The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-27 00:00:00

PORTRAITS

WELLINGTON AND SOULT,
WITII MEIt'OIRS AND /11C-SIMILES OF THEIR HAND-
WRITEVGS.

A PORTRAIT OF
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON

TOGETSER WITH
THE MOST

SPLIiNDID LIKENESS OF SOULT

EVER TAKEN,
BY TV YON,
FOR IYHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES,

IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED,
AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND

PEIOE SIXPENCE.
an Office, Sept. 25, 1852.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TIIIB DAY —Morning 27 after 1 I Evening 46 min. after 1
To-Mosaow—Morning 2 min. after 2 I Evening 19 rain. after 2

THE WEATHER.--Sc l OFFICE, SEPT. 27.
THEE3Iro3fETER, IN THE SHADE.
62—highest since noon yesterday.
46—lowest this morning and during the night.
57—ttt3s day, at noon.

ROXIITII2, 23 9.
WIND E.SZ.—dulL cloudy weather.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
p:xer; at Nine o'cloclT. on Saturd3y morning._The stations

arrwed in order c

.atitudc,

MabfaxaAu—Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
ryng69—Srind E., gentle breeze--cloudless.
SOurliAltrlON Win;.: N. W., strong breeze—cloudless.
For.,KEtcresm—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
TuNtlarbr4a—Wind SE., calm-- cloudless.
llavreetigroxE—Wine; E., gentle breeze—foggy.
G itEEN W ICH—Calm—misty.
f-tzttoop—Wind E., gentle breeze—foggy.
C;LOHRSTER—W ind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Ila4p3nin(aE—Cahn—heavy fog.
Coe returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine

Pools=-Wind geutle breeze—partially cloudy.
t3orrulareTwx—Wind W., gentle breeze—foggy.
BasmasToKE—Wind N.E., calm—foggy.

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AXIL
LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1852.

Her MAJE4;7l,:sotperesent Government should not,
and probablydo
of
Icveal from themselves, that the
death of the DuplzezotectioutLbLlNGTON is a very severe
logs tri them.
utterly gone, all
dimrent
.pirai‘s a party will be op-
the objects which they itrof,:sir'g
posed with a viity
they have lately encountered.
hero of Torres
~.thto that in which
to a considerabla "ex!c
Vedras was,
himself the
Torres Vedras of the Conservative gnati;
retreated before the people, and renouncedee He had
succes-
sively every untenable positicn of Toryism.
To the
Dissenters be gave up the Test and Corporation Acts
to the Roman Catholics he conceded emaneipats.cts,
and to the nation cheap food ; only one political battit
he may be fairly said to have lost, and that was one
whicb,Lord DERBY intends to fight once more against
the people—the battle of Electoral Reform.

For many years, however, the Duke
himself has
been a barrier which all the better part of the earnest
Liberals did not lik to force ; in his person was con:
centrated almost all the respect they felt for the Hous
of Lords. He was known to be a Conservative at
heart, but his manly way of conceding, and of cor-
dially accepting when ha had done so, all the great
liberal measures but one, had conciliated a large
amount of esteem tor him with all fair-minded
Liberals. They saw that he was no factious, no
grudging politician ; and hence, al:hough differing
widely from him, he was the ONE among the aris-
tocracy whom they would least willingly grieve.
Then, again, there was considerable reliance on his
practical judgment. " What will the Duke say ?" was
a frequent expression from the lips of those who cared
nut v. straw what any other duke might say. And it
Iva.; not merely an inquiry into which scale his in-
fluence Would be thrown—there was a feeling also
that what a mind so practical and honest would ap-
prove demanded unusual consideration. The opinion
of one who had so often told the haughty peers of
England, and told them .with
almost military autho-
rity,wer e now
that they to yield to the people
could not but be an ?pinion Worthy of the people's
friendly regard. And it had their regard. The po-
'contrasting
palace of late cheered him on every Public occasion,
&though his indifference to their plaudits
so s!rikingly with the "gracious bawa”
of
his
SovnitioN, mitt well have checked the ; While
amongst the more educated classes respect
appears to have grown wifil his yParp,
wai seen to stand in a kind of paternal relation, "
only to a rather unpopular Upper House, but also to
ourbeloved SovEarauti herself; and the man on whom
such a female, in the solitary position of QUEEN, had
BO often to rely Es a friendly rather than an official
adviser, conciliated, perhaps, more kindly feeling to-
ward'him by that circumstance than by any other.
If we owe, as we c.,rtainly do, to Lord MELBOURNE,
national gratitude for imbuing the mind of our young
QUEEN so thoroughly with the spirit and principles
of our constitution, we equally owe a like debt to the
Duke of WELLINGTOX for enablin her, in critical
junctures, to apply those principbsg successfully. It

