The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-06 00:00:00

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SPIRIT OF TF PUBLIC JOURNALS

eveTryheprcaoctuincatrlyrweti:elnscmehe, with extreme plea-
sure too, the professio. fit of the Ministers to effect
.verifled, so far as
they may be by a prompt and imp ortent measure,
by a happy beginning. The Yemnaeter Cavalry
of England were assembled at a period and
under cireunistancem totally different from the
present, and no other circumstances having
sprung' tip. to supply the place of those which
have long since teased to exist, it is evident that
the effect should cease slsoi and the Cavalry in
question be dissolved. Far tee it from us to
reflect upon these domestic troops any of the
suspicion which may have attached to them
originally respecting the cause of their formation.
They came forward: in sincerity of heart to eetvw
their country at a time when they thought their
services might be necessary : but we verily believe
that one motive with the Minister of the day for
calling them together, was to spread a panic in
the country, in order that ender the impression
of that panic be might the more easily obtain
subsidies for foreign Posers ; of which subsidieS
we feel the burden at the present day. However,
the landed gentlemen bear this burden with
cheerfulness, no doubt; being pledged to expend
even their last guinea in the war. To the
landed interest, however, the dissolution of then
Yeomanry Cavalry is a relief, as it is composed
chiefly of their tenantry ; and to the country,
also, it operates to the removal of no unimportant
expense at this period of pressure. The Circu-
lar, to be seen in. this day's paper, by which the
intention to dissolve the body is announced,
adopts those terms of respect with which men
deserve to be addressed, who have endeavoured
to serve their country with great personal incon,
venience, and at considerable private. expense.
" It is intended," says the Circular,- " to releasc
from their present military engagements, all
the corps of Yeomanry in those districts where
it has been found, from the experience of the
last ten years, they have been very seldom or
power." The
Tthheoeehrseeol eii,sn
at litgleirreeeafmot
Llt,
never called upon to act in aid cef. the civil
t to be
liability
tdrii sest°s,l v e‘ivi 1.1 e r e
pular tumult, will be retained; and the rest,
is also propeiete observe, are to be released from
their engagements with all the honours of war •,;
_ _ . .

it being his Majesty's pleasure, " that the offi-
cers of every Yeomanry Corps now existing
should retain the rank mid honours belonging to

their respective commissions." We have no
doubt but that, the Yeomanry will feel highly
gratified at this honourable discharge from mili-
.tary services, and the country will be thankful
for this earnest, feeble though it may be, of a
disposition, or rather a determination, to alleviate
its burdens. The subject has surely deserved
this notice.—Times.

