The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-21 00:00:00

FROM TIE MORNING PATERS OF THIS RAT.
(From the Times.)
If the Chartist power remain what it is, and the
power of the Irish priesthood what it has been, both
those great benefits must be obtained by the surrender
of the British monarchy, and by the breaking up of
political society. The swollen despotism of the Popish
priesthood is the growth of the last eight or nine years
—that is, of the Whig-Radical reign over these realms.
The amazing insolence and dreadful ferocity of the
Chartists have the same origin—viz., the direct en-
couragement afforded them by the Whig-Radical
Ministers, whose exclusive support in Great Brite;,n
is democracy, as it is Popery in Ireland.. We
can assure Lord John Russell that this subject
shall not sleep while he has an official blanks t
wherewith to cover him. We can assure that oble
Lord that the device of shifting his malpractiee, from
the Home-office to the Colonial-office—frrem White-
hall
h
street: hassha so rivll
llnotex:ley
rjaprned on the
t him from
former of these theatres of crime. ea
Lord Normanby—
we say it with every consid':ration for his Marqwisate
thhael
retribution
D °w
a h
whichg.
—but Lord Normanby is too small fry to merit any very
serious or continuous efforts for his overthrow. is
one of those empty unballasted vessels which require
no hostile cannonade to sink them. The first seii;all
will capsize him ; the element in which he moves wilit
of itself suffice for his destruction. His master, her
ever, who ruled the Home Department while the slte",,,
minded Marquis played Viceroy of Baretaria, at", who
probably impelled him in the lawless and r,:tnt'us coarse
of his Irish absurdities—the master, w'e as.y, of Lord
Normanby---Lord John Russell, will take the scourge
before he cries for mercy. We 'nave not the smallest
hesitation in declaring that Lord John Russell,
more than any member of the Ministry, deserves to
be impeached. He has caused or connived at mere
flagrant offences than any of his colleagues. He was
not merely the admitted organ of the Cabinet in the
House of Commons, but he mismanaged that section
of the Government which was the centre and &sits of
all the iniquities which disgraced that Government;tred
which oppressed the country. The Home Minister in
a bad Administration has more corruption at his cote_
maid, and more fatal wickedness for which to answer,
than all his colleagues in all other departments of the
State. Where it is the system of a Government to rule
through the instrumentality of a faction, and for the
interests of a faction, the Home Minister is at all times
the friend on duty. He has the whole game in his
hand. He makes the Magistracy—that is, he selects
the depositaries of power, as in the case of Mr. John
Frost, and by his delegate, the Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land, he packs the Irish Bench of Islagistraties also, as
in the case of Mr. Daniel O'Connell. He pardons
those whom the law condemns ; he persecutes those
whom the law acquits ; he promotes and exalts ;
he excludes and subjugates. He has the entire ma-
chinery of despotism in his hands ; for it is he in
whom is mainly vested the administration of justice.
We tell Lord John, therefore, in the face of his
countrymen and ours, that he has exercised his vast
powers in palpable violation of the purposes for
which they were given ; that he has not so constituted
the Magistracy, or so administered justice, as to main-
tain the integrity of the Bench,kor to serve any other
ends than those of faction ; that be has thus helped to
put down the law, by degrading it, through its Ministers,
in the eyes of the nation, and has so far poisoned the
first element of the social compact—each and all of
which proceedings hear upon them the deepest dye of
guilt, political and moral. We are hound therefore, in
conclusion, to tell the Noble Lord, that if there be
virtue in Parliament, or spirit in the people of England,
he will have to stand his trial, on the prosecution of
the Commons, before the House of Peers. We said,
the subject of the countenance, direct and indirect,
bestowed upon these Chartist rebels by the Queen's
Ministers, should not be let sleep, and it shall not.
Listen to some of the facts connected with this
matter. Before last September the county of Glamor-
' gan had been grievously disturbed by the machinations
of the conspirators. From certain information which
the Magistrates of the district had obtained, it appeared
that arms had been sold extensively at Newbridkie, and
that the tin workmen were in the habit of practising
with ball on the hills, and even in the streets of that
town. It was, therefore, thought necessary to memo-
rialize the Lord Lieutenant of the county. A letter
was, therefore, addressed to that Noblemaithaving the
signatures of three Magistrates, Messrs. R.., 8., and
W. The Noble Lord was then on a visit at
Widmer Castle. Shortly afterwards, the Magja-
trates received a communication from the Lord-
Lieutenant, together with the circular of Lord. J.
