The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-13 00:00:00

the Church,

necessary to salvation." If worldly strife can be
healed by theological controversy, the Church,
according to the Bishop of LONDON'S Charge,
will be an admirable means to restore unity to
our sundered people.
Perhaps much may be expected from " re-
generation by baptism," which the Bishop says
is, beyond all doubt, the doctrine of the Anglican

Church ; but some clergymen, it seems, doubt
u this fundamental doctrine of the Christian
faith," and " alter, or omit some part of the
baptismal service." The unfortunate people who
may get amongst them one of these misleading
priests may thus lose even the advantage of
" regeneration by baptism," and be left without
any help. Su again, as to Church discipline, the
Bishop implied that some clergymen do " not ob-
serve the Rubric, and are guilty of no ordinary
crime," yet these criminals are to be the guides of

mankind. He recommended them "to with-
draw from the ministry," and of course set up
rival chapels, to exhibit to the people sharper
and fiercer contests between the teachers of
Christianity.

" Several of the clergy," says the Bishop,
" had lately observed Saints' days," which lie
.( did not think was Popish, and he should not
object to it." How vastly will such an observ-
ance benefit the people ! It is another name for
idleness and holidays; and Saint Mondays,
under the auspices of the Church, will be ob-
served thrice a week. The loss of such festivals,
the Bishop tells us, was caused by the negligence
of the priesthood, and one of the speediest ef-
fects of their newborn zeal will be to restore
them. Some people now wish to stop locomotives
on Sunday, but when the Revival is complete,
steam-engines, and all that depend thereon, must
stand still whenever the Church ordains a fes-

tival. If that should, perchance, benefit the
workman, it will scarcely add to the national
wealth nor the public revenue.
The dress of the clergy is to be simple, says

the Bishop, arid thereby the people are to be
made respectable. To provide for the public
welfare, the clergy are not, " when reading, to
turn their backs on the people." There is virtue,
too, in '; placing candies on an altar, if they are
only allowed to burn when the church is lighted
up." Great things, also, are expected from the
clergyman " ascending the pulpit immediately
after leaving the communion table ;" and the
whole people may possibly be converted to
righteousness by their preaching " in their sur-
pikes in the morning and in their gowns in the
afternoon." In conclusion, the Bishop threw in
a recommendation to charity, as a make-weight,
and exhorted the clergy, whose controversies
Ire had been exciting, to be of one heart and one
mind.

We have given an abstract of the abstract which
the Tory journals have published of the Bishop's
Charge. The controversies and ceremonies he
adverts to are the means which the Church offers to
cure our present disorders. More Church, too, is
all which the Tories have left of their own to
prescribe for the people. More of these ceremo-
nies, controversies, and Saints' days is what they
now, as a final remedy, recommend to the starving
and afflicted workmen. If we could possibly
feel, in the present circumstances of the coun-
try, any other emotion but indignation at such
heartless, unthinking quackery, we should laugh
heartily at the transparent hypocrisy and uu,
blushing impudence of those who pretend, with a
grave face, that more Church, as the Church is
described by the Bishop of LONDON, is the pana-
cea for the national evils.

The great movement now in progress Yawn'
the German States promises to be attended wit;'
important results to this country and France.
A strong desire is manifested throughout all
those districts where the German language is
spoken, to form a political as well as a commer-
cial union, which shall be animated by the same
spirit, and above all by one feeling in common—
a feeling of national honour. The disjunction of
the Italian States, and the ruinous civil wars
which they long carried on against each other,
have rendered Italy all but helpless, and made
her, on the ocasion of any great European con-
vulsion, the prey of the most powerful
neighbour. In Germany causes of a different
kind have produced nearly the same result.
Had unity of council, and a national feeling of
independence and patriotism prevailed through-
out that extensive and fertile territory, inhabited
by people speaking the same language, and hav-
ing many interests in common, the French would
have boasted of fewer victories during the last
war, and the different electorates and kingdoms,
as well as the empire itself, would have been
spared those defeats and devastations which
brought them successively under the dominion
of NAPOLEON. " Every misfbrtune," it is well
observed by a German writer, " that we have
i a
suffered for centuries, may be traced to one
whose
first ourselvesd ut
iris to cause, and that is, that we have ceased to
consider unitedexert noautri ocno
common
obnroetffhoerrtss,
to oppose the common enemy." The sovereigns,
and the people too, begin to see the real cause of
their weakness, and are cordially joining
general effort to break down the b • arriers which
so long separated them and rendered
them so
defenceless against a powerM and unite+. • I
people.
Prussia began the work ; it has been responded
to by Austria ; and the watchword is, using the
language of the Archduke JonN, " No Austria;
no Prussia ! But one Germany, strong as her
mountains." The Commercial League has con.
tributed not a little_ to this national movement,
but it may be traced to a still greater cause, for
which M. TRIERS deserves especial thanks. The
mad war cry which he excited two years ago
acted like an electric shock on the minds of the
Germans, and recalled the sufferings, the insults,
the levies of money, and all the horrors of the
last war. Writers in French journals added ex-
citement to the general feeling. They proposed
an inroad into Germany, and claimed the Rhine
as the natural boundary of France; the Ger-
mans responded to the threat, patriotic songs
were heard in every town, and village, and ham-
let, along the banks of" their own Rhine," and
but one feeling, that of resistance to the French,
animated every State. Out of evil, therefore,
cometh good; and perhaps no greater good could
be conferred on Europe than a general confede
ration, which should unite the Saxon race in the
heart of Europe, forming a barrier against Rub-
sia on the north, and a security also against any
invasion from France on the west. No event could
contribute more to the peace of the world. The
Germans are a quiet, industrious, and intelligent
people, and when formed into one compact body,
occupying a vast extent of country, and possess-
ing great national resources, they. would be .in a
position to act their own part, willing to follow