The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-06 00:00:00

who, not having realised their expectations of im-
proved fortune, I restored, having parted with them
in the hope that they would better their conditions.
" As the cost of the City police, especially when
contrasted with similar appointments, is also made
the subject of animadversion, it is desirable that the
public, and especially the rate-payers, should I e dis-
abused in this respect. The total cost of the City
police (including some serious items, which it is
hardly fair to place to our annual expenditure) is
41,3511., which, including Commissioner, officers and
men (543 in all), is 761. per head; while the cost of
the Marylebone police (181 men) exceeds 1121. per
head. If the force of the City police were restricted
to the number originally proposed (300) when the
amalgamation of forces was under consideration, the
total cost would be many thousands per annum less
than at present, so that in fact we have nearly double
the strength at a far less average charge than what is
imposed upon the important district of the metropolis
just named.
" These, my Lord, are only a few of the useful re-
sults which examination affords, and I do hope that
the notice recently given, but since withdrawn, by the
Chairman of the Police Committee, to inquire into
the duties and responsibilities of my office, will be re-
newed; for inquiry is alike due to the public, the ser-
vice, and myself.
" I have the honour to be,
" My Lord Mayor,
" Your most obedient servant,
" DAN. W. HARVEY.
" The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."
[Here follow some statistical returns referred to in
the report, and confirming the statements of the Com-
missioner of Police.]

TPIE ANTI-STATE CHURCH ASSO-
CIATION.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The Anti-State Church Association, like a log
cast into a stream amid driftwood, is rapidly attach-
ing to itself the restless and whirling spirits of the
age. Dr. Cox sits astride upon it in all the majesty
of patron and founder, both steering the craft, trim-
ming the sails, and studying the chart laid down by
the anti-church-rate and other defunct institutions. In
the approaching conference, which has been long
threatened, and in comparison of which all previous
meetings have been but preliminary flourishes of
trumpets, each " representative," we are told, is to
have a ticket of admission, and an outline of the
weighty business which " the executive committee"
are to submit to the conference; one only test is de-
manded—what do our readers opine is this august
" open sesame" to so august a brotherhood ? It is none
of those old fashioned and obsolete tests embodied in
articles, creeds, and confessions : these are unworthy
of such a measure and such a ma*. Is it immersion,
as might be surmised ? No, it is this
The only limit imposed by the Committee in the
exercise of that discretion intrusted to them, is the de-
termination, that each representative shall, on taking
his seat, give his assent to a distinct declaration of his
conviction, that the union of the Church with the State
is derogatory to the kingly character of Jesus Christ,
contrary to the principles of the New Testament, and
injurious to the interests of religion ; that it is, there-
fore, his bounden duty to employ every legitimate means
for promoting the separation of the Church from the
State." . _

