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London, England, 1842-03-17 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Three o'Cloch

The Scotch Church, said one of the Non-Intrusionist
clergy in a late harangue, forms at present " a subject
of deep Interest in heaven and hell," and viewing it in
that light we may therefore be excused for obtruding it
so often on our English readers. On which side the
Father of Lies takes his place our reverend informant
did not say, but judging from the wicked commotion
raised in Scotland, the falsehoods put forth by the
clerical agitators, and the deep injury already
inflicted on a glorious National Establishment,
we can only come to the conclusion that the
old enemy of mankind is not an idle spectator.
On looking at the division, we find that all the Scotch
Members (except one or two) who voted for non-intru-
sion, belong to the Liberal side of the House, are generally
the advocates for freedom of conscience and independent
principles, and might therefore naturally expect to be
supported by journals professing the sante politics. The

Sun, however, from the commencement of the agitation,
denounced tim scheme as pregnant with mischief, it has
persevered in that course to the last, and the dis-

tressed state of the people of Scotland at the pre.
sent moment furnishes only an additional inducetneni

to hold to our original opinion, though at the expense
of differing from our Liberal friends, and joining ►with
men to whom we have been long opposed. On looking
at the question in every possible light, no other con-
clusion can be come to, than that the veto scheme would
either break down, from its violence, or destroy inde-
pendence of character and religious liberty in Scotland.
Our reasons are these—the right to vote for a Minister
is defined by the Church Courts, and the Church Courts
alone. Neither Parliament nor People are allowed any
share in settling this Ecclesiastical charter. The vote is
to be exercised only by those who enjoy Church privi-
leges ; in other words, those who are subservient to the
dominant section of the Kirk. When it suit,: their pur-
pose they will debar from the table of the Lord, all who
bury their dead on Sunday, all who travel by railway on
that day, or have shares in the line; all who are in favour
of patronage, who delight in music and dancing, enjoy
themselves at fairs and festivals, who neglect family wor-
ship
morn and evening, or who in any way controvert the
code of ecclesiastical laws which these despots say
they are enjoined by the highest authority to enforce.
All such persons, therefore, will be disfranchised, and as
is the case of several parishes in the North, not one in
a hundred will be allowed to vote ; nay, what is more,

they will be excommunicated from the Established
Church. This is no imaginary list of offences. Have
not clergymen repeatedly called upon heads of families
to deal with those under their charge for acts Which
are forbidden neither by law nor gospel, and can
these fathers believe that they will escape dealing from
the heads of the Church if they disobey ? We are
therefore astonished to find men like Mr. P. M.
STEWART, Mr. BANNERMAN, and Sir CHARLES NAPIER,
voting for a priestly scheme, which, if carried into effect,
would confer more unbridled power on the Vetoists than
was ever possessed by even any ecclesiastical body.
Political tyranny is bad, but priestly tyranny is in-
sufferable. It discards all earthly authority, it presumes
to rule by power delegated from the ALMIGHTY, and
inflicts punishments and cruelties which the most power-
ful and despotic Government would not dare to carry
into effect. The people of Scotland, however, are not
to be deceived. They will think twice before they
thrust their necks under this iron yoke.

We deeply regret to see so much of the time of the
House of Commons wasted in personal altercations
about the respective enormities of factory and agricul-
tural tyrants. On the part of Mr. FERRAND and his
friends, they are got up for- the purpose of distracting
public attention from the enormity of the Corn-
laws. They expect that under cover of the clouds
of smoke nightly raised by the Honourable Member
for Knaresborough in the House, the modified
Starvation Bill of the Income Tax Premier will
pass without further opposition. Such tricks can-
not lbng serve their purpose. The people will awake to
them, and im proportion to their contempt for such
paltry devices will be their indignation against their
Tory oppressors.

From Madrid the intelligence is of the Bth inst.
Spain was then tranquil, but it was reported that a coup
de main was to be attempted on Tarifa, and that an in-
surrection was to break out in the Sierra de Ronda,
through the machinations of a Christina junta at Gibraltar.
The rebels in the Sierra de Ronda were surrounded
by the Queen's troops, and there was no chance of their
escaping.

Madrid Bourse of the Bth. Fives at 281- to 29 at dif
rerent dates ; no business done for cash.

The French Journals generally praise Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S plan of an Income Tax ; and that our opposition
to that impost is not of a factious kind, the Right Hon.
Baronet himself would admit, were he to take the trouble
to examine how carefully our Foreign Summary em-
bodies the opinions of the Paris press in favour of it.
But while we insert them in a spirit of impartiality,
truth obliges us to acknowledge that we do not attach to
them the slightest importance. The social state of Eng-
land is utterly misunderstood by the French press. The
habits of their people are so different from ours, that
what to them would be no hardship at all, would be
to us an intolerable grievance. A Frenchman lives in
public, an Englishman's home is his fireside in the
midst of his family. Talkativeness is the characteristic
of the one ; reserve, amounting almost to the appearance
of sullenness, of the other. The one boasts of
his affairs, and is never better pleased than
when people talk about them ; the other carefully con-
ceals the exact state of his from his relatives, neigh-
bours, and even the junior members of his own family.
The emancipation of women from the folds of the