The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-09 00:00:00

lIIARRL4CE AND DIVORCE.

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SUN OFFICE, S:x !Clock.

DERBY RACES.—(This Day.)

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THE MAIDEN PLATE.

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Banner Bearer

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NURSERY HANDICAP.
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TRADESMAN'S PLATE.

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NAVAL PROMOTIONS—(This Day)

The following promotions were mtvle at the Ad❑:i
ratty this afternoon :
Commanders to be Captains—R. Moorman, A. F. R.
De Horsey, T. D. A. Fortescue.
Lieutenants to be Commanders—E. T. Hinde, E.
Webber, T. B. Lethbridge.

The services of the Church established by law
are settled and prescribed by Act of Parliament.
They are so fixed and so absolute that no priest,
rector, or bishop, no net the whole Church, nor the
hierarchical convocation itself, can alter or vary
them. The Church cannot even settle its own doc-
trines. All questions of heresy are the preroga'ive
of lay courts ; prevenient grace, the exact spiritual
object and east of baptism, as regards the work of
regeneration and the curse of original sin, are doc-
trinal consicl,ratiops vihich are referable solely to
the civil tribunals. If a Bishop questions th e sound-
ness of the teaching of any of the clergy of whom he
is the diocesan, he mustask the Privy,Councilwhat
it thinks of it. if a parson refuses to regenerate an
infant, the lay tribunal may compel him by war-
rant to bap' ise it. If a curate scruples to say over
the body of a vile rogue and depraved sinner that
he is his dear brother, and that he is interred "in
the sure and certain hope of a glorious resurrec-
tion," he may be made to do it by mandamus and
a sheriff's officer.. Should a dean and chapter chal-
lenge the soundness of the doctrine of a nominee
of the Crown, and in pursuance of a conga d' afire
elect a more orthodox overlooker of the Lord's
vineyard, the law will toll him that his is but Hob-
son's choice—that be is indeed perfectly free to
elect whom he pleases, only he must please to elect
the Queen's nominee, and none other.
The Church of England, as by law established,
is, disguise it as High Churchmen may, a legal, not
a spiritual institution. It is a State theology, not a
national religion. As to coupling with it the prin-
ciple of religious liberty, in any real sense of the
term, theidea is perfectly ridiculous. Its ministers are
mere stipendaries of the State enlisted in the service of
certain doctrines. They are bound hand and foot
to teach a creed dictated by the civil Legislature,
under pain of being drummed out of the Church
militant the moment they mutiny into spiritual in-
dependence. If they are soldiers of the Cross, as
they are fond to call themselves, they are but sol-
diers under a military discipline, bound, while
they receive the Queen's pay, to go wherever their
marching orders carry them. Archdeacon Paley
spoke " for self and partners" when he said he
could not afford to keep a conscience. He signs
away his spiritual liberty who subscribes theThirty-
nine Articles. He has no business in the Church,
who aspires to the luxury of spiritual freedom. Hd
cannot have both the pudding and the praise. He
must let the law think for him, if he is to take the
wages of the law. He cannot think for himself
who wear's another's livery. The moment men
make of religion not a free individual thought but
a matter of social convention, then, of course, en-
forced uniformity is the only way the State can se-
cure what it proposes to itself for its money. A mi-
nister ofreligion who ought to be a " freesoul speak-
ing to, the free," is made, by our policy, only a hired
advocate to speak, not the truth, but what tells
for his client, whether true or - not, and to be
especially careful never to wander beyond the four
corners of his brief. Like the Clowns in Hamlet
who are to " say no more than is set eleven forthem,"
the State augurs and soothsayers must especially
take order that they do not wander beyond the
letter of their instructions.
Priests are proverbially proud of stomach. They
are so accustomed to dictate, that they know not
how to obey. They speak with such authority that
they forgot they, too, have authors to whom they
are bound to listen. Now they stand forth in open
mutiny, and by the weakness of the laity their re-
volt has become successful. The law has given faci-
lities for divorce. It has also legalised the re-marri-
