The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-02 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

i iected, reminded the mover of what was the real principle
'of the bonding system. which he said " was established
for the purpose of admitting, duty free, into the country,
1 goods and merchandise from all parts of the world, and
warehousing them until the time of their being re-ex-
ported : in fact, the system was designed for the eneour-
i agement of what is called the transit trade of the country.
i The principle, therefore, is, that goods coming into
boueleel warehouses for exportation are warehoused there
without the Customs taking any previous cognizance
of them fit all, but the moment they are brought in for
home consumption the duty attaches to them." The
Bill proposed the bonding in inland towns of goods in-
tended eventually for home consumption, and had,
i therefore a very different object. It was objected
r also by The same Noble Lord, that the revenue would
Ibe put in hazard, and could only be protected by a
I great increase in the revenue establishment, and that
the power proposed to be given to the Treasury
of determining what inland towns should have the
1 ' privileges of bonded warehouses would lead to job-
bing. To these objections Lord Melbourne, who in-
stead of Lord Lansdowne undertook the reply, offered
not a single attempt at an answer. He talked indeed
about benefits to be conferred by the Bill, and con-
cluded by advising the Lords to disregard the argu-
ment urged by the President of the Council, and "to
look at the merits of the measure rather than the ma-
jority by which it had been carried elsewhere." The
Lords took the ndvice and rejected the Biil. The
i'lectors' Removal Bill was carried in the Commons by
, an accidental majority of fifteen. The Attorney-Ge-
i neral is represented as stating the object of this Bill to
'' have been, to enable persons to vote who have removed
previous to an election to premises of equal value.
Tiii:. atutement is cninpletely at variance with the
fact, as the Attorney-General himself must have
known, and therefore, we presume, he made no such
(statement. So the indeed is it from the truth, that
Lord Redesdale, who proposed the rejection of the
Bid, said, '° If the Bill were confined to the relief of
1 elective franchise, are those persons who, though really entitled to the
yet deprived of it by removal,
‘
' I should have no hesitation in supporting it." In
fact, it provided that a person once registered might
vote, notwithstanding he might have parted with the
qualification in respect of which he was registered, and
its operation was confined to boroughs. It was, there;
fore, very justly designated by the Duke of Richmond
„ a piece of petty legislation, and one which would
open the door to all sorts of abuses, one of which would
have been to let in outvoters, whom it wee one main ob.
ject of the Reform Act to get rid of altogether. So
much for the three measures carried by the Commons,
and lost to the country by the votes of a majority of
the House of Lords. But we observe that the Attor-
ney-General, like the President of the Council, rests
upon the fact of a Bill being carried by a large majority
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the
following extract from a speech delivered in the late
session :—" I am of opinion that many Bills, carried by
large majorities, ought not to pass ;" and, for his infor-
m when aad guidance at any future three-and-sixpenny
breakfast—it, indeed, Edinburgh shall again afford him
• one—we take leave to add, that the speaker was Lord
Melbourne.
(From the Morning itivertiser.)
General, in some measure, -end vague, perhaps, as
are the expressions eentained in the letter of Bishop
Pnilpotts to Lord Jehn Russell, upon the subject
of the education of the poor of all religions, there is,
nevertheless, an air of frankness about them which
inclines us to believe in their sincerity, and a straight-
forward tone whicle we would fain hope ought to leave
us no room to v!asubt that the Reverend Dignitary has
become a concert to the Government plan. It is true that during the last Session of Parliament he opposed
or appeared to oppose it with might and main ; but
than, on the one hand, it would seem that many of his
:peeeshes were misunderstood or misrepresented, and,
on the other, that he reieepprehended, or partially un-
uerstood only, the (~itovernment plan. Making allow-
ance for both these mistakes, the Bishop's speeches
will bear a awash more liberal interpretation than was
awarded to them at the time they were spoken ; and
we, therefore, cordially cherish the hope that the
candid edmission made by him that the principle of
'Lord John Russell's Bill "is just and moderate,"
will be iellowed by such a support of the measures
devised by Government l'or the education of the people
as shall insure their isaesing into a law, and the rescuing
of the thousands of uneducated people in this country
from the ignoreaee, superstition, and barbarism in which
they are phi-Aged. Be this, however, as it may, more
tie:in one lasportant point ie s been gained by the present
Governer's:et by the Bishop's se ie ample admission. In
the fiest place, the great principle of equal right and
(Taal privilege of education has been conceded by the
v.cry chief in influence and in talent of their antagonists ;
secondly, the Tories, as a body, can now offer no further
opposition to it, however they may dispute the details of
its application ; and, thirdly, an efficient answer has been
given by the Government respecting the wisdom of its
