The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-21 00:00:00

annually. It would allow the Xing and his Ministers
to keep up the same number of soldiers and sailors, and
pensioners and placemen, at not more expenee than
ten millions a year ; for as we have often mentioned,
the expellees of Government are, in all probability,
nearly doubled in consequence of the National Debt.
It is certainly a strange paradox to say that one evil
may be cured by another ; that the National Debt,
for instance—an almost insufferable grievance, should
be got rid of by the Court of Chancery—a grievance,
perhaps, still more intolerable, yet such appears to be
the fact. Trusting, therefore, that one monstrosity
may thus be removed by means of another monstro-
sity—one unnatural thing by another no less unnatu-
ral, we sincerely hope that there will be no improve-
ment in the administration of justice in the Court of
Chancery ; that it will go on with all ifs faults, and
that the funds will continue to increase in the same
ratio they have done for the last hundred years. It
would give us great pleasure if we could live to
see the day arrive when the Court of Chancery
should be closed, the Debt annihilated, and his
Majesty send a special message to the Lords and
Commons, calling upon them to pass an Act of
Parliament for a repeal of taxes—a repeal first of
those taxies levied for the payment of the 30 millions
interest, and afterwards a repeal of those above 10
millions a year---a sum which, after the reduction of
the Debt, would be amply sufficient for the pur-
poses of Government. The following is the amount
in the Bank, standing in the name of the Accountant-
General of the Court of Chancery, at different periods
during the last 100 years:—

1726
17391
1740,
1760
1780
1800
1806
1010
1815
1820
~,, 1825

• £741,590
- 1,007,298
- 1,295,243
3,093,740
- 7,120,537
- 17,585,912
- 21,885,719
- 25,164,480
- 32,018,299
- 34,208,785
- 39,174,722

One of those over-godly people, who are so obliging
as to take upon themselves (we were going to say gra-
tuitously, but in that we should have been mistaken)
the task of edifying and reforming mankind, and who,
for no reason and by no authority which we ever
could discover, tack the term " Reverend" to their
names, has announced his intention of taking a
psalm-singing trip to the mouth of the Thames, in
that most wickedly-named steam-vessel " The
Venus ;" and purposes, on his arrival at the Nore,
to deliver a discourse—on what subject do our readers
imagine—but on the mutiny which took place there
some thirty years ago I And to attract observation,
and a crew of pious voyagers, placards are actually
stuck up about the streets, and placed in the shop
windows of the godly, headed in capital letters, "Mu-
tiny at Me Nom" This self-constituted Divine, as a
reason for the selection of so extraordinary a subject,
states in those advertisements that he was present at
this event ; arid it may, therefore, be inferred that he
possesses what some of his classical hearers, if he has
any, will consider the best test of accuracy in a his-.
torian, the " quorum pars fui ;" and he doubtless
expects that every cockney Methodist, who can muster
half-a-crown and a night cap, will accompany him on
this most absurd and ludicrous—not to say profane
and mischievous, expedition. We have really no
patience with such inconceivable humbug as this. We
would fain persuade ourselves that there eau he. no-
body stupid enough to lend thenwelves to any thing so
Manifestly. questionable as this would be in a senous
point of view, were not its utter, imbecility ten times
more apparent. What, we would ask, can the mu-
tiny at the Nore have to do with religion, or any
thing else, at this moment It .was an event painful
enough at the time : and one which every honest
mind must consider a stain upon our annals, and from
which he would rather see the very mention of it
blotted out than its recollection revived ; and that
upon the spot where these fanatics propose, as it
would seem, to hallow and record tts existence.
Whatever may be the real object of these people, it is
a sad prostitution of religion to see it enlisted under
such banners. Pure religion and political are very
diff'erent things—the one is the source of all true hap-
piness, both here and hereafter, while the other is
made the bane of man's existence. But when the
latter becomes an instrument, in the hands of blind,
illiterate enthuSiasts, to spread mischief and inoculate
disease, we trust that we are-serving the cause of true
religion, when we deprecate any. such attempt, and
hold up its pseudo-professors to the censure which
such a manifest perversion of it merits.—lbid.

[THE BRITISH PRESS.]
Although no actual riot had taken place at Mal
chester, the movements amongst the operatives were
indicative of a popular commotion. However, the
best regulations seem to have been adopted, both by
the civil and military authorities, to protect persons
and property ; and any resistance that it may be ne-
cessary to make to the efforts of the unfortunate
weavers, should they, contrary, to their own interests,
appear as disturbers of the public peace, will be as
mild as circumstances will admit of. The appoint-
nient of Sir John Byng, as Commander of the troops
in Manchester and its neighbourhood, who gained
for himself the esteem of all classes during the Lud-
dite Riots in the year 1811, is another proof, if one
were wanting, of the anxiety of his Majesty's advisers
to act with all the forbearance their duty will allow
of, towards the unhappy persons whose conduct
renders every precaution necessary, at the same
time that their condition is deplored by all their
fellow-subjects, and by none more so than by those
who at present hold the reins of Government, as
their anxiety to relieve the distress in the Ma-
nufacturing Districts has evinced in a variety of
instances. But the evil is not to be reached by the
influence of Ministers, however sincerely it may be
applied. Time, and several circumstances over which
neither the King's servants nor the Legislature can
have any controul, can alone clear away the gloom
that at present hangs over the manufacturing popula
tion of the North. A gentlenntn of great practical
knowledge in the silk trade, who left Macclesfield on
Wednesday, assures us, that the market for silk 'goods
is by no means overstocked, and that capital alone is
required to
give comparative activity to this branch of
our nuninfactures. Notwithstanding the respectability
of the source from whence we derive this information,
we confess that we are a little sceptical regarding its
accuracy. Should it, however, be true,' we suspect
that confidence! more than capital, is required to rte
an impetus to the trade in uestion There is one ex-
traordinary fact connected withg the *present deprcssio!i,
as fiir as regards the ircei manufacture, that whilst the
artisans of Birminghiun are in the
distress for
want- of employment, those of. Sheffield d ein full
work, and consequently contented and: happy. We
cannot close this article without exhorting ,the untor.