age of divorced persons. The clergy have ignored
the law of which they are but the creatures. They
declare themselves to be above it. They deny what
the law affirms. They assort that those whom the
law divorces are still bound together—that whom
the law marries are stilt single—that whom the law
declares to be living in matrimony only cohabit in
concubinage, and its fruit to be illegitimate. They
stamp with spiritual infamy those on whom the law
confers the status of respectability. The mere crea-
tures of the State degrade its authority, and defy
its statutes., They have done this, too, not as a body,
but each for himself as seems good in his own eyes.
No. Synod conferred upon it—no Convocation de-
liberated upon it. Each curate, rector, and bishop
has taken his own course, seme of each rank
pursuing diametrically opposite courses, so that no
man can tell even what is the opiniorsof the Church
itself on this sul.jrct.
Tho House of Commons has been weak enough
still further to complicate this "ravelled skein." It
has been tender of the scruples of the clerical con-
science, even at the expense of its awn policy. While
it declares it to be lawful for divorced persons to
re-marry, it allows the sacerdotal authorities of the
State practically to mark with ignominy those who
accept and conform to its law... By a timid com-
promise it authorises all to resist the law who refuse
to obey it, stipulating only that those who aro in-
clined to conform to its policy shall have the means
of doing so placed at their disposal. How has this
concession been received ? As all compounding of
ecclesiastical domination ought to be, with ingrati-
tede and scent. Although the law declares that any
clergyman shall be entitled to the use of any parish
church for the celebration of the marriage of di-
vorced persons, George Anthony Denison, the
Bishop of Oxford, and other h;erarchs distinctly
declare that they will entirely prohibit the exercise
of this legalised right, and will denounce, and to
their utmost persecute and degrade every clergyman
who recognises the authority conferred by the law !
The Queen is the head of the Church, and has ad-
hibited her assent to the statute. What of that ?
The non-conforming bishops are " viceroys over
her"—above the law—beyond the Constitution—
usurping not only the spiritualities but the tempo-
ralities of the State. The Church of Scotland, with
its ecclesiastical supremacy seem ed to it by the
treaty of union, never claimed such powers as these.
The Free Kirk seceders from the first declared
that the temporalities of the Church were the pro-
perty of the State. They gave up their tithes ;
they left their parsonages and glebes ' • they gave t
the law the keys of their churches. All they ever •
claimed was exclusive jurisdiction, quoad spiritu-
aiia. But the Bishop of Oxford claims to eat the
bread of the State, and to refuse to do its work ;
not only to defy the law of the land himself, but to
punish all who obey it ; to be the " keeper of the
keys not only of heaven and of hell," but of every
parish church into the bargain. The bishops claim
to set the spiritual above the civil power. If that
be not Popery, pray what is ? The bishops are le-
gislators. They have seats and votes in the House
of Lords. By the very terms of the Constitution
they have not merely a representative, but an ac-
tual personal voice in the making of the laws. To
all statutes which are passed they are held to have
consented. Are they to be entitled. to bind the
laity, and to bo free themselves ? Are they, who
make the laws, and ought to be the first to obey-
them, to be permitted to defy the very acts made by
their own authority 7 If they do not show the
chief example to all of cheerful obedience to the law
of the lord, is it not high time they were deprived
of the function of enacting it Let this be re-
membered in froming•the new Reform Bill.
But weak concession only eases the scruples of
exaction. The law has legalised, facilitated, en
larked the area of the, grounds for divorce. But it
has not touched the Church services. Every person
married in facie e,cclesioe must vow at tho altar be-
fore God that lie or she takes the other "for better
for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and. in
health, until death do them part." The vow is un-
conditional. If spinster or bachelor were to inter-
pose the proviso now created by the law that it
should be voided by a decree of divorce, the Church
THE THREE CONDEMNED; CONVICTS AT LIVERPOOL.-- would be entitled to refuse to proceed with the ser-
It is now settled that the execution of Henry Rogers, vice. Every Churchman who avails himself of the
