The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-31 00:00:00

'. EECH OF MR. BRADSHAW, M.P. FOR CANTERBURY, AT
FHB MEETING OF THE CONSERVATIVE REGISTRATION
SOCIETY, ON THURSDAY LAST.
(From the Kentish Gazette.)
Mr. BRADSHAW rose amid the most tremendous
audits. Accept my thanks, said the Hon. Gentle-
.l on, for the very flattering manner in which you have
received my name. Let us mutually congratulate our-
:salves on the triumphant result of the Registration So-
. ety, which has been so admirably managed as to the
. sangement, and the details of which have been worked
1 it with so much diligence, perseverance, and talent.—
, t.oud cheers.) I wish, in a very few words, to point
1 . it to you what I conceive to be the dangers and diffi-
..elties of our present position ; and, first, I shall direct
/stir attention to the fearful growth of Popery, allied,
Is it is, with atheism, infidelity, and the voluntary or
snythingarian principle.—( Hear, hear.) Her Majesty's
Ministers have recognised this medley as their rule of
Ath, as exemplified in their precious scheme of educe-
on without religion—(Hear, hear)—and I grieve to
iy that her Majesty herself has shown too much
esuatenance to the enemies of the Protestant Church.
crought up under the auspices of the Citizen King
.1 the Belgians, the serf of France, and guided by his
I salience, the Queen thinks that if the monarchy lasts
( ,er time it is enough ; but the people of England will
:ever consent that the Crown should be degraded and
.ebased for the inglorious ease of any created being—
/ Tremendous cheers)—nor that the personal wishes and
japrices of the Sovereign shall direct the conduct of the
I xecutive.—(Renewed cheering.) The monarchy has
s rights, but it has also its duties.—(Cheers.) The
eople of this country will not be trampled on by Pope
r Sovereign ; still less will they endure that a petty
ierman prince should hold the fair realm of England in
ce farm.—(Applause.) We have not forgotten the
greed abdication of the second James, nor are we igno-
ant that the title to the throne of these realms is that
'erived from a Protestant Princess. No one can regret
snore than I do the growing unpopularity of the Queen—
s Hear) —and her-Court ; but look at the composition
if that Court and its acts. The Courtiers and Minis-
ters are identical, and their petty and criminal intrigues
ire carried into every department of the State. The
Courts of former Sovereigns have been as frivolous,
more vicious even than the present ; but the govern-
ment of the country, and the direction of public affairs
bas been carried on by statesmen of known and recog-
\
aised ability, honour, and independence—(Cheers)—
men who were neither the boon companions of the
Sovereign, nor the willing slaves of his follies and
capriees.—(Great cheering.) 1 believe in my con-
science that the favourite equerries are younger, better
looking, and better dressed men than Sir Robert Peel,
that Lord Melbourne can tell a tale meet for a lady's ear
far better than the Duke of Wellington, and that neither
Lord Stanley nor Sir James Graham can compete with
my Lord Normanby in the getting up of a pageant ; but
are these the qualifications which the people of
Ehgland prize so much as to sacrifice to them their
religion, their national honour, and the care of their an-
cient institutions ?—(Tremendous applause.) Look at
the appointments that these men and women have lately
made. There is not one of them that is not a direct
insult to the nation.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.")
See the Irish Papists preferred to place, to power, and
to patronage. I shall take leave, on thus referring to
them, to contrast the solemn oath sworn by her Majesty
at her Coronation with her subsequent acquiescence in
these acts.--(Cheers.) This oath is the compact made
between the Sovereign and the people—its obligations
are mutual.—(Hear.) I will now read it to you ; and
be you judges whether or no they have been truly ful-
filled. Here are the late appointments of Papist coun-
cillors. I take them together, and thus I cast them
from me, with disgust and indignation. They have now
only to give the once-honoured decoration of the Bath to
the parchment Admiral, and the sister service will have
f no exclusive right to complain of the glorification of
Colonel Evans.—(lmmense cheering.) The Courtier
Ministers have even, so far as it depended upon them
to do so, dishonoured the House of Lords. In the
short space of nine years, they have created more
' Peers than the Tories did in 50 ; and whilst the let-
ter parts called to the Upper House, after a long and
glorious war, the Wellingtons, Nelsons, Collingwoods,
Hills, and a long list of men who had deserved well of
their country, these people have promoted men for the
performance of the most servile offices, many of them
without character or consideration in the country, and
some who had never had a grandfather.—(Laughter and
applause.) In the matter even of Peerages in abey-
ance, the three last they have filled up with two Papists
awl an Irish Radical.—(Shame, shame.) Now, I
would propose that all those novi homines should add
the letter B. to their signatures, as is affixed in the
ship's books to certain names for special reasons.—
(Cheers.) The contempt of the whole country pursues
the new Lord (late Chancellor of the Exchequer), of
jobbing notoriety ; but what cares he?
1 " Popelus me sibilat at mihi plaulo
Ipsi domi, simul ac nummus contemplor in arca."
