The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT Or

'M LONDON JOURNALS.

The Sale of. Grime Bill was read a second time
last night in the -:House of Lords. The majority
was It). The niponents of the Bill, who spoke,
were Lord Malmesbury and the Marquis of London-
derry. Loed Malmesbury " knew that, there was !
at this time a great run on the country gentlemen ;
and among other things it had been said that they,
by means of the Game Laws, were promoting the
extension of crime. He believed that the charge
was unfounded, and that the Game Laws were not
the cause of the extension of crime." Lord Malmes-
bury knows very well that all those who can afford
to purchase game will purchase it ; consequently,
that the law prohibiting the sale of game must re-
main a dead letter. Whatever we may think of
the poacher, what are we to think of the ideas of
hi; duty entertained by the legislator who enacts
laws which he knows must be constantly vio-
lated ? " Gentlemen (said his Lordship) who re-
sided all the year round on their estates in the
country, required to have this privilege, in or-
der to enable them to pass their time agreeably."
It the law could be enforced, Gentlemen ought to
be extirpated as greater nuisances than their prede-
cessors the wolves. When law is not reconcileable
with the good of the people, no matter who makes
it, it is tyranny. Now, to enact that any portion of
the productions of a country shall be placed beyond
the reach of all the inhabitants of towns, possessing
infinitely more property than the landholders (if, as
Sir James Graves stated, the latter for nine-tenths
of their rentals are merely trustees for creditors and
annuitants), and all the inhabitants of the country,
excepting a limited number of owners of estates, is
at variance with every justifiable principle of legis-
lation. The law, however, is merely a monument of
the impotence of the Legislation, in so far as regards
the prohibition. But waiving for the present, the
co is:deration whether the law tends to increase
p -vhing, and poaching leads to other crimes, what
of moral culture must that mind have re•
ived which coolly sanctions the enactment
of laws which it knows, at the time, cannot
he put in force ? Is it nothing that, besides the
poachers, a number of men are every where ha-'
hituated to a violation of the law ? We fear his
Lordship's description applies to but too many of
his class:—" Ever since our First Parents clothed
themselves in skirts, we were all fens nature.
Other domestic animals always retained something
of their wild nature. A plump and well-fed lap-
cl.og, though in want of nothing, might be seen
running with a bone to hide it in a hole. So it was
with us." His Lordship, we think, generalizes ra-
ther rashly. Stealing may have attraction for well-
fed dogs and some well-fed men, like his Lordship;
but in general well-fed men are not disposed to steal
food. Men seldom steal what they can obtain with
ease. A rich man may occasionally be found pick-
ing pockets; but this is as rare as the sight of a
white crow. One would suppose that his Lordship
considered himself bound to legislate to enhance the
pleasures of the poulterer and the poacher, by
giving them, in addition to their profits, the zest of
consciousness of violating the law.—Morn. Citron.
Our readers would see from the Morning Herald
oe yesterday, that our Reporter at Rochdale acted
a very proper and a very spirited part, when he was
sn unnecessarily reproved by Farrant, the Coroner.
Our Reporter acted very right in examining and
giving the evidence of the witnesses after they had
been examined by Farrant ; and we hope ti-at our
Lancashire Reporter, on every occasion where Far-
rant, or any other Coroner, refuses him admittance,
will take the witnesses into a private room, after
their examination, give them some good bread and
cheese and ale at the expense of the Morning
Herald ; and take down and give whatever they
tray say to the public. Our Reporter can do this
and neither Farrant, or any other Coroner, can pre-
vent him. If Farrant, or any other Coroner, or
Coroner's Clerk, should interfere, or should presume
to enter our Reporter's private room, our Reporter
will be justified in ordering or thrusting them out.
We will see if we cannot get the better of these
toronecs and their clerks.—Morning Herald.