William Miles, and Charles E Iwt.rd Seymour, the law breaks a solemn vow. Why should it be ex-
former captain, and the other two seamen of the ship acted The. forms of the service should be altered
in
Martha Jane, for the brutal murder of Andrew Rose,conformity. with the statute.
also a seaman on board that vessel, shall take place at
We heartily congratulate the nation on the evi-
the'esol at Sirkdale on Saturday next at noon.
EXPLOSION AND LOU Or Livil AT NINE ELMS.— dance of enlightened progress which the enact taunt
Yesterday morning, Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East of this divorce measure affords, even mutila. ed and
Surrey, resumed and concluded an enquiry, at the Nine imperfect as it is. The spirit of monkery displayed
Elms Tavern, Nine Elms, relative to the death of John
gtohea ssaaccrear:
in the opposition to it, the desire shown by Oxford
Love, aged 19, who was killed at Mr. Pearson% saw and Cambridge and their organs, the Gladstones,
mills, Nine Elms-lane, by the explosion of a boiler of the Heannledysmaantdrimthoon rye sat ,
pt;rmoagkaetimvearorfia
ment,
which he had the charge. The jury, having consulted
for about half an hour, returned a verdict to the effect dotal order, will enable the people to set their mark
that the deceased was accidentally killed. upon the abetoore of ecclesiastical superstition. • It
WORCESTER Hor MARKET Duman —This annual
will also place them in a position to trace the sources,
event took place on Saturday list, at the Hop Market
f h t °rely traditional and purely priestly notion,
Hotel,.Worcester. Mr. J. Kitchin presided, and Mr. °thtat aildllulterly alone. ought to be.the ground for div.orce.
W. Staff ,rd was vice-chairman. A considerable number e, is truly said, have nasty ideas.
of planters and merchants were present. The u-ual " set" NicePB,?,,P
Monks themselves, forbidden
was taken as to the probable amount of duty for' theto rotary, appear to
Worcester district, whoa the highest estimate of this think that the chief endof matrimony is, as it were,
year's crop was over 87,0001 ; the lowest, 28,000/. ; to moralise and sanction the mere gratification of
mean calculation, 32,0401. odd. the sensual appetites. This seems to lie at the bola
Rsmauxanill CIRCUMSTANCE —The Berwick Warder torn of the objections of some to secondh
deceased mariaes
says :—On Friday evening last, at 6.30 p.m., the royal especially of Bishops, to marriages w ite
salute fired by the guns in Edinburgh Cantle to announce wives' sisters, to facilities for new marital relations
her Majesty's arrival at St. Margaret's station was dis- by divorce. So far from such scruples having their
tinctly heard at Dense, the distance as the crow flies
source in superior delicacy or purity, we regard
being about 36 miles. The sound would require 2i
them as the suggestions of a coarse mind, and of
minutes to travel this distance. the most grovelling ideas. To our mind. there are
SONDE IN THE STREXT.—Yesterday. morning Mr.
Longbow, the deputy coroner for Westminster, received offences against the implied obligations of marriage
information of the death of Mr. William Wiseman, a far greater than mere adultery. To find that the
gentleman residing at No 17, Upper Cumming-street, grossest deception has been practised. by either party
Pentonville, from the effects of narcotic poison. It in reference to particulars on which their first con-
appeara that, between two and three o'clock on Satur- ; for an honourable and
day morning, Police-constable 119, C division, was OR sent would. have depended
high-minded woman to be compelled to continue
duty in the Haymarket, when hediscovered the deceased I cohabitation with a thorough scoundrel, a habitual
lying upon the pavement in an
.insensible and apps- liar, thief, drunken debauchee, or swindler, whereby
rently dying condition. The assistance of other con- her own mind may be defiled, and her character
stables was obtained, and the " stretcher" being brought, blasted, is, in our sense, a far greater injustice than
he was conveyed to Miring-cross Hospital, when the
I to bs tied to a man of loose marital notions, or too
house-surgeon, finding that he was suffering from the I strong passions. Third parties are too often for-
effects of a narcotic poison, administered antidotes and
gotten in these " questions of conscience." Chil.
applied the stomach-pump, which brought off a great
quantity of laudanum, but the deceased sank, and died dren, the future citizens of the State, are brought
a few hours afterwards. up according to the degree of moral attainment of

