The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-04 00:00:00

religion of the bulk of the people, that is of no more
consequence-than the religion of the people in Ireland'
or the West Indies.. The Bishops of
,England are too-
modest to do themselves and the inferior clergy some
injustice by not requiring the Government to parcel
India out in Bishoprics as well as Ireland.
As to the Cape of Good Hope, where they are going
in due time to establish a 'Bishop, we are informed
that the inhabitants of the colony amount to 163,130,
or 7,000 more than the estimate of the clergy.
Of the whole, about 1-22 d, part, or 7,580, belong to
the Episcopal Church of England, provided with seven
churches, and as many ministers; quite enough, how-
ever, to constitute an Archbishopric, according to the
rule followed in Ireland. The Dutchmen and their
descendants settled at the Cape, belonging to the
Dutch Reformed Church, abhor Bishops. They
amount to 72,433. The Dissenters, who agree mainly
with them in religious opinions, are 25,685. There
are 7,580 Mahomedans, and 45,528 Heathens. The
Roman Catholics amount to 1,710, and the remainder
are Presbyterians and Lutherans. Here is a 'noble-
fieldfor a Bishop to exert him Self! 45,000 Heathens to
convert, and 72,000 abhorrers to collect under the
Episcopal crook ! That the twenty-one parts of the
population out of twenty-two do not belong to the
English Church, is no reason whatever why they
should not pay the English priesthood. • The Bishops
assembled in Whitsun week are obviously of that
opinion, and they are justified :in holding it by the
conduct of the State towards_ Ireland. Extend the
system to India by all means; the9fewer members of
the' Episcopal Church the
.more need of Bishops and
a staff of.clergy to bring thereensants within its pale;
And let us, therefore, have a - full Episcopal establish-
ment of English Bishops for. India.
Statesmen, indeed, make a little objection. They
iay that the natives do -not like their religion to be
meddled with, and it might go hard with our empire
in Ird'a were the Government to plant Archbishops
and Bishops there, in proportion to the
_number of in-
habitants. But the Dutch boors at the Cape—though
Many of them have already wandered out of the
colony to escape from a fancied or a real oppreSsion—
md the negro population in the West Indies, though
they have begun to show a desire to resist undue in-
terference with them, may be easily coerced, it is
;upposed, into a due payment for the clergy ; and,
herefore, though the clergy refrain from touching
India, they demand the establishment of Bishops at
:he Cape of Good HOpe, and an increase of them in
the West Indies. They probably fancy, like mer-
chants, if they can once bring their wares before the
heathen of the colony, that a taste for them, and a
market, will be created, and. Bishops be in demand in
ill time to come._
We cannot comprehend why the same rule should
lot apply to India as to Ireland. It is considered a
nerit to force the Anglican . Church on the Irish Ro-
man Catholics, and a demerit to force it on the Hin-
locks. Why are the latter treated so much more tenderly
I,nd justly than the former ? • Is less to be got by
,übjecting the Hindoo lands' to -tithes for the Anglican
clergyman, than the lands of Ireland ?
We can excuse the ambition or avarice of Episco-
pacy. It is a mere trade in lucre, a wish for a more
extensive market, and a higher price. They want,
like other men, to be enriched by law. They insist
',hat their 're-hackled and .reswoven old rags are the
finest and the strongest of, cloth, and we care not to
;nterfere with the sale of their goods, so long as it is
voluntary. But' we must remind the Government
that Holland was lost to Spain; and that numerous
wars and revolutions have sprung crom Governments;
interfering with the religion of their subjects. When
Episcopacy, in spite of all that its flatterers can say,
.I,nd in spite of all its exertions, is falling into dis-
favour in England, it will not answer to force it on
:he colonists, rude and unprepared. We know that
Lord STANLEY brooks no opposition, and that he
Aid be as ready to sacrifice the colonial empire to the
aggrandisementof the Church, rs he is to sacrifice the
Coolie population of India to the enrichment of the
Mauritius planters, if that whim should take possession of
his mind ; but we beseech his less vehement colleagues
not to follow the example of JAMES 11., and barter
the authority of Government for the praise of the
priesthood.

