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--DICATED to the AIDERS of, ABETTORS to, PRO-
„ULGATORS, and PROMOTERS of " THE POLICE
ACT."
AREO PA GETICA: MILTON.
" God uses not to captivate under a perpetual childhood
,f
Prescription, but trusts man with the gift of reason to be
his "o chooser. There were but little work left for preach-
th!! if law and compulsion should grow so fast upon those
UgS which heretofore were governed only by exhortation.

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hearst, what more national corruption, for which England
r ill abroad, than household gluttony ; who shall be the
inhi-
bit of our daily rioting ? And what shall be done to iniii-
ut,the multitudes that frequent those houses where (I..unken-
re'S is sold and harboured? Lastly, who shall forbid and cepa-
2te all idle resort, all evil company? These things will be,
""d Must be.
this
He who were pleasantly disposed could not well avoid to liken
8 Act' to the exploit of that gallant man, who thought to
r"und up the crows by shutting his park gate. • • •
Impunity and remissness for certain are
dithe bane of a. corn-
"wealth, but here the great art lies, to sc er the
lap
,19 is to bid, and restraint, an4unishment,:and in what things
persuasion only is to work. If every action which is good or
01' in man at ripe years were to be under pittance, perscrip-
ii° z?, and compulsion, what were virtue but a name, what
,-:aise could be then due to well doing, what, gramercy, to be
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°uor, just, or continent ?
" Wherefore did he create passions within us, pleasures round
about 3IS, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingre-
dients .of virtue? Why then should we affect a rigour contrary
the roavner of God and of nature? • • •
c ;Were 1 the chosen," hear him ye aiders and promoters of,
'tisllgilto,, speaks, and his is a name—
" such as ne'er

Shall sink.whi:e there's an echo left to air,"
i
6 a dram of viell,doiNZ should be preferred before many times as
ltiluch the forcible hindrznee of evil doing. For God sure Pas
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the growth ancicompleting of one virtuous person, more
an the restraint of ten vicious."—Extracts.
National Education.--" Ths Bishop of Norwich said the
l'flea a clergy which was now passing away had had the most
alunrable op tunity of instituting schools in their parishes,
.por
and of educating the people in the principles of the Church of " All that mortal art bath wrought,
'Eklgland. If this had been done thirty years ago. and educa. In our cell returns to nought;
tints extended to . teaching the children obedience to and re- The molten gold returns to clay,
'Pees for the law, and the frugal husbanding of their means, it The polish'd diamond melts away.
weuld have been impossible to have raised infuriated bands of All is altered, all is flown—
lrial_ iont,ents like the Chartists of the present day, and England Nought stands fast but truth alone."
would hasse a ver different aspect. He did not cast a general In Politics we shall be Radicals, and devotofedth to the People,
condemnation onyihe.clergy of that period, for many of them utterly regardless of the
smiles or frowns e and
had fully dove their duty ; but he regretted that so golden an interested few. Such a course, we know, is always perilous
Opportunity hid passed—an opportunity that would take the and often profitless—
greatest labour and energy of those anxious to impose on the " Hard is his task who edits—thankless joii—
rising generation to reclaim Alike A weekly journal for the factious mob ;
The Sun, No. 14 65/
" We cannot on this' ,imAuguit the Bth, 1839. Alike undone, or if he praise or rail ;
ceasion lay down our pen without en-
deavouring to impress on the religious and Protestant part of For this affects his safety, that his sale
He sinks, at last, in luckless limbo set--
the community, the unspeakable importance o: speedily taking If loud, for libel—and if dumb, for debt."
measures to purify and purge the Church." We sha always be happy, when we can agree with those
"If there be truth or euusisteney in mao sincere Protestants men who, nowever they may sometimes err, have rendered
must turn against those have iven such prodigious' advantages efficient service, and made many sacrifices for the cause of
to the Popish superstition."--The Morning Sun, Tuesday, liberty; but w shall not advocate that wait-a-while policy
September 10, 1839. which holds out promises to suffering millions which are never
With this exhibition before the country,.