1 There is anomaly in the present state of affairs, as un-
precedented as dangerous.--(1-1.ear.) The friends, ad-
visers,
and consorts of the Sovereign are hostile to
monarchy, to the rights of property, and to real liberty ;
advocates are they of the Ballot, Free Trade, and Re-
. peal of the Corn-laws s dependent for their very ex-
istence on the democrats and republicans.—(Loud
cheers.) The Prime Minister tells us with rare effron-
tery,.
that It is his duty to get support wherever he can.
Nothing is too low or too foul for his purpose. The
stews of the Tower Hamlets and the begs of Ireland
are ransacked for recruits—(Loud laughter)—and thus
he crawls on, having cast behind him every feeling of
honour and high principle.—(Loud cheers.) But his
ministry, his sheet anchor, is the body of Irish Papists
and istapparees, whom the priests return to the
Nouse of Commons.—(Great applause.) These are the
i men who represent the bigoted savages, hardly more
civilised than the natives of New Zealand, but animated
with a fierce, undying hatred of England.—( Hear.) I
repeat, then, deliberately, that the Papists of Ireland,
priest and layman, peer and peasant, are alike oar ene-
tnies--aliens as they are in blood, language, and reli-
gion.—(Loud cheers.) Their hatred of this country is
RS undisguised as it is inextinguishable, and they have
become only more rampant and hostile by the conces-
sions so unwisely made to them. Yet on these men are
bestowed the countenance and support of the Queen of
Protestant England. But, alas I her Majesty is Queen
only of a faction, and is as much a partisan as the Lord
Chancellor hinaself.—( Hear, hear.) The State, the
Church is in danger—that Church which commands our
filial reverence, which received us into her bosom in
our helpless infancy, which has blessed us in mar-
riage, has soothed our sorrows and our pains, and offers
us in death that consolation which she alone can afford.
—(Loud cheering.) But shall we quail at this im-
peading danger, and meanly submit without a struggle ?
No; we will present the same bold front as did our
fathers of old---(Great applause)—and God defend the
right.—(Reiterated applause.) We will resist to the
death ill government, acid unjustly usurped authority.—
(Loud cheers.) We owe a deep debt of gratitude to
the Churchmen of all Protestant denominations, who
have entered the lists and boldly stood forth to main-
tain our joint rights ; for, believe me, that with the
1 downfal of true religion down goes the monarchy and
1 all the social institutions of the country.—(Loud cries
of " Hear.") Let us then rescue the throne and the
altar from thraldom and desecration, and we shall soon
recover our ancient pre-eminence, and our former leading
among the natisns of the earth.—(lmmense cheering.)
Petitions to the Crown are idle mockery.--(Hear.) Can
we forget the insolent contempt with which the indignant
remonstrance of the nation on the subject of education
without religion, and conveyed to her Majesty by the
House of Lords, was received ?—(Hear, hear.) We
will no longer submit to be governed by a profligate
Court.—(Applause.) It is in your hands, my friends,
it is in the hands of the people of England, that her
destinies are placed for good or for evil. Upon you
then be the responsibility. You have the power, see
that you make a worthy use of it ; but if you will not
be true to yourselves, dare not even again to invoke the
&need name of liberty, and renounce the proud name
of freemen of England.--(Applause.) I will trespass
no longer on your patience but with the fullest confi-
dence in your courage and resolution, and with the cer-
tainty of success in the coining struggle, which cannot
long be dela) ed, and when I shall again offer my self for
your suffrages, I sincerely acknowledge the compli-
ment you have paid me.
1-The Honourable Member resumed his seat amid the
most tremendous and enthusiastic applause.]

An inquest was held on Tuesday at four o'clock,
at the M.,rylebone
vworkhouse, before Mr. %Yakley,
M.P., on the body
evidence
Mary Lewis, aged 89. It ap-
peared from the
inaenedfot a lad named Norton that
deceased resided in po
day night he heard a knocking, d mews,
and that on Sun-
day he went into the
passage
and
saw deceased
standing trembling near her
room door, but unable to speak. Her clothes were all
on fire, but there was a lighted d endle on the table.
Three policemen with difficulty put P tt out
tteh et
the work
earnkd..
deceased died as she was being t
conveyed
house. Verdict—Accidental death.
PAPER-CUTTING MACHINE.--At Loch Paper
Mill, near Linlithgow, an improved cutting tnaoldne has
been at work these four months past,constructed3roand
fitted up by the enterprising genius of Mr. John
engineer, Anderston, Glasgow. It is of a very simple
construction, and will certainly be a great benefit- to
paper manufacturers in cutting the sheets of a size to
the greatest nicety without broke ; pot paper 240
sheets per minute, or 360 reams per twelve hour; ;
other sizes in proportion. It has been examined by
several gentlemen in the paper trade, and considered a
superior invention.
1 The Toulonnais of the 23d inst. urges the es-
tablishment of Toulon as the post for the Levant
• packeteboats. According to the present plan, it takes
fourteen days for the steamers from Constantinople or
Alexandria
to Marseilles ; but if Toulon were the sta-
tion, and an alteration were made in the time of the
boats stopping at the ports they touch at, the letters
and despatches might arrive in eight or nine days.