The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TtIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We have reason to believe that the following is a correct
analysis of the House with reference to the dirision of
Thursday morning :
For the resolution
Tellers.

Against tie resolution
Tellers
Pairs

.... 273

.••. 40

315
250

40

Absent, generally acting with Government 2B
Absent 'Furies lB
Doubtful

Speaker

SUMMARY.

For tbe resolution
Against
Absent

:315
292
50

Speaker
The analysis differs slightly from the lists given in another
part of this paper ; but we are unable at present to state
wherein consists the error, which is trifling. It thus appears
that the number of absentees on the side of the Government
was much larger than on the side of the Tories ; and. we can
only regret that in a division of such importance. seven Irish
Members should have been absent without pe:trs, who might
have voted, and probably would have done so, had it been
a question which immedisaely affected Irish interests ;
whilst on the Tory side but one was absent without a
pair, viz., Mr. D. Ker. The attendance of the Tories
on the present occasion has been most exemplary, as out of
all the Members who supported that party, but eight were
absent who could by p ossibility have attended ; and cf these
it is generally understood that two absented themselves
on purpose, being inclined to support the resolution,
though they prefrared adhering to their party to
giving expression to their real opinions. Consider-
ing, therefore, the large list of absentees en the Li-
beral side, the n'ambers bear pretty nearly the same
proportion to each other which they have borne on all
divisions on questions of reform in the Church or mat-
ters connected with it which have been debated in this
(let it be remembered Sir Robert Peel's) Parliament. On
this and on the other similar questions it will be for the
country to give its opinion ; and we shall be much surprised,
indeed, if the response is not loudly in favour of the measures
of the present Government. When separated from the
misrepresentations and mis-statements of interested parties,
these measures must and will receive the cordial support
of an undeceived people, as they will merit the approbation
of a discerning posterity, which will with difficulty believe
that faction could have so far endeavoured to peril the in-
terests of a great nation for the purpose of advancing its
selfish ends. Among the other misrepresentations of
which a handle has been made to influence lessees
is the allegation " that the terms of purchase by the
lessees are fixed and compulsory." These terms are
to be settled in the Committee on the Bill, and it
can only be the wish of Ministers to act liberally in
all cases. We have no doubt that on the next division the
majority in favour of Ministers will be much greater. By
that time the eyes of the people, who, in many places,
have been deluded by the vilest misrepresentations, will be
opened. Tile parsons, acting on the instructions from
head-quarters, have greatly abused the conSlenee reposed
in them by their unsuspecting- parishioners. Every day will
help forward the cause of truth and justice. The Bishops
were so afraid of the effect of time that they rested their
hopes on the effects of a coup de main. They have shot
their bolt, they have done their worst, and now comes the
turn of the fri.,nds of liberty and religious peace. They
owe much to Ministers, and ire trust that they will not he
backward in bestirring. themselves in every part of the coun-
try to obtain that support to Ministers by which they may
be enabled to obtain the- success to which their exertions in
the good cause so amply entitles them.-41forn. aronicle.
We do not think that the small mijority of 23 upon
Wednesday evening should exeiti: much astonishment or
disappointment. It may, it is true, annoy the friends of
good government to find a measure of such vast utility so
badly supported in a reformed house of Commons ; but
they must at the same time recollect that the present legis-
lative assembly is a Peel Parliament, chosen under Tory
influ:.nce of the worst character, in whielt the Carlton Club
and the Treasury combined their power to promote the bad
cause. The- Peel Parliament indeed was elected during
an eventful period, when 'Toryism, at the death-gasp, was
attempted by a desperate faction to be revived by every
me ins that corruption and treachery could devise. It
would fill a large volume, instead of the columns of a news-
paper, were we barely to glance at the various acts of
bribery and corruption practisel upon that occasion to
ensure the return of Conservatives. In the English
counties, coercion, to secure'the votes of obstinate te-

