The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-09 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three ©'Cluck.

Protestant bigotry has, it seems, taken the
alarm at the Bishop of London's late Charge.
We are not at all surprised at this, for it was a
timid, time-serving affair—Puseyite in one , pas-
sage, Anti-Puseyite in the next, enunciating no
decided opinions on important matters, but
dwelling chiefly on trivialities, about which, as
being wholly unconnected with religion, no
really religious man cares two straws. At a
meeting of a Protestant Association, held in the
British School-room at Hackney, on Monday last,
the Chairman thus alluded to the tame, Jesuiti-
cal Charge in question :—" It is a disgrace
to the Church. The most illiterate Hodge could
have produced from the bible sothething more
applicable at this critical juncture. The Bishop
ought to have known better. The PrOtestant
Association would stand no mock-modest non-
sense. They looked with suspicion on his Lord-
ship's tacit approval of tapers, and the wearing
of black gowns in the church. Five years ago
he compromised the honour of the Apostolic
Church by extending the right hand of fellow-
ship to the Methodists, and now he was
anxious to scrape acquaintance with the
Puseyites." See what it is to be a
timid, vacillating time-server! By oscillat-

ing like a pendulum between High Church
and Low Church, and adhering steadily
to neither, the Bishop of LONDON has alarmed
all the bigots of the Establishment; while at the
same time he has failed to win the confidence of
the Moderates. High Church swears he is a
Methodist; Low Church denounces him for a
Puseyite and the Moderate party say that he
is too cunning, too much of an expediency-
monger, to be trusted more than is absolutely
necessary. ." Any man," continued the Chairman,
"-no matter even if he be a Bishop, who was
anxious to be wedded to Puseyism, ought to be
hunted out of the Church-, with a. cry of stop
thief!' " This is a bright conception, mid hoW
diverting in the execution! Imagine the sleek,
pursy Bishop of LONDON scuttling out of the
Church as fast as his legs can carry him, and a
pack of furious Pluralists in full cry at his heels,
following scent with all the zeal and
acumen of fox-hounds ! By rousing the
bigots of Protestantism, and putting them to a
man on the vive, the ghostly Prelate has
done more harm to the temporal interests of the
Establishment than he will be able to repair
during his life-time. He has shown the world
that Mother Church is so torn and weakened
with schisms and divisions, that she is compelled,
through one of her chief dignitaries, to tempo-
rise and coquet with her enemies, instead of
opposing a bold front to them.

The Assistant Poor-law Commissioners have at
last made an official report respecting the condi-
tion and education of the pauper children in the
extensive parish of St. Pancras. It extends to
great length, but, with the exception of a few
points, possesses no general interest. After ex-
pressing theirregret that the Directors had not pre-
vented all attempts, open or covert, at prosely-
tism, andannouncing their determination to suffer
no subsequent interference on the part of any
party whatever, for the purpose of undermining
the religious belief of the children, they furnish
some curious statistical accounts in reference to
religious instruction, if such an absurd system as
that hithert* practised can deserve the name.
ft appears that while all the children attend
one morning and one evening service eighty, at-
tend two morning services immediately succeed-
ing each other, and twenty-tour are present at
two morning and two evening services. All are
engaged in religious services hie hours during
the Sunday; twenty-tour are. engaged for six
hours and a-half, and
.none can be said to have
more than two hours' relaxation, exclusive of
meal hours, while twenty-four have only an hour
and a-half! Now, if it had been the intention of •
the Directors, and Chaplain, and leachers to
make the sacred "day of rest," and .religious
duties, utterly hateful to the yorithfirlmind, they
could not have devised a more effectual plan.
Children thus harrassed.byendless - repetitions,
and deprived of cheerful recreation during the
whole of Sunday, must look forward to thai day
with fear and trembling. But the annoyance to
which they are subjected, is the least part of the
evil. They acquire little or no religious know-
ledge, but they acquire a dislike to churches,
and sermons, and Sundays; and when they
grow up, and are left to the bent of their own
inclinations, can any one wonder that they pre-
fer the ale-house to the parish church, or that
they cast off all respect for parsons, and treat
with contempt religious rites and ceremonies?
This is the great and crying sin of our Sabbath
worshippers in the North, who would make a day
set apart for joy and gladness a day of gloom
and sorrow, and thereby destroy one of the
strongest incitements to the performance
of religious duties. We rejoice, therefore,
that this important subject has been taken
up by the Commissioners, and we quote
with pleasure their concluding remarks, which
will not be lost on the parish authorities :—" We
feel persuaded that it is only necessary that the
attention of the Directors of the poor should be
called to these circumstances, to ensure the im-
mediate suspension of a practice so calculated to
establish in the minds of the children associa-
tions of the worst tendency in reference to this
day of rest,' and of cheerful religious service."

