The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-04 00:00:00

DISTAFFS.

Harlequin, Mr. Ellar ; • Pantaloon, Mr. F. Sutton ; Clown, Mr. T.
Matthews; Whirligig, Mr. W. H. Payne. Columbine, Miss C. Reekie.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We regret that we are under the necessity of declining an article
from an ingenious Correspondent, entitled " Tory Assumptions,
and Replies to them." It is clever and spirited, but the matter,
in some parts, treads hard upon libel.
For the " Police Intelligence Extraordinary," we will, if we pos-
sibly can, find room in a day or two. But it must be pruned a
little of some of its verbal luxuriances.

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1835.

All doubts are now remover as to the extent to
- which the Tory Administration means to carry
Church Reform. A Commission has passed the great
Seal, appointing certain Ministers of State and sundry
Bishops Commissioners for considering the state of
the Church in England and Wales. The points,
with a view to which the Commissioners are to ex-
cise their powers of consideration are, as our readers
will perceive by the Gazette of last night, not very
numerous. The limits of consideration are carefully
and cau:iously fixed. Beyond these limits no im-
pertinent thought is to be allowed to stray—no
fanciful speculation to be indulged. " The revenues
of the Dioceses," the more equal distribution of
Episcopal duties," com:nendams," " cathedral and
collegiate churches," and " dm: residence of the clergy
on their respective benefices," ire the only sub-
jects to which the attention of the Con:.missioners are
directed, and therefore we must infer that the abolition
-)f Tithes and Church rates, the relief of the bishops
from their laborious and uncongenial duties in Parlia-
ment- —the stoppage of episcopal translation—the ex-
clusion of ecclesiastics from the Civil Magistracy
—and, aloUt.Th last, not least—the revision of the
Articles and Liturgy—form no part or portion of the
Reform meditated by the PEEL administration. But

what can be expected when the physician is ap-
pointed to " heal himself?"

Another " great " Conservative meeting was held.
last Wednesday, at a Tavern in Durham, attended by r,
a fine display of parsons, one Honourable Gentleman,
and two Lords and a half, Baron RAVENSWORTH,
the Marquis of ;LONDONDERRY, and his son, Vis-
count CASTLEREAGH. As it was too rich a thing
for the records of it to be suffered to evaporate in
Tory journals alone, we owe it to our readers to offer
them a participation in the treat.
The chief speech-makers on the occasion—indeed
the only two, for the few observations made by others
can scarcely be magnified into speeches—were the
lucid Marquis and the Re;•. G. TOWNSEND. His
Lordship's oration was fearfully long, and much in his
usual style for perspicuity of meaning, and elevation
of sentiment. He spoke of his party with all the fer-
vour of affection, and of his party's opponents with
all the fervour of hate—just as might be supposed. The
only point of his speech really exquisite, was his enor- 1
mous admiration of the man "whom he had followed for
the last twenty years (the Duke of 'WELLINGTON),
who—for not having taken the office of Premier himself,
but advising the KING that, " as his MAJESTY'S
Prime Minister must be a Member of the Lower
Hou§e," and that, therefore, " Sir ROBERT PEEL
was the only person to fill that situation"—had re-
immortalized his immortality. At such an inconceiva-
ble spirit of disinterestedness the Noble MarqUis was
in perfect extacies, and he declared to goodness that
be looked upon " this particular trait in his (the
Duke's) character, as the greatest jewel in his (the
Duke's) diadem of worldly glory—one of the'noblest
acts of his (the Duke's) great and immortal career."
The only other notable subject was what subsequently
fell from his Lordship's lips, about the story of the
appointment to the Court of St. Petersburgh, which
turns out to be not fabulous, and that his Lordship is
actually expecting to proceed upon his mission in the
course of a few weeks. But, ail I what strange
changes may not come to pass in—the course of a few
reeks