nanti wAs opeiily had recourFe to, while in the borough

wholesale -bribery was as glaring as " the sun at noon-
day." Similar disgraceful occurrences took place in
sendry parts of Scotland. As to Ireland we have
only to mention Dublin and Carlow as the scenes of
pecuniary pollution. and intimidation which dishonour that
kingdom, and which half incline us to form the opinion that
the franchise in that country, were it not for the singular
instances patriotism displayed by its people, is a mocery
and a curse. It must also be borne in mind that until
lately we had only a Whig Administration existing to pro-
pitiate the Tories. It is gratifying to know that the pre-
sent Government have at least partially pursued a different
course : would we could with truth assert that they had
altogether adopted this safe and wisa policy. But, alas! we
cannot ; and in this particular they have a lesson to learn
from their Tory rivals, which they would do well to attend
to. When do we see Tories conciliating foes and neglect-
ing friends ? When do we observe Tories allowing the un-
derlines of the Treasury to treat with coolness or discour-
tesy their stanchest and unpurchasable auxiliaries? We
do maintain that another sort of tactics must be adopted,
else the Ministry may fall, and the conduct of the popular
cause devolve upon others whose honesty may not be
greater, but who will be likely to manifest more wisdom—
or, nt least, more attachment to their unflinching and tin-
questionable friends.—Moruin,J
The smallness of the Ministerial majority upon the
Chancellor of the Exchegner's plan to despoil the Church
of its prescriptive property and national character, is, we
think, decisive of its fate. Had the Roman Catholic
Members, mindful of their solemn oath, abstained from
voting, the majority would have born the other way, nut-
withstanding the number of placemen, or close connections
of placemen, the douse, whose seffragas are always at
the disposal of the Ministers of the Crown. We know not
exactly what that number is, at the present moment.
The Standa: d reckons them at forty, and we believe
they are not very inferior in number to the joints of
" the Tail." The Ministers staked their political exist-
ence upon this measure, and we trust that the days of
their political existence are timbered. The unseemly
and offensive personal attack made by the Chief Minister
of the Crown upon the amiable and venerated Archbishop
of Canterbury, for expressing, in the most temperate lan-
guage, his firm dissent from the " act of sacrilegious spolia-
tion," to which his name had been appended without his
concurrence, showed how ardent was the zeal of Lord
Melbourne to accommodate the " consciences" of the
enemies of the Church, whether political Dissenters, Ro-
manists, or Infidels, by robbing of its national;character and
support the reformed religion, whose interests are gua-
ranteed by the Act of Settlement which placed the family
of our most gracious Sovereign on the throne, and by the
King's coronation oath. On former occasions, when the
Church has been attacked, the acts of hostility have ori-
ginated with other parties than the official servants of the
King, who, as the temporal head of the Church, is bound to
defend it against all who seek to weaken or subvert it. On
the present occasion the King's Ministers are the leaders of
the attack, but against the rock of the Church shall their
power be broken. With their feeble majority of 28 in the
House of Commons, and with an overwhelming majority
against them, both in the nation and the House of Lords,
what can the Ministers do ? Can they, with the slightest
hope of success, bring in their Bill founded upon the reso-
lutions, which-, but for the Roman Catholic Members, would
have been negatived even in the Commons ? They cannot.
They must see that the case is hopeless. Disastrous ad-
vance, or ignominious retreat, is the alternative before them.
In attempting to subvert the national religion, the mild and
tolerant mother of the sects that wage unnatural war
against their parent, they have abridged the- tenure of their
power, and accelerated a Ministerial change, that, whether
we look to our domestic or foreign interests, cannot but be
beneficial to the country.—Morning Herald.

The Prince and Princess Capua will again visit
London in June, a suite of apartments having been taken for
them at Mivart's Hotel.
THE NEW WORK, BY THE AUTHOR OF " TRE-
MAINE" AND " DE VERE."—We are requested to state that
Mr. Plumer Ward's new work, entitled " Human Life," in 3
vols. post Bvo., is published this day, by Mr. Colburn, 13,
Great Marlborough.street, and may now be obtained of all
Booksellers. Agents for Scotland, Bell and liradfute, Edin-
burgh ; for Ireland, John Cumming, Dublin.
The Statistics of most of the great Railways in
England are introduced in the Glossary at the end of Mr.
Mr. Whishaw's " Analysis." The estimated cost of the Rail-
.W3l,rmunijo he consideration of Parliament, is upwards of
":.;:k ADVaI! _ The area of felt required for the chairs is
.I...,,s'ookriii.hulcyred and thirty acres !
in'i ' ----Ctim-irck:€4,-;NclL.—Yesterday the Lord Mayor
:a. Conrl4ollfeilespatch of business, when's Report from
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.;City Lirldsrnmittee, on the reference to prepare a
„,r.: :,_ .!":14132::.: 't for an equalisation of the Land Tax
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