The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-28 00:00:00

CITY OF EDINBURGH.,

On Monday the Right lion. James Abereromby and Sir
John Campbell met the electors in the large Waterloo
Room, which was densely filled on the occasion.
Bailie DONALDSON was called to the Chair.
Mr. ABERCROMBY, who was received with loud and long
cheering, entered into a history of his election to the choir
of the House of Commons, and of his conduct in that
situation, after which the Right Hon. Gentleman proceeded
as follows :—lt is needless to say that, in looking at the
events of the reign of William I V., the Reform Bill, that
without, the shedding of a drop of blood, altered the re-
lations of a larger portion of the community of this country
than any measure that ever passed. There are some eager
and anxious persons who say " What has the Reform Bill
done? It has done nothing for us.' Now, let me ask one
question : if any body had stated this proposition, viz., that
after the Reform Bill it would be impossible for the Crown
to maintain in office any Administration who have not the
support of the country, and if the event has proved that
this proposition is true, is it not a great benefit secured for
the people?—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, you are aware that
the present Administration came into office with a majority
of 27. That majority has on some questions been increased
on particular occasions in the course of the Session ; but,
upon the whole, that majority has been pretty nearly from
20 to I am speaking only from recollection when I say
there is not an instance in the history of the country in
which any Administration remained so long in office with so
small a majority. Now, is it not clear that a slight
change of the public voice would have been sufficient to
have reduced it, and displaced the Government ? But that.
re-action did not take place, and therefore it is clear to met
that this Administration was sustained in office by the pub-
lic opinion. Now, conceive any circumstances in which the
power of the people was more unequivec tlly proved than
is the maintenance of this Administraticn in office.--C.Loud
cheers.) I admit that there never was a time when there
was such a division of opinion, not only in the House of
Commons, but throughout the country. Having shown
what is the power of the people, I have the greatest satisfac-
tion in saying, and 1 say it with the deepest gratitude to
those who have ever' been actors in the scene, that in my
judgment the people have made an excellent use of their
power.
They have shown that, while bold and resolute in the
mAintenance of free opinions, they are equally opposed
to everything that tends to :violence, or may lead to re-
volution.—(Hear, hear.) It is, however, my clear de-
duction, from the events of the late Parliament, that
these are circumstances which ought to allay apprehen-
sion in the minds of the most timid, and which ought to
cheer and encourage all those friends to the liberal cause.
—(Loud and continued cheering.) There is another cir-
cumstance connected with the events of the late Parlia-
ment, to which I refer with very peculiar satisfaction—
this is the first time in which Ireland has been go-
verned with an entire absence of coercion.—(Loud
cheers.) I now come to the opening of the present
reign, and upon that I have very little to state. All that
we know—all that we can constitutionally and fairly say
with regard to a new Sovereign, and more especially with
regard to one so young as the present Sovereign, is, that
she has chosen her Ministers, and accepted from the Minis-
ters that. declaration with which she has ushered in her
reign, and proclaimed her opinions to her people.—(Hear.)
Now, gentlemen, security for our persons we have—security
for our property we have—and we are daily making advances
and as fast as circumstances will reasonably admit, to render
our Governm,nt still more economical and still more cheap.
I tell you that we may possess all these advantages—but
unless we possess one other ail.vantage we shall have therta
all in vain. The advantage I allude to is that of religious
peace. No community can be content and happy in which
religious strife in any degree exists. It is the most absorb-
ing of all passions, In my judgment the established churches
of England and Scotland have a majority of the people on,
their side.—(Renewed cheering and disapprobation.) I
believe that majority to be composed of persons who sup-
port the Church Establishment from habit, from educat-
doe, and from conviction. I believe also there is a very
large minority of persons who dissent from the Established
Churches of both England and Scotland, and I believe
that minority to be actuated by feelings as sincere as bene-
volent, and as honest as can actuate any man whatever.
Now, having'stated that which I belietre to be a fact, I
have only now to repeat that under the circumstances in
which this country is placed, the state of things being what
I describe, and' using the words it:. which I last addressed
you, I atty it is the duty of Government to give their honest.
itnt sincere support.-to tile., Church as by law established.—
(Loud and contintuel cheers and disapprobation). If any of
you hare chaNed your opinion, I have not changed mine.
I have quoted the very words of my last address, unless
my memory fails me, But I say, at the same time, it is
equally the duty of the Government and of the Legitaa-
tare In use all the means in their power to give ease and
atisfaction to those who sincerely and honestly dissent
from the Established Church ; and to use their best en-
deavours that in all the transactions of life, as regards
temporal interests of all classes of the con-munity, there
shall be, as between Churchmen and Disseriters, perfect
equality.—(Hear, hear.) In my apprehension there is but
rile caus.: of danger to the Church. What the course of
time may produce, it is not for me to predict, but, seeing
the ereftetit suite of things, I say thers 4 one cause, and

