The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-19 00:00:00

translation :

" In our time, by the course of events, by reciprocal faults—religion
and society have ceased to comprehend and to move parallel one to the
other. The ideas, sentiments, and interests which now prevail in the
world, ar, every day condemned and reproved in the name of the ideas,
the sentiments, and the interests of eternal life. Religion pronounces an
anathema cn existing society, and holds itself apart; society is ready to
accept both the denunciation and the separation."
SO it is here. Look at our PLUMPTRES, our EXETERS,
our Oxford Doctors—at the whole brcod of our intole-
rant Priests—intolerant, not only of men who profess
another faith, but intolerant in their language, at least, of the
pursuits, business and amusements of large classes of the
people—and you will be convinced, Reader, that here, as in
France, the ideas, sentiments, and interests of society are
in practical opposition to the ideas,sentiments, and interests
of th ose who expound religious science. We do not, howe-
ver, agree with M. Gunn. in saying that this betokens any
fault in society. Men cannot help their condition, or alter
their place, and over all their sentiments, thoughts, and
feelings, considered in the aggregate, over their minds, too,
for they all appeal to material facts as the ultimate test of
all correct knowledge, the physical world predominates with
irresistable power. It is not the fault of the generation,
then, that it differs from the priests ; but it is in the very
nature of things that sentiments, feelings, thoughts, know-
ledge, and habits of successive generations, should sepa-
rate them more and more widely from the sentiments,
feelings, thoughts, knowledge, and habits of that past age
which the theologians always endeavour to make the rule
of conduct.

The House of Commons went into Committee last
night for the further consideration of the Report on the
Recovery of Tenements Bill. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN,
according to his wont, made a splenetic speech
with a view to throw out the Bill, but found little
support even from his own party, six members being
all who could muster hardihood sufficient to vote with the
ill-conditioned and Right Hon. Baronet. The Bill is
much wanted to supply a great defect in the law of land-
lord and tenant, which, in its practical working, operates in
many cases most injuriously on the interests of the former.
There is no redress for the owner of a low-rented tenement
against an unprincipled tenant. As the law now stands,
such a tenant may keep possession of the house and defy
the landlord to turn him out, unless by a process,
the expense of which would exceed the value of the
house. The Bill in question applies a remedy for this evil,
by giving Justices of the Peace a summary jurisdiction in
cases where the occupier of a house not exceeding 201. of
yearly rent, refuses to give up possession, after due notice.
As we are on this subject, we beg to call the attention
of Honourable Members to a great anomaly in this branch
of the law, which is often made the instrument of gross ex-
tortion by pettifogging attornies. When a tenant quits a
house, should he leave a cracked pane of glass, a nail-hole in
the plaster of a wall, or any other damage of themosttrang
description, he is at the mercy of the landlord, who may
bi log his action in the Sheriff Court ; and, if ho can
prove his case, must get costs, which, in fact,
is all he wants. In other cases it is possible for
the defendant to stay an action by tendering to the
plaintiff, or paying into Court, such a sum of
money es he thinks will cover the damages. Then, if tit,
plaintiff proceeds, he does so at his peril. In actions
for dilapidation, however, the plaintiff is not bound
to pay the least regard to any step of this kind,
anal the only question with him is, whether he will gain
more by getting his costs than by accepting the amount
tendered. We know that much oppression is exercise l
unchl- the sanction of this law, in cases where low attornies
are the owners of houses, or happen to be rel ited to the
owners. Might not a remedy be applied in the Bill now
before the House ?

During the wAr with France the ignorance of the Go
vernment and of the writers in the public Press of that
country, reTecting the character of the people of England,
often gave rise to most extraordimiry mi.stakes and delu-
sions. %Nilsen S.r FRANCIS BURDETT, in the heyday of his
radicalism, resisted the constituted authorities, denounced
the borougbmong.Ts, and advocated univ ersal suffrage and
annual Parliaments, for the purpose of collecting crowds to
el e-r Westmin,ter's pride" and " England's glory," the
Fiencli people believed we were on the eve of a rev oluth-n.
Even a squabble at an erection, followed by sonic broken
heads, afforded them no small consolation ; and a meal-mob
was considered a certain precursor of an rgrativn law. In
these days, after intercourse with us for a quarter of a cen-
t u,y,tliey are as ignor ,nt of the EngEsli character as ever ;
and no wonder they are puzzled what to make of the general
and hearty welcome riven to SOULT, and at!riute it to
;ms, cause hut the rig'.t one. Sonic wiseacr, s in the ex-
trern;ty of their difficulties attribute all this stir about the
old General to polifcs, and conekide that it mutt work
wonders in the French Cabinzlt, put a stop to prosecutions
against the Pr. st as in this country, or at least c, mpei
Louis l'att.ifec to adhere to one of the moat sacred eon-
t tines on which he mounted the Tnrone—thetr:al by Jury.
Our neighbouts, however, may rest assures! that there is
not a particle of political feelini?; in the whose exhibition.
The lower classes know nothing about SOCLT'S politics—
hey. recognise him Duly as an old acquaintance, whose name'
was almost • as familiar to them thirty years ago as
WELLINGTON'S ; sn I the middle class, who c 1 eer
him a 4 hei.rtily, know that the poltics of one who was a
favourite with the SOVEREIGN duri:lg the despotism of the
the empire, and held office under the bigotted BourLons,
and then under the CITIZEN KING, cannot be of a very de-
cided character. Sour.T is well received here for his per-
son el merits alone. We admire him because he raised
himself from the ranks to the highest place in the army—be-
cause be faithfully served his country—disputed every inch of
ground from Vittoriato Toulouse—did everythingin his power
to defeat British troops, and because in his old age, he
has paid a compliment to the generosity of the British
people by coming among them as their guest. And as to
political effect, he can only tell Louts PHILIPPE what
that Sovereign already knows, that the Press here requires
no PERSIL for Attorney-General, nor September laws
to preserve the Throne ; and that with an army hardly
sufficient for garrison duty, Queen VICTORIA is more se-
cure than his Master with five hundred thousand bayonets.

The Poor Law Commi,s:oners, in an Appendix to a
Report, ordered by the House of Commons, have given a
number of documents, shoviing the frightful prevalence of
fever in tie metropolis, together with remedies proposed by
medical men for the abatement of this awful scourge of the
poor ; and as the facts they state must be so obvious as
to attract the attention of the parochial authorities, even
on the ground of economy, we believe that every friend of
the poor—even those most hostile to the New Poor Law—
will give great credit to the Commissioners for bring-
ing this important subject before the public. The disease
prevails chitfly among the poor, in low crowded neigh.:
bourhoods, such as St. Giles, Bethnal-green, Shore-
ditch, and Walworth, where the drainage is defective, or
where there is no drainage at all, but large open
ditches containing stagnant filth, where the houses are dirty
and crowded to excess, water is scarce, and-heaps of vege-
table and animal remains are allowed to putrify in heaps at
the bottom of close ccurts, and not unfrequently even In
the front of inhabited houses. The great body of the publ c