The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 1839.

. nothing can be done but by the pressure from without. It
is by this we must calculate the amount of reform which
will be admitted to the statute-book ;,and, looking at
the present state of the country, it must bc confessed
that it is by no means favourable to an effective effort.
The ill-advised .and culpable proceedings of the Char-
tists have disorganized and spread doubt amongst the.
great body of Reformers. These brainless brawlers,
who, in the deep conviction of their oivn incapacity for
the position into which they -thrust themselves, and.
their utter dearth of moral or intellectual influence,
recommended physical force, have..inflioted grievous in-
jury on the cause which had the misfortune of their
association. They have frustrated the national com-
bination so essential to success in political struggles
and now the alarm excited by their incendiary pro-
ceedings must subside before a new moral organization
of the people can take place. Meanwhile, the enemies
of popular liberty are puttini, in requisition every
agency calculated to retard the progress of Refora.
With a view of organizing an opposition to the Cora-
laws, they are holding meetings throughout the country
under pretence of promoting agricultural pursuits. In
the Registration Courts, where their leader has told •
them the great battle of corruption must be fought, they
are sedulously endeavouring to falsify the constituencies
by surreptitiously introducing the names or tinqual.;iod
persons devoted to their interests, and arraying all.
manner of midair and vexatious opposition .agairiac,thnse
legally qualified who are known to.be .favourable to Re-
form. Without aggravating the dissensions which it is
our most anxious desire to allay amongst Reform: r,
we may observe that there is scarcely any section of
our friends to which we can give unqualified approba-...
tian. On the Chartists being seduced from their pro-
priety by physical-force bravadoes we have already
pronounced our condemnation. Those called Rational
Reformers are scarcely less to blame for remainiog,Pal-...
sive when they should have stoad forward to direct the
popular current into
,its legitimate channels, pod: :not=
have allowed it to be diverted from its course by incen-,
diary demagogues. If, however, these errors serve as,
beacons to the future guidance of Reformers,,and
peaceful, moral, and constitutional organization for .the
reform of abuses—especially as regards the Parliament
tary Representation and the Corn-aws—be commenced
amongst the people, we may still be enabled, before the
meeting of Parliament, to give a satisfactory reply to the
query, .4 What will be done in the next Session r

(From the
_illorning, Post.)
One night last week seine people belonging to.the
borough of •Marylebone, who are always fidgetting about
their representation in Parliament, met-together, and
were addressed by two gentlemen, who think it a mis-
fortune to the country that they are not in the House
of Commons, and who would therefore be very. willing.
to go there if the constituency of Marylebone would
elect them. A person of the name of Elphinstone, who
it seems was in Parliament before, though ive do not
recollect any of his senatorial exploits, made, as we
learn, a long speech, in which he talked Radicalism at
an immense rate. He is an abolisker of the first water.
He would abolish septennial Parliaments, and all
the existing local rights and privileges under which
they are elected. He would have a sweeping
schedule A, which should include every borough
and county in the United Kingdom ; and then ha
would have another schedule, nominating, constituting,
and appointing " electoral districts." The very term
is worth a revolution. " Electoral districts" has a
much more charmingly modern and scientific sound
than such old words as counties and boroughs. This
small matter being arranged, he would put the Bishops
out of Parliament altogether, or, in. his milder phras?,
" relieve them of their legislative duties." No doubt,
when Mr. Elphinstone becomes an influential legislator,'
his wisdom will (in his own opinion) abundantly
supply the place of that of the whole ecclesiastical
beach. Next he would abolish the property _quali--.
fication for English and Irish Members of the Housa...:
of Commons. We are not at all surprised that hie,
wishes tend that way. The naughty -" qualification" is
a s id bar in the way of aspiring gentlemen of the class
to whieh Mr. Elphinstone appears to belong. Their ,1
desire to abolish it always runs collaterally with their de-
sire to enlighten this -.country by their speeches t.nd
votes in PaAiatnent. But the alteraiion of the franchise
is the important point which the .sagacious Mr. Elphin-
stone has arranged to his complete satisfaction. He is
very determined,•he says, 11goronsly.to reform the Re-
form Bill! He is to extend the franchise to all adults
of respectable cooduc t who can read and write. A wise
thought this—if it were only practicable—and one in
which even we, Tories as we are, quite agree. Perhaps
Mr. Elphinstone will be surprised 'at this, but if he be,
it is because he does not know what strange liberty-
loving people Tories are.
(From the Times )
We laid before our readers, in the Times of the 21st
of September, a brief outline of the constitution end
organization of Ribandism in Ireland ; and on the Bth
and 10th of October we exemprified the way in which
this conspiracy works, particularly as between landlord
and tenant, master and servant. Let us now look at
its extent, and its means of mischief. If in Great
Bri-
tain there were even one county—though only one—
where an armed association had been detected of pa-
rochial bodies, bound by secret oaths, conrinimi•
eating by secret passwords, pledged to obey at two
how.' notice any mandate of their officers, even t
assassination itself--disciplined by nightly drills,
directed by a central board, overawing land,.
lords, agents, tenants, prosecutors, witnesess, and
juries, terrifying private men, paralyzing the law, and
wreaking, at the savage pleasure of a board of
indivi-
duals, what the slang of the day denominates. " the wild
justice of revenge,"—if all this, or a tenth part of it, wete
disclosed in but a single county of England or Scotland,an.
excitement would pervade this whole country, to which
the alarm of the Birmingham or Bristol burnings would-
be as nothing. But in • Ireland this frightful system
has actually been overrunning the entire soil. It has
squatted in almost every county of that pitiable king-
dom, alarming residents, deterring strangers, and
precluding those investments of capital which alone
would improve the condition of the people. Major
Warburton, thirteen years Inspector-General of Con-
naught, deposes to the existence of this national curse
in the counties of Sligo, Meath, Westmeath, Armagh,
Tipperary, Galway, Wicklow, and Dublin. Mr.
Rowan, a stipendiary Magistrate, brother of Colonel
Rowan, of the metropolitan police, states it to be
prevalent also in the counties of Clare, Waterford,
Longford, Kilkenny, Kildare, Cavan, Louth, and
King's County. Mr. Hatton, chief constable of po-
lice, a gentleman of whose official merits Mr. Under.'
Secretary Drummond has spoken in strong commen-
dation, adds Monaghan and Queen's County to the
list of districts thus infested. Mr. Plunket, stipen-
diary Magistrate, states its existence in the county of
Down ; Captain Warburton, stipendiary Magistrate,
states its existence in the county of Roscommon ; Major
Brown, Commissioner of Police, intimates its existence
(though to no great extent) in the counties of London-
derry, Mayo, and Antrim ; and Mr. Graves, assistant
to the Crown solicitor on the North-west Circuit, de-
poses to its presence in Tyrone. So that of all the 32
counties into which Ireland is divided, the only onts
which the plague of Rtbandism is not proved to have in-
fected are Wexford, Carlow, Kerry, Limerick, and
Cork. Among the main objects of the Society is the
acquisition of arms.