their parents. Is a wife whose husband has become
depraved, except in the single regard of conjugal
fidelity, who has stripped his -wife and children of
their substance, of means perhaps derived .wholly
from the wife, is a virtuous and honest woman tc have
herself degraded, and her children ruined by such
an example before them ?We have l n awn a labour-
ing man, piouF, pure, honest, admirable in ev,'.ry
relation, with a large and fine family, return home
again and again, find everything gone, his children
stripped, his own clothes taken away, stolen goads
eemted, by a. drunken drab and thief of a wife. Why
is such a man to have no relief ? Even to get
of her is not enough. He must go to his work.
Who is to look after his house and bring up his
children ? Ile cannot hire help. What woman
worthy to bring children virtuously would live alono
in the house of a man so situated, unless as his
wife ? We throw out these queries to show that
we are only at the threshold of legislation on this
sabject, and to suggest a conne of reflect'on wh;cla,
we trust, a newly reformed Parliament will follow
up to a practical issue.—Dispatch.

Naval and Dim y Intoltigonce.

MEMORANDUM.
HonsE GITAIMS (S. W. )
1. His Royal Highness the General Otanmanding.
in-Chief, with the concurrence of the Secretary of
State for War, has been pleased to d, tannin() that
gentlemen desirous of entering the army may ob-
tain commissions in the line by raising 100 recruits,
subject to the subjoined regulations :-
2. Before receiving permission to raise men a
candidate, if residing in England, must report his
intention io the Adjutart-General at the Horse
Guards, who will personally examine him as to his
fitness for the army. _ _

3:The age of a e- maid ite must not be under 18,
or above 23. _ . _

4. He will be required to produce a certificate of
baptism, or other satisfactory proof of age.
5. He will produce a certificate from a minister
of the church or of the denomination to which he

belongs, that he has been duly instructed in the
principles of religion.
6. The candidate will further produce a Certifi
cate from the master or tutor under whom ho 11%s
been educated, of his general moral conduct for at
least the two preceding years, and if more than one
year from school a certificate from a respectable
person, to whom he is well known, tlrAt his conduct
has been correct and gentlemanly.
7. If approved, the candidate will be placed in
communication with the sub-division officer of the

district in which he proposes to raise his men, from

whom he will receive instructions.

8. The inspecting field officer to whom all such
recruits will be scut will keep a list-, and grant a
certific tte of the men so enlisted by him and inter-

mediately approved, and send a certificate to the
Military Secretary, Horse Guards, when the re-
quired number is complete.
9. Candidates residing in Ireland or Scotland
will, in like manner, report their intention to the
general officers commanding in those parts of the
United Kingdom, to whom instructions will be sent
for their guidance. By Command,
G. A. WETHERALL, A.G.
Lieut.-Gen. W. G. Cochrane, Colonel of the 11111
Regiment, the announcement of whose death ap-
peared in The Sun of yesterday, entered the service
in 1805, served in the Peninsula during the cam-
paigns of 1808, 1809; 1810, 1311, and 1812, includ-
ing the battles of Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera, Bu-
saco, siege of Olivenca, the first siege of Badajoz,
siege and storm of Ciudad Rodorigo, &c. The gal-
lant General had received the war medal with six
clasps. The colonelcy of the 11th Regiment is va-
cated by his decease.
Col. the Hon. A. Gordon, Deputy Quartermas-
ter-General, has resumed his duties at the Horse
Guards after a short visit to the Earl of Aberdeen
at Haddo-house, N. B.
Sir C. Wool and the Lords of the Admiralty
have art ived at Queenstown on a visit of inspection.
Sir C. Wood is expected to arrive in town on Fri-
day evening.
The Perseverance steam troopship, Commander
M'Donald, arrived at Sp:theacl on the night of
Monday, from the West Indies.
The Scotia steatn transport sailel yesterday from
Purtsmouth with a portion of the 72d Highland ra
for India.