was not below the dignity of a comparatively youth-
ful SOVEREIGN to lean on the counsels of such pro-
longed experience, fidelity, and practical wisdom.
Such a man was the very bulwark of Conservatism.
He gave coherency by his authority in the Senate,
and weight by his favour with SOVEREIGN and
people, to the, opposition which the House of Lords
could offer to the political elevation of the people.
All that is now gone for ever. It is difficult to think
of any one now in the House of Lords (with the excep-
tion, perhaps, of one benevolent northern Peer, and
one or two pretty liberal ones) whom the more ad-
vanced Liberals would not gladly compel to bow to
the popular will. The Upper House will once more
be looked upon merely as something to be got over
as an obstacle to be surmounted or removed, quietly,
if possible, but to be got rid of somehow. The Lords
will, more than ever, depend for their efficiency in
the councils of the State, perhaps for their very
existence as a house, not on their jealously obstruct-
ing every onward movement, and conserving to their
own class every vested abuse and every source of
emolument, but on their sincere, hearty, and obvious
devotion to the interests of the people.
Lord DERBY'S Cabinet may rest assured that the
nation will now demand much which he considered
himself installed in office to oppose. A great exten-
sion of law reform, notwithstanding his late unfortu-
nate Chancery appointment, he could grant with
consistency. The County Courts' jurisdiction need
not remain at .50/., nor other courts retain the bar-
barisms and technicalities, which have been so success.
fully expelled from the former. The Ecclesiastical
Courts are a condemned mass of infamy already—he
need.not linger in destroying them. Doctors' Commons
is not immaculate. All would support him in
transferring the jurisdiction of testamentary affairs to
a civil court. On the education question a sufficiently
large really national party has yet to be formed, but
the vast
another majority of the nation are quite unanimous
oneducational question—the taxes on know-
ge_and all, whose opinions are worth anything,
led
agree that to increase the allurements to reading, by
cheapening it to the masses, is one unquestionable
and unobjectionable mode of promoting education.
With one of the prominent literary men of the day,
too, as the very genius of his Cabinet, the repeal of
the taxes on knowledge would be its most consistent,
and we think, with posterity, would be its most
creditable achievement. Then there are India and
our colonies. Our colonies ! What a field for economy
and,for:statesraanship. The Whigs have left it to the
Tories, if they will but seize the golden moment, to
unite every now disaffected colony in the bonds of
national, federal, and loyal attachment to the British
Crown, perhaps for ages to come. Taxation reform,
and real reform of it, too, would harmonize well with
the:past professions of BENJAMIN DISRAELI. Thus far
might Lord DERBY go; and while devoting himself to
these objects, no House of Commons dare to remove
him from power. With the little difference which
people generally perceive between Whig and Tory,
the old cry of " Measures not men," would assuredly
be heard louder than ever. Lord DERBY is safe, so
long as he continues a reformer of practical abuses ;
still he must be aware that reform will not stop there.
The country will not, indeed, endanger the
existence of a Ministry, while it is seriously and
diligently labouring to forward valuable measures ;
but the country is determined on having a more
direct voice in the House of Commons. It will no
longer be content with the boroughs which Lord
JOHN spared, with less than household suffrage, or
at least some bonii fide and large extension of the
suffrage; and, especially, it will never be content
again without the ballot. Lord DERBY may call such
things democracy, others may raise the bugbear of
republicanism, and some weaker heads even talk o

