The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-08 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o' Clock.

The triennial Charge of the Bishop of LLAN-
DARE,' to his Clergy, though generally displaying
that ability and good sense for which his Lordship
is distinguished, is very equivocal on the impor-
tant subject which now agitates the Church; and
must have left his hearers in doubt whether he
regarded" The Tracts for the Times," as tending,
to evil or to good. While he blames the Pusey-
ites for designating the " POPE'S usurpation" an
ordinance of GOD, and calls upon diocesans and
clergy to resist a doctrine so dangerous to their
power, he bestows the highest commendations on
other portions of the " Tracts." In one part of the
Charge lie says there is in the writings of
the innovators a tone of fondness and indulgence
for " Holy Mother Church," showing what
lurks beneath the garb of amiability; and in ano-
ther he declares that the " Tracts" had displayed
the nature of the Catholic Church, and had raised
an awful sense of the history of man's redemp-
tion. " These," he adds, " were principles
which were never absent from the teachings of

the Church, which he could not but admit were
dormant when those publications appeared."
This is blowing hot and cold in the same
breath. The Bishop seems disposed to
allow those teachers to proceed to any

lengths with their Popish rites and doc-
trines, provided they do not desert in a body to
the "Holy Mother," and in order to deter them
from such a rash act, of which, however, there is
no great fear, he points out the false teachings of
the Church of Rome, which had
.destroyed the

principle of unity, by substituting a spurious
earthly dominion—by teaching that to obey one
chief was unity. This is inconsistent language,
and only shows to what shifts even the ablest
of men are driven when they abuse rivals in re-
ligion as well as in trade. We believe it is
generally allowed that in no Christian Church
whatever is there such unity of faith as in the
Catholic Church, and that this arises from
the very circumstance which the learned
Prelate condemns ; nay more, the Epis-
copal Church of England is founded on the
very same principle. Each Bishop is looked up
to as a minor Pope in his own diocese ; some of
the Right Reverend Fathers claim almost equal
power, both spiritual and temporal; and occa-
sionally threaten to rebel against the earthly
head recognised by the canons of the Church.
But has the Anglican system, which the Bishop
extols at the expense of a rival establishment,
been effectual in preserving unity ? Are there
not more dissensions now than at any former
period, and a greater variety of sects than ever
existed in any other country, all taking their
rise from some great defect in our Established
Church ? In commencing the Charge he ad-
mits the fact, and deplores the divisions and dis-
cord which prevail among Christians. Will the
Puseyite doctrines tend to heal these divisions,
or will the half praise and half blame which the
Prelates at theirvisitations bestow on NEWMANand
his party, encourage Wesleyans and Methodists
to return to the bosom of thei Anglican Church ?
Dr. COPLESTON will in vain urge his clerical
brethren to promote unity, and bring the stray
sheep into the fold, while Popery is rearing
its head in the midst of it, the Primate of all
England is calmly and silently looking on,
and one-half of the Episcopal bench is arrayed
against the other.

The news from Canada to which we adverted
on this day week, relative to the duties to be im-
posed by the Canadian Parliament on wheat to
be imported through Canada in England, excites
a good deal of attention in the provincial jour-
nals. The question has two aspects. We no-
ticed only that unconstitutional one of the Mi-
nisters recommending a colony to impose a tax
on a commodity which is to be consumed by the
people of England. The provincial journals no-
tice that the recommendation places a fixed duty
on corn, amounting, with the Canadian duty 35.,
and the duty on importation in England, exactly
to the Whig duty of Bs. when the price is below
555., and only to 4s. when it is above 58s. If it
be meant, as some of the Canadians have inter-
preted Lord STANLEY'S letter, that on the Cana-
dian Parliament levying a duty on American
corn, Canada corn, including American corn
and flour made from it, shall be im-
ported quite free of duty, then the fixed
duty imposed by the Canadian Parliament on the
American wheat, being the only duty, will be
35.; and the whole produce of Western Ame-
rica may be b. sent to this country at that! rate.
As the law now stands it may be sent hither at a
fixed duty of !not exceeding Bs., and that duty
may be 45., if the price be above 58s. only. This
is, however, nothine•c. new. It was mentioned in
the progress of the Corn Bill. Like the Carlisle
Journal, which has some remarks on this sub-
ject, we do not object to lowering the duties, we
object to the mode in which it is done :
The " Farmers' Friends," are at work again (says
that journal), in their vocation of deceivers ; and those
who were gulled by their promises to " protect" agri-
culture, will now find to their astonishment that not
only has the sliding scale failed to afford them one
whit more " protection" against the corn grown ou
the continent of Europe, than was offered by Lord
John Russell's proposed fixed duty—to say nothing
of the injury it inflicts by the mode of its operation—
but that a plan has been secretly arranged by these
" farmer's friends," by which the corn of the United
States is actually to be admitted at a fixed duty of
three shillings per quarter ! To those who, like our-
selves, believe that the more you can extend the ope-
rations of trade, the better off will be the people—
this intelligence will be hailed with no little pleasure.
We should have preferred that it had been done
openly, and that the trade in corn should have been
direct with the United States, and not by a sort of
smuggling operation through the Canadas.
This will, doubtless, be looked upon by the mono-
polists in this country as a " a serious blow and great
discouragement ;" and certainly is a step of the utmost
importance—because it must, eventually lead to free
trade. It will, if we mistake not, soon be shown that
an extensive business may be carried on in corn, even
in this round-about way ; and he will be wilfully
blind, indeed, who does not see that the extra cost of
carriage into Canada is just so much money wasted—a
waste such as it would be to compel the people of
Brampton to bring their goods by way of Wigton for
sale in Carlisle market.

It is well known that the fertile regions of the
Western States of America are as accessible from
Quebec as from New York, and that it is nearly
as convenient to import their produce from the
St. Lawrence as from the Hudson. Mr. CURTIS,
from Ohio, gave, in his discourse at a meeting
of the Anti-Corn-law League, the following ac-
count of those regions :
The portion of our country best adapted to the cul-
ture of wheat, and to which I wish to call your parti-
cular attention, is comprised in the six north-western
States and territories, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, and lowa. They contain more than
178,000,000 acres of land, chiefly arable. England
contains 32,000,000 acres. That portion of their
States which may be called good wheat-land, at three
quarters per acre, would produce in a year 200,000,000
quarters. They are at present just commencing to
pour the immense amount of bread and meat they are
capable of producing into the markets of the world.
Ohio alone, lust year, had eight million bushels of
wheat to export. MiChigan, which never exported
until 1837, has now a surplus of 250,000 bushels of
wheat, and 300,000 barrels of pork. The population
of these States is now 3,000,000. It has increased
during the last ten years at the rate of two hundred
and two per cent. It has been estimated by practical
men that the amount of their exports would be doubled
or trebled by a good demand in two years.
Under the present laws and proposed regula-
tions there will be no impediment to thatdemand,
wheat being carried to Canada, there ground into
flour, and imported into England. " If," says the
Carlisle Journal, " by the payment of a fixed
duty of 35. these vast resources of the Western
States can be made available to this country, the
present Corn-law i 3 virtually at an end—and Sir
ROBERT will have accomplished, by a trick, the
overthrow of the most mischievous monopoly
that was ever established in any country."
Sir ROBERT is not only doing that by a trick,
but he is doing it unconstitutionally, and in a