The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-31 00:00:00

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PIRIT of the PUBLIC •JO URNALS.
TlMES,—Protection must -dead inr?e el when
Blachwoods Magazine has not a word' to say fir it. In
this trusty mausoleum of dead fallacies we had copposecl
that - itirobtrine hoesbed-Trisni the senate`, the hus tirigsi
:ld the newspaper might still have found advocates and
admirers. The herd might fly from. the stricken deer,
but there was still one bourn on which it could rest,
,Not so, however, has it turned out. La' the wondrous
epic in which our northern contemporary describes the
glorious triumph of Lord Derby over the powers of hell
and night arrayed against him, there is not a word of
the tutelary goddess whose champion he has been, of
the fair Siren whose colours he has worn. We thought
we were to have been enchanted with the gorgeous
picture in which Protection should arm her Derby for
the tight, and, with tearful donfi'lence, send forth her
devoted champion to-conquer or die in her cause ;•
and we supposed, after.. the success .which our contem-
porary was sure to claim for his hero, be
,would, re-
turn to lay its trophies at her 'feet. •i•We. imagined to
ourselves thelofty scorn wits which the base suggestion
by a hostile press, that. Lord Derby contemplated: the .
abandentient oT PrOtectiOn;- would be encountered, end
the sublimated and ardent zeal with Which the omits or
monopoly would be clung' to, becatise it was untetiehle,„
end hoped in hecausc it was hopelvsg. • Vie rem,:.mbered
how the ghosts of religious pereecution, elf:aural cor-
rupfion, and of every othr, e'ell which the liberality, of
iMie years has effaced, gibbored and iihrieked iii ch....pages
of our contemporary long after these things had ceuen
to be realities, and we augured that Protection would
find a like resting-place to larenk• the abruptness, of Its
descett train overthrow to oblivion. Not so, however.
It appears that the .Eerl, of Derby, not without much
trepidation to our monthly conteraporcry, deliberattly
gave battle to the powers of evil QII Violet of this month.
Utterly unconnected with- the cruse of Protection,
neither owing his party leadership nor having coin-
posed his Ministry with the slightest reference to a
tax upon corn, this great man was calm and quick-
sighted enough to see that the real battle was against
D.mccracy and Popery, and he was also sagacious
enough to find out " that cunning and desperate attempts
would be made to shift the scene of the contest to a dis-
advantageous and deceptive locality; in fact, to persuade
the millions that their bread was in danger, before the
false colours could dissolve away, and the wise and bene-
volent statesman could appear in his true figures and
colours." How wonderful it is that so good and simple
a man os Lord Derby—one conscious in the inmost re-
cesses of his honest heart of never having wished to tax
the bread cf the people, never having held out any lure
of the kind to the discontented agriculturists, should

yet blend se much of the serpent with the dove as to
foresee that there• would arise men wicked and cruel
enough to tax him with a leaning to so foolish a policy
and so heartless an injustice! Well may B4choood fed
indignant that such a thing. was attempted, end great
grounds has he to exult that it has, as he assures us,
entirely failed. But, alas for Protection ! no; longer a
watchword, a prieciple, and a, policy; it hes surds into a
.moekery, a delusion, and:a snare; aerie° tar a statesman •
with Protective leanings, instead of .the highest of com-
pliments, has become_ .the grossest. of slanders. The
Constitution and No Popery is the watchword, not Pro-
tectiou, and to say otherwise is a• fraudulent device of
the enemy.:: Having thus arranged his battle-ground to
hie heart's content,, ,LorchDerhy,. him:Bower's heroes,
indulges his antegoniws with a colloquy before fighting;
and thus does the modern Achilles commence the dike
logue, in terms to which to our irreverent mind suggass
the notion of a waiter carrying a hot dish. 'which he is
anxious to set down:—" By your leave, gentlemen, for
a moment; by your leave, What iB. the meaning of
V
this feverish get; whist , are you,,: afraid elf ?" Tees
adjured, his antrgouiits answer that they are. afraid of
a return to the bread tax.- Lord Derby assures them
that they have no occasion to be alarmed,- for that
though he would like to " foster and stimulate the ener-
gies of producers, and provide a quick-paying, safe
market for them, by taxing corn, yet this sonic and
honest nation is against' tom on the point, and there-
fore he is content to take power in order to maiutain
our national indepeedeece, the connexion between
acrrioe te
wnr forofinenqruiinvsetri7
Church and State,•the Protegstt
'teeloreiriin the.crim.
