The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-05 00:00:00

tion short of the establishment of the " voluntary
principle" throughout Ireland—first, however, robbing
the Protestant Church of her tithe, and turning it
over to the Popish priesthood, for the pretended edu-
cation of Roman Catholic children, but in truth and
reality for whatever purposes, be they the most selfish,
profligate, and pernicious in the world, that the said
priests may themselves approve of. " The people of
Ireland," subjoins this audacious mendicant, " the
people of Ireland (1) join me in this contemp-
tuous disclaimer of longer supporting out of our
means that (Protestant established) Church," and
" so long as any pecuniary ascendancy, so long as
any power remains to a Protestant minister, to put his
hands into the pockets of the Catholics, so long dis-
sension, dissatisfaction, and turmoil will reign para-
mount in Ireland I" Well, my Whig Lords and gen-
tlemen, what say you to this ? Will you dare to put
another insult upon us Protestants, by bolstering up
your appropriation clause as a means of " paczfifing
Ireland ? But we are utterly nauseated by such vile
chicanery, and it is not the West Kent electors only,
but, if we mistake not, all Protestant Britain, that will
share our resentment and disgust. Our columns this
day contain a cheering proof of the correctness of our
opinion. The animated proceedings of the Conserva-
tive Association in South Derbyshire will stimulate
even the apathetic, if there be any such ; but still we
cry—let our friends in Kent and everywhere be vigi-
lant, active, decided, and prepared.—Times.
The signal defeat of the Tory faction in the contest
for the county of Longford, is not well calculated to
whet the appetite of the Conservatives of Glasgow at
the feed about to take place in that city. That de-
feat has taken place at a most awkward time in more
respects than one for the orators who may intend to
exhibit at the Glasgow banquet ; for, in addition to
depriving them of their appetite on the occasion, it
will play sad havoc with some of their meditated
speeches. There can be no question that many of the
intended spouters, severally dreaming, of course, of
earning for themselves an oratorical reputation, second
only to that of Demosthenes himself, have already
prepared their orations ; and there can he equally little
doubt that, according to the approved fashion at all the
late Conservative feeds, one of the leading topics in
those orations was a Tory re-action. Alas ! the old
story of re-action will not do just now. The issue of
the Longford contest will put a complete extinguisher
on all the nonsense on that head for at least some
weeks to come. Those, consequently, who had con-
structed their harangues on the re-action principle,
must task whatever little ingenuity they possess to dis-
cover some other materials wherewith to make an ora-
tion. It is amusing to see how the Tory journals of
London flounder in their attempts to account for the
" unfortunate issue "of the Longford contest. The
Thunderer ascribes it all to the priests, and denounces
them accordingly. They are a very singular set of
persons, these same priests. They are very trouble-
some personages to the Tories, for somehow or other
they always contrive to frustrate all their stratagems,
and to defeat all their projects. At any rate the Con-
servative journals always attribute the reverses of their
faction to priestly interference and priestly influence.
It is, of course, highly improper, and is a most un-
sanctified exhibition, for Catholic priests to express
their attachment to liberal principles ; but not a word
of indignation has the Thunderer, or any of its Con-
servative contemporaries, to expend on another class
of priests—the priests of the Established Church, who
are, almost to a man, Tories of the first-water, and
who are everlastingly labouring with a zeal, which it
were well if they exhibited in their efforts to convert
sinners, to fan the flames of Orangeism in Ireland.
But the snow, has, according to others of the Conser-
vative journals, entered into a league with the Ro-
man Catholic priests to defeat the Tory candidate. The
snow, it seems, is an inveterate enemy of Toryism.
We all remember the unmannerly interruption is offered
a year or two ago to a score or so of Conservative
Members, when on their way from the country to vote
on an important question in Parliament. We were
apprehensive it. might put an interdict on the visit of
Sir Robert Peel to Glasgow, but just now it seems
inclined to let the Right Hon. Baronet and the west
of Scotland Conservatives have their own way of it.
Who knows but this may be from a certain presenti-
ment, that they will make such a ridiculous exhibition
of themselves on the occasion as will prove of far
greater service to the Reform cause than if it had
prevented Sir Robert from stirring a foot from home.
The Reformers are under peculiar obligations to Mr.
Snow—he is a most efficient ally in their righteous
cause, which equally shows his good sense and his
desire to act according to the convictions of justice.