" e., the Head f likely
the Church having taken no exception, but • • • o aly father, Time, is weak and grey,
l
"how impiety and profaneness should only providing, to be real.zed
be delivered," "if the With waiting fora better day,"
' A'ulden opportunity" had not been suffered to escape by the We shall judge the Government by its acts, and shall oppose
away,"
.at whose
generation of Clergy passingdoors lay the aPremier, be he Whig, Tory, or Radical, when we find him
reFoach of " infuriated bands of Chartists of the present day," averse to the removal of the ; emoant of the Penal Code, which,
then a Journalist with his ten thousand tongues stimulating the absurdly enough, forbids the appointment of a Roman Catho-
People to ' and "etsurtn against those lie Chancellor —a Colonial Secretary, when he resists the
" purge and purify a Churcha,'d
Nvho have givenadvantages to
the P°P'sb Ballot ; or even so amiable and enlightened a Statesman as
superstition," such prodigious
what should be their compunction .. See The the pres—ent Irish Secretary, when he seems half disinclined
San, October 21,1 and November Ist. .
Pcblished in 1820, price ld.
(e'en a pennyworth) shall put to grant an increase of popular privileges to the Irish people.
Conscientiously believing
that Ireland never can become gene-
" Mark now how a plain tale rally happy arid conten"ted until she again has the advantage
of a DOMESTIC LEGISLATURE, we shall persevere, by
you down."
Considerations on the General Distribution of the Bible. arguments and facts, to advocate the
ioy the late Daniel Carpenter, Esq., Author of " Dialogues
and Letters on the Doctrines of the Established Church."
" The s tof liberality (as it is
pin termed) that is now so
. as not more beneficial to Ireland than the Sister Kingdom.
We will brio '
REPEAL OF THE UNION,
Kingdom.
1 aerneiversally diffused throughout this country, and so rapidly in- aided
the
by the light b • humour. We shall be ge:nretTi: ttlfieolfdotulriev‘h,aeas:
we
etilslheary oil f reason,
given birth to ideas on the rigade of wit and
staid with the steady, and mirthful with the light-hearted.
"lug, appears to me to have
oubject of religion, more particularly, so
threatenunprecedented, uthn;
tomwgerave to
reisonable, and, in my opinion, so dangerous, as to
,glittering like a brook in the sunshine,"y,
subversion, at no very distant period, to all order and tiovern-
meld, civil and religious."
" That there are great errors in the c .omposition of our The Statesm will find; "'ln lively to severee.. "run on
an us political n Lawyer will
discover' thFar
d . . t ' know a thing or two • the Physician shall
Church Establishment, (I mean in the disposal and a minis ra- proclaim us lovers of the healing art • 'the Sportsman shall
tiun of its property) cannot be denied : but these are no argu- learn that we can clear a ccuntry with him. " THE WORLD"
Meats for its uttert' annihilation. Every human institution, to the Lady of Fashion shall be as a Court Gazette, and the
with how much widom soever it may have been formed, is liable Agriculturist shall not have to complain of our egr ece • the
to error and abuse. The constitution of a Government, like interests of the. Merchant and Manufacturerr shall receive our
; visit the studio of the Artist;
that of an individual, is subject to infirmity and disease. But close attention , the United Service will find us, as of old, at-
'what should we say of that physician, who should propose to tubed to the cloth ; we shall " take our garland and singing
remove a disorder by taking away the life of the patient? Yet, robes about us with the Poet
ithaenbdesvtarpieenty.
extraordinary as it into; appear such is precisely the plan pro- • and deal our impartial,, criticism at the Theatre
red by some empiric; solcuri'ne• the disorders of the Church. ; Every nuri bo.er of THL WORLD," in
richness .
It aPpears to me to be a sufficient exertion of religious charity I will be a . asaznie ; and arrangements have been made to
6 allow the free exercise of their modes of worship to the se- ' embellish its columns with sketches from some s-
feral sects who dissent from our Church. Such an admission cads of the day.
will
1.), no means implies that they are individually right. To tole- ' 4,T14 E W ORL D" •11be a large quarto, printed with su-
rate she religious prejudices of soc•et• • distinct from our own perior type upon first-rate paper, and will be published essss
is one ting assist them in the' dissemination'e of their doe- Saturday morning, with 11 late edition for the country, CO
trines is another." tannin
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