The Reverend G. TOWNSEND was really effulgent,
and the " envied, the hated, the calumniated, the
despised, the insulted Clergy," as he calls them, can-
not choose but consider him a miracle of an orator
spicially sent forth to aid them in the working of their
earthly salvat ion. He enlightened his auditory upon many
obscure points of Ecclesiastical history. The Clergy,
he told them—and we religiously transcribe his own
words—might be regarded as divided into two parts,
the parochial clergy (who are confined to their own
parishes) and the cathedral clergy, who are theoreti-
cally supposed to be released from the more peculiar
charges of attending to a flock, that they may have
leisure for the cultivation of studies and the produc-
tion of works which shall be of more general and uni-
versal use ! Yes, even so he expounded the theory in
contra-distinction to the practice. He said, moreover,
that by this arrangement the morality, the spirituality,
and the learning of the country, have received equal
attention, and that we have had a succession both
of useful pastors, as well as a succession of learned,
useful, laborious, standard writers, whose works
have been, and will be, handed down as the
authorities and guides of all nations, so long
as the Scriptures last, and mankind is able to
appreciate the value of intellectual and religious
improvement. After expatiating upon the excel-
knee of this arrangement, and defending the cathe-
dral clergy against the attacks of an ill-natured
and stiff-necked generation, he adverts to their reviling
in the following biting bit of irony—" arid I think the
pleasant remark is added that we are a nuisance."
Monstrous calumny I

The Reverend Orator then enters into an examina-
tion of the great inequality which occurs in the wealth
of the clergy ; how that the owners of great estates
endowed the parishes in the olden times; how nobles,
great men, and princes endowed the cathedrals with
lands for the perpetual maintenance of daily worship;
how that by their caprice some of the clergy were com-
paratively poor, while others were more enriched ; how
that the difference was greatly increased in the reign
of the "celebrated" HENRY VIII., who plundered
without mercy both parishes and cathedrals, and be-
stowed the ecclesiastical revenues on whom he
piea•sA ; how that the church of Durham did not
so much plundered as others, and hence
happen to he
the continuance'of its present high revenues.
He then proceals—but as' this importantly
touches the question of ii:violability, and places it in
a somewhat startling point of view, his reported
words must be specially quoted :
" All the landed property of the country by a
fiction of our ancient law belonged to the King, that
is, to the State. The King and the State have or-
dered that the greater proportion of that property
should be appropriated to various individual noblemen
or gentlemen, and that it may pass from one person
to another either Ziy descent, by will, or by purchase.
Another large portion of landed property is per-
by the State to be funetiona;T uroperty, to pass
from one p:rson to another neither by deseei::; by
nor by purchase; but to be granted and apportionen
to such individuals as by their education, their cha-
racter, their virtue, their wisdom, their perseverance, or
their clerical qualifications, generally considered, may
be deemed worthy of possessing it. Such is the
church property of which we are speaking, and one
great benefit of this tenure of a large mass of landed
property, is to maintain among the people the hope,
the happy and enduring hope, that their families may
obtain a portion of this property" ! !
Having rid his mind of this extraordinary piece
of intelligence, he becomes at once daring and logical.
I boldly declare, he continues, that the property of the
Church is the property of the people of England ;
how ?—because the poorest man who can send his son
to the lowest and cheapest school, where a competent
education may be acquired, is entitled to hope for a
share of that property. No sooner does he mount this
theme, namely, the blessings of expectancy, than he
becomes eloquent in right earnest, and handles the
subject as "applying itself equally to both the purses
and the bosoms of the poorest man among us" with a
master's skill. He tells the poor fellow to go and take
a peep at the broad and goodly domains of the Earl of
DURHAM, a little way off, and. reflect how very long
he would have to look, before he could hope to get a
slice of theth (very truly !), and then come back and
throw his eye upon the church domains and, reflecting
how much more likely of realisation were the hope of
sharing that property, to thank God for the blessing in
prospect, honour the KING, "that is the state," and
maintain Mother Church like a true man

Such is an outline of the rigmarole propounded by
the Reverend theorist to the great Conservative Meeting
at Durham, which secured to him the reward of vehe-
ment, Icing-continued, and frequent vociferations of
applause rTo comment upon it would be 'at once
cruel and unprofitable amusement ; we record it simply