The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-14 00:00:00

call "Moral Theology," to point out the coure
which individuals ought to pursue in the various
situation ~3 in which their lot may he cast. The
English Divines for a long, time. followed the
example of the Catholics, and Taylor, Sander-
son, Baxter, and many others, wrote voluminous
treaties to enlighten men with respect to their
duties. Baxter, in his Christian Directory, went

even so far as to lay down rules for a husband, to
guide him how far he might venture to leave his
wife on business for a few weeks, according to

the warmth of her constitution. "It is law-

fill (he says) to be absent in the case of the
needful affairs of their estates, only so long
as there may be no danger to either of them
as to mental or corporeal incontinency, nor to
any other hurt, which will be greater than the be-
nefit of their absence. Therefore the cases of
several persor.s do much differ, according to the
different tempers of their minds, and bodies, and
affairs. He that bath a wife of a chaste, con-

tented, prudent temper, may stay many months,
or years in those cases, when, all things consi-
dered, it tendeth to more good than hurt
But if you ask whether the getting of money be
a sufficient causer I answer that it is sufficient
to those whose families must he so maintained,

and their wives are easily continent, and so the
good of their gain is
.greater than any loss or '1
danger that cornett) by it. But when covetous-
ness puts them upon it needlessly, and their
wives cannot bear it, or in any case where the-
hurt that is likely to follow is greater than the
good, it is unlawful." In like manner Reyber-
ger, a Professor of Christian Ethics, or Moral-
Theology, in Vienna, lays it down a the duty of
every man to endeavour to avoid poverty.—
", We know," he observes, " that opulence
msy furnish men with many means by
which they may both improve their minds
and benefit their bodies, and bene: . • _hers both
privately and publicly, and human would
wear a very miserable aspect, if there were not
men who accumulated wealth. All men, too,
agree that poverty is the most general cause of
great vices and most heinous crimes. If we
look abroad on the various productions of
na-
ture; what other conclusion can we draw than
that ail these are destined for the. use of man ?

(Genesis I. .28 sqq., &c.) Therefore, the en-
deavour to acquire wealth or the goods of for-
tune is reconcileable with the supreme end of
man ; and it is not only lawful, but an essential
part of duty to apply ourselves to the acquisi-
tion of riches according to the means 'which are
suitable to our respective situations." The same
Teacher, speaking of marriage, observes, " Those
who wish to contract marriage ought to have at-
tained an age in which the body is mature, and
the mind has athined that degree of intelligence
and experience suitable to the due estimate of
the duties attached to that state. Care ought
to be taken that the means of decent subsistence
be not awanting, in order that poverty may not
interfere with the due discharge of ,the con-
jugal office." If poverty be the cause of crime,
the clergyman who does not instruct those who
wish to marry without being able to support a
family that they are about to place themselves in
a situation in which crime will be inevitable, is,

in fact, accessary to their crime. The country
gentleman who forces a poor devil to marry who
cannot bring up a family, when he hears that
that man expiates his crimes on the gallows.
ought to consider himself as the abettor of them.
What would by suitable in America would he
unsuitable in Europe. The course of conduct
in individuals which most conduces to the bend •
at of society can alone be correct. The clergy-
man who is ignorant of the science which ex-
plains how a notion may be • roost prosperous is
ignorant of religion ; for religion,, without ap-
plication to the circumstances of men, is a non-
entity,—/bid.
That Jolla Bull is the Most gullible animal

in existence needs no additional proof; but, i
any such proof were wanting, it would be fowl('
in the success which attends those empirics who
prey upon the diseases, real and imaginary, of
mankind. We say imaginary as well as real,
because we believe that regular medical men, as
well as quacks, derive quite as much profit from
health as from disease. But no credulity can
be more egregious than that which prompts per-
sons, in a metropolis like this, where men of
the highest rank in science are to be consulted,
even without fee, if it Le necessary, to stihmit
their health and constitution, their money and
tmderstandings, to be the niercenary sport of a
set of wretches, whose ignorance can be only
equalled by their barefaced -lying audacity.
What is more egregious still in this kind of
folly is, that men who cannot scrape together
a guinea to fee a regular physician or
surgeon, and who have. too . much pride
to enter the doors of an hospital, will almost
beg, borrow, Of steal, to get together the means
of answering the inordinate demands of fellows
who actually haVe not the skill of the commonest
horse-leech. This is one of those branches of
free trade which, with all our attachment to that
doctrine, we think ought not to be allowed to
continue. To tamper with men's lives, and rob
them at the same time of their property, is a
double kind of fraud—to call the • first no
worse-4114i we hesitate not to say should be
put down_by law, That the perpetrators of
these offences are no better than the commonest
cheats- - and . swindlers cannot be doubted ;
and when the Police can lay hold of them,
we are happy to see that it does. Brit
what is the march Qf intellect, of which
we hear so much, if-it does not, on the one hand,
rescue a learned profession from these unlearned
intruders, and, en the other, teach those, whom
it is supposed to render wise, a little less of folly
than the success of these impostors bespeaks ?
We think it would be a good S:;3; ;.egula-
tion if no man were permitted tk: I.,rjertake the
cure of. diseases for profit who proved
his sufficiency before one or other of the three
establishments which exist in the Metropolis for
that purpoe-a; nor do we think that it redounds
much to the credit Of one of those bodies, that
they should endeavour to curtail as much as they
cash by due course of law, the very .e;sistenee and
the pract,4 of really scientific men, while they
can witness, with silent indifference, the havoc
made upon the lives and pockets of his Majesty's
subjects by vagabonds, whose very trade is a
l nuisances—Morning Herald.
It affords us much pleasure to have an oppors
tunity of referring our readers to the opinions
expressed yesterday at the 5;0.97 Sessions, by
the County Magistrates, as an evideng9 of the
growing =use and intelligence of the country,
The evils of the Game Laws were never more
truly or forcibly pointed nut as then ; nor their
cause traced so surely to its source,. It was well
observed, not only that the Game taws were
the great cause of the numerous crimes with
! which the country now teemed, but that for the
'- existence, both of poaching and of the crimes
originating in it, the country gentlemen them•
selves were mainly to be blamed—first, by en-