The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-26 00:00:00

in such case," says the Bishop, •,,f I could obtain
sufficient evidence of such publication, or such preach-
ing, I should deem it my duty t institute legal pro-
ceedings." And thereupon the Biahcp proceeds to
explain his notable plan fur obtaining such evi-
dence :

" You," says the Bishop, " as the churchwardens of
Brampford Spcke, are bound by the most solemn obliga-
tions to the Church, and to the Divine Head of the
Church, in which you hold the highest office you as lay-
men can bold—you are bound, I say, to bring to the
knowledge of the Bishop, or to the Archdeacon, any in
stance in which you shall conscientiously believe, on just
and reasonable grounds, that your minister has preached
or taught any thing contrary to, or inconsistent with,
that which the Church proclaims to be the true word of
God.

" Ordinarily, I should deem it highly unfit to warn
any churchwardens to be on the watch for occasions of
complaint, when they listen to their preacher's words.
Ordinarily, they are bound to hops and to believe tha.,
he discharges his high duty I.ittifully, until they shall
have been compelled, by painful and undoubting expe-
rience, to attest the contrary. But yours is not an ordi-
nary case; you have already too strong reason to app:c-
henti that your new vicar utay endeavour to spread the
poison of heresy among his people, by denying the
tficacy of the Holy Sacrament of Baptism to baptiz,d
infants. And, therefore, I now charge you, if you ever
hear such false doctrine flow from him, teat you note his
words accurately and report them to me, or to the Arch-
(fescue, without delay."

The Bishop at his consecration promised " that be
would maintain and set forward, as much as in him
lay, quietness, love, and peace among all men." We
will not willingly " believe him capable of dishonest
subterfuge," but will rather " hope, as charity bids us
hope," that he really, "conscientiously, and honestly
believes " that he is maintaining and setting forward
" quietness, love, and peace among all men," in the
parish of Brampford Spoke by setting the church-
wardens to act as spies on their minister. Be
that as it may, the method adopted will
be perfectly inoperative as a foundation for legal
proceedings. No Court would vulture to act upon
notes so taken by such persons in a case, in which not
only a word, but the position of a word may be of the
utmost importance, no Court could proceed save upon
the verbatim report of an accomplished short-hand
writer, corroborated by the independent report of
another short-hand writer equally accomplished, and
as no such gentlemen can be found in the parish of
Brampford Speke, the Bishop is perfectly safe in saying
that he will prosecute, if he can obtain evidence. No
man understands the virtue of an "it " snore com-
pletely than does the Bishop of EXSTEE.
We regard this letter therefore as a me►e brutum
fulmen, vox et prekereanihil, words "full of sound and
fury, signifying nothing," so far as Mr. GORLIAM is
concerned. With regard to the Bishop himself, the
case is different—to him the letter is as a salety-valve,
and, having given vent to the effervescence of his
wrath and disappointment, we doubt not but that he
is better both in body and mind since its publication.

DEATH

LOUIS PHILIPPE

(THIS DAY.)

The melancholy duty devolves upon us of an •
nouncing the death of Louis Philippe, the ex-King
of the French. His Majesty breathed his last at
half-past eight o'clock this morning, at his residence
at Claremont, thus terminating, in exile and compa-
rative seclusion, a life as eventful and as full of vicis-
situde, perhaps, as any on public record.
Intelligence of this melancholy event reached our
office this morning by a private messenger, and in
order to satisfy ourselves of its truthfulness we im-
mediately caused inquiries to be made at 23, North-
umberland-street, Strand, the town-residence of his
Majesty, where we received from a domestic a full
confirmation of the report, a special messenger hiving
this morning arrived in town, shortly after 10 o'clock,
bearing a dispatch announcing his Majesty's lamented
demise.

We are not yet in possession of the circumstances
attending this event. It is well known that his
Msjesty has been ailing for a considerable time past,
but there do not seem to have been any apprehen-
sions that his malady would have terminated so sud-
denly fatal as it has done. We learn that his Majesty
was so well on Saturday as to take an airing in a
hand-carriage in the grounds attached to his residence
at Claremont, and afterwards dined with the members
of his family residing there. How he spent yesterday
(Sunday) we have not been able to ascertain, further
than that about three o'clock in the afternoon a change
for the worse was perceptible in him, which has re-
sulted in the sad event to which we give publicity.
Human life abounds with contrasts and coin-
cidences. Whilst we chronicle the demise of one of
the far-famed potentates of the earth, the booming of
cannon, the jocund chiming of bells, and banners
waving in the breeze from the towers and spires of
this metropolis, celebrate the anniversary of the nata
day of another—that of the Prince Consort of these
realms.