The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-12 00:00:00

TORYISM AND POPERY.

King George 111. lived in a time when there was
real and essential danger to our English liberties and
our Protestant church, from a Papist Pretender to the
Crown and a Tory faction within the kingdom. Under
these circumstances George 111. was justified in going
out of his way to exalt Protestantism and trample on
Popery, in a manner which would be quite absurd now
that the Pretender is no more and the Tories are be-
come so loyal.

Even Perceval and Eldon, the two most bigotted and
harrow-minded men who ever held power in this king-
dom, could see that the precedent of George lll.'s
speech was not fit to be followed under ordinary circum-
stances. Since that time many royal marriages have been
announced frorr. the throne in speeches which Perceval
wrote and Eldon approved, yet not one of then•
spe, ches state thai the person with whom the English
prince or princess is about to marry is a Protestant. Th.
Duchess of Cumberland, the Duchess of Cambridge, the
mother of our Queen, were all introduced into our
Royal Family without being specially announced a-
Protestant—nay, the trebly true-blue Protestant
Queen Adelaide herself, condescended to come over
to be married without having her Protestantism
vouched for beforehand. All modern precedent is
against the insertion of any declaration of the Pro
testantism of foreign princes or princesses about to b
made members of our Royal Family.
There would have been no more propriety in the
Queen telling her Privy Council that her husband was
not a Papist, than in her telling them that her husband
was not a duchess or a princess—it is just as impossibl,
for her to marry a Papist as it is for her to marry Queen
Adelaide. There would have been no more propriety
in her telling her Council this well-known fact, that.
there would be in her calling out of her carriage, as sh.
goes along the street, " Good people I am a Protestant!'
Why do not the Tories make her do this—there is a
precedent for it. The Tories of Queen Anne's reign
mobbed her and stopped her chariot, crying" God bless
your Majesty, we hope your are for Dr Sacheve-
rell and the Church ?" We dare say that for double pa)
the Tory sifUeurs who are kept to hiss the Ministry
would stop the Royal carriage, and make the Queen
hurrah for one of the Sacheverells of our day, " Dr.
Pnillpotts and the Church," or " Dr. Russell and Oh'
Church."

The law has pointed out a much better security. for
the Protestantism of the consort of our Queen thaa,tha,
which these knavish bigots are bawling for. Befoie the '
marriage, Prince Albert will be naturalized liy Act" of''
Par;iament, and will take the oaths of allegiance -and
al,juration, he will publicly receive the sacrament ac
cording to the ritual of the Church of England, and he
will be married by the Archbishop of Canterbury. We
look upon these proofs as something better than a de-
claration by a second person, who might be deceived
But no ; this is only worshipping in the forms of hi
own Church. In all this there is no insult to the religion
of others. The Tories are not satisfied, and " the
Church is in danger."
Those who really love the Church should put a stop
to this prostitution of her name. This is not the way
to attract reverence to her. The man who is per-
petually sending for the fire engines and calling out the
soldiers, because he smells a smell of fire in his house,
or because his kitchen flue is burning, is very likely to
see his house blaze out some night, and become a ruin,
before he can convince a single engine-keeper that it is
really on fire.
Wo are told that Lord Melbourne especially omitted
all allusion to Protestantism in the Queen's address,
and that he did so after a debate upon the sub-
ject. Those who say this cannot possibly know whether
he did or not, but if he did, they ought to be very thank-
ful to him, for he, no doubt, did so for the same reason
that Alcibiades cut off his dog's tail—in order to give
Ili in some thing to chatter about.—Atlas.

The Newark Gazette, of last Tuesday, says that
the success of the Solicitor• General is certain. The
following dialogue is also given in the same paper.
Mr. Tbesiger—l call to solicit your vote. Voter—l
shall not vote at all. Mr. Hodgkinson—Not vote
you must vote. Voter—l am not compelled to vote.
Mr. Handley does not compel me. Mr. Hodgkinson—
Nonsense ; you must vote. Voter—Well, if I must, I
supiwose I must. Mr. Thesiger—But what am Ito un-
derstand by that ? Voter—Why, that I must if I
must; and this is one of your free-will offerings.