Very few years have elapsed since it was the
practice, and perhaps it is yet the practice to
some extent, in Edinburgh, to obtain much of the
water for the supply of the houses from public
pumps, around which a large group or long
strings of barefooted maidens might be seen
struggling ibr an early turn, or patiently wait-
ing till others were served, before they could
obtain water for the family breakfast. In Paris
it is yet the custom for men to carry water from
the public fountains into the houses—at least
the custom, which a few years ago was' universal,
is not yet extinct, and the water carriers formed
a remarkable portion of the population of that
city. Now these arc two of the most refines!
cities of the old world. Both are remarkable
for the great literary and scientific attainments
of their inhabitants, but in both were the houses
to a recent period supplied with water as we have
described. Latterly it has been conducted into
some houses both in Paris and Edinburgh as in
London, and great were the exertions in bUth
cities before it could be achieved, .and great was
the rejoicing when it was done. In Paris the
Seine gave every facility for this purpose—in
Edinburgh great difficulties were to beovercome•
But what has been done at Paris and Edin-
burgh after ages of civilization and refinement,
has been accomplished almost at once, and in
perfection, at New York. We published ;:ester-
day in The Sun a brief notice of the ceretnimy
observed in solemnly introducing the waters of
the Croton into the city, and of the works neces-
sary to conduct it thither. By channels, sy
phons, aqueducts, carried across rivers, and from
hill to hill, the Crown is conducted a distance of
46 miles into New York. The whole expense
has been $9,000,000. The annual charge is esti-
mated at $6:.10,000, and. for this 75,000,000 gallons
of water are conveyed, or three hogsheads for
every inhabitant. London is supplied with
34,000,000 gallo is for an annual sum of $1,380,000,
and Paris is supplied with only 4,000,000 gallons,
or two quarts for each inhabitant, for $750,000.
In Paris few houses have water conducted to
I •)ir upper parts. In New York the water rises
top of the highest houses. " The turning
to the . the tubs and culinary vessels of the
of a cock fills . • and almost as soon the 50-
kitchen in a moment, • " Looking at all
hogshead boilers of a steamboat, •
its results, it perhaps deserve the praise -0 _► _
one of the most useful undertakings of the kind
that are recorded in the annals of the world.
In our judgment the gigantic achievement does
great honour to New York, though Mr.

STEPHENS modestly said it had only followed
ancient Rome at a respectable distance. If the
modern republican city falls behind the ancient
one, it certainly far surpasses all the Royal
capitals, save one, which is also a commercial
city of modern Europe. It is very gratifying
also to read, that this great work has been con-
structed without one dollar being lost or dis-
honestly applied. It is equally creditable,
therefore, to the genius and the morality of the
Americans. It pains us to reflect that a work so
worthy of universal commendation, should not
have attracted the smallest notice or approba-
tion from a late much honoured visitor to the
United States.

The Madrid journals of the 31st ult., have ar-
rived, but contain little news.
El Corresponsal of the 31st ult. states, that a
sanguinary contest bad taken place near Bonillo,
between some Custom-house officers and a band
of robbers. No details, however, are given.
The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid
Bourse on the 31st ult. at 21i cash, and 21! at 60
days; the Fives at 26i, 60 days; the Treasury
floating debt at 43i, at 60 days.

The Paris papers are still occupied with the
proceedings of the Delegates from different parts
of France, which possess little interest tbr the
English reader. Some few towns have exhibited
a very different spirit, from that displayed by
the monopolists of the north. The merchants
and wine proprietors or Bourdeaux have ad-
dressed a letter to the Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs, disavowing all connection with the Dele-
gates, and at the same time approving of a com-
mercial union with Belgium. The Chamber of
Commerce at Lyons have followed the example,
but we fear without the slightest chance of wak-
ing an impression on their selfish opponents.
The Courrier Francais gives the following ac-
count of the reception of the deputation of the
manufacturers from Louvieri, by the KINQ

His Majesty, after receiving the deputation very
graciously, pointed out the irregularity of their pro-
ceeding, stating that he would refer to the Minister
of Commerce the memorial which was presented to
him against a customs' union with Belgium. In the
conversation which ensued, he gave' them to under-
stand
that the lines of the French.cdstonis_ must be
carried to the frontiers of the Netherlands, or Prus-
sian custom-house officers would be seen on the French
frontiers. The deputation afterwards proceeded to
the Ministers of Commerce, of the interior,, of War,
and of Foreign Affairs. They found the two last but
little disposed in favour of their demands but MM.
Duchatel and Cunin-Gridaine appeared to think with
them, and to prefer the extension of the Zollverein to
that of the French customs. Among the members of
the deputation were MM. F. Jourduin and Bibbon,
and M. H. Pussy, a deputy of the department of the
Eure.

