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LONDON; MONDAY, JU.VE 2.

ON the day after the recent dinner at Tnmworth,
and when, a, waa supposed, the popular indignation
had pamed away, the unhappy intruders of the night
before endeavoured to make the best of their way,
unobseretil. nut of the town. The rumour of their
being about to depart quickly aroused, however, the
slumbering ill-humour of the many, end they had
not proceeded fur cru they were once more the object
of attention inore pressing than agreeable. A sym-
pathising contemporary concludes its picturesque
narrative by informing us that it was only "by
closing the blinds of the cnrriage and driving at full
gallop that the party ward" unhurt from the in-
hospitable town.
And is it come to this ? Are the chosen chiefs of
that wid .--;we ad and.general reaction in favour of
dearness and scarcity, already forced to provide for
their personal safely from an ungrateful people,
whom they h..ul undertaken to deliver from all the
horrors of plenty ?
_ .

Wu. ever people in vueh humour wont ?
\Ymever people in sueh humour won?
l'enfound must be the faith or the philosophy
which in the face of such energetic repudiation inn
affect to believe that its doctrine,, are not loathed,
and its apostles spurned as impeetuns?
Otu• private opinion is that poor Mr. Voeso and
Mr. lirooNr.R are the victims of their own sincerity.
'Their candour has been the special cause of their dis-
comfiture. NI any unwiriC mtn have bet ii hankerin g after
pniteetion thu se last five years; hut few of them
have had the rashness to say what they mean,
in so many, or rather in so few words. Lord
011.1.% could never be brought to the point by any
artifice of &Ante, and actually never conini;tteti him-
se•lf to a re-impsitien ut• taxi:. on Nod, until required
to soy psitivcle what he meant, by the QCEEN, in
the month of February last; and even then he took
pains so to guard the proposition as to afford himself
ec..ry flammable champ of making his escape from it
in cane he should he phiad in a pooition of real re-
sponsibility. Mr. DistetEil has studiously abstained
for now a long time front uttering anything more
tangible than a taunt at the expense of Mr. Comm.:4,
or a jest at the expense of the CHANCELLOR of the
Excitrilt:Eft.

And us for the future leader of the party in the
Common., Mr. IVat.rotai, nub idy his ever yet heard
him drop a hint upon th" abject of re-enacting a
cot law. All these are in their generation wiser
th n the children of bkilit. If they are as wanting
in bowel,, of mere), for the mast of their fellow-men,
they at least affect to have more mercy for their
bosels. They may have mule up their minds to
legislate in favour of hunger, and to place all the
prime neeessariis of life into the schedule of "
commonly smuggled." lint they refrain from to
intelligibly shout it beforehand. 'They air politieally
well-hrisl if not politically humane; and they think
it us well not to frighten their coveted patient by
flourishing their operating knives, before he is
stretched and hound on the t title of torture.
Messrs. Si-mixt:a and Vol -a; disdain all reserve
of this sort. they march about with their tourni-
quets and bunlages tagging for leave to fit them on
forthwith on the plea of indispensable necessity.
With inimitable word. they avow that by this ne-
cessity they mean that of the surgeons, who cannot
live in luxury if other people are nut in a state of
suffering ; and they boldly proceed, wherever they
can obtain u hearing, to prove that nothing betokens
so much need of the knife as the perste).* of being
in rude health. Frankness is often dangerous, but at
Tamworth it had well nigh proved fatal. Ilad Mr.
Disk %rat gone thither he would, in all probability, have
made MI at tempt to persuade t he Tam wort hits that all
desi nal was the U11.111.41111.11t 01.14x-41 burdens, mid the
more perfeet equalisation of the ilWillt•llee of taxation
tine phi:l,4s, which have yet eaurral the breakage
of a lime of glass is limn ldl or hotel, in any
city or borough of the tit env'.. 111.111illiIIIM 114 d
Lard Sr ts I. a. y %12.16.41 the pLICC he would have
launched forth into eulogy of the great talents and
unrivalled tecumplishments of the late lord of limy-
too, from whom he would for the hundredth time
have declared that he difl red with deep regret, and
only front a sense of honour :tad duty. llud Mr.
WALPOLV. hien oldie '"mitering he would have stuck
to the glories of the aaei. art mtimtitution of the
realm. and the neiessity ut maintaining the dominant
ride of lords spiritual and temporal: but not a syl-
lable would the wily adv.,. ate have breathed about a
return to high tents and dear food; Nlr. ttaieme
knows better.

