Singapore, the 20th ; the Jane
and Henry, from Sydney, the Samarang, from Manilla, the 22d.
DEPARTURES.—The Courier de Manilla, for Bordeaa, Aug.
17_,- the Palinure, for Amsterdam, Sept. 21.
DEPARTURES FROM SA MARANO,—TIIC Calcutta and Madras,
Sept. 13 ; the Numa and Jane, the 17th, for Canton.
ARRIVALS AT TIIE CAPE.—The Elizabeth, from Liverpool,
Nov. 2 ; the Duke of Argyll, from Portsmouth, the 12th, and
sailed on the 16th for Calcutta; the Antelope, from St.
Helena, the 17th ; the Larkins, from the Downs, the 18th,
and sailed the 20th for Madras; the Warblingtou, from Rio,
the 19th.

DEPARTURES.—The Venus, for Batavia; the John Stamp,
for London ; and his Majesty's Rose, for Bombay, Nov. 11 ;
the Britannia, for the Mauritius ; and Palinure, for Cowes,
the 13th ; the Margaret, for Liverpool ; and Leda, for New
South Wales, the 15th.

MARCH OF REFORM.—The notion of some of
the Tories of making a stand against the further progress of
Reform is preposterous enough, judging-from the augmented
size of the " Black Book " and its-Appendix. and Sir R.
Peel would have inspited far more confidence in his future in-
tentions, had he,iu lieu cf thi vague promises of his Tamworth
address, distinctly pledged himself to the reform of only one
half of the political and Church abuses set forth in this extra-
ordinary volume.

CHURCH REFORM.

(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.

Whatever may be the disposition of Government in
the work of Church Reform which now seems to be
agitating their councils, or the quality of compliance
to be gained from the Bishops, the country can scarcely
expect from such hands much effective pruning.
The present Ministers are themselves so intimately
associated with the perverted hierarchy of the Church
of England, their patronage so extensive and valuable,
their interests, personal and familiar, so interwoven
with the misapplication of the Ecclesiastical revenues,
that it is not to be supposed, auguring from the ordi-
nary tenor of human propensities, that a thorough
and sweeping purification, such as to impartial, because
disinterested, judgments will appear to be required, can
be meditated by minds thus prejudiced.
Of the Right Reverend the Spiritual Lords we de-
sire not to speak in terms unbefitting their holy loca-
tion. That there are many honest and sincere Chris-
tians among them, desirous of reform, it is not for
us to dispute ; but we cannot help regarding with
feelings of extreme jealousy any Church corrections
which they could either propose or yield assent to ;
the more especially, because their judgments must
necessarily be biassed towards that fatal system which
they have long erroneously considered as being recog.
nised by Divine sanction, to modify which to any
large extent must be deemed by them an act either op-
posed to the direct authority of Heaven, or assertive of
a long previous course of self-condemning error.
Of all Reforms that of self-purification is the mast
gentle, the task most leniently imposed, the accom•
plislnnent most soothingly limited. On a tender back
the penitent can scarcely be expected to deal the mor-

tifying stripes too heavily ; however contrite the mis-
doer, he would hardly pronounce against himself the
same severity of sentence as the impartial functionary
who is appointed to award the legal penalty ;—justice
would be as feather-weight contrasted with the money
which preponderates in the other scale. It is for
reasons such as this that we suspect the inadequacy of
Church Reform to be proposed by such self-tasking cor-
rectors. Without stopping to challenge the sincerity
of their desire—which if not charitable, is at least not
necessary—we doubt their fitness for the employment ;
we have, however, the satisfaction of knowing that
labourers to the full, equally zealous, of clearer vision,
and less warped minds, will cheerfully assist them in
the good work of expurgation, and Heaven send them
all a good delivery