The news from China and Affghanistan also
afford matter for observation on the policy and
aggressive spirit of the English in the East, and
the more violent of the journals find consolation
for the razzias of the French in Africa, by con-
trasting these with some excesses committed by
the British force near Jellalabad. We find the
following on this subject in the Courrier Fran-
cais:—

The military excursion across the mountains and
defiles of Affghanistan may be a consolation to Bri-
tish pride, but the power of the kingdom will gain no-
thing by it. Men will say to each other, that Great
Britain has attempted the conquest of Affghanistau
with immense means, in order to gratify an am-
bition still more gigantic; that she had to contend
with only half-savage tribes, disunited and badly
armed, without cannon without cavalry, without
organisation; that she undertook this enterprise for
the purpoin of disputing with Russia the advance-
posts of the dominion in Asia, and that, after a
barren occupation and overwhelming reverses, she
was obliged to order an evacuation of the coun-
try. This is a great, an irreparable check ; but this
is not all, for the English- will leave in Affghanistan a
detested name. The inclination of their troops to
waste and pillage has been marked during the war by
the most abomihable excesses. The former intelligence
from Affghanistan stated that a body of troops sent
from Jellalabad had burnt the Affghan villages, mur-
dered the men, violated the women, and that the
greatest insubordination prevailed amongstthe soldiers
of General Pollock. The Bombay journals, which
are now before us, announce that the -same troops
have cut down the vines and felled the fruit trees, and
.that it will take the Affghans twenty years' labour to
repair the disasters of this invasion. Arid the
London journals will speak to us ofexcesses committed
' in Algeria, where our soldiers at least open roads,
plant trees, till the fields, and protect the peaceable
cultivators, keeping their arms for the marauders
who infest the country ! The comparison, of course,
cannot fail to be in favour. of England, which mani-
fests her civilisation to barbarous nations only by, the
power which she displays in the means of destruction!
The English, to indemnify themselves for the loss of
men, money, and influence which they have just sus-
tained in Affghanistan,:will probably seize on the Pun-
jaub, as they have seized on Scinde, in consequence
of the intestine divisions afflicting that country since
the death of Runjeet-Sing. This will be a rich cap-
ture, and will again be an instance of the right of the,
strongest, of which the conquest and administration
of India by the English have so many examples. The
speedy invasion of the Punjaub was not looked on at
Bombay-as a matter of doubt ;it could not be for any
other purpose that the Governor-General had assem-
bled an army of reserve on the Sutledge, and another
on the Scinde. Such is the legacy which Runjeet
Sing bequeathed to his country!
The National, in adverting to the dispatches)
draws the conclusion that the operations of the
English in China are only proofs of the despe-
rate state of distress in our manufacturing dis-
tricts. "It appears," says that journal, " that
the British armies in AfTglianistan have com-
mitted frightful ravages, in order, no doubt, to
leave there a souvenir of English progress. In
China the position of the British force does not
appear to have changed since the last dispatches.
On the part of the invaders, it is always the same
thirst for pillage, the same rage for destruction.
On the side of the Chinese, passive energy is op-
posed to invasion. The policy of the British
was to excite revolutions in its favour through-
out the Celestial Empire, but, as yet, this policy
has completely failed. It is probable that the
Eiiglish will persevere in their unjust ag-
gression, and that they will conclude by
destroying with bomb shells the immense city in
which the Emperor of China resides. But it is
More than doubtful that they can ever establish
themselves there. These events, it is true, affect
us in appearance only indirectly, but it is not less
worthy of interest to follow the British Govern-
ment in its march—a Government which would
sacrifice the whole world for the sake of profit.
What is now passing in China is not only at the
same time a curious indication of the almost des-
perate state of distress to which England is re-
duced, but likewise affords a useful lesson for
those who would be tempted to allow themselves
to be caught by the pretended philanthropy of
our neighbours."
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 119 10... 119 10... 119 ... 119
4% per Cents. 106 ... 106 ... 106 ... 106
Four per Cents. 101 70... 101 76 .. 101 70... 101 70
3 per Cents 80 35... 90 35... 8030... 80 35
Bank of France 3272 50...3280 ...3272 50.. 3280
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1052 50 —1052 50...1052 50...1052 50
Belgian Fives... lo3} ... 10.3} ... 1031 ... 103

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1840.... 1043 ... 1044 ..: 104} ... 1043
Dutch 23 per Cents... 531 ... b3i ... 53/ ... 531
Spanish Active 'o=ff 223 ... 223 ... 223
Passive ...... 3i ... 4 ... 33 ... 4
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