The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-30 00:00:00

the anticipated effect. In the case of Leeds we
have seen that' in a meeting- of four thousand
persons, all but forty or fifty were hostile to the
object of the meeting. If we take the numbers
of this meeting to represent the respective inte-
rests. 'Of the Establishment and the Dissenters,
then how unjust is it to compel Dissenters to
pay for Churches which evidently are not required.
If, on the other hand, we assume that a very
great number of those who voted for the Amend-
ment belong to the Establishment (which we
believe to be the case), this proves that they are
opposed to the principle oh Which the new
Churches have been erected, as being unjust to-
' wards the Dissenters, and therefore cal-
culated to injure the national religion. The
Churchmen are, it appears, opposed to the plan
on other grounds. In populous towns, the
Church. can oillv ma'te hca% against the secta-
rians, by l'aving recourse to the means by which
lii sliti7s Fail their chapels. A popular preacher
dre.,,Y:.; a large congregation ; and a large congre-
gation secures a proper return to the capitalist
who holds the chapel, ehel a suitable income to
the preacher: Hence, says the Members of the
Ettablislinient, we must also have men of energy
and talents to draw congregations ; and if we
vote assessments, We vote a premium for apathy.
A Lige congregation requires a large church ;
but a large church alone will not secure a large
congregation. Were that the eA:Z it would not
happen that we crainot obtain more than twenty
hearers for one of the most capacious, of our new
Churches ? Ih country parishes, where there
are no Dissenters, we can afford a display of
apathy Oil the part of the Clergyman ; but, in a
populous town, the Clergy will be left without
hearers, if they do not possess popular talents.---
If it be said that the Establishment disdains the
popular arts of the Dissenters, the circumstance
of the inability to erect churches without dipping
into the public purse proves that, without having
recourse to popular Means, followers cannot be
obtainetl. As the income of the Clergyman is
Made to depend on the pew rents, the principle
of the necessity of popularity is, to a certain ex-
tent, adopted ; but, it is obvious, that all aid
from the public purse ; and from assessing Dis-
senters, is at variance with that principle. For
the Established Church a large provision has
been appointed. It has been thought that the
State ought not, in so important a matter as re-
ligion, to trust to accident, and that to guard
against the circumstance of any portion of the
people being without religious instruction, a cer-
tain share of the fruits of the earth should be set
apart for the instructors. But in a country in
which a complete toleration is allowed, and where,
consequently, all religions are deemed equally be-
neficial, it is preposterous, in addition to the
churches every where provided, and paid for out
of the tithes, to build other churches, which,
where the people already frequent Dissenting
Chapels, cannot possibly be wanted.—Morning
Chronicle.

It may be taken, we believe, almost as an un-
erring rule, that there is, generally speaking, no
surer way of reaching the conscience than through
the pocket. Pecuniary loss, like sickness, brings
down the pride, the folly, and froth of the mind,
to a stagnant state, and a more reasonable tem-
perament ; and so universal is this influence,
that we are not sure that were Mr. Soames him- '
self to be robbed of his expected gains by any
of his fraternity, Mr. Soames would not, for the
moment at least, condemn picking-pockets as a
nefarious and abominable traffic. The gentle-
men of the Stock Exchange seem to have been
seized with a somewhat similar kind of amiable,
but, we fear, temporary morality, by the recent
conduct of one of their body, whom they have
denounced " from authority," in good set terms
of conduct, which, aftei describing it, they.pro-
nounce to be " almost without • parallel in the
history of the Stock Exchange." Your almost,
like your if, is a mighty softener down on such
occasions ; and amounts pretty nearly, in itself,
to the contradiction we mean to give to their as-
sertion ; for though the transactions in question
may be quite as fraudulent and disreputable as
these gentlemen are pleased to describe them to
be, yet that they are wholly, or even almost with-
out precedent, we do take upon ourselves positively
to deny. But even if they were,wh at right have those
who live by and encourage the practices alluded to
to complain of them ; or can they wonder that
those who are trained up to plunder each other,
should in time become greater adepts than their
masters ? Are the gentlemen of the Stock Ex-
change such greenhorns or such simpletons as to
suppose that vice and roguery are the only
qualities in which mankind make no advances,
and that too when splendid fortunes are every
day acquired by their open every-day pillage of
each other, and of the public ? Without prece-
dent, indeed ! Why, the immorality and (Es-
' honesty of the thing, which is what they profess
to arraign, has a precedent every day and every
hour in the goings-on of nine-tenths of their
own body ; and though the biters may not often
be biqen so severely, the disease—the mania,
the livd-ophold.----is not the less rife, the less
,1an...-;e:nus, or apparent, to all eyes but their own.
But when they tell the world that they have re-
solved unanimously that some decisive steps
should be immediately adopted to mark in the
most unequivocal manner their sense of the con-
duct they complain of upon the occaFion, we can
tell them that the best step which they can
take, is to abstain themselves from such practices
in future ; as, in Mr. Soames' case, the best
earnest he could give of his ." sense" of the im-
propriety of picking pockets, would be to abstain
himself from picking pockets for the future. If
their sense of the matter be only to produce what
may be called " honour among thieves," and to
deprecate what appears to have been practised on
this occasion, the mere robbing of each other,
such a sense, though very convenient, will have
but little weight with the world at large. It is
the systeni—which has converted the Stock Ex-
change into a mere hell, and more than half its
members into mere gamesters of the worst de-
scription—which requires altering. Till that is
done, and done effectually, it will be in vain for
these gentlemen to swagger, and talk big, or re-
solve unanimously; for while the practice con-
tinues, and they continue to thrive by it, they must
expect to be told—in the sentiments, if not in
the language of Cicero, " Hoc non concedo ; ut
quibus rebus gloriemini in vobis, iisdem in
all s reprehendatis."—Morn ing Herald.

We have mentioned elsewhere the arrival of
intelligence at Portsmouth of a Treaty of Peace
having been concluded between Brazil and
Buenos Ayres. This event, though not in it-
self, yet in its consequences, we consider to be
of very great importance. The refusal, or, at
least, reluctance of Don Miguel, to proceed, in
obedience to the commands of his Royal Bro-
ther, to Brazil, and his formal demand of the
Regency, in terms which seem to deny the au-
thority of the Constitutional Charter, which the
French Papers, received last night, mention as
having actually been made to the Infanta, could