The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-06 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

ifirst instance, has since learned that they amounted to
between 40,000 and 50,000 men ; some accounts placing
them higher ; but we should suppose that popular ter-
ror exaggerated the numbers of those " iron men," who
descended from the mines and levels of the mountains
upon the town of Newport. If that number of insur-
gents really took the field, only a portion of theta, we
presume, attacked the town of Newport. At the time
we write this, no account has been received of the -re-
sult of the meditated attacks on Monmouth and Brecon,
or whether they bad been made at all. Is this the
beginning of the servile war which was predicted as
the inevitable consequence of the Whig oppression of
the labouring classes ? But whether the insurrection be
suppressed for the present, or whether it has extended
further, one thing is certain—that much blood has
been shed, which a little forethought and precaution on
the part of the Ministers might have prevented. How
will they answer for this to Parliament and the country.
(From the Morning Post.)
The news which we published yesterday in a second
edition, of the battle between the Chartists and the
military in South Wales, forms a very melancholy
commentary upon the absurd boating of the Attorney-
General in the late display of Ministerialism at Edin-
burgh. The boast that Chartism has been subdued
is echoed by the volleys of the military, inflicting a de-
served death upon insurgent Chartists. In our opinion,
neither Chartism, nor any other great political nuisance,
can be dealt with as it ought to be by the present Go-
vernment. A Government which is at once feeble,
false, and fearful, may by singular good fortune escape
from difficulties which have appeared to threaten it, I
but it cannot overcome them. Every act of the present
Ministers against the Chartists is an ex post facto con•
demnation of themselves, for they first warmed into
life the insurgent spirit which they now desire to put
dorm by force. The insurgents must indeed be put
down, but it is unfortunate that the Government cannot
do so without the commission of gross inconsistency.

(FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.)
(From the Globe.)
Various pyrotechnical artifices, we are told by
the Tory organs, have been preparing, in various
places, " for celebrating the Gunpowder Plot in
the good old-fashioned style." "At St. Albans," says
the Times, " a very liberal sum has been subscribed
to defray the expenses of bonfires and fireworks ; the
walls are placarded with bills headed No Popery,'
announcing the same. Public attention seems to be
everywhere roused to the fearful encouragement given
to Popery in high places." We are sorry we did not before
advert to these preparations, as we should have thought
it our duty to address some sort of encyclical letter to
the little boys on whom is devolved, at this awful crisis,
the defence of Protestantism. Little boys are apt to fill
their pockets too full of squibs and crackers ; and we
tremble to think what effects may proceed from Ultra-
Protestant liberality, in supplying them with extra stores of
such ammunition. Heaven only knows how tnar,y
Guy Fawkes' plots may explode in detail, if Popish ma-
lignity lies in wait, with traditional touch-paper,
wherever the protuberant pockets of juvenile Pro-
testantism shall stimulate a renewed indulgence
of " the blowing up" habits of Popery. We are also
exceedingly apprehensive, in populous neighbourhoods,
of the consequences of the proposed kiting of
fireworks in churches. Messrs. Croly, Stowell, and
the other metropolitan and provincial artists in this
line, in the employment of the Protestant Associa-
tion, should take warning from the late fatal con-
flagration in Pimlico. We are not, indeed, afraid
they will s, t the Thames on fire ; nor even that their
harangues will expose this Protestant city to a second
sacking and burning, as in the purer days of Lord
George Gordon. But there is much old timber in our
ancient churches ; and much material for spontaneous
combustion in a portion of their congregations, without
these artificial appliances. We have been told that
the officers of artillery and engineers, who with their
own hands carried the powdr bags to blow up
the gates of Ghizni, in the late triumphant and me-
morable campaign in Affghanistan, marched up to those
gates with the bags of powder amidst a tremendous fire,
smoking their hookahs as calmly as if they had been
sitting in their tents. These Guy Fawkes gentry
parade their powder bags with greater solemnity, with
less science, and, we venture to prophesy, with no such
success.