one cause only, from which any danger need be appre-
lended to the Church ; if the Church shall identify itself
:sv-th the partisan politics of any party in this community,
in my opinion it puts to peril a great del in the result
of a very doubtful issue.—( Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
heat. it must be obvHis to the Church itself, that if
ti ourse is perse crcd in, the time may come when
the alternative might I,e this—that the people would feel
that they were thwarted in the attainment of their temporal
4nterests by the Chuicl-, and hence might be led to pursue
tilos temporal interests by deserting the Church.—( Hear.)
But I hope that time will never arrive. I think suc'i a
consideration not altogether unworthy of the attention of
the Church. This is only in accordance with opinions I have
for sears expressed.
Sir JOHN CAMPBELL followed with a speech for which
we has e not room ; but its tone was similar to the preceding.
THOMAS MAITLAND, Esq., advocate, moved—that in
the ph:cent momentous crisis of the affairs of the country,
the Right Hon. James Abereromby and Sir John Camp-
bell are fully entitled and eminently qualified to represent
this city in the Commons House of parliament.
JOHN MAcrIE, Esq., merchant, seconded the motion.
After the- candidates !'ad replied to some questions relat-
ing to Household Suffrage anti the Ballot, the motion was
carried by declamation.

MR. STEUART
GUARD AND T
ANHE SCOTTISH
I.

TATTERSALL' S-YESTERDAI'.

Of the maay momentous interests now at stake in the
present political contest, one of the first and mightiest in
importance is the cause of Scriptural Education. And we
are well convinced, that could the electors of Scotland be
but assured of the fact, that a cause so sacred is really in
peril at the hands of the present Government, they would
forget their differences on matters of lesser moment, and
combine almost as one man in defending the best inherit-
ance of their ehildren. Our present purpose, therefore, is
not to argue the question, but to prove the case—to call a
witness to bear testimony to the views of Ministers on this
vital point ; and while we invite the attention of our readers
in general, we invite most especially that of our friends in
Haddington, Jedburgh, and throughout that district of
burghs. Mr. Robert Steuart, the present Member for these
burghs, when calling, the other day, on one of the electors,
a gentleman of great worth and intelligence, was interro-
gated as to his views on the subject of religious education.
In reply, he affirmed in so many words, that " no
more of religion should be taught in our public schools
than what was common to all parties, or what all were
agreed on." This statement the elector met at once, by
asking him how such a system could possibly work, ex-
cept by excluding religion wholly and entirely from the
school ? If we are to agree with the Jews, we must ex-
clude the New Testament. If we are to agree with the
Deist, we must exclude the sacred volume altogether.
If we are to agree with the Socinian, we must not teach
the children the grand doctrine of the Saviour's Divinity,
—we must destroy the Gospel. If we are to agree with
the Papist, we must banish the whole Bible—except, it may
be, some garbled extracts, and even these we must not ex-
plain and interpret to the children. These monstrous, but
plain and necessary consequences of the principle laid down
ny Mr. Steuart were distinctly pointed out to him by the
faithful elector; but though the discussion lasted half an hour,
not one jot would Mr. Steuart abate or modify of his anti-
Scriptural opinions. And, moreover, while he avowed
these latitudinarian principles as his own, he permitted
the elector to assume in his argument that they were also
those of the Government,' under which Mr. Steuart holds
an important office, without contradiction or question.
Here, then we have a vidimus of what the Whig Radical
Ministry are preparing for us in the great national question
of education. One of themselves boldly avows it—that
education without creed is the doctrine they hold, and with
which, if they obtain the power, they have the set purpose
to poison the country. Let every Christian elector look to
it. Let every man who has a family, and who knows
that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, look
to it. Let every man look to it who would save the rising
generation from the incalculable mischiefs of an infidel edu-
cation. We trust this, declaration of Mr. Robert Steuart
will decide his fate in the Haddington burghs. The elec-
tors of these burghs may love their political party much,
but we are confident their votes will testify that they love
their Bible more.—Sedltish Guardian (Friday).

