The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Courier.)
The education of' the people has ever been the
grand object of the Protestant Church ; rather than
leave the child without education they would consent
to it in cases of difference of creed, without reference
to religious instruction. And in this, they but
follow the instinct of the Protestant religion.
By education and the progress of knowledge
among the people, the errors of the Romen Catholic
faith were exposed. As the light of knowledge dispelled
the darkness of religious superstition in former times,
so it is felt that with the increase of knowledge the
cause of true religion cannot but he promoted. By edu-
cation the Protestant Established Church has every-
thing to gain, and nothing to lose. In proportion to
the ignorance of the people the Roman Catholic faith
has the deeper root and the firmer hold. It is the
very maxim of the Protestant Church to say, " Read,
reflect, examine, and decide accordingly ;" on the contrary,
it is the maxim of the Roman Catholic Church dogmati-
cally to lay down the ru e—" do not read, do not exa-
mine, but let your belief he determined by other men's
will." In the former case, Education is the ally; in the lat..'
ter, it is the opponent of its Church. If it be to the inte-
rest, therefore, that the people should be universally ediPe
cated, to what better bands, as a matter of policy for,
the advancement of the end, could their education he'
entrusted than to the clergy of the Protestant Church ;
whose interest it evidently is to spread knowledge
among the people, that they may be the better able to.
understand the merits of their creed, and be the more
strongly imbued with the desire to uphold and, ex--
tend the influence of their Church. The Clergy of tfie
Established Church ask that they may be permitted to
take charge of the edvcation of the children of the
p ler ; they say to the Government, do not throw
difficulties in our way, but as the Protestant Govern-
ment of a Protestant State, afford to its Protestant
Clergy all possible facilities for training the children of
the poor in the religious faith which we all profess.
(From the Globe.)
The Standard having discovered !.hat a certain Char-
tist of the name of O'Brien, who suirered the unplea-
santness of being locked up for a night lately, which
we regret, but which is an accident apt to happen
to gentlemen who go about preaching
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I allt pri-
vatees property and existing occupations an, trades
are nuisances—except that of traders in the unstOmped
papers, and National Conventions—employments which
the laws have unhappily knocked up, and by so doieg
(the above-named gentleman asserts) have deprived hint
of the means of making at least a thousand a-year
by mischief-making—the Slanderd, having discovered
that the above-named personage, who has never made
himself marked in any way but by undiscriminating
frenzy against the whole order of society (a madness
which we now find had a method in it, by his
talk of a thousand a year)—is " a gentleman vastly
Mr. O'Connell's superior in birth, education, and
manners, and of a much more honourable character"
—the Standard having dissovercd this—we do not know
by what length of intimacy, or by what intuitive sym-
pathy of congenial souls, similar to that which linked it in
affectionate friendship to that other physical-force gentle-
man it so greatly respected, Mr. R. Oastler—goes on to
tell us that nothing like O'Connell's excesses can be im-
puted to Mr. O'Brien," and yet the Government, which
prosecutes that gentleman, pampers and encourages
the Irish traitor.":. . . . " Will Lord Melbourne
cause Mr. O'Connell to be proseuted for his Mallow
speech ? The que:ton must provoke a smile from
every reader. Yet 'justice to Ireland' would demand
that the same measure observed in dealing with
Mr. O'Brien, or any other Chartist, should be
employed towards Mr. O'Connell. Now we will an-
swer this question by another. Would a Peel Govern-
ment prosecute Mr. O'Connell for his Mallow speech,
and for having affirmed (for that is the head and front
of his offence in that speech) that the Lords are " a
sworn confederacy against the tights and liberties of the
Irish people," and that there is no hope for Ireland but
(by inuendo) in national independence ? Would Lt. Peel
Government prosecute Mr. O'Connell for these repeal
doctrines ? If so, may we beg to ask why the Wel-
lington• Peel Government did not do eso -in 1820,
when the same doctrines were uttered; _antFwitenJthes
Birmingham Union sprung up in England; ,tindt-r"the .
vigorous rule of Toryism ? Whys' wets' riffle these
Irish doctrines put down then, if they slrcifilellidileita ?