We insert with pleasure, and with the humbla
tribute of our approbation, two letters addressed
by the Marquis of Lansdowne to the L(.9r4
Mayor, and to the Magistrates of the several
Police-offices, on the imputed agency of certain
subordinate persons in their establishments, in
effecting an arrangement between the robbers and
the robbed. SUch a system of compromise is
not only dreadful in itself, but will inevitably lead
to the most horrible consequences ; it. will tend
to exalt thieves into the character and station of
chapmen and dealers ; and will remove what
ought •to be the eternal barrier between honesty
and roguely. After giving the subject of the
police all the consideration we are able, we can-
not help thinking that more might be done for
prevention and disCovery of crime than is done.
If the system be deficient, let it be amended. If
Magistrates, through habit, are become easy in
die execution of their office, let theM be excited.
Parochial authorities also might do much in the
indictment of infamous houses. Thc---erate-Of
our streets as to abandoned women is scandalous.
What a disgrace to the city is Temple Bar on
the Eastern side every night ! The low price of
ardent spirits is a desperate evil, which looks for
correction from a higher quarter. • But, particu-
larly on the restitution of stolen property through
the mediation of those who are employed to take
the thieves,—the subject with which we began,—
we hope the most severe investigation will take
place. Some additional facts may transpire ere
long.—lbid.
At the Meeting of the Catholic Association
on Saturday last, Mr. Shiel commenced -a bril-
liant speech as follows :—" I gave notice that f
should move an humble Address to the Arch-
bishops, Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons, and
other functionaries of the Church, respectfully
submitting to their consideration the anti-
apostolic condition of the Establishment ; and
praying them, with a view to their own salvation,
to reduce their wealth within the dimensions of
Christianity, and to -some correspondence with
the precepts of that holy bobk, of which they so
zealously propagate the diffusion." The rest of
the speech, as our readers will see from the re-
port in another column, was in the same strain.
Mr. Shiel quotes the observation of Palcy—"'
do not know that it has over been insinuated that
the Christian Mission in the hands of the
History
conformity
i tg
Apostles was a scheme for malting a fortune or
getting money," with a view, we suppose, to
show that schemes for making a fortune or get-
sti
andl u i be a t
a rnyd
oting money are incompatible with the Christiann
-Mission. It would seem that the notio was once
,
doc-
trinesie)te ttevrete ;
between
for,e the n
it practice
taai that
et
Etc lei
Ecclesiastical
ocr there
of Euse-
hius, we find poverty made uniformly
the test of
orthodoxy. or instance, it is deemed sufficient
to convict a teacher of heresy.—." This is he (we
quote from ari old translation)
which, under pre-
tence and colour of
oblations, hath cunningly in-
vented the art of bribing ;this is lie which
giveth
great lure unto the preachers of his doctrine, that
by feeding of the paunch, his prophecies, may
prevail., Doth not the whole Scripture forbid
that a prophet should receive rewards and- mo-
ney ? When, as Christ commanded, you shall
not possess gold, neither silver, neither two coats;
these, on the contrary; seek after the possession
of unlawful substance. We have decked that
they whom they call prophets and martyrs have
extqrted money, not only of the rich, but of the
poor, the fatherless, and the widows." But we
take more enlightened views of these matters
than the Apostles and primitive Fathers did. We
arc of the new light, the light of Lord Plunkett,
who contended, by a sort of Irish logic, in the'
House of Commons, that a departure from the
doctrines of Christianity was the only way to
secure its existence. In that work, which is con-
sidered the most classical in Italy, there is a story
of a Jew, who, when pressed by a friend to
embrace the Christian Religion, resolved, be-
fore coming to a determination, to make a jour-
ney to Rome. Giannotto (the friend) seeing
him determined, said God be with you ; and
supposing that he would never be a Chris-
tian after he had seen R
erne, gives him
over for lost. 11
Jew takes. horse, anti
makes the best of his way to Rome, .where

he was most honourably -received by his
brethren the Jews; and, without -saying tt word
what was come about, and lay began to in-
pect narrowly into th,, manner of living of the
Pore, the Cardinals, the other Prelates, and of
the whole Court ; and, from what he himself
perceived, being a person quick of sight, and,
as he was inforined 'I3Y other€, he finds that,'
from, the highest to the lowest, they were given
to all sorts of lewdness, without the least shame
in7emorse ; so that the only way:to obtain any
thing considerable was to apply to - and
--. He observed, also, that they were gene-
rally arunkards and gluttons ; and, like brutes,
'iv-re solicitous for their belies than any thing
'else.' Inquiring furthen, he found them all such
lovers of money, that they would not only buy
and sell man's blooll in general, but even the
blood of Christians, and sacred things of what
kind 'soever, whether benefices or pertaining to
the altar ; and they drove as great a trade of this
as there is in selling cloth and other commodities
at Parii ;. that to:palpable simony they had given
the plausible name of procuration, and debau.;
Aeries they called supporting the body ; as if
God had. been unacqoainted with their wicked
intentions, and, like men, was to be imposed on
by' the Haines of things. These and other things
which I shall pass over, gave great'offence to the
Jew. who was it sober and modest person ; and now,
thinking he had seen enOugh, ha returns home."
Tine story goeson to state the interview between the

