The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-24 00:00:00

Mountcashel, we fear that few will derive much:
encouragement to enter the arena. We gave
Lord Mounteashel's answer yesterday to the
Learned Prelate, for the 'Bishop's we had not
space, and our readers, as they would perceive
by Lord Mountcashel's reply, are at no great
oss. That the Church of England in Ireland
is any thing but what it ought to be
—a useful instrument for the diffusion of
Christian knowledge and morality, and a
bulwark against the
well
of priesteraft
and Papistry—is too w known to be even a
matter of question: Mr. Hume, in two of the
ablest and most enlightened speeches which were
ever made upon the subject in the House of
Commons, has demonstrated twice within the

last five years,—first, that the revenues of thc
superior Clergy were out of all proportion either
to the services required, or to the incomes of the
inferior Clergy. Second—That notwithstanding
the expenditure of such an enormous sum as is
annually paid to the Irish Clergy, the Church
was most inefficiently served, partly in conse-
quence of livings and preferments being given
away, from political and other motives than the
qualifications of the parties, and the good of the
Church—partly from the ignorance, partly from
the non-residence, of the Clergy, and partly from
the numerous and iniquitous unions of several
parishes under the spiritual direction of one
pastor. We say these matters were proved by
numerous statistical returns incapable of contra-
diction, and to which the only answer that was
attempted to be given, was a cry of " the
Church being in danger," and of those being
eager for its overthrow, whose only anxiety was
to purify it, and render it a useful instrument of
public instruction and moral controul. The
times, however, have altered since then, and
men and opinions have altered with them. The
most zealous friends of the Protestant Establish-
ment now come forward and loudly denounce the
abuses which only four yearsago were most stoutly
and reverendly denied—nay, go farther than even
Mr. Hume did, who at the time was loaded
with every epithet of abuse, and, in addition to
charges of enormous incomes and neglect of
duty, prefer the more serious one of dissolute-
ness and immorality ! It is true that the Bishop
of Ferns denies the existence of enormous in-
comes on the part of the higher order of the
Irish clergy, and that Lord Mountcashci con•
siders that the whole amount received by the
clergy would not to he too much for each, if
properly distributed and divided ; but the fact is
neveitheless undoubted, that the whole sum is
by far too much for the services required, and
that it is so unequally divided and apportioned,
as, on the one hand, to lead to gross neglect of
duty, and, on the other, to furnish no stimulus
for its performance. We do not mean to state
that the income of the Clergy in France, or any
other state on the Continent, furnishes a just
criterion to judge of that which ought to be
awarded here ; but in France, where there are
30,000,000 of souls to take care of, and about
fifty thousand priests and prelates to take care of
them, the whole expellee of the Church Esta-
blishment does not exceed a million and a half!

the salary of a Bishop being about 6001., and
that of an Archbishop a little more than 10001. !
while the Church of Ireland costs two and a
half millions. These sums, however, are per-
fectly insignificant in the estimation of the Bishop
of Ferns, and no wonder that they arc, seeing
that the revenues of a few Bishoprics would
go far to defray the whole expellees of
the prelatical staff in France ! "I am
not satisfied," says the Bishop of Ferns, " at
being rated at 8,0001. when I cannot reckon on
5,0001. Nor am I pleased to hear the Arch-
bishop of Dublin rated at 14,000/. when I am
convinced that he has not 8,0001. ; nor at the
Bishop of Derry's being rated at 20,0001. when
I do not believe him to have more than 15,000/.!"
and these are great evils assuredly, though not
quite so great as having no thousands at all,
which, it is alleged, would in many instances, be
nearer the mark of merit and :actual good ser-
vice. We leave this point, however, to be' dis-
posed of by those who can judge better than our-
selves what quantum of piety and learning and
moral conduct is worth 15,0001. a-year, when
many hard-working curates—men who are orna-
ments to their profession—can barely procure a
tithe of it —simply adding, that the agitation of
the question of reforming the Church of Eng-
land in Ireland has always been productive of
good, and must be productive of more—that the
Church was instituted for the benefit of the

people, and not: for the purpose of enriching a
few individuals—and that the services rendered
by the Church being defrayed by the public, lay-
men have even a stronger and better right to in-
quire into and reform its abuses than those who
are in its pay, and are guilty of the abuses.—
Morning Advertiser.

The representations by which the Officers of
the Bengal Army have attempted to avert what
they deemed an unjust and unnecessary diminu-
tion of their income, have given rise to specula-
tions and surmises in this country for which the)
do not appear to us to afford any thing like a
rational foundation. The exaggerated tone in
which the subject is treated by sonic of our Co-
temporaries would be highly amusing, but that it
may probably be mischievous. One of them
perceives in the dissatisfaction of these Officers
with the proposed regulations, an incipient
" mutiny," and in their memorials a disguised
" declaration of independence ;" while another
can only account for the conduct of the East
India Directors, in attempting to introduce those
regulations, by the supposition that they have
deliberately intended to endanger our Indian
Empire, in order that they might be enabled to
drive a better bargain with the British Parlia-
ment for the renewal of the Charter. The
facts, however, are siniply these. The East
India Company has long been desirous of re-
moVing an inequality which now exists in the
scale of remuneration to military officers in the
different Presidencies, for which purpose the Di-
rectors issued an order, soon after the satisfac-
tory issue of the Burmese war had opened to
them a prospect of permanent and secure tran-
quillity. But the mode in which they sought to
obl terate distinctions was that of reducing the
higher, allowances to the level of the lower, in-
stead of that, which to military men in India
would naturally have been a great deal more ac-
ceptable, of elevating the lower to an equality
with the higher. This conduct on the part of
the Company, whatever may be thought of its po-
licy or justice as respects the Indian empire and
the army which defends and preserves it, will
scarcely be considered by candid and temperate
men as sufficient evidence of a deeply pondered de-
sign, to endanger the former by disgusting and
alienating the latter. Neither can we perceive
in the language of the military remonstrants
any grounds of disapprobation even, and still
less can we discover it in any just cause for that
terror and dismay into which it appears to have
Qranes. Per-
thrown so many of vur Cynterup