The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-20 00:00:00

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SUS OFFICE Three o'clock.

Important intelligence has just been received
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by Government—namely, that the boy JONES s
returned I Infinite is the consternation that this
alarming tidings has occasioned in all official
quarters; the police authorities at the Garde-
ner's Lane station-house are at their wits' end;
Downing-street " refuseth to be comforted ;"
and the Under-Secretary to the Home-office was
seen yesterday walking towards Buckingham
Palace in an unusually thoughtful and ex-
cited mood ! In this awful emergency, when
Royalty is threatened with another visitation
by the remarkable youth in question, why is
not a Cabinet Council sutnnioned, and orders
issued to surround Pimlico with a cordon of
police; to double the sentinels at Story's-gate;
establish a floating battery on that part of the
lake nearest the Palace; and take up every
youth, " aged eighteen, with ginger whiskers,"
who may be seen sauntering within a dozen
yards of St. James's Park ? Is such a distin-
guished personage as JONES to return, and no
preparations to be made against Ibis advent ?
Where is the bead of the Home-office, Sir
JAMES GRAHAM ?

" What wants he in the North,
• When he should serve his Sovereign in the South ?"
[he boy JONES is returned; nay, he is actually
at this moment in London; and yet the Home
Secretary still lingers in the sequestered shades
of Netherby Scandalous negligence! But what
else was to be expected from a Tory Minister !
We pay these men collectively upwards of thirty
thousand pounds per annum; we allow them to
sweat sevenpence—the monsters !—out of every
ingle pound we possess; and yet when the boy
JONES returns (meditating, no doubt, another
noctural irruption into the butler's pantry at
Buckingham Palace)—these men, whom we pay
at such a preposterous rate, take no more notice
of the boy, than if he was any other boy, and
not the Jo.gEs! Under these circumstances,
we feel that the LORD MAYOR is imperatively
called upon to make a tender of his'services to
Majesty. He can do wonders, if he will but set
about it in a right spirit. Let him but beleaguer
Pimlico with a battalion of Beef-eaters; station
a fat Special at all the approaches to the Palace ;
and pop every ginger-whiskered stripling in the
Black-hole; and then the Royal Household will
be enabled to sleep in peace, even though Minis-
ters are negligent, and the boy JONES is returned!
Should we hear any further particulars respect-
ing. this most surprising and unexpected return,
we shall make a point of communicating them to
our readers in a Second Edition.

We have time merelpo call attention to the
letter of Mr. CHILDS on " Bible Monopoly,"
which contains some facts of great importance to
the religious community. Little credit for
sincerity can be given to those: "'Church-
men who cry out for Church extension,
and the diffusion of the truths of the
Gospel among the ignorant multitude, while
they do all they can ,to make the Bible a
sealed book to the poet.. It would even appear
:hat the very agents and travellers of the Society
tbr the Diffusion of Scriptural Knowledge, de-
precate all attempts to lessen the prices.
This cannot fail to raise strong suspicions as to
Lhe motives of those who have the management
of its affairs, and requires the serious considera-
tion of the numerous subscribers. We shall pro-
!lably return to the subject.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 11th,
Every preitaration was making for the approach-
ing session, which will be an interesting one.
Frequent meetings of the Council had taken
place, and Government was adopting the most
active measures to put down the bandi which in-
fest the provinces of Toledo and Ciudad Real.
• Accounts from Algesiras of the sth inst. state
that the Commander of an English ship of war,
,rho lately captured a Spanish barge, refused to re- j
turn it without a positive order from his Admiral.
The barge remained moored to the stern of the

The Three per Cents. were done at 21-1 at 60

The clerical agitatora in the Church of Scot-
land, if they are not .Yetnarkable for discretion
and sound judgment,-may claim great credit for
powers of invention. Even Mr. O'CoxisELL, in
his long and varied political career, has not sur-
passed them in forming ingenious- plans for
rousing his countrymen, or keeping up the
spirit of excitement so-necessary for the accom-
plishment of his objects. Having carried eman-
cipation, he turned his attention to Parliamentary
reform, and from that to repeal, shifting,
occasionally, the scenes with great dexterity
and judgment. The gentlemen of the north
have stolen a leaf from his book, and
are determined to vie with him in the variety of
their schemes fur the abolition of Church pa-
tronage, and the repeal of the union between
Church and State. They began with the Veto
Act, and in their attempts to make that the law
of the land as well as Of the Church, they com-
mitted acts of great severity, by deposing and
suspending numbers of their disobedient brethren.
That system was found very inconvenient, and
also very ineffective, for one punishment
prepared the way far ten offences more, going
on in geometrical progression, and the criminals
only became more hardened and stiff-necked.
They saw this was a hopeless task, as they could
not secure obedience to the law without
sweeping from the Church the whole of the
obnoxious race, and that was an alternative
which they could not muster up courage to adopt.
At different times, they have threatened to leave
the Church in a body and preach in wooden
kirks; at another they
.passed a vote of Assembly
denouncing patronage, and drew up a petition of
rights, which unfortunately drew little attention ;
then there was a plan for a roving-Commission
in England to enlighten the ignorance of. Wes-
leyans and Episcopalians, but this proved the
most abortive scheme of all, for not one of the
missionaries ever passed the border. Driven to
their wits' end they have at least hit upon a noble
device,and have summoned aGeneralConvocation
of the Non-Intrusionist clergy to meet at Edin-
burgh next month, accompanying the summons
witha proclamation that, for one Sabbath at least,
all the churches under their authority shall bede-
serted. So the people are to be deprived of or-
dinances for a time at the bidding of these men;
and for their sins, and the sins of the land, are
to be laid under an interdict, as was the custom
during the tyrannical and bigotted reign of
Popery in the dark ages. The conduct of THOMAS
A'BECKETT was nothing to this. That prelate,
though as grasping as most of his fraternity, had
some cause of complaint against his Sovereign,
who took the law into his own hands, and he,
therefore, avenged himself by excommunications
and interdicts. But what grounds of complaint
have these clergymen either against the Crown
or the State? and why, in this unseemly contest,
are the religious people alone to suffer ? Such
conduct is unwarranted either by law or custom,
and requires the serious consideration of the
Lord Advocate and the Home Secretary. if
they neglect their duty for two weeks, they may
neglect it for a month; and, while they take
care to retain their stipends, their flocks
are left without the usual means of reli-
gious instruction. And for what purpose
do they desert their parishes ? To agitate the
country, to excite the people against the Govern-
ment, and to rail against the Courts of Law and
against the law A vast number of ignorant
people have lately suffered severely for disobe-
dience to the law; and are well educated men,
paid, too, for performing their duty and teaching
the people to submit to the powers that are, to
be suffered to assemble in conclave, and with
impunity make seditious speeches, for which un-
educated and starving men are punished ? If
JAMES GRAHAM follow out his principles, and
mete out justice with an even hand, he will watch
their proceedings, and make no distinction be-
twen them and the Chartist leaders.