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCOTTISH GUARDIAN.
Haddington, July 22, 1837.
Sir,—My attention has this moment been called to a
paragraph which appeared in the Scottish Guardian on the
21st, on the subject of Scriptural Education, wherein, to
support your assumption, " that a cause so sacred is in
peril at the hands of the present Government," you proceed
to give a report of a conversation said to have been held by
me with "a gentleman of great worth and intelligence,"
one of the electors of the constituency which I have for
some time had the honour to represent ; and you then go
on to deduce your own inferences therefrom. I have
no difficulty in at once naming the elector to
whom you attune, aim tracing rue source from
whence your information must have come. The
only conversation that I had upon the subject, with
any of the electors, was with the Rev. Mr. Purvis of Jed-
burgh ; but so overstrained and distorted are the opinions
attributed to me, that I scarce can recognise any portion
of my own sentiments, under the colouring given to them ;
but I cannot mistake the clumsy arguments which I re-
member to have heard the reverend gentleman use, and
which I well recollect I was saved the trouble of answer-
ing, by hearing their irrelevancy at once exposed by an
honourable friend of mine, who was present on that occa-
sion, and to whose recollection of what passed I am quite
satisfied to refer, in order to bear out my version of this
private conversation, which I have, with no small astonish-
ment, seen thus dragged before the public. The reverend
divine interrogated me as to my opinions with regard to the
system of national education established in Ireland. I ex-
pressed my entire approval of it. On his declaring his dislike
to the plan adopted of making selections from the Scriptures,
which both Protestants and Catholics might read in common
(although he admitted he had never seen the books used), I
reminded him that it originated with Lord Stanley ;
and I further suggested to him that a simila selection from
the Scriptures was in use in some of the Gaelic schools of
the General Assembly. The whole point under discussion
was the system of national education in Ireland, and it was
to the defence of that system that my whole arguments
were directed ; and as to that reply assigned to me (and
which is purported " to have been given in so many words")
that " no more of religion should be taught in our public
schools than was common to all parties, or about which all
parties were agreed," I most unhesitatingly declare that the
sub.tance of this reply (for I do not recollect my exact words)
expresses my opinion so far as regards the system of educa-
tion applicable to the peculiar state of society in Ireland,
but that to Ireland, and to Ireland alone, did I refer. I
never did entertain such opinions with reference to Scot-
land : nor (to the best of my recollection) did I express
ANY opinion on the subject of education in this country.
Could I have conceived it possible that the Rev. Gen-
tleman would have violated the privacy of his own study,
to lay before the public any part or portion of the conver-
sation I held with him, I should have taken notes at the
time, with the view of furnishing a more accurate report
of what passed than the Rev. Gentleman seems prepared
to afford. In this instance the faithful elector has proved
himself by no means a faithful reporter ; and while I am
unwilling to impute motives to any one, and still less to
attribute uncharitable intentions to a Minister of the Gos-
pel, I cannot but observe, that, in communicating any
portion of a private conversation to a public journal, with-
out giving an accurate and full report of all that passed on
the :occasion—by suppressing part, by quoting particular
portions only, and by thus creating false premises from
which erroneous inferences may be deduced—there appears
something very like misrepresentation wilfully made, fur
the purpose of prejudicing a public man, and with a view
to forward the ends of a particular party, to become the
political agents and tools of whom, too many Ministers of
the Church have of late lent themselves, most unfortu-
nately, as I venture to think, for the credit of their sacred
calling.
Your journal I have seldom seen or heard of, but I am
informed it is one peculiarly dedicated to promoting the
great ends of the Christian faith. having so readily attri-
buted opinions which I do not hold, and having so eagerly
sent them forth to the public as belonging to me, I trust, in
Christian charity, and with a view to repair the injury you
have inflicted upon me, you will unhesitatingly insert this
my distinct disavowal of them on the part of myself, es well as
on the part of the Government to which I have the honour
to belong.