Jew, ortltis return, and-his flierl, and, to the
aairprise of the latter, the ,determination to be a
convert, for the following reasons :—"' From what
It can perceive, your pastor, and consequently
the rest, strive, with their whole might and skill,
to -overthrow the Christian Religion, and to
drive • it from off the face .of the earth, even
where they ought to be its chief .succour and
support. But as Ido not see this come to pass,
which they so 'es.rriestly aim at ; on the contrary,
that your religion' gains strength and becomes
every day more glorious; I plainly perceive the
spirit ot'tod to be the protection of it,' as the
mostietrue •and 'holy of all others. For which
• meson, though I continued obstinate to your
exhortations, nor would suffer myself to'be con-
verted by them, now I declare to you that T will
no longer defer being made a ChrLitian. Let us
ev then to the Church, and do you take care
that I he baptised, according to the manner of
your holy faith." Mr. Sheil may apply, if he
pleases, this. story. It 'is not improbable that
4theis may reason like the Jew ; and so far from
deeming the 'reduction of the wealth of the Esta-
blishment " within the dimensions of Chris-
tianity", necessary to the welfare of the Second
Reformation,' may consider the existence of an.
establishment, in a condition .so utterly at vaL
riance with 'these dimensions, an argument in fa-.
your of: the goodness of Protestantism, which
can taffolal •to inake_those men -.the instruments
foe.conversion,.whose own lives are a praCtical
Tefutation of every doctrine they teach.—Moin-
ink . Chronicle.
Withont hazarding any opinion upon the
question which 'has_ arisen between the Irish
Chancellor Nlaster of the Rolls, upon the'
pretensions el the latter to appoint a separate
'Secretary for the Rolls" Court, (the duty in that
and in the Chancellor's Court havine, been
here-
tofore discharged by a single officer, nominated
by. the Oiancellor), we may be permitted to re-
mark the. infinite 'advantage with which, so far
as the a.ffairhas-eome_under public cognizance,
'the Chancellor appears: The well-known Mr.
Sauriu ha been, put-forward as the athocate of
the Master of the t.olls. 'He gave notice to
-t4te Chancellor, some days ago, that two peti-.
t,ons in the m:•tter, had been committed to him,
'cc, be laid before his Lordship, and having been-
_ ,direeted. to choose his own time for the discus-,
then, named last Saturday; when, accordingly,
,he did present the petitions ; but, although
pressed to state his arguments in support of the
claim l',erein prefwed, the Chancellor declaring
. himself fully prepared for the consideration of
the question, he declined so to do. Thu's all
thia," dreadful ~note of preparation" ended in
nothing: In: the course of the very few words.
_whieht, he did say, however, Mr. :Saurin con-
. trived to jtitro. three one of-those hacknied corn-
mon=placcs *so frequent in the mouths of that,
, faction of which that 'gentleman has -been at all
times so violent a partisan. His observation
,that !‘ it was extremely_ desirable that it
-i,liould:inpt go forth to the.pnblic that any um-
pleasiMt,feelings subsisted between the two Courts,
_dud' more
,particularly in the present times,
I...lien:t.lierq was generally prevailing a wish Nd
an
.endeavour to- bring into- contempt those in
high station." To, this. remark,the Chancellor
replicd'. in tile following- manly and dignified
_tefins—" 'That lie who acted uprightly, whose
conduct .was
'Open to investigation, and whose
• inoti•."-es were freely. and 'openly laid before the
public, and ,who felt a consciOuSness of having
acted -rightly to the.best of his judgment, had
inithing to fear- from any.man or class of men
W such-as Mr. Sarnia alluded to."- We say that
e ca-not enter into the legal question at issue,
but language. of .this sort• demands applause,
'being such as cannot fail to be gratifying to all
who desire that justice and reason should assume
the: sway which clamour and party spirit have
been too long allowed to exercise.—/bid.
• B'ir Richard Birdie is 'a very clear-headed and
- honourable. Magistrate, strictly attentive to his
laborious duties, 'and most impartial in the dis-
' charge of them ; but he is, we speak with re-
verence, somewhat given to gossiping about
newspapers. On Tuesday he and Mr. Halls, his
. colleague, had. a long gossip about a charge
. made in a Morning Contemporary against some
officer whom it deseribed.as connected with the
restoration of the Warwick Bank notes, -and
still more. recently in the compromise between
:Grimaldi and Company and the thieves who
plundered their shop. We have no doubt our
contemporary,- and all of us would be most
happy to take advantage of one part of the wor-.
• thy Knight's recommendation, to insert uothing
in our columns. but the truth, and we should
Aeel infinitely obliged could he iurnish us with a
a•,frtat by which .we should be able. to distinguish
'• that lady from a knave called falsehood, who very
. frequently visits us, dressed up in the same ha-
• biliments. The other part of the advice we
should rather demur to, 'namely, that by which
we are called on to carry any part of our mtelli-
t.kenee -to the pile& office' for its guidance. Our
e duty is to record facts,; it belongs to others to
• act oa them. It would be a fearfiil addi-
- ta our already overwhelming labours
were we-calted on, in regard to every repoit that
•inay by p,oss ibility involve the credit of Mr. A.
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Mr, B. at Bow-street, to pay that office a
visit, convenient as it lies to ours. There can be
no 'doubt, whatevei
be the precise facts of the
two cases' of compromise out of which Sir
Richard's observations
attaches 'somewhere. arose, that great blame
It obvious that the
Warwick Bankert, as mielLas
is
Messrs. Grimaldi
and Co. have placed themselves) should criminal