The Termagant, 25, screw frigate, Lieut. Kane in
command, went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday
afternoon, to preparo for being paid off.
The Gloriana freight ship, with the troops on
Loard before repo ted, went to Spithead yesterday,
and will sail to-clay, weather permitting, for India.
The Curagoa, 31, steam frigate, was taken into
dock at Portsmouth yesterday, to make good de-
fects for immediate re-comnyi.ision.

The Cyclops, 6, pafidle, Liautenant Command.!r
Joseph Dayman, will haul into the same basin at
Portsmouth to-day, and to-morrow go into dock
for examination and to repair all defects. She is
to be heavily armed and proceed to the Red Sea.
it is believed she will take out troops and also be
the avant courier for the laying of the electric tele-
graph from Suez to Aden, after having landed her
men and munitions of war. She will a,sc,artain the
necessary soundings, similar to her useful and
scientific soundings across the Atlantic on a late
occasion.

The Diadem, 31, screw, Captain (Shell) Moor-
FOM, has fid&d topmasts, and will haul out of
Portsmouth Dock to-morrow.
The Hero, 90, building at Chatham, landed two
of her boilers at Sheerness yard yesterday, each
weighing 26 tons 4 cwt.
The Hood 80, building at Chatham • her four

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boilers are landed in Sheerness Dockyard.
The Renown, 90, screw, is still in No. 3 city
dock, Sheerness. Mechanics are still actively en-
gaged securing her stern-posts, irc. She is fitted
at present for ordinary.
The Victory, guard ship, has struck topgallant
masts preparatory to going into dock. She will be
moved from her moorings under the sheers jetty to
have her masts taken out, and will then be placed
in No. 3 dock to have a thorough repair. Her
crew in the interim will be berthed on board Bele-
roplion, Diadem's crew being turned over to Prince
Regent hulk pro tem.
Tho .Nile convict ship embarked on Tuesday
*Toning, at Spithead, 40 prisoners for Western
Australia.
The Alban steam vesesl, Lieut. the Hon. W. B.
De Blaquiere, left Portsmouth on Monday night
for Sheerness, with supernumeraries.
The Jura steamship is ordered to proceed to Ire-
land with the troops (30th and 55th) she brought
from Gibraltar.
The Chesapeake, 51 gung, new screw steam-fri-
gate Capt. R. B. Vatson, C. 8., &c., was inspected
on Monday by the Commander-in Chief, and left
Sheerness yesterday at L3O p.m. ; after saluting
the flag she proceeded. to Portsmouth for her final
orders.
In consequence of the orders for the embarkation
of a large portion of the Royal Artillery corps now
in garrison at Sheerness, including Captain Des-
borough's field battery, 150 marines and officers
have arrived there from Chatham barracks for dock-
yard duty. They are to take up their quarters in
the dockyard naval barracks. An order has arrived
to prepare to receive 400 Royal ArtilLry recruits
into garrison at Sheerness for completion of their
The following appointments have born made at
the Admiralty :—J. W. Morris, mate, to the Buz-
zard ; G. W. Bloxsome, mato, to the Valorous ;
M. E. Porter, mate, to the Conflict ; R. B. Niche-
letts, mate, to the Styx ; B. G. A. Belson, mid-
shipman, to the Diadem.