The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-29 00:00:00

ened the hearts of the higher and middle .classes, who con-
tributed to the poor-rate."
The indifference to principle shown by Mr. Wyse
and the Rev. Mr. Boudier is, we fear, but too charac-
teristic of the Tories. They approve of the New
Poor-law ; they admit that in general it has been
wisely and humanely administered; they know that it
has been of signal benefit to all owners of property as
well as to the working classes ; they had not the heart
to propose or carry through such a measure ; but they
are to 3 wise in their generation to forego the advantage
they derive under it ; yet" they have no scruple in ex-
citing an opposition to Ministers and 'creating confu-
sion in the country, by supporting everywhere bold-
faced adventurers and noisy declaimers ready to go the
whole hog in the way of encouraging the people in
their prejudices and delusions. The Tories act in the
spirit of the old adage, " All roads lead to Rome."
However, the unblushing profligacy and- utter want
of 'principle displayed at Warwick, and so many
other places, will defeat the object the Tories have in
view. The people of England are too honest and
simple-minded not to be disgusted by such indifference
to principle. An honest opponent of the new Poor-
law is respectable ; but a Tory who pretends to ap-
prove of the law, and yet seeks to obtain power by sup
por,4ing those who resort to the most disreputable
meads of creating a prejudice against it, cannot obtain
the regard of any conscientious inan.—Morn. Chron,
We are tired„ofasking when the long-looked for. Re.
port of tho Corporation Commissioners, relative to that
of the City of London, is to make it appearance, II
the Commissioners really. mean, as it would now seem,
to Burke the subject altogether, of course they can
only do so with the full consent of the Govern-
ment ;, and if such be really the case, what terms of
contempt can be too strong with which to desig-
nate so scandalous a proceeding ? By way of pa-
rody on the celebrated maxim, " the greater the truth
the greater the we may be allowed to suggest
that with our Reform Ministers '' the greater the
abuse the fitter for protection." We assume it as a
matter of admitted notoriety, unsusceptible of
dispute, that the Corporation of London is, and long
has been, the acknowledged focus of more actual cor-
ruption and abuse, than is to be found in all others
put together ; and that, undismayed by the approach
or expectation of reform, these abuses accumulate in
proportion as shame and prudence should check their
increase. In proof of this we would only refer to
uncontradicted statements from correspondents, which
have appeared in this journal, within the last few weeks.
We are quite aware that the subject is one of conside-
rable difficulty ; and that the extent of the remedy is
much enhanced by the magnitude of the evil. This
would have furnished, and no doubt did furnish, with
all reasonable persons, an ample apology for conside-
rable delay. But patience and forbearance have their
bounds, which in this case have been long since
passed ; and when that forbearance is to all appearance
taken advantage of to blink the question altogether,
it is high time that both the Government and the Com-
missioners were told that the eyes of the country are
upon them, and that any wish to escape- from this un-
pleasant inquiry and its natural consequences will never
be permitted. It is too true, indeed, that corporation
reform in smaller towns has not hitherto' produced
many of the fruits which were promised and expected.
Yet it must ill fairness be admitted that in some in-
stances, as in Leicester and other places, great and
palpable abuses have been repressed. In London,
abuses of infinitely greater magnitude exist ; and it is
not because no measure amounting to actual perfec-
tion has suggested itself to the Corporation Commis-
sioners, that therefore these glaring instances of pro-
fligate corruption should remain unchecked.

" Est qu'oddam prodirc tenus, si non datur ultra."
Let us at least see some advance made, thoughit be
even much less than the occasion requires.—Morn-
ing Herald.