tutione, and to prevent then Queen's
sees
ing on her sawed brow.
son darkness of anarchy, and througlirit, the said mitt.;
son darkness, the fabric of a repubiitscrumbliug .uritler-a
military despotism." Well molt the amazed ieterlocue
tors answer this by the qeestion,......e.weii,
but, in Lord
how is this?" arid greatly,
ortolioedvedmmorun,itngteb:xmLy,yl:iYia„rvieendfde.asa,
at the dignified dismissal, •
taowgauye ,to
thend constituencies."
tiin
additionalen nies2
mettle this exciting
by the
harangue of a certain "lean, flippant fellow, with his
arms akimbo, the passions of the reader are doubtleris
fully aroused, and he is prepared to See the adv (1)' S 3 par-
ties go go to
work poll melt—thoone in the cane° of Popery
and Democracy,. the, other, in that of Protestantism and
!loyalty. But here our aothor intreduCes ea, digress
More' arid, much at •• we are inclined, to -fidefer to
his < judgment, we • cannon but think the com-
mencement • •of • a battle -royal seas a bad' .plam
for the introduction of a parody on the parable
of the. Sower. However, our readers chat! judge for
themselves. " Now, came the• tug of war—now was to
be seen the fruit of those seeds which all parties had
been sowing during the interval to propitiate the people."
To diyereity the duties of a general action by the in-
spection of seeds sown to propitiate the people is a new
employment of the heroic mind. But !Et that pass.
" A large portion of the seed consisted of the distrust of
Lord Dorby, which was expected to grow up flexible and
chamelion-hued." - Under this beeutiful allegory we
fancy, we distinguish a withering allusion fo Sir Jaeass
3rreereasse. " seed to all
purposes, and expected not to alarm any one prema-
turely, but is sally jnstled by surly impudent fellows,.
who throw down crimsoned-coloured•seed, sure to bear a
baleful and glaring crop (of poppies,
h
es,wi eses4u.nwelah"sßaudt
last of all there came a burly ow
destined to produce a forest with all manner of obscene
" birds in its-branches"—produced, we •suppose, from
the seine seed ns4he tree on which they sit.
Ineogrmebeoeneut.nr
writer informs us he is going to drop metaphor, and
surely be &me wisely, for the trumpets have o
sounding a charge, alai these preliminary antic, are
scarcP4 tolerated even at a less interesting ran
But, unfortunately, the interest of the narrutive drops
with•the metaphor, and the account of the election is
so unspeakably dull that we have not the heart to inflict
it on our readers. Suffice it to say that the result has
been a complete triumph to Lard Derby. Almost every-
bodyis with him, and nobody against him; we ourselves
have-been utterly taken in, beeauze we must have meant,
though we did not say so, that Lord Derby would be in
a minority. Mr. Disraeli has said—and who doubts
anything that Mr. Disraeli says?—that Government will
have a majority. This being so, there is nothing left
but to rejoice that we have got au "able, united, Pro-
testant Conservative Government; and, if any_ one
doubts the fact, we can call Lord Malmssbury to vouch
for its ability, Mr. Christopher for its union,
herd John Manners for its Protestantism, and the
ex-Rsdical Premier and Chanceiler of the Ex-
chequer for its Conservatism.- Its mission "i 5
to act where its predecessors could only talk; to
c easolidate. and .strengthen where they "could only dis-
turb and unsettle, and to terminate the wretched atrite
of classed by a just, c.utious, firm, and comprehensive
Policy." It Would have-been no parody to insert instead
f these words the declaration of the Honourable Mem-
l‘a.er
ifor Verbosity, which we,publish in another celunan.
