The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-11 00:00:00

7,910,000

" We have, then, considerably more than one-half of
our whole population unconnected with the Estal.lishei
Church of this country, that church comprising among its
hearers only about six out of the foutteen millions in
England and Wales. It does not consist with our present
impose to enter into the causes why so great a number of
our population sht.uld be found without her pale. Causes
for such a s•a'e of things there doubtless are, and of many
or wh'cli Churchmen themselves now seem very conscious;
and, could they be brought heartily to seek their imtne-
dia.e removal, the CArcle of England, if she could not re•
claitn tho,e who have departed from her fold, would, at
least, command their respect and f,rbearance."

We have reason for believing that the number
of Dissenters is considerably under stated in
the above estimates. But, assuming that it is
near the truth, it must be borne in mind that
the Dissenters, in all places where the population
is active and enlightened, form a majority of 3
or 4to 1. The return of burials in Manches-
ter exhibits a proportion between Churchmen
and Dissenters which will be found in most of
our large towns. The population of the Church
of England is to be found in the dark and igno-
r.int regions of the country. Wherever educa-
tion and industry are found, there dissent pre-
vails. In truth, the Dissenters, as has been
shown in a curious volume by Israel Worsley,
were the establishers of nearly all our manufac-
tures, and to this day nave the lead in all indus-
trious undertakings. How is it that they who
are without the pale of the Church are the citi-
zens who most contribute to the prosperity of
the State ? If they who do not belor.g to the
establiThed sect are the most enlightened and
industrious of our citizens, does not that prove
that the Established Church is less efficacious
in instructing the people than the Dissenting
Churches ? • And may not, then, the Dis-
senters avail themselves of their superiority,
and say, why should we, who possess al-
ready what is proved by its fruits to be good, be
forced to pay for what we do not ourselves re-
quire, and what benefits no part of the people ?
The Liverpool Albion does not hesitate to
ascribe the regard for religion which exists in
the country, chiefly to the exertions of the
Dissenters :

" To the Dissenters (says the miter) we owe much of
that morality and reverence for sacred things which are
left amongst us. They have, unaided by any provision
from the State, and amidst the misrepresentation and the
odium to which their efforts to promote the spiritual in-
struction of their fellow-countrymen have been continually
subj'-cted, pursued their beneficial labours through evil re-
port and good report. To them it is owing, we believe,
mainly, that England has not, before now, been pervaded
by the poison of infidelity, and by a general indifference,
nn the part of all classes, for the solemnities and obser-
vances _of religion, similar to that which prevails in some
of the neighbouring countries of the Continent."
They certainly have given to the middle
classes the serious character, which of late
years has become almost universal. Our contem-
porary (the Times) justly observes, " Perhaps,
taken altogether, they are the most sagacious por-
tion of our countrymen." If the landlords
were to compare their various mortgages, this
truth would, we believe, be established to their
satisfaction. We have heard it mentioned that
the Dissenters have only grown with the growth
of the population in general. But this is a mis-
take. We have as good evidence to the con-
trary as can well be desired. Sir John Dalrymple
has given us, in the Appendix to his Annals, a
curious Report, framed in consequence of an
inquiry instituted by King William at the Revo-
lution, to ascertain the proportions between
Churchmen, Dissenters, and Papists, which was
found in his chest. According to this Report,
in the Province of Canterbury the Conformists
were 2 123,362, the Non-Conformists 93,151,
the Papists 11,878 ; in the Province of York,
the Conformists 353,892, the Non-Conformists

15,525, the Papists 1,978. So that the pro-
portion of Conformists to the Non-Conformists
was 22 4-sths to 1 ; the Conformists to the
Papists were as 178 10-13ths to 1. The Con-
formists and Non-Conformists together to
Papists, 186 2-3ds to 1. This is merely the
summary, but the Report goes minutely into the
proportions in the different Dioceses. But the
Church of England has been altogether of this
world ; and are we to wonder, that in the affairs
of another world it should, both in England and
Ireland, have so signally failed ?—Morning
Cbronicle.