The Tory Government never took a
now, to prevent their utterance. . •
(From the Standard.) - - -
It is a device, now somewhat of the stalest, that the
Globe or (rather the Privy Council. Committee writing
in the Globe), attempts to play off in its 'Yetterday's
article on national education. It is of the following
description :—First, constantly and obstinately persist
in ascribing to your opponent sentiments which he does
not hold ; which, on the contrary, he sedulously dis-
avows ; but which are odious in themselves, and
therefore convenient to be attributedeto him. 'Plitn
watch your opportunity, and when it is impossi-
ble to keep up the delusion any longer, contrive
suddenly to discover, with affected delight and sur-
prise, that your opponent has seen the error of
his ways—that he has been subdued at last by the
force of your arguments, and admits that he has
been all along in error, and is now compelled to
succumb to truth. By this double device, you first
keep up, as len.'' as possible, a prejudice against your
antagonist ; and then, when this can no further be
maintained, you claim an important triumph over
him. And this has been, and is now, the miserable
device of the Globe and its assistants of the ministe-
rial press. How many hundreds of times hay Gilley
deliberately asserted that " the Church dem: n led
have the whole education of the people entrusted to
her exclusive care," that " the Clergy insisted on
grasping at the entire public grant for the purposes
of education," and the like in every variety of
phraseology ; every single writer who indulged in
these deliberate misrepresentations well knowing -tinf-
oil that the clergy and the friends of the Church de-
manded, was, that things should be left as they
were, and the public grant divided, as heretofore,
between the National Society, for the Church, and
the British and Foreign School Society, for theDiseen-
ters. At last, however, this falsehood is thoroughly,
worn out, and the Bishop of Exeter has fairly given
it the coup de grace. In an authoritative
and with a voice which must be heard, his --Lordship
denounces and extinguishes the slander. Feeth/itli
the second part of the device comes into play, and al'
though his Lordship says nothing which has
said by Churchmen generally thoughout -thn .
controversy, a cry is set up, wholly based upon the pre,-
vious fiction—that the Bishop has been converted7that
he sees the error he had fallen into, and admits thefa;H r
redness of the Ministerial principle.
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RURAL POLICE.--W e are informo - tilaf- iit
Stowe-on-tae-Wold, which is in the centre of ti,cirelit 4
lb miles in diameter, and which , bas,for 'the' )4st., few
years been deluged in crime, di-0
. assistance . Of (4,
London policemen had been obtained,,onet ve in, a,, 1
short tioc the effects were almost miraculous... Sheep. 1
crime
stealing was a most common offence, and now.
the ". ;
morals and habits of
has entirely ceasod, only two offences of that de
ApNi raece arein toldthe grent.im-
having been n0r,,,,,it:-.:d during the two last years,-scriptitoint
stated that the 11Ingistettes in that neighbo h .L.'l-
ood-oavc
the population of Stowe-on-the-Wold,
pnoro"Ven:tehnirhatsotdaaken
to, finding their
usual mode of living cut off, have turned. their attention
to industry as a means of
honest members of soci et y. The. ' fa,:ility for living
e
more luxuriously which thieving offers ove: industry is
so great., that some strong
preventive check is necessary
living
to compel persons in remote places to habits of
industry ; for otherwise thon Public Pro Pert . —C/ ey too often become ma."athicrs
0). tellenhom Examiner.
FEELINGS INTENDED DUELLIST:
I cannot describe my ANf
feelings on my return home after
having given the my
challenge.
b I shuddered at the idea of
killing a fellow-being but, to tboesulp.e,akkilaledtrutb,
llf. shuid,-
dered more at the idea
o
powder and shot I had always a st7ron, aversionnyse )..-oln
my infancy : now that I had 'foolishly exposed m self tt.
loth, I absolutely sickened at the bare idea of them
;
thought of the perilous predicament into which I had
stupidly brought myself, and I trembled from head to
foot. Never did my frame so shake before. Stand I
could not ; sit or lie I could not. I tossed myself al-
ternately on my bed, and rose and staggered through
my apartment. Oh the horrors of that night
1 A..
thousand times did I think of sending an apo),;gy • ,i.
opponent for having challenged him, and be i-g.- ,to my
that
nothing farther might be done in the businessg-in-
; but then
I knew if I did, I should for ever be held up to public
ridicule as a coward. Death, bad as it is, would have
I been nothing to this. I resolved, therefore, *hotcver
should be the consequences, to meet
Walks and It-wide:rill-Qs in the Weld e '...L0 my
4tit"'*ist.—
f iterdlfiie, by
the Author of ‘• The Great Metropolis:'
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