The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-02 00:00:00

r principles of the mind, and the Strongest feelings of the
heart, are intensely interested. Such a speech as that
of Mr. Bradshaw no merely prudent man could admire,
and it is one which a very catt:ous man would be apt
to condemn. We sheedd be very sorry that any ono in.
the position of tht avowed and, as it were. responsible
leader of the Conservative party should so expresshim-
self; but still we account it to be of great practical
value that the actuale feelings of ardent Protestanism
upon the conduct of the Government should find a com-
petent mouthpiece. They who lead the Conservative
party have other matters to take care of, as well as the
vindication of insulted and persecuted Protestaatism.
Monstrous as that offence is, it cattnot be the exclusive
consideration. It is meet, therefore, that it should lie
asserted by those who can throw their whole heart and
mind into it, and who can do so unencumbered by diffi-
culties arising from habits of government, and liability
to be clothed with official restrictions and responsibili-
ties. There are many important puts to be performed
in the business of a great party besides the leadership
in chief—many interests connected with the party
which are not exactly of the party, and yet of the
most vital importance to its power, and perhaps its
very existence. The Conservative political party, and
the Protestant politico-religious party, are not one and
the same thing, though Heaven forbid that they should
ever be otherwise than closely united by the bonds of
mutual sympathy, and by a personnel common to both.
Now, the offence to the Protestantism of the land on
the part of the present Government is so rank, so
g oss, so intolerably injurious, that for ourselves we can
scarcely conceive any language too indignant for remon-
strance against it. Though the language of Mr. Brad-
shaw was rather strong, when viewed as the language of
a Conservative politician, and when the view is carried
no further than this, it cannot be said to go beyond what
is natural and just (though it does go very far) as an
expression of the sense which Protestants have of the
wrongs that have been done against them, and of the
personal misconduct of the wrong-doers. We hope that,
through the attention which the Ministerial press has
been so obliging as to direct it, its sentiment will be
carried from company to company, and from house to
house, throughout the length and breadth of the land,
until men's hearts burn within them at the recollection
of the circumstances upon which it dwells. We hope
the time will come—nay, that it is now at hand—when
the voice of this Protestant nation shall arise as the
voice of one man, demanding, in a tone that must not
be unheard or unheeded, that the conduct of the Go-
vernment shail be changed—that Romanist ascendancy
shall be no longer suffered to prevail in the councils of
the British Monarchy. Until that be accomplished, we
trust that the flame raised by the speech of Mr. Brad-
shaw will spread and increase, consuming all obstruction
that may be placed in its way, and scorching the faces
of the British Ministers who traitorously truckle to a
Papist influence, for the sake of tile personal advantages
of place, or for the sake of pleasing one whom they
ought to advise.