We present to our readers, in another co-
lumn, the usual statement of the financial resources
and expenditure of the year ended yesterday.
It is, on the whole, much more favourable than
we had any reason to anticipate. On the year,
there is a small decrease, amounting to 327,5761.,
but the quarter is highly promising, and exhi-
bits an increase of no less than 696,8471. The
decrease on the year is easily accounted for,
partly by reductions of duties which have come
into operation during its course ; partly by the
prevalence of the cholera ; partly by the unset-
tled state of our foreign relations ; and more
than all these, perhaps, by the state of agitation
in which the country was kept by the opposition
of the Tories to the Reform Bill. The evil
arising from this latter source may be readily
seen in the falling off in the stamps, the
Post-office, and the miscellaneous department ;
a falling off which was most unlikely to
have taken place, had the public mind been
at ease, and general confidence existed among
the different classes of the community. It is
most gratifying, however, to perceive that the
increase which has taken place during the last
quarter, has occurred in those departments which
speak most in favour of the increasing energies
and capabilities of the people—that is to say,
in the Customs, the increased revenue in which
proves beyond all possibility of doubt our in-
creased consumption of articles of foreign pro-
duce ; and in the Excise, which shows that the
home manufactures have not been slighted. In
these two departments of the public revenue, and
in the taxes, there has been a total increase of
nearly three quarters of a million ; and we con-
sider ourselves, in consequence, warranted to set
down the result of the present quarter as highly
favourable and gratifying. In the expenditure,
also, there is some reason for congratula-
tion ; the amount having considerably de-
creased during the last six months; but still there
is nothing in the present financial condition of the
country not to induce us to pray that the Go-
vernment may not relax in its exertions to reduce
the public expenditure. In the army, in the
ordnance, and in the miscellaneous departments
there is still much to be done. It is almost be-
yond all endurance that, in a time of profound
peace, the country should be paying at the rate
of nearly fourteen millions a year for the support
of an army, a navy, and an ordnance, whose
services are not needed to defend us from foreign
aggression. There must be great and ample
reductions in two of these departments. We
grudge not the navy anything that may be re-
quired for its maintenance in a due state of
vigour and efficiency—it cannot, in fact, be too
vigorous and efficient ; but there is no one,
however liberal in his notions of public expen-
diture, who can defend such an expenditure as
that of nearly seven millions for a standing army,
and but little short of two millions for a train
of ordnance to wait upon it. The thing is ano-
malous in a time of peace, and must b put an
end to, as we are confident that it will be by a
Reformed Parliament. There are also various
other departments in which reduction is impe-
ratively called for, and of which we shall endea-
vour to take notice to-morrow.—Morn.Advert.

The incessant hostility of the Times News-
paper to all our existing institutions is every day
more strongly exemplified. Not satisfied with
the inroads which have been already made upon
the Constitution—not satisfied with having seen
the Peerage proscribed, and their existence as
a deliberative body rendered unavailing—it
now proceeds to calumniate the Church of
England, and would sacrifice the means of
its support to gratify the mobocracy of the
country. We do not pretend to know who
may be the writers of all the violent ar-
ticles which have appeared in the columns of
our Contemporary ; but it is impossible not to
notice a letter which appeared in that Paper
yesterday, and which we have given in our last
page. That letter contains a direct appeal to
the people to pull down or otherwise anni-
hilate the Established Church ; and, the better
to effect this unhallowed object, the Times
calls upon the body of Dissenters as one man
to resist the payment of tithes to the Protestant
Clergy. How very willingly the exhortation
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of the national religion ! This black ingratitude,
this foul turpitude, finds its advocates in some
men who call themselves Englishmen and well-
wishers to the Church of England. If the
means of their support are to be forcibly taken
from the Clergy, we should like to know what
other species of property can be secure ? The
public creditors, like the landed proprietors,
must, at last, bestir themselves, and make a
determined effort to keep off the approaching
danger. They must act promptly and deci-
sively, or their fate and that of their country
will be soon decided. The Church has been
hitherto considered as one of the main pillars
of the State, and, if it be now uprooted, the
destruction of the State itself must follow as
certainly as effect will follow cause. With the
destruction of Protestanism will follow that of
Monarchy, and the place of both will be sup-
plied by anarchy, revolution, and irreligion. The
Crown will be held but as a mere bauble, and
the altar as unworthy the respect or reverence of'
their majesties the people. What deeper in the
deep of evil may next ensue is not difficult of
conjecture,. but we are unwilling for the present
to anticipate it. We long ago predicted what
would result from the measure which has been
recently carried, and every day convinces us that
we took the proper view of the subject. Every
coming hour furnishes additional light upon the
objects intended by that measure, and it will not
he long before an astonished nation will wake to
its madness and delusions. " The Dissenters
are a shrewd body," says the Times, and we
never doubted it, any more than we doubted
that the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts
was striking such a blow at the existence of the
Church of England as it could with difficulty re-
cover.—Morning Post.

