The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-03 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM, &c.

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1835.

We offer to our readers our most sincere and hearty
congratulations on the result of the debate on the Irish
Church. A splendid victory has been obtained—a noble
triumph achieved. But when we say this, we do not allude
merely to the triumph of one party in the State over
another, although when we consider the respective prin-
ciples of the two parties, that is no small source of
delight to us ; no, it is because, in this deliberate and well-
weighed decision of the Commons of Great Britain, we see
the bold and open recognition of a principle based on the
eternal foundations of justice, and in its application calcula-
ted to produce the most beneficial consequences not to
Ireland alone, but to the whole empire—it is on this most
important of all grounds that we hail with unspeakable joy
the event—we will not hesitate to call it the ever-memorable
event—of this morning.
That this event, so pregnant with results, involves the
fall of the present unprincipled 'Government, is, as we
have already stated, a subject of rejoicing. Their fate is
determined—their doom has been pronounced by the
Representatives of the people, and their own Chief has
declared his submissive acquiescence. The sentence will
be ratified by the applauding voice of the nation ; and not
of the nation only, but of every man, to whatever nation or
tribe he may belong, whose mind has been cast in a liberal
mould, and who regards political profligacy in the rulers of
a people as a public calamity.
Whoever has read over the debates which have termi-

noted• so auspiciously for the national prospects, with any
degree of care, cannot fail to have been struck by the
leading idea in almost every speech delivered on the Minis-
terial side-of the House. Hon. Members seem to have

.taken it for granted that it is impossible for the revenues of
a Church to be too large. Their argument is that Church
property cannot, from its very nature, be diverted from the
Protestant Establishment, though its amount should exceed,
ever so far, the necescory or r'„ :t

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Ti 7.:: is Luidamental doctrine of the non-appropriators,
and we find Lord STANLEY not only avowing, but
practically applying it. I admit, says the Noble
Lord, that there are numbers of parishes in Ireland,
in which there is not a single Protestant—many in
which there arc not half-wdozen—multitudes in which
there are very few—and not one in which they are not a
very small minority ; but still I cannot touch the sacred
frame-work of Protestantism. I must keep up the same
number of workmen, whether they have work to do or not ;

and he who does much, and he who does little, and he who
does nothing at all, shall fare alike—they shall all receive an
equal reward. I cannot make any distinction, because, if
I were to apportion the remuneration to the duties per-
formed, I should be compelled to have no parson where
there are no duties.

It is no stretch of this principle, but a legitimate and
necessary consequence of it, to maintain that if there
were not one Protestant in Ireland, the same Pro-
testant Establishment must be kept up, as if the
whole population were of that persuasion. There is little
danger that a proposition so extravagant—so shocking
to common sense—should gain the assent of any man who
makes a proper use of the understanding which Goan has
given him. Lord STANLEY'S authority is great, weighty,
grave—much more so, doubtless, than he thinks it ; but
it will not bring over many converts to opinions such
as these—even if he could conceal the curious fact that he
has himself done, and been accessory to the doing of, more
to violate this new-light principle of inviolability, than any
other man alive. Witness his Tithe Bills, and that whole-
sale, Bishop-demolishing measure, by which he unfrocked
half a score of Right Rev. Prelates with as little ceremony
as if they had been so many supernumeraries in the colonial
office. This is what some people call consistency

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Wednesday. The Moniteur states that General MINA
has received a reinforcement to the number of eight thou-
sand troops, and that the Minister of War is expected in
Navarre. The latter statement is however merely con-
jectural. General VALDEZ will not leave Madrid unless
the health of MINA continue so delicate as to prevent him
from taking the field in person.

Several Mernhers of the French Bar, who were nomi-

J, ut).

nated to assist the prisoners of April, have gi►•en notice to
Barcn PASQUIER, president of the Chamber of Peers, that

their services have been refused, and that it would be dero.
gatory to their honour to force such services on the pri.
son ers.

Brussels and German papers have been received. The
latest accounts from Vienna state that the EMPEROR had
been waited upon by a deputation of the nungarian Nobles
and the Pat2iarch Archbishop of EsLAti, who presented an
address to his Imperial Majesty, expressive of their deep
regret for the loss the Empire sustained by the death of
the Emperor FRANCIS, and professing the most devoted
attachment to the reigning SOVEREIGN. The address,
which was written in Latin, was most graciously received.
The Landgrave of HESSE has just obtained a verdict in a
lawsuit which has been pending for twenty years, relative to
the dowry of his second wife, who was also his brother's
daughter. The fortune he was to have received with his
niece in marriage was 13,000 dollars, the accumulated inte-
rest of which amounts to 9,000 dollars. We shall offer no
other comment on this, and similar marriages among the
German Princes, than to observe that it sufficiently accounts
for the hereditary insanity' and stupidity which distinguish
some of the most prominent members of the Aulic Council.
Nature cries out against such violations of laws engraven
on the human heart.

VIENNA, MARC!! 27.—Five per Cents. 1014; Four per Cents,
954; Bank Shares, 1343.—Allgemcine Zeitunq, March 29.

PARLIAMEN TARP SUMMARY

In the LORDS the third reading of the Oaths Abolition
Bill was postponed till Monday next. Some smart discus-
sion took place on Church Property.
In the COMMONS, a ballot was taken for the nomination
of Members to try the Drogheda Election Petition. A
warm discussion ensued on the presentation of a petition
from Lower Canada. The adjourned debate on the all-
absorbing resolution of Lord JOHN RUSSELL was resumed
by Sir J. CAMPBELL, who, with Mr. Sergeant WILDE, Mr.
BUXTON, Mr. RICHARDS, Lord CLEMENTS, and Mr.
O'CONNELL spoke in support of the motion, which was
opposed by Mr. GOULBURN, Mr. Twiss, Mr. BORTHWICK,
and Sir R. PEEL. Aftei: a reply from Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL, the House divided, when a majority of THIRTY-
THREE AGAINST MINISTERS- was declared. The House
then resolved itself into a Committee pro forma. Sir R.
PEEL wished to defer the further consideration of the re-
solution till Monday next. That course, however, was
rejected, and the Resolution will be considered in Com-
mittee this evening. The House adjourned at half-past
three.

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