The Animal's Friend Society, last week, caused
William Sault and Alfred Row, to his fined .ss. each,
by Mr. Traill, for great cruelty to a horse. The
Society also caused three gentlemen to be fined 365. for
having set a dog on a cat, which killed it.
MANCHESTER.—Since our last, in which we
n tined the operations of the first two days of the four-
peony postage, it has been found to work pretty much
the same results. No minute account has been kept of
the number of letters ; but the bags from all the great
roads are found to be much more bulky than before, and
to contain a much larger quantity of letters We be-
!!eve this is particularly the case in reference to Ire-
nd, to London, and to the York mails. But, as else-
where, it is found that the amount of postage is smaller
Than b..fore, the deficiency being largest in the long dis•
tances. as London and the south of England, whence
there must be three letters now for one under the late
system, to make the same amount of postage ; and
Ireland, too, letters for many parts of which were sub-
ject to a postage of Is. 3d. or Is. 4d., so that there
should be five letters now for one, in order to raise the
same sum in gross postage.—Manchester Guardian.

EDUCATION.—The French are fond of reading
well as of talking. You may constantly see girls
tending An apple-stall in the coldest day in winter, and
reading Voltaire or Racine. Such a thing was never
known in London as a barrow-woman reading Shak-
speare. Yet we talk of our wide-spread civilisation
a.(l ample provision for the education of the poor.—
Hazlitt.

The O'Connell tribute was collected throughout
Ireland on Sunday last. It is supposed, and the Dub
lin returns, as far as .hey have been made out, corrobo-
rate this belief, that the amount will be greater this
year than it was last. The Dublin collection then was
1,4001. ; it is calculated this year at 1,600/.

EXTRAORDINARY FOX HUNT.—Wednesday
last was the day appointed for the annual hunt dinner
given by Mr. Carruthers, of Stanwix, and it had been
announced that a bag fox should be turned out on the
occasion, in consequence of which a large company
assembled at the inn in the morning. They were, how-
,•ver, destined to be disappointed. The fnx was being
earried to the rendezvous by a boy, who walked about
tarty yards bnhind Cowan, the huntsman, and his dogs,
but when at Newtown reynard bit his bearer's back, in
consequence of which the boy immediately dropped the
bag, and the fox made his escape. Cowae immediately
aid the dogs on the scent, and followed on foot, accom-
ini,.d by some other p, d”strians and one or two horse-
men. After a severe run, with many doubles, the fox
taken alive at Parton in a singular manner. Some
labourers, at work in a field, hearing the cry of the
hounds approaching, looked round and saw the fox stuck
fast in a hedge, exhausted and unable to move. They
'Lagged him, and kept the hounds at bay until Cowan
came. The fox will be turned out at Stanwix on Tues-
day next. In the evening a numerous party assembled
at Mr. Carruthers, and partook of an excellent dinner
and capital wine.—Carlisle Patriot.

The deer park at Taymouth Castle contains
seven hundred fallow deer, nearly a hundred red deer,
some fine specimens of the black deer, and you can
move in no direction without starting the light-footed
roe ; and in a small paddock to the east of the deer
park are to be seen some fine specimens of the moose
deer, which are so tame that they will come up and
fawn on you. There are also some wild Indian buffaloes,
sent to this country a few months ago by Sir W. D.
Stewart, Bart., of Murthly Castle and Grant&ly, from
the rocky mountains of the New World.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—It is a melancholy
thing to have to state, that, at this moment there are
nearly two hundred paupers in the Lancaster parish
workhouse, a greater number, by far, than has been in
since 1817, just after the conclusion of the war, there
were exactly two hundred then within its walls. That
period, like the present, was a season of great distress.
For the regular labourer there was no employment,
whilst the army being disbanded, and the militia disem-
bodied, made matters still worse, for an increased coat-
petition ensued, for that for which there was no supply.
The workhouse has been enlarged, and will accommo-
d .re, conveniently, about two hundred and thirty in
tes.—Alanchester Guru dian.

LA ,t INTELLIGF,NCE.

NCELLOR' S COURT, DEC 11.
Kt I.LY V HOOPI 11 -THE POST-OFEICL DIRECTORY

Mr. K. BRUCE ,pplit.d ex-parte at ibe rising of the
Court fOr A ittio,-,eti,a, to restr:tio the netendant
tro,o tvaler the following
cireunts,ane, ( Mr. Koliy) was, by as-
proprietor of the " Post-cffice Directory,"
which sold for 9s. and the defendant. was the publisher
of a penny publicatiop, entitled the " Post-office Alma-
neck." Within the last week the plaintiff had disco-
wred that the defendant in his publication had pirated
several parts of the plaintiff's work, and to restrain him
trout publishing his almanack with the pirated parts,
was the object of the present appleation.
His HONOUR granted the injunction.