The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-11 00:00:00

LONDON :
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1839.

It is quite gratifying to us to quote from the
Newcastle Chronicle an account of the proceedings
there on Thursday, and to request our readers to
contrast those proceedings with the labours of the
Tory parsons in the pulpit on the sth of Novem-
ber, and with the ravings of Tory politicians at
Canterbury and Ashton. At Newcastle his Royal
Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, the Earl of DUR-
krAM, and their friends, met to promote know-
ledge, to foster and sustain an institution for
the extension of the fine arts, and to encourage
amongst the different classes of rich and poor a
c9mmunity of kindly feelings. The Tory parsons
their pulpits roared forth their ribald and lying
calm:nines against the Catholics with no other view
than to citeite the most unseemly and disgusting
passion in tioir auditory—a hatred of great masses
of their fellow-men, who have never injured them—
on account of a sbacloivy,-;ntangible difference of opi-
nion on subjects which mu.st be equally unknown
to both. Tory politicians, in like manner, belch
out their scandalous aspersions against her MA-
JESTY and all her Court. Carefully avoiding po-
litical topics, the Duke of SUSSEX nevertheless
vindicated the liberal opinions he is well known to
Entertain, and while he paid a just homage to his
niu,-trious Niece, whose name was received with
title aperobation, he took care to inculcate by his
words, as well as by his example, a due regard
to courtesy in expressing political opinions.
How totally diffe!ent all this is from the
proceedings of the Tories we need not inform
our readers ; nor will they :doubtful for one mo-
ment as to which line of conduct is the most pa-
triotic, as well as the most gentlemanlike and most
consistent with that universal love which Ls the life
and soul of a true Christian's faith. We hope our
readers Will remember the speeches delivered at
Canterbury and Ashton while they read those deli-
vered at Newcastle.

Whom God means to destroy he humanely first
deprives of sense, is an adage by which we must
Hafer the speedy destruction of the Tories, for they
are ,ltrieken mad. The furious bellowings of the
Toty journals, for the last eighteen months, seem
at length to have terrified their bewildered readers
out of their wits. For them who live, and move,
and have their being in authority—who are abso-
lutely nothing witii.out the smiles of the Court, and
the supporting hand ofr the law—who have no hold
of the national affections.—whose property is mainly
derived from taxes--who aoe hated ten times worse
than the Whigs—whose principles are condemned
by reason and justice, and dete:Ated by the bulk of
the people—for them to go to pub-Ilc feasts to decry
Royalty, and insult those who are clothed in its
irantle, is to make common cause with .the angry
discontented Chartists, and to weaken and destroy
the only power that can sustain them. 'This is
sank madness. Yet this is what some of the .10m-
pany assembled at the Guildhall, on Saturt2ay, w're
actually guilty of. The citizens, forgetful of what
was due to their guests, and forgetful of what was
due to good manners, hissed and hooted, and made
a most unseemly riot in Guildhall, after the LORD
MAYOR had proposed the health of her MA-
JESTY'S Ministers. Such conduct would be un-
seemly in Radicals and Republicans, but in Tories—
exclusively the gentlemen of the political world, the
very models of all that other men ought to be—it
is senseless folly.
Our Contemporary the Times, of brickbat and
bludgeon notoriety, the only Journal which incited
the people to brutal violence during the Reform
heats, is an extremely bad guide for the Tories. It
can only flourish by violence and excitement, and
they, poor simple men,
are urged by it into violence
to answer its own commercial
purposes. They are
the tools of the Times, and are sacrificing their
principles and their party in order to keep up the
notoriety and the circulation of a journal. When
answered its purposes as they
they have as fully
can, they will be forsaken by their present guide,
who will be the first to deride their impotent struggles
to save themselves, and to hold their present lolly
up to the scorn of mankind.