The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-05 00:00:00

all cases, be members of the national communion. We
might enumerate various other petty surrenders of a
similar kind, and more must inevitably follow ; but
these, as indicating the quarter where such relaxations
have begun, are quite sufficient for our present pur-
pose. The lowered and coaxing tone of Lord John
Russell's reply to the Bishop of Exeter, as well as that
which the Committee addressed to their phantom Cler-
gyman, we shall not now insist upon. In connexion
with these facts, however, let our readers peruse the
following diatribe, which the patentee for Whig inven-
tions palmed upon his customers on Saturday. Ap-
prehensive that the changes contemplated at head-
quarters, no matter whether simulated or substantial,
must bring additional public scandal upon the systematic
vacillations of his employers, he resorts to the subjoined
artifice, for the twofold purpose—first, of iflsinuating that
no such changes either have been, or will be, made by the
Whigs ; and, secondly, of charging the Conservative
party with a flagrant abandonment of their educational
policy :

" The Tories have changed their position on the ques-
tion of national education, abandoning the insoient denial
of aid from the Government for the moral and intellectual
elevation of those masses of the population who do not
join in the worship' of the Church (to quote the Bishop of
Exeter's words), and whose ignorance and social degrada.
tion is fraught not with shame alone, but with danger to
the public We owe the complete evidence of
this change in policy to the Right Rev. Prelate of Exeter,
to whose ability his party have been before indebted, and
perhaps never more than now, in the sagacity which he
displays respecting the utter impolicy---nay, the madness—
of the attempt to perpetuate a spiritual interdict on the
education of those great manufacturing towns which are
inhabited by masses of an almost barbarous population, and
who are unwilling to receive education in schools where the
Catechism and formularies of the Church are used as the
means of religious instruction."
Then, with the view of giving some colourable plausi-
bility to this invention, he desires his dupes to under-
stand, that whereas the Bishop of Exeter acknowledges
the propriety of rendering stated reports to Govern.
ment upon the efficiency or inefficiency of such Church-
schools as may be aided thereby (provided the inspec-
tors be exclusively under the authority of the Church),
the Secretary for the National School Committee in-
sists that the Government shall exercise no inspection
whatever over their schools, even though receiving
Treasury aid ; and after endeavouring to set this forth
as a serious discrepancy between Church authorities, he
affects to consider the Bishop as the more enlightened
and influential representative of Tory policy ; whence he
rushes to his impudent fabrication, that the Tories are
changed. That this dishonest juggler should have told
the whole, would have done too much violence to his
nature : but we shall tell it for him. Between the
Bishop and the Secretary there is not the slightest dif-
ference of opinion upon the subject, only the latter
having been betrayed by the Whigs into a belief that
their intended inspectors should unalterably be inde-
pendent of Church control, boldly and justly protests
against any such Government inspection at all ; whereas
the Learned Prelate, finding that the Whigs had so far
abandoned their original ground as to have conceded
the Churchmanship of the inspectors, not only expresses
no objection to the regular examination of the Church
schools, but even indulges a hope that their religious
instruction will be subjected to that rigid scrutiny
which, could the Secretary be assured it was to be
honestly confided to a member of the Establishment,
would be as little objected to on his part as on that of
the Bishop of Exeter. The only difference between
the two authorities is this : his Lordship, in a
private correspondence with Lord John Russell,
was obliged to avoid the discourtesy of saying that
he disbelieved the Whigs ; while the Secretary, on the
other hand, is considerably less ceremonious. With re-
spect to the " enormous lying" which the foregoing ex-
tract evinces concerning the supposed concession of the
Tories about granting education to the manufacturing
masses who do not join in the established worship, we
have only to observe that the Tories, under Lord Liver-
pool's Government, were the first to award a Parlia-
mentary grant for the education of those very masses ;
that both Sir Robert Peel and the Bishop of London,
who may be supposed to know something of Tory senti-
ment, have expressly recorded their approbation of that
grant being continued, and, if necessary, extended, and
that in no respect whatever have the Tories changed their
opinions upon this or upon any other branch of the ques-
tion. Indeed, why should they do so ? The Whigs, to
be sure, have a very intelligent reason for making
changes—because they cannot work their system with-
out them. But the Tories, so far from having any induce-
ment to lower or abandon their demands, are now in a
better condition than ever to enforce or even to ex-
tend tam. The original majority. of Two, whereby the
Goverment scheme was sanctioned (comprising Mr.
Gibson, of Ipswich, and Mr. Rice, of Cambridge) has
since been more than liquidated by the election of Sir
Thomas Cochrane and Mr. Manners Sutton. Then,
only look at the recent registrations in England and
Scotland. Mark withal the Conservative character of
the current municipal elections. See the people rallying
round the Church in every province of the kingdom.
Talk, indeed, of the Tories changing their ground!
The Whigs, we trow, have need to change their jour-
neymen. Once for all, we tell this loose deputy of
theirs, that their future shutilings upon the education
question will afford sharper occupation to his unprin-
cipled pen than even those which have already fatigued
his frailty.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)

