24 JUNE 1837, Page 13

THE CHURCH FACTION ALREADY AT WORK.

I:v the Standard of Thursday, we find the following form of an address to the Queen.

"TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

"Most Gracious Sovereign—We,your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal sub-

jects, the inhabitants of the parish of in the county of

approach your royal presence, to express the deepest sense of the severe loss which your Majesty's subjects have sustained by the death of our late most ex- cellent Sovereign.

"We humbly- beg leave to express our devotion and congratulation on Your Majesty's accession to the Throne; the only consideration which can afford relief for sub a loss.

" The knowledge of your Majesty's royal virtues and wisdom opens to your Majesty's faithful subjects, the fairest prospect for their future happiness, they relying on your Majesty's adopting the desire of his late Majesty, (as expressed in his last address to his faithful legislators,) to give increased stability to-the Established Church ; thereby securing to your Majesty's faithful and devoted subjects, the religion of that constitution which placed your Majesty's ancestors on the throne of this kingdom, and created and continued the blessings of its subjects, to a degree which has not been equalled by any neighbouring kingdom."

This document the Standard received from Arundel. So, the Sussex parsons did not lose much time in commencing their opera- tions. The cue of the Church faction is to terrify the Queen, in the very first week of her reign, into the notion that her peculiar duty is to maintain the State Church as it is; as if the just govern• ment of those many millions of her subjects who stand without the pale of the Establishment were a sec udary consideration.

We doubt not that these selfish and men will be dis- appointed. Following their advice, lie esty would indeed

have a troubled reign. But VICTORIA is the Queen of the British empire, not the creature of a sect, however powerful and wealthy. The Dissenters, Protestant and Catholic, require not her especial protection and favour ; they ask only righteous government at her hands; and what claim have Churchmen to more? Why should they intrude themselves into the presence of the Queen with an assumption that her Majesty's primary ob- ligation is to uphold their monopoly, and aid them in the main- tenance of exclusive rights ? The course of' the Queen is clear. As long as she refrains from undue partiality to any one of the religious sections into which the country is divided, and does not oppose her private predilections, if she has any, to the wishes of the majority, constitutionally expressed through their Represen- tatives in Parliament, she will be blameless, and secure of the support and affection of the overwhelming majority of her sub- jects; who, however, will not patiently submit to the practical exhibition of superior regard to one sect over another, even although the favoured fraction belong to the Established Church.