The Sun. — 1840-10-15 (London, England)

HUME.  • In the Registration Court yesterday Mr. Co. VENTItY gave a decison, which will increase, we have no doubt, the zeal of the Bishops and all the Clergy in procuring new churches. By so doing they will get a number of additional votes for Mem.  bers of the House of Commons ; and, as the Bishop of LONDON has lately told us that the inferior Clergy dare not do what the Dean or the Bishop discountenances, the Bishop may by and by conic to nominate a respectable portion of the House of Commons. By Mr. CoVENTRY'S decision all the stipendiary curates of the numerous chapels or district churches which have been or may be erected, though the .freehold of those chapels and churches is expressly reserved to the Church-building Commissioners, and though the right to recover the pew-rents isnot in the stipendiary curate but in the churchwardens and freeholders, Mr. COVENTRY holds that such a Pew-rent is a profit derivable from land, and that the stipendiary curates are raised at once to the rank of landlords. At the same time, Dissenting ministers are excluded, because they hold no office in the meaning of the Reform Act. This is no doubt a very legal decision, but it will astonish those members of the curates' congregations, who are not much addicted to legal niceties, to learn that pew rents which they pay, are a profit derivable from land, and are freehold. Such a decision must be more politically satisfactory than morally pleasing to the reverend stipendiary curates, inasmuch as it affixes no value to their preaching, and declares that pew-rents, instead of being paid for their services, grow, like turnips, from the soil.  The Paris Journals of Tuesday publish, from the London Gazette, the official accounts of the Capture of Beyrout, without making it the object of any original remark whatever. Now, in justice to the reputation of the British officers and seamen employed in that service, it was the duty of the French Press to have expressed regret at the atrocious calumnies to which their correspondents, through their instrumentality, had previously given currency relative to the capture of this Syrian fortress. They cannot have so soon forgotten that in their columns, the crews of the British ships before Beyrout were charged with the indiscriminate massacre of the innocent inhabitants ; whereas Admiral STOPFORD and Commodore NAPIER demonstrate that the preservation of the inhahitantswas, next to the capture of the fortress, the object of their principal solicitude, inasmuch as the town itself suffered very little from the fire of the ships. The French Journals were further called upon to denounce the vile trick of having recourse to forgery to blacken the character for humanity of British seamen, as in the instance of the pretended note from SOLIMAN PACHA to the British and Austrian Admirals, recounting, with various touches of melodramatic horror, sundry murderous exploits of cannon-balls, which wanted but until to make them tragical. The Journal des Debats is the only Paper whose tone is not decidedly warlike. The Abbe DE LANIENNAIS, who, like our own Doctor WADE, is never so happy as when he is fishing in the troubled waters of politics, occupies with frantic nonsense, interlarded with scraps of quotations from Gibbon's History f the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, more than a page of the Arational of Tuesday, with a view to throw a few more maddening ingredients into the cauldron of popular fury. But the final decision'rests with the Chambers, and with them only. M. TIIIERS, who meets with little sympathy among the MOLE or Conservative party, who support the pacific views of the KING, is prepared to throw himself into the arms of the left and extreme left, whose organs are mad for war. It is expected that the first trial of strength will take place on tie election of President of the Chamber of Deputies. M. THIERS' candidate is M. ODILLON BARROT• The late President, M. SAUZET, will be supported by the Court. If M. TIIIERS succeed in this first step, he will next insist on the removal of the four members of the Cabinet who are for peace. Should he, on the contrary, be defeated, he will make another effort to retire before the debate on the address, in order that he may be more at liberty to proclaim war not only against the Four Powers, but the Court. By the extraordinary despatch, from Paris received yesterday evening, we have been enabled to anticipate most of what appears in the way of news in Tuesday's papers. The following paragraphs have not, however, yet appeared :