The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-09 00:00:00

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LONDON :
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1839.

The acts of the Tories, except the usual bullying
in the Registration Courts, being nil, they are not
susceptible of criticism. They talk at public meet-
ings, but the party declines being bound by the
gabble of its members. They have a great advan-
tage over the Ministers, who must act, and who
are exposed to an indefinite range of criticism, on
the old principle that the path of truth is narrow
and the regions of error boundless. We are com-
pelled, therefore, to test the Tories by their words,
by their demands ; and those we have shown would

plunge the community into irreparable disorders.
One of their assertions is that they are no longer
Tories, but Conservatives, and their opponents,
they say, take an unfair advantage of fixing on them
a hateful policy by a nickname, which they have
wisely abjured. We will take them on their own
terms, call them Conservatives, and show them to
be as mischievous in one character as in the other.
It is palpable and admitted, that most of our in-

stitutions require repair. Under the Church as it
is, for example, masses of the population have

grown up untaught and uncared for. As a State
contrivance for teaching the people, the Church is
miserably inefficient ; bloated in the upper ex-
tremities, and starved at the lower. This oppro-
brium both of religion and of political science, the
Conservatives would keep up in all its hideous,
helpless malformation.

Next look at the two Houses of Parliament.
About a thousand persons authorised to debate on
law making ! What a gross absurdity. Four
or five clever lawyers, half a dozen statesmen,
one or two wrangling Bishops, leading the
ignorant, with a few score proxies, constitute
the Uppe► House of Parliament. The Lower
House, said to be a representative of the whole
people, excludes four-fifths of them, and is a
mockery of its noble name. How it has performed
its duties we need not mention, but no party is satis-
fied with it. Both Houses of Parliament unaltered,
with all their deformities, the Conservatives are
pledged to preserve. The Whigs will admit of
some improvements, the Conservatives are bound
to keep all things just as they are.

We will not run through the catalogue. It is
enough to say that our Courts of Law, our Par-
liaments, the Church, the Colonies, the represen-
Live system, and almost every part of our Consti-
tution, are overrun with corruption and abuse, all
of which, and all the fictions and old errors on
which they are based, the Conservatives are, by
their name and nature, pledged to uphold. If the
sun stood still, if society did not increase in num-
bers and in knowledge, the Conservatives might
be admirable statesmen. But man is a progressive
animal, and the institutions of one age are quite
unsuited to another. A Conservative, therefore, is
necessarily at war with' Nature and GOD, and
wholly
misplaced as the guide and governor of
society.

The Edinburgh Courant, a Journal of much
pretension on matters of political economy, has
the following paragraph in reference to our sug-
gestion of a silver currency :
Among other rash propositions which have been thrown
out, we observe it has been suggested that silver should
be:made a legal tender along with gold, as in the Conti-