policy to those impetuous spirits who would have ha-
rimed into dire and fatal collision with the Church,
isatead of leaving to the latter that " time and place for
repentance" which seldom fail of bringing cons iction in
a right cause to the minds of the most obdurate. To
I this latter point, the Tory journals bear the most
! ample testimony. They are utterly silent upon the
Isubject of the Lard Bishop's conversion. They do not
say a word upon it. They neither deny nor admit the
trutblof his a Imiseion ; and, although we will not go the
length of a Sunday, journal, and say that in consequence
of the Bishop's adhesion to the Government plan of
education, alt distinction is now destroyed between
Whigs and Tories, yet we must allow, that, compared
wick the great partition-wall which has now been broken
down, there is not a distinction between thorn which is
worthy of a moment's consideration. Abuses enough,
both in theory and Practice, unquestionably exist, which
it will require, all the zeal of the most reforming Go-
vernment to extir.pete in twenty years to come, and
which it iv, the proper business of the Whigs to root out
as it is the interest of the Tories to maintain ; but we
ere not much how either party may deal with them_
any, we care not if both parties combine to uphold
them—let but the people be educated, and, they will
trample both in the dust —oppression will be a term
familiar only to foreigners, and unjust and unequal laws
become unknown in the land. ‘Ve may appear to our
readers to be too sanguine in our anticipations upon
this matter ; but we shall, nevertheli ss, continue to in-
dulge them until they have proved to us that education
and unjust government are characteristics of society
which dwelt together in harmony and peace.
(rrom the Morning Post.)
It is very seldom indeed that we have occasion or
opportunity to acknowledge obligation to the Press
which supports the present Papist Administration. But
the occasion and the opportunity do now present them-
selves, and therefore on behalf of our country and our
perey we thank the Ministerial " gentlemen of the
Press" for the diligence with which they have been
shaking known to the public the speech of Mr. Brad-
shaw, M.P., at Canterbury. We rather think that in
taking this course they have omitted to ask for directions
at bead-quarters ; but that is their affair, not ours. The
drawing of such a speech as Mr. Bradshaw's into very
prominent public notice was to Conservatives a very
painful task, and not unattended with embarrassment.
. Nevertheless it was much to be desired that that speech
should be brought into prominent public notice, and the
Ministerial publications have very obligingly done the
work, which but for them might possibly not have
been done at all. We thank them for this service,
however unintentional it may have been. And yet
it is rather strange that even the Ministerial
writers should have volunteered this service, for
their do not appear to be unaware of the circum-
stances which made it so peculiarly desirable to the
Conservative party that such a service should hate
been undertaken by them. They acknowledge that
the strong feeling and bold expression of Mr. Brad-
shaw's speech are likely to bear with them a tide of
sympathy far more powerful than would have attended
any more guarded and reserved piece of declamation.
Theybare also conscious of the peculiar difficulty which
most members of the Conservative party would have
in dealing with such an unreserved outpouring of
Protestant indignation, owing to the long-established
Tory habits of almost fastidious deference to even the
Personnel of authority. This consciousness they ex-
!emplify by supposing such a case as that of Sir R.
Peel being present at the meeting where Mr. Bradshaw
'POke So indignantly, and the embarrassment in which
1", would have been pieced. And notwithstanding
this knowledge of the powerful effect which the Can-
ti"./3‘"Y speech is likely to produce, and the difficulty
which the great holy of the Conservatives would have
in so using that spi!ech as to make the most of it,
forth came the obliging Ministerialists, and push it into
every corner if the kingdom, to fan the flame of Protes-
tant principles, which the cold caution of Conservative
leaders has too much neglected. Well done, Minis-
terial journalists. And, now that the work is done, we
have no
We lieseetinn in sayilie that we are heartily glad
o it. dislike rant and extravagance, whether it'
baron wdry and trucule
pof the Ministrynt, like that of the great Popish
, Mr. O'Connell, or artificial anu
affected, like that of the nee Popish Privy Councillor
and Vice-President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Shed.
Bet we do like men to speak earnestly upon earnest cc-
casions—to show that they have a heat within them, '
Prompting them to utterance, and giving one reason to
believe that there is something more in what they say
than an elaborate calculation of that which may be ad_
vacced without compromising themselves, or swerving
eves so much as a line from their own assumed position.
There are politicians, and greatly useful too, especially
for Administration, to whom Popes character of Chloe
might not inaptly be applied :
" just They speak, behave, and act as they ought,
But never, never, reach one generous thought. •
Virtue they find too painful an endeavour,
Content to dwell in decencies for ever.
So very reasonable, so unmoved,
As never yet to love, or to be loved." Such politicians, however, are incapable of doingjus-
tice to a cause which is one not merely of express right,
or at Pressing eapedioncy, but one in which the deepest. I