The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-01 00:00:00

stand, avowedly in defiance of their own convictions,
and without any other reason or pretence than the
love of place ? Of the various classes we have
enumerated there is not one with whose services in
Parliament Ministers can dispense. They must have
the support of all of them, or fall; and it is ques-
tionable indeed whether they can stand even with
that support. All we can say is, that if they obtain
it—if they can rally around them, in the character
of firm supporters, all the various classes whose
principles and objects they are bound steadily to op-
pose, they will have atchieved a triumph without
any parallel in the annals of political accommodation.
—Morning Post.
The evening contemporary, to an article insert-
ed in whose columns' we felt ourselves yesterday
called on to reply, informs us, in a more legiti-
mate form, which we are glad to see it resume,
that two of the Masters in the new University are
not Dissenters from the Church of England, be-
' cause they are members of the Established Kirk"
of Scotland. We suppose we shall next be told
of a Unitarian that lie is no Dissenter, but a
member of the Established Church of Geneva.
Our cotemporary asks us if we cannot form some
idea how a Clergyman may explain Livy to a
class of students without, at the same time,
preaching a controversial sermon. We rather
think we can, and we can form an idea of a
writer, ignorant enough of the principles of reli-
gion to confound them with a controversial ser-
mon. We have satisfied our mind—we wish
we could satisfy our contemporary—that a cler-
gyman may accept an invitation to dinner, even
though coupled with an implied condition that
he shall not, while others are eating, go through
the Morning or Evening Service. W e have sa-
tisfied our mind of another particular also, that a
man in Holy Orders, who should, for the sake of a
dinner, accept an invitation, in which it was an ex-
pressed condition that he should not ask a blessing
to his meal, would be a very contemptible per-
sonage. This we conceive to be a case rather
more in point than that which our contemporary
has put. We turn to a matter of more import-
ance than replying to our contemporary, whom
we do not hope to convert, and who will hardly
convert us. It must be evident,to the meanest
capacity, that if the new University be not in-
tended to inculcate Dissenterism by implication,
as we were charitably disposed to believe, it is
intended to effect a divorce between education
and religion of every kind. Under the pretence
of not offending the tender consciences of Dis-
senters, it seeks to separate what God and nature
have said ought to be joined together ; and
Which, if not united in youth, will never be
united at all. At the risk of marring the effi-
ciency of the school in Upper Gower-street--of
thinning even the class of the great master of
political economics—we call most seriously on
the Clergy and Laity, on the instructors and
members of our National Church, to come for-
ward speedily, and vigorously, and unanimously,
in its defence against such an institution. If
they delay or refuse, they may seek for repent-
ance and find no place for it, when the conse-
quences of their lukewarmness and apostacy have
overtaken them.—New Times.