The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-02 00:00:00

gift:—that the Crown and his Lordship present-
ingt by turns, the turn was not his Lordship's
but the Crown's, owing to the last incumbent
having held it under a sequestration, or in some
peculiar mode ; but the defect was afterwards re-
medied, and Dr. Madeley holds the living with
his vicarage. With respect to that Staff' Officer
of the Church, whose residence, decor:l4R to
Herries, would prove so injurious to it,
understand that the Right Hens Gentleman may
tranquillize himself On this score, as Archdeacon
Goddard has never held a visitation more than
once a year, and often has not attended a visi-
tation even once. We understand, too, that the
double duty which the Right Hon: Gentleman
stated to be now constantly performed, in 24
out of 44 cases singled out in the Archdeaconry
of Lincoh,, is precisely that sort of double duty
to which the Bishop objected in the case of the
Rev. Mr. Wray, namely, s'ervise once in the
day and an Evening Lecture ; i. e. the reading
of the Evening Prayers and a Sermon) delivered
at six o'clock. At Horncastle) for instance, a
town where there are four places of public wor-
ship besides the Church—namely, one for each
of the Independents, Methodists, Ranters, and
Baptists—Morning Pra) ers are read at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, and Evening Prayers are
read, and a Sermon or Lecture delivered, at
six o'clock in the evening. At Louth, of which
the population in 1821 was 6,014 (both
Louth and Horncastle are now much more popti-
-iesus than in 1821), there are prayers and a
vermon in the morning, at eleven o'clock ; no
duty in the afternoon, but prayers and a sermon,
or lecture, again at six o'clock in the evening.
The place is full of Dissenters of most of the
denominations, who have their places of public
worship. Horncastle is about nine or ten miles
from Bardney, and Louth about 19 or Wl ;
and, with the exception of Lincoln, they are the
nearest market towns. Gotho, a village five
miles from Bardney, has Divine Service per-
formed only once a fortnight. But we will not
travel over the list of 45 parishes, named to the
Bishop by Mr. Wray, but content ourselves with
asking his Lordship or Mr. Henries, as the two
large market towns nearest to Bardney, where
double duty is most required, are yet in state
quo, to specify the parishes in the Archdeaconry
(f Lincoln in which the alteration has taken
place. We are not surprised that Mr. Wray
has incurred a vast quantity of clerical Indira+, or:
by the course he has adopted. The whole
rookery of the Cathedral seems to be disturbed,
and the country papers actually teem with their
cawings. They evidently regard him as an un-
gracious bird towards the nest, and peck at him
accordingly. One alleges that his " father sold
penny rolls in the village of which he is Vicar !"
Another accuses him of having some fifty years
ago made up parcels of sugar-plums ! A third
charges him with the sin of " keeping a saddle-
horse ;" and a fourth informs us that he cul-
tivates a small farm for the benefit of his
family-4, an occupation not more consistent
with the Clerical profession, than his father
having been a grocer !" The religion of
these Reverend volunteers is rather of the world.
They seem to think it dubious morality on the
part of a poor Vicar) that his father was a
grocer ; but if this Christian doctrine be allow-
ed, what will they say to the positive impiety
of theii Bishop being the son of a linen-draper !
We do not mention this offensively to the
Bishop. His elevation is the more deserved,
and the more splendid, that he owes it not to
family, but to his own merits. But what have
sugar-plums and saddle-horses to do with the
vestion ? No one has denied that Mr. Wray
was a needy man with a large family, and that
in the midst of rich Clergymen and populous
benefices, he alone was called upon to resign
stipendiary duty. This is all that he complain-
ed of; and all that he asked was, that others
might be put upon the same footing, &c. &c. If
r,ranted, there is an end of the grievance ; if
denied, he is justified in accusing his superior
partiality. Mr. Henries defended the Bishop
on two pleas—one of palliation, the other of
justification. The palliation consisted, first, in
Mr. Wray holding also the Living of Maltby :
this is in his being a wealthy Clergyman ; even
if such were the case, the partiality would still
exist, as other Clergymen, still more wealthy,
were exempted ; but, under the circumstances
of Manby being, to the knowledge of the Arch-
deacon, a source of no profit to Mr. Wray, the
partiality is obvious and glaring. As to the
Bishop presenting (as a make-weight) Mr.
Wray s son to the Curacy—to claim merit for
the Bishop on this score, is to charge him with
an affectation of merit almost amounting to hy-
pocrisy. He had nothing to do with it, and if
the truth must be told, A was Mr. Wray who
presented his own son, being agent for the in-
cumbent, who is a lunatic.—Morning Chron.
The following confession of imbecility from
one of the principal organs of the Tories, is in-
structive. It is put into the mouth of Tickler,
in the Nodes Ambrosiance of Blackwood's
Magazine for July :
" You may flatter yourselves as you please—my
opinion is, that the utter want of talent, courage,
and union, which has caused the present condition
of the Tory party, will keep it where it is. With
grief do I say it, I adhered to that party, boy and
man, through evil report and through good report,
fur sixty years, Sir—l served it zealously with
tongue and pen, and bayonet and halbert too—and
it never did any thing for me, Heaven knows—and
I adhere to it still—l share its discomfiture-1 can-
not share your hopes—it is down, down, down, for
my time, at.any rate. You are young men—you
may live ;o see better times."

This reminds us of the lamentation in the
same journal a year or two ago, that the old
Tories were fast disappearing from the stage
without leaving any successors. The following
strictures in the same article on our higher ranks
are curious :

" TlCKLER.—Brighthelmstone, when I knew it,
;as a pleasant fishing village--what like it is now,
I know not ; but what I detest in the great folks of
your time is that insane selfishness which makes
them prefer any place, however abominable, where
they can herd together in their little exquisite co-
teries, to the noblest mansions surrounded with the
noblest domains, where they cannot exist without
being more or less exposed to the company of peo-
ple not exactly belonging to their own particular
sect. How can society hang together long in a
country where the Corinthian capital takes so much
pains to unfit itself from the pillar % Now-a-days,
Sir, your great Lord, commonly speaking, spends
but a month or six weeks in his ancestral abode;
a►d even when he is there, he surrounds himself
studiously with a cursed town-crew, a pack of St.
James's-street fops, and May-fair chatterers and
intriguers, who give themselves airs enough to turn
the stomachs of the plain squirearchy and their
womankind, and render a visit to the Castle a pet-
feet nuisance.
" They seem to spare no pains to show that they
consider the country as valuable merely for rent and
game—the duties of the Magistracy are a bore—
County Meetings are a bore—a farce, I believe, wits
the mad—the Assizes area