Who is Mr. Bradshaw ?—This is a question which
is in every body's mouth. Had the question been put
to us eight days ago we must admit we could not have
answered it. His treasonable speech at Canterbury
has, however, rescued him from the obscurity in which
he had vegetated from his infancy upwards. Will it be
believed that this traducer of his Sovereign, though his
name 'never before greeted the public ear, nor met the
public eye, has been for some time the Member for
Canterbury, and in that capacity has, for several Ses-
sions, taken his nightly seat in the House of Commons ?
It will be asked why, when for seven months in the
year he has had an opportunity every five nights out of
seven to insult and slander her Majesty in the House of
Commons,he should have maintained an unbroken silence
in his legislative capacity, and then have burst forth so
suddenly as an orator, and bawled so lustily in the
head inn of Canterbury ? The solution of the problem
we take to be this,—that not possessing a particle of
talent whereby he could emerge from the utter obscurity
to which we have referred, he determined on purchasing
notoriety at any price ; and as he knew of no means
which promised to answer his purpose so effectually as
indecently assailing the character of the Queen, both
in her private and public capacity, he determined on
making the disgraceful exhibition with which he elec-
trified the Tory parsons and Tory gentlemen of Can-
terbury on Friday week. The event has justified his
expectations in so far as the mere matter of notoriety
is eoncerned. He has had that commodity to his heart's
content ; he has been talked of, and more written about,
for the last week, than any other man of the present
day. If this be not notoriety, we should like to know
what is ? So eminently successful, indeed, has Mr.
Bradshaw's expedient for obtaining notoriety proved,
that a host of other Conservatives are already having re-
course to it. There seems to be a regular competition
among them as to who shall most grossly insult their
Sovereign—not merely in her monarchical capacity,
but in her capacity as a, private individual ; aye, and
more unmanly still—as a female, and an unmarried
woman too. That there should he persons, moving in
a respectable sphere of society, and wearing decent coats
on their backs, who could be so lost to all sense of de-
cency and self-respect as thus to libel a youthful Queen,
may well excite our surprise and indignation ; but that
such persons should not only be heard by large promis-
cuous assemblages of individuals, calling themselves gen-
tlemen, without any manifestation of dissent, but should
be greeted ;with " tremendous cheers," " deafening ap-
plause," and " loud and long continued plaudits," is a fact
which ought to make us blush and hang our heads to
think that we are Englishmen. And }et these same
Tories used to represent themselves as the only loyal
persons in the land. But a few years have elapsed since
they deafened the ears of the nation with their protes-
tations of readiness to sacrifice their "lives and for-
tunes," in the ardour of their attachment to their Sove-
reign. So profuse, indeed, were these very persons in
their professions of loyalty, that they used to be
nicknamed " the life and fortune men." How great
the change which their views and feelings have, in
this respect, undergone of late ! What can be the
cause of so " radical" a revolution ? Is it that the
present Sovereign is less worthy of their regards than
the Sovereign that preceded her? They can scarcely
expect to deceive the public by any such representa-
tions, inasmuch as they have not practised any such de-
ception on themselves. They know, in their hearts, that
a Monarch more worthy of their homage never sat on
the English throne. The secret of their rank disloyalty
is to be found in the fact that she not only. professes,
but actually entertains liberal principles, and is prepared
to make personal sacrifices for their maintenance. Her
memorable and spirited resistance to the efforts made
by Sir Robert Peel to thrust a Tory Ministry on the
country, will never be fargottdp or forgiven by the Con-
servative faction. But the
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their hate to the Queen,
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have the effect of rallying all the better portion of her
subjects more closely around her throne. We see a
cheering earnest of this in the meeting appointed to
take place at Canterbury to-day, in order to express the
opinion of the inhabitants respecting the insult offered to
her Majesty last week, by the Tory parsons and Tory
gentry of Kent. To the speeches at this meeting we
will probably have occasion to refer to-morrow.
(From the Morning Post.)