Hut the unaophistirated Srockyrn and the un-
youthful YOUNG are honest for the age they five in;
and of Icrworai.vrt it may truly lie said that he is a
Disraelite indeed in whmu there is no guile. Ile
thinks what he ccays. and says what he thinks every-
where and when. Ilia 'tory voice is lifted upm
Ile..1•6011 and lint of SejNon,--generally the latter. Ile
has proved to his own satisfaction what he thinks
ought bleat's', the dissatisfaction of every industrious
mien in the realm, that the exonsion of our ex-
port market is ruinous• and that for 't people
who live by trade the more we sell the worse uti we
must be. Considering hew very incredulous we are
UllOll this point• and that every day we are going
farther and farther in the direction he so much de-
memos and dreads, nothing ern be more noble than
141 r. VWDE4i.eres self-devotion in crying aloud in
the streets and market-places of the land that we are
all staggering blindly down to ultimate smash by
reason of the' extended business that free trade ry
enabling us to do. Nlanufacturtes, merchants, shop-
keepers, artisans, labourerss men, women, and chil-
dren. are all sleeping uneonsciously. while the Hawk'
of prosperity are rising higher and higher around
them—nobody but the i t rep!d NEwurc tTE,SPOONER,
and Yousi, offering, tit the risk of their own invalu-
able lines, to rescue them from their perilous posi-
tion. Seldom has anything finer been witnessed
than the chivalrous efforts of these courageous men.
Talk not to us of the generality or activity of other
AKNUI:Mee 'fell us not of "(lobe's"
and '• Pelicans —there are none of them to be
compared with the old Vulture," established in
lala by act of parliament.
Jesting apart, what eon by any possibility come of
a cause mu manifestly repugnant to the instinctive
feelings of the masa of the community ? With any
other cry the tory party might with comparative
prudence go to the hustings at a general election.
Their rivals who Caine mitt) Office the. yearn ago with-
out any stoat of popularity to trade upon, have done
little to render themselves formidable competitors for
popular favour. And if, instead of impracticable
projects of reaction, the tory chiefs were to outbid
the whigs in any great essential ot' progress• whither
financial, electoral, or colonial, no sincere lily ral
would object, or could complain. But so long as'
conservatism is synonymous with reaction and
ae-reity of food, the Emotes and GREYS may con-
sider themselves secure in nowning-street. The
people have no love for the system of government by
a family clique;" but they will put up with any-
thiug rather than go through a social revolution—
and a social revolution is inevitable should any man
or set of men attempt to undo the great work of
PEEL.

To listen to Sir JAMES ORM! tit and other ultra-
catholic orators of the House of Commons, one
would suppose that there was not a sin2le atom of
property, or title to land or rents, at all in question
an the present eccledastical discussion. According
to Sir JAMES GRAHAM and hoe genus oniue, all that
Lord JOHN is aiming at is a coercion of Homan
catholic spirituality. It is a heavy chain upon con-
science, and a terrible breach of the freedom of Mi.'
;ions wolship.
The Rao= catholic religion, argues Sir 'Atm, is

an essentiallly• episcopal one. If you shake, touch,t
or question ihe authority of the bishops, you nullify
and degrade their clergy. But the Roman catholic
is also a papal religion; so by shaking, touching,
or question:3g the Pore, coo nullify and degrade
the bishops. Thus the infallibill`v of the POPE, hi
right to dominate Italy and missile his subjects—his
power to place hinmell and his councils at the feet of
Austria one moment, of France another—all are
parts of the Roman catholic system; and Sir JAMES
Iht.iitim well declares that to touch the l'org with
the little finger of coercion,to compel him even to rule
his subjects with humanity—this would be a decided
aggression upon, and high treason to, the spi-
rituality of Roman catholicism.
Wes ever such unstatesuiieilike nonsense? At

every turn, at every step, at every joint of its I
interminal'te hierarchy and supremacy, the church
of ltome extends its sceptre or its influence from
spiritualities to temporalities. There is no'. one tem-
poral engagement, or tc:upercl property. or tem- '
peril authority, that might not be claimed, nulli-
tied, or overborne by spiritual pretensions.
Even at present, what is the real squabble about
but the loaves and fishes? The Popo has divided'.
England territorially, attached dignities and titles
to his epi,eopal nominees. What are the duties of
these? That is it that forms the chief care, and
occupies the chief time of Cardinal Wlst:u.►x ? The
conversion of souls? No such thing but the
management of property. Whilst Sir J m G
grand complaint is, that by declaring all papal
rescripts illegal, that "touch the QUEEN, her crown,
her regality, and the realm."—no unjust and tyran-
nical precautions—government is coercing, and
wronging the spiritual supremacy of the Roman catho-
lic church. _ .

