The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-08 00:00:00

should remain in office ? For the proceedings
relative to Mr. Herries, they have been but an
episode in the political history of the day—one,
however, the result of which affords an addi-
tional guarantee for the duration of the Cabinet,
from the fund which it has exhibited of public
epirit, conciliating temper, and utter intolerance
e;f Tory politics and persons, as well in his Ma-
jesty as in the members of his Administration.
Well, now that the abuse for forming such a
Ministry has been given up, and the charge of
corrupt and criminal inconsistency has been
scouted by the public as untenable, what is the
last expedient of the Tories ? They actually
find out that the Cabinet is " torn by factions,"
that they are " all pulling different ways," and
forming " contradictory objects of ambition."
We can say with perfect truth, that these tales
are as absurd as their motives are malignant and
desperate—that there is no difference of senti-
ment, or contrariety of object, or ground of dis-
union in the Cabinet—that, on the other hand,
there is as complete an incorporation of feelings,
and identity of views, and harmony of purpose,
ea: has existed in any Cabinet at any period of
English history. Events will show who is right.
A pretty probable story, that having surmounted
the only difficulty upon the cards—and one of
which pure mischance was the occasion—the
-.Ministers should now make new ones, for no
end on earth but to serve the public enemy !
Times.
The Dublin Evening Post, of Tuesday last,
has the following accusation against the Esta-
blished Clergy of Ireland :
" Turn where we will, take what path we may, the mis-
chievous agency of the Clergy encounters us—their evil
'-....icence besets us—the positive injury they do to the
morality as well as to the peace of the country, as-
sails us. If we read of some gross act of power committed
by a Bench of Magistrates, we are sure to find a Parson
amongst them—if we find a particular district of the
country more than ordinarily agitated, we are certain of
diseover;ng a political Clergyman at the bottom of the dis-
turbance—if there be a public meeting distinguished by pe-
culiar ferocity of phrase, or by the force of its insurrec-
tionary appeals to the worst passions of the people, we are
prepared, from the very enunciation of the topics used at
such assemblies, to find some riJi Pluralist, or raking
Orangeman, with Reverend prefixed to his name—some
Robinson, Miller, Graham, or Lees—preaching sedition,
and invoking the furies of civil strife upon the country.
We must not be blamed, therefore, for encountering
these persons with the weapons which the Constitution'
has put into our hands.—Sincerely and most truly do we
aver, that we are sorry fcr the part which necessity com-
pels us to take in their regard. The character of a Priest
ought to be respectable, and would be so, whatever Lis
?.euets might be, if he knew how to respect himself."
The character of a Priest ought to be respect-
able, and would be so, whatever his tenets might
be, if he knew how to respect himself !" Has
our Dublin Contemporary then forgotten what
was lately stated' in the Howe of Commons by
Lord Plunkett, that the only means of procuring
respect for religion itself, in these times, was
wealth? And does he imagine, that the Clergy
do ail this " positive injury to the morality as
well as to the peace of the county," in order to
shut themselves out from the possession of
wealth ; that is—according to one than whom
dMr. O'Connell) " no man has the faculty of
iscovering truth in higher perfection ; no man
can detect error with such facility, or expose it
with so little effort, and so much clearness '—to
shut themselves out from the means of making
themselves respectable ? The Irish Clergy, we
may be assured, would not distinguish themselves
beyond the rest of their countrymen in gross acts
of power, in creating disturbances, in preaching
sedition, and appealing to the worst passions
of the people, if they were not pretty certain,
that such a course is the easiest and surest road
to advancement ; that is, to the making them-
selves more aria more respectable, by commanding
more and more the means of ensuring respect.
Dr. Doyle, it is true, says in his Pastoral Letter
co the Clergy of the Deanery of Kilcock, that
poverty is the eradle in which Christianity was
nursed, and riches have always been its bane.
. But Lord Plunkett and the Clergy understand
this matter better than the Founder of Christia-
nity, or Dr. Doyle. Lord Plunkett and the
Clergy have improved upon the Scriptures, avail-
ing themselves, very judiciously, of the lights
which the march of mind has enabled them to
discover. It is happily observed by Dr. South,
that great ornament of the English Church, that
so long as " none but poor weak fishermen
preached Christianity," it was in a bad way ; but
the accession of a man of distinction " silenced
the scandal, as well as strengthened the Church."
" What is it," he adds, " that kept the Church
of Rome strong, athletic, and flourishing, for so
rnany centuries, but the happy succession of the
choicest wits engaged to her service by suitable
preferments," The Irish Clergy, we may be
sure, are not deficient in the wish to obtain suit-
able preferments ; and we should be very much
disposed to rely a good deal on their instinct as
to choosing the most suitable means for that suit-
-t-ale end. As long as power is propitiated by
the sort of services which the Irish Clergy now
render in their magisterial capacity, we may ex-
pert
to see them anxious to be in the Commis-
'
sion, and willing to perform the condition On
which alone their circumstances can be bettered.
It is the system which calls into activity the
euetives of the Church Militant that we ought
chiefly to blame.—Moraing Chronicle.
We perceive, by the article of our City Cor-
reeponitent, that the Exchanges _are not at all
improving, and that gold is going ati,t of the
country. We had, come time ago, occasion to
advert to this subject, when we pointed out the
effect of any considerable decline in the ex-
changes: it is therefore not necessary to repeat
those consequences here. We may observe,
however, that if any farther considerable decline
should take place, there will be a decided profit on
she exportation of gold, and we may then shortly
expect to gee the sovereigns take their depar-
i
ture.
The flight of gold does not arise, as is
supposed by some, fi•orn the issue of paper ; it is,
in fact, the effect of the balance of trade, and
consequently of the remittances, being against
us. if our importations of Continental produce
are greater than our exports of English goods or
produce, of course the difference THUS Ne made
op in sprzie ; or, in other words, instead of being
able to send bills to check the Continental de-
mands upon us, we are necessitated to transmit
gold. in this state of things the exchanges are
mid to he against us ; and the natural conse-
quence of their being against us i.s, the flight of
the precious metals. With all this we do not
see what the issuing or de non-issuing of paper:
n'onev has to do. It is very true that when the
id Coin leaves uc, it is necessary, in order to
keep ‘lll the circulating medium, to increase the
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• quantitl
cf the gold go er money. But this is the effect
i 044 rf ing out of the country, not the
cause. W. -
, understand that commercial men
havezio app
mar pension that the exchanges will
),- osee-uttlYet° any thing like the extent that they did
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