The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNA LS,

Letters from Poland and accounts in the Ger-
man papers inform us, that the most frightful
persecutions are carried on by the Russians in
Warsaw. The most solemn promises of the
Russian Government are openly violated to-
wards the highest Poles in that unhappy capital.
Generals Leurinski and Chovrewski, to whom
Marshal Paskewitch had pledged the clemency
of the Autocrat, have been transported under an
escort to Moscow. Generals Isidor, Krasinski,
and Driakonski, are dead of the cruel treatment
to which they were subjected. General Wit has
been sent to Petershurgh, on account of some
new difficulties which have arisen in the Govern-
ment of Warsaw. The Russian authorities have
even begun their war upon women. Countess
Sahaniska has been ordered to quit Warsaw im-
mediately, and exile herself beyond the Polish
territory, on account of some compassionate suc-
cours which she had lent to her countrymen.
This lady has proceeded to Dresden. All the offi-
cers of the Polish army, who on the faith of an
amnesty had returned toPoland, have been degrad-
ed to the rank ofsubalterns, and distributed through
Russian regiments. Yet these measures of ri
pour and precaution do not appear to have inspired
perfect confidence into the suspicious mind of
the Russian Commander-in-Chief. He has
accordingly converted the Palace of Belvedere,
and the neighbouring barracks, into a kind of
fortress or citadel. The Russians have likewise
fortified the town of Louvitz. It is stated in ac-
counts from Dresden, that the Poles who had
obtained an asylum in that city had been or-
dered to leave it immediately, from the interfe-
rence of the Russian Ambassador. In a short
time none but the free and powerful Govern-
ments of Europe will be permitted even to
harbour these unfortunate patriots, who are
threatened with Siberia or death on returning to
the land of their birth. We need make no com-
ments on these statements.—Times.
We on Monday adverted to a plan of Church
RE form, published in a pamphlet by Lord
Henley, and to a similar work relating chiefly
to the temporalities of the church, by l‘lr.
Miller, a clergyman. Did the dignitaries of
our church establishment,—did the influential
portion of its useful members,—did even the
great pluralists who wallow in its luxurious be
nefices, without performing its duties, or up-
holding its character—see their own interests in
an extended view, they would immediately offer
themselves as church Reformers. The abuses
which they have long patronized or palliated,
are more palpable and more indefensible than
the late corruptions in the state of the repre-
sentation,—t he motives and sanctions which
bind them to attempt a change are more holy
and cogent,—and, while we have seen Peers
and Commoners surrendering their lucrative
rotten borough influence, it is not too much to
expect that the influential clergy should fol-
Im tlse noble and disinterested example. The
great evil at first to be remedied—the crying ini-
quity to be removed—the disgraceful blot to be
wiped away, is that of pluralities, of which we
have lately given, and shall continue to give, ex-
amples that make us ashamed, not only of our
Church, but almost of our nature. Let there
be no union of livings permitted where any of
them singly amounts to 4001. a year,—let resi-
dence in all cases be rigidly enforced, without
any intermission, except in case of illness,—and
let the 500,0001. a year, which may easily be
obtained by reducing the useless ecclesiastical
staff of our cathedrals, and by levying honestly
the tenths and first-fruits of the better livings,
according to the full amount of their value (not
in the Liber Regis, but in the pocket of the
incumbents), be applied under a Board to the
augmentation of the smaller livings, the building
of parsonage-houses, and the purchase of glebes
—and our ecclesiastical establishment, under the
careful superintendence of its prelates, will be
restored to its efficiency, and may set dissent at
defiance. While the Church of England pos-
sesses such immense revenues, (which, if well
distributed, the public would never grudge her),
we lock back with shame to the time that
100,0001. a-year used to be voted in aid of
Queen Anne's Bounty ; and we look around with
a mixture of regret and indignation, at hearing
that a fourth part of her parishes have neither a
resident clergyman,—a house for him to live
in,—or an income sufficient to maintain him. A
member of the Church, in an excellent pamphlet
written some time ago in its defence, admitted
that the income of all the established clergy, from
tithes, Bishops', and Dean and Chapter lands,
and other resources, amounted to 3,872,1381. a
year. The amount probably exceeds that sum ;
but even taking the estimate to be correct, we
have nearly 4001. a year to every active member
of the establishment. But how badly is it dis-
tributed, when we find rectories at 5,0001. and
others at 121. a year !—Times.

A petition, much too long for insertion here,
has been addressed to the House of Commons,
from a class of persons who appear to have been
aggrieved by the Bank of England, against any
renewal of such powers under a fresh charter as
those which, according to the allegation of the
petitioners, the Bank had grossly abused to their
detriment on an u,r ►ion of much notoriety—
viz., the bankruptcy of the house of which
Fauntleroy was a partner. The details of the
injury said to have been suffered by the peti-
tioners are given by them at length ; but we
feel it unnecessary to go further into the subject,
than just to remark on the monstrous iniquity
of compelling individualswhose names had been
forged, and whose property had been annihilated
by means of such fictitious documents, to stand
for a time in the shoes of the Bank of England,
whose criminal or callous negligence had occa-
sioned the loss, and to forego the enjoyment of
their own property, until it might suit the plea-
sure of the Bank Directors to relieve them from
an embarrassment, in the cause of which the
parties forged upon had not the slightest partici-
pation. It isas clearas light that they whose names
had been forged ought not to have been inthe least
affected, as to their free disposal of their funded
property, by the unauthorized transfer of it upon
orders which turned out to be fictitious. Yet
the Bank, say that the petitioners, had the pre-
sumption to insist on certain conditions for its
own benefit, as a preliminary to such an acknow-
ledgement of their undoubted legal right. The
prayer of this petition, therefore, merits, in our
oninion, to be well considered by Parliament.--
Ttmes.

We uncle rstand that we are mistaken in the
assumption that the Marquess of Exeter ob-
tains, by the alteration of the limits of the
borough of Stamford in the Boundary Bill, the
close nomination of the two seats. Lord
Althorp adopted a medium extension, and not
the extreme proposal of Mr. Tallents, the Com-
missioner and the borough agent of the cele-
brated Duke of Newcastle. The territorial ad-
dition, therefore, ultimately settled by the Bill,
though including part_ of the parish of St. Mar-
.