The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-10 00:00:00

applicable at this critical juncture. The Bishop
Ought.. to have known better. The Protestant
Association would stand no mock-modest non-
sense. They looked with suspicion on his Lord-
ship's tacit approval of tapers, and the wearing
of black gowns in the church. Five years ago
he compromised the honour of the Apostolic
Church by extending the right hand of fellow-
ship to the Methodists, and now he was
anxious to scrape acquaintance with the
Puseyites." See what it is to be a
timid, vacillating time-server! By oscillat-
ing like a pendulum between High Church
and Low Church, and adhering steadily
to neither, the Bishop of LONDON has alarmed
all the bigots of the Establishment, while at the
same time he has failed to win the confidence of
the Moderates. High Church swears he is a
Methodist; Low Church denounces him for a
Puseyite ; and the Moderate party say that he
is too cunning, too much of an expediency-
monger, to be trusted more than is absolutely
necessary. " Any man," continued the Chairman,
"no matter even if he be a Bishop, who was
anxious to be wedded to Puseyism, ought to be
hunted out of the Church, with a cry of stop
thief!' " This is a bright conception, and how
diverting in the execution ! Imagine the sleek,
pursy Bishop of LONDON scuttling out of the
Church as fast as his legs can carry him, and a
pack of furious Pluralists in full cry at his heels,
following scent with all the zeal and
acumen of fox-hounds ! By rousing the
bigots of Protestantism, and putting them to a
man on the qui vice, the ghostly Prelate has
done more harm to the temporal interests of the
Establishment than he will be able to repair
during his life-time. He has shown the world
that Mother Church is so torn and weakened
with schisms and divisions, that she is compelled,
through one of her chief dignitaries, to tempo-
rise and coquet with her enemies, instead of
opposing a bold front to them.

The Assistant Poor-law Commissioners have at
last made an official report respecting the condi-
tion and education of the pauper children in the
extensive parish of St. Pancras. It extends to
great length, but, with the exception of a few
points, possesses no general interest. After ex-
pressing theirregret that the Directors had notpre-
vented all attempts, open or covert, at prosely-
tism, and announcing their determination to suffer
no subsequent interference on the part of any
party whatever, for the purpose of undermining
the religious belief of the children, they furnish
some curious statistical accounts in reference to
religious instruction, if such an absurd system as
that hitherto practised can deserve the name.
It appears that while all the children attend
one morning and one evening service eighty, at-
tend two morning services immediately succeed-
ing each other, and twenty-four are present at
two morning and two evening services. All are
engaged in religious services five hours during
the Sunday; twenty-four are engaged for six
hours and a-half, and none can be said to have
more than two hours' relaxation, exclusive of
meal hours, while twenty-four have only an hour
and a-half! Now, if it had been the intention of
the Directors, and Chaplain, and teachers to
make the sacred "day of rest," and religious
duties, utterly hateful to the youthful mind, they
could not have devised a more effectual plan.
Children thus harrassed by endless repetitions,
and deprived of cheerful recreation during the
whole of Sunday, must look forward to that day
with fear and trembling. But the annoyance to
which they are subjected, is the least part of the
evil. They acquire little or no religious know-
ledge, but they acquire a dislike to churches,
and sermons, and Sundays ; and when they
grow up, and are left to the bent of their own
inclinations, can any one wonder that they pre-
fer the ale-house to the parish church, or that
they cast off all respect for parsons, and treat
with contempt religious rites and ceremonies?
This is the great and crying sin of our Sabbath
worshippers in the North, who would make a day
set apart for joy and gladness a day of gloom
and sorrow, and thereby destroy one of the
strongest incitements to the performance
of religious duties. We rejoice, therefbre,
that this important subject has been taken
up by the Commissioners, and we quote
with pleasure their concluding remarks, which
will not be lost on the parish authorities :—" We
feel persuaded that it is only necessary that the
attention of the Directors of the poor should be
called to these circumstances, to ensure the im-
mediate suspension of a practice so calculated to
establish in the minds of the children associa-
tions of the worst tendency in reference to this
' day of rest,' and of cheerful religious service."

Very few years have elapsed since it was the 1,
practice, and perhaps it is yet the practice to
some extent, in Edinburgh, to obtain much of the
water for the supply of the houses from public
pumps, around which a large group or long
strings of barefooted maidens might be seen
struggling for an early turn, or patiently wait-
ing till others were served, before they could
obtain water for the family breakfast. In Paris
it is yet the custom for men to carry water from
the public fountains into the houses—at least
the custom, which a few years ago was universal,
is not yet extinct, and the water carriers formed
a remarkable portion of the population of that
-Nqw theie are two of the most refined
cities of, the old world. Both are remarkable
for thegreat literary and scientific attainments
of their inhabitants, but in both were the houses
to a-recent period supplied with water as we have
described. Latterly it has been conducted into
some houses both in Paris and Edinburgh as in
London, and great were the exertions in both
cities before it could be achieved, and great was
the rejoicing when it was done. In Paris the
Seine gave every facility for this purpose—in
Edinburgh great difficulties were to be overcome.

But what has been done at Paris and Edin-
burgh after ages of civilization and refinement,
has been accomplished almost at once, and in
perfection, at New York. -We published yester-
day in The Sun a brief notice of the ceremony
observed in solemnly introducing the waters of
the Croton into the city, and of the works neces-
sary to conduct it thither. By channels, sy
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45 miles into New York. The whole expense
has been $9,000,000. The annual charge is esti-
' mated at $600,000, and for this 75,000,000 gallons
of water are conveyed, or three hogsheads for
every inhabitant. London is supplied with
34,000,000 g-all on s for an annual sum of $1,380,000,
and Paris is supplied with only 4,000,000 gallons,
or two quarts for each inhabitant, for $750,000.
In Paris few houses have water conducted to
their upper parts. In New York the water rises
to the top of the highest houses. "The turning
of a cock fills the tubs and culinary vessels of the
kitchen in a moment, and almost as soon the 50-
hogshead boilers of a steamboat." Looking at all
its results, it perhaps deserve the praise of being
one of the most useful undertakings of the kind
that are recorded in the annals of the world.
In our judgment the gigantic achievement does
great honour to New York, though Mr.
STEPHENS modestly said it had only followed
ancient Rome at a respectable distance. If the
modern republican city falls behind the ancient
one, it certainly far surpasses all the Royal
capitals, save one, which is also a commercial
city of modern Europe. It is very gratifying
also to read, that this great work has been con-
structed without one dollar being lost or dis-
honestly applied. It is equally creditable,
therefore, to the genius and the morality of the
Americans. It pains us to reflect that a work so
worthy of universal commendation, should not
have attracted the smallest notice or approba-
tion from a late much honoured visitor to the
United States.

The Madrid journals of the 31st ult., have ar-
rived, but contain little news. •
El Corresponsal of the 31st ult. states, that a
sanguinary contest had taken- place near Bonillo,
between some Custom-house officers and a band
of robbers. No details, however, are given.
The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid
Bourse on the 31st ult. at 211 cash, and 211 at 60