socialism. It is no such thing. Never was the demand
for an extension of popular power more intelligent,
and, less passionate ; more loyal and conservative of
all worth keeping, and less republican. With the
exception of the nominees of Irish priests, the fa-
vourites of the people at the late election, whether
successful or unsuccessful, may challenge with ad-
vantage a comparison in legislative qualifications with
the nominees of pocket boroughs. There is a cool,
deliberate conviction throughout the country
that the present electors are intellectually and
morally worthy of independent, i. c., protected votes,
and that vast numbers of the unenfranchised are
worthy to have them too. Against this conviction,
to use the words of Mr. LOWE at Kidderminster, " it
is not my Lord DERBY, nor my Lord MALMESBURY,
uor Sir FITZROY KELLY, nor a thousand such men
(long banded together against our commercial free-
,lom), that would stop the onward movement of public
opinion a single inch." Let his Lordship, then, look
coolly on facts. He will ba cheerfully tolerated
awhile if, as soon as the truce agreed upon over the
Duke's funeral is past, he commences some valuable
reforms and perfects others. Otherwise his tenure of
office will be but short indeed. But while those re-
forms are in progress the growing demand for poli-
tical reform will not become less urgent. He must
face it. No Iron Duke, no venerated and popular
Duke will take him beneath the shelter of his wing.
The relics of the Whigs, cured, we trust, of their
family disease, will be united in healthier feeling with
the men of the people, and ready for office ; and then
it will be for the aristocratic Leader to say whether
he will victimize himself, his party, and to some ex-
tent his order too, in a useless and hopeless opposition
to an intelligent and determined people, or whether
he will increase the real strength of the aristocracy,
by leading it to cooperation, rather than to battle
with the people. Ir he could but take the great Duke
for his mode!, not indeed on this particular question
of reform (on which he sustained his greatest public
defeat), but in his general conduct; if, like him, he
could know when to surrender, and surrender heartily
when he did so, then might Lord DERBY, too, share

in some measure the goodwill of the country at large
and might become the true saviour of his order.

What are the principles and doctrines of the Church
of England, and in what respect do they differ from
the Roman Catholic Church ? If the practices re-
cently introduced by some beneficed clergymen, and
expressly sanctioned, or tacitly connived at by some
bishops, be continued, the Reformation has been a
nullity—the line of demarcation by which we are
separated from the Papal authority has become
imperceptible, and we may be " reconciled" to Rome
with all convenient speed. It has recently been
Pointedly remarked, and there is unfortunately but
too truth in the observation, that " each prelate
laims to be
be a little Pope within his own diocese,
demanding
the greatest latitude for himself, but en-
deavouring to compel a slavish obedience on some
points from the subordinate clergy, while on others
he allows them almostuuonrmboituynded license." There
certainl
appears no mode by which
nif
any-
thing approachi g
of opinion—we had
y, at
n present
to,
almost written soundness of doctrine—can be secured
on the episcopal bench.
The extra-judicial inquiry recently held at Pl
conduct of the mouth into into the Rev. Mr. PRYNNE,
EXETER
to show that, so far as the Bishop
is concerned, the practice or auricular confession
but highly approved. is not only sanctioned, Let
there be no misconception on the point.
and Pent i not. -
merely the outpourings of a sinful
tent heart, seeking
eatin.,.el and comfort from a
pious minister, that is thus recognised, but rather the
earching cross-examination into the most secret
Thoughts—the suggestion to women
andh a d nofemalepre vcu
ho
dren of ideas of which they might hal
conception, and the knowledge whereof must neces-
sarily injure that purity and innocence which consti-
tutes the chief feminine charm. What husband,
father, or brother, would consent to such interroga-
tories being administered to his relatives as those
scribed to Mr. PRYNNE, in the statements -on which
the investigation was instituted ? What really pure-
minded female would subject herself to such degrada-
tion ? If such proceedings should become general
in the Established Church, we can easily conceive
that there would be a very numerous addition to the
ranks of dissent, and that it would spiedily cease to be
the "Church of England."
doubt on
in order to prevent the serious evils that
mulOwtnecessarily arise from any misunderstanding or
the subject, it is exceedingly de-
sirable that the really Protestant Bishops of this
Protestant e .
ountry should explain, and that without
"Y delay, their opinions on the any unnecess
pro-
ceedings which the
~
Bishop of EXETER apparently
such unfeigned admiration,
7reesgpaeredtsi h
he
emphatically declared that