In another part a The San will be found a letter
from Mr. RAWSON to Lord JOHN RUSSELL. We do
not guarantee his statements, but they pre:,ent some
,xtraordinary results. From them it appeals that our
,nanufacturer, who is compelled to be an exporter by
`he necessities of his condition, h"s to pay in America,
)ut of 216 barrels of flour, 'purchased by the produce
A' his labour, 591 for necessary charges of freight, in-
surance, &c., to which the American manufacturer is
not liable. Out of the remaining 1-56 - he has to give
up 32 barrels to the American Custom-house, that
being a retaliatory exrction in consequence of
our Corn-laws. Ile hays thus 124-i left; but on

importing his flour to England, the Corn-laws and
Custom-house charges will take away 42.1 more,
leaving 82 to be divided---las payment of the materials,
41 barrels, as profit 64, and wages 341. At the same
time, his foreign competitor has no less than 146
barrels for profit and wages alone.
Supposing that statement to be correct, our manu-
facturers must labour under. immense disvivantages.
Though the statement is there made on larrrels of
flour, the result will not differ if the merchant receive
a bill Nf exchange, which has to be taken up by
goods remitted to England. Though the statement,
too, is confined to the United States, it is, pro tanto,
true of all third markets where the manufacturing
products, of that country come into competition with
our OWD, and where retalirfory tariffs have been
called into existence by our. Corn-laws.
It seems pretty certain, too, as capital spreads
itself with much readiness • over the commercial
world, that the capitalist will go to those countries
where profit is highest, and that, consequently, nearly
the whole of this vast deduction from the value of our
manufactures will mainly fall on the English labour-
ers. To such a declension -in value, or unfair system
of traffic, as regards foreign countries, nearly all
our manufactures are liable, for they are all exported,
which serves to account for, their continual •;all in
price, and the unceasing deterioration of the condi-
tion of our manufacturing population. Their increase
in skill, and the continued invention of new machines,
ought, like the discoveries in agriculture, which
have been described as arresting at intervals the
downward march of profits and wages, to continually
improve the condition of the people ; but in spite of this
great principle, the restriction laid by law on t rade,mak es
it tend to impoverish instead of enriching all classes.
England, M. RAWSON says, which hts served
nearly the whole world with hosiery for 200
years, is the only Country in which the con-
sumption of hosiery is not rapidly increasing. In
England the consumption has fallen off, Mr. RAW-
sow says, one-third within the last three or four
years ; and we need scarcely look beyond the genera'.
, diminution of wages pointed out by Mr. llAwsow as
the consequence. of our fierce competition with nations
. not yet heavily chained by restrictive laws, to ascer
-taro the cause of the dlininishei consumption. •'.l-

more the Corn-laws are investigated, the grei,ter are
the evil effects brought to light. We hope that the Noble
Lord to whom Mr. RAWSON'S letter is addressed, w;11
eause the truths it conveys to be heard in high places.

• Mr. Fox MAULE evidently labours under great anx
iety for his rebellious friends in Strathbogie. The Duke
of RICHMOND, shocked at the cruel sentence of depo,i-
don issued by the last General Assembly against seven
membera of Presbytery, has committed the unpardonable
offence of filling up the vacancy caused• by the death of
Mr. entmcsnANK, one of the deposed clergymen,
without consulting CHALMEJIS, CANDLISH, and -C
and some outbreak, instigated tio doubt by the 111:on=Intt
sionist party, 18 anticipated on the induction of the pre
sentee. The Horne Secretary has, therefore, made provisiom
against any serious distuibance by ordering certain troops
from Aberdeen to
.proceed to liuntly, and keep the law-
breakers in order. We regret to see such a movement,
because the doiiiinant party in the Kirk will attempt to

turn it to their advantage ; and it is an unseemly :Act to
settle a. minister of peace in a parish under the protee-
ti,,n Of a military force: But what can the Government
do ? The Non-Im;-u the Whig or Tory Mi-
nistry, were the aggressors, nail were the first to set ti.e
law of the land at defiance. Teachers of the Gospel, men
who should, by their example and preaching, lead their

people to obey the rulers that be, have done every thing
in their power ta.stir them up against the law of the land.
They have abused the Judges of the Court of Session,
and the Law Lords in the House of Peers, and, when they
found their appeals rejected by the highest authorities,
they bad recourse to direct falsehoods, by asserting that
they never
recogni,led their authority.- How,
.can
the people, who put confidence in
the savings and doings of such men, be expe'.ed
to 'remain Oct,
when thus excited to open re-
bellion ?\s'eshall regret exceedingly if any of the