The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-29 00:00:00

INCONSISTENCY OF THE NON-
TRUSIONISTS.

While the clamour raised by the Non-Intrusionists
against the Queen for not attending the High Church
of Edinburgh, is still ringing in our ears, and before
we have ceased smiling at the arguments by which the
Witness attempts to prove that her Majesty, although
she is an Episcopalian, should take part in
the Presbyterian form of worship, we found that
same precious organ of Evangelical piety rating the
King of Prussia soundly for doing what it wanted our
Queen to do—countenancing the two forms of
worship established in hls kingdom. His Majesty,
with his consort, attended divine worship, in the Pro-
testant Church at Cologne in the morning, and laid
the foundation stone of a Roman Catholic cathedral
in the afternoon. On this the Witness remarks—

" The King of Prussia is taking a somewhat strange
plan for the display of his much.talked-of zeal on be-
half of the Gospel. . . That a professedly
Protestant King—one, moreover, zealous in his pro-
fession of religion—should be guilty of the gross in-
consistency of laying the foundation of a Popish ca-
thedral, is a fact sufficiently strange, and as suffi-
ciently humiliating ; although, at the same time, if
the confident assertions made as to his Majesty's con-
version to Puseyism were correct, we should not be
so much astonished at his conduct."
Why be astonished at all ? • Ls not the King of
Prussia carrying out the principle so zealously con-
tended for by the Witness and other godly papers,
during her Majesty's stay in Scotland? And, then,
as to the reason for not being astonished. Will the
Witness recollect that Queen Victoria employed a

Puseyite chaplain at Dallieith ?—and will he be pre-
pared for her Majesty's listening to the mass, should
she pay a visit to Ireland next year? When will
our godly .paper be honest or consistent ?—Aberdeen
Herald. •

RESULT OF LORI) ASHLEY'S
LABOURS.

Since your Lordship first took up this question,
ten 3..ars ago, the toils and labours of the factories
have been frightfully increased. In every branch of
factory labour, even the most favoured, the increase
in the intensity ,and severity of the toil has been 25
per cent., while in many instances the increase has
been four-fold, and in some even more than that, and
yet HO effectual remedy has been applied to this
canker at the very root of human existence."—Address
of the Lancashire Short Time Central Committee to
the Right Hon. Lord Ashley.
(EXTRACT OF LORD ASHLEY'S REPLY.)
" The vast proportion of the evils which afflict and
endanger this country is not ascribable to physical
or commercial causes—these may have their in-
fluence ; but in the main the mischiefs are to he
traced to a moral origin. Over a large surface of the
industrious community man has been regarded as an
animal, and ' that an animal not of the highest order'
—his loftiest faculties, when not prostrate, are per-
verted ; his lowest over-taxed, and devoted exclusively
to the manufacture of wealth. Women and children
follow in the train of ceaseless toil and degrading
occupation; and thus we have before us a multitude
of feeble bodies and untaught minds, the perilous
materials of present and future pauperism, of violence
and infidelity."
M. de La Martine and Lord Ashley seem both in-
clined to democracy, which promises soon to be the
most fashionable resort and place of refuge for ardent-
minded Tories.