vini,ciiopnleosfwbenrineetthhiehsge—concurrentlY with the re-
nett revision
ptiforshscidble
inre,a,reej
uplaineeinetl'f.rce7l' leg
speakingh generally, andh a
e.fse, neat() be men-
earnest, and the pleytul ?itntu jest
titincoar seateior 'ietnesnor
resemble tee hesie.wrOYu( enthusiasm of a thick
thenr:otree tehitik the flo-
closely
and thin partisan? rather•
Pourable Member for Verbosity
twit; tor. " revision " and " readjustment " hxaPvieet:ttnf the
,while policy, qualifisd by such "firm,"ephiatglaanshanse. Leon mean-
ing,
Dertry has much to tcoornanparewehernstiovrt," Be "bas in his own
person greatly lowered the standard' ot, public me.
and evasion.- has inoculated his supporters with
ception
rality, and, by constantly using the language of do-
the Sarno miserable arts, so that we 'find a magazine in
which, wa were always able. hitherto- to tatnaire the
Chivalrous edvocecy
of a losing, ccause, and the prefer-
ence of justice to expediency, etooping to the poorest
artifices arid the moat transparent,subsiitution of sound
for meaning in order to mask a gross desertion of
principle, and to invest a .party held together by the
very lowest considerations with the semelaucs of
policy
and the counterfeit of a cause.

°Moulin' ar
did so readers
HEIZALD.-0
electiuu we excluded:"thatTirrel6
our last will have observed that in
Great Britain of the general results of the late
view. We ecvnedr,atiOrretalgeonms.oment, from our
kingdoms of
worth rentaik First, it was
a general uppeel to the three
taken apart from Irelanditain and Ireland, Great. Britain,
verdict in
questionablecol ato what iralaahvour of the Government. be•
easy to make out,. seeing that had done, it was not very
in that country had-beenticit more than a dozen elections
force, and that to
,call eeided by the merest brute
constituencies seemed ausuch
belections the ,voice of the
there was one feature in theal 91Foity. But, thirdly,
unusual and startling a kind as
satet Irish eketions of so
ful and proper that they sh,aild,o make it quite of
quite shine, and be • considered that ono account,
portion of the public rlisponse le afired an
a distinct
tiou,,l appeal. The feature to whiahs. great olustitu-
the extraordinary manner in which the 170 allude was
of Ireland flung themselves into the strife,
priests
the condtot of the whole matter into their si; "1 took
This is, to us, in England, a new thing.
wwett hands.
h
rule of exclusion by which, iu England or Scotland, a
no
clergyman is forbidden to appear upon the bustl' . It
is uoi.hiog el..e than a natural sense of whichpropriety,
keeps them away. Probably, if we examined the
pro-
ceedings of all the decdous in England, which sect 500
Members into the fio.o of Commons, we might detect
as many as one, two, or even three clergy men who have
acted as propes-rs; and these, we doubt not, would be
found iu tiue,,ntes;;ed C:CetiODE, where the appearaLee of
l'h' rector t.t the parish. V 935 kid to be oat merital, and
complim,,ntary to the eleoled Metubi to. • low scenes Gf
actual strife Ltw clprg-; never winure. Be', n those most
""ninent—'lleh as be. iVi‘Netle and Mr. Stowell—
enntent themselves with tto publication of a letter, or
the
deliveryt of a spfeeh, not at the el, at a se-
pamii„ n'c''''ing; of.Prott stunts wire strife and wrung-
1,,e are olikely
[tot 'B
' to be f, ond. In :mtland the same roe
prevails. we ,1
(
:!lurch,appeared
of the late Seo on the busiings as a t toAker, at any cue
trausgrci,,ed itpah elections; nor is the s ;Inc rulti ninth
obis
the
nYZerotestents in Ireland. We have not
6f Ireland. nor if
,:f a siagle clergy man of the Church
in all the resent e4,e'Le than two Yreeb) terian ministers,
Protestant churches 'c'thwa in Ireland, Throught,ut the
amidst many difff.rene. e same feeling seems to prevail,
and vette other i
went cout,r)tioliOn points--that the bitter
of a popular election were noL
scenes in which a elerg
or w • --alith safety, P.
tirellYrir could mix with propriety
drereat, howayer, LtgA heeh