We regret exceedingly to perceive that another
ef the original supporters of the King's College has
heen induced to withdraw his name from the list of
Shareholders of that most excellent And truly laud-
able institution. Whilst we respect the feelings
which dictate this resolution, we must again remon-
strate against the excess to which they are carried.
The main assertion which the new seceder advances
as the ground of his determination to withdraw his
name and interest from the College is not correct
in point of fact, nor would it, even if true, justify
to any dispassionate and candid mind the conclusion
he builds upon it. The admission of Roman Ca-
tholics to Parliament and the Great Offices of Go-
vernment does not dissolve the connection between
the Protestant Church of England and the State.
The connection is maintained so long as that Church
i+ exclusively upheld by the State—so long as the dig-
nitaries of that Church are selected by the State—so
long as the highest class of those dignitaries retain
a seat and vole., in the Legislature in virtue of their
ecclesiastical rank. The effect of the recent Act of
Parliament (and what we, who resisted it to the
last, have of all persons the least temptation to ex•
tenua'e), is to loosen that connection for the pre-
sent and to endanger it for the future ; and the duty
which the new circumstances plainly and strongly
enforce upon all the true friends of Church and
State, who sincerely believe that their union is ad-
vantageous to both, is not to relax in their exer-
tions, but rather to redouble them for the preserva-
tion of the remaining institutions which still serve
to cement their connection, and to plant and cultivate
suet) new institution as, like the King's College, seem
calculated to strengthen andperpetuate it. Admitting
even that the connection between the Church of Eng-
land and the State were dissolved, are they to be consi-
dered as steadfast. friends of either, who, professing
themselves to be convinced of the value of that
connsction, are prompt to abandon dee intermediate
measures tending to its renewal ? Are thi doctrines
end discipline of the Church of Englatel less wor-
thy of being maintained in the estimation of the
people because there are persons who fancy that she
is no longer indissolubly united with the Slate ?
Are politics every thing, and religion nothing, in
the opinion or any man who ever could have been
a consistent and valuable patron of'a British seat
of learning? The determination to erect a College
in the Metropolis, to he regulated upon Church of
England priucinles, and governed by the high au-
thorities of that Church, arose from the obvious ne-
cessity of counteracting the influence of another
Collegiate Institution already established, which,
pretending to spurn altogether the duty of ad-
ministering religious instruction, tended its fact to ea-
courage Sectarianism in preference to the faith of the
National Church, and infidelity in preference to either.
Has the admission of the Catholics to political power
diminished this danger, or rendered measures to coun-
teract it less necessary than they were before ? Or
have these seceders from King's College discovered
some less objectionable or more efficacious means of
counteraction than that of establishing an University
:n which religious instruction is to be a principal ob-
ject, and to be imparted under the direction and
superintendence of the Heads of the Church of Eng,-
land ? We would remind them that the very name
of such a rival to the Freethinking University has
already operated by anticipation to render the latter
less dangerous to the religious sentiments of the
youth of the metropolis tb It was at first designed
to be, by compelling tie Coenci; so far to depart
from the original design as to give
.s. eoet of half
sanction to religious instruction, and to incite o,letn
to persevere, by the confident assurance that
this early triumph is but the earnest of
greater triumphs yet to come. The seceders
lose their confidence in the character and effects
of King's College, because it is liable to be deprived
of the patronage and controut of the . King's Minis
stern, all of whom (excet. the Lord Chancellor)
may now be Roman Catholics. This injury to the
College (for we admit that it would be one), if it
nrohablv so distant as to afford

time for the accomplishment of much intermediate'
good, and the acquisition of sufficient reputation and
strength to sustain the institution even under so
lamentable an infliction. Hari it may be further re-
marked that the loss of the official lay visitors would
not be likely to divert the establishment from its
original objects, since it would then remain under
the more exclusive authority of the Heads of the
Church. We will not suppose that recent transac-
tions have so far shaken the confidence of any of the
original promoters of King's College in the high dig-
nitaries of the Church of England, as to make them
indifferent to the progress of an institution, merely be-
cause those dignitaries are to be entrusted principally
with its management. No man, so far as we have
learned, has yet avowed so violent a revulsion of
feeling, and no man can avow it without at the same
time, if he be consistent, declaring the opinion, that
the Catholic Question having been carried, Oxford
and Cambridge are no longer beneficial institutions,
and that henceforth no attack whatever upon the
Church of England itself ought to be resisted.—
These desertions, and they are but few, we can
only ascribe to a temporary ebullition of temper.
A little cool reflection will be sufficient to restore
the deserters to their former honourable and meri-
torious course. At all events, we do not apprehend
that the example will he contagious, but confidently
expect, on the contrary, that the powerful and nu-
merous friends and patrons of King's College, who
still adhere to the opinion that such an institution is
necessary, and must prove highly advantageous to
the rising generation, will exert themselves in its
support with redoubled energy and zeal.—Morning
Post.

SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

Downing-street, May 8, 1829.
The King has been pleased to appoint Major-General
Sir James Carmichael Smyth, Bart. to be Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands.

Downing-street, May 11.
The King has been pleased to appoint Edward A. W.
Drummond hay, Esq. to be his Majesty's Agent and
Consul-General in all the dominions of the Emperor of
Morocco.

Crown-office, May 12.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR-

LIAMENT.
Borough of East Looe.
Henry Thomas Hope, Esq. of Duchess-street, London,
in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel James Drummond
Buller Elphinstone, who has accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County

of Glamorgan.
John Homfray, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant. May 1.
Whitlock Nichol', Esq. to he ditto. Miy 1.
Swansea and Gentlemen Yeomanry Cavalry.
Thomas Penrice, Esq., to be Major-Commandant,
vice Hughes, deceased. April 20.
Henry Lucas, Esq., to be Captain, vice Penrice, pro-
moted. April 20.
Thomas Thomas, Esq., to be ditto, vice Evans, resigned.
April 28.
John Strick, Gent. to he Lieutenant, vice Steph. n
Bowen Jones, resigned. April 20.
John Henry Hammond Spencer, Gent. to be ditto, vice
Thomas, promoted. April 29.
Commission in the Clumber Troop of Sherwood Rangers,
signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Comity of Not-
tingham.
Geryas King Holmes, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant.
May 1.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
Antonio Joze Meirellea, Liverpool, merchant.
Thomas 'Henry Coe and Frederick Farmer Moore, Old
Change, Cheapside, printers.
Archibald Allardyce, Chadwell-street, Clerkenwell,
baker.