The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-12 00:00:00

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. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Cloch.

HAMPTON RACES.
(THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.)

(Continued from our Third Edition.)
The Strawberry Hill Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 25
added, for horses that have never won a Plate or
Stakes of the value of 501. Heats ; one mile and a

quarter.
Mr. Dockeray's br f Molly Mogg won the first heat.
Mr. Prescott's br m Paradise won the second.
Molly Mogg won the last heat.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
'THE QUEEN V. THE COMMISSIONZRS OF STAMPS.-MAN-

DA NUS.

Mr. KELLY applied fora rule nisi for a mandamus
• dling upon the Commissioners of Stamps to pay back
the sum of 1,2001. which they had received as legacy
filmy from the executors of a Mr. Strachey. It ap-
peared that Mr. Strachey had by his will left the whole
of his property to his executors, who, being strangers in
blood, had to pay 1,2001. as legacy duty to the Commis-
sioners of Stamps, being at the rate of ten per cent.
The heir at-law, Mrs. Taverner, afterwards brought an
action of ejectment against the executors, and recovered
verdict, thus setting aside Mr. Strachey's will. The
probate had subsequently been revoked in the eJclesias-
tical court, and Mrs. Taverner had taken possession of
tho property by agreement with the executors, who had
subsequently applied for the return of the 1,2001., or for
an allowance of it on account with Mrs. Taverner. The
Commissioners had refused so to do, on the ground that
the executors had derived some advantage from the ar-
rangetne4 with Mrs. Taverner, but they offered to allow
a smaller sum. The application was made under the
provisions of the Stamp Act.
Lord PENMAN—You may take your rule.
BUSINESS OF THE COURT.

