The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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The Duke of' MTUIHugon, we learn, on good authority,
has made no secret, for tome days, of his intention to resi'isn,
it is said now tint his resignation has nut been ar:epted.
./t_ contemporary (the Times) observes justly., that the
Duke of Wellington is unpopular, from unhappy
note of Apposition to Reform which bg
addetl •

" lint how are the street rioters iafibeted by this ? More
thoughtful anti respectable persona feel regret ; and RAM anti
designing knaves inspire the unt-l':aiking and dissolute with pas-
sim, or allbcted passion, on
,a bubloet in which they have but
little interest. The Duke '7,f Wellington has 'dune great things
for the poor. fie has rexeced the price of beer per pot, by taking
oil' the duty upon I)7.r:wing ; anti, by the new License Duty, so
multiplied the l4
sca where it is to be scot., that the poor trim
"4 iu every procure bis refreshment with infinitely greater
ease. theta, besides his being a hero, ought to make him
PnPull.n.' it is a curious circumstance to sec pickpockets and
PrOM-Atites hissing the Liberator of Spain anti of F:urope, anti the
" ..stiucror of Bum:wane, in the streets of the British metro.
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With respect to what the Duke of Wellington has done
6e4the poor, we feel no disposition to undervalue it. The
*leer Bill was a great boon certainly ; the most import-
tent, perhaps, in its consequences, of any measure of the
Government for many years. We give him all due praise
for it. But gratitude for this measure ought not to make
men indifferent to such an insulting declaration as that of
Tuesday night. The mob who hissed him were like other
mobs—they knew not of themselves why they hissed him.
Iltut it was because they heard those, wham they believed
to be competent judges, incensed against his Ocoee, that
they struck in with the usual accompanie,ent—the rabble
shout and the rabble hiss, in aceorfethee with the lead of
their superiors ; they are hardly free agents in such a case.
The question is not whet they slid, hut whether the unpo.
pularity which led to these demonstrations on the part of
the rabble is deserved. We think it is. We rejoice to see
*vat the conqueror taf Waterloo humbled, when he pre-
sumes to intuit the people of this country by a declaration
so revolting to common sense as that against reform. It is
well that he should be taught, end that others should be
taught through him, that the people of England, though
they have lone suffered with patience the evils' brought on
them by a ParliaMent between which and themselves
there is not a community of interest, ate yet not 50 de-
graded as to hug their chains, and know how to teach
Ministers who forget what they owe to them, that they
are not to be insulted with it»punity.-21.forninp
We insert a letter, signed " Philanthropos," in which
the general policy of our Journal is attacked in a manner •
which inspires respect, and deserves a reply. The writer
miatakes, if he thinks we deviate from our principles one
inch on the Subject of Parliamentary Reform, The Duke
of Wellington has declared his opposition to reform alto-
gether, but have we done so ? On the contrary, we will
do all in our power te'eorreet grievances of every dealt ip-
tien in the present representation. The inteiferenee of
Peers in elections is, above ell things, detestable. We
only specify that as the most crying Relevance at the pre
sent moment, though there are others which ought to be
redressed. Is it a servile adhamee to the Duke of Wel-
nalltso to Assert this ? !Ape to see a reform in Par-
liament,, and we will do every thing is our power to pro-
mote it, on sound, te.".nperate, and rational principles ; but
we will nos, thee",dbre, consent to have the absurd trash of
Carlisle, Coh'oett, and blunt, palmed upon the country;
and the e`eactical reformats in this case are congenial with
the theoretic Ones. Pickpockets and prostitutes, by whom
the streets have been somewhat distm bed, are proper exe-
cutors of the political systems recommended in the speeches
and writings of the persons above named ; but no indus-
trious and honest—no intelligent and virtuous—man is the
associate in practice, te the.ally in principle, of either one
or the other. The miscreants who have been hallooing
down the Police lately, anti hallooing up Relorm here in
the streets of London, are no more to he compared to the
heroes who expelled that wretched creature Charles X. and
his family from Prance, than daikuess to light. Neither
are our grievancese whatever may be their magnitude, at all
equal to that total overthrow of law and the constitution
which was attempted by the Bourbons. On the other
hand, 'me Correspondent ." wants from us," he *eye,
" a manly defence of fhe Government, or none at all."
If by a manly defence he means a defence through thick
and thin, we fear we shall not supply his want. We can
give the present Administration no such aid. We have
too much respect fur our old principles, and our invent
right of free thought. But, so long as we see no means
of any other tennhination of men capable of conducting •
the affairs of the country.with equal. energy and prudence,
we shad not emhartass the present by our unremitting op-
ie. On the contrary, shall endeavour to en-
lighten and inform than.. We shall carry Lord Althorp's
prineiple a little (Other than his Lordship--eve shall sup.
port them. when right, anti shall support them in a capacity
of acting rightly, till others can be pointed out to us mote
capable of securing the interests of the people and the
dignity of the country. Again, because there are some
imperfections in the ecclesiastical establishment, are we to
concur in end urge its plunder and destruction--we who
have always professed ourselves, and are, members of that
church? Because there ere some incongruities in the
distribetion of its property, are we to join its all the ex-
aggerations of its amount.? But we shall transfer these
considerations into the following article.

We are disposed to concur with Mr. Hume, in thinking
that Mr. Baring is not the person beet fitted to call others
to account for circolouing exaggerated enttemente of the in.
coulee of public men; or for not coming forward to cor-
rect ranch statements. We believe that no man bat con-
tributed more than Mr. flaring, by his language in public
and private, to the prevalence of the erroneous opinions
which ale entertained
.respecting the eIIMITICWO incomes of
the higher orders of the clergy. 'Without entering into a
particular refutation of the gross exaggerations contained
in the handbill to which be entitled, we wish to call the
ettentien of our readers to, two general remarks. The
one is, that if the whale ecclesiastical property in Eagland
were equally divided, the share of each beneficed clergyman
would not exceed POI. per annum. The other is, that
if we did nut know the quarter from which the hand-hill
preteetle, we should be astonished. at the unblushing effron-
tery of the writer in asserting that the incomes of the
clergy constitute a put of the public burdens. They ate
in no other respect a part of the public burdens than the
rent of the landlord is, being either derived from the rent
of land; or front tithe, which is of the nature of a rent-
charge upon the land, and would go to increase the land-
lord's rent if it were taken from the clergymen.— Times.