SECOND EDITION.

(FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS HAY.)
(From the Globe.)
A letter from the Committee of Privy Council on
Education to a clergyman of the Established. Church,
who applied to their Lordships for inforMation on cer-
tain particulars, has been forwarded to us for insertion.
This letter explains the mode on which th&r Lordships'
have determined to conduct the inspection of schools
connected with the Established Church, the promoters
of which may accept portions of the Parliamentary grant;
and is therefore so important in the information it con-
veys, that we hesitate not to give it promineney in our
columns :
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" Committee of Council on Education,
6, Council-office, October 5, 1839.

" Reverend Sir,—The Lords of the Committee of
Council have had under consideration your letter of the
Ist October,
in which, referring to eny fcrmer communi-
cation, you inquire whether some or all of the inspectors to
be appointed to visit schools will be clergymen ; and if
not, whether they will at least be members of the Church
of England; and you observe that as religious iestruc-
t'on must necessarily form the chief pa t of the
education of your school, if that instruction and the dis
cipline, and management of the school be withdrawn from
th cognizence of
the inspectors, there would be lithe
e'se to which they could direct their attention—the
Lords of the Committee of Council of Education direct
me to assure you that it is intended to appoint oue or
to visit the Church of England
more inspectors specially
schools; that no person not a member of the Church of
England will be appointed to discharge this important duty ;
that it is their Lordships wish and intention to select in
preference (other qualifications being equal), clergymen
of the Established Cenrch to inspect schools connected
with the Church; and that their Lordships will be reolici
tuts to appo'nt as inspectors persons whose character shall
be a guarantee of their conduct, both to the Ecabbehed
Church end to the public at largo.
With eesrct to the latter part of your letter, which
relat sto the limitation of the inspector's powers, I am
directed to:state to )ou that the points to which it adverts
let I already received the serious consideration of the
Committee ; and that the disadvantages which may arise
frcm excluding the religious instructien from the super-
vision of the inspectore have trot escaped their Lordships'
attention. The Committee have been anxious to give to
promoters and managers of schools the fullest possible as-
surance that in accepting the public money, coupled. with
the condition of inspection they will not incur the sligheest
risk to the full integrity of the religious prineielee
upon which the schools are established ; and for this
object the above-mentioned limitations are necessary. It
does not, hoe ever, appear to the Committee that there is
anything in these conditions to prevent the promoters end
managers of any school from obtaining from the incp !ctor
an examination into, and a report upon the relibeioi ,s in-
ste uction which may be afforded therein, provided t hat a
requisition to that effect should previously be presented to
I him by the Clergyman, Committee, or other person under