The fact is, however, that if parliament and Lord
1011 N did really menace the spirituAliti.s, and
nothing but spiritualities, we should hive heard no
noise about it. For reallyand purely spirituAl jurisdic-
tion how can parliament, in thcsccivihsc•d and tolerant
days, affect? 'lke Itoman catholic authorities in
all countrial may pmscribe protestants and pro-
testantisim, forbid their exis:enee, their worship,
and the profession of their doctrines; but English
protestants durst not retaliate. Those principles
of lay and liberal independence, which sacerdotal
popery must for ever war against, save it from
such persecution, which, as a /ex talieds, it so
richly deserves. Let us only consider how Mr. MORE
OTEititnu. treated the Roman patriots, actually
consigning them to death, ratle-r than let them have
fresh air and repose within his jurisdiction. Yet, as
an Irish patriot, this same merciless bigot demands
the supn•mncy of the clergy, and declares himself
wronged because some priest is not allowed to inherit
property and go to court as Cardinal .Irchhishop of
London.

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A religions sect that would dare to be so purely
and primitively Christian as to avoid and dispense
with all property, save that contributed from Clay to
dory and Iran year to year,would defy the persecuting
power of such env iliwd govcnoncnts as that of England.
But when churches, us corporat ions, insist on having and
onhandingdown property, then they must come to the
state and to the law for that title and guarantee
which the state alone can give. Here, then, is the
tie that the state has upon sects and churches. In
return for the Ninetina to their property and the
authority connected i.ith it, the state has a full right
to demand from sects, that in their simanisraiun and
their working they do or decree nothing contrary to
the grist prineiples on which the state rests, to its
institutions, its freedom, to the power of the WEE'S,
to the Oesss's exclusive right of conferring digni-
ties, or to the exclusive right of the legislature to
sanction territorial jurisdiction.
The great fault of government in its bill was not
to have come fiwward with sufficient boldness, and de-
clare that, in return fur that sanction and protection
which the state alone ran give to religious corpora-
tions holding property and authority, the state
claims the conformance of this or that sect to the
fundamental principles of our constitution. One of
these is that the right to comer dignities and titles
slot exist in nu foreign prince. The culling such a
demand by the name of persecution, as it pleases
that veteran sophist, Sir JestEs Gassiest, to do,
merely proves the man who dues so to have no con-
science in his words, and no common sense in his
arguments. The government first, indeed, boldly
and rightly said that no ecclesiastical property or
authority should he enjoyed or transmitted by any who
used their titles without sanction of law. Fear, how-
ever, of injustice, arising front the retrospective
action of such clauses, induced the government
to consent to their being rescinded. And
lavause they were from good feeling rescinded,
this is made a handle against the government, and
an argument that they should not interfere with
aught that it pleases the Poet: under spiritual pre-
tunes., hut for evidently temporal purposes, to decree.
What Sir lawr.s GRAHAM wants and asks is nothing
less than to make over half of her M.t.sEsTv's pre-
rogative to the Poet:, and that in return for his
Houstsss having grosily insulted her MAJESTY.
This is the rafismate of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S ecelesi- '
astical polity.
There are few Englishmen, however, who think as •
Sir Jesiss GRAHAM dues. There is not one man of
fairness who can see an iota of severity in the bill.
There is no man, or no lawyer, who in drawing out a
deed of any kind respecting property, butmust look to
and avoid u hundred dangers. How many lords by
courtesy, are not lords in legal :lets, and must drop
their titles? Is that persecut• , or is it a penal
law? The Boman catholic bishops uro bishops of
their flocks and clergy, and the new law will not in-
terfere with their styling themselves such. But they
are not lords of the land, and if they do like to in-
dulge in the gratification of calling themselves such,
it is but just that they should pay for their empty
and insolent vanity.
The 1011, as it stands, is too washy, and exhibits
the pale features of a compromise. Mr. WALPOLE'S
words improve and add to its pith and colour,
without inflicting wrong or grievance, except upon
those who consider all law a grievance, and all sub-
jection even to the most legitimate authority a badge
of servitude. There is not one of the arguments of
the opponents of the bill, from Sir JAMES GRAHAM
down to Mr. Itsysofios, that would not completely
serve for recommending and showing to be necessary,
the establishment of a full papal supremacy over the
land and population of this empire.