Lord DENMAN—I may as well state that we have sent
sa announcement to the Gazette, that this Court will sit
from Monday, the 24th of June, to the Thursday fol-
lowing inclusive. This I hope will produce no incon-
venience. We shall take the Great Western case first,
if it is ready; we shall then take the Crown 'paper,
then a selection of cases from the special paper, and
then proceed to the new trial paper.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE.—The Church—with reference to its means
of effecting the purpose 3 for which it exists as a national
Establishment ; the adaptation of its machinery to those
purposes ; and whether the existing mode of employing
its temporalities he best calculated to promote the re-
ligious instruction of the population—were last night
the subjects of debate in both Houses of Parliament.
The expediency of repealing the Act of Parliament,
which was passed eight years ago, for uniting the sees
of St. Asaph and Bangor on the demise of either of the
Prelates who now preside over these sees, was brought
before the House of Lords by Lord Powis, who had in-
t. od iced a Bill for that purpose ; the second reading
of which his Lordship moved in a speech replete with re-
ferences to the antiquity of Bishops and the attach-
ment of the Welsh people to everything ancient ; but
lamentably defieient in that most essential element in de-
bate, an appeal to experience. The superior advan-
tages of tee system sought to be maintained, as
contrasted with the benefits to the people, regarded as
a whole, which would be effected by the change he un-
dertook to resist, was the point which Lord Yowls, and
those who supported his motion, were bound to demon-
strate. •In this, it must be admitted, there was a
miserable deficiency of argument and fact, both in the
speech of the Noble Lord, and of the spiritual Peers,
who lent him very active aid in advocating the
adoption of the motion he submitted to the House.
So long since as March, 1835, a Commission, of
which the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of
London, and other Prelates, formed a part, was issued
by her Majesty for inquiring into and revising the state
of the 'revenues and patronage of the Church; the
extent of the dioceses; and all those circumstances in
relation to the Church-which affected the condition of
the Church, with a view to increase its efficiency as a
national institution. Among the various changes re-
commended in the report of this Commission, was the
union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor ; and also
those of Gloucester and Bristol. The object to be
effected by these unions was the establishment of two
new bishoprics in England ; and thus to provide more
efficient Episcopal superintendence for districts where,
in consequence of the introduction of manufac-
tures, the population had outgrown the limits of ex-
isting Ecclesiastical instruction and Episcopal super vi-
sion, and demanded new arrangements for supplying an
increase of both. The bishopric of Ripon has been
formed out of the resources obtained by uniting the
,sees of Gloucester and Bristol. Another new bishop-
ric, of which Manchester is to be at the head and
centre, remains to be formed. For this the requisite
amount of revenue will be principally derived from
the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor,
which was to take place on the demise of one or other
of the Right Nev. Prelates who preside over those dio-
ceses. The Bill, which was subsequently passed for
effecting tbese objects, was founded on the Report of
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. It was discussed in
the presence of the Bishops in the House of Lords, who
either expressed their assent, or offered no objection to
use proposed arrangements. Tacit acquiescence with,
or openly expressed approval of the measure, were
not only shown by the temporal Peers, but also by
the members of the Episcopal Bench. The Duke of
Wellington moved that the Bill be read a second time
that day six months. The Church is, however, too
strong in the House of Lords for the hero of a hundred
figt.ts, bscked though he be by the power and influence
of G iverninent. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the
his op of London—neither of whom can be supposed to be
indifferent to the interest of the Establishment in which they
occupy stations so elevated and responsible—supported
the Noble Duke in his opposition ; but their assistance
.was ineffectual. The numbers on the division were—
For the Bill to preserve the two sees 49
Against it
Majority
Thus the Government was defeated in its stronghold.
That the Commons will be actuated by a similar spirit
is not likely. The Bill, when it reaches the House of
Commons—if it ever get there—will be most certainly
inejected. Thus the old game, at the playing of which
• the Tories so much delighted while the Whigs were in
'office, is revived. The Bishop of St. Asaph showed him-
self an adept in the use of martial phraseology and allu-
sisrns—a worthy member of " the Church militant."
• • STANDARD.—Mr. Ward last night entertained the
ljElowe of Ammons with about the tenth, and question-
less the stupides+, rehearsal of his appropriation speech.
The nuisance of such persons as Mr. Ward in the world
is a grievous one, but it must, like other nuisances, be
patiently submitted to. Every society, every club,
every family, almost every individual, has the afflic-
tion of a bore ; and why should the House
'of Commons want Mr. Ward? While he lasts in Par-
liament, the Irish Church temporalities must be annu-
ally served up; and we must, therefore, resign ourselves
Ito the affliction. There are in Ireland, as we believe,
about two millions of Protestants, of whom more than
one-half are members of the United Church of England
and Ireland. These more than one million of Episcopalians
save secured to them by law, and guaranteed by an inter-
national treaty, a property equal to about that of two
English noblemen, say the Duke of Bedford and the
?Marquis of Westminster, if the Irish Church property
is quite equal to the revenues of these two peers,
which we doubt. The property thus belonging to
the Episcopalian Protestants of Ireland, instead of
being applied to personal objects, is, under terms
of the law, distributed among some 2,000 gen-
tlemen, dispersed over the country—generally men
of high education and of the purest morals, whose duty
it is to preach to such as will hear them those Gospel
truths- which five-sixths of the people of the
whole United Kingdom hold to be necessary to
man's everlasting happiness. This duty, it is con-
fessed, the gentlemen in question, with a few rare
exceptions, discharge with fidelity and zeal. The
possession of the property to which we refer by
the Irish Protestant Episcopalians, and the sacred use
to which it is applied, constitute the grievance with
which Mr. Ward and his like have been wearying the
public ear for twenty-five years, and for this grievance
they propose spoiliation as a remedy; and this remedy
• is proper enough, for rebbery and theft are in fact
the_ only remedies for the possession by others
of property which one covets. There is, as our
readers have learned from ten or eleven wearisome repe-
titions of it, but little argtunent in Mr. Ward's annual
speech, and that little it curiously unhappy. The ex-
, Mexican attache holds that the Church Establishment in
Ireland is offensive to Roman Catholics, because most
of the former clergy, and even some of our
own day, indulge in the habits of laymen,
and have disregarded or disregard their spiritual
functions. But every man of observation must see
that this conduct imputed to the clergy—how unsatis-
factory soever it may be to zealous Protestants—can
-constitute to Roman Catholics no grievance whatever.
What does it concern them whether Dives de Lacy, who
keeps forty hunters, &c., in his stable, writes Baronet or
Archdeacon after his name, wears a blue coat or
* black one ? In fact, the rich and worldly cler-
gymen whom Mr. Ward cites—and with more
truth of words than honesty of purpose cites—as
scandals to the Church, were, by his own confession, ex-
ceedingly liberal persons, highly popular with the priests
.and Roman Catholics of their neighbourhood. Mr. Ward.
must confess, moreover, that the age of the Church'sluke-
warmness and worldliness was never disturbed by the com-
pliints of Roman Catholics. The life of an Irish clergy-
man, which no office would now insure, was as insurable
fifty years ago as that of any other man ; and it
is very certain that the clergymen, the murder of
so many of whom has frightened the insurance offices,
were not the keepers of hunters, or the amassers of
wealth, but the poor, humble, painstaking laborious
ministers of the Gospel. Bow Is ill Mr. Ward reconcile
this indisputable fact with his pretence, that it is the ease
-and luxury of the Irish clergy which renders their Church
Zlgrievance to Roman Catholics? No, it is not for having
eptbn his post before but for unseasonably awakening
now, that the robber would knock. the watchman on the
head. Mr. Ward's attack, whether he understands it as
such or not, is but part of the same system under which
so many poor and zealous ministers havee been murdered;
a system ei:c.cted against the datornin g
qlesst colm
against the
property of the Church ;a