The Board of Admiralty having expressed its
very great admiration of the beautiful symmetry and stand-
ing of the sails of the Water Witch yacht, have ordered
that the sails of the men•of-war shall in future be cut in
a similar manner.

CORONER'S INQUEST UPON MARY
ANNE PEARCE, alias LADY BARRYAJORE.

Yesterday afternoon, an inquest was holden before
Mr. STIRLING, at Mr. Johnson's, the Red Lion and
Still, Drury-lane, upon view of the body of this un-
fortunate woman, whose name has so often appeared
in the police reports of the metropolis.
Norton, a policeman, about 3 o'clock on Sunday
afternoon, saw the deceased very drunk in Long-
acre, surrounded, as usual, by a large crowd. He
took her into custody, and she went very quietly
with him to the Station-house, where she was locked
up until 9 the next morning, when Mr. Thomas dis-
charged her.

The CORONER—Had she any thing to sleep upon,
or any covering. Policeman—No, Sir; nothing of
that kind is allowed.
CORONER—I think it would not be amiss to al-
low some covering. Did she complain of being ill
when you took her to the Station-house ?—Yes,
Sir; and for the last few times that I have seen her
she has complained of a pain in the chest and ex-
treme weakness.

CORONER—I think there ought to be better treat-
ment provided for persons who are brought in for
drunkenness. It is an act of indiscretion only, and
ought certainly not to be punished by incarceration
for so many hours in a cold cell.
A surgeon was called, who stated it as his opinion
that the deceased died from suffocation occasioned
by the excessive use of spirituous liquors. There were
marks about her body which were very likely to have
been occasioned by falling about the streets, as she
was known to do when drunk. There could not be
the slightest reason for supposing that she came un-
fairly by her death.

Richard Bevan had the care of the house, No. 8,
Charles-street, Drury-lane, for the last eight days,
during which the deceased lodged there. She com-
plained of a pain in her chest, and said she knew her
time was nigh at hand. She came home, after be-
ing discharged from the Station-house on Monday
morning, and remained in the kitchen for several
hours, bemoaning, " in terms that would melt a
heart of stone" (such were the witness's words),
her sad condition, but at the same time expressing
ht-r conviction that her sufferings would not be of
long duration, " for" said she " I know that I am
dying, and may G—d forgive me I never wil-
fully injured any one. I have been more sinned
against than sinning.' " This quotation she re-
peated several times, and at length was prevailed on
to go to bed. In the course of the night the unfor-
tunate creature was found dead in her btd by a woman
named Margaret Smith, who occasionally slept in the
same room.

The Jury, upon this evidence, returned a verdict
of " Died a natural death, accelerated by the exces-
sive use of ardent spirits." _

The CORONER observed that no one who knew
any thing of the deceased could regret, but would
rather rejoice at, this visitation of Providence. In
his (the Coroner's) capacity of Clerk of the Visiting
Magistrates of the House of Correction and New
Prison, Cletkenwell, he had often had opportunities
of observing the conduct of " her Ladyship," as she
‘sas called, and he never saw any thing more ex-
emp;ary. He also happened to know something of
the history of her early life, gathered chiefly from
her own lips, when he had occasion to see her in
prison. Her statement was, that when at hoarding
school she accidentally became acquained with Lord
Barrymore white walking out with the other pupils,
one of whom fell into a pond, and was rescued by
his Lordship from drowning. The conduct of hi
Lirdship upon the occasion struck her youthful anl
romantic fancy, and possessing at that time a tine
form and considerable beauty of face, attracted the
attention of the libertine Lord, and the became an
easy prey. It had been stated that she swam a
considerable distance to join the Noble Lord when
she eloped, but this was not quite true, the fact was,
however, that she waded through a large pond
breast high upon that occasion.

