The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-25 00:00:00

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THE PARSONS VERSUS THE PEOPLE.—In his speech
on• Friday in the House of Commons, on the subject of
the present distresses, Mr. Gibson took occasion to ob-
serve that—" some upheld. the Corn-laws, on purpose
that the manufactures of the country should not advai.ee
beyond a particular point ; the fact was so ; and even
ate clergy, from whom better things were to be expected,
inculcated that doctrine from their pulpits, which was
no other than that the People should be kept at the
starving point !"—Truly this is precious doctrine for
Christian pastors to inculcate, and cannot fail to put
their famishing flacks into a .high state of comfort and
satisfaction ! Mark, too, its comprehensive philanthropy,
so every way worthy of Him, who deemed .it one of his
irst and most sacred duties to feed the hungry multitude
in the wilderness ! But though the parsons are so %%it-
'. dng that " the People should be kept at the starving
point," we doubt much whether the experiment would
rind favour in their eyes, if it were first to be
tried on themselves. A protracted Lent, would, we
!sr,, be submitted to by them with the same reluctance.
with which Exeter's pet bishop submitted to the loss of
his rioh rectory of Stanhope. Imagine the horror of.
e'antuar, at being compelled to " find himself"
on nothing a day ! Conceive' the stomachic suf-
ferings of plump London, after being kept for a
week at the " starving point." Would not the . gol-
den Prebendaries of Durham shake in their stalls at the
idea of being sulijected—though but for twelve hours—
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to such an atheistical experiment ? Would not aatits
and Chapters heap sackcloth and ashes on their wigs ; and
de whipped Archdeacons, and triple-chinned Pluralis!s
cry out " the Church in danger !" the very instant that
the " starving" system was brought to bear upon
their ghostly rotundities ? It is one thing to starve
meself ; and another, to recommend starvation to one's
friends. It is exceedingly right and proper that the
People should starve, for we have scriptural warrant for
it, in the ease of Lazarus, who is their apt representative;
but what respectable person can endure to think of Dives
—the true parsonic type—being subjected to the same
plebeian and ungentlemaulike process ?
MR. GOULBURN A THIRD TIME.—The strange blunder
,n the Tobacco Bill, which if all6wed to remain would
:lave ruined one-half of the small shopkeepers, has been
expunged. A communication on the subject has just
been addressed from the Excise-office to Mr. Younger,
of Tower-street,.who had written to complain of the pro-
posed regulation. " I am directed," says the writer,
"to acquaint you that the sth and 7th clauses of the said
13111 have been altered by the omission of the words
dealers and retailers.' " Many Will be astonished how
the words ever got there, but the fact is the great majo-
rity of our rulers are as ignorant of the habits and mode
of living of the lower classes as they are of the doings in
the moon, and are therefore totally. unfit. to legislate for
them. There could not be a better proof ofthis fact than the
present instance, except, perhaps, some of the obnoxious
clauses in the Metropolitan Police Act respecting Sunday
observance, which have only these effects—they harass
licensed victuallers and the public, excite hatred against
the Legislature, and prevent persons who might be in-
clined to attend Divine Service from entering a church,
because they will not be religious by compulsion. If the
Treasury would engage a number of shopkeepers, opera-
tives, and Chartists, as occasional advisers, they would .
find theca the cheapest and i.most useful of all public
servants. The income of one Bishop would suffice for
the maintenance of the whole.

Her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort, accompanied
by their relatives the Hereditary Prince and Princess of
Saxe Coburg, left town on Saturday afternoon for Wind-
sor Castle, attended by the Royal suite. The Royal
party left Buckingham Palace at three o'clock, her
Majesty and the Royal circle travelling by the Great
Western Railway to Slough. The Court is expected
to return to town for closing the session of Parliament
next month.
ft is rumoured that the resolutions to be proposed
by. Mr. 1166126 k on Thursday will not affect the
seats of Sir John Hobhouse; .Mr. C. Russell, Major
Beresford, Mr. Attwood, Mr. B. Cochrane, &c. but
certainly; if ever men. deserved to be expelled
House Of Commons, they. deserve- it. They have
&tie' all theyr'could to make representation a me
-faree, 'They have hartdeed: uWay the—righte of .the--
people. We are afraid, however, that lar• limebuck