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
(Signed) R. ST ELT ART.

MR. SPENCER'S TRAVELS IN CIRCASSIA.—The
great interest excited by the position of Circassia, with regard
to Russia, renders every particular connected with it of more
than ordinary importance at the present moment. We, there-
fore, view with much satisfaction the appearance of Mr. Spen-
cer's volumes, as they contain the most recent, as well as ac-
curate account of the state and prospects of Circassia. Mr.
Spencer, in the course of his travels, visited the whole of thu
ports hitherto hermetically sealed against
.every
ceived foieigner,
and penetrated into the interior, where being re on
friendly terms by the chiefs, he has been enabled to give most
amusing and attractive pictures of their domestic habits, man-
ners, and customs, of their modes of warfare, of
the military
strength of the country, of the present contest ,with Russia,
&c., and to estimate the importance of this nation both.
llus. in a
military and commercial point of view. 1-lis volumes are i
trated with numerous embellishments.
Lord Frederick Fitzclarence will, it is rumoured,
shortly leave England in command of a Regiment on foreign
service. His Lordship has returned to town from a visit to
Lord Augustus, at Maple Durham.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

For the first hour or two nothing went down but the elec-
tions, and, when business did commence, it was so mixed up
with them that we had some troub.c to find out what was "the
order of the day." Very few alterations will be found in the
subj,ined quotation t. It is proper ter state, however, that
Hornsca and The Carpenter are daily making fresh converts
for the Goodwood Stakes, and are the only favourites backed
for any money. For the Drawing-Room Stakes Wisdom and
Velure were the only two backed. An offer was made to back
Cartoon, but the odds (4 to 1) did not suit. Cardinal Puff
is a shade worse than on Monday, and Mango a trifle better.
A new favourite made his appearance in the person of Mr.
Golden's Robin Hood colt, who has been talked of for the last
fortnight, but not backed. Closing prices :
GOODWOOD STAKES, P. P. (WEDNESDAY NEXT.)
7 to 2 agst Lord Chesterfield's Hornsea--taken
5 to 1 agst Mr. S. Fox's The Carpenter—taken
8 to 1 agst Lord Tavistoek's Jack in the Green—take 9 to 1
10 to 1 agst Mr. M. Stanley's Willesden—offered
12 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Alfred—taken
16 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's The Drummer—taken
20 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Sepoy—taken
6 to 5 on the field agst three—taken
50 even on }lonises apt Carpenter and Jack-in-the-Green
coonwoon Dr,AWING-ROOM STAKES, P.P. (WEDNESDAY NEXT.)
7 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wisdom—taken
4 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's Cartoon—offered
9 to 2 agst Lord Exeter's Velure—taken
GOODWOOD cur, P.P. (FRIDAY NEXT.)
A small bet was laid agst Lord Suffield's Caravan, and 3 to 1
offered [Wit Lord Chesterfield's Carew ; 200 to 10 laid twiee that
liormea will not win the stake,

THE SUN, LON DON, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1837.

speech delivered by Mr. O'Connell on Sunday to the elec-
tors of Rathcormack, he said—" In sight of the blood-
stained field of Gurtroe (pointirg tom,lrds that direction),
where the widows' sons were numbered on account of the
paltry sum of three shillings and fourpence tithes, I rise to
address you. I ask, does not the blood there spilled call
for retribution from man, and punishment from Heaven ?
I tell you, men of llatheormac, that the murderers at Gut-
tree would be your murderers, if they dared."
The fever is considerably on the increae in liablin.

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