(From the Courier.)
Our readers, we trust, will do us the justice to allow,
that we have not neglected any opportunity of adding
our humble endeavours to the upholding of the Protestant
Established Church. We have not been lukewarm in
exposing the danger perhaps—at least the embarrass..
ment—to which the National Church is exposed by
the ind'screet encouragement given by the Government
to the Roman Catholic Church and the discouragement
which has been dealt on Protestantism. Of these cir-
cumstances we are fully aware, and we are impressed
also with the conviction that it is incumbent on
every Protestant in the empire to be watchful
of the insidious encroachments of the Church of
Rome. But we venture humbly to express our opinion,
that the Roman Catholics having been admitted by the
solemn act of the Legislature to an equality of civil
rights and privileges, it is neither politic nor kindly
to continue popular practices which can serve
only to shock and exasperate ; and which can
serve neither to conciliate the Roman Catholic
inhabitants of these realms, in their social rela-
tions, nor favourably impress them with the niild-
nCss and the toleration which it is the boast of the
Established Church to exhibit towards all creeds. It is
a matter to be deeply lamented, that there are some
millions within the limits of Great Britain, who are
not yet convinced of the superiority of the Protestant
Reformed Faith ; but it is not by the coarse and exag-
gerated exhibitions which we this day deprecate, that
these millions are to be conciliated ; nor do we think
it becoming the mild dignity of the Established Church,
for it's membei s to encourage popular insults on those
whom it is their true policy on all occasions to treat
with mildness and forbearance.

(From the Standard.)
It matters nothing what the immediate objects
Newport Chartists may be : their crimp does not lie
in the objects they t
pursue. Be of the
.tiose objects good
or bad, just or unjust, thegui!;
means forbidden by law ie of pursuing them by
just the same. And who
have been their prnmpters and their models in
this course of crimz,`? The men who first taught that
laws are to On trampled on---the men who counte-
nanced political unions—who corresponded with them--
who called for " threats of physical force" from them, en-
couraged the menace of a rebel army to march upon Lon-
don to frighten the House of Lords into adesertion of its
duties ; all the time inflaming the evil propensities of the
populace by " enormous lying," and by every other art
by which a credulous people can be goaded to mad-
ness ; and who in Ireland promoted still more directly
resistance to the law, by lavishing the patronage of the
Crown upon the worst enemies of peace and order, and
in compliment to these public enemies winked hard at
an exterminating and treasonable conspiracy. These are
men morally and politically, if not legally, responsible for
every drop of blood shed at Newport, and wherever else
the application of their lessons and the imitation of
their practice has caused blood to flow. The interme-
diate teachers of such crimes, and the agents in them,
deserve punishment. But oh, how much more do
they merit it who originated the sedition ? They,
without the plea of ignorance or of suffering,
without any other motive than the sordid lust
place and its emoluments, first let loose the
plague, and justice claims them as he: first
victims. They, to obtain office, raised thP commons
against the law ; and every crime 'committed by
the commons, or any part of the commons, since,
is their crime. As we have said,
'see immediate object
of insurrection in such a case ri.oes not weigh a feather
in aggravating or palliating ::ts
guilt ; but if it did, can
any one deny, that the 'objects of the present or more
recent outbreaks of sedition are at least as justifiable
as those first toild, out? How long will the people of
Englaro, permit to remain, not merely unpunished, but
trit-auphant in their success, those who have drawn such
calamities upon their country ?

advert
points,
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THE BLESSINGS
present to those immortal
beyond the confines of this world. Hope is to man,
even in reference to his present state of being, a trea-
OFobjects Hods.-1
P E.
t o which ad
trea-
sure of inestimable value. Without it, existence would
be intolerable. Instead of a blessing, it would prove a
curse. The crime of suicide, would, in fact, become so
prevalent, that the earth would soon be depopulated.
Its rational inhabitants would ere long disappear from
off its face, and the brute creation would claim it as
their sole heritage. The most forlorn and miserable of
the human race feel their wretchedness much alleviated
in the hope that they will yet see better days. A large,
if not the larger proportion of human happiness, is de-
rived from this conviction. At certain periods of our
life, our hopes are more ordinarily sanguine. We feel,
as it were, that we have entered on a new and brighter
era of our existence ; and reason ourselves into the
persuasion—oftimes a very delusive one—that days and
weeks and months of almost unmingled and uninter-
rupted felicity are before us. And, strange as it may
seem, we tenaciously cling to this anticipation of a
happy future, notwithstanding the innumerable
odisap
pointments our former hopes have encountered, until
we feel ourselves enclosed in the rude and repulsivevrld
arms of death.—Walks and Wanderings in the i_
of Literature, by the Author of et The Great M r •