The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-26 00:00:00

mind a redress of such grievances, when it is
such that constitute the intrinsic dangers of the
church.— Times.

There is an amusing instance in Lord Primate
Boulter's Letters of what Clergymen too often
mean by the good of the Church. Writing to
the Archbishop of Canterbury (1737), he says :
—" Several in their discourses, and some que-
ries that are handed about in writing, seem to
design taking away some undoubted rights of the
Clergy ; and, among other things, they seem to
design taking away from Bishops, if not part of
their lands, yet at least all fines. How much
the Crown would suffer, if such things go on, by
losing the weight such Bishops must have by
their estates and authority at present, I need only
suggest." The Church, with his Grace, is
merely an engine for supporting the Ministry,
and the weight of the Bishops is made to de-
pend on the amount of their property. Lord
Mountcashel, on the other hand, seems to think
that the principle which ought to govern the dis-
tribution of Church property is the maintenance
of an able and effective body of teachers of the
people, and not the increase of Ministerial
or Opposition influence in Parliament. With
Primate Boulter,'a bad Church is such a Church
as Lord Mountcashel would have ; for the
payment of the working Clergy in a suitab!e
manner would diminish the fund which forms the
inducement and gives the power to Bishops to
support Ministers weightily in the House of
Lords. The instruction of the people is the
main object of the one, the instruction of the
people is at variance with the object of the other.
Which is the true Church ? Lord Mount-
cashes, which serves religion, or Primate Boul-
ter's, which serves the Administration for the
time being ? Another specimen of what a Lord
Primate understands by clerical duty, may not be
irrelevant. In a letter to the Duke of New-
castle, 4th March, 1724, he says, " Your Grace
knows very well that I was very content with what
I had in England, and my just expectations
there ; and that it was purely in obedience to Ws
Majesty's pleasure that I came hither ; and now
I am here, the only thing that can make me
uneasy, is, if I should not be enabled to carry on
his Majesty's services here ; the prospect of doing
which is the greatest comfort I have in my pre-
sent station. But if the Bishoprics here are to
be disposed of elsewhere, without leaving me room
for any thing more than (as it may happen) ob-
jecting against a person who may be sent over
to the best promotions here, when I have done
so ; and if I he not allowed to form proper
dependencies here, to break the present Dublin
faction on the Bench, it will be impo4sible for
me to serve his Majesty further than in my
single capacity. Ido not speak this as if I did
not think there are some on the English Bench
that would do very well at Dublin, and would
heartily join with me in promoting his Majesty's
measures ; or that I do not esteem it wise gradu-
ally to get as many English on the Bench here
as can decently be sent hither; but that I think
' is not a suf.
fici being
ent
qualificationontheEiiglisifloßr ecioicmhhalglotno the best e
pro-
motions here ; and that an impudent person may
easily be tempted by Irish flattery, to set him-
self at the head of the Archbishop of Dublin's
• party, in opposition to me." Who would de-
scend from such lofty considerations as these to.
the humble object of providing for the spiritual
instruction of the people ! The Dublin Eve-
ning Post has named happily enough the wink
begun so auspiciously by Lord Mountcashel, the
Third Reformation. It certainly wears a better
look than the Second.—Morning Chronicle. .

In another part of our colums will be found
an account of disgraceful tiotings of the riband-
weavers of Nuneaton, in the neighbourhood of .
Coventry. We noticed some time ago similar
disturbances of the weavers in the city of Co-
ventry, and deprecated the weak conduct of the
Magistracy, who not only did not interfere to
preservebutaetu
atlhe p l
yreecaeciev, by e
da any
deputation
vigorous mfrneasmu rtehse,
rioters, while in a state of resistance to the laws
—held a friendly parley with them—and have
since been presented with an address of thanks
for their kindness and good counsel. That
kindness has, however, led to the successful en-
forcement of the claims of the rioters in several
instances. The example has also had the effect
of exciting the weavers of Nuneaton to disturb
the peace, and commit outrages of a most vio-
lent and cruel nature. One instance deserves
pblaerttlica
in
nultir notice.
la A
streets,
and
of 500
dnattacke or 600 ass
d a hunseienntic
which a Mr. Taylor, foreman to Messrs.
Bankes, riband-manufacturers, had fled for re-
fuge from their fury. The rioters hurst open
the door—rushed up stairs—seized the un-
fortunate man, and, after threatening to
cut
jwumitlpiinag bill-hook, forced edhim
down stood
upon the landing place ; they then kicked
severely, dragged him out of the house, awl
placed him on an ass, which they had brought
for the occasion. While carried ou the ass,
with his face to the tail, they pelteAl him with
him
stairs, b downy
all manner of filth, tore his clothes to pieces,.
and knocked him twice off the animal to the
ground. In the conclusion, they were taking
him to the brook to throw him in, where pro-
bably his sufferings would have been terminated
for ever, when the chief constable came to the
rescue, and saved him from the hands of his
cowardly and inhuman tormentors. This bar.
barous practice is always resorted to on those
occasions by the rioters in Coventry and its
neighbourhood, to terrify the masters and eon-t-
-pel them to submit to their demands. 'I hey call
it donkeying, and it sometimes ends in the death
of the party. But it is not men only that are
treated in this manner—women are outraged in
a similar way by the ruffians, who disgrace the
name of man. The following instance shocks'
us at the idea of such barbarians defiling
LIP:: soil
of England. "In one shop, at tlth Black
Banks, they took out a man of tho name
of Butcher, and a woman named Smith,
whom they donkeyed. The woman fell
from the animal in a fit, and is said to be
much injured." These riots at Nuneaton, we
are confident, would not have happened, if the
constituted authorities of Coventry had acted
with vigour and determination in suppressing the
previous riots in that city. The worst policy
that those who are intrusted with the preserva-
tion of the laws can act upon, is that which makes
see'ep‘ thel miseries
onyas those
concessions to the brute force of popular intimi-
dation. It is sure to beget more dangerous
mischiefs than those which it appears, for the
ifotmheonnt,lantouca,i
allay.
We
classes can s feelas d fok
who are loudest in the expressions of their
sym-
pathy ; but to encourage them in such proceed-
ings would be to hurry them
on to their own
ruin—to make that misery which many of them
now suffer more extensive, and perhaps wholly
irreparable. It is the duty of Magistrates, at
every risk, to assert the dignity of the violated
laws—aod when they hue restored b
peacesar