But jocularity aside, the result of the Longford elec-
tion has quite confounded the Tories. They never
dreamt of even the possibility of defeat. They made
as sure of the return of their candidate as they did of
the day of election. We hope they will learn wisdom
from it, and be less sanguine in future as to the
triumphs of their cause. They may rest assured that
the Longford affair is only the beginning of their re-
verses.—Morning Advertiser.
A great deal of whispering and some open speaking
are going on, in various quarters, upon the subject of
a new alliance, or union, or something of that kind,
between the Ministerial party, and those who call
themselves, by way of eminence, " the Philosophical
Radicals." So far as we can make out the meaning
of the rather obscure and verbose sayings and writings
on this subject, which have come within our reach. it
amounts to this—that the Ministers are to become ac-
tively and desperately radical, instead of being slug-
gishly and shufilingly radical ; and in return for this,
they are to receive the support of all the Philosophical
Republicans, Free-thinkers, and Infidels in the coun-
try. Whether any such compact as this have been
made, expressly or impliedly, it is, of course, not in
our power to say ; but it seems to be relied upon, in
ome quarters of extreme Radicalism, and the in-
creased violence and indecorum of some Ministerial
organs, lead to a belief that they have got a hint
to go even further than they were wont. We art,
however, very reluctant to place confidence in what
we have heard upon this matter. There are some
Ministerial prints which exult in what ought to be their
shame, and are, perhaps, more eager than authentic
in their proclamation that the policy of which they
approve has been 'adopted. We are loath to believe,
even of the present Ministry, anything so bad as that
which some of their panegyrists put forth in their
praise. For to wSat does this asserted new alliance
come ? Is it not as much as to say that the Ministers
of the Crown will purchase a continuance of office by
exhibiting a great activity to eat their own words, and
to push forward certain projects, which hitherto they
have condemned as monstrous, or ridiculed as absurd ?
This it must be ; for the quarrel of the violent Radicals
with the Ministers was upon this very ground ; and if
the former
.have prevailed, without turning out the
Ministry, it can only be by procuring pledges to such
a revolting change as that we have described. Now
if that should happen, it will be quite apparent to all
men of common sense and ordinary observation that,
in a political sense, these Ministers must be the very
basest and most shameless that ever lived upon the face
of the earth. There can be no motive to such a thing
but the inordinate love of official pay and official
power ; and if to make even slight deviations from an
independent course, upon such a motive, be disgraceful,
how heinously wrong must it not be, for such an object
as this, to turn round and assault the Throne, upon the
steps of which they may be said to stand, and, in doing
so, to join with avowed and notorious Republicans,
Free-thinkers and Infidels ? There may be many
who will look on at these things and pretend that they
see nothing wicked or vile in such conduct ; but it can
only be pretence. Every one who acknowledges the
truth—supposing he be not mad, or so prejudiced that
in what concerns politics he is the same as if he were
mad—must say that Ministers, if they become the
active agents of the extreme Radicals, are, in a degree
hitherto unparalleled, destitute of honesty and of shame.
It should tver be borne in mind that the King's Mi-
nisters—that is to say, the men specially intrusted by
the King with the guardianship of the various institu-
tions whereof the Monarchy is the head, cannot in com-
mon sense and fairness be allowed the same latitude,
with respect to the opinions and measures they advocate
in Parliament, as other men are allowed. Of course, we
do not mean to say that their thoughts or actions as
men are to be held in or fettered, but wo mean this—

that if their minds teach them that it is a good thing to
promote the cause of Republicanism, and to join the
band who howl for the destruction of the Church,
they ought not to continue in the situation of Minis-
ters of the Crown. It may be said that no man can
help the convictions of his mind ; but surely it will
not be said that a man cannot help continuing to be a
servant of the Crown, which he is labouring to de-
grade, or of the Head of the Church, the foundation
of which he is assisting others to undermine. The
obscurity of vision which afflicts Roman Catholic
Members of Parliament, so that they can never make
out the plain import of the oath which they take on
entering the House of Commons may, perhaps, be
attributed to some drug administered to them in the
Confessional—but, as yet, we have no Ministers for
whom this excuse can be offered ; and bad as it is, it
is better than none at all. If Ministers do become
extreme Radicals, as it is said they will, there can be
no excuse—the thing may be accounted for, but it will
be impossible to account for such conduct, without
pronouncing an accusation of the most enormous per-
, fidy that ever was laid to the charge of public men.—
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Mornina Herald.
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