The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-14 00:00:00

"SUCCESS

AY NEXT."

(ride Sir Robert Peel's Dinner at the Merchant Tai'or's

'Tis a pretty toast indeed,
And well becomes a Tory feed ;
So shout it, Tories, one and all,
Guzzling In the Tailor's Hall;
Let it be your party text,
" Here's success to Monday next !"
" Monday Next!" Let Liberals rue it,
The First of April's nothing to it;
" Monday Next !" it crowns our wishes,
Gives us all the loaves and fishes ;
Gives us place, and gives us power
In heaps, like Danae's golden shower,
Though, unlike hers, obtained, alas!
Not by coyness, but by brass.
4‘ Monday next!" 'Tis then our feet
Shall press the floors of Downing street;
Conjuror-like, with " quick, hey, presto!"
Peel shall start a Manifesto,
Wrapping up his grain of sense
In a bushel of pretence,
Showing how, to stand stock-still
Is to advance ; and how the Bill
Reformers cherish, is an ill
Until reduced to perfect Nil ;
Which I conceive, without a slip,
Ts the essence of true statesmanship !

Thus the Tories cry, but we
Read the shout far differently ;
" Monday next !" 'twill bring nor grace
Nor sunshine to a Tory face,
But drive them further, hour by hour,
From the Promised Land of power ;
Still they'll pine, oh, sad condition,
In Siberian opposition;
Still, despite their warmest wish,
Handle neither loaf nor fish ;
For gruff John Bull is on the watch
Against the hungry Tory batch—
An avaricious harpy rout
Whose claws long since have cleaned him out—
And shouts, indignant, stern, and vext,
" God help the scamps on Monday next V

WILSON CROKER'S LAST ! I !

Said Billy Holmes to Horace Twiss,
I think, Sir Tom, to-morrow
The Melbourne Cabinet will dismiss,
And leave the Whigs to sorrow.

Quoth Horace, do you think he will?
As brighten'd up his face,
Ah J then you must your pledge fulfil,
And " whip me into place."

BATH-SATURDAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—ln your truly impartial columnsl would make a few observa-
tions on the nature and tendency of those meetings, one of which has
been recently held in Exeter Hall, got up for the purpose of calumni-
ating and misrepresenting the religious tenets of our Roman Catholic
fellow-subjects. The notorious WGhee and his followers, no doubt
moved by some more artful men behind the scenes, by means of these
political religious meetings hoped, by exciting a general hatred of
Catholicism, to accomplish what Sacheverel did, unseat an Administra-
tion friendly to religious toleration. But the day is too far advanced to
admit of such a termination to their unchristian labours. It is true
they have succeeded in frightening a good many old women in petti_
coats, and not a few old women out of petticoats, including the late
Members for Westminster and Cumberland. The greater part of the
"romonity see that no good can result from the labours of these angry
Polemics, as men are more to be estimated by their actions, than opinions
on matters relating to church disciple. And when we find the conduct
Of our Roman Catholic brethren estimable in every respect, as good
subjects, good citizens, and good in every social and relative connection,
We are led to observe that the creed cannot be very wrong which pro-
duces such good conduct. We, too, have had a meeting, got up for the
two-fold purpose of abusing the Irish Catholics, and the Government,
for the good feeling they show towards them, and endeavouring to
Prove from some books which are in the Maynooth College, that the ,
l'oPe can absolve Catholics from their oaths. Dr. Brown, of Downside,
at another meeting of the friends to Ireland, contended that the Roman
Catholics felt the sacredness of an oath as much as any Protestant, and
that 11PGhe-2 had produced garbled and incorrect extracts from the books
In question. Fourteen laymen and clergymen thoughtlessly came for_
Ward to vouch for the accuracy of M'Ghee—there can be but one °pi-
Lion, that Dr. Brown has successfully shown their error. Two of these
Worthies, an ex-Major and his Squire, musfneeds go a colonelling, and
Lot content with the use of reason and fair argument, resorted to the
most scurrilous abuse of their opponent; but he gave them such a
Pummeling, as it is hoped will put an effectual stop to their Hudibrastic
efforts.

Now, Mr. Editor, is it not evident that political has much more than
rebtious feeling to do with these meetings ? We observe the Tories, as
14Irty, patronize M`Ghee ; how great, then, must be the hypocrisy of
these men, who with long faces profess to bemoan the enslaved state of
the Catholics, while at the same time they make religion a stalking
horse, with some political object in view; and it is to be feared they
care as much about religion as Judas Iscariot did for the poor.
But, Mr. Editor, suppose the object of these men could be obtained ?
Suppose the present Melbourne Liberal Cabinet to give place to one
composed of the ultra bigots of Peel's late short-lived Cabinet, would
the millions of Irish, and English, and Scotch, and Colonial Catholics,
Presbyterians, and Dissenters, be satisfied with seeing their bitter
enemies in the saddle ? Surely not ; and I cannot conceive a greater
curse to the nation than such an event. I believe the general feeling is
carelessness as to the religious tenets of the Government, so as they do
their duty. -What can the Episcopalians wish for more than they have?
At present all, with few or no exceptions of the members of the Mel-
bourne Ministry are Churchmen, but not bigots; and surely some atten-
tion ought to be paid to the feelings of so large a portion of her Majesty's
subjects as the Catholics and Dissenters, in the formation of a Govern-
b?crit. In conclusion, it is a very favourite subject with these Tory
vilifiers of the Irish Catholics, the number of crimes committed in that
country, and the failings of the priesthood, which are dragged forth to
view by these lovers of fair play ; but I contend, Mr. Editor, that in
this country more crimes and murders of the most atrocious description
are perpetrated by members of that Church, which boasts so highly paid a
Clergy;
and for one fault, so ostentatiously dragged to view, of the
opish Clergy, I would produce three Protestant Clergy, guilty of equal
or greater crimes. Have these unfair men forgot a Bishop of Cleglier,
Or the persecution of a Devonshire or Cornish Curate

I am, Mr. Editor,
A PROTESTANT LOVER OF FAIR PLAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Manchester, May 12, 1938.

, . .
Sia,—l shall be obliged if you can inform me through the medium of
your paper, if a Railway Company applying fur additional time to com-
plete their project and does not succeed, is not subject to a fine.
I am, yours truly, A SUBSCRIBER.