FROM TILE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
Were't not for laughing, we could pity the unfortu-
nate Opposition. It is always at some dreary moment,
when they do not know what to be at next, that their
hearts are suddenly grieved by some Ministerial and
national triumph. The tactic some of their organs
observe is to say as little as they can about it ; that
is the Times' plan—to notice none whom it can-
not calumniate. But the Standard has more frank,
and, so to speak, feminine impotence in its animosities—
" a woman must talk of what runs in her head"—and
so must the Standard. The success of Lord Auck-
land, and the trophies of Sir John Keane, deprive it
of sleep. " Of all the Ministers," laments the Stan-
dard, " that have ever swayed the destinies of Great
Britain, the Incapables have decidedly proved them-
selves the luckiest. Their good fortune, indeed, in every-
thing but good government, appears to be invincible." It
is constrained to confess that the triumphant termination
of the Cabool expedition is a fitting theme of congratu-
lation for the country, and of felicitation for Ministers ;
and that " the result will consolidate and extend the in-
fluence of England in every part of Asia, and present an
immediate check to the insidious designs of Russia—in
that quarter." It concludes by saying, that " whilst the
country has good cause for congratulating itself on the re-
sult, Ministers are only entitled to felicitate themselves
on the continuance of their accustomed good luck !" " In-
vincible good fortune," and " accustomed good luck,"
are not commonly the attendants on incapability in
counsel and conduct. When plans devised with bold-
ness, followed up with vigour, are crowned with suc-
cess, the publie are apt to see in the issue something
more than a mere run of luck. " Ces hazards ne sont
que pour ceu.r qui joucnt bien"—such a series of lucky
hits is only for good players. If the Whig Governor-
General had been guided by Tory counsels, he would
have seen a lion in the path, where he only saw only
surmountable obstacles. Of what use would his Whig
luck have been to his country, if he had not tried it ?
(From the Courier.)
It cannot be denied that the trade in opium has been
prohibited from time to time by the Chinese Govern-
ment, and the decrees announced with all due solemnity
in the Imperial Gazette of Pekin ; but merchants might
well be justified in their disregard of enactments so
promulgated, when they were treated by the highest
executive authorities of China themselves as so much
waste paper. On this head the formal declaration of
the British Superintendent himself may be accepted as
evidence conclusive, " that the traffic in opium has been
chiefly encouraged and protected by the highest officers
in the empire, and that no portion of the foreign trade to
China has paid its fees to the officers with so much regu-
larity as this of opium." The singularity of the formal is-
sue of decrees, of which the strict execution was either not
contemplated, or the evasion of which was intended to be
connived at, has not been confined to the Celestial Em-
pire ; it is even yet a matter of occurrence as periodical
in Spain as the publication of the Gazette at Madrid
in which they figure. The obedience is carried no
further than the most obsequious assurances thereof by
the provincial Governor or Intendant by return of post.
Nor, as merchants are well aware, and who found
their calculations accardingly, where the executive
owers of G wernment are wielded with a higher
hand, are examples wanting, in which prohibitions
the most rigorous in terms have, in execution, re-
ceived essential modifications by the mitigation of
penalties, by evasions known and winked at, or by the
suspension and practical abrogation of the law altoge-
ther, through trading licenses openly granted. The
Berlin and Mitan decrees, stringent and unsparing in
phrase, were, it is well known, successfully evaded by
the known connivance of the Governments of the im-
porting countries. Thus, when the highest authorities
in the Chinese Empire did not scruple to treat the de-
crees of their Government as empty and of 't none effect,"
the mercantile communities of India and Canton were
warranted in considering them as mere formal procla-
mations, issued for the purpose of complying with some
internal regulation of etiquette, but without being in•
tended really to put a stop to trade which the admini-
strative functionaries of Canton legitimised by their
open connivance and encouragement. Admitting, how-
ever, the trade in opium to have been essentially con-
traband, and in contravention of strict law, no justifica-
tion could be established for the glaring infraction of all
law, civil and international, to which the Imperial Com-
missioner Lin resorted to put it down.
(From the Standard.)
The crime of the Whig-Radicals, and in an emi-
nent degree the crime of the Queen's present Minis-
ters, is, that from the day of their accession to office,
and indeed long before it, as Members of the Oppo-
sition, they have laboured to bring law and orde,r
into contempt, by calumniating as " antiquated, '
" bigotted," " unjust," " favourable to corrup-
tion," &c., all the established fundamental laws of the
einpire ; by teaching that these laws must be surren-
dered to a certain amount of threatened violence ;
and to effect their selfish objects, countenancing,
promoting, and even organising the violence to
which, as they contended, submission must he
made. When once the people are told that
the momentary caprice of the numerical majority
must be obeyed—when the populace are encou-
raged to form lawless associations like the political unions,
with the avowed purpose of intimidating the Legislature—
when armies are permitted to be embodied,as at Birming-
ham in 1831, to compel by violence a change in the consti-
tution—when threats of " physical force" are canvassed for
by the Secretaries of the Treasury—when associations
to resist the law (the anti-tithe association) are taken
into favour by the executive, the members of those
associations flattered and promoted—when these
things are done, the moral reign of law and order
is at an end, and every heated projector is invited
to produce his own scheme of improvement, and
to carry it into effect if he can par voie de fait.
It is nothing to say that one scheme may justify a
violation of the law which must not be permitted to
another. To allow of such distinctions is to make a
beginning of anarchy. If it was right to prepare and
threaten rebellion, to destroy the oil constitution of
Parliament, and to extinguish tithes, it must be equally
right to threaten and prepare rebellion, for the attain.
ment of universal suffrage, and for the abolition of the I
New Poor-law.

It is rumoured that the Marquis of Kildare wil
be a candidate for the representation of the county
whence he derives his title at the next election. Tile
Tories at the late registry made no objections to the te-
nants of his noble father, the Duke of Leinster.
CITY REFORNI.—When the numbers which
showed that the Bill was lost was declared in the Court,
Mr. Wheeler gave notice of a motion to consider a re-
solution, " that it is expedient that the members of
Common Council from the several wards should be re-
duced to such a number as will be more in proportion
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immense. The experiment will, it is believed, be tried
on the next Court day.