Each dissenting congregation, we are also told, is
to choose representatives to the grand conference—
one of the representatives being, we presume, from
the lists already published—the "minister." He
may complain at the meetings of tithes and church-
rates in strains of immortal eloquence—he may
complain of the union between Church and State,
under any symbols, however recherchees—he may
inveigh against lawn sleeves and silk cassocks—he
may thunder against prelates in Parliament,, or
against chaplains in workhouses ; but if he utter a
syllable against lord-deacons looking daggers from
the pew at the pulpit, or against the semi-starvation
allowance of the voluntary system, or against any
other grievance within the walls of the chapel, he may
expact either to be turned out instanter, or to be
starved out in six months. This will keep the depu-
ties as qrCet as mice on some matters, and make them
as garrulous as Dr. Cox on others. Have these
Anti-State Church agitators, however, no
alaisea to rectify at home—no corrup-
tions to get rid of? Are they so perfact
that they can spare time to make Quixotic
attacks on windmills, with which they have nothing
to do ? They are not united with the State. Why,
then, complain of what they have no concern with ?
If the Church of England feels oppressed she can say
so, and should she call in the aid of such doughty
champions as he of hackney, it will then be time fur
the Doctor to harness himself' for the battle. But, on-
second thought, it is very kind on the side of Dis-
senters to become voluntary curates for the Church
of England, and shed gratuitous tears for her, and
cry aloud on her behalf, and do their part so well
that an indifferent spectator would suppose the
Church must be " Free " and the Dissenters in
" Erastian " bondage.
The American deputation of the Scotch seceders,
having spouted violent voluntaryism in Philadelphian
meetings and pulpits, have been summoned to join
this great movement ; but the Witness, very wary as
long as an Episcopal penny is likely to be turned,
and trimming its goods to the market, thus replies
across the Tweed to Dr. Cox and his enthusiastic
compeers :
" Would it be safe, would it be expedient, would it be
catholic (Phil. iii. 15, 16) to adopt any course which
would necessarily exclude from this union so many mi-
nisters and professing followers of Christ ? We do not
call on our friends to assert Establishment principles—
why should they call on us virtually to assert the Volun-
tary ? Besides, the Free Church is not the only body
in the empire which holds the Establishment principle
beyond the pale of the Establishments. Nearly a mil-
lion of Irish Presbyterians are like7minded with us on
the subject. The myriads of Wesleyans are the same ;
and in the kindest terms, therefore, we would ask again,
isit wise, is it expedient, is it catholic, to adopt a basis
fur any public movement which must exclude all these
denominations, as well as the sound and catholic
members and ministers of the Established Church in
England ?"
The Dissenters have been milked dry. Mr. Noel
has giyen them an introduction to his brethren, and
the Church of England must first be pumped before
they break loose on her. The Patriot, the organ of
the Anti-State Church Association, far less meta-
Thysical and much more honest, replies to the TVitness
in these words :
" One word, before we conclude, as to the declara-
tion' which is made the condition of a seat in the Con-
ference. It is alleged by some of our friends that this
barrier excludes them. We cannot see why or how it
should, if they have any real desire to be included. Is
it not their conviction, that the union of the Church with
the State is derogatory to the kingly character of Jesus
Christ, contrary to the principles of the New Testament,
and injnrious to the interests of religion? No doubt it
is; then wherefore hesitate to make the declaration?
And if such is their conviction as to the awful
nature and extent of the evil, does it not immediately
become their bounden duty to employ every legiti-
mate means for promoting the separation of the two
things whose unnatural and unscriptural conjunction is,
in their minds, fraught with consequences so fearful to
contemplate ? To this question, also, we cannot but
anticipate one loud and unanimous affirmative. What
then ? Is it the conference they stumble at ? Why
should they ? What reason, that will bear looking at
for one moment, can they assign for objecting to
it ? Of whom will it be composed ? Of whom,
but of persons like-minded with themselves ? Every
man in that assembly will be there because, and only
because, he deems the union of Church and State
the same flagrant evil and wrong that they deem it, and
feels it to be his bounden duty to employ all legitimate
means for its removal, as they feel it to be theirs. Do
they really object to confer with such persons on such a
theme ? Incredible ! Impossible ! Either they do not
see the evil to be so great as others see it, or they do
not feel it to be their duty to assist in its abatement and
removal; for, if they did, they could not hesitate to con-
fer with those, and none but those, who do."
We thoroughly agree with the views of the Patriot
as to the very low landmark between honest and bit
ter voluntaryism, and voluntaryism professing to re-
tain the principle of an Establishment only to be
quoted when Mr. Noel and other stray ministers of
the English Establishment are to be inveigled. A
private letter from America, inserted in the Patriot,
will show the Patriot and the extreme voluntaries that
• a very little patience is all that is necessary in order
to secure the entire co-operation, if not incorporation,
of the Scotch seceders. This letter will also set Mr.
Noel right as to his very ridiculous assertion at the
free secession gathering in Exeter-hall, " that Dr.
Chalmers holds now at Morningside, near Edinburgh,
the very same sentiments he advocated in the Hano-
ver-rooms." The letter from America
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that they have avowed themselves to be inllexible' Vo-
luntaries,' and have promised, on behalf of their associa-
tes, to renounce the unholy alliance with the clragon'••
beast' for ever. Had they not discarded the folers
which Dr. Chalmers promulged in London a few years.
ago, they would have found the truth of our cardinal
doctrine in this country, that the union of the Church
and State is the great Bohun upas in the religious
world, which is an incurably pestiferous source of
danger, disease, and death, to all who breathe its un-
hallowed atmosphere, unless they take plentif:illy of the
Gospel antidote. I cannot he certain that sonic of the
Free Churchmen would have said amen to all that Drs.
&urns and Cunningham have advanced; however, we
believe their doctrines, and give them the dollars to sus-
tain their earnest contention 'for the faith which once
was delivered to the saints.'"
As we stated before, we lament the existence of
this Association, on account of our desire to have no
quarrel with every faithful missionary of the
Gospel, however defective the ecclesiastical polity to
which he belongs. We rejoice, however, that
the more respectable dissenting sters
,refuse to
identify themselves with this mischievous crusade.