Russell, published in the preceding spring, by
way of answer to, or comment on, their de-
scription of the state of the country, dated in or before
September. Now here, if nowhere else, is proof that
the Melbourne Government was fully aware of the
proceedings and schemes of the Chartists many weeks
before the insurrection broke out at Newport. Yet
how were they prepared to meet it. ? One company
of men. And if they answer us, " Well, but one
company was sufficient, for half a company well com-
manded put the rebellion down, so far as Newport was
concerned"—then, if you deem that an adequate force
was then, at the time of the Newport outbreak, so-
tinned in that country, why have you ever since beeva
marching troops thither to the amount of 1,000 or;
1,200 men ? It is plain, that either the presceje
efforts are superfluous, or that there was previously,' the
most enormous neglect in the head of the Homes De-
partment. But the affair of Chartism is not, 172 fear,
yet over.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
A Morning Contemporary, not ashamed to play
second fiddle to the Tunes, has written aik article of
some length, in which there are almost as -many blun-
ders as lines, for the purpose of showing t},at the tem-
porary fourpenny rate is not " the sensiFle determina-
tion" which it described on the 14th ultir no. The Post
now aims to prove that the uniform fourpenny rate is
an injustice, because it affords no redu etion of postage
in the case of the existing fourpenny ane.t twopenny rates,
It bewails this injustice as inflicted upon " large and
populous tracts of country, of the average width of
five miles, which form the circumference of a circle
surrounding, at a distance of seventeen or eighteen
miles, London and other great towns."—" Many of th.e
principal commercial towns of England, and espec;.ally
in the north, are situated, with respect to other great
commercial towns of eqaal, or nearly equal., import-
ance, within that range of from fifteen to twenty
miles distance, against which the Treasury Minute
pronounces a sentence of proscription,, virtually ex-
cluding them, with respect to the bulk of their episto-
lary correspondence, from any participation in the be-
nefit the measure professes to confer upon the commu-
nity at large." Now, it happens unfortunately for the
Post's accuracy, that these "seventeen or eighteen miles"
and "twenty miles" places are not fourpenny posts, but
fi'vepenny posts. He insists, tyrant as, be is with mat-
ters of tact, upon Enfield and Esher being fourpenny
posts, in spite of the Post-office Directory showing the
first to be a threepenny, and the second a firepenny
one. If he will take the trouble to consult the Post-
office map, he will find that the "extensive and im-
portant districts surrounding London," excluded, as he
says, from this benefit, are of the astonishing number
of four ; the important districts of Waltgulln-
Cross, Edgware, Romford, and Stanmore, tiGse
average weekly correspondence of single, that
is, fourpenny letters, amounts to the enormous ,
number of about 1,700. Of this number about.,
35 (according to the usual average) will be turned if,a,o
eightpenny letters, whilst on the other band, of the dor, WA
touchingent,
in-
tended
as an experiment touching the in.cre ase of lAters;
and treble letters, about 70 eightpenny letters Iv'tl be 1
turned into fourpenny ones, and about 30 shillinf letters
into eightpenny ones. "As nn
shows theuse increaseess
~,
The
ef
Treasury letters,
ri.t
Minuteiswh°leelY unstita actory and
xowpesriim,as
t nec ot
but as an arrangement giving the
hpost.,
ce functionaries
an opportunity of practising weig ir,-
g be' lore any inorease
takes place.
__owever, let us se e how the Post', state-
ment is borne out by facts. TA,a .return (page 79,
Second Postage Report), the, opttatice E six
towns mentioned there won,ld stand q us :
Number of; Number of
2d., 3d., and .4d. Letters
Letters.
Abergavenny .............. 46 above 4d.
Aberystwith ......... bait.....
Abingdon .............. I'o2
2113 667
Alnwick ................
Alresford ............... 32.
........ 46;