The Sun. — 1840-03-18 (London, England)

PUBLIC JOURNALS.  FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) Ultra-Anglican, and Ultramontane Roman Catholic bigotry, resemble each other so closely, that it would seem surprising they cannot agree better, if bigots ever agreed the more for resembling each other closely. The Rev. Messrs. Wilberforce, and the most Rev. Dr. M‘ Hale, smell so completely to one nosegay —held so completely the same language and pretensions—that it is really a pity they cannot make a joint-stock concern of it. Assuredly it is fortunate for the Melbourne Administration, that such formidable adversaries Cannot combine their forces. And perhaps it may be regarded as in some degree providential— the sort of mutual repulsion existing between such very fiery particles, which would, doubtless, blow us all up, if they did not waste so much heat on each other. Archdeacon Wilberforce says very truly, though we do not see how it serves his purpose— "lf Christianity be true, it must, like the God from whom it comes, be all-present everywhere. It is the aim, the object, the manner, the tone of teaching, which makes it religious or secular. Dogmatic theology has been, alas ! too often made most secular instruction. Ciphering may be made religious. This is the great principle at issue. Education is a simple body ; it cannot be resolved into the elements of secular and spiritual. The attempted separation of its fancied parts can lead only to its absolute annihilation."  Archdeacon Wilberforce imagines these sentences tell against the views of Government. To us they seem to tell more against " dogmatic theology," when a aimated (" alas too often I") by a secular spirit. (From the Standard.) We have just received the return of the Irish cornmittals during the year 1839. After all that the pablic i i has lately heard of the tranquillity oF Ireland, it may naturally expect a considerable diminution n the committals, particularly in the• committals for the class of offences accompanied by violence. We are sorry to say, however, that such expectation will be grievously disappointed. The committals for murder and manslaughter, in 1839, amounted, according to the return, to the frightful number of six hundred and eighty-seven ; the largest annual amount, we believe, even in the black catalogue of Irish crime. The committals for murder and manslaughter, in the first year of Whig government 1831, reached no farther than 010, and on the average, of the twenty years preceding, years of Tory misgovernment and Orange ascendancy, they did not pass 100. They have multiplied, however, threefold, under the benign influence of Whig Administration, and we are told by men who do not laugh in our faces, though they must laugh inwardly when they utter the audacious falsehood, that the tranquillity of Ireland has prodigiously improved. They tell us that there are no faction fights now ; perhaps not—the populace are better drilled, and now know whom to murder.  (From the Courier.) It is the people, and not the Clergy, who should remedy the: defects of which Mr. Baines complains. We have never fora moment entertained a notion of inflicting ra mischief upon any portion of the community, and th erefore we have not said a word about the proprioty of restoring to the Clergy the funds, small or la' rge, which are collected from them under the name of First Fruits and Tenths, because they ar© devoted to the improvement of the cire umstances in which the more indigent of the body are placed. We would not injure these indigent p 'rsons, and therefore have left untouched the justice of t he foundation on which Queen Anne's Bounty is placed. There are far more equitable means of increasing the -value of unrequited exertions without resorting to the measures proposed by the opponents of our national establishments, and elaborated by the gentlemen who have kindly interested themselves in a matter in which they are in no sort of manner concerned.