The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-03 00:00:00

cism, and so promote civilization, which we are also
repeatedly told can only be promoted according to
the laws of our Creator. This is a homage to
genuine Toryism. Now follows a homage to the
principle of the Church. The Reviewer borrows
from Dr. B. HAMILTON an account of the ex-
penses of several Hindoo families, and amongst
others of the expenses of a labourer, in which are
included two rupees per year for guru, or holidays,
and then he remarks—" There is no religious esta-
blishment in India, and here we see how much the
ryot's condition is deteriorated by being under the
voluntary system, since the common labcurer has
to pay 9 per cent. of his annual expenditure of two
guineas either to his guru or in festival charges."
This is holding a candle to the devil; fur the gist of all
the Reviewer's remarks is, that there is no voluntary
system in India, that everthing is fixed and regu-
lated, that every man's condition, and consequently

his expenditure, is prescribed to him ; but the Re

viewer wanted to conciliate his friends, and so he

set down the guru to the voluntary system,

and tidkles the parsons by an insinua-
tion that their regular stated princely incomes
do not cut so deeply into the purses of the

labourers as what can be coaxed out of them by

voluntary system. The fallacy of the statement
.s on a par with its obvious hypocrisy. On the

Reviewer's own principles religion should be as
free as labour, as locomotion, and as moral pro-

gression ; but be wanted a little Tory daubing for

his Radicalism, and so he dirtied it with- this

erroneous fling at the voluntary System.

As the Tories are making just now great claims
on public admiration, and holding themselves up
as the only men that can save the State, will they
allow us to ask them w hat during their long tenure
of office they did for the country ? They brought
the war we admit to a succes3ful termination, but
it would have been wiser not to have engaged in
it. They are like the Irish pilot, who run a ship

upon a rock just to find out where it was—and
then boasted of his skill, because the ship, though
half destroyed, did not founder. We admit that
in engaging in that war to put down, liberty abroad
they had the nation with them. In truth these

boasters and despisers of public opinion merely fol-
lowed the worst passions of the rabble, and the
darkest prejudices of the least instructed, of which
the ignorant and the mob are now ashamed. The
Tories, however, cherishing all things evil, still
cling to the opinions of 1793, and nourish a politi-
cal hatred of France, which sprung from the rabble
of that day. At the end of the war what did the
Tories ? They found the State sinking under a load
of debt, and they added thereto the Corn-laws.
They are a genuine Tory legacy. The condition of
the labourer, by their excessive taxes, high prices,
and corrupted Poor-laws, was greatly deteriorated,
and they ground him to the earth, and there kept
him, by limiting his-supply of food. They altered
the currency in the war, and they altered it in the
peace, producing all those changes in property,
which ADAM SMITH has described as worse than
pestilence or famine. At the end of fifteen years
of uninterrupted tranquillity, during which society
had made great progress, what had they done ? Not
reformed a •single institution, except when they
were driven so to do by the Opposition ; and the
result was, that, about 1830, the discrepancy be-
tween society and the laws had grown so vast that
they could not go on together, and the Tories were
kicked out, as the only means to prevent a Re-
volution. What have they done since they were
out of office ? Thwarted- and opposed almost
every measure of improvement proposed by their
opponents, while they originated none of their
own, till the discrepancy between the state of the
laws and the state of society has again become
alarming, and again almost threatens disturbance.
They left legislation prodigiously in arrear when
they went out of office, and ever since they have
exerted themselves to keep it back, till it has be-
come impossible for the House of Commons to get
through the immense mass of business which has
now to be transacted.

What provision did the Tories make for our
security against foreign foes ? They left us the
unsettled dispute with the United States. The
boundary question is one of their neglected duties.
But the relation with foreign countries are of
less importance in out estimation, than our
means of self defence. What did the Tories
do for the Navy ? The Times told the public
yesterday morning that it was not so much stores
and ships that were wanted, as men and officers; and
what means did the Tories adopt, during the fifteen
years' peace that they were in office, to get men for
the Navy, or to make the Navy.acceptable to the
seamen ? None, tho Ugh the subject was over and
over again forced on their attention. The great
object is to get plenty of blue-jackets in our
ships, so as to keep them at all times fully manned
and ready for war. The Tories persisted, in spite
of common sense and justice, in maintaining im-
pressment, even when it was not in use, and so
continue the Navy the terror, instead of making it
the delight of the seamen. We do not sav that
the Whigs have on this point done better than the
Tories, but they may find an excuse for their neg-
gligence in the multitude of reforms which ;he bi-
gotted attachment of the Tories to abuses left to
them, and which they were, as a matter of necessity,
compelled to accomplish. At present, the Tory
Journals tell us that these mischievous Tories are
soon to return to office. They will enter probably
if they return, which we disbelieve, with some pro-
mises of petty amendments—some professiDns of
liberality—to repeat over again their stead‘,, at-
tachment to abuses, their denial of Reform, their
resistance to political improvements, their adherence
to their own narrow bigotted idea of society, till they
should be again kicked out to prevent another
threatened revolution. The principles of Toryism
are hostile to social progress ; and they cannot be
acted on without causing a revolution, or reducing
society to a stationary condition. The very name
of Conservative is significant of mischief. It im-
plies a determination to hold fast by the errors of
the past, and, if made the rule of the Government,
will very speedily hurry it to•ruin.

your friends the Clergy will say to you for describ-
ing man as fitted for a higher condition than that
of a savage by nature, and as living under the
influence of perfectly natural laws, and the in-
fluence of which institutions, including Churches
amongst the number, only weaken, impede, and
pervert, we know• not ; but we are glad to find in you
an auxiliary, though perhaps a hidden or an una
fil-
ling one of the cause of Radicahstn and of progress
What the Tories, too, will say to its own Journal
thus flinging its weight into the downward
scale we know not ; but to find these abstract
Radical truths taught in a Tory Journal is one
of the signs of the times which statesmen should
not omit to notice. The article, of the Quarterly
Review, whatever might have been the intention
in writing it, will furnish a whole armoury of weapons
for the Chartists to fight the Tories.
The fringe or frippery by which the cunning
scribe hopes to make his Radicalism pass for
Toryism, is to be found in such passages as these:—
" We are paying at present the penalty of having
violated the great law of social order. We have let
loose ignorance, conceit, and fanaticism, to a peri-
lous extent." Here we are led to believe that the sta-
tutes, which we are told so repeatedly do not frame
society, might bind ignorance, conceit, and fana