The &cased, when found dead, had in her pocket
two-pence halfpenny and a gin baffle, showing in a
striking manner " the ruling passion strong in
death."

SUPREME COURT of BOMBAY, MiRCIT 23.

ATROCIOUS MURDER.

Bhican, a Muhomedan, and butcher by trade, was
arraigned for the murder of his neighbour, Chim-
tnun Bangur, whom he stabbed to death in his own
house.

The prisoner is described as about 23 years of
age, of a dark complexion, tall stature, and vigorous
build ; his bearing was firm, almost contemptuous,
and his whole demeanour during the trial, which
lasted till near midnight, displayed a character quick-
sighted, impatient, fearless, obstinate, and scornful.
On his arraignment he pleaded Not guilty, and,
challenging the whole native panel, demanded to be
tried by a Jury of white men.
Twelve European Jurors having been impannelled
and sworn,

The witnesses for the Crown clearly proved that
the pristiner entered the deceased's house in the
night to rob it. The deceased awoke, alarmed his
wife, and endeavoured to intercept the retreat of the
thief, who stabbed him with a knife, and the un-
fortuna; e man fell into the arms of his wife, whose
cries brought persons to the spot. They found a
cummerbund and turban, which the dying man re-
cognised as the prisoner's, adding that he knew the
man who had stabbed him—it was Bhican, his
neighbour and caste brother. The murderer and
his victim were members of the same religion, El-
lowed the same trade, and dwelt in the same street,
and lived upon terms of intimacy, if not friendship.
In his defence the prisoner reasoned somewhat
ingeniously upon the improbabilities of the evi-
dence; declared the witnesses were actuated by
revenge; appealed to his character and to his be-
haviour before the Magistrate. " When I was exr-
mined before the Coroner and the Magistrate," he
observed, " those gentlemen marked me well; they
can declare that my eyes were not bloodshot, that I
had no appearance of a murderer. Tne blood
mounts to the eyes of him who has shed blood—the
expression of a murderer's countenance can never
be mistaken : ask those gentlemen whether my fea-
tures wore that expression."
After a charge of two hours from the CHIEF JUS-
TICE, the Jury in ten minutes found the prisoner
Guilty.

His LORDSHIP passed sentence of Death, after a
solemn and affecting address, which, however, was
quite lost upon the culprit; for, from the moment
he saw the black cap assumed, he commenced a
strain of defiance and contempt so loud and out-
rageous as frequently to drown both the Judge and
the interpreter.
Before his execution, which took place on the
26th, his previous violence gave place to a mild
and decorous, but firm demeanour. At the scaffold
he was pressed to make a confession, when he de-
clared as follows :—" I was not the man who mur-
dered Chimmun, but I was present ; I know who
who did the deed, but will not tell ; there were 10
of us at his house that night ; our object was to rob
it; the turban which was found was mine, but I am
not the murderer." On being again urged, he said,
" What is the use of asking me ? Whether guilty or
innocent, I am about to die and I am prepared; I
have made my peace with God l" The last words
lie pronounced with his eyes raised up to liea,en,
and a smile upon his lips.

HISTORY OP THE ENGLISH GENTRY.-
A work of complete novelty, and of very great interest
and importance, is about to appear from the pen of Mr.
BURKE, the well known author of the Dictionaries of the
Peerage and Baronetage. We allude to a History of the
Commoners of the United Kingdom, the first part of
which is to be published on the Ist of November. The
want of a work of this nature, furnishing an account of
alb the Families constituting the Gentry of the United
Kingdom, has long been extensively felt and acknowledged ;
mil it is expected that the present undertaking, founded
on the most authentic sources, and aided by the most ai
siduous researches, will be found